Darunia: Disclaimer! Selphie Louise does not own the Legend of Zelda or any of its characters. They are the property of Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo.

Tingle: The characters she does own are Selphie, Iggy, and Jiji. The characters of Kage, Yugi, Mable, and Raven belong to Kearra. The character Ravick is the property of Selphie's friend, Patrick.

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Chapter 4

"Hey, I remember this spot," Ravick said when they'd reached Death Mountain Crater. The air around them was boiling hot and they were sweating slightly- but that may have been from the fact that they running for their dear lives. "This is where you almost killed me Zelda, Darunia, and Sheik and did kill Link."

"Less talking, more levitating!" Kage ordered as they each levitated over the gap by the Great Fairy's Fountain to the other side of the crater, effectively shaking off the mob of angry Gorons. When they'd come through the short cut from the forest to Goron City, the Gorons had seen and attacked.

"A slight miscalculation on your part?" Ravick asked as they landed safely on the other side.

"Shut up!" Kage shouted over the yelling of the Gorons on the other side as he started to walk away. "How was I supposed to know they knew about the wedding?"

"My point exactly," Ravick said, following. Kage rolled his eyes as he quickened his pace. "Hey, wait up!" Ravick caught up to Kage and kept an even pace with him. "So, we're relatively safe from danger now. Care to answer my previous question?"

"No," Kage answered shortly, continuing to walk toward the exit. "Like you said, we're relatively safe now, so now I don't have to worry about you giving away my whereabouts."

"I could think of other ways to give away your whereabouts," Ravick said.

"And I suppose they all require the use of a spell?" Kage posed.

"Well, yeah," Ravick answered.

"How easy to you think that would be to remedy by simply removing your tongue?" Kage asked, smirking over his shoulder at the mage as they stepped out onto the mountain. The sun was nearing its zenith, so it was still late morning. Kage walked over to the edge of the cliff and let the wind hit him.

"You do still owe me one for saving you in the forest though," Ravick pointed out. Kage growled, realizing that- as much as he hated to admit it- Ravick was right.

"You're a pain in the ass. You know that, don't you?" Kage said in a low voice.

"I've heard it once or twice," Ravick answered. "But I'm a pain in the ass that save you back there. So… tell me what happened with this wedding."

Kage wanted to bite his tongue and refuse to tell the mage. But he could tell Ravick might prove dangerous if Kage didn't appease on at least this point. "Three weeks ago I took Selphie to the Sacred Forest Meados and proposed. This morning we were supposed to get married, but when I saw her I got cold feet and ran. End of story."

"You got cold feet?" Ravick asked incredulously. "How could you get cold feet?"

Kage remained silent, not looking at Ravick but continuing to stare out at the mountain. The truth was… hearing it said like that made him feel a bit ashamed. It made him sound like a coward. Maybe he was…

"You wouldn't understand…" He closed his eyes.

"Hey… What'cha doin' up here?" Kage turned around to face the source of the sound. There was Selphie behind him, seeming troubled, but Kage didn't quite know who she was… because he was Yami.

"I'm not sure I know you, young lady," he said, quite politely, one might add, "However, might I inquire as to what a fine young woman such as yourself is doing in a place such as this?" His gaze shifted to Jorge, who was climbing up the mountain, but quickly shifted back to Selphie.

Jorge slowed his pace as he heard the man speak. There was something strange about him but Jorge didn't leave the valley much so it could have been his imagination.

"Oh!" Selphie exclaimed. She also blushed at being called "a fine young woman." "I'm sorry... I thought you were someone else..." She backed away some. "I was just visiting the Gorons and was gonna leave... and... yeah..."

"Why don't you stay?" he asked, "I've been feeling lonely anyway... So let's invite more people." He traced a triforce in the air, and golden lines formed where his fingers traced. Then, he traced the Sheikain insignia in the center, and thrust his hand through the center. "Come, my sisters! Din! Farore! Nayru! Yugi!" Jorge stopped dead at the mention of the goddesses. Within an instant, Yugi appeared, looking rather shocked. She looked as though she'd just fallen out of bed.

"What do you mean your 'sisters?'" Selphie asked nervously as this happened. "Who are you?"

Din, Nayru, and Farore appeared half a second after Yugi and all looked equally startled.

"Who the hell do you thing you...are...?" She eyed the man.

Farore and Nayru exchanged glances but left the talking up to Din.

"My sisters, you mean to say you don't know me?" he asked with a grin, "I am Yami. How can you not remember me? I most certainly remember all of you." His expression suddenly grew dark. "Who could forget me?" he asked, "I'm not the kind of person one could forget."
Yugi shook her head slowly. She fixed her clothes and rose to her feet. She swayed slightly, but kept her balance.

"Doesn't ring a bell," Selphie said coldly. She didn't trust this stranger who claimed to know them. "What do you mean in talking in riddles?" She turned to Yugi, "Do you know who this is?"

"I don't know," Yugi replied tiredly, shaking her head.

Din looked at Yami for a moment, "Sorry...We only have one brother."
Farore gave Yugi a look, shook her head, and sighed. Nayru looked quite confused.

Jorge took a few steps forward and stood just behind Nayru and Farore who both gave him a sidways glance.

"Yugiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!" Navi was zooming up the mountain and stopped just above Yugi's head, "What happened? She stopped when she spotted the goddesses and then new guy, Yami.

Yami scowled. He suddenly extended his arm, summoning a sword of energy. "You mean this kid?" He snapped his fingers, and a ball of energy appeared. Inside was Kage, unconscious

"Kage!" Selphie cried out.

"He isn't our brother. I doubt by now that he's even alive. He's been like this all day." He sneered. "Maybe I should make it a definite..." he glanced at his sword, then looked back to Kage.

An anger swelled inside of Selphie. "Don't you hurt him!" She was about to grab this Yami character by the neck. But since she didn't know anything about him she sufficed with yanking out her boomerang. "What did you do to him?" she growled.

Yami merely shrugged. "I found him like this. He was barely breathing. And at any rate... you kill me... and he's lost. He's in another realm. And only I can retrieve him." He snapped his fingers again, and the energy ball vanished, and Kage with it.

He blinked and somehow Link and Ravick had shown up and he was once again holding Kage. He also had a cut across his face, and his shirt was stained with blood around his shoulder, as did the boy in his arms. Jorge had his sword drawn and aimed at Yami. Link shouted for him to stop. "What the hell?" Jorge gasped.

"I was afraid of this..." Yugi breathed, "Kage was so upset... first at my decision to be mortal, then Sheik's loss of memory... He must have created another personality without thinking... Now... Kage is..." She fell silent, reaching for Link's hand.

Yami sneered, "What the hell are you talking about!"

Link took her hands, "This is so not good. We can't hurt him with out hurting Kage..."

"If the woman speaks the truth, then the death of you would result in the death of the boy you carry. and Vise Versa." Jorge said calmly.

"Stop speaking nonsense," Yami snapped, "What the hell do you mean by any of that!"

Yugi narrowed her eyes. "He doesn't have any memories of being seperated from Kage... He refuses to believe that he is a mere creation of Kage's emotions..."

Selphie looked on the verge of tears. "I don't care what he is! Why are you doing this? What do you hope to accomplish in hurting these people? What do you have against them?"

"Yami, this might help you understand. You and my shadow are somewhat alike. Both are bound to their masters, and whatever wounds their master has, they have. My guess is, that Kage's negative feelings for Yugi, the goddesses and anyone else, were so intense at one point in time, they conjured up into a physical being. Much like a hateful Poe would do."

"... Shadow... I am no shadow... I am no copy... I. Am. Me. Nobody else!" He turned abruptly and jumped over the edge of the cliff, holding Kage tightly under one arm. "I'll show you exactly what I really am! I AM NO ONE'S CREATION!"

"Holy crap, Kage!" Kage had a moment of vertigo, eyes snapped open and realized he was falling off the cliff. "I gotcha!" Ravick exclaimed as he rushed voer and grabbed Kage away from the ledge. "Ha! Now you still owe me!" he said a second later.

"I could've levitated y'know!" Kage glared at him, upset that he was, once again, in debt to the mage.

"You could have, but you didn't," Ravick pointed out. Kage really wanted to strangle Ravick at this point. He simply glared at him a moment longer before walking back to the cliff so that he could climb down the vines. However, when he looked over the edge for the skulltulas, his eyes widened in horror. "Oh, shit."

"What is it?" Ravick asked, walking over. He looked down and saw about fifty Gorons in an angry mob coming up Death Mountain Trail. "That can't be good," he said as Kage turned to try to run back into the volcano.

"Oh, shit."

"Good to see you too, bro," Yugi said as she appeared in the entrance to the mountain, Jiji with her, both still wearing their dresses.

"How'd you find me!" Kage asked panicked. "This should've been the perfect hiding place!"

"Your logic is missing one thing, dear," Yugi said saccharinely as she stalked up to him, Jiji right next to her.

"And that would be?" Kage asked nervously, backing away from the angry glint in their eyes.

"Hello? We had the Gorons keep watch for you," Jiji elucidated. "So, when you guys came in through that shortcut in the woods, they came and got us."

"I suppose I should have seen that coming…" Kage muttered, realizing the Gorons had done just that.

"Little late now, bro," Yugi said menacingly. "You ran out on your fiancée- during the wedding I might add!"

"You must have had a problem in your logic there too, since you clearly forgot about the nine people who're gonna have your ass on a platter for it!" Jiji shouted, lunging at him. Kage suddenly felt someone grab him beneath the arms and pull him into the air before Jiij could attack him. "The hell!" she exclaimed when her arms closed on nothing.

"It's Kaepora Gaebora!" Ravick announced, pointing up to the giant owl who was now carrying Kage off.

"Dammit! We almost had him!" Yugi shouted, kicking at the dirt.

"And what the hell were you doing!" Jiji rounded on Ravick.

"Er… Ah, I'd like a little help too!" Ravick shouted. Kaepora Gaebora swooped down and grabbed Ravick in his other talon. "Thanks!"

"Don't thank me. Thank him," Kaepora Gaebora said, indicating Kage. "He's the one that said to go back for you."

Ravick looked at Kage amazed. "Why, Kage, I didn't know you cared."

"I don't. But now I don't owe you anything," Kage smirked, clearly proud of himself.