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Several days later, in mountains in the northern part of Terminia, Suzaku, Tira, Kain, and Snitch all stood looking into the highest parts of the mountains. "So this is it?" Tira asked, bundling herself into a warm fur coat.
"I still want to know where you found that thing," Kain commented looking at her from the corner of his eye.
"I could care less," Suzaku butted in as he turned around to face them, his right arm still bandaged up, but apparently much better than it had been a few days ago, "She has it, and that's all that's important."
"Suzaku vanished last night and came back with it," Snitch whispered in Kain's ear.
"This will be the hardest part of this journey I'm afraid," Suzaku told them, "I barely made it over these mountains. So I'll give you a chance to back out."
"Not a chance, Gerudo and pirate honor are at stake for me," Tira stubbornly stated.
"You two are going, which means I'm going," Kain stated, "To go and kill a god, that isn't something you get too many chances to do."
"Well Hyrule's my home," Snitch stated, "I have to go back sometime, might as well go with people I at the least consider friends."
"So the two of you are willing to risk the field?" Suzaku asked.
"How many times must we say this?" both Tira and Kain responded instantly.
"Very well, then lets get going," Suzaku said as they slowly began to make their way across the mountains.
Elsewhere, in Hyrule, inside a temple Link was walking down the red carpet towards a pedestal. "Are you sure this is a good idea Link? It means we release Ganondorf," Navi said as Link stopped in front of the pedestal.
"No, I'm not sure, but…we need to stop this Genbu, and this master he serves," Link stated as he clenched his fist.
"But there must be another way, a less dangerous way,"
"I don't see it though," Link said as he slowly took out a small blue ocarina.
"Hold it right there, who are you to try and open the Door of Time?" a sharp voice demanded as Link whirled about to face whoever it was.
"Zelda?" Link said as he looked at the woman in an elegant white dress who was behind him, looking straight into her bright blue eyes.
"I am Queen Zelda, who are…" she began to say, two solders walking in with spears at the ready, as her eyes rested on the ocarina for a moment and then on Link, "Link…is that you?"
"Yes," Link replied, "I'm back, I'm sorry, but I need the Master Sword, a great evil has…"
"The Dark God and his three minions that now reside in this land?" Zelda stated, "I know about them. Seiryu, Byakko, Genbu, and as the last one refers to himself, Link."
"What? Zelda you can't mean to think that is me can you?" Link asked looking hurt.
"No, but I believe he has some sort of connection to you," Zelda stated as she shooed the guards away, "And I believe you are the only one who can…"
"Not this time I'm afraid," a light airy voice butted in, coming from high above them, "The master does not want him interfering, and thus I am here to further stall him."
"And you are?" Link asked as he looked for the source of the voice.
"Byakko," the voice replied as a figure in white chainmail armor, a white tunic, white pants, and white boots appeared from a sudden gust of wind. "I am Byakko the Tiger of the West."
Link looked into Byakko's glowing white eyes and studied his lithe frame, "So you have come to fight me?"
"Why yes, of course I have," Byakko responded, "We mustn't have you interfering with Suzaku's return."
Back in Terminia, Suzaku and the others slowly crossed the mountain and were nearing a strange distortion in the air. "This is it!" Snitch yelled out, "This is the place where we have to go through.
"Last chance!" Suzaku yelled out.
"For you to shut up!" Tira replied, "We're coming."
"Suit yourselves," Suzaku stated as they slowly began to walk through the field, "Harder going back than it is to leave."
"That is it," Snitch complained as he landed on Kain's shoulder and held on, "I'm having a hell of a time with it."
They walked through the field for at least twenty minutes, across the mountainside, until they reached an area without the snow that blanketed the Terminian mountains. "We're getting close," Suzaku said as a shadow appeared around them.
"Suzaku, I'm disappointed in you, bringing along pawns to a game only kings get to fight in," Seiryu said as he appeared higher up on the mountainside.
"And you are?" Suzaku asked as he unsheathed his sword.
"Seiryu, the Dragon of the East," Seiryu responded with a coy smirk, "I'm sorry, I'm just here to do this…" Seiryu held out two fingers as two orbs of blue energy formed at the tips. They rocketed off and hit both Tira and Kain, sending them flying off, and then suddenly they stopped. "Feel lucky fairy, I can't freeze you in this place as well," Seiryu stated as he vanished.
"Suzaku!" Snitch yelled as he flew around Tira and Kain, "What are we going to do?"
"The same thing as before, I'm going to find the Fierce Deity, and then I'll kill him," Suzaku stated as he began to walk off away from them.
"But! What about…"
"I said I didn't care, I will not allow him to try and use people against me, I owe someone my life, and I will not allow him to use her against me,"
"But don't you…"
"No, they did it out of duty of some sort," Suzaku said as he growled, and then sighed as he walked off, "She helped me out of pity, and now that bastard is trying to use her against me. I'll save her as payment for saving me. And I'll kill the Fierce Deity for myself."
"Link, Link, Link," Byakko taunted as he dodged every attack Link attempted to launch at him, "You are much too slow to kill me. You have to speed up if you ever want to hit me."
"I'll kill you, I won't let you or your damn master endanger Hyrule," Link growled as he held out his right palm as flames licked up from it.
"Oh really? A simple fireball spell? What makes you think that will harm me?" Byakko asked as he stood still, "I'll let you hit me with it."
"DIN'S FIRE!" Link yelled as he thrust his palm to the ground as flames exploded out from it as they covered the room, and yet burnt nothing until they reached Byakko.
"Ahhh…ahhhh!" Byakko yelled out as his eyes widened in fear, trying to put the fire out that even now was burning his armor and clothing, slowly eating its way to him, "But how? How has it not burnt anything else?"
"The power of the goddesses," Zelda stated, "That was Din's holy fire, the fire which only harms those who defy her. You an your master have defied her."
"But…" Byakko said as the flames began to devour him as well, spreading with godlike speed as he vanished.
"Very impressive Link," another voice stated as water welled up as a new figure appeared behind him, Seiryu appeared behind him, "But Byakko served his purpose, so what you did was in vain."
"What do you mean?" Link growled as he readied himself for another fight.
"Oh no need for that Link, I'm not here to fight. As for what I mean," Seiryu replied, smirking all the while, "Suzaku has arrived back in Hyrule, and even now is heading towards Lake Hyrule."
"Why do you want Dark Link?" Zelda asked looking at Seiryu, in amusement of all things.
"We want him because the Master needs something from him," Seiryu answered as he bowed politely to Zelda, "An honor queen of this land."
"What would…"
"The soul, my master sustained injuries that he wishes to repair, and the only way he can do that is with the soul of the shadow,"
"Then why not go and kill that bastard?" Link growled.
"Because the Master cannot leave his hostage unattended, and he wishes to anger Suzaku,"
"Anger him?" Link asked with a smirk, "You can't make him angry."
"Yes we can, his hatred for you is incredible, and because he believes my master is you, he misplaces that anger and thus the weakness is formed," Seiryu stated, and the vanished.
Suzaku slowly moved through the Kokiri Forest, coming upon the scene of destruction Link had before him. And he smirked as he walked through it, unphased by it, only finding amusement in the scene. "I know what he told you already," Suzaku said as he passed Saria who started to walk out to speak with him.
"Then you know it's a trap," she snapped at him.
"I know, and I know who he's using as bait, I'm going to repay a debt I owe her. And I'm going to kill the Fierce Deity," Suzaku stated as he walked away from her.
"I am the darkness," he said as the shadows of the forest began to swirl about him, "I am evil. I am a monster."
The shadows formed into copies of himself, but vanished quickly, Suzaku obviously incapable of keeping it up. "With my hatred I shall burn away this imposter, this Fierce Deity who plays the part of my enemy," he said to himself, "I know you hear me Fierce Deity. We will fight, and one of us will win. The other shall spend all eternity in the fiery bowels of hell itself."
Off in the distance, on the crystal clear shores of Lake Hyrule, in the middle of the lake on the small island, the Fierce Deity sat in a grand stone made of ebony, the waters burning with black flames. The island was devoid of all grass, and the tree had been carved into a giant cross, a tanned woman tied to it. "Yes," the Fierce Deity said with a smirk, "We shall fight, that we will, so come along, hurry and come to me."
"Master" Seiryu said as he appeared kneeling next to the Fierce Deity.
"What is it my servant?"
"Would you like me to join Genbu atop the mountain to stall Link further?"
"Is it what you wish?"
"It is," Seiryu responded as the Fierce Deity smirked.
And that is where I'll end this chapter. Sorry if I'm moving faster now. I wonder if some of you have guessed where this is heading yet. Oh well, only the most observant will figure it out, or the people with the best memories. Well then, one question for ya'll today…
1) Do you like where things are heading?
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