Link' Cry
The Shattered Princess
Chapter One
What Link did
Zelph was frozen to the spot with fear, tears filling her eyes. Link looked mad, Colin looked defeated and Aeolious looked defiant. The Phantom Hourglass had just been destroyed by the Gods that guarded Termina as punishment for Colin and Link' intrusion. As far as they were aware Bathilda was dead, they'd watched her being carried off by the Oocoo so how were they now listening to this hidious laugh, Gandondolf' laugh?
"Link...I really have to thank you" Gandondolf' voice said
"Stay back!" Link yelled, taking out his sword and looking all about him,
"What do you think that sword of yours is going to do to me in this of all places? I can destroy any of you right now if I really wanted to and the Gods of Termina would let me, so long as I never tried to rule over them...but why would I want to do that? They have nothing I want" Gandondolf' voice rang out,
Link couldn't be certain this wasn't true,
"How are you...here?" Aeolious asked suspiciously
"The key" Gandondolf whispered
"Oh no!" Colin whimpered as Ganondolf laughed
Suddenly Zelph screamed and was turned into millions of triangle shaped shards of glass. Link was horrified,
"Zelda!" Link cried
His cry was heard and felt throughout Hyrule 1, 2, 3, Hi-Range and Earth, it blew out windows and shattered dreams,
Moblins, Skelfos, Re-dead, Poes and Knuckle Masters started appearing in the streets. Bomb Blooms and Deku Bubbas made short work of cars, buildings, humans.
The only beings to not get attacked by any of theses monsters or in fact Ganondolf were the Sheika of Kakoriko and the Gurudo...or anyone descended from them.
From the observatory in Clocktown Link could see all these things,
"We have to get back to the surface, I have to save Zelda, I can't stop Ganondolf on my own" Link said, turning to look at the Mayer,
"Can't you use your warp power?" The Mayer asked, "The power you used to get here?"
"No, I tried" Link said
"This is my fault, I shouldn't have come here" Colin said
"That's not going to help" Link said, then he sighed, "Zane would know what to do"
"There's always Shade, he was here" Aeolious put in
Link looked at Aeolious,
"You clever bird" Link said, and as Aeolious fluffed up his feathers with pride Link embedded the master sword into the ground, "Shade, I need you"
Nothing happened, the master sword was void of power.
"Link...Link can you hear me?" Came a voice he knew well
"Dad?" Link asked
"Shade is within you" Came his dad' voice, "You need to concentrate"
Link fought back the tears and closed his eyes,
Three coloured orbs passed by until he was in Clocktown on the night child Link saved Termina. He was waiting for child Link when he left the tower,
"Too far...how do you get out of here?"
Child Link was knocked out and woke up at Epona' hooves,
Link gave his signiture laugh...
Link was laughing so hard now Colin was quite convinced Link had gone mad, even more so when he turned to the Mayer and said,
"Knock us out"
"What?" Aeolious said in question
The Mayer obliged and with swift ease he knocked out Link, then Aeolious and then Colin. All three disappeared as they hit the ground and woke up in a very different Tokyo to the one he was used to seeing.
Link was the first one to wake up,
He stood quickly and grabbed his sword, it glowed. All kinds of creatures started to surround him and with limited power Link had to combat with all of them until all anyone still standing could see was a purple fog,
"Interactive they said this years convetion would be but man, how far do these actors want to take it?" A drunk student chimed on his way past,
"You're welcome" Link said out of breath.
Then, as Aeolious and Colin came round the ground shook and buildings either side of the road they were all standing on tumbled like dominoes,
"Did I do that?" The drunk asked before tugging at Aeolious' wings, "Energy drinks is it?"
The ground split apart and suddenly the drunk was sobre as a judge,
"Get back!" Link bellowed,
No one argued.
From out of the ground rose a black caslte with orange light burning brightly within,
"Link..."
"I know" Link said in almost a whisper
"Want a race Link? It's only a matter of time before I find the other two shattered Goddess'" Ganondolf said with a laugh from just before the castle door
"Link! The sword! Aim it Skyward!" The now sobre drunk yelled
Link was unsure of why he was listening to this man but he raised the Sword Skyward,
"I call upon the souls of every Link to have gone before me! Lend me your strength now! Run beside me, before, me, behind me, be me!"
The Triforce glowed on the ground with Link in the middle, Aeolious in the Tri of Wisdome and Colin in the Tri of Courage, the same Triforce appeared in the sky as a shadow, where it would stay until Link could retrtieve the shattered souls of the Goddesses.
Gandondolf cried out in anger and used his powers to pick Link up and toss him into a black light.
Were you to now look at Earth from above you would see that it had now been split into three sections, with the shadow of the Triforce and Low-Range Castle in the centre of it.
When Link came round hours had passed and he was on a sandy beach with water lapping at his feet, there was a very hot sun in the sky,
"Where am I?" He asked himself and then he noticed the shadow beside him and turned around to find it's owner, "You"
It was the now sobre student, his hair was flaming red,
"You're at the quiet end of Sharm El Sheikh, with a H at the end, not like the Sheika as in Kakoriko or Twilight"
"You're a Gerudo?" Link oberved
"Came as a shock to me too" He replied
"Were you actually drunk or pretending to be?" Link asked, the Gerudo laughed, "What's your name?"
"I don't have one yet Link"
Link stood up and then looked at his sword,
"It's been a long day, I've lost Zelda, my friends, our world has crashed into theirs, we're in a race for the Goddess souls and now Ganondolf not only managed to find his way out of the OOT Time Line but he has two pieces of the Triforce"
"I just got a bad hair cut" The Gerudo told him
Link laughed,
"I need to reach the King somehow, I need a plan"
"You're not on your own, you have at least 15 incarnations around you, fighting with you and you have me" The Gerudo said
"How did you know what to say? How did you know what I had to do? Why did I feel the need to listen?" Link questioned
"It'll come to you" The Gerudo said
"I need a change of clothes, I'm soaked" Link said as they walked towards some trees, to his surprise, after hearing the pause button and the moving of a screen and the selection of an item he found himself wearing BOTW' blue shirt, brown trousers, boots and Shieka slate, "Huh?"
"I'll explain once we've reached the King" The Gerudo said
Link and the Gerudo didn't stop walking until they had reached a large town, where they stopped off by a bar to look at the Sheika slate,
"Is this safe?" Link asked uncertainly
"Here? Yes, Ganondolf won't hurt the Gerudo or the Sheika and so Egypt is a safe zone right now, anyone of either descent has nothing to fear and can there for go about their business, so where as this face will be of help to you I have to be careful" The Gerudo said
"Groose" Link said
"Oh come on" The Gerudo said, insulted
"He came good in the end" The barman chimed in
"Blaze" Link said, "For the hair"
"That's more like it, now, Earth has been cut into four with the castle in the centre and three provinces beyond in a triangular formation. None of the countries are where they should be now so flying is not an option"
"The Fire Temple of OOT has been moved closer to Hi-Range, if we can get there we can find the Owl and use him to fly down to the Palace" Link said after studdying the sheika slate some more,
Link searched his satchel but he didn't have his flute,
"Link, Link, Link..." Blaze said pointing at nothing
"I need my flute" Link said
Again he heard a pause sound, a sreen change and item selection before Link had the flute in his hand, he put it to his lips and played the tune to get him to the Fire Temple. Within seconds Link disolved into little balls of red light and flew away out of the bar.
"Well follow him" The barman said to Blaze
"No wings" Blaze said
"Oh give me strength" The barman said and with that he threw some Deku seeds his way, "Here, use them"
Blaze stood up, threw some Deku seeds on the floor and dsiappeared with a loud cracking sound and puff of white smoke.
Link materialised outisde the Fire Temple and remembered what he was wearing, a timer appeared above his head,
"Link, you can't withstand this heat you only have one minute to get out of here" Came Blaze' voice
Link looked around, struggling to breathe,
"Hookshot" He said, once he had this he used it to get across the broken bridge, then made a run for it, into the Goron City of friend Borak' time line, "Borak!?" He called, the whole city was in a state of anxiety, baby Gorons cried, their fathers curled up, then Link realised their marks were all different, these Gorons were all mixed up, they were from his time line and his realm and every other time line and game in which they appeared, "Oh boy"
"Hey! Brother!" Borak called from across the city,
Link was so happy to see Borak. Borak grabbed him up and dusted him off, knocking the wind out of him,
"All the Gorons are in one place" Link said
"Yep" Borak said, "And the Zoras are all in one place, the Rito are wet and miserable because they have no place dry, the Gerudo and Sheika are all in one place and the Korkiri and Hylians are all in one place, accept Aeolious and Colin are either side of that" He explained
"So all the temples are in the same place, every Fire Temple, every Forest Temple, Wind, Earth, all that, they're all mushed together" Link said, trying to get his read around everything
"Yes and you did it" Borak told him
"Huh?" Link said in question and surprise
"Don't feel bad brother you've done good, you did the best thing you could have done, you still have traces of the 4th Triforce piece, you created a barrier between the three provinces and Ganondolf. Sure we're crawling with monsters and there are forks of his power within each area but once you've got the Goddesses in a bottle and the spell is broken then that area will be clear" Borak told him,
"I had a friend with me, a Gerudo...uh oh I left him in Egypt" Link said
At that moment Blaze dropped down from the roof of the cave and tied his falming red hair up in a bun, it gave him an oriental look, it was at this moment Link realised who he was and grabbed him for a hug,
"This your friend?" Borak asked
"Navi! It's Navi...well Zane...or Midna, or the hat" Link grinned, "I just call him Blaze"
"How'd Zane go?" Borak asked
"He drowned in quicksand" Blaze told him,
"Yo, that's savage!"
"The Sword chose this body, it must have known" Blaze said, "We should go and see the King"
Borak walked Link and Blaze out of the city, where they found the owl waiting for them. Borak groaned when he saw him and started humming the tune that always acompanied him,
"If you find yourself looking for a lift to either city below grab my claw...would you like me to say that agin?"
"No" Link replied politely
The Owl rose up and Link and Blaze grabbed either claw,
"The Palace of Hi-Range" Blaze said
"You know I was a king once..." He began as he flew off with them both
Borak smiled as they became dots in the sky,
"Who was that Gerudo with Link?" A Goron from OOT asked
"He's not really a Gerudo" Borak said softly before shushing him, "The modern ones hold no quarrel with us, still you're right to be cautious"
The Owl dropped Link and Blaze off in the garden of the Palace of Hi-Range, where Blaze was immediately threatened by the guards,
"This man is no threat!" Link called,
"Look further than the features, he is clearly a Korki" Came a voice,
This was the King,
Link bowed as the guards backed off,
"I failed you" He said
"You did not fail me, Colin took a wrong turn and all of you paid dearly for it, rise Link, there is much to discuss" The King told him graciously, Link and Blaze were lead to The King' office; it was a bit of a mess, "I'd just finished redecorating in here as well" He sighed
Link tried his best not to laugh, knowing this time the shattered windows were his fault,
"Who do we go after first?" He asked
"I'd say Aeolius and the Goddess Din" The King said, "Zelda is the Goddess Hylia, you have three shattered Goddesses to find, not two, Nayru and lastly Farore. It is in this last Province that Colin stands and he sits within the Tri of Courage. The longer we leave him there the better" The King said, "How did you find us?" His guard asked from across the room
"I have BOTW Link' Sheika Slate"
"You're being played" Blaze said
"What do you mean?" Link asked
"Someone close is playing with you" Blaze told him, pretending he had game controllers in his hands, "Someone close is playing you"
"Zel..." I began
They all shushed me
"She is alive and in one piece but she no longer has her piece of the Triforce, but neither does Ganondolf, right now it's within the hand of her counter Hilda and right now Gandondolf is using all his powers to concentrate on stealing it from her...we have time. We don't know how Zelda is doing what she's doing or where she's being held but it's enough for now" The King told Link
Link grinned,
"So I'm guessing this is her favourite look on me"
The King just grinned,
"You can use the key to get to each Province but I won't be any help to you in locating Zelda or the other Goddesses...and before you ask Mya and Nanna are fine"
"Is Epona OK?" Link asked
"Epona is as cute as ever but I think the Bike might be faster this time" The King told Link