The Hyrulian Valhalla Saga
By Queenie Z
No Fury Like A Level 9 Magician Scorned
For those who didn't know him personally, the fact that the newest of the Legendary Heroes was in fact the group's most powerful sorcerer would often come as a surprise. Hidden beneath his scruffy and endearingly boyish demeanor was an impressive knowledge of arcane magical secrets, which had been passed on to him by the most brilliant wizards and sages of his era during life. Though other Heroes could conjure fire and ice or achieve impressive feats with the aid of magical artifacts, Brown could draw from his own profound well of power to gain superhuman strength and defenses, heal wounds, control the near-uncontrollable force of lightning... and turn himself into a tiny, defenseless fairy.
Naturally, Brown had once questioned the usefulness of such a spell; he had even found it to be quite emasculating at first. However, once he discovered all of the advantages a fairy's form could provide, from bypassing locks to entering hidden holes to fleeing from a disadvantageous battle, he cast aside those thoughts and began to fully appreciate the Fairy spell. And now, after his adventures had long since ended, Brown found another reason to turn into a fairy: exploring his heavenly realm with a new set of eyes.
In his smaller form, Brown sat down on the top of a toadstool, resting his wings and sighing. He looked up at the giant, almost alien forest around him and grinned - everything was so new and different when you were small! He began to wonder if Mini felt the same way whenever he joined the Minish in their world; perhaps he'd ask him when he was finished exploring for the day.
Said exploring, however, was cut short when a blur crossed Brown's field of vision. He cried out as he felt himself being swept away from his perch and into something cold and hard. He groaned, sitting up and rubbing his head, then looked up. He gasped in horror at the sight - it was a cork, and he had just been shoved into a glass bottle.
Panicked, Brown pressed his hands against the glass that wasn't covered by the palm of his captor's hand and saw Duo, standing a few feet away and laughing happily. "You got another one!" he exclaimed, his voice muffled by the glass, "You're really good at this, Light!"
Light snickered with pride. "I'm telling you, Duo, nothing escapes from my bug net!" He jerked the bottle around, sending Brown tumbling to his bottom.
Seething, the trapped fairy-Hero began pounding on the glass. "You idiots!" he screamed, "It's me! Let me out!"
But the larger Heroes couldn't hear him; they continued to laugh and carry on. "Let's see if we can't find any more ladybugs," suggested Duo, "then we can let them all go and head back for dinner."
"Let me out, damn you!" Brown gritted his teeth - he knew they weren't going to hear them when he was stuck inside this damned bottle, and he most certainly wasn't going to just wait for them to let him out! Scowling, he balled his hands into fists and uttered an unintelligible phrase.
The other two Links screeched in surprise when they heard a loud crack, and again when they looked over to find Brown, now human-sized, glaring ferociously at them with shards of broken glass embedded in his chestnut-colored hair.
"What the hell!?" swore Light, "Brown!?"
"He must have - " Duo gasped in realization, his hands covering his mouth. "O-Oh, gosh, Brown, we're so sorry! We had no idea that was - "
Brown shut his eyes and mumbled another string of archaic words. His brow furrowed deeply in rage and concentration, he held his palm to the air and was greeted with a loud thunderclap. Storm clouds formed above the trio's heads, and Light gulped at the sight.
"...Duo," he said fearfully, "you can apologize later - we need to run. Now."
A bolt of blue lightning landed in front of them, knocking both Heroes over. When they got back to their feet, they fled screaming from powerful surges of electricity while Brown watched, a sadistic grin creeping across his face. Those two would pay, he thought - oh, how they would pay...!