SO, I tried to get this out before Christmas. Did not happen. Sowwies. Happy day after Christmas, though! Um... and whatever else it is you may celebrate, happy that too!
Also, this chapter is not checked for mistakes. i kind of just wanted to get it out already. So I apologize in advance for any huge, glaring mistakes.
Act IV: In Which Vaati and Onox Have Another Disagreement or In Which Poe Becomes Inspired
Ledd the Mogma wasn't bad company, Zelda found. He wasn't the sharpest knife in the shed, but he was considerate and nice – which was definitely a very welcome change of pace. There wasn't much time to talk, as the Mogma seemed unwilling to surface, simply digging close enough to the surface so that Zelda had a trail to follow. But he always made sure to see if she was still close behind and if she needed a break, the Mogma happily obliged. Those breaks were when the two would engage in true conversation, and Ledd would happily chatter on about digging for treasures. Which wasn't to say Ledd wasn't interested in her circumstances. He was actually very thoughtful and interested to know how Zelda came to be lost in said forest. Zelda, who may have admired how much of a perfect gentleman the Mogma was being, still had no desire to explain in detail what had happened. She found those instances were quickly remedied when she brought up some sort of treasure she'd heard and if he'd ever found anything like said treasure.
After those breaks, they continued on the trek, and Zelda nearly jumped for joy when Ledd announced, "We should be near the edge of the forest. Kakariko's right on the other side."
"That's wonderful!" She said out loud. Once they were there, she could find the mayor of the town, get everything sorted… she'd be on her way back to Hyrule Castle in no time, Link could handle Vaati and somehow they would find a way to deal with Onox… Everything would work itself out! She welcomed the un-patched sunlight as it fell, and savored the sight of buildings not too far from where she stood.
That was until she felt an all too familiar forceful vibration in the air. Immediately, she looked up, searching for a sign of the dragon while. She could barely make out Ledd asking if there was anything wrong as she scanned the skies. The horror only rose inside of her when she could only conclude that the pounding air was coming from the obscured sky behind him – covered by the woods. And as if things couldn't get worse, she heard Onox let out a might roar. Even though she almost let out a shriek, she held it in as her legs automatically took her back into the forest and had her cowering behind a tree.
"Yo! Zel, where ya going? Kakariko's that way!" Ledd asked, actually hopping out of his hole and carrying himself right behind her on his arms (it ended up his lower body was tiny; she couldn't imagine those legs could carry anything anywhere. But of course, she hadn't noticed this at the time).
The princess shushed him harshly and pointed upwards. The bandicoot man had no idea why until a massive shadow passed over them. Onox flew past the forest, hovering in the air and seemingly looking around for something. The massive dragon remained hovering for a while before letting out a "Harumph!" and flying off again. But even after he was out of sight, the air was still vibrating.
"Whoa…" Ledd squeaked. "That was… a dragon…"
But Zelda ignored the bandicoot man and ended up thinking out loud as she paced back and forth, "Is he… is he smelling for me…?"
"Huh? Smelling for you? Why we he be doing tha-" He paused for a moment before saying, "Huh, who's that?"
She stopped dead in her tracks as she followed Ledd's gaze, only to be even more horrified. She could see Vaati floating right where Onox had been just minutes before, and he too seemed to be looking for something… And he'd found it. As soon as she'd caught sight of the purple cloaked sorcerer, he spun around midair and locked eyes right with her.
She spun on her heels and ran deeper into the woods, resisting the urge to shriek like a banshee as she did so. And then she ran into a wall. She wasn't quite sure how, but she'd slammed into a transparent blue wall. She spun around, only to see she was encased on all sides. In fact, now that she'd gotten a look at it all, she was inside of what appeared to be a blue crystal. The scream she'd held in came out, though more out of frustration than fear.
"I'd avoid screaming, if I were you," she heard Vaati say. "If the dragon hears you you'll be bringing more trouble on both of us."
She shut her mouth and gritted her teeth, glaring daggers at the sorcerer who had easily caught up. He was looking her up and down through the crystal with a frown and then he glared up at the sky. "To see that the beast has put you in such a state… It makes my blood boil." He snarled.
"Let me out of this crystal." She growled.
He glanced at her and forked an eyebrow. "So you can run again? I'd rather not have to chase you down again, dear."
Zelda nearly said very un-ladylike things when something flew at Vaati and hit him square on the back of the head. There was a very obvious flash of anger in the sorcerer's expression as he flinched.
"Hey! Hey you… you let her down!" Ledd the Mogma cried out, evidently having burrowed back in the ground and arming himself with balls of compressed dirt.
Vaati put a hand to the back of his head and then examined the dirt on his fingers. Zelda held in a smirk at seeing the mage's eye tic. But then she feared for her newfound Mogma friend when Vaati turned on his heel to face the bandicoot man. "If you have any sense of self-preservation, I would put that ball of dirt down." The wind mage said coldly.
Ledd, who had a fist full of dirt he was ready to throw, hesitated for the briefest of moments. But he puffed out his chest and regained his courage, hurling the ball right at the mage. Unfortunately for the Mogma, Vaati was on guard and ready for the next dirt ball. He very easily shredded it in midair with a small eddy. "Perhaps you don't understand," Vaati said coolly, "I am not to be played with. You have kept the girl safe, and for that I thank you. But if you throw one more-"
Zelda shrieked, "Ledd, no!" just a second too late. The Mogma let another ball of dirt fly, and this time, Vaati did not just deflect the ball. He uprooted the Mogma and was about to send him flying. But Zelda had been right on time with her second shriek, "No Vaati, wait!"
"Or what?" He snapped at the girl impatiently.
"Hey, hey! Lemme go!" Ledd cried out uselessly, trying to struggle against bonds he couldn't see in midair.
"Or… or I'll never forgive you!" The princess said harshly, her face reddening from how stupid it probably sounded.
And stupid it did sound. Vaati rolled his eyes and drawled sarcastically, "You'll never forgive me? Oh, how will I ever live with myself?" He turned his attention back to the suspended Mogma, with every intention of slamming Ledd into the nearest tree as forcefully as possible.
That was the plan until the canopies of the half dead trees above them began to shake and shed their leaves wildly. Before anyone could quite register what was happening, a massive claw came and pulled several trees out of the ground.
"Found you!"
Vaati dropped Ledd, quickly speeding in front of the crystal so that he was in between the blasted dragon and Zelda. "She is mine, dragon." He hissed.
The dragon let out a grating chuckle. "She's my dinner. And I see you wrapped her up for me. Very thoughtful, mage."
And then it began again, the battle between mage and dragon. And while Vaati unleashed his magic upon the dragon while the dragon attempted to take to the skies and spit his flames, Zelda was trying to find away out of her crystal prison. She slammed her fists against the wall, tried her best to use her own magic to dispel it, and then again tried physical force. But nothing even made a dent in the surprisingly very solid blue crystal. And then she saw Ledd, groggily picking himself up from his rough landing.
"Ledd!" She called out. "Ledd, you have to get me out of here! Please!"
The Mogma didn't seem to register her words immediately, but as the shadow of the massive dragon and the significantly smaller shadow of the wind mage passed over the bald patch of forest, Ledd seemed to have awakened out of his stupor quite quickly. Scurrying over upon his hands towards the crystal, he actually managed to stand upright to touch the crystal and get a feel for it. He frowned, letting a claw glide across the surface of the gem. Both Mogma and princess frowned upon seeing not even the slightest trace of a scratch was left on the surface.
"Well, hold on Zel," the Mogma said. The princess didn't bother to mention she had nothing to hold on to, but Ledd had already sounded so unsure, it seemed like a bad idea to point out petty details. So she mentally braced herself, and she was glad she did. With plenty of very obvious effort, Ledd scooped the whole crystal up in one arm and ran a lopsided and not entirely quick run aided with his free arm. Much like most of the rides she'd had that day, this one was very uncomfortable, especially with the crystal walls around her. But she wasn't about to complain, seeing as how Ledd was currently the only one who wanted to genuinely help her.
Ledd may have been slow, but whatever speed he had been going at had been just enough to save them from the flurry of flame that descended from above. Zelda let out a shriek at the sight, and Ledd was letting out his own scream of terror. Luckily, that fear worked in their favor, because the Mogma managed to reach speeds he could have never imagined he could ever reach. But even with his lopsided run, they'd barely managed to make it out of the burning woods.
"Keep going, Ledd!" Zelda cried desperately.
Lungs burning, Ledd didn't reply but simply nodded vigorously. But as much as he wanted to keep going, he had reached his limit. He wasn't at all used to using his legs, and even with the help of one of his arms it was still grueling work to run. Not to mention this had probably been the first time he had ever run ever. So even though all his thoughts were focused on running away from the situation up above as quickly as possible… he tripped.
His arm had lost its grasp upon Zelda's crystal, and the imprisoned girl ended up bouncing upon the yellowing grass and skidding ahead of the Mogma. In the instance of that bounce, however, the sunlight gleamed upon the crystal…
And both mage and dragon took note of the princess's new location. Zelda, noticing that she'd been spotted once again, slammed her fists upon the walls of her crystalline pen, shouting, "Ledd! Ledd, hurry! Please!"
"I-I'm going, Zel!" The Mogma stuttered as he picked himself up on his front claws and headed towards her.
But the dragon and the mage quickly stared at one another before Vaati quickly zoomed down to retrieve his princess. Onox, however, wanted to make sure that the purple pest would not get the girl… no matter what the cost. He belched his flames right at the crystal.
The princess found herself letting out another scream at the sight of Ledd being seemingly swallowed up by the flames, and then the realization that the flames were heading right for her.
And then her crystal flew across the grass, away from the wave of flame that had headed for her. Her voice lost, her eyes simply went to the closest thing they saw nearby: Vaati. He was discarding his cloak, which seemed to have caught some of Onox's flames. And it was with that she realized that Vaati had saved her crystal from the flame. And for the briefest of moments, seeing him stand there and glaring at Onox… he looked, dare she say it… heroic.
But it was only for the briefest of moments, because Zelda wasn't about to forget who had put her in the horrible crystal. One good deed did not excuse countless others. "Vaati, release me!" She demanded, slamming her hands against the crystal.
"Quiet, woman," he snapped harshly, not even looking back at her. "I've a dragon to skin." Without another word, he took to the skies again, where he and the dragon continued their spat.
Zelda, as seemed to be the fashion throughout the whole day, was not happy. And as she looked at the charred field before her, she felt a knot in her stomach twist. There was no sign at all of Ledd, and she could only assume the worst. "I'm so sorry, Ledd…" She whispered lightly.
And then her attention was drawn back to the battle, for Vaati had apparently taken the wind from underneath Onox's wings. The dragon fell into the still burning forest, and the earth literally shook at his impact. With wide eyes, she watched as Vaati, still in the air, shot spell after spell at the grounded dragon, who had resorted to using his wings as a sort of shield. Again, wide-eyed at the spectacle, she couldn't help be somewhat amazed that he had a dragon on the defensive.
"No one shall take you from me."
His words echoed in her head again. And seeing him take on this dragon… He really meant it. And that was a thought that inspired horror. If he was doing this to a dragon, what on earth what he do to Link? … But despite that, she also found herself blushing at the fact that he'd meant those words. Oh Zelda! Don't be thinking that makes him a good man! She reprimanded herself.
Meanwhile, Onox lowered his wings to throw a stream of white hot fire at the mage. Vaati managed to fork the fire with his mastery of the wind, the flames never touching him. But it seemed the dragon had counted on that. As soon as the fire stopped, the dragon made to slap the mage with his tail.
But Vaati was not about to be slapped with a dragon tail again.
While it would have been much easier to simply avoid the tail, the mage had noticed a kink. And with that kink came a weakness in the dragon's scaly hide – the armor that protected it from most magic. And with a smirk, the sorcerer summoned a gale that sliced the tail right off at the kink. Onox howled in pain as his tail thrashed in midair and sent a shower of his own blood upon him. Triumphantly, Vaati jeered, "You honestly thought that would work twice?"
Zelda was amazed to see that Onox had a definitive smirk upon his draconic face… and she wasn't sure she ever wanted to see it again. The dragon launched upwards, the loss of his tail apparently having done nothing to his sense of balance. And perhaps what had taken both the mage and the entrapped princess by surprise was that the dragon was faster.
"Oh no…" Zelda moaned. Because Vaati had fallen into the dragon's trap. Onox had wanted his tail to get cut off to lose weight and therefore increase his speed. Oh why couldn't he just have been like the silly girls in Castle Town and starve himself! Of course, the thought had her surprised at herself… because this meant in a situation where she wasn't supposed to root for either side, she had been rooting for Vaati.
The dragon quickly zoomed, snapping at Vaati with massive jaws. The sorcerer, not having expected the sudden speed boost, had barely been able to back away in time and definitely had little to no time to conjure a counterattack. Of course, being caught off guard just for that one moment had been an enormous setback; Onox didn't give the mage any chances to think, and while Vaati still had the winds on his side, the dragon was sticking so closely to him it would've been dangerous to himself to cast any misbalancing gusts around. Of course, the close proximity also meant Onox had less of a need to aim. A stream of fire followed the mage near constantly, and the mage found it difficult to think of how he could manage to get back on the offensive again. He figured he would get his chance the moment the dragon stopped to take a breath. After what seemed like far too long, Onox's jet of flame did eventually cease. At that point, Vaati took a chance and unleashed a gale that would misbalance them both.
The dragon roared in shock, not having thought that the mage would risk himself like that. But Vaati wasn't the only one who could think fast in a pinch. After all… gravity was a constant – even for wind mages. And Onox was a very big dragon. As they both dropped, struggling to regain control over whatever kept them in flight, Onox maneuvered himself close enough to the wind mage so that a flap of his mighty wing managed to bat the mage further down.
That left Vaati dazed for a bit, but he'd managed to snap back to his senses and catch his balance in midair immediately after words. With a snarl, he turned around to face the dragon and call him out for his cheap shot, only to see that Onox - who had also regained his balance – was hovering above with yet another satisfied smirk.
But Zelda could see why Onox had been letting out another toothy grin. She'd barely had any idea of what she was doing when she had cried out in her loudest shriek, "Vaati, behind you!"
For Onox's cut off tail was still thrashing about on the charred remains of the forest. And Vaati hadn't really taken into account just how near the surface of the earth he was.
So, for the second time that day, Vaati had been knocked aside by a dragon tail. Luckily, he had just managed to hear Zelda's cry of warning, so unlike last time, he managed to misdirect most of the blow due to a quickly constructed shield. It shattered upon impact, but none of the tough dragon hide managed to touch him. Which wasn't to say he didn't go undamaged. He may not have been touched, but the sheer force of the blow was enough to send him tumbling to the earth below.
Unfortunately, Onox took that time to shoot down to where Zelda was, scooping up her crystal in one of massive claws and taking off to who knows where with a roar of triumph – for he wasn't about to retreat to his cave, which was much too near.
Vaati, slightly disorientated from his less than gentle landing, struggled to rise without promptly stumbling down. By the time the dizziness had worn off, the dragon was a mere dot bobbing in the distance. Snarling, he had been about to take off and follow suit…
When the floor beneath him began to shake. Statrled, he quickly stepped to the side, only to see the irritating creature from before pop up from the ground.
"Whoa…" Ledd gaped, looking around at the burnt field and what remained of the half dead forest. He then caught sight of Vaati, glaring at him. "Hey, dude! Where's Zel? Is she alright? Did that dragon get her?"
The wind mage's patience had all been but dried up at that point, and having this uncouth dirt dweller remind him of his failure had put the number on his patience in the negative. A simple snap of his fingers and one of his sentry eyes appeared. "Rip the hair off of his head." Vaati snarled before taking off after the dragon.
The sentry eye then stared at Ledd, who was staring right back and not at all sure what to make of what he was seeing. But the winged eye screeched a horrible screech that sent a shudder up the Mogma's spine, and he quickly burrowed beneath the ground and dug for his life, all the while muttering, "No, man! Not my do!"
Surprisingly, the team of Blue, Vio, and Poe was not as horrible as it first seemed to be. But then again, nothing particularly difficult had happened as they traversed the forest. There hadn't been a single moblin around, and the most difficult thing they came across was a green chu – which only took one more strike to kill than a red chu… and it wasn't like it was difficult to hit them, so it had been a pretty easy mission… so far. And Poe was rather grateful. Really, if adventuring was like this, there was nothing to be afraid of.
Blue and Poe had settled for alternating oncoming enemies. After all, both had shown that they liked to stab things about five minutes into the forest. That allowed for a sort of working relationship, as they had a sort of common ground. Vio, on the other hand, had taken up to guiding them through the forest with the map, since there seemed to be little need for bombs in this area.
So things were going pretty great… Up until they reached a clearing where they could only assume would be where the Great Fairy of the Forest normally dwelt. She wasn't there, not that any of them expected she would be - especially Poe, who really didn't want anything more difficult than a chu to show up. In fact, Poe was quite willing to let Blue handle the bad guy all by himself if he was so inclined.
"So where's the baddie?" Blue asked, looking a bit irritated as he examined the clearing.
Vio was silent, simply scrutinizing the area and working up strategies for all manner of beasts that might pop up.
Poe gingerly stepped forward, half tempted to simply turn around and rejoin the puke party. But he felt himself brighten at the sight of shimmery green slime rising from the grass. Bright, cross-eyed yellow eyes caught sight of him and the green chu slowly slid towards the guard. Practically giddy at the opportunity to stab, he went and shoved his spear into the gelatinous creature two times. It splattered to the ground, and the guard let out a chuckle of delight. And then another chu popped up. Poe was about to head on over to end that one when yet another chu popped up.
And then another.
And another.
And then two more. Then three. There were far too many.
"Vio, where did all these chus come from?" Blue asked, startled. Because Poe wasn't the only with chu troubles.
"I have no idea," Vio said through gritted teeth. "But they're heading for the center and… Where's Poe?"
As luck would have it, Poe was in the center. And to Poe's horror, the chus began to merge together with ugly shlooping sounds, forming an even bigger chu. Eventually, he was feeling a thick current around his ankles, and saw that puddles of chu jelly were everywhere. They were all gathering to the enlarging chu at the center, and Poe was getting caught up in it. It was then that he panicked and stabbed wildly at the chu jelly around him – because stabbing things tended to usually solve his problems. Unfortunately, the stabbing didn't seem to be working. It was like poking pudding – utterly pointless. And even worse was that the waves of chus had reached past his knees and were shlooping so quickly together, the guard was getting caught up in the vastly growing mass of jelly.
"Oh shi-" Blue exclaimed. He ran forwards and reached out to the guard, but Vio quickly pulled him back.
"No! If you get any closer, you'll get caught up in it too!" The purple garbed Link warned.
"But what about-" Blue was interrupted by Poe's scream which suddenly turned into a muted and warbled thing. Sure enough, the two Links looked on in a mixture of disgust and morbid curiosity at Poe now floating within the chu. It reminded them an awful lot of the time that Zelda had invited them (or him, since they were only one person at the time) to dinner, and at dessert there was gelatin served with cut up fruit inside. Poe seemed to be the fruit in the gelatin… except he looked like he was about to break out into tears.
But their attention was drawn from the hysterical guard to the giant chu now fully formed and staring down at them. Mouths gaping, they hadn't quite realized that the chu was rocking back and forth until it was about to slam itself down upon them. Vio shot to the left as Blue shot to the right, readying his bow. Sliding to a stop, he turned and quickly took aim at the chu and letting the arrow loose. He grinned, seeing that his aim was true (not that he really could have missed such a huge target). But the smile quickly faltered when the arrow simply shlooped inside of the chu and floated absently nearby Poe (who was feebly attempting to swim out of the chu).
"What?" Blue shouted incredulously.
The chu picked itself up and slowly began to slide over closer towards Blue, who tried to shoot it again with the same result.
"It's too big!" He heard Vio call out from the left. "You can't hit the core like that; arrows are too weak!"
Blue looked at Vio with an expression of utmost shock and confusion. "These things have a core?" But it was really the wrong time to be shocked about that sort of thing, because the chu slammed itself upon the ground again. Blue had only caught the movement a fraction of a second too late. He moved, but the chu jelly still caught one of his legs. The blue clad Link stumbled, desperately clawing at the ground in an attempt to escape same fate as Poe.
"Fire in the hole!" Vio shouted.
Blue's eyes widened at that. Sure enough, a round shadow was passing over him. Vio was throwing a bomb at him. Again, Blue desperately clawed at the ground, shouting, "You fucking purple psycho!"
Just as the bomb was about to make contact with the chu jelly that had grasped Blue's leg, it exploded. With a splatter of chu jelly, Blue skidded across the floor slightly blackened but otherwise fine. Happy, however, he wasn't. "What the fuck is wrong with you? That could've killed me!"
Vio ignored his coarser counterpart's words and gritted his teeth at the sight of the chu's exploded jelly returning to it. He ran over to Blue, since the chu was still incredibly slow and said, "We need to hit the core or it'll keep regenerating."
"Again, these things have cores?" Blue asked, watching the chu carefully as it lumbered closer to them.
"It doesn't matter; if we can find it, I may be able to bomb it…"
The train of thought was temporarily interrupted as the chu made to do another smash upon the ground, signaling the two Links to run before impact.
"There!" Blue shouted, pointing at a slightly more condensed area of the Chu.
"Ready!" Vio confirmed, lighting the fuses of the next bomb and hurling it at the green slime.
The two watched with anticipation as the bomb flew at the chu. Poe, seeing the bomb, looked on in horror and prayed to Farore to spare his life. And maybe Farore did hear it. Because the bomb shlooped right into the chu, and as soon as slime touched fuse, the fuse stopped burning. The giant chu easily stood itself up, and then, to the horror of the two Links, it jumped. And despite its slow movement and heavy weight, the chu managed to get enough air to send both Links running around like maniacs. When it pounded on the floor, Blue and Vio had been lucky enough not be near the gelatinous mass… but the chu's landing caused a shock throughout the ground, sending both Link's tumbling.
Finally at his limit, Blue snarled, "That's it! This guy's tasting steel!"
"NO!" Vio cried out, wishing Blue wasn't so quick to anger. But his word went in one ear and out the other with Blue. The aggressive Link took out his sword and slashed wildly at the chu. He had managed one slash without being sucked into the jelly monster. The second slash was not so lucky. His sword stuck into the monster, and no amount of pulling seemed to get the blade out. In fact, it seemed only to suck him in further. "Let go, you idiot!" Vio said.
But again, Blue did not heed the purple clad boy's words. And soon, he was floating up near Poe and seeming angrier than ever.
Vio, now facing the giant chu alone, ran like a maniac, trying to think about how he could handle the giant gelatin creature. The arrows Blue had shot earlier were still floating around in the chu… and Blue and Poe still had their weapons nearby. The bombs couldn't pierce through all that jelly and… He got it. Skidding to a stop, he took a deep breath and shouted at the chu, hoping the two trapped with in the slimy confines of its body could hear him, "Maneuver to the core and stab it!"
All they heard was muffled nonsense.
Vio repeated it, trying to raise his voice. Blue looked over his shoulder at Poe, who shrugged.
Desperately wanting to scream his frustration, Vio had to settle for continuing to run before the chu decided to slam down upon him. When he got further away, he stopped and then decided he may as well try his best as charades. He took out his sword and made a stabbing motion. Poe and Blue again looked at each other in confusion, getting even more confused when Vio did swimming motions. Then he did swimming motions, pointed at the chu with his blade, and then made a stabbing motion. Blue was the first to get it.
Straining with all his might, he swam over to the darkest green of the chu. Sword in hand, he thrust his blade into the core… though not very quickly. He was still in a mass of jelly, after all, so the sword had inched its way there. But the result was the same. The chu froze in pain and made eerie, hacking screeches. But that was not enough, and Blue could not pull his blade out of the core. Poe, having caught on, had begun his trek towards the core. However, his extra armor made him even slower than Link. But with a longer weapon, he was able to strike the core more quickly.
And that was what did it.
The slime fell apart like water and Poe and Blue fell to the ground with ka-thunks. Soaking wet in green water, the two hacked and coughed as they picked themselves up. But Poe was the first to regain his voice.
"I quit." He rasped angrily.
"What?" Vio asked, offering a hand to Blue, who struck it away and stood up by himself.
"No princess-" Poe paused to hack up a wad of green slime. The taste brought upon a horrible expression of disgust, but he continued, "-Is worth this." He then began to march off, saying, "I'm going home. Tell Gibdo I said to jump off a cliff when he calls me out."
Before Blue or Vio could say anything to stop the guard, another voice spoke, "Heroes, thank you for releasing me from the gelatinous prison of the Giant Chu."
Poe turned on his heel to see the owner of the new voice. His jaw dropped.
Before the three floated the Great Fairy of the Forest. She was tall and incredibly beautiful, with hair the color of fresh grass roots tumbling down a dress of deepest green. Shimmery dragonfly-like wings flapped gently on her back… and Poe was incredibly red in the face and all of a sudden very self-conscious.
"Had you not come to my rescue, I surely would have been trapped within that monster indefinitely."
"Oh-oh, it was nothing," Poe said, his chest puffing out and standing more at the ready than most guards the Links had seen since they were whole. "You know, us guards of Hyrule… doing our best to protect everyone around."
The Great Fairy smiled, her eyes shining brightly. "What a noble hero. As thanks, allow me to open the first gate to the Demon Vaati's palace."
Poe blinked for a moment, before the slightest bit of dismay came upon his expression. "Oh yeah… that's still going on…"
"Heroes, I ask of you to release my sisters. They are still in grave danger. May the goddesses continue to shine light upon your quest." And then the Great Fairy vanished.
The three stood stock still. And then Poe began to march out of the forest crying out, "Well, what are we waiting for! There are incredibly beautiful fairies save! I mean… there's a princess to save by… by saving incredibly beautiful fairies… We have to go."
Blue simply snorted. "Please, with a fairy? He hasn't got a chance in hell."
Vio shook his head disapprovingly… yet he had a very similar smile upon his face.
And so Zelda is foiled. But at least she's beginning to realize Vaati's probably the better option than a dragon who wants to eat you XD
Funny fact about Poe: Vaati fanboy he may be, but he also has a thing for Great Fairies. It is a trait that persists even after he dies and makes me giggle to no end because he can be such a creeper about it. As for how Poe and Blue were able to hold their breath in the Chu so long... it's in the damned script , that's why. -w-
LocalTalent53 , haha, here I am responding to all three of your reviews. Anyways, yes, I am developing Vaati more, though I still had to tone him down from my original image for this story. D: I think my best characterization of him will occur in later chapters of Fly Away, but that one is going to be very, very long. D: Luckily, this story is going to be pretty short. I'm pretty sure you'll be able to stay well updated easily. XD As for Onox, I have a huge bias when it comes to dragons. Plus, like I said before, in order for someone to kidnap Zelda from Vaati, he can't be grounded. General Onox is very much grounded, so I took some artistic liberty... That and he's just way cooler as a giant fire breathing lizard. As for Poe, I'm trying to keep him away from Vaati in this story. There will be plenty of time for him to be doing major fanboying in another story I've got planned... Hopefully, this chapter hasn't disappointed. D:
H-bomber, glad you think so! I'm sorry if I did keep you waiting a little too long, tho. D:
purplegc, mogmas are awesome. And Red just wanted to help! ... And failed at it. As for Poe with a headache, maybe at first... not so much anymore. XD
Midna Hytwilian, I just love how they're such wannabe gangsters but are totally fail at it. XD They make me think of the kids from Gokusen.
XiXIXiX, nooooooo. No Ghirahim in here. He will show up in Fly Away, though... but later. Much later. And no, Zelda will not be getting digging mitts. But I think you already found that out. XD
msfcatlover, oh I'm sure Vaati would find it entertaining if Onox didn't keep on bursting his bubble. XD
Sage of Video Games, oh, he's not a nice guy and he won't pretend to be. Not in this story, at least. And yes, I think Zelda is just realizing that in this chapter. XD As for Poison Ivy tea... well, ingesting poison ivy causes nausea and plenty of other nasty symptoms, but it can actually kill you. Good thing they're the heroes, so they can't die. XD As for that last sentence... by that logic, are you saying my other stories aren't any good? -srs face is srs plz-
Vann-Chan, yea verily!