NitroGaming Presents: Warped

Chapter 9

Mysteries of Shinrai

DISCLAIMER: Most characters do not belong to me; they belong to their rightful owners.

AUTHORS NOTE: Hey guys, Nitro here. I've been meaning to say this for a while, but the updates on this fanfic will be slower than usual. I've had a lot going on lately in life. Also, Thanks guys for over 300 views on my first fanfic! You guys are really fueling my creative mind. Be sure to shoot me a review if there's a recommendation you want to make. Now, we get into today's misadventure in Warped.

I gathered everyone and went into the newly-repaired ship. All the ghosts seemed to do their routine. Greenie making jokes, Slammer ranting at something (Today it was Logan Paul, for good reason), Hider fixing something, and Sneaker and Creeper just hanging out in the living room watching Big Brother. Spark was sleeping in his room while Link was exploring the ship. And what was I doing you might ask? I was walking into the workshop to check on the sword I had put there two nights ago. The sword was completely finished, but something about didn't seem right. The blade had been straightened like I wanted, but there was a couple of colored buttons along the handle that weren't there before. Another stripe had also been added, so there was now an orange, cyan and green stripe along the tip.

"Could the sword get more powerful as more of the Elite 8"? I asked myself. "And where did these buttons come from"?

The buttons were also the same colors that the stripes were. Each of the colors seemed to represent the heroes, orange for myself, cyan for Spark, and green for Link. I pressed the orange button and didn't do anything. I then pressed the light blue button. Suddenly the sword in my hands transformed into several red round objects with fuses on the ends.

"Cherry Bombs"? One of the bombs had the buttons on it and I pressed the orange one again. This time, it reverted back to my regular sword. I realized now that each button would transform my current weapon to a choice of the other heroes. The green button would turn my sword into the Hylian Shield. There were 5 other buttons, but all were gray and didn't do anything. By this point, Link suddenly barged into the room seemingly in a state of panic.

"Rocky, I've lost my sword and I don't know where it is"!

"Did you look in your room"?

"Yeah, I put in on the rack in there. "I went into the living room to watch this basketball game".

"Is Loyola playing?"

"I heard something about it being UCLA and UMBC."

"Ok, anyway we need to find your sword".

We both looked around the ship searching everywhere. We looked in the Cargo Room, Spark and my rooms and even in the Paranormal Chamber, where the ghosts sleep. We had no luck in any of the places. We walked back to the Kitchen and we found his sword. However, Greenie was using it as a pizza cutter to cut the pie. Link just face palmed himself and walked over to the blade that was now covered with cheese and tomato sauce.

"Sorry, Link." "I wanted to try making a pizza using those gloves that Hider gave me." "Poltergeist never stuck a pizza cutter in the drawers and your sword was the next best thing".

"It's okay; I just need to clean it for a while".

Moments after this, Link's stomach groaned.

"Hey, could you cut me a slice?" he said as he handed the still dirty sword back to Greenie and cut a slice off of the pizza. I went back into the workshop and found what I now called the Shinrai (Japanese word for trust) on the desk. I picked it up again and sensed that it had a little more weight to than before. Link then walked into the room again, finished with his pizza.

"Oh, hey Link." "I'd make a pizza joke but it's too cheesy". I told him. The young Hylian groaned moments after getting the joke but walked over to the sharpening machine with a metal disk. He said he was going to try and make a pizza cutter so that his sword didn't have to be used again.

"Hey, do you know about why swords seemingly get heavier while holding them"? I asked.

"Sometimes when they drop, they spin and seemingly point where to go." "That happened to me fighting Phantom Ganon in a maze." "When he was defeated, he'd drop his sword and the tip would show the correct way to go".

Upon hearing this, I gently sat Shinrai on the floor and it spun for a good 15 seconds before pointing to the right side of the room. The west is where it was telling us to go.