At the time, Link was too preoccupied to enjoy any spectacle.
"I thought Ganon had taken out all of those things. He can't even garden right apparently."
"We thought he had too," said Malon, "But it seems they left seeds."
Link was facing a flower. No ordinary flower, mind, but a Peahat. A flower that could grow to be 5 meters tall from root to petal. The roots were a major thing to the peahat, they offered protection, nutrition, and transportation. In an unusual twist of nature, the peahat spun their roots as though they were helicopter blades, and in doing so protected the root bulb of their flower, the only vulnerable spot on the entire body.
Link was trying to get to that bulb now. The peahat angled it's body so that it's roots dug into the ground. At the speed they were spinning, they tore through bare dirt and rock like scissors through paper.
Link moved back from the mini dust storm that the living flora was creating. He quickly circled around the flower where the roots were raised high. He ran in, gilded sword at the ready. Before he could reach the bulb, however, the peahat quickly changed angle and brought it's murderous blades to bear on Link.
Executing a beautiful somersault, Link jumped over the peahat and landed on it's opposite side. Without even thinking, he plunged his left arm back, impaling the soft spot, and quickly jerking the same arm, quickly dislodging his sword. Link rolled forward just in time to avoid a decapitating blow from the thing's roots.
He then reached into his belt pouch, the fare left one, and took out what looked to be a small rock. He threw it to the ground, bumbled some magic words under his breath, and let out a savage roar.
A huge sphere of fire erupted from Link's body and surrounded him. It then expanded and enveloped the peahat, catching it on fire.
"Thank you Din," Link said as he strode towards Malon and the animals, away from the smoldering remains of the peahat.
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The screams reached all the way to Majora, standing by the edge of the moat of Hyrule Castle Town. The foolish Hylians had tried to keep the zombies from entering the castle by raising the drawbridge, but they found a way in.
Through the sewers they crept, led of course by the zora dead. The zora were also the first to emerge, and the mere sight of them was enough to send the people into a panic. They resembled the skeletons of humans, but with some of the characteristic bones of fish, with blue skin hanging in tatters from their shoulders, heads and arms. The zora were upon the people immediately, resembling sharks homing in on a wounded seal. They leapt upon dogs, children, and women, not having even the slightest scruples as they killed mercilessly.
The dead of the Hylians were next, and they were just as fierce. They clawed, stabbed, bit, and slashed at their living cousins. They were awe inspiring in their ruthlessness.
The gorons were quite possibly the messiest of the killers. Instead of slashing their victims, they simply crushed them. Using hammers, rocks, crates, and their own bodies, people were being flattened, leaving bloody messes all over.
The gerudo, living farthest away, were the last to arrive, and they were angry to have missed the first kills. They even began to slash at their fellow undead with cruel-edged scimitars.
"They're not even putting up a fight!" laughed Majora aloud, "I don't even think they have the means to fight an undead foe."
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"Get me my things!" Draok called as he rushed to the front of his bazaar. His assistant, a goron salesman who had recently decided to settle down in the shop, quickly handed him a Hylian shield and a sword of Biggoron's design. Lighter than most of his works, the mammoth goron had come up with the idea of such a small weapon due to the severe lack of toothpicks he suffered.
He then picked up a rather large pouch, about the size of a goron's head, and hefted it over his shoulder, where he tied it to the belt slung over his massive torso. He then took 3 rather small mouse-like apparatus and clipped them to his belt. He then left to do battle with the horrible new menace attacking the city.
He saw a gerudo first. He reached into the pouch by his shoulder and pulled out a bomb. Squeezing the mechanism that the bomb used as a self-lighting system, he threw it at the desert woman. The explosion ripped the zombie's body to pieces which began to wriggle, still animated, but incapable of movement due to their size and shape.
The owner of the Hylian bazaar then reached in and grasped another bomb, which he threw at a goron who was advancing the two brothers he knew really well. They ran errands for him to Kakariko occasionally and were a hit as entertainers, with an impressive juggling act and comedy routine. The bomb blew the goron's head off, but the beast continued it's horrible walk, unfazed. Before Draok could even react, the dead goron grabbed the two brothers, one in each hand, and slammed them together. The impact caused the bones, muscles, and blood vessels in the boys' bodies to explode, showering the goron in even more gore. Draok threw another bomb at the goron corpse as he let out an inhuman wail. "I REALLY LIKED THOSE GUYS, AND THEY WERE GOOD CUSTOMERS!!!" he screamed as the goron burst into pieces.
Draok then saw his wife, beating back a group of zora bodies with a table leg, doing no damage, but keeping them at bay. As blood rose to his head, Draok took one of the 3 bombchus at his belt and set its detonator. He then placed it on the ground.
The mobile bomb raced at the zoras, and hit the leftmost one. It exploded and bits of bone impaled it's neighbor to the right. As one, the zombies turned in the direction the bombchu came from and raced to Draok. He lifted his sword and shield and prepared for battle. The first zombie reached him at a run, and its head, containing deadly jaws, was sliced off by a goron-made blade. The creature's razorlike claws then slashed at Draok, who managed to raise his shield just in time to block the deadly edges. He quickly reached into his bomb bag and took out 2 bombs, one in each hand. He threw them at the next two zoras, who were incinerated by the heat of the explosions from the bombs. Draok continued to throw bombs, cursing and sweating as he blew zombies to peices.
After using his third bombchu, the salesman realized he was out of munitions. He drew his sword again and prepared for melee combat with the rotting terrors. He had killed 10 gorons, 16 zoras, 16 Hylians, and 7 gerudo at this point, and wounded several of the zombies, which made for an interesting sight as its fellows would rip it apart and feast on its rotting flesh. After finishing off a gerudo, the battle-crazed merchant ran at a Hylian farmer's decaying body. The dead man stabbed at Draok with a pitchfork, which he quickly parried with his sword. He ducked under the second impaling attack, and game up with an upthrust of his sword. He cut a gash leading from the monster's groin to its left armpit, just as the beast swund it's trident around.
"I...hate...you...undead...monstrosities," Draok panted as he viciously sliced the things rotting guts, "I hope you are ready for the end of this afterl..." he said as the creature sliced open his heart with the point at the end of the pitchfork.
The farmer's zombie continued it's advance through Hylians cleaving as though through a field of wheat. It was closely followed by the corpse of a burly man holding a long sword and carrying a Hylian shield.
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Rukasa was violently letting loose from his weapons and trying to stop the undead creatures attacking Hyrule Market. The master marksman and head of the shooting gallery was shooting at an insane pace, impaling monstrous corpses everywhere possible, not killing them, but stopping them.
He had just pinned a goron's mace-like hand to a wall, stopping the creature while he fought to get his limb free.
Rukasa then spun and shot a bolt from his longbow at a zora that had just spotted him. The arrow hit true, running up the thing's fin and slicing off the killing edge the thing presented.
Knowing he was in serious danger, the bowman entered a nearby house, where a nasty surprise awaited him...
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"DIE YOU DEMONS!" shouted a gerudo mage as she unleashed a ball of pure blue-white flame at a group of gerudo zombies. The hellish parodies of herself immediately caught fire, and became small piles of ash in seconds.
The desert woman turned just in time to see a goron raising his hand in preparation to crush her into the street. She let out a spell as quick as lightning. The spell was a rot curse, and as it hit the clubbing hand of the rock man, the appendage turned a blackish tint and fell off. The mage followed this up with a growth spell, not aimed at the whole goron, just it's stone-filled stomach.
Just as she set up a protective ward around herself, the organ reached critical mass and exploded, sending shards of rock and muscle everywhere, some of the stones to impale other zombies.
Then the gerudo felt a sharp pain on her left shoulder. Looking that way, she saw a zora marching toward her, his fin flying through the air toward him. He had apparently just thrown it at her, using the razor fin as a boomerang. Burning with hate, and knowing that her magical energy was expired, she rushed up to the beast.
Just as she felt the thing dig it's teeth into her forehead, she unleashed her final spell. Both of them disintegrated into small motes of flame.
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The Hylian royal guard was in a mad frenzy. Knights were shooing citizens to safety with one hand and slicing open necromanced copses with the other.
Guards died by the hundreds, but each took down at least 3 zombies before falling, only to join the ranks of their recent foes.
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Standing just outside the gates, Majora loved the sensation he was feeling, knowing that he would experience even more deaths as the battle progressed. He began to mentally catalogue the people who were joining the ranks of the dead.
Gerudo, female, 13, impaled through the left atrium.
Goron, male, 38, decapitated.
Zora, male, 53, trampled under retreating citizens.
Hylian, male, 8, heart ripped out by the trampled zora.
Gerudo, female...
Hylian, male...
Zora, female...
Goron, female...
Zora...
Goron...
Goron...
Hylian...
Gerudo...
Each death was a feast for Majora and a new recruit for his forces in addition. Majora smiled as he began to levitate, floating over the moat to join the battle. He wanted to have blood on his hands. Literally.
"I thought Ganon had taken out all of those things. He can't even garden right apparently."
"We thought he had too," said Malon, "But it seems they left seeds."
Link was facing a flower. No ordinary flower, mind, but a Peahat. A flower that could grow to be 5 meters tall from root to petal. The roots were a major thing to the peahat, they offered protection, nutrition, and transportation. In an unusual twist of nature, the peahat spun their roots as though they were helicopter blades, and in doing so protected the root bulb of their flower, the only vulnerable spot on the entire body.
Link was trying to get to that bulb now. The peahat angled it's body so that it's roots dug into the ground. At the speed they were spinning, they tore through bare dirt and rock like scissors through paper.
Link moved back from the mini dust storm that the living flora was creating. He quickly circled around the flower where the roots were raised high. He ran in, gilded sword at the ready. Before he could reach the bulb, however, the peahat quickly changed angle and brought it's murderous blades to bear on Link.
Executing a beautiful somersault, Link jumped over the peahat and landed on it's opposite side. Without even thinking, he plunged his left arm back, impaling the soft spot, and quickly jerking the same arm, quickly dislodging his sword. Link rolled forward just in time to avoid a decapitating blow from the thing's roots.
He then reached into his belt pouch, the fare left one, and took out what looked to be a small rock. He threw it to the ground, bumbled some magic words under his breath, and let out a savage roar.
A huge sphere of fire erupted from Link's body and surrounded him. It then expanded and enveloped the peahat, catching it on fire.
"Thank you Din," Link said as he strode towards Malon and the animals, away from the smoldering remains of the peahat.
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The screams reached all the way to Majora, standing by the edge of the moat of Hyrule Castle Town. The foolish Hylians had tried to keep the zombies from entering the castle by raising the drawbridge, but they found a way in.
Through the sewers they crept, led of course by the zora dead. The zora were also the first to emerge, and the mere sight of them was enough to send the people into a panic. They resembled the skeletons of humans, but with some of the characteristic bones of fish, with blue skin hanging in tatters from their shoulders, heads and arms. The zora were upon the people immediately, resembling sharks homing in on a wounded seal. They leapt upon dogs, children, and women, not having even the slightest scruples as they killed mercilessly.
The dead of the Hylians were next, and they were just as fierce. They clawed, stabbed, bit, and slashed at their living cousins. They were awe inspiring in their ruthlessness.
The gorons were quite possibly the messiest of the killers. Instead of slashing their victims, they simply crushed them. Using hammers, rocks, crates, and their own bodies, people were being flattened, leaving bloody messes all over.
The gerudo, living farthest away, were the last to arrive, and they were angry to have missed the first kills. They even began to slash at their fellow undead with cruel-edged scimitars.
"They're not even putting up a fight!" laughed Majora aloud, "I don't even think they have the means to fight an undead foe."
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"Get me my things!" Draok called as he rushed to the front of his bazaar. His assistant, a goron salesman who had recently decided to settle down in the shop, quickly handed him a Hylian shield and a sword of Biggoron's design. Lighter than most of his works, the mammoth goron had come up with the idea of such a small weapon due to the severe lack of toothpicks he suffered.
He then picked up a rather large pouch, about the size of a goron's head, and hefted it over his shoulder, where he tied it to the belt slung over his massive torso. He then took 3 rather small mouse-like apparatus and clipped them to his belt. He then left to do battle with the horrible new menace attacking the city.
He saw a gerudo first. He reached into the pouch by his shoulder and pulled out a bomb. Squeezing the mechanism that the bomb used as a self-lighting system, he threw it at the desert woman. The explosion ripped the zombie's body to pieces which began to wriggle, still animated, but incapable of movement due to their size and shape.
The owner of the Hylian bazaar then reached in and grasped another bomb, which he threw at a goron who was advancing the two brothers he knew really well. They ran errands for him to Kakariko occasionally and were a hit as entertainers, with an impressive juggling act and comedy routine. The bomb blew the goron's head off, but the beast continued it's horrible walk, unfazed. Before Draok could even react, the dead goron grabbed the two brothers, one in each hand, and slammed them together. The impact caused the bones, muscles, and blood vessels in the boys' bodies to explode, showering the goron in even more gore. Draok threw another bomb at the goron corpse as he let out an inhuman wail. "I REALLY LIKED THOSE GUYS, AND THEY WERE GOOD CUSTOMERS!!!" he screamed as the goron burst into pieces.
Draok then saw his wife, beating back a group of zora bodies with a table leg, doing no damage, but keeping them at bay. As blood rose to his head, Draok took one of the 3 bombchus at his belt and set its detonator. He then placed it on the ground.
The mobile bomb raced at the zoras, and hit the leftmost one. It exploded and bits of bone impaled it's neighbor to the right. As one, the zombies turned in the direction the bombchu came from and raced to Draok. He lifted his sword and shield and prepared for battle. The first zombie reached him at a run, and its head, containing deadly jaws, was sliced off by a goron-made blade. The creature's razorlike claws then slashed at Draok, who managed to raise his shield just in time to block the deadly edges. He quickly reached into his bomb bag and took out 2 bombs, one in each hand. He threw them at the next two zoras, who were incinerated by the heat of the explosions from the bombs. Draok continued to throw bombs, cursing and sweating as he blew zombies to peices.
After using his third bombchu, the salesman realized he was out of munitions. He drew his sword again and prepared for melee combat with the rotting terrors. He had killed 10 gorons, 16 zoras, 16 Hylians, and 7 gerudo at this point, and wounded several of the zombies, which made for an interesting sight as its fellows would rip it apart and feast on its rotting flesh. After finishing off a gerudo, the battle-crazed merchant ran at a Hylian farmer's decaying body. The dead man stabbed at Draok with a pitchfork, which he quickly parried with his sword. He ducked under the second impaling attack, and game up with an upthrust of his sword. He cut a gash leading from the monster's groin to its left armpit, just as the beast swund it's trident around.
"I...hate...you...undead...monstrosities," Draok panted as he viciously sliced the things rotting guts, "I hope you are ready for the end of this afterl..." he said as the creature sliced open his heart with the point at the end of the pitchfork.
The farmer's zombie continued it's advance through Hylians cleaving as though through a field of wheat. It was closely followed by the corpse of a burly man holding a long sword and carrying a Hylian shield.
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Rukasa was violently letting loose from his weapons and trying to stop the undead creatures attacking Hyrule Market. The master marksman and head of the shooting gallery was shooting at an insane pace, impaling monstrous corpses everywhere possible, not killing them, but stopping them.
He had just pinned a goron's mace-like hand to a wall, stopping the creature while he fought to get his limb free.
Rukasa then spun and shot a bolt from his longbow at a zora that had just spotted him. The arrow hit true, running up the thing's fin and slicing off the killing edge the thing presented.
Knowing he was in serious danger, the bowman entered a nearby house, where a nasty surprise awaited him...
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"DIE YOU DEMONS!" shouted a gerudo mage as she unleashed a ball of pure blue-white flame at a group of gerudo zombies. The hellish parodies of herself immediately caught fire, and became small piles of ash in seconds.
The desert woman turned just in time to see a goron raising his hand in preparation to crush her into the street. She let out a spell as quick as lightning. The spell was a rot curse, and as it hit the clubbing hand of the rock man, the appendage turned a blackish tint and fell off. The mage followed this up with a growth spell, not aimed at the whole goron, just it's stone-filled stomach.
Just as she set up a protective ward around herself, the organ reached critical mass and exploded, sending shards of rock and muscle everywhere, some of the stones to impale other zombies.
Then the gerudo felt a sharp pain on her left shoulder. Looking that way, she saw a zora marching toward her, his fin flying through the air toward him. He had apparently just thrown it at her, using the razor fin as a boomerang. Burning with hate, and knowing that her magical energy was expired, she rushed up to the beast.
Just as she felt the thing dig it's teeth into her forehead, she unleashed her final spell. Both of them disintegrated into small motes of flame.
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The Hylian royal guard was in a mad frenzy. Knights were shooing citizens to safety with one hand and slicing open necromanced copses with the other.
Guards died by the hundreds, but each took down at least 3 zombies before falling, only to join the ranks of their recent foes.
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Standing just outside the gates, Majora loved the sensation he was feeling, knowing that he would experience even more deaths as the battle progressed. He began to mentally catalogue the people who were joining the ranks of the dead.
Gerudo, female, 13, impaled through the left atrium.
Goron, male, 38, decapitated.
Zora, male, 53, trampled under retreating citizens.
Hylian, male, 8, heart ripped out by the trampled zora.
Gerudo, female...
Hylian, male...
Zora, female...
Goron, female...
Zora...
Goron...
Goron...
Hylian...
Gerudo...
Each death was a feast for Majora and a new recruit for his forces in addition. Majora smiled as he began to levitate, floating over the moat to join the battle. He wanted to have blood on his hands. Literally.