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Chapter 23
The Swimsuit Inquisition (Jason's Bad Day)
Jason stroked his horse's mane, Godfist which is what he named his horse as he held his temper together. His day was just getting worse by the moment. They stood in front of a landslide that blocked their path to get to the Zora's Domain. There were eight of them and none of them had a regular bomb or something that was an explosive to get rid of the pile. He had a solution, but it was a last resort. He didn't want to waste such an important tool on something so, lame. They didn't even have the choice to climb over so the only thing that there was, was if he used the last resort that could save their lives later on when shit hit the fan. After trying to look around for bomb flowers or bomb monsters for an hour, they couldn't find anything. Jason sighed as he jumped off his horse several meters away from the mound. His men needed to stick together with strange monsters appearing according to the people in Hyrule Castle Town, and they needed all the people looking for the tablet and that secret entrance. They couldn't waste time to go back to Kakariko Village to get a bomb bag and some bombs.
"Take twenty steps back, turn the horses around, close your eyes, block your ears and don't opened or unblock your eyes and ears until the rumbling under your horses' feet stop." Jason growled as he pulled out a small ball that fit in his palm from his pouch.
"Jason, what are you doing?" Delilah asked.
"Improvising," he replied. He threw the ball at the rubble and ran in the opposite direction towards the horses. Three seconds later, a large explosion knocked him to the ground, which he rolled back to a standing position flawlessly. The horses freaked for a few seconds at the explosion before they calmed the horses down. Jason turned around and his explosive did the job by blowing the rumble away showing a cave entrance behind it.
He got on his horse and they walked into the cave with the damp smell of underground filling his smell sense. Eventually, the sounds of water reached his ears. They exited the cave to find a water eroded cavern with a blue hue to it. The walls were decorated in amazing architecture and fossils. There were a total of six waterfalls that all fell off the sides calmly like they weren't waterfalls at all and it was the clearest water he had ever seen. Jason got off his horse and felt the difference between the cave ground and the walk way in the Zora's domain. It was almost like marble, but it was just water eroded stone over thousands of years. Jason looked down and saw a large pool of water that flowed downstream to what he guessed to where Lake Hylia was. It was also so clear that he could see the bottom of the pool.
Delilah walked up beside him. "This place is beautiful."
"Yea it is." He agreed and turned away from the pool. "So who knows the history of this place the best, Shad?"
"King Ralis would be the candidate of knowing the location of the secret entrance we are looking for." Shad replied. "This way, he should be in the throne room."
Jason nodded and his men stopped gawking down at the beautiful scenery and followed Shad. They passed four pillars and moved more into the cliff side before coming to a set of stairs. They stairs were the same color of green blue as the rock face and turned to a steep cliff that was hard not to slip on the wet rock. After a difficult trip up, and three out of five of the soldiers almost falling on top of him, they finally made it to a grassy plain on the top of the rock with the largest waterfall flowing in front of them and a large arch that led to another place of the domain. They followed the path and came across several beautiful architectural arches that placed some of the things in his world to shame. Purples, blues, and greens flowed through the rocks and architecture structures that reflected on the fast moving water that lined the path. They got to a set of stairs that led to a circular room with rock veins that looked like tree trunks with lines of stone work in between the veins. Jason looked down at the spring again and saw that there was a walkway in the water that one could walk on to get to the other side of the room that was also highly decorated in the same swirls as the walls and pillars had. Jason looked up as he walked towards a vine covered throne that sat a purple colored fish man what he guessed was a Zora. The cavern was like being inside of a geyser with the water erosion shown on the rocks and then lines on the rocks pointing down like they were pushed in that direction. They finally reached the King of the Zoras and stopped in front of him.
He looked away from talking to an armored Zora and saw the Hylian soldier armor on his five men and smiled. "What brings Hylian soldiers to me today?"
Jason walked in front of the group. "Your highness, I'm Jason MacGowan and these are my companions, I'm sure the news of strange monsters appearing is not new to you and we were sent here on the queen's orders to complete our quest in stopping these creatures. Our quest has led us here and we need help in finding a secret path that was known a hundred years ago to go to the Lost Woods."
"The Lost Woods ya say. That's a place that hasn't been mentioned in probably just as long."
"We are aware, but we know the path is an underwater path that leads there and it's somewhere in the Zora's Domain."
"I see, so you came to me to see if I had an idea. Well truth is if it was here a hundred years ago, it might be eroded over or blocked by fallen rocks from the Twilight war when the Bulblins where here with their elaborate structures. I can assist you by having some of the Zora's swim in the deeper ends of the pools in this domain and I grant you all the time you need, but that's all I can do." King Ralis responded sadly as he stood up. "I would help you personally as sitting on this throne all the time is a real pain, but there was apparently a creature appearing in the upper part of the river that calls for my attention."
"Yes your highness, thank you."
"Oh!" Delilah suddenly said grabbing Jason's attention.
"Yes young lady?" King Ralis asked.
"Is there somewhere we can change, I have a feeling we are going to get really wet and from yesterday's adventure in the Sacred Grove, I don't feel like waiting hours for my clothes to dry, again."
"We have a few places for you to change." King Ralis said and turn to the two guards posted beside him. "Show them a place to change, the female I presume wants a separate place to change."
She nodded and they were taken in different directions as King Ralis walked off with a few other soldiers back the way they came from.
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Jason sighed as he looked at himself in the reflective surface of the mirror. It wasn't him staring back in disgust. Well it was until he looked at his swimsuit. What kind of joke was God playing on him? He was practically wearing a girl's boxer shorts underwear. They were slick against his skin like he wasn't wearing anything at all and it was like a pair of short shorts he saw when some American girls toured the places he had been at, too short for anything civil as when they bent down they were purposely showing off their ass to the world. He sighed again; he shouldn't care about what he was wearing and just get to his quest. He turned from his corner to find five men staring at him in surprise all with proper long swim shorts.
"What are you looking at?" Jason asked them glaring at them daring them to say something.
"Um," Benedict started. "I love woman and I do have a fiancé, but I think you could make the straightest of men think trying out the other side."
Jason blinked in surprise. "Uh… Let's just find this path." He decided to change the subject.
"What got something against man with man? It's truly the most masculine of all things masculine from what I've heard." Michael asked him threateningly. "It's even more feminine when a girl is with a girl."
"What, no, no I don't care what people do behind closed doors, the Greeks had a blast with it. I just, next person to say something outrageously over sexualized gets to do the shit job on this quest. I can taste it coming."
"Yes sir,"
They walked out of the area to find Shad in the same type of swimsuit as the soldiers were wearing and lightly blushed looking away quickly.
"From my information, the path is not in the throne room." Shad cleared his throat.
"Alright, that limits our search area." Jason acknowledged and looked around. "Where's Delilah?"
"Right here." Her female voice said from the far corner of the throne room.
Jason's jaw dropped he couldn't think of anything and then something came from his mouth. "Ah, uh... those... well done." And then he felt like an idiot.
Delilah just looked at him in shock and stood there as if expecting him to say something more.
It was silent for a few seconds before Esben placed a hand on his shoulder. "Guess who gets to do the shit job that you tasted."
"That wasn't-"
"It was for you captain." Cailean responded.
"Bloody hell."
"Someone does have a second brain in there after all." Delilah stated shrugging, "Too bad you aren't the first one to say that. Though, your second brain looks great in those."
Jason felt his face burn and he jumped in the water. It was freezing and he was glad it was. Delilah's swimsuit was barely a swimsuit. Baby blue cloths were just wide enough to cover small parts on her chest which the straps tied under her shoulder blades with the top connected by a ring and a strap tied around her neck. Her bottoms also didn't cover all that much as it covered and then had two tiny straps that tied at the sides of her toned hips. He turned away and swam to the bridge like path and stood on it. He looked over at Shad.
"We should look at the bottom pool and in the Upper Zora River as it is part of the Zora's Domain."
"Should we split up for that?" Delilah asked. "I don't know this area very well so I don't know what the terrain is like."
"We should stick together and cover this place first before we head to the Upper Zora River. This place is bigger than the Upper Zora River."
"Good idea Shad." Jason answered and looked down at the two hundred foot drop. "I challenge you guys to do this, as a test of courage."
"Do what?"
Jason just grinned and jumped gliding against the waterfall. He could hear the shouts of the men that were following him and then dived perfectly into the water. When he surfaced, he looked up at the sight of all of his companions looking down at him.
"Are you outta your mind?!" Isaac shouted down to him.
"No, it was a nice jump."
"He's insane." Michael said to the rest of the soldiers while purposely being loud enough for him to hear.
"If you guys are too afraid to do it then go down to the kiddy level." Jason said as he pointed to the ledge where the horses were. "I'm sure the horses would like a nice view."
"No!" All five of the men shouted at once. There was silence and they argued who would jump first.
Suddenly, Delilah sighed loudly. "And you call yourselves soldiers of the Hylian Army. I heard Link jumped off Hylia Bridge into just a pool of water when the water in Zora's Domain was frozen."
"No he didn't. That's five hundred feet high." Benedict argued.
"You're right he didn't jump off the bridge that was five hundred feet from the surface of the water; he jumped off into a pool of water, that's an additional hundred feet at least."
"He's nuts though, he save Hyrule practically by himself. What does that have to do with us?" Cailean asked.
"Because you guys are all wimps." She replied and jumped from the top of the water fall.
"Holy Hylia!" Shad exclaimed.
She went into the water and then came up with a big smile on her face. "I didn't think I would actually live through that, let's do that again."
"After we find the entrance to our path," Jason told and looked up in surprise. "Watch out!"
They both moved quickly as five males were falling towards their spot. They entered the water with a large splash and came up coughing and complaining about sore parts of their bodies.
"That was not as fun as I thought it was going to be." Michael commented rubbing his red arms.
"But you did it; congratulations now let's get to work."
"Don't we get some sort of prize or something?" Isaac asked.
"You got a compliment from me; that's a good enough prize in my eyes."
Isaac groaned.
"He does have a point though." Benedict told them.
They decided to split between who was to look on the walls while the other half looked around the water edges while the two Zoras that were helping them swam at the bottom of the pool. The people that were walking the walls on the lower level switched with the people in the water and they looked on the other half off the pool while the other group went to the level with the horses and started searching there. Two hours passed and they found nothing, but giant ancient monster fossils in the walls and the rocks that were in the pool. Jason got out of the water and onto the ledge that led to Upper Zora River.
"Are you sure it's in the Zora's Domain?" Delilah asked Shad.
"Yes, but I thought I would be here in this place rather than in the Upper Zora River." Shad said as he pulled out the piece of tablet. "There are caverns and water and even the giant waterfall. But I don't get why it's not here."
"Let's check out Upper Zora River to give our eyes a rest of this place. Maybe we'll find it on the second check." Jason suggested as he turned to the opening. They walked through the cavern and came to a very green and bright area of the river. There was a house and a door in a wall on the other side of the land bridge with broken land bridge just after it. Two water ways went in different directions with one cavern having a symbol of three semicircles all facing away from each other connected by their middles and a dot in each of the semi circles.
"The stream that doesn't have the Nayru's Symbol goes down to Lake Hylia while the water with Nayru's Symbol goes to Hyrule Castle." Shad explained.
"I see, well let's get looking, Link and Electra should be done by now. Benedict and Cailean check with the locals in the area if they know anything. It's possible they buried it to make it flat ground without really thinking about it." Jason told the two soldiers.
They nodded and walked towards the house.
He turned to Michael, Isaac and Esben. "How good are you guys at swimming?"
"Michael and Esben could swim in these currents without problems. I on the other hand, am not that powerful of a swimmer." Isaac admitted.
"Alright, in that case you, Delilah and Shad will look up here for the entrance along the walls. If the dirt looks different, let's say the grass is growing well in one area and right next to it is not, check it out, there might be something buried underneath and if it's growing really well in an area that isn't growing well there could be water from the entrance underneath it."
Isaac nodded and Delilah pouted. "You didn't ask me if I could swim well."
"I figured you wanted to get the first attack if whatever the Zora king was dealing with came up here. He hasn't come back yet and I wanted someone vigilant to keep an eye out on things whether they are bad or good." he responded quickly, he had forgot to ask her.
Delilah smiled. "I know you are just covering up your tracks, but I'll give it to you because I do want first strike."
They separated and Jason jumped back into the water. The water was running too fast for the sun to even try to heat it up, but he didn't mind the cold against his skin anymore. The water was fast in which he kept his hand on the side of the wall or the ground when he was trying to stay still so he wouldn't relook a location he had already looked to death. Their search came to a loud ending of something heavy and armored came from the water way that led to the lake. Everyone looked up towards it and Jason waited for something to appear. What he hadn't expected was an armored Zora to fly from the ravine and come crashing on him. He was dumped underwater and when he came up he brought the Zora with him. He wasn't sure if Zoras could drown. They got out of the water to find the Zora King and his men retreating to the open area.
"What is it?" Michael asked the fish people.
"We don't know. We haven't seen anything like it. All we know is that it's big, with a lot of armor and it carries an ax."
"An ax and armor, doesn't sound like he would be a good swimmer like that. What he doing in a place like this?" Delilah questioned hoping for an answer. No one gave her one.
The large seven foot humanoid came over the top of the water stream and jumped launching itself in the middle of the opened land. The woman that was standing outside of her house screamed and ran into her home. The human armor rack held and ax that was just as tall as it with two blades on the head that were at least four feet long and two feet across each blade.
"Oh Hylia help us with this monstrosity." Shad said as he backed into a safer corner and grabbed a stick.
"You know what that thing is?" Jason asked noticing he was drawing things on the ground.
"Yes, just give me a moment to tell you, I have to find it in my memory first. My books are up in my bag."
"You heard him men, let's give the scholar a moment. One rule, don't get hit by the ax."
"You think Captain?" Esben asked. "I just have one question for you, how the hell are we going to defeat it without our weapons? They are with his books!"
"Bloody fucking hell!" Jason shouted; there was something that seemed off. He turned to the Zora King Ralis, "We can distracted and hopefully not get killed if one of your Zoras go get our things, they are the fastest in the water and I have a theory that they can get to the throne room way faster than we could."
"We'll go get your things, give us five minutes." King Ralis responded and he and his two guards jumped into the water zipping away.
"Not to sound like a total ass about this Captain, but you got the shit job." Cailean started, "Which means you're his bitch."
"I thought I would let you all know that I take back the compliment I gave you for being courageous and that later on you wish you had this job." He growled at them before sighing. He had dodged worse, maybe. "Just find a weakness."
Jason went up to it and it swung his ax at him which he dodged with ease as he barely had anything on to weigh him down. He jumped onto his ax and was launched into the air by the ax man getting ready for another swing. He landed on its shoulders and threw its helmet into the water. It didn't look or smell pretty and he wish he left on the helmet. He went in to strike his head, which he was definitely more than sure it was a man, when the ax man went to grab him. He jumped off narrowly avoiding his ax.
"I got it!" Shad said excitedly. "These creatures appeared a hundred years ago and they are called Iron Knuckles. They have an ax as their weapon which is super deadly and after it gets close to be being defeated, his armor will fall off and he will be twice as fast as before."
"Well isn't that just peachy." Michael muttered.
Their chat was ended to the sound of screaming of bloody murder. Jason dodged the Iron Knuckle and saw Electra being held on by a giant Kargaroc and Link in a strange blue outfit riding it. Electra was dropped beside the house while Link turned the bird's claws towards the Iron Knuckle. Jason got out of the way just in time not to be picked up and thrown into the far wall next to the land bridge. The rocks came down on it and the creature exploded like all the monsters did when they died.
Link got off the Kargaroc and it left without a second thought. "So, what'd we miss?"
"I'm back." King Ralis appeared with a large bag and came out of the water looking around. "Where did the creature go?"
"Over there." Delilah responded deadpanned and turned to Link. "How you timed that, I really don't know."
"Same thing I told Electra a while back: Heroes are always on time."
"And said hero is going to have his ass kicked by yours truly for dropping me." Electra threatened. Jason looked over at her and noticed she was rubbing her bottom.
"Better than in the water," Link replied scratching the back of his head. Jason doubted he was actually thinking about where he stuck Electra.
"And I bet looking at supper is way better than eating it." Electra growled. She also noticed what he had.
"Sorry, next time I will make sure that the landing is much softer."
"Thank you; you may eat what I caught."
"She'll be fine in a few minutes." Jason sighed trying to cool the situation off.
"What in hell did we fly into anyway, a swimsuit model contest?" Electra asked looking at Jason's swimsuit and then turned to Delilah. "That's a nice suit."
"At least someone has style." Delilah said giving a glance over at Jason and he scratched the back of his neck awkwardly.
"I'm just going to leave this bag here." King Ralis said with unease. "All you're things are in here so I wish you luck on your quest and thank you for stopping that monster."
"Any time your highness," Jason said and waved as the Zora King swam away.
He turned to where the Iron knuckle has crushed the wall and noticed something sticking out of the rubble. He ran over to it and started moving rocks out of the way.
"What is it?" Link asked him.
"There's something here."
The rest of them joined him in removing the rocks that had fallen. When they finished there was a small broken pillar in front of a pool of water with a large headstone on the back wall that seemed to go another five feet under the water which stopped with an tunnel.
"Is this it?" Delilah asked.
"Yea, this is it." Electra stated beside him.
Jason turned to her and found her looking at it like a lost memory. "You've seen it before."
"Only in a game, but none of this is a game."
They all stepped away from it.
"What are we going to do now?"
"The Lost Woods is just beyond that tunnel." Electra suggested. "We will get wet so I guess I can change into swim wear and we can go and then change on the other side."
"Alright." Michael agreed as his stomach growled. "How much food did you get?"
"A lot." Link answered as Delilah took Electra away to change. "Once they get back, we should hurry up to find the tablet so we can make plans on where each group is going and where we are meeting."
Jason picked up their bag of things. He hoped it was a water proof bag or the whole idea of changing was pointless. Electra and Delilah came back and Electra was dressed in a simple, modern, white bikini with her belt attached to her waist with her sword and pocket on it. Her guns were not attached to it and out of sight. They stood in front of the hole in the ground and Jason wondered what was waiting for them on the other side.
"I'm going to check to see how safe it is, I'll come back to tell you what's there." Link told them.
"And if you don't come back right away." Benedict asked.
"Then I'm probably being attacked by something so you can decide if you wanna wait or check out the battle."
"Good idea." Jason said.
Link jumped into the pool of water first and then disappeared. Thirty seconds later, a ringing noise was heard from Electra.
"I wonder if I can change my ringtone." She said as she glanced down at her pouch in surprise and pulled out a weird device out of the pouch.
"What is that thing, phones shouldn't work here." Jason asked.
"What's a phone?" Delilah asked.
"It's the future term to describe women." Jason replied.
"This is a holophone, Midna gave it to me." Electra answered. "Who is calling me, oh."
She tapped on the 'holophone' and Link appeared in front of them like he was actually standing there, only there was a different background and a pool of water behind him.
"How in Hylia are you standing in front of us?" Benedict asked in shock. Jason looked at him only to see him hiding behind his brother. He shook his head; he had thought he was actually progressing on their cowardly nature.
"It's a hologram, broadcasted with Twili magic." Electra explained. "So why did you call?"
"It's just faster to call you and tell you that it's safe from what I can see. It was just faster to call you then to travel back to tell you it takes ten seconds to get here by the current."
"Some current," Cailean stated and then jumped into the pool of water. Maybe Jason was actually getting somewhere. He reappeared in the background of the hologram. "I could do that again any time."
Jason smiled slightly and one by one they all followed with him being last. When he got out of the pool he saw something similar to the Sacred Grove only it was not as big of an area. The logs were smaller and the grass was short like people walked on it all the time. A song played in the background like the Sacred Grove except it sounded like a flute or a piccolo. He turned to Electra to make sure it wasn't her playing her piccolo. "Where is that coming from?" He asked.
"Don't know," Link answered.
"I do," Shad replied. "It's the music of this wood. If you follow the song it takes you to the Forest Temple, or at least it did. Now I'm not sure where it takes you. And if you don't follow the music, you will magically be ejected from the woods and find yourself in Kokiri Woods.
"How convenient," Electra responded. "And before we continue on our little trip we should change. I have two blankets we can use as curtains."
Electra passed a blanket to Link and took out a second blanket from the small pouch.
"I really need to get a pouch like that." Jason remarked as he pulled off the bag off his back. Inside were seven small bags and his things with his clothes; that were soaking wet. "Are you fucking kidding me?"
"Wow that sounds so weird with an English accent." Electra said in surprised.
Link nodded.
Jason pulled out his clothes. "Why?!"
"My clothes aren't wet." Delilah told him pulling out her bag with her hand inside her little bag.
"Neither are ours." His men stated at the same time.
"Where can I get your water proof bags?"
"You can have an extra one of mine," Shad said pulling out a pouch from his pouch. "It's like an infinite source as well."
"I would say thank you as I take it from you." Jason said as he took it from him. "But my clothes are now wet and now I have to wear wet clothes until we find that tablet."
"Just wear your pants, that way you won't be uncomfortable." Link replied.
"But my boxers-"
"Go commando." Electra rolled her eyes as she pulled Delilah away.
"Commando?" Shad asked.
"It's when-" Link started when Jason turned to him
"Shhh…" Jason shushed him with a deadpanned glare and then turned to walk to the other corner of the room.
His day sucked; why had Murphy fucked with him today? Right, because he could, in the most offset ways too, like his clothes, his trip to get that strange and awful bathing suit, his last resort gone. He changed rather quickly and then proceeded to wait out in the sun hoping his pants would dry. He hoped they set up camp some place so he could dry his clothes and they wouldn't get moldy or start to smell. He sighed. Where were they going to start with finding the tablet if it was in the Lost Woods? Or was it in Kokiri Forest? How big where these places? How long was it going to take to look for the tablet? What kind of creatures would they find, separated from the rest of Hyrule for who knows how long?
"We should follow the music." Link said suddenly scaring him out of his self-pity thoughts.
"W-why do you say that." Jason asked holding his heart. He was hoping it was still beating. There was fast thumps beating against his hand, it was still working, violently, but working.
"I don't know." Link said but didn't expand as he looked towards the log on the right.
The rest of the soldiers finished changing in their dry clothes and a sudden shout of excitement came from Shad. Jason turned away from the pouch attached to his belt to Shad who was looking at something just beside the log Link was staring at.
"I found the second tablet!" Shad said excited as he pulled a rock out of the ground.
It looked like the same shape as the Zora Tablet. Jason was going to see what was on the tablet when Link didn't take two seconds to spare as he quickly went through the tunnel he had been studying like it was a math test.
"Link? H-hey where are you going?" Electra asked worriedly and ran after him; they disappeared half way into the log.
"We should follow them so they don't get into trouble." Esben sighed in annoyance. "It's like watching two kids in the market; you never know who's around and what will happen."
Jason looked at him, "Are you a parent?"
"I am,"
Jason was astounded. He didn't know why, but he never thought of one of his soldiers being an actually a parent. "We should go."
"What about the tablet?" Shad complained.
"Put it away, we can look at it when we have food." Michael told him.
Jason ran after them and heard the metal armor clunking behind him and the funny steps of the scholar. They got to the other end and heard Electra shouted at Link to stop again from the left log before it came to a sudden quiet, even the music stopped. Jason ran into the log tunnel. On the other side, he stopped when he saw Link standing in the middle of a field and Electra a little behind him with some wind blowing almost like it was a dramatic scene from a movie which really bugged him. He noticed a small girl who looked to be about ten with green hair looking up towards Link.
The girl looked ready to cry as a smile appeared on her face. "You came back."
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