OK... my stupid computer won't let me get online, so I'll just write a new
chapter to get out my rage! Ahem... sorry... I'm in a bad mood... and being
around people who are always on my case isn't helping. Anyway, here's the
next chapter... uh... 10!!
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The Legend of Zelda: Dark World
*~* Chapter 10 - The First Temple *~*
Link and Katt had been walking down the staircase for what seemed an eternity. There was no sign of an end... no sign of life... It was as desolate as Deku Plain itself, if not more.
Finally, Link saw a faint light in the distance, straight below the warriors, "This is odd," Link observed. He knelt down and felt along the ground. Crawling forward, feeling every move he made, he was sure that he wouldn't fall.
"What are you doing?" Katt asked. She truly didn't know the answer, it was so dark that she couldn't see Link. She was suspicious since she could no longer hear his footsteps.
"Look down," he replied, "Do you see that light?" Katt nodded. "I don't like the looks of how it's directly below us... it makes me feel like there will be a vertical drop soon."
"You're not as hopeless as you look," Katt commented.
Link rolled his eyes, "Thanks..." he slid his hand along the ground, and slipped as reached the end of the stairwell. "Ah!!" he shouted, grabbing hold of the ledge.
Katt slowly moved along the staircase towards Link, "Link! Are you alright?"
Link pulled himself up and sat, looking down at the light beneath. "I'm fine," he replied, "But how do we get down?"
Katt caught up and seated herself beside Link, "I don't know..." she examined the situation they were in, "Is there no weapon you have that could get us down there safely?"
"No," he said, backed up by shaking his head, "I didn't bring anything that'd be helpful right now. I left my hookshot behind... a bad choice I see now."
Katt sighed. She looked through her equipment. Bow... arrows... sword... shield... nothing helpful at all. She stroked her bow softly, pondering. "Link... do you have any rope?"
Link looked up from the light, "Why?"
"Just answer the question," Katt commanded, yet not in a fierce voice.
"Yeah... it just so happens I do."
"Give it to me."
Link handed her the rope without asking any questions. Whether he wanted to admit it or not, he had faith in her decisions. Katt unravelled the rope and attached it to one of her arrows. She felt along the walls and found a piece sticking out. She tied the other end of the rope to the rock. Katt felt for her arrow and bow once again. When she found them, she put the arrow in the bow and sent it flying.
CRACK!! The sound of her arrow hitting the wall was heard. Katt held up her hand and tugged gently on the rope, "Secure enough," she said to herself, "OK, Link! Time to her down there!"
"Uh... how?" he asked. He could exactly see what the heck Katt had done.
"Pass me your boomerang."
"How did you..." Link began to ask.
"I said, pass me your boomerang."
Link obeyed and handed Katt his boomerang. She lifted the boomerang over the rope and held on to each side of it, "Now, observe!"
"But it's too dark to..." Link started.
"I said observe!!"
Link sighed and observed as much as possible. Katt lifted her feet from the ground and slid along the rope to the area where the light was. She dropped to the ground and tossed the boomerang back to Link. Of course... Link didn't know it was coming, so it ended up hitting him, "Ow!! Son of a..."
"Link! Use the boomerang to slide along the rope!" Katt shouted up to him.
"Oh... I get it..." Link said. He did the same as Katt and now they were both in the area of the light.
"All right, Link! It's your turn!" Katt randomly said.
"What?"
"Figure out what we do now!"
"Oh..." Link looked around, "Well... let's go to the light!"
"Indeed. Aren't you the smart one?" Katt commented sarcastically.
"Yeah, yeah... let's just go," Link walked along until he was at the light. It wasn't natural... not a torch... it was... a fairy.
"Help me..." the fairy's voice sounded weak, "I have been trapped here... since HE came..."
"Who?" Link asked. He went closer to the fairy.
"Him... the..." she trailed off.
"The what?" Link urged the fairy to explain.
"Believe nothing you see... it is what you do not see that you should fear..." and with that, the fairy became motionless.
Katt stepped forward, beside Link. She knelt by the still body of the fairy, "Poor thing..." she murmured, "What could have done this? What could this fairy have done to deserve such a fate!?" Tears streamed down her face.
"This is our life," Link said, "Death... doom... betrayal... But in the end, it has to work out. Lives are lost... yes, that's true. But, in the end, the sacrifice is worth it."
Katt looked up at Link, "I know..." she said softly, "But it's so hard..." she closed her eyes. It seemed to be getting even darker around Katt.
Link looked down at her, something wasn't right. The darkness was shrouding her, "Katt!!" he shouted, "Look out!!"
Katt opened her eyes, she couldn't see Link through the darkness, "Link! What's happening!? AH!!!!" her screams faded and the darkness lifted. Katt was gone.
"Katt!!" Link called; there was no reply. "What happened to her?" he asked himself, "There's no use in sticking around here... I need to find her," he picked up the fairy's still-glowing body and placed it in a bottle to light his way. And with that, he set off through the tunnels of the temple.
About an hour has passed, and there was no sign of Katt, "I need to find her. I can't finish this mission without her," he looked around the paths. Something could be seen in the distance, "Katt?" Link called, but he knew it wasn't her. They were eyes... glowing eyes... "What are you?" Link asked.
And with that, two armoured lizards emerged ((A/N: Ack! I forget what those things are called!!)) from the darkness. Link was hardly shocked. In fact, he was relieved to see that it was merely a weak enemy. He unsheathed his sword and slashed at the first lizard. Its head fell to the ground and green blood gushed from its fallen body. Time to take out the second. Link skewered the second one. The sword went straight through its scaly body. The lizard fell, and Link pulled his sword from the corpse. He caught his breath, "Weak," he muttered.
He continued trudging along the dungeon pathway. There was no sign of Katt. No sign of help. No sign of enemies. No sign of anything at all. The only thing there was the evil carved into the creation of the temple... and Link.
Finally, he came to a huge, stone doorway. Suddenly, something on Link's back began to glow white. He reached and pulled out the Shield of the Elements, "The shield," he said to himself.
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"Each of the jewels encrusted in this legendary shield represents an element," Katt had read from the book Link had uncovered.
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"The wind..." Link thought to himself, "It's nearby..." He looked up at the door before him, "In there... whatever took Katt... it HAS to be in there." He put all of his strength in pushing open the door, and with time, succeeded. He stepped through the doorway and entered to discover what perils awaited him.
It was dead silence as Link entered... only his footsteps were heard. "Katt?" Link called. No answer. Link sighed. Suddenly, Link heard a 'whoosh' sound. "The wind... it's HERE!"
The wind blew by Link, stinging him, like a thousand daggers piercing his body. Link screamed in pain, "What the hell is this!?" he exclaimed, falling to his knees. Looking up, he saw nothing. "How can this be? What is doing this!?" Suddenly, Link stopped, "It is what you do not see that you should fear... This isn't any regular wind!"
"Link...!" A faint shout could be heard from the distance.
Link got to his feet and looked around the room. Nothing. "Link!!" the voice got louder and clearer.
"Katt!" Link called back. He knew it was her... it had to be...
Sure enough, the room got slightly brighter, and he could see Katt being held up in the air by the same darkness that dragged her away. "Link! The wind... it's evil! It was the wind that captured me!!"
"Evil wind?" Link thought, "How can I fight the wind?"
"I don't know!" Katt cried. It could be heard in her voice that she was in great pain.
"Let her go!!" Link shouted. The wind granted Link's request. The darkness around Katt vanished and she fell to the ground. Link dashed towards the falling girl and caught her in his arms.
"Thank you, Link," she said, opening her eyes.
"No time for thanks!" Link shouted. He dropped Katt onto the ground and returned to the entrance of the room.
"OW!! Link!! What the hell!?"
"Get over here!"
Katt growled under her breath, but then joined Link. The piercing wind returned and attacked them. "Why do you hide!?" Katt shouted, "Show yourself!!"
The wind became visible as it combined in the center of the room. It took the form of an animal... some sort of beast, with great fangs and above all the other attributes... its red eyes stood out. Link charged towards the 'boss', but his sword went straight through its transparent body. "How?!" Link shouted.
"Link, you fool!! You can't attack the wind!" Katt yelled at him.
"So, how do I defeat it?" Link was completely stumped.
"Some hero!" Katt said sarcastically, "Give me the shield!"
"The shield?" Link pulled the Shield of the Elements from his back, "The diamond! It's glowing brighter!"
"Give me the shield!!" Katt repeated. Link tossed the shield over to Katt, and she held it in front of herself, facing the monster. A blinding beam of white light emerged from the shield, and headed towards the creature. At contact, the beast became real... no longer clear as it was before. "Now, Link!!" Katt shouted.
Link dashed toward the creature, with his sword held in front of him. Once within striking distance, he stabbed it right in its stomach. The beast cried out in pain and clutched its bleeding wound. While it was distracted, Katt pulled out her ice arrows and froze the creature giving Link a chance to finish it off. With a mighty hurricane spin, the boss was no more. Both halves of its corpse disintegrated after it collapsed to the ground. Ankle-deep in the mutated blood, Link and Katt scrambled for the pathway that was revealed. Along the way, Katt caught sight of something glistening in the blood. She bent down and picked it up. It was a piece of a statue... it looked like a dragon's tail. She put it in her pack without saying a word to Link.
After finally escaping the temple, Katt and Link were catching their breath in Deku Plain. "Well..." Link began.
"Well what?" Katt asked, looking up at him.
"Aren't you going to thank me for saving your life!?" Link shouted.
"Are you kidding me? I SO could have gotten out of that place on my own!"
"You're not serious!! Tell me you're not serious! Come on! You were dangling in fear screaming for help!"
"It was a cover-up! I was merely trying to get your attention so you wouldn't be caught off guard and be murdered!"
"What do you care?" Link asked.
"I don't!" Katt answered quickly, "It's just that if you died it would have been harder for me to save Senkrad, is all."
"Been harder? You wouldn't have been able to do it on your own!"
"Oh, yeah?"
"Yeah!" Link and Katt were locked in a death-stare.
"This is ridiculous," Katt finally said, "How are either or both of us going to save Senkrad like this?" Link didn't reply, "Where's that place we have to go now?"
"Gerudo Oasis," Link answered.
"OK, then. Why aren't we there?" Link shrugged in response, "Well then, let's go!"
Link nodded, and they both set off to Gerudo Oasis. "Uh... I have a question."
"What?" Katt turned to Link.
"Didn't Rio say that he thought there would be pieces of the jade dragon statue in each temple?"
"Yup."
"Why didn't we see any?"
"We did."
"WHAT!?!?"
"Relax," Katt said calmly, "I got it," she pulled out the green dragon tail statue she found in the boss' lair.
"But... why didn't you tell me!?!?"
"I just wanted to get out of the blood like any normal person," Katt replied.
"Touché," Link said.
"Let's just go," Katt turned ahead and walked forward toward their next challenge... Gerudo Oasis.
*~* End of Chapter 10 *~*
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Ooo... Longishness... ^_^ Well, what did you think? I think it ended up pretty cool, but that's my opinion... I want YOUR'S! So review and let me know what you thought!
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The Legend of Zelda: Dark World
*~* Chapter 10 - The First Temple *~*
Link and Katt had been walking down the staircase for what seemed an eternity. There was no sign of an end... no sign of life... It was as desolate as Deku Plain itself, if not more.
Finally, Link saw a faint light in the distance, straight below the warriors, "This is odd," Link observed. He knelt down and felt along the ground. Crawling forward, feeling every move he made, he was sure that he wouldn't fall.
"What are you doing?" Katt asked. She truly didn't know the answer, it was so dark that she couldn't see Link. She was suspicious since she could no longer hear his footsteps.
"Look down," he replied, "Do you see that light?" Katt nodded. "I don't like the looks of how it's directly below us... it makes me feel like there will be a vertical drop soon."
"You're not as hopeless as you look," Katt commented.
Link rolled his eyes, "Thanks..." he slid his hand along the ground, and slipped as reached the end of the stairwell. "Ah!!" he shouted, grabbing hold of the ledge.
Katt slowly moved along the staircase towards Link, "Link! Are you alright?"
Link pulled himself up and sat, looking down at the light beneath. "I'm fine," he replied, "But how do we get down?"
Katt caught up and seated herself beside Link, "I don't know..." she examined the situation they were in, "Is there no weapon you have that could get us down there safely?"
"No," he said, backed up by shaking his head, "I didn't bring anything that'd be helpful right now. I left my hookshot behind... a bad choice I see now."
Katt sighed. She looked through her equipment. Bow... arrows... sword... shield... nothing helpful at all. She stroked her bow softly, pondering. "Link... do you have any rope?"
Link looked up from the light, "Why?"
"Just answer the question," Katt commanded, yet not in a fierce voice.
"Yeah... it just so happens I do."
"Give it to me."
Link handed her the rope without asking any questions. Whether he wanted to admit it or not, he had faith in her decisions. Katt unravelled the rope and attached it to one of her arrows. She felt along the walls and found a piece sticking out. She tied the other end of the rope to the rock. Katt felt for her arrow and bow once again. When she found them, she put the arrow in the bow and sent it flying.
CRACK!! The sound of her arrow hitting the wall was heard. Katt held up her hand and tugged gently on the rope, "Secure enough," she said to herself, "OK, Link! Time to her down there!"
"Uh... how?" he asked. He could exactly see what the heck Katt had done.
"Pass me your boomerang."
"How did you..." Link began to ask.
"I said, pass me your boomerang."
Link obeyed and handed Katt his boomerang. She lifted the boomerang over the rope and held on to each side of it, "Now, observe!"
"But it's too dark to..." Link started.
"I said observe!!"
Link sighed and observed as much as possible. Katt lifted her feet from the ground and slid along the rope to the area where the light was. She dropped to the ground and tossed the boomerang back to Link. Of course... Link didn't know it was coming, so it ended up hitting him, "Ow!! Son of a..."
"Link! Use the boomerang to slide along the rope!" Katt shouted up to him.
"Oh... I get it..." Link said. He did the same as Katt and now they were both in the area of the light.
"All right, Link! It's your turn!" Katt randomly said.
"What?"
"Figure out what we do now!"
"Oh..." Link looked around, "Well... let's go to the light!"
"Indeed. Aren't you the smart one?" Katt commented sarcastically.
"Yeah, yeah... let's just go," Link walked along until he was at the light. It wasn't natural... not a torch... it was... a fairy.
"Help me..." the fairy's voice sounded weak, "I have been trapped here... since HE came..."
"Who?" Link asked. He went closer to the fairy.
"Him... the..." she trailed off.
"The what?" Link urged the fairy to explain.
"Believe nothing you see... it is what you do not see that you should fear..." and with that, the fairy became motionless.
Katt stepped forward, beside Link. She knelt by the still body of the fairy, "Poor thing..." she murmured, "What could have done this? What could this fairy have done to deserve such a fate!?" Tears streamed down her face.
"This is our life," Link said, "Death... doom... betrayal... But in the end, it has to work out. Lives are lost... yes, that's true. But, in the end, the sacrifice is worth it."
Katt looked up at Link, "I know..." she said softly, "But it's so hard..." she closed her eyes. It seemed to be getting even darker around Katt.
Link looked down at her, something wasn't right. The darkness was shrouding her, "Katt!!" he shouted, "Look out!!"
Katt opened her eyes, she couldn't see Link through the darkness, "Link! What's happening!? AH!!!!" her screams faded and the darkness lifted. Katt was gone.
"Katt!!" Link called; there was no reply. "What happened to her?" he asked himself, "There's no use in sticking around here... I need to find her," he picked up the fairy's still-glowing body and placed it in a bottle to light his way. And with that, he set off through the tunnels of the temple.
About an hour has passed, and there was no sign of Katt, "I need to find her. I can't finish this mission without her," he looked around the paths. Something could be seen in the distance, "Katt?" Link called, but he knew it wasn't her. They were eyes... glowing eyes... "What are you?" Link asked.
And with that, two armoured lizards emerged ((A/N: Ack! I forget what those things are called!!)) from the darkness. Link was hardly shocked. In fact, he was relieved to see that it was merely a weak enemy. He unsheathed his sword and slashed at the first lizard. Its head fell to the ground and green blood gushed from its fallen body. Time to take out the second. Link skewered the second one. The sword went straight through its scaly body. The lizard fell, and Link pulled his sword from the corpse. He caught his breath, "Weak," he muttered.
He continued trudging along the dungeon pathway. There was no sign of Katt. No sign of help. No sign of enemies. No sign of anything at all. The only thing there was the evil carved into the creation of the temple... and Link.
Finally, he came to a huge, stone doorway. Suddenly, something on Link's back began to glow white. He reached and pulled out the Shield of the Elements, "The shield," he said to himself.
|~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~|
"Each of the jewels encrusted in this legendary shield represents an element," Katt had read from the book Link had uncovered.
|~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~|
"The wind..." Link thought to himself, "It's nearby..." He looked up at the door before him, "In there... whatever took Katt... it HAS to be in there." He put all of his strength in pushing open the door, and with time, succeeded. He stepped through the doorway and entered to discover what perils awaited him.
It was dead silence as Link entered... only his footsteps were heard. "Katt?" Link called. No answer. Link sighed. Suddenly, Link heard a 'whoosh' sound. "The wind... it's HERE!"
The wind blew by Link, stinging him, like a thousand daggers piercing his body. Link screamed in pain, "What the hell is this!?" he exclaimed, falling to his knees. Looking up, he saw nothing. "How can this be? What is doing this!?" Suddenly, Link stopped, "It is what you do not see that you should fear... This isn't any regular wind!"
"Link...!" A faint shout could be heard from the distance.
Link got to his feet and looked around the room. Nothing. "Link!!" the voice got louder and clearer.
"Katt!" Link called back. He knew it was her... it had to be...
Sure enough, the room got slightly brighter, and he could see Katt being held up in the air by the same darkness that dragged her away. "Link! The wind... it's evil! It was the wind that captured me!!"
"Evil wind?" Link thought, "How can I fight the wind?"
"I don't know!" Katt cried. It could be heard in her voice that she was in great pain.
"Let her go!!" Link shouted. The wind granted Link's request. The darkness around Katt vanished and she fell to the ground. Link dashed towards the falling girl and caught her in his arms.
"Thank you, Link," she said, opening her eyes.
"No time for thanks!" Link shouted. He dropped Katt onto the ground and returned to the entrance of the room.
"OW!! Link!! What the hell!?"
"Get over here!"
Katt growled under her breath, but then joined Link. The piercing wind returned and attacked them. "Why do you hide!?" Katt shouted, "Show yourself!!"
The wind became visible as it combined in the center of the room. It took the form of an animal... some sort of beast, with great fangs and above all the other attributes... its red eyes stood out. Link charged towards the 'boss', but his sword went straight through its transparent body. "How?!" Link shouted.
"Link, you fool!! You can't attack the wind!" Katt yelled at him.
"So, how do I defeat it?" Link was completely stumped.
"Some hero!" Katt said sarcastically, "Give me the shield!"
"The shield?" Link pulled the Shield of the Elements from his back, "The diamond! It's glowing brighter!"
"Give me the shield!!" Katt repeated. Link tossed the shield over to Katt, and she held it in front of herself, facing the monster. A blinding beam of white light emerged from the shield, and headed towards the creature. At contact, the beast became real... no longer clear as it was before. "Now, Link!!" Katt shouted.
Link dashed toward the creature, with his sword held in front of him. Once within striking distance, he stabbed it right in its stomach. The beast cried out in pain and clutched its bleeding wound. While it was distracted, Katt pulled out her ice arrows and froze the creature giving Link a chance to finish it off. With a mighty hurricane spin, the boss was no more. Both halves of its corpse disintegrated after it collapsed to the ground. Ankle-deep in the mutated blood, Link and Katt scrambled for the pathway that was revealed. Along the way, Katt caught sight of something glistening in the blood. She bent down and picked it up. It was a piece of a statue... it looked like a dragon's tail. She put it in her pack without saying a word to Link.
After finally escaping the temple, Katt and Link were catching their breath in Deku Plain. "Well..." Link began.
"Well what?" Katt asked, looking up at him.
"Aren't you going to thank me for saving your life!?" Link shouted.
"Are you kidding me? I SO could have gotten out of that place on my own!"
"You're not serious!! Tell me you're not serious! Come on! You were dangling in fear screaming for help!"
"It was a cover-up! I was merely trying to get your attention so you wouldn't be caught off guard and be murdered!"
"What do you care?" Link asked.
"I don't!" Katt answered quickly, "It's just that if you died it would have been harder for me to save Senkrad, is all."
"Been harder? You wouldn't have been able to do it on your own!"
"Oh, yeah?"
"Yeah!" Link and Katt were locked in a death-stare.
"This is ridiculous," Katt finally said, "How are either or both of us going to save Senkrad like this?" Link didn't reply, "Where's that place we have to go now?"
"Gerudo Oasis," Link answered.
"OK, then. Why aren't we there?" Link shrugged in response, "Well then, let's go!"
Link nodded, and they both set off to Gerudo Oasis. "Uh... I have a question."
"What?" Katt turned to Link.
"Didn't Rio say that he thought there would be pieces of the jade dragon statue in each temple?"
"Yup."
"Why didn't we see any?"
"We did."
"WHAT!?!?"
"Relax," Katt said calmly, "I got it," she pulled out the green dragon tail statue she found in the boss' lair.
"But... why didn't you tell me!?!?"
"I just wanted to get out of the blood like any normal person," Katt replied.
"Touché," Link said.
"Let's just go," Katt turned ahead and walked forward toward their next challenge... Gerudo Oasis.
*~* End of Chapter 10 *~*
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Ooo... Longishness... ^_^ Well, what did you think? I think it ended up pretty cool, but that's my opinion... I want YOUR'S! So review and let me know what you thought!