Disclaimer - Again I own nothing that has to do with Zelda. The only things I own are Keaira, Alena, and any other original characters I decide to throw in.

Please read and enjoy!

Clash of the Heavens

By Shade Kitsune

Chapter 1: Here We Go

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'Someone's…crying?'

The first thing Keaira registered was the throbbing coming from her head. Slowly she climbed to her feet and looked around confused.

Keaira was in the shadows of a clearing in some forest. The thing was the trees grew so tightly together that there seemed to be no way to get out. An eerie mist hung around, clinging to everything it touched. And there, originating from the center of the clearing, was the soft sound of sobbing.

Keaira shook her head trying to clear it. It was so hard to think straight. Her mind felt fuzzy and unclear, as if some of the fog around her had gotten to it, and she didn't like it.

The crying started getting louder, and the only thing Keaira could do was see what the problem was. When she drew closer she could make out a small girl sitting there, face in hands, crying.

Suddenly, the girl looked up at Keaira, who stopped a few feet away and gasped.

"Pl-please don't hurt me." The girl squeaked out. Her big, doe-like brown eyes leaked out silver tears.

Keaira knew what she must of looked like dressed the way she was and appearing out of the mist without a sound. She wore black jeans and a black tank top with a Celtic design embroidered in silver that represented the moon. Over this she wore a black cloak to cover where the tank top didn't. Covering her hands were fingerless, silver gloves.

Slowly and calmly Keaira moved forward towards the girl. The girl flinched and started to shake. Keaira acted like she didn't notice, though her heart, for a first time in a long while, went out to someone else.

"Really now, you shouldn't judge people by looks alone. I'm not going to hurt you little one, you needn't worry." Keaira said in a soft soothing voice.

She paused for only a few seconds before shrugging off her dark coat. Kneeling down in front of the girl Keaira wrapped her coat around the shivering girl. Keaira then leaned back on her heels to give the girl some more room to feel more at ease.

"You look like you can use that more than me right now." Keaira answered, motioning lazily with one hand to the coat. She then purposefully leaned back too much and sat down very ungracefully with a little "oof" at the end. Then she looked up at the girl and decided to let out a genuine smile that she hadn't used in years.

A few minutes passed by in silence when the little girl finally spoke up. Keaira, who had her eyes closed and looked like she was sleeping, opened one eye to lazily glance at the girl.

"Your really not going to hurt me are you?" The girl asked quietly.

"If I was going to do something to you, I would have done so long ago." Keaira opened her other eye now and grinned at the girl. "I don't have much of a patience most of the time."

The girl then crawled over, leaned forward, and stared directly into Keaira's eyes.

"Heh, you really aren't lying are you. But you look…um…" The girl sat back and got a thoughtful look on her face.

"Evil?" Keaira supplied.

"Well…"

"Don't worry, I get that a lot. But I'm not evil just…dark. Part of the shadows so no one can find me to hurt me."

The girl stared at Keaira questioningly for a moment.

"It doesn't work all of the time then, does it?" The girl said.

"What?"

She pointed to the bandages that were wrapped around the part back, chest, shoulders up to her the base of her neck and down the upper parts of both arms. It showed everywhere the tank top didn't cover. The reason she wore the coat was to hide them.

"You were hurt before?" The girl asked.

"…yes." Was all Keaira said after hesitating a moment.

There was another brief silence.

"I want to go home now." The girl whimpered quietly.

"I know."

Keaira pulled the girl to her, wrapping her arms around her. Then she began to hum a haunting song that could calm anyone down. Keaira couldn't remember where she had heard the song or why it had just popped into her head after so long.

Suddenly, there was another flash of blue light shooting out from underneath Keaira and the girl. Then the blue crystal appeared around them once again and everything turned white.

"Wake up. It's time for you to wake up now Keaira."

Keaira groaned, rubbed her aching head, and slowly sat up. She had to squint her eyes against the bright lights that were around. Keaira seemed to of always had eyes that were sensitive to bright light.

"Where am I?" Keaira groaned out. "What happened to the girl?"

She noticed that she was once again wearing her coat.

"You are in the Chamber of Sages right now. I am Rauru, the Sage of Light. The place you were in before, and the girl that was there, were not real." Rauru explained.

"What?" Keaira exclaimed.

She looked at Rauru closely. He looked to be an old, fat man in a brown, red, and cream robe with some fancy embroidery on it. Rauru had a white moustache and hair on the side of his head, but was bald at the top. His eyes were navy blue in color, and held much wisdom in them. He held himself in an important way when he moved. There was one thing that was definitely not normal though; he had pointed ears.

It was then that what he said about where she was sunk in.

"Wait. Your telling me that this place is the same Chamber of Sages, in the same Temple of Time, in the same Hyrule that…that…"

"Yes, it is. But answer me this. You are in fact Keaira, correct?" Rauru questioned.

"Yes."

"And you are clearly not from this world, though you do possess information about many things that will happen here."

"Well, yes. You could say that."

"Give me an example so I can make sure, please." Rauru said.

There was a few seconds of silence before Keaira asked, "Where's Link now?"

"You may see for yourself."

A light flashed behind Keaira and she turned around. There, encased in a crystal and full grown, was Link.

"You didn't even wake him up yet?" Keaira asked.

He looked so peaceful and innocent. It was hard knowing that it was all going to be shattered soon with the truth.

"It is not quite time yet." Rauru explained while walking over.

"There's five temples, forest, fire, water, shadow, and desert. When he wakes up and is finally told the horrible truth that this land is slowly being destroyed, he will have to defeat the evil in the five temples. Sheik will be appearing to help push Link in the right directions during his adventures. I pity Link. Do you have any idea how frustrating it is when someone tells you that you have to get from one point to another, but doesn't show you how to get there?" Keaira informed Rauru while turning to look at him.

"Keaira, I brought you here for a reason. You see I was given a vision from the goddesses that there was a child who could help to save this world. A child that knew valuable information. I was to bring you here to help. But when I summoned you here I was a little shocked about…"

"Yeah, yeah, the way I look, I know. Most people are. Keep explaining." Keaira cut in somewhat impatiently.

cough "Yes, well, just to make sure I gave you a dream with a child in trouble as a test to see how you would react."

"You mean everything that happened before was just to test me? And there was no child in trouble?"

"Exactly. But you passed. I can tell that even though you hide it well, deep down there is light in you. Anyway, you can stay in this world only if you promise to do what you can to help defeat the evil in this world and to never hurt the innocent." Rauru stated sternly.

Keaira's expression turned into dead seriousness.

"You promise? By the goddesses, do you promise you will not send me back as long as I keep this deal?" Keaira demanded, just as stern.

"Of course." Rauru answered.

"Rauru, you've got yourself a new ally." Keaira smirked and held out her hand.

There was just a brief moment before Rauru took her hand and they shook hands.

"So when is Link going to wake up from that seven year beauty nap anyway?" Keaira asked, losing some of the seriousness from before.

Rauru stared at the girl strangely before answering, "Not for a couple of weeks yet."

"What?" What in the world am I supposed to do until then? Sit here and stare at these weird glowing walls? Sorry but they're not that interesting."

Rauru patiently waited for Keaira to finish.

"You will know what to do soon enough. The path has been already set out for you. For now, I will help to 'push you in the right direction'." Rauru explained, using the expression Keaira had said earlier. "Oh, one more thing, take these with you. I believe they will come in handy on your journey."

Rauru handed Keaira a pair of beautifully crafted daggers along with the sheaths for them. The blades were curved slightly, and the hilts were ebony colored with silver markings on them that Keaira couldn't read. The daggers seemed to weigh almost nothing. The sheaths were a light gray color, almost silvery, with the same marking on them in black.

"Those are the moonlight daggers. The direct light from a full moon will sometimes unleash a mysterious power if the user is in trouble. Use them well."

"Thank you, and I will." Keaira replied while studying the daggers with an awed expression. Then she hooked the sheaths and daggers on her plain belt.

Rauru then lifted his arms up to transport her to who knows where. A blue sphere came out of his open hands and then went over to float above Keaira.

Suddenly, something popped into Keaira's mind.

"Wait! First, you have to answer one simple question of mine." Keaira said.

Rauru put down his arms for a moment and the sphere stopped moving.

"What is it, Keaira?"

Keaira sighed knowing this would turn out weird no matter what.

"Are Sheik and Zelda in fact two entirely separate people?"

Rauru gave Keaira another strange look.

"Of course they're two different people. What did you think?"

"Well, when I got my information about this world, there was much confusion about…whether or not Sheik and Zelda were two different people, or if Sheik was…how should I put this…really Zelda in disguise so that she could frolic around Hyrule without Ganondorf's tiny little mind comprehending that it was her." Keaira tried to explain.

"…Don't look at me like that! Blame the people that gave me the information I know, not me." Keaira yelled out.

'Well at least this is better than if I actually had to ask Sheik and/or Zelda about that one.' Keaira thought, then sighed to herself.

Rauru blinked, then started to chuckle, then laugh. This began to get louder and louder.

Keaira sweat dropped.

"Oh yes. I'm so glad to be such a source of amusement for you."

Rauru wasn't even paying attention.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?"

Keaira almost couldn't hear the deep voice over all of the incessant laughing. This was also when the hovering ball of light decided to finally come down. Keaira turned just in time to get a glimpse of a blue, black, and white clad figure through the blue light surrounding her. She could also swear the volume of the laughter increased right before everything, once again, went white.

To be continued…

A.N: So what did you think? Please make sure you review and tell me. Since school is out I am hoping to update fairly quickly.

Also to clear a couple things up. Whenever Keaira gets teleported around, it's like when Link exits each of the dungeons.

And, if anyone's wondering about Alena, we will see what happened to her in later chapters.

Chibi Rauru: Hahahahahaha

Chibi Keaira: Oh come on! It's not that funny!

Chibi Rauru: …hahahahahaha

Chibi Cute Little Girl From Forest: He's scaring me.

Chibi Keairu: Well, he's got to stop sometime…

(five hours later)

Chibi Rauru: hahahahaha

smack

Chibi Rauru: swirly eyes

Chibi Keairu: See, I told you he would eventually shut up. (tosses giant mallet away…for now)

Chibi Cute Little Girl From Forest And Keairu: (wave to nice readers) Please don't forget to review!

Chibi Rauru: Uhhh…pop tarts... swirly eyes