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Chapter 4: Prelude of Shadows
Link is astonished at the person that has appeared before his sapphire blue eyes, it was no other than Shadow Link. Link is completely immobilized by this apparition of unholy darkness, finally he manages to unsheathe his sword and take a battle stance. Shadow Link; however, does not seem interested in fighting Link; it is as he were completely oblivious to the matter that Link was right beside him. Nonetheless, Link charges towards his counterpart and unleashes a spin attack followed up by a vertical slash. The attack was successful; however, S. Link (Shadow Link for short) seems unscathed by the attack. All he says is, "The darkness is coming…" With that, he vanishes into the shadows thatare his only home. Link, still perturbed by this ghastly appearance finally pulls his pansy, teenage ass together and starts looking around for Malon.
Malon; however, has a little run in with the locals of lake Hylia. Malon is petrified, since this IS her first time out in the lake, and she had never seen any other forms of life other than demented cuckoos, horses, cows and other Hylians, sothis was completely new to her. She panicks and finally Epona gets nervous and throws Malon off, thereis a sickening thud on the floor and Malon is unconscious on the floor while Epona runs off to god knows where. Link is still wandering around by the entrance to the desert, heruns into a few horse tracks, which luckily for him were still fresh. He follows the tracks to where a puddle of water and some rose bushes were (you know that river that cuts off the land leaving it isolated, he was around that area) . He finds Epona there with a impressive looking, broad with muscle stallion (the stallion is brown with white if you are wondering) and Link assuming Malon MUST be around here starts looking around, until he trips and falls into a dark cave
Anyways, Link being the graceful little idiot he is, lands on his ass and passes out. Half an hour later he wakes up to an echoing sound, he assumes its just bats; however, as he draws nearer to a room that is dimly lit by a torch he sees a stone slab with nothing written on it. He walks to another dimly lit room and in that fragment of time, a death hand pops out of the ground and iniciates its attack. Link notices this death hand was not like the other two he had faced before, this one seems to be a lot more aggressive than the other ones. This one is not a pushover, it did not retreat into the ground once struck, it stays, fighting trying to take a bite out of him. The death hand is resilient, the second Link hacks at it and cuts off its hands they regenerate quickly and it went to attack him with the slime thing it throws. The death hand is kicking Links ass, it grabs Link and starts shaking him wildly and tosses him across the room. Link lands on his back to the wall, groans in pain and tries to rub his back, but as soon as he got up the death hand throws its nasty goop at him, hitting him right on the leg. The goop starts to react and burns thru Link's white thighs, Link gets mad trying to slash the death hand's face, but misses miserably.
The death hand had used one of the advantages it had at its disposal, and that was not having bones, the moment Link slashed at the creature the creature would pull a grotesque evasion technique, snapping its head back so that it touches its back. Link is frustrated at this and finally takes out his bow with his light arrows, aims an arrow right for the monster's face. Link nocks an arrow and lets it fly; it was a dead aim hit, right in between the eyes. The creature lets out a cry of defeat and slumps over and disperses into a puddle of rotten flesh. As in cue, the room startes rumbling and a ray of light shines in through the ceiling of the cave and lights up the stone slab that was previosuly blank. In black lettersthe stone read,
"In Hyrule where the shadows rise,
One sword, one hero,
Lives shall be changed,
One for the endless shadows, for the never-ending sky,
For mother earth, for the eternal flames,
For the deep, cold sea, and for death and destruction,
The hero will be undone,
The faith of the people will be lost,
When all is dark who will come?
No one will come…
Hyrule is forever lost in the ages of shadows…
Let the rivers of blood pour in Hyrule,
For the shadows are growing,
In the never ending sorrow that is Hyrule"
"Such are the powers of the Liryxn blade", says S. Link as he disappears from the room with the stone slab. Link decides to leave thecave and goes into the room where S. Link was just in There Link notices the shaft of light revealing the words in black on the stone slab; he reads it to himself and shudders at the words he just read. He somehow felt an ominous feeling as if something was bound to happen and soon. However, Link thought this was enough excitement for today and he realizes that he had no idea where Malon was. Exasperated, Link runs out of the cave to meet in face-to-face with that weird scientist guy from lake Hylia. The scientist saw the look of worry on Link's face and asked, "Young man have you lost something?" Link is frustrated that this guy was wasting his precious time, but he holds himself together and responds a bit sternly, "Yes I am looking for a girl, she has red hair and she is roughly around my size." The scientist says, "So you were with that girl, the one whom I found unconscious on the floor by where the tetike breeding grounds were."
Link says with worry in his eyes, "Where is she? I promised her father I would keep her safe." The scientist, being a little bastard says to Link, "Looks like you weren't doing a very good job, heheheh……" Link makes a face and says, "Please just take me to where you have her, so I can get her to Zora's domain." The scientist face lightens up and says, "Only if you promise to bring me a scale from the zoras, please I have wanted to study the magical qualities of the zora." Link sighs and says, "Alright I will, but can we go to where Malon is?" The scientist chuckles and says, "Seems that you are "fond" of this girl ehh?" Link gets nervous and responds stupidly, "Umm yeah we've known each other for a long time now, ever since we were ten." Ahh so you've gotten to know her personally?" asks the perverted scientist. Link; however, since he was a durmass did not know what the scientist guy was implying and he says, "Yeah I have even slept with her at night sometimes." The scientist being even more perverted asks Link if her "cuckoo" tasted good, Link again being the idiot he is did not understand what he meant and thought he was talking about her cooking, and says, "Malon has the best cuckoo ever."
The scientist just nods and thought, what a horny bum. Finally they had arrived at the scientists crap shack errr…. I meant house! Link is so relieved when he sees Malon up and about and runs towards her and gives her a hug. Malon is still somewhat groggy and confused, she looks at Link as if he were some unknown that is unknown, then faints from E.B.L. (extreme blood loss). Link carries Malon over to the bed were she was before and sighs. Link then realizes something, what in the freaking hell was the scientist out in Hyrule field instead of being here in his crap shack taking care of Malon? Link decides to ask the f-ing scientist why he had left Malon alone in the crap shack. The scientist merely told him he was looking for a herb to help Malon recover faster, and indeed he was telling the truth, he pulls out a root of some sort of plant Link had never seen. The scientist boiled some water and put the root in the water along with some other herbs and the potion turns pink.
The scientist then tells Link to hold Malon while he fed her the potion with a spoon. Link does so and when they finish Link asks, "How long until it takes effect?" The scientist replies, "It depends on how badly she was hurt, when I found her there was a lot of blood on the floor, she had hit her head on a nearby rock and I had to give her some stitches." Then the scientist told Link to drink some of the potion so that his leg would heal from the attack of the death hand. Link drinks it and suddenly feels ashamed, of accusing the scientist of being incompetent, he then apologizes and says, "Thank you so much for taking care of Malon." The scientist replies, "Just helping someone out in need." Link then askes the scientist if he could watch Malon for a while, since he had promised to bring him a zora scale. The scientist replies, "Sure, it's good to see that some people actually fulfill their promises." With that Link goes over to the bed where Malon is resting, kisses her forehead and says, "Get better soon." He exits the scientist's humble crap shack and starts walking towards the underwater entrance of Zora's domain.
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