The Legend of Zelda: A.C.I.D. Reign over Hyrule

Chapter 4: The Quest for the Triforce of Wisdom Begins

Ech: I swear, TTE, I had no idea the track was out!

Yeah, sure.

Roo: Come on, TTE. Sure, he stole—and crashed—your train of thought, but he didn't destroy the whole idea.

True. Well, to get another engine for it would take a while, so I'm just gonna listen to some Zelda music to type this chapter, you know, get me in the mood.

Antiroo: Eww...

I didn't mean it like that! Augh!

Link's search of the ruins of Windfall was turning out quite well. Not only had he saved much of the populace of the island, but they gave him a few rewards as well. The bomb shop guy followed Link and Daphnes closely behind to prevent being recognized by any of Windfall's younger women, being the pervert he was. As they rounded the corner to where Zunari's shop was, the three truly knew the destruction wreaked on Windfall. Link ran over first to the downed fabric and bricks to search the rubble for people.

Finding Zunari underneath a wooden beam, the Hero of Winds lifted it away. "Zunari, are you all right?" The Eskimo-like shopkeeper coughed weakly before answering. "I... I... Kind sir, thank you for saving me."

"Link! Is there anyone hurt?" Hyrule asked.

"Zunari's not doing well!" Link yelled back, waving the king and bomb guy over. Now speaking to Zunari, Link quietly said, "What happened anyway? Did you see the monster that attacked?"

"I did, Link." Zunari coughed again. "The monster was... gigantic... It tore down my stall while roaring loudly into the night sky. I couldn't quite make it out, but it sounded like it yelled "pork heap". I... I just don't know."

"There, there now, Zunari," the king took a bottle of red potion out of his robe. "We mean not to force you to answer us in such a manner. Take this potion; it will heal you in time. Thank you for your helpful information as well."

Zunari drank the red potion slowly. "There is one more thing I haven't told you... When the monster attacked the coffee shop, I saw it take a young pirate girl from there before it flew off with her."

From his place assisting others from the rubble of the windmill, Link heard this happier news about Tetra. "Where did the monster take her?" He yelled over.

Clearing his throat before speaking, Zunari yelled back over to Link the one thing he didn't want to hear. "I think it headed towards Dragon Roost! Maybe the dragon, Valoo, took care of it!"

"Medli... Oh, if anything happened to her, I'll never forgive myself." Link ran back over to the king and shop owners. "Listen, King Hyrule, we have to leave immediately. If that monster is on Dragon Roost, any number of Ritos could have been killed in the battle."

"I agree wholeheartedly, Link. I'm sure these people can complete the job we started." Daphnes replied. "And without a ship or water to travel on, it will be a very long journey to Dragon Roost indeed."

And so, with a goodbye to the people of Windfall, Link and the king left Windfall by the way they came, straight back down the slope towards Dragon Roost Mountain.

Meanwhile, in Phayrule Castle...

Walking down the staircase from her royal chambers, Phaydees slapped a Moblin out of her way, not eager to have any delays from her breakfast. "Bring me some eggs. Sunny side up!" she snapped at the pig-like guard. All the guard could do was watch as she stormed down the black-carpeted stairs, hungry for her first meal of the day.

When she entered the castle's eating quarters, she was surprised to see Ganondorf there, waiting for her arrival. "Sit down, please. Breakfast is almost ready." So this was how the King of Evil acted when he was around other evildoers like himself. "What's with the sudden hospitality, Ganondorf? Cut out your bullshit and give it to me straight, what did you do to me last night?"

"As I have told you before, Phaydees, you were the one who did the destruction of that small town of Windfall." Ganondorf took a bite of his already-prepared breakfast of sausage and pancakes. "Besides, what would a powerful sorcerer like myself want with a whiny brat like you?"

"I'll show you a whiny brat!" Phaydees yelled as she used her hands to catapult herself towards Ganondorf on the other side of the table. "Take thaaaa—"

"Your constant attempts to fight me are no more than child's play to me." Ganon said with a flick of his wrist, stopping Phaydees in midair above the table. "I am a more powerful sorcerer than you can ever hope to be, Phaydees, and I would consider myself lucky that someone as powerful as me would take such... interest... in someone like you."

"Interest yourself, Ganondorf." Phaydees told the master of darkness while she broke the spell with her own magic. "I just wanna get the hell outta this place and back where I belong." Phaydees softly landed on the table with a clip-clop of her hooves and jumped off.

"You realize that your excursion last night was not merely one of destruction, don't you?"

Phaydees turned to look back at the King of Evil. While she had seen that part of her antics of the previous night, how she got back to Phayrule Castle and ended up with all of that blood all over still confounded her. "What happened then, Ganondorf?" She walked back slowly, still wary of his intentions.

"Follow me." Ganon commanded, waving a Bokoblin in to pick up his breakfast. As he opened a secret stone door in back of the kitchen, he turned to Phaydees. "Do you or don't you want to know what else you did last night?"

Phaydees shrugged her shoulders. Whatever had happened, she'd feel a whole lot better knowing. She reluctantly followed Ganondorf into the shadows of this secret staircase into the abyss.

Once below the ground, Ganondorf used his magic to set all of the torches hanging in the subterranean chamber alight. What Phaydees saw before her she could not believe; it was the Chamber of the Sages!

"Is this what we came down here for? Nothing more than some pretty lights and liquid magic flowing around the place? Sorry Ganny, but I'm gonna pass on this."

Just as Phaydees took a step up the staircase again, Ganondorf pulled her down it once more. "Ahead of you, in that chamber, lies the keeper of the Triforce of Wisdom. While she may not seem that wise is beside the point. Like the Triforce piece I was entrusted with all those years ago, hers must as well be near the place she calls home."

"If you want that stupid Triforce or whatever, why don't you just ask her yourself?" Phaydees yelled at Ganondorf. "You seem to like taking advantage of girls like us."

"For the last time, Phaydees, I did NOT take advantage of you at any time during your stay here! If anything, you're the one taking advantage of my knowledge of inter-dimensional portals to get you home."

"Fine, whatever. So what's the girl's name anyway, Bobina?"

"She calls herself Tetra," the King of Evil explained. "But all who know of Hyrule's past know of her as Zelda, the last link in the Hylian royal bloodline." Ganondorf lightly pushed Phaydees ahead, to coax her into getting the valuable information out of Tetra. Then he would be able to complete his plan.

"Whatever, Ganondorf." Phaydees stomped over to the platform where Tetra was locked up, clip-clopping all the way up the stairs. "You, wake up!"

"Huh? Am I home? This doesn't look like... Outset Island..."

"Just get up, Tetra. Tell me where the Triforce of Wisdom is," Phaydees commanded, "I need it to return to my home world of Avalar."

"You–You're not Ganondorf!" Tetra said quietly. "Did you defeat him? Without the Master Sword?"

Phaydees thought for a moment on what she would say. She could lie to the piratess and be one step closer to returning for her revenge on Ripto, or she could tell the truth and be forced to stay with none other than Ganondorf watching her morning, noon, and night! "Er... yes, I defeated Ganondorf." Now what? Phaydees thought. Hey wait, the necklace! Ganondorf said that the Triforce of Power was his all those years... Maybe that could help me.

"Prove it." Tetra demanded. She had fallen right into Phaydees' trap, hook, line, and sinker. Phaydees revealed her dark-and-golden double Triforce necklace, proving that she indeed possessed the Triforce of Power instead of Ganondorf. "Listen," Tetra whispered as Phaydees again hid the Triforce necklace underneath her clothes, "The Triforce of Wisdom is hidden away from here, far away. Thankfully I could leave it away from myself in case of Ganon's attack. I left it in my parents' old house on Outset Island, I think that some crazy man's been living there since my father died and my mother rounded up my pirate crew."

"Thanks," Phaydees whispered back, shaking Tetra's hand. She began to walk back towards the staircase when Tetra's call interrupted her. "Hey, you're not just gonna leave me in here, are you?"

"Of course not. I just haven't found the keys yet..." Phaydees lied again to the pirate-princess. She walked back over to where Ganondorf was before she had left him, but he wasn't there. Though only a day spent together doesn't teach much, Phaydees already knew the tricks of the Gerudo King. With one last look back at Tetra in the Sages' magical platform, Phaydees rushed up the stairs and out of the secret chamber.

Antiech: Jeez, leaving us off at the best part, TTE?

You bet I am. All I need is another locomotive and my crazy ideas are gonna start flowing again through the keyboard's electrical pulses and onto your computer screen.

Wex: The train joke's gone far enough, TTE. Hey, I know how to stop it!

Platypous: Pudding?

Wex: No, of course not! Reviews can stop TTE's bad jokes! And they'll help him improve on his writing.

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