Chapter 10 -an old hero

… my internet played hooky with me the other so i couldn't do my Legend of Zelda research… so anyway i edited the last chapter a little. I left out something before and placed that in there.

go and check that out if you haven't already.

You know I realized that I put my character, Serena, through pain a lot in this story.

In this story is some personal peeves i encountered while playing this game. It adds interest XP

so anyway-

Where we last left our two Links!

'Why does it take him so long to climb a few vines?' Raven thought as he watched Link and his slow assent the vines he had climbed? He was hanging from his own and was actually pretty close to him. But in the dim lighting Link didn't notice. He had some difficulty getting here. Raven could have just stayed above and waited for Link, but he couldn't help but be curious at how well Link would do.

It did take a while for him to fight the spiders. That might be because of the dim lighting.

You couldn't really see anything down here. So why didn't he use the lantern? If he's having trouble seeing the enemy then make it so you can see them.

Among his impatience with Link, Raven though about how Serena was doing. She's probably doing all right. She has the glorious hookshot after all. Even though it didn't have the length of the long shot it is still the most useful tool Raven-Link has ever encountered. Next to the Orcarina of time. And the bow and arrow… And his sword and shield? That one should be a given.

'This is taking forever' He narrowed his eyes. He was forgetting the fact that during his own adventures it took forever also to climb the slick vines.

It was Link's own fault that he had to climb those vines . He had accidentally fallen through the obvious hole. At least he didn't completely waste that time he spent down there.

Link got rid of the Skulltula that were lurking around the bottom. These skulltula were less skull like but were a lot bigger than the ones he knew. There was a deku like that still remained because he failed to find the bombling. Though it is not a threat as long as you don't jump over it.

Raven quickly lost interest in watching the green clad hero and took in the rest of his surroundings. Well what he could see at least. He couldn't take out his own lantern because, one Serena still had it and two the other Link would have noticed.

There were two other holes that were covered by the strong skulltula webs. One of them would lead right down to where the monkey was caged. The other… would lead to 15 more minutes of waiting for a certain greenly dressed to be hero to get up the freakin-!

Raven let out a breath when Link finally reached the top of the vines. When Link drops down to free the monkey he'll make his leave.

He waited for a while. Link was heard to be battling another skulltula. Raven counted the seconds it took for him to defeat it. 'wow that's 5 seconds cut from the last spider' He sure learns fast. Then again, the last on was in the dark, so the improvement really shouldn't count. Link's feet appeared on a web. Raven gritted his teeth.

'no… don't-'

Too late. Link set fire to the web and dropped right down… into the deck like waiting for him below. Raven smacked his forehead, his eye twitching. Why couldn't Link take care of that plant when he was down there. Why? What makes this worse is that he'll have to climb all the way back up these vines. Raven put his free had over his face, letting out a soft growl.

"Oh great Faore…" Raven mumbled in desperation, not caring if Link heard him or not.

After a few more painful minutes Link finally freed the caged monkey. Raven-Link got out of the room first to get to the other side the wooden bridge.

He planned on hiding underneath the platform until Link turned it around. Raven was about to climb down when something dark and out of place caught his eye.

The lock was on the ground.

Or more accurately the unlocked lock, chains and all was on the ground. Raven glanced behind him. Link wasn't there yet. Serena was most definitely behind this door. He wasn't sure why she would go ahead when she advised him not to.

The unlocked door was obvious to the cautious and attentive eyes of Raven-Link. But he only saw it when he came to the end of platform. Would Link notice that it was unlocked? He looked behind him once more.

Still not here.

For once he was glad that climbing forest vines took so long. He opened the door and

sneezed.

"Goddesses, it is dust here." He coughed a little more before proceeding through the tiled room. He noted how certain tiles shifted as he walked near it.

'tile worms.' He thought avoiding the shifting tiles. There was one blocking the way foreword.

"huh." Raven took out the dagger he practiced with and dropped it on the tile. The tile work mistook it as a foot step and lunged out. Raven in that instant slashed the exposed worm in half. The worm shrivels and disappears in dust taking it's tile with it. There was a little hole left where the worm hid.

"oh well, one missing tile wouldn't hurt." Raven-Link walked into the little dark tunnel. He took out the lantern Raven lost his footing and slipped into a ditch.

'That's strange' Raven looked around. 'There would usually be some kind of monster here.' He thought disappointedly.

He took one more step before reaching for his blade to meet the one waiting behind him.

"Did you hear that?" Link asked his shadow. His pointed ear twitched. His Hylian ears weren't pointed for nothing. At least that's what people say. The ears of the Hylian were said to hear the messages of the gods.

Link looked behind him.

"Hear what?" Midna replied not even bothering on coming out from his shadow. She sounded oh so bored with this development.

"…Nothing" Link opened the stone door to the next room. He shook his head when he heard the sound of clashing metal once again.

'All this time in here must be doing something to my head. Now I'm hearing things'

The monkey he had rescued jumped to an empty spot on, what's that mushrooms? It was some sort of fungus.

Midna came out of his shadow.

"Looks like we need two more." She reasoned with the two remaining empty slots. "Well, we can't go any further without Their help. Ah well.. Let's Help the rest of them!" Like she helped rescue them. Link threw the gale boomerang to turn the platforms so he could reach the other side.

Link found that he could use the boomerang instead of my sling shot to take care of those spiders on the vines, to which Midna informed him that they were called walltulas. That was good since he didn't want to waste rupees on ammo.

. Link looks up at the bunches of vines he'll have to climb. He looked slightly annoyed but started to climb it nonetheless. Upon reaching the other room Link took care of the baba serpents then threw a bombling into the deku like. He hopped onto the exposed plot of land and reached the chest.

But when he opened it.

"Hey what gives!" His shadow cried out from underneath him. "There's nothing in here!"

"Maybe someone got here before I did." Link said going back to destroy the boulder with a nearby bombling.

It didn't both him much. It's not like he needed anything in there

Right?

"They why was the deku like still there?" Midna questioned.

"Maybe it respawned?" A lot of monsters seemingly come back after a while. Though he knew that deku likes don't respawn very quickly.

He put the matter of the empty chest aside and blew up the boulder it probably had a rupee. After killing two more baba serpents he freed the monkey behind the boulder.

"One more?" Link said somewhat confused. It must be in the locked room but where's the key for that? He took a surveying look around the room. Then consulted his map finding nothing new. Link scratched his head.

"Maybe I missed something…"

"ARGH!" Raven fell back once more narrowly missing his attackers blade. He and his older opponent were constantly

This person was amazing. He pulled moves Raven had never seen before.

A powerful blow when being pulled from his sheath. Raven knew he couldn't defend so he dodged at the last second.

An arial attack aimed for his head. He didn't see that one coming. Good thing only the flat of the blade hit him.

A downthrust attack? That one Raven was just surprised to see. He hadn't used that one since he returned the kokiri sword.

Though something was off, or rather strange to say the least.

The wild golden haired warrior was holding his right arm in a protective manner. In defense. It was as if he was holding a shield. He had even attacked him with it, ramming his arm into Raven's chest following with a blow to his back. Raven dubbed it the back slash. Then again Raven was close to doing the same thing with his right arm.

The metal of their swords made a sharp scratching noise. The red eyed swordsman pressed his sword downward testing the strength and stability of Raven's stance. Neither of their swords showed a scratch.

'Try as you might but is seems that our swords are made from the same material.'

Their swords met once again. Despite the trouble the crimson eyed gave him- Raven smirked- He was enjoying himself. Raven-Link got back into a defensive position as a feint.

He charged.

He hadn't had a match like this since Ganon and Majora, both which battles he couldn't enjoy because of the threatening matter of the world possibly ending. His opponent charged as well holding his sword in front of him. The Dash Attack. Raven saw this once. He had attempted to learn it but quickly found that it is near impossible to stop running with out ramming yourself into-

"No way" Those two words escaped his lips as he dodged the attack. He had stopped just before running into the side of their confined battle area.

'Now what is he doing?' Raven wondered as his attacker held back his sword. He suddenly jumped and brought his sword down wildly. He was light on his feet which was startling for his size. Raven guarded against it well and the warrior seemed a little surprised.

That's when Raven tried the back slash his opponent did before. He shoved him with his right arm and rolled to his side. He was at mid-way to a upward strike before he heard a familiar voice behind him.

"Hiro stop!" The beaded half hylian yelled before sliding down from the dark tunnel Raven had came from earlier.

'hero?'

Raven turned his attention back to his opponent and froze. The swordsman had switched his sword over to his right hand while Raven rolled behind him. His double edge sword was inches from his face.

'Of course, he would know how to counter it.'

The man Serena called Hiro quickly sheathed his sword and approached Serena.

"You know him?"

"uh.." Serena shifted her weight to her other leg. "sorta… He save me? kinda."

"Saved you? From what?" Raven asked curiously. Serena hung her head when she responded in a sigh.

"I'd rather not say…" He put his had on her head and she side glanced at his partially bandaged face. "I just met him a while ago. He doesn't talk much."

"I noticed…" His formidable opponent hasn't uttered a word since the moment their blades met. "So when did he tell you his name?" Raven started up the vines dodging the incoming walltulas well.

"He didn't." Serena responded. She used the hookshot as a short cut to the top of the vines. "I named him." She still had that awkward irresponsible looking smile on her face.

"And why did you name him Hero?" At the sound of his makeshift name Hiro jumped off the sides of the wall to their side. "And why is he following us?" He added once they left to go back to stalking to find that they have a stalker of their own.

"I don't know but it seemed to fit. By the way it's spelled with an I." She shrugged. "And for the second question I don't know. Maybe he's lost or something."

Hiro looked at the monkey in the cage. It looked like he wanted to open it. He probably could force it open saying that he was as strong as he fights. Serena looked pleadingly at Raven. If he was to guess what she was thinking, it would have been along the linesIf he was to guess what she was thinking, it would have been along the lines "can we keep him?"

He rolled his eyes. Serena narrowed hers in a reluctant defeat.

The familiar sound of a stone door rolling open caught their attention followed by a sneeze. The slightly older blond teenager just entered the room. He walked right onto a tile monster and got launched into the air. A mocking laughter came from beneath him. Link tried shushing his shadow companion but Midna did not cease her sound of amusement.

"It's just that" She managed between her breaths. "After going through this whole temple, you- you still." She couldn't stop herself. If she wasn't in Link's shadow she would have been rolling on the floor, laughing her little imp head off.

Link pulled out the gale boomerang and threw it at the direction of the tile monster. It uprooted the troublesome worm as well as the tiles in the boomerangs path. He hacked at squirming worm with the frustration he had developed while going through this entire temple and not being able to deal with these paracites.

It wasn't like Raven's cut, clean and slick. It was a bunch of random strikes dealt to any part of the struggling worm's body. It finally disappeared after a few more hits. Link smirked and looked at his shadow in a way that gives off the impression of saying "how's that."

Midna stayed quiet as Link blew away the tile worms. He didn't notice the one Raven took care of. Then again how could he. Link was busy tearing up the remaining tiles in case there were tile worms underneath it. They waited until he disappeared into the tunnel before making an exit. Serena and Raven used the hook shot to get to the other side and somehow Hiro was in the next room before they even opened the door.

"There you go little guy." Link said opening the gate with his Gale boomerang. The monkey was a little frightened from the strong gusts of wind so Link coaxed it to go out and return to its friends. He watched leave through one of the small forest temples crevasses. "That should be all of them. What should I do now?"

"Just go to the last room. The one with the huge chasm and monkeys on fungus." Midna replied from his shadow sounding annoyed. "The place where you almost fell off and i had to save you"

"Alright I know." Link said getting down. "No need to get into detail."

Midna was still angry with good reason. She had to use a lot of her energy to force her arm to the light world. Not to mention Link was heavy. Him squirming around didn't help either. Though how could he not panic. The 100 year old wood broke from underneath him and he experienced 3 seconds of freefall. Midna had teased him and said it was his own fault for weighing so much.

It was actually Serena's fault. She weakened the wood with hits from Raven's hook shot. She was practicing launching and landing from different distances. With her aim she hit the same spot every time.

And with Link's luck he stepped on it.

Link made his way back. He still didn't know how this door came unlocked, but that wasn't his problem. All that mattered was that it was open.

He jumped onto the largest monkey swing he had ever encountered. The long line of primates showed no signs of stress from swinging Link to the other side. He landed right before the giant door leading to what one would call the boss. It immense stature was demeaning. Anyone normal would have though twice about approaching the door let alone opening and entering. Such as what Link just did as soon as he landed on the ground.

It was quiet for the time being. Link walked further into the large room, taking in his surroundings. Two pairs or eyes watched.

The purple set stared at him with no such interest, while the blue set observed his every move. He wasn't so sure of, for the lack of a better term, heir as hyrule's hero.

Then there was a single observing red eye that belonged to the one named Hiro. The single eye was watching the small body of purple water below him. He looked to be in his early twenties. Maybe even 19. Though there was this questioning air around him, like he didn't even know himself.

Link was now at the foot of the poisonous water. Both of the Links felt it coming. Hiro didn't show any emotion as the so called boss of the temple sprung out of the water.

How deep was that water anyway? Serena thought. You couldn't see anything in the murky water the Twilit Parasite came out of.

The hero clad in green made quick work of those two oversized Deku babas. Only getting hit once from when a head lunged at him.

That what quick They thought too soon.

The central head them emerges from the pool, removing the bombling Link used to take out the baba heads. With nothing to hit the monster with, what was he supposed to do now? Link dodged their lunges unsure of what to do. The gale boomerang did nothing on it's own. So now what? After a few more dodged hits a familiar primate cried out. They all looked, except for Hiro, at the baboon. It turned around, and showed a bombling in it's fist.

It then proceeded to swing back and forth the room. Link used those bomblings to hit the middle head. Once hit the plant would fall to the ground and expose it's weak point, and eye. After a few more explosions and swings of his sword, the boss was defeated. The plant cried out in agony, swinging it's head wildly before withering.

Silence for a moment.

Then the former monster dissipated into small dark fragments. The twilight shards compressed themselves into an object of some sort. Whatever it was, it reeked of an ancient magic.

"Eee hee hee! Good job." Midna came out from Link's shadow. "That's. . . what I was looking for. That's a Fused Shadow." She took the compressed twilight magic with her strange orange arm coming from her hair. "It's what the light spirit called dark power. . ."

"Dark.. dark power?"

"Don't you remember what the spirit said? About how you had to match the power of the king of shadows?" Link did remember. He was just surprised at the strange dark object he had in his hands moments ago.

"Could it really be so easy? Is this all there to it? Eee hee hee!" Could it? Did all he have to do is collect these fused shadows? "There's a total of three Fused Shadows. I think the other light spirits have the rest. . ."

"Wait a minute. What exactly are the Fused Shadows?" Could he really trust such a thing?

"If you want to know... Well, maybe I'll tell you if you found the other two. I guess you'd better do your best to find the. huh?" She laughed again and put away the fused shadow. "So let's not waste any more time here when we could be looking for the other two..."

She made a portal of some sort and beckoned for Link to come.

"I'll get you out of here. So hurry up, if you're done here." Link stepped into the portal, having nothing else to do in this room. He was transported out and away from the temple.

Another moment of silence took over the room.

"Well now that that's over..." Serena stood up and stretched having been sitting the entire boss fight. "Are we going to have to back track to the beginning of the temple?"

"Don't worry." Raven took hold of Serena and Hiro. "I got that covered." And with that he casted Farore's wind to the first room of the dungeon. He let go and let Serena wobble to the door.

"Very cool. A warping spell." She finally said still trying to clear her head. "What's that spell called? And where did you get it?" She was obviously going to go write this in her book.

"It's called Farore's wind. And I got it from one of the great fairies."

"There's more than one?" They exited the dungeon and started to wander the forest.

"Is there only one here?" Serena nodded. "huh... I remember there being..." He took a moment to count. Does he count the ones in Termina? "There are... Six in my Hyrule and five in Termina. I used to visit one in particular a lot, even after my adventure ended." Raven said a bit saddened.

"Who said your adventure was over?"

"What?"

"Where did Link go?" Serena thought aloud.

"Hey, stop ignoring me." Raven sighed. He rushed to his new partners side. Hiro disappeared from the scene unnoticed.

They stumbled upon the spirit spring where Link and Faron were having a conversation. Serena didn't pay attention to the scene. She couldn't hear most of what they were saying. Raven explained to her while Midna was talking to Link. They were headed to Kakariko village now. The spirit told him that he would find "the ones he seeks" Which he believes is to me the stolen children.

They followed Link out of the forest. He walked slowly once he was out of the trees cover. Yes, the wide vast fields were a sight compared to what he was used to. So much open air. It wasn't too hard to chase him around the fields. Both groups had no idea where Kakariko village was. So they wandered around.

Midna grew impatient and told him to just ask for directions. But with no one else in the fields that left Raven and Serena. Link chased after them a few times when they couldn't avoid him completely. Link was confused at why they ran. He didn't get a very good look at them so he resumed searching for the village. Serena and Raven finally caught up to him after Link got directions from the postman.

"Great another black wall of twilight." Serena gasped. They would have to wait for it to disappear again. Raven doubled over when Link transformed into his wolf form on the other side, while Serena was pretending not to notice.

"Serena." Raven grabbed Serena's shoulder. "That guy from before, Hiro. how do you know if we can trust him?"

"What do you mean?"

"We don't really know much about him, do we."

"What's to know? Hiro is just some warrior."

"He's an experienced swordsman. I don't even know if I can hold him if he turns against us." Raven looked around. "By the way did you see where he went?"

"No idea, but he can take care of himself." She folded her arms behind her head. "Besides, if he didn't like us then he would have finished you off in the temple and left me under the pillar." Serena didn't know why but the mystery about him seemed to expand to more than just them. Like Hiro didn't know himself

"That may be but we still have to be careful of him." Raven said warily. He now stood at the foot of the wall of twilight. It gave him a haunting feeling. Though it was strange. He felt like he could actually walk though the wall despite it's clear stature. He couldn't feel it being there to stop him.

A bizarre feeling. But that didn't stop him from trying.

and by trying I mean jumping right into the wall of twilight. And leaving Serena to wonder what happened.

:3 don't you just hate climbing vines? It takes the Links so long to get up that stupid mesh of vegetation! That's why i was SOOOO glad when i got the hookshot & clawshot.

Also, I wanted to ask you guys something

Would you like the words to be more compact? Like reading a book online? Or how I'm writing it now, spaced out.

Since you guys are the one reading I'd like to know which one you like.

For me It's having them spaced out so it's easier to read. That's why it's written like this XP

Oh yeah and do you think i should rewrite the first 4 chapters? or join them all together?

The zelda we never played:

heh heh I was doing some LOZ research. i though it was interesting... UNICORN FOUNTAIN! XD

-edit-

my god It's about time I posted this. I put it exactly how i had it a month ago.

MY appologies for not updating sooner. I've been busy with stuff and just upright did not feel like writing anything

oh btw I'm going to be rewriting this story XD I have a directive for it and have to build up to it.