Minish Hero

Bad Situations?

The growing process turned out to be even more difficult than the shrinking process. First, Vaati had tried poking a hole through the gigantic light blue sheet, but Samantha kept stepping on it and pulling it off. Eventually, after several failed attempts to become artificially invisible, Vaati was forced to rip off a piece of cloth and tie it around Samantha's head as a blindfold.

Samantha almost died when she had to support a near-naked Vaati until he recovered enough strength. At least, he'd remember to save his clothes and fold them up near the stumps so he wouldn't have to conjure up some new ones. Besides he wouldn't have been able to recreate the pants and boos from Midna. The clothes were a little damp and patched with dirt, but a quick rinsing cleansed them up.

Samantha sat up a makeshift campsite near the border to warm pieces of Cucco meat and vegetables and also dry Vaati's clothes over it. Vaati was lying near a thick black blanket Samantha had packed as he waited for his clothes to dry. Thank goodness one of them was properly prepared.

They were beginning to discuss their proceedings over dinner.

"The Electricity Element is closest to us," Samantha considered.

"Hyrule Town. It's just over the wall."

"Yeah, but I have no idea where to look" Vaati admitted.

"It could be anywhere in the entire town. I figured we'd go for the metal Element first because I'm positive that it's in the exact same mine the Fire Element was. It's really the only one I've got an exact location for."

"Alright," Samantha decided.

"We'll head up Mt. Crenel. There's two ways to do this we can go through town and head out through the upper gate, or we can go around the border and up through Tribly Highlands."

"I vote for Tribly Highlands," Vaati decided.

"But it would be a lot easier to go through town," Samantha tried to reason.

"There are no monsters, and we could pick up some supplies and stuff on our way through."

"I can't just go waltzing in there!" Vaati cried, shocked that Samantha had forgotten his dilemma already.

"The people will kill me! 'Oh hey, hi there! It's the mage that took over your world last year!' Sure I can see the angry mob now..."

"Well, can't you change your appearance?"

Vaati's shoulders slumped slightly in disappointment.

"Well, I can..but it would use up a lot of energy that I'd rather save for an emergency. If only I was a little stronger...Becoming invisible is much easier, but invisibility must be maintained. I wouldn't be able to remain invisible forever. I might be able to whip up a disguise by hand though...paint myself peach, cut my hair..."

"NO!" The word burst out of Samantha's mouth before she even stopped to think about it. Vaati looked over at her with a slightly surprised expression.

"Er..." Samantha was slightly flustered and embarrassed.

"Well...I was just concerned about you. It probably took a long time for you to grow your hair that long and ...I don't want you sacrificing it for the mission."

Vaati chuckled at her.

"It's no big deal...I'm a mage, remember? I can grow it back in two days!" He lied back and lifted a hand to his chin in consideration.

"Well...I could just shrink myself again. That's probably the simplest solution. That way, only little kids would be able to see me. It's almost as good as being invisible. And you could keep me in a pocket or something, so even little kids wouldn't see me! They probably wouldn't know who I was if they did, anyway. I'd just be a purple picori to them."