AN: Thanks to all of my reviewers, you guys rule! Hands out cheesecake to everyone who reviewed, but hands out a big cookie to Sylph
A big, juicy battle scene in this chapter! Yay! Battle-ness! XD
Some 'attempted' humor and some of my troubles in the Zelda series. You'll find out when.
There's also a 'temple' in this chapter too. I told ya that I'd lead up to it…well maybe not all of you…only to my reviewers…but hey. If you don't review, you don't get the 'inside scoop' :/
I can't help but wonder why my hits for each chapter keeps on getting lower and lower. Why? Is it because my writing's getting worse? Or am I missing something else here? If you answer this question, you get a cookie and a drink of your choice. Yay for digital treats! XD
I made this chapter as 'epic' and as descriptive as possible.
IMPORTANT NOTE: I decided to not put a chapter limit on this story, as I don't want to just randomly end the story like right...now...so the story chapters will continue until the story is finished. Wheeeee!
Disclaimer: See previous chapters.
The Awesome Chapter 9
Link sighed in frustration as he once again checked his map. He was lost. He just wasn't lost anywhere, however. He was lost in a tower, a huge tower that touched the heavens. A tower that was bright blue that had sapphires embedded in it. Link didn't know why he came to this place, but he had a feeling that he would find out very soon.
The Chosen Hero was about to continue on when he heard a shuffling of feet behind him. He yanked out his Ordon Sword, only to face nothing. Must be the lack of sleep…Link thought to himself, completely missing the fact that there just might be an enemy or monster behind him. Folding his map neatly, the Hero didn't even take one step when he heard a few guttural grunts. He froze in mid-step... those weren't normal monsters. He read about them in books, especially ones focusing around the Hero of Time and his adventures. He knew that sound, but he just couldn't place it. There was a terrifying screech behind him and Link could have sworn that his eardrums blew out right there. He rolled forward away from the sound and turned around on one heel to come face to face with a monster that was only in legends: A lizardflos. (AN: Spelling?)
The lizard-monster screeched again and Link had to fight himself from dropping his sword to hold on to his sensitive elf ears. Link clenched his jaw and he tightened his grip on his sword. This was so not going to be fun. They seemed to have a staring contest, until the Lizardflos broke the wavering silence with an ear-splitting scream. Link responded with one of his own as the two clashed swords. The sound of metal-on-metal was deafening as the two swords clashed over and over again. The dance of death went on for a few minutes, with neither side tiring. The monster suddenly stopped and jabbed its sword outwards towards Link's head. He barely had time to dodge as he felt the dagger-like weapon scrape against his cheek. He felt the familiar tingle of blood seeping down his face and he cringed. Ouch. The Hero narrowed his eyes at the offending creature, which didn't seem fazed at all. The creature roared as it charged at Link with its weapon raised. In one smooth move, Link dodged to the right of the Lizardflos, and stabbed his sword into the creature's back. The monster emitted a soft sound of pain before its eyes rolled back into its head and the body went limp.
Making a face, Link pushed the body off of his sword and rummaged around in his endless pocket for a red potion. Luck was apparently on his side today as he found a red potion, but it smelled weird. It didn't smell like the other red potions, it smelled like a week old laundry and rotten cheese. Scrunching up his face in disgust, Link debated to himself if drinking this thing will kill him or not. Well, even if it did go bad, he would only have a sick stomach, but his wounds would be healed…right? He couldn't of been more wrong.
He made another face as he drank the potion, it tasted worse than it smelled. He felt nauseous, but he was more concerned with what happened to his wound on his cheek. Instead of the wound healing up like it was supposed to, it got worse. Puss started to leak out of the wound and Link felt himself swallow some bile that was threatening to come up. Feeling basically like crap and hungry, he curled up on the ground and went into a dreamless rest.
Link awoke feeling somewhat better, but he still felt bad. Having no choice but to continue, he ate a piece of goat jerky, hoping it would stay down long enough to be digested. Sighing in frustration and from the lack of sleep, he opened the door to the next room.
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Damn, when will this darn maze end? Link thought as he once again took a wrong turn and ended up at another dead end. He felt the ground rumble as once again, the maze changed around. It seemed to have a time limit; Link guessed it was five minutes.
This is probably the tower's only defense against the almighty Hero of- he stopped in mid-thought as a plant snapped at him. He sighed, another deku baba. He really hated those things. Swinging his sword with barely any effort, he decapitated the plant and continued through the annoying 'ever-changing maze of doom'.
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He turned around a corner and low and behold- another dead end. Link pounded his hand against the 'wall' in frustration, and was about to let out a colourful string of curses until he fell through the maze. He found himself at the other end of the room and he realized with great frustration that he just could of pushed against any 'wall' on the same side and he would of got out. Damn. Rubbing his temples in a mix of confusion and anger, he looked up towards the next door. The door was decorated in gold and blue ribbon and it looked like something out of the hippy age. He raised an eyebrow at the door and he tried to open it. No luck, it wouldn't move. He waited a few seconds and tried again, but still the same thing. He blinked and wondered to himself why he tried the same thing twice. Shrugging the question off, he raised his foot and tried to kick down the door. He felt something crack and the crack wasn't the door. It was his foot.
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The Chosen Hero was now back at the beginning of the tower again. He finally came to the conclusion that the door was the Boss Door, but he didn't have the boss key! Argh! How he hated that…
Link searched far and wide for the key, but there was nothing. He growled in frustration as he put down his sleeping bag to rest, maybe he would sleep on it.
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After a few more hours of searching, Link finally found the boss key. Trudging back to the boss door, he finally reached the last room before the boss door. Rolling his eyes at the maze, he attempted to walk through the 'walls' again. His face slammed into something solid and he found himself looking into red eyes. He took a few steps back and went out of the maze, back at the beginning of it. He heard an evil chuckle as the image of Nayru appeared in front of him. But, of course, it wasn't really Nayru. Yeah sure, it was her body…but her spirit was locked away in who knows where...
"Well Hero, it looks like you found out the secret of the maze" 'Nayru' smirked at the offending green-clad 'hero' Oh, she wanted to whip his butt so bad…
Link only raised an eyebrow and said softly, "What are you talking about?"
Dark Nayru gave him a pointed look, "You know just exactly what I'm talking about hero. It looks like you have to actually solve the puzzle and not cheat like you did before. I'll see you behind that door over there!" She seemed to sing the last sentence, "Have fun!" With a slight wave of her hand, Dark Nayru was gone…. apparently behind that door.
Scoffing and rolling his eyes, Link once again faced the ever-changing maze of doom.
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Link finally found himself in the center of the maze, a feat that seemed impossible. Fearing the maze would change again, he opened the chest that was there and he pulled out a shield. His eyes were wide in shock as he realized what shield this was, it was the mirror shield…the same one that the Hero of Time used! Not wanting to ditch his Hylian shield, he stuffed it into his endless pocket and put of the Mirror Shield. Huh, what do you know? A perfect fit.
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Link took a deep breath as he finally made it out of the maze; he was all bloody from his occasional encounter of Deku Babas and Moblins. But don't worry; most of the blood wasn't his. Taking another deep calming breath, he unlocked the door with the golden boss key and the door groaned open…
AN: Just to let you know, I really wanted to end the chapter here. But after half-an-hour of straight debating, I decided to do Nayru's battle in this chapter. After all, I did promise…XD
The door slammed shut behind Link, but he was used to it by now…he didn't even turn around or seem fazed by the fact that he was trapped in the same room as a postal goddess. He couldn't help but feel giddy and the familiar rush of adrenaline flooded his body once again. Gripping his sword in part excitement and part fear, he awaited the appearance of Dark Nayru. The Hero heard an evil chuckle as he watched the appearance of Dark Nayru. The appearance 'scene' was brief however and as soon as she turned from transparent to opaque, she struck. Dark Nayru flicked her wrist at Link and a barrage of blue fireballs came raining down on poor Link. Not wasting a chance, Link blocked all of the fireballs and to his surprise, the magic of the fireballs seemed to absorb into the shield. The shield was quickly pulsing bright blue and it seemed like the shield was pulsing in time with his heartbeat. With a thrust of his shield, the magic from the shield came out of the surface like a 'bat outta hell' the magic of Nayru was used against her as the blue mass of magic slammed into her chest. Not wishing to waste a second, Link leaped in and gave a slash to Nayru across her chest before retreating. Growling in anger, Dark Nayru chanted a spell and sent a laser size of blue energy right at Link! He put up his shield, but to his surprise, the magic started to drill into the shield. Apparently, the shield couldn't absorb highly concentrated attacks. Dodging out the way from the blue laser-like magic, Link used some of his own magic. His sword started to glow an angry red as he channeled the magic flowing in his veins to his sword. IT was harder to do to a regular sword that wasn't magic however, and Link knew he could only do it once before collapsing. Link gave his classic 'Hyah!' cry as he jumped up into the air and slammed to sword down parallel to the 'floor'. There was a deafening sound of magic hitting magic as Nayru responded with a powerful magic attack of her own. Neither side was backing down and Link was tiring quickly. Deciding to save his energy for later, he nimbly dodged the fatal magic attack from Nayru as he back flipped a few times. He studied Dark Nayru carefully, she could only use magic attacks and she was powerful…so, smirking in triumph checked his supply of rupees. Excellent, he had at least 2000 in there. Snapping his fingers, he 'changed' in the Magic armor that he bought from Malo Mart a while ago. Nayru made a face and charged up for another powerful magic attack while Link just crossed his arms and stood there, still having a triumphant smirk on his lips. Nayru let out a grunt of effort as she sent the powerful blue magic attack towards Link again. Link just held out one fist and the magic stopped in its tracks. He tilted his head towards Nayru and the ball of magic seemed to nod in response as it sent speeding back towards his caster.
The magic armor not only defended Link from no damage by sucking rupees away, but it also gave him full control over magic. He could bend it and make it do his bidding, so thus he used Dark Nayru's most powerful magic attack against her.
The ball of swirling magic impacted Dark Nayru's chest with full force and her eyes were wide with shock. Link ran up towards Dark Nayru and with a powerful stab where her heart was supposed to be, Dark Nayru screamed, as she seemed to dissolve into the air. Link didn't even have time to sheath his sword before he felt his knees give and everything went black before he hit the ground.
AN: BAM! CLIFFHANGER! Muwhahahahahaha! XD
Sorry about all of the 'scene changes' but I write better that way. I find it hard to continue a scene for a long amount of time, unless I'm really in the 'zone', which I'm not. This was a five page chapter, and the battles were hopefully enough to wet your appetite for the battle against Din and the final battle. Yes, the final battle is not Dark Din, it's someone else. There's a question, a rather important question…for me anyway, up at the top of the chapter. Find it and read it, there's a reward too…so read the underlined part for the reward if you answer it. XD
Once again, I'd like anyone who actually reads author notes to put 'Thunderbolt' into their review somewhere! If you want to know why, read the previous chapters. I even underlined the key part, so you shouldn't miss it. XD
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Just a little side note to anyone who cares: Did you know that the symbol for the mirror shield is actually the Muslim symbol on the Mirror shield in OoT? At least it was in my version, I've got version 1 of the game…I looked it up. Nintendo changed the symbols that were offensive to the Muslim people and they changed the fire temple song because it said a prayer or something in Muslim language. Heh. I figured that out by myself. XD