Kazooie And The Crooked Mountains

Chapter four

The apprentice of the lord

Kazooie wasn't expecting to arrive at her destination so quickly. Honestly she was thinking there was more road between her and the beginning of a long journey, but she was here. The path eventually changed from dirt to stone, and stone pillars started to form alongside the road, after more walking there was a massive temple like structure.

The entry point was at the bottom of a large pit that seemed to be a court yard, there was no stairway so Kazooie jumped down, flapping her wings to slow her fall.

Still, that wasn't enough to keep her from landing with a thud, she rolled into a relatively large stone and curled into the fetal position, the fall really hurt.

"You should have just glided, you do remember you can do that, right Breegull?"

Kazooie knew that voice, she didn't sound so happy when she responded, even though her voice wavered with pain. "Shut up ya bucket of bolts"

Kazooie took her wings of her head, and surely enough, the one and only L.O.G was floating ominously in front of her. "The attitude is completely uncalled for, but I'd rather hear what brings you here, to the hall of creators"

Kazooie crawled to her feet and looked the Lord Of Games, he was definitely intrigued.

"Gruntilda nabbed Banjo, I guess I'm gonna save him"

Kazooie felt it again, that pain in her gut, but this time it was stronger. She was hungry, that's why she couldn't slow herself down enough to land properly. "I would be stupid to say that there's no food here, right?"

Kazooie asked like she was making a statement.

"You look famished, there might be some bread and water in the storage room, please do come in"

L.O.G Flouted to to his left and the door to the temple opened.

"Wow, this place is really old, what was it?" Kazooie loved adventure and finding new places, so this was right up her alley.

L.O.G took great pleasure in the birds curiosity. "Well, the creators were my brothers and sisters, each of us had a special purpose in life, mine was to make and play games, others controlled the weather, make music, day and night, rain or snow, you name it, there probably was someone who stood in this room and could control it, there was even someone who could control love" Kazooie felt odd about the way he mentioned that.

"But most of them have fallen now, and the remaining few have gone missing, so that left me and my apprentice" Kazooie nearly tripped when he said that. "Apprentice? Who is he?" L.O.G looked at her as the moved towards a central room.

"I had a apprentice who has become an outcast, his name was Retro, I believe he was a BMBX unit" Kazooie was a little shocked. "Retro... was he the only one?" L.O.G's screen changed to a three dots moving up and down, then he said. "I've had plenty of apprentices, they all go find alternative universes to meddle with, the new generation has an odd obsession with recording the events that happen and sharing them amongst each other, Retro... he likes to get physically involved in the universe he finds, that makes him different"

Kazooie found this a lot to process, but she pushed it to the back of her mind, she needed food, then she needed to find a jiggy.

After some time passed, Kazooie had a few slices of bread, a cup of water, and a new found appreciation for Banjo and his cooking.

She looked around and asked one more question. "Do you have a way to show me my truth?" The Lord Of Games looked surprised.

"Your following the old trials of discovery?"

He started to look at a ledge elevated on the wall. "You might not like what has to be done, you know"

His voice got dark and sounded a little bit glitchy. "I swore on my life that that door wouldn't ever open, I'm not going to let you go in there"

Something wasn't right about this, L.O.G started twitching and that was what told Kazooie he was bugging out.

Then Gruntilda's face appeared on his screen and a short, low quality witches laugh played and Kazooie jumped back, this was going to be a fight, She felt it in her veins.

L.O.G started rushing her, trying to wrap a cable around her neck, she ran back, trying to keep good distance, then he whipped her with a wire, she felt it slice her wing a little, it stung like hell but she had to put up with it for a little, she jabbed the screen with her beak, leaving a crack, that just made him mad.

L.O.G smacked her in the head with another cable, she fell to the ground in pain, this hurt a lot, he then grabbed her leg and dragged her over towards him, she tried to pull herself away but it was useless, she flipped onto her back and looked at him, he was going to impale her, she needed something, she then remembered that she had one grenade egg left, if she could hit him in the screen, maybe she could put down the Lord of Games.

One shot, that's all she had, she launched the egg straight for the eyes, the explosion was massive, Kazooie was prepeld backwards into a wall, she hit her head and was knocked unconscious.

She felt uncomfortable, it was a cold loneliness that she wasn't used to, she just wanted to be close to someone, she couldn't explain the sensation. When she came to, she was holding herself, she felt something bundle in her throat.

Did she just kill L.O.G? She wasn't prepared for the guilt that hit her, but when it came, it felt horrible. She looked around for the remains but oddly, nothing was there. Her left wing started throbbing, she was bleeding, not much but still enough to make her a little worried.

She needed bandages, or at least something to wrap up the wound with. There wasn't much in the room, eventually she laid eyes on a small flag that was hung from the lower wall, that wasn't the best material for the purpose, but was mobile again, and that was important.

She wondered what happened to L.O.G and why he became so violent, the image that kept popping up on his screen was of Grunty,

How did the witch do that to him? The lord of games didn't stand a chance against Kazooie so he must have been under Grunty's control.

Kazooie couldn't keep pondering on this thought, she still had to explore the rest of the temple and find its jiggy, for Banjo's sake.

Sorry for the long wait between uploads, I kinda ran into some problems, but never the less, I'm back.

I hope that this series is keeping momentum, because once this is over, I might consider getting back to my other project...

Don't forget to review and leave your thoughts so I can make improvements, thanks for reading this chapter and look forward to the next one.