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The Legend of Zelda

Incarnations of Destiny

Grass Children

Chapter 2: The Coming of the Darkness

"Sunset hmmm?" Saria asks. "I got it!" Link and Blaze raise their heads up in unison. "The Festival of Fairies. Oh wait. The Festival is in spring and it's almost fall. Darn it." Blaze shakes his head as Link drops his in disdain. "I don't know then. Tricken would know just what to do."

As the group tries to think of what to do, three fairies are hovering right behind each one. "Ugh! It's useless ,Scorch. They can't see us," a blue fairy says from beside Link.

"You idiots!" yells the red fairy Scorch. "Why can't you see us?! Ugh. This is just pointless. Navi, Tricken, do you guys have any idea what to do?"

Tricken, the green fairy, shakes her head, and Navi, the blue fairy lands on Links shoulder. They all sigh simultaneously.

"What are we gonna do?" Tricken asks. "I mean we can't stay right behind them doing absolutely nothing can we?"

"Are you crazy, Tricky?" Scorch complains. "I don't want to be like the other fairies, backing down when trouble comes. I'm a fighter." Scorch hits his chest in a macho way. "Blaze is gonna need me pretty soon, and I'm gonna do whatever I can to make sure that Blaze survives." He looks over to Tricken. "What do you think about that?"

Tricken looks at Scorch with rage in her eyes. "How many times do I have to tell not to call me TRICKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Tricken charges Scorch.

Scorch flies out of the way and bonks into Saria. "Ouch, Blaze," Saria yells.

Blaze looks at Saria and asks, "What did I do?"

Saria looks at him with a you're not getting away with this look on her face. "You smacked me in the back of the head. I know you did it because, Link can't hit me like that. He'd lightly smack me. It felt like that one time that Tricken was chasing Scorch for calling her that dreadful name. He wasn't looking where he was going and he ran right into me. It hurt then too.

The fairies fall to the ground causing the dirt to stir. Link notices this and calls the other two over. "Blaze, Saria, Look at this." Scorch is being chased by Tricken again. The dirt follows them as the Korkarian teens follow the dust. Navi just sits back and laughs at the entire group.

Then a dark shadow falls over the entire forest, making it impossible to see. Link grabs around trying to find a tree and grabs Saria's Chest. After Saria is done beating the tar out of Link, he says, "Sorry looking for a tree to climb. What is this?" Link can't believe what's in front of him. "Blaze, Saria, we have a problem.'

Swarms of flying monsters are coming into the forest. Keises, Winged Deku Shrubs, and much more unnamed monsters are soaring into the forest. All of them are led by the shadow that Link had fought earlier. "Ha!" he laughs. "Did you think I was going to give up that easily? I Senestor, the Dark Link shall never let you live to know who you really are, you stupid incarnation!"

"Incarnation?" Link asks. "What do you mean?"

Senestor laughs even louder. "I said you won't live to know what I mean. How about this? I'll tell you when I'm about to kill you."

"There's only one problem with your plan, Dark Link," Blaze says from out of Senestor's sight.

"Oh yeah?" Senestor questions. "And what might that be you pitiful incarnation?"

"First of all,"Blaze starts. "I'm the only Blaze ever. And second, you aren't going to land a finger on the baka." Blaze jumps onto Senestor's Giant Keis and punches Senestor in the face, knocking him of his beast.

"How dare you," is all Senostor says before he notices that he's heading towards Link. "Hehehe. Take this you ignorant fool."

Link smiles as an image of three triangles goes into his mind. Link turns around and slices at the shadow, that's not even close enough to feel the breeze from the attack. But as he slices, the broad sword shoots out a beam of energy at Senestor, who vanishes moments before the attack would have hit.

The monsters vanish as Senestor does, making Blaze fall to the ground right in front of Link. "Why does these kind of things always happen to me!?" Blaze yells as he gets up. "What did you do, Link?"

"Um," Link starts. "You know, I'm not really sure myself. My sword kinda did a blast of some sort. I thought that was only possible with legendary swords? He vanished right before it hit though. He called me an incarnation."

Saria lands on her feet and one hand for support. "Why can't I land like that?" Blaze complains.

"Oh be quiet, Blaze," Saria scolds. "Now what were you saying about incarnations?" Blaze just whimpers as he's forgotten in thought.

"Well," Link replies "Senestor-"

"-Dark Link," Blaze corrects. "Senestor is too cool a name for him"

"Ok, fine. 'Dark Link' called me that as he was falling towards me. What did he mean?"

"I don't know," Saria says as she ponders for a few seconds. "Tricken, I need you. Where are you?"

Tricken flies right behind Saria and says, "I'm right here, Saria."

Saria jumps into Link's arms and screams. After she regains her composer, Saria gets down from Link's arms and blushes. "Where have you been?"

"Right next to you," the fairy complains. "The same for Navi and Scorch." The other two fairies fly right beside their partners and nod in agreement.

"Great," Link says sarcastically.

"What?" Blaze asks.

"Well," Link starts. "Don't you think it's a little weird that our fairies were invisible to use right before this shadow of mine showed up the first time and they are suddenly visible the moment he leaves?"

"Do you think there's a connection?" Saria asks.

"No doubt?" Link says confidently. "We have to do the fairy rituals to make sure that we never lose sight of them again."

Navi flies directly in front of Link and says, "Wait. Are you sure. Once this is done, you can never take it back. This isn't as simple as just doing the ritual. First you need the right being to do the ritual, and after that you have to go to all the fairy gatherings, throughout your life."

"Oh that's no problem. I needed to see the Great Deku Tree anyways. I want to know if he has any information on what that guy said about incarnations. On the gatherings, well, that's just something I'm gonna have to deal with. I can't lose you again, Navi.

"Ok lets go," everybody says as they walk to the Lost Woods.