Chapter 7: The Witches' Plan
Link and his two new friends were all successful in retrieving the other remains. Once their missions were complete, they reunited back at Clock Town. Knowing that the Twinrova could no longer go on with their plan, they decided to return to Hyrule Castle. There, they told Princess Zelda and Impa of everything that had happened.
But Koume and Kotake were not ready to give up. They took their forces and followed the heroes Clock Town. However, once they arrived there, some of Link's friends were already there as well, unaware that the hero had returned to Hyrule Castle. If they wanted the remains back, they would have to fight their way through.
"Where is Link? What did you do to him?" Lana demanded to know.
"We were going to ask you the same thing," Koume shouted back.
"Well, I'm not giving up!" Linkle declared. "Come on, guys. Let's show these witches who's boss!"
Linkle then began to lead two Goron Captains and many other gorons towards the Enemy Base, which was the East Keep.
"Enemies!" screamed Kotake. "Skull Kid! Get rid of them for us!"
Skull Kid obeyed, advancing towards the enemies. Tatl and Tael began to quickly fight off some of the gorons. However, Linkle whipped out her crossbows and began to shoot Skull Kid.
"You!" she screamed. "You were the one that stole my compass that day in the woods!"
"Ah yes, I remember that day," said Skull Kid, thinking back to it. "Perhaps we could go through that little dance again?"
"Never!" shouted Linkle. "I've lost this compass before. I am not losing it again!"
She continued to shoot her two crossbows, Skull Kid blocking most of the attacks. He then used Tatl and Tael to fight her off. Once she was stunned, he went in for stronger attacks.
She was weakened by this, but unwillingly to give up just yet. She let out another wave of arrows upon Skull Kid, but it wasn't enough. He created a circle of puppets around Linkle, who all swooped in to attack her.
"Linkle needs our help!" one of the Goron Captains shouted.
The two captains lead their small team of gorons towards Skull Kid. He used his magic to fend them off with ease. Once they were done for, he began to fight one of the Goron Captains. The second punched him really hard in the face, sending him backwards.
Once he collected himself, so had Linkle. She aimed her crossbows and fired her arrows at the Skull Kid once again. He sent Tatl and Tael in to finish off the Goron Captain. The two then moved on to the other Goron Captain.
Skull Kid sent in more blasts of magic at Linkle, injuring her even more. With another energy gathered, Skull Kid used all of the magic he had in him to finish off Linkle. She collapsed to the ground.
"I have to go," she whimpered. "I'm sorry everyone."
Linkle fled from the battlefield.
"Oh no! Linkle!" Lana cried. "You monsters will pay for that!"
"Hee hee hah hah!" Skull Kid laughed as Tatl and Tael finished the Goron Captain and returned to his side. "I'd love to see you try!"
"These pests are in our way!" Koume complained. "We must exterminate them!"
"And how do we go about getting rid of pests?" asked Kotake.
"By destroying their nest!" her sister replied.
From their base, Koume and Kotake spawned a King Dodongo with grey scales and one horn.
"King Dodongo! Destroy that base and make the path to Hyrule clear!" Koume demanded.
"Skull Kid! Protect it!" Kotake added.
"Understood," replied Skull Kid.
"No!" Lana screamed. "We won't let you reach Hyrule! Come on, everyone!"
Lana began a large portion of her forces towards King Dodongo.
"The rest of you, defeat those witches! With them gone, Hyrule will be safe!"
The rest of their forces began advancing towards the Enemy Base.
"I suppose we could take on a few more. Right sister?" asked Koume.
"Yes, of course," Kotake agreed.
Skull Kid arrived on the scene only to find Lana and a large faction of gorons fighting off King Dodongo, as if they had increased morale from their leader.
He fired two lasers out of the eyes of Majora's Mask and attacked Lana. She glanced over at him and charged.
She opened her spell book and blasted dozens of blue balls of magic at him, knocking him and his fairies back a few feet. He advanced towards her again and sent Tatl and Tael to attack.
When she was stunned, he whipped out a flute and blew as hard as he could into it, blasting her onto the ground.
He conjured many balls of magic and rained them down onto her, as she did with him a few moments ago.
She jumped into the air and created a big cube below her. She landed on it and began walking around with it, crushing Skull Kid multiple times.
It disappeared below her as she jumped off. Skull Kid began to levitate again and fired more lasers at Lana. She sent Tatl and Tael to hit once again, finishing her off for good.
She collapsed to the ground, defeated.
"I can't do this anymore, I'm sorry," she said. She then fled from the battlefield.
"Yah! Hah! Hah! Hah!" Skull Kid laughed. "You shouldn't have forfeited sooner!"
He spun around and began to fight off the gorons hurting King Dodongo.
"Lana!" Cia worried. "That's it! Now it's time for me to come and play."
The doors to their base, Inside the Clock Tower, opened, and Cia and gorons poured out of it.
"Where is that blasted kid that defeated my two allies!?" she roared.
"Over here!" Skull Kid answered. "I only want to play."
"I'll give you a game," said Cia, getting her scepter ready.
"Oh, goodie!" Skull Kid cheered as he killed the last of the gorons there. "You don't mind if I bring a friend along, do you?"
King Dodongo continued advancing towards the Allied Base. Skull Kid and the fairies flew past him as he met up with Cia.
"So how do we play?" asked Skull Kid.
"You don't move as I kill you," Cia shouted, slashing her scepter down and whipping it against his face. He quickly reset his mask.
"So that's how we're gonna play," he growled.
Tatl and Tael soared past him to attack as he moved in to do the same. All the while, King Dodongo was sucking in as much air as he possibly could. Once Skull Kid knew he had enough, he dived out of the way as fast as he could. King Dodongo spat out a massive fireball that engulfed Cia, firing her ten feet away.
Their forces received reinforcements. Gorons poured out of their base again as backup for Cia. She got to her feet and they all charged at Skull Kid.
He charged towards them as well and they continued their duel. Skull Kid fired lasers as Cia. As Tatl and Tael continued to fight her, Skull Kid conjured up giant balls of magic and destroyed all of the nearby gorons with them.
Cia slashed the two fairies away and let out attacks after attacks on Skull Kid. She was obviously much more powerful than the other two girls, and also fought with way more anger.
Four Dark Links appeared around her. The each glared at Skull Kid and did spin attacks to damage Skull Kid even more. They disappeared as Cia advanced again and continued to attack him with her scepter.
She threw him high into the air with it and slammed him down into the ground. He quickly floated up once more and let out more attacks on her.
King Dodongo charged up another fireball once more, but this time, Cia blasted Skull Kid back and flew out of the way.
"Skull Kid, what is taking you so long!?" cried Koume as she and her sister were busy protecting their base.
"I'm playing a game," he replied. "But don't worry. I'll win in a minute."
"That's what you think," Cia spat, flying at him once again.
She attacked him even more with her scepter, weakening him. He retaliated with more magic attacks.
King Dodongo moved past them and moved as fast as he could into their keep, for he was almost there.
Cia couldn't fall back, for Skull Kid was too strong.
"Everyone!" she shouted. "Stop that beast from getting in our keep!"
The entirety of their forces fell back to the base to halt King Dodongo in his tracks.
"Good thing, for it would appear there were too many sister," Koume worried.
"You worry too much," Kotake replied. "I had them."
"What are you saying!?" the other roared. "I was killing more!"
"You do realize we work together, right?" asked Kotake.
"Oh please," Koume went on. "You know that I lead us to our victories."
"What!?" Kotake screamed. "That was definitely me that defeated the Hero of Time!"
"What do you mean 'defeated!?' He defeated us!"
Skull Kid ignored them as he let out big waves of magic attacks onto Cia.
There was suddenly a huge explosion behind them. To Cia's horror, King Dodongo had defeated all of the gorons in front of him and broken into the keep.
"Beautiful!" Kotake cheered. "Destroy them all King Dodongo!"
"Kill us all," a Goron Captain roared. "We will be with Cia to the end!"
Skull Kid knew that King Dodongo would be no help. The only real way to win this fight would be to defeat their final leader: Cia.
He let out more waves of attacks. She did the same thing, making the two of them very weakened.
Skull Kid used the last of his energy to let out a giant ball of magic and destroyed her. She collapsed to the ground.
"Hah! I win!" he cheered.
"Ugh," Cia groaned. "Fall back everyone!"
She rose to her feet and used her magic to make herself disappear.
Every single goron on the battlefield fled from the all the Dinolfos, Stalfos, and Stalchildren, arriving at their base. But they only found King Dodongo in the way, he killed every single one he saw.
"Hah hah! Victory is ours!" the Twinrova cheered.
