CHAPTER 10

Sexiest Bloodbath, Or Worst Pickup Line?

"You are sure she said she is Scath's successor?" Zelda asked as Link nodded. "Positive. She bears the fourth piece of the triforce… errrr… tetraforce now. I am not sure what to do about this, Zelda. She has allied herself with my dark counterpart. I fear the Goddessess will send me to kill her as well as Shadow Link, but I have witnessed that the Master Sword is ineffective against her, which worries me."

Zelda raised an eyebrow, "So either she is not evil, or she is powerful enough to pose more of a threat than Ganon… keep an eye on her for now. I will look through the royal library for what I can find out about the Triforce of Balance."

"Yes, Princess." Link answered before heading off to Telma's bar to check on Shadow and Raven.

"So what do you know about this?" Raven asked Shadow Link, holding up her hand showing the Tetraforce of Balance. He shrugged. "All I know is you are a Goddess who chooses the wielder of Balance, and in doing so both you and the wielder are given abilities. What those abilities are I have no clue since you haven't been around for years. I also know Passion is very sexy, and Rage is… well, mad at everything?"

Raven gasped and ran down the hall just in time to see Passion kiss Shadow Link on the lips. Holding up the mirror and dispersing said emotion, annoyed that she had done that, Shadow Vio smiled. "I was enjoying that!" he said, his smirk widening as Raven blushed.

"Can I go beat her up?" Rage asked walking up to Raven. Raven shook her head. "No, but if you want to go kill some of the creatures in Hyrule field be my guest." she answered. Rage smirked and was gone in the direction of the city gates within seconds.

Raven pulled her other emoticlone back into the mirror. Just as well, because Bravery was about to ask Shadow something Raven wasn't fully prepared to deal with. As they went downstairs and paid for some smoked boar and mead… wait what? Raven wasn't sure she could get used to that very quickly… then again it did smell really good, and they didn't seem to care how old someone was in regards to consuming alcohol. In the end her stomach won out and she took a bite of the boar…

Two minutes later her plate was empty. Shadow was all smiles, knowing why she had initially hesitated. "A toast! To the future!" He smirked holding up his jug of mead. Raven frowned. Getting drunk was a bad idea. If her powers went crazy she would be labeled as an outcast. She got an idea and held her mug and clinked it with his own. As she brought it to her lips she muttered her mantra and its contents were transported outside into the gutter. Setting her mug down, she stood up to leave and find Rage, planning on bringing her back to Nevermore, when she was stopped by Shad.

"Where did you get that?" he asked adamantly, pointing at her hand, where the Tetraforce(A/N: Triforce and Tetraforce will be used interchangeably in this story) was displayed. Raven quickly covered her hand, but it was already too late.

"Come on Raven. We need to meet up with Green." the Red Shadow Link said a little too urgently.

Shad muttered, "I really hope that's ink." as they left, seeming wary around them. As they walked around town, Raven expected to see odd looks from the populace, but was pleasantly surprised when none were given. Shadow Link saw a florist and got an idea, walking over. As Raven followed him she muttered, "Shadow, I'm not that kind of girl." To which he responded with, "You seemed like you liked enchantments… I thought a flower would be inconspicuous."

Raven found no flaws in that logic, looking them over, finding what looked like a black rose. Shadow Link smirked at her "Somehow I figured you'd want that one." he smiled, producing odd crystalline money Raven had never seen before. He thanked the vendor and as they walked away a mist emerged from his hands, muttering something she could only guess was a dark magic incantation. Taking the flower from him, she felt a chill go through her spine as the magic took effect. "huh… so what'd it do?"

Shadow raised his eyebrows, "Well I just thought you'd look cute with your ears looking Hylian. Goddess or not, You didn't think once that it would be strange to see round ears around here?"

"What?" Raven put her hand to her ears, finding that she now sported pointed ears. Shadow laughed, "Trigon never once mentioned his heritage did he?"

Raven chuckled, finding that she could surprisingly express more emotion than normal around Shadow Link "True. I never would have asked either… It's almost laughable that he called himself king of demons when he was faking it the whole time. Almost." She smiled slightly.

As they neared the south exit from Castle Town, they spotted Rage's rather gory trail of dead monsters. Shadow Link instantly had a toothy grin on his face. "I love you so much more now!" He said. Raven sighed in frustration. "Why am I not surprised?"

As they approached Rage, Shadow Link whistled and Raven blushed as Rage turned to face them after she got rid of the last of the monstrosities in her vicinity.

"What took you so long?" She rasped while wiping her brow, obviously breaking a sweat from exerting herself. Shadow Link smirked and said, "We would have been here sooner, but I wanted to watch the sexiest blood bath in history."

Despite her emotion being the epitome of pure hatred, Rage actually smiled for half a second, Which worried Raven for a moment. Rage NEVER smiled, but it was plain as day that she had to Raven.

"So what do we do now? Link is up to something Rae." Shadow said, bringing her out of her thoughts.

"So you noticed too?" She asked him. He nodded. "I am his dark counterpart after all!"

Raven looked over towards Castle Town. "We should leave Castle Town, but where do we go? I have no idea where we CAN go… I don't know-"

"Still got that book?" Shadow Link interrupted her. She nodded. "I don't see where you are going with this." She said, taking out the Hyrule Historia. Shadow Link took it from her and opened it to a map. "There we go." he smirked as he handed it back to Raven. Raven looked over the locations. "We can't go to Ordon… nor could we go to the Kokiri forest, if it still exists." Shadow pointed to places on the map. "Our best bet is to find a place to stay where we wouldn't be viewed as enemies, but not in a place where enemies of Hyrule reside."

Raven sighed. "That means Gerudo Desert is out. And I doubt the goddesses would allow us to stay in the clouds."

Shadow Link nodded. "Wait… how did you know Gerudo Desert was not a good place to go?"

Raven pointed to the place labeled "Mirror chamber".

"Oh… right..." Shadow Link chuckled nervously. Raven looked over the map again. "What about Kakariko village?" She asked. Shadow Link rubbed his chin in thought. "Well Link has been there in the past… We might not be well received at first, but it's our best bet at the moment."

"You are both getting really annoying, you know that?" Rage commented, finally saying something. Raven sighed and pulled her into the Mirror of Nevermore. "My teleporting spells aren't going to work right if we're in a place I am unfamiliar with." She said. "Maybe we should get some horses."

Shadow Link chuckled, "You aren't the only one who can teleport around here." As a portal opened up and sucked them both into it, depositing them in the middle of Kakariko Village.