Ok, now, I was going to post this last night, but, we had this HUGE storm, and my power was out for the entire night (it was as if a higher power were conspiring against you all to make you suffer in wanting to read this story...)
Well, I hope you enjoy this (apparently long awaited chapter.)
(And Mechagodzilla... I though you were going to stay with the Seed of Love Series... But who's complaining?)
Enjoy!
"One foot in front of the other." Saria muttered as she looked down and closed her eyes. One step after another, she slowly walked out of the only place she had ever known.
Suddenly, a warmed feeling came across her. One that she rarely felt. She thought for a brief moment that she was still a Kokiri, and that this was the feeling that you felt as you left the forest and were killed.
"What is that?" Saria's eyes were jammed shut.
"Open those eyes and see Saria." XT's voice was calm and encouraging. Saria did as she was told, and squinted at the bright object in the sky.
"Wow! I never knew the sun was that bright!"
"That is because you've lived in a forest for your whole life, silly!" Rareen laughed.
"Where is this field you mentioned? Now that I'm out here?"
"Follow closely Saria. It is very big, and easy to get lost in." XT spoke, calming his excitement.
"Do hylians instinctively know their way around Hyrule field like Kokiri do the forest?"
"No, I highly doubt it." Rareen mumbled.
"Saria, want to take a good long walk in the field?" XT began to wander along a dirt path without a reply.
"Wow." Saria's breath was taken away by the beauty of this place.
There was a vast sky, one that she could see stretch for miles and miles. Its color was that of a bright, inviting blue, and clouds soared upon this vast ocean in the sky. As her eyes moved downward, she was still kept in amazement. The grass, not like her forest flora, was another sea, but of a hue of yellowish green.
But her eyes kept drifting skyward. Up into the clouds that she never got to see with such clarity before.
"I wish I could see those clouds and fly in them…" Saria mumbled.
All of a sudden, a pair of rubbery spectacles came over her eyes, and a strap hit the back of her head tightly.
"Ow!" Saria complained, turning around to find XT.
"Rareen, get inside this little capsule."
"No!" Rareen stubbornly refused.
"There!"
"EEK!" XT proudly held out a little ball with a captured Rareen.
"I am sorry, but where I am about to go, you two both must be very equipped. Rareen, I doubt that you could keep up, so, I am going to bring you there via capsule. If I didn't, then my internal workings may easily have crushed you." XT popped the capsule into his palm where is locked into place.
"What are you doing?"
XT stood up straight, and little spokes across his body appeared.
"Stand in front of me, and I will show you something very cool."
Saria hesitantly did as she was told.
Immediately after she was in place, XT began to react. The spokes locked onto Saria's frail body, and hooked her into him. In an eerie process, the metal that was XT's body wrapped around Saria, and partially engulfed her.
"What are you doing?" Saria yelped.
"I am making sure that you aren't going to fall out." XT's voice said from above her. "There. Now, you are in control of my legs and arms, and I won't move them too much, I swear."
"Wha- huh?" Saria tested this, and saw that as she tried to move a limb, XT's body responded perfectly.
"It's an exoskeleton, in a sense."
"A what?"
"A second body. My head, as funny as it seems, is no longer present."
"What?"
"My head is spread across my new co-op body. Look down at your chest."
Saria looked at the metal surround her ribs, and noted that two green panels were there.
"Weird!"
"Heck yeah it is. For you and for me."
"Then wait, why are you doing this?"
"Hold on, I am going to control this for a slight bit of time, from there, I will control the main limbs that you cannot."
"Ok?" Saria had no idea what he meant.
She then felt as another presence began to move her legs. It started out as a simple walk, then broke into a jog, then a dead on sprint.
Saria felt as the speed increased and loved it.
"Wow! You can run fast!"
"Watch this Saria." She felt a slight amount of stress on her back, and looked behind her, and saw the two massive amethyst shadows looming.
"Are we going to-"
"Get ready to taste the sky Saria! Huzza!" XT's voice yelled as Saria felt her legs leap into the air.
The stress on her back was considerably less than she could've imagined. She felt XT move his and her body to lift into the air. Saria, with her barely exposed skin, did manage to feel the wind creasing her flesh.
"Wow! This is totally awesome!" Saria cheered as she and XT whipped into the clouds that Saria once looked at dreamily.
"Now, do you want to take over? I'll catch you if we fall."
"Um… sure." Their co-op body made a slight jerk as Saria resumed control. She couldn't operate the wings, but she could balance, and affect the airstream to move around.
"Isn't that easy eh?" Saria's movements were very jerky and unstable.
"No."
"Here, try this, I am tapping into your mind to affect the performance of this flight. You are in control of the wings now, and they will respond how you think they should. Not how you move them, if you understand what I mean."
"No, I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Then try this. The booster controls, I am still tapped into your mind."
Saria had no idea what he meant, she felt no pain in her head. Thinking hard though, she saw a picture of XT in her mind, and made the picture stand straight.
Sure enough, that is exactly what she did. And, she stopped moving the wings. But, oddly enough, she didn't drop. She heard a loud whooshing noise, and looked down. There were little fires at her feet, pointed down at the near microscopic ground.
"How am I doing this?" Saria began to panic.
"You are imagining it, and I am making it a reality. Think some more, this is fun."
"I don't think it is." Rareen mumbled from her compartment in her hand.
Saria tried walking like this, in the air, and sure enough, XT managed to walk with no ground.
"So cool! Oh, I am tired of this; can you just fly me around?"
"Of course. Rareen, how fast do you want to go?"
"Well, seeing as I can fly faster than you have so far, I want to be proven wrong."
"Oh, a challenge. I love challenges. Are you ready? GO!" The fires that Saria had looked at became blue, and Saria and XT bolted forwards with a blurring velocity.
All of a sudden, music began to play into Saria's ears, and XT seemed to be singing along to it in a near perfect tone.
(A/N: This song is called 'Castle in the Sky' by a band called DJ Satomi, but, when I used it, I was thinking of a remized version on Youtube that is on times 2 speed... It seemed like a funny idea to me to have XT-421 singing a crazy song while he flew around in the sky... though, I will admit this scene didn't turn out as well as I liked...)
"There's a place in my mind, no one knows where it hides, and my fantasy is flying, it's a castle in the sky. It's a world of our past, where the legend still lasts, and the king wears the crown, but the magic spell is law. Take your sword and your shield, there's a battle on the field, you're a knight and you're right, so with dragons now you'll fight. And my fancy is flying, it's a castle in the sky, or there's nothing out there, these are castles in the air. Fairytales live in me, fables coming from my memory, fantasy is not a crime, find your castle in the sky. You've got the key, of the kingdom of the clouds, open the door, leaving back your doubts. You've got the power, to live another childhood, so ride the wind, that leads you to the moon 'cause..." While doing this, XT rocketed Saria and himself around, doing various flips, rolls, spins, and massive loops.
As a finale, XT made a slight dive, and the arced upwards into the heavens. As the air temperature decreased, Saria began to feel a small amount of frost curl across her lips and she shivered terribly.
"I-I-I'm c-c-c-c-cold X-x-x-x-x-T-t-t-t." Saria tried to say, he teeth chattering too much to make sense.
"Don't worry, you'll get a lot warmer very soon." At that, XT stopped, and let Saria view the world that she lived in from afar. They were just at a point where Saria could breath, any further, and she might die of suffocation. XT noted her shortness of breath and dove.
"It is so beautiful." Saria sighed as she felt the warmth come back into her flesh as XT made them descend.
"We are now going to hit the planet. WEE!" XT cheered as he continued to excelerate.
"No! Stop! I'll die! I can't die yet!" Saria protested, but XT seemed too caught in the moment to listen.
"Muhahahahahahaha!" He laughed maniacally as he charged downwards.
I'm going to die. This maniac is going to drive us into the ground. Doesn't he realize that I cannot take such intense pain? The impact will splatter my organs! Saria thought as her eyes became golf balls at the incoming land.
"WEEE!" XT laughed as he sped up.
"Please XT! Do not do it! I am too young to die!" Saria pleaded.
"Yes you psycho! Stop!"
"Oh fine. You two are no fun at all." XT, just before they hit the planet, arced up, and skimmed the surface of a faraway ocean. At the intense gravity, Saria passed out for a brief second.
"Hey, you awake?" XT mumbled to her as she woke up. They were still together, and flying slowly over a vast ocean. (A/N: Explanation for why they were just about to hit the ground, and then they are flying over an ocean... Saria passed out as XT arced up, and then they were flying forwards quickey for about a minute or so, so in that time, XT flew over to an ocean. Yeah, that sounds good. We'll go with that.)
"Yeah. What happened?"
"You passed out from the readjustment of angle."
"Oh, I'm sorry."
"No, no, it was perfectly normal. I am actually amazed that you woke up as soon as you did."
"How long was I out?"
"Not more than a minute."
"Oh good."
"Hey Rareen, have you ever swam before?"
"No, I would not be able to dry my wings out."
"Then you are going to love this. Saria, I want you to relax your head for a few, brief seconds."
"Ok…" Saria said just before a glass bowl encased her head. "What the- what is this?"
"I shield from the ocean waters. I want to explore them for a few brief minutes, and then we will go home, ok?"
"Ok I guess."
"Good." XT's engines stopped, and the trio plummeted into the ocean depths.
They sunk very rapidly, and saw a vast variety of marine life. A few moments later, a massive leviathan began to creep up on XT's rear.
"Saria, whatever you do, do not look behind you. Please let me control it for a moment."
Saria had to look back, along with Rareen.
They just caught a glimpse of the beast, larger than anything they had ever seen, bigger than the entire village at home. The claws of it were slowly making their way to XT in the water.
"AAAAUUUUUUGGGH!" Saria screamed with a fear not known to most beings.
"Initiating hydro propulsion turbines. Estimated time until launch, .2 seconds." In a brief moment, when it seemed like all hope was lost, bubbles began streaming out of the places where XT's fire was previously. XT spread his wings, out, and began to stabilize in the water.
"Moving faster, hang on." XT's speed kept increasing, and the leviathan seemed to be catching in speed as well. It looked like it wanted more interesting prey; a challenge.
"XT, get us out of here now."
"We're sorry, but the number you dialed does not exist, please try again. Thank you." XT said in a cheery voice. (A/N: This is how XT handles pressure...)
"Has he lost it?" Saria grumbled in her helmet.
"La la la la la la la la!" XT began singing and laughing.
"I think that was a yes." Rareen said hopelessly as XT continued to speed up. The creature behind them was nearly within biting range.
"Houston, we have take-off." XT said in an unfamiliar tone.
Moments later, XT, with Saria and Rareen trapped inside him, soared out of the water, and XT flapped his wings hard to try and get some air.
And, as soon as they got into the air, a massive, dark shape also surfaced and rose out of the water in a jump. The leviathan almost snapped at XT's feet, but missed by a few feet.
"Great shot kid that was one in a million!" XT said in yet another unfamiliar tone. (A/N: A quote from Han Solo of Star Wars.)
"Now get us out of here." Saria was trying to regain her breath.
"Will do Saria." A boom rocked Saria's eardrums as the ocean began to blur beneath her. Soon, it turned to land, and she saw how fast they were going. Colors were being warped at the speed they were moving.
"Wow…" Saria and Rareen uttered in unison.
"And we are here." XT slowed down, and stood upright. Slowly, he, Saria, and Rareen descended the five feet that had remained a cushion for them from the land.
XT's body methodically unlatched itself from Saria, and she dropped down a few inches, and fell face first into the ground; a result from being off of the ground, and being exposed to flight, for too long.
"Ha!" XT laughed as he too began to totter, he fell backwards though, and lay on the ground as if he were still standing.
"XT? What's wrong?" Saria didn't seem all too concerned.
"Well, to be honest, flying like that for fun was really stupid of me. And worse, what I am about to do isn't going to help me."
"What did you do?"
"When I do anything, I use energy, right? Same with you. But, you eat food to replenish your energy. I don't eat. I can drink, but I don't get energy from that, just a new toy…" XT laughed at the memory of him drinking something, "I sit in the sun to get energy. But, in order for me to be with you and have fun today, I cannot have my skin showing."
"Why not?" Rareen asked.
"You're right, I could just walk around in my bare metal skin and flaunt off my circuits to the citizens of Hyrule." XT remarked sarcastically.
"Oh! That's why! People aren't metal here!" Rareen realized.
"Yes. So, now, I am going to hide in a cloak, and not do very much but walk and think." With that, XT stood up and pulled a dark purple cloak from his insides. He put it on, and Saria laughed.
"You got a problem with how I look?"
"You look hysterical!" Saria rolled over laughing.
"Well, I will just stay behind you then. Actually, no. If you and I are seen next to each other, well, some people might think that I kidnapped you or something, and we don't want that. And, if I followed you, they may think me to be a sick old man."
"What do you mean? You are perfectly healthy."
"Sick minded, Saria, one day, you will understand what that means. But others will know, and that is what is important."
"Then how am I to go around in the city?"
"Follow me, but stay farther away from me, and do not always keep your gaze fixed on me. This is, after all, a sightseeing trip for you."
"Oh yeah!" Saria remembered it all.
"So, I'll go first, and then, you and Rareen can follow after and sightsee and window shop. But if you ever see something that you really want, don't be afraid to ask for it."
"Oh XT, I couldn't take your money." Saria quickly said.
"Don't worry about it, today's on me. Then, it will be on Link." Saria giggled, and XT began to march to the cities drawbridge that loomed ahead of them.
Wow, this is far bigger than the forest village. Hey, I think it may be bigger than that sea creature. Saria thought as she slowly walked through the gates, and into the new world of urbanization.
Well, I hope you liked it... XT is a crazy, crazy dude... And, you can see why the goverment doesn't give out those mentally operated wings (THAT I KNOW THEY HAVE jk) to the public; because people like XT and I will go crazy over them, and do stuff like THAT.
More coming soon...