Hello everybody, and once again, welcome back to THOR!
So I got Tales of Zestiria this week-end, it's pretty fun so far, and I also just learned that the next tales of games, Tales of Berseria, is a distant prequel to Zestiria, pretty cool.
Back on track, we are now officially in the Ocarina of Time arc of the story, and as you can guess from the title, we're starting with the Spirit Temple.
Now I don't know yet how long each temple will last, as in, will each one be one single chapter, or will I split them in half, that's something I'll honestly figure out as I write each one
Anyway
Let's this show on the road!
''Hey Gyro?'' Ruby asked Gyro a few minutes after they had stepped off the bullhead, the two were currently at the edge of the desert of Vacuo.
''Yeah Rubes?'' Gyro turned his head to her, wondering what she was going to ask.
''Why did you, Blake and Weiss say that you'll tell me when I'm older when I asked what that sock meant the other day?'' she asked innocently.
Gyro inwardly cringed, he really did not want to explain that to her.
This is all Yang and Pierce's fault.
Weiss, Blake, Gyro and Ruby where heading back to their dorm after their last class of the semester, with Ruby hanging onto Gyro's back in a piggyback ride like she has taken to doing since the first few weeks of school.
Yang wasn't with them in the class has her last class was earlier in the day, thus she had stayed in the dorm.
Apparently that last class was shared with team JNPPR, so their sister team had ended their semester a few hours ago as well.
Gyro suddenly stopped a few feet in front of the door to their dorm, making Weiss walk into Ruby's back and Blake turn her head to look at one of her two partners with a raised eyebrow, seeing that his jaw had dropped and both his eyerbows were raised, as he pointed to the door, more specifically, the door knob.
Blake looked at the door knob like he did, and her own eyes widenned in surprise, as well as her cheeks reddening slightly, as she muttered under her breath ''You've got to be kidding me.''
When Ruby and Weiss both looked at the door knob, all they did was both raise an eyebrow in confusion.
What was so shocking about a sock on the door knob?
''What's wrong? What are you two so shocked about?'' Weiss asked the only two who understood the meaning of the sock.
Blake looked at her and motionned her to come closer, where she promptly whispered the meaning of the sock to Weiss, whose face turned red from realizing what this meant, before she started muttering about indecency and about having a stern talking to Yang and Pierce about these kinds of things.
Gyro was inwardly glad that his brother had the decency to put up a sound barrier, because he did not need to hear Yang's moans right now, and he also did not want Ruby to lose her childlike innocence too quickly.
''What? What's up with the sock?'' Ruby asked her teammates, making all three look to each other and nod before replying at the same time.
''We'll tell you when you're older.''
They then decided they might as well hang out with the other members of team JNPPR, since their own dorm room was not someplace they wanted to be right now, especially with Yang and Pierce in there and having 'fun'.
''Because it's something for adults.'' Gyro told her which made her pout adorably.
''But none of you guys are 18, you're all 17 and you know what it means, so why can't I?'' she asked him again.
''Because we want you to stay innocent for as long as possible.'' he told her simply, which only confused her.
''What?'' she said.
''Look Rubes, if you promise to stop asking about it, I'll bake you as many cookies as you want when we get back to Beacon.'' he told her with his hands together in a pleading manner.
She smiled widely at this ''Can I have strawberry sundaes with that?'' she asked, to which Gyro nodded and she hugged him tightly ''Deal!''
Gyro chuckled and patted her head ''Come on, let's go to the temple and clear it out.''
She nodded, and followed him into the desert.
Where did this sandstorm come from?
This is what Ruby was asking herself as her and Gyro had suddenly been caught in the middle of a sandstorm that just started out of nowhere.
Thankfully Gyro had some goggles and a few mufflers in case this happened, so she was now wearing a pair of red goggles with a red muffler around the bottom half of her face with her hood up and held in place by the muffler.
Gyro had foregone his cap and used his scarf as a muffler and was wearing a pair of purple goggles with red tintend lenses.
What Ruby didn't know was that these were the lens of truth, an artefact that allowed a person with magic to see things that are invisible to the naked eye.
Gyro was wearing them as he knew they wouldn't be able to get out of the sandstorm without them.
This meant that sadly, Weiss and Blake were going to have to experience the Shadow Temple nearly blind because of all the illusions within.
As they walked within the sandstorm, with Ruby holding onto Gyro so they wouldn't be seperated, they saw posts with red flags on them, flapping in the raging winds.
Gyro nodded to himself, realising that the posts indicated the path to follow, and had Ruby follow him closely as they took the path laid out by the posts.
After a few hours of walking and following those posts, the two came upon a small set of ruins that led underground.
They decided that this place would be good for a rest, and set about unpacking a few things for a lunch break.
It was then that Gyro looked at his watch and his eyes widenned.
''Hey Rubes? I think we're actually gonna be sleeping here.'' Gyro told her.
She turned to look at him ''Why's that?''
''It's actually pretty late right now, 8:00 PM, and the desert is no place to travel at night, especially in the middle of a sandstorm.'' he explained to her and she nodded in understanding.
''Do we have anything to sleep in though? I didn't bring a tent.'' she said sheepishly, she honestly didn't expect this mission to last more than a day from how simple it seemed.
Gyro scratched his cheek ''Well, I brought one thankfully, but...'' he snapped his fingers and a small sized tent appeared ''We're gonna be a little cramped in there.'' he finished with a bit of a blush.
Ruby's face also turned slightly red, as this meant she would be sharing a bed with a Gyro for the night ''W-Well, it's not that much of a p-problem, I don't r-really mind.''
Gyro swallowed a lump in his throat and nodded, still a little red in the face.
The two teens were now liyng down, back to back in the tent, both equally red-faced from how close they currently were, and rather incapable pf sleep.
'C'mon Ruby get it together! You're just sleeping next to him, it's not the end of the world!' Ruby thought to herself.
'Dammit man just calm down! Sure you're completely in love with her but you need to stay calm!' Gyro also thought to himself.
It was a few minutes later that Ruby suddenly took in a large breath before exhaling slowly 'I need to do this now, this is honestly the best time for it.'
''Hey Gyro?'' she said softly, catching the boy's attention as he was brought out of his thoughts.
''Y-Yeah Rubes?'' he said and turned around a little bit.
Ruby turned around completely, facing his back and seeing his eye peeking over his shoulder ''There's something important that I need to tell you.'' she said with a light dusting of pink on her cheeks.
Gyro heard the tone of seriousnes in Ruby's voice and turned around completely, facing her fully ''What is it?''
Ruby took in another breath as her cheeks reddened a little more ''Gyro, for a while now, I've been feeling something about you.''
Gyro's face started turning red, was Ruby saying what he thought she was saying?
''It kinda started on the day I met you, and at the time, I didn't really get it, but then I talked to Yang about it, and she helped me understand what it was.'' she said with a bit of a smile as she remembered her conversation with Yang.
Gyro's heart was practically beating out of his chest ''A-And w-what was it?''
She looked at him straight in the eyes with a beautiful smile ''I love you Gyro.''
Gyro's world just seemed to stop around him when she said those words.
Ruby loved him?
SHE loved HIM?
He didn't realise that his eyes were watering a bit as he finally started to speak ''Y-You really do?'' he said quietly.
She nodded to him and shuffled a little closer.
He couldn't stop a large smile from appearing on his face or his tears from falling from his eyes as he grabbed her and pulled her into a tight hug.
Ruby was a bit surprised by the sudden hug but not against it, though she didn't understand why Gyro was crying ''Gyro?'' she said his name worriedly.
''Thank you, thank you so much Ruby, hearing you say that, it really makes me happy.'' he said as he cried tears of pure joy.
The one he loved, loved him as well.
Call him a crybaby but he was just so happy about that.
She smiled and blushed a little ''Does that mean that you...?'' she trailed off a bit.
He nodded and smiled down at her ''I love you too Ruby.''
Her blush deepened a little as he said that ''So then, that means we're boyfriend and girlfriend now, right?''
He nodded again and rested his forehead against hers ''We are.''
Her blush was still present on her face as she continued ''Then can we... k-kiss?'' she asked shyly.
Gyro's blush returned again as he nodded.
The two closed their eyes.
And kissed.
Albeit a bit clumsily, it was their first kiss for both of them after all.
Ruby giggled ''We're gonna need practice.''
Gyro smiled slyly ''Well, we have plenty of time right now.'' he finished with a chuckle as Ruby giggled along.
So the two kissed a few more times before they were finally able to go to sleep comfortably in the arms of one another.
Morning finally came as Gyro woke up with the sunrise.
He was greeted by the sounds of Ruby's cute snores as she mumbled in her sleep ''More... cookies... Gyro...''
He chuckled as he listend to his girlfriend's cute mumbles.
It was still a bit hard to believe that Ruby had really become his girlfriend last night, but he just had to remember that her lips tasted like strawberries to know it really happened.
He poked her nose playfully ''Hey Rubes, wakes up.''
She only mumbled more and wiggled her nose.
Gyro then decided he wanted to see if he could wake her up without talking about cookies or strawberries, so he started to tickle her nose lightly.
She wiggled it again and swatted his hand away.
''Wake up little rose.'' he said softly into her ear, making her smile at the nickname even if she was asleep, as her mind drifted to thoughts about her mother, who would call her by that same nickname when she was little.
He sighed a bit, seems he needs to use the usual method.
''Strawberries'' he whispered.
Her eyes openned and she tried to shoot upright but Gyro was hugging her so she just jerked around in his arms a bit, confusing her ''Huh?! Wha-'' her eyes then noticed Gyro and how close he was, and she remembered everything from last night, making her blush and hide her face in the crook of his neck with a ''Meep!'' eliciting a small laugh from her boyfriend at how adorable she was.
After they had taken care of breakfast the young couple was now standing on top of the small ruins, overlooking the desert that was still stuck in a sandstorm.
Ruby was trying to see anymore of the posts that they had used yesterday.
Gyro on the other hand, was staring right at the face of a ghost.
No seriously it was a ghost, a Big Poe to be precise, a type of ghost that was the enemy of his predecessors.
''So, you two need a guide to the Desert Colossus then?'' the Pig Poe asked Gyro, making the young man sigh and give him a discreet thumbs up.
''Come on Ruby, I can see the path we need to take, just hold my hand.'' he told his girlfriend, making her look at him and nod as she grabbed his hand and followed him, while he followed the Big Poe.
After about half an hour, the two finally exited the sandstorm, and came upon the desert colossus, with the Big Poe staying behind in the desert for any other travellers.
The place carried it's name well, as it was HUGE, probably as tall as Beacon Academy.
''Wow!'' said Ruby in awe as she removed her goggles and muffler, with Gyro doing the same as he put his cap back on, and readjusted his scarf.
''Tell me about it, this place is seriously impressive.'' Gyro responded as he walked towards the entrance, with Ruby following behind.
Soon enough the two had entered inside and where now within the Spirit Temple.
They walked up the steps and Gyro was about to step off to the right, to go into what was originally the adult Link section of the temple, until he looked to the left, and wondered what they would find in the child Link section, if he could even find a way to get past that small cap on the hole that only a child could pass through.
After a few seconds he summoned up the pwer gloves and walked towards to small hole that was right on the floor... before punching the wall it was a part of and shattering it.
Easy access into the child section of the temple.
Ruby was just confused as to why he punched the wall until it crumbled and she saw another room behind it, making her understand why exactly he did it.
She followed him into the room and saw some strange spiked... things move around on the floor.
They weren't attacking her so she did just as Gyro did and simply ignored it, before following him into the next room, where a skeleton with a sword and shield dropped down from the ceiling and a skull with wings surrounded in green fire came up from a small chasm in the middle of the room.
What kind of place is this temple?!
And now they were fighting a grimm lizard that had a dagger instead of a right hand, which Gyro called a Lizalfos, and their were also small spider grimms that Gyro called Skulltulas, probably because the bone plating on their backs looked like a human skull.
They quickly got rid of all the enemies and Ruby looked around for a way to open the door, it always seemed to be different from one room to the next.
Gyro simply took out a bomb from... somewhere and chucked it a broken section of the wall, cracking it open and letting some sunlight through, which then shined on a small sun pattern on the floor and for some reason THAT unlocked the door.
Gyro, seeing the confusion on his girlfriend's face, just kissed her forehead ''Just roll with it, it's simpler that way, trust me.'' he said, to which she sighed and nodded, it's best she justs stops questionning the crazy temple.
She followed Gyro into the next room and helped him push a statue over the ledge, which then fell on a switch and unlocked a door somewhere in the room.
She then took the time to look around the room as they were climbing the stairs to the next floor and saw a giant statue of a woman with a large ruby embedded in it's chest.
She had to wonder who had the time to build this place, especially in the middle of a desert and by carving it out of a large rock.
The two of them had just entered a room with a few pillars surrounding a red carpet which led up to a door, and in front of that door was a suit of armor sitting on a throne with an axe on it's lap.
Gyro had actually drawn his sword and shield, so she decided she might as well follow his example and drew out Crescent Rose before unfolding it.
''Hey Ruby, shoot the armor.'' Gyro told her, and she decided it was best to not question it, he probably knew what he was doing, so she shot the armor with her weapon and it suddenly stood up.
''That things's an Iron Knuckle, watch out for it's axe, and strike when it's guard is dropped.'' Gyro told her and she nodded, that was good to know.
Her and Gyro then started goading it into attacking them and they would then strike at it after it would miss it's attacks, usually by embedding it's axe into the floor.
Before long they managed to cut off a portion of it's armor and they sped up their attacks when they noticed it would stagger whenever they hit it, and after a few more hits, it fell down and disappeared in a burst of blue flames, with the door in the room unlocking.
''Now then, let's see what our prize is.'' Gyro said and she followed him through the door which led to back outside the temple, except they were standing on one of the hands of the colossus, and a big red treasure chest was in front of them.
''Can I open it?'' Ruby asked Gyro, to which he nodded with a smile as she ran up the treasure chest and lifted up the top with a bit of effort and slowly pulled out a strange crystal that had a miniature sword in it.
''A sealed weapon?'' she heard Gyro say in confusion, before she could ask what he meant though, the crystal cracked open and the mini sword turned into a ball of light before flying around her and then suddenly entering Crescent Rose, making her weapon shine brightly, forcing her to look away from it.
Soon enough, the light died down, allowing her to look at her weapon, except it was... different.
A few portions of it had turned from red to silver, the blade of the scythe seemed to gleam an unnatural light, which unknown to her, actually signified her weapon had been infused with the Light element.
She also noticed that ammo clip currently inserted seemed bigger, and the same was true for the one she in her back pouch.
Finally, the scope on her weapon seemed to have an upgraded zoom when she looked through it, and the image was even clearer at that.
''What just happened to Crescent Rose?'' Ruby asked in wonder.
''It isn't Crescent Rose anymore, it's been upgraded into a new form thanks to the power of the sealed weapon being infused into it, and as such, it needs a new name.'' Gyro told her, making her look at him and then back to her new weapon, taking a few moments to think of a name.
''Waxing Rose.'' she said with a smile.
''Keeping the moon reference huh? I like it, it fits.'' Gyro told her, which she smiled at.
''So, do you think we're done?'' she asked her boyfriend, which he shook his head at.
''Nope, we still have a whole other section of the temple to explore.'' He said, before picking her up bridal style while she folded Waxing Rose back, making her let out a ''Meep!'' of surprise before he JUMPED down the hand they were standing on, and landed right on his feet in front of the temple entrance.
Ruby was a bit shaken at what he had just done, before she bonked him on top of the head ''Warn me the next time you're going to do that!'' she scolded him a bit, to which he chuckled sheepishly.
''Sorry about that Rubes, I promise I'll warn you next time.'' he said and kissed her, which calmed her down enough and she nodded, before hopping out of his arms and heading back inside the temple with him.
''So, how do we get to the other half?'' she asked him, at which he simply pointed to a large block before equipping the power gloves again and started pushing it with relative ease, until it seemed to fall into a whole in the ground and opened up the path for them.
Guess it's time for more weird stuff.
Ruby was still following Gyro as he was pushing another large block, this time they had gone through a door in the room with the giant statue, and she had seen a lot of weird puzzles, like fror example, Gyro had to stand on a depiction of the triforce and played what was apparently a lullaby on his ocarina, which then made a small treasure chest appear out of nowhere.
They'd also fought a lone Beowolf in another room earlier.
When Gyro was done pushing that block, they found another and he got to pushing that one enxt, until they came upon a rusty switch, like the one they saw in the room with the giant statue, which Gyro then hammered in with his Megaton Hammer, which in turn made a small platform move down into the floor like an elevator, and Ruby saw it lead back to the entrance.
''Well, at least we'll have a shortcut on our way back out.'' Gyro said, to which she shrugged at, might as well honestly.
The two entered a room similar to the one where they fought the Iron Knuckle earlier, and they actually found another Iron Knuckle, sitting on a throne again.
So they simply repeated the same strategy they used last time, goading it into attacking them and the striking at it until soon enough, it fell and burst into flames.
''Was that even a grimm?'' Ruby questionned.
''No, it was an animated piece of armor, animated using magic, and I can tell it was made ratcher recently, within the last few months at the very least, this is rather concerning.'' Gyro said and rubbed his chin in thought.
Ruby was as confused as he was, she was sure that only Gyro and Pierce could use magic, and it looked like another person was using magic to create monsters, wierd.
They didn't think too much about it for now and walked through the door which led them to the other hand of the colossus, with Gyro walking up to a big wooden chest, opening it, and pulling out what looked like a mirror with a red frame, except it had handles on the back of it.
''The Mirror Shield, well, this could definetly come in handy.'' Gyro said as he switched out his Hylian Shield for what was apparently a Mirror Shield.
''Are we gonna jump again?'' she asked him in advance just to be safe, to which he shook his head, making her sigh in relief, and follow him back through the door.
They were now standing on front of a door with large blue and gold lock on it, with Gyro pulling the golden key with a red skull they had found earlier by solving some puzzles out of his pockets, and inserting it into the lock, making it fall off and open up the door.
Inside the room, they were greeted with yet another Iron Knuckle, except this one had golden armor instead of the usual silver.
The same strategy they used on the previous two worked nonetheless though, it just took a few more hits to kill it.
The two then walked into the next room where they saw an elevated platform, quickly climbing onto it, where they saw something very strange.
Two grimm with short bodies that were hovering on the floor, one had a red mask and bone plates and the other had pale blue ones instead.
The two grimm then floated up into the air and started circling them.
''The grimm sorcerers, Twinrova.'' she heard Gyro say, and she figured that was the name he had decided to call these grimm, and for some reason she thought it fit a bit.
''If I'm right then these things should have control over an element each, the red one probably fire, and the other most likely ice, so let's trick them into hitting each other with their attacks.'' he said, which she nodded at, his plan made sense, if they were fire and ice then they just had to make sure they hit each other and they would win.
So they put that plan into action, goading the grimm into attacking them and redirecting their attacks to the other grimm, or sometimes dodging while they were in front of one of them.
Until the grimm, while they were on their last legs did something unexpected.
They merged together.
They became a much large grimm, with it's right half covered in red bones while it's left was covered in pale blue bones.
It then started shooting small balls of elemental energy at the two of them, forcing them to dodge, after a bit of time, Gyro seemd to get an idea and brought up his mirror shield, which insted of reflecting the attack, absorbed it.
''Ruby! I'm going to try something, when it falls down you go attack it!'' he shouted to her, before the grimm continued shooting orbs of energy, with Gyro avoiding the balls that weren't of the same element he'd absorbed, unil his sield let out a large elemental beam which hit the grimm and stunned it.
Ruby took her chance and rushed in, hitting the grimm quickly with a few attacks before using the now stronger recoil of Waxing Rose to cleave it's head off, killing it.
As it's body disintergrated, Ruby pumped her fist ''Yeah! We did it!''
''Way to go Ruby.'' Gyro said to her, which made her turn around to him and jump into his arms, kissing him.
He chuckled when they broke the kiss ''Come on, let's get back to Beacon, we're done with the temple.''
She nodded and followed him back out to the temple.
She wondered how the others were doing?
Ta-da!
First temple, cleared!
And what's more, Ruby and Gyro are finally a couple.
I wanted to make the scene as cute and adorable as possible, thus why I made it like it that.
To me, Ruby finally getting a boyfriend, it would play out something like that.
So, now two of my ships for the story are sailing, they're still a few more to go though.
You already know arkos is one of those ships, but try and guess the others.
Also, yes, Ruby got an upgrade for Crescent Rose, just like how characters get upgrades for their weapons in Hyrule Warriors.
Yes the other 7 will get upgrades as well.
And they will all eventually get a second upgrade for their weapon.
Anyway.
Read, Review, Don't be a dick, and have a nice day everyone!
See ya next time!