Chapter 8
Pendent of Courage
He finally came to a room that was full of enemies. They looked like creatures of the sea. SLASH! SLASH! He just sliced through them all with an unquenchable rage. After he was done with the bloody massacre he noticed that he had been wounded and hadn't even noticed it 'till then.
Then he came to a chamber where he heard a familiar voice calling for help. He looked up and noticed Zelda tied up to the roof in a net made of what looked like seaweed.
"Link! Be careful! We're not alone in here!" Zelda warned. Link then discovered what Zelda meant. A long creature moved around in the shadows.
It was about 50 feet long with huge fangs that looked like they could crush concrete. Its scales were very dense. Its fins were sharp as knives and a single 3-foot horn protruded from its skull.
Link immediately began searching for a weakness on this huge creature. He realized that this creature wasn't very fast. The creature began attack, it reared up and lunged at Link. Luckily he was able to dodge, but the creature wasn't going to give up that easily. It spit out a large pressurized stream of water right at Link. He was overtaken by the unexpected attack. He ran around to the Leviathans rear and started hacking at its tough scales. One hit landed between the huge scales of the creature and a spray of green ooze squirted out. It gave a cry of pain and quickly turned to defend itself.
Link had found the Leviathan's weakness, between its scales. He desperately began to try to hit the weak spot. SLICE! Link chopped off the tip of its tail. GUSH! Another pounding of water sent Link sprawling on the wet floor, his head smashing into one of the support pillars stopped him. The Leviathan picked up the unconscious Link in its gigantic jaws. As it began to squeeze him he woke up and stabbed it in the mouth several times. The Leviathan instinctively spit Link out giving him another chance to go around the creature.
"Take this!" CHOP! Link made a huge gash right down the middle of the creature. It let out a roar of pain and lunged at Link. CRASH! Link flew into the wall.
"Got to… get…up. Got to… save…Zelda." Link muttered as he blacked out. The creature got ready to attack, but Zelda was watching the whole thing and wasn't about to let Link get eaten.
"LINK! Get up!" she shouted at the top of her voice. She then began to fire arrows at the creature, at the same time shouting Link's name. Link began to regain consciousness he took out his boomerang and threw it at the strand of seaweed holding Zelda's net. It worked, the net fell loose. Link ran to catch Zelda not even noticing the Leviathan right behind him.
Link ducked as the creature lunged through one of the walls letting a huge gush of ocean water in. The doors finally gave way and busted open and Link and Zelda were swept through. The flow of water finally began to subside and Link and Zelda were washed into a chamber that seemed to have a small beam of light coming through the ceiling. There was a mirror reflecting light into a wall. Link found that it rotated and turned it towards a strange symbol on the wall. It began to light up and the whole wall opened revealing a secret chamber.
Suddenly a creature that looked kind of like a tall blue-green humanoid jumped down to the middle of the room. It was a Zora. It sped toward them at a very fast speed. It ran into Link, knocking him down. It then let out a burst of water like the Leviathan, almost drowning Link. Zelda shot it sending it into a frenzy in pain. It slashed at Zelda with its sharp claws, but Zelda was agile and dodged almost all of its slashes. One slash landed on the side of her face. It left a cut that stretched from her ear to her chin. Link took the opportunity to strike. He made a big slash down its back. It turned and slashed at him, the blow landed home. A big slash appeared across Link's chest.
"AHH! You'll pay for that." Link shouted. He started swinging his sword wildly, at the same time driving the duck-like creature toward the current that carried him and Zelda to the hall. With one final swing Link pushed the creature into the current and it washed away.
Zelda called him over and showed him a puzzle carved into the wall. It was a circle with strange shapes engraved into it. Link tried turning it a couple of times, but on his 7th turn the puzzle stopped turning. Then a small door opened and a creature came out.
"I guess if I don't get the puzzle right then I'll have to face more creatures." Link said as he drew his sword, which seemed to be getting dimmer by the second. It looked like a turtle with one disproportionate arm with a sharp claw on it. The creature tried to hit Link with its huge claw. Link dodged it easily and tried to attack, but the hard shell deflected the blow. Zelda then fired an arrow into a soft spot between its shell and its neck. It crawled into the water in pain. This time Zelda tried the puzzle, but didn't solve it. The door opened and another creature came out and attacked. This time it came at Zelda, but they were ready this time. Zelda fired arrows at the turtle-like creature, but it withdrew into its shell. Link waited for it to come out and the second it did he sliced it, making it angry. It then turned and shot a spray of water, by now Link was used to this. At the same time it rammed into him with all its strength knocking the unprepared Link down. Link got up and struck its shell so hard that it split open, Link then stabbed into the creature's soft innards. It tried to attack one more time, but was way too weak.
This time when he turned the puzzle a door in the far wall opened, revealing a glass room completely surrounded by water. As Link entered the room he saw a long dark shadow swim under him. The thing that caught most of his attention was a huge sword that seemed to be made of water itself. It was about 41/2 feet long, about 6 inches wide, and the blade itself seemed to have waves running along its sides. The end was curved back like a hook and the handle seemed to shape to fit Link's hand perfectly. "Wo! That's pretty cool, don't you think, Zelda?"
"You're right that's awesome." Zelda said amazed. Suddenly the room started to shake.
"Zelda get out of here now!" Link yelled. As Zelda ran out the room collapsed and Link was completely submerged, but the sword allowed Link to breathe under the water.
Then Link saw it, the Leviathan swimming at him at incredible speed. Link grasped his weapon and just as the creature swam by he struck. The watery blade made a big gash down the creature's side. ROAR! The creature turned furiously and rammed into Link with all its might. Its horn actually pierced Link's left shoulder. Link let out a cry of pain as he tumbled to the ocean floor. The Leviathan came after him again, this time Link was ready for it. He let the creature get him into its gigantic jaws. As the creature began to bite down Link thrust his mighty sword down the creature's throat. As it roared Link pulled it out and stabbed the Leviathan through its upper jaw. As it bit down it sent the sword through its head and the creature laid motionless on the ocean floor.
Then Link noticed a bright light coming from one of the rooms, so he swam to it. Then he saw it, the Triforce of Courage. As he reached for it he noticed more inscriptions in the wall and on the Triforce. The ones on the wall read "This is the Triforce of Courage, the second piece of the Triforce. Link realized that the last vision had come true. The ones on the medallion read in the same strange language as the first.
As he touched it he was once again engulfed in a blinding light. Images of a huge mountain range with a fortress that seemed engraved into one of the mountains. Another was of a wall of flames and a black dragon looming over him. The last was of him standing before the last piece of the Triforce. At the same time the images flashed Link could feel his shoulder healing.
After Link told Zelda, whose face had been healed as well, what he had seen they set out back to the exit of the temple. They got kind of lost on the way and had to fight a room full of sea monsters. After what seemed like hours of wandering they finally saw the end of the tunnel, but when they got out they realized that the old pirate that brought them to this mysterious place had gone back to the mainland.
"Damn it! How the hell are we supposed to get back to the land." Link shouted in frustration.
"Calm down Link we'll find a way." reassured Zelda. "We could light a signal fire or something. I mean we can't just give up.