The Adventure of Link
Chapter Fourteen: Gooma's Allies
Boss Gooma let out an angry yell as he swung the ball and chain at his target, but Agahnim simply leaned backwards to avoid it, before moving in to punch the big man with a fist full of flame. Gooma grunted as his face was singed, and then more so when the wizard struck him in the stomach with another fiery fist, followed by spinning around and kicking the big man in the chest.
Gooma lost his balance and fell onto the hard packed ground, growling angrily as he punched the mud before getting to his feet. Now the big man was swinging the chain wildly, breaking a piece off of a nearby tombstone in his efforts to hit the wizard, who simply vanished, reappearing off to the side with his foot stuck out to trip the big man in the middle of his swing. Again losing his balance, Gooma stumbled forward and caught himself on another tombstone, only to have Agahnim appear in front of him with his outstretched hand on the big man's chest.
"Hielo!" The wizard shouted as white energy gathered underneath his hand.
Now Gooma screamed as his body was assaulted with a cone of white, freezing energy that coated most of his torso in rapidly spreading frost. He reeled backwards in an attempt to get away, managing to avoid some of the cold, but still falling onto his back, and smacking his body with his hands to try and warm back up. But Agahnim wasn't quite done just yet; aiming his hand at the big man and chanting the word Hechizo, so that he would be engulfed in a flash of white, transforming energy.
Gooma must have gotten his weapon in the way, since the ball and chain was gone and the big man was still himself when the light faded, so the wizard simply gathered a ball of flame in his hand, before tossing it. The big man grunted in pain when the fire disbursed against his body, getting louder and angrier when Agahnim hit him with a second ball, and then a third, before being forced to turn his attention back to the wounded King.
"Cowards, both of you!" Gooma yelled as the wizard used his magic to start healing Façade while carefully removing the sword from his abdomen. "Without your damned magic, I would crush you in a fight, just as I would have done to Ganondorf! Face me with no magic, wizard!"
"I'll live now, I think." Façade groaned weakly. "Stop him, Agahnim… don't let him remain a threat to the Kingdom."
"Very well." Agahnim replied, ending the spell early and turning to face Gooma. "And I will do it without the use of my magic."
Balling up his fists, the wizard ran toward the big man just as he was getting to his feet, ducking down to avoid being grabbed, and then leaping back up with an uppercut to Gooma's chin. Grunting as his head tilted a little, the big man managed to grab Agahnim's arm, but whatever he had planned was stopped when the wizard kicked him in the side of the knee. With both hands, Agahnim grabbed onto the wrist that was holding him, twisting it back while bringing his knee up into Gooma's jaw when he stumbled forward, and then spinning around to kick him in the nose.
"Well, you certainly crushed me without my magic." The wizard said as the big man fell onto his back. "So what was your plan? You and Rebonock were going to usurp the throne of Hyrule, just like Ganondorf and Darknut tried before you? They failed, and they were a hell of a lot more competent than you are."
"No! I am not a failure!" The big man yelled, starting to get up again. "I will succeed where Ganondorf failed! I will seize the throne of Hyrule, and then when I bring my cousin back to this world, he will bow down and serve me! Wosu Pack, attack!"
For a moment Agahnim was wondering about what he meant by bringing Ganondorf back to this world, but then there was movement behind several of the tombstones that surrounded King's Cross, before more figures started to emerge. There were several of them, more than two dozen in fact, furry wolf-like soldiers wearing light armor and brandishing small blades. These kind of snarling, feral creatures were probably not much of a threat on their own, but this became a different story as their numbers increased.
"Stay still and low to the ground, Façade." The wizard warned as the creatures charged at them from all directions. "Quake!"
With purple energy gathering around his hand, Agahnim raised his fist into the air, and the ground shook as if there were an earthquake happening, when he punched it. All of the wosu creatures, Gooma, and nearly the wizard himself, were knocked off their feet, but Agahnim managed to keep his balance enough to begin preparing for his next, much more powerful spell… one that involved the swirling cold winds that were now gathering above his raised hands.
"Kill the wizard!" Gooma ordered as he and the creatures got up. "Kill the pretender King! Bring me their heads!"
"Too late, Gooma!" Agahnim yelled as the spell was finished. "Ether!"
With the chanting of this word, the winds that had gathered above his arms shot outward in all directions, changing the falling rain into snow, and reducing all of the wosu creatures to shimmering blocks of ice. As he figured, the King's magical mirrored shield protected him from the spell, but Boss Gooma had not been so lucky. Although the big man had not been turned into a block of ice like his minions, most of his body was now reddened with frostbite, leaving him on his hands and knees, groaning in agony while the falling snow once again turned to rain, quickly washing away all evidence of the spell.
Narrowing his eyebrows, gritting his teeth, and starting to get up, the big man was preparing to continue his attack, when Agahnim walked over and kicked him in the mouth, making Gooma roll over onto his stomach while his spiked helmet was sent rolling across the ground. Next grabbing his arm, and twisting it around behind him, the wizard forced the big man to his feet, marching him over to the wounded King, and then forcing him to again lie face down in the mud.
"You're going to die for this treason, Gooma." Agahnim declared, twisting harder on the big man's arm. "But first you are going to apologize to your King, aren't you? You're going to declare yourself to be his loyal subject, and then beg him for the mercy that I would never give, isn't that right?"
He twisted Gooma's arm even harder, almost to the point of breaking, before gathering balls of flame in his hands, which caused the big man to scream even louder as they burned his skin. This agony was becoming so great that Gooma was just starting to say something, when suddenly something just… appeared between them and Façade… a hooded figure in red robes, wearing an elaborate gold medallion around his neck. Upon seeing this figure, Agahnim froze in place, his eyes wide, and his mouth running dry as the figure just looked down at him.
"Hello, son." This figure said calmly. "This is going to hurt."
With a casual wave of his arm, and the formation of a large energy sphere in his hand, the figure swatted Agahnim, while the energy sphere's explosion lifting the wizard off his feet. There was so much force in the blast that Agahnim was sent flying backwards, where he bounced off of one of the tombstones before falling into the mud. As for Gooma, after slowly untwisting his arm, he got up to his hands and knees, appearing to be about as surprised to see this figure as Agahnim was.
"Carock?" The big man asked, still coughing a little. "I thought you didn't want anything to do with this? What are you doing here?"
"Aside from saving your life, you mean?" The hooded figure replied with a slight laugh. "Why, I've come to take my long lost son home, of course. I had all but given up hope of recapturing him through normal means… but then I heard that you and Rebonock were challenging the King, and who better for to bring with him than Agahnim?"
Carock was starting to laugh again, but then he realized that the wizard was starting to recover, so he vanished, reappearing right in front of Agahnim… and then somehow splitting himself into three different, identical figures. Without warning, they attacked the wizard, one of them avoiding his attempts to defend himself, while the two others struck. For a moment or two the wizard held them off by throwing balls of flame, or vanishing himself, but he was quickly overwhelmed.
The three figures struck him again and again until he lost his balance, and then they all began to kick and stomp Agahnim after throwing him onto the ground. Several spells were unleashed as well; bolts of lightning, more spheres of energy, and beams of ice, each making the wizard scream until he was no longer able to fight. The three figures merged themselves back into a single Carock once the brief struggle was over, and then he picked up Agahnim, throwing the wizard over his shoulder, before vanishing without another word.
"I can't help being touched by family reunions." Gooma said, getting to his feet while the King started to realize how much the situation had changed. "Now Agahnim gets to spend plenty of time with his father, while you and I are left for some private time of our own."
Façade had only been partially healed, still feeling the pain of his wound as he struggled to get up, only to see stars for a second when the big man's fist went across his face. The King had only just fallen back into the mud, when Gooma grabbed him by the long hair, using it to make Façade stand up, so that the big man could slug him in the stomach with a hard whack! Catching him before he could fall over again, Gooma used the momentum to flip him over, slamming the King down on top of a coffin-shaped monument.
"Not so powerful without your friends, are you?" The big man growled, ripping the shield from his forearm, and tossing it aside. "Where is your wizard now, little man? Where is he?!"
Taking his sword and discarding it as well, Gooma wasn't finished, painfully ripping the blue sapphire ring from his finger, and then backhanding the wounded King before removing every piece of his armor from his body. Soon he was in only his underwear, making it even easier for the big man to pick Façade up over his head, and slam him onto the ground, before whistling as one would do for a horse.
A great big riding beast slowly clopped its way into view a few seconds later, and Gooma stomped his large foot down hard onto the King's back, immobilizing him so that his wrists could be tied to the back of the beast with a rope. Stopping to kick Façade in the ribs several more times, before going to reclaim his fallen helmet, the big man proudly walked back over to the riding beast, and slowly mounted it.
"Your possessions will be taken to your Queen." Gooma said, looking back while settling into the saddle. "Nothing like a trophy to make her more compliant, now is there? No hurry, though… you and me are going to take the long route."
Hitting the reins, the riding beast started off between the tombstones, pulling Façade back down into the mud as he tried to get up, and then dragging him behind. Then Gooma spurred the beast, making it go as fast as possible while lightning and thunder crashed once again through the sky.