WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
By Katt006
3rd of July: 2 WEEKS OF SCHOOL HOLIDAYS!!! Expect more chapters to come out quicker. Anyway here is the 2nd chapter of my fic. I understand if people get confused, you have to know a bit of Dragonball Z and a lot of Zelda to fully comprehend my stories but I'm willing to accept any questions you have about my story. Drop me a line laura@tucker.fam.aust.com I'll try to answer your question in as much detail as possible.
(Ganondorfs re-grasp)
*Dedicated to my friend Samoan Gard
CHAPTER 2:
Shiko striped herself of her armour and handed it to Link who immediately geared up. Link grasped the sword and turned it around in his hand. It was rather heavy and blunt, not really dangerous at all but with enough force it could still break into skin. Link soon found himself facing Mido in the centre of the circle. "Hey, I highly doubt that you could defeat the skilled Mido!" He boasted. "So far nobody has even come close to beating me!" Link's eye narrowed even more in anger at Mido's now excessive boasting. "Be on your guard at all times Link!" advised Navi from the sideline.
The whistle was blown and both boys began to circle each other. It was Mido who lashed out first. However Link had his guard up and blocked the advancement easily. Mido withdrew his sword and struck it lower. Only to collide with Link's shield once again. Link held his sword above Mido's right shoulder, ready to bring it down but Mido was still on-guard and leapt back, causing Link to stumble forward. Mido seized his chance and knocked Link on the back of his head with the handle of his sword. Link felt himself falling forward but placed his leg in front to steady himself. Mido was preparing to strike again so Link heaved all of his bodyweight off his landed foot and propelled himself backwards. Mido's sword swung down inches away from his face. Now that was too close. Mido had placed his bodyweight into the swing and Links evasion caused Mido to fall forward. Link took the fall to his advantage, using his shield he charged forward and knocked Mido off balance. Mido began to flail his arms wildly in the air to prevent himself from falling but link just smiled and nudged the side of Mido's armour with the tip of his sword, causing Mido to crash to the ground. Link walked over to the fallen champ and placed his sword to Mido's chest armour. "Guess who won?" Link smugly asked the fallen boy on the ground in front of him. Mido just spat some dust out of his mouth and gave him a dirty look.
The whistle was blown and Link was announced the new champion. Swat and Shiko came running from the crowd of spectators to congratulate their friend. As Shiko limped over to Link she *accidentally* stood on Mido's hand. He mumbled something to himself but Shiko just grinned and pretended to take no notice.
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That day Link fought many other challengers but proceeded to defeat them all with ease one after another. However Link couldn't place his strange feeling of being familiar with a sword in battle. The way he's moves glide along with the sword and the complex swing combinations he used seemed like he had been training all his life.
With one final fluid movement he brought down his final opponent for the day. The young Kokiri Girl inside the armour threw her hands above her helmet and sighed in defeat. Link returned his sword and armour and retired till tomorrow. Pleased with himself, he continued the stroll that he had missed out on this morning. It was now the beginning of dusk and a brilliant sunset splashed the sky with orange, purple and yellow. This time the bubbly and friendly Shiko accompanied him and Swat.
"Wow Link! Where in Kokiri forest did you learn to pull off stunts like that?" She asked in her usual happy fashion. Link just shrugged, "uh... I seriously don't know," he admitted before adding, "It just seemed so natural, at though I'd done it before. Kind of like being back with an old friend... get my picture?"
"Uh huh! I see!" she acknowledged happily.
Swat just stared blankly ahead, "yeah..." he answered. But it was quite obvious to the other two children that he really had no idea what Link was talking about. But Swat quickly snapped back to reality and added, "You sure gave Mido's wings a good clipping!"
Shiko nodded in agreement, "Yeah! That guy is way too full of himself!"
Link looked over at his friends and noticed that Shiko was still limping. His brow furrowed in concern. "Maybe we should start heading back, Shiko your ankle doesn't look to peachy."
Shiko just smiled at Links concern. "Ah! That's so kind of you, but its such a nice sunset and I don't want to spoil it! I'll be fine!"
Link wasn't so sure but he reluctantly took her word for it as they continued to walk in the early evening light.
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Trunks's eyes slit open and stared drowsily at the thatched roof above him. For a brief moment he had no clue where he was. This caused him to sit bolt-upright in the straw bed. But then the memories began to flood back; the crash, the new planet and Dentre… Trunks parted the curtains and looked up at the brilliant blue sky. The sun was almost vertically above him, indicating that it was around mid-day. Trunks rolled the covers back and hoped out of the bed. He looked down and realised that he was dressed in a plain white T-shirt and brown trousers. Uncomfortable in this sort of clothing because of his tail he stripped off and got changed back into his Sayian armour. He then trudged out of the room and entered the main living area. The smell of soup wafted from the small room to his left. Trunks followed the smell into the kitchen and watched as Dentre looked up form his cooking and greeted his alien guest.
"Ah! I see that we have risen!" he light-heartedly pointed out.
Trunks mustered a weak smile, still feeling slightly out-of-place on this odd planet. "Yeah, your days are much shorter than my home planet's and other planets that I've recently visited," he informed. Dentre just gave him another confused look at the term 'planet.' Trunks had grown quite used to this now so he just waved his hand in dismissal. "Never mind."
Dentre was still hunched over the large pot cooking over a slightly open fire. He lifted the large spoon and pointed it towards the living area. "How about you take a seat in there while I finish up in here?" he offered.
Trunks obeyed and set himself down onto one of the wooden stools surrounding the large wooden table, The room was simply furnished with just the table and chairs, a large woven rug, a fireplace and a few potted plants. Several other rooms led off from it. Trunks took in his primitive surroundings, not used to the fact that they hadn't gotten past the wooden stage yet. While scanning the room his eyes fell upon something hanging on the wall. He abandoned his seat to go and get a closer look at what appeared to be a scroll dangling from an iron peg. He removed the scroll from the wall and took it over to where he was sitting to get a better look at it.
Dentre entered the room with two bowls of steaming soup. He lowered himself onto the stool across from Trunks and placed down the bowls in front of them. He looked up to see what was occupying Trunks. The very confused look on Trunk's face caused Dentre to chuckle. "Heheh.. You can't read Hylian can you?" he pressed. Trunks shook his head and pressed his lips into a grim line.
"Would you like me to read it out to you?" Dentre asked.
"Yeah, if you could. I'm not good with deciphering different languages," Trunks admitted, taking his first spoonful of the green/brown liquid that was placed in front of him. He had to admit that it didn't taste quite bad either.
Dentre cleared his thought and began to read the writing on the script in the spoken language that Trunks could understand.
'This scroll has been awarded to Dentre Harachi
on behalf of the King for the Hyrule Martial arts competition.
This award stands for skill and honour for the new martial arts fighter of Hyrule!'
Dentre finished the short reading and handed the scroll back to Trunks pointing at the small signature located at the bottom of the page. "See? That's the King's signature!" He declared happily. Trunks felt proud of the old man's effort, he wasn't such a bad guy. "I wish I got an award for my fighting!" longed Trunks. "But from where I came, my father is the best Sayian fighter and I haven't heard from him in about 4 years now.
Dentre leaned to his right and glanced at Trunks's tail that was calmly nestled against the young boy's lap. "Does everyone where you live have one of those?" he asked, indicating the tail.
Trunks followed the old man's gaze to his tail. His tail lifted from its position on the chair and waved at Dentre. Trunks gave out a childish giggle. "You mean one of these?" he answered with a question.
Dentre smiled and nodded.
"Yeah pretty much everyone has one. But there are some exceptions too, some get theirs severed." He informed
Dentre raised an eyebrow "Why? Does it affect your fighting capabilities?"
Trunks thought for a moment "Well it is considered a weakness, but then again it hides one of the most awesome strengths." He began.
Dentre waited for Trunks to continue. So he did.
"Well… it has the power to make us 10 times stronger. When a Sayian stares at a full moon while they still have a tail, we uh… sort of transform into this huge ape-like creature. Most Sayians cannot control the beast that they become, causing them to rein destruction till the moonlight has disappeared or their tails are cut off. Then there is the Super Sayian! It's when a Sayian's powerlevel reaches a phenomenal height. If they have their tails they turn into huge gold giant apes. If they don't have tails their hair turns gold and their eyes glow blue but this stage is incredibly rare and it doesn't last for a long time as the power quickly drains the Sayian's energy. Other planet's inhabitants have feared my race for centuries. We have destroyed many worlds and civilisations in our search for power and greed…"
Through all this Dentre just sat on his stool staring with his mouth gaping open in fright.
Trunks picked up the old man's fear and chuckled. "Don't worry, I may have Sayian blood running through me but I'm half human as well. You see my mother wasn't a Sayian and I'm not as violent as the rest of my race, and with my dad being the strongest Sayian I have gained the power to control my transformation.
These facts calmed Dentre down a bit, his logical thoughts kicking back in. If he hadn't known these things about the boy he wouldn't have thought any differently so he just accepted the boy for who he was. "You are a very interesting creature," he smiled at the boy's openness.
Trunks blushed, knowing that he's blurting out of information had scared the poor elderly man halfway into the afterlife. "Sorry about my abruptness Dentre," he apologised. "I've been travelling alone for so long it's good to have someone to talk to."
Dentre smiled, to Trunks and looked kind of sad. "You remind me of a son I once had." He began. Trunks tilted his head to one side wishing for Dentre to elaborate.
Dentre was going to end this subject but decided against it seeing that the young boy had opened up to him. "Well… I had…or have a son named Kodas who was a very skilled fighter at a very young age. I took it upon myself to train him but he was always a dark child and the older he grew the more he used his talents for evil…in the end he ended up leaving me."
The old man finished there and hung his head low in deep thought.
Trunks felt something for the old man but he mentally slapped himself turning his thinking towards the Sayian rule: 'Emotions are for the weak'
Dentre looked up from his thinking to stare at the young alien. Trunks saw a small glint of hope in his eyes. "Uh…Trunks I would like to ask a favour of you" he began.
Trunks nodded for him to continue
"Well I would like you to succeed when Kodas failed… would you become my new trainee?" he asked hopefully.
Trunks's face lit up with happiness. "Wow! That would be cool!" He exclaimed once again acting like a normal child. Dentre smiled and continued to sip at his soup. Leaving Trunks to think to himself. '…Maybe it wasn't such a bad mistake to crash on this planet after all!' He thought happily.
TBC…
Well that's it for now! The next chapter will be up in a matter of days. I do a lot of explaining in the first few chapters since I have to inform and explain both Zelda and Dragonball Z concepts to non-Zelda and Dragonball Z fans… Get where I'm coming from? Oh well I hope you at least enjoyed it.