I know it's been a while, but I've been rather busy. Have to clean up now that someone else will be living in my house. Hopefully once she gets here, I'll be able to focus more on my works.
Just to make up for it, I made this one a little bit longer. Enjoy!
Still don't own LoZ or Nintendo. Still DO own Alexander and Blood Crusade.
"So, we need to get this thing down to some giant door back where you two came into this temple, right?" Alexander asked, leaping over a locked gate.
"Yea, that's right, Vampy. Now go hit that switch over there so we can pass through."
"Hold that thought, Princess." He drew his sword as two Armos Knights shambled away from the wall opposite them. "I must say, Boy, you certainly know how to show a touring warrior a good time." Alexander laughed as he side-stepped the knights, putting one in between him and the other.
Link dropped the Dominion Rod, the glow dissipating from the statue, and searched his pack for the Clawshot. Midna slapped him in the back of the head. "Don't even think about it, Hero. He's more than capable, so why don't you stay with me for a while." Link stared at her suspiciously. "I meant to relax, you blue-eyed pervert!" Link laughed to himself and sat down to watch. Midna floated down into his lap, shimmying into a comfortable spot. "See, this is much better than getting hurt all the time, isn't it?" Link simply gulped and nodded, a slight blush across his cheeks.
Alexander slide along the ground, dodging one of the knights' heavy blades. Planting his hands, he sprung into the air, bringing his own blade down through the first Armos' helmet. It sprayed copious amounts of the motor oil-like blood on the walls. The beast flailed wildly, trying to get the steel from it's face before dissolving into nothingness. "One down," He looked up to the other as it readied a strike. "Have at you, vile cur!" The Armos put its entire and considerable weight behind a downward swing, trying to crush the enemy before it. Alexander held his blade out to block the attack. An unholy metallic crash echoed throughout the room. The floor beneath his feet began to crack with the force behind the creature's weapon. "Stronger than I thought, but not strong enough to pose a challenge to me." He planted his boot into the chest plate of the Armos, kicking it across the room. It clattered to the ground, the sword spinning away a few feet. "Pick yourself and your blade up, damn you. I will not slay a defenseless opponent."
"Oh, just kill the damn thing, already!" Midna shouted from her 'seat'. "We've wasted enough time in this place already."
The Knight grabbed the pommel of it's blade and looked over to the shouting imp. "Eyes on your opponent, swine!" Alexander drew his dagger and thrust both weapons fully into the beast, the dagger through the eyehole of the helmet, and his sword stuck clear through it's breastplate. "A costly mistake, demon. One you shall not live to learn from." He twisted his blades and flung the beast across the room, where it splattered against a wall, nothing more than tar and shadows. Alexander wiped his blades off and sheathed them, stepping on the floor switch. "Your path is clear, Princess."
'Thanks, Vampy. Come on, Hero, let's go!" Midna floated away, waiting by the bell-shaped tube in one of the alcoves of the room.
"What's the matter, boy? You're looking al little stiff."
Link gasped and quickly tried to reach for the Dominion rod, falling over as he stretched just a little too far. He quickly got up and adjusted his tunic, Rod in hand. (The Dominion Rod, kids…) He re-animated the statue and led it to the bell. When it disappeared, Midna rushed past him and through the next door. Link swore he could see a deep blush spread over her cheeks.
"You two certainly have an interesting chemistry." Alexander chuckled. Link took a confused step back. "She'll try to hide it, but I can tell that her emotions, blood and heart stir anxiously when it comes to you, boy." Link started coughing violently. Sure, he enjoyed the strange sensations he got when Midna would get unusually close to him. Thinking about it, Link wondered if his new companion could be right, was the mysterious imp really having feelings for him? "Seems like this is all new territory for you, Hero." Link nodded slowly. "Don't worry, things tend to work themselves out in the end." Alexander walked to the door and stopped with his hand on the pressure plate. "If you have any questions, feel free to ask, I have been, what's the term the young ones use? 'Around the block' a few times." Link's face turned a fierce shade of red as he followed the Crusader through the door.
The statue finally settled itself into place beside the gigantic doors as the magic left it, returning to the Dominion Rod. There was a mechanical click and the entire room began to shake as the doors rumbled open.
"This might be a bad time for me to ask, but exactly why are we going through this temple?" Alexander scratched the back of his head before re-tying his hair into a tight tail at the base of his skull.
Midna peered through the great doors and saw a smaller door with a large golden lock and chains on it. "We're searching for the parts of a mirror that is supposed to be able to help us defeat Zant. Behind that door there is more than likely going to be a ridiculously large guardian that needs to be killed in a terribly contrived manner." She looked to Link who just nodded, looking determined to finish the job. "Once it's dead, we'll be one step closer to stopping Zant and his evil magic from taking over this world and reclaiming mine." She let a grin slip across her face, imagining the fate she would unfurl for Zant when she got her hands on him. "You wanna help us, Vampy?"
The Leather-clad Vampire gave a short laugh as he straightened out his coat. "I've come this far with you two, why not see the task to it's completion? Who knows, if this battle is half as much fun as I think it's going to be, I might stick around to take a crack at this Zant of yours."
Link smiled broadly, glad to have another true warrior standing with him. He stepped toward the door and slipped the Big Key into the lock and turned. It clattered to the ground and the chains retracted as the portal opened, revealing a large hole in the ground.
"Why does it have to be another hole?" Midna circled around the pit and peered into the darkness. "Ah, it's no use, I can't see a thing down there. Why don't we-" She didn't have time to finish as a green blur streaked past her and into the mouth of the hole, shouting a battle cry the whole way.
"I like the way he thinks, come on, Princess." Alexander slipped into the pit himself, the black leather whipping about his head, making him look like a large black missile.
"Men." Midna sighed as she followed them down.
Link rolled and drew his sword and shield once he reached the bottom followed closely by Alexander who dropped lightly to one knee with only the sound of the leather giving him away. As he stood, he unsheathed his blade and looked around the room. The ceiling was unusually high, and in each corner was a statue with a hole in the center and a fist raised to the sky. Four shafts of light penetrated the vines that stretched out everywhere. "There's nothing here, boy." He said, taking a few steps forward. The light was suddenly blocked out above them. Both warriors looked up to see an enormous spider-like creature with one great eye on it's back. "What in the name of-"
"That, Vampy, is the Twilit Arachnid ARMOGOHMA, the guardian who has been corrupted by the Twili magic of the mirror shard." Midna floated behind Link, placing her tiny hands on the Hero's shoulders.
"Lovely, so how do we kill it?"
"How should I know? You two are the fighters!" Midna replied indignantly. "Just squash it like the spider it is!"
Link looked around at the statues and smiled, pulling out the Dominion Rod and Hero's Bow, throwing the Bow and Quiver to Alexander.
"Let me guess, I shoot it in the eye, hopefully it falls to the ground, and you do something with these statues. Am I understanding your plan properly, Boy?" Alexander tested the string on the bow, watching Armogohma out of the corner of his eye. Link gave him a determined nod and moved quickly off to the side.
"Okay, Hero, but what do we do about those?" Midna asked as a small army of tiny skulltulas headed toward them. Link jumped into the center of the mass and released a spin attack, sending them all splattering about. Alexander knocked an arrow and waited for his opportunity to strike.
"Just so you are aware, it has been about 200 years since I've fired a bow." Alexander laughed as he mentally kicked himself for not keeping up on the weapons he grew up with.
"Isn't that great." Midna's voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Do not worry, I have not forgotten, Girl." Armogohma opened it's eye and Alexander loosed the arrow. It whistled through the air until it glanced off of one of the creature's legs. "Damn. I need to get the hang of this again." He knocked another arrow as the eye began to glow red. "That doesn't look good!" Armogohma released a blast of energy toward Alexander who rolled toward the far edge of the room. As the beam dissipated, Alexander took aim again and fired before it had a chance to close it's eye. The beast screeched and fell to the ground. "Now, Boy!"
Link transferred the Rod's energy into the nearest statue and made it smash it's fist into Armogohma's eye. The arachnid quickly recovered and skittered up the wall before releasing another wave of miniature spiders. They split, half headed towards Link and Midna, the other half headed to Alexander. He began picking them off with the bow, three at a time until they swarmed him. Seeing Link do another Spin Attack out of the corner of his eye, Alexander decided to try his luck. He brought his blade as close to the ground as he could and spun on his heels. "Crude, but effective. All right, demon, time to meet your maker." He aimed for the beast's eye again, waiting for it to open. He did not wait long, and he fired before another beam could be shot at either of them. Armogohma fell to the ground again, shrieking and trying to right itself. Link possessed another statue and pounded the creature into a green and black pulp with the fist, until it just smashed against the stone over and over. "Easy there, boy. I was eager for the fight to end as well, but don't you think that was a bit excessive?"
Midna wiped off her face, trying to rub the goop on the leaves of a vine. "Yea, come on, Hero, try not to be so messy next time, please. Now let's grab that Mirror Shard and get the hell out of here." She opened up a portal to the entrance of the temple as Link grabbed the item they had come all this way for. All three of them were bathed in a white light before appearing just outside the ruined doors to the Temple of Time. The forest was pitch black save for the light of a few stars poking through the foliage.
"It's a beautiful night." Alexander sighed as he took another drink from his flask. "How far to the nearest town?"
Midna pointed through a clearing. "Ordon is just a few hours that way. It's the town Link lives in, so we know it's a safe place to stay."
"Good. We should hurry, I would rather not have a meeting with the sun in the morning."
"No problem. Let's go Hero!" She sat on Link's shoulders, holding tightly to his ears.
"And this is the Sacred Spring of Ordon. One of the Spirits of Light lives here, guardians placed here by the Goddesses. They've been helping us-" A flash of light and a splash cut Midna's speech off. "What the hell was that?"
Anyone else smell citrus? I know, it was a little out of place with the direction I've been going, but an Imp's gotta have some fun once in a while, right. This may be a sign of Lemons to come, or I may just keep it lemon-scented. R&R, vote and let me know whether or not you want one.
Also, I'm aware that it normally takes 3 hits from the statues to kill Armogohma, and that you need to destroy the eye after that, but I thought that would be more fun.
Until next time, kitties.