Teen Titans – Video Games Are Fun!

31. Chapter 30: Destinies Fulfilled

Mail Call!!!

Artemis 85 – Intelligent people know not to mess with an author, especially when said author is an Aries. I can be very brutal. Imagine the following scenario. You piss me off enough to make me decide to stop writing. This gets all the people who are obsessed with my stuff all PO'ed and you end with massive quantities of daily hatemail. See, isn't being nice to me just so much easier? (I was actually fully aware of the fact that you're just playing, which is why the above event hasn't happened. I'm just playing back… for now…) Oh, and reguarding the gay thing, YOU'RE WELCOME!!!

Mrbeans – You're gonna have to send me that PM again. This time, when writing down the address, put spaces after every period, as it doesn't appear if you don't.

1 – You rabid loaf of flattened bread! Totally the cliffhanger!

2 – Are you sure you live so far away from me? I ask this because I'm in a math class and I do that!

3 – You're both correct and out of luck at the same time! It's is possible!

4 – There are two reasons for that actually. The first is that Kole was around and Gnarrk wasn't. The second is that Kole just makes a way better beating stick.

5 – I didn't expect the Terra thing either. We're even now.

TDG3RD – Thanks for the compliments! I love screwing with people. You may note that I put a whole load of evidence towards Angela being Arella and hardly any towards the Seer. The fact that you even suspected the Seer shows just how good you are at figuring things out. And, as for being unable to wait for the next chapter, do so no longer! It has arrived!

Warprince2000 – So we meet again…

Pimpofthetitans – From what you said there, you'll be about thirty-percent happy. I can say no more, as if I did, you wouldn't even need to read the actual chapter. Oh, but thanks for the compliment on the ending point. I've never been complimented on anything like that before.

Paul Pyro – I thought I'd surprise you with that. As for the Zelda thing, I agree totally, as was made evident by the fact that I actually did it in the chapter. I can't stand those things with the girl being all weak and helpless and stuff. If Zelda can avoid Link for the vast majority of the game, she must have some skills.

Forlong – Thanks for the review.

Crimsonshrouds – Hey, thanks.

RaeFoxOni – I was hoping that somebody would comment on that line. I just thought it would be fitting.

Overactive Mind – I still love your reviews the most. Cute with that whole 'approachith' thing. I got a nice little chuckle out of that one. As for the Arella thing, I totally played you all with that one.

The White Ancient – Hey, thanks for that. It really made me feel good. Oh, and I really like your name. I don't know why, but it makes me smile.

Sunkistgurl10 – Hey, everybody loves Oreos. They're yummy-licious! That was one of those Blue Collar things, wasn't it? I too have the pleasure to announce that I am easily distracted by random shiny objects. It makes life quite easy. Who needs marijuana when you can just stare at a pretty new nickel? I was kinda hoping that the white cloak would bring up thoughts of Arella in at least one reader. And, once again, I have played another reader quite expertly with my amazing powers of being random! Go me! Hmmm… I want a pickle…

Shikamaru's hot honey – Patience is a virtue my little pumpkin seed.

ShadowWolfNinja – I hope you aren't offended, but I got a nice little cuckle out of your penname. It's like; "I'm gonna write a trashy romance novel… with ninjas!" or something. I'm glad you like what I've done with the game, and that we share a pairing preference. I'm sorry to say that I won't be doing that game you mentioned. This is because;

1 – I've already chosen all the games I'll be doing, and you'd know this if you read my A/N's.

2 – I'm not doing any games with more than a two playable characters. I may feature characters from the game, maybe even majorly, but in the end, it's a Teen Titans fic, and that's what I'm gonna focus on. I don't need some large cast of characters to get in the way of the development of the TT characters.

3 – And, the only reason that I'm not particularly proud of, I've never even heard of that game. Sorry.

By the way, hero worship is extremely unhealthy. Oh, screw it! Bow to me! Just kidding… sort of…

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BB's POV

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We had entered a huddle. It was decidedly the best position to formulate a plan.

"Okay" began Arella. "I should stay out here to prevent anybody from aiding the king."

Zelda nodded before adding "Then Garfield and I will battle Ganondorf."

"Right" Arella responded with a nod of her own. "Okay, I wish you both the best of luck. You're going to need it, seeing as how I was unable to completely decipher his fighting style for you."

"No worries" I said, smiling slightly. "I know exactly how to kick this guys ass."

The two women gave me twin quizzical looks. "How?" Arella asked incredulously.

"I wonder frequently how you know as much as you claim to" Zelda said in a sharp tone.

"Let's just say that there aren't many secrets in this world since the growth of Shigeru Minimoto was born" I muttered, though they could both hear me nonetheless.

"Who?" they asked in unison.

I looked back and forth between the two. "I can understand you not knowing" I said, nodding towards Zelda. "But you lived on earth for awhile" I continued, addressing Arella. Neither of them said anything for awhile, so I let it go. "Forget it" I said, turning and stepping right up to the door.

Zelda understood that we were going to get this over with and joined me before the door. As if by magic, the barrier slid up into the ceiling and we both ran into the chamber before us.

What I saw really didn't surprise me much. The familiar villain who, though I'd kicked his ass over a hundred times, still never failed to send a shudder up my spine, had been playing a massive pipe organ as we entered.

But, as we stood a short distance from him, he stopped and straightened his back slightly. "The Triforce parts are resonating" he muttered, though his voice still echoed in the massive room. "They are combining into one again."

Zelda and I exchanged nervous glances. Suddenly, I heard a comfortingly familiar voice speaking in my mind.

"Gar, you came."

"Raven?"

"No duh…"

"The two parts that I could not capture on that day seven years ago" the deranged magician continued. "I never thought that they would end up in the hands of outworlders like you!"

He spun around on the bench, holding his arm out towards us and grimacing manically. But now, finally, the entire TriForce has gathered here!" The TriForce symbol began to glow upon his fist. Feeling a slight heat on my hand, I examined it to find the same results. An audible gasp from Raven showed the same results for her.

""These toys are too much for you!" he shouted, power radiating from him like heat from a flame. "I command you to return them to me!"

Knowing what was coming, I shouted "Zelda! Back!" She seemed to catch my point as she ran straight for one of the corners of the room. I ran for the one opposite her, while still on the door side of the wall.

Ganondorf levitated into the air, the room transforming before us. We found ourselves in the familiar battlefield for the battle to come. As expected, the king shot towards the ground and slammed his fist against it, sending all the floor tiles immediately around him to the room below.

The odd thing though, was that Raven's prison remained. I stared up at her and nearly lost my balance as I saw the smirk on her face and the white energy quickly filling the imprisonment.

With a resounding explosion, which took all present off guard, Raven burst free from the crystal and hovered a short distance before the evil king.

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Raven's POV

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I stared straight at the dark man, unflinching. He glared back, then seemed to realize something. A smirk spread across his face as he formed an energy bolt in each hand.

He pulled his hands back and I put up a shield to defend myself. His smirk only grew. He threw his hands forwards… then spun around and sent the attacks straight for Gar and Zelda.

Zelda threw up a barrier to defend herself, but Gar was unable to defend himself from the shock of my appearance. Enraged, I summoned my cloak from Zelda.

The cloak disappeared from about Zelda's shoulders and reappeared in a similar position upon my own. Zelda seemed to be surprised from this action.

My opponent took Zelda's surprise as the perfect opportunity to bring her to the ground. I glared at him enraged. I quickly shot some of my new light energy straight for the dark king. He blocked it with his cape.

We stared each other down for a short while, until he formed another energy bolt and sent it straight for me.

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BB's POV

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I was in so much pain. I couldn't move in the slightest and was forced to simply watch what was taking place before me. It wasn't long before I began to recognize the attacks as they occurred.

Ganondorf sent a burst of energy straight for Raven who blocked it with a pale blue shield. She then countered with twin streams of light, the king dodging one and bringing the other into his own palm and hurling it right back. Raven held her own hand out and allowed the energy to flow into her.

Although I knew what was coming, I still failed to understand how it worked. The energy seemed almost as if to pass through her entire body to be shot back out from her other hand. Ganondorf simply dodged the attack, gathering a single ball of energy to counter with.

He flung it at Raven who deflected it back with her cloak, encased in a barrier. The ball passed back and forth between the two for awhile until the event from my dream approached.

The energy soared back to the king who seemed almost to wrap his cape around it as he sent it flying straight for me.

But, I saw it coming this time. With all the strength I could muster, I rolled out of the attack's path. Luckily for me, our opponent was too involved in his current taunting to notice his failure.

Even though the attack hadn't hit me, the bright flash of light still surrounded Raven. It filled the entire chamber in a way that I couldn't even recall from the dream.

"This ends now!" she shouted as the light faded, revealing the sacred white robe she's saught for so long. She began to perform complex hand gestures and began to chant her famous words. "Azarath… Metrion…"

That's when I remembered what was supposed to happen next. With all the strength I could gather, I forced myself up, drawing the Master Sword as I went. I dashed towards the dualing pair and leapt into the air. With all the strength I had, I swung the blade in a full circle, striking the energy as it nearly struck Raven and sent it back to the attacker.

He had no time to defend himself as the shock from my recovery seemed to paralyze him for a single moment. The energy collided fully with his torso and he just hung in place for a short while.

Raven seemed to have forgotten her attack as she grabbed me and pulled me up against her. We lowered slowly to the ground in the corner I'd occupied only a short while again.

I pulled away from Raven and looked her straight in the eyes for the first time in what felt like forever. I moved my face towards hers and she did the same.

We were only inches apart when I gripped her arms tightly and began to shake her violently. "Don't you ever scare me like again!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. "You scared me half to death!"

She stared back at me, wide eyed. She seemed speechless. "I-"

I let go of her and continued in a calmer tone, but still frantic, knowing how short we were on time. "Save it. Now, leave the bastard to me."

She seemed hesitant for a moment, but finally nodded in understanding. She backed further into the corner and gestured subtly towards the center of the room. I turned to see Ganondorf finally fully recovered and seeming aptly pissed.

He instantly formed a ball of energy in his hand and hurled it at me. With a perfectly timed swing, I sent the attack flying straight back at him. He seemed more prepared this time as he did the same with his cloak.

I simply rolled my eyes and struck the attack back again. The king seemed rather taken aback by this and wasn't able to block the energy this time.

I then called over to Zelda "Hit 'em now Zel!"

She nodded and sent a burst of white energy at his prone form, sending him to the ground. I dashed over to the gap and leapt across it, delivering a powerful downward slash as I descended.

I carried the momentum around into a horizontal slash, then a few more before I had to retreat. I leapt back to my starting point, just as the bastard was back and prepared for another round.

Things went on like this for a half dozen more rounds. Things were only becoming easier as he became more clumsy as he weakened. Finally, he seemed to have had enough as he rose slightly higher in the air.

He began to gather a massive quantity of dark energy over his head. I was just about to tell Zelda to attack when a burst of marginably more powerful white magic flew directly over my shoulder and struck the king of evil in the dead center of his chest.

With a grunt of pain, he descended to the platform. I glanced shortly at Raven before leaping over to the central platform and bringing the blade in for what was becoming my trademark descending strike. This time, however, rather than preparing for another slash, I drew my arm back and buried the blade to the hilt in the evil man's chest.

His head shot up, an expression of pure disbelief and agony clear upon his visage. "How…?" was all he said before I was sent flying back by a sudden release of power.

I could feel a pair of arms wrap around my torso. I looked up to see Raven smirking down at me. "Where would you be without me?" she asked sardonically.

"A living hell if not the normal kind" I replied, forcing our faces together. A short distance away, I could hear Ganondorf shrieking in rage and agony. The entire chamber began to shake, and the sound of breaking glass could be heard.

A short while later, the vibrations ceased and I pulled away from my Raven. I could see that we were surrounded by a pale blue barrier which she lowered just in time to see our enemy collapse to the warped and soiled ground.

A short distance away, Zelda was dropping her own barrier and Arella was running in from where the door had once been. Zelda stood before Ganondorf's limp form and glared almost… sympathetically down upon him. "Ganondorf… pitiful man" she muttered. "Without a balanced soul, he could never control the power of the-"

Suddenly, the entire tower began to rumble. In response to this, Zelda, Arella and Raven all gasped in unison. 'Yep, definitely related' I thought smiling subtly to myself.

"He's trying to crush us in the tower" Arella explained quickly, taking a step back towards the exit. "We'll lead you two out" she finished, nodding towards Zelda to show the 'we' represented.

With a shared nod between Raven and myself, we all began our dash for the exit. As we ran, Raven spoke "Gar?"

"Yeah?" I asked, turning to glance at her through the corner of my eye.

"How were you able to do all back there?"

"All what?"

"That thing with the sword" she called to me, nearly shouting.

"Oh that" I muttered inaudibly. "I was in little league in elementary school; best batter on the team."

She smirked at that and we sped up to catch up with the others. Apparently, she had yet to recognize the extra woman running alongside Zelda.

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Rovin's POV

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"Slade" I muttered, slowly lowering Starfire to the ground, out of harm's way.

"It's been awhile" he replied simply.

"I'm assuming that you remember what I said at our last meeting?" I asked rhetorically. He simply smirked.

I wasted no more time, lunging forward with my bow-staff fully extended. Slade blocked the strike effortlessly with a staff of his own. I smiled at him as I brought my foot up to the weak spot of all men.

I fell forward, nearly snapping my foot as I kicked myself in the head. I looked up to see Slade about ten feet away, visible eye glinting evily. "Sad" he muttered. "I was hoping for a little more than that Robin."

He then lunged forward with inhuman speed. I was barely able to stop his attack as it came. We stood, staves locked, glaring one another down. Suddenly, Slade pulled back and seemed almost to roll around to behind me and sent his staff for my head.

I ducked and rolled away from the attack. I was about to return to the fight when I spied Star, still safely out of the range of harm. I shook my head and hurled a fistful of varied pellets at Slade.

Using the distraction from the multiple explosions, bursts of ice and fire and electrical shocks, I pulled my communicator out and pressed the button which sent out a universal distress signal to all available Titans.

Just as I finished sending the message, I could feel wind rush past my head as Slade swung his staff just short of me. Raising an eyebrow, I said "Depth perception problems?" I waited for only a moment before finishing. "Only having one eye'll do that to ya'."

I quickly ducked another attack and used my crouched position to propel myself at Slade. He leaned the slightest bit to the right and grabbed my leg as I passed by. He did a full rotation before sending me flying at a nearby pillar.

As my head collided with the hard surface, I could feel darkness creeping over my senses. The last thing I saw before losing consciousness was my arch nemesis leering down at me, eye glinting wickedly.

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Raven's POV

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We ran from the room and I called forward to Zelda. "How much further do you think it is? We don't have much time!"

She didn't answer, only gestured to the portcullis ahead. When we reached it, she began to focus telekinetic energy to force the gate open.

As she was doing this, Gar glanced at me and began to speak quickly. "We only got about three floors left to go."

I nodded as the iron bars lifted and we all ran forward into the chamber ahead, Gar narrowly avoiding a chunk of falling debris.

As we entered, Zelda was in the lead, but stood near the center of the room to let us catch up. As Gar stepped towards her, I could hear an oddly familiar demonic chuckle. Just as I realized its source, a circle of flame ascended around Zelda.

At that exact moment, two Stalfos dropped from the ceiling. Gar and I exchanged a quick glance and we each ran for our own foe. I hurled a couple fireballs at mine as Gar grabbed his foe's shield. He flipped over its head and, as he descended, he swung his sword in a wide arc, removing its skull and severing its already thing tethers to the world of the living.

In the time it had taken us to defeat the Stalfos, the other woman(A/N: Raven hasn't gotten a good look at Arella yet) had taken it upon herself to open the next portcullis.

With yet another obstacle overcome, we continued our quick paced running.

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We stood before the metal bars marking the exit from the last room of the tower, waiting for Zelda to complete her spell. I found myself thinking briefly back to the time when'd I'd been going through this part of the game while equipped with the Biggoron's Sword. During one of the automated cutscenes of the gates opening, the way Link had turned had sent the freakishly long sword through Zelda's head. Everybody stared at me with identically raised eyebrows at me as I chuckled.

We can assume that this particular chuckle didn't last all that long.

We ran through the now open gate and found ourselves in a stairwell which curved down to the bottom level. Without hesitation, we continued our quick paced dash, didging the ever growing amount of falling debris. I could tell that the tower was ready to collapse any time now.

As we reached the bottom step, Raven tripped and slammed her knee on the ground, attempting to dodge a chunk of stone from the ceiling. Inhaling sharply empathetically, I ran over to her and pulled her to her feet. "Can you walk Rae?"

"I can levitate" she replied simply, lifting herself intot he air in a mist of green energy. By the time we'd caught up with the others, the gate was already open, but Arella was nowhere to be seen.

"She's gone ahead to clear the path" Zelda said, obviously having read my confused expression.

With that, we moved on. As we exited the archway, we found ourselves on a bridge with a single ReDead near the far gate.

I was about to use the longshot on it, remembering that such was the best strategy to use against this particular one.

I prepared the spring mechanism, aimed and… watched as a set of three pillars of fire consumed its form from just as many different directions.

Raven was hovering a slight distance from the bridge, Zelda lowering her arms from directly to my right, and Arella from the open archway ahead.

Rolling my eyes, I ran to catch up with the others who hadn't needed the time I did to put the longshot away.

As we dashed up the shallow flight of stairs towards the exit, I could feel the treamors from the tower increase subtly. "We gotta hurry!" I shouted, sighing with some slight relief as I saw that the archway ahead wasn't blocked. I figured that Arella had already taken care of that too.

As we exited, however, my eyes went wide as I found that there was nowhere to run. I stopped, skidding on my heels as all the others did varying versions of the same. We stood in a haphazard row, watching in morbid fascination as the tower slowly collapsed in on itself.

One of the outer platforms we'd used to escaped finally broke free from its supports and collapsed onto to the main area of the tower, another one breaking away just to be suspended by a single bit of support. As the tower was nearly halfway buried into the center of the main structure, there was an explosion of debris from the entrance. Only a fraction of a second later, an entire wall fell away and collapsed into the magma pit below.

Finally, the main outer defenses of the tower began to slide into the ground below it, causing some of the outer pillar-like supports to fall away into the lava. It only took a matter of a minute or so for the entire structure to slide into place, creating a perfectly flatplatform with only a small bit of debris strewn about.

A shudder ran down my spine as I realized something for the first time. It fit together far too perfectly for it to be any sort of coincidence.

We all just stared at the space before us in complete silence, save the harsh beating of our hearts. Finally, somebody spoke. "It's over… it's finally over…"

I turned solemnly to address Zelda. "Not quite yet" I muttered, just in time to hear the sound of some debris shifting.

Zelda gasped in surprise, grabbing her chest. 'She's such a princess' I thought with a slight smirk.

She, however, wasn't the only one to react. I had the Master Sword at the ready and Raven had her hands encased in a pure white aura.

When Zelda finally caught her breath, she asked "What was that noise?"

"That was the sound of it not being over" I said in a low tone, slowly drawing towards the center of the platform. I glanced to my right to find Raven right beside me, doing the same.

Suddenly, the X-files music played through for no reason.

"Well, that was odd" Raven muttered, blinking rapidly.

"Pretend it never happened?" I asked, glancing quickly around at my surroundings.

"Read my mind" she muttered, and with that, we were back on our slow route towards the huge pile of debris.

There was a flash of lightning off in the distance. The thunder, however, could not be heard as the sound was drowned out by the sound of the massive pile of debris bursting apart and flying off in all directions. The entire area took on a blood red hue as flames ascended to keep us in… or out… depending upon whom you're thinking off.

Only a few yards before us hovered an undoubtably pissed Ganondorf. He glared menacingly at us, eyes glowing yellow and breaths coming in short rasps. He held his fist out before him and the symbol of the TriForce appeared upon it. A still unfamiliar heat on my own hand, signified the same results for myself. Suddenly, he curled himself into a tight ball and released a massive shockwave of energy with a deep, masculine scream of rage and pain.

When the energy faded, a massive, dark creature dropped heavily to the ground, then pulled itself out of its curled up position. It glared at the two of us for but a moment before it pulled out a pair of weapons, a sword for one hand and an axe for the other, and began to swing them about angrily.

I knew what he was attempting to accomplish and wouldn't allow him the satisfaction. With a quick back flip, I was crouched next to Raven and a satisfactory distance from the beast's wild flailing.

"Rae!" I shouted over to her, over the sound of another crack of thunder. "Shoot him wi-"

But, I was interrupted. "-with my light energy! I know!"

Confused, and thinking back to how she'd known exactly what to do in the other fight at the top of the tower, I asked "How do you know what to do?"

"You've played this game so many times!" she shouted back, throwing up a barrier to block a particularly close flail from the beast. "I was bound to watch you beat it at least once!"

I accepted that excuse and, with a quick shout of "Now!", the barrier was dropped, only to be replaced by a sudden blast of white lightning in the demon's face.

(A/N: Ganon is, like, the coolest looking boss in the game, no matter how much of a pushover he may be.)

With the monster stunned, I flipped between his legs, glad to find that it's extraordinarily difficult to breath mid-flip. Once behind him, I brought the Master Sword in a full arc, colliding at some point with the soft flesh of the tail.

He seemed to recover instantly and spun around to strike me with one of his blades, but I simply ducked below the attack and used my crouched position to propel myself between his legs once again. Now, back where I'd started, and effectively behind him, I delivered a vertical slash to the tail, bringing it around such that I'd strike it with a horizontal slash as he spun to face me.

Upon hearing the satisfying screech of pain from the demon, I flipped away from him, such that I was crouching, once again, directly next to Raven.

We exchanged a glance and began the routine all over again.

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Raven's POV

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As the fight progressed, I was coming to the decision that Ganon was as much of a pushover in reality as he'd seemed to be in the game, the time I'd watched. I also noted that, as the fight progressed, we were slowly moving in a clockwise pattern; as Gar's attack pattern required some slight sideward motion. I ignored this however, deciding that it couldn't possibly cause any problems.

Was I ever wrong?

After about the twelfth round of combat, Gar was spinning around to strike Ganon's sensitive tail when his foot became caught under a particularly large chunk of rubble on the ground.

Everything seemed to enter slow motion as he tottled forward, then back, then in a full off kilter rotation. He was falling forward, closing in on the ground when… he righted himself and recaptured his balance.

Ganon attempted to slash him, but he was able to dodge the attack, but not without sacrificing his balance yet again. It was only at this point that, with another flash of lightning, that I noticed how exhausted Gar was becoming.

He was panting deeply and was hardly able to dodge another swipe from the demon. By this point, he was standing almost directly between the demon and myself. Seeming as if to push his exhaustion down, he dashed straight for the massive beast, sword held slightly away from his body, when the axe came crashing down.

I stared in horror, entering slow motion once again as Gar's severed arm flew through the air, spinning like a pinwheel until it collided soundly with my skull.

I lay on the ground for only a moment. I quickly gather my senses and lift my head to look at Gar. He was just standing, seemingly in a trance, facing down an unmistakeably dumbfounded demon from hell.

Everything seemed to finally strike home, as his trance-like state was replaced by a demeanor of unimaginable hatred.

"You bastard!" he shouted over another crack of thunder. "I'll fuckin' kill you!"

With that, he ran forward, rolling between the demon's legs.

"Gar!" I called out to him, hoping to bring him back to his senses. There was nothing he could do without a weapon… or so I thought…

Just as he was halfway between the beast's legs, he threw his leg up with all the strength he still had, striking the monster's goods with crippling force.

Everything stood still for a moment. Then, Gar crouched behind Ganon, who's eyes were wider than I'd ever thought possible. He then collapsed and the wall of flames around us faded instantly.

I just stared back and forth between Gar and Ganon, unable to take my eyes off of the sight before me. Then suddenly, twin pillars of iridescent light struck Ganon from either side and he howled in pain. Zelda and I exchanged a look, then she nodded toward something at my feet.

I looked down to find the Master Sword, still gripped firmly in Gar's cold, dead hand. I picked the arm up and pryed the sword from its grip and began to fly over the stunned demon.

"What are you doing?" Zelda asked, voice laced with confusion and annoyance.

"I'm bringing the sword back to Gar!" I called back, never even glancing in her direction.

"But-" she began, only to be interrupted by the other woman in the white cloak.

"Leave it" she called over to Zelda. "It's a matter of principle."

I sent a brief smile of appreciation to the woman, to see her returning it. I gasped, but shook the new realization away. I could talk to my mother later.

I landed next to an oddly calm Gar and held the sword out to him. He looked at me dumbly for a moment then, realizing what what I was doing, began to flex his shoulder muscle, sending a particularly large stream of blood to spurt out.

Seeming to sign that away in the back of his mind as 'inefficient' or something, he reached out and gripped it awkwardly in his left hand.

I quickly wrapped him in my cloak and flew the two of us back over the beast to its front. As we went, I quickly healed the wound over, knowing that I couldn't grow the arm back, but could still stop the bleeding and close the wound. For all I knew, he'd have to become a lefty because of this.

I set him down softly before the demon's face, twisted in agony and hatred. He took not a moment's hesitation to bring the sword over his head and bring it down swiftly through the flesh of the dragon, eliciting a howl of pain. He brought the blade around for a horizontal slash, then brought it back for another. Finally, using the same momentum which drove the entire attack, he drew the blade back and drove it forward at the same time as Ganon moved his face forward, so that the entirety of the blade was buried in the demon's face.

All was still for a moment until Gar tore the blade out roughly. He said "No more death" before the beast rose into the air and began to flail about wildly once again.

A massive ball of silver energy formed between Zelda's raised arms and erupted as she shouted "Six sages! Now!" before falling to her knees in exhaustion.

What happened next brought forth a memory of a particular Tamaranian meal and the particular fashion by which it was required to force it's writhing, pulcating form into the trash can.

With one last blinding flash, Ganon was no more. In fact, the entire platform, the debris, the thunderstorm, the… extremely dislocated arm… were nowhere to be seen. All that could be seen were Zelda, my mother, Gar, myself and a vast expanse of clear, blue skies.

Gar picked this exact instant to fall backwards as I shot forward to catch him in a tight embrace.

I looked up at the two other woman and saw that they were staring back at me. "Mother" I said bluntly, acknowledging her presence.

"Hello Raven" she said back, a hint of a smile crossing her expression before breaking out into an all out grin as she dashed forward and dropped to her knees next to me.

I pulled back slightly from surprise. "Yes?" I asked hesitantly.

She seemed overjoyed to see me. "I have some good news, some more good news, and some even better news" she said with a small smirk.

"How 'bout we go in order" I muttered impatiently.

She rolled her eyes at me. "The good news is that you won… with a half hour to spare." She took a quick breath before continuing. "The other good news is that you get to go home. And finally, the better news is that… I'm coming with you."

Silence reigned for a short eternity.

"What?" I asked, horror evident in my tone. I could just picture it; the Teen Titans and… Raven's mommy? No thank you!

"What's the matter dear?" she asked, sounding honestly concerned.

I needed an excuse. "What about Hyrule… or Azarath?"

"There's nothing for me in either of those worlds."

"But, don't you need to guard the gate to the pocket dimension I trapped father in?" I asked, frantically seeking out some sort of way out.

"With all six-" Zelda cleared her through "-seven sages awakened, they have enogh power to do that for me, seeing as how Ganon and Trigon are now both trapped in it."

Now, I was confused. And so, apparently, was Gar. "I thought Ganon was trapped in the Sacred Realm where the TriForce came from?"

"This is true" Zelda replied. "But, seeing as how the TriForce hasn't been there in seven years, it was a relatively convenient place to place Trigon the Terrible."

Gar looked weakly up at me, showing his confusion clearly. I nodded at him and said "We're confused." After carefully selecting my words, I continued. "How did I just happen to send father to the Sacred Realm of all dimensions? And, since when is this Sacred Realm a pocket dimension?"

"Wow" Gar mumbled under his breath, though I could still hear him. "The great Raven doesn't know something."

I ignored him. He was probably just delirious.

Arella smirked at the two of us before beginning to speak again. "Okay, there are parallel dimensions, some slightly more parallel than others. For example, Azarath and the Earth dimension are two of the closest to one-another. But, Azarath is equally as close to Hyrule which is likewise for Termina, which is just kind of… sticking off so to speak. And lastly, there's the Sacred Realm which is squeezed comfortably in the little nook created by Hyrule, Azarath and the Earth dimension, allowing all three worlds easy access to it."

I just stared at her, blinking rapidly as Gar was slowly tilting his head to the side. I also noted that he was drooling slightly, a fact made evident by the small puddle of liquid forming on the shoulder of my cloak.

"So, how'd I do?" Arella asked, seemingly oblivious.

'This simply can't be the same woman who raised me.'

"So, how do we get home?" I asked, finally giving up on getting rid of my mom.

"There's a spell," Zelda said, stepping forward. "In order to cross such a large dimensional gap, all three of us need to perform it at once."

"Four" I corrected, readjusting Gar slightly.

"What?"

"There're four of us" I replied bluntly.

"Fine, all three that are conscious" Zelda said, rolling her eyes in agrivation.s

She quickly went through the chant and I recognized it halfway through. Mother had caught on only a short way in. Now, knowing what we needed to do, we all chanted the spell once more in perfect unison.

"Primo vigil'in caupona,
Ordinarius populus hoc.
Senex prope me vinum bibulat,
Atque poculum permulcet sic.
Dicit, Puer, canta quaedam carmina.
Dedici iam pridem verba,
Sed molles et dulces;
Tota verba scivi,
Cum fui puer velut tu.
Karazon Rakashah Mortes,
Azarath Metrion ZYNTHOS! "

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As we completed the chant, there was a burst of black light and I was alone in the clear, blue skies. I stood in complete silence for but a moment then placed my hand to my face. "Everything is as it should be now…" I said quietly. "I'll be waiting for you… Link…"

A/N: Okay, that was the last chapter. But, there is still an epilogue. I'll be tying up the scenario with Slade, as well as the one with Terra and Dr. Light.

For anybody who was confused, that's what I was going for. So, don't feel stupid or anything. It was meant to be a tad vague and murky, especially that last line from Zelda.

NOTE

If anybody can figure what that spell they chanted actually was, I will worship you to the end of time! Though, I'm gonna make it a bit easier by saying that the last line IS, in fact, Raven's famous line. So, you don't have to guess on that one.

Signed,

The Cheese!