Mirror of Nightmare
Chapter 30: Day II; A Task At Hand
-At Thystic Village.
Link, Maxnet and Soryl are investigating the village. They are finding the entrance to the Landwind Ruins. According to the villagers, the Landwind Ruins is the Sacred Place that was built to worship the guardian of the sky. The ruins itself has two entrances. One is in Thystic Village and another is in the Gianet Desert. But the ruins didn't last long. The entrance in the Gianet Desert was buried by the sandstorm after a millennium since it was built. To protect the entrance at the Thystic Village from being destroyed, the ancestor of the villagers in Thystic Village hid the entrance to the Landwind Ruins somewhere in the village and left the key to open the entrance to the ruins…
"So, we must find that key…" Maxnet says.
"Hey! Listen! There are only a few places that seem suspicious… They are the Thystic Village Graveyard, Thystic Windmill and The Well…" Navi says.
"Excuse me? Did you say the well?" Soryl says.
"While Link and I were in the Hyrule to defeat the evil lord, Link went down to the bottom of the well and retrieves the hidden item there." Navi explains.
Maxnet, Soryl walk up to the well and look into the well, which is full with water.
"… How can you dive into that well?" Soryl asks.
"Link learned the Song of Storm from someone in the village. And when he played it, the water in the well disappeared!" Navi says.
"Do you still remember that song?" Maxnet asks.
Link picks his Ocarina from his bag and starts playing the song…
Hm?
Link can remember only the first two notes, but he can't remember the rest!
"… It looks like that you had forgotten it…" Maxnet says.
"Don't worry!" Navi says and flies up to the entrance to the Thystic Windmill, Link follows her.
"What are you trying to do?" Soryl asks.
"Just wait for a while…" Navi says and enters the Thystic Windmill along with Link.
A few minutes later, Link and Navi get out of the windmill.
"There is an old man in the windmill! He taught Link the Song of Storm!" Navi says.
"Wow, that's good." Maxnet says.
Link picks his Ocarina and starts playing the Song of Storm, which makes the rain fall down upon the earth, and the water level in the well decreases.
"I will go first." Soryl says and flies down into the well.
After Soryl reaches the bottom of the well, Maxnet starts climbing the stair down.
"Hey! Maxnet! Beware yourself! Don't dare to fall down!" Soryl shouts from the bottom of the well.
"Don't wor…" Maxnet says, but the last part of his sentence disappears because his hands lost the grip from the stair, making him fall down to the bottom of the well!
"Oh… No…: Soryl says while looking at Maxnet who is about to fall over his head!
-At Gianet Desert
Gianet Desert is the vast desert with the scorching sun during the day and the frozen moon during the night, making it is a very hard place to live. There is a small town named Gianet Outpost in the middle of the desert, but since it is impossible to grow any plant in this village, the residents in the village have to become a mercenary in order to earn money. Rucas learns from Terrus that before he and his companion accepted the job to be the guardian of the Sacred Children, they lived in this village.
Like Link's group, Rucas and Terrus also learn from the villagers in Gianet Outpost about the legend of the Landwind Ruins, but unlike Link's group, they found no clue about the entrance to the Landwind Ruins. They only know that it is located somewhere in the desert.
"It looks like that we are in the middle of the darkness…" Rucas mumbles, but then, he notices that Terrus is trying to eat the sand in the desert.
"Terrus, this isn't the time for eating the sand." Rucas says.
"…" Terrus ignores Rucas and eats the sand.
Suddenly, Terrus starts running into the desert without saying anything.
"Hey! Wait! Where are you going?!" Rucas says and follows Terrus.
-At Thystic Village
After a few hours, Soryl recovers from a paralysis after Maxnet fell on his body.
"Are you okay?" Maxnet asks.
"Yeah… I guess.." Soryl says and stretches out his body.
After that, Maxnet and Soryl return to the well, where Link and Navi are waiting for them.
"Hey! Look at this!" Navi says and looks at a cracked wall at the bottom of the well.
"This must be the sealed entrance to the Landwind Ruins!" Soryl says.
"Let's burst it!" Maxnet says.
"Are you mad?! Link tried to use his bomb to burst the wall, but the wall didn't even budge!" Navi says.
"Such a weakling…" Maxnet says and pulls out his weapon. His action makes Soryl steps back.
"Um…" Soryl says.
"YYAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Maxnet roars and swings his ball and chain to the cracked wall, making it open easily.
"So easy…" Maxnet says and puts away his weapon.
"So…" Navi says and looks into the hole in the wall that leads to somewhere.
"Let's go." Soryl says.
After that, Maxnet, Link, Navi and Soryl enter the 6th dungeon, Landwind Ruins.
-At Gianet Desert
After following Terrus under the scorching sun of Gianet Desert, Terrus stops at the nowhere in the middle of Gianet Desert.
"Hey! Terrus! What had gotten into you?" Rucas asks.
Terrus says nothing at checks the spot in front of him, and then he starts digging in that spot.
"Hey! What are you doing?!" Rucas asks, but Terrus ignores him.
After a while, the spot that Terrus dig becomes a big hole, big enough for someone to enter.
"Hey! I can sense that there is the air flowing out of that hole!" Rucas says.
"… This is the buried entrance to the Landwind Ruins." Terrus finally says.
"What?! How do you know?" Rucas asks.
"… The sand of this desert told me." Terrus answers.
"Terrus, you are such a strange Pokemon…" Rucas says.
"… I can't wait to enter this ruins… Being buried under the sand for a millennium… The sand in these ruins must be very tasty…" Terrus mumbles.
"What?!" Rucas says.
"Never mind what I said." Terrus says.
After finishes saying, Terrus and Rucas enter the 6th dungeon, Landwind Ruins.
To Be Continue…
LD: Again, this is the second dungeon in this story that the main characters have to split into two groups and enter the dungeon in the difference entrance… (The first one is the Flare-Bolt Tower, the 2nd dungeon.)
Pokedragon: Nah… This story has quite many main characters, so if I make all characters enter the dungeon in the same way, it will be very boring, isn't it?
LD: So, what is the next dungeon? The dungeon with three entrances, making the main characters had to split into three groups?
Pokedragon: …