Disclaimer: I do not own the Legend of Zelda
"So this is Clock Town?" Suzaku asked Snitch as he walked through the northern gates of the great city, into the small park that held the Fairy Fountain, his improved sword now resting on his back.
"Yeppers, if you're looking for any kind of specialty item or information this is your place, if they don't know they can lead you to someone who does," Snitch stated as he floated near Suzaku's head, "Never been here before so I can't help with directions, but I know plenty of things about it."
Suzaku nodded his head, smirking as he glanced at the fairy, "Bloody useful little thing you are, no wonder Link was able to do so much," he commented.
"A compliment from you, well now that seems unusial,"
"Hey, take em when you can get em pipsqueak," Suzaku stated as he continued to smirk as he walked through the town into the main square.
With one look at the giant clocktower that dominated the square Suzaku whistled as he began walking about it, looking at it from all angles. Eventually standing in front of the entrance to the waterworks he crossed his arms and looked up. That is until somebody yelled out, "LINK! That can't be you can it?"
"Oh god damn it," Suzaku growled as he turned to the voice, a tall man with long blue hair and wearing brown leather armor, "Who are you?"
"Oh come on Link, don't tell me you don't recognize me," the man said as he held out his hand and smiled, "I see you decided to go for a gothic hero look, I must say it looks good on you."
"I'm not Link, my name is Suzaku," he stated simply as he crossed his arms, looking at the other man.
"Oh I'm sorry, you just look so much like Link and you have a fairy with you, well I guess I should introduce myself then, my name's Kafei," the man said as he scratched the back of his head looking embarrassed, "If there's anything I can do for you please tell me, I'm the mayor of this town."
"Well since you know Link, do you know where he went after he left here?"
"I'm sorry, but the Skullkid might, he lives by the entrance to the Southern Swamp," Kafei said as he pointed off towards the southern exit of town, "Why are you looking for him?"
"He owes me a duel," Suzaku stated, Kafei nodding in understandment.
"I see, well then I hope the one who deserves to win does so. Whether it be you or Link. Though if you could, when you see him, tell him all the people in Terminia wish him well," Kafei asked looking into Suzaku's eyes.
"……Why not?" Suzaku answered as he shrugged his shoulders walking off to the south, Snitch following close behind.
Passing through the gate Snitch spoke up, "You seem a lot more, pleasant right now. What's up?"
"Town, lots of people, starting a commotion would be a very bad idea,"
"And here I thought you were strong but stupid,"
"Shut up puffball,"
Suzaku walked straight down the middle of the road towards the southern swamp, the local monsters making every possible attempt to keep away from him. That is until a giant shadow appeared around him, "What the hell is…" Suzaku asked as he suddenly got knocked over by something very large hitting him in the back, something that suddenly took his wallet full of rupees.
Suzaku bolted up and looked into the sky, seeing a large, fat bird flying about with his wallet, "You goddess damn bird! Give me my wallet before I tear you limb from limb!" he roared as the bird responded with only a squawking laugh as it flew in circles over him.
"Got any ranged attacks?" Snitch asked as he flew up and started flying about the bird.
"No, but I can make one," Suzaku answered as he prepared to perform a spin slash but his sword was in a weird position, the blade was vertical instead of horizontal as he positioned his body perpendicular to a certain point on the bird's path. "Spin Slash Vertigo!" Suzaku yelled out as he jumped up into the air and span about, launching the wave of black fire vertically instead of a horizontally like he did before.
"What the hell?" Snitch yelped as he moved out of the way as the bird was engulfed in the fire, squawking as its body was consumed on it's way to the ground.
Suzaku made one tiny mistake, he forgot to figure out how to land and ending up landing flat on his face and belly, "…Ouch…" he commented slowly picking himself up, looking rather ridiculous covered in dust he had picked up from the ground.
"What the hell was that?" Snitch asked floating about Suzaku's head as he walked over to pick up his wallet, which was slightly singed.
"My Spin Slash, a magical attack which uses my sword as a focal point," Suzaku explained as he began to dust himself off, "Didn't think a vertical attack would actually work."
"Well it did, despite the fact your landing needs some serious work," Snitch sung as Suzaku glared at him, "Well it's true."
"It's been a while since I saw the Spin Slash," a high pitched voice said as a blue fairy raced over to where they were, a purple fairy and a small boy who looked like a scarecrow with legs hobbled over, "Wow, you look like someone I knew about seven years ago."
"Why hello there sweet cheeks, how you doin?" Snitch said as he strutted over to the blue fairy, Suzaku smirking as he held back a chuckle.
"Oh shut up you!" the blue fairy snapped ramming into Snitch sending him a couple feet backward.
"Hi mister, what are you doing out here? Not many people travel to the swamp," the little scarecrow kid asked.
"You're the Skullkid correct?" Suzaku asked looking down at the kid.
"Yep, what do you want?"
"Do you happen to know where a person named Link went, he was hear about seven years ago?" Snitch asked before Suzaku could say anything.
"Link? He went to the west, over the big water, why do you ask?"
"That's all I needed to know," Suzaku stated as he began to walk towards the ocean, ignoring the question.
"It's a warrior thing," Snitch stated as he floated off after Suzaku, all of the sudden the blue fairy careening in front of Suzaku stopping him.
"You want to fight him don't you? I'll tell you something you should know, you can't beat him, nobody can beat Link now," the blue fairy declared as she danced in front of Suzaku's face.
"I fought him in Hyrule, and almost defeated him, what makes you so sure I can't beat him?" Suzaku asked smirking as he looked at the fairy.
"Because Link has the power of the Fierce Deity, he has the power of a god at his command," the blue fairy declared, flying in front of him almost like she was taunting Suzaku.
"The Fierce Deity?" Suzaku asked blinking, never having heard that name before.
"A god sealed away by the goddesses Din, Farore, and Nayru," Snitch stated as he knocked the blue fairy out of the way, "It took the combined power of all three to do it as well. A god of war and many other things, it's said he created the Gerudo against the wishes of the Goddesses and brought conflict into the world."
"Well you're rude and crude, but you do know your stuff, I'll give you…" the blue fairy said as she knocked Snitch out of the way, "That!"
Suzaku started chuckling at this little show, and then began to walk off again, "Well enough of that, I have to catch up to him now."
"You won't beat him," the blue fairy stated as she flew back to the Skullkid.
"See you mister!" the Skullkid yelled out as he waved goodbye.
"Yah, see yah kid," Suzaku said as he continued on, not even bothering to turn around.
The rest of their trip was rather uneventful as they neared the great gateway to the ocean, "So what do I need to know? Any ships nearby or towns?"
"Towns, no. There is however a pirate stronghold, and they always have ships," Snitch stated as Suzaku came to the beach, a long expansion of nothing but a few run down buildings, a ocean platform, and sand, lots of sand.
"Oh goody, it's a big beach," Suzaku stated as he walked towards the water, looking out over the water, "How I hate large bodies of water."
"Well the voyage is going to be a bitch then," Snitch stated.
"That's the first time I heard you cuss," Suzaku stated smirking, "I'm rubbing off on you."
"And I'll have you hitting on women in no time," Snitch replied as he landed on top of Suzaku's head.
"Anything's possible, I was deprived growing up so it's gonna take some work," Suzaku stated as he looked to the north, and saw a fortress further up the beach, "That it?"
"Yep, a Gerudo fortress, a perfect opportunity,"
"You wouldn't dare," Suzaku challenged grinning confidently.
"Wanna bet?"
"Actually…you would, but it won't work. Well then, since they're Gerudo I'm going to be dropping the nice guy act," Suzaku stated as he began to stretch, preparing for something, "You better keep up, I'm going to do this fast."
Snitch only sped off towards the fortress in response, Suzaku smirking as he seemed to vanish as the shadows seemed to move towards the fortress. "So you can merge into the shadows?" Snitch asked moving closer to the shadowy cliff as he continued to speed off to the fortress.
"What was your first clue?" Suzaku's voice asked as the shadows seemed to move faster.
Suzaku reappeared just ahead of Snitch on the roof of the fortress, he knelt down and looked over the edge at the patrolling Gerudo guards below. He stayed there for about a minute before he jumped down all three stories to the ground, alerting all of the guards nearby to his presence. "That idiot," Snitch muttered as he flew down after him.
The guards began running over to him, pikes lowered and ready to attack. Suzaku stood still, his left hand on his hip and he looked at them with a predatory smirk, "You have five second to drop your weapons before I start killing you," he stated simply as he drew his sword with his right hand and grabbed his shield with his left.
"Who do you think you are making threats? We outnumber you a hundred to one," one of the Gerudo stated bravely.
"One," Suzaku counted.
"He's cocky, shall we show him what we can do?"
"Two,"
"Leave it to a Terminian to be overconfident,"
"Three,"
"Alright, let's get him!"
"Four,"
The Gerudo began to charge after him, preparing to cleave him in two, "Five," Suzaku said as he leaped forward and impaled the first of the Gerudo and then leaped backwards and brought his shield up as the Gerudo crumpled to the ground, a pool of blood forming around the broken form, "Last chance."
"Stand back, you're no match for him," a Gerudo in a black outfit said as she walked forward, two large scimitars in her hands, "What's your name?"
"Suzaku Meibatsu," he responded as he studied her, flaming red hair tied up in a ponytail, gold irises, slightly less tanned skin than the other, the standard baggy pants and tiny tank top, but she also wore an ornate guantlet on her right hand and was wearing boots instead of the standard pointed shoes. From what he could tell she also trained a lot more because she also looked a lot more toned than the others around her.
"Phoenix Retribution, what about your real name?" the Gerudo asked as she took up a fighting stance as the others backed away.
"I was born without a name thus I chose one,"
"What do you want with us?"
"A ship to travel over the ocean," Suzaku stated strapping his shield back onto his back and holding his sword with both hands.
"Tell you what, you beat me and we'll take you over the sea, but if I win you become our slave and do whatever we tell you to do," she stated with an evil smirk.
"Not good enough, I can just take a ship and then buy a crew after I kill you all,"
"If you can beat me you could, I am the strongest one here," she stated as she other Gerudo began to crowd around the circle they had formed for the fighting ring, "How about this, I win, you become our slave, you win I become yours. My freedom up against yours, is that a fair trade?"
"Now why would I need you?" Suzaku asked smirking, obviously beginning to enjoy this part of their fight.
"Not only am I an accomplished swordswoman, but I am also an accomplished pilot and I own my own personal ship, you get what you came here for and you get the best pilot here,"
"An interesting bet, I admit that. Let me think about it," Suzaku said as he charged forward, jumping up and slashing downwards, "I accept!"
"Then it's time for me to win this fight," the Gerudo said as she dodged to the left and then slashed at him, "You'll never beat Tira of the Gale!"
"Tira of the Gale?" Suzaku asked as he let go of his sword with right hand and blocked the attack with his sword, "Is that the best you could come up with?"
"Like Pheonix Retribution is any better," Tira snapped as she jumped back and then jumped forward in a spinning attack.
"Certainly better than what I used to be called," Suzaku replied as he melted into the shadows in the ground and then reappeared behind her as he stabbed at her.
"So you have some magic," Tira stated as she landed on one foot as she pivoted around and jumped back, dropping the scimitar in her right hand as a fireball shot out from her palm.
"Impressive," Suzaku stated as he brought his sword up and cut the fireball in half, dispersing it before it ever touched him, "But that attack is nothing compared to the fire spell I once had to face."
"Oh really? I spent a year planning the theft to get this gauntlet, what could possibly be stronger than this?" Tira asked bringing the gauntlet up with a smirk, showing him the glyph that adorned the top of it.
"I faced the fires of Din herself," Suzaku stated as he put his sword away studying the strange glyph, "And I think I just figured out how to beat you."
"Oh really? Well bring it on!" Tira yelled as she charged forward as she fired off another fireball.
Suzaku dodged it as a he took out his pen and began copying the glyph onto his left glove. Smirking as he continued to dodge fireballs and sword slashes. "Well then, let's see if it works!" Suzaku yelled as he charged forward, putting his pen away and drawing his sword again.
He brought his sword up and down trying to slash Tira in half as she blocked his attack, Suzaku smirked as he began pushing down harder, "Right where I want you," he stated as he opened his left palm as a dark flame formed in it.
"What?" Tira yelped as she stared at the flame, "How are you…"
"I have an exceptionally good memory," Suzaku stated as he shot a dark fireball from his palm which hit Tira right in the stomach, sending her back into a crate.
Unlike the dark flames from his spin slash, the fireball's flames went out immediately after it had collided with her. However it was apparently enough because Tira only barely managed to stand back up, "I won't lose to you," she panted as she held out her hand again for another fireball.
"You already have," Suzaku stated as he looked at the top of his left hand, the glyph had vanished from it, "How annoying, it looks like I would need something more permanent to put it on."
"You bastard, I haven't lost!" Tira yelled as she shot off another fireball, but was knocked down by the recoil.
Suzaku stood there and let the fireball hit him square in the chest, however it didn't even get a grunt from him as he just shrugged it off. "You've lost, showing me that glyph was a big mistake, now just accept the truth," Suzaku yawned out, growing bored with the fight.
"What…makes you think I'll keep my word?" Tira asked trying to get up.
"Because I know the Gerudo, once you give your word on something you keep it," Suzaku stated as he smirked, crossing his arms as he walked over to her, "You lost."
Tira looked down at the ground and grimaced, "Fine I lost, I'm your slave now. What do you want me to do? Strip naked? Have sex with you? What?"
"You really don't have a very high opinion of the male gender do you?" Suzaku asked as Snitch began whispering into his ear, "You're taking me across the ocean, that's what I'm going to have you do."
Tira looked at him like he was insane for a moment, and then sighed as she got up slowly, "Fine, I'm taking you across the ocean."
"Good, now take me to this ship of yours," Suzaku ordered.
And that's where I'll be ending it for this chapter. How unlike me, I have apparently added two supporting characters this early instead of my usual one. I didn't even plan this one, halfway through that dialogue Tira and Suzaku had before they started fighting I realized that she would actually make a good supporting character for him, so I went back and gave her a better description, a better name than what I had before, a special ability, and changed the dialogue up. Gotta say I like the possibilities this opens up. Well then, off to my normal questions…
1. I think I'm getting the hang of writing again, so is this chapter any better written than the last two?
2. What do you think of Tira?
3. Any guesses on what the next chapter is going to be about, or what major plot point I'll end up doing next? (Feel free to suggest stuff you would like to see me do as well, if I like it I'll do it)
The fights are getting longer and Suzaku is starting to have to think about his moves, I wonder exactly what will happen next? Well you better review to find out.