Chapter 21: Search
After discovering where the boss was, all that we needed to do was find the key in order to get into there. Thus, we began searching everywhere that we could in order to find it. However, we soon discovered that it was not on the second floor. Therefore, although we were hesitant about it, we continued on the third floor.
The third floor, itself, had apparently been used for bedrooms, bathrooms, and the like, so we tried to not poke around more than what we absolutely needed to. However, there was one very large area that took up most of the floor and seemed to have no doors leading into or out of it. Heck, even slave Link couldn't find anything that lead into there using the beetle. Eventually, future Link declared that it was actually the 'boss room' and that it just used the space of both floors. I then began to wonder why anyone would have something like that built into their home, but I had shrugged it off because I knew that different people had different tastes and this was a different dimension.
What I was most concerned about was the fact that the boss room itself was multiple stories tall. I also began to wonder what kind of thing awaited us in there. However, future Link seemed convinced that there wouldn't be anything in there because of the fact that this place was actually someone's home in the distant past. At this, I sighed and looked at him exasperatedly, which seemed to send the message just fine because he then lifted his hands in a defensive/defeated pose. It was actually rather hilarious how his mood suddenly changed.
So, we continued on. Eventually, we came across six safes that were in an old child's room that also had locks on them with keys that we needed to find. In trying to find them, however, we realized that they were scattered across the various rooms of the three floors that we had been to. Thus, we set out to find them and along the way, we encountered several areas where we had to use giant blocks of ice (that we had to push) to give us boosts and such. The beetle even saved us from several razor-sharp icicles that would have been one-hit-kills for us.
After a couple of hours, we finally had all of the keys! There were six safes and seven different keys. Therefore, we each took two keys and tried unlocking each safe, while leaving the last key to potentially help later on. The two that slave Link got were, sadly, filled with nothing but legal documents (why would those be in a child's room?) that stated odd things about who had lived there way back when. Apparently, it was a family that was known for its ice sculptures or something like that.
The safes that I opened seemed to contain a bunch of children's toys (to be expected). However, there was absolutely nothing that we could potentially use. On the other hand, the two safes that future Link opened contained very different items. One, amusingly, contained frozen undergarments and the other contained but a simple note. Upon further inspection, the note detailed the big key being in a very specific spot on the second floor of the mansion.
Honestly, it didn't take much brainpower to figure out where we had to go next. When we got there, we saw that it was in another safe that was frozen to a rope that was hanging from the ceiling overtop of a ledge. All that we had to do was have slave Link use the beetle to snap the rope and grab the block of ice in order to take it to us. I then quickly used one of my fire arrows in order to thaw it out so that we were able to get at the big key. Once again, we took the big key to the door that required it and we opened it to finally get a look at what was in there. When we finally got a peek inside, the only thing that we had really noticed was that there were ice sculptures EVERYWHERE!
Yes, I am aware that I now have two wizrobes as minibosses, but they're completely different styles, so I thought that I could get away with that. Also, were any of you expecting the beetle, of all things, to be an item?... alright, now tell the truth. There ya go! Now leave it in a review and I'll see you all next week for the boss battle that came from my beta's head! :D