Chapter Twelve: Ascension
Zelda hurried down the corridor leading to Goron city. "The paladins? I can't believe father would consider just executing Link like that. Now he is my responsibility." she thought to herself. "Darunia! Darunia!" Zelda called out. "Where is Darunia?" Zelda asked a nearby goron.
"Mmm, Big Brother? He said 'tell princess to meet me at the crater' then big brother left." Zelda teleported out of the city instantly. It scared the life out of the goron that she was speaking too.
Zelda materialized on the crater. There Darunia stood looking straight ahead, past the crater. "I wondered when you would get here. You have acquired both pieces of the sphere?" Zelda smiled and held them up. "Remarkable. I haven't seen such efficient work since Link." Zelda smiled and blushed.
"Thanks"
"Ugh. Time to reopen the path. Try not to take to long up there Zelda. I'm going to be waiting down here to make sure no one else goes up there."
"Heh, you really don't like that do you?" she asked with a smile.
"Be thankful I'm even letting you go up at all." grumbled Darunia as he clasped the two halves together over his head. The Sphere began to glow and it shot a ray of power straight up into the sky. It was quite an amazing display. So incredible that it managed to grab the attention of a certain deity that stood upon a hill who waited with a focus unbending. Zelda stepped back and dug the lens of truth from her pocket. She gasped as she looked through it and saw a gargantuan hunk of rock floating above the crater to the mountain.
"Wow..." she whispered in awe. "It must go up for miles! All my life, I've looked up and marveled at this ring of clouds, never knowing that a whole other world was here."
"Now Zelda, just touch the sphere and it will take you up to the island. It will leave a portal for you to return to Hyrule with. Oh, and take this, Ruaru told me you needed it." Darunia handed her another spiritual stone.
"Thank you so much Darunia! I really appreciate this!" Darunia rolled his eyes.
"Just go already!" Zelda smiled and approached the floating sphere. She looked up at the island one more time and touched the sphere. In a flash she was gone.
She materialized on the surface of the massive island that had to be about twenty square miles. It truly was a paradise. The trees were full, lush and green. The sand was bright yellow. The sounds of wildlife were everywhere. Zelda turned around to look over the edge of the island. Down in the distance, the dark clouds of Hyrule were barely visible from where she was. "Wow! This is incredible!" said Mema.
"I'll say" said Zelda who was a bit overwhelmed. "Well, we'd better start looking for this rod." she said as she backed away from the edge. They walked into the trees, which seemed to lead them into a forest. Soon they came to a small town where they found a beautiful young woman, with flowing red hair. She was singing a beautiful, but melancholy melody. "Excuse me, ma'am?" Zelda asked politely. The woman stopped singing and turned to greet Zelda with a smile.
"Hello!"
"Hello. I was wondering if you could help me. I'm looking for something called a 'rod of enrichment' have you by chance heard of it, or know where I can find it?"
"Um, the rod of enrichment?" She turned to get her bearings and her rich, thick red hair swiped Zelda in the face. Zelda inspected the girl, who was about her age. The young girl wasn't bad looking at all. Zelda glared with a slightly sour, almost jealous look at the bubbly young maiden. The girl looked at the statue in the center court that had a statue of a bird on top of it and arrows pointing to the four directions of the compass. As she studied it and tried to remember where the rod was, she put one finger in her mouth and tipped her head in thought slightly causing her hair, to fall over one of her big, beautiful eyes. She thrusted a hip out and squinted in thought. Zelda rolled her eyes and crossed her arms while thrusting one of her own hips out as she stared at the attractive young woman with disgust. "Oh yeah!" she said and turned toward Zelda again. Zelda immediately straightened up her posture and smiled a pseudo-smile at the woman. "It's on the north side of the island! That way!" she said as she turned and pointed north, and unintentionally thrusting her chest out in the process. Zelda squinted in disgust. The young girl turned back to Zelda with her beautiful smile, that Zelda falsely greeted with one of her own. She thanked the woman for her assistance and hastily left.
"Well she seemed nice." said Mema.
"Oh please! That little tramp was so full of herself! It was disgusting!" shouted Zelda in jealousy.
"What's with you? It's not like you to be jealous like that." said Mema. Zelda looked at Mema with anger.
"I'm not jealous! I just don't show off my goods like that little...little..." said Zelda who was seething.
"Yeah sure you don't, you just wear skin tight clothing and cover up everything on your face accept your eye. You aren't a tease at all!" said Mema sarcastically. "Just what's wrong?" Zelda rubbed her arm and looked over her shoulder with a worried look.
"I don't know. I have a feeling about her. Like she has the power to...take something away from me..."
"Whatever. I think this whole quest is taking it's toll on you. Any way, I think we're here." said Mema as they approached another beach like area, covered in sand, with clouds in filling water's absence. There, in the sand, was the rod of enrichment. Zelda looked at it and then looked around.
"This looks to easy. Why would Saria say we need Link for this?" asked Zelda. She walked up to it and reached her hand out to touch it and her hand went right through it. "Huh? What's this?" she asked as she waved her hand back and forth through the rod. "Wait a minute..." she said pulling out the lens of truth. She stepped back a ways and looked through the lens, and where the rod stood, she saw an entrance to a dungeon. "I knew this was too easy." she groaned as she descended into the depths of the dungeon.
It wasn't dark at all like she thought it would be. She walked down the steps into a large room. At the very end of the room was a large treasure chest. "This still looks too easy." said Mema
"No it doesn't'" said Zelda
"Why do you say that?" asked Mema.
"Because this is a really long and deep room. So there's plenty of room for trouble." she said as she lowered her head in determination and walked out onto the large floor.
"Oh, yeah, I see your point." said Mema as she rushed forward to catch up too Zelda. Zelda walked forward a ways. Then she stopped.
"I got a feeling I'll need this..." she said as she pulled out the lens of truth once again. She fastened it too her eye and looked down to see she was standing at the edge of a bottomless pit. She jumped backwards and looked up to see many holes all over the floor and in the center of the room stood an iron giant with a massive golden axe. "What is that?" Mema zipped down to Zelda's face and looked through the lens.
"Omigosh!" she shouted in panic.
"What?"
"That's the Silver Knuckle! That thing is bad news Zelda! I didn't even know it was real! Now I wish I was never proved wrong. That thing is a whole lot tougher than your average Iron knuckle. It's amazingly agile, where as it takes the Iron knuckle a whole day to cross a room. Plus it has magic powers! All wrapped up with a huge golden ax to boot! It's a juggernaut! Whatever you do don't wake him up!" she warned. Zelda swallowed hard and looked around trying to scout out a path that wouldn't take her to the Silver Knuckle. She looked to her far right and saw a small hole in the wall.
"Hmm. I can't fit through that." she said "Or can I?" she turned around and walked over to the hole. She closed her eyes and concentrated for a few seconds then she began to change. She turned into living, standing water. She then sank down onto the floor and rolled through the hole like a puddle. She reformed on the other side of the wall and turned to look at the small whole with a huge grin. "Let's see that skinny redhead do that!" she said confidently. She looked ahead and saw bright light a few feet ahead. The room it led too was beautiful. Large, white pillars of stone were erected around a much larger central structure, also of pure white stone. The walls seemed to glitter as water ran down the walls, ever so gently as too not splash and get Zelda wet. She walked slowly down the bright stone walkway towards the larger structure. As she stepped up on the platform, she saw a smaller fountain in the center of the structure.
"Look Zelda!" said Mema who was zipping around near her feet. Zelda looked down and saw the crest of the royal family. "Isnt that you?" asked Mema. Zelda smiled and pulled out the ocarina of time and played her lullaby. She then heard the sound of a woman laughing as the water on the fountain became disturbed. Out of nowhere materialized a great fairy.
"Hello traveler." Said the fairy. "You have come a great distance, ye of Hyrule. I sense your spirit is troubled with a great and ominous burden, but be of good cheer. You will not have to face this burden alone." The fairy held out her hands and a column of light surrounded Zelda lifting her off the ground. She felt a rush of energy flow through her. It made her dizzy. "This will enhance your skills tenfold. Strength, speed, endurance, magic, all of which you will need. For what you seek to challenge, will require more of this than anything else. See me when battle has made you weary." said the fairy as she disappeared into the water with laughter.
"Wow Zelda! The great fairy of enrichment just made you ten times better than you were before! "Zelda chuckled with a half smile.
"Heh, I guess that will put me almost halfway to Link's level."
"You're probably as tough as a paladin now!" Zelda looked at Mema.
"I seriously doubt it. Though I wouldn't mind a rematch with Nabooru's warriors..." She teleported back out to the main room. "Now let's see..." she looked up and saw a patch of ceiling that was softer than the stone directly above her. "I bet the hookshot would catch that..." she said as she looked across the room to see another one. She smiled and pulled out the hookshot. "I get it now."
"Be careful Zelda! Remember: don't wake the silver knuckle! Or we're both dead meat!"
"Yeah, yeah, I've got it all under control, Mema." said Zelda overconfidently as she cast the hookshot out to the other side of the room. It latched on, instantly pulling Zelda across the room. "Oh no! I'm at too steep an angle! I'm gonna..." shouted Zelda as she flew right into the Silver knuckle, knocking him back a few steps. She fell to the floor as the Silver knuckle looked around for a moment slightly bewildered. Then it looked down at Zelda. She smiled and said "Uh, heh heh...oops!" The monster's eyes began to glow with fire. Zelda's eyes widened in fear as she scurried to her feet. The Silver knuckle held aloft his massive weapon and it began to glow with a blue aura. "Whoa!" shouted Zelda.
"I told you he had magic power!" scolded Mema. The Silver Knuckle brought his ax crashing down. Zelda jumped backwards doing a large back flip.
"Heh, neat!" she thought to herself as she noticed how easy the labor had become. But to her horror, the Silver Knuckle looked up and leapt into the air after her with as much ease as Zelda. He brought the ax down again as Zelda hopped to the side while unsheathing her sword and shield. "Alright ugly! I'll show you how to respect a princess!"
"Zelda look!" shouted Mema as she zipped around the gash in the floor left by the ax. The whole area around it was frozen solid. "Oh be careful! It's an ice ax!" Zelda started to sweat as she looked back up at the silver knuckle. His fiery eyes glowed even brighter as he shot out a blast of energy from them while he leapt up into the air, brandishing his ice ax. "And heat vision too! Look out!" Zelda rolled forward and the Silver Knuckle crashed his ax down, freezing the area that was scorched earth a split second ago. Zelda leapt at the back of the Iron knuckle thrusting her sword into its back. The monster cried out and swung around to smack Zelda off and caught her solid with his heavy Iron fist. Zelda went flying, but flipped around in mid air, landing gracefully on her feet, and then back flipped over some pits several times. She glared at the monster with determination. She stood up and shouted,
"Let's see just how powerful my magic has gotten!" she said and vanished in a small green flash.
"Zelda!" shouted Mema. Just as she cried her name, Zelda returned to the same spot in a flash of green light. It was like she never left. Only now, she had the mirror shield. Mema was astonished "Where'd you get that?!" she asked as Silver Knuckle leapt at Zelda once again.
"At Link's house." She calmly stated as she leapt aside from the ax and then leapt forward slashing away at the massive Silver knuckle. Silver knuckle cried out at his fresh injury and swung at Zelda again but Zelda got her shield up in time and all Silver knuckle managed to do was just knock her away without really hurting her.
"Whoa. That is some powerful magic." Mema thought to herself as she reflected at how great a distance was traveled with such speed and accuracy. Silver knuckle grabbed his ax and looked up and screamed a warrior's cry as he shot his heat vision. Zelda quickly lifted the shield.
"This better work..." she hoped. The heat vision struck the shield and instantly shot back in another direction. Zelda moved her arm around to redirect the fire's path. She sent the magic right back at Silver knuckle's eyes. The beast bellowed as he recoiled in pain putting his hands over his eyes. He stumbled backwards blindly. Zelda noticed he was close to the edge of one of the pits, and that he was standing on a spot that was iced up. Before Zelda even realized she had the idea, she whipped out the hookshot and caught the spot on the ceiling. The hookshot yanked her up with power. Zelda flew through the air at an angle and she stuck her feet out and nailed the stumbling behemoth. He lost his balance and slipped backwards, falling into the pit. His scream of terror faded away into silence. Zelda smiled as she sighed and dropped to her knees, exhausted. "See you later lumpy..."
"Wow! That was incredible! You defeated the Silver knuckle! Unreal! You sure showed him Zelda! Wow! That dope never knew what hit him!" Zelda smiled graciously but that's all she could manage because she was too busy catching her breath. Zelda decided to go get a recharge from the fairy before she made another attempt to reach the treasure chest. She teleported in and out. After she was recharged, she maneuvered her way around the pits and to the chest. She slowly opened it, trying to be mindful of any and all traps. Nothing else happened when she opened it. She looked inside and there was the rod of enrichment.
"At last..." she said in awe as she picked it up. She and Mema marveled at it for a few minutes. Suddenly the whole building began to shake Zelda looked around in panic.
"I knew it!" shouted Mema. Zelda grabbed Mema and teleported out of the dungeon. Out sid on the beach the ground was still shaking. "Hey! What gives?!" The two stumbled over to the edge. Glancing over they saw the clouds rushing towards them. Finally they hit an opening in the clouds and saw the small ground getting much bigger. "Zelda! The island! It's going to crash into the ocean!! We have to get out of here!" Zelda, seemingly without thinking, clutched the rod and jumped off the island. "ARE YOU CRAZY?!" screamed Mema as she took off after the freefalling princess. Zelda fell faster than the island and Mema sped downward toward the ground, watching in horror as Zelda fell and did nothing "Nooooo!" she shouted as she watched Zelda hit the ground. Zelda, upon impact made a huge splash on the ground. Mema stopped in her tracks as she looked around. "Wha? Where'd she go?" she zipped down to the ground and saw large puddles of water slowly moving together, taking the shape of princess Zelda.
"Scared you didn't I?" asked Zelda with a grin, who was perfectly fine.
"Don't you ever do that to me again! You hear me? Ever!" despite her anger, Mema was extremely happy that Zelda was safe. They both turned to watch the island land in the sea. It seemed to be moving in slow motion. It slowly sank into the sea, but a huge tidal wave quickly rose up. Zelda's smile faded as she stood to her feet in horror.
"Oh no! What have I done?" she asked as she watched the mammoth wall of water come towering down.
"Come on! We have to get out of here!" shouted Mema in a panic.
"To where Mema? That tidal wave is going to wipe out all of Hyrule!" Zelda shouted back. She watched helplessly as it got closer. She braced herself for death. Suddenly over her head flew a large disc of glowing energy. It flew into the heart of the tidal wave. It got smaller the farther it went until it looked to be no bigger than Zelda's fingernail before it vanished. At first nothing happened. Then there was a blinding flash of light and the water underneath the wave opened up and swallowed down the bringer of death. Zelda turned towards the direction from which the strange disc came from. She stared in suspicion.
"Whoa what happened?!" shouted Mema as she zipped about looking at the ocean. "I'm alive! You're alive! Everyone's alive! Last time I checked, there was a giant wall of water racing towards us to claim our lives, but now it's gone! What the hell is going on?!" Zelda continued to stare. "What are you looking at? Zelda? You know something, I know you do." Zelda shook her head.
"Come on. We'd better go see Darunia. "She said as she started walking. The two walked silently for a few moments before Zelda spoke up. "Gee, it's too bad about that island."
"Ah, that place was weird anyway. Hey did you happen to notice that giant egg sitting on the mountain?"
"You saw that too? I thought I was just seeing things."
"Nope, it was there! Weird huh?"
"Yeah, weird." said Zelda as she and Mema disappeared in a flash of green light.
Zelda hurried down the corridor leading to Goron city. "The paladins? I can't believe father would consider just executing Link like that. Now he is my responsibility." she thought to herself. "Darunia! Darunia!" Zelda called out. "Where is Darunia?" Zelda asked a nearby goron.
"Mmm, Big Brother? He said 'tell princess to meet me at the crater' then big brother left." Zelda teleported out of the city instantly. It scared the life out of the goron that she was speaking too.
Zelda materialized on the crater. There Darunia stood looking straight ahead, past the crater. "I wondered when you would get here. You have acquired both pieces of the sphere?" Zelda smiled and held them up. "Remarkable. I haven't seen such efficient work since Link." Zelda smiled and blushed.
"Thanks"
"Ugh. Time to reopen the path. Try not to take to long up there Zelda. I'm going to be waiting down here to make sure no one else goes up there."
"Heh, you really don't like that do you?" she asked with a smile.
"Be thankful I'm even letting you go up at all." grumbled Darunia as he clasped the two halves together over his head. The Sphere began to glow and it shot a ray of power straight up into the sky. It was quite an amazing display. So incredible that it managed to grab the attention of a certain deity that stood upon a hill who waited with a focus unbending. Zelda stepped back and dug the lens of truth from her pocket. She gasped as she looked through it and saw a gargantuan hunk of rock floating above the crater to the mountain.
"Wow..." she whispered in awe. "It must go up for miles! All my life, I've looked up and marveled at this ring of clouds, never knowing that a whole other world was here."
"Now Zelda, just touch the sphere and it will take you up to the island. It will leave a portal for you to return to Hyrule with. Oh, and take this, Ruaru told me you needed it." Darunia handed her another spiritual stone.
"Thank you so much Darunia! I really appreciate this!" Darunia rolled his eyes.
"Just go already!" Zelda smiled and approached the floating sphere. She looked up at the island one more time and touched the sphere. In a flash she was gone.
She materialized on the surface of the massive island that had to be about twenty square miles. It truly was a paradise. The trees were full, lush and green. The sand was bright yellow. The sounds of wildlife were everywhere. Zelda turned around to look over the edge of the island. Down in the distance, the dark clouds of Hyrule were barely visible from where she was. "Wow! This is incredible!" said Mema.
"I'll say" said Zelda who was a bit overwhelmed. "Well, we'd better start looking for this rod." she said as she backed away from the edge. They walked into the trees, which seemed to lead them into a forest. Soon they came to a small town where they found a beautiful young woman, with flowing red hair. She was singing a beautiful, but melancholy melody. "Excuse me, ma'am?" Zelda asked politely. The woman stopped singing and turned to greet Zelda with a smile.
"Hello!"
"Hello. I was wondering if you could help me. I'm looking for something called a 'rod of enrichment' have you by chance heard of it, or know where I can find it?"
"Um, the rod of enrichment?" She turned to get her bearings and her rich, thick red hair swiped Zelda in the face. Zelda inspected the girl, who was about her age. The young girl wasn't bad looking at all. Zelda glared with a slightly sour, almost jealous look at the bubbly young maiden. The girl looked at the statue in the center court that had a statue of a bird on top of it and arrows pointing to the four directions of the compass. As she studied it and tried to remember where the rod was, she put one finger in her mouth and tipped her head in thought slightly causing her hair, to fall over one of her big, beautiful eyes. She thrusted a hip out and squinted in thought. Zelda rolled her eyes and crossed her arms while thrusting one of her own hips out as she stared at the attractive young woman with disgust. "Oh yeah!" she said and turned toward Zelda again. Zelda immediately straightened up her posture and smiled a pseudo-smile at the woman. "It's on the north side of the island! That way!" she said as she turned and pointed north, and unintentionally thrusting her chest out in the process. Zelda squinted in disgust. The young girl turned back to Zelda with her beautiful smile, that Zelda falsely greeted with one of her own. She thanked the woman for her assistance and hastily left.
"Well she seemed nice." said Mema.
"Oh please! That little tramp was so full of herself! It was disgusting!" shouted Zelda in jealousy.
"What's with you? It's not like you to be jealous like that." said Mema. Zelda looked at Mema with anger.
"I'm not jealous! I just don't show off my goods like that little...little..." said Zelda who was seething.
"Yeah sure you don't, you just wear skin tight clothing and cover up everything on your face accept your eye. You aren't a tease at all!" said Mema sarcastically. "Just what's wrong?" Zelda rubbed her arm and looked over her shoulder with a worried look.
"I don't know. I have a feeling about her. Like she has the power to...take something away from me..."
"Whatever. I think this whole quest is taking it's toll on you. Any way, I think we're here." said Mema as they approached another beach like area, covered in sand, with clouds in filling water's absence. There, in the sand, was the rod of enrichment. Zelda looked at it and then looked around.
"This looks to easy. Why would Saria say we need Link for this?" asked Zelda. She walked up to it and reached her hand out to touch it and her hand went right through it. "Huh? What's this?" she asked as she waved her hand back and forth through the rod. "Wait a minute..." she said pulling out the lens of truth. She stepped back a ways and looked through the lens, and where the rod stood, she saw an entrance to a dungeon. "I knew this was too easy." she groaned as she descended into the depths of the dungeon.
It wasn't dark at all like she thought it would be. She walked down the steps into a large room. At the very end of the room was a large treasure chest. "This still looks too easy." said Mema
"No it doesn't'" said Zelda
"Why do you say that?" asked Mema.
"Because this is a really long and deep room. So there's plenty of room for trouble." she said as she lowered her head in determination and walked out onto the large floor.
"Oh, yeah, I see your point." said Mema as she rushed forward to catch up too Zelda. Zelda walked forward a ways. Then she stopped.
"I got a feeling I'll need this..." she said as she pulled out the lens of truth once again. She fastened it too her eye and looked down to see she was standing at the edge of a bottomless pit. She jumped backwards and looked up to see many holes all over the floor and in the center of the room stood an iron giant with a massive golden axe. "What is that?" Mema zipped down to Zelda's face and looked through the lens.
"Omigosh!" she shouted in panic.
"What?"
"That's the Silver Knuckle! That thing is bad news Zelda! I didn't even know it was real! Now I wish I was never proved wrong. That thing is a whole lot tougher than your average Iron knuckle. It's amazingly agile, where as it takes the Iron knuckle a whole day to cross a room. Plus it has magic powers! All wrapped up with a huge golden ax to boot! It's a juggernaut! Whatever you do don't wake him up!" she warned. Zelda swallowed hard and looked around trying to scout out a path that wouldn't take her to the Silver Knuckle. She looked to her far right and saw a small hole in the wall.
"Hmm. I can't fit through that." she said "Or can I?" she turned around and walked over to the hole. She closed her eyes and concentrated for a few seconds then she began to change. She turned into living, standing water. She then sank down onto the floor and rolled through the hole like a puddle. She reformed on the other side of the wall and turned to look at the small whole with a huge grin. "Let's see that skinny redhead do that!" she said confidently. She looked ahead and saw bright light a few feet ahead. The room it led too was beautiful. Large, white pillars of stone were erected around a much larger central structure, also of pure white stone. The walls seemed to glitter as water ran down the walls, ever so gently as too not splash and get Zelda wet. She walked slowly down the bright stone walkway towards the larger structure. As she stepped up on the platform, she saw a smaller fountain in the center of the structure.
"Look Zelda!" said Mema who was zipping around near her feet. Zelda looked down and saw the crest of the royal family. "Isnt that you?" asked Mema. Zelda smiled and pulled out the ocarina of time and played her lullaby. She then heard the sound of a woman laughing as the water on the fountain became disturbed. Out of nowhere materialized a great fairy.
"Hello traveler." Said the fairy. "You have come a great distance, ye of Hyrule. I sense your spirit is troubled with a great and ominous burden, but be of good cheer. You will not have to face this burden alone." The fairy held out her hands and a column of light surrounded Zelda lifting her off the ground. She felt a rush of energy flow through her. It made her dizzy. "This will enhance your skills tenfold. Strength, speed, endurance, magic, all of which you will need. For what you seek to challenge, will require more of this than anything else. See me when battle has made you weary." said the fairy as she disappeared into the water with laughter.
"Wow Zelda! The great fairy of enrichment just made you ten times better than you were before! "Zelda chuckled with a half smile.
"Heh, I guess that will put me almost halfway to Link's level."
"You're probably as tough as a paladin now!" Zelda looked at Mema.
"I seriously doubt it. Though I wouldn't mind a rematch with Nabooru's warriors..." She teleported back out to the main room. "Now let's see..." she looked up and saw a patch of ceiling that was softer than the stone directly above her. "I bet the hookshot would catch that..." she said as she looked across the room to see another one. She smiled and pulled out the hookshot. "I get it now."
"Be careful Zelda! Remember: don't wake the silver knuckle! Or we're both dead meat!"
"Yeah, yeah, I've got it all under control, Mema." said Zelda overconfidently as she cast the hookshot out to the other side of the room. It latched on, instantly pulling Zelda across the room. "Oh no! I'm at too steep an angle! I'm gonna..." shouted Zelda as she flew right into the Silver knuckle, knocking him back a few steps. She fell to the floor as the Silver knuckle looked around for a moment slightly bewildered. Then it looked down at Zelda. She smiled and said "Uh, heh heh...oops!" The monster's eyes began to glow with fire. Zelda's eyes widened in fear as she scurried to her feet. The Silver knuckle held aloft his massive weapon and it began to glow with a blue aura. "Whoa!" shouted Zelda.
"I told you he had magic power!" scolded Mema. The Silver Knuckle brought his ax crashing down. Zelda jumped backwards doing a large back flip.
"Heh, neat!" she thought to herself as she noticed how easy the labor had become. But to her horror, the Silver Knuckle looked up and leapt into the air after her with as much ease as Zelda. He brought the ax down again as Zelda hopped to the side while unsheathing her sword and shield. "Alright ugly! I'll show you how to respect a princess!"
"Zelda look!" shouted Mema as she zipped around the gash in the floor left by the ax. The whole area around it was frozen solid. "Oh be careful! It's an ice ax!" Zelda started to sweat as she looked back up at the silver knuckle. His fiery eyes glowed even brighter as he shot out a blast of energy from them while he leapt up into the air, brandishing his ice ax. "And heat vision too! Look out!" Zelda rolled forward and the Silver Knuckle crashed his ax down, freezing the area that was scorched earth a split second ago. Zelda leapt at the back of the Iron knuckle thrusting her sword into its back. The monster cried out and swung around to smack Zelda off and caught her solid with his heavy Iron fist. Zelda went flying, but flipped around in mid air, landing gracefully on her feet, and then back flipped over some pits several times. She glared at the monster with determination. She stood up and shouted,
"Let's see just how powerful my magic has gotten!" she said and vanished in a small green flash.
"Zelda!" shouted Mema. Just as she cried her name, Zelda returned to the same spot in a flash of green light. It was like she never left. Only now, she had the mirror shield. Mema was astonished "Where'd you get that?!" she asked as Silver Knuckle leapt at Zelda once again.
"At Link's house." She calmly stated as she leapt aside from the ax and then leapt forward slashing away at the massive Silver knuckle. Silver knuckle cried out at his fresh injury and swung at Zelda again but Zelda got her shield up in time and all Silver knuckle managed to do was just knock her away without really hurting her.
"Whoa. That is some powerful magic." Mema thought to herself as she reflected at how great a distance was traveled with such speed and accuracy. Silver knuckle grabbed his ax and looked up and screamed a warrior's cry as he shot his heat vision. Zelda quickly lifted the shield.
"This better work..." she hoped. The heat vision struck the shield and instantly shot back in another direction. Zelda moved her arm around to redirect the fire's path. She sent the magic right back at Silver knuckle's eyes. The beast bellowed as he recoiled in pain putting his hands over his eyes. He stumbled backwards blindly. Zelda noticed he was close to the edge of one of the pits, and that he was standing on a spot that was iced up. Before Zelda even realized she had the idea, she whipped out the hookshot and caught the spot on the ceiling. The hookshot yanked her up with power. Zelda flew through the air at an angle and she stuck her feet out and nailed the stumbling behemoth. He lost his balance and slipped backwards, falling into the pit. His scream of terror faded away into silence. Zelda smiled as she sighed and dropped to her knees, exhausted. "See you later lumpy..."
"Wow! That was incredible! You defeated the Silver knuckle! Unreal! You sure showed him Zelda! Wow! That dope never knew what hit him!" Zelda smiled graciously but that's all she could manage because she was too busy catching her breath. Zelda decided to go get a recharge from the fairy before she made another attempt to reach the treasure chest. She teleported in and out. After she was recharged, she maneuvered her way around the pits and to the chest. She slowly opened it, trying to be mindful of any and all traps. Nothing else happened when she opened it. She looked inside and there was the rod of enrichment.
"At last..." she said in awe as she picked it up. She and Mema marveled at it for a few minutes. Suddenly the whole building began to shake Zelda looked around in panic.
"I knew it!" shouted Mema. Zelda grabbed Mema and teleported out of the dungeon. Out sid on the beach the ground was still shaking. "Hey! What gives?!" The two stumbled over to the edge. Glancing over they saw the clouds rushing towards them. Finally they hit an opening in the clouds and saw the small ground getting much bigger. "Zelda! The island! It's going to crash into the ocean!! We have to get out of here!" Zelda, seemingly without thinking, clutched the rod and jumped off the island. "ARE YOU CRAZY?!" screamed Mema as she took off after the freefalling princess. Zelda fell faster than the island and Mema sped downward toward the ground, watching in horror as Zelda fell and did nothing "Nooooo!" she shouted as she watched Zelda hit the ground. Zelda, upon impact made a huge splash on the ground. Mema stopped in her tracks as she looked around. "Wha? Where'd she go?" she zipped down to the ground and saw large puddles of water slowly moving together, taking the shape of princess Zelda.
"Scared you didn't I?" asked Zelda with a grin, who was perfectly fine.
"Don't you ever do that to me again! You hear me? Ever!" despite her anger, Mema was extremely happy that Zelda was safe. They both turned to watch the island land in the sea. It seemed to be moving in slow motion. It slowly sank into the sea, but a huge tidal wave quickly rose up. Zelda's smile faded as she stood to her feet in horror.
"Oh no! What have I done?" she asked as she watched the mammoth wall of water come towering down.
"Come on! We have to get out of here!" shouted Mema in a panic.
"To where Mema? That tidal wave is going to wipe out all of Hyrule!" Zelda shouted back. She watched helplessly as it got closer. She braced herself for death. Suddenly over her head flew a large disc of glowing energy. It flew into the heart of the tidal wave. It got smaller the farther it went until it looked to be no bigger than Zelda's fingernail before it vanished. At first nothing happened. Then there was a blinding flash of light and the water underneath the wave opened up and swallowed down the bringer of death. Zelda turned towards the direction from which the strange disc came from. She stared in suspicion.
"Whoa what happened?!" shouted Mema as she zipped about looking at the ocean. "I'm alive! You're alive! Everyone's alive! Last time I checked, there was a giant wall of water racing towards us to claim our lives, but now it's gone! What the hell is going on?!" Zelda continued to stare. "What are you looking at? Zelda? You know something, I know you do." Zelda shook her head.
"Come on. We'd better go see Darunia. "She said as she started walking. The two walked silently for a few moments before Zelda spoke up. "Gee, it's too bad about that island."
"Ah, that place was weird anyway. Hey did you happen to notice that giant egg sitting on the mountain?"
"You saw that too? I thought I was just seeing things."
"Nope, it was there! Weird huh?"
"Yeah, weird." said Zelda as she and Mema disappeared in a flash of green light.