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Link ran through Hyrule Market Town and into the grand courtyard around Hyrule Castle, to find Yami Link standing in the middle of it, eyes closed and arms crossed. Shockwaves shooting out from him in straight-lines at predictable intervals. "Yami!" Link yelled as he drew near, getting his dark side's attention.
"Same idea as me I see," Yami Link commented with a small smirk, "I suppose you want to practice the power of Meian?"
"Yes, there must be countless ways to use it, we need to find out how to control at least some of it's power," Link reasoned as Yami Link drew his weapon.
"Very well, we already have figured out that massive blast of power. How about trying something a little more esoteric?" Yami Link proposed as he turned to look at a nearby boulder, his muscles tensed for a moment as a ray of dark light shot out from under him across the ground towards it, cracking the boulder in half, "You try to do that. Then we will see what we can do when we combine our attacks."
"Great, once again you prove to be more adept at controlling your powers. It isn't fair," Link pouted as he began to train with Yami Link.
After several hours, and hundreds of tries, Link finally managed to perform that simple action. "Took you long enough," Yami Link said, yawning from boredom as he got up from a sitting position he had been in for hours, "Ready to try combining them now?"
"Why not?" Link said as a golden light shot out across the ground towards a point between them as a dark light shot out from Yami Link towards that same spot.
When the two lights met, the ground exploded in a flurry of raw energy. "I must admit that was pretty impressive," Yami Link commented raising an eyebrow, "Now for a new trick."
Yami Link drew his sword and then quickly swung it in an arc, a crescent of dark light shot out as his blade reached the summit of its arc. Link watched Yami Link do this several times carefully before drawing the Master Sword and attempting it himself, succeeding on the first try this time as a golden crescent of light shot out of his sword. Link smirked as he looked at Yami Link who was smirking back; they both swung their blades in an arc aiming the summit of it at a diagonal point between them. The two light crescents met at that point, and they formed into a swirling vortex of dark and golden light. It began to merge into a dark golden light as strong winds began to pick up and pull them and anything else not bolted down towards it. "Okay..." Yami Link said as he and Link jammed their swords into the ground and kneeling down clutching the handles till their knuckles turned white, "Lets not do that again. Any ideas on how to stop it?"
"How about we try to draw the power away from it?" Link suggested as his eyes began to glow, the golden light within the vortex beginning to waver and separate from it.
"Why didn't I think of that?" Yami Link asked himself as he began to try and mimic Link, failing miserably at it, "Oh now that isn't fair."
"Good to know that I can do some things better than you," Link said with a short chuckle as he managed to separate his golden light from Yami Link's dark light, canceling the vortex out as the dark light crescent shot out from where the vortex was and charred a nearby tree.
"Oh be quiet," Yami Link growled as he shot a dark light crescent towards Link.
Link brought up his sword and blocked the attack, though it sent him flying backwards several feet. "We need to learn how to form barriers," Link pointed out, annoyed that he couldn't stop the attack.
Yami Link held out his left hand and began to glow with a dark aura; slowly it slithered out from his hand and formed a circle in front of him. "Like this?" Yami Link chuckled triumphantly at a very pissed but observant Link.
"You cocky..." Link started to say before he composed himself, he held his right hand out in front of him and his golden aura immediately appeared around him, "Step one easily accomplished."
The golden aura shot out from Link and formed into a large circular shield in front of him, "Step two very easy, I win," Link said confidently looking at Yami Link, practically daring him to top it.
"Alright, I'll one up you," Yami Link said as his small shield slowly grew, no longer in contact with his dark aura, and began to encompass his body until it had formed a small dome around him, "I dare you to mimic this."
As Yami Link dared him Link had already separated his shield from his aura and it grew to a very large dome surrounding him, "Been there done that, try and attack me now, you are better at it after all," Link challenged as Yami Link let his shield down and charged Link, sword returned to it's sheath as Yami Link rested his right hand on it's handle and his left hand on the sheath.
When Yami Link was within two feet of Link's barrier he quickly drew his katana slashing at the barrier, but was very surprised to find that the blade bounced off of it. Yami Link jumped backwards and began slashing wildly as crescents of dark light shot out from his blade towards the barrier picking up dust as they went until the entire area was engulfed in a dust cloud. Yami Link stopped slashing and waited for the dust cloud to settle, when it did the golden barrier was still standing, but the ground all around it had been torn up, small slash marks marred the ground around the edge of the barrier, and the grass was extremely charred from whatever didn't hit the barrier. "Damn, you may be a bit slow with your attacks but you know how to defend," Yami Link praised Link as he held his katana in both his hands and began to charge dark light into it, "But lets see how well you do against this."
Over at Hyrule Castle, on the battlements overlooking the field, Zelda, Impa, Nabooru, Terra, and Ara were watching them train. The sheer speed that they learned to use their abilities surprised them all; Link's shield was what impressed them the most up to that point. "The differences between them are amazing, it is hard to believe they are truly the same person," Impa said in amazement as she watched Yami Link begin to charge the dark light into his sword.
"When you think about it they really aren't that different," Nabooru pointed out, confusing both Terra and Ara.
"Really? I don't see any similarities between them besides their faces," Ara challenged staring straight at Nabooru.
"There is that, but they are also both very determined, intelligent, powerful, courageous, loyal, devoted, wise, kind, compassionate, and stubborn as hell. The only real difference between them is that one values life while the other doesn't and one is serious and the other is carefree. But those differences make them seem completely different," Zelda answered for Nabooru turning to Ara, "They appeal to the best in people. No matter how evil, no matter how good everybody can relate to at least one of them."
"I don't understand though, how can Yami be that way?" Terra asked looking out at the scene, "He is supposed to be Link's dark side, but he is nothing like the way Link was when I first met him. I was frightened by the Ryuu no Oni, but Yami, at times I think he is more kind than Link is."
"Which doesn't make any sense, if he doesn't value life how can he be like that?" Ara asked extremely confused, "The guy is a living paradox."
"Out of the two, Yami seems to be the more intelligent one, either that or he has had way too much time to think about that sort of thing, so out of all of us, he is probably the only one who understands the paradox he makes of himself," Impa said as Yami Link raised his sword over his head, which had become like a black sun.
Back with the Links, Yami Link with his sword raised above his head was smirking confidently as Link did the same, as his barrier only seemed to intensify. "Ready for it?" Yami Link asked as the dark light was illuminating his face.
"As I'll ever be," Link answered as Yami Link slowly lowered his katana until it was pointed straight at Link.
Yami Link then brought his katana to the side and swung it quickly, the dark orb of light catapulted off of the weapon like a boulder down the side of a mountain. It quickly hit the barrier with a thunderous boom, energy bolts sparking out from the point of contact between the golden and black light. Neither gave any ground, Link's barrier standing strong against Yami Link's dark orb. "Well this is getting us nowhere," Yami Link commented as Link's barrier began to unfold around him and began to encompass the orb, "Damn it is there nothing you can't block with that damn barrier?"
"Apparently not," Link guessed as the orb was completely surrounded as he slowly began to make it smaller until it began squeezing the dark light orb, slowly letting the energy out in a non-volatile form, which annoyed Yami Link even more than he already was.
"Now that isn't fair," Yami Link complained crossing his arms and snorting a few times.
"Stop complaining, you are better with attacks than I am," Link pointed out.
"Fine, we need to finish this whole matter of Navi, to do so we need to break through the planar boundaries, any suggestions?"
"Neither of us have that power, but combined we may have it," Link stated as Yami Link began to pace about.
"Perhaps, it isn't the power of Meian that will open a portal. I think we may have the power to open portals between the planes. Do you remember when you slayed the Blood Dragon, you used the power from the Eye of Destiny to destroy it. I now have the Eye of Fate, so one of them may have the proper power. You still have the Triforce of Courage so you may be able to draw it from that as well," Yami Link said as he looked at his right hand where the Eye of Fate glowed darkly.
"You may be right," Link said as the Eye of Destiny glowed on his left hand as the Triforce of Courage glowed below it.
Link held his hand out and it became enveloped in a gold and white light. The light shot out and hit an invisible barrier as a strange portal began to form around the point of contact, but the light quickly disappeared along with the portal. Link fell to his knees, extremely exhausted from the attempt. "We need more power..." Yami Link said as Link managed to get back on his feet.
"Any ideas?"
"Yes, I have one, rest for now, I will be back when I am ready to try that again," Yami Link stated as he walked off towards town.
"What does he have planned?" Link asked himself watching Yami Link walk off.
An hour later, Yami Link returned to find Link lying on his back looking into the sky, a look of concentration on his face. "Taking a break I see, well are you ready to try again?" Yami Link asked, mock-scolding Link.
"What did you go out to do?" Link asked while he got up and dusted himself off.
"Getting the necessary power," he answered as he brought his right hand up as the Eye of Fate began to glow again, and under it the symbol of the Triforce glowed with the upper Triangle brighter than the others.
"How did you?" Link began to say as Yami Link smirked, "You didn't."
"No I didn't kill him, I know that would have ticked you off, I used my power of darkness to draw it out of him and into me, he was actually quite glad to be rid of it," Yami Link explained to a relieved Link, still smirking as he thought about it, "Now let's try this again."
This time, Yami Link who shot out a beam of darkness as it hit some unseen barrier until it made a hole in the planar boundary. The hole began to widen as the beam formed a ring around the edges of the hole, holding it open. "And that is how you do it, shall we go?" Yami Link asked with a hint of a taunt in his voice.
"Lets," Link said as he walked forward and stepped into the portal, and before going all the way in he added, "Show off."
"Maybe," Yami Link admitted as Link disappeared, and was closely followed by Yami Link.
Elsewhere, "WHAT!? How did they find a way through the planar barriers!" Navi screamed at the top of her lungs as she watched them through a pool of water, startling Malon who was behind her.
"Are they in this plane?" Malon asked, only earning a dark glare from the fairy villain.
"Yes they are, and now it is only a matter of time before they figure out how to find me," Navi snapped, as she began to fly back and forth, obviously thinking.
"How about we send an old friend of theirs to greet them?" Malon suggested as Navi stopped for a moment.
"Yes I think I shall, go and prepare Twinmold, power it up as well, and give it the proper shielding, we are not going to make this easy on them," Navi said triumphantly as Malon ran out of the room.
"You know that won't stop them," a melodic voice said as a gold and black portal opened up near her.
"Sensui, I thought you were done with me," Navi snarled at the angelic being as he stepped through.
"I am here to advise you, don't continue this war against them, you have no idea what the power of Meian can truly do," he said to her, leaning against the edge of the portal, "I shouldn't even be able to come to such a low plane of existence, but I can with my innate power of light mixed with my learned power of darkness."
"I don't care what you have to say!" Navi roared at him, "Link will pay for what he did to me!"
"As you wish Navi, I await your inevitable defeat," Sensui sighed as he walked back through the portal, closing it behind him.
"Who the hell does he think he is!" Navi yelled in outrage, "No one talks to me like that! Once I finish with those two I am going after him!"
"I cannot allow that fairy," a cold disembodied voice said as Navi flitted around trying to find the source of it.
"Who and what are you!?" Navi screamed, already frustrated from dealing with Sensui.
"I will not answer your question little fairy, I do not answer to the weak, the pathetic, and the ignorant. But I will say this; I am the puppeteer of everything that has happened the past fifty years. Even the appearance and actions of LunaticChaos in this dimension. I will not allow you to even attempt to undo everything I have done," the voice stated as Navi slowly began to be fall to the ground, bolts of energy shooting through her, "But I do still need you, or to be precise I need your body for a while longer."
"You...you are the reason...You basta..." Navi began to say as she fell to the floor as the bolts of energy continued to shoot through her.
And that is all for this chapter! Not my best chapter. But bad chapters are needed every now and then. Especially when they lead to better chapters.
LunaticChaos: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU MANIPULATED ME!?
Voice: I did, simple as that.
LunaticChaos: I don't believe it, I am the Author, you can't manipulate me.
Voice: Wanna bet? I bet I can make you say a word with X in it before this fic ends.
LunaticChaos: You're on, you punk wannabe.
Voice: We'll begin next chapter then.
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