Season's Oracle

Ch.11

By: Cutegirlmayra1 (I really need to pop these things out, I HAVE to get to the end. I'll try speeding things up, but even then, I should just combined pillar challenges huh? If so, let me know if that's a good idea T-T warning, it would be a lot of reading, but what has this whole thing been then? Lol)

Link entered a strange ruin temple again, a shrine that was decorated in the destructive nation's written wording. As Link slowly approached in, he took out a potion and quickly drank some of it. The beast he had fought just to get here were hard enough, but what would this creature be? As he made his way to through the temple, it led to an out door area where a platform stood in the center in front of a large tree with a wide opening. The minute Link stood in the center of the platform, he heard the same tune he had heard in the Pillar of Envy's chamber…

Come in~ Come in~ For within~ you will find your untimely doom~

It was slightly different this time, but then he felt the earth shake, and the tree's mouth break and be torn from the inside. Something was breaking the tree from the inside, and Link's mind swarmed with thoughts of the Great Deku tree.

"Who, who I dare saaay? Enters my forest, where all is a lie?" A long, wide, and huge Centipede crawled out of the mouth of the tree, but it's face was large and flat surface, as if someone had cut off his original head and it had replaced it with a white mask with glowing black eyes.

"I am Link, who are you?" Asked Link, looking at the odd centipede.

"Ohhhh~ Seems we have a guest who seeks my truths." The mask spun around, and then the Centipede moved in closer above Link, as if hovering over him. It's legs were a repeating pattern of Swordish legs, and then a wing. It's whole body must of still been in the tree, but Link couldn't help but think this all looked a little to much like his maskful adventures of the past. "Will ye be wise enough to seeeee?"

"See what?" Link was used to creepy, but the creatures voice was definitely more creepy then it's body.

"The truth within the lies." The mask had no mouth, but suddenly a smile faded into itself.

"There is no truth in lies." Spoke Link, holding his sword to his side, just in case.

"Ah, says one who doesn't even remember his own." The Masked Centipede moved around Link in a large circle, only to move it's massive, cut off surface with it's creepy mask close to Link's being. "Tell me, whom do ye serve?"

"What?" Link looked confused. "I serve-"

"Hold your words, let me explainnnnn." The Masked Centipede looked him dead in the eye. "Do ye serve Hylia? Or Zelda?"

"…Who…Who is Hy-"

"Hylia, the one who gave you the powers you are now starting to notice live within you. Or perhaps Zelda? The one who leads you on your destinies time and time again, aiding you with sacred power passed down from her mothers before her." The Masked Centipede moved around in a circle again, as if trapping Link in it's tight arena. "For if you choose Hylia, you will be turning away from the mortals you so love. If you choose Zelda, you will be turning to the Immortals who have caused all this suffering in the first place. So, What is the lie? Who do ye serve? For both have lied to you through each adventure you take in their nameeee."

Link couldn't understand the Centipede's words, but the spirits inside of him seemed to understand.

"Hylia…and Zelda… are the same right?" spoke a voice that sounded timid at speaking this.

"They are related, but Zelda is the daughter of the Goddess Hylia, she is not her." spoke one that sounded of wise age and knowledge, but slight sympathy.

Link looked down for a minute, trying to think his thoughts through. He served Zelda, yet he served Hylia too. But he knew this was a trick question, he couldn't serve two masters, even if both were on the same side. Fighting for the same reasons… wait, that's it!

"Have you found the liessss? Zelda is no princess worthy to serve if she cannot do all Hylia's magic can. And Hylia cannot manifest herself any longer, which means she can barely give you anymore aid. And you are both immortal and mortal, to turn from the one would still lead to doom for the other. So, I ask you again, Hero linkkkkk. Who do ye serve?" The Masked Centipede wiggled it's legs and wings in unison, it's mouth faded and reappeared into a large grin. Ready, it seemed, to pounce on him at any moment.

"I…"

It's mask spun on it's head as the eyes faded and reappeared to that of a joyful expression.

"I serve what the Goddess… and the Princess,… both served."

"Whattttt?!" The Masked Centipede reeled it's head back, it's mask's expression fading into fear and shocked horror.

"I serve Hyrule!" Link took the stance to prepare for battle. Spines on the Centipede's back rose as it swung it's head around in disapproval.

"Butttt! They are Deceiving you! Hylia only wanted the power of the Triforce! She used you!" the Centipede moved closer to Link, as it advanced low on the ground, swerving to and fro. Link moved with quick steps back, even till he was off the platform. It then rose it's head, and settled on the platform, "And Zelda is powerless against the darkness of evil! For all she wants is revengeeee!" he moved his head down and toward Link. "For the past and the future, she does wish vengeance! And you are her avenger! They use you for might!"

"Your wrong, it's you who want my betrayal, you who lies and deceives. Zelda and Hylia only want to protect they're land. Your land turned from the traditions of your elders, and they fought in battles for greed and power, but Hyrule never did. That is why your land is destroyed, and ours prospers. Because we still turn to our leaders and Goddess's for protection even till this day! The legend, which I serve with no doubt, is what I truly believe keeps this land alive!"

"ARRRRGGGRRUGGGG!" The Centipede looked hurt, it fired balls of dark, fiery energy at Link. He dodged it quickly and then attacked the mask on it's head. It cracked, but never broke. The Masked Centipede's face changed into that of anger, and it rammed it's head into Link, causing him to fall over and back. Then the Masked Centipede trampled over him, spiking him with it's swordlike legs, but due to it's size, Link was able to roll and dodge most of the daggery legs of the centipede. Once the centipede took flight, he saw that the back of the centipede was merely the very tree itself, as the tree uprooted it's self and flew off into the sky with the large centipede.

Link Gulped, "That's one big bug.." he muttered to himself as he thought up a strategy. He readied a bomb behind him, and then looked up to the masked centipede. "Maybe there is a lie somewhere in truth."

The Masked Centipede's face faded and reappeared to delight, it swooped down toward Link, "And that isss?!"

"That nothing is what is seems. Just like I thought I was just a kokiri without a fairy, somehow different from the others, but in reality I was really a hyrulian. But I'm not just any hyrulian either… I'm the hero of time! Some lies are meant to protect, but ,most truths come from unraveling lies!" he swung his sword at the beast's head, changed it's expression as it dove upward to dodge the slash. Link ducked down and waited for the tree end of the monster and then threw the bomb in it's mouth. Rolling far away from the blast, the bomb exploded and The Masked Centipede let out a roar of pain as the tree end of it began to burn. It came to a crashing fall as Link beheld the hyrulian sign for Deceit on the back side of the centipede's tree. Once it landed, there was an explosion and Link was teleported back out of the pillar of Deceit.

A chain that was attached to Zelda's leg glowed and then burst into nothingness. Lights flowed around as one lightly touched the Pillar of Deceit. It crumbled to the ground, and Link gasped as he rolled to dodge it's debris. "LINK!" Navi circled Link and then rushed into his chest, as if trying to hug or embrace him. "You made it! And you did it!" she cheered with a joyful voice. "guess that would of been a lot harder if I was there huh…" she flapped her wings slowly and looked down.

"Nah, I think I would of been a lot braver if I knew you were beside me, Navi." He looked down and smiled at her.

Her wings fluttered quickly and she turned a slight shade of pink, "Hehe, yeah. I figured so." She teased.

"Aw, well isn't this just the cutest reunion ever, but what ho?" Dark Link put his hands together and held them up to his face, but then continued on with his act and looked up to Zelda. "There's still two chains on that poor little dears body. Now, who do you think needs to get a move on, hmm? Besides, I just got the word in that Ganon's attacking Hyrule at a faster rate then your clearing these Pillars." He grumbled out, a dead owl's hollow corpse lay on the ruins floor.

"Ah-ah! Ganon's attacking Hyrule!?" Link leap to his feet. "But how-?"

"How?! HOW?!" Dark Link looked to Link as if he was a fool. "How do you think, smart one!?" he pointed to Zelda, whose face had grown paler than before, and who had stressed and unhealthy wrinkles on her face. "He's using the life force of Hyrule and Zelda. This nation is already dead enough as it is, but now he seems to have tied it in with this ancient bond as well." Dark Link moved over to a new string of light that had come, it was a darker shade then the others, and it looked weak and whimsy. "Soon, you won't even have a land, or a princess for that matter, to save."

Link looked horrified by Zelda's state, he quickly got up and shakily walked toward the two remaining chains. He pulled her down to his level and looked at her, a sorrowful expression on his face.

"If I were you, I'd use your wits and cunning sword skills to hurry the heck up!" Dark Link stomped away and to the Pillar of Anger. Placing a hand on it, he smiled, "But I wouldn't use that anger you feel for any support, not in this next challenge.." he snickered, but then slowly grew to a more serious expression. "Don't fail." He stated, and moved into the darkness.

"…Zelda…I.." Link rose his hand up, as if to touch her weakened face. Dark Link quickly looked back, his fist tightened and his eyes turned to a glare. Link's hand went slowly closer, but he hesitated, and coiled it back into a resistant fist, then released it and withdrew it back to his side. Dark Link smiled, and turned back into the darkness, 'As long as he can't bring himself to admit he loves her, I'll have this legend in the bag, hehehe~'

-In Hyrule's occupied castle.—

"Drink boys! Eat up! Today we feast on victory!"

"Yeahhh!"

The moblins boorishly ate as they took a day to rest from their destructive take over of Hyrule. Terrified servants served the fiendish monsters as they gorged themselves in the riches of there blunder. One was drinking on a pile of gold, another was literally decorated in wemon's jewerly and dancing on a table top where another moblin flung a cub at him as they all laughed. The merriment of evil rampaged as in the hall right outside the throne room with tables of delicious food to spare, three moblins terrorized our small Pink pig with her little ribbon.

"What say we do with -snort- it?"

"I don't -snort- know. Why's it even 'er?"

They had trapped the little pig in a corner, the poor thing oinked it's protest, as it slammed it's hoove to the ground, but then dodged and squealed in fright as one of the moblin's tried to hit it with a spiked cub.

"Heh, maybe ol' Ganondorf's gone soft, eh? -snort- didn't he find it on his dragon?" The others giggled.

"Well, you know what -snort- I think?"

"What's that Gorcle?"

"I think that our King -snort- is lonely." He picked the pig up, and held it above the two.

"Behold! -snort- The queen of darkness!"

"Oink?"

"BHAHAHAHAAH!"

It was the cutest oink a pig could make, and the three laughed and laughed. "But didn't his highness kick the thing -snort- and order it killed?"

"Eh, why should we kill it? He was probably -snort- trying to hide his feelings for it. After all, ain't he sort of related to it's kind -snort-?" the trio laughed, again. The little pig tried to wiggle itself free, but it was no use. Chibi tears formed in it's eyes as it was helpless against these brutes. That is, before she saw a large figure walk into the hall behind the moblins.

"-snort- hehe, yah! Who knows, little gal, you might actually become royalty." He posed as he put his hand to his heart and blinked his eyes fast in a hotty like way. The others chuckled till they suddenly turned and started to shake and quiver in fright. Pointing behind the moblin as if to warn him, but their trembling mouths bade them not to utter a word.

"What's with you blokes anyway, eh-?" the moblin turned around, but it was too late. With large eyes, Ganon had stabbed the moblin, and then split him in almost two pieces, barely hanging on to the body. The two other moblins panicked as blood split everywhere, they released the little pig as she dashed behind a drape from a window nearby.

"M-m-mas-master! We didn't mean no disrespect, honest!"

"Yeah, we weren't gonna hurt the miss's pig, truly we weren't!"

"Isn't that what I ordered you to do..? But instead, you humor yourselves with jokes…about ME."

"No sir! Never sir! We-"

But before they could plead their case, Ganon rose his hand and a blast of pure life force swarmed the moblins beings, melting them to bones that turned to nothing more than dust. Ganon chuckled, as he looked around for the pig, but didn't see her. "If you were wise, Pig. You'd leave here with your life, or I will make your soul flee in fright." He left slowly, walking bloody back into the fray of delighting moblins.

The little pig peeked out of the drape, blushing with blood on her ribbion and body. She oinked a song note and skipped into the throne room, where she dodged the eyes of merry moblins and hit under the tables. Watching Ganon take his seat on the throne of hyrule and place his large sword down next to him, placing his head down on his the wrist of his hand, he watched his men with a seldom expression. Lounging on the throne, he waved for one of his men to bring him a drink,

"Cheers, to the end of hyrule and it's accursed legend..!"

the men cheered, as Ganon thought he heard an oink, but sipped his cup and ignored the noise.