Aha! I see some of my old friends are starting to gather! Hehe!

A thanks to: Dark Link (You still have that crazy name? O.o) I didn't feel like logging in (Hmmm ... I wonder who you are! XD Are you someone I know?) and tails doll curse! (I remember you! xD)


Link took his place on the opposite side facing Shigen. "Alright young grasshopper", he chuckled when Shigen glared at him, "let's see what you've learned in the last... year and a half I think..." He unsheathed the Master sword and moved into a defensive position.

Shigen followed suit, also pulling his Sulken from it's sheath. "You'll be surprised Link... My Kai taught me a lot... She used to be a knight for the Hyrulian army.." He didn't bother with a defensive stance, knowing that he wouldn't need one.

Ryuk and Kai were both sitting off to the side, making sure to give the two swordsmen some room to fight.

"Hey shadow?" Ryuk said while poking said shadow on the arm hard. The evil look Kai gave him didn't scare him the least bit. "Who do ya think is gonna win?"

The shadow shrugged his shoulders while flicking some of his silver hair out of his face, "I can't tell you, I haven't seen Shigen fight in a while." If both these stupid dead guys start calling me shadow, I will kill something...

The younger Haniam smiled smugly. "Well I know Shigen is gonna win for sure." He turned his attention back to Link and Shigen who were still staring each other down.

Kai gave the kid a blank stare. "Yeah, sure you do." He stood up and started doing random cheer leader moves. "Come on Link! Kick his ass and I'll panty flash you!"

Link almost fell over anime style, but quickly composed himself. "Alrighty then..." He barely had a chance to block Shigen's attack with his sword, a metal clang filled the area scaring some nearby birds who flew away in panic. He's fast! That came out of nowhere!

Without wasting anytime, Shygen lashed out with his free hand and punched the hero, catching him completely off guard. He then stepped back and stood with both arms at his side, waiting for Link to make a move.

Whipping off the blood the was trickling down his chin, Link began circling the Haniam, waiting for an opportunity to attack. He's not acting defensive because with that speed, he can easily bock any of my attacks...

As if knowing what he was thinking, Shigen smirked and said, "What's wrong sexy...? Too scared to attack...?" He didn't turn around as Link inched behind him. "I don't mean to boast... but I can block any attack you throw at me..."

Deciding to see if Shigen was telling the truth, Link launched himself, thrusting out with the master sword swiftly which Shigen immediately parried, and then he used his shield to shove him and try put him off balance. But Shigen, who had seemed to finally learn how to keep his balance, barely stumbled and instead swung his sword at Link, intending to hack at the hero's chest, but Link blocked it.

"Yay! Go Link! He's our man! If he can't beat emo! No one can!" Kai had recently acquired two tree branches and was continuing his cheer leading moves with unnecessary enthusiasm.

Waving a small twig around, Ryuk also cheered, just with... less enthusiasm then Kai. "Go benhail... Kick the elf's ass..."

Ignoring Kai (No matter how tempting it was to watch him) Link backed way from Shigen and pointed his sword at him. "You may have speed my friend, but your moves are as predictable as an armature's." He attack again, Shigen was still managing to block all of his attacks, but Link was just buying time until he found an opening.

Then, when Shigen raised Sulken with both hands to block a heavier blow from the master sword, Link pushed as hard as he could, knowing that the emo's balance would be off.

Shigen fell onto the ground and rolled before Link had a chance to point the sword at his throat. He's an excellent swordsman... but like all living creatures... He grows tiered easily... He looked at Link who was panting heavily, sweat rolling down his face and mixing with the blood from his split lip and dripping off his chin.

The hero reached up to wipe the sweat out of his eyes. Damn this stuff stings... Even though he was tiered and filthy, he couldn't help but enjoy the moment. Going up against a really tough opponent who was an equal match, and the feeling of his muscles as they protested against the sudden beating, all made him feel like he was back to normal. Back to being the hero of Hyrule. It was a good feeling.

Shigen attacked Link again, determined to put an end to the battle. I think I'll end it now... His attacks this time were faster and more aggressive, the sound of metal against metal was ringing loudly through the clearing.

It was all Link could do to block the continuous attacks, his arms were stinging badly from the vibrations, and he was panting so hard, he was sure it would have made a dog envious. Then on one particularly hard swing, Link stepped back and Shigen used that opportunity to stick his foot out and trip the hero, making him fall to the ground hard.

The last of Link's breath was knocked out of him, and so he laid on the ground, a bit stunned. I ... Can't believe it...

Shigen pointed Sulken at Link's throat signaling the end of the battle. "Sorry sexy... But I didn't want to look bad in front of my subordinate..." With a twirl of his sword, he sheathed the blade and walked over towards the fuming Kai. "See shadow...? Your boyfriend isn't that tough..."

Kai threw the tree branches at Shigen and crossed his arms angrily. "Oh yeah! Well you can't beat him in bed!" Ryuk made sure to inch away as far as possible. "I still haven't topped the bastard yet..." That's the last goal on my list of things to do before I die!

Link rolled onto his stomach with an 'oof' and stayed like that, not having the energy to stand up. "Kai, when will you get it through your head, I will never let you top me..." He flailed. "Can someone please help me up? I'm kind of stuck here!"

Kai was the one who went over to help the hero, the other two watched him try to drag the half dead Link to his feet... unsuccessfully.

Ryuk eyed Shigen thoughtfully, even if the older Haniam appeared cool and collected, Ryuk knew that in truth, he was exhausted. "So benhail, how does it feel to know that you just defeated the strongest guy in Hyrule?"

Saying nothing, Shigen slumped forward to rest his head on Ryuk's shoulder. Can't move arms... ears are ringing... I hate fighting...

"Benhail! Oi!" Ryuk poked Shigen, hoping to get some sort of reaction out of him, but he continued to stay 'dead' leaving Ryuk in a rather awkward position.

"Oh look, the two lovers finally fall for each other all over again!" Kai dragged Link over to them, shaking hims slightly to keep him awake. "See! You can't escape destiny!"

"What the hell are you talking about you stupid shadow? We have never fallen in love! How can we do it again?" More violent then necessary, Ryuk shoved Shigen off him who landed on the ground with a nice thumping sound... Shigen continued to sleep...

A large cracking sound managed to wake both Shigen and Link, the two men stood quickly and reached for their swords, ready to attack any incoming enemies.

"I leave you morons alone for a few days and look what happens, you try to kill each other..." Sheik gestured to Link and Shigen who had both fell back asleep noticing the lack of danger."

Kai scratched the back of his head nervously. "Er... We had an orgy last night?"


The sound of dripping water is what awoke both Kai and Kyou.

They both knew that they were in some kind of dungeon, due to the fact that it smelt like rotting flesh and dirt, along with many other unmentionables, the floor was wooden though, so they weren't in any castle dungeon...

Kai was the first to speak, her voice came out in a whisper. "What happened? Where are we?" Thanks to the Haniam's excellent sense of smell, she could tell that Kyou was close by her, she could hear his slow and steady breathing.

"I think we have been kidnapped... Though I do not know the reason." He felt around his general area. They weren't chained down or anything, but as he moved forward his hand came in contact with the metal bars of a cell. "And it seems they want to keep us here..."

Kai crawled forward and bumped him on the head. "Thanks for the understatement captain obvious!" She continued crawling, feeling the bars for the door. "I'm not gonna wait for Shigen to save us, he probably doesn't even notice that we're gone... So me and you are going to break our selves out!" I won't be the useless woman who sits around crying, waiting for her prince in shining armor to rescue her.

She gripped the bars and pulled as hard as she could, along with a good sense of smell, Haniam also had incredible strength to make up for their lack of hearing and eye sight.

Kyou was about to lend her a hand, but the bars suddenly irrupted into flame and the scent of burning flesh soon filled the air. "Kai!"

She didn't scream, she never showed when she was in pain, it was a small quirk of hers, she fell onto her side hissing in anger. "Damn... There was a spell..." She felt Kyou reach for her hands and she slapped him away. "I'm fine!" She pushed herself to her knees, ignoring the sharp pains racing up her arms.

"But your arms must hurt!" Kyou tried reaching for them again, and this time she snapped at him. "Kai, if you do not swallow your pride and let me treat them, you might not be able to use them again..."

The sound of incoming footsteps silenced them.

"How pathetic..." It was a woman who spoke. "As I thought, you are both weaker versions of my beautiful creation... Vaashari!"

A light filled the area, revealing to the two Haniam a beautiful woman with long flowing black and very light brown eyes. She was wearing clothes that either of them recognized, telling them that she was from a different land and not from Hyrule.

"But still, you will lead him to me... He's seems quite fond of is pawns." She smiled at them, but it was not a smile of warmth, it was too sinister.

With a flick of her hand the light vanished, and the need to escape intensified.


Link sighed loudly for the fourth time is less then two minutes. He had barely managed to pull himself inside the house and sit down before Sheik had started rambling on about evil lady's and plans to save the world, and Kai was not help the issue either.

"Road trip! Road trip!" The shadow jumped around the small living room, successfully knocking Ryuk over, who growled at him angrily. "We're going to save the world again! Yay!"

"Kai sit down and shut up for a sec!" Link grabbed a hold of Kai's arm and sat him on his lap, hoping that would keep his darker self occupied for a few seconds. "Sorry Sheik, can you repeat that?"

Letting out a grumble that was Shigen worthy, Sheik repeated. "I followed information I had gathered, information I can't tell you where I got or I would have to kill you," he coughed and continued, "and I came to a ship at the southern part of Hyrule, it's design was nothing like our Hyrulian ships, this one was much grander, it must be from a different land or something..."

Shigen frowned. "So you think this is where Kai and Kyou were taken...?" I knew they were kidnapped...

"Yeah, that's what I'm guessing." Sheik pointed to Link. "And you're going to go down here and investigate! I don' have the time or the power! So ha!"

The room stayed silent for a moment before Link replied with a "Huh..."

"Come on Link!" Sheik threw his arms in the air. "You're the hero of time! This is your job."

Link pretended to be more interested in his boyfriend then he was in the conversation. "You're very cute Kai."

"I know." Kai turned around on Link's lap until he was sitting facing him. "And if you love me you'll take me on a road trip!"

"How about we go after I take a nap?" As if his body was agreeing with him, he let out a long yawn.

Getting up off the couch, Shigen grabbed Ryuk's wrist and dragged him toward the door. "Well you can catch up with me later then... I'm going to find them... Kai and Kyou are my responsibility..." He walked out and closed the door behind him, leaving the other three alone.

"I forgot to say," Sheik said while scratching at the wrappings on his face, "the people on the boat must not have got what they came for, because they're still there... that means that if what I suspect is true, and they are after the Haniam, then Shigen and his kind are in danger..."

If Link had been a bit quicker than Kai, he would have ended up throwing the shadow off of him, but Kai thankfully was faster and was up and running out the door, with Link hot on his tail.

Sheik got to his feet and stretched. "Well that was easier then I thought!"


Link felt like he was Indiana Jones, he was running at top speed towards Epona who was stomping her foot nervously, and without even bothering to saddle her, he jumped on her back and took off into the sun. Shigen must have taken his horse, I hope we can catch up to him.

Kai jumped up behind him. "Let's go hero! Our baby is in trouble!" He heard Link snort in amusement. "What? It's not like I'm gonna be able have kids! So I claim Shigen as our son!"

Since they were running top speed through the forest, Link didn't chance turning around to reply to him.

A few seconds ahead of them...

Shigen pushed another branch a side so Plash wouldn't get hit in the face. The forest had become very dense, and he was hoping that they would be out of it and into Hyrule field soon.

Ryuk behind him gripped onto his tunic harder, the kid always acted tough, but he did have his weak points. He was scared of horses. "Hey... Benhail... Can we just wal-

The sound of galloping hooves stopped him in mid sentence.

Kai and Link galloped passed them like they were in some need for speed action movie, then Link, who had seen them out of the corner of his eye, turned the horse abruptly, and Kai who wasn't expecting this lost his balance, and by some cruel twist of fate, a branch appeared out of nowhere and knocked him off with a 'thunk'.

Ryuk, his fear totally forgotten, stared at the scene blankly. "These idiots saved Hyrule?" I have some how lost all respect for them...

Shigen nudged Plash back into a trot, leaving the injured shadow on the ground moaning in pain. "No... I think your confusing them with someone else..."


I had to make it a bit short... I'm going away for the next couple of days to a place with no Internet or power outlets, so something is better then nothing!

If you're wondering, this story isn't that funny anymore, because I'm trying to make it more serious, so I can get some practice in for my actual stories.

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And if my friends would just shut up on MSN for two seconds! I might be able to put some effort into it! They even talk to me when I'm off line! They're crazy...

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