Ranma ½ / Legend of Zelda crossover
God-born.
Chapter 12: Kakariko
It was still light when they set foot in Hyrule Field. It seemed that in spite of the events of the future it was one of the things that would always remain sunny and untouched, 'no shadow could be large enough to cast it into darkness except the night itself.' Ranma made a face at the thought, since when was he so poetic? Link and Sheik where pushing them toward the village called Kakariko, both wanted to get there before nightfall. Ranma had heard Link talking with the sheikah boy earlier, they'd mentioned some kind of monster that emerged at nighttime and Ranma really didn't want to meet it from the description.
But in spite of their haste, night crept up on them and the moon rose into view over the stairs that marked their destination on the other side of the river. Everyone went on edge and Serephina even went as far as to piggy back the tiring Kasumi. Barely an hour after the sun had vanished behind the looming shadow of Lon-Lon ranch a wolf began to howl in the distance and Ranma began to get the feeling he was being watched. Barely a few seconds later though he jumped into the air as a bony hand suddenly thrust out of the earth a few inches ahead of where he'd been walking.
"Whoa!" He cried, back pedaling as a skeleton dragged itself out of the earth and reached toward him, he heard a giggle behind him and looked around in time to duck a swipe from another of the skeletal creatures.
"Stall children!" Link cried out as another dragged itself from the ground before him. He drew his small sword and with a wide swipe decapitated it before he kicked its feet out from under it. The stall child went down and burst into flames of green energy. "Don't worry about fighting them!" Link cried out to the rest of the group. "Just RUN!" Ranma and Serephina didn't need to be told twice. They took off like a shot toward the river, Kasumi clung to Serephina's back, a frightened look in her eyes that betrayed the feelings behind her calm mask. Link and Sheik barreled after them, but not fast enough to escape the pursuing nighttime creatures. They slashed and hacked at bone, the memory of countless battles in the future impressed in their minds making their movements with their weapons seem effortless. They reached the bridge that spanned the river and hurtled across ready to race the final stretch to the stairs of Kakariko but Ranma accidentally ran into the back of Serephina's legs as she stopped dead in her tracks.
"Holy shit." She swore loudly and Ranma looked around her blue clad knees and was overcome with an intense feeling of deja'vu.
"That isn't........." He started but Serephina anticipated the question.
"Yes it is." She answered immediately and suddenly wished she had a bow. It was the giant skeleton from the ranch. It's towered over them ominously as Link and Sheik stopped short behind them.
"It's the captain!" Sheik gasped in shock. "I didn't know one was still around." They all backed away as it lumbered toward them, Serephina left Kasumi hanging from her neck in favor of riffling around through her braid.
"Shit, shit where are they?" She felt along its length until she found a cluster of lumps. "Ha!" She said victoriously as she pulled out a small mechanical device. Holding it tightly in her palm she turned her face to Link. "Hey bro, now would be a good time to give me your sling shot." Link stared at her hand then at the monster and then gave in with out an argument. Quick as a flash she raised it to eye level loaded it and fired. The tiny bomb attached itself to the things forehead and was soon joined by more as Serephina pulled them from nowhere and rapid fired them before she grabbed out a small detonator, backing up all the while. "Bomb's away." She muttered before she hit the button with her thumb and the skeleton exploded with a flash of white light. When they could see again Link noted the white dust and raised an eyebrow.
"There was white dust on the ground at Lon-Lon ranch in the future." He commented in an amused tone. Serephina scowled at the large leg bone she'd missed and energy fires sprang up all around, burning up the dust quickly.
"That was the last of my bombs." She growled kicking the bone and watching it crumble. "I can't make any new ones here, no materials to make the nitroglycerine." She growled softly and Ranma span around to look at her, his eye's wide and incredulous.
"And you KEPT THEM IN YOUR BRAID?" He yelled, surprised that such a violent material hadn't gone off after being knocked around as much as it had while it was stored on the red heads body. Serephina just looked at him weird before turning around to throw the slingshot back to Link.
"They wouldn't have gone off Ranma." She said calmly as she resettled Kasumi on her back. "I've been carrying them for years besides, shouldn't we be getting to the village? We don't know when more of those things are going to pop up." Link agreed with her, as did Sheik who trotted off immediately forcing everyone else to follow in order to keep up.
The village was still quiet when the sun rose above Death Mountain the next morning. As it climbed through the sky toward midday the people slowly emerged into the chill air, beginning to go about their business for the day. Among these people were Serephina and Ranma. They'd let Link, Kasumi and Sheik stay asleep with the bearded lady who had taken them in for the night watching over them and had gone to look for a clue as to the whereabouts of the lens of truth. Both where early risers anyway so it was no trouble, besides, Ranma had begun to teach Serephina anything goes. Finding a place tucked away behind the well, chibi Ranma fell into a stance and began his kata, Serephina mimicked him carefully for a while until she couldn't stand the stares to the villagers and wondered off behind a row of houses to escape. Slinking through the shadows behind a store the creak of wheels sounded close by. She span around and peered into the darkness of a doorway as an old woman emerged in a primitive looking wheel chair. Her nose was long and hooked while her face was covered in wrinkles that spoke of great age. The old lady looked up at her with weakening eyes and craned her bent neck to take in her entire form.
"I knew you'd come here bright one." She wheezed, her voice rattling like stones down a drainpipe. "There's a legend written about you." Serephina could only stare as the woman turned her wheelchair around and beckoned her to follow. She did, stepping into the dark house and feeling a chill go up her spine as she crossed the threshold. Tentively stepping around a chair she spoke for the first time.
"What legend......... did you mean grandmother?" she asked, tagging grandmother on the end of her sentence when she realized that she didn't know the old lady's name. The old woman chuckled again.
"Oh everyone has forgotten it these days." She said in her wizened voice. "No one remembers the children of the goddesses and their inheritance." Serephina was very confused now.
"Children? Inheritance? What has any of this got to do with me?" The old woman didn't answer as she snapped her spindly fingers and pots placed around the room burst into life, filled with a light giving liquid. Oblivious to Serephina's questions she continued her story unfazed.
"Each of the goddesses had a child in the mortal realm, but when they tried to go back to the sacred realm the gate keeper cast the children away, spreading them across the worlds. Heart broken the three sisters all left a token of power under the guard of the royal family of Hyrule that would remain there until the until such time as their babes would return to this place and claim them, giving them the power to become demi-gods and follow their mothers to the sacred realm."
"Still," Serephina persisted. "what has this got to do with me?" The old lady chuckled again.
"Don't you feel it?" She questioned the stunned red head. "Power hums through your veins, the knowledge of the ages fills your mind. You are the daughter of Nayru, one of the three children. Any magic user can see your aura, you glow bright with the triforce of wisdom." Serephina snapped her mouth shut abruptly.
"How do you know all this." She asked, her voice coming out harsher than she'd intended. The woman chuckled again.
"That is my secret, bright one, but I advise you to learn how to use your power, because the time when you need it is very near........." She trailed off as her eyelids drooped. Her energy seemed to fade with the end of her little speech. Serephina bent to her eye level and peered into her slack face. A soft hiss of breath was the only indication that the old woman was still alive but she was already sleeping deeply. Serephina frowned. She'd seemed so full of life just moments before and now she was dead to the world. Finally, deciding not the think about it she tucked a rug around the woman in the chair and left the house. Once again as she crossed over the threshold she felt the shiver and turned around outside only to find that the building she had been in seconds before.........
.........had vanished
Well that's it for this chapter. Oh and while I remember, I'll put the address for the website with the Zelda comics on here too. forget to review!
Cya /
God-born.
Chapter 12: Kakariko
It was still light when they set foot in Hyrule Field. It seemed that in spite of the events of the future it was one of the things that would always remain sunny and untouched, 'no shadow could be large enough to cast it into darkness except the night itself.' Ranma made a face at the thought, since when was he so poetic? Link and Sheik where pushing them toward the village called Kakariko, both wanted to get there before nightfall. Ranma had heard Link talking with the sheikah boy earlier, they'd mentioned some kind of monster that emerged at nighttime and Ranma really didn't want to meet it from the description.
But in spite of their haste, night crept up on them and the moon rose into view over the stairs that marked their destination on the other side of the river. Everyone went on edge and Serephina even went as far as to piggy back the tiring Kasumi. Barely an hour after the sun had vanished behind the looming shadow of Lon-Lon ranch a wolf began to howl in the distance and Ranma began to get the feeling he was being watched. Barely a few seconds later though he jumped into the air as a bony hand suddenly thrust out of the earth a few inches ahead of where he'd been walking.
"Whoa!" He cried, back pedaling as a skeleton dragged itself out of the earth and reached toward him, he heard a giggle behind him and looked around in time to duck a swipe from another of the skeletal creatures.
"Stall children!" Link cried out as another dragged itself from the ground before him. He drew his small sword and with a wide swipe decapitated it before he kicked its feet out from under it. The stall child went down and burst into flames of green energy. "Don't worry about fighting them!" Link cried out to the rest of the group. "Just RUN!" Ranma and Serephina didn't need to be told twice. They took off like a shot toward the river, Kasumi clung to Serephina's back, a frightened look in her eyes that betrayed the feelings behind her calm mask. Link and Sheik barreled after them, but not fast enough to escape the pursuing nighttime creatures. They slashed and hacked at bone, the memory of countless battles in the future impressed in their minds making their movements with their weapons seem effortless. They reached the bridge that spanned the river and hurtled across ready to race the final stretch to the stairs of Kakariko but Ranma accidentally ran into the back of Serephina's legs as she stopped dead in her tracks.
"Holy shit." She swore loudly and Ranma looked around her blue clad knees and was overcome with an intense feeling of deja'vu.
"That isn't........." He started but Serephina anticipated the question.
"Yes it is." She answered immediately and suddenly wished she had a bow. It was the giant skeleton from the ranch. It's towered over them ominously as Link and Sheik stopped short behind them.
"It's the captain!" Sheik gasped in shock. "I didn't know one was still around." They all backed away as it lumbered toward them, Serephina left Kasumi hanging from her neck in favor of riffling around through her braid.
"Shit, shit where are they?" She felt along its length until she found a cluster of lumps. "Ha!" She said victoriously as she pulled out a small mechanical device. Holding it tightly in her palm she turned her face to Link. "Hey bro, now would be a good time to give me your sling shot." Link stared at her hand then at the monster and then gave in with out an argument. Quick as a flash she raised it to eye level loaded it and fired. The tiny bomb attached itself to the things forehead and was soon joined by more as Serephina pulled them from nowhere and rapid fired them before she grabbed out a small detonator, backing up all the while. "Bomb's away." She muttered before she hit the button with her thumb and the skeleton exploded with a flash of white light. When they could see again Link noted the white dust and raised an eyebrow.
"There was white dust on the ground at Lon-Lon ranch in the future." He commented in an amused tone. Serephina scowled at the large leg bone she'd missed and energy fires sprang up all around, burning up the dust quickly.
"That was the last of my bombs." She growled kicking the bone and watching it crumble. "I can't make any new ones here, no materials to make the nitroglycerine." She growled softly and Ranma span around to look at her, his eye's wide and incredulous.
"And you KEPT THEM IN YOUR BRAID?" He yelled, surprised that such a violent material hadn't gone off after being knocked around as much as it had while it was stored on the red heads body. Serephina just looked at him weird before turning around to throw the slingshot back to Link.
"They wouldn't have gone off Ranma." She said calmly as she resettled Kasumi on her back. "I've been carrying them for years besides, shouldn't we be getting to the village? We don't know when more of those things are going to pop up." Link agreed with her, as did Sheik who trotted off immediately forcing everyone else to follow in order to keep up.
The village was still quiet when the sun rose above Death Mountain the next morning. As it climbed through the sky toward midday the people slowly emerged into the chill air, beginning to go about their business for the day. Among these people were Serephina and Ranma. They'd let Link, Kasumi and Sheik stay asleep with the bearded lady who had taken them in for the night watching over them and had gone to look for a clue as to the whereabouts of the lens of truth. Both where early risers anyway so it was no trouble, besides, Ranma had begun to teach Serephina anything goes. Finding a place tucked away behind the well, chibi Ranma fell into a stance and began his kata, Serephina mimicked him carefully for a while until she couldn't stand the stares to the villagers and wondered off behind a row of houses to escape. Slinking through the shadows behind a store the creak of wheels sounded close by. She span around and peered into the darkness of a doorway as an old woman emerged in a primitive looking wheel chair. Her nose was long and hooked while her face was covered in wrinkles that spoke of great age. The old lady looked up at her with weakening eyes and craned her bent neck to take in her entire form.
"I knew you'd come here bright one." She wheezed, her voice rattling like stones down a drainpipe. "There's a legend written about you." Serephina could only stare as the woman turned her wheelchair around and beckoned her to follow. She did, stepping into the dark house and feeling a chill go up her spine as she crossed the threshold. Tentively stepping around a chair she spoke for the first time.
"What legend......... did you mean grandmother?" she asked, tagging grandmother on the end of her sentence when she realized that she didn't know the old lady's name. The old woman chuckled again.
"Oh everyone has forgotten it these days." She said in her wizened voice. "No one remembers the children of the goddesses and their inheritance." Serephina was very confused now.
"Children? Inheritance? What has any of this got to do with me?" The old woman didn't answer as she snapped her spindly fingers and pots placed around the room burst into life, filled with a light giving liquid. Oblivious to Serephina's questions she continued her story unfazed.
"Each of the goddesses had a child in the mortal realm, but when they tried to go back to the sacred realm the gate keeper cast the children away, spreading them across the worlds. Heart broken the three sisters all left a token of power under the guard of the royal family of Hyrule that would remain there until the until such time as their babes would return to this place and claim them, giving them the power to become demi-gods and follow their mothers to the sacred realm."
"Still," Serephina persisted. "what has this got to do with me?" The old lady chuckled again.
"Don't you feel it?" She questioned the stunned red head. "Power hums through your veins, the knowledge of the ages fills your mind. You are the daughter of Nayru, one of the three children. Any magic user can see your aura, you glow bright with the triforce of wisdom." Serephina snapped her mouth shut abruptly.
"How do you know all this." She asked, her voice coming out harsher than she'd intended. The woman chuckled again.
"That is my secret, bright one, but I advise you to learn how to use your power, because the time when you need it is very near........." She trailed off as her eyelids drooped. Her energy seemed to fade with the end of her little speech. Serephina bent to her eye level and peered into her slack face. A soft hiss of breath was the only indication that the old woman was still alive but she was already sleeping deeply. Serephina frowned. She'd seemed so full of life just moments before and now she was dead to the world. Finally, deciding not the think about it she tucked a rug around the woman in the chair and left the house. Once again as she crossed over the threshold she felt the shiver and turned around outside only to find that the building she had been in seconds before.........
.........had vanished
Well that's it for this chapter. Oh and while I remember, I'll put the address for the website with the Zelda comics on here too. forget to review!
Cya /