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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"... lucky we got him here when we did..."
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"... all of us might've..."
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"... he's waking up!"
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Link opened his eyes and found himself floating in the warm pools of the underground cavern. Glowing mushrooms made a ring of light around the water, but his vision was so blurry all the mushrooms just looked like one great big turquoise line.
"Are you awake?"
Link lolled his head to the side, which even though it was only a tiny movement made him dizzy. "What happened?" he mumbled, barely able to hear himself. "Where... where'd you guys...?"
"Over here."
Link forced himself to look the other way, which hurt this time. Sitting by the pool's edge he could see the other three, Roger, Paul, and Barry.
"I think you got hurt," Barry said. "Worse than just leaving your sword behind."
"I don't even think he has that problem," Roger jabbed. "But yeah, you got hurt."
"Went crazy for a little bit there," Paul added. "Started punching the ground."
"The ground?" Link breathed, remembering that differently. "No... you should've left me."
"That's not how this works," Roger grunted. "Stop beating yourself up. The waters seemed to actually heal some of your wounds, surprisingly, but they aren't going to do anything about your mental state."
Link huffed silently. My mental state? I don't think I have one of those anymore...
"But we can't wait around forever either," Barry said, standing up. "We're at the end of Talus Cave. We need to collect the keys so we can move on."
Link remained still.
"Link," Paul said. "We've gotta keep going."
Link shook his head slowly. "Why?"
"To stop Vaati," Roger growled. "Come on."
"Can we?" Link asked. "Do any of us really know how to fight? So far, it's just been us running around, barely making it out of each situation alive. Situations, by the way, that get progressively worse as we 'keep going'... And besides, I'm just making things worse."
"You're making things worse!?" Barry laughed. "My stupid fear of heights nearly got us all killed here! If I hadn't wasted so much time, we all could've gotten up without Paul losing his grip, we never would have gotten separated, and we'd be out of here by now."
