7th installment of the VGNU.
As the land of Hyrule fights to reform, an old evil reawakens on an island where it was imprisoned.
Secreting themselves away, the Princess of this land and her chosen hero travel to put this evil to rest permanently...
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"Link!" Roger shouted.
The floor of ice had already shattered, there was nothing left to stand on. All that remained were the hollow sounds of chunks of ice sliding down the slope, and soon that stopped and there was only silence.
Roger looked into the deep abyss, then back to the tunnel he'd come from that led to the stairs, then the ice wall that still hadn't seemed to crack. What do I do? he thought. Jump down for Link? Go tell the others? Continue trying to get Paul's sword?
These all seemed like the wrong answer, but he'd only just told Link that anything was better than standing around doing nothing. So he turned around, and headed back for Paul and Barry.
"Still no luck?" Barry asked, stretching as best he could in the short tunnel.
"It's worse," Roger grunted, shaking his head.
"We heard a crash," Paul mumbled. "Everything okay?"
Roger looked at the ground, moving his eyes to the hole where he could see Paul's sword far below. "The floor broke," Roger explained. "Link fell through. We need to go after him, but we need to get Paul's sword first."
"No," Paul said sternly. "You go after Link... we'll find a way to g-get my sword."
"Splitting up is always a bad idea," Roger said. "I thought we agreed on that."
"We're already split up with Link gone," Barry corrected. "Besides, what choice do we have?"
Paul didn't even look like he could move. Roger had tested before just how far they could get from their swords, and it wasn't very far. Paul was testing that limit now, and it showed. Barry however, was already trying to find a new way back down.
I guess I don't have a choice, Roger thought. "You can't miss the pit. I'll try and leave a way for you guys to follow."
Then he returned to the slope Link had fallen down. He stared again into the endless darkness. "You're still alive right?" he called into the darkness. "The swords wouldn't work if you died... right?"
Hoping that logic checked out, and that somehow Link was still alive wherever he was, Roger hopped down onto the slope.
His feet slipped out from under him, and he was gone.
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The sword was right below the hole. If Barry even just had rope, he could probably get it, but that'd be too easy apparently. Even if he tied all their belts together it wouldn't be enough.
Might as well check, Barry thought, getting up. I'll be back in a moment.
Barry ducked through the tunnel and took the steps down to the other side of the ice wall. There he saw that Roger wasn't joking; pretty much the entire floor was gone. There was a slope that started a few feet down, but if you'd dropped down onto it unexpectedly you'd be gone before you knew it.
