Well this took forever to get up even if I've had it typed for awhile, sorry ^^; I'm working on chapter ten currently because I wanted my friend who is turning sixteen tomorrow to be the first to read it (her party is today at 1 though, so I'm going to need to get it done soon XD )
Enjoy~
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-TPOV-
"You could have told me there was an easier way around these big lugs,"
"I could have," He responded and I shoved him playfully.
"Come on Tora," Sheik's irritated groan came from behind me and I got up, stuck my tongue out at him, and started hopping across the hedges towards the Forest Temple and away from a closely following Sheik.
When I had gotten past the maze I stopped and looked at the final obstacle. "Crap.. I forgot about hi-"
Sheik barreled into me and we both fell over, "Why did you stop so sudden- oh, that thing." Sheik got up and scowled at the large monster ahead of us.
He then grabbed a small Deku nut from his pocket and threw it towards the ugly being, stunning it in a similar way to how people were stunned by it in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
"Lets go," Sheik calmly walked by it while I followed, apprehensive and glancing back at it, untrusting, every five seconds.
It took me a moment, but once we were through I finally noticed Link and the others weren't behind us. Then I heard yelling.
"GOD LINK!"
"WHY DID YOU DO THAT?"
"HOLY CRAP IT'S AFTER ME!"
Gale, Roy, Marth, Pit, and Ike came speeding into the scene from the stairs as fast as humanly possible while Link trailed a few feet behind, laughing hysterically.
"Great, what did you do now?" I asked, slightly amused.
Link was laughing to hard to talk, so a slightly irritated, but smirking Ike replied for him, "He made us stop so we could all annoy the monster, then he stabbed it in the foot and it started chasing us." Like in the game as well, it appears that as soon as you attack them they come out of their trance.
Me and Sheik joined Link in the laugher, and Roy and Ike started as well, but Marth looked still looked scared and Gale was glaring at Link.
"So, everyone up for the temple?" I asked, laughter still in my voice.
Link ioh so maturely/i jabbed Ike in the side, grabbed my arm, and used the hookshot to get us up the cliff. "A little more warning would have been nice," I stated, rubbing my wrist.
"Sorry," he smiled sheepishly, then started making faces at a fuming Ike down below.
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-TPOV-
Gale just had to ruin my fun. Just ihad/i to.
I totally had that Wolfos, but she just had to go and ruin it all by shooting it right before I lunged. iRight before/i. Meanie.
"Hey Link," I suddenly blurted out as he started walking towards the door ahead of us, "climb up this tree for me will ya?"
He stared at me strangely, "Why...? Is something going to eat me?"
"Nothing is going to eat you."
"Is death involved?"
"You can kill a golden Skultula if thats what your after-"
"SWEET!"
Link clawed his way up the tree without hesitation, and leaped onto the one next to it. "A chest, cool." then he jumped down next to me, "Now what?"
"Your supposed to open it stupid," Sheik and Ike laughed at him while he pouted and climbed back up.
Link's triumphant shout could be heard, then he jumped down once more, this time with a key in hand, and motioned for everyone to follow as we headed into the next room.
The next area was but a hallway, another door on the opposite side. I walked casually towards it, and Sheik was murmuring about it being to easy. Then I stood still in the center of the narrow room and stuck my sword straight up in the air, a large Skultula fell from the ceiling and impaled itself.
"I've always wanted to do that," I said, smirking.
Then I spotted something on the ground. "No way, there are actual heart pieces? I thought that was just in the game!" I picked up a cartoon-like heart and examined it.
Gale ran over and slapped it out of my hand, aiming an arrow at it from where it was now sitting, "Don't touch it!" she yelled at me, "It's a paradox item. Our thoughts of the truth mix with this dimension's reality and form them; since we believed all of this was simply a game, it would be like that. If we came into contact with a paradox item for to long, in our sense, we would 'lose our last life'. You lose some of your power every moment your in contact with them."
I gulped and shrank back, while Gale fired at it and the heart disappeared in a poof of smoke. "You can only destroy them with onyx arrows," she explained, pulling one out of her quiver to show it to me.
After a second or two she took it back and started towards another door.
Link blinked. "There are floating hearts?"
"Yes, it makes a lot of sense, but yes."
He seemed confused, "your world is strange."
"Indeed."
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We all filed through the next door and saw a wide room, stairs leading up to different doors on each wall, some other passageways branching off into tunnels, and in the center was that blasted elevator; the four torches surrounding it.
Link walked slowly towards them, and the fire from the torches quickly vanished; just as they had in the game. The Four Poe sisters appeared where they were, the elevator sunk into the floor, and then they flew off.
Not much different there.
I just remembered how long it had taken me to finish this temple; even if it was the first one. I looked at all the members in our group, eight, that would work.
"Ok, I don't know about you guys but I think this would be a whole lot easier if we split up." most nodded while the others looked unsure.
"Marth and Roy, Pit and Gale, Ike and Sheik, and Me and Link. Lets go, we'll take the door across the room. Everyone meet back here when all four torches are back."
With that, everyone took off in different directions.
"Come on Link," I motioned for him to follow as we headed into the room I had told the others we'd take.
Immediately I regretted my choice. "Crap I forgot about this thing..." I mumbled, holding up my shield. The Blue Bubble flew into it and lost it's fire, then I tried to hit it. Again. And again. And again.
Link tried as well but it was at least a good ten minutes of shielding to get rid of it's fire, and then slashing at it before we finally finished it off, "That should have been easier than that, but of course it wasn't." Link laughed.
I can't really remember what's in the next room, but it can't be as bad as that thing. I always hated them.
We walked past the shattered remains of the skull and through the next door. Iron bars dropped and blocked our exit. Oh, I remember now.
Crap.
Two Stalfos rose from the ground and jumped at us, "You take the one on the left!" he nodded and I lunged at the other.
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-IPOV-
"Oh this is great" I sarcastically commented as we approached a block at the end of the passage.
Sheik walked up and examined it. "It's a song block,"
"A what?"
"I call them song blocks. You need to play the Song of Time and they will be removed,"
I nodded, "Ok than, where shall we find a instrument to play said song?"
Before I could even blink, he had pulled a lyre from... somewhere...
"Where did you get that?"
"Alternate dimension consolidator which ratifies the ability to store objects of both immense and meager proportions in mass into a exiguous space," he replied.
"I didn't understand half of what you said." I proudly announced, smiling.
He rolled his eyes, "I have a bag that fits an unlimited amount of large things into it. It is possible because of a warp in the dimensional rift-"
"Whoa whoa, you lost me again."
He laughed and started playing a song on the harp-like strings.
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-MPOV-
I unlocked the door the stepped quickly inside, Roy following.
Ever apprehensive from the Skultula in the other room, the first thing I did was look up. Another one was there.
I elbowed Roy and he looked up and grinned, then before I could react he had lunged up and sliced the thing in two.
"Come on!" he yelled, running onwards and opening the door to the next room.
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-PPOV-
"How the hell did we get here?"
"How should I know? You said you knew the way so I was just following!"
"Well it's been awhile," Gale scratched the back of her neck, looking around. "Hey, theres a door!" she ran at it full speed and we both entered the next room.
"Physics don't seem to matter here," I stated as we stepped into the hallway only to see that the whole room was twisted, and as we walked we stayed on the floor, "...and neither does gravity."
"This makes no sense," Gale complained while I stomped down the rest of the corridor and entered the next room.
This really shouldn't surprise me, but the next room was upside down, "Of course! Why not?!?"
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-LPOV-
I'm not sure how long it's been, an hour or two maybe? Either way we all seemed to have finished and everyone had gathered in the center room, Pit complaining about lack of logic and Marth kept asking why giant spiders drop from the ceiling.
"We should finish up this temple, I'm getting tired," Tora said, stopping the other's chattering.
"Yeah," I agreed, "Come on, lets go."
I stepped forward and onto the elevator, and before could react it shot downwards and I was separated from the others.
I was tossed from the elevator as it hit the ground harshly and twisted my arm.
"Crap..." I rubbed my injured limb lightly until the pain somewhat subsided and I could use it, although minimally, again. I would be in trouble if I had to use a sword too much.
In the room I had been projected into, there was a pillar in the center, a wood block attached to it. I faintly remembered Tora mentioning something about it and I moved to lean against it and shove it forward that way. My arm wouldn't be needed than.
The walls seemed to turn and suddenly there was a new passageway opened, nothing seemed special about it so I pushed again, and then again.
Now a room with a ground switch was revealed and I walked over and stepped onto it, there was a sharp click and when I turned around the path to a larger door with a bigger lock was now accessible.
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-TPOV-
Since I remembered where the elevator led, I herded the others back to the entrance of the temple and towards the Triforce on the stone.
Time passed, and still he hadn't emerged. My worry grew and I could sense the others suspecting the worst as well.
Then, suddenly a bright light half blinded us and then faded slowly, in it's place Link stood. He did not look well.
"Link!" I shouted and leaped towards him as he fell to his knees and then slumped over on the ground.
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Published 5-30-09
Sorry for the extremely late update . finals are coming up soon but I'm hoping that they won't delay much, I got rid of my writers block recently ^^
Not many people review last chapter T.T
The Silent Orion: I like it because EPIC is just... um... EPIC. Oh and believe me, I was :) it's totally out of character for her though XD
yuyu4848: Thank you ^^ and I'm sorry for the late update. I'LL MAKE SURE THE NEXT ONE IS UP WITHIN TWO WEEKS... hopefully...
Next chapter the story is starting to head into the main plot :D finally. Preview of next chapter:
Roy's letter, what did it say?
What does Link have to share when he wakes up?
New characters, new confusion.
I'll leave it at that ^^