Me: Leh, I've got about four other Zelda fics in my notebook and I can't decide if (when) I want to put any of them up! There's an Ocarina of Time one and a Twilight Princess one, one from a world of my own, and a romance one that combines some of the worlds. And a oneshot but after that one's finished I know I'm going to put it up. Eeh, I'll decide eventually.

Chapter Nine

The dreams were infested with spiders. Big ones, little ones, poisonous ones, ones with giant fangs, colorful spiders, all black spiders, black widows, daddy long legs, tarantulas, all of them dangerous, all of them deadly, and all of them streamying towards a lone figure facing off against the mother of them all. A giant black spider with a multitude of piercing red eyes and fangs the size of broadswords. The figure raised his weapon, and the dream went black.

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Zelda woke with a start; cold sweat covering her body. She pushed her damp hair out of her face and slid out of bed. She went to the mirror. Zelda looked terrible; there were dark bags under her eyes which seemed to have lost some of their color, and her face was even paler than usual. Zelda slid a pair of slippers on and went to the door, in need of comfort.

Zelda went to Myron's room, which was just down the tightly spiraling staircase from hers, and kncoked gently. He came to the door only moments later, took one look at her face, and wrapped his arms around her with no questions asked. He guided her into the room and closed the door with his foot. "What is it?" he asked when they were seated on the bed, Zelda still tightly in his arms.

"Spiders," she whispered. "My dream was full of them. And Link; they were all heading for him and there was a giant spider at least the size of a house and he was going to fight it..." she trailed off, her face buried in Myron's shoulder, her tears dampening his shirt.

"Shh," Myron murmered, running his hand over the top of her head comfortingly, "I'm sure Link's fine."

But Zelda was sure Link wasn't. She knew he was in grave danger; she could feel it in the pit of her stomach. But she aslo knew there was nothing she could do. Link was either going to survive or... she didn't want to think about that possibility.

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Flick woke up from the disturbing dream when someone slapped her across the face. When she opened her eyes, cheek stinging, she was tied to a chair in a dark room illuminated by a single torch. The dream fled her mind, all except for one image; the boy and the giant spider. Link hates spiders, she thought. I hope he doesn't totally freak out and do something stupid that'll get him killed. Then she noticed Talon standing there, glaring down at her. "Hi," she said, "there's a giant spider on your head."

Talon jumped and started beating at his head desperatly. Flick giggled. Noticing her smile Talon stopped leaping around like a crazed monkey. He resumed glaring at her. "You shoulda seen you're face..." Flick chuckled. "Priceless."

"That's the last time you'll be laughing," Talon guarranteed.

"Did you know you have a large nose?" Flick asked, ignoring the pirate completely. "And your hair is very greasy. Do you ever wash it?"

"Of course I wash it!" Talon yelled. "What do you think I am? A barbarian?"

"Quite possibly. But hey! Don't feel bad about it; I know some really cool barbarians." It was true; she and Link had once met a tribe of barbarians who could whip up one mean stew. Of course, they were also cannibals... but they also knew some great jokes.

Talon glowered at her pefore pinching the bridge of his nose and wondering to himself, "Why am I doing this again?"

"Because some evil dude has your wife and kids and is threatening to kill them if you don't comply to his every whim?" Flick guessed.

"I don't have a wife and kids."

"Money?" she tried. "Power? Fame? Sex?"

Talon shook his head with extreme exhasperation. "No, just, no. Uh! I'm going to go... do something... away from you." And he left.

"Bye!" Flick called after him. She felt better than she had in awhile. "Look out for the flames!" That came out of nowhere. But she just felt like everything was going to burn. No reason for it, no rhyme, just an unrelenting feeling of doom and decay.

Me: The last couple of chapters have been a little dark so I decided to have a little fun! I love poking fun at people. *picks up the word 'fun' and starts poking Samik with it* Hehehe.

Samik: *pushes fun away* Let's go on before Enia makes someone go crazy.

Me: Hm, good idea.

"I hate spiders!" Link shrieked as he flung himself out of the path of a giant hairy leg. "Why must it be a spider?"

No one answered him.

Link swung his sword wildly at the gruesome beast. Eight long, hairy, segmented legs longer than two of Link and three times as wide, uncountable red twitching eyes that locked on Link and wouldn't leg him go, a head larger than a man-crushing boulder, and a body as large as Link's house. Fangs like broadswords protruded from its lips and quivered with venom. The room they were in was small; there was only about there feet of space between Link and the monstrosity. The rank, powerful smell of death and decay permeated the air and made Link want to barf. And then, to make matters worse, it spoke. "WHO ARE YOU TO DISTURB MY SLEEP?" it asked in a deep thundering voice that shook the cave.

"Aaarghh!" Link yelled. "It talks! What the hell?"

"OF COURSE I TALK, WHAT DO YOU THINK I AM, STUPID?"

"You're a spider," Link said, trying to calm his fraying nerves. "Spiders aren't supposed to talk."

"I'M NOT JUST ANY SPIDER," the spider said, unmistakable pride coloring its voice. "I AM ARGOG; THE KING OF KINGLY SPIDERS. NOW," anger crept back into its voice, "I ASK AGAIN: WHO ARE YOU TO DISTURB MY SLEEP?"

"Um, well, you see," Link stammered nervously, "I didn't mean too disturb you're sleep. In fact, I didn't even know that you were asleep, or that you were even here for that matter. I was just trying to get to the Zora's Domain, 'cause, uh, the waterfall is frozen and I was gonna try to climb it - stupid I know - but, uh, this girl told me there was this tunnel that would serve the same purpose, so that's how I got here. Now, if you don't mind, I think I'll just be going..." Link started trying to edge around the giant beast. The Argog moved to block him.

"SO... YOU DIDN'T DROP A BOULDER ON MY HEAD?"

"Me? No no no, of course not. Why would I want to do that? Psh, no, I'm just passing through."

"REALLY? WELL, SEEING AS HOW YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE IN THIS CAVERN BESIDES MYSELF, I AM NOT ENTIRELY INCLINED TO BELIEVE YOU."

"Hm, good point. Wait! there's someone to your right!" Link shouted, flinging his hand out. When the Argog turned eagerly Link dove beneath its great girth, assuming the door would be on the other side. But it wasn't. There was just a wall. "Well crap," Link muttered as the Argog once again turned its full attention on him.

"A CLEVER PLOY, BOY, BUT UNFORTUNATELY FOR YOU THE ONLY WAY OUT OF THIS CAVERN IS ABOVE MY HEAD!"

Link looked up to see a small patch of blue sky. "Hey, thanks for telling me."

The spider paused to think about this. "OPPS. OH WELL, IT MATTERS NOT; YOU'LL NEVER GET A CHANCE TO USE IT." The spider began to advance towards Link, pushing Link back towards the wall. Link's boots crushed the bones on the floor to dust and it puffed up into the air. "Wanna make a deal?" asked Link, both desperately and hopefully.

"NO, NOT REALLY."

"How about you let me go now, and I promise I'll come back and let you kill me later?" Link knew it wouldn't work, but hey, it was worth a shot.

"DO YOU REALLY THINK I'M THAT DUMB?" the Argog asked angrily. ITs body was starting to pulse now, venom was building up in its fangs and the giant stinger that was thicker than Link's head. The eyes flashed red.

"Well one can hope," Link answered.

The Argog reared up and its stinger flew at Link. He dove to the side and rolled, crushing more bones as he did so. The dust was starting to build up in the air now; Link could taste it in his mouth. He yanked the Gale Boomerang from his bag and flung it in an arc around the spider. "HA," the Argog spat, "YOU MISSED." And then the boomerang severed the tip of its stinger. Roaring in pain the spider dashed Link against the wall and held him there. The boomerang returned to Link's hand (boomerang, you really do always come back!) and he chucked at the spider's leering face. It hit an eye dead on and bounced back; Link caught it with his feet. The Argog let Link drop and scuttled away; Link thought he could hear it sniffling.

"THAT HURT!" the Argog bellowed.

"But you were going to eat me!" Link retorted defensivly. "I had to do something!"

"YOU COULD OF ASKED POLITELY!"

"I already tried that, remember?" Link reminded it. He picked himself up off the ground and dusted his clothes off. And he had to drop to the ground as the Argog tried to bumrush him. He rolled out from under the shadow just before it hit the ground. Link pulled the Hero's Bow out and attached a bomb tot he end of the arrow. He drew, aimed, and fired... and was thrown against the wall by the force of the blast. "Okay, bad idea," he groaned. the Argog wasn't even hurt, just annoyed.

"WHAT THE HELL?" the Argog yelled. "WHAT DID YOUTHROW AT ME!"

"Uh, bomb arrow" Link answered. He yelped and rolled violently to a side when the Argog tried to kill him, again.

Suddenly the Argog sneezed. It was a tremendous sneeze that lifted Link into the air and left him hanging from a vine twenty feet above the floor. "AAAA! ALLERGIES!" the Argog screamed and sneezed again. Link was blasted into the ceiling and lost hold of the rock. The Argog sneezed a third time and Link was pushed through the small hole in the ceiling. He landed painfully on the hard rock above.

"I hate spiders," he muttered.

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Allai was frozen with shock, unable to comprehend what she had just seen. The Argog hadn't even come close to killing the "hero"! Instead it had an allergic fit and blown the boy out of his lair! What the hell!

Allai grumbled angrily as she climbed down from her little perch. The Argog was lying in a motionless pile with his eight legs splayed out around him and his head in a pile of bones. Allai kicked him and muttered, "You're useless." The Argog didn't move; it was out for the count at the moment but still breathing. "I'll come for you again," Allai promised, "and this time, you'd better not fail me!"

Me: I think this is my favorite chapter in the whole story so far. It was a lot of fun to write. You know, I fell so happy, this story got over 100 hits in the merry old month of May, yet... I still only have THREE FREAKING REVIEWS! WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THAT! *goes into a screaming rage and utterly destroys the room she's currently residing in* Sorry, I needed to do that. *looks around* Opps. Wow, this room isn't even recongizable anymore; this is gonna take a long time to clean up...

Yes, the Argog was based of of Aragog from Harry Potter and that giant spider in Lord of the Rings whose name I can't remember right now. Did anybody catch my quote? I love that show... I'm rather surprised I haven't written a Fanfiction about it yet.

School got out yesterday, I'm home free now! Onyx made me get a Facebook, it's weird. Peace!

R&R? (Please? Do you want me to destroy something else?)