Howl at the Moon (Re-up)
The Final Link
Previous ChapterNext ChapterAfter we had gotten back to the surface, we found the fog to have lifted from the graveyard. We made our way back to Ponyville, and were attacked when we made our way into town. That is, until Tophreltes thrust her hand in the air, and a blinding blast of light went off. When we could see again, I saw a wave of energy making it’s way outward, like a blast, towards the edge of Ponyville. I could only guess that it would make it’s way out to the Sweet Apple Acres, and the two ponies who were out there.
Anyway, we made our way back to the library, as after the light, everypony had fallen asleep. We entered the library, and our new librarian looked around. Me and the others, got to talking, with me starting the floor.
“Well, the crisis is averted, and we have someone else to help. Twilight, are you moving in with me?” Twilight looked thoughtful for a bit, then said.
“I can, but what about Spike? Where would he go?” I forgot about Spike, crap.
Link had taken off his brigandine and was currently inspecting it for dents and damages. I had to do a double take when I noticed it was slowly repairing itself. “The void energy is still working.” he said softly.
“Well, we can work something out. We might have him live with us. The cool thing about my house is, it has mutable walls. There was a dial on the wall that allowed me to dampen the sound coming in to my room. So, the same should work the other way, right? But yeah, Spike can come live with us, until we set something up. Hey though, how old is Spike?” I say. Twilight thinks for a second, and then replies.
“Well, he turned 18 just a few days ago, so I guess he can live on his own. That could work. But then, where would he work?”
I mull it over, then say, “He could probably help out the Mayor Mare, help her as an assistant or bodyguard for her. I mean, she is the mayor, somebody will want it for her eventually. Or, he can continue on at the library. Speaking of, we are here.” I say, as we walk up to the entrance to the library. Tophreltes looks at the library outside, and then says.
“It is a tree. I have never seen this before. How many books are inside? And, how much room is there for me?” I let Twilight answer.
“Well, there is a little over 300 books inside. 310 to be exact. And the library is split into two levels, the upstairs house part, and the downstairs library. And then there is the basement. Cameron, weren’t you talking about taking out the upstairs house, and just making room for more shelving? Then we can make the basement your area.” Tophreltes nodded, as did I.
That honestly made the most sense. That way, there where more books, and she could still have a ‘room’ so to say.
Link put his armor back on. “Only 310? I thought it would be a bigger number considering who you are.” Link said in a half joking manner.
Twilight gets flustered at that. “Well, I’m sorry. I wanted more books, but the library wasn’t that big.” We all chuckle, and head inside. I sit on one of the couches, before hearing a knock on the basement door.
“Oh crap, I forgot we put the CMC down there. I guess we should let them out.” Applehack laughs, and then opens the door. The CMC come stumbling out, looking like they had just woken up from a hard sleep. Applebloom looks around and asks.
“The hell happened? I feel like someone threw me across a room, then froze me like a popsicle.” Me and the girls look at each other, and Pinkie says.
“That is exactly what happened to you. The other two just mostly got frozen. Though Scootaloo was tossed into the ceiling.” The girls look at her.
“Hey, why don’t you go upstairs and untie Spike, and then you all take a nap. You all were mind controlled, and you need some rest.” I say. The girls nod, and trudge upstairs. After a few more seconds, Satan finally comes up from the basement. I look at her.
“Hey Satan, you okay?” I say. She screeches at me.
“Yes. I am fine. Sisters are fine. The town is whole again.” I shudder at that last line.
“Okay. Just, Satan, promise me you will never say, ‘make us whole’ , okay?” I just can’t in good taste let that go.
Satan tilts her head, but nods. Then she looks around and sees the spider demon. She starts to panic, and Butchershy runs over to her.
As she does, her colors start to return to normal. Her hair changes back from red to pink, and her skin goes from white to butter yellow. The burn patch over her eye disappears. As she reaches Satan, she looks like the old Fluttershy. She hugs Satan.
“Don’t worry, she won’t hurt you.” She says, hugging her.
Tophreltes looks sad, and hurt that Satan is scared of her. I try and console her.
“Hey, don’t worry. She will get used to you being nice, just give it a little time. Anywho, Link, you on a schedule or what, because if you like, I can take you to my forge and give you a gift. What would you like?” I say as I take Satans hand and start towards the door of the library.
“You don’t have to give me anything thought, but if you insist.” Link said as he rubbed the top of his head in thought. “I have been having trouble keeping track of enemies whenever they’re hiding or preparing an ambush. For some reason, I was not Displaced with a partner, like Navi, Tael, Midna, or any other character from the games.” Link explained.
I immediately have an idea.
“Okay, then how about I give you a partner. I can use some of the crystal from my arm, and some ores, and make you a golem partner that can sense enemy positions, and provide support in fights, like healing or fire support. And, they can also hold loot that you can’t carry. Give it a small inventory pocket that can hold about fifty to a hundred items, and there you go.” I say.
Link raised his hand. “I don’t need a second inventory though as those small pouches can hold a lot just by shrinking it down. As for the golem, I have one question.. Will it not talk like Kun Vulom?” Link asked curious.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, floating sentinel sword came out while screaming at the top of its voice. “I COME!”
“I didn’t mean come out now, Kun!” Link said, almost startled by his familiar’s appearance.
I blink a few times. “No.”
“Good. Kun Vulom is… quite a chatterbox in battle and it would cause issues if this golem talked as place. Kun Vulom, return back.” Link spoke out to the sword.
“I leave!” Kun Vulon exclaimed, vanishing the same way it appeared.
I shake my head. “Well, if that’s the case, then I can make it not do that. I do need to know if you want a healer, or fire support. If it is both, then it won’t do much of either, and it won’t have a wider array of magic spells to use. Also, tell me which character partner you would have, and I can make them look like them. And ore, choose some of the ores you have, and I will use them to form the body.”
As we are talking, we reach the clearing, and we head down to the forge. When we enter, I turn on the lights, and we see the entire room has power hammers, lathes, sanding belts and belt sanders, wood working machines, and a tanning room off to the left, behind a seperate door. I requip my clothing to something more smith worthy, a tank top shirt, jeans, and steel toe boots. I have one glove, for my left hand, as it is still flesh and blood. As I start to get ready to forge out his companion, my arm starts to glow and turns purple, much like it does when I wield the Blades of Chaos, and it absorbs it’s fire.
I don’t get bothered, but only because I had recently read that it would do this to help imbue enchantments into the material I was forging with.
“I believe making it a healing golem would be ideal whenever I’m unable to heal someone and fight at the same time. As for ore..” Link began as he started shuffling through his pouch, soon taking out four stones. The first one was colorful rock that slowly lit up in the light, and I could see traces of something being absorbed all around it. “This is called Thaumatice, an ore that slowly absorbs ambient magic without disrupting any enchantments placed on it. The second one.” Link said as he presents a stone that had a beautiful white gleam to it. “Is a moon-stone, not to be confused with the one from the pokemon world. It’s very dense and nearly impervious to all blunt force trauma. Now, you’re probably wondering why I have two pairs out is to allow you to experiment.” Link explained as he flexed his wrist around. “Or just gift it to someone, either or is fine by me. As for what I’d like the golem to look like, this may sound difficult, but I’d like for it to look like Tatl, one of the fairies from Majora’s Mask. i’m not sure if you played it or not.” Link asked curiously.
“I remember hearing about her. I don’t think she has a definitive design though. I can make her look like a pixie though, and I will have to give her an inventory so she can hold healing potions for party members to use, or stuff like phoenix feathers from Final Fantasy. Okay, sit back and let me work. This might take a bit, so go ahead and head outside and train, hunt, do whatever. Hell, head on upstairs into my house, and you can play any Zelda game you want. I have them all. I don’t know which of the consoles that the Shaman put it on though.” I tell him.
Link gave him quite the look. “Considering who I became since being displaced, those zelda games aren’t going to be fun to play.” Link said with a chuckle and a shake of his head. “It feels weird to even think about it.”
I laugh as well, thinking about it. “Well the offer to go play a game still stands. It might take an hour or two to finish this.” I say, as I sit at a chair and have the two ores in front of me.
Link nodded to me. “I can wait, maybe talk to the girls here with some Q and A. Either that or I just speed up time and fast forward a bit.” Link suggested with a shrug.
I just nod, already thinking about what I might design the pixie body to be. I don’t even see him leave the basement.
I finally have some sort of design thought of. I grabbed the Thaumatice, and started working with it, my crystal arm starts to vibrate, and the magic in my arm starts to help me mold the ore. I start to shape it, making armor and staff.
The staff is made first. I make the staff to be about three inches long. The head, I take a very small chunk of my arm, and start to form it into a small head for the staff. As I do this, I focus on what the little crystal will be doing, in conjunction with the Thaumatice. I think about how I want it to hold on the strongest healing spell. How it will focus the energy, and release it how the golem needs. I focus on the fact that the staff is for spell crafting, and that it will make the magical matrices, and create them instantly. I focus on how it will work in general, and I mold the thaumic metal and crystal together.
The end result is more a scepter, but it works the same. The scepter ended up being green and blue, and the head was a circle around the crystal, which floated in the center. The body of the scepter was blue, with green wood mixed in.
Next was the armor. I would fit it to the body when I was finished. I made it simple, as it wasn’t for fighting, but it wouldn’t just crumple under one blow. As I worked the Thaumatice, I just focused on it being able to protect from any magical hacking. That was the biggest thing to overcome. The next thing I focused on, was it resisting any magical attack. Any type of magic, from fire to water, it would be resistant. She wouldn’t last forever, but it would hold. And finally, physical attacks. It won’t let her be swatted out the air.
As I was thinking these things, for each piece of armor, and the scepter, I slowly poured magic through my arm, and into the metal and crystal. I would change my arm up, and the vibration shaved off metal and wood and crystal easily. My arm would conform to the shape of what I wanted to sculpt, and would be shaped like I needed. It was very cool.
Now, I pulled out the Moon-stone, and started working with it. I left an area open for it’s heart, which would be the final piece of this puzzle. I made her body lean, but not skinny, and the wings were slightly sharp, made of crystal. They looked dragonfly in nature, and were half as large as her body. Her legs came next, and they were regular legs, nice and round, but not fat. Her head was next, and I made her head with a teardrop shape. Her eyes were large, and looked inquisitive. Her nose was small, and shaped like a normal nose, because I couldn’t make any other type to save myself. Her mouth had thin lips. The hair was long, down to her shoulder blades. I attached everything together, and started to sculpt out the muscles, and the other features of her, like her torso, and other areas. I will say she had a nice figure, that wasn’t unappealing to the eye.
And the last piece, the heart. I took more crystal from my arm, and took some of the moon stone and Thaumatice dust from my work, and pressed them into little balls to work with. Then, I made a tiny heart. It looked much like a human heart, but it was beautiful. It was gem and Thaumatice combined, and it made a strong ball that was most of the shape. I thought of what it would do, and I gave it life, in a sense. I literally played God, and created life. I gave her a complete knowledge of healing, with the ability to learn more, as I could only give her rudimentary knowledge. She would be able to learn and grow in her magical ability. I placed a thaumic vein structure in it, to spread when it was introduced to the body. I gave her the ability to grow her own personality, and I didn’t give her a voice, but I would let her choose how she sounded. Again, I made a life. I surrounded the heart with the moon-stone and gem dust compound, and made it so it would return to Link if the body was destroyed in any way. I finally, thinking about one of the things he had requested, put in an ability to psionically link with Link. No pun intended.
I looked at the time, and was surprised to see that it wasn’t two hours that had went by. It had been FOUR hours. I had been here for a while. I stood up, and went to find Link. I found him outside, playing an aimless tune on his blue instrument. Then it finally hit me. Ocarina of Time. He was playing his ocarina. Well, that made everything a lot clearer. Walked over to where he was, sitting against a tree in the clearing, and waited for him to finish. After a few more bars, he stopped.
“Hey, I am about to put the heart in, you should be there.”
“A heart? Ok, you must have made a different kind of golem than what I was thinking off.” Link said with interest in his voice. Link puts his instrument away
“Well, I created a heart, because I am basically creating a new life. It also helps build a more complicated command structure, and lasts longer than other types of golem command pieces. Also, what do you think when you hear, “the golem's heart”? Sounds poetic.” I say
“The only thing that comes to mind is that one mod in Oblivion that adds new golems to the game and a stone ingredient as its heart.” Link said with a shrug. “Golems are a new concept I don’t see much in other worlds.”
“Hmm, don’t know why. I also never played Oblivion, but I guess that is a good way to think about it. Anyways, I need to put her heart in, and then you two need to set your psionic link. No pun intended.” I say, thinking about the pun I made unintentionally.
“...That’s a new one.” Link commented on the link I mentioned.
We make our way to the basement, and I show him the completed pixie. She stands about a foot tall, and her scepter is about five inches. I had all the armor on her, and the inlays all done. She just needed her heart. I turn to Link.
“So, what do you think on her design?” I ask.
Link let out a whistle. “Fancy design, she looks pretty good so far.” Link commented.
“Thanks, I took longer than I thought. Didn’t want to rush perfection. You wanna do the honors of putting in her heart?” I say.
“You know what they say; you can’t rush art. Sure.” Link said with a smile as he made his way closer to where I was standing. He reached for the tiny heart on the table, and picked it up. He took a second to look at it, and then reached for the pixie. As he set the heart in, the rest of the dust from my work started to move and cover her body, and flowed to the hole in her chest where the newly placed heart was. It was sealed in moments, and after that we waited.
After a minute or so, the pixie opened it’s eyes. It looked around at us, and then looked at Link. Then it spoke.
“Hello, father, master Link.” I nod, turning to Link.
“She is your’s. Take care of her, and once I make my own token, if she gets broke, bring her back, and I can fix her up. What is her name, or are you going to call her Tatl?” I tell him.
“Tatl for now, I can change her name if by some chance I get summoned by a Displaced version of her,” he blinked when he realized she was speaking, however the golem pixie’s voice was pleasant to his hylian ears.
“I understand. Tatl, be good. He needs you, so help him out. If he says to do something, do so, and help others when he tells you too. Now, how do I make a token?” I say to Link. Tatl flies up, and hovers near Link, her wings almost silent.
Link padded his shoulder, telling Tatl to sit along there. Link turns to look at me. “To make a token, there are three ways to go about it. One, you take something personal that you own, fill it with your energy, give it a message and a method of summoning. Two, you can try to create it with your own energy, or three, I can make it for you since I’m more experienced with this sort of thing.” Link explained.
“I think I might make it out of my crystal.” I say, reaching up and pulling out a small chunk of my arm. I hold it in front of me, and start to mold it. I make a small orb out of it, as I can’t think of any special design. I decide to make it work like Links in a way, with the ability to find out if the person summoning me is a decent person or not. So, I start to enchant the orb with that power.
It works like Link’s, but instead of making a mindscape, we are pulled into an empty plain. An entirely different dimension from either mine or the summoners dimension. Then, I can interrogate them. After I do this, I start to say my message I want to have heard.
“I am the Champion of Faust. I am here to fight for her ponies. If you find this, and hurt innocents, then feel their pain. If you find this, and protect the weak, then call me a friend. To summon me, strike this orb once, and I shall come. Know, that you will be judged.” How did that sound to you, to cocky?” I ask Link.
“Good, plus you made a precaution so you won’t be summoned by those who plan to abuse you.” Link said with a approving nod.
“Yeah, you kind of gave me the idea on that. So, what now?” I ask.
“Throw it into the air and the rest will take care of itself.” Link said as he pointed above me.
I nod, and proceed to throw the orb into the air. It starts to fall back down, and just as it is about to hit the floor, a portal opens up underneath it, and it falls in. After a second, another portal opens over me, and the orb comes falling out. I reach out and catch it, before putting it in my hammerspace.
“So, I think that everything is done here. You ready to go home, any more questions you wanna ask?” I say, looking at him to find out if he needed anything else.
“Nope, that’ll be all. Only thing you have to do is usher the words ‘Your contract is complete’ and I’ll be well on my way home.” Link explained as he turned to look at Tatl. “You’d best hold on tight, it will be a quick ride.” Link said to her.
She nods, and flies over and grabs on to his arm. I give a smile to her, and she waves back at me.
“Damn, kids grow up so fast. It seems like only fifteen minutes ago I made you, and now your going to leave for a new adventure. Well, take care of her Link, and she will help you. Our contract is complete.” I say, but instead of a portal opening up, a blue diamond suddenly formed around him before slowly raising him up a few feet, the crystal start to spin around like crazy before suddenly with a blip, he was gone.
I sighed. He was a cool guy. I hoped I would see him again someday, and Tatl too. I turned from were I had sent him off, and headed inside. It was night now, and I needed to eat. When I enter, I see that everything is off. On the table is a plate for me, with a note.
‘Cameron, we already ate, and have gone to bed. Link was nice, and kept us company while you worked. Satan was happy with the news we told her, about us being a herd. Anyways, we left some food for you, and I placed a spell on it to keep it warm.
Love you,
Twilight Sparkle.’
I chuckled, and sat down to eat.
Author's Note
Hey guys, this is the final cross with Displaced Writers Link story,
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/380911/displaced-a-forced-hero-rewrite
Go ahead and check his story out, it is pretty cool.
Have a Jivin day!
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