Chapter 6: Scouring; Feverish Hunt Through Woodfall
Search for the Deku Princess Arc
Disclaimer: I don't own The Legend of Zelda, this is just a Fanfiction.
Featured Music: "File Select" - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask OST. Chapter Briefing.
"Woodfall Temple" - Theophany (Time's End ~ Disc II). Scene 1 (First Half).
"Battle 1 (Final Fantasy VI)" - Dissidia 012: Duodecim OST. Scene 1 (Second Half).
"The Decisive Battle (Final Fantasy VI)" - Dissidia 012: Duodecim OST. Scene 2 (First Half).
"Let End Vicious Impediment" - Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom OST. Scene 3 (Second Half).
"Boss Clear" - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask OST. Scene 4 (First Half).
Having cut through the great jungle inferno of Termina's Southern Swamp and Woodfall, Link and Tatl at last begin to make some kind of progress; they locate and manage to rescue the injured Koume, runner of the Prima Travel Nation swamp touring guide. Oddly, just as within Clock Town, it would appear that Termina has its own host of people that strongly resemble past acquaintances and associates in Hyrule and, Kotake and her twin sister of course, are no exception.
With their approval though the pair of heroes' endgame goal at last begins to prove surmountable; while the majority of the fiend-infested bog that is Southern Swamp is otherwise impassable, a ray of hope and light shines via the small and simple vessel that Koume and Kotake offer them to cross with. In this method they finally come face-to-face with the highly esteemed royal family of the Deku of Termina.
Great surprise and shock however wait for the freedom-fighters; when they step into the Deku Palace's oppressive and dictatorial grounds they learn very quickly that any attempt to convince the woodland's people's king will fall on deaf ears. Indeed it would appear that, with his great charisma and popularity within his people's influence, he commands them with the deeply-incensed rage of a indignant parent and orders his missing daughter's last known contact to the sword...
Death row, essentially.
This contact, seemingly nothing more than a little nameless monkey, suffers for an arbitrary fashion indeed; despair fills the little chimpanzee as he is chained and tied up on a hardwood post to be sacrificed for his evidence-less crimes. However, thanks to the chilling curse that the Skull Kid and his possessed mask inflicted on the young Hero of Time much earlier in his quest, the little Link gains a very valuable card with which to play in the proverbial game of chess that Termina offers him.
He uses the Deku Mask that his enemy and his new benefactor, the Happy Mask Salesman, gave him; with it he infiltrates the otherwise impregnable fortress and like the ancient trojan horse, he hides in plain slight as one of their own. While inside he manages to gain an audience with the nameless small simian taken prisoner and, as he does, learns some fairly valuable information in the process.
It would seem that, having long suspected an issue within the once-sacred waters of the Southern Swamp, the Deku King's daughter takes it upon herself to join the nameless monkey's investigation and joins him. Sadly, it in this very excursion however, that she becomes separated from him and, with it, his fate is essentially sealed. For indeed it would appear that the enraged monarch of Woodfall, uncaring for any evidence or even any small questions, thrusts blame on his daughter's travelling companion.
Link and Tatl both manage to pick up the small mammal's final piece of the puzzle. The Deku princess' last heirloom; the Sonata of Awakening. It is with this last ticket that Termina's determinative hope carry into the dense jungle and at last reveal the hidden Woodfall Temple. Although Tatl voices her concerns and even her doubts around her temporary partner's ability to locate and save the missing princess, Link merely waves her off in complete unflappable confidence, taking faith in himself more even than his companions in Hyrule do.
For it is only through the Hero of Time, can Termina truly be redeemed.
Scene 1
"Yo... this place got a creepy vibe to it."
"Mm..."
Link's low-toned tenor managed to cut through the tension that had accompanied the grave atmosphere that the inside of Woodfall Temple managed to emanate.
Having opened the way through to the ancient house of worship via the Deku princess' Sonata of Awakening the former Kokiri and his new guardian fairy stepped through the deep, dark and dank dungeon, their senses similarly sinking somewhat sombrely by the repressive nature that the prison-like entity appeared to entail. Hoping instead to replace the stale air of the entrance chamber they stalked through however, Link stepped into the first door he had come across, a hopeful look etched across his youthful complexion.
It was only when the pair of adventurers walked in however that their expectance was, perhaps inevitably, let down.
"Urgh! That stench...!" Tatl hissed out, her face scrunching up in a visible display of disgust behind the bright milk-shaded light she offered. "This place stinks just like that poisoned swamp!"
"Yeah..." The frowning Link agreed in a hardened frown, nodding as he wandered forward to hang his head over the edge of the stone platform they stood on as if to get a better vantage point over the new chamber they stood in.
To the pair's right appeared to be a second long stone platform, similar to their own, with a couple of pots resting on its end. A golden switch directly opposite of a door sat a few yards away from the dark-brown pots however and Link's narrow-eyed oceanic gaze did not fail to catch it. Directly below that area of the platform however appeared to be a lower level of the terrace with its own vertically-risen door. A trio of beams sat around it, seemingly the supporting scaffolding for the plateau above it.
Link's suspicious-eyed gaze soon found its way staring precisely back at the main attraction of the room; what seemed to be a large flower-shaped hardwood construction sat squarely within the centre of the deep-violet of the swamp's lagoon, decorated by war-paint in a similar design to the Deku Palace's aesthetics. The deep-mahogany petal-like limbs of the device appeared to be pulled in, as if de-activated somehow, further complicated by an unlit torch that sat in the heart of its design.
That's probably the key to activating it, he thought.
"If only I had my bow from the Forest Temple..."
His wistful-driven thoughts were further compounded by the oddly-shaped pair of lily-pads that floated directly on opposing sides of the large mahogany device. His oceanic-eyed gaze narrowed in scrutiny down at them.
Maybe I shouldn't step on those, he thought carefully.
Even as a Deku Scrub.
"Come on."
Tatl's abrupt if listless and calm voice called out managed to surprise the frowning Link out of his inwardly-silent ruminations; he rose his wide-eyed blonde-haired head to watch her as she floated toward the large patch of grass and withered Deku Baba, sitting merely steps away from the similarly worn hardwood bridge leading winding and down into another platform. He merely deepened his frown as he followed; a wordless assent. Her similarly lethargic-toned soprano floated over her shoulder as he did.
"Faster we find this Deku princess, faster we can go get Tael back from the Skull Kid."
DROOM
The cacophonous sound of the door slamming shut its metal spikes to deny him exit echoed out throughout the new chamber the pair of heroes stood in.
"Zagreb!"
A collective abrupt call of the wild managed to make the frowning young Link widen his oceanic eyes and, as he cast them forward to bare witness, a group of three Snappers stared back at him; small turtles that otherwise seemed harmless.
But he, of course, knew much better.
FWIP-FWIP-FWIP
In incredible feats of agility and speed the team of three Snappers suddenly withdrew their heads and limbs into their hardened shells before revealing a set of intimidating spikes. They spun around almost endlessly in place, almost as if readying to charge forward.
"Hey, watch out!"
Tatl's worried call did little to sink into the grinning-faced Hero of Time; he merely sidestepped as a defensive measure. In doing so he avoided not only one but two of the dinosaur-like entities' wild but predictable assaults.
I should thank Impa-sensei, Alwyn and Barkner for teaching me that, the young blonde thought to himself.
As the third Snapper very quickly began to approach him he swung out his Hero Shield, quick as a flash, and managed to not only successfully defend against the barbaric creature's aggressive offensive but overturned it into the bargain.
"Z-Zagreb!"
The little turtle, so shocked and taken aback by its enemy's quick defensive manoeuvres, widened its eyes as it stammered out its cry. It flipped up in a half but deft somersault, its body harmlessly chucking upside down. Link wasted no time countering the creature's ill-begotten assault by reaching up for his Kokiri Sword; his confident grin remained ever present on his face even as his body shimmered briefly before swiftly vanishing, perhaps as a reaction to his superhuman speed.
When he re-appeared his form was visible via the puddles of water that kicked up liquid from his sharp-footed movement; a deft skid across the ground that ended in a savage series of slashes and strikes, visible only seemingly after the youth's dash ended.
SLASH-STRIKE-TEAR
The little Snapper squealed out in an unhealthy mixture of terror and agony as its foe's expertly-drawn sword-strike successfully slew and sealed its fate.
"T-Two more!"
The grinning Link raised a half-curious eyebrow as he rose up his head and, sure enough, the remaining two Snappers came rushing at him, presumably hoping to catch him mid-recovery.
What a shame, he thought.
In a light grunt of effort he used the first Snapper's fast disappearing body to side-flip forward, effectively avoiding both attacks fairly efficiently. In his evasion however he turned his aversive manoeuvre into an offensive one; mid-flip he grinned as he landed on the turtle's firm shell before very swiftly grunting as he kicked it directly upward at a certain angle.
The force of which caused it to squeal out in shock as it was sent spiralling high into the air.
"W-Woah...!"
The young warrior chose to temporarily ignore the cries of awe his normally cold-shouldered little guardian fairy, a triumphant smirk drawn across his young complexion as he landed, pulling back his weapons to presumably leap up into the air with.
"Heyt...!"
Almost as immediately as he exclaimed out his battle cry did he leap in conjunction with it; a near invisible series of assaults struck the screaming small Snapper in mid-air. Even as he landed however his form began to shimmer a second time; an indication of some kind of technique in use with his Aegir.
The final Snapper, attempting to time its approach with its enemy's slow and seemingly certain dropping location, swung its body forward in a mad-eyed twisting spin.
"Zagreb!"
It was only when the grinning young Hylian's form seemed to pass through the Snapper however that the little tortoise widened its eyes beneath its solid shell, unable to piece together its foe's stratagem.
Sure enough, as the watching Tatl widened her eyes beneath her form, the only visible form of her charge was merely a red herring; an after-image. It was only when it made contact or, failed to make contact, that the Snapper began to work it out.
All too late however.
SLAM
"Z-Zagreb...!"
The open-mouthed, grinning Link re-emerged from the skies in a triumphant laugh, smashing his fire-infused Kokiri boots with the Snapper's firm chassis. Thanks to the sheer strength the young Hero of Time employed the little chelonian found itself spinning once more only, this time, unwillingly.
As he landed in a similar twist of his own Link's grin remained as ever evident on his expression as he shot up his Kokiri Sword, blade first, to wait for his fast-incoming enemy.
CRACK-SQUELCH
In one effective manoeuvre the smirking-faced Link managed to end the confrontation and the Snapper, its body mashed in the Kokiri Sword's blade, could only gasp out in great pain. As its body lit up in a display of blue-shaded fireworks Link shot the watching and wide-eyed Tatl a narrow-eyed grin. When it finally died out however the grinning Link lowered his trusty weapon, borrowed gratefully from his people's generosity, he swung it down as he relaxed his earlier battle stance almost as if to clean it of the Snappers' messy lifeblood and juices.
"So, what do ya think?" The ego-inflated Hero of Time grinned over at her, her silence speaking all. "Can I fight or what?"
Although the floating Tatl soon regained her annoyed frown, and made ready to voice her irked concerns, she double-took to the skies and widened her eyes once more when she did.
"A-Above you!"
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2
The young Hylian, shocked that something could near take him by surprise, shot his similarly startled frown upward before swinging up his weapon defensively to meet the incoming broadsword.
CLANG-SKRRRRRRRR
RRRROWL
The sparks from the pair's weapons managed to create an inferno between them, compounded by the animalistic growling and rumbling in its throat.
A Dinolfos.
The broadsword it carried was several times superior to his own Kokiri Sword by itself, let alone the rest of its muscled body.
The narrow-eyed Link grunted as he pushed his weapon off of his enemy's, successfully separating himself from its tyrannical hold. As his Kokiri boots skid roughly against the dry stone floor and the shallow puddles of water he crossed, he glared on back at the low-growling Dinolfos in a similar-faced frown.
"Be careful!" Tatl called out warningly. "It's a-"
"Dinolfos; I know," the frowning-faced Link shot back in a contrastingly calm tone of voice. Surprised by his seeming wealth of knowledge she widened her eyes over at him before raising up an eyebrow. "This ain't the first time I've-"
GRRROW
His oceanic-eyed gaze widened and he immediately threw himself to his right in a deft evasive roll. Droplets of water managed to kick skyward from the sudden movement the two swordsmen exerted in a beautiful display of aqua-art; a delectable demonstration for the enraptured Tatl.
The Dinolfos, its primal rage ever growing, roared as it swung around its broadsword, tossing it forward with an abrupt and sudden fling. The wide-eyed Link, surprised but not daunted, merely sidestepped in evasion, his eyes tracing the blade's singsonged flight as it flew by his small pointed ear.
"Link!"
It was only very shortly after Tatl's anxious exclaim that he realised what she was trying to warn him on; his eyes widened a second time when he swung his blonde-haired head 'round only to find the fast-descending form of his enemy, rapidly falling toward him.
CRASH
RRRRRROWL
In a grunting and tumbling heap, the scrunching-scowling Link was grappled to the ground in an effective tackle indeed; one that left the animal-like form above him in a position of power. As it finished its primal-like roar in his face it widened its amber-green eyes at him before darting its free right clawed palm at him to attack with.
SMASH-CRUMBLE
Droplets of water via the shallow puddle they rested in flew up to match the stones that the Dinolfos managed to call as Link snapped his wide-eyed head in deft evasion. Thinking quickly the former Kokiri swung the metal of his Hero's Shield across the Dinolfos' face as he turned his body in a twisting and evasive roll.
CLANG
The Dinolfos grunted lowly, temporarily stunned and dazed as it attempted to recover from the response its enemy gave; its lizard-like emerald-shaded eyes widened when it caught the rolling youth and, as it did, it growled before giving pursuit after him.
CRASH-SMASH-DRRRASH
"Link!"
Tatl's horrified shout did little to ease his woes; his narrow-eyed frown remained safe with him as he continually revolved his body across the ground in some form of defensive manoeuvre, the Dinolfos roaring primally as it savagely beat apart the ground he rolled upon in retaliation. At last as the young Hero of Time approached the wall on his side he grunted as he pushed off of the ground to flip up in an athletic side-flip.
FWIP-FWIP-FWIP
Even as he twirled through the air endlessly he kept his eyes focused and narrowed before suddenly launching the Kokiri Sword he carried forward, a grin on his face. Somehow, in the incredible speed with which he moved, he managed to make a fully accurate strike. As the blade came close it successfully collided with the screeching dinosaur creature's chest as it leapt, drawing its ultramarine-shaded blood and sinking the blade within.
"W-Woah!"
The grinning Link at last landed and, as he did, he set off forward almost as immediately as he did, his destination set. When the Dinolfos double-took to find its enemy rushing at him, seemingly weaponless, it turned its clawed hands away from pawing at its wound and began to swipe at the air between them. As he began his rather rapid approach, Link's confident grin never left him even as he feinted toward the reptile once before charging forward again, grasping at the hilt of his embedded weapon.
"Here... we...," he began, his open-mouthed grin ever widening as he sprinted forward, Kokiri Sword and Dinolfos in tow, bending and swerving his head as it swiped at him angrily. Finally however the pair made their final approach and, as they did, his cerulean eyes widened in a healthy mixture of hungry and knowing. "GO!"
WHAM-KTAAAAANG-CRUNCH
In a sickening concoction of chaos the laughing-faced Link managed to drive his small-sword even further through the poor shrieking Dinolfos, so far so that it had been submerged even to its base at the hilt. Watching wordlessly from her perch nearby on one of the dead trees littered throughout, Tatl's wide-eyed surprise belied very little else; shock, bewilderment and even a small form of consternation was drawn across her normally calm milk shade.
The young Hero of Time, revelling in his upcoming and perhaps inevitable victory, could only widen his grin as he leaned his straw-haired head forward to whisper in the dinosaur's ear.
"Ready?"
SNAP-CRACK-CRRRRRUNCH
The Dinolfos screamed its last to the ceiling of Woodfall Temple as the wide-smiling Link savagely and even ruthlessly tore his ingrained Kokiri Sword horizontally; an abrupt and extremely effective finishing technique indeed that drew forth its once-hardy flesh, scales and insides apart. Realisation, however, at last dawned on the young Hylian as he recovered his once-thrown weapon from its bisected and falling carcass.
And with it, a weakened wince of disgust as he beheld the guts and life-juices of his formerly-living foe, his hands held outright as he did.
"Eurrrgh...," he groaned out, purely caked in the goo and muck of its blood and insides. "Saria'll probably dunk me in a bath after I get back...," he muttered, a light twitch to his annoyed frown as it began to settle. He double-took however in the direction of his stunned and awe-struck guardian fairy, a curious eyebrow raising as he registered her perfectly normal reaction. "What's...?" He posed forward, unsure.
She could only stare back, seemingly speechless.
"No point in asking if somethin's on my face, huh?" He quipped, his usual confident-bearing grin flavouring his words. When she failed to respond however he lost his smirk in favour of a perturbed frown. "What? Makin' me feel weird over here."
NIGHT OF THE SECOND DAY
-36 Hours Remain-
When at last her amazed countenance subsided, Tatl merely attempted to throw off the extremely amused Link's assumptions in her usual cold-shouldered fashion. Link, meanwhile, resumed his teasing as he basked in the glow of his earlier victory, taking some satisfaction in the new prize he claimed from it.
The surprisingly well-fashioned Hero's Bow.
"I mean, I get it," the grinning Link threw forward with an elongated shrug; one executed with a great degree of contentment that he failed to contain within himself. "I know I'm hot Tatl but come on, that's just weird," he spoke, his eyes briefly shut as they wandered through one of Woodfall Temple's many dark corridors. "Callin' my name out like that?" He chuckled as he re-opened his oceanic-eyed gaze forward, his grin ever widening mischievously. "I might get the wrong idea about-"
"Shut up!" She suddenly exclaimed, a sudden and fierceness to her angered tone that surprised even the wide-eyed Link; he shrank back very briefly under the interrogative light of her aura. "I was just worried because I wouldn't have anyone to get Tael back, that's all!"
When she remained hovering in her huffing-toned glare for a second or two to glower down at him, he found a straw-haired eyebrow raising up in conjunction with a slow upturning grin.
"Oh... is that so...?" He replied back, a quiet tone of voice to his amused open-mouthed smirk. He broke a pot absent-mindedly as he passed it to reveal one of the dungeon's many scattered Stray Fairies and it shone with a bright emerald-green as it spun 'round him in discovery. "Well... if you say so." He shrugged a second time, a sarcastic smile drawn across his countenance as he reached back for a Deku Stick.
As he lit it, via the only lit torch in the darkened chamber directly in the centre, he passed its super-hot flame through three other unlit sconces.
"I guess it's an easy mistake to make; callin' my name like that so suddenly and soundin' so worried," the obstinate young Hylian continued his ill-driven monologue, very little regret in his tone. "The last time anyone did that I very nearly gave her a kiss for missin' me so much."
Tatl's reaction was, as he had predicted, extremely fiery and sudden; he couldn't help but grinning in spite of the livid blood-red shade her normally calm cream demeanour took on.
"Listen here you little twerp!" She hissed out in a narrow-eyed hush, hovering over his chuckling form. "If I hear you make another crack like that again then I'll leave you all alone down here!"
"Damn Tatl!" The giggling Link laughed off her outraged aspersions with a joking raise of his open-palmed hands, as if he were warding off a fearsome Moblin. "I never seen you this mad before!"
The little guardian fairy, so full of fire and anger, very quickly and abruptly swung her form around as if to fly off.
"Hmph!"
The mischievous young Hero of Time could only widen the scope of his amusement as he lowered his hands to follow behind her.
"Yo...," he murmured out in his mildly-excited grin. "She's gonna be fun to tease..."
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3
CLICK-VRRRR-FWIP
DROOOOM
The hard and firm sound of the locked mechanism opening and the huge door shutting vertically behind the newly-frowning Link made the floating Tatl flinch mid-flight; even so however she remained as stoic as ever, not willing to lose any appearance for surprise's sake.
Unfortunately for her however, fate had a different plan in store for the poor little guardian fairy.
DRRRUM-DRUM-DRUM-DRUM-DRRRUM-DRUM-DRUM-DRUM
The disarming sound of war drums, oddly enough, echoed throughout the large and circular-shaped chamber. The narrow-eyed Link darted his oceanic-shaded eyes around in swift search and found only numerous Deku Flowers littered throughout the room as well as the odd Bomb Flower in each corner.
This was a sacrificial chamber, he thought.
Something's coming down to sacrifice us both.
"W-What's-?"
Tatl's worried whispers were audibly answered when the sudden drop-down of a huge masculine form caused her to snap her head up in shock. The frowning Link's narrow-eyed gaze soon found itself tracing the after-images that followed the huge figure's shadow and, as it landed, it at last became apparent.
A tall and domineering swordsman now stood before them, dressed head-to-toe in what appeared to be some kind of tribal detail all across his bare torso and even his legs. Though he wore only a loincloth over his hips he carried with him a huge longsword several times the size of the watching little Hero of Time and a great-shield, its large size to match.
"So, this it it, huh?" The firmly-frowning Link began, his eyes fixated on the growling and sword-swinging giant above him. Oddly enough, the mask it wore appeared to resemble the dreaded Majora's Mask.
An obvious connection.
"The source of the poison?"
"Y-Yeah...," Tatl responded in an anxious nod of her milk-shaded light, her brave nature from earlier soon fading. "Whatever evil came out of that... thing...," she trailed off, clearly directing her comments toward the all-too-memorable Majora's Mask. "It's coming out of this thing too."
The frowning Link nodded in agreement, his eyes focused on his new foe. "Yeah...," he admitted quietly. "I feel it."
Sure enough and even as he said it, it was fairly light, but it was there; the same kind of malevolence and pure corruption that emanated from the Skull Kid's dire weapon.
"N-Now I personally suggest using one of the-"
SHIIING
Tatl's eyes widened and she found her surprise directed at the metallic ringing of her partner's weapons being drawn.
"W-What are you-?"
"Just sit back there and watch Tatl," Link merely threw over his shoulder, his frown still etched across his expression. As he started to march slowly forward however, a small challenge to his now patiently-standing enemy, a very small grin indeed began to form through his low-held features. "Trust me."
The listening little guardian fairy, shocked and almost speechless, stared back at him in a wide-eyed open-mouthed gape.
"Are you insane?!" She finished in a half-annoyed, half-bewildered exclamation. "Just look at him! That sword's bigger than you are!"
The young Hero of Time, confidence filling within him, merely swung his straw-haired head 'round half-way to grin back at her. He eyed her hungrily, a defying quality in his half-faced gaze before he eventually swung it back to stare back at the glaring Odolwa. Tatl, left sheerly speechless, could only stare back at the near-foolhardy courage her partner displayed.
It was the first time she remembered feeling a very odd kind of reverence for the boy.
Masked Jungle Warrior
Odolwa
As the lightly-grinning Link circled the similarly-stalking Odolwa, the two swordsmen found themselves watching each other, perhaps for errors in their movement and other such weaknesses.
Unfortunately for the boy's foe however, they weren't easily found; something which the large-sized tribal sword-dancer discovered fairly quickly. As he widened his eyes beneath the shadowed mask he wore he shot forward in a deft and decisive vertical slice, lunging his great form forward as he did.
VROOM
DRUUUUM
"What the-?!"
In spite of the literal food chain between them and the gargantuan size difference they shared, the wide-smiling Link managed to make the gasping Odolwa stumble back a few steps in his very abrupt dive; an incredible sight indeed that the awestruck Tatl was only too happy to give voice to.
"And now...!"
Seemingly somehow responding to the words that Tatl began, the grinning-faced Link leapt up and delivered his counter-attack; as he approached he slammed his fire-infused Kokiri boots across the grunting Odolwa's face, one after the other.
"Riposte!"
SMACK-SMACK
VWEEEEEEEEE
CRASH-RUMBLE-RUMBLE...
The pair of leaping and spinning roundhouses that the exuberant-expressed young hero executed caused the gigantic swordsman to go flying through the air in response, noisily crashing against the wall behind it. In response, the barrier's material very quickly found itself dropping down debris as a result of the alarming and astonishing difference of strength between them. As the rocks and boulders smashed apart the tribal warrior's head he grunted before dropping to his knees and a strangely familiar kind of eye-like organ sprouted out from the mask it wore.
It was one the watching Tatl and Link both recognised from the horrifying design on Majora's Mask.
"Kaiten..."
The grinning-expressed Link however, unwilling to allow its grisly sight to affect his towering morale, merely chuckled in victory before leaping upward. Aegir began to charge visibly through his body, his hovering form shimmering before, finally, he widened his aqua-shaded eyes as he darted forward in a daring and spinning assault.
"Resshō!"
HACK-SLASH-FRRRR-DROOM
The Kokiri Sword, in spite of its small size, was a dominating force to be reckoned with; as Link savagely tore through the air in his rapid descent, he easily carved up the open and defenceless eye that stared back at him, its pupil suddenly darting in all directions as if in great agony and suffering.
EEEEYAAAAAA...
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4
In that single and final revolving assault, the newly-standing Link managed to at last finish the engagement, almost as quickly as it had begun. The huge size of the tribal-tattooed swordsman shot his form straight upward in a wide-eyed gasp before, finally, his eyes rolled to the back of the mask he wore and he dropped face-down; a decisive sign of defeat.
Even as his large body began to burn in the familiar blue-shaded fire that the spectating Link had come to expect, his oceanic eyes narrowed at the sight of a purple-coloured gas that seemed to emanate from the infected mask. When it reached high enough into the air the watching Hero of Time bore witness to a worrying omen indeed; a gas formed symbol that looked all too familiar.
Majora's Mask stared back at him, but only briefly, before eventually dissipating along with the rest of Odolwa's burning body.
In their places sat the memorable and pleasing form of a Heart Container, as well as the brightly-humming form a cerulean-blue warp, resting directly on the centre yellow-shaded Deku Flower. Sitting inside of the azure-shaded dimension however was the mask Odolwa was wearing so readily earlier; Link's eyebrows lifted up in recognition when he caught the sight of it. He couldn't help but upturn his simple frown into another of his ever-prevalent grins as he swung his head 'round to eye the awe-struck guardian fairy he worked with.
"Still wanna leave me all alone down here?"
His words, so full of childish overconfidence and impertinence, could only make the listening Tatl swivel her own head away from his in an annoyed gesture.