Friends, Enemies, people I've never met, I am back!
Hope i haven't been gone too long for you all to forget about me... and if you have forgotten, look back at the other chapters and look at my profile hah.
Anyway, the next chapter, a new taste, a new... just read.
The scorching heat that was once around them had left them in exchange for the cool but ominous feel of the Spirit World. Trent and the rest of his team landed on the center platform, excluding Owen who appeared on the platform adjacent to the now glowing red emblem. Midna had hid from anyone's sight inside Courtney's shadow as the other people within the room grew bright faces when they saw their friends had returned. "You made it safe!" Bridgette cheered as she leaned slightly off the side of the platform she was dangling her feet off.
DJ looked up and saw that Owen was standing on a platform. "And you found Owen… But where's your pants, man?" DJ asked with a disturbed but somewhat relieved look for his friend's safety.
Bridgette looked to Owen too to see what DJ meant. Her olive eyes grew wide and she gagged with her head whipping away from the sight. Courtney and Trent couldn't help but snicker about her reaction. "So that's three of you guys safely here," Trent proclaimed, his lips curled to a proud smirk.
Just then, the towering Goron, Darunia, appeared behind Owen with a powerful grin slapped on his face. "WELCOME!" He yelled at Owen, startling him and shaking the entirety of the spirit world.
Owen looked up at rock skinned man, and then looked at his small loincloth. "Hahaha, you gotta be the Fire Sage, right? So I'm taking your place?" Owen figured, bringing even more of a grin to the muscular rock man's face.
"HAH! I like this boy! He's smart!" Darunia chuckled while putting a powerful hand on Owen's shoulder.
Just like that, Saria flew out from behind Bridgette with a pout and her hands on her hips. "Puh-lease, Bridgette is a way better sage," Saria snapped with a cute smile and eye roll.
Before Darunia could retort her, Courtney cleared her throat out loudly with a scowl across her face. "Not that this isn't important… Oh wait, it isn't important!" Courtney growled.
Trent quickly tried to settle her down with a hand on her shoulder. Courtney simmered down but still glared at the two sages. "You're right, we should move on. The fire sage has been put into power, so…" Darunia turned his attention to the no shimmering blue emblem next to the red.
The marking in the middle of the sapphire hexagon looked remarkably like a six point snow flake. Trent and Courtney turned their attention to it, anxious to meet the next sage. Like the others, the sage slowly phased in atop the hexagon. This sage had a more adult and mature form. But contrary to any of the others, she had slick blue skin and fins erecting out of her back arms in a fan for both arms. Her keen purple eyes slowly fluttered open and she looked at the two people before her, and the fairy shuttering with excitement. "…Really? These are our heroes?" She asked with a look at the other two visible sages.
Courtney was visibly at a loss for words at her bluntness while Trent had looked away with his face completely flushed in embarrassment. "Why is a being that's supposed to be respected completely naked?" Trent thought to himself.
"Well I'm sorry," Courtney snapped back to her usual self and gave the new sage a sarcastic tone and curtsy "We should go find you proper heroes," Courtney told the sage, keeping up with her sarcastic tune.
The other sages looked down at the two girls going at each other's throats; when the blue summon spirit perked her lips to a smile. "I like your style…" She admitted to Courtney. Courtney put a hand on her hip and smirked proudly. "…Hero. You can learn something about a spine from this girl," The sage told Trent, who didn't react. "I am Princess Ruto, Sage of Water," The blue fish like sage told the lot of them. "You will be heading to Lake Hylia; a completely boring lake with a temple deep under the lake's surface," Ruto explained dryly, not even interested about what it was she was telling them.
"Wait… I thought Ganondorf drained the lake?" Beth asked as she recalled her time playing the game.
Ruto shrugged and looked at the little fairy girl. "It got better," Ruto told her flatly. "We will teleport you right outside of Kakariko Village so you can get right to your—"
"Hold on, hold on," Trent interrupted Ruto but still looked away from her. "When you return us to Hyrule… you can place us anywhere?"
"Yeah. We're sages, we can do whatever we want," Ruto told him; which seemed to make the team spark with anger.
"So why do you keep—" As Trent attempted to press further, the center stone emitting it's warm glow and swallowed up the team and warped them out of the realm.
The three sages faded away as well, leaving the three new sages in the realm. They all remained quite for a time, adjusting themselves to the abysmal quiet. Bridgette felt that remaining like this was too awkward or even more awkward then already was, so she chimed up. "So Owen. How was your trip to this world go?" Bridgette asked sincerely.
"Oh man. It was weird! I was going to go get some Mellowmars when everything went white around me. Then when I could finally see…" Owen took a deep breath before he went on since he rushed his story. "… When I could finally see, I saw a crowed of people above me looking at me all confused. I guess I landed in their city with pretty big bang, hahaha. After I got up, Beth found me and took me to the temple-y place…" Owen explained further.
DJ nodded with understanding and told his story about just appearing in the cathedral a few minutes before Trent and Courtney found him. Bridgette on the other hand, went into thinking about Owen's story. "Why didn't he wake up inside the temple like me or DJ…?"
Trent felt his feet land firmly on the grassy plains of Hyrule and looked around his surroundings. He was half happy to see the welcome sign of Kakariko village behind him along with the rest of the city, but it still brought a sort of annoyance to his mind. "If they can put us anywhere, why can't they just put us at the next temple?" He grumbled to himself.
He turned back to the field as he felt another person being summoned near him. Sure enough, Courtney's form appeared and she checked her surroundings too. "Great… they can send us anywhere and they send us to a place far away from the temple," the princess growled.
She let out a sigh and turned to Trent, with Midna swinging out of her shadow and putting an elbow on Courtney's shoulder to lean on. "It doesn't matter, let's just-" Before Courtney could say anything more, Epona galloped up from behind her and sniffed her head.
Midna flung herself away from Courtney and the horse with a loud yelp. "What's with the horse?" She asked, clinging to Trent's arm.
"Uh… We're borrowing it from a friend. Helps us get around faster," Trent informed his cowering imp friend.
Courtney narrowed her eyes while stroking Epona in a greeting for her traveling companion. "I thought she's been with us this whole time… why doesn't she know about Epona?" Courtney pondered.
With Epona fully calmed, Courtney hopped atop her stead and pointed it in the direction of the field. She looked behind the horse at Trent and Midna. "Coming?" She asked, patting Epona's back where they could sit.
Midna looked up at Trent and both their lips turned to smirks. "Naa… We've got our own way of travel now," Midna told Courtney.
She replied with a confused look, but it was short lived, for her question was answered. With a snap of Midna's small fingers, Trent fell to all four and his body and clothes quickly became pitch black. In the blackened form, his body morphed to that of a wolf; tail and all. Once the black drained from his body and was replaced by grey and white fur, Midna hopped onto his back. "Now then… we where heading to a temple?" Midna joked as she moved Trent up to Epona's position.
"Great… Just great. Now they have a thing…. I'm not jealous, I'm just saying," Courtney hissed inwardly, but gave the imp and her 'wolf' a smile. "Of course. But Beth will have to show us the way," Courtney replied.
Taking her cue, Beth fluttered out from behind Trent's sharp left ear and out towards the field. Her body glowed its sapphire light as she studied the area they where at for a moment. "Alrighty. I know the way from here," Beth let them know before zipping off into the distance.
Courtney looked down at Midna and cracked a friendly smile. "First one there doesn't have to fight the next enemy," Courtney challenged, which Midna immediately kicked Trent to.
Trent burst down the field after Beth with Midna howling in enjoyment. Courtney giggled to herself and whipped Epona's reins, charging the strong horse to gallop off after the rest of the group.
Dull eyes flickered open as the boy of straw groggily groaned. He sat himself up with the bristles of his body flicking against the blades of crisp summer grass under him. Looking around, the boy noted no one was bothering him or even noticing them, simply chalking it up as another thing that happens in this town. "I guess Byrne thought I'd be safer away from the fight…" Skull Kid told himself as he got onto his feet and readjusted his hat. "He cares a lot about me, such a good friend," Laughing for a minute, he ignored the pain coursing through his miniscule body.
Then for the first time since waking up, he noticed where it was he was. A brown wooden fence was built around the area about him. At first he scratched his straw head and pondered what it was that they kept inside these fences. To his dismay, he remembered. "Oh crap…" He whimpered. Soon after his relaxation, a flock of feathered fiends assaulted him from behind with a loud screech of crows and clucks. "Why am I so tasty!" He screamed on the top of his lungs while kicking and slapping at the air around him to get the birds off him.
The white cuckoos plucked and stripped at Skull Kid's straw body. Just as quick as the flock came, in one loud squawk, the birds retreated away from the boy. Skull Kid peaked up from under his arms to see why they ran away. To his surprise, not one but two black robed figures with cloth like crowns looking down at him; one with disdain in it's hateful sky blue eyes, and the other with excitement in it's teal lively eyes. "What a waist. He has the mask of ultimate power and he can't even handle a flock of birds. Pah-thetic," The sky blue eyed one said, a flowing mane of fire flowing down her back.
Skull Kid lifted himself up in a levitation and set himself back down in front of the two of them, standing a bit shorter then both of them. "They swarmed me! I don't even know why they keep attacking me anyway. You believe me right?" Skull Kid stuttered with a plea to them.
"Oh please, why should—"
"I believe he was talking to me, Kotake!" The other one scoffed, the ice atop its head forming a somewhat masculine but strangely feminine 'hair' style.
"You, me, what difference does it make, Koume? Now zip it and let's deal with him, sister," Skull Kid gulped at the term 'deal with', but stood in place as the two of them started to bicker.
"For the last time, I'm a boy!" The ice haired one wined with an effeminate tone.
"Gah. You're a woman! You're letting this whole 'world mix' thing get to you way more then the rest of us… I mean you just got a manicure!" Her flaming hair sparked more the angrier she grew.
Koume checked her hand and smiled. "I know. And it's a fabulous job well done," Kotake palmed herself in the forehead and groaned.
Skull Kid continued to look back and forth between the two "sisters" as they argued and fought at each other. "I'm just goanna… yeah," Skull Kid slowly side stepped away from the two of them and hopped the fence.
The two of them didn't notice his departure and just kept up their yelling. "And another thing, you don't take care of you're hair enough,"
"What hair? It's a flowing fire!"
"And you wonder how that happened?"
"I swear, if I could just—where did Skull Brat go?" The two of them looked around the small village, but didn't see the straw body boy anywhere.
Afternoon sun rays gleamed relaxingly over the calm, serine Lake Hylia. The old but firm rope bridges that clung between the two platforms islands on the lake's face swayed peacefully in the noon wind. On the main island in the center of the lake, the stone slab with the three triangles on it was not at peace like the ones before. Atop it was Veran with her arms folded looking out over the still water. "Skull Dweeb failed miserably… Dark Link ran like a baby… and Byrne burned out when he lost his cool. But…" She waved her hand out in front of her, making the water flash a blinding out.
Once the light cleared, the face of the lake turned into a lucid vision of Midna riding atop her 'wolf' stretched out across the water. Veran smirked to herself as she watched Midna and 'Link' traveling near each other in the vision within the water. "I think I can use their winnings to my victory," she mused darkly as she continued to watch the group within her 'viewing pool'.
As she continued, a dark portal ripped open on the island across the bridge from the platform she was on, drawing her attention away from the lake and to the small dark warp way. Slowly, a black figure crawled out from the dark abyss and pulled itself out of it. Veran narrowed her eyes and blew a hair out of her vision with displeasure. "You finally show up after you're cowardly action… and you're too weak to even stand. Why am I not surprised?" Veran scowled as she yelled across the bridge at the fumbling man.
"V-Veran… I need help," Dark Link asked in a dry and beaten voice.
Veran continued to watch the shadowed hero staggering with a struggling pace across the bridge. "…Are… are you that hurt?" She asked, her hate filled look slowly dropping.
Dark Link made no response, finally succumbing to his wounds and collapsing on the ground before Veran. Veran looked down at the beaten and tattered clothes on Dark Link, hate finally empty from her coal eyes. "…I guess… I can't just leave you here. You'll get in the way," She surrendered with a sigh.
With a flick of her wrist, Dark Link's limp, unconscious body drifted off the ground. With another flick of her other wrist, she opened her own portal and gently delivered Dark Link through it. When he was all the way in, it swallowed him up and disappeared. "He'll be safer back at base… not that I care," Veran scoffed, looking away from where the portal once stood and back at the lake.
A cool lake breeze swept by her, jostling Veran's clad dress as she returned to waiting. "…Those wounds weren't done by sword alone…" She told herself, in an attempt to pass the time. "That rotten imp probably did it… Weird Goth Girl…" Veran scrunched her nose for a second, confused by her own words. "Weird Goth Girl? Why did I say that?"
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I hope you enjoyed my return to this story, I really wanted to caiter to what people expect of me but still keep a fresh air about it. Oh well, see you in the big times.
Who will be the sage of water?
Why is Skull Kid such a push over?
When will Trent confess his new and conflicting feelings?
What is Veran planning?
How will Ganondorf and his evil minions possibly stop Trent and Courtney?
I may just answer half of these next chapter, who know!