A/N: Eroko: Hello again everyone... I er... botched up when putting this up and yeah so I fixed it... ehehehe...

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Chapter 2: Enter; Hero of Twilight!

The dawn was clear and the smell of eggs was strong throughout the house. Syaoran yawned and sat up, seeing Link making eggs, hence the smell. Mokona was sitting on a table squeaking in pleasure. "Food!"

There was a slight shifting sound and Syaoran glanced over his shoulder noticing Kurogane force open an eye and glare at Mokona. "Stupid meat bun..."

Link noticed them and smiled. "Good morning."

Fai stretched where he was, his head resting on Kurogane's lap. "Morning~!"

"Damn it ma- DAMN!" Kurogane was pissed, also about ready to strangle the blonde.

"Hey watch the language - the kids could be outside." Link waved his spatula angerly.

Fai chuckled, sitting up as he did so. "Well that's Kuro-burger for you - he doesn't care what he says or what people think of it. Hyuu~!"

Kurogane was on his feet, his face contorted in anger. "Mage! Today you die!"

Link threw a raw egg at Kurogane who conviniently dodged. "Not in MY HOUSE!"

Kurogane growled and plopped back to the ground, having Mokona jump onto his head. "Big-doggie is all bark and no bite~!" Kurogane merely gritted his teeth at the statement, tossing Fai a small... I mean big glare.

Link broke the tense moment. "Eggs are ready!"

Mokona jumped from Kurogane's head to Link's shoulder. "Oooh! Food!"

Link got eggs for Syaoran, Kurogane, Mokona and Fai passing out the plates. Sakura stirred and sat up. "Huh? Where are we?"

"We're in a place called Hyrule. This is Link, hero of this world." he handed the princess his eggs and Link began making more for the both of them.

"Oh... hello." sakura was shy but polite as she gingery took the eggs from Syaoran.

Syaoran was the forced to bring up the serious subject. "So where are we going first?"

"To Hyrule Castle, to meet Princes Zelda." He was enthusuastic.

Kurogane raised an eyebrow at Link but otherwise didn't speak. There was a knock at the door at that moment and Link got up and answered it.

A girl with short, blonde hair and green eyes passed Link clothing, a small on her face. "Here Link, just as you asked."

"Thank-you Illia." He accepted the clothing with a smile. He watched as she left before returning back to the travelers. "Here you go - new clothing for Hyrule." He passed a black tunic to Kurogane, a blue tunic to Fai, a pink dress with white leggings to Sakura and a brown tunic to Syaoran.

They all stood outside, all of them changed. Link was wearing a green tunic, a long green cap and brown boots and gloves. He had a thin layer of bronze chainmail beneath the tunic and just above a layer of a white under shirt and white baggy trousers. He had a belt going across his shoulders keeping a brown sword scabbard in place which held an costom sword. He also had a pretty imprssive belt around his waist - it held many pouches and compartments, all of which seemed to be moderatly empty.

Syaoran stood beside Link in the brown tunic, his white pants underneath. he wore his usual boots and gloves, his goggles loose around his neck. Mokona sat on his shoulder, a determined expression writen across the puffballs face. Kurogane stood on the other side of Link, wearing all black - he had the black tunic and his black pants. His black boots and gloves also matching the colour scheme. Sohi was belted to his red belts, the handle gleaming in the sunlight. Fai hung off of Kurogane's shoulder, a grin across his face. He wore the blue tunic loosely, only an inch of skin showing between the sleeves of his tunic and his long gloves. Sakura wore the light pink dress which went down to her knees with the white leggings underneath and her usual shoes on, a small ribbon tied in her hair.

"So we're ready, ne?" Fai glanced at Link with a smirk.

"Um yeah..." Link was skeptical as he began walking in the proper direction, the travelers following behind.

They entered Hyrule Field, Syaoran glancing back at Faron Forest. "So we just cut straight to get to the castle, right?"

Link nodded. "Mmm'hmm."

"MR. LINK! WAAAAIIIIT!"

Kurogane's hand darted to his sword, Syaoran tensed into a fighting stance in front of Sakura who stood there shocked and Fai just... stood there grinning. The post man ran up to the group and stopped in front of Link, searching through his post bag. "You have a letter from Princess Zelda." He passed Link the letter, who accepted it. "With buisness done, onward to mail!" he ran off and Kurogane and Syaoran relaxed as Link opened the letter, reading aloud.

Dear Link,

Get to Hyrule castle as soon as possible - it's urgent and I believe the fate of Hyrule depends on it.

Signed,

Princess Zelda

Link grimaced. "Hm, that's not good."

Fai leaned over his shoulder. "Usually that could be interpeted as an 'uh-oh', am I correct?"

Link nodded. "Yeah." He paused for a moment and glanced at them all. "By the way how do you guys fight...? Y'know, just incase."

Kurogane snorted, his hand still on Sohi. "For me I think that would be obvious."

Mokona chirped. "Mokona doesn't fight!"

Syoaran patted Mokon on the head. "I use a sword and kicks, nothing too special."

Fai smiled. "I have many different ways."

Link had to ask the obvious. "Um, Syaoran, where's your sword?"

"Mokona will summon it when needed. I'll protect Sakura no matter what." He stood protectively beside the copper haired girl who's green eyes gleamed slightly.

Link nodded. "Let's continue..."

They walked for sometime, making idle conversation as they went, mostly about places they had traveled to. They saw the castle from a great distance away, causing a small murmer of excitement to run through the younger two of the group as they took a break for lunch. Link pulled out a bottle with a cheesy looking soup in it, pouring it into a pot as Kurogane attempted lighting a fire by yelling at it after it didn't light the first time. The hero pulled out a lantern and stated the fire, recieving quizzotic looks from his companions. Link noticed the looks and had to question. "What?"

Fai pointed at the lanturn and then at his pouches, which were obviously too small. "Are they enchanted or something? That thing is waaaaaaaaay too big for that small opening."

Link nodded. "Yeah, it allows me to store any item, big or small." Link placed the pot full of soup on the fire and waited for it to bubble up before serving it.

They all ate, enjoying the dish in an almost peaceful silence; the only conversation was Fai getting the recipe for it. They had packed up their little makeshift camp when they all heard a small screech. Link glanced over his shoulder and saw four blue bokoblins heading their way. He shook his head disaprovingly as he drew his sword. "Okay guys, first fight."

Kurogane smirked manianicly as he drew Sohi from its sheath. "About time we got some action!"

Syaoran glanced at mokona. "Mokona, give me Hien!" The white fluff ball spat out the sword, Syaoran grabbing it and drawing it, taking up a defensive pose in front of Sakura. Fai smirked and placed his hands behind his head liesurly, just watching as the monsters aproached.

Kurogane lunged forward, slicing one of the monsters in half. He gave a surprised widen of the eyes. Somewhere in his mind he was hoping that they were going to be a challange, only to be let down. Link lunged at the monster with a jump attack, knocking it down only to finish it by stabbing his sword into the monsters chest, a move called 'ending blow'. Syaoran ran forward, kicking the monster beofre slicing it twice with Hien. Fai however merely dodged the monsters blows, kicking it when he felt it was needed.

Kurogane gave the mage a dull glance. "Damn it mage hurry the hell up or I'll kill it for you!" Fai could only smirk as the almost rabid dog-like ninja swung his sword, effectivly killing the bokoblin.

"What did you guys think?" Link put his sowrd away as he surveyed the group.

Kurogane huffed slamming Sohi back into it's scabbard. "Too weak."

Syaoran could only shrug as Mokona engulfed Hien. "They weren't too bad I guess." Fai only smiled as he picked up Mokona.

Link was speaking directly to Kurogane. "You could go looking for Dinofos or Darknuts; they're pretty powerful."

The ninja laughed darkly, sounding almost insane. "Then I look forward to the challange."

Fai chuckled lightly. "That's out Kuro-buro, always so big and burly~! Hyuu~!"

Link blinked at Fai's display as Kurogane roared in anger and began chasing the mage. Link and Syaoran both sighed as Sakura had a comical look of disbeliefe.

They moved onward rather quickly, having to keep up to Fai and Kurogane and also having to direct them when they strayed too much off course. "Does this... usually happen?" Both Sakura and Syaoran nodded as they witnessed Fai throwing Mokona to Kurogane, which Mokona reacted to by clinging to the ninja's face. "HEY! We're almost to the south gate, theres going to be guards there!" Both Kurogane and Fai stopped, Fai nodding and Kurogane trying to pry the manju bun off of his face.

They reached the south gate, Mokon sitting on Kurogane's shoulder as they saw a girl sitting in the grass. her hair was up in pigtails and she wore a strange dress and had weird markings along her face and cheeks. "Aw crap." He muttered as he gave a long fake smile. "Hey Agitha!"

The girl glanced up and giggled. "Hello Grasshopper, nice day isn't it?"

The others in the group all gave Link a raised eyebrow. "Grasshopper?" Syaoran had voiced what they were all thinking.

"It's her nickname for me."

"Kind of like me and Kuro-doggie~! Hyuu~!" Fai batted playfully at Kurogane's bangs, smiling broadly.

The ninja couldn't help but let his hand rest on the pommel of Sohi; it was just so tempting to cut of the mage's head. Agitha stood and smiled. "Doggie? Do you want to play doggie?"

Kurogane stomped off towards the market town unable to take much more without killing someone; which he didn't want to do because of the 'curse'. Fai smirked at Kurogane's reaction, almost jeering with victory. Link gave a fake sigh. "Well best catch up to him, see you later Agitha!" Link tugged the group away from her, cheerfulness clear on his face.

"Um, Link-san, why do you not like Agitha-san?" Syaoran glanced at the hero.

Link scratched the back of his head. "What makes you think I don't like her?"

Sakura turned her head. "It's the way you act. Even though Kurogane acts it he still doesn't truly dislike Fai. But for you and Agitha..."

Link gave a nervous smile. "Well she's the self-proclaimed princess of a nonexistant insect kingdom. what's to like?"

"She seems nice enough. A person's role shoudn't have any bearing on who they are." Sakura smiled lightly.

"I agree Princess." Syaoran gave a firm nod.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, PRINCESS?" Link was astonished.

Sakura flushed. "I'm supposed to be the princess of a kingdom known as Clow but I can't really remember it..." Sakura was sincer.

"You can't remember?"

Syaoran nodded. "We're going around looking for the princess' memories; they're in the shape of those feathers I mentioned."

Link nodded. "I see."

Fai leaned over Syaoran's shoulder and grinned. "Kuro-doggie is waiting for us and we all can guess how impaitent he can be. We'd best get moving, ne?"

Both Link and Syaoran nodded, saying the same thing. "Okay."

Link, Syaoran, Fai, Sakura and Mokona met up with Kurogane at the gate which had a few guards stationed outside of it. They gave Link a quick salute before they entered the market town, taking a back road to avoice the hustle and bustle. Sakura looked around amazed by all of the people hurrying past. "Wow... there is so many people..." She then noticed a tent at the end of the road and pointed. "Whats that?"

"That's the S.T.A.R. game." He sounded like he was up to no good, a impish grin spread across his face.

Sakura turned her head. "And that is?"

"It's a local game that people can play."

Sakura's eyes sparkled. "If you don't mind me asking may we go take a look at it?"

Link nodded, leading the way. "That was my plan to begin with!"

"This is a complete waste of time..." Kurogane was grouchy, glaring ahead at the brightly coloured tent.

Link grinned. "if I was to win I'd recieve one hundred rupees, when I only have to pay twenty."

Kurogane let out a low growl of annoyance but didn't agrue anymore about the subject. Fai on the other hand smiled. "That's a good payout. Whats the odds of wining?"

Link rubbed the back of his neck. "For anyone who doesn't have these..." He took out two clawshots. "Zero."

Syaoran blinked. "Did you set it up?"

"Oh, goddesses no!"

Fai thought for a moment. "So it was created so no one could win but you found a way?"

"That's basically the situation."

"And the ruler here doesn't do anything to stop this?" Kurogane seemed somewhat annoyed.

Link raised his hand slightly. "Actually thats my job. I'm trying to scare the guy so he perpousfully retires."

Fai shrugged. "Whatever works. Are we going in?"

Link only nodded.

The six of them walked in to see the owner of the tent, in a odd gree and yellow outfit, jump back slightly. "Theif! I mean, Ultrastar!"

Link chuckled at the man's reaction. "I'm here for another round." he held out a red gem to the owner.

"U-u-u-um, alright, th-the game will begin when you step into the cage... good luck... thief..." The owner backed away and opened the cage for Link.

Inside the cage there were many glowing orbs of varying colours. They were floting in lines, stretching from on side of the cage to the other. There were no platforms to climb with. As Link got on the starting platform, spikes popped out of the ground, making it impossible to land back on the ground. Link calmly took out both his clawshots. When the owner started the timer, Link aimed one of the clawshots. The claw on it launched forward. When in grabed the cage walls, Link was pulled toward it, collecting some of the orbs. Link then aimed the other one, repeating the proces untill all of the orbs were collected. The spikes retracked back into the ground and Link landed back on the ground.