[EDITING] The Legend of Zelda: Goddess of Secrecy

Underworld Chapter 59 - Underborough

...that contained a massive ramshackle city. Underborough reached across the cavern, wall to wall, spanning all of Link's eyeline. The stability of the structure down the pit began to make sense as Link studied the varied designs in buildings. All of them had been hodge-podged together, pieced into a structure with various materials, likely all that the residents could find.

The impulse reaction towards the residents rose in Link again, and he hoped he hid the nervousness well. If the rabbit guise did anything for him, he hoped it at least hide the real source of his hesitation. Endeavor had called them "the Blins," but it covered a number of races. Moblins, bokoblins, bublins, all with varying degrees of pig-like features like Chop and Slash.

They weren't the only ones, though the others were few and far between. A few fox and dog-like faces peaked through, many a little more humanoid, a few severely hunched figures with considerably large heads for their bodies, Link thought he saw a hand with no body waving from a window. Still, it was clear that Underborough was a city of the Blins, and for all their shapes, sizes, and colors, it was clear who held the strongest presence in the many tusk and horn decorations.

Chop and Slash led them through the main street, where they drew more attention than Link would have liked for what he already felt was a thin disguise. Fortunately, the captain's quarters were not far from the front gate, though Link liked the outline of bars less even if it meant getting out from prying eyes.

As the door boomed open, Slash urged Endeavor and Link through as Chop strode forward and shouted, "Hack!"

Popping up from behind a counter, a bright orange bokoblin jumped up, two short round horns on either side of her head. "Oi! What is it? Chop, why ain't you at the gate?"

"We's got visitors, Hack, and we needs to see Captain Parry about it," Chop called back as Hack scrambled up and over the countertop. "Slash, sees them to the guest rooms."

"We ain't got no guest rooms at the captain's quarters, Chop."

Endeavor tapped Link's arm and tipped her head towards the handful of cells on the back wall. Link threw a glance over his shoulder at the three bickering Blins, before whispering over at Endeavor, "You want to intentionally get locked up?"

"I would like to sit and recover some of my energy before dealing with these three anymore, and that is the closest and most acceptable seat at the moment," she whispered back.

Without waiting, she made her way into the cells. Not wanting to leave Endeavor alone, particularly during her recovery, Link threw one glance back over. He sighed, knowing that their disappearing was only going to cause problems, so pushing some of those nerves to the front to match the rabbit appearance, he walked over to the counter.

"I don't mean to interrupt," Link cut in, leaning forward to put himself between the three of them, "but my friend is recovering. Is there any way we could send for a healer while we wait for your captain?"

Chop, Hack, and Slash all turned on Link in a way that made him feel like he was on the other end of a hunting party. Reflexively, he reached over his shoulder towards his sword, fumbling it seemingly too late as a grab for his neck as the three leaned in.

"Oh, is that so, rabbit man?" Chop asked, closing the gap. "And where'd she go, then, if she's hurt?"

Link drew a deep breath in, unsure where the nerves had come from. Perhaps it was a side effect of the spell, some part of his Dark World reflection merging with his own mind. He turned and pointed at the cell where Endeavor was sitting, before looking back at Chop. "She went to sit down in there, I was going to join her but I thought you'd appreciate us not disappearing on you."