Relatively long chapter today. I've had this ready for a while, but I was waiting for some more reviews. So here it is.


Chapter 47: Another Big BOSS BATTLE


The hallway was rather empty, save for the torches that lined either side of the walk. Two doors branched to either side; Ben figured one of them had to lead to the boss room and the other lead to a switch that opened the way to the boss room, or maybe another small key. The compass showed the way directly to the boss room was on the left, so Ben turned that way. Charlie was confused, "Hey, wouldn't we need to get the switch?"

"Well, considering the amount of rules we've broken by just being here, I don't think it'll be too hard to get through a few weak doors with the kind of power we're packing."

Charlie sprinted to catch up with Ben, "We're packing? I haven't see you do very much damage at all to any enemies, come to think of it. . ."

"Well. . . now that you mention it, I probably haven't eaten for a few hours now, have I?"

"Actually, you ate the rest of our food on the way over here, and that reminds me that I'm hungry. . ."

"The difference is that I can eat anything. Watch. . ." A stalfos was in a very large circular pit carved into the floor of the room; a locked door was to the right, but Ben hopped down. The Stalfos swung his sword directly on Ben, but the half-dreamlander rolled out of the way and inhaled hard. Peice by peice, the Stalfos collapsed and was dragged into Ben's open mouth. Ben swallowed; a bone helmet cap appeared on his head and a sword appeared in his hand. "You see?" Ben leaped up the side of the pit back to the main floor area, "The weird thing is, I can get rid of this power and I'll still have been fed."

"Ben, I'm still hungry. . ."

Crystal looked over at Liz, "Say, why don't you say anything?"

Liz shrugged, "I don't know. . ."

"Aren't you hungry, too?"

"Yeah. . ."

Ben sighed, "We can't turn around; we're almost to the boss. . ."

Crystal pondered that a moment, "Say, isn't there a power or combination that creates food?"

"Sure, either Chef or Ice plus electricity. But how are we going to. . ."

The chamber doors opened up; an electric trap and an Ice Keese came out into the ring on the floor below. Ben looked, then shrugged, "Whatever works, I guess." He pulled his stalfos-sword power out of himself (How he did that was beyond even Crystal) and tossed it against a wall, dissipating it. "I'll get the power, you three try and find a way through the door." He hopped back down into the pit. Crystal walked along the outer edge of the pit, until they faced the large iron door with the chain and lock on it. "Odd. . ." Crystal said, "I know that's in the game, but that seems awfully easy to bypass. . ." She grasped the large lock, and it started to glow with a very bright light. Psybeam again; all purpose and extra-powerful. The lock not only melted, but a considerably large hole had been burned into the door. Crystal cringed a little, shaking. "I've been using too much power. . ."

"It's alright, Crystal; you've done enough. . ." Charlie pat her on the back. She was shivering, as though she was cold. She probably would have been; Porygons sustained themselves off of three major energies: Ice, Fire and Electricity. Psybeam was technically a psychic attack, but could be manipulated to give off whatever kind of energy she wanted it to. Too much fire out of her system, and she started to get cold. Crystal dropped to her knees. She had given off a lot of fire energy right there. Charlie knelt down with her, "Are you okay?"

"I didn't expect the lock to require so much energy to break. . ."

"Liz!" Liz knelt down next to Charlie at his command, "Come on, Liz, Crystal needs some fire energy. . ."

"Alright. . ." Liz held her tail close to Crystal and let the flame grow. It wasn't enough; but Crystal stopped shivering.

Ben jumped out of the pit, colored blue and wearing a weird square hat, "I got it, so. . . Crystal!" Ben ran over to her, "What happened?"

"Used too much fire energy. . . The lock was harder to break than I thought. . ."

"Crystal, those locks aren't really supposed to be broken like that! Those can stand up to bombs and powerful fire magic! How much did you use. . ." He glanced in the direction of the door, noticing the very large gaping hole left in the door. "Whaaat. . ."

"Erk. . . Ben, let's just go; we're almost done. . ."

"A boss is a very difficult thing to beat, I don't know if we could do this with you incapitated. . ."

"I-I can stand, it's no problem. . ." Crystal got to her feet; she was shivering a little, but pushed to door in front of them open anyway, "Come on. . ."

"Crys, just wait a moment, these guys need to eat. . ."


Ben soon ditched his power, because throwing food at a very large boss door wasn't going to help that much. Charlie studied it, "This is going to be even harder than the small locked door, isn't it?"

Ben sighed, "Liz, can you burn through?"

"I'm not nearly as strong as any of you; I'd barely be able to make a mark on it. . ." She sighed, feeling completely useless. Ben groaned. They couldn't go back, that was only asking for more trouble. And Crystal wasn't going to get better going back, and they couldn't leave her here, either. What to do. . .

Crystal was kneeling in the corner, right next to the huge metal door, and she looked over it. It was too bad she was the only one strong enough to destroy this thing, she thought as she got to her feet. . .

Charlie was fingering his grenade, wondering if he could use it here effectively, when suddenly Ben gasped out loud, "Crystal, no!" Charlie looked up, Crystal had her hand inside the huge lock, with a very large Psybeam concentrating. Ben ran to tackle her so she wouldn't finish, but it was too late. She fired the beam, and the entire door collapsed, as well as Crystal.

"Crystal!" Ben ran up and knelt beside her. She was shivering hard, but that wasn't the biggest problem right now. And extraordinarily large ice demon was just on the other side of the massive room, the massive cold room. This was horrendously difficult for Ben to take control of; Crystal was losing energy fast, Liz was almost paralyzed from the arctic winds blowing through. And Charlie stepped forward.

They had to leave the fire rod behind. But that didn't stop him from formulating a plan in his young mind enough. It was risky, but he already knew that none of his friends could help right now, so he had only one choice.

Ben turned to look for Charlie, but he was already in the center of the massive room. "Charlie, come back!"

"No turning back!" Charlie called again, and he pulled the grenade out of his jacket, along with the magic vial. The ice demon stood there, watching him, as the young Nidoran boy unplugged the fuel injection disk on the grenade. He broke the magic vial open with his teeth, and downed the entire thing into the explosive, then plugging it up again. "Don't stand in the way of me or my friends ever! You're not our first obstical and you're not our last! All you are is a doormat we can step over! Pathetic, and you call yourself a BOSS!" He punctuated his final word by tossing the grenade squarely at the demon, all his poké ball throwing practice paying off as the impact surrounded the entire room with an enormous explosion, but Charlie stood there, his feet dug firmly into the ground under the snow.

The boss was gone.

"You. . . you did it, Charlie!" Ben exclaimed after the smoke cleared from the room. But Charlie was running forward already, "Take care of Crystal, I'm going to see what our awaited prize is. . ."


Charlie returned to the shattered doorway with a strange amulet in his hand, "This isn't what we're looking for. . . but I think it might help us a lot."

"How do you know all that?" Ben asked him. Crystal had her head on Liz's lap, Liz's tail next to her trying to restore heat to her body.

"Well. . . I was looking at this, and these runes on here. . ." He pointed to the strange carved letters on the outer rim of the medallion, "It's weird. . . but I can read this. It's like reading the pokémon language, and that's not supposed to be possible. . ."

Liz blinked. "Wow. . . I can read it too. . ."

"What's it say?" Ben asked.

Charlie looked at it again, "Something about a curse on the land. . . That the desert will envelop Hyrule if this amulet's counterpart is taken from this temple. Also, the curse will not be recognized by the people of the land, because of a trance they'll be placed in. . . they'll never mistrust anything. That's an odd curse. . ."

"Effective curse, too. . ." Ben suggested, "I bet the other medallion was given to Hyrule Castle ten years ago, and it slowly chipped away at the land until now, the big climax, when it will quickly envelop the rest of the green land. . . How do we stop the curse?"

"We have to break both medallions in the presence of each other."

"Easier said than done. . ."

"Are you kidding? The people won't mistrust us!"

"Maybe you're right. . . but I have an odd feeling there's a catch. . ."



Next time; on Video Game! It is a little harder than would be expected, but. . . there's something complicating the matter further now! All that and more! Same Video Game time, same Video Game channel! Until then, Ciao!


From the Acts of Gord, Book of Annoyances, Chapter 7: (Words of Gord in italics)


"If I sold you a mod chip, then you would never buy a game from me ever again. And that would be very much in opposition to my being able to run a profitable business."

"I just want one to play copied games."

"What? Do I look like an idiot? What the hell did you think I thought you wanted it for?"

"Err…"

"Exactly. Now look, if I were to sell you a mod chip I would lose you as a customer. Now, if I were going to lose you as a customer I'd rather do it on a high note like setting you on fire. At least then I would have some satisfaction of a job well done."

"I'm leaving!"

"But I haven't set you on fire yet!"


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