This is a Fan-fic based off of LOZ: Twilight Princess. I don't dare claim to own anything that belongs to Nintendo, and I'd be foolish to try. But everybody knows what belongs to Nintendo and SEGA, so there's no need for me to list it. The line taken from 'Princes of the Universe' belongs to whoever made it.
Instead, I own my characters along with my powers and 'items' unless I say otherwise. I also like to do some semi self-insertion in nearly all my stories, so if you don't like that, leave now. Also, I'd appreciate it if anything you decide to use from my story that is mine you give me credit for.
MINE: Dream Veil. Mirror Gems. Curtis Johnson Jones (If this turns out to be someone's real name, I'm shocked to hear it.). 'Silver Fang' reference. 'The ultimate power that a mortal can wield' phrase (If someone else thought of that particular phrase before me, I apologize, but for it's use in this story and my others, and since I didn't know if it beforehand, I still claim it).
Tears of Light from the Dark
Dream 1
Prologue
A human lay down after a good four hour-long round of Twilight Princess. He had just finished the last fishing challenge and the second to last temple. He was disappointed about the reward for beating the mini game, but satisfied from shutting Zant up.
If I had to fight him for another minute, I would have screamed. That was the most annoying boss he had ever fought, but only because of the noise he was making.
He'd already beaten it once, but wanted to find everything this time. Get all the hearts, items, wallets, and find whatever little glitches he'd heard about. He hadn't found all the gold bugs last time either. But that could all wait until tomorrow. Right now, all he wanted was to recharge his batteries.
Now, if I were helping the Hero in person, things would be different… And he fell asleep.
The next day was pretty much the same: Breakfast, school, homework, dinner, video games until his parents made him get off again. But this time he had made it to the final area and found a pair of bugs that he hadn't last time. All he needed to do to win again, was fight and kill Ganondorf, but that only meant that it was time to put aside his quest and go back to treasure hunting for awhile.
Yeah. Now comes the hassle and the girls in town swooning about my winning the contest in the tent… As he drifted off to sleep once more, he had one last thought: If only, if only, if…only…I could…just…
And then as his awareness faded, something rough scraped his entire body, and he found himself enveloped in a swirl of colors.
What the heck? This is the weirdest dream I've ever seen! And what was that scraping feeling earlier?
Something slammed into him, and as the objects moved away and he got a good look at them, he remembered what they were.
Ah. My creations from that "Silver Fang' story, the Mirror Gems. Ha! As if I need them anyway. Anybody who can control their dreams has ultimate power over them. But then something happened that he had not expected and caused him to lose concentration. He fell through a barrier that nearly shocked him to death. Fifteen seconds later, he slammed into the tops of some trees in the Lost Woods, and blacked out.
Chapter 1
A hero meets a Human
Link cast out his line once more trying to catch his biggest fish yet. Patiently he waited for twenty-five minutes and was just starting to doze when he felt a tug on his line. In excitement Link jumped to his feet and began to reel it in. Just as he was about to reach out and grab it with his free hand, Midna popped up and scared the crap out of him.
"Yaagh!" The fish jerked free of the hook, and flopped back into the water. His face turning red and one of those little anime-anger things formed on his head. Through gritted teeth he turned to the right and with his free hand quivering asked "Yes Midna? What is it now?"
Midna looked at his empty line and then back at him.
"I can't understand why you get so angry over a fish. Its only a fish, and its not as if it can jump up on land and walk away. It'll still be here when you get back."
"'Get back?' Just where is it we're supposed to be going?"
"Have you forgotten? Zelda is still being held captive by Ganondorf! We can't just leave her there!"
"Why not? It's not as if he'll kill her. He needs her so he can lure us in and can steal the Triforce you've got. While I agree that she needs to be saved, why can't the soldiers of Hyrule take care of it?"
"Like I told you before, those guys are all weak and cowardly. They're more likely to cry to their mothers than lift a finger to protect the kingdom. We're the only hope of this-"
Out of nowhere, a thunderbolt roiled across the sky. It was so loud that the vibrations caused the earth itself to shake. Midna's head darted immediately in a southeast direction. Link waved his arms and twisted his body in an attempt to keep his balance. He succeeded, but dropped his fishing pole into the pond. When the shaking stopped, Link reluctantly waded into the pond to recover his pole. He leaned it against a tree to dry, then went to check on the girl in the small cabin.
Midna floated up above the trees to get a better view of the direction she felt the magic surge come from. Something twinkled in the sky for a few seconds, but then disappeared. The surge was coming from somewhere above where they were falling form. She looked high, but saw nothing but one of those warp holes in the sky. Normal enough, except it was disappearing. Midna shrugged her shoulders and floated back down to wait for Link. He came back after a minute, and he wrung out the edges of his sopping wet tunic as he did so.
"What the heck was that? I've never felt a thunderbolt like that before!" Midna closed her eyes and thought.
"I don't know. I felt a surge of magic the second it started, and when I floated up saw something sparkling, but it disappeared in seconds." She didn't tell him about the disappearing warp hole, because she wasn't sure that she really had seen it. It could have just been an illusion created by the magical surge.
I don't want him more concerned then he already needs to be.
"Twinkling, huh? Well I for one, think we should investigate. It could be another one of Ganondorf's traps, but if it's not and instead is a gift from the Goddesses, then we'd be foolish just to leave it." Midna nodded.
"Very well. There's a warp hole near to it. Shall I warp us?" Link nodded.
"Please do." Link transformed himself, and then Midna warped them.
The Human 'woke up' to find himself hanging by one ankle above a small pond in the Lost Woods. He looked up to find his ankle was too thoroughly tangled in vines to get down with ease even if his ankle wasn't the main problem. So he just hung around trying to come up with an idea for freedom. But the idea was soon handed to him. One of the Mirror Gems was caught just a bit out of his reach.
But since I'm dreaming, that shouldn't be a problem. he thought with a grin. He concentrated on the Gem and lifted it off of the branch down to his right hand. That's when a line from a song he once heard came to mind.
"My power is in my own hand!" He focused on the gem and felt energy pulse through him.
Sweet! Eat your heart out, Sonic. He pointed his hand and a laser the width of his finger shot away and severed the vines. Too late did he realize that he'd still fall to the ground.
"Ooof! Dreams hurt!" The pond he fell into wasn't very deep, so it still hurt when he hit the ground. When he could breathe again, he laid down on the shore so the dizziness from being upside-down would make him fall. That's where he stayed for two minutes until he spied another Mirror Gem. Then he crawled forward and grabbed it.
Dream or not, I'd rather not have someone else get a hold of these. He searched around and found two more, but the others were nowhere that he could see. Great. Now what am I going to do?
One of the Skull kid's puppets appeared from above and went after him from the front. Get out of here first, that's for certain. He took off through the trees with more puppets pursuing him.
As he began to tire he suddenly and quite unluckily found himself at a dead end. He spun around to find his way back blocked, so instead he drew on the power of the Gems.
"You want a fight?! YOU GOT IT!!" The Human threw a fireball from one hand as if he were a Mage, and cast lightning from the other. The Gems he had been holding were rotating above the height of his head in a perfect circle around his body so he didn't need to hold them.
Very convenient. Glad I thought of it. In seconds, he made short work of them and moved on. But of course, more dropped down from the trees above. Already infused with the Life energy of others however, he just destroyed them again and kept moving until he found the exit. Or perhaps the entrance, but he didn't really care either way as long as those things stopped following him.
Good. Now that I've found my way out, I've got to find the other gems before I wake up. He looked around, thinking that maybe he could sense their powers. Nothing. Hmm. Perhaps if someone was using one I could feel it, but as it stands, I have no way to prove that theory.
Out of nowhere, a black fog gushed up out of the ground and who else should appear but the big bad guy himself, Ganondorf.
"So you are the one who was using a huge amount of magic. First you will tell me how you became so strong, and then you will swear loyalty to me." The Human laughed in his face.
"Ha HA ha hahahaaa! Heh heh heh. Oh man, that is the biggest laugh I have ever had in my life! Me serve YOU? You would only get a temporary servant if I did that. This is only a dream. It may seem real to you, but I for one can tell fantasy from reality."
Ganondorf growled at him and drew the sword of light.
"A dream? You think I am only a figment of your imagination, boy?! Let's see if a dream can make you bleed!!" Ganondorf hurled a huge ball of dark energies at the Dreamer. In response, he yawned and with a small amount of focus, slowed and stopped the attack.
"I told you Ganondorf, you are no match for me and my pow-" A bolt of energy struck him from behind and cast him to the ground at Ganondorf's feet. Ganondorf set a metal boot onto his back.
"Not so mighty now, are you boy? Something tells me that those gems are your source. I think I'll relieve you of them." As Ganondorf leaned over to take one, An arrow shot by his face followed by one that just barely missed his other foot. "What?!" He whipped his head around to see Link launching another arrow with a bomb attached to it at him. He countered it with his magic, and then looked to where the energy bolt had come from. It was one of his Shadow minions, and it was holding a large glowing gemstone. "Come, creature of darkness." He threw his gaze back to Link, who was closing in with the Master sword held high. "I'll deal with you later. Until then," another black cloud of fog engulfed him. "farewell!"
As the fog cleared, it showed him to be gone. Unfortunately, so was the Shadow creature, and it had taken one of the lost Mirror Gems with it.
Link ran up to the Human and helped him to his feet. But not yet having seen his ears, did not yet know he was in fact a Human.
"Are you alright?" Link asked.
"Yeah," he brushed himself off. "thanks." His eyes widened in shock as he saw who had come to his rescue. "Oh. My. Gosh! It's you! The next Hero! Freakin' sweet!"
Link was dumbstruck for a few minutes, and then asked "Freaking? What's that supposed to mean? And how did you know who I was?"
"Are you kidding?! I know all about you! I've played all the video games about you and your ancestors! Even knowing this is all just a dream, being able to meet you is literally a dream come true! So, am I at the point where you could go fight Ganondorf? Have you collected the pieces of that helmet thing for Midna yet?"
"Yeah I have but,- Hey wait a minute, you know about Midna too?? And what's a video game? And what was that about knowing about my ancestors? You don't even know my name."
"Oh yes I do! Your name is Link, just like all the heroes of the past. The previous hero was the Hero of Time."
Unless you count WindWaker which was supposed to take place in the future and wasn't really that good of a game as far as the others go. he frowned with that thought which made Link think he had caused offence.
"Do my questions bother you? Well, while I apologize for that, you know more about me than almost everybody. That frightens me a little. Plus with the strange event that took place not far from here, this all adds up to a strange day." Midna popped up to ask the Human a few questions of her own.
"Alright, so you know who we are and what we are doing. Who are you, and what are you doing -" then she noticed the Mirror Gems.
That's got to be the magic surge's source! Another surge flared up right before we got here, and those gems leave the same energy signature. I wonder if he knows their- Then the gems lifted back up off the ground and started rotating around his head again. I guess he does. "here?" she finished.
"The name's Curtis Johnson Jones. Pleased to meet you, even if its not real." He reached out a hand for a handshake, but then realizing his hand could have easily held four of hers, put it back down to his side. "What I'm doing here is enjoying my dream until I wake up to face another day of my boring reality.
"Or I would have enjoyed it if Ganondork hadn't taken one of my Mirror Gems with him."
"Is that what those things are?" Midna pointed at the revolving gemstones. Each one showed a small image of the person they were revolving around. Curtis nodded.
"Yeah." his next sentence sounded almost rehearsed. "The ultimate power that a mortal can wield. Well, without killing or aging themselves, anyway."
"You think our lives are all a dream?" Link said. Link looked in a way that said he obviously thought he was nuts. "That all this," he waved at the world around them. "will disappear in a matter of hours?"
"Yes. And I can prove it as well. Watch." Curtis closed his eyes and focused on a nearby rock. In seconds it transformed from an ordinary rock into a huge, fully-cut flawless ruby. Then he opened his eyes, pointed at Midna, and he himself turned into a shadow-being of the Twilight. Only, he now had wings that are commonly envisioned as a pair belonging to an Angel.
"Convinced? If not, I can change Link into a girl, and make you trade place with the Hero of Time's guide." Actually, he wasn't sure if he could do that, but hoped that they would buy it anyway.
Link put a hand on his chest and said, 'no thanks.' Midna didn't look like she believed him at all.
"If this is a dream, you'd have two different time periods flowing through your mind at once. That would either make you lose control over it, or you'd likely wake up. Whether or not this is a dream for you doesn't matter, we have to save Zelda!"
"Actually, it doesn't matter how much time you take." Curtis told her as he changed back to normal. "Certain events only occur when you do certain things. For example, if Link had stayed at…what you call Lake Hylia, and didn't go to Zelda for help, you would not have died. You couldn't die because you were a needed part of the storyline. Just as Ganondorf cannot afford to kill Zelda because then you wouldn't go to the castle to save her.
"Trust me, the only way things can happen out of turn would be if this wasn't really my mind playing what I want to happen, and it was in fact, a crack in the fourth wall my mind slipped through into a genuine other world. If that's the case, then we may have a major problem."
"Ya THINK?! Your coming here may just have changed what was supposed to happen. If you've screwed up our future, then I swear that I'll-"
"You'll do what? Midna, you are my favorite character in the Zelda game series, but if you try to fight me with the intention of doing me genuine harm, I will fight back. With these gemstones, I may be the strongest ally you could ever want. Not even the Master sword in combination with all three Triforce pieces and the weaponry from the Heroes of old would be enough to take me down." He turned his back on Midna and looked towards the Castle and town of Hyrule. "Or, at least I would be that strong, if Ganondorf hadn't taken one of the gems and the sixth gem wasn't missing."
"There's more of those things? Just how many do you have?!"
"I created six of them. Why? I'm not sure. Spur of the moment, I suppose. But that's not important. What is, is that we get the other one before it falls into his hands as well. I have a greater understanding of the gem's power and history, but Ganondorf has been drawing on the power of his Triforce for decades. It'll be a lot easier for him to draw in their powers than me. Also, he'd have no problem using 'certain people' for their power source. More particularly, us." he turned back to face them.
"Right now he has only one Mirror Gem, and you might be able to still beat him by yourselves in case I wake up and the gems don't vanish with me. But if he gets another, you're going to need Naryu's love. It was given to the Hero of time by one of the Great Fairies. They're all dead or in hiding now, so it's not likely we'll be able to ask them for it's location. More than likely the Hero gave it to someone he trusted before he left."
"So then, all we have to do is get the other gem before he does and then we can take it form there?" Link asked.
"Pretty much." Link nodded.
"Alright then, we better get started."
"Lord Ganondorf. You wanted us to do research on the strange gemstone?" (English translated from shadow creature.)
"Yes. What have you found?"
"To be honest my lord, we're not sure what we've found. It's been determined that the gem itself seems to collect energy from those around it. One of my assistants collapsed from exhaustion when we made one of the Imps draw on it's power capabilities. I myself was a bit tired by the time we knocked him out."
"So, what your saying is that it drains the life out of those around them, while the user himself gets it all?"
That could be useful indeed.
"We're not entirely sure if all of the energy is taken from the people around the user. The Imp seemed a bit tired himself. Or perhaps afraid…" Ganondorf caught that extra bit, and he did not like it.
"Afraid? Of what?" The Shadow creature started, then after Ganondorf glared at him the words tumbled out.
"The Imp said he- said that he heard a voice in his head. It- it was telling him to take the gem's power, kill all of us in the room, and then avenge his people. Among other things."
"Hmm. I see." Ganondorf paced widthwise across the throne room. When he reached the end he stopped, turned around, and asked a question. "Will I be able to take power from it without hearing these…voices?"
"We don't know, my lord. We've tested it on a number of different Imps, Bokoblins, Hylians, and even had the person who found it and used it. All except for the last and the Bokoblins claimed that they heard a whisper telling them to do things that without that power they probably wouldn't."
"What did these test subjects all have in common?"
"Well my lord, for the most part they were all…(Bleh!)…good people. The Bokoblins are mercenaries, so they didn't really care, and the shadow being was aligned towards evil."
"So then it has something to do with their 'alignment' as you put it. Then the answer is yes, I can use that gem. Have it brought to my personal chambers. You may go." The shadow creature bowed and left.
"Guard!" He barked. A Bokoblin trotted forward and also bowed. "Send a message to all idle and spare forces. All troops are to search for this boy," he formed a picture on rough paper with his magic. "and bring everything of his directly to me. Now go!" Ganondorf's right hand pointed at the main doors on the word go. The Bokoblin saluted and left.
Ganondorf strode unhurriedly back to the throne and sat down almost lazily in it. But his mind was far from lazy for he was already planning the latest hero's demise.
All I need for assured victory is those other gems the boy had. I've already got one, so now I just need to get his, and none shall be able to oppose me. Then when all has been taken, I shall force the Goddesses themselves to bow before me!
He chuckled louder and louder until at last maniacal laughter rang throughout the castle.
Chapter 2
'Mirror mirror, lost to my hand, where are you hiding, in this land?'
"So tell me dreamer, why is it you chose to come to this land out of all the others you describe?" Midna inquired as she sat on Link's shoulder and spoke to Curtis.
"I don't usually have the luxury of choosing my dreams. They just occur, and I make the best of them." he shrugged.
"It seems to me, you wanted to come here so badly that your mind sent you here the only way it could. Now you have become a part of our world."
"Only until I wake up." he said in a sad voice. "Then I leave this world behind like so many other worlds, so many friends, so many places I could have called home in time."
"What about your world?" Link asked. "Is it not as beautiful as it is here?" At the moment the were traversing through Hyrule fields and had come to the place where Lon Lon Ranch had once stood. Curtis sighed.
"Only in some places. You see that place?" He pointed at Hyrule's castle and town. "Most of our towns dwarf that place so badly it makes it look like a village. Fewer and fewer people care about nature anymore. In another two hundred years, an open area like this will be a fleeting dream too.
"That's why I want to be here. Centuries pass, but the land only grows more beautiful and mysterious. Very little is mysterious about our world now. Only why people's bodies react the way they do to certain illnesses.
"I'd rather not talk about this right now, let's do it later."
They were preparing to leave when they heard a voice from behind them. They looked over their shoulders to see the postman running up. Midna quickly dove back in Link's shadow.
"Which one of you is one, Mr. Link? I've got a package for you!"
"A package?" Link asked in confusion. "I've never gotten a package before. How odd."
"Judging from your reaction, I'd say you are Mr. Link. One moment please…" His hand shuffled through his pack until he grabbed what he was looking for. "Ah. Here it is." Link too the package and thanked him. "Until next time then!" He saluted and jogged off into the distance.
"I wonder what could be so important that they'd send it to me in a box?" Link put it down onto the ground. "Only one way to find out I guess." Link set to opening it as Midna popped back up onto his shoulder again. He fiddled around until he finally resorted to using his sword to pry it open. Midna started looking around and Curtis laid down on the grass to relax until the lid popped off the box with numerous sword marks on it. "Bingo!"
Inside was a letter and a complete heart piece. Link read through the letter, smiled fondly and then touched the heart. It disappeared in a shower of red sparkles, and Link stood up looking stronger. He placed the letter in a pouch at his waist that was about the size of a shield. He patted it and then walked towards the town. Curtis got up and followed while Midna popped back into his shadow once more.
"So Link, why are we going into town? I highly doubt the other Mirror Gem fell all the way in here."
"I need some items, and I'm hungry. Midna's probably hungry too. How about you?"
"Nah. I ate only five hours before I went to bed. Besides, eating in this world isn't very sustaining. It's the same with water. I could drink an entire river and it wouldn't make a difference. I'd keep being thirsty until I woke up and got a drink."
"Well. That's unfortunate. Would you like to wait outside then?" Curtis shook his head.
"Nah. I want to see if these people look as goofy in person as they do in the game."
"Whatever." So then all entered.
Almost immediately, Curtis was attracting attention. People were staring at his clothing, his hair color, and after the wind blew his hair around, his ears drew the most attention.
"Did you see that?!"
"What a strange material…"
"I've never seen brown hair that curly before. And his eyes! They change color as he walks by different colored objects!" All of these were assorted mutterings of the people they passed. Even the bug collecting girl thought he was strange. What was stranger was the fact that one of the golden bugs had latched onto the back of his shirt. So even though people stared, he now had one hundred rupees (He split half of the hundred reward with Link) in his pockets. The staring continued right up until someone tried to steal a ring off his hand. Then Curtis punched the thief-to-be in the face with that same hand. The thief lost his two front teeth, but instead of fighting back, he ran away. Link raised his eyebrows.
"You handled that fairly well."
"No one tries steal from me and gets away with it completely."
"Really? Care to check your right pocket?" Link chuckled while twirling a blue rupee through his fingers up where Curtis could see it. Curtis' eyes widened as he realized what Link had done and checked his pocket. He was indeed missing five rupees. Curtis glared at Link, and while laughing, he gave it back.
"Looks like one thief got away."
"Not so much. You're still here." Then on impulse, he punched Link too and knocked him down.
Spluttering, Link stood back up amidst a group of wide-eyed people. Link rubbed his cheek in surprise, then grinned back up at him. He reached a hand up, Curtis reached one down and hauled him back up.
"I guess I asked for it."
"No you didn't. It was impulse. I'm losing control." Link had stopped laughing, but was still grinning.
"What do you mean?" Now completely serious, Curtis looked up at the darkening sky.
"I mean its no longer night-time in my world. It's now early morning. I've got maybe three real-world hours before I wake up and leave this world behind." Link's expression turned grim.
"Then we had better find that missing Mirror Gem of yours." Curtis nodded. "And fast."
They left town and split up. Curtis would take the southern half of the map, and Link would take the Northern. Link and Midna were the first to encounter trouble, but handled it easily. Along the way, they found a few golden bugs, though most he had already found, which annoyed him. It seemed that he would never find all the stupid things.
Why can't that little pest of a child find them herself? Sure, she's adorable, but that only gives her so much leeway. Link thought with a scowl. Even with the money she pays, this is hardly worth the effort. A few times Midna's attention was drawn to the south, but she figured that it was most likely to be Curtis in combat being as the magical surges were a lot larger than the one that the Shadow being had generated with only the one gem.
At night Link had to stop and rest, so he stopped under a tree, leaned up his back against it, and went to sleep.
Midna sat awake though. At first she was only keeping watch, but her attention kept being drawn to Link. Their journey together had been a difficult one, but it had for the most part been fun. Flying on a Twilight bird, riding him like a horse while he was a wolf, swimming, fighting, and even snowboarding of a sort! She smiled and caressed his cheek.
Oh Link. It seems I've become attached to you. I wonder if you feel the same?
Eventually, she too, dozed off. She would regret that later.
"Ha! Yah! Out of my way!" Curtis yelled as he battled an ambush group of shadow beings. But to his dismay they kept resurrecting and dropping down from a portal, and in so doing, multiplied.
This is bad! If I don't take these things out fast, even with the Mirror Gems help, I'm done for! Another five foes collapsed, just to re-rise ten seconds later. In desperation, he tried to destroy the staffs trapping him in, but the barrier deflected his shots. So much for that idea. This dream is turning into a nightmare! Maybe that's the main reason I'm losing control.
One leaped onto his back and bit at his neck.
"Shockwave!" A blast of electrical energy exploded from his body and shocked every foe within a ten foot radius. Another group attacked. "Purge!" The purest white light any person has ever imagined lit up every area within a quarter mile of him. When it returned to normal, all the shadow beings were gone. In their place was the ordinary, confused-looking, citizens of the Twilight Realm. Seconds later, they were sucked back up through the portal back to the Twilight realm.
"Wow. Imagine that!" Then he blacked out and warped to another location. Such is the nature of dreams.
He shook himself 'awake' and with what little control he had left, levitated back up to his feet.
If only I had these powers in real life. Oh well. He looked around. Where the heck am I? Then a ghostly, golden wolf caught his eye.
"You do not belong in this world. You will cause it's destruction." It's unearthly, yet still somewhat Human voice echoed in his head.
"I saved this world in my own, I can do it here in my sleep." The wolf shook it's head and it's intense eyes felt to him as if they were piercing his very soul.
"In your world, you fought as Link. A Link with no magic, with no knowledge of what is to come. You knew how this latest chapter in Hylian history was destined to end, but by dragging those trinkets of yours into this world, along with your intention of changing events for the preserving of another's feelings over that of the greater good, you have made a great evil even greater. You must leave before you cause greater destruction!"
"But what about those people from the Twilight Realm I released from bondage? Isn't that a good thing?"
"The damage you may cause in the near future, and far as well, shall be greater than that of freeing those few who may or may not have been spared by the Princess of Twilight and the Hero. If Link fails to find the other gem before you wake up, it will be stuck here until you next visit this world. That could be weeks, months, or even years! Nay, Dreamer. Either leave, or bind the gems to the hero, and never return."
"And if I should refuse to leave?" Curtis asked with just a slim edge of a challenge in his voice.
"Then all the evil to come is on your head. I can only give a warning. Just remember, though you are not the only one who's heart is tainted with a lust for power, yours is just a milder case. Ganondorf's lust is unquenchable. Should he get a hold of all of the Mirror Gems, not even the Dream Veil will be able to hold him back for long. He will break through it, and he will take on your world next." His message done, the wolf vanished.
"I have got to stop eating peanut butter before I go to sleep." Jones muttered.
Well, from what the wolf told me, Link is more likely to find the gem before me, which probably means that it is in the north. Strange, but what isn't? Oh well, maybe something I do down here will make it happen.
He was wrong. The gem had been found the first day he was there, and had been taken up to Hyrule town market to be sold to a rich merchant.
Link awoke to the voice of the Skeletal soldier whom taught him fighting skills echoing in his mind.
"Wake up, hero! Get up and fight or all is lost!" Link jolted to his feet with his sword already half drawn to find a shifting shadow figure not too much unlike himself.
"Ha ha ha ha ha. So this is the next hero of light? Hmm…Unlike the past heroes, you have no natural magic capabilities. This fight should be quick."
"Who are you?" Link asked groggily. Though still being half asleep, his body was quickly shrugging the sleepiness off.
"Who am I? Why, I am you." Link had drawn his sword out completely and hefted his shield.
"Me? How can you be me?"
"It would seem that you have a slower mind than that of your ancestors. I am your dark half. Your sins, your greed, even your darkest hidden desires are what I am. After I kill you, I will shed this body, steal yours, and fulfill those desires."
It was then that Link realized that Midna was nowhere to be found.
"What have you done with Midna?!" He demanded. The dark being smirked.
"Hm Hm Hm. Use your imagination." His smirk turned to a evil grin. "Enough talk. Time to die, hero!"
Their blades clashed as Link leapt to attack and Dark blocked easily. Dark swept their blades to the side and disarmed Link. To remedy this, Link drew out the sword he had taken from Ordon. Clang! Clash! Once more at a stalemate, Dark kicked at Link's stomach, but Link blocked it with his shield just in time. Surprised at Link responding so well, he dropped his guard for just a second. Long enough for Link to jab Dark's shield arm.
"Rgh! You are better than I thought. But still not as good as the Hero of Time." Dark dropped his shield and sword, grabbed Link's shoulders and pulled jerked him forward. He gave Link a hard head-butt that sent stars spinning into his vision.
Dazed, Link stumbled back a few steps and put hand to his head. Dark picked his sword back up and charged at Link while his vision was still clearing.
Just when it seemed Link was done for, his horse galloped at Dark and trampled him.
"Curse you, you dratted horse! After I kill your master, I'll feast upon you for my dinner!" Link heard that threat, and rammed into Dark using all of his weight, and his shield. Dark fell to the ground and Link began hacking at his head. But Dark managed to throw him off and roll to the side. He stood up and dodged another attempt from the horse to run him over. Then spun to block an attack that never came. Link ran over to the Master sword and sheathed the Ordon sword. Now armed with the better blade, Link renewed his attack.
Dark found himself being hammered by uncountable strikes until his shield arm went numb. Desperate, Dark jabbed at Link's shield arm. He missed Link's arm, but cut through a leather strap that held the shield on it. With a snap, Link now found holding his shield awkward and ineffective, so he discarded it, and once more drew out the Ordon sword.
"Hmph! To wield two blades at once, you require a certain training. You may just have made yourself weaker by doing that! Less work for me." Ignoring Dark, Link raced forward and cross-slashed at him. Dark Held his blade straight and stopped both. Then he kicked Link's chest and was about to do more when Rocky rammed him again and sent him sprawling. Shaking his head to remove stars of his own, he looked up just in time to see Link taking aim with his bow.
"You may kill me, but what about your descendants? I'll come back for them too." Link released the shot and sent the arrow straight between Dark's eyes. Dark Link perished in a cloud of black smoke. Then a wind from the east came and scattered it far across Hyrule.
"And they will destroy you as I have destroyed you." Link spoke to the air.
Rocky trotted up to Link and nuzzled him. Link patted Rocky's side and petted his nose. "Thank you, my friend. If not for you, I'd be dead." The horse nickered. "You haven't perchance seen Midna, have you?" Rocky either hadn't seen her, or didn't understand Link because it put it's head near the ground and began grazing. "Guess not." Link put his bow away along with his swords and damaged shield. He sighed at the damage done to it, and then looked searched the area for any signs of Midna. The only thing he found was a bit of hair, and marks where a struggle took place. The only other thing out of place was a small box the size of his fist. Out of curiosity, he opened it to find a small written note inside. But it was in no language he'd ever seen before.
"Curse you, Ganondorf!"
Anything just to slow me down! But nothing good would come of just sitting around. It was time to get some information. Link climbed up onto Rocky's back and gently bumped her sides. Rocky cantered towards Hyrule castle and town at a gallop. "The sooner I find out what this note says," he looked at it again. "the sooner I can find and rescue Midna."
He would not stop until he reached the tavern.
Ganondorf stroked his mustache thoughtfully as he tested his new powers. It was at least equal to that of his Triforce of power. He began to wonder how much stronger he'd become when he collected the other four from that boy who defied him the day before.
Once I've collected all of them, not even the Goddesses themselves will be able to stop me. Ganondorf cast a black bolt of lightning at the statue above the throne. When it struck, it was as if it were made of sand. A little fell off it the tips, then more and more until it was nothing more than a pile of gravel and sand burying the throne.
Amusing, to be certain. But I cannot test it's full power without running the risk of bringing the castle down. I suppose I'll have to go to the mountains to test it. Ganondorf thought about testing his powers on the mighty Gorons, and a grin slid across his face.
"How low the mighty will fall. Now to go." Ganondorf left a written note instructing his followers what to do in the meantime. Then he snapped his fingers, and went to Death Mountain to give it's name a new meaning.
The chief Goron sat on his throne eating a fried leg of Cuccoo.
"Ah. Nothing beats a good leg of KFC. Would any of you like some Kakariko Fried Cuccoo?"
"No thank you, sir. I ate some fossilized wood earlier." The chief shrugged.
"Suit yourself." He took another mouthful.
The sound of rock splitting filled the air and with a half second flash of light, Ganondorf appeared in the main throne room. The chief Goron jumped up out of his seat and yelled.
"Who in Din's name are you?! How did you get in here?!" he roared.
"The dead need not know my name. I come to tell you to prepare. I will warp to the bottom of the mountain and work my way up back to here. Your people will all perish before my might. Prepare for death." His warning given, Ganondorf cast another a parting gift onto the advisor. Choking, the collapsed on the floor and gasped for air. Ganondorf swirled his cloak and disappeared. Seconds later, the Goron was dead.
"Hmph. Let the games begin!" Ganondorf's voice boomed and echoed throughout the canyon. He started up the slope.
Chapter 3
The merchant's price
Eventually Curtis got tired of wandering around and decided to use the Mirror Gem's powers to hover around at sixty eight miles per hour. After giving his half of the map a thorough search, he got fed up.
Screw this. I may as well go back to the Town and wait for Link to show up and tell him I couldn't find it. So that's just what he did. But upon reaching the gates, he remembered that Ganondorf's HQ was here.
"Mirror Gems, take to the air!" He commanded. The Mirror Gems rose up over eight-hundred feet in the air, but they still rotated around his body. Now reassured that that they could not be stolen, he walked on into town.
Once again people stared at him, and whispered behind their hands to one another, but he ignored them and went for the tavern.
Sooner or later, he'll turn up there. It's just a matter of time. Unfortunately though, he got lost and had to stop and ask for directions. But all they did was stare at him. So he kept wandering the streets until something glittering drew his eye. Now completely ignoring the staring, he followed it until he saw what it was.
The last Mirror Gem! But what's going on? A crowd was gathering around a stage of sorts that had been set up. A man standing behind a podium in a fancy shirt held it up for all to see, taking care to make sure that it caught the light and shone like a star.
"Ladies and gentlemen! Nobles and other folk! I bring to you on this day such a rare sight that it is not likely to be seen ever again! Tell me good sir," he pointed to an old man near the front. "Have you ever seen a gemstone of this size? Ever in your life?" The old man leaned close and examined it for himself. After a few minutes, he leaned back and shook his head incredulously.
"Never. Never have I seen anything like it."
"There you have it, Ladies and Gentlemen. This here stone is unique, and flawless as well. Now, even though it is unique, I have many gems, and am willing to part with this one if one of you want it badly enough. Will anyone make me an offer of say…three hundred Rupees?"
Dear god! He's putting on an auction! I've got to stop this before its too late! He shoved his way to the stand and leapt up upon it.
"Thief! Return that gem to me at once!" Startled, both he and the crowd looked to him. The Auctioneer glared briefly at him and then turned to the crowd.
"You call me a thief? And how could this be your gem sonny? My nephew found this stone near the Lost Woods." The crowd looked at the Merchant, then turned back to Curtis.
"Yeah! Explain it, boy!" called one person. The others began to mutter until things looked to get ugly.
"When I came to this land, I had six of them. Now I only have four. I saw one taken by a shadow monster which accounts for that one, so that must be the other! Return it now!" He demanded. The merchant laughed.
"You say you had six, boy? I'll believe the bit about shadow creatures as I have run into a few myself, but where are the other four? Show them to me!" Curtis reached up in the air.
"As you wish. Mirror Gems, come!" The gems indeed came down from the sky for all nearby to see. The crowd gasped, and the merchant looked on with his jaw hanging and his eye wide.
"You've all seen, now give me my gem!" He insisted angrily. But the Merchant wasn't going to give it up so easily.
"Ha! How do I know that you really had all six at one time? I may have found it before you, and now you are trying to steal the fruits of my search!" he sneered at Curtis.
"If I was trying to do that, I'd just kill you and take it off your corpse. But I'm trying to prevent bloodshed. Now give me the gem."
"Ah. So now you threaten me. I see you for what you are now, it is you who is the thief!" His patience just about gone, he decided to try another tactic.
"If I don't get it from you, Ganondorf will take it off the corpse of whoever buys it from you. He's already taken one, but he's still beatable right now. If he gets another, the most recent chosen will be unable to stop him." he turned to address the crowd and raised his voice so all present could hear him. "Do any of you want to lose your lives over this?" he pointed at the gem the merchant had. "Because once Ganondorf senses the other gems, he'll come running. When he does, anyone who has it will die. Do any of you want to be remembered as the man or woman who doomed Hyrule because of greed?"
A number of people started to leave, followed by larger groups who were shaking their heads. But a few stayed. One posed a question.
"But if he only has two to your four, couldn't you beat him?" Curtis shook his head.
"I have only these gems to fight with. He would have his, the one over there," he jerked his thumb in the merchant's direction. "plus the Triforce of power and whatever other things he's collected over the years. I might hold back any soldiers he brings with him, but I doubt I could stop him. I've just started fighting whereas he's had decades of practice. No, I do not think so." The man nodded and left as well.
Now the Auctioneer's eyes were narrowed and he shook with with anger. He drew a dagger and was ready to plunge it into Curtis' neck when a sword swung into his path and tripped him. The merchant landed his face against the oak planks.
Link picked up the dagger and tossed it down an alley. Startled, Curtis looked at Link. "When did you get here?" Link sheathed his sword.
"Maybe only a few minutes before you did." Link handed Curtis the gem the merchant had been holding. "Glad you've got good news because I've got some bad. Midna's been kidnapped. I was attacked by my dark self and nearly killed. But before we fought I asked what he had done with Midna. He said 'use your imagination'. I do not want to consider some of the things he might have done to her." Link had the expression of one whom is desperate. "Please! You've got to help me find her!" Curtis nodded.
"Right. Was there any clue of where he might have taken her?"
"Just this." Link reached into his item pouch and pulled out the note. "Can you read this?" Curtis examined it.
"No. While it is a language from my world, it's written in Spanish. The only language I know is my own." He handed it back. "Sorry Link."
"Well- can't you- I don't know, use some of your dream powers to change it to a language you CAN read?"
"I feel stupid now. Why didn't Ithink of that in the first place?"
Curtis took it back again and focused on it. Slowly, the letters did change until he could read it.
But he didn't get a chance to actually read it because a surge of power from the east. Curtis gaped spun around.
"What's wrong?" Link asked.
"Ganondorf is using the Mirror Gem's power." He pointed east. "That way!"
"By the Goddesses' names, that's in Death Mountain's area!"
"Yeah well, I think in a minute it's going to be called Death Mountain for another reason."
"The Gorons! Can you get us there?"
"I don't know, but I can try!" He drew in as much energy from the Gems as he could, and his hair turned a silver color while his eyes turned a red brighter than blood. The winds swirled around him and he lifted three feet off the ground. He grabbed Link's arms and together they flew the speed of a diving falcon towards Death Mountain.
They landed right on the ledge where Link had wrestled his first Goron and won. To their dismay, the Goron lay dead on the ground. Heedless of the possible danger, Link ran on ahead of Curtis.
"Link, wait! I can fly…us…up." But Link was already gone. Curtis sighed.
Here comes the cry of agony. Sure enough, a few minutes later came a shriek from Link who had discovered more Goron corpses. Curtis used his Dream Control to warp directly to his location.
"I don't believe it! How could Ganondorf do this?" Link said in pain.
"With…terrible ease. Cough!" Link rushed to the side of one of the fallen Gorons. "He…he came up the mountain, so we tried to fight him…" he shook his head. "All in vain. He lifted us into the air without even touching us. Some he blasted with lightning, others…he crushed between great pillars of rock. By now…he's reached the… summit. Stop him…brother." The Goron fell back against the rock he had been leaning against and did not move again.
Angry, Link turned to Curtis. "Take me to the summit." Curtis nodded and held on to Link's arm. Then he teleported them both.
They arrived at the top just in time to see Ganondorf slammed against a wall be the chief Goron.
"You living piece of rock! I'll turn you to gravel!" He did not notice Link until he was stabbed in the back by the Master sword. "Aaaauugh!" He spun around to face Link. "You!" then he noticed Curtis. "And you too! I've learned how to use your gem's power. Now to claim the others you-" that was all he got out before he was cracked over the head by a large rock. Or perhaps a small boulder. Now injured, he tossed a dark sphere into the center of the room, and teleported back to Hyrule Castle.
"You okay?" Link asked the chief. The Goron shook his head.
"After a day like this, I will never be okay. Most of my people are dead. I know that there are other Goron cities, but that does not make me feel any better. Link?" The Goron looked around the room, and then back to Link. "If you will do this one thing for me, I will never be able to repay you. Avenge my people, Link."
Link nodded and turned to Curtis.
"You will help me find Midna, and then you will help me kill Ganondorf." It was not a request. Curtis nodded. He knew just how much his fault this whole mess was and he would do his best to make up for it. Curtis teleported them back to Hyrule town, and then he read the paper to him.
You may as well be blind, for your friend, you'll never find!
But just to give you pointless hope, I'll give a clue, you brainless dope.
To find the friend in which you love, you'll have to go high, and from there above.
Is it a tower? Nay, that's wrong, so read on with this little song.
Is she flying? I'm 'fraid not, and I'll not give specific spot.
It's somewhere cold, indeed I say, a place where summer holds no sway.
Can you find her? I don't think so. For I have buried her in snow!
"There's nothing else. But that's more than enough. Did you reach the same conclusion I did?" Link nodded.
"I think so. But what about him saying 'I have buried her in snow'? Do you think she's froze to death?" he asked in fear.
"Midna? Nah. She's too tough to let a little cold weather kill her." Link now a bit reassured, they warped once again.
Midna shook her head to clear away her sleepiness.
Where am I? Let's se… she searched her memory until she recalled Dark Link. We fought for a few minutes, then he cast a net around me and then… her memory blanked. He must have used some sort of knock-out spell on the net so that whoever it caught wouldn't struggle. Quite effective too. But never mind that, where am I? She surveyed her surroundings to find out she was either underground, or in a box of some sort. After feeling the floor and walls for a bit, she found that she was indeed underground. Perhaps in a cave.
"I wonder what happened to Link? I hope he's okay." She couldn't bear the thought of him being dead. "What am I saying, of course he's okay!" She continued to explore until she found the entrance. Unfortunately it was frozen over, so there was no easy way out.
No easy way for a normal person, anyway. she smiled and made a fist with her 'hair'. She smashed the fist into the ice-wall…and flinched as the ice took no damage and a shock ran through her entire body.
"Ouch…" she said almost silently.
Later, after she had recovered from the non-effective punch, she tried to push the wall. No good. She scratched at it by giving her 'hair hand' claws. She left a few marks, but nothing that would do her much good if the ice was a foot thick, which was likely.
Brrr! Its cold in here! She wrapped her arms around herself and shivered. I wonder where I am? It was pitch black in that cave and the only way out was frozen over. Things looked bad. Right up until she heard a howl. Then her heart leapt and she quickly flew over to the 'door'. and stated banging on it with her fists.
"Link! I'm in here! In here!" But the howling she heard was not from Link. It from a very large, very hungry Wolfos. But she didn't know that.
The Wolfos sniffed at the outside the frozen cave.
Something tasty is inside! It dug at the base until it was digging under the ice. Then finally, into the cave. It sniffed around some more. Its nearby. Where is the future meal? It sniffed the floor, but the scent had disappeared. Where is it? Where'd the prey go?
"Groof! Woof woof!" It cursed in it's language. It just could not understand. The scent went into the cave, yet there was no prey to be found. Suddenly he felt something on his back. And he did NOT like it.
"Link! Oh, thank the Goddesses it's…wait a minute." The Wolfos growled and snapped at her. It almost caught her arm. "You are definitely NOT Link!" Midna lifted back off the Wolfos just in time to save her hair from getting nipped. She hovered as high as the cave permitted, but it was not high enough to be out of it's reach. There would be only three extra inches of clearance above Link's head. The Wolfos lunged at her and would have gotten her if she hadn't used her magic.
Her 'hair' grabbed the Wolfos and hurled it against the ice-covered entrance. With the sound of an iceberg breaking the ice shattered into large chunks and she could now escape.
The badly injured Wolfos howled and thirty voices answered with howls of their own.
Oh great. More trouble. Midna grimaced. The last thing she felt like doing was killing a pack of snow Wolfos. But she seemed to have little choice because five had already shown up and had begun attacked her. She slapped one away, and punched the second, but her real arms were no help in this fight, and she only had one defense.
Except for the second section of the Fused Shadows…but can I handle their power? Two more minutes of fighting and she saw that she no longer had much of a choice. It was either use the Fused Shadow's powers, of flee.
And if I flee, and Link is here looking for me, he'll be outnumbered and likely killed if we find each other. Not wanting Link to be harmed, she made her decision. She would indeed flee, but towards that giant guy who had taken the red fish. If anyone could help her with minimal risk it was him, and she definitely did not want to be using the Fused Shadows unless she had no alternative.
The Wolfoses did indeed follow her all the way to his mansion, but then she realized it would be just as simple to wait indoors for them to leave rather than endangering a friend.
Hovering up over the roof, she entered through a hole in it. Then she settled down on an old piece of furniture and waited for them to stop howling at the door.
Eventually they got frustrated and left to aid their eldest pack member back to their den, and Midna left shortly after they did. It was then she felt multiple surges of power coming from Death Mountain's direction. But from how small they were, she doubted that it was the dreamer. It was more likely to be Ganondorf. But aside from her being curious as to what he might be doing, she had little concern about it. If there was trouble, the dreamer would sense the usage and likely transport himself to Death Mountain to intercept him.
Halfway down the mountain, she saw something moving and quickly hid herself until it moved by.
"So, how great are the chances of us finding her, do you think?" said a voice she knew all too well. She jumped onto his shoulder, swung around by his neck and kissed him. Curtis laughed.
"One hundred percent, I'd say."
When Midna released him, which was as soon as she realized what she did, she blushed and hovered back three feet.
"You're okay! After that Dark-looking person captured me, I was worried what he'd do to you after beating me so easily. You aren't hurt are you?" Link shrugged.
"A few scratches, but I'll live." Link replied. Curtis shivered.
"Sorry to interrupt your reunion, but I'm freezing. How can you two not be as well, when you're wearing less than me?" Then, at the same time, both Link and Midna shivered.
"Why'd yo- yo- you have to point tha- tha -that out-t?" Midna asked with a glare.
"Because I wanted to encourage you to leave. S- s- so, Wh- wh- where t- to next?"
"Who cares? Ju- ju- just somewhere warm!" Link exclaimed.
"As y- y- you say. Onward t- to the Lost W- w- woods!" Curtis laid one hand on Link's left shoulder, and the other on Midna's head. Then they warped to the ruined entry to the Forest Temple. Link looked around at the Ivy covering the walls and a crumbling platform with a symbol he'd never seen before.
"Where are we?" he asked. With a look of sorrow, Curtis told him, and gave a very brief history.
"This is the ancient Forest temple. A long time ago, the Hero of Time came here. He destroyed evil beings residing within, and saved a dear friend of his. That friend is one of the sages. Or was. She was killed when the sages tried to slay Ganondorf. It's a good thing that hero is not alive today or he would have killed himself from grief. That girl was his best friend, and he would have died to save her." He stopped and turned away from the temple to look at the most recent hero. "No evil will be here. Here I will wait to wake up."
"Stay here?!" Link asked in disbelief. "What do you mean? You can't just stay here, you have to help me fight Ganondorf because I don't have the same powers you do!" Midna added her own voice, but hers was calm whereas Link's was upset.
"You've not got long left in this world, do you?" Curtis shook his head. Then his body flickered like a flashlight whose batteries are dying. When he became a solid person again, he explained further why he was staying.
"Of all the other temples in this land, this one was by far my favorite. So many plants. There's something about nature that almost always seems to calm me. If I ever come back to this world of yours, in this time period, it is here that I want to appear again." Curtis walked to the tree where the Hero of Time had hook-shot himself up to enter. The tree had almost covered the entrance to the temple itself. Gently placing his hands on it's trunk, he changed it's growing pattern so the not for another hundred years would it cover the entrance. Then he levitated up onto the vine-covered ledge next to it. He turned back to the others.
"I will send you two back to Hyrule Town. If you try to get back from here, you will never find your way out again. I pray that I-" he flickered again and nearly disappeared. But not quite yet would he leave. "-Hero of this time. Take these." He sent two of the Mirror gems to Link. "Use them well. Until another ti-" The dreamer awoke, and disappeared.
"Great." Midna sighed. "He didn't even get enough time to send us where he said he would." Link shrugged.
"Then I suggest we get walking."
"You walk. I'll fly." Link smiled, looked around the outside of the temple one last time, and entered the now-overgrown maze.
Ganondorf rubbed the back of his head. Having a large rock slam into you is hardly pleasant.
I swear by the Goddesses, I will kill those three some day. I will NOT fail again! he thought with an intense glare at the air. But who is the greatest threat to me? The hero, the boy, or that girl? He thought about each individually, then compared them.
That girl has the Fused Shadows, but my Triforce should be able to handle her. The hero has the Master Sword, the item of my destruction with the Time Hero. But this one has no magic of his own. He is only a swordsman with extraordinary skill. That other boy though, the foreigner, those gems could be a problem. Then he looked at his gem. It's color had become brighter, and it's power stronger. Then a shiver ran through him. Hmph! He'll no longer be a problem, it seems. Well, that leaves the Hero, and the girl. I should be able to handle them separately, or perhaps even together if the boy didn't give them a gem of power. He chuckled and told his guards to alert the armies. It was time to crush all remaining challenges to him. Hero or no hero, he couldn't be everywhere at once. Nothing short of divine intervention could stop him now.
"I will not make the same mistakes I have in the past. It's time to either succeed, or die."
End of Part 1
Epilogue
Curtis woke up, not in his room to his surprise, but downstairs with a controller in his hand, and with the three Mirror Gems he had kept laying around him.
"So this wasn't a dream? Or at least not completely…Hmm. I wonder…" He looked up at the TV screen. It was Twilight Princess, sure enough, but something had changed. The inventory screen was up, showing all of his items, and in the section for special items, he saw a picture of a white gemstone, and it had the number 2 on it. Quickly, he un-paused and looked at where Link was. Sure enough, he was in the Lost Woods. It was highly overgrown since Ocarina of Time, but still recognizable.
Out of strong curiosity, he explored. Some paths were impassable due to plant growth, but a few were still open. So he entered and wound up being sent to the entrance at what was left of the Kokiri forest. He looked around and found to his dismay and mild anguish that most of it was gone. There were only two Kokiri that he could see. And only two houses could still be called houses. Link's was just a huge tree with a carving of a soldier with a fairy fighting a dinosaur. Curtis sighed.
So much is different. I wonder who those two are? he thought with the two Kokiri in mind. So he went over and spoke to them.
"Hey mister! We haven't had visitors here in decades! What's the land outside look like now?" that was all the boy said. The girl said
"You look strangely familiar…but I've never met you before. Strange…" and she scratched her head. The girl was the one that sat on the roof all the time. One of the twins. The boy was the one who had been guarding the exit to Hyrule field.
Though it mildly upset him, he forced himself to explore the area until at last he came to the new Great Deku Tree.
"You!" It said. "You look exactly like the Hero of Time! But you can't be, he died over a century ago. Sigh. Well then, you are probably his descendant. As it is, I will give you what he entrusted to me all those years ago." A branch leaned down from the top and handed him three crystals, and a green ring.
"Those crystals are gifts from the great fairies. They have sadly disappeared from this land, but those of us who remember have not. Take them, and end the latest evil to this land, Hero. I will send you to the outer fringes of the forest. Farewell." Link was warped outside.
Curtis saved the game and shut it off. He had indeed slipped through the Dream Veil and into a real world. He would have to find a way to make it right, or die trying.
He touched the Mirror Gems and they came 'alive' at his touch. The lifted off the ground and continued their eternal rotations.
I'm coming back you two, just as soon as I find the way. He stepped outside and used the Gem's power to lift himself into the air.
"I swear this by my soul! I will make right what I have wronged!!" He swore into the air.