Waking of Saturday, March 11, 2017 ~ 3
As I crossed the bridge, a female
voice called out.
I looked around.
Another Zora, deep red as a plum,
poked her head out of the water to my left! She seemed astounded to lay eyes on me. A real Hylian!
Her name was Tona and she said the
same thing Ledo had said—Prince Sidon was away at the bridge up the river, and
would I please go and help him.
Well, that’s where I was headed. So
off I went.
The tower was heavily guarded. I
managed to evade most of the resident monsters, but there was one moblin that
gave me a bit of trouble as I climbed—he sent me rolling dangerously near a
cliff’s edge before I was able to take him down. And the rain certainly didn’t
make things easy; all the rocks were too slick to hold on to.
I climbed a tall ladder to a
look-out platform and paraglided over a Lizalfos I could see lying in wait,
camouflaged to look like the stone. Chameleons....
And the tower was open, and free,
and I scaled its sides and rested on its platforms until I finally came out
onto the uppermost floor!
Someone shouted in surprise at my
appearance.
I looked around.
There was another Zora up here.
“What are you doing up here?” he
asked me.
“I could ask you the same!” I said.
His name was Gruve, and he, like
his fellows, had been sent out by Prince Sidon to locate a strong Hylian. But,
along the way, he had fallen asleep.... only to be woken by a tremendous lot of
rumbling and movement, and.... here he was.
Oh no, I realized, he must have
been sleeping right on the spot where the tower was buried before it burst out
of the ground.
Since then Gruve had been trying to
call down to the prince on the bridge far below—for he was too frightened of
climbing down or taking an ultra high dive directly into the river—but it
seemed Prince Sidon was unable to hear him or help him from his predicament.
“I FOUND A HYLIAN!” Gruve still
tried valiantly, which I’m sorry to say made me have to suppress a little grin.
Poor guy.
Well, no worries, I was that close
it seemed. After uploading the local map (and noting that Lulu and Mikau Lakes
were next to each other <3) I
HALO-jumped to a very near shrine down off the hill and across the water—where
there was another Zora waiting! Her
skin was deepest crystal-blue and her voice very even and mature. Torfeau was
her name.
I noticed that this one was wearing a bit of armor.
I was getting close it seemed.
Go to the bridge and meet with the
Prince, she said, yes, yes, like everyone else, I knew. I looked through my
scope toward the bridge and could see, up on one of the spires, yet another
Zora waiting, bloodruddy in color, with a thick, muscly build and a
many-crested head. He was also wearing a little bit of armor, more intricate
and intimidating than Torfeau’s, and was keeping a thorough eye on his
surroundings. Maybe a guard there to protect Prince Sidon as he waited for his
Strong Hylian.
I was very close now; I would get there soon enough.
But I wanted to take care of this
shrine, first....
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