Hello readers, the evil muses are still not back, but I got ANOTHER box,
but I don't want to open it! But if I don't, it will be torturing me with
its mystery... Damn it my elfin curiosity, I HAVE to open the box!
(Begins to rip box to pieces. Leans over to check what's inside.)
What the hell...?
(White light jumps out of box.)
Hello, it's me, the one and only Navi!
O.o You have GOT to be kidding me!
Navi: Is it good to be out of that box! Hey are you CrypticElf?
Ermmmm yeah, why?
Navi: I have been sent to watch over you by Link, because he told me that this fan fiction sucks, and that something obviously bothering you.
Link cares about me? I feel so gooey and weird now!
Navi: Actually he didn't say that, I just told you that so you wouldn't feel bad!
T.T Gee, thanks.
You are welcome new friend! And do not worry, I shall protect you, I am your new muse!
WHAT? A new muse is the last thing that I need, I already have three others!
Navi: I actually have something from the muse company, it reads:
The muses Hail, Sleet, and Gust from now on may only appear on GoldenSun fanfictions.
Signed,
The Muses Incorporated
What?
Navi: Yep. Its right here in ink, want me to read again?
No, but... I'm... I'm... I AM FREE! NO MORE TORCHERING MUSES!
Navi: But whenever you write GoldenSun fanfictions, they'll come back, that doesn't bother you?
Are you kidding? Of course it doesn't! So, you're my new muse for this fanfiction?
Navi: Yes, and if anything will try and hurt you, I will be there to protect you!
A floating light protect me, how nice.
Navi: I know, that's awesome isn't it? Ok, here's the fic!
(White light appears and then the chapter appears.)
Navi: CrypticElf owns nothing of Zelda and never will! Read on readers, and don't forget to review!
Chapter Twelve: Deeper into the Forest Temple
Zelda/Kale had entered a room, but the only problem was that they couldn't even see Zelda's nose in the darkness. The door was locked, and for some reason Zelda couldn't use any of her magic.
"Kale, why can't I use my magic?"
"This room has a spell on it; it makes all white magic die."
"Die?"
"Well, until you get out of this room, then you can't use a drop of it."
"That's just great to hear...."
"I wish that I could help. But I've never seen this room before, I'm sorry. I usual just around this room sense I can pass through walls. Sorry again."
"Hey, it isn't your fault."
The spirit didn't reply back, and Zelda stayed where she was. There was only one way she could get out of this.
"Lale, is it only gray magic that gets affected?"
"White and gray. Not black."
Zelda smiled to herself, and then closed her eyes.
"Lale, I'm going to do something, I don't want you to freak or anything."
Whispering under her breath, she chanted,
"Ka sha homani shashi nomali lebequina, Sheik."
Zelda felt her body change into a Sheikah body, the body of a young man.
"Zelda, what did you do? That was black magic."
"From now on," said Sheik in his voice not Zelda's, "Or whenever I'm in this form, call me Sheik. I use that Sheikah magic to turn myself into a young Sheikah male."
"But I sense that you are still a female!"
"I know, all that I do is alter my body and change my voice and my clothes. I don't change my gender."
"That's interesting."
"Yes it is, and with my transformation I can now use Sheikah magic. The way it works is that when I got this form it was from a Sheikah woman, what she did was put Sheikah magic around my body and it turned me into Sheik. But the only way I can get to this magic is to chant what I just said and then I will turn into this, and with it comes a better body and black magic. I can't use my other magic now, I'm not sure why. Make sense?"
"A little, I can understand what you mean."
"Right now I can see in the dark like its daylight, it's a kind of Black Magic that ONLY the Sheikah have. But unfortunately, what I can see isn't very good."
"What do you see?"
"Something that looks like a giant Fly Eating Plant. Just imagine it at least, let's say, seven larger?"
"That is not good, is it?"
"How did you figure that out?"
Fly eating plants were plants that ate flies and small insects; they were five feet in height and barely inches wide. (Just remember the weird thin things in the Great Deku Tree where you could get Deku Sticks, just not the size part.) The monster in front of Sheik and Lale looked nearly the same, but had different colors, was way larger, had teeth at least two- feet long dripping with yellow bubbly venom, five green eyes the size of wagon wheel and also to make it even better it had about a dozen tentacles with thorns on them the size of a dagger. It wasn't asleep either; it was just waiting for the perfect moment to attack. Sheik looked around it and saw that there were unlit torches, and also saw a statue of an attacking Wolfos nearby.
'That statue must be the key to making this room filled with light. I think I can move faster then that thing can.'
Moving as fast as his legs would carry him, Sheik ran to the statue, the giant plant didn't even seem to mind, this was just more fun for it to it to have. Sheik got to the statue and pushed on it, it moved at his touch and all of the torches burst with light.
"Oh, in Farore's name...." said Lale a surprised yet dulled voice as she saw the monster.
Sheik looked at the plant with careful eyes, searching for a weakness, and he knew that the monster was as doing the same as well. It seemed that Sheik the Sheikah wouldn't do that well for this job.
"Aniuqebel ilamon ihsahs inamoh ash ak, Zelda."
Zelda returned, and she looked at the monster as she crouched down but didn't get on her knees. Her hands lit up with black magic, gray magic was silver or gray, white magic was either white or a rainbow, and black magic dark colors. Zelda was a sorceress of gray magic, and she could control both white and black, and gray was both of them mixed together. Right now it seemed that black magic would do the best, and her hands glowed with a dark purple. The monster saw this and spit out some of its yellow venom, Zelda created a shield to stop the venom; it hit the barrier and sizzled as it slowly went down.
"Zelda, how do you plan to defeat this monster?"
"I don't have a plan right now, if you really want to know."
"Actually I don't think that I did."
The monster studied her, its green eyes making sure not to miss a single piece of information about her body. Zelda studied it too, her hands still lit up with magic. She couldn't use Sheik in this battle, because his attacks were for building up damage with his speed and swiftness, but what Zelda needed was a well made attack to instantly finish it off, and Sheik couldn't do that. But now that Zelda was in her Zelda form, she was still left clueless about what to do. She needed help; Impa would know what to do.
If she thought like Impa would, then maybe she could win this battle! Ok, first, Impa would look for a weakness, and Zelda had already done that. So next... Impa would start attacking the weak point, WHAT weak point was there? Zelda sighed in failure, she would just have to do this by her own planning, not Impa's.
"Kale, do you know anything about this monster?"
"Afraid not, I am sorry."
"Thanks anyway."
The monster spat venom, and again Zelda sent her barrier back up. She couldn't just sit here and drain her magic with a shield, she had to do something.
Zelda got up and stood with her hands still up glowing with purple, then, when the moment seemed right, she ran and began throwing her magic in forms of disks. The monster sent one of its tentacles at her head. Zelda ducked and then threw another disk, this one missing it by a mile, it hit the roof and a part of the roof collapsed and landed on one of the torches. Zelda ran a little farther when a tentacle flew towards her feet, she jumped and threw a blast of magic as it went under her to make her magic go farther up and also do some damage.
The monster paid no attention to its new and bloody wound and spat out venom three times in a row, and Zelda turned around and ran in the other direction. One of the venom balls hit the bottom of Zelda's tunic and it hissed as it touched the white cloth. Zelda ripped off part of the bottom of her tunic before it continued to burn away her tunic. 'At least I wear a shirt and shorts under this,' she thought sarcastically to herself and Kale for comfort. She heard Kale giggle inside her, also trying to not make the situation as bad as it was. Zelda kept on running and another tentacle went towards her, this time it went to her center and Zelda let herself fall down so that it wouldn't hit her. But she foolishly forgot about the thorns and it caught the back of her tunic and her skin, it hooked onto her and it carried her up. It sent her flying into the wall headfirst, she fell to the ground and felt blood begin go down her forehead, she touched the blood and felt her vision fuzz. She rolled on her side against the wall and sent up a shield as three tentacles tried to hit her at once.
'I'm not knocked out? But how?' She thought as her vision fuzzed up even more. She felt Kale give a mental shrug and Zelda kept her shield up as the monster kept on battering her, Zelda needed to defeat this monster now unless she wanted to be dead before she could even see Link again! Link, why was it she thinking about him when it was a matter of life and death? She could be dead within a matter of seconds if the monster got a good shot at her and she was thinking about him, the young man who she hardly knew anything about. That wasn't true, she knew enough about him to know that he was a good person, and he had earned that kind of a title inside of her mind, she had even called him a young man, not a boy.
She suddenly smiled, she hadn't called him a boy, she had called him a young man, and after she defeated this monster and helped Kale with her sisters she would be able to see him again. That was something that she could look forward to, seeing him, not matter how stupid that seemed at that moment, that was what she was looking forward to.
Her vision came back, and she looked at the torches that surrounded the room. She created magic darts between her fingers, if this didn't work, then she was dead. Letting her barrier fall, she threw her dart at some of the torches as five tentacles were sent flying towards her. She watched as the darts hit the torches and they all fell, and as the ones closest to the monster made the monster catch fire. Her head turned and she looked as the five tentacles drew upon her, she was taught by the Sheikah ways, and the Sheikah believed in facing their death. They suddenly caught with fire, and they withdrew themselves as the monster screeched in pain, Zelda let her head rest on the floor as she saw the monster burn, and she laid there until the monster was nothing but a pile of hot ash.
Sighing, she slowly stood up, she felt everything move and closed her eyes and put her head in her hands. She took in long deep breaths to keep the oxygen and blood circulating through her body. She felt the blood on her face ran onto her hands, was it that bad? But of course it was, she had been rammed into a wall by a tentacle of course it would be that bad! She sat back down on the floor, what could she do to make the bleeding stop? Kale invisibly hugged Zelda, wishing that she could do something to save this young woman.
Author's Note:
Just to let everyone know, this is taking place just as Zelda started her battle with the freaky weird annoying stick thing-a-ma-bob.
Link reached the spot just as the ceiling fell where he should have been, and he felt the air move around him as the ceiling hit the floor. Navi jumped as it fell and Lale simply let herself go through the ceiling, the ceiling slowly went back up, and Link sighed and waited for the ceiling to fall so he could look for another spot to run to. The ceiling fell again, and another spot was revealed.
"Navi, I need you to go that spot over there where the ceiling doesn't fall."
"What? Why can't you just go on top of the ceiling?"
"Because it's too high for me, and if I don't get to a place where it doesn't fall then I'll be crushed."
"Fine! Just wait right here!"
Navi floated out of Link's collar and waited for the ceiling to fall, once it did and it began to go back up, Navi went under it when it was hardly three inches off the ground. She made it well before the ceiling can crashing down again, and Link waited for the perfect moment to run to the place where Navi was.
"Ok, Navi don't move, I'm going to use you as something like a guide."
"Alright!"
The ceiling fell, and slowly began its way back up; Link sprinted to the spot where Navi was. He made it a few seconds before the ceiling came back down, and again sighed as Lale floated over to them. She kept on going until she was on the other side of the room and then waited next to the door. Navi didn't even let Link give the command as she flew off to the next safe spot. Again, Link sprinted and made it just as the ceiling fell down. They did this together for at least five more times, and then finally made it to the other side of the room. Link took no time and opened the door to the next room. The next room had a pit that lead all the way to the other side of the room. "Well this is great, how the heck am I supposed to get across?" Lale floated over the pit and over to the other side, she turned around and faced him. "There is a way that you can get over here without killing yourself, I don't know how though." Link nodded to her, and then faced the pit with determination. There was a way to get over this; he just had to figure it out. Navi fluttered to the center of it and began looking around.
"Link, I don't see how you can get across!"
"I don't either Navi."
He looked around and saw vines that stretched to the other side of the room, and an idea clicked inside his head.
"Hey Navi, would you say that these vines could support my weight? The ones on the walls?"
Navi flew over to them and inspected them with careful eyes.
"Barely, you aren't thinking of climbing them are you?"
"That's what I did when I had to get to the entrance of this Temple, isn't it?"
"Yeah, you're right, just don't slip!"
Navi joined Lale at the other side of the room, and Link went to the side where Navi had inspected. He got a tight grip on it, and then he placed a foot on it as well, once he had finally gotten his other foot and hand on the vines he began to climb them. He felt his breath go in uneven paces, and he couldn't blame himself for being scared. If he slipped, it would be all over, but these weren't wet like the ones outside of the Temple were, but then this one had a pit, and Link didn't want find out what was at the bottom.
He was almost to the end of the room when a part of the vines began to catch fire, and it quickly spread to the other vines. Link moved faster, and thought this inside of himself with anger, 'Can't this stupid temple just quit trying to kill me for at least five minutes?' He jumped off the vines, and saw that the fire had just about been close enough to engulf him. He took in a deep breath, and then walked over to Navi and Lale with a satisfacted smile.
"Well, I'm not dead, isn't that nice?"
Lale smiled back at him and then floated over to the door, and then floated through it. Link opened it and saw that this room was dark, and in the center was a flat fountain. Pink fairies floated around the water, and some of them were splashing each other and giggling. Link slowly walked forward and five of the pink fairies flew up to him, they circled him and let their magic touch and heal his skin. Once they finished they floated back to their fountain and continued playing. Link kept on walking until he was in the fountain itself, and then Navi zoomed forward and began greeting her sisters, all pink fairies were female, the reason was unknown. After she was finished, Link cleared his throat to get the other fairies attention, once he did, he began speaking.
"Have any of you seen a Korkori girl with green hair, eyes, and tunic?"
"Nope!" They all answered him at the same time; they still kept their eyes on him.
"Ok, do you know where an exit is? I mean in this room?"
"Go to the right and you'll see a door that leads to a hall, it isn't twisted though, this one will lead you several different ways, depending on the door you chose. One door is deadly, so chose wisely!"
Link put a hand through his bangs and sighed, the fairies all still watched him contently. One of the pink fairies floated up to him
"There is someone that you are looking for?" She asked, high-pitched but not as much as Navi's.
"Uh, well kind of, but kind of no."
"There is one other like you in this place, though she isn't a Korkori, if you want to see her, then go to the fifth door on your right!"
Link's attention was immediately caught by the fairies information.
"Zelda? How is it that you can know where she is?"
All of the fairies answered him at once, and they also jumped and started to float around him too.
"We can sense when a life is danger!"
"What? What kind of danger is she in?"
"We don't know, but we know that she's hurt!"
Link stopped putting his hand through his hair and then went off to the right, and three fairies followed him. Lale followed as well, and Link kept on walking but glanced at her.
"Lale, I'm sorry for this, but she's my partner, we had to split earlier so that way we could try and get through the temple faster."
"It's alright, I don't mind. Besides, I know what's like to lose someone that you care about."
Was about to correct her when he realized that was right, if he didn't care about Zelda, then he wouldn't be going off to make sure that she was alright. Instead, he told Kale this, "I care about her in a friends was, not romantic."
"Of course, that's what I meant."
Link ran into the wall, and then rubbed his sore nose; Navi flew around the wall until she found the door that lead to the hall the pink fairies had told them about. Link walked over and then stopped rubbing his nose; he opened the door, and then saw a hallway that had at least fifteen doors on each side. The Pink Fairies flew in front of Link and then stopped at the fifth door to the right. Link followed them, and then opened the door.
When he walked in, the room was lit on one side, but on his side all there was was a pile of ash, some parts gray and some parts still red and steamy. On the other side sat Zelda, who was cradling her head as she sat down on the floor. Link ran to her, he knelt down and Zelda moved her hands and then looked up at Link. Link watched as blood from her head ran down her face.
"Is that you Link?" she asked him in a voice like she had just had a bag of drugs.
"Yes it's me, what the hell happened to you?"
"Battle, got rammed into the wall, right above me, it's all fuzzy though, so I can't really tell if that's where I was thrown."
"What's fuzzy?"
"Everything, I was able to tell it was you by your hair and then blob of green on the bottom. What are those pink thingies?"
Link looked at the Pink Fairies, and they floated over to Zelda, and then began to work there magic on her, and the bleeding on her head stopped and healed immediately. After a few seconds, Zelda sat up more, and the fairies flew back over to Link.
"Oh, it is you isn't it Link?" She asked him in her normal voice, as she tried to wipe away the blood on her face but only smeared it. She reached down and ripped a small part of her tunic and then began wiping her face. Then, when she was finished, she spoke again, but this time a different voice came out.
"Is that your name? Link, that sounds like a chord or wire, funny name."
Link almost jumped out his skin, that wasn't Zelda's voice! Zelda put a hand on her mouth, and then talked again, but this time it was hers.
"Sorry Link, I'm sharing a body with a spirit right now, her name is Kale."
"Kale? Wait, that sounds like Lale."
"Yep, it does doesn't it? Oh, who's that ghost over there?"
Zelda pointed to Lale, and Lale smiled and waved at her.
"Her name is Kale, and she's a Korkori spirit, she was, murdered her, and I'm trying to help her free some of the other Korkori, they're trapped in portraits, if that makes any sense to you."
"Actually it does, I'm helping Kale free her three sisters from portraits as well, and when she was killed she was around her early twenties, that's right isn't it, Kale?"
"I was twenty-one, and it's nice to see you again Lale."
Lale floated over to Zelda and then looked Zelda in the eyes.
"You can control magic?" she asked Zelda.
"Yes, how did you know?"
"Only those with magic can a spirit posses, that's why I didn't try and share a body a with Link."
Zelda slowly got off the ground, and Link helped her up, when she was back on her feet, she looked Link in the eye.
"Link, thank you."
"For what?"
"For saving my life, if you hadn't come here, then I would have been dead! When I say thank you, I mean it with all of my heart."
Link stared at Zelda for a while, and then smiled at her, she smiled back at him, and he led her back to the hallway with multiple doors.
I know that some of you might want to kill for letting Zelda get the worst damage, but let me tell you this, if it had been Link, then he would of ended up just like her. Because she got the short end of the stick when she faced that monster! And I was going to make the ending of this chapter a little different, but I didn't want to keep any of you guys waiting. And if you have noticed, I have put another story, but that one is GoldenSun, and the evil muses will be there to bother me again! T.T But since I'm writing this story which as a most of you have guessed will be HUGE the GoldenSun story is going to be one of those few chapter ones. And I know that the name to this chapter was bad, but I couldn't think one!
Navi: See, now that was better chapter!
And if the name's Kale and Lale were mixed up, then sorry, because for a whole period of time I was calling Lale, Kale, and I tried to fix it, but I might have missed some. And I also just noticed in this chapter that their names are almost the same! I can't believe I did that, so, if some of you could maybe give me some names for some of the ghosts, then that would be GREAT. I hate trying to make up names; I just can't make names up. But whenever I try and use a real name, they suck, and so I just make them up anyway.
Navi: That's a good point, I mean, what kind of a name is Lale?
Don't rub it in.
Navi: Ok, now please review!
That's my line!
Navi: Not any more!
Grrr... So until next time,
CrypticElf....
(Begins to rip box to pieces. Leans over to check what's inside.)
What the hell...?
(White light jumps out of box.)
Hello, it's me, the one and only Navi!
O.o You have GOT to be kidding me!
Navi: Is it good to be out of that box! Hey are you CrypticElf?
Ermmmm yeah, why?
Navi: I have been sent to watch over you by Link, because he told me that this fan fiction sucks, and that something obviously bothering you.
Link cares about me? I feel so gooey and weird now!
Navi: Actually he didn't say that, I just told you that so you wouldn't feel bad!
T.T Gee, thanks.
You are welcome new friend! And do not worry, I shall protect you, I am your new muse!
WHAT? A new muse is the last thing that I need, I already have three others!
Navi: I actually have something from the muse company, it reads:
The muses Hail, Sleet, and Gust from now on may only appear on GoldenSun fanfictions.
Signed,
The Muses Incorporated
What?
Navi: Yep. Its right here in ink, want me to read again?
No, but... I'm... I'm... I AM FREE! NO MORE TORCHERING MUSES!
Navi: But whenever you write GoldenSun fanfictions, they'll come back, that doesn't bother you?
Are you kidding? Of course it doesn't! So, you're my new muse for this fanfiction?
Navi: Yes, and if anything will try and hurt you, I will be there to protect you!
A floating light protect me, how nice.
Navi: I know, that's awesome isn't it? Ok, here's the fic!
(White light appears and then the chapter appears.)
Navi: CrypticElf owns nothing of Zelda and never will! Read on readers, and don't forget to review!
Chapter Twelve: Deeper into the Forest Temple
Zelda/Kale had entered a room, but the only problem was that they couldn't even see Zelda's nose in the darkness. The door was locked, and for some reason Zelda couldn't use any of her magic.
"Kale, why can't I use my magic?"
"This room has a spell on it; it makes all white magic die."
"Die?"
"Well, until you get out of this room, then you can't use a drop of it."
"That's just great to hear...."
"I wish that I could help. But I've never seen this room before, I'm sorry. I usual just around this room sense I can pass through walls. Sorry again."
"Hey, it isn't your fault."
The spirit didn't reply back, and Zelda stayed where she was. There was only one way she could get out of this.
"Lale, is it only gray magic that gets affected?"
"White and gray. Not black."
Zelda smiled to herself, and then closed her eyes.
"Lale, I'm going to do something, I don't want you to freak or anything."
Whispering under her breath, she chanted,
"Ka sha homani shashi nomali lebequina, Sheik."
Zelda felt her body change into a Sheikah body, the body of a young man.
"Zelda, what did you do? That was black magic."
"From now on," said Sheik in his voice not Zelda's, "Or whenever I'm in this form, call me Sheik. I use that Sheikah magic to turn myself into a young Sheikah male."
"But I sense that you are still a female!"
"I know, all that I do is alter my body and change my voice and my clothes. I don't change my gender."
"That's interesting."
"Yes it is, and with my transformation I can now use Sheikah magic. The way it works is that when I got this form it was from a Sheikah woman, what she did was put Sheikah magic around my body and it turned me into Sheik. But the only way I can get to this magic is to chant what I just said and then I will turn into this, and with it comes a better body and black magic. I can't use my other magic now, I'm not sure why. Make sense?"
"A little, I can understand what you mean."
"Right now I can see in the dark like its daylight, it's a kind of Black Magic that ONLY the Sheikah have. But unfortunately, what I can see isn't very good."
"What do you see?"
"Something that looks like a giant Fly Eating Plant. Just imagine it at least, let's say, seven larger?"
"That is not good, is it?"
"How did you figure that out?"
Fly eating plants were plants that ate flies and small insects; they were five feet in height and barely inches wide. (Just remember the weird thin things in the Great Deku Tree where you could get Deku Sticks, just not the size part.) The monster in front of Sheik and Lale looked nearly the same, but had different colors, was way larger, had teeth at least two- feet long dripping with yellow bubbly venom, five green eyes the size of wagon wheel and also to make it even better it had about a dozen tentacles with thorns on them the size of a dagger. It wasn't asleep either; it was just waiting for the perfect moment to attack. Sheik looked around it and saw that there were unlit torches, and also saw a statue of an attacking Wolfos nearby.
'That statue must be the key to making this room filled with light. I think I can move faster then that thing can.'
Moving as fast as his legs would carry him, Sheik ran to the statue, the giant plant didn't even seem to mind, this was just more fun for it to it to have. Sheik got to the statue and pushed on it, it moved at his touch and all of the torches burst with light.
"Oh, in Farore's name...." said Lale a surprised yet dulled voice as she saw the monster.
Sheik looked at the plant with careful eyes, searching for a weakness, and he knew that the monster was as doing the same as well. It seemed that Sheik the Sheikah wouldn't do that well for this job.
"Aniuqebel ilamon ihsahs inamoh ash ak, Zelda."
Zelda returned, and she looked at the monster as she crouched down but didn't get on her knees. Her hands lit up with black magic, gray magic was silver or gray, white magic was either white or a rainbow, and black magic dark colors. Zelda was a sorceress of gray magic, and she could control both white and black, and gray was both of them mixed together. Right now it seemed that black magic would do the best, and her hands glowed with a dark purple. The monster saw this and spit out some of its yellow venom, Zelda created a shield to stop the venom; it hit the barrier and sizzled as it slowly went down.
"Zelda, how do you plan to defeat this monster?"
"I don't have a plan right now, if you really want to know."
"Actually I don't think that I did."
The monster studied her, its green eyes making sure not to miss a single piece of information about her body. Zelda studied it too, her hands still lit up with magic. She couldn't use Sheik in this battle, because his attacks were for building up damage with his speed and swiftness, but what Zelda needed was a well made attack to instantly finish it off, and Sheik couldn't do that. But now that Zelda was in her Zelda form, she was still left clueless about what to do. She needed help; Impa would know what to do.
If she thought like Impa would, then maybe she could win this battle! Ok, first, Impa would look for a weakness, and Zelda had already done that. So next... Impa would start attacking the weak point, WHAT weak point was there? Zelda sighed in failure, she would just have to do this by her own planning, not Impa's.
"Kale, do you know anything about this monster?"
"Afraid not, I am sorry."
"Thanks anyway."
The monster spat venom, and again Zelda sent her barrier back up. She couldn't just sit here and drain her magic with a shield, she had to do something.
Zelda got up and stood with her hands still up glowing with purple, then, when the moment seemed right, she ran and began throwing her magic in forms of disks. The monster sent one of its tentacles at her head. Zelda ducked and then threw another disk, this one missing it by a mile, it hit the roof and a part of the roof collapsed and landed on one of the torches. Zelda ran a little farther when a tentacle flew towards her feet, she jumped and threw a blast of magic as it went under her to make her magic go farther up and also do some damage.
The monster paid no attention to its new and bloody wound and spat out venom three times in a row, and Zelda turned around and ran in the other direction. One of the venom balls hit the bottom of Zelda's tunic and it hissed as it touched the white cloth. Zelda ripped off part of the bottom of her tunic before it continued to burn away her tunic. 'At least I wear a shirt and shorts under this,' she thought sarcastically to herself and Kale for comfort. She heard Kale giggle inside her, also trying to not make the situation as bad as it was. Zelda kept on running and another tentacle went towards her, this time it went to her center and Zelda let herself fall down so that it wouldn't hit her. But she foolishly forgot about the thorns and it caught the back of her tunic and her skin, it hooked onto her and it carried her up. It sent her flying into the wall headfirst, she fell to the ground and felt blood begin go down her forehead, she touched the blood and felt her vision fuzz. She rolled on her side against the wall and sent up a shield as three tentacles tried to hit her at once.
'I'm not knocked out? But how?' She thought as her vision fuzzed up even more. She felt Kale give a mental shrug and Zelda kept her shield up as the monster kept on battering her, Zelda needed to defeat this monster now unless she wanted to be dead before she could even see Link again! Link, why was it she thinking about him when it was a matter of life and death? She could be dead within a matter of seconds if the monster got a good shot at her and she was thinking about him, the young man who she hardly knew anything about. That wasn't true, she knew enough about him to know that he was a good person, and he had earned that kind of a title inside of her mind, she had even called him a young man, not a boy.
She suddenly smiled, she hadn't called him a boy, she had called him a young man, and after she defeated this monster and helped Kale with her sisters she would be able to see him again. That was something that she could look forward to, seeing him, not matter how stupid that seemed at that moment, that was what she was looking forward to.
Her vision came back, and she looked at the torches that surrounded the room. She created magic darts between her fingers, if this didn't work, then she was dead. Letting her barrier fall, she threw her dart at some of the torches as five tentacles were sent flying towards her. She watched as the darts hit the torches and they all fell, and as the ones closest to the monster made the monster catch fire. Her head turned and she looked as the five tentacles drew upon her, she was taught by the Sheikah ways, and the Sheikah believed in facing their death. They suddenly caught with fire, and they withdrew themselves as the monster screeched in pain, Zelda let her head rest on the floor as she saw the monster burn, and she laid there until the monster was nothing but a pile of hot ash.
Sighing, she slowly stood up, she felt everything move and closed her eyes and put her head in her hands. She took in long deep breaths to keep the oxygen and blood circulating through her body. She felt the blood on her face ran onto her hands, was it that bad? But of course it was, she had been rammed into a wall by a tentacle of course it would be that bad! She sat back down on the floor, what could she do to make the bleeding stop? Kale invisibly hugged Zelda, wishing that she could do something to save this young woman.
Author's Note:
Just to let everyone know, this is taking place just as Zelda started her battle with the freaky weird annoying stick thing-a-ma-bob.
Link reached the spot just as the ceiling fell where he should have been, and he felt the air move around him as the ceiling hit the floor. Navi jumped as it fell and Lale simply let herself go through the ceiling, the ceiling slowly went back up, and Link sighed and waited for the ceiling to fall so he could look for another spot to run to. The ceiling fell again, and another spot was revealed.
"Navi, I need you to go that spot over there where the ceiling doesn't fall."
"What? Why can't you just go on top of the ceiling?"
"Because it's too high for me, and if I don't get to a place where it doesn't fall then I'll be crushed."
"Fine! Just wait right here!"
Navi floated out of Link's collar and waited for the ceiling to fall, once it did and it began to go back up, Navi went under it when it was hardly three inches off the ground. She made it well before the ceiling can crashing down again, and Link waited for the perfect moment to run to the place where Navi was.
"Ok, Navi don't move, I'm going to use you as something like a guide."
"Alright!"
The ceiling fell, and slowly began its way back up; Link sprinted to the spot where Navi was. He made it a few seconds before the ceiling came back down, and again sighed as Lale floated over to them. She kept on going until she was on the other side of the room and then waited next to the door. Navi didn't even let Link give the command as she flew off to the next safe spot. Again, Link sprinted and made it just as the ceiling fell down. They did this together for at least five more times, and then finally made it to the other side of the room. Link took no time and opened the door to the next room. The next room had a pit that lead all the way to the other side of the room. "Well this is great, how the heck am I supposed to get across?" Lale floated over the pit and over to the other side, she turned around and faced him. "There is a way that you can get over here without killing yourself, I don't know how though." Link nodded to her, and then faced the pit with determination. There was a way to get over this; he just had to figure it out. Navi fluttered to the center of it and began looking around.
"Link, I don't see how you can get across!"
"I don't either Navi."
He looked around and saw vines that stretched to the other side of the room, and an idea clicked inside his head.
"Hey Navi, would you say that these vines could support my weight? The ones on the walls?"
Navi flew over to them and inspected them with careful eyes.
"Barely, you aren't thinking of climbing them are you?"
"That's what I did when I had to get to the entrance of this Temple, isn't it?"
"Yeah, you're right, just don't slip!"
Navi joined Lale at the other side of the room, and Link went to the side where Navi had inspected. He got a tight grip on it, and then he placed a foot on it as well, once he had finally gotten his other foot and hand on the vines he began to climb them. He felt his breath go in uneven paces, and he couldn't blame himself for being scared. If he slipped, it would be all over, but these weren't wet like the ones outside of the Temple were, but then this one had a pit, and Link didn't want find out what was at the bottom.
He was almost to the end of the room when a part of the vines began to catch fire, and it quickly spread to the other vines. Link moved faster, and thought this inside of himself with anger, 'Can't this stupid temple just quit trying to kill me for at least five minutes?' He jumped off the vines, and saw that the fire had just about been close enough to engulf him. He took in a deep breath, and then walked over to Navi and Lale with a satisfacted smile.
"Well, I'm not dead, isn't that nice?"
Lale smiled back at him and then floated over to the door, and then floated through it. Link opened it and saw that this room was dark, and in the center was a flat fountain. Pink fairies floated around the water, and some of them were splashing each other and giggling. Link slowly walked forward and five of the pink fairies flew up to him, they circled him and let their magic touch and heal his skin. Once they finished they floated back to their fountain and continued playing. Link kept on walking until he was in the fountain itself, and then Navi zoomed forward and began greeting her sisters, all pink fairies were female, the reason was unknown. After she was finished, Link cleared his throat to get the other fairies attention, once he did, he began speaking.
"Have any of you seen a Korkori girl with green hair, eyes, and tunic?"
"Nope!" They all answered him at the same time; they still kept their eyes on him.
"Ok, do you know where an exit is? I mean in this room?"
"Go to the right and you'll see a door that leads to a hall, it isn't twisted though, this one will lead you several different ways, depending on the door you chose. One door is deadly, so chose wisely!"
Link put a hand through his bangs and sighed, the fairies all still watched him contently. One of the pink fairies floated up to him
"There is someone that you are looking for?" She asked, high-pitched but not as much as Navi's.
"Uh, well kind of, but kind of no."
"There is one other like you in this place, though she isn't a Korkori, if you want to see her, then go to the fifth door on your right!"
Link's attention was immediately caught by the fairies information.
"Zelda? How is it that you can know where she is?"
All of the fairies answered him at once, and they also jumped and started to float around him too.
"We can sense when a life is danger!"
"What? What kind of danger is she in?"
"We don't know, but we know that she's hurt!"
Link stopped putting his hand through his hair and then went off to the right, and three fairies followed him. Lale followed as well, and Link kept on walking but glanced at her.
"Lale, I'm sorry for this, but she's my partner, we had to split earlier so that way we could try and get through the temple faster."
"It's alright, I don't mind. Besides, I know what's like to lose someone that you care about."
Was about to correct her when he realized that was right, if he didn't care about Zelda, then he wouldn't be going off to make sure that she was alright. Instead, he told Kale this, "I care about her in a friends was, not romantic."
"Of course, that's what I meant."
Link ran into the wall, and then rubbed his sore nose; Navi flew around the wall until she found the door that lead to the hall the pink fairies had told them about. Link walked over and then stopped rubbing his nose; he opened the door, and then saw a hallway that had at least fifteen doors on each side. The Pink Fairies flew in front of Link and then stopped at the fifth door to the right. Link followed them, and then opened the door.
When he walked in, the room was lit on one side, but on his side all there was was a pile of ash, some parts gray and some parts still red and steamy. On the other side sat Zelda, who was cradling her head as she sat down on the floor. Link ran to her, he knelt down and Zelda moved her hands and then looked up at Link. Link watched as blood from her head ran down her face.
"Is that you Link?" she asked him in a voice like she had just had a bag of drugs.
"Yes it's me, what the hell happened to you?"
"Battle, got rammed into the wall, right above me, it's all fuzzy though, so I can't really tell if that's where I was thrown."
"What's fuzzy?"
"Everything, I was able to tell it was you by your hair and then blob of green on the bottom. What are those pink thingies?"
Link looked at the Pink Fairies, and they floated over to Zelda, and then began to work there magic on her, and the bleeding on her head stopped and healed immediately. After a few seconds, Zelda sat up more, and the fairies flew back over to Link.
"Oh, it is you isn't it Link?" She asked him in her normal voice, as she tried to wipe away the blood on her face but only smeared it. She reached down and ripped a small part of her tunic and then began wiping her face. Then, when she was finished, she spoke again, but this time a different voice came out.
"Is that your name? Link, that sounds like a chord or wire, funny name."
Link almost jumped out his skin, that wasn't Zelda's voice! Zelda put a hand on her mouth, and then talked again, but this time it was hers.
"Sorry Link, I'm sharing a body with a spirit right now, her name is Kale."
"Kale? Wait, that sounds like Lale."
"Yep, it does doesn't it? Oh, who's that ghost over there?"
Zelda pointed to Lale, and Lale smiled and waved at her.
"Her name is Kale, and she's a Korkori spirit, she was, murdered her, and I'm trying to help her free some of the other Korkori, they're trapped in portraits, if that makes any sense to you."
"Actually it does, I'm helping Kale free her three sisters from portraits as well, and when she was killed she was around her early twenties, that's right isn't it, Kale?"
"I was twenty-one, and it's nice to see you again Lale."
Lale floated over to Zelda and then looked Zelda in the eyes.
"You can control magic?" she asked Zelda.
"Yes, how did you know?"
"Only those with magic can a spirit posses, that's why I didn't try and share a body a with Link."
Zelda slowly got off the ground, and Link helped her up, when she was back on her feet, she looked Link in the eye.
"Link, thank you."
"For what?"
"For saving my life, if you hadn't come here, then I would have been dead! When I say thank you, I mean it with all of my heart."
Link stared at Zelda for a while, and then smiled at her, she smiled back at him, and he led her back to the hallway with multiple doors.
I know that some of you might want to kill for letting Zelda get the worst damage, but let me tell you this, if it had been Link, then he would of ended up just like her. Because she got the short end of the stick when she faced that monster! And I was going to make the ending of this chapter a little different, but I didn't want to keep any of you guys waiting. And if you have noticed, I have put another story, but that one is GoldenSun, and the evil muses will be there to bother me again! T.T But since I'm writing this story which as a most of you have guessed will be HUGE the GoldenSun story is going to be one of those few chapter ones. And I know that the name to this chapter was bad, but I couldn't think one!
Navi: See, now that was better chapter!
And if the name's Kale and Lale were mixed up, then sorry, because for a whole period of time I was calling Lale, Kale, and I tried to fix it, but I might have missed some. And I also just noticed in this chapter that their names are almost the same! I can't believe I did that, so, if some of you could maybe give me some names for some of the ghosts, then that would be GREAT. I hate trying to make up names; I just can't make names up. But whenever I try and use a real name, they suck, and so I just make them up anyway.
Navi: That's a good point, I mean, what kind of a name is Lale?
Don't rub it in.
Navi: Ok, now please review!
That's my line!
Navi: Not any more!
Grrr... So until next time,
CrypticElf....