Gray

The first thing that hit him was the smell. Normally, when he stepped into a sewer, which he definitely did not do very often, he expected it to smell bad. But with his heightened wolf senses, it was almost overwhelming.

"It smells nasty in here, don't they ever clean this place?" Blue asked. Green scraped a line in the layer of green-gray slime and algae covering the wall.

"Nope, I don't think they do," he answered, wrinkling his nose and shaking his paw to get the gunk off.

"Yuck!" Red exclaimed, scooting away from the wall.

"I don't think the floor is any better, Red," Vio noted, glancing at the algae-covered floor.

Let's just get out of here as fast as possible," Gray said, "which way do we go?" he asked the imp, who was still perching on his back.

"That way," the imp pointed and flashed him a bright smile, "Oooh! There's something interesting for you to see too!"

Indeed, as the group walked over, Grey spotted a, glowing, blue, slightly see-through form trembling while leaning on a spear.

"Huff… Huff…Can't… run… any… farther… that's… far enough… right? I'll be safe here… I think…" the man panted, a frightened look in his eyes.

"Hello?" Gray asked, approaching him, the chain on his leg rattling on the floor.

"What was that noise?! Don't… Don't anything come near me!" the guard panicked, glancing around, his eyes traveling right through the group of animals as if he couldn't see them.

"Sir, are you okay?" Green asked.

"He can't see you," the imp informed him, "that's a soldier's spirit. Maybe it's someone from the other world? Eee-hee!"

"What happened to him?" Vio asked.

"You'll have to keep moving to find out!" she giggled.

"We can't just leave him here! What can we do?"Red asked.

"Oh don't worry about him, he's a guard, right? He can take care of himself," the imp waved a hand dismissively through the air, "Giddyup!" she kicked Gray's sides, making him jump and run forwards a few paces.

"Ow!" he complained. She had kicked hard.

"Well? I don't want to be here all day, get going before I decide to leave you all behind!" she ordered. That got the group moving.

Eventually, after all of them being soaked in sewer water, having their fur covered in algae and slime from walking and crawling through small tunnels, discovering that the imp could maneuver her fiery orange hair like a hand, and generally being grossed out and exhausted, they finally made it out into a tall room with a large spiral staircase.

"Where to… now?" Gray puffed.

"All the way up the stairs!" the imp piped cheerfully from where she sat on his back.

"I need a rest!" Red panted, flopping onto his side.

"And a bath! Green added.

"Let's sit here and take a break for a bit," Vio suggested.

"Fine by me," Blue agreed.

After taking a short break, they were eventually urged on by the impatient imp, and started clambering up the long, spiraling staircase. This was a little hard for the rabbits sometimes, because they had to make large leaps over several holes in the dilapidated stairs. Not to mention that they already had to jump up steps that were nearly as high as they were. Eventually at one point, much to the humiliation of Blue, Gray had to carry the four over a gap in the staircase so large that they couldn't jump the length by themselves.

After this humiliation, Blue grumbled at the imp, "Either we are very far underground, or you're trying to take us to the roof. I hope for your sake it's the prior," Unfazed, the imp grinned lazily at him.

"You'll see," she said.

At long last, they finally reached a door at the top of the stairs. The black-and-white imp opened it with her hair-hand thing, and the door swung open, revealing… the roof.

"So, we were finally able to get out. And look at the sky! Isn't the black cloud of twilight looking beautiful today?" the imp exclaimed, stretching.

"I KNEW IT!" Blue roared, "that no-good imp brought us to the roof!"

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Vio

Meanwhile, Vio gasped as he saw their surroundings. The sky was indeed tinted an eerie yellow-orange, with inky black clouds racing across it. It was beautiful in a strange sense, but Vio knew he definitely preferred a blue sky with white fluffy clouds. It seemed that wherever they were had been plunged into a world of never ending twilight.

"Look, we can see really far from up here!" Red exclaimed, always the optimist. Vio kind of liked that about him. He could find the bright side to anything.

"Do you know where this is?" the imp asked.

"No," Green replied and Gray shrugged, but Vio was thinking hard. This was definitely some kind of castle, and how many castles were in Hyrule? In his time, he knew there was one, but this world he hardly knew anything about. Still, he gave it a shot.

"We're in Hyrule Castle aren't we?" he asked.

"Oooh, aren't you a smart one? Eee-hee!" the imp giggled, "Look, there's someone I want to introduce you all to, but I'll need you to go to that tower to do it!" she pointed towards the tower nearest them. Still, it was a couple of rooftops over. Not really something Vio wanted to walk after traversing a sewer and a really long, really holey spiral staircase.

"Let's just get this over with!" Blue growled, "Come on!" he raced across the rooftop.

Just then, there was a shrieking honk, and a black, shadowy bird with red highlights swooped down, lifting Blue right off of the rooftop. Blue shrieked in the horrible way only frightened rabbits do, and struggled to get free.

"Blue!" Green shouted, racing to help him with the rest of the group. Quickly assessing the situation, Vio shouted to Gray,

"Get over to the corner of the roof! Me, Green and Red will distract it and lead it over to you!" then he tried to catch the bird's attention, "Hey Bird-brain!" he yelled, rushing at it. As it turned to grab him in its free claw, Red leaped onto its wing, making it lose its balance and hit the roof, breaking a few shingles off. Unfortunately, it didn't drop the frustrated blue bunny. Honking in annoyance, it flew at the nearest rabbit it could spot. This happened to be Green. Realizing it was after him, Green rushed towards Gray, who now had good balance on the thickest point of the roof. Snarling, Gray floored the bird, gripping its neck in his teeth and shaking it until it dropped Blue. Then he flung it off the roof, and it didn't come back.

"Are you all right Blue?" Green asked, while Gray spat the vile taste of the bird out of his mouth.

"I… I don't know," he answered.

"Are you injured?" Vio asked.

"No, I don't think so… I just felt so… helpless. I couldn't do anything to help you guys! I didn't know what to do!" He looked pretty shaken up.

"Aw Blue, its okay," Red comforted him, "the good thing is that it's gone."

"But what if it happens again? What if I put you guys all in danger because I did something stupid or got captured?"

"Blue, it doesn't matter. It wasn't your fault. It doesn't do to dwell on that sort of thing, sometimes you can't control it. If it happens, it happens. We aren't going to blame you." Gray spoke up.

"But that's what I'm worried about! What if you end up getting seriously hurt trying to rescue me? What if… what if you die because of me?"

"Blue, don't worry about it, it'll just make you paranoid. It doesn't do to dwell on things like that. You just need to keep on moving forward. We aren't going to blame you about things beyond your control, and you shouldn't either," Gray answered, surprising the Links with his words of wisdom. They had nearly forgotten that he was a lot older than them. Vio was still surprised about Blue's worries. He had never seen him act like this. The blue hero looked like he would have been close to tears if he wasn't a rabbit.

"Now come on," Gray prodded Blue gently with his nose, "Let's get going to meet this person our little friend here wants us to meet."

"Friend, ha! Not quite," Blue smiled, showing a few signs of his old self. The imp scowled at him playfully. Together, they raced across the rooftops towards the doorway the imp directed them to.