CHAPTER SEVEN
The stone slab creaked open, and then shattered into dust. Bryn and Rafiki shielded their eyes from the stones and dust. When those were gone, they looked up and Bryn was immediately bowled over by some creature. Leaping up, holding her staff like a sword, she looked around for the creature, but all she saw were a few fish skeletons...
"Rafiki!" gasped Bryn. "What just rammed into us?"
Rafiki shook his head, unconsciously swimming closer to Bryn. Suddenly, Bryn was hit again. She spun through the water, getting upright again. She gave a yell when she saw what had been attacking her.
"THE SKELETONS! RAFIKI, IT'S THE SKELETONS!" she shouted, touching back down to the bottom of the Temple. She targeted the fish skeletons and held up one fin like a shield as they came in for an attack. She then shot her fins off at the skeletons.
"Bryn, we better hurry!" yelled Rafiki.
"Why?" called back Bryn. Rafiki pointed at something in the darkness of the tunnel up ahead.
Half a score of Gyorgs were slowly making their way towards them. Bryn gulped. She began to punch, kick, hit, and slap the skeleton fish. When they were all gone, she turned to face the Gyorgs.
Rafiki swam above her head, moaning anxiously, "Oh we're gonna die, gonna die die die die diiie."
"WE WILL NOT DIE," growled Bryn, targeting the closest Gyorg. She threw her fins at the Gyorg and it gave a squeal. The Gyorgs picked up their pace. Bryn began throwing her fins at every Gyorg. As they got in closer, she began to kick and punch, yelling her strange war cry.
"Killem! Slayyem! Deeeeeeeeeaath!" She punched a Gyorg in the nose. "Death to you, you slimy water monster, slave of Ganondorf!!!! Deeeeeeeeeaath!"
Rafiki anxiously waited above the melee, but soon a Gyorg came for him. Being a bad fighter, he tried to run away, but the Gyorg caught up with him. Rafiki swam as fast as he could and went behind a pillar. The Gyorg rammed into the pillar and the pillar broke, and so did the Gyorg's face.
Bryn kicked the last Gyorg in its side and it died. Picking up rupees and hearts, she turned to look at Rafiki, who was staring at the Gyorg he had slain, his mouth agape.
"Rafiki, what's wrong?" she asked, gliding over to him.
"This beast is slain because of me! I took a life!" he cried.
"How many lives do you think he took? He could have taken the lives of your father and Drusilla's friends! Don't be sorry, Rafiki. It was either you or him." Bryn turned around and headed down the deep, dark tunnel.
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Link lay on his bed, eyes closed tight. He had forbidden anybody to see him. Life was too complicated! Why did this have to happen to him? Why did he have to go through all of these hardships and trials?
'Because YOU'RE the Hero, that's why,' a small voice taunted.
"I don't want to!" he shouted in response.
"Don't want to what?" asked a voice. Link looked at the doorway. Komali was standing there.
"N-nothing," grumbled Link. "What do you want, Prince Komali?"
Komali handed him an invitation. "'Tis an invitation. Read it."
Link opened it. The invitation read:
You are formally invited to the Becoming Of Ceremony by the very own Prince Komali. The Becoming Of Ceremony is the Ceremony when the new Chieftain is officially dubbed Chieftain. It is that day when the new Chieftain chooses his wife. The Ceremony is two days henceforth, starting at dawn and ending at dusk.
Link read over the invitation again. He then shrugged. "Sure, I'll go."
"Oh, it'll be great to have you, the HERO OF WIND, there!" Komali exclaimed.
'Even though I hate being a Hero,' Link thought gloomily.
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Bryn held her staff at the ready. The sound of water filed her ears. When she came to the end of the passageway, she saw a puzzle. There was a Deku Stick, a skeleton, and a drawing of the Wind Waker.
"What is all of this stuff for?" she asked Rafiki, but a voice suddenly filled her head.
"You have done well, Changer Who Sees All. You have come to claim this Temple. MY TEMPLE!" screamed the voice, making the walls shake. "But you will be slain, Changer Who Sees All. If you can figure out how to cross a tunnel in the next room in three minutes, then I will not send the four score Gyorgs and one score Like-Likes after you! If you fail, then you have a hundred enemies to beat, Changer Who Sees All."
"WHO ARE YOU?" yelled Bryn, clutching her staff. "Come out and fight me!"
"Each person may take one item." The voice then stopped. Bryn and Rafiki approached the three items.
"Well? What shall we take?" asked Rafiki. "A Deku Stick, a skeleton, or this grubby drawing? We can only take one."
"No, each person can take one item. You can count as a person, I suppose. I mean – this IS my quest, but you came along, so you count." Bryn went forward to the items and touched each one. "Well, I know what to bring," and she picked up the skeleton.
"Ugh! How can you stand to carry that thing?" Rafiki asked, disgusted. He swam forward and went towards the Deku Stick.
"No!" shouted Bryn. "We already have a weapon! Take the picture of the Wind Waker. Trust me." Bryn's voice sounded so serious that Rafiki had to trust her. He grabbed the picture of the Wind Waker in his mouth and Bryn opened a door. In the room there was one big platform, where they were, a huge hole, which had a gigantic whirlpool in it, shrieking and sucking in water and anything else that dared to go close, and, across from where the whirlpool was, there was another platform with a chest on it and a door.
When she entered, the same voice boomed, "NOW THE TIME STARTS!"
Bryn felt like a clock had started in her brain. She suddenly saw a Like- Like oozing across the floor. She threw her fins at the Like-Like but it kept on coming closer. The Like-Like seemed to be invincible. It would stop at nothing!
The Like-Like was then on her. Bryn was wrapped in a world of pain and a world of the gross yellowish-tannish color of Like-Like. Suddenly, it spat her out, but the skeleton was stuck in its throat! The Like-Like died from lack of air. When it melted, the skeleton was in the middle of the muck until the muck of the Like-Like vanished into purple smoke. She grabbed the skeleton and a red rupee. Suddenly, the whirlpool lessened slightly. Thinking that she wouldn't need the skeleton anymore, she threw it into the whirlpool.
Suddenly, there was something that looked like Cyclos combined with a Gyorg in the water, pushing the wind to knock them into the whirlpool.
"PLAY THE WIND'S REQUIEM WITH THE WIND WAKER!" Bryn screamed as she and Rafiki tried to swim away frantically.
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Link woke up and heard a voice speaking to him through his Gossip Stone.
"Hello?" he gasped into it.
"PLAY THE WIND'S REQUIEM!" yelled a voice.
"Who is this?" Link asked.
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Bryn and Rafiki stared at the drawing of the Wind Waker. It had just spoken!
"This is Bryn the Changer and Rafiki!" Bryn yelled into the drawing.
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Link stared at the Gossip Stone as it screamed, "PLAY THE WIND'S REQUIEM! DIRECT THE WIND GOING WEST – AAAAH, RAFIKI!"
Link pulled out the Wind Waker and did as he was bid.
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The wind stopped and the whirlpool began to die down. Bryn could see that the whirlpool was made by a Like-Like spinning around and sucking in the water. She threw her fins at the Like-Like twice and the weak creature died. The whirlpool stopped.
"RIGHT," boomed the voice angrily. "Now, why don't you try getting across?"
"Bryn?" asked a voice coming from the Wind Waker drawing.
"Who is this?" asked Bryn of the drawing.
"This is Link. Somehow you accessed my Gossip Stone. Are you okay? Do you have the Master Sword?" asked Link.
"No. No Master Sword...yet." Bryn heard an angry sigh.
"Well, be safe, Bryn the Changer. Be safe."
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Yaphet stood on the beach, holding a haversack full of food. His stomach felt strange, like he was going to throw up or get in trouble. Taking a deep breath, he went to the King of Red Lions.
"Link?" Daphnes turned his head to see Yaphet. "Oh, hello, Yaphet."
"Shh!" cautioned Yaphet. He climbed into the boat and put up the sail. The boat sailed due West.
"YAPHET! WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME!" cried the King.
"I must go to the Forsaken Fortress."
"But...but...but WHY, Yaphet, WHY?" asked the King.
"I must save the little girl and the boys. I WILL SAVE THEM!"
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Aryll cracked her knuckles to relieve her stress. She had been starved, beaten, and dehydrated. She was given a small flask of water every two days. Each prisoner was.
"C'mon, get in there!"
Aryll looked up as someone was thrown into the cage. The newcomer was a boy. He sat up and crawled against the wall.
"My name's Aryll. Those two little boys are Zill and Joel. Who are you?" whispered Aryll, scooting closer to the boy.
"M'name's Ninnian." Ninnian held Aryll's face in his hands. He stroked her hair before announcing, "You are a girl with blonde hair. You will be eleven in about a week."
"Anyone can see that," scoffed Aryll.
"I know," Ninnian replied. Aryll looked at his eyes and gasped. Ninnian had silvery eyes; eyes the color of blindness!
"You're...you're blind!" gasped Aryll.
"Yeah," replied Ninnian, sighing. "Oh, I wish I had sight! If I had had sight, I wouldn't have been beaten by those Moblins!" He scowled.
Aryll helped the boy stand up and announced, "I will get you sight one day, Ninnian. I promise."
() Sorry it kind of ended weirdly. I'm just tired. Went to bed at midnight, woke up at seven...okay whatever. Anyways, I just have to put in this note: I don't own any Zelda characters, yaddi yaddi yadda...oh but I own Yaphet, the Fish man Rafiki (but not the species Fish men), I also own Ninnian, Bryn the Changer, and I WILL own the Boss of the Sea Temple. I will! ()
The stone slab creaked open, and then shattered into dust. Bryn and Rafiki shielded their eyes from the stones and dust. When those were gone, they looked up and Bryn was immediately bowled over by some creature. Leaping up, holding her staff like a sword, she looked around for the creature, but all she saw were a few fish skeletons...
"Rafiki!" gasped Bryn. "What just rammed into us?"
Rafiki shook his head, unconsciously swimming closer to Bryn. Suddenly, Bryn was hit again. She spun through the water, getting upright again. She gave a yell when she saw what had been attacking her.
"THE SKELETONS! RAFIKI, IT'S THE SKELETONS!" she shouted, touching back down to the bottom of the Temple. She targeted the fish skeletons and held up one fin like a shield as they came in for an attack. She then shot her fins off at the skeletons.
"Bryn, we better hurry!" yelled Rafiki.
"Why?" called back Bryn. Rafiki pointed at something in the darkness of the tunnel up ahead.
Half a score of Gyorgs were slowly making their way towards them. Bryn gulped. She began to punch, kick, hit, and slap the skeleton fish. When they were all gone, she turned to face the Gyorgs.
Rafiki swam above her head, moaning anxiously, "Oh we're gonna die, gonna die die die die diiie."
"WE WILL NOT DIE," growled Bryn, targeting the closest Gyorg. She threw her fins at the Gyorg and it gave a squeal. The Gyorgs picked up their pace. Bryn began throwing her fins at every Gyorg. As they got in closer, she began to kick and punch, yelling her strange war cry.
"Killem! Slayyem! Deeeeeeeeeaath!" She punched a Gyorg in the nose. "Death to you, you slimy water monster, slave of Ganondorf!!!! Deeeeeeeeeaath!"
Rafiki anxiously waited above the melee, but soon a Gyorg came for him. Being a bad fighter, he tried to run away, but the Gyorg caught up with him. Rafiki swam as fast as he could and went behind a pillar. The Gyorg rammed into the pillar and the pillar broke, and so did the Gyorg's face.
Bryn kicked the last Gyorg in its side and it died. Picking up rupees and hearts, she turned to look at Rafiki, who was staring at the Gyorg he had slain, his mouth agape.
"Rafiki, what's wrong?" she asked, gliding over to him.
"This beast is slain because of me! I took a life!" he cried.
"How many lives do you think he took? He could have taken the lives of your father and Drusilla's friends! Don't be sorry, Rafiki. It was either you or him." Bryn turned around and headed down the deep, dark tunnel.
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Link lay on his bed, eyes closed tight. He had forbidden anybody to see him. Life was too complicated! Why did this have to happen to him? Why did he have to go through all of these hardships and trials?
'Because YOU'RE the Hero, that's why,' a small voice taunted.
"I don't want to!" he shouted in response.
"Don't want to what?" asked a voice. Link looked at the doorway. Komali was standing there.
"N-nothing," grumbled Link. "What do you want, Prince Komali?"
Komali handed him an invitation. "'Tis an invitation. Read it."
Link opened it. The invitation read:
You are formally invited to the Becoming Of Ceremony by the very own Prince Komali. The Becoming Of Ceremony is the Ceremony when the new Chieftain is officially dubbed Chieftain. It is that day when the new Chieftain chooses his wife. The Ceremony is two days henceforth, starting at dawn and ending at dusk.
Link read over the invitation again. He then shrugged. "Sure, I'll go."
"Oh, it'll be great to have you, the HERO OF WIND, there!" Komali exclaimed.
'Even though I hate being a Hero,' Link thought gloomily.
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Bryn held her staff at the ready. The sound of water filed her ears. When she came to the end of the passageway, she saw a puzzle. There was a Deku Stick, a skeleton, and a drawing of the Wind Waker.
"What is all of this stuff for?" she asked Rafiki, but a voice suddenly filled her head.
"You have done well, Changer Who Sees All. You have come to claim this Temple. MY TEMPLE!" screamed the voice, making the walls shake. "But you will be slain, Changer Who Sees All. If you can figure out how to cross a tunnel in the next room in three minutes, then I will not send the four score Gyorgs and one score Like-Likes after you! If you fail, then you have a hundred enemies to beat, Changer Who Sees All."
"WHO ARE YOU?" yelled Bryn, clutching her staff. "Come out and fight me!"
"Each person may take one item." The voice then stopped. Bryn and Rafiki approached the three items.
"Well? What shall we take?" asked Rafiki. "A Deku Stick, a skeleton, or this grubby drawing? We can only take one."
"No, each person can take one item. You can count as a person, I suppose. I mean – this IS my quest, but you came along, so you count." Bryn went forward to the items and touched each one. "Well, I know what to bring," and she picked up the skeleton.
"Ugh! How can you stand to carry that thing?" Rafiki asked, disgusted. He swam forward and went towards the Deku Stick.
"No!" shouted Bryn. "We already have a weapon! Take the picture of the Wind Waker. Trust me." Bryn's voice sounded so serious that Rafiki had to trust her. He grabbed the picture of the Wind Waker in his mouth and Bryn opened a door. In the room there was one big platform, where they were, a huge hole, which had a gigantic whirlpool in it, shrieking and sucking in water and anything else that dared to go close, and, across from where the whirlpool was, there was another platform with a chest on it and a door.
When she entered, the same voice boomed, "NOW THE TIME STARTS!"
Bryn felt like a clock had started in her brain. She suddenly saw a Like- Like oozing across the floor. She threw her fins at the Like-Like but it kept on coming closer. The Like-Like seemed to be invincible. It would stop at nothing!
The Like-Like was then on her. Bryn was wrapped in a world of pain and a world of the gross yellowish-tannish color of Like-Like. Suddenly, it spat her out, but the skeleton was stuck in its throat! The Like-Like died from lack of air. When it melted, the skeleton was in the middle of the muck until the muck of the Like-Like vanished into purple smoke. She grabbed the skeleton and a red rupee. Suddenly, the whirlpool lessened slightly. Thinking that she wouldn't need the skeleton anymore, she threw it into the whirlpool.
Suddenly, there was something that looked like Cyclos combined with a Gyorg in the water, pushing the wind to knock them into the whirlpool.
"PLAY THE WIND'S REQUIEM WITH THE WIND WAKER!" Bryn screamed as she and Rafiki tried to swim away frantically.
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Link woke up and heard a voice speaking to him through his Gossip Stone.
"Hello?" he gasped into it.
"PLAY THE WIND'S REQUIEM!" yelled a voice.
"Who is this?" Link asked.
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Bryn and Rafiki stared at the drawing of the Wind Waker. It had just spoken!
"This is Bryn the Changer and Rafiki!" Bryn yelled into the drawing.
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Link stared at the Gossip Stone as it screamed, "PLAY THE WIND'S REQUIEM! DIRECT THE WIND GOING WEST – AAAAH, RAFIKI!"
Link pulled out the Wind Waker and did as he was bid.
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The wind stopped and the whirlpool began to die down. Bryn could see that the whirlpool was made by a Like-Like spinning around and sucking in the water. She threw her fins at the Like-Like twice and the weak creature died. The whirlpool stopped.
"RIGHT," boomed the voice angrily. "Now, why don't you try getting across?"
"Bryn?" asked a voice coming from the Wind Waker drawing.
"Who is this?" asked Bryn of the drawing.
"This is Link. Somehow you accessed my Gossip Stone. Are you okay? Do you have the Master Sword?" asked Link.
"No. No Master Sword...yet." Bryn heard an angry sigh.
"Well, be safe, Bryn the Changer. Be safe."
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Yaphet stood on the beach, holding a haversack full of food. His stomach felt strange, like he was going to throw up or get in trouble. Taking a deep breath, he went to the King of Red Lions.
"Link?" Daphnes turned his head to see Yaphet. "Oh, hello, Yaphet."
"Shh!" cautioned Yaphet. He climbed into the boat and put up the sail. The boat sailed due West.
"YAPHET! WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME!" cried the King.
"I must go to the Forsaken Fortress."
"But...but...but WHY, Yaphet, WHY?" asked the King.
"I must save the little girl and the boys. I WILL SAVE THEM!"
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Aryll cracked her knuckles to relieve her stress. She had been starved, beaten, and dehydrated. She was given a small flask of water every two days. Each prisoner was.
"C'mon, get in there!"
Aryll looked up as someone was thrown into the cage. The newcomer was a boy. He sat up and crawled against the wall.
"My name's Aryll. Those two little boys are Zill and Joel. Who are you?" whispered Aryll, scooting closer to the boy.
"M'name's Ninnian." Ninnian held Aryll's face in his hands. He stroked her hair before announcing, "You are a girl with blonde hair. You will be eleven in about a week."
"Anyone can see that," scoffed Aryll.
"I know," Ninnian replied. Aryll looked at his eyes and gasped. Ninnian had silvery eyes; eyes the color of blindness!
"You're...you're blind!" gasped Aryll.
"Yeah," replied Ninnian, sighing. "Oh, I wish I had sight! If I had had sight, I wouldn't have been beaten by those Moblins!" He scowled.
Aryll helped the boy stand up and announced, "I will get you sight one day, Ninnian. I promise."
() Sorry it kind of ended weirdly. I'm just tired. Went to bed at midnight, woke up at seven...okay whatever. Anyways, I just have to put in this note: I don't own any Zelda characters, yaddi yaddi yadda...oh but I own Yaphet, the Fish man Rafiki (but not the species Fish men), I also own Ninnian, Bryn the Changer, and I WILL own the Boss of the Sea Temple. I will! ()