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The Hero of Time
Meets
The Protector of Time
Chapter 7
************************************In Hyrule************************************
In Usagi's mind she thought of what the Deku Scrub Brothers had told them. Usagi came out of her daze of horror and fear, jumped into the air, flipped, and landed protectively in front of Link. "Leave him alone." Usagi said with venom in her every word while her crescent moon flared to life. "Usagi?!" Link said startled by Usagi's actions. Usagi took out her slingshot and with inhuman accuracy hit the Parasitic Armored Arachnid named Gohma. "Link hit her now!" Usagi said doing a back flip to get away from the creature.
Link, breaking out of the shock of Usagi doing what she had done, unsheathed his sword and charged at Gohma while she was stunned and delivered a mighty blow to the hideous creature. She came to her senses and retreated to the ceiling and started dropping objects that looked like eggs. "Link, what are those?" Usagi said looking at the disgusting egg like objects. "I don't know, but…" Link cut off as the eggs began to shake and break open. Little versions of Gohma came out of the eggs. "What do we do now Link?" Usagi said in desperation. "Maybe since their Gohma's children then maybe we can fight them just like we fight Gohma." Link said preparing to fight the hideous, little creatures. Usagi pulled out her slingshot, her crescent moon still burning brightly, and trained her sights on one of the little Gohmas eye, waiting for it to turn red. Once it did she shot, and Link hit it with his sword, they repeated this process until all the mini-Gohmas were destroyed.
Gohma came back down form the ceiling and was prepared to fight once again. "Usagi, how many times did the Brothers tell us we had to hit Gohma?" Link asked Usagi. "8, they said 8." Usagi said helpfully. "Great, we have to put up with hitting Gohma and then destroying her children eight times!" Link said exasperated. "Well, let's get cracking!" Usagi said determined, getting ready for Gohma's eye to turn red. Usagi and Link each did their part and went through the process of hitting Gohma in the eye, hitting her with a sword, and then killing her children seven more times. Finally, Gohma had been defeated. "WE DID IT!" Serna and Link said at the same time grabbing each other's hands and jumping up and down.
"Hey, Link, what's that?" Usagi, once they had stopped jumping, said pointing to a heart shaped object located where Gohma had been. "It's a heart container. If we were to pick it up it would increase our life energy." Link said pulling Usagi with him over to the heart container. They picked it up and it increased their life energy. "I wonder, what is that?" Link said pulling Usagi over to a shining light near the where the heart container had been. They stepped into the light and were wisped away. Before they could even blink, they found themselves in front of the Great Deku tree once again.
"Well done, Link and Usagi! I knew that ye were worthy of carrying out my wishes. A wicked man of the desert cast this dreadful curse on me. Employing his vile, Sorcerous energies, the evil one is searching for the Sacred Realm connected to Hyrule. For it is there that one will find the Divine Relic, the Triforce that contains the essence of the Gods. Whoever holds the Triforce can make their wishes come true. Thou must never let the Desert Man to lay his hands on the Sacred Triforce. Thou must never suffer that man to enter the Sacred Realm of Legend. Link and Usagi, go to Hyrule Castle. There ye will surely meet the Princess of Destiny. Present this stone to the Princess. I have foreseen that she will understand everything." The Great Deku Tree said as he handed Link and Usagi a green stone. "The future depends on thou, Link and Usagi. Link, thou art Courageous, and Usagi, thou art pure." The Great Deku Tree said with his final breath.
"No! You can't die on us, you can't, we fought off the curse and yet we failed! No, please come back!" Usagi said through tears. Link had turned his back as a silent tear slid down his cheek. "Usagi, we have to do as the Great Deku Tree said. We need to find this Princess of Destiny." Link said wiping the tear away and turning around to Usagi. "Why do I always fail? Why? Why do I always fail to protect the ones I care about?" Usagi said in a low, disgusted whisper. "Usagi, listen to me. The Great Deku Tree wouldn't want you to feel sad because of him. So, please stop crying, if not for the Great Deku Tree, for me." Link said taking Usagi into his arms and hugging her. "Why am I so stupid, Link? Please be honest." Usagi said looking at Link with eyes filled with tears. Link looked horrified at what Usagi had said. "You are not stupid! You're one of the smartest people I've ever met and never doubt yourself on that!" Link said looking Usagi in the eyes.
"Then why do I always fail?" Usagi said seriously. "You don't always fail, this isn't a failure, Usagi. This is a beginning of an adventure. The Great Deku Tree knew he was going to die anyway and he felt something in us both. He was testing us to see if we were strong and smart enough to be able to help this Princess of Destiny. But Usagi, as I said this wasn't a failure, however much you think it is, it's not." Link said looking into Usagi' s tear filled, blue eyes. He wiped the tears off her face with his thumb. "You don't know everything about me, Link, you don't know all the things I've been through. I won't tell you now but I will tell you soon." Usagi said as another tear escaped her eye onto her cheek.
She was about to wipe it away when Link bent over and kissed Usagi on her cheek where the tear was, erasing it completely. Usagi stood there with a blush on her face. "Well, we better go home and get a good night's rest so we can leave early for our journey to Hyrule castle." Link said turning around getting ready to leave when Usagi put her hand on his shoulder. "Can we stay for a couple more minutes?" Usagi asked Link with said sad eyes. "Of course." Link said watching as Usagi walked over to the Great Deku Tree. "I just want to say something to him." Usagi said back to Link.
Link stood there wondering what she could possibly be saying to a dead tree, but if she wanted to that was her business, not his. "Link what is Usagi doing?" Navi said as she came out from under Link's hat. "She wants to say something to the Great Deku Tree." Link said watching Usagi. Usagi stood in front of the Great Deku Tree trying not to cry anymore. "You were the only one in this world who really knew who I was. I promise you that I will fight to the death if necessary to rid your world of evil." Usagi said as her crescent moon burned brightly on her forehead. Link heard everything, he hadn't tried to eavesdrop but he could help it, he wondered what she had meant by he was the only one that knew who she really was.
*********************************In Tokyo, Japan*********************************
At the Senshi meeting the Senshi, both inner and outer, realized they had all had the same dream about Usagi and talked about it while they waited for Mamoru. "I think Usagi is doing fine on her own you guys," Minako said, then getting hearts in her eyes. "Especially with that hunk of a guy! I wonder what he'll look like when he's our age!" Minako said starting to drool. "Now that you mention it he looks like a younger version of my old boyfriend." Makoto said also starting to drool slightly. The rest of the scouts sweat dropped. "Makoto, everyone looks like your old boyfriend, you even said I did at one time!" Haraku said exasperated.
After everyone had recovered from Minako and Makoto's "blonde moment", even though Makoto wasn't blonde, they started to talk seriously about the dream they had. "Even if Usagi is doing fine, we still need to find a way to get her back, it's her destiny to be here and get married to Mamoru." Rei said as Mamoru walked through the door. "That's right her destiny is her with me, not in some parallel dimension called Hyrule with some little boy named Link." Mamoru said eyes glowing with jealousy and anger. "That's why we're going to find a way how to get Usako back tonight." Mamoru continued.