Akko and Hellene arrived at the dungeon of the tower of Rastavan, were beginning to gradually climb the floors of it with the various challenges that will find ahead, in what will be the last dungeon of the pendants of courage with the challenges that will come from it, already managing to pass through the underground floors, thus clearing the way to the upper floors, where they were already beginning to climb to the second floor of six that has in total the tower.
Upon arriving on the second floor they are already faced with a very different place, while the ambience on the other floors was something more beautiful, on the second, it seemed that the vegetation had taken over the whole environment, branches and leaves were covering everything around, some creatures were also walking around, and the pair was already seeing that they would have a way ahead if they want to go up to the next floors.
Some familiar faces were already appearing in that dungeon, such as the presence of Dekus and spiders, which even gave Atsuko a little fear that she was even staying behind her friend due to the arachnophobia very present in her.
"What is it Akko? What is that fear? I didn't know you were afraid of spiders" McLaren said.
"I have and a lot, I hate those monsters, I can't believe I saw those things again in this damn dungeon, I had faced a dungeon full of them in the first one, it was very scary, but I even managed to kill some" Said Kagari who even shivered a little.
"I'll help you protect yourself around here, let's just continue on our way, we're sure to find something ahead that will help you on your journey" said the redhead.
The pair went down a corridor where they already encountered a door when they opened it, they went into a room where the door simply closed again behind the pair and a group of eight dekus began to emerge from the plants throwing nuts at the two who dodged being attacked and are already going into attack mode.
"Another door with a trap, it looks like there's going to be something around here" said the brownish one.
The two were organising themselves by staying in strategic points so as not to be attacked so easily, which were dodging the nuts thrown by Dekus and at the opportunity they attacked back, since the way to immobilise was to throw the nuts back to the creatures and that the shield of the crimson-eyed did very well, already opening the gap for the purple-eyed to punch the monsters, following this strategy, but also with the warrior of Luna Nova catching a little of the monsters.
"These nuts hurt, it sucks to have to go one at a time for this, I wanted to just advance with my sword, but they hide when I get close, we really have to immobilise with the nuts" Said Akko while her friend was killing one by one of the Dekus.
"They must really hurt, I'm almost done killing the rest" Hellene said.
Soon they manage to kill the Dekus of that room which makes a chest appear in it had 100 Rupees, which Atsuko takes for her since the princess did not want and cared little about that amount of money, that way they followed the other door that was closed, when they enter they are faced with a corridor full of spiders, to the dread of Kagari who was already all hidden behind her friend.
"It seems this dungeon puts a person's arachnophobia to the test" McLaren said.
"Cool, but I don't like it at all" said the crimson-eyed one, puffing out her cheeks.
The purple-eyed one was walking ahead killing each of the spiders she found in front of her, opening the way so that her fearful friend would not be afraid as she walked ahead, which was even more frightening because huge spiders suddenly appeared right in front of the duo, which they had to wait for the monster to turn back until it was punched well and with that the creature fell to the ground just needing a blow that was finished by Hyllian de Luna Nova.
"Funny you're scared to death of those spiders, but Tektites you just don't care about them" said the redhead.
"It's because the Tektites have four legs and a huge eye in front, they are scary, but they don't look like crawling beings like spiders that small are scary, let alone the sizes of the ones we find here" Said the brownish woman explaining the situation better.
"Well, it looks like there's something up there to get, I think I'll go up to see what it is, watch my back with your bow Akko, it will be very useful" Said the princess who was starting to steady herself on the branches and leaves of the wall.
Hellene was climbing the wall with branches, with the help of Akko who shot arrows at spiders that were nearby, those that could attack her friend for being in that place closer soon McLaren was able to reach the place where she finds what seemed to be a door calling for Atsuko which she even throws a rope holding on and being pulled up.
"Great, we'll have to go through a door full of spiders, I can imagine" said Kagari.
The duo enters the door, when entering they are faced with a room with a spider web and a chest on the other side which the redhead decides to go ahead with all the courage in the world, already steps on the web and is faced with a huge spider that appears right in front of her, when trying to move she notices that her feet have stuck together, which are somewhat choiceless to move since she has only her arms free.
"Damn it! Akko! I can't get out of here! Kill that thing! I don't want to be spider food!" Screams the purple-eyed one, which the crimson-eyed one sees no other than to overcome her fear.
So she ends up taking a deep breath then jumps over the edge of the place with the sword in hand she goes in a fall down holding the weapon that ends up penetrating through the head of the spider that ends up struggling and then disappears which clears the way for the two, they walk with a little fear since their feet sank in the expessa web and also stuck until they reach the other side when they open the chest they get a key and with that they go back, having a little difficulty walking back.
"I hate cobwebs" said a frustrated Hyllian from Luna Nova.
"Me too, but look, the amount of silk you have here could make a lot of fabrics, you would get rich with all this Akko, it is rare to find spider fabric there, but come on, there is still a lot, I imagine carrying a sticky fabric like that" Said the princess of Wedinburgh.
When they reach the other side they simply throw themselves cushioning the fall falling over spiders and with that they walk to the end of the corridor where they come across a lever, where they make a point of pulling, but without knowing where it would affect anything they walk the way back, this time having fewer spiders.
"What did that lever do? Well, it didn't make any more spiders appear, which is less bad, it must have just cleared some path" said Akko.
"At least now there are fewer spiders on the way back, which is great in itself" said Hellene.
The two continue on their way back from where they had left the previously locked door, walking back through the dungeon floor, where they had several spiral corridors, full of Dekus and also many spiders, as well as some cockatrices, only small, but still quite lethal, being equally capable of unleashing fire and petrifying rays on anyone who risks getting close to them.
"What bizarre cuccos, they are hostile and can kill" McLaren said.
"They are cockatrices, I faced one bigger than these in the dungeon of Luna Nova, I don't even know how I managed to defeat that monster so easily, but well I'm alive, be careful not to be hit by the petrifying ray of this thing" Said Atsuko already warning.
Well warned, they followed the various curves they were making through the floor until they reached a corridor where everything seemed to taper, leading to a staircase that they climb, leaving the second floor and entering precisely the third, where the difference is already very noticeable, instead of looking like the dungeon of Luna Nova, surprisingly, the third resembles more the dungeon of the eastern palace.
"Ah this was the dungeon I went alone, the eastern palace, it seems that each floor we climb will be a different ordeal than I went through in the last dungeons, this is really interesting, by the way Hellene be careful, this part has many moving statues, so be warned of the danger of getting close to one" Kagari said.
"Oh damn I almost got close to one here, what do I do, punch it if it comes up?" Asks the redhead who gets thumbs up.
The two are going ahead in front and are already coming across a more open part in it had several skeletons that were just walking from side to side, which did not distract the two girls, who were just going ahead, one
time or another throwing pots at the skeletons, until they reach a fork that contains three directions, they go first on the left where they will already have the surprise of coming across the door locking behind them that does not even surprise more.
"One more test, apparently, we didn't fall into a trap" said the brownish woman sarcastically as five statues fell.
"Ah, I've been dying to get the statues fighting, let's see how long they'll last" said the purple-eyed one excitedly.
"Those aren't simple statues either, I could tell they're stronger than usual, I hope we don't run into several smaller Ansolew Airo, that thing was really scary to face, I think one of the most hard-working monsters to defeat in the dungeon" Said the crimson-eyed one.
Simply the princess made it a playground, coming out in hand against the statues that went up to her, with very strong punches she could even crack the statues, something that the warrior of Luna Nova had more difficulty to achieve.
Hellene's strong punches were being dominant in this closed room, with her killing four of the five statues and thus making a chest appear, which they are already taking the key that was inside, already adding two keys to their hands.
"Woah I feel simply alive, I love having to do this, it's the most fun thing in the world, finishing off these monsters, wow Diana is missed, I imagine for you what it must have been like to do all this alone, I already had a little difficulty breaking these statues at first who will say on the sword" McLaren said.
"So it's complicated, but I'm here in another dungeon now let's go, we're getting halfway through the dungeon now, we're just a little bit away from reaching the fourth floor and I'm looking forward to it, I have no doubt that it will finally be the floor where I will show how it was to go to the dungeon with Diana" Said Atsuko all smiling.
"You even twinkle your eyes when you talk about her, are you sure you don't have feelings for my sister?" Said the redhead while her friend was blushing.
"Let's just focus on the dungeon" said the blushing Kagari as she headed for the door on the right, which also had the surprise of the door closing behind them.
This time the challenge was not statues, but several skeletons that kept falling around, twelve of them, seven with pink skulls that were simply dropping their heads and chasing the duo and another five with white skulls that throw bones when attacked.
"Those I remember from class, skeletons only die trapped in the wall or when vases are thrown at them" said the purple-eyed one who was already picking up a vase and throwing it at a pink skull skeleton that died and disappeared.
"Look, let's go, let's see who kills the most..." said the crimson-eyed one. "Hellene, you really don't know how to play," said the crimson-eyed girl who had just killed a skeleton and saw her friend killing three at once by throwing a vase.
And the dispute was even more exciting when Akko was also managing to kill three skeletons at once, which tied the dispute with Hellene, even more so that McLaren had a disadvantage of attacks made with a sword being more efficient than those made in the gauntlet, she had to really use her body to throw the skeletons to the wall while Hylilan de Luna nova easily managed to do this with the sword giving cuts that the skeletons jump back.
In this the score ends up with seven dead skeletons for Atsuko and five for Hellene who nevertheless proved to be very skilled, what helped Kagari a lot was the skeletons appearing right in front of her for perfect attacks, which ended up making a bau appear, they take what was more Rupees, winning 150 Rupees.
"More Rupees, what a pain, I wanted a key, but we didn't even need to go to that room" said the frustrated brown woman.
"Ah Akko, it's Rupees, you can buy a lot of nice things in the city" said the redhead.
"Buying clothes? Fabric? Toys? Nice, but I'm not interested in Rupees, they don't make the dungeon adventure interesting, keys are much more useful" Said the crimson-eyed one.
They leave that room and go straight down the path of the dungeon, where they come across another open part, in this one there are skeletons and surprisingly flying floors, which were starting to attack the girls, but this time there were no doors locking, just a lever on the other side that they needed to go, only the skeletons that were present were precisely those of yellowish skull, very different from the others, they go up and were even using weapons.
"Look at that kind of skeleton I've never seen" said the warrior from Luna Nova.
"They are even smart, there are two watching the lever and four coming up, we still have to worry about the floors flying at us" Said the princess who was already starting to dodge the floors flying towards her.
The two are separating, Akko is distracting the skeletons and also the floors, on the other hand Hellene was running towards the two most armed skeletons already reaching up with the gauntlets that were blocked by the sabers of the two large skeletons, but that gave some impact that McLaren took a few steps back and was being hit in the back by the flying floors.
"Aghhhhh, I forgot about those things, despite everything they try to hit me, unless...". Let's see if they're smart against it" said the redhead with a smile on her face.
Meanwhile Atsuko was simply going in the sword battle making the squirrels follow them getting well grouped surrounding Kagari who then only saw the floors flying towards her quickly, she throws herself on the ground, slipping and making the rest of the floors go flying towards the monsters and she was using this as a loophole since she stunned some she managed to kill the first one and was already running away on the run.
"That's it, there are only three more to go, it seems that Hellene also thought about the same thing against the big guys, I think she will need help, I already know what to do" Said the brownish woman looking at her friend.
The warrior of Luna Nova was continuing her race towards the two skeletons that were still escorting the lever, but in the cleverness of the crimson-eyed one notices the gap, the other skeletons were behind her, the purple-eyed one distracted the bigger ones and with that it was the perfect gap, Akko slips under the legs of the two largest and already uses one hand to pull the lever that makes the ladder fall, where it ends up falling just above the monsters and catches Atsuko who is even relieved.
"Woah, you were great at this Akko, no one would think of such a tactic, until we got through here quickly" Hellene said relieved and already with some bruises.
"Let's go up soon before these floor remains hurt us" said Kagari, who went up to the fourth floor of the tower, which they were already feeling the cold starting to be very present.
On top of that, the McLaren was hit by a lot of flooring as it went up the stairs, which they were already pretty sore about, having to resort to using the last of the fairies they had in the pots left, which they'll have to find others for later on, but it was enough to feel more invigorated.
"Look, these parts of the dungeon really broke me, these floors hurt and hurt a lot, I'm relieved to know that you're so smart Akko, but now I'm a little tense because of the cold, out of nowhere everything got very cold, the floor is also slippery" Said the redhead who rested a little on the floor while steam came out of her mouth with each speech.
"The icy dungeon, your mother said she suffered a lot, I on the other hand hardly suffered with Diana, it was the one I had the most fun... I don't want to disregard the adventure here" said the brownish girl, scratching the back of her head in embarrassment.
"I understand how special it must have been, it's not every day that we can get some good smiles on my sis's face, I'm glad you were one of the people who were able to do that" Said the purple-eyed one smiling at her friend.
"Let's rest here for a while, but then we better get up, the cold of this place is very complicated to deal with, even more so that we can freeze because we are not as warm as before" Said the one with crimson eyes.
The pair spent about 10 minutes resting in that cold, where they were eating a little taking advantage that the bag of the warrior of Luna nova has just a thermal insulation, drank water and also drank a soup which helped to invigorate a lot, luckily the pair was in a safer part of that dungeon and were already kind of getting used to the cold before they left.
Upon reaching the end of the rest, both stand and soon the princess of Wedinburgh remembers that it looks
like ice skating that she also did and has no difficulty standing, even seeing that her friend did not have either.
"I've never done the ice sliding thing before, but with Diana it just made the dungeon even more magical" Akko said.
"Now this is going to get interesting, you had to see another game we used to play, putting a puck on the ice and using some wooden sticks we would play to hit a space we put, whoever scored the most points won -Hellene said.
"It sounds like a lot of fun from what you describe, let's go, this dungeon will not be easy at all" Atsuko said.
The duo slips through the corridors, until then there was no creature until two forks appear, they choose to go on the right path, where they are already faced with a more open place with six hardhat beetles that appear to disturb the duo that ends up in position in the middle since in the corners there are holes where they focus on picking up pots.
"We take pots and we'll knock the monsters down without hitting them, since they throw us" Kagari said.
"I was thinking about that myself, now you've said that on ice it's quite difficult" McLaren said.
Both are focusing on picking up the six vases present, already being careful where to play, pushing one by one that is falling through the holes, using the brain with crimson eyes was distracting the monsters that were getting close to the edges falling easily in the trick of Hyllian de Luna Nova.
What soon fell the six and a chest appeared, this one containing a key, what exactly the girls needed, they went this way following in the corridor ahead where it had just a fall on the sides what could look like a bridge with a fall.
"I'll throw you forward Hellene and then I'll go, with the speed boots" said the brownish one.
With her genius Akko, starts to hold a race and holds her friend's hand she already pushes Hellene who is sliding, then she also goes what she pushes with her body and the two manage to go fast enough to keep sliding without falling through the bridge, only in front there were two hardhat beetles to get in the way.
"Damn, I didn't see that coming" said the shocked warrior of new Luna.
"Use the bowAkko" said the princess, and at that the crimson-eyed one did just that, using the bow.
With the monsters dead, the two manage to continue skating quickly to the other side while the floor of the bridge is still falling, which leads them to the first door, which they open and when they enter, there is simply another room with monsters, this time at least they are just ice statues that are going up to the pair.
"Statues to break, even more, I loved it" said the smiling purple-eyed girl.
The statues in the most only released a freezing air on the duo that was dodging and avoiding getting colder, which was a part with great advantage of Hellene since her punches simply with only one broke the statue into pieces.
While Kagari was already practically distracting the creatures that were all five dead leaving the path of the doors more free, where they open with one of the keys, missing only the last one when passing through the door they are already taking a deep breath since there is another bridge like that.
"From the looks of it, this is where we're going to spend all our keys, this part of the dungeon is going to really test us" Atsuko said.
"We have to be clever, now the bridge has the same hardhat beetles again it looks like they're going to go for us up there" McLaren said.
"We just need to skate really fast then" Kagari said.
So they were doing skating very fast which was gaining enough speed to reach the other side, dodging the various Hardhat Beetles that ended up falling when they were behind or simply the few who managed to follow did not get close, when they reach the safe part after dodging the girls see the various monsters falling which already frees the way to the last door.
"What if we go back?" The redhead asks.
"We can just go back after a while, the bridge appears again, there were many like that in the dungeon of the eastern palace, now let's go, we have monsters to defeat, a dungeon to unravel, I think we still have to see what's on the other side" Said the brownish one.
The pair enter the doorway where a billow appears in the middle of a snow filled field, resembling an arena, when they are simply faced with a pair of Yetis slightly smaller than the one the crimson eyed one faced in the Cork dungeon, they blow some ice and cause ice swords to form in their hands.
"Ah, so it looks like those snow monsters are going to want to go after us?" said the purple-eyed one. This is going to be fun" said the purple-eyed one.
"I faced one of these, but it was twice the size of these two, don't be fooled by the lack of size they can be just as lethal" Said the warrior from Luna nova.
"Well if they are or not I want to know, let's see how these little monsters go against Hellene McLaren's muscles" Said the princess facing the monsters with a smile while passing her thumb close to her lips.
The yetis go up without mercy they try to give a first cut, they are very strong, but the duo also, Akko manages to even rebound the cut and then go with another that ends up tearing the belly of the creature that takes a few steps back and starts roaring releasing a breath of ice wanting to freeze Atsuko that goes dodging.
Hellene on the other hand only dodged the attempted cut and ended up hitting a punch in the face of the Yeti who was stunned and took one in the stomach then with a sequence given by McLaren that ends with a punch that ends up throwing him into a spear of ice that had formed near the chests and that way even crossed the chest of the monster that was trying to get out struggling until he got up broke the ice and went roaring to the girl who was dodging the freezing.
"They seem to be pretty tough, one has an ice stake through his chest and the other has a deep cut in his belly and they're still in one piece" said the purple-eyed one.
"It's just a matter of hitting them, I know the perfect way, get on with it" Said the crimson-eyed one gathering the snow into a ball while the yetis were still trying to freeze and with that the redhead even took her friend's shield so as not to be frozen.
Soon the freezing breath stops being launched and with that Akko arrives with a surprise is a huge ball of ice that with both hands she throws at the two yetis that were grouped and with that kind of passes a slow motion view of the two girls looking at everything, the yetis going up being hit by the snowball.
On impact it simply generates the biggest explosion flying debris everywhere, hitting even the girls who are badly injured when they get out of it, with some bruises and ice stones that gave cuts, which are getting up in the middle of the snow that were buried and at least managed to defeat the monsters.
"Akko?Are you all right?" Hellene asks with concern.
"Wow I was stupid I shouldn't have played this without protecting myself first, damn it, now we don't even have fairies and we still have a whole rest of the dungeon to go" Said the injured Atsuko.
"At least we beat them, look at the báu still here and we are alive, we can still continue" Said the wounded McLaren who went to help her friend up.
The chest is opened and to their relief it was a good thing at least, they managed to get the master key of the castle, which will serve to open the chest with the treasure of the tower and also the door of the boss of the whole dungeon, in this the duo sits on the ground in the middle of the snow and hurt they are getting some bandages to try to at least be without being with exposed wounds.
"At least they're only superficial wounds, the frostbite didn't pierce our skins too much" said the redhead, helping her friend put bandages around the wounds that were mainly on her arms.
"Wow, who would have thought that I would cause all this, it was really bad Hellene it's all my fault, against the big yeti I defeated him like that, the snowballs didn't explode like that, I think I overdid it, now we are in this situation" Said Kagari.
"Honestly, the concern for me is that you are alive, we can endure the rest of the dungeon, we just have to hold the bruised ends, we will still find some fairy sanctuary here, I believe that" Said the purple-eyed one finishing bandaging her friend.
"I hope so... We must have strength and vitality to defeat the monster of this dungeon or else we risk dying, it is not for nothing that this is one of the most complicated dungeons, it has put everything to be tested" Said the crimson-eyed one.
"Think of Diana, I know this may sound a bit silly of me, but really think of my sister, I think it may motivate you to move on and maybe also... Come back for her, for the kingdom of Hyrule, for the village of Luna Nova, your friends... I know you can do it Akko, come on" Said the princess who went helping the warrior of Luna Nova to get up.
"You're right we have to make it, I'm not going to give up, you can be sure, this dungeon will not take me, I will return from it with the pendant of courage and much stronger, I will show why I am the great chosen warrior of Luna Nova" Said the motivated Akko.
The pair even manages to walk without pain, most of the shrapnel ended up catching precisely on the arms, chest and parts of the forehead, which they got some bleeding, but they managed to make their way back to the fork where it will be the part that will catch a lot, with the master key in hand there are few floors left to reach the top of the tower and the big boss of this dungeon.
Akko and Hellene explore the second, third and much of the fourth floor of the Rastavan tower, already showing to be a part where it rightly puts all the skill of the warriors to test, even being a reflection of the last three dungeons that were passed by Kagari, a real test and trial and that's because there is still the fifth and sixth floor where they will really put everything into practice, being a new environment and already presenting even the dangers that will be the final dungeon of the pendant of courage, only the great warrior may be able to get that far.
See you, smart witches...