Hey guys, here's chapter 38 of Time Gate. It's from Yashiro Takahashi's point of view this time. It's shorter than usual, but that's because the point of view will change quickly, which leads to the next chapter. Hope you enjoy, please R&R!
Uzuki Cheverie
The Legend of Zelda: Time Gate
Chapter 38: Growth
Our swords clanged against each other, which marked the beginning of our battle. Uzuki had backed up from the fight, and was now running back to camp, probably to wake up the others. Which left me for a few moments to kick Mitsuhiro's sorry ass.
"You sure have changed, Mitsuhiro-san," I grumbled as I jumped back from him. "I never would have imagined you as this kind of demon." I eyed the kunai gun that was attached to my belt. That thing wouldn't do any damage against Mitsuhiro the way he was now... not one at least. No... I would save that technique for later, when I needed it.
Mitsuhiro licked his lips again (which I thought looked pretty awesome, if you ask me), and lunged at me with his katana. I blocked it with my sword, jumping back one step with each swing. The bastard... he was just trying to knock me off the dang cliff!
"Not gonna work!" I hissed as he swung his sword at me again. When I backed up again, with all my strength, I attempted my teleporting trick. I had never gotten this trick to work... I was hoping that all the adrenaline inside me would give me the skills to let it work, just this once.
First, I focused a shadow portal inside my body. I was still standing here though...
Please, Goddess Farore, work! I thought. Just for once, please work!
And then in one flash, I found myself behind Mitsuhiro... I did it! But instead of kicking Mitsuhiro in the back, which would send him down the cliff, I took my fist and smashed it into the ground, destroying the entire cliff altogether. Mitshiro's feet sunk into the destroyed earth, and I watched as he fell into the canyon below.
Uzuki finally came back with the group. "What happened Yashiro? Where's Mitsuhiro?" Uzuki asked me.
He'd better not be dead, otherwise Uzuki will kill me... I thought as I peered down into the canyon. He wasn't dead. Far from it in fact. He was running down in the canyon, not bothering to come back up. Was he telling me to come down?
"Guys, let me handle this," I muttered to Uzuki, Link and Dex. I spread out my Reaper wings and jumped off the cliff, letting the wind pick up my wings. I flew down towards Mitsuhiro, my sword attached to my back and my arms outspread. I flattened my wings out to pick up speed, and straightened my body so that I was diving through the air. By the time Mitsuhiro realized that I was diving towards him, I had already tackled him. Because of my insane strength and speed from diving through the air, when I tackled him, we went through the ground, creating a large hole in the earth. I punched Mitsuhiro in the face, which caused the ground to break even more. Mitsuhiro finally retaliated and kicked me in the stomach, sending me upwards a bit. He punched me in the stomach multiple times, suspending me in the air, and then he finally flipped around and downwards kicked me back into the hole.
Will it work again? I thought to myself as I fell. Because I really don't want to hit the ground at this speed... I'll splatter like a bug... I gathered up a portal inside my body again, and a split second before I hit the ground, I disappeared, reappearing next to the hole. Aw, kickass! I looked up at Mitsuhiro, who was floating in the air, confused about how I had safely landed next to the hole. With no hesitation, I flipped out my kunai gun, and fired kunais at Mitsuhiro while he was helpless in the air. But before the kunais hit him, he turned into a huge black cloud, soaring away from me and to the other end of the canyon. What the? When in the world did he learn to do that?
"I've got no choice but to..." I mumbled to myself as I ran to the canyon rock wall to my right. As Mitsuhiro ran towards me from the other end of the canyon, I pulled out my kunai gun, closed my eyes, and waited. I felt my Soul power warm up inside me like fire... and then I opened my now red berserker eyes. In my right hand a second kunai gun appeared. I kept my glowing sword attached to my back for when I would need it. I began to charge towards Mitsuhiro, gripping the handles of my kunai guns tightly. Mitsuhiro ran at me like a wild animal, and it almost appeared like he was running on his feet and his hands. I kept running towards him, and right before we clashed, I teleported into the air so that I was above him, and I began firing multiple kunais from both kunai guns as I flipped through the air, striking him in the arms, back, shoulders and legs. He fell forward, but only for a second. It only took him a second to get the kunais out of his body and to get back up again.
What a monster... I thought. There's just nothing stopping this guy! Sorry Uzuki... I pulled out my sword from the sheath on my back. But I'm going to have to destroy this bastard... I teleported away from Mitsuhiro and back to the spot I was in before, so that I was in front of him. I tightened my grip around the handle of the sword, but I couldn't stop myself from shaking... why in goddesses' name couldn't I stop shaking? Was it because I was actually scared of this demon...? Or was it because it didn't feel right to hold my sword up to my leader's neck? No, he wasn't my leader anymore... he was a monster. No better than Ganon.
I leaped into the air, and I struck the ground, shattering the earth into a huge hole, sucking Mitsuhiro down into the depths of the earth.
"Goodbye Mitsuhiro..." I sighed. "I'm sorry... it just had to be done." I turned around from the hole, and began my walk back towards the cliff side where Uzuki, Link, Dex, and even Shuto were watching me. Good, the kid was finally awake. I climbed up the canyon wall, grabbed Uzuki's shoulder, and shook my head at her.
"Sorry Uzuki," I apologized. "I don't think he survived that..."
Uzuki shook her head back at me. "No, he's still alive! I can feel his aura... it's really faint though..."
I looked back down into the canyon, and saw that he was indeed getting back up from the huge hole in the ground. I swore, and grabbed Shuto, Link, Uzuki and Dex. I gathered the four of them into a huddle.
"Hold on, alright?" I told them.
They all nodded, and then in the next split second, I teleported them away from the canyon. We ended up in the Dark Realm city. So I could even teleport to places as far away as this... awesome. What wasn't awesome was that I had to destroy a car that had nearly hit us, because we had landed right in the middle of the dang street! And they were still testing cars in open roads! I had to smash my fist into the tiny car, and then I threw it to the side of the road as a warning. That was a warning. Next time I would go up to the people testing it and I would smash their faces in until my fist went straight through their itty-bitty bodies!
"Dammit, why are the scientists here so smart and yet so stupid at the same time?" I yelled as I pulled Link, Uzuki, Dex and Shuto off the street. Another car flew by the moment we moved. I glared at the scientists that were standing on the road, observing the tests. I ran up to one and punched him in the face. "You guys are a bunch of sick bastards, you know that? What the hell are you doing, continuing to test this stuff here?"
"Yashiro, don't bother!" Uzuki yelled. She grabbed onto my sleeve, and pulled me away. "Come on, there's no use trying to argue with that trash." The four of us sat down at one of the benches on the sidewalk.
"What we need to worry about is where to look next," Link said.
Shuto rubbed his eyes in a tiring motion. "Can anyone tell me what's happened? I'm really confused..."
"I'll tell you later Shuto," Uzuki sighed as she pulled out a map of the Dark Realm. She scanned over the drawn images, and then took out a pen and began putting 'x' markings in various areas. She showed us the map, and pointed to all the images that had an 'x' on them. There were also areas with checkmarks.
"Okay, see these 'x's'?" Uzuki asked us, tracing her finger around one of them. "These are the possible places where Mitsuhiro has set up his traps. The checkmarks are the places where we should be safe. The Dark Realm City is one of them. Another place is the Society's Castle, but there's no chance that we're going there. Being in this city is already dangerous enough. The Twilight Realm is another place, but there's no reason to go there... we are not going back to our base, because that's the first place where he would set up a trap."
"I don't think he's that stupid to destroy our own house, Uzuki," I objected.
"Mitsuhiro isn't, but the Kyodai no Akuma would take no hesitations," Uzuki continued. "The trick is to figure out where to go next... Dex, you said that he would look to find power from the next biggest threat... that would be the Society, right?"
"Yeah, I guess..." he mumbled. Uzuki grabbed Dex by his neck, causing him to flinch and become immobile.
"Can I talk to you for a second?" she asked.
"Whatever! Just let go of my neck!" he yelled. She didn't let go, and pulled him over to the other side of the street. Ah, the good ole' neck nerve trick, I thought. She used to pull that trick on me all the time... wait, she still does. And I hate her for that!
A Short Interlude
"Would you let go of my neck?" Dex screamed. Uzuki let go, and giggled.
"Sorry," she apologized. Dex rubbed the sore spot on his neck, and then frowned at her.
"So what is it that you want to talk to me about?" he asked.
Uzuki stopped giggling, and frowned. "I know you're a member of the Society, Dex."
"W-What are you talking about?" Dex lied, trying his hardest to act surprised. "I wouldn't join those guys!"
Uzuki grabbed his neck again, causing him to sink to the ground in pain.
"Don't lie to me!" she hissed, her voice sharp like knives. "You've been a member of the Society for quite some time now, haven't you?"
"Yes, alright?" Dex yelled in pain.
"What division are you in?"
"Division... uh... I'm a member of my own division! I'm Division X, I don't have a number!"
"They'd put you in a separate division?"
"They said they needed me to work on my own, so they put me in my own special division!"
"Who's the next highest member then in the ranks?"
"Iwata Hashimoto and Jun Kaniji! I'm higher than Mikumo Sato!"
"Alright, but you work all on your own, huh?"
"Yes, I work on my own! I don't go on missions very often and I can go anywhere!"
"So I'm guessing that it was you who set Lon Lon Ranch to flames two years ago."
"Yes, alright? It was me! What does this have to do with the Kyodai no Akuma though?"
"Dex, I have a mission for you. Think you can handle it?"
"Whatever, just let go!"
Uzuki pinched even harder, bent down and glared into his black eyes. "Can I trust you to do this for me? I need you to be our spy. I want you to go into the Society's Castle and tell me what's happening between Mitsuhiro and the Society."
Dex didn't respond.
"Dex? Can I trust you to do that?"
"Alright, fine!" Dex hissed. Uzuki still didn't let go. "What more do you want from me?"
"You're going to return to the Society after this, right?"
"Yes!"
"Then I want you to promise me you won't breath word of this mission to the Society while you're on this mission, and after you do this mission. Promise?"
"Yes, I promise!"
Uzuki finally released her tight grip on his neck. "Good! That's a promise though. I'll know if you broke it, and trust me, if I find out that you did, you'll wish that you were dead!" Uzuki and Dex walked back across the street, back to where the rest of the team was waiting.
Chapter 38 (continued)
"So what are we doing?" I asked Uzuki once she reached our end of the street.
"We're sitting here, Dex is going on a mission for us," she explained. "Dex is being nice enough to go back to the Society and to be our spy. He's a member of the Society you know."
"He is?" Link exclaimed. "Dex, how could you!"
"You're an idiot," Dex muttered. "You should have realized it the moment I set Lon Lon Ranch to flames."
"But, why would you..."
"That doesn't matter right now, Link," Uzuki sighed. "Right now, we have to focus on waiting it out while Dex sneaks into the Society. Do you have your robe Dex?"
Dex held out his hand, and several twilight squares formed on his palm, creating a black robe with multiple zippers. Similar to the Time Keepers robe, but different in so many ways. Dex cloaked himself in the robe, and then pulled the hood over his face.
"Ready Dex?" Uzuki asked him. She tossed him her C.T. Crystal. "You can contact us at any time."
"Ugh, as ready as I'll ever be... I guess..."
"Alright, good luck Dex! And don't come back until you get some information about Mitsuhiro's relation to the Society!"
Dex nodded, and was enveloped into a black cloud, like the cloud Mitsuhiro flew with when I was fighting him. The cloud flew off towards the white castle in the city, and disappeared within one of the buildings on the outside.
"So what do you want us to do?" Shuto asked. "Just wait around?"
"Well, that's not really up to me," Uzuki muttered. "I'm not the leader."
"You're not?" I asked. "But because Mitsuhiro is gone, you have to-"
Uzuki placed her hand on Link's head. "Link is our leader!"
Link twitched his eye, and frowned. "Wait, you're serious? You want me... to actually be the leader of the Time Keepers?"
"For now, yes," Uzuki said, smiling. "Unless you don't think you can handle it."
Link pulled out Mitsuhiro's headband, and tied it around his left arm. He secured the headband on his forehead, and smiled with determination.
"We'll check any of the other areas that Uzuki's marked, just to make sure if Mitsuhiro is there or not," he stated. Uzuki spread her Reaper wings, and picked Link up from the ground. Shuto and I spread our wings, and flew up into the twilight sky with Link and Uzuki.
Link as the leader huh? Yep, this was going to be a fun mission alright...