Hello you wonderful people! I will try to update/write quickly since the actual storyline is going to start shaping up...what there actually is going to be a storyline? Why yes random voice, yes there is.
Enough of that though, I do not own the Legend of Zelda. Now if I did, none of us would be here on this page now would we? :3
That felt weird….Is that what teleporting with Midna's magic is supposed feel like? Or did something go wrong? Sky complained in his mind, not ready to voice his feelings on the situation yet. Ravio kept quiet as well, in fear of irritating Midna. He always was a huge coward, and he wasn't about to change that right now. He had already traveled to another world to help the hero, and in turn help his princess, and that took all of the courage he could muster…..now he was bone-dry. Although he occasionally did stand up to the Twili, it mostly backfired into the Lorulian's face- metaphorically, and literal. World was too busy taking in their utterly different surroundings to speak. Spirit however apparently didn't care all too much for silence at the moment.
"Woah, so it worked! Since when has anything we've tried to do work completely before?" Spirit exclaimed, talking a million miles an hour it seemed like. "It seems that whenever we plan to go somewhere, we end up some place else entirely…..we are where you wanted to go, right Midna?" Spirit asked, but didn't receive a response in return. "Midna?!"
Spirit turned to look over at the Twili, to notice that she was facing the opposite direction than that of Ravio, Sky, World, and himself. "Midna, are you list- oh…." Spirit turned his body around to follow the Twili's gaze. Upon doing so, he understood why she hadn't been responsive.
Ravio turned as well, and as did Sky. World however, was too busy observing their surroundings, which was a huge lake. High above the body of water, was a run-down stone bridge that looked as if it could fall apart soon. Out on the water there was a building floating on some wood, it appeared to be some sort of attraction…for what, he couldn't tell, for they were too far away. Near the attraction hut, was a strange looking cannon type thing, which looked slightly like a bird…..it had legs with bird like feet and everything. One thing stuck up above the rest though, there wasn't an exit to this place, available by foot. World was jolted out of his reverie when he heard shouts from behind him, and not long after he got many taps on his shoulders, striving for his attention.
He gave in and pivoted around. He now knew why the others had wanted him to look…..it was a strange sight indeed. In the shadows of the growing dusk was a tall monster….about the size of three Spirits put together, at the top of this monstrosity was fish-like, which reminded him of a Zora. They all took a careful step backwards, almost falling into the lake below. Ravio jumped up, and hid behind Sky, whilst World, and Spirit drew their swords. Sky took on the defensive by taking out his enchanted Hylian Shield- it was said that it would never break, and it had proved it many times over. A couple of times he thought it might shatter, but alas, it never did…..the Thunder Dragon was right!
Midna didn't do anything, she was only studying the thing closely. Since she is native to the Twilight Realm, she can see almost perfectly in the dark, and shadows…..so she should be able to decipher what it was, but the problem is….she couldn't. It looked as if there was a weird stubby, monster-istic Zora on the top, supported by two other beings. The one in the middle seemed to be wearing a tunic, like Link, but that seemed to confuse her more. And lastly the thing on the bottom looked as if it was wearing a joker suit, hat and all.
The more she observed she noticed more things than her first glance had. First it appeared to be three boys stacked on top of each other, all of them wearing some kind of costume. Second they all seemed to have different colors to them…..the one on the top red, middle green, and the bottom one blue.
The Twili didn't voice anything yet, which surprised everyone including herself, since she normally voiced everything, especially to complain. Spirit and World exchanged a nod of determination, and Sky grunted. Spontaneously the three boys in green darted forward towards what they assumed was a monster, swords and shields drawn, and pointed at the large being.
Their battle cries were cut short since said 'monster' shifted backwards, and made sounds of defiance, and slight cowardice.
"No wait! What are you doing?!" Came a shy sounding cry from the bottom of the 'monster'.
"Don't you know it's considered rude to just suddenly attack people?!" This time a more sarcastic sounding voice came from the middle.
"Yeah, what the hell do you guys think you're doing?!" This time from the top, the voice sounded more defiant than the last. "Sylin, you know what to do….CHARGE!" The top screeched. "What are you doing Sylin? I said charge!"
The thing stepped out of the shadows and stopped in front of the confused group that consisted of three Hylians, one Lorulian, and one Twili. Now they could clearly decipher that it was three boys stacked on top of each other forming a tower. "Rallen, these are people...we can't attack them!"
"I don't care…..and isn't the Drablands Witch a person?" The top boy, Rallen, snapped back.
"I agree with you Sylin, but aren't they the ones that attempted to assault us in the first place?" The boy in the middle, wearing green asked, shuddering under the weight of Rallen, who was swinging his sword maniacally, waiting until something or someone would come in contact with his blade.
"True, but I don't think they meant any harm. They probably couldn't see us from the shadows." Sylin pointed out, throwing his two partners off of him, so he could stand normally, and engage in a conversation with the newcomers.
Kailon, chucked the sill sword-crazy Rallen into the lake…he wouldn't have done so if the red haired boy wasn't wearing the Zora costume. He hoped that by the time he crawled out of the water, he would have calmed his hack and slash mood down, to take the situation seriously, and not try to kill their new companions.
Kailon and Sylin dusted themselves off before Rallen joined them. The boy in the red Zora Costume deliberately shook the water off onto his partners. After 'dusting' themselves off again, they redirected their attention forward. In front of them they found a floating shadow-imp with fiery orange-yellow hair and a large stone helmet concealing half of her face, a dark tan skinned boy with jet black hair and viridian green eyes, and three boys- varying in age –that all looked very similar to each other. Not only that but they all looked practically identical to the three different colored boys.
All three of the Tri Force Heroes realized with a jolt why the group has yet to say anything thus far. "Oh um, hi." Kailon started awkwardly, now visibly nervous and excited about something at the same time.
Sylin was up next. "Hello, sorry if we startled you…whenever we see anything threatening- in this case random black squares coming from the sky –we totem up…..it helps most of the time." He explained quietly. "Oh yeah, and as you probably already found out, my name-" The blue haired Link was cut off by Rallen. It didn't bother Sylin all that much, considering he's pretty shy.
"I'm Rallen, the best swordsman, and adventurer you ever will meet, with my long pointy ears, epic sideburns, and side-parted hair!" Rallen boasted, confusing the group of boys, and the imp, even further. "Ugh, and this here is Kailon, and Sylin…they're pretty cool too, I guess….only because they are Tri Force Heroes as well, with the ears, sideburns, and hair too." He continued, pointing to each boy while naming them. Nothing was said after this, the silence looming over them, clouding the passage of time, for now it was now pitch black outside, the only light emanating from Kailon, and World's lanterns…..as well as from Midna's one visible glowing eye.
After a while of intense staring competitions, that seemed to have no end in sight, Kailon snapped his fingers to get everyone's attention on him. "And what are we doing this for? Jeez, I can't even complain correctly, since I don't even know all of your names!" Kailon sighed, and throwing his arms down in a defeated manner. He was covering up his mixed emotions in the best way possible…..complaining.
"Yeah, don't you think that's a little rude? We told you our names, like half an hour ago….the least you five could do is share your names!" Rallen complained. "That way I can properly insult you."
"I agreed with you all the way up the point you said that…Rallen did you have to add that part in?!" Sylin sighed. "Also this lighting is miserable."
"I CAN FIX THAT!" Rallen exclaimed, yanking an outfit out of his pouch and sprinting away for a minute. He came running back wearing something different than the Zora costume he was sporting earlier. It was sort of like a wearable lantern…and very blinding to the eyes, but at least it offered precious light.
"Light Armor huh? Wish I thought of that earlier." Kailon smacked himself, glancing nervously over at the black haired, green eyed boy.
"Names?" Rallen demanded, getting right on task, now that they could all see each other better.
The Imp was the one who spoke up first….she looked to be a little bored with what was going on. "Name's Midna." She stopped there, not even bothering to introduce her companions.
"Excuse her, she's just grumpy. My name is Spirit." Spirit said casually, ignoring the evil glare the Twili was sending his direction.
"The name is World, this is Ravio and Sky." World voiced for the two other boys. Sky wasn't talkative, and only really said anything when a sarcastic comment was absolutely necessary, or when he had an idea of some kind. Ravio on the other hand, was busy observing Kailon. Ravio was pretty good at reading people, and he could obviously tell he was nervous and happy about something…..heck he was surprised no one else noticed, or maybe they just didn't care enough bother mentioning it. There was something about that boy that he knew…..that's it!
Ravio walked right up the green haired boy, all his cowardice disappearing in that moment. Kailon stepped back nervously looking forward at the Lorulian. "Hey Mr. Great Hero, don't look so nervous around me!" Ravio exclaimed, ignoring the questions everyone- including Kailon- was giving him. "Look buddy, I know it's you, so don't look all confused." He tapped Kailon on the shoulder.
Said boy in green visibly relaxed, and let out a sigh of relief. "Ravio, you don't know how glad I am to see you!" He hugged the Lorulian in a tight embrace. Ravio returned the hug slightly, but quickly pulled away.
"I only saw you like two days ago-" Ravio started to say, confused by his friend's sudden, and spontaneous affection. (1) He then threw his hands to his face only just now remember that he didn't have his hood on.
"Oh. I think I get it now….. Sorry Ravio, I actually haven't seen you for a couple months, but right now I think time is messed up, looking around at your company, and how exactly I am seeing you again." Kailon explained.
"Actually that would explain some things then….like how you knew it was me without my hood on, and didn't freak out. Though Link, I would like to know why your hair is green now, and why you're going by 'Kailon'." Ravio asked.
"Long story dude." Kailon responded quickly, already expecting an interruption from Rallen. And he was correct for one came directly after.
"I can answer that!" Rallen yelled. "We were all just some random awesome people living in Hytopia, well at least Sylin and I were, when we read a sign stating that the kingdom needed Tri Force Heroes with long ears, epic sideburns, and side parted hair. We all fit the bill, and came together, just to find out that all three of our names happen to be Link. I thought that was awesome, Sylin thought it was creepy, and I don't even think Kailon cared."
"I did in fact care, I was just not showing it in the same way."
"Whatever. So anyway, we all thought of names that we all liked." Rallen explained. "Kailon had already had his name picked out before hand, since he said he didn't want other people to know his real name for some unexplained reason. My name is obviously the best though!"
"That sure is strange….." Sky surprisingly spoke up. "All of our names, excluding Midna and Ravio, are Link too." Rallen, and Sylin jumped back, but Kailon didn't seem all that phased.
"Well I see now how Rallen thought you didn't care." World blatantly said.
"I do care!" Kailon defended himself. "It's just that I kind of remember something along the lines of this happening before to me…..also kind of like when I met Rallen and Sylin." (2)
"So care to explain Ravio? Or maybe you Kailon?" Spirit asked, after having barely followed to conversation between the two. "How do you know each other?"
Ravio, still positioned next to the green Tri Force Hero, nodded and got ready to explain. "Well you know how I told you I somehow gathered enough courage to travel to Hyrule, and I began helping the hero by renting him items? Well, I don't know how this happened, but right here is that same person….from later on I guess."
"And, might I add, your prices are outrageous at times! But I was too nervous to say anything earlier, because I thought you were going to kick me out of my own house!" Kailon exclaimed.
"Hey, a man needs a way to get himself some rupees!" Ravio explained joyously. "Anyway, two days ago I set out to go claim the Sand Rod back, but instead got sent to Spirit's Hyrule."
"I have no clue what a 'Hyrule' is, but I guess that's good enough for me." Sylin voiced, after they realized Ravio and Kailon had nothing else to say on the matter,
"And I don't exactly care all that much." Rallen stated. "Hey guys, do you want to know how I got this scar on my arm?" The red haired, brightly glowing (Light Armor), boy asked happily, obviously only caring about himself at the moment. The rest of the group let out a collective sigh.
Midna was done with all this multiple-people-technically-the-same-person shit. Though she figured there were more of them yet to come, she wanted to go to sleep. She could easily slip into one of the Links' shadows to doze off there, but as much as she hated to admit it, she desired for the boy's to have somewhere safe to sleep. Lake Hylia, sure it was secure and relatively safe, but not the ideal place to rest. "Huddle up." She announced.
Sylin immediately followed her order, and so did World, Spirit, and Sky, for the Twili seemed to have a good commanding voice….almost as if she could rule an entire kingdom if she wanted to. The others just looked at her, silently defying.
"Huh, I completely expected this from Bunny, but you all too?" Midna stated with one of her actual hands poised on her chin. Kailon burst out laughing at the nickname she had given the Lorulian, in which he received a smack on the back of his head from said 'dark worlder'. "Actually in what I have seen of Rallen thus far, I should have assumed it from him as well. Hey you, 'green hair', what happened to all the nice-ness you were sharing….whatever, just don't get on my bad side, you hear?!" The green Tri Force Hero nodded his head vigorously and stepped forward dragging Ravio behind him. Rallen reluctantly trudged forward as well.
"I only teleported here because I had a strange feeling that told me to come over to Lake Hylia, and you three were here, so I was right. Now I also have a feeling that 'my' Link is back in this Hyrule, and I think I know where to find him. So we're going, no questions."
With that she dug into her magic and began to teleport them all at once. She was really draining her magic, so she would have to recharge in one of the boys' shadows when they land in Ordona's spirit spring, near Link's house.
"Fine...everybody, to King of Red Lions!" Wind exclaimed, shouldering past Myth, who had already began sprinting to the King along with Time. And because of his long legs, Time claimed the only seat available on the small boat before the rest could even make it.
"Oh, no you don't!" Myth yelled, as he propelled himself like a torpedo into Time, sending the Hero of Time flying backwards into the water.
"REALLY?!" Time yelled, as he observed the Hero of Legends claim the seat. "Hey, I had to stand last time too!" He started to complain.
Myth sighed, and put his hands up in a 'don't shoot me' manner. "Yeah, but I had to swim in front of the boat as well…..don't you know that salt water really burns your eyes?"
"Myth, everyone knows that, and has most likely experienced it." Wind reasoned, contradicting Myth's argument. "Also, people on this island are trying to sleep, so keep your voice down Time! If you wake my grandma up, I will do something about it!"
"Sorry Wind….but you saw what Myth did. It was rude!" Time explained, a hint of a whine under toning his words.
"It was rude, now let's get us some treasure!" Myth exclaimed euphorically.
Ignoring the rest of that conversation, Wind turned to face KoRL. "Now, where to go? King of Red Lions, did you see what direction that floating green orb went?"
"Northwest." KoRL responded. "I believe I saw that orb go towards the Forest Haven…..Though I do not recollect what that orb was, I think it represents something good in nature, I believe you are right to be chasing it down."
"Thanks Lion." Wind thanked as he helped the now miniature Tiny get onto KoRL's head. Time was once again standing perpetually on the boat, and Myth was holding on to the sides so he wouldn't fall out again.
Not even 15 minutes into the voyage, Myth started complaining. "How long will this take?"
Wind decided to fancy him and answer the questions thrown at him. "Only a couple of hours, if we don't run into any distractions."
"How long has it been yet?"
"Two hours." Wind responded curtly.
"Really?!" Time was bewildered.
"NO!" Wind, Myth, Elzo, and Tiny yelled. The King of Red Lions sighed, why can't they all just get along? Well I guess if you put people who are so alike together, you're bound to run into some problems.
Time wasn't deterred for too long, he just climbed right back onto the metaphorical happy train. "So if it hasn't been two hours, how long has it been? Sorry, my sense of Time is completely screwed up by this point." He continued.
"In reality, it has only been about 10 minutes." Wind replied, feeling a little guilty for his earlier snarky comment…..but not guilty enough to apologize.
The back and forth questions continued, but Wind eventually stopped answering, in favor of paying attention to where they were heading.
"Are you sure that we are heading in the right direction?" Tiny yelled in order to be heard.
Wind snapped his attention to the top of KoRL's head to look at the speaker. "I believe what King of Red Lion's told me. He's never steered me wrong before." Undenounced to Wind, he had just accidentally said one of the best puns the group had ever heard. Time, Tiny, Ezlo, Myth, and KoRL burst out into laughter. Wind noticed what he had said, and joined in on the vigorous cacophony.
"HA, because he's a boat!" Ezlo yelled. It was a little inaudible considering all the laughter being forced out of his beak at the same time.
It lasted for quite a long time, probably considering all six of them were pretty exhausted. Myth suddenly stopped his laughter, and brought on a face of concern, and seriousness. "Wind?" He asked cautiously.
"..." All Myth received as a response was more uncontrollable giggling.
"WIND?! PAY ATTENTION, THIS IS SERIOUS!" Myth roared in order to be heard.
Wind tried interrupting his own giggling fit, taking deep breaths to fill his lungs back up. "Yeah….hahahaha, Myth what….hahahaha, is it? Goddesses….hahahaha, my side hurts! Can…hahahaha, can anyone else breathe? Hahahahahaha!"
"Seriously! IS ANY ONE ELSE PAYING ATTENTION?!" Myth screamed, reaching out his arms. He yanked Wind's shoulders and turned the boy's head so that he could see what had Myth so worried. "It that what you meant earlier by a distraction?!" The Hero of Legend thrust his hand out towards the sea. Over across the water, very close to their boat, was a large cyclone.
"Holy Farore!" Wind yelped, grasping the tow in his left hand. Everyone else snapped out of the contagious laughter, and yelped in a similar fashion. "Myth, why didn't you tell us earlier?!"
Myth took a deep breath to calm himself, before talking. "I was trying to!"
Despite all of their numerous efforts to escape the grasp of the cyclone, it sucked them up into the midst of it.
Instead of being placed somewhere else on the Great Sea dizzy as hell as Wind expected them to be, they were in a forest…..of trees….no Ocean. King of Red Lions was also nowhere to be seen, probably from the lack of water. Tiny and Ezlo were back to full size, Myth was hacking up seawater, and Time was sitting in a tree hugging the trunk tightly. By the looks of it, Wind had just experienced what Time, Tiny and Ezlo, and Myth had experienced in order to end up on the Great Sea. And now they were in a completely different 'world'.
Wind shakily clambered to his feet, and smacked Myth on the back to help him get the Ocean water out of his lungs. Tiny walked over to the tree Time was in and dug into his pouch pulling out a pair of boots with wings on the side. He quickly finished strapping on his Pegasus Boots, and sprinted into the side of the tree with a large smack. Tiny flew backwards, but his efforts were not in vain, for his sprint had dislodged Time from his perch in the tree.
After landing hard on the ground, Time plucked himself up and glared at Tiny for a moment before perking his head up. "Do you guys hear that too?" He asked, after hearing voices nearby.
Wind was too shocked by their new surroundings to speak, and instead just nodded. Myth was pretty confused too, as was Time, but they all chose that it would be best not to dwell on what had just happened. Tiny was used to this sort of thing by now, and shrugged off the slight headache. So far he had been to Termina, Time's Hyrule, and The Great Sea, as well as where ever the crud they were now.
"I vote we follow the voices, it will at least get us out of this forest-Look out!" Tiny exclaimed pushing the still dazed Wind to the ground. Right where the Hero of Winds head just was, a flaming arrow whistled by.
"Th-thanks…..what was that?!" Wind asked as he hurriedly got to his feet.
"I don't know, but again we should probably get out of this forest before we're forced to find out!" Time suggested.
"I concur!" Tiny agreed as they all began to sprint out of the woods towards the voices. Tiny wanted to make sure the others made it out too, so he didn't use his Pegasus Boots, even with as much as he and Ezlo wanted to. A couple of flaming arrows whizzed by them, but none of them ever landed.
Pretty quickly they came across a long flimsy wooden bridge. Without thinking, Time, Myth, and Tiny sprinted onto the surface….while Wind stopped at the edge staring at it with melancholy in his eyes. His sister had gotten kidnapped right in front of his eyes on a wooden bridge very similar to this one. Of course he had already saved her from the clutches of the Helmaroc King, but the memory hurt too much. Myth sprinted back for him, and picked him up, carrying Wind across, despite the protests.
"It looks like they stopped following us…." Time noted, short for breath. "Wind why didn't you cross the bridge?"
Wind looked down at his feet, tears threatening to escape his blue-green eyes. Time immediately dropped the subject, and motioned for everyone to continue forward. Wind was grateful for that….now he didn't need to relive that tragic memory.
They continued on in silence, the only sounds were the voices they were following, and the sound of a spring of water. They didn't have long to wonder why they heard either of those things, for when they turned a corner, they found a spring in front of them. Not only that, but a whole group of people, who seemed to be having a slight argument.
Wow, I actually uploaded on schedule? *Confetti cannons erupt from behind me* *People cheering loudly*
(1) Like I mentioned before, Kailon is the Link from 'A Link Between Worlds' and after Link and Zelda came back to Hyrule after he had defeated Yuga/Gannon he eventually set off for a new land (Hytopia). So Kailon would be happy to see Ravio again after such a long time without seeing each other. And Ravio since he is from the time when Kailon was still saving Hyrule and Lorule, would recognize Kailon, he would have only seen him a couple of days before.
(2)Again if Kailon is the Link from ALBW then he would have been Paint at one point, so he would have some recollection of this happening before to him, which in turn is why he wasn't all that phased when he first met Rallen and Sylin.
Hope that clears it all up for you...yeah I know, it's confusing. :P
~HylianHero
