Waking of Saturday, March 18, 2017 ~ 9
I stood a while with Sidon on the
dock before we spoke. When we did he turned and flashed his winning grin at
me—a bit more subdued this time.
I don’t suppose waiting would have
made it any easier. But then.... somehow, with Sidon there, in all his mad
grinning confidence, his unwavering
surety.... maybe it didn’t seem like such a hard thing after all.
He leapt into the water, flipping
like he does, and called me in. I would ride on his back. He would get me
close, and with my Zora Armor I would be able to ascend the four waterfalls
spilling from Vah Ruta’s back, to land my Shock Arrows on the orbs above.
And away we went, slicing through
the water at incredible speed! Prince
Sidon’s dulcet tenor spurring us onward, steady as a rock—that guy could move. And when Vah Ruta reacted to our
presence—I don’t know what I was expecting but it wasn’t that!
How it trumpeted, crying out so loudly—pulling huge blocks of ice from the
water, hovering them up as if by magic, and hurling them at us one after the
other.
“Get rid of that ice!” the Prince
shouted to me. Two of the bergs struck us, and it hurt—Sidon punched through—before I got my fumbling bow into my
hands, whereupon I started dropping them out of the air one by one as Sidon flew through the water in a wide curve,
arcing round the beast. Spray flew, rain slashed
at our faces, and when Vah Ruta’s opening volley had run dry, Sidon darted in toward its side—“Do you have
those Shock Arrows?” he called.
Man. His voice so fair and princely
even here.
I readied them in my quiver. Sidon
came right up against the raging beast’s side, maintaining a swift movement—no
static targets here—as he bounded back and forth between two of the waterfalls.
“Now, Link!”
I took the fall on the right side,
I leapt from his back, spearing upward, upward, leaping in and out of the
current like a fish, testament to the handiwork of Lady Mipha—until I broke through the upper surface and shot
into the air—high above my target. I drew my bow, looked down, and time seemed
to slow.... There was the orb, huge and pink, I drew, pulled back, let fly....
everything crackled and yellow and then I was falling....
I plashed back into the water with jarring violence, back in the
tempest, back in the storm, back up to speed—“Nice going!”—there he was—and I grabbed onto the Prince’s back again and he hauled us outta there—Vah Ruta had
collected more ice to try and crush us with—grateful I was carrying so many
arrows.... though my bows couldn’t take all the firing.... grateful I was packing more than one bow....
Again
and again, THAT VOICE.
WHO VOICED THIS GUY?
“Can you stop that ice?”
“Get those Shock Arrows!”
“You did it, Link!”
“Shock Arrows ready?”
And as I plummeted from the final
orb—“Marvelous!”
AND YOU KNOW? It’s possible it’s
not even a stupendous actor and he’s just lucky to be riding on the writing and
animation of a character who already bleeds charisma! But I just like him!
Just channeling through the water like a mad torpedo on the back of the
Prince of the Zoras, diving up waterfalls and sailing into the sky for freefalling
archery with that friggin’ dulcet tenor still playing the cheer squad and EAUGH!
Do you know how hard I pumped my
fists, how high I pranced and skipped as I went to close the curtains because
it was getting dark, how convicted my
affirmations to the house at large that “THAT WAS SO COOL”?
GAUGH.
Yes, I think the voice acting did add something, thickened the
atmosphere of the charged, charged moment.
And as the Divine Beast Vah Ruta
quieted, as the waterflow cut off and the sky became brighter.... Sidon took us
in close—there was a platform....
“You wanted to get inside that
thing, right?”
I did want to get inside it.
I still had to infiltrate its
depths, and retake it for Princess
Zelda.
“Finish the job, Link,” Sidon
urged, low and even from the water below as the Beast began to float higher and
I was lifted away, higher and higher....
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