I am so sorry about how long this chapter took. I'm taking summer courses in Community College and I just had to take some time and work on that before I got back to writing this. Oh, I'm coming up with an idea for two more stories: Bionicle Return of the Toa, and Sailor Moon Series 2, both are stories that take place after the original. For those who are keeping up with the story, you can either tell me which one you would like to see in your reviews, or PM me personally. I'll also put them on my poll which so far only ONE person voted (I think it was Sarifina Filth. If it was, THANK YOU!!!!) Just a few minor notes, but back to our feature presentation....... finally!

Rising Tension

Mario and his team had been walking for a very long time, and it was getting dark. Daisy was walking far behind as usual, but not far enough that Luigi didn't noticed when she fell to her knees.

"Daisy!" he shouted as he went over to her, everyone turned to them.

"I'm fine, just a little tired," Daisy said with a smile.

"We have been walking for a while," Zelda noted, "I think we should set up camp and-"

"You guys can rest if you want," Link said sharply, "I'll go one by myself from here," he continued as he turned to leave.

Zelda ran up to him and grabbed his arm, "You aren't seriously going of by yourself!" she said sternly.

"We were better off without them. If they want to stop here, fine, I guess this where we say good bye," Link said looking away. Zelda was beginning to get really fed up with her brother's attitude.

"We're a team, and if you don't like that, tough. We only made it this far because we all worked as a team," Zelda said to Link sharply.

"I'm really sorry to slow everyone down," Daisy said to them, "I'll be fine if we just rest for tonight. Besides, I want to see this through to the end, no matter what that end is," both Mario and Luigi nodded agreeing with her.

Link knew he had lost this, but that didn't change how annoyed he was. He then pulled away and walked off in frustration.

Mario went over to Zelda, "Did you talk to him?" he asked.

"Not yet, but I will tonight," Zelda said as they both looked at Link.

That night Link and Zelda were talking among themselves, "You aren't serious!" Link shouted after Zelda told him about her talk with Mario, "You're taking his side?!"

"I'm not taking sides Link, you know me better than that."

"But you're telling me that you think Mario can 'save' her!"

"Yes, yes I am."

"There's nothing to save! That monster is all there ever existed!"

"To be honest, I'm not so sure of that," she said looking up at Link, "Mario told me what she was like before this, and to be honest I was a little surprised. She was sweet, shy, a pacifist, always wore bright colors, she was the complete opposite of this."

"Even so, she's become consumed by the darkness. All that's left is the darkness. You said that yourself."

"That was before I talked to Mario," she walked over to Link, "We just assumed that the prophecy said that she was actually Deas mind, body, and soul, but what if we were wrong?"

"We don't have time to find out, she's on her way to Hyrule. If we don't stop her now then we've failed, and I can't afford to fail," he pulled out the Master Sword and showed it to Zelda, at the same time the Tri-force symbol on his right hand began glowing, bottom left triangle glowing the brightest, "This thing won't let me."

"Then tell me this. Suppose you do kill the Empress, and we later found out that we could have brought her back to the way she was before. How would that feel, knowing that you basically used the holy sword itself, to kill an innocent woman? How do you think the gods would feel knowing that their chosen knight just committed the greatest sin?" Zelda asked Link, who just looked down annoyed. Annoyed that she was right. He didn't like feeling this way, but he had to consider that what Zelda said was true. After all, she did possess the Tri-Force of Wisdom.

"All I ask for is one chance," Zelda continued, "One chance to prove my theory. If and only if I can't find any signs of Peach still being in there then you have permission to kill her."

Link thought about it for a second, but then said, "One chance, that's all," and with that he turned and walked out.

Zelda looked at her brother in sadness, and then looked at the Tri-Force symbol on her hand, the bottom right triangle was golden. "Din, Naru, Fafore, what should I do about him? I know that if this keeps up he'll..." she stopped and then looked out at the night sky, "For the sake of Mario and everyone else, I pray that I'm right."

That morning everyone made it to where Peach and her army fought Bowser's army. There were horrified faces all around.

"Oh my god..." Luigi said in horror, "What is this?"

"More like what was this?" Mario corrected.

Zelda had turned into Sheik and was with Link looking at one of the dead soldiers. "These look like the Empress' men," Sheik said.

"Yeah, but whoever she was fighting there are a lot more of those soldiers here then hers. I'd say that the fight was pretty one sided in the terms of who was winning," Link said.

Mario got a close look at one of the bodies and saw what looked like a koopa shell on one. "This is..." he said to himself.

"Mario!!! Luigi!!! You two have to see this!!!" Daisy called to them in horror. They all ran up to where Daisy was.

"What is it Daisy?" Mario asked. All Daisy did was point a shaky hand at the ground in front of her. They all looked and saw what looked like a statue, but it was blown up into pieces.

"A statue?" Link asked, "What's the big deal?"

"It looks like..." Luigi said getting a closer look. Luigi then saw the head and fell back in shock. "It, it is!" Mario looked at the statue and saw why everyone was shocked. It was Bowser.

"A Bowser statue?" Mario asked. He didn't understand what was happening, but was worried that this was what he thought.

"I'm not sure about that," Sheik said looking at the statue, "I'm feeling faint life force coming from the statue. Whoever this Bowser person is, I think this is him."

"Bowser's...... dead....?" Daisy asked in disbelief.

"Peach..." Mario said to himself. He hated Bowser more than anything for what he did to Peach, but he would never wish death on him, "Why are you doing this...?"

Just then, the top triangles on Link and Sheik's Tri-Force tattoos were glowing bright red, "What's that?!" Luigi asked in shock. Link and Sheik were just looking at their hands with serious expressions, like they knew what was happening. When it stopped they both looked at each other worried.

"You don't think?" Link asked Sheik, who was clearly just as worried.

"The Power has been passes on," Sheik said looking down now, "This isn't good,"

Link then turned to Mario and his friends, "Come on, let's get moving!" he said actually looking really scared.

"What's going on?" Mario asked them, "What was that weird light?"

"We'll explain on the way," Sheik said "but Link's right, we have to hurry to Hyrule. With what just happened this has clearly become a world wide threat."

"Huh...?" Mario asked, looking at them in shock.

A few hours of running they saw Hyrule field in the distance. Link looked out and was shocked by what he saw next.

"Hyrule Kingdom is......" he said shaking actually.

Because the central city where Hyrule Castle stood, was in flames.