Chapter 12
/Really it's not TOO bad/ Vaati said /It's an enemy I'm uncomfortable with you fighting, but it's one that'll be easy to locate/
"Do you have any sentimental attachment to this person?" Link asked.
/No/ Vaati snapped /It just unsettles me to be near someone else who uses… who uses my magic/
"Your-"
/Silence. I'm trying to locate them/ Link felt an odd vibrating feeling in the back of his head. As he reached back to see what might be there a wave of energy shot out in all directions before returning a second later /Got it/ Vaati appeared outside Link's body and pointed toward an unnamed mountain off in the distance /They're that way/
Link nodded and ran enthusiastically in the direction Vaati had pointed at.
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Link groaned and pulled himself up over the bit of cliff he'd slipped on earlier. He looked around and said "For such a steep mountain, it has a fairly flat top"
/If it weren't so inaccessible you could start a town up here/ Vaati observed /It's got everything you'd need. Plants… Water…/ He pointed at a few fruit trees and a small waterfall /This would make a good place to put my next tower once I find a more practical body/
"I'll keep that in mind" Link said
/Doesn't matter. I'll still eliminate you once my life isn't dependent on yours/ Vaati reminded him /Now that girl has to be somewhere/ He looked around. Link looked at him. His hair looked really soft. It was a shame he was just a spirit – if Vaati had his own body he could have teased him about being a villain with such soft hair.
Of course, soft hair was actually better than being a giant flying eyeball. "Hey, Vaati, the way you look now" Link said "Is that how you're supposed to look?" Vaati stared at him blankly for a long while, then shook his head "So that big bat thing was your normal form, and you just took that one while you were dying to mess with me?" Vaati shook his head again "Then what?"
/…/
"Vaati?"
/This is my 'Hylian' form. It's how I appear when trying to look like one of your kind/ Vaati said.
"Hylian? You're not-"
/Up there/ Vaati pointed to another ledge-this one to steep to climb /I can sense the person we're looking for up there/
Link felt wind gathering around him, then was thrown up the ledge "Ow… you could have warned me beforehand…" He grumbled.
Vaati just scoffed and pointed to a temple like structure /What's that for?/
"You don't know?"
/No. It certainly wasn't there a few millennia ago the last time I was free from that stupid seal/ Vaati said /I can tell. There's magic radiating from it. Not just 'that person's magic, but something different. Something… disgustingly pure. On second thought, I have no desire to set up a base here/
"Good. That'll make your next hiding spot easier for me to reach" Link said "So the guy who took the castle is in there?"
/………yeah. Link?/
"What?"
/I used a lot of magic finding the portal where the castle used to be. I barely had enough to lift you up here. I think it'd be best if we waited until I'd recovered. This person… this person is like me. This person in Minish. They have the same magic I do. Without that dumb sword you might have trouble with them. My magic could help/
"You want to help?"
/No. I want to eradicate any &$*#^% Minish who set foot here. I'm so sick of those little joy sacks with their need to make everyone else soooo happy. Besides, if this person is causing trouble, that means they're trying to take my spot as a Minish who's actually EVIL. I'm NOT allowing this person to replace me/
"Minish?" Link asked "So you're not Hylian, you're some race I haven't heard of?"
/Some race I killed a lot of time trying to eradicate/ Vaati responded /The first 'you' I fought was well aware of all of this/
Link sighed. Vaati seemed more interested in complaining than actually giving answers "Fine. I'll wait for your magic to come back, but the second it does we're charging in"
/Fair enough/
