Chapter 8: The Woodfall Temple Part 2
Shortly after obtaining the Hero's Bow, Link and his crew ascended a staircase leading to a higher level of the Woodfall Temple. They soon found themselves facing a platform with an unlit torch in the middle of it and near where they were standing was a lit torch, on the other side of the room was the door that would get them closer to the Secret Text that was lying in wait in the dungeon.
"My guess is we're going to have to hit this torch with an arrow and hope that it hits the other torch and lights it," commented Alex.
"That's right, that is exactly what we have to do," answered Link as stood behind the torch and readied an arrow, after making sure he had his aim steady, Link let the arrow fly through the lit torch carrying a flame on its tip. The arrow hit it's mark and promptly lit the torch, the center platform rose up to the area where the heroes were at and began to spin.
"Good, now we can progress further, let's not waste any more time," said Zelda.
Timing their jumps, the six heroes carefully crossed the platform and then leapt over to the area where the next door was and as all six got across, they all entered the door and saw a room with a lot of Dragonflies and platforms they had to bound across to get further into the temple.
"How to get across here?" asked Chun-Li.
"Indeed, the Dragonflies are easy to dispose of but what about those flaming platforms, is there any way to extinguish the fire?" inquired Ken.
"I see a switch over there, I guess that means if we hit it, the flames will go out," answered Ryu pointing to a diamond shaped switch.
"Let's get to work then everyone," suggested Link as he readied his bow.
"Hadoken!" shouted Ryu and Ken in unison as they fired their projectiles at the Dragonflies that were flitting about the room. As soon as all the Dragonflies were defeated, Link shot his arrow at the switch which made it turn a bright yellow color. The flames surrounding the platforms died down.
"Quick, let's get across before the switch deactivates!" ordered Link.
Wasting no time, the six warriors immediately began bounding across the platforms with great haste. Right as they all got across, the flames rose again and surrounded all the platforms once more.
"Whew, we got across just in time," commented Chun-Li.
"Hopefully we're almost done with all this," stated Alex as they all entered the next door. Inside was a room filled with Deku Babas and Skulltulas. The six divided up and all took care of the monsters that infested the area they were in. As the last monster disappeared in a puff of smoke, a treasure chest materialized in the center. Link promptly opened the chest and took the small key that was lying in the chest.
"I get the feeling that we're gonna have a tough fight in the next room, be on guard," advised Link to the others.
"You got it man!" affirmed Ken.
Upon unlocking the the next door, the sextet found themselves in an empty room, they all looked around the room to see if there was anything that needed to be uncovered.
"I think we've hit a dead end," said Ryu.
Just as Ryu finished his sentence a whooshing sound crossed the ears of all six people in the room.
"We're not alone, get yourselves ready," remarked Zelda.
"Is it the boss monster that holds the Secret Text?" asked Alex.
"I don't think so, I wonder who it could be," answered Link.
All of a sudden, a loud primal sounding roar was heard as another figure dropped to the ground. The thing standing in front of them had green skin and wild orange hair. He was somewhat muscular and clad in tattered brown shorts as well as bronze anklets. On his forehead was a strange red crystal.
"Blanka, what's he doing here in this temple?" inquired Ken.
"You know this creature?" asked Zelda.
"Yes, we met him in a martial arts tournament, but I also wonder what brings him here," answered Chun-Li.
Blanka let out another loud roar and began beating his chest furiously and without warning rolled into a ball and shot himself at the heroes. They all dove out of the way just in the nick of time to avoid being hit.
"What's the matter with him, he usually isn't like this," stated Ryu just before Blanka leapt at him and swiped at him. Zelda leapt in and kicked Blanka in the stomach, the green beast retaliated by punching the princess in the face sending her reeling back. He then leapt at Link and swung his fist at him, Link deftly blocked with his shield and then knocked Blanka back with a quick elbow. Chun-Li leapt into the air and prepared to deliver a kick to Blanka, but the feral beast curled into a ball and shot himself into the air snuffing out Chun-Li's attack.
"Now that's no way to treat the ladies green boy!" said Alex as he prepared to suplex Blanka, however he soon felt a great surge of electricity course through his body as Blanka shocked the buff blonde with great force making Alex break his grip and fall to the ground twitching.
"Blanka, you need to chill out!" exclaimed Ken as he came at him with a Tatsumakisenpuukyaku which hit Blanka numerous times, Chun-Li then came and swept the beast off of his feet but he quickly rolled back to an upright position and rolled at the both of them making them dive out of the way.
"Hadoken!" screamed Ryu. The projectile nailed Blanka in the face making a small crack in the crystal that was on his forehead, the green beast began to growl in pain.
"I think I know how to calm him down now," said Link as he took out his bow and fired an arrow directly at the red crystal making it shatter completely. Blanka howled loudly again and then stood there hunched over and breathing heavily.
"Is he ok?" asked Alex, still a little shaky from being electrified. Blanka began surveying his surroundings and started looking for a way out.
"Dan, where are you Dan, if you're in trouble, I'm coming to help you buddy!" growled Blanka as he rolled into a ball and crashed through the wall of the room. Right as he crashed through, a golden colored key dropped from the pockets of his shorts but Blanka didn't bother to pick it up, he sped off searching for his friend.
"Dan is here too, this is confusing," commented Ryu.
"Who is this Dan that Blanka was talking about?" asked Zelda.
"His best friend, but I'm left to wonder what they were doing here in this temple," answered Ken.
"I'm sure we'll find out the answers later, but look at the key he dropped," remarked Ryu.
"It's the Boss Key, now we can get into the room where this temple's boss lurks," commented Link.
"That's good, let's get going then," said Alex.
With that, the sextet proceeded through the hole in the wall that Blanka left, on the other side of the room that they found themselves in was the door to the boss.
"The boss is near, we just to get across to the other side and defeat the monster that lies in that room and the first Secret Text is ours," informed Link.
Surveying the the obstacles that lie between them and the main monster's lair, they saw loads of Skulltulas, Deku Babas, and some flaming platforms lying in the way.
"Heh, I knew they wouldn't make this easy on us," said Zelda as she launched a Din's Fire at a Deku Baba making it wilt.
"Oh, I'm sure the other places that hold Secret Texts will be even more obstacle ridden," remarked Alex as he Flash Chopped a Skulltula in the face.
Link fired his bow at the eye shaped switch making the flames on the platforms dissipate. The six heroes started their trek across the platforms immediately and as they bounded across, Ryu and Ken fired Hadokens at any Skulltulas that tried to descend on them as the others took care of the Dku Babas that were in front of them on wooden platforms that were never ablaze to begin with. Upon gtting across, they all stodd in front of the door with looks of determination on their faces.
"This is it, do we have everything that we need before facing the boss?" asked Chun-Li.
"I suggest we break the pots lying around here for supplies," answered Link.
Inside the pots were some spare arrows for the Hero's Bow as well as a fairy, Link grabbed the fairy and it immediately began flying around healing the wounds of all six warriors before disappearing.
"That was refreshing, now I really feel ready to take on the ugly monster that tries to get in our way," commented Ken.
"I am also ready for combat, let's move forward," added Ryu.
Without any more hesitance, the heroes took out the Boss Key and unlocked the door leading them to the boss of the Woodfall Temple. As they entered the room, they saw it was circular in shape with bomb flowers planted in many different locations of the room, the sound of tribal drums was also audible. Upon taking a few steps forward, the drum beats became louder as the boss monster descended into the center of the room. The boss monster looked like a tribal warrior with multi-colored skin, a red loincloth, and a tribal mask with multi-colored feathers adorning his mask. In his left hand was his shield and his right hand clutched tightly to a long sword.
"Odolwa, be careful of that sword everyone," called out Link.
Odolwa began dancing around and began singing a strange tribal chant leaving the heroes bewildered as to his actions.
"What the hell is he doing, and what's with the stupid chanting?" questioned Ken.
Odolwa then swung his sword at the heroes who all deftly dodged the blade, Link shot an arrow at Odolwa stunning the tribal warrior as Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, and Alex all rushed up to Odolwa and laid a powerful strike into him, he then leapt away to the other side of the room and began dancing and chanting at the same time once again. Ryu fired a Hadoken at Odolwa as he was dancing but Odolwa blocked the projectile with his shield and continued his dancing and tribal chanting. All of a sudden, Odolwa leapt into the air again and upon landing swung his large sword once again barely missing the six, Chun-Li laid a Kikoken into Odolwa stunning him again as Ken hit him with a Shoryuken and Alex knocked him back with a Slash Elbow.
"This isn't so bad," said Chun-Li.
As Odolwa landed again he began a different tribal chant, and a bunch of moths descended into the room and began chasing the heroes.
"Damn it, killer moths in addition to this guy, like we need any distractions!" grumbled Alex.
"Good thing they're attracted to fire like normal moths," replied Link as he plucked out a Bomb Flower and chucked it away, as the fuse burned brightly, the moths all circled the Bomb Flower and as it exploded they all were destroyed. However right as they destroyed the moths, Odolwa began spinning around the room with his sword out and nailed all six of the heroes knocking them to the floor. Odolwa began to summon another horde of moths as they all got up.
"I've got these covered!" called out Zelda as she let loose a Din's Fire incinerating all the moths once again as Odolwa leapt into th air and missed another jumping slash. Ryu and Ken stunned the monster with dual Hadokens as Link laid a couple of sword slashes before the tribal warrior leapt away again and began chanting and dancing once again.
"You can't escape!" yelled Alex as he leapt at Odolwa and latched onto him headbutting him numerous times before leaping off leaving the tribal warrior stunned.
"We should be able to finish him off now!" exclaimed Ken as the rest of the fighters rushed in to attack Odolwa, the tribal warrior screamed out in pain and fell to the ground and slowly disintegrated. As Odolwa completely vanished from sight, a document was found lying on a glowing light circle, the six warriors walked up to it and on it was some strange writing that they could not comprehend.
"This must be the first Secret Text. However, I don't understand what it's saying," remarked Link.
"My guess is that what the texts are saying will not make itself clear until we get all of the Secret Texts together," commented Zelda.
"Then let's get to finding where the next one lies," suggested Ryu.
The others nodded in agreement as they found themselves being teleported to another room in the Woodfall Temple, where they saw Blanka sniffing around and then cutting through a thick wall of vines and entering the passageway.
"Hey, it's Blanka again, I wonder what he's up to," said Chun-Li.
The others ran into the passage way and say Blanka standing with two other figures, one was a man with brown hair tied into a ponytail and he was clothed in a pink martial arts gi similar to Ryu and Ken's. The other was a female Deku Scrub that had a ponytail made up of flowers and was clothed in a red floral dress.
"Dan, and I presume the Deku Princess," what brings you guys here?" inquired Ken.
"When the worlds fused, me and Dan found ourselves in this swamp when this little lady approached us," answered Blanka.
"She said that there was something strange going on at this temple and was going to investigate it, being the awesome guys we are, we agreed to come with her and protect her," answered Dan with a smirk on his face.
"When we got to the temple however, we were ambushed by that monster and next thing I remember, me and Dan woke up in this room and Blanka was missing," said the Deku Princess.
"I remember them placing some weird crystal on my head, and from there everything was fuzzy, I guess that thing was controlling my mind," stated Blanka.
"So that's why you attacked us in the temple," chimed in Alex.
"But you saved my buddy from his mind control so I have to thank you for that, but what of the monster?" asked Dan.
"We defeated him, so everything should go back to normal in this swamp soon," answered Ken.
"If that's the case, then I need to get back to the palace, my father and the butler must be worried sick about me," remarked the Deku Princess.
"We'll escort you back to the Deku Palace," chimed in Link.
"What about Dan and Blanka?" inquired Chun-Li.
"I want them to come with me, they're my protectors," answered the Deku Princess.
"Yeah, we want to escort her back as well," added Dan.
"Very well, you may come to the Deku Palace with us," said Zelda.
"We got what we came for, let's depart this place," suggested Link.
The others nodded in agreement and without any more waiting, they all left the Woodfall Temple, Secret Text in hand as they prepared to escort the Deku Princess back to the palace with Dan and Blanka in tow.
Author's Note: I finally finish another chapter, and it feels good, anyways. I'm definitely excited to finally get back to writing this, next chapter, the heroes go to look for where the next Secret Text of the Illuminati may lie. So now I'm off to go and work on that chapter, but until then, please read and review.