I'm back with another chapter of Into the Darkness. This chapter the team is heading to Death Mountain, but makes a detour. Read on to see what happens.
I woke up inside Link's tree house. We all slept on the floor. Today we would head to Death Mountain. Since we all agreed that Princess Ruto complaining about how Link never visits the whole way to the temple is more torture than one painful Goron hug.
We were crossing the bridge just outside Kakariko Village when, we heard someone shouting, "Help!"
I summoned my sword on instinct and looked back. I saw a girl wearing a tunic and a hat that she had her hair tucked in, running away from a huge pack of Bulblins. There was too many for one person to fight. As she was running she tripped over a rock. And the Bulblins surrounded her.
"I think we should help her," I said.
"Yeah," Link agreed.
The four of us ran in to help her. We took them out easily in three minutes.
"Are you okay?" Saria asked the girl.
"Yeah thanks," she said. I saw her eye color as I helped her up, they were bright red. And I saw the pure white hair sticking out of her hat. She is a sheikah, but I decided not to tell her that I knew.
"Who are you guys?" she asked.
"I'm Brandon and this is my brother Link and she's my sister Saria, and that's her shadow," I introduced us to her.
"I'm Rena," she said.
"So, why were they chasing you, Rena?" Link asked.
"My older brother and I stumbled into one of their camps, while coming back to the village from Lake Hylia."
"That usually tends to piss them off," I said, "where's your brother?"
"They took him," she said she looked really sad.
"We'll get him for you," Link and I said.
"Thanks, I'll come with you," she said.
"No you're not you look like you need some rest," I said.
"Yeah, don't worry about your brother we'll get him out of there safely," said Saria.
Rena nodded and continued towards the village. While we started walking towards Lake Hylia since that's where they were coming from. After ten minutes of walking we found the Bulblin Camp.
"Damn she's got very good stamina," said Link.
"Not surprising from a sheikah," I said remembering that sheikah are also well known for sprinting long distances without stopping.
"What? How do you know that she's a sheikah," Saria said.
"I saw her bright red eyes and white hair."
"I saw it, too. I thought you would've noticed," said Shadow Saria.
"I remember when I took out a whole Bulblin Camp before," I said.
"When was that?" said Link.
"When you guys lost your memory last summer," Saria and Link don't remember any events during the time I had to get them back and recover their memory, "well actually I took out the leader and the commanders tent and then the camp went into chaos after I left."
We sneaked closer to the camp. We were hoping to pull a hit and run. We ran in quietly our swords in hand just in case we had to silence a few Bulblins.
"Okay we're going to split up from here. I'll go north," I said.
"I'll take east," Link said.
"West," Saria said.
"Fine then I'll take south," said Shadow Saria.
We took our different directions. As I walked further north I had to stop some Bulblins from sounding an alarm. I found a tent with cages so I checked it first. I looked inside the cages, but found nothing. As I headed out the door, I heard a familiar voice, "hello, anybody here."
I jumped at the sound of the voice.
"Yeah," I said.
"Is that you, Brandon?" that confirmed that it was who I thought it was.
"Navi? You got captured again?"
"Actually this would be the second time this week," she said.
I face palmed, "and today's Monday."
I found a really small cage and saw her inside, "come on, I need to find the prisoner tent."
"Follow me, no matter the group they never change the layout of the camps," Navi said.
As I followed her to the tent I saw Saria. She was still searching for the tent. She saw me as passed by and ran to me, "who's the fairy?" she asked.
"That's Navi an old friend of Link's, I found her in a cage in a tent. Navi, this is Saria, Link's and my sister," I said.
"You're Link's brother?" said Navi.
"We found out before we left Hyrule last summer," said Saria.
"Saria Navi will take us to the spot where they are holding Rena's brother, then after that we'll find Link and Shadow Saria and get out of here," I said.
"Link's here?" Navi said.
"Quiet, and yes," I said.
"Sorry."
We left our spot, and followed Navi to the tent. When, we got to the tent it was full of Bulblins.
"It's going to be a challenge to escape without being spotted," I whispered.
"You can use that trick you did last time," Navi suggested.
"Yeah I could except they'll be able to sound the alarm before I finish the song."
"Let's knock the tent down to cause confusion," Saria said.
"That could work, okay it looks like there's eight ropes holding it up, two on each of the four corners if we take out four ropes on one side the tent then it should fall. I'll that corner and you take this corner. I'll give the signal to cut the ropes," I said.
"Good idea," Saria said.
I ran to the other side and gave the signal. We raised our swords and cut the ropes and the tension of the ropes on the other side pulled the tent on to it's side. I entered the tent holding the fabric over my head with my left hand and the Master Sword in my right hand. Some Bulblins tried to attack me, but failed miserably at it. I found the cages and sure enough I found a white haired boy unconscious in the cage. I used magic to break the lock and opened the cage. He moaned as I took his arm and put it around me to get him out I stuck my sword through the fabric of the tent and found Saria and Navi outside waiting for me.
"Is he okay?" asked Saria.
"Yeah just knocked out he has a bump on his head and a cut on the back of his leg," I said.
"That's good," Navi said.
The boy jumped up, "Rena! Where's Rena!"
"Quiet, you don't want the camp to know were here," I told him, "and by the way your sister is safe in Kakariko Village."
"She's worried about you," Saria said.
"Can you walk?" I asked him. He let go of me and tried walking, but with a limp.
"Yeah I can," he said before falling after leaning on his injured leg for too long.
"No you can't, we'll help you." I couldn't give him any potion because Link has all the potions at the time.
Saria took one side and took the other.
"Now let's find Link and Shadow Saria."
"The Hero of Time?" said the boy.
"Yes, and I'm his brother The Hero of Light, but I'm still working towards my destiny," I said.
"But you're Human not Hylian," he said.
"Now's not the time to explain."
We searched for Link until we heard a horn sound off. We started running. The boy couldn't keep up so we kinda dragged him across the grass. Shadow Saria ran into us, (literally) she was running, too and Link wasn't far behind with a group of Bulblins chasing them. I summoned my sword.
"So you two found hiā¦Navi? What are you doing here," Link said, but then had a huge smile on his face.
"Save the reunion for later right now we have trouble," Saria said.
Some came in from behind us and from the sides.
"We're surrounded by Bulblins," Navi said.
"Captain obvious strikes again," Link said. I never knew I wasn't the only one who called her that.
"You're mean," she said, "that's what he said the first time he saved me."
"We think alike don't we, Link?" I said.
"Yeah we do," he said.
"Now, let's focus on the Bulblins," Saria said. A Bulblin swung it's machete like sword at me. I immediately took a obsidian sword off my back and blocked the high attack and swung the Master Sword at it's stomach. We formed a circle around the kid. We fought as hard as we could, but the Bulblins kept coming.
"Damn there's too many," I said, "I'm going to create a diversion so you guys can get out of here. Wait for me in the east." The others nodded. I took out my ocarina and played the composers song to get past the Bulblins. I ran until I got to the biggest tent of the camp.
"If I burn down this tent I should cause a panic," I said to myself. I deactivated my song. Link has been teaching me the magic that he knows. I made a flame in the palm of my hand. The flame jumped out of my hand onto the tent. The fire spread quickly through the tent. I heard screams from the Bulblins inside.
In the background I heard the clanging of metal in the distance stop. I hope they got out okay, I thought to myself, but right now I need to get out myself. I saw Bulblins coming my way. I ran west sine that was my only opening at the time. As I exited the camp I dismissed the Master Sword. And I had to run to the opposite side of the camp. As I got to the other side I looked around for the others. I couldn't see them out there.
"Saria! Link!" I called.
"Brandon over here," Saria came into view on top of a hill waving her arms. I sighed with relief and ran to her. When, I got to her I saw the boy standing. His wounds were healed. I'm still amazed by how fast those potions work.
"I'm sorry if I was trouble for you guys, I'm Jake," said the boy.
"Don't worry about it, it's kinda our job," I said.
"Isn't that true," Navi said, "I gotta go the Great Deku Tree must be worried about."
"Just don't go through anymore Bulblin camps," I said.
"I'll try, bye Link."
"Bye," he said as she left, "it was nice seeing her again."
We started walking back to the village. When we got to the steps we saw Rena sitting on the steps waiting for us. She looked up at us and stood up quickly and tackled her brother with a hug. Then, gave us each a hug saying, "thank you."
"If you guys want to rest you can come over to our house, you look tired," said Jake. We were tired so we accepted the offer we needed some rest if we were to go to the Unknown Temple.
"Thanks," we said.
Before they entered the village Jake and Rena hid their hair with hats and then walked into the village. We followed them into the Kakariko Graveyard. Where they walked along the edge of it. When they reached a certain spot Rena turned to us.
"So you two the heroes of light and time?" she asked
"How did you know about the Hero of Light?" I asked surprised, "I thought only sages know about that legend."
"All sheikah know, Impa would tell us kids about the legend of the Forgotten Blade when we are young. The looks on your faces tell me you are the heroes," Jake said, "Have you awakened the Forgotten Blade yet?"
"Nope still working on that, but first we need to collect the Pendants of Light so we can safely get the other two Triforces form the Old Hyrule," I said, "we already have one," I showed them the necklace around my neck.
"Well that's good you have at least one, but come on everybody knows you're coming I told them what happened," Rena said as they opened a set of hidden doors in the stone wall.
As we walked inside we saw a whole other village full of life (more than Kakariko Village). Everybody in the village was a sheikah.
"Wow," we said together it amazed us that this village has stayed unnoticed for years.
"I know, right?" said Rena as if she was reading our thoughts, "this village is protected by magic, so we could be as loud as we want and Kakariko won't hear us even in the graveyard."
"That's awesome," I said.
We were led into a house in the corner of the village. I looked around and noticed the house had nobody in it.
"So, where are your parents?" I asked. I looked at Rena and regretted saying what I said. Her face was full of cheerfulness, but now it was replaced with sadness.
"Sorry, what happened?" I said.
"The darkness took them," she said.
The only person with us that knows what that feels like and can recall it is Saria.
"We believe our dad was taken by the darkness, too," Saria said, "I'm the only one affected by it because Link was raised in Kokiri Forest and Brandon's memory was erased when he was sent here so we're not sure if he was raised with me or not since he was also erased from our memories."
"I see," said Jake, "because of what happened after the darkness I was forced to raise Rena, she was seven when it happened. A ten year old kid raising his little sister that's a tough job."
"We were fourteen when it happened, but when we were transported our bodies went back in time as well, when we got here we were seven year-olds," Saria said.
"I was twelve, but I still found I was a seven year-old, it's confusing on how that happened. This is the first time I heard this part of the story so I was confused, but this conversation put a depressing chill in the air so I decided to stop it, "hey who's up for some cards," I said. I packed a deck of cards in case we got bored. I pulled my deck of cards out of my backpack. I heard that they played card games in Hyrule so I expected Rena and Jake to recognize the cards, and sure enough they did.
"I love playing cards," said Rena with her smile back on her face.
We all picked poker. I won a few games with full houses. We taught them new games and they taught us new games even though they were really complicated. I never won any of those.
The day went on like this and we had fun. It was nice to be around new friends. We stayed the night there.
The next morning we said our good-byes they taught us how to bypass the magic barriers so we could visit when we can.
We headed towards the mountain.
"They're really nice people, finally something to look forward to when ever I go to Hyrule," I said.
"I know," Link said.
We got to Goron City. Darunia was waiting for us.
"Brothers, welcome," he said reaching his arms to the side. I new what was coming. I braced myself for a big squeeze. He hugged Link and I together. The girls stepped back as we fell on the ground in pain.
I recovered quicker than last time. Mainly because the hug was weaker than last time. Must be from it being winter.
"Hey, we come to ask you if you could show us to the Unknown Temple," I said.
"Oh so you're the Hero of Light," he said, "I've been waiting for this day."
He walked towards his and went into the creator. We changed into our Goron Tunic quickly and caught up with him. He led us into a room with a lava fall.
"Here we are, I'll open it up for you." he raised his arms towards the lava fall. The insignia of the Goron's Ruby glowed on the lava causing it to split down the middle revealing a stairway that had a red glow. We crossed the bridge that led to the entrance.
"Thank you," we said to him.
"Please don't get hurt this time." Shadow Saria said.
"I'll try not to," I told her than we headed down the stairway.
This is not the last time we'll see Rena and Jake. These are my favorite non-main OCs for one they're sheikah (sheikah are awesome (the whole reason for my pen name to be sheik388)). I'll see you next time.
