A/N: Eep sorry for the wait, what with going away and then my pc crashing things kind of got held back. Oh and then I found the Zelda manga and got into that, Link and Saria look so cute in it! Now here's chapter 8.
The market seemed quiet but as Link and Saria hurried around the corner of the dusty white path they heard a small groan, a group of redeads had taken over the area.
"Um guys I think you're a little late, the shops closed a few hours ago." Link said as he drew his sword preparing to take out the monsters.
"Wait Link, leave these late shoppers to me, you need to get to Death Mountain!" Saria yelled while powering up a green energy orb and blasting it at the nearest enemies. Link hesitated but then nodded knowing she could handle the redeads on her own. He quickly put his sword away and dashed out of the market. Saria sent a few more orbs around the market knocking out all of the monsters. Thinking they had all disappeared she took a seat on the edge of the fountain to catch her breath. Suddenly a white hand reached out of the water, grabbed her by the throat and dragged her under into the underground world.
Link ran up the first slope of Death Mountain slashing at the odd tektite that tried to ambush him, as he neared the entrance to the city he could hear faint cries that sounded like Darunia.
"I order you to let me and my people go free this instant!" The Goron King shouted banging on what sounded like his throne room door at the same time. Link entered the main room and realised all of the Gorons' must have been sealed into the throne room.
"I'm here brother! Who did this to you?" Link asked looking around trying to spot someone or something. Out of nowhere there was a bright flash of light, and out of the glare appeared wizrobe.
"I do believe that would be me." It cackled. With that the monster powered up its wand and aimed the first blast at Link who held up his shield and ran for cover trying to think up a plan as he did so.
"You can't hide that easily!" Wizrobe shrieked, a blue light surrounded it and in a blink of an eye it had warped right next to Link. Link tried to evade the attack once again but this time he wasn't so lucky. The blast knocked his shield flying out of his grasp while sending him crashing into a wall.
"Argh now I've lost my shield, not that it was helping anyway. Hmm I need to find this thing's weakness." Link pushed himself up and decided to give it everything he had. He pulled out his sword and dashed at wizrobe holding the blade out in front of him. But this wasn't good enough since it was easy for the monster to warp out of harm. After a few times of Link rushing towards wizrobe and it warping away Link came to the conclusion that if close up attacks wouldn't work it was time for some long distance ones but before that he needed to set up his plan. Taking out Foroe's Wind he cast a warp spot ready for himself then he waited. Soon wizrobe appeared again, Link rushed at it but of course it vanished and reappeared the other side of the room, right next to Link's warp spot. Quickly he took out his bow and with a careful aim shot a neatly placed arrow right into wizrobe who got caught off guard and fell to the ground.
Link grinned as he used Foroe's wind to get over to wizrobe and finish it off with a few sword swipes. He wanted to take a quick rest but knew the Gorons were still sealed into the thrown room, since there was no more of wizrobe it would be harder to open the door. Link leapt off the ledge landing in front of the large rock door.
"Brother? Are you all alright in there?" Link asked leaning against the door.
"We're all fine." Darunia replied, "But this door won't budge at all." Link had no idea how they were going to open the door. Firstly he tried to push it open by himself but that was no good, next he thought Zelda's Lullaby might work but it turned out to be just as useless as pushing against it.
"Wow this is some strong rock, since this was made by a Goron I wonder if a weapon used by a Goron would work." Link thought digging out the megaton hammer.
"Ok stand back everyone, this should work." Link hoped as he took a swing at the door which caused everything to shake around them. After a couple more hits the door began to crumble and eventually fell down leaving a small pile of rocks in its place. All of the Gorons cheered and ran out to hug Link who tried to remain standing during that. Darunia was the last to thank Link, he then turned to view the destroyed door.
"Looks like we'll be busy tomorrow, we shall venture into the cavern and collect some more of the finest rocks to rebuild the door, thank you again brother. I can't believe the nerve of that thing, barging into our home and demanding we hand over the locket or it would never release any of us." Link looked surprised at what Darunia had just said, why would there by monsters searching for the locket in these parts of Hyrule, unless it was actually close by. He shrugged it off for now but would come back to the idea later on, right then he had to get back to the market to see if Saria was ok.
Upon entering the market everything seemed to be back to normal apart from the purple smoke drifting up from the fountain. Link ran over to have a closer look and noticed that the water had turned a light purple , he knelt down to get a better view but tripped over something instead. Looking at the place he had been kneeling he saw a small ocarina laying on the ground, picking it up he knew whose it was straight away.
"This is Saria's ocarina, but where is she? He assumed she had gone back to the castle and had dropped the ocarina without realising so he headed up the hill to check.
Link dashed through the castle corridors and back to the sitting room where Impa and Ebony still were. Impa looked up as Link entered.
"Is Saria in the castle?" Link managed to say as he stopped for some air. Impa shook her head starting to look worried. Link then explained about how the Gorons were now safe and how there was purple coloured water in the fountain and Saria's ocarina had been laying on the floor near it. Impa looked down at the floor.
"They must have her now." She mumbled.
"Who!?" Link snapped looking quite agitated.
"The ones who live under the ground, ones like those beneath the well." Impa stood and collected up some of the papers she had been sorting through. "The only way to Saria would be to travel through the underground maze, the entrance is in Kakariko as you know, give me a second, I shall accompany you."
After waiting for a few minutes Link and Impa exited the town out into the night air and on to Kakariko village. The small village was silent at this time of night, only the odd cuckoo would make a sound. Impa led Link over to the well where he had once recovered the Lens of Truth from. The two climbed down the rusty old ladder and entered the well not knowing what they would encounter inside.
Back at the castle Ebony had been standing by a window watching Link and Impa heading out of town, she felt that something was wrong and decided to follow them. As she passed the fountain she stopped to take a look at the oddly coloured water.
"He must have returned, if that is the case my sister won't be very happy." Ebony sighed and sat on the fountain wall.
"Huh? What's this?" She asked herself as she spotted something on the ground, picking it up she realised it was Saria's hair band that Link must have missed when he had found the ocarina.
"Saria, you were so kind to me…..I'll help you!" Ebony jumped up then paused, "Uh my sister will probably be mad about this but it's something I have to do." She pocketed the hair band and ran into the field
"It's darker than I remember it being down here." Link whispered as he and Impa made their way through the underground maze being careful not to fall through any invisible holes. A purple mist loomed around one of the corners and down another passage. Link hurried after it until it seeped through a small hole in the wall.
"Damn it, the hole is too small for either of us to get through, there must be another way, do you know of one?" He turned to Impa who was looking around.
"Yes, this way." She said grabbing Link's arm and dragging him down another passage.
Deep in the underground world Saria was being held in a small room surrounded by a group of floor masters and a dead hand. The dead hand seemed to be saying something that wasn't very easy to make out.
"The locket, master would like the locket." It hissed swaying its long pale arms around the room nearly hitting Saria.
"The locket? I don't even have it!" If I did I wouldn't be in this mess!" She shouted then prepared to blast the monsters out of the room when all of a sudden the purple mist entered the room and the dead hand began to chuckle.
"No one uses magic in the purple mist, you will either hand over the locket or die."
Link slashed at the redeads blocking their path as he and Impa continued to travel deeper into the well. Since the mist prevented the use of magic Impa couldn't use any of her Sage powers. Soon they arrived at an odd looking door where a cloud of purple mist was now gathered. Suddenly Impa fell to the floor from inhaling so much of the mist.
"Whoa Impa!" Link knelt down next to her, she was still breathing, the mist must be harmful to Sages he assumed while shoving open the door to reveal Saria laying on the floor with a group of floor masters getting ready to attack.
"Back off!" Link yelled storming into the room slashing everything that came near him, he thought he was doing ok until a large hand grabbed his whole body and swung him up into the air. Just as it looked like the end for Link the other door burst open.
"This mist might block Sage magic but it has no effect on black magic!" Ebony exclaimed charging into the room and tossing a black energy orb at the dead hand. The potion had now worn off showing her true appearance. The dead hand dropped Link and lunged for Saria trying to grab her and escape by the look of it.
"Oh no you don't!" Ebony leapt in front of Saria and summoned a purple wall that she sent hurling into the dead hand. "Lucky uncle Alfos taught me that move." She smiled.
Link finished the rest of the monsters off then stared at Ebony.
"Alfos? Then that would make you Ebony."
Ebony looked to the floor and before she had a chance to explain anything was sucked up into a warp light supposedly by her angry sister.
"I'm sorry!" She yelled to Link just as she disappeared into thin air leaving him to wonder what on earth had just happened.