Chapter 52: When is Link Going to Fight!? Cyrus Waits in the Tower!
Link. Five heavily armed technicians. How can one man possibly attack such powerful enemies? Link continued to dodge the barrage of arrows, occasionally taking a blow from a punch or possibly some arrows to his body. Overall, he was losing this battle. Finally, he got some wiggle room. He punched one straight into another, and they stumbled around for a second due to loss of balance.
"Crap…there are too many of these guys." Link thought to himself, wiping some blood from the corner of his mouth. "I can't get a good hit on any of them without leaving myself vulnerable. Where the heck is Gladius!?" Link quickly hopped out of the way of another punch and a flamethrower.
As he landed again, he looked to the outside of the fortress. He saw the sea. He had forgotten about the sea since they landed. He instantly yearned to get back out to the waters and continue his journey and make new friends. His new yearning burst forward a new idea. "That's it!" Link shouted happily. The two technicians were still unbalanced, and he took this to his advantage.
He ran over to the other three technicians, and quickly pushed two, knocking them off balance. The third one was grabbed by the foot, and Link used all of his strength to pick him up and threw him at the other two techs, which were already unbalanced. They fell down, and the third one (after knocking them down) rolled and smashed into a wall.
Link ran over to the two fallen techs, and used this lack of defense to finally get rid of these monstrous enemies. He would throw them out to the sea. He grabbed one by his feet, and slowly spun around with him in his hands. Soon, the momentum was so great from spinning that as soon as Link was done spinning and let him go, the tech flew straight out to sea without issue. He smashed into the water, quickly drowning.
Likewise, he took the other one and threw him out to the deep waters. Finally, it was only Link and three of the technicians, but while he spun around they had all regained balance and recovered from being pushed. Link probably couldn't get that lucky, so now he was stuck with a force only battle. Link jumped forward, fists behind him and ready to strike. He jumped to the height of one of the tech's chest, and let both of his fists fly forward with great speed (from his muscle strength). They smashed into the tech's armor, leaving a massive dent and throwing him back a lot. But it wasn't enough.
Gladius, on the other hand, was more than enough for the moblin his was facing. One was knocked out in the corner, and the other one and Gladius were in a full out battle. Punches were thrown, leaving multiple bruises and swelling and blood. Gladius had the upper hand in strength, but the moblin he was facing had the upper hand in speed.
After receiving multiple blows to both his face and body, Gladius finally delivered the last punch. He punched straight into the jaw of the moblin, throwing him to the ground, clawing his face in agony. Gladius decided it would be more humane to kill him then instead of letting him suffer and still having him die. Gladius rolled him over and beat him to death, throwing roughly thirty punches straight into the moblin's weak points on his head. His brain was beaten, and the moblin was finally dead.
Gladius stood up, wiping the moblin's blood on his shirt. He walked over to the door to his bunker, threw open the door and ran in. On the wall hung two swords, given to him by Cyrus himself. He got the swords after a major voyage taken by Gladius and a few other division captains. Using the plunder, he took out fifteen thousand rupees for each sword and took them to the Gor Ga Isles, in the north seas, where he then paid a blacksmith and forged the best swords that the blacksmith could make.
Needless to say, they were top notch swords. Gladius wandered over to the wall and took the swords, examining them. They were a little dusty because Gladius hadn't touched them in a few months due to being with Link's crew, but they were still sharp. Using his time wisely he took a sharpening stone and quickly sharpened the swords, making sure they were as sharp as they could be.
He wandered out of his bunker and found the other moblin standing back up, spear in hand. "Gladius, dude! That wasn't cool! I'm gonn-" The moblin shouted, but Gladius jumped forward and quickly decapitated the moblin.
"I better get back to Link. I hope he's been able to handle himself." Gladius uttered and soon ran off to catch up to Link.
Executing their master plan, Navi, Russell and Makar moved into action. Navi distracted the giant beast as well as the other bokoblin. She ran around, shooting spikes and fire at the bokoblin and unleashing large bursts of light at the giant technician. Meanwhile, Russell flew in the sky, carrying small little Makar on his back. The head of the tech was exposed, and they were going to use it.
Russell flew high into the sky, and Makar slowly formed his hands into sharp spikes. Then, he grew the spikes out. The spikes were large, like tree limbs, and spiked like swords. It was a magnificent plan. "Alright Russell, this is high enough! Go down and protect Navi now!" Makar shouted as he reluctantly jumped from the Kargarok and fell down. Using his momentum, he gained speed and fell down to the technician, still aiming to kill Navi.
Finally, he flew straight into the head of the technician. Using his sword like hands, he impaled the giant's head. He actually went so deep into the body that when he cut off the sword hands and grew back his normal hands, he slowly flew out with propeller leaves. The giant technician slowly swayed back and forth, and the bokoblin below cried in fear.
"He's the second most powerful being in our crew, just barely ahead of Gladius!" A frightened bokoblin shouted.
"Guys, I don't think we stand a chance! Retreat to the shipping dock! We can lock ourselves in!" One of the bokoblin shouted. Many of them agreed, and they all began to retreat. But, Navi refused to let them escape. As Makar and Russell returned to the field, they began to pick off the bokoblin one by one. But still, few managed to escape to their shipping dock.
Link and the three technicians continued to go on and on, constantly taking hits from the enemy. However, Link grew tired and he wanted to get a break. He continued attacking, however, hoping that he would eventually be able to knock on out. But sadly, that never happened. Finally, though, after much waiting, Gladius came onto the platform with his two prized swords. Link was about to yell at him, but Gladius raised his finger, motioning for silence. He had come behind a tech who had not seen him, and from behind he cut the armor straight off the tech.
The tech turned around and found Gladius, as well as his fallen armor. "What? How di-" The tech began to ask, but Gladius quickly summoned up a new move.
"Demi Bestia Viridi." He grunted. Raising one sword up in the air and pointing one to the ground, he jumped forward and quickly sliced. On the other side of the tech he stood, and he sheathed his swords. At that point, the tech split -from head to where the legs split- in half. The two parts of the tech fell straight to the ground. The two techs remaining instantly realized they were done for. For someone as strong as Link and someone as skilled as Gladius, they were of no match.
They fought for another five minutes, constantly dodging the deadly duo. Finally, however, Gladius got a vantage point and sliced off the helmet of one of them. As he fell back to the ground, he threw one of his swords in a helicopter-like fashion, and it sliced the tech's head off. Gladius landed, and ran forward to grab his sword again. The final tech cowered and started to run away, but Link jumped forward and past the tech, where he was in front of him. He pushed the tech back, and then Gladius got his second sword.
They ran toward each other, while the tech was off balance, and nodded. Finally, from the same spot, they burst forward and started to attack the tech. As they approached, the tech regained balance. But he couldn't do a thing about the oncoming attackers. Gladius jumped up and aimed straight at his face, while Link ran and hopped to punch him in the stomach.
The deadly blast from the two—with Link's full strength and Gladius' best swords—killed the technician on impact, throwing him across the stone arena and straight into a wall, cracking it and falling down to the ground. Finally, it seemed, all the obstacles were gone. "Hey, Link." Gladius huffed out. "Cyrus is just up these stairs." Gladius motioned to a spiraling stone staircase, leading up to the giant pirate ship on top of the fortress. (just like in wind waker, in case you've forgotten.)
"Yes!" Link shouted. He began to run to the stair case, Gladius following behind. "Cyrus….! I'm going to kill you!" Link grit his teeth and he bust forward, much faster than Gladius. Gladius now couldn't keep up with his ambitious captain, who was determined to win the battle. Finally, Link saw the door leading into Cyrus' room. "CYRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" Link exclaimed, and he collided with the door, tackling it down to the ground.
To be continued…
