[center][h1][color=darkgreen]Linkle[/color][/h1][/center]

[center][color=darkgreen][b] Level 7[/b][/color] - (40/70) + 2 [/center]

[center][b]Location:[/b] The Land of Adventure ~ Sniper's Mountain
[b]Word Count: 1224 [/b]
[@Lugubrious][@Genon]
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Linkle leaned forward with gritted teeth as an explosion ripped apart her ice wall in the middle, sending up a cloud of dust and icy shards that obscured her view. A small statue came tumbling out of the explosion, and for a moment she thought it might be Tora, but as the dust started to clear she could see Poppi embracing her creator safely on the other side. She let out a breath she didn't even know she'd been holding at that. She didn't need to look over at the statue that had tumbled away, the appearance of the other two cuccos told her exactly what that one must have been. Well, her plan hadn't gone exactly to plan but if experience was anything to go by that was probably just because it was a bad plan. 

As she could see Poppi and Tora over there, probably scheming up a much better plan, she sent her beetle fluttering out to retrieve the bird that had gotten hit by the explosive arrow. That meant it was the Link up there that had taken the shot. The was surprising, she'd expected the giant to do it between the two of them. Maybe he expected the weird arrows he had not to trigger a revenge because he wasn't. technically, hurting them?

Luckily for her the Cucco was much smaller the Euden was, so the beetle had a mush easier time. It was able to actually pick this one up by the base and carry in through the sky back to her. She smacked the base, freeing the bird in a golden glow, just as Poppi and Tora put their own plan into action. Poppi fired off a bundle of missles, then picked up Tora and took off toward the direction of the tower. Linkle popped her head out momentarily to see the column of mist the two had created. She grabbed Euden's hand as the pair shot toward it. "C'mon, there's no better time!" She said, ducking out from behind cover and sprinting after them practically dragging Euden in her wake with the birds bringing up the rear. 

Tora Poppi, with their head start and rocket boosters, reached the cloud of mist before them and as Linkle ran the whole thing started to spiral up until it became a tornado. The pair shot right out of the top, skipping all of the mountain trek that the undead were taking, then shot forward and crashed right through the tower. Linkle couldn't help it, she let out a whooping laugh at the sight of it. That was too crazy.

Of course This was a bad time to be celebrating. With the clearing of the mist Linkle could see the tower now and it's team of deadly shooters. She couldn't see Girl Micheal anywhere up there, or Link, but as she laughed she could see the giants head perk up slightly. He might have turned his giant bow on her and blasted their little group into a crater, but weirdly the big guy just seemed to...stop? Just held still. The rest of them could still clearly see her and Euden's approach but all of a sudden a bolt of lightning rained out of the clear blue sky and hit Old Micheal straight on, causing his partners to wince in surprise. The man slumped forward, and Linkle for a moment felt a sharp sting of remorse in her heart for the old timer. 

Then he exploded.

The shock of the entire tower top going up in smoke brought Linkle to a standstill and sent Crossbow Micheal and Other Michel hurtling off the tower, the latter righting herself and landing somewhere off to the side while the former plummeted screaming into the moat. All sense of introspection was lost. "The Goddesses must be with us!" She shouted as she spotted Donnie rocket out and shot right up to the to of the tower on his flying disc and started to duel the giant. With every shooter hung up on something it was pretty easy to get right up to the base of the moat surrounding the mountain. 

As they approached Linkle scanned the surface of the water, wary of any sort of aquatic ambush the man that had fallen in could be planning. She wondered if he could even think straight yet? She'd been caught in an explosion like that before and in had shaken her for quite a while. Still, better not to risk it. "Keep a look out. I'm going to try and get him to come up, kay?" She said to Euden. The Cucoo's seemed to get what she was going for, spreading out and scanning the surface of the moat with their beady little red eyes ready to caw a warning if they saw even a suspicious ripple.

She dipped a hand into the water and ice began to spread out over the surface. She didn't want to freeze over the entire moat. Leaving a enemy trapped under a layer of ice to drown was not only unheroic, but also incredibly lame. She still felt bad about the last time she had lamed out an opponent with water. What she was doing now wasn't dissimilar to her earlier ice wall. If Other Micheal didn't show himself before the ice spread around the entire moat she was going to leave a small hole for him to use so she could beat him while looking him in the eye like you were supposed to.

She didn't get far though, as suddenly loud crashing sound rang out. She looked up in time to see an entire portion of the tower blasted apart, the arrow that did in slamming down nearby as an avalanche of rocks spilled forth. She stood quickly, gave a sharp whistle to call her cucco's, grabbed Euden again, and dived away from the water as the rocks crashed through the ice and into the moat. She felt fist sized rocks pelt her shoulders and back as she retreated toward a small tree, skidding behind in and kneeling for cover until the avalanche had subsided. 

Looking back at the devastation she didn't want to think about how that had felt for the people actually inside the tower. Rocks and wood off all shape and sizes littered the area. It would have made good cover if the shooters were still on top of the tower. She wondered briefly how crazy that fight up there must be to do something like that. Surly that was the last move, right? Who could have won?

The question was answered moments later as a trophy tumbled down from the tower, bouncing off the mountain and landing amidst the rubble. Donnie. That meant the giant was stood up there, alone, with his devastating shots. Linkle had a sudden, disturbing though; what if he decided that the tower was lost and fired one of those arrows straight down, destroying the tower and everyone within it? "We need to stop that giant." She said, staring at Donnie. "I'll get him."

She dashed out of cover, making a beeline for the nearest piece of big rubble. Unfortunately most of those were nearer to the base of the mountain, but if she could get there she would move between the rubble in order to reach Donnie and free him.