So.....how was part one? If you review (PLEEZ PLEEZ REVIEW!!) tell me!! Heeeeere's
part two: Gateway to (yet) Another World!
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exact same disclaimer as last time throughout this whole series so I don't have to keep
writing it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and...well, you get
the picture.
[A/N: Paragraphs fixed in part 1 now, tho this one is bein a little unruly...wokin on it!]
Link's Quest to Find Zelda: Part two- The Gateway
"Good!" Rauru exclaimed. "Now, let's practice making the gateway out of red
light.
First, make it into a long rod of light." He nodded as Link obeyed. "Good. I see that
you have figured out for yourself that you still have to envision it in your mind. The next
step is to form a door with it.....but don't get cocky....this is the EASY part!"
'EASY?!' Link thought, 'This is tough enough itself....what next?!'
"Excellent work. Now is the hard part. You have to link your mind with
someone
else's in that world. For you that should be easy, considering Zelda is over there. Then
all
you have to do is keep the connection, open the door, and walk in."
"Oh, that's all," Link commented with so much sarcasm you could chew on it.
"The next easiest seems to be blue light. Try that."
Link obeyed, banishing all thoughts once more, and envisioning a blue globe
of light floating, just as he had done with the red. Once again, mind-Link drew its sword
and got out its shield, while the bule light changed into something totally unexpected. A
peahat?! Link almost lost the light because of a would-be thought. Peahats were
common in Hyrule field, and were not hard to defeat. With Link's confidence the image
of himself within his mind grew to twice its normal size. He realized just then that the
thing fed off feelings. If he could try to be this confident ALL the time, he would be able
to do so much more. This ALMOST in mind, he commenced the battle.
The fight took surprisingly long, ending this time when mind-Link uttered
only a single word. The surprise of this immediate submissiveness almost caused Link to
lose it, but he caught himself at the last second. Once again he molded it into a rod,
formed a door, and imagined what it would be like to link his mind with Zelda's.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
By the end of the day, Link had repeated the process with green, purple,
orange, indigo, and yellow light. Yellow was the second hardest, and had taken Link a
whole hour just to draw into reality. From there it had resisted him as he tried to mold it,
and Lnik nearly lost control of it more than three times. He had finally made it, though,
and tomorrow they would work on connecting Link's mind to someone else's, and finally
white light. After that, he could go to the ranch and follow Zelda, though one thing did
confuse him. Malon had said she had vanished right after she saw her. The only sensible
solution was that Malon had seen her right at the end of the lengthy process.
'But who did Zelda link minds with?' he suddenly wondered. There were two
possibilities for that one. Either she was the most powerful of the sages and did not need
to connect to someone's mind, or she knew many many people from just as many worlds.
Niether of them would have surprised Link at all. He then decided to pay the last of his
visits and try to mooch some provisions off his old friends. First stop: Death Mountain.
*************************************************************
Getting there was easy. Link still remembered the Bolero of Fire quite
clearly. It had been his favorite song that Zelda, with the guise of Shiek, had taught him.
As he walked in the back of Darunia's chamber he tapped the huge goron's
right shoulder. As Darunia turned right, Link dodged around his left side and before
Darunia could say anything, whipped out the ocarina and had played Saria's song.
Before the insane dance took him Darunia had the time to give Link a swift
right hook, knocking him against the wall. It was apparent the Sage of Fire did not know
his own strength. Link, however, got up unfazed, and proceeded to laugh his head off as
Darunia danced and danced like a maniac, but the grin quickly faded as the dance ended,
and he got right down to business. "Darunia. Tomorrow I am leaving this world in
search of Princess Zelda. I came to say goodbye, because I may be gone a very long
time."
"I see. Surely you will take some of our finest green rocks with you?" he jested.
"I would be glad to," Link replied with a smirk on his face, "but I wouldn't
have anything to boil them in."
"Of course! Why didn't I think of that before?! How silly of me.......well,
goodbye to you then..........Brother."
Link waved as he disappeared behind the statue in the chamber. Once he was
out, he warped to the Lost Woods to ask Saria's aid in returning him to the Temple of
Light. As soon as he landed the thought struck him that he could have easily asked the
same of Darunia, but it was too late for that now. In a moment, he had explained to
Saria. She nodded, and the next thing he knew he was face-to-face with Rauru once
again.
"We should rest. By tomorrow no doubt you will be running amok in another
world," the old sage commented crankily.
"Right," Link said, and headed off to where he guessed would be a bedroom.
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Link woke early the next morning to a horrible cutting noise. Or at least, what
he thought was a cutting noise. Abruptly he realized that it was Rauru's snores, and
laughed inwardly. He followed the noise to Rauru's chamber, and had to cover his ears
the sound was so loud.
"RAURU!!" Link screamed at the sleeping sage.
"Wha-?" muttered the huge old man as he woke from his deep slumber.
"I'm ready to start. I want to find Zelda as soon as possible. I am going to try
the white light while you eat breakfast."
"Ummmm........ok, go right ahead. Once you are done, and have the doorway
constructed, clear your mind of everyone but me, and then we must share a thought.
Then our minds will be linked."
"And how the heck am I supposed to read your thoughts?!"
"I think you should figure that one out on your own," Rauru commented.
"Now, if you will kindly stand aside, I must eat my breakfast." He strode away, calling a
"Good luck" over his shoulder as he went.
Link began to clear his mind. The routine was so....well......routine now, that
within moments a bright ball of white light, a little bigger than he had thought he
summoned, floated in front of him. In his mind he drew out his Mirror Shield and Master
Sword, though he had no idea why he could use that blade in his mind. Not that he had
any other ideas right then, taking into account the banishment his thoughts had suffered
only moments ago.
Nothing could have prepared Link for what he saw the light turn into then.
Slowly but surely it took on more and more features of a man on a horse, and even
though the light was white, the horse appeared black, as did the armour the man was
wearing. This was none other than the image of Link's archenemy Ganondorf.
In his mind Link gasped, and he came closer than he had ever been to losing
control. He barely managed to hold on, though, and was prepared to battle. Before the
light-nemisis could react, Link had put a Light arrow directly in its face, and began
hacking at it as soon as it fell to the ground. A stray thought almost popped up just then,
but he surpressed it. A bystander right then would have seen only a teenager standing
there with his eyes closed. If they could look into his mind, however....they would see a
violently raging battle, some- times with Link appearing to have the upper hand, other
times the light.
Arrow after arrow smacked the light-Ganondorf, consistently full in the face.
And every time he would fall off his horse, Link would hack at him with his sword a few
times. Then Ganondorf would rise, send Link flying with a blast of energy, mount his
horse, and charge. This would be followed by an arrow, and the whole tedious process
began anew.
That was when Link decided that a new strategy was required. As Ganondorf
charged this time, he dliberately missed with the light arrow. Ganondorf, thinking he had
finally won, grew bigger. However, he grew bigger not from true confidence, as would
have aided him, but from cockiness, which would momentarily lead to his own downfall.
As he rode close, Link hurled himself between the horses legs from the side, barely
daring to believe it when he came out the other side untouched. That disbelief only
lasted for a fraction of a second, and once it had passed Link sprang into the next part of
his plan. He mounted the horse while it was at top speed, and stabbed light-Ganon
between his shoulderblades. While not seeming to harm the light man, it did throw him
off the horse. Link proceeded to jump down, letting the horse wander where it would.
To his, well, what would have been surprise it stopped. He looked over to where
Ganondorf was just gatting to his feet, now much smaller than normal size. Link
immediatly began dashing towards him, light arrow nocked in his bow and ready to fire
at any moment. As he ran, his light-enemy shrank and shrank, till it dwindled into
nothing. Then the old ball of light was back, but there was a difference in it. Control of
this light now belonged to Link.
He had a great deal of trouble bringing it into reality, though, and even after
that struggle the task of shaping it remained. He bent every last particle of his will he
knew he posessed into drawing that light out into a bar, and even more than that to mold
it into a door of solid light.
After a good half hour of working the light, he was finally permitted to think
again. He looked at the door of light he had just created, and the beauty of it took his
breath away. 'I did THAT?!' he wondered inwardly.
The door itself was large, so large it could fit through five copies of himself
abreast, with a little room to spare. It was a good twelve feet tall by his estimation,
enough for someone twice his own height to pass through without worrying about
ducking their head. The face of the door it what was truly astounding. Around the edges
was a pattern that alternated the insignia of all the sages, including one he did not
recognize. 'That must be Zelda's,' he realized with a start. The inside of the door showed
the legendary Master Sword, within the pedestal of time. It's blue hilt seemed to glow,
and the sword itself was overridden by some kind of creeping plant, which meandered all
over the sword in no particular pattern. At regular intervals, though, were red or yellow
flowers.
Link almost fell over when he saw a note, taped over the triforce insignia on
the pedestal. It read:
"Link: -he gasped as he read this; how could it be intended for him??-
I knew you would be looking for me......one of these days......when you come
through.....we have much to talk about......I am in Damon's Realm......please hurry,
Link!!!
-Zelda"
The note itself seemed almost normal, but what of that desperate plea at the
end? He decided to skip trying to link to Rauru's mind, and instead teleported to the Lost
Woods. He hurried out of the Sacred Forest Meadow, with only a muttered goodbye to
Saria over his shoulder. He climbed that all-too-familiar ladder, and raced across the top
of the maze, finally exiting into the Lost Woods proper. He took a right, and found
himself in the Kokiri Forest. 'Just the place I wanted to be,' he smiled. He jumped off the
edge of that puny little cliff, and ran out the exit into the field. Whipping out his ocarina
once more, he summoned Epona and took off, faster than he had known the horse could
travel, towards Lon Lon Ranch.
********************************************************************
Epona must have sensed his desperation, because she made the trip in a record
forty-five minutes. Link burst in the door of Malon's house, not bothering to knock. He
found Malon eating lunch, but she stopped eating at the sight of him and smiled. That
smile quickly faded as she realized what he had come for. "You need to know the spot
where Zelda disappeared from, don't you?" she asked grimly.
"Yes," Link answered.
"It was right over there." She pointed to the northeast corner of the ranch.
"Goodbye, Link."
"Goodbye, Malon. I will be back, soon, I hope."
Link ran out the door to the exact spot Malon had indicated. He cleared his
mind and envisioned a white globe of light. When it appeared, it was once again a little
bigger than he had intended. But nothing, not even his last battle, could have prepared
him for what the light changed into this time. This would definately take a very long
time.
*~~* THE END OF PART TWO *~~*
Coming up in Part Three: " 'Damon's Realm?! You must be crazy,' the strange beast
snickered. 'Why, Damons Realm is so chock full of demons and monsters that nobody,
not the strongest mage in all of Mekinelle, could survive for more than a week!' "
part two: Gateway to (yet) Another World!
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaassssssssseeeeee review! Oh by the way.....I am using the
exact same disclaimer as last time throughout this whole series so I don't have to keep
writing it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and...well, you get
the picture.
[A/N: Paragraphs fixed in part 1 now, tho this one is bein a little unruly...wokin on it!]
Link's Quest to Find Zelda: Part two- The Gateway
"Good!" Rauru exclaimed. "Now, let's practice making the gateway out of red
light.
First, make it into a long rod of light." He nodded as Link obeyed. "Good. I see that
you have figured out for yourself that you still have to envision it in your mind. The next
step is to form a door with it.....but don't get cocky....this is the EASY part!"
'EASY?!' Link thought, 'This is tough enough itself....what next?!'
"Excellent work. Now is the hard part. You have to link your mind with
someone
else's in that world. For you that should be easy, considering Zelda is over there. Then
all
you have to do is keep the connection, open the door, and walk in."
"Oh, that's all," Link commented with so much sarcasm you could chew on it.
"The next easiest seems to be blue light. Try that."
Link obeyed, banishing all thoughts once more, and envisioning a blue globe
of light floating, just as he had done with the red. Once again, mind-Link drew its sword
and got out its shield, while the bule light changed into something totally unexpected. A
peahat?! Link almost lost the light because of a would-be thought. Peahats were
common in Hyrule field, and were not hard to defeat. With Link's confidence the image
of himself within his mind grew to twice its normal size. He realized just then that the
thing fed off feelings. If he could try to be this confident ALL the time, he would be able
to do so much more. This ALMOST in mind, he commenced the battle.
The fight took surprisingly long, ending this time when mind-Link uttered
only a single word. The surprise of this immediate submissiveness almost caused Link to
lose it, but he caught himself at the last second. Once again he molded it into a rod,
formed a door, and imagined what it would be like to link his mind with Zelda's.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
By the end of the day, Link had repeated the process with green, purple,
orange, indigo, and yellow light. Yellow was the second hardest, and had taken Link a
whole hour just to draw into reality. From there it had resisted him as he tried to mold it,
and Lnik nearly lost control of it more than three times. He had finally made it, though,
and tomorrow they would work on connecting Link's mind to someone else's, and finally
white light. After that, he could go to the ranch and follow Zelda, though one thing did
confuse him. Malon had said she had vanished right after she saw her. The only sensible
solution was that Malon had seen her right at the end of the lengthy process.
'But who did Zelda link minds with?' he suddenly wondered. There were two
possibilities for that one. Either she was the most powerful of the sages and did not need
to connect to someone's mind, or she knew many many people from just as many worlds.
Niether of them would have surprised Link at all. He then decided to pay the last of his
visits and try to mooch some provisions off his old friends. First stop: Death Mountain.
*************************************************************
Getting there was easy. Link still remembered the Bolero of Fire quite
clearly. It had been his favorite song that Zelda, with the guise of Shiek, had taught him.
As he walked in the back of Darunia's chamber he tapped the huge goron's
right shoulder. As Darunia turned right, Link dodged around his left side and before
Darunia could say anything, whipped out the ocarina and had played Saria's song.
Before the insane dance took him Darunia had the time to give Link a swift
right hook, knocking him against the wall. It was apparent the Sage of Fire did not know
his own strength. Link, however, got up unfazed, and proceeded to laugh his head off as
Darunia danced and danced like a maniac, but the grin quickly faded as the dance ended,
and he got right down to business. "Darunia. Tomorrow I am leaving this world in
search of Princess Zelda. I came to say goodbye, because I may be gone a very long
time."
"I see. Surely you will take some of our finest green rocks with you?" he jested.
"I would be glad to," Link replied with a smirk on his face, "but I wouldn't
have anything to boil them in."
"Of course! Why didn't I think of that before?! How silly of me.......well,
goodbye to you then..........Brother."
Link waved as he disappeared behind the statue in the chamber. Once he was
out, he warped to the Lost Woods to ask Saria's aid in returning him to the Temple of
Light. As soon as he landed the thought struck him that he could have easily asked the
same of Darunia, but it was too late for that now. In a moment, he had explained to
Saria. She nodded, and the next thing he knew he was face-to-face with Rauru once
again.
"We should rest. By tomorrow no doubt you will be running amok in another
world," the old sage commented crankily.
"Right," Link said, and headed off to where he guessed would be a bedroom.
******************************************************************
Link woke early the next morning to a horrible cutting noise. Or at least, what
he thought was a cutting noise. Abruptly he realized that it was Rauru's snores, and
laughed inwardly. He followed the noise to Rauru's chamber, and had to cover his ears
the sound was so loud.
"RAURU!!" Link screamed at the sleeping sage.
"Wha-?" muttered the huge old man as he woke from his deep slumber.
"I'm ready to start. I want to find Zelda as soon as possible. I am going to try
the white light while you eat breakfast."
"Ummmm........ok, go right ahead. Once you are done, and have the doorway
constructed, clear your mind of everyone but me, and then we must share a thought.
Then our minds will be linked."
"And how the heck am I supposed to read your thoughts?!"
"I think you should figure that one out on your own," Rauru commented.
"Now, if you will kindly stand aside, I must eat my breakfast." He strode away, calling a
"Good luck" over his shoulder as he went.
Link began to clear his mind. The routine was so....well......routine now, that
within moments a bright ball of white light, a little bigger than he had thought he
summoned, floated in front of him. In his mind he drew out his Mirror Shield and Master
Sword, though he had no idea why he could use that blade in his mind. Not that he had
any other ideas right then, taking into account the banishment his thoughts had suffered
only moments ago.
Nothing could have prepared Link for what he saw the light turn into then.
Slowly but surely it took on more and more features of a man on a horse, and even
though the light was white, the horse appeared black, as did the armour the man was
wearing. This was none other than the image of Link's archenemy Ganondorf.
In his mind Link gasped, and he came closer than he had ever been to losing
control. He barely managed to hold on, though, and was prepared to battle. Before the
light-nemisis could react, Link had put a Light arrow directly in its face, and began
hacking at it as soon as it fell to the ground. A stray thought almost popped up just then,
but he surpressed it. A bystander right then would have seen only a teenager standing
there with his eyes closed. If they could look into his mind, however....they would see a
violently raging battle, some- times with Link appearing to have the upper hand, other
times the light.
Arrow after arrow smacked the light-Ganondorf, consistently full in the face.
And every time he would fall off his horse, Link would hack at him with his sword a few
times. Then Ganondorf would rise, send Link flying with a blast of energy, mount his
horse, and charge. This would be followed by an arrow, and the whole tedious process
began anew.
That was when Link decided that a new strategy was required. As Ganondorf
charged this time, he dliberately missed with the light arrow. Ganondorf, thinking he had
finally won, grew bigger. However, he grew bigger not from true confidence, as would
have aided him, but from cockiness, which would momentarily lead to his own downfall.
As he rode close, Link hurled himself between the horses legs from the side, barely
daring to believe it when he came out the other side untouched. That disbelief only
lasted for a fraction of a second, and once it had passed Link sprang into the next part of
his plan. He mounted the horse while it was at top speed, and stabbed light-Ganon
between his shoulderblades. While not seeming to harm the light man, it did throw him
off the horse. Link proceeded to jump down, letting the horse wander where it would.
To his, well, what would have been surprise it stopped. He looked over to where
Ganondorf was just gatting to his feet, now much smaller than normal size. Link
immediatly began dashing towards him, light arrow nocked in his bow and ready to fire
at any moment. As he ran, his light-enemy shrank and shrank, till it dwindled into
nothing. Then the old ball of light was back, but there was a difference in it. Control of
this light now belonged to Link.
He had a great deal of trouble bringing it into reality, though, and even after
that struggle the task of shaping it remained. He bent every last particle of his will he
knew he posessed into drawing that light out into a bar, and even more than that to mold
it into a door of solid light.
After a good half hour of working the light, he was finally permitted to think
again. He looked at the door of light he had just created, and the beauty of it took his
breath away. 'I did THAT?!' he wondered inwardly.
The door itself was large, so large it could fit through five copies of himself
abreast, with a little room to spare. It was a good twelve feet tall by his estimation,
enough for someone twice his own height to pass through without worrying about
ducking their head. The face of the door it what was truly astounding. Around the edges
was a pattern that alternated the insignia of all the sages, including one he did not
recognize. 'That must be Zelda's,' he realized with a start. The inside of the door showed
the legendary Master Sword, within the pedestal of time. It's blue hilt seemed to glow,
and the sword itself was overridden by some kind of creeping plant, which meandered all
over the sword in no particular pattern. At regular intervals, though, were red or yellow
flowers.
Link almost fell over when he saw a note, taped over the triforce insignia on
the pedestal. It read:
"Link: -he gasped as he read this; how could it be intended for him??-
I knew you would be looking for me......one of these days......when you come
through.....we have much to talk about......I am in Damon's Realm......please hurry,
Link!!!
-Zelda"
The note itself seemed almost normal, but what of that desperate plea at the
end? He decided to skip trying to link to Rauru's mind, and instead teleported to the Lost
Woods. He hurried out of the Sacred Forest Meadow, with only a muttered goodbye to
Saria over his shoulder. He climbed that all-too-familiar ladder, and raced across the top
of the maze, finally exiting into the Lost Woods proper. He took a right, and found
himself in the Kokiri Forest. 'Just the place I wanted to be,' he smiled. He jumped off the
edge of that puny little cliff, and ran out the exit into the field. Whipping out his ocarina
once more, he summoned Epona and took off, faster than he had known the horse could
travel, towards Lon Lon Ranch.
********************************************************************
Epona must have sensed his desperation, because she made the trip in a record
forty-five minutes. Link burst in the door of Malon's house, not bothering to knock. He
found Malon eating lunch, but she stopped eating at the sight of him and smiled. That
smile quickly faded as she realized what he had come for. "You need to know the spot
where Zelda disappeared from, don't you?" she asked grimly.
"Yes," Link answered.
"It was right over there." She pointed to the northeast corner of the ranch.
"Goodbye, Link."
"Goodbye, Malon. I will be back, soon, I hope."
Link ran out the door to the exact spot Malon had indicated. He cleared his
mind and envisioned a white globe of light. When it appeared, it was once again a little
bigger than he had intended. But nothing, not even his last battle, could have prepared
him for what the light changed into this time. This would definately take a very long
time.
*~~* THE END OF PART TWO *~~*
Coming up in Part Three: " 'Damon's Realm?! You must be crazy,' the strange beast
snickered. 'Why, Damons Realm is so chock full of demons and monsters that nobody,
not the strongest mage in all of Mekinelle, could survive for more than a week!' "