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"Well well, I'm impressed..."
I looked down at the wounded woman on the floor whom was clutching her gut, blood seeping
from cuts all over her body. My sword was pointed at her neck, ready if she attempted to make
another futile attack.
"Hmph," I snorted, "Give up the key and I'll let you live."
Yes, I had gone back to the...place, and defeated the final guard of the-...ahem, 'prisoners'... It
had actually been somewhat of a challenge, these desert dwellers knew full well how to fight...
"Heh heh...all right then," she smiled weakly, "Here."
She tossed the key at my feet before getting to her own, panting.
"I must say, your skills are impressive..." she said.
"..."
"...Yes, maybe you could do it..."
"Hm?" I titled my head to the side.
"...Our leader has been imprisoned in the temple of sands for some time..." she said, "You see,
we did indeed follow Mithos for a time...until we came to realize his insanity..."
Took you long enough.
"She went to the sands in hope of finding the means to defeat him..."
"..."
"...You are the strongest warrior we have yet to face, therefore I would ask this of you to rescue
her," she said, "I realize this is a blatant request, however, we would make it worth your while..."
"..." I raised an eyebrow. "And your intent on how to do that?"
"...Well-" she started, purring.
"I have a woman," I stated, "that won't work."
"...Hmph," she snorted, "then what is it you want? Treasure? What?"
"We just need to get to the temple in the desert..." Navi said.
"That is where she went," she said, "so doesn't this work in both our interests?"
"...Indeed," I stated, "I'll do it."
She nodded gratefully then pulled out a piece of parchment from her pouch.
"Show this to the gatekeeper and she'll let you in," she said, "I was left in charge in our leaders
absence, therefore I will order our women not to attack you in anyway."
I opened my mouth.
"I'll also alert them that you're taken, so flirting is useless."
I closed my mouth.
"Here," she handed my the parchment.
"...Thank you," I nodded, sheathing the sword.
"Good luck, may the goddesses smile on you," she said.
She left in the usual cryptic way, leaving me with the key to the fat-mans cell. I unlocked it and
he zoomed out, running for his life. Distinct mutterings of 'I'm not into S and M!' as he left.
...That explains the whips and chains...
"...If Anna ever finds out about this, she's going to kill me," I sighed.
"So that'll make it even, right?" Navi dingled.
I glared at her.
"Er...I mean..." she swallowed, "Let's head for the desert!"
"...Hmph," I snorted.
After leaving the fortress we came to the gate to the desert, which was guarded by several
females that looked eerily like males... My mind blanked. Oh...well...that explains why SOME
of the Gerudos didn't seem as interested in me as the others... I suppose in the desert, sexual
pickings are...slim...
...Zelos would be in paradise.
"Finally! It's open!" Navis voice brought me out of my thoughts.
The gate had been drawn up, allowing us to proceed...
Triet was a sandbox compared to this.
"WWOOOOAAAHH!!" Navi cried.
The winds blew violently, blowing waves of sand with them. My eyes watered and the sand hit
my skin, burning. I certaintly wouldn't last long in this... I had to get through quickly. The guard
had told me to follow the posts...which were in line of my hookshot. Well well...looks like I've
found my shortcut.
"Here we go...Ah-!"
It worked! I flew about eighty feet across the sand, then laid my sights on another post. This
could be easier than I thought...if I could go fast enought, that was... Before long I had come to
a large building, and seeking shelter from the sand I entered it to find it deserted... Except for a
sign of somesort...
"Follow the spiritual guide..." Navi read.
"Hm..." I frowned, "I wonder..."
I took out the lense of truth-
"Woah-!" Navi dingled.
"..." I gaped.
A poe-like apparition was in front of us, smiling.
"Oh! Hi!" it said, "Did you need to get to the temple?"
"...Uh...yes..." I blinked, surprised such a creature wasn't attacking me.
"Okie-dokie! Just follow me, m'kay?" it grinned.
"...I...er, right, thank you."
The ghost whirled out of the builing and I ran after it, the sands blowing against me once more. It
was diffcult to follow the 'poe' while holding the lense and avoiding monsters, yet I managed to
follow it to the end... Amazing...the temple is...a huge statue? A ruin, Raine would've given her
left arm to see this...hell, both arms! The sandstorm did not reach the area, something I almost
thanked the goddesses for, when I realized I did not believe in such goddesses. Then, I didn't
believe in many 'holy' things since my pupil made his sister into a 'goddess' and I became an
'angel' who wrote the 'holy scripture' in 'heaven. Once you go through something like that,
it makes you quite skeptical. 'Goddesses' my ass, for all I knew, they were probably incest
threesome torch-juggling triplets that got into a posistion where they could cut the worlds
communication and history hence rebuilding society in their image in order to pertain themselves
as gods. After all, Mithos did it.
"We made it!" Navi dingled. "Let's go in!"
"..." I sighed, "Well...at least this is the last one."
We entered the building to find it completely empty of any sort of monster (aside from some
flying pots) but it also lacked something of importance... a door. There were two corridors, one
blocked by a giant stone I couldn't hope to move without angelic prowess, and a hole to small to
squeaze through.
I had done all that for nothing.
"Woah-! Kratos-! Calm down!!!"
See, I was saying quite a few things that can't be repeated...
"What are we suppossed to do now?" I asked after I calmed.
"Well...I dunno..."
I sighed.
"Well, nothing's going to get done around here, let's go."
We walked outside and down the steps-
"All right, you can pop up right behind me now." I sighed.
I turned just as Sheik jumped down into the spot.
"How did you know?" she asked.
"It's not that hard to figure out, you come at every temple."
"Hmph, smart-aleck," she huffed.
"..." I crossed my arms, "So, I suppose you're going to give me a clue?"
"Not even I could give you that," her eyes glinted.
"...Did you just insult me?" I asked.
"In this time, the temple holds no gain for you."
"Don't change the subject-"
"Try another time, then, now..."
She whipped out that damned harp and I sighed.
"Fine..."
I took the ocarina out and learned the Requiem of Spirit. An interesting tune, to say the
least...cryptic, but not so much the nocture of shadow...it held a more...mystical, feel.
"...There," she said, "Now-"
"Wait," I stated, "...I have a question for you."
"Hm?"
"Do you know Impa?"
She hesitated, "Yes...why do you ask?"
"...You wouldn't happen to know the whereabouts of my s- Princess Mae, would you?" I asked,
"Impa gave me the impression that she did, however she couldn't say for sure-"
She was gone.
"..." I growled, "Fine then. Don't answer me."
"Sheik is really...weird, huh?" Navi asked.
I shrugged, "I've seen stranger."
Nothing to gain in this time...in THIS time...
"Let's go, Navi."
I played the Prelude to light and arrived at the temple of time. After returning the master sword
to it's post I reverted to a child once more...it was worth a shot... I played the requiem again.
"Huh? What'd you do that for?" Navi asked as we appeared before the temple.
"She said that time had nothing to offer," I rolled my eyes.
"Huh-? OH! I get it now!"
"..."
"What?"
"You're awfully slow, you know that?" I sighed.
I walked into the temple as Navi followed, attempting to scold me the whole way there. The
inside of the temple didn't look any different than last time, aside from there was...a woman? A
woman in white, her head stuck in the hole in the left wing of the temple as if inspecting it... Hm...
"Ah...excuse me?" I asked, walking up to her.
I heard a muffled 'huh?' before the woman pulled her head out of the hole, shaking the dust and
cobwebbings from her head. She sighed and got to her feet, peeling off the offenders.
"Drat, I just can't-"
She turned to me.
"KRATOS!?"
Sweet mother of mana.
"M-martel-!?" I gaped.
She was the last person I expected to see in HYRULE, nonetheless in a Gerudo temple wearing
Gerudo clothing. Her green-tinted hair was pulled back into a ponytail, and unlike the other
Gerudo already because of the fact her hair was green, she also didn't wear the mouth
coverings, or make-up, for that matter...
"Oh my-! Kratos! Is it really you?!"
She knelt down to eye level with me, gaping like a complete idiot, though I suppose I was as
well. I felt a distinct blush at having her see me like this, a blonde, blue-eyed child wearing a
damn skirt accompanied by an annoying flying piece of fluff. However, if she had been
here...Mithos must've known about it...
"Martel!" I gasped, "What're you-?"
She covered her mouth, snickering.
"..." I pouted, "What?"
"I- I'm sorry-!" she laughed, "It's just-! You're so CUTE!!"
I felt my lip twitch as Martel attempted to calm her laughing.
"It's not that funny-" I started.
"AHAHAH! IT IS! Kratos! THE Kratos, is an ADORABLE little kid-!"
I stood there glaring at her as she began to roll on the ground, laughing the hell out of her lungs.
Even Yuan didn't laugh- then...I suppose he would've, had I remembered him at the time... Wait,
Martel couldn't have been the 'leader' they were talking about, right?
Then again...it was most likely...
"HAhhahahh! Hah hah..! Wee...!" she giggled.
"Are you done?" I asked.
"Hold on..HAHAHAH! Yeah...okay...I'm done..." she giggled.
"..."
"Right...so...Kratos, what are you DOING here?" she asked.
"I was going to ask you the same thing," I said.
"...You...already know what Mithos is doing, don't you?" she asked sadly.
"...Martel-"
"I was so scared...when I realized I was here..." she muttered, "I'm guessing it was just as bad
for you...if not worse. Mithos...he won't listen to me, anymore... I tried...I tried to stop him, I
did. I couldn't stop him when I possessed Colette...I'm sorry for that, by the way, and I thought
after Lloyd stopped him he would've come to his senses... As I'm sure you know by now, he
wouldn't listen...he's...he's so far gone..."
"...I'm sorry," I whispered.
"...It's not your fault," she said, "I tried to stop him, but he made his choice...so I figured, I'd
have to stop him by force if necessary...that's why I came here."
"Hm?"
"You see, there's a weapon of some kind hidden in this temple," she said, "I came to look for it,
but I can't get through this hole to looked around-..."
I didn't like the way she was looking at me.
"...Martel...?" I asked slowly.
"Kratos...I hate to ask this, but could you go in there?"
She gestured to the hole. Hm...that's what I came for anyway, correct?
"I came to explore this temple in the first place," I said, "I don't mind looking for whatever it is
you want while I'm in there. Most likely I'll stumble across it regardless."
Martel smiled, "Oh Kratos! Thank you so much!"
"It's nothing," I stated, "...I'm sorry, but the reason I'm here in the first place is to stop Mithos.
You see...well, I don't know exactly what it is he wants, but he's hurting people..."
"...He wants his age," Martel muttered, "He still won't deviate from his age of lifeless beings,
that's why he's after the Triforce, I figure- You know what that is, right?"
I nodded.
"See...if he gets his wish from that, he'll be able to make his 'age'..."
"I see..."
Yes, that made sense. Mithos...how had you gone so askew...?
"So...we've got to stop him, before he does it all over again..."
"...All right, I'll go in." I stated.
"W-wait-!" she stammered.
"Hm?"
"...I...I know we're not the only ones here, right?" she asked, looking aside, "You, Mithos and
I...so...I was wondering if you've met anyone else we know? Knew?"
"..." I stopped a minute, "Well...Mae, for one, she's the princess of all things..."
Martel snickered.
"What is it?"
"Mae? A princess?" she giggled, "She just doesn't...act, like one, sorry..."
I smirked, "Don't apologize, it's true. Let's see...Mae, Anna..."
"Your wife?" she asked, "Oh! That's wonderful!"
I smiled, "Yes. I've also seen Abigal-"
"Abigal?" Martel twitched.
"...You remember her, don't you?"
She began to twitch more violently.
"That little...OH! I can't stand her! She's such a-! GGRRRR!"
Abigal was the only person Martel ever was capable of hating. You see, they had grown up
together in Heimdall and apparently...well, it involved Yuan...
"Other than them, no one." I said.
"O-oh...no one at all?" she asked, face dowcast.
"Well...Lloyd visited using the Eternal Sword, so did Yuan-"
...I was told not to mention him, did I listen? No. I didn't.
"YUAN!?" she cried.
"H-huh? What's wrong-?"
"OH MY G-! IS HE HERE!? DID HE DIE!? WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM!?"
"M-martel-! Calm down, he's not dead- er, there, he-"
"DID ANYTHING BAD HAPPEN TO HIM!?"
"What-? No! He's perfectly-"
"OH! YUAN GOT HURT! OH YUAN-!"
"MARTEL!!" I roared.
"H-huh-? What-?"
"YUAN IS FINE!!" I shouted.
"O-oh..." she blushed, "I'm sorry...I guess I...overreacted..."
I'll say...
"Yuan's fine," I said again, "he just came to 'visit' a little when Lloyd came..."
"O-oh...I see...I'm sorry..." she muttered, turning beet red.
I sighed, "Don't worry about it. Now, if you'll excuse me..."
I turned for the hole in the wall and knelt down to inspect it...Yes, I could fit.
"Wish me luck," I said.
"Yes, good luck." she smiled.
I began to get down on my stomach to crawl in-...
"Martel?" I asked.
"Yes?"
"Can you look the other way?"
"Huh?"
"..."
"He's not wearing pants, so he doesn't want you to see his underwear-! MMPH!"
I grabbed Navi, stuffed her in a bottle, then sealed it.
"Oh-!" Martel blushed, covering her mouth to stifle a laugh.
"..." I growled.
"I- I- see-mmph...ahahahahahahahahhh!!"
I sighed, "Martel-"
"AHAHAHAH! I-! I'm s-sorry-! AHAH! I'll look away-! AHAHAH!"
She turned to face the other direction, laughing so hard I was worried her ribs would crack. I
grumbled to myself as I made my way into the sand temple, wondering what it was I would have
to go through now...
Oh joy, booby-traps and decaying hands, goody.
"Did I mention I hate these things?" I said as a hand leapt at me.
"Yeah, you did, now hit it!!" Navi cried.
"Hyah!"
Well, the 'dungeon' was easy enough. After all the ones we had perviously been through, it was
really quite easy. At the end we came across a room where a large suit of armor sat in a chair. I
glanced at it a minute before walking toward the door behind it, hopefully this wasn't another-
CLANG!
-trap.
"Kratos! Look out!" Navi dingled.
I leapt aside and drew my sword as the suit of armor turned to face me, clanking as it readied
the large axe it weilded to swipe at me again. A seven-foot tall suit of armor with a weapon that
can dice pillars against a ten-year-old boy with a dagger and a fairy.
Yeah, this looked fair.
I dodged as the being attempted to flatten me, barely able to get behind it-...does its back look
exposed, or am I imagining things? Hm...first I'd have to crack the armor- that's it!
"Take this!" I snapped.
I hurled a bomb at the beings back before leaping backward, the creature gave out a shout of
pain as the armor on it's backside cracked into pieces... I thought it looked like a weakspot.
"WOo! Way to go, Kratos!" Navi dingled.
"Heh," I smirked.
Time to get serious.
"Hyah!"
After several minutes I had successfully defeated the possessed armor, though beaten up
somewhat myself... With a sigh I downed a red potion I had before continuing...outside?
"..."
The door had lead me to a passage outside, on a hand of the statue where a large chest sat.
Perhaps this is what Martel was talking about... I opened the chest to find a pair of silver gloves.
"This can let the wearer move REALLY heavy things!" Navi said.
"Do you suppose this is what Martel wanted-?"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!"
The scream pierced the air, Navi and I running to look off the side of the statue into the sand
where it had emitted. Two old women were zooming around in circles, cackling as a woman
was being sucked into the sand. My eyes went wide as I saw Martel already waist-deep into the
desert sands, yelling.
"Martel-!" I cried.
"Kratos!" she cried, "Don't worry about me! Get out of here! Now!"
She sank into the sand and the witches turned to me, grinning.
"Damn."
Me: Guess what month it is! n.n
Genis:...December?
Cheresea: OH! Christmas is coming!
Lloyd: It is-? Sweet! PARTAY!
(Lloyd, Cheresea and I party)
Genis: Okay...um...review?
Me: Merry Christmas! n.n