Author's Note: Before I begin with this chapter, I would like to say that I am adding index like things in the chapters in case if there is any further explanation on anything, just look for a number in a parentheses like "(1)" and there will be an explanation in the brackets on the bottom of the page like "[blah, blah, BLAH]". Okay? That's my new system! ^_^
Chapter 23: Hyrule Town Market Again
"Maiku?" Link said with concern as he stood over Maiku's body with the Mask of Shadow bound to his body.
"Maiku…?" Navi said as she flew around him, "Are you okay…?"
"Ngh…. Na… Navi?" Maiku replied painfully, "Is that you…? I… I feel as though…"
"Feel as though…?"
"I feel as though I was… pierced through various parts of my body by tentacles or something…" He weakly tried to get up, fell and was surprised to see Link giving him help to stand.
"Well… you were uh…" Link said as he looked up at Maiku
"What…? What happened to me, Link…?"
"Well, when you were out… those tentacles that came out of the mask started to uh… drive themselves into your body in various places. Namely the back of your neck, legs, arms, chest, and head…"
"No wonder why my neck hurts like a bitch…" he mumbled, "… Did you get the…Ocarina of Time yet?"
"Yes."
"Complete your goal… for Zelda, don't worry about me… I'll be fine."
"Do you feel well enough to walk around…?"
"Yes, now go…" he looked at Navi, "Especially you, insect… get out of my sight at once!"
"What? Maiku…" Navi said, "What are you saying…? What are you going to do…?"
"Calm down, Maiku!" Link said
"I'm sorry Link…"
"Huh?"
"I'm sorry that I…." he drew his sword, it was similar to a samurai blade but longer (1) "Have to kill you along with your little firefly!"
"Hey, I didn't mean anything…!"
"… No…" his eyes changed from brown to crimson, "… You are not going to stop me…!"
"This really isn't funny, Maiku!"
"I'm not joking…"
"Okay, then…" Link kneeled and gathered some sand into his hand, threw it into Maiku's face, temporarily blinding him, "Come on Navi! Let's get out of here!!!" He and Navi ran away into the Town beyond the gate.
"Come back here you little bastard!!!" Maiku roared as he brushed the sand from out of his eyes and ran after Link and Navi in the Town.
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"Excuse me, miss?" Link said to a young woman, "Do you know where I can find the… Temple of Time?"
"Of course, it's right over there." The young woman pointed towards an old looking church.
"Thank you, come on Navi!" he ran towards the Temple, Maiku stepped into the market, still with his sword in hand.
Where the fuck is that little bastard?! Maiku thought to himself. He glanced around and saw a faint blue ball and a patch of green moving towards the Temple of Time. Well… now that he's going to pull the Master Sword from the Pedestal of Time…I guess I can do the destruction of this pathetic town and spare Ganondorf the pleasure of doing so…
He leapt on the roof of a nearby building and crouched, glaring at the people below. A deep hatred started to burn within him, hatred to the good people of the town, hatred towards those who hadn't experienced what he had; his adventures and putting on the mask had hardened his soul. For that, he was burning within with anger and jealousy.
"Look at all you… worthless Hylians…" he mumbled and narrowed his eyes, "…you have all lived long enough. May the destruction of Hyrule start with a sacrifice; the sacrifice of you insignificant people shall be the beginning of my wrath!!!!"
He leapt off the roof and landed lightly on his feet in the center of town. He inadvertently let out a terrifying, out worldly and inhuman cry that sounded like a mixture of both the sound of now tainted soul and the agonized screams of the damned which drowned out the market goers' offers and deals for a good bargain from his ears.
The Hylians around him stopped and turned to stare at him all at the same time. His body was now being shrouded in thick darkness and only two red eyes had created a temporary form, he realized that the mask was taking over and that his body was becoming a vessel for the spirit which resided within the mask. Everyone surrounding him all screamed at the same time in terror and tried to flee the area but the mask didn't want them to and shrouded the entire area in thick darkness; through the eyeholes of the mask which was slowly becoming a part of his face permanently he could as though it were he was in daylight, he could see the foolish Hylians still trying to flee but only to run into each other.
He made two black & red sleek and smooth tentacles emerge from his body and, by reaction, stabbed them into someone small who ran into him; his ears were filled with the high pitched scream of a child as he felt the tentacles pass through body of the child. He noticed a pillar of light form in the distance and realized that Link had pulled the Master Sword from out of the Pedestal of Time and was now being preserved, the darkness faded when the pillar of light did and every body in the market stopped once again to stare at him and what he had done.
He looked down to see who he had killed and discovered the body of a girl around ten years old impaled on his tentacles that were through her head and another through her back and out her stomach, blood was still oozing out of the wounds. Her screams echoed through his ears and mind, an oddly soothing sound… music to his drastically transformed mind. He withdrew the tentacles and watched her body fall to the ground like a rag doll with morbid glee. He realized that the people were still staring at him and he glanced up to face them, his eyes were scanning the crowd as if in search of the child's parents; not to pity or regret what he had done, but to see how much enmity he could channel from the parents. He knelt and picked up the body of the child by the hair like a trophy from a wild game hunt.
A woman's scream broke the dead silence and filled his ears, "Sara!!!! No!!!!!" she screamed at the limp body of what used to be her daughter and turned her attention, "How… How could you?! You… you bastard!!!"
He did not respond, feeling nothing of the child's death by him; he just tossed the child's body aside and approached the woman slowly, his tentacles moving steadily as if they were sniffing out blood or something else.
In a blind rage she ran at him and attempted to punch him in the face; before she even touched him, he outstretched his arm and made ten more tentacles emerge from his body. He thrust two into her stomach, and her screams made a part of him queasy while the controlling part loved every pitch of the dying scream, fueling his dark desire for death even more. He thrust the other ten into the ground, lifted his feet off the ground as he was supported by the tentacles and curled up as he channeled energy which emerged from his body in a black and crimson hue; he unleashed the energy to the ground, engulfing the ground each person was standing on in dark fire, multiplying the sound of the people's screams by about two times their normal volume. He withdrew the tentacles from out of the woman and the ground, retracted them back into his body, and went down to one knee. He breathed hard, a faint growl formed in his throat, "Damn…!" he heard himself say in a voice that sounded almost like a growl, "This… body is too weak now… I must make it more experienced to use my power… maybe in a few years it will be experienced…"
What? He thought to himself, I… I didn't say that just now… no… it wasn't me. Couldn't have been…
You sound surprised… the voice he had spoken with just now said to him mentally; … Did you not know what I was…?
…I had a feeling… but I…
Didn't know anything…?
Yes…
Well, you now have me… I will be on you for the rest of your miserable life…
I figured that…
What is yours is mine… and what is mine is mine…
And that means…
We are bound together until that Link finds someway to destroy us…
We must not let him…
We must kill him before we have the chance…
But he is in the Temple of Time… we will be destroyed if we try to enter it…
Then we shall wait until he wakes up… but you also must find a way to get that Triforce that you are seeking…
I think that Ganondorf has it now…
Then we will have to join up with him until you can kill him later on…
Yes… then I can kill him for ruining my life as a Zora…
He hovered high into the air and gathered more energy through his body, released and destroyed the whole town before running out of the town square to find Ganondorf… wherever he was…
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(1)[The sword in question looks like Sephiroth's (Final Fantasy VII) Masamune Blade; I know it's a rip off… maybe…]