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Chapter 5: Through The Dungeon We Shall Go!
"This is one weird looking dungeon." Link said looking up at the glowing emerald walls.
Indeed it was a very bizarre looking place for the Hero of Time. Having entered the dungeon it was strange looking to say the least. The entire first room of the dungeon looked to be made of any type of gem you could think of. Ruby flooring, emerald walls, diamond coulombs, etc.
"For a dungeon that's called 'Crystal Eye' I have yet to see crystals or eyes. What I let down." Tobi said.
"Whatever. So, where's the shadow?" Link asked.
"I have no idea. I can feel his energy throughout the entire dungeon. Kinda hard to tell where exactly he is."
The team of three continued to walk down the hall noticing bronze and silver plated doors along the sides of the hall.
"Why don't we just go through those doors?" Flame Princess asked.
"Nah, if anything that I learned you always want to find the doors that fit the dungeon." Link said.
"So says Mr. McDungeon."
"Whatever, Tobi."
The three continued to walk down the corridor eventually finding two large doors at the end of it. Both doors appeared to be made of black stone or very dusty onyx, both had a white eye in the center of it.
"Check it out, an eye!" Link said.
"So which way showed we go?" Flame Princess asked.
"Hmm... I'll take the right and you take the left."
"Right."
"Heh, right." Tobi chuckled at the unintended pun.
Link then went to door on the right as it automatically opens for him and shuts as soon as he walks in.
"This is going to be so much fun." Link said sighing to himself.
...
"Jake, eleven o' clock!"
Jake throws his fist at the Wolfos and making it smash into the wall and disappear into a blue like smoke. Both of them were fighting a pack of Wolfos trying to find their way out of the current room they were in.
"Gees, these are the same wolfs that attacked us back in the Candy Kingdom!"
"That means that shadow guy must be near by." Finn slashed the last Wolfos watching it howl in pain before erupting into a cloud of blue smoke. "Man, what kind of wolfs were they?"
"I don't know but they gotta have some sort of connection to the shadow guy."
"Yeah but it's weird, that shadow guy." Finn began trailing into his thoughts.
The two continued to conversant both completely unaware of the growing shadow that was under Finn.
"Hey Finn, why's your shadow growing?"
"Wha?" Before Finn knew it a purple disembodied hand swooped down and grabbed Finn by the head. "AAH!"
Just as quick the hand dropped it floated back up, taking Finn with it.
"Finn!"
Jake stretched his body up after the hand only for him to hit the ceiling, hard.
...
"So Tobi, what is it that you do exactly?"
Tobi smiled, that is if you could tell, at Flame Princess's question to him.
"Well I'll tell you, I'm the assistant to The Great Fairies. I help with dividing up all fairies among all the dimensions, good, bad, healing, food, any fairy you can think of."
"Are there fire fairies?"
"Yeah. Most of them live in volcanoes and in forests. What makes you so interested in fairies all of a sudden? Want one so you can smooch your boyfriend?" Tobi teased.
"N-No." Flame Princess retorted trying to hide a growing blush.
"Sure you don't, princess. Sure you don't."
"I mean it...!" Tobi stared at her with a questionable look on his face but who could tell.
"You sure?"
"Well, I want to but... I can't." She sighed in the defeat and looked down at the floor.
"Why is it that you can't? Other than his lips being burnt as a result." Despite the bluntness of the latter statement his intrigue had begun to grow.
"It's because I'm... unstable."
Tobi was taken back a bit by this but tried his best not to show it. "Unstable? I have no idea why you'd call yourself crazy! I mean, your kind, nice and a beautiful, young, girl. I don't see how this keeps you two from kissing."
Flame Princess couldn't help but giggle as a light blush came across her cheeks. "No, not that kind of unstable. I mean, there's something wrong with me that if me and Finn kiss the whole planet will blow up."
"Oh." Tobi said seeing how the implications of Flame Princess's scenario just skyrocketed. "Well that's definitely a deal breaker. But don't worry Princess, once we're done here Link and I will help you over come this instability thing and find a way so that you don't burn anything so that you two can be together."
"Do you really mean it, Tobi?" A glimmer of hope shined in her eyes.
"Of course! I swear to Nayru that we willhelp you cover come this." He emphasized the 'will' in his statement.
"Thanks Tobi and whose Nayru?"
"Oh right I forgot you're not Hylian well I swear to whatever god it is you worship and if you don't worship a god then I swear to Link's green tunic."
"You really are kind Tobi." The two continued to walk down the hall until they ended up at a stone door that automatically opened for them. "Hey do you hear that?"
"All I hear is... nothing." The room they entered was empty. All there is in the room is a gold metallic door. "Tobi says 'open the door'!"
The Princess approached the door and pushed it open by turning the small nob. The room they entered put Flame Princess a little on edge due to her surroundings. It was a blue cavern they ended up in with gold, bones, and weapons scattered around the place. But this wasn't what made the Princess feel so on edge.
Water had flowed freely into the room from pipes, the ceiling, the walls, almost everywhere. Several hill like craters where spread on the floor. Large ones with water being filled from the ceiling and small ones that were slightly over filled with water seeping out little by little.
"Cavern of water and rocks... I say we go back." Tobi stated.
"Good idea." Both turned around and planed on leaving the room but iron bars fell down in front of the door and sealed the two within the room to find an alternate exit.
"Well Princess, watch you step, look both ways before you cross the road and stranger danger, I'm out!"
"And where are you going?" She said, baffled by the fairy's eagerness to leave.
"I'm going to hide on your person."
"Hide where?" She almost shrieked.
Tobi examined the Princess seeing that her attire only consist of a fiery dress there really isn't much of a place to hide without him... violating her.
"Dang it. You win this time Princess. Well we're on a ledge so let's jump down and find another exit."
Flame Princess jumped down, carefully watching where she stepped so that she wouldn't carelessly step into one of the creators closer to the ground.
"Where's all this water coming from? I'm surprised that this room isn't flooded." Flame Princess said in slight fear and awe.
"Yeah but the acoustics in this room are killer. Watch... echo...!" Tobi's voice echoed throughout the room repeating "echo" until it disappeared into thin air. "See I told you."
"WHO GOES THERE!?" A deep voice boomed through the cavern and shook some rocks from the ceiling as well as shaking the pools of water from the echoed effect.
"Who goes there? I goes there! Tobi, assistant to The Great Fairies and I travel with the princess of fire! Now show yourself so it'll be easier when we beat your sorry butt into one of these creators!"
"Those are bold words, Tobi, assistant to The Great Fairies!" The voice grew closer, Flame Princess and Tobi readied themselves for the massive enemy. "For you see none can defeat..." A small gray rock man came out from behind a creator. He carried a bucket filled with water and wore bronze bands on his arms, legs, hands, and feet. He also had spikes on his body and his chin and cheeks were spiked making them look like a really bad mustache beard rock combo. His green eyes focused up at the princess and the fairy above her head. "the Bucket Knight!"
As if his entrance had been completely ignored Flame Princess and Tobi looked around the area probably searching for some massive giant.
"Hello~" Tobi shouts. "come out Bucket Knight you big chicken or are you really a big chicken!?"
"I'm down here!" He said feeling mortified.
Flame Princess looked down and saw the little stone man who was about as tall as her knee.
"Well hi there little guy, where's your daddy?" She asked.
"How dare you say that! I'm forty-three years old!"
"Yeah sure you are." Tobi said sarcastically. "Say, you know where the exit to this place is, right? You see the princess doesn't feel to comfortable here." She nods in agreement.
"Well the exit is down this path but-"
"Thanks! Come on Princess, let's bail!"
She nods runs past the Bucket Knight making him fall over and complain.
"You can't leave until you've battled me!" He whines.
"Yeah we can I mean Flame P can easily beat your sorry stone butt and me well... face it you don't want to fight me."
Anger came across the stone warrior's face as he lifted the bucket of water above his head. "Just add water and..." He poured the bucket of water on him and a second later his limbs began to expand. "EXPONENTIAL GROWTH!"
"Say Princess, who turned out the liiiiiights..." Tobi had slowly turned to see what was blocking out the light only to see the same stone monster only a thousand times taller. "Looks like someone was eating their vegetables in the last five seconds."
"Now is not the time for meaningless words! Now is the time for action! Now engage me young warriors and activate thy own powers so we may engage in TRILLING single combat!"
"Oh boy, you ready for this Princess?"
"Yeah!"
"Alright! Let's smelt that cobblestone into cement!"
...
Within the inner chambers of the dungeon a young hero's moans can be heard echoing throughout several rooms. Within one of the dungeon's rooms a cage is seen being suspended over roaring water. The room appears to be a forgotten stop of a subway with two tunnels for people to enter the darkness. Within there was a boy in blue. He wore a white bear hat, black shoes and carried a green backpack. He rubbed his head feeling a bump on it. He stood up looking around his surroundings to figure out where he is.
"Man, where am I? I don't remember this part of the dungeon. Then again I never saw that hand thing either. Man that was creepy." He shudders from remembering the feel of the disembodied hand. "Now, how do I get out of this cage?" Finn looked around the area seeing as though there were no ledges of any kind he would have to dive into the water. "Well, looks like I'm going into the water. Beats jumping into the ocean."
He took out his blade and began swinging against the bars of his cage. He managed to chip away at the iron bars however due to the thickness of the bars swinging would be futile. "Man, this is going to take forever."
Footsteps could be heard coming from the shadows of the room, they continued to come closer.
"Hey! Is anyone there!? Can you help!?" Out from the shadows came the boy made of darkness who was accompanied by a black fairy. "It's you!" The shadow boy shot an arrow at the rope that suspended the cage above the water. The cage dropped out of the sky and was heading towards the water with a shouting Finn. The shadow shot another arrow but this time at the water. The arrow entered the roaring water and soon enough calmed it by freezing it solid. The cage crashed onto the ice with enough force behind it to rip apart the cage.
Finn opened his eyes to his surprise he wasn't surrounded by water instead he on ice and only a few feet away from the very same shadow boy who attacked the Candy Kingdom about a day ago. Finn exited the remains of the cage and approached the shadow with caution.
"Why did you help me?"
The shadow turned his look away from Finn. "My motives are something you couldn't possibly understand." His face then contorted into an evil grin. "After all, you are just a kid."
"So what if I'm a kid! You're a kid too!"
The shadow quietly laughed to himself before he decided to face Finn, the smile on his face disappeared. "Looks can be so deceiving, can't they? Physically I may appear to be a child but you and I both know that my strength is far stronger than any child. But if one's mental state was to count towards their age..." He looked at the ground and smiled fiercely then looked back up at Finn. "I'd be an immortal god."
Finn grew a smug smile as he raised his sword. "Humph... that sounds like a bunch of idiot talk."
"Idiot talk, now? Are you really that delusional or are you just an idiot?"
"Maybe I'm both!" He said confidently.
The shadow smiled and turned his back on the boy. "You know, there's someone waiting for you here. Ever since your last visit here he's been growing stronger and now he knows for a fact that he will kill you."
"What the plumb are you talking about!?"
"That's for you to figure out... Frank the Human boy."
"It's Finn not Frank!"
"Yeah, sure it is. You know you're actually quite lucky. I'm not in a fighting mood."
The shadow quickly takes off from where he came, reentering the darkness.
"Hey get back here!"
Finn chases after shadow running a full speed so that he does not lose him.
...
"Princess, watch out!"
Flame Princess managed to dodge the incoming fist with little time to spare yet a second fist came full force and blew away the princess. Her body paved a dirt path completely void of any water, lucky her, unless pain counts as water.
"What's wrong with you!" She shouts trying to ignore the pain. "Hitting a girl!"
"By no means am I sexist so I treat every challenger the same. Be it boy, girl or shadow I don't hold back!"
"Shadow?" Tobi whispers to himself. "Why would you mention a shadow out of all things?" It takes him about three seconds to draw a conclusion. "Did you fight a shadow before?"
"A little less than a day ago. For a kid he's incredibly powerful."
"This shadow that you fought did he have a black fairy with him?"
"Yes, yes he did."
They must still be here! If we waste anymore time with this pile of rock we'll lose him! "Say princess," he whispers close to the princess's ear. "I know you're probably exhausted but is it possible that you can wrap this up in the next ten seconds. That shadow is still here we need to hurry and find him."
"I don't know if I'll be able to beat him that fast but take cover. This guy's made me really angry!"
"I've had my share of angry girls. Taking cover it is!"
Tobi flew over to one of the craters and dived into the water. The princess readied her self for combat.
"Are you ready to give up yet?"
"No I'm ready to end this!"
The princess began to grow to incredible size and probably was taller than him by a few inches now that she was in her fire beast form.
"Holy-"
The knight was cut off by a massive punch to the face and was soon followed up by a massive fireball. He was sent to a deeper part of the cavern judging by the destruction that was left that or he was completely obliterated. The princess shrank back to her original size and Tobi leaped out from the water.
"Oh my goddess, remind me to never make you that angry."
...
"Man, this dungeon's bigger than the Water Temple. " Link said to himself as he wandered about through the halls of the dungeon. "Man I think we were better off staying together then we were separated." The hall he traveled was lit by blue crystals if it wasn't for them he would have been wandering in the dark. "Wait, what was that noise?"
The hall was silent but for a brief second the sound of light footsteps echoed throughout the hall. "I'm not alone in this room, am I?" He continued to walk this time slower so that the sounds of his footsteps would be lighter. As he continued the sound of footsteps became louder but different from the ones before but a familiar mocking laughter was heard in the distance.
"Shadow." He growled under his breath. He jetted off farther wanting to pursue the sounds he was closing in on. Link rolled forward and jumped thinking that he was on a higher platform from where the noise could be heard. But instead he smacked right into a wall.
"Ow..."
Link slid down the wall and landed on the floor only to get back up and examine the wall. He tried to touch the wall but his hand went right through it. "What in the name of Farore is wrong with wall?" He then took out his Len's of Truth and saw that the wall was indeed fake, strange how he managed to smack into it at full speed. "There's another one down there."
He went through the wall and was correct about being on a higher ledge, as a matter a fact he wasn't even level with the ground which led to him hurting himself as he fell about a storey to the ground.
"Ow! Well that hurt."
He got up and heard nearby footsteps, he readied himself for whoever it was that was going to come out of the wall. A boy wearing blue shorts, black shoes and a blue shirt came through the wall. He wore a white bear hat and carried a green backpack and a crimson sword. The boy turned his head to the right and saw stairs that led up to a massive crystal diamond. Link turned his head and saw this. "How in the name of Zelda did I miss that?"
He wasn't given another second to think for he was nearly sliced by the crimson sword the boy carried. He did a backflip to open some space between the two of them, naturally he would have his sword and shield at the ready following this backflip but the grasp of nothingness reminded him that he did not. "Dang it."
"Hey shadow!" Link refocused his attention at the boy, who was pointing his sword at him. "I don't know how you managed to change clothes and your skin color so fast but you'd better tell me where you put Princess Bubblegum!"
"Princess Bubblegum?" Link quietly muttered to himself. "Whose he talking about and who is he? No matter he thinks that I'm the shadow which might mean others will too." Link closed his eyes and exhaled deeply before meeting the boy's eyes once more. "Look, I don't know who you're talking about and I don't know who you are either."
"Stop lying! You're the same person who attacked the Candy Kingdom the other day so don't act like you don't know anything."
Man, do me and the shadow really look that alike? "Look, I'm being as honest as I can be. I don't know who and what you are talking about!"
Finn's grip on the sword tightened. "Then fight me shadow or former shadow I guess."
This guy is stubborn. "Alright I'll fight you if you really think I'm the shadow, which I'm not!"
Link then pulled out a massive sword that appeared to be bigger then himself. The handle was a dark green but could be considered as the stem of a plant compared to the actual blade. The metal infusion of violet and red created a magical gloss on the blade's edge while the green center shined brightly revealing the rose like encoding on the blade. The boy was left in awe not only by the massive sword but by where the heck this guy took it out from.
"Where did you pull that out from?" Finn asked in wonderment.
"That's not important. But you said you wanted a fight so let's go." Link raised his sword, readying his stance. Finn broke his trance and repositioned himself, ready to fight.
"Yes, fight each other to the point of exhaustion. It'll make it so much easier for me to possibly turn you both into a nice sorbet."
Link's ears twitched hearing the quite voice. "Wait..." Link lowered his sword. "we're not alone." Link turned away from Finn. "Whoever you are, come out from the shadows."
"And here I thought that your ears were just for show." The feline like figure began its crawl from the shadows. Out stepped a blue paw that appeared to be missing a part of the entire leg and then another, this time whole. The figure emerged from the shadows revealing his sky like fur and some sort of pink thing that acted as the beast tail that was somewhat wrapped around itself. His face had an evil grin on it while his ears appeared to be relaxed. His right back leg appeared to be missing a part while his left back leg was perfectly fine. His evil glare met Link's and Finn's stare.
"Cat, your alive?" Finn whispered out.
"Indeed I am, and I assume that you managed to escape those two years ago."
"You're darn right I did!" He said now readying his crimson at the blue feline. "And this time you're not going to beat me."
"We'll see about that now, won't we? And that green elf will possibly be a good lunch."
"We'll see about that, Kitty Mix."
