Wow, I'm just having a good time when it comes to creativity right now. That could be because I have Writer's Block tied to a chair in my closet, but either way, I'm doing good, on both FictionPress and FanFiction. I have one major story on each, and a bunch of little ones going around as well. Go read my stories and poetry on FP if you find the time. You might some to be to your liking, and I could always use the reviews hinthint, winkwink, nudgenudge Get the picture?
Anywho, onto the next chapter.
(((((The Graveyard)))))
"Not fun, not fun!"
Sheik watched with slight amusement as Thalia ran through the graveyard, being chased by about five different Poes, all of them cackling away. Whether it was natural, or because Thalia was having a heart attack, the Poes found it was quite amusing.
Sheik laughed a little, before going to save Thalia.
(((((Later)))))
Thalia had easily been saved by Sheik. As it turns out, Thalia loved graveyards, hated the ghosts. And zombies. And would have hated the redeads, if they weren't so stupid. She didn't like to be scared, but she loved old things. People, buildings, graveyards, anything that was old had a story behind it. The older the better.
Sheik had learned many things from Thalia. Some of them confused him, others frightened him (and more in the "what the hell?" way, instead of the actually scared way). But there were things he learned from her he knew that he would never forget.
After the Poe problem, Thalia and Sheik had made for Dante, the grave keeper's house. It was empty, but as they left, they ran into another ghost. It was Dante himself, and it had sent Thalia into another wave of shock. By the time she had become conscious again, Sheik had explained their plight to Dante, wondering if he had anything to help them. They had heard that when Dante was still running the graveyard, he had dug up all sorts of odd things that had been littering the graves and paths. Dante had handed them a short hookshot. It wasn't that great, but Thalia thanked him profoundly for it. As she and Sheik began to leave, she bowed and said a small prayer for Dante's soul. It was a small gesture, but Sheik could have sworn he saw a ghostly tear come to the grave keeper's eye.
Sheik realized something else in that moment. While Thalia wasn't always all that content with that job she had, she had such an effect on the people around. Sheik didn't think that she would have given up her job for the world.
(((((On the Path to Goron City)))))
Sheik learned another thing about Thalia here. In the Kokiri Village, she had learned she didn't like spiders. In the graveyard, it was ghosts. Now, on the path up the mountain, Sheik discovered that Thalia did not care much for insects. Especially such a large breed as the Tektites.
"EEEEEE!"
Thalia screamed loudly as the bugs jumped toward her, easily being cut down by her flailing sword.
And flailing was right. Sheik would have helped her, but he probably would have been hit by the Master Sword, along with the bugs. That, and there were only two bugs, so her swinging the sword around was doing a pretty good job of killing them anyway.
As the last one fell to the ground, dead, Thalia then took the sword, and decided that the bug was not dead enough for her liking. She began to hack at it miserably, still slightly screaming her head off. Sheik rolled his eyes and walked up the hill, grabbing Thalia's collar as he went. She was still stabbing the poor mutilated creature, but stopped when she realized that she couldn't reach it anymore.
Sheik just hoped that that was the last of the Tektites along this path.
(((((Goron City)))))
"Wow, this place is humongous!"
Thalia stared wide-eyed at the vastness of the city of the Gorons.
It was a vast rocky area, all natural walls, some ropes spaced throughout the hollow centre of the large room, and fences placed on some of the higher levels for safety.
Thalia began to run around the top level, trying to see everything. She was so engrossed in her searching, that she completely forgot that she was on the top level, and while stepping forward to get a better look at the ceiling, she fell.
There was some silence, and Sheik jumped to the next level down, right next to Thalia.
"Are you alive?"
"... ow..."
"I will take that as a yes."
As Sheik finished that sentence and began to help Thalia up, a low rumbling could be heard down the way of the third level path. As they stared, they saw a rock rolling towards them at an incredibly high speed.
No, not a rock... a Goron.
At the last moment, Sheik leapt from path of the rolling Goron, expecting Thalia to do the same.
She didn't.
A small cracking sound from Thalia's backside sounded, as well as a helpless gurgling sound from her throat. Sheik winced at her pain, as the Goron ran over her. It continued to roll. Sheik followed it with his eyes, as Thalia made some pained noises getting up.
"I am amazed that you survived that."
"I am amazed that I haven't killed that thing yet!"
Thalia straightened herself and began to run in the other direction as the Goron. She stopped a little ways down, right across from a shaded insert in the wall. It grew quite a few bomb flowers. Sheik figured out what she was planning and stayed away from her.
The slow rumbling could be heard again, as the Goron made its way back around the level. Thalia pulled an arrow from the quiver on her back, and situated it on the previously drawn bow. Sheik closed his eyes and lightly plugged his ears. Thalia drew back as the Goron rounded the corner. Sheik braced himself.
Suddenly a loud explosion sounded throughout the cavern. A wind from the explosion blew him faintly off centre, but not enough to knock him over. He took his hands from his ears and opened his eyes just as the once rolling Goron skidded to a stop a few meters from him.
Thalia walked over to the Goron (she was lightly covered in dust from the explosion), and stood in front of him. He unfolded himself and looked between her and Sheik, shivering in fear.
"A-a-are you g-going t-t-t-to hurt m-me?"
The poor thing was shivering so badly he could barely speak correctly. Thalia's face softened considerably. She gave a small, sad smile. The Goron calmed a bit.
"No, we won't hurt you. I was a little peeved that you ran me over, as I was already in quite a bit of pain from my fall, but I think I will survive. What's your name?"
The Goron sniffed, rubbing his rocky tears with large hands.
"I'm sorry that I ran you over. My name is Link!"
Thalia's eyes widened as he said this. The Goron Link continued.
"My daddy, Darunia, named me after a great hero, who saved the whole Goron tribe! He was able to slay the lizard that was keeping us from our eating rocks."
He continued on about how Link would come and save them from the dragon that had captured the Gorons and his daddy. A great hero.
"Not anymore..."
Goron Link paused.
"What?"
"Oh, nothing! Just thinking. What do you say we go save your father?"
Goron Link cheered as he told them how to get to where the dragon was, in the volcano.
(((((In the Heart of the Volcano)))))
It hadn't taken them long to get where they were. The whole volcano had been filled to the brim with traps set by Gannon, which they easily bypassed thanks to Thalia's newfound obsession with her hookshot. The item was like an unbreakable toy to her. And she used it even where she didn't need it, bypassing about every single trap, wall, and rock on the path.
Sheik sighed, for the thousandth time since they entered the temple, as Thalia aimed the hookshot carefully toward the ceiling. She rocketed herself up high landing a mere few meters from her starting point, skipping an entire room of solid ground (there was no lava or traps), only to land in front of the door.
Sheik and Goron Link slowly walked over to the door in the exact same time it took Thalia to hookshot her way over.
"Was that necessary?"
"It was... for a HERO!"
She took a cheesy stance and smiled in an almost blinding way. Goron Link looked at Sheik, who rolled his eyes.
Thalia came down from her high and opened the door. She started to ask a question about how much longer they were going to be stuck down in this cave, but was never able to finish as the floor caved beneath them...
(((((Volvagia's Cavern)))))
Thalia had woken up with a whopping headache and sweating badly.
They had landed in a large cave, filled, to the brim of the platform that they landed on, with lava.
Of course, that was a few minutes ago.
After all three of them had awoken, a loud rumbling had shaken the platform, and the dragon Volvagia had risen from the fire.
Thalia had actually tried to reason with the dragon, but she failed. In the end, she aimed for Volvagia with the hookshot, catching the dragon in an eye. This caused the dragon to pause, flailing about for a moment, adjusting to the newfound blindness in its left eye. Thalia used the moment to ready an arrow, aiming for the other eye. The dragon, now totally blind, crashed into the lava. It poked its head out slightly from one of the holes, and Thalia tried to slash at it with the Master Sword. The sword could not cut the dragon's tough facial hide.
Now that it knew where Thalia was, it emerged from the hole, wandering about the platform after Thalia. She was almost cornered, when the dragon reared up in pain. Thalia was able to run back over to her friends.
"Use this!"
Thalia caught something heavy that was tossed at her by the small Goron. It was a hammer. A large hammer. Sheik looked at it.
"A hammer?"
Thalia gave an evil smile.
"Smash."
The dragon heard them, and turned toward them. It began to charge, but before it could move in to attack, Thalia leapt forward and ran the hammer right into the dragon's nose. It reared back and cried out in extreme pain. As it tried to recover, Thalia drew the Master Sword. She leapt upward to attack, and brought the sword down behind the dragon's head, on the soft unprotected skin of its neck.
The head flew clean off. It was over.
Sheik let out a sigh of relief, and Goron Link cheered for her. Thalia was silent. As Volvagia let out its last dying breaths, its glowing red eyes cleared, revealing startling blue ones.
It cooed a small whimper, and Thalia touched its face. She said a small prayer for it, and almost as if it understood, its eyes clouded up with tears.
"I'm sorry, friend."
She whispered to it as it closed its eyes and the heat melted it away into ashes...
(((((Goron City)))))
Goron's cheered and jubilant music played. King Darunia thanked Thalia and Sheik. A feast was prepared for them. Sheik "wasn't hungry," and Thalia made the mistake of being polite and trying the rock sirloin. She decided that Goron Link needed the food more, as he had had a long day. They drank water for the rest of their time their.
It was then that Darunia motioned the two of them into his room. He grabbed the Goron statue that was in the back of his room and pulled, moving it away from an empty spot in the wall.
"Follow me friends."
Sheik and Thalia followed Darunia into the cave. It came out in the volcano on the other side. Darunia led them back into the temple, into the entrance area. The bats had cleared out. Darunia went and stood in front of the statues.
"This is the true altar of the Fire Temple. It is here that the goddesses hid their power."
Suddenly, the world seemed to fall away from them! As it came back into place, a calm light flooded over them. The Sacred Realm again.
Thalia looked at the symbol of the forest sage, pulsing with a green light. 'Saria.' Thalia half-smiled and turned toward the newly glowing symbol.
"Priestess. I, Darunia, am the Sage of Fire."
Thalia nodded in recognition, little surprise echoing in her face. Darunia continued.
"Priestess, I know of what has happened to the hero Link. I have but one wish for you."
Thalia nodded again.
"Link is my sworn brother. I know that he does not mean the evil that he causes. Please... save him."
(((((Fire Temple)))))
Link stood over the ashes of Volvagia. His eyes seemed to mist over, ever so slightly. In an instant it was gone, though.
Link turned and walked away, disappearing in a flash of light, back to Gannon.
(((((TBC)))))
This might be my only chapter for a little while, because I really need to work on my original fiction on FictionPress. Again, go check it out. Same pen name. Title is Realms of Darkness.