The Legend of Zelda: Divine Intervention: Got Triforce of Power?
Quincy007
Author's note: Thanks to all of you who reviewed. This Chapter deals more with the problems of Hyrule than with Link's screwed up head. I'm working on it.
I forgot the disclaimer last time, so here it is: I don't own anything about the Legend of Zelda okay?
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He swore as he landed on his back the gruff bartender gave him an evil glare as he closed the door. Smug bastard. Like it was his fault he let him run up a tab that high. His body gave several unnatural creaks and groans as he stood up. Brushing the dust and grime off of his tattered 15-rupee tunic. If he had more power, nobody would disrespect him. They would fear him. He wished he were more powerful than even the Hero of Hyrule.
He smiled and cackled evilly as he imagined the Princess at his feet, or maybe even on her knees…He licked his lips, savoring the thought.
A loud explosion carried through the late night air of the market. He heard a rippling crack as the air around the center square was superheated. The entire area was bathed in a yellow, nay golden light.
He was not a smart man, but he wasn't a complete moron either. He approached, a dumb idea, but cautiously, a smart one. He gave a surprised whisper as he saw the gleaming triangle. "Din's Fire…"
He knew what it was this was his chance. He reached out for it, his dreams readily becoming more attainable.
*
The loud screaming shattered Nil Chavez's peaceful drink. In fact, he thought it sounded much like scream of ecstasy more than a death throw. All the eyes in the room came to him, "What?" He asked.
"Aren't you going to look?"
"I'm off duty." He said, ignoring the looks on everybody's faces.
"Its still your job."
Nil swore, he knew that Bogart was on duty tonight, why did he have to be asleep while he did it? He shoved his glass away. "I expect at least a double when I get back"
"Sure, 2 rupees a drink."
He snorted and grabbed his cape/overcoat. Walking out into the chilly night air, he immediately wished he knew what that Bartender put in his drinks, because there was no way this was happening.
There was a column of fire stretching up into the sky, and a hard to make out human form at the center, near the top. The entire area was a mess, grayish stone and tile thrown everywhere. People were watching in awe and shock. He heard some cries to go get the Princess, or even to get Link himself. "Nice to see they put a lot of faith in me."
He walked closer, wishing he had saved his last few paychecks to get his sword out of hock. He just shrugged it off and then it dawned on him.
"If that is a fire, where's the heat?" The air was still crisp and cool. He was standing but feet away from a giant flame that was begging to be the world's largest candle, and he wasn't even sweating.
His analytical mind took over. If it wasn't hot, did it burn? He took out a green rupee and shrugged as he tossed it into the fire. He gave a low whistle when the rupee melted into slag. A rupee of all things melted. Those things were damn near unbreakable. And it melted? In seconds? He took a step closer, wondering if his curiosity was going to cost him his hand.
"Nil! Get away from there! You should know better than to get involved after you've been relieved." Bogart said, clanking up in full armor.
"The bartender was going to cut me off if I didn't go look."
"Right. Now be a good boy and step away. I've already summoned the priests."
"To do what? Why not the firefighters?"
"This is obviously a sign from the goddesses."
"Shut up. Goddesses…my ass."
"Nil Chavez, Step away from the column."
Nil didn't move. He felt it was unnecessary as the flame died. There was a quiet whistling as a body fell to the ground and as it shattered on the ground into piles of ash spreading the remnants of a person across the Town. Nil began to rethink his assessment of the scream he heard earlier. Looking into to the small dent in the ground, he saw a glowing triangle. "…The hell?"
"It's the Triforce!"
Nil looked at Bogart, "The Triforce is three pieces, and it only looks like a big triangle. The center isn't cut out of this one. No…this isn't it."
"How would you know?"
"Because I can't go through one day without seeing the silly thing, Its in the changing rooms, and in the bar I happen to like."
"Maybe it's a piece of the Triforce."
"If it had separated, which I doubt, where's the hero? He always shows up right about now."
"I don't know. I sent a messenger to the forest. I heard he lives there."
Nil shook his head, "He lives wherever there isn't a claim. Nomadic."
"Uh-huh. Good bye Nil, official business."
Nil rolled his eyes and stepped away from the Golden Triangle. People really believed in that? Hokey religions and ancient magic isn't as good as a hard piece of steel by your side. He gave one last glance back, and knew that he was already too involved.
There was a loud jarring, and he fell backwards. He saw what appeared to be a group of women in a mist of blue before he fell back and felt a stinging burning.
* A few hours later…
There was an uncomfortable silence, and he groaned slowly. Opening his eyes, he found himself staring into a pair of deep blue eyes. He felt as if he was lost in them. His body had different plans, as it made him turn his head to cough up some blood.
"Are you alright? We were worried. The spells weren't working…"
Nil coughed once more and tried to stand up. He got as far as sitting up when he realized how much pain he was in. His pride didn't let him fall back down. "Don't waste your time. I don't believe in that crap."
She frowned, and Nil felt a little bad for bringing it about. "Don't let my beliefs influence yours, I'm Nil Chavez. You are?"
"Nayru."
He blinked, "No last name?"
She gave a weak smile, "No."
Nil craned his neck, despite the burning it caused. Town square was still in shambles. The ashy remnants of that one guy were still littering the ground. The sky had changed from a soft orange of nightfall to the pitch black of night. He saw Bogart stuttering in either stupidity or awe at the redhead talking to him, or more like yelling at him. Her hand was resting on the pommel of a very familiar sword. Nayru noticed his gaze and asked, "Do you know him?"
"I used to work with him. I got pulled from the night duty." He said, shaking his head. He saw the Princess looking around, and a *green* haired girl speaking to her. He had heard stories about kids from the forest having green hair, but they stayed kids didn't they? Why did he care, he asked himself, Old Stories didn't have a damn thing to do with the now.
He looked over at Nayru who seemed content to watch him. He smirked, and shook his head. He tried to move his left arm, and there was a mind numbing pain from it. He gave a short yelp and then gritted his teeth and bit his tongue. (Not literally)
He looked at his left hand. The hand was seriously burned. Damn. Now he couldn't work and he would have to hock his shield now…
"Where is the mark?" Nayru asked as she inspected the hand.
"What mark? I've never been marked for anything."
"There should be the Sacred Triangle on the back of your hand."
"Why would I get a tattoo of that thing? I never believed in it."
She frowned again, but he was starting to get annoyed, "What?" he asked.
"You're lying to me. Why?"
Nil closed his mouth to avoid spilling the instant denial that he was going to say. He looked at her, "How did you know…"
"I'm…gifted."
He shrugged to each their own. "That I can believe in." He said
"What?"
"Me. I believe in me, and my abilities, the gifts I was born with, and ideas I gain as I grow."
"That's it?"
"I have faith in others if that's what you mean. I have more cockamamie ideas, but I won't share. From your last reaction, you'd yell at me." He sighed and looked at his right hand. It was perfectly fine. He then brought it up to his face. Still the hard chiseled form it always was. The scar on his left cheek was there and his short hair wasn't melted. "What happened to my arm?"
"When we appeared, we displaced you back a few feet. You touched the Triforce of Power, and there was a loud explosion, but your hand was the only part injured."
"Triforce of Power? You're joking right?"
"No. Why would I joke?"
"To get a reaction out of me, for your own amusement."
She paused, "I know why people joke, a more correct question is 'why would I joke about something so serious?'"
"Its only serious to those who let it."
She nodded, "True."
He watched as the Princess and the green haired chick walked over, he couldn't help but stare. Zelda watched him stare. Typical man she thought. "Sir? May I ask your name?"
"Yes."
There was an odd silence. Then Zelda realized he was waiting for her to ask him for his name. "What is your name?"
"Nil Chavez."
"I'm not familiar with that name, Are you from here?"
"I don't ask you about the skeletons in your closet now do I?" He muttered and finally stood up. He shrugged off his over tunic and looked at the scarring running up his left arm, most of it was new. He pulled at his tunic, and noticed that none of the women turned away. Typical Women. He saw that the scarring traced itself all the way to the center of his chest, where a faded glowing Triforce mark sat. "What the hell?"
"Nil, you have the Triforce of Power residing in you." Zelda said, staring at his chest.
"No. I don't. That's…not true. It can't be! That is only a legend! I don't believe in legends or Goddesses or…or…or any of this! I'm just drunk as hell, that's it." He stammered out, and broke away from the group. As he began to run he heard the clack of boots behind him. Two of them were very good runners. He really wished he were home again, where he didn't have to worry about these things. He was still running when he disappeared in a flash of red light.
Nayru and Farore slowed down. They looked around for a few seconds. "He triggered the power."
"Yea. Poor guy. He's scared. He's been denying us for a long time. Now, he has no choice but to believe."
"You don't think he's dangerous do you?"
"He won't try to take over Hyrule if that's what you mean."
They slowly walked back, and they saw Din walking away from the guard, who was obviously shaken.
"Din? What did you do to him?"
"Nothing physical." She said, waving a dismissing hand. "Where is the wielder of power?"
"He ran off, then triggered the power. Who knows where he went?"
Din sighed and sat down on a chunk of rock, which used to be a fountain. "Well, He isn't a very likeable person from what Tweedle-dee over there is telling me. A drunken depressing guy, who put his sword in hock to get rent, because he lost his wages in a bet. Doesn't talk much, and is pretty much a dick to him at work."
Nayru knelt down and picked up his tunic and Overcoat. "There is more to the story than that, look at this tunic. Fine stitching, sturdy material, its old though. I'm willing to bet it's either expensive, or homemade. A drunk couldn't keep this in such condition." She handed it to Din, who nodded.
"But the overcoat tells us a different story. This is worn and battered, unclean and uncared for. Probably 12-rupee deal at the market-also old. Like a mask to put on, to hide his true self from others."
"You think that there is more to this guy than meets the eye?"
"I know it."
*
Nil stumbled around his room for a few minutes trying to stay conscious. He had already thrown up twice, expelling most of this night's drinks. He had a pounding headache, that didn't appear to be going away.
He fell down on the floor, his eyes looking at his wall. He saw the book on the mantle, but he turned away. This wasn't happening. This wasn't happening. How could it be? He left all that behind after…
The Triforce of Power? Wasn't that the one that Ganon had? Since he was dead, didn't that Hero put it back together? He stopped thinking about it, and pulled himself up. Looking at the mirror on the wall he scowled at the mark on his chest. The scarring didn't bother him, but that damn triangle was going to get him killed.
He looked over at his hand, and realized that the burns had disappeared. He watched in sick fascination as the skin filled in and straightened out, the chain of damaged skin almost sinking into his chest.
He saw one corner of the Triforce mark glowing readily. "Stop it! Stop it! I don't want you in me!"
He collapsed onto the ground, mumbling words of self hate at himself. It wasn't but a few minutes later when he fell into a nightmarish sleep. The glowing just increased around his sleeping body and dark waves began to emit from his it.
*
Din's head snapped up, "The Triforce is being used. Massive spell casting."
Nayru nodded, she felt it too, "But he wouldn't be using such a complex spell if he disdains magic."
"Maybe we were wrong. Lets go."
The three Goddesses stood up, giving one last look around. Din felt a twitch. "Something is wrong. The darkness…" she looked at Zelda, "Can you feel it?"
"Yes. I haven't felt evil like this since…Ganondorf."
Everybody takes a few seconds out of their day to shudder as they all remember the evil horrible things he did. Nayru looks at Din, "Do you exactly where this evil energy is coming from?"
"Not exactly, but I can ballpark it."
"What's a ballpark?" Zelda asked.
"Its an omnipotent thing, don't worry about it." Farore said.
Din muttered something under her breath and the four of them were whisked away.
They appeared on the far end of Hyrule Castle Town. The place already looked like hell before this had happened. The red mist settled into the ground and Din got a good look at the disarray of the area. Carts were tossed about, the wares contained within scattered carelessly. Crates were smashed and it was all a big mess. She grabbed the hilt of the Master Sword and started to draw it. Nayru took the hint and strung the Fairy Bow expertly. Nocking an arrow, she looked around.
"Something did this, but it wasn't Hylian." Farore said, hefting the Longshot. "I'd say…saurian."
Din nodded. As if on cue a loud shriek filled the area. The reverberation made some house's doors and windows shudder. She brought the Master Sword fully to bear, its magic giving a blue glow to everything. The nighttime wind whipped and howled as the creature superimposed its form over the moon.
Farore was right; it was a saurian, but no natural one. The long body was packed with muscles, from the powerful gripping legs to the flesh ripping jaws. The yellow eyes glowed evilly. The scaly skin was tautly pulled over its frame in a reddish brown. The soft flapping of its leathery wings stopped suddenly as began to dive for them.
Nayru let an arrow go, and it keenly sped towards the target, but the arrow shattered upon hitting the skin. It made a halfhearted swoop but pulled away. She calmly nocked another arrow, this one giving a cold blue aura.
"Any ideas?"
"Get it in close and I'll take its head off." Din changed her grip in the heavy sword.
The winged enemy did another circle before diving again. She let the arrow go, this time, when it hit the saurian the arrow still shattered, but ice grew on its chest and spread to the wing. It fell like a rock. As it hit the ground, the ice shattered and it got up screaming in fury. As it screamed the Master Sword flashed once in the dark and a long cut appeared on its neck. It spread its wings; knocking a surprised Din back it snapped its jaws forward, trying to get her. She gave it another cut across the beak and back flipped out of its range.
"Damn. Its got serious defenses. I barely cut it." She raised the sword again in a defensive posture and thought of something she could do to stop the creature. "Cover me." She focused her will onto the blade and it began to glow a fierce red.
The monster came down again, screaming in sick combination of pain and hate. Din spun a quick circle, unleashing the wave of energy, a raging fire and when it hit the creature, it fell back. It was afire but that wasn't stopping it. Jumping back into the air it looked like a Demon from hell.
"I think we hurt it."
"Great, how about we kill it, before it decides to kill us."
"How am I supposed to kill it? The Master Sword barely cuts it!"
"I don't know you're the almighty one."
"Shut up."
"At least he's easier to keep track of now." Farore said, watching the flaming monster swoop around the town.
"Isn't she optimistic?" Din muttered.
"Well it has to have a weakness, something that would give us an edge on it."
"I'd put money down that we left the proper tool with Link. He is a walking armory."
Zelda watched the three discuss it, while the thing just kind of circled, waiting. It made two failed passes, now its just giving up? That can't be right. Is it healing itself? No, maybe it's trying to extinguish the fire. That seemed most likely. But fire didn't hurt very much, so why? "Why can't it ever be easy?"
"Got any of those Silver arrows left?"
"Na, he used his last on Dark Link…er…Ganondorf. He hasn't had time to get anymore made."
They stopped to see the monster dive again, but not at them. It dived at a building and it crashed straight through it. Chunks of brick and mortar went everywhere, dust billowing up. It screamed in victory, and picked up a limp form.
"Aw, hell." Din muttered.
Farore hated just watching this. But what could she do? She had the Power Bracelet, good for heavy lifting, but not fighting. The Longshot had a long chain with a hook on the end, but if she weighed less than the Saurian, which she was pretty sure she did, she would go to it, not it come down.
"Use a light arrow on it."
"I can't aim that well! I'll hit the guy."
"Maybe he's already dead, then you don't have to worry."
Looking at her two companions she made a decision. It was a stupid plan, but it might work… "Give me a light arrow."
"Say what?"
"Just give me a Light arrow."
Nayru knew better than to argue with her. She had a plan. It was probably foolhardy but she was always willing to try. She handed over the golden hued arrow.
Farore held it between her teeth and readied the Longshot. She used it to climb the buildings, till she was pretty high up. Leading the saurian a bit, she hit the trigger. The chain missed the torso, where she had aimed, but it wrapped around the leg. As the chain began to wind up, she was picked up off her feet and was slammed into it. The added weight of two people brought it down more, and it shook to get her off. She ignored it, and wrapped one arm around its thick neck.
"Bugger off." She muttered and stabbed the arrow into its eye. The was a blinding yellow flash as it screamed in pain and it fell. Grabbing the limp body of its prey, she launched the Longshot to another rooftop. The winged monster fell to the ground with a thud and exploded.
Nayru was smiling as Farore climbed down. "That was…different."
"It worked didn't it?"
She set the person down, and they all wondered if it was just coincidence that it was Nil Chavez. Zelda looked at the ashen remains of the creature, and saw a tiny golden triangle, about the size of her palm.
"This is a piece of the Triforce of Power isn't it?"
Din gave it a half glance, "Probably. Unless you lost track of the Tiforce in you."
Zelda picked it up, and carried it over to them. It began to glow more readily as she got closer. When she was standing next to them the triangle floated off of her hand and sank into Chavez again.
"I think I know what that was." Din said. Nudging Chavez with her foot. Farore and Nayru gave her an annoyed glare, but she ignored them, "His mind wished to be without the Triforce, but you can't just get rid of it, so it split up. Each piece should have found a resting place inside a temple or something, not inside a creature. That is the odd part."
Zelda thought about it, "Well, if he willed the Triforce out of him, or at least tried to, how do the pieces know where to go?"
"Its enchanted in them."
"What if the enchantment changed? Ganon was a powerful Sorcerer in his day. When he was in control of the Triforce for those years, he could have designed them to split to his advantage."
There was a heavy silence. Nayru knelt by Chavez sighing, "Even in death he continues to haunt us. I suspect that this is another elaborate scheme of his to cheat the death which is rightfully his?"
"Yea."
They all looked at Nil, who was sitting up again, "Ow…Twice in one night? I hate my life."
"You can always choose to end it." Din said, resisting the urge to kick him. This is the schmuck who got her Triforce? The thing was the embodiment of her Godly essence, and he is a whiny bastard.
"I disapprove of suicide more than anything. Its cowardly and selfish, especially to those you leave behind, or in my case, the guy who finds my body."
"Well than shut up. I wouldn't care about your problems if wasn't for the fact that you happen to have something I need."
"What? That Gold Triangle? Take it. If you know how go right ahead." He looked over at the other three, "What did I do to piss her off?"
"She doesn't like you, she is very partial to the Triforce of Power."
"Dandy. Well, seeing as you hate me and all, it might help to know who you're hating. I'm Nil Chavez."
"Din."
"Oh. Like the fire?"
She smiled, "Yes. Exactly like the fire."
He grimaced and shook his head. "We met earlier, Nayru was it? Yea. Your highness," He nodded at Princess Zelda, "And I missed your name."
"Farore."
He groaned and stood up. "I've had a horrible night so far. But enough about me."
"You seemed a little bit more upset earlier."
"Well, I was on my second bottle of that nasty stuff the bartender calls liquor. And I'm still not happy. I most definitely changed my religion. Now with this dumped in my hands, I realized I'm going to hell anyway."
"So you decided to go with it for a while?"
"No. I'm just not going to sit in my room and cry 'woe is me' for the rest of the night. Somebody I knew would have been very disappointed in me for that."
Din rolled her eyes, "Great, Now what did you do with the rest of the Triforce?"
"I don't know. I woke up missing some of it. I don't even know how I know that."
Zelda broke in before the irate Goddess started hitting the guy. "You can feel it?"
He shrugged, "Kind of."
"Do you know why they went into creatures?"
"Well, when I fell asleep I had a weird dream about that. Some tall drink of water with orange hair and sickly yellow eyes-"
"Ganondorf."
"Really? I wouldn't know. Anyway, he says to me that he can get rid of the Triforce if I will it to leave. So I do. Then he starts laughing manically. Now that laugh I've heard before. The Evil King used to do it all the time. I know that's a bad thing, so I try to get it back, and this guy fights me. Needless to say I get my ass kicked but I keep him away enough that the thing splits and disappears. There's two pieces left, I grab one, but this guy gets the other. I wake up to get my house torn apart a few minutes later."
"So Ganon is going to try to get the other pieces. But how is he alive?"
"Lets not worry about it."
"You wouldn't worry about something like that wouldn't you?" Nayru said and looked around. "We should probably leave before we have to explain this to Tweedle-dum over there."
Zelda just shrugged, "Why? If I don't want to explain it to him I don't have to. Same applies to you."
"Even me?" Chavez said, pulling the tunic he left behind on.
She gave him an annoyed glare, one of which definitely gave the impression that she wanted to kick him. This guy got the Triforce? A Sacred relic of untellable power, and an idiot gets it? Oh Goddesses why? She finally muttered, "Yes. Even you. For now."
He smiled. "Alright. Since we aren't in a hurry, can I get some stuff from the remains of my house? Seeing as its unliveable right now."
"You'll have to carry it."
"I wouldn't ask you to carry any of my stuff, what kind of ass do you think I am?" He replied, walking over to the wrecked building.
Din kicked a rock that was laying nearby. "Oh, for our sakes somebody go with him! Last thing we need is for him to get killed. Like my day wasn't bad enough."
Nobody moved for a few seconds. Nayru threw her hands up in the air, "For the love of Mike." She walked off after him.
"Who is Mike?"
"Don't worry about it, it's just a saying."
Nil stepped into the room from the hole in the wall. He sighed when he saw the amount of rubble on his stuff. He lifted a piece of brick and grabbed the book he looked at earlier, he figured he would need it now.
"I hope you didn't have many valuables. Most would have to have been destroyed."
"I got all my valuables in storage, it's called the Hyrule Pawnshop."
"Oh."
Nil grabbed a thick packet of check tickets, should he ever get enough money to get his stuff out of the Pawnshop. He saw his Hylian Shield. He grabbed it, who knows if it won't come in handy?
He turned to leave and he saw Nayru standing by the one part of the room he had hoped nobody would have ever seen. If she hadn't noticed yet maybe he could avoid the questions.
He began to walk out the door, motioning for her to do the same. She turned to look at him and asked, "Why don't you believe?"
Well, it was better than the other questions she could have asked. He kept his face straight. "Because after living through what I lived through, at the expense of others who were more worthy, I realized that no All Powerful being would keep me alive, and let them die."
"You don't have a very high opinion of yourself."
"What is there to be positive about? I'm an alchoholic, a gambler, a lecher, cynical, moronic, a big mouth, severe left wing opinions, and I have to find a reason to live every morning. Can I be proud of any of those things?"
"You choose to be this way. You could choose to not be."
"Its not that simple. I can't just change one day. People hate change. If I was suddenly happy and chipper people would think I'm up to something."
She fell silent and followed him out the door. She knew that she should just let it be, and move on with her life. But a part of her felt like explaining to him. Maybe it was guilt. Or pity. "They can't interfere."
"Who?"
"The Goddesses. They can't stop anything. Divine Intervention doesn't exist."
"Kind of useless isn't it? What's the point of making something if only to let bad things happen to it?"
"Would you be happy if everything in life was just handed to you, without challenge?"
"That wouldn't be so bad, now would it?"
"Then what's the point of living? Of existing at all? You will have made no impact on anything, because you never had to do anything. Life would be nothing."
He seemed to think about that as he pushed the broken door out into the street. "Well, when you put it like that…anyone ever tell you you're pretty smart?"
"I've been told I'm wise beyond my years."
"I don't doubt it." He paused for a moment. "Interesting name, Nayru. Wasn't it kind of presumptuous of your parents to name their child after a Godddess?"
"Not at all. The name itself comes from ancient Hylian meaning, "Calm and quiet sister."
"Oh. Are those other two…"
"We aren't related. Very close friends."
"I see. What do you do? Princess Zelda's Secret Police?"
Her eye twitched. It wasn't much but he saw it, "Sorry. Didn't mean to offend."
"Its okay, you don't know the whole story. Yes, we are Secret Police, so don't go around mentioning it."
"Yes ma'am." They approached the others, and he asked, "Do you know a lot about the Triforce?"
"The three of us has extensive knowledge, as does the Princess. She is also a holder."
"Oh. So…uh…What does it do?"
"The Triforce is three separate items left behind by the Goddesses after creating Hyrule."
"Like a "Hey we were here kinda thing?"
"Yes. But, they contain but a mere fraction, an essence of the power that the Goddesses themselves have. Since gods are omnipotent, they are pretty powerful. They have been observed, healing, entrapping, morphing, and could be used as a weapon. When reunited, which can only be done by a person with all three traits in balance, they can grant wishes. The Triforce doesn't judge though, so if an evil person makes a wish, the Triforce carries out the evil wish."
"Uh-huh. So while Its joined with me or whatever, I can make it do stuff?"
"It requires a modicum of control, but the Triforce can only use its magic when whole. The pieces are also undetectable. That is why Zelda broke up the Triforce of Wisdom when Ganon came back to life the first time."
"First time? Never mind I don't want to know, I didn't want a History lesson."
"Are you sure? Its quite interesting."
"Yea."
When they came back, he heard Din say, "You haven't been telling him anything important have you?"
He snapped back, "No, just what I'd do to you if I hit women."
All things considered, Farore thought he handled the slap pretty well. He let his face slam to one side and he didn't bother to clutch it in pain. Nor did he hit back or say anything. He just took it like a man. He looked at her for a few seconds then asked, "Can I borrow 210 rupees?"
"You're kidding right? What kind of stupid question is that? Of course not!"
He shrugged, "It was worth asking. I figure somebody here has to be outlandishly rich enough to get my sword out of hock."
"I'm never giving you a pointed object, ever."
He winced. "You'll regret that one day. Doing it! Not saying it! Ow! Don't hit a guy just cause he won't hit back!"
Din just smiled, and lowered her hand. "Pathetic. You would not even strike in defense?"
"I don't judge you. Don't you even begin to judge me."
"I'll do what I please thank you."
"Who do you think you are?"
"Din."
Nil felt his eye twitch and he sighed, letting out his anger. This wasn't getting the triangle out of him. "Lets go."
"Where?"
"To find the other pieces you ditz. I thought that was what you all wanted. They aren't going to come to us. We have to look. Since you can't use your 'magic' to find them, we'll look by hand. And we'll start at Death Mountain."
Nayru felt compelled to ask, "Why?"
"Because it's the first place that came to my mind and since no one else has a better idea…why not?" He started to walk away, intent on going for the exit.
The three Goddesses stared at him, and Zelda was pacing back and forth. Farore said, "We shouldn't let him be by himself. He only has that shield."
Din shook her head and threw her arms up into the air, "Why? Am I stuck with such…compassionate people? You don't need to sugarcoat it, you're worried about him."
"Well, he is only hylian, and he doesn't have any kind of skills to speak of."
Nayru shrugged and started walking, "He's a fighter. But I dislike having souls on my conscious."
Farore looked expectantly at Din, who sneered and started walking. Zelda yelled out something about research and checking on Link, but they weren't listening anymore.
* Geurdo Desert
He tossed down the giant Scorpion with a disdainful snort. It exploded in a golden brilliance. He picked up the Golden Triangle and watched it sink into his hand. He felt the power course through him, making him stronger. Those fools had no idea what was coming to them.
His heavy boots clunked in the dry sand. He ran his hands through his brilliant orange hair. This was to easy. There were 4 more creatures out there plus the two that were in the chosen holder. He could kill a human like nothing. That would be no problem.
But remember, you must not kill the three Women. Should you do that, our deal is off.
"I remember, don't talk to me like a fool. I know more about being the walking dead than you know about being evil."
That, I doubt.
He snorted. The voice was hard to ignore, but if he stared into the sun long enough…
Hey! Stop that! Get on with it! I can't wait forever you know.
"Patience is a virtue."
I don't need virtues, I need you to grab that Triforce, and take those girls captive.
"I might be more enthused if you would tell me why."
I can't do that. You just have to obey or be obliterated.
"Can I kill one?"
No!
"Just a little?"
How can you kill someone just a little? For being an evil genius you certainly are stupid. I should have picked that Mask.
"Majora couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag. A ten year old beat him."
A ten year old with the power of Courage running through him. You've been beaten by the same child 4-5 times already?
"Shut-up, you're ruining my concentration."
He walked into the heavy sand storm, knowing he would be alright. He had this down. And this time there would be no Hero.
"Bwa-ha-ha-ha!" He laughed manically. He stopped when his mouth was full of sand and he was forced to spit.
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There's more, I haven't written it yet, but there's more. So…what do you think? I know that Chavez is kind of wishy washy, but I was getting tired of stark depressing Male leads.
Yes, that was Ganondorf, the man, not the pudgy piggy bastard. And yes, that was the ruler of hell talking to him. I don't know what the Hylian name for Satan is, but I'll probably call him something like Bob or something.
I made up the definition of Nayru's name; if you actually know it, tell me. (I won't fix it in this story, but maybe in later ones.)
Next Chapter has Link's screwed up head for most of it.