Chapter 18: Shields
I knew that riding in a car would be horrible for me, but I didn't fight it. I did wonder, though, how the other two were able to handle it so well. However, all thoughts of it vanished when I saw Aryll waiting at the car for all of us with her hands behind her back. I then wondered for a moment if future Link had called upon her for something. However, I also knew that he would not have done that because he had kept on saying that he didn't want her to get hurt. So, when we got to the car, I wasn't surprised when future Link asked her what she had been doing there.
"Well, I wanted to help. Now, before you say that I can't because I could get hurt, I want you to know that I'm not planning on coming with you. *sigh* You see, if I could get hurt, then you could get just as hurt, too, big brother. The thing is, I knew that you wouldn't let me help you out there, but I can at least try." As she said this, she pulled three very finely crafted and quite durable-looking shields from behind her back and she gave one to each of us.
"At least if you have these, you can protect yourselves. See, big brother? I can help on the battlefield, even if I'm not actually fighting, myself." After she said this, Aryll began to cry and future Link pulled her into a hug. I exchanged a glance with slave Link, who just looked at me with a gaze that was filled with thankfulness. I knew, though, that said thankfulness was directed completely towards Aryll.
When future Link and Aryll pulled away from each other, Aryll made future Link promise that he would come back. Afterward, she turned towards slave Link and me and she opened her mouth to say something. However, nothing came out as we stood there, in the light snow of winter. Eventually, she just bowed her head, told us to take care, and ran off, leaving all three of us to stare.
Eventually, after I broke the awkward silence by declaring that our new shields were of outstanding quality and we began to head off to this supposed mansion that we were supposed to go to. The trip there, for me, was a blur filled with fuzz of yet another wonderful bout of carsickness. After we got there (we decided to do it at night in case someone noticed us) and I recovered, though, I saw that whoever had lived there when it was occupied was obviously very rich. There were at least three stories to it and the place itself was beyond huge. Heck, not even Hyrule Castle (not the town, but the castle itself) was that big.
Also, one could easily tell that nobody had cared for it for MANY years. In fact, I didn't even think that the place was all that stable, seeing as there were holed in the walls and roof that had allowed snow to get inside. There were very large icicles hanging from everywhere and I was more than willing to bet that there were places inside the mansion that were completely frozen over. After confirming that we all had each of our items with us (the Master Swords, shields, hookshot for slave Link, bow and quiver full of arrows for me, and bag full of bombs for future Link), though, we still entered the mansion as I began to wonder if this place should have been considered another dungeon or not...
I'll bet you can guess what the theme of the dungeon is now. XD Anyway, I have to get going so that I can get to the symphony of the goddesses in time because it's today. So, please review and I'll see you next week when I have more time. ;)