Vanya: Words can't describe how sorry I am, but here I am, back from the clutches of Hell! I'm sure you all don't want to hear my excuses, but rather read the chapter. If you are going to flame me for being so late, I don't give a damn. This year by far has been the hardest ever for me and I've had a lot of crappy things happen. I'm going to be able to update more I think, so I'm going to try. Thanks for all your help in the information. I've been busy playing games and such… I still can't find my OoT game T.T
And PS to all those who have read my YGOxIY story: I am going to delete it. I look back on it and I am shamed about how it turned out. I could have done a lot better, so I thing I MIGHT edit it and resubmit it. And if you are mad and flame me… Screw you. Constructive criticism is appreciated; flames will be used to burn Kikyo and Haruno Sakura. :3
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2 Adventures of Hylian and Miko Chapter Three- Kokiris and The Temple
'Song lyrics'
"Speech"
'Thought'
Navi speakingIn the Kokiri Forest/Village-
Normal POV
As they walked into the village, Link was greeted by ever-so wonderful nostalgia, and the sight of his village not even looking much different, except it was very silent and there seemed to be no one outside.
Kagome looked around, sensing humanish-type auras inside the houses. She looked at Link softly and said quietly, "I think they are in the houses…" He snapped out of his daze and nodded. "Yeah, let's go look in the Know-It-All Brother's house." He walked towards the house spoken of. 'I wonder if they really 'know it all',' she thought with a small grin. 'Probably not, but that's just guys for you!'
They opened it, and walked inside. Kagome looked around, it was… a little small inside the house. There were child-sized tables, chairs, and most likely beds as well. Then she saw three boys, all wearing garments of green, just like Link's. They had thick blond hair that covered their eyes. One of them turned to her and Link and said, "Hello, who are you, Mister?" (Just for you, Pernese Empress, lologram. XD Yesh it is funny)
Link seemed aghast that they didn't recognize him. "It's me, Link, don't you remember?"
They looked and murmured amongst themselves. "Well we DID know a Link, but you couldn't possibly be him. Kokiri never grow up."
Kagome was a little confused, but thought that this reminded her of the tale she had listened to about a boy called Peter Pan and he lived in Neverland, where you could never grow up. 'So it seems the boys with green clothes don't grow up just like the fairy tale?' She thought with a bit of amusement, and she had a tiny smile on her face.
Link, however was a bit sad that they didn't remember him and sighed. "Okay, thanks for your help…." He turned around and walked out of there, Kagome following at his heels.
Kagome suddenly noticed with a start that she could sense many auras around this forest/village, of monsters. 'I think I was too distracted to notice before…' She thought with a sigh and said, "Link, there are monster auras around here… That's probably why they are in their houses." He nodded, not looking at her. "Yeah…" Then he suddenly walked away and they investigated other houses, each receiving the same replies as they got from the Know-It-All-Brothers.
Link had his back to her and he sighed really loudly. She felt that he was sad, she could read it all over him. She tentatively reached out and touched his shoulder gently. "Link… are you okay?" She asked softly. He stopped and nodded. "I'm just… a little disappointed after all. I haven't found Saria yet…"
"Saria? Oh, your childhood friend, right?" She said, remembering from when he mentioned her.
He nodded. "Yes, she wasn't in her house…" She caught sight of the worried expression on his face, and swallowing the lump in her throat she said with a bright smile, "Don't worry, I'm sure she's around here somewhere."
He gave a white-toothed smile. "Yeah, you're right." Then he strode forward with renewed energy. They walked towards the end of the village they hadn't gone by, and Kagome could see a reddish-blond haired kid standing guard at the entrance to a big… log hole? "Hey Link, d'you think we should ask him?" She pointed to the boy.
He looked to where she was pointing and with a start realized it was Mido. 'Of course he'd be guarding there… It leads to the Sacred Forest Meadow!' He thought and then grinned. "Kagome, I want you to meet an old 'friend' of mine." "Ummm, okay!" She said and smiled.
They walked over to him and the boy immediately spotted them and said, "Who are you and what do you want! Well if you want to get past me, you have to play a song. And not just any song you can think of."
Link shook his head slightly. 'That's Mido for you alright…' Kagome looked at him. "What song are you going to sing?" She asked, puzzled. He laughed and she grew even more confused. "What is so funny!" She demanded with hands on her green-clad hips. He flashed a smile at her and he said, "I'm going to play a song on my ocarina. Not sing one."
She grinned and laughed nervously. "Uh-huh… I knew that…" They both gave her a look that said, 'no you didn't.' A large sweat drop grew on the back of Kagome's head.
Mido looked at the ocarina that Link had, and felt almost as if he knew this guy. 'Who is this man anyway?'
Link took the shining ocarina and put it to his lips, and blew air into it. He played a melody that was very uplifting, it made Kagome want to dance, and she almost did but held herself back at the last moment. It was upbeat, and it was full of the charm of the forest. She relaxed in spite of herself and smiled, letting the music surround her.
Link knew how powerful this song was, he loved it himself, but the song was over now, so he stopped, and saw Kagome start with a jolt. He grinned to himself and then put it away. "Well, is that good enough for you?" He addressed Mido.
Mido was speechless. 'He-he played Saria's song!' He thought with admiration. Then he said grudgingly, just for the sake of his tough-guy act, "I guess… but you're lucky you had the right one!"
Link nodded and said, "Thanks for letting us through."
Kagome also gave him a sweet smile, to help lift the mood and said, "Thank you very much sir!" She said the sir with some enthusiasm; knowing it would boost the boy's ego and she smiled inside as he saw his chest swell with pride, and he nodded with a hint of a blush. 'He reminds me of… InuYasha…' She thought, a bit sad. 'No matter, InuYasha isn't here so I can't do anything about that matter. All that matters now is getting this quest in this world over with, and back to mine.'
Kagome followed him into the log tunnel and they crossed to the other side…
In the Lost Woods- (and if I screw anything up, I'm very sorry. If I remember correctly, you're supposed to go into the Lost Woods until you find the big maze thingy that leads to the Sacred Forest Meadow…)
Normal POV
"…" Kagome looked around, seeing three more log tunnels around them. She turned to Link and said dryly, "I suppose you know your way around here?"
Link rubbed the back of his head. "It's been a while, but I remember that in order to find Saria I had to follow the direction of where her song came from…"
She sighed and then said, "Okay, we'll try it that way then. So, I believe it is coming from… the right." She told him after listening with her keen demonic hearing.
He nodded, "Yeah, your right! You have good hearing " he told her. She blushed and smiled, "Umm thanks." She got it from her aniki, so that's why she could hear so well.
They walked into the right tunnel and then came out to… another set of tunnels. Kagome's eye twitched a bit and Link had a small sweat drop on the back of his head. "Hehehehehe…" He said a bit awkwardly. She sighed and listened again, this time finding it coming from the north. "This way…." They both said at the same time and blushed a tiny bit. They strode forth to find…
'ANOTHER SET OF TUNNELS!' She thought and her eye twitched more. "How many more damn tunnels are there!" She asked him after they went through about two more sets. He had a larger sweat drop and said, "Uh… I don't remember. I've lost count." Kagome fell down, anime-style of course. 'Oh great…'
After a few more sets, they found one that led to a gate and what seemed to be a large hedge that governed the land around the gates and stretched to the walls of the area around them. "Is this the Sacred Meadow?" She asked him, and he nodded. "Yeah, I believe so."
Just as they were approaching the gate a gray-brown (I forgot what color they were… Sorry!) wolf creature dug itself out of the earth. "What the hell!" Said Kagome and she instantly took out Tiensaiga and held it ready. Link got out the Master Sword and then the creature leapt at them. "I've fought one of these before, it's a Wolfos. It will try to block your attacks with its paws and then counterattack, so be careful." He warned her.
She gave a peace sign and said, "Don't worry, I'll be okay." She then swiped at the Wolfos, who blocked it and then tried to maul her with its claws. She sidestepped the attack and zinged (lol, zinged) a slash at its back and it grabbed her blade in its jaws before it could be skewered. "What the crap!" She cried out.
It held onto the blade despite the torture its mouth was going through, getting cuts on the edges of its mouth. Blood gushed forth and pooled on the blade and dripped onto the ground, painting the earth a dark reddish color with patches of green grass soaked in it.
Link took this opportunity it strike, and cut it from behind. The wolfos howled and then it disappeared, leaving behind some rupees, which they gathered and stored in their pockets.
"Thank you Link," she said gratefully while wiping off the blood on her blade. "I didn't expect it to do that."
He smiled and said, "Anytime."
They then pushed open the large gate, and were greeted with the sight of even more tall hedges. "Is this a maze?" She asked him. "It certainly appears to be one." He nodded. "Yes, you're right. I know the way, but if we get to that ladder just a bit ahead, we can avoid all the rolling boulders, Deku Scrubs and the like."
She said immediately, "I vote for the ladder. As enticing as it sounds to kill off some Deku Scrubs, I definitely do NOT want to be accidentally squashed by a huge, rolling rock."
"Yeah, I don't want to become a pancake for someone's breakfast." Link joked light-heartedly. Kagome gave him a quizzical look. "You have pancakes in this world?" She asked incredulously. He laughed a bit. "Well, uhh… When I came back after getting the Hookshot last night I heard you mumble in your sleep about how you wanted pancakes for breakfast…?"
She blinked. She DID have a dream about pancakes and Link made them for her. A few shades of pink showed up on her cheeks and she laughed nervously. "Oh… Okay…"
They then ran to the ladder after a boulder had passed. She went up first, and then Link followed up after her. She was glad now she wasn't wearing her school uniform. If she did, he'd have a clear look at her underwear. And we know that wouldn't be good now, would it?
Now they were on top of the tall hedge, and from here Kagome could see a lot more, stretching towards a passageway where she could see a large, ugly creature smacking the ground with a spear or some long weapon. "Hey Link… What is that?" She asked him from his position beside her. "That's a Moblin… a pretty big one at that." He replied. "We can kill it though, it shouldn't be too hard as long as we get it from behind. From the looks of those shockwaves, those could blow us back pretty far."
She nodded. "Okay, so our goal is to get there." "Yeah, so lets mosey!" He grinned and then jumped across and made it to the other side easily. (Lologram, mosey. Typically that usually works only for Cloud, but in this case I wanted Link to say it )
Kagome took a deep breath and then jumped, almost seemingly flying across the gap and making it to the other hedge. "I did it!" She said happily, even though she knew she would have, due to her demon blood and the fact that a human COULD have made the jump just as well. He nodded. "Yep. Now we have to go on more…"
They continued to leap across the gaps towards the giant moblin in the distance, taking care not to get too confident and fall. However, when they were three-fourths of the way across, Kagome accidentally lost her footing when she landed and fell backwards, Link not seeing until she screamed and was already falling. "Kagome!" He yelled and saw her hit the ground.
"Owwww… that wasn't very smart…" She mumbled to herself and winced as she rubbing her sore backside. He peered over the edge and said, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah yeah, only my ass hurts…" She brushed the dirt and things off. "Can you meet me at the end?" he asked her.
"Yes, I'll see ya there…" She waved lamely and then heard an "Okay" and he left. She sighed and then started to run towards the ends.
After a minute or so, she heard a loud rumbling. She instantly paled when she realized it was a boulder. 'CRAP!' She thought. 'Ummm, maybe I should try jumping up, yeah that's it…' She saw it getting much closer. 'Okay… one, two, three JUMP!' She jumped up high and looked almost like a rocket shooting upward, she sprang up so high. Only then to fall back down, and her eyes nearly popped out when she saw she could hit the boulder. But she missed, thankfully, and landed on her feet.
Sweat beaded on her forehead and she took in a few deep breaths. 'Okay, that was a little too close for comfort. I should be more aware next time.' She continued on only to be almost shot at by a little creature with a mouth like a cannon mouth and it looked like it was wearing a leaf hat thing. It was an unattractive shade of red, brown, and green. 'A Deku Scrub?' She thought and then unsheathed Tiensaiga to block the nuts being shot at her. 'I wish I had a shield now…' She thought and then jumped over them, matrix-style (lol XD) and then did a flying kick and smacked the Deku Scrub right in the face. It wailed, tears going down its face and then fled, screaming little noises issuing from its mouth.
She looked at it run away and then laughed for a bit, she had never had THAT happen before. She hummed happily with a musical tone to her voice as she found a large hoard of rupees that it had left behind. 'Link should be happy with this.'
She then continued to make her way towards the end after that episode, occasionally having to dodge boulders here and there, and defeating Deku Scrubs and the occasional Moblin left and right. By the time she had gotten out of there, she had raked up a lot of rupees.
She found him waiting for her and he said with a small grin, "Did ya get lost?"
She sputtered and said, "No, of course not. I was beating up some Deku Scrubs and I got some rupees. You want to see?" He said, "Sure, why not." She showed him and he whistled appreciatively. "Who knew the Deku Scrubs had so much money?" He said.
They walked to where the giant Moblin was. "Okay, are you ready to take this guy on?" he asked. She nodded. "Okay, lets go!" They ran forward to the left side of the wall while the shockwave was still going to the right. The moblin roared in rage and then tried to hit them with a shockwave more in their line of sight and they quickly dashed to the right. It got angrier, and then sent another wave towards them. They dodged that as well. The Moblin looked to be having a tantrum now, and sent more waves faster in both directions as quickly as it possibly could. It was a bit harder now and then Link found something to use as a target for his Hookshot. He quickly grabbed Kagome around the waist, who went "HEY" and then they shot across the distance separating them from the target.
They dropped behind the Moblin who suddenly looked confused as to where they had gone. "I'd like you to warn me next time you do that…" Said Kagome, red-faced. "Sorry, but it made our trip across shorter. Now, let's get him." "Right!" She said.
She quickly took out her bow and drew out an arrow enhanced with the power of darkness and strung it to her bow in one fluid moment. She took aim at the Moblin, but it wasn't that hard to do it seeing as how big it was. Link also aimed with his Hookshot and at the same time she shot he shot as well and it ended up striking the Moblin's back at the same time. It roared, then toppled forward in a heap, and died.
"Finally it died," she said and collected the arrow she had it with. It was still intact, although it had been practically buried in the Moblin's back. She had to cut off some flesh before she could retrieve it, although she immediately regretted it because of the stink. Link also covered his nose and he said, "Do you want me to burn it?" She nodded, covering her own nose. "Yes, please." She watched him look like he took out something but in reality he was casting a spell, threads of power and his aura going into a dome around him, a dome of fire. It touched the Moblin and it burned it pretty quickly, turning it into nothing more than charred remains that were soon blown away by the fresh clean breeze.
"Very nice," she told him appreciatively. "What spell did you use?"
"Din's Fire," he told her. "It comes in handy more often than not, so it's very useful, even if it does take up some of my magic power."
She nodded understandingly. "Anyway, lets, as you say, 'mosey' out of here," she grinned and he did back. (Hehe, mosey. Sorry I just like that word.) They then ran into the more beautiful part of the Sacred Forest Meadow, where Kagome saw an old tree, a smooth panel on the ground with the symbol of the Triforce on it. A stump was also next to it, and further beyond that was what she knew was the Sacred Forest Temple. 'We made it!'
They walked to the panel in the ground. Kagome knelt to examine it, while Link looked around. All of a sudden, a person in strange clothing appeared. Kagome looked up and unsheathed her katana, but Link shook his head and said, "Relax, he's a friend." She looked at the person who wore blue clothing that was like a body suit, sort of. It had a tattered white piece of cloth across his chest with an eye on it, and the guy had bandages wrapped around his head and mouth, for muffling their voice, she supposed.
"Greetings Link… And friend…." He said. He looked slightly surprised to see Kagome there, but then his expression turned back to what it used to be, guarded, and masked. She raised an eyebrow. "I am Kagome Higurashi…" She told him. He nodded. "Yes, I've been suspecting you'd have come along by now. My name is Sheik."
She looked at him suspiciously. "By now? Do you see the future?" She asked, although slightly doubting him. He sighed, and then said, "I didn't come here for that… Link, I am here to teach you the Minuet of Forest song."
Link nodded. "Okay, what does it do?"
"It allows you to return here at any given time," was his simple reply.
Kagome stared at Sheik. (Is this how you spell it? I'm not sure… It looks right this way for some odd reason. And no, not because of the sheiks in tribes nor anything…) For some odd reason, she felt a nagging suspicion that this 'Sheik' wasn't a guy… Could he be a cross dresser! A girl wearing some kind of tribal drag!
Link took out his Ocarina, and then Sheik began to teach him the song. Kagome liked it, and it temporarily took her mind off of Sheik and what his gender could be and calmed her down. This melody was soft and sweet, and peaceful.
After a bit, Link learned the song and memorized it, and Sheik bid them farewell after a warning to them about the possible dangers of the temple, and to stay together.
'What is…. IT so worried about?' She thought after deciding she couldn't possibly know for sure 'he' was a guy or not unless she either A) asked him, which she didn't want to do, or B) kick him in the nuts to see if it hurts him (Guys, I apologize in mild sympathy, but that is funny…), or C) just call 'him' an it for the rest of the days she knew him.
Link looked around after fiddling with his Ocarina. "I suppose Saria is in the temple…" He murmured. She nodded, "Yeah I guess so. Anyway, lets go!" He nodded, and led her over to the stump. "From here," he gestured to the stump- "We can jump onto the tree, where we can cross using the Hookshot, on that target-" he pointed to the target he had found- "And that's how we'll get in." She nodded.
They both jumped onto the stump, which was wide enough to support the both of them. He then jumped onto the largest and thickest tree limb, and she jumped on afterwards. Link had one hand on the Hookshot, and another around Kagome's waist. They flew across the clearing thanks to the Hookshot and made it to the entrance.
"Are we ready?" He asked her. She nodded. "Yep. In we go!" And with that, they disappeared into the temple entrance.
End of Chapter Three
Vanya: I hope you enjoyed that long chapter as much as I liked writing it. I think I've got my inspiration back, and hopefully I won't have to update so late again. Keep the reviews coming, and any help is appreciated! I don't remember things that much, sadly. Thanks again, hugs and kisses, love Vanya aka Tamashii