A/N: Okay, so everyone owes The-Lesser-of-two-Goods, Silver, and AtemuManaLover a big thanks for their reviews. xD You also owe Lesser a lot of gratitude and a nice major plot line which will involve the WHOLE triforce more and stuffs. You'll find out later, though. ;D
By the way, this chapter contains speculation on the middle piece of the Triforce--mostly stuff I have made up and stuff that Lesser has added as well. If you don't agree with what I say, then good; It is only true in this story. It's also rather confusing at parts.
Disclaimer-If I owned Legend of Zelda would I continuously say that I didn't? I thought not. Read and review, loves. xD
"So," Rusl started nervously that evening as he and Link hung by the Faron pond. Uli, Sera, and Pergie were making a huge dinner for the whole town in special honor of Zelda and Midna who had been ordered not to lift a finger, but they both had helped anyway. "All we know is that Ganondorf is alive for some odd reason and that Telma and the others are... MIA. We don't have a lot to work with, Link."
Link nodded as he stared at the Triforce symbol that he had had since he had been born. A cursed fate, huh? Every Link and every Zelda used all their power to seal away Ganondorf, but he always came back. He knew, though. He could clearly remember the Triforce of Power fading off of Ganondorf's hand when he delivered the final blow. How was it possible for him to be revived once more? 'Maybe we're destined to be doing this for all eternity.'
"Link! Are you listening, Link?" Rusl shouted at the teenaged boy who jumped at the yell.
"Sorry." said Link as he rubbed the back of his head and looked sideways at Rusl. "What were you saying?"
Rusl groaned and rubbed his face. "I said that you should go get that Master Sword before dinner. It's the Blade of Evil's Bane, Link. If it brought Ganondorf down before, then it will do it again!" Link clutched the sand in his fists. If that were true, then Ganondorf wouldn't be alive still! If the Master Sword were the powerful, ultimate blade as they said, then this Ganondorf wouldn't be alive after so long.
Link slowly pushed himself off the ground and nodded. 'I'll be needing Midna's help, though.' He waved goodbye to Rusl and headed for the village.
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"The Pedestal of Time? Is that what the thing the Master Sword's in is called?" Midna asked with some interest as she put down a few plates on the huge table. Link nodded, watching her very move as she considered him. In the blink of his eyes, the twili, as she had so often done before, was at his ear. "So, do your friends know about your little canine problem?" Her tone wasn't threatening, just interested. Without speaking, Link shook his head. The twilight princess cackled. "Okay, okay. We'll go to Faron Woods and transform there, okay, doggie?" Midna said with a wide grin that made Link laugh.
"Link!" Ilia's voice called after them, making Link freeze in his tracks. She couldn't follow them. He whirled around and gave a small wave. "Hey, where are you going? Dinner will be ready soon." She said, panting a little when she was standing in front of them. "Hi, Midna." The girl added with a smile. Midna smiled in return; She loved not being treated like royalty.
Link opened his mouth to speak, but Midna's words came out instead. "There's something we have to get out of the dangerous patch of Faron Woods." 'Dangerous?' Ilia thought, skeptically, 'A dangerous patch? Every part of Faron Woods is dangerous...' "If you came, Ilia, you'd just be extra baggage; Link can't focus on the task at hand if he has to worry about defending you." Link blinked, his mouth wide with surprise. It was the truth, yes, but it sounded so harsh when Midna said it. To his surprise, however, Ilia nodded enthusiastically.
"You're completely right. The best thing I can do for Link is wait for him." She answered with a small smile before she backed away from them. "I'll save you two a seat." Link's mouth couldn't have possibly been hanging open any more than it already was. Ilia who had been so quick to scold him and her own father numerous times just allowed Midna to tell her what to do? It just... wasn't like her.
Midna smiled encouragingly at Link before she signaled for him to keep walking. When they made it to the bridge between Ordon and Faron, Link spoke. "You know, you'll be lucky if Ilia doesn't make a voodoo doll of you," He chuckled. "Never does she let anyone tell her what to do. Ah. Maybe she respects you."
"She certainly does," Midna said suspiciously. "She won't even call me 'Princess'." He looked at her sideways.
"Isn't that what you want?" Asked Link with the feeling that he was walking into a trap.
"Yes." Midna replied, stubbornly. The boy just didn't get it. "My point is, Link, what did you do?" She asked with accusations lacing her tone as they paused at the Faron spring.
"I told her a lot about you..." He mumbled sheepishly. Midna noticed that his cheeks were a little red. She laughed.
"Okay, okay. Good enough for me." She replied with a genuine smile. Then, she took a quick look around and nodded. "Okay! We should be perfect where we are." Midna took out the piece of magic that had been lodged into Link's skull when Zant had attacked them in Lanayru's spring. He touched it and immediately felt his bones shift into different positions as they shortened in length. His brain also decreased in size, but he could smell new scents. Like the one of Coro which wasn't exactly a delightful smell...
When he looked back up at Midna (and felt even shorter than he had before), he saw her eyes closed and her face concentrated. Without warning, a black light engulfed her, and she was floating in the air as an imp. Midna plopped onto his back, causing him to look back at her and growl a little out of habit. She patted his head and pulled his fur. "The portals are obviously still open, so let's just warp there." Wolf Link's body disappeared into little specs of twilight as he flew through the air with Midna following close behind.
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The books that the mayor of Ordon had were even better than Zelda's, she realized with envy. How was it possible that the royal family did not keep the best books around? Then, she remembered what her father had said. 'I would hate for you to get the wrong idea.' She had found him in his study one evening as a little girl with a whole bunch of books burning in the fireplace. Maybe he had forgotten that there were still many in the vault.
Zelda was laying on a small piece of land farther down the lake in the village. She had already tried to read the books in the village, but the children continued to stare at her in wonder and she could feel the awkward air around everyone else. Maybe it would be for the best if they left soon; It seemed that the villagers were nervous at having a twili, let alone the twilight princess around and Zelda's presence made them worry about... who knows what. The princess grabbed a book from the pile and found something that she had never seen before.
It was a book on the Triforce, yes, but it looked so old... She ran a finger down the smooth spine. The book was ripped and looked like it had seen better days, but maybe this was a sign of its greatness. Zelda opened to the first page and began to read.
The Triforce, a most wonderful artifact. Since the beginning of time, the three pieces of Triforce have usually belonged to the same three people. The top of the triangle is the Triforce of Power belonging to Ganondorf; The left part is the Triforce of Wisdom belonging to Princess Zelda; The right part is the Triforce of Courage belonging to the hero, Link.
Although these pieces are often mentioned, there has not been much of a discussion about the missing piece in the center. In old legends, the middle piece was the most powerful of the piece as it was almost complete nothingness, which can, in theory, run on forever. It is not known exactly what happened to the fourth piece or what is or if it even exists. In fact, most wave it off as a fairy tale.
It is said that Din, Farore, and Nayru left behind the Triforce at the last point they were at in the world. The Triforce, being such a powerful artifact, was surrounded by the Light Realm with the help of the Seven Sages. (A/N: Pretty much completely making this up... xD) However, there was a time where the twili were still accepted in the light world and that is how the middle piece was created. During the time that Din, Farore, and Nayru were busying themselves with building Hyrule, the Twilight Gods were doing the same for the sake of those twili nomads. When they left, they combined their powers together to make the fourth piece that is even more powerful than the other three because the one piece was created by three Gods.
If one were ever to come across the bearer of the fabled fourth piece, then the only way to beat it would be to gather
Zelda stared at the page in disbelief. The ink had faded for the next few paragraphs! "How do you beat it?" She demanded, glaring at the book as if it would give her the answers. Sighing, she looked up at the sky as twilight fell. "It probably doesn't even exist." One line in particular from the end of the chapter stuck out at her: The only time this piece of the Triforce was thought to be in existence was before the Imprisoning war, imprinted upon the Hylian Shield.
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The scents of fresh air, trees, grass, and dirt filled Wolf Link's nose as he descended to the ground in a solid form again. Once again, as he stood on the odd Triforce symbol printed on the ground (A/N: Lolz, the means of teleportation if you have the Ocarina of Time ;D), he felt as if there were voices calling out to him. Maybe it was just the Skullkid getting into his head. Wolf Link grunted as Midna fell onto his back before he took off straight ahead for the Pedestal of Time.
When he was standing a few feet away from the sword, Link had Midna retransform him. "It's still there, huh?" He nodded in reply, smiling a little at the sign of his trusty sword. It wasn't that he didn't like his regular sword, the one he had stolen, but the Master Sword had been proving throughout history to be the best sword. Until recently.
Link shook off his lingering angry feelings and stepped up to get the sword. Midna watched Link walk off, but her eyes slowly trailed to the ground. It was still light out. At least, there was enough light for his shadow to appear.
Funny that a shadow wouldn't follow its master.
It didn't take long for Midna to put two and two together. "Duck, Link!" She shouted at him almost the same instant as Dark Link materialized and swung his sword at Link's head. Link reacted just in time, barely missing the attack.
Dark Link scowled (or so Midna assumed--it was hard to tell) at her as he whirled around. "You have an annoying habit of saving one another, and it's starting to piss me off!" He rushed at her with a fast speed, but she simply flew upward to avoid the blow. "Wait a second, you can't be that beautiful princess from before..."
"Who? Zelda?" Midna spat as she sent a dark energy ball at him. Dark Link absorbed the hit with his sword causing Midna and Link to gape at him.
"No. The Twilight Princess." Dark Link purred as he parried Link's blow from behind with a lazy flick of his arm.
"How the hell can you even be here?" Midna demanded, her spine crawling at the thought of this shadow wanting her. "This is sacred ground!"
Dark Link chuckled and nodded as he performed a quick spin attack that easily knocked Link away. "When you live in the hero's shadow, it's very easy to get anywhere. Seeing as how you haven't been in his shadow, I haven't had to compete for space." Link didn't understand. Not only did the Master Sword still retain the light power from the Sols, it also was the Blade of Evil's Bane. How was it possible for Dark Link to combat the Master Sword so easily?
"Who are you working for? Ganondorf again?" Link snarled as he rushed at Dark Link, who readied a stab. Link dove to the right of Dark Link at the last minute and rolled around to his back where he attacked him. The extra light from the sword burned through Dark Link's back. He fell onto all fours.
"Oh, bravo. You caught me. It was I who revived Ganondorf and started all of this shit; Yes, I am commanding the fearsome King of Evil!" Dark Link cackled madly.
Link's face darkened. "Then, I have no problem killing you. We've met for the last time!" He rushed at him and jumped in the air with the Master Sword poised in position to do the finishing move.
"Wait!" Midna shouted with such authority that Link immediately stabbed the Master Sword just inches short of Dark Link's head. Annoyed, Link glared at her.
"What?" He demanded as he pulled hard on the hilt to free the blade from the old ground.
Midna glared at Dark Link. "He was destroyed before by the Hero of Time," Link was surprised that even she was brushed up on Hyrule's history. "Ganondorf was dead. Only someone with the ability to revive the dead could have done this." She was surprised she hadn't realized it sooner. She had only just left her Kingdom and now...
"Who?" Link demanded of Dark Link, then Midna. "You know who?" He asked her, surprised. She nodded, slowly.
"Whoa!" Midna shouted when Dark Link moved with reflexes like a cat and pinned Link to the ground.
"Who indeed." Dark Link's face was inches from Link's and he could feel the hot breath on his face. "Why don't you tell me, o, Hero of Twilight." The red eyes were glaring into Link's and now Dark Link's sword was stabbed right beside his head. Link's skin crawled unpleasantly at the emphasis on his 'title' and the fact that Dark Link was so close. (A/N: ;DDDDD)
"Not someone in the Twilight realm?" Link demanded more than asked. If this was true, then...
"Why don't you ask your little girlfriend over there?" Dark Link's hot breath caused Link to squirm unpleasantly. His breath smelled like death and decay. How odd for a shadow to smell that way. Link tried to move, tried to get Dark Link off of him, but his shadow seemed to be much stronger than before. 'Something's happened...' Link realized almost at once. Dark Link pulled his sword out of the ground with ease and poked it at Link's throat a little, causing small droplets of blood to ooze out; The wound wasn't enough to cause any real damage. Just enough to make Link sweat. (A/N: ;D Okay, I'm done now.)
As it had once before, it seemed the Triforce of Courage sensed that Link's life was in danger, and it began to shine brightly. Dark Link dropped his sword to shield his eyes. In the next millisecond, he felt a sharp pain pierce his right shoulder. He dropped his arm to find a wolf's fangs dug into his shoulder. "Damn that Farore!" Dark Link snarled as he began to punch Wolf Link's head for the release of his shoulder.
Wolf Link growled but did not let go. Dark blood (or something of the sort) oozed from the wound. Another dark ball of Midna's hit Dark Link's side, forcing Wolf Link to release his shadow as it went flying. Wolf Link shook his whole body, causing droplets of his own blood, and the blood dripping from his mouth, to land on the ground.
"Your usefulness has ended, I think." Midna spat coldly at the pathetic creature before her. He lay on the ground, unmoving. Her ponytail reared and began to loop over her head, going in for the impaling kill. It stopped right before where Dark Link's heart would have been as a black barrier stopped it. At first, Midna thought someone else was doing it, until Dark Link's features began to shift dramatically.
Dark Link let out an earth-shattering scream as his muscles twitched and twisted beneath his skin. His eyes were almost popping out. And, little by little, the little monster was growing larger. Midna's breath caught in her throat as she watched the shadow twist into some fifteen-foot beast.
Her mouth gaped at what he had turned into: some majorly twisted, buffed up creature. "What the hell?" She heard growling from beside her and looked down at Link. His fur was standing on edge and his canines were bared at whatever Dark Link had turned into. "Don't attack him!" Midna warned. "I don't really get what's going on."
Dark Link ran at them with frightening speed. His steps caused craters to form in the ground. Midna roughly grabbed Link's body and hurled him and herself out of the way of the mindless rampage. She dropped down on the other side of the area. Wolf Link blinked his eyes a few times. There were strange figures flashing before his eyes. One was a girl who appeared to be about ten with green hair and a dark green headband to match. There also was a tall and well-built woman with white hair. Another was a second tall, well-built woman with long, red hair wearing a green outfit. Another girl appeared to be a young Zora who may have been about seventeen. There was a bulky Goron with wild, white hair. The last one was an old man wearing red robes.
The six of them appeared to be arguing over something. "That's impossible!" roared the Goron. (A/N: I have to give so many warnings in this chapter. Ugh. Anyway, this obviously DID NOT really happen in Ocarina of Time. I made it up. :D)
"They're evil sorcerers, Darunia, anything is possible." The old man in red robes gravely replied.
"How could they have enough power to...? They're evil!" Link now realized that the redhead was a Gerudo woman. The old man chuckled at the redhead's statement.
"This is no time for light jokes, Rauru!" The white-haired woman snapped. He sobered up immediately.
"I agree with Nabooru!" The Zora girl said as if that settled everything. "They must want to use that cursed power to take the Triforce!"
"Your people want the Triforce, too, Ruto." The green-haired girl spoke softly. Impa, Darunia, Ruto, and Nabooru glared at the girl.
"Easy for you to say, Saria, the Kokiri are just children!" Nabooru, the redhead, growled.
"Stop, stop, STOP!" The older man, Rauru, demanded with a roaring voice. All of them fell quiet. "There is no reason for us all to fight; We know the outcome. The fact of the matter is that these Dark Interlopers not only have the man-made magic, the Fused Shadows, but also some sort of piece of the 'Triforce'.
"Who could have made it?" Impa breathed silently.
"The Gods of those Dark ones." Nabooru suddenly said as if it were obvious. "The evil ones that they pray to in order to steal our rightful power!"
Another argument broke out. "Come now! Nabooru," Rauru said with extreme seriousness, "You and I both know that King Ganondorf is going to swing things for the King of Hyrule so that no one gets that power." Nabooru shivered.
Ruto snorted. "Or so he would like us to believe."
"What should we do? With those Fused Shadows and dark 'fourth piece', those Interlopers can break into the Sacred Realm and claim the whole Triforce!" Nabooru shouted although she still seemed dead-set on getting the Triforce for the Gerudos.
Rauru sighed and closed his eyes. "I shall call upon my colleagues, and we will seal them in another realm." Nabooru quirked an eyebrow.
"What other 'colleagues' do you have other than us?" She asked with hands on her hips.
"The light spirits." He replied.
"Ah," Impa said with a knowing smile. "It seems that you are the head of us and another group of sages." Rauru smiled.
"I still think the Zora's should get the Triforce of Wisdom." Ruto murmured, causing an onslaught of arguments to ensue.
"Hey, Link! I know that daydreams are fun and everything, but would it be too much for me to ask you to help get rid of this guy?" Midna's shouting dragged Link out of his reveries. He shook his head. Had he just imagined the whole thing? Midna's 'hand' was holding back a bulky fist of Dark Link's. Wolf Link growled and jumped at Dark Link's neck while Midna held off his one hand.
He clung onto the neck with his claws while biting at it as many times as he could before Dark Link knocked him off. Midna wiped the sweat from her brow as she watched Dark Link slowly realized that he was injured. "Boy, his size grew, but his brain didn't." Even if Dark Link's brain hadn't grown, his sword sure had. Midna had one hell of a time getting her and Link away from the blade.
Dark Link pounded the ground with his fists when he realized he hadn't gotten a single scratch on the small wolf and imp. Midna's ponytail flew over her head and pierced his injured shoulder, but it seemed to have no effect. Dark Link pulled her ponytail out of his shoulder and threw Midna away as if she were a fly. Wolf Link growled and went for Dark Link's throat again, but he was knocked back into a wall.
Dark Link inched toward him with a sadistic smile upon his face. "Want doggie for dinner." Apparently, for Dark Link to gain power and height, he had to decrease his brain size and vocabulary. Wolf Link growled weakly as he tried to get up, but the world kept spinning.
"Move, you idiot!" Midna yelled at him from across the clearing. She rubbed her head and tried to move but to no avail. Annoyingly enough, her ponytail was lodged into the wall.
The giant hand was nearing Link who only found himself able to growl weakly at the large figure, but something great happened.
Dark Link began to moan loudly and clutch at his throat. There was a black light shining in his hand, but it was slowly disappearing, and his throat was beginning to gush blood that flowed out of it like a river. The smell of it overwhelmed Wolf Link's senses and caused him to keel over. The moan slowly became emptier and emptier like he was running out of air. Then, he fell onto the ground, causing it to shake a little, and disappeared in a puff of black smoke.
Midna finally freed her ponytail and flew over to Wolf Link. "Hold on, Link, I'll make you human in no time." She pushed Zant's magic against his fur, but nothing happened. The princess pulled it back and blinked. She recalled Dark Link cursing Farore, the Goddess who left behind the Triforce of Courage... "I guess we need Zelda. Alright, Link, get up. Let's go." The blood around them began to seep into the ground, but it remained on Link. He growled unpleasantly and slowly forced himself. "Sucks to have sharpened senses, huh?" She joked softly as he disappeared into Twilight. 'Guess you have to let your friends know the truth about you. Sorry,'
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Zelda shook her head at the Triforce book. All speculation, that's what it was. It made no sense at all, anyway. She closed it for about the tenth time and grabbed for a new book. Her hand froze in mid-grab as screams sounded in the city and carried over the water. Curiously enough, the hand grabbing for a new book began to glow, or at least the Triforce symbol did. "Link, Midna, what did you two get yourselves into now?" She murmured to herself as she dove into the water and swam back to the village.
She had figured that something terrible had occurred, but there was nothing of the sort there when Zelda pulled herself out of the water. The children were hiding behind their parents and Rusl was brandishing his sword at a wolf with an imp atop him... Link and Midna...!
"Get back you terrible beasts!" Rusl growled at them. "You have taken these children once but not again! We will have peace!" Link simply stood there, taking it. His body was caked in dry blood, obviously not helping his case.
"Wait!" Zelda was surprised at the authority in her tone. Everyone stared at her, surprised.
"Princess! These beasts are responsible to the fate that befell your Kingdom during the Twilight Invasion and the current events right now...!" Jaggle tried to say, but she silenced him with a hand.
"These two are not our enemies; Nor are they beasts." Zelda walked over to Link and Midna, ignoring the gasps of the villagers. She bent down beside them. "What happened?" She asked Midna who smiled with relief.
"Dark Link mutated." She replied. "I'll explain later, but he was about to kill Link and the Triforce started to glow..." Zelda nodded, cutting Midna off. She needed to hear no more. She signaled for Midna to get off of Link, which she did. The hylian princess held out her hand with the Triforce and squeezed her eyes shut. A light fell over Wolf Link, forcing him to transform back into a human. Link blinked and sat back on the ground, examining his hands.
"Thanks," He said to Zelda, then looked back at his friends. Uli looked horrified, Pergie looked like she was about to scream, and Beth did scream. Loudly.
A/N: Okay, I'm cutting it off there. Now, I understand this chapter was really confusing. I kinda wrote the part with the sages in a haze. Anyway, Wolf Link kinda starts off imagining he's seeing Saria's ghost (because they're in the 'Lost Woods' after all), who kind of gives him an insight to what's going on exactly with Dark Link. The six of them were six of the seven sages in OoT. The meeting was obviously taking place during the Civil War where everyone wanted the Triforce. That was also the time that the Dark Interlopers were banished to the Twilight Realm. Kinda odd, I know, especially since I added the part with the 'fourth triforce'. Sorry. xD Read and review and try not to yell at me for rephrashing things from the older Zelda games. Thank you. xD
Once again, credit goes to The-Lesser-of-two-Goods for including the fourth Triforce piece with the twili and whatnot. ;D