Aw, to hell with getting 13 reviews! Here's the 7th chapter of Reality of Time. Enjoy!
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Chapter 7: The New Addition
The Hyrule castle town was very big and most of it was dominated by a large market. The market was bustling. People were talking laughing and the shouts of bids for items were heard from shopkeepers. The smell of the crowd, food and other things was strong.
"Sweet, this is Hyrule Market. It's-"
"Huge. I know, Nik. We go through this whenever we enter a new place." said Ivan with a grin. He sniffed and smiled. "I smell MEAT!" The two heros shouted in joy and rushed to the nearest stand that sold anything that used to be an animal. Soon after the two boys were hungrily eating two grilled beef steaks. It was at a hefty price of 50 rupees but they were hungry.
"THAT was good." said Ivan, licking his fingers. Nik nodded in agreement and finished off his steak as well. Suddenly the friends heard a shout nearby.
"DRAGON! DRAGON! 200 RUPEES! ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME DEAL!!!" The two boys rushed to the direction of a stand where the voice was coming from and they saw a muscular pale skinned man waving a bell. He had coarse, short messy red hair and wore shades and he held a small cage that had a small dragon in it.
"COME ON LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! EXTREMELY RARE PROLIXORIENS DRAGON HERE! FOR THE LOW, LOW PRICE OF 200 RUPEES!" shouted the man. The dragon in question lay in its cage, looking out mournfully at the crowd, sometimes glancing at the shopkeeper. It was about 3 feet long and had no legs to speak of. It's paws had 3 claws and it had 2 curved horns on its head. It had large, sparkling green eyes and it was a light blue color with a white underbelly. Nik yanked at Ivan's clothes.
"Dude that's Volvagia!" he whispered. Ivan's eyes widened.
"No frickin way. Volvagia is like 30 feet long and is black and red and he's a freaking lava monster that lives in the Fire Temple." whispered Ivan. Nik shook his head.
"No that's Volvagia as a baby. In the manga Link buys it and sets it free and later on, after the 7 year skip, it's been taken over by Ganondorf and used to terrorize Death Mountain."
"How much money you got on you?" asked Ivan. Nik searched through his pockets and pulled out a handful of blue rupees that came together into a purple rupee. Ivan dug through his pockets and pulled out an orange rupee.
"Ok a purple rupee, 50, and an orange rupee, 100, gives us..." Nik paused in a dramatic silence but Ivan knew it was because he was taking a while to calculate. "...150 rupees. Boy, math just leaves you when you're in the past." says Nik. Ivan nodded but frowned.
"We still need 50 more rupees...hey I think I know where to get some! Follow me!" Ivan ran back near the drawbridge and entered a small hut. A guard sat in there in the corner, snoring, near a small hole that stared out at Hyrule Field. In the room were at least three dozen pots.
"Ok get to smashing!" said Ivan. He pulled out his sword and started hacking at the pots, breaking them and collecting the rupees that came out. Mido lifted the pots and flung them into each other, collecting rupees as well. Ivan did a spin attack and he heard a swear from Nik. He looked back and found his friend had been launched forward onto his front. (the two boys backs were to each other) The deku shield on his back had a thin gash through the center.
"Sorry Nik I guess I knocked you forward with my spin attack." Nik got up and held his cheek which had a shallow cut from some broken glass.
"Well be more careful Ivan. It wouldn't have helped if you'd lacerated my back open or something!" shouted Nik. Ivan cringed but he knew his friend was right.
"Sorry." Nik sighed and his anger calmed.
"I know you didn't mean to but you have to take care now. Swinging a sword at a person or thing will cut it, not pass through it like the game." said Nik. "Anyway, how much money you got. I got a ton of blue and green rupees that came together to form a orange rupee and a red rupee."
"I got an orange rupee and a yellow rupee." said Ivan. "So with our previous 150, we got your 100 and 20 and my 100 and 10. Added all together that's... 380 rupees. More than enough to buy the dragon!" said Ivan. "C'mon let's hurry and pray that it's still there." The two boys ran as fast as they could to the stall and saw the pale skinned, red haired shade wearing man with the dragon shouting out the price of 200 rupees.
Ivan dug the two orange rupees out of his pocket and held them up at the man.
"Oh it appears we have a buyer. I'll take these." The man took up the rupees and handed Ivan the cage, his sunglasses practically twinkling in mirth. "Sorry folks. The rare prolixoriens dragon is sold to the young man in green!"Ivan smiled and he and Nik walked off deeper into the market, talking. They didn't notice one thing though. Sunglasses aren't supposed to be in this timeline. The man removed his shades and watched the young boys leave through his bright pale green eyes. He smirked evilly.
"So easy to manipulate the unsuspecting." chuckled the man before he walked away, disappearing like a faded photograph.
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Ivan opened the cage and the little dragon came out. It looked up at them with warm, inquisitive eyes.
"Hey there little guy." said Ivan, reaching out to pet the dragon. In response, the dragon bit his hand, causing Ivan to yelp. He shook his hand and the dragon let go, leaving some small teeth marks. Ivan growled at the dragon and it whimpered. Nik picked it up and started stroking its head. The young dragon purred and snuggled into Nik's chest. Ivan glared.
"I told you Ivan. Being half kokiri, I got a thing for animals." said Nik with a grin. "Now what should we name him, huh?"
"Well his name is Volvagia." said Ivan but Nik shook his head.
"That's probably a name Ganon came up with. How about a different one." They thought about it for a moment and then Ivan snapped his fingers.
"I got it, Orian." said Ivan. Nik shrugged.
"Sounds good so from now on we are three. Nik, Ivan and the new addition, Orian!" said Nik with a smile. Ivan grinned as well.
"Hm-hm." said a voice. The two boys looked up at Navi's floating form and Nik grinned sheepishly.
"Oh, sorry, we're four then. Nik, Navi, Ivan and Orian."
"That's more like it." said the blue fairy with a 'hmph'.
"Well then let's go meet a princess." said Ivan. The two boys ventured deeper into Hyrule Castle Town and they came across a small girl with long red hair, brown work boots and a long white dress with blue trim. She was looking at the castle with a frown on her face.
"Where is he?" she muttered. She turned and found Ivan, Nik and Orian looking at her.
"Where is who?" asked Nik. The girl sighed.
"My father. He went to deliver some milk to the castle and hasn't returned. If he's taking this long I'm pretty sure he's fallen asleep somewhere, that lazy man." she muttered the last part.
"Well we were just heading to the castle." said Ivan. Her eyes brightened.
"Oh, you were. I hate to be a bother but can you please find my father for me? The guards would not let a common ranch girl like me in."
"Sure, we'll find him, right Nik?" asked Ivan. Nik nodded.
"Well thank you very much and...oh, I almost forgot my manners. My name is Malon, what's yours?"
"Well I'm Ivan, he's Nik and this little guy's Orian."
"Nice to meet you all and thank you again for helping me." said Malon with a smile.
"No problem." said Nik. "See ya." The adventures continued on their way to Hyrule Castle
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"I'm sorry son but I can't let you in to see the princess." said the guard. The two boys and their dragon were standing in front of the large gate of Hyrule Castle.
"C'mon you have to, it's REALLY important." said Ivan. The guard shook his head and Ivan sighed.
"Fine we'll leave. C'mon guys." The group walked back in the direction of Hyrule and, about halfway there, Ivan stopped and turned to the left pointing out some vines. "C'mon, let's climb up those." he said with a mischievous grin. Nik grinned as well and even Orian made a small sound. Orian clung to Nik's back as they ascended the vines and came down when they reached the top. They snuck over the top of the gate and around the clearing leading to the castle, ducking behind guards and other things. Soon they had reached the moat and we're about to jump in but Orian was shaking and whimpering.
"What's wrong with Orian?" asked Ivan.
"I think he's afraid of the water. He is a fire dragon after all." said Nik. Ivan thought for a few minutes and then he smiled.
"I have an idea." He took the deku shield off of his back and, using its straps, he strapped Orian onto it. Together the two kokiris gently lowered the make shift raft into the water. It moved along with the water's current and came to rest on an incline in the corner ahead. Orian looked back at them with curious eyes.
"Well let's jump in!" said Nik.
"Well, about that, you see I-" Ivan couldn't finish his sentence as Nik grabbed his arm and jumped pulling him into the water. Nik floated up, spitting out some water.
"Whoa, this water's cold huh, Ivan? Ivan?" Nik looked to his side and saw his friend scrabbling under water, being taken away by the current, bubbles leaking out of his open mouth. "Ivan!"
'I can't swim, I can't breathe. Dammit, move body, move!' thought Ivan but his body refused to get itself to the surface. He flopped about, his arms struggling to get to the surface. He could see Nik trying to come to him but the deku shield and axe on his back was making it very difficult for him to swim to Ivan.
'I can't breathe, I can't swim, can't...breathe...can't...swim...breathe...swim...breathe...swim...' Just as Ivan was on the border of black out, a flow of memories came into him.
"Ok kokiri, time for your swimming lesson." said a green fairy. The few dozen kokiri stood in front of the central pond. "Now the deku tree has given me the task of teaching you how to swim. Now, I may be small but I do have the knowledge to teach you. Now crowd around and watch my actions." said the green fairy. He slowly floated to the ground and his light disappeared, revealing a man with short green hair and a green pants and shirt made out of leaves.
"Now, you take your arms and do this motion in the water while you're lying flat." He moved his arms, demonstrating a normal stroke. "Watch me." He lightly fluttered into the water and did a few feet of a normal stroke. "Now, as I call you're names, come up and try and imitate what I did."
Several kokiri went until the instructor said "Link." Link walked up to the pond with a confident grin. He jumped in and tried what the instructor did. He was a natural and was swimming through the water with ease. When he needed air he breathed but water came up and he started coughing. He got into a standing position (the pond water reaches their chests in height) and started coughing up water.
"What...happened?" said Link in between coughs.
"You need to tilt your head to the side to breath Link." said the instructor. "When you're swimming it's very important that you breathe...breathe...breathe...
'BREATHE!' thought Ivan. He used his new found memory to swim up to the surface of the moat. His head popped up and he gasped for air. He panted heavily and swam back to where Orian sat on the incline. Nik was close by and he climbed onto the incline as well. Ivan strapped his shield off of Orian and placed it on his back. Nik said
"Ivan, man I'm sorry. Are you okay?" Ivan coughed a little but he nodded.
"Yeah I'm good but how could you forget I couldn't swim?! If I hadn't gotten some more of Link's memories, I would've been dead!" said Ivan.
"I'm sorry Ivan, I really messed up." Ivan shook his head and coughed up more water.
"It's...cough...okay, we all make mistakes." he said. They turned to the left and saw a portly man with a brown ponytail, a red shirt and blue overalls snoring against a crate with a cow on it.
"Hey wake up, Mr. Talon!" shouted Ivan. The man continued snoring. Then the group heard the shuffle of feet.
"I heard the noise this way, follow me men!" came a voice. Three of the Hyrule Castle guards came around the corner and looked around.
"It must have been that milk deliverer crying out in his sleep, sir." said one of the soldiers.
"You're probably right Cable but just incase let's keep our eyes and ears wide open." said the leading soldier. They filtered back to their guard posts and Ivan, Nik and Orian got up from behind the milk crate.
"Ok...we need a quieter way of waking him up." said Ivan. Orian scampered down the crate and looked at the snoring man. Then he widened his mouth and clamped down on the man's leg. Talon shot up with a 'Yowch!' and started whacking at his leg, getting Orian off of it. He blearily opened his eyes and muttered
"Where am I? Hm...dragon..." he looked down at the thing that had bit him then at the two boys. They both said
"Malon's waiting." And then his eyes widened.
"Oh no! I fell asleep again. Oh man, Malon is going to be so mad at me, she inherited her mother's fiery temper you know, and oh man, goodbye forest kids and biting dragon, I have to RUN!!!" Talon ran down and around the corner faster than you would think a man his size could go.
"Whoa." said Nik, staring down at the skid marks Talon left. "He must be really scared of keeping her waiting."
Ivan nodded. "You know the old saying, Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."
"Um...Translate Ivan."
"Well it's kind of a joke saying that hell is nothing compared to how mad a woman can get." said the young hero with a grin. "Christine was evidence of that enough huh?" Nik shuddered.
"My eardrums are permanently damaged from the number of times she shouted at us." Ivan nodded sagely and then he said
"Well she's not here and most likely we won't see her for quite a while, so c'mon let's go meet Zelda." The two boys arranged the milk crates to allow them access to the small waterway leading into the castle. They snuck in and proceeded to sneak their way through the badly set up guard rotations. Soon they were in the main garden area and they saw the back of a girl in a white and pink dress wearing a pinafore. She turned to them and smiled.
"Hello...Ivan and Nik." The two boys eyes widened and their jaws dropped.
"No, it...it can't be..." they both said at the same time, looking at the princess in horror.
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7th chapter, done! And I bet you're all dying to know what has the boys so shocked. I'll give you a hint. It is an evil older and more powerful than Ganon himself. Duh-duh-duhhhhh!!!( That means dramatic horror music sounded :P) Anyway see you next chapter!