Chapter Five: Ice
Professor: As stated, this chapter focuses on everyone's favorite stripper lol. Enjoy!
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Gray heard the voice. It sounded like Mr. Dragmire, but he couldn't make out the words he was saying. Probably just some last minute advice. He was sure they'd be fine though.
'Name:'
"Gray Fullbuster."
'Scanning physical parameters.'
Gray sighed. This was always the part he hated about games, the setting up. But this was a job, so he had no choice but to suck it up. Luckily these games were different from the ones he had played before and soon enough it was done.
'Physical parameters set. Username:'
That one made him stop and think for a moment. What did you put as a username in this situation? He shrugged, "Ice."
"Accepted. Please choose a race."
The voice startled him for a moment, but Gray's attention was quickly drawn to the list in front of him.
'Kokiri.'
'Hylian.'
'Sheikah.'
'Goron.'
'Zora.'
'Gerudo.'
Gray took a moment to look over them. One in particular caught his attention.
'Zora. Ancient race of Hyrule. Part-fish and part-man. Their home is made in the Zora River, the water source for all of Hyrule. Also connected and flows to Lake Hylia. Serves the spirit Jabu Jabu. Friendly, but don't typically leave their home. Holders of the Spiritual Stone of Water.'
"That one." he smirked.
"Magic type:"
"Zoras are fish people, right?"
"Correct. Water and Ice are the most common magic types for this race."
"Ice it is then."
"Accepted. Weapon choice:"
"What do they usually use?" he asked.
"Zoras typically fight hand-to-hand, using their sharp fins as blades and spears when necessary, though those are more for ceremonial purposes." the voice answered.
Gray shrugged, "Hand-to-hand, I guess."
"Accepted. All data received. Please wait a moment."
All the words disappeared, leaving Gray to wait in the darkness for a few seconds.
Slowly, the light started to fade in, letting him see the room where he had been placed.
Most people would've noticed the cold first, but that had never bothered Gray. But he noticed the ice that was everywhere. From the floor to the ceiling. There wasn't one thing that hadn't been covered in ice.
'What the…' Gray thought. He looked around, eyes landing on the giant frozen waterfall behind him.
'What can freeze a waterfall midflow? At least, what in Hyrule can?'
Gray grew closer to the waterfall, looking at it. Slowly, in a clear spot of the ice, his reflection came into view, startling himself.
His general face was the same, if a blue-ish tint now, but his hair was gone, instead giving him a long fin down the back of his head that faded from the blue to the black that was his hair color. Dark blue shorts wrapped around his body, but that was the only thing he wore. Long fins extended from his arms, and Gray saw gills on the side of his neck. Actual gills.
Gently he reached out and touched them, feeling the new muscles on his neck.
'I take it back, this game is amazing!'
Gray smiled, finally feeling excited for this job.
But something still felt wrong. Where was everyone? This was a large cavern, but where were the other Zoras?
Glancing around some more, Gray still saw nothing. He walked forward, looking around. He found a walkway that lead to some sort of upper level, but something in the ice caught his attention before he could explore it.
It was an ice pillar near the edge of the room, but there was something not quite right about it.
It was larger than him and hard to see through, but eventually he did. What Gray saw there made him stumble back in shock.
There was a Zora frozen in the ice! Completely frozen!
Gray looked around in a panic. There were more ice pillars around the room and when he looked in them, there were more Zoras in those.
Gray studied the ice on the floor, eyes widening at the hundreds of Zoras he saw stuck there. His breath started coming out very rushed and he bolted up the walkway he had found.
There he met a sight even more horrible.
One giant Zora sat frozen in red ice...but next to him stood a smaller pillar.
Gray didn't want to look, but he couldn't tear his eyes away.
Ice wasn't meant to be used this way. To Gray, ice was about creation. An extension of his body, his thoughts, his feelings, his very life. That's what Ur had drilled into him for so long. This...thing was nothing but pure torture.
Next to the giant Zora was another large chunk of ice, but this one was cut at the top. Inside it held a body, one of a Zora woman. Only...it had no head. Instead, a smaller block of ice sat on the floor next to her, this one containing the woman's head. He could see that she had been beautiful, with a large forehead that was a darker blue than he had ever seen. She was so frozen solid that she didn't even know she had been killed.
Gray let out a scream of pain and anguish that came straight from the heart. One so broken that it rivaled the sound he had made when Ur had sacrificed herself.
'Whatever monster had done this would pay tenfold.'
Professor: Oh...so what do you think?