A/N: Well, well, well. Hi, readers, welcome to another installment of 'Of Phoenix or Wolf', David Robinson-
Lance: -and Lance Delgado-
Dave: -here! Sorry for the delay, but hey, I've got my own crap to worry about. Well, here goes the first dungeon. And my second ever battle scene.
Lance: I'm really looking forward to it. =B
David: …I'm sure you are. I shall be almost introducing… Someone! Dumm Dumm Dunnnnnn!!! Anywho, on with the story!
Lance: None of this crap, other than the obvious, belongs to either David or me.
Chapter 3: You're a girl?! And Navi is too?!
"We will." Link was the first to speak after the silence from the wooden deity's request. "Err…" Lance was a little more reluctant. This reluctance increased ten-fold as an orifice opened up on the bark of The Tree. Link dragged Lance with him inside.
"…Whoa."
The inside of the tree was haggardly hollowed out, with marks that, should one look close enough, would remind one of bite marks.
Link dropped his comrade when he saw the tree's insides. "Yeah… This isn't normal for a tree, is it, Navi?" Lance turned to the fairy. "No, It isn't," she answered. She flew to her charge. "Link, let's go!" And on they went, steadily climbing the unnaturally hollow insides of the tree.
Until, they met their first roadblock. "We can't climb that." Lance stated. "Why not? It'll hold our weight." Link countered. Navi flew closer towards the vines. "No, wait. He's right, Link. There are Skulltullas on the vines, they'll attack, and possibly kill you if you try to climb."
Link looked at his fairy, "Then what are we supposed to do?" Lance looked around, "let's continue up the path." They did, and struck up an… interesting conversation.
"So, Lance, why are you in Kokiri Forest? You're too big to be a kokiri." Link suddenly asked.
"Well, I, um… See this girl sent me-" "Girl?" Link frowned. Navi just let the boys talk, she was looking at the extent of the damage inside the Great Deku Tree. "Yes, a… um a …a princess! She told me to find a boy in green with a shinning…" Lance's eyes alighted on a pebble in his path. "…Stone! Yeah! She told me to find you and bring you to her!" Lance exuberantly finished his rather… accurate story/guess. "Oh. Is she hot?"
Lance almost choked on his spit.
"What- Link, how old are you?!" Lance shouted to his companion. Link frowned again. "Ten." "You shouldn't be thinking about stuff like that yet!" Link took on a thoughtful look. "…" Lance looked back with a worried expression. "Link…?" Link looked up with a determined expression. "So, answer the question."
Navi had had enough by now and alerted the two of the door in front of them. "I feel a dark presence behind this door…" she told them. Link shrugged and opened the door… and was hit in the face with a wet, hard deku nut. Lance's eyes widen, and, despite himself gave a short bark of laughter, until a nut hit him in the gut. Poetic justice? Maybe.
Either way, he shut up after that. Navi flitted over to their assailant, a woody little thing with a cluster of leaves on top of what they assumed to be its head. "It's a Deku Scrub! If you get to close, it will hide in its burrow! Try to hit it from afar!" Link thought of a solution first. He quickly pulled of his shield and stared hard at it. While he was busy staring at the sliver of wood, the Scrub fired another snot-covered nut at him. Idiotically enough, it hit the shield, bounced back, and hit the plant right between the eyes.
Lance tackled the immobile Scrub. It then surprised everyone in the room when it yelped and spoke. "Masters, I beg of you to not hurt me! If I give you some helpful advice, would you let me go?" Lance looked back to Link, who nodded, and for once, despite his nature, looked serious. "I suppose…" The scrub trembled.
Link carried it out of the room back into the main cavern. "Down through that webbed hole, resides our queen. The only way to get down there is to either burn the web or-" Link tossed the little scrub off the edge and onto the web, which broke on impact.
Needless to say, the little thing screamed bloody murder. Link grinned lopsidedly, at which Lance recoiled. Oh, no. He always grinned like that when he got a stupid idea… Link took hold of Lance's arm, and jumped off of the edge, plummeting them to a certain doom.
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Meanwhile, King Link and his wife, Queen Sarah, had arrived back home, only to find the young prince missing. While his wife grew frantic, Link visited the pedestal of time like he always did to calm down.
When he got to the shrine, he noticed another person. They had long blondish red hair that was slightly spiked, but still hung in his face, covering the left side of it. They were wearing a long black cloak over gold and red armour, and a sword handle was sticking out from under the cloak on his right shoulder.
"Link, the sword is gone." Link sighed. "It's that time, then?" The person turned around, revealing themselves to be a handsome young man, around the age of the king standing beside him, with cold blue eyes. "Yes, I've just started my journey with you, Link."
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After landing in a pool of what the trio hoped was water, they set off into an ominous black tunnel ahead of them. While traversing the cave, Lance noticed the walls looked chewed out, as if some giant mole carved its way through with its teeth. "Navi, have you noticed the walls?" The fairy turned to inspect them, only to turn and stare into a red eye as big as her. "Wahh!" She pivoted and flew into Lance's breastplate. Lance's scandalized look almost made Link laugh.
First, though, Link took care of the little monster with the glowing eye. Navi shakily flew out of the armour and fluttered toward the carcass of the monster. "I-it resembles a gohma spider's young, but way bigger. Bigger then even a grown gohma!" Link looked down at the dead monster and noticed a piece of wood sticking out. He grabbed it and pull out a… slingshot. "What is this doing in a monster spider thing? Oh, well. Mine!"
After this little interlude, the two boys continued further. Link looked closely at Navi and suddenly widened his eyes. "Hey, Navi, you're a girl!" Lance rolled his eyes. "Well, that was just such an enlightening observation, Link."
Link shook his head, discarding the sarcasm. "I mean! She's a pretty girl!" Lance leaned in closer towards the now pink fairy and squinted to see past the light. What he saw was the figure of a rather cute girl with silvery blue hair and sparkling sapphires for eyes. She was wearing a simple white gown that flowed with every beat of her wings.
Lance blinked, while Navi grew a darker shade of red. "Your right! For once you actually said something I'm willing to agree to!" Navi, now a red that could put a tomato to shame, quickly said, "Uh, do you hear that, too?" They stopped and listened hard.
Eventually, Lance heard something. "Is that chewing?" The group continued on, and eventually came to an open chamber that had a somewhat dim pulsing light source of a light greenish blue. As they stopped, Link looked up and locked eyes with a single, huge green eye. He immediately froze and the chewing noises ceased. Link tried to tell Lance to look up, though rather unsuccessfully. Eventually, Link found his voice and screamed, "UP! Look up!" Lance and Navi did, at which point the owner of the eye decided to come down and welcome its guests.
The ensuing crash knocked Lance, who was closer, off his feet and Link back. Navi flopped backwards and landed on Links head. The beast that was now standing before them roared a battle cry. It looked almost crustacean, half spider scorpion, half crab lobster, with heavy plating, large claws, clicking mandibles, and glowing crystals on it's shoulders.
Navi flapped back into the air, and gave her report. "It looks like a gohma spider brood mother, but with more armour and extremely larger than should be possible!" Link nodded and Lance looked back at the monster. "And how do we fight it?!" Navi hovered around a bit, then answered. "I would say hit the eye or those crystals!"
So they set of to work, Lance distracting it and Link shooting it in the eye with pebbles he found lying around, conviently enough. One pebble hit the creatures left crystal, and it went berserk, managing to knock Lance into the wall. Link ran over to him. "Don't worry, I'm alright, just try to shoot the eye…" Link did, Gohma lay stunned on the floor.
Both then hacked and slashed at the beast. Eventually, it noticed that its current strategy wasn't working and it crawled up a wall to the ceiling. It's eye burned red, glaring at it's enemies. It was then, that Link shot it. It came crashing down and the duo finished the monster off, slashing or kicking, whichever seemed more convenient.
It suddenly caught blue fire and the boys were forced to jump back and cover their eyes. When they could see again, both noticed a person lying where the monster was. Navi hovered toward the person. "So there was another curse here, on this person!"
Link and Lance walked over. The latter kneeled next to this mystery person and gasped. "It's a girl!" Indeed, it was a girl, looking to be, coincidently, their age, with long ashy brown hair, a fair complexion, and a short green dress with a brown bolero over her shoulders. The three conscious people looked at each other. "Dude, that monster was a girl!"
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A/N: Well, that was… interesting.
Lance: Why do I speak so… civilized? I'm like ten in this story!
David: You're also a prince, bunghole.
Lance: ._. Oh.
David: Well I hope you enjoyed this horribly delayed chapter! Please leave a review!