(a tomato heads straight for LilFIlipinoGurl and hits her) -.- WHO THREW THAT?!
Valleri Harrison: I DID!
Oh... sheesh, now I have to wash this off. Be right back, guys! (walks away, leaving Link staring at the computer screen)
Niagra: Weird, who's typing this all up now?
Link: You are.
Niagra: Oh yeah huh!! HI PEOPLE!! I TURNED INTO MY HUMAN FORM AND STARTED TYPING THIS!!!
Link: Can I get a head start for the story?
Niagra: What head start?
Link: Move over!!
(Link pshes Niaga fom he sreen)
Niaga: Wat?
Link: Im tie ping now!! HAHAHAHAHAHASHAHAHFHAHAHAKA!!
nigra: U tiep so bad!
lik: no i tiep god!
niara: god?
ink: i men good!
(lILfilpingul coms bac frm he bahrom)
LiFilpinogur: hi lik an niara! Im cleen no! (ses link) HEy!!
link: im god at tiepin, riht?
lfpinogurl/Niara: (rols eys)
(LilFilipinoGurl pulls Link out of the computer chair)
Link: Hey!!
What's up, I'm back! Sorry for letting Link type. (reads what he wrote above) My god Link, you suck at typing!! So many typos...
Link: No, I'm good at typing!! Look, I even said that up there!! (points to a place on the moniter's screen that says-
lik: no i tiep god!
niara: god?
ink: i men good!
See Link?
Link: ... Oh yeah huh...
Niagra/Me: (rolls eyes)
Sorry Dekugirl if I kinda used your idea. I COULDN'T RESIST!!! Credit goes to her:D Now, on to chappy 20!!
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Chapter 19: I see dead things! OOOOH, SCARY!
Everyone entered the bottom of Kakariko Village's well, the hair on the back of their necks standing on end. There was the faint stench of something disgusting that no one really wanted to know what it was...
The seven continued through, realizing how they were stepping on some water left in the well.
"There's still water in here?" Hayarpi murmured, walking carefully as to not get herself wet. Egh, who KNEW what was in the water in there?
"I thought you drained it," Ines said to Link. He shrugged.
Nicole squeaked as she turned around. "O.o AHH! BUBBLE!" she pointed.
Link was turned the other way, looking around. "So?"
"Look at it!"
He did so. "MY GODDESSES, IT'S HUGE!" Everyone else turned, staring at it in awe.
The green bubble glared at the seven staring. Then it just floated past them, not doing anything, but still glaring.
They continued again, looking around and being careful. Soon they came upon a creepy statue with water pouring out of its mouth. Before it was the Triforce symbol painted on the floor, in front of the fountain.
"Oh Liiiiiiiiiiink..." everyone sang.
Link was standing around, grinning like an idiot.
"O.o"
":P" he played Zelda's Lulluby, and the water that they were stepping on drained.
So they kept going. Nicole was ahead, looking around and shuddering. "Ugh man, it's so creepy-- AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEE!"
Everyone turned at her scream, then blinked when they saw Nicole was nowhere in sight. "Where did she go?" Ines mumbled.
Link bit his lip, walking to the area she stood at. "I don't know, but we have to find out-- AHHHHHHH!" Navi ended up following him, wherever he went.
Hayarpi looked in his direction but he was gone. "Link!"
"He just... disappeared..." murmured Gilbert.
Brian nodded, looking around. "Along with Navi..."
"Link?! Navi?!" came a familiar voice, which the four recognized as Nicole's. They shut up and listened.
"Nicole?!" Link and Navi's voices.
"How did you get here?!" all three yelled at the same time.
"Same way you did," Link's voice said.
"You mean through the ground?"
"Uh huh."
Gilbert sweatdropped. "Well, there it is." He kept walking forward, eventually falling through an illusionary floor. "MOMMY!"
Sweatdropping, the other three eventually found the floor and fell through, grumbling as they landed on their butts.
"Guys!" Nicole cheered, going up to them.
"This place isn't what it seems..." warned Navi. "It's all full of illusions so be careful."
Everyone nodded at her, but Nicole began to walk towards something. Link grabbed her arm though. She eyed him. "Huh? What?" she pulled on her arm.
"No! Listen to me first!"
"... Any day now, Linky-poo."
"... Oh-- OH. Yeah, we shouldn't go off alone."
Navi nodded. "Fine. People, pick your partners."
Ines looked at Gilbert. "Gilbert?"
He nodded. "Okay."
Brian glanced at Hayarpi. "Hayarpi?"
She went to him. "Sure."
Ines gave Hayarpi a discreet thumbs up, the Armenian girl giving it back. Link looked towards Nicole. "...?"
Nicole winked. "Sure, stinky!"
"I ain't stinky!"
"It's short for stinky cheese man!"
"... Okay?"
"Yes. ANYWAY. Before I was pulled back..." Nicole walked towards a huge rock, Link and Navi following. The Asian girl took out a bomb.
Link squeaked and backed away. Navi stared. Nicole put it near the rock and backed away. The bomb exploded, revealing a path leading to a chest. Nicole continued through, opening it and taking out a map. "WOO HOO!" she did a jig.
Everyone met up at the large area again.
"All righty then..." Gilbert said. "What's the purpose of being in this well anyway?"
"The spirits say to find the 'eyes of truth'," Navi informed.
He sweatdropped. "That's kind of creepy. You can talk to spirits?"
"Yes! Want your palm read!?"
"... No..."
"Aww."
Nicole ignored them, looking at the map. "Mwahahahahaha!"
Everyone stared. "What was that for?" Brian wondered.
"Ahaha, I dunno, I just haven't laughed like that in a long time! Aaaanyway, so!"
"Hey look!" Link pointed up, as he had been looking around the entire time. "Silver rupees!"
Splitting up again, everyone collected the rupees while avoiding the pool of acid that had hands sticking out of it. A chime noise was heard.
"I think we just unlocked something!" Nicole said.
They ran to the meeting place again and found everyone there, except Brian. "Where's..." Ines started, but was cut off as Hayarpi pointed up. Beyond the ladder was Brian, waving his arms. "Hey guys! I found the door; climb up the ladder!"
Link frowned at him. "You forgot to bring someone with you!"
"No I didn't."
Navi flew out from behind Brian. "WASSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!"
So, everyone climbed the ladder and got out of there. Somehow, they appeared in the entrance.
"'Tis strange that we hath appeared in the entrance!" Nicole said in a British-like accent.
Link stared. "Why are you speaking old english?"
"I do not know. 'Tis very fun!"
(LFG: Please excuse my old english. I'm not really good at it. :D;;;)
... Yes continuing. Everyone saw a hole with a crawling space in it and jumped in. They crawled through the small tunnel one by one and saw a small path. "Wow, this is pretty straight forward!" Hayarpi sweatdropped.
They walked up the path and climbed the ladder that was in front of them. As soon as they went in another room, bars slammed down on the doors. What they saw in front of them sickened the heroes and heroines.
Ines cringed. "Ugh, nasty..."
Six long, white and bony hands and arms were sticking up from the ground. "Uhh, w-well... this must be where we get the Lens of Truth..." Brian sweatdropped.
Everyone made faces at the image before them and the stench in the room.
"N-navi," Link called. The blue fairy flew up faithfully beside him. "What do we do?"
"O-okay... let one of the arms grab you--"
"WHAT?!" everyone screamed.
"I'm not done yet! Look, let one of the arms grab you, and this new creature will emerge from the ground. Once it lowers it's head, slash it!"
Gilbert looked around. "Umm, so... who's gonna go and let one of the arms grab you?"
Silence...
"Uhh..." Nicole bravely moved forward. "I shall do it...?!"
"Be careful..." Link muttered, poking her shoulder.
She swat him way. "Do not worry." Hesitantly, she walked towards one of the arms sticking up from the ground and gulped.
The arm grabbed her head and neck. Nicole clutched the arm's wrist, preventing it from choking her. It was then that a pale, disgusting-looking creature emerged from the ground, heading towards her.
"You guys!" Nicole managed, waving frantically at her comrades, who were kinda shocked by the second disgusting thing. "At-- (cough) Attack now!"
The Dead Hand lowered it's ugly head, and as it opened it's mouth, Link went and horizontally slashed the monster's head. Nicole managed to push the arm away from her neck. She ran towards the Dead Hand, jumped, and spin kicked it's head to the left, sending it to the ground. "MWAHAHAHAHAHA! I SHALL TRIUMPH!"
The Dead Hand went back underground.
Then Nicole ran back to the group, who were all staring at her. She stared back. "What?"
"Do you know karate or something?" Gilbert had to ask.
"Uhh, no, but I've got some moves from watching Jackie Chan videos!"
The earthlings 'oh'-ed. Link and Navi wondered who Jackie Chan was. Was he a God or something?
"All right," came Nicole's voice, knocking them out of their thoughts. "Now who is brave enough to face ze monster?"
Silence again...
Nicole rolled her eyes, pushing the nearest person, who just HAPPENED to be Link, towards a disembodied arm. The Hylian gulped.
The Hand grabbed Link's head and neck, just like it did to Nicole. Link also grabbed it's wrist, pushing it away from him. Again, the Dead Hand rose up from the ground. It lowered it's head, and Ines and Gilbert's swords slashed at it at the same time. Link pushed the arm away from him, unsheathed his sword and slashed at the arm too.
They do this strategy several more times until the last blow. Navi flew up. "One more hit, then it's dead!"
"Who hasn't been grabbed by the arm?" Hayarpi asked.
"Me!" Brian waved his arm. "I'll go!"
They sweatdropped at his enthusiasm and do the whole thing once more, and finally defeat the Dead Hand.
"HA! IN YOUR FACE, MONSTER!" Nicole cackled as she stomped on the Dead Hand's corpse. "MWAHAHAHA! DIE DIE DIE DIE!"
Link sweatdropped, pulling her away. "Weirdo."
"AND I'M DAMN PROUD TO BE!"
Six chests appeared out of thin air.
Nicole went over, opening her chest. "... Yay, a black Lens of Truth. Oh happy day!" she did another jig.
Link took out his treasure. "Why purple? Why not green?"
Everyone also drew out their own Lens of Truth, Ines had blue, Hayarpi had red, Brian had brown, and Gilbert got gold.
"So!" Link grinned, stuffing his lens in his dimensional pocket. "Since you guys probably don't want me to lead, how do we get out?"
"Yeah, the bars are still down," Navi pointed out.
The bars then went up.
"SORRY!" came some random guy's voice. "I FORGOT TO PUT IT UP!"
Everyone STARED.
"There's a guy that actually puts us in life-threatening danger?!" Ines yelled.
"It was the only job available! Being the organ-grinder in the windmill was already taken!"
"o.O;;;"
They all headed out the door anyway. Nicole waved her hand around, indicating everyone should follow her. So they go around for a while until...
"... I forgot where to go."
Everyone fell over.
Nicole waved her arms. "Lemme try!" she fell over too. "Owwww..."
"How do we get out?!" Ines cried.
"Hmm... I wonder..." Nicole drawled.
Brian looked at her. "Wonder what?"
"If... I can do this!"
There was a bright silver flash, and Nicole and the others appeared in the entrance.
Hayarpi looked around. "What the... what just happened?"
"I could do it! Woo hoo!" Nicole started dancing.
Link eyed her. "Do what?"
"I could summon my powers to warp!"
"Powers? What powers?"
"Wow you guys like asking me questions today." Anyway she pointed to her forehead, where the Goddess piece glowed silver. "These powers! 'Member?"
"OH YEAH!" everyone else yelled. "COOL!"
":D"
"That could be useful later!" Navi grinned.
Nicole nodded. "I AM INVINCIBLE! MWAHAHAHAHAHA! WORSHIP ME! WORSHIP MEEEEEEE!"
"Uhh, no."
"DAMMIT!"
So they exited the well and Link played the Prelude of Light. They appeared in the Temple of Time and headed to the Pedestal of Time. Gilbert sighed at the writeress. "Laaaazy."
A purple beam zapped Gilbert.
"x.X"
Link stood in front of the sword. "Hold on to my shoulder--"
Everyone twitched. "WE KNOW! NOW PULL THE FRIGGIN' SWORD!"
"Jeebus..." he grasped the sword and pulled. Again, they were flung into the future.
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Seven years later...
Link fully pulled the sword out of the pedestal. "There!" he grinned, swinging it around as he got used to his adult body again.
Ines screeched as she saw the flailing sword. "AHH!" she ducked.
Navi squeaked as she saw it too, dodging. "Eep! Link, watch where you swing that thing!"
Link turned around as he swung the sword, accidently letting go. "Huh? Oops!"
Brian, Nicole and Gilbert screamed. "AHH!" they ducked the Master Sword that was heading straight for them. Everyone twitched at Link. He only grinned sheepishly.
Nicole ran over, picking the sword up. "Lemme try now!" she swung, let go, everyone screamed, and it almost chopped Gilbert's hair off.
Gilbert twitched. "NICOLE!"
":P" she ran over and returned the Master Sword to Link. "There ya go!"
Link sweatdropped, taking it and sheathing it, finally playing the Nocturne of Shadow. A purple light emitted and they were warped to the pad behind the graveyard.
"Ooh, this is new," Gilbert said.
Everyone turned around and saw some steps leading downwards.
"Well..." Ines grinned to her friends. "Let's go in!"
For some reason, everyone except Navi was excited to go into the Shadow Temple, and they did just that. "Tee hee hee... creeeepy!" Link cackled as they reached the floor at the bottom. They saw a huge amount of unlit torches.
The earthlings started gasping and pointing at the platform in the middle. Link nodded, running over and standing on it. "DIN'S FIRE!" he yelled, slamming his hand into the ground. A dome of fire surrounded Link and spreaded out, lighting all the torches. The big door with a huge eye on it went up.
Nicole cheered. "Good job, ya stinky cheese paperclip man!"
Link sweatdropped. "Oh great, she combined the two!"
They entered the real temple...
-
"HOOKSHOT TARGEEEEET!" Nicole squee-ed, hookshotting at the target and getting to the other side. "C'mon people! You can do it if you try!"
Everyone stared. "O.o"
"Sorry, I'm too excited!"
"WHY ARE YOU EXCITED?!" Navi exploded. "JEEZ! THIS IS THE FRIGGIN' TEMPLE OF DEATH, FOR NAYRU'S SAKE!"
"EXACTLY!" came everyone's response.
"We get to kill things that have already been killed!" Hayarpi giggled.
Navi stared. "And that's a good thing?"
"YEAH!"
"O.o??"
Sighing, the fairy just waved them off. Everyone hookshotted at the target and used their Lens of Truth to see that the wall ahead of them was just an illusion. "Oooh, illusionesses! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Nicole put an arm through the wall, then pulled it back out. "Look! Now you see, now you don't!" She did that a few more times.
Ines sweatdropped, pushing her through the wall completely, followed by everyone else. Then Nicole pointed to the big statue. "Birdy!"
Hayarpi gave a giggle. Everyone //STARED// at her! Oh my.
Brian however was distracted as he was trying to read the sign. "Uhh..."
"Don't tell me, you can't read Hylian," Link muttered.
The Hispanic boy twitched. "I couldn't read it in the Temple of Time, and I still can't read it now!"
"Pft, then you should learn!" Link went over and began to read the sign out loud. Brian just rolled his eyes. "To get to the other side, the stone bird must face the truth."
"Umm, let's go through those walls," Hayarpi sweatdropped.
"Okay!" Everybody turned around and used their Lens of Truth to see through the wall. There was one false block and they went through that one, finding another wall, going through that one, and finally reaching a door.
Link looked at everybody. "Ready?"
They nodded back. "Yup!"
All entered, and bars slammed behind them. Two ReDeads were in the room. Nicole, Brian and Ines sliced the first one, while Gilbert, Link and Hayarpi slashed the other one. Then a chest appeared in the center of the room.
Link went over and opened the chest. "Eh, a Dungeon map?"
"Here, gimme!" Brian snatched the map from him, staring. "Okaaay... here, we can get the Hover Boots! Follow me!"
The bars went up and they exited the room. Brian led them to another room that had four arms sticking up from the ground. Hayarpi made a face. "Oh god not again..."
Link gagged. "Ugh, it stinks here more than usual!"
Navi rolled her eyes. "No crap, Link!"
"NAVI, I'M NOT CRAPPING!"
"I DIDN'T MEAN IT LIKE THAT!"
Nicole swat at them both. "JEEZ YOU GUYS!" she let an arm grab her, a zombie materializing from the ground. She yanked away the arm, unsheathed her sword and vertically slashed the zombie. It went back down underground. "ALL RIGHT! Now who's next?"
Gilbert 'ooh'-ed, stepping up. "Meeeee!"
So they do this four more times and the zombie collapsed.
"Let's kick it!" Ines said happily.
Everyone screamed in happiness. "YEAH!" they went over and started kicking the zombie that was already lying on the ground.
Some jumpy, up-beat music started playing in the background.
"I'M DEAD, I'M DEAD, SHEESH!" the zombie grumbled, fading away into nothing.
The music stopped and six chests appeared. The bars went back up too. Nicole went over and kicked her chest open, taking out a pair of Hover Boots with strange black demon wings. "O.o Weird. Demon wings? Why do I have small demon wings?"
"I have blue angel wings!" Ines grinned.
Hayarpi eyed her red demon wing-ed boots. "o.O Hmm, strange, yes..."
Link twitched as he got the regular Hover Boots that resembled fins or something... "Fish fins?!"
(LFG: Hehe...) (L: They look like fish fins? (looks at Hover Boots) Oh yeah huh... kinda...) (N: Now you can marry Ruto!) (L: NO WAY!) (LFG: (lols and hugs Niagra) xD!) (N: Muahaha!)
Brian stared at his brown demon wings. "Whaaat..."
"Ooh..." Gilbert grinned as he poked the gold-colored angel wings.
"Why is it like this?" Link mumbled.
"Maybe it depends on what color you're wearing," Navi said, then turned to Nicole. "Like wouldn't it be weird if you were wearing Hover Boots with BLACK angel wings?"
"... What's the difference?"
"Angel wings aren't black."
"Oh right. Well then yeah I guess... BUT I DUN CARE 'CAUSE THESE BOOTS ARE COOOOOOOL!"
Nodding at each other, everybody exited the room and back to the chamber with the stone bird. Link went to the side and read it again. "To get to the other side, the stone bird must face the truth. ... Again."
"The truth, huh?" Navi gestured at the Lens of Truth in everyone's hands. "Maybe you can use that."
"Another good idea!" Brian held his Lens of Truth up to his face. He eyed each skull, seeing each one disappear except... he pointed. "That one."
Ines and Link nodded. "Gotcha!" they pushed the small block to make the beak of the bird face the real skull.
Brian started screaming. "AHH! NO, NOT THAT ONE!"
Ines looked up at him. "No?"
The ground below them disappeared and they fell into darkness, voices fading. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...!"
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Chamber of Sages...
Rauru sighed. A cloud of green smoke appeared on the Forest Sage's symbol. Ruto looked up at it. "Hello Saria."
Saria grinned, waving. "Hi guys!" she then noticed what was in front of her. "Oi, don't tell me. They messed up."
Darunia stared at the alter with the six heroes and heroines on it. "Yup, they messed up."
"Oh dear."
Then Link slowly began to wake up. He shook his head, sitting up slightly. "Woah... am I dead?" he blinked a little until he saw Saria. "SARIA!" then he got off the alter and hugged her.
The Forest Sage sweatdropped as she hugged back. "Ehehehe... hi Link."
"Am I dead?" he asked when he let go.
"No." came Ruto's voice.
Link cheered. "WOO HOO!" And his scream ended up waking everybody else up.
"Are we dead?" was the first thing Gilbert said when he awoke.
Rauru sweatdropped. "No."
Everyone cheered. "YAY!"
"Wait," said Ines, everyone shutting up. "But didn't we just die a few minutes ago?"
Darunia nodded. "Yes."
They screamed. "AHH! WE'RE DEAD!"
"NO YOU'RE NOT!" Saria sweatdropped.
Ruto nodded, continuing for her. "You did actually die a few minutes ago, but we brought you back to life."
Everyone 'oh'-ed. Then they looked at Ruto, just staring kinda, wondering why she wasn't hitting on Link or something like that. "O.o"
The Zora blinked at them before sweatdropping, waving her hand. "Oh don't worry, I've changed! Plus, I don't like Link anymore." They (Link especially) drew a sigh of relief (and in Link's case, and very big sigh). "I have a boyfriend!"
Ruto snapped her fingers and a Zora appeared out of nowhere. He looked at her. "Oh, hi Ruto."
"People! Meet my boyfriend, Jarid!"
Everyone in the room waved at him. "Hi Jarid!"
Jarid waved back. "Hello."
"We'll go out for a date later, okay?"
"All right bye." he kissed Ruto on the cheek before disappearing.
"All righty then!" Ines sweatdropped.
"Jarid is the Zora who gave Link the silver scale." Ruto nodded, giggling to herself. "He's so good to me."
"I guess Ruto isn't so bad once she isn't obsessed with Link," Hayarpi laughed.
Brian raised an eyebrow. "Well... yeah, but I still hate the little brat inside her."
"So anyway," Link sweatdropped, butting in. "Why are we here? What happened? Details please!"
Then both Nicole and Navi started using the Mind Telepathy Thingy technique to talk to eachother again. So no one could hear the following conversation except those two--
'Nicole, weren't you gonna talk to me after the Water Temple?' Navi asked. Seeing Ruto reminded her of it.
Nicole eyed her. 'I did?'
'Yeah, remember?'
'... OH YEAH! Remember when you showed Link a picture so he would stop being such a blonde?'
'... Hehe, yeah.'
'CAN I SEE IT?!'
'Later. We're in front of everyone. They might get suspicious.'
'Okay.'
--End of conversation--
"Do you get it?" Rauru asked, snapping Nicole and Navi into attention.
"Get what?" Nicole mumbled.
Saria stared. "Weren't you paying attention?"
Navi and Nicole looked at each other. "Uhh, not really," the fairy sweatdropped.
Rauru sighed. Saria cleared her throat. "To make fat man's story shorter, we brought all of you back to life so you can continue your quest."
"Now go!" Ruto mumbled.
"And don't mess up again!" Darunia added.
The heroes and heroines sweatdropped, nodding resolutely. "GOTCHA!"
-
There was a flash and they appeared in the spot they were before they fell into darkness. "Now point the bird in the RIGHT direction!" Brian sweatdropped.
Link and Ines laughed sheepishly, pushing the bird in the direction of the correct skull. The gate on the other side of the room rose. Nicole cheered. "All right! Now... how do we get to the other side?" she mumbled, looking down the bottomless pit.
"Hover boots," Hayarpi said.
Everyone 'oh yeah'-ed, putting on the Hover Boots, barely making it to the other side.
They headed straight down the hall and killed the beamos in the middle of the room. Link looked about. "Where next?"
"We have three choices," started Navi. "All of us look at the center path first. I have a feeling that leads us further in..."
Brian looked at the map. "You're right, it does, but I'm not sure where..."
Hayarpi bombed the wall. "There. Now what?"
Navi flittered forward. "I'll go down and look. Enemies won't attack me!" So she went and did what she said she'd do, seeing that it does lead to another room. Then she went back up. "Yup! But why don't we check out what's in the other rooms first?"
Brian nodded. "Okay, everyone split up, and meet right here after."
Navi, Link, Hayarpi and Ines went into the room on the left while Brian, Nicole and Gilbert went to the right.
-
"Watch out!" Navi called.
Link 'eep!'-ed as he ducked the spinning scythe. Hayarpi meanwhile snatched a silver rupee, jumping to dodge the scythe. Ines got another rupee and ducked too. The blond managed to catch a rupee but ended up stuck in the scythe's path, making him go in circles around the two grim reapers.
"C'mon Link!" Hayarpi sweatdropped.
Ines rolled her eyes. "Stop playing around!"
"I'm not playing around!" Link sobbed. "I'm stuck! Someone help me!"
Ines just sighed in response, collecting two more rupees. Hayarpi caught the last rupee and the bars of a cell went up. Ines went into the cell and got the key in the chest. "Okay, we're ready to go!"
"C'mon, Link," Hayarpi called again, stepping to avoid the blades as she and Ines reached the door.
Link waved his arms while running. "I can't! Help me, girls!"
They both rolled their eyes and pulled Link before he got his head chopped off. He breathed a sigh of relief.
The three went out into the center and see the other trio. "What did you get in the other room?" Hayarpi asked. Nicole held out a compass.
"Do we need that?" Gilbert murured.
"... Hmm, no."
"I wanna keep it though." Brian said. Nicole handed it to him.
They went downstairs and avoided the razor-sharp guillotines. Two stalfos came down from somewhere and they easily defeated them. Then they bombed the beamos and collected all the silver rupees there. The bars on the door went up.
"Jeez, I'm already tired," Gilbert sweatdropped.
Nicole raised her fist. "No time for tiredness! Must defeat temple! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!" she ran into the other room. Everyone sighed and followed her.
Since I am too lazy now, I will just say that they figured out the room and got the key. Then they got out.
"Heh, that saves us some time," Link sweatdropped at the writeress. He eyed Nicole, who was staring at something. "Hey Nic, whatcha' looking at?"
"Isn't that weird?" she pointed to a metal chain from wall to wall. "Or it could be like decoration! ... Crappy decoration, mwahahaha!"
Brian used his Lens of Truth in that direction. "Hey lookie! There's a platform over there! And a door too!"
So everyone jumped on the small blocks of land, and then jumped on a huge platform. Then they jumped even more onto another one. "Look through your Lens of Truth people!" Link informed. Everyone eyed him in shock a little. "When the invisible platform gets in front of us, jump on it!"
"When did he get so smart?" Nicole cackled playfully, but earned a whack on the head anyway from him.
They entered and saw a plain room with a redead on the left and one on the right.
"How suspicious..." Hayarpi mumbled.
Navi went behind Link's Lens of Truth and saw a lot of spikes coming out from the ground. "Ooh. Watch out people, there are spikes."
Everyone used their Lens of Truth to avoid the spikes and got into a room on the left. In the middle of that room was a huge skull with burning blue fire on its head. Link 'ooh'-ed. "Blue fire! Like the one in the Ice Cavern?"
Brian shook his head. "Trust me Link, that's not the same."
"Ah..."
Ines meanwhile had shot the keese down with her bow. Nicole took out a random bomb. Hayarpi sweatdropped. "What, are you obsessed with bombs now?"
She nodded. "Yesh!" and threw the bomb in the blue fire skull. The skull exploded. A key came soaring right towards Link's forehead. It hit him. He yelped as he got hurt, then picked it up. "Oww, stupid key!"
They headed back out, longshot up to the door and unlocked it. They went through the room with the freaky fans and entered another room.
"UGH, IT STINKS AGAIN!" Link mumbled.
"Oh shaddap, we have noses too you know," sighed Hayarpi. Then she coughed as her sigh made her breathe in the stench.
Nicole gagged. "Shtinky!" She started advancing to the other side of the room while killing stuff.
Meanwhile Gilbert and the others stayed behind, using their Lens of Truth. "There's nothing here..." he grumbled.
"Dammit, the door here is locked too!" Nicole said from the other side of the room. She dodged the razors and returned to them.
Ines looked around. "Then... how do we get out?"
"Hey! Listen!" Navi called. Everyone eyed her, seeing the fairy pointing and gesturing. "I see an outline of something in that pile of garbage!"
Link bombed the garbage, then used his Lens of Truth. "A chest!" he opened it. "A key! YAY! Let's get out! NOW!"
Everyone complied and they quickly scurried across the room, exiting. The first thing they saw was a huge boat. "Ooooh, a cruise liner!" Ines cackled.
Brian sweatdropped. "Uhh, no."
"Yo, Linkay!" Nicole called.
Link eyed her. "Linkay?"
"Shaddap, just go here and help me push the block."
Link did so, helping Nicole push the block to the other side so they can reach the ladder. Everyone climbed up and jumped on the ship. Gilbert looked down at the floor. "Oooh, what do we have here..."
"A TRIFORCE symbol!" Hayarpi said loudly.
Everyone looked at Link. He sweatdropped. "Oh fine." he played Zelda's Lulluby. Suddenly the giant ship lurched forward. It cruised along as it's bell rang, but then twelve stalfos came down from out of nowhere.
Everyone shrieked. "TWELVE?!" What the heck? That was so much! But they all stood in a circle, back to back.
"Everyone fight two stalfos each!" Link instructed. Everyone was shocked again at his leader-ness but it went away quickly. Maybe they were getting used to it now? Wasn't Link supposed to be the leader anyway? But he bloomed rather late, hmm?
Link twitched. Everyone looked at the narrator. Oh sorry, got sidetracked.
The blond waved his sword around. "Yeah, two per warrior, okay GO!"
Each of them attacked two stalfos. In minutes, they were all done and each stalfos was just a bunch of bones on the ground. Nicole was pushing the bones with her boots to the edge of the boat, making faces at them until Navi said, "Guys! Change into your Hover Boots, I sense something's gonna happen..."
Everyone nodded, lacing up their Hover Boots and tossing their regular ones in their dimensional bags.
A little later, the boat began to shake. Hayarpi and the others looked around. "What's happening?!"
"You have no time to lose!" Navi yelled over the boat's bell's incessant ringing. "Get off the boat now and onto that ledge!" Nodding, everyone jumped off the boat and onto the ledge, just as the boat stopped floating and sunk into the darkness.
But then they heard a scream behind them.
Turning around rapidly, they saw Nicole kneeling, holding onto something. She laughed a little sheepishly, saying. "Don't worry... I've got you... AHH!" Suddenly she lost her balance. She was about to fall over but luckily, Link grabbed her leg before she and the person she was holding fell into the dark pit.
"Link..." came Nicole's stern voice. "Um. Please don't leg go of my ankle. If you do, both of us will die."
Link struggled a little. "Both of you?"
"Yeah, Hayarpi."
Brian looked around. "SHE'S GONNA DIE?! WHAT?!"
Nicole sighed. "Look who I'm holding onto."
Everyone looked down, seeing Nicole grasping Hayarpi's left arm with both of her hands. Hayarpi looked up at them. "Ahehe! Hello!"
Navi scratched her head. "Now how are we gonna do this..."
"Umm, okay..." Nicole adjusted her grip on her friend's arm. "Hayarpi, climb up using me as a ladder."
"Won't that hurt you?" replied Hayarpi unsurely.
"Yeah, like a (beep!), but I don't care right now!"
Everyone sweatdropped.
Hayarpi nodded. "All right." she climbed up Nicole to get to the ledge.
Nicole yelped as Hayarpi elbowed her. "Oww, my stomach!"
"Oops, sorry!" she jumped from where she was and hung onto the edge of the ledge. Everyone else helped her up to safety.
"Now for Nicole..." Navi sweatdropped.
Everyone looked at each other. "Uhhh..."
Nicole gave a stupid grin and a peace sign while upside down. Ines looked around. "Can't Link just pull her up?"
"Her head might bang on the wall," the blond mumbled, adjusting his grip again.
"Oh yeah, and that would hurt," Brian sweatdropped.
"I've got an idea!" Navi grinned.
"What?"
"It's very, very, risky, but it's the only thing I could think of."
Nicole stared. "So you mean... if they mess up, I'll die?"
"Umm... yeah."
"What the hell!? Can't you think of anything else?!"
"Pft well it's hard to think when pressured like this yanno!"
"YOU'RE under pressure? Oh yeah, imagine me then. I'm hanging upside down above a bottomless pit and I have no pressure whatsoever--"
"GRR--"
"HEY!" Ines sweatdropped, swatting at them both. "Now is not the time!"
Nicole sweatdropped too. Navi blinked, shaking her head. "Right, right! Anyway everyone, listen up. Nicole, first reach your hands towards Link."
Nicole did just that. Link looked down. "Do I grab her hand?" he asked, about to use his other hand to grab her hand, but--
"NO!" Navi screeched.
Link yelped and almost let Nicole go. The Asian girl twitched, arms still reaching though.
"Listen! Gilbert, grab her left hand and hold it tight, using both of your hands."
Gilbert grabbed her left hand in a firm grip. With his other hand he grasped Nicole's wrist for extra support.
"Link, use your other hand to grab her right hand."
Link went and made a grab for Nicole's right wrist, holding it tight.
"Okay, I guess the wrist is better."
Nicole laughed stupidly. "This is the weirdest postion I've ever been in my life."
(LFG: Yeah guys, imagine Link holding onto Nicole's ankle as she hangs upside-down from the ledge! And then Gilbert grasping her left hand and Link grasping her right! Her butt's like sticking out, haha. Weeeird.)
"My butt's like sticking out," Nicole grumbled. The writeress sighed heavily in the background.
Navi sweatdropped. "All right... now to the tricky part. Link... let go of Nicole's ankle."
Everyone eyed her. "WHAT?!"
"Just do it! And guys, hold onto Nicole TIGHTLY!"
Link nodded. "All right..." Nicole shut her eyes. Link gulped and reluctantly let go of Nicole's ankle. He and Gilbert held on tight.
Nicole screamed automatically, but looked down. "Hey, I'm not upside-down anymore!"
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The two were about to pull her up, but just at that moment, some stalfos dropped down, shoving the other earthlings aside before attacking Gilbert and Link.
Their grips loosened.
Link's eyes widened, "NO!"
Nicole's arms reached out as she fell, screaming, and eventually she faded into the darkness, as well as her voice.
-
Brian and Ines had disposed of the stalfos, but they froze when they noticed Nicole's absence.
Everyone was silent for a while.
"Oh my god, no..." Hayarpi whispered, leaning over the edge.
Link clutched the ledge, tears brimming his eyes. "No, this can't be... she..."
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Keikya's Fountain...
Keikya looked up, sensing something. "Oh no..." she murmured, holding her hands above her heart. "Oh Goddesses, I hope she discovered how to use her powers..."
-
Shadow Temple...
Everyone had gathered along the ledge, just staring down at the pitch black darkness that had engulfed their comrade.
Did they... really lose their friend this way?
"What is this," Ines spat through tears, glaring down at the pit. "She didn't even die in battle! This isn't fair! Bring Nicole back!" she yelled into the darkness. Gilbert held her back, wiping his tears away.
"I can't believe this..." Hayarpi whispered, a hand to her forehead. Brian rubbed her arm, trying to comfort, but it didn't really work as he was blinking back his own tears.
Link was just staring down at the darkness, eyes glossy.
He couldn't believe they lost Nicole like this.
Ines was right.
It wasn't fair, and it wasn't right! Nicole was a warrior, and she was meant to die like one, not the way... what happened right now...
His eyes narrowed.
But, in his heart, he felt this wasn't real.
"This isn't the end."
Ines, Brian, Hayarpi, Gilbert and Link looked up at Navi with questioning glances.
Navi's glance traveled from the pit to them, then back down. "Nicole is still with us. This isn't the end." she stated, quietly. "Don't you feel it?"
So Link wasn't alone, was he? "I feel it," the Hylian confirmed out loud.
"Me too," Hayarpi murmured softly. "As if her spirit... is still around..."
Gilbert and Brian nodded slowly. Ines wiped her tears away but nodded too.
"See? We feel her presence. She's still here. And..." Link swallowed the lump in his throat. "And... if Nicole's truly gone, t-then she wouldn't want us to weep forever. She'd... want us to finish the temple, right?"
There was silence.
Brian's eyes narrowed, and he used his sword to help himself up. "R... Right."
Link stood up as well. "We have to continue on for her. We'll defeat the boss and avenge her death, like she did when you guys killed Volvagia when I was gone!"
The other three stood up, full of determination now.
Everything they would do would all be for her now.
-
"All right, so... no more stalling. The more we grieve, the more time we're wasting..." Link stated. He eyed everyone. "Are we all okay here?" His friends wiped away the last of their tears, nodded a little. "G... good. Let's go through that door over there."
Everyone nodded, recovering somewhat. They went through the door Link pointed at and found their way to a room on the right with the help of the Lens of Truth. As they entered a brand new room, two walls of spikes came towards them, each spike covered in dried blood.
The door behind them slammed shut. No way out.
Gilbert looked around. "Uh oh..."
"It's wood," Navi said, trying to stay calm as the walls came closer and closer every second. "Very dry wood."
"Wood... so... what would--" Ines gasped, looking at Link. "Fire!"
His eyes widened as he realized it too. "All right, stay close everyone! Din's Fire!" With a yell, he slammed his hand into the floor, casting the spell. The dome of fire surrounding them for a bit before spreading out, catching onto the wooden spikes, burning them down easily.
Everyone sighed in relief. Link spotted a gold chest across the room. He opened it, getting the boss key.
"Okay, time for Bongo Bongo!" Navi said in determination.
Hayarpi managed a small laugh. "That's... it's name?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"You'll find out soon enough."
"What, does it have a set of drums or something?" Brian tried half-jokingly.
Navi looked around. "Hmm... you'll figure it out."
Everyone entered the boss room, leaping from platform to platform. They entered the real battle room, falling through a hole in the ground, landing on a huge drum in the middle of the dark room.
Gilbert looked down. "What the-- there IS a drum!"
Link sighed. A boss fight without Nicole...? He looked around dejectedly...
But then, as if on cue, there was a BRIGHT silver flash.
Everyone covered their eyes when it appeared.
But when the flash calmed, everyone peaked through their fingers...
... And saw Nicole's body floating above the drum!
"NICOLE!"
Nicole meanwhile, had her eyes closed and was whispering to herself. "Please tell me it worked, please tell me it worked..." she opened her eyes. "YES, IT WORKED!" she allowed herself to be dropped and landed succesfully on her feet. She turned, seeing her comrades. "Hi guys!"
They stared at her, eyes practically overflooding with water in happiness.
Nicole sweatdropped.
"WAH, NICOLE!" the six screamed, running up to her and hugging her at the same time.
"We knew it!" Navi sobbed as she stuck to Nicole's face. "We felt your presence! We knew you weren't dead!"
"Really?" Nicole 'ooh'-ed. "That's so cool! It's like we all have an emotional connection then!"
"I think we do," Ines grinned through happy tears. "It's like that time when Gilbert and I //felt// that something was wrong when Link got into his accident at the Fire Temple..."
"Really? You actually felt something?" Brian asked in surprise. Gilbert and Ines nodded.
"That's so cool!" Link managed to laugh. Nicole laughed too, patting everyone's heads. Eventually they got off her so she could have breathing space.
"So... wait, didn't you die?" Hayarpi asked.
Nicole shook her head. "No. I used my powers!" she pointed to her forehead, in which then her Goddess Piece glowed temporarily, then faded.
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Keikya's Fountain...
Keikya watched all this from her portal. She cackled. "Phew, she DID learn her powers already! That's my girl!"
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Shadow Temple...
"Yes, now we can defeat Bongo Bongo together!" Link cheered.
Everyone else cheered too. "YEAH!"
"C'MON, YA STUPID BOSS!" screamed the blond, fully pumped now. "SHOW YOURSELF!"
"Not yet," came a voice in which everyone assumed to be Bongo-Bongo, aka BB. "I have to see if you are worthy of fighting me first."
"We can handle it!" Ines reassured with an attitude similar to Link's. Everyone unsheathed their swords.
BB laughed. "No, you will not fight. It is a matter of..." a snap of his fingers. "DANCE!"
Everyone STARED. "WHAAAAT?!"
"If you can dance, I will fight you."
"Uhh... what kind of dance?"
"The TANGO, SALSA and... WALTZ!"
They all started spazzing. "AHHHHHHHH! NOT WALTZ! NOOOOOOOOOOO!" they fell to the floor and had seizures.
BB ignored them. "TOO BAD! If you don't dance, you won't battle me and you won't be able to rescue the Sage of Shadow!"
Everyone stopped seizure-ing and got up. "OH ALL RIGHT, FINE!"
"Good. First, the waltz!"
"O.o"
"Choose your partners!"
Silence.
"C'mon guys!" Navi sweatdropped. "Choose!"
Brian scoffed. "Easy for you to say! You don't have to!"
Navi sighed, sitting in mid-air. "Just be with your partners that you chose earlier."
Link looked at Nicole. "Then... I have to waltz with you."
Nicole stared back. "I guess so!"
Link, Gilbert and Brian put one hand on their partner's waist, using the other hand to hold one of her hands. Nicole, Ines and Hayarpi grasped their partner's hand and left one hand hanging.
"Uhh, this feels awkward..." Link laughed sheepishly.
Nicole looked around. "Yes it does. Is this even the right position?"
BB scoffed too. "How should I know?" Everyone fell over. BB snapped his fingers; Link was now in a formal black tunic while Nicole, Hayarpi and Ines wore fancy gowns. Gilbert and Brian wore tuxedos.
Everyone looked at each other. "o.O"
"WHAT THE HELL?" Nicole squeaked. "AHHHHHH! I'M WEARING A DRESS!"
Link sweatdropped. "Goddesses, you don't look that bad."
"HA HA! I AM EVIL!" BB cackled.
Nicole twitched, pushing the fluff of the gown down. "Shut up and turn on the music so we can get this over with." BB shrugged, snapping his fingers. The music started.
Everyone waltzed beautifully, while they thought they looked like idiots. Soon the song ended.
"FINALLY!" they all screeched.
"Now, salsa! And you have to do this one by one!"
"DAMN YOU BB!"
"HA HA!" Another snap of his fingers and Nicole wore a black short dress, Ines a blue short dress, and Hayarpi a red short dress. Brian, Gilbert and Link wore black pants with a black shirt.
"AHH!" Nicole sweatdropped. "THIS IS WORSE!"
Link twitched. "Stop complaining!"
"This is weird..." Hayarpi laughed awkwardly, trying to pull down her dress so that her thighs didn't show too much.
Ines giggled. "I like it!" she did a little spin.
Gilbert whistled. Everyone looked at him. "... Ehehehe...?" Ines blushed.
"I feel weeeeird..." Brian cut in, trying to save his friend.
Navi just burst out laughing, that evil pixie. "HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Link whacked her quiet.
"First couple!" BB announced as if he were one of those judges at dancing competitions. "Link and Nicole!"
"WE ARE NOT A COUPLE!" they both yelled, but began salsa-ing anyway when the music started.
"How do you know how to dance like this?" Nicole asked while dancing.
"Saria." Link answered, dipping her.
She twitched. "My dress!"
"Stop being so self-concious! How did you learn to salsa?"
"My mom."
Link spun her, and she almost fell over. Everyone else almost fell over.
A few minutes later, the music ended. Everybody clapped. "Impressive!" Brian grinned.
Nicole twitched. "Thanks?"
"I still feel weird," Link sweatdropped.
"Next! Ines and Gilbert!" BB called.
Ines and Gilbert start salsa-ing. Music ended a few minutes later. Everybody clapped. "Wow!"
"Next, Brian and Hayarpi!" BB continued.
Brian and Hayarpi started, doing VERY VERY COOL AND IMPRESSIVE moves! Music ended a few minutes later. Everyone was clapping and whistling. "Where did you learn that?!" Nicole gasped.
"Salsa school!" the two giggled.
"There's such thing?" Link sweatdropped.
Ines nodded. "Heh, at least in Earth, yeah."
"Wonderful!" squealed BB like a girl. "Now the last and most dramatic dance... TANGO!"
Everyone screamed in terror.
"Now, first Ines and Gilbert."
Ines and Gilbert stood around awkwardly. BB stared. "Uh. We don't know how," Ines sweatdropped.
BB blinked. "Seriously?" The two nodded shamefully. "Fine. It's up to your friends now! Hayarpi and Brian!" Hayarpi and Brian did a couple of moves and then stop. "... Well?"
"That's all we know..." Brian sweatdropped.
BB slapped his forehead... if he had one. "Grr... okay, Nicole and Link."
Nicole and Link twitched. "DARN IT!" Navi was laughing her head off. Nicole swat at her, who 'eep'-ed and dodged.
Link took both of Nicole's hands. "Ready?"
Nicole sweatdropped. "If you are!"
So the tango music played. Nicole and Link did impressive and dramatic moves. It all ended with Link dipping Nicole pretty low, faces pretty close! Everyone was clapping and whistling.
"Oookay, this is the second most strange position I've been in my life," Nicole sweatdropped, turning her face away.
"My back is killing me..." Link grumbled, turning his face the opposite way.
"BB, can we stop posing now?!" they grumbled.
BB cackled. "Nah, you guys look cute together."
Link made a weird face. "We do?"
Nicole twitched. "WHAT?! WHY DOES EVERYONE SAY THAT!"
"Cuz we don't know who else to pair you up with," Hayarpi mumbled sadly from the sidelines. The others sweatdropped at her tone. Nicole twitched some more.
Either way, BB snapped his fingers and everyone was in their battle clothes again. They squealed, hugging themselves.
Nicole and Link didn't change positions. Nicole cackled. "I still feel weird in this position."
Link dropped her.
"AHH!" she squeaked, falling down and landing on her back, making a thump on the drum. "Oww, my omega..."
Link sweatdropped, standing up correctly. "Sorry, my back just couldn't take it anymore!"
"Beautiful dancing, absolutely beautiful!" BB grinned.
Everyone sweatdropped. "Thanks?"
"Now, the final battle against me..."
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Blah, end of chappy! I am very bad with cliffhangers!! HAHAHAHA...
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