ANOTHER CHAPTER READY! Praise me now! I only have four reviews total! For three different stories! Only TWO are for this one! ;-; And on top of it all, nee-san has taken a liking to ignoring me... Make-a me sad... Well, since there are only four reviews, I suppose it can't hurt to reply.

poji73: (OCWStM) Oh, you don't know the half of it. Occasionally I'll wear my green jacket and my green shirt and my green socks and leather shoes and I'll put my ocarina in my pocket, then I put my hood up and BAM! I'm Link! This is the life I lead and any one of my friends can vouch for it. YES, I have friends!
blondie91: Yes, I really do wish I had read your story sooner, for it is MARVELOUS! I gotta finish reading that... But first, this update! I deeply enjoyed writing the bit about inside Lor's mind. Heh, airplanes...
emily: Aerobics? AAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Richard Simmons! AAAH!
mxedcherub: Oh, Kuro's back... just not, like, ALIVE. Follow the yellow brick road? Heh.

Okay, now for something totally random! I have this necklace on that's made of really dense, black metal with gold patterns on it, as well as a scarlet sun in the center. It's hollow, and on the inside is a light-weight metal that collides with the exterior whenever it moves, resulting in a sound like chimes. n.n I love my necklace. Expect to see it in later chapters. Speaking of chapters, here we go with this one!

Chapter 10: Cars and Incarnates

"Stay outta my way!" Link shouted, sword in hand. The passenger of the now demolished car scurried away screaming. There were large metallic beings charging directly at Link from every direction. Then—oh, glorious salvation!—they ceased, allowing Link passage.

"What peculiar monsters," the hero muttered as he sheathed his sword. The 'peculiar monsters' seemed to only pay heed to the even more peculiar multicolored fairies dangling from oddly shaped tree branches. "What a very strange world Lor hails from," he mused, wandering down the street. He eventually bumped into a pedestrian.

"Ye gads, man!" Link exclaimed. "For Goddesses' sake, your pants are so low your undergarments are showing!" The accused turned around abruptly and seized Link by his tunic collar. "You talkin' to me, punk?" he sneered. The captive hero pried himself loose. "And what in the world is that horrid odor coming from your mouth?" he inquired as he fanned away the scent, receiving a weak strike from his apparent foe. While it severely lacked any kind of power, it surprised Link and he stumbled backwards.

"How you like that?" the man chided. A group of people behind him snickered. Now Link was provoked. A big-talking stranger was going to show him up in public? I think not, he mused grimly. He drew his sword from his scabbard, the golden blade shimmering in the sunlight. "Whoa, dawg, back off! Cops gonna get on your tail if you go like that!" the man warned as he and his alleged lackeys dispersed.

Link narrowed his eyes. "I know that bastard didn't just compare me to a puppy…" he growled in contained fury. Again he holstered his weapon. This was indeed an incredibly strange world. After a few hours of quiet observation, Link had learned quite a few things. For one, the unusual creatures that obeyed blinking fairies always stayed on the black path. The fairies that ordered about the awkward yet swift beasts only came in three colors and changed color in a specific order. Also, the multitudes of people appeared Hylian in the long run, but some were dark like Gerudos, large like Gorons, or slender like Zoras. Many of them stared at Link with quizzical expressions. He got tired of studying his surroundings and moved along to his task at hand: locating Diana, Incarnation of Farore.

"Excuse me, madam," he stated suavely, approaching a girl his age. "Do you know of a young girl named Diana? Her favorite color is probably green, and she should possess immense courage."

The girl in question smiled as her eyes lit up. "I have no idea who you're talking about, sir, but why don't you come have a little fun with me and my friends?" she said as she latched onto Link's arm. Inadvertently her fingers found their way to his quiver and scabbard. She leapt back with a cry of shock. "Oh my god! Are you, like, some kind of schizoid? What's with the weirdo weapons? Oh my god! You must be psychotic or something!" The girl ran away screaming something about psychos with swords. The crowd very quickly cleared a path for her.

Amongst the curious onlookers stood a girl with shoulder-length chocolate hair, stained forest green at the bangs and ends. She wore a bright yellow dress with a green jacket over it. Overall she appeared mild-mannered and almost normal. Link slipped into the masses and stood beside her. "Hello," he smiled politely. The girl withdrew a few steps. "Who are you?" she asked timidly.

"My name is Link," the green-clad hero introduced. "I come from the land of Hyrule, my deepest roots resting in the vast Kokiri Forest. I presume you are Diana, incarnation of the Goddess of Courage, Farore."

Diana shook her head. "Yes, that is my name. But how do you know it?" she inquired. There was then an ear-splitting shriek from a mass of people. Tiers of them collapsed to the ground and pools of blood leaked from their bodies. Diana stared in shock, mouth agape. Link had an arrow set and ready for firing, charged with light to give it a deadly strike against evil. And there most certainly was evil afoot.

In the center of the ring of mangled corpses stood a single being, a woman with long black hair and empty eyes. There was a bizarre three-pointed mark upon her forehead. Link supposed this was the emblem of whatever new evil he was up against, in all likelihood Dameus.

"Step away from Farore's incarnation, Hero," the woman hissed, "or you shall face the wrath of Lilith…"

Link's breath caught in his throat for an instant. Lilith? She couldn't have said Lilith! Maybe… Elizabeth, or something like it. Lilith was long dead! "What did you just say?" Link questioned doubtingly. Certainly she couldn't have said Lilith…

The woman emitted a sound like a sigh or a deep hiss, her mouth contorted into a twisted grin. "I see you remember me, Hero. All those years ago… I thought I had you and that wench dead. Then that brat came up behind me… But Lord Dameus saved me from the purgatory and granted me full power, and then some! You will not have even the slightest chance of defeating me this time!"

Lilith charged head-on at Link. "Watch out!" Diana warned. A green light enveloped the hero. When it had cleared, he was gone and had reappeared in a location safe from Lilith's attack. He smirked and nodded his thanks to Diana. "Keep doing that!" he requested. "Whenever I'm about to be hit or can't get my own hit in, do what you just did and move me to where I need to be!"

Diana's eyes were wide and fearful, but she nodded in agreement. Link had figured out what Lor had learned while fighting with Artemis. Each of the incarnations could use a small sample of heavenly magic. This would be extremely handy when all three were assembled, particularly during a battle. However, the matter at hand was defeating Lilith again.

The black-haired woman raised her arms to the sky and three Grand Moblins appeared in an inexplicable flash. Link smirked and revealed his Megaton Hammer. Long had he known the ultimate weakness of a Grand Moblin. He stuck his weighty hammer against the little toe of one of the creatures. It roared in pain and fell to the ground, nursing its injured toe through it's crying. The other two Moblins crowded around it, muttering things like "It'll be okay, Christian" and "We'll fix you up".

"Don't ever call me Christian!" the Grand Moblin in the center of all the attention demanded loudly. "My name is Spike or Chain or Explosive! Not Christian!"

Diana raised an eyebrow and Link chuckled, shaking his head disapprovingly. Lilith glared at her creations in mortification. "What are you clowns doing! I brought you here to kill Link!" she reminded fiercely.

"Look here, woman! Poor Christian is hurt! If you can't be more compassionate, then we'll just go!" one of the Moblins argued. "Go then!" Lilith retorted. "We will!" one of the others spat. Two of them stood and, distributing their companions weight between them, left. Lilith stared in shock.

"Even your own creations walk out on you!" Link laughed. Lilith's face flushed bright scarlet. "Shut up!" she demanded as she summoned a barbed whip from nowhere. "This is not over!"

Baila, a la derecha, a la izquierda! Baila, baila! Baila, a la derecha, a la izquierda! Baila, baila, BAILA! Can I have some reviews now, pwease?

Hey, hey! Remember! The art contest ends soon! If I don't get your submission by October 31, it won't count! See my profile for details! Even if you don't think you can draw, you can still give it a shot! As of yet, NO ONE has entered my contest! Not one! So, if no one else enters, you'll automatically be the winner! Kinda a cheap way to win, but whatever. As long as you get your award graphic! By the way, I'm almost finished with the award graphics and they look niiiiice...