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PS: Before anyone complains, I will be having Saria use the bow as a kid, cause if Link can use it in Majora's Mask then Saria should be able to now.
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The Legend of Zelda: Interloper of Time
-Chapter 31-
-Last Time-
"Yeah, yeah, we know, whole bunch of deadly traps, annoying puzzles, and horrible monsters we'll have to deal with." Naruto said with a groan as he and Saria headed out. "Just like with every other place we had to go to, same stuff different dungeon."
…
They whispered back and forth for several minutes, with both getting increasingly frustrated looks on their faces as they argued. At one point the argument turned into a all out brawl between the pair, with them throwing punches, kicks, and grapples around wildly.
After a while though, they finally seemed to agree on something and settled back down in their seats, covered in various scratches and bruises. "Alright then, we decided."
-And Now-
"Well, looks like it worked." Naruto said as he and Saria peered into the now empty well.
"That's great and all, but now we have another problem." Elia said, flying to the bottom of the well then back up again. "How exactly are you two going to get down there?"
"Uh we climb down duh." Naruto said as he climbed over the edge of the well.
"Master Naruto, I would not recommend that action." Fi said within the blonde's mind. "The walls of the well are still damp meaning there is a very high probability that you will-"
"AAAAAAH *Splat*
"-lose your grip and fall." The sentient sword finished calmly as Naruto pulled his face out of the sandy bottom.
"Naruto! Navi! Are you alright?" Saria called out in worry.
"We're alright, the sand cushioned our landing." Navi said while Naruto spat out the bits of grit that got in his mouth.
"Good, hold on a sec, Elia found some rope lying on the other side of the well that I can use to climb down." The greenette said, making Naruto groan as he smacked his face against the ground.
A few minutes of climbing later and all four of them were staring down the dark tunnel before them covered in skull & cross-bone etchings and warnings of death. "I can already tell that this is going to be just lovely." Naruto couldn't help but say sarcastically.
"Let's just get this over with." Navi said plainly as she and Elia made themselves glow extra bright to help light the way.
-Bottom of the Well (Insert Creepy Ambience Music)-
"Okay, I have to ask." Naruto started as the four of them stared at the tiny sealed gap that he pried open at the end of the tunnel. "How the hell does Impa-sensei get through here?"
"Knowing her, she probably knows some spell that makes it wider." Saria said with a shrug before crawling through the small tunnel on her hands and knees.
"Or make herself smaller." Navi suggested while Naruto followed the greenette's lead.
"A chibi Impa? I'd pay to see that-Ttebayo." The whiskered boy said with a chuckle, an image of six-inch-tall version of the Sheikah Chief beating the crap out of monsters popping into his head. However, his smile quickly turned into a grimace as he sank a few inches into to silty floor and had to struggle for several seconds to pull himself free.
Thankfully, the tunnel wasn't too long and after a minute or so the quartet reached the exit on the other side covered in mud, silt, and algae.
"Ugh, this is gonna take forever to wash out." Elia grumbled as she tried to comb out the gunk that had dripped into her hair.
"Don't start whining yet, with our luck it's going to get a whole lot messier before we're finished." Saria said while brushing off as much mud as she could.
Knowing she was right, the small green fairy slumped onto her partner's shoulder with a depressed sigh. "Goddesses help us."
Once they cleaned themselves off enough for the time being, the pair continued onwards. The tunnel went on for about thirty or so feet before reaching a sudden drop off with a rickety old ladder that groaned with every step. When they reached the bottom though, they were greeted with a wall of webbing and…
"That is one big spider." Naruto said as he and Saria stared up at the ceiling, where the large bug easily as big as two grown adults with a skull design on its back stared back hungrily.
"That is a Skulltula, an ambush predator that prefers to live in dark secluded areas." Fi said as she appeared next to him.
"Hard chitin protects most of its body from harm with the exception of the underbelly." Navi added in before quickly hiding inside Naruto's hair.
…What, she was a three-inch-tall fairy girl, no fucking way was she staying out with a giant spider on the prowl.
"So aim for the gut, got it." Naruto said while drawing the goddess sword and Saria drew her bow. "By the way, how does this thing handle the cold?"
"Horribly, Skulltula are warm climate invertebrates. Why do you… and that's a stupid question." Navi told herself as both weapons were covered in a soft blue glow and fog started drifting off them.
"Time to give this a proper test run." Saria said with a grin while firing an arrow straight at the monster's head. The instant it made contact, a layer of ice incased the spider's body, trapping it in place and causing several cracks to form in its natural armor from the sudden cold.
A good chunk of the webbing surrounding it was also frozen, causing the now fragile threads to snap from the creature's weight.
Crashing into the ground, the ice shattered and the Skulltula flailed its legs wildly as it tried to right itself. It didn't make it far though, as Naruto promptly impaled the massive spider's exposed torso and froze it from the inside out.
"I've said it before and I'll say it again, that is such an awesome ability." Naruto said while pulling the goddess sword free, causing the frozen corpse to shatter in the process.
"I agree," Saria said as she sliced through the webbing still blocking the way, only to reveal a stone wall. "But now we have another problem to deal with."
"Oh great, a dead end." Naruto grumbled, "We must've missed something."
"Or there's a hidden doorway. Fi could you see if you can find anything out of the ordinary?" Saria asked, knowing from personal experience that the sword spirit had a ridiculously keen eye for minute details.
"Yes Mistress, running a scan of the area now." Fi stated before going completely still for a few seconds. "Scan complete, according to my readings the path forward is clear."
"Uh, say what now?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow.
The metallic girl didn't respond right away as she floated forwards until she was right in front of the wall and stuck one of her cloak-hands outwards. Instead of colliding with the stone like everyone expected though, the billowing cloth passed right through like it wasn't even there.
"This wall is just an illusion, likely set up to trick any intruders that got this far into believing there was nothing here." Fi explained while retracting her 'hand' and floating back to the others.
"That definitely sounds like something Lady Impa would do." Navi said, with Naruto and Saria nodding in agreement.
"We'll have to be even more careful as we go, there is no way that she only made this one." Naruto grumbled as he and Saria cautiously stepped through the fake wall and found themselves inside a sewer-like chamber.
It was about the size a moderate house with a few piles of rubble littering the ground, a pair of tunnels at the back on either side of the chamber, and a large pool of water in the middle that was being fed by a channel that ran through the two tunnels.
"I'm guessing that that is the way we need to go." Saria said, pointing to the staircase that was submerged inside the pool.
"Well it's a good thing that we have the Zora armor still." Naruto said while digging out said clothing. However, as he held the garments out in front of himself, he quickly came upon a glaring issue. "Uhh… we wouldn't happen to know somewhere we could get these in a smaller size, would we?"
"Nope, and I'm pretty sure they won't work right if they keep falling off while you're swimming." Navi stated, making Naruto sigh in annoyance as he stuffed the armor back in his pouch.
"Which means we have to do this the hard and annoying way doesn't it?"
"Wouldn't be us if that wasn't the case." Saria said, patting the pouting boy's back before rubbing her chin in thought as she looked over their surroundings. "The water has to be going somewhere otherwise this whole place would be flooded. So maybe if we follow the flow to the source and cut it off, the rest will drain away on its own."
"That would appear to be the best bet we have." Elia said from atop Saria's head.
"Fi, could you take the lead?" Saria asked, causing the normally emotionless looking spirit to look towards her with visible confusion.
"Of course Mistress, but may I ask why?"
"It's rather obvious. You are the only one who could see through the illusion blocking the way, so you'll be able to warn us of any others we might come across." Navi said dryly, getting the sword spirit to nod.
"I understand, I won't let you down." Fi said with a bow, before blinking in surprise when Naruto patted the top of her head.
"Thanks Fi-chan, you're the best." He said with a smile.
"You are welcome Master Naruto." She said back calmly before floating to the front of the group, unaware of the smile that had briefly flickered onto her face.
It ended up being a very good call for Fi to guide them as the tunnels ahead were as littered with even more traps than they had expected, both obvious and disguised. There were multiple pitfalls filled with spikes hidden by illusions, giant pendulum blades soaked in poison, giant flaming skulls that patrolled the tunnels, several more fake wall illusions, and that wasn't even a tenth of it.
However, with Fi leading the way, the group was able to navigate around these hazards without too much of an issue. On the other hand, they still had to deal with several different monsters such as wallmasters and more skulltula that had somehow made the place their home.
They weren't much of a problem either though thanks to the combined effort of Naruto, Saria, and even Fi herself. While the green and blonde pair would slash, stab, and shoot anything that got close, the metallic blue girl would strike with deceptively powerful kicks and twirling attacks while gracefully dancing around her opponents.
However, the deeper they descended into the convoluted network of tunnels and secret rooms, the more unnerved everyone became as they came upon some admittedly disturbing sights.
"Remind me never to drink from this well again," Naruto muttered as he carefully stepped over a human skeleton that had its skull split in four.
"Agreed, sealed off or not this cannot be sanitary." Navi said from her spot in the top crook of the blonde's ear, gagging slightly as she saw all the numerous pools of dried blood across the ground under a pair of crossed wooden beams that had another skeleton dangling from it. "Though it would also be nice not to hear another spirit bemoaning its horrible fate."
Naruto didn't say anything in response to that but reached up and moved a tuft of his hair over the fairy's small form like a blanket.
"Well we hopefully won't have to be in here much longer, there's the water source." Saria said as she pointed to an incredibly creepy looking monster statue that was imbedded in the wall, water gushing from its mouth.
"Great, then let's cork it up already." Naruto said as he started digging around inside his pouch for something to do just that.
"That won't be necessary Master Naruto, I believe that is a valve switch over there." Fi stated while pointing to said switch, which had been cleverly disguised as one of the monster statue's fingers.
"Oh, well that's handy." Naruto said before he walked up to the lever and pulled it, causing a loud grinding sound to fill the air before the flow of water started to quickly taper off. However, at the same time several slots opened up in the ceiling and a dozen flying mechanical eyes dropped into the chamber.
"And of course it was booby trapped." Navi groaned as the machines quickly surrounded them.
"Sentrobes, be warned they are well armed and armored." Fi said as she braced herself for the coming fight.
"Any weak spots?" Saria asked as the trio got into a defensive ring, watching the circling drones carefully.
"Only when they open up to fire, which leaves their more delicate interior components exposed."
"You mean like that?" Naruto asked rhetorically when all the Sentrobes all opened up at once, revealing loaded cannons. "Saria, shield!"
"I know!" The greenette yelled back before they were incased by the crystalline shield of Nayru's Love. Just in time to, as not even a second later a barrage of rockets collided with the barrier and exploded, each one leaving a series of small cracks in their wake. "You better do something fast, I won't be able to keep doing this long!"
Not responding verbally, Naruto and Fi instead leapt straight into the action, literally. Jumping through the shield, Naruto slashed one of the Sentrobes clean in half then stabbed another right down its barrel while Fi smashed three others with fast precise kicks.
Before they could take care of the remaining seven though, the robots snapped their shells back shut and two smaller orbs popped out on either of their sides.
"Master, Mistress, be wary, I'm sensing high concentrations of explosive material in those spheres." Fi said in an alarmed tone as the orbs lit up and started flying towards them.
"Crap, Naruto give me a bomb." Saria said as she stopped casting Nayru's Love and prepped her bow.
"All yours." Naruto said, tossing her said explosive before getting in front of her with his shield raised while Fi retreated inside the goddess sword, both having guessed what the greenette was planning.
Stabbing the bomb onto the end of an arrow after lighting the fuse, Saria quickly lined up a shot at the drones over Naruto's shoulder and fired. In the blink of an eye, the arrow flew through the air and struck the closest mini-drone, causing both to explode with a loud *Bang*.
The resulting blast rapidly spread outwards, engulfing the rest of the flying bombs and making them detonate prematurely. Naruto grit his teeth as he felt the brunt of the explosion and shrapnel slam against his shield, making him side back a few inches until he reinforced his footing with chakra.
Once the blast died down, he lowered his shield enough to see the battered up but still functional Sentrobes floating back down to attack. Acting fast, he channeled as much chakra as he could into the goddess sword before swinging right as the drones opened up to fire again, releasing a wide arc energy blade that destroyed four of them and damaged two more.
Not one to be left out, Saria fired three shots rapidly straight down the barrels of the last three, making the missiles inside explode.
"Was that all of them?" Navi asked, peeking out cautiously from Naruto's hair.
"All hostiles have been eliminated." Fi confirmed as she reappeared next to Naruto.
"Good, then let's go get this stupid lens and get out of here already, preferably before something else tries to kill us."
Several minutes of retracing their steps later and the group found themselves back at the main chamber, staring down the now unsubmerged staircase. More specifically, they were staring at the dull metal door at the bottom which had the image of a face contorted in pain molded into the middle of it while patches of red covered just about every exposed surface.
"Well… isn't that just a lovely sight." Saria drawled sarcastically as they slowly descended the staircase. "Hundred rupees says something big and ugly is on the other side waiting to kill us all."
"I am detecting a strong dark presence stirring on the other side of the door, though I am currently unable to identify the source." Fi said quizzically.
"A surprise then, sounds like fun." Naruto said with a dry chuckle.
"I find your optimism in the face of imminent danger quite intriguing Master Naruto. Most others would be at least a bit shaken or nervous, especially after your incident within the Water Temple." Fi stated, her head tilting to the side in curiosity.
"Oh please, if I was going to freak out after every time I almost got killed by a giant monster we would never have made it out of the forest." The whiskered blonde said while Saria nodded in agreement. "I find it's best not to think too much on that kinda stuff, all it does it lead to a big headache."
"…If you say so Master."
"Enough gabbing, go kill whatever is in there before it decides to come out here and kill us instead." Navi cut in irritably.
"Okay, okay, we're going." Naruto said with a roll of his eyes as they reached the bottom of the stairs. However, when he reached out to open the door, the eyes on the face suddenly started glowing red before sliding open automatically. "Huh, neat."
"Incoming!" Saria exclaimed, pulling Naruto to the side as an extremely long rotting arm burst out the doorway and grasped at the air wildly. Not giving it a chance to recover from the failed grabbing, Saria swung out with the Kokiri sword and sliced the limb off at what she assumed was the elbow.
Oddly enough though, the instant the arm was severed, both halves fell to the ground and rapidly rotted away into nothing.
"Oh goddesses, that was an Infinite Hand." Navi muttered as she dimmed down a lot, her kinds version of paling.
"That sounds bad, is that bad?" Naruto asked.
Several more hands shot out and grabbed him, Saria, and Fi before they could react.
"…Does that answer your question?"
"Yep."
With a powerful tug, all three of them were pulled through the doorway and found themselves inside a wide circular cave of mud and dirt. The place was almost entire bare, with the exception of the torches on the walls, which were somehow lit despite the whole place having been flooded recently, and the hands which were coming out of the floor.
"Oh goddesses, these things smell rancid." Saria said, gagging as she and Naruto hacked at the limbs that had ensnared them until they were let go while Fi snapped the one holding her in half with a single kick.
"Of course they stink, they're made of rotten flesh." Navi said, her normal blue glow gaining a tint of green in it as she held her nose shut. "But forget about that, we have bigger things to worry about. Whenever there are Infinite Hands around-"
"GRaaah!" *Click-click* Mud flew across the room as a monstrous creature erupted from the ground in the middle of the room. It's flesh was a pale putrid white covered with patches of purple and gaping bloody wounds. The head was slightly human looking, only with a horribly overstretched jaw and neck. Instead of hands or arms, it had two short claws that stuck out on either side of its body, and its eyes appeared to have been gouged out.
"…a Dead Hand is certain to be not far away." Navi finished quietly.
Clicking its jaw shut repeatedly, the now named Dead Hand started slowly slinking towards them as multiple more Infinite Hands burst from the ground and shot towards them.
"KILL IT WITH FIRE! KILL IT WITH FIRE!" Elia screamed in terror from her hiding spot in Saria's hair.
"Even if we had the resources to do so, I do not believe that such a task is possible." Fi said, hopping over a group of hands and kicking the Dead Hand itself, leaving a long cut on its torso with her heel. However, the creature didn't even flinch and a few seconds later the injury closed up before it tried to bite her, forcing her to back away. "Despite its apparent preexisting injuries, this creature appears to have startlingly high regenerative capabilities and low pain reception."
"Navi, you know what this thing is. How do we kill it?" Naruto asked while slicing four Infinite Hands to ribbons.
Peeking out of Naruto's hair, the blue fairy jabbed her finger at the still approaching monster's head. "You need to destroy its brain, that's the only part of its body it can't regenerate."
Immediately after she said this, several arrows flew towards the grotesque face, only to be blocked by a pair of Infinite Hands.
"Yep, definitely on the right track." Saria said as she fired a few more shots that were all blocked, including a few ice and bomb arrows, before redrawing her sword and stabbing the hand that tried to grab her from behind. "I can see where these things get their name from, no matter how many we destroy more just keep coming. We're wasting our energy dealing with them like this."
"Then let's try slowing them down instead." Naruto said before impaling the goddess sword in the ground as it glowed a bright blue, causing frost to rapidly spread across the floor. Within seconds, the entire floor was frozen solid, leaving both the Infinite Hands and the Dead Hand stuck in place.
Seeing cracks already starting to form though as new hands tried to break out, both Saria and Fi wasted no time dashing towards the immobilized monster. Reaching it first, Saria sidestepped one of the Dead Hand's claws trying to stab her chest before grabbing said limb and using it to vault herself towards its head.
However, just as she was about to attack the monster's head, it raised it out of harm's way… or so it thought.
With a single stroke, the greenette sliced through the Dead Hand's neck, making it gurgle in surprise. She then stamped a foot onto the beast's shoulder for support and back kicked the now severed head away from its body. "Fi, he's all yours!"
"Understood Mistress." The Sword Spirit said while swatting the head to the ground as it flew at her.
"Gragle." The Dead Hand tried to roar as it squirmed helplessly on the ground.
"Goodbye." Fi said in a blank tone, raising her foot and stomping on its skull with all her might, splattering its brains across the ground and shattering the ice underneath.
The body and remaining hands, which had been fruitlessly flailing around while this happened, froze before falling to the ground and rapidly rotting away, leaving behind nothing but a battered metal chest that Saria quickly opened.
"Please tell me that the lens is in there." Navi said as Naruto pulled his sword free and walked over to the greenette with Fi at his side.
"If this weird magnifying glass is it, then yes." Saria said as she held up a purple magnifying glass with an eye shaped lens and three red spikes sticking out the top.
Taking it from her, Naruto reached into his pouch and pulled out the twisted-up piece of metal Impa had given them before and held them next to each-other. "Yeah, I'd say that looks about right." He said before tossing the broken lens and putting the usable one away. "
"Uh Naruto, you might want to see this as well." Saria stated as she held up a scroll with a stunned look. At first glance, it didn't seem like a big deal, being a simple paper scroll with a wide red band holding it shut. However, when he looked at it closer, the whiskered blonde's eyes widened as he saw what was scrawled onto said binding.
"For Naruto Uzumaki?" He read aloud in shock, snatching the rolled paper out of Saria's hand. "How?"
"It would appear that your arrival here was foreseen." Fi said calmly, her eyes looking over the scroll with a critical look. "I do not sense any form of danger, it should be safe to open."
Shaking the surprise off, Naruto muttered a quick thank you to the blue girl before breaking the binding and unrolling the scroll a bit.
The Adamantine Sealing Chains by Kushina Uzumaki
-End Chapter-
-Omake: What Fi really needs money for-
It was late at night in Kakariko Village, and most of the villagers were asleep in their beds, resting after a long day's work. However, inside of one Anju's home, this was not the case if the soft ethereal humming that filled the air was any indication.
In the living room, Fi could be found seated in a chair, an uncharacteristic relaxed expression on her face as she hummed. Behind her, a teenage Naruto stood with a rag in hand that he was rubbing against the back of her neck.
"Thank you for doing this for me Master Naruto, it is greatly appreciated." FI said with a peaceful sigh, her body slumping over slightly from the relaxing sensation flowing through her.
"It's no problem Fi-chan." The whiskered blonde said as he picked up a small bottle sitting on a nearby stand with a label that read 'Genuine Goron Gem Polish'. Fi had asked him to buy this earlier that day with the rupees that she'd won from Navi in Zora's domain, which at the time he'd been confused about but did none-the-less.
Apparently, while she stayed immaculately clean naturally, having someone polish her was Fi's equivalent of getting a massage.
Uncorking the bottle, Naruto poured some of the fragrant clear fluid inside onto the rag before going back to rubbing, this time on the shoulder.
'Best twenty rupees spent ever.' Fi thought with a smile.
-End Omake-
AN: Sorry about the late update, I was stuck on this chapter for days and even now I'm not so sure how well it came out. I hope you all enjoyed it, but if there is anything you think I could've done better feel free to say so. Thank you for reading and please review.
