//------------------------------// // Test of the Shrines // Story: My Little Pony: Breath of the Wild // by knigsonic //------------------------------// Link sighed early the next morning as he stood outside the Everfree Forest. “You know, you dont have to go it alone...” Twilight said trotting up beside him. “True, but I dont want to risk anyone else in this trial. I dont know how dangerous this will be.” he said pulling out his Shiekah Slate. He watched as a blue static screen appeared on it only for a yellow dot to appear. “Guess thats where im going...” He said putting the Slate away. “Alright, well... be careful Link...” Twilight said opening her wings and flying back to her castle. Nodding, he put his hood back up and walking into the Everfree Forest. “I should be close by now...” Link said as he climbed up the side of the mountain, running low on energy before munching down a cooked Stamina Mushroom he found and baked earlier. Upon reaching the top, he finally ran out of energy and leaped up the final part of the mountain, thankfully grabbing the top before he fell to the bottom. Catching his breath, Link looked up spotting the remains of a castle up ahead. Gathering his strength, Link jogged into the castle following the yellow dot on his map until he came up to what appeared to be two thrones. He looked around in confusion not seeing anything. “What am I supposed to do here?” He asked only to see a circle in the floor glow blue before rising from the floor up to his hips resembling the podium he got the Shiekah Slate from. “Hmm... Interesting...” He said to himself before looking the podium over. Finally spotting the slot in the top, he pulled out the Slate and inserted it in before the top of the podium begun to spin and flip before settling and glowing blue. Link suddenly heard a computerized voice speak to him “SHIEKAH TOWER SYSTEM ACTIVATED PLEASE WATCH FOR FALLING ROCKS.” Link blinked upon hearing this. “Falling rocks? What is it-” He suddenly fell over as the two thrones fell over as a cage shook the ground around him forming around him as the ground suddenly forced him to the floor. The Dragon Lands The Princess of the Dragon Lands sighed happily munching on a gem stone from her stash as she floated lazily in a lake of lava. “Ahhh, this is paradise.” she said to herself, unaware as she floated over a glowing blue circle. She looked around as she felt the lake begin to shake. “Whats going on?” Yak Yakistan The entire town began to shake forcing the Prince of the yaks to fall out of his bed and rolled out the door. “WHOS SHAKING YAKS TOWN WITHOUT YAKS PERMISSION?” He screamed into the air causing the snow on his house to fall onto him. Growling he dug his way out and looked up at the mountain towering over his village as it began to crack. “Uh oh.... YAKS MOVE NOW!” Far to the east of Equestria A young Kiran with an orange mane stepped out of her home sadly as she looked around her mute village. ‘Theres got to be a way to fix this... Im going to lose my MIND if I cant speak anymore’ She thought to herself only to feel the ground around her shake . Looking down, she spotted a blue circle glowing beneath her hooves. ‘That cant be good!’ she thought only for the ground to explode beneath her and launching her into a bed of flowers. Mount Aris under the sea The queen of the Hypagriffs was laying on her shell throne sighing out of frustration staring at the jewel that turned her kind into Meriponies. “Sweetie will you PLEASE stop being so loud? Your making the entire place shake!” She snapped at her daughter who swam past her. “Huh? Im not making the place shake!” She said floating in front of her. The two of them noticed a glowing circle at the bottom of the chamber. “Uh, whats that?” she asked her mother only to watch the ground crack. Castle of the Two Sisters. Link grunted as he pulled himself up from the floor and looked around, now high in the sky now in a cage. “What happened?” he said walking to the podium, now with a blue crystal over it. “MAP FUNCTIONALITY REPAIRED. DOWNLOADING MAP.” a computerized voice said as the crystal began to glow. Watching, a tear drop soon appeared under the crystal before dropping onto the screen. Link looked over it as the map appeared before the area around him appeared on the map, showing off the Everfree Forest, Ponyville, and the outskirts of the area. The podium began to unfold and returned the Slate to him, to which he took it and reattached it to his hip. Before he could do anything else, a new scroll appeared in front of him. “Guess its time to start the test.” He said taking it and reading it. “Dear Link, I see you have found the ancient towers and reactivated them. However, what you may not know is this, but the tower you summoned has also made 3 shrines rise around the area. Your task is to go to them and solve their riddles. Do this, and I will officially deem you the true Hero of Hyrule.” “Alright then... so how do I get down from here?” Link said walking over to the edge. “Hehehe, Sure looks like a long ways down” He heard a voice tell him. Looking next to him, he spotted a girl with light blue skin, blue hair with dark blue strips, hylian ears, and a white, blue, and golden magelike outfit. “Wha? Whered you come from?” He said in surprise falling onto his back again. She giggled and helped him stand back up. “Hi there Link! Oh its SOOO great to see you again!” She said smiling, her purple eyes looking familiar to him. “Do... I know you?” he asked her to which she looked slightly away, her ponytail swishing around revealing she had an orange feather, a white cuff, and a sorta butterfly like hair tie holding her ponytail. “You did... though I doubt you would know me now. So lets start over!” She said going from sad to happy at the drop of a bit. “My names Sonata! Its a pleasure to meet you Link!” She said extending her hand, a large grin on her face. Link nodded and shook her hand in return tilting his head. “How do you know me?” he asked squinting his eyes. Sonata turned away as she began digging through her items. “Ill tell you some other time. For now, lets get you off this Tower.” She said before pulling out a paraglider for him. “Here! You can use this to get down from here!” she said putting it in his hands. “Ill meet you over there!” She said pointing to a camp site down at the base of the mountain in the gorge below and raised her hand having a summoning gate appear above her. “Before you head there, take a look around the area from here to see if you can spot the 3 shrines.” She said before having the gate drop on her, having her vanish. Sighing, Link started to look around the area trying to spot the new Shrines. “This would be easier if I knew what they looked like” he said before spotting what appeared to be a small hut glowing orange. “That might be it...” He muttered before pulling out the Slate and began placing an icon where the Shrine was before looking around the tower for the other two. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sonata appeared in front of the camp site brushing off some dust from her outfit and walked over to a log to sit on, opening another gate to have some food fall out of it and had it begin to cook as she watched Link leap from the tower opening his Paraglider and sailing towards her. By the time he landed, she had finished cooking the meal she had begun for them and was now adding it to some taco shells. “Glad you could join me! Taco?” she asked offering the plate to him. Sitting down, Link nodded as he took one and began to eat it. “So I take it you found the locations of the 3 shrines up there?” She asked before eating her own taco. Swallowing his food, Link pulled out the Shiekah Slate and pulled up the map of the area revealing the locations to her. “Yeah, they all seem to be forming a sorta ring around the area.” He said putting it back on his hip. “Well I say we head out after we eat!” Sonata said finishing her taco before grabbing a second one. “We? This is my test.” Link said finishing the current taco and looking at her funny. “Oh dont worry. Ill wait outside the shrines for you! Only the Hero can enter them anyways, and thats you, correct?” She said, her mouth full of taco. “I... guess so?” he said grabbing another taco. “And besides, you might be The Hero, but it never hurts to have a friend with magic powers by your side!” She said finishing her food before snapping her fingers and having a spell book land in her lap. Link squinted at the book thinking it looked familiar before she stood up and dusted off the back of her outfit. “Look, I know its hard for now, but you got to trust me. Im really here to help you out Link.” She said crossing her arms under her breasts. Sighing, Link stood up pulling his hood off. “Fine. Then lets get started then.” He said adjusting his arm guard and leading the way to the first shrine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Celestia walked into her kitchen to get something to snack on when her eyes suddenly glowed blood red. “So... she has survived this entire time... I thought Star Swirl banished her eons ago with those two sisters adopted her... Guess Ill have to finish the job” she muttered to herself before floating her chest armor up to her face and pressed a button on it and spoke into it. “Activate and guard the shrines. Do not let the Hero and the white sorcerous anywhere near them.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Link and Sonata stepped outside the edge of the Everfree Forest near where the first shrine was, only to notice it was on the other side of another gorge. “Guess I can paraglide over there now, but what about you?” Link said looking at Sonata. She grinned and waved her hand having a glass bridge appear over the gorge. “Itll be faster if we use this.” She said before running across it. Nodding, Link jogged after her. Not even halfway there they felt the bridge start to shake. Turning around, they saw a Guardian run out of the tree’s, crawling on all 6 legs before spotting them and began to charge up its laser. “Shit, GET TO THE OTHER SIDE!” Link yelled turning around as the pair began to run to the other side. Right at the halfway mark, the Guardian fired, missing them and hit the bridge instead, making it begin to shatter. Link and Sonata booked it as fast as they could to the other side, the collapsing bridge catching up to them. Right as they were about to make it, the bridge finally gave out and they fell to the cliff side. Suddenly for Link time seemed to slow down. Turning around, he noticed the Guardian was charging up another laser, this time at Sonata. Spinning around, he pulled out his bow and arrows and fired an arrow at the eye, shattering it. Time returned to normal as they landed on the side of the cliff, only to watch the Guardian malfunction from the arrow and fall into the gorge, exploding upon contact. “Well that takes care of that problem.” Sonata said before turning to Link watching as he began climbing up the cliffside. “You coming?” he said looking down at her. Nodding, Sonata snapped her fingers and her outfit changed into climbing gear as she leapt onto the wall beside her alley. The two quickly scaled the wall and soon found themselves standing before the Shrine. Returning to her normal wear with another snap, Sonata got into a defensive stand as Link stepped onto the shrine, spotting another podium and placed the screen of the Slate onto it. Suddenly the floor of the shrine went from orange to blue as the wall to the shrine opened up, revealing a platform inside. “Ill be back.” Link said to Sonata as he stepped inside, only for the floor to begin lowering into the earth. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Link watched as the elevator shaft soon revealed a massive chamber below the ground as he was brought down to the floor. Upon stepping off the platform, a mysterious voice spoke out to him. “For whomever has entered my shrine... insert the Shiekah Slate into the podium, and the trial will begin....” Nodding, Link walked over to the podium and inserted the slate into it as the crystal above began to glow, downloading something into it. Watching the tear drop into the screen, Link examined it as the screen shown off now the Runes screen, revealing two new Runes for him. “Bombs? I have... Remote Detonation bombs now?” he asked before the Slate was returned to him. Turning around, he spotted the floor had a ramp going down to a wall with cracks in it. “Hmm...” I wonder” he muttered before activating his new Bomb Rune, gaining a bomb and threw it at the wall. It slammed into it then fell to the floor. Link waited a few seconds expecting it to explode only to look at the Slate. “Am i supposed to do something else?” he asked before pressing the Bomb icon on the screen, causing the bomb to explode, taking out the wall. “Sweet Goddess Hylia, I can blow up my bombs whenever I want!” he said with joy before leaping down and running past the wall and turning left and threw another bomb at another stack of blocks before working his way further into the shrine. He then found a floating platform moving back and forth, with the other side filled with even more stone blocks in the way. “Hm, thought this was gonna be a challenge” He said cheekfully and set another bomb on the platform and leapt off the platform. However, the moment the platform moved, the bomb began to roll backwards and fell down below. “Uh, ok... lets see if this will work...” He said leaping onto the platform and riding it over before summoning another bomb and placing it there before leaping below. However, the platform began moving again causing the bomb to roll off yet again. “OH COME ON!” Link screamed making his way back up. Sighing, he looked at his Runes only to notice the second bomb, shaped like a square. “Hmm... I wonder...” He said to himself before summoning the square bomb and set it on the platform before leaping off. He watched as the platform moved across to the other side, the bomb staying there the entire time. Grinning, Link detonated the bomb and leapt across the platform as it came back. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sonata looked at her watch trying to figure out how long Link was in there. “He should of only been in there for a few minutes...” She muttered to herself only to feel the ground shake. Looking ahead, she gasped as she watched an army of Bokoblins charging at the Shrine. “Oh Crap... not these guys.” She said tightening her grip on her spell book. As they neared, she charged up a ball of electricity and threw it at them before having a wall rise up from where it landed and began shocking the Bokoblins. She then ran forward and leapt at the wall, kicking it and jumping off before throwing another ball at it, destroying it and scattering her enemies. Upon landing she lined herself up with about thirty of them before pointing her hand at them, causing six walls to shoot up from the ground before leaping from wall to wall, damaging them every time she flew past one before snapping her fingers shattering the walls killing them all. Turning around, she then leapt into the air as she summoned a cube to ride, stomping over her enemies and their broken bodies before kicking that and having it explode, hurting the remaining bokoblins. “Well, that was easy...” She said getting ready to return to the Shrine when she heard three Moblins run towards her. “Crap...” She said before snapping her fingers and having her Summoning Gate appear. The Moblins stopped in confusion as she started dancing in place humming a lovely tune before suddenly three Manhandala heads appeared from the ground and she aimed them directly at the Moblins having them fire a spray of seeds at them. At this time Link stepped out of the Shrine and ran over to her drawing his sword before stopping watching her dance. Something... about her... tugged at his mind.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Link charged at a Bokoblin and swung his knights sword at it, taking it down before unleashing a spin attack on a few more. He then turned with Impa and Sheik towards the Great Deku Tree. “Weve finally made it, and not a moment to soon...” Link said pulling out his shield only to spot energy orbs falling from the sky destroying more Bokoblins that were surrounding a fallen knight as a young girl leapt from one of the branches next to him and waved her hand over him, healing his wounds. “Your gonna be alright.” She said having him return to the battle before walking over to the newcomers. “Who are you three?” she asked stopping in front of them. Impa stepped forward, blowing her blonde hair out of her face. “I am Impa. This is Link, the chosen Hero, and Sheik. Weve come searching for Princess Zelda.” The girl examned the others before smiling, her blue hair with dark blue strips in it getting in her face before nodding to get it out of her face. “Ive not seen her. But if you help me, Ill return the favor and help with your quest. I know who’s really behind all the Monster attacks.” “Who is it?” Link asked stepping forward. Sighing, the girl turned around. “Her name is Cia... me and her... are sisters... Ill tell you more when we win this.” She said summoning her Spell book and running into battle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Link watched as Sonata defeated the remainder of the enemies before walking over. “You ok there Link?” She asked curiously. Link snapped out of it and nodded. “Y-Yeah. I just needed to catch my breath is all.” “Well alright then. Come on. Its getting late. We should probably find somewhere to stay for the night.” she said turning to the town. Walking up to her, he pointed to the castle. “Princess Twilight will let us stay there.” he said causing her to nod. “Then to the castle we go!” she said cheerfully before running playfully to it. Link watched her run off before following after her. “It cant be her... could it?”