A/N Yay!! Finally a fight scene! Um...yeah, I don't have violent tendencies at all, nuh-uh
*shakes head vigorously* Um....yeah, on with the story!
Link's Infinite Quest
Chapter 2
My feet touched the ground and I was already on the move, leaping away from the huge moblin that swung a club at me as I exited the tavern.
"YAAAAAH!" I shouted as I performed a double-handed overhead strike that would have cleaved him in two if it hadn't been for the armor he wore on his shoulders. As it was he roared in pain as his shoulder was practically shattered. In rage he raised his club and smashed it down with every ounce of strength he had, sending shockwaves through the ground that crashed into a stand and cracked it in half. But I dodged nimbly to the side, and performed a perfect backhand slash to the exposed area below his shoulder armor. The moblin fell with a squeal and dissapeared in a plume of vile, evil, purple smoke.
"One down..." I heard a scream and snapped my gaze towards the sound. A young girl of no more than eight was cowering behind an overturned merchant's cart, with three tektites hopping around madly, trying to jump over the cart and slash the girl with their razor sharp leg spines and horrible teeth. I raced over, just as the cart had been nudged out of the way enough so they could get at her.
"KYYYAAAAH!!!!" I screamed, my blade flashing as I flew through the air. SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! Three swipes, three clangs, three tektites dropped to the ground in pieces, each individual piece twitching on it's own. In a moment, the pieces dissapeared in a plume of acrid smoke, just as the moblin had.
"It's okay, I gotcha. You're safe now," I comforted the girl as I scooped her up in my arm, readying my hookshot with my other arm. I fired it at a post above me, and slingshotted myself from there onto a rooftop. "You'll be safe here," I told her, setting her down.
"Th=thanks..." She wimpered, still a bit traumatized by her frightening experience.
"Hey, it's my job," I flashed a quick smile, then backflipped off the roof, ready to rumble. I landed right in another group of tektites, squishing one under me as I landed. The others turned around to see what had dropped in on them, literally.
"EEEEYAH!" They barely caught a glimse of me before my spin attack seperated their legs from their buglike body. Plume of smoke, just as before. Now there were only the moblins to deal with. Suddenly, I heard a scream and a roar.
"And there's one now," I muttered as I ran down the alley where the noise had come from. Racing around the corner, I almost slammed right into the back of one of the grotesque, piglike creatures.
"WORRRRR!" roared the moblin as it charged forward, spear held out in front of him.
"AIIIIEEE!! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!" screamed a boy who looked to be a bit younger than me as he dove away from the charging moblin. CLANG! The moblin's spear imbedded itself in the wall where the boy had been moments before.
"Leave me alone!" He shouted at the moblin, smashing him with a stick. Although the stick would do nothing to the hardened warrior monster, you had to admire the boy's spirit. I pulled out my bow and nocked an ice arrow on the string, taking aim at the moblin that was still stuck in the wall. I fired at the gap in his armor, just as he yanked his spear out of the wall. He froze in a giant block of ice, which would soon de-thaw and leave him there, stone cold dead.
"Wow, thanks!" He said, eyes big as pie plates.
"Don't mention it!" I yelled over my shoulder as I ran in the direction of more screams. "Oh no!" I gasped as I saw that another club moblin had broken through the doorway of the Old Man tavern. I could see Big Mack battling bravely against the moblin with a club almost as big, but he was obviously outmatched. The moblin knocked the club out of Mack's hands, knocking him down at the same time. He raised his club to deliver the final blow.
"NOOOOOOO!" I screamed, racing towards the moblin, even though I knew I could never make it in time. Suddenly, everything becamse a golden blur, and I found myself transported across the square to right behind the oversized pig. Not taking time to think about what had just happened I leaped on the moblin's back, grabbing on around his neck, just as he brought his club crashing down. "MACK! NOOO!" I yelled in horror, fearing my new friend crushed. But the sudden extra weight had case the moblin to mis-aim, the club coming down inches away from mack's head. The moblin squealed, waving his hands around madly. But I outmaneuvered him, hanging onto his neck for all I was worth. Then he switched to a different method. He turned around, running backwards towards the wall. I gritted my teeth as I was nearly crushed between the moblin and the wood. The hellish freak swine stepped forward, then repeated the process again. "I'm not gonna last much longer," I thought as pain shot through my whole body. In desperation I raised my sword and brought the metal hilt crashing down on his helmet with all my strength. CLANG! The moblin visible shuddered as his helmet was nearly cracked in two. With a great sigh he fell to the ground, unconcious. I raised my sword for the final blow, plunging it into the monster's abdomen with my whole body weight upon it. It dissapeared in a cloud of purple, sulphurous smoke like the others. I picked up my sword, staggered backwards a bit, then the darkness consumed me.
***
Shadows...everywhere. I was in and empty space, standing there. Then I heard it. That evil laugh, that demonic chuckle.
"No..."
"Yes, Link, it's me, heh heh heh..."
"What do you want you orange haired freak?
"Now now Link, sticks and stones..."
"Where the hell are you?"
"Right here," The monster above all other monsters stepped out from the shadows into a beam of light that had just appeared.
"What do you want?" I unsheathed my sword.
"Only to show you something," He grinned evily.
"Show me something?"
"Yes, something that will happen in the near future."
"The future?"
"Yes, your future, something that will make you want to die yourself," He said, reaching back into the shadows. He pulled, and a shape came into the light.
Oh no, not her, anybody but her! "LEAVE HER ALONE! YOUR FIGHT IS WITH ME!"
"Au contrair, Link. If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be trapped in the hell you call the dark world. Now I don't actually have her yet, as I said, this is the near future, I just felt like taunting you a bit. Heh heh heh..."
"Link! Help me!"
I tried to charge forward, but some mysterious force held me back.
"Link! Liiiink help! Link! Link...Link......Link? Link? Speak to me laddie!" As the dream faded away her voice was slowly replaced by another familiar one.
"Hugh?" I groaned as I got up, rubbing my head.
"Aye, I came as soon as I heard about your wee bout with those monsters, and from what I hear, you did real good." "(groan) How long have I been out?"
"About three hours, you took quite a beating back there. I want to thank ya though, you saved my life," Said Big Mack, coming up behind Hugh. I stood up and looked around. I was behind the curtain in the Old Man tavern.
"is he okay? Can we see him?" I heard a voice from outside the curtain.
The curtain parted, and someone bounded in. "Link, you're okay!" Exclaimed the person who I now recognized as the boy I had saved early.
"Easy now, he's still a wee bit scraped up," cautioned Hugh.
"Hiya Link, I'm Chayne! You saved my life back there! I owe you one!," he beamed, slapping me on the back. Was it just me or were the people here obsessed with back slaps?
"Don't worry about it, kid." I said, walking shakily to the curtain.
"Hey, who're you calling a kid, I'm thirteen you know!"
I eyed the diminuitive boy, "You don't really look it..."
"Hye I'm short for my age! It's not my fault!" He was obviously offended.
I sighed, "Sorry if I was a bit nasty, but I just had a bit of a nerve-wracking experience."
"Well I should say so!" exclaimed Mack, "That thing must have been three times your size!"
"That's not what's bothering me. Moblins were brought out of the hells of the dark world by one person, and they can only be controlled by one person. I thought he was gone forever by my hand, but apparently I was wrong."
"Who is he?" Chayne asked fearfully, looking as if he was expecting someone to creep up behind him and snatch him away.
"Gannondorf."
Chapter 2
My feet touched the ground and I was already on the move, leaping away from the huge moblin that swung a club at me as I exited the tavern.
"YAAAAAH!" I shouted as I performed a double-handed overhead strike that would have cleaved him in two if it hadn't been for the armor he wore on his shoulders. As it was he roared in pain as his shoulder was practically shattered. In rage he raised his club and smashed it down with every ounce of strength he had, sending shockwaves through the ground that crashed into a stand and cracked it in half. But I dodged nimbly to the side, and performed a perfect backhand slash to the exposed area below his shoulder armor. The moblin fell with a squeal and dissapeared in a plume of vile, evil, purple smoke.
"One down..." I heard a scream and snapped my gaze towards the sound. A young girl of no more than eight was cowering behind an overturned merchant's cart, with three tektites hopping around madly, trying to jump over the cart and slash the girl with their razor sharp leg spines and horrible teeth. I raced over, just as the cart had been nudged out of the way enough so they could get at her.
"KYYYAAAAH!!!!" I screamed, my blade flashing as I flew through the air. SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! Three swipes, three clangs, three tektites dropped to the ground in pieces, each individual piece twitching on it's own. In a moment, the pieces dissapeared in a plume of acrid smoke, just as the moblin had.
"It's okay, I gotcha. You're safe now," I comforted the girl as I scooped her up in my arm, readying my hookshot with my other arm. I fired it at a post above me, and slingshotted myself from there onto a rooftop. "You'll be safe here," I told her, setting her down.
"Th=thanks..." She wimpered, still a bit traumatized by her frightening experience.
"Hey, it's my job," I flashed a quick smile, then backflipped off the roof, ready to rumble. I landed right in another group of tektites, squishing one under me as I landed. The others turned around to see what had dropped in on them, literally.
"EEEEYAH!" They barely caught a glimse of me before my spin attack seperated their legs from their buglike body. Plume of smoke, just as before. Now there were only the moblins to deal with. Suddenly, I heard a scream and a roar.
"And there's one now," I muttered as I ran down the alley where the noise had come from. Racing around the corner, I almost slammed right into the back of one of the grotesque, piglike creatures.
"WORRRRR!" roared the moblin as it charged forward, spear held out in front of him.
"AIIIIEEE!! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!" screamed a boy who looked to be a bit younger than me as he dove away from the charging moblin. CLANG! The moblin's spear imbedded itself in the wall where the boy had been moments before.
"Leave me alone!" He shouted at the moblin, smashing him with a stick. Although the stick would do nothing to the hardened warrior monster, you had to admire the boy's spirit. I pulled out my bow and nocked an ice arrow on the string, taking aim at the moblin that was still stuck in the wall. I fired at the gap in his armor, just as he yanked his spear out of the wall. He froze in a giant block of ice, which would soon de-thaw and leave him there, stone cold dead.
"Wow, thanks!" He said, eyes big as pie plates.
"Don't mention it!" I yelled over my shoulder as I ran in the direction of more screams. "Oh no!" I gasped as I saw that another club moblin had broken through the doorway of the Old Man tavern. I could see Big Mack battling bravely against the moblin with a club almost as big, but he was obviously outmatched. The moblin knocked the club out of Mack's hands, knocking him down at the same time. He raised his club to deliver the final blow.
"NOOOOOOO!" I screamed, racing towards the moblin, even though I knew I could never make it in time. Suddenly, everything becamse a golden blur, and I found myself transported across the square to right behind the oversized pig. Not taking time to think about what had just happened I leaped on the moblin's back, grabbing on around his neck, just as he brought his club crashing down. "MACK! NOOO!" I yelled in horror, fearing my new friend crushed. But the sudden extra weight had case the moblin to mis-aim, the club coming down inches away from mack's head. The moblin squealed, waving his hands around madly. But I outmaneuvered him, hanging onto his neck for all I was worth. Then he switched to a different method. He turned around, running backwards towards the wall. I gritted my teeth as I was nearly crushed between the moblin and the wood. The hellish freak swine stepped forward, then repeated the process again. "I'm not gonna last much longer," I thought as pain shot through my whole body. In desperation I raised my sword and brought the metal hilt crashing down on his helmet with all my strength. CLANG! The moblin visible shuddered as his helmet was nearly cracked in two. With a great sigh he fell to the ground, unconcious. I raised my sword for the final blow, plunging it into the monster's abdomen with my whole body weight upon it. It dissapeared in a cloud of purple, sulphurous smoke like the others. I picked up my sword, staggered backwards a bit, then the darkness consumed me.
***
Shadows...everywhere. I was in and empty space, standing there. Then I heard it. That evil laugh, that demonic chuckle.
"No..."
"Yes, Link, it's me, heh heh heh..."
"What do you want you orange haired freak?
"Now now Link, sticks and stones..."
"Where the hell are you?"
"Right here," The monster above all other monsters stepped out from the shadows into a beam of light that had just appeared.
"What do you want?" I unsheathed my sword.
"Only to show you something," He grinned evily.
"Show me something?"
"Yes, something that will happen in the near future."
"The future?"
"Yes, your future, something that will make you want to die yourself," He said, reaching back into the shadows. He pulled, and a shape came into the light.
Oh no, not her, anybody but her! "LEAVE HER ALONE! YOUR FIGHT IS WITH ME!"
"Au contrair, Link. If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be trapped in the hell you call the dark world. Now I don't actually have her yet, as I said, this is the near future, I just felt like taunting you a bit. Heh heh heh..."
"Link! Help me!"
I tried to charge forward, but some mysterious force held me back.
"Link! Liiiink help! Link! Link...Link......Link? Link? Speak to me laddie!" As the dream faded away her voice was slowly replaced by another familiar one.
"Hugh?" I groaned as I got up, rubbing my head.
"Aye, I came as soon as I heard about your wee bout with those monsters, and from what I hear, you did real good." "(groan) How long have I been out?"
"About three hours, you took quite a beating back there. I want to thank ya though, you saved my life," Said Big Mack, coming up behind Hugh. I stood up and looked around. I was behind the curtain in the Old Man tavern.
"is he okay? Can we see him?" I heard a voice from outside the curtain.
The curtain parted, and someone bounded in. "Link, you're okay!" Exclaimed the person who I now recognized as the boy I had saved early.
"Easy now, he's still a wee bit scraped up," cautioned Hugh.
"Hiya Link, I'm Chayne! You saved my life back there! I owe you one!," he beamed, slapping me on the back. Was it just me or were the people here obsessed with back slaps?
"Don't worry about it, kid." I said, walking shakily to the curtain.
"Hey, who're you calling a kid, I'm thirteen you know!"
I eyed the diminuitive boy, "You don't really look it..."
"Hye I'm short for my age! It's not my fault!" He was obviously offended.
I sighed, "Sorry if I was a bit nasty, but I just had a bit of a nerve-wracking experience."
"Well I should say so!" exclaimed Mack, "That thing must have been three times your size!"
"That's not what's bothering me. Moblins were brought out of the hells of the dark world by one person, and they can only be controlled by one person. I thought he was gone forever by my hand, but apparently I was wrong."
"Who is he?" Chayne asked fearfully, looking as if he was expecting someone to creep up behind him and snatch him away.
"Gannondorf."