Chapter 4 - Snap
A new room, new monsters. Link was flanked by two skeletons for the second time this day. Or was it night? He wasn't sure.
"Hey, listen," said the fairy.
"I know they're Stalfos and that I should attack when they drop their guard!" Link slammed his shield against the skeleton behind him and kept the other one at bay with slashes aimed at its head. "Anything else you want to add to that since the last four times you've repeated it?"
She repeated it. No additions.
Link screamed his frustration and rolled back on the floor past the Stalfos. It was quick enough to turn around and put his shield between Link and itself, but Link swept at its feet with his sword. The Stalfos toppled to the floor and Link crushed its head with his boot.
As the fallen enemy dissipated in black smoke, Link grabbed momentum by running four strides before jumping up in the air, sword in two hands over his head. The Stalfos braced itself, shield up. Link landed to its left, dropped to his knees, and swirled around in half a circle to drive his sword between the monster's ribs. He reversed the movement. The sword was tangled with all the bones and the Stalfo's torso went flying all the way across the room. The two halves disappeared in black smoke almost immediately.
"Ah!" Link grunted. He had actually meant to sigh.
A flash of golden light blinded him, but it faded just as suddenly and violently as it had appeared. In its stead stood a chest.
"What in the Twilight just happened?" asked Link
The fairy did not respond.
"What? No programmed words of wisdom this time?"
The fairy kept quiet. Link walked over to the chest and opened it. He took out a key its bottom, which floated and spun slowly just over his hand. A fanfare also came out of nowhere.
"What in the Dark World..." Link turned to his companion. The fairy flew as silent as the room they were in.
"I wonder what door this is for," said Link as they got out of the room by the same door they'd enter it. There didn't seem to be another exit.
After some door searching, they finally came across one with a huge steel-wrought padlock on it. Two chains formed an "X" over the door, the lock right in its intersection.
"You can open locked doors with the keys you find in the dungeon," said the fairy.
Rage turned Link's head slowly to glare at the sprite next to him. It took him several seconds to center her in his sight.
"No s#!%!"