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Nabooru once again found herself in another strange dream, this time she found herself back in Ikana City, watching herself get captured by the Tenma. Watching Rinku appearing and slaughtering the Tenma, and herself becoming an Oni. Then the scene changed again, this time to an ancient temple in the middle of a desert, she saw a young boy walking into the temple. The scene changed again to show the young boy talking to a young woman next to a small hole he looked like he could fit through. The boy crawled through the hole and Nabooru looked at the woman, "How…is that possible?" she said as she studied the woman's face, "It's…me?"
"Yes it is," Rinku's voice said as he appeared from a shadow, and then he demanded, "Now why are you in my dream?"
"Your dream?" Nabooru asked, honestly confused at his statement, "I thought these were my dreams."
"How long have you been seeing these?" Rinku demanded with a darker, more serious tone, his face almost betraying the fact he was slightly embarrassed by this situation.
"For the past couple of nights," Nabooru said, almost afraid of him now.
"These are my memories mage-girl, I don't appreciate you seeing them," he stated as he started to walk towards her, a dark and furious glare on his face.
"It isn't my fault!" Nabooru yelled, starting to break out in tears, "I don't understand any of this! Why do you blame me? I didn't want to see them!"
Rinku stopped for a moment, looking between Nabooru and the woman in this dream, his glare slowly disappearing as it was replaced by an amused look as a smirk crossed his face. "I see, so the name wasn't just a coincidence," Rinku stated as he allowed to scene to continue, the young boy coming back out with a pair of silver gauntlets.
The woman was captured by a pair of old witches before the boy could give her the gauntlets. The scene changed again to show an adult version of the boy wearing the gauntlets move a giant block out of the way that was on the other side of the room and went into the other side of the temple. The scene changed again to show the man fighting a monster in iron armor, as soon as he won the monster was replaced by the woman from before. The scene changed once again, showing the man fighting the two witches, reflecting their magic back at them, and then fighting some fused version of the two. "Why are you showing me this? I thought you…" Nabooru began to say as she looked on in wonder at the whole thing.
"This was me, back in the ancient past, the sword I am using here is the Sword of Evil's Bane, the legendary Master Sword," Rinku stated with a slight smirk, ignoring her question completely.
"The Master Sword? But how…." Nabooru asked awe struck at what he said.
"That young woman's name was Nabooru, the Spirit Sage, leader of the Gerudo people during her time," Rinku continued as the scene changed to show a fortress nestled inside a valley, just bordering a desert.
"I'm a descendent of the Ger…" Nabooru began to say, slowly catching on to his train of thought.
"The reincarnation of the Spirit Sage, just as Ms. Zelda is the reincarnation of her ancestor," Rinku stated as the scene changed once again to the bleak landscape of the battle between the younger Rinku and the giant pig demon.
Off behind a wall of flame a younger woman who looked like Zelda stood, right next to the Master Sword. "Such a long time ago, in such a different timeline," Rinku reminisced, his expression almost seeming serene and innocent, like his younger self.
"Master…" Nabooru said as he slowly snapped out of it.
Rinku chuckled lightly as the scene changed again, this time to the meeting he had with Ganon. Rinku's expression changing again, this time one of anticipation and a strange hunger, "How funny it is, this man…nay he is no longer a man, he is neither man, Tenma, or Oni. But something far greater…he was my first enemy, the first who challenged my power, and now he challenges me once again," Rinku said, his voice becoming more and more excited as he spoke, blue fire forming around his body, "I look forward to wrenching his blood from his body and throwing his tattered form into the wind."
"Master, if he is greater than the Oni, how do you plan on killing him!" Nabooru yelled in concern.
"I am no mere Oni, I am far greater than that," Rinku laughed out evily as his entire form became engulfed in blue fire.
The entire scene changed, this time it was not some memory, this time it appeared to be a glimpse of the future. Hyrule was in flames, most of the buildings had been toppled over as two mighty roars issued out as literal waves of black and blue fire shot out from the center of it all. "This coming battle shall tear this corrupted mortal world asunder and upon it shall be wrought a new world, a world without the falseties of civilization," Rinku roared out in what could only be described as joy and anticipation.
And with that Nabooru woke up in a cold sweat, shaking at what Rinku had just said, at what he had shown her. "So much…It was just so much, how could such a thing happen?" she asked herself as she tried to calm herself, "I could smell it, the blood of millions of people, the fear that filled the air and land, the rage, the hatred, and all of that sadness. How could our world become so much like hell?"
'That was no hell,' Rinku's voice chuckled through her head, 'Eons of blood, hatred, perversion, depravity, death, fear, sorrow, and darkness created hell. That….was nothing.'
"What should I do?" Nabooru asked, more to herself than anything else.
'It is your choice, nothing you can do will stop it, Ganon and I shall fight, and our fight will destroy this city, and very likely the entire world,'
"I have to tell Ms. Zelda," Nabooru said as she got dressed and ran out of the room.
Elsewhere, on top of a rundown old building that stood in the shadows of skyscrapers and a grand temple, Rinku was laying down with an amused look on his face. "Maybe I should pay the Master Sword a visit, to see if I can still weild it," Rinku said as he disappeared in a flash of blue flame and reappeared inside the temple before a pedastel.
Rinku walked behind it and pushed against what seemed to be a solid wall, only for it to fall inwards revealing a hidden room. In the middle of the room was a large pedastel with stair leading to a sword that was lodged within it. Rinku walked to the sword and looked down at it with a fond smile, "It has been a long time," Rinku said as a familiar warmth flowed through the room, "So you remember me as well."
The room began to change, instead of old, rundown walls they changed into pristine marble walls. Instead of a moss covered floor it was a glimmering crystal floor. And instead of having a dead dark light flowing through a broken window, it was bright vibrant light flowed through a stained glass window. "It has been a long time Link," an old elderly voice said from behind him, "You have changed in all of these years."
"Rauru, I would have thought you to be dead by now," Rinku stated coldly as he turned around to face a pudgy old man.
"And I you, I see you decided to escape death through becoming a demon. I thought you were better than that Link," Rauru said as he smiled, "None the less it is good to see a familiar face."
"I didn't try to escape death, I experienced it at the hands of the Gatekeeper of Hell," Rinku said with a superior smirk as he folded his arms, "I transformed into a demon to defeat one, in the process I was brought down with it to hell. I spent hundreds of years trying to escape, growing ever stronger as I did so. When I returned I found that our world had grown corrupt, full of lies, full of forced kindness, full of half-truths. Hell was bad, but at least it was honest."
"Do you even listen to yourself?" Raura asked, a little taken back by his statement, "Hell is full of lies and deceit, that is one reason why beings go there."
"You are deceiving yourself, I was sent there because I went through the Gatekeeper of Hell, unlike the demon I brought with me, I was not devoured by it. I tore through it, destroyed it. That is why Tenma have been able to come to this plane over the years, because I killed the Gatekeeper," Rinku stated, calmly and confidently.
"You….killed an immortal?" Raura stated dumbly in pure shock and surprise.
"I did old man," Rinku stated with a sadistic grin, which slowly turned to anger and frustration, "Bah, you try my patience."
And with that Rinku disappeared in a flurry of blue fire, leaving Rauru to think about what he had said. Elsewhere, in Zelda's office, Nabooru had finished telling her about the dream and Rinku's prediction of what was to happen in the near future. "So that is the demon's goal," Zelda said as she looked over another ancient text, "He is predicting something that another Hylian predicted two hundred years ago. 'The Daemon of the Black Hell shall face the Daemon of the Blue Twilight, their battle shall tear Hyrule asunder. In the end only one shall be left standing, if it is the Daemon of the Black Hell the world shall be brought into a new age of terror and darkness. Should it be the Daemon of the Blue Twilight the world shall be brought into a new age of freedom and choice.' It doesn't make sense, how could a daemon of any kind lead to such a good outcome?" Zelda asked herself as she looked up at Nabooru, "You said that Rinku was once a hero did you not?"
"According to what he told me, he was some sort of legendary hero of old, wielding the Master Sword," Nabooru said as the last word caught Zelda's attention.
"The Master Sword, the Legendary Hero of Time, Link….Rinku and Link, the names sound so similar. So that is what happened. The legend is still going on. And the other daemon could only be….Ganondorf, Ganon the King of Evil. The two most ancient figures in history, the first hero and the first villain in our history are once again facing off, this time for far greater stakes than for Hyrule," Zelda said in awe of what she was now faced with.
And I'll end it there, plenty of plot twists and foreshadowing in this chapter. I must say I like where this is going, wish I could actually keep a coherent thought involving this fic longer than three sentences. Oh well, Rinku's personality is actually pretty tough to write considering how fickle he must seem. No questions for this chapter. Now push that review button and give me one. Ciao for now!