Disclaimer: Again, Zelda no belong to me. Most of the characters belong to
either Katherine or me. The others belong to Nintendo.
***
So, it's another chapter. Kat's not here and I haven't been myself lately. But I'm going to write this thing tonight. no more putting it off. Humm. well I have to say that I really like the stories that Snowsilver does, aka the Destiny Stone and there's another story that is all right that I like to read and that's by Ryu-Kat. Alrighty, well I suppose on to the story. And I hope you like it.
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Chapter 8: Party in the Darkness
After a couple glasses of water and a large amount of sincere apologies, Nayru and Cash headed to the portal in which they came. Their plan? As Cash would have put it and rightly did, "First Cash and Nayru go up and then Nayru go to tower of bad. Then Cash help free other Nayru and bad go away."
That was pretty much what they thought their plan would end up like. As they stepped into the portal a sensation came over Nayru that felt as though her stomach was being shot up into her chest. The world spun around her and darkness flowed over the two of them.
The ground stopped spinning about two minutes after they got out of the portal. Nayru was a tad shaken up but that was because she wasn't a constant portal rider. Cash stepped forward a bit and pointed to a nearby trail that led into the deep woods.
"Tower of bad is in dark trees. Cash scared of trees of dark but with Nayru Cash won't be scared much." Said Cash in a smaller voice than usual.
Nayru smiled and started into the forest with Cash trailing not very far behind. As they got farther into the woods a feeling came over them that the air was getting thicker and that someone was in the thickness watching over them.
A bush to the side of Cash rustled and moved to one on the opposite side of them. Cash yelped and jumped. Unfortunately, he landed a few feet away on his back end. As he went to get up he found he couldn't move his small hidden feet.
"Cash stuck!" He exclaimed.
Nayru walked towards him but stopped short. In front of her was a patch of quicksand that was hidden by vines and over-grown branches. She tried to reach out to him but he was too far in.
"Nayru say don't struggle!" she told him as he thrashed to grab onto a branch over head.
The bushes to the right of the quicksand rustled and Nayru jumped. This caused the solid ground that she was standing on to crumble and sink into the sand as well. She would have been able to reach the edge as she fell in, but the sand started to pull both of it's victims towards the center and into the nothingness underneath.
Nayru felt as though this may be the last of both Cash and herself but thought again as the branch overhead that Cash was thrashing for bent down into their reach. On the branch itself was a blue colored wolf staring down at them.
Both Cash and Nayru grabbed onto the branch and the wolf stepped off. As it stepped off, the branch pushed upwards with a great force and sent Cash into the air and Nayru into the leaves on the branch.
The Oracle struggled through the leaves and dropped onto solid ground. Cash was a few feet away sprawled on top of the wolf that saved them. It looked at it's back and somewhat made a face that said that it wasn't too pleased to have quicksand all over it's back. Picking leaves and little twigs out of her hair, Nayru walked over and picked Cash off of the wolf.
"Nayru thank you very much" she said to it, "you saved Cash and Nayru's lives. unfortunately, Nayru and Cash don't know what to do for you."
The wolf looked at them and in front of their eyes turned into a young girl with the same color hair as the wolf.
"I've had worse you know" the girl said as she tried to wipe off the muddy mess on her shirt. "And what's with the bad grammar?"
Both travelers looked at her in surprise.
"What??" she said irritably, "Why are yo- oh." she smiled. "I'm sorry about that but it was the only way to get you out of there."
Nayru smiled and brushed herself and Cash off. After a few minutes they had introduced themselves.
"I'm Nayru and this is my friend Cash." Nayru wouldn't have just told anyone who she really was unless she had a feeling that they were someone trustworthy.
The girl nodded and answered back, "My name's Tee."
"Cash like meeting Tee. Tee good friend" Cash said happily.
Tee smiled a bit and looked back at Nayru. "So what are you doing out in these woods?"
"We're trying to rescue the Oracle of Seasons, Din. She's in the castle at the other end of these woods. But we are being chased by witches."
Nodding, Tee told them that she was looking for a friend that she left back when she was last in Termina. "I've seen those witches." she said to quickly change the subject.
"Are they around here?" came the answer from in front of her.
"I saw them flying by pretty fast. I think they were racing or something. So they aren't paying much attention to anything right no-" a noise from the direction of the quicksand made Tee stop.
There was some groaning of something. All three of them looked toward the direction and stayed completely quiet.
"Arrrr..." Came the noise again.
"Cash. scared." Cash said as he grabbed onto Nayru's arm.
The groaning continued with some "Arrr's" and some "Ick's" but never moved from the spot they were hearing it from. Finally, Tee got up, changed into her wolf form, and went into the bushes in front of the quicksand. There was a yelp and then a rustling in the bushes again.
Cash hugged Nayru's arm and Nayru sat stiff and straight. The bushes rustled until Tee came back through them with something attached to her head. It was a creamy white color with holes in it and a red piece of cloth tied around it.
"Arrr.. Aye' got fur in me eyes!" the object exclaimed.
"Oh shut up," Tee answered as she turned back. "I saved you from the quicksand and that's all you have to say?"
The object that was on her head the skull of a skeleton. Tee picked it up off her head and held it in front of herself. "Aye'm sorry lass. but aye'm afraid that aye'm quite irritable with out me body."
Tee sighed. "Would ye take me 'ead with yeh to find me another body. or at leas' keep an ol' 'ead company an' keep me with ye?" it said sadly.
"Fine." Tee said as she sighed again. "But you have to deal with sitting on my head." She placed the skull back up on her head.
After a few grumbles from the skull Tee sat back down across from Nayru. Cash had settled down and was playing with a stone on the ground. "Now what's the plan."
***
Veran was down a dark and dank hall that she had never been to before. There was a cool breeze coming through it but it smelled musty and old. She put her hand on the wall to steady herself in the darkness. There was a cold slime that covered her hand and she yanked her hand back. What was once just a dripping sound and light air movement came something else from below her. It was like a moaning but to a steady beat.
She made her way through the hall that had started to dip in a downward fashion and then turned into a spiraling staircase that also led down. The farther down she went the louder the moaning became until she stepped into a room that was an eerie green in the light that it was shrouded in. A few monsters were scattered here and there in an oval as though they were seated to witness something.
In the middle of this oval were a few lines of re-deads. They were groaning to a beat that was being beaten by a few mad scrubs tapping their feet on wet rock. As the tapping went on a Poe with a beard on the side of the room started to tap the glass on his lantern and a Gibdo started to whistle a wispy high tuned beat.
The re-deads started swaying as though they were in the wind and a low pitched voice started to say something. "Back to back... Hahaha.. belly to belly.. Yes my friends.. Back to back.. Belly to belly. I say HUH!"
Veran stared in amazement as a re-dead that was taller than the rest started to actually say something other than "Uhhhhhnnnnnn!" This was a never before seen trait in this type of monster. actually. in any monster in existence. But she kept watching as the "crowd" of monsters swayed back and forth and clapped whatever they could.
The re-dead started singing by the time Veran stopped thinking. "It was a zombie jamboree.. Took place in the castle cemetery.. It was a zombie jamboree.. Took place in the castle cemetery.."
Another re-dead came forward from the line and it too started to sing but in what sounded like harmony. "Zombies from all parts of the islands... some of them were dead.. And some embalmed.. When the season was just right.. They got together and now it's right.."
By that time all of the re-deads were singing in a harmony that sent chills down Verans back. but also sounded vaguely calming. "And they were singing. Back to back. ooohh. Belly to belly. and we don't give a darned if we're stone dead already.. Back to back.. And . Belly to belly. it was a zombee jamboree."
Veran stood in the archway at the end of the stairs watching them for about three more verses until she shifted her weight and slipped on some slime that had oozed off the back of a nearby octorock. The beat, singing, and overall "music" stopped dead when she fell into the room.
All of the monsters stared at her and then formed a mob in front of her. She stood up and dusted herself off. It was then she looked forward and pulled the sides of her hat down over her ears. The mob was coming after her. She turned and ran up the stairs. She could hear all of the monsters following close behind her. The closest was a Moblin with a spear who was a few feet from impaling her in the back with its spear.
Veran screamed and tried to run faster. She was out of breath when she reached the top of the incline on the hallway. The monsters had slowed down and looked a bit tired. Veran rounded the corner and she was back in the hall where the crystal ball room was. At one end of the hall was a large door where she had first came into this hall in the beginning, and on the other end of the hall was a large black smoldering mass that looked as though it were in a puddle of water.
Veran wiped off her dark purple and black robes and headed toward the large door. She opened it a crack and slipped through making sure that she really closed the door on the way out.
***
Jay wiped his forehead as he wandered non-stop to get to the city in Lynnia. It was a pretty far journey but he figured that it was worth it if someone was in trouble or if something big was going to happen.
About a half hour later he came to the edge of a large city with a problem. It was supposedly spring because of all the flowers but all the leaves on the trees were falling off. It was bright and sunny like summer but snow was falling all around.
Little did Jay know the end was coming closer for the land of Lynnia and soon Holodrum because the Oracle of Seasons was still missing.
"Man. someone has to really make up their mind about what they want." he said out loud as he walked by a small kid with a dog. The kid looked at Jay, then at his dog, and then back at Jay.
"You look like. her." The kid said and looked back at his dog. "Common Tisore."
Then the kid walked off with his dog trailing behind him.
"Wait!!" yelled Jay as he ran after the kid, "Who do I look like. and who are you?"
The kid looked up at him as he kept walking. "You look like. her."
"Who's her?" Jay said as he rolled his eyes.
"Her." The kid said again in a mysterious voice.
"Okay. er. who are you then?" Jay sighed.
"I'm Miksou and this is my doggie Tisore. We live here. but it's not nice no more. 'cause they took the Oracle."
Jay just looked at Miksou.
Miksou looked back at him and pointed. "Go to the beach. Maybe they took her there. I can't go 'cause I'm too little."
Jay nodded. "Alright, I'll go to the beach." Jay thought this was silly but it was the way he was going anyway.
So Jay headed East once again and now his destination was the beach. What, he wondered, is going to happen if I reach a dead end. He shouldered the pack on his shoulder and reached into his pocket to make sure the rupees he had been given were still there. They jingled and he headed off out of the east side of town with Miksou staring at his back the entire way out.
***
Well, there we go. I waited for so long to do this (three weeks) and I can do it in one night. *sigh* Well, at least it's done. I have gotten new ideas and all and that's going to go well. Umm. just for all purposes the song in here is actually real but I changed the lyrics a tad to fit the situation. So it's NOT mine. Just don't yell. I really wanted to put that in there and Kat thought it was funny when I told her. So I did. ^_^. So now I have to do the next chapter and get on with the bees. I keep this little piece of paper to tell me what I've done so far and I'm getting pretty far. So a thanks for reading and creative criticism is appreciated. -Sond
***
So, it's another chapter. Kat's not here and I haven't been myself lately. But I'm going to write this thing tonight. no more putting it off. Humm. well I have to say that I really like the stories that Snowsilver does, aka the Destiny Stone and there's another story that is all right that I like to read and that's by Ryu-Kat. Alrighty, well I suppose on to the story. And I hope you like it.
***
Chapter 8: Party in the Darkness
After a couple glasses of water and a large amount of sincere apologies, Nayru and Cash headed to the portal in which they came. Their plan? As Cash would have put it and rightly did, "First Cash and Nayru go up and then Nayru go to tower of bad. Then Cash help free other Nayru and bad go away."
That was pretty much what they thought their plan would end up like. As they stepped into the portal a sensation came over Nayru that felt as though her stomach was being shot up into her chest. The world spun around her and darkness flowed over the two of them.
The ground stopped spinning about two minutes after they got out of the portal. Nayru was a tad shaken up but that was because she wasn't a constant portal rider. Cash stepped forward a bit and pointed to a nearby trail that led into the deep woods.
"Tower of bad is in dark trees. Cash scared of trees of dark but with Nayru Cash won't be scared much." Said Cash in a smaller voice than usual.
Nayru smiled and started into the forest with Cash trailing not very far behind. As they got farther into the woods a feeling came over them that the air was getting thicker and that someone was in the thickness watching over them.
A bush to the side of Cash rustled and moved to one on the opposite side of them. Cash yelped and jumped. Unfortunately, he landed a few feet away on his back end. As he went to get up he found he couldn't move his small hidden feet.
"Cash stuck!" He exclaimed.
Nayru walked towards him but stopped short. In front of her was a patch of quicksand that was hidden by vines and over-grown branches. She tried to reach out to him but he was too far in.
"Nayru say don't struggle!" she told him as he thrashed to grab onto a branch over head.
The bushes to the right of the quicksand rustled and Nayru jumped. This caused the solid ground that she was standing on to crumble and sink into the sand as well. She would have been able to reach the edge as she fell in, but the sand started to pull both of it's victims towards the center and into the nothingness underneath.
Nayru felt as though this may be the last of both Cash and herself but thought again as the branch overhead that Cash was thrashing for bent down into their reach. On the branch itself was a blue colored wolf staring down at them.
Both Cash and Nayru grabbed onto the branch and the wolf stepped off. As it stepped off, the branch pushed upwards with a great force and sent Cash into the air and Nayru into the leaves on the branch.
The Oracle struggled through the leaves and dropped onto solid ground. Cash was a few feet away sprawled on top of the wolf that saved them. It looked at it's back and somewhat made a face that said that it wasn't too pleased to have quicksand all over it's back. Picking leaves and little twigs out of her hair, Nayru walked over and picked Cash off of the wolf.
"Nayru thank you very much" she said to it, "you saved Cash and Nayru's lives. unfortunately, Nayru and Cash don't know what to do for you."
The wolf looked at them and in front of their eyes turned into a young girl with the same color hair as the wolf.
"I've had worse you know" the girl said as she tried to wipe off the muddy mess on her shirt. "And what's with the bad grammar?"
Both travelers looked at her in surprise.
"What??" she said irritably, "Why are yo- oh." she smiled. "I'm sorry about that but it was the only way to get you out of there."
Nayru smiled and brushed herself and Cash off. After a few minutes they had introduced themselves.
"I'm Nayru and this is my friend Cash." Nayru wouldn't have just told anyone who she really was unless she had a feeling that they were someone trustworthy.
The girl nodded and answered back, "My name's Tee."
"Cash like meeting Tee. Tee good friend" Cash said happily.
Tee smiled a bit and looked back at Nayru. "So what are you doing out in these woods?"
"We're trying to rescue the Oracle of Seasons, Din. She's in the castle at the other end of these woods. But we are being chased by witches."
Nodding, Tee told them that she was looking for a friend that she left back when she was last in Termina. "I've seen those witches." she said to quickly change the subject.
"Are they around here?" came the answer from in front of her.
"I saw them flying by pretty fast. I think they were racing or something. So they aren't paying much attention to anything right no-" a noise from the direction of the quicksand made Tee stop.
There was some groaning of something. All three of them looked toward the direction and stayed completely quiet.
"Arrrr..." Came the noise again.
"Cash. scared." Cash said as he grabbed onto Nayru's arm.
The groaning continued with some "Arrr's" and some "Ick's" but never moved from the spot they were hearing it from. Finally, Tee got up, changed into her wolf form, and went into the bushes in front of the quicksand. There was a yelp and then a rustling in the bushes again.
Cash hugged Nayru's arm and Nayru sat stiff and straight. The bushes rustled until Tee came back through them with something attached to her head. It was a creamy white color with holes in it and a red piece of cloth tied around it.
"Arrr.. Aye' got fur in me eyes!" the object exclaimed.
"Oh shut up," Tee answered as she turned back. "I saved you from the quicksand and that's all you have to say?"
The object that was on her head the skull of a skeleton. Tee picked it up off her head and held it in front of herself. "Aye'm sorry lass. but aye'm afraid that aye'm quite irritable with out me body."
Tee sighed. "Would ye take me 'ead with yeh to find me another body. or at leas' keep an ol' 'ead company an' keep me with ye?" it said sadly.
"Fine." Tee said as she sighed again. "But you have to deal with sitting on my head." She placed the skull back up on her head.
After a few grumbles from the skull Tee sat back down across from Nayru. Cash had settled down and was playing with a stone on the ground. "Now what's the plan."
***
Veran was down a dark and dank hall that she had never been to before. There was a cool breeze coming through it but it smelled musty and old. She put her hand on the wall to steady herself in the darkness. There was a cold slime that covered her hand and she yanked her hand back. What was once just a dripping sound and light air movement came something else from below her. It was like a moaning but to a steady beat.
She made her way through the hall that had started to dip in a downward fashion and then turned into a spiraling staircase that also led down. The farther down she went the louder the moaning became until she stepped into a room that was an eerie green in the light that it was shrouded in. A few monsters were scattered here and there in an oval as though they were seated to witness something.
In the middle of this oval were a few lines of re-deads. They were groaning to a beat that was being beaten by a few mad scrubs tapping their feet on wet rock. As the tapping went on a Poe with a beard on the side of the room started to tap the glass on his lantern and a Gibdo started to whistle a wispy high tuned beat.
The re-deads started swaying as though they were in the wind and a low pitched voice started to say something. "Back to back... Hahaha.. belly to belly.. Yes my friends.. Back to back.. Belly to belly. I say HUH!"
Veran stared in amazement as a re-dead that was taller than the rest started to actually say something other than "Uhhhhhnnnnnn!" This was a never before seen trait in this type of monster. actually. in any monster in existence. But she kept watching as the "crowd" of monsters swayed back and forth and clapped whatever they could.
The re-dead started singing by the time Veran stopped thinking. "It was a zombie jamboree.. Took place in the castle cemetery.. It was a zombie jamboree.. Took place in the castle cemetery.."
Another re-dead came forward from the line and it too started to sing but in what sounded like harmony. "Zombies from all parts of the islands... some of them were dead.. And some embalmed.. When the season was just right.. They got together and now it's right.."
By that time all of the re-deads were singing in a harmony that sent chills down Verans back. but also sounded vaguely calming. "And they were singing. Back to back. ooohh. Belly to belly. and we don't give a darned if we're stone dead already.. Back to back.. And . Belly to belly. it was a zombee jamboree."
Veran stood in the archway at the end of the stairs watching them for about three more verses until she shifted her weight and slipped on some slime that had oozed off the back of a nearby octorock. The beat, singing, and overall "music" stopped dead when she fell into the room.
All of the monsters stared at her and then formed a mob in front of her. She stood up and dusted herself off. It was then she looked forward and pulled the sides of her hat down over her ears. The mob was coming after her. She turned and ran up the stairs. She could hear all of the monsters following close behind her. The closest was a Moblin with a spear who was a few feet from impaling her in the back with its spear.
Veran screamed and tried to run faster. She was out of breath when she reached the top of the incline on the hallway. The monsters had slowed down and looked a bit tired. Veran rounded the corner and she was back in the hall where the crystal ball room was. At one end of the hall was a large door where she had first came into this hall in the beginning, and on the other end of the hall was a large black smoldering mass that looked as though it were in a puddle of water.
Veran wiped off her dark purple and black robes and headed toward the large door. She opened it a crack and slipped through making sure that she really closed the door on the way out.
***
Jay wiped his forehead as he wandered non-stop to get to the city in Lynnia. It was a pretty far journey but he figured that it was worth it if someone was in trouble or if something big was going to happen.
About a half hour later he came to the edge of a large city with a problem. It was supposedly spring because of all the flowers but all the leaves on the trees were falling off. It was bright and sunny like summer but snow was falling all around.
Little did Jay know the end was coming closer for the land of Lynnia and soon Holodrum because the Oracle of Seasons was still missing.
"Man. someone has to really make up their mind about what they want." he said out loud as he walked by a small kid with a dog. The kid looked at Jay, then at his dog, and then back at Jay.
"You look like. her." The kid said and looked back at his dog. "Common Tisore."
Then the kid walked off with his dog trailing behind him.
"Wait!!" yelled Jay as he ran after the kid, "Who do I look like. and who are you?"
The kid looked up at him as he kept walking. "You look like. her."
"Who's her?" Jay said as he rolled his eyes.
"Her." The kid said again in a mysterious voice.
"Okay. er. who are you then?" Jay sighed.
"I'm Miksou and this is my doggie Tisore. We live here. but it's not nice no more. 'cause they took the Oracle."
Jay just looked at Miksou.
Miksou looked back at him and pointed. "Go to the beach. Maybe they took her there. I can't go 'cause I'm too little."
Jay nodded. "Alright, I'll go to the beach." Jay thought this was silly but it was the way he was going anyway.
So Jay headed East once again and now his destination was the beach. What, he wondered, is going to happen if I reach a dead end. He shouldered the pack on his shoulder and reached into his pocket to make sure the rupees he had been given were still there. They jingled and he headed off out of the east side of town with Miksou staring at his back the entire way out.
***
Well, there we go. I waited for so long to do this (three weeks) and I can do it in one night. *sigh* Well, at least it's done. I have gotten new ideas and all and that's going to go well. Umm. just for all purposes the song in here is actually real but I changed the lyrics a tad to fit the situation. So it's NOT mine. Just don't yell. I really wanted to put that in there and Kat thought it was funny when I told her. So I did. ^_^. So now I have to do the next chapter and get on with the bees. I keep this little piece of paper to tell me what I've done so far and I'm getting pretty far. So a thanks for reading and creative criticism is appreciated. -Sond