A/N: Why does it take me so long to update? Gah! I am so lazy! XD

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Chapter four:

That night, the four decided to rest and camp out. After all, they would have to be well rested to make it through the ordeal in store for them the next day. They couldn't afford to waste any energy.

However, like with most children, Krauser could not manage to force Link to go to bed.

"B-but Krauser! I'm not tired!" Link remained skeptical about sleeping.

Krauser didn't want to deal with this. In fact, he just loathed children… especially ones in their pre-teens like Link.

They were just too stubborn to listen, like Link was doing now.

One word to describe them though… brat…

Much to his relief, though, the lovely Princess Fatima relieved him of his duties babysitting Link for the night.

"Hey dear… if you don't get any rest now, you won't have the energy to beat up the bad guys tomorrow."

Appalled at the idea of not fulfilling his heroic duties, Link decided not to give Fatima a hard time. At least, that's what he made it appear to be.

"No! I don't want to be beaten by bad guys! I'll go to bed then…!"

Really, Link didn't want to disappoint Fatima. He admired her. She was attempting to save her world! And if it were his world, she would try to save it as well.

She was so kind to him.

Ever since they met, when Link and Krauser got into arguments, Fatima always tried to look at it from both angles, instead of just one. Her compromising skills were wonderful.

He didn't only admire her, he loved her to death.

With those thoughts, the triforce symbol on his hand seemed to glow. He never seemed to understand the damn thing. It always gave off a bright light when his thoughts were of good.

Does this thing have a special power or something! Is that why it glows sometimes..?

It all confused him. He could just sleep on it. He would think about it later when it did not consume his time and energy.

Later…

Despite Fatima getting Link to bed, she wasn't in bed herself. She was thinking about… her brother… who was he? Where was he? Did he care about her? Did he even know her? Was he still even alive?

"Maybe the answer's right in front of my face…" She muttered to herself.

Much to her surprise, Krauser was still awake. Like Ryoushen, who chose not to speak, Krauser was listening to her talk to herself.

"Gah! I must know! I want to know who my brother is…!" Tears welled up in her eyes.

Instead of pretending he was asleep, Krauser spoke out.

"What's wrong?" He blurted out, irritating Ryoushen secretly, seeing as how he thought Fatima just needed some alone time.

Fatima, however, didn't take offense to it. He was an ally, so he might as well know what her real intentions were.

"A few years ago, my mother informed me that I had a brother… and you know what? He was around the same age as me. Just… a prophecy came up, before we were born. My brother would end up in the hands of someone else. Some woman I think… a Guardian of Life or something like that… the one who made the prophecy. However, her prophecy was a little fucked up."

Krauser let a out a laugh at the last statement, and at the same time, Ryoushen realized how Fatima was talking about his mother, Faluna.

"What was it she fucked up in..? When and where…?" In reaction to this comment, Ryoushen accidentally kicked him while he rolled over in his sleep.

You ass! Don't call my mother a fuck up!

The light phoenix nodded, much to his surprise.

"Well, you see… she predicted when we would be born, but, she was wrong. We were actually born at the same time. We were twins. But… I'm baffled about how I don't remember him. How did he disappear like that? I don't know… there were rumors that my father tried to kill him, which, again, were a little fucked up… seeing as how my brother could not have been a baby when it happened!" She massaged her forehead due to her confusion.

Krauser began to ponder for a moment, and soon, began to come to a close on a conclusion.

"Is there anyway to determine if someone is of royal blood? I mean… any worthiness or something like that…?"

Fatima seemed to brighten up.

"Well, only those who have special relations with me may touch my silver blood without dying… Wait… does that help with anything?" She seemed confused again.

Krauser tried his best to clear it up for her.

"Soooo, has anyone touched it before, without dying, and you didn't know who they were?"

Fatima began to reminisce to the time when Ryoushen carried her on his back without him experiencing any sort of poison from her blood.

"Well… Ryoushen…"

The answer really was in front of her face. She began to stare in Ryoushen's direction, while, at the same time, he jerked up from his position, revealing his eavesdropping of the conversation.

"Ryoushen…? You're my brother…?" The lonely, depressed child version of her seemed to fade.

"Why didn't you tell me!" She embraced him.

Krauser answered for Ryoushen.

"He didn't know… he had a different mother. That Guardian of Life, right?"

Ryoushen embraced Fatima now.

"Yeah… she was the only mother I knew. She was so loving, I didn't want to find my real mother." He sighed with a bit of guilt.

Despite what he said, deep down, Ryoushen had wondered what his origins were. He had found them now… or had he? Something in his memories told him otherwise.

"Fatima… does the name Beatrice ring a bell?"

Her baffled expression answered his question.

I guess… it was just a dream from long ago then… just a child's nightmare…

Inside Phoenix Castle

A girl with the appearance of a child, long violet hair that dropped to the back of her knees, but non-human blood red eyes, kicked her feet around, being bored while sitting in the throne of the king.

Uninterested in Kanune's pain that was the result of Fatima's poisonous blood, Beatrice seemed more interested in watching the two phoenixes in Hyrule instead.

She stared into the images of the mirror in which she used to track their movements.

"Oh my…! Look at how my Child of Darkness has grown Kanune!" She nearly jumped off of the throne in excitement.

He became furious at her ignorance of his injury.

"Beatrice…! Your so called Child of Light has rendered me blind!"

Ignoring his bickering, she continued to watch her two "children" in the mirror, especially her Child of Darkness…

"It's been so long since I have seen you child… close to 1000 years…" She smiled sadly, longing to be closer to him again.

Flashback:

Faluna began to mend Ryoushen's wounds. The cuts and bruises were horrible… his ribs could have been broken as well. It was a miracle… her finding him on the beach.

Although, the little lash out of her darker half had them afraid for a moment.

Faluna! You must not allow that child to live! Kill him and the world will be a better place!

The lash out of her darker half echoed through her mind… It bothered her too much… it was like the thought was there to purposely distract her from tending Ryoushen's wounds.

"O-ow!" The child cried in pain.

After tending to his wounds, she carried him off to bed for rest.

"I'm sorry dear… mending wounds isn't exactly painless…" she kissed his forehead sweetly.

In return to the kiss, he embraced her warmly.

"I'll call you mother now, okay?" He laughed.

She stroked his cheek lovingly, moving thin strands of hair out of his face as well.

"Call me whatever you wish dear. I am proud to be called your mother."

It is I who he should call mother! Faluna…! You bitch…! You stole my Child of Darkness from me again!

Beatrice glared, jealous that she could not be as close to her child as Faluna was… her enemy… the one who banished her so she couldn't even touch her Nega Filgaia children.

All she could do was… witness them grow… perhaps maybe experience death one day, never to come back to see the light of day again…

No…!

She began to tear over the thought of never being allowed to speak with her children.

I will visit him in his dreams! I will plague his dreams until he realizes I exist!

Faluna shuddered as a chill ran up her spine.

"What's wrong mother…?" Ryoushen asked, concerned.

Faluna's darker half began to lash out again.

She is here! Beatrice is here!

Barely managing to keep a hold over her darker half, Faluna hastily put Ryoushen to bed.

"G-gah!" She didn't know if she could control her darker half or not really.

Beatrice's and Ryoushen's presences had given her darker half an advantage over her.

Kill him! She's here for him!

Faluna fell to her knees, attempting to gain victory over the mental battle.

"N-no! I made it so she couldn't touch him!"

Her darker half laughed at her.

Foolishness! She is the demon of dreams! Now that he is asleep, she can enter his dream! It's just another portal into his mind!

Faluna froze, amazed at her own stupidity of the situation.

"Y-you're right… how foolish of me…" She agreed with her darker half.

She, however, knew that killing Ryoushen would not solve the problem. After all, there were six more reincarnations she could go after.

"No… I won't kill him!" She dashed to his room hastily to save him from Beatrice's grasp.

Oddly enough, though, he had already dashed out of his room, and into her arms for protection, tearing up in fear of what he had witnessed.

"Mom! Mom! A… a demon…! She called me Child of Darkness! I… I killed so many people! A-an-" She embraced him, cutting him off.

She began comforting him with her soft voice.

"It'll be okay dear… alright…?" She kissed his forehead.

Just to be cautious, she slept nearby Ryoushen's door. Faluna repeated this process every night until Beatrice stopped making appearances in Ryoushen's dreams.

End of Flashback:

Beatrice destroyed a wall in blind fury reminiscing what happened that day.

I was so close…! That stupid bitch of a sister of mine…! She gave his mental power a boost! He escaped my grasp!

Kanune laughed at her pain, as if it were revenge for the zoning out session earlier.

Back to Fatima and Ryoushen

Fatima had fallen asleep now, her head rested on Ryoushen's chest.

However, Ryoushen was very much awake, seeing as how Fatima managed to toss and turn in her sleep, he couldn't get much sleep himself.

"Wait… Are you having a nightmare…? Or is that dream demon plaguing your dreams too…?" He whispered to her softly.

His assumptions were correct.

"No…!" Fatima tossed again. "Father! Why are you doing this! Stop it! I want to keep my memories of Ryoushen! Don't use me to cover up your crime!" She became loud, bothering the others' sleep.

It was too late however, Link was already up.

"What…? Is something wrong with Ms. Fatima…?" He asked drowsily.

Krauser seemed wide awake from the commotion as well.

"Here… I'll help her out…" Krauser attempted to wake her up, but it was to no avail.

Baffled, Krauser looked to Ryoushen for the solution.

Ryoushen began to speak to Fatima, as if she were awake.

"Fatima… what do you see? Your father, or a girl with the appearance of a child?" Ryoushen asked.

It was a miracle. Fatima could actually hear her brother while she was dreaming.

A girl with the appearance of a child telling me to come to her now, actually…

Ryoushen started to wake her up physically now by shaking her body gently, but still, nothing.

"Wake up! Don't go to that witch!"

Link, still baffled, tried to awaken Fatima as well, repeating the shaking that Ryoushen did.

"Come on Ms. Fatima! Wake up! It's just a nightmare…! You always have to remember that!"

Similar to earlier, his triforce gave off a light, but now, Link could see someone hovering above them, a girl that looked like she was two years younger than him.

"Hey… who's she?" Link asked, confused.

Ryoushen, the only one that recognized her, jumped up from his sitting position.

"Beatrice…!" He stared, petrified.

Delighted to see him, she smiled.

"My my… Child of Darkness, you have grown in the past 1000 years!" She mused.

He scowled.

"Away with you, witch! Stop bothering us with your foolishness!"

Beatrice grimaced.

"Is that what you say to your mother!"

Ryoushen snickered.

"You see, you are not my mother. Your sister Faluna is. She was the only one that truly loved me on your Godforsaken planet!" He snapped back.

With that last comment, she mysteriously disappeared, and the awakening of Fatima took place.

"Oi… what an eventful day…" She rubbed the sleep from her eyes.

Ryoushen helped her to her feet, having a serious expression about his face.

"Fatima… I think, we should go to Filgaia as soon as possible." He suggested.

Fatima stared in Link's and Krauser's direction, waiting for them to reply, and soon enough, they nodded, giving her the signal to nod as well.

"Okay… I'd like to see the woman who took care of my brother…"

End of Chapter four: