With the large blast from the bomb, the blue creature was blown away from the fireplace. Link dashed to the fireplace while the man in green ran to the blue creature. He stomped out the fire, then proceeded to climb up the chimney.
"Heyyy!" The voice of the man in green echoed up to Link. "What are you doing?!"
Link gave a hand signal to indicate that he was alright.
"Uhhh, s-stay there! I'll-a go get help!"
A rush of panic filled Link. If the man was going to contact others, then it seemed as if he were truly alone on this mission to return home.
Or maybe the man had friends who were in the same situation, and now that he was free he could save them as well? He seemed to think positively of Link, so it was unlikely that this was betrayal.
Higher and higher Link climbed. As he got higher and higher, he had to eat food to keep his stamina up so he could keep going. How tall was this building, anyway? It certainly seemed much taller now that he was starting on the ground floor.
Eventually, as Link began to approach the top of the chimney, he heard that familiar voice again, speaking indistinctly to someone else. Link continued to climb as the two indistinct voices spoke to each other below him. He was so close now.
The other person called up to him; his voice was higher than the man in green's voice.
"Hellooo!"
Link pulled himself out of the chimney and waved down. It was hard to tell from the distance, but the other man seemed to be wearing red. Link motioned for the two men to follow him up.
"Oh, hello," a voice behind him spoke. This one was much deeper than either of the men below him. "I thought I saw you a couple of days ago."
Link turned around. A masked figure with a cape and glowing yellow eyes stared up at him. He recognized this figure and drew his sword.
"A duel?" The creature glanced at his sword. He then proceeded to pull out his own sword, with a golden blade and many hooks sticking out of the sides. "Very well. I cannot complain. I think I'll like keeping you around."
In the blink of an eye, the figure's cape transformed into a pair of two wings, like that of a Keese, and the figure flew at Link holding his sword out in front of him. Link deflected this attack with his sword and took a swing at the figure. He dodged this attack and flew behind Link. As the figure brought down his sword, Link spun and thrusted his Hylian Shield forward, knocking the figure back a bit.
"I think I rather like you," he said, amused. "You're more skilled than the others I've met."
Link glared, and charged forward at the creature. He jumped out of the way and struck at Link. As Link got up off of the ground, he placed a hand over his Sheikah Slate and summoned a spherical remote bomb. The creature stared at it in surprise as Link prepared to throw it.
"Well, that's certainly new."
In one swift motion, the creature landed, transformed his wings back into a cape, wrapped the cape around himself, and vanished as the bomb flew past where he previously stood.
Link, being familiar with the Yiga Clan who used similar tactics, did what he would naturally do in this situation: he summoned another remote bomb from his Sheikah Slate, placed it at his feet, and detonated the bomb. It wasn't the "safest" method that he knew of, but it worked (as long as he had the food to recover).
Fortunately, the bomb detonated just as the creature reappeared, and the creature was knocked away. His cape transformed into a pair of wings once more as he flew at Link.
Link fought and fought with all of his might. The masked figure fought and fought just as hard. There was a certain... glee in his ovular eyes as he swung at Link again and again.
As Link continued to strike and block and strike and block, something appeared out of the corner of his eye as the masked figure stopped fighting. Link looked in the same direction the figure looked. Slowly rising high above the building was what appeared to be a large, white glove who faded like a ghost near the wrist to show no arm.
The glove simply floated in place above Link and his opponent, as though observing the ended battle through its palm, or perhaps through its fingers. The masked figure stared back up; oddly, there seemed to be no fear in his eyes. Did he know what, or who, this thing was?
Suddenly, a deep voice boomed, coming from the direction of the glove.
"Link."
Before Link could wonder how it knew his name, or how it could speak for that matter, it continued.
"Please, follow me."
Huzzah I think I can finally get back to work on this thing!
I might have to edit some stuff in previous chapters since stuff seems to got lost due to formatting differences. Only minor stuff will change, don't worry! I'm writing this all on a tumblr post in my drafts so stuff tends to get lost in the transfer to .
Anyways you could probably expect the next (and final!) chapter sometime within the year, so expect that sometime eventually.
