CHAPTER TEN
"Wh-what?" gasped Zelda. "Link...you're the Hero of the Wind!"
Link stared at her. "Am not!"
Zelda bit her lip, and then burst into tears. She ran away.
"Link..." began a Rito.
Link whirled on the Rito. "Who are you?" he asked.
"I'm QUILL!" yelled the Rito. "Link, stop this, now!"
Link looked around. "What is this place?" he asked quietly.
"Oh Great Goddesses, this is impossible," whispered Quill. "You really have gotten the memories of your predecessor."
"No!!! I'm the ONLY Hero of Time," argued Link.
Quill shook his head. "Link, follow me and let me explain EVERYTHING."
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Bryn stood up, dry-eyed. She stepped on the switch and the platform went up to a door. Bryn ran to the platform as it came down. She reached with her staff and managed to get the button to depress. She then opened the door and entered.
It was just full of sand. There was nothing else except for tapestries on the wall.
"YOU HAVE KILLED ROMNEY, BUT RAFIKI WAS SLAIN TOO!" taunted the voice.
"Yes, Rafiki was slain. But he died a warrior. Romney only fought because he believed that you would lavish him in wealth when I was slain," Bryn called out causally as she walked across the sand. The sand sloped up and her head broke the surface of water. She waded for a while, waiting for the voice to answer. When it did, it sounded very mean.
"TRY TO GET PAST MY CREATURES OF THE SAND NOW, ZORA-GIRL!" shrieked the voice. Bryn shook her head and stepped onto the sand.
Immediately creatures popped up from the ground. They were green and red, with spikes on their heads.
"MEET THE LEEVERS, GIRL!" screamed the voice. Bryn gasped and leapt into the water. The Leevers tried to get at her, but they couldn't go in water. Bryn shot her fins at the closest Leever and got a direct hit.
"Haha, yes!"
Bryn used her staff to bop it on the head. She then grinned happily and charged recklessly into the fray. The Leevers tried to attack her, but none got far when she was using a weapon. She only got a cut on her foot from when she crushed a Leever to the floor. Nothing could stop the Warrior!
Aryll was standing in a world of white. She was in her Skull Dress that she had gotten from the pirates. She saw someone who looked like an older version of her brother striding through the mist. Who was it?
"Aryll..." droned a voice. "Aryll, your brother is in dire danger. He was trapped between life and death and I am now trapped as him! He has my memories and thinks he is me. I am the Hero of Time, and he is my descendant. So are you, Aryll! Before you can become the Heroine of the Space, you must earn it!" The Hero of Time pulled out a dagger and cried, "Use this!"
Aryll woke up, sweating. She wiped a hand across her eyes, trembling. She put her hand down and it fell on cold steel...
She picked up the long dagger and held it in her trembling hands. She stood up and went across to the door. She put the dagger in the lock on the other side of the door and picked the lock. She looked at Zill and Joel, and promised herself that she would come back for them, but now she must travel alone.
She relocked the door and gave herself a cut across the forearm to make it look like a struggle. She swung her arm and slapped it against the wall, smearing the blood. She then tore off a piece of her dress and bound the wound. She then opened the large door and stepped outside.
Aryll was alone now. She looked around and saw someone in the distance. Holding out the dagger, she strained her eyes to see who or what it was.
It was Yaphet! He ran towards Aryll and panted, "Quick, follow me!"
"But...but..." Aryll wanted to ask so many questions, but Yaphet shook his head.
"No questions. Just follow me!"
Aryll did as she was told.
"JUST BECAUSE YOU SLEW MY LEEVERS DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU CAN SLAY MEEEEEEEE!" screamed the voice angrily. The voice was so loud that it reverberated around the room.
"All I want is the Master Sword," hollered Bryn.
"NEEEEEEEVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!"
Bryn kicked open the next door and went inside. To her surprise, there was just a Darknut, which she defeated easily. Suddenly, a Like-Like appeared and came at her. She threw her fins at the Like-Like and slew it. She heard something that sounded like a siren and turned around, her fins ready. There was a Wizzrobe!
She threw her fins at the Wizzrobe and then ran forward and slashed at it twice with her staff. The Wizzrobe died and a big chest materialized in the middle of the sand. Bryn ran at it, but found out that the sand was quicksand! She struggled through it to the chest and opened it and grabbed the Big Key inside of it. She struggled from the quicksand and ran out the door.
She ran from the room where the Leevers had been and dove into the next room where Rafiki had died. Her breath caught in her throat as she saw that he was still there. She went over to him and looked at his dead eyes, then went out the door.
When she was finally in the main room she swam to the fountain and read an inscription that she knew that she had heard before:
When the King sleeps, so shall the waterfall.
Bryn ran her hands over the inscription, thinking how the waterfall could sleep. Making sure that there were not even a small crab around, she settled down and slept.
"I know you are not Zoran but you are destined to help this Temple as a Zora," whispered a voice. Bryn was floating in a world was white, just like Aryll had. Bryn looked around. She was looking like her normal self, the human self, which she had not seen for a long time.
"Who are you?" whispered Bryn, not daring to raise her voice lest she disturb the enemies.
"I am Yannabooru. My great-grandmother was Nabooru, Sage of a Temple in Hyrule. I was chosen to guard this Temple, the Sea Temple."
The person came closer. She was a teenaged girl with red hair, just like Ganondorf's...
"Are you related to Ganondorf?" asked Bryn.
Yannabooru bowed her head. "He is the King of Gerudo's. I, sadly, am a Gerudo Thief. My soul had been stolen."
Bryn looked at what Yannabooru held in her hands.
"What, may I ask, is that?" She pointed to the object.
Yannabooru held up the object.
"'Tis called an Ocarina."
Bryn had heard of it before! She tried to remember where. Studying the bluish color, she gasped, "Is it the OCARINA OF TIME?!"
Yannabooru smiled. "I was told to pass it on to he or she who finds my Temple and finds the inscription." Yannabooru handed the Ocarina of Time to Bryn, who gently held it in her hands, unable to believe that she held the sacred item that Link's ancestor had used to first banish Ganondorf!
"Yannabooru...I...I don't know what to say!"
"Then say nothing, my girl."
Bryn looked up, surprised.
"Your...girl...?"
Yannabooru grabbed Bryn's chin in her hand and looked deep into her eyes.
"I promised to raise you when our mother died, Changer Who Sees All. You were preserved in Hyrule when you were a young 'un, when Hyrule was sunk beneath the waves. When Link awoke Hyrule again, I don't know, you kind of...came up to the other world. You knew yourself as who you are, Bryn the Changer. Do you know why you are a Changer?"
Bryn shook her head frantically.
"Your blood is very magical, Changer Who Sees All. Very. Maybe one of the most magical bloods in the world, except for the Goddesses, who are made of pure magic." Yannabooru stood up and took out an Ocarina, but this one was chipped in many different places. "Listen to this song and repeat it."
Yannabooru played a song that sounded like a Lullaby. "'Tis called Zelda's Lullaby."
"Zelda's Lullaby," repeated Bryn sleepily. She looked at the Gerudo who was her sister. She lowered her head. She, Bryn the Changer, the Changer Who Sees All, was a Thief who was to be a Sage like her sister!
"Good-bye, Changer Who Sees All," whispered Yannabooru, and disappeared.
Bryn woke up and felt the Ocarina of Time clutched in her hand. She remembered how to play Zelda's Lullaby and, after a few attempts, got it right. The waterfall stopped and Bryn the Zora-girl climbed through the door behind it.
There was a Gyorg in the room which she quickly defeated. She then saw the Boss Door and cracked her knuckles. She inserted the Big Key, and opened the door.
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"Wh-what?" gasped Zelda. "Link...you're the Hero of the Wind!"
Link stared at her. "Am not!"
Zelda bit her lip, and then burst into tears. She ran away.
"Link..." began a Rito.
Link whirled on the Rito. "Who are you?" he asked.
"I'm QUILL!" yelled the Rito. "Link, stop this, now!"
Link looked around. "What is this place?" he asked quietly.
"Oh Great Goddesses, this is impossible," whispered Quill. "You really have gotten the memories of your predecessor."
"No!!! I'm the ONLY Hero of Time," argued Link.
Quill shook his head. "Link, follow me and let me explain EVERYTHING."
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Bryn stood up, dry-eyed. She stepped on the switch and the platform went up to a door. Bryn ran to the platform as it came down. She reached with her staff and managed to get the button to depress. She then opened the door and entered.
It was just full of sand. There was nothing else except for tapestries on the wall.
"YOU HAVE KILLED ROMNEY, BUT RAFIKI WAS SLAIN TOO!" taunted the voice.
"Yes, Rafiki was slain. But he died a warrior. Romney only fought because he believed that you would lavish him in wealth when I was slain," Bryn called out causally as she walked across the sand. The sand sloped up and her head broke the surface of water. She waded for a while, waiting for the voice to answer. When it did, it sounded very mean.
"TRY TO GET PAST MY CREATURES OF THE SAND NOW, ZORA-GIRL!" shrieked the voice. Bryn shook her head and stepped onto the sand.
Immediately creatures popped up from the ground. They were green and red, with spikes on their heads.
"MEET THE LEEVERS, GIRL!" screamed the voice. Bryn gasped and leapt into the water. The Leevers tried to get at her, but they couldn't go in water. Bryn shot her fins at the closest Leever and got a direct hit.
"Haha, yes!"
Bryn used her staff to bop it on the head. She then grinned happily and charged recklessly into the fray. The Leevers tried to attack her, but none got far when she was using a weapon. She only got a cut on her foot from when she crushed a Leever to the floor. Nothing could stop the Warrior!
Aryll was standing in a world of white. She was in her Skull Dress that she had gotten from the pirates. She saw someone who looked like an older version of her brother striding through the mist. Who was it?
"Aryll..." droned a voice. "Aryll, your brother is in dire danger. He was trapped between life and death and I am now trapped as him! He has my memories and thinks he is me. I am the Hero of Time, and he is my descendant. So are you, Aryll! Before you can become the Heroine of the Space, you must earn it!" The Hero of Time pulled out a dagger and cried, "Use this!"
Aryll woke up, sweating. She wiped a hand across her eyes, trembling. She put her hand down and it fell on cold steel...
She picked up the long dagger and held it in her trembling hands. She stood up and went across to the door. She put the dagger in the lock on the other side of the door and picked the lock. She looked at Zill and Joel, and promised herself that she would come back for them, but now she must travel alone.
She relocked the door and gave herself a cut across the forearm to make it look like a struggle. She swung her arm and slapped it against the wall, smearing the blood. She then tore off a piece of her dress and bound the wound. She then opened the large door and stepped outside.
Aryll was alone now. She looked around and saw someone in the distance. Holding out the dagger, she strained her eyes to see who or what it was.
It was Yaphet! He ran towards Aryll and panted, "Quick, follow me!"
"But...but..." Aryll wanted to ask so many questions, but Yaphet shook his head.
"No questions. Just follow me!"
Aryll did as she was told.
"JUST BECAUSE YOU SLEW MY LEEVERS DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU CAN SLAY MEEEEEEEE!" screamed the voice angrily. The voice was so loud that it reverberated around the room.
"All I want is the Master Sword," hollered Bryn.
"NEEEEEEEVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!"
Bryn kicked open the next door and went inside. To her surprise, there was just a Darknut, which she defeated easily. Suddenly, a Like-Like appeared and came at her. She threw her fins at the Like-Like and slew it. She heard something that sounded like a siren and turned around, her fins ready. There was a Wizzrobe!
She threw her fins at the Wizzrobe and then ran forward and slashed at it twice with her staff. The Wizzrobe died and a big chest materialized in the middle of the sand. Bryn ran at it, but found out that the sand was quicksand! She struggled through it to the chest and opened it and grabbed the Big Key inside of it. She struggled from the quicksand and ran out the door.
She ran from the room where the Leevers had been and dove into the next room where Rafiki had died. Her breath caught in her throat as she saw that he was still there. She went over to him and looked at his dead eyes, then went out the door.
When she was finally in the main room she swam to the fountain and read an inscription that she knew that she had heard before:
When the King sleeps, so shall the waterfall.
Bryn ran her hands over the inscription, thinking how the waterfall could sleep. Making sure that there were not even a small crab around, she settled down and slept.
"I know you are not Zoran but you are destined to help this Temple as a Zora," whispered a voice. Bryn was floating in a world was white, just like Aryll had. Bryn looked around. She was looking like her normal self, the human self, which she had not seen for a long time.
"Who are you?" whispered Bryn, not daring to raise her voice lest she disturb the enemies.
"I am Yannabooru. My great-grandmother was Nabooru, Sage of a Temple in Hyrule. I was chosen to guard this Temple, the Sea Temple."
The person came closer. She was a teenaged girl with red hair, just like Ganondorf's...
"Are you related to Ganondorf?" asked Bryn.
Yannabooru bowed her head. "He is the King of Gerudo's. I, sadly, am a Gerudo Thief. My soul had been stolen."
Bryn looked at what Yannabooru held in her hands.
"What, may I ask, is that?" She pointed to the object.
Yannabooru held up the object.
"'Tis called an Ocarina."
Bryn had heard of it before! She tried to remember where. Studying the bluish color, she gasped, "Is it the OCARINA OF TIME?!"
Yannabooru smiled. "I was told to pass it on to he or she who finds my Temple and finds the inscription." Yannabooru handed the Ocarina of Time to Bryn, who gently held it in her hands, unable to believe that she held the sacred item that Link's ancestor had used to first banish Ganondorf!
"Yannabooru...I...I don't know what to say!"
"Then say nothing, my girl."
Bryn looked up, surprised.
"Your...girl...?"
Yannabooru grabbed Bryn's chin in her hand and looked deep into her eyes.
"I promised to raise you when our mother died, Changer Who Sees All. You were preserved in Hyrule when you were a young 'un, when Hyrule was sunk beneath the waves. When Link awoke Hyrule again, I don't know, you kind of...came up to the other world. You knew yourself as who you are, Bryn the Changer. Do you know why you are a Changer?"
Bryn shook her head frantically.
"Your blood is very magical, Changer Who Sees All. Very. Maybe one of the most magical bloods in the world, except for the Goddesses, who are made of pure magic." Yannabooru stood up and took out an Ocarina, but this one was chipped in many different places. "Listen to this song and repeat it."
Yannabooru played a song that sounded like a Lullaby. "'Tis called Zelda's Lullaby."
"Zelda's Lullaby," repeated Bryn sleepily. She looked at the Gerudo who was her sister. She lowered her head. She, Bryn the Changer, the Changer Who Sees All, was a Thief who was to be a Sage like her sister!
"Good-bye, Changer Who Sees All," whispered Yannabooru, and disappeared.
Bryn woke up and felt the Ocarina of Time clutched in her hand. She remembered how to play Zelda's Lullaby and, after a few attempts, got it right. The waterfall stopped and Bryn the Zora-girl climbed through the door behind it.
There was a Gyorg in the room which she quickly defeated. She then saw the Boss Door and cracked her knuckles. She inserted the Big Key, and opened the door.
() Ooooooh, suspeeeennnsssse! ()