A/N: Hey, everyone. This is my first crossover. Let's see how it turns out!
Disclaimer: I do not own the Slayers characters, plot, or settings, and I do not own the Legend of Zelda characters, plots, or settings.
Chapter 01: The Dimwitted Deku Tree
It all starts with a boy named Zelgadis. The boy is a misfit among his people, the Kokiri, and has...
Wait, no. Wrong story. Lemme see here...hey, has history gone crazy?! Um...anyway,
The boy is a misfit among his people, the Kokiri, and has no fairy. It doesn't help that he is a blue-skinned chimera.
"Hey now, SlayersFan132, have you gone crazy? I will not let you just insert me into this story! I AM NOT A PLAYTHING! Wait...is that a voodoo doll? Ow! No! Please! Okay, I'll stop complaining! Don't hurt me!"
Sorry, everyone. One of my playthings was acting up. Anyway...
One morning, before Zelgadis has woken up, Gourry, the Dimwitted Deku Tree, is speaking to a fairy named Sylphiel.
"Sylphiel, where art thou? Come hither," Gourry says. "Yeah, I agree with Zelgadis! These lines are hard!"
Um...I'll edit that out later.
"Yes, Gourry dear? I am here," the fairy says as she flits over to him.
"Find the boy without the fairy. Bring him to me. I am running out of time."
"Very well, Gourry dear," she replies, quickly fluttering away.
Sylphiel begins to fly to Zelgadis' house. She zips underneath a Kokiri's legs and looks around. She sees his house, nods, and flits over...only to crash into a fence. "Oops," she murmurs. She then flits into his room, hovering just above his head. She softly calls, "Zelgadis. Zelgadis! Wake up! The Deku Tree has summoned you!"
The chimera shudders a bit in his sleep before waking up. "H-huh?" he mutters, rubbing his only visible eye, as the other one is covered by a sort of mask of hair. He studies Sylphiel, "Are you...a fairy?"
"Yes," she replies. "Gourry dear sent me to you, Zelgadis! He needs your help. Something terrible is happening!"
He simply stutters, "A-a real fairy? I finally got a fairy?"
"Oh, I almost forgot! My name is Sylphiel. I'm going to be your partner from now on!"
He stares in disbelief at her, but then calmly gets out of bed. "Okay, then. Take me to Gourry."
Sylphiel flutters outside with Zelgadis.
"Hey, Mister Zelgadis!" his friend (his only friend, aside from the fairy fluttering next to him), Amelia, calls. She runs towards Zelgadis' tree house. He climbs down.
"Hi, Amelia. Look! I finally got a fairy!" he exclaims, pointing to Sylphiel.
Amelia gasps and gives his a hug, "Wow, Mister Zelgadis! I can't believe it! Mister Gourry sent you a fairy!" Since she and Zelgadis speak to the Dimwitted Deku Tree so often, they are allowed to call him by his real name.
"Yes, but this is no time to rejoice!" Sylphiel squeaks. "Gourry dear has summoned you, Zelgadis!"
"Well then, what are we waiting for? Seeya, Amelia!"
Amelia waves as he runs towards the Deku Tree, Sylphiel close behind. He jumps across three small platforms in the water and gets a blue Rupee. Soon he sees Dilgear standing at the entrance to the meadow that Gourry is in.
"Ugh, what do you want, Dilgear?" Zelgadis grumbles.
"You're going to see the Deku Tree, aren't you?" Dilgear snarls. Without letting Zelgadis answer, he says, "Well, I'm not letting you through, no-fairy!"
Zelgadis rolls his eyes and points at Sylphiel.
Dilgear pauses for a second. "Oh, well. Even if you have a fairy, you're still a blue-skinned freak!" When Zelgadis flinches, the bully smirks and continues, "You could at least be properly equipped with a sword and a shield."
"You're not properly equipped," Zelgadis points out.
"Well, uh...um...I know, but I'm not in the meadow. I'm just guarding the Deku Tree from monsters like you."
Zelgadis sighs and trudges back towards Amelia. He grumbles, "Dilgear won't let me through unless I have a sword and a shield."
Amelia frowns, "Well, he's right about that, actually. Weird things have been going on in the forest recently. Monsters have been attacking people in the meadow. That's the only reason we've put up a full-time guard. You can buy a shield at the store for forty Rupees, but there's only one sword hiding in the forest somewhere."
"Okay, thanks, Amelia," Zelgadis says.
Sylphiel informs him, "There's a maze nearby with a big treasure chest in it. Maybe a sword is in there?"
"Maybe...let's go check," he hesitantly suggests. He walks over to the entrance of the maze, which is a hollow log that only a kid can fit through.
After crawling through, he walks forward, turns left, then turns right. Then he hears rumbling. "What's th—AAAH!" A boulder knocks him over. "Why didn't you warn me about that?" Zelgadis asks coldly.
"Um, sorry. I forgot.," Sylphiel apologizes, blushing in embarrassment.
"How could you forget something like that?!"
She remains silent, simply fluttering to the side as Zelgadis gets smacked in the face by the same boulder.
"That's it, where's the treasure?"
"Over there, in one of the—"
The boulder rams into him again. "This thing is seriously ticking me off," he says as he runs over to the treasure chest. Suspenseful music begins to play when he opens it and looks inside. "Now, wait just a second. Where did the music come from?"
"Stop asking questions and take the sword, Zelgadis," Sylphiel says. She might be impatient, but it's hard to tell when she's just a blob of blue light, wings, and sparkles.
"Fine," Zelgadis grumbles, pulling out the Kokiri sword.
"You're supposed to pose," she whispers.
"Hey, I'm only in this story because SlayersFan132 has a well-working voodoo doll. I am not going to pose!" he complains. With that, he waits for the boulder to pass and exits the maze.
Sylphiel asks, "How are we going to get 40 Rupees?"
"We scavenge, cut grass, and throw rocks," Zelgadis replies. "Or we could just rob them..."
"Zelgadis! Amelia would have your head!" Sylphiel gasps.
"Well, we could always use the 'Fireball to Dilgear's face' method..."
"No, we're doing this the fair way!"
"But what about the fun way?"
She sighs, "'Fun' is not part of this story. Not for us, anyway. Now, hurry up, because—"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, 'Gourry dear has summoned' me," he mutters, walking around in tall grass. "Aha! Twenty Rupees!" he exclaims, holding a red Rupee. "Now we've got twenty-five Rupees!"
"Why didn't you have any before?" Sylphiel asks.
He rolls his eyes. "Because I didn't need to buy anything. Our food literally grows on trees."
"Oh."
Fifteen Rupees later, Zelgadis walks into the store. Everyone in there pretends to be doing something else, but with his keen vision, he can obviously tell that they're looking at him. He can also hear exactly what they're saying with his pointed ears.
"Hey, look! The monster's here!"
"And he's got a sword!"
"Has he come to murder us?"
Pretending not to hear, he walks over to the counter and asks, "Can I buy a shield, please?"
The boy behind the counter quickly hands it to him. "Here, take it! Just don't hurt us!"
"Why would I hurt you?" Zelgadis asks in confusion.
The boy refuses to say more. He doesn't even care whether Zelgadis pays or not.
But the chimera takes his forty Rupees out anyway, and leaves them on the counter. He exits the store and walks back to Dilgear.
"Wh-whoa!" the bully exclaims. "Is that as-sword?! And a shield?!" He scoots a few steps to the side. "O-okay, I'll let you through! Just don't hurt me!"
As Zelgadis walks into the meadow, he mutters, "That seems to be everyone's lines nowadays."
Sylphiel says, "Zelgadis, just ignore him. He's trying to get on your nerves."
"And succeeding," he mutters as he walks towards the Dimwitted Deku Tree.
"Ah, Zelgadis. You have come," Gourry says.
"Yes, 'Great Deku Tree'," Zelgadis rolls his eyes. "Why did you summon me?"
Gourry blinks. Well, he would if he could. "Um, actually, I forgot."
The chimera falls, face first, to the ground. "Y-you forgot?"
Sylphiel exclaims in distress, "Gourry dear, you're dying, remember?" The fairy sweatdrops.
"Am I? Huh. I thought I was withering."
Zelgadis falls over again. "Um, Gourry, it's the same thing."
"Oh, right," the dimwitted, very old tree says.
"Gourry dear, how about I tell Zelgadis what happened?" Sylphiel asks. When Gourry nods (as much as a tree can, anyway) she explains, "Recently, a man of the desert came to the forest, asking about a spiritual stone of the forest. Gourry dear actually almost gave it to him, but after we fairies convinced him not to, the man became angry and laid a curse on Gourry dear. There is a giant spider inside him, and he needs your help. Gourry dear needs you to go inside and defeat the monster."
Zelgadis grumbles, "Which monster? The spider, or me?"
"Zelgadis, you are not a monster. You have a good heart, and that's all there is to it," Gourry says. "Or at least that's what I think."
"Okay, so what exactly is this stone?" Zelgadis asks.
"I'll tell you when I remember. Now please go kill the giant spider."
He sighs as the tree opens his mouth. Walking in, the chimera looks around. The dungeon is full of spiders. That much is obvious. Several spiders crawl on vines on the wall.
"Whoa. Hold it. How did the inside of a giant tree turn out to look like a tricky dungeon?" he asks.
"How am I supposed to know?" Sylphiel asks. "I'm just here to tell you the enemies' weaknesses and which way to go."
"Okay...so which way do I go?"
In front of the fairy appears a scepter far too large for her. She briefly lands on top of it and then flutters off. The rod tilts, falls over, and...lands upside down. "Down, apparently," Sylphiel says.
Zelgadis looks at the giant web on the floor. "Through that?" She nods. "Should I use a Fireball or do it the old-fashioned way?"
"The old-fashioned way?" she questions.
"Well, if you don't know what it is, then here we go..." He takes a deep breath and steps onto the web, immediately falling straight through it and landing in a ton of water.
Sylphiel flutters down, saying, "Oh. Next time, go for the Fireball."
"I hate water," is Zelgadis' reply as he climbs out. A switch sits in front of him. Hesitantly, he steps on the switch. A torch ahead of him lights up, burning a spiderweb.
"Like I couldn't have done that myself," he mutters, opening a treasure chest next to it.
After taking its contents, he moves on through the dungeon, eventually coming to a room where a Deku shrub shoots Deku nuts at him. Zelgadis deflects a nut back at it and draws his sword, preparing to bonk it (or maybe give it a trim. Probably the former).
"No! No! Okay, I give up! The secret to my brothers' order is 2, 3, 1," the shrub cries. "Twenty-three is number one!"
With that, the shrub runs away, leaving a recovery heart in its place.
Sylphiel repeats, "Okay, Zelgadis, remember that. Twenty-three is number one!"
"I'm guessing that's the order to whack them with," Zelgadis says.
"Most likely," she replies.
They open the door, go through a few more rooms, and come upon three Deku shrubs.
Zelgadis draws his sword and shield. "2, 3, 1, right?" he asks. Sylphiel nods, so he bounces the Deku nuts back at the second, the third, and then the first. He runs up to catch the first as it tries to get away.
When caught, the Deku shrub squeaks, "Okay, okay! I'm so sorry, Queen Gohma! The secret to defeating Her Majesty, Queen Gohma, is to attack when she's stunned!" He then runs away with the others.
"Zelgadis, I sense something very evil on the other side of that door," Sylphiel says as she flutters nervously around.
"Here we go," the chimera mutters, opening the door and looking around. He sees something shift in the corner of his eye and looks up. Suddenly, an enormous spider falls from the ceiling...directly on top of him.
Zelgadis tries to stab Gohma's stomach with his sword, but tough armor deflects it. The eye turns red. "Aha!" he exclaims, stabbing the eye. Gohma moves away, and Zelgadis finds a Deku nut. All the while, Sylphiel is fluttering around, pretending to be useful. Zelgadis throws the Deku nut and uses brute strength to chop Gohma in half as he mutters, "With bosses like these, this story will be quite uneventful."
"Shhh! The author has voodoo dolls!" the fairy cries.
A blue ring of light appears behind Gohma, and a Heart Container sits in front of her. Zelgadis pokes the heart, and it disappears. The chimera finally notices four hearts above his head. "Hey, what's up with that?! I'm not part of this game!"
"You are now, Zelgadis. You are now..." an ominous voice echoes. "Muahahahahahahaha!"