(A/N: Hey, it's me with an actual FIC this time! The 3 main characters are
based on my cousin, my bro, and lil' old me. ^_^ OUR REAL NAMES ARE NOT
USED IN THE STORY! My bro's name is nearly impossible to say unless you
have Asian blood in you, my name is SOMEHOW hard to pronounce, even though
it's pretty much said the same way it's spelled, and my cuz has a normal
one, but it has been changed for the fic. Pfft, we don't even LOOK the same
as the people in the story! My cuz WISHES she had long hair, heh heh. I
don't own the games [or characters and places IN them!] mentioned in this
chapter. *sniff* I don't even own a Gamecube, because my parents are SO
cheap! Due to this, I don't KNOW if this is correct, so don't flame me for
it! Ah well, read on, young stars! …O_o! . Ooh boy, THAT was lame…)
"I'm gonna beat your behind!"
"Oh no, you're not getting away THAT easy!"
"ACK! How come you two keep putting ME with the Ice Climbers?"
A girl with medium-long, auburn hair paused the game, annoyed that her older brother, Kirk, kept them from playing a battle for the umpteenth time. She, Kirk, and her cousin Tiana had been playing Super Smash Brothers: Melee since Tiana came to visit earlier that afternoon. They were close, she and her cousin; so the news that she was spending the night thrilled them while Kirk kept mumbling about his file on Majora's Mask being messed up.
"Kirk," she said with clenched teeth, "If you were fast enough to get Zelda before Tiana INSTEAD of going straight for Ganondork, then MAYBE you'd be paired up with someone BETTER than them. OKAY!"
"Brooke, calm down," Tiana reasoned, trying to calm her irritated cousin. "It's not his fault he likes using Ganondorf more than the others." She looked at her friend with sparkling azure eyes, with a few long strands of her orange-blonde hair hanging delicately in her face. "Besides," she added, a smirk appearing on her lips, "You're the almighty Hero of Time. You can beat his butt any day of the week!" With that, the girls cracked up laughing, leaving Kirk with a very annoyed look on his face.
"Other that that, Bro," Brooke hinted, "You needed them to be even with us."
"And since WHEN did you worry about being even with me?" He asked his sister, doubt evident in his voice. "A 'how come?' would be nice, too."
Tiana sighed, "As you know, I have Zelda as my fighter." She looked at Brooke, who understood that as a signal to continue for her.
"But Zellie ALSO can change to Sheik; thus, in a way, we have THREE fighters instead of two." Brooke said, a bit annoyed that her brother gave her a funny look when she said her nickname for Zelda. "Don't give me that look, Kirkie!"
"Therefore; the Ice Climbers count as one, just like Zelda and Sheik. To answer your first question: It was either them or Falco, and we KNOW how much you hate him!"
"Hah! JUST hate? In Verses mode in Starfox 64, he's pretty much shot down first! It's not hate, it's…repugnance to the highest possible limit, to say it lightly." Kirk groaned.
"Aww MAN! Have you been reading the thesaurus AGAIN?" He complained, his ginger eyes, (A/N: Light reddish-brown EYES? O.o;) filled with exasperation. It took Brooke all of her self-control not to pummel him at that moment.
"Let's get back to battling. I think someone needs to let off some steam," Tiana suggested, hoping her cousin wouldn't freak out if they lost.
"You're right, Ti. Let's cream this baddie!" They high-fived each other, missing and falling over on purpose for fun and encouragement. Brooke unpaused the game, and the battle continued.
Brooke, as Link, immediately went for the Ice Climbers. The parka-clad duo attempted to bash Link with their Squall Hammer attack, but the attack was easily dodged. Brooke then had Link do an interesting combo. Link executed his Illusion Stab, causing immense damage to the already weakened pair. The hero then did the Spinning Sword when they went flying in the air, sending them over the edge of the aerial temple. To be on the safe side, Brooke decided to guard the edge should they come back up.
Tiana, being Zelda, was stuck with a smarter and stronger opponent: Ganondorf. She tried one of Zelda's Smash attacks to keep him away long enough so she could do Din's Fire without being hit by Ganon's Dark Punch or the like. Kirk, seeing her strategy, tried to dodge the attack, and managed to do so successfully, only to bump into a walking Bob-omb. He cursed to himself when he managed to recover a little, after which he did some more when he heard the announcer say that his partners had been defeated. Suddenly, he saw six needles hit him, irritating him more knowing the explosion had given Tiana the time to change Zelda into Sheik and perform a special attack. When he saw Link was running towards them now that his adversaries were out, he did a wise move. Kirk paused and forfeit the losing battle.
"WHAT? That's cheap, Kirk!" "Great, JUST back out of a battle like that. The REAL Ganondorf would NEVER do that!" Just as Kirk was going to reply to the two angry girls that were chewing him out for quitting, they heard a crash from the family room, followed by a hiss, a growl, and cries for help.
"Hey," Tiana asked with worry, "What's wrong with your cat and dog?" She didn't get an answer, for the siblings had already hurried down the stairs to see what was the noise, uneasy of what happened to their adored pets.
Brooke, being the most fearful for her nine-month old calico kitten, Aiko, was the first in the room, with Kirk and Tiana at her heels. The second she saw what was going on, she froze in her tracks, not believing her own eyes. When Tiana and her brother asked her what was wrong, all she did was point to the center of the room. They followed her finger with their eyes, until they saw why she was so shocked. Three balls of light, each the size of a golf ball, two with clear, delicate wings and one with silver butterfly wings, were being attacked by Luna, Kirk's white and black rat terrier with a white half moon on her forehead, and little Aiko was trying to swat the ball of light with butterfly wings.
"Luna, NO! Bad dog, down!" Kirk told the dog, who reluctantly obeyed and retreated to the kitchen. Now that the immediant danger had been subdued, Brooke hurried towards Aiko, who had given up catching the strange butterfly and settled down to admire it instead; and scooped up the fascinated kitten. That's when the trio actually saw the balls of light closely.
The one with the silver butterfly wings was a deep cerulean blue, bluer than the ocean depths. One of the others didn't have the true wings, but it was flared out in an interesting fashion, in addition to being an eye- catching shade of scarlet. The only one with the tradional wings was a tranquil jade color, the same tint that Brooke's eyes were. Each of the lights gave out an audible sigh of relief as Tiana and Kirk entered the room, Kirk with his eyes wide in disbelief and Tiana with her mouth agape.
"What? You three look like you've never seen a fairy before!" The red one, a guy, exclaimed, being silenced by a bonk from the green one.
"Of course they haven't, dummy!" The green fairy, apparently female, shouted at the cowering red fairy, "They've only seen us in GAMES; they didn't know we're real!" While this conversation was going on, the blue fairy noticed a band of gold on Tiana's left ring finger. It went closer to investigate, causing her to absently bring up her ringed hand for protection. The fairy gasped when it saw a single sapphire in the shape of a triangle in the right corner of a larger triangle carved into the ring.
"Akina, Jomei!" The fairy squealed, a girl also, "Stop fighting and get over here!" They did so, and had the same reaction as she did when they saw the ring.
"By the Three Golden Goddesses! She's one of them! Only two more to find!" Jomei, the red one, cried happily, only to once again be rapped by Akina, the green one.
"You nincompoop! Don't you remember the rhyme?" Akina shouted at Jomei, who was once again cowering, indicating he didn't know. Sighing in exasperation, she continued.
"The riddle goes like this. 'In the time of darkness, one must find the light. In order to save their worlds, power, wisdom, and courage must unite. However, alone it cannot be done, the guardians of the pieces are needed to help them become one. Eyes and a band of gold are the tell-tale signs of the energy they hold. Same blood, they are, together by love, the trio always smiled upon from above. Alas, even guardians need help, three fairies from the forest, two angels, one whelp.'"At this point, Jomei made an irritated jingle when she said that line. "Don't make that face, shortie!" The blue fairy then took over for Akina, as she had forgotten her place.
"The riddle continues on. 'The three will face many trials of skill to test their strength, knowledge, and will. When the shadow comes with the fatal force, the six will finally alter evil's course.' That's the legend and prophesy of the Triforce Guardians." Akina suddenly flew over to Brooke, taking a hard look at a sparkle she noticed when the blue fairy was finishing the riddle. When she saw was it was, she gave an excited squeal that alerted everyone in the room, save Aiko, who had settled down for a nap on the window sill.
"Nami! It's the Triforce Ring of Courage! What's your name, kid?" Akina asked ecstatically. Brooke looked at her left hand, which had another ring very similar to Tiana's, except that it held an emerald in the left corner instead of Tiana's sapphire.
"It's Brooke. My cousin over there is Tiana and the big creep with red eyes is my brother Kirk," Brooke replied, jerking her thumb at her dark-haired brother, who snorted. "What's your name?"
"I'm Akina, the one with wacko wings is Jomei, and Miss Butterfly Wings is Nami. Link's guardian fairy, Navi, is her sister," Akina said. Jomei then flew over to Kirk, who had removed a long string tied around his neck that had another round gold ring looped through it.
"I guess this is the Triforce Ring of Power, then," He presumed, holding the string up to reveal the ring, which had the same design as the others, apart from the ruby in the top corner. Jomei cheered in excitement.
"You three DO know what this means, don't you?" Nami stated as Jomei was buzzing gleefully around the room. "It means that you'll have to come to Hyrule with us." She got a few surprised glances from the trio. Tiana then spoke up.
"Hey, didn't the riddle say something about fairies being our partners?" Jomei suddenly stopped and jingled merrily.
"Yeah, it's us!" He piped, light emitting from him brilliantly, "You can tell who's helping whom from our colors. I'm with Kirk, You're with Nami, and poor Brooke's stuck with Akina. OW!" After he mentioned the last partnership, he was once again struck by the irate green fairy. Nami shook her head as Kirk held Jomei in his hands, now that his 'necklace' was back on.
"Well, what's your answer young ones?" Nami inquired, secretly hoping it was going to be yes. Brooke, Kirk, and Tiana looked at each other before responding. Each gave a solemn nod to Nami, causing the three fairies to cheer in delight.
"Just let me turn off the Gamecube upstairs and let us change into something fit for travel," Brooke said. Akina shook her head.
"Turning the game off you can do, but not the clothes. Time is of the essence."
"What about shoes, then?" Tiana pleaded. Nami sighed, defeated.
"Shoes are okay. Who knows if the Sage's warp spell will get all of you to the right location?" The three teenagers hurried up the stairs to fetch their hiking boots. A minute later, they were rushing down the stairs again.
"Okay, this is going to feel weird. You're not going to look exactly the same when you get to Hyrule. Instead, you're going to be one of the races in Hyrule," Jomei explained. Brooke started to sniker at the thought of her brother possibly being a Deku. "Ready, guys?"
"Ready as we'll ever be."
"Then let's get to it!" The three fairies started spinning around in circles around them, leaving trails of magic behind. They looked on in awe as the magic began hardening, casting a safe shield should they land in an awkward position. "Here we GO!" The newly-formed crystals followed the fairies through an open dimensional vortex in the ceiling, leading them to the land they've only dreampt of visiting that now needed their help.
(A/N: Whoo! Cliffhanger, eh? ^_^ …Okay, so it's not REALLY a cliffhanger. Don't forget to review this story and my other Zelda one, Hyrlean Songfics! I need more requests! Erm…ah, forget it; this place is only my self-esteem booster.-_-)
"I'm gonna beat your behind!"
"Oh no, you're not getting away THAT easy!"
"ACK! How come you two keep putting ME with the Ice Climbers?"
A girl with medium-long, auburn hair paused the game, annoyed that her older brother, Kirk, kept them from playing a battle for the umpteenth time. She, Kirk, and her cousin Tiana had been playing Super Smash Brothers: Melee since Tiana came to visit earlier that afternoon. They were close, she and her cousin; so the news that she was spending the night thrilled them while Kirk kept mumbling about his file on Majora's Mask being messed up.
"Kirk," she said with clenched teeth, "If you were fast enough to get Zelda before Tiana INSTEAD of going straight for Ganondork, then MAYBE you'd be paired up with someone BETTER than them. OKAY!"
"Brooke, calm down," Tiana reasoned, trying to calm her irritated cousin. "It's not his fault he likes using Ganondorf more than the others." She looked at her friend with sparkling azure eyes, with a few long strands of her orange-blonde hair hanging delicately in her face. "Besides," she added, a smirk appearing on her lips, "You're the almighty Hero of Time. You can beat his butt any day of the week!" With that, the girls cracked up laughing, leaving Kirk with a very annoyed look on his face.
"Other that that, Bro," Brooke hinted, "You needed them to be even with us."
"And since WHEN did you worry about being even with me?" He asked his sister, doubt evident in his voice. "A 'how come?' would be nice, too."
Tiana sighed, "As you know, I have Zelda as my fighter." She looked at Brooke, who understood that as a signal to continue for her.
"But Zellie ALSO can change to Sheik; thus, in a way, we have THREE fighters instead of two." Brooke said, a bit annoyed that her brother gave her a funny look when she said her nickname for Zelda. "Don't give me that look, Kirkie!"
"Therefore; the Ice Climbers count as one, just like Zelda and Sheik. To answer your first question: It was either them or Falco, and we KNOW how much you hate him!"
"Hah! JUST hate? In Verses mode in Starfox 64, he's pretty much shot down first! It's not hate, it's…repugnance to the highest possible limit, to say it lightly." Kirk groaned.
"Aww MAN! Have you been reading the thesaurus AGAIN?" He complained, his ginger eyes, (A/N: Light reddish-brown EYES? O.o;) filled with exasperation. It took Brooke all of her self-control not to pummel him at that moment.
"Let's get back to battling. I think someone needs to let off some steam," Tiana suggested, hoping her cousin wouldn't freak out if they lost.
"You're right, Ti. Let's cream this baddie!" They high-fived each other, missing and falling over on purpose for fun and encouragement. Brooke unpaused the game, and the battle continued.
Brooke, as Link, immediately went for the Ice Climbers. The parka-clad duo attempted to bash Link with their Squall Hammer attack, but the attack was easily dodged. Brooke then had Link do an interesting combo. Link executed his Illusion Stab, causing immense damage to the already weakened pair. The hero then did the Spinning Sword when they went flying in the air, sending them over the edge of the aerial temple. To be on the safe side, Brooke decided to guard the edge should they come back up.
Tiana, being Zelda, was stuck with a smarter and stronger opponent: Ganondorf. She tried one of Zelda's Smash attacks to keep him away long enough so she could do Din's Fire without being hit by Ganon's Dark Punch or the like. Kirk, seeing her strategy, tried to dodge the attack, and managed to do so successfully, only to bump into a walking Bob-omb. He cursed to himself when he managed to recover a little, after which he did some more when he heard the announcer say that his partners had been defeated. Suddenly, he saw six needles hit him, irritating him more knowing the explosion had given Tiana the time to change Zelda into Sheik and perform a special attack. When he saw Link was running towards them now that his adversaries were out, he did a wise move. Kirk paused and forfeit the losing battle.
"WHAT? That's cheap, Kirk!" "Great, JUST back out of a battle like that. The REAL Ganondorf would NEVER do that!" Just as Kirk was going to reply to the two angry girls that were chewing him out for quitting, they heard a crash from the family room, followed by a hiss, a growl, and cries for help.
"Hey," Tiana asked with worry, "What's wrong with your cat and dog?" She didn't get an answer, for the siblings had already hurried down the stairs to see what was the noise, uneasy of what happened to their adored pets.
Brooke, being the most fearful for her nine-month old calico kitten, Aiko, was the first in the room, with Kirk and Tiana at her heels. The second she saw what was going on, she froze in her tracks, not believing her own eyes. When Tiana and her brother asked her what was wrong, all she did was point to the center of the room. They followed her finger with their eyes, until they saw why she was so shocked. Three balls of light, each the size of a golf ball, two with clear, delicate wings and one with silver butterfly wings, were being attacked by Luna, Kirk's white and black rat terrier with a white half moon on her forehead, and little Aiko was trying to swat the ball of light with butterfly wings.
"Luna, NO! Bad dog, down!" Kirk told the dog, who reluctantly obeyed and retreated to the kitchen. Now that the immediant danger had been subdued, Brooke hurried towards Aiko, who had given up catching the strange butterfly and settled down to admire it instead; and scooped up the fascinated kitten. That's when the trio actually saw the balls of light closely.
The one with the silver butterfly wings was a deep cerulean blue, bluer than the ocean depths. One of the others didn't have the true wings, but it was flared out in an interesting fashion, in addition to being an eye- catching shade of scarlet. The only one with the tradional wings was a tranquil jade color, the same tint that Brooke's eyes were. Each of the lights gave out an audible sigh of relief as Tiana and Kirk entered the room, Kirk with his eyes wide in disbelief and Tiana with her mouth agape.
"What? You three look like you've never seen a fairy before!" The red one, a guy, exclaimed, being silenced by a bonk from the green one.
"Of course they haven't, dummy!" The green fairy, apparently female, shouted at the cowering red fairy, "They've only seen us in GAMES; they didn't know we're real!" While this conversation was going on, the blue fairy noticed a band of gold on Tiana's left ring finger. It went closer to investigate, causing her to absently bring up her ringed hand for protection. The fairy gasped when it saw a single sapphire in the shape of a triangle in the right corner of a larger triangle carved into the ring.
"Akina, Jomei!" The fairy squealed, a girl also, "Stop fighting and get over here!" They did so, and had the same reaction as she did when they saw the ring.
"By the Three Golden Goddesses! She's one of them! Only two more to find!" Jomei, the red one, cried happily, only to once again be rapped by Akina, the green one.
"You nincompoop! Don't you remember the rhyme?" Akina shouted at Jomei, who was once again cowering, indicating he didn't know. Sighing in exasperation, she continued.
"The riddle goes like this. 'In the time of darkness, one must find the light. In order to save their worlds, power, wisdom, and courage must unite. However, alone it cannot be done, the guardians of the pieces are needed to help them become one. Eyes and a band of gold are the tell-tale signs of the energy they hold. Same blood, they are, together by love, the trio always smiled upon from above. Alas, even guardians need help, three fairies from the forest, two angels, one whelp.'"At this point, Jomei made an irritated jingle when she said that line. "Don't make that face, shortie!" The blue fairy then took over for Akina, as she had forgotten her place.
"The riddle continues on. 'The three will face many trials of skill to test their strength, knowledge, and will. When the shadow comes with the fatal force, the six will finally alter evil's course.' That's the legend and prophesy of the Triforce Guardians." Akina suddenly flew over to Brooke, taking a hard look at a sparkle she noticed when the blue fairy was finishing the riddle. When she saw was it was, she gave an excited squeal that alerted everyone in the room, save Aiko, who had settled down for a nap on the window sill.
"Nami! It's the Triforce Ring of Courage! What's your name, kid?" Akina asked ecstatically. Brooke looked at her left hand, which had another ring very similar to Tiana's, except that it held an emerald in the left corner instead of Tiana's sapphire.
"It's Brooke. My cousin over there is Tiana and the big creep with red eyes is my brother Kirk," Brooke replied, jerking her thumb at her dark-haired brother, who snorted. "What's your name?"
"I'm Akina, the one with wacko wings is Jomei, and Miss Butterfly Wings is Nami. Link's guardian fairy, Navi, is her sister," Akina said. Jomei then flew over to Kirk, who had removed a long string tied around his neck that had another round gold ring looped through it.
"I guess this is the Triforce Ring of Power, then," He presumed, holding the string up to reveal the ring, which had the same design as the others, apart from the ruby in the top corner. Jomei cheered in excitement.
"You three DO know what this means, don't you?" Nami stated as Jomei was buzzing gleefully around the room. "It means that you'll have to come to Hyrule with us." She got a few surprised glances from the trio. Tiana then spoke up.
"Hey, didn't the riddle say something about fairies being our partners?" Jomei suddenly stopped and jingled merrily.
"Yeah, it's us!" He piped, light emitting from him brilliantly, "You can tell who's helping whom from our colors. I'm with Kirk, You're with Nami, and poor Brooke's stuck with Akina. OW!" After he mentioned the last partnership, he was once again struck by the irate green fairy. Nami shook her head as Kirk held Jomei in his hands, now that his 'necklace' was back on.
"Well, what's your answer young ones?" Nami inquired, secretly hoping it was going to be yes. Brooke, Kirk, and Tiana looked at each other before responding. Each gave a solemn nod to Nami, causing the three fairies to cheer in delight.
"Just let me turn off the Gamecube upstairs and let us change into something fit for travel," Brooke said. Akina shook her head.
"Turning the game off you can do, but not the clothes. Time is of the essence."
"What about shoes, then?" Tiana pleaded. Nami sighed, defeated.
"Shoes are okay. Who knows if the Sage's warp spell will get all of you to the right location?" The three teenagers hurried up the stairs to fetch their hiking boots. A minute later, they were rushing down the stairs again.
"Okay, this is going to feel weird. You're not going to look exactly the same when you get to Hyrule. Instead, you're going to be one of the races in Hyrule," Jomei explained. Brooke started to sniker at the thought of her brother possibly being a Deku. "Ready, guys?"
"Ready as we'll ever be."
"Then let's get to it!" The three fairies started spinning around in circles around them, leaving trails of magic behind. They looked on in awe as the magic began hardening, casting a safe shield should they land in an awkward position. "Here we GO!" The newly-formed crystals followed the fairies through an open dimensional vortex in the ceiling, leading them to the land they've only dreampt of visiting that now needed their help.
(A/N: Whoo! Cliffhanger, eh? ^_^ …Okay, so it's not REALLY a cliffhanger. Don't forget to review this story and my other Zelda one, Hyrlean Songfics! I need more requests! Erm…ah, forget it; this place is only my self-esteem booster.-_-)