Hooray for more chapters! This one took longer to write, but it's still good. I may not own Zelda, but I can still write about it!
Chapter Five
Set in Stone
Link jogged to Lake Hylia after waking up in Hyrule Castle three days after coming to home, to Hyrule. He had forgotten much in the four years he had been gone, and it took him a moment to remember where the first of the Stone Guards was hidden. But after standing in thought for a second, he dove into the lake.
He swam down to the bottom of the lake, and, though he could not see much through the blurred water, he found a strangely colored rock, an odd, but natural looking, lime green. Link kicked it slowly through the water's thickness, and he instantly vanished.
The next thing he remembered was falling on a black stone floor from a few feet up, and then he remembered the place. He hid the Goron's Ruby here, in case Gannondorf escaped. Link knew Gannondorf had discovered this place. If he had no need for the Master Sword, he must have become very powerful.
Link remembered very little of that place, but he remembered being there before. He got up, to discover that this was a very small room, with a single stone door in front of him.
He tried to pull the door open, but it wouldn't budge. So he jammed his sword into the crack between the two halves of the door, and yanked it. The door shot open, and the sword wasn't even scratched. This is a much stronger sword than I thought, Link thought as he walked into the next room. In it, there was a door to his left, and a large stone wall that went up about twenty feet in front of him. It had many gashes in it, like the footprints of an animal. There was no way to get past this, so he went through the door.
As link entered this room, he heard the familiar sound of metal scraping against rock. He turned around, and there were bars in front of the door, and on the door on the other side of the room. In the middle of this room was a giant, grey-green translucent pillar going from the floor to the ceiling. It had huge grey-green rock-like tentacles halfway up, and on each side of it was an Iron Knuckle wielding huge hammers.
The first thought that ran through Link's mind was of shock; and then, to stab through the pillar. However, when he tried this, his sword bounced of its rock-like hide, and his torso was hit cleanly by both Iron Knuckle hammers. He fell back against the barred door, and coughed up a clot of blood. He felt his spirit dying, and his last thought was of Zelda. But as he thought of her, he felt her thinking of him, and the Triforce of Wisdom strengthened him.
He rose, and still felt weak. The Triforce of Wisdom was working in his heart, and he sensed a connection between the Iron Knuckles and pillar. Before he knew what he was doing, he was standing before the one to the left of the rock-pillar. It tried to bring its hammer down on Link's head, but link rolled to his right and slashed across the monster's calves. It fell to the ground, and link drove its sword through its back.
As the Iron Knuckle fell, the Pillar tinted red, and gave a cougar-like cry. While it was red, Link chopped his sword at the tentacle to the right, and bright-green blood spurted from its end, and it gave the same cat-like cry, but louder.
Link approached the second Iron Knuckle, and it swung its hammer at him horizontally. Link ducked down, and his hat lunched across the room and into the wall, where it fluttered to the ground.
While Link was ducked, he thrust the sword into the Iron Knuckle's stomach. It fell to its knees, and Link cut off its head. The pillar gave a cry again, and turned first red, then blue. Link cut of both the tentacles in a figure eight, cut it in half, and plunged the sword into it. It spurted green blood from all its wounds, and it fell sideways, and then deflated on the ground as the blood came.
Link walked through the door behind it. It was bright-blue steel, with gold, sharp designs on it. In the next room was a single chest, decorated much like the door he had walked through. When he tried to open it, however, he found it locked by a gold lock set in its exact middle. He drew his sword, and drove his sword into the lock with all his strength. It sunk into it, and a bright-blue smoke-like substance came from it; it shot open, and the room was filled by a blinding yellow light. But when Link looked into it, he could see in it anyway.
He reached into the chest, and pulled out blue-and-gold gauntlets. When he put them on, blue, curved knives shot out of the backs of the gloves. At first he was puzzled by this, but then an idea flashed through his mind.
Link ran into the room where he fought the Tentacle, and into the room before it, with the wall. He examined the cuts in it, and stuck the knife on his right hand into a cut on the left. It bounced off the cut, like it was covered by glass. So he tried sticking his left knife into the cut on the left, and it fit fine, like they were keys, and the cuts were locks.
It took him a moment to climb it, and when he did, he lamented that he had come at all. Down under the wall, were two grey green pillars, and surrounded by each one were five Lizalfos, wielding wicked glossy-black scimitars with cobra-heads on the hilt.
As his thoughts traveled away from the knives on his hands, they sunk back into the gloves. He noticed this, and the knives came back. As he thought about it, the knives shot out and sunk in. He hoped only that this would help him with the Lizalfos.
He drew Slahinyr, and as he did so, the Tentacles heard the scraping of his sword against its sheath, and all the Lizalfos looked up and hissed, so symmetrically it seemed mechanical. They had no minds of their own.
Link jumped from the top of the wall, and all ten of the Lizalfos were engulfed in smoky shadow, and their skin turned a wicked purplish-black. They all hissed again, perfectly symmetrical, and all ran at Link, with their scimitars outstretched, at an inhuman speed.
Link barely had time to duck, and the Lizalfos' bodies seemed to trace themselves in a black shadow. As they passed, Link cut the leg off one. It fell backwards towards him, and its head fell on the blue knife from Link's right gauntlet. He shot its fallen body towards another one, all of which had now turned around, and the body fell on the one in the middle and knocked him back five feet. He jumped up, with the body still on his chest, and the body evaporated in a black smoke. The nine that lived hissed mechanically, and surrounded Link
They charged symmetrically again, from all directions. But as they charged, link cut off one of the Lizalfos' scimitar blades from his hilt (still surprised at the strength of Slahinyr), and cut it in half, to the growl of one of the Tentacles. As the Lizalfos' halves fell to the ground, four of the eight surviving seemed to hesitate. Link noticed this, and drove Slahinyr deep into one of the Monsters, then pulled it out and tore it across another frozen one's chest. They both fell dead, and the Tentacle, with a cry, turned grey, and six Lizalfos again hissed mechanically.
The monsters fell back and hen surrounded him again, and all attempted to bring their scimitars down on Link, who brought Slahinyr through one's neck and avoided the scimitars through the hole in the ring he had made.
Now the other Tentacle flashed red, and four of the five surviving Lizalfos hissed and leapt on Link, who rolled under them and brought Slahinyr through one's back, throwing him to the ground. Then he cut off one's leg and thrust Slahinyr between its ribs.
The Tentacle screamed louder than Link had yet heard, and turned lime green. Link fell to his knees and covered his ears, screaming in pain. He dropped his sword with a clatter on the ground, and one of the Lizalfos, all of which were unaffected, took Slahinyr and threw it into the wall behind him, then turned and gave the screaming Link a wicked smile. He raised his scimitar to decapitate Link, but just before the scimitar reached his neck, he looked up and rolled behind the Lizalfos, and, from the ground, kicked him in the back. He fell to the ground, roughly throwing his scimitar, and Link caught it and stabbed the Monster through the back, splitting his spine.
Link now felt like his ears were bleeding and he knew he didn't have much time before passing out. He tried to hack through one's ribs, but it was caught by another scimitar. The Lizalfos, in a superhuman strength, threw Link across the room and into the wall, next to Slahinyr. Link didn't even know if he could move.
The Lizalfos came upon him and raised his scimitar, but before it reached him, he stabbed the Lizalfos under its ribs (Link was lying against the wall, and the Lizalfos towered above him) with the scimitar while pulling Slahinyr out of the wall and hurled it at the screeching Tentacle, both at the same time.
The screeching was silenced, and the Lizalfos fell to its knees. The Tentacle fell sideways and deflated.
Link was now, for the first time, aware of the other Tentacle and last Lizalfos. He approached the Lizalfos with the black scimitar, and it hissed loudly. Link couldn't hear much, and he had the worst headache of his life. The hiss was like murder.
He attempted to stab the creature, but it was blocked with superhuman speed. Link counterattacked and sliced the sword through its back, cutting halfway through its spine. Link now flung the scimitar at the Tentacle, which ripped from the ground and was nailed to the wall, and deflated.
The black, coal-like brick walls of the room were now stained with green and purple blood; the red Hylian blood from the back of Link's head stained one part of the wall, where the Lizalfos threw him in the screaming. He picked his sword from the deflated Tentacle, which was also now stained in green blood, and wiped the wretched-smelling stuff on one of the Lizalfos' black leather jerkin. The room jerked and swiveled, and Link was sure he was concussed. But he knew he had to keep moving.
Then Link noticed a pillar of light in the middle of the room. Gold, dust-like particles moved around it like a hurricane. It made a laser like noise, and then was gone. Where the pillar was stood a little brown treasure chest, with gold designs. He walked to it despite the movement of the room. He managed to kick it open, and inside was a little blue orb with what looked like lightning inside. He pulled it out, and put it in a little brown leather pouch on his belt.
On the other side of the room from the wall was another bright-blue door with gold designs, and presently Link walked through it.
On the other side of the door was a fork in the black path, one going left and one right. Link walked through the left one, and walked for a moment in that direction, when he was plunged into a pool he hadn't seen. After a moment, his head raised above the water, gasping for air. At once he noticed that the water was bright blue, and then he noticed that the corridor had stopped swiveling. He felt the back of his head, and there was no longer a wound.
Link looked towards the direction in which he was moving, to find that it reached a dead end after the pool. He looked down into the water, and saw bubbles coming from a nook. He took a deep breath, then plunged back down into the water.
He released some of his breath, and sunk deeper into the blue water, to the nook where the bubbles came from. In the hole, he found, was an octorok, with fierce eyes already targeting Link
Link had lost his shield during the time he had spent in Termina, and didn't know how to fight an octorok without it.
Before he had time to fully contemplate this, a boulder was flung from the octopus' mouth towards his head, and, out of impulse, drew his sword and struck the rock, cutting it flat in half and causing a small series of explosions, like a string of firecrackers. This caught the octorok by surprise, giving Link the time to drive the sword through the monster's round mouth. A black ink came from its throat, and then it was gone in a puff of black smoke.
Now Link thought he would soon suffocate, and swam quickly, almost frantically, through the dark underwater passageway, to find himself tumbling out of the water and onto dry land. He looked behind himself, discovering that the bright-blue water ended suddenly in a wall of liquid. Link got up from where he fell and approached the liquid wall. He stuck his hand through it, and it acted like water pulled by gravity. He pulled his hand out, and it was dry.
He turned back around, and saw that there was another blue-and-gold door in this passageway. He walked through it, and on the other side was total darkness. Then he remembered the lightning orb, and pulled it out of his pouch. Its blue glow was dim at first, but then shot out a brighter beam that, in the dark passage, stung Link's eyes.
It worked like a torch, and Link shone it in front of himself, revealing an upwards ramp that lead on into darkness. Presently, Link began the ascent up the stone.
At the top of the dark ramp was a very large, dirty-iron looking door; with a bull-like skull on the front, and the stone in front of it was a dark turquoise, with the same bull's skull in the color of the rest of the stone. Link tried it, but it was jammed, or locked.
At this point, Link noticed that, on each side and above it, were three half-circles cut in to the door, with lightning in one, fire in another, and, in the last, a vast stone forest. As he looked at these, they seemed almost to move, the lightning flashed, the fire danced, and small creatures almost seemed to hurry through the forest. Then Link shook up, as if waking up from a dream.
Now Link noticed that there was a staircase spiraling downwards to the right of the door. He reached the bottom, to what looked like a dead-end. But as he approached the wall, it opened in the middle and fell into the parallel walls to Link's sides.
Link cautiously entered this room, and felt eyes on him the second he entered. Behind him the stone shut back with a slam, and iron bars covered it and the door across the room from him simultaneously.
On each wall of the square room, a small section of stone opened up, and large, brown, tarantula-like creatures, about four feet tall, with huge, nasty pincers about two feet long came out of the back of their heads, with orange liquid barely managing to ooze from the tips. They gave hisses like a great cat with the opening of their huge fangs. They ran towards Link, and when they were about fifteen feet away, a ring of fire spread around them, and Link drew Slahinyr.
When the first of the two reached him, it shot out a pincer horizontally at Link's side, but the tip of the dagger was cut off by Slahinyr. But where the tip of the pincer had fallen grew a web-like outline of where it was, and it was slowly regenerated, a gristly bone growing from more of the web substance, then muscle, then blood, then black skin, then finally mangy brown hair.
Link gasped in surprised, but the creature was apparently in pain from the losing of its limb, and jumped back, while the other attacked. It leapt at Link while his back was turned, but he ducked before it hit him and fell on its back. It turned over in a fluid movement and hissed before jumping at Link's calves, but two of its long legs were sliced off before it reached him. It hissed and jumped back, and its legs regenerated just like the other's pincer. It, too, acted wounded however, and the other one leapt at him.
Link again moved out of the way, but this time, instead of just falling, it tumbled into the ring of fire that surrounded them. It screamed much like a humanoid and ran around the room like a chicken with its head cut off before curling its legs and pincers inward and rolled to a stop, where the fire slowly consumed it and left it ash. From its corpse fell a red orb like the blue one, but filled with a blazing fire that glowed deeply. Link would come back to that when the other spider was defeated. So, they are vulnerable to fire, Link thought as he turned to the other arachnid, whose eight eyes had also been following the blazing spider. It hissed, and began to spin a cyclone of web around Link, navigating it with its long pincers.
It was soon a wall around him, rope-thick, and when he tried to cut it, it acted like steel. When he tried to climb it, it stuck to his hands and cut him when he pulled off. So, as a last resort, he threw his sword between the web strings, and into the fire. The flames exploded outwards, and a spark caught the web, which disintegrated lightning-fast.
The spider dropped on its back from where it had been mounted on the webs, and hissed again. Link drew Slahinyr from the stone where it landed, burning his hand in the fire a little.
The spider jumped at Link, poison pincers outstretched, ready to tear Link apart. Link drew up Slahinyr, barely fast enough to pull it in front of the pincers. The spider hissed, louder and more terrible than ever.
Link was surprised at the strength of the spider, one second almost overpowering him, the next almost overpowered. At the last second, just before the spider overcame the youth, a single drop of the orange liquid dropped from the pincer to his arm. It burned him intensely, drawing blood. But it set a nerve off, like being electrocuted, and his arm shot out and became stiff for a split-second. The spider was thrown off, into the fire. It screamed, and became black ash. From it fell another orb, this time green, with what looked like a miniature forest inside, vast and filled with its own creatures and plants A treasure chest appeared in the center of the room, and the ring of fire was evaporated, leaving a trail of smoke as it vanished clockwise.
Link approached the blue chest with gold designs on it. He opened it up, and it again shot out a laser-like beam of light what made the room look white. Inside was a large key, with the skull of a bull on one side. Link remembered the door decorated with a bull's head and the half-circles, and hurried back to grab the two orbs left next to the piles of ash, and rushed back to the door.
When Link reached the door, he again examined the three stone half-circles. They matched the stones perfectly. He pulled the lightning stone from his pocket and, hesitatingly, put it in the matching half-circle. Light poured from the orb, almost filling the room with its glow. He took the fire stone from his pocket, and put it in its matching circle, and it and the lightning orbs glow seemed to intensify. Link pulled the forest stone from his pocket and put it also in its matching circle. All three of the orbs' glow became even brighter, making the dark grey brick walls appear white.
Just above the orbs, some of the blue in the wall faded away, leaving a keyhole in its place. Link put the large, bull-headed key into it, and the room flooded with a blinding light. When it faded, the door was gone, and in its place was an arch in the wall, leading into a large, octagon-shaped room. When he entered it, iron bars slammed down into the ground under the arch, and more slammed from side to side across it. Link drew its sword, and the wall across from him opened up.
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