A/N- Thank you Penpen67 and Keroanne1 for reviewing. Anyways I played a game called Pikmin2 that was made in 2004. Now I'm traumatized from things falling out of the sky like to say a GIANT SPIDER and other stuff like rocks and eggs. I'm giving the characters some freedom of speech or something along the lines.
Link: Wow the author finally lets us talk that's not part of the story. I'm so proud.
Me: Just finish what you have to say so I can start the story.
Kai: Okay okay…Um…
Kheino: Ha! Links loves Kai!
Link: Hey I'm not the only one!
'The three stare at Sheik.'
Sheik: 'whistles innocently.'
Me:…
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters besides Kai, X-Zone, and Kheino. The monsters came from Pikmin, like the GIANT SPIDER!
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…A strange looking shadow on the ground. It was a circle that was a moving like crazy. Kheino jumped to the newly made hole but suddenly yelped and fell down, falling in front of Link.
"Beadylonglegsbeadylonglegsbeadylonglegs." He said in one breath while shaking in fear making Link give him a strange look.
"What happened?"
" Bee-Dee-lowg-lehgs" he replied starting to calm down. Link stared at him for a while before shaking his head.
" I'm guessing that Beady Longlegs is a monster that looks really disgusting or scary, am I correct?" Kheino nodded. " It can't be creepier than Bongo Bongo." He took out his hookshot and aimed at the moving brown circle, what he guessed to be the monster. He sadly missed and grabbed on the ceiling instead.
After the chain pulled him up, he looked around the room from twenty feet off the ground. The room was huge and humid with some fat sandstones scattered across the room. Next to the door was a light green ball with a small yellow patch and three pipes like a chimney on it. The circle monster below him turned out to be a giant spider.
It's color was hard to describe, it was brown but some white lines and black dots could be seen and some parts of it's body were darker brown. On the bottom of it's feet was a flat circle, a foot or two wide. Overall, it looked like a really simple beast, a circle for it's body and eight legs coming out of it.
The Hero heard a crack and looked up, the ceiling couldn't support his weight and was breaking apart. He fell a couple of seconds after and amazingly landed on the spiders. It didn't really mind and continued to stand there, swaying to and fro. The steel end of the hookshot suddenly hit him on the head and landed on the spider with him. It looked jammed since the claws were still closed. Thinking it would be useless, he tried to pry it open but when he successfully did, it slipped out of his hands and landed on the spider, the sharp ends piercing it's hard exoskeleton. It screeched from the pain and tried to shake off the Hero. He fell with the hookshot handle in his hand but the end was still stuck on the arachnids back. He accidentally let go of it when it jammed after falling for eleven feet. He landed in front of Kheino; a groan escaping his lips.
"Huh, this happened before but vice versa." Kheino said , looking down at the restless teen. " You sure are lucky though, if you weren't holding that hookshot, you would of fell fifteen feet high instead of four." Link smiled happily at himself but then sighed.
" I wish I could just lie here and wait until the monster kills itself or something." He said slowly getting up.
" Why would it kill itself? Never mind, just kill it. You are the Great Almighty Hero of Time."
"Sheesh, I'm only human." Since the Hero didn't have his hookshot, he had to jump and hopefully grab hold of the sides of the hole. On his third attempt, he somehow finally grabbed hold of the ceiling and tried to pull himself up but the spider stepped on his right hand. He shouted in pain and fell back on the floor; cradling his smashed hand with the other.
" Back so soon?"
" Shut up Kheino! That freakin' spider smashed my right hand!" He sat up and put his head down. Tears started to build in his eyes until they finally poured down his face.
" Hey, what's wrong?"
"I can't do it Kheino, I have to many injuries to continue. I have two deep wounds and a smashed hand. It hurts even trying to move my arms and I didn't bring any potions. I-I failed Hyrule." More tears escaped his eyes and fell on his lap, soaking the fabric. Kheino patted his back, thinking Hyrule was doomed. The spider above was stomping like a madman causing a piece of the ceiling to brake and land on Link's left foot.
He shouted in pain with his right eye twitching. Kheino looked at him strangely.
" Isn't that just a piece of sand?"
" A piece of sand that weighs a ton! Help me get it off my foot!" The two painfully removed the block of sand with tears pouring down the Hero's face from the pain. He sat there with his head down and pain exploding from his hand, foot, and arms.
Two swirling, white lights appeared in front of the door they came from. The lights started to form a humanlike shape and began to dim as it formed more human characteristics . Finally the lights disappeared and there sat two girls. They both yawned softly and rubbed their eyes.
"Somebody got Beady Longlegs mad." The youngest one out of the two said quietly.
" That's why we're both awake. Gah! My vision is all blurry! How long have we been sleeping?"
" What does fishon mean?"
" Never mind."
" Hey! Isn't that the Hero over there?"
" Of course not. Ahh, thank Nayru, I can see again. Hey look your right. Weird, he has blond hair instead of brown."
" He's the Hero! He has the green dress like the other one! Plus he hat looks the same too!"
" It's called a tunic. Hey, beady finally calmed down. Well, goodnight."
"He's crying! I want to help." She ran towards him before the other girl could stop her. The oldest one sighed and walked towards the place her sister ran off to.
Link looked at his hand, it was turning purple and was twitching slightly. He felt someone rubbing his back softly. He sighed and wiped his face.
"Kheino, you can stop that." When the rubbing stopped, he looked at the wolf in annoyance.
"That wasn't me." He said slowly. Link turned his head to see a little girl standing next to him. She looked like she was six years old and was wearing a torn, green, old fashioned dress. She had hazel hair and eyes and was quite pale. Her hair was wavy and only reached her shoulders. The strange thing about her was that she was transparent. He jerked backwards with wide eyes and a gaping mouth. Kheino seemed shocked as well.
" Heh, we're just spirits. Why so scared?" Asked another girl, standing behind the other. She was probably eleven and had the same eye and hair color as the younger one. Her hair was very straight and reached half of her back. Some of it were over her shoulders and reached a little past it. She wore a long white shirt and black pants with holes on them.
" Who are you?" The Hero asked recovering a little. The point that he is actually talking to and looking at spirits scared him. Yeah he fought a couple of poes but these spirits came from humans.
" I'm Neelrahc and this is my sister, Charlene." The youngest one said happily.
" Neelrahc?" The wolf asked tilting his head to side.
" Yeah, got a problem with that?" Charlene said rudely crossing her arms.
" No, no! I just never heard that kind of name before." He replied, smiling sweetly and backing away slowly. " That sounds like a guys name." He mumbled a little too loudly.
" What did you say pup?"
" N-Nothing."
"Why were you crying Hero?" The little girl asked with worry etched on her face. Link smiled sadly.
" I'm just hurt really badly." He said trying to make it as simple as possible. Neelrahc's lips suddenly formed a huge smile.
" I want to help!" She clapped her hands together and started jumping. Charlene sighed and rolled her eyes.
" How?" Both the human and the wolf asked curiously.
" We're going to get you a potion!"
"We're? Nuh uh, I'm not gonna leave this room." She started to walk away but her sibling grabbed her arm before she could make another step.
" We have to help!"
" And how do you suppose we do that? The goddess, I think it was Din, sealed the door after Yettehgimal's oh successful attempt to leave this temple for good. Spirits and monsters can't leave."
" Yettehgimal didn't leave the temple for good, Nab had to put him back in here."
" I was being sarcastic! Just tell me your plan so I can laugh at it." Neelrahc covered her mouth with her four fingers of her right hand and her thumb was placed firmly under her chin. Her brows were slanted as she looked at the floor. Minutes passed when she finally thought of something.
" I got it!" She yelled in the top of her lungs, startling the three." Din felt sorry for us dying very badly so she said if we pray for her to come she will come. I think she will have a key or something to destroy the seal. I will go talk to her while you get the key. When she leaves we do too."
"Ha, that is the-" Her eyes suddenly widened as she unfolded her arms. "That was actually pretty smart, am I alive?"
" So will you help me?"
" Sure. This might be the last time you ever make another genius idea so I want to help. If it were me thinking of a plan, I would use force." The two sisters walked to the closed door and went through it like molecules. The remaining two looked at the door in silence.
" I could of thought of that." Link said looking at Kheino while tapping his right foot.
" Judging from their clothes they were probably from a long time ago. I guess they weren't that bright back then."
" Yeah I guess….Wait a second. Aren't the Goddesses the most powerful beings in Hyrule so they could do anything ,right?"
"Yeah."
"So why when they were telling me that I had to kill the evil guy, why did they just show me shadow figures of Kai and X-Zone instead of telling me where and who they are."
" Who knows? Maybe they didn't want it to be too easy for you; to test your skills." Who the heck is X-Zone? Silence fell over them.
" Do you think those two will get punished for this? They are helping me."
" Hopefully the goddesses won't notice."
"So…. We do we just wait here until they come back."
" I guess so."
" Do you think th-"
" Stop asking me questions! Ask someone else when we get out of here! Just stop asking me!"
" Okay, okay."
Hyrule Fields
"Ha! I can't believed that worked." Charlene said, laughing afterwards. She glanced at Neelrahc and frowned. "Hey why so glum? Your plan actually worked and no one spotted us. Talk about luck."
" Yeah but, we could of helped those Gerudos fight off those monsters."
" How? We're dead! We're just spirits that died from Raging Longlegs!" Her sister shook in fear, remembering what happened on that dreaded day. She clung onto her older sibling's leg trying to forget the dreaded monster. Charlene looked at her sadly and patted her head. She suddenly froze in shock making Neelrahc look at her questionably. She looked at the same direction her sibling was looking at and made the same reaction.
Hyrule Fields was very dark and eerie. Thick, gray clouds covered the sky making all of the plants die from the lack of light. Birds and dogs seemed extinct for none of them heard or saw any. What shocked them the most was that Castle Town was in flames; it was so bright that it seemed to be the sun itself. The castle was unharmed by the flames as if there was an invisible shield blocking the dangerous element out. Innocent people, Gorons, and Zoras were walking to the castle; fire only a couple inches away from their skin. Rope was securely wrapped around their wrists except for the Gorons, instead of rope they had metal. Lizard monsters with spears and a long oval monster with thin legs and a huge mouth was making sure that their captives didn't escape.
Tears filled Neelrahc's eyes as she saw all of this. What has happened to the place she was born and raised? She tried to run to the prisoners but Charlene grasped her shoulder before she got too far.
" We are only here to get a potion for the Hero. He will solve this mess." Her sibling sighed and nodded.
They looked for hours but only saw villagers going to the castle and monster. They were about to give up until they saw a faint light behind a building that looked like a farm. They stopped walking and looked at it curiously.
" Is that fire?" Neelrahc asked tilting her head slightly.
" Yeah I think so." She paused for awhile, looking at the faint light. " Maybe we should ask for two potions, you know, for when they fight Raging Long legs and Man-at-Legs."
" Yeah so they won't end up like us!" They started to walk towards it but it quickly vanished. The two both raised an eyebrow and stepped back. The light reappeared like it never disappeared in the first place. Charleen shrugged and walked towards it even though it was already gone. She quietly dove into a bush nearby when she heard voices. Her sister appeared next to her as they started to eavesdrop a conversation from a bunch of monsters and one human.
" I speak for everyone when I say we are very glad that you helped us." A fire monster said. It had a body, feet, and hands like a humans but it only had three toes and fingers on each hand and foot. It was probably made out of magma. It's head was what fire usually looks like and it's whole eyes were light green. " You know, being controlled is awful. Somebody makes you do something like, burn down a whole village and I get the blame. And I thought scaring people in the temple was giving me a bad reputation. He told me to do that because he was bored, bored! "
" Yeah I guessss. I admit it wasssss fun cutting off people'sss headssssss but no one controlssssss reapersssssss!" A skeleton with a black cloak and scythe said, it's tongue like a snake. The human, who had their back towards the spirits nodded. The fire beast was too far from him/her making it hard to see how he/she looked like.
"Uhh, yeah… So what are you going to do now?" A frog with claws asked.
" I must help The Hero of Time defeat Yadgara. I will stay here until I see him approach the castle." The human said, his voice quite deep making it obvious he was a male. "Please, excuse me." Everyone looked at him questionably but later got the message and left. " Spirits, what is it that you need?"
The two were surprised that he knew they were there. The oldest one started to panic thinking that he might try to hurt them. ( She wasn't really thinking, humans can't touch spirits.) She broke off a branch and ran out to attack him but to her surprise he caught it before it was anywhere near his head.
" You must of been blessed by the goddesses. They allowed your spirits to stay on this planet and finding it a reason to stay."
" H-How d-did you know?" She asked starting to tremble in fear.
"Your clothes. It appears that it is five hundred years old. A normal spirit can only stay here for two hours."
"Yeah , everyone says that. Hey wait, your not even looking at me!" She put more pressure on the stick but it ended up breaking. She stepped back and threw what was left of it but she missed terribly. The man placed the stick next to him and put one finger on it. When he removed it, the stick was glowing with ember. He felt a small tug on his pants, he looked down to see Neelrahc.
" It also seems that they allowed you to touch the living." He said softly.
" Do you have a potion? The Hero needs it." She asked, letting go of his pants.
" Yes, I do but the Hero needs it?"
" Yeah, he's hurt really really badly." He nodded and reached inside his pocket, pulling out a bottle with orange stuff inside. Charlene narrowed her eyes at the object, stepping closer to the man.
" How do we know that's not poison?" The oldest one yelled, expecting to startle him but failed miserably.
" Maybe we should try it. If it's poison we won't get hurt since we're dead." Neelrahc answered for him. Charlene narrowed her eyes even more before snatching the bottle from the strangers hand. She took off the cork with a pop and started drink half of it. Her sister watched curiously while the man started making a fire small enough not to be seen in the distance but big enough for it not to die out. After she was done, her eyes widened as she took a step back.
" Whoa! I feel…Alive! What's in this stuff? No never mind I don't want to hear the useless ingredients but still.. This is amazing! It taste like orange juice with something else that is too good to describe. Let me say this again, this stuff is amazing! It reminds me of Rosogoes but better! I think that fruit is extinct now but this just reminded me of it. Oh Farore, oh Din, oh Nayru.. This stuff is awesome! I would pay a million rupees for five jars of this. If only -" While she continued her ranting, Neelrahc was already in a conversation with the starnge man.
" Does that make you crazy?"
"No but everyone says it tastes good. I have not tried it myself; did not need to." Silence fell over them. The only thing that could be heard was Charlene's ranting and the cackle of the fire. The fire finally reveled how the man looked like to her but she was to busy trying to make him talk.
" So," She began. " do you live anywhere near here?"
"No."
" Where do you live?"
" Nowhere."
" Do you travel a lot?"
"Yes."
" Where did you get the potion?"
" Somewhere."
" Do you have any-"
" Okay, I'm fine now." Charlene interrupted, breathing heavily. " Can we get another potion for the Hero?" The stranger reached back into his pocket and got out another bottle of the orange liquid. She snatched it out of his hands once more and smiled.
" Well, we got to go." She turned around and walked away, earning a glare from her younger sibling.
" Thank you." Neelrach said politely for her sister. She ran next to her and was soon out of the man's sight.
Spirit Temple
The two stared at the two sleeping figures in front of them, watching them mumble in their sleep.
"Darn." Charlene said suddenly.
"What?"
"We only have one and a half potions; we forgot to ask for two!"
"We can't go back. We have to give the Hero the potions so he can save Hyrule." They stayed silent for a while.
" So, how do you think we should wake them up?" Charlene asked while smiling evily.
"What do you mean?"
"What do you mean, what do I mean? I was sure I was clear."
" What I meaned was, how else can we wake them up?" Her sister's devilish smile grew bigger as she ran out the door. Neelrahc stared at the place she disappeared to, waiting for her to come back. A couple of seconds later, her head and half her arms went throught the door but she suddenly stopped when something hit the door. She tried to move her arms again but the sound of the door getting hit was heard again. She sighed and stepped back, disappearing into the door. The door suddenly opened and revealed Charlene caring a wooden pole with two buckets on each end of it.
" There's something missing." She said, carying the new items in front of the two living creatures. She startled her sister when she suddenly snapped her fingers and ran to the corner of the room. When she came back, rope was in each of her hands and a couple of sandstones. Neelrahc watched her tie the ropes on each bucket before she started staring at the wall; finding it more intresting than whatever her sister was doing.
" Finally, done." Charlene said after fifteen minute. She turned around to see her sister staring at a wall. She sighed and walked towards her. " I don't think staring at a wall is better than watching me set up my hilarious plan."
" There is something behind this wall."
"Yeah I know, it's not hollow."
"No, theres something else." She picked up a sandstone with a sharp edge and started hitting it against the wall. After three hits, the wall started to crack, after seven hits, pieces of it started to fall down and reveal a drawing of two swordsman clashing with their swords forming an X. Tentacles were tring to get something above them. Neelrahc tried to hit the area where the tentacles were going but it was too high for her. Charlene sighed and turned around but was now face-to-face with Din, the goddess of power; by the looks of it, she didn't seem too happy. If she was alive, the spirit would have had a heart attack but since she wasn't, she just fell on the floor form shock.
" Hey are you- holy cow!" Neelrahc dropped the sandstone from the sight of the goddess standing before her. Unfortunately, she dropped it above her sisters head but fortunately, it went righ through her.
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" You have defied my and my sisters' wishes. It is time for you to leave this world, for that is your punishment." Din said angrily but her voice had a hint of sadness.
"Wait! What did she do for me to deserve this?" Charlene said with her arms in the air. Her sister growled softly because her older sibling was blamering her again.
" You two helped the Hero of Time and tricked me."
" I didn't know that! What's wrong with helping the Hero? Oh and I didn't trick you, Neelrahc did, I just stole that thing from you to temporarily destroy the seal." Din visibly twitched her eyebrow.
"Look, you either go through the Gates of the Goddesses or burn in Hell."
"Fine, fine, we'll go with ya." The goddess looked at Neelrahc, but as she did, she felt sadness strike her heart. The spirit was in the verge of tears and looked very depressed.
" I will allow both of you to do one last thing on this planet." Din decided, smiling when she saw Neelrahc raise her head with wide eyes.
"That's not really…Impressive. Can we get a wish instead."
"No."
" Before I go, can I see whats behind the wall?" Neelrahc said wirh a huge smile.
"I think telling you would be faster."
"Okay." She yelled very excited.
" Behind it shows a picture of the two legendary swords. One is called the-"
"Master Sword?" Charlene interrupted.
" No. The biggest one out of the two is called the Black Death and the thinner but longer one is called the Ore's Fury; also known as the Rich Man's Sword."
"Thnak you." Neelrahc said sweetly. The goddess placed the fallen pieces of the wall back on it; hiding the picture.
"Whys it called the Rich Man's Sword?" Charlene said yawning.
"It's made out of silver, gold, and topaz." The spirit whistled.
" My turn, I would like to get the Rich Man's Sword befor I leave."
"Do you know where it is?"
"No."
" So you can't get it."
"Fine, before I go, let me dump water on those two sleepy heads." She pointed her thumb at Kheino and Link.
"Okay but when they wake up, we have to go immediately."Charlene walked to the rope hanging from the ceiling and pulled it down with two hands. Two bucket that was on a wooden pole in the middle of the hole tilted, spilling water on the two making them jerk up. She released the rope making the two buckets fall on their heads. She quickly placed the potions in front of them before disappearing in a flash of light.
Link threw the bucket on the floor and looked around. " What happened?" He looked at Kheino who was still struggling to get the wooden bucket off his head. Link assisted him with one hand and placed the bucket next to the one that was on his head.
" Lucky humans and their opposable thumbs." Link heard Kheino mumble. The wolf noticed the two bottles containing the orange liquid. " Is that the potions?"
" Yeah, I guess so." He looked around for the spirits. " Hey, where's Charlene and Neelrahc?"
"They probably got sent throught the Gates of the Goddesses for helping us."
"Well, im not going to waste anymore time." He scooted over to the two bottles and placed them on his lap. I only have one and half bottles of potions? He shrugged it off but that caused them to feel like they were on fire. He quickly drank all of the contents of the half filled bottle and put the potion and the empty bottle in his pocket. His eyes widened when the liquid went through every part of his body. He suddenly stood up making Kheino give him a strange look. " That potion tasted so good! It tastes like oranges and this was very cold and refreshing! If someone made this into a drink, I would spend a million rupees for it! I-"
" I thought you weren't going to waste anymore time." Kheino said oviously annoyed by his constent babbling.
" Oh right. But you should try the potion, it's delicious!" He noticed Kheino's annoyed look and sighed. "Fine, I'm going."
" Yes!" He shouted happily. " I can finally see what's in the other room!"
" Why didn't you go there when I was injured?"
" Then I would have been scounting ahead."
" But when you saw the monster's shadow you tried to see what's inside."
" I hate it when people ask me too many questions." Link sighed and decided to just shut his mouth. He got a bucket under the huge hole and went on top of it. He jumped to the next room and crawled away from the spider; Kheino quickly joining him. The spider wasn't moving and was making a soft growling sound; hookshot still hanging from it's back. The two looked at the next door hoping it was unlocked but sadly for them, chains and a lock covered the door. The two turned their attention back to the spider.
" It's probably asleep." Link said more to himself then to his companion. He walked to and climbed the hookshot silently as he could;leaving Kheino sitting on the floor.
The Hero was climbing really slowly so he wouldn't make a lot of noise with the chains when it hit him; the spider could only attack with it's feet. He hit his face with a palm of his hand (A/N: face palm!) for his idioticy. He noisily climbed the chain and was on top of the spider within minutes due to the fact that he loved to climb things when he was little. The spider stretched when it awoke and immediately noticed Link, it started growl a warning. Link completely ignored the warning and raised his sword high, getting ready to strike the spider's back. It shook it's body alittle making Link lose his balance and let go of his sword. Sadly for the spider, the sword landed on it's sharp end.
It roared and tried to shake him off, really wanting to kill him. Link held onto the sword while pushing it further inside the arachnids body; hoping that he would kill it before he falls off. The monster was really angry now, it started to smash into the walls while avoiding the hole on the floor. A big piece of sandstone hit the Hero on the head making him dizzy and his vision blurry. His grip on the sword loosened making him fall down when the spider hit another wall. After falling five feet, he finally relized what was happening. He grabbed onto his enemy's leg and started to climb back on it's back. The beast only tried to shake him off for a while since it quickly grew tired. Link was already on it's back by then and was trying to push the sword but it stragely couldn't go any deeper.
He suddenly got an idea and took out his hammer but the spider started to try to shake him off again. He smashed his sword with his hammer before falling. He grabbed onto the claw of the hookshot and started pressing that on it's wound. The Hero couldn't hold on tight enough; he fell when the bug smashed into the wall.
While falling, he was getting ready for his other idea. He swung the metallic hammer making it meet the spider's round knee. As it kneeled on one of it's leg, he caught the chain and started climbing it but as he did, he noticed that very small pieces of it's body was falling off. The empty bottle that contained the potion, fell out of his pocket and broke into very large and sharp pieces as he was running to the sword. The glass pierced the spiders back making it growl. He put the spider out of it's misery by driving his sword into it's brain with the Megaton Hammer. It stretched as white sparks came out of it's knees while it's body opened up like a piñata. It's exoskeleton began to fall off and scatter around the room like confetti. Link grabbed his hookshot as he felt the spider's corpse shift and shot it at the roof. He watched as the spiders body fall and dissapear in it's exoskeleton. Link lowered himself next to Kheino who was running around trying to get the spider confetti off himself. The confetti suddenly disappeared into thin air but the wolf was still running around. The Hero put his items back inside his pocket and sheathed his sword before he grabbed Kheino on the scruff of his neck.
"It's gone!" Link shouted, trying to make the canine calm down.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah." The wolf looked at his back and everywhere else before sighing with relief.
"That spider was probably easy to kill, you didn't even fall on the floor once."
"Yeah, I guess." He answered while rubbing the back of his head.
"Well, since you didn't get injured.. Might as well fight that other monster now." He looked at the green ball next to the door.
"That's a monster? Okay then, let's go!"
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A/N- I can't believe this took me about two months to finish. Sure I wasted a month playing Okami and a week laughing at Waka's hair but still… .I imagined this longer than fourteen pages.. Oh and this is probably the longest I will ever do, in this fanfic. Before I forget, Charlene name Neelrahc and she wasn't a really a creative person.
