Chapter Five
One for the road
"I found my reflection in the ice, its cold hollow white eyes staring lifelessly back at me. I hadn't changed. The world had changed me. I don't think I'll ever find myself again, within my icy prison"-The oni deity
The great beast threw back its razor hand, and snarled a great and fierce snarl, a noise more like an angry bird than a beast. Link raised his shield up to his face to try to protect himself from the incoming blow, but instead of the cold shatter of blade on shield, there was a harsh clash of blade on claws.
"Enough Kusagure! Leave him! You've had your fun!" Snarled an unusual voice.
Link lowered his shield to see the cold hard stare of a huge Grey Wolfos.
"You get all the fun…" Rasped the sickle wielding monster, turning its scaly back and walking in to the darkness.
"You boy! What are you doing in here?" the wolfos growled.
"Yamato!" Link spat getting up on his feet "You are Yamato!" Link drew his blade.
"Humans are not known for their intelligence I see, no matter!" he growled brandishing his sharp ebony claws. He leaped up on to an icy ledge and howled. The icicles shook with the force of Yamato's voice. "This will be over quickly. Do you really WANT to fight me boy?" Yamato spat.
Link's silence soon showed the end to the fight, it was so quick he barely saw it coming. Raising his shield to protect himself from the powerful blow of Yamato's hind legs was not enough. The shield shattered and splintered into hundreds of pieces along the smooth icy floor, hurling Link back into the wall headfirst. The last thing he felt was warm blood trickling down his face and the last thing he saw was Yamato walking into the darkness sniggering "pathetic creature!" before he blacked out.
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The welcoming glow of a warm fire was the first sight as link opened his eyes, twinkling like a thousand dancing fairies in the gloom of night. Where was he? He raised his hand to touch his aching head to feel the rough feel of crusty dried blood.
He jumped as a voice split the silence. "Your finally awake, I thought you'd never get up! I warned you, foolish little boy" That voice!
"Sheik!" he groaned
"Don't try to get up, you've had a nasty blow to your head, its lucky I knew you'd go in there, good old predictable me! You would have frozen to death in there if I hadn't found you!"
I guess I'm just lucky huh?" Link mused
"Joke all you want, I'm not always going to be there to bail you out! Now eat this, it'll keep your strength up!" He said handing link a disgusting looking thing, like a half-fried tektite on a stick. It smelled like Gibdo and it's legs twitched periodically.
"WHAT IN THE NAME OF NAYRU IS THAT!" he blurted out
"Calm down calm down, it tastes better than it smells, just… hold your breath or something"
"Ok…ok…" he said sitting up slowly. He took hold of the stick and took a bite, it wriggled and writhed in his mouth and he almost spat it out. He expected the horrible taste of rotten flesh to fill his mouth. He involuntarily swallowed his mouthful and was surprised. It tasted like cucoo.