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[majorproblems77]

Sacred realm competition entry!

Hello!

This is my participation in the @zelda-the-sacred-realm's writing and art competition, for the theme Adventure. I love this comic so much and I love the characters. I've tried my best to characterise them based on the information we have.

We are sending our friend Link on an adventure today, and I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did writing it. (To be honest, i really enjoyed making this and ill probably continue it in the future.)

And a thank you to the creator, for giving us the opportunity to create stuff like this. This was so much fun, and I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone else has come up with as well.

It will be Cross-posted to my A03 account (And my writing account)- As soon as I figure out how to tag it so it's findable

For now, I introduce

You're a hero too, a sacred realm short story

- 1705 words

“It’ll be an adventure!”

He was already on enough of an adventure thank you very much. According to Wind, they had come across a Temple entrance of some kind, and The young spirit seemed eager to explore its depths

“Uhh Sky?” Link asked softly. Standing behind the spirit as the sky hero walked ahead of the group.

“Look over there. You see that.” Wind bounced on the balls of his feet and pointed to his right towards a large-looking tunnel. Engravings curved around the wall.  “Theres a tunnel here. And where you find engravings like this. There's often a temple not far behind. With puzzles!”

“A puzzle?” Link asked. “Like from the stories?”

“Yeah!” Wind smiled, his eyes searching the wall. “Guaranteed there’s a puzzle in there.”

“Gods and spirits often leave things for heroes to find later. I got these from a temple!” Sky turned his head to show his earrings. The light of the hero's spirit shone across them as Link looked closer at them. “Originally these were fireproof earrings for my adventures through a volcano.”

“You think I’ll get anything like that?” Link looked back to the forest behind them as they entered the tunnel.

“Well, you are a hero.” Sky smiled. Placing a hand to Link’s back. Turning his head to look at him. “So I would think so!”

Link smiled softly, as Wind ran ahead. Ushering him forward. “Come on!”

Wind lead the way into the tunnel as the group entered the darkness. “Is it very long? Do I need a torch?” The realm’s hero asked, wringing his hands nervously as he continued to follow the group.

The tunnel opened out to large pit in the middle of the room. Decorated in red and blue torches the top of the walls had runes across it. Sunlight filtered through the ceiling, as the three separated. Time walked to one of the walls, investigating it. While, Link walked to the large pit which sat central in the room.

“Uhh… What do I do?” Link turned back to Sky, who had paused between the two. Looking to the ceiling above the hole, then down at it. He moved across the room to stand besides Link. Sky looked around the room. Eyes pausing on time for a moment. A hand raised to his chin.  “Well. If I had to guess…”

“Hang on.” Sky paused. Looking to Time who had a hand raised. Then to Link. “I think he should figure it out.”

“Why?” Wind raised an eyebrow. Crossing his arms. “We are here for a reason. Surely we should be helping him when we can.”

“And if there's another spirit barrier?” Time said, stopping the hero of the wind’s in his tracks. He pointed a finger towards the hero of the Sky. “You were out of action for a week by hopping into the fight.”

“Hoping into the fight was the right thing to do.” Sky shot back quickly. His voice not accusatory for the moment, but a hint of annoyance on the tip of his tongue.

“I had it handled.”

“Did you?” A pause. “Or did that thing inside the medallion have to save you.” Sky pointed to the item on Link’s chest. Eyes fixed on Time.

Link’s eyes widened at that. The spirit, which he’d nicknamed amulet, was still a mystery to him. Every time it entered the fray he felt helpless. Like a prisoner in his own body. He took a step back and lowered his head. Biting his lower lip as he looked down at the item in question. Placing a hand under it so he could look at it again. The lights of the hero’s spirits shining bright across the surface. Twilight, Wild and Worlds light’s shining dimly.

 The medallion was a warning and a burden, its golden surface a cruel reminder that he still had a lot to learn.

“uhh, guys.” Wind walked over to Link while the others locked eyes with each other. The tension cut with a knife. “Maybe you should wait…”

“Link.” Sky’s voice was immediately laced with guilt as he heard the spirit move around him. His eyes searched the walls below him and they met a small platform. About five feet below him. An eyebrow raised as he turned. “I shouldn’t have…”

“Now look what you’ve done.” Time stood with his arms crossed.

“I…. I didn’t.” Sky stuttered. Looking over to the man in question. Who was leaning over the edge of the platform. Having spotted the same one he had. “Link Wait!”

Link wasn’t paying attention to the spirit beside him. His eyes fixed on a platform below him as he moved around the pit slightly. Placing a foot right on the edge of the pit he took a breath.

Here goes nothing….

Link jumped onto the platform below him, and felt the feeling of shifting through a barrier. Another spirit barrier. The others wouldn’t be coming with him.

“Link!”  Sky’s voice above him he didn’t look up. “Link! Wait!” Slowly walking over to the edge of the ledge he was on allowed him to. He could do this. He could do this. He could…

Oh…. There was no platform there. There was no platform there! Nonnonononono.

He looked upward. Trying to see if he could jump back out. Taking a step back, The feeling of a plate pushing down startled him. He looked to his foot and spotted a pressure plate.

Oh no…

 The walls began to rumble and shake. The platform began moving. The sound of stone grinding as the platform began to retract into the wall from which it came.

“Oh nononono,” he slid backwards and scrambled to the wall. “Nononono, please stop please stop please stop.”

“Link! Link! To your Right!” Wind’s voice sounded over the noise. He looked up rapidly to see the hero of Sky pointing, “Down! And to your right!”

He looked right and saw another platform springing from the wall. A little lower. Panic rising he looked up to see Sky and Wind pointing to it. “That one! THAT ONE!” The spirits voice sounded worried. He appeared to be leaning down but recoiled as blue flames licked at his fingers.

He nodded, standing up on shaky feet he jumped down another five feet.

Another plate. Another shifting platform. As he jumped lower and lower.

The further we went the braver he became.

It was just jumping down a few stairs he’s fine. Well more than a few, but as sky said. He was a hero, right? He should be able to do this in his sleep.

Finally, he made it to the floor. Looking up from his spot he could still see the yellow glow of Sky and Time above him.

“Link! Are you okay?!” The sky hero’s voice echoed down the tunnel as the last of the platforms disappeared into the wall.

“Yes!” Hands to his knees he took a few deep breaths before straightening up. Looking around the walls were a deep grey, illuminated by the faint glow of lanterns dotted across the wall. The ground shifted around his feet, the sand falling away as he made his way around. Placing a hand to the wall he walked the pit’s perimeter to find a switch. But found nothing.

“There’s nothing down here!” He shouted up towards Sky who disappeared past the lip before returning. “I can't find a way up!” Looking across the walls they were decorated with random poles and circular patterns. He felt fear grip him.

Trapped. He was trapped.

“We can't get down to you from here!” Wind’s voice shouted down. “Think you can disable the spirit barrier somehow?!”

“I don’t think so!” He tried to keep his voice steady. Don’t want to panic Sky. “I’ll keep looking.”

“What do you see?!” Time also leaned his head over the pit, his face as stoic as ever.

“Just a bunch of Sand…” He looked to the floor and crouched. Brushing at the floor. More sand met him. The way it shifted made him pause. It didn’t seem all that deep. And there was an indentation buffed in the ground.

A door? A way out? Deeper into the ground. Great.

He began to dig around the edges of the square indented in the floor. If he just kept digging. And digging. And digging. Hoping He might find a way out of this mess.

His fingers brushed a latch as his digging became more frantic.

He revealed a door, and his eyes widened. “Guys! Guys, I found a door!”

His fingers latched the handle and pulled, opening a pit of darkness. The sound of sand falling into it filled his ears as the ground around him shifted. Looking into the darkness he could just about make out the floor below him. He’d have to jump into the pit, which would close the hatch…

A One-way drop.

“Sky! You guys better get back in the medallion!”

“What did you find?!” The Skyloftians's voice sounded. The outline of shining light filtered down towards him. A hand raised to his forehead as he squinted his eyes. “Are you okay?!”

“There’s a hatch in the floor!” Looking more closely he spotted carvings dotted across the wall.  “I think. I think Wind was right! I think it’s a temple!”

“Well, what are we waiting for?! Let's go!” Wind’s voice echoed around him as swirling wind shifted around him and light burst back into the medallion. His spirit shone as bright as ever along side the others.

The swirling sounds of fire and lightning echoing through the air rang in his ears as the spirits flew down the tunnel and nestled inside the medallion.

He wouldn’t be alone, he just had to remember that.

The door above him loomed red and blue dancing across the wall. He raised a hand to the surface and pushed. The door creaking forward darkness met him as he reached to his right. Looking between a red torch and a blue torch before grabbing the red torch, and holding it close to his chest as he took a deep breath. Walking into the darkness. One thought echoed through his mind.

Time for an adventure.

[zelda-the-sacred-realm]

Hi @majorproblems77 ! 💖 I'll answer below the challenge post so that all questions are connected to the challenge

If you prefer to publish on AO3, you can post the story there ☺️, maybe create a post with the link to your story and a little preview of it on Tumblr

As a tag you all can enter " SrChallenge " which you can also insert here on Tumblr so that everyone may appear in the tag!

Thanks for your question! 💕

Writing/Art Challenge!

I officially start the writing/art challenge dedicated to my AU!

How to participate:

The challenge starts August 15th, and ends September 10th. All work must be completed and published no later than the deadline.

To make sure I see your participation, remember to tag me " @zelda-the-sacred-realm " in your post!

There are two categories, Writing and Art, you can create a short story or an original artwork, or you can do both and participate in both categories!

This challenge should be developed around the theme "ADVENTURE" and you can use all the characters you want from my Au.

There are 2 winners: a 1st place for Art, a 1st place for Writing.

You can use any type of media to create your artwork!

It is forbidden to trace, copy or republish art that is not yours. (I will ask you for two small wips of your work in case you win).

Drawings and stories must respect the family friendly canon.

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[ferviduscatharsis]

1. First thoughts on going to college

Damn, that's just like 4 months away.

Right now it looks like I'll be committing to UT, and I'm a little bit bitter about that...

I'm excited. I'm nervous af. There will be a lot of people there that I do know that I guess will help me ease into UT life, but at the same time there are a lot of people that I know there ._. Though, with a school as large at UT, there are bound to be a lot of brilliant minds (professor and student alike) that I can learn a lot from. 

The Austin life seems to be pretty good though. It's a huge hub of pretty much everything in the South. A lot of places come to find interns from UT, so hopefully I'll be able to experience the industry of what I want to go into and find good research opportunities. Plus with events like SXSW and ACL, there are a lot of cultural things that permeate the city, plus the FOOD. A brief visit in the summer showed me that there are so many good food places down there, so I'm excited about that too.

The past clings a little closer than I anticipated in college, but this is still going to be an awesome experience; a chance to prove myself.

[signals-crossing]

28. Your parents

Finishing this thing up..

I can't describe how grateful I am for my parents. They have only been supportive through these past four years (and long before that, of course). I appreciate their hands-off approach when it comes to raising me. I like that they trust that I can make my own decisions and allow me the freedom to do so. If I ever did poorly in school, any pressure I felt came from myself - not them. I had free reigns over what I wanted to pursue - from extracurricular activities to academic courses to college applications. They never held me back from attending social events (they actually encourage it a lot). My high school experience was very positive as a whole, and I owe it to my parents for allowing me to learn and grow on my own.

[ferviduscatharsis]

10. Something you never expected you’d do and ended up loving

Two things (three counting a discontinued one...) I guess something that I continue to do today would be something like organizing and planning events. Since our middle school whiz quiz nats trips, I've always ended up being the right hand organizer to the teacher/sponsor ;-;" Some how I'm actually not bad at it?? Planning trips and keeping things organized have played to my strengths while doing SRC forms and state stuff for RO this year. Another thing for me would be public speaking. I used to be scared af of going up in front of a group and talking or presenting (Still am to some degree ;-;) but since 7th grade Ari started dragging my ass to speech events...thanks to him I joined a Toastmasters for a year and a half and started learning how to communicate and present myself on a stage. I joined some reader's theatre thing too at some middle school speech/debate tournament, and not only did we perform but that's where I got to know STsai pretty well, who was then a pretty good public speaker. Freshman year I started preparing a lot for public presentations for science fair/research stuff and I really started enjoying going up and talking about the research that I've done. The last thing that I found I actually enjoyed was making study guides back at Jasper. Yeah I know it sounds pretty masochistic ;-; but after I started with the first humanities and HGAP test I just kinda kept going to help myself study, and gain the added bonus of helping others around me (turns out it's all around Plano now?!?!?!?)

[ferviduscatharsis]

24. Underclassmen who you'll miss

David Da Wei fegget ace striker Wang livin' in the fast lane, Cat Zhang, Aris Tay, Lily Liu, Victor Chen, Lucy Cai, Cynthia Wu, Stephanie Liu, Alex Chung, and a few others.

...LOL I can't even say Anlei cause now I'll be like 15 minutes away instead of 4 hours.

I didn't talk all that much with all of you guys, but you guys have all been great friends throughout the years. If you never need help with anything, hmu and I'll try my best haha

[ferviduscatharsis]

4. The most trouble you’ve ever gotten into

Oh man the big times I’ve gotten in trouble were the times I weren’t even involved lol

In the fourth grade I think at recess me and a few friends were screwing around with our other friend but the teacher on recess duty thought we were bullying the ESL kid and started yelling at us -.-;; we didn’t know what to do and he wouldn’t belive that we weren’t even close to him and so we wrote apology letters to him for uhhh not doing anything …lol gg

In 8th grade at lunch once me and my friends were pushing each other on the bench and one guy fell off right next to me. The principal thought it was an aggressive push from me where it was really all the guys pushing to the right and their strength »> my strength so yea two days of lunch detention for that loool

[ferviduscatharsis]

16. Most surprising friend(s)

Evan, Eric, and Ben

The hyper, energetic, and outgoing meet the silent, introverted one.

I don't even remember how we really met. I remember seeing Evan/Eric when I went to play cards with Jack and Qing junior year. Ben had a reputation for sleeping a ridiculous amount even back then. I don't really know haha. I helped Evan/Eric move in at the beginning of senior year, and I guess that's when we really started to kick things off. Ultimate, late night talks, and Hearthstone too (of all things) as well as some heavy carrying on my part in some certain organic chemistry/physics labs really got us closer haha. I try to keep them a bit grounded (being the most sensible of sorts) and prevent them from yoloing too hard, but that's too difficult with these guys LOL

All in all though, I'm really glad to have gotten closer to all three of them. They really helped me break out of the close confines of a social group that didn't really try to expand much. This sort of thing really does show some of the best parts of TAMS.

[ferviduscatharsis]

20. Favorite place to be on campus

Top of the BLB parking garage. Especially at night. 

'Twas a good calming place to really talk with people.

[ferviduscatharsis]

18. A memorable job, summer camp, or internship

CYLC. Of course.

'08 Bing Ban Camper '09 Wu Ban Camper '10 Geng Ban Camper '11 Ren Ban Camper/ Film ACi '12 Xin Ban Film AC '13 Xin Ban Film AC '14 Film C

I already wrote a post on facebook about it, but over the course of the last seven years at camp has really changed me. I'm really thankful for all the memories and experiences I've had here, starting way back in the Austin College days.

[ferviduscatharsis]

17. Oldest friend you've kept

My main man Steve. Holy I've known this kid for...almost 12 years now.

Steve was one of the first friends I made when I moved to Texas (surprisingly, KP was the first LOL). We did a lot of hanging out back then, with assorted Pokemon games and sleep overs and library visits and Runescape ayyyy. I remember he was always wary of the cloning glitch in Emerald and wanted his "original" Pokemon back so that his game cartridge wouldn't get all screwy.

The fool went to Clark, but I'm glad I got to reconnect with him at TAMS.

Man......good times 

[ferviduscatharsis]

15. Four favorite pictures/pictures that represents each of your four years the best and why/how

welp I've found myself more behind the camera so it's actually been hard to find pictures from freshman and sophomore year....

Junior Year: So much time spent on science fair (Siemens and Region poster+presentation and State Clubbing with Kai)

Senior Year: Despite spending so much time on #RO, these guys kept me sane throughout the year (along with some others like Bobby, Sagar, TDeng, etc.)

[ferviduscatharsis]

11. How you spent your most memorable lunch hangout

End of sophomore year, a big group of us all went out to eat at a nearby Chinese restaurant. Haha the food was good, conversation was good, and afterwards some of the guys went to Ian's house to just hang out. I remember Bobby came and at some point at Ian's house just kinda passed out and the guys drew all over him with Sharpie LOL just overall it was a great way to cap off two stressful years at Jasper.

All good except for a pretty upset then-girlfriend and cashew chicken. But I'm pretty sure the cashew chicken was the semester before.

[ferviduscatharsis]

9. Most fun class

Hmm, probably Humanities. Haha, I have a lot of good memories from humanities <3

The first year I had it with Stanton/Siddiqui and I met a bunch of new sophomores who helped me ease into high school life. I remember Logan and Alex elfman and Enoch haha. All the activities and projects we did in class were really fun…

The second year was with Whitten/Stanton and oh my the sass dynamic was so different from the Siddiqui/Stanton sass. Whitten was always more vocal towards Stanton, and there were so many Whitten “uh-huh” moments (quoting from her time on Jeopardy) heh. The sophomore group with Sam and Roy and b00by was really great too ^^