(Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews Digital Assassin and espeon44. And yes espeon44 Ash does love Princess May. :D Our boy finally recognized he loves her. Awww
It means a lot to have fellow advanceshippers(or anyone for the matter) follow my story and fellow Advanceshipping authors compliment me. Thanks. I feel honored to even have my first fic favorited and added to a community. Wow.
TheButton210, it may appear rushed in the first chapter and possibly the second chapter, but if you read on, you will learn about Ash's items he later acquires, I don't mention the magic hammer, because the Magic Hammer in A Link to the Past was mostly useless(unlike its upgrade in A Link Between Worlds).
What's weird is that as of now I have about 100 views on my first chapter, and 30 views on chapter 4. Chapter 3 has the least with 15 views. So I am guessing that people are really wanting Ash to recuse May already (that or more likely people get disinterested after the first chapter)! If you haven't read chapter 2 or 3 I recommend you do. There are some sweet shippy moments in those chapters. Especially an important shippy flashback.
Digital Assassin, I have read up to chapter 3 of your fic. It is going really good so far, when I have time I will propose some OCs for your piece if you are still in need of them.)
Princess May: Blastoys, when is Ash going to rescue me. I am soooooo bored.
Ash: Princess May I am doing the best I can! I have rescued 5 maidens in less than a day!
Me: Yeah, what he said.
Princess May(annoyed): That does not answer my question!
Me:The longer we do this the longer it takes Ash to rescue you, which means the longer you will be bored. So on with the disclaimer please.
Ash and Princess May: Blastoys does not own Pokemon or The Legend of Zelda
As Ash was leaving the Ice Palace, he was contacted telepathically by Ralamuel.
I say Ash, you are making excellent progress in rescuing the maidens.
"Thanks Sage Ralamuel, and it is nothing. Is there something you came to contact me for?"
My my, quick to the point we are! But yes, I was going to ask you this since the Pyramid of Power isn't too far from your current location. Have you noticed a cracked wall on the brown slab on the right on the first story of the pyramid?
"Now that you mention it, I have, I didn't pay to much attention to it though."
It is rumored that the Queen of the Fairies resides close to the Pyramid of Power. It is said she can upgrade your Tempered Sword to its maximum potential instantly! Perhaps she lives in that room where the cracked wall is?
Ash was enthralled about hearing this, he was close to the Pyramid of Power. While talking to Ralmauel. He dispatched two Conkledurr on the way without breaking a sweat. "Awesome! So all I need to do is blow up the crack wall and I can get in correct?"
Umm, well, not exactly. You need a powerful bomb known as the Super Bomb to get throu-
"Or you can just blow it up with the Bombos spell" Ash said smirking after unleashing said spell, blowing up an entrance to the Queen of the Fairies dwelling place. Ralamuel was completely dumbfounded that Ash's strategy worked. He wished Ash good luck on rescuing the last maiden and Princess May.
Ash went into the room and noticed the room was filled with a fountain and the area had sweet fragrance to it. The water was beautiful and pristine. He was sure the Queen of the Fairies would come out now that he entered the place. Yet to no avail, she did not appear. After contemplating what to do, Ash threw his Tempered Master Sword into the fountain. He watched as it slowly descended into the depths of the fountain.
Suddenly, a pink creature manifested in front of Ash floating above the fountain. It had long pointing ears with black colored ends, it had a small curly ball of fur on its forehead. It possessed a large swirly tail that was curled together into a ball on its back along with two pairs of three long barbs protruding from its back. Ash recognized the creature as Clefable, Queen of the Fairies(including all the other Great Fairies). What caught Ash off guard was that Clefable was extremely rotund. This shocked him and how he managed not not to laugh or stare or make any kind of look showing that he noticed, he had no idea. He thanked the goddesses for him not doing that, because he was sure he would have on any other given occasion.
"Did you happen to drop this, young hero?", the Fairy Queen asked in an soothing kind voice. She was holding Ash's Tempered Master Sword, although for a second he though he saw the hilt was green and the blade was golden.
"Yes, indeed I did Queen Fairy". Ash said politely, giving a quick bow.
"You are an honest young man, I like that! Here you go young hero, I have magically powered up your sword. Your sword beams strength are now at the current level of this sword. Not only can it break any magical barrier, but you will no longer be hurt if you strike Harghahnim".
"That's awesome Queen Fairy!" He received the Golden Master Sword. He swung it around and could feel its power brimming up inside of him as he held it. It made a strong swooshing noise whenever he swung it.
"Queen Fairy, can I ask of you another favor?"
"Sure, what is it young hero?"
"If it isn't too much for you? Can you warp me to Misery Mire? I need to rescue the last maiden without delay!"
"That would not at all be a problem hero! As long as you can take out Drewnon for casting a curse that turned me into this form"
"That monster! Don't worry Queen Fairy I will annihilate him for Princess May, yours, and Hyrule's sake!" Ash said that with a determined look on his face.
"Great! You're not far off from saving Hyrule, you may be in a hurry but keep your wits above you. Oh and I almost forgot to tell you, you can now attack with that sword while you are wearing the Magical Cape but only while you put it on while wielding that sword. " Clefable told him as she warped him to Misery Mire.
When Ash arrived there he could smell a foul stench along with a chilled air. It was windy and raining as well, he could sense many presences that were full of despair and malevolence. Ash saw the Ether Medallion logo at the sealed entrance. Unleashing his Ether spell it broke the seal of the Swamp Palace. Ash was also shocked to see many spirits being revealed and they were not pleased at him freezing the swamp. Ash ran into the entrance and was thankful the door closed shut behind him.
There were many Stalfos in the dungeon but they did not give Ash a problem anymore. Two strikes from either a sword beam attack or slash from his sword and they were down. However what really got on his nerves that was annoying Kadabra(they are the wizrobes). They would appear randomly and hit Ash with Psywave attacks. Ash would shoot a sword beam or fire arrows at them but they would teleport away. Then Ash got a devious idea, when they warped away, Ash put on the Magical Cape and would sneak up behind them but would stop at about 15 feet away. He then took off the cape and shot a sword beam at the creature. It was stunned and that was when Ash shot an arrow at it, causing it to explode on the spot.
Man, I love this sword! Ash thought beaming to himself. When Ash arrived at the treasure room he opened the chest to get the Cane of Somaria. What does this do I wonder? Ash held the cane and gently swung it vertically and it produced a red 4 foot cube in front of him. Ash began to push it and he noticed it was lighter than most blocks of that size. Even with the Titan Mitts, Ash knew he could push this block with ease. He then swung the cane again and the block split into four smaller ones firing into the air and bouncing off the walls they came into contact with.
Ash was enthralled with using this new item, not only did it protect him from enemy attacks, it held down switches, and it was useful in taking down Kadabras and blocking their Psywave attacks. They would teleport away but the blocks would bounce of and hit them usually, if not they were vulnerable to a Golden Master Sword beam attack.
Ash finally made his way down to the boss's lair. As usual he was used to the door sealing behind him. When he looked in front of him he was surprised to see what was in front of him. In the middle of the room was spherical enemy about the same height as Ash. It it had a dark blue colored half on top and the lower half was white. On the dark blue upper half of its body were two glaring eyes on that section (it's a shiny Voltorb). Around it were tons of smaller creatures just like itself that appeared to be two and half feet in height. They were sitting in a green slimy pool of liquid. The middle Voltorb started glowing and Ash instinctively side rolled. He narrowly avoided a lightning stream attack from the monster. Then some of the creatures started to bum rush towards him. Ash swung his sword horizontally and it hit some of the smaller Voltorbs. Yet, right on contact they exploded with electricity coming off shocking Ash violently.
That's when Ash siderolled to avoid more coming at him en masse. Ash then came up with a crazy idea. He then put on his magical cape and walked into the center of the room. All the smaller voltorb were confused and headed back to the center of the room. Ash found dry spots leading right behind the large Voltorb. He then performed his Hurricane Spin Attack on the large Voltorb. It was shrieking in pain while frantically turning around trying to find what was attacking it. It unleashed its lightning attack on the smaller Voltorb thinking they were attacking it. Not much longer, it exploded along with the smaller ones in a harmless cloud of smoke. Even the slimy liquid pool was gone.
Ash took of the cape, exhausted from using so much Magical energy. He ran to the center of the room catching the crystal. Inside, was a girl with dark blue eyes. Matching her eye color was her dark blue hair that went down to the center of her back and had two small bangs going down the side of her head covering her ears. She had a black dress on with a the bottom gown of her dress's edge colored pink. It was Dawn, whose mother, Johanna was a seamstress. May and she (along with Ash) got along very well. She was May's best female friend and they had quite a bit in common. They both loved going to theater, dancing, trying on makeup and new dresses. Johanna was happy to make them new dresses for them to try on. Ash did not ever want other's to know how when they played games when they were younger if he lost his "reward" was to put on girl's dresses as they would complement how good they looked on him.
"Thanks for saving me Ash, would you like me to kiss you? Tee hee" Dawn said teasingly to him.
"Umm, no thanks. I don't think Princess May would like that very much. Heh heh" Ash responded sheepishly scratching the back of his head.
Dawn knew how May felt about Ash. After all it is impossible for them to keep secrets from each other. Plus she treated Ash as a brother of hers. However she smiled finally glad Ash seemed to know that he liked May romantically now. It's about time you figured out your feelings Ash.
"Haha, you're right Ash. We wouldn't want to have a catfight on our hands would we?" She said mischievously.
Ash laughed nervously and shyly blushed at the thought of May fighting for him.
"Drewnon collecting us was because with Drewnon's power alone, the seal of the Seven Sages could not be broken.
Accordingly, using the priest Harghanim, he had the seven maidens who inherit the power of the Sages fed into the Dark World.
After he used our power and broke the seal, we, whose usefulness was over, were sealed in crystals and presented to monsters. Not knowing about you and what you were capable of was Drewnon's only mistake".
"I guess the saying 'ignorance is bliss' is true huh Dawn?"
Dawn smiled at Ash's insightfulness, "Yeah but not always. Are you going to tell Princess May how you feel to her?" She responded.
Ash blushed deeply before turning his face away from Dawn. "That's none of your business Dawn! But …yes I am."
"Aww that's so sweet. I can't wait to hear how it goes!" Dawn squealed excitedly while clapping her hands. She loved it when people became couples and expressed how they felt to one another. Due to the six maidens being freed Dawn then exploded the crystal(along with the other rescued Maidens). Now the maidens were able to use their powers that they were not able to while trapped in them. Contacting the other maidens she was able to communicate to them telepathically. "My fellow Maidens, Ash has finally rescued me as the last Maiden. So please combine your powers with mine so we can warp Ash to Turtle Rock. The sooner Ash rescues Princess May the better!"
Dawn raised her hands upwards as a blue spherical light appeared above them. "Now, Princess May is waiting for you in Turtle Rock. Please hurry and make it to her, and don't blow it with your confession." She shot the energy at Ash enveloping him. Ash started rising towards the ceiling as he was fading away.
"Heh, you don't have to tell me twice… Hey!" he wasn't able to get anymore out as he teleported away to Turtle Rock. He heard Dawn laughing at his slowness at realizing what she said.
Ash appeared right before Turtle Rock. And like the description it was a turtle that looked like it was carved out of the rock. Ash entered its mouth as he descended lower into the dungeon.
Hang on Princess May, I made it this far and it won't be much longer.
(Author's note). Fun fact: In the Japanese version of A Link to the Past, it mentions the Maiden's having the power of the sages(which was left out in the localized English version) Not only that, but localized version left out the connection that only the Hero could use the Moon Pearl and the Magic Mirror.
Well this chapter is much shorter than my other ones. By about half the length in fact. Based on what I have planned there should only be two more chapters left until this fic is finished. I hope you guys are enjoying it so far. It has been a blast writing it. Next chapter something surprising will be revealed. Is it a good one or bad one? You are just going to have to wait to find out. So please leave a review. Until next time. Ciao!
Edit - 4/15/15 - I cleaned up the rest of the grammar, reworded some of the descriptions, corrected punctuation. Looking back, wow, how wrong I was it was going to be two more chapters. Sorry bout that, When I type chapters I have some things planned out, but I tend to add more details and dialogue and sequences when doing so. Thankfully those turned out to be good things.
