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Ocarina of Time: The Three Goddesses Reincarnated

Chapter Forty: Disaster

Tessa was still crouched down on her knees when they caught sight of Nabooru. Although by now she was definitely dead and a sage, she still seemed like the proud Gerudo leader that Tessa had imagined her to be, but a slightly worried look was behind the eyes of that woman. At first, Tessa couldn't think of a reason for Nabooru to be worried at all, and then little Korinu popped into her mind.

"Link, I must say you did very well back there. It took you seven years to do it, but I understand now." Nabooru stated, almost sadly. "To think, I had been under those bitches control for seven long years now…"

"It's not entirely like you couldn't help it…" Link murmured. Nabooru didn't react to that at first, but then gave a slow nod.

"I suppose…" Then, Nabooru looked down. Link couldn't see from his angle, but Tessa saw through Nabooru's eyes that she was filled with anguish and self-loathing.

"If you're thinking about not being there for Korinu, she doesn't blame you." Tessa smiled. "She just thought that you were very busy for the past seven years, and all she wants is to see you again…" Tessa tried to smiled comfortingly, but wasn't sure if she was doing very well at it.

Nabooru's head shot up in surprise. "How do you know…" Then Nabooru looked at Tessa's clothing, of a Gerudo at that point in time. Then she looked at the color of Tessa's skin, which was really pale. Finally, the bow and arrows behind Tessa's back were the object of her attention. After a moment, she looked at Tessa's chocolate-brown eyes. "You weren't a Gerudo from when I was still at the fortress." Nabooru stated. "When were you inducted into the tribe?"

Tessa laughed slightly. "Oh, just a few days ago. I was assigned as one of Korinu's caretakers. She is one little ball of spirit, I'll tell you that. Rhea and I didn't really know how to handle her…"

Nabooru's eyes shifted at the mention of Rhea. "Rhea? Rhea was assigned as caretaker to Korinu as well?"

"Well…more like a bodyguard but that was after she came to the tribe after she realized that Ganondorf would probably kill her for failing a mission. I don't think she cares too much for Ganondorf though, which is probably a good thing for us." Then, Tessa looked at Nabooru. "Why? Do you know her?"

"About a month before I left for the Spirit Temple, Ganondorf brought Rhea to our tribe to train her." Nabooru said. "I wanted nothing to do with her, since she was technically Ganondorf's project, and I despised that man. I still do." Nabooru grimaced. "Although, she did learn very quickly, even with that blind eye of hers…"

"Well, she's done very well, and thinks of the tribe as a safe haven. It's probably all for the best, anyway." Tessa smiled. "She is now on our side against Ganondorf…sort of. She doesn't really care who wins or who loses. Rhea has her own way of life, but she's a good person in her own terms."

"Well…at least I know that Korinu's bodyguard is a well-trained one." Nabooru sighed. "Thank you for taking care of her…"

"Oh, no problem!" Tessa smiled. "She's quite the powerful little girl."

Nabooru looked confused for a moment, but chose not to say anything. "I should probably give you that medallion now." Nabooru smiled, and then raised her arms. A medallion formed, and floated itself over to Link's hands. He took a hold of it. "One more thing before you go…tell Korinu that I love her, and that I'm very sorry I haven't been there for her."

"Of course." Tessa smiled. Then, the familiar blue light surrounded them again. For a moment, that was all they could see, and then they were a few yards from the gate to the Gerudo's Fortress.

"You seem to know a lot when it comes to Rhea and Korinu." Link commented. "You spoke most of the time, I'm not used to that."

Tessa laughed. "Well, the funny thing is…neither am I." Tessa smirked. "Really, the day or two I had seen of Korinu and Rhea I got to know them pretty well."

"If you say so." Link shrugged. Navi popped out of his hat and circled Tessa.

"What I want to know concerns that little ability of yours…that deals with fire." Navi asked. "That was amazing!"

Link's memory returned about that incident, and he looked at Tessa. "I'm curious about that too…"

Tessa laughed nervously. "You know, maybe it's just being in Hyrule!"

"You're lying." Link stated bluntly.

Tessa laughed even more, and then sighed. "Well…" Tessa grimaced. "I'll tell you tonight or something." A grin spread throughout Tessa's face. "But I'm starving, do you think the Gerudo have any food to spare?"

Link looked skeptical, but shrugged. He was pretty sure that Tessa was hoping that both Navi and himself would forget about the incident if she just avoided it like the plague, although he would go with it for now. There was definitely something that Tessa didn't want to tell him. With a sigh, he started to walk to the fortress, with Tessa leading the way. She seemed happy to see that place again. It seemed odd that Tessa would find the Gerudo a people that she could like so much, since they were notorious thieves.

About mid-way over to the actual fortress, Korinu ran up to Tessa, with Rhea following behind her.

"Get back here!" Rhea shouted. Link was still a few meters behind Tessa, pondering what her special powers were about, and why her eyes turned a fiery red color when she used them.

"Tessa, did you see my mother?" Korinu asked, her eyes hopeful. Tessa nodded.

"Yes…she said that she was sorry that she'd been gone for so long, but…" Tessa paused, and at first Rhea and Korinu thought it natural, and then the pause was really long, and Tessa began to shake.

"Tessa?" Rhea asked, at first quietly, and when there was no response she reached forward to put her hand on Tessa's shoulder. However, before it got there, Tessa grabbed her wrist, and the shaking worsened, before suddenly it just stopped. Tessa looked up at Rhea, and the girl gasped. "Tessa…what…?"

Tessa's eyes were strangely colored. One eye was completely fiery red, and the other was completely ice blue. Anger was apparent on her face. However, Tessa didn't respond with words, but instead flipped Rhea over her shoulder. Rhea gasped when she hit ground. Korinu screamed and crouched down next to the tall Hylian girl.

"Rhea!" Korinu shouted. However, before Rhea could respond Tessa had taken one of Rhea's swords, that the Gerudo had granted her for the protection of Korinu. "Tessa, what is wrong with you?" Korinu demanded. Tessa's face went from angry to completely emotionless, and her movements were now more smooth than jerky. Then, Tessa raised the sword with one arm above the two girls. Rhea gasped, and as Tessa brought down the sword she covered Korinu completely, but she never felt pain. Instead, the clang of metal against metal was heard, and after a moment Rhea looked up. Link was standing over the two, and he was blocking the sword with his own.

"Tessa, what are you doing?" Link demanded, anger evident in his voice. Tessa did not respond but looked at him with emotionless eyes. Link gasped.

"Those are Twinrova's eyes…" Link murmured, so shocked that he loosened his guard slightly. Tessa took the advantage to release her sword from his and swung with the expertise that she never had before at him. Link rolled a little late from the attack, and he felt a burning sensation on his arm where the sword had cut him.

Tessa followed after him, never relenting on her attack. Link earned himself more scrapes, some which burned from being ice-cold, and some that burned like fire. This must be what Twinrova had really done to Tessa…it was meant to look like they were trying to do what they had done to Nabooru, and force her into oblivion. Instead, their power overrode Tessa's body, and she was turned against everyone who fought her.

She was now Ganondorf's pawn.

Then, Link shook his shocked feeling away and he began to fight back. He pushed Tessa back, the Master Sword's power kicked in and he felt strangely renewed with power, although his cuts were still bleeding profusely.

Rhea made sure that Korinu was completely okay before she stood up. "Tessa's been possessed by Twinrova?" Rhea murmured. "Did I hear that right?"

"I heard the same." Korinu's voice sounded distressed. "We have to help her!"

Rhea nodded, and drew out her other sword. "Korinu, I don't want you in this battle, but I'm wondering…"

"I know what you're thinking." Korinu ran off into the fortress. Rhea looked after the princess for a moment, hoping that it would work, and ran to help Link in the battle. It was hard to believe that she would actually fight with him, since normally she would see no point to it, but if it helped Tessa then it was okay.

Rhea ran up, and instead of using her sword she dropped to her one knee and swung her leg up, and tripped Tessa. The girl fell backwards, but used her hand to hit the ground first and flipped to her feet instantly.

"They gave her new abilities for this…" Rhea growled. Link nodded. "Any ideas, Hero?"

"Short of killing her? No." Link grimaced. "Maybe just try and wear her out?"

"That will work…Korinu's coming with a possible solution." Rhea's eyes were fixed on the short girl in front of her. "Until then we should stall for time."

"All right." Link nodded as Tessa ran forward again. He guessed that since Twinrova possessed Tessa, she didn't care what happened to her own body and brought herself to charge blindly into battle. Tessa would fight until she died.

That wasn't good.

Rhea and Link guarded against her attacks, sometimes swinging back. They didn't want to do maximum damage to her, in the hopes that she would return to normal somehow. It was weird to see Tessa so skilled with the sword; she was never brought up to be a fighter, and was definitely a bit of a klutz normally.

The battle lasted for about five more minutes, before Tessa was slashed violently along the side, but not by Rhea or Link. Link looked shocked at the blood that poured from Tessa's side, Rhea blinked from confusion, but Tessa's reaction was to swirl to her attack and swing her sword.

Shadow Link caught it, and showed no mercy with the force he used against her. Tessa stumbled back a few feet before digging into the sand and charging ahead full force towards Shadow Link. Link and Rhea looked at each other, not sure what to do. It was obvious that they had been holding back in the battle, since they really didn't want any harm to come to the poor girl, but Shadow Link couldn't care less. He didn't really no her, and saw no point to playing games.

"Well…let's fight with him." Rhea sighed, and jumped in the battle. Link growled towards Shadow Link, and followed after Rhea.

Tessa was now starting to slow down, as sweat covered her body. The sweat came from a mixture of desert heat and the exertion from fighting three opponents at once. Gerudo had begun to form a circle around the fighters, not entirely sure what was going on. If any of them got too close, they'd jump away as quickly as they could.

Link grew more worried as Tessa grew paler and paler from the loss of blood, but knew that he couldn't stop until she did. Shadow Link was doing the most damage to her. None of the three really had many bad injuries, so they could keep on fighting.

"Rhea! Link! Shadow!" Korinu's voice reached over all of the clanging of metal, and murmurings of the surrounding Gerudo. "Jump away from her, now!"

Rhea and Shadow Link did as quickly as they could. Link hesitated before he performed a few back-flips of his own to get as far away from Tessa as he could. Then, Korinu broke through the crowd with three glass discs in her hand. Rhea jumped forwards as the green one was tossed to her. Then, Korinu hurled the red disc at Tessa. Tessa caught it without flinching, and then an electric jolt ran throughout her entire body. Once again she felt like she was on fire.

Link ran to her as she collapsed on the ground, it was weird not to hear her scream under so much pain. Rhea hesitated a moment, and ran for Tessa as well. Shadow Link stayed where he was, not really concerned with what was happening. Korinu and Rhea watched as Link hugged Tessa's writhing form, and for a moment they let it happen. Then, they forced Tessa away from him and laid their own discs on the sides of her head, and press their hands against her forehead.

Soon, Tessa's twitching stopped, and she looked up with a blank expression on her face, before her eyes closed. Her breathing now was simply ragged, and her cuts had healed themselves, although the scars remained.

Link watched this interaction with confusion and worry at the same time. Rhea and Korinu looked at each other, and after a moment released Tessa from their power.

"Well…now all we have to do is wait I suppose." Rhea grumbled. Korinu nodded. "Din isn't going to happy when she finds out about this…"

"She already knows." Korinu pointed out. "She knew the moment Tessa caught the disc."

Rhea looked at Tessa. "I suppose your right."

Link crawled forward, and asked with his eyes if he could take Tessa in his arms again. Rhea nodded after a momentary pause. Link cradled Tessa as he sat there under the desert sun. Gerudo looked on for a few minutes longer, and then grew bored with the situation and left. Shadow stayed, his eyes on Rhea and her injuries.

"Link…maybe you should take her to Lon Lon Ranch, that's where you guys go all of the time, right?" Rhea stated. Link nodded. "I'm sure whoever takes care of you there will help as best as she can."

"Right…" Link felt tears burn his eyes, but waited as Korinu ran to get Epona from the Gerudo stables. Rhea watched for another moment, and then headed for Shadow Link, who looked over her protectively, and they walked back into the Gerudo Fortress. Korinu arrived a few moments later with Epona following her steps. Link placed Tessa carefully on Epona's back, and then climbed on himself. With one last nod towards Korinu, he tore off in the direction of Hyrule, desperate to get Tessa to someplace familiar.

It didn't take him long to get to Lon Lon Ranch. He realized as he brought Epona into the Ranch that he should have slowed down. The horse appeared to be exhausted, but he couldn't concern himself with that right now. He leaped off of Epona, dragged Tessa off her, and carried her to Malon, who was running towards them. She appeared to have realized something was wrong when Link had galloped as hard as he did into the Ranch.

"Link! What happened to her?" Malon asked, worried. Link simply shook his head and headed for the house, with Tessa's room. Malon followed, her eyes wide at the sight of her friend. She looked at Tessa's hand and realized that the girl was gripping a red disc. How she did so while she was unconscious was beyond Malon, but she didn't question it.

When Link finally got to Tessa's bed, he laid her down gently on it. Malon had run to get medical supplies, some of which Tessa had brought to her and had showed her what they did. Malon put a wet cloth on Tessa's forehead, and ordered Link out of the room immediately. With that, Malon changed Tessa into a nightgown that wasn't torn or bloody like her clothes were. Quite frankly, Malon wasn't too fond of the Gerudo outfit. She was pretty sure that Link had liked it, though.

Finally, a few hours later, Malon emerged from the room. Link was at the table, staring at it with what appeared to be fierce intensity, but she knew he wasn't even aware the table was in front of him. His eyes seemed somewhat distant, and she knew what he was thinking about.

"You can go see her now. I think she'll be okay, but she'll need some rest." Then, Malon looked carefully at Link. His cuts had healed over, and she realized that he must have healed on his mad gallop over to the ranch. He looked like he was about to collapse from exhaustion and worry. "You need some rest too…would you like for me to treat some of your wounds?"

Link shook his head, and stood up. "I want to see Tessa." He sighed, and trudged up to Tessa's room. Malon waited for a few minutes, and then went into Tessa's room as well. He had a chair pulled up beside Tessa's bed, and had her hand in his. Tears had poured themselves down his face and were continuing to do so. Malon looked sad for a moment, and then left Link with Tessa after she shut the door behind her.

Link was there for one hour, and then two. Malon had put herself to sleep by the end of the third hour, and by the fourth hour nothing had happened. Link had stopped crying, but was now about to fall asleep by Tessa's side. As he began to nod off, he felt Tessa shift somewhat in the bed. His eyes shot open, hope filled them.

Then, her eyes opened a crack. After a moment, they closed again and reopened halfway. She turned to Link, and saw that her eyes were slightly dull. Then, confusion hit Tessa's eyes.

"Tessa!" Link smiled, relief washed over him like a tidal wave.

After a moment's pause, Tessa looked at her hand in his, and then looked back at Link.

"…Who…" Tessa paused for a moment. He realized that her mouth was dry, and was about to go get water when Tessa continued on anyway. "Who…are you?"

End of Chappie

Yup, I did it. Another chapter, but this one is depressing. Actually, I got that last part from Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles 2 and umm…yeah. I had started out with just a fanart, and then decided to put Tessa and Link in it. Then I got the idea and how this could help the story continue on, and I got excited. This was a looong time ago so don't kill me. If you'd like to see that fanart, it's on deviantart and my profile is The Youkai Nightmare but there are dashes in between the words. Not underscores, dashes. That's about it…