Chapter 10: Changes








Faced with the burden of his killing of a few innocent people, he now realized as he sat on the well in the center of Kakariko Village that word of his presence at both places where he had killed those shop keepers in Hyrule Town Market would spread throughout Hyrule. With this in mind, he reached into the upper part of his tunic and pulled out a mask that he took from the Happy Mask Shop before he blew it up, instantly enveloped with a sense of regret and depression. He suddenly started to regret his wish of diving into Hyrule during the beginning of the whole story that was concocted to just be seen as a fantasy, not once did he ever put enough foresight that an odd distortion in the planet earth's balance would truly exist, allowing him to emerge in this 'fictional' land.

He looked around the village again, breathed in the clean air that Hyrule had to provide. This couldn't be a deep dream; he could feel the stone of the well, the soft cushion of grass beneath his boots. Still, looking at the pale bluish silver of the Zora mask filled him with an unknown feeling of regret and anger at his actions. Those people did not deserve to die, but something had overwhelmed his body to commit those murders, he needed a cover until the whole thing blew over in its own way but there are too many people around to instantly disguise himself. He sighed and made himself fall backwards into the water.

His body made contact with the water, allowing the mask to fall out his outstretched hands and fall slowly onto his face. Five aquatic tentacles emerged from the mask and wrapped around his head, the tentacles excrete a black oily liquid that enveloped his whole body, the liquids penetrated his skin and instantly flowed into his veins, sending an extremely excruciating burning sensation within his whole body, he screamed out but only bubbles came out with a muffled inhuman scream. His body grew to the standing height he had been before he came into Hyrule, a good five feet and six inches.

His human eyes just seemed to dissolve from his eye sockets, allowing his crimson blood to ooze from out of his temporarily empty sockets and coat the water in a thick red hue. His skin becomes more pale and gains a light blue and silver coloration with some black and red portions on his back. His eye sockets fill with a black oil substance that hardened into two oval spherical eyes which slightly protruded from his eye sockets. His nose lengthened to two times its normal size.

He frantically ripped his boots off of his feet when he felt his feet change form, his five toes became three with webbing between each toe. He felt his human skin become scales, he felt his body organs transform to adapt to the change within and outside him. He spread his fingers wide apart as he felt webbing grow between each. His body muscle enlarged enough to tear the small child sized tunic he was wearing off, revealing the well defined figure of a teen aged male Zora. His legs muscles defined themselves to suit a creature adept to swimming as a main transportation. From out of his arms came large and elegant fins patterned with a typical Zoran fin design but with shades of crimson, black, gray and cerulean. He felt the back of his head expand to become three feet long, two fish like fins made themselves protrude from out of the very back. Two more fins emerged from both sides of his waist.

After this pain subsided, he plunged onto the depths of the well and became unconscious for a time to allow his body to become acquainted to its sudden changes.