Family
Chapter 220 Lakebed Temple 2
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, expect the OCs. This is just a story for fun.
Zelda and her group continued through the temple. They encountered some metal handles and waterwheel that needed to be moved and adjusted to move on through the temple. Peridot easily figured out what needed to be done and she used her powers to pull the handles and instructed Lapis on how to move the waterwheels using her powers. The group quickly went through the temple rooms and went through another tunnel to enter a chamber that had a foot of water. Zelda and her friends were fixing to move on, when they heard a loud croak from above. They looked up at the celling to see a fat enormous toad like monster the size of a small house. The monster was known as the Deku Toad and it was not happy about the sight of intruders. The Deku Toad dropped from the celling and landed before the group.
"Looks like the temple's first big challenge." Said Zelda as she pulled out her short sword.
"Pretty gross." Said Lapis.
The Deku Toad let out a roar before it shook it's body to dislodge some little white orb things from it's back. The orbs popped open and a bunch of foot long tadpoles came out and charged at the group. Zelda swung her sword, Mimi kicked with her boots, Lapis conjured up a medium size water arm, and Peridot struck with one of her short spears using her powers to deal with the creatures. The tadpoles were easily dealt with and they exploded into burst of dark particles. The Deku Toad then leaped high into the air and attempted to body slam the heroes. Lapis grabbed Mimi and used a wave of water to push them to the left side, while Zelda and Peridot jumped to the right side to avoid the attack. The Deku Toad slammed into the ground missing the heroes and stunned itself.
"Are you and Mimi ok?" Called Peridot to Lapis on the others side of the monster.
"We're fine, but I'm putting an end to this." Said Lapis as she concentrated and her powers to conjure up a gigantic water arm behind the Deku Toad.
Lapis slammed the hand of the water hand down on the monster with an incredible amount of force that cracked the floor! The Deku Toad's eyes bulged out and it's tongue flopped out. Zelda pulled out her bow and notched a light arrow to it. She fired and stuck the monster's exposed tongue. The Deku Toad let out a gurgling noise before it vomited up a big blob of black slime. The monster then slumped to the ground and burst into a bunch of dark particles.
"That's disgusting!" Said Peridot as she pointed at the black blob of slime.
"Yuck!" Said Mimi in agreement.
The slime began to melt off revealing a treasure chest. Zelda walked over to it and opened the chest up. Inside was a grappling hook like device know as a Clawshot.
"What is it?" Asked Lapis.
"This is a Clawshot its good for helping reach places or to bring things towards you. From what I understand about the history of dungeons and temples there's always a tool you get before the end that helps deal with the final challenge." Said Zelda.
"So who gets the Clawshot?" Asks Peridot.
"I think you should take it Peridot. You've shown yourself to be pretty good with metal tools and with your powers I think you would be the most affective with it." Said Zelda as she handed the Clawshot to Peridot.
"I'll use it to the best of my abilities." Said Peridot.
The group headed on with their quest through the temple. Several minutes later they came across a large chamber with a hole in the middle that was filled with water and seemed to lead to a much larger chamber filled with water. Lapis wrapped another sphere of water around the group and they descended into the chamber below. A couple minutes after the heroes entered the underwater chamber, Vaati, Morpha, and Bellum entered the chamber the girls had just left. Vaati walked over to the hole and pulled out the summoning card.
"Time for a rematch Gyorg. Now go!" Said Vaati as the card began to glow.
Gyorg appeared in the air above the hole and dived into the water swimming after the girls. Zelda and her team were still heading down, when Lapis saw Gyorg charging in from above and quickly made the sphere dodge the monster's charge.
"The fish is back!" Yelled Lapis.
"Is this the big challenge of the temple?" Asked Peridot.
"I'm not sure." Said Zelda.
Gyorg was turning around and was charging at the sphere again. Peridot stepped forward and aimed the Clawshot at the monster and fired. The Clawshot hit Gyorg in mouth and sunk into his lip. Gyorg roared in pain and twisted away from the heroes dragging the line of the Clawshot along with him. Peridot only had time to let out a startled scream as she was yanked out of the sphere and got along by the monster fish.
"We got to save Peridot and get her back into the sphere before she runs out of air." Said Zelda.
"We need to get Peridot away from that thing, but don't worry about her needing air. Peridot is a gem like me and we don't need air to survive." Said Lapis as she used her powers to move the sphere after Gyorg and Peridot.
Peridot was yelling as she was pulled about by Gyorg. The enraged fish monster attempted to shake her off by going down towards the lower part of the chamber. Near the ground there were a dozen columns and various parts of armor and weapons scattered around. Peridot tried to use her powers to call on the the metal items to hurl at Gyorg, but she was bringing dragged along to fast to focus. Gyorg charged at one of the columns intending to slam Peridot into it. The green gem quickly found a switch on the Clawshot that reeled her in, until she was right next to Gyorg. Thinking quickly she pulled out one of her short spears and stabbed the monster in the side. Gyorg roared and flung it's body around and shook Peridot off. Peridot began to sink to the bottom of the chamber, but felt something grab her by the back of her shirt and pull her. She turned her head and saw Mimi dragging her to the sphere and they entered it. Lapis helped Peridot up and Zelda helped Mimi all turned to look at Gyorg who was bleeding a black liquid. Gyorg turned towards the girls letting out a roar of rage as he charged at them with his mouth wide open. Mimi charged out of the sphere and swam towards the monster.
"Mimi!" Her friends cried out in alarm.
Mimi stopped a few yards from the charging Gyorg. Her eyes began to glow red as she unleashed a laser blast from them at Gyorg. The attack struck the right side of Gyorg's face heating up the water and burning the monster's face. Gyorg screeched in pain as the skin on the right side of it's face became blackened and burned and it just limply swam towards the bottom of the chamber. Mimi swam back to the sphere where she was welcomed back and cheered on by the others.
"Hey what's that thing?" Asked Lapis as she pointed down at the chamber.
Everyone looked to see a large white clear tentacle sticking out of the ground near the wounded Gyorg. The tentacle reached out towards Gyorg and the monster fish tried to swim away, but he was grabbed by the tentacle. The ground burst open with more tentacles and a large round brown head with a pulsing red mouth full of teeth. Gyorg thrashed around as more tentacles grabbed him and thrusted him into the mouth. The teeth clamped down on Gyorg and in a few quick bites the monster fish was devoured.
"That's gross!" Said Lapis and Peridot together.
Mimi nodded her head in agreement.
"I think we found the true final challenge of the temple." Said Zelda.
Up above in the other chamber the summoning card in Vaati's hand blackened and crumbled to dust.
"Well I guess this means Gyorg is sleeping with the fishes now." Muttered Vaati.
Back in the underwater chamber the tentacles of the monster that ate Gyorg were searching around for more prey. Zelda and her group watched the tentacles move around and tried to figure out what it's weakness was. Peridot then noticed a large black and red eye moving around in one of the tentacles and fired the Clawshot at it. The Clawshot latched onto the eye and brought it into the sphere.
"I think this might be the creature's weakness." Said Peridot as she looked at the eye.
"Only one way to find out." Said Zelda as she struck the eye with her sword.
The eye shook around with pain before it flung itself out of the sphere and into a tentacle. The heroes watched as the eye went down the tentacle and vanished from view. The ground began to shake as the rest of the creature burst from the ground revealing itself to be a large worm and ell like monster named Morpheel. The monster swam up and began to circle the chamber.
"That's pretty big." Said Lapis.
"Big." Agree Mimi.
"Alright we just have to find that eye again and strike it a few more times to beat it." Said Zelda.
"Just have to locate the weak point." Said Peridot.
The sphere chased after Morpheel and the heroes searched for the eye. Mimi spotted it on the back of the monster's head and pointed it out to the others. Peridot grabbed Mimi and fired the Clawshot at the eye pulling herself and Mimi out of the sphere and towards the weak point. They soon reached it and Mimi grabbed one of Peridot's short spears and struck at it! Morpheel jerked around in pain and flung the heroes from it's back. Mimi grabbed Peridot and swam back to the sphere. Once they were inside they chased after Morpheel, who crashed through some columns and shattered them to bits. Peridot fired her Clawshot at the eye again and pulled herself and Mimi to it and Mimi struck at it again with one of Peridot's short spears. Morpheel jerked around like crazy, shacking the heroes off, before crashing into one of the chamber walls with a thunderous crash creating a large crack in the wall. The monster sank to the ground as water began to drain out of the chamber, until there was only a few feet of water on the ground.
"We did it!" Cheered Peridot.
"That was kind of easier then I thought it would be. That monster was big, but we defeated it very easily." Said Lapis as she made the sphere disburse into the water.
The heroes gathered around Morpheel's body as it began to disintegrate into a bunch of dark particles. All that was left of the monster was a tiny piece of metal with horns that looked like it belonged on a suit on a helmet. It was a part of the Fused Shadow. Zelda could sense the dark energy from it as she walked over to the item and wrapped a white cloth around it. The princess then picked it up and put the item into a satchel she was carrying.
"The quest is complete. Let's head back to the palace." Said Zelda.
"Oh I'm afraid there's a change of plans." Said a voice from above.
Everyone looked up to see Vaati descend from the floor above.
"Vaati." Said Zelda.
"Hello again ladies, now if you kindly hand over that piece of the Fused Shadow, I'll be out of your hair and on my way." Said Vaati.
"Not going to happen." Said Lapis.
"Not happening." Said Mimi.
"Then I'll just take it by force. My friends and I will oblige you with a little fight. We have even numbers so it'll be fair." Said Vaati as he snapped his fingers.
Morpha fell from the chamber above landing in some water with a splash before rising up. The heroes took in the strange creature not sure what to make of it. They were so distracted by Morpha, they didn't see Bellum sneaking up from behind, until he grabbed Peridot.
"Let me go you clod!" Yelled Peridot as she struggled in Bellum's tentacles.
"Peridot!" Cried Lapis in alarm.
Bellum attached himself to Peridot's back and her screaming ceased as her eyes stared blankly forward. A dark tornado rose up and surrounded the two blocking everyone's view for a minute before disbursing to reveal Peridot a large suit of grey armor with a brown chest plate with Bellum's eye symbols on it. A helmet with a toothy grin, brown eyes, and two curved horns with yellow spots appeared over Peridot's head, before it lowered itself over the gem's head covering her head completely. A large sword appeared in the armor's righthand.
"Now it's a three on three fight!" Said Vaati as he pulled out a sword and pointed at Zelda and her remaking friends.
"Let's do this!" Said Zelda.
The three on three fight was on.
To be continued.
