Rude Awakening

[wildfiresage]

Characters: Darunia and you!
Setting: Floor 33
Format: Prose, but I can go action if you really want it.
Summary: Darunia is awake and confused and not very pleased.
Warnings: Injuries.

Those papers - they had to be wrong.

So Darunia had set out to prove them wrong - and see just where he was. The first few floors were just like the one he woke up on - full of more bedrooms. Then there was a floor full of chairs and windows. After that, though, was a room of darkness. Darunia made the mistake of trying to step out and see something - anything - and got cut and clawed a number of times for his curiosity. He stumbled back onto the stairs, rather shaken by the encounter, and proceeded onward. The next floor's tricky stairs gave him some trouble, but he managed to make it past with little incident, and went on until he reached the 33rd floor - how there were what seemed like whole islands for floors was incredibly perplexing on multiple levels. This one, though - this at least resembled Hyrule to a degree. There were things growing. There was life here - and it seemed to be a good spot to pause and recover from that dark floor.

Some of the wounds are deeper than others, and there's likely a number of fresh breaks on the stones that cover his back. Darunia seems more annoyed by them than anything, though. The sound of footsteps gets his attention, though, and he turns to see who - or what - is approaching.

Comments

[wildfiresage]

"Eh?" Darunia grunts at the voice, and peers around for the source of it - ah, a short fellow. Dressed very similar to Saria and Link, at that. "A Kokiri?" Darunia rubs his head, trying to make sense of things. "Did I stumble into the Lost Woods? I've heard the rumors of the strangeness of the place, but I never expected anything like this..."

The question gets a shake of the head. "I do not!"

[lookmanostrings]

"Oh no-- the Lost Woods are far away from this place." He spoke oddly...fond of that place. They weren't really supposed to go there, but it'd be a lie to say he hadn't gone in on more than one occasion. Hadn't gotten lost though!

"Though I am glad you are not to hurt, Sage of Fire. I suppose I shouldn't suspect anything less from your kind." Oh man he's meeting another one of the old sages oh boy oh boy oh boy-- "Though this is not the Lost Woods, it is equally as unforgiving on those ignorant to its ways."

[wildfiresage]

Darunia stiffens, and suddenly regards the Kokiri with suspicion. "...how do you know who I am, little one?" The only ones who know at this point are...well, the other Sages, Ganondorf, and Link.

Though, wait - something feels odd in the air, now that he considers it.

"...and just what are you?"

[lookmanostrings]

The suspicion didn't seem to affect Fado, as he simply tilted his head ever so slightly.

"Why, it would be a sin not to know you-- you and your fellow Sages are legends for your aid in the Hero of Time's defeat of the King of Evil." The smile growing on his face if that were even possible.

"I am a Kokiri, of course, as you previously ascertained."

[wildfiresage]

With the way Fado had worded that, that only gave one real possibility.

"You hail from our future?" The question is asked as if it were a normal thing - considering what Link had done to restore Hyrule, the idea of time travel isn't exactly far-fetched.

[lookmanostrings]

He nodded-- he expected Darunia to come to the logical conclusion in the end, and sure enough he didn't disappoint!

"Correct!" He emphasized with a flick of his bow. "My time comes many years after the Hero of Time's deeds saved the Kingdom. My friend and I were requisitioned to protect the power of the Master Sword after their time had long since passed."

[wildfiresage]

"To protect the Master Sword," Darunia starts, stroking at his beard a bit before fixing Fado with a curious look. "...then clearly, you are much more than a mere Kokiri, to have such a duty."