HEXES
Chapter 10
Written by: KokiriCosmo and Acebatman
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[He put the sword back, now that the room was spotless. He searched all over the room for a chest and came up empty handed. In the end, he assumed it was in the next room up ahead. There was a message on a plaque by the door, and he furrowed his brows in confusion, not familiar with the language. "Woo-Hoo, I'm illiterate!" Link joked to himself. He exited the flooded chamber and wound up in the main hall he was before with his counterpart. There was a chest above a tree that he could easily get to, and he rubbed his hands together plotting his revenge. "All the better to reach Ghirahim."]
Past Link goes through the door on the left. He had been here twice before so he knew just where to look. He walks up the steps and to a web that was blocking his path. Link cuts the web up and goes further into the room, but stops dead in his tracks. Seven spider-like creatures that he had never seen before stood in his way. They had an eye in the middle of their head, armor on the back, four legs, and red fangs.
Before Link has time to react, one of them lunges at him. With all four of its legs wrapped around him, the creature tries to place itself too sink its protruding fangs into his face. He takes an arrow out of his adventure pack and quickly stabs it in the pupil of the arachnid.
He pulls out his bow and finishes the other six in a matter of seconds. "Man that was to easy," Link smiled sadistically.
He hears a noise from above him, looking up slowly. "Holy sh..." is all he could muster as the many Ghoma larva fell off the roof toward Link. He fishes out a bomb real fast and rolls it across the ground. He does a back flip, pulling out his bow again in mid-air firing at the explosive. The bomb blows prematurely because of the arrow, exterminating all the Ghoma larva right when they landed.
A chest magically appears on the destroyed bridge. He ran to the chest impatiently and fidgeted with the latch handle. Then Link produced a key from the chest. He trailed back to the room with the locked door with the key in hand.
Past Link didn't have to wait long as Future Link dove in the water, holding a silver key in his teeth. He climbed up the vines on the center catwalk and shook his head like a wet dog. There was water in his boots, but he ignored it running to his counterpart. He jumped up from the log that floated in the water, taking the metal object out of his mouth. "Time to see whose key works on this thing." Without further speaking he tried his first and smiled when the key he had worked. Together, they both pulled the door up and let it fall behind them as they entered a large room with a dome in the center.
Future Link walked ahead of him, eager to know what monsters he had to face next. He stopped everything as he heard metal clanking against stone echoing from the other side of the dome. It wasn't a comforting sound either and he had some idea about what it could be. He held his hand up to signify his counterpart to stay as he walked cautiously to find the source of the clanking. Peaking around a pillar, his eyes widened in horror as a former foe began stalking towards him threateningly with a large sword. To make the situation worse, there were two Darknuts!
He turned around and ran like a speeding arrow towards his counterpart. "Open the door to that dome- Now! We got company!" He grabbed his relative, pulling him down as a sword flew over their heads into the door behind them.
"Oh shit!" He heard his counterpart squeak with shock.
Future Link pulled his body up quickly, "Come on, Sky!" He ordered accidentally using Past Link's nickname.
Past Link gave him a look of confusion as he ran for the dome's door. Future Link prepared his sword and choose the closest darknut, rolling around the giant armored knight. He struck his back viciously, striking as much damage into the armor as possible. The armor fell off instantly as he jumped attacked him. He only stopped attacking the first darknut as the other tried to hit him. It accidentally slammed its fists in the darknut's head and Link laughed at its stupidity. He ran a couple of feet away from the couple, enjoying how the first darknut fell to the ground and evaporated in diamond shards.
Link relaxed for a moment as he heard howling coming from the enormous hole in the dome. The distraction almost threw him off guard as the last darknut charged at him like a goat. Thinking fast, he dodged it and climbed up its back , holding tightly to its muscular neck. It shook its shoulders violently, trying to throw him from its back, until Link sliced him good across the throat. He let go of the darknut's back before it could knock him against the floor. The monster's neck bleed wildly as Link panted for breath, moving some hair behind his right ear. He smiled sensually at his sword as the adrenaline rushed through his veins. With a spin of the blade, he pounced up and initiated the Final Blow.
Past Link went into the dome alone. He was ready for anything considering what Ghirahim had already thrown at him. When he got into the dome a gate came down and blocked the door. He was alone with no way out and no way to get any back up from his future counterpart.
For a moment it was completely silent. Link waited patiently for something to pop up. Suddenly a big wolfos randomly appeared. Link looked at the beast, not believing its size. The ten foot grey wolfos let out a big howl.
Link readied his sword and shield, not knowing what to expect. The wolfos lunged at him. Link rolled out-of-the-way, but not fast enough. The wolfos' claws slightly graze his face. The sky child ignores the blood dripping from his face.
The wolfos licks his chops at the site of the boy's blood. The canine lunges at the teen again, but this time Link was ready. The sky child rolls out-of-the-way again. This time he gets behind the wolfos and slices its tail off. The wolfos yelps in pain with blood squirting from where his tail used to be.
The wolfos kicks his two back feet back toward his attacker. His feet hit Link, who was foolishly admiring his work. The blond teen went flying to the other side of the room. He slams into the wall.
Link lays against the wall dazed and confused. The wolfos slowly stalks toward him, wanting to savor every moment before finishing his meal off. The wolfos lunges at Link once again. Link gained enough consciousness to hold his sword up into the air, slightly away from his body.
The sword stabs through the wolfos chest and into its heart. A small wine exits the mouth of the beast. The giant wolfos slowly starts to die, snapping at Link again and again. The sky child just uses his sword and shield to hold the canine's head at bay until it dies. Link rolls out from under his now vanquished foe.
He notices that the wolfos was wearing a collar and a gold puzzle piece was attached to it. Link remembers this object. It acted as a key for the boss room in the temple, so he grabbed it. The sky child pulls out his beetle and sends it through the hole in the dome. The beetle hits the diamond switch high above the door to the dome. The gate goes up and Link exits the dome.
Future Link lays against the wall, hearing the door to the dome open. He questions if he should put his sword away or not. It seemed like enemies came around every corner. So what was the point? He saw his mirrored-self run to him noticing a golden object in his hands.
"Is that the boss key?" He tilted his head, "It's not exactly how I pictured it."
"It works like a puzzle piece. You have to match it up with the symbol on the door," Past Link explains. "By the way, why did you call me sky?" He asked future Link.
Future Link looks away, rubbing his chin quizzically. "I guess Ghirahim's nickname for you got stuck in my head, so it came out accidentally. It is easier to address you that way since we're both Link. If you don't mind... May be we both can have temporary names until this war is over."
"Okay. But we don't have time to come up with one for you now. Let's go, follow me," Sky said hurriedly, running off toward the boss door.
Sky leads the way into the room with the boss door in it. He saw the rope they had to cross and looked back at future. "You ever done this before?" He asked starting to walk across the rope.
"I suggest we go one at a time," Sky says, before future Link can answer.
Sky gets half way across when he hears a flapping sound, on his left side. Before he can even look to see what it was, something hits him. Sky falls off the rope, but catches it again before he fell.
A lizard creature with wings, a sword, and shield was high above Sky. The aerialfos was about to charge at Sky, but future Link pulled out his clawshot and used it to take away its shield. Sky takes advantage of the distraction and starts to spin around the rope.
The flying lizard charges at Sky. Using his own momentum. He jumps up in the air and lands on the rope, pulls out his sword, and cuts one of the aerialfos' wings right before it hits him. The aerialfo barely misses Sky, spins out of control, and crashes into the pit below.
Sky got all the way across. "Your turn!" he calls across to future Link.
The Ordonian nodded his head, and stepped carefully on the rope finding his balance. He had to admit it was easier doing this as a wolf. Link was halfway across when another Aerialfos entered the chasm. It gave him a sadistic look as it flew straight at the rope, and cut it parallel from the boss door. Link screamed when the weightlessness took over and he swung at the bottom, hitting the wall. There was no way of defending himself now as his legs dangled, holding on to the rope.
Sky watched as his partner fell into the ravine. He ran to the edge to make sure he didn't drop and to his relief he was still there. "Hold on!" He said as he fetched a clawshot out of his adventure pack. Pulling the trigger, it latched on the lizard's shield where the target was. He yanked back the chain and reeled in the Aerialfos with all his strength. It struggled to free itself pathetically as it came closer to Sky. He pulled his sword out with a smirk. The monster gave a frightened face when it had now where to go. Sky did it a favor by decapitating its head and kicking it down the gorge.
Future Link watched as blood rained into the pit behind him. It took him second to realize Sky had dropped him a rope. It was blue with a glowing red hook on the end.
"Grab my whip. I'll pull you up!"
When Future Link made it up he happily accepted Sky's hand and crawled on top of the edge. He sat on his knees, rubbing his aching shoulders. "Thanks- that was close."
Both the heroes advanced to the boss door. Sky placed the "h" shaped puzzle piece into the keyhole and the door slowly cracked open. Future Link was the first on the scene. When Sky tried to follow him, he was unexpectedly thrown back by Ghirahim's barricade.
Past Link is referred to as "Sky" in the story. It's just easier to remember and less wording. If you guys made it this far into HEXES, just follow it! xD Give us some feedback at least- we appreciate your time. Future Link will have a name change too in upcoming chapters.