Wow we're nearly at twenty chapters! Wow! I kinda know where I'm going for the ending even though I know the exact last few paragraphs. I also have a few ideas for a sequel or a prequel! But I may stick to one fiction. I'm not sure. Ok, here we go with a new chapter.
The tunnel stretched out before us into darkness. No light at the end. Was this the right tunnel? Maybe we'd bombed the wrong hole. Maybe not.
"Let's go" Lucy said confidently, she picked up her side of Link and I picked up the other
"Ok, it's kinda dark though" I replied when we were walking into the tunnel
"You scared?"
"No"
"Good"
We walked down into the tunnel. It was an uneven floor so I was a bit worried I'd fall down a hole and drag the others with me. Plus it was sloping downwards slowly. Down? Not right. The tunnels didn't usually go down did they? Maybe...I had no idea what the real tunnels were like, the games skipped a few minor (huge) details.
Soon we caught a glimpse of a tiny spec of light down the end of the tunnel. It made me think of the kind of light you'd expect in a near-death experience. Not a comforting thought.
As we drew towards the light seemed to change from a normal colour of white to a pinkie colour. And as we stepped into it's glare the light flashed brightly and then died.
"My eyes" Lucy groaned rubbing her eyes fiercely "S*** I got sunspots"
I really hate bright flashes and now I had the green spots on my vision.
When they cleared though we saw that we'd come to the fountain. Like the one in the Zoras Lake, it had sheets of sparkling water gushing down the walls and bright tiles on the floor and a crystal clear pool al the end of the room with a triforce symbol on the floor before it.
"Problem" I said as we walked towards it
"What?" Lucy replied
"Can you play the ocarina?" I asked
"No"
"Crap"
Without someone to play Zelda's Lullaby we were stuck once again. We couldn't call the fairy and we couldn't complete our mission or save the Hero Of Time. I sat down on the step that the triforce was drawn on. Lucy sat down with me.
"This always happens to us" Lucy said exasperated "I think we're cursed or something"
"Lucy, right now I would not be surprised" I stared into the pool where the fairy slept
It had a strange quality to it; it wasn't like a proper pool of water. It was like glass, although if you touched it, it had the feeling of normal water. I guess that's magic, it's weird.
"What if we sang the tune?" Lucy suggested
"What?"
"Sang it, you know, with our voices?"
"I don't know" I replied, "Maybe..."
"Nah, stupid idea, forget it" Lucy started to rummage in Link's pockets "Let's find this ocarina then"
"It's a big blue thing" I told her, has a gold circle on the thing you blow into"
"Got it" she pulled out the ocarina of time and blew into it randomly, the note came out suddenly and pierced the noise of the water. As a reply a low buzz came back to us.
"Wrong tune I guess" I giggled
"Fine then" Lucy huffed, "Like I knew the tune anyway" she passed it over to me
I used to play the flute so this was probably the same kind of technique. I put my fingers over the holes and tried out all the notes I could get. There were a few more than in the game but I got all the ones that they use in the Lullaby.
"Ok" I fingered the ocarina gently "Here goes nothing"
I blew softly and the lullaby began. As I passed the first few notes the music became lulling and I could see out of the corner of my eye Lucy was dropping off. I finished the song as a blue glow surrounded the pool and a woman arose gently from the centre.
Not like in the other fairy fountain where the fairy burst out into colour and loudly laugh. This fairy was a soft blue and arose out of the pool slowly and stood up on the water. I watched gob smacked.
She smiled kindly "You played the lullaby?"
I nodded staring at her.
The fairy looked at Lucy who looked tired but seemed vaguely interested and then at Link. Her smile widened.
"Hero of time!" she said relieved "I have been trapped here for days, the guerudos sealed me up again and all these battles going on and nothing is as it should be and- and- er...Hero Of Time?"
The fairy rose in the pool and floated over to where Link lay. Where she flew she left a blue glow for a few seconds. She seemed more powerful than the first fairy. She gazed at Link thoughtfully.
"Ah" she said looking intently at him "Injured, ah well, we'll have that fixed in a jiffy. You girls did a good job here, he would have been dead ages ago if you had not stepped in"
"Thanks" Lucy yawned
"Let me heal you Hero Of Time" The fairy spun in the air and created a small whirling pool of blue light. She floated out of the light serenely and pushed it softly with her hands down to where Link lay. The light spread through his skin as it hit and we watched as his lungs took in a large gasp of air.
"Wow" I said
"He is healed girls" the fairy floated back to the fountain and hovered over it
Link opened his eyes "Where am I?"
"Link" we ran over to him and pulled him up "You were nearly a goner there" we gave him a group hug and then turned back to the fairy
"I thank you for unsealing this fountain" the fairy said smiling, "For now I must join my sister at the lake of the Zoras and we must talk things through. Next you must go to the Castle of the land and the fountain there"
"Thank you my lady" Link bowed and turned to go
"Wait a moment," the fairy said and Link turned back "In the Spirit temple you will find something to help you in the near future. Consider it a gift from me"
"Thank you" and with that we left
Outside the day was heating up; sorry to leave the cool tunnel we headed out into the sun and back the way we had came. Link did back flips this way and front flips that, testing his renewed strength out and having a good time.
As we drew near the temple I looked up and stared for a while at the architecture. The temple had been carved into a mountain centuries ago and its design had been based on the image of a woman. Possibly the goddess of the desert. It bared similarities to Buddhist statues of the Buddha in our world.
"I'm hot now, can we hurry up?" Lucy said walking ahead a little way
"How about a race?" Link suggested eager to get his bearings "The green nasties have gone somewhere and I want to see how I'm doing after that beating"
"Great" Lucy said and she drew level with Link
"You to race, I'll just run behind you normally," I said grinning
"Ready, set, GO!"
Lucy and Link sped across the sand to the desert; it was a pretty close race. I let them go for a little while then began to run after them. Lucy was beginning to overtake Link (@_@)
"Hey get back here!" Link yelled at her, "No fair, I was injured"
Lucy looked back at him "Too bad, you'll just have to~!" The sand under Lucy's feet dropped
"Lucy!" Link dove forward to grab Lucy's fingers before she fell into the cavern that had opened up beneath her
"What the f***!?" I sprinted up to help Lucy
"Help!" Lucy screamed in fright as her feet dangled into nothing
"Hold on to my hand" Link gritted his teeth as he tried to get a better grip on Lucy's hand to pull her up
"Lucy!" I leant down over the edge to try and grab Lucy's other arm, but it was too far. I could practically feel the fear and desperation radiating from her below me. I reached further "Almost...got...you..."
Then everything slowed down, I nearly had her, my fingers brushed her shirt and...
"No!" Lucy's hand slipped and she plunged into the darkness
The tunnel stretched out before us into darkness. No light at the end. Was this the right tunnel? Maybe we'd bombed the wrong hole. Maybe not.
"Let's go" Lucy said confidently, she picked up her side of Link and I picked up the other
"Ok, it's kinda dark though" I replied when we were walking into the tunnel
"You scared?"
"No"
"Good"
We walked down into the tunnel. It was an uneven floor so I was a bit worried I'd fall down a hole and drag the others with me. Plus it was sloping downwards slowly. Down? Not right. The tunnels didn't usually go down did they? Maybe...I had no idea what the real tunnels were like, the games skipped a few minor (huge) details.
Soon we caught a glimpse of a tiny spec of light down the end of the tunnel. It made me think of the kind of light you'd expect in a near-death experience. Not a comforting thought.
As we drew towards the light seemed to change from a normal colour of white to a pinkie colour. And as we stepped into it's glare the light flashed brightly and then died.
"My eyes" Lucy groaned rubbing her eyes fiercely "S*** I got sunspots"
I really hate bright flashes and now I had the green spots on my vision.
When they cleared though we saw that we'd come to the fountain. Like the one in the Zoras Lake, it had sheets of sparkling water gushing down the walls and bright tiles on the floor and a crystal clear pool al the end of the room with a triforce symbol on the floor before it.
"Problem" I said as we walked towards it
"What?" Lucy replied
"Can you play the ocarina?" I asked
"No"
"Crap"
Without someone to play Zelda's Lullaby we were stuck once again. We couldn't call the fairy and we couldn't complete our mission or save the Hero Of Time. I sat down on the step that the triforce was drawn on. Lucy sat down with me.
"This always happens to us" Lucy said exasperated "I think we're cursed or something"
"Lucy, right now I would not be surprised" I stared into the pool where the fairy slept
It had a strange quality to it; it wasn't like a proper pool of water. It was like glass, although if you touched it, it had the feeling of normal water. I guess that's magic, it's weird.
"What if we sang the tune?" Lucy suggested
"What?"
"Sang it, you know, with our voices?"
"I don't know" I replied, "Maybe..."
"Nah, stupid idea, forget it" Lucy started to rummage in Link's pockets "Let's find this ocarina then"
"It's a big blue thing" I told her, has a gold circle on the thing you blow into"
"Got it" she pulled out the ocarina of time and blew into it randomly, the note came out suddenly and pierced the noise of the water. As a reply a low buzz came back to us.
"Wrong tune I guess" I giggled
"Fine then" Lucy huffed, "Like I knew the tune anyway" she passed it over to me
I used to play the flute so this was probably the same kind of technique. I put my fingers over the holes and tried out all the notes I could get. There were a few more than in the game but I got all the ones that they use in the Lullaby.
"Ok" I fingered the ocarina gently "Here goes nothing"
I blew softly and the lullaby began. As I passed the first few notes the music became lulling and I could see out of the corner of my eye Lucy was dropping off. I finished the song as a blue glow surrounded the pool and a woman arose gently from the centre.
Not like in the other fairy fountain where the fairy burst out into colour and loudly laugh. This fairy was a soft blue and arose out of the pool slowly and stood up on the water. I watched gob smacked.
She smiled kindly "You played the lullaby?"
I nodded staring at her.
The fairy looked at Lucy who looked tired but seemed vaguely interested and then at Link. Her smile widened.
"Hero of time!" she said relieved "I have been trapped here for days, the guerudos sealed me up again and all these battles going on and nothing is as it should be and- and- er...Hero Of Time?"
The fairy rose in the pool and floated over to where Link lay. Where she flew she left a blue glow for a few seconds. She seemed more powerful than the first fairy. She gazed at Link thoughtfully.
"Ah" she said looking intently at him "Injured, ah well, we'll have that fixed in a jiffy. You girls did a good job here, he would have been dead ages ago if you had not stepped in"
"Thanks" Lucy yawned
"Let me heal you Hero Of Time" The fairy spun in the air and created a small whirling pool of blue light. She floated out of the light serenely and pushed it softly with her hands down to where Link lay. The light spread through his skin as it hit and we watched as his lungs took in a large gasp of air.
"Wow" I said
"He is healed girls" the fairy floated back to the fountain and hovered over it
Link opened his eyes "Where am I?"
"Link" we ran over to him and pulled him up "You were nearly a goner there" we gave him a group hug and then turned back to the fairy
"I thank you for unsealing this fountain" the fairy said smiling, "For now I must join my sister at the lake of the Zoras and we must talk things through. Next you must go to the Castle of the land and the fountain there"
"Thank you my lady" Link bowed and turned to go
"Wait a moment," the fairy said and Link turned back "In the Spirit temple you will find something to help you in the near future. Consider it a gift from me"
"Thank you" and with that we left
Outside the day was heating up; sorry to leave the cool tunnel we headed out into the sun and back the way we had came. Link did back flips this way and front flips that, testing his renewed strength out and having a good time.
As we drew near the temple I looked up and stared for a while at the architecture. The temple had been carved into a mountain centuries ago and its design had been based on the image of a woman. Possibly the goddess of the desert. It bared similarities to Buddhist statues of the Buddha in our world.
"I'm hot now, can we hurry up?" Lucy said walking ahead a little way
"How about a race?" Link suggested eager to get his bearings "The green nasties have gone somewhere and I want to see how I'm doing after that beating"
"Great" Lucy said and she drew level with Link
"You to race, I'll just run behind you normally," I said grinning
"Ready, set, GO!"
Lucy and Link sped across the sand to the desert; it was a pretty close race. I let them go for a little while then began to run after them. Lucy was beginning to overtake Link (@_@)
"Hey get back here!" Link yelled at her, "No fair, I was injured"
Lucy looked back at him "Too bad, you'll just have to~!" The sand under Lucy's feet dropped
"Lucy!" Link dove forward to grab Lucy's fingers before she fell into the cavern that had opened up beneath her
"What the f***!?" I sprinted up to help Lucy
"Help!" Lucy screamed in fright as her feet dangled into nothing
"Hold on to my hand" Link gritted his teeth as he tried to get a better grip on Lucy's hand to pull her up
"Lucy!" I leant down over the edge to try and grab Lucy's other arm, but it was too far. I could practically feel the fear and desperation radiating from her below me. I reached further "Almost...got...you..."
Then everything slowed down, I nearly had her, my fingers brushed her shirt and...
"No!" Lucy's hand slipped and she plunged into the darkness