Author Chronicles: Return to Hyrule

a fanfic by charity236

Disclaimer: I didn't create Zelda. So there. Oh, and flames will be given to Rauru to melt his chocolate coins.

I've got another double update of Return to Hyrule right here!

This chapter, Link realises what's happened to Tatl, and the group heads off to Kakariko Graveyard... I wonder why.



Chapter 9: Identical Fairy And Gerudo

Link was still whacking Ingo with the flat of his blade, Kaepora was still flapping sand into Ingo's mouth, and Navi was still cheering them on, when Moonshine whickered.

Everyone froze and looked around. Nabooru was standing next to Link's bag.

Ingo seized the moment to try and escape, but Kaepora grabbed the collar of his shirt before looking behind his shoulder.

Navi (who was on Moonshine) and Link took one good look at Nabooru before rushing up to her.

'Heyy Nabooru!' Link said.

'I'm NOT Nabooru! I'm Tatl!'

Link, Navi and Kaepora looked at each other before bursting into fits of laughter.

'Stop fooling around, Nabooru!'

'You crack me up!'

'That's the stupidest thing I've heard in years!'

'SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!' Nabooru screamed.

'What?' Link, Navi and Kaepora said at the same time, surprised that Nabooru would say that to them.

'Shut up! I AM TATL, NOT NABOORU!!!!!!!!!' Nabooru yelled.

'You called?'

Everyone (including Ingo, Tatl and the horses) looked around again. Out from the secret tunnel that Link had found in the past came - Nabooru.

'Nabooru?! Am I seeing things or did someone clone you?!' Link said, stunned.

'No, I am Nabooru. That Nabooru over there -' she pointed at the fake Nabooru '- is not real. She is someone else.'

Link just realised something.

'Hey, where IS Tatl?' He ran to grab his bag. There was a hole in it. Which the bottle of gold dust was peeking through. Someone had made holes in the lid - and it wasn't Link. Ingo was looking gleeful.

'Okay, who made holes in the lid of this bottle?' Link asked everyone. Everyone immediately pointed at Ingo.

'What? Who said I ever did it?' Ingo asked.

But everyone could tell he did it - by the gold dust on the tip of his dagger.

'In-GO!' The fake Nabooru yelled and pushed Ingo over. Clouds of sand sprang up from beneath them so no one could see what was happening, but they could hear lots of 'Ow!' from Ingo and assorted comments from the fake Nabooru.

'Stop it!' cried Link, and he pulled the fake Nabooru out from the dust cloud by the - wings. Of course to everyone except Tatl and Kaepora it seemed as though Link was pulling at nothing, but Link realised what had happened.

'Kaepora, grab Ingo,' Link ordered. 'This Nabooru -' the real Nabooru gave Link a sour look, '- I mean this FAKE Nabooru - is Tatl.'

Everyone except Tatl, Link and Kaepora stood there, stunned (again). Link had pulled the bottle of gold dust out from his ripped bag, and now held both in his hands. He pulled the Lens of Truth out from the bag, and looked through it at the fake Nabooru. It was Tatl alright.

'If you don't believe me, look through here.' He offered it to Navi first.

'You're right! It IS Tatl! But how?' She gave the Lens to Nabooru as she spoke.

'Easy. As Ingo knocked me over, Tatl flew under my bag to try and help me. The bag was on top of her, already ripped, so she went in to get an Ember Seed from it, didn't you?' Link explained.

'Well, yeah.'

'But Ingo had made the holes in the gold dust bottle, so some dust fell on you. And that's how...' Link stopped short.

'But why a Gerudo? And why specifically Nabooru?' Tatl asked.

'I don't know.'

'Well, at least you're armed now, Tatl,' Nabooru said.

'What do you mean?' Link and Tatl asked.'

'Look.' Nabooru drew two curved swords, like the ones that the Gerudo guards had, from her belt.

Tatl grabbed for her belt too, but there was nothing.

'I don't have swords, Nabooru,' Tatl said.

'Take these then, there's heaps in the Spirit Temple.'

'I better go, Nabooru,' said Link. 'Oh, and one more thing - but it's private.'



'The treasure!' Nabooru gasped. They were in the secret tunnel again.

'Yes, Twinrova's Blade.' Link said.

'But why name it after those two stupid witches?' The ice and fire on the sword had disappeared when Link had sheathed it earlier.

'They use fire and ice magic, look.' He showed Nabooru the edges; the fire and ice had reappeared.

'Why not call it something else?' Link asked Nabooru.

'Okay... um, how about... Fireblizzard Sword?'

'That sounds alright. But what are you going to do with it?' asked Link.

'Maybe I should go and put it in Mum's grave. She wanted this treasure so much. She would have been happy for you, taking it from the Temple.' Nabooru's silent tears fell to the ground.

'It's alright, Nabooru,' Link put her arm around her, trying to comfort her. She sobbed into his shoulder. 'It's okay.'



'Huh? What's that?' The man on top of the house in Kakariko thought he was seeing things. He got out his telescope, and saw the strangest thing: two horses flying in the sky, along with an enormous owl.

'Wha-hey! This is fun!' Nabooru was holding onto Link, and they were on Epona. Ingo had been left behind, almost unconscious - the horses had trampled him before take-off.

'What a view!' Tatl screamed. She had used her magic to get Moonshine (whom Tatl and Navi were riding) up in the air.

'Almost there,' Navi said.

They landed quietly on the grass in front of the graveyard entrance. Link hitched the horses to a signpost before knocking on the old gravekeeper's hut.

'Yes?' A young man of around 20 opened the door.

'I know you! You're that kid who imitated Dampé all the time! I sold that Spooky Mask to you, remember?' Link was surprised.

'Oh yeah, now I remember! Thanks again for that mask, it helped me get my job! About a month after Ganondorf was defeated, a Poe that looked very much like Dampé gave me the key to the hut and said I could be gravekeeper! Boy am I proud! Plus I can go on the Heart-Pounding Gravedigging Tour now!' he exclaimed.

'That's... great. We just needed to visit someone's grave, that's all.'

'Sure.' He looked Nabooru up and down before saying, 'The Gerudo graves are down one side.'

'Thanks. See you.'

The strange group (consisting of a Hylian that looked like a Kokiri, a Gerudo, a fairy, a fairy that looked like a Gerudo and an owl) made its way to Nabooru's mother's grave. Link pulled the headstone back and found a hole underneath.

'Well, coming?' He jumped down the hole.

'Wait for us!' The two fairies slid down after Link.

'Hoo!' Kaepora squeezed into it, but got stuck. Nabooru pushed on his head and he fell.

'Don't leave me!' Nabooru yelled, and made to step in, but as she did, the gravekeeper guy ran up to her.

'Hey! What are you doing? No entering graves without permission!' he yelled.

'Too late!' Nabooru screamed as she slid down the narrow hole.

'Just for that, you can die down there!' the gravekeeper guy yelled as he pushed the headstone back into place.

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Die down there? As if! Stupid gravekeeper... anyways, wonder what is inside Nabooru's mum's tomb thingy?

Next Chapter: Of Ghosts And Poes And Sprites

The title almost speaks for itself.

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