Oh, holy gods of the triforce! That symphony was the most magically epic thing that I have ever seen! It was the season 1 version, so I do hope to be able to catch season 2 sometime. The only thing that I'm going to spoil is that *spoilers* at the end of the ocarina of time medley, they showed a small glimpse of majora's mask... and I mean just the mask itself. Suffice to say, I shivered (and that's quite a feat, considering how hot my Link cosplay, that I was wearing, is). *end of spoilers* Anyway, now to respond the the rest of the guest reviews that that weren't asking about that. To The Drone: Yes, Aryll gave them shields. After all, I noticed that I hadn't given them any and then that scenario popped into my head... around when I was finishing ToF, lol. Also, although this dungeon is not a direct ripoff (I hadn't actually played TP yet when I was writing this), you can definitely see that this was inspired by that.
Now, to Kagu The Great: I actually started writing SotP while I was still posting chapters from ToF. The only difference in time frames was that I finished writing ToF before my finals and SotP was started after my finals. :P So yeah, I can see why both are very comparable in quality. ;) Also, about Aryll getting kidnapped, like in WW... I actually haven't thought quite THAT far ahead at the time of writing this... therefore, even I don't know whether she will be or not. *shrug*
Anyway, now ON TO THE CHAPTERS! :D
Chapter 19: Ancient Mansion
A chill raced down my spine as the three of us entered the mansion. When I got inside, I saw that we were in only a very small room by comparison with the rest of the house. However, the room itself was still very large in its own right. Directly in front of us was a very large and luxurious staircase like the kind that one would see inside of the home of a noble slave master. Beside the staircase on either side was a couple of doors and there was yet another two doors on each of the walls to the sides, making it a total of four doors.
Eventually, we decided that it might not be a good idea to climb the stairs because we didn't know exactly how stable the other floors were. Thus, we picked a totally random door to go through and on the other side; we came across a room that appeared to have been used as a dining room. However, there were no chairs. Instead, there was an old, broken table that was rotting. After seeing this, we continued throughout the mansion until we came to the mansion's kitchen.
When in the kitchen, we walked around a little bit before the oven spontaneously caught on fire! It caught all three of us off guard, but future Link was the first to react by throwing tons of snow on top of it. It didn't take very long for both knight Link and me to react by helping future Link put out the flames. Afterward, knight Link threw future Link a glare and future Link assumed that the glare was blaming him for the fire because he had explosives. The two of them then launched into a very small argument about how it happened, but future Link made the last statement of the fact that if he had used a bomb, then it would have exploded, not caught on fire.
I managed to get them to stop arguing before future Link pointed out that knight Link had the only fire around there with his fire arrows. Thankfully, the both of them dropped it when I had asked future Link if something like that was possible with those kinds of ovens and he claimed that it was, although rare. However, it was after that that I heard something that almost sounded like a nasally bout of laughter. I quickly told the other Links about it and they both shut up to listen. Eventually, after about five minutes of listening, it happened again. However, this time, the others heard it too.
Immediately, the three of us ran in the direction that we had heard it. After a while, we came across what was likely used as a very large meeting room in the past. As soon as we entered, though, I noticed about five softly glowing tiles on the ground. Suddenly, one started glowing brighter than all of the others and some sort of demented-looking figure rose out of it, somehow. The thing noticed us at about the same time that future Link and knight Link noticed it and jumped back in surprise.
After this, the thing sank back into the tile and popped out of another one. Curiously, future Link approached it in an attempt to figure out exactly what it was. Heck, even knight Link didn't know what this thing was. However, once this thing came fully out, it spun in a circle, and then began waving a staff around. At this, future Link realized that he was in danger and started pulling out a bomb in order to throw at it. Unfortunately, the thing was too quick and it launched a ball of magic from its staff straight towards future Link!
I was incredibly confused by all of this because I had thought that magic was impossible in future Link's dimension. However, it seemed as though we were all very wrong. Either way, when the ball of magic hit future Link, a massive amount of ice built up around him and froze him on the spot! Immediately, though, knight Link shot a fire arrow his way in order to thaw him out. It took future Link a little while to figure out what had happened, but when he did, he ran over to knight Link and me in order to fight. Obviously, he wasn't very happy about what had happened to him…