-1The Green-clothed Warrior
An InuYasha/Legend of Zelda Crossover Fanfiction
By: Patriot1776
Chapter Twenty: A Temple Full of Death, Part II
Link didn't think, he only reacted. He dashed over, yanked the now smoking plant out of her hands and threw it into the pile of skeletons.
"Hey! What's the big-" Sango started to say, but was cut off. KA-BOOM The pile of skeletons exploded from the Bomb Flower detonating that Link had yanked out of Sango's hands and thrown. Sango's eyes went wide as bones, skulls, and ribs went flying everywhere and both of them had to shield themselves.
"Sango, don't pick those things. They're Bomb Flowers and explode shortly after you pick them. Let me be the one to pick them." Link said after the room was silent again.
"Sorry, I had no idea." Sango replied.
"Just remember not to pick those things." Link then looked at where the bone pile had been, and saw a glint of something metallic. Jumping down and rummaging through it, he found another key. The went back into spiked-floor room and approached the raised platform. Looking up, Link saw another Longshot target in the ceiling over the platform. "Sango, grab on." She did. Link now aimed for the target and fired the Longshot, and they were both hoisted up onto the platform. Link unlocked the door and they continued on. Rounding a corner of the hallway they were now in, they were both suddenly hit by a blast of air that pushed them back hard, the air blast enough to knock both of them completely off their feet.
"What the…?" Sango asked as her and Link started to pick themselves up off the floor. They looked down the corridor and saw a huge fan at the end that was starting up and then stopping. More of the spiked blocks were on the floor, sliding back and forth. Several zombies meanwhile were nailed to the stone walls of the corridor by their hands and feet, groaning and mumbling incoherently. They watched the fan briefly, timing its starting and stopping for a few moments, then ran down the corridor, avoiding the spike blocks while the fan was stopped. Rounding the next corner, there was another fan at the end of the next corridor. When it stopped they ran forward. However, as they reached the middle of the corridor, a giant spider dropped down from a concealed hole in the ceiling and attacked Link, grabbing a hold of him. It was about to bite him when Sango's katana flashed and she skewered the spider on it! The fan started up again, and Sango quickly hacked off the legs of the spider with her katana that were keeping it attached to Link as they were both blown back by the air blast. The spider's corpse remained hanging in the middle of the corridor.
"Whew! Thanks for the backup!" Link told her.
"Don't mention it." Link now pulled his bow off his back and took aim at the spider's corpse and fired at it after pulling the arrow back as far as willing to try without snapping the bow. The arrow shot through the spider with such force that the spider's body was sent flying back into the stopped fan blades. When the blades restarted, the corpse was chopped and diced up into bits. After it stopped, Link and Sango continued on. The next leg of the corridor had another fan at the end of it but there was a pit in front of them too. Link saw a wooden beam sticking out of the ceiling above the fan.
"Sango, grab on to me and hold on tight. I'm going to Hookshot us over." Sango wrapped her arms around Link firmly as he got the Hookshot back out and took aim at the beam. When the fan stopped he fired, and they were yanked across the pit, falling into another hole on the side. They fell eight feet and landed in a pile into an alcove opening up into a room that had a walkway spanning a large pit. In the walls to the sides of the walkway were three more of the fans, each one starting up and stopping in its own pattern. Sango raised an eyebrow at the sight. They both noticed a fake wall hiding an alcove opposite the third fan that was revealed by the Truth Glasses.
"Well, how are going do to this? With those fans starting up and stopping like they are we can't just stop right in front of one while waiting for another to stop. The one we're in front of may start up again." she said.
"Sango, you wait here. I'm going to try this first. I'm going to try crawling across. Watch what I do and copy my movements after I'm on the other side." Link said.
"OK." Link now dropped down to a prone stance and started to creep slide forward on his forearms and knees slowly. He waited until the first fan had stopped before crawled in front and pass it, and stopped between it and the next one. While he was waiting for the second one to stop, the first fan started up again. Link held his breath and grabbed onto the sides of the walkway to keep from being blown off. The second one then stopped, and Link continued forward. He continued this until he was all the way across. Sango then followed, copying his movements. The door at the end of the walkway opened up into yet another room lined with skulls, with two more zombies within. A panel with strange writing was on the back wall and a small chest was on the floor. Link whipped out the Ocarina and played the Sun's Song to freeze them, and him and Sango then dispatched them. When they finished Sango walked up to the panel, while link opened up the chest, finding more arrows within. "What does this say?" she asked. Link joined her in looking at it.
"'If you have sacred feet, let the wind guide you.'" Link read. "Could that be referring to the alcove we saw?" He wondered out loud.
"Maybe. Why don't we try it?" Sango replied. Link nodded and they left the room. Link first walked in front of the last fan and turned to face the hidden alcove. When the fan started, he ran forward, the special boots levitating him across. Sango then followed, this time trusting completely in the boots and making it across safely as a result, there was another door in the alcove.
The skull-walled room they now found themselves in had two mummies, two spike cubes on the floor and a locked door at the back. A rendition of the Sun's Song on the Ocarina froze them, and a few slashes and hacks from the Master Sword and the Hiraikotsu took care of them. While she was taking care of dispatching the mummy she had chosen, a pot in the room suddenly and mysteriously lifted off the floor and flew at Sango!
"Sango! Look out!" Link shouted, but he was too late, and Sango got nailed in the side of the head by the pot as he landed the killing blow to the mummy. The pot shattered and Sango dropped to her knees in daze. Link ran over to her after taking care his mummy. "Sango! Sango! You alright?" Link asked her.
"Owww. What was that?" Sango asked groggily.
"You got hit by a flying pot. Think you can stand up?"
"Not yet, my head's still spinning." Sango stayed there, on her knees, for a few moments and shakily got back to her feet. She shook her head a little, and now walked up to the door, and sighed.
"Link, you don't have any keys. Am I right?" she asked.
"You are. But before we leave and go find another one, let me check around the room here." Link replied, then starting to look around the room closely. He noticed a pile of bones in a corner and started to sift through them. Soon, he came upon a translucent chest at the bottom of the pile. Removing his Truth Glasses for a moment, he saw that the chest disappeared completely. "Sango, come over here." he said.
"What is it Link?" she replied as she walked over.
"You see the chest?"
"Yes."
"It disappears when you take the Glasses off. It's a good thing we have them, otherwise we would've missed this." Link said as opened the chest on pulled out of it the key they were looking for. What they found on the other side left them really confused. They now appeared to be standing on some sort of dock. Before them was a massive boat with a huge row of oars that was moored to the dock, floating in an underwater canal. The boat was huge, the deck of it high up enough that they'd need a ladder to get up in it. Looking around, they saw a platform to their right with a ladder hanging down that they couldn't reach. Off to the left at the end of the dock was a large block, the same kind of block they'd used to block the falling plates of spikes earlier. They walked over and began to pull the block to the ladder. As they did, Link looked and thought he saw a skeleton at one of the oars, but thought he was seeing things. They got the block up to the ladder, climbed it, then scaled the ladder to where they could board the boat, and Link saw he was not seeing things.
The boat was large, and along both sides of it, Link and Sango both saw a row of skeletons each manning an oar, eight skeletons and oars per side, for total of sixteen, all of which at the moment were motionless and slumped over their oars. There was a gap in the middle of each row, and filling the gap of the side facing toward the dock was a plank that bridged between the deck of the boat and the dock and would allow them to board. At the head of the boat was another skeleton which appeared to be slumped over a huge drum. In the middle of the deck was a large crest of the Triforce.
"I've seen some strange things before Link, but this is by far the strangest." said Sango, as she looked over all the skeleton rowers.
"You said it. But I think we've got no choice to board it. I've got an idea of what we have to do on it." Link said. Walking down the plank to board the boat, Link got the Ocarina back out.
"Well, what do we do now?" Sango asked out loud.
"This, I think." Link replied as he stood in the center of the Triforce crest and played Zelda's Lullaby on the Ocarina. A moment or so passed in silence after Link finished, but then they heard bones start to clatter all around them. First, the skeleton rhythm keeper at the head of the boat sat up clackily sat up, a pair of huge mallets in its hands, and it began to pound out a slow, steady beat on the drum. THUMP…THUMP…THUMP…THUMP Then the all the skeleton rowers slowly began to sit up, and in perfect unison, they began to row in perfect time and rhythm to the beat the rhythm keeper was keeping. The boat now slowly began to move forward and away from the dock, down the underground canal it was in. After the boat started moving, a thought came to Link.
"Something's wrong." he said.
"What's wrong?" Sango asked. No sooner had she said that then a trap door in the deck behind her opened and more skeletons started climbing out, but these were different. They didn't have shields, instead they wore crude, rusty, crumbling armor and were wielding a variety of different weapons. A few held swords, a few held flails, and some more wielding flanged maces.
"I knew the quietness was too good!" Link said as he started to swing the Master Sword in an X-shaped pattern in front of him and he began to advance on the skeletons. "Sango, I don't advise using your Hiraikotsu. You might take out some of the oarsmen, and we don't need that."
"Right." Sango said as her katana flashed back out and she jumped into the midst of the skeletons and started taking them down with kicks and punches. These skeletons were pathetically weak, but there were a lot of them. Link was doing just as good hitting the skeletons with his shield as he was using the Master Sword on them, while the sickening crack of bone breaking and/or shattering was accompanying each one of Sango's sword slashes, kicks, and punches, with skulls, arms, legs, and ribs flying after each one. Amid all this, the skeleton rowers and rhythm keeper kept right on oblivious to the chaotic fighting going on around them.
Sango and Link were both soaked with sweat and exhausted after the last skeleton was destroyed. Bones, pieces of armor and weapons littered every part of the deck. They didn't have time to rest yet however. As he was looking over the bow, stooped over with his hands on his knees, Link saw the end of the canal approaching, and his eyes opened wide.
At the end of the canal was a giant spike! Almost as big as the boat itself. In a panic, Link looked around off the sides of the boat and saw they were now passing by a platform on one side.
"Sango! Abandon ship! This thing's about to hit a giant spike and sink! Jump!" Link shouted at her, pointing toward the platform. Sango ran up to where he was standing and saw the spike as well. Both of the jumped from the bow toward the platform and braced for the hard landing that came.
"OWW!" Sango shouted when she landed. She dropped onto her back and started holding her leg.
"Sango, what happened?" Link asked. Before she could answer, the sound of splintering wood reached their ears as the small ship rammed into the spike and broke apart, the skeleton oarsmen being broke up too as it happened. Link turned his attention back to Sango.
"Ow, ow, ow! Link, I think I broke my leg!" Sango cried out, tears running down her face from the pain she was feeling.
"Sango, stay still. Don't move your leg." Link said as he started to examine her leg. Link gently laid it down flat, Sango grunting loudly, gritting her teeth and her tears turning into a river as he did it. The pain was causing Sango to start to gasp and pant rapidly. Link now pulled one of his bottles of medicine from his pouch. "Here Sango, drink this. The bones will start to mend themselves after you do." Sango took the bottle from him and started to sip from it slowly. Link, meanwhile looked around to observe their new surroundings.
The first thing Link noticed that across from where they were standing was another platform, with a large pit in between. He also saw a large pillar that looked like it was tall enough to bridge the gap, and looked at it more closely. Squinting his eyes, he saw a bunch of Bomb Flowers growing out of the floor at the base of the column, and an idea came to him. He walked back over to Sango.
"Sango, how's the leg? That medicine starting to help?" he asked her.
"Yeah, it is. Pain's gone down a lot but it still hurts pretty bad." she replied as she continued to sip the medicine. "What did you find looking aroud?"
"We're gonna have to wait for you to heal up first. There's a column on another platform that looks tall enough to bridge the gap across the pit between here and that platform. Problem is, I'm going to have to shoot at some Bomb Flowers to try and get it to fall over here, and when it lands it'll jar that leg of yours real bad."
"How long does this medicine take to do its work?" Sango now asked.
"About half an hour. It's only been ten minutes." Link said, as he sat down beside her and laid down to relax.
The remaining twenty minutes of Sango's recovery went by quick. Sango soon noticed that all the pain was gone, and she could move her leg freely, getting up.
"Link, I think my leg's healed up." she then said. Link, opened his eyes from dozing and got to his feet, stretching and working out the knots in his joins. He then got his bow out.
"Stand back Sango, I'm about to shoot." Link said as he aimed at the Bomb Flowers at the base of the column and fired. The arrow struck true and the bombs went off in a cacophony of explosions. The column shook and fell forward, the top of it landing on the platform they were standing on several feet from them. They could now walk across the column to the other side, which is what they did. On the other side only thing they found was a locked door, and Link was out of keys. They crossed back and found an unlocked door that Link hadn't noticed at first. The room they entered appeared to be empty, but then they heard a hideous laughter.
"What's that?" Sango wondered. Then in the middle of the room, black clouds formed up and the laughter got louder, and the clouds subsided, revealing a black robed looking mage who's face could not be seen because of his hood.
"Who are you?" Link shouted. The mage didn't say anything. Instead, he raised his arms up and started to chant in an arcane tongue, then leveled his arms at Sango. Sango immediately felt her body stiffen up, to where she couldn't move it, and her vision started go blurry. Link looked over at Sango, and noticed a deadpan look had come to her face, her eyes now seeming to just look straight ahead at nothing. "Sango, you alright?" he asked. What happened next shocked him.
Sango removed the Hiraikotsu from her back and hurled it at Link! A look of pure shock came to Link's face as he dove to keep from being cleaved in two by the massive boomerang.
Inside Sango's mind, she was in just as much shock, and now in a panic.
'What am I doing? Why can't I control my body? My body won't respond to me! Link look out!' her mind screamed. The mage's arcane chanting continued. Sango caught the boomerang and began to pursue Link around the room.
"Sango! What's gotten into you? Snap out of it!" Link shouted as Sango again threw the Hiraikotsu at him. Link dropped to a prone position to dodge it, to see Sango unsheathe her katana and race up to try and behead him as he lay on the ground. Link rolled off to the side to avoid the slash, unsheathing the Master Sword as he did. He blocked another strike from Sango, got to his feet, and him and Sango now began to duel. Link noticed tears emanating from Sango's eyes and rolling down her face as she was slashing at him with quick, sudden moves that Link was having trouble blocking.
'So this is what it's like to be a puppet. Now I've seen for myself what its like for Kohaku. Link, kill me. It's the only way to save yourself. I don't wanna be a puppet. Please Link, kill me.' Sango's consciousness cried.
'What the heck's gotten into Sango? Why is she doing this?' Link's mind raced as he continued to defend himself and block Sango's attacks. Link also heard the mage continuing to chant. 'That mage is controlling her, I'm sure of it. I've got to stop her, but not kill her.' No sooner had Link thought that, but after Sango sent another sword strike at him and he blocked it, Sango pivoted on a leg and delivered a powerful roundhouse kick to Link's cheek. POW! Link went down hard, spitting blood, but wasn't knocked out. He rolled over just in time to see Sango starting to try and run him through with her katana again. Link deflected the weapon and knocked it out of her hands and flying just inches before he would've been skewered, then got to his feet in a flash and crashed hard into her with his shield. Sango was sent staggering, and Link then dropped his shield and Master Sword and ran at Sango. She landed a left hook across his face, but Link ignored the pain and put his arms around her and slammed his knee into her stomach. She staggered again, but still tried to attack him. Link again grabbed her and started delivering strong, powerful punches to her ribs.
"Sango…forgive me…but its for…your own…good!" Link shouted, pounding her in the ribs with each phrase, the sound of his fists crashing into Sango's ribs loud and Sango grunting hard in pain from each punch.
The tears that had been streaming down Sango's face had now increased dramatically and turned from tears of sadness to tears of pain as she felt her ribs explode with pain again and again as each of Link's punches connected. She was no longer struggling to try and fight back, but now was resting her chin on Link's shoulder as he continued to pummel away at her ribs.
'Hit me harder Link! Please, hit me harder! You're not hitting hard enough to kill me!' Sango screamed in her mind. Link had now noticed that even though Sango had been weakened, she still wasn't out. He then stepped away from her, reared back and delivered a right handed bomb right between her eyes. POW! Sango now went completely limp and collapsed to the floor, unconscious. Now Link looked at the mage.
With his puppet now incapacitated, the mage was now trying to retreat out of the room, but Link wasn't having any of it. He dashed over and picked up his shield and the Master Sword, and ran at the mage. The mage raised up his hands and they started to glow. He then tried to fire lightning out of his hands, but Link went into a forward roll on the ground and came up with the Master Sword raised and brought it down onto the mage. The Master Sword cut a deep, bloody gash into the mage, and he dropped to his knees. Link now delivered a horizontal slash that took the mage's head off. After the rest of the body fell onto the floor, the corpse and head dissolved away into nothing. Link walked slowly back over to where Sango was laying, still out cold.
It was several minutes before Sango came to. When she did, she felt an immense and intense soreness from her ribs and around her eyes and part of her forehead.
"Owwww." she groaned as she opened her hurting eyes to see Link looking over her with a sad look.
"How bad did I hurt you Sango?" he asked in a slightly sad voice. Sango at first was confused for a second then it came back to her. She had been attacking Link, and eventually, Link had grabbed her and started punching her until she had been knocked out, and she realized why she was sore.
"Not too bad Link, I've had worse happen to me. Actually, I thank you for knocking me out like you did, I would have eventually killed you had you not done that. Where's the black robed guy?" she asked, now looking around.
"Cut his head off to punish him for possessing you after I knocked you out." Link responded with a tinge of anger, his eyes closed. Sango nodded as she retrieved her Hiraikotsu. Looking around, they saw three more doors in the room besides the one they came in through. They decided to check the door to right of where they entered first. They went inside, and immediately the door barred shut behind them, and a sound of clunky machinery engaging and running was heard. Looking around brought a look of horror to both Link and Sango's faces. On either side of them, walls of spikes were now slowly creeping toward them, and there appeared to be nothing in the room to use to brace the walls with.
"Oh great. What do we do now?" Sango looked around again worriedly. Link noticed something crucial about the walls.
"Sango, get in close to me! I'm going to try something. It may not work, but it's our only shot." Link said. Sango obliged him. "Alright, now duck and cover. Here goes!" After Sango dropped to her knees and covered up with her arms, Link again let loose his flame wall spell. As Link hoped, the spike walls were made of wood and the walls disintegrated in the walls of flame that sent out at them, revealing two zombies and an ornate chest. Link tapped Sango's shoulder and she stood up and went after a zombie while Link went after the other. Opening the ornate chest gave them the giant golden key they'd need to open the boss' monster's lair. They went back to the main room and entered the door across the room from the door they exited. The only thing in it is a strange, hand shaped monster, a Floor Master, that when Link attacked with the Master Sword, split into three smaller hands. Him and Sango then both quickly dispatched the mini-hands, a chest containing a key their reward. Exiting, they now made their way over the last door of the room they hadn't opened.
They were now in a room that was very similar to the earlier one where Sango had mistakenly picked the Bomb Flower, with two key differences. First off, it was not raining ash water in this room, but actual blood instead. The other difference was that there were not one, but three piles of skeletons, on a platform that was spinning around. They made their way to the top of the platform behind the rotating piles of bones, and this time Sango stayed well clear of the bomb flowers as Link picked them and threw them into the bone piles. The explosions that followed left their ears ringing briefly, but unlike in the other room, there was nothing in these piles. They left, exited the room where the mage had been back to the platform and column area and made their way back to the locked door, and proceeded on.
It first appeared they had reached a dead end. The huge cavern they stepped into had another huge bottomless void. Across from the platform they stood on was the door they had been looking for with the massive lock on it. To somebody without the Truth Glasses however, it looked as if there was no way across. But Link and Sango both saw translucent platforms leading them across to the door. They jumped from platform to platform, reaching the door. Link used the huge, gold key Sango had been carrying to unlock the door. Stepping through they saw a huge hole in the floor and dropped down into it. They both landed on a giant drum, easily sixty feet in diameter, and saw two huge floating hands and a separate frightening looking floating monster that had a single large eye, no arms or legs apparently, and an irregularly shaped body.
"What is that thing?" Sango asked. Just then the hands started to pound out a beat on the giant drum they were standing on, and Sango and Link started being bounced up and down on the drumhead, but thanks to the boots they weren't losing their footing. Suddenly one of the hands grabbed Sango and started to squeeze her!
"Sango!" Link shouted as he ran over and tried to stab the hand to free her, but it was no help. The hand threw Sango to the other side of the platform. She slowly got up, woozy. "You alright?" Link asked her.
"Yeah, I'll manage." Sango replied as she rubbed her sore ribs some more. Link now saw where the main body of the monster was and attempted to try and stab at it, but he couldn't jump up high enough cut at it. After he tried to cut it one of the hands grabbed him too. Sango's eyes opened wide.
"Link! Hiraikotsu!" Sango shouted, and then threw the massive boomerang at the hand holding Link. Sango winced in pain from her ribs when she heaved the Hiraikotsu, but she wasn't letting it affect her fighting. When the boomerang struck the hand, Link was released, and the hand started shaking. That gave Sango an idea as she ran over to Link and pulled him away.
"Thanks for the save." Link said as he caught his breath after almost being squeezed to death. Sango didn't answer. Instead she lined up and heaved the Hiraikotsu at the monster's other hand, stunning it good too.
"Link, get ready to run over to the monster's eye to slash it, I'm going to try and hit with my weapon." Sango said in a hardened voice. She heaved the Hiraikotsu again, striking the monster dead in the eye. It howled in pain and dropped onto the drum platform as Link ran up and slashed at it. It floated back up as it's hands recovered and resumed to pound out a rhythm. Sango repeated heaving her boomerang, stunning the hands, and then hitting the head again, and Link got another hit on the main body. One more time for the cycle however, and it was over. The monster thrashed around violently, it's hands pounding drum in a frenzy, then slowly stopped, and it dissolved away. A circle of light appeared in the center of the drum platform, and Sango and Link stepped into it.
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Sango had thought she had seen everything when she had first seen the Temple of Time, but now she had been proven wrong when her and Link appeared in the Chamber of Sages. She got some looks from Darunia, Saria, and especially Ruto. They were now joined by a white haired, athletic looking woman who looked to be as every bit in shape and strong as Sango, her hair in a similar pony-tail, and she was wearing a light-blue combat suit similar to Sheik's.
"The boy bearing the Ocarina that Zelda protected, and the master exterminator. As I expected, you both have come." she said.
"Impa, it's good to see you again. First time we visited Kakariko Village, you were elsewhere." Link said.
"Off spying on Ganondorf's forces, and checking to really see if the Hero spoke of in the legends had truly come finally. Looks like I was right."
"Impa, what truly happened on that day, seven years ago? I arrived there at the town with the Spiritual Stones, and you and Zelda were hightailing it out of there." Link asked.
"Ganondorf made his move. That's what happened. He attacked with overwhelming forces and Hyrule Castle surrendered after only a few hours. We were caught unprepared. He attacked with the intention of taking the Ocarina of Time from Princess Zelda and the rest of the Royal Family by force since he could not trick Princess Zelda into showing it to him. I took Princess Zelda out of the Castle and we fled out of Ganondorf's reach."
"Where is this Princess Zelda now? We haven't seen her anywhere." Sango added in.
"Don't you two worry about her. She is safe. Soon the time will come for her to come out of hiding and meet you all face-to-face to explain everything. That is also the time we, the Sages, will seal up Ganondorf and return peace to this land. Link, Sango, you two and the other Allies mustnow assume the responsibility of protecting Princess Zelda when she emerges. Here's the Medallion you need Link." Impa now raised her hands up and the medallion floated down from above and Link took it.
"Link, is this woman you have with you you're new fiancée?" Ruto asked in a curious voice. All the other Sages then burst out laughing, and Link and Sango both anime dropped.
"Ruto, what made you think such a thing? Of course she's not! I think she's already got a boyfriend anyway." Link said after him and Sango got back up. At those words, Sango shot a hard look at Link as they then vanished.
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Author's Note: See, I'm back to working on this story regularly. Next chapter won't be long in coming either.