A/N: Like I said, I wanted to crank out another chapter as well to make up for missing Christmas, so here it is! Enjoy, everyone!
Disclaimer: I wish I owned LoZ, but I don't. Nintendo does, and whoever makes the manga... I just own my plot, made-up monsters and items, and OCs...
Many Thanks To: Dea Letum, i-wish-a7x, and LittlePidgey~!
The Links' personal Weapons (other than their swords and shields, of course!)
-Red has an ice rod, a fire rod, and a slingshot!
-Green has a boomerang, and he's pretty good with it. At the moment, he also has his weird half-dragon-ness, including a tail, wings that he can use to fly, very strong legs, and a clawed right arm with the strength of a dragon...
-Blue has a hammer, of course, which suits his personality perfectly!
-Vio has a bow and a quiver full of arrows, and of course, his ever-present book.
-Shadow has... well, his weird shadow abilities, I guess? mimicking? Also has the Dark Mirror Shield, and that dagger of his. And bombs!!
Chapter 18: Return of the Wind Demon
It's dawn in Zora's Domain, and the two Zora princesses have just woken up and are getting ready for the new day. Ruto calls over her shoulder to her sister Rutela while she packs a rucksack with supplies for spending the day at Lake Hylia searching for the mysterious monster.
"(Ruto) Hey, do you think I should take the kitten with me, zora?"
"(Rutela) Well, we can't just leave it here... And maybe its owner will be looking for it, if it has one... So yes, zora."
"(Ruto) All right. Hey, you're coming with me today, zora."
"(strange kitten) Mew...?"
She picks up the kitten.
~Meanwhile, back on Death Mountain~
"(Green) Get... away..."
"(Shadow) Huh?"
"(Vio) I'm getting a bad feeling all of a sudden... Green, what's wrong?"
"(Vaati) ..."
'This isn't good... He's reached his limit!'
"(Green) Get... away...! Get away from me!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!"
Green's scream of pain as he clutches his head in agony quickly changes into a fierce reptilian howl of rage...
"(Dragon Green) GRAAAAARRRR!!!"
"(Vio) We are SO screwed."
Green has become a monster; a HUGE dragon with bright emerald scales and a strange crystalline growth on his forehead. The creature roars and takes to the air. Shadow quickly shoves the injured Vaati over to Vio and runs at it with a lit bomb in hand, intending to fight alone since the other two are in no condition to do so.
"(Vio) Shadow, wait!!"
Vio tries to use his bow, but can't even hold it properly. He sighs and gives up, stowing it back in his cap.
"(Vaati) ...This is... all my... fault..."
"(Vio) What do you mean by-? Ah!! Shadow!!"
The gray-clad Hylian has just been smashed into the air by a swing of the dragon's tail right after he threw his bomb, which has been knocked right back into his startled grip. The boy's flame-red eyes widen as far as they can go; he knows what's coming...
"(Shadow) *muttering under his breath* The Goddesses must really hate me today..."
The bomb detonates, sending Shadow flying. He smashes into a large boulder and moans weakly, out cold. Vaati shakes off Vio's attempts to restrain him and stumbles forward, towards the berserk Green.
"(Vio) Idiot! In that condition, you'll die for sure!"
Vaati laughs weakly.
"(Vaati) Hihi... I said... the same... to you... back in the... cavern... And did you... listen...?"
"(Vio) *sweat drops* Uhhh..."
Vio's expression clearly says "no."
"(Vaati) Anyway... ...It's... my fault... he's like this... so... I'll... suffer for it...!"
"(Dragon Green) ROOOOOAAAAARRRR!!!"
Vio is about to run forwards to stop Vaati, but his still-injured legs buckle beneath him.
"(Vaati) ...?! What...?! Ugh!!"
He collapses into a kneeling position, holding his head in pain. The image of a single huge eye appears inside Vaati's mind. It's closed...
"(Vaati) Argh...! Wh-what... IS this...?! What is... happening...?!!"
'This... feeling...! It's... so familiar...! Have I... felt it before...?! I can't... remember... ...ugh... ...can't... ...stop it... ...Something... something is... com...ing...'
"(Vaati) unnnh..."
He passes out as the eye in his mind opens, glowing an eerie, electrified white...
"(Dragon Green) GRRRAAARRR!!! GRRRRROOOOAAAAAARRR!!!!!!!!"
The dragon seems to sense a threat, landing and rearing its head back in a challenging cry. 'Vaati' slowly picks himself up off the ground, eerily calm as he faces the monster. Vio stares at him, extremely uneasy. His warrior's sixth sense; in other words, his instincts; outright screams "danger!", and he very much agrees with it.
'Something isn't right... That... That is NOT Vaati...!'
The purple-skinned Wind Sorcerer's voice sounds strange as he begins to speak, his usual relatively high pitch overlaid by a much deeper one. The low tone shakes Vio down to his very bones. This is a very, very familiar voice to him, and one he never, EVER expected to hear again...
"(Vaati?) I see you have lost yourself to the Sorceress's magic, 'Wind Hero.' How shameful."
"(Vio) Hang on a second!! You're not Vaati! Who are you?!"
"(Vaati?) Hihihi... You of all people should know who I am..."
A pair of leathery black wings sprouts from Vaati's back, and he turns around for a moment. His eyes are closed, with a single, glowing electric-white eye wide open on his forehead.
"(Vio) G-Gufuu?!"
'How is this possible?! What- What's going on?! Gufuu... Has he been hiding inside of Vaati all this time?!'
"(Gufuu) Worry not, I am actually here to HELP for once, though IN SECRET."
The pointed threat not to tell anyone about this is obvious, and would be even to Blue. Vio shuffles backwards a bit using his arms, intimidated because he's in no condition to fight and Gufuu obviously is.
"(Gufuu) Now, where was I? ...Hmm, yes, that was it... Time to take a nap, 'Wind Hero.'"
A tornado shoots out and hits the crystal on the dragon's head rapidly, shaving pieces off of it. It leaves only a thin layer of crystal when it finishes, and was so precise that it didn't leave a single scratch on the dragon.
'I would not want to hurt the one the other "me" likes so much, after all...'
"(Gufuu) I get the feeling that I shall be seeing you again, 'Earth Hero.' Farewell, for now at least. Hihihi..."
"(Vaati) unnnh..."
Gufuu's/Vaati's wings disappear and the white eye on his forehead shuts, then fades completely out of sight. Vaati falls to the ground, unconscious. Like Vio when he was a snake monster, the dragon is currently quiet and unconscious now that the crystal has been just about destroyed. It begins to shrink back down to human size, its form a glowing white silhouette as Green reverts to his previous half-dragon, half-Hylian state. Vio just sits there, his eyes widened as far as physically possible and his face deathly pale.
"(Vio) ........... O_O *in shock*"
*Thud!*
Vio faints, all of this too much for even him to handle.
A/N: Sorry this one's so short, I'm runninga bit low on ideas right now, and stopping it here fit. Anyways... Please review!!!! I don't even care if it's flames or not any more, just review!!!! Pleeeeaaaase?????? *puppy dog eyes*