The Fire Temple and the Manly Man
The group of heroes walked down the Dragon Road for what seemed to be an eternity, Zelda was so happy she wasn't wearing high heels, but one of her favorite dresses was ripped so she mainly remained in her "Sheik" guise until they got to the Southern Providence. All of them including their "ninja" allies were wary of the dodongo crisis the south was having and their Goron friends were doing their best to quell it. However, the question still remained, what on Earth was causing them to go crazy, it wasn't Ganondorf since this was happen before he made his move, something, or someone, had already had their hand in this.
Elsewhere, in the Eastern Country of Xang, the eldest of the three princes walked around with a bottle of sake and walk away from a woman who obviously didn't want to be where she was. She was clearly worse for wear and wanted to leave. "Be gone when I return" Shishio ordered as he half drunkenly walked out of his section of the palace.
He stumbled around and kept cursing, "Damn father, how dare he name Shin his heir, when was the last time that brat was even in the damn palace?" he kept cursing until he realized, there were no guards around the place. "Where…" he began but as he heard something his arms quickly went to his daishō blades.
"Oh. Don't worry, I am not an enemy of yours…yet" said a voice as the shadow of the Leader of the Brotherhood arose. "Forgive me prince Shishio, I just wanted to get you alone…" he began but had to dodge Shishio's drunken strike. "Now, that's not very polite" the shadow said as he wrapped the prince up in shadow chains. Sweat covered the goatee of the prince as the shadow came closer. "Now, done to business, I represent the Leader of the Brotherhood of Shadows, and he wishes to give you…an invitation into the Brotherhood as an Elite member" the shadow said much to Shishio's confusion.
Link's company marched on until they saw the capital village of southern Hyrule. Here they were met by a large amount of soldiers one in particular was a BIG man. He instantly threw a tree at the trio, ran towards them and ripped his officer's uniform off to reveal his muscular body. "Weep not princess, I Colonel Samson the Iron Fist am here to defend you and your allies from the bandits!" he triumphantly yelled. Everyone just stared at him and the Hylian soldiers just shook their heads. "…Now, where are the bandits?" he yelled showing off his muscles and big gauntlets.
Shin and everyone else blinked in confusion, "Is this a Hylian thing?" he asked as he ripped his own shirt off causing Hina to protest embarrassingly.
Sieg chimed in, "Well, they are a bunch of hicks so, maybe" he scoffed as Link shot him a look. "What, everyone is a hick to me" he defended. Surprisingly, Yama agreed with him.
Zelda calmed him, "It's okay Col Samson, it was a misunderstanding" she explained. "These are the Xangese of Xang" she continued.
Samson looked at them, "Well hello yellow people I am SAMSON the-" he began until his men threw his shirt on his head to silence him. He put it back on and calmed down. "As I said, I am the Manly Man, a man among men" he continued as he once again threw his shirt off. "Look at the Godly perfection that is me through years of trial and error, I…" he once again did as he was begged to stop. "Oh alright, follow me to the Fire Temple" he pouted.
Back in Xang the Shadow floated in the air and stared down Shishio; it had six green eyes and long claws and talked in a sinister tone. "So, you see, the Leader will greatly reward you for serving him" it said as it trailed around its prisoner.
Suddenly, a symbol that looked like a pair of dragon-like wings glowed on Shishio's right forearm. The light allowed him to escape the shadow's chains and place his swords at its throat. "It seems you underestimated me demon, I possess the Dragon Wings of Might" Shishio said in a cocky manner. He stumbled given his drunken state yet it seemed that the Dragon Mark was keeping him focused.
The shadow never flinched, "Yes, and your little brother Gicho has the Dragon Tail of Knowledge and your youngest brother has the Dragon Head of Spirit. The three heirs all possess a Dragon Mark this generation making your generation special" he rebuffed. "However, master chose you" he ended waiting for Shishio's response.
Shishio looked at him and put his blades down, "Speak vermin" he said.
Link and company were being directed to the Fire Temple, it was high up top Death Mountain in the dormant volcano's crater. Prays to the Goddesses here kept the volcano from ever becoming active and the dodongos kept the Gorons from going in to offer their prays. "Boy is it hot in here, or is it just the cuties getting' to us?" Shin said as they ventured close.
Samson turned as he appeared to have once again removed his shirt, "HA! Of course it's hot, those special tunics will protect you from the heat, but a MAN needs no protection!" he scoffed as he ran at full speed to the temple embedded in the mountain.
Zelda shook her head as Link helped her up, her special dress helped repel the heat and her Nayru's Love spell gave extra protection. "Despite what you think he is VERY strong so, don't doubt my father and Lord General Faust's decision to make him a colonel" she said to Link
Link looked at her, "I doubted them when they made Viktor a colonel" he rebuffed.
Samson pointed out that the dodongo were before them and Shin jumped down in the middle of the whole herd looking for the dragons. "Where are they, all I see are these little lizards" he asked as he kicked one away. Not surprisingly, Hina and Yama looked around too.
Everyone just had their mouths opened, "ALL AROUND YOU!" they yelled causing him to take notice.
As they all jumped him, Shin stuck his spear into the ground and twirled around it, "Spirit Style: Dragon Wheel" he yelled as they all went flying. "THESE are your dragons, sad" he said as he continued to beat them up playfully to everyone's amazement.
The Shadow ended its negotiations with Shishio hoping he would join the Brotherhood, "Think about it, you've climbed as far as you can in THIS regime, but in my master's regime, you will rule all of Xang when the world is divided up, and even more land. It's a big world and there's a small handful of Elites to divide the world up among" it stated. "You'll just have to adhere to his orders to go from place to place every so often with your army and destroy stuff, and from what I hear, you're good at that and you have no qualms about doing that" it ended
Shishio stared for a second, as if he was trying to take everything in. "I…I am not in a sound state a mind to make an immediate decision. I, I have been drinking…give me until the end of the week if you please" he stated actually considering the offer.
The Shadow just bowed, "Of course, three days it is, Leader will be most pleased" it said.
Link and the others gazed at the giant temple and the giant pile of dodongo that Shin had beat up, "Man that was sad, you guys think these are "mighty dragon creatures"? You obviously never seen a Xangese dragon" he stated as he entered the temple. Samson marveled at the Xangese peoples' work.
Inside they looked around the molten rooms of the temple, "Bah! Do these rock eating people not know how to keep up a temple? This place has so much structure damage it looks like it'll all come down with one hit…NO MASTER!" Yama yelled as he saw the damage the dodongo had done and he noticed Shin was running up the walls everywhere just asking for trouble.
Suddenly, the roof of the temple's hall came crashing down and everyone darted. Outside Samson looked at what he missed out on. "NOOOO! A man like me misses out on adventure, but no fear, I will dig them out!" he yelled as he started moving boulders.
He was stopped instantly by a few Gorons, "Hey Mac…you gonna eat all those?" one asked.
Inside the temple Link looked up as the dust was settling, "Are you alright Prince…" he began trying to talk to Zelda but he realized he was not with her.
"No formalities between us buddy" Shin said getting up. He could see Link wasn't too thrilled it was him. "Nice seeing you too, let's look for the others, I gotta get to the baddy first since Sieg got the last one" Shin said happily as he dragged Link into the temple.
To be Continued in: "Divided we Stand"