OK, as you most likely saw, I made a slight alteration to the last chapter, I'm going to make the stay in Hyrule a bit longer, and add the parts where Zoe trains with Link, and also, since Zoe is an archer, she's no good in close-combat, so I'm making Link teach her some sword-fighting. Also, new poll coming up: should Zoe be taught Hylian magic? If so, which spells? Anyway, I managed to finish this early, along with homework, so let's do this!

Day 1 of training, Zoe's POV

Because of the…incident with the fairy dust, Link insisted that I take the bed while he kept guard by the door in case she came; I still shiver when I think about it. I woke up to find Link gone, with a note in the handrail.

'Gone to death mountain, be back soon, I recommend you don't leave the house, remember Ilia and Bo where there when I was going to tear Zelda to shreds, I also left you some normal soup over at the table. Don't worry, I corked the bottle so those two little fairies couldn't try that move again, if I'm not back by noon, go to the spring with a bottle, catch a fairy and wait for a possibly wounded me, see ya!.' I couldn't help but to laugh at that last bit, even though I wasn't sure where Death Mountain was… oh well, might as well as look around. I noticed Link's house wasn't all that, and then I noticed that my clothes were ripped apart by the lashing I received, and some new tears that must have come with the incident. I looked around to see if Link had a closet or something, which apparently he didn't, so I went to his basement. 'How am I supposed to find anything when it's so dark?' I was forced to look around like a chicken with its head cut off, until I found something that felt kinda like scales. I took it to the light and saw a beautiful blue tunic, almost like Link's green one, but with scales instead of cloth. I took it upstairs and with a few twists and knots, I made the tunic look like a passable dress. I then found the bottle of soup Link told me about, and it was over a small pot of boiling water to keep it hot. I had just finished my meal when Link came back, with a few burns on his clothes and hair, and his face full of soot. "What happened to you, went lava diving or something?"

"Pretty much, I used the Goron mask to withstand the heat and lava, but as I was getting out of the volcano a small lava spout dowsed me and it hurt like hell…" He then seemed to notice what I was wearing, at the same time as I noticed something behind his back. "Is that my Zora armor?"

"Yes, my clothes were all tattered because of the torture I was put through, and I could only find this in that pitch-black basement of yours. What do you have there?"

"Oh this, I thought it would be a nice gift for you." He gave me a bundle of cloth. I unwrapped it to find… my bow, with golden vine-like decorations and a thicker frame. "I noticed that your bow wasn't made for long-distance shots, so I asked the Gorons to strengthen it, in exchange I had to help a bit in their mines." I listened intently, but my real focus was on the bow, it was beautiful. "Hellooo, earth to Zoe, come on it's time we got training!"

Outside Link's house, Link's POV

After I got Zoe to snap out of her trance, we went outside, taking advantage of the targets the kids had put up for the slingshot. Zoe had warned me she was pretty bad with a bow without the blessing Artemis gave her, her skills were good because of how much mom trusted her. I don't think she's that bad.

"Ok Zoe, let's start with these, they're not too far away, so it shouldn't be hard" sadly, without mom's blessing, Zoe couldn't even set the arrow. "Here let me help" I got behind her and grabbed her hands with my own, showing her how to shoot, when we heard clopping hooves and a gasp behind us:Bo and Ilia had returned from the citadel.

"L-Link" oh crud, I had forgotten about Ilia's crush on me, and the fact that I only see her as a very good friend instead of a love interest, guess that's what happens when you save a girl from bandits, shadow beasts, and amnesia. I went wolf, got Zoe on my back, and warped us away. Before I did, I heard Ilia scream "COME BACK!"

"Not a chance!" only Zoe could understand me sadly… and she also seemed to become sick when travelling through shadows, since when we landed, she hurled beside me. "Not the fur!"

"Ugh…sorry Link, but that traveling method does make a number on me, so where are we now?"

"Welcome to the Sacred Grove, I'll try to find a 'friend' of mine to help you train" We looked around the grove for a while, I told her to keep an eye out for a kid that looked like a scarecrow, and that had a four-holed trumpet. "damn that kid, he appears when I'm in a freaking hurry, and when I do need him, HE'S NOWHERE AROUND!" Zoe was obviously restraining her laughter, when we both heard something like…howling in the air.

"Hey Link, what's with that rock over there?" I looked at the origin of the sound and couldn't believe my eyes. "It's making that weird noise…"

"A…A howling stone! But if my father's spirit passed on, how can there be more?" I approached the rock and listened to its tune, it was oddly familiar… I began to howl it, but by the end nothing happened. "figures…false hope… wait a minute, what is that?" Zoe and I both saw what looked like letters, but it wasn't Hylian, it was…

"It's ancient greek! Maybe one of us has to howl, and the other one sings." I looked at her. "Oh no,nononono, I don't sing, never have, never will"

"I can't do both now can I?"

"I'm sorry Link, but I won't do it."

"Alright, if you say so…*sigh* guess I won't see my father again…"

'Damn guilt trip, how could he get to my nerves like that?' she just sighed in defeat and started to sing along. "Hear me, goddess of time, aid us in our quest, to defeat the evil lord…" The minute we stopped our duet, we were enveloped by light, but unlike our previous meetings, my father took us to his world directly.

~Ah my son, we meet yet again, and who is this lovely lady?~

I noticed I was now in my human form, so I could speak, and fight…

"Hey dad, this is my friend Zoe, and it's nice to see you again." I had forgotten one little detail: Never let your guard down near a skeletal warrior with countless battle experience, I was barely able to dodge his attack and return it with a Back slice, and then hit him with an ending blow. "and apparently going to the underworld didn't change that little bit…"

~Good to see you haven't lost your edge my son, now, I understand you want to help the lady with her bow right?~

"Correct, how did you know anyway, old man?"

~First off, DON'T CALL ME OLD MAN! Second, I have my ways of knowing, so I propose to train you both here, where time will seem to lengthen, and then you can depart to help your mother~ he divided himself into two, one with a blade and one with a bow, they both took out an ocarina and played a tune that sounded like the song outside, but backwards. ~Zoe Nightshade, you will begin training with your bow, and Link with his blade, and when you are both in optimum skill level, you will switch and Zoe will learn sword-fighting and you Link will train harder with your own bow, and if any of you two think they don't need the training, then you will face all the heroes from the last 11 generations, understood? ~

"Yes dad, no prob, but you do realize that Zoe doesn't have a sword and that the Ordon sword is probably going to be unbalanced for her?" My father blinked his only eye as an answer "So, what happened to your 'way of knowing'?"

~ She can have my old one, the Gilded Sword, a powerful blade with what the Gorons called Golden Dust, but, according to your mother, was actually a stronger version of Celestial Bronze, called the Celestial Gold. However, the blade has weakened over time, and it would also feel a bit unbalanced on her hands, but I believe that if it was infused with some of the Master Sword's power, it would go back to normal with some extra power, leaving them slightly matched, and would also force it to adapt to her~

"So no more attacks like the Triforce slash?"

~That power comes from the Triforce of courage, nothing to do with the sword, now, let us begin~

Day two, Hero's spirit realm, Zoe's POV

It had been a full day since we began training, and Link's dad is a tough teacher. He is patient, sure, but also doesn't like it when you commit something simply stupid, like the one time when I started yesterday when an arrow went into the eye socket with nothing in it, he shot me in the head with a blunt-tipped arrow, leaving a very bad bruise. Today he was showing me how to shoot arrows straight even if there was wind.

~Now Zoe, for a straight shot you need the arrow's tip as horizontally as humanly possible, If you do that, the wind won't affect it so much and will fly true. Any questions~ with a shake of my head I began practicing.

My arrows flew much farther than ever before, I really had to thank Link for the bow, so I kept shooting until at one point I could tell how much to twist the tip so it didn't go sideways. There was a huge explosion where Link had been training.

Link's POV

I will never complain about my father's teaching methods EVER again, he wasn't lying when he said he would throw the heroes of 11 generations at either of us if we said we didn't need the training. I was now sprawled over a small crater, with several cuts. Many of the heroes had used an attack that looked like a golden beam, but one of them had raised his sword over his head, and when it started to glow, he swung it down, shooting a disc of silver energy that sent me spinning away.

"Dad…the hell were those attacks?

~That, my child, was called a sword beam, which I will teach you how to use, and the disk-like one is called the skyward strike, which could only be done in the past, go figure why. Interestingly, the sword beam can complement the skyward strike, and vice-versa, creating a practically perfect attack, the only problem is, the combination of both attacks is a sphere of energy, do you understand where I'm headed?~

"It can be bounced back to the launchers…" I wondered if the sages or the goddesses where addicted to that specific way to return attacks. "But, my Greek enemies don't know about that, right?

~ I think they don't, whoever they are...~

General POV

Our heroes both trained until they had reached the peak of their abilities, and when it was time to switch, The Hero's Wraith gave Zoe an old, blunt blade, rusted everywhere except for what looked like gold pockets. Obviously, the sword was pretty useless, and for Zoe it was even more so, as the blade felt awkward in her hands.

~ Now, Link, I want you to shoot a sword beam at the sword, and charge it with half the energy of the Master Sword, it will cause the sword to change itself to fit your girlfriend, and give it similar qualities. ~

"Sure…wait what?" The two heroes seemed to finally process what the spirit had said "HE'S/SHE'S NOT MY BOY/GIRLFRIEND!" and then they blushed when they noticed that they talked in perfect sync

~ could've fooled me~ The wraith laughed. He may be old fashioned, but he still enjoyed messing his son, like many fathers do. ~ In fact, you two quarrel so much one would think you're married ~ His laughter was dry, but it was still extremely mocking. Link then revived the Gilded Sword, turning it into a curved blade with a golden edge, the center of balance being perfect for Zoe

"Ok Zoe, there's no better way to learn than doing it, so I take the left…"

"And I take the right…" The wraith's laughter died down when the two angered teens rushed at him, blades drawn.

~Uh-oh~

Time-skip, 4 spirit world weeks, two U.S.A days. I have no ideas for Zoe's blade training so I'm just gonna skip it and add flashbacks here and there. Percy's POV, Hoover Dam

We were now sitting in the Dam's snack bar, worried sick about Zoe and Link, with Grover sulking, Thalia slightly annoyed at him, and Bianca sulking too, but she was sulking about not being able to be a huntress anymore, having lost an arm in the battle with the giant automaton, and I was worried about a monster or some skeletal soldiers coming after us. We were eating in silence, an awkward one, when some people started screaming. We immediately thought the worst.

"The general's soldiers?"

"A monster?"

" No, I don't smell anything…it smells like a wolf and trees from a forest"Grover nearly jumped out of his seat when an odd wolf sat beside him. The wolf made a few grunts and whimpers and Grover's eye widened with relief. "LINK!"

"What?" We were all curious and relieved, and slightly worried when we didn't see Zoe, until she appeared behind him, her look drastically changed. Gone was the silvery dress she used to hunt, replaced by a more feminine looking version of Link's tunic, and the same color of her hunting dress. We noticed several changes in her looks and weapons: Her hair now had gold colored streaks, her ears were pointy, her bow was thicker and with golden decorations, but the most shocking change was the sword strapped to her hip, and the triangle tattoo in her right hand. "What happened to you?"

Before she could answer, Bianca had gone and asked something else, several things actually

"Lady Zoe! Where were you? What happened to your ears? And your bow? And your hair? And since when do you use a sword? And why couldn't I sense you like I can sense the other hunters?"

"Ok calm down, Bianca. We were in Link's world. My ears and hair changed after I was healed by the Light Spirits, because of something I don't want to talk about, Link had my Bow strengthened by the Gorons, who are rock people, Link's father gave me this sword, and taught me how to use it."

We were pretty much speechless when she told us that, but she left one detail out.

"What about Bianca not sensing you when you arrived?" As always, ADHD made me blurt out my words. "And why don't you have that freakish glow the hunters have?" I finished my question by pointing at Bianca, who still had that weird glow even when armless and in daylight

"Oh, t-t-that, eh, uhm, you see, ehh…" She was fidgety and blushing hard, as well as Link, judging by how his 'cheek fur' was slightly red. Now, I may be impulsive, rash, and not think much in a battle, and wasn't a child of Athena, but even I could put one and one together, since a Huntress loses her status when…

"Ho…ly…shit" Bianca hit me in the head for my language, before apparently coming to the same conclusion as me, followed by Grover and then Thalia. "Link…how come you're still alive?"

"Yeah man?" Link started talking, and Grover translating "He says a couple of fairies spiked their dinner, and they woke up the next morning in a compromising situation." Grover simply frowned "Fairies? Man that's a lousy lie…"

"It's true you know." Zoe took out a bottle with a flying pink orb, which said hi to the group before being put away. "Those two little things added some dust to the soup Link made, and we woke up the next morning…you know…" Soon enough Link was running away from an enraged Bianca. "I told him that would happen…"

"Hey, bow girl, what's with the tattoo?" As usual Thalia wanted to give Zoe a bad time

"Oh, this? Link gave it to me, saying I was the only one he considered worthy of having it…"

"A tattoo?"

"The Triforce of Wisdom…"

Flashback

Zoe and Link had just finished their training with the boney warrior. They were exhausted, sweaty, and heavily bruised. The wraith started congratulating them, before saying that Zoe would be as strong as Link if she had a Triforce piece.

"Well, that can be fixed, but you might have to battle something within yourself or out here to earn Nayru's respect." Link dug out the blue-gold triangle from his bag, and it started pulsing near Zoe. "Ready?" She nodded, and the hero gave her the piece. The minute she touched it, shadows started to flicker around, before forming in what seemed like a dark Zoe. "WHAT THE?"

~ Yet another thing the goddesses seem to love: Dark versions of the heroes, or in this case, heroine. ~

Zoe and her dark clone began fighting, the recently renamed moonlight (If anyone can tell me that in greek so I can have a name for it like Anaklusmos(riptide) I'd be forever grateful) clashed against its dark twin. Zoe understood that the purpose of the test was not to test her courage or power, but her wisdom, so she analyzed the clone's battle style and then figured out a way to defeat it. Upon killing the dark being, a bright light shone in Zoe's hand, and the icon of the Triforce appeared in it.

Flashback done

"And that's what happened" When Zoe finished, all of us but Link were shocked yet again. Zoe now had divine power, a powerful bow, a powerful sword, and had fought her own darkness.

Link, who had gone outside and turned back human, spoke up next

"You should've seen her, she was amazing!" He had a tone of admiration in his voice. "To learn sword fighting, bow mastery and defeat your own dark self without a Triforce piece is extremely hard!"

Zoe was now blushing, and was probably going to say something when the skeletal warriors arrived, looking for us. We made a run for it, not wanting to harm people in a battle since the soldiers had iron weapons, and I accidentally got separated from the group

Link's POV

I can't believe it, we just finish training with a skeleton and now some more skeletons were after us, but I couldn't help but to wonder if they counted as stalfos or as something else. I looked at Zoe and she nodded, telling me it was time to test our new deathly skill. After the training, dad gave Zoe Moon arrows, which were a lot like Light arrows, but the light was silvery and cold. We drew our bows, charged up our arrows and prepared to shoot.

"TWILIT MOON SHOT!" We screamed the attack's name and let the projectiles loose. The lights combined and now looked like the Twilit clouds from the twilight realm. When the light made contact, all the skeletons that were following us were vaporized by the pure divine light, but more took their place. Soon enough we were at the roof of the dam, which reminded me I had to thank whoever thought of the informational signs outside that told me what the place was. Percy soon rejoined us. We were in a lose-lose situation, there were to many for me to plow through with the Goron mask, the Zora mask wouldn't do much either, and the Deku mask would do even less. The giants mask would break the dam, and I didn't want to use the fierce deity mask just yet. Percy told Thalia something about praying to her father, which she argued about, before starting to pray. We were about to get maimed when the golden statues nearby came to life, wiping away the skeleton warriors while complaining about what the tourists did to their toes. Soon enough we were flying away, with the statues saying something I didn't quite catch

Ok, that's it for now, next update will be either Saturday, Sunday, or next week. Anyway, please vote on the poll and review.