Hello readers, chapter 108 is here! Nabooru is still battling it out in the Gerudo Fortress arena, but little dues she know she's about to get some much needed help! Enjoy!
"P-Prepare yourself Lady Nabooru, we'll... uh, defeat you!"
"Yes, w-we''ll soon end your life!"
"Uh, please?"
"We'll see about that, come at me."
In the gladiatorial arena of Gerudo Fortress, Nabooru was fighting off three rebel girls as they all came at her with killing intent, by the order of Mother Eclipsis.
Rather then attacking them though, Nabooru was focused on defense; blocking and parrying the attacks that came at her. She knocked one girl away with the hilt of her sword, and drove back another, but the last one managed to get a slash on her. The attacking girl gasped out in surprise of getting in a hit on Nabooru, but clearly felt some guilt about it and backed up.
"Uh oh... I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" said the rebel in a panic.
"Fear not, it's nothing." Nabooru shook off the slight bit of pain, instead smirking lightly, "Not bad getting the drop on me like that."
"Lady Nabooru..." the Gerudo rebel whispered.
"What's the matter Nabooru, getting too weak after all?" Mother Eclipsis taunted Nabooru from her throne in the audience stands.
"..." Nabooru looked up to her and narrowed her eyes. Despite all the monsters she had defeated, she was still fit to fight as ever and could easily strike down the rebel girls if she wanted, but she was forcing herself to hold back against them. She understood and respected Link's wish to save the rebels from the Ebony Sisterhood, rather than just killing them.
Originally she was conflicted about the idea, like back in the Hall of Knowledge when refusing to kill Boss Faurugo led to them almost getting killed themselves. But after meeting Maukai and observing how much she and the other rebels they had captured were working to reform their lives, she understood why he believed so much in that. He gave them a second chance, just like she did for her people by bringing them to Gerudo Town.
Two of the rebel girls came at Nabooru from the sides, but she blocked them both with her scimitars, while the third one tried running right at her. The Gerudo leader responded by bringing up her leg to block the rebel off, leaving the girl to blindly try swinging her sword out in front of her.
"Do you understand now Nabooru?" Eclipsis spoke, "Weaklings like these only get in the way of your goals. The way you've allowed your own people to live has made them as soft and feeble as these prisoners. Only the strong survive in this world, and we shall prove that when we win the war with Hyrule, destroy the wretched royal family, and save King Ganondorf."
"Heh... that's a load of rubbish." Nabooru grinned, she swung out her blades, slicing through and cutting in half the swords the three rebels were holding. She then kicked away all three of the girls to the ground, "If I've learned anything from Link, is that there's always another option. I won't give up on our people, and I vow to save them all from you!"
The three rebel girls looked up in surprise at Nabooru's words. While the audience all looked to each other, and started speaking among each other. Ghilmarelm meanwhile had his arms around two of his girls, kissing one while groping the breast of the other, but took a brief moment to absorb the words of Nabooru as she shouted out at Eclipsis.
"Hm, how interesting..." Ghilmarelm spoke.
"Hmph... that stubborn streak of yours needs to come to an end." Eclipsis said, she snapped her fingers, as three more gates opened up.
Emerging out from from each one of the gates was a cycloptic monster known as a Hinox. Unlike the one they had fought outside the canyon warp point, Nabooru noted the three of them each had a different color, one red with a flaming aura around it, one was blue and had an icy aura, and one was yellow with an electrifying aura. They also each had a mind-control helmet on like the other monsters she fought.
"This could be trouble." Nabooru spoke while the rebel girls huddled close to her.
"The three elemental Hinox brothers?!" shouted Meokuro, running up to the steel gate and gripping at the bars, "Mother Eclipsis, you can't be serious! Those three are supposed to be secret cheat weapons for the war against the Hylians! We lost a number of our sisters in the process of catching em all!"
"Now Lady Nabooru, can you deal with these beasts, or will you and those girls you claim to want to protect die?" Eclipsis asked, ignoring Meokuro's shouting.
Meokuro narrowed her eyes at Eclipsis and clenched her teeth, her hands squeezing on the bars.
"Oh my, since when do you care so much about the lives of our sisters Meokuro?" spoke up Kiraila as she was petting one of her potted mushrooms.
"Yeah, don't you always go on and on about how 'extra lives are a sacrifice needed to be made in per-suit of science' or whatevers?" Hetoma asked.
"..." Meokuro paused in thought. When she joined the rebellion, Mother Eclipsis taught the scientist what she needed to in order to further her research and help the rebels succeed in their goal to save King Ganondorf. However, ever since the day Link saved her from the exploding laboratory, she kept having strange thoughts...
Nabooru meanwhile stood tall as the three Hinox monsters all leered down at her with their single eyes. They also gazed at the three Gerudo beside her, and bore hungry looks on their faces as they licked their chops.
"These might be tougher than most of the others..." Nabooru muttered to herself, she turned to the rebel girls hiding behind her, "And these poor girls are just sitting ducks, if only I had some backup against these ogres..."
But then Nabooru heard a slight creaking sound, she turned to the metal grate in the center of the arena. She watched as the grate shifted a bit, until a powerful arm thrust upwards breaking it off, and sending the grate crashing to the ground. Jumping out from the hole was a sight Nabooru didn't think she'd see again; Link brandishing his favorite sword and Hotaig's Shield, as well as Reirousa wielding her Bombos Warhammer.
"Nabooru!" Link shouted out, "We're here to save you!"
"By the goddess Aifet, it's the false king!" exclaimed a rebel.
"Hm?" Prince Ghilmarelm muttered, turning his head up from making out with one of his women to see who had just arrived.
"He came after all?" Meokuro's eyes widened at the sight of Link.
"Well golly, that's the sidewinder we've been after?!" Hetoma spoke, tilting up her hat and peering through the steel fence, "Hoo-ey, he sure ain't a bad looker I'll give'm that!"
"Achio! Un emporo es mo tanbaa!" Lae Sahvasu shouted flexing her limbs, banging her fists against the steel fence.
"Calm yourself Sahvasu, not even you can break through that fence." Kiraila pointed out.
"That's the jerkface false king?!" Niani asked with wide eyes, holding her stuffed bear close to her, "That can't be right! Everyone told me he was all fat, hairy and homely. But this man is actually... kinda..."
As she gazed at Link, the bratty self-proclaimed princess' eyes suddenly turned into bright pink hearts. She squeezed her stuffed bear, sporting a huge goofy smile on her face.
"...kinda... really dreeeeamyyy...!"
"Hm, Niani?" Kiraila spoke, "Oh my, I've never seen her look that way before..."
"She's not kidding... the false king..." muttered one of the other Gerudo rebels, "He's..."
Link rose his head up and glared at Mother Eclipsis. His shoulder length bleach blonde hair waved around him, and contrasted with his mildly tanned skin. He was still lacking a vest due to tearing it off before back at Kokiri Forest, so the eyes of the rebels all took in his toned muscular upper body. He must have been in a hurry to get there since he had some beads of sweat running down his body as well. Only one thought was going through many of the minds of the Gerudo watching there,
'Oh no... he's hot!'
Nabooru glanced around at the girls all staring silently at Link, and smirked knowingly.
Eclipsis sat upon her throne, looking down at Link. Her expression was unreadable behind her mask, but her palm of her hand was clenched so hard it was slowly managing to crush the iron armrest.
"Glad to see you up and about again Link, but what happened to your royal vest? I thought it was going to take a lot longer for me to coax you into walking around town without it." Nabooru sported a mischievous grin as the girls beside her tried to avert their gaze.
"Ah heh heh... it's a long story." Link said scratching his cheek, "But more importantly, are you okay?"
"I've taken a few blows but I'm okay." Nabooru nodded, "Though I feel much better now that you two are here."
"No prob Lady Nabooru, Link wanted to make sure to save you while the girls are takin' back the town." Reirousa spoke. She looked up at the three Hinox brothers, "Looks like we showed up just in time."
Link went into a battle pose, spinning his trusty sword in his hand and readied his goddess shield, "Okay Nabooru, Reirousa, let's deal with these guys!"
"Sounds good." Nabooru stood up and wielded her scimitars.
The three Hinoxes roared out and lunged at the three, and Link, Nabooru and Reirousa all charged at them into battle.
The red Hinox lunged out with a flaming punch at Reirousa, but she blocked it off with her warhammer, making the giant yelp in pain. She took that chance to load a bomb into the weapon and come out swinging with it. She managed to bash the hammer into the giant's stomach, causing a large explosion,
Nabooru leaped into the air to avoid an electric eye beam from the yellow Hinox, before slashing it across it's eye causing it to cringe in pain. She grabbed onto it's ponytail and hung from it, while the monster tried in vain to grab her off his back. She brought up her swords and stabbed into the Hinox's back to do extra damage.
Link meanwhile dodged some waves of ice being shot up by the blue Hinox's ground slams, and used his Quake Medallion to shatter the ice, before slashing it across it's body. He took his bow and arrow and fired off shots which impacted directly into the eye of the beast, before he used a spin attack to slash at it again.
"False king strong too!" Zuzoc exclaimed, clinging to the bench she was siting on and hopping up and down in a squatting position.
Link, Nabooru and Reirousa kept up their attacks until the three Hinoxes had enough, they all roared out, beating their chests like gorillas, before charging at their opponents. Link quickly pulled out his Fairy Bow again and fired three more arrows into each of the monster's eyes, leaving them staggering back and stunned.
The Hylian and two Gerudo charged in and delivered a final blow to each of them with their weapons, causing the giants to groan out and topple over to the ground with a loud crash. Seconds later the Hinoxes broke apart and started to disintegrate into purple mist.
"Well that ends it." Link said, spinning his sword in his hand and sheathing it.
"They did it... they beat the elemental Hinoxes?!" a Gerudo rebel gasped out.
"You got to be kidding me." Meokuro spoke in a combination of shock and a bit of sadness, "Did our sisters die for nothing then...?"
"..." Eclipsis just sat at her throne silently.
With a moment of peace, Link turned to the rebel prisoners and asked, "Hey, are you girls okay?"
"Y-Yes... thank you Mr. Link, Lady Nabooru!" one of the girls said bowing her head.
"Hey, don't bow to him!" the second of them said, "He's the false king!"
"But they saved us." said the third, "Shouldn't we at least thank them for that?"
"I... um..." the rebel realized her point, and hesitantly bowed her own head, "T-Thank you."
"No problem, I'm just glad you're all unhurt." Link said, sporting a goofy grin.
"My, he's surprisingly compassionate..." Kiraila spoke, "Though how long it will be before someone takes advantage of that and stabs him in the back, I wonder...?" she chuckled darkly.
"Yo, hat's going on over there?" Reirousa spoke up to Link and Nabooru, gesturing to the remains of the three Hinoxes as they were breaking down into mist.
When the mist was gone, they saw laying on the ground was three crystals, one red, one blue and one yellow. They seemed to have some sort of energy within them similar to the aura the Hinoxes were giving off earlier.
"The hell are those?" Reirousa asked, before hearing a strange thumping sound behind her.
"Say, I recall that type of energy!" Nabooru's eyes lit up, "Just like back at the Gerudo Training Grounds!"
"..." Link stared at the crystals for a moment before walking over to them. He looked down at his hand, before he slowly reached down to touch at the crystals, which all suddenly burst into pure energy that transferred right into his hand, "Woah!"
"You okay there Link?" Nabooru asked with a raised eyebrow.
"..." Link paused, staring down at his hand, before he pulled out his Fairy Bow again and fired off an arrow, which ignited with flames and blasted into the side of a wall of the arena. He then took another ice and shot off an ice attack that burst into shards. He then took a third arrow and fired it off which burst into sparks of electricity.
The rebels all gasped out at the new power the false king had obtained, while Eclipsis just continued to stare down silently at him. Meokuro in particular was astonished at what Link had done, but was careful to make sure the other elite rebels sitting nearby didn't notice.
"You harnessed that elemental powers into your arrows, impressive." Nabooru grinned, "And you seem to already have a grasp of how they work as well."
"Not the first time I've had this power before." Link said grinning, as he thought back to when he used a similar power in the dark future, and again in Termina, "Now let's get out of here before-!"
"Not so fast!" shouted a voice, as the two turned to see some rebel guards holding the girls Nabooru had defended earlier with swords to their throats, "Try to escape and we'll slit these whelps open!"
"Damnit." Nabooru narrowed her eyes coldly, "You cowards..."
"Nabooru, if you distract the guards, I could probably freeze them with my new ice arrows." Link whispered, gripping at his bow, "Too bad Aviel isn't here, she's a much faster and more accurate shot then me."
"Uh Link, Lady Nabooru?" Reirousa spoke up, "We got another problem!"
The two of them turned just as a shadow cast over them, and saw yet another monster. It was a giant stone creature made almost entirely from layered bricks called an Eox. It had two eerie glowing eyes that looked down at the three. It even had a mind-control helmet on like the Helmaroc King, the Hinoxes, and the other monsters. It was blocking their way down the sewer passage.
"Oh come on, another one?!" Nabooru exclaimed to the rebels, "Where are you guys finding all these things?"
"Great, we're stuck between a rock and hard place, literally." Link said looking back and forth between the Eox and the restrained rebels, "Any ideas, girls?"
"Surrender and hope the prison food is good?" Reirousa asked.
"Already tried it. It sucks." Nabooru said.
The stone monster didn't seem phased about Nabooru's critique of the food though, and brought up it's limbs, letting out a long and low moaning sound, ready to do battle with Link, Nabooru and Reirousa.
"Guess we're not being given much of a choice but fight." Link said, "Let's take it down!"
But just before any fighting could start, they heard a loud banging sound. The three of them looked up just in time to see a figure manage to smash through the steel cage above them and leap downwards into the arena. The Eox looked up just as the strange figure do a somersault through the air and delivering a flying kick right down on the stone monster's head. Upon impact, a strange force of crackling purple and black energy shot out from the figure's foot, which blasted directly into the Eox.
"Who is that now?!" Link exclaimed.
"Wait a minute, that power...!" whispered Nabooru in shock, "It... it can't be-!"
The Eox's eyes flashed on and off for a few seconds, before going completely off and moaning out before slowly falling backwards. The stone monster crashed down over the arena grate, completely covering it. Everyone watched as the figure landed down to the ground and turned to Link, Nabooru and Reirousa.
They saw a what appeared to be a man with a strong muscular body. His red hair was slicked back wildly, he had piercing yellow eyes, and a long, pointed nose and chin. His skin was tanned with a strangely greenish hue to it. He was clad in black and red heavy armor and had a black jagged trident attached to his back.
"Who the hell is that?" Reirousa asked, "He just took down that stone monster thing in a single hit!"
"Just what do you think you're doing?" spoke up Mother Eclipsis, standing and staring down at the man, "We intended to use that Eox in the war!"
"Feh, as if I care about what you think!" shouted Prince Ghilmarelm, pointing to the girls being held captive, "Do what you will with Lady Nabooru and the false king, but I won't condone you threatening the lives of the weak!" he turned to the guards with fury, "Now release those girls this instant!"
The guard nervously nodded and let go of the captives, who all ran right over to Link, Nabooru and Reirousa for safety.
"Uh, thank you for that..." Link spoke, confused by the actions of the mysterious man before them, but finding him very familiar somehow, "Just who are you?"
"Heh heh heh... standing before you is the ultimate power of the desert, the son of the almighty Ganondorf, I am Prince Ghilmarelm Dragmire, the future king of the Gerudo!" he stated proudly.
"W-WHAT?!" Link exclaimed, "You're Ganondorf's... SON?!"
"Yes, twenty years ago I was born in Gerudo Fortress." Ghilmarem spoke, "And as prince, I have claim to the Gerudo King's throne. I've been waiting for this day so that I can take it back from you, false king!"
"Kyyyyaaaaa!" squealed out a bunch of loud voices, as Ghilmarelm turned to see his harem ladies all followed him down into the arena and were cheering out for him, "You're so brave and kind Prince Ghilamreeeeelm! We love yoooou!"
"Quit screaming like that you dumb bitches! Yer making my ears hurt!" Ghilmarelm shouted in annoyance, though it fell on deaf ears as they continued cheering. He let out a sigh and turned to Link,
"I admit I was pretty skeptic of just how powerful you were, but seeing you defeat those Hinox and absorb their power for yourself was pretty impressive. Now I want to see just what strength you have for myself." he grinned fiendishly, raising up his hand as it crackled with dark lightning-like energy.
"Ugh, once again he's doing whatever he pleases..." Mother Eclipsis groaned out, putting a hand to her forehead.
"Prince Ghilmarelm Dragmire... Ganondorf's actual son..." Link muttered, "Nabooru, is that even possible? I thought only a single Gerudo male is born every one hundred years."
"Does this mean Ganondorf is..." Reirousa counted on her fingers, "...over a hundred years old?!"
"That's not possible." Nabooru stated, "Ganondorf has had some children well before his capture, but I know for a fact he's only forty-two years old. There's no way he could have a full-blood Gerudo son."
"Greh heh heh... nothing is impossible for the amazing might of the Dragmire family." Ghilmarealm grinned, "And as proof of my lineage I have inherited a portion of the incredible power he holds." he pulled out his trident and pointed it out at Link, "Let me demonstrate that to you now False King Link!"
"I'm really getting tired of the false king thing..." Link sighed, taking his sword and shield and holding it ready to battle.
He took a moment to bserve his surroundings; the collapsed Eox's body was breaking apart into purple mist, but very slowly, and then over to the three rebel girls, before speaking out,
"Nabooru, you've been through a lot today, just focus on keeping those girls safe and let me handle the prince." he spoke to the muscular woman, "Reirousa, can you try and speed up that stone monster body's disintegration so we can make our getaway?"
"Of course." Nabooru said, sitting down to rest with the girls, "You three watch carefully, at the power of our true king."
"Leave it ta me Link!" Reirousa nodded, going over to the Eox and focusing on bashing at it's body with her warhammer to help break it down into mist faster.
The crowd all sat in suspense as Link and Ghilmarelm both stood facing each other down. Link gripped his hero's sword and Hotaig's shield, while Ghilmarelm wielded the black jagged trident in his gauntlet-covered hands.
"Now, come at me false king, and we'll see who truly deserves the Gerudo King's throne." Prince Ghilmarelm said with a fiendish grin.
"Bring it." Link said, and with that the two charged into battle.
The young gerudo king swung out his sword, but was blocked by the prince's trident. The prince swing back but Link dodged to the side before thrusting his sword forward. Ghilmarelm sidestepped from the sword attack and tried to swing his trident at Link's head. Link quickly ducked down under the swing and thrust forward his shield, bashing Ghilmarelm in the arm to try and make him drop the trident, but found the heavy armor was doing a good job of protecting him, and the prince bashed Link away with a strong punch.
Link backed up and shook off the punch, just in time to see Ghilmarelm charge up that strange dark lightning in his hand. Ghilmarelm smirked as he slammed his fist to the ground, causing a shortwave of dark energy to erupt and surge out at him. Link blocked off the energy using Hotaig's Shield, but as he lowered the shield, Ghilmarelm lunged out in close range and kicked him backwards.
"Ugh... this guy's tougher then I thought." Link muttered, "Looks like I'll have to up the ante."
As Ghilmarelm came at Link for another attack, he took his sword and swung it out, but the prince blocked it with his trident again. Ghilmarelm brought back his fist to punch Link, but this time Link pulled out the Quake Medallion belt buckle he received from Nemisa during their trip in Dhaijialoft and swung it at the prince's fist. The two impacted into each other, and caused an eruptive force that repelled Ghilmarelm's fist backwards and making him shout out in pain. Link was briefly shaken from using the medallion, but took that chance to slash at the prince.
"Impressive..." gasped Ghilmarelm clutching at his chest, "You claimed the power of Din's Quake Medallion I've read about."
"Got a lot more power then just this." Link grinned, as the two attacked each other again.
Link and Ghilmarelm clashed their sword and trident attacks against each other rapidly. The two sides were pretty even, but managed to get a few hits on each other. The prince charged up dark lightning in his hand before firing it off at Link like a beam. The beam was too wide for Link to side step, so he pulled out his Longshot and fired it off at one of the Gerudo statues around the arena, latching on it and yanking him into the air. Ghilmarelm looked up to see Link pulled out his Fairy Bow in mid air and fire down shock arrows at him. The prince was caught off guard by the power and struck by them, causing him to shout as he was electrocuted. Link took that chance to retract his Longshot and shoot it at Ghilmarelm's armor pad.
"Huh?" the prince exclaimed.
Link pulled himself right at Ghilmarelm to knock him down with Hotaig's Shield, but Ghilmarelm managed to bring up his trident and deflect it, knocking Link backwards to the ground.
"That's a strong weapon you got there." Link gasped, getting back up, "And you're using it masterfully."
"The Trident of Darkness, one of my father's most prized tools." Ghilmarelm smirked, "I can infuse it with dark lightning to make it even stronger. Behold!"
Ghilmarelm brought up the trident and lightning shot up from it. Moments later Link saw the ground below hi was turning dark, and he quickly leaped away just as a lightning bolt struck the ground. He looked up to see more lightning coming down around him. He quickly darted and dashed through the bolts coming down, charging up at Ghilamrelm. The prince brought abck his trident to strike Link, but Link took that opportunity to use his Longshot, grappling it into the armor's shoulder pad again and sending him right at Ghilmarelm.
The prince couldn't do anything to stop Link, but just then a stray dark lightning bolt came down right between them striking the ground with a force that sent Link off course and flying right at Ghilmarelm.
"Woah, watch ou-!"
BONK!
Before either could do anything, the two managed to impact into each other's foreheads and collapse into a pile.
"Ooooh, that had to be painful." Nabooru groaned out. Even some of the girls in the audience cringed from the impact.
Ghilmarealm groaned out, rubbing his head, "Uuugh... you stupid fool, when I'm done with you I'll-" he then looked up to realize Link was laying on top of his body, the young king's face was dangerously close to his own, "W-Wha-?! How did you get so-?"
"OoOOoOOooHH!" squealed out a number of the girls in the audience, looking down at Link on top of Ghilmarelm, in their eyes now seeing a bright pink aura surrounding the two with blooming flowers spread all around.
"This... this is just like something out of those black market erotic fantasy novels I've read!" said one of the rebels with her nostril leaking out blood, "The two brave male warriors go from battling each other to making out instead! And then it leads to all kinds of really spicy stuff!"
"Wait, you're serious?!" exclaimed another rebel, "I wanna see that!"
"What's this dangerous aura I'm sensing...?" Ghilmarelm asked looking up to see the rebel girls staring at the two with keen eyes, he then quickly turned to Link who was still in a daze, "H-Hey, get offa me! You're giving these girls the wrong idea!"
"What are you talking about...?" Link groaned, looking up to see Ghilmarelm's close up angry face. But in that moment, Link realized something was strange, "Huh...?"
"I said... GET OFFA ME!" shouted Ghilmarelm, releasing a blast of dark lightning from his body that sent Link flying across the arena. The young king fell backwards and skidded across the ground, close to Nabooru and the three rebel girls.
"That was a direct hit! Link, are you okay?!" Nabooru asked, wiping a bit of blood from her own nostrils as well.
"Yeah, I'm fine but..." Link got himself up onto one knee, "There's something... strange about that guy." he said, staring at Ghilmarelm getting up as well, "When I impacted into him something felt... off."
"Off? Like how?" Nabooru asked.
"... ...like I think I may have stumbled onto Prince Ghilmarelm's secret." Link said cryptically, as he charged back into battle against his opponent again before Nabooru could inquire more about it.
"Going to try to take me on again? Greh heh heh, so be it fool!" Ghilmarelm laughed out, swinging at Link with his trident.
The two clashed fiercely with their weapons, while Link took each chance he could to block a strike with his shield. The young king jumped back to dodge a swing of Ghilmarelm's lightning-powered fist before shooting three fire arrows at him. Ghilmarelm blocked off each arrow with ease, but the burst flames lingered in the air, distracting him just long enough for Link to dash up and punch him right in the chest with his Quake Medallion and sent a powerful force through his body.
"GRAAAAH!"
Ghilmarelm scowled as he rose up his trident and thrust it downwards at Link, who evaded it by rolling under his legs and jumping up, slashing at him from behind. The prince didn't even seem to flinch from it, and he spun around to bash Link away with his trident, sending the young king sliding backwards.
"Heh... you're getting sloppy, false king." Ghilmarelm spoke, "That last attack you used didn't even hurt me."
"Wasn't trying to hurt you." Link grinned.
Ghilmarelm looked at Link in confusion, then felt a strange shifting motion. He looked down to see that Link had slashed at the back of his belt to cut it off, which caused his trousers to shift down a bit, then fall completely down to his ankles.
"W-What?!" Ghilmarelm exclaimed, as everyone looked in surprise to see the trick Link had pulled on him. A large amount of the rebel girls in the arena all eagerly set their eyes upon the area between the young prince's legs for the 'legendary rod' that they had been told so much about before...
…but in doing so saw that there was indeed something very off about the Gerudo prince,
"HUH?!"
"...heh, so that's it. Now things make sense." Nabooru smirked, as the jaws of all the rebel girls she was protecting collectively dropped to the ground with a thud.
"Wait a minute... there... ain't anything down... there." Hetoma pointed out.
"Oh dear, so the truth is out." Kirilia spoke.
Tu porinre Ghilmarelm, ina cheekia!" shouted Lae Shavasu.
"I knew it, when I impacted into him a minute ago I didn't feel anything down there." Link spoke, "And since Ganondorf is too young to have a son, the only logical explanation is that the prince of the Gerudo is actually a princess!"
"This.. is... uh..." Ghilmarelm muttered, his masculine voice starting to sound slightly more lighter pitched the more panicked he got.
"EEEHHH? PRINCE GHILMARELM IS A WOMAN?!"" shouted out all the Gerudo in the arena.
"To think it would come to this." groaned Mother Eclipsis.
Ghilmarelm stood there blankly, staring down at his lower body. A cold sweat ran down his head as he looked left and right at the murmuring crowd in the stands. He took a look over to his harem of girls who were all glancing to each other with uncertainty.
"W-Wha...?! N-Nonsense! Of course I'm a man!" Ghilmarelm shouted out, he grabbed at the heavy armor plate on his chest and pulled it off, showing off his muscular upper body, "Look at this broad chest, and these pecs!" he shouted, hitting his fist against it, "I don't have the giant swollen milk sacs that these girls bare!"
"No, I'm pretty sure you're just flat-chested, you look to be about an A cup at best." Link observed, "It's nothing too out of the ordinary, I know plenty of girls like that."
Back in Gerudo Town, Togau let out a small sneeze as she was fighting against Chef Mamouta.
"And what about your lack of junk down there, 'prince'?" Nabooru pointed out at the area between Ghilmarelm's legs, "I don't see a piece of meat with two sides of vegetables, that's for sure!"
"Mother Eclipsis told me that's just because it hasn't grown out yet, it's normal for men!" Ghilmarelm protested, "She says on my twenty first birthday it will fully grow out and I'll be able to start impregnating my women, breeding the next generation of the Gerudo!"
"Grown... out... yet...?!" Nabooru spoke, her eye twitching a bit at the absurdity of what Ghilmarelm suggested, what was even more ridiculous was that the Gerudo 'prince' didn't even sound like he was lying, "Did nobody ever teach you properly about male anatomy?!"
"Huh? What are you talking about?" Ghilmarelm asked in genuine confusion.
"And you girls never noticed?" Link asked Ghilmarelm's harem girls.
"Uh... to be honest the Prince never actually showed it to us. Mother Eclipsis said he was saving himself for marriage." said one of the girls, "We usually just fool around with him, and he was REALLY good at that."
The other girls all swooned out in memory of those nights he'd spend pleasuring them as Link and Nabooru sweatdropped.
"...Link, how old are you right now?" Nabooru asked, getting herself up and walking over to his side.
"Twenty years old, why?" Link answered, having a bad feeling of where she was going with this...
"Because I want to show everywhere here that THIS is what a man's groin looks like!" Nabooru said to Ghilmarelm, grabbing at Link's pants and yanking them downwards, giving all the girls in the arena and stands a full view of what laid between his legs.
"What." Ghilmarelm spoke out with dot-sized eyes.
"W-WHAAAAAAAATTTTT?!" exclaimed the rebels within the area with bugged out eyes.
"Uhh... hoo-boy." Link spoke, looking around left and right at the people with a heavy blush on his face. He was going to try and pull his pants right back up, but Nabooru had them held down to keep him from doing so.
"T-That's the... pride of the false king?" spoke a rebel, before she was practically thrown backwards by a fountain of blood that sprayed out from her nostril in lust, "Oh myyyy!"
"What a divine rod of the desert..." said one rebel with drool flowing down her mouth like a waterfall.
"Don't look directly at it sister!" exclaimed another rebel trying to make her avert her eyes.
Reirousa looked up from bashing at the Eox monster's body and stared over at Link and his hidden package. After a moment, a small trickle of blood leaked out from her nose, before she immediately went right back to bashing at the Eox even harder and faster out of pent-up frustration.
Meanwhile in the stands where the Elite Rebels were hanging out, Zuzoc was clinging to the bars of the steel fence with her fingers and toes to get a good look at Link,
"Zuzoc spot rare great mammoth!" she shouted with sparkling eyes.
"Toune visesta un vizoro!" Lae Sahvasu shouted, trying to pry the wild girl Zuzoc off the fence to keep her from seeing it, "Por Hetoma, asicio re ponosa emmeiate!" she shouted to Hetoma to assist her.
"Sorry Sahvasu, I got my hands full dealin' with this little jack rabbit." Hetoma said, trying to fan off Niani who was laying back on her lap, the young girl's hair locks had fallen back exposing her large forehead.
"S-Sis Hetoma... do we still have that sausage roll with the pickle...?" Niani asked in a daze.
"Don't give in, that's the false king yer thinkin' about!" Hetoma pleaded with her.
"Oh jees... was he always like that...?" Meokuro asked, doing her best to look away from Link with a small blush on her cheeks, "And I was planning to have my way with him back at the lab..." she buried her face in her hands, "Ooooooh, I can't believe I said thaaaat! I'm so embarraaaassed!"
"..." Aseaku meanwhile was just sitting back, looking around at the others with a genuinely confused expression on her face, "I don't get it, what's everyone so worked up about?"
As for 'Prince' Ghilmarealm herself, she was staring at Link's groin. For her whole life she had been taught to live as a male, to model herself in Ganondorf's image, reassured that her 'pride' as a man would eventually grow out and be prepared for mating with the women of her people. Only ever having seen crude drawings of one, she had never actually gazed upon a man's crotch in her entire life, and a strange sensation was building up deep within her...
...but she quickly shook off that feeling, pulled her pants back up, tied her belt back together, and held out her trident.
"E-Enough of this foolishness!" Ghilmarelm shouted, "Pull up your drawers, and let's resume our battle!"
"Fine, I couldn't agree more." Link said with relief at some regained sanity there. He pulled up his pants and tied his belt as well. He glared annoyingly to Nabooru, "I blame you for all of this."
"Go get her, tiger." Nabooru gave him a knowing wink before returning back to the rebel girls she was protecting, whispering to them about something that made them look to Link and blush more heavily.
"Now let's end this!" Ghilmarelm shouted, more furious than before, as she swung out her trident, releasing powerful waves of dark lightning at Link. He dashed forward, jumping and sidestepping each shot that came at him. He blocked one blast with his shield, before going in and clashing his sword against Ghilmarelm's trident.
"Enough, try to defend against my might now!" Ghilmarelm said, backing Link off with a forward push before thrusting her trident forward with a succession of quick jabs.
Link dodged and blocked off as many attacks as he could, but a few managed to poke and cut at him. Thinking fast, Link brought his sword upwards as the trident thrust forward again, managing to stop it by positioning his sword between the prongs.
"What?!" Ghilmarelm exclaimed, pulling back on the trident to get it back, but Link slightly shifted his sword's position which served to lock the two weapons in place, "Give my trident back immediately!"
Link instead pulled out his Quake Medallion and slamming it into her, the powerful impact making her release the trident and left staggering backwards. Link ran up at the 'prince' who tried punching him with dark energy, but he dodged and slashed at Ghilmarelm a few times before knocking her back with a spin attack.
Ghilmarelm got up and scowled, before she brought up her fist and pounded it to the ground with dark lightning, blasting Link away. He jumped up onto his feet as he saw Ghilmarelm charge up another massive lightning beam, so he quickly fired off an ice arrow at the 'prince's' arm, causing it to freeze up.
"Huh?" Ghilamrelm exclaimed, just as Link ran up and punched her in the face with Hotaig's Shield, then slashed at her again with another spin attack, "How can this be? I'm not a woman, I'm the true Gerudo king! I can't lose to a pretender!"
She brought up her arm and smashed the ice against the ground to shatter it, before running off to fetch her trident. As Link came at her, she swung the trident out with such force it set him tumbling backwards. Before he could even come to a halt, she brought up the trident and sent a lightning bolt into the sky, which came right down on Link, blasting him.
"Link, hang in there!" Nabooru shouted.
Link gazed up to see Ghilamrelm sprinting at him for another attack. Thinking fast, he aimed and fired an ice arrow, but rather than aiming at the princess, he instead hit the ground just in front of her, making a small amount of ice that Ghilmarealm stepped on and skidded forward. Link then took his shield and bashed it into Ghilmarelm's face, sending her flying back and stumbling over.
"Ugh.. cheeky brat." Ghilmarelm scowled, "When I'm through with him I'll-"
She looked up to see Link ran forward and jump into the air to perform a downward stab on her, so Ghilmarelm quickly pulled up her trident to try and block the attack. The two held their attacks for a brief moment, a trickle of sweat ran down Ghilmarelm's head as she gazed up at Link, and the fierce look in his eyes. She found herself thinking back to earlier when he had fallen on top of her, and how close he was to her. Seeing him be over her like that was causing more of those odd thoughts in the back of her mind...
"What is this...?" Ghilmarelm muttered, before releasing another force of dark lightning which knocked Link away. She got herself up and rushed at Link with her trident, "Curse you, whelp! Stop putting these strange thoughts into my mind!"
"Huh?" Link was confused at what Ghilmarelm was talking about, but tried to focus on the fight. He dodged a powerful swipe of the trident, and kept his distance as Ghilamrealm swung more at him.
As the young 'prince' came at him again, Link brought back his sword, narrowing his eyes as he studied his opponent's movements. Just as Ghilamarelm was about to bring down her trident, Link kneeled down and swung out his sword as he jumped upwards, just barely dodging Ghilmarelm's trident attack, and slashed at her multiple times as he spun upwards. Before Ghilmarelm could even attempt to counterattack, Link slashed her one last time as he came downward, sending her flying back to the ground.
"That's the way!" cheered Nabooru with a smile.
Ghilmarelm got herself up on knee and gasped out, as her heavy armor loosened and she staggered forward a bit. She looked upwards to see Link standing tall and ready to fight still, but her vision was starting to blur from dizziness.
"Grk..." groaned out Prince Ghilmarelm. Her heavy armor loosened and came apart. And her pants dropped back down, exposing her secret to everyone once again, "Well met... false king..."
With that, Ghilmarelm dropped her trident and collapsed to the ground, her eyes a blank white from falling unconscious.
"Whew, that was pretty rough." Link sighed out. He had to admit despite being the daughter of Ganonodrf, Ghilmarelm was a strong warrior, and as she demonstrated when she saved the rebel girls from the guards, a true Gerudo through and through.
"Prince Ghilmarelm!" screamed out the young 'prince's' harem, all running over to see to her injuries.
"Nice work Link, as always." Nabooru said with a grin, she looked up at the audience who were all in silent shock that the false king had managed to defeat Ghilmarelm, "Seems you've left quite an impression on these girls as well."
"Probably not the impression I wanted..." Link muttered sweatdropping, he then turned to see the rebel leader Mother Eclipsis who stood up from her throne.
"To think you were able to defeat her... there's more to you than I expected." Mother Eclipsis said coldly, she gazed down at Link through her featureless porcelain mask,
"But I'm done observing things, it's time I take matters into my own hands, False King."
And that ends the chapter. With 'Prince' Ghilmarelm defeated, Link finally has the opportunity to confront Mother Eclipsis, but just what power does she hold, and does he stand a chance? Find out next time!
I don't know how people feel about Link abruptly getting the fire, ice, and shock arrows, but I felt as things are starting to ramp up in the story that Link should acquire a new power up, so I came up with the idea of him getting elemental arrows from the Hinoxes, perhaps I didn't use them to their fullest potential in this battle, but there's going to be plenty more opportunities for it.
Just so people know, 'Prince' Ghilmarelm isn't just going to be a one-off character, I got further ideas in mind for her.
Also I just realized this is the first chapter in a long while that I did without a scene transition. Neat, I guess!
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