Hello everyone! Just wanted to clear some things up for you guys, since some of you have brought this to my attention. Ok, I will admit, I wasn't very clear with the explanation last chapter, so I'll clear it up a little here:

The Time Crest resides in a realm known as the Space's Reign. The Time Crest is was makes the worlds, and Time itself stay stable. It shattered by an unknown cause, and I don't even know what it is, into 20 pieces. Said 20 pieces are in each Hyrule/game. 4 in the Four Swords game/manga. 3 in Tri Force Heroes Hytopia/Drablands. For ALBW there is one in Hyrule, and one in Lorule. For everyone else there is one, and goes to each Link respectively, with a symbol on it from which game they come from to know it's theirs (ex: the Ocarina of Time one will have a depiction of the ocarina of time [item]). Each Zelda for each game (for games without a Princess Zelda, ST Zelda will handle it) will inform them of where to go to get the shard.
Ok, does that clear it up for any of you? I'm sorry for the confusion, and some of you having to go back to the prologue to read about it. (I was really trying to get that last chapter to you guys, that I rushed, and posted it 'right' after I finished….that's a
big no-no, and for that…I'm sowree. D: …Forgive me? (/^ - ^)/ ))

Well anyway, I've been slightly busy since school started again from break, but I will be trying my best to write whenever I can, so that I may get these chapters out to you. And the review thingie is fixed too! Woot. (BTW, Reviews help a lot!)

Contrary to popular beliefs, I do NOT own the Legend of Zelda franchise. But you know, If I did, I be completely fine with it, happy even…course I'd have to be affiliated with Nintendo first….


"My name?" Time pondered as he stopped walking for a second. His older yet younger self, Scrub, had only simply asked what the 8 that had gotten voted to go into the bar had learned. They all weren't expecting something like that, to be answered by World. "Time? What does my nickname have anything to do with anything?"

Kailon, still wearing the Cheetah costume- since he claimed that he had to achieve 'Sanic Speed' whatever that even meant, and shouted the phrase 'Gotta go fast!' at anyone who even attempted to comment about it…so that's that I guess-. Hmm, maybe someone dared him to say that? Mayhaps.

Anyway, Kailon tapped World on the shoulder, and got a little too close for comfort. "So, how would Time's nickname become a problem? I'm not the best with nicknames, obviously just listen to my name, so I don't think picking out another nickname for Time is going to go all that smoothly." The green Tri Force Hero trailed off a little, looking at the sky. "So, um, care to elaborate?…..it's not like we all don't want to hear it, or anything!" His voice raised slightly at the last sentence.

"Its kind of a long story." Ora responded. "Dusk, how long is the walk exactly?" They were currently walking through just open fields that were surprisingly devoid of all life. Even the enemies they'd seen on the way there, were no longer to be seen anywhere. "And where's all the monsters?"

"Only about an hour walk, so not actually that long. And the monsters, I don't actually know. As barren as it always is, I usually get attacked at least 3 times. I'm just as confused, if not more so."

"So, I assume you've all heard of the Time Crest correct?" Vio asked everybody. "Rallen, I know you don't know for a fact, since you're from Hytopia, but please just bite back a remark for the sake of all of us."

"Just rush it why don't you?" They all heard Paint mutter angrily, interrupting the conversation to be sarcastic, obviously unhappy about something. "We got all this distance to travel, and plenty of time in which to do so, so yeah go ahead and rush it….really!" He continued, not sounding like he was actually trying to get to the point of Scrub's question, about what the 8 had learned. "Seriously!" Paint yelled, catching anyone who wasn't looking before's attention.

"Well then, someone's in a bad mood!" Blue stated loudly, glancing at Paint, who was in turn staring intently ahead, glaring inwardly, and outwardly.

Red walked to a position closer to the Hero of New Hyrule and Lorule, and leaned against his side. "What's wrong, Paint? Don't be so down…you're going to make me sad, and then everyone will get sad." Red stated. "You can tell us!" He then exclaimed.

Paint shifted Red over, and off of his side, looking down at the red garbed 12 year-old awkwardly. He was 15, and was much taller than Red, and it just looked quite weird for a short 12 year-old to be leaning and comforting an older, taller boy. Well, it was sweet in all, but not the thing he needed at the moment…..or even wanted at all. This is Paint we're talking about here. All he wanted to do was waste time doing nothing, so that he didn't have to go back to his Hyrule just yet. "Oh, well for starters, I just realized that I'm gonna get one hell of a lecture from my mentor, the Blacksmith when I get back. Woot…..much happy…" Paint sarcastically grumbled.

"Dude, don't you always get lectured by him?" Green questioned sticking a finger out. "I swear, you always claim that he doesn't like you, and yells at you frequently….. You literally even complained about it last night."

"Most of the things you ever say to me, is about the same reason…..yup, you never had an actual conversation with me…" Tiny sighed, reflecting on all the things said between the two. It was between Paint complaining about the blacksmith, just the usual, 'Hello, we all share the same spirit' thing, and telling them all about his adventure, since they all had to do that. So yeah, Tiny and Paint had very riveting conversations with each other. (*obvious sarcasm is obvious*)

"Oh, uhh, sorry 'bout that." Paint chuckled slightly. "Because, you're totally right."

"Hmmm. Are you sure there isn't anything else bothering you, Mr. Hero?" Ravio inquired, walking right behind Paint. "I don't believe you're enlightening us of the whole truth, there buddy."

"Really, Ravio?! Fine, you're right, well I might have also, uh accidentally, lost one of Scrub's um masks…..somewhere. I don't remember where I lost it. So yeah, uhh don't freak out when you can't find one of them in your bag, in the left hand pocket, underneath the gear section. And uhh sorry I guess, I get angry when 'guilty'. And I'm terrible at apologizing." He admitted, and then began gesturing at his older, and more green self to help him out a little. His gestures clearly demanding Kailon to come over and help. The green-haired, older version of himself, has technically been through the same thing before right…? Wait, wouldn't that mean that Scrub, when he lived through this before as Time, and saying that he actually did live through this before, wouldn't he know already that he had lost Scrub's mask? …Yup, that's confusing… Well, considering the looks on Scrub and Kailon's faces, he had to assume that Kailon, and Scrub do not remember/did not live through this entire confusion fest before, and that this was a whole new experience.

"You, what?!" Scrub, and Time yelled at the same time, though Scrub was a bit more heated. And by 'a bit' I mean by tenfold, at least.

"Which mask was it!?" Scrub continued, his face as deep, and violently red as Reds tunic. (I use that reference a lot, don't I? :Y) "Why did you steal one of my masks? And how did you even manage to take it from me, without me noticing?! Not to mention how you ended up losing it!" He paused his angry questions to think back on his past adventure as an adult, and his current one, as a kid, in Termina. He wasn't really one to talk about losing stuff. He had misplaced quite a few things in the past. But not other people's things…..wait….never mind. ***

Time echoed Scrub's thoughts, almost perfectly. "Scrub, you can't really say that like that. I lose stuff all the time, therefore, you lose things all the time, or at least did." The older Hero of Time commented. He turned back to the Link that can turn into a 2 Dimensional painting. "But seriously, those are important! Well, at least most of them are, probably….But still!"

Scrub had gotten very close to Paint's face, yet they were still somehow walking forward. Probably the undertone of them all wanting the walk to be over, and at whatever place in the 'Faron' Province that they had to go to, for some reason. The same reason that most of them didn't know, for Paint had to go and ruin the moment for them to find out what was said in the bar. It's not like they wanted to know that badly, they all just wanted to go home, regardless of how cool it was to meet 'other you-s'. The novelty has kind of worn off a little….just a little, for it was still pretty fricken cool….you know, if you just ignore the impending doom, that only 8 of them actually knew about.

"When we were in that town near the castle, I was merging onto the walls, scaring people, but I also used it to steal it from you. I mean, that's not what I was planning to do originally, but oh well. " The New Hero of Hyrule and Lorule explained, looking straight into Scrub's eyes right in front of his own. By this point they had stopped walking, making the others stop as well. Even though in the far, far distance there was a generic forest that looked kind of like the one they came from the day before. As you can probably guess, that did not go over well with some of them.

"Wait, really?!" Blue exclaimed suddenly, snapping his attention from bugging Vio, by repeatedly poking the notebook that was situated underneath Violet's arm, because why not. "I took Spirit?! Why couldn't I have taken Paint to help me?!" He continued, yelling at the sky, as if it held all the answers to his questions. "WHY AM I SO STUPID?! Don't respond." He demanded not taking his eyes of the midday light blue sky.

"So, anyone want to explain what that's about?" World questioned.

"Oh, you know, just the usual. Blue attempting to steal something, and this time forcing Spirit to assist him in doing so, even though he probably should have gone with someone a little more…..'sneaky'." Sky explained, looking about ready to fall asleep, as always.** It was the most he had said that day, and in one breath might I add. "So, good on you Blue, for not choosing me." Hylia's Chosen Hero lamented…he was only particularly loud when it came to grunting, and yelling, which he did pretty often, like when running or utilizing his sword. It was ironic though, for a person that doesn't talk very often, only to get a couple of sarcastic things said, or to point something out, he sure did grunt frequently and loudly. He also doesn't have the best balance, and happened to be pretty clumsy. He was pretty decent when the situation absolutely called for it, like with the Silent Realms, or when the stupid bokoblins stole all of his things, and he had to sneak around and locate his things. Other than those, nope.

"I want to know about the mask thing!" Time whined, directing the conversation back. Sometimes it seriously seemed like they all had attention-deficiency.*

Scrub just looked disappointedly at Time, but otherwise ignored it, since he was curious, and angry still. "It was a pig mask that looks extremely strange….and I only took it, because I wanted to sac it on someone's unsuspecting face." Paint answered finally.

"Oh, just the Scent Mask? Well, I'm happy it was that semi-useless mask, but it's still kind of important, since I get something for collecting every mask I find." Scrub replied. "I'm not as angry, but I'm still pretty u-" The young Hero of Time got cut off.

"Pissed?" Myth asked, filling in the word that he intentionally cut-off.

"Yes, but I'm sorry if I'm not vulgar like you are." Scrub commented. "I mean, not as vulgar as you."

Myth just smiled at that, before his eyes unfocused slightly, as if he was straining hard to figure something out, but just couldn't. Meh, just ask him later, too much is going on at the moment. Too much.

Speaking, of 'too much', Midna appeared out of Rallen's shadow, floated up to the confused Scrub, and demanded one of the transformations masks. Not particularly caring which one she got, she nabbed, the Deku Mask out of the young Hero of Time's hands, and examined it for a sight moment.

"Midna?" Dusk asked sheepishly.

The Twili waved an arm, implying that it didn't matter, and moved until she was inches away from Paint's face. "Here, how about this? I sac this on your face?" She shoved the mask onto his face, before he could answer the inevitable 'heck no'. After about 12 seconds, all filled with Paint reacting, and a couple of gasps, and or chuckles from the other Links, a short grumpy Deku scrub stood in his place, looking a little different that when Scrub wore the mask. For one thing he had very long yellow-leaf 'side burns' while Scrub didn't have any in that form, and had longer 'hair' in general. He wasn't wearing gauntlets/gloves either, and had the large distinctive old bracelet on that let him merge onto walls.

"….Well…..that's….reasonable actually." Paint commented, ignoring how weird his voice sounded, while the others…didn't. "Thanks Midna."

"My pleasure." She responded, slipping into Red's shadow instead. I guess she's in the mood for the color red today? "Either way, it looked as if Scrub was going to do that to you if I didn't."

"Actually… true." Scrub admitted leaving Paint to move next to Time, while starting to walk forward again. Everyone gladly followed, Paint tripping over his own feet a little.

"AS MUCH FUN AS GOSSIP, AND CRUD IS, AND PAINT BEING A DEKU SCRUB IS FUNNY, CAN WE PLEASE GET ONTO THE CONVERSATION WE WERE TRYING TO HAVE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!" Rallen screamed, scaring 9 of them, and surprising the rest of them with the fact that he was actually listening to the conversations, instead of doing something involving himself, and only himself. "I MEAN SERIOUSLY GUYS, DO WE ALL HAVE THE ATTENTION SPAN OF GNA- Ooooooooo, what's that?!" Rallen continued yelling, before running off ahead, over the hill in front of them, and out of sight completely.

"D-did he do that on purpose?"

Sylin answered with a sigh. "Probably not. And yes, you're right to be concerned."

"But, he actually had a point…..on both those notes. So, seriously World, what did you mean by Time's name is going to become a problem?" Wind questioned.


(Since its getting really repetitive to write, and probably to read, and if you read the authors note in the beginning, then you should already know the whole Time Crest thingie by now. So just pretend the 8 just shared the whole thingie right in this space here.)


"Well, that's confusing, and I see how Time's nickname could become a problem now. With the Time Crest, and the Time shards." Tiny commented. "Well, more confusing in a sense then all of us in one era/time zone…."

"Yeah, tell me about it...here, here is a list." Time sighed. "Ocarina of Time, Song of Time, Temple of Time, Hero of Time...Need I continue? Scrub, you got anything?"

Scrub shook his head, sighing. "Goddess of Time, Door of Time, uhhh...there's more I think. I stopped paying mind to it, except when Tatl is involved. Tatl hates the word 'time'."

"O-ok... I shouldn't have said anything, Ezlo's right, I shouldn't talk as much." Tiny commented. "Actually, I love talking. I love talking almost as much as I don't like walking!"

Are you guys, and the Princess of Dusk's Hyrule absolutely sure that you aren't sure it's even going to work in the end?" Trying to turn the attention away from Time, Green asked worriedly, suddenly wishing he got most of the confidence that Blue got. No instead he got courage (like the rest of the 3) and aggression. Yay.

"I hope its going to work, but that Princess didn't look as if she really thinks it'll work…But it's the only motive we have to get us all back to our right times, and you know save all our times from being completely destroyed." World agreed sadly. This was all too complicated.

Vio scratched his head, turning his head away from where they were walking, and turned it to stare at his feet. "What I just can't wrap my head around is how there is supposedly 20 shards in total, yet there are only 19 of us including Ravio. Estimating that we each get one, there'll be an extra, since I'm almost positive we've met everyone possessing the Hero's Spirit already...It's hard to believe there'll be any more."

"I believe we're done with that." Ravio agreed, glancing at Paint, since the latter didn't know of his identity yet. But it didn't look like he even noticed...that, and it is hard to read a Deku Scrub's thoughts. "Unless, you assume one of us gets more than one. But that's highly unlikely if you think about it." Ravio pointed out.

Myth suddenly threw up his arms, and looked as if he had just solved the cure for all sicknesses ever. Yes, he was that happy. "I GOT IT! FINALLY!" The Hero of Legends yelled, both louder than Rallen, and Blue from earlier….if that's even possible.

"Woah, did you figure out what we're going to do about the extra shard?" Spirit exclaimed, holding his ears since he was the closest to Myth when the sudden outburst occurred. You know what, probably not the best place to stand….like ever.

"What? Hell, no." Myth replied curtly, finally dragging his arms down from the air, and putting them across his chest. "But, I did figure out what I couldn't stop thinking about since Tiny and Time fell on me, and fell asleep. I MEAN WHO DOES THAT? Seriously."

"Uhhhhh. We do?" Time answered quietly whilst pointing to Tiny and himself.

"So, is that why you were so dazed, and actually didn't feel like talking when we woke up, and got off of you?" Tiny pondered, silently ordering Time to stop pointing at him. You never know, that could be used against them at a later time.

"This stupid question hasn't gotten off of my fricken mind yet! OK, 'If a Like-Like Like Likes another Like-Like, is it called a ''Love-Love" or a ''Like-Like like likes Like-Like''? I reckon it'll be called a Like-Like like-"

"Ok you can stop now." Sylin started. But Myth continued.

"likes Like-Like. You do know what I'm talking about right? Those pancake monsters that eat your shield, then you get a new one, and they eat it again. I dunno, but I was thinking about keeping one as a pet." Myth rambled. "Oh, wait, maybe I should keep two of them as pets! Then maybe I'll have a Like-Like like likes Like-Like, and then I'll know that I know that I knew the truth! You know what?! We should all open up a joint-business for Like-Like dating! Do they even date? …Whatever. We shall call it, 'Pancake-Monster Dating stimulation'! Or maybe 'Like-Like Like Likes Like-Like, That Like Likes The Like-Like Like Center'! 'Like-Like Like Center' for short, if you will. Maybe you guys have anything better? …No probably not. I think we shall go with the latter, 'Like-Like Likes Like-Like, That Like-"

"Please, please, please, please, please stop. For the love of the Goddesses, PLEASE ST-" The stopping from Ora was quickly stopped by another thing that stopped the stop. (Sorry, I'll stop now.…..heh, heh, heh) Said thing that…..er, prevented the …..er, halting of the Like-Like situation, was Rallen.

"GUUUUUYYYYYSSS!" He screeched, slowly becoming louder as each second passed. Where ever he had come from, they saw a red blur zipping across the field, sticking out like a sore thumb. As he was sprinting towards them at unbelievable speeds and he wasn't even wearing the cheetah costume, he was yelling stuff along the lines of 'help', and simply inaudible spluttering.

Blinking in surprise, Dusk held out an arm to stop Rallen from cruising right by the group. The Red haired boy, showed no signs of slowing down, and slammed right into the Hero of Twilight's arm. Since the amount of momentum Rallen was supporting, he was knocked straight over the outstretched arm, and flew forward. Landing in a disshelved pile on the grassy hill he slumped, and pulled himself into a sitting position all the while looking as if he'd seen the ghost of some terrible thing. His face pale, with the look of fear, and eagerness in his eyes. Now he was afraid, but he was also eager to deal with whatever he had seen…..but he had never done anything by himself before….like at all.

"…Uhhh, what's wrong dude?" Spirit questioned, still wondering where the crud he had even run off too, almost as much as he was wondering what the crud even just happened to the red Tri Force Hero.

"….M-Monsters…..A l-lot of 'em! N-Normally d-don't mind, but there are a l-lot, and they all look d-different than I've e-ever seen them b-before. T-there was also a shadow t-thing too, but i-it disappeared a-after the m-monsters noticed m-me!" Rallen stuttered, gasping for breath on the grass. A gruesome growling sound, and the clacking of bones made him jump up to his feet, and made the others stand on guard.

The noise was getting louder at an alarmingly fast pace. Growling, unintelligible roaring, lizardy-ous grunts, bones rattling, and distorted and wicked cackling, were all making their slow and difficult way to the boys' sensitive ears. Some of the sounds were recognizable to some of the heroes, but most of them were foreign, and sounded feral…..and overall, not something that you particularly wanted to meet.

Most of the young heroes grabbed the hilt of their swords, and hopped backwards a little, as to leave as much room as possible to their approaching enemies. Scrub, before doing anything else, as in grabbing the hilt of his Gilded Sword or his creepy but effective Mirror Shield, rushed quickly and quietly over to Paint, and ripped the mask off of his face. The young Hero of Time knew how hard it was to fight as a Deku Scrub, if you could even count blowing acidic bubbles, and cowering in a large Deku Nut shell as 'fighting'. Paint didn't say anything to Scrub, and instead fished out two weapons from his pouch. A Bow with notches for 3 arrows, and a Boomerang. He kept the Bow for himself, and tossed the Boomerang over to Ravio, who instead of catching it, let it hit him, since he was too busy cowering to notice. The Boomerang spun around in the air, and whipped back to Paint's hand as he expertly caught it. He threw it again, but….Ravio missed, and it traveled back to Paint for a second time.

Hissing under his breath, Paint quietly stomped his way over to his purple robed companion. He pulled Ravio's arm up, moved the robe so that he could have access to the Lorulian's hand, and forcefully shoved the curved magic infused piece of wood into his hand. "There, I shouldn't be the one to tell you how to use this, but I'll say one thing. Don't be too scared, ok? If you're overly scared, you'll have a similar repeat to what just happened, and you won't catch it." Paint growled, grasping his 3 notched bow from where it was slung across his shoulder.

Ravio nodded whilst shivering, and grabbed his small companion, Sheerow, and ushered him into his hood. If he was going to fight, than he would have to overco-….nope! Was he actually about to do this? He'd just get in the way, and be a hindrance, surely, so why did they even have him stick around, and count him as one of them? It all seemed strange to Ravio.

A large metallic clang shot all of their attentions' forward. Standing on the edge of the hill was a horde, no wait, a small army of various enemies. No two were alike, and every one of them looked as if they came from different worlds all together. The one monster standing in the front, was staring them down, sizing up each one, waiting for the miniscule boys to achieve the inevitable weakness that comes with striking first. It was a Darknut, and it was a large- very large –human looking creature covered entirely on heavy armor, with thick chainmail covering it completely underneath the armor. It's top helmet was a like a sharp metal mohawk of doom, and it was holding a thick longsword that was bigger than the tallest Link. Along with the longsword, it was holding a round shield almost as big as it's sword, and it had a smaller, more reasonable sword sheathed to it's hip. (Darknut: Twilight Princess)

Behind the behemoth was a multitude of monsters. A stalfos that had a un-proportionate shaped head, a large spiked stone mace, and an overall extremely cartoonish look to it. (Stalfos: Wind Waker)

A vibrant Lizalfos with a stone guard on one of it's arms, and a large spiked stone on the tip of it's long tail. (Lizalfos: Skyward Sword)

A large Octorok with sad drooping yellow eyes, that looked as if it would do a fair a bit better in water. (Octorok: Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask)

A pancake monster that looked almost exactly what Myth was describing earlier, even though he didn't provide any details then. (Like-Like: Link's Awakening)

An army of different looking Keese. (All games they appear in)

Last but definitely not least, approximately 10 Miniblins. (Spirit Tracks)

Before anything could be said or done, despite the misleading look the Darknut was giving the heroes, all of the enemies lunged suddenly at the boys, catching them extremely off-guard.

Just before any attacks could land a hit, a large shadow stretched across the front of the Links like a dark transparent wall, blocking every projectile, lunge, and physical contact.


JUST A HEADS UP: I will be very, very busy this weekend, the end of next week, and next weekend. First, my birthday is sometime this weekend. Second I am going to the Symphony of the Goddesses at the end of next week ( I am VERY excited :D)


***(Yeah, I know that Link didn't misplace anything that belonged to other people, or even things that belong to himself in either OoT, or MM, but, for the story, I'm keeping that. That, and I also couldn't think of any instances that happening in either of those games :D)

**(The Link from Skyward Sword looks sleepy all the time to me. I dunno if it's just me who thinks that way….
But you know when you sit on the stools for a while in that game, he eventually almost falls asleep and barely catches himself from falling off the seat. It's hilarious and cute :3)

*(I actually kind of have attention deficiency ((or whatever, all I know, is I get way to distracted, and can't stay on one task for more than 2 mins, which as you can probably guess, makes writing a fanfiction extremely difficult, as my mind goes everywhere else)) So that explains why my writing is all over the place, as it reflects how I am. So, uh, sorry, but I can't really help it.)

Also, whatever even happened with Myth acting in such a manner about Like-Likes, is how I practically am on a daily basis (Not just Like-Likes, don't worry) :D


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