Disclaimer: I do not own the Legend of Zelda
Author's note: Wow does it feel weird to write fanfiction again. It's been like a year since I last wrote anything. Hello all, I'm LunaticChaos for those of you who have forgotten me, and for those of you who still remember who I was. Well throw everything out the window. I'm back, with cooler heroic personalities, stronger villains, more powerful imagery, and even better stories. I'll be updating my profile in the near future so check it out.
Setting note: One quick note, this is based on the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
It's funny, to think that I lost. Well I suppose all people are meant to lose at one point or another. Too bad it was to him, the man I am but a shadow of. Destined to fight, destined to fail, such a cruel lot in life was I given…
Screw this! I'm not going to give up, just because some hero beats me! I'll get stronger, faster, I'll learn magic, I'll get more powerful weapon! He won't beat me again! Especially not with some stupid ass oversized hammer!
Damn, I can't believe I haven't thought of this already, I'm such an idiot! I wasted my childhood moping because I lost! Only practicing enough to stay in shape! He's probably already of godlike strength, I've got some serious catching up to do.
First thing's first, I'm getting up out of this lake. I'll come for you Link, I'll beat you! I'll destroy you! I'll become stronger and then we'll see who deserves to be the real Link!
Lake Hyrule, a crystal clear lake filled with water, a lakeside laboratory overlooks it atop a cliff on one side. On the other side, a fishing house barely stood, old and falling apart. In the middle of the lake was a small island overlooking an underwater citadel, known simply as the Water Temple. A tall ashen white skinned man sat at the shore of that island, his dark uncut black hair blowing in the wind, and his blood red eyes reflected the shimmering water. He watched the water for a long time, with almost a childlike curiosity, like he had never seen it before. His black tunic, and black pants were drenched with water, his dark black boots drying out next to him as were his leather gloves. He flopped onto his back, basking in the warm afternoon sun, watching the clouds as they drifted in the sky. He lay there for a long time, thinking about something, with a strange half smirk across his face. "So Hyrule is as it should be," he said to himself satisfied with how dry his clothes had become as he put his gloves and boots back on.
He picked up a black handled sword held within an ornate black sheath and strapped it over his back, and then picked up a black shield and strapped it too across his back, over the sheath. He strolled over to the bridges that connected the island to the coast and began walking over them, unconcerned with the birds that squawked overhead. He slowly came to a stop as he neared the end of the bridge, somebody was waiting for him. "So you are the great darkness I felt arise from the lake," the person said, the man only barely capable of making out blue skin and large fins, "State why you are here in Hyrule!"
"It is not your concern Zora, now out of my way, I have much I must do," the man snarled with such a vehement hatred that it forced the other to step back.
"I am a sage of Hyrule, the Water Sage, Princess Ruto of the Zoras, I am making it my concern, now state your business," the Zora stated as she walked forward a bit.
"If you must know, revenge," he stated as he walked forward, recognizing Ruto for who she was he stopped as she apparently recognized him, "So you're the one who helped him."
"Link? What's wrong with you?" Ruto asked as she began to run towards him.
"Get the hell away from me!" he roared as he unsheathed his sword, the steel catching rays of sunlight and reflecting them.
"You…No you couldn't be Link, who are you?" Ruto asked stepping back a bit.
"My name is…" the man began to say when he realized he didn't truly have a name.
"I see, you are but a shadow," Ruto said as one of her hands went behind her back as a blue energy formed between her fingers.
Something snapped in the man, he practically flew over towards Ruto and grabbed her by the throat and impaled her, all in one quick fluid motion. "I am not a shadow of him, I am alive, I am a living being, separate of that bastard," he growled as he flung her into the lake.
He continued on his way, stopping briefly to wipe the sticky black ichor from his blade "Though I suppose she did have a point, I do need a proper name," he said to himself as he slowly walked over to the laboratory.
He knocked on the door, waiting patiently for someone to open it, finally after several minutes he sighed and tried to open it himself. Twisting the doorknob the door swung open very easily, but made a lot of sound doing so. He looked about, for some sign of life in the dark room that he entered, however everything was falling apart, shattered glass, broken furniture, something had happened here. He looked about for something that could prove useful to him, at first glance there was nothing. But then he saw it, a floorboard that was coming loose, and it looked intentional. He walked over, his footsteps echoing in the room, and pried the board up. Only to find a rather irate Octorok staring him in the face as it shot a rock at him knocking him back. "Why you little fucker," he growled as he jumped up and took out his sword, quickly ramming it into the monster, blood bubbling up as it died instantly.
He swiped his blade quickly, the blood flying off of it as he sheathed it; he pulled up several other floorboards and then pulled the monster's body up from the hole to get a closer look at what was below. What he found was rather surprising, a tunnel leading under the laboratory deep into the ground. Jumping down he began to crawl through it, eager to find out what was on the other side. After a few minutes he came to a large cavern, the entire flood drenched in a thin layer of water, he slowly walked through, his eyes scanning each and every portion of the room. Expecting something to at any moment jump out at him and attack, "And you are?" a voice asked from a side cavern he had missed.
"Why should I give me name to you?" he asked as he turned to look at whoever had spoken.
A humanoid with slimy skin walked out from the shadows, with six arms and two powerful legs, each of the arms extremely long and powerful looking. The being was hairless and has a small sucker for a mouth. "Because I can kill you Hylian, now state your name," it threatened.
"You kill me?" he asked as he began to laugh, "Very well, if you truly don't value your life like this. I'll tell you my name. I am Meibatsu."
"Retribution, Divine Retribution," the being said with a chuckle, "Are you trying to scare me by using a language you don't think I know?"
"Oh hardly, very well, I suppose that was a stupid choice for a name," he stated as he shrugged his shoulders, "How about Suzaku."
"Suzaku, so be it Pheonix, now you will be coming…" the being began to say as the man flew over to him and impaled it, "How can…."
"Suzaku, you know I actually like that name, I think I will use it, in fact I am now Suzaku Meibatsu. Thank you for settling that problem for me," the man said as he sliced up cutting the being in half, "A name was the first step. Now for the next."
"You'll never leave here alive," another voice said as hundreds of them began to pour out from the cavern towards Suzaku.
"Just watch me," Suzaku laughed out with a sick glee in his eyes as he began to carve a path through the beings, dodging blow after blow, parrying weapons constantly, jumping atop blades and cutting the beings apart.
The murky water that lightly covered the floor of the cavern began to change colors, to an ichorous black. Suzaku practically flying through the crowd, sending ripped apart bodies everywhere, "Is this really all you have?" he roared as they began to back away and move in a circle about him.
Suzaku held his sword in a position that sent shivers down the beings, they slowly backed away. He held his sword straight out to the side as he prepared to pivot about on one foot. "Spin Slash!" Suzaku roared as he spun about, sending a dark wave of black fire all about him, consuming the beings in an inferno of pain and torment, stopping he looked about him, bodies lying everywhere, torn apart or burning. He did only one thing, smile with pleasure at what he saw and then he began to laugh, "So this is the power I really had. I am a god compared to normal beings."
He then walked through the cavern looking to see what else awaited him in the darkness, "But if I am like a god compared to normal beings. What does that make him? The one who defeated me." He continued on through the cavern looking for something of interest, he walked for miles upon miles, hours upon hours. He finally came to an exit, one that led into a canal in a great city.
"Alright men! We are going in to kill those monsters that have been plaguing our fair country of Hyrule for months, now I know that…" a knight in glimmering armor was saying to a platoon of other men in armor, each of which carrying a large spear.
"Sir! Somebody is coming out of the tunnel!" one of the solders said as he stood at attention.
"What?" the knight asked turning around to look at Suzaku, "Well what do you know? How did you come through that tunnel? Did the Octo leave?"
"Octo? Do you mean those ugly things with six arms?" Suzaku asked as he stopped and cross his arms.
"Yah, how did you get by them?" the knight asked walking over to him.
"I killed them," Suzaku replied simply.
"You…killed them? But there had to have been over three hundred of them,"
"With all the blood that they left, I would think so," Suzaku said casually as he stepped forward.
"Wow, he's good," one of the solders commented.
"Very good! I'm sure Queen Zelda would love to meet the man who had solved the menace that has plagued us for such a long time, they had murdered over fifty people since they arrived," the knight said as he clapped Suzaku on the shoulder, "You don't look like much, but hell, the best never do. I only wish you showed up earlier before the murders."
"Would you remove your hand? I don't like being touched," Suzaku stated as the knight removed his hand quickly.
"Of course, my apologies," the knight said as he looked at his hand, "By the goddesses, you're drenched in black blood. Well the least we can do for our savior is provide him a proper bath and clean his clothes and gear. Would you please follow us?"
Suzaku stood there for a moment, thinking about it as sighed. "Alright, why not," he stated as he motioned for the knight to lead the way.
An hour later, in the western wing of Hyrule Castle, a glittering fortress of pure white marble, Suzaku was soaking in a warm bath. "So this is what a bath feels like," Suzaku said to himself as he sighed, "Too bad I won't have more of these to look forward to."
"Sir, Suzaku?" a woman's voice asked from the doorway, "Your clothes are ready. Commander Revan asked me to give you a haircut."
"Come in when you're ready then, I have nothing to hide," Suzaku stated casually.
"But sir…you're…"
"Hmmm? Is there something wrong with that?"
"You're naked sir,"
"Why is that a problem?" Suzaku asked, "It isn't like I'm grossly out of shape."
"It isn't proper sir," she said as he could hear footsteps scamper off.
"I guess I'll have to learn some modesty," Suzaku said to himself as he leaned back.
"Sir Suzaku, did you ask Miss Celene to come in to see you naked?" the knight's voice came several minutes later.
"Revan right?" Suzaku asked, "I apologize for that, where I come from we don't have any issues with modesty. I didn't mean anything by it."
"I thought that may have been the case. Could you please be a little more careful about this sort of thing? I don't mean to be…"
"Nonsense, it's quite alright. I should have realized there may have been some cultural issues,"
"Thank you for your understanding on this matter Sir Suzaku," Revan stated as he walked away from the door.
"I hate playing nice like this," Suzaku muttered to himself, "But hell, it's worth it after getting all that blood over me."
A few hours later, Suzaku was back in his clothing, his hair had been trimmed even, but it was still long. He stood in a circle garden, looking at a small artificial river that was flowing around it. Waiting for his meeting with Queen Zelda, "I hate waiting," he muttered to himself as he could hear footsteps coming from the entrance.
A woman with long blonde hair, pale skin, sapphire blue eyes, wearing a brilliant white dress walked into the garden, and stopped in the middle of it. Her attendant, a tall woman in leather armor with tanned skin and grey hair stood by her side watching Suzaku carefully. Suzaku turned around and was shocked at how beautiful the blonde woman was, perfect in every way, he smirked as he snapped himself out of what was becoming a trance. He bowed politely and said, "I am Suzaku Meibatsu, a pleasure to meet you Queen Zelda."
"Don't play games Shadow Link," the tall woman snapped as she glared at him, "We heard what you did to Ruto. She survived your unprovoked attack."
"Impa," Zelda said quietly, "We can't let our tempers get the better of us. Suzaku here is at least as strong as Link was in the other timeline."
"So you know I was but a shadow of that bastard," Suzaku snarled, dropping all pretenses as he crossed his arms, "So why did you come to see me if you knew this?"
"Was?" Zelda asked, "Are you not still like him?"
"No!" Suzaku roared, the windows shaking with his anger coursing through them, "I am nothing like him! I merely share his damned face. I am my own being, not some shadow of another man!"
Impa stood in front of Zelda, preparing to fight as Zelda sighed and stepped around her, "I see, that is why you attacked Ruto. She said you were only a shadow."
"Yes, I will not be associated with that bastard," Suzaku growled as he stared straight into Zelda's eyes.
"That is what Link said when we asked him about you a long time ago," Zelda said, "Despite what you both think, you do have some things in common. You are like twins."
Suzaku growled at the thought of having anything in common with Link, "So why did you come to see me?"
"You have a great darkness in you, we are here to decide if you are a monster, or a man," Zelda said as she looked him in the eyes.
"Here to try and decide my fate then," Suzaku growled, "I won't stand for it. Nobody but me will have anything to do with what I do with my life. Not anymore. Never again."
"What do you plan to do?" Impa demanded as she crossed her arms.
"I plan on taking my revenge against Link, I will defeat him and prove I am the one who deserves to live, not him. And nobody can stop me, I will never submit to another person, never, not Ganondorf, not the goddesses, and certainly not you."
"I see," Zelda said with an almost sad tone, "Impa…"
"So we are to seal him away?" Impa asked as dark energy formed in her hands.
"No, we are letting him go," Zelda stated, "A great wrong was done to him. His only crime was to attack someone who was preparing to attack him. However, we cannot allow him to stay in Hyrule."
"So banishment is it? And if I choose not to go?" Suzaku asked with a smirk.
"You gain nothing, Link is no longer in Hyrule, you won't gain your revenge if you stay here," Zelda answered simply, "Before you ask, we don't know where he is either, all we know is that he went south of here."
"South," Suzaku said, "Through the Lost Woods? Well then I suppose it's time to follow him. You've been most helpful, Queen Zelda."
"I wish you good luck, and that what you deserve will come to you in time," Zelda said as Suzaku walked past her.
"It will," Suzaku stated simply as he chuckled, "It will."
And that is the end of this chapter. Pretty good for a start if you ask me, and I suck at starting things. Sorry if Suzaku here seems a bit mary-suish, but my style is to have the first chapter showing why the character is cool, and then the next couple of chapters developing the character. And then bring in the stuff that is meant to be the conflict in the story.
Well I'm sure you must be wondering, "Why Suzaku and not just Dark Link?" It's simple actually, I chose to rename him because this story is centered about him and his struggle to define himself, and merely being called a dark version of someone else makes it all seem pointless. That and would you want your name to be associated with the person you hate the most? Now Suzaku itself is a name I particularly like in this case, Suzaku is a phoenix from Chinese Mythology, the Celestial Guardian of the Northern Sky. Now for you who don't know, a phoenix is a mythological animal that is reincarnates from its ashes (and considering how Dark Link dies in the game…) and it is usually associated with fire. Meibatsu is Japanese for Divine Retribution, I chose this for his last name simply because it drives in what is currently driving Suzaku, a retribution bordering on divine wrath.
Now then, onto something I'm known for, asking questions of my reviewers. I ask these because I want to hear people's opinions about certain things so I can improve my writing, and that it encourages people to review.
1. What do you think of the story so far?
2. Do you think Suzaku is an interesting character?
3. What do you think of my idea on centering the story on Dark Link instead of on Link?
4. Do you think this is actually pretty close to what Dark Link would act like given what little we know about his character?
Well with that said, that is the end of this chapter. Click that review button and give me one, and remember reviews make me want to write the next chapter sooner, so if you want me to continue you better review. The reason I stopped writing for a long time was because I wasn't getting very many reviews.
Ciao for now!