WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
By Katt006
Katt006@hotmail.com
November 27th: I should have got this one up sooner but I was banned from the Internet for 4 weeks -_-; (It had something to do with a sibling disagreement.) So I've finally managed to get back online and bring my newest chapter. Some have asked how long will my whole fic be? Hmm… Haven't really looked at that yet. I've already got the ending done in my head now all I have to do is make everything link up. I'm approximating the total will be around 20 chapters. But you never know, could be less, could be more. ^_~
Katt006
(Saga #2 Keeping the faith.)
*Dedicated to my friend Samoan Gard
CHAPTER 13:
The world was thrown into a black shadow as Malon passed out. The last thing she saw was her most trusted childhood friend standing over her with an ice cold stare drilling right through her already foggy vision.
"Pathetic." Mumbled the form looming over her. Trunks nudged Malon's body with his boot before turning to the other three females now standing in defensive positions. "Did you honestly believe that you could escape Master Kodas' and my power Charie?" Asked the Lavender-haired young man flatly.
Charie's eyes held an element of fear but she kept calm and took several cautious steps backwards.
"You know this person?" Impa asked. Charie gave a stiff nod, very much alert and aware of this man's powers.
"I'll make sure you don't escape me this time." Trunks declared in a monotone voice. In the blink of an eye he had disappeared, or rather moved so incredibly fast that he was nothing but a shadowy blur in the night. Sensing his move, Charie leapt from where she was standing and over to near where her friend's body lay. Impa and Zelda both ran into the fray to join the battle but were hurled back by an unseen force that flung the women crashing onto the hard dirt some meters away. Charie poised her dagger, ready for an attack of her own. She knew she couldn't win, not against this powerful titian …not yet anyway… Feeling movement behind her, she swung her dagger in a swift arc as she turned to face the opposite direction. However instead of hitting her target, her target hit her. An enormous pain erupted from her stomach as Trunks ploughed his fist into it. A sickening crack was heard as she felt several of her ribs break and she instantly came crashing down beside her previously fallen comrade.
"Now this is where I finish you off you irritating piece of shit." He seethed as a ball of Ki erupted in his palm. But the orb of fire was never unleashed upon its victim. Trunks let the ball fizzle away into nothingness with a shocked look on his face and wincing, he gazed down at where a dagger was protruding from his calf, his own blood dribbling over the blade and down the back of his boot. His expression quickly switched to a glare as he met eyes with his attacker. Malon had regained conscience and, reaching for her dagger, instinctively plunged it into the flesh of the person who was attacking her friend.
"Trunks… why? Why are you doing this?" She choked in a barley audible whisper. "Don't you remember me? Us?"
Charie was shocked as all the coldness in Trunks' eyes melted in a single instant. He dropped to his knees from his pain and leant close to Malon's face. "You…" He brushed a stray strand of her hair from her face. "You seem so familiar." The fiery haired Hylian saw a spark of recognition in the sayian's eyes. Malon grew hopeful and placed a hand on her friend's shoulder, sensing some sort of inner torment from her him. However it was short lived. The shadow and icy features clouded over again. "Don't touch me." He growled.
The young woman was taken aback by his sudden change in behaviour and she quickly withdrew her hand.
"I… don't know you." He stated roughly, struggling to stand back up with his injury. Trunks leant heavily on his good leg and stared down at Charie, weighing up how he should finish her off. But he paid dearly for his time idling. Impa had crept up behind him and drew back her sword before executing a powerful thrust through the man's shoulder. The metallic tip burst out the other side of his torso in a spray of crimson liquid. The sayian screamed in more agony than the injured Malon had done previously, falling to his knees once more before sliding onto the ground and passing out.
The group just stood there for a while after the danger had passed. Malon felt her vision fog, Dizziness threatening to black out her world once more. "Well what do we do with this lug?" Impa asked, kicking Trunks in the ribs. The sayian gave a pained moan.
"Stop that Impa." Malon commanded, a little groggily now. "He's no threat to us at the moment…"
"What do you mean no threat!? He nearly killed us all!" She retorted. However Malon didn't hear, she had fallen out of conscience again. The older warrior sighed and gathered the younger woman up into her arms. She looked over to where Zelda was helping Charie to lean against her, then back down to the man on the floor. "I say we leave him here."
Zelda nodded.
"We should kill him while he's down." Seethed Charie bitterly.
"No!" Malon had once again come round. "He's not a bad guy honestly. You all saw the look in his eyes. Something's wrong and I won't leave him!"
Zelda eyed the girl carefully before walking over to the fallen sayian.
"Your highness be careful!" Impa cautioned before following the royal herself. The princess knelt down in the blood that was pooling from the man's various wounds. She placed her hands over Trunks' face and chest before proceeding to close her eyes. Both sayian and hylian lit up in a golden glow, a look of total concentration upon the young woman's features. The others stood in awe, having faith that the princess knew what she was doing. After several moments the light faded and Zelda opened her eyes, leaning back to silently regard the man in front of her.
"So what did you just do?" Impa asked.
Zelda smiled at the group, however a bit sadly. "Malon speaks the truth. His heart is pure. However he has been manipulated and forced into evil ways. This is conflicting harshly with his soul and it is suffering." Her eyes softened in plea. "We can't leave him here like this. We'll return to camp with him and I'll try healing him myself. Maybe you should have a talk to him Malon, seems he has a soft spot for you."
Charie gritted her teeth. "You're crazy. He'll kill us all if given the chance! He's a disciple of Kodas."
Malon reached over to Charie who was now standing next to Impa and took her hand. "Please understand Charie." She begged. "I know he is an enemy to you, but he isn't to us and I care very much for him. I'm sure he will come round sooner or later and return to the being the friend I once knew."
Impa considered her words. "She does have a point Charie. I knew him in the past as well, if only for the shortest of time."
Charie finally nodded, she was outnumbered. 'I just hope they know this boy like they think they do.'
* * *
It was almost midnight when the girls returned to the campsite. Link was lying on his side fast asleep in front of an almost non-existent fire. The own perched on his hip, also in slumber. Navi was floating above the dying fire and yelped in worry at the wounded and tired group slowly approaching. Charie limped and cradled a tired and heavily wounded Malon. Zelda and Impa both carried an unconscious Trunks. They walked to where Link slept and dropped the sayian down near him, waking the hylian up.
"Mmm? Wha…. AHHH!!!" He cried as he leapt to his feet, throwing off the owl. "What it IT doing here?"
Malon shot Link an angry glare. "IT has a NAME you know!!!"
Link looked over at the fiery haired girl then over to the others. "What happened to you all?"
* * *
An hour later the group were seated in various positions around the camp. Wounds were tended to and bandaged while Impa did her best to re-tell what had happened.
Malon sat away from everyone, behind a tree. A heavily bandaged Trunks laying still unconscious beside her. She continually winced at her throbbing wounds and tried her best to keep still avoiding more pain whenever she moved. Footsteps sounded behind her but she didn't want to turn her neck, she knew it was Zelda anyway because the steps sounded graceful, could only be a royal.
"Hey there." She greeted. "You seemed so lonely over here. But then again I suppose you have Trunks to keep you company too." The royal knelt behind the farm girl and placed her hands lightly over her shoulders.
"Hmm? What are you d--"
"Hush."
Malon felt a small surge of power flow through her body. She looked around and found that her and Zelda were both glowing a bright gold, Trunks had earlier. After a while the magic faded and Zelda leant back in exhaustion. "There." She huffed in satisfaction. At first Malon was at a loss for what the royal had accomplished then she found that she could move around with practically no pain at all. She peered under a bandage and found her gashes no longer looked so gruesome.
"I cleaned out and healed a bit of your wounds. They should be much less painful now, and heal more quickly."
"Thanks you Zelda."
Zelda nodded in acknowledgment then moved over to Trunks, attempting the same healing ritual. She closed her eyes and they both glowed once again, but it was short lived. Zelda was flung back several feet by an unseen force. Malon looked down at Trunks, expecting his to open his eyes but he remained the same. "What happened?" She asked, concerned.
"I can't heal him. I'm sorry Malon." She looked down at the ground in guilt, blaming herself even though the problem existed with the other person. "His soul is in too much turmoil and I can't get a stable grasp."
Malon heaved a sigh and slumped. "Perhaps it is for the best. Just in case he's in no mode for negotiation."
* * *
The fire had died down to the soft red glow of embers. Sleep threatened Malon and she was willingly giving into it. But before she was completely consumed in darkness, a stir from beside her caused her to rouse. She quickly turned to see Trunks trying to sit up. Crawling to sit beside him she pushed him back down. "You mustn't." she instructed. Trunks glared at her but let allowed himself to be placed back down.
"Where the hell am I?" He choked.
"At our campsite. You rescued me and I was just returning the favour, since you're injured." Malon informed.
"Well perhaps I wouldn't BE injured if you and that other bitch hadn't attacked me." He seethed.
Malon winced at his bitter words. "Well then why did you save me?"
Silence followed.
"I don't know. Just acted I guess." He seemed more subdued now, confused now that the question had been put out into the open.
"So do you remember us? Do you still remember me? My Dad? Dentre?"
"…yes I do. I didn't want to believe it earlier but it's true. I though you were all killed."
Malon smiled. "It has been seven years." She pointed out and explained to him about their time-travel and time spent with the Sage of Time.
"I've been training. Lord Kodas is insane and very powerful and he pushed me to my limits but in the end it all paid off. I reached my goal of becoming a super sayian."
"I remember you telling me about that transformation many years ago." Malon reminisced. "Do you know who locked away Ganon--" Malon was cut off by a recent memory. 'Great forces battled over Hyrule.. Their selfish and reckless fighting left a most of Hyrule in ruins.' Came the voice of the old woman they met when first entering the future. 'One was an evil looking man with dark skin, the other a young man with brilliant gold hair.' She gasped. "It… It was you wasn't it?"
The lavender haired boy nodded.
"Then that makes us allies. We all want the same thing. Why not work together?" Malon chirped with enthusiasm.
"Kodas told me to destroy a group of people looking for the three gods of destruction. He said that they would all get in the way. That is you people is it not? Then that makes us enemies."
"Do you want to kill us?"
"…No. But I have to."
Malon heaved a sigh. 'Things never turn out the way you want them to dammit.'
They sat in silence for quite a while. Malon finally looked over and found the young man sleeping. She couldn't resist the urge to trail her fingers down his cheek. "I'll get through to you yet, just wait and see. Following your heart is more important than following your Master."
* * *
Malon groaned groggily as the early morning sunlight penetrated her eyelids. Thoughts of last night flooded through her and she sat up, looking beside her at a now empty space. 'Was it all just a dream?'
"He was in no condition to have left." Zelda approached with a plate of food and handed it to the other girl. "His wounds were far to serious. However I guess I expected that he would not stay."
"He remained a threat to us and he knew it." Malon said quietly, looking down at the mush that seemed to pass as nourishment. Obviously Impa had cooked.
"I have a feeling that it won't be the last we seem of him." Zelda smiled reassuringly.
"So where are we heading today?"
"Charie's home town apparently, Yurito. Then we set off for the northern ranges. Charie tells me that's where the god of destruction, Manzer is located."
"So when do we leave?"
"As soon as we pack all our stuff and get Link and Impa motivated. Which means we probably won't be going anywhere till midday."
* * *
Midday…
"I hate the weather here." Impa mumbled from under the large baggage upon her back, that looked to be about twice the size as she was. "Freezin my ass off one minute, boiling it the next."
"It's getting dark." Malon pointed out, ignoring the woman's pointless wining. The group all craned their necks skyward. Above them loomed a dark purple mist that seemed to be concentrated around a town several leagues into the distance. "Is that Yurito?"
"Yes, tis my home town." Charie informed.
"It looks like the same mist that was looming around Hyrule." Zelda pointed out. "How strange that it is only dense in one area."
A deafening screech echoed behind them and the group turned to face a strange yet threatening looking creature. "Griffon." Stated Charie. "Half lion, half eagle. Usually hunt in packs. I had a feeling we may run into some monsters."
As if on cue two more screeches were herd from behind. Charie instantly whipped out her daggers, Zelda her Boomerang and Impa and Link slid out their swords. Malon knew she couldn't fight in her condition but Impa tossed her the blade that sat inside her boot in case the girl needed to protect herself.
The first one lunged for Charie and she nimbly dodged, but the pain from her ribs began to flare at the fast movement and strain. She doubled over as the Griffon took to the sky, ready to attack from the air. It swooped low, claws extended. "I got your back." Link yelled and intercepted the blow, slicing the monster's wing off. It screeched and crashed to the floor before disappearing in a grey smoke. "So these ones are composed of magic too."
One landed on Impa's bag that she carried on her back. Impa stumbled back and fell backwards landing on the Griffon with her bag. "Haha!" She cried in triumph. Try getting out from under there, now you know how I feel. She knelt over and ran her blade into it's vulnerable side.
The final griffon screeched in anger at the shift in balance of power and found itself grossly outnumbered. It took to the skies and faded into the purple mist.
"You see its creatures like these that prevent the towns folk from leaving." Charie informed. "We best get a move on before we run into any more of them."
The group set off once again, at a much quicker pace this time. Link took over carrying the large baggage. From the corner of her eye Zelda noticed him halt, she slowed down herself and let the others walk ahead. "What's wrong?" She asked a look of worry crossing her features.
Link stared at the northern ranges poking from the horizon in the distance and didn't answer. It was then that Zelda noticed that dark empty look in his eyes that she had seen while coming through the tunnel. Her concern grew. "Link…?"
"WHAT!?" He snapped, causing her to stumble back several steps in surprise.
Instantly his eyes returned normal. "Oh…" he mumbled, seeming just as surprised as she did. "…uh, sorry. Don't know what came over me." By this time the rest of the group had stopped and looked back at the couple in curiosity. "But I'm alright now nothing's wrong!" His tone quickly turned happy again and he walked past Zelda back towards the group. "Sorry bout that."
Zelda was not fooled by his tone. 'No Link, there is something very wrong…'
TBC…
Next chapter is gonna be a major one. ^.^ That chapter was a bit of a rush-job because I wanted to get it up as soon as possible. And I've have gotten ahead of myself this time and have already written it all up. All that's left is to type it. So it won't be a long wait I promise!