NitroGaming Presents: Warped
Chapter 13
Link's Mishaps
DISCLAIMER: All characters, besides Rocky, do not belong to me, they belong to Nintendo.
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It was now 10:37 in my time. I was walking downstairs and into my room to go to sleep. Besides the rage and hilarity from playing Mario Party 3, the evening was a blast to play those retro games. I finally played Ocarina of Time for the first time. Link had so much fun playing the Star Wars pod racer. Spark got to play a game his younger brother was in; Yoshi's Story. I almost immediately fell asleep in the now dark bedroom. It felt around 2 when I could have sworn I heard a creak at the door.
I ignored this however and dozed back off again. I was having this strange paranoia about Link still being a bit miffed from the hidden blocks from earlier. I was asleep, but I knew that for whatever reason there was a lump on the far side of the bed as I tried to roll over. The king-sized bed usually had a lot of space to spread out, but it didn't seem like that tonight. I rolled over again before hitting the lump again before I heard a loud BANG!
I snapped awake when I heard the noise. I quickly got out of bed and walked over where the noise came from. On the floor was Link, who was mumbling something in his sleep that I had some issues trying to understand.
"No, Ness" "I'm not going in that dumbwaiter ever again". Is what I thought it sounded like. I grabbed a sleeping bag of my closet and cradled the boy into the sleeping bag. He had a bruise on his head, but he didn't seem to care before he looked incredibly ticked off and frightened at the same time. I got back into my bed and crashed once again.
I woke up the next morning to find that Link had woken up and he was rolling up the sleeping bag with the bungee cord that wrapped around it originally.
"Sorry about that, I sleepwalk sometimes." He said. "I have had that happen ever since I left my home."
"It's okay, I'm sorry for accidently kicking you off the bed."
By this point I had heard a loud whoosh come from upstairs. The ship had entered the warp zone a lot earlier than planned, which was great. I got dressed and climbed up to the deck to see where we had entered.
The place that we warped into was an eyeful to say the least; there were forests and swamps everywhere. A castle was off in the distance and there were two moons in the sky. A bunch of the area's local had set some kind of canopies where stuff like candles and homemade candies were being sold. As we flew closer to the castle, I noticed that there signs of light coming out of the Heroes' Page. Unfortunately, the light had been coming from the castle; where there were 3 guards standing at the castle entrance. I had an idea that we could fly around and land on one of the towers on the castle, which everyone agreed to follow. Greenie stayed in the ship and made sure it was high enough where the civilians couldn't see it.
Link, Spark, and I all ran down and onto the castle roof to look for a door into the towers. I grabbed Slammer's ring of keys and started dashing around the perimeter.
"Found one!" exclaimed Spark. I quickly ran over and used many of the keys to unlock the door, before I unlocked it. The tower led down a spiral staircase and into a hallway filled with doors. There was a sign that hanged overhead that read Floor 8. We breezed down another two staircases down to the 6th floor and ran into 2 guards
"GET 'EM" One of them shouted. Link and I ran down the hall and into one of the doors. When we entered the room, the door barred shut behind us, leaving us trapped. I heard what sounded like a tidal wave come crashing through the hallway as the guards screamed. Spark had fired a water jet at the guards and it sounded like they were drowned by the massive wave of water.
"Spark, keep running down to the 1st floor and keep blasting them!" I shout.
"Roger!" He said. As I heard him scurry down another flight of stairs before I heard more clanking of the guards trying to attack the Yoshi.
"Oh, why did it have to be this room?" Link moans as he is in a fetal position in the corner of the room. And I could see why. There was a dumbwaiter in the room and I'm not sure why because this clearly wasn't meant to be of any use. Link for whatever reason has a fear of them, but not any other closed spaces like a claustrophobic would.
"I do not want a repeat of what happened last time I was in that thing." Link continues to be seemingly scared out of his mind. However, seeming as I have really no choice since the door is still barred shut, I climb into the dumbwaiter.
"Are you out of your mind!?" He shouts and still frightened at the same time.
"Do you want to starve to death in here, or would you rather come here and have a chance to survive?"
"I can't do it, not after a couple of months ago when I visited Smash Mansion for a vacation when I got stuck in one of these." I didn't want to leave him behind, but I had an idea to try and convince him to come in the dumbwaiter.
"Okay, suit yourself." As I started to lower the dumbwaiter into the shaft, he looked up and noticed what I was doing.
"No, wait!" Please take me with you!" He said as he dove into the enclosed space. Unfortunately when he did, I heard one of the chains snap and the dumbwaiter starting plummeting.
"NOT THIS AGAIN" Link screams.
(Spark)
I finally finished taking care of the warriors on the second floor. I was really worried if Rocky and Link would ever make it out of the room. But I tried to keep my spirits up. I had grown close to the two heroes, there were in a sense that reminded of me of my two brothers, Scorch and Splash. They had perished roughly 200 years ago in the kingdom of Yoshi's Island. I had felt so much grim and sadness over losing the brothers, even being 279 years old. I was at one point a prince in that land, feeling like I had so many free spirits before I had that all taken from me.
I was feeling kind of hungry and started seeing if any of the soldiers had dropped something after I knocked them out. One of them had what looked like a bagel with these chopped up pieces of yellow and purple fruit. I gobbled it up quickly and noticed that soldiers were actually much smaller than their armor made them look like. They had blue faces that were a bit darker than my skin. They actually even wielded little spears even while in the suits of armor, and something that looked a chocolate bar with a black squishy circle on it. I forgot all about what I was doing and I raced down the stairs to the 1st floor.
Unfortunately, the first floor was absolutely massive.
