Here is the next chapter, back to the regular size yay! But I wish to tell you I have a few things to do and I may not update Yu-Gi-Oh! Soul this weekend like I wanted to. I'll try as there is really only one thing that I MUST do for school and then it will be back on proper schedule with hopefully two chapters a week. So ENJOY!
Chapter 16
Forest Temple
We started to head down the tunnel when suddenly a two Keese fell from the ceiling towards us. Jason squeaked and ran to the wall as I pulled out my sword and hit one while Link got the other. I turned to him.
"And here I thought the Knights of Hyrule were cowards." I commented.
"Pfft, I was just surprised, who in bloody hell is not going to be when two giant bats fall from the bloody ceiling at someone." Jason quickly brushed himself off. "Let's go, there are a few knights that need saving."
I just watched him march past and shrugged. We continued up the short tunnel and stopped to look around. There were small spiders, which I thought were called Walltulas, on vines and walls. There were two Bokoblin from what I could tell at the far vine wall, which I knew was going to be a real treat to figure out how to climb them. There were statues that looked like large poles with wings. And finally some large leaves of grass speckled around the room.
"Well isn't this place full of cheerful bright colors." Jason commented as he pulled out his crossbow. "Let's make it a little less bug central."
"Do you have something against bugs?" Link asked as he started to shoot the spiders on the walls with ease.
"Yes. They are creepy, disgusting and dirty."
"Um spiders are actually clean creatures." I told him.
"Do you see spiders this big back home?"
"No-"
"Then they shouldn't exist." Jason stated.
I giggled slightly and Link pulled out his bow and arrows and quickly killed the far away Bokoblins. We started to go to the vines when a bunch of Deku Baba appeared out of the ground. I took out my sword and quickly dealt with one of them after a few hits and dodging out of their strikes. I turned around just as Jason killed his man eating plant.
"I hate close combat." He complained as Link finished off two other plants.
I shook my head and we walked up to the vines. I looked up at them. "So is there a special way to climbs these?"
"You just climb them. The worst that will happen is you falling off." Link said.
"That's fifteen feet if I fall from the top."
"I'll go first that way when you reach the top I'll pull you up so you don't fall."
I started to climb the vine and found it was similar to a rope ladder. I finally reached the top and Link pulled me up onto my feet like I weighed nothing. Jason was right behind me and went up to the next door.
"What's on the other side of this door?" He asked.
"More doors and monsters," Link responded and then pushed in the door. It rolled to the right and he led the way to the next room. The room was much larger with the walkway already set at the back of the room.
"So, if I were a knight scared out of my mind, being chased by monkeys and monsters, where would I go?" I questioned as I tried to place the map of the Forest Temple in my head.
"Not too far, you need monkeys to get to the other areas." Link answered and led us down the stairs. "And the Gale boomerang."
When we got to the bottom, a Skulltula fell from the ceiling and was waiting for us at the top of the platform.
"What the fuck?! Can they get any bigger?!" Jason yelled at no one in particular.
Link and I turned to each other and then towards the ninja knight and answered at the same time. "Yes."
"Stay here; I'll get rid of it." Link told us and then he was off towards the stairs.
Without much difficulty the spider was defeated and Link beckoned us up. We went up to him and then the three off us looked around. There were three doors: one to the right, one to the left and one in front of us.
"So where do you go now, I know that we have to look through the whole place, but can't we narrow done the places we don't need to go?" Jason asked.
Link nodded and pulled out a map of the dungeon. "Well according to this map, they could only go so far to the left. So we could check out that way first. While on the right there is more places for them to be hiding and if we go straight, there is nothing up there except a broken bridge and a tiny space, so we can check it after we finish the left side."
"That's not bad; we can look for them and not have to solve any major issues because you have already cleared this place." I said and turned towards the left door. "Just one problem with that theory, how do we get to the other doors, I'm not playing monkey here."
"I guess we'll have to climb on top of each other and pull the last one up." Jason said as he front flipped down from the landing. "Come on, the less time I have to stay in this temple the better."
Link and I followed him to the other platform and cupped his hands. Link stepped into his and Jason launched him up onto the platform. I raised my eyebrow. "That's impressive."
"Heh, well I do work out."
I rolled my eyes and stepped into his cupped hand. I managed to land on the platform next to Link. We went over to the side and looked down to see the launcher holding up his arms. I smirked slightly and grabbed one arm as Link grabbed the other and we quickly got him up too. We walked over to the door and Link opened it. We went through and found most of room was filled with water except for a few raised pieces of ground and platforms that were placed between the land masses.
"Hello? Anybody in here?" I shouted into the room. But nobody replied to my dismay. We jumped from one platform to the next and Link took out a sling shot and shot something in the air when we landed on the second platform. I looked and then a spider fell onto the other land mass. It looked as angry as a Pygmy Skulltula could get and it charged at us. I took out my sword, but the spider fell into the water. I jumped onto the closest platform to where it fell and a spidery explosion was all I saw as I noticed it drowned. I turned to the other two and jumped back to them. "Let's go."
We went through the second door of the left side and to a windy place where a bridge spun into place. Running across the bridge would have been a lot more fun if the wind wasn't trying to push me off into oblivion or the fact the Keese could fly around freely and chased us into the next room. I looked around and saw no Knights of Hyrule. There was only a windless barren of nothing and one very large bridge with two Bokoblins on it.
"They couldn't have gone any farther than this, let's go back." Link said as he started to walk to the door.
"What's over there?" Jason asked.
"A few more places that can't be reached and the boss room." He answered and opened the door. "Hope you two caught your breath, we have to run back now."
When we finally made it back, we walked up to a third door and I turned to my left and noticed a bridge connecting another land mass to the one we were on. I shrugged as I knew we would come back to check there later. We went through the door and once again there was nothing, not a trace of soldier existence. We all sighed and we walked out of the circular room with a pole in the middle of it and broken pieces of a cage all over the floor.
We turned to the little bridge connected land mass and started to walk towards it. On the floor there was a Z pattern connecting four towers like in the middle of the bridges. In front of us were metal bars blocking something that looked strangely like a closed boss key chest. Link took out the Gale Boomerang and hit each of the poles and the tops started to spin. The blockade moved out of the way and the chest was revealed to be the boss chest. I heard Link growl as he ran over to the chest. He opened it and a bright light came out of it and the opening chest song came out of the chest. But there were no surprise happy ~Da Da Da Daaaa~ as Link seemed to grip tightly onto the key. I saw his knuckles on his finger were starting to turn white from pressure.
I walked over to him. I placed my hand onto of his fingers and it seemed to snap his attention back into reality. "Just because a key was put here, doesn't mean they were a snack, it just means that there is a boss in the boss room."
He sighed, "You're right, but that doesn't mean I'm still happy about having to fight a boss."
I winked. "Don't worry about it; I doubt that the shadow knew that there was going to be more than just you fighting it."
"Right, there are three of us against one boss. It won't take too long to get rid of it." Jason added.
Link nodded and then placed the boss key in his pouch. I started to walk ahead with Link when Jason called us. I turned around and he was sitting down against one of the poles.
"What is it, did you hurt yourself?" I asked him.
"No, I just thought that maybe we could take a break."
"A break, we have knights to save." Link stated.
"I know and from what I saw I doubt they are going anywhere so it's fine if they are left alone for a ten minute break."
Link sighed and he sat down over by him. "I guess."
I sat down to complete the triangle and noticed Jason had a notebook and pen and was writing in it. "What are you doing?"
"I'm writing." He answered without much life in it as he concentrated on his writing.
"To who?" Link asked.
"To the world!" Jason said dramatically as he raised his hands above his head. "Writing is something that I love to do and when I get back to my word, I'll publish my adventure and everyone will think it is amazing. Even if I put down as a true story, they would probably still think it as fiction, but I don't really care, I just want to show the world back home what this place is like. How amazing and dangerous it is at the same time, how one Knight of Templar came to an unexpected fate and came here and did adventure after adventure, then finally met two others; one of them from his own world as well due to an unexpected event.
"It would be something incredible and full of life. It is my passion to write about things, and this time I hope it doesn't have a horrible path like my other stories do. Or if it does… I want it to be all right in the end."
I smiled. "That is a great idea. I hope lots of people read your story."
He nodded and went back to writing. We sat there in silence as nothing seemed to move except our breathing chests and the movement across the pen on the paper. It was calm just to sit there and not think. Though, I wasn't sure if Link wasn't thinking in the empty silence, but I knew I wasn't. I was just sitting there and calmly breathing. Before I knew it, Jason was up and putting his book and pen away into a Ziploc bag.
"Already to go?" Link asked.
"Yes, let's go check out the other side of the temple." Jason said as he placed his bag into one of his pouches.
I hopped to my feet and as we reached the door to the middle of the temple a loud wretched scream echoed from the door across the water. I turned to it and it ceased almost as quickly as it came. "Fuck, that was the knights." I stated knowingly somehow.
Without another word, the three of us ran to the door towards the boss room. We went across the windy bridge and then to the dead bridge ignoring the hollering of the Bokoblins. Link threw his boomerang and the bridge turned for us. We ran across it and continued through the next door. When we got there I suddenly realized why you needed to save all the damn monkeys in the Forest Temple in the first place.
Jason walked to the end of the platform and whistled. "That is a long way down. How the bloody hell are we going to get across?"
"Maybe they aren't in the boss room." Link suggested as he turned to the other two dead bridges. "Maybe they used those to get to a different part of the temple.
As if to squish Link's hope, a very loud scream was heard from the boss room.
I shook my head. "How though?"
I looked around, but nothing could be found. The idea of the claw shots came to mind, but even then it just wouldn't work the way a rope would. And then, there were the sounds of tiny little feet, many tiny feet coming from the left side where the monkeys would be found as you found the monkeys in the game. We turned to it and then twelve monkeys came over the wall and started to climb a pole to create a monkey rope.
"As if." Jason muttered. "Oh well no sense questioning it, I'm going first."
I raised an eyebrow as the Irish guy jumped at the monkey rope and was over on the side in a few moments. I let Link go first as I did question the monkeys' sudden appearance. I looked towards them as Link jumped off and then towards the boss door. Maybe the boss wasn't something that would be very easy to defeat. I frowned at the thought and shook my head as I jumped for the hands of the monkey not thinking on where they had been and jumped safely to the other side. As we came to the door, my hand with the Triforce felt like it was pulsing warning me not to go in. but I ignored it. There were knights in there to save and if it was because of something Dark Link did, then I was my job to fix it. I just hoped by the end of this journey that everything would be fixed from the mess I created, it didn't seem like it was too much of a mess at the moment though. I just hoped it stayed that way. Link opened the boss door with the key and on the other side there were a group of knights were huddling by the door.
"How did you guys get all the way over here?" I asked them in amazement.
"WE'RE SAVED!" The six knights cheered.
"Why couldn't you leave?" Link questioned.
"The door had been blocked until a few seconds ago. We rushed to the door and you showed up with these two strangers." One of the knights answered.
"Blocked by what?" Jason asked and simultaneously all the knights turned to the pool of purple poisonous liquid.
"By whatever is in there."
I looked over to the water. "What is in there?" Suddenly, the door slammed shut and metal bars shot up from the floor and blocked the door just before trying to skew Jason, who front flipped out of the way. I turned my attention away from the Amazing Jason to Link. "Looks like someone was expecting you."
Link glared in my direction slightly as the liquid started to become restless. He pulled out the Master Sword as Jason pulled out his crossbow. I looked towards the movement of metal and saw the knights trying to move away from the water. I glared in anger and walked over to them. "And you call yourself knights?! Why are you trying to hide in the corner that doesn't exist?!"
"Don't judge us; you don't know what we've witnessed from in there!" One of the knights growled. "Besides what would you know about scary, your just a girl."
Jason snorted from somewhere behind me and I heard him mumbling about something, but I couldn't understand the language. I turned my attention back to them. "I doubt you would be saying that to Telma or Queen Zelda. I may be just a girl on the outside, but yet, I'm the one standing on my own two feet looking down at heavily armed men shaking in fear, who are crawling on the ground, and are scared of every little thing like the monkeys earlier."
"How do you know about the monkeys, did you send them?" Another knight piped up.
"You and I wish, but I was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean fighting a sea serpent." I started to laugh slightly. "So excuse me for thinking that having a few monkeys chasing you into a temple to be funny and unbelievably cowardly." I turned away in anger and drew my sword. "Now if you don't mind, as long as that thing isn't a snake, I will be slicing it into bits."
I walked away from the knights just as the liquid grew still again.
"I don't like that." Jason stated scanning the liquid as I reached Link and Jason. "It's watching us."
"Sounds like a group of raptors, I wonder if there is more than one."
"Shh." Link suddenly shushed and narrowed his eyes at the water. "Move back!"
We jumped back just as an arm came out of the liquid and slapped the ground where we were standing. Another one came out and it slowly started to pull itself up. I could only look at it in surprise as it finally came up. It looked a bit like a bearded dragon, only it was purple and blue, looked amphibious, and its tail look right at home as it swished it back and forth in the clam water.
It roared loudly and I winced at the sounds of a hunt. Suddenly the holophone went off and Zelda appeared in front of the three of us.
"Queen Zelda!" The few knights that found their tongues after seeing the monster again shouted.
"Ah, I see you found the knights." She answered with a smile.
I ignored them and turned to Zelda. "This isn't a very good time to be calling."
As if it was getting tired of being ignored the monster roared even louder and then it came crashing down onto four legs.
"Sounds like Anurapogona, call me when you're done." Zelda stated calmly and then left from view.
The creature looked at the front line and then shot water at us that was the same color as the liquid its tail was in. I moved out of the way and charged towards the crossbreed. I slide my sword against one of its legs and it went right through leaving the bottom half a gooey mess on the ground. The creature cried out and I felt sorry for it, until it tried to bite my head off, then I hoped it died. "Slice the legs so it falls over, I'm sure there is a nice visible place where we can kill this thing." I called out to my two team members.
"Duck Electra!" Jason shouted. I ducked and Jason jumped over head and sliced off the second leg. "Ok move."
We both moved as quickly as we could and the beast fell to the floor. On its back as Link stabbed the center what looked like a yellow circle with three arrows pointing inward and three dots separating them. The monster started to stand again and Link jumped off and stood next to us. It roared loudly and its legs grew back plus an extra set of legs so it had a total of six. It tail came out of the water and went into its body as two cannon shaped parts appeared on its side and moved above it and aimed at the three of us. I didn't want to know what came out of it and decided to try the same step as last time. I swung my sword at its first leg and realized that the middle set of legs was covered in metal scales.
Jason was about to cut down the hind leg when one of the cannons came down behind him and blasted him with purple water. He flew towards me and before I could move he slammed into me sending us towards the entrance of the dungeon. Our landed consisted of the few knights that didn't move out of the way. I winced as I got up from the hard landing and noticed that Link was busy dodging the two mobile cannons, one with water the other with vines and the mouth of the Anurapogona that was trying to eat him.
"We have to do something about the protected leg; I doubt our blades could cut through it without ruining them." I stated as I looked at vine cannon as it ripped apart the floor where Link had stood.
"Yes, but right now, let's deal with that other leg." Jason said as he rushed in dodging the water cannon.
I nodded to myself and decided to give Link a break and allow him to deal with the problem if he had realized there was one and became a distraction. I took a piece of rock that the vines tore up and chucked it as hard as I could at the monster's eye. It was a direct hit, and a direct notification that I just became its next meal. "Hello little gummy bear, you didn't like the rock in your eye?"
Anurapogona roared in anger as its two cannons pointed towards me and it glared down at me in an answer. It went to strike with its head, but I moved out of the way as I tried to see its pattern of movements hoping that the two gentlemen with swords were trying to find a way get rid of the leg. Its two cannons fired rapidly and I moved out of the water and barely made it out of the vines that destroyed my original standing place. It repeated this and as each attack came, I was closer and closer to where the two were trying out Links equipment to get rid of the leg. I noticed Link threw his huge ball and chain at it in the corner of my eye just as I cut the vines that attached to my leg away. I looked in his direction for a second to see it didn't do a thing.
I bit my lip as I was almost squished into the ground by the water cannon and turned my full attention to the monster that was trying to kill me. It tried to bite my head off again and I dodged right into a vine cannon attack that knocked the breath out of me as I crashed into the floor. Vines grabbed my sword arm and my legs to the point where I was completely immobile to move my entire right arm and two legs. They slowly crawled up my torso and I was suddenly really glad for the armor I had on. Then, a sharp pain hit my hand and I screamed at its' intensity and suddenness. I started to feel light headed as I felt my arm start to feel the same pain and then I was lifted off the ground. After a few feet I was dropped down with the forces of gravity as the vines that were attached to me withered away and the monster squealed in lust and pain from what I could tell.
I looked to my savor to see six savors. They happened to be the Knights of Hyrule and I smiled in a flirty way. "Ah there are some men in there to save a girl."
Five out of the six men blushed and I guessed the sixth one was the one that was happily married. I looked above their heads from the ground and saw that two cannons were pointed in our direction. I glared at them and the knights took the hint and move out of the way while I rolled to a standing position just missing the double strike. Anurapogona cried out in anger and then its cannons turned on me again I ran towards the two guys still hacking at the leg. "Move!"
The turned to me and saw me running towards. I saw them widen their eyes and just as Link was about to open his mouth I dropped to the ground putting my hands over my head as I heard the water and vines whistle overhead and then it stopped. I looked up slightly and saw the vines had caught the armored leg. My eyes widen in surprise as the vines pulled onto the leg and I saw it starting to tear off. I tried to stand up, but I got vertigo and fell to one knee just as the leg was ripped off of its body. I saw Link started to climb the falling body I thought I was about to be a pancake, until two knights carried me out of the way.
We fell to the ground just out of the line of squish and watched as Link delivered the final blow to the yellow circle. Link jumped off just as it started to go crazy. It screamed as it tried to stand and then it stopped. I stood up with the knights in awe as it turned black and then exploded into dust leaving the yellow circle to clatter to the ground. I noticed it wasn't a pattern but some sort of coin as it shrunk to a normal size of a jelly filled donut and was only a few centimeters thick. I looked around as I noticed there was someone missing. "Where's Jason?"
Link looked around and then there was a sudden sound of splashing and a gasp. We all turned to the purple liquid and saw Jason climbing out of the pool. "Thanks guys, I'm okay just drowning."
"How did you get in there?" One of the knights asked.
"I was just wondering what it would be like to take a dip in purple poisonous looking liquid." He answered sarcastically. "I was in the bloody way of being squished by the bastard and the only way not to be was in the fucking purple pool and now I have purple shit all over me."
"Did you enjoy your swim?" I couldn't help but ask.
"Fuck you."
"You can clean up after we get to the castle. Good thing about you going in now, it's not toxic to skin as it used to be with Diababa in it. Now you'll just die a painful death if you ate any of it. So don't like your lips." Link stated as he picked up the coin.
"I'm just glad my book and pen are in a Ziploc bag." Jason said as he nodded. "Now between me and you, who saved Electra the most today?"
"Both of you lost, two points for the soldiers." I told them as I pointed to the knights behind me. "They apparently have balls after all."
When we got back to the castle it was well into the night and my pain had subsided about half way there. I found it strange that my hand and arm were the only ones affected by the vines, but then I remembered that the Triforce was sitting there. I looked up into the sky after getting off of Hero in thought. Perhaps that the vines were sucking my power of the Triforce of Justice and that's why Dark Link placed it into the temple. I followed the knights in thought. But what about that coin, where have I seen it before?
We walked into the throne room and Zelda looked happily to see everyone safe and sound like she had seen in the holophone chat. Jason didn't stay to long as he requested a bath and was led to another place in the castle. Zelda sent the knights home and there was only Link, Zelda and me left in the room for a debriefing. As the story was told, it was mostly done by Link. Zelda's smile vanished with each word and turned to a thinking frown. He explained the appearance of Dark Link and he put lots of detail into how well Jason covered himself against the shadow. Zelda nodded and told them that she would ask if he wanted to be a knight. Link and I continued the Forest Temple adventure story. Finally we came to the boss fight and during the distraction part of the boss fight; I decided to place in my two cents and told them about what happened when the vines attacked me.
"And finally this thing dropped from Anurapogona." Link added as he pulled out the coin and showed her. "Do you know what it is?"
Zelda took it from his hand. "This was on the monster?"
"Yeah only four hundred times the size, but it was there." I answered.
"This has just made another unsuspected twist to this whole story." Zelda stated as she placed it in Link's hand and closed his fingers around it. "This is the Light Medallion."
What is the Light Medallion and what has made its appearance such an unexpected turn for the journey ahead?
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