Sage of Innocence Saga -or- Two Links and a Bunch of Authors
By Galaxy Girl
A/N: This chapter starts the cameos, so this chapter starts the disclaimers.
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY EXCEPT MYSELF, AND THE SPECIFIED AUTHORS AND PEOPLE IN THE STORY OWN THEMSELVES. I DO, HOWEVER, OWN THE EXTRA SEVEN TEMPLES, SO PLEASE ASK BEFORE YOU USE THEM!
OK... Oh, and I've chosen the six author Sages already. Thank you for all of your applications, and I promise to give the people who didn't make it to Sage-hood a large cameo. Thanks!
~GG
CHAPTER THREE: End Of The Innocence -or- Innocence Temple Madness!
Hiyo, me again, LL. OK, this is the chapter where things start getting really weird. Reading this chapter may cause eyebrows to raise and eyes to roll! So... yeah... great. Just read. Thank you.
When we arrived at Goron City, my Dad pounded on the door.
"Al, could you get that?"
"Bob, get that please!"
"Carl, could you please answer the door?"
"Mike... door please..."
"Why can't you get it, Joe?"
Finally, Dad got impatient and threw the door open.
Link, Dad, and me rushed downstairs to the bottom of the city. Crowded around the place where the statue once stood was a group of Gorons, all staring at something.
"What is it?" asked Link. "What are you looking at?"
Daddy pushed a few out of the way and looked around. "What is it, guys?"
One of the Gorons stood up. "Big Brother, there's a weird person here on the floor!"
I looked down to see a human kid! I recognized him as the author, Sikes. He wasn't acting like the Sikes I knew; he was all rolled up in a ball on the floor, chewing on a rock.
"Sikes, what are you doing?" I asked.
Sikes sat up and let out a moan. "Hmmmm? Who is Sikes?" he asked. "Me no know no Sikes... Me is Fred the Goron!"
Link raised an eyebrow. "Um... dude, you better stop chewing on that rock. You're going to knock out your teeth!"
Sikes paid no attention, he just flopped over on his back. "WHOOPS! TROUBLE! GOTTA GO!"
He rolled up into a ball and tried to start rolling along the floor.
Dad scratched his head. "Well THAT was weird."
Link sighed and pushed Sikes or "Fred" out of the way.
There on the floor was a large circle where the base of the statue had been.
"Now how to open it?" Link thought out loud. "Hmmm..."
"The song?" I suggested. "The um... "Something to Something...?"
"The Ode To Innocence. Of course," Link said. He pulled out his shiny blue Ocarina. All of the Gorons (and myself) became fixated on the shiny blueness.
Link played out the notes of the song that I had forgotten.
Suddenly, the floor began to rumble, and the circle lowered into the floor and slid to the right, leaving a portal open in the floor.
"Well whaddya know?" I said, peeking down into the hole.
"Is that what she meant?" Link inquired. "Hmmm... Well, nowhere else to go but inside. You first, Little Link."
"MEEEEE?!" I cried. "But... I'm afraid of the dark!"
Dad patted Link on the back, knocking him over. "Come on, Brother! You're the big strong hero dude! You go in first, and you can help Little Link when you get in there."
Link stood up and dusted himself off.
"OK, fine. Coming in."
He pulled out a small weird-looking handle with a chain and a hook attached, and pointed it at the wood platform that hung over the city. The hook flew out, and stuck to the wood. Then, Link jumped over the hole, and the chain got longer, lowering him into the hole.
"Come on, LL!" Link sighed. "If you're coming, let's go!"
"Er... whaddya mean?" I asked.
"Come on, come over and I'll grab you and lower you into the hole!"
"Um... OK..." I said.
I walked over to the hole, and Link held out his hand. "Come on, I don't bite."
"I'm pretty heavy!" I warned.
"I'm pretty strong. Just come on!"
I shrugged and jumped onto his lap.
"AAAAAGGGH!" he yelled, and he dropped the chain and hook. We both tumbled down into the hole.
CRASH!
"OWWWWWWWWHOOOHOOHOOOOO!" Link whined. I couldn't see him, but I could hear him.
"Sorry," I said.
"How much DO you weigh? THREE TONS?"
"600 pounds," I replied.
"JEEEZ! Never do that again, OK?" he said.
"Um... where are we?"
"Never mind that! I gotta find my Hookshot!" Link snapped. I felt him crash his head into my back. "OUCH! Oh, here it is!"
"I'm scared!" I whimpered.
"Don't be. It's just the dark. We gotta find a light!"
A few seconds later, a flicker appeared across the area from me, and I saw Link holding a lit candle. "Aha! I knew this was a good investment!"
We appeared to be in a long, dark tunnel. A tiny light was shining from the opposite end of the tunnel.
"Nowhere else to go," Link said, like he had a few minutes ago.
We walked down the tunnel, and finally, we crashed into a wall near the source of the light.
"Hey, a door!" I said.
"Where's the handle?" Link said to no one in particular. "Oh, here."
He turned the handle and opened the door.
"WOW!" we both yelled.
We were in a huge room, with amazing Technicolor walls and a large marble staircase leading up to another door. A large smiley face symbol was up above the door. An inscription above the smiley face caught Link's attention.
"It says... 'Innocence Temple'!"
I was caught on the gorgeous colors. "WOOOOOOOWWWWWWEEEEE! PRETTY COLORS! YAHHOOOOOO!"
"Down boy," Link said, rolling his eyes. "I suppose we'd better go through that door."
We walked up the stairs, but as soon as we were one step away from the top, the staircase made a KLUNK noise, and flattened into a slide.
"AAIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" I cried as we flew downwards.
A trapdoor opened up below the door we had entered through, and we slid all the way DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN!
We landed on a large, soft surface.
"OOOF!" Link yelped.
"It's like a huge pillow!" I said.
In fact, the entire room's floor was this weird green jello-like substance. At the far end of the room was yet another door on a high platform.
"We'd better go over there!" Link said.
"How?" I asked. "I can't walk without sinking!"
"Hmmmmm..." Link pondered. "Give me a second."
He tried to stand up, but when he took a step forward, he went flying. The Jello had sunk, and one step had snapped it like a catapult.
"WHOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAA!" he cried. He flew all the way over to the other side of the room, and sunk down into the jello up to his neck.
"LL! I'm STUCK!" he screamed.
"I'm coming!" I said.
I tried to stand up and walk, but I should have known better. I weighed 600 pounds.
I began to sink into the jello until I was about knee deep.
"Uh... I CAN'T WALK!" I shouted to Link.
"THIS JELLO IS EATING ME!" he replied sounding a bit more urgent.
"It's eating me too!" I cried. "Hmmm... what did GG always tell me to do if I ever met killer food? 'Eat it before it eats you,'"
"GG told you that?" Link asked.
"Yep. She's fought more evil food items as a superhero than I can count!"
"Um... LL, you can only count to six."
"Oh yeah... Anyway, here I come!"
I leaned over and took a big bite of the jello. It began to wiggle, and I spat it out.
"Oh yuck! It's got that weird tough jello skin on it!" I whined, spitting it out.
"Who cares? LL, you've got to hurry! I'm sinking really fast now!" Link said.
"Why don't YOU eat it?" I said. "I've eaten more tough jello skin than I'd like to admit in my life, but just because GG can't make jello very well..."
I could hear Link sigh from across the room. "Fine."
It was quiet for a second.
"PATOOIE! GROSS! What is that stuff? It's like rubber!" Link griped.
"Man hath known no evil like tough jello skin..." I murmured.
"We gotta eat it anyway, I suppose," Link said. "Or else, I'll be underneath this jello really soon!"
I took another bite. "Mmmmmm... lime flavored!"
Link bit off a chunk. "Hmm... under the skin it's not bad... OOOH! It's the kind with little pineapple chunks!"
To make a long story short, we eventually ate enough jello to carve a path through it over to the door.
"And now, we just hookshot over!" Link said. He carefully aimed the little springy hooky thingy at a beam over the door, and he was instantly pulled out of the jello and up onto the platform.
"Here LL, you can get yourself out!" Link said. He tossed down the little springy hooky thingy, and I caught it.
"Hey, how do ya work this thing?" I asked. "OOOOH! A LASER!"
"Watch where you're pointing that thing!" Link shouted.
"OOOO! What does THIS button do?" I cooed. I did what any Goron would do: Push the button.
"YIPES!" I shrieked, as I flew through the air.
SPLAT!
"Ow! Could you please not land on me anymore?" Link snapped.
"Sorry!" I said. "Oh, you want your little springy hooky thingy back?"
In the next room there were at least ten large treasure chests in a large smiley face circle on the ground.
"Ah. Maps and stuff, I guess," Link said. He walked up to a treasure chest and got ready to click it open.
"Uh, Link? Shouldn't you check and make sure the chest isn't rigged?" I asked.
"LL, I'm not stupid. There's nothing in here. It's..."
He opened the chest, and a spring holding a coconut cream pie sprung out of the box and hit Link in the face.
"HEY!" he shouted.
I burst out laughing and fell over on the ground. That was the FUNNIEST thing I've ever seen!
He scowled and wiped coconut off of his face. "That wasn't funny."
"YES IT WAS!" I cried between giggles.
Link shook his head and moved onto the next one. "OK, this time I'm gonna check and see first!"
He pulled a small purple lens out of his pocket and held it up to his eye.
"Nope, no pies," he said. Link reached down, opened the chest, and...
A coconut cream pie sprung out and hit him in the face.
I fell over laughing again, and he screamed in anger. "WHYYYYY?"
He ran over to the next one. "OK, there's no chance that there's another..."
SPLAT!
Three pies and three cuss words later, Link opened a chest that didn't explode with cream filling and coco-nutty goodness.
"Hey, a map!" he said.
LINK AND LITTLE LINK FOUND THE DUNGEON MAP! NOW THEY CAN FIND THEIR WAY AROUND THE INNOCENCE TEMPLE! UNFORTUNATELY, LL CAN'T READ, SO I'M NOT SURE HOW MUCH HELP IT'LL BE!
I decided to try my luck with the other chests. I opened the first one.
A coconut cream pie shot out of the chest, but I was so short, it missed me completely and hit Link in the back of the head across the room.
"Oopsie..." I said.
"GRRRR! That's it, I'm opening the last one!" he said, shoving me out of the way.
He opened it, and a really big pie flew out.
SPLAT!
He sighed and turned around to wipe off his face. But I saw something in the chest, so I opened it up.
LINK AND LITTLE LINK FOUND THE COMPASS! NOW THEY CAN SEE THE LOCATIONS OF MANY HIDDEN ITEMS IN THE DUNGEON! WELL... IT ALSO MAKES A USEFUL THROWING PROJECTILE WEAPON IN A PINCH!
"Hey, good job!" Link said. "Now we can go through that door on the other side!"
Link got ready to turn the doorknob and...
The floor opened up and we tumbled down a chute onto a huge, huge, HUGE spiral slide!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH!" Link screamed from in front of me.
"WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" I screamed.
I looked around, and saw that the walls were bright and Technicolor like the first room of the temple. Link was too busy shutting his eyes and shrieking to see it.
After a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG fall, we flew off of a ramp and landed on another large fluffy surface.
"OOF!" I grunted.
"No jello mommy, please!" Link mumbled from his face down position on the floor.
"Link, we're on a pillow this time," I said.
"Huh? Oh. Hey look another chest!" Link said, sitting up and pointing to a lovely Technicolor treasure chest by the wall.
"You can open it," Link said. He still smelled like coconut.
I tiptoed across the floor and snapped open the lock on the chest, and...
I pulled out a thin paper mask. It was large and circular, and it ended up having a yellow smiley face like the ones we had seen all over the temple.
LINK AND LITTLE LINK FOUND THE INNOCENCE MASK! THIS MASK HAS A LARGE, INNOCENT FACE. IF YOU WEAR IT, PEOPLE WILL FIND YOU INNOCENT OF ANYTHING THAT ANYONE COULD ACCUSE YOU OFF! IT CHANGES TO LOOK LIKE THE USER'S FACE, BUT ONLY MORE INNOCENT. WELL, THIS EXPLANATION WAS PRETTY REDUNDANT...
"Hey, cool!" I said. "I wanna put it on!"
"No, don't!" Link shouted. But I had already slipped the mask on my big head.
I turned around.
"LL, didn't I- AWWWWWWWW! You are so cute! Look at you! That's so sweet! Look at those cute little eyes of yours! And those little teeth... AWWWW!" Link cooed.
"Come on, let's go back through that door there," I said.
"Anything you say, you cute lil' thing!"
We found ourselves back in the main room.
"Oh no..." Link whined.
"Look!" I cried in a high pitched voice.
I saw Link shudder for some reason, and I pointed over to the stairs. "There's another stairway over there on the side!"
Link pulled out the purple lens and looked through it to the stairs. "Hey, there's no trap door over there near those stairs!" he said.
We quickly raced up the stairs and Link tested the door.
"It's unlocked!" he said. "You cute little button!"
"Stop it," I moaned.
He turned the doorknob and we both went through.
This room was a huge, wide-open one, with Technicolor walls again.
"What's in here?" Link asked.
"I don't know..." I said. "Hey, you know what's funny?"
"What?" Link whined.
"Everything in this temple has been things that I've always wanted!" I told him. "I've always wanted a room full of jello, and a bunch of coconut cream pie treasure chests, and a giant slide..."
Link gasped. "You're serious?"
"Yeah!" I said.
Link began to think, and then he snapped his fingers. "Destiny said that 'Inside the belly you will find the first Sage's young simple mind!'"
"Yeah, so?" I said.
"Then that means..."
Suddenly, an ominous rumbling filled the room.
"WHAT IS THAT?" I cried.
"I don't... AAAAAGGGGGGGGGH!" Link screamed.
A huge silvery blob fell off of the ceiling and hit the floor. It wiggled and stood erect, then two blazing red eyes appeared in the blob.
MENTALIA: FEAR SENSING SHAPESHIFTING BLOB
"AAAAAAAAAAIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
I gasped and fell over in a faint.
"LL! WAKE UP! LITTLE BUDDY! YOU OK?"
Suddenly, I saw a tiny purple glow flash past my line of vision.
"What is that?" I cried.
Then, a tiny voice spoke up. "That is 'MENTALITIA!' It can sense fear, and it changes to whatever its victims are most afraid of!"
Link snapped his head back. "WHO? Who are you?"
A tiny fairy flew in front of me. She didn't look like most fairies though: she had a body, and a tiny purple dress. She even held a little magic wand.
"That's the author Princess of the Pixies! She shrunk herself!" I cried.
"SSSH!" Link said. "Don't say anything!"
Princess of the Pixies laughed and made a little curtsy. "I am Yumi the fairy! I'm here to be your guardian fairy, Link!"
"No offense Yumi but 1. I don't think now is a real appropriate time for this and 2. I'M 20 YEARS OLD!"
"Not you, spaz!" Princess... uh, Yumi said. "The other Link!"
"Oh, hi!" I said. "I've always wanted a guardian fairy, but... WHAT is that thing gonna do?"
"In a few seconds it's gonna transform!" Princess- Yumi said.
Sure enough, the thing began to shake.
"HOLY PURPLE WASHING MACHINES! What are you most afraid of, Link?" Princess... Er, Yumi said.
"Well, that'd be..."
Suddenly, the blob transformed into a huge, 50 foot tall, shiny... vicious...
WINDMILL GUY FROM KAKARIKO VILLAGE!
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" I screamed.
"GO AROUND! GO AROUND!" it screamed.
"You're most afraid of THAT?" Yumi cried.
"I am too!" Link shouted.
"WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?" I shrieked.
"I know!" Link cried. He pulled the compass out of his pocket, and flung it at the Windmill Guy. It beaned him in the head, and he fell over.
"Well THAT was easy!" Princess... Uh, Yumi said.
Suddenly, the Windmill Guy jumped back up and started cranking the handle on its music box.
I held my ears. "OWWW! MAKE IT STOP!"
Link shrugged and unplugged his ears long enough to fire an arrow at the left hand. Then the right hand. The Windmill Guy shrieked, and began stomping on the floor.
"STOP IT!" Link yelled, firing an arrow at each foot.
Finally, the Windmill Guy howled in pain and fell over. He began flailing and screaming.
"GO AROUND! GO AROUND!" he cried.
"Aim for the head! Aim for his shiny bald head!" Yumi cried, zooming around.
I ran out towards the Windmill Guy, and Link yelled out, "NO LL! Let me do it!"
"NO!" I cried. "I want that thing dead!"
I pulled a small rock out of my pocket that I had been keeping for an emergency and started banging the Windmill Guy on the head.
He yelped in pain and leaped onto his feet. Then, he started cranking the music box hard.
"This isn't working!" I screamed as I rolled back over to Link's side.
"They say that only an Innocent heart can stop the pursuit of fear!" Yumi said wisely.
"Where have I heard that before?" I asked myself.
"LL! THE MASK!" Link screamed.
"What?"
"Try out your mask!" Link suggested.
"Um... I don't wanna get close to it again!" I wailed. "I'm scared!"
"Little Link! MENTALIA can sense your fear! You have to suck it up and face your fears! You hafta kill it with the mask!" Yumi cried.
I gulped. "My girlfriend and my daddy are the only ones who can make me not scared..."
"They're not here right now!" Link said urgently. "LL! You have to do this!"
"Well... OK!" I said. I stepped forward. My legs were shaking.
The evil Windmill Guy stared down at me and growled. I stepped forward again.
"LL... I know you can do it if you be brave!"
GG? Where was she?
I turned around and realized that it was Link speaking in a high voice.
"You can't scare me!" I yelled to the Windmill Guy. I stared straight at his face with my Innocence Mask, and he suddenly fell back.
"FACE... SO... INNOCENT! MUST... NOT... WEAKEN! GORON... NOT... INNOCENT! AAAAAGGGGH!" the Windmill Guy screamed. Then, he faltered, and fell backwards to the ground.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO- SPLAT!"
The Windmill Guy turned back into a blob, and the blob fell to the ground and exploded.
"Wow... that was easier than I thought!" Link said.
Prin- Uh, Yumi flew over to me and zoomed around my head. "WOW! LL, that was GREAT! How do you feel?"
"KOOKY MOOKY SPOOKY POOKY WOOKY SHMOOKY!" I muttered. Then I fell over in a dead faint.
**LITTLE LINK! LITTLE LINK OF THE GORONS, WAKE UP!**
"Huh?" I mumbled. I opened my eyes. We were in the Chamber of Sages again.
**IT'S ABOUT TIME! JEEZ, YOU WERE OUT LIKE A LIGHT.**
"Oh hi Destiny... how are you?" I said.
"LL, are you OK?" Link asked, sounding genuinely concerned.
"YEAH!" Yumi laughed. "You've been unconscious for at least fifteen minutes!"
I grinned.
**GOOD JOB, YOU TWO. YOU'VE FOUND THE LOST INNOCENCE TEMPLE, AND NOW YOU'VE DEFEATED THE IMPURE EVIL THAT WAS KEEPING THE INNOCENCE SAGE FROM BEING AWAKENED. CONGRATS, GOOD JOB, YADDA, YADDA.**
"Who is the Innocence Sage?" asked Link.
**YOU IDIOT. I THOUGHT YOU'D HAVE FIGURED THAT OUT A LONG TIME AGO! THE INNOCENCE SAGE IS...**
"Is..." Link continued.
"Is..." I continued.
**THE INNOCENCE SAGE IS...**
"WILL YOU JUST TELL US?"
**I'M DESTINY, DON'T YOU RUSH ME! THE INNOCENCE SAGE IS... YOU, LITTLE LINK OF THE GORONS!**
I gasped. "ME??!?!?!"
**NO, THE OTHER LITTLE LINK OF THE GORONS.**
"Oh. PHEW!" I said.
**YOU FOOL! THERE ARE NO OTHER LITTLE LINKS OF THE GORONS. YOU ARE THE INNOCENCE SAGE.**
"I'm a Sage?" I said. "WOW! I can't believe it! I'm an important person just like Daddy!"
**WELL, NOT AS IMPORTANT AS YOUR DAD. BUT JUST ABOUT AS IMPORTANT!**
"YAY!" I cheered.
"Wait," Link interrupted. "If he's the Innocence Sage, where's his medallion?"
**WHAT MEDALLION?**
"Each Sage gives the Hero of Time a medallion," Link said, as though stating the obvious.
"But... I want my medallion!" I whined. "I want it! I don't wanna give it to you!"
**OH, THAT MEDALLION. HE DOESN'T HAVE TO GIVE IT TO YOU, MR. HERO.**
"Aw," Link sighed.
Yumi buzzed around my head. "But where is LL's medallion anyway? Doesn't he get it?"
**COMING RIGHT DOWN.**
A small yellowish orange medallion on a black string necklace tumbled down from the ceiling, and I caught it.
(triumphant music)
LINK AND LITTLE LINK RECEIVED THE INNOCENCE MEDALLION! LITTLE LINK OF THE GORONS AWAKENS AS THE SAGE OF INNOCENCE AND KEEPS HIS POWER FOR HIMSELF. SORRY LINK, BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING. OH, AND THIS MEDALLION IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR LL HIMSELF...
"It's pretty!" I said, admiring the cute smiley face symbol carved on the medallion.
**THIS MEDALLION IS EXTREMELY POWERFUL, LL. IN FACT, YOU NEED TO FIND OUT ITS POWER SOON... ACTUALLY, RIGHT NOW. ITS POWER WILL HELP YOU AND LINK FIND THE SIX AUTHOR SAGES AND SAVE THE WORLD FROM REDUNDANCY.**
"Cool," I said. "What do I do to use it?"
**LL... TO USE THE POWER OF THE INNOCENCE MEDALLION, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS HOLD THE MEDALLION UP IN THE AIR, SAY, "INNOCENCE SAGE MEDALLION, TRANSFORM!" AND THE MEDALLION WILL DO THE REST.**
"AWESOME!" I cheered.
Princess... Sorry, YUMI flew in front of my face and cried out, "LL! Try it out! See what the secret of the Innocence Medallion is!"
Link sighed. "Sure what the hey? Let's see it."
**GO AHEAD, LL. TRY IT**
I shrugged, and held the medallion up above my head.
"INNOCENCE SAGE MEDALLION POWER!" I cried.
Suddenly, the medallion began to glow yellowish orange. I let out a little cry as the light spread and engulfed everything. I seemed to lose consciousness for a second, and I couldn't tell exactly where I was.
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When I regained my senses, I noticed that everything felt different.
I heard a collective gasp from Link and Pri- YUMI!
"L-l-l-little Link?" Link stuttered.
"HOLY CRAP!" Yumi cried.
"What? What happened?" I asked.
Link reached back and un-strapped his Mirror shield from his back.
"See for yourself..." he said quietly.
I looked in the shield and screamed in terror.
What was wrong with me? My skin had changed from tan and rough to a pinkish color... and soft! Very soft!
My eyes had lost their beadiness and had turned red. They looked like Link's, but red!
My hair had grown from a tiny tuft on my head to an entire head of soft, wild, tawny brown hair.
I noticed a strange feeling on my back. I looked down to see clothes! A red tunic like Link's... and brown pants with black boots!
And my face! My beard was gone, and my face was no longer flat! Round, gentle, and very handsome... it's what GG would have referred to as... "Hot and Gorgeous".
"OHHHHHHHHHHHH MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY GODDESS!" I screamed. "I'M A HUMAN!"
Well THIS is an interesting turn of events! What exactly DOES the Innocence Medallion do? Who is this incredibly hot human that our favorite little Goron has turned into? Who are the Six Author Sages? We still don't know who this Destiny person is! And what is up with Princess of the Pixies to make her think she's a fairy?
Find out in the next episode of the Sage of Innocence Saga, entitled...
DOSEKI MUSHA: GORON/HUMAN WARRIOR OF STONE!
-OR-
"WHERE OH WHERE HAS OUR LITTLE LINK GONE?"
By Galaxy Girl
A/N: This chapter starts the cameos, so this chapter starts the disclaimers.
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY EXCEPT MYSELF, AND THE SPECIFIED AUTHORS AND PEOPLE IN THE STORY OWN THEMSELVES. I DO, HOWEVER, OWN THE EXTRA SEVEN TEMPLES, SO PLEASE ASK BEFORE YOU USE THEM!
OK... Oh, and I've chosen the six author Sages already. Thank you for all of your applications, and I promise to give the people who didn't make it to Sage-hood a large cameo. Thanks!
~GG
CHAPTER THREE: End Of The Innocence -or- Innocence Temple Madness!
Hiyo, me again, LL. OK, this is the chapter where things start getting really weird. Reading this chapter may cause eyebrows to raise and eyes to roll! So... yeah... great. Just read. Thank you.
When we arrived at Goron City, my Dad pounded on the door.
"Al, could you get that?"
"Bob, get that please!"
"Carl, could you please answer the door?"
"Mike... door please..."
"Why can't you get it, Joe?"
Finally, Dad got impatient and threw the door open.
Link, Dad, and me rushed downstairs to the bottom of the city. Crowded around the place where the statue once stood was a group of Gorons, all staring at something.
"What is it?" asked Link. "What are you looking at?"
Daddy pushed a few out of the way and looked around. "What is it, guys?"
One of the Gorons stood up. "Big Brother, there's a weird person here on the floor!"
I looked down to see a human kid! I recognized him as the author, Sikes. He wasn't acting like the Sikes I knew; he was all rolled up in a ball on the floor, chewing on a rock.
"Sikes, what are you doing?" I asked.
Sikes sat up and let out a moan. "Hmmmm? Who is Sikes?" he asked. "Me no know no Sikes... Me is Fred the Goron!"
Link raised an eyebrow. "Um... dude, you better stop chewing on that rock. You're going to knock out your teeth!"
Sikes paid no attention, he just flopped over on his back. "WHOOPS! TROUBLE! GOTTA GO!"
He rolled up into a ball and tried to start rolling along the floor.
Dad scratched his head. "Well THAT was weird."
Link sighed and pushed Sikes or "Fred" out of the way.
There on the floor was a large circle where the base of the statue had been.
"Now how to open it?" Link thought out loud. "Hmmm..."
"The song?" I suggested. "The um... "Something to Something...?"
"The Ode To Innocence. Of course," Link said. He pulled out his shiny blue Ocarina. All of the Gorons (and myself) became fixated on the shiny blueness.
Link played out the notes of the song that I had forgotten.
Suddenly, the floor began to rumble, and the circle lowered into the floor and slid to the right, leaving a portal open in the floor.
"Well whaddya know?" I said, peeking down into the hole.
"Is that what she meant?" Link inquired. "Hmmm... Well, nowhere else to go but inside. You first, Little Link."
"MEEEEE?!" I cried. "But... I'm afraid of the dark!"
Dad patted Link on the back, knocking him over. "Come on, Brother! You're the big strong hero dude! You go in first, and you can help Little Link when you get in there."
Link stood up and dusted himself off.
"OK, fine. Coming in."
He pulled out a small weird-looking handle with a chain and a hook attached, and pointed it at the wood platform that hung over the city. The hook flew out, and stuck to the wood. Then, Link jumped over the hole, and the chain got longer, lowering him into the hole.
"Come on, LL!" Link sighed. "If you're coming, let's go!"
"Er... whaddya mean?" I asked.
"Come on, come over and I'll grab you and lower you into the hole!"
"Um... OK..." I said.
I walked over to the hole, and Link held out his hand. "Come on, I don't bite."
"I'm pretty heavy!" I warned.
"I'm pretty strong. Just come on!"
I shrugged and jumped onto his lap.
"AAAAAGGGH!" he yelled, and he dropped the chain and hook. We both tumbled down into the hole.
CRASH!
"OWWWWWWWWHOOOHOOHOOOOO!" Link whined. I couldn't see him, but I could hear him.
"Sorry," I said.
"How much DO you weigh? THREE TONS?"
"600 pounds," I replied.
"JEEEZ! Never do that again, OK?" he said.
"Um... where are we?"
"Never mind that! I gotta find my Hookshot!" Link snapped. I felt him crash his head into my back. "OUCH! Oh, here it is!"
"I'm scared!" I whimpered.
"Don't be. It's just the dark. We gotta find a light!"
A few seconds later, a flicker appeared across the area from me, and I saw Link holding a lit candle. "Aha! I knew this was a good investment!"
We appeared to be in a long, dark tunnel. A tiny light was shining from the opposite end of the tunnel.
"Nowhere else to go," Link said, like he had a few minutes ago.
We walked down the tunnel, and finally, we crashed into a wall near the source of the light.
"Hey, a door!" I said.
"Where's the handle?" Link said to no one in particular. "Oh, here."
He turned the handle and opened the door.
"WOW!" we both yelled.
We were in a huge room, with amazing Technicolor walls and a large marble staircase leading up to another door. A large smiley face symbol was up above the door. An inscription above the smiley face caught Link's attention.
"It says... 'Innocence Temple'!"
I was caught on the gorgeous colors. "WOOOOOOOWWWWWWEEEEE! PRETTY COLORS! YAHHOOOOOO!"
"Down boy," Link said, rolling his eyes. "I suppose we'd better go through that door."
We walked up the stairs, but as soon as we were one step away from the top, the staircase made a KLUNK noise, and flattened into a slide.
"AAIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" I cried as we flew downwards.
A trapdoor opened up below the door we had entered through, and we slid all the way DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN!
We landed on a large, soft surface.
"OOOF!" Link yelped.
"It's like a huge pillow!" I said.
In fact, the entire room's floor was this weird green jello-like substance. At the far end of the room was yet another door on a high platform.
"We'd better go over there!" Link said.
"How?" I asked. "I can't walk without sinking!"
"Hmmmmm..." Link pondered. "Give me a second."
He tried to stand up, but when he took a step forward, he went flying. The Jello had sunk, and one step had snapped it like a catapult.
"WHOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAA!" he cried. He flew all the way over to the other side of the room, and sunk down into the jello up to his neck.
"LL! I'm STUCK!" he screamed.
"I'm coming!" I said.
I tried to stand up and walk, but I should have known better. I weighed 600 pounds.
I began to sink into the jello until I was about knee deep.
"Uh... I CAN'T WALK!" I shouted to Link.
"THIS JELLO IS EATING ME!" he replied sounding a bit more urgent.
"It's eating me too!" I cried. "Hmmm... what did GG always tell me to do if I ever met killer food? 'Eat it before it eats you,'"
"GG told you that?" Link asked.
"Yep. She's fought more evil food items as a superhero than I can count!"
"Um... LL, you can only count to six."
"Oh yeah... Anyway, here I come!"
I leaned over and took a big bite of the jello. It began to wiggle, and I spat it out.
"Oh yuck! It's got that weird tough jello skin on it!" I whined, spitting it out.
"Who cares? LL, you've got to hurry! I'm sinking really fast now!" Link said.
"Why don't YOU eat it?" I said. "I've eaten more tough jello skin than I'd like to admit in my life, but just because GG can't make jello very well..."
I could hear Link sigh from across the room. "Fine."
It was quiet for a second.
"PATOOIE! GROSS! What is that stuff? It's like rubber!" Link griped.
"Man hath known no evil like tough jello skin..." I murmured.
"We gotta eat it anyway, I suppose," Link said. "Or else, I'll be underneath this jello really soon!"
I took another bite. "Mmmmmm... lime flavored!"
Link bit off a chunk. "Hmm... under the skin it's not bad... OOOH! It's the kind with little pineapple chunks!"
To make a long story short, we eventually ate enough jello to carve a path through it over to the door.
"And now, we just hookshot over!" Link said. He carefully aimed the little springy hooky thingy at a beam over the door, and he was instantly pulled out of the jello and up onto the platform.
"Here LL, you can get yourself out!" Link said. He tossed down the little springy hooky thingy, and I caught it.
"Hey, how do ya work this thing?" I asked. "OOOOH! A LASER!"
"Watch where you're pointing that thing!" Link shouted.
"OOOO! What does THIS button do?" I cooed. I did what any Goron would do: Push the button.
"YIPES!" I shrieked, as I flew through the air.
SPLAT!
"Ow! Could you please not land on me anymore?" Link snapped.
"Sorry!" I said. "Oh, you want your little springy hooky thingy back?"
In the next room there were at least ten large treasure chests in a large smiley face circle on the ground.
"Ah. Maps and stuff, I guess," Link said. He walked up to a treasure chest and got ready to click it open.
"Uh, Link? Shouldn't you check and make sure the chest isn't rigged?" I asked.
"LL, I'm not stupid. There's nothing in here. It's..."
He opened the chest, and a spring holding a coconut cream pie sprung out of the box and hit Link in the face.
"HEY!" he shouted.
I burst out laughing and fell over on the ground. That was the FUNNIEST thing I've ever seen!
He scowled and wiped coconut off of his face. "That wasn't funny."
"YES IT WAS!" I cried between giggles.
Link shook his head and moved onto the next one. "OK, this time I'm gonna check and see first!"
He pulled a small purple lens out of his pocket and held it up to his eye.
"Nope, no pies," he said. Link reached down, opened the chest, and...
A coconut cream pie sprung out and hit him in the face.
I fell over laughing again, and he screamed in anger. "WHYYYYY?"
He ran over to the next one. "OK, there's no chance that there's another..."
SPLAT!
Three pies and three cuss words later, Link opened a chest that didn't explode with cream filling and coco-nutty goodness.
"Hey, a map!" he said.
LINK AND LITTLE LINK FOUND THE DUNGEON MAP! NOW THEY CAN FIND THEIR WAY AROUND THE INNOCENCE TEMPLE! UNFORTUNATELY, LL CAN'T READ, SO I'M NOT SURE HOW MUCH HELP IT'LL BE!
I decided to try my luck with the other chests. I opened the first one.
A coconut cream pie shot out of the chest, but I was so short, it missed me completely and hit Link in the back of the head across the room.
"Oopsie..." I said.
"GRRRR! That's it, I'm opening the last one!" he said, shoving me out of the way.
He opened it, and a really big pie flew out.
SPLAT!
He sighed and turned around to wipe off his face. But I saw something in the chest, so I opened it up.
LINK AND LITTLE LINK FOUND THE COMPASS! NOW THEY CAN SEE THE LOCATIONS OF MANY HIDDEN ITEMS IN THE DUNGEON! WELL... IT ALSO MAKES A USEFUL THROWING PROJECTILE WEAPON IN A PINCH!
"Hey, good job!" Link said. "Now we can go through that door on the other side!"
Link got ready to turn the doorknob and...
The floor opened up and we tumbled down a chute onto a huge, huge, HUGE spiral slide!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH!" Link screamed from in front of me.
"WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" I screamed.
I looked around, and saw that the walls were bright and Technicolor like the first room of the temple. Link was too busy shutting his eyes and shrieking to see it.
After a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG fall, we flew off of a ramp and landed on another large fluffy surface.
"OOF!" I grunted.
"No jello mommy, please!" Link mumbled from his face down position on the floor.
"Link, we're on a pillow this time," I said.
"Huh? Oh. Hey look another chest!" Link said, sitting up and pointing to a lovely Technicolor treasure chest by the wall.
"You can open it," Link said. He still smelled like coconut.
I tiptoed across the floor and snapped open the lock on the chest, and...
I pulled out a thin paper mask. It was large and circular, and it ended up having a yellow smiley face like the ones we had seen all over the temple.
LINK AND LITTLE LINK FOUND THE INNOCENCE MASK! THIS MASK HAS A LARGE, INNOCENT FACE. IF YOU WEAR IT, PEOPLE WILL FIND YOU INNOCENT OF ANYTHING THAT ANYONE COULD ACCUSE YOU OFF! IT CHANGES TO LOOK LIKE THE USER'S FACE, BUT ONLY MORE INNOCENT. WELL, THIS EXPLANATION WAS PRETTY REDUNDANT...
"Hey, cool!" I said. "I wanna put it on!"
"No, don't!" Link shouted. But I had already slipped the mask on my big head.
I turned around.
"LL, didn't I- AWWWWWWWW! You are so cute! Look at you! That's so sweet! Look at those cute little eyes of yours! And those little teeth... AWWWW!" Link cooed.
"Come on, let's go back through that door there," I said.
"Anything you say, you cute lil' thing!"
We found ourselves back in the main room.
"Oh no..." Link whined.
"Look!" I cried in a high pitched voice.
I saw Link shudder for some reason, and I pointed over to the stairs. "There's another stairway over there on the side!"
Link pulled out the purple lens and looked through it to the stairs. "Hey, there's no trap door over there near those stairs!" he said.
We quickly raced up the stairs and Link tested the door.
"It's unlocked!" he said. "You cute little button!"
"Stop it," I moaned.
He turned the doorknob and we both went through.
This room was a huge, wide-open one, with Technicolor walls again.
"What's in here?" Link asked.
"I don't know..." I said. "Hey, you know what's funny?"
"What?" Link whined.
"Everything in this temple has been things that I've always wanted!" I told him. "I've always wanted a room full of jello, and a bunch of coconut cream pie treasure chests, and a giant slide..."
Link gasped. "You're serious?"
"Yeah!" I said.
Link began to think, and then he snapped his fingers. "Destiny said that 'Inside the belly you will find the first Sage's young simple mind!'"
"Yeah, so?" I said.
"Then that means..."
Suddenly, an ominous rumbling filled the room.
"WHAT IS THAT?" I cried.
"I don't... AAAAAGGGGGGGGGH!" Link screamed.
A huge silvery blob fell off of the ceiling and hit the floor. It wiggled and stood erect, then two blazing red eyes appeared in the blob.
MENTALIA: FEAR SENSING SHAPESHIFTING BLOB
"AAAAAAAAAAIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
I gasped and fell over in a faint.
"LL! WAKE UP! LITTLE BUDDY! YOU OK?"
Suddenly, I saw a tiny purple glow flash past my line of vision.
"What is that?" I cried.
Then, a tiny voice spoke up. "That is 'MENTALITIA!' It can sense fear, and it changes to whatever its victims are most afraid of!"
Link snapped his head back. "WHO? Who are you?"
A tiny fairy flew in front of me. She didn't look like most fairies though: she had a body, and a tiny purple dress. She even held a little magic wand.
"That's the author Princess of the Pixies! She shrunk herself!" I cried.
"SSSH!" Link said. "Don't say anything!"
Princess of the Pixies laughed and made a little curtsy. "I am Yumi the fairy! I'm here to be your guardian fairy, Link!"
"No offense Yumi but 1. I don't think now is a real appropriate time for this and 2. I'M 20 YEARS OLD!"
"Not you, spaz!" Princess... uh, Yumi said. "The other Link!"
"Oh, hi!" I said. "I've always wanted a guardian fairy, but... WHAT is that thing gonna do?"
"In a few seconds it's gonna transform!" Princess- Yumi said.
Sure enough, the thing began to shake.
"HOLY PURPLE WASHING MACHINES! What are you most afraid of, Link?" Princess... Er, Yumi said.
"Well, that'd be..."
Suddenly, the blob transformed into a huge, 50 foot tall, shiny... vicious...
WINDMILL GUY FROM KAKARIKO VILLAGE!
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" I screamed.
"GO AROUND! GO AROUND!" it screamed.
"You're most afraid of THAT?" Yumi cried.
"I am too!" Link shouted.
"WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?" I shrieked.
"I know!" Link cried. He pulled the compass out of his pocket, and flung it at the Windmill Guy. It beaned him in the head, and he fell over.
"Well THAT was easy!" Princess... Uh, Yumi said.
Suddenly, the Windmill Guy jumped back up and started cranking the handle on its music box.
I held my ears. "OWWW! MAKE IT STOP!"
Link shrugged and unplugged his ears long enough to fire an arrow at the left hand. Then the right hand. The Windmill Guy shrieked, and began stomping on the floor.
"STOP IT!" Link yelled, firing an arrow at each foot.
Finally, the Windmill Guy howled in pain and fell over. He began flailing and screaming.
"GO AROUND! GO AROUND!" he cried.
"Aim for the head! Aim for his shiny bald head!" Yumi cried, zooming around.
I ran out towards the Windmill Guy, and Link yelled out, "NO LL! Let me do it!"
"NO!" I cried. "I want that thing dead!"
I pulled a small rock out of my pocket that I had been keeping for an emergency and started banging the Windmill Guy on the head.
He yelped in pain and leaped onto his feet. Then, he started cranking the music box hard.
"This isn't working!" I screamed as I rolled back over to Link's side.
"They say that only an Innocent heart can stop the pursuit of fear!" Yumi said wisely.
"Where have I heard that before?" I asked myself.
"LL! THE MASK!" Link screamed.
"What?"
"Try out your mask!" Link suggested.
"Um... I don't wanna get close to it again!" I wailed. "I'm scared!"
"Little Link! MENTALIA can sense your fear! You have to suck it up and face your fears! You hafta kill it with the mask!" Yumi cried.
I gulped. "My girlfriend and my daddy are the only ones who can make me not scared..."
"They're not here right now!" Link said urgently. "LL! You have to do this!"
"Well... OK!" I said. I stepped forward. My legs were shaking.
The evil Windmill Guy stared down at me and growled. I stepped forward again.
"LL... I know you can do it if you be brave!"
GG? Where was she?
I turned around and realized that it was Link speaking in a high voice.
"You can't scare me!" I yelled to the Windmill Guy. I stared straight at his face with my Innocence Mask, and he suddenly fell back.
"FACE... SO... INNOCENT! MUST... NOT... WEAKEN! GORON... NOT... INNOCENT! AAAAAGGGGH!" the Windmill Guy screamed. Then, he faltered, and fell backwards to the ground.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO- SPLAT!"
The Windmill Guy turned back into a blob, and the blob fell to the ground and exploded.
"Wow... that was easier than I thought!" Link said.
Prin- Uh, Yumi flew over to me and zoomed around my head. "WOW! LL, that was GREAT! How do you feel?"
"KOOKY MOOKY SPOOKY POOKY WOOKY SHMOOKY!" I muttered. Then I fell over in a dead faint.
**LITTLE LINK! LITTLE LINK OF THE GORONS, WAKE UP!**
"Huh?" I mumbled. I opened my eyes. We were in the Chamber of Sages again.
**IT'S ABOUT TIME! JEEZ, YOU WERE OUT LIKE A LIGHT.**
"Oh hi Destiny... how are you?" I said.
"LL, are you OK?" Link asked, sounding genuinely concerned.
"YEAH!" Yumi laughed. "You've been unconscious for at least fifteen minutes!"
I grinned.
**GOOD JOB, YOU TWO. YOU'VE FOUND THE LOST INNOCENCE TEMPLE, AND NOW YOU'VE DEFEATED THE IMPURE EVIL THAT WAS KEEPING THE INNOCENCE SAGE FROM BEING AWAKENED. CONGRATS, GOOD JOB, YADDA, YADDA.**
"Who is the Innocence Sage?" asked Link.
**YOU IDIOT. I THOUGHT YOU'D HAVE FIGURED THAT OUT A LONG TIME AGO! THE INNOCENCE SAGE IS...**
"Is..." Link continued.
"Is..." I continued.
**THE INNOCENCE SAGE IS...**
"WILL YOU JUST TELL US?"
**I'M DESTINY, DON'T YOU RUSH ME! THE INNOCENCE SAGE IS... YOU, LITTLE LINK OF THE GORONS!**
I gasped. "ME??!?!?!"
**NO, THE OTHER LITTLE LINK OF THE GORONS.**
"Oh. PHEW!" I said.
**YOU FOOL! THERE ARE NO OTHER LITTLE LINKS OF THE GORONS. YOU ARE THE INNOCENCE SAGE.**
"I'm a Sage?" I said. "WOW! I can't believe it! I'm an important person just like Daddy!"
**WELL, NOT AS IMPORTANT AS YOUR DAD. BUT JUST ABOUT AS IMPORTANT!**
"YAY!" I cheered.
"Wait," Link interrupted. "If he's the Innocence Sage, where's his medallion?"
**WHAT MEDALLION?**
"Each Sage gives the Hero of Time a medallion," Link said, as though stating the obvious.
"But... I want my medallion!" I whined. "I want it! I don't wanna give it to you!"
**OH, THAT MEDALLION. HE DOESN'T HAVE TO GIVE IT TO YOU, MR. HERO.**
"Aw," Link sighed.
Yumi buzzed around my head. "But where is LL's medallion anyway? Doesn't he get it?"
**COMING RIGHT DOWN.**
A small yellowish orange medallion on a black string necklace tumbled down from the ceiling, and I caught it.
(triumphant music)
LINK AND LITTLE LINK RECEIVED THE INNOCENCE MEDALLION! LITTLE LINK OF THE GORONS AWAKENS AS THE SAGE OF INNOCENCE AND KEEPS HIS POWER FOR HIMSELF. SORRY LINK, BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING. OH, AND THIS MEDALLION IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR LL HIMSELF...
"It's pretty!" I said, admiring the cute smiley face symbol carved on the medallion.
**THIS MEDALLION IS EXTREMELY POWERFUL, LL. IN FACT, YOU NEED TO FIND OUT ITS POWER SOON... ACTUALLY, RIGHT NOW. ITS POWER WILL HELP YOU AND LINK FIND THE SIX AUTHOR SAGES AND SAVE THE WORLD FROM REDUNDANCY.**
"Cool," I said. "What do I do to use it?"
**LL... TO USE THE POWER OF THE INNOCENCE MEDALLION, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS HOLD THE MEDALLION UP IN THE AIR, SAY, "INNOCENCE SAGE MEDALLION, TRANSFORM!" AND THE MEDALLION WILL DO THE REST.**
"AWESOME!" I cheered.
Princess... Sorry, YUMI flew in front of my face and cried out, "LL! Try it out! See what the secret of the Innocence Medallion is!"
Link sighed. "Sure what the hey? Let's see it."
**GO AHEAD, LL. TRY IT**
I shrugged, and held the medallion up above my head.
"INNOCENCE SAGE MEDALLION POWER!" I cried.
Suddenly, the medallion began to glow yellowish orange. I let out a little cry as the light spread and engulfed everything. I seemed to lose consciousness for a second, and I couldn't tell exactly where I was.
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When I regained my senses, I noticed that everything felt different.
I heard a collective gasp from Link and Pri- YUMI!
"L-l-l-little Link?" Link stuttered.
"HOLY CRAP!" Yumi cried.
"What? What happened?" I asked.
Link reached back and un-strapped his Mirror shield from his back.
"See for yourself..." he said quietly.
I looked in the shield and screamed in terror.
What was wrong with me? My skin had changed from tan and rough to a pinkish color... and soft! Very soft!
My eyes had lost their beadiness and had turned red. They looked like Link's, but red!
My hair had grown from a tiny tuft on my head to an entire head of soft, wild, tawny brown hair.
I noticed a strange feeling on my back. I looked down to see clothes! A red tunic like Link's... and brown pants with black boots!
And my face! My beard was gone, and my face was no longer flat! Round, gentle, and very handsome... it's what GG would have referred to as... "Hot and Gorgeous".
"OHHHHHHHHHHHH MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY GODDESS!" I screamed. "I'M A HUMAN!"
Well THIS is an interesting turn of events! What exactly DOES the Innocence Medallion do? Who is this incredibly hot human that our favorite little Goron has turned into? Who are the Six Author Sages? We still don't know who this Destiny person is! And what is up with Princess of the Pixies to make her think she's a fairy?
Find out in the next episode of the Sage of Innocence Saga, entitled...
DOSEKI MUSHA: GORON/HUMAN WARRIOR OF STONE!
-OR-
"WHERE OH WHERE HAS OUR LITTLE LINK GONE?"
