Ruki44: Well...the next chapter is up...finally. This thing took about a week to write.
Tetra: You know, you have nothing else better to do, you should be updating a bit more often!
Ruki44: Eh?
Ruki: Yea, at least with this story and my story! I mean these you're (sort of) following the game/show! You can't get a writers block from it!
Ruki44: Yea, but believe it or not these are harder to write. I mean its not uncommong for people to write their own version of events of the show and or game. Isn't that what fan fiction is mainly about? Some use the characters and go on a bit more creative route. But stories like Twilight Rewrite and Rika's Story are harder because you have to find the perfect balance of what is your own and what is pretty much writing down the game or show in words. I mean in Twilight Rewrite, its obvious how its different, I mean Zelda came along in this one, but the differences in Rika's Story are a bit more subtle to a point. Besides it being a Rukato, the main differences are Ruki (Rika's inner voice for those who don't read the story) and some major events that I've changed or taken out such as Megidramon.
Hinata: I don't see how it's harder to write then the more creative stories.
Ruki44: You see with Dusk and Hylian Phoniex (both of them I have to update .) I don't have to worry as much as staying close to the storyline and I can be a bit more creative with the personalties within reason. While Zelda's personality is a bit more looser in this one, I think I explained the reason for that is she never really got out much and its sort of like a psychological thing...she doesn't need to act like a princess around Link and Midna. Anyways, according to the Ocarina of Time gossip stone, Zelda is a tomboy. So it shouldn't be a problem to make her a bit more childish. She'll have her more mature moments (as you'll as the story progresses) but she is given the chance to live like a normal person. I mean if you think about it, Zelda had to grow up incredibly fast. That surpressed childhood is coming out as she travels with Link and Midna who don't expect her to act like anything.
Rukia: This conversation is boring and nothing but a bunch of explanations people don't care about and probably isn't going to read! So just get on with the story already!
Ruki44: Curses, I've been seen through! Fine, I don't own anything!
Zora's Domain
Well the good thing was that we did land in the puddle of water. The bad thing was that it hurt like hell. Imagine a belly flop, except only from like 150 feet up. That's how much it hurt.
"Link, ugh, you reek." Zelda complained as I shook off the water after I crawled out of the lake. I shot her a dark look as Midna went off on a tangent on how she finally understood why people never give their animals baths.
"It's not like I can help it. I'm a dog you know." I shot back.
"You're a wolf." Zelda reminded me with a smirk. "Even though dogs and wolves are in the same finally, they are not the same thing. Dogs are generally smaller then wolves and live with people where wolves on the other hand are wild and don't live with people. And people for the most part are afraid of wolves." She decided to further inform me.
"Whatever." I rolled my eyes, deciding not to care any more on the subject. That's when I noticed the spirit of a clown over by what looks like some sort of carnival ride or something. I grinned and poked Zelda with the end of my nose, making her yelp and then complain to me about how cold the edge of my nose was.
"Look Zelda, a carnie!" I broke her off mid rant. Midna looked to where I was looking.
"I don't see anything…but see if he has a fried rat on a stick. I heard those are really good." Zelda and I stared at Midna very hard.
"They're not." I assured her just as Zelda asked;
"Where in the hell did you hear that from?" My answer made Zelda shift her attention from the imp to me.
"You've eaten fried rat?" She asked me incredulously. I shrugged…as best as I could in my canine form anyways.
"Fado brought them one time when we were working at the ranch. He had just come back from Castle Town after a delivery and he had apparently bought them off some vendor. He offered me one, I hadn't eaten all day, so I took it." I told her. Zelda groaned and Midna laughed before diverting our attention back on hand.
"Well anyways, why don't you go hear if that guy is going on a helpful monologue about something Link?" I snorted.
"Like that's going to happen. But ok, if it will make you happy and leave me alone for five minutes before you find something else for me to do, fine." I sighed. Zelda didn't translate since she had already went off ahead of us. She must have gotten bored. I followed after her quickly, I didn't like her leaving my line of sight for too long. I feared she might cause something to accidently blow up somehow.
After this is all over I'm going to have to figure out how to sneak in the castle and watch to make sure she's ok without being thrown into the dungeon for being a stalker. So I would have to be discreet about it…though it's not really the guards I'm worried about since their morons. It's the Royal Hylian Guard that's got me worried. Oh god…they're going to have a field day with me when they learned I kidnapped Zelda.
"Link, Link…LINK!" I jumped to see Zelda waving her hand in front of my nose. When she saw she had my undivided attention she frowned. "Seriously, you were spacing out. What were you thinking about?" She asked me as Midna acted shocked to the idea I could think.
"My imminent death." I told her, flinching slightly. I wonder if it will be public or private… Zelda seemed confused by this, but patted my head anyways.
"Relax Link, you're not going to die…I mean you're the chosen hero." And she thought I was talking about the quest we were currently on. Which I should be, but I'm not.
"Yea…great…" I grumbled as I turned my attention to the fat carnie. He was staring out at the lake with a look of longing on his face.
"Man, the lake is just dried up. And here I thought this would be a prime location for a business." The carnie sighed leaning backwards. Just then his eyes seemed to catch something and he leaned forward again, his face scrunched with confusion. "What is that thing?" I turned to see where he was looking. Didn't see anything until; "MONSTER!" And yea, there was a monster skulking around some reed grass.
"Monster." I informed Zelda dully, nodding my head as the carnie went into his whatever it was thing. Zelda stood on her toes and lifted her hand to her head before she finally spotted it.
"Oh, only one of it. Well come on then, lets ambush it!" Zelda said with a grin before running toward it. I groaned as I ran after her. The monster saw us coming because it started to run, smart thing…wait a second…is that a hawk reed grass?
"Oh my god, that hawk is freaking huge." Zelda gasped as she skidded to a halt and I almost ran into her and I had to break so fast that Midna flew off my back. As Midna sat back up and gave me a nasty glare, the monsters hopped on the hawk thing's back and flew up in the air.
"That's now a hawk you idiot, that's a Ragneel…I believe in your world their called robins. They're just bigger and more dangerous in the twilight." Midna informed us as she got back on my back. I whimpered and pressed my ears against my head as Zelda let loose a stream of curses. That thing is a robin?
I had to dive for cover as the Ragneel came at me with blinding speed. This so wasn't fair…I was a ground creature up against a creature of the sky. Of course the stupid killer robin is going to win! As it turned around and came at us again, Zelda unsheathed her sword. However she didn't take a defensive stance like I thought she would, but instead positioned herself like she was throwing a spear. Once the bird got close enough to us, she threw her sword, hitting the bird right where its wing connected to its body. The Ragneel dropped altitude and I saw my chance and ran up and grabbed onto its underbelly with my teeth and claws and began to bite it furiously.
Let me tell you right now, it didn't taste like chicken. Or anything else that could be passed off as edible.
The bird managed to shake me off and I landed ungracefully on my feet, shockwaves coursing through my entire body. Zelda ran up to me and watched as the Ragneel circled over head, obviously not expecting an attack like that.
"That went well." She commented, following the bird with her eyes.
"If you could kill the rider, I think I could take control of the Ragneel." Midna told us suddenly. Zelda looked at Midna in shock before quickly brushing it off with a shrug.
"Worth a try." She said as she turned to me. "You up for the challenge?" I nodded my head. If we could knock the rider off the Ragneel, we could easily kill it. But how…that's when an inspiration struck me.
"Zelda, when that stupid killer robin decided to charge again, get on my back along with Midna and I'll charge it. It should be low enough for me to grab onto it like I did last time. When I grab hold of it, you will jump and knock off the rider and Midna will take the riders place. Then you and me will finish off the rider while Midna takes control of the Ragneel." I told the princess very quickly. When Zelda told Midna of the plan, she agreed.
"Well, it's not like we have much of a choice." She decided, moving back so Zelda could sit in the front so she'll make a better jump when our plan is put into action. "Here he comes…" she warned us as the Ragneel flew off a bit and started to charge like he did last time. "Get ready Link." I dug my paws in the dirt and prepared to launch myself the second the stupid bird got close. "NOW!"
Everything was in slow motion it seemed. I did a head on collision with the bird and grabbed on to it with all my might. Zelda used the momentum from my launch to further her own up into the riders seat, it helped that Midna was using her odd magic to help her up. I watched as Zelda managed to push the rider off and when I noticed Midna was holding on to the reins, I let go and landed next to Zelda who was staring down a very afraid Twilight monster. He obviously realized he was in deep shit.
After killing the monster and Midna adding a new slave to her posse (She didn't have any qualms in reminding us that we were still her slaves until she found what she was looking for. Luckily this is the last part of this Fused Shadow thing so Zelda and I aren't obligated to listen to her anymore after this.) did she have the bright idea of using the Ragneel to fly up stream with. Yea. Easy for her to say, Zelda and her are going to be riding in the saddle…I'm going to be carried in that stupid things claws.
But it wasn't like we had much of a choice, we needed to go upstream to see why Lake Hylia was frozen. Zelda feared that something ill had happened to the Zoras like pretty much everybody else in Hyrule. Let's see my village had a bunch of children taken away from it, Castle Town is still under the veil of Twilight and lost its princess (not that they know it), the Gorons had their patriarch turned into a monster, Kakariko Village pretty much has no residents left and is down one explosive device building, so it's pretty much self explanatory in my book that the Zoras were in some pretty deep shit of right now. But I didn't want to say anything and rain on Zelda's hopeless optimism.
Well I wanted to say that despite all my worst fears, the trip upstream being carried by a killer robin was actually not as heart stopping as I imagined it to be. However that was not the case, in fact, compared to what actually happened, my imagination was probably the best case scenario. I mean there was random monsters firing fire arrows at us, random falling icicles and rocks that almost hit us a couple of times, and Midna nearly ran into a couple of scaffoldings a couple of times. So could you blame me when the minute my paws touched the ground I kissed it? Too bad it was ice and my tongue got stuck to it.
"Oh my god, that's why Lake Hylia is so small, everything is frozen!" Zelda freaked out. "Can you believe this…Link what the hell are you doing?" She asked me as Midna cracked up laughing when saw the position I was in.
"Nothing." I replied best as I could with my tongue stuck to the ice. Zelda knelt down and saw my problem. After laughing over my sorry fate of affairs, she called upon a small flame spell and melted the ice around my tongue. "Thanks." I thanked her as I moved my tongue around a bit to see if it hadn't gotten frost bite. It was fine. All that was ruined was my pride, but that was no surprise there.
"No problem, let's go further up and see what the problem is. The Zora throne room is up at the top of the waterfall so…yea…" Zelda trailed off as we looked up the frozen falls, wondering exactly how we were going to get up there.
"It looks like Link could jump from those frozen parts of the fall up…" Midna trailed off. There was a good three minute silence before I decided to break it.
"I hate my life."
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We managed to get up the frozen falls without any major incidents. I almost fell at least three times but I didn't so it was all good. We were in the Zora throne room (according to Zelda anyways) and I noticed three Twilight beasts skulking around. Zelda and I looked at each before running onto the frozen ice to meet the beasts as the pillars came out of the sky, blocking us in.
"Damn it's hard to fight on ice." Zelda curses as she slid out of a monsters attack. "And it's freaking cold in here and this outfit of yours isn't helping much either." She grumbled as she blocked another monster attack with her sword.
"Sorry about that." I apologized. "Go take care of that one in the corner will you? I'll take care of these two." Zelda grumbled as she ice skated over to where the lone twilight monster was before finishing him off. I concentrated and made that circle around and I entrapped the other two and I made short work of them, cutting through them effortlessly. I watched the monster bits fly up into the sky and turn the portal blue before turning my attention back to Zelda.
"So where are the Zoras?" I asked her, looking around. I sure didn't see any. Zelda scratched her head.
"I don't know…they should be here…" She mused, looking extremely worried at this point.
"Um…you might want to look down." Midna's shocked voice made Zelda and I stare immediately at the floor. Using my wolf senses, I was able to see the multitude of Zoras entrapped in ice under my feet.
"Oh my goddess." She breathed as she hit the floor, her hands running across the ice. "Their frozen in there!"
"Couldn't you use your fire magic to get them out?" I asked, circling around worriedly. Zelda shook her head.
"My profanity isn't fire, and even if it was, I wouldn't have enough magic to melt all this. I would have to be the Sage of Fire to even stand a chance." She replied glumly, sinking to the floor.
"Is there a Sage of Fire? If so, why don't we go get him and get him to free the Zoras?" Midna said thoughtfully. Zelda however just shook her head.
"The sages are no longer part of the physical world. They reside in the spiritual. The only place you could contact them is in Arbiter's Ground. Anyways, the Sage of Fire is a Goron, he would have been troublesome to get up here…" She said before getting an odd look to her face and trailing off.
"You just thought of something." Midna commented. Zelda stood up suddenly.
"Yes! Remember that rock that almost tried to kill us back on Death Mountain? It was a part of a volcano! It still must be obnoxiously hot, we could use the portal to transport it over here, like we did with the bridge!" She said excitedly. Midna snapped her fingers.
"So in reality that rock that tried to kill was a blessing from the goddesses, not a futile attempt to kill you!" She said happily. Zelda and I looked at Midna and then each other. The goddesses have been hell bent on killing me, but Zelda too? Now that I think about it, why would they want to kill us, I mean I we have the weird birthmarks called the Triforce (according to Zelda), and what from I was taught in the village is that the odd birthmark means the goddesses are smiling down on us and I mean we're trying to save Hyrule and all…so…
"Kidnapping time!" I blinked dumbly as the scruff of my neck was grabbed by Zelda and I felt my body start to break apart and I was transported to the goddesses know where. When I finally got my bearings I realized I was back on Death Mountain…and Zelda was yelling about sweet warmth as Midna was using her hair to grab the lava rock. It was a miracle really that no Gorons were around to witness this sight. If there were witnesses…there would be a lot of awkward explaining to do. And awkward explaining is worse than awkward silences. Trust me, I know.
We warped back to the frozen Zora Domain and Midna pretty much threw the lava rock at the ice, shattering it, making the water start to flow again and allowed the Zoras to escape. I looked around the room at all the Zoras as Zelda grinned happily.
"Ok the Zoras are free and the river flow is back to normal. We should go talk to the last spirit." Midna told us. Zelda put her hands behind her head.
"Sure, the sooner the better. After we get that last piece of the Fused Shadow, we'll be able to take down Zant right?" Zelda asked Midna. I cocked my head slightly? Zant? I shook my head afterwards. Whatever, who cares. We started to walk away when a voice stopped us.
"Wait!" I blinked and turned around and I saw Zelda's elf like ears, the trademark of the Hylians, twitch as she too turned around. I looked around and then I saw a Zoran woman appear hovering over the throne room. Zelda gasped and I looked over to her and watched her fall to the ground in shock.
"Rutela!" Zelda said softly in a pained voice. "Rutela…is that really you?" My ears and tails drooped. This was Rutela, Zelda's friend and mother of Prince Ralis? I didn't need my canine senses to tell me that this woman has left this world.
"Zelda, I almost didn't recognize you, you look like a farm hand boy." Rutela laughed, but it was a dead laugh. "And you're in such odd company…a wolf and a child of the Twilight. What have you gone through?" Zelda sniffled and wiped her hand across her eyes.
"Stupid, I'm the one that's supposed to ask you that. You're a ghost! What did they do to you!" Zelda asked as I whined and Midna had the decency to remain quiet. Rutela rubbed her head and laughed grimily.
"Ah…well when the dark ones invaded this domain…they sort of executed me in front of my people…as a warning." She revealed to us.
"WHAT!" All three of us yelled at the same time (mine sounded more like a bark seeing as only Zelda can understand me). As Midna took a leaf from Zelda's book and went off on a rant with a swear words intertwined in between every word, Zelda looked down glumly.
"I'm sorry Rutela, this is my entire fault. If I hadn't given up the castle…" She began before Rutela cut her off.
"Many more would have died. You saved a lot of bloodshed Zelda so don't fret over my death. Anyways, it seems you're in your own sinkhole too." Rutela told Zelda kindly. Zelda sighed before snapping her fingers.
"Ah, we saw your son while we were in Castle Town, tracking down one of this guy's childhood friends. He's at Telma's Bar, so he's in good hands. Want me to bring him back here as soon as we get the light to return to this area?" Zelda asked the Queen, jerking her thumb toward me. Rutela frowned.
"Ah…so I was right. Danger did follow him. Ah…could you take him to Kakariko instead?" Rutela asked. Zelda gave her a watery grin.
"Of course." She said, giving a slight sniffle. "Rutela I'll miss you." Rutela smiled slightly.
"I'll be always watching over you and Ralis. Mostly Ralis because he's my son, but don't worry, I'll look out for you, even in the next world. Anyways, you have a job ahead of you, don't you?" Rutela said kindly before giving one last smile before she disappeared. Just then I heard Rutela's voice in my head.
'I'm leaving her in your hands child.' I blinked, what was that? Zelda sniffled before standing up. She wiped away her tears and gave us a determined look, her eyes still red and puffy.
"Well, come on. We should get going. We need to go free this area from the Twilight!" Zelda sniffled as she marched forward. Midna floated over to me and looked at me.
"Doesn't she know it's ok to cry in front of us?" Midna asked. I shrugged before following the girl out on to the platform and watched the water roar down the falls.
"Zelda, it's ok to grieve you know." I told her kindly. "I'm here for you, Midna is here for you, I mean you have people to lean on, don't try to take this burden all by yourself." Zelda sighed and sat down, pulling her legs closer to her body as Midna floated towards us and landing on the other side of Zelda from where I was positioned.
"I'm just tired of it, that's all. People are getting hurt since I wasn't strong enough to fend off an invader. I wondered, if any of this would have happened if I had just fought Zant then and there. Now I'm traveling around the countryside dressed as a boy in order to stop something I should have stopped from the beginning. And I've been involving innocent people…you guys, Rutela…everyone is paying for my mistakes." Zelda sighed as she looked at the water basin covered in Twilight below.
"If you had put up a fight, you would have endangered a lot more lives. Anyways, there is no way you could have stood up to him…that's why I'm gathering the Fused Shadows. To stand a chance, even if it is a small one. Princess…Zelda…you're one of the many innocent bystanders, the one who should be feeling guilty is me." Midna said softly. Zelda looked at the imp in surprise.
"What do you mean you…" She began to ask trailing off, her eyes widening and her mouth fell open slightly before returning to normal again. "Midna…are you…?" She questioned slowly and Midna nodded her head glumly.
"Yea, I'm the rightful ruler of the Twilight Realm…I guess you could say I'm the Twilight Princess." She admitted. I blinked as I digested the information.
What now?
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After we talked a bit about Midna's past, the basic information I could understand is that she was the ruler of the Twilight realm and was usurped by her advisor Zant, who has his own little demented God he follows and apparently got his powers from this God. The reason she was looking for me is because of some legend of her people about some Divine Beast or whatever. I really didn't understand any of it besides the two females I was traveling with are both princesses.
The Hero of Time didn't have to go through this, putting up with two people of royal blood mood swings. So he had one just stalk him from a far…that had to be way easier on the mind I think. And she was dressed up as a boy! Not that Zelda wasn't…but she was doing a bad job of convincing people she was actually one.
"Well then, now that we had that depressing little talk out of the way, we should be able to take the current down to the bottom. From there we should be able to get to the light spirit and do that stupid bug hunt and return the light to this area. Then we'll be able to go after the last Fused Shadow and beat the crap out of Zant." Midna said, cracking her knuckles as she stood up. I winced, girls shouldn't do that, let alone princesses.
"We should bring Ralis to Kakariko before we go after that last Fused Shadow." Zelda said as she too stood up. Midna nodded her head.
"Yea, good plan, and while were there, Link you can catch up with Illia ok?" Midna agreed before shooting me a suggestive wink. My fur bristled.
"It's nothing like that! She's my friend!" I growled as Zelda muttered an 'uh huh'. I scowled as best I could in wolf form. Women. "Anyways, let's go and get this over with." I said as I looked over the falls wearily. All of a sudden I saw Zelda jump with a happy yell and began to swim away. Midna and I looked at each other and then to Zelda's retreating form before realizing that Zelda was out of sight.
"Holy crap!" Midna yelled suddenly. "Come on Link, let's go after her!" And with that she jumped on my back. I backed up a bit and I jumped off the top of the cliff and into the water.
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"Link?" I groaned and rolled over to my side.
"Please don't tell me you let another goat out of the pasture again Fado." I grumbled. For a rancher, that man pretty much sucked at it. If he indeed let out a goat, that would be the 10th one this week. And even though I work part time at the ranch, it seems I'm there a lot more then I should be, keeping all the goats in line since Fado didn't seem to be able to.
"Link, you're in the middle of Lake Hylia. Wake up." My eyes shot open. Say what!
"Eh!" I yelped, standing up quickly, and I realized I was a wolf. That's when the events of the past few days (or week) came back into mind. I looked over to see Zelda and Midna staring at me, both of them looking like they're holding back laughter. I narrowed my eyes and shook my body, spraying them water. That caused a five minute fight making all of us even more drenched in water then I thought possible.
"Ok, now that we got that out of the way, let's go meet this last spirit so we can get this out of the way. We seemed to have been lucky and washed up on its doorstep." Midna panted. Zelda tried wringing out my clothes.
"It seems this one has an ego, I mean it has its own shrine where the other ones were just random springs." Zelda commented before grumbling in a dark undertone about wishing she had brought an extra set of clothes.
"Well this whole place is water where the other places weren't…" I trailed off looking at the huge temple thing. Zelda did have a point…this spirit did look like it had a huge ego.
"Well, one way to find out!" Midna cried, pumping her fist. "Let's go!" And with that she floated excitedly into the spirit's domain, with Zelda closely following her. I sighed and followed them in. There was an overlook piece of earth that was hanging over the spring, on which Zelda and Midna were looking around curiously. I padded up to them and looked down, where was the spirit?
"Hello young ones, I am Lanayru, the spirit of this province." The spring talked to us. "You are here to bring back light to this area?" Zelda nodded her head.
"Yes." She confirmed.
"I'm assuming you know what to do?" There was a silence, and each of us was giving the spring 'did you seriously just ask that question' look. "I'll take that as a yes." And with that the Vessel of Light appeared in Zelda's hands. "Be careful ok?" Midna waved her hand dismissively.
"How hard can it be?"
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Thinking back to Midna's question, I think she's the reason we're in the mess we are in right now. I mean at first it wasn't so bad, we encountered our first little bug outside of the spring. We then ran around the lake (I found another Howling Stone) before using the newest member of Midna's posse to fly up stream and gather the bugs up there. Then we had to swim to Castle Town because apparently that's part of Lanayru province. It was then Zelda realized that a bug who wasn't on the map before had just appeared back at the lake.
Which leads us to where we are now. Facing off this huge ass shadow bug. And when I say huge ass, I mean huge ass.
"I hate you so much right now." Zelda told Midna. Apparently she too remembered Midna's words back at the Lanayru's hidey hole.
"You can't blame me for this!" Midna shot back, eyeing the monster warily.
"Watch me." Zelda shot back. Just then the bug came flying at us and Zelda dropped to the ground (or crate thing, I'm not quite sure what it is we're standing on) and pressed her body close to it as possible making the bug fly right over her and barely miss her. I however had to jump out of the way.
"Tch. This isn't going to be easy." Zelda grumbled as she stood up warily as the bug circled around. "We're going to need it to get into our reach so we can damage it."
"I can try to jump it the minute it tries to hover. When I knock it to the ground, you can get it then." I suggested. Zelda nodded her head.
"Alright, let's try that. Be careful." She said as she unsheathed her sword and we watched as the bug flew around at us again. We dodged as it flew at us again and it stopped and turned around, hovering for a slight second. The hesitation was all I needed and I launched myself up there and attacked it the same way I did the Ragneel. As it fell to the ground, Zelda jumped and thrust her sword down into its stomach before quickly pulling it out and doing a spin attack, hitting all the bugs legs and making the bug pull in its legs before shaking Zelda off.
I watched as it went into the water and sparks started to fly, like its little counterparts it seemed to electrify itself too…speaking of electrifying, doesn't water conduct electricity, why isn't that bug getting zapped…
"Link pay attention!" Zelda yelled as she grabbed my collar and pulled me back as the bug charged us. I grunted as the bug turned around and went for us again, jumping to the side. The shadow bug then flew out of the water and flew around and used its aerial attack again. We once again dodged and the minute the bug hesitated I jumped it again and we repeated the process a couple of more times until it fell into the water, it's legs sticking out.
"Zelda, let's finish this thing off!" I yelled, bounding up next to her. "Jump on my back!" Zelda, without a second thought, did as she was told. The minute she was on, I jumped on the bug's stomach and concentrated, making the circle appear around me and I targeted all the bugs legs at once. I launched myself forward and the bug was hit not only with my attack, but with Zelda's as well. I jumped off and the bug flew into the air before disappearing, leaving only a Tear Drop of Light behind and there was a blinding flash and when I could see again I was a human at Lanayru's den.
I just thought of something, how come we always magically return to the spring after we collect the Tear Drops of Light? It makes no sense! Then from the depths of the spring, a golden snake appeared…Lanayru.
"You did good young ones. The light is back in this area." Lanayru congratulated us. "But what you are looking for is dangerous." Zelda and I looked at Midna, who simply shrugged. She had no idea what the spring spirit was talking about.
"What do you mean?" Zelda asked the giant snake slowly. The snake sighed.
"Where to begin…" It mused (I was unsure if it was a he or she, you never do know with spirits) before sighing softly. "I suppose the beginning is the best place." And then the world went dark.
Ruki: Isn't a Ragneel something from Lord of the Rings?
Ruki44: I dunno, possibly.
Tetra: It looks like something that could be out of Lord of the Rings...if you look real hard...
Rukia: Lord of the Rings? What's that?
Hinata: It's a popular series of books. I guess it's something like the Legend of Zelda, I mean with the fantasy.
Ruki: You do know, any rabid Tokien fans who think Lord of the Rings is better then Zelda might kill you for the comparision.
Tetra: Doubt it, I mean The Legend of Zelda series is one of the most well known and popular video game series there is.
Ruki44: Ah speaking of which, for those who don't know, The Hero of Time, the independent Legend of Zelda movie by BMB (I believe that's who produced it anyways) was shown in Atlanta, Georgia on June 7th. For those lucky bastards who got to go see it, I hate you all. I had school, and even if I didn't, I guess I'll tell you people right now I don't live in Georgia. Hopefully it will become a DVD so I can buy it and watch it every day until the point i can quote every single line.
Rukia: Scary thing is, I can see you doing that.
Ruki: Yea...
Ruki44: On a different note, Rutela and Zelda's meeting was hard to write for me. They were friends and it was hard for me to potray the grief Zelda must have felt. Once I finish this, I'll probably go back and rework it along with changing that first spirit from a monkey to a goat. Also, I jumped the gun and made Midna tell Zelda and Link now because to help aleviate some of the surivor's guilt Zelda was feeling. Anyways in the next chapter, I'll cover the rest of the stuff before the Water temple, which would be the infamous canon ride, the Hero of Time back slice skill, possibly helping Iza with her ride, along with meeting of Agitha (possibily), the overpriced shop (possibly), meeting with Illia and Ralis and bringing them back to Kakariko, the battle on the bridge and the escort with keeping monsters at bay, meeting Rutela for the final time, getting the zora armor and buying the water bombs. So you'll have a lot to look foward to for the next chapter. So anyways, leave a review!