[center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/221005/7d7c778891f3387ab231a2bbd26f2d1e.png[/img]
[H3]The Under[/h3]
[u]City of Tears[/u]

[b]Word Count:[/b] 929
[b]Level 6 Ganondorf:[/b] 6/60
[b]Exp Gained:[/b] +2
[b]NEW EXP Balance---[/b] 8/60[/center]

To this day, Ganondorf still couldn’t wrap his head around Warp Pipes. He had to imagine that someone at some point had to put them in place. And while for this world that someone was obviously Galeem, it still left him questioning who put the Warp Pipes in place in Bowser’s home world. Well obviously there was some kind of magic to them that he simply didn’t know how to identify. And regardless of how confusing they can be, they still worked as intended regardless.

And this particular pipe led to a pool of icy cold water in the City of Tears. Luckily Ganondorf was capable of jumping again in midair, so he could use that to maneuver himself onto the dry land rather than have to take a full one ice-water bath like Nadia had done. Being back here was… not exactly something he was thrilled about. These people had tried to kill them in an angry mob a while back, and while that was due to powers beyond their control - it still left Ganondorf just wanting to get out of here as soon as possible. Well, that and an overwhelming desire to get back to the surface and breathe actual fresh air again.

As such, Ganondorf didn’t tarry long in the city. Instead he just went straight to King’s Station so he could be among the first on the stags that would take them back up toward the Under’s entrance.

[center][H3]Nyakuza Metro[/h3][/center]

Now this place was definitely something else. If the Under was dark and dirty, then this Metro place was almost the opposite. Brightly lit with neon, and comparatively a lot cleaner overall. It was inhabited pretty much entirely by cats, but that was only a problem for someone who might be allergic to them. Nadia had to feel right at home among these furballs. After taking one of the trains, the Seekers then learned which line would take them to Gerudo Town courtesy of Nadia reading the map signs.

After that, Ganondorf fanned out on his own briefly. He didn’t know about any of the others, but he could use a meal. Or at the very least a drink. And he quickly figured out that the geo the Seekers had been collecting in The Under was not a usable currency here in the Metro. He did, however, find a currency exchange vendor that would purchase all the geo the warlord had on hand for a different currency he called zenny. [color=797979]”Fine.”[/color] Ganondorf said to the vendor, [color=797979]”Give me whatever this amount is worth.”[/color] The Gerudo went ahead and handed over all 1,450 of his geo, reasoning that he likely wasn’t going back to the Under any time soon and thus had no need to hold onto any of his geo.

The vendor took the geo and counted out 1,233 zenny that they then handed over to Ganondorf. Unfortunately he had no context for what this amount was actually worth but he figured it was enough for a drink at least. He also noted this was not the same thing as the “pons” they apparently needed in order to get a Yellow Line Pass. That meant the Warlord would have to go searching for some eventually. But for now, he needed a break. A brief walk around led him to what looked like a bar - a milk bar to be exact. He supposed that would be the drink of choice in a place inhabited entirely by cats. But it was the items on the menu that got Ganondorf to raise an eyebrow.

[color=797979]”...Really?”[/color] the Warlord asked himself, wondering if the [i]Lon Lon Milk[/i] name was for real or not. Well, there was only one way to know for sure. Ganondorf sat on one of the barstools and asked for Lon Lon Milk. And sure enough he was served a glass bottle that bore the familiar cow logo of Lon Lon Ranch. So that place existed somewhere in this world? And this made him wonder about what other places from his world he could find. He’d already learned of Gerudo Town, and what he presumed was the surrounding Gerudo Desert. This milk indicated the existence of Lon Lon Ranch. He wondered if maybe Hyrule Castle was standing somewhere in this world too.

As Ganondorf drank, the Lon Lon Milk gave him a feeling. A feeling he didn’t think he’d find in this stitched-together world: nostalgia. When was the last time he had ever had a sip of this milk anyway? It had to have been when he was still a kid. He also realized that it was nice to have something he was actually familiar with for a change. For a long-forgotten amount of time he had only been eating and drinking things that were completely alien to him. So the chance to drink something familiar, even something simple like this, was a surprisingly welcome one.

[color=797979]”Well, that’s enough living in the past.”[/color] Ganondorf said to himself. He stood from the stool and paid his tab and silently walked out of the bar and back out into the Metro. As nice as that moment of nostalgia was, at the end of the day it was but a fleeting moment. And Ganondorf himself had business to attend to. So he set out to begin his search for pons. Unfortunately it was now time to go back to his main goal of hunting down and destroying Galeem.