Ranma ½ / Legend of Zelda crossover
God-born.
Chapter 7: Past lives and fighting old foes.
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The view of Hyrule field from horseback didn't look as dank as the dead city or the ranch they'd left behind. It was easy going for the four, Din's eye still shone over them, its light protecting them from some of the dangers that would have already taken the disorganized group by surprise had it been the moon that shone her light. Ranma rode ahead of the others on his own, still trying to get the hang of directing the big stallion that had taken a liking to him back in the hidden stable. So far all he'd managed was to zigzag across the other's path multiple times with all the grace of a certain drunken panda. Which really wasn't a lot at all.
He was thrown off into a tree for the fifth time when he finally caught wind of Kasumi's giggles. He gave her a dirty look and swung himself back on to the stallion's back, this time managing to stay on. Disgruntled, he didn't pay attention to what he was doing; flawlessly he turned the black horse and rode off toward the gates of the lake in the distance without so much as a hitch. Kasumi giggled again, she was riding double on the white mare with Serephina. Beside them on Epona Link had a slightly glazed look in his eyes as he smirked at Ranma's back. He looked over the martial artists head at the entry to the lakeside. He shuddered with barely repressed fear that he thought went unnoticed by the girls chatting nearby.
Water had been the cause of his problems, the creature... no Morpha, scared him to his very soul. It had taken more than Navi from him the day he'd faced it. The fairy had been unable to help him at all except for the spell that had inevitably saved his life at the price of his own. The master sword had been cast aside before he could use it, like a wooden toy by the steal like tentacles that had broken more than just his will to live...
Serephina and Kasumi watched out of the corner of their eyes as Link slumped forward, lost in his own tortured thoughts. Serephina turned her head to the side and let one blue eye catch Kasumi's brown one's. They both had the same suspicions as to what had occurred to make the hero of time like this, but neither wanted to voice their theory for fear that it might just be correct. The rest of the ride was spent in silence as they caught up with Ranma and crossed into the area of the lake where their first enemy to face together waited underneath the water, waiting for the hero who its master told him to destroy.
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"Soooo..." Ranma lay on the grass a little way from the fire that they'd built near one of the cliff's that surrounded the dried up lake. Link had refused to let them go near the water so they'd set up camp by the entrance to Hyrule field. Kasumi had been thinking of everything when she'd packed up and left her home behind back in the human world. Her mother had taken her and her sister's camping all over Japan before she'd died, so the eldest Tendo knew as much as Ranma when it came to living in the wilderness. The food she'd forced them all to eat was testament to that at least. "What was it like in the world you come from Sere?"
The black clad street rat looked over from where she was brushing down the horses with a brush she'd nicked from the ranch. Her hand faltered when she heard Ranma's question. She didn't turn around either when she felt Kasumi and Link's attention turn to her as well. It looked like she wasn't going to speak when she resumed brushing her mare. Then not turning around she spoke. "In my world there was a war, the war sent hundreds of children to orphanages and on to the streets. I myself was in an orphanage until it was shut down because of a lack of money to keep it running, I was only six at the time." Her voice was strained, but she continued nonetheless.
"Basically, my world was hell to grow up in. The adults fought day and night for what felt like years before they began to drop bombs, wiping out whole cities of people cold-heartedly. Then once they'd all shot each other us kids reemerged. All of us had been hiding, learning how to fight and spy to keep one step ahead of the adults the whole time, there wasn't many of us left, the whole human population of my world was nearly dead." The other three began to realize just how tough she'd had it. Serephina finally finished brushing her mare and moved on to Epona, needing something to keep her hands busy as she spoke.
"For a while the kids worked together with some of the remaining adults to put things back together but then all hell broke loose again. You see, we had practically returned to a medieval era, most technology was destroyed but some remained and some of the gangs had repaired it and tried to take control of the rest of them few knew how to develop new ones and if they did they hid away from the others so they wouldn't be used." Ranma sat up and looked right at Serephina.
"Sere, back at the ranch you used a bomb on the skeleton thingy and you said that your world had been more advanced, I'm guessing you must have been one of the developers the gangs went after weren't you." Serephina gave up on trying to brush the horses and dropped the brush into a saddlebag before she flopped to the ground and lay looking up at the stars like Ranma had been a moment ago.
"Yeah." She said wearily, "I was... I was running away from a gang when I came across the temple of time in my world, it was on the side of a really steep cliff face by the ocean and was half flooded by the rising tide for most of the day. I lived there for god knows how long before I read the inscription on the alter and figured out that there was another door beyond it. I spent a while looking for the three gems after that, you wouldn't believe what I had to go through to get them." A faint smile crossed her face while she remembered some fond memory but didn't let on about what it was. "So then once I had all the stones I put them on the alter, but nothing happened, so I just rigged up my leftover C4 an blew the door to smithereens and scared Link out of his skin." Ranma looked over at Link and saw him scowling at their sister. He hid a smile of his own and almost choked, Link swung his glare on him and Ranma quickly looked away.
"How did you scare him if he was supposed to be here?" Kasumi asked in a confused tone. Serephina had the hint of a frown on her formerly smiling face.
"I tried to go back to the past." Link spoke up in a soft and deadly tone, the most emotion that either Ranma or Kasumi had seen from him since their arrival, other than depressed or frightened. "I wanted to see if a friend of mine might have survived there..." He trailed off briefly and his eyes went distant before he shook himself back to the present. "But instead he master sword took me to a different place and the door of time was shut, the master sword wouldn't let me go back right away so I sat around..." The others could tell that this wasn't a whole truth. "Then one day the door gets blasted in like it had had a dozen bombs lit outside and there she is, laughing I might add." He glared at Serephina again who had sat up with a frown.
"At least I hadn't been trying to hide! How do you hide in a round room anyway, not to mention if I hadn't blown in the door I would have never gotten to you in time to fix you up!" Her tone had been defensive, as she'd all but yelled. Link turned sullen as he was reminded that she'd been the one to take care of him after what Morpha...
When it looked like Link wasn't going to say anything else Serephina continued with her story. "Anyway, while I'd been checking him over I found the birth mark and put the story behind our dreams and the legends together. Link wouldn't tell me why he'd been trying to get back to the past, but I worked out how to get us back to Hyrule and went on to find you Ranma, after that...you know the rest." Ranma nodded and lay back again, looking up at the stars, none of them looked like the constellations back on earth. Ranma guessed that Hyrule wasn't just an alternate world, more like a different time and place entirely. No one else spoke that night as three of the four settled down to sleep. Link stayed up to watch the water, unable to sleep knowing that 'It' was so close.
He wouldn't let it get him this time.
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The next morning Din's eye woke them as it rose in the east, lighting up the clear sky with pinks and gold's. The sleepers awoke and set about getting ready for the day. Ranma and Kasumi where looking forward to the new adventure they faced while Link was refusing to move one inch closer to the water. Eventually Serephina took the hero aside.
"Your going to have to face it some time Link." She said in a low voice. Link looked back at her with a dear in the headlights expression written all over his face.
"How..." he stuttered, Serephina looked him in the eye.
"I guessed." She said flatly, "I've seen things like this before and now is definitely not the time to break down. You need to get over this or you are never going to be able to get all this shit over and done with." Link looked ready to cry.
"I can't..." he whispered pleadingly, "It killed Navi! I don't want to face it alone." Serephina sighed.
"You won't be alone this time you bum." She rebuked him mildly. "If it gets to close we can always find a way to freeze it, Ranma mentioned a technique he learned named the soul of ice or something and I have my ice bombs." Link still didn't look consoled at all. He opened his mouth to protest again but Serephina covered it before a sound could escape. "Don't ignore my advice Link, I'm serious. Face you fears and break them, not yourself!" with that she let go and turned to grab a rope off the mare's saddle and slung it over her shoulders to conceal it amid the rags. Link reached around and put a hand on the hilt of the Master Sword holding it tight over his shoulder for comfort. This time he really didn't have a choice, he resigned himself for another loss as Serephina and the others dragged him to the water at the base of the island. As the water closed around his feet his fear reared its head and the hero of time froze.
"I don't want to go." He said aloud. Serephina looked at him, her hard look fading. She turned to Ranma then.
"Ranma," she started, "do you know anyway to get rid of the water?" Ranma thought hard for a moment then his face split into a grin at the prospect of a challenge.
"Yup! Take a step back!" Kasumi, Link and Serephina wisely moved away as Ranma waded into the water and began to summon his extensive battle aura. Around him the water began to boil and soon enough it had evaporated completely. Kasumi applauded the trick while Ranma grinned lopsidedly and gave a mock bow. "Is that enough for you?" he asked, Serephina nodded and promptly began to drag Link inside.
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Morpha's chamber was eerily quiet to Link. The pool of water remained still as he pulled himself out of Serephina's grasp and quickly went to stand in a corner of the room away from the spikes that lined the walls. He looked further down the platform and saw a long dried smear of blood. The Hyilian shuddered in fear as his eyes darted around, watching the surface of the water. Ranma jumped out onto the closest platform that was raised out of the water. "I don't see anything." He muttered, scanning the room for a Ki signature. Serephina narrowed her eyes and looked down at the water, taking note of how Link avoided it.
"Ranma, have you checked the water?" she asked. Ranma looked at her then down at the still blue pool in time to see a large transparent liquid tentacle blast out from below the surface and try to grab him.
"Whoa!" Ranma leapt out of the way of the tentacle and gaped openly, "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!" he yelled as it sluiced over the podium's surface when the aquatic limb fell apart.
"It's Morpha." Link's petrified voice whispered somewhere to Ranma's right. "It controls the water, don't let it grab hold of you or you'll never get free." A tentacle reached out of the center again and this time a small spherical, unidentified organism, floated up inside it. Ranma guessed it was trying to see where he'd gone. The martial artist gaped stupidly.
"That looks like something Akane cooked." He said finally. He was ready to move again when another tentacle popped out of the water suddenly and grabbed him. He hadn't even sensed it coming! Link was shouting something in the background as Ranma fought the grip it had on him when he felt it...
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" Serephina yelled breaking Ranma's daze, a small plonk sounded in the wake of her yell. For what seemed like forever nothing happened, then the water exploded. It shot out of the center like a fountain freezing into an icicle before it could fall back to the rapidly cooling pond. The tentacle around the pigtailed martial artist seized up and went as cold as the soul of ice before a sword came out of nowhere and smashed it to pieces around him. Ranma fell onto his back and looked up to see Link standing over him, radiating pure hatred as he glared at the amoeba inside the great icicle. Ranma got the feeling then that now would be a good time to hide as Link gripped the Master Sword tighter and leapt forward. Ranma was impressed; Link could be a really powerful martial artist if only he'd had a bit of training.
His train of thought was put aside for a second though as he saw Link land beside the rapidly melting ice. Link was faltering slightly now that he was so close to the creature he'd sworn to avoid after the first time he'd lost to it. A memory of a bright fairy floating beside him and what it had tried to do to Ranma and himself brought back the fury he'd felt moments before. The Master Sword arced around and cleaved through the ice as though it was butter and split the amoeba cleanly in half. A small voice that definitely wasn't human screamed out in pain as the nucleus pulsed and exploded outwards sending shards of ice flying, embedding into the walls.
When the light of the explosion finally faded Ranma got to his feet and joined Serephina and Kasumi in staring at the hero as he stared at his own hand's in disbelief. A soft ringing sound resonated around the empty chamber as Link glanced over to see his companions' smiles. Serephina's being the brightest of them all. "I...I did it." He gasped. Very slowly his lips twitched upward into a smile of his own, he began to chuckle, something that quickly turned into a laugh of pure relief. The newfound smile never leaving his face as he reveled in the unexpected victory. In his haze a single thought ran though his mind.
'This is much better than facing these monsters alone.'
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O_o Oh jeeze! Eight pages! Have you guessed what Morpha did to Link yet? If you haven't guessed it then you'll have to look harder because I really don't feel like telling yet. Everything will get told when Link faces Ganondorf for the last time.
Don't forget to review!
Cya ^__^\/
God-born.
Chapter 7: Past lives and fighting old foes.
~~~~~
The view of Hyrule field from horseback didn't look as dank as the dead city or the ranch they'd left behind. It was easy going for the four, Din's eye still shone over them, its light protecting them from some of the dangers that would have already taken the disorganized group by surprise had it been the moon that shone her light. Ranma rode ahead of the others on his own, still trying to get the hang of directing the big stallion that had taken a liking to him back in the hidden stable. So far all he'd managed was to zigzag across the other's path multiple times with all the grace of a certain drunken panda. Which really wasn't a lot at all.
He was thrown off into a tree for the fifth time when he finally caught wind of Kasumi's giggles. He gave her a dirty look and swung himself back on to the stallion's back, this time managing to stay on. Disgruntled, he didn't pay attention to what he was doing; flawlessly he turned the black horse and rode off toward the gates of the lake in the distance without so much as a hitch. Kasumi giggled again, she was riding double on the white mare with Serephina. Beside them on Epona Link had a slightly glazed look in his eyes as he smirked at Ranma's back. He looked over the martial artists head at the entry to the lakeside. He shuddered with barely repressed fear that he thought went unnoticed by the girls chatting nearby.
Water had been the cause of his problems, the creature... no Morpha, scared him to his very soul. It had taken more than Navi from him the day he'd faced it. The fairy had been unable to help him at all except for the spell that had inevitably saved his life at the price of his own. The master sword had been cast aside before he could use it, like a wooden toy by the steal like tentacles that had broken more than just his will to live...
Serephina and Kasumi watched out of the corner of their eyes as Link slumped forward, lost in his own tortured thoughts. Serephina turned her head to the side and let one blue eye catch Kasumi's brown one's. They both had the same suspicions as to what had occurred to make the hero of time like this, but neither wanted to voice their theory for fear that it might just be correct. The rest of the ride was spent in silence as they caught up with Ranma and crossed into the area of the lake where their first enemy to face together waited underneath the water, waiting for the hero who its master told him to destroy.
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"Soooo..." Ranma lay on the grass a little way from the fire that they'd built near one of the cliff's that surrounded the dried up lake. Link had refused to let them go near the water so they'd set up camp by the entrance to Hyrule field. Kasumi had been thinking of everything when she'd packed up and left her home behind back in the human world. Her mother had taken her and her sister's camping all over Japan before she'd died, so the eldest Tendo knew as much as Ranma when it came to living in the wilderness. The food she'd forced them all to eat was testament to that at least. "What was it like in the world you come from Sere?"
The black clad street rat looked over from where she was brushing down the horses with a brush she'd nicked from the ranch. Her hand faltered when she heard Ranma's question. She didn't turn around either when she felt Kasumi and Link's attention turn to her as well. It looked like she wasn't going to speak when she resumed brushing her mare. Then not turning around she spoke. "In my world there was a war, the war sent hundreds of children to orphanages and on to the streets. I myself was in an orphanage until it was shut down because of a lack of money to keep it running, I was only six at the time." Her voice was strained, but she continued nonetheless.
"Basically, my world was hell to grow up in. The adults fought day and night for what felt like years before they began to drop bombs, wiping out whole cities of people cold-heartedly. Then once they'd all shot each other us kids reemerged. All of us had been hiding, learning how to fight and spy to keep one step ahead of the adults the whole time, there wasn't many of us left, the whole human population of my world was nearly dead." The other three began to realize just how tough she'd had it. Serephina finally finished brushing her mare and moved on to Epona, needing something to keep her hands busy as she spoke.
"For a while the kids worked together with some of the remaining adults to put things back together but then all hell broke loose again. You see, we had practically returned to a medieval era, most technology was destroyed but some remained and some of the gangs had repaired it and tried to take control of the rest of them few knew how to develop new ones and if they did they hid away from the others so they wouldn't be used." Ranma sat up and looked right at Serephina.
"Sere, back at the ranch you used a bomb on the skeleton thingy and you said that your world had been more advanced, I'm guessing you must have been one of the developers the gangs went after weren't you." Serephina gave up on trying to brush the horses and dropped the brush into a saddlebag before she flopped to the ground and lay looking up at the stars like Ranma had been a moment ago.
"Yeah." She said wearily, "I was... I was running away from a gang when I came across the temple of time in my world, it was on the side of a really steep cliff face by the ocean and was half flooded by the rising tide for most of the day. I lived there for god knows how long before I read the inscription on the alter and figured out that there was another door beyond it. I spent a while looking for the three gems after that, you wouldn't believe what I had to go through to get them." A faint smile crossed her face while she remembered some fond memory but didn't let on about what it was. "So then once I had all the stones I put them on the alter, but nothing happened, so I just rigged up my leftover C4 an blew the door to smithereens and scared Link out of his skin." Ranma looked over at Link and saw him scowling at their sister. He hid a smile of his own and almost choked, Link swung his glare on him and Ranma quickly looked away.
"How did you scare him if he was supposed to be here?" Kasumi asked in a confused tone. Serephina had the hint of a frown on her formerly smiling face.
"I tried to go back to the past." Link spoke up in a soft and deadly tone, the most emotion that either Ranma or Kasumi had seen from him since their arrival, other than depressed or frightened. "I wanted to see if a friend of mine might have survived there..." He trailed off briefly and his eyes went distant before he shook himself back to the present. "But instead he master sword took me to a different place and the door of time was shut, the master sword wouldn't let me go back right away so I sat around..." The others could tell that this wasn't a whole truth. "Then one day the door gets blasted in like it had had a dozen bombs lit outside and there she is, laughing I might add." He glared at Serephina again who had sat up with a frown.
"At least I hadn't been trying to hide! How do you hide in a round room anyway, not to mention if I hadn't blown in the door I would have never gotten to you in time to fix you up!" Her tone had been defensive, as she'd all but yelled. Link turned sullen as he was reminded that she'd been the one to take care of him after what Morpha...
When it looked like Link wasn't going to say anything else Serephina continued with her story. "Anyway, while I'd been checking him over I found the birth mark and put the story behind our dreams and the legends together. Link wouldn't tell me why he'd been trying to get back to the past, but I worked out how to get us back to Hyrule and went on to find you Ranma, after that...you know the rest." Ranma nodded and lay back again, looking up at the stars, none of them looked like the constellations back on earth. Ranma guessed that Hyrule wasn't just an alternate world, more like a different time and place entirely. No one else spoke that night as three of the four settled down to sleep. Link stayed up to watch the water, unable to sleep knowing that 'It' was so close.
He wouldn't let it get him this time.
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The next morning Din's eye woke them as it rose in the east, lighting up the clear sky with pinks and gold's. The sleepers awoke and set about getting ready for the day. Ranma and Kasumi where looking forward to the new adventure they faced while Link was refusing to move one inch closer to the water. Eventually Serephina took the hero aside.
"Your going to have to face it some time Link." She said in a low voice. Link looked back at her with a dear in the headlights expression written all over his face.
"How..." he stuttered, Serephina looked him in the eye.
"I guessed." She said flatly, "I've seen things like this before and now is definitely not the time to break down. You need to get over this or you are never going to be able to get all this shit over and done with." Link looked ready to cry.
"I can't..." he whispered pleadingly, "It killed Navi! I don't want to face it alone." Serephina sighed.
"You won't be alone this time you bum." She rebuked him mildly. "If it gets to close we can always find a way to freeze it, Ranma mentioned a technique he learned named the soul of ice or something and I have my ice bombs." Link still didn't look consoled at all. He opened his mouth to protest again but Serephina covered it before a sound could escape. "Don't ignore my advice Link, I'm serious. Face you fears and break them, not yourself!" with that she let go and turned to grab a rope off the mare's saddle and slung it over her shoulders to conceal it amid the rags. Link reached around and put a hand on the hilt of the Master Sword holding it tight over his shoulder for comfort. This time he really didn't have a choice, he resigned himself for another loss as Serephina and the others dragged him to the water at the base of the island. As the water closed around his feet his fear reared its head and the hero of time froze.
"I don't want to go." He said aloud. Serephina looked at him, her hard look fading. She turned to Ranma then.
"Ranma," she started, "do you know anyway to get rid of the water?" Ranma thought hard for a moment then his face split into a grin at the prospect of a challenge.
"Yup! Take a step back!" Kasumi, Link and Serephina wisely moved away as Ranma waded into the water and began to summon his extensive battle aura. Around him the water began to boil and soon enough it had evaporated completely. Kasumi applauded the trick while Ranma grinned lopsidedly and gave a mock bow. "Is that enough for you?" he asked, Serephina nodded and promptly began to drag Link inside.
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Morpha's chamber was eerily quiet to Link. The pool of water remained still as he pulled himself out of Serephina's grasp and quickly went to stand in a corner of the room away from the spikes that lined the walls. He looked further down the platform and saw a long dried smear of blood. The Hyilian shuddered in fear as his eyes darted around, watching the surface of the water. Ranma jumped out onto the closest platform that was raised out of the water. "I don't see anything." He muttered, scanning the room for a Ki signature. Serephina narrowed her eyes and looked down at the water, taking note of how Link avoided it.
"Ranma, have you checked the water?" she asked. Ranma looked at her then down at the still blue pool in time to see a large transparent liquid tentacle blast out from below the surface and try to grab him.
"Whoa!" Ranma leapt out of the way of the tentacle and gaped openly, "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!" he yelled as it sluiced over the podium's surface when the aquatic limb fell apart.
"It's Morpha." Link's petrified voice whispered somewhere to Ranma's right. "It controls the water, don't let it grab hold of you or you'll never get free." A tentacle reached out of the center again and this time a small spherical, unidentified organism, floated up inside it. Ranma guessed it was trying to see where he'd gone. The martial artist gaped stupidly.
"That looks like something Akane cooked." He said finally. He was ready to move again when another tentacle popped out of the water suddenly and grabbed him. He hadn't even sensed it coming! Link was shouting something in the background as Ranma fought the grip it had on him when he felt it...
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" Serephina yelled breaking Ranma's daze, a small plonk sounded in the wake of her yell. For what seemed like forever nothing happened, then the water exploded. It shot out of the center like a fountain freezing into an icicle before it could fall back to the rapidly cooling pond. The tentacle around the pigtailed martial artist seized up and went as cold as the soul of ice before a sword came out of nowhere and smashed it to pieces around him. Ranma fell onto his back and looked up to see Link standing over him, radiating pure hatred as he glared at the amoeba inside the great icicle. Ranma got the feeling then that now would be a good time to hide as Link gripped the Master Sword tighter and leapt forward. Ranma was impressed; Link could be a really powerful martial artist if only he'd had a bit of training.
His train of thought was put aside for a second though as he saw Link land beside the rapidly melting ice. Link was faltering slightly now that he was so close to the creature he'd sworn to avoid after the first time he'd lost to it. A memory of a bright fairy floating beside him and what it had tried to do to Ranma and himself brought back the fury he'd felt moments before. The Master Sword arced around and cleaved through the ice as though it was butter and split the amoeba cleanly in half. A small voice that definitely wasn't human screamed out in pain as the nucleus pulsed and exploded outwards sending shards of ice flying, embedding into the walls.
When the light of the explosion finally faded Ranma got to his feet and joined Serephina and Kasumi in staring at the hero as he stared at his own hand's in disbelief. A soft ringing sound resonated around the empty chamber as Link glanced over to see his companions' smiles. Serephina's being the brightest of them all. "I...I did it." He gasped. Very slowly his lips twitched upward into a smile of his own, he began to chuckle, something that quickly turned into a laugh of pure relief. The newfound smile never leaving his face as he reveled in the unexpected victory. In his haze a single thought ran though his mind.
'This is much better than facing these monsters alone.'
~~~~~
O_o Oh jeeze! Eight pages! Have you guessed what Morpha did to Link yet? If you haven't guessed it then you'll have to look harder because I really don't feel like telling yet. Everything will get told when Link faces Ganondorf for the last time.
Don't forget to review!
Cya ^__^\/