HeroAlexa249: I am eager to finish this fan fic so I can get to Hyrule Warriors. Oh I have SO many plans for that one. I love the leaf sledding too... but one point I got stuck on the bridge and a glitch wouldn't let me go free. The thing with the Master Sword as a call back to a certain chapter of the last fan fic. Other than the canon fact that evil can't touch the blade.
Love is hard. I wish falling in love was easy for me- it's hard to find the right person.
ThePastReliesOnMemories: I will keep what was talked about in mind (and as I am posting up another fan fic on this site, I am making sure that I am giving proper responses to the reviews). Yeah, they are going to the Temple of Time (if it IS the exact same one from Ocarina of Time.) which is actually a pretty good level (unlike the next two that are coming up *shudders*). I think you might like how I did that certain scene... though it was a little tricky to work with, considering that it's a classic moment.
Ayako Zetra: Lexi says: YES! I still have several left! LET'S HAVE A BONFIRE!
Anyway: TARDIS! HECK YES! LETS GO THROUGH TIME AND SPACE!
I really hate continual advertisements and I am amazed at just how unrealistic such fantasies are (which would be painful to those girls in real life.). Unfortunately, considering Cia's fascination with Link, her design was probably made with that in mind. (And if I get around to making a Hyrule Warriors fan fic, the male counterpart is NOT going to get off scott free for that exact same reason.) And hey- if we question logic, it means we care. And that's why I try to fix it in these fan fics (What was wrong with the Hyrule Warriors logic again?) I've never tasted Pumpkin Pizza, but I bet it tastes good.
Baron Ricardo: I agree on the scenery of Twilight Princess, because on it's own, it's pretty good. But it leaves room for question and so much more potential. I fell in love with the scenery from Zelda wii u when I saw it (especially because it's similar to certain regions that I've visited since childhood.) I don't think the ball and chain fight with Midna would be similar to the original version. (And I like your input on fights for this fan fic and the ones you made for Skyward Swaps.)
PsycoFangirl: I can't figure out who the child of Ben and Beth would be. Dark/Shadow Link? Majora? Chancelor Cole? (The guy DOES have a creepy smile.) This could make a good brick joke for later. Oh boy, you're going to kill me after this chapter. The original did have some sad things under it's surface, Ganondorf kind of has a rather dark backstory, if you know all the facts about the Gerudo (which will be touched upon a little later in this fan fic.)
So anyway... I saw the boss fights for the Majora's Mask re-make. The scenery is a nice improvement... but WHAT made them think 'Oh, let's add in MORE eyeballs' was a good idea? At least Majora's boss room is pretty to look at... but the fight is still creepy.
chapter 11: Let's do the time warp again
He remembers this as if it just happened.
It was back when the possibilities were more likely than not. When the future looked more bright and not as bleak.
Even as a child he was mentally imbalanced- in some cases, it was a lot worse than it was now- and it made him stand out. He had a tendency to shy away from the others because of this and, on that day, he was busy studying near the city's square fountain, in a bench by a large potted plant.
"And so, the treaty was made, to keep both classes at peace." He read aloud from his book. "Today, we use it in keeping a balance, so that the wealthy remember to pay their equal share of taxes, and the poor do not have to pay more than they need to. Furthermore-"
"Well look who it is." Zant looked up to see a group of boys his own age- one was tall and looked like he barely had any sort of chin and the other two looked like squashed in squares with frog like faces.
Zant scowled at them, despite the fear that was creeping into him. "I'm afraid I'm rather busy right now."
The chinless one laughed. "What, studying about politics? Just because your a candidate to the throne doesn't make you king."
" I have as much as a chance as the others." Zant could feel the pressure rising in him. "Please leav-" The tall one took his book away. "GIVE THAT BACK!" He demanded.
"Anyway, I'm bored." The tall one sighed as he turned to his lackeys. "Got the rocks boys? I want to make him... dance." The other two snickered knowingly as they took out a handful of rocks from their pockets.
"I'm getting tired of this." Zant nervously felt his hands twitching in fear as his voice slowly began to raise up in pitch. "Do you really think I'm the source of your amusement, or are you just too narrow minded to find other-"
"Oh I do, mate." The tall one grinned. "After all, you're not the perfect image for a king."
"I mean it." Zant could now feel his shoulders twitch. "If you don't stop-"
"Yeah, why put a total nut case on the throne?" One of the lackeys laughed. "The second something doesn't go his way, he'll be thrashing and moaning on his throne like an idiot."
Zant felt something burst inside his skull and, without any warning, he lunged after the other child with a horrible cry.
The brat moved to the side, and Zant missed, stumbling to a stop before stamping a foot in frustration. At that moment the tall one took the chance to take a stone and toss it at his head. It made perfect contact against Zant's head and he angrily spun around in a half circle.
"YOU'RE DEAD!" He ran at the taller one, but the other two quickly grabbed him and pinned him to the stone ground. "LET GO OF ME!" He shrieked as he struggled like a snake, kicked his legs, and pounded on the ground.
"Look at him boys." The tall one sneered. "He could be next in line for the throne, and yet if you set him off just right, he turns into a wild animal."
"That's what I just said!" The lackey who first spoke whined, but no one paid him any mind.
"I SAID LET GO!" Zant then attempted to try to bite one of his captors wrists, but they only laughed at this and smashed his face into the ground hard enough that it almost broke his nose.
"YOU THREE!" A new voice angrily joined in. The three troublemakers glanced up from the still writhing child to a small, young girl around their age.
"If you don't let him go, I tell your family about what your doing." She warned them.
The others merely laughed. "That old line?" The tall one raised an eyebrow in amusement. "Well aren't you a hero." He sarcastically congratulated her.
The girl only smirked. "Then I'll give ya a new one: I already told the palace guards who destroyed the prized flower beds, in an attempt to sneak in, during a school trip."
That did the trick.
Horrified, the two boys let go of Zant- who fell limp- as the other one scowled. Without a word, he tossed the book onto the ground and quickly abandoned the square, though the other two ran ahead of him.
With a sigh, the girl approached Zant and helped him get back on his feet.
"You have to stop letting them get to you like that." She began as he stood back up. "If you keep acting like a lunatic, they really won't consider you to be the true successor to the throne. And not only that, but you won't be able to make any friends."
"You know I can't stop it." Zant whined- despite that the danger passed, his mindset was still unbalanced and he wasn't at the right frame of maturity just yet.
"Well either get it together, or go throw yourself in an institution." The girl snapped before she softened. "Maybe if you tried acting like you already were a king, you could keep it together."
Zant shook his head. "I appreciate your concern, but I doubt that would be possible. Seeing as I'm not sure if that will actually happen."
"Don't say that." The girl put a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "It's like that one saying: hold yourself like a king, but be modest like a peasant, and you shall start to have the heart of the world."
Zant scoffed. "What a dumb thing to say."
The girl smirked despite herself. "Yeah- it's pretty corny."
-present-
"Ah, good times, good times." Zant smiled to himself. "I almost miss those days of childish optimism and ignorance. Of course, it wasn't as bad as it used to be, on that particular day, but..." He turned to Zelda. "But it's the same for all, isn't it?"
Zelda didn't respond.
"Of course you would think that." Zant continued. "My aspirations were a lot bigger than yours at that age. Not to say yours wasn't any good- you didn't aspire to become a hero, but I can't imagine what else you were hoping for, growing up... You know, it's not fun if you don't respond back." He looked down.
Zelda was lying face first on the dirt in the cemetery.
"Oh well." Zant shook his head. "I I did offend you, so I suppose I deserve the silent treatment."
-?-
"You're doing well." The shade complimented me as I put the Master Sword away. "You're getting much quicker in your movements."
"I appreciate it very much." I smiled. "I owe you a lot of gratitude for your lessons. They have definitely come in handy."
"There is a reason you must learn." The shade told me. "Your destiny depends upon the way of the sword."
"Well, I should probably get going soon." I thought back to Zant. "My companion thinks I have fainting episodes whenever we meet up."
"There is something I wish to tell you first." The shade stopped me. "It has to do with your destiny... and it relates to your predecessor. It's a story kept secret by the Royal Family and the honorable Sheikah tribe."
"My... predecessor?" I asked as my interest returned.
"Around the time Ganondorf Dragmire- leader of the Gerudo- attacked Hyrule," The Shade began "it was discovered that the hero possessed a certain power.
When Ganondorf destroyed the Kokiri Forest, the sight of what was left was so disastrous and so heart breaking that the hero expelled a powerful force of magic, out of grief. According to the story, this power was so strong, that it destroyed the surrounding area- stone was reduced to rubble, trees were ripped clean out of the earth, and what was weak and beyond repair turned to dust. However, she was unable to control this power which was so strong that it sent her into a comatose state."
I felt my stomach flip when I heard this all too familiar sounding story. "And what happened to her?" I quietly asked. "Where did that power come from?"
"None could find the answer to such a riddle." The Shade replied. "When the sages were consulted, they feared this power and the Shiekah were sent in to perform a ritual to extract it from the girl, without killing her. The ritual was, thankfully, a success, and the young one lived and finally awoke after a seven day slumber, though she slept through the very days in which Ganondorf had been brought to justice and Hyrule had won the battle for it's future. Whatever knowledge she could offer about this power, she never provided to anyone, but we can only presume she at least told someone, for her sake. As for that power, it had been sealed away, from those who could abuse it... until fate guided it into the hands of one who was meant to have it."
"And you think I have this power?" I nervously asked. "It would explain a lot about-"
"It is not a question of whether or not you have that power." The shade told me as all turned white. "The question is: can you find the courage, wisdom, and power to use it for the inevitable? Your greatest fear can be turned into your most powerful weapon."
-present-
"Ugh." I woke up to the sound of Zant humming that odd tune again. "What are you humming?" I finally asked.
"Just a song from home." Zant calmly replied.
"Well, that aside, we need to go to the Sacred Grove." I brushed myself off as Zant gave me a blank look. "...What?"
"No." Zant flatly responded.
"It has to be the Sacred Grove!" I replied. "Don't you want to at least look?"
"I believe you." He calmly told me. "It's just that we are going to have to encounter that little delinquent who lives there."
"Then just hide in my shadow." I advised.
-later-
When we arrived back at Faron Woods, I found Rusl looking over the forest, on a ledge near the forest temple.
"I'm a little surprised to see you here so soon." I said as I approached him. "Did you visit Uli and the others?"
"Not yet." Rusl replied without turning, before he mused. "It has been a while since we took a walk in the forest, huh? And how our world has changed..."
"I remember those days in my childhood." I recalled as I looked around the area. "Everything was so overwhelming to me. I thought that the trees were giants, and yet the sound of the wind blowing through them always gave me a sense of peace, even to this day."
"It didn't take too long for you to become more open and light hearted again." Rusl thought back to those days. "These woods always hold a sort of power over those who enter it. I suppose that's why the village was built here in the first place."
"I've been thinking." I began. "When my father left, did... did he say anything about coming to these woods to find anything in particular?"
"I don't know." Rusl thought. "Your father was rather secretive about certain things. He never told me if he would come here."
"Oh," I was a little disappointed.
"...Say." Rusl asked me. "Do you know about the far side of this deep gorge? Some say there is an ancient temple deep in the woods that guards a sacred power. The ancestors of the Hylians created the temple... Signs of their civilization- ancient, but very sophisticated- are everywhere. If someone could obtain the power of those ancient people... Well, I am sure it would go a long way toward saving Hyrule."
"Are you sure it's not the Master Sword?" I asked.
"I don't think so." Rusl shook his head as he turned to me. "But would you cross the gorge and find the ancient power sleeping in the temple?"
"I... yes." I nodded, over Zant's protests, which only I could hear. ("We do NOT have to go back to that accursed place!" He growled out.)
Rusl smiled. "Well, to cross the gorge, just use my partner here." He then turned and whistled out a melody. To my amazement, a cuccoo with a beautiful golden color ran up from the grassy area, flew up, and perched on Rusl's outstretched arm.
"Amazing." I was impressed. "But didn't he just-"
"He flies like a dream!" Rusl smiled with pride. "Believe me! You will definitely make it across the gorge."
"I'll try." I picked the cuccoo up, who immediately began to flap it's wings. "By the way." I added. "Colin is still doing just fine. If you visit the village, tell Uli I said hi."
"That I will." Rusl promised. "And I might check in with Colin, to see how he is doing."
After flying across the gorge and reaching a familiar entrance, I let go of the gold cuccoo and headed into the grove. (Zant let out an annoyed groan- he was NOT looking foreword to this.)
"Hello?!" I yelled as I entered the grove. "Skull Kid, it's me! The one who was the wolf?! I was a wolf and I played tag with you!"
I waited patiently for him to show up.
"We don't need his help." Zant's voice almost sounded like a pout. "Let's find it on our own."
"Is that the hero I hear?!" An excited voice echoed through out the grove. I heard the sound of rustling leaves and the Skull Kid leapt down from the trees, just a few feet from me.
"Yay! It is!" He cheered and waved the hand that held the pipes in his hand."Hello Miss Hero! I see you are doing well, though your companion is curiously absent. How is the sacred sword? Have you been taking care of him and cleaning his blade?"
"Uh," I pulled the Master Sword out and gave it a glance- it wasn't as polished and clean as when I first found it. "Not exactly-"
"You should be cleaning him more often!" The skull kid chided me. "He doesn't like to get dirtied all the time. All weapons need to be cleaned and polished, but this one is especially vain." He threw an accusing look at the sword. "Quite an annoyance, if you ask me."
This accusation distracted me from my initial objective, and I thought about the talk with Rusl.
"Skull Kid." I asked. "Has... has anyone ever tried to come to this place to take the Master Sword? Besides me?"
The child beamed. "As a matter of fact, there have been many! Not all survived, and the rest left without the sword in hand. One almost made it to the chamber but I told him he couldn't 'cause the sword is already devoted to the one who is going to wield him in this lifetime, and to have another wielder would mean falsehood. It's like an intended marriage, you see." Skull Kid chuckled. "And you were, in a way, the intended bride who is now his wife... or at least one of them." He added as an after thought.
"And what happened?" I pressed. "Why did this person want the sword?"
"He said he wanted it for his daughter- he said he was sure that she was meant to have it. So I said" The Skull Kid held himself up and took on the air of a person of great authority. "Even if she is, she is far too young. The last wielder was too young and she was sent into a deep sleep until she was old enough. She will be too young too: if she be the one that he wants, come back when she is all grown up, and then he will join her side."
"And what happened to him?" I asked as I felt my heart rate increase. "The father?"
"I don't really know." Skull Kid shrugged as he returned to his normal stance. "He was pretty upset when I left him."
"Thanks anyway." I managed to say, despite how I was hovering between hope and disappointment. "So-"
"Not so fast!" Skull Kid wagged a finger at me. "He asked me what would become of the one who would inherit the Blade of Evil's Bane, and when her destiny would end. And since it is you who are the holder of the blade, I shall tell you the prophesy I gave him: on the day her destiny is fulfilled, the hero who wears the wolf's hide at will, and carries the sacred sword will stand before all three kings of light, dark, and the in between."
I raised an eyebrow at this, but I felt that it was best to think on it another time. "So, the real reason I am here is because I suspect that there is a mirror shard imbued with dark power in this grove." I began again.
The Skull Kid hummed in thought. "A reflection with dark power... that which should reflect truth, only brings out the worst in someone. I don't think that which you seek is here, but the question is when it came here."
I was puzzled by this but before I could ask, the Skull Kid asked me. "Where is your companion? Is he hiding somewhere in the shadows?"
"Uhm... he's pre occupied at the moment."
Skull Kid then pouted. "Aw- but I like playing with ol' Lizard Face! He's very persistent, but it's pretty funny when he throws a tantrum, like a little whiny brat! And he's voice is really funny when it raises in pitch, and starts yelling-"
"THAT'S IT!" Zant shot up from my shadows and had his scimitars in hand. "I'M GOING TO DISMEMBER YOU, YOU LITTLE INGRATE!"
"I KNEW IT!" Skull Kid let out a laugh and dashed into the grove, followed by an enraged Zant.
"Not again," I groaned as I ran a hand over my face, before I chased after them.
"Another game of tag!" Skull Kid cheered somewhere in the woods. "Let's see how long it takes, until one of you gets me!"
"YOU BETTER HOPE LADY WOLF FINDS YOU FIRST, OR SO HELP ME, I'LL UNLEASH MY WRATH UPON YOU!"
At least Zant had friends besides me in this realm.
Anyway, I had to act fast, so Zant wouldn't kill Skull Kid. This time, the child took to the trees and I was forced to shoot my arrows at him as he sent marionettes at me. And every time I almost hit him, he ran off and the process would restart as I ran through the grove.
By the time I entered a familiar ring of pillars and rocks, Skull Kid was mad at me.
"WHY ARE YOU SHOOTING AT ME?!" He yelled. "I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS!"
"Because my companion will kill you if you don't settle down." I calmly told him. "And you owe him an apology."
"KEAYH!" And as if on cue, I saw Zant fall- belly-flop style- onto Skull Kid.
"FINALLY!" Zant triumphantly cried out as he raised his arms to the sky and had his prey under him. "I HAVE THE LITTLE BEAST IN MY CLUTCHES!"
"More like under your stomach." Skull Kid groaned out in pain.
"Zant, please don't kill Skull Kid." I asked. "We need to know where the shard is."
"...Fine." Zant let out a sound of annoyance, grabbed a hold of the Skull Kid, and stood up, with the later dangling from the back of his shirt, which Zant held onto at an arms length.
"...I sense something about you." Skull Kid told Zant with slight curiosity. "You may be the Hero's shadow, but I sense a shadow hiding in your shadow."
"What are you talking about?" Zant hissed impatiently.
"Who," The Skull Kid pipped up and held up a finger. "Is that which is whole, yet scattered across the lands? Why is that one so close, yet so far? I heard that I would meet one who will carry two crowns, but how can one wear two crowns, if they only have one head?"
"What did you mean by when?" I interrupted the Skull Kid.
"Well..." Skull Kid sang. "It is here, but it's also far. It is where a legend was born, but a disaster was created. It is where one hand held the sacred blade, and where another hand held it once more."
"What do you mean?" I asked, but the Skull Kid swung into the air, as if on a swing, and vanished.
"What the-" Zant looked at his hand in shock, just as Skull Kid's voice echoed out.
"I'll let you into another part of the secret area." He promised. "We should play again sometime, Miss Hero and Lizard Face!"
"ONE OF THESE DAYS!" Zant swore. "I'M GOING TO GET BACK AT YOU, YOU SLIVER OF A BRAT! YOU WON'T SEE IT COMING!"
"I'd love to see you try!" Skull Kid sang out. "Oh, and by the way- Miss Hero, you need to put the sword in it's pedestal, in order to reveal the door. Don't worry- you will still be able to pull him out!"
Zant let out a noise of frustration and threw his arms up into the air as a passage in the stone wall revealed itself.
-later-
"It's the same place again." Zant shook his head as we entered the upper part of the place where I found the Master Sword. "I knew that little-"
"Maybe there was a reason?" I asked as I noticed a statue in front of an old set of double doors. I recalled the Skull Kid's words and made my way to the pedestal, where I fulfilled his commands.
"And now to see if it worked." I ran out- only to see the shadow beasts come from the sky.
"Nope- you stay right there!" Zant snarled at me as he took his scimitars out. "If you aren't going to let me kill that brat, then you are not going to deny me the chance to take my aggression out!"
Almost a minute later, the beasts were gone, after a violent frenzy that was too graphic to describe, and Zant was laughing so hard that he fell to his knees and I thought he was going to pass out. It took a few minutes before he could finally recover from his 'fun time.'
"That felt good!" He giddily leapt back up onto his feet. "Let's go find that temple!" He happily spoke.
Wordlessly, I went on ahead, and he followed me to the double doors that the statue blocked. I could see the familiar loftwing insignia on them, but as I got closer, the doors opened on their own.
"What on earth-" The gate that had opened revealed some sort of distorted image of black and white.
"Perhaps it's a portal." Zant nonchalantly stepped through it (as if he wasn't in a bloodlust frenzy, just seconds ago) and then vanished.
"...Ok." I shrugged and stepped through.
-left, b, down...wait, is that how it went on the N64 version?-
I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing. "Is... is this-?"
The sacred grove was once something else, but I never imagined it to be a temple. A beautiful temple, with stained glass windows that filled it with radiant beams of sunlight.
"Remarkable." Even Zant was impressed as I stepped forward. "We appear to have gone back in time. What is this place?"
"...I think... I think this is supposed to be the Temple of Time." I couldn't believe this, and I thought about it was we walked down the steps. "But that can't be. The Temple of Time was located near Hyrule Castle, and the Grove is near where the Kokiri Woods are. This should be the Forest Temple, but it's not."
We continued walking through the temple and took in it's overwhelming, powerful beauty. "Unless they built a new one and moved the Master Sword..." I felt a strange sense of deja vu, like I had been here before.
We entered the second room (the original holding place of the MasterSword) which had the loveliest stained glass windows I had ever seen as we approached the pedestal of time.
"There's no Master Sword." Zant noticed.
"Maybe they were going to move it here to the pedestal of time?" I wondered. "That is, if-"
"Pedestal of time?" Zant raised an eyebrow at this.
"According to legend, the pedestal of time was a pedestal for the Master Sword, which dated as far back as the era of the Sky." I began. "The Master Sword and the pedestal both guard the entrance to the sacred realm, and only the Hero of Time was able to open it."
"And what happens if you return it to the pedestal now?"
I took the sword out and looked at it. "I don't know... I shouldn't have anything to worry about." And so, I went ahead and plunged it into the pedestal.
When I did this, a column of light rose from the pedestal and covered the Master Sword. The, right before me, a staircase was formed, which lead all the way up to the stained glass window that I was facing.
"A secret passage?" I wondered as I pulled the sword out. "That's never been men-"
I heard a strange clicking noise and a strange bird like creature ran up the staircase at a fast paced speed, along with a small flying thing by it's side.
"What was that?" Zant asked, as the stained glass faded to reveal a door in a passageway.
"I think I've seen that creature before." I thought about that, but I gave up when I wasn't coming up with anything. "Oh well- I guess we should find the shard."
And so, I went up the steps, and entered the Temple's secret.
I have to admit, I was surprised that this part had somehow escaped from history. The main room that I first entered into was rather lovely, but Zant noticed something.
"I see that we are one statue short."
"What do you mean?"
"In the grove and in the temple entry, there was always a matching set of statues, but this one is missing it's twin." He pointed to a lone statue resting near a door.
"I'll keep that in mind." I decided. "In case I need to find it."
"You!" A new voice cried out.
We both turned to see the bird creature and it's companion.
Suddenly, I remembered. "Wait, I know you! You were in the Forest Temple! Uh... your name was..."
"Oocccoo." She chirped. "Oh, and this is my son, Oocccoo junior." She turned to the floating... head with wings on each side.
"Hello!" He happily greeted.
"...Hi?" I waved and tried to be polite. "I'm Zelda."
"What are you doing here?" Zant asked Occoo without even batting an eye.
"The ancient technology of our people sleeps in this place." Oocccoo became excited. "We've searched all over... and now we're so close, I can SMELL it! Once we find that thing, we can go home at last! Oh, gracious yes!"
"Erm, young lady!" She addressed me. "We're so close... so PLEASE help us find what we're looking for!"
"As long as it's not the Mirror shard." Zant muttered to himself. "We can't have another fiasco, like last time."
"You can join us, if you would like." I offered. "But there may be monsters and-"
"Oh pish posh! I've seen you in action!" Ooccoo tossed her head. "Just put us somewhere safe, and I'll give you a call, if I see it!"
And so, I was left with Oocccoo ridding in a pouch, with her son flying over my head.
As we searched the temple- more like tower- I asked Occcoo a question.
"You called me 'Hero of Skyloft' when we last met. Why was that?"
"You look kinda like the girl on the tapestry at our home!" Jr. told me. "And we thought that, since you look like her, you can help us."
"So we've been searching for a way home, and ran into you!" Ooccoo added. "Destiny has brought you to us, my dear!"
As we continued on our journey, I noticed how advanced the technology was in this place, and all of the statues that frequently appeared. Eventually, I reached the top of the temple... where a certain foe awaited me.
"Here we go again." I pulled the Master Sword and my shield out as I spotted the darknut. "Zant, take care of Ooccoo and her son for me."
"Hey!" Ooccoo protested as I picked her up and passed her to Zant, while Jr. floated over his head.
The resulting fight was rather tough, but it was a good one, since I was able to engage in a real one on one duel. It required some effort, but I had eager support from the sidelines.
"Make that brute fall to his knees!" Ooccoo cheered.
"Beat him, pretty lady!" Jr. copied the enthusiasm.
Upon it's defeat, I opened up the chest that had been blocked from me, to reveal a strange looking rod.
"That's it!" Oocccoo cheered. "That's what we've been looking for!"
"What is it?" I asked as I examined the strange device, that had a glowing orb of light hovering on the top part.
"It's the dominion rod! It can make any statue come to life, and it will follow and copy your every move! That's what will help us get back home!"
"As much as we were of help to you, madam, I am afraid we may still have need of it." Zant interrupted. "We need to borrow it for a little longer, to find something of value. Remember that statue?" He asked me.
"You mean this one?!" Jr. floated around a statue that was above us and looked identical to the one on the first floor.
"...Yes."
"Well, let's give it a shot." I swung the rod out, which sent the green light into the statue. It's markings turned green and, when I moved forward, it also moved forward.
"Hmm." I ran backwards, and it matched my speed, before falling to our level. "Perfect!"
And so, the five (including the statue) of us made our slow, careful descent back down. Along the way, I recalled something Zant had mentioned yesterday.
"So, you told me you had cousins." I began as Jr. started singing a song to himself. "I'd like to hear more, if you don't mind."
"It's rather simple." Zant began. "There's so many people in my realm that I can't stand, and yet those two are among the few that I dearly cherish, and I can stay somewhat sane around them. They certainly tolerate my 'fits' if you know what I mean.
I taught them some of my knowledge of magic, but they can take care of themselves on their own. In fact, I was saving the insects for one of them, but I don't think they would like being in the twilight realm that much."
"That's too bad for him."
"Actually it's a girl- both of them. Ariadne has the passion of insects, but Daphne is more fond of snakes."
"Well, I can't wait to meet them." I smiled. "Once we gather all the shards, I bet they'll be glad to see you again."
Finally, we reached the bottom, where the statue was placed on the other side of the door, alongside it's twin. The gate opened, and we were granted access to a new part of the temple.
"Give us a few more minutes and we'll give you the Dominion Rod." I promised Ooccoo as I headed to the doors."
"Of course dear, but please do hurry."
Once I made my way, I reached the final room. It was rather large, with huge statues with fists raised high in the air, an beams of light coming down from the ceiling.
"What kind of room is this?" I wondered, but I was also getting a bad feeling. "Zant, there's no way you could possibly hide them in the shadows, can you?"
"Unfortunately no. Unless they want me to take them where I placed all of your belongings."
"Good gracious! I am not a belonging!" Ooccoo snapped.
"Fine," I held my hands in protest as I walked towards the statue. "But I'm getting the sense that you should-"
The light that came down in front of the statue went out.
"-Hide." I looked up, just as it reappeared. "What the-?" I turned around.
On the ceiling was the largest spider I had ever seen in all of my life. It looked as big as a house and it had a grotesque eyeball at the center of it's back.
"Oh no." I backed away as I felt Jr. dart into the pouch, along with his mother.
"It's the Armoghoma!" Ooccoo shrieked. "Nasty beast!"
"With an obvious weakness." I heard Zant sigh in annoyance as the thing crawled on the ceiling.
"Figured as much!" I pulled the bow out. "Time to exterminate!"
It was surprisingly easy. I just had to wait for the eye to open up when it was over the lights and when it fell, I made the statues crush it with my dominion rod. (The room had dead giveaways as to what I could do.) Of course, the Armoghoma also shot out lazers from it's eye and had the funny idea of birthing out new baby hatchlings from above to distract me.
"Don't kill the babies!" Ooccoo and Jr. protested, but I had to do it. Even if the thought was disturbing.
Finally, I managed to land the final blow on the beast with the help of the rod and a large statue and it bursted into smoke.
"Finally!" I cheered as I put the Master Sword away and the smoke cleared. "Only one more to-" Something made me stop when the smoke cleared.
The eyeball was surrounding by eggs... and it turned to reveal that it was a spider the whole time, just as the baby spiders hatched. And once it laid eyes on me, it ran away, followed by the babies.
...
...Uh.
...What?
"...This is...new." I really didn't know how to react. In some ways, it felt like I was punched in the face, and in other ways, I felt as if someone decided to have a laugh and pull a prank on me. "Uh... so it was a smaller spider controlling a bigger spider the whole time?"
"I personally find this to be quite hilarious." Zant came out and stood next to me. "Do you want to see how long we can let it live, before killing it?"
I watched as it ran around, with nowhere to go. "Uh..."
-one minute later-
"YAGH! WHOO!" Zant spun after the spiders and they ran to one side.
They ran the other way when Zant started swinging his scimitars at it. "There's no running from me!" He warned them.
-one minute later-
"WHEEE!" Jr. cheered as he bounced on the big spider's eye part. "This is fun!"
"JR!" Ooccoo freaked out as she ran after it. "Get off that thing, right this instant!"
-one minute later-
I practiced some fighting moves with the Master Sword as they ran around me in circles.
-one minute later-
"Die, die die!" Zant happily cheered as he shot strange purple balls of energy from his hands at the spiders.
-one minute later-
"JR. WHAT DID I TELL YOU?!" Ooccoo screamed as Jr. still happily bounced on the monster's eye. "GET OFF THE GIGANTIC EYEBALL!"
-one minute later-
"Boom." I spoke in a monotonous voice as I casually threw a bomb at the spiders and they ran as fast as they could from it.
-one minute later-
Zant hopped after the spiders like a maniac.
-one minute later-
"Children, I tell you!" Ooccoo huffed as she stood next to the eye ball spider, who actually stayed stationary, while Jr. happily flew over the baby spiders. "We try to be good parents and look out for them, and yet they insist on doing things that could ruin their developing minds."
The big spider nodded in agreement.
-one minute later-
"LEXI FOR THE WIN!" The Gale Boomerang spun after the spiders as it's spirit let out a happy cheer.
-one mi- is this even canon?-
I shot an arrow at the spider and it died in a puff of smoke, along with it's children.
"Now you can say one more to go." Zant calmed down as he grabbed the mirror shard that was left behind.
-the temple of time entrance-
"You know," Zant began as we returned to the doors to our time. "We could be assembling something dangerous, seeing as what it has done to those who possess it. We might even have to destroy it."
"Hopefully we wont." I thought. "You wouldn't be able to return home. I don't think that would be fair."
Zant went back through the portal and into the present, and Ooccoo and Jr. followed suit, but I hesitated. I glanced around the Temple of Time one last time.
"One day, there's going to be a child who will come here." I thought out loud. "That child will be sealed away for seven years, before she can become a hero."
"I wish that I could have met her. It's because of her that we had an era of peace, and now I'm carrying on her legacy. It's a shame we never reached that point in time... and yet-" I laughed. "I can't believe I'm talking to myself."
I then heard a noise echo through the temple. I could have been imagining it all, but it sounded like an ocarina, playing a haunting tune.
There was no point in lingering in the past for too long. So I walked through the portal- leaving a gone, but never forgotten place behind me- and back into my time.
-present-
"Well done adventurer!" Ooccoo happily congratulated me as her son flew by her side.
"And now, we can go back home!"
"Here." I pulled the Dominion Rod out, but then I noticed that it didn't seem as alive as it used to be. "Uh..."
"Oh dear." Occoo sighed. "It has been around for quite some time. I can see that it's magic has been exhausted. Ooh, what am I to do." She fretted. "I thought I could return to the sky... And I have completely forgotten the spell that would once again bestow it with magic."
She shook her head. "It can't be helped. I suppose I'll just have to look for the statues that respond to the rod." She nodded her head. "It's decided! That's what we'll do! That's what we'll do, indeed!" She then turned around. "Well, Ooccoo is on her way! See you again!"
"Bye pretty lady!" Jr. called out as he and his mother flew up into the sky. "Bye pretty lady's friend!"
We stood there in silence.
"...Well, now what?" I wondered. "We need to go to the sky too, but..." I glanced up into the heavens before I glanced back down at the dominion rod. "I should have asked Ooccoo if I could joined her in her search."
...Stupid Temple of Time and it's inability to be the exact one. Stupid history of Hyrule. Stupid... blegh.
I don't have much to comment on... I almost replaced that 'one minute later' gag with something else that made more sense.
And I have no clue what politics are like in the Twilight Realm. Other than what was presented and hinted at in the game.
Oh, by the way, if anyone wants to see some sketches from this fanfic, check out my DeviantART account: Tornrose24 (my other username). It should be under the title Twilight Twists Sketches.
...Although Lexi wants to say that she isn't happy with my interpretation of her, and thinks it's too plain.
Next time we... Oh. No.
Someone please give me strength. I'm going to have to split the next part into two chapters and it's the part of the game that really annoys me. I will do my best with what I have, but... it's going to take me ages to get it done.
