And the reviewers this time are Canada Cowboy, Jenova Remnant AKA Fishie, eliteforce, Poet Bucky, Toyax, NightmareSyndrom, Amekoryuu, Rini Tsukino, and mandrakefunnyjuice (x2). Thank you very much! Link, Poet Bucky gave you a cookie. What do you say?
Link: "Thank you for the cookie, Bucky." (Scarfs down cookie)
Today, Link will do the disclaimer.
Link: "I.K.A. Valian does not own Tales of Symphonia or The Legend of Zelda."
Thank you, Link, now onto the story. Oh, just a reminder, this chapter will focus on Kratos' group. We'll get back to Link in the next installation.
The door of the Vortex Inn creaked open as Kratos entered. He quickly moved to a couch and laid Lloyd down. His cape made a flapping noise as he pulled it off and covered the boy with it. Sheena, Genis, and Raine still stood in the doorway, watching Kratos carefully. None of them had ever seen the man crack so much as a smile before, and here he was, rushing to comfort Lloyd as if it were the most normal thing for him to do.
Kratos finished tucking his cape around Lloyd and then noticed the looks he was getting. He silently stared at them, as if to dare them to say something with his eyes. After several uncomfortable moments, Sheena coughed into her hand and walked into the Inn.
"This place creeps me out," she said. "I mean, this is supposed to be a town full of people, right?"
Raine turned in the doorway, where she and Genis still stood, and looked out on the small town built in the rock. When she turned back, she said, "I think we all noticed that when we arrived. But it is rather startling."
"No doubt when the sky went dark earlier and during the earthquakes, the people fled in fear," said Kratos. "I am going to search for food and anything else of use in the shops. Miss Sage, I would appreciate your company."
Raine eyed the mercenary for a full two seconds before she nodded. She didn't like leaving Lloyd alone, but she like the idea of leaving this strange man alone even less. Her thin expression said as much. Her orange coat wrinkled as she bent down and faced Genis.
"Genis, while we're gone, I want you to watch over Lloyd," she said. "If anything happens I want you to come and get me, alright?"
"Sure thing, Sis," Genis said with a nod. He turned and ran into the Inn as Kratos walked past the two. He didn't slow or stop to wait for Raine to catch up. Genis' and Sheena's faces appeared in a window just in time to see Raine catch up to the briskly paced Kratos.
"Ever since the Triet Desert, he's been acting so closed off," said Sheena.
"Yeah," agreed Genis. "He's even more up-tight than usual. I wonder what's wrong."
Sheena turned from the window and moved slowly past Lloyd. When she stopped in front of a wooden chair, a small explosion no louder than a muffled thud caused a cloud of smoke to fill the room. The small blue tailed, tan fox known as Corrine shook himself of the remaining smoke and then leaped up onto Sheena's shoulders just as she slumped into the embrace of the seat of the chair.
"Mmm," she moaned into her hands. "I really need a good nights rest. I can't believe how long I've been awake. It's had to have been over two days now."
"Wow, really," said Genis. He looked out the window again, up at the mid-day's sun still shining brightly at the apex of its journey across the sky. "I-" Genis suddenly opened his mouth wide and yawned for over ten seconds. When he finally came back to the ground, he shook his head and ran his fingers through his hair. "I guess it really has been a few days. I wonder why I didn't feel tired until now…"
"It could be the weird night and day cycles," said Sheena. She stroked the furry back of Corrin in her lap. "Corrin, what do you think?"
"Mmm, that feels nice Sheena," cooed the little fox spirit.
"Heh," Sheena chuckled, "a lot of help you are." She looked up at Genis and her expression softened. "If you want to go sleep there are beds back there. I'll wake you if anything happens."
Genis raised his hand and opened his mouth to argue, but ended up yawning once again. Without saying anything, just nodding, the little mage walked past Sheena and into back room where several well made beds lined the wall. He walked up to the first bed he came too, grabbed the edge of the sheets and pulled them down. It was fairly warm in here and he didn't think that he would need them. The moment his silver haired head came into contact with the very soft feather pillow he was out.
Kratos' foot accelerated until I connected with the door, at which point he shifted his weight and shoved his hips forward at the same time. The end result was the door flying off its hinges into the interior of the shop. Kratos sniffed loudly and then walked past the door wreckage.
Raine followed, but at a much slower pace. She eyed the splinters all over the ground as she stepped over them and the metal hinges that still clinged for dear life to the wall as she passed them. "You don't think that you could have done that in any less violent way?" she asked.
Kratos instead picked up a burlap sack left on the counter and side stepped to stand in front of the piles of food. Raine's nose wrinkled a little at the fresh smell built up in the room as she moved to stand next to Kratos as he picked up a fuzzy white object that looked like it used to be a loaf of bread.
"I don't know how much food we'll find here," said Kratos as he tossed the loaf over his shoulder. It landed on the floor with a soft splat. Kratos started the arduous task of picking and choosing all the good food left in the pile of rotting refuse.
Raine happily left Kratos to his task and perused around the inside of the shop. Finding nothing of interest, she turned and said, "I'm going to look into the window of the other shops we saw on the way past." Kratos' nod was all the confirmation she got. The woman managed to contain her glee for the few moments it took her to leave the mercenary's line of sight.
As soon as she was clear, Raine took off at a quick pace toward the rear of the town. "Finally," she cackled "I can see these ruins that I've always heard about."
The mad professor quickly jogged through the deathly quiet town. Her boots left an echoing crunching sound resounding throughout town with each of her light steps. She left the side street with all the shops and came upon the main thoroughfare. It was a wide brick road that led from the entrance straight to the back of the town where a long winding set of stairs could be seen. The side street she emerged from was one of several that contained shops, Inns, and other archaeological and pilgrimage attractions.
Raine dashed down the brick road and reached stairs at the end quickly. Before she even put a single toe upon them, she bent in half and stared wide eyed at the steps carved from the face of the granite. Each step had intricately carved hieroglyphs covering them, as well as ceremonial art and designs that have since lost their meaning.
Raine stood up straight, took a deep breath, lifted her right foot into the air, and gently stepped onto the first step. When nothing happened, Raine opened her eyes and looked down. Relieved that nothing was damaged, Raine pushed up on the stone step and gently placed her left foot onto the next step. This process went on for some time until the silver haired woman reached to precipice of the monument.
The wind blew fiercely around the ancient structure, tossing about strands of Raine's hair and her coat tails. It blew even more fiercely on the top of the high cliffs that surrounded the ancient monument, which didn't seem to affect the lone black clad Desian laying on the very edge with a pair of binoculars pointed down.
"She appears to be inspecting the ruin, sir," said the Desian. The microphone built into his helmet transmitted his report through the rock and into the darkened command center deep under the ground beneath the town of Asgard.
"Very good," responded the Desian manning the communications consol. "Please continue observing and report in five."
"Affirmative," responded the Desian footman over the static laden connection.
The Com officer tapped an icon on the glowing screen in front of him. Then he waited several milliseconds to hear a click over his headset, signifying the transfer of channels, and said, "Footman J, what is your status?"
"I'm across the street from the Inn that they've take residence in," replied the Desian, his voice broken up slightly by snowy static. "It appears that two of them have gone to sleep. One is sitting in a chair talking to some kind of small creature."
"Copy," said the com officer. "Continue observing and report back in five."
"Affirmative." The com officer leaned back in his chair and blew out a deep lungful of air.
"Warning!" announced a distinctly feminine voice. "Phase Three Initiation Sequence activated. Phase Three commences in two minutes. Clear floor Alpha." The lights overhead, already dimmed, flickered as the bulk of main power was diverted for the experiment.
"Great," muttered the com officer. "More mess to clean up." The Desian turned to the man sitting at the consol next to him and scowled. He was sleeping and his screen lit his face up in different shades as the screensaver, which consisted of a single glowing orb, floated about the screen. "Am I the only one doing my job here," the com officer said to himself.
"Krsss -aw me! Ahhh! Krssss"
The com officer sat up straight immediately and tapped on his screen. The call history said that Footman E had just made a call and that his emergency button had been pressed. Pressing Footman E's icon with his thumb, he nervously said, "Footman E, respond. Why have you activated your emergency beacon? Respond E! Dammit, I order you to respond!"
"Krss This is L, the mercenary is running up the stairs at a quick pace."
"Footman L," said the com officer, his voice shaking, "De- describe what they're doing."
"The man stopped at the top of the stairs and looked for the silver-haired woman. He's spotted her and now he's run over to her. They're arguing… and now the man is dragging the woman away. No wait… they've stopped. Oh shit, he saw m-Krsss"
The com officer placed his shaking hands onto either side of his consol. For a few moments he sat there, with his eyes closed, taking deep breaths and fighting for control of himself. Then he turned to his sleeping compatriot and pushed him as hard as he could.
"Wha-what? I'm up, I'm up!" sputtered the young man.
"Harry, get your lazy ass of the ground and bring up the external defense system," yelled the com officer.
"What for," shouted Harry, rubbing the side of his head that hit the hard floor moments before. "I don't take orders from you."
The com officer was ignoring Harry though, going through touch screen menus as quickly as he could. Finally, he smiled and pressed on the icon he'd been searching for. "Attention all squads," he said. His voice could be heard from the hallway as well as the command center speakers. "More intruders have entered the base. Be on the look out."
"Krsss This is J, the other two have returned to the Inn. The man is covered in blood and the woman looks like she's panicked. What are your orders?"
"Footman J, you're ordered to take out as many of them as you can," said the com officer. "Your sacrifice will not be in vain. We must not let anything interrupt the experiment."
The com system screen flashed once and then the computer started speaking base-wide. "Alert! Phase Three Activated! Alert! Phase Three Activated! Fifteen minutes until completion."
"Genis!" The small magician groggily blinked a few times up at his sister's panic stricken face. "Genis, wake up!"
"Sis? What's wrong?" Genis sat up on the bed and looked around. "Did something happen to Lloyd?"
"No," she said quickly, "it's not that. Desians have infiltrated the city, they've been watching us the entire time. Hurry up and get ready, we're leaving as quickly as-"
"We're not leaving." Raine turned to Kratos in horror. "We're staying here and disabling them. If we're lucky, one or two of them will know where your other friend is." Raine looked down, deep in thought.
"This is really risky," she said. "With Lloyd unconscious and all of us so tired, it doesn't seem like we have much of a chance."
"Nevertheless, we still must do it. And the Desians will not stop chasing us just because we leave." Kratos turned and walked from the room. Almost as an afterthought, he added "You may run if you wish," just as he left hearing range.
Genis hopped off of the bed and rubbed his eyes. Then he looked at Raine and noticed she was still deep in thought. "Raine," he said, "we can't leave Link in their hands. We have to save him!"
Raine looked up at Genis and then nodded. Determination filled her eyes as she decided that there was no other way than to take the fight to the enemy. Both she and Genis walked from the bed filled room just in time to see the black clad Desian knock the front door open.
Kratos, standing just to the side of Lloyd, spun around, his sword out of its scabbard faster than the eye could see. Sheena jumped up, several cards splayed between her fingers. The Desian didn't move at first, but then he raised his hands up to either side of his head and grabbed his helmet. With a quick jerk he pulled it off and threw it behind him. Then he looked back and forth at each of the people in the room.
"Please," he said, "You have to help me save everyone!"
"And why should we help you," spat Genis. "You're the ones that kidnapped Lloyd and Link. And then you brainwashed them and tried to get them to kill us!"
"I'm sorry," he said, holding his hand up placatingly. "I wanted to help your friends, I really did, but it would have blown my cover." Raine arched an eyebrow. Kratos tilted his head to the side.
"Your cover?" asked Sheena. "What are you talking about?"
"Just after the quakes, the Desians in black showed up here and started capturing all the people in town. I joined them hoping that I could work my way into a position that would allow me to free them all. I was almost there when Kvar came back from the Triet Desert with two kids. After that, I was blocked off from accessing the people. I couldn't save them." Everyone in the room looked back and forth at each other in disbelief. "Then some guy with red hair and a woman with blond hair appeared on the monument. They would have gotten caught if I hadn't hidden them. They said they would try and free the captives. I wanted to help, but they said that I would just get in the way. They'd almost succeeded. But then Commander Alphons went berserk and trapped all the people, and then activated the Goddess Project Phase Three. Please, you've got to help them. I don't know what's going to happen to them. And there are several squadrons of Desians on the way here, you've got to hurry."
Kratos cleared his throat and sheathed his sword. Sheena lowered her cards but didn't put them away just yet. Raine and Genis edged into the room.
"What is the Goddess Project?" asked Raine. Just as she finished speaking, the sounds of feet pounding on the ground filled the air.
"Oh no," cried the young man. "You've got to hurry," he said. He turned around and unsheathed his sword. "In the back of this Inn is a secret entrance to the caverns that the Desians built their base in. Just pull the back corner bed away from the wall. There should be a false floor there. Hurry, I'll hold them back." With that, the red haired infiltrator ran out the door.
"Should we trust him?" asked Sheena.
"We have no other choice," said Kratos as he picked his cape off of Lloyd and reattached it. "Raine, would you and Genis would uncover the hidden entrance. Sheena, I need you to block the door with whatever you can find." Kratos picked up Lloyd from the couch as Genis and Raine raced to the back of the Inn. Sheena slammed the door shut and braced a chair against the handle. Then she hopped back a few feet and positioned herself behind a large cabinet. With a grunt she started pushing the large and heavy wooden piece of furniture toward the door, leaving scrape marks all over the wood floor. Kratos walked past her and into the back room just as Raine slid the trap door from the cave entrance.
The mercenary handed the teacher Lloyd and then jumped down into the hole. He nimbly landed a few feet below and was mildly surprised to find the tunnel lit by tube lights. By the fact that there was an undisturbed layer of dust all over everything, including the lights, he came to the conclusion that no one had been through here in a while.
Looking up, Kratos motioned to Raine and she dropped Lloyd down through the hole. Kratos caught the boy with ease and laid him down on the ground carefully. Then he turned and helped Genis down. Raine came next, she quickly turned and looked Genis over, fretting over a few bumps and scrapes. Finally, Sheena hopped through the hole without any help.
"I was able to block off the window and door with a few things but it won't hold them for long," she said. Just as she finished, the sound of glass being shattered filtered down to their ears. Kratos hopped up back through the hole and grabbed onto the bed that used to cover it. Then he dragged it back over the hole while at the same time climbing back into it. Using the side walls of the cave, Kratos managed to slide the bed and floor cover back over the hole making it look as if nothing was out of place.
"That should delay them for several minutes," he said. He bent over and picked up Lloyd.
The boy groaned as he was hoisted over Kratos' shoulder. His eyes cracked open, as if to limit the amount of light getting in to prevent waking fully. After a few moments of being jostled, he groaned again and took a deep breath. When he started moving around Kratos stopped and dropped the boy onto the ground.
"Ouch," Lloyd shouted. "You didn't have to drop me, you know!"
"Lloyd!" Lloyd was promptly tackled to the ground by Genis. "You're awake! You're alright!"
"Genis, air," he choked out. Genis pulled back from Lloyd, which opened his windpipe, and smiled.
"I'm so happy you're not brainwashed anymore!" said Genis. Lloyd rubbed his neck and looked at Genis awkwardly.
"Genis, I don't know what you're talking about," he said. Now it was Genis turn to look at Lloyd awkwardly. Lloyd stood up and dusted his clothes off. Then he looked around the cave. "Where are we? This isn't more of that cave is it?"
"Lloyd," said Raine slowly, "what is the last thing you remember." Lloyd crossed his arms, thinking hard.
"The last thing I remember was appearing at the beginning of the cave, in that room with all the lava. And then Kratos showed up… and then he was talking to some guy. And… there was an earthquake! That's the last thing I remember. So, did we get stuck in the cave or something?"
"Lloyd, you were kidnapped by Kvar and taken across the ocean to Asgard," said Kratos. "We only recently found you."
"You did!" said Lloyd. He looked around the cave once more. "Then why are we still in a cave?"
"It's a long story," said Raine. "Right now, we have to infiltrate this Desian base and find out where they're hiding Link."
"You mean those dirty Desians got Link too?" shouted Lloyd. He punched his fist into his hand and growled. "I'm going to make them pay." Lloyd turned and started walking down the tunnel.
"Lloyd." Lloyd turned and looked back at the group. "The Desian base is that way," said Genis, pointing the other way.
Lloyd laughed. "Oh, right, I knew that," he said. He spun on his heel and started down the tunnel in the opposite direction. Genis sighed and smiled as his friend passed him by.
"It's good to have you back, Lloyd," he said as he fell into step next to him. Lloyd grinned and nodded back. Raine and Kratos watched the two boys walk further into the cave for several moments before they and Sheena followed after.
Alphons was happy. The experiment was underway. The Inferior Beings that infiltrated the building first were dead, the second group being hunted. The men were working like a well greased machine. The piece of the Proto-Triforce was humming happily inside its containment field. All was good with the world.
He leaned back in his chair and gave the enormous control board in front of him the once over. Everything was running perfectly. The Third Phase of the Goddess Project was going off without a hitch.
Alphons reached out and pressed a blue button on the consol. The projected holographic image shimmered and shifted. It reformed into several smaller screens showing different sections of the base.
Alphons chuckled. He watched subjected Alpha-One running around killing underlings with his little band of friends. Hey particularly enjoyed with the little traitor to his race cast Fireball and they did little to no damage. And the fact that his older relative also was doing little to no damage against his troops and her healing skills were pathetic. The only spell he saw her cast was First Aid, something even moderately strong humans could do.
He didn't know why he enjoyed watching their futile efforts. Perhaps it was because he was distinctly aware of the fact that two of their members were very skilled fighters in comparison. Perhaps their prowess intimidated him… No. He banished the thought from his mind.
The door behind Alphons hissed open and shut. When he turned around to see who would be coming into the reactor room unheeded, he was slightly irked to find two bumbling footmen. Their uniforms were all messed up. The woman had not tucked the upper vest into the pants or cut her hair off as per regulations. The male was worse, his shirt was half open baring his chest and his pants were hanging loosely around his waist.
"Damn it," shouted Alphons, "Didn't anyone whip you into shape during training! You're both a mess! Not only that, you're here, and not out there fighting the intruders. You will both explain yourselves this instant!"
The male footman turned to the female and laughed. They then both reached up and pulled off the helmets. Alphons felt his breathing stop.
"You see, Princess, I told you it would work." Zelos grinned widely.
"Yes, I can see that," said Zelda. She threw off the top and pants quickly, releasing the remains of her half torn up gown. "Though this one was a lot easier to fool than the two guards back there." Zelos let his eyes wander around the princess' body before he too disentangled himself from the Desian garb.
"I see," said Alphons. He stood up, the chair he was sitting in creaking slightly. He typed a few commands into the enormous keyboard in front of him and then swept around the consol to stand in front of the two. "I thought you were dead, in the transformation chambers with the rest of the Inferior Beings." Alphons shrugged and reached over his left shoulder, grasping onto the cloth wrapped metal hilt that stuck out there. "No matter, now I get to take care of you."
Alphons pulled on the hilt and a battle ax twice as large as he was swung over his head. Zelda visibly paled and Zelos swallowed loudly. Alphons saw the reactions and grinned maliciously. Oh how he loved seeing those looks.
Alphons charged forward. He raised the ax into the air, preparing to bring it down on and split Zelda in half from crown to pelvis. Zelos rammed into the Princess, knocking her to the ground, and then jumped back quickly.
The ax ended up shaving the small hairs from Zelos' nose as well as taking off a few inches of his long red hair. The blade slammed into the ground with loud bang. The flooring cracked outward, as if the metal were shattered glass.
Zelos scrambled up, unsheathing his sword as he went. He spun on his heel, bringing his sword around in an arc, yelling, "Light Spear!"
A white aura covered Zelos' and his sword. The energy focused in on his sword as he spun.
Alphons took the hit directly in the back. He cried out as he was lifted into the air by Zelos' attack.
Zelos' spin slowed to a stop when they'd risen several feet into the air. Instead of simply falling back to the ground, Zelos whipped his sword back and then slammed it down on Alphons, sending him rocketing back toward the ground.
Alphons' body smashed into the ground, causing a tremor to race through the floor that bounced everything not bolted to the ground into the air. Several machines fell over and glass all over the place ended up shattered on the floor.
Alphons lay on the floor grinning. Finally, a challenged. The Desian commander back flipped onto his feet, wrenched his ax from the floor, and shouted, "Yeeeesss! Finally a challenge worth my time!"
"I call upon the goddesses three to grant me the power of Light!" Alphons spun around to face Zelda just as a long rod composed entirely of light appeared. She stood as if holding a bow, the arrow of light floating just about where it should if she did. "This is punishment for all the suffering you've visited upon these people. Light Arrow!"
Zelda tensed her left arm, as if drawing the imaginary string backwards slightly, and then expanded her hand, letting go of the imaginary bow string. The arrow of light launched, morphing and elongating into a beam of white light. The beam shot across the room at the speed of light and penetrated through Alphons' upper right chest. The beam kept going and exploded on the wall behind him, creating a hole as tall as the room.
Alphons stared in disbelief and then another grin cracked his face open. "Yes!" he shouted. "More! I need more!" Alphons noticed the loud footsteps of Zelos and spun around with his ax. "Beast!"
Mana traveled up his arms, along the lengths of his ax, and coalesced around the edged as a blue haze. Alphons then swung the ax around in a wide circle, catching Zelos in the chest. When the ax blade connected, all that blue hazy Mana exploded like a grenade.
Zelos flew backwards, blood leaking from his lips. Alphons laughed hysterically, smashing his ax into anything and everything. Zelda ran over to Zelos to see if he was okay, but just as she reached him, Alphons slammed his ax down into the ground and yelled, "Demon Maw!"
Shockwaves twice as large as the normal 'Demon Fang' lanced across the ground directly at Zelos and Zelda. Zelda leaped over Zelos, grabbing onto his shirt as she flew over him. They'd nearly cleared the zone of impact when the wave of energy ripped through the area. The sleeve on Zelda's left arm fell apart in shreds and small cuts and gashes appeared all over her arm. Zelos, being on his back, had the same thing happen to his right arm.
"Yes!" shouted Alphons. "That's it. Die like the miserable inferior beings that you are. Hahahaha! Die!"
Zelos grit his teeth together. "Princess… you alright?" Zelda nodded, wincing as that movement pulled on the skin along her cut up left arm. "I don't know how long we'll last at this rate."
"I think I can finish him," said Zelda. "It's a spell I was still perfecting, but I believe that I can cast it. I need several seconds for the magic to fully charge. Do you think you can hold him off for that long?"
Zelos grinned. "Anything for a pretty lady." Zelda shook her head and stumbled to her feet. Then she stuck her hands out in front of her and closed her eyes.
Zelos grunted and grimaced as he stood up. When finally standing straight, he leveled his sword, which he now noted was surprising that it still remained in his hands, at Alphons. Alphons grinned and ran forward toward Zelda.
Zelos shook his head and shouted, "Double Demon Fang!" He swept his sword quickly along the ground, sending two waves of energy racing across the ground at Alphons. Alphons jumped over the first wave, but the second wave nicked his feet and dropped him to the floor like a load of bricks.
Black sparks and waves of energy appeared out of thin air and started swirling around Zelda. The blackness swirled and churned, hugging her body and the air around her. A ball of black sparkling energy grew from a small dot to a large pulsing orb the size of a melon in front of her out held hands.
Just as Alphons stood up, Zelda opened her eyes. The two look at each other. Zelda took a deep breath and shouted, "Majora's Wrath!" The black ball of magic launched from Zelda's hand, sucking the black waves and sparks from her body as it went. The Princess dropped to the floor, unconscious.
The black ball floated slowly across the room. Alphons watched it curiously as it approached him. He stepped to the side and watched it fly past. He laughed and turned back to face the two intruders.
"Ahhhh!" He shouted as the black ball suddenly swung around and slammed into his head. Several concussive waves exploded from Alphons' body, sparks of dark energy caused his limbs and extremities to shake and writhe about uncontrollably, and waves of dark magic penetrated his body, sucking up any and all energy there in. After several moments, Alphons fell to the ground, his head caved in and his body ravaged by the dark energy.
Zelos rushed to Zelda's side and stretched her out so that circulation wouldn't be cut off to her legs. Then he turned back to look at Alphons and shook his head. Then he looked back down at Zelda.
"Wow, she sure can pack a punch. I didn't expect that. I'd better be ready for it…"
Wooo! What do you lovely readers think? It's got action, Ruin Mode, Kratos badassary, Lloyd, Kratos badassary, Zelda badassary, Zelos, Kratos badassary…. Lots of good stuff.
Link: "And in the next chapter, you get to see me complete the dungeon in record time!"
Er… no, sorry, but the dungeon won't be done for two more chapters. And a boss chapter, but that's a combo chapter so no splitting up there.
Link: "Oh…"
But look on the bright side, Link, you get to fight Dark Link again.
Dark Link: "It's about frickin time. That loser needs to be beaten down again. And I'm just the one to do it!"
Link: "No! I'm going to knock your socks off!"
Dark Link: "Real Link's don't wear socks, loser!"
Link: "I'm a real Link and I wear socks!"
Dark Link: "Wow, you just got a whole level more lame. Prepare to die, loser!"
Link: "Why you… Argh!"
Please review.
Ubella: "And thanks for reading. Speaking of next chapter, when am I going to come back in?"
Soon, real soon… mwahahahahaha….
On a side note, I still haven't gotten those maps scanned yet. It's on my to do list so have no fears.