Note: So...it's 2009. This chapter might be good, you never know. If I had of thing to bog down my writing I would have gotten this chapter done sooner. I wish I didn't have Christmas stuff or that wedding...or my sister! Ok my sister didn't do anything really...but she's annoy, none the less!!!!!!
Enjoy, and remember...please Read & Review!!
Creeping forward, eight steps at a time, the shadowy entity quietly snuck behind Link and Tetra. Craning it's long legs up, raising above a couple feet taller than the two, the many limbed figure prepared pounce on the seemingly unsuspecting teens. Dripping wet fangs inched closer and closer, ready to sink deep into the hero boy's defenseless back... ...
Suddenly Link twisted back and splashed the flaming lantern oil from their metal light source at the creature's coming fangs! The burning wave hit the entity straight in it's grouping of eyes, blinding it with fire. It arched back, letting out an earsplitting shriek to which no human hearing could imagine.
"What is that thing?!" The young captain called as she rushed to the side of the wailing beast, keeping her distance.
"Our 'Danger of the Many Legged'!!" The youth replied and ran to the other side of the figure.
The entity flailed it's body about, stretching it's closes limbs to whip away the burning oil. When the monster's shaking stopped and the flames died down, Link was able to catch an eyeful of the entity's form in the pale moonlight. Standing four feet off the ground, the beast was reviled as a thirteen foot long spider, sighted with a dozen red glossy globes, with a sinister looking fangs that dripped with liquid horror. The image of a skull face appeared on it's abdomen, tinted a bright orange/red.
"A Skulltula!!!! It's crazy big!!" Tetra exclaimed.
Link yanked his sword from his scabbard as the spider turned towards him. It's fangs waved up and down, inching closer to the hero boy, readying it's mandibles to puncture into Link's flesh. The youth flipped backwards, avoiding the dripping fangs, and landed on his feet. Not taking an extra moment, the boy immediately leaped back to the Skulltula, bring his blade down to the creature's face. As suddenly as Link had attacked, the spider raised it's two legs and let the razor weapon bounce off tremendous force.
The boy fell back and rolled straight into one of the trees that lined the large chamber. After a moment, Link picked himself up and rubbed his back. Looking back, the youth saw his happy little Skulltula friend start to scurry over to him...priming to maul him to death! (Yeah!!) Meanwhile, Tetra preparing her own weapon of choose... ...
The young captain reached into her pack and produced a round, dark blue bomb. Sparking the fuse, Tetra threw the sphere along the ground and pushed it forward, rolling the bomb straight for the spider. The explosive twisted and turned until it was directly under the red Skulltula... ...
BOOM!!!!!!!
Flames erupted up and engulfed the creature with fire and dust. The blonde girl smirked at her work, folding her arms over each. You got to love bombs, the young captain thought to herself as she turned back to their carved block clue-
"TETRA!!!!" The boy's cried ripped the girl's head back where she found the colossal crimson spider arching back, ready to fell down on her!!
Tetra was frozen to the spot as she stared at the monster, wide eye. The second the beast was about to come down, Link took a mighty jump and landed on the Skulltula's back, slashing at it's grouped sight. The spider shrieked and veered off to the side...missing the girl by a few inches. Link gave the monster another powerful swing at it's eye grouping and the spider began to span around on the spot. The boy quickly grabbed onto the crack between the Skulltula's armor and hanged on, continuing to cut down into spider's eyes.
After eternity of slashing, Link heard a loud squish as the sword sliced through the eye grouping. The spider bellowed an massive, inhuman holler, threw it's body, and sent the boy flying off it's back. Link gave his own holler as sailed through the air...but speedily recovered his form and fell back to his feet. The Skulltula was still kicking it's legs around, in every which way, as the youth recollected his senses. Link pushed his attentions back to Tetra... ...
"TETRA!!" The youth called as he ran over to the young captain, "I guess we're even, huh!"
"Don't starting dancing yet, Hero boy!! It's coming again!!"
Link turned back to the spider as it started charging for the two. The boy raised his blade up, preparing for an all out brawl. Tetra also readied herself, pulling out new weapon from her travel pack. She pushed her hand straight forward and yanked her other hand back, pulling back the string of her... ...SLINGSHOT??!!!!
"Um!! Tetra?!!!"
The girl was silent as smiled sinisterly and glared at the coming crimson spider. The Skulltula raced closer and closer and CLOSER only a few feet away!! The young captain let the strings fly, shooting a small object out. The object soured through the air, hitting the monster straight into the eye cut Link had made. The spider immediately stopped and shook it's head...then started to move for the pair again... ...
"Tetra!! We'll need more then a SLINGSHOT to stop this thing!!!!" Link scolded the blonde girl.
"Give it a second... "
KABOOM!!!!!!!!
A column of fire ripped out the spider's back, blowing it's armored shell to bits. The beast wobbled on it's legs for a few moments, then collapsed into a heap. The Skulltula twitched slightly and glared back at the two with it's few good eyes, as Link and Tetra drew near.
"Well I guess your having a bad day!" The young captain cheerfully grinned down to the spider foe, pulling her hand up to the back of her head, "Ok, Link... You do the rest... ..."
Tetra stepped back as the boy moved up, twirling his sword in a showmanship display of handled. The spinning stopped and the blade flew down, right into the spider's unprotected back. With a final shriek, the Skulltula stopped twitching... ...
"Sigh...it's dead now..." Link yanked to the sword from the spider's flesh and slid it back into his sheath. He groaned and touched his hand to his pounding back as it throbbed painfully. Suddenly a thought came to mind, "Hey! What was in that thing you shot at the spider's eye?"
"Oh, that?" The young captain posed in exorbitantly cocky tone, "I just filled it with that super explosive stuff that Hollo had made. It was pretty effective!!"
The youth blinked at Tetra twice, amazed that the exploding liquid had that much force...and that the girl was walking around with it! Tetra can really scare me somethings, the boy thought silently. With the Skulltula dead, the pair walked over to the stone wall where the ancient message laid to be solved... ... (... ... oh... I thought something else was going to attack...sorry.)
"So where did I stop... " Tetra scanned over the ancestral symbols for a moment, "'...Beware...many legged...' Here we go...'With victory brings hate. Leave hate and show first love's tender affection.' O..k...?"
"So we need to... ...??" Obviously, they need some time to think... ...
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On the normally lively island of Windfall, night blanketed, have most asleep in their beds. However, there was two who found themselves working. Located in a small shop, the pair found themselves in the most annoying state of being...boredom... ...
"...COME NOW!! When is it going to end?!!" A reasonably tall man asked from behind a wooden counter, one of many. He had dark blonde hair that come down to his eyes, his chin resting on this arm. He was practically sleeping on the shop counter, "Why do we stay open, EVERY NIGHT, even though no one comes..."
"Quit your complaining, Heben!!" A woman from across the room shouted with chestnut colored hair. Despite being a head short then him, the tall man recoiled back from the woman, "You know that almost no one goes to a weapons shop in these times of peace. Staying open longer is only way we can make the difference!! BESIDES YOU SLEEP ALL DAY ALREADY!!! YOU CAN AFFORD A NIGHT OR TWO!!!!!!!"
Heben tarried his glance in the woman's direction as she fussed over some the shop's merchandise. Picking up axes and swords, then placing them into their own specific barrel, it was a tedious task that had to be done. The woman sighed, none the less... ...
"Well...I-It is almost closing time..." Heben posed quietly, "...So maybe I shou-"
"Oh!! Go ahead!!" The woman cut the man off, knowing his inquiry before he asked. She crossed arms over herself and closed her eyes in discontent, "It's not like we've got any customers this night..."
Heben nodded sadly and rose for the door of the shop. As he neared, the man reached for small piece of plank wood resting on a tiny table next to the door. Across this wood, the Great Sea's common script spelled out the Hylian word meaning "CLOSED". A hole was cut above the letters, through the plank itself. Heben open the door and found a long nail sticking out it's outer surface, one that the hole would fit over.
Placing the closed sign on the nail, the man pushed the door shut. Suddenly, four long black fingers wrap themselves around the edge of the door and halted it's progress. Heben jumped and yelped, backing away from the entrance way as the door was slammed open. A dark figure stood in the doorway, dress in a long cloak that reached to their feet, their face...shut off to the world by a hood over their head.
"I-I'm sorry...but we're closing..." Heben stared in the darkness of the hood, but found nothing to greet him. The figure took a step in, prompting the tall man's hand to raise his hand, "I'm serious, minster! It's been a long night and I like to get to bed."
"... ..." The figure did not reply, but turned their head to the door and found the Closed sign. A black, void hand and arm slipped from the cloak's confines, then snatched the sign from it's nail. In a intimidating male's voice, the figure retorted, "Not tonight..."
The apparent cloaked man looked back at the taller, showing his red iris glaring through his hood, causing Heben to gasp. Without giving the taller man a second thought, the figure tossed the sign away and moved silently past Heben, to the woman. The female shopkeeper greeted the cloaked man with cheery smile... ...
"Welcome, sir!! My name is Enyo, your friendly swordsgirl helper!"
Heben sighed as the woman changed from nasty, GET-TO-WORK Enyo to sociable, sunshine Enyo. If there's money to grab, she's friendly, the tall man thought to himself. The figure, though, didn't mind the woman and went straight of the array of weapons. Shifting his black hands through the barrels, the cloaked man had pick through ever blade in the bunch and still continued looking.
"Was there some specific item that you were looking for?" Enyo asked, happy tone gleaming.
"I doubted that I find a good one here... ..." The figure muttered and yanked his hands from the barrel, twisting back for to the entrance. Though before he mustered the thought of leaving, the cloaked man's eye caught the sight of an item above the door, "What is this, here?"
"Oh!! What a good eye for workmanship, sir!!" The woman smiled out, "That is one of our more quality swords, very serious swordsman!!"
"Pricey too..." Heben said aloud, receiving a glare and a growl from Enyo. The man quickly got in line, "I-It's definitely the weapon for you, sir!! It...ah...has your name on it...?"
The woman let out a heavy sigh, placing her hand on aching temple. Heben smiled sheepishly and reach up to the sword above the doorway, then turned back to the figure. The cloaked man sprang over to Heben and gentle picked up the fine weapon.
The sword was nobleman's saber, with a slight curve that was followed by it's black lacquer sheath. The hilt was of colbert steel and stretched leather, fitting perfectly in the figure's black hand. The cloaked man eased the blade from it's scabbard, listening to the metal ring...a heavenly sound. The razor was indeed curved as sheath and edged on single side, leaving the concaved side flate.
"This does appear to be quality craftsmanship." The figure related.
The figure craned his head around until his sight landed on a simple wooden chair a foot away from him. The chair was made of several thick planks, all a inch in make. With a flick of his hand, the cloaked man skillfully pivoted his arm up and then back down over the chair. There was a moment of stillness, nothing happen...then the chair split in two. The figure pull the blade up to fingers again, feeling it's touch... ...
"Yes...indeed. A fine piece of workmanship... ..." The cloaked man looked back to Enyo as she smiled away, "So then...'friendly swordsgirl'... How much... ..."
"For you, I'll give a you a discount!" The woman grinned and wicked at the figure, "Two hundred rupees! That almost half off!!"
Heben sighed again...it wasn't half off...it was double the normal price. The cloaked man looked down in pure silence, then produced a frustrated groan. So much for our one sale of the night, the tall man though to himself. The figure looked back up and, without warning, place the tip of the sword to the woman's throat. Heben gasped and Enyo's grin quickly disappeared.
"I believe you have misunderstood me words...woman..." Stated the figure.
"One hundred fifty?"
"Sigh...you still don't understand-"
The cloaked man's words were cut short when he felt a point place against his spine. Looking over his shoulder, the figure found an upset Heben holding a short sword to his back... ...
"That's my pay check you have there, at your sword-point, minster..." The tall man frowned and pressed harder on his sword.
"Sigh... ..." Before Heben knew what was happening, the cloak of man flew off and into his face. Heben recoiled back, ripping the cloth off. Then two flicks...one hit metal against metal, send the short sword away, then a second sliced over the tall man's chest. Heben fell back, shock over taking him as he clenched his shirt. The figure looked down at him, his black form with red zig-zags meeting Heben, then he twist back to Enyo, "I hope, now, you understand me."
"...one thousand..." The woman related blankly, still mesmerized by the scene. The dark man raised his sword back up, giving Enyo a firm stare, "Two thousand, that's everything..."
The figure looked the woman over, head to toe, and after a second of contemplation...he nodded. Enyo rushed over to the counter, then reached behind it to a small box. She glance back to the dark man who motion come back. Enyo instead threw the box over to him, though, the figure still caught it. With a shake, the dark man confirmed the box's contents and a black lipped smile appeared across his face.
Turning back to the door, the figure looked down to see Heben still cowering on the floor. He crouched down to the taller man, picking the Closed sign up from it's place on the ground. Heben gulped as the hand gripping onto his shirt started to shiver. With the corner of the wood, the dark man softly tapped Heben's face, right under his eye...once...twice...three times... ...
"Now your closed..." The figure muttered flatly and stuck the sign straight into the tall man's mouth.
The dark man stood up, retracting his new sword into it's scabbard and recovering his cloak. With one last glance about the shop, the figure looked back at Enyo and nodded. He raised the box and shaking it once more... ...
"I thank you for your...hospitality." The dark man said politely, "This will definitely be helpful... ..."
Then he left...leaving the door wide open to the night air. Enyo pushed her finger through her hair and sunk her elbows down to the counter top. Heben continued to lay on the floor as the pain of the cut finally hit his chest. They both found themselves in a surreal state of being, having a hard time believing that they were just robbed...by a man without a face... ...
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Back in the tall peck of Forest Haven, Nyx was busy fussing with acids and toxic chemicals as Hollo watched over her. The mixes had a potent stench to them, jumping down the girl's nostrils and throat, then landing in her stomach like a ton of bricks. The red-head stuffed down the gagging feeling at the back of her mouth and poured a beaker of liquid into a large beaker full of a darker substance... ...
"NO WAIT!!" The Korok bellowed at the girl.
FLASH!!!!!!!!
A plume of purple smoke erupted from the large beaker, filling Hollo's lab and wafted out into the Deku Tree's enclosure. The mighty plant craned an eye to the entrance way, finding Nyx and Hollo exiting in a fits of cough. The little wooden creature sent a glare up to the flame haired girl, still coughing slightly.
"...I'm sorry...cough!" Nyx shied away from the Korok as her eyes started to water, "...why can't I get this right..."
"Oh! There, there..." Hollo waddled over to the girl and patted her leg, "Your close to getting the concoction right. I made the same the mistakes before discovering the exploding mixture, so I have no doubt that you'll get it down!"
Nyx looked down at the Korok and nodded. She turned sight to the Deku Tree, staring at the base of it's great roots. Link...and Miss Tetra...are you ok? The girl wondered as frown formed across her face.
"You shouldn't worry about the Hero and the young captain, Nyx..." The Deku Tree related, prompting the flame haired girl to look to the plant's face, "With Link's courage and Tetra's wisdom, the pair have little to hinder them. Even now, I sense that their close to the item they search for."
The girl smiled at the Tree's reassuring words, but Nyx couldn't help the sinking feeling she felt.
"Link...just come back to me... ..."
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It had been any hour since the red Skulltula was put down and the two teens hadn't come any closer to solving their puzzle. Tetra was studying the script block while Link was lying on the grass, thumbing over the last line of the text. 'With victory brings hate.' That's what it said, the hero boy thought to himself, I do hate the spider for attack us...ATTACKING TETRA AND KNOCKING ME AROUND!!! Ok...what else? 'Leave hate and show first love's tender affection.' Leave hate...so we need to stop hating!
"Hey Tetra!!" The youth address the girl as he sat up, "We need to stop being angry at the Skulltula so we can solve the puzzle!!"
"...hmm..." The young captain responded with move to Link, "...I got that first time I read that part of the message... ...it took you an hour?"
The youth turned his head away and rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. It wasn't as though Link hadn't mess around with thinking problems before...it was just riddles that got to the boy. He was ecstatic that he got that much...until Tetra burst his bubble... ...
"So..." The youth started to pose, "If you understand that much, what does the rest mean?"
"...hard to say..." The young captain twisted around and walked over to the boy, holding her chin in hand as she pondered, "'...and show first love's tender affection.' Hhmm... ... Since hate doesn't just fly out of a person...maybe this last part is more of suggestion than a command..."
"What do you mean?"
"Well think about it. That stupid monster really shook us around, almost killed us!! Now we're supposed to 'leave hate' behind us and act all happy, cheer?"
"Right. So this 'affection' thing we're need to do...?"
Tetra was silent for a few moments. She place herself on the ground and crossed legs over one another. Reaching her hands behind her, the girl leaned back and looked up through the hole in the chamber ceiling. A crescent moon answered her with dots of twinkling stars set around it. The blonde girl motioned a glance back to Link...she then wished she hadn't. The boy had both his hands holding the sides of his head, his eyes closed, as he tried to think. It was so cute! Great...now my whole train of thought is botched, Tetra thought as she sighed.
It wasn't the girl's fault that Link had that gently angled face, with that button neat nose, and those soft, soft lips... ... What was I thinking about again? The Tetra's forehead wrinkled up as she strained to remember what the carved stone had said. Something about...hate...?
"I GOT IT!!" The boy's called prompted a jump and yelp from a the blonde girl! Link, however, didn't wait for her to recover, as he went on, "The rest of the message!! It has to mean one thing!!!"
"Slowdown!!! One thing at a time!!!" Tetra reposition herself onto her knees and faced the hero boy.
"Ok, so since we need to forget hate, then we need to fill our minds with something else!" The young captain nodded slowly and Link continued, "But we can't easily forget hate, so the message says that we need to show tender affections!!"
"... ..." The girl narrowed her sight as her one eye started to twitch, "...I ALREADY TOLD YOU THAT PART!! YOU HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF ANYTHING NEW YET, IDIOT!!!"
"Right, right!! I'm getting to that!!" The youth waved his hands out stretched in front of him, "So...it says, 'first love's tender affections', right? What do people do when their in love?"
"W-What?! You don't m-m-mean..." The girl blinked at the smiling Link as a crimson blush covered the little pirate's face. (WOW!!! I just got it!!)
"That's right...they kiss!" The boy grinned at his answer as the girl breathed a sigh of relief (This is a Teen rated fic...), but after a short while Tetra realized what Link had said and gasped!
"WHAT!!" The blonde girl's eyes bugged out as her head started to feel woozy, "You mean that... you...an-and... ...me... ...??"
"Well, aahh...um... ... "
Link's solution was starting to hit the boy's brain, too, and he instantly recognized the dilemma. If he was right, then the brash young female captain and the courageous green clad hero would need to share some "tender affections" with EACH OTHER!!! Silence arose between the two, a wordless pause an eternity long, until Tetra broke the serene calm... ...
"...Maybe... ... it could... ....work... ..." The youth looked up, shocked by the girl's words as she turned her interests to the grass by her leg.
"Um!! Yeah, well, we don't have to try to it if you don't want to! I'm fine with it though but if you don't like the idea of it then we could try something else. It's not that I don't want to do it but if you don't want to I fine with that, ok?!"
"...I-It's... ... ok... ..."
The pair were total opposites in form of speech. Link spurted out a mouth full of words, unable to find the right combination to assure the girl and reassure himself. Tetra, on the other hand, could barely utter a sentence. Each syllable got caught in her throat and needed an extra push to speak them. Their common catalyst, though, was their shared nervous anxiety to what the two had agreed upon...a kiss.
Another few seconds of silence surrounded the boy and the girl. The youth's felt his arm twitch an inch, then one of his leg...then the other arm and leg. Before long, Link's entire body was twitching in quick succession, from his head down to his toes. The great Hero of Winds was SHIVERING! Shivering because had to KISS A GIRL!!! Shouldn't he be excited? It was his first kiss, even if it was with Tetra, the experience should be one the best things in his life...at least that's how a first kiss was always described as!! But the youth was experiencing fear, welling up at the pit of his stomach into a nasty, black ball.
Link continued to shake, his lower teeth had started chattering against the upper jaw. He closed his eyes tightly and commanded the shivers to end, but there was no way for the boy to stop himself. Through the twitching mess, Link suddenly felt a light touch gently place itself onto his shoulder. There was a warmth to the touch and that warmth spread quickly down through the boy's body. The shivers stopped...and Link opened his sight.
Tetra was staring back at the boy, jaw tensed as she reached her hand to the back of Link's neck, near the bottom. The blonde girl pulled the boy closer and closer, swallowing a yelp as the youth brushed against her legs. She stop, abruptly, as whatever surge of bravery that took hold of her slipped away. However...that was all that was needed. Link found himself leaning forward, inching his way towards Tetra.
The two gazed into each other's eyes, hypnotized by each another's sight. They moved closer, the seconds counting down. Link placed his fingers against Tetra's cheek, slightly turning her head as he moved his in a opposite fashion. Their gaze never broke, though, and the two moved closer. Their breaths intertwined, push hot air on the boy's and girl's faces. Tetra's eyes closed and Link's soon followed suit.
Then... ...their lips met.
As the lips pressed together, Link slightly pucker his own and moved the girl's upper lip. Tetra copied this action and attacked the youth's lower lip. Electricity run down their mouths, tickling their hearts and souls, creating a playground of emotions all centered around this one moment of in time...this kiss.
After second of locked lips, the couple broke apart. Opening her eyes, the blonde girl meet the gaze of the boy's, his mouth agape. Both were speechless and the two spent a whole minute staring at each before one of them spoke.
"...whoa..." Link smiled at the girl and Tetra smiled back at the boy.
"Tee hee hee!" A soft, girlish giggle suddenly erupted across the chamber, ripping the two's sight from each other and turn it to the laughter's source. The pair found a young girl, with light green hair and a mischievous grin, standing under the carved message stone, "I'm sorry that I interrupted your romantic moment. But the scene was just so cute!! I couldn't help myself!!!"
The couple blinked at the girl a couple times, then looked down to the way they holding each other. With simultaneously gasped, Link and Tetra disjoined to move several feet away from one another. Backs turned and faces a blazed, the teens couldn't bear looking at each other...prompting the green haired girl to giggle once again. The boy moved any eye to the younger girl, looking her over. She was somehow familiar-HOLY CRAP!!!!
"YOUR THAT GIRL FROM MY DREAM!!!!" Link twisted around and pointed an accusing finger to the green haired child. The young girl tiled her and gave Link a inquisitive stare. The boy continued, "You meet me on that bridge!! Then you gave me that ocarina!!"
The green haired girl gasped, slapping her hand to her mouth as her eyes widened. Meanwhile, the young captain had silently hovered behind Link, with the flaming glare in her eyes. Placing a firm hand on the boy's, Tetra scared a yelp from the hero boy.
"Why...pray tell...was there a nine-year-old girl doing in one of your perverted dreams??" The girl's tone was polite, but edged with murderous intent.
"I-I-It was nothing like THAT!" The youth replied in a desperate attempt to still off death.
She didn't buy it... ...
Tetra reared back her arm and pushed powerful jab straight at Link's face, throwing all her body into it. The punch knocked the boy down into the ground and across the floor, pulling the loose earth into a pile in front of him. Link stopped just at the stone section of the floor, right in front of the younger girl. The green child stared down in shock as the dirt pile covered the boy all the away down to his ankles. The young captain calmly walk up behind Link's path in the ground, arms crossed, and stood beside the earthen mound.
"Oh, my... ..." The younger girl gripped the air in front of her chin and looked up to Tetra, "This dream that the boy had...it must have been one of my memories from when I was young."
"When you were young?" The blonde girl put forth with a skeptical eyebrow risen.
"Yes... ... I am Saria. The Sage of the Forest. I personally knew the Hero of Time when he and I were both young. Your friend must have tuned into my thoughts as he slept...somehow... ... I never calculated that this at your arrive... ..."
"Calculated...then you knew we were coming!!" The young girl-err...Ancient Sage nodded somberly.
"Yes. I came here to warn the two of you of the coming peril to your Great Sea..."
From the dirt pile below, Link had heard the two girls' exchange and decided to pick himself up. Lifting his body for straight, the boy poked his head out the mound, letting the earth roll off of him. Saria gave a look of concern for the youth, though Tetra paid him no mind.
"The Great Sea is in danger!" The green child continued, "A dark malevolence has arisen and has started to build up it's forces across the ocean. Moblins, Kargaroks, and many more have allied with this evil leader. It threatens all of life as the two of you know it!!"
"Who is master-mind guy?!" Tetra posed, becoming a little alarmed.
"...we Sages do not know..." Saria lowered her head to the ground.
"Could it be Ganondorf?" Link asked, joining into discussion.
"No. That is the one person that we Sages definitely know it's not." The Sage responded confidently, "Ganon is still imprisoned by the Master Sword, deep under the waves."
"How could you Sages not know who it is?!!" The young captain demanded from the green child, "I mean...aren't you the 'Seven Wise' or something?!"
"This person is highly resourceful...always hiding in the shadows and having others do the dirty work. We Sages can't see everywhere at once...and this dark one knows it... ...
"We do know that the revival of the Sea Dodongo was do to this person's influence, as well as other creatures... ..."
"The Dodongo!! I almost forgot!!!" The blonde girl looked to either side of her as she continued, "That fire protecting item we come here for!!" Link gasped as he remembered the task that still need to be done.
"Oh, that!" Saria happily related, "The chest with the item materialized something time ago...but you two were...busy!! Tee hee hee!!!"
The Sage pointed past the pair to the center of the chamber. Looking back, sure enough, Link and Tetra found a large wooden chest painted red with gold trimming. The two glanced at each as their cheeks turned red. Apparently, they were too "into the moment" for either of them to notice... ...
Link rushed over to the chest, the blonde girl right behind him. Kneeling down, the boy unlatched the lock and pushed the lid up, letting a flood of yellow light pour out. Blinded for just a moment, Link reached into the chest and warped his fingers around the object inside. The boy stood up, pulling the item along with him... ...
Revealed to the world, Link found large wooden circle between his hands. In the middle of object, a red symbol was pointed onto a surface akin to brown bark on a tree. Along the outer edge, the bark ended and thick layers of wood took it's place, with unusual designs carved into the surface. Turning the item around, the boy found a handle attached to the back, along with a leather strap.
"It's a shield!!" The youth proclaimed.
"Yes..." Saria replied, "The magic Deku Shield had help protect the ancient forests of Hyrule. With it, you can face the flames of the colossal Sea Dodongo and have chance of defeating it. Meet the monster, Link! And save the few remain forests of the Great Sea!!"
The hero boy slipped his arm through the leather strap, then gripped the wooden handle. A shield and sword, Link thought with a proud smirk, now I'm feeling like my old self... ...
Author's Note: You know, I did say that this was Teen rated fic, but that kiss...I don't know. Too much?
I always hated when people described something as a "He kissed her passionatly, and she kissed him back..." What hell does that mean?!!! So tried to put detail into it. So please tell how I did...Review!!!