So
once long ago, a happy resident from Seaside Town thought himself quite
the intelligent soul. He came to wonder if there were other worlds
beyond that of the Kingdom. In his efforts to find these other worlds,
he began to wander into the Distant Woods where he soon found himself
gravely lost.
This wanderer, who most would call C.M., sighed and sat down
upon a rock. He was soon crossed by a strange figure dancing on top of
a nearby log. This figure was like nothing he had seen before, playing
a curious looking flute to an interesting melody.
Before C.M. could get up to question the figure, the little
imp giggled and shook his faceless head at him. Immediately, the rock
disappeared from underneathe C.M., who fell into a swirling, blocky
hole. C.M. floated through this bizarre warp, blocked images flying
past his eyes.
He soon hit what he thought a pool, for it felt like water but
these same blocky images flitted up when he splashed. Coming to the
shore, he breathed heavily, both shocked and scared of where he could
have been. Pulling out his trusty Savory Sword, he began to wander
through the shadowy... erm, forest.
Almost immediately, something wild and large ran past C.M.,
but invisible to his eyes. He jumped, nearly screaming, searching for
the source of the "breeze." As he began to convince himself that
nothing was there, it happened again. This time, the invisible creature
tripped him and C.M. fell to the ground.
C.M. soon began screaming and shouting for help, wondering
just what in the world was happening to him. "You okay, mister?" came a
calm, yet strong voice from out of nowhere.
"Who are you, where are you?!" C.M. shouted, waving his Savory
Sword wildly through the air. He heard a faint plink and saw his sword
catch something.
"You need to be careful with that!" the voice said angrily.
C.M. soon fell to the ground. He could only guess the invisible figure
deflected his previous attack.
C.M. coughed for a minute before speaking up. "Um... I'm sorry, but I can't..."
"You can't see me?" the voice said. C.M. nodded. "Most likely
because, well, you're different from our world..." the voice stated.
"I'm sure the Old Man could figure out a way to help you though... But
how to get you to follow..."
"I can follow your voice if you, well, keep talking," C.M. suggested.
The voice sighed heavily before stating, "I really don't like to talk that much, I'm a better fighter than a public speaker..."
"Well, maybe you could just lead me," C.M. replied. The figure
gave another huff of breath, but then chuckled to himself. After
another peculiar song rose as if out of nowhere, C.M. found himself
spinning around so fast that the somewhat blurred scenery became even
less visible, and soon found the colors to be vaguely different.
C.M. soon heard a new voice, this one older and more, well,
crotchity. He guessed this to be the Old Man. "So this is the guy?"
"Yes, sir. He can't see anything in this world..." said the young voice.
"Hrm..." the Old Man said. C.M., now greatly confused by the
whole ordeal, fell to the ground in a heap of confusion. Suddenly, a
bizarre disklike object began to float towards him. He blinked as this
the first clear object he had seen all day.
The Old Man then stated, "Hold this, with it, you will be able
to see the forms in this world. Unfortunately for you... You will only
see them in a very simple view. I'm afraid our forms are too complex
for your eyes..." As C.M. took the disk into his hands, it glowed and
shimmered with amazing power.
Slowly, the figures began to take shape from the foggy
chameleoned colors to actual figures. The Old Man, although appearing
in this weird blocklike form, did still look like an old man. The young
voice came from what appeared to be a young man, garbed in green with a
sword and a shield.
"Well finally, maybe now you won't ask so many questions,"
said the young man. C.M. raised a finger as if to say something else,
but the Old Man shook his head. The young man then said, "If anyone
else needs me, I'll be going back to save the princesses with that
plumber guy..."
"No wait!" C.M. said. "What about this world, can I explore it
with you?" The young man muttered, shaking his poorly defined head.
"Fine, whatever, just don't get in my way..." So C.M. began
walking with the young man, only to keep questioning everything that
happened. He soon found out that the young warrior was named Link. When
C.M. went to ask Link why he was named Link, Link in turn asked C.M.
what kind of name C.M. was, and silence then ensued.
Link then pointed out a figure over the hills, it was an angry looking red-octopus. C.M. then asked, "What is that?"
Link chuckled and drew his sword. "Are you ready for this?"
C.M. blinked confused, holding his sword shakily. "What?! We're
going to attack that thing?" Immediately the red octopus turned towards
the two of them.
"So much for the element of surprise," Link muttered. The
octopus began to advance towards them, but soon a loud kaboom sounded
off in the distance. As if from nowhere, a giant bullet rocketed into
the area, punched the octopus with its tiny arms, and immediately spin
around to charge towards C.M. and Link.
Link immediately lifted his shield. "That's a Bullet Bill...
Just watch out." The Bullet Bill pummeled towards the two. C.M.
screamed and dove behind Link. However, the Bullet Bill soon fell to
the ground, a pair of blue overalls flying away from the scene.
"Damnit, plumber!" Link shouted. C.M. slightly sat up, peering
over Link's shoulder. "Oh, well, it's gone..." C.M. immediately had
more questions, hands waving wildly. Link muttered, head hanging,
continuing to lead C.M. on.
While traveling through, making their way to the forest, Link
taught C.M. how to effectively defeat these odd monsters. He also
explained what C.M. was seeing were pixels instead of the full forms
that they were all made up of in this world. C.M. explained to Link
that in his world they didn't use those odd jewels or coins but meat as
their currency.
Link merely laughed at him, but C.M. glanced closer to the
jewel that one of the Octoroks just dropped. It had extra pixels left
on it, in which C.M. picked up and took into his hand. Link was quite
amazed, especially since this never had happened before. They returned
to the Old Man, who also was quite baffled.
"Never before in my life have I seen the pixels been
extracted..." Old Man stated. C.M. and the Old Man worked diligently
with these leftover pixels, and C.M. soon learned how to create items
from their world through the configuration of the pixels.
With this newfound knowledge, C.M. soon began to miss his own
world. Having been stuck in this one was interesting, but he missed the
smell of Seaside Town and the crazy Council members. The Old Man said
quietly, "There is a way to return you to your world... But it is
difficult."
"How do we do it, I'm somewhat tired of being here..." C.M. whined. The Old Man glared at him.
"If we can somehow make the disk unlock the door between the
worlds, you will be able to go back home and still be able to come back
whenever you activate the disk..."
"Let's do it!" C.M. shouted.
The Old Man hit him with his stick. "Calm down. This will take great concentration... We have to work diligently..."
At that very moment, C.M. pushed a round button on the disk, it
whirred slightly and a odd wooden door soon appeared. The Old Man
stopped mid-sentence, glaring at C.M. "Just go."
C.M., estatic with his ability to go home, rushed to the door
and ran immediately through it. After an irritating sequence of glowing
lights and blinking colors, C.M. found himself in the deepest corner of
the Distant Woods. Overjoyed with his return home, he took off the
disk, the door disappearing behind him.
Rushing back to Seaside Town, C.M. didn't notice the fact that
twenty-five years had passed. As he talked to friends and family
members, they began to dismiss his adventure as more than just an
elaborate dream. Perhaps he had lost his mind when he was lost in the
woods....
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