GDL: Sorry about the delay. Anyway, thanks for reading, as always.
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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from the Legend of Zelda. I also don't own any of the characters from the Seeing Truth Trilogy.
GDL: Anyways…
Last Time on GoTN…"I just grumbled and fell back onto the ground, which somehow happened to be near Link. Jade just snickered. At that moment, a shadow loomed over the cell.
They whispered, "I'm going to get you out of here. My name is Kado, by the way."
They threw down a rope, and Jade happily took it. Link followed suit, which I did a few seconds after him. We were finally out of the cell, but why would this guy help us In the first place? I guess we'll find out soon."
Chapter 7: The Mystery of Kado Revealed; Jealousy Among FriendsAfter maneuvering throughout the fortress for a couple hours, we were getting a bit suspicious of our rescuer.
Jade asked, "So, why are you here exactly?"
Kado replied, "The goddesses realized you were captured, and they sent me to help. I guess you could call me the messenger of the goddesses…in a way."
I chimed in, "I still don't see how we can trust you."
Kado, "Then don't, just let me get you to the forest first. But I have to say, you're a lot prettier than what I thought when the goddesses told me about you."
I didn't realize it, but I was blushing.
"Are you flirting with me?"
Kado replied, "That's for you to decide. Now, hurry up. We need to get out of here before the guards wake up."
The four of us hurried out of the fortress and made it to the bridge right before the guards woke up. We made it back out to Hyrule field with little trouble, if you could call Kado glancing at me every few seconds normal.
Jade was quirking her eyebrow at Link in a "WTF" kind of expression and I had to lower my head to avoid any more embarrassment. Great.
Jade's POV
What do you call a guy that won't shut up with the damn flirting? I mean, every few seconds he would glance back at Catherine while she lowered her head or pretended to glance at something supposedly interesting…a piece of grass…a stray leaf…a cloud… Hah, that one looked like a turtle…
"So, doofus- I mean, Kado." I said with a smile, "Where we headed?"
"The forest." He replied curtly, avoiding my gaze as I cocked my head to watch him.
"Well, that explains a lot." I said, feigning glee before turning to Link to roll my eyes.
He shrugged before turning to the brunette, "Uhm, I guess we should thank you for helping us escape."
"I suppose that would be in order," Kado chuckled.
I coughed something incoherent before apologizing.
"Jade," Catherine stuck her tongue out at me. "Don't be so mean. He did help us."
"Did." I repeated, "And we are oh so much grateful, but I don't exactly trust him."
"Why?" Kado asked, stopping in his tracks to face me. When he didn't move his towering form became slightly intimidating.
I avoided his hazel eyes and smiled nervously, "Because we know nothing about you."
He sighed before running a hand through his feathery soft hair…
Did I just…describe it…as… feathery soft? Ugh!
"Let's see," he began, as if ready to explain a long story; "My name is Kado, and that's all you need to know." His act dropped, he turned around and continued walking.
"Arsehole…" I mumbled under my breath. Catherine elbowed my side and I yelped.
"Why don't you tell me about yourselves?" he asked as he quickened his pace.
"Why?" I questioned, jogging after him, "If you're here to help us you should know our names, too."
He smirked, his eyes gleaming just a twinge in the moonlight; "True, Jade."
"Ahah!" I exclaimed triumphantly with a grin; "So, what else do you know about us?"
"I know that Catherine is very beautiful, and there's something about her that will be very important in the future." He replied, his gaze taking a glimpse at the blushing Cat before turning to me.
What? What was that? Did I see something hiding behind his smirk? It was like he was telling me something but I couldn't hear it.
Damn it, man! I'm not psychic!
"Well, it's good to see your love life isn't a secret to us anymore," I retorted, folding my arms across my chest and shivering; "So, what else can you tell us, eh? Maybe why in hell the goddesses picked your sorry arse to help us!"
He laughed and I watched him incredulously.
Psst, no one tell him- but I really, really, really like his laugh…
"You're funny, Jade." He said
"Ha, ha…" I bit my lip before adding, "And Link is smart."
"…Hey!"
That was retorted with a smack from Cat.
Normal P.O.V.
Jade rubbed the place where I smacked her with an annoyed glance.
She asked, "Would you PLEASE stop doing that? Technically, you don't know his intelligence anyway, considering he grew up in a forest."
Link glared at Jade, the type of glare that could kill, if looks could kill, that is.
I thought, 'Something tells me Link doesn't like Jade that much…'
"What gave you the first clue?"
I questioned in my head, 'Da hell?'
"I don't know why that happened either. Maybe it's a mind link that opened somehow, considering you and I are talking in your head…"
'I really don't want to say how I knew you were going to say that, but get the hell out of my head, please.'
"You just don't want any personal thoughts to get out."
'Shut up'
While Jade and Kado continued to argue, which got them nowhere with information, we FINALLY found our way to the forest again.
Jade cockily said, "Well, Jacka-I mean Kado, how the hell do you think you're going to get us into the forest?"
He replied, "Watch and learn."
With a weird bolt of light, the wolfos were destroyed, and we were able to access the forest.
He decided to start flirting with me again, "What do you think of that, hun? Impressive, right?"
I asked with a whisper, "Could we please just get farther into the forest…?"
They nodded and we continued on.
When we made it to Kokiri forest, it was not like it was when we left. It had a dark aura, and random forest monsters were scattered around the lost woods. Link's eyes filled with rage, and his grip tightened around the master sword.
Link declared in a low, angered voice, "I've got to get to the bottom of this. I've got to make sure Saria's okay." Link started off into the woods.
I called, "Wait, Link! Don't just-" He was gone before I could finish my sentence. "…Leave without us…"
Kado sighed, "Don't worry, we'll be able to catch up to him, if we hurry."
I nodded, and we bolted off into the forest. With no effort, we were able to find the way to the Sacred Forest Meadow. We maneuvered throughout the forest, until we caught up to Link.
I asked, "Link, why did you leave us like that? We're in this together, remember?"
Link looked back at me with sad eyes. He sighed and said, "I'm sorry. I won't do it again, let's just get into the temple."
Kado had the hook shot on him, and hookshotted himself up to the balcony type thing. He threw it back down to Jade. Jade shot herself up, and then threw it down to Link. Link grabbed me, and hookshotted both of us up.
I glared at him; "You DO realize that you need to WARN someone when you're going to randomly grab them, right?"
Link sweat dropped. "Sorry."
The four of us walked into the temple.
Inside The Temple
We walked into the middle of the room, expecting the Poes to disappear with the fires, but that didn't happen. Instead, there was a tablet in the middle, with odd writing on it.
I asked, "Link, what does it say?"
"Guardians of the moon and stars, combine the powers of the night. Only then will the portal to the real temple be revealed."
Jade remarked, "Well, that was vague. How are we supposed to combine our powers? It makes no sense!"
Kado smirked, "Well, this is my time to leave. Farewell guardians, we'll meet again after the temple." As soon as he said that, he was gone.
I analyzed the stone for a few more minutes, and then realized something within it.
I exclaimed, "Hey, look, there's 2 indents here, as if something should be put in it!"
Jade looked as well.
"Looks like swords could fit into them. It's worth a shot."
We both shoved our swords into the holes, and the stone shined a golden color. Hylian language glowed all over the stone, and a portal like thing showed in its place.
Link stated, "We might as well go in. Ladies first." He grinned a boyish grin.
Jade and I rolled our eyes, and stepped into the portal, with Link right behind us.
Inside The PortalJade yelled throughout the whole experience, "Holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!"
I squealed happily, "WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE," the whole time.
Link just screamed his normal scream that he does when he falls.
The portal was like the huge slide thing in that one castle star thing in Super Mario 64 (a/n: Don't own.)
Outside of PortalEventually we ended up at the end. Link landed on his feet. Jade landed on her face, and I landed on my ass.
Jade mumbled, "Wow, it really sucks to not be a cat…no pun intended."
I groaned, "Ooow, my ass hurts."
When we finally looked around our surroundings, we realized it looked a lot different from the forest temple. The room was smaller, and there were fewer enemies along with it. There were a few deku babas in the small room. We made chop suey of them, and headed to the next room. In this one, there was a river type thing with tektites and octorocks. When we killed everything in the new small room, a large chest appeared. Inside was the map.
We found out, that really there were only about 10 rooms in the place, and there were only 2 floors, unlike the other dungeons, that have like 3 floors and a crap load of rooms to maneuver through. Link pocketed the map, and we moved on to the next room. This room had 3 stalfos. We each had to take one, and Link was having trouble with his by the time we were finished, so we helped him. Another chest appeared, and inside was a key.
We moved onto the next room, which was a block puzzle room. Once we were able to bring the blocks together in the time limit, it created an image of the 3 of our guardian signs surrounding the triforce. The door opened, and we obtained another key. What is it with this world and keys?
We maneuvered through a maze room, which wasn't that hard since we followed Link the entire time, to a locked door. Link inserted one of the keys, and the door unlocked. Inside was the mini boss room. It was 3 of the humungous gray wolfos that live inside the forest temple. It took us a while, and we all got pretty beat up, but the wolfos were destroyed, and another large chest appeared. Link opened it, revealing 3 silver bows with arrows to go along with them. The jewels in the center were red, green, and purple. Link handed the 2 other bows and arrows to us.
Jade and I commented at the same time, "Silver arrows? What, are we going to fight werewolves or something?"
Link shrugged and said, "It just might well be. You never know in this world."
The three of us piled on top of the platform in the middle of the room, and rode up to the next floor. Link used the last key we had, and we continued to the next room. We went through the next few rooms relatively quickly. We got the compass along the way, and realized we only had 1 more chest to open, which was most likely the boss key. Inside the room, was another set of stalfos and wolfos. We defeated them as fast as we could, and grabbed the boss key. We went through a few more doors, and ended up at the boss door. Link opened it, and we stepped inside, with our new weapons out and ready to hit whatever it was. A gigantic version of a wolfos appeared in front of us. We readied our bows, and started to look for a weak point. Jade spotted a mark on his head, and all 3 of us shot at it with our bows. The monster fell with a large thud, and we slashed it a few times. We once again aimed for its forehead, while dodging some of its attacks at us, and it fell down again. We slashed it a few more times, and it got up again. We repeated the process, and it was finally defeated. A light pillar formed infront of us, and we walked into it. When we were out of the temple, we were infront of the Great Deku Tree, staring at Saria and Kado.
Jade scoffed, "You again?"
Kado smirked, and said, "I told you I'd be back. You can't get rid of me THAT easily."
Saria walked up to us, "Well done, guardians. You were able to defeat your first trial, and save the forest from the darkness." She looked over at Link, "Nice to see you again, Link."
Link smiled and said, "You too. I'm just glad you're safe."
Saria continued, "Since you were able to defeat the evil within the temple, and save the forest once again, it is my duty as the forest sage to give you the second piece of the triforce."
Saria raised her arms and lowered the second golden piece within mine.
'You obtained the second piece of the triforce! Saria lends her power and adds it to yours!'
"I hope to see you again. Good luck, you're going to need it."
We walked out of the forest, and back into Hyrule field. Link and Jade tip-toed off, leaving Kado and I together. Greaaaat.
"Well…uh…hi?" Wow, I suck.
Kado smiled and said, "Hey, good job with the temple, sweetcakes. Maybe now we can have some REAL alone time."
My eyes opened wide. What the hell is he thinking, that I'll do him because he's being a fucking flirt? No way in hell was I going to have that man in my pants…okay, tights.
With Jade and Link"Can't you stop laughing for one second, Jade?" Link grumbled as we both plopped down about twenty feet away from Cat and Kado. Hell, we didn't need to see them getting close. And even though Lon Lon Ranch stood close, I was in no mood to deal with a possible fan girl moment. Hiding among the few rocks and high grass suited me just fine.
"Why?" I choked, feeling a tear escape.
"Because it's annoying," he retorted.
I quieted down before wiping the stray tear away, "Sorry, I didn't know my laugh was terrible."
He furrowed his eyebrows, "That's not what I meant."
"Whatever," I remarked before lying down on the soft grass.
Link glanced at the two again and I followed suit.
Kado's form seemed less annoying from all the way over where I was witting, enough so that I couldn't hear them talking either- which felt nice. But then a pang of…something grappled my chest and looked away to stifle a yawn.
Good cover up, my conscience congratulated me.
"So," I began slowly, realizing Link's gaze hadn't exactly strayed from them yet. At least my suspicions from earlier had been concluded to a truth.
Point for me. Yay.
"What's up with you and her, eh?" I muttered.
He shook his head and glanced at me warily, "What do you mean?"
I smirked, "Come on, anybody can tell there's something there unless they're stupid, but since you…well…"
"Oh, yeah?" Link ignored my half-finished comment and quirked an eyebrow, "What about you and him?"
I flushed a red.
Thank heavens it was dark.
"Don't be stupid…oh wait…" I sighed.
He grumbled something about aliens and idiocy under his breath.
"There's nothing there, okay?" I tried to reason but he smirked.
"I know there's something there." I glanced away and towards Kado.
For a moment, I swore his gleaming eyes had glanced my direction. By that time, however, I was looking away and trying to act innocent.
Damn heart! Shut up!
"Yeah, so?" I huffed, realizing I had been caught reasoning from that growing smirk on his face, "What do you care?"
"Feel like giving back to all their wonderful deeds?" he replied wryly.
"I'm rubbing off on you more than I thought," I said with a chuckle.
"Want to hear my plan?" he asked.
I smiled, "What do you have in mind, amigo?"
GDL:Muhaha, we're so evil! Yay cliff-hanger. Anyway, this is for all you fabulous people that were stuck waiting.