[Episode 203718] [Episode 203718]"This is it," Ukyo said, recognizing the 'Boss Door' from the other two temples. "Are you all ready?"
"Wait, shouldn't we wait for Link?" Ruto asked. "Or rather, search for him? Maybe he needs our help..."
Tatl smirked. "Sweetie, believe me... Link rarely needs any help, if there's anything he's good at, it's getting out of trouble."
"Almost as good as his ability to get into trouble," Ukyo murmured. "Anyways, I think he'll be just fine. If we try to find him now, who knows if your people would have enough time left... no, I think we should put an end to this here and now!"
"You're right, Ucchan!" Ranko nodded. "Our people are depending on us, Ruto! I wouldn't want to abandon them... they have become a part of my life, as much as Pops, Mom and you."
"Okay, I think you're right..." Ruto sighed. "Let's go, then!"
"You really want to come with us?" Shampoo asked her fiance's sister, a concerned expression on her face. "It probably gonna be gruesome battle..."
Ruto shook her head. "N-no, I'll come with you! I'm the princess of the Zora, and I've come here on my own decision. I also can fight, remember how you taught me your underwater battle tricks?" She smiled. "I think I'm ready to do this."
Ranko sighed. She didn't like this one bit, but she could tell that Ruto was serious. "All right... but don't take any risks, you hear me?"
Ukyo took the Master Key they found earlier. "Okay, here we go..." She unlocked the door, and they entered.
The room was nothing more than a huge pool of water, with a narrow sidewalk going around it. A few pillars were placed in the pool, creating a couple of platforms that were rising out of the water.
Ukyo blinked. "That's... it?"
"I don't get it," Tatl said. "Where's the big bad monster? There has always been a big bad monster behind those doors."
"I bet it's lurking in the water..." Ranko grumbled and carefully approached the edge of the pool.
"I thought so, too," Ukyo nodded. She took her battle spatula. "Wait here, I'm gonna take a look..."
"Ucchan, wait..." Ranko shouted, but the forest girl had already jumped on one of the platforms. From here, she peered down into the depths.
"I don't see anything..." she murmured. "That water looks kinda strange, though... a bit too blue for my tastes..."
"Ukyo..." Tatl muttered as she flew closely to her friend's head. "I don't think this is normal water... I can feel it, something's lurking down there, stay on guard!"
"No need to tell me twice," Ukyo grumbled. She slowly turned around, waiting for the invisible creature to strike.
She gasped, when all of a sudden, the water rose up in front of her. "What the heck...?"
It was a long, translucent tentacle, formed of the same water the pool was filled with. Ukyo could see at its base that it was merging with the pool water seamlessly. It slowly tilted to and fro, and even though it had no eyes, Ukyo had the impression it was watching her every move.
"That must be it," Ranko growled. "The monster Sheik told us about..."
Shampoo shuddered. "It so... slippery. And drippy. Gives Shampoo ecchi thoughts..."
Ukyo paled. "You're saying it's going to... ravish us?"
She had no time to ponder this, for Morpha suddenly scooped her body up with its long tentacle and pulled her up into the air.
"AAAAAAHHH, NOOO! HELP, I DON'T WANT TO GET TENTACLE RAPED!"
Actually, all Morpha wanted to do was to hurl the Okonomyaki chef across the room, but by accident, the tip of its tentacle found it way underneath UKyo's tunic...
Ukyo's turned red in an instant. "GYYAAAAAAHHHH! Get away from there, you perv!" Freaked out, she flailed around and didn't even think of using her spatula, or any of her other items to get free of the monster's grasp.
"Ucchan!" Ranko shouted. "Let go of her, you ugly slime!" She raised her arms and swiftly hurled her elbow fins at the water tentacle. The fins twirled through the air like boomerangs and cut through the tentacle... without doing it any harm. "What?"
"It no can be harmed with normal attacks," Shampoo realized. "What we do?"
Fortunately, Ukyo's struggling had the desired effect of Morpha dropping her... unfortunately, she was dropped directly in the water.
She shook her head while dropping to the bottom. She then frantically looked around for her opponent.
The tentacle had vanished... but what was that strange shape that was approaching her?
She retched when she saw what it was... it resembled a bloated brain or other pulsating organ, covered with a multitude of spikes... and it was moving through the water as swiftly as a manta ray. And... it was heading directly towards her.
Ukyo gasped and tried to shield the attack with her spatula, but the pulsating object slammed into her before she could do anything... her movement was way too sluggish, she still wasn't used to underwater battle.
She felt as if all the air was being pressed out of her lungs... or was that water? Whatever, her body got slammed backwards against one of the pillars inside the pool.
"Ucchan!" Ranko shouted again. "Shampoo, stay with Ruto!" And she dove into the pool herself.
Ukyo groaned. Her right arm was hurting like hell, and the impact made her lose her main weapon. She was now defenseless, and she didn't know if she could stand another attack like that...
She saw how the spiky brain was zooming through the water. After it had collided with her, it had retreated and was now swimming in a wide arch around the pillars. But, it was coming back... and she knew she would never reach the surface of the pool in time.
But right before that thing could slam into her again, Ranko appeared out of nowhere and threw a powerful punch at the ugly creature.
"You stay away from my friend!" the older Zora princess yelled while her opponent drifted backwards. She then turned to Ukyo. "Ucchan, did the creep hurt you?"
Ukyo shook her head, not being able to talk under water like a Zora.
Ranko smiled. "I'm glad... say, what is that thing? And where did that tentacle vanish to?"
Just then, Tatl came flying. The little fairy was surrounded by a bubble she had conjured up with her magic. "I think I know what's going on," she said. "That blob-like thing is actually Morpha's actual body... it can just control the water to form tentacles and other extremities."
"I see..." Ranko grumbled. "So we have to take out that ugly little thing? No problem!"
"Yeah, but I guess you better head back up to the surface... you might notice that Morpha isn't attacking you anymore."
"What do you...?" Before Ranko could finish her sentence, a high-pitched scream coming from above the water made her freeze.
It had been Ruto's voice.
Realizing that Ranko was a force to be reckoned with under water, Morpha had decided to dislocate the scene of battle above the water level. It had formed another pair of tentacles and attacked the two people it believed to be weaker than those warriors in the pool... Ruto and Shampoo.
Shampoo had been taken by surprise, and a sudden sweep of one of the tentacles had thrown her into one corner of the room. Meanwhile the other tentacle had grabbed Ruto and was now lifting the struggling Zora princess high into the air. Morpha's pulsating main body was now floating up and down the tentacle. If it had a mouth, it would giggle maliciously.
Ruto screamed when she felt the slippery tentacle wrap itself around her body. Ukyo had been right, this felt absolutely inappropriate, especially because she was a princess... and because she was wearing no clothes, thus making her feel every single movement of the tentacle on her skin, may it be on her back, along her arms, on her generous breasts or even in-between her legs...
"NO! NOT THERE!" she yelled. "I WANT TO SAVE MYSELF FOR LINK!"
"HANDS OFF HER, YOU PERVERTED FREAK!"
A blue comet of fury came shooting out of the water. Morpha lost its concentration when Ranko's outstretched fist connected with its body, sending it flying once again. The two tentacles dissolved into water again, and Ruto fell down on one of the platforms with a yelp.
"Owch..." she whined and rubbed her sore bottom. "That hurt..."
In spite of the pain it was feeling, Morpha still tried to retreat back into the water, but Ranko was at its side like a flash and cornered it. "No way I'm gonna let you escape!" she growled.
Shampoo was at her side in no time. "Airen, Shampoo help!"
"Don't forget about me!" Ukyo shouted as she came climbing out of the water, holding her battle spatula. She grabbed it with both hands and saw red when she saw the cornered, flailing form of Morpha in front of them.
"MORPHA NO BAKA!" she yelled and raised her spatula into the air... just to hardly bring it down on the squirming form of Morpha.
"Yeah, time to teach that pervert a lesson!" Ranko grinned.
And together, Ukyo, Ranko and Shampoo piled up on the helpless blob and pounded, kicked and punched it until only a twitching mess was left.
Shampoo raised her scimitar. "Allow Shampoo..."
She pierced the pulsating blob with her sharp weapon. For a short while, Morpha looked like an ugly, bloated balloon on a stick... and then, it exploded outwards, dissolving into pure water.
At the same time, all of the water in the pool got drawn up into one single, huge tentacle that was attached to the ceiling. More and more of the water got absorbed... until the pool was empty.
At first, they thought they had to keep on fighting... but then, they saw the tentacle was shrinking. Little drops of water were trickling down from the ceiling... then the whole tentacle turned into a round blob of water that fell down from the ceiling, hit the floor and popped into hundred little drops that vanished as soon as they hit the floor.
"Um... I guess that water was still part of Morpha," Tatl spoke up. "But destroying the main body made all of it disappear as well."
Ranko and Ukyo didn't listen to her. They just looked at each other, panting hardly.
"Um... you know, you can be pretty scary when you're angry," Ranko then said.
Ukyo blushed, but nodded. "Um... yeah, I know. But you too..."
"Hey, any help here?" Ruto then shouted from the platform she was still standing on. "I can't jump as far as you, you know?"
"Oh, right..." Ranko said. "Sorry, sis!"
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