Hey guys, and welcome back to THOR!

I can safely say that I'm back at 100%!

*Relic cheers for this*

Now, a bit of big news.

*Relic titlts her head in curiosity*

You know how I said I wanted to do an arc for Grimm Eclipse?

Well I'll be able to do it!

Because it's been confirmed that Grimm Eclipse takes place between volumes 2 and 3.

*Relic fist pumps at the news*

So, Grimm Eclipse will essentially serve as Season 2.5

Also, for those who think that the Termina arc is long, don't worry people, we're getting to the end, just a little more and then we'll finally finish up volume 2.

Pretty soon we're going to reach some of the more climactic moments of the series, and I can't wait to show you all how things are going to turn out.

I wonder if I'll hit the big 100 in number of chapters before this story ends.

I got a little something special planned if I do.

Anyway!

Let's get this show on the road!


Gyro and Ruby were currently standing in Termina Field.

They had to get to Ikana Canyon, but before the other Pierce would let them pass, they needed to get a mask from the Gorman Brothers.

But before that, Gyro was testing something out of curiosity.

The Bunny Hood, when worn, ups the wearers speed by a relative 1.5 times.

The Pegasus Boots, when worn, allow the user to reach near instantaneous levels of speed.

Ruby's semblance in her Hylian Form was Super Speed.

What happens when all three are combined?

Only one way to find out.

Thus why Ruby was currently wearing the Bunny Hood on top of her head (and looking doubly adorable thanks to them) and had switched out her normal boots for Gyro's Pegasus Boots, which were magically enchanted to resize to whoever wore them.

Gyro took a few steps back as Ruby got ready to run as fast as she could.

He raised his arm up before lowering it down, and was greeted, by this.

BOOM!

The shockwave sent him flying back into a tree as Ruby broke the sound barrier as soon as she moved, creating a sonic boom right then and there.

"Ow..." he groaned out, because that had actualy hurt his back a bit, even with aura protecting him.

Not a second later Ruby was in front of him constantly aplogizing as she tried to pull him free from the tree.

Gyro made sure to remember never to do that again, and that even if he was curious, to not attempt a second test with a Ruby hyped up on an energy drink.

That was asking for trouble.

Anyway, after he'd managed to get unstuck from the tree, and Ruby stopped apologizing when he told her he'd bake a strawberry shortcake once they got back if she did, they set out for the Gorman Brothers' racetrack. (and Gyro was mentally thinking of a recipe for Ruby that combined chocolate chip cookies and strawberries, just for the hell of it, so far the only thing he could think of were chocolate chip cookies covered in whipped cream with a strawberry slice on top, it was definetly a nice idea, but not quite what he was looking for.)

Once they made it to the racetrack, they saw that the brothers, just like Gorman back at Clock Town, looked like Neptune, and to make things annoying, the brothers started taunting them about racing, until Gyro called Epona over with her song and challenged the brothers to a race.

He saw that they seemed hesitant, so he said the one thing that worked on everybody with an ego "What's the matter? Scared you'll lose?" he said with a smirk to further rile them up.

Obviously, they accepted the offer to race.

It was a bit of a joke really, the brothers were racing on donkeys, and Epona was a mix breed of a Clydesdale and a freaking Mustang, built for both power and speed.

Plus it kind of helped that Gyro had unlocked her aura a little while ago, so she was power, speed, and a tank all rolled into one.

In a few words, Epona was unstopable.

Thus it wasn't much of a surprise when her and Gyro won the race, with Ruby cheering them on from the sidelines.

Gyro's reward for winning the race was the mask of a Garo ninja leader.

As they walked away from the racetrack, Gyro remembered two masks he had obtained during his and Ruby's last rest cycle.

The All-night mask, which was originally a torture device used to keep a prisonner constantly awake, and the Troupe Leader's mask, which was literally a mask of Neptune's face with a sad expression.

To get the All-night mask, he just had to buy it from the curiosity shop for 500 Lien.

The other one had been much more interesting.


Gyro and Ruby stood outside the bar in Clock Town, Gyro remembering that the manager of the indigo-gos wanted somebody to help do a sound check to prepare for the carnival.

But it would raise questions if he constantly went out of sight to change masks being worn, so instead, he was using a spell to help him out.

"Altocast! Copy!" he said as a rune passed over him, an identical one falling down next to him and generating a copy of him as the runes passed, the two Gyros then cast the spell again, creating two more copies.

The four Gyros looked each other over to be sure they were no errors, before the original handed out his transformation masks to the copies, the three of them donning the masks, and thanks to that, all four of Gyro's forms were now standing in the same place at the same time.

Ruby looked on with her jaw hanging at the fact that Gyro was able to copy himself, and from the looks of it, they were real copies unlike Blake's shadows.

Interestingly, each of them acted differently.

The original Gyro obviously acted still like himself.

Deku Gyro acted a bit more childish, if the fact he was hanging off Goron Gyro's back was any indication.

Goron Gyro seemed to have the demeanor of a typical gentle giant.

And finally, Zora Gyro was more laidback than the others.

Anyway, the fours Gyros plus Ruby then headed into the bar, where they could see the manager standing in front of the stage with a hand on his chin, and Gorman sitting at the bar and seemingly drinking his sorrows away.

Ruby simply sat down on a stool as she watched Hylian Gyro talk to the manager, the man talking to them about the concert they were supposed to hold on the carnival, although things seemed a bit iffy at the moment.

Either way, he asked the four Gyros to do a sound check for him, each of them bringing out their respective instrument as they played the Ballad of the Wind Fish for him as he requested.

The song seemed to resonate within Gorman's mind, as it reminded him of when he'd heard it played by the previous generation of the indigo-gos years ago.

It cheered him up somewhat, and as thanks, he gave them the Troupe Leader's mask.

Idly each Gyro wondered how narcisistic you had to be to make a mask of your own face and give it to someone else.

With that little thing taken care of, they all left the bar as the four Gyros all became one again, with Ruby idly questionning him about how it felt.


He shook his head as him and Ruby arrived near Ikana Canyon, mounting on top of Epona before rushing off into the canyon itself, building up speed and crossing the gap once more.

The other Pierce noticed them, although to him it was the first time meeting them, so he gave them the same speech as last time, except at the end, Gyro put on the Garo mask, and Pierce created a small dead tree for the two of them to hookshot onto as he then teleported in a flash of purple flames.

With the path finally open, Gyro and Ruby used their respective hookshots to reach the top of the ledge and finally enter the full area of Ikana Canyon, although before they could they did have to avoid a group of fake gorons known as Nejirons.

Once they were past the Nejirons, Gyro and Ruby hookshotted themselves to the top of a cliff while they were next to a river, ending up seeing what appeared to be a large music house standing on a ledge, surrounded by Gibos, essentially mummies.

Anyway, as they walked, Gyro put on the Garo mask, and out of nowhere, a Garo ninja appeared, at first believing Gyro to be his master, before realising his mistake and pulling out his swords from within his cloak and attacking Gyro, who easily defeated the ninja.

Upon his defeat, he told them that he could at least provide aid to the one who bested him in combat, thus telling Gyro about the dried up well, before making a hand seal with one of his hands and actually blew himself up, saying that he would die the way of the Garo, leaving behind no corpse.

Gyro was a bit perturbed about this, so he decided to avoid attractign any more of the Garos and removed the mask.

At the very least he had Link's memories to guide him.

So with that done, him and Ruby climbed up the hill till they reached the spring water grotto, where they were met with the ghost of the composer Sharp, the brother of the other ghost they had met in the graveyard some time ago.

He taunted them about the fact that they came here of all places, and told them he would make them join the ranks of the dead by having them listen to his haunting melody.

And when he actually started to play, the two of them actually felt their auras ever so slowly drain.

Gyro decided not to waste time and played the Song of Storms, as instructed by Flat, which visibly had an effect on Sharp as he seemed to recognize the song before writhing in pain as his body faded away, releasing the curse he had placed on the spring, letting the water flow from it once more.

Outside the cave, the water from the spring was making the water wheel of the house turn, which then activated the multiple music horns on top of it as they played a song which drove away the gibdos, casting them back to the earth from which they came.

Back inside the cave, Sharp's ghost reappeared before Gyro and Ruby, except he looked more calm now.

He thanked them for freeing him of 'the masked one's' influence and made a request of them.

To destroy the evil that lies within the temple of Ikana, however they would need the help of the lingering spirit of the king to get in.

If they can do this, the curse placed upon Ikana will finally be lifted, allowing all the lingering spirits within the land to ascend beyond and obtain eternal rest.

With his words said, Sharp disappeared for good, no doubt waiting for the curse to be lifted.

As Gyro and Ruby exited the grotto, they saw a surprising sight.

A little girl with tri-colored hair in shades of pink, brown and white, looking around the only house in the area.

Gyro smiled amusedly at the fact that Neo's Terminean counterpart was a child, although he wondered who her father was?

With the help of the Stone Mask, Gyro and Ruby snuck into her house, as Gyro remembered what Link had done to help the girl's father.

Once they were inside, the two of them made their way downstairs, where they could see a lone closet, standing out amongst everything else.

As they stepped closer, the closet shook, until it opened itself and revealed a man, his body half covered in bandages, almost like he was half-gibdo.

Ruby went wide-eyed when she saw the man, and turned to Gyro, only to see him frozen in place, his own eyes wide as his body shook.

She could also faintly hear him whisper something.

"Azure... Big Brother... Why?"

Ruby didn't really have time to figure out what he meant, but she had a bit of an idea as she took out her flute and played the Song of Healing.

The man clutched his head in pain as suddenly, his body flashed for a moment before it was back to normal, a mask shaped like a gibdos face clattering to the ground.

With the man normal again, it was quite clear to those who knew him, that this was the Terminean counterpart of Azure Vermillion, with silvery blonde hair and sapphire blue eyes.

The man's daughter rushed back inside, having managed to hear the song being played, running downstairs fearing something may have happened to her father, before seeing him back to normal, tears threatened to spill from her eyes as she launched herself like a missile at her father, colliding right with his stomach as he caught her.

While the two were busy with their reunion, Ruby picked up the mask while she guided Gyro back outside.

It was probably for the best that Gyro was stunned, or he may had noticed a picture of the father and daughter, along with the mother, who looked every bit like one Noel Vermillion (née Sinclair) had before her death.

Once they were outside, Ruby had Gyro sit on the stairs of the home as she sat down next to him.

She didn't say a word, she simply waited for him to speak.

To be honest though, it was the first time she'd seen him so distraught, most of the time he was so well composed, it was worrying.

After a few minutes, Gyro finally started to speak "That man... he has my older brother's face... Azure Vermillion..."

Ruby hugged him after a few moments, having a good idea why that was affecting him so much "You still haven't gotten his death haven't you?"

A beat passed before Gyro shook his head "No... neither me or Pierce have really gotten over Azure and Noel's deaths yet... it only happened a year ago afterall..."

Ruby nodded at his words "How did it happen?"

Gyro didn't say anything at first, until he shook his head "Ruby? There's something I want to tell you."

She titlted her head in curiosity "What is it?"

He looked back at her, his face no longer so bleak, instead, it looked like he had just made a life changing decision "The truth."


And voila.

*Relic is already asleep*

You guys be happy I stayed up late for this one.

So yeah, covered quite a lot of things this time around.

For one, Gyro (and apparently Pierce) are still feeling the after effects of Azure's death.

And how about that last line huh?

Yes, Gyro is about to do what you think he's about to do.

He trusts Ruby enough to let her know.

For those who like the ship, don't worry, it won't ruin it.

Anyway.

Read, Review, Don't be a dick, and have a nice day everyone.

See ya next time.