Chapter 24: Crazy Ideas

When the sculpture grabbed onto future Link, my heart skipped a beat. I could see, though, that the sculpture's hand had future Link's arms held tightly against his body. So, I knew that future Link had been rendered powerless. Therefore, it was completely up to slave Link and me. Without future Link to do the most damage, though, I knew that, unless a miracle happened, we were effectively screwed.

However, slave Link and I still tried to keep up the fight as best as we could. First of all, we knew that it could only hold one of us at a time, so we weren't scared of it grabbing another one of us, but we were still cautious of its sword and feet. Eventually, it seemed to grow tired of slave Link and me and it brought its sword up to future Link. The way that it angles its sword suggested that it wanted to take his head off. Thankfully, both slave Link and I acted quickly enough to stop it from happening.

First I shot a fire arrow directly at its face in order to give slave Link enough time to react while I had the sculpture distracted. Then, slave Link used his hookshot to get up and onto its right shoulder. Strangely enough, the sculpture didn't even notice that he was there (maybe it couldn't actually feel?). However, it worked out well for us, so I didn't complain. Instead, I half danced around, trying to distract the sculpture, and half watched out for slave Link.

Eventually, slave Link managed to make his way down to the sculpture's hand. He was only able to stay on because he had stabbed his sword down and into the ice in order to stay where he was at the time. When he got there, though, he stabbed his sword right down into the sculpture's fingers and started trying to pry them open just enough for future Link to squeeze out. He managed to free one of future Link's arms just as the sculpture finally noticed him!

Immediately, the sculpture threw slave Link off so that he collided directly with me and forced both of us onto the ground. Then, the next thing we knew, there was a giant icy boot coming down in an attempt to squish us! By some stroke of luck, he managed to free his other arm. After that, I made sure to shoot another fire arrow at its face in order to stop it from seeing that future Link had gotten at least somewhat free.

Suddenly, though, I got an idea. With very little hesitation, I shot two ice arrows at each of its eyes in a mad attempt to blind it by having too much there. It wasn't perfect, like what it was with Gyorg, but it definitely confused it enough for future Link to finally escape! This time, he managed to land in some soft snow and come out unharmed, so he was back into the battle very soon.

Thus, we were back to fighting just the way that we had been before. I was shooting fire arrows at the sculpture and regular arrows at the icicles that were hanging from the ceiling, future Link was lobbing bombs at it like a madman, and slave Link was trying to distract it by making himself annoying. The sculpture, though, swung faster, wider, and harder than ever! This made it much harder to dodge its attacks, but we somehow managed. That was until I got knocked to the side.

Thankfully, I wasn't knocked anywhere near as hard as what future Link had been, but it still took me at least some time to get back up. During that time, though, I saw as future Link had attempted to throw a bomb at the sculpture's chest and ended up failing miserable. After that, he said something to slave Link that was inaudible to me and then he asked me to shoot some of his bombs at the sculpture's chest once I got back over to them. Then, with the sculpture towering overtop of us, future Link threw at least five bombs into the air for me to shoot! I only managed to get four, but then I saw a certain little beetle grab the last one and fly towards the sculpture. Just before it got there, though, I saw the hold that we had made in its chest thus far and I realized that that final bomb would free the balls of light from inside.

Then, with a great explosion, the two balls of light ended up flying out and upwards before redirecting and crashing into each other multiple times. Suddenly, the shadow seeped out of the sculpture, leaving it as just a bunch of ice, and it crawled along the walls. Eventually, it seemed to reach out, grab the black ball of light and 'run' off with it, leaving us with the white ball of light. After a while, the white ball of light floated down to us and seemed to hesitate a little bit before splitting into three and having each third dive into each Master Sword. The swords then began to glow for a little bit before fading to look no different than before. After all of that, nothing happened, so we did the only thing that we could do.

We left that mansion and its sculptures behind…