Disclaimer: I do not own the Legend of Zelda
Author's Notes: I'm taking out the romance part of this fic's category, I'm getting tired of trying to drive uncooperative characters into them. If it'll happen it'll happen. I'm also bumping the rating up to M, I'm also tired of the flat unrealistic young adult characters dialogue. We all know they should be cussing, making lewd and/or insulting remarks. That and I want to be able to get gory later on. Without further ado, onto the fic.
"Are you seriously saying you plan on fighting everybody here?" Shadow asked crossing his arms, "Exactly how do you plan on achieving anything? You know you don't have enough power to take us all on."
"Really?" Link asked tilting his head slighty, "Maybe you just haven't been paying attention." The wind slowly picked up around Link as the sky started to darken, "I realized something on my way here. I had suddenly gained several new abilities, I suppose it has something to do with being part monster now."
"Part monster?" Zelda asked, slowly bracing herself.
"You wouldn't be able to tell, you people aren't used to this sort of thing," Rinku said walking forward, "I am, I've seen beasts like him before, but none this powerful. I was wrong when I classified him as only a superior being, he's a Daemon. He's a full blown Daemon. My blood is boiling. Think we can take him?"
"Heh, why not?" Shadow said as he charged forward, sheathing his sword and preparing to draw it fast, "Time to show you a bit of my true strength Link." Shadow quickly unsheathed the sword as he neared Link, who merely took one step back as the blindingly fast blade cut through where he was a moment before. "Fast, very fast Link," Shadow said as blood started trickling from Link's mouth, "But you forgot about the shadows."
"Hey now, don't hog all the fun," Rinku said discarding his sword and bounding forward, "I want a piece of the action too."
"I don't feel like dealing with you two," Link said while slipping by both of them, seeming to teleport about as he made his way towards Zelda, "I have to take care of you first."
"I would have to agree," Zelda answered suddenly bringing her sword up, both fists clenched tightly about the handled as Link suddenly appeared in the air, both fists clenched about his sword that was now trying to push Zelda's out of the way. "You are by far the greatest threat now." They pushed their swords away from each other, both flying in opposite directions, kicking up a cloud of dust as they slid to a stop. Their faces couldn't have been more different as they prepared for the next attack, Zelda was smirking while watching Link through wide eyes, and Link was glaring with a sneer on his face.
"What the hell? I was looking forward to some action," Rinku whined as Shadow charged towards both of the current fighters.
"Lets take this somewhere more private," Link said slowly crouching down, "The peanut gallery is getting in the way." He jumped from that position up the canyon wall as Zelda followed, both out of sight long before Shadow even reached where they were.
Rinku was pouting for several seconds after they had vanished, with no more of the Flare Knights to fight and Zelda gone he was almost out of things to fight. Then he remembered something, "Oh Ganny-poo, where are you?" he said looking about with a menacing look in his eyes, "I have some pent up rage to work out." Ganondorf on the other hand was already long gone, leaving behind Onox who was currently buried under several layers of skeleton parts. "What? You mean that's all we have left?" Rinku whined, "Some pathetic third rate enemy?"
"Some pathetic third rate unconscious enemy," Volvagia grumbled walking over, "This is rather sad and pathetic. I was hoping for some decent fight time, I only got, what three minutes of actual fighting?"
Rinku looked at Volvagia for a few seconds and then turned to look him straight in the eyes, a frown on his face as his studied Volvagia. Then smiled and said, "Finally someone who understands."
"Hey don't act like you're the only one who enjoys a good fight!" Kain yelled out walking over as well, pointing at himself with his thumb he said, "Name's Kain the Storm Blade. Duelist and Pirate Extraordinaire."
"I swear all men this dumb?" Morpha commented still with the other group.
"As far as I can tell, Suzaku over there is one of the few smart ones," Tira replied pointing at Shadow.
"Now, now don't judge Rinku too hard, he's simple but he is smart," the woman in baggy white clothing and the tanned cloak, Kevia, said in Rinku's defense.
"Bah, he's a brash idiot and you know it," the man in the black cloak, Raza, spat out, "Bastard left our village after that incident and hasn't returned since."
"So you've come to take him back?" Shadow asked walking over to them.
"What didn't want to have a pissing contest with those three?" Morpha asked while glaring at him.
"Why? I'd only make them envious, or worse intrigued. I don't need to do that to myself," Shadow answered shrugging his shoulders while an arrogant smirk crossed his face, "Well now that unpleasantness is over I suggest anybody who still wants to side with us head back to the valley."
"Why should we side with you? I just want to take that idiot back home so I can go back to my nice comfortable life," Raza growled.
"Because I can kick your tiny nomadic ass out of this country with little to no difficulty," Shadow replied, "And with at least one of two ridiculously powerful enemies to look forward to in the near future, I'm not in the best of moods to deal with moody and bitchy men."
"What was that about someone being moody and bitchy?" Rinku yelled out, "You complaining because someone's trying to steal your thunder?"
Elsewhere, in the mountains surrounding the Gerudo Valley, Link and Zelda were continuing their fight, tearing up the landscape as they did so. Link sliced off the tip of a mountaintop with his sword in his right hand, grabbed the resulting boulder in his left hand and chunked it at Zelda while leaping after it to use as a shield. "That won't work Link!" Zelda yelled as she cut the boulder in two, "I'm far too good to be taken down by a…" she began to say and the brought her sword up to block Link's while he swung it down.
"What was that? It sounded like you trying to say you're better at fighting than I am," Link growled as he kicked Zelda's sword out of her grasp and into a nearby boulder, landing on the ground for a split second while Zelda quickly started running for her sword he prepared to spring for a final attack. "Now lets end this," he said as he sprang for, Zelda still far away from her sword while his sword started collecting a black and white energy.
Back at the Gerudo Fortress, Rinku and Shadow were bringing back the newcomers to a rather large celebration, "God damn it Nab! You couldn't have waited to declare a celebration till after I won?" Shadow yelled as Nabooru jumped down from the first battlement leading into the fortress.
"Why? I knew you were going to win. You're too much of a coward to fight a battle you don't know you'll win," Nabooru replied with a shrug of her shoulders and a tilt of her head, "So who are these people, and why are you bringing more women here, trying to convince us to let you have a harem?"
"Yeah I don't like her," Tira stated, "So Suzaku whose this?"
"Suzaku?" Nabooru asked.
"Yeah I want to know that one myself, I had a childhood friend who went by that name, but he died a long time ago," Rinku chimed in, "This moody bitch's name is Shadow."
"Damn it! Stop calling me that!" Shadow yelled clenching his fists, "Are you asking for me to kick your ass?"
"What you prefer Overly Emotional Attention Whoring Nag?" Tira and Nabooru asked at the same time, after finishing they gave each other glares.
"Dear gods, what have I done? Have I actually unleashed this hellish force on the world?"
Back with Link and Zelda, Link was smoldering in an indention in a sheer cliff wall as Zelda began conjuring up flames all around her, his sword stuck in the side next to him. "Why'd I forget she's a sage first and foremost?" Link mumbled to himself as he pulled himself out and retrieved his sword.
"Now what was it you said, oh yes 'What was that? It sounded like you trying to say you're better at fighting than I am,'" Zelda quoted with a smirk as she began launching fireballs at Link.
"Leave my arrogant lines out of this," Link snarled transforming into a wolf, his sword and clothing vanishing, dropping down the cliff to avoid the fireballs.
"So he has two forms, and now I can't sense him," Zelda said looking about, "Great, this isn't good." She heard some pebbles fall behind her, turning around quickly she saw nothing, "I'm getting jumpy here, just because I can't sense his magical energy doesn't mean it's not there. It's being hidden or it's changed somehow, when he's normal it's a weird energy, maybe I should look for that weird part."
"Please that's not going to work against me," Link said appearing behind her, sitting atop a boulder back in his human form, "You are far too inexperienced to beat me Zelda, give up already."
"I thought I was tainted and had to be done away with,"
"Heh, that's something being liberated from being only Hylian taught me, there's more than one way to solve a problem," Link said almost amused as he lost his glare, "You're no where near as big a threat as I thought you were."
"Threat?"
"Shadow isn't the only schemer around here, I came up with a plan based on a few new facts I picked up,"
"Like?" Zelda asked tensing up.
"Among which, who Onox really is, why he wants that girl, who's been pulling the strings thus far, and what Shadow is after," Link answered, "And a few minor facts that really aren't that important."
"How could you find all that out?"
"My nose, it's far keener than it used to be in many ways. I recognize the scents of many things involved in this,"
"What do you propose then?"
"Give me that Triforce Blade,"
Inside a meeting hall inside of the Gerudo fortress, all the members of the fighting force were sitting. "So that's the story, why that Fierce Deity thing appeared and kidnapped me, and why Shadow learned so many new tricks," Nabooru stated crossing her arms as Shadow, Tira, and Kain explained their story, "Must say it's quite the tale, but it certainly does explain why Shadow here is so damn observant, he's got godly powers going for him."
"So there was an evil me in another dimension, and when he came here, because I was here he ended up splitting so our powers wouldn't compete?" Rinku asked, "That doesn't explain why I don't have even half those powers."
"They probably just haven't awakened yet," Tira said almost like she was talking to a child.
"The question is 'How do we beat Link or Zelda?'" Shadow said, doing what he could to change the subject.
Author's Ending note: And I'll leave it there for today. About eighteen hundred words seems fair for only five reviews compared to the forty seven hits chapter thirteen got. If you folks want me to write more, give me good reviews. I'm a praise oriented person, more I hear about people liking my work the more and faster I'll write it. Low review count means I'll take my sweet time because I'm thinking nobody likes it enough to comment on it which means I might as well do something else, high review count means I notice people are liking this one and thus make me want to spend more time on it.
Well then, tis has been a chapter by your unfriendly neighborhood LunaticChaos, ciao for now!