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Volvagia launched himself at Link, his longsword sparking as flames began to encircle around it. Link holding his broadsword in both hands as he brought it up to block. The two sword clashed, sending a wave of grey light and white hot flames out from the point of contact. "Good, very good Link," Volvagia said, his eyes shining as if fire was burning just below their surface.
"Wish I could say the same," Link replied as he pushed Volvagia back and swung his sword, which Volvagia blocked, "In fact…"
Link began to push Volvagia back into a wall as he kept him in a sword lock, "I could say you were very pathetic," Link stated with a smirk as he managed to ram Volvagia into the wall.
"Well, I can rule trying to overpower you out of the picture," Volvagia squeeked as he pushed Link back for a moment and jumped out of the way before Link could slash at him again.
"Running already?" Link asked as Volvagia made his way to the back exit of the room.
"Feel free to follow me, I'll admit you have me in close quarters, but can you beat me in an open field of combat?" Volvagia asked with a smirk as he ran through the tunnel.
"You're going after him?"
"Of course, he's hiding something and I want to know what," Link stated as he ran through the exit as well.
"So that's the Flare Knight," Shadow said to himself standing atop a cliff on the Gerudo side of the ravine where the bridge once stood, the gigantic Stalfos Knight standing on the opposite side with his army of Stalfos Knights surrounding him.
Shadow's army of replicas swarmed over the cliffs, moving as one. "Hey ugly!" Rinku called out as he walked down the path leading from the fortress, "You and me!"
"Idiot," Shadow grumbled as his army moved forward to intercept the Stalfos Knights as they leaped over the chasm.
"Where the hell are you bringing me?" a shrill voice yelled as two orbs of light moved through a great forest, one a bright blue and the other a deep black.
"Like I said before, I need your help to save my friends," a frantic voice replied.
"Ganondorf," Onox said as he walked up to the King of Evil, across Hyrule Castle's battlements, "She'll be ready for you to see her in a moment. She wants your opinion on her appearance."
"My opinion? Oh great, I know what this is, she wants me to walk in, take a look at her and say something stupid, and use that excuse to severely harm me," Ganondorf whined, "Well I might as well sign my will now."
"I was born to revive you my lord, you'll be back no matter what," Onox pointed out.
"It's all an expression dumbass," Ganondorf said as he walked off.
Link exited the tunnel entering the great volcano of Death Mountain, the flowing lava hundreds of feet below him, the pillars of rocks everywhere around him. "Where is he?" Link asked himself looking around for Volvagia.
"Over here," Volvagia called up as he soared up and behind Link, slashing downwards at him, Link quickly whirling around to block the attack, "You're fast, very fast. So much faster than I remember."
"Well dragon, so your goal is to get revenge is it?" Link asked with a smirk, almost as if he was enjoying the fight.
"Why no, my short sighted Hylain," Volvagia said as he pushed off of the point of contact and back-flipped down to the lava, diving below it.
"Then what is it?" Link asked as his hair began to stand up on end, his eyes narrowing as they darted about.
"To test your worth!" Volvagia roared out as exploded up from the lava, his skin red hot and flowing as the lava itself, his hair now formed from flames.
"I assure you," Link said as he jumped up to meet Volvagia, an intense wind billowing out from him as their swords met again. "I am much better than you!" Link roared out as he pulled back his right hand and punched Volvagia, the wind blowing out from his body only intensifying his attack as Volvagia was sent straight into the side of the cliff. Link held his sword out to his side, hovering in the air as the wind about him only seemed to grow stronger.
"You are good, very good," Volvagia admitted as he slowly pulled himself from the cliff-side, "I suppose such simple tricks will never work on you." Volvagia returned to a more solid form as a smirk crossed his face, a red aura surrounding him, "I assure you, this fight has only just begun."
Above Link and Volvagia, at the very top of the cliff Morpha watched the two fight, sitting cross-legged, resting her head on her right arm. "Their evenly matched, wind versus fire," she commented to herself looking extremely bored, "Do either of them sense the bigger fight? Do they even care?" Morpha sighed and grumbled, "What is it with these people and fighting?"
Rinku and Shadow were fighting back to back, tearing through the army of Stalfos Knights as Shadow's clone army kept the Stalfos away from Gerudo valley. "How yah doin over there Shadow?" Rinku asked as he stepped forward and took a wide slash, sending Stalfos flying backwards.
"Better than you," Shadow replied as he thrust his sword into the ground, waves of power flowing through the ground and exploding whenever they flowed under a Stalfos Knight.
"You're a lot stronger than you look," Rinku stated as he held out his right hand as a wave of blue flame burst from it devouring the Stalfos Knights in front of him, "Stronger than me I'd say now that you have a weapon that can properly channel your powers."
"You're point being?" Shadow asked as he ripped his sword from the ground sending a shadow wave slashing into the Stalfos Knights knocking them into the ravine.
"You were waiting for this to happen, you seem to be in constant control no matter what happens," Rinku said as he grabbed a nearby Stalfos Knight by the backbone, ripped it out and began beating the other Stalfos Knights with it as he parried their attacks with his sword, "So tell me, who are you? I sense something unusual about you, as if you are more than just who you are."
"I'm afraid that is a story for another time," Shadow replied as he launched himself into the Stalfos Knights, stepping on them and their blades as he made his way towards the ravine, his eyes trained on the Flare Knight waiting on the other side.
"Stupid ass," Rinku growled as he began to barrel through the Stalfos Knights after Shadow, slashing wildly to make a path for himself.
In the throne room of Hyrule Castle, Ganondorf waited for Zelda. Pacing back and forth he was mumbling something under his breath. "Well then, King of Evil, is this something you would fear?" Zelda's voice asked as she walked into the room.
She was now wearing a white breastplate with the Triforce branded on the front, two large triangular shoulder pads sticking out from it, white baggy pants, a white form fitting shirt under the armor, a long white skirt with two large slits in the front, white gloves, white bracers with the Triforce etched around the wrists, and white boots. The Sword of Light, the Sword of the Triforce hung at her left hip in a golden scabbard. "Well, that's a lot of white," Ganondorf said simply looking at her, "The design is good, but why all the white?"
"As a test of skill, I will kill the dark ones without staining my clothing with their blood," Zelda replied, her face without any sort of passion in it, only cold determination, "When Link fought you as Ganon, he got blood on him, I plan on topping him."
"I see…" Ganondorf stated with a smirk, "To become the avatar of war itself."
"I suppose," Zelda said as she looked into Ganondorf's eyes, "We're going now, to the battlefield. Your foul servant can't beat Dark Link."
"Whatever makes you think that?" Ganondorf asked with a look that said he didn't believe her.
"Dark Link merged with the remnants of a dark god, he has powers we can only dream of," Zelda replied.
"Well damn," Shadow said to himself as he jumped the ravine, pushing off of a Stalfos Knight for extra height, sword held above his head in one hand as he flew to the Flare Knight, "She knows."
Rinku wasn't far behind him as he leaped from ground level across, straight into a large platoon of waiting Stalfos Knights. With one wave of his free hand he sent out more blue flames destroying the Stalfos Knights. "At last you come!" the Flare Knight laughed out in it's raspy voice as it brought it's large sword up to block Shadow's attack, "You have come to fight me, fierce one, as I knew you would."
"So you know as well," Shadow said with a smirk as he pushed off as shadows seemed to form into a protective aura about him.
"I sensed it, your aura, that of two beings, both incomplete, but together they form a whole," the Flare Knight said, waving his left hand as he held his sword in his right, the Stalfos Knight backing away from the two of them as they redoubled their efforts against Rinku and Shadow's army. "We are alike you and I. Both monsters that were never meant to exist as we are now."
"But we are so very different you and I," Shadow said as he sheathed his sword and grabbed the sheath with his left hand and the handle with his right. "You fight to destroy me, destroy my friend Rinku, destroy the Gerudo" Shadow said, and then with a dark passion as he glared at the Flare Knight, "And you would dare threaten her life as well!"
"The life of the only one who kept you alive during your depression for all those years?" the Flare Knight asked with a skeletal smirk, "Of course I would. Because my master has ordered it."
"And there is another difference between us," Shadow said as his glare vanished as he smirked, "I bow down to no one."
"You will, you obviously know about her," the Flare Knight said as they charged each other, "She is far stronger than either of us."
"No matter, I will destroy you!" Shadow yelled as he pulled his sword from the sheath as he seemed to vanish.
"What?" the Flare Knight asked as Shadow appeared directly behind him, "I saw that attack, but I don't believe it. How could you move so fast?"
"Godly power, the kinetic energy in both myself and the sword as I drew it, and my hatred burning within me," Shadow said with a dark laugh as the Flare Knight fell to one knee as his armor shattered.
"Hatred, we are so much alike fierce one," the Flare Knight said as it tried to slash at Shadow who blocked the attack by stabbing the sword, shattering it. "But I suppose you've won this fight," the Flare Knight admitted as his bones slowly began to crumble into ash as his army began to do the same, "Very good Shadow, but they come even as we speak. And Ganondorf has perfected the art of summoning my kind."
The Flare Knight vanished as did his army, "Damn, you are strong," Rinku said as he walked over, his armor starting to hang off of him, "Stronger than me that's for sure. So how'd you do it?"
"Another time," Shadow replied as he sheathed his sword once again, "I'd rather go back to the fortress and enjoy this calm before the storm."
Volvagia and Link were sword locked on the highest pillar of rock within the crater of Death Mountain, both trying to overpower the other. Flames dancing in the wind, the ground beneath them slowly giving way. "Give it up!" Link roared, growling deep in his throat.
"Nev…" Volvagia began to say as Link kneed him in the stomach. "Dirty bastard," Volvagia wheezed as he jumped away.
"I'm stronger than you, I'm faster than you, just give this up!" Link growled, baring his teeth like a wolf.
"…It may be for the better now," Morpha yelled to them from the top of the crater, catching both of their attention.
"How long has she been watching us?" Volvagia asked as he slowly straightened himself up as his sword vanished.
"Probably the entire time," Link stated as he sheathed his. "What do you mean Morpha?" he called up.
"There's a rather large power making it's move now, along with two great dark powers and an army of what I can only describe as being very, very unnatural," Morpha answered, "Now are you two boys going to kiss and make up or am I going to have to make you?" Volvagia and Link stared blankly at her for a few seconds, then at each other and immediately turned their backs to each other, both of them making rather disgusted faces. "It's a figure of speech!" Morpha yelled.
"Are you going to help?" Link asked Volvagia.
"Yes, can't let you have all the glory now can I?" Volvagia replied with a smirk as the two of them leaped and then flew up to the crater top, landing on either side of Morpha.
"Well it's about time," Morpha sighed as she stood up and stretched, "I swear, you people can be so immature."
"How long do you think it'll take you?" Link asked side glancing at Volvagia.
"I'll get there about ten minutes after they do," Volvagia answered as he cracked his neck, "You?"
"Twenty, I'm not confident enough in that flight thing to chance it," Link replied.
"Understandable, if I wasn't a natural dragon I wouldn't be either," Volvagia replied, "I'll try and save some for you."
"Just don't kill the big power, she's my responsibility," Link stated as he looked at Morpha, "I have to go to Gerudo Valley now, that is where the two dark versions of myself are. I have to stop that army as well."
"Why would you need to do this?" Morpha asked as the red aura surrounded Volvagia again as he rocketed off.
"To protect the Gerudo, they are innocent in this war, they don't deserve to suffer because of my inability to stop all of this from even occurring, I'll stop it all before it gets any closer to them," Link stated as wind began to circle about him, "So why'd you want to come along?"
"To learn what it means to be a Hylian, that weird old crock of a doctor is about as useful as a Dodongo in a glass shop," Morpha stated, "By the looks of things you really aren't that much better."
"Not really, no Hylian is, we all are different. I however am something many Hylians want to be. Powerful, intelligent, responsible, honorable, well known," Link stated, "You could spend your entire life watching and trying to understand us as a whole, but you'll never find what it takes to be like us. You just have to be yourself."
"A giant monster which can make tentacles out of water?" Morpha asked with a smirk.
"Well not that per-say, you just have to figure out who you want to be I suppose," Link said, "So do you want to come along?"
"Yes," Morpha replied with a chuckle, "You're interesting, full of contradictions. Simple yet complex. Go on ahead, I'll get there as soon as I can."
"Thank you," Link said as he ran off, slowly transforming into his wolf form.
And I'm ending it there for this chapter. Man, this one was actually longer than usual. Well Flare Knight goes down in one chapter, we learn one reason Shadow is so kick ass, Rinku isn't the most powerful amongst the three Links, and Link appears to be getting stronger and much more reasonable. Over all I must say a nice chapter to begin the real show. Well now onto the questions!
1) Do you like Zelda's new outfit?
2) Which fight did you like more? Volvagia vs. Link or Shadow/Rinku vs. the Stalfos?
3) Who do you think were those two little orbs in the forest?
And that's all! Now press that review button and give me one. Ciao for now!