The rescue

Running around, uncovering graves to reveal ghosts, just to search for a secret entrance to a sacred building to rescue your friend is not fun, believe me. I spent a good half an hour just uncovering faulty graves to look for the entrance. Damn it, I'm wasting time! I finally uncovered the final grave, right in the center of the graveyard, which held the old king of Hyrule. The reason I didn't uncover this first is just out of respect for the old king. I didn't want his soul to haunt me...I shivered at the thought. Luckily, it uncovered a stairwell. I breathed out a relaxed sigh and ran downstairs.

I could barely see anything on the way down, even tripping once or twice, until I came to a room with a pedestal in the middle of it with a chest on top. Ooh! Maybe it has something useful inside it! I ran up and opened the chest… DA DA DA DAAAA!

It was a lamp.

Truthfully, it wasn't something I really wanted, I actually have one in a spare drawer in my house… but I'll take it for the sake of where I am right now. I lit the small wick inside the glass, and it immediately lit up the area around me. Sweet, sweet relief.

The room I was in wasn't very big, and is filled with lots of pots. Maybe they have something inside? I smashed them all and got a few rupees, along with the stress relieving affect of breaking stuff. I went around to the back of the room, and found out that there's a small fountain by the back of the pedestal, along with some big stone lanterns. I lit them, which made the room instantly brighter, and open a door which was in the middle of them. I went inside.

This other room is a bit… roomier, I guess you could say? (HA! ALL THE PUNS!) I immediately lit a large stone lantern to my left, and I could see that this room has around 2 inches of water on the floor. Anywhere I walked, it made a splash. I continued left to find another chest! Hopefully it isn't another lamp this time.

Inside the chest was just a red rupee, worth 20 rupees, but it IS better than a lamp! But before I could even put it in my pocket, a rat scurried beside me and almost made dinner of my foot. "Ah!" I easily slashed it away with my sword before it could cause serious damage…

Continuing left, I dodged some more rats and snakes before coming up to another staircase. On top was even more lanterns (This part of the game is obsessed with lanterns isn't it?) and a locked door that required a key. On the right side was a kind of grate floor that's above the first level, and I wondered if it could hold up my weight on it. Continuing to light all these stone lamps, as their fire extinguish out after a short time, I walked across the grate-y floor to the right and found a small alcove which held yet another chest in it. When I opened it, it had the key that surely unlocked the door back there. Whoever hid this thing was terrible at it. Geez, try to hide the key better next time?

I backtracked and unlocked the door with the key, but after one use, it broke in my hand. Were people in the old times bad key makers? Man, it's so brittle.

As soon as I walked through that door, I instantly has a bad feeling, as if a cold hand was running it's fingers down my spine. The door shut behind me.

I freakin' knew it.

A few poes appeared in and out of my line of vision, laughing their dead-tone laugh, and coming after me. Ducking out of their way, I looked around the room to see if there are any more of those lanterns to light, knowing this place there should be. Indeed there is, and as soon as I lit them, the ghostly figures appeared in my face again.

It was only a matter of seconds before they vanished in purple smoke.

Being a blacksmith's apprentice has its perks!

The door on the far end of the room lifted as soon as the last ghost poofed, and I high-tailed it outta there, hoping not to let anymore ghosts try to possess me. Ugh. In the next room, a huge staircase was in the middle of the room, along with a door on top of it with a red arrow pointing up. That must be the way out of there!...but the door is locked. I quickly looked around and saw two pull-levers (I don't know what to call these things XD) on either side of the stairs. I guess pulling one of them might open the door. I started with the one on the right…

…And snakes fell from the ceiling. "FREAKIN' BOOBY TRAAAAAAPS!" I screamed while huddled up in the corner, trying to dodge the snakes' vicious bites. One managed to sink it's fangs into my shoulder, and I quickly ripped it out and cut off it's head with my sword. Thank GODESSES it's not the venomous kind, though add that to my growing collection of wounds. My foot still hurts, you know!

After that terrible ordeal, I pulled the lever on the left, being prepared for raining rats or the floor to cave in or something, when I heard a familiar click. The door opened. Whew! Running through the door up the stairs, I emerged in a new room, not made of stone. Finally, the sanctuary. I came out of some kind of hallway which I barely noticed 'cause I needed to save Seres. "Seres! Are you here?!" I yelled at the top of my lungs, turning around the corner, to a sight that made my lung devoid of what oxygen they still had.

I saw the head priest, Seres's father on the ground in front of some kind of…foreigner? Whoever it was, he didn't have a good taste in fashion, and I'm one to say, I'm wearing a tunic!

The weird guy was dressed in a black robe, with the Hyrule family crest on it, only the Triforce was flipped upside down. He was holding a staff bellowing purple smoke out of it, and his skin was a bluish turquoise that made me want to puke. His long, ginger red hair was curled up in dreads, with a gold headband across his forehead. He was staring menacingly at the priest.

"Wh-what do you want with Seres? I swear, if you hurt my daughter…!" The priest studdered out, trembling. "And what sort of fiend dares to defile the sanctuary in this manner?" The attacker recoiled back, he looked like he had been hit. "A fiend? How easily you stoop to petty insults. My name is Yuga. And I have come here seeking nothing less than… perfection." He growled through his teeth, though he said 'perfection' a bit more clear. Yuga turned around, where I noticed Seres on the floor shaking beneath him. Why didn't she try to escape during that? He smiled a bit before 'purring', "And you, my dear, are perfection. How can you stand being so lovely, surrounded by these filthy fools?" Seres shot a scared look at me, and opened her mouth before he continued – "I will put you on a pedestal. Or rather, upon a wall – perfect forever."

I barely had my mind around the idea that Yuga made Seres a portrait. He made a light blue empty canvas behind her and pushed her in, with the canvas absorbing her like water. "SERES, NO!" I finally snapped out of my trance and rushed up behind Yuga, as he picked up the freshly made portrait of Seres. "Ah…as I suspected, you're even lovelier as a painting. I think that Her Grace will be most pleased…" Yuga slyly said as he turned around and faced me, a stupid grin across his face. "Oh? What have we here? Another worm comes wriggling in?"

"Let Seres go! Or else you'll fucking regret it!"

The priest looked up for a moment and saw me. " H-how did you get in here, Link? Go! Run! Not even the captain stood a chance against him!" I barely looked at him. My attention is toward this bastard who turned Seres into a wall decoration.

"I believe this worm here wishes to tangle with me. Come on then. Wiggle wiggle little worm!" He didn't have to say it twice.

*Insert dragon ball z scream here*-! I ran up the steps right up to him. But when I was about to land a hit, he jumped back and melted into the wall, becoming his own filthy wall decoration too. I faceplanted right into the wall, and started seeing stars... man... I could hear the bastard say something.

"You think you can challenge ME? Why, I am the portrait of perfection!" Just hearing the words 'I' and 'perfection' in the same sentence from him made me want to vomit. Perhaps the opposite of perfection."While all of you...? Merely scribbles and squiggles. The very sight of you offends my eyes! Still, I'll be leaving this ugly world soon enough." Ok. It's one thing to say we're all squiggles, but to say this world is ugly? That's like saying he's perfection. But what he said before...is he not from this world?

I couldn't think about that thought when Yuga popped out of his hideous painting form and kicked me. Hard. But what was I supposed to do? I could barely wrap my mind about what he said. "Gah! Get out of my way." I could hear footsteps stomping away from me. "Not even that captain of yours could stand against my might. For all his spit and polish, he made for but a crude doodle on the wall. A waste of my magic." Only that sentence made me feel a bit better. "Farewell, fools. I'm off to acquire what little perfection I can find in this gaudy world of yours." Ok, good feeling's gone.

"N-no...don't take my Seres... We must warn...Princess Zelda..." I heard the priest mumble out. I'm so sorry. I failed you. It was all I could barely even think when all my wounds made me black out.

Special thanks to (Eric or bob or Paul or Alex or harry) Guest and Dreams in Azure for finding the time of Reyn in my other story! I was extremely bored that so so I made that XD

OH! By the way, I have a special question to ask of you guys. If you're interested in being my thesaurus PM me! I'm not really creative enough to think of good substitute words for simple things, like in the first chapter I used 'said' a lot. You don't have to edit anything, since I review everything and I haz the rlly guud grammerz rite guyz? Eh I'm fooling ya XD. Thank you guys so much!