Ranma ½ / Legend of Zelda crossover
God-born.
Chapter 9: What's a Gerudo?
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Sheik had a stone-faced expression no one could read as he rode behind Ranma on the black stallion. He'd agreed to go with the strange siblings to the valley of the Gerudo purely because if he where to go back to Impa and the other Sheikah now, the princesses old nursemaid would most likely rip his head off and feed it to some dongo before he could find a way to explain himself. So it was better to play it safe and avoid the woman for as long as possible. He turned his attention to the group he'd joined. Sheik had been stunned to find out that the Hero of Time had a family. According to Zelda and Impa the hero was supposed to remain alone in his quest.
Obviously they had been wrong.
It was becoming more and more obvious to the young sheikah that the three couldn't have been anymore different, but when it really came down to it they turned out to be connected on a deeper level, the ties between them would be seen by anyone with a second sight. Their aura's glowed powerfully around them and the very sense that they where important radiated from all three, like a voice was yelling it in his head. He turned his attention to the red haired girl as her white mare came level with the stallion.
"Are you a Gerudo?" He asked, speaking for the first time in a lower voice than Zelda had been using while she controlled his body. The girl looked at him with a curious expression.
"What's a Gerudo?" she asked, honestly not knowing what race of people she resembled. Sheik looked away and began to explain, deciding it wouldn't hurt to tell.
"The Gerudo are a race of female thieves, they often refuse to steal from women and children and most of the time it is the really rich that they take from. They have a code of honor respected by the people of the surrounding countries." Right from the words 'a race of female thieves' Ranma had instantly begun to get a serious sense of dread as he listened to Sheik's descriptions. "They all look very much like you." Sheik continued, "All have red hair and are brilliant fighters, but they prefer brighter colored silks and have much more jewelry. Though your skin is lighter than theirs. They despise most men; if one does happen to stray into their fortress they will either lock them in a prison or have them killed. When they do need to continue the race they are known to occasionally enter the market towns and Kakariko village in search of the strongest possible males to continue the race."
"Oh no........." Ranma groaned out loud and turned his face to the sky. "Why me? Why always me? Its gonna be the amazon thing all over again!" behind Serephina Kasumi began to giggle. Ranma sent her a look that clearly said that he wasn't amused. Sheik merely ignored them and looked around Ranma to where Link was riding in the lead. The other sibling had been quiet for most of the ride, occasionally laughing at Ranma and Serephina's playful bantering. He'd been leading them away from the lake and along the cliffs toward an area of the field that was the entranceway to the canyon. Sheik's face crumpled under is mask as he realized what the hero was doing. He was leading them toward the Gerudo fortress. The Sheikah wisely decided to keep his mouth shut.
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"Where here." Link announced quietly to the group as they followed him in single file across the thin plank used as a bridge.
"Where's here?" Ranma asked, he noted with a practiced eye that the canyon they currently resided in was filled with traps and cubby holes for spying but no one was there to use them, the plank itself was like a technique he seen to thin out enemy ranks and cause them to expose themselves. Link glanced over his shoulder at him, a wary and almost feral look in his eyes as they scanned the canyon restlessly.
"According to my map this is the Gerudo canyon," Link answered him, causing the dark haired teen to gag in shock. "We need to go through the fortress and the desert beyond in order to reach to next temple." He was acting very nonchalant toward the idea of going through a fortress of murderous women.
"I am NOT going through there!" Ranma protested loudly. "I just know that I'll end up like I did with the amazons." He crossed his arms over his chest and gave Link a dirty look, "And why aren't you scared about going in there?" Ranma continued in a lower tone. "They'll probably kill us or something." Link raised an eyebrow.
"I am confident enough in my thieving skills not to get myself killed." Link answered calmly, "Besides we can always use Serephina as our trump card if things get to out of control." Ranma looked away and sulked as Link rode closer to the bridge and stopped. The only thing left of the wooden bridge that had once spanned the large water filled crevice was the charred supports. Link let out a severe curse he'd learned from Serephina. Behind him the others blinked in mild surprise and sweat dropped.
"I didn't think he'd remember that one." Serephina said to herself as Link came back to them.
"The bridge is out." He muttered, "The Gerudo must have burned it to keep people out." He swung Epona around once he was a good distance away from the gap, a determined expression on his face that was mirrored in his horse's eyes.
"Oh shit........." Serephina swore, "He's gonna jump it." Link spurred Epona and the great russet mare surged forward toward the crevice and leapt into the air, landing neatly on the other side of the divide. Ranma let out a low whistle.
"Do you think that Nari could do that?" Ranma asked to no one in particular getting a curious look from Serephina.
"Nari?" She enquired. Ranma scratched the base of his pigtail in a slightly nervous way.
"Nari is what I named the horse." He pet the red mane in front of him looking embarrassed. "It means thunder in Japanese.........I think." Serephina rolled her eyes in exasperation.
"I have no doubt that that big show-off would have no problem jumping that, but with you controlling him........." She trailed off and grinned at Ranma's offended look. ".........you won't even get to the other side." Ranma looked as though he was going to yell when Sheik slid around him and took the reins.
"I'd hold on if I where you." He said in his usual quiet voice. Ranma suddenly latched on to him as Nari took off toward the gap and jumped it with an equal ease to what Epona had shown. Back on the other side Kasumi looked at Serephina, repressed her in her face.
"We don't have to jump that do we?" The eldest Tendo asked nervously. As if in answer to her question the air on either side of the white mare glittered with magic and solidified into wings the same ice blue color of its mane and tail. Even Serephina was surprised as the mare flexed the great-feathered limbs and began to pump them up and down in strong beats. Serephina finally managed to speak as they lifted into the air and sailed over the water that rushed past far below.
"I'd say that was a no."
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Ranma followed Link through the Gerudo fortress a few hours after their arrival in the canyon. They'd run into a master craftsman hiding on the other side of the crevice. He'd told them how his men had tried to go to the fortress and had been captured. Link had produced a poaching saw a few moments later and held it out to the man. The carpenter had been surprised to see it; after all he had left it back in Kakariko. Link told him of a man he'd met in the forest. The one who had vanished before Link could find him. The older man had agreed to rebuild the bridge for them, but only if they released his men from the Gerudo. They'd agreed reluctantly, if only to get the girls across.
The moment they stepped into the fortress though Sheik simply vanished from the face of the earth leaving Link and Ranma on their own. They'd been wondering around for what felt like hours before they found the first of the carpenters. The man was locked in a cell looking as though he'd lost all hope. Link crept around the edges of the room and looked through the bars. "Hey kid! You really gotta get me out of here!" the man spied him and was at the bars in seconds, his eyes where wide with fear. "They're going to kill us tomorrow and I don't want to die!" Link said nothing as he rambled on uncontrollably. He felt a tap on his shoulder and found Ranma trying to get his attention.
"Uh, bro......... I think we have a problem." Link looked over his shoulder and found a large cutlass directed at his neck. His gaze traveled up it and to the Gerudo on the other end.
"AHHHHHH! THE GUARD! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" The prisoner wailed in a fashion that reminded Ranma so much of a certain Tendo patriarch. The red haired woman growled at him and he shut up.
"You are either very smart or have to much dumb luck if you've made it this far into the fortress with out being seen." The Gerudo's voice was cold as ice. "But if you want to free the man from his confinement you'll have to fight me for the key, but if I hit you three times you will lose and become a prisoner of my people." Ranma's eyes where shining.
"You mean as in actual honorable combat?" he asked, excitement ill hidden in his voice. "With no other secret conditions or laws or anything?" The woman looked at him like he was mad but nodded in any case. Ranma grinned madly and slid from under her blade in a lightning fast move and fell into a battle stance as he reached the center of the stone room. "Let's get this show on the road then lady, 'cause there's no style of fighting that can defeat a master of the anything goes school of martial arts!" The Gerudo left Link and faced him before she lunged forward at an incredible speed slashing in a spiral pattern with her twin blades. Ranma dodged with ease as she tried to spin around but Ranma hit her with a hundred amaguriken speed punches to the back before darting away.
The Gerudo was down but not out as she got to her feet. She held a hand to her shoulder as she faced the smug teen. "I concede the match to you male." Disappointment was heavy in her tone, "I leave now, but I will face you again and I will win." There was a flash of light and she was gone leaving a small key in her place. Ranma blinked.
"Was that just me or did that fight seem way to easy?" He looked over at Link who shrugged and went for the key. He fitted it in the lock and set the man loose. The carpenter ran crying for the nearest exit and out to freedom. Link and Ranma just looked at each other and shrugged before they began to creep down the next hall.
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Okay! That's enough for today! I have a headache and if I try to write anymore my brain will bust into itty-bitty pieces. Oh yeah and I was going to say......... I'm thinking about posting a Harry Potter fan fiction that I've been working on for a while now. Tell me if your interested in finding out what its about.
Don't forget to review!
Cya ^__^\/
God-born.
Chapter 9: What's a Gerudo?
~~~~~
Sheik had a stone-faced expression no one could read as he rode behind Ranma on the black stallion. He'd agreed to go with the strange siblings to the valley of the Gerudo purely because if he where to go back to Impa and the other Sheikah now, the princesses old nursemaid would most likely rip his head off and feed it to some dongo before he could find a way to explain himself. So it was better to play it safe and avoid the woman for as long as possible. He turned his attention to the group he'd joined. Sheik had been stunned to find out that the Hero of Time had a family. According to Zelda and Impa the hero was supposed to remain alone in his quest.
Obviously they had been wrong.
It was becoming more and more obvious to the young sheikah that the three couldn't have been anymore different, but when it really came down to it they turned out to be connected on a deeper level, the ties between them would be seen by anyone with a second sight. Their aura's glowed powerfully around them and the very sense that they where important radiated from all three, like a voice was yelling it in his head. He turned his attention to the red haired girl as her white mare came level with the stallion.
"Are you a Gerudo?" He asked, speaking for the first time in a lower voice than Zelda had been using while she controlled his body. The girl looked at him with a curious expression.
"What's a Gerudo?" she asked, honestly not knowing what race of people she resembled. Sheik looked away and began to explain, deciding it wouldn't hurt to tell.
"The Gerudo are a race of female thieves, they often refuse to steal from women and children and most of the time it is the really rich that they take from. They have a code of honor respected by the people of the surrounding countries." Right from the words 'a race of female thieves' Ranma had instantly begun to get a serious sense of dread as he listened to Sheik's descriptions. "They all look very much like you." Sheik continued, "All have red hair and are brilliant fighters, but they prefer brighter colored silks and have much more jewelry. Though your skin is lighter than theirs. They despise most men; if one does happen to stray into their fortress they will either lock them in a prison or have them killed. When they do need to continue the race they are known to occasionally enter the market towns and Kakariko village in search of the strongest possible males to continue the race."
"Oh no........." Ranma groaned out loud and turned his face to the sky. "Why me? Why always me? Its gonna be the amazon thing all over again!" behind Serephina Kasumi began to giggle. Ranma sent her a look that clearly said that he wasn't amused. Sheik merely ignored them and looked around Ranma to where Link was riding in the lead. The other sibling had been quiet for most of the ride, occasionally laughing at Ranma and Serephina's playful bantering. He'd been leading them away from the lake and along the cliffs toward an area of the field that was the entranceway to the canyon. Sheik's face crumpled under is mask as he realized what the hero was doing. He was leading them toward the Gerudo fortress. The Sheikah wisely decided to keep his mouth shut.
~~~~~
"Where here." Link announced quietly to the group as they followed him in single file across the thin plank used as a bridge.
"Where's here?" Ranma asked, he noted with a practiced eye that the canyon they currently resided in was filled with traps and cubby holes for spying but no one was there to use them, the plank itself was like a technique he seen to thin out enemy ranks and cause them to expose themselves. Link glanced over his shoulder at him, a wary and almost feral look in his eyes as they scanned the canyon restlessly.
"According to my map this is the Gerudo canyon," Link answered him, causing the dark haired teen to gag in shock. "We need to go through the fortress and the desert beyond in order to reach to next temple." He was acting very nonchalant toward the idea of going through a fortress of murderous women.
"I am NOT going through there!" Ranma protested loudly. "I just know that I'll end up like I did with the amazons." He crossed his arms over his chest and gave Link a dirty look, "And why aren't you scared about going in there?" Ranma continued in a lower tone. "They'll probably kill us or something." Link raised an eyebrow.
"I am confident enough in my thieving skills not to get myself killed." Link answered calmly, "Besides we can always use Serephina as our trump card if things get to out of control." Ranma looked away and sulked as Link rode closer to the bridge and stopped. The only thing left of the wooden bridge that had once spanned the large water filled crevice was the charred supports. Link let out a severe curse he'd learned from Serephina. Behind him the others blinked in mild surprise and sweat dropped.
"I didn't think he'd remember that one." Serephina said to herself as Link came back to them.
"The bridge is out." He muttered, "The Gerudo must have burned it to keep people out." He swung Epona around once he was a good distance away from the gap, a determined expression on his face that was mirrored in his horse's eyes.
"Oh shit........." Serephina swore, "He's gonna jump it." Link spurred Epona and the great russet mare surged forward toward the crevice and leapt into the air, landing neatly on the other side of the divide. Ranma let out a low whistle.
"Do you think that Nari could do that?" Ranma asked to no one in particular getting a curious look from Serephina.
"Nari?" She enquired. Ranma scratched the base of his pigtail in a slightly nervous way.
"Nari is what I named the horse." He pet the red mane in front of him looking embarrassed. "It means thunder in Japanese.........I think." Serephina rolled her eyes in exasperation.
"I have no doubt that that big show-off would have no problem jumping that, but with you controlling him........." She trailed off and grinned at Ranma's offended look. ".........you won't even get to the other side." Ranma looked as though he was going to yell when Sheik slid around him and took the reins.
"I'd hold on if I where you." He said in his usual quiet voice. Ranma suddenly latched on to him as Nari took off toward the gap and jumped it with an equal ease to what Epona had shown. Back on the other side Kasumi looked at Serephina, repressed her in her face.
"We don't have to jump that do we?" The eldest Tendo asked nervously. As if in answer to her question the air on either side of the white mare glittered with magic and solidified into wings the same ice blue color of its mane and tail. Even Serephina was surprised as the mare flexed the great-feathered limbs and began to pump them up and down in strong beats. Serephina finally managed to speak as they lifted into the air and sailed over the water that rushed past far below.
"I'd say that was a no."
~~~~~
Ranma followed Link through the Gerudo fortress a few hours after their arrival in the canyon. They'd run into a master craftsman hiding on the other side of the crevice. He'd told them how his men had tried to go to the fortress and had been captured. Link had produced a poaching saw a few moments later and held it out to the man. The carpenter had been surprised to see it; after all he had left it back in Kakariko. Link told him of a man he'd met in the forest. The one who had vanished before Link could find him. The older man had agreed to rebuild the bridge for them, but only if they released his men from the Gerudo. They'd agreed reluctantly, if only to get the girls across.
The moment they stepped into the fortress though Sheik simply vanished from the face of the earth leaving Link and Ranma on their own. They'd been wondering around for what felt like hours before they found the first of the carpenters. The man was locked in a cell looking as though he'd lost all hope. Link crept around the edges of the room and looked through the bars. "Hey kid! You really gotta get me out of here!" the man spied him and was at the bars in seconds, his eyes where wide with fear. "They're going to kill us tomorrow and I don't want to die!" Link said nothing as he rambled on uncontrollably. He felt a tap on his shoulder and found Ranma trying to get his attention.
"Uh, bro......... I think we have a problem." Link looked over his shoulder and found a large cutlass directed at his neck. His gaze traveled up it and to the Gerudo on the other end.
"AHHHHHH! THE GUARD! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" The prisoner wailed in a fashion that reminded Ranma so much of a certain Tendo patriarch. The red haired woman growled at him and he shut up.
"You are either very smart or have to much dumb luck if you've made it this far into the fortress with out being seen." The Gerudo's voice was cold as ice. "But if you want to free the man from his confinement you'll have to fight me for the key, but if I hit you three times you will lose and become a prisoner of my people." Ranma's eyes where shining.
"You mean as in actual honorable combat?" he asked, excitement ill hidden in his voice. "With no other secret conditions or laws or anything?" The woman looked at him like he was mad but nodded in any case. Ranma grinned madly and slid from under her blade in a lightning fast move and fell into a battle stance as he reached the center of the stone room. "Let's get this show on the road then lady, 'cause there's no style of fighting that can defeat a master of the anything goes school of martial arts!" The Gerudo left Link and faced him before she lunged forward at an incredible speed slashing in a spiral pattern with her twin blades. Ranma dodged with ease as she tried to spin around but Ranma hit her with a hundred amaguriken speed punches to the back before darting away.
The Gerudo was down but not out as she got to her feet. She held a hand to her shoulder as she faced the smug teen. "I concede the match to you male." Disappointment was heavy in her tone, "I leave now, but I will face you again and I will win." There was a flash of light and she was gone leaving a small key in her place. Ranma blinked.
"Was that just me or did that fight seem way to easy?" He looked over at Link who shrugged and went for the key. He fitted it in the lock and set the man loose. The carpenter ran crying for the nearest exit and out to freedom. Link and Ranma just looked at each other and shrugged before they began to creep down the next hall.
~~~~~
Okay! That's enough for today! I have a headache and if I try to write anymore my brain will bust into itty-bitty pieces. Oh yeah and I was going to say......... I'm thinking about posting a Harry Potter fan fiction that I've been working on for a while now. Tell me if your interested in finding out what its about.
Don't forget to review!
Cya ^__^\/