A/N- I-I cant believe it, I made it to chapter 40... Well I shouldn't say anything until the final chapter. I am unsure about writing the sequel I was talking about in the earlier chapters since I suck at writing and other 22 things but who cares right? (Being completely negative here) Anyways, here it is! Chapter 40!
Disclaimer- I do not own Zelda nor Lloyd. Nor the animal joke…..
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As the four reached the door to the dark castle, two, steel statues on either side of the door made Link stay on his guard. The statues resembled a monster that was looking straight ahead with it's small head tilted a bit. It's short arms were out in front of it almost as if it was praying to the Three. Large spikes came out of it's back with a single, curved one on top of it's head. The statues had no legs but it was on top of square box made out of the same material as it. Both statues were entirely black except for their red eyes and white pupils.
Link looked at the right statue and swung his blade at it, thinking it was a creature in disguise. His blade bounced off as if he was hitting a normal steel statue but the stubborn Hero wasn't convinced. He lit a bomb and threw it on the other side of the statue to see if it will attack them after the blast. The explosive, well exploded, causing the statue to collapse; not expecting it, Link got buried in the debris.
"Nice job." Kheino commented full of sarcasm, looking down at the Hero who was desperately trying to push the heavy rubble off himself.
"Shut up." Link said, almost free from the rubble. Even with the Golden Gauntlets, it was still hard to move. He finally pushed the heavy steel completely off himself and stood up, feeling somewhat ridiculous.
"Are you going to bomb the other statue now?" Kheino joked with a grin on his face. Link glared at him and shook his head. The insect curiously looked at what was left of the steel statue and placed a piece in it's mouth. After a couple of seconds, the bug spat the object out and snarled at the pile of steel, baring it's sharp teeth. It attacked the remains of the statue with the blades on the ends of it's tail, turning it into dust.
"Okay…" Link said, backing away from the furious bug. "Hey Kheino, since you can talk, tell us what the statue taste like. Wait…How can you talk?" The wolf sighed and began his short yet interesting story.
X-Zone looked at the wilted plants all around him and the destroyed homes that were all blackened by fire. He spotted some dried blood clinging onto the grass near where he stood and a single bone near an uprooted tree. That was it, nothing else was in Hyrule Fields or near the castle. X-Zone was not disgusted by the sight like the Hylians nor did he want to smile seeing the place like some of Yadgara's creatures, he was only here to follow the Goddesses' orders, nothing more.
"I feel like I already told you how I could talk." Kheino said, finishing up his story.
"If you did, I don't remember." Link replied, pausing for a while. "Ahh! We're wasting time! We should be in there by now!" Link shouted in anger, feeling like one of those people who are easily distracted. He walked towards the door with Kheino following behind, still feeling a bit foolish. As he stood in front of the wooden door, he placed his hand on it wondering how he can get in, but as he did, the left statue's eyes began to glow.
X-Zone slowly turned around just in time to see the steel statue to transform. The arms that shot out in front of it turned out to be the creature's lower jaw and the square object it sat on was actually the creature's legs bended as if it was sitting on a chair; it's large arms covering the side. Light blue lines started to appear and glow on the monster's body as it stuck out it's large tongue.
A steel chain with a metal arrowhead attached on the end of it escaped X-Zone's sleeve. He swung his arm horizontally causing the whole chain to detach from whatever he had inside his sleeves. The steel object speedily flew through invisible air that surrounded it before piercing the statue monster on the roof of it's mouth. The creature gave out a mighty roar from the pain X-Zone gave it causing Kheino and Link to turn around.
Link was shocked to see that the statue was actually a monster but he unsheathed his sword and shield nevertheless. He soon realized that the statue monster was the same monster that took the Spirit Orb in the Spirit Temple. The Hero slashed at the creature before it could move another joint (I was about to say muscles but do statue monsters have any?)but it sadly had no effect on the creature. The beast began to slowly walk towards X-Zone, hoping to rip him up into bits; unaware that the Hero of Time was right behind him.
"I don't think it knows we're behind it, we have the element of surprise." Kheino whispered. Shoot three ice arrows at it. Said a strange voice in the Hero's head. Link, thinking it was a good idea since it was made out of metal, did what the voice commanded and shot ice arrows at the creature's back. It began to slow down as frost began to cover it's back, before long, the monster was completely covered in ice. Link snatched the Megaton Hammer from his pocket an dashed towards the frozen beast. He jumped when his distance from the beast was only a couple of feet and smashed his metal hammer onto the frozen beast. The ice shattered into millions of pieces as Link's hammer made contact with it.
The beast stood still with both eyes closed. The once light blue lines on it's body became an ice blue color and ice shaped like spikes were on the spikes already on the creatures back causing it to become longer than normal. Teeth made out of ice made themselves home in the beast's mouth; the chain still attached to the roof of it's mouth.
The beast opened it's bright red eyes and turned it's head to look for the archer that shot it. Link, who stood only a couple inches away from the beast, was shocked to see that he just made the beast stronger. The creature looked at Link and quickly spotted the bow in his idle hands, causing the beast to roar in anger.
Link got himself together and leaped out of the way just in time to avoid the beast's incoming hand. Link attempted to injure the creature by firing a couple of fire arrows at it but the projectiles didn't cause any damage to the ice beast.
"A little help would be appreciated Kheino!" Link shouted over the beast's stomping feet.
"Nah, I'm good." Kheino replied, waving a paw. Link turned back to face his foe but as he did, he noticed the chain dangling in the creature's mouth for the first time. He raced towards the chain, barley dodging the beast's attacks, and grabbed hold of it. He pulled it to see if he can pull it out but to his surprise, the chain got longer. The beast blew a cold fog at Link out of his mouth, which on contact, froze the Hero of Time. Ice slowly crept up the chain the Hero was still holding and onto the roof of the monster's mouth. The beast roared in pain once again and clutched it's aching head while swaying a bit.
Link freed himself from his icy prison and stared at the beast, then at the chain in his hand, wondering silently how he can use it to his advantage. A simple idea suddenly slapped him on the back of his head, taking action once it finally reached his brain. He circled the beast with the chain in hand about ten times before bolting it to the floor. The Hero dashed to the front of the creature and waved his hands to get it's attention, ready to leap out of the way at any moment. The monster spotted Link and growled in anger, blaming the Hero for it's aching head. It lifted up a leg not knowing it's ankles were bound and fell almost immediately; landing hard on it's stomach.
"Go Link!" Kheino shouted happily, thinking that the fight was over. He looked over to the insect who was still staring angrily at the pile of broken steel and raised an eyebrow. Thinking no more of it, the wolf turned back towards the fight.
The Hero ran towards the creature's head with the Megaton Hammer in his hands and swung it on the roof of the beast's mouth; the location where the arrowhead of the chain was sticking out. The arrowhead painfully went through the creature's skin and opened into three pieces like a hookshot once it reached the top of the beast's head. Surprisingly, the creature was still alive.
It destroyed the bounds around it's ankles and kneeled on one leg with it's arms behind it's legs and head looking down. Link couldn't help but smirk at this.
"Already tired, eh?" Link said to the beast, walking towards the creature and standing right under it. Without warning, the beast abruptly jumped forward with arms outstretched. Link stared helplessly at the monster's huge, steel body come closer to the ground, knowing that it was too late for him to jump out of the way. An icy cold material winded around the Hero's ankle but he paid no mind to it. When the beast was only a couple of inches away from Link's head, he was violently pulled out of the way by his ankle. He watched the savage creature crack the ground below it and clouds of dust envelop the beast as the he was being dragged by his ankle on his stomach. As soon as he ceased moving, the Hero of Time looked above him to see X-Zone looking down at him as if he thought of him as a fool or was disappointed in the Hero; well, that's what Link thought.
"Hey X-Zone." Link greeted sheepishly, slowly standing; the Sheikah's eyes following him as the chain released it's grip from the Hero's ankle and race back up to it's hiding place in X-Zone's sleeve. As soon as Link stood up, the beast roared and headed towards the two males. Link reached into his pocket intending to grab his mighty hammer but his fingertips brushed against something extremely hot causing his arm to jerk. Wondering what it was, Link idiotically grabbed the item and threw it above him once his hand began to burn. He caught the object once it began to take it's journey back to earth and looked at it quickly. It was the Fire Orb.
The Hero of Time rushed towards the beast while putting the orb back into his pocket once another idea hit him. He dodged the creature's ice breath and quickly climbed to the beast's cranium. His opponent tried to shake him off and began to run around when Link continued to stay on. Link hanged onto the hookshot looking thing that pierced the monster's head and took out the burning hot orb; placing it on the open hookshot before losing his grip and falling off. He landed right on his feet and immediately replaced his Kokiri Boots with his Iron Boots.
The vile creature looked at Link with angered and hatred and stomped his way towards the motionless human. It bended it's back once it was in front of it's opponent so it's head was adjacent to Link's body. Before it could do anything else, Link took hold of the chain that was still attached to the beast's mouth which caused the creature to jerk up in surprise. The Hero's weight caused the chain to pull the strange arrowhead and the Fire Orb within it back into the monster's body. The orb's intense heat melted the poor beast's head within seconds, causing it's limb body to fall to the ground.
X-Zone and Kheino walked towards the corpse and watched Link painfully crawl out from under it.
"Congratz Link." Kheino praised, wagging his tail happily. Link smiled at the compliment while panting from exhaustion.. X-Zone cut a hole at the beast's melted head with ease and lifted a piece of melted steel with his sword. He placed the piece of steel onto his hands and removed the steel with his bare hands with such simplicity that Link's jaw drop. After only a couple of seconds, the Fire Orb was in X-Zone's hands. He handed the sphere to Link and sliced a knee high cube from the statue beast's corpse; cutting it into a strange shape. The Hero placed the orb back into his pocket and resumed to look at what the Sheikah was doing but to his surprise, a shield with the same design as the dead creature in front of them was lying on the floor; the cube no where in sight.
"Did he just make a shield out of that cube?" The Hero whispered in Kheino's ear.
"Yeah, it's amazing how fast he did it too. Oh, and uh," Kheino grabbed the shield and handed it to Link. "he told me too give this to you."
"He's right there, couldn't he just ask me personally?" Kheino shrugged in response. Link looked at the shield in his hands and the first thing he noticed about it was that it was bigger than the Hylian Shield but it was lighter. It was a shape of an upside down triangle with spikes bordering the sides. "Uh, thanks X-Zone." Kheino's ears perked up once he heard a small thud and turned around, Link following his action.
A knee high purple blob stood fifteen feet away from them with small, pupil less, white eyes staring at the three. It wasn't like the slimy or gooey blobs the Hero heard about nor was it perfectly round; it was wider horizontally and strangely looked smooth.
"Rarrr!" The blob said, trying to scare the three.
"Nice to see you haven't changed." Kheino said, walking towards it.
"Who is that?" Link questioned, lifting a brow.
"You can say he's an old friend of mine."
"You are no friend of Lloyd. Tremble before my might why dontcha!" 'Lloyd' replied, the three stared at him in response. "TREMBLE!" He shouted, knitting his eyebrows together. (invisible eyebrows I guess)
"No thanks?" Link answered, still a bit stranged out by the creatures personality.
"Well, my master told me to destroy the Hero of Time and his followers. Who wants to fight me first?" The wolf and the blond both lifted an eyebrow. "Oh, you see, I like to fight people one on one." Lloyd said happily. Link walked towards Kheino and dragged him to where they once stood.
"So, who's going to fight him first? I'm not fighting him since I'm still a bit tired out by the last battle I had with that statue thing." Link said, really only talking to Kheino.
"I'll fight him." The wolf said simply.
"Are you sure Kheino?"
"Yeah, sure, he's hardly a threat" He turned around to face their opponent. "Hey Lloyd!"
"Yo?" The blob asked.
"Show us your best moves!"
"Sure thing. "He closed his eyes tightly while making a sound with his throat. "Rrrrrr…" He started to shake violently as the sound he produced grew louder. "RRRRRRR…." He abruptly jumped up with pupil less eyes wide open. "RRAAAWWRRR!!" Lloyd shouted as a flash of light appeared behind him. As he fell to the ground, he panted heavily from exhaustion. Link looked around if something was damaged by the strange light; founding none, he looked at the ground to see if at least a pebble moved.
"Go ahead." Link answered to Kheino's demand. Before the wolf could step forward, a growl made everyone look past Lloyd and at the insect almost everybody forgot about.
"So you will be my first opponent!" Lloyd said happily. "Yarrr!" The blob shouted, getting a strange bark from the insect in response. "Hey, not bad." The two got into their fighting positions and stared at each for a moment before Lloyd spoke. "Bring it."
The bug swiped it's tail at the talkative blob but he dodged it with much ease. The bug attempted to bite him but Lloyd jumped high into the air right before the bug's deadly teeth made contact with his purple skin. Expecting him to do that, the insect tried to pierce the blob's body with the blade on the tip of it's tail while he was in midair; knowing that Lloyd dodges most attacks by jumping. The bug's opponent ducked, causing his body to become flatter than usual but not by much, yet enough to dodge the insect's attack.
"I must admit, you put up a good fight," Lloyd remarked as he fell back to earth. "but if this is actually your best effort," He back flipped out of the way of his opponents deadly claws. "then you better quit now." The insect, Link, and Kheino stared awestruck.
"Dude, those were some awesome moves." Kheino commented to the blob.
"Well, I don't like to brag, but I work out."
"Wow, the fight is getting fiercer than I thought," Link said as he and the wolf watched the fight resume. "I thought you said that the Lloyd fellow wasn't a problem."
"He got a lot stronger than we last met." Kheino answered, a bit surprised.
"Should we be worried?"
"No. That bug is smart and pretty strong, it'll defeat Lloyd." Just then, something hard hit Link right in the face, causing him to fall back and hit his head.
"Oww.." Link looked at what hit him and soon realized it was the bug but it was unconscious. The wolf looked at the two before giving Lloyd a cold stare; walking towards the blob soon after.
"Oh ho, another challenger steps forward! Lets see what you've got." Lloyd said merrily. Kheino ran back to Link who was still on the ground and stole ten of his bombs right out of his pocket. He threw the explosives around the blob and grabbed the sharpest rock he could find. "These bombs aren't even lit." Lloyd said confused, to no one in particular. Kheino tossed the rock at the nearest bomb and ran towards Link for his life. The rock pierced the bomb causing it to explode and create a chain reaction with the other bombs. Dust, smoke, and rubble enveloped Lloyd and the area around him; blinding everyone there.
The explosion is clearing up, Link thought to himself as the smoke around Lloyd become thinner ever few seconds. Now we can visually confirm poor Lloyd's fate. As the smoke completely cleared, Kheino and Link spotted a familiar looking blob looking at them a few feet closer to them than he was before.
"Yeah, y'see, I jumped out of the way," The purple blob said to the two who were staring at him like he just grown arms. "before all the bombs exploded,"
"So you did." Link replied plainly.
"because I'm awesome." Lloyd continued.
"So it would seem." Kheino whispered to himself.
"Okay, that's enough!" Link shouted all of a sudden. "No one beats up or humiliates my friends and gets away with it!" After the words left Link's mouth, he wondered about what he just said. Was the bug thing his friend? Did someone actually get humiliated?
"Is that so? Do you think that you'll succeed where the others failed?" The blob asked, Link silently nodded his head, very determined to beat him.
"Yeah, he can beat you." Kheino assured Lloyd happily.
"You've no doubt noticed that my combat skills have improved considerably since we last met." The blob said mirthfully, now looking at the wolf.
"Well, the last time we met, you ran away in fear. Your combat skill level had nowhere to go but up."
"Touche, touche." Lloyd replied looking down in shame, silent for a moment. (A/N- I forgot how to make those lines above the E, heh, sorry.) "Well did you think I spent all this time cowering like some sort of animal? Far from it!"
Flashback (Lloyd's POV)
Well, after cowering like some sort of animal, (only for a while) I decided I was tired of being kicked around like some sort of animal!
"I'm tired dangnabbit!" I said to myself , getting on the very rock I cowered behind. So I decided I would train myself in combat, so that the next tine I fight someone, I'd be ready.
I trained non-stop from that point. I was pushing myself to my very limits, like some sort of animal. "I'm doing the crane technique!" I explained to the bird that was staring at me and the cactus I was on.
Soon I had surpassed even my own meager ambitions, and became more powerful than anyone dare to dream! I became the ultimate soldier, like some sort of animal! "BA DA DA DAAAAAA!"
"You know that there are more similes out there than 'like some sort of animal'." Kheino remarked right after Lloyd finished his tale.
"I suppose that's true, but why mess with my perfection?"
"True, true."
"Hey, aren't we suppose to be fighting?" Link butted in, really wanting to get in the castle already and kick Yadgara's behind.
"Oh right.. Then let's begin." Lloyd tackled Link just as he was about to unsheath his sword, causing the Hero and himself to tumble onto the cracked floor. Kheino backed away to prevent getting hurt. Link grabbed the blob by his head and smirked at the creature as Lloyd tried to wiggle himself free. After a couple of seconds trying to wiggle his purple blob self free, he ceased his struggling and closed his pupil less eyes.
"Given up already?" Link asked a bit surprised, putting Lloyd closer to his face.
"RRRRRR.." Lloyd said, shaking violently. Link's eyes widened as he recalled what happened last time Lloyd made that sound but the Hero gave a small laugh when he remembered that the move didn't do anything. The Hero of Time was sadly wrong. As the flash of light appeared, he was suddenly flying high into the air.
"Aughh Goddesses!" Link cried out as Lloyd, X-Zone, Kheino, and the castle grew smaller and smaller until they were only dots. He slowly came into a two second halt before taking the a painful journey back to earth. This is it, I'm gonna die. Link tensed up and closed his eyes, waiting for the weird feeling in his back to disappear to only be replaced with pain.
"Hero of Time," Came a gentle yet powerful voice. Why cant people just call me Link? The Hero thought, still closing his eyes. "please, open your eyes." Link slowly followed the command and fully opened his eyes as he realized the three Goddesses were floating in front of him. He quickly stood up in respect and tried to look as serious as possible.
"We stopped time to speak to you," Nayru began, looking down at the mortal. "You must learn to control your emotions, for inside the castle are horrible things. Your path to victory will become clearer once you learn how to do this."
"And you might figure out how to survive from this fall." Din commented, giving off a little smile. As they began to turn away, Farore gave a horrified gasp.
"What is it?" Nayru asked. A hand covered Farore's mouth as she pointed a shaking finger at someone below.
"What shocks you sister?" Din asked confused as her sister. Link clearly saw the Goddess pointing at X-Zone which confused him, what was there to be shocked at? The Sheikah was only looking at the sky.
"He….He wasn't looking up before." Farore said, still completely horrified. As the words left her mouth, her two sisters gave a gasp similar to hers.
"I don't get it." Link uttered still confused, looking down at X-Zone.
"You will soon." The Goddesses said in unison, before long, time began to move again. As Link continued to fall once more, he understood what the Goddesses were shocked about.
"Yeah whoooo! I defeated the Hero of Time, no one can survive that fall!" Lloyd shouted happily to himself, jumping up and down in happiness. He turned to his right to have a word with the wolf but before the blob could speak, the ground shook and a crack formed next to Lloyd. Both the wolf and the blob turned to their left to see a huge, gaping hole right in front of X-Zone. The three peered down the hole to see Link on his back with pain etched on his face.
"C..Can't……Move…" Link managed to say through the pain in his chest.
"Like my move? It didn't do anything the first time I showed you 'cause someone had to be touching me." Lloyd said a bit disappointed that the Hero didn't die. He looked up and for the first time, he actually saw X-Zone which shocked him a bit.
"Hey, wait a sec…"Lloyd said, jumping over the hole and hopping closer to X-Zone, squinting his eyes. "You look familiar but this is the first time I saw you," The blob said softly as he recalled seeing someone looking a bit like the white haired person in front of him. "Hmm….can't remember. Perhaps fighting you will help me remember." That is the worse decision you will ever make in your whole life. Link said within his mind at Lloyd, smiling evilly.
The purple blob back flipped over the hole and jumped over it again, aiming to tackle the Sheikah but before he jumped over the wide hole, X-Zone slammed the side of his sword on top of Lloyd's head, causing him to fall in the hole with Link.
"Ow, that hurt," Lloyd said to his self out loud, wishing that he had hands to rub his head. He looked behind him and flinched a bit when he saw Link, forgetting he was in the hole."so uh, how are you?"
"Still..can't…move…..I…think..I..broke..something." Link said, desperately trying to move.
"Nah, it's just the effect of my attack. It kicks in after a couple of minutes after I hit you, neat eh?" Lloyd jumped out of the hole without another word and landed right in front of the Sheikah.
Before the purple creature had a chance to say what he wanted to say, X-Zone seized Lloyd by his squishy head and lifted him up until he was right in front of his stared at him questionably for a while before closing his eyes; gathering the strength he needed for his ultimate attack once more.
Heh heh, look at him. Came a voice in Lloyd's head. The voice was very deep and vile causing anyone with a mind to think that the owner of the sound was a mischievous, merciless, gruesome, and powerful creature.
I said look at him. The voice said, sounding like it was about to laugh. Lloyd couldn't help but stop his charging and look at X-Zone's emotionless eyes. Without warning, the blob's vision slowly started to fade, plunging him into a world of darkness.
"Oh my-! Oh my Goddesses I can't see! Omeh Gah! Omeh Gah! (Doesn't that what people sound like when they say 'Oh my god!' frantically?)" Lloyd cried out with eyes wide open as he lost his mind and frantically tried to get away from the Sheikah's death grip.
In the dark world Lloyd now resided in, X-Zone silently stepped out of the darkness and stood in front of him.
" A-Am I o-only seeing this or wh-what?" The blob asked his opponent, completely terrified.
Nope, you're only seeing this. The other three don't have a clue about this. A huge, dark blue colored, four legged beast stepped out of the shadows and stood right next to 's gleaming white fangs seemed to shine even in the dark; red eyes having the same ability. Even at the distand between them, Lloyd could still see that he was just as tall as it's clawed paws. Black tipped ears were cut and raised in amusement.
"What's scaring you little guy? The darkness? X-Zone? My voice?" Asked the beast, stepping closer to it's prey. The purple blob wasn't really sure why he was this scared but that didn't matter to him right now.
"What-What do you want?" Lloyd stuttered, ignoring the question.
"We want you dead. Isn't that what most people want to happen to their opponents?" The creature said with a smile, putting another foot forward.
"No, I kn-know you want something else. Th-that white haired guy could of taken me down without all of this event happening." The blob said, gaining a drop of courage.
"Wow, you're smart," The beast said, showing a little surprise clinging onto it's face. " well that just makes things easier, for me." He started to walk towards the blob, it's size decreasing in every step, turning into the same color as the shadows but was still visible to the two. It ceased it's walking when it was five feet away from Lloyd, looking completely different.
It's new purple colored skin strangely calmed and scared the purple blob at the same time. The creature's round body made him uneasy and it's pupiless eyes made his uneasiness worse. The creature looked exactly like Lloyd.
"Shape-shifter." The creature's opponent said, suddenly out of breath.
"Yup." It spoke, sounding exactly like Lloyd.
"Who-Who are you anyways?" The real Lloyd said, hopping back once.
"I have no name. People only identify me as X-Zone's…Pet. But no one ever saw me and lived to tell anyone else," It made an evil laugh that made his opponent shiver. "Anyways, time to bring it down to business. I recall you saying that you saw someone who looked like X-Zone here, know who that is?"
"I-I don't remember." Lloyyd said, really wishing he did.
"That's too bad." Almost right after, it turned completely black and transformed into another beast. The beast was twice the size as the last beast and was so horrifying that Lloyd was positive he was going to wet himself. It made an evil smile and let out a mighty roar in front of the blob.
"Aughhh!!" Lloyd cried out, closing his eyes. His brain's command to run away finally took control and made him open his eyes. He escaped X-Zone's iron grip that didn't seem to be as hard as before and jumped away; not caring that he could see again and that the beast was not there anymore. Kheino watched him jump out of sight and looked at X-Zone in astonishment.
"Wow, you just stared at him for a couple of minutes and he ran..Uh, jumped away in fear." Kheino said, completely shocked. Link climbed out of the hole, obviously able to move again, and landed on his stomach.
He looked all around, even above him, before asking. "Where's Lloyd?"
"He ran away ..Hopped away." Kheino answered, yet again forgetting that Lloyd didn't have legs.
"Oh. Did I miss something im-" A swishing sound caused them to look to their right to see two battling creatures.
A green, slimy, blob with yellow eyes was dodging the attacks of a strange creature with sword like arms. The green blob's opponent only had one yellow eye on the middle of it's white head with red markings scattered across it. It's also white colored body had streaks of grey on the sides. The creature's feet only had two, large toes and was also like it's body; white with streaks of gray on the sides.
The two creatures fought violently, seeking to kill one another. The blob seeking to suffocate it's opponent while the other creature seemed to try to hack it's antagonist to death. The slimy blob seemed to be winning for it easily dodged it's enemy's attack while the other seemed to barley dodge it's opponent's wish to get on it's head and suffocate it. Knowing this, a clearly visible, jagged line formed above the one eyed creature's chin and opened slowly. As the blob attempted to yet again mount it's enemy's head, a red, bright, and very large light escaped it's mouth. The light covered the green blobs entire body, not missing a drop of it's liquid skin, before moving on to hit an already dead tree; obliterating it into dust. The blob, like the tree, was now a pile of ash.
Seeing it's opponent dead, it turned to it's left to see it's new antagonist. The one eyed creature dashed towards the three with mouth wide open and fleshy tongue clearly in view. Link easily dodged the attack but was stunned to feel pain ripple through his arm and see the creature's sharp arms against his own He stepped back and placed his hand over his fresh wound, his face full of pain. A sudden pain caused the creature to look painfully down to see Kheino's maw clamped down on it's right leg. It stared at the canine in anger and was about to hit the wolf but a blow on it's back stopped it dead on it's tracks. Kheino released his hold from it's leg as it suddenly dropped down to it's knees and fell down onto the stone floor; showing all the deep cut that formed on it's back.
Kheino stared at the body for a while then at Link. "That was easy." Link ignored Kheino and continued to stare at the body with brows furrowed, not convinced that the monster was dead. He cautiously walked towards the body and held his sword upside down once his boots made contact with the creature's two toed feet. Just when Link was about to plundge the sword onto the monster's back, it rolled over to it's wounded back and kicked the Hero on the chest with both feet. He skillfully landed on his feet a couple of feet away from his opponent and took out his new shield, thinking that it will charge towards him. To Link's surprise, the creature stood up slowly and opened it's mouth wide. Link continued to stand his ground but curiosity rose within him once a red ball appeared in the center of the creature's mouth. A beam of red light abruptly shot out of the monster's mouth and collided with the Hero's sheild with such force that the powerful shield received a large crack from the impact and leaving Link desperately trying to make his fist holding the steel item from touching his chest.
Kheino stared at Link in horror, aware that the sheild was going to be destroyed in the very near future along with Link. Knowing that the Hero's life was more important than his own, the courageous wolf sped towards the Hylian and head butted his side causing Link to release his shield from his grip and fall out of harms way. The Hero loked back to see what hit him but was shocked to see Kheino in the path of the deadly red light just before a shine of light blinded him.
"Kheino!" Link shouted, sadness and worry filling his heart. As the light that blinded him faded away, he looked at where he last saw Kheino with tears already forming in his eyes but his jaw fell on the floor when he saw the most unexpected and impossible thing that was never thought possible could happen.
The red light vanished with X-Zone seemingly taking it's place in front of Kheino and his back towards Link. His opened hand that was carried by his outstretched arm was where grey smoke was released and floated above. The creature who was the cause of the light had also dropped his jaw, not aware that danger was near. Before the monster could return to his senses, the bug ran towards it and jumped up to bite the underneath of it's neck.
The monster gurgled a roar of pain as red liquid oozed out of it's mouth and neck. Before e it had a chance to stab the insect with it's arms, it crawled towards the back of it's neck and continued to cause damage . The monster reached behind it's head and swiftly skewered the bug's side; throwing it on the floor near it's feet after wards. Both creature's were now panting heavily, desperately trying to get air go through their lungs. Seeing that this was his opportunity , Link took out his bow and arrow and aimed at creature's eye, convinced that this will kill the savage creature. Just as he released the arrow, the creature collapsed onto the floor panting heavier than before. It spat out a small yellow orb out of it's bleeding mouth and stabbed it with it's arm, throwing it a couple of inches away from itself and grinned a bit.
All of a sudden a circle of tall, frame less mirrors surrounded Kheino, Link, the bug, and X-Zone. Link fell backwards in surprise, landing on his hands. Suddenly, he found himself inside a completely dark room only lit by a single torch laying on it's side next to Link's hand. He picked it up and moved forward, expecting to bump into an invisible mirror thinking that this was an illusion. He continued to walk forward until his legs became tired and arm sore from holding the torch for too lng. He was about to stop moving, convinced that this room was endless before he felt something slippery under his feet. He looked down to see pools of blood under him.
Kheino abruptly found himself tied up with scratchy ropes with hot sand burning his skin and the blazing sun heating the areas of his body the sand didn't touch. He tried to escape from his bonds but after a few minutes, he realized that it did nothing but tire him. The wolf's ears perked up as he heard someone approaching and snarled once he saw the incoming human.
The human was a tall women who wore loose, khaki pants and a red shirt. She wielded a sharp two sided axe and a lethal spear the seemed to be made out of a huge beast's tooth. Kheino tried to see her face but every time he looked upwards, the yellow sun would always blinded him.
She sliced the rope that was wrapped around Kheino's maw with the axe, freeing him his mouth but also making it bleed. With the same weapon, she created a large and deep gash on the side of his neck causing him to yelp in surprise and pain. He opened his mouth trying to breathe when he was abruptly stabbed inside his mouth with the spear. In some sick and twisted miracle, he was still alive but he wished he wasn't. Immense pain planted itself first in his throat and almost immediately spreaded to his whole body.
Kheino suddenly found himself back in front of the castle. He touched his neck and was relieved to not feel any pain or a cut. He turned to his right to see Link curled up in a ball whimpering, the bug still on it's side dying, and X-Zone chop of the one eyed creatures head. He walked towards the terrified Hero and licked his face with a concerned tongue. Link opened his eyes giving a small yell and put his hands around the canine.
"B-Blood was e..everywhere. Se-Severed heads a-and," The wolf felt him shiver more than before, if that was possible.
"I think those mirrors showed us our fears," Kheino said, looking down at Link, who seemed to call down. "but who destroyed the mirrors?" He looked up to look for X-Zone and spotted him standing a couple of feet away from them with the bug happily running around at his feet.
"You're the one who destroyed those mirror aren't you?" Kheino asked, knowing the answer. The Sheikah nodded. "How?"
"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."
"So basically, you overcame your fear." Without a word, X-Zone turned around and headed for the door. Kheino continued to stand where he stood and thought for a while. Hah, so he isn't completely emotionless after all if he has a fear! But then again, if he overcame it, he doesn't have a fear anymore, right? So he's completely emotionless now. Dang it! He was about to follow the dark clothed Sheikah when he remembered that Link was still hugging him. When the wolf was just about to tell him to let go, the Hero stood up.
"I think I'm all better now." Link said , looking down at Kheino sheepishly.
"Mind sharing what scared you so much?" Kheino asked, looking up at the Hylian as he began to walk towards the door; the two completely forgetting the shield X-Zone made.
"Well ,uh, everyone I knew had their limbs torn or cut off and their heads were cut off slowly." The Hero shivered at the thought. "So how about you? You didn't seem too scared."
"Eh, my fear was dying slowly but since I joined you guys in this adventure of yours, I always felt like I was going to die every time we faced a monster. So the mirrors didn't really horrify me that much." As the two reached the castle's doors,the doors abruptly opened by themselves, causing the bug to jump a bit. As the doors fully opened, Link took a deep breath and walked in, the three following him.
As they entered the room, all four finally saw their main antagonist. There, sitting on the king's throne was Yadgara.
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A/N- Wow, after typing this I just realized how violent I got over the past few months…Anyways, I think this is the longest chapter I ever typed in the whole curesed fan fiction, which only contains fifteen pages.. I'm amazed how some people can type this much and more with no sweat, that's just amazing. The next chapter might take some time because I haven't thought of a fight that couldn't surpass one page or less -_-'. Heck, I might even get writers block from all of this! So through all this hardship, I need at least five reviews, please, come on...