Chapter 10
Unheeded Warning
Link stumbled forward, the arms breaking off from the body they belonged to and still clinging to him. Before he could regain his balance, his head hit stone wall. Just before he blacked out, Nabooru's strange warning rang through his head, "Something you must never do is fall asleep in the dead lands, for you will never wake up." Then Link became immersed in a world of darkness as unconsciousness took his mind into its unholy grasp…
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A bright flash of light that shined through Link's eyelids brought him into awakening sometime later. His head throbbed mercilessly and what he saw when he opened his eyes didn't exactly help things.
He was in a completely different place from where he had passed out and his arms were chained to a stone wall by his wrists. What lay before him was a dimly lit corridor, each side aligned with door after door after door. Peering into the darkness beyond that, he could make out nothing, but then he heard it…first, the unnatural growl of some type of creature, followed by the sound of an extremely large foot taking a step and hitting the ground.
Something was coming towards him and Link didn't think it was necessarily a good something. He had to get out of these chains…but with that thought came the horrible realization that he no longer had his sword. Yet again here he was in danger and without his favored weapon to defend himself with…
He tried sliding his wrists from the chains but they only tightened as if by magic, pinching his skin. He had a feeling that if he tried that maneuver again, it would draw blood. Another heavy footstep rang out, this time shaking the very walls and ground around Link, forcing a slight moan to escape his lips.
Big mistake on his part. Whatever was coming towards him had obviously been walking excruciatingly slow and now…the heavy footsteps pounded the ground rapidly as the feet of one running would. He had to get out of these chains…and soon. His pounding head impeded his ability to think properly and any clever thoughts of escape his mind usually could have thought up never came.
Then he saw it…the owner of the heavy footsteps. Out of the darkness it came running, a creature of incredible girth, kind of looking like an overgrown wolf. It had a thick muscled body covered in sleek black fur and ran on two large paws like a human would on feet, claws jutting out from all four paws it possessed. Two beady eyes rested above a long pointed snout with jagged teeth and two large fangs hanging out where the mouth was in an evil dog-like smile. An immense hunger sparkled in those beady eyes of the creature, eyes that were focused on a helpless Link...
Must…escape… the obvious thought crossed through his throbbing head.
He picked himself up off the ground, the only thing chained was his wrists, bindings tightened them together and then chains extended from the bindings and into the wall. Whoever had put him here must have figured this would be enough to keep him from escaping…maybe they were right?
His hope of escape was quickly deteriorating as the creature became ever so much closer…and before he knew it, it was upon him.
Its fangs flashed once in the dim light before lunging for him, fresh meat. At the last possible second, Link twisted out of the way. One fang found its mark and dug into Link's hand, the other fang hit one of the bindings with a sharp crack. It screeched in agony as it immediately pulled back. Fresh blood, Link's blood, dripped from the fang that had pierced Link's hand. The fang that had met metal however, had chipped causing the creature a new barrage of pain.
Narrowing its beady eyes, it attacked again, but this time Link was completely ready for it. Ducking down, he held the chains up right where its gruesomely big mouth snapped shut. There was a loud crunch. Emitting a howl of pain, it reared its head back. The chain had snapped and Link was free…at least from being attached to the wall anyway, the bindings around his wrists still held strong.
Ignoring the blood dripping from his hand and the continual aching in his head, he dodged around its large bulk…that is until it nailed him with its heavily clawed paw across his back. Link winced in pain and could feel fresh blood dripping down his back. He was reduced to crawling and he did just that. Reaching the first door before the creature could attack him again, he managed to twist the knob and get through the door.
Once he had the door shut, he pushed himself up but then to his horror he discovered he was back in that same hallway with the creature charging at him, only standing in front of a different door. His injuries cried out to him in such agony and the sudden exhaustion he felt told him his body had already lost too much blood.
The tricked up doors were apparently made to keep him here, but if he were to make a dash down the corridor, especially in the state he was in, surely the creature would have absolutely no problem catching him. Then an idea finally came to him and he realized he would have to go through all the doors 'til he reached one at the end to make a break for it, and hope his strength held up…and so he did just that, a few times the creature almost getting to him and drawing more blood than what he had already lost as he staggered about.
Finally came the time after going through a certain door, he had reached the end of the doors and stood before that inky darkness the creature had emerged from. it was now or never, there was no cowering away from fear at what might lay within the darkness. And so, Link stumbled and limped at a run as fast as he possible could…which of course wasn't all that fast. The creature saw him clearly and took off towards him.
Link's senses shut down for a second as everything around him became pitch black and his eyes drifted closed.
Suddenly they were snapped open…he was no longer in the pitch black corridor, but lying on a metal table with some hideous thing touching him. It had worms crawling around on its head for hair, two empty eye sockets and rotted skin with a torn red evening gown hanging from it. Upon seeing his awakening, it gave a terribly loud unnatural shriek and then vanished just like that.
And then a feminine voice spoke to him, "I do not know how you escaped my dream world of death, but you are here in the Moon Temple, the last place you will ever see…alive. Hahahaha." it cackled evilly.
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I am so very sorry for the shortness, de-good-actionyness (if that's even a word), and the long wait before this update! Sorry, sorry, sorry! Blame the Spanish project I had to do that was really stressin' me out…Estuvo mucho dificíl hacer en dos días (lol, it was very difficult to do in 2 days)…and the shortness is cuz this chapter is leadin' up to somethin' so teehee, you'll just have to wait to find out what : )
Moving on, I would like to give a nice big thank you to my super awesome reviewers! So THANK YOU to y'all : )
Anywayz…
-blondie91
Disclaimer: I still do not own the Legend of Zelda…so now you can't sue me…I do however own Zen, the freaky lady there at the end, and anything I made-up like other characters, plot, places, etc…so uh yeah…