OMG ANOTHER REVIEW! THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER!
Dreamer- *looks at review* huh.. guess your story's getting popular..
Teller- You bet it is! :D
Dreamer- hm.. so is that why your back so soon?
Teller- Yep! Can't keep the people waiting! *mumbles* unlike you..
Dreamer- I heard that!
Teller- Good!
Dreamer- *rolls eyes* Whatever, just continue would you?
Teller- Oh right! Shout out to TheZeldaKid101 (guest) Thank you so much :D! I to am kinda sad at how very few fanfics there are where Shadow and Vio ARE NOT together. And yes! You do get your ten virtual cookies! Here yeah go! *hands the cookies to TheZeldaKind101*
Dreamer- Wait, you still have some?!
Teller- *ignores Dreamer by whistling innocently* Oh, and before I start, I just wanna say I'm using a different writing program, so there might be some misspelled words in here, Don't judge.
Dreamer- Oh, we will.
Teller- *rolls eyes* Whatever, any who, are you all ready for the first battle of the story? Yeah you are, I know you are. That's right! I'm talking to you in the back!
Alright! Now...
On with the story!
Shadow and Shelda walked side by side (with Shadow limping more than walking) as they followed the Zora downstream back towards the sea. Shelda glanced at the blue clothing she now wore that they called the 'Zora Tunic'.
"Alright." she said, talking to herself more then Shadow. "I'm pretty sure blue does not look good with my skin tone and hair color." Shelda didn't bother to look up when she heard Shadow chuckle in amusement and said in a amused voice,
"Yeah, I'd never see you with blue." Shelda looks ahead for a moment before looking at Shadow with mild confusion as she asked,
"Do you mean the color or the Link?"
"Both." said Shadow with a smile creeping on his lips. Shelda snorted in amusement as she shook her head, smiling herself. Shelda was ready to open her mouth to say more, but was interrupted by their Zora escort.
"We're here." Both Shelda and Shadow looked up to see that they had been lead to a huge cove, the far side being connected to the sea.
"The temple is in the center of the cove, the entrance being underwater." said the Zora, pointing out to where the water seemed deepest, and Shelda couldn't help but feel a flash of both embarrassment and fear for one simple, yet huge reason;
She doesn't know how to swim.
Shelda glanced over towards Shadow as the Zora lead them to the shoreline, feeling the fear crawl through her veins the closer she got to the water. Neither did the Zora nor Shadow slow down as they entered the water. That is, until they realized that Shelda stopped after walking a foot or two in, where the water was up to her waist. Shadow was a bit confused as to why she seemed so fixated on the water with wide eyes.
"Shelda?" he asked, quite baffled as to why she just.. stood there. Shelda, for reasons unknown to him, didn't seem to hear him as her eyes stayed wide and her breathing seem to increase.
"Shelda what wrong?" asked Shadow a second time. "Your acting like your-" Shadow stopped himself as realization dawned on him and his eyes widen a bit as he whisper the rest of the sentence with new found understanding,
"Afraid of water." Shadow couldn't believe himself! of course she'd be skittish of water, the only possible time she would have been around water would have been when she bathed, and even then she probably was only as deep as she was now. Slapping himself for being so stupid, Shadow took a deep breath before approaching her friend, their Zora escort watching from where he stopped. When Shadow reached Shelda, he put a comforting hand on her shoulder before speaking in a quiet voice.
"Shelda," he said, his voice quiet as he spoke. "It's ok, there's nothing to be afraid of."
"I'm not afraid of the water." replied Shelda, startling Shadow for a second.
'Geez' thought Shadow as he took a deep breath 'why is it you talk every time I lest expect it?!' He was tempted to say that out loud, but thought otherwise and instead said,
"Then what's wrong?" Shadow, at first, expected her to stay quiet, but Shelda then mumbled something under her breath, making Shadow strain to hear.
"I'm sorry," said Shadow, not able to catch what she said, "what did you say?" Shadow watched as Shelda took a deep breath and said in a louder voice, her pale cheeks now pink;
"I can't swim." Shadow looked at her blankly, blinking a few times before saying in a deadpanned voice;
"Yeah, I know. And?" Shelda looked at Shadow with a shocked face, but before she could say anything, Shadow spoke in the same deadpanned voice.
"Shelda, you've lived your whole life in that palace. What would lead me to believe you learned how to swim before now?" Shelda looked at Shadow for a moment before looking away again.
"We'll help." said Shadow as he took her hand and slowly lead her deeper into the water. At first, Shelda was reluctant, but after a moment, she followed. Giving her hand a reassuring squeeze, Shadow lead Shelda deeper and deeper into the water towards the Zora. Once they reached the point where their heads were the only thing above the water.
"Ok," said Shadow as he reached into his pocket for the breathing mask. "put your mask on, Shel."
"A-alright." said Shelda, her voice shaking a bit. Shadow knew she was, in fact, afraid of the water, but he decide it probably would be best if he let that be for now. Shadow took his own mask and attached it to his face, taking a second to get used to breathing through it before looking at Shelda. She too had her mask on, but the uncertainty was clear as ever in her eyes. Taking her hand again, Shadow said in a calm voice.
"Just hold on, and kick your legs, ok?" Shelda nodded, squeezing his hand as he dove under. At first, Shadow held his breath, afraid the masks didn't work, but after a bit, he took the chance and inhaled, finding he could do it as easily as on land. Shadow kept swimming down, following the Zora, towards a drop off not far away. As they came closer, Shadow saw that there were three figures down in the drop off, near what Shadow presumed was the entrance to the temple.
"Those friends of yours?" asked Shadow to the Zora, nodding towards the figures. All the Zora did, however, was shake his head, confirming those were their enemies, not friends. looking back at Shelda, Shadow gave her a nod, which she return, before letting go of her hand and unsheathing his sword, Shelda doing the same. The trio continued to descend towards the enemies, that Shadow now counted to four. Shadow glanced back at Shelda as they came closer, surprised she was actually closer than before. One of guards had seen them, and warned the others as the trio were about a few feet into the drop off. Shadow couldn't help but feel relived as two approached him and Shelda, where the other two approached the Zora. Exchanging a nod with his partner, Shadow charged in and parried with the first guard while Shelda attacked the other. Shadow countered every attack the guard gave him, and as he did so, he couldn't help but glance towards the other two. Shelda seemed to be doing just find, getting the grasp of swimming as she fought. The Zora, as well, was doing fine. He used his arm fins as swords and was much faster in the water than either of the guards, so it was more to his advantage. Shadow, all in all (he wouldn't say it out loud), was doing the worst. Giving his condition and most recent wound, it made sense, but it still didn't mean he had to give up and call for help. As he locked swords with the guard, Shadow reached out and grabbed his opponent's sword, surprising the guard as he took his feet and used them to push off the guard, forcing said guard to let go of his sword and allow it into Shadow's hand. This just made the guard even more angry as he spat out,
"Twerp! Why in the name of Ganon are you apposing Twinrova? You'll do nothing but stall the inevitable!"
"I'm my own person! I will never listen to an old, fucking ass like that! I'm going to defeat you, defeat the monster here, and I'll save the Links and end Twinrova's reign of evil!" Shadow was sure that would have made the guard even more angry, but instead, it made him laugh, which or course surprised Shadow.
"If you think you can save the Links with that plan, you might as well give up!" Shadow was taken aback by that comment, but before he could say anything, a sword was thruster into the guard from behind. The last thing Shadow saw was the guard that gave him a smug, sickening look that chilled Shadow to the bone right before the guard disappeared in a cloud of dark purple smoke. As the smoke cleared, it revealed that it was Shelda who destroyed the guard. The fearful, uncertainty that was in her eyes before was gone, replaced with determination. Shadow couldn't help but still feel spooked as he looked over to the Zora, watching him rid the last guard.
"You okay?" asked Shelda, staying in front of him. Shadow ignored her as he tried to rid the image of that guard's face right before he was killed. Taking a couple deep breaths, Shadow closed his eyes before nodding at Shelda's question.
"Yeah." he said, taking one last deep breath before looking at Shelda, giving her a look as their Zora friend approached that said tell you later. Shelda nodded in understanding before looking at the Zora.
"Where now?" the Zora simply pointed to one of the walls of the drop off that was carved out from the stone walls. Shadow thought of it sort of similar with the Four Sword Shrine, with its four pillars of stone and the arch above the entrance. Shadow swam side by side with Shelda as they reached the entryway, but Shadow stopped when a thought entered his mind. Turning around to face the Zora, Shadow asked;
"How far in is this 'monster?" the Zora thought for a moment before responding,
"Right when you enter the temple, there should be a well-like pool in the center of the room. According to one of our scouts, the monster should be in that chamber." Shadow nodded as he thought, then looked back at the Zora to continue with his conversation.
"Why do you ask?" Asked the Zora. Shadow was silent for a moment before speaking.
"Maybe it'd be best if you stayed. There's no doubt in my mind those guards are back in the Dark Realm, telling Twinrova about this, and they are probably are already sending more troops out here." The Zora nodded in understanding as he finished Shadow's plan.
"And with me staying here, it will buy you two more time." Shadow nodded in confirmation, Shelda staying quiet. The Zora was quiet for a few moments before nodding and looking up at Shadow.
"I agree. Hurry, before they do come." Shadow nodded before turning around and swimming away with a quick 'Come Shelda', who quickly followed. The two of them swam into the tunnel, into a circular passageway that twisted and turned as it slowly climbed up. The duo quietly swam side by side as the passageway started to become more and more vertical until it was straight up. Both shadows quickly swam to the top, breaking the surface one second faster than the other (Shadow being last.). Both took a second to survey the area before climbing out. The room was nothing but a cavern made by nature itself, other than the stairs carved from it leading to a locked door. Shadow and Shelda approached the door, Shadow sighing in annoyance.
"Great!" he exclaimed, removing his mask as his voice echoing of the walls. "Just fucking great! Does he warn us about the guards? Of course! Does he tell how to get to the monster? Why wouldn't he? Does he tell us that the door to the chamber where the monster is locked? Of course not! Why would he? Such a fact means nothing!-" Shadow continued with his rant, not realizing Shelda looking around and finding a handle hanging from the roof, a most a foot above their current elevation, and about another foot away from the ledge. Tilting her head in confusion and hopeful curiosity, Shelda advanced the edge, stopping about a little under a foot from it. Glancing back at Shadow who still had his back to her ranting, Shelda looked back at the handle before taking a deep breath and bolted towards the edge. Once she got to the edge, Shelda jumped, reaching out to the handle, and felt her fingers wrap around it as she stopped her decent back to the first floor (which, actually, was only a foot or two below the platform Shadow was still ranting on). For a second, nothing happened and Shelda couldn't help but think this was just for show, but then there was a click as the whole handle dropped a few inches down, stopping with a jerk. Shelda was close to falling off, but remained holding on as a creaking noise of metal hinges moving behind her, causing Shelda to look behind her to see the gate like doors now open and Shadow looking at her with surprise as his mouth hung open. Flashing him a smile, Shelda turned around as she continued to hang onto the level, saying in a amused tone;
"Careful Shad, you'll catch bugs if you keep your mouth like that." At the sound of her voice, Shadow snapped out of his shocked trance and shook his head before looking back as Shelda swung her body in a swing motion until she was able to jump back in front of Shadow.
"How did you know that was there?" Shadow asked as Shelda brushed dirt off her clothes.
"I didn't." She admitted as she put her hands on her hips and looked at Shadow with a slight smile on her lips.
"But instead of ranting, I decided to try something out, and oh look! It worked." Shelda couldn't help but chuckle at Shadow as he tried (and miserably failed) to pout.
"Aw come on!" she exclaimed as she walked by him, grabbing Shadow's elbow in the process and dragging him towards the door. "Stop being a wuss and come with me to kick that monster's ass!" Shadow rolled his eyes as he pulled his arm away from his partner, now walking side by side with her.
"Fine," he said in a fake annoyed tone. "if I really have to, I guess I'll come." All Shelda did in response was roll her eyes as they walked side by side into the tunnel.
(Line break {was really tempted to end it there, but.. LONGEST CHAP SO FAR! WHOWA!})
Shadow and Shelda stood in front of the water, hesitant as to what was to come.
"Soo.." said Shadow, trying to break the silence. "Ladies first?" he said, looking at Shelda as he held his hand out towards the water. Shelda just looked at him like as if he just suggested they'd jumped off a cliff for fun. After a moment, Shelda sighed in annoyance before saying in a deadpanned voice;
"Why don't we just go together?" looking at Shadow, Shelda slipped on her mask as Shadow shrugged his shoulders and followed suit.
"If that'll please you." Said Shadow as him and Shelda approched the edge.
"Ready?" asked Shadow as he took Shelda's hand. In response, Shelda nodded as they both mentally counted down from three. Once they reached zero, both shadows gave each other one last glance before taking a deep breath and jumping in together. The first thing Shelda noticed was the strong essence of evil coming from the depths of cylinder shaped room. Shelda looked around to see about three pillars in the center, creating a triangle in the center. Shelda noticed as soon as they reached midway that the pillars were damaged and there were cracks and dents in it.
"Whatever this monster is." Said Shelda to Shadow as they continued to descend. "It seems to not like being here."
"Yeah." Agreed Shadow as he too looked around. "But my question is this; where is it right now?" Shelda couldn't help but feel unnerved as she looked around, not seeing anything that could be their monster in sight. What happened next happened so fast, Shelda was sure they were going to die. Out of the blue, a huge worm-like monster burst from under the sand and started swimming around, ramming into the pillars as sand was disturbed from the floor, creating a large cloud of sand all around the bottom of the room.
"Watch out!" called Shelda to Shadow as she unsheathed her sword and swam out of the way of the on-coming monster.
"Morpheel." Mumbled Shadow under his breath as he watched the monster continuing to swim around.
"What?!" asked Shelda as she came up beside him, barely hearing him say something.
"Morpheel;" said Shadow a little louder as they stayed clear of Morpheel. "It's a monster from a different realm that changes the appearance of people into mindless monsters." Shadow explained as they continued to swim out of Morpheel's path.
"I remember this one because back when I was working for Ganon, I had researched on more than Link with the Dark Mirror."
"What do you mean?" asked Shelda as they swam side by side, both having they're swords out.
"Well," said Shadow as he watched Morpheel swim around the pillars. "It's a long story, but what I can say is this monster, Morpheel, has impenetrable skin, and can't be damage by something as simple as a sword as far as I know of." Shelda was silent as she processed this information as she too watched Morpheel. It was then Shelda saw it; on Morpheel's back was a circular, white orb with a black circle in its center.
Otherwise known as; an eye.
"Shadow!" she exclaimed as she pointed to the eye. "Look! A weak spot!" Shadow looked to where she was pointing and couldn't help but smile under his mask as he said in a determined voice.
"Alright! Lets try it. Do you think-"
"I'll distract it while you attack?" asked Shelda, interrupting Shadow's sentence. Shadow couldn't help but look at his friend with a look that Shelda knew was him silently telling her to stop interrupting him. Shelda, in return, rolled her eyes as she swam towards Morpheel as she call over her shoulder;
"I'll herd it towards you, just be sure to grab on!"
"Alright!" called Shadow as he watched as Shelda swam (a bit clumsy in honesty) towards the still roaming Morpheel. As she came close to Morpheel, Shelda cupped her hands around her covered mouth as she shouted as loud as she could.
"Hey! Your so fat, a whale is a goldfish compared to you!" Shadow couldn't help but smile as Morpheel chased after Shelda, the said shadow leading to where Shadow currently was at. Shadow tighten the grip on his sword as Morpheel came closer and closer. Once he was sure it was close enough, Shadow swam as fast as he could to Morpheel's eye, grabbing onto one of it's large scales in order to keep up with the monster. Shadow couldn't help but look at the eye as he held his sword even more tightly, and saw that the eye was watching him with.. recognition? That confused Shadow to no end. Shadow disregarded it as he took his sword and plunged in into Morpheel's eye. What happened next was by far the scariest thing Shadow experienced; Morpheel screeched in pain as the sword was lunged into his eye. What was the most horrifying part was that it wasn't the sound of a monster, but of a boy. An all to familiar boy's scream. Shadow's eyes widened as the pieces of the puzzle fell into place;
"They changed the Links."
"the monster appeared just a few days ago."
"If you think that you can save the Links with that plan, you might as well give up!"
"The Four Swords.. changed.."
Shadow's grip on Morpheel was released at the realization of what that meant. It meant one thing Shadow couldn't believe.
"Shadow!" he faintly heard Shelda as Morpheel rampaged throughout the place, ramming into the pillars as the scream echoed in Shadow's ears.
"Shadow!" Shelda called out again, snapping Shadow out of his trance as she placed a hand on his shoulder. Shadow blankly looked at Shelda as she asked if he was ok. He was about to answer, but Morpheel below them interrupted as it rammed into another one of the pillars. Shelda started to swim away, ready to finish what Shadow started, but was stopped by Shadow who grabbed her arm, shock and fear in his voice as he spoke;
"Shelda, wait!" Shelda stopped as Shadow franticly continued. "We can't hurt him!" Shelda was taken aback as she tried to understand this sudden exclamation.
'Wha-Why? Shad, what's gotten into you?" Shelda then took the moment of silence (other than the sound of Morpheel rampaging) Shadow gave to fully look at him. He seem shaken by something, his eyes a bit wide and his hands were shaking slightly.
"Shadow, what is it? What did you mean we cant hurt Morpheel?" it was then Shadow looked over to Morpheel watching as it again rammed into a pillar.
"We can't…" said Shadow as he continued to watch Morpheel. "Because.."
"Because what Shadow?"
"Because," said Shadow, finally looking up at Shelda as he continued.
"That's Blue Link."
"WHAT?!"
Teller- That… took.. a while.
Dreamer- No kidding.
Teller- Sorry for the delay and major cliffy, just really need to get this posted for my own mental being.
Dreamer- … What does that mean?
Teller- Doesn't matter. I just want you guys to know that updates will be less frequent due to the school year starting, but I will still continue till the end, so no worries! I had to reupload this chapter due to it giving proplems so.. yeah..
Dreamer- I hope so.
Teller- .. Should I mention your story again?
Dreamer- … No.
Teller- Good, again, I'll update ASAP, and review, follow and favorite!
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