After the Storm - Chapter seven
Disclaimer: I don't own The Legend of Zelda or its characters. I do, however, own this plot and storyline.
Note: Chapter 6 kinda ended weird, but in this one, I'll clear it all up.
Eyes always deceive. For every peaceful-looking dungeon, there is just a fiercer enemy inside. The first room of a dungeon never is harmful. In fact, the more placid the first room, the worse the entire dungeon will be. So this was the case with me. I proceeded into the first room of this place, and took in quite a nice sight. The walls were an aqua blue, and the floor was more of cerulean. There was no slime on the walls, or distressing statues at the door, only tints of blue, and quite a peaceful aura. I was so caught off guard, that I forgot about it being a dungeon at all. I wandered through the first door, and into the next room. Suddenly, my daydream was shattered as two giant blades shot themselves at me. "Ha!" I exclaimed, leaping in the air to avoid the blades. They retracted to their previous locations, and I went on, totally aware this time. The dungeon consisted of around ten rooms, I could tell from the map that I had found. Loond was at the end, and I had to navigate my way to him. I followed the pathways, doors, and my gut instinct for quite a ways. Each time I entered a room, there was just more death traps, and no Loond. I was starting to get really annoyed. Finally though, I found a door that was shrouded with the usual decoration for a guardian or something else big. I found some pots to the side, shattered them with my sword, and managed to get my health back to peak, and a few extra bombs. I straightened myself, and walked through the doorway. On the other side, I found a single, bare room. I knew that this had to be the place that I would fight. The door slammed behind me, and a light emerged from the end of the room. The light grew, and it soon became a transparent case with two items inside. Then, I heard a voice. "Behold the prize of your victory." The voice said, and after it did, the case was gone, and so was the glow. I waited for a long time, wondering when this Loond character would show. He was really starting to annoy me. But finally, the walls started trembling and I heard a laugh. The laugh died down as well as the shaking walls, and as they did, a figure materialized in the center of the room. This 'figure', or Loond I should say, was not really that alarming. Or maybe he was, considering the way I expected him to look. He was actually a very peaceful looking person. I called him a person because of the form he had. He was definitely human, or of human blood somewhere. He had blue hair, which was cut as if a bowl had been put around his head when being cut. His eyes were an alarming color of black, contrasting very disturbingly with his blue-based attire and hair. He was a fairly large man, a bit bigger than me, and he had quite a thick build. He held a bright sword in his hand, the hilt and blade guard being a blue tinted metal, and a (you guessed it) blue shield in the other. "Loond, I presume." I said, rather coolly as I checked him out. "Yes, and you?" He asked, revealing that he had a rather deep voice. "I'm Link. I'm here to get the items in this place. The sword told me that they were rightfully mine." "Yes, they are. But you have to defeat me to get them, as a final test." "Alright then. Whenever you'*" I was cut short by Loond springing to the attack; sword out and battle face equipped. I defended instinctively, although his hit was stronger than anyone else I've ever faced, and although I managed to block it with no problem, the added pressure was obvious to me. I then attacked, flinging around backwards to attempt a beheading then and there, but alas it was futile as Loond's shield met my blade. I cursed, and then attacked again. We kept at it, like two rams battling for territory. Ever we were on the move, swinging our swords, blocking with our shields, and even using our shields as secondary weapons. One would think that we'd been rehearsing it for days, the way we never got any hits in, but in fact, we'd been trying our hardest, and nothing was happening. Finally though, I was tired of the stalemate-after-stalemate routine. I decided to use something else. I quickly put up my shield, and got out my bow. I busted an ember seed on the end of the arrow, and shot it. The arrow shot through the air, and finally hit its mark. It struck Loond right in the shoulder. Flame engulfed that area of his arm, and he yelled in intense pain. He dropped both his sword and shield, and though I could have ended it there, I didn't. Something told me to wait. Loond clutched at the arrow, and finally, he yanked it out. The wooden weapon was dropped to the ground, and a nice blood trail followed suit. The blood was leaking down his arm, and it was one of the only things on him that wasn't blue. It indeed was red, and his blue tunic along with his arm was being saturated with the thick life giver. Loond stood as still as a statue, and the whole time, I should have gone and killed him. But my stupid heart was working, today of all days, and I was feeling a bit sorry for him. Added to that my ever-present sense of pride and honor, and you have a no-death situation, at least for the moment. But I couldn't ponder on it for long, as my attention was soon yanked to Loond. The fire was spreading all over his arm, and soon it was over his torso. It then engulfed his legs, other arm, and head. I thought he would burn to death, and I started wishing I had killed him when I had the chance. I hadn't wanted to kill him while he was wounded, but I at least wanted to give the final blow. But before I could begin my charge, he started to move. The fire started to deplete, and he looked as if he was absorbing it. "Thank you, Link," He said, "I your fire's energy has been put into a tolerable form, and suppressed inside my body. The power of it has now been added to my being." Wonderful. It goes from stalemate to downhill battle just like that. Now I was wishing I had ended his sorry ass. But no more talking was to be done, as I attacked, using all of my power to finish him quickly before he got the change to react. He blocked all of my hits as before, but he was a bit faster at doing it. Me, on the other hand was getting a bit less successful. His newfound speed was resulting in quicker blocks on my part. The only problem being that I couldn't go any faster that what I was. So, once or twice, I managed to be on the receiving end of a few attacks. Luckily, they were only bruising attacks, such as shield hits, but I was starting to chip around the edges, and that would soon grow to cracks, and chucks being removed, and I couldn't allow that if I wanted to live. So I got out my bow again, and began a multiple barrage of shots, each hitting Loond. He was now writhing in pain as I continued to pump arrows into him. As soon as I could load another one in, it flew into his body. Soon I was out of arrows, so I stopped, and waited. I'd like to see him transform those arrows into 'tolerable energy'. I started to laugh like crazy, as I stared at his body, his pincushion body, riddled with arrows protruding through him, blood leaking down all parts of him, and the total look of amazement on his face. I had defeated this guy in the most humiliating way. I was so caught up in myself in fact, that I didn't see him fall. Yep, he fell over, just like a shot deer. But that was what he was to me, another prize to go on the Hall of Link. What a good day. So, I made my way over to the end of the room, where the wall has slid up, revealing my prize. The chest was on a pedestal, and a golden light was wrapped around the items. As I dawned these things, the Hyper Cape and the Armos Armor, My whole body seemed to be lifted. I felt light as a feather, and I was. Just by willpower, I could fly all around, and the chest plate was hardly noticeable, and it went well with the Master Sword and cape. Totally pleased at the items, I made my way outside, not even flying, but just walking through the place. Anything that would hit me shattered, and all the pits, monsters, blades, and other obstacles were nothing. The stuff really worked. When I came out of the dungeon, I saw Din sitting on a fountain, and Sword was next to her. They seemed very anxious to see me. As soon as Din caught sight of me, she leapt up, and gave me a huge embrace. I was very willing to accept it. Sword even glimmered a bit. They acted like they hadn't seen me in fifty years. "Hey guys, miss me?" I asked, sounding a little more than corny. "Of course! I'm just glad you're okay." Din said, looking at me warmly. I gave her a smile and turned to Sword. "I got the stuff," I said, "It works great too." "Yes, and the 'stuff' that you are referring to is actually equipment used by the ancient ones. So be careful with what you name them." Sword wasn't glad to see me for too long. "So what are we going to do now?" Din asked me, looking eager to do something. The poor thing had been sitting on that fountain for goodness knows how long. I felt sorry for her, so I told her that we were just going to walk until we figured it out. After a bit of walking, we decided to return to Holodrum to see about the Maku Tree. I was almost positive that he was back to normal, but I wanted to go back anyway. After all, I started this journey to get back to Holodrum. So, we started our trek back, and after a substantial amount of walking, we decided to sleep. Din and I made ourselves comfortable, while Sword went into inanimate mode to sleep. "Are you okay?" I asked Din, after thinking about all of the things she'd been through that day. "Sure, why?" She asked me, rolling to her side to face me. "Well, you've been through a lot today, and most people would've cracked up by now." I hoped she didn't take that the wrong way. "Well, it wasn't that bad." She was quite normal about it, so I left her alone about the subject. "Good." I said, ending the discussion on good note. "What about you?" Din asked me. I guessed she was talking about how I was after today. "I'm great." I lied. After all, I had been through three big battles today, and I was a bit sore. "No you're not." She said, she had me figured out before I had said anything. "Okay, so what am I?" I asked, getting a playful tone to my voice, and looking at her with mocking eyes. "Well, I don't know, but you're not in the best shape in the world." She hit that nail on the head. Suddenly, I tried to change my position, and I felt something sticky under me. I sat up, and saw a large puddle of blood under where I was. I inspected myself, and found a quite nice gash across my back. It had been sore, but I didn't know it was bleeding. "Damn." I said, standing up. "What's wrong?" Din asked, sitting up and looking at me with worry. I turned around, and showed her the gash, and she nearly broke her leg trying to stand up and see about me. "It's fine, it doesn't hurt that ba* Ouch!!" She had pressed against the wound, checking it, and letting me know that it did hurt that badly. "Hold on, I'll get something to fix it up." She said, walking to our stack of things, and getting some water and a rag. She splashed the water around it, and cleaned it, before tearing up the rag and wrapping it around my torso a few times to stop the bleeding. It did feel better. "Thanks." I said, as she settled herself back into her spot. Suddenly, I felt something. I guess I felt sorry for her, but not really. I really appreciated her getting herself up to fix my wound. I mean, she had been through a great deal, and she didn't need to do that. I'd lived through far more and far worse. But she did it anyway, and realizing that gave me an odd feeling. I ignored it; as best I could, and settled down too. "Goodnight, Link." Din said, rolling over, and settling herself. "Goodnight, Din."
Well, Link didn't die after all. I know its been just one day throughout most all of the story, but I remembered that, and decided for them to sleep a bit abruptly. So, sorry, but I'll do better down the road.
Disclaimer: I don't own The Legend of Zelda or its characters. I do, however, own this plot and storyline.
Note: Chapter 6 kinda ended weird, but in this one, I'll clear it all up.
Eyes always deceive. For every peaceful-looking dungeon, there is just a fiercer enemy inside. The first room of a dungeon never is harmful. In fact, the more placid the first room, the worse the entire dungeon will be. So this was the case with me. I proceeded into the first room of this place, and took in quite a nice sight. The walls were an aqua blue, and the floor was more of cerulean. There was no slime on the walls, or distressing statues at the door, only tints of blue, and quite a peaceful aura. I was so caught off guard, that I forgot about it being a dungeon at all. I wandered through the first door, and into the next room. Suddenly, my daydream was shattered as two giant blades shot themselves at me. "Ha!" I exclaimed, leaping in the air to avoid the blades. They retracted to their previous locations, and I went on, totally aware this time. The dungeon consisted of around ten rooms, I could tell from the map that I had found. Loond was at the end, and I had to navigate my way to him. I followed the pathways, doors, and my gut instinct for quite a ways. Each time I entered a room, there was just more death traps, and no Loond. I was starting to get really annoyed. Finally though, I found a door that was shrouded with the usual decoration for a guardian or something else big. I found some pots to the side, shattered them with my sword, and managed to get my health back to peak, and a few extra bombs. I straightened myself, and walked through the doorway. On the other side, I found a single, bare room. I knew that this had to be the place that I would fight. The door slammed behind me, and a light emerged from the end of the room. The light grew, and it soon became a transparent case with two items inside. Then, I heard a voice. "Behold the prize of your victory." The voice said, and after it did, the case was gone, and so was the glow. I waited for a long time, wondering when this Loond character would show. He was really starting to annoy me. But finally, the walls started trembling and I heard a laugh. The laugh died down as well as the shaking walls, and as they did, a figure materialized in the center of the room. This 'figure', or Loond I should say, was not really that alarming. Or maybe he was, considering the way I expected him to look. He was actually a very peaceful looking person. I called him a person because of the form he had. He was definitely human, or of human blood somewhere. He had blue hair, which was cut as if a bowl had been put around his head when being cut. His eyes were an alarming color of black, contrasting very disturbingly with his blue-based attire and hair. He was a fairly large man, a bit bigger than me, and he had quite a thick build. He held a bright sword in his hand, the hilt and blade guard being a blue tinted metal, and a (you guessed it) blue shield in the other. "Loond, I presume." I said, rather coolly as I checked him out. "Yes, and you?" He asked, revealing that he had a rather deep voice. "I'm Link. I'm here to get the items in this place. The sword told me that they were rightfully mine." "Yes, they are. But you have to defeat me to get them, as a final test." "Alright then. Whenever you'*" I was cut short by Loond springing to the attack; sword out and battle face equipped. I defended instinctively, although his hit was stronger than anyone else I've ever faced, and although I managed to block it with no problem, the added pressure was obvious to me. I then attacked, flinging around backwards to attempt a beheading then and there, but alas it was futile as Loond's shield met my blade. I cursed, and then attacked again. We kept at it, like two rams battling for territory. Ever we were on the move, swinging our swords, blocking with our shields, and even using our shields as secondary weapons. One would think that we'd been rehearsing it for days, the way we never got any hits in, but in fact, we'd been trying our hardest, and nothing was happening. Finally though, I was tired of the stalemate-after-stalemate routine. I decided to use something else. I quickly put up my shield, and got out my bow. I busted an ember seed on the end of the arrow, and shot it. The arrow shot through the air, and finally hit its mark. It struck Loond right in the shoulder. Flame engulfed that area of his arm, and he yelled in intense pain. He dropped both his sword and shield, and though I could have ended it there, I didn't. Something told me to wait. Loond clutched at the arrow, and finally, he yanked it out. The wooden weapon was dropped to the ground, and a nice blood trail followed suit. The blood was leaking down his arm, and it was one of the only things on him that wasn't blue. It indeed was red, and his blue tunic along with his arm was being saturated with the thick life giver. Loond stood as still as a statue, and the whole time, I should have gone and killed him. But my stupid heart was working, today of all days, and I was feeling a bit sorry for him. Added to that my ever-present sense of pride and honor, and you have a no-death situation, at least for the moment. But I couldn't ponder on it for long, as my attention was soon yanked to Loond. The fire was spreading all over his arm, and soon it was over his torso. It then engulfed his legs, other arm, and head. I thought he would burn to death, and I started wishing I had killed him when I had the chance. I hadn't wanted to kill him while he was wounded, but I at least wanted to give the final blow. But before I could begin my charge, he started to move. The fire started to deplete, and he looked as if he was absorbing it. "Thank you, Link," He said, "I your fire's energy has been put into a tolerable form, and suppressed inside my body. The power of it has now been added to my being." Wonderful. It goes from stalemate to downhill battle just like that. Now I was wishing I had ended his sorry ass. But no more talking was to be done, as I attacked, using all of my power to finish him quickly before he got the change to react. He blocked all of my hits as before, but he was a bit faster at doing it. Me, on the other hand was getting a bit less successful. His newfound speed was resulting in quicker blocks on my part. The only problem being that I couldn't go any faster that what I was. So, once or twice, I managed to be on the receiving end of a few attacks. Luckily, they were only bruising attacks, such as shield hits, but I was starting to chip around the edges, and that would soon grow to cracks, and chucks being removed, and I couldn't allow that if I wanted to live. So I got out my bow again, and began a multiple barrage of shots, each hitting Loond. He was now writhing in pain as I continued to pump arrows into him. As soon as I could load another one in, it flew into his body. Soon I was out of arrows, so I stopped, and waited. I'd like to see him transform those arrows into 'tolerable energy'. I started to laugh like crazy, as I stared at his body, his pincushion body, riddled with arrows protruding through him, blood leaking down all parts of him, and the total look of amazement on his face. I had defeated this guy in the most humiliating way. I was so caught up in myself in fact, that I didn't see him fall. Yep, he fell over, just like a shot deer. But that was what he was to me, another prize to go on the Hall of Link. What a good day. So, I made my way over to the end of the room, where the wall has slid up, revealing my prize. The chest was on a pedestal, and a golden light was wrapped around the items. As I dawned these things, the Hyper Cape and the Armos Armor, My whole body seemed to be lifted. I felt light as a feather, and I was. Just by willpower, I could fly all around, and the chest plate was hardly noticeable, and it went well with the Master Sword and cape. Totally pleased at the items, I made my way outside, not even flying, but just walking through the place. Anything that would hit me shattered, and all the pits, monsters, blades, and other obstacles were nothing. The stuff really worked. When I came out of the dungeon, I saw Din sitting on a fountain, and Sword was next to her. They seemed very anxious to see me. As soon as Din caught sight of me, she leapt up, and gave me a huge embrace. I was very willing to accept it. Sword even glimmered a bit. They acted like they hadn't seen me in fifty years. "Hey guys, miss me?" I asked, sounding a little more than corny. "Of course! I'm just glad you're okay." Din said, looking at me warmly. I gave her a smile and turned to Sword. "I got the stuff," I said, "It works great too." "Yes, and the 'stuff' that you are referring to is actually equipment used by the ancient ones. So be careful with what you name them." Sword wasn't glad to see me for too long. "So what are we going to do now?" Din asked me, looking eager to do something. The poor thing had been sitting on that fountain for goodness knows how long. I felt sorry for her, so I told her that we were just going to walk until we figured it out. After a bit of walking, we decided to return to Holodrum to see about the Maku Tree. I was almost positive that he was back to normal, but I wanted to go back anyway. After all, I started this journey to get back to Holodrum. So, we started our trek back, and after a substantial amount of walking, we decided to sleep. Din and I made ourselves comfortable, while Sword went into inanimate mode to sleep. "Are you okay?" I asked Din, after thinking about all of the things she'd been through that day. "Sure, why?" She asked me, rolling to her side to face me. "Well, you've been through a lot today, and most people would've cracked up by now." I hoped she didn't take that the wrong way. "Well, it wasn't that bad." She was quite normal about it, so I left her alone about the subject. "Good." I said, ending the discussion on good note. "What about you?" Din asked me. I guessed she was talking about how I was after today. "I'm great." I lied. After all, I had been through three big battles today, and I was a bit sore. "No you're not." She said, she had me figured out before I had said anything. "Okay, so what am I?" I asked, getting a playful tone to my voice, and looking at her with mocking eyes. "Well, I don't know, but you're not in the best shape in the world." She hit that nail on the head. Suddenly, I tried to change my position, and I felt something sticky under me. I sat up, and saw a large puddle of blood under where I was. I inspected myself, and found a quite nice gash across my back. It had been sore, but I didn't know it was bleeding. "Damn." I said, standing up. "What's wrong?" Din asked, sitting up and looking at me with worry. I turned around, and showed her the gash, and she nearly broke her leg trying to stand up and see about me. "It's fine, it doesn't hurt that ba* Ouch!!" She had pressed against the wound, checking it, and letting me know that it did hurt that badly. "Hold on, I'll get something to fix it up." She said, walking to our stack of things, and getting some water and a rag. She splashed the water around it, and cleaned it, before tearing up the rag and wrapping it around my torso a few times to stop the bleeding. It did feel better. "Thanks." I said, as she settled herself back into her spot. Suddenly, I felt something. I guess I felt sorry for her, but not really. I really appreciated her getting herself up to fix my wound. I mean, she had been through a great deal, and she didn't need to do that. I'd lived through far more and far worse. But she did it anyway, and realizing that gave me an odd feeling. I ignored it; as best I could, and settled down too. "Goodnight, Link." Din said, rolling over, and settling herself. "Goodnight, Din."
Well, Link didn't die after all. I know its been just one day throughout most all of the story, but I remembered that, and decided for them to sleep a bit abruptly. So, sorry, but I'll do better down the road.