Old Evil, New Hero

Chapter 11: Over the River and Through the Woods

Disclaimer: I still don't own Zelda. The good folks at Nintendo do. If I did own Zelda, then 1) I'd be a very wealthy individual and 2) the next Zelda game would be out already, but I don't, so

suing me will get you a ball of lint and a used tissue.

On with the story...

Nara looked around as she rode Wildfire, at a walking pace, through the woods.

"Something's not right, here," she grumbled to herself as the feeling that something was wrong grew stronger.

"I should try to follow this feeling."

"Good idea, Nara," Natl agreed as she sat on the Hylian's shoulder.

The feeling grew stronger as the small group approached a boulder in the woods.

"Great...that's just great...how the hell am I supposed to move that!" Nara complained.

"I don't have any bombs!"

"But there's a bomb flower right next to the boulder, Nara," Natl explained calmly.

"If you hit it with your sword, it'll blow up, taking the boulder with it."

"Oh," Nara said sheepishly, a bead of sweat running down the side of her head.

She unsheathed the Master Sword and struck the bomb flower once, then ran back to a safe distance, Natl and Wildfire following. A few seconds later, the bomb flower exploded, taking the boulder with it. Underneath the boulder, there was a staircase leading down.

"I wonder where that goes. Well, only one way to find out," she said as she tied Wildfire to a sturdy tree and unhooked her shield from her back.

Taking a deep breath to muster her courage, she started down the stairs, ready for anything. When she reached the bottom of the stairs, she looked around. The area was huge. There were massive stone columns supporting the underground structure, and the walls were lined with bricks of marble.

"Okay, now I know I'm in the right spot," she said to the fairy. "Let's get this over with."

With that, she headed toward the door at the end of the first chamber.

To be continued...

A/N: Yes, this shortchapter was just to get Nara into the first dungeon, as well as to add another chapter to this fic. I'll try not to go so long without an update in the future(writing this will most likely get easier as Zelda 2005 gets closer to release and I'm more in that "Zelda Mood").

I'm trying to do things that haven't already been done to death in the games. So, she's probably not going to collect anything, just defeat the bosses of the dungeons to eliminate their evil. She might get a few new weapons, though.

In the games, the dungeon entrances were fairly obvious(in the original Zelda, most of the dungeon entrances were massive above-ground structures, for example). My dungeon entrances will be more subtle(blow up a boulder, burn down a tree, things like that).

As usual comments/constructive criticism/undying love for the author will be appreciated. Flames will be used to heat up my room and the flamer will be fed to Volvagia.

Until next chapter...