Link is holding me here at sword-point forcing me to write this. It seems I pissed him off last chapter by disappointing the readers with such a lackluster addition. Yipe! He just poked me because I'm stalling, sorry!
Lunarian : A real chapter this time, please enjoy and review. Ouch! Not so hard Link! Last chapter was not Link's fault, it was all me. There you happy?
Link holds his sharp sword over my head threateningly, the steel giving off a deadly glint reflected from the rising sun's rays.
Tatl speaks up from the brim of his cap. "Review or Link will chop off this author's head for his failure."
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--Chapter Eleven--
- Courage, Fear, It's Terrifying -
The sun was set near its zenith shining brightly down upon the townsfolk of Clock town. The cuckoo's were crowing lively, welcoming another day along. The town was alive with activity from everyone both young and old. A new day was heralded by all as Link and Tatl, completely revitalized after a much needed night's slumber, left the town out the north gate exit.
"It's such a nice day out today Link, it's a shame we have to go to the frigid wintery mountains." Tatl commented to Link.
"Yeah... you're right, the weather is perfect." Link said reflectively. Taking out his bow he shot a flame arrow at the patch of ice blocking the trail into the mountains. "Never heard you much mention anything about the weather before now Tatl." Not even when it was rained all day on the second day.
"Well I was more worried about Tael then the weather then." She said back to him with good nature.
"Ahh" Link said in noncommital. Putting on his trusty bunny hood he ran down the side path, past the Dodongo's near the freaky mushrooms, and back up the path to the other side. Running that familiar track once again brought to mind the time he timed himself with and without the hood. He could make it in 37 seconds without the hood, but with it only took 24 seconds. Shaving a clear 13 seconds off the smallest run. Just imagine how much time saved up by wearing it most of the time.
Flying beside Link, Tatl looked back to him to see why he stopped moving. Spotting that silly grin on his face again, she was almost sure that he was thinking about that bunny hood again. I swear, that kid is obsessed with the thing. "Hey Link, you there?" She yelled out.
"Huh?" He said as he was preoccupied. Snapping out of it he resumed his trek.
"Day dreaming there?" His friend asked him.
"Ohh it was nothing important." He replied nonchalantly.
Seeing an opportunity for some harmless ribbing she asked him teasingly. "So then you weren't thinking about your bunny hood again then, hmm?" As his face pinked she laughed silently. Haha he's blushing, pay dirt!
Link's face was coloring in embarrassment. "I said it was nothing important, just drop it." He told her more insistently, but with a hint of whining.
"Okay, ok." She relented. "It's dropped." That out to hold me over for awhile, I'll just keep quiet as he does his thing.
The potentially mortifying situation passed by thankfully, he was still wasn't used to his companion's mischievous streaks although he was getting better, he hoped. The Blue Tektite was quickly dispatched with an overhead swing as it tried to jump onto him, and it's neighbor soon followed by a thrust. "Haha! It feel's great to have my fully forged sword again." Laughed Link gaily as he killed off beasties with single hits.
Next he entered the grassy area where the mountain smith lives. The atmosphere feeling more of a spring time then winter, now that the cursed cold was banished. Looking to the north he could see the Snow Head tower off in the distance. Rather than deal with those annoying Giant Bee's near the flowers that were always such a pain to hit, he put on the Goron mask and started to super spin up the path.
Quickly he entered the winding road to the top, with deadly drops into the chasm below and huge snowballs rolling down. Where those snow boulders kept coming from repeatedly with no stop he didn't know, it was just another one of those things he was better off accepting as is then trying to understand it. Like how defeating enemies can leave little hearts that heal.
Having passed the chasms and boulders flawlessly he came upon the last area before he could enter the GF of Courage's fountain. Just a few short moments of crossing a thin bridge while avoiding the local Guays, then running up a small incline, and he was there.
Now inside the fairy's fountain all was silent. The fierce winds and rampaging ice boulders from just outside and above couldn't be heard. The pool of water was veiled in a forest green glow from the triforce symbol above the entry way. Floating inches above the water was a green shimmering mirror, the GF nor any fairy's were not in sight.
"Are we expected?" Tatl asked no one in particular.
"Well... this is a trial of courage Tatl. Maybe we just enter now?" Link said, as unsure as his partner.
As if in answer to his question, the cave hole they entered in from closed up immediately. Still without making a sound however.
"This is getting spooky Link." Tatl said as she floated closer to her protector.
The hero was of half a mind to agree with his friend, there was just something about this that felt wrong. Almost like a trap. Never the less he knew they had to keep going no matter what. Pushing down his anxiety the champion of Termina walked unerringly into the portal.
Unlike all previous portal he had taken before, the trip felt all wrong. Instead of a quick and straight teleport, his stomach and insides felt like they were being spun in opposite directions while plummeting down a bottomless pit. Further adding to the feeling of discomfort, everything was entirely pitch black and utter silence, he couldn't see or hear a single thing.
Thinking himself clever Link fumbled into his quiver to take out a light arrow, but it had no effect. The arrow lighted up and infused with his magic, but it gave off no extra illuminance. "Tatl, are you there?" He called out, just now realizing he should have heard her bitching about the ride by now. There was no answer even after several minutes of calling out for her. Now sinking in fully, he was all alone in total darkness. His heart rate sped up a bit, nothing good could come of this.
As nothing happened in all the time he called for Tatl or tried to get some light, it appeared that he would have to start walking. Maybe I can find the way out. Setting a pace at little more then a creep Link moved forwards in the darkness.
AAEEGGH! A sudden shriek from behind him cut through the quiet like the call of a cuckoo in the early morning. It startled him so badly that he jumped up in the air, let loose a girly squeak and ran away as if chased by death. Putting a great distance between himself and whatever caused that sound, he eventually stopped running. Recovering, he resumed his pace into the unknown with a still racing heart. His walk was heavy with trepidation by now, but onward he went, wiping his sweaty hands on his tunic.
As Link walked onward he could hear sounds coming from ahead, too faint to make out. Soon he could make out the sounds, but he wished he hadn't because now from all around him came ghoulish moans, shrieks like a banshee and screams horrendous enough to curdle milk. "Getting kinda creepy in here." He said to himself. The constant scary noises randomly blaring out was extremely unnerving.
It took a few minutes, but Link was able to grow accustomed to the eerie cacophony of horror sounds enough that he could start walking again. I still can't see a thing and it keeps getting scarier. At least there's a change though, that's a good thing at least. He thought to himself during the few moments of lucid thought allowed between screams. It's just not possible to really follow through on a thought when you're being forced to cringe every few moments when an ear splitting shriek is heard right behind your ear.
The next thing he noticed was that the incessant yelling had stopped. Before he had time to relish the return to silence a new sensation begin to be felt all over his body. A really creepy feeling overtook the grown up child, it felt as if crawling all over him were bugs. He couldn't see them, but they were strongly felt. It even seemed his boots offered no protection from this abnormal attack on his senses. He could feel them crawling on his feet in and around his toes, through his air and down his neck and back, even around his backside. It was like being covered in snakes, millipedes, spiders, cockroaches, worms and slugs all at once skittering and slithering.
When the first time it happened, it felt like a snake had just slithered over his toes. "Aayyh" He cried out, trying to shake the unseen thing off the offending foot, to no effect. No matter how spine crawling, goose bump forming the feeling got he couldn't shake it off with any amount of movement. "It's okay Link, it's just an incredibly squicky illusion. You really aren't covered in bugs and insects, it's all a trick. C'mon you can do this, just keep walking and ignore the feelings. You are the hero of time and champion of termina, a little bug trick isn't gonna stop you, you can do this" He told himself, rallying his courage to persevere no matter how unnerving it was. Finding strength in his self pep-talk Link continued on.
As before, it seemed that as soon as Link found himself adapting to the obstacle, it changed. He was too busy being glad the creepy crawly feeling was gone to notice it at first, but he soon did. Nothing could be heard within the endless unseen expanse except his own breath and heartbeat. Lub...Dub...Lub...Dub Hearing his own heartbeat so clearly brought the fear closer. Lub..Dub..Lub..Dub Getting nervous, he tried to use magic again, but still his magic wouldn't cooperate.
Suddenly! Completely from out of nowhere the most ear piercing shriek came from directly in front of him accompanied with a flash of light revealing the a grotesque skeleton with chunks of rancid meat hanging off of it and covered in blood with maggots crawling around the yellow pus filled eye sockets. Link had until that moment considered himself a very courageous person. Now however with that frightening image before him he let out a truly massive scream of fright. Drawing his sword with lightening speed he slashed directly into where he saw the skeleton, but his sword cut only the air, the skeleton was gone and once more Link was devoid of sight and sound.
LUB!DUB!LUB!DUB! The poor boy's heart was jack hammering away at his rib cages, sweat was running rivets down his face and exposed skin, and his breathing was shallow and erratic. He had never been so unexpectedly startled before in his entire life and he couldn't take too many more of his life would end up a short one indeed. "Holy freakin'Din'hell, what in the name of Naryu was that for?" Through long experience Link had found ranting helped calm himself down eventually. "Is this really the Trial of Courage or did someone set up a trap to kill me. Can't beat me in combat so they're gonna cause my heart to explode, is that it? Dammit where is Tatl when I need her! She could think up much better things to yell."
Finally regaining some breathe back Link, now ticked off, set up a brisk jogging pace forwards keeping on high alert with his senses.
Huff...phuu It felt like Link had been walking for hours on end with no end in sight. "Can't... go... on..." He wheezed out as he crumpled to the floor from his leg muscles feeling like jelly, weak from fatigue. Totally spent, he used his last energy to take out his knapsack by feel and rest his head on it.
Soon a cold mist spreads out and begins to overtake Link as he tries to sleep. It seeps into his bones and steals away his very breathe. As he tries to find something from his pack to warm himself with the coldness drops into arctic gales. The flash freeze turns Link into an icicle before he could move. Quickly losing consciousness the frozen hero thought to himself in fear. After everything I went through is this how I'm gonna meet my end, to die here alone? His final thoughts are terror filled visions of dying here unknown and never seeing his beloved Hyrule again.
A chilling laugh echoes out the darkness as Link freezes.
"Unnn" Link moaned as he groggily returned to wakefulness. He had no idea how long he was frozen for. All he could remember was a disturbing evil laughter right before he blacked out. It couldn't have been him. There's no way he got out of the sages prison. He thought to himself, recalling just who the laugh reminded him of. Looking around after standing up he tried to take stock of the situation.
For once he could actually see, there were torches lit on the walls giving the room a very dim lighting. The ceiling was very high, a good five lengths up at least. Directly in front of him there is a wide open door reaching the full length of the ceiling. He could see nothing except the cold gray stone tiles of the floor and walls, the only place to proceed was through the door. I don't like the feel of this. His thoughts would have been wary had this been just a dungeon, but having been knocked out and taken to places unknown his concern was pushing the limits.
Boldly he walked through the doorway into another room. This room was even dimmer lit, being so much larger than the room he just left. He managed to take a few steps in when the door behind him slammed shut, spinning around in startlement he watched as heavy iron bars with sharp tips stained in blood rose out of the ground reinforcing the lock.
From behind Link, he heard a deep mocking laugh from the past. "Heh heh he he" With rising dread his head slowly turned around, jumping back in shock when he saw Ganondorf, there, standing in the center of the room. Only his face was visible from the flickering flames of the torches, outlining his cold calculating eyes and cruel victorious smirk. "You look surprised to see me, boy." The dark king sneered.
Unable to articulate himself from being so stupefied, Link replied in a disbelieving stammer. "H-h-how y-y-y-you, you here we sealed you away!
"We?" The male gerudo said to Link raising his eyebrow. "You mean those weak wanna be sages who were helpless without a little boy and his sword?" He continued on, with a face of false surprise. "They were no match for the King of Evil, Ganon." Finished the afore-mentioned evil disdainfully.
The dread rose to Link's heart where it mercilessly squeezed with its clammy hand. "What did you do to them?" He yelled out to the prince of darkness.
With an unconcerned air Ganon said back. "Nothing permanent," bringing to Link a shortly lived sigh of relief as he continued, "Yet." He enjoyed the look of worry on his foes face, but wished for more, so he said with a cold smile full of the promise of pain. "Now that you are awake the time has come to exact my vengeance in full."
With a confidence he didn't feel Link pulled out his shield and sword getting into a combat stance. "I defeated you once Ganondorf, I will defeat you again!" To his utter frustration Ganon didn't seem at all intimidated, more the opposite he seemed amused, even going so far as to chuckle darkly. Taking offense to the obvious message that Link posed no threat, he advanced on Ganon forcefully. Just as it seemed he would make no move to defend himself, Ganon revealed his reason for the utter conviction of his imminent victory. Throwing his arms out the lights came ablaze, lighting up every bit of the room. Link's eyes and mouth opened in shock as he stood paralyzed from the sight.
All along the far back wall, covering every last inch, chrysalis prisons were hung floating in the air, their captives held helpless. Inside the crystals was everyone he had ever interacted with. There was the sages, his friends, Epona Navi and Tatl, Skullkid and the Kokiri, all the townspeople from Hyrule and Termina. Everyone he had ever known were suspended in the air motionless, their only sign of life being the fear reflected in their eyes.
Voice booming loudly in the huge chamber Ganon addressed Link. "Here they are hero, everyone you've worked so hard to help. Isn't it wonderful, you have put your entire life's effort into helping these people, and I have undone all of it in an instant I hold their lives in the palm of my hands."
Clenching his sword so hard that his knuckles turned white, Link leveled the deadliest gaze he had ever given anywhere. "Release them now!" He ordered Ganon tightly.
The first sign that things were about to go south was when Ganon's eyes widened in malevolent glee. "If you insist." He said lightly with a mocking bow. His arms were outstretched wide with the palms opened up, now he violently crushed his hands into fists bringing them together in front of himself in a smack. The agonizing result was so horrifying soul rendering that Link would never forget it for the rest of his life.
Within the blink of an eye every single crystal shattered simultaneously as one, sending the sharp shards inward on it's holder. A sycophancy of tortured dying screams of pain immediately assaulted Link's unprepared ears, as he watched immobile and helpless as right before his eyes every friend he ever had was shredded to pieces in a gruesome orgy of death. With merciless accuracy every single shard sliced through bone, body, limb and organs indiscriminately.
The entire inhuman spectacle only lasted a few seconds but for Link every second was an hour. He watched as Ruto, that innocent and mischievous young zoran princess, had her body carved apart like a sushi festival feast. Malon, the animal loving energetic farm girl, was killed as the deadly pieces of crystal slit open her eyeballs. Zelda, the princess, and Saria, his best friend, they were both decapitated with their heads rolling to a bloody stop right in front of Link, their unseeing eyes staring accusingly up at his ashen face.
Ganon stood there in the center of it all basking in the bloodbath, covered in gore. The walls, floor and ceiling were coating in blood, guts and entrails. It looked as if a huge bomb had exploded with everyone together.
Link's knee's gave way as what he was seeing finally begun to sink in. He stared dully at the heads of his friends, their hair once vibrant green and blonde, now sullied with blood. Tears formed in his eyes as he began to lose himself in denial. No, no no no NO! This can't be happening, it just can't. Please Farore no...
Ganon was reveling in young Link's horror, his misery like a fine wine aged to perfection. He grew annoyed however when Link continued to shake his head back and forth refusing to believe what was happening. Breaking the lad's refrain from reality he stepped forward, crushing Zelda's head, squishing it like a grape beneath his massive black boot. Laughing he said to Link. "I never did like that annoying insect of a princess."
The dark king had succeeded in breaking Link out of his stupor. He turned his gaze on to his most hated foe forcing himself to repress the overwhelming sadness and terror, and let the rage course through his veins. With white hot fury flowing over his entire body and blood pounding in his ears, Link roared with vengeance. "AAAGHH GANON I WILL KILL YOU!"
Before Link even had the time to ready his sword to attack Ganon shot a magical blast of air at him, sending him careening hard into the door. Reaching down Ganon picked up Saria's head by the strands of her hair like a doll's head. "This will make an excellent head piece for my banquet table." He remarked to Link, treating it as a civil conversation.
Revulsion added itself to Link's face of rage, disgusted as to how far Ganon would go to defile innocent Saria, as if her brutal death wasn't cruel enough.
Ganon laughed darkly at Link's revolted face. "Your head will be my greatest trophy, I'll make a goblet out of it."
Link could not stand to hear anymore vile words spewed out of the abomination before him. His grief over everyone's deaths was great, but he swore a promise just now to his departed friends. Everyone, please forgive me for not being able to save you. I vow to you now that I will vanquish this evil plague and prevent any further defiling of your bodies. With swiftness gained from long experience he pulled out his sword, and jumped straight at Ganon swinging in an arc at his unprotected neck for a killing blow. Strangely the dark king made no move at all, he remained where he was as if he had not a care in the world. Instead of hearing the satisfying sound of cold hard steel biting deeply into flesh as it connected with Ganon, it shattered. That's impossible. Link thought incredulously. My sword just broke like a toy. Then I'll kill him with Light arrows. He decided suddenly, and suiting action to resolve he moves to take out his bow and arrows, only to discover they were missing and he was too preoccupied to notice.
Ganon smirked condescendingly at Link. "Lose something, Hero?" Pointing above with his hands he revealed dropped from invisibility all of Link's equipment stained in blood and dripping ichor, floating in the air. "No toys to help you this time, little boy." He said intimidatingly. With another wave of his hand a dark portal opened up and swallowed all the items before Link could even think of a way to recover them. "I'm sure my minions will have fun with these trinkets."
Link was understandably distressed over his current situation. I'm gonna die, dear Din all my equipment gone just like that. How does he have so much power, this is a nightmare! Everyone dead in an instant, I'm all alone now... No! There must be a way, I can't let him live! After several moments of paralyzing terror Link was able to force his courage upon himself. "I will not lose to you Ganon." He said with a steely calm.
"Imbecilic whelp, you already have!" Ganon yelled at Link, angry at the loss of fear. He begins to create balls of dark flame, shooting them at the boy lazily.
Frantically dodging the black projectiles, Link had to constantly perform flips, rolls and dashing to the side to avoid being turned into a crispy skeleton. He couldn't find a moment to spare for forming a counterattack, his concentration was too focused on keeping mobile. Dropping to the floor to avoid a particularly large flame Link rolled over the remains of a now unidentifiable person. When he cut himself on a piece of crystal an idea began to form, and so in desperation he grabbed a handful of shards in his hands.
At the next moment another flame headed for his position. Nimbly he leapt to the side and spun around to hurl the shards at Ganon. They got to within an inch from his target, then bounced off a dark field of power. Not letting himself get discouraged Link grabbed another handful infusing them with fire magic first, again it was just deflected, and again when he tried using ice. When he tried with dark magic the shot was absorbed into the field. My last hope and chance, c'mon Light magic. Grabbing a large piece he pumped it full of light magic, then spinning around he threw it with all his might. The shard went right through Ganon's shield as if it wasn't there, going into his chest drawing blood.
"Clever, but no more." Ganon sneered at Link as he pulled out the bloody shard from his chest wound. With a quick motion of his hands he summoned all of the broken pieces of crystal to himself, contaminating them with his black magic as they flew into him. Absorbing them all as darkness Ganon healed his wound. "No more weapons now."
As Ganon was basking in his glory Link was thinking fast looking for a solution. Light magic can still hurt him, but I have nothing left that I can throw, he took everything. I have no choice, I have to put everything I have into a last shot, it's all or nothing... I will avenge everyone. Determined now, Link his Light magic into himself, something he never tried before. As the magic flowed over his body a sense of power overtook him.
Seeing Link doing something odd, Ganon gathered to him a massive blob of darkness. "This ends now pest." He said as he sent it after Link, turning into a wall of dark flames.
Link, with his body now glowing brightly, gathered every last vestige of his courage and selflessly jumped straight through the incoming attack. Passing through it, pain attacked all over his body despite his light barrier. It did however save him, without it he wold have been nothing more then a charred skeleton. Gasping for breathe Link focused on Ganon, trying to ignore his blistered and bleeding skin, and lunged for the evil wizard's throat with his hands. As Link tried to choke him, his evil shadow magic erupted taking form as an all enveloping aura similar to Link's light holy magic.
Having knocked Ganon down backwards when he lunged, Link was on top of him squeezing and holding on with all his strength. Both were screaming in pain, rolling around on the blood and slime covered floor locked together. The pain was so great for Link that he felt as though his chest was on fire, stabbing pains in his heart and his vision was beginning to fade. If I die here then it won't be in vain, I'm taking this bastard with me. Link thought with determination.
Able to think of nothing else but this unbearable dying pain and the need to kill Ganon Link shoved all of his magic and life force into his Light magic which he sent into Ganon in an effort to fry him from the inside. It seemed to work, but as his light was going into Ganon, the evil shadow was seeping into Link, hastening his death and bringing his pain to undescribable levels. Finally after what felt like an eternity Ganon started to disintegrate.
Link managed to hold on just long enough to see Ganon reduced to ashes. Then his eyes burst open and his chest exploded outwards spraying his innards all over, and a soundless black took him in.
Within a sightless soundless existence Link heard a voice ask him. "So, you are now dead. Do you have any regrets?"
Given no time to ask himself what was happening, he answered succinctly. "Only that I couldn't save my friends. At least now I can rest knowing their deaths were avenged."
"You sacrificed your life to defeat Ganon, why?" The voice continued.
Again Link answered without pause. "I couldn't bare for all my friends to die like that, unavenged."
Slowly Link began to regain the use of his senses, he could hear again, hearing the GF of Courage saying to him. "Link, oh courageous Hero of Time. You have braved your worst fears and overcame the terror to vanquish the dark fiend Ganondorf in a hopeless situation you persevered with courage and bravery despite all odds to emerge victorious." Now Link could see the GF floating before him smiling. "Congratulations Link you have passed the Trial of Courage. I did not think you could do it, you surprised me. Perhaps you can survive the ordeals that await you past the doorway after all."
With the situation now sinking in, Link's past hours replayed through his mind at light speed. With a desperate hope he realized that everything must have been fake, all of his friends were still alive. Curtly he asked. "All of that was an illusion?" The GF gave a simple reply of yes to his question. Relief the likes of which he had never known flooded through his body at that declaration. Thank the goddesses, it was all fake. They aren't dead. Wait a minute..
Now that his relief had passed, Link had a new emotion to display, anger and lots of it. He ranted and raged explosively at the indifferent Great Fairy. The exact words said were not important, just the feeling's they gave off. Yelling at her for having such a cruel test, accusing her of being a sadist, just an overall disbelief at the level of trauma from the trial.
"If you weren't prepared to face your fears then why did you enter?" The GF replied snottily before vanishing in a huff.
Still in a daze of disbelief Link headed out of the cave, only to find Tatl resting on the ground near the exit. She must have been waiting all that time. Link thought to himself as tears came unbidden, the relief of seeing her again when he thought her dead hitting him all at once. "Tatl, you're here."
When her friend Link walked into the portal he was transported away, but she was left behind. With no signal or message anywhere Tatl could only assume that Link had to complete this trial on his own. So, she laid her head against a pebble on the ground and waited, waited and waited... eventually falling asleep. After a long time had passed she was roused from her sleep by hearing Link call her name. Finally Link's back. She thought. Opening her eyes she was startled to see his face with tears running down it. "Link what happened?" She asked him in concern. What happened, why is he crying? Link doesn't cry...
All the emotionally spent hero could do was shake his head. "I'm just really happy to see you." He said to her as he wiped his tears off. Suddenly overcome with exhaustion Link placed his head next to where Tatl was sleeping and fell asleep wishing he could hug her.
Tatl was really starting to freak out now. First Link vanishes doing goddess knows what for hours on end, now he comes back looking like he went through hell and cries on seeing her before falling asleep. What the hell is going on here? "Link, hey wake up." She tried waking him, but he wouldn't stir. He won't wake up. She thought with worry. Giving up for now she flew to his cap to rest again, telling herself you will find out what happened when he wakes up.
Link's dreams were full of memories from earlier in the day. The nightmares of death and agony haunted him throughout most of the night.
When Link finally woke up, he was feeling much better. Not as good as he had the day before after sleeping in the Inn, but close to it. "Link you're finally up! What happened to you yesterday?" He heard Tatl ask him only moments after he sat up.
"That trial Tatl, was the harder then saving all of Termina, it was horrible. I can't repeat it, maybe another day." Link told her in a choked voice.
Tatl was very shocked to hear Link on the verge of tears again so decided a change in subject was in order. Flying in front of him she asked. "So then what did you get from the fairy when you won?"
"Shit!" Link cursed aloud. "I completely forgot about that, she didn't give me anything!"
"What!" Tatl cried in alarm. "Then march right back over there and demand your reward, you earned it!"
Link didn't agree with the demand part, but he did with going back for his reward. "Yeah, let's go." He said as he stood up stretched and walked over to the fountain. Standing in the middle of the pool he called out. "Hey Great Fairy-" Being cut off as she materialized in the air above him.
"Welcome Link, I trust you are now ready to receive my gift to you?" Spoke the GF of Courage in a more civil tone then she had previously.
Resisting the urge to tell her just what he thought of her, Link simply said. "Yes."
Tatl was not to restrained, luckily she spoke low enough that the GF didn't hear. "Gift my ass, who does this pretentious bitch think she is? She's giving fairy's everywhere a bad name."
The GF held out her right hand in which a small red gem was held. "My boon to you is this, the Red Gem of Gravity. When infused with Light magic the gem grants it's wearer the ability to reverse gravity on himself similar to the stone tower." So saying the gem switched possession from hers to Link.
Just as Link was about to leave the GF spoke up again, this time with the feeling of great reluctance. "Hero, I may have been too harsh on your trial, I'm sorry." Then she started mumbling under her breathe, but he could still hear. "Stupid sisters coddling this kid. You're too rough on him they say, bah. I don't tell them how to run their trials, stupid punk kid..." Vanishing once more she left a bemused duo in her absence.
Smiling slightly Link said. "Well, that was certainly interesting huh Tatl?"
"Haha prissy fairy got scolded by her sisters, serves her right." Tatl said in happiness at the GF getting taken down a peg for her bullying of Link. "Next stop is Zora Cape for the trial of Wisdom."
"Right you are." Agreed Link. "Tomorrow, that is. Let's head back to town first."
Taking this base of operations thing a little far there aren't you? She thought to herself, silently wondering if he had any other plans. "Ok town first."
Thus the two companions set pace back to town to rest up and prepare themselves for another day of adventuring the next day.
To Be Cont'D:
Omake Attempt How a few scenes might have looked if Tatl had internet access, a laptop, and was a dedicated /b/tard on 4chan.
Link walks up to the young farm girl and introduces himself. "Hi, I'm Link."
Tatl speaks up from her spot in Link's cap. "Is that loli?"
"I'm Romani." The girl introduced herself as if not hearing Tatl.
Tatl spoke again. "fap fap fap fap"
"They are coming tonight, they come every year before the carnival, they're coming to take our cows."
"lol drama, I'd hit that, AMIRITE?." Tatl said, causing Link to again curse the day he was stuck with this insane fairy.
"Do you wanna help? You can be my assistant."
"I like where this is going." Tatl said.
"Yeah I'll help out." Said Link, trying his damndest to tune out his fairy's ramblings.
"Surprize buttsechs! Don't stick it in her pooper! Thar are no girls on the intarbutt! O RLY? TIME PARADOX"
Link finally couldn't stand it anymore so he took out a bottle and plugged the fairy up inside when she wasn't looking.
I reserve the right to add more omake's at a later date, I just can't think of anything right now.
To ShadowLink50: Thank you for reviewing once again, even if it was a fairly dull chapter. I do hope you will find this one more to your liking. :)
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