So sorry for that late update
My goal was to upload a chapter every week but… the internet started acting up
so that chapter was delayed…
and i am oh so very sorry for that T^T
This chapter was late too… oh well at least i finally got it done instead of forgetting it all together
So here's the next chapter XD
Chapter 9- a Hero appears
"Will you quit waving your sword in the air! I can't see." Serena yelled notching her arrow.
"Gah!" Raven got hit by another one of the keeses' dives. All eight of the keese were swarming around his head, taking turns diving at him. "Why are they only swarming around me."
"Maybe they still remember you." Seri shrugged following a keese's path with the tip of her arrow. She released the arrow and it dug itself into its desired target getting rid of one out of the eight keeses.
Serena sighed. If she keeps this up they'll be done with this by about the end of this chapter. She requipped her bow and arrow for a spear, and started jabbing at the keese. She didn't hit any of them though but her spear being another obstacle for the keese to get around lead them to be hit by some of Ravens lucky blows.
"ARGH!" Raven yelled in frustration and did a spin attack KO'ing everything around him, including Serena. "Ah! Sorry."
Luckily he only hit her with the flat of his sword so she was not cut in half like the keese around her. She flopped to the floor on her stomach
"Did that hurt?" He asked peering over her. She rolled onto her back.
"n-nope… n… not at all" Her voice was raspy since she just had the wind knocked out of her.
"ahem" She slowly got up with a few coughs and dusted herself off. "Well at least it got the job done."
The keese around them disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"We should get going. Link already has a head start." Serena said bringing out the lantern they had gotten from Coro.
A lantern.
Raven never had a lantern before so the sight of it was always intriguing. It makes it a lot easier to carry a fire instead of using fire arrows and Din's fire, both which require magic. He requipped a dagger over and over again as they made their way out of the tunnel.
Raven had improved a lot since he first learned the technique. He used the time waiting for the twilight wall to disappear requipping daggers. Now the daggers came in and out without a single scratch on them.
As soon as they get back to Serena's place he can requip all his weapons. Then he wouldn't have to carry them around in his goron sized bag, which he had gotten in Termina.
He learned a new thing about requipping. You and only you can requip items that you have requipped before. Unless the person breaks their bond with it. So the hook shot is now Serena's.
But that's okay, He has the longshot.
He was so preoccupied with his practice he didn't see Serena stop until he bumped into her. Raven opened his mouth to apologize but Serena shushed him and pointed to the green clad hero.
Link was currently following a monkey through the purple fog. The lantern attached to the monkey's staff seemed to ward off the purple fog. What the effects the fog had, they had no idea. Nor did they know exactly why Link was following the monkey.
"Should we follow them?" Raven asked putting a hand on Seri's shoulder.
"I don't think we should. We can't hide behind anything before clearing the fog. He might see us."
"What does the fog do?"
"Seeing as it's purple, nothing good." She said ignoring the fact that her eyes and shirt are purple.
"Then i guess we're going through the trees again."
"I guess so."
They started up the tree to their left and climbed their way over the fog infested swamp.
"huh…"
"What?" Serena asked as Raven sheathed his sword from dealing with the bokubabas.
"Were there monsters up here the last time?" Serena shrugged her shoulders and they went on to the other side.
Link had beaten them to the gate and was already slashing away at the two bulblins in the field. There was a wooden structure resting on one side of the forest. It was unmistakably out of place but Link ran right past it like it was nothing.
"What is Kakario gorge's bridge doing here?"
"This is the bridge going to Kakario?" Seri nodded. "How do you know that?"
"I watched them build it." She said simply walking away.
"How did it get here?…" Raven asked himself aloud.
"CHEAP SAKE!" An angry voice crowed.
"Ow!" Link yelled as the bird pecked him on the noggin. "I'm sorry! I only had 15 rupees."
He ran out of the range of the annoyed bird. The blue bird went back and sat on it's branch. It started mumbling about the difference a blue rupee has on a business like his.
Raven went over to Serena who was at the time hiding behind a rock.
"What was that about?" Raven asked as Link sliced a bokubaba in half.
"Your descendant refilled his lantern and only paid him 15 rupees." Serena replied.
"How much did it cost?"
"20"
"That's not much" He said crossing his arms over his chest. It's just one red rupee.
"Did you have over 5 thousand rupees when you started out?"
"Please, I have way more than that." He said playfully. Raven was about to say something more when he noticed a golden wolf standing before the bridge to the forest temple.
"What are you looking at?" Serena asked.
"Don't tell me you can't see this too." He said pointing to the golden wolf. It had one red eye and was waiting patiently for the new hero to finish his business.
Serena looked and squinted her made a face.
"No, I can see it… just barely though." She pouted. "Why can you see these things so clear as day?" Raven just shrugged.
Serena requipped her bow and arrow, and took aim.
"Should I shoot it?" She asked.
"No! What are you thinking?" He pushed her arm down to lower the arrow.
"Well it's watching Link. Are you sure it's not a threat?"
"We're watching Link too." He reasoned.
"mmm good point." She put her bow and arrow away, but quickly brought it out again after the wolf jumped on Link.
"What happened?" Serena asked. She only saw Link fall down.
"He's fine… I think. The wolf just jumped on him and then disappeared…" He said slowly as if he wasn't sure himself.
The Hero wasn't moving, but Raven knew he wasn't hurt. He could feel that his breathing is normal. Whatever that wolf did bought him some time to do what he wanted to do.
"Give me the lantern." He told Serena holding out his hand.
"What? Why?" She stared at him. What was he going to do set the guy on fire? Those clothes did look flammable.
"Just give it to me." Serena rolled her eyes and gave it to him.
Raven got up from behind the rock and went over to the bird's stand.
"What are you doing?" She glanced at Link wondering if he would get up oh so untimely.
"Relax. He won't see me he's knocked out." Raven replied to the panicking Serena.
"YOU AGAIN!" The bird cried springing up from his perch and flaps its wings furiously.
"No, no" He put his hands up in defense. "He's over there." Raven points to Link who was still on the ground.
"oh" The bird sits back down realizing the noticeable difference in height. "Sorry there. You just look too alike."
"yeah… I get that a lot…"
"So, Are you going to buy something?" The parrot looked suspiciously of Raven. 'This better not be another stingy cheapskate.'
Raven caught the look and proceeded to refill their lantern. He went to the cash box and dropped two yellow rupees inside as well as a blue rupee.
"This is to pay for my friends little debt. Forget that it even happened." He said with a little wink.
"Thank you!" The parrot flapped his wings happily. "You're a generous young fellow, unlike that boy that just came past." The parrot with an afro shook his neck when he spoke of Raven's descendant.
"Teenagers these days..." It crowed as Raven walked away. He went to a new hiding spot a bit closer to where Link was. Serena joined him.
"So you were just going to pay for him?" Serena looked at him with a raised brow.
"Yeah well, I don't want the new hero of Hyrule to be ridiculed by a parrot." He partially sighed. "You're not going to write about that will you?"
"No there's nothing bad about any of the Links in any of our books, why start now."
"Okay good." By the end of their conversation Link got up and shook his head. He took out his sword and stared at it strangely.
"Final blow, huh…" He said to himself. He charged at the monster at the front of the temple. Once it was knocked down he leaped in the air and stabbed the creature with his sword. He did a flip to get the sword out and proceeded to do the same to the second monster.
He smiled to himself. A bit creepy to do after just killing a monster, but he didn't seem to mind or care. Link was just proud of himself for being able to perform the new sword skill he learned.
With that aside he set the web blocking the way into the temple on fire. His two teenage stalkers followed him inside.
The temple smelled roughly of dust and burnt moss. Raven, who recognized the smell, minus the dust, had to be stopped by Serena from advancing ahead of Link.
Link used his slingshot to shoot down the bugs on the vines to the left of this room. He then jumped from that ledge and rolled into a totem pole, to which dropped a brightly colored rupee.
They waited until Link freed the she-monkey and went into the next room before emerging from the shadow cloaked rocks.
"Come on he's leaving." Raven said dragging Serena by the arm across the room. The temple has changed since he had seen it last but that just means that he'll have to go through it all over again.
The former hero of hyrule practically threw Serena on the vines above them. She scrambled to hold onto the slick vines. If he really tried he could have thrown her onto the ledge above.
"Woah slow down" Serena snagged her arm onto Raven's shoulder. "Why are you in such a hurry? You don't think you're going to reach the end before he does."
"I could try" Raven helped Serena get up from the vines and they headed to the next room.
As quietly as they did open the stone door, Link still noticed and turned around before lighting that last torch. Raven dove into the grasses while Serena sneaked behind another rock.
Link continued on over the raised wooden platform that had just appeared and entered the next room without much thought.
"phew." Serena sighed though they weren't that close to being caught she didn't like the tension. "I should have worn different clothes."
Serena rested against the stone wall while Raven walked around the room. He pulled himself up to the middle of the room.
"How did that chest get there?" Raven wondered out loud. He was referring to the large chest he was staring at several feet above. It was suspended by the strand of a spiders web.
Last time he remembered spiders didn't make webs that strong. Hmm looks like the monsters evolved a bit.
Even though he was sure the web would hold the pots and chests well he steered clear of their shadows.
"He missed this…" Raven said opening the chest in the left corner. It was the Forest Temple's Dungeon map. His blue eyes scanned the map taking note of every room and their location
"What are you doing?" Serena asked snatching the map out of his hands. She quickly stuffed it back into the chest careful in putting it the way it was.
"Just taking a quick look at it." He said over his back already starting to open the stone door. Link must have gone into the next room by now.
"Hey where are you-" Two sharp snaps was heard from behind the door and the voice they knew belonged to the shadow spoke a few words from behind it.
The stone door rumbled as it started to open. Serena froze, startled at the sound and panic of Link returning so soon. Raven on the other hand wasted no time. He had pulled the hesitant Serena down the ledge to hide against the wooden platform all in the moment of the opening temple door.
They heard a chest open. A pause.
"You can look at that later, keep moving." The Link's Shadowy companion said sternly.
"fine fine" He said putting it away.
Serena held her breath as Link walked across the platform. Raven just stared him down, his eyes unwavering. The monkey he freed earlier came into view. She jumped onto the single line of rope and swung upside-down beckoning to Link.
Link then swung over the the west side of the room using the monkey as a swing of some sort. Raven felt Serena flinch when Link landed on the ground.
It wasn't until Link and the she-monkey left through the stone door did she release her held breath.
"… now that was close." Raven said getting up. 'In this confounded area there is only a few places we can hide. We'll have to be careful.'
"So how are we going to follow him?" Serena asked. The couldn't use a monkey like he did.
"Do you still have the hook shot?" Serena pulled it out of her pocket.
They followed him through the temple. They had to be patient with it though. They couldn't follow him everywhere since some of the doors locked itself. They didn't miss too much. Link was just collecting monkeys.
Raven ran into some trouble with the red deku babas. Well not exactly trouble.
"They never did this before." Raven said calmly running/ walking away from from the severed deku head chasing him around the grass.
"Just hit it again it'll die." Serena said a few feet away searching through the grass for rupees.
Raven followed her advice and turned around to strike at the deku baba splitting it in half. He finished off the other respawned deku baba they went after Link. They walked in on him hitting his head against yet another totem pole.
"You'd think he'd get a concussion from all this head banging."
"pfft. Head banging." Serena laughed to herself. When Raven looked at her she merely said it was an inside joke.
They stayed by the door since this room didn't lead to any others. At least that's what Raven had told her. Having only looked at the map once he had already memorized the simpler forest temple. At least in his opinion it was simple.
Link got knocked over by a tile worm.
"hmm that looks like it hurt." Raven said. Link then got thrown around by a couple more tile worm.
"I'm not going over there…." Serena said eyeballing the tiles.
"how lucky, he landed on that platform." 'now he won't have to climb those time consuming vines to get to that chest.' Raven thought.
"strange what you call lucky." Serena got up. "Lets go. Don't want him walking in on us again."
They left and waited out of sight for Link to come out. He brought another monkey with him. Link went back through the temple to the place where he got the map. And left through the same door that almost got their cover blown.
The followed him quietly, slipping through the door after a few seconds. The monkeys' had spread across the stretched rope.
"Think we can get across the same way?" Raven asked as Link jumped from monkey to monkey across the divide.
Serena didn't answer she was even paler than before staring down into the white fog that hid the bottom.
Raven took that as a no. Even if the monkeys did let them across, he doubted Serena wanted to go that way, so he took out his hookshot.
"This won't carry us all the way…" He looked to the right toward the platforms on the other side. "But we can go that way."
Serena held onto him for dear life, even though it was unnecessary since they had a less chance of falling into the chasm, as Raven used the hookshot from platform to platform.
"oh look a monkey." Raven said pointing to the caged creature. A bulblin heard him and came foreword with its club. Raven dealt with it easily but since the shaking Serena advised him that Link would get it.
They couldn't go through the door so they climbed up to the opening on the side.
Link was battling some baboon with a boomerang. Whenever the baboon threw his boomerang at him he rolled into the totem he was on. Then the boomerang would hit him on it's return trip.
Link repeated this several times, whacking the baboon with his sword every time he fell down.
The baboon soon couldn't take it anymore and ran into one of the totems. A parasite fell out of the animal and shriveled into dust.
A confused baboon stood up. It suddenly froze and slowly looked behind him. He jumped apparently started by the armed Link. It leaped to the middle totem pole and left through the opening Raven and Serena were spectating through.
It nearly missed knocking Serena off. Then it got even more startled after seeing the also armed Raven-Link.
Link just stood there for a moment and noticed that it left it's boomerang. Before he could reach it, the boomerang sprung to life and introduced itself as the Fairy boomerang.
Raven could hear it's voice loud and clear, but Serena who was leaning closer to see why there was a mini whirlwind slipped off the edge of the rocks opening.
"Oh Sh-" She tumbled down into the room Raven just barely missing her outstretched hand.
Link turned slightly to see what that noise was but quickly turned his attention back to the fairy boomerang coming towards him. Link's shadow pulled itself from the ground and spoke the Link.
Serena, who decided to try and get the best out of her situation, sneaked closer to hear what they were saying. She hid behind one of the totem poles.
"We already found something good, so let's keep searching places we haven't looked yet."
"Alright but let me test this out first." Link responded taking out the Gale boomerang he had just acquired. He threw it around the room messing up the piles of fallen leaves and Serena's hair.
Raven chuckled at Serena's wind blown look. She casted him a glare and Raven only shrugged.
"You've had your practice, now how are we going to get out of here!" The shadow snapped from beneath him.
"Calm down Midna. I figure a way out." Link looked around the room. Raven ducked behind the rocks. Raven already saw his descendant's way out. The little wind machine above the door was obviously meant for something.
Though, from his view it's probably not that obvious looking. Raven-Link did have more experience with what to look for so he shouldn't be expecting too much.
The shadow, named Midna, sighed impatiently.
Link went back to the door and finally noticed the machine above it.
'Was that always there?' Link thought to himself. He then threw the gale boomerang at it a few times and each trip raised the wooden grid a little more until it finally freed the door.
Once Link was out the door Raven jumped from the opening and landed lightly on a patch of leaves.
"Should we follow him?" Raven asked.
"Yeah I don't think he'll be coming back like last time."
They resumed their stalking. Link went back the way they came and he also freed the Monkey they had left in the cage. Midna made another appearance and said something about freeing the rest of the monkeys.
"Hey can I use the hook shot this time?" Serena asked.
"Why?"
"I want to practice landing." She looked away. Raven just handed her the hookshot. It wasn't like they were going to need it for now. Link had already set the platforms so they can just walk across it.
They followed him into the familiar room where Raven saw the suspended blue chest. Link knocked that down along with some also suspended pots. It turns out that the compass and the map were in the same room.
"That hasn't happened before." Raven muttered to himself.
"You say something?"
"Nothing…" Raven looked back at the puzzled Link.
"That's a compass. It tells you where the hidden objects are in this place. " Midna spoke emerging from Link's shadow. Upon closer examination Raven could see that this Midna was some sort of twilight creature. Even though it was partially covered shadow the thing resting on her head was resonating some sort of ancient power.
"As long as you have that, you should be able to find where the captured monkeys are, right?" Midna continued before retreating back as Link's shadow.
Using the gale boomerang Link progressed farther through the temple, rescuing monkeys as he goes. Only Raven would know that because Serena got separated from them.
I happened after Link went to go get the boss key. Serena was going to find a better hiding place since her violet shirt stands out more than Raven's ocean blue. Link achieved the key faster than she thought and didn't have enough time to go to another hiding place.
Serena had no other option but to go through the stone door behind her and unfortunately that's where Link was headed as well. Raven didn't see her when they went through the pass and she wasn't seen in the next room either. She must have gone across the bridge to the other room.
Raven thought about going ahead to warn her but he was caught on the rotating platform bridge. He was now face to face with an armed bulblin. And since Serena still had the Hook shot, he would have to wait for Link to put the bridge back.
Both the Links finished them off with two blows. A vertical slash to knock them down and the final blow. Raven never did all these fancy moves before. He didn't need to but if his decedent was learning them, why shouldn't he. Besides, They took out their swords from their fallen victim with a backflip, it looked cool.
Serena on the other hand was going on ahead. She didn't know when Link would get here so she had to find a place to meet up with Raven. She couldn't get to the other side because of the great chasm so she hookshotted to her right to get to the far wind platform.
There was a bulblin below the patch of vines. She decided to leave that one there since she had only a few homemade arrows left.
'note to self, make Raven buy me some arrows.' she thought before using the hookshot to get to the top of the ledge.
Finding no place to hide she tried her luck in the next room. She went through the stone door.
There was a chest to her right but there was some sort of plant in the way, a deku like was it?. She took out Raven's hookshot. 'Would this latch onto chest?'
She shot it at the chest and was pleased that it did indeed hook onto the chest. Unfortunately the way it would pull her over would graze the side of the plant.
But Serena wouldn't know that until the hook shot pulled her over a minute later.
"GAH!" She yelped when her shoulder collided with the deku like. The massaged it gently before opening the chest.
It had a small key.
"Hmm, go ahead or stay here until I'm caught..." There really was no place for her to hide. She could stay in the water but Serena can't hold her breath for long. The few seconds she did before were as far as she could go.
"oh well." She pocketed the key. "I never learned how to swim anyway." She said aloud.
Using the hook shot she made her way back to the previous room.
'The bridge...' It was still in the position Link had left it. 'That must mean they are still in that room.' She looked to her left. 'Must be vines over there.'
She launched herself to the middle of the platform and simply walked over to the locked door and unlocked it.
This room felt particularly mustier than the other rooms. She coughed as she entered. A few tiles on the ground shifted in response. The half sheikah noticed.
'Great tile worms.'
Serena stepped carefully around the tiles she knew were tile worms. She stopped when she heard something above her. She looked up and was unable to see anything from her point of view.
She took a step back and regretted that in an instant. She stepped right onto a tile worm. It lunged out of the ground knocking the unsuspecting Serena into one of the weak wooden braces. The brace broke under 100 years of aging and the sudden impact.
Serena shook her head to clear it just in time for her to register the incoming pillar. She had no time to react. The broken wooden brace dropped on top of Seri's legs.
"Great… Just fricken wonderful!" Serena tried wiggling herself out from under the pillar. "UrGh-" She pushed against the wood with all her might, which wasn't much so it didn't budge.
She requipped a spear and tried to use it to lift the pillar. Serena couldn't reach the end of the spear so the method that could have even Serena to be able to lift the stone, failed to provide results.
'Great I'm going to be stuck here until Raven finds me.' She thought dropping her head down in shame. 'Or even worse, Link.' She requipped the spear away groaning.
Unable of being able to do anything, Serena drifted into a brief nap. Sleeping on the cold dusty ground with a pillar on top of your legs isn't exactly elements to a good night's sleep. So the heavy sleeper woke up to the sound of a sword colliding with stone.
Serena slowly opened her eyes. She could just make out a blade going underneath the pillar. Some armed person was trying the technique she attempted before.
The question is…
Raven? Or Link?
I'm sorry it took so long for me to upload this! And it's not even a long chapter too. Sorry!
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you know who i like to listen to when writing this story?
Gavin Mikhail
you should listen to him.
the song Brave really sets the mood for my story ^^
here's a link (on youtube) - .com/watch?v=vn0s8b-9BU
I picture Raven/Link singing this song :P but it's not from his POV
I have a song I listen to when drawing them. But I'll post that later. XD
First time writing about the dungeons… first time for a LOZ fanfiction too… everything is a first since this is my second FF…
so how was it?
feedback please!
[edit] woops i looked back and found out that i skipped a part XD I just fixed that right now. I also found the correct word for a few things.