Hello everybody! So sorry it's really late but my laptop broke.. So yeah. Well enjoy the chapter anyway and leave review if you'd like! I don't own LoZ or Harry Potter.
Link felt himself lying face down opening his eyes he sat up, shaking his head to clear it. After a mere glance around he knew where he was, the place he always was when ever he met with the shade, the odd fogged up world which held all of Hyrule's most notable landmarks. But the shade wasn't here like he always was. Link walked forward half expecting the shade to appear to test his skill, yet still the old hero did not appear. He continued to look till a voice cut through the silence. A voice that made his blood run cold.
"Looking for someone?"
Link spun around, instinctively reaching to drawn his sword and shield. Expecting to grip his two most favored pieces of equipment Link only grasped air. He felt his composure start to crumble even more so when he noticed that not only were his sword and shield missing but so was his belt with all his items. Along with the belt the actual green tunic and hat were no longer on his body. He was left in the white pants and shirt that were underneath. plain white pants and shirt that were himn underneath. With no equipment Link brought his hands up and stepped into a defensive stance. Hand to hand combat wasn't an area he was skilled in but he was no slouch either.
"Cute. You think you can fight me."
Link remained silent. Not willing to give the dark doppelganger a response.
"Not going to talk with me? Well no matter," He was now in front of Link. Link tried to backpedal away while keeping his stance up when he felt a blade pass through his chest. "The mortal drawn truly a deadly skill. I'll be control soon enough maybe not today or this year, but I'm done living in the shadows. Trapped in your soul"
Link felt the blade leave his body and could see the blood on it dripping to the floor in the fog. He fell to his knees blood pouring down his back and chest from the wound that went through his heart. Then he fell forward and the blood began to pool around him.
"Enjoy your last breaths hero." said the doppelganger staring into Links blue eyes with his red ones watching as the life slowly drained out him. Laughing as Link slowly died on floor of the spectral dimension.
Link bolted upright, gasping and the first things he noticed was that One he had no wound that went through his heart and Two he was in a bed and people were staring at him. One of the people who was staring was the bowler hat guy who he first saw when he came here. The others were Harry, Hermione, Snape and someone who looked like a nurse. Harry looked furiously at Snape and bowler hat dude.
"Snape is this the boy who was in possession of all those dangerous things. You know the swords and shields among other odd objects?" Fudge asked.
"Yes minister. He was also the one who had that mask I showed you earlier."
"Well, we shall see his fate after the department of security examines all of his items. Where are they now?"
"I have them properly locked up including the mask, you need not worry minister." Snape replied staring at Link who was glaring at him hatefully.
The nurse appeared in between the two breaking the eye contact. "Now please leave Minister these children need care." she said shoving more chocolate into each child's mouth.
While Link was spitting out the chocolate that was shoved into his mouth the door opened again and Dumbledore walked in. Quickly swallowing his chocolate and standing Harry spoke.
"Professor Dumbledore, Sirius Black -"
"For heaven's sake!" said Madam Pomfrey hysterically. "Is this a hospital wing or not? Headmaster I must insist -"
"My apologies Poppy but I need a word , Miss Granger and Link." said Dumbledore calmly. "I have just been talking to Sirius Black -"
"I suppose he's told you the same tale he planted in Potter's mind?" said Snape venomously. "Something about a rat and Pettigrew being alive -"
"That is indeed Black's story," Dumbledore replied surveying Snape through his half moon spectacles.
"And does my evidence account for nothing?" snarled Snape. "Peter Pettigrew was not in the shrieking shack nor did I see any sign that he was on the grounds. And what about that boy, I told you that he was doing something and I was right. I found in the possession of several strange devices and a mask that is clearly full of dark magic."
There was a moment of silence before Hermione spoke, "The part about Pettigrew was because you were knocked out Professor.." she said earnestly. "You didn't arrive in time to hear -"
"Miss Granger, HOLD YOUR TONGUE AND DON'T SPEAK ON MATTERS THAT DON'T CONCERN YOU!"
"Now Snape," said Fudge, startled by Snape's outburst, "the young lady is disturbed in her mind, allowances must be made -"
"I would like to speak to these three alone," said Dumbledore abruptly. "Cornelius, Snape, Poppy please leave us."
"Headmaster!" Madam Pomfrey sputtered. "They need treatment," Link made a choking noise considering that her first form of "treatment" was shoving chocolate down his throat. "rest -"
"This cannot wait," said Dumbledore. "I must insist."
The nurse pursed her lips before striding to the end of the ward and into a room slamming the door shut behind her. Fudge glanced a golden pocket watch which was hanging from his coat.
"The dementors should have arrived by now," he said. "I'll go meet them. Dumbledore see you upstairs."
He crossed over to the door and held up for Snape but he hadn't moved.
"You don't believe a word of Black's story do you?" Snape all but whispered his eyes transfixed on Dumbledore's face.
"I wish to speak to them alone." Dumbledore repeated.
Snape stepped closer to him and said something else before turning and leaving the door closing behind him.
As the two bursted into speech as soon as Dumbledore turned to them Link stood and began taking inventory on what He was missing and what he had. His green tunic, chainmail, gauntlets and hat were on a little table next to the bed. Leaning on the table was his wooden sword/wand but that was it. No master sword. No shield. No pouches. No Mask. Leaving the tunic, gauntlets and hat off he picked up the sword and put it on his back when he heard Dumbledore say something that caught his attention.
"What we need is more time."
The way he said time is what caught Links attention, almost as if he was something. Hermione seemed to understand as he eyes widened and she said "OH!" and Dumbledore spoke again.
"Now pay attention, Sirius is locked in professor Flitwick's office on the seventh floor. Thirteenth window from the west tower." he turned to Link before continuing. "Your equipment is locked in Snape's office down in the dungeons. If all goes well the three of you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight. But remember you must not be seen. Miss Granger you know the law. What is at stake."
Harry was lost as to what what was going on, and Link had a pretty good idea as Dumbledore began walking out. He stopped at the door and turned.
"I'm locking you in. It is-" he looked at his watch, "five to midnight. Miss Granger three turns should do it. Good luck." he started closing the door before saying on last thing. "Oh, and Link do keep them safe?"
Link nodded as the door closed. "What's he talking about? Three turns of what?" Harry asked as Hermione fumbled with neck her robes, pulling out a long, thin gold chain with a small hourglass on the end of it.
"Come here both of you," she said urgently. "Quick!"
The two boys approached her. Harry still looked confused as she threw the chain around all of their necks.
"Ready?" she said breathlessly.
"What are we doing?" Harry asked still lost.
Link rolled his eyes at the boys cluelessness as Hermione turned the little hourglass over three times. The dark ward dissolved. There was sensation of flying backwards very fast, accompanied by a blur of color and shapes passing by. Once things came back into focus the three were in the empty entrance hall, golden light streaming from the open doors. Harry was looking at Hermione wildly.
"Hermione, what -?"
"In here!" she said seizing Harry's arm and dragging him into a broom closet, Link right behind her. Once inside Link closed the door behind them.
"Ok Hermione tell me what's going on?"
"We've gone back in time Harry." Hermione whispered, lifting the chain off of his neck in the darkness. "Three hours to be exact."
Harry pinched himself on the leg to make sure he wasn't dreaming. He wasn't. Just as he opened his mouth to speak Link shushed them. He had his ear to the door and was quickly joined by Hermione. Footsteps could be heard echoing slightly from out in the hall.
"I think that's us heading down to Hagrid's." Hermione said, the sound of footsteps fading.
"So you're telling me that were out there and in this cupboard?" Harry whispered.
Link rolled his eyes. Even though Harry wasn't stupid, he was denser than darknut armor most of the time to things that were plainly obvious. As Hermione explained to Harry about how she acquired the time tuner and how she had been using it all Link could think of was: 'Wow that is a stupid concept.' as it didn't turn back time itself, but rather brought back the person. The doors of time did the same thing but that was over a course of hundreds of years as to not cause problems. Link turned his attention back to the other two just as they stood and opened the door.
As quickly and as quietly as they could the three left the closet and darted to the stone steps leading to the grounds.
"We'll run for the forest." Harry said determinedly. "Then we'll hide behind some trees or something and keep lookout."
"Okay but we'll have to go around the greenhouses to avoid being seen from Hagrid's front door." Hermione said breathlessly. "We must be nearly at Hagrid's by now."
They set off at a sprint, through the vegetable gardens and behind the green house. Once behind them they paused for moment before preparing to take off again, but just as Harry was about to sprint to the trees Link grabbed him and pulled him back and down doing the same for Hermione before going down to the ground himself.
"What was that for?!" Harry hissed from on the ground Link's hand still on his back.
But Link wasn't listening as he brought his head up and looked around before pulling them both up and half dragged them the rest of the way to the forest.
"Right then," Hermione gasped, winded from half running being half dragged. "First off, what was that all about. And second we need to get a view on Hagrid's hut."
In response to her question Link pointed to the an area which would have clear view of almost the entire grounds including Hagrid's hut and the willow that they just ran past. Standing there was his past self.
"Oh…." Hermione said quietly. "Let's move then."
When they made it to the hut a knock could be heard and when Hagrid opened the door Harry heard his own voice. As the past events of what happened in the cabin occurred once again the three waited for the right opportunity to seize buckbeak without the suspicion that Hagrid set him free.
A few minutes later Hermione shrieked from within the cabin.
"Hermione," Harry said suddenly. "what if we were to just run in there and grab Pettigrew-"
"No!" said Hermione in a terrified whisper. "Not only would you be seen by yourself which could result in enough problems itself, but on the off chance that doesn't happen it would cause a paradox as there would be no need to go back in time but we would have had to go back in time to do this. So you see there would be to many problems!" she finished all in one breath.
"O-kay…." said Harry slightly confused by her explanation. "I had just thought-"
Hermione wasn't paying attention to him anymore and instead was looking up towards the castle, and Harry could see why. He had to move his head slightly but he could see Dumbledore, Fudge. the old committee member and Macinar the executioner coming down the front steps.
"Were about to come out." Hermione said.
Sure enough the back door to the Hut opened and Harry felt the weird sensation of watching himself with Ron and Hermione walk out. The past version of the tree vanished as they threw the cloak over themselves just as a knock was heard on the front door. As the group from the castle entered the hut and began to go over the basic procedure Harry made the move to retrieve Buckbeak.
Harry reached the post where Buckbeak was and began untying him.
"Come on Buckbeak, were going to help you. Quietly." Harry murmured, throwing all of his weight onto the rope in an effort to move the hippogriff.
Harry's eyes darted to the hut, the sound of footsteps moving towards the door coming from within.
"Buckbeak, move!" Harry hissed, tugging on the rope harder causing the hippogriff to walk while rustling his wings irritably.
The two were ten feet from the forest when the just as the executioner was about exit the cabin Dumbledore called him back to sign a document giving Harry another minute to get out.
"Harry, hurry!" Hermione mouthed from behind a tree.
Giving the rope another wrench Buckbeak broke into a trot and when they reached the tree line Hermione added her weight to the rope too. With the added weight Buckbeak moved faster and they ran into the woods till they were blocked from view of Hagrid's hut, Link behind them.
"Stop!" Harry whispered causing the other two to freeze where they were. "They might hear where we are."
A door to Hagrid's hut had banged open. The three stood still, even Buckbeak seemed to be listening to what was transpiring. There was absolute silence for moment, then -
"Where is it?" came the reedy voice of the old committee member. "Where is the beast?"
It was tied right here!" the executioner all but yelled furiously. "I saw it! Just before!"
"How extraordinary." said Dumbledore, a note of amusement in his voice.
The executioner swung his axe into the fence in a fit of rage, causing a loud thud. Hagrid began to howl and cry in happiness, celebrating on what he thought was Buckbeak's escape.
Buckbeak began to strain and struggle against the rope in an effort to get back to Hagrid. Harry, Hermione and Link each had to grab the rope to stop him from moving forward. As Macnair tried to argue and find someway to make sense of the situation something that Dumbledore said in response to Macnair's claim caught Link's attention
"- do you really think the thief led him away on foot? Search the skies if you will. . ."
It made sense now to Link as he stood there, Dumbledore already knew that they were going to save Buckbeak when he came to the hospital. He pointed out the thing that needed to be signed to give them more time, and he just prevented the forest from being searched. While these facts were helpful in the current situation, it raised the question of how he knew that someone was going to try to save the hippogriff and that the someone would be helpful.
"We're going to have to move, so that we have a view of the willow. That way we know what's going on." Harry said.
Hermione gave him a nod before getting a firmer grip on Buckbeak's rope. The three proceeded to move around the edge of the forest, Light was fading casting shadows in the twilight while darkness approached. The group moved around the edge of the forest till they were hidden behind a clump of trees with a clear view of the willow.
Link sat on the ground with his back to the tree as Harry and Hermione watched what had happened in front of the willow. As the other two discussed what was going on at tree, Link drew the wooden sword from his back and put the tip in the dirt and began to draw. At the first it looked like he was just drawing lines but the lines turned into the symbols that were on the walls of twilight. He focused back onto the other two's conversation for a moment while he finished up the drawing.
"If only he had grabbed the cloak!" Harry said. "It's just lying there in the grass.. . ."
Lupin must have just entered the tree Link guessed based on what Harry had said.
"Hey Hermione. . ." Harry began. "What if I just dashed out now and grabbed-"
He didn't even get to finish the sentence as Link stood, grabbing his right arm and Hermione grabbed his left. Harry looked to Link on his right who simply shook, silently saying no to the action before releasing him. Hermione on the other hand had a lot more to say on the matter.
"What part of "we must not be seen" do you not understand Harry?!"
'Well I can't stand just sitting here! Watching this happen when I can do something about it!" Harry said. After a moment's hesitation Harry made up his mind. "I'm going to grab the cloak."
"Harry, n-"
She didn't get to finish her sentence before Link had stood up and pinned Harry face down to floor of the forest while holding his arm behind his back completely immobilizing him all in a matter of seconds. Hermione and Harry were both stunned into silence at just how fast he moved. The silence was broken though when Hagrid came walking up towards the castle swaying slightly and singing.
Link held Harry pinned even after Hagrid's singing had disappeared. Hermione had once again began to watch the tree and Harry had given up struggling against Link as when he struggled Link only applied more pressure to his arm.
"Snape's coming out now." said Hermione.
Harry struggled to raise his head and watch as Snape tapped the not on the root of the willow and snatch the invisibility cloak. As soon as Snape disappeared Harry felt Link's extra weight leave.
"How could you let him do that." Harry said while getting up, staring straight at Link.
He stared at the symbols he drew in the dirt for moment before turning to face Harry.
"Because I already did." he said before sitting back down in the dirt and taking a bottle out of his shirt.
Harry stood frozen. All of his anger was gone in that moment and he just stared at Link, who at the moment looked exhausted. That was the first time that he heard Link speak more than single word before, he mostly only nodded, shook his head or grunted.
"Excuse me, Link?" Hermione said rather hesitantly. "But what's that on your left hand?"
He stared at her for moment before realizing what she meant.
"Nothing." he said, moving to cover his hand.
Hermione was disappointed by his response and wanted to press for answers but something told her that she wasn't going to get any. Not right now anyway.
The three sat and waited for bit before Hermione started whispering to Harry so quietly that Link couldn't hear from where he was.
"Harry," Hermione whispered. "Have you ever noticed the symbol on Link's hand? Or noticed his ears?"
Harry stole a quick glance at Link before whispering back.
"No, he always wore that hat and those gloves." Harry whispered back.
"Exactly. Which means he was trying to hide it," she whispered. "The ears I could understand because they're so different, but why his a tattoo on your hand? It doesn't make sense…"
Hermione went silent for a moment and she looked like she was deep in thought then Harry noticed, she got the look she had when she thought of something.
"You think of something?" Harry asked.
"You remember that story I read to you and Ron? The one about the boy and the moon?"
Harry nodded slowly trying to remember the details.
"Well in it it said the boy had a shield with three triangles on it in the exact configuration as Link's hand."
"So…" said Harry looking lost.
"So what if they're connected somehow?" Hermione said, starting to look excited. "What if-"
She didn't get to finish as Link had stood up. People were coming out of the secret passage below the whomping willow. The main event was about to begin.