Chp.2: Bow of the Sage
The next day Link was lying on a bed inside of a small house, "is he alright?" The voice was familiar to Link.
"Yes I healed his wound and he will be back on his feet, but he won't be able to do anything for a few hours, because he needs time to recuperate," he sighs and continues. "The blood of the spider didn't spread through his body, he is a very lucky young man."
"Is the blood poisonous?"
"Well, I wouldn't say that, the blood turns whoever it contaminates into a dark spawn."
"Dark spawn?" Link suddenly knew who the man was; it was Shlakey.
"Yes, thanks to you the blood hasn't contaminated him,"
"May I ask: what is a dark spawn?"
The man sighs and says, "they are evil creatures who take over living things as their hosts and become much more powerful than they already are."
Link gets out of the bed and stretches, "Link? Are you awake?" Shlakey walks in the room, "ha, finally you have awoken."
"How long have I been out?" Shlakey pushes Link back on the bed.
"Long enough," Shlakey puts his hand on Link's shoulder. "You can't be up now, you have to rest until your leg recuperates from the wound."
Shlakey walks out of the room. An old man who was short and fat came into the room, "so, you are Link... it's a pleasure to meet you on a time like this." He sits down on a chair and stares at Link's leg that was wrapped in a niggonii leaf, "that's rare to see a young man like yourself survive an attack like that."
Link lies down and looks at the ceiling, "what was that spider?"
"It was a razor, mother of the dark spawns, you know what a dark spawn is, right?" He looks at Link waiting for his answer.
Of course Link knew what a razor was, he overheard Shlakey and the old man talking about it. "Yes, I know what they are," he shuts his eyes and smiles.
"Well, goodnight!" The old man stands up and nods, then walks out.
"Goodnight..." Link says and falls asleep.
Later that night, a shadow dashed passed the window in the room. "Huh?" Link sits up and looks around; "I have a bad feeling about this..." he stands up and looks for his equipment.
"Looking for this?"
"What?" Link turns around and sees a man in a black suit similar to a ninja's. The man was holding a plain long sword. "Who are you? And give me back my sword!"
"Here you go," he tosses the sword and Link catches it. "The Great Link wearing a night gown?" He laughs and draws his sword.
"Shut up! What's your name?" Link held his sword tightly with anger filling him.
"I am Nightcrawler, a dark spawn." He charges at Link with amazing speed.
"Dark spawn?" Link tries to dodge the attack, but the intense pain on his leg drops him. "Aahh!" Link screams in pain, the old man came rushing in holding a shovel and the spawn disappeared.
The old man gasps and says, "a dark spawn..." he looks at Link, "Link! You're out of bed!"
Link sits on his bed, "Nightcrawler..."
"What? No, no more of them! I have to end your life!" He draws the Kaywy dagger, now in its normal color. He attempts to kill Link but Shlakey stops him.
"No, you will not kill him! He is our only hope to bring back peace into this land!" The old man looks at Link and back at Shlakey.
The old man falls to his chair and looks up, "I... didn't know... I had no idea..." the old man starts to cry, "Please forgive me..."
Shlakey pats him on the back, "I know you're scared, Saltros... I'm sorry about your brother, but there is no cure for his cursed state..."
"Of all people, why him? There are others around Hyrule but why him?" He stands up and leaves the room, sobbing.
Link's eyes widen, "Nightcrawler is Saltros' brother?"
"Yes, his name is Elios."
"Elios, the messenger guy? We were friends... he disappeared two years ago... I will kill whoever did this to him!" Link tried to stand but the pain on his leg didn't allow him.
Shlakey took Link's sword and says, "you just go to sleep and I'll protect you until you recover."
The Hero of Time goes to sleep. The great warrior, Shlakey, pulled out the Omega Blade, "my precious sword, I won't let anyone take you away from me..."
He sighed and put his blade away.
He looks over and sees the Kaywy dagger turn back into the crimson color; he then picked up Link's sword and got ready to fight. "Nightcrawler, where are you?" He looked around and saw him, "ah ha! There you are, now I can kill you and let Elios' soul rest in peace!"
Nightcrawler charges towards Shlakey, he tries to chop the warrior's head off, but he blocked the attack. They fought a hard battle, one trying to kill the other in a very unpleasant way. Shlakey jumps and kicks off the roof trying to attempt an aerial slash, but it was avoided and counter attacked by kicking him on the face.
Shlakey punches the spawn and the other stabs Shlakey in the arm. Link wakes up and sees the fight, "what the!" Nightcrawler spins destroying everything in his path, luckily the warrior dodged it and stabbed him on the side. Dark smoke came out of its wound, "well, nice job. You have injured me," with that said, Nightcrawler disappears and drops a bow.
"The bow of sages..." Shlakey picked it up and gave it to Link. "You will need this, trust me. It has the power of the forest sage," Link takes it and looks at it. "It will help you on your quest."
The bow began to glow regenerating Link back to full health. "My... my leg! It's better!" He jumped to his feet and started to hop around, "now I can go and meet the swamp master!"
"The swamp master?" Saltros walks in, "you need me for something?"
Link raises an eyebrow, "huh? You're the swamp master?"
"Yes, what do you need me for?"
"I need a red sapphire."
"My beautiful sapphire, Sapphy?"
"You named the sapphire Sapphy?"
"Yes, you got a problem with that?"
"No, but may I have it?"
"You have to do something for me," he looks at Link but gets no answer. "You have to free my brother from his dreadful curse."
Link smiles, "no problem! Now that I'm all healed up, I can move more and fight!"
"Shlakey?" Saltros looks around, "he disappeared again..." he smiled and said, "well, be on your way now!" he pushed Link and shut the door behind him.
Link continues his quest, hopping from one tree stump to another and unto a tree trunk. He continued hopping until he reached the entrance to the dungeon, "alright, just another dungeon!"
He walks down a long set of stairs and finds two doors, but one had a long, thick chain around it with a large silver lock. He sighed and went through the other door that took him into a room with gargoyle statues on every corner, torches on every side, and spikes surrounding a chest that blocked it.
"So what do I have to do now?" He asked himself. Then there was a breeze blowing behind him that brought a chill down his spine, literally down his spine! He turned around and saw a gargoyle that was breathing down his back. He looks around and sees three other gargoyles; the gargoyle statues have come to life. "Oh, this can't be good," the gargoyle Knocks Link unto a wall.
Link gets up and draws hi sword, then he got into his spin attack position. Blue aura surrounded his sword, then red aura that was much larger. The gargoyles got closer to him and he started to spin around with red flames spreading around him hitting the gargoyles, but didn't kill them. A gargoyle smacks Link on the face and knocks him down, Link tries to sweep the gargoyle's feet but the gargoyle was as hard as rock. Another gargoyle grabs Link by the arms and tosses him to the other side. "My sword!" His sword was thrown off to a different direction. Without hesitation, Link grabs a quiver full of arrows from a skeleton and draws his bow. He grabs an arrow, bends the bow, aims, and shoots it. The arrow started to glow forest green and it hit a gargoyle, killing it.
"Hey, I like this." The other gargoyles look at their dead brother and start to fly towards Link in rage. Link shoots another arrow, then another, and another. Every arrow hit the gargoyles and they exploded throwing rocks everywhere, Link blocks the incoming rocks with his reliable shield.
There was a sound of small bells and the spikes protecting the chest disappeared. Link opened the chest and found a silver key. He walks back and picks up his sword, then continues his search for Nightcrawler.