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The Legend of Zelda
Incarnations of Destiny
Grass Children
Chapter 4: Troubled Times
Meanwhile, in the Kingdom of Hyrule, as the drawbridge falls down, five noble yet dark looking people walk up into the city. They form a triangle as though they are meant to be ranked. The being at the head of the triangle is a dark/pale blue skin creature. His nose is a snout like a deku shrub or pig. To his left is a taller similar colored human-like being. He looks like he has the most nobility out of the group. To the right is a human with crimson hair and dark silver eyes. In the left corner is Senestor with his pure white hair and dark personality. In the right corner is human with jet black hair and skin.
The group walks to the castle's courtyard and asks a gaurd to see the king. "Who are you to make such requests?"
The leader of the group looks the guard in the eye and says, "Do it or your wife and daughter will have a worse fate than death as you're tortured for five years in the canyons of the desert of death. So says Ganon." The coolness of his voice shows that he's made that threat before and has no problem with actually doing it.
The gaurd falls to ground and stumbles when he gets up. "Um yes sir. I mean Ganon. My apologies sir."
Ganon's left hand man spits and says, "Such simpletons. A mere five years in the desert scares them."
Senestor snickers and says, "They have no clue what we are capable of doing."
The crimson haired human looks at Senestor and scowls. "You be quiet. You can't even take out two incarnations."
Senestor's anger starts to raise as he yells, "You stupid little pest! I told you that Link and Saria aren't alone! They have someone else called Blaze with them. He's not an incarnation!
"I don't care if they have Navani with them. We've been training since birth on how to face the hero of time. A new foe shouldn't be any problem," says the left hand man.
"You stay out of this Ganondorf!" Senestor yells. "You've been killed just as many times as I have. You have no room to talk!"
Ganondorf looks down to Link's dark twin and says, "Yes but I was as naive to think that all I had to do was copy his moves and do the same thing he did when he did it. You got some cheep shots in, but that's it."
"Silence!" Ganon yells. "Navani, Narcanis, go and get some silver potions."
They both nod and disappear with a flash as the guard returns. "The king will see you now."
Back at the Great Deku Tree, Link yells, "What am I? Did you know that Saria and I are incarnations? What do you know?"
A tear falls down the trees massive trunk, splashing Link and Blaze and forcing Saria to jump to the nearest branch. "I am sorry Link. I don't remember anything."
Link is about to say something, but Blaze jumps in. "What do you mean? You helped me with my task! This should be an easy memory to access!"
"When I was reborn many thousands of years ago, I put all of my memories dealing with the incarnations of destiny into a ball of sap magically sealed so that only an incarnation of destiny can access it."
Saria jumps off the branch and says, "So where is it? We need to know about these incarnations."
"It's locked up inside of me," The Deku Tree says. "I didn't want the dark Link to get it first."
"Well lets go," Blaze says. "Open up big guy."
Link walks beside Blaze and says, "Are you sure this is such a good idea? I mean you have other things to deal with don't you? I just don't want you to get mixed up in all of this if you don't want to."
"Look, Link," Blaze states. "If I didn't want to do this I wouldn't, but you helped me when I was trying to talk to Torze. I owe you." He looks up to the tree and says, "I thought I said open up."
"Understood. Be careful my children." The Deku Tree opens his mouth large enough for the three to go inside.
Link stops at the entrance and looks back. "What's wrong, Link?" Saria asks.
"I don't know," Link says. "It just feels like I've done this before somehow." Link looks forward and sees a horde of monsters. "Is this where they came from?"
Navi and Tricken go ahead to find the sap ball. Scorch stays behind to make sure that the group is safe. "Ok lets go," the red fairy says while landing on a deku shrub.
"Scorch, you idiot!" Blaze yells. "What do you think you're doing?"
"Invoking Link's lost powers," Scorch responds with a smart alack voice.
Link jumps up and stabs down on the beast. "I don't want you to invoke anything. This is my quest. I can't let anyone get my powers for me."
Saria looks at Link and says to herself, "Wow. When did Link get so mature?"
Blaze jumps down a level and says, "They're coming back." Blaze jumps down to meet up with the fairies but he falls through a well of sap. The look on his face as he goes deeper inside is one of pure sorrow and agony.
"BLAZE!!!" Link yells. Link jumps to after Blaze, but Saria grabs him just in time. "Let me go! I have to go after him!"
"No, Link," Saria scolds. "He's gone. We have to worry about the sap. Tricken, What did you find?"
Tricken salutes and says, "It's pretty close, but it's being guarded by this huge monster with big, black wings. I think it's the King Keise. It's better to turn back now.'
"NO!" Link yells "Lets go." Link jumps to the very bottom of the Deku tree. "Now where is the beast?"
"He's through that door. Wait where did that lock come from? Lets go back and find the key." The fairies fly up to Saria leaving Link behind.
"Wait! How am I supposed to get up there? I can't fly. Great they left me. Lets see if I can jump it." Link closes his eyes and focuses on making the highest jump he's ever made. Suddenly an image of a feather pops into Link's head. Link jumps up and passes the fairies.
As Link lands next to Saria, the forest girl looks shocked. "How did you do that?"
"I think it's called Roc's feather?" Link responds. "Hey have you seen any keys around here?"
"Yeah. I found one right after you jumped down. It said to remind the idiot who jumped all the way down to look at his feet next time."
"Great. Wait, keys can't talk. Saria!" Link says with his agitation rising.
Saria snickers and says, "Sorry I couldn't resist."
Navi snickers as she says, "Ok lets go back and face that Keise.
Link jumps back down and opens the door. "Now where is that monster?" Link says as he walks to the center of the room. Suddenly the door closes and a giant Keise swoops down at Link. "Woah! There we are." The monster turns and goes to swoop down again, but Link slices at it.
The Keise falls to the ground and starts to flap it's wings forcing Link back. Link looks back to see the previously unnoticed spikes jutting out of the wall. "Is this really how it ends?"
Link is about three feet from the spikes when the creature falls to the ground. As the dust clears, Link sees the familiar blue hair of his best friend.
Blaze is holding two blades that look like swirling tornadoes. "Lets get out of here," Link says as he picks up a giant ball of sap.
As the group get back out to the tree, Link slices the sap and a swirling vortex goes to the top of the Deku Tree. "Ok lets begin."
Back in Hyrule Ganon sits down next to the princess. "So, Zelda, you have any dreams recently?"
"What?"