Chapter 36: Leaving
After deciding that we were going to be leaving sooner rather than later, I took it as a signal to start getting ready. Therefore, I started practicing a few of my battle moves while waiting. Future Link was very concerned about my breaking something, but I made sure that nothing got hurt. Future Link ended up being rather amazed at the fact that nothing got broken. As the time went by, future Link began elaborating bits of the plan to us.
Apparently, Zelda was going to tell people that future Link simply moved. While at the same time, she was going to put all of his possessions that he would not be taking with him into storage. Afterward, she was going to hire a stand-in to live in his home while he was gone, just to make people think that he sold the place or something. Not only that, but future Link and Zelda would start spreading rumors about him just moving. The rest would be a very big improv act for whenever someone asked about it. It was foolproof and neither slave Link nor I did a single bit of the planning.
As far as the actual traveling went, it was basically just going to be future Link driving us to a harbor where someone who was being paid to keep his mouth shut would be giving us a boat to use to get to the tower of the gods. After that, we would be going to my dimension and the two-week travel to Hyrule Castle Town would begin. Everything following that was a mystery to us, but at least we had a plan right then. As far as I knew, it was completely flawless.
Everything went off without a hitch and everything went exactly as planned until we came to the tower of the gods. When we got there, it didn't seem as though anything had changed at first, but then we were all able to see a horde of monsters waiting to ambush us. I was wondering how they knew that we were coming, but I had to push it aside because, as I had just discovered, I was the only one who knew how to fight those things. There was everything from chu chus to floormasters to moblins and even skulltulas! When it was all finally taken care of, I looked around to see that future Link had nothing more than a few scratches, but slave Link was completely missing!
I assumed that he was captured by a floormaster and future Link immediately claimed that we needed to go after him. He had practically read my mind at that point. Also, as we searched around in trying to find him, we started talking about him and his desire to impress us. Future Link was also afraid that if we let him start deciding things for us, then he may go hungry for the power that he never had and he may start trying to control us.
Granted, I thought that that was very unlikely, but with the way that future Link stressed it; I didn't want to find out. I had to promise him that I would be careful to not let slave Link go that far. Then again, it didn't mean that we couldn't let him make his own decisions. A few hours later, we finally found him in a small cage that was taller than he was and it had a large stone slab on top of it. All we had to do was move it and slave Link could use his hookshot (which by some miracle, the floormaster hadn't taken it) to get out. After doing so, he greatly thanked us for coming to his aid and we told him that if one of us ever gets into trouble, another one (if not both) of us would always help!
With everyone together, we headed into the center room where the three of us had first met each other. As we tried to go from future Link's dimension to my dimension, though, the thread of courage inside slave Link's pocket began glowing. Out of curiosity, slave Link pulled it our and the three of us watched as it actually flew to the absolute center of the room! The three of us were shocked, but not as much as when we found out (the hard way) that the thread of courage was NOT going to budge from that spot. The only thing that we could do was leave it there as we left for my home…
Well, they're finally out of the adult split. Now for the child split... I can tell you right now that the child split is actually pretty fun to write. Even though you'll have to wait for next week to read it. Sorry, but I'm not superwoman. Please review?