The Forsaken Fortress
Link smashed into a wall face first.
Unconscious, he slid down the wall a few feet, and fell into the water. The boy immediately awoke and swam back up, the cold water bringing him back to his senses.
After swimming to the shore, Link lay down.
"Ah, crap, my head! Man, this is almost worse than a hangover..."
He looked up at his surroundings.
"Well, at least it looks like I got inside..."
Link sat on a rock, took out a notepad dubbed, "People to Kill," and a pencil, then added "Tetra and the Pirates" to the list.
He wiped his nose, only to find blood on his sleeve after doing so.
"Now I have a nose bleed! Dammit! I'm going to get that good-for-nothing pirate chick! I'm gonna throw her off her own ship!" He growled.
Link felt around his clothes.
"WHERE THE HELL IS MY SWORD? THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!"
But then he felt a huge vibration in his left pocket.
"OH MY GOD, THE EPOCOLIPSE!" He screamed, ducking for cover.
Then Link heard Tetra's voice, and he pulled a glowing stone from his pocket.
"Link! This is my talking stone thing, and I can talk to you through it!" Tetra's voice said.
"How the hell is that gonna help anything?" Link asked.
"I can give you advice! Well, look, there's this window that all these seagulls are surrounding. Maybe your sister's there! Well, can't help you anymore! I have better things to do!" Then the stone stopped glowing.
Link's eyes narrowed with anger, "Oh gee, thanks for your help!"
He stuffed the rock back in his pocket, and climbed to his feet.
Next to him were some stone stairs, so he climbed them. The stairs led to a flat, secluded area that was being bathed in the light of the searchlights.
Link figured he had to avoid these.
He climbed the next set of stairs, which led to a long hallway thing.
Then he walked to the door at the other end, and cautiously peeked in. There were some barrels, a map, two strange, muscular pig things with lanterns, and a door at the other end. The pig things looked pretty stupid, and Link guessed that's what they were, being stupid himself.
Link hid under one of the barrels, and began to tiptoe across the room. He peeked through a hole in the barrel to see where he was going. He could see that he was near a map in the middle of the room now, and the creatures were too stupid to notice him it seemed.
"I'm unstoppable!" Link gloated gleefully.
One of the pigs grunted and looked around, hearing the noise.
Link gulped louder than he'd hoped.
The pig turned and saw the shaking barrel and lunged at it, lantern held high. He began sniffing it, with Link whimpering like a helpless puppy.
The thing, which was called a moblin, threw its lantern at the barrel! "OW! MY ASS! IT BURNS! OOOOOOOOOH, THE PAIN! EEEEEE! MAKE IT STOP!" Link whined.
He tumbled out of the burning barrel, his rear end aflame.
"STOP, DROP AND ROLL! STOP, DROP AND ROLL!" Link screamed, stopping, dropping and rolling.
The pig watched him, then seized him by his hair.
"Ouch! Ok, that hurts! You can put me down now! I beg you! I COMMAND YOU!" The boy cried desperately.
But the pig didn't listen, of course. It threw him into a cold cell and shut and locked the door.
Link whined, feeling frustrated and incredibly sore.
He stood up on the table in the middle of the cell and kicked the silverware off of it. He needed some way to release his anger.
Link stared at the top of the bookshelf where a nice vase sat.
He grinned evilly. Maybe it was really valuable, and he could break it for revenge!
So he growled, and leaped to the top of the bookshelf. He smashed the vase, and it fell to the floor, broken. Link raised his eyebrows as he spotted a secret passageway where the vase had been.
It was just big enough for him to crawl through!
And that he did. It frustrated Link to be in such tight quarters, but he just took deep breaths and hurried along as fast as possible.
Finally, he came to an opening and peered out.
The coast was clear!
Link inched slowly out of the passageway, and looked around.
He was standing on a stone ledge. The floor was cut away after that, and then it formed a new ledge. There was also a lantern hanging. He decided to swing across the rope attaching the lantern, as he had done in Niko's test.
"Here it goes..." Link muttered, taking a deep breath.
He began to run, leap into the air, and just managed to cling to the rope.
"Phew! Boy, that was close!" Link said grinning, "I'm just so cool!" Link ran a hand through his hair, being the arrogant person he was.
He began to swing on the rope, preparing to jump to the other side. When he had swung enough, he leaped, letting go of the rope, and fell flat on his face on the other side.
His nose began to bleed again, and he rubbed it.
"Oh crap, not another nose bleed!"