...Oh...Hello there. Uhh, yeah...Sorry.
First I was busy with Christmas and all, and then I hit a rut, and had a whole lot of Writers Block. The only way to fix it, was by scrapping the entire chapter. So i restarted...which was hard for me to do, and was pretty time-consuming. But what matters, is I got it done for you guys!

I also haven't been able to read any reviews posted lately, but I have read them on my Email. Oh, and Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/Happy New Year!

I am as likely to own The Legend of Zelda franchise, as Ghirahim is to become non-fabulous. (He will remain forever fabuuuuuu.)


(Dusk, Red, Sky, Vio, World, Ora, Ravio, and Sylin are the ones voted to be in the bar. Just a little reminder for both of us. :P)

"Oh, good, I see you made it. Hurry, gather around the table, this is a serious matter." The hooded figure nodded to the group of bedraggled boys who had just shoved the door open, no amusement, curiosity, or a joking demeanor in her voice. Grim seriousness. Oh boy, this isn't going to be good, is it?

Dusk seemed a little nervous around the cloaked figure, which definitely meant that he knew this person right? That's at least what Sylin thought, since he was downright confused. Usually he just tried to figure stuff out without any help from anyone, which was completely ok with him, since he wasn't the type of person that liked to talk all that much. More of a silent, but thoughtful kind of guy. He had his moments though… So anyway, that's why he planned to just listen to whatever these people had to say, and hopefully no one would ask him to answer anything…best leave that to the others….less opportunity for him to say something wrong, or end up hurting someone's feelings: 'I'm looking at you Red.'

Before the apparently really serious conversation could start, Dusk had insisted that they all get well met with the members of the group of people known as the Resistance, in which the hooded figure reluctantly agreed. First there was a tall girl named Ashei, with jet black hair, wearing a gold colored armor on her torso, wrists, legs, and on one shoulder. Then there was a nerdy looking guy named Shad, who had round glasses, and was carrying an ancient looking book. Next was Auru. He was an older, wiser, looking fellow, wearing a full body suit with a small Triforce emblem connecting it. Lastly was someone that Dusk knew very, very well, as he came from the same village as the teen- Ordon Village. Rusl was his name, and was apparently Dusk's 'adoptive' father figure… He wore similar clothes as the other inhabitants to Ordon Village, had an average metal sword sheathed on his back, and was holding a copper mask under his arm.

Now that the introductions were complete, aside from the cloaked figure, they were all told to stand around the table, next to the members of The Resistance. On the middle of the table was a large map of Dusk's Hyrule. Sylin, and practically the rest of them, upon seeing the great distance that they had traveled from Ordon, to Hyrule Castle, immediately got tired again, just from seeing it. Not that he could even read the words on this map. Seriously it was all just gibberish-y symbols that he couldn't understand. The only way he knew what the long distance was, was because Dusk pointed it out while they was taking their spots. The Hero of Twilight was loudly claiming how short that trek was, and how he had done way worse before, while taking out his own map of his Hyrule and shoving it in the other's faces. If Dusk didn't have to go in, then he most definitely wouldn't have gotten voted in by the way he was acting. Sometimes Dusk lets off the impression that he's a sarcastic teen who doesn't give a crap about anything, or sometimes a bossy-angry impression. At times he's very ignorant, and goofy….but really, I guess Dusk's just one of those moody people, that tries to act cool, but in reality is really just kind of lame. ((Sorry Dusk…but Midna's too good for you. Wait, what?...Nvm then, I'll leave now….I was neeeeeeever heeeeeeere…))

Having a group of boys, who all act kind of similarly, and look practically the same isn't the best for quiet situations such as this. Even when most of the combative loud ones were intentionally voted to stay outside, the group of boys were being loud about something. Red was about to cry, since Dusk had 'accidentally' given him a paper-cut on the face when he was rubbing his map in everyone's faces. Ravio was currently trying to act invisible, hugging his strange bird-thing companion Sheerow, and was mentally wishing he could be alone with the comfort of his rentable/buyable items, and 'his' precious rupees. World was scolding Dusk for the aforementioned map thing. Ora was talking to Sylin about how they should probably tell the others to shut up…'politely'. And Vio was studying the map on the table, while jotting down the Hylian symbols he saw into his notebook, that he always keeps in the 'gear' section of his pouch, whether he understood the symbols or not.

Rusl, stood up, abruptly catching all of the boys' attentions, causing them to all stand straight and listen. "Thank you, our guest would like to tell you all some things, so please pay attention, and be polite. Oh, Link, I expect to see you afterword please." Rusl declared, sitting back down into his chair. There were only enough chairs for the hooded figure, and for the members of The Resistance, but that was fine….ok not really, all of their feet hurt.

"Umm, excuse me mister, but may I ask who you want to meet up with after?" Red questioned in a small voice.

"No need to answer that sir, Red's just seemingly forgotten already that you're Dusk's surrogate father, right Red?" Vio replied quickly, turning to look at Red, who was now blushing. "I understand why, Red, but you should probably assume by now that whatever Hyrule we're in, anyone who says 'Link' will probably be talking about the one who lives there." Violet continued, probably causing a bit of confusion among the members of The Resistance. The members definitely looked mildly confused, as if they didn't even know that the strange hooded figure was going to talk about just yet either.

"Maybe we should tell you our nicknames then? To make it easier." Ora suggested. "Maybe it'll tone down the confusion, and awkwardness a little?"

Finally, the cloaked person decided to join the conversation, by politely silencing them all with a gloved hand. "There'll be no need for that, Hero of Seasons…. But this does lead as an excellent segway into what I have called you all here for." She stated. Ora flinched back, his eyes wide….a pure expression of 'Wh-wha …h-how?!'. "Where is the rest of you situated at this moment? I thought there was more." She continued.

"My goddesses, there's more of them?!" The nerdy-looking Shad exclaimed, sticking his nose out of the ancient-looking book he kept with him at all times. "This just adds to the scales, of how impossible this all is! What with what's happening to Hyrule, and what's being seen in front of my very eyes! This is stumping me more than with the mysterious Owl Statues!"

"Shad, as well as Ashei, and Auru, you may all be excused to handle the part of the situation I've already informed you about. I have something bigger to explain to these boys." She paused. "Rusl, you are free to stay, or go, since the Hero of Twilight is your surrogate son….." The hooded figure seemed reluctant though, and the Ordonian noticed.

"No, milady, I leave this conversation to you. Thank you for filling us in with all you could." Rusl nodded as he stood up to join the other members of the Resistance at the door leading to the narrow hallway.

Once they left, the room relaxed a little, but not by that much. The tension was still pretty heavy in the air. "Now, some of you may already have known this," The hooded figure moved her hand up to her hood, about to take it off, "I am Princess Zelda, of this Hyrule." She took off the hood. Only about 3 of them were actually surprised….that being Red, Ravio, and Sky. Sky seemed more surprised however, and looked to be more motivated than he had been before…maybe something to do with the name Zelda?

"Not to interrupt you, your highness, but how are you here? I thought Sir Fat Ginger kind of got a hold of you when you were unconscious after saving Midna?" Dusk questioned 'semi-politely', but it's kind of hard to be polite when using the term 'Sir Fat Ginger'.

"You also may have noticed by this point, but the forms of Hatred reincarnated found themselves in a similar situation as you have all encountered. But, the Goddesses have locked them in a guarded 'prison' so to speak, until they knew how to handle the situation. You will learn later their part in all of this. So when the Gannondorf here disappeared, I was free from his control." The princess nodded, still a look of utter seriousness- no fooling around, at all –on her face. "Confusion is to be expected…But before I explain the situation of multiple forms of the Spirit of the Hero in one era, I must lay down the background information."

"You mean, you actually know what's going on?" World exclaimed.

"And I also suppose you know how to fix said problem?" Vio continued.

Princess Zelda half nodded, and looked reluctant. "I know mostly what is happening to all of our Hyrules, but I am not yet completely aware. I know all that is possible however."

"I'm just going to pretend I comprehend." Ora sighed. "When will I understand anything about my life?! I swear….." He got cut off, by many agreements.

"So back to what you were saying, Princess….we would like to know." Sylin finally said in a quiet voice, since everyone had been silent, for who knows why. "Actually, I think we need to know."

"Oh, yes, Tri Force Hero, I do believe the explanation is in order." The Princess of Dusk's Hyrule agreed. "I'll start from the beginning. The three Golden Goddesses, Din, Nayru, and Farore, have spoken to me, and informed me of what they know. I have been given the task of informing all those bearing the Spirit of the Hero, of what they must do…..mostly, for I don't know everything….." Zelda trailed off. "Alright, have any of you heard the rumor of the omnipotent Time Crest, that resides in the Space's Reign?"

There was an awkward pause. "Beg pardon? I've certainly never heard of it." Ravio sighed, and Sylin agreed. The rest of the boys were too busy looking at Princess Zelda in shock, to bother looking at them two weirdly.

"Of course, I've heard of it! My father, oh sorry our father," Red explained pointing to Vio, "used to tell us the story of it, when we were younger…and, you know, the same person…! I don't know what 'omni-potent' means though."

"We've always regarded it as a myth, so I never delved far into the meaning of it…we thought it was just our father telling us stories..." Vio finished. "But then again, he's the reason we learned about the Tri force, and that's definitely authentic."

"Rusl used to tell me about it. Seemingly it's the stabilizer of time itself?" Dusk stated. "Time should support itself…wait, why are we even having this conversation?!"

"Yeah, I don't really see how this has to do with anything." Sky agreed.

"Descendant of the Lorulian hero, and the Blue Tri Force Hero, it makes sense for you not to know. Lorule's history has all but disappeared in the ruins. And Hytopia is too busy with fashion for history like this." Princess Zelda nodded. She turned back to the rest of the Links who actually knew what it was. "I understand the confusion on this topic, but I would like for you all to know that the Time Crest is real. And it has shattered."

"..." Nothing but shocked and doubly confused expressions met her own grim one.

"Due to the unknown cause that made the Time Crest shatter into 20 shards. All of the shards have been scattered throughout each and every one of your own times. That being said, the 20 shards, if collected together, along with a sacred song, enough power can be created to power all of the shards into one piece again….hopefully. This would, in turn, return every Hyrule to the way it should be, and all of you would return to your own land." Princess Zelda explained. "Now that time itself is 'broken', for lack of an appropriate word, the borders of each world are growing thin. This in itself does a better job in explaining how you all are meeting each other. …Soon, if nothing is done to fix this, each world will collide, and nothing will be left of each and every one of our worlds." She continued, practically slapping all of the boys' faces with a dooming apocalypse, making them suddenly wish that the cool thing of meeting people who look like you, and share the same spirit never happened in the first place. Most of them were still in the middle of their own adventures, and now they have to deal with this too?! It seems like an intricate, and difficult, and time-consuming, and difficult, and tedious, and difficult job to go about and do, even with 19 people to do it…wait there are 20 shards, and only 19 of them…..Oh, great…And even without that little problem, they still weren't even sure it would work in the end…

"The goddesses have warned me, and the other bearers of the Triforce of Wisdom, and have given us the task of informing you all where to go in order to get the Crest shard in that particular time. Along the way, things will become clearer. I only have one more thing to inform you, and I thank you for your patience." The Princess supplied. "You must all go the Temple of Time in the Faron Province, once you get there, you'll know what you must do next." She finished. "I'm sorry, but I must be getting back to the castle. I'll see you all when you return to this Hyrule, and will supply you with what to do next." She excused herself while putting back on the hood to her cloak, and walked out of the room, leaving the 8 of them to sit there, not sure what exactly to do to respond to such a heavy load.

"…Anyone know how to react to that?" Dusk asked. He was met with silence (other than the faint theme that plays in Telma's bar). "Good, me neither."


"Tell me, why exactly did we vote all of the controlled, better judgment people to go into the bar?" Wind whined. "We should have seen that not leaving any of them to stay with us would be a bad decision." Currently Rallen was walking up to every single person and asking their opinions on bagels, all the while wearing the Zora outfit, which he loudly claimed to be his favorite outfit by far…..17 times. Blue and Spirit were nowhere to be seen, and Green was currently hiding with Wind underneath a cart full of fruit, since Myth was currently trying to pelt them with dozens of seashells that he got back on Koholint Island. Kailon was wearing the Cheetah costume that let him run almost as fast as the postman, and was holding Scrub in a totem, and running around Castle Town. Time had borrowed Scrub's Bunny Hood, and was attempting to outrun Kailon…which was failing spectacularly. Tiny and Ezlo were waltzing around, asking everyone in sight if they wanted to fuse kin-stones.* And lastly, Paint was merging into walls, becoming a painting in order to mess with people, and...who knows what else. It was now pretty safe to asume that everyone now had a pretty weird impression on the Link they all knew/seen walking around Castle Town.

"I don't know, it seemed like a good idea at the time….. and besides, at least we have a bit more common sense than the-….DUCK!" Green abruptly yelled at the Hero of Winds, but alas it was a tad too late. Wind was struck straight in the face with a large conch shell, then 3 small oyster shells directly after. "MYTH, REALLY?! What is wrong with you?!" Green shouted, extremely aggravated.

"Dude, calm down! I'm just having fun! Something apparently foreign to you." Myth replied, whilst throwing another shell at a wall, watching a hermit crab slowly crawl out of the remains of its shattered home. "Oh, and to answer your question, Koholint's my problem. …I'm 46% sure I was actually pretty normal before waking up in that place…but, oh well."

Wind, after picking himself off the ground, and prying the oyster shells off his head, took out the Wind Waker. What he planned to do with it, didn't end up working though. He had originally planned to change the wind's direction to Myth's direction to send the shells, and some fruit into the Hero of Legends. What actually happened was, Myth sidestepping the fruit easily, catching the shells, and letting all of the fruit smash against the wall of a building. Now the only problem of that, was the owner of the fruit cart was returning from trying to get one of the incompetent guards of Castle Town to get rid of all the green garbed miscreants, and saw all of that happen. The man approached Wind, while the rest of the Links in the immediate area whistled and walked away. Now the Hero of Winds owed the man an excessive amount of 1000 rupees. Currently Wind only possessed 549 rupees in his pouch.

"I'm sorry mister, but I don't have that many rupees…can I pay you in fish bait? I have a lot of fish bait." Wind nervously asked the man, while shrinking away slightly. "Or I could take a photo of something you want, with my pictograph?"

"Rupees. now." The man demanded, a slight smile tugging at his strained 'angry' face.

"M-Maybe we c-could work something out?" Wind stuttered. "I have fish bait….still, a lot of f-fish bait. Really, I w-wouldn't mind parting with some of it."

The man broke, and started laughing, a lot of the angry demeanor gone. "No kiddo, I'm not all that mad! There's a couple of kids 'round here that do that all the time! I done thought you was one of 'em!" The man chuckled. "I don't want any of yer fish bait, but I will gladly take a compensation of 10 rupees. How's that sound?"

Wind was currently making strained half-smile, while still looking extremely sorry. "Umm, uh yeah, sure." He handed the man a shining yellow rupee, now at a total of 539.

"Now you get out of my sight, ya' hear!" The man chortled, with a heavy rasp, to his somehow friendly, yet angry and mean bark. "I don't want ta see yer face round here again!"

Wind walked away quickly, happy that he got off easy, but also very frightened. Was he joking?! Well, that's definitely the last time I try to do anything involving Myth…

At that moment he heard the calls of the others returning from the bar. Figuring it would be the best to get away from the creepy old man, he sprinted off in the direction of the voices, swerving away from almost every breakable object in his path. It was a bit hard to restrain himself, but he somehow managed.


"Blue, why'd you pull me away from the group? I was trying to earn some Force Gems!" Spirit exasperatedly asked from underneath Blue's arm, as Blue had yanked him up, and walked away.

"ShhhhHHHHH! Keep it down would you?!" Blue hissed bending his head behind him to look Spirit in the eyes. "Wait," He paused mid-walk. ", getting Force Gems…..doesn't that mean whenever you kill, or fight anything? I don't know, I never really payed attention to whatever Vio said about it….all I know is that I got it when I fought. Speaking of which, I want Force Gems- as always -, so draw your weapon!" Blue continued, suddenly dropping Spirit, stomach first on the cobblestone. He turned around and threw his unsheathed sword down onto the ground right next to the Hero of Train's head.

"Don't draw before saying that!" Spirit yelled as he jumped up away from the sharp piece of metal, and fumbled around his pouch trying to find his shield.

"Funny, Green said the same thing when I did that to him...…" Blue growled.

"Stop, I don't want to fight!"

"Well, if you want Force Gems, th-"

"THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!" Spirit yelled, pushing back Blue's sword with his shield. "Getting Force Gems is when you do something good, and make another person happy!...At least it works that way for me..." Spirit huffed through his clenched teeth, due to the pressure of Blue against his averagely small shield. Jeez, Blue was strong!

The Hero of Trains, then had a grand idea- change the subject. Probably should have thought of that a wee bit earlier... "Look! So why'd you pull me away? Zelda was with me, but I don't know where she is now...which probably isn't good." He trailed off a little. "Oh, but what was the reason?"

This caused Blue to suddenly stop, and sheath his sword, mid-'spar'. "Oh yeah, that." Since the pressure of Blue's sword was now gone from Spirit's shield, he fell face-forward with a grunt….and Blue immediately snatched him up, under his arm again. "Ok, I need you to go and grab something from that shop over there, while I distract...I love distracting."

"W-what for?" Spirit huffed, still catching his breath, from when some of the air was knocked out of his lungs, due to the mini-chaos that just took place quickly between him and the blue-garbed-maniac. Sure, he wasn't as maniacal as some of the others, mind you, but right now...

"Because, I want it, and that dude who runs the shop is kind of a total asshole." Blue explained. "So you see that snooty little shop over there?" Spirit nodded. "Good, I'm going to use my trusty hammer to distract the idiot, and you go and take the Magic Armor in there. Don't worry about me here though, I'm a great distracted!" Blue gloated, inflating his already high-self esteem. "Ok, got it, dude?"

Spirit sighed. "That's a bit rude…aren't we the ones who are supposed to be gallant heroes? Hero's don't steal…..at least I don't think."

"Myth stole all the time, from this one old shopkeeper, i'm pretty sure….I've stolen before, heck even World said he stole once. Green has stolen. Oh and I think you've stolen too, I can see it in your eyes!" Blue declared, as he stared creepily into the Hero of Trains's eyes, a completely serious expression on his face. Spirit backed away a little...he didnt like this side of Blue...ok this is all sides of Blue, but still. "And like I said, that asshole is asking for it." Blue growled, ripping his eye contact away, and putting it back on the store in front of them. "I'm pretty sure we aren't all that gallant either….whatever the crud that means."

"I suppose so actually. But don't you think, maybe we shouldn't grab that Magic Armor per say,….maybe something smaller?"Spirit suggested.

Blue mulled it over, which didn't take all that long. "I could do with some explosives…and more explosives. Oh, and maybe a little more explosives!" He grinned, dropping Spirit on his stomach again as they neared the building. "Ok, deal, get me all the explosives you can, I'll use them on the others!"

"I don't get much choice in the matter, do I?" Spirit yelped, jumping up from the cobblestone for like the third time in the span of 10 minutes, since Blue was holding out his hammer, and looking expectantly at the Hero of Trains.

"Nope!"...that was said, a bit too jovial...

"HEY, WE'RE BACK! They both heard Ora, and Sky yell from right around them.

"...Wait, what're you doing?" Ora called. When they both turned around, sure enough, Ora was staring directly at them, with Sky right behind him.

"Heh, heh, nothing?" Blue dropped his hammer mid swing, about to shatter something loud enough to cause the shopkeeper to run outside. "Is that an excuse? you'd believe?"

"...no, not really."

"FINE THEN, BE LIKE THAT!" Blue stormed off in the opposite direction. Well at least he hadn't turned and jumped on them, like he usually did.

"Oh, only forcing me to help him steal." Spirit answered, immediately wishing he hadn't, for Blue had turned around again, threw a rock at Spirit, missed, then recited a few choice words, before he continued storming off again.

"Blue! You're worse than Myth at times!" Ora yelled after him.

"...And please do not take that as a compliment." Sky commented quickly.

"Well, it doesn't look like you guys did anything yet…" Ora noted. "Alright I guess it's fine, let's just go back to the group. Blue will somehow get there, I don't really feel like having my hands bit off, do any of you?"


When they all eventually met up, in a fashion that reminded Dusk of the Hidden Village, and trying to find all of those darn cats. Seriously, it felt like those cats were purposely moving to different locations, so that he would talk to them again, just to be told, 'you've already found me! MROWWW!'.

What was even more irritating….and strange, was the fact that a lot of the other Links did the same thing. Dusk ran into a couple of them like three times, and they literally meowed at him. Like what the heck?! Why was that even a thing?! Whatever, he should probably expect that by now…

Annnyway, now they were all together standing in southern Hyrule Field. None of them were too happy though. Quite the opposite actually.

"REALLY? WE HAVE TO WALK BACK THE WAY WE CAME?!" Myth steamed.

"Well, not the whole way…..just most of it." Dusk frowned. "The Faron Province is directly North of the Ordona Province."

"…Well, better get walking then." Tiny huffed. "It's like my least favorite long-time activity, but oh well…..if only we could all fit on a tiny bird."

"You guys should all get a train. A Train would help significantly." Spirit commented matter of factly.

"But we don't have train tracks…or materials to make a train…" Time pointed out, sadly. "Wait, what's a train exactly?"

Ignoring Time's question, they started to walk….again towards the direction they had come from earlier. Fun. "So what did you guys learn? What happened?" Scrub questioned trying to make everyone else less focused on irritation, and hopefully put everyone in a better mood. Probably wasn't going to work...but might as well try.

"Oh, well for starters, we learned that Time's name is probably going to become a bit of a problem." World answered after a little pause.


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Guest Review: Rockster. Yeah, I guess ST Zelda wasn't informed yet? I'll put something in the next chapter for that then. My favorite Zelda song is what Myth says his favorite is: Ballad of the Windfish! The Overworld in Spirit Tracks is my second favorite!