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“But didn’t you say that we have to go north?” Gourry asked while still walking.
“Yes I did but this isn’t north Master Gourry.”
“You said north was up, and we’re heading up.”
Amelia sweatdropped.
“We’re here!” Gourry announced as they reached a cave in the rock face.
“Huh? No we couldn’t have. Not according to the map.” Amelia mumbled while following her master. She had a very bad feeling about this as they went into the cave. “This isn’t a good idea Master Gourry. Who knows what evil creatures dwell in this-”
“Hello.” An old man greeted them.
Amelia let out an ear piercing shriek and hid behind Gourry’s shoulder.
“Oh dear did I scare your little friend?” The old man smiled at Gourry.
“So I guess this isn’t the first dungeon.” Gourry let out a huge sigh.
“Are you looking for the Triforce sonny?”
Gourry nodded. “Yeah I’m on the mission to save the princess. I’m Gourry.” Gourry introduced himself.
“My words! Can it be? The hero of time!” The old man exclaimed.
“That’s what the king called him.” Amelia piped up.
“What an honor! To have the hero of time in my cave!”
“Why do you live in a cave?” Gourry wondered out loud. He just realized now how weird it was that this man lived in a cave.
“You must take this on your journey!” The old man fished through an old trunk and pulled out a piece of paper. “Here take this letter. You’ll find it most useful. Take to the old woman.”
Gourry accepted the letter with confusion.
“Now I shouldn’t be wasting your time. So go on now and save Princess Sylphiel!” The old man ushered Gourry out of the cave pushing him forward.
“Amelia I’m confused.” Gourry scratched his head after they made their way outside and the old man had retreated back into his cave.
“Let’s just continue on Master Gourry and not think about it too much.”
“Okay I can do that.” Gourry assumed his goofy carefree grin as he skipped down the steps.
‘Yeah you can definitely do that. You forget about stuff all the time.’ Amelia thought while sweatdropping.
“OW! OW! UFF!” Gourry yelled out while tripping. “Owwy… Amelia I fell.” He whined.
Amelia shook her head.
Gourry and Amelia continued to travel around lost and unsure of where they were going. That was because given that the map was so heavy Amelia couldn’t constantly check it without falling over each time. And Gourry couldn’t follow the map even though he kept telling Amelia he knew where they were going.
“Master Gourry stop for a moment. I want to check the map.” Amelia requested while taping him on the shoulder.
“The dungeon is just over there Amelia. I can feel it.” Gourry kept going forward.
“Master Gourry I don’t think this is the right way!”
Gourry ignored her and kept on walking. Four red octoroks and two blue ones greeted spiting fire and rocks. Gourry rolled avoiding one of the fireball and used his shield to deflect the rest.
“Hey over here you big bully!” Amelia flew in front of one of the octoroks trying to get its’ attention. And she did. “AHHH!!!” Amelia screamed as a rock came flying at her.
Gourry took this chance to sneak behind the octorok and sliced it with his sword. The octorok disappeared. “One down five to go.” Gourry rolled and attacked another one. It disappeared leaving behind a small red fairy.
“Thank you Mister Swordsman for freeing me from that monster!” The red fairy thanked Gourry in a small high pitched voice. She flew around him in circles recharging his health. “Bye bye!” The fairy called out as she flew away.
Gourry grinned. He felt the power surging through his sword. “Great all powered up!” He turned on another octorok and shot two beams of light from his sword and hit two octoroks right on.
“Master Gourry behind you!” Amelia yelled out.
Gourry turned around just in time to block a fireball with his shield. He swung his sword and killed it. Now only a red octorok remained.
The last red octorok realizing all the other octoroks were all dead decided to run for it.
“Oh no you’re not getting away that easy!” Gourry declared shooting another shot from his sword killing the last octorok. It left behind a blue rupee. “Yeah a blue rupee!” Gourry cheered picking up his prize.
“Master Gourry I don’t think that we’re going the right way. Can I have the map?”
Gourry shrugged and threw the map at her.
Amelia caught the map but fell to the ground in the process. “Ahh!”
“Sorry Amelia.” Gourry sweatdropped. “Hey what’s up there?” Gourry started heading up a small pass up a hill.
“Master Gourry! Wait for me! Oof!” Amelia followed flying very slowly doing her best to carry the map.
“I found it!” Gourry yelled out voicing his discovery. He had come across a large structure that seemed to emerge from the ground. It was in the shape of a monster’s head and it’s mouth was open widely showing a staircase going down.
Amelia panted and weezed as she landed right next to Gourry. “I-(wheeze) don’t think this is (ooof) the place Master Gourry.”
“Why not?”
“I just have that feeling.” She unrolled the map. She discovered a very strange thing. Before the map had only the first dungeon marked. But now a new place on the map had been plotted and it glowed. “Did King Erik say this was a magic map?”
“I don’t remember.” Gourry scratched his head.
“Well this wasn’t on the map before.” Amelia pointed to the new plotted point.
Gourry got on his knees and looked at the map with Amelia. What he saw was the words ‘Second Dungeon’ glowing red. He frowned in confusion.
“Master Gourry we’re at the second dungeon.”
“We’re not at the first?” Gourry whined.
“I’m sorry Master Gourry.”
“Oh well I guess we’ll do this one first.” Gourry started to go down the stairs but he was thrown back by an invisible force.
“Looks you have to do them order.” Amelia observed.
“Darn. We have to look for another one? That’s going to take forever!” Gourry complained.
“Not if you let me guide. And no running off ahead.” Amelia half instructed and half ordered.
“Okay fine.” Gourry’s stomach grumbled. “Amelia…”
“Yes we can take a break. I need to get my bearings on the map anyways.”
Gourry merrily munched on his lunch s Amelia checked over the map very carefully consulting his compass.
“This stuff the King gave us is great!” Gourry mumbled through a full mouth of food.
“Yes it was sure nice of them to pack us so much provisions. We were running low on money and food as it was. We wouldn’t have been able to afford to buy more supplies.” Amelia commented not even looking up from the map. “If I’m reading this correctly then the first dungeon should be west from here.”
“Okay then let’s go!” Gourry got up all ready to leave.
“What you can’t have finished all that food-” She stopped when she noticed that Gourry had indeed ate everything. Even the provisions they were supposed to save for later. “Master Gourry you weren’t suppose to eat the food I left in the bag.”
“I was still hungry.” Gourry replied donning a sheepish grin.
Amelia sweatdropped. “We’re going to have to get some more supplies later.”
“So lets go!” Gourry started walking west and went smack into a rock face. “Ouchie…”
Amelia sweatdropped again. “Master Gourry why didn’t you look where you were going?”
“You said it was west! So I was going west. Why would you tell me to walk into a wall?” Gourry whined.
“I said it’s west of here, but I didn’t say we could get there by going in a straight line. There are several obstacles we’re going to have to go around. So we’re going to have to do an indirect route.”
“Now she tells me.”
Amelia frowned in thought. “Master Gourry I’m surprised you knew which way is left without consulting a compass. Is that some sort of special survival skill you learned being a traveling swordsman?”
“Well west is left. So I was going to the left. Why’s that so special? Do you have trouble figuring out left from right? Because it’s the hand that you can make a proper big ‘L’ with.” Gourry demonstrated with his left hand using his thumb and right index finger.
Amelia facefaulted. “I know which way is left. But left is west only when you’re facing north.”
“But north is in front of you, left is west.”
Amelia shook her head. There was no way she was going to win this one. “Just follow my directions.”
“Okay Amelia.”
Gourry walked following Amelia flying in front of them.
Amelia stopped mid-flight. “Hey how come now you ‘know’ which way is north but you didn’t before?”
“Huh? I didn’t? But north is ahead of you I know that.”
“Nevermind.”
The journey to the first dungeon was filled with several monster battles and course deviations. (That being Gourry wandering off not following Amelia’s directions.)
“Amelia I thought you said it was around here. Where is it?” Gourry asked while scanning the area after fighting some octoroks.
“It should be! The map says there’s a dungeon here.” Amelia frowned. ‘I guess the map isn’t very specific.’ Amelia looked around trying to match the surroundings to the map. “That little island there isn’t on the map.” Amelia pointed to a fairly small little area of land surrounded by a river and ocean. A small little bridge had been constructed that connected the little island and the mainland. But it seemed that the bridge had been built long ago and didn’t seem as though it would be able to support any weight. “That bridge doesn’t look very safe.”
“Sure it’s safe. See?” Gourry went to test the bridge and sure enough it caved in.
“Master Gourry!” Amelia shrieked worried that he was going to drown.
“Blehh! I’m all wet.” Gourry stood up with the water past his waist. “I guess that wasn’t mart.” Gourry scratched the back of his neck. “Oh well I guess I’ll AHHHHH!!!” Gourry got pulled down into the water from below.
“Oh my god! LET HIM GO!” Amelia yelled trying to hit the zola that had Gourry in it’s hold.
The zola casually flicked Amelia into the tree on the island.
“Hey!” Gourry yelled while giving the zola a swift kick that stunned it momentarily. Gourry took this opportunity to swipe it with his sword killing it. “Amelia Are you alright?” Gourry waded over to the island and went to where Amelia lay on the ground nearly unconscious. He scoped her up in his hand.
“Owww! Stupid zola.” Amelia muttered. “Yes Master Gourry I’m fine.”
“Wow that’s one weird tree.” Gourry observed.
“What do you mean?” Amelia craned her neck to see what he was looking at. One side of the tree looked normal while the other side was twisted with the roots forming a hideous monster face. And like the other dungeon the mouth was an entrance with stairs leading down. “Master Gourry I think we’ve found the first dungeon.”