Me: Hey, people! I know the Digimon Tamers/Zelda crossover has been done before, but this is just a joint project with my sister. I decided to take each of our most favorite things, combine them into a fanfiction, and, voila!
Espeon (my sister): Copy this and DIE!
Me: Yeah, my sister's a little crazy; don't mind her. By the way, the title, "The Tamers of Time," is not meant to overshadow Link or anything; not to offend any of you Zelda fans out there. After all, he is the "Hero of Time." It just seemed like a great title (I can't remember what it's called when most of the words in a group of words begin with the same letter ^_^;). If it did seem like it overshadowed him, my sister would tell me; she hates it when people mess with Zelda's image too much. Anyways, on with the show!
Disclaimer: The original Digimon concept was created by Akiyoshi Hongo, Digimon Tamers was animated by Toei, dubbed by Saban, took over by Disney, and Zelda is by Nintendo. (Boy, Digimon went through a lot.) Parts of the opening were also from actual Zelda game footage. ^_^
The Tamers of Time
Chapter 1: The Dark Painting
Before
life began, before the world had form, three golden goddesses descended upon
the chaotic land of Hyrule. They were Din, the goddess of Power, Nayru, the
goddess of Wisdom, and Farore, the goddess of Courage.
Din, with her strong flaming
arms, cultivated the land to create the earth. Nayru poured her wisdom onto the
earth to give the spirit of law to the world. Farore's rich soul created all
life forms who would uphold the law.
These three great
goddesses returned to the heavens, leaving behind the golden sacred Triforce.
Since then, the Triforce has become the basis for Hyrule's providence. Where the
Triforce stood became sacred land.
As time passed, the Sage of Light (Rauru) sensed
that an evil was about to arise in the land of Hyrule. Thus, he thought that it
would be better to split each of the three Triforce pieces into two, making six
pieces in total. He kept one side of each Triforce piece in the sacred realm,
and the others on the top, left, and right sides of a silver frame. The
painting inside the frame, came from the Forest Temple. After that, he placed
the item into a chest, and sealed it, burying it in the middle of Hyrule field.
Using his magic, he made sure that the power sealed withen, would not be
discovered by the approaching evil.
***
In the vast, deep forest of
Hyrule, the Great Deku Tree served as the guardian spirit. The children of the
forest, the Kokiri lived with the Great Deku Tree. Each Kokiri had his or her
own guardian fairy, except one. His name was Link.
Early one morning, Link was having a nightmare in his
treehouse. It was the same nightmare he had every night. During a storm, Link
would find himself standing in front of a mysterious castle. A rider on
horseback, carrying a girl, would race by. The girl would look at Link as if to
say something. Then, another rider would appear. This big man clad in black
would look down menacingly at Link. Link would then awaken. At the moment, the
boy was being rudely awakened by someone.
"Wake up,
wake up! The Great Deku Tree wants to talk to you!" The lad showed no signs of
getting up. "Such a lazy boy! Why is the 'Hero of Time' such a lazy boy!? Wake
up, wake up!" As Link opened his eyes, he saw a fairy
floating in front of him. This fairy's name was Navi. Navi was sent to summon
Link to the Great Deku Tree. Finally, Link, outfitted in green clothing,
sat up in bed, stretching and yawning. He looked at the fairy curiously. 'Why
does the Great Deku Tree want to see me?' he thought sleepily. Shrugging, he
lifted himself up, and made his way over to his door.
"Hey! Hey,
Link! Down here!" a voice called from below. The child named Link looked down.
Who he saw, was his close friend, Saria, at the bottom of his ladder. "I see
you got your own fairy now!" Link climbed down the ladder to reach her.
"Morning,
Saria," he said, still a bit tired.
"Good
morning, Link! I think the Deku Tree wanted to tell you something. I wonder
what it is," she replied cheerfully.
"I know.
This fairy told me," he said, gesturing at the floating ball of light above
him.
"My name's
Navi," the light purple fairy informed him.
"Sorry," he apoligized. "I
guess I'll go see what he wants now."
***West Shinjuku,
Tokyo***
"Hey, Jen!"
Takato greeted his best male friend. Takato had caught Jen outside, after
school had ended for the day.
"Hi,
Takato."
"Hey, my
class has to do a report on a piece of Japanese artwork for next week," Takato
said.
"Yeah, me
too."
"Really?"
"Yeah. I'm
thinking of going to the art museum to look at some pieces. I might decide to
do my report on one of those."
"Wow,
that's a great idea! Can I come too? I want to get a first-hand look at some
artwork. Maybe I can do my report on one of those as too!"
Jen nodded
his head, "Sure, you can come. Is tomorrow at 10:00am alright with you?"
"It's great! Though…" Takato
paused for a moment to think. "I'll probably have to leave Guilmon at home,
right?"
"I guess
so. Museums don't allow pets in there, let alone large, red lizards."
"I hope he'll be okay with
it," Takato said in a worried tone.
"Just leave
him lots of bread," Jen laughed. Takato cheered up, and laughed along with him.
***
Jen was
waiting outside the museum for Takato. Takato was usually late when it came to
meeting up with others. He still remembered that Takato was the last one to
reach for their journey to the Digital World. Oh, well. He didn't really mind that much. He was only fifteen minutes
late after all, but he still wanted to get a head start on his art report.
"Moumentai,
Jen!" Terriermon had come along with Jen, disguised as a backpack. "Takato will
get here sooner or later."
"You're
right, Terriermon," Jen smiled.
"Anyways, I
don't know what you're in such a rush for; doing work so soon is a ridiculous
idea to me. Why not wait until later?"
"Terriermon,
you're logic-"
"Jen!" a
voice called from the distance.
"Hey, look
who's finally here!" Terriermon quipped. "Is that…" He was looking at a large
trenchcoat, which had something protruding from the back, and also seemed to be
earing a hat.
"Hi,
Terriermon! Hi, Jen!" came a familiar voice from the coat.
"You brought Guilmon?" Jen
asked in a surprised voice.
"Well, I
thought about it last night, and I really didn't want Guilmon to be lonely
without me," Takato stated, glancing at Guilmon.
"You would
only be gone for a few hours" Jen replied.
"Well, I
also thought it might be nice to show him the artwork too. Isn't that why
you're here, Terriermon?"
"Actually,
I just wanted to tag along."
"And add
his two cents to everything," Jen added.
"That too,"
Terriermon grinned.
"I don't
know if we'll be able to sneak Guilmon in, Takato."
"I know, but if it worked for our camping trip, it should work here."
"Maybe…if we create a
distraction, we just might be able to pull it off," Jen thought optimistically.
"What kind
of a distraction?" Takato inquired. Jen took a moment to think.
"I've got
it! It's simple, but it might work too," Jen said, as he pulled out a bottle of
water from his other backpack.
***
"Hello,
young man," the curator said, as Jen walked to the front of the museum. "It's
not too often that we get young people coming to the museum voluntarily."
"Hello,
sir. Actually, I'm here to do a report on Japanese artwork. May I have a
guidebook?"
"Certainly,"
he answered, reaching under the desk.
"On second
thought, can you make that two? I'm meeting a friend here, and I'd like to get
one for him ahead of time."
"That's
thoughtful of you. Of course you can." When the curator was behind the desk,
Jen signaled to Terriermon. Promptly, Terriermon dropped the opened bottle of
water he had in his paws. The water spilled all over the floor, creating a
mess.
"Ah! I'm
sorry!" Jen apologized. "I must not have packed up my stuff properly."
Terriermon had started to snicker, causing Jen to jolt his body back, to make
him stop.
"Don't worry. As long as it's just water, and not near any artwork, it's fine," the curator calmly said. "Here, I have some paper towels to clean that up."
"Let me help you." Jen bent down to
help wipe up the mess, making sure to block the curator's view of the entrance.
Terriermon meanwhile, waved his paw at Takato and Guilmon. Cautiously, so as
not to be noticed, the two of them made their way to the first museum room.
"Thanks for your help young
man." The curator carefully picked up the soggy paper towels, and placed them
in the garbage bin."It was no problem. The mess was my fault anyways."
"Well, just make sure it
doesn't happen again, and enjoy your stay at the museum," the curator replied
in a friendly tone.
"I will!" Jen answered, as he
walked away.
"Are you guys alright?" Jen
asked Takato and Guilmon.
"Yeah, we're fine," Takato
said.
"Great. Well, I guess we
should start looking for something to do our reports on. By the way, here's a
museum guide."
"Thanks. Let's go!"
***
"Hmm…how about this one?" The
group had been walking around the museum for about forty minutes, and Jen had
already decided to do his report on a sculpture of an ancient Japanese warrior.
Takato, on the other hand, had yet to decide on what to do. Jen had suggeted
choosing a painting, but there weren't any which had yet caught the
gogglehead's interest.
"But I can't even tell what
it's a painting of," Takato contrasted. He was beginning to think that it was
useless coming here, and probably just should have looked for something at the
library.
"Not all paintings are
supposed to look like something; interpret it," Jen commented.
"I know, but it just…it
doesn't move me."
"Move you? What in the world are you talking
about? It's art! You just look at it!" Terriermon complained, getting tired of
Takato's indecisivness, and being so quiet for so long.
"Terriermon!" Jen scolded his
partner.
"What? Geez. Artists…"
"Hey!" Takato exclaimed.
"Sorry, Takato. He doesn't- ,"
Jen began, but was interrupted by Takato.
"No, not that, Jen." Takato
began looking around the museum. "Haven't you noticed that during the time
we've been here, we've seen no other people?"
"Huh?" Jen started thinking
back. "Yeah, I guess that's true. Weird. There should be at least some other people here other than us."
"Takato!" Guilmon spoke up.
"Huh? What is it Guilmon?"
Takato looked down at his Digimon.
"I can smell a Digimon near
here!" he exclaimed excitedly. Excitedly, because he recognized the Digimon.
` "A Digimon?" Takato and Jen
chorused at the same time.
"He's right! I can sense her
too!"
"Terriermon?" Jen reconfirmed
with his friend. "Her?"
"Guilmon! Wait up!" Takato
started running after Guilmon, as he had took off towards the familiar Digimon.
"Don't go running off everywhere by yourself!"
"It's Renamon!" Guilmon called
back, turning a corner.
"Wha? Renamon? What's she doing here? Wait. If Renamon's here,
then that must mean- " Before Takato could finish however, he had rounded the
corner, and ran right to someone, toppling the both of them over.
"Hey! Watch where you're
going!" the other person shouted at Takato.
"Ah, sorry! I- " 'Huh? That
voice…' Takato thought in his head. He looked up at the person, to confirm his
suspicions. Sitting across from him, was a girl his age, with auburn hair, tied
into a spiky ponytail. This girl, he was familiar with, ever since he had first
saw her in a dream he had. This girl, was Ruki Makino. "R-Ruki," Takato stuttered.
"Takato?" Ruki blinked. "So
you are here; Renamon was right."
"Renamon?" Takato looked to
his right, to sure enough see Renamon standing next to her Tamer, with Guilmon
in front of her.
"See, Takato? I told you she
was here!" Guilmon said happily.
"Y-yeah," Takato said, still a
bit surprised to see the pair here. He turned back to look at Ruki, who had
already stood up. She held her hand out. Takato just stared at her,
spidly."Well, do you want me to help you up or not?"
"O-oh, yeah! Thanks." He
greatfully accepted her offer, and she pulled him. At that moment, Jen and
Terriermon arrived at the scene.
"Takato- Ruki?" Jen said,
slightly surprised to see her here as well.
"Hey, Jen," she said.
"Hey, I'm here too!" Jen
turned around so that Terriermon was now visible.
"Hi, Terriermon."
"Hiya, Digimon Queen,"
Terriermon playfully replied. Ruki smirked at him.
"Uh, hi, Ruki. What are you
doing here?" Jen looked from Ruki to Renamon.
Ruki held her arms, saying, "I
have to do an assignment on Japanese art." Takato's eyes widened at the
coincidence.
"Really? Us, too! We came here
to look at the pieces they have on display, hoping to find something to work
on."
Jen placed his hand under his
chin, thoughtfully. "Hmm…well, since we are
in the same grade, we should expect to be doing the same curriculum, right?"
Ruki shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't know… not all schools
choose to do the same project for a certain subject, do they?"
"Who cares?" Takato exclaimed
happily. "Now I have two friends to help me find something to do!"
"You haven't found something
yet? How long have you been here?" Ruki asked.
"Eh? Well, I suppose about…"
Takato glanced at his watch, "fifty minutes."
"Hm. I guess that's to be
expected," Ruki replied.
"Are you kidding me!?"
Terriermon exclaimed all of a sudden. "Fifty minutes! That's almost an hour!
We've just been past a whole bunch of- "
"Terriermon, be quiet!" Jen
told his Digimon. "Someone might hear you!"
"I doubt that," Renamon
finally spoke. "I can't sense anyone nearby at all."
"Yeah," Ruki agreed. "We've
already been to some exhibits around the museum, but haven't come across
anyone."
"Same here," Takato said.
"It's just too odd for no one else being here besides us."
"Maybe everyone went to eat
somewhere," Guilmon piped up. Everyone laughed at Guilmon's comment.
"Guilmon, not everyone is
constantly hungry like you," Takato said between chuckles.
"Hey, guys," Terriermon was
finally able to say. "Let's get going and find Takato something. It's way to
hard being quiet all the time."
"Here, you can come down now
Terriermon," Jen siad, as he lifted his partner off his back. "Since there
doesn't seem to be anyone else here," he added. Terriermon, however, climbed
back up, resting on his shoulders.
"I didn't mean that I wanted to walk, but at least now I
have a better view of the place," Terriermon smiled contently. Jen sighed.
"Takato, does that mean that I
can come out from here too?" Guilmon was tugging on his garments.
"Yeah, sure Guilmon," Takato
answered. He pulled off the stuff from Guilmon, stuffing them into his backpack
afterwards.
"Come on, let's go this way,"
Ruki pointed in the opposite direction she had come from. "I haven't been over
there yet."
"Alright, let's go," Jen
agreed.
They walked down the hallway,
passing by some paintings hanging on the wall. Jen suggested one of those, but
Takato shook his head. When they entered the adjoined room, they found an
amazing sight before them. This room was unlike any of the others, and was
easily the most elaborate. The floor was made out of what appeared to be
marble, as was the pillers supporting the astounding curved ceiling. There was
a large window at the other end, with red, velvety curtains hanging about it.
The walls were of a white, creamish colour, and there were fancy panels,
framing the entire room.
Terriermon's, "Whoa! Check out
this place!" basically summed up everyone's thoughts at that moment.
"Look, there's something over
there!" Ruki pointed at something near the wall opposite them. The others
followed her gaze.
There seemed to be another
pair of curtains hanging around whatever was over there, at the opposite end.
As they walked closer, the objects came into view, barricaded by a velvet
rope.. On the wall, was a painting. The painting consisted of dark colours,
depicting a dreary castle in the background, with dead-looking trees next to
it. A wavy path came from the castle, entrance. At a closer look, they could
faintly see the outline of a dark figure, riding down the path. The art was
contained in a silver frame, with peculiar gold markings on the top and sides.
It didn't really look like anything. More like pieces, of a whole. Their
attention was then drawn to what was placed under the picture; a treasure
chest. The chest was mahogany brown, bounded by leather straps with gold
buckles. The chest looked quite ordinary, as if meant to not have attention
drawn to it. The most unique thing about it though, was a triangular outline on
the top.
"Hey," Takato finally broke
the silence. "Doesn't that shape look like the triangle on Culumon's forehead?"
"Now that you mention it, it
sort of does," Jen responded.
"Weird," was Ruki's comment.
"This is so cool! That's it;
I'm going to do my report on that painting!" Takato cried with excitement.
"I've never seen artwork like
this before," commented Jen. "Is there even any information on it in the
library?"
"Hey, guys! Take a look at
this!" Ruki was calling them over to a plaque which she had read over.
"What is it, Ruki?" Takato
asked her.
"It's this plaque. It talks a
little about the artifacts' background; it's pretty vague though," she
answered. The others looked over her shoulder. "It says here that the treasure
chest was found during an excavation. The chest was discovered in a vast field,
in front of an old castle gate. The triangular symbol is thought to be the
crest of the royal family which once ruled that area. Once open, the painting
was revealed to be what was being kept safe inside. They think the painting
once hung in the great castle, and the image displayed is the scene before it.
As for the gold markings on the frame, since there's three, it's assumed that
they are each a part of what the triangular symbol is."
"Everything about this stuff
seem to be assumptions," Jen concluded. "There doesn't seem to be a lot of
solid information, Takato.
"Oh, but I so want to do assignment on this! It's
so perfect; it's terrific!" Takato countered. He gazed longingly at the items
before him. He had to do his
assingment on these. They were the only pieces which made him feel so riled up,
and lit his artistic wick. Takato started to walk back to the front of the
pieces, to take in all its magnificence.
"Takato," Ruki began, but
Renamon intervened, after she came back from her own observation of the
artifacts.
"Ruki, I sense a strange force
eminating from these items," spoke Renamon, in a tense voice.
"Renamon?"
Terriermon was the next to
speak. "I don't sense anything."
Guilmon said, "Guilmon doesn't
feel anything either." He sniffed at it, then sneezed.
"Careful, Guilmon," Takato
laughed. "There must be some remnants of dirt and dust on those things."
"Okay, Takato," Guilmon
replied, wagging his tail. His tail, however, swung into one of the poles
holding the velvet rope, knocking it over.
"Guilmon!" Takato cried. He
tried to catch the rope before it fell, but as he did so, he tripped over the
brown treasure chest. Trying to regain his balance, he placed his hand up on
the wall, only to touch the painting. Suddenly, the painting started to shine a
white light. Takato, shocked by this, tried to remove his hand, finding that he
couldn't. "Help!" he called towards the others. "I can't move my hand!"
Guilmon, Ruki, Renamon, Jen, and Terriermon leaping off him to help, ran up to
Takato, trying to pry him off the painting. The light just grew, with greater
intensity, covering the entire room in blinding radiance. The group began
feeling a sensation, as if their bodies had unexpectedly become lighter. It was
like falling into a deep sleep. The light intensified itself for a second, then
dissipated as quicky as it had come. When the room was clear of the luminosity,
there was no sign of anyone having been there.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Espeon: To be continued!
Me: Yeah, if we can find time to do it. The Ocarina of Time is so long. It'll
take forever to go through the entire thing, especially when school starts back
up.
Espeon: Yeppers! Majora's Mask would be harder to do, though.
Me: I wasn't talking about Majora's Mask.
Espeon: Well, I was.
Me: *sigh* Anyways, how was it? Good? Horrible? Needs some fine tuning? R&R
to your heart's content, but no flames, thanks.