Authors notes: Surprised to see this updated out of all my stories? Well a bad case of writer's block hit me like a truck but for some reason I can still type this! I call it 'Selective Writer's Block', call me what you will. So just read this 'til I'm hit by the inspiration bus. And as you all know I own absolutely nothing.
Chapter 6: Dual Swords; Dimensional Hats
The sounds of claws slashing away at metal could be heard echoing through the dungeon. The noise boggled all creatures that reside in the dungeon, almost all. A shadow boy being accompanied by a black fairy smiled happily as he walked through one of the corridors.
"I thought you were going to fight that kid, B-Dog."
"First of all, never call me that again." The shadow growled with annoyance. "Second, I have no intention of fighting that weakling."
"But what about the shard that the Garo Lord said was here?"
"Haven't you ever played 'Fetch' with a dog before? They will gather the shards and in the end I'll simply take it from their grasp. Any more questions, fairy?"
"What about that pink princess we kidnapped to lure that boy and his dog?"
The shadow stopped in his tracks to think for a moment then decided what to do.
"Release her from her prison."
The fairy blinked, if you could see that. "Come again?"
"I said 'release her from her prison'." His eyes narrowed. "Was I not clear?"
"But why?" The fairy asked confused.
"What would it matter if she is held captive or free? She's trapped in her. But why am I telling you to do it? Wallmasters!" Four growing shadows appeared before the shadow and soon enough four disembodied hands were present. "Be sure to 'escort' the guests out of this dungeon."
A low moan came from the four as they seeped down through the floor below them.
"So where to B-Dude?"
"We, my little fairy friend, are going to find one of the seven shards while they get the one that's here for me."
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"Finn! Finn, where are you?!" Jake search, practically, every corner of the dungeon in search of Finn. "Man where is he?" Jake continued to search the area being completely unaware that his shadow was expanding and the ominous sound that came with it. "Maybe I should have asked that goblin which way was up-AH!"
He was then grabbed by the zombified horror that is the Wallmaster and taken into the shadows that it travels.
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"Come on cat, fight like a man! Or like a cat with approximate knowledge!"
"Then why don't you fight me like the hero you claim are!"
The cat leaped at Finn only to be countered by the crimson sword.
"That blade of yours can become an annoyance."
"His blade won't be the only annoyance!"
Link ran at the cat who flipped over Finn causing both blades to clash with each other.
"Hey! Don't attack me!"
"Well I didn't mean to."
The two heros continued to bicker with one another while the blue furred feline crept into the shadows. "Yes, fight with each other like children while I think of a plan to possibly consume you for lunch." He crept farther into darkness to avoid being seen has he watched both heros continue their argument.
"I told you it was an accident!"
"Yeah right! I bet it was an accident that I ran into the shadow and here you are, saying that you're not."
"How am I the shadow!? I don't have red eyes, dark skin and or dark clothing! You must be color blind or something to think that I'm the shadow!"
"So now you're saying I'm blind?" Finn griped the handle harder, anger about to give way to a side fight.
"Look you're not the enemy here, that cat is." Link reasoned. "If we want to beat him we need to work together."
"I guess you're right. We can so beat him! I mean, it's two against one. It's not like he knows that a bunch of fire eyes are underneath that crystal." Finn said pointing at the massive crystal with his crimson blade.
"Thank you Frank!" The cat leaped out from the shadows and easily knocked the two off their feet and quickly made his was to the crystal. "I pondered what would be underneath this crystal." The feline stood up on his hind-legs and began to try to pull out the crystal.
"Are there really fire eyes or whatever you said there is under that crystal!?" Link said getting back up to his feet.
"There is! Me and my big mouth!" Finn slapped his forehead with his palm feeling pretty dumb for saying something his feline opponent didn't know much about.
"Now let the eyes of hell possibly roast you alive!" The cat used all his might and threw out the crystal from its hole that was soon followed the swarm of demonic fire eyes.
"This isn't good..."
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After her confrontation with the Bucket Knight, Flame Princess manage to find an exit out of the cavern only to find herself in some sort of cave filled with pillars and columns.
"Okay princess, my turn. I spy something with my little something that holds walls up."
"Is it a pillar?"
"Well that can be the only assumption." Tobi sighed.
"This game is boring." Flame Princess groaned out of boredom. "I don't want to play it anymore."
"Okay just one more time, please?" Tobi whined.
"Fine."
"Sweet! Okay, okay, I spy something with my little eye something... That has bars?"
"Bars? Like metal bars?"
"That's what I'm looking at and... There's a person inside it."
"Where?"
"Over here." Tobi turned the princess's head in his direction, up towards the ceiling. There they saw a medium-sized cage that was slowly swaying side to side. Inside the cage it appeared that something pink was slowly moving.
"You see, it's a cage and I think something's inside it. You think you can bring it down?" She nodded her head and conjured a fire disk and threw it at the chain that held up the cage. The cage fell, it looked like it was intact but whatever was inside it was stirring.
"Nice, look something's moving."
They cautiously moved towards the cage seeing a figure of pink gum as it seemed. It was a girl, around the age of eighteen or so, with long bubblegum hair, pink dress and a gold crown with a blue gem of some sort.
"Flame P," Tobi said "I think it's a princess. Quick, bust these bars down! I would but my wings are still wet and stuff. You know you should really consider wearing a hat or something for me to hide in."
She giggled and flung another fire disk at the cage which broke the bars in half. She approached the newly opened cage seeing the pink figure up close and recognized it.
"Hey, I think who this is. Yeah I know who this is or at least Finn told me about her. This is Princess Bubblegum!"
"Princess Whatagum?"
"Finn said she's a really smart princess. I think she could help me with being unstable."
"Really? Well let's get her out of here and wake her up. Umm... Where did she go?"
Within the span that they were talking Princess Bubblegum somehow managed to disappear, without a trace.
"Oh..." Tobi said feeling a sense of dread. "I don't feel comfortable standing around anymore."
"Why's that?"
The zombified hand of disembodiment descended upon them and easily captured the unsuspecting princess along with Tobi.
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"Hyaaaah!"
With a quick leap, Link sliced the fire eye before him in half, with a single slash of his sword. It seemed as though there was an endless amount of these demonic fire eyes for the reason that every fire eye that's destroyed two others would take its place. Perhaps it was the cat with his limited knowledge of everything that seemed to be at work or possibly it was something bigger.
Alright, no more playing around. Link reached behind himself and grasped that air as if he actually grasped a bow and began to fire fake arrows at the eyes only to realize that he does not have his bow.
"For the love of Nayru, I forgot that I don't have my bow..." Never once has Link felt so embarrassed and dumb for not remembering he did not have his bow. With the time of Link's 'I don't have my bow' moment the cat seized the opportunity to attack the Hero of Time, pouncing on him and making him release his sword.
"Give up! Your friend can't help you and I've probably rendered you useless."
"I guess you really do have limited knowledge." Link said with a smug smile on his face. "Not only do you not know my name but" Link managed to push the cat off him and get back up with a quick kip-up and took out some type of brown nut. "you underestimate my abilities!"
He threw the nut to the floor which created a white flash and blinded the cat. The cat screamed in pain, probably from the intense pain his eyes were now in, and Link took advantage of this and leaped over the cat and placed a bomb on him before running back into the fiery fray where he met up with Finn.
"Cover your eyes until I say its okay!"
"What, why?"
"Just do it unless you want to end up like him." He said nodding his head over at the black cloud of smoke.
"Alright." Finn covered his eyes using his arm while Link held another nut in his hands, watching as the eyes close in on them. "Closer... Closer... Now!"
Link threw the nut down with full force and quickly shielded his eyes before the nut came in contact with the floor. "Okay, attack!"
Both heros removed their arms and readied their swords only to see the pink raw flesh of the floating fire eyes. "Eeeeewww!" Both heros said in disgusted unison. They soon shook it off and began their assault on the eyes. Slash after slash, the eyes disappeared into blue fire, one after the other.
"Isn't it strange that they're disappearing into blue fire when they're on fire already?" Finn asked.
"When you've seen some of the things that I've seen, you don't really question the logic behind these guys's deaths." Link said slashing another eye in half.
The two continued their attack but it was inevitably stopped when a blue furred feline pounced on the Hero of Time and sent him careening into the pit that the crystal once covered. The hero's shouts echoed down the pit leaving Ooo's hero to face the remaining eyes as well as the limited knowledge cat with his crimson sword and Link's fairy sword.
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"Aaaaaaaaaaa"-THUD
Link hit the floor with a force that probably shattered some of his bones and definitely rattled his insides. A few seconds later his body and mind reacted to his surroundings. He blinked his eyes a few times to assure himself that he wasn't in an afterlife of eternal darkness.
"Gaaaah..." He slowly sat up; rubbing the back of his head trying to ease its pain. "I've definitely had worse falls at Snowhead but ooowwwwwwww!" It only took him minutes to forget about his pain and worry about the more important task at hand, finding a way out of this pit of darkness.
"Okay Hookshot, let's find a way out of here. I'll just use my hand to light the wall to find a spot I can shoot you at. Wait, why is my hand glowing?" Link looked at the back of his left hand seeing the Triforce of Courage glow ever so bright. "What? I don't understand..." His gaze slowly lifted seeing that not to far from him was a gray light. "What in the name of Farore is that?"
He slowly approached the dim light and saw that a small, black, floating shard was emanating this light. "Why would the Triforce react to this? It should only react to the other..." Link realized what the Triforce of Courage was trying to tell him; this shard is a fragment of the Triforce. "But how is this possible? There can't be four parts to the Triforce."
Link reached out for the shard but was given an electrical shock from the fragment. "Ow!" He rubbed his finger tips while looking at the floating gem, wondering what is it about this shard that gave off a negative feedback. "Hmm..." Link took out the bottle he obtained when he found Tobi and with a quick motion he scooped the shard into the bottle. He corked the bottle and quickly turned around and held the bottle high above his head in which it began to mysteriously float and spin.
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I really am wishing the cat didn't push whoever that guy was down that pit. I could really use some help right about now!
Since Link's fall, Finn had fought off the entire force of eyes along with the cat with approximate knowledge who was now staring down the exhausted hero.
"What's a matter, Fink? Thinking about giving up already?"
"Not even close."
The hero was breathing heavily and covered in burns, cuts, bruises and dirt. His left arm lazily hung while his right one tightly griped his crimson blade. His clothes had several rips and slashes on them and his legs were noticeably shaking.
"It is possible that you will collapse from exhaustion and I will turn you into a delicious picnic."
"Don't think that you've won cat! I've fought sandwiches tougher than you."
The cat growled and rushed at Finn who leaped over him and rolled on the ground landing next to The Great Fairy Sword. "I'm impressed that you are still able to move given all that has happened or is your body possibly acting out on its own? No matter, in a matter of minutes it is possible that your blood will splatter across the floor and walls of this place."
"No more idiot talk!" Finn slowly rose and staggered himself off the ground, holding The Great Fairy Sword in his left and his demon blood sword in his right. "I don't know what makes you think that you can beat me..." He raised his head, eyes filled with determination. His grip tightened on both sword handles. "When I'm only getting started!"
"Is it possible that the loss of blood as made you delusional? If that's the case then I might be able to put you out of your misery!" The cat leaped forth and met with the hilt of the Fairy Sword. The cat fell back and landed on his back paws where he met a fury of slashes and jabs from the Hero of Ooo. The cat managed to counter a few attacks with his claws but with every passing second Finn's onslaught grew more powerful which added up more and more cuts and wounds on the cat.
How can this be?! The fool looked exhausted! It's not possible, how is he able to attack me like this! "This isn't possible! How is it that you are able to fight back!?"
"I guess this is another reason why you have approximate knowledge. You should never underestimate my power!" Finn gave a horizontal slash with the Great Fairy Sword and opened a massive cut across the feline's chest. He then flipped over the cat and has he came down he brought the two blades behind him and slashed the feline's back creating a bloody X making him cringe in pain. Finn jabbed the blades into the cracks of the ground and swung around the Great Fairy Sword's handle to deliver a kick to the head of the feline. The cat rolled along the ground leaving a bloody trail and eventually hit the wall as blood seeped out of his motionless body.
