"What do you mean that Link could be on that world?" Buttercup said shocked at the idea

"Follow me." The Professor said and went down to that room with the red crystal glowing in the center.

"No way I'm lighting that thing up again!" Buttercup said as Blossom smiled awkwardly

"You don't have to." The Professor explained, I thought it was strange that we could only see the projection but not hear it. So I did a little investigating and found that depending on what medium we send through it we could experience that medium through the crystal!" The Professor said proudly as he looked at Buttercup and Blossom who had confused looks on their faces and a bead of sweat down their backs.

"Let me put it another way. We were able to see what the crystal had stored because of the intense light that Buttercup blasted at it. I've experimented with sound waves and this is what I found." The Professor said turning a knob. There was a loud buzzing noise that slowly got more and more high pitched until it passed out of audible hearing but as it did a small flowing sound permeated the room. It was too soft to truly make anything out but it sounded kind of like the edge of a lake. There was definitely two different voices but the wind and the waves were just loud enough to prevent them from hearing what was being said. There was the sound of a large explosion just before a period of silence.

From the silence a feminine voice could be heard just barely, "Link… you died… come back to… chosen guardian… wait to see you again…!" And then it cut out completely

"You see?" The Professor said excitedly, "Clearly she says something about Link dying and coming back to her and this is on the planet that was turned to darkness the same planet…"

"That is in the sky right now!" Blossom said following the train of thought.

"So, Link might be alive?" Buttercup said in a pure hope tone of voice.

"I truly believe so!" The Professor said assuredly.

Buttercup's heart skipped a beat, "So why don't we go up there and find him?" she said ready to run out the door.

"This is why." The Professor said solemnly and turned on a monitor that showed fairly close up the outer atmosphere of the planet. There seemed to be some gold layer around the world and the girls watched as lasers and comets and all sorts of other debris just bounced right off the golden layer.

"I think if our new friend can tell us anything we might be able to get to this world but then I don't know if he's like Link and forgot and even if he does know he might not tell us right now." The Professor stated crossing his arms and looking down.

"Then I'll make him tell us!" Buttercup said with clenched fists.

"I don't think that'll work!" Blossom said pensively

"Why not?" Buttercup asked insulted

"Well think about it, Link himself was so powerful you couldn't even stop a punch and remember how he defeated Gannon? If Dark Link is even half as powerful he could do some serious damage without taking so much as a punch. I think we should watch him and wait to see if he knows something." Blossom said authoritatively.

"That's actually not a bad plan!" The Professor said impressed

"Well I'm still sure I could take him." Buttercup said huffing to the side

"Now that's the Buttercup we know and love!" Poochie said walking into the room.

"Ok girls so we all agree that we need to watch and wait and see if Dark Link knows how to get to the planet."

The girls nodded and went home.

Buttercup entered the house smiling for the first time in a month which made her mother and father smile. "Well now that's my little Butterball what's got you so happy all of a sudden?" her father asked

"Oh, nothing!" she said and entered her room turned out the light and for the first time in a month didn't feel like she was going to die from heartbreak.

Monday came and Blossom and Buttercup entered into the door at Ms. Keane's class and saw Bubbles there looking at them angrily from her desk.

"What's going on Bubbles?" Blossom and Buttercup asked in unison

"That's what's going on!" She said looking down and pointing to the front of the class where Dark Link was drawing what looked like poo on the board with the word's "Teachers Pet!" surrounding it. The class just sat back in shock and Blossom and Buttercup fell over backwards before yelling for Dark Link to get back to them.

As Link was walking back Princess walked in and saw him, "LINK!? I thought you were dead?!" she said confused and went up to him with hearts pouring out her eyes.

"And with a face like yours I wish I would be!" he said but Princess didn't seem to notice and went up to give him a hug.

"Does this mean you came back for me? We could get married and live in my mansion and eat all the goodies we want and…"

"Whoa! Hold on there tiny." Link started, "I would be more than happy to do all that but there's one problem, I don't like ugly girls."

At this Princess' eyes filled up with tears and she ran out the door with her face in her hands as the teacher walked in.

"Now class what was that ab…!?" she started before seeing the drawing on the board. "WHO DID THIS?" She yelled and Dark Link was leaning back in his seat in front of Bubbles.

"I don't know?" He said, "But I think crybaby did it!" He said laughing as Ms. Keane walked out the door in pursuit of Princess.

"How could you do something like that?" Bubbles asked angrily

"Like what?" Dark Link asked innocently

"You're going to get Princess real upset and she's going to transform and start ruining the city!" Blossom yelled in his ear

"Whoa Ginger slow down." Dark Link said which made Blossom furious, "Destroying the city sound's a lot more fun than sitting in some boring old classroom."

"Then why did you come here in the first place?" Buttercup asked angrily

"Bubbles wanted me to. She said I would get to meet some interesting people and for sure I have!" Link stated and started to tap on Bubbles foot from under the chair. This went on for a few seconds before Bubbles foot found its mark on Dark Link's knee sending him to the floor.

"You'd think he'd learn!" Blossom said with a bead of sweat going down her neck.

The teacher entered back into the classroom and erased the drawing from the board, "OK class we have a new student with us." She said inclining to Dark Link.

"Drake!" Dark Link called out

"Drake, Links twin brother from…?"

"Seattle." Dark Link continued to lie

"Drake from Seattle, we always like to welcome those from foreign countries to join us here so welcome Drake."

Buttercup and Blossom leaned into Bubbles who'd signaled to them, "We decided to call him Drake because it might be weird trying to explain why his name is Dark Link. I had to convince him that he didn't want to have to explain it all the time. Next time you watch him for two days and we'll see how it goes." She said angrily by the end.

The bell rang and the girls headed out to the soccer field, "Last one out needs to give Drake a big old kiss." Buttercup said in fun as the girls rushed out to finally rejoin the favorite pastime of the region. A good old game of soccer.

Thanks for reading I hope you all are enjoying the tale so far now that I'm in phase 2 just remember all it takes is a few clicks to Fav or follow and a few more to Review, let me know what you think. Ultima S.

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