96. Lesson

Disclaimer: I don't own The Legend of Zelda. I'm just a big fan :)

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Green P.O.V

I stood in front of the Four Sword. My sweaty, nervous hands were tightly wrapped around its hilt. Many reasons as to why I should and shouldn't draw the sacred sword flooded my mind. Yes, it will help me save Zelda and Hyrule... But it will also free the binding of the ancient sorcerer, Vaati. Plus... Am I really the chosen one? Am I ready for the destiny ahead of me?

'Do I have any other choice...?' I asked myself out loud. I took this as my final decision. 'Four Sword... Please, lend me your strength' I begged as I used all my strength to pull the weapon from its resting place.

A bright, blinding light shone from the blade making me resort to covering my eyes with one arm. When the light had faded away, I looked up and gasped in shock. In front of me stood three identical boys that looked strikingly similar to me but with different coloured clothes. One was wearing scarlet red, one in cerulean blue and the last in amethyst purple.

'W-what the-!' I stuttered out.

'So the legend...' The one in blue started in a strong voice, a deeper version of my own.

'... "He who pulls the Four Sword will be split into four"...' The red one quoted, his voice a tone higher than mine.

'...So it's true!' The violet one finished in a voice slightly deeper than mine but not as deep as the blue guy's.

The group then fell into a dead silence.

'Wow... Umm... It's a little weird... Seeing three other guys with my face!' I commented hoping to break the awkward silence. 'But four Links means four times the strength! Together we can save Princess Zelda easily!' I encouraged.

'YEAH!' The other three chimed in unison. But the good mood was quickly shattered when the ground began to tremble beneath our feet.

'I'M FREE!' A loud, croaky, disembodied voice shouted from the sword's pedestal.

'What's going on?!' A shrill, worried cry came from the red kid.

Suddenly a strong wind flurry erupted from the pedestal and a demon that appeared to be made of stone rose from it.

'How many centuries has it been?' The demon questioned with his croaky voice.

'Vaati has been freed...' Pointed out the purple me.

'Well done! By pulling out the sword, the seal has broken! You knew this would happen!' The blue guy shouted, clearly angry. We all looked at the demon, preparing for the challenge ahead of us to take him down. Needless to say my nerves didn't like this and I'm sure the others probably felt the same. Still, we had to do it, so we all jumped at him to try and cut him to pieces. I managed to cut off one of his arms which hit the floor with a loud thud.

'Woah! Look out!' The red kid warned me as the arm rose back up and magically reattached itself.

'Wha...?! His arm fixed itself!' I shouted in disbelief.

'What happens if we cut off all his limbs all at once?' The guy in violet questioned.

'Great idea!' Both I and the guy in blue responded and both, at once, went to attack. Stupidly we both went for the same arm and got in each other's way so we both fell to the floor.

'What are you doing, idiot!' He insulted me.

'Me?! You got in MY way!' I retorted. 'Wait a second! We can't just keep flailing around! We have to work as a team!' I ordered.

'How do we do that? I've never worked as part of a team before...' The red kid asked.

'I'm a one-man team!' The idiot in blue responded.

'I don't need anyone's help' Shot the purple boy.

'is this really what I'm like? Am I really this much of a jerk?' I asked no one in particular, knowing the answer already. 'I've just became for times as selfish!'

My thoughts travel back to what my father used to say about how I need to work on a team more and learn to rely on people for help sometimes, but I would never listen to him.

'You in the green! Stop daydreaming and give us a help before we all get eaten!' The purple boy yelled, snapping me out of laa laa land and back into the fight. Vaati had upped his game and was manipulating the wind to try and suck us up and inhale us. 'We need to work together to save Zelda!'

Realisation of our true mission brought us all to our best and strongest state yet.

'I've got to save her! I CAN'T LOSE!' We all shouted. 'NOW!'

We all went for our plan of attack each limb, managing to get it right this time and not get in each other's way. It had worked perfectly as we hoped as he evaporated into the air in a cloud of purple-black smoke.

'That might not have been his true form...' The purple guy commented.

The guy in blue insulted him, 'Pessimist much!'

'Now isn't the time to argue! We need to get back to the castle to war my, uhh our, father about what's happening!'

'Yeah!' Agreed the red boy.

'Then let's go!' I ordered and we ran off in the direction of Hyrule Castle.

I can easily say, after that last battle, I had learned a big lesson on team work. I could see this becoming important all throughout my mission. How I'm going to need to work on a team and how I'm going to rely on my new team for help. A lot.