Disclaimer: I do not own the Zelda franchise in any way, shape, or form. Well, I do own a copy of some of the games, but that's about it.
Note: Sorry for not updating in six months. I tend to write best when I get bored, and well, these past months have been anything BUT boring.
The first room of the pyramid looked vastly larger than what the outside could contain. Along the walls were various idols and drawings, a few of them appearing to tell the tale of the first Link's adventure. On either side of the idols were torches, and at the far end of the room there was a larger idol with snakes around her in a spiral formation, reaching through the ceiling so that one could not see their heads.
"So, what's wrong with the island?" Tetra inquired. "I haven't seen any cause for alarm so far."
"There have been reports that a giant monster has been seeing flying out of the top of the pyramid," Gardos replied, "So we're going to the top to find out if it's just a mirage or an actual monster."
"What's she doing here!?!" Ruban demanded. "This pyramid is sacred!!! Allowing an outsider to enter would-"
"Possibly help solve the problem." Gardos added. "This young girl's currently on some quest or another, and from the looks of her, this isn't her first dungeon, so she probably has a few weapons on her that we don't. If that holds to be true, she could probably get us in places that we couldn't get to on our own."
Tetra smirked, earning a glare from Ruban.
"To get to the next floor," Gardos began, looking at Tetra, "we have to climb up the snakes on the idol at the far end of the room. Those snakes were crafted with stairs on them, so it'll be nothing but a simple walk to the next floor."
Tetra nodded and followed the two Gerudo to the idol.
"Miss, you and Ruban will take the snake closest to us. I will take the snake farther from us, mainly because I've never done that before."
They made their way up, Gardos reaching the top much faster than the girls, and within five minutes they were in the next room on the higher floor. It was about half as big as the last room, maybe even smaller, and the décor was much the same. In the middle of the room was a stand that had a miniature idol on it that resembled the idol whose snakes they just climbed, and at the far side of the room, there was a square-shaped hole with a view of the outside.
Ruban walked toward the idol as Tetra inquired, "How do we get to the next floor? I don't see anything that could get us up any farther."
Ruban turned the idol about 90 degrees and the room started to shake a little. Near the window, something shot up from the floor at a 45 degree angle and pierced through the ceiling, which appeared to be another stair snake. The shaking had halted, and Ruban made her way towards it, Tetra following close behind.
"This is and oddly calm place for a dungeon," Tetra commented.
"What makes you say that?" Ruban asked, a hint of annoyance in her voice.
"Well, usually a monster would have popped up by now to try to kill me."
"Well, this is not a dungeon, you little brat! This is our sacred pyramid, built only for praying and right-to-adulthood rituals. How dare you suggest-"
She was cut off by an almost deafening roar. It was closely followed by a booming sound that shook the place a little, and then a silence. This put a questioning look on Tetra's face, and she rushed onwards to the next floor ahead of Ruban, who angrily muttered, "Way to jinx it, you stupid brat!"
The next room was about the same size as the last room, and this time, the stair snake was clearly visible in the middle of the room spiraling around another idol. The décor was again similar to the other rooms, only this time there were red drapes hanging from various points on the walls, each of them baring the same symbol near the bottom. Ruban looked toward the other end of the room and made a slight gasping noise.
"What is it?" Tetra asked.
"There should be another set of stairs on the other side of the room by now. From what I've seen on the map of this place, the room Gardos went to should've been the exact same as the one we were in. He should've been in this room waiting for us to join him by now!"
Tetra gasped slightly and rushed toward the idol in the center of the room, but just as she was one foot from the first step, a set of bars shot up out of the floor, blocking the next set of stairs. Both Tetra and Ruban pulled out their swords as a ball of smoke appeared between them, a familiar cackle coming with it. The smoke cleared, and Vaati was revealed. He had a smirk on his face as he turned to face Tetra, casting a gentle glare at her. She was moving to bring out her bow and arrows to shoot a light arrow at him, but he shot a bolt of magic at her arms, causing her to withdraw them in pain.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," he said.
"And just why the hell not!?!" Tetra demanded.
Vaati chuckled before he replied, "Well, the boss I've planted in this place is a brain-eating worm that existed only before man had discovered magic. It was a fascinating creature that would pop out of the ground and grab a hold of a person's skull, then drill a hole in it so that it could suck the person's brains out. This one's quite a giant. I daresay it was the queen of them all."
"What's your point?!" Tetra further demanded.
"I made it go after that man that was foolish enough to leave your side. Now, since it's under my control, it won't eat his brain unless I tell it to, but I'd say if you had shot me with that light arrow you were thinking of using, I would have lost my concentration enough to loose control of that worm, and seeing as I revived it from being dead, for who knows how many years, it's probably starving. I know that if I were that hungry, I would be eating whatever I find in my mouth the moment I was aware of it."
Both Tetra and Ruban were glaring at him as hard as possible, and he let out a loud laugh. As he continued to laugh, his voice grew more monstrous, and he was slowly morphing into a Parroblin. The only difference about this one is that it was heavily armored to the point where it was difficult to find an opening in the metal. In its hand was what appeared to be a hookshot, and its eyes were glowing fiercely. It squawked a high-pitched squawk at Tetra, then aimed the weapon at her.
As it fired the hook at her, she rolled out of the way to dodge it, and the hook grabbed on to the cage surrounding the stairs and pulled the Armored Parroblin towards it. As it was struggling to get the hook undone, Tetra looked towards Ruban and said,
"We've gotta get the weapon from that thing so we can use it against the worm that got Gardos! Do whatever you can to make it drop the thing, and if it ever charges at you, you get out of the way, got it?"
Ruban was frozen in horror for a moment, replaying what Vaati had last said before he turned into the monster he now was. She then realized that he meant that the worm had gotten Gardos when the pyramid rumbled a few minutes ago, then began to assist Tetra in fighting against the monster. Tetra kept herself in front of it, and Ruban snuck behind it, both waiting for their opportunity to strike. It rose its arm as the two girls circled around it, and Ruban saw her chance. She dashed up to it and struck its hand with her sword, causing it to drop the hookshot and sending the armor around its hand flying. Her sword had then cut into its hand slightly, so it pulled it back to hold it with the other hand, and as it did so, Ruban quickly and swiftly kicked the hookshot towards Tetra.
"What now?" she asked as the pirate took the weapon.
"We take that thing's armor off and kill it!" Tetra replied, aiming the hookshot at her foe.
"Won't that make the worm aware of itself again?"
"No! This creature isn't Vaati!" Tetra fired the hookshot and it grabbed a piece of the creature's armor.
"Vaati?" The hookshot retracted, taking the chunk of armor with it.
"The guy controlling the worm!" The monster charged at Tetra.
"How do you know?" She dodged.
"I don't know how! I just know this isn't him!" She fired the hookshot again.
Ruban paused for a moment, then charged at the creature, shoving her sword into whatever crack in the armor she could find to pry off another chunk. It realized what she was doing and charged at her, but it was stopped by Tetra shooting the hookshot at it again. The two girls alternated getting chunks of the armor off, the Parroblin trying to charge at whoever tried so last, and eventually, the armor was off, revealing this particular monster to be colored black and dark shades of purple. Tetra then pulled out her bow and an arrow and aimed it at the monster. A golden light was gathering at the tip, and once she let go of the arrow, it shot straight at the demon and it shrunk into nothing in a dazzle of glowing light. The cage surrounding the stairs went back into the floor, and the two made their way to the next floor.
This new room was really just a flat square of a floor at the top of the pyramid. There was sand blowing around everywhere, and the girls could just barley make out something flying around in a circular pattern in the distance. It slowly made its way toward them, becoming more and more visible as it drew closer. It was a dark brown color, and it resembled an earthworm with a round ball for a head. It had no eyes, and dangling from its mouth, being held by his head by a couple of pincers protruding from the mouth, was Gardos. He looked as if he were just sleeping as the worm growled at Tetra and Ruban. The blond quickly took out the hookshot and began aiming it at the worm.
"I'm gonna make that thing let go of him," Tetra declared. "You try to catch him so that he doesn't die from the fall, alright?"
Ruban nodded, and Tetra fired the hookshot at it. Just as it looked like it would hook onto the worm's neck, the hook retracted back into the shooting mechanism and Tetra growled slightly. She then took out her ice rod and aimed it at the creature as it weaved back and forth, as if taunting her for missing it with the hookshot. A bright beam shot out of the rod and it hit the worm, making ice form around the segment it hit. Tetra moved the beam around a little once the ice had gotten about a foot thick around the creature and formed a pole that the hookshot could grab onto. She fired the hookshot again and it latched onto the hook, then pulled her up towards it. Once she was at the hook, she grabbed onto the ice and put the hookshot away as she climbed onto the worm. Its skin felt too wet and slimey for her to grab onto, so she took out her fire rod and burned the worm's skin, causing it to scream in pain. The pain was enough to make it throw Gardos towards the pyramid, and Ruban had caught him just before he would have hit the ground.
"You two get out of here!" Tetra yelled as she did her best to hold onto the worm, even though it was doing its best to shake her off. "I'll make sure to kill this thing before it does anything else!"
Ruban glared slightly, but then left for the stairs below. As the worm shook more and more violently, Tetra continued to burn its skin to give herself a good surface to grip and climbed her way to its head. She took the Four Sword out and sliced it off, making the head land on top of the pyramid. The rest of the body shook, and Tetra could feel what was left of it starting to get hot. She quickly jumped towards the pyramid and took her ice rod out, making a slide-like ramp for her to land on so that she wouldn't hurt herself from the fall. She slide and stopped just beside the head as its body exploded, segment by segment until it was gone. The head exploded as well, a heart container and a green jewel replacing it. Tetra took both and made her way back to the village.
She found Ruban hovering over Gardos, who was resting on a bed. Ruban seemed slightly worried, and as she heard Tetra walking in, she muttered, "He won't wake up. We've tried everything we know about waking people up, but he just won't respond..."
Tetra pulled out her bow and aimed an arrow at Gardos, the tip glowing a golden color. Ruban grew nervous at the sight of the arrow, but Tetra assured her, "Don't worry. The glowing light thing only happens with monsters. I'm putting some of my life energy into this arrow, so hopefully, when combined with the pureness of the magic in this light arrow, it'll help him wake up."
She let go of the arrow, and it shot right into his heart. A slight electric current sparked around his body, then he groaned. He slowly turned towards Ruban and stared deeply into her eyes.
"Is... that creature gone?" he asked her.
Ruban nodded, pulling Gardos into a very clingy hug. For a moment, he was surprised, but then he wrapped his arms around her as well as asked Tetra if they could have the room alone to each other. She nodded, left, and headed back for Linebeck's ship.
"Off to find the next Crystal, are we?" he asked.
Tetra nodded and replied, "And make it snappy. The sooner we can get this done, the sooner I can kick Vaati's ass."
Woo! New Zelda game coming out for the DS soon! Can't wait to have it! ^_^ Anyways, the voting for the next dungeon will be the last voting for this fic ever, so do be sure to cast your vote and decide the next dungeon! In case you've forgotten, your choices are Moblin and Volcano, and so far, it's leaning toward Moblin, so if you want to go back to the volcano, be sure to get as many people as you can to vote, vote, vote! So long for now!
