A Day In The Life Of… (Shadow Link)
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Shadow Link was slowly picking his way through the forests of the Dark World. Or Shadow Realm, or whatever you prefer to call it. Brushing some deep violet locks from his face he carefully studied his map again. Deep blue eyes carefully scanned over every little detail. Now, was he supposed to go right here, or left? He sighed and groaned at the same time, rolling up his map and sticking it back in his oversized backpack. And to think that a few days ago he had been resting peacefully in his room in Zelda's Castle.
Shadow sighed again and slowly stopped walking, taking in his surroundings and thinking about his current situation.
A few months after Green, Red, Blue, and Vio(let) Link had put back the Four (Now Five) Sword, Green, (Or the original Link or whatever you want to call him) had gotten very depressed without his team by his side, pulled out the Four Sword again. Zelda was not very happy about this but tolerated it, knowing that it was the best way to cheer her best friend up, and let the four of them stay.
Shadow had come back a little while later. And, after a lot of questioning, a few arguments, and a long trial in which Zelda and Vio defended him more vehemently than he thought they would, Zelda's father relented and allowed him to stay.
Link's father, Darren, was not completely okay with this at first, but slowly the relationship between the two seemed to heal.
Shadow was surprised at how quickly he was forgiven and reaccepted back into the group. Not that he was complaining, of course. It just gave him the feeling that there was something that they weren't telling him.
That was around the time when the problems started.
Somehow, a "portal" of sorts had opened up to Earth, probably through the bits and pieces of the shattered Dark Mirror that were scattered all over the place. If those pieces somehow found their way to Earth it would be very easy for someone to fix the mirror and worm their way into the Dark World (Shadow Realm, whatever), and therefore, through many more natural portals, Hyrule.
Of course, said mirror shards just had to wind up in the hands of several The Legend Of Zelda series fangirls. More specifically, Four/Five Swords Adventures fangirls. This obviously spelt trouble for said swordsmen.
However, these were not the completely random, spazzy, completely insane groups of fangirls that most people think of. Well, some of them were, but not all of them. Most of these girls (and the occasional boy,) were okay.
Even after trying to chase them out for who knows how long, most of them were so deeply involved in everything there that the Links and Princess Zelda saw no trouble in letting them stay.
One such fangirl was Rissa, who was apparently one of the leaders of the fangirls, having owned part of the ClubHouse.
Her brother, Greg, and her three cousins Alana, who was the girl a year older than her, Naty, who the girl a year younger than her, and Jare, their older brother who wasn't around often, co-owned the ClubHouse with her.
The Links and Princess Zelda had become fast friends with her and her brother and cousins in the first few days that they were there.
It was on one of her visits to Hyrule, that Shadow Link had gotten a letter saying that he was needed at home. Not really needed, needed, per say, it was more that everyone had missed him and he had told them that he would came visit every once and a while.
No, it wasn't the various monsters and assorted enemies and bosses of Hyrule, if that's what you were thinking.
No, this letter had come from his cousins. Well, they were more like brothers, really. But, they weren't exactly his brothers either.
It was kind of hard to explain.
But, then again, what sense would it make to have four Links instead of one, but only one Shadow Link? His cousins were none other than the Shadow Fourswordsmen themselves! However, not that many people knew about them, of course.
You see, before Shadow Link was used by Ganondorf and Vaati to fight against the Links, he used to live with his cousins. After Ganondorf had attacked and taken them over, he decided to use only Shadow, who had been vehemently defending his cousins. However, he had managed to knock Shadow out and seal his "cousins" away into the Dark Four Sword. After that Ganondorf and Vaati had made Shadow completely forget about his "cousins" by mind-wiping and brainwashing him.
Later, after the whole Four/Five Swords fiasco and the fangirls/boys near disaster, Rissa had been traveling the Shadow Realm with Shadow, interested in learning more about the mysterious Realm, considering it was one of the most unexplained places in the manga and the games.
Somehow, Rissa had come across a book about the Four/Five Sword(s) and found a place in the back about the Dark Four Sword. So, since the book didn't have much on it, she had somehow convinced Shadow to go on a little exploration trip looking all over kingdom come for the thing.
They found the sword, right by Shadow Links old house no less, though he didn't remember that, right where Ganondorf had left it, not that he would remember that either.
Once they found it Rissa got that crazy look in her eyes, and had a grin plastered on to her face. After a few chanting shouts of, 'Pull it! Pull it! Pull It!', which Shadow had seriously been considering in the first place, he found he himself standing near the pedestal hands wrapped firmly around the sword, he slightly wondered if this was how Green (Link, whatever) felt before he pulled out the Four/Five Sword. The sword slid out easily into his grasp as he raised it up high into the air, almost exactly mirroring Green/Link at the start of his adventure.
After an awkward splitting process, strange (re)introductions, and a short adventure later, the Dark Fourswordsmen where together once again.
In fact, during the course of the adventure to find out the secrets behind the Dark Four Sword, each of the Shadow Links had regained their memory.
After this, of course, Shadow Link had gone back with Rissa to Hyrule, as he had already settled into Hyrule Castle with the other Links and Princess Zelda, which left the other Shadow in the Dark World/Shadow Realm back in their old house, as they chose to stay.
However, Shadow did tell them that he would come to visit them sometime.
Which led him to where he was now.
Shadow sighed as he glanced around at his surroundings again trying to get a feel for where he was at. There was no Rissa to give him directions this time, no matter how bad she was with a map.
Shadow sighed again as he shook his head and started walking slightly to his right, trying to remember which way to go on the brow-beaten path. He quickly walked along the slight trail that was starting to reveal itself. He hefted his backpack, which really more of the kind that hikers used up higher on to his shoulders. Even in the Shadow Realm it was getting late, and he didn't quite feel like camping out again. He realized that as he was walking, the old weather beaten trail was starting to reveal itself more and more, and he found himself walking the trail almost automatically out of memory. Shadow carefully brushed some more branches away from himself, trying not to let them whack him in the face. He hoped that nothing poisonous had grown up around the area. He didn't remember anything poisonous ever growing on the trail, but he never knew what could have sprung up in his absence. The trail was usually kept pretty clean, however. It had to be if they wanted to get to town.
The forest finally ended and Shadow sighed twice, first in relief, then in exasperation. Once the forest ended came a large muddy hill that led up to their little house, with large rocks used as stepping stones. Shadow readjusted his pack again, starting to slowly climb up the large grey boulders.
He paused to slightly wonder what the others were doing right now. Dark, Orange, and Navy were probably in bed by now.
Shadow sighed again as he continued climbing. He could only hope that Maroon had left the door open for him.
So, how do you like it? Questions? Comments? Review! Also I'm not quitting Sick Day FSA. This is just a little something for my writers block. By the way, if you have read Sick Day FSA, you might want to go back and check it again. I added some more parts to Chapter 4. Let me know if you see any errors that I can correct! Oh, and kudos if you can figure out who the other four's light-selves are!
- French Fry Girl