Chapter 5:

Waterworks

The Legend of Zelda Series is owned by Nintendo, and Fairy Tail is owned by Funimation.

"Talking"

"Thoughts"

"Demon/deity speech"

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Yajima was in the middle of a long day. The magic council had called an emergency meeting- about something vague-and had to travel all the way to Era from Hargeon Town. He ran into one of the Magic Council's employees [A/N: one of the frog guys] and a platoon of soldiers, and had no excuse to travel alone. Cue an awkward carriage ride to Era. To add on, as they were passing by Acalypha Town someone came barreling towards them and mentioned that some dark guild members were holding up the local merchant guild.

Yajima had no qualms helping the town, as a (former) member of Fairy Tail he took it upon himself to help out where he was needed. As it stands, his biggest complaint with the detour would be the chewing out he would get for being late to the Council meeting.

Upon sneaking into the guild with his Flattening magic, to see if he could neutralize the threat himself to limit any possible casualties, he came upon a curious sight. A young boy (with pointy ears) peeled himself away from two men (one young man in green with pointy ears, and one older man with regular rounded ones), hid behind a desk, pulled out a strange looking mask, put it on, and transformed into some strange creature he had never seen or heard of in his life. Yajima blinked in surprise at the sight. "That looks like Takeover magic," He thought, "but why the mask, Takeover's don't require a medium to use."

As the transformed boy climbed the rafters, the leader of the dark guild members moved over to the two men. The man in green openly mocked to leader, even with the threat of having his head caved in "Brave kid". Then, the leader's compatriots were crushed under a massive chandelier. Yajima hadn't forgotten about the boy, he had a feeling that the two had planned to cause a distraction and somehow get rid off the crooks. That being said, he did not expect their solution to the problem to be crushing the other men under at least 30 lbs. of metal. Then the man in green unsheathed his sword and taunted the leader. "This can only end badly…for the dark guild member" cue a block and stab combo from the man, "yup, just how I figured."

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Currently Yajima was in a small room with four other people. The man in green, the (now untransformed) boy, the magic council employee he was riding along with, and the captain of the platoon they were traveling with, named Kirin and Han, respectively.

After the initial shock of Link and Evan's appearance wore off, (Link waved it off as a genetic trait, to which Han asked why they had never seen them before; he responded "it skips generations"), they had spent a few hours getting their background of both the events leading to and their presence in town. Link and Evan stuck with their original story, they were farmers until their local lord got too demanding and they decided it would be better to just leave the farm altogether. They traveled "by foot" to Acalypha, where they were then caught up in the hostage situation.

"Let me get this straight" the frogman asked, in the middle of lengthy and tedious interi- sorry, interview, "you, Evan, climbed up in to rafters and…bit through the chandelier's rope, thereby crushing the men underneath?"

The boy responded with a nod. Kirin then turned to the man in green, "And you, Link, told him to do this?"

"I asked for a distraction, and Evan delivered" Link curtly responded.

Han spoke up at this, "And the fact that one of the men under the chandelier is dead, and the rest will be lucky to ever walk again is what…an unfortunate circumstance?"

Link, Yajima noted, actually seemed to think on this for a moment, deciding how best to answer the question, before shrugging, "Things happen."

Kirin and Han narrowed their eyes at the indifferent remark; "You do realize sir, that you could be put in jail for this?" Kirin gravely stated.

Link's eyes widened at that. Not due to the threat, but more so of the fact that he averted a potentially deadly situation and these people were considering punishing him for it.

Yajima, though a little perturbed by Link's demeanor towards the men that were dead/crippled, could sympathize with his reaction. If it were up to him, they would sweep the incident under the rug. But, the law is the law.

*Sniff* *Sniff*

Everyone turned towards the source of the noise, Evan, who had the beginnings of a runny nose and tears on the verge of falling. "P-P-please mi-mister *Sniffle* g-guard s-si-sirs" the boy blubbered, "D-don't *Sniffle* punish L-Li-Link for what I did. *Sniffle* I j-j-just wanted to help. After, *Sniffle* m-mom a-a-and dad *Sob* Li-Link has t-ta-taken care of m-m-me. Please, *Sniffle* l-le-let me take th-the blame." After that the boy burst into tears. Link moved to gather the boy in a hug, which he eagerly reciprocated. For a moment, the only the sounds in the room were Evan's heart wrenching sobs. Everyone, even Kirin, who had put away many a sad case, had tears in his eyes.

Yajima cleared his throat "Yes, well…I think we can just let these two off with a warning gentleman?"

"Err, quite right sir" Han replied.

Kirin was quiet for a moment "…So be it," he looked over at Link "This is your only warning young man." Link just nodded his head, still holding Evan. Yajima and the others exited the room, their work done.

Evan and Link held their embrace, then Link looked up and saw that the door was shut and no one was with them, "All right, we're clear." He and Evan ended their hug, Evan wiping the tears off with his sleeve.

Tatl spoke from Link's hat, "That was impressive Evan. If I didn't you as well as I do, I would have bought that."

"Yeah man. You had those guys wrapped around your finger. Genius, pure genius," Tael said.

Evan gave the shittiest of shit eating grins, "Yeah, that was too easy. But man, it hurts to cry, how do people do that on a regular basis?"

Link gave a chuckle, "Well, to be fair, we don't do it as often as you would think…Still though, jail time for a self-defense kill, things sure are different here." While Link had only the one brush with the law in this world, he could already tell that things were…less lenient than back home.

Hyrule itself had a fairly low crime rate. In a world where money was found lying in the grass, it was hard to go hungry. Still, there was the occasional greedy individual who thought that robbery was a good career plan. If you were traveling along Hyrule field and were unfortunate enough to be chosen as a target, and then one thing lead to another and the would-be-bandit(s) lay dead in the field, so long as you reported the incident you would be fine; a small tax for the act, 50-200 rupees, but nothing beyond that.

If this incident (a group of men trying to rob a mercantile guild in broad daylight) were to happen back in Hyrule, and someone solved the problem with a few casualties, as in this case, they would be commended for their efforts and given a reward for assisting in keeping the peace, assuming of course the guards were unable to resolve the issue themselves.

"C'mon you guys," Link, said "Let's go find Harris and see if he can point us to the nearest inn."

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Yajima was in a circle with his fellow council members, having rode at top speed to ensure he wasn't too late to this urgent meeting. The chairman, Crawford Seam, began the session. "Thank you all for coming. I realize this is very short notice, but something has recently caught the Magic Council's attention." Everyone was eager (read: impatient) to know what constituted such an impromptu gathering. "Several hours ago, we noticed a large spike of great magical power. We do not know who, or what caused it, nor do we know its purpose. What we do know however is that it originated in this area." He pulled up map of Fiore, the area of the anomaly highlighted blue. Yajima noticed that the area was close to the town where he met those two pointy-eared people. "Hmm, interesting…" the man then internally shrugged "They seem like nice enough folk, no sense in needlessly prying."

A/N: Whoo! Next chapter complete. Man I haven't updated this story in awhile. Oh well, life happens, and hey, least it isn't dead. Remember to leave any reviews, comments, or suggestions.