Ranma ½ / Legend of Zelda crossover

God-born.

Chapter 13 : Beneath the well.

"Tell me again why 'I' had to come?!" the chibi Sheik crouched behind Ranma and Link as they made their way along the corridor that led deep into the depths of the drained well.

"Because Serephina was to big to fit through the hole and Kasumi doesn't have the fighting experience." Ranma snapped testily. Sheik's fear of the dark creatures really was ridiculous. Link and Ranma had an excuse to fear them, but Sheik was one of the legendary Sheikah, the shadow dwellers who had once served the royal family until their banishment. They 'lived' in the graveyards with the re-deads, meaning they should at least be used to them already, if not able to deal with them in a fix. Then again......... every race had it's black sheep and the Sheikah where no exception. Ignoring his irritation at the red-eyed child Ranma moved up beside Link as he dispatched a skultula only to find that the path they'd been following ended in a wall.

"Oh great!" Ranma threw up his hands in exasperation. "We climb all the way down the spooky hole in the ground and there's nothing here!" He waved a hand before curling it into a fist and punched the wall with all the strength he could gather in his smaller body. Needless to say, when he over balanced and toppled through the wall he was more than surprised. "Whoa!" THUD! Link held his hands out before him and could feel a tingling feeling in his limbs as he passed through the illusionary spell. Ranma lay face down on the floor on the other side. He got to all fours groaning and looked around at Link dazed. "Did any one get the number on that mallet?" Link and Sheik merely stared at him, totally mystified. Shaking his head to dismiss the dizziness Ranma got to his feet and joined the two in looking around. The room they where in was dimly lit and they could barely see the other wall. Dark stains that glinted red in the light of fairy fires reminded them too much of blood.

"This place houses a great evil." Sheik's voice was soft but the stone echoed it mockingly until it finally faded away. Link shivered at the sound and moved around the black water that filled the rectangular pool at their feet. He was careful of where he stepped, afraid that he might trigger a trap. The chances of finding more than one in this place seemed very likely, nothing was as it seemed. They walked into the shallow canals and started to walk down the nearest tunnel only to stop when an eerie green light appeared at the end and they saw the largest flaming skull they'd ever encounter. Ranma nearly shrieked and pushed Link and Sheik out of the way before he let off with a mini ki blast that rebounded off the flame shield and hit a wall. Suddenly two pairs of hands grabbed him and pulled him in the wall just as the skull rushed past. Ranma looked up at Sheik and Link as his head stopped spinning.

"Whoa!" He gasped out for the second time in as many minutes. "What the hell was that?" Sheik looked bemused.

"Don't you know anything about these dark creatures?" He asked, his head tipped cutely to one side.

"No." Came Ranma's short reply. Sheik sighed.

"That was a..." he stopped for a second, not quite sure about what they'd seen himself. "... a Green Bubble!" he announced proudly, he fell out of his pose a moment later when both Link and Ranma began to snicker.

"Bubble!" Ranma crowed, "Is that the best you could come up with!?" he toppled over once more, laughing himself sick. Link soon joined him but Sheik just stood there looking at them with bemused red eyes.

"But it really is a Green Bubble..." He trailed off sulking. He followed pouting as Link and Ranma picked themselves up and began to explore. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed a chest and ventured toward it. The other two, unaware of his absence, continued out into another hall filled with water that lay behind another illusion. Sheik on the other hand didn't realize anything was wrong until he felt himself falling. There had been a hole right in front of the chest. His nearly girlish shriek echoed through the dank dungeon before he hit solid ground with a sickening thud and passed out.

Meanwhile far above them in the daylight Serephina and Kasumi where restlessly exploring the village while they waited for the boys to return from their subterranean expedition. Kasumi ran around like any child her age, carefree and bright gaining praise from the villagers even if she was a 'round ears'. No one had the heart to turn her away. Serephina, on the other hand, was getting frustrated over the happenings of the last few weeks and couldn't help but growl whenever a Cucu ran past. THE DAMN BIRDS JUST DIDN'T SHUT UP!

Sitting dejectedly in a tree she'd climbed Serephina covered her ears then unblocked them again to find absolute silence had fallen. She joined many of the villagers looking around in confusion, as no sound would travel through the air at all, just as if someone had hit the mute button. Then the rumbling started. The ground beneath the tree shook violently like a level five earthquake on the rictor scale. (A/N: I spelt that wrong didn't I.) Serephina nearly panicked as she dropped out of the tree. Crying out noiselessly for Kasumi before she spotted the girl standing, frightened, right in the path of a large crack that was opening along the center of the village green. Without thinking she darted into its path and scooped up the miniature Tendo daughter before the shaking stopped.

"Heeheeheeheeheehee!" An evil giggle rent the air and Serephina could only stare in horror as a wispy flock of Poe's floated out of the crevice followed by dozens of rotting mummified re-deads. In her arms Kasumi whimpered in fright as the newly risen dead all began to flood toward them. Whichever god had hit the mute button suddenly turned up the sound and screams of the villagers rent the air, and in the middle of it all Serephina looked around and sighed before she slipped into a fighting stance Ranma had taught her.

"Well shit."

(A/N: Okay I know that nothing like this happens in the game or in the comic book for that matter but I kinda needed a break from following the guys and Serephina still needs to find out what the old woman meant when she called her a bright one. So what better than having the guys set off an 'uprising' among the dead? Hmmmm, corny I know, but hey, at least I updated.

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Cya