To Youkai-joseph: No need to be mad, as I'm still alive and kickin' (and writing) And I'm glad you like the action scenes. But I'm afraid that there needs to be some plot to be given out for this chapter, so no action cries. As for a small battle between the Links, I think your gonna like the next chapter cause you obviously know how I write out fights. It's gonna show one of my favorite ideas that I think should be put in the next game, so I hope that you'll like it. Nice review by the way, very nice!
To Atchika: Glad you like the fighting too! And I suppose you're right, this IS the Action/Adventure Category. - And I hope this chapter doesn't dissappoient you... oh no! I TYPED A SPELLING MISTAKE! THAT'S SOMETHING THAT MIGHT DISSAPPOIENT YOU! OH NO! I DID IT AGAIN! NOOOOOOOOO!!! Link Kokiri jumps out the window and falls 100 stories high and hits the ground, but does not die DAMN! WHY WAS I MADE IMMORTAL TO CONTINUE THIS STORY! Anyway enjoy this chapter! :D
Disclaimer: If I owned the Legend of Zelda series, I wouldn't have made Impa's umm, assets so "pointy" and I would have called it "The Legend of the guy who you play as has a name, and it is Link, not Zelda." Play the game and see if these changes to it have been made. If they have, then my first step for total world domination is complete! Muahahahaha!... Oo! Uh oh! That didn't come out so well.
Zelda: The Legend Continues
Chapter 4 - the Truth
The journey back out of the lost woods was much easier than Link thought. There were no more tribes of monsters or hot women that got in their way, which was definitely good since Saria had fallen asleep. Navi kept an eye out though, because she was keen not to let Link be surprised again.
Before she fell asleep, Saria had told Link the direction in which the village was. Link had kept to this direction, and the vegetation was beginning to thin out.
Link seemed to be deep in thought, staring blankly in front of himself while carrying Saria in his arms. He didn't know that there were Gerudos that still followed Ganondorf. He thought that they were all afraid of him and only obeyed his will because of the inevitable death sentence that would follow if they didn't. Link decided to leave a mental note to check up on that with Nabooru, the queen of the Gerudo tribe.
And then there was that reflection he saw of himself. That was certainly what was bothering Link the most right now. What if it showed up again? Was it even real? Or was his mind playing tricks on him, Link was not sure, but he did know that he wouldn't feel comfortable until he got out of this forest.
It was still very dark so it was a big relief when Navi caught the sight of faint light in the distance.
"Hey, look!" cried out Navi.
Startled slightly by Navi's sudden burst of noise, Link looked in the same direction of the excited fairy and also found the tell-take glow of lights from the Kokiri village.
Link quickened his pace towards the miniature settlement and glanced down to see if the forest Sage was still asleep.
They soon reached the exit of the woods that seemed to have had a lot of moss and plants that were growing further and larger than normal.
Ignoring this, Link carefully climbed down the vine ledge with one hand and headed straight towards Saria's house. Link noticed that there was no one out at this time of the night as he stepped over the stones in the pond and crouched under the small door.
Link laid down Saria on her bed, put a blanket on top of her and gave her one last check over that she was okay before he left again.
Link then went towards his own house, hoping that there was no one who had took it as their own while he was away for the past year. It only took him a few steps to scale his ladder and find out with a smile that it hadn't been touched since he was last there.
His bed was far too small for him to sleep in it, so he took out a rag that he'd been using a lot during his recent travels and placed it on the wooden floor.
Damn did his jaw hurt! He had no idea a woman could kick that hard! And he got two in the face!
He'd barely had enough time to take off his hat and kick off his boots before collapsed on the poor excuse for a resting place.
"Night Navi." He mumbled and then fell asleep instantly.
"Good night Link" Navi flew into his green hat to sleep for the night.
Not far away...Dark Link was crouched down on a high tree branch near the window in Link's tree house, grinning.
I could take him out now! He thought. I could've killed him before in the woods, or anytime I wanted! But not yet. He decided. Not before I make him suffer. Suffer miserably for what he done to me. Yes. Soon, all those years of imprisonment will be paid back with your own blood Mr. "Hero!"
And with that, the demonic figure leapt up into the air and disappeared into the night sky.
(Next day)
"Cock-a-doodle-doo!" A rooster crowed in the distance as Link got up with a yawn, not feeling very refreshed due to the lack of sleep from last night. He was used to it though; there few times that he got a full night's sleep.
Remembering that he had a friend to check on, Link put on his boots, picked up his hat and fitted it on too.
"AAAGHH!" the high-pitched shriek came from inside his hat.
Link, didn't seem to react to this and still had a dull look on his face, but he eventually took his hat off lazily and put it back on after the enraged fairy shot out of it, jolting violently up and down around his head burning a bright red, shouting at him.
"LINK! DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN! DO YOU HEAR ME!!! THAT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME YOU DONE THAT EITHER! YOU SHOULD WAKE ME UP FIRST! IF YOU DARE PULL OFF ANOTHER STUPID TRICK LIKE THAT AGAIN, I'LL --- ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING!!!"
Link, ignoring the fairy, trudged out of his house sleepily and climbed down the ladder. He didn't even notice the quite large crowd of Kokiri that had gathered at the foot of the ladder.
The large cheer that they emitted, however, did catch his attention, and he nearly fell on top of one of the kids as he almost lost his balance on the small ladder frame. Once he stepped on the ground he turned around with a blank look on his face, not quite sure why all of them were surrounding him.
"HURRAY FOR LINK!" they all cheered again. "YOU BROUGHT BACK SARIA!" Link was sweat-dropping, "Uh, no problem." He muttered, then suddenly realized, "Wait a sec, you know who I am?"
"Sure we do!" Stated one of the boys, "Saria told us this morning!"
"I still can't believe you're not a Kokiri, Link" said one of the girls, giggling.
"Uh, so where is Saria?" Link asked.
"Normally, she'd be in the lost woods." Called out the blond hared girl, "but because it's too dangerous in there, she's in her house, she also wants too see you!" the group of Kokiri started to disperse and continue with their childish, daily routines.
As Link started to Saria's house, he was held back with a light tug on his tunic. He turned around to see Mido.
"Uh, Link?" he questioned.
"Yeah, what is it Mido".
"Umm, I'd just like to say I'm sorry for picking on you when you were a kid. I didn't know you were such a cool guy, thanks for saving Saria. She didn't tell anyone what happened last night, but I could tell that you stopped something pretty bad from happening to her."
Links stomach lurched as Mido said this. He was wrong, as Link hadn't prevented Saria from a great deal of pain.
"Err, sure." Link replied, unsure.
Mido's face brightened a little as he ran away to play with the others and left Link to go into Saria's house. He first looked around him to se if Navi was still around, but she seemed to have flown off in a huff, or maybe went to visit some other fairy relative.
As he went to step inside the house, Link banged his head off of the door frame, forgetting to crouch under it.
"...oww." said Link, not even making a painful expression, he must have been more tired than he thought.
Saria was heard laughing inside the dwelling. "Very funny." Link remarked, putting a hand to the swelling bruise on his forehead. "I'm glad that you're in high spirits." The chairs were too small, so he sat on the table, hoping that she wouldn't mind.
"Are you okay?"
She nodded from the bed she was sitting on
"Saria, I'd like to ask why you went into the forest." A look of concern was on his Link's face. "Surly you would have known that the place was growing at a dangerous rate."
Saria shook her head. "No, Link. I know that you went through a lot of trouble to rescue me, but I would be grateful if you would tell me were you have been. I haven't seen you since you defeated Ganon. I thought something had gone wrong when we sealed up the dimension." A tear streamed down her face. "I thought that you were trapped in there, along with Ganon, and Princess Zelda!" She looked up at her best friend. "Please Link, I need to know."
Link looked a little unsure, but seeing Saria's pleading face, he gave in, looking down at the ground.
"Well, let's say that things didn't go quite so well as we had planned." Saria gave an encouraging look for him to continue. "You probably don't know this, but I finished my quest to defeat Ganondorf twice. The first time, he was banished into the other realm successfully. But when I gave the Ocarina of Time to Zelda, she played a song, which sent me back in time, about a week before it all started. But before I was even reunited with Navi, I went and got the Kokiri sword, a Kokiri shield and because of my newly-found hunger for adventure, I found Epona and set off in search for a new land."
Link looked up at Saria to see if she was still listening. Since she seemed to be transfixed with his story so far, he continued.
"I came across Termina, a place that was in great danger due to a huge moon that was on a crash collision course straight into the land. After three days, I destroyed the evil that was causing it, and set off back for home. I thought that I had no more troubles, and I was eager to ask the Great Deku Tree for more information about my parents. But when I came back, I found out that Ganondorf hadn't disappeared at all. And so, the Deku Tree was cursed again, and I repeated the entire quest again."
Link looked up again, and Saria noticed that there was a dark look in his eye.
"No one seemed to notice that time was repeating itself. No one but Ganondorf, because when you used your power to banish the monster from this world, he knew what was going on. He realized that I had beaten him twice, and for a final attempt of revenge, he made a dive for me, how he done this whilst Zelda's spell was upon him, I'll probably never know. But instead of grabbing me, I barely dodged out of the way, and he grabbed Zelda, who was right behind me, completely defenseless."
Link closed his eyes to try and prevent the tears from flowing out.
"They were both banished into the other realm. And still to this day I curse myself for letting it happen. Not wanting to bare the shame that would burden me here, I left Hyrule like a coward. And I traveled far, further than before, in search of an answer or clue that would help me free Princess Zelda from her prison that I helped send her to. I found word of a sword that was rumored to have immense power, power enough to open the void that trapped the Princess. On my way, many tried to stop me, it was at this point that it seemed that every monster, or corrupted person in the country was after me. It soon became apparent to me why thought. As I found out that the sword was an abomination of pure evil, and that it would only release Gannondorf, and then try to use me as a slave to bring out its cruel intentions on the world. I destroyed the sword, barely, as it fought back very desperately, and because it seemed to already try to possess me, promising me that it would release Zelda for me if I simply grabbed it's hilt."
Link swallowed with difficulty, remembering how convincing the blade known as "Soul Edge" was.
"When I destroyed it, I realized why so many had tried to stop, me. They knew that it was the only way to bring back Ganondorf, and they knew that I was going to destroy it because of that. I turned back home again. Hope within myself that another chance might turn up. And again, Ganon's minions are after me, stronger than before, but again, I'm not sure why."
Link wiped the few tears that had escaped from his eyes and looked back up at Saria.
"And that's what has been happening for the past year or less." He concluded, "I'll never forget that look of despair in Zelda's eyes as she faded away from this world." He threw his head in his hands, distraught.
Saria slid off the bed, walked over to Link and hugged him tight.
"It wasn't your fault" she tried to comfort him.
"Wasn't it? I should have protected her!" Link cried out, "When the Triforce chose me, they chose wrong! I'm nothing but a failure!"
"No Link, you not a failure!" Saria told him sternly, "Just think of all the people you've helped! You're a real Hero! Don't worry about Zelda, I'm sure you'll find a way to get her out."
Link calmed down a bit and returned the hug with a smile. "Sure."
A moment passed...
"And Link?"
"Yeah?"
"Thanks."
"I only wished I got there sooner."
"Oh get away with you!" Saria said with a smile. "Go on, I'm sure your other friends are missing you."
Link got up and walked towards the door as Saria heard another loud thud.
"...oww."
End chapterA/N: Since there was no action this time round, I tried to put in a little humor instead. Also, I hope I put a little more meaning into Soul Calibur 2's story for you readers. Oh, and while I'm on the topic of reading... READ AND REVIEW! Thank you!