Akko arrived at the dungeon of the eastern palace and is already exploring much of it, in search of the path she needs to follow to advance further through the place and thus obtain the pendant of courage, on this journey to gradually gain the trust of Queen Laura and Queen Bernadette, she has already been causing some concerns among the princesses who are just waiting for Kagari's return and her success in missions.
After taking a huge amount of 250 Rupees at once in that chest, she leaves that room with the laser beams, returning the way she had the fork, this time she chooses to enter the other door, when passing by she already notices that it is an open room with a keyed entrance, it was wide open which was very suspicious. When walking just taking a few steps forward is where Atsuko discovers that in fact that open place has floors that are being thrown towards her who is dodging and reaching the door managing to use the shield on her back to protect herself from being hit, with that when opening the door enters another room, it has a corridor with pots in front which signalled that it was the type of corridor that the floor fell to the ground.
(Come on, it's just like that other corridor, I keep wondering how I'm going to get back, there's even a door on the other side).
The Hyllian of Luna Nova takes the vases out of the way and already positions herself to start the race, concentrated she looks ahead and then starts running, taking a look back the floor is really falling apart, which she runs with everything until she reaches the other side with vases in front of her that she destroys with her sword and is relieved that she did not end up falling.
She passes through the door ahead and when she opens it she is faced with a room already having a chest in the middle which already awakens her to know that it is a trap, Akko gets very close, steps well ahead and then sees that the ceiling had opened, in it several skeletons are falling and also statues that are beginning to follow the one with crimson eyes.
(Ah as I figured, there's no way there isn't a trap around here).
The skulls of the skeletons also follow her as bones that are being thrown by some skeletons, surrounding her, which Akko even tries to defend herself from some, but is hurt by the bones thrown, which is using the sword to try to attack back, which she already takes a bomb out of the bag and throws it near some accumulated monsters.
The explosion ends up killing a good part and so the way becomes more free, in addition to killing one of the three statues that had woken up, this time missing only two, she was taking care of the remaining skulls and skeletons that remained, the other statues wake up and with the bowAkko is shooting each one.
(I knew you would bother me, this was the only room that could hurt me, I hope the monster here is not that hard).
Atsuko defeated the rest of the statues and thus opened the chest, being lucky enough to find simply the master key, the one she needed to open to access the huge chest in the main hall of the palace, but the path ahead was compromised, she had no idea how to get back, since the floor had fallen and there was only one way.
(I'll check in the room I came out of, who knows if I run too far the floor might not end up dropping too much and I can access the front path).
She arrived at the room and saw that all the floors were back, soon took out the vases that reappeared on the way, took a deep breath, looked ahead and went running taking the first step, which she was noticing that the floor did not fall to the side of where she was going, but on the contrary, so she was having a much better chance of returning, even getting a little confused.
(Ah so the floor comes back, good to know, that way I don't end up falling over by accident).
So she followed the path until everything came back, in the room of the main hall of the castle, there where there was the huge chest, she was already right away climbing that stand of the boat and when she opened it she had a surprise, the huge boat hid a very tiny item, oddly enough, it was not something great or Rupees, it was simply a boomerang, which even leaves Kagari very confused.
"'What do you mean this bland thing here is the treasure of the whole castle? - Said the confused crimson-eyed girl.
Soon after, several of those little creatures that appeared in the first rooms of the castle are falling, which look like plants that jump from side to side without direction of where to go, in this the girl uses the boomerang in the first of them and notes that the item she picked up paralysed the creature and that way she can already have a good idea of how everything worked, already starting upwards killing the plant and
repeating the process in the other monsters.
There were only 10 of these plant-like creatures, each boomerang paralysed one of them and served for the attack it wanted to make, thus leaving the way cleared to go further on.
"I hate these things, even though they look harmless, I have to run after them, if they don't become huge monsters when released and devour a lot of things, I'd rather not risk it - Akko said while paralysing the rest of the plants that moved.
When killing all the monsters she could notice that a button appeared on the ground exactly in front of a place that was kind of suspicious with some torches indicating that it had some passage, just as a statue fell from there.
Kagai was approaching and soon came across a living statue that was following her, which she ran and then went up destroying with a single arrow and with that the statue simply with the rest of the pieces left on the floor is rebuilding and standing in a corner.
(Ah now I understand what it is to do, does the boomerange really work like that? I can use the statue to leave the button pressed, that way I have where to move on)
And taking a deep breath was where she got close to the statue that followed her, she walked towards where the button is, waited for the statue to get close and threw the boomerang, where that thing was paralysed at the time, revealing the path ahead, it was exactly what Atsuko thought it would be, when solving the puzzle the wall in front of her opens, she goes ahead already running with everything and soon she is relieved, she did not draw attention from the statue.
(If I need to go back I'll be fucked if I can't do anything, good to know that the statue was just stuck in her corner without doing anything funny, well now it's time to continue in this palace, I'm already reaching the end of it, I feel it).
When continuing the path she follows in a corridor with a double door, when opening it he is faced with a somewhat dark room, which was already hindering the vision, but with a lamp that took inside the hero's bag he was soon lighting the way ahead and already having a sense of where to go, he can see that there was a statue standing in the middle of the open room, which Akko was following in the corners, already taking some pots, just as there were some skeletons that were easily killed by throwing the pots at them.
(Picking up the lamp was one of the smartest things I could have done, it really saved me from the worst, now come on, I have to keep going here on the path, or else I don't stop anywhere here, well now come on, there's a way out here).
Kagari walks to where this exit is, but is faced with a closed door, already touching that the exit may be exactly the statue was standing and not wanting to spend arrows for nothing she takes the sword in hand and returns where the statue is where she already takes a vase in hand.
Arriving near the statue that is soon hit and ends up causing a button to go up when taking a vase being thrown Akko notices a pattern in it.
(Ah so the statue was right on top of the button impeding my passage, good to know that).
The one with crimson eyes was giving the final blows to that statue, which was destroying itself, but soon she comes across more things that end up appearing as soon as the statue was defeated, the same plants that jump and were from one side to the other doing this.
(Now these things are in the dark it's even worse, still in a room full of pots, if they eat everything they will become a monster even worse, it's boomerang time)
The boomerangs are being thrown towards the monsters that were even devouring the remaining pots or were paralysed before getting too close, with that it was the brownish one's turn to clear the way of what was ahead before the monsters were devouring too many pots and becoming too hostile to eat and getting big being a danger to Akko.
(I don't even know how many of them there are, but I'll clear the path of as many as it takes, I've got to make my way to the door)
She was focusing on more along the way, getting to the door seeing that she didn't need to kill all those animals, following relieved to the other side simply a corridor with two statues waiting that way the Hyllian of Luna Nova keeps the lamp, even putting it out and takes a deep breath since she will still have a lot to
attack, gets the shield in hand and goes already taking the sword to get close to the statues that start to wake up and go to the girl.
(As always these statues, I have no doubt that the head of this thing will be just such a one, I'm absolutely sure, I'll have to be careful not to end up being crushed by it).
The statues were giving her a hard time, since there were two at once going towards Akko in a corridor, even pushing her in the corridor that was almost crushed when falling to the ground, but she stopped in her tracks, opening the passage for her to move forward in the corridor, but there were two other statues, which Atsuko stopped on the way and took a deep breath.
(Shit, there's monster on both sides, I'm going to have to appeal a bit).
The crimson-eyed one takes the Claiomh Solais out of the bag instead of the shield, arming herself with the bow, already speaking the words of transformation, until she thought well and was picking up bombs in place, already lighting one she came close to the statues ahead, they were waking up, exploding then what was a precise blow from Kagari that was arriving just at the door, where they had some vases, when opening she can finally even replace some arrows, when joining with the bow.
The door was closed, which in this way the brownish woman had to look to the side where the other two statues were and was already taking advantage of the fact that she had the bombs in hand and was walking close to one of them, already starting to light
(I just want to see if these things get in my way now)
She threw the bomb at the statues that exploded and with that she ended up opening the door on the other side as she wanted, Akko was coming to a room and was seeing that she already had the sign that was the entrance to the monster of the dungeon, until she took a deep breath there were some chests, which she already imagined having some traps, but that could help her, she was already thinking deeply about what to do, the floor was even very smooth in that dungeon, which she was reflecting well.
(Do I risk getting the stuff from those chests? I can get a lot out of this, I still have some fairies in my pots that will serve against the boss of this place, well it's time to risk, who knows what can be in them, a warrior knows how to risk)
And there went Atsuko risking taking the chests, one by one, one of them had 50 Rupees, the other had more bombs, in addition to also having more arrows, which she was taking advantage of to renew the stock, but there was no trap and luckily there was also a little magic that helped restore her disposition a little, which was then breathing near the door.
The one with crimson eyes arrives near the door, taking a deep breath, enters the place, coming across a room with a shallow pool of water, in it she walked lightly looking around, which then came across a falling statue, it was of a girl with four arms, who was holding swords, it was a little smaller than the statues that Kagari saw in the castle.
Four Arms Marble Statue Ansolew Airo
The statue soon looks atAkko and runs towards her who is getting scared, she even dodges the first attack, but the agile statue still comes up and tries to give another blow, which Atsuko protects herself with the shield, but the impact of the four blades was enough to disarm her, causing her to fall sitting on the floor, half-face looking at the monster from the front that even stops attacking afterwards.
(Holy shit I might die against this thing, as Queen McLaren has the nerve to say I'm ready to defeat this thing, I guess I have to try using some different attack against it).
Ansolew Airo returns from the vegetative state and goes up to the crimson-eyed girl who throws her boomerang on the spot, which can notice that this only made the movements of the agile statue much slower, giving time for a dodge by Kagari who was already starting to prepare to go up with the sword in hand, she went to get close, but then the statue stops, which does not give to attack.
(Shit even looks like that statue knows I'm going to attack it)
Akko returns to the defensive with the shield in hand, the creature made of marble already gives some cuts that take the shield and with that she tries to push the Japanese woman to the ground, this way fallen she even dodges rolling from a deadly blow that the four-armed statue freezes very quickly, in this Atsuko takes a bomb out of the bag and runs, since that thing would quickly move again.
Right she was soon it was time for Ansolew Airo to start moving and was hit by the blast of the explosion that incredibly did not affect her in almost nothing, just made her almost get close to Hylilan de Luna Nova enough that was taking the staff out of the bag and running to one side where it was transformed into an arc.
"Great bombs are useless, the biggest weakness of the statues that were the bombs are useless, I think I better try something else here, come on Bow" Said the desperate Kagari.
The marble creature wakes up and quickly goes up to the crimson-eyed girl who is a little shaky, but manages to hit an arrow right in the head of that thing, but she herself ends up just feeling something going through her and then the statue being thrown back with the impact of the arrow, falling to the ground she realises that she had a hole in her belly, already in pain and bleeding. A fairy comes out of the pot, saving the brownish girl's life from a certain death that will see the statue going up to her.
(I've barely been cured here and already I have to run away from this damned thing, or else I die).
Akko throws a boomerang which ends up slowing down the statue until it ends up freezing was the precise relief and at that time she can touch the best strategy that could easily defeat that creature of the dungeon that comes to scare so agile.
Again the statue comes up, only that a boomerang is thrown leaving the statue slower, at this time Kagari uses the bow firing another arrow at the head of the statue that takes a few steps back, then standing still again.
(That's exactly what I thought of strategy, now I hope this thing will be destroyed soon, I will use my intelligence here, it may be a quick statue, but I also know how to be smart).
Again the statue goes up and Akko throws the boomerang, going in the same pattern, about to give another arrow was the third which then the statue ends up taking a few steps back and is different, she keeps her arms, getting only two, changes the shape that was once a woman with four arms all delicate, she accumulates some stones uniting into something bigger.
Forming this time an appearance of an armour very similar to the statues that were faced along the castle, only this time it was bigger and with a reddish coloration, the huge statue was starting to go towards Kagari, almost crushing what even gave an earthquake and still did not move anything slowly to make matters worse.
(Shit this thing really is not only agile, it can also crush me to death, I have to be quick, but I can only think of one plan so far).
Atsuko was simply running, using what she saw as the best technique and it was even the best, until she saw that at the bottom of the statue there was something, that she could hit, she was already thinking of using the arrow, but the huge statue is fast and would not give way to any attack, which she was already using her brain even more.
(I'm going to try to use the bombs, they might be good for something, they fit right in the hole or they might blow up the base, that's what I'm going to do).
Akko takes a bomb out of her bag and throws it forward, she ran towards the explosive and then jumped, just when the statue was going to crush her, she manages to dodge and an explosion can be heard, followed by a flash of the marble structure that ended up leaving Hyllian de Luna Nova with a better idea of how to attack.
She was already getting up from the ground, ran away from being crushed and was following the same scheme, walking towards the bomb thrown and almost being hit, causing an explosion, only that this second explosion ended up making the statue crazy she was no longer making high jumps to crush, she was going faster and following low jumps to crush.
(Shit, now I'm fucked, I have to think of a way here, I confess I preferred the woman with the four arms, at least it was more peaceful to be defeated).
The bombs were of no use, Akko tried to throw some, but they were only crushed and caused more explosion, not serving the creature, but on the monster's forehead there was a weak point, making it very clear what was the gap that the brave Kagari needed, she ran towards a wall and was thinking of exactly one bullshit to do, jumped towards a wall and then jumped towards the statue with the sword in hand she stuck it with a single stroke on the stone that was on AnsolewAiro's forehead that ended up flashing and after a while it was crumbling into several pieces with the precise stroke that the crimson-haired one made risking, falling to the ground then relieved and somewhat exhausted.
"Holy shit, I could have died for that statue" said a relieved Hyllian from Luna Nova.
The second pendant of courage appears just like a heart, which the relieved brownish girl takes and celebrates, already feeling more willing what she is already spinning all happy and then raises the sword upwards, showing that she has conquered another dungeon, also showing that all the training she did paid off, she managed to manage better in that situation.
"My second courage pendant and this time I managed it all by myself, I really am the warrior of Luna Nova! How marvellous!" Said the happyAtsuko Kagari.
She goes to the circle that forms in front of her with magic, transporting her precisely to the entrance of the palace that was the one she had not entered, in a tree nearby appears none other than the raven Arcor who had accompanied her when she left the forest of Arcturus.
"My congratulations Akko, you got your second pendant, you are already one more step away from getting the master sword, it was a very complicated dungeon for your journey, but I imagine that for a warrior it must have been quite easy, from now on be sure to listen to the advice of the queens and continue training, soon you will be at an even higher point, I'm going!" Said the raven who then left and Hyllian of Luna Nova just shrugged.
She followed the path to the entrance of the dungeon, where she saw that there was a lever next to her that she pulls, opening the huge door of the entrance, in it the two Siflas go running out to the outside, running to hug the warrior with all the happiness in the world, thanking her for her help in saving the two from the worst.
"Thank you for saving us Akko, now we can go back to Doras village safe" Sifla mum said.
"I was quick, I was able to finish everything in the same day, well, I'll still have about 4 more days here in Doras before the royal entourage leaves" Atsuko said rubbing the back of her neck.
"Now let's go!" Said the sifla daughter.
The three go together walking back to the village, with the warrior in front protecting them from the few monsters that appeared ahead, they were soon arriving at the village gate, entering there the people were normal, until they noticed that the girl from the missing poster had returned and by the hands of Hyllian of Luna nova.
"The outsider rescued the princesses!" Said one of the townspeople.
"That girl from Wedinburgh's entourage, she's a warrior!" Someone else said.
They arrive at the building where the city administration is located, finding themselves in the room where the queen was and she is surprised to see that her daughter and granddaughter had been rescued alive from where the eastern palace is located by the hands of a 14-year-old girl who was brave enough to enter the place, already being admired by the lady.
The hug between the people of the royal family of fairyland is given and then comes the reward part, where Sifla grandmother takes Atsuko to a room where she delivers what were boots, only these boots had an extra property.
"These here are the pegáso boots, they give you an even faster run, you can run over everything in front of you with them, in addition to making you resistant in case of colliding with something, they only end up tiring the same as a normal run, but they will be useful for you to use to run around" Said the oldest.
The crimson-eyed one was soon testing, which before making the race she stands still and then the boots make her have a very explosive race with practically instant acceleration, where she managed to brake almost hitting a bookshelf and that way she was already loving the gift feeling all grateful for it.
"This is better than a normal boot, I'll love it, it will be very useful in some dungeons, I came already having to run, if I had them against the statue I was facing in the first phase of it I would have defeated it" Kagari said.
"Well now rest, I imagine you must have had a long journey I presume" said the queen.
"Absolutely, I loved the reward, it will be very wonderful, I already feel the usefulness of it, now I'm hungry" said the Hyllian of Luna Nova with her belly rumbling.
"Don't even mention it, we've been three days without eating anything, the hunger here makes our stomachs go inside, thank you for saving us from all this Akko, you are really a great heroine, what you did will not be forgotten" Said Sifla mother.
"I just did what a real warrior would do, I just want the best for Hyrule, it wouldn't be right not to save you, I was lucky that damn Deku threw me where you had fallen, so we can be safe from the worst that could happen, well now I'm going to rest and enjoy the whole city, I have four days free" Kagari said stretching.
And she went straight to the kitchen of the place where she was devouring everything she saw ahead, next to the siflas, after a tiring journey they were enjoying a delicious food that they came to appreciate a lot due to the many hours they were without eating because of the circumstances that led to this, already being a cue to stay enjoying the rest.
[...]
Three days passed until then, something happened, while Akko was sleeping, she was in a deep sleep, which was the moment where the royal entourage took the opportunity to leave the city without her knowing, it was so quiet during the dawn that no one noticed, not even the five days of stay had arrived and they had already left the Hyllian of Luna Nova aside.
In the morning she woke up and noticed the very empty beds of the place, which until then she did not care much, since they were always empty because she was sleeping for much of the morning in all these days, soon she went to the window watching the village, which was very little busy, compared to the party that had with the return of the princesses on the dayAkko went to the dungeon and the next two days with several festivals, at this time of the morning the village is busier.
(Strange there's no one around here anyway, well I won't take that into account, you see today is a rest day, in a little while I'll be back to Wedinburgh castle, I really can't wait to see what this is all about, I'll proudly tell the queen, I was too smart to beat the bizarre statue).
She went to the kitchen next, eating a breakfast, until she realised that the town was too empty, not even the royal horses were passing as they used to, nor the merchants, it seemed that they had all left the village, which she immediately asked the nearest person.
"What happened here? Did monsters attack the city?" Asks the curious Hyllian from Luna Nova.
"Have you not heard? The royal entourage from Wedinburgh left today and the merchants went with them for safety on the journey, that was just before dawn, aren't you one of the girls there? I guess you missed the trip all right, didn't you?" Said the village resident.
"What? They were going to stay here for five days! What do you mean they left before and didn't even tell me?And now? How do I get back to Wedinburgh?" Said the desperate Akko.
"That's not my problem, you must have overslept and left, apparently you'll have to walk all the way back to Wedinburgh, it's a long way, I recommend caution, or wait for the next royal entourage from Wedinburgh...". In three months time" Said the inhabitant and in that way the desperate Atsuko went running inside the royal building.
She went to Queen Sifla's room and there was the whole family kind of gathered in a moment together, being shocked by the Luna Nova girl's desperate expression, she takes a deep breath, to be able to finally speak, because the situation seemed more critical than anything.
"The royal entourage... She left and she left without me! What do I do? I don't have a horse, I barely know how to ride a real one, I only have a map, I'll have to walk back to Wedinburgh, help me queen" said the desperate Kagari.
"Oh, they left without warning anyway, well you can get to them if you're quick enough with your boots, or you can wait 3 months for the next royal entourage to come here, I can arrange a place for you, I guarantee you can live in comfort" Said the queen.
"I can't stay, I have to go for real, tomorrow I'll leave here, I'll walk to Wedinburgh, even if it takes a while, I have to get right with the queen, she told me they'd stay five days and now this... How angry" said the furious girl.
"Look girl I can give you resources to camp if you need it so much, tomorrow you leave very early from here, it's better, today it's already very late to try to get in time and far, far enough away from thieves, anyway, you get there, I guarantee it" Said the majesty.
"And to think that I trusted those queens a lot, they really didn't hesitate to abandon me here, when I get there I will take a nice satisfaction with the two" Said the furious Atsuko.
Akko walked out of that room practically stomping her feet, feeling disgusted that she was left behind by the royal entourage, where she could have had good security to return home, but this time she was just being left to her own devices on the way to Wedinburgh alone.
The second pendant is obtained and the dungeon of the eastern palace is explored byAkko who as always showed that she is very willing, very intelligent and managed to manage in a place full of dangers, but she will still have many dangers ahead and even greater concerns, especially that she was left behind, having to return to Wedinburgh alone, which could be something involving the queens or the royal entourage itself leaving without warning the warrior.
See you, dungeon witches...