A/N: Edited 28.8.2013. Minor misspellings and such fixed.
I know that Dark Link and Shadow Link are two different things but if you think about it... How does Dark Link appear into the Water Temple's room if not by being a shadow at somewhere?
Have fun!
Oh, and I own nothing else except the story and idea! Everything else, the characters and places, goes to Nintendo and who ever invented the amazing Legend of Zelda series!
This IS continuation for CaH!
IMPORTANT! The creature called Dragmog the Fluffy/Dragmos is THOROUGHLY MINE! Do NOT steal or copy or anything else! DRAGMOG IS MINE AND MINE ONLY!
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Thanks for the review! =) And thanks! I'm glad you liked the creature. It was fun to create. ^.^ And don't worry, with Dark's help the creature has already taken liking to the Hero. ;) And the sorcerer WILL come back! I was thinking about different kind of thing with the earlier story for Dark's past and hell, even Dark forgot about him. XD So, next chapter's up!
...Over and out...
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LEAFLESS MAZE
CHAPTER 3: The Temple
Rest of the walk went in silence. Evening was falling down by the time they came to the temple. "So, do you want to keep a break or do we head straight off inside?" Link asked from Dark. The dark Hylian didn't answer but he walked straight to the double doors and pushed them open. "So, straight inside it is." Link mumbled and followed Dark into the Temple.
The two Hylians took out their swords and shields. The room was wide but empty. "Where's the monsters, huh?" Dark asked bit disappointed about the lack of enemies. Link sighed.
"Just be glad there's none here. Come on." The Hero stated and left to walk towards the only open door he could see. The two other ones were still locked. Dark shrugged and followed Link to the door.
The next room was equally huge room but it also was long. There was one huge monster in the room. The creature turned around straight off when it heard the door clang shut. Both Link and Dark were bit startled when the bars came down in front of the door. They glanced at the door before turning towards the monster.
The creature was nearly reaching the ceiling. It's two long blades started from the shoulder and were sharp and quite thin. In the monster's feet were three claws and behind the creature was a long and thick tail with sharp and thin blades surrounding it.
The monster looked around but it didn't seem to notice the two Hylians. Link started slowly to walk towards it but Dark stood in his place and watched the creature. The monster stopped for a while and slowly turned its head towards Link. It screeched and attacked at him with the left blade.
Link shouted out and dove out of the way. The creature screeched again and looked straight at Link. The Hero backed off and brought his shield up when the creature struck with its right blade. The strike was strong and fast. The impact got Link to fly backwards and hit the wall with a gasp.
Dark stared at the fight in shock. The creature was about to attack Link again when the dark Hylian clanged his shield against the wall as hard as he could. The monster stopped in its track and turned around very fast. It listened its surroundings again and waited for a chance. "Blind but having one hell of a hearing." Dark stated loudly.
The creature screeched and attacked at him. "Dark!" Link shouted in slight fear when the monster was going to use its own head to crush the dark Hylian. The monster stopped few meters away from Dark and turned around again. It searched for the place where the sound had come from.
Dark grinned while he came up with a plan. He slowly crouched a bit and send the shield sliding to other side of the room. The monster's head span straight towards the sound and it looked around widely. The creature struck its blade at the way the shield had gone to but it luckily missed the shield.
The dark Hylian readied his sword and attacked. He aimed for the creature's neck but the monster pulled up just then. The attack missed and Dark fell back to ground. "Damn..." He muttered but realized his mistake way too late.
The monster turned its head right at him and hit other one of the blades towards him. "Oh crap!" Dark half shouted and rolled out of the way. Unfortunately he found himself right underneath the tail which was coming down quite fast. Without thinking, Dark struck the sword up and deep inside the creature's tail.
The monster screamed in pain and started to run in a circle. Dark held onto the sword as tightly as he could. The creature was in pure pain and it slashed at everything. Walls, ceiling and floor were all in its way and it hit everything it could.
Link moved to his feet in pure shock and fear. He avoided the attacks while thinking a way to help Dark. Suddenly the dark Hylian's grip on the sword slipped and he slid right next to Link. "Lucky..." Dark whispered while getting back up.
Link sighed in relief but soon pushed Dark downwards to avoid the fast coming blade. "You got bombs, Link?" The dark Hylian asked while following the creature's moves that were starting to slow down.
"Yeah. Why?" Link replied while already taking out a bomb. Dark took it and lit it while waiting a bit.
"Wish me luck." He whispered and sent the bomb on the way. It rolled just between the leg and tail before bumping into the other leg. The bomb stayed right underneath the creature. "That bowling thing was actually helpful." Dark said with a slight chuckle.
The monster stopped moving and was bit confused about the hissing sound. It turned to look down but didn't see anything. Before the creature had a chance to poke the thing with its blade, the bomb blew up. The tail was cut off and the monster screamed in pure pain again and went into another pained frenzy.
"I think it really got mad now..." Link whispered bit nervously. Dark glanced at him.
"You think so?" He asked slightly deadpanning. "Let me borrow that..." Dark continued and half ripped the shield from Link before the Hero had a chance to object. "Aim for its neck and cut the head off." The dark Hylian stated and banged the shield against the wall couple of times.
It took a while from the creature to realize the sound. It slowly stopped running around and slashing at everything. Dark took a bit of distance between himself and Link before striking the shield against the wall again. This time the monster caught the noise and looked straight at the part where Dark was at. "I hope you're ready, Link..." The dark Hylian thought and struck the shield couple of times against the wall.
The monster screeched and went in for an attack. Dark gulped, closed his eyes and brought the shield in front of him for some protection. "If I avoid, the creature will follow me and Link will lose the perfect chance to kill it..." He thought and fought against the urge of getting out of the attack's way.
A lot of things flew right past Link's mind when he realized what Dark was doing. First idea was to run to him and push him off of the harm's way. Second was to shout out and get the monster to notice him. But last one was the thing he went for. An attack. "Please, don't let me fail..." Link thought while he readied his sword and waited for the right time since the head was still way too high to get a killing strike dealt.
The creature's strike was halfway down when Link finally moved for an attack. He jumped as high as he could and struck the sword through the monster's throat. It didn't cut it off fully but the monster pulled back up with a screech that started to get gurgling while the blood started to come out.
Dark sighed in relief but started to frown real soon. "Shit! Finish it off!" He shouted in slight shock. "If you won't cut the head off, it will fix it and we gotta fight all over again!" The dark Hylian continued in half panic.
Link was bit startled but turned towards the creature. It had shot up to its full height while screeching in pure pain and shock. "How am I supposed to do that?!" The Hero shouted back at Dark while trying to figure out a way to get the thing finished.
"I don't know! You're the Hero, damn it!" Dark shouted back in panic. "We're not having much of time..." He continued in quieter voice. Link thought for a while before putting his sword off and taking out his bow and arrows. "How's that supposed to help?" The dark Hylian asked bit angrily.
"You'll see." Link replied and readied the bow. He took out his magic and turned the arrow into ice. The Hero took aim and let the arrow fly. It hit its target and froze the neck and nearly half of the creature. After that Link put the bow away and took out a bomb. "You want to do this or do I?" He asked while slightly throwing the bomb in air and catching it.
"Just finish the job, Link." Dark muttered. Link nodded, lit the bomb and threw it. The bomb flew above the creature and fell down right behind the neck before blowing off. The neck of the monster was cut off and the frozen creature fell to ground while smashing into thousands of pieces before vanishing. The bars on the doors rose up right after that.
Both Hylians sighed in relief. "How did you know all that?" Link asked and turned to look at Dark. The darker Hylian sighed and turned his gaze off.
"I just do. I know more about monsters than of feelings or such." He replied bit grimly. "Let's just continue." Dark stated and headed towards the second door. Link sighed but let the topic drop. He ran past the darker Hylian and went to open the door when he heard Dark gasp. The Hero turned around in a flash and was shocked about what he saw.
"HOW DARE YOU KILL YOUR OWN KIND?!"
Dark gasped in slight pain and held his head with his other hand while backing off. "Leave me alone..." He answered but it was just barely above a whisper. The voice right inside his head laughed cruelly.
"You haven't just turned your back to me but to everything that you have been, shadow." The voice sneered and got Dark to flinch at it. The dark Hylian kept his eyes shut as tightly as he could. Suddenly something startled him very badly and forced him to open his eyes.
Link was scared when he saw the pain on the dark Hylian's face. "Dark!" The Hero shouted out but Dark didn't show any acknowledged of his call. "Dark! What's wrong?!" Link half screamed and came right next to the darker Hylian but there was still no notion of him realizing a thing around him. "Oh hell... What to do? What to do?!" Link half panicked and looked around the room but it didn't even have one single pot.
Suddenly something came into the Hero's mind and he grinned a bit. "I hope this works." He thought while taking out a bottle of water. Link opened it and poured the water right over the dark Hylian.
Dark gasped and shot his eyes open. "The heck?" He asked while slowly realizing that he was half wet. "What was that for?!" The dark Hylian shouted in bit of anger. Link chuckled slightly nervously and backed off while putting the empty bottle away.
"You were having a migraine again. I just didn't come up with anything else that could snap you out of it." The Hero stated but the look on his face was clearly saying that the migraine story was slowly being doubted as true. Dark sighed in slight anger and shook his head to get most of the water off. "You okay?" Link continued in slight worry.
"Yeah, I'm fine... Let's just get this done with." Dark replied, put his hands into his hair and tried to dry them. He walked to the door and without waiting for Link, he just opened it and walked through. The door slammed shut right behind him and when the dark Hylian turned around, he realized that Link hadn't come with him and the door was locked. "Link!" Dark called and slightly banged the door. The bit of hissing sounding noise got his attention and Dark turned around.
Link had walked quite close to Dark but not close enough. The door came down with a loud slam and the Hero ran straight to it. "DARK!" Link shouted and started to bound the door. He tried to open it but it didn't move even one inch. "Dark!" The Hero shouted again and kept hitting the door but only got his hand hurting. "SHIT! This isn't good." He thought and tried to figure out a way to open the door.
Without coming much of better ideas, Link tried to blow it off but it had no affection. Neither did ice arrows, sword, Deku nuts or anything else. As last resort he took out his Megaton Hammer and bounded the door with it few times. Yet, even that didn't do anything to it and Link came back to bound the door with his fists.
Dark was bit startled when saw the creatures in the middle of the room. There seemed to be some sand too and the dark Hylian was sure that rest of the monsters were hiding at there. "These aren't normal Moblins..." Dark thought and gulped a bit. He was about to take his sword and shield out when he realized something very dreading... The sword and shield had been left into the earlier room.
"Oh... Crap..." Dark whispered and gulped again. He started to go through his pockets and was bit relieved to find a short knife. "Better than nothing, I think..." The dark Hylian thought and was suddenly startled by the loud boom behind him. He turned around and saw bit of smoke coming from underneath the door. Dark facepalmed. "I hope he won't blow himself up..." He thought and sighed while turning around.
The creatures had also heard the sound and turned around. Dark yelped when he realized that the Moblins had started to come right at him. The monsters were reddish, the look in their eyes was glazed, tongue was out and their hands were right in front of them and pointed towards Dark when they walked forward. "Oh freaking hell... These are like a mix of a Moblin and a ReDead..." He thought and tried to ready himself for the fight.
Dark could hear Link's calls but there was nothing he could do about that. The creatures were already freaking him out and all he had for his protection was a short knife. "I'm dead..." Dark thought grimly, took once a deep breath and attacked against the closest one.
The creature didn't seem to care about the pain nor of the attacks. It just recoiled back when the dark Hylian got a hit but right after that it continued its walk forward. Dark just kept slashing as hard as he could. Eventually the first one vanished into dark purple mist and the dark Hylian managed to back off before another one got too close.
Suddenly one of the strange Moblins jumped right at him and circled its arms around him. Dark screamed while trying to get free from the hug. The monster bit him into shoulder and dug the claws into his arms. The dark Hylian screamed again but this time in pain and coming up with nothing else, he ran against the closest wall. The Moblin was left between Dark and the wall. The impact got the creature to let go and Dark didn't wait for another chance to kill it.
His right shoulder was hurting and bleeding but the dark Hylian was grateful to be left handed. He turned around again and tried to calm down. The bounding at the door had increased when Dark screamed. He could easily hear Link's worried and scared shouts of his name. "Calm down. You can do this. Just calm down..." Dark thought, took few deep breaths and readied himself for the next kill.
Dark's only luck was that the creatures were slow. He fought with one at a time and kept the rest behind the one he was fighting with. After that he searched for the next easy target. Once the last monster had vanished, the door opened. The dark Hylian sighed in relief and crashed down while holding his right shoulder.
Link had already taken Dark's sword and shield with him when he realized that there was no way inside. On the second he heard the door open, the Hero rushed to it and pulled it up. "DARK!" Link half screamed and rushed straight to the dark Hylian. He hugged him tightly. "I was so worried about you!" The Hero whispered while pulling off.
"You think I can't fight on my own, huh?" Dark asked bit angrily and stood up. The bleeding had stopped but the hurting hadn't. The dark Hylian took his sword and shield from Link before cleaning the knife and putting it away. "Thanks for bringing my stuff." He muttered and headed for next door.
Link stared at him in shock. "Dark... That's not what I was meaning..." He whispered but sighed then and followed the dark Hylian to the next room. In the worry and slight fear the Hero hadn't noticed the way Dark had held his right shoulder when he came in and now the dark Hylian just ignored the pain.
The next room was very small and there was only a chest in the middle. Dark went to open it and took the small key out of there. "Let's head back." He stated without even glancing at Link. The Hero just nodded and sighed sadly. Things felt like they were going even worse than before.
They returned to the main room and looked around for a while. Dark walked to the door right on the other side of the room and tried the key in there. It opened up and Link followed the dark Hylian to the next room.
The next room wasn't that of big. In middle of it was a chest but there was no enemies anywhere around. "This is way too easy." Dark stated with a grin. He was just going to step further when Link stopped him.
"That's exactly what worries me, Dark. There is something very wrong in here." The Hero said and looked around. "And I don't like those spikes around the room." He continued. Dark huffed.
"What are you worried about? Let's just get the key and be on our way. The spikes don't move. At least I don't see any of them moving. Do you?" The dark Hylian replied and crossed his arms while waiting for Link's reply.
Link sighed and shook his head. "No, I don't but I still don't like this." He replied and before he could say anything else, Dark already started to walk towards the chest. "Dark! Wait!" The Hero called after him but right then and there the spikes came to life and started to move real fast. "Oh crap... RUN!" Link screamed but he couldn't go for the dark Hylian's help.
Dark turned around bit confused and yelped straight off. The two blade traps came right at him. The dark Hylian could've returned to Link's side but instead he did a fast back jump and on that second he was in big trouble. All of the blade traps came to life and started to move around.
Dark was fully shocked about the speed of the blade traps. He just barely had time to avoid them until another one was already coming at him. The dark Hylian jumped, rolled and ran around while trying to avoid the spikes and get to the chest. Link couldn't do anything else than just watch in pure fear how Dark tried to survive in the middle of blade traps. "Oh dear goddesses, there has to be a pattern! Don't let him get hurt! Please!" The Hero begged and nearly gasped each time the blades were close of hitting the dark Hylian.
Suddenly Dark screamed and fell to the ground. "NO!" Link screamed in fear. The dark Hylian flinched at the pain in his leg while raising up to all four. He cursed quietly when he noticed the four blade traps that were coming right at him. There was no way for him to escape. Suddenly he felt something scratch his back and then there was harsh pull. Dark screamed a bit when he was pulled backwards and right over the blade traps.
Link couldn't come up with anything else than Hookshot. He took it out and launched it at Dark while praying that he wouldn't scratch the dark Hylian too badly. Once the hook got a grip on Dark's tunic and shirt, Link pulled backwards and the chain started to come right back inside. He pressed one of the three buttons in the Hookshot and released its grip on Dark's tunic and shirt.
The dark Hylian flew through the air towards the door but Link moved right behind him and caught him. The Hero gasped bit when he was left between Dark and the wall yet he circled his arms around the darker Hylian to keep him from falling back into the blade trap's way.
Dark gasped a bit but he was fast to turn around. Link moved to side and leaned against the wall behind him. "You okay, Dark?" Link asked once he got back to fully breathing and could trust his voice to work.
Dark was quiet for a while before sighing and relaxing. "Yeah... Thanks, you saved my life there." He replied and smiled a bit. "And sorry. You were right about it." The dark Hylian continued quietly and dropped his gaze to the ground.
Link sighed and relaxed too. "There has to be a pattern to get to the chest." He stated while fully ignoring the apology. The Hero turned to look at the room while thinking it out. The blade traps had returned to their places while waiting for the next victim. After a while Link sighed and gave the Hookshot to Dark.
"If I end up into a dead end and those blades are going to crush me... Use this." He said and pointed then to the three buttons in the handle. "The lowest one is to shoot the hook. Middle one is to close the hook and last one is to open the hook in the way." Link explained.
"Wait... What?" Dark asked bit startled. "Are you serious about this? I'm not in hurry to scratch you with this." He stated in slight fear. Link chuckled and turned to look at him.
"I said to use it if I get into dead end. Besides, I used that to save you just a while ago." He said with a slight grin and winked. "Just wish me luck..." Link continued, took once a deep breath and looked around the room.
"Wait... What if I'd do a second try? You're better with this and..." Dark started with slight panic. Link laughed.
"Thanks for the offer but it's my turn. Besides you already hurt your leg so you take it easy and just watch." The Hero replied and glanced at Dark with reassuring smile on his face. Dark sighed but eventually nodded. "Good... Here I go..." Link said and took off to a run. "Probably the worst plan!" He thought while going straight towards the chest and listening to the blade traps clang against each other right behind him.
Without really knowing what he should do, Link just jumped to the top of the chest and balanced himself to there. Dark sighed in relief. He had nearly held his breath whole time while watching Link run to the chest. The blade traps kept banging into the chest always from four different ways. "Pattern... I just gotta time my work well..." Link thought while calming down.
Right after the blade trap in front of him hit the chest, Link jumped down and turned around. Dark held his breath again when Link went to open the chest. "Oh dear goddesses... Let him get away from there alive..." He thought in near panic. The Hero got the chest open when the blades came close to him and struck to the corners of the chest. Link flinched slightly while reaching into the chest and taking the key out. "LINK, RUN!" Dark screamed and the Hero left for it.
The blades struck into the chest just seconds after Link had started to run. Right at that second the blade traps on the sides of the room came to life again and started to move fast towards him. The blade trap on the opposite wall, right behind Link, came to life too and moved even faster than what the Hero did. "Link! Behind you!" Dark screamed in fear.
Link glanced behind himself and gasped in shock. The blades were coming towards him so fast. The Hero shouted out when he tripped and fell to the ground. Link turned around fast so his back was facing the dark Hylian when he heard slight hissing sound. The four blade traps, two on both sides of him, came to life and left for an attack. "Oh shit..." Link thought in panic since he had nowhere to go.
Dark panicked but he shot the Hookshot at Link. "Link!" He shouted out and the Hero glanced behind himself. The hook went right past him and clanged into the floor. Link didn't wait and instead he took a grip on the chain when the hook was starting to go back.
Dark moved into line with the chest and on that way moved Link into the safety of it. The only blade traps that left for an attack were the ones on his sides but those were slower than the Hookshot. On the second Link came close enough to the dark Hylian, Dark took a grip on him and pulled him up and out of the harm's way. Link had been fast enough to let go of the chain so his hand wasn't left between the handle and the hook of the Hookshot.
Dark held tightly to Link and kept his eyes closed. Link sighed in relief and relaxed a bit. "I got the key." He whispered quietly and chuckled a bit. "That... That was a bit... Let's just say I'm not in hurry to do that again." Link continued while calming down. "And I think we're even now with saving each other, or what?" The Hero continued and grinned a bit.
Dark sighed when he heard Link joke with him. He let go of the Hero and nodded. "Yeah, I guess so." The dark Hylian replied and grinned slightly. "We got one way to check anymore." He continued and opened the door.
Link sighed bit sadly. "I don't think he has forgiven me yet. I don't know when he'll do that but I'm going to keep on trying." He thought while going out of the room and returning to the main hall. Dark was slightly limping while heading towards the last door. "Dark." Link called and the darker Hylian stopped while turning around to look at him.
The Hero walked to him and pushed him down to the ground. Dark yelped a bit but was confused when Link crouched down in front of him and took his own hat off. "Link, what are you...?" The dark Hylian started but gasped a bit when Link took the boot off and tied the slightly bleeding wound in Dark's leg with his own cap. After that he put the dark Hylian's boot back on.
"There. At least it'll be a bit better now." Link said with a slight smile and stood up. He offered his hand to the darker Hylian. Dark sighed but accepted the help. "Now we can continue forward." The Hero said with a slight grin. They started to walk towards the last door, Dark with a slight limp and Link without any problems.
They opened the door into a dimly lit room. On the opposite wall was well decorated chest inside a small cave but in front of it was thick bars. The door behind them shut with a slam and the bars came right in front of it. "Seemingly there's again something we gotta defeat." Dark mumbled bit disappointed about it. Link chuckled
"Did you seriously think it would be easy feature, huh?" He asked and shook his head. "This is lot more simpler compared to some of the Temples I've gone through." Link continued with a grin. "Come on, let's get further so we can get the main bad guy out of hiding." The Hero stated, took out his sword and shield and left to walk into middle of the room.
"YOU GOD DAMN IDIOT! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THESE PLACES AND NOT DEFEAT THEM!"
Dark gasped in pain, shut his eyes tightly and held his head. Suddenly there was a lout screech and Iron Knuckle came out of its hiding. It walked slowly to Dark and raised its heavy sword over its head. "DARK!" Link screamed in pure fear and rushed towards the dark Hylian.
Dark was gasping for air while he tried his best to push the screaming voice out of his head. Eventually there was only one word he heard before the voice vanished. "Goodbye..." The dark Hylian blinked few times in surprise but that soon turned into shock when he was knocked to ground.
Dark was fully horrified when he realized the situation. Link was lying over him with his shield between them and the Iron Knuckle. The first swing of the sword had missed when Link crashed with Dark and got him to ground. Right after that the Hero had turned around with the shield out and ready. The next swing came hard and clanged to the shield. The impact got Link to gasp and fight with his whole strength to keep the shield from crushing both him and Dark.
"Shit!" Dark thought and looked around. The Iron Knuckle raised its sword again and before Link had a chance to move out of the way, the sword was already coming back down. Dark on the other hand managed to move away from underneath the Hero. The dark Hylian stood up as quickly as he could and took out his sword and shield. Ignoring the pain in his right shoulder and left leg, he moved quickly behind the huge armored enemy and slashed as hard as he could.
The Iron Knuckle gasped in shock and Dark continued to slash with all his power. "Leave. Him. ALONE!" Dark screamed while hitting his sword over and over again at the enemy. Link was startled about the situation but he was glad that the powerful strikes had ended.
Eventually the armors were cut down but Dark didn't stop slashing. The Iron Knuckle tried to turn around to face his attacker but the dark Hylian moved along and stayed behind it. After a while the Iron Knuckle fell to pieces and Dark sighed in relief.
Link watched bit astonished about the fight. The back wasn't the main vulnerable part of the enemy but it gave a chance to stay out of its attacks. The Hero gasped a bit in shock when Dark fell to his knees while slightly panting. "Dark!" Link called and ran straight to him.
Dark chuckled a bit. "Maybe a bit of practice would do some good." He said while trying to calm down. Link sighed in relief and chuckled too.
"Maybe but that really was amazing work." He said with a grin. Dark blushed a little and shrugged.
"Nah... It's nothing compared what you can do." He replied and glanced at the chest. "There's still something at here or then there's—" Dark continued but while turning back to Link, his eyes widened in fear. "LINK, LOOK OUT!" He screamed, got up in a flash and pushed the Hero off of the axe's way.
Link had no time to realize what happened since everything went so fast. The dark Hylian shot up from his place and pushed him off of the way. The Hero crashed to the ground and turned around just to see another Iron Knuckle... And Dark get struck by the axe.
The dark Hylian screamed in pain when the axe hit him. The strength of the strike got him flying backwards and hit into the closest wall. Dark fell unconscious which worried Link even more. "DARK!" Link screamed out, did a fast back somersault and came to his feet. He drew out his sword and shield and ran straight at the Iron Knuckle. "You'll pay for that!" The Hero shouted in pure fury.
Link didn't back off in front of the swings nor did he block them. The Hero simply avoided them and kept on slashing his sword right at the Iron Knuckle's chest. He kept on cursing at the enemy and put all his strength into the hits without caring how close the strikes of Iron Knuckle came. In reality, the Hero wouldn't have given a damn even if some of those strikes would've hit their target. The pure anger against the Iron Knuckle and fear for Dark's condition were enough to bring new strength in the Hero.
After the fight was over and the Iron Knuckle vanished, the bars in front of the door and the chest were raised up but Link didn't care about that even one bit. "DARK!" The Hero shouted and rushed straight to the dark Hylian. He fell down right next to Dark and started to shake him. "Wake up, Dark, WAKE UP!" Link screamed in fear and worry.
The longer it took, the more worried Link grew. He blinked few times to hold the tears at back and nearly gasped when Dark finally coughed a bit. "Dark?" Link called bit hopefully and sighed in relief when the darker Hylian moved and slowly pushed himself up. On the second Dark had gotten up enough, Link already hugged him. "Oh, dear goddesses! You're alright!" The Hero nearly shouted into the dark Hylian's ear.
Dark flinched a bit. "Ouch... No need to shout... I'm having bad enough headache at here... "He mumbled and gasped in slight pain when Link tightened the hug. On the second he heard that pained sound, the Hero pulled off in bit of fear.
"Oh, shit! Are you alright? How badly are you hurt?!" Link asked straight off in slight fear. Dark shook his head a bit and raised his gaze up to Link. He blinked few times, chuckled a bit and hugged the Hero.
"I'm okay. No need to be so worried over me. Really, there's no reason for crying." Dark whispered quietly and ignored the pain in his ankle and shoulder. Luckily the axe hadn't done any of damage. Link sighed and circled his arms tightly around the darker Hylian while slightly crying out of relief.
"Thank goddesses... I was so worried." He whispered quietly, pulled eventually back and kissed Dark to the forehead. "Never... Never do that again. You understand?" Link half hissed while leaning his forehead against Dark's. "I... I thought..." He whispered quietly, took once a shaking deep breath and tried to calm down. "Oh, dear goddesses..."
Dark chuckled slightly. "Sorry for it but I wasn't going to let that Iron Knuckle hit you, Link, and you know it." He replied while pulling bit backwards. "You saved my life so it is just fair that I save yours." The dark Hylian continued with a slight grin.
Link sighed and nodded. "You do have a point in there but don't put yourself into the line of danger. Okay?" He half pleaded and looked slightly sadly at Dark. "You freaked the hell out of me and I... I was so scared, Dark." The Hero continued, sighed and pulled Dark back into a hug but this time lot lighter.
"About what?" Dark asked bit puzzled. Link half growled at him.
"About losing you!" He half hissed and pulled off. "I was scared that I was going to lose you! What in earth does it take to get you to understand that?!" Link continued in slight anger, shut his eyes then and shook while starting to cry. Without thinking he just leaned forward against Dark's chest and circled his arms around him again. "I can't stand it if I lose you..." The Hero whispered quietly.
Dark was fully startled about the situation. When Link leaned against him fully broken, he sighed and circled his arms around the Hero. "I'm sorry, Link." The dark Hylian whispered and smiled bit sadly while laying his own head over Link's. "I didn't mean to worry you. All I wanted was to save you." He continued and sighed. "How about we finish this and get the hell out of here?" Dark asked and carefully pushed now calmed down Link off of his chest.
Link took once a deep breath and nodded. "Yeah... Yeah, that sounds like a good plan..." He replied with still slightly shaking voice. Dark smiled a bit and stood up carefully. He offered his hand to Link and the Hero accepted it happily. Together the two Hylians walked to the chest and opened it. From inside they found a bag of slightly golden colored seeds.
"Guess these are the ones the gardener was talking about." Dark said with slight shrug. Link nodded and put the bag into his pocket. "Okay, let's leave. I'm starting to get tired." The dark Hylian continued, stretched a bit but soon gasped in pain. He put his hand over his right shoulder in slight pain.
"Dark!" Link half shouted in shock. "Let me see that..." He continued and moved Dark's hand off of the way. The Hero didn't get much of chance to see the bite mark before the dark Hylian backed off. "Dark, that needs to be healed and-" He started as firmly as he could.
"And you gave me a promise just, what, a day or two ago." Dark replied bit coldly and brought his hand over the shoulder again. "I'll get it fixed when we get back to the castle." He continued and turned his gaze off of the Hero.
Link sighed but nodded. "Alright. But if it gets any worse, I will check it." He stated firmly, turned around and started to head out. Dark sighed, gave a short nod and left to follow Link out of the Temple.-.-.-.-.-.-
Sorry for putting Skyward Sword's enemy in Ocarina of Time. I did also think out for Darknut but that wasn't in OoT. Yet, I like more of Darknut than Iron Knuckle even though fighting with two or three at same time at TP was hellish.
The story will continue once I get two or more reviews for it! Thank You!
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A/N: If you read this far, please leave a comment! Even anonymous reviews are accepted!
Also, flames are accepted but those shall be for Axel's entertainment or for Demyx's practice! =P
IN CASE YOU'RE INTERESTED: I'm really wishing for pictures of my story. I don't care what your drawing skills are (you can check my DevArt page to know how crappy I am while drawing) but I really would love it if you drew a picture of your favorite part of my story. I accept from stick people pictures to works worthy of being shown in a museoum and everything in between! For everyone who tells that they'll draw a picture, I shall write a story. All I need is your fave charactes and bit of info. Also, if you don't want to come up with an idea for it but you have a picture that you have drawn and like it, I can write a story for the picture!
So, in short: Your picture of one part of my story = a story from me with your ideas.
There is no deadline for this and the more pictures you do, the more stories I'll write for you. Simple, right? I really hope for lots of pictures! =)
NOTE! Write me either a PM or by doing a review reply. DON'T tell me what part you're drawing, just that you do draw a picture. I have DevianArt account, so if you do have such too, it'll be easy to send a link once it is done and uploaded. On other time, send me link by e-mail (can be found on my profile page) and I will send you review of it by here or by e-mail if you leave me your e-mail. In DA I can fave your work, on other sites I'll put the picture to my bookmaks. THANK YOU!