"Sit boy, allow me to tell you my story" Link warily sat down on the fiery floor and stared up at Kishin. Seeing the boy was ready he began his story. "It will have been around one thousand years by now, the start of the Ruiken tribe that is. We were a people new to this continent, we knew nothing of how this land operated and had no leader or real hierarchy at all and worst of all we barely knew how to fight, because of this we were weak. I was boy when we first arrived, but I was a boy with ambition"
"I saw that our people had the potential to be amazing, but none of us were really trying, we had no reason too. After a couple of years in the continent we had managed to obtain normality in the constant running and hiding from those stronger than us. The day I watched my family murdered and ravaged in front of me was the same day I decided I had enough of the running and hiding. I had trained myself to the absolute limit and became a master in every weapon by your age. The next time another race tried to raid and kill us, I single handedly killed them all"
"I was then given the job of being our tribe's leader and commander, I taught our people how to be strong and soon enough we were the ones going out and raiding others. Eventually I even faced off against the sheikah, I managed to learn how to harness chakra and then used it to demolish them. There was no one in the continent that dared step up to us, eventually, I even managed to ascend into Godhood by slaughtering over a thousand enemies by myself, it is an old ritual I discovered in an ancient tomb long forgotten."
"Prove your strength, eradicate your enemies in a way only a God could and you shall obtain the divine power of a deity. At first I thought it was probably just a legend, but as you can see it was telling the truth. Anyway, I guess the already existing Goddess' didn't take too kindly to me just up and becoming a God, they were threatened and rightfully so. Before long they met me in battle and we fought, it was glorious, no one, no thing had ever been able to give me such an amazing fight in my entire life. One against three turned out to be a pretty shitty match up as they managed to beat me in the end, they then told me their elaborate plan."
"They would spread my power into our tribe and then use us as vessels for whenever they need to reincarnate a hero of courage or as you can see, me. That's a whole other thing, the tiforce; power, courage and wisdom,or at least that's what I think it is. Each one is powered by one of the goddess', the triforce is destined to continually reincarnate every however many years. The reason for this is that whenever the power triforce is reincarnated, they become a vessel for all the evil and power in the land which is then destroyed by the courage and wisdom reincarnations. Think of it as a cleansing whenever the Goddess' decide someone has grown too powerful or evil"
"And that's where you come in, there is clearly an enemy that requires my strength and as such you are going to gain my strength and knowledge. Don't worry though, you won't become me by any means, the goddess' would never risk actually bringing me back, at most you might gain some of my mannerisms and behaviour patterns. Before you ask, no I don't know who or what your enemy is. Anyway by the end of this tournament you will have fully reincarnated and won't be hearing from me again, don't worry about me taking over like I did before either, that was only because you are getting increasingly close to fully reincarnating. Anyway, you are about to wake up so one last thing, I can sense my old equipment is in this very city, I would recommend fetching it, anyway see ya". With that said the man disappeared before Link's very eyes, leaving him reeling from all the information that was just dumped on him.
"Now after that…..interesting fight, we now have the Sheikah, Arno against Link of Ruiken!" Ganondorf boomed out into the colosseum, Link dove up off the floor taking deep breaths to calm himself. He made his way into the arena calmly, once again without a weapon. All of his worries about the visions and how he acted before now gone, he was excited to be able to actually fight. Both fighters met in the middle of the arena and simultaneously bowed to Ganondorf before facing each other.
"You can use chakra and claim to be an Uchiha. However, I can tell that you aren't actually an uchiha by blood, so I have no real hatred for you. Either way I shall still be beating you today" Arno spoke clearly and calmly. Link shrugged at what he said, he didn't care for what he had to say, he just wanted to fight.
With that in mind Link dashed forward, using chakra to enhance his speed and went for a gut punch that was swiftly blocked by Arno, however, he was still sent sliding backwards. A sand spike shot up from Link's left side that he caught easily, Arno's eyes widened slightly. Link brought his hands together in a sign before exhaling all of the breath in his lungs, a pillar of flames flew towards Arno. A couple of seconds after the attack had billowed away, Arno shot up out of the ground behind Link, Arno had shot through under the sand to dodge and counter-attack. Link turned and managed to block a high kick to the face from Arno.
Link had caught the ankle of the leg that attacked him and gripped as hard as he could, before pulling on it, dragging Arno towards him. Arno brought up his other leg for a kick to Link's side that hit its target. Link didn't seem to even notice the attack as he now had Arno off the floor. He proceeded to slam the boy onto the floor with all of his strength, the air was knocked out of Arno's body as his mouth shot open in pain. Still gripping Arno's leg, Link threw the boy away from him, Arno flipped mid-air and sent two sand spikes again towards Link, which were promptly side stepped. Arno landed on the floor with a thud a couple of feet away from Link. Link stomped on the ground and brought his hands together in signs, immediately two hands made of sand the size of Riknumo emerged from the ground and clamped around Arno. Link had sent out the jutsu before he even realised what he was doing, these must be jutsu's Kishin had known or even possibly created.
With Arno now stuck in the sand prison, Link once again blew out a massive spiral of flames that swam through the air towards Arno. They hit their target and torched the sand to glass. After a minute or two the smoke cleared away for everyone to see that Arno was now covered in burn marks. Arno took a deep breath, before slamming his hands together in a sign, the sand all around the arena began shaking. All of a sudden it burst to life and flew in all kinds of shapes towards Link. Link began dodging as much as he could, jumping and weaving all over the place. The attacks were never ending, Arno clearly had mastery over sand, but Link, with the copious amounts of jutsus and knowledge currently flowing into his head he now had mastery over sand's weakness, water.
Midway through jumping out of the way of a sand spear, Link flew through hand signs, all of sudden out of thin air, a large water wheel appeared in front of Link, he began moving his hands, almost like the water was a puppet to him. Link began slicing through all of the sand around him with the water, gaining in speed the longer it went on. It wasn't long before all of the sand in the arena was soaked through. Arno's blade had been blunted in a sense and both fighters knew this. Link let the water drop and soak into the floor as he stared across the arena at Arno, who was shaking and breathing heavily, he was clearly tired and most likely out of chakra.
Link appeared in the air above Arno in a matter of seconds and slammed the heel of his foot into Arno's forehead, slamming him into the drenched sand. Arno laid in the sand, looking up at Link through bleary eyes, Link looked at him before they nodded at each other and Arno spoke up.
"I forfeit".Silence resounded around the colosseum, before they all began cheering and clapping. Looking up, Link saw Midas and Ganondorf smiling and clapping for him, Midas cheering and whooping rather enthusiastically. Link grinned back as he walked to the middle of the arena, waiting for the final fight.
"That was incredible, to think he has such mastery over chakra at such a young age" Ganondorf said with a massive grin on his face, whilst he was still upset that Tokan had died, she willingly put herself in the colosseum, the chance of her dying was always there, so as such Ganondorf was already slowly moving past his soldiers death. Looking to his right he saw Midas was radiating happy energy at his friend's victory, the boy had downed another drink and was boasting to the many gerudo guards around them that his best friend could kick anyone's ass. Standing up, Ganondorf prepared to announce the fight that he had been most looking forward to.
"Now my friends, for the final showdown, we have Akaza the brutal swordsman against Link the deadly elementalist" as Ganondorf shouted this out, Akaza began making his way towards the middle of the arena. A sudden pain erupted in Link's head, he looked up and saw that Akaza hadn't attacked him and was bowing to Ganondorf. Link slowly hunched over in a crude sign of respect. His head felt like it was on fire as memories, thoughts and more flooded his head. Everything was spinning and he felt like he couldn't breathe. It was no surprise that Link could do nothing to stop the kick to his stomach that sent him flying to the other end of the arena.
Link slowly stood up only to receive another kick, this time to the face that once again sent him to the other end of the arena. He couldn't even think let alone fight or defend himself. His head felt like it was being split open and Akaza's onslaught wasn't helping either. Akaza dived for him again and grabbed him by the throat and pulled him close to his face. Akaza squinted at him, as though he was inspecting Link before he simply stabbed Link in the side. He yanked out his balde before tossing Link away again.
"What the fuck is going on?" shouted Midas over the cheering and shouting of the crowd. His face was scrunched up into confusion and worry. "Link has shown already that he could match this guy in speed, why's he just taking the beating?" Midas was standing up now leaning over the barrier, trying to get a better look at Link.
"He's in pain, has been since the start of the fight if I had to guess, whatever it is, it's stopping him from being able to fight back, for now he's going to have to just try and survive until the pain subsides" Ganondorf spoke seriously as he too tried to get a better look at Link and Akaza. Midas seemed shocked and even more worried by his answer.
Link wobbled on his feet, he was close to passing out, the pain was unbearable, there were so many thoughts screaming in his head, he had lost all of his senses. He couldn't hear the crowd, see Akaza's attacks, feel the damp sand under his feet or taste the blood in his mouth.
"What are you doing? Fight back!" Akaza shouted at him as he appeared in front of the dazed Link and kicked him square in his chest, sending him skidding along the arena floor. Link's back hit the floor and he laid there, his head screaming in pain and millions of other messages, all he could feel was pain.
"Get up, Link, you still have a job to do" a voice resounded around him distracting him from everything, it was Kagami, then other voices started joining him. "Get up Link, or are you not a real ruikenian?" Eventually there were tons of voices shouting at him to stand and fight, before one specific voice resounded in his head. "Link, you have strength that far surpasses all of us, now stand and prove you are my son"
Link shot up just as Akaza was about to swing his sword down, an uppercut sent Akaza flying into the sky, shocking everyone in the colosseum. Just like before, Link's eyes had gone paper white, the marks were slowly reappearing on his face and his hair now had white tips, the only difference this time was that Link was still in control. Link jumped up and kicked Akaza back down to the ground with an axe kick. Akaza landed on the floor and dashed to where Link landed and attempted to slice his stomach that he had stabbed before. Only this time Link caught the blade in his hand, Akaza blinked for a second, Link's hand should have been sliced in half. Link blew out and a massive gust of wind slapped Akaza in the face and sent him to the other end of the arena. Akaza flipped in the air and landed on his feet and prepared to slice again as Link had dashed in front of him, the horizontal slash was dodged and Link punched Akaza in the face with a chakra encoated fist. Just before Akaza was sent flying, he lashed out with his sword and managed to cut Link across his chest.
Before Akaza could get into any sort of stance to attack, he was attacked by a bombardment of jabs, hooks and other punches. Akaza moved to bring his sword up , but it was promptly kicked out of his hand. Akaza brought his hands up to defend his face, because of this he missed Link going through hand signs. He had no time to try and escape the point blank stream of flames that scorched his face. Akaza wobbled on his feet, his face was fully burnt and charred. Link grabbed him by the wrist and threw him away, sending him ragdolling and skidding along the floor. Akaza slowly rose off the floor, Link put his hands together in a sign and the air surrounding the arena seemed to go still. Until all of a sudden blades of wind flew towards Aakza and sliced him into little pieces.
The crowd was stunned into silence once again, before they all started cheering, but no one was celebrating as much as Midas was. Link grinned at Ganondorf and his best friend, Ganondorf seemed shocked for a second, most likely due to the fact that Link's eyes had remained white and his hair was growing white more and more by the second.
"Ladies and gentleman, you have your champion!" The crowd went wild and Link's grin seemed to grow even more. "However, there is one more opponent he must defeat…" Ganondorf trailed off before leaping into the arena. "Me"
A/N: I hope you enjoyed the chapter, I'm sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes. No new news, so with that thank you for reading again :)