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"Clever little punk," Rinku growled watching Link make his way through the storm of flames and lava he had conjured, "Too bad you're at a disadvantage."
"Whatever do you mean?" Link asked smirking as he got ever closer, "I'm the one who is still in peek physical condition, and you're the one who has taken a Din's Fire to the chest and a dark arrow to the shoulder."
"But what makes you think that makes a difference to me?" Rinku asked as he sped forward, the flames dying down as the magma slowly cooled.
"You forgot something!" Link yelled as he unsheathed the Master Sword, "You don't have your weapon!"
Rinku smirked as he stopped right before Link and jumped into the air, out of the way of a sword slash, "Oh by the way…" Rinku said as Link looked up at him, "Who said I forgot my sword?"
Rinku's Helix Blade burst up from the ground right under Link, who just barely managed to get out of the way to avoid being cut in two. However the sword managed to cut a rather large wound in his right leg, it flew up to Rinku as he caught the handle on his way down, holding it above his head for a powerful slash. Rinku slashed down, creating a large wound in Link's chest. "Link, wouldn't you agree that the goddesses will always ensure that the one who is right will always win?" Rinku asked as he stuck his sword in the ground as Link dropped his on the way to the ground.
Rinku walked over to Link, who was trying to stand up, and grabbed him by the throat. "I would," Rinku stated as he walked over to the edge of the cliff, looking down to see a large river at the bottom, "Perhaps you need some time to think about this."
With that Rinku dropped Link into the river far below, and then kicked the Master Sword into the river as well, Link being quickly carried off down the stream. "And here I thought you would have run off by now," Rinku said looking up into the sky where Ganondorf was still floating, his arms crossed as he smirked.
"Whatever for?" Ganondorf asked as he slowly floated down, "I have no need to do so."
"I'll give you one warning Ganondorf," Rinku said as he put his hand over a section of now solidified magma, his armor bursting from the ground and into his hand, "Leave the Gerudo alone."
"Why should you care?" Ganondorf asked as Rinku strapped his armor on.
"That is none of your business Ganondorf, just know this, I will kill you should you go near them," Rinku stated as a fact, not a threat, picking up his sword and sticking it into it's holder on his back.
"Very well Rinku, I shall agree for now," Ganondorf said as he seemed to vanish in darkness, "I have other agendas I would rather deal with anyway."
Rinku growled deep in his throat as he turned to the gap between him and the Gerudo fortress, and leaped across it, landing on his feet five feet from the edge of the cliff on the other side. "Well that wasn't too…"he said to himself as he suddenly spat up blood as his legs buckled under him as he fell to the ground, "…hard…"
"What do you want Shadow?" the Gerudo asked looking at him, and then at Din over his shoulder, "Whose the girl?"
"I've come for my sword, Nabooru," Shadow stated as he put Din down, "Her name is Din, a companion of mine saved her from unjust capture and imprisonment. At least as far as either of us can tell."
"How noble of you," she answered, smirking at him, "Now tell me the real reason."
"Get out of my head Nab," Shadow chuckled, smirking as he looked her in the eyes, "She's an Oracle, I'll be damned if I let anybody get their hands on that kind of power."
"At least you're honest," Nabooru stated crossing her arms, "Now what makes you think I'm going to just give you that sword?"
"Come now, I am an honorary Gerudo, I've passed both the trials, what more do I have to prove? The sword is mine by right, I brought you the metal, I paid for the sword to be made,"
"You have to beat me," Nabooru answered as Din began to stir.
"Rin…Rinku…he's in trouble," Din said as she got up.
"I doubt that, he can handle himself just fine," Shadow said looking at her.
"No, the earth, it told me he was hurt, he's collapsed on the northern half of the gap, and…he reverted whatever that's supposed to mean," Din insisted.
Nabooru whistled as two Gerudo walked up, "Go and search the Northern part of the ravine, check to see if anybody has collapsed," she ordered as they ran off down the trail and the she said to Din, "Welcome to the ancestral home of the Gerudo, please follow me."
In the middle of a raging river leading out from Gerudo valley, Link was doing his best to stay above the water. The wounds he received from Rinku stinging from the constant pressure applied by the river. Just as he finally lost the strength to stay above the waves everything gained a strange grey tint, he fell over a waterfall into a great lake, his entire body itching. He felt a change happening, wracking his body with pain as he slowly lost consciousness. He felt his body get both lighter and heavier at the same time, right before he lost consciousness he saw one last thing, somebody swimming down to him.
A couple of hours later…Rinku awoke in a small room within a fortress nestled in the valley, on a bed made up of pillows, his armor now removed, and all of his clothes but his pants. A sharp pain struck his shoulder as he looked at it, completely bandaged and apparently cleaned from the sterile smell coming from the bandages, "Well this sucks," he commented as he slowly got up, a lock of bright red hair falling to his face, and then taking a look at his arm which was now slightly tanned he sighed, "And that sucks even more…"
"So do you care to explain why you look like a Gerudo?" Din asked, sitting in across from him in a chair, looking intently into his now normal red eyes, "You looked nothing like this when we first met."
"I'm half Gerudo," Rinku admitted, "It's really that simple, my mother escaped this place many years ago when Ganondorf first began to rule. She feared the path he was taking the Gerudo down. She married a man in a distant land, and I was born, which greatly surprised my mother, who was expecting a female child as the curse goes. In a way it gives me a legitimate claim to rule over the Gerudo if I chose to take it. However they probably don't realize this about me, and I'd like to keep it like that, at least for now."
"So you trust me with this kind of information?" Din asked slightly surprised by how easily her question was answered.
"You saved my life, and I've saved yours. Anybody who willingly saves the life of a big brute like me deserves my trust," Rinku answered as he slowly sat up in the bed.
"You're a simple man," Din stated as she smiled, "Not like some others I've met."
On top of the fortress, Shadow and Nabooru were circling each other, Shadow with his sword out and Nabooru with twin scimitars. "So Shadow, you think you have what it takes to defeat me?" Nabooru asked as she jumped up into the air and performed a spinning slash with both scimitars.
Shadow brought his sword up and parried one of the swords, and pushed Nabooru back in midair. Nabooru landed on one foot, slightly off balance. She knelt down, swords out to either side of her as she leaned forward and pounced. Shadow hopped over her as she slashed at where he was from both sides. "Nab, you're going to have to use more of your strength than that to come anywhere near to beating me," Shadow stated as Nabooru back-flipped over him as she threw the scimitar in her right hand at him.
"Switching to one scimitar, about time," Shadow stated as he stepped out of the way of the thrown scimitar and closed the distance between him and Nabooru until they were a few inches apart, switching his sword to his left hand to block any attack from her scimitar.
"Close quarters combat," Nabooru said trying to put some distance between them, failing miserably as he kept up with her step for step, "I doubt that's your specialty."
"Not really, but it makes it hard as hell for you to fight," Shadow replied with a smirk, "And you forget, my dominant hand is open."
"Why did you think I threw with my right hand?" Nabooru asked with a coy smile.
"Touché,"
"You can't beat me if you can't hit me," Nabooru pointed out as she gripped the handle on her scimitar tightly, preparing to attack the moment Shadow let his guard down.
"I can still cast magic," Shadow pointed out with a smirk.
"But that'll give me all the chance I need to attack,"
"True, but would it be enough to send me into submission. And would it leave you enough time to get out of the way of my spell?"
"Why don't you try it?"
"Is that a challenge?"
Elsewhere, at Hyrule Castle, in a grand throne room, Ganondorf was kneeling before Zelda. "I am sorry to report that Link was killed," he stated simply, surprising the guards that were watching him intently.
"Leave us," Zelda demanded of the guards as they walked out of the room, some of them a little slower than others.
After they had left Ganondorf added, "I couldn't have done anything to help him. That Rinku had used Din's Fire to catastrophic strength."
"What do you mean?"
"He called it Din's Raging Inferno, I saw it literally melt stone and evaporate a waterfall,"
Zelda didn't say anything as she stood up and walked out. Ganondorf rose from his kneeling position and crossed his arms. "All according to plan," he muttered to himself as he smirked, "Onto step three."
Where am I? Link thought to himself as he slowly looked around to see that he was in a cage, and that some funny furry thing was sticking out of his face. And what the hell is that? Link rubbed his face with his paw…and then stopped and looked at it. What the hell? "It looks like our little comrade in unluckiness has awoken," a loud rumbling voice said as a gigantic spider-like thing with a turtle's shell, a snake's head, and a monkey's tail slowly lowered itself from above Link's cage.
Link looked at himself, to see that he had somehow changed into a gigantic wolf. He looked around with wide feral eyes, trying to look for some way out of the cage. "No, no, no my friend, you mustn't try to leave yet, you could hurt yourself if not properly taken care of in these first few hours," the gigantic monstrous thing said, "Oh by the way, my name's Shen. I used to be Hylian, the crazy old scientist that lives by the lake."
What the hell happened to me! Link thought as he tried to say it, only coming out as barks and howls. "I think I can figure out what you're saying, no I wasn't the one who bandaged your wounds," Shen said as he used one of his many legs to point at the bandages covering his chest and right hind leg, "And I wasn't the one who pulled you out of the water."
Way off buddy…"She was," Shen said as he pointed at a Hylian wearing a one piece swimsuit, a short skirt and who had long blue hair, pale skin, and deep navy blue eyes.
"Hello," she said as she nodded her head at him.
"And I suppose your next question is, what the hell happened to you?" Shen asked. About time…
"Well it's quite simple, you entered a Twilight Field, it somehow transforms the bodies of whoever enters one transforms into some other form," Shen stated, "I got transformed into this, and she got transformed into a Hylian."
"And you my dear Gerudo got turned into a Wolf," Shen stated.
Well I guess that explains...Link began to think and then shook his head and looked at Shen...GERUDO?
"I know it's hard to believe, but you have to accept it. I'm currently working on a cure right now. The first version of it allowed me to keep from going genocidal, the second version has allowed her to regain parts of her original anatomy. This version if I'm correct will change you back," Shen stated as he used two of his other arms to mix a potion, "I should have it ready by tomorrow night."
And that's where I'm ending it. Yes everybody introduced thus far is actually based on a Zelda character. And now I think the pairings should be much more obvious. WOOT! I believe this makes me the first one to reference anything from Twilight Princess in a Zelda Fanfic. Boo-yah baby!...Okay I'm done celebrating now…And without further ado…onto the questions!
1. Heh, I liked that little twist with Rinku being part Gerudo. So who saw it coming? And who likes it?
2. So who do you think miss Blue-Haired girl is? (Yes, to those who figured it out, I know I'm being blunt)
And that's all, now press that review button and Ciao for now!
