CHAPTER SIX
Bryn swam into the Sea Temple. She gazed around at the seaweed. It looked a bit like the Temple of the Gods, with a giant fountain in the middle.
"Rafiki, where do we go first?" she whispered. Rafiki flipped over so that he was lazily swimming upside-down.
"We-ell. This is a predicament. But we just got to see what doors work, eh?" Rafiki swished his tail and turned right side up. He swam towards a door and Bryn followed.
In the room it was nothing special; there were boxes and seaweed. It was a big circular room.
As they swam towards it, something came out of the seaweed! It was not a Gyorg; it looked like some kind of plant rather than an animal. It seemed to be a cylinder, a grayish, sluggish, plant-like cylinder. The thing oozed towards them, slowly, ever-so-slowly...
"What IS that thing?" cried Rafiki.
"I don't know, I but I won't wait till it eats me to find out," growled Bryn. She turned into her human self then into a shark. She bared her teeth at the animal and darted forward.
She was about to sink her teeth into the flesh when the creature grabbed her through the top of its cylinder body and swallowed it! It reminded Rafiki of a Boko Baba.
"RAFIIIIKIIII!" screamed Bryn.
The plant-like animal spat her out.
"I know what this is," muttered Bryn dazedly, after turning into a Fish woman. "Heard of it before. 'Tis called a...a..." she paused, trying intently to remember what it was. "A LIKE-LIKE."
It was indeed a Like-Like. The Like-Like stole items from the ones it swallows then spits the swallowed one right out. Luckily, Bryn had had no items of importance (for she battled as shark underwater) and the Like-Like had stolen none.
"Well, we cannot make direct contact with it, so how can we defeat it?" murmured Rafiki.
"I know!" Bryn darted towards some of the boxes and transformed into a sea otter. Taking a crate in her paws, she threw it at the Like-Like. The box just shattered but inside of the box were sharp blades, obviously from the Like-Like's collection. The Like-Like kind of retracted with a grunt. Bryn hurled another box angrily. It hit the Like-Like and the weapons inside hurt the Like-Like. Bryn tossed yet another box. When this box slammed into the Like-Like, it died.
At the centre of the big circular room, a chest appeared. Bryn opened it and found a...
"A staff?" Rafiki stared at the long, thick wooden item. The staff was no ordinary staff, though. It had sharp blades on it, and one at the very tip that looked like someone had shoved the blade of a sword into it. There was some sort of hilt made out of the wood at the other end. In the middle of the staff was a place with leather wrapped 'round it. Bryn knew that this was for when you used it like a staff, and that the hilt was for using it like a sword.
"Aye...hmm, yes, I've used a staff many times." Bryn, holding the staff in her otter paws, gave a few practice swings. She then swam to the top of the room, which had space where there was air, and she filled her lungs. She then plunged down to the deep. The staff came with a sash that she tied 'round her waist. She shoved the staff into the sash and glided from the room with Rafiki behind her.
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Bryn and Rafiki poked their heads above the water level.
"There MUST be some creature that I can change into that can breath water and air AND that can fight," grumbled Bryn, lazily lying on her otter back, holding the staff across her stomach.
Rafiki swished his tail impatiently, thinking of what creature she could and should become.
"My aunt Drusilla told me of some creature...fish-like and dolphin-like and human-like, she says. Found a skeleton in this place, and a newly dead one. Now, what did she say they were called?" Rafiki muttered, thinking hard, but Bryn already knew what he was talking about.
"Rafiki, was it a Zora?" asked Bryn eagerly.
"Yes! Yes, THAT'S what it was!"
"I heard that there was a Sage of the Earth Temple, Laruto, that was a Zora!" Bryn concentrated hard on the image of the Zora. Before Rafiki's very eyes, Bryn had transformed from otter to human and to Zora.
Bryn swam around, getting used to the Zoran ways of moving. She could breathe underwater and above water. She could shoot out her fins at enemies. While she was underwater, she could have a magic shield around her. And, as an added bonus, she could walk underwater, too!
Bryn floated slowly up to where Rafiki was and growled, "Let's go."
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Aryll sat in her cage, bound and gagged. Zill and Joel were bound and gagged too. The little boys were crying, but Aryll was dry-eyed. Her eyes burned with a fierce fire of determination.
Three Bokoblins shuffled into the cage and cut their bonds. The little boys were starving. They crawled to Aryll who, despite her hunger, dizziness, and weariness, strode after the Bokoblins while they slammed the door.
"Tell your Master that he will be slain," growled Aryll, "and I will be the one to slay him! Whether by sword, arrow, or my bare hands, I will kill him." Aryll grabbed the bars on the door and snarled, "I SWEAR TO KILL GANONDORF!"
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Bryn paced the ground, occasionally slipping on a patch of seaweed and kicking up sand angrily.
"Oh, this is HOPELESS," she groaned, sitting down against a rock. Rafiki swam next to her, floating lazily.
"Let's go and see if we can find another door," suggested Rafiki. Bryn nodded and leapt up. She swam swiftly, doing tricks such as twirling in circles and leaping up. Rafiki followed her every move.
Bryn saw a huge stone slab and put her ear against it. She could hear something like the clacking of teeth together. She stood back, wondering what to do. She took out her staff, wondering if it possessed any magical powers. She aimed the staff at the door and spoke a spell that she knew that would show how to defeat someone. It took a lot of one's energy. Gritting her teeth, she spoke the words again.
"Hargey fruum corgille." Nothing happened. In the spell language, it meant "Show your secret". She had learned this from her grandfather, who had been a Seer like her. "Hargey fruum corgille," she repeated angrily, and nothing happened yet again. Sitting down wearily, she rested her back against the stone slab. "This is pointless, Rafiki. Pointless!"
Rafiki began to swim back and force next to the stone slab. He saw a small crack in the stone and cried, "I'VE GOT IT!"
Bryn leapt up. "What, what?" she asked excitedly. Rafiki muttered hurriedly, "No time to explain, Bryn, just shove the tip blade into this crack!"
Bryn did so, and slowly the stone slab began to open...
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Link knelt beside Zelda, shaking his head in disbelief. "Tetra, Tetra...I mean, Zelda..." His voice was a hoarse whisper. "Tetra is dead, but Zelda is alive?" Link held back tears; Heroes were NOT supposed to cry.
"Link..." Zelda murmured. Link liked Zelda, of course, but when Tetra was Zelda she seemed to be a softer girl, more placid and serene. Link liked Tetra because of her playful and nonchalant manner. Zelda was more of the serious type.
"You almost died fighting those Bokoblins," Link scolded angrily.
"No. TETRA died fighting the Bokoblins. I'm a different person, Link." Zelda looked deep into Link's eyes and whispered, "I s'pose you liked Tetra more than me? It's okay if you do."
Link sat down in the sand, pretending to be squinting in the sun when really he was holding back tears. How could the Hero of Time have dealt with this?
Bryn swam into the Sea Temple. She gazed around at the seaweed. It looked a bit like the Temple of the Gods, with a giant fountain in the middle.
"Rafiki, where do we go first?" she whispered. Rafiki flipped over so that he was lazily swimming upside-down.
"We-ell. This is a predicament. But we just got to see what doors work, eh?" Rafiki swished his tail and turned right side up. He swam towards a door and Bryn followed.
In the room it was nothing special; there were boxes and seaweed. It was a big circular room.
As they swam towards it, something came out of the seaweed! It was not a Gyorg; it looked like some kind of plant rather than an animal. It seemed to be a cylinder, a grayish, sluggish, plant-like cylinder. The thing oozed towards them, slowly, ever-so-slowly...
"What IS that thing?" cried Rafiki.
"I don't know, I but I won't wait till it eats me to find out," growled Bryn. She turned into her human self then into a shark. She bared her teeth at the animal and darted forward.
She was about to sink her teeth into the flesh when the creature grabbed her through the top of its cylinder body and swallowed it! It reminded Rafiki of a Boko Baba.
"RAFIIIIKIIII!" screamed Bryn.
The plant-like animal spat her out.
"I know what this is," muttered Bryn dazedly, after turning into a Fish woman. "Heard of it before. 'Tis called a...a..." she paused, trying intently to remember what it was. "A LIKE-LIKE."
It was indeed a Like-Like. The Like-Like stole items from the ones it swallows then spits the swallowed one right out. Luckily, Bryn had had no items of importance (for she battled as shark underwater) and the Like-Like had stolen none.
"Well, we cannot make direct contact with it, so how can we defeat it?" murmured Rafiki.
"I know!" Bryn darted towards some of the boxes and transformed into a sea otter. Taking a crate in her paws, she threw it at the Like-Like. The box just shattered but inside of the box were sharp blades, obviously from the Like-Like's collection. The Like-Like kind of retracted with a grunt. Bryn hurled another box angrily. It hit the Like-Like and the weapons inside hurt the Like-Like. Bryn tossed yet another box. When this box slammed into the Like-Like, it died.
At the centre of the big circular room, a chest appeared. Bryn opened it and found a...
"A staff?" Rafiki stared at the long, thick wooden item. The staff was no ordinary staff, though. It had sharp blades on it, and one at the very tip that looked like someone had shoved the blade of a sword into it. There was some sort of hilt made out of the wood at the other end. In the middle of the staff was a place with leather wrapped 'round it. Bryn knew that this was for when you used it like a staff, and that the hilt was for using it like a sword.
"Aye...hmm, yes, I've used a staff many times." Bryn, holding the staff in her otter paws, gave a few practice swings. She then swam to the top of the room, which had space where there was air, and she filled her lungs. She then plunged down to the deep. The staff came with a sash that she tied 'round her waist. She shoved the staff into the sash and glided from the room with Rafiki behind her.
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Bryn and Rafiki poked their heads above the water level.
"There MUST be some creature that I can change into that can breath water and air AND that can fight," grumbled Bryn, lazily lying on her otter back, holding the staff across her stomach.
Rafiki swished his tail impatiently, thinking of what creature she could and should become.
"My aunt Drusilla told me of some creature...fish-like and dolphin-like and human-like, she says. Found a skeleton in this place, and a newly dead one. Now, what did she say they were called?" Rafiki muttered, thinking hard, but Bryn already knew what he was talking about.
"Rafiki, was it a Zora?" asked Bryn eagerly.
"Yes! Yes, THAT'S what it was!"
"I heard that there was a Sage of the Earth Temple, Laruto, that was a Zora!" Bryn concentrated hard on the image of the Zora. Before Rafiki's very eyes, Bryn had transformed from otter to human and to Zora.
Bryn swam around, getting used to the Zoran ways of moving. She could breathe underwater and above water. She could shoot out her fins at enemies. While she was underwater, she could have a magic shield around her. And, as an added bonus, she could walk underwater, too!
Bryn floated slowly up to where Rafiki was and growled, "Let's go."
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Aryll sat in her cage, bound and gagged. Zill and Joel were bound and gagged too. The little boys were crying, but Aryll was dry-eyed. Her eyes burned with a fierce fire of determination.
Three Bokoblins shuffled into the cage and cut their bonds. The little boys were starving. They crawled to Aryll who, despite her hunger, dizziness, and weariness, strode after the Bokoblins while they slammed the door.
"Tell your Master that he will be slain," growled Aryll, "and I will be the one to slay him! Whether by sword, arrow, or my bare hands, I will kill him." Aryll grabbed the bars on the door and snarled, "I SWEAR TO KILL GANONDORF!"
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Bryn paced the ground, occasionally slipping on a patch of seaweed and kicking up sand angrily.
"Oh, this is HOPELESS," she groaned, sitting down against a rock. Rafiki swam next to her, floating lazily.
"Let's go and see if we can find another door," suggested Rafiki. Bryn nodded and leapt up. She swam swiftly, doing tricks such as twirling in circles and leaping up. Rafiki followed her every move.
Bryn saw a huge stone slab and put her ear against it. She could hear something like the clacking of teeth together. She stood back, wondering what to do. She took out her staff, wondering if it possessed any magical powers. She aimed the staff at the door and spoke a spell that she knew that would show how to defeat someone. It took a lot of one's energy. Gritting her teeth, she spoke the words again.
"Hargey fruum corgille." Nothing happened. In the spell language, it meant "Show your secret". She had learned this from her grandfather, who had been a Seer like her. "Hargey fruum corgille," she repeated angrily, and nothing happened yet again. Sitting down wearily, she rested her back against the stone slab. "This is pointless, Rafiki. Pointless!"
Rafiki began to swim back and force next to the stone slab. He saw a small crack in the stone and cried, "I'VE GOT IT!"
Bryn leapt up. "What, what?" she asked excitedly. Rafiki muttered hurriedly, "No time to explain, Bryn, just shove the tip blade into this crack!"
Bryn did so, and slowly the stone slab began to open...
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Link knelt beside Zelda, shaking his head in disbelief. "Tetra, Tetra...I mean, Zelda..." His voice was a hoarse whisper. "Tetra is dead, but Zelda is alive?" Link held back tears; Heroes were NOT supposed to cry.
"Link..." Zelda murmured. Link liked Zelda, of course, but when Tetra was Zelda she seemed to be a softer girl, more placid and serene. Link liked Tetra because of her playful and nonchalant manner. Zelda was more of the serious type.
"You almost died fighting those Bokoblins," Link scolded angrily.
"No. TETRA died fighting the Bokoblins. I'm a different person, Link." Zelda looked deep into Link's eyes and whispered, "I s'pose you liked Tetra more than me? It's okay if you do."
Link sat down in the sand, pretending to be squinting in the sun when really he was holding back tears. How could the Hero of Time have dealt with this?