Disclaimer: I hope your not stupid enough to think that I own anything mentioned in this fan-fic. The plot, and all custom-made characters are used with the permission of their creators.

Note: This chapter was written by my buddy Chris, and co-written by me! Also, my non-grammar suck-a-fying friend was busy this week. So this chapter contains all the spelling errors and grammar mistakes that you all have come to probabaly hate me for by now . ENOY!

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Chapter 4

Vaati

6:05 P.M. 6/10

It was late afternoon and I was still talking with the woman, Mell. I wasn't paticulary interested in what she had to say, to be honest, I was just waiting for the dark energy, and I had nothing better to do that wouldn't blow my cover. It had seemed like almost a half hour since we started the conversation. I heard rising voices, so I looked up. I saw the blue warrior from earlier talking with a woman that looked to be in her late teens. He started raising his voice against her, then she took off the iron mask he was wearing and said something about him resembling a Kirby. This seemed to anger the litle blue thing as he began yelling at her in a loud voice that made everyone stare. I glanced at Mell, but she wasn't there anymore. I looked around and saw her in front of the blue being, scolding him. They began to argue, each raising their voices, then Mell began screaming at him, and glowing purple.

I smiled with glee. This was what I was waiting for. I watched her begin to transform, and laughed as I finally took my cloak off, there was no need to conceal my identity any longer. I saw the man in white from the night before run up and try to stop her, but it was too late, much too late. I heard her saying something about changing the universe and whatnot, but wasn't really paying attention. All these powerful evil beings were the same to me, they all wanted world domination, or world destruction. She renamed herself Mellora, after saying some things to the man in white. I noticed the man in white fall down on the ground holding his head in pain, then I saw Mellora making dark rifts in the mansion, which out of them climbed mindless shadow beasts, puppets of their master. I watched them circle around everyone in the room, including me. But for some reason, the ones that were near me didn't attack, even though Mellora had instructed for them to kill everyone. They seemed to somehow know I was on their side. It was then that, our of the corner of my eye, I saw the blue being charge at Mellora. She didn't even realise he was there, if the blow connected, she'd be finished I knew that if she was taken out, there would be no chance for me to have an ally, and I intercepted him. Drawing the katana I had forged myself recently, I deflected his attack. Jumping back, he looked at me, but then I heard Mellora speak before I could react.

"Ah, yes, the little annoying thing...I'd forgotten you were there..." She then turned to me looking me in the eyes. "You, on the other hand, don't seem to mean me any harm."

Nodding, I replied "Yes...I could sense you inside of Mell, and I thought we could be allies."

Hearing those words, the blue being showed much anger. I finally took the time to read his mind, and learned his name, Meta Knight, he looked as if he was about to attack but went after some of Mellora's pets instead. I stood beside Mellora, and watched the carnage unfold before us. Everyone was battling the shadow beasts, Meta Knight in paticular. He seemed to be doing the best out of all of the smashers. Glancing around, unaffected by the attacks, I watched Meta's progress. He saved some of the other smashers. Attacking a shadow beast and killing it, he rescued someone called Mario, then he took off attacking more. I saw a projectile fly at him, then looked around to see what fired it. It turned out to be the armored woman from before, Samus Aran, who was firing off more projectiles. Looking around the room, I saw it almost completely destroyed, and the floor covered in blood. I felt a twinge of guilt, since I had been offered houseroom here yet I did nothing to protect it. It passed rather quickly however, had anyone here found out who I was I would have been turned into Link immidietly. For that alone they deserved their deaths. Looking around more, my eyes fell upon the woman Meta Knight had shouted at, the woman called Rikku, I learned after reading her thoughts.

Watching as more monsters approached her, she took out two metal devices, which exploded after she threw them. Not completely sure what they were, to me it seemed like they were a miniature form of metal bombs. Disregarding it, I looked back at Meta Knight and watched him, becoming tired of just standing here. He looked at me, with an intent to attack. I walked towards him with my katana at my side. He charged me trying to get a hit on me. He must have assumed I was like the monsters, not being able to fight well. Determined to show him otherwise, I blocked his attack, and brought him to a complete stop. He repeated the frontal assault, (hmph, reckless idiot..) I thought as I blocked it again, pushing him back hoping he'd fall. I only saw him stumble. He jumped out of the way, and my katana hit the ground, then he jumped and stood on my blade, thinking he could keep it down. A mistake he would regret in his dieing moments. Despite his attempts I yanked my sword off the ground and threw him into the air, ready to stab when he hit the ground. He pulled some acrobatics however, and managed to land back on his feet, ruining my attack.

He charged yet again, and I raised my sword to block, but he swerved behind me and prepared to strike my back. I figured sooner or later, this idiot would figure out normal attacks wouldn't work, so I was prepared for attacks like this, I span quickly and pivoted my body, bringing my sword towards his, successfully deflecting it. I tried to counterattack, but he managed to dodge it. Getting very irritated by the constant blocking he was doing and I was forced to do, I watched him stand still for a minute. He ran at me again expecting yet another frontal assualt I brought my sword in front of me to block, but to my suprise he leaped over me with a pair of black bat wings and was facing my back, preparing to strike it like before. Knowing my sword wouldn't be able to block the attack, I turned and put my hand up to my face, with the palm facing him. I then called upon the element I had mastered, wind, and a gust of wind flew towards him as he came towards me. Since he was flying at the moment the gust hit him, he got thrown back into the wall.

I thought I had a chance to strike, but alas, he got back up. I looked at him, and he seemed to guess my wants, my bloodlust, but at the moment all I wanted was his blood. Again an image came into my head, with me standing over my victim in this case Meta Knight, his corpse covered in blood along with my blade. I could see myself laughing over him as the last signs of life faded from his eyes. Then, to my suprise, I suddenely felt a scratch of blood run across my face. Looking around to see what caused it, very angry that someone would dare to interrupt my battle, I saw Rikku the girl from earlier. I drew my katana and looked at her. Trying to figure out how to get her off guard, I spoke to her, saying

"Why do you defend the one who insulted you so badly earlier?"

Knowing she wouldn't be able to come up with a response, she opened her mouth to try and reply. (Such a foolish little girl...) I thought, I Lashed forward with my katana and slashed her. The wound wasn't fatal, but it would be if left untreated. Finally having scored a hit and being satisfied. At long last some fresh blood to calm my nerves. I turned and deflected Meta Knight again, he had charged at me with his wings this time, and shoved me with incredible force. He continued slashing, and was pushing me back. I managed to continue blocking him, but just barely, he was attacking with a force he hadn't shown up to this point. I noticed that I was approaching a wall, and I realised once I was pushed into it Meta Knight would quickly overwhelm me. I quickly began thinking of a way to get out of this situation. Suddenly, he stopped his assault and ran back to the woman. (The warrior wants to run, does he? Not very hero-like, no.) I decided to chase after him, seeing as he'd run off carrying the woman. But then I saw arrows coming at me, and I rolled to dodge them. To my utter dismay, I saw the one that had pursued me all the way here: Link, the hero of Hyrule.

6:30 P.M. 6/10

I looked at him with a darkness in my eyes. His image became suddenly distorted, and I saw not Link, but Death itself. I was stuck, unable to move, standing in Hyrule Castle. The Reaper, which looked to me like Link in nothing but a black flowing cloak, approached me with not a scythe, but the Four Sword. Watching him, struggling to get myself free, I saw Zelda in the distance, with a white cloak, and heard her commanding Link to destroy me. Behind me, I could hear Ganondorf, laughing at my failure. Seeing the Four Sword about to strike and seal me, the image suddenly vanished, I saw it coming, and I managed to block Link's attack. I jumped back and held my head in pain from the distortion.

He glared at me and spoke with hate in his voice. "You haven't changed at all, have you, demon?"

Glaring at him, I charged, swerving randomly. He brought his sword up and deflected it, slashing at me. I jumped back and rose into the air bringing darkness all around me. He looked up at me, and shot an arrow at me. Caught off guard, it hit me, and I flew back onto the ground wounded. Glaring at him and growling slightly, I summoned some energy in myself and launched a couple of hurricanes at him. Objects in the room began being tossed about like rag-dolls. However he countered by throwing a strange boomerang, which produced its own hurricane to negate all of mine, then fired more arrows at me. I was able to block them this time, but he donned a strange cape and leaped at me, slashing me in the chest. I fell to the ground, bleeding where he struck, but still able to fight. He came down about to impale me in the chest, but I rolled out of his way and faced him again.

He was moving his mouth as if he was talking, but I heard no words. All I could hear were my own voices in my head, screaming at me. I began having the mental image again. Link, watching me, walked towards me with a look of confusion. I held my head and felt like I was bleeding from the inside. I could hear the voices quite clearly, they were yelling things in my head, telling me what I failure I was, and that I was doomed to spend the rest of my miserable existence in the Four Sword. I finally screamed and slashed at Link rapidly, but I could only see him as the Reaper. He seemed to have trouble blocking the slashes, but I wasn't intending to kill him. I just wanted to get out. I finally knocked him over, and bolted for the door. Unfortunately, he shot me down with arrows. Enraged at him, I leapt at him and tried to take his bow. He and I struggled for possession of it for a few seconds, but he managed to yank it out of my grasp by kicking me, and he shot yet another arrow at me. I deflected it and ran towards the door, dodging his shots this time. Not wanting to see me get away, he threw his sword at me. I felt it pass by my neck cutting some of my hair as I fled the mansion and went into the forest.

Hiding amongst the trees, I ran as fast as I could, hoping to put some good distance between me and Link, not bothering to take into account that I was weakened by being exposed to that blade that had sealed me. Regardless, I kept on running and running, knowing what would happen if I was caught, and knowing that my cover was blown. I didn't see or hear Link anywhere, maybe he hadn't followed me for some reoson, but I had a horrible feeling in my stomach that he had. Cursing to myself as I ran, I finally came to a stop deep in the woods, near a spring. I sat down to rest, exhausted, when I noticed another presense nearby. Looking around, I noticed a woman. She had her back to me, so all I could see was her long black hair. I accidentally made a noise by breaking a twig, and she turned to me. I noticed that her skin was rather light, and that her hair covered most of her face, as mine did.

I wasn't sure what to do, but she looked at me and asked, "Who are you?"

Not wanting to respond, I tried to buy some time, by asking her who she was. She responded slowly, "...My name is...Raveness. Now tell me, who are you?"

Still reluctant to give my name, I bided for time again by keeping silent. Eventually, I responded, "My name is...my name is Vaati."

She repeated the name, but didn't question me further. Then, she grasped her forehead, as if she had a headache, and took off. I pondered her peculiar behavior for a while, trying to figure out what to do next. Knowing I could not go back to the mansion without being attacked, I needed to figure out a different plan. I thought about going after Raveness, and I eventually decided to go for it. I then got up, ran in the direction she ran off in.

7:00 P.M. 6/10

As I ran I was filled with an image of her in my head. She was pretty... from her long hair to her light red eyes. Now that I thought about it we had some characteristics in common. We both had long hair and red eyes, and were average weight. She was tall, and she was wearing a tight suit that covered her whole body, with a hood over it, although it had been down in our meeting. I wondered why the picture of her was so clear in my head. But I overlooked it as I continued running. I eventually came to a cave, and looked inside. There were sounds coming from inside it. (Could this be where she went off too?) I thought as I dashed inside.

Running throughout the cave, I had to adjust my vision so I could see better. Taking care not to trip and fall, I eventually saw some flashing lights. Following them, I came across Raveness, who was fighting some monsters. They kinda looked like really big moles, they had brown fur all over their bodies, and really tiny eyes. Their claws however, were massive, it was dark in here and I couldn't see all that well. But the claws seemed to be bigger then the monster's hands. Not to mention they were about as big as horses, they seemed deadly. Watching the fight, I saw she was losing, the monsters weren't letting up on her, constantly swinging towards her. She didn't have any chances to counter-attack. I fired off some wind elemental blasts to get the monsters to back off. Raveness turned and saw me, getting a look of suprise on her face. Then the monsters charged me, I ducked under a claw, and sent one of them to the ground, with a heavy strike to it's knees. Another, swung low closely afterwards, but it was too slow. I jumped backwards, and lunged at it, with several slashes to it's chest. A third one came out of the ground near me suddenely, and pushed me to the ground, hitting the same spot where Link had hurt me earlier. I rose back up off of the ground enraged, and stabbed forward with lightening speed, my katana going clean through the monster's body. There were still more monsters, but they burrowed under the ground, and I could hear the sound of them digging, further into the cave away from me. They were likely not coming back, I kneeled down to clean my sword, which was dripping with their blood. As I did, Raveness approached me, in a fighting stance.

She eventually dropped her guard, and looked at me. "Why did you follow me?", she asked.

Hesitating for a minute, I pondered that question myself. After having thought about it, it came to me that it seemed like...some otherworldly force had guided my actions. Like...like it was destiny that I had followed.

A bit confused, I asked "Why are you in here?"

"I am looking for something. It's dangerous in here, you should leave before you get hurt!" she said. With that, she ran off deeper into the cave.

I stood there for a few minutes thinking. Again unable to come up with a better plan, I started following her into the very heart of the cave, I saw her standing before an alter, with some sort of trinket on a pedestal. Then I felt the ground shaking, and another one of those mole things came out of the ground. Only this one was massive, much larger then the ones from earlier. It looked right at me and Raveness, and lunged at the two of us. Jumping to avoid impact, I landed and started firing off magicial blasts at it, to see if it would do any kind of damage to it. Unfortunately, it did nothing but anger the beast, and it charged at me. I had to run out of its way and ended up jumping forward and hitting the ground, when I got up and turned around I saw it had gotten a hold of Raveness. It was holding her still with one of it's hands, and it brought the other one down across her face. She had large scratch marks across her face, and one of her eyes had been gouged out of it's socket. Filled with anger, though I did not know where it was coming from, I faced the beast as I rose into the air, and called upon one of my strongest spells. Wind began flying all around the inside of the cave fiercly. It was so strong, it was carving into peices of rock, and more importantly, into the skin of the beast. It flinched around helplessly, as it was cut up into several different bloody peices. I was filled with glee, at the site of it all but alas, the spell took up a great deal of my energy and I blacked out a few seconds later.

9:30 P.M. 6/10

When I awoke, I remembered what had happened right before I lost consciouness. The spell I had cast, had sent a flurry of blades to flatout carve the beast into pieces, leaving blood all over its cut-up corpse. Then I looked over at Raveness, and saw her start to stir.

Heading over and doing my best to heal her wound, I noticed her look up at me. "The...the item..." she said, pointing to the item on the pedistal. I walked over and picked it up, handing it to her.

"Thank...thank you...Vaati." She said passing out.

I picked her up and carried her out of the cave, and back to the spring in the forest. Her injuries were bad, she needed more medical attention then I could provide. Ironic that she had warned me of the dangers of the cave, and then gotten hurt herself. I threw my cloak over my body and carried Raveness in the direction of town. I wandered around town in the direction of a hospitable I passed as I was fleeing the 2 nights ago. When I got there, I laid Raveness in front of one of the doors and stepped back, into the shadows. After about 5 minutes someone noticed her and took her inside. After that I walked back to the spot in the forest near the spring. I started healing my own wound as best I could. It was getting dark, when I finished I layed down and eventually drifted off to sleep.

10:30 P.M. 6/10

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Since, there have been some confusions about her in the past, I'll come out and say it. Raveness is a custom-made character. She isn't from any game.

Well anyways, be nice and stop and take some time to to leave a review and such. I appreciate them, but I appreciate being told what I'm doing what much more!