Author's Notes: Well since the votes I got in for the replacement for Ruins Raiders have been slim (3 way tie with just three votes) I haven't really been able to make a decision. So for now I've decided to post something from my Gourry/Sylphiel shrine for this week. A Legend of Zelda/Slayers fusion fic. If you know nothing of Zelda then check out my guide page first:

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As usual just remove the spaces. You can also find the rest of what I've written of the fic up. Also I've made minor edits to this version of chapter one.

The Legend of Sylphiel

Chapter One, Legend of the Triforce

By Relm

He continues running. Never stopping, not wanting to stop, he can't stop. He looks behind himself; the blue light is still chasing him. No matter how hard he tried, no matter how fast he ran the light chased him. Going faster, getting closer.

'How come I can't outrun this thing?' He thought in fright. He didn't know where he was or what the light was but he was scared. He looked behind again it was closer. 'Why can't I go faster?' He looked down at his legs and noticed they were small and short.

'I'm a kid?' His eyes went wide.

His vision was blinded by the blue light as it engulfed him.

"Nooooooooooo!" Gourry screamed waking up from his dream. Unfortunately Gourry had been sleeping in a tree, so suddenly waking up as he did caused him to fall to the ground. "Ouch! That hurt! Sleeping in trees isn't safe but at least it's safer then sleeping on the ground." Gourry mumbled as he got up. He was happy to see himself in adult form rather than being like a kid in his dream.

Just as Gourry got up two moblins and a blue octorok came out of nowhere.

Gourry just smiled and pulled out his sword and shield. Fighting and adventuring was what he lived for. With his shield he blocked a spray of arrows from the moblins and jumped, flipping in the air and struck the octorok with his white sword. With one blow the octorok fell and disappeared.

One of the moblins shot another arrow and it hit Gourry in the shoulder.

"Ouch! " Gourry cursed turning around and did another flying leap and sliced one of the moblins. While the moblins recoiled back in shock Gourry hit it again with his sword. It fell and disappeared just like the octorok.

"Two down, one to go." Gourry grinned as he stared the remaining moblins down.

The moblins shot another arrow and Gourry deflected it back on the moblins with his shield. With his sword Gourry gave the moblins the final blow. It disappeared just like the other two.

"Ah-ha! I did it!" Gourry yelled out in glee.

"What's going on?" A small voice mumbled from the tree had been sleeping in. A small fairy flew down right above Gourry's shoulder.

"Sorry Amelia. Guess I was being a little too loud." Gourry sheepishly grinned rubbing the back of his neck.

"Master Gourry what were you doing at this hour?" Amelia fiddled with her short hair. It was still night out, but only a few more hours till sunrise.

"I was just killing off some monsters."

"Why?"

"Because they were going to attack me."

Amelia looked at him puzzled. "Attack? From all the way up there in the tree?"

"I was on the ground."

"But didn't we decide to sleep in the tree to avoid attacks in out sleep?" Amelia flew over to face him.

"I was sleeping up there. I fell."

Amelia let out a sigh. "You had that dream again didn't you?"

Gourry looked at her confused. "Dream?"

"Yes you know, that one where you are being chased by that glowing blue thing? You have it at least once every two weeks."

Gourry thought really hard for a few moments. "I can't remember." Gourry laughed.

"Oh well it doesn't matter now. But we should get back to sleep while it's still dark out. I hope we get to a town tomorrow. I miss sleeping in safe areas where you don't have to worry about being attacked." Amelia flew back up to the tree while Gourry climbed.

Gourry got himself into a comfortable position (or as comfortable as you can up in a tree) and went back to sleep.

Gourry… Master Gourry…Can you hear me…? Help me please…Master Gourry…

'Who is that voice?' Gourry wondered half asleep.

Gourry woke up hours later briefly remembering the ghostly voice that chanted his name.

"Good morning Master Gourry!" Amelia said cheerily as she flew over to his face.

"Mmmmm what smells so good?" Gourry asked as he felt stomach rumble.

"I figured you'd be hungry and low on energy after last night so I got up early and made you a nice breakfast." Amelia flew down to the campfire near the bottom of the tree. A big pot rested on the middle of the fire, the thick wonderful smelling stew bubbling away inside it. Fish on skewers were propped up around the fire nicely cooking.

"You did all this? But wasn't this hard you're so tiny!" Gourry exclaimed jumping down from the tree.

"Not with magic silly." Amelia giggled. Domestic chores were what she could do best with her magic. But anything else was a disaster.

"Oh." Gourry nodded his head and took one of the first and bit into it. "Ug! It's still raw inside!" Gourry stuck out his tongue.

Amelia giggled again. "Master Gourry you have to wait till it's cooked!"

"It looked cooked to me!" Gourry exclaimed taking a swig of his water canteen. "What about the stew? Is that cooked?"

"Yes that should be ready."

"Yippie!"

"After breakfast we'll head out okay Master Gourry?"

Gourry mumbled a yes through his food.

After breakfast Gourry and Amelia went back to their aimless travels. So far they hadn't encountered any monsters waiting to attack. Which was strange considering almost anywhere you traveled there were monsters everywhere, especially in wooded areas.

"Master Gourry are you completely powered up?" Amelia asked looking at the many flowers growing.

"I think so, that breakfast was very good! Let's see." Gourry aimed his sword at a nearby tree and concentrated on his energy and focus into his sword. There was a rippling blast as a beam of light shot out from the sword and hit the tree. "Yup all powered up!" Gourry beamed as he put his sword back.

"That's good." Amelia smiled and went to sniff a pretty pink flower. "Mmmmm this smells nice! I think I'll pick this one." Amelia went to pull up the flower when the ground below the flower started to shake. It rose up to reveal that the flower was the very top of a peahat! "AHHHH!" Amelia screamed flying over to Gourry.

"Ah it's a… a… what was this thing again?"

"It's a peahat, a man-eating plant with razor blade petals. You can't hit it with your sword until it stops spinning and moving. Otherwise it will just deflect off its body and the swinging blades will more likely hit you." Amelia informed Gourry. Amelia prided herself in her vast knowledge of monsters and creatures. She has a photographic memory and knows just about every monster there is. It was one of the best ways for Amelia to help out Gourry in a fight because he tends to forget things.

"Thanks Amelia!" Gourry dodged to the right as the peahat came towards him. He continued to avoid the peahat until it started to slow down. Once it stopped Gourry shot two swords blasts at the peahat from far away. One hit it but the other missed! The peahat started to move again.

"Good thing there's only one. A group of these can be annoying." Amelia commented from high in the sky.

"Yeah tell me about it." Gourry said as he did a summersault roll on the ground to avoid one of the peahat's blades. "Can you slow it down with your fairy magic?"

Amelia frowned. "I can try but it never works right." Amelia concentrated and brought her hands up. 'Slow down, slow down.' Amelia chanted in her head. A blast of fairy magic hit the peahat. It paused for less then a second and suddenly sped up to speeds that were faster then before.

"Amelia I said slow it down, not speed it up!" Gourry yelled running around like crazy trying to avoid getting hit by the blades.

"Sorry!" Amelia cried out. 'Stupid magic! I can never get it right! I'm such a jinx!'

Gourry ran and rolled waiting for his chance. 'Can't miss this time!' Finally the peahat slowed down and stopped spinning. Gourry shot another blast from his sword. It didn't miss and the peahat disappeared. "Ever wonder where they go after you beat them?" Gourry said looking at the spot where the peahat used to be.

"I'm sorry Master Gourry! Please forgive me! I didn't mean to speed up the monster like that." Amelia flew back down to Gourry.

"That's okay Amelia. Neither of us was hurt and that's all that matters." Gourry flashed a smile.

"Yes but you could have been killed!' Amelia exclaimed.

"It's okay! Forget about it. I do it all the time." Gourry grinned

Amelia sweatdropped.

Inside a large castle a king sat in his throne with a very desperate look on his face.

"Oh my what am I to do? I want to save my daughter, but I can't just over the Triforce! What am I to do? Is there no hero strong and brave enough to save Hyrule?" The King sighed in despair.

Gourry and Amelia aimlessly traveled as they usually did encountering several monsters such as leevers, octoroks, moblins, peahats and tektites. They picked up several rupees as well as some useful items. They had no destination in mind. They just traveled where adventure led them helping villages and kingdoms on the way.

"Master Gourry which way should we go?" Amelia asked as they came to a fork in their path.

Gourry chewed on his bottom lip in thought. "We went left last time so I think we'll go right this time." Gourry decided.

Please Master Gourry…

Gourry stopped in his tracks. 'It's that voice again!'

Please go left…

"Amelia did you hear that?"

"Hear what Master Gourry?"

"That voice?"

Gourry shrugged. "I guess I was just hearing things. Let's get going." Gourry started to walk again.

Go left please…

Gourry stopped again. "Okay we'll go left then." Gourry took the left path.

"I didn't say anything Master Gourry." Amelia flew down and sat on his shoulder.

"I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to her."

"Who?"

"The voice in my head." Gourry said smiling.

Amelia sweatdropped. 'I think Master Gourry has been in the sun too long. He's having conversations with voices in his head. I hope we get to a town soon.'

No sooner did Amelia think this that they reached a town. It looked like it was a small quaint town only it was crowded with many people.

"What's going on here?" Gourry asked out loud as they walked into the town.

"Aren't you here for the challenge?" A man dressed in a simple gray tunic and brown pants asked from his merchant stand.

"What challenge?" Gourry asked while walking over to the main.

"The King's challenge to collect the seven pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom and rescue his daughter."

"What's a Triforce?" Gourry asked in confusion.

"What you don't know what a Triforce is? Are you kidding me? How could you not know of the Triforce?"

"I'm not from here… I think. And I forget stuff… a lot."

The merchant just looked at Gourry strangely. "Alright I'll explain the legend of the three Triforces. At the birth of this world three goddess created with their combined power a token for out world, a holy bond to them. The goddesses were Din the Goddess of Power, Nayru the Goddess of Wisdom and Farore the Goddess of Courage. Their token was the Triforce. At its creation the Triforce was a golden pyramid that shone with its holy light. It had the power to do miracles and wonderful things. But it also had the power to do equally bad and terrible things.

The keeper of the Triforce determined whether or not it would be used for good or evil. So naturally people fought for possession of the Triforce. One person was an evil sorcerer determined to rule the world. But with the valiant efforts of two heroes the evil sorcerer was stopped and sealed away. Only during the fight the Triforce was separated into three pieces. The Triforce of Wisdom, the Triforce of Courage and the Triforce of Power. To seal the sorcerer away the Triforce of Power was sealed away along with him never to be seen on this again on this mortal coil.

The Triforce of Wisdom stayed with the royal family of Hyrule the original protectors of the Triforce appointed by the goddesses themselves. As for the Triforce of Courage, it strangely disappeared. No one knows about what happened to it to this day.

What's happened recently is that evil sorcerer Prince Xellos has escaped his sealed prison and is trying yet again to rule the world. Using the Triforce of Power, which had been sealed away with him he tried to get the Triforce of Wisdom from King Erik of Hyrule. Only there was a spell that was placed on the Triforce of Wisdom making it impossible for Xellos to use it. Enraged Xellos used his power to split the Triforce of Wisdom into seven pieces and gave them to seven of his minions in seven dungeons to be protected. Xellos kidnapped King Erik's daughter, the princess to try and put pressure on the King to release the spell. Both the princess and the king refused to break the spell and since then Xellos has taken the princess to his underground lair. All heroes that have tried so far to save the princess have failed. It seems that you need to have the Triforce of Wisdom intact and with you to enter Prince Xellos' lair."

"Oh! So that's what a Triforce is! And no one's even been able to collect one piece of it yet?" Gourry asked while sitting.

"Not yet. That's why the King has sent for all the heroes and warriors of Hyrule and other neighboring kingdoms. Say what's a guy like you traveling with a little fairy like her?" The merchant eyed Amelia. "I'll give you fifty rupees for her." He offered.

"I'm not for sale!" Amelia puffed, face red in anger.

"Calm down Amelia. Amelia and I have been traveling ever since I got lost in a forest a few years back. She helped me find my way and has been with me since then."

"I'm from the fairy clan of the eastern woods. I help Master Gourry in fights with my knowledge of monsters. I'm very helpful to Master Gourry on his quests." Amelia said with an upturned nose.

"If you're so helpful then why'd you leave your clan?"

"Because I wanted to adventure."

"What about you boy? Where you from?"

Gourry thought hard for a few moments. "I don't know, I can't remember." Gourry grinned sheepishly.

The merchant facefaulted. "You can't remember where you're from? What kind of an idiot are you?"

"Master Gourry is not an idiot!" Amelia interjected. "When he was young he woke up in a forest with amnesia! It's not his fault that he doesn't remember!" Amelia glared at the merchant.

"Oh well. While you're here why don't you buy something." The merchant motioned to three items on his shop rug. He had on his rug a magical shield, a set of bombs and a blue candle.

"I've already got a good shield and I don't need anymore booms. But what's so special about a blue candle?" Gourry looked at it more closely. There didn't seem to be anything interesting about it at all.

"This is a special candle. Its flame is magical. It can light itself and its flame is blue. See?" The merchant demonstrated and sure enough the flame was blue and lit up on its own.

"Cool! How much are you asking for it?"

"Sixty rupees."

"That's highway robbery! There's no way a simple candle would cost that much, magical or not!" Amelia exclaimed.

"Fine if you don't want it I'll sell it to someone else." The merchant went to take the candle away.

"Wait. I'll give you what you're asking." Gourry pulled the rupees out of his bag.

"Master Gourry! You-"

"Amelia, I'm going to get it. Here you go." Gourry handed the merchant the money.

"You've made a very wise decision sir." The merchant took the rupees and gave Gourry the candle.

"Thank you. Amelia let's get going." Gourry and Amelia walked away from the merchants shop.

"I still think you paid too much for that stupid candle." Amelia grumbled.

"No I didn't, it's cool, look!" Gourry tried to light it but it wouldn't light up. "Huh? What's going on? Is it broken?" Gourry examined the candle.

"Wait there's some writing on the base. It says 'Only one time use per area per time.' Master Gourry you've been ripped off." Amelia chided.

"Oh well it's still a cool candle. So should we head off?" Gourry suggested.

"To where? I thought we were going to stay in town."

"Nope we're going to Hyrule Castle."

"Why?"

"To save the princess of course!"

Amelia grumbled. "But I'm tired and I want to rest… Can't this wait till tomorrow?"

Gourry didn't listen. He just continued on whistling all too familiar tune.

'When Master Gourry gets determined about something he doesn't change his mind.' Amelia sighed in defeat.