Ranma ½ / Legend of Zelda crossover
God-born.
Chapter 3: Gateway to Hyrule.
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Ranma and Serephina where well outside the city before they stopped walking and Ranma set up camp for the night. The mountains where peaceful compared to the city, but that itself helped to heighten Ranma's apprehension as he blindly followed the girl that claimed to be his sister. He was half expecting his father or one of his other rivals to come after him, leaping out of bushes and sneaking up in the dead of night to destroy him while he slept. Serephina noticed his unease as they sat beside the campfire.
"What's wrong Ranma?" she asked, moving closer to him and pushing a hank of dirty red hair out of her face. Ranma let himself slump slightly, "I just can't bring myself to believe that I'm totally free from my family." He sighed quietly. "I keep seeing things in the tree's around me, I see Ryoga and Shampoo, even my other fiancé's all coming after me to get me back or kill me." Serephina tsk'ed under her breath as she put an arm loosely around his shoulders. "It'll be alright now, if anyone comes after us we can work together against them, besides, the only other person who can get near us bears the same birth mark as we do."
Ranma looked at her sharply. "Birthmark?" He asked, confused. Serephina nodded and pulled back the rags that covered her wrists. Under the black fabric was a bracer made of some kind of shimmering blue metal. She removed it carefully and held up her wrist for Ranma to see. There on her skin was a triangle, naturally imprinted. Inside the perfect shape was the picture of a bare tree and a heart. It seemed to flash as she took Ranma's arm and pulled off his normal bracers to turn his wrist toward her. It was totally free of any blemish or scar. Serephina frowned and waved her hand over it. When she was done Ranma was shocked to see an identical triangle, but his had a horse rearing in flames.
Serephina smiled at his amazement, "Your parents must have heeded my advice and found a concealment charm, many a sorcerer has gone in search of the power these birthmarks represent." Her tone sounded strange, as if she where reading from a prophecy made for this exact moment. Now that he knew it was there Ranma could feel the slightest tingle of power under the surface of the mark. "What...does it mean?" Serephina sighed softly. "You...we are not human." She said carefully, Ranma continued to stare at her and she went on.
"Sixteen years ago three goddess sisters gave birth to three children at the same time on the same day. When they tried to return to the divine realm with them the gatekeeper would not let them pass. Instead he cast them through space and time, hoping like the other god's, that their children would never find their way to each other's side." Serephina stopped speaking and took a shaking breath before she went on. "Ranma, you are one of those children, as am I. We share the same blood in our veins."
Ranma took a moment to finally regain the use of speech. "So what about the third child? Our brother?" he asked and Serephina let the smallest of frowns slip onto her face. "He is the reason I have come after all this time." She started uneasily, "You see, he need's our help. Link was fighting a powerful creature, but he lost the battle. He lost everything to the creature that defeated him and by the time I worked out how to get to him, he was already broken in spirit and in body, so I came to find you."
"So does link have the same birthmark?" Ranma asked, trying to deflect the talk away from battle, Serephina nodded, "Yes, he does but it's hidden from his sight. That was another thing the gatekeeper did to us, we weren't supposed to know we had them." Ranma let himself lean back on the grassy mound behind him and stared up at the stars. He felt Serephina's gaze on him for a moment then she got up and walked into the tree's at the edge of their clearing. Before she could get far she turned back to speak one last time. "Oh and Ranma, be ready to go back into Tokyo tomorrow, we need to get into the ruins under the city, that's the gateway to the river's of time." With that she left him alone by the fire and disappeared into the night. Although as Ranma drifted into the land's of sleep, he felt far from alone.
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The next morning dawned bright and Ranma and Serephina made their way into the city once more on their way to the excavation sight, it was easy going until they reached the high walls that surrounded the entrance to the cave. They scaled the wall and crouched on the top like cats as they watched the archeologists scurry around busily. "How are we going to get in there, Sere?" Ranma asked, noting all the guards swarming around the compound.
Serephina's expression was blank as her blue eyes swept over the site. "Do you have a way to sneak around invisibly in that martial art's style of yours, brother?" She asked. Ranma nodded in reply "There's a technique my...Mr. Saotome developed called the Umisenken. It's a stealth technique." Serephina smirked in a way that reminded Ranma of himself when he got excited about the prospect of a challenge, "We have an hour to get in there or the gate to Hyrule will be pulled beyond our grasp, do you think you could get through the tunnel network with that much time."
Ranma gave her and identical smirk and slipped into the Umisenken, //Ready when you are.// He taunted. Serephina grinned and ever so quietly slid down the side of the wall and flitted behind a group of workbenches. As she peered over the top three shining items' caught her eye. "K'so!" the curse left her lips as her light fingers crawled over the bench top to retrieve the three large gems while the guard wasn't looking. They almost chimed at the close proximity to each other as she slipped them into a concealed bag tied amid her black rags.
The Emerald, Ruby and Sapphire secured Serephina moved on toward the entrance of the caves and proceeded to descend into the depths of the earth, behind her she felt the slightest of energy ripples and knew that Ranma followed close by. They moved quickly down the passages until they came to a large underground cavern, but Ranma soon noticed that it wasn't really a cavern at all, it was a very large room. He kept his eyes on Serephina as she moved around the edge's of the room where the shadows were deep toward the other end of the white stone chamber. She'd just reached the podium when a shout went up behind them. They turned around to see the archeologists leaving. "Hey! Time for a break guys, we can't stay down here." One shouted. Ranma almost sighed with relief as all but one vanished, one last investigator of ancient relics sat at a work bench looking through a microscope.
Serephina watched him for a moment before she reached over blindly and placed the gems she'd retrieved in their places in the front of the podium before she took out a ice blue ocarina and put it to her lips. A tune mixed with a commanding power rippled out over the temple of time and echoed of the walls in answer. The man in the corner looked up and gaped as he saw Serephina stand and face the wall behind the podium, still playing the powerful melody. The three gems on the alter glowed brightly in reaction to the song and lifted in the air.
Then there came a grating sound. Behind the gems and before Serephina the wall was splitting in two to reveal a chamber beyond. It was lit with natural light despite the fact that they where far underground. Both Ranma and the man broke out of their song induced trance as the grating of stone stopped with a final bang and all was still. Serephina finished the song and let the ocarina fall as the man came up behind her. "HEY YOU!" He called louder than she would have liked, "WHO ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU HERE ON THIS PRIVATE PROPERTY? HOW DID YOU GET THOSE STONES?" As he yelled he moved forward to take them back but only found himself hitting something solid as Ranma stepped out of nowhere to grab him.
"WHO ARE YOU?" he screamed, "LET ME GO!" Serephina used the workbenches as islands and made her way over to grab him by the front of his shirt and hoist him up until her face was in his. "Don't try to stop us from doing what we came to do Gaki!" She spat coldly, Ranma shuddered at the tone she used. "I will not tolerate upstarts like you trying to..." She trailed off abruptly as a commotion sounded from the entrance to the shaft. Letting go she turned and fled back to the door she'd opened. Ranma glared at the man once before he followed his sister.
The room she had opened was as quiet, the temple of time still had the sound of the ocarina's song resonating off it's walls but the silence here was deafening. Serephina moved to the center where a new platform rose out of the ground in the shape of a hexagon. Ranma moved with her and stood beside her as she knelt to blow the dust from a smaller protrusion. The symbol of the triforce was revealed and Serephina stood, drawing the glittering sword from the sheath hidden by the rags draped over her back and held it out before her over the small pedestal. Ranma looked anxiously over his shoulder to see the guards getting closer in the pursuit of a smaller figure heading right for them.
Serephina plunged the sword down into the slit and it clicked into place. A wall of blue light rose around the outer hexagon and then the inner, but not before the running figure had gotten inside. Serephina turned the sword in the stone and the blue light moved faster around them in a glowing whirlwind. The people outside could only watch as the glowing streams of time swirled and engulfed the three inside in a nimbus of power. Then with a flash brighter than the sun they where gone, and the sword along with them.
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So there's the third chapter, look out for the next if you want to find out who the other time traveler is.
Don't forget to review!
Cya ^__^\/
God-born.
Chapter 3: Gateway to Hyrule.
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Ranma and Serephina where well outside the city before they stopped walking and Ranma set up camp for the night. The mountains where peaceful compared to the city, but that itself helped to heighten Ranma's apprehension as he blindly followed the girl that claimed to be his sister. He was half expecting his father or one of his other rivals to come after him, leaping out of bushes and sneaking up in the dead of night to destroy him while he slept. Serephina noticed his unease as they sat beside the campfire.
"What's wrong Ranma?" she asked, moving closer to him and pushing a hank of dirty red hair out of her face. Ranma let himself slump slightly, "I just can't bring myself to believe that I'm totally free from my family." He sighed quietly. "I keep seeing things in the tree's around me, I see Ryoga and Shampoo, even my other fiancé's all coming after me to get me back or kill me." Serephina tsk'ed under her breath as she put an arm loosely around his shoulders. "It'll be alright now, if anyone comes after us we can work together against them, besides, the only other person who can get near us bears the same birth mark as we do."
Ranma looked at her sharply. "Birthmark?" He asked, confused. Serephina nodded and pulled back the rags that covered her wrists. Under the black fabric was a bracer made of some kind of shimmering blue metal. She removed it carefully and held up her wrist for Ranma to see. There on her skin was a triangle, naturally imprinted. Inside the perfect shape was the picture of a bare tree and a heart. It seemed to flash as she took Ranma's arm and pulled off his normal bracers to turn his wrist toward her. It was totally free of any blemish or scar. Serephina frowned and waved her hand over it. When she was done Ranma was shocked to see an identical triangle, but his had a horse rearing in flames.
Serephina smiled at his amazement, "Your parents must have heeded my advice and found a concealment charm, many a sorcerer has gone in search of the power these birthmarks represent." Her tone sounded strange, as if she where reading from a prophecy made for this exact moment. Now that he knew it was there Ranma could feel the slightest tingle of power under the surface of the mark. "What...does it mean?" Serephina sighed softly. "You...we are not human." She said carefully, Ranma continued to stare at her and she went on.
"Sixteen years ago three goddess sisters gave birth to three children at the same time on the same day. When they tried to return to the divine realm with them the gatekeeper would not let them pass. Instead he cast them through space and time, hoping like the other god's, that their children would never find their way to each other's side." Serephina stopped speaking and took a shaking breath before she went on. "Ranma, you are one of those children, as am I. We share the same blood in our veins."
Ranma took a moment to finally regain the use of speech. "So what about the third child? Our brother?" he asked and Serephina let the smallest of frowns slip onto her face. "He is the reason I have come after all this time." She started uneasily, "You see, he need's our help. Link was fighting a powerful creature, but he lost the battle. He lost everything to the creature that defeated him and by the time I worked out how to get to him, he was already broken in spirit and in body, so I came to find you."
"So does link have the same birthmark?" Ranma asked, trying to deflect the talk away from battle, Serephina nodded, "Yes, he does but it's hidden from his sight. That was another thing the gatekeeper did to us, we weren't supposed to know we had them." Ranma let himself lean back on the grassy mound behind him and stared up at the stars. He felt Serephina's gaze on him for a moment then she got up and walked into the tree's at the edge of their clearing. Before she could get far she turned back to speak one last time. "Oh and Ranma, be ready to go back into Tokyo tomorrow, we need to get into the ruins under the city, that's the gateway to the river's of time." With that she left him alone by the fire and disappeared into the night. Although as Ranma drifted into the land's of sleep, he felt far from alone.
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The next morning dawned bright and Ranma and Serephina made their way into the city once more on their way to the excavation sight, it was easy going until they reached the high walls that surrounded the entrance to the cave. They scaled the wall and crouched on the top like cats as they watched the archeologists scurry around busily. "How are we going to get in there, Sere?" Ranma asked, noting all the guards swarming around the compound.
Serephina's expression was blank as her blue eyes swept over the site. "Do you have a way to sneak around invisibly in that martial art's style of yours, brother?" She asked. Ranma nodded in reply "There's a technique my...Mr. Saotome developed called the Umisenken. It's a stealth technique." Serephina smirked in a way that reminded Ranma of himself when he got excited about the prospect of a challenge, "We have an hour to get in there or the gate to Hyrule will be pulled beyond our grasp, do you think you could get through the tunnel network with that much time."
Ranma gave her and identical smirk and slipped into the Umisenken, //Ready when you are.// He taunted. Serephina grinned and ever so quietly slid down the side of the wall and flitted behind a group of workbenches. As she peered over the top three shining items' caught her eye. "K'so!" the curse left her lips as her light fingers crawled over the bench top to retrieve the three large gems while the guard wasn't looking. They almost chimed at the close proximity to each other as she slipped them into a concealed bag tied amid her black rags.
The Emerald, Ruby and Sapphire secured Serephina moved on toward the entrance of the caves and proceeded to descend into the depths of the earth, behind her she felt the slightest of energy ripples and knew that Ranma followed close by. They moved quickly down the passages until they came to a large underground cavern, but Ranma soon noticed that it wasn't really a cavern at all, it was a very large room. He kept his eyes on Serephina as she moved around the edge's of the room where the shadows were deep toward the other end of the white stone chamber. She'd just reached the podium when a shout went up behind them. They turned around to see the archeologists leaving. "Hey! Time for a break guys, we can't stay down here." One shouted. Ranma almost sighed with relief as all but one vanished, one last investigator of ancient relics sat at a work bench looking through a microscope.
Serephina watched him for a moment before she reached over blindly and placed the gems she'd retrieved in their places in the front of the podium before she took out a ice blue ocarina and put it to her lips. A tune mixed with a commanding power rippled out over the temple of time and echoed of the walls in answer. The man in the corner looked up and gaped as he saw Serephina stand and face the wall behind the podium, still playing the powerful melody. The three gems on the alter glowed brightly in reaction to the song and lifted in the air.
Then there came a grating sound. Behind the gems and before Serephina the wall was splitting in two to reveal a chamber beyond. It was lit with natural light despite the fact that they where far underground. Both Ranma and the man broke out of their song induced trance as the grating of stone stopped with a final bang and all was still. Serephina finished the song and let the ocarina fall as the man came up behind her. "HEY YOU!" He called louder than she would have liked, "WHO ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU HERE ON THIS PRIVATE PROPERTY? HOW DID YOU GET THOSE STONES?" As he yelled he moved forward to take them back but only found himself hitting something solid as Ranma stepped out of nowhere to grab him.
"WHO ARE YOU?" he screamed, "LET ME GO!" Serephina used the workbenches as islands and made her way over to grab him by the front of his shirt and hoist him up until her face was in his. "Don't try to stop us from doing what we came to do Gaki!" She spat coldly, Ranma shuddered at the tone she used. "I will not tolerate upstarts like you trying to..." She trailed off abruptly as a commotion sounded from the entrance to the shaft. Letting go she turned and fled back to the door she'd opened. Ranma glared at the man once before he followed his sister.
The room she had opened was as quiet, the temple of time still had the sound of the ocarina's song resonating off it's walls but the silence here was deafening. Serephina moved to the center where a new platform rose out of the ground in the shape of a hexagon. Ranma moved with her and stood beside her as she knelt to blow the dust from a smaller protrusion. The symbol of the triforce was revealed and Serephina stood, drawing the glittering sword from the sheath hidden by the rags draped over her back and held it out before her over the small pedestal. Ranma looked anxiously over his shoulder to see the guards getting closer in the pursuit of a smaller figure heading right for them.
Serephina plunged the sword down into the slit and it clicked into place. A wall of blue light rose around the outer hexagon and then the inner, but not before the running figure had gotten inside. Serephina turned the sword in the stone and the blue light moved faster around them in a glowing whirlwind. The people outside could only watch as the glowing streams of time swirled and engulfed the three inside in a nimbus of power. Then with a flash brighter than the sun they where gone, and the sword along with them.
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So there's the third chapter, look out for the next if you want to find out who the other time traveler is.
Don't forget to review!
Cya ^__^\/