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Ocarina of Time: The Three Goddesses Reincarnated
Chapter Forty-Four: Ganon
Link inched forward, his muscles tense and his eyes alert. He didn't notice Tessa, Rhea, and Korinu follow him, while Zelda stayed in place. With a look, Tessa sent Korinu to protect the Princess of Hyrule, so that only Rhea and Tessa would join Link in the battle that would probably follow. Slowly they reached the pile of rubble that once made the dark castle.
Then, another giant boom sound came to their ears, and something shifted within the pile of rubble. For a moment, the three didn't know what to do, until something shot out at Link and threw him quite a few meters away. Tessa screamed, and ran forward, only to be swung in the other direction. Rhea ran for the source, and jumped on top of the head of what appeared to be a giant, demonic pig of some sort. She dug one of her daggers into the skull between the two eyes of Ganon, and flipped off before he could retaliate. Green blood gushed out of him, and he stood up and roared with rage.
Tessa and Link gasped, while Korinu and Zelda looked on with worry. Korinu's hand clenched into a fist, and she wished that she could do something with herself.
"Bastard!" Tessa yelled, and raised her hands to form what appeared to be a bow and arrow made completely of fire. Touching it did not seem to affect Tessa in any way, and instead she simply aimed it at Ganon, who charged at her. She loosed the arrow, and saw it pierce his shoulder. With a hoot of triumph, she rolled out of the way of Ganon's claw, which had tried to squash her.
"Nice try, beastie!" Tessa taunted, and stuck her tongue out at the monster. While it was distracted, Korinu decided to form her bow and arrow out of ice, and struck Ganon in his stomach. Ganon whirled around; only to have a light arrow hit him directly in the eyes. He screeched in pain, and fell down to the ground. Link ran up and dove to drive the Master Sword into Ganon's skull.
He drew it out just in time to avoid being shaken off violently by the monster. Navi flew out of his hat, and began to circle Ganon's tail. "Try here! It seems to be sensitive!"
"You're back, Navi!" Link shouted with joy.
"Of course, I wouldn't miss this fight for the world!" Navi said with pride. Link nodded, and then his eyes widened as he saw Tessa jump onto Ganon's back, with Rhea climbing the tail. Ganon became confused almost immediately, and began to growl. His tail thrashed around as he tried to knock Rhea and Tessa against each other to knock them both off. Tessa was somehow able to keep her hold, no matter how many times she was whacked by the tail. Navi whirled around to where Tessa was.
"Tessa! Please hold on, and try to distract Ganon even further!" Navi ordered. Tessa nodded with a quick thumbs-up towards the fairy.
"Anything you say, Navi!" Tessa grinned, and swung to another spike to dodge the tail once again.
Link watched all of this, and watched as Rhea began to call out some odd words. They sounded familiar, but Link didn't recognize them until Rhea's feet began to glow, until the bottoms were completely surrounded by metal. The weight caused the tail to sink down to the ground. "Link!" Rhea shouted. He nodded, and ran for the tail. Ganon whirled around and backhanded Rhea's body, to try and move the girl from his tail. Rhea screamed, but her boots kept her where she was. Claw marks ran up and down her body, and they were bleeding profusely. Tessa screamed from her position on top of Ganon's head, and she jumped onto his wriggling snout.
"You bastard!" Tessa shouted, and created a sword made of flames. She dug it into one of Ganon's eyeballs, and didn't even flinch when she was sprayed with green blood. Then, she wrenched the flaming sword out of the eyeball and dropped from the snout down to the throat, where she dug her sword into his throat, and slid down to the ground. The sword disappeared, and Tessa staggered for a moment as she looked at the long, deep gash down Ganon's front.
Link, during all of thing, first made sure that Rhea was all right. He didn't even notice that Ganon was preoccupied with Tessa, and when Rhea gave the okay, Link twirled his sword around and but off the tail at the half-mark. Ganon's roar filled the area, and Link looked over just in time to see Tessa's sword disappear. Rhea's boots lost their metal when she murmured a few words, and the three ran out of the way of the collapsing demon.
Then, Rhea noticed Zelda form a ball of energy, and shoot it towards Ganon. It seemed to pin Ganon down where he lay, although the beast tried to bring himself up to fight back. Link didn't wait for anybody to tell him what to do, and he slashed the monster multiple times, before a final, terrifying screech came from Ganon, and he shot up, stumbling around, until he turned into Ganondorf once more. Then, a black void opened up beneath him, and he was swallowed whole. The portal disappeared and everybody sat, and stared where they were.
"It's done."
"A celebration?" Tessa asked. Malon nodded, and grinned towards the shorter girl. "What kind of celebration?"
"Oh, a celebration where every single citizen of Hyrule comes to the very center to celebrate the death of Ganondorf. It's an unplanned but expected celebration. Since this ranch is in the very center, the people will come here to celebrate for a few days."
"Sounds like fun." Rhea commented in a bored tone. Korinu was dancing around, banging what appeared to be a very colorful tambourine. Rhea growled at Korinu, who took no notice of the taller girl.
"Oh, it will be fun! Even the Gerudo are coming to celebrate!" Malon chirped. She had many things in her oven cooking, and Tessa wasn't allowed to help because she couldn't cook worth shit.
"How am I supposed to celebrate with these wounds?" Rhea asked, and pointed to her multiple bandages. Tessa looked over and shrugged.
"That's a very good question."
"Tessa, don't you be smart with me." Rhea snarled. Tessa shrugged, and got up to stretch.
"I'm going to take care of Tompton." Tessa grinned. "And Epona." With that, she walked out of the house and out onto the horse pasture.
"What time do you think that Link and Zelda will be done, and we'll all be transported back into time?" Rhea asked as she watched the fire goddess leave.
"I don't know…but you do realize we'll probably never see Tessa again afterwards." Malon sighed. "Or maybe even Korinu, unless she is to rob us all."
"At least I'll be in this world!" Korinu protested. "Tessa…will be in that other world."
"Link will be devastated…or do you think he'll even remember?" Malon turned curiously to Rhea.
"It's hard to say who will and who won't remember. If I'm right, the only two people who will remember are the two who are setting the time back to its original and true form." Rhea shrugged. "I doubt there will be much similar in the changed Hyrule. I'll probably still have my parents, and Shadow probably won't exist."
"Where is that old grump, anyway?" Korinu asked, curiously. Malon and Rhea looked at each other, and looked at Korinu.
"I think he's in the pasture with the horses. He's been in a bad mood ever since he found out that he isn't going to exist anymore."
"I would be too." Korinu frowned, and then grinned. "My mom's going to be with me!"
Link and Zelda looked at each other, and Link looked down at the Ocarina of Time in his hands. Navi fluttered around the both of them, lost in her own thoughts. Link averted his gaze to follow the fairy until his eyes locked with Zelda's again.
"You don't want to revert time, do you Link?" Zelda asked in her soothing tone. Link's eye twitched somewhat, and then his shoulders slumped.
"Of course not…I want…I want to see Tessa." Link murmured. I mean, we haven't even gotten the chance to develop our relationship like we had planned."
There was a long silence, until Zelda grabbed the Ocarina of Time and looked into Link's eyes.
"I'm sorry."
Tessa looked up at the stars with Korinu and Malon, the three of them were holding hands as they watched the sages fly by. Rhea and Shadow Link were sitting on the ground, and Tessa was very pleased to see that Shadow Link had his arms around Rhea's waist, and was holding her very close.
It took him long enough.
Then, Tessa noticed that Rhea's forehead began to glow with the image of the Kokiri Emerald, and her eyes were glowing green. One look at Korinu confirmed that the girls' eyes were glowing an icy blue, and the Zora's Sapphire seemed to burn on her forehead. Tessa assumed that her eyes were fiery red in color, and that the Goron's Ruby was on her own forehead.
With tears streaming down her face, as fireworks began to blow up in celebration of a new era that would probably never be, Tessa looked at the brightest star in the sky. "Link…I love you…goodbye…"
Link returned to his home in the Kokiri Forest, and looked at his home. He felt much older than his body allowed. "Well…I'm back…" Link sighed. Navi had left him at the Temple of Time, and he had made his way back to the Kokiri forest on his own, but made a point to visit Zelda and Malon first. Zelda didn't seem to remember him, but the situation where they met was different.
She had smiled at him from her garden as she just sat in the flowerbed, enjoying the sunshine of the day. They talked for a bit, and Impa came and scolded the princess for talking to a commoner with a sword. Link flinched a bit, but Zelda simply pouted and stuck her tongue out at Impa. She declared that her and Link were friends, and that there was nothing she could say to change that. Impa simply sighed and laughed, and went with what the princess said.
Malon had called him fairy boy, until Link stubbornly told her his name. Malon giggled, and nodded, but still called him fairy-boy. Epona had greeted him cheerily, and Talon as well. Ingo simply grumbled and continued on with his chores.
Malon and Link played for a bit, chased chickens and irritated cows with laughter, until Link stumbled upon the well again. He looked down it.
"Fairy boy? What's wrong?"
"…I want to go down the well." Link stated, and jumped down. Malon screamed in protest, but Link ignored her. When he hit bottom, he had expected some sort of light to surround him, like it used to. However, nothing happened. He was just at the bottom of a useless well, covered in dirt. Malon went to go get some rope for him to climb up the well with, and Link used that time to cry as he touched the dirt with his hands.
"Tessa…"
The rope scraped his head, but he climbed up it after a moment. He then headed for the Kokiri forest, where he was now.
"Link!" A voice from below exclaimed. Link turned around, and looked outside. Saria was standing and waving outside of the tree house, and another Kokiri girl he had never seen before was behind her, shyly looking around. He smiled at his long-lost friend, and went to climb down the ladder. Saria tackled him in a hug immediately, and both of them were laughing. "It's good to have you back!"
"It's good to see you again, Saria!" Link laughed, starting to feel like his younger self again, which was what he was. He looked at the new Kokiri with curiosity. She had red-brown hair that was kind of long, but he couldn't see her face because she was hiding it with her hair.
"Oh, Link! The Deku Tree said that this girl was to be kind of like you, without a fairy. She's a new addition to the forest!" Saria went to grab the girl's arm. The girl was pushed forward, towards Link. "Why don't you tell him your name?"
The girl simply stood there, and fiddled with her thumbs.
"She's a little bit shy, Link." Saria explained, then looked at the girl. "You can do it, he's not going to laugh at you or anything. He's really nice! His name is Link!" The girl continued to look down towards the ground, but stuck out her hand shyly. Link grabbed it, and then the girl looked up to reveal really dark brown eyes.
"I'm Tessa."
END OF STORY
HOW ABRUPT WAS THAT ENDING?!?!
Haha, here's where I have to explain the original plot of this story!
Well, originally of Freedom of Speech I was going to put a post in their forums which would ask for about eight characters. These characters were going to be the sages in our own world. Then I realized that I wouldn't know how to write that, so I changed that as smoothly as I could.
Originally, Tessa was the reincarnation of all three Goddesses, but then I decided that that was no fun. Then she was going to be the reincarnation of Farore instead, but then I realized that her temper went more with Din and so I changed it. Rhea was originally going to be Din's reincarnation. Korinu I came up with while reading Chobits. Sumomo (or plum) was the character I based her off of, but I changed her personality and a bit of her appearance.
Tessa wasn't going to gain her memories originally, but then I realized that I was lazy and didn't want to do the original plot line with this. You see, the whole thing was going to have a sequel in Majora's Mask where she did regain her memory, and it was going to be entitled "Majora's Mask: Of Masks and Memories" and it would follow Tessa getting her memories back, and then them going back to Hyrule when they are older and having Tessa actually bring the power of the sages with her to defeat Ganondorf. However I am really tired of Tessa, and wanted to start on my next character. I'm still developing her, but I have the basic idea in my head. So, instead of going to Majora's Mask I am going to skip on ahead to the next book, which would be based on Twilight Princess. Then after that I'm going to do one on WindWaker (as much as I don't really like that game, it goes with the final plotline). FINALLY after that I'm going to create a new story where…you'll just have to read and find out.
I think I like this newer idea better.
Before I go I would just like to thank my readers and reviewers for liking my fic, and giving me the motivation to continue with this fic! I would love to give a special thanks to SouChan, who is probably the greatest person in the world when it comes to my fanfiction, and for the fact that she created Rhea and let me use her in this story! I didn't tell her that her character would play such a big role.
Also, for those of you who are curious as to what happened to Rhea and Korinu, you'll all find out when I do the next episodes in this series. I'm not telling you when, but I'll pretty much tell you what goes on.
Also, I'll give an overview of what happened with Link and Tessa, and why Tessa is in the Kokiri forest, but not now. For now that is a surprise.
So, I hope you all read my next story, and I would like to thank you all again for helping me love this story!