"It's stupid!" Dark Link said to himself walking down an empty street as the moon shone brightly to his back. He was suspended for his actions during the soccer game, "Why should I even care it's not like this world means anything to me. If it wasn't for Bubbles there'd really be no reason for me to be here." He continued
From the darkness a large eye looked out upon the midnight wanderer.
"Hello there Dark Link it's been a while!" Came a sinister sneer that Dark Link recognized but wasn't too worried about.
"Vaati what brings you here?" He said without slowing or turning around.
The large eye entered the moonlight and floated towards Dark Link. There was a crescent shape on it's top and to it's sides were large bat wings that came out of a mass of darkness. "Nothing really just enjoying the night." Vaati said
"Well enjoy it somewhere else I'm not in the mood to deal with your games tonight." Dark Link said annoyed
"Oh what's the matter Dark Link or should I call you Drake?" Vaati said with a toothy grin.
Dark Link winced at the name, "Shut up and leave me be or I'll knock out your contact lense!" Dark Link said smiling
"YOU WOULDN'T… Uh I mean I don't wear contacts!" Vaati said trying to cover for himself.
"Enough! I know that you don't like me and I don't like you so what do you want?" Dark Link started to get annoyed
Vaati chuckled a little bit and let the blackness swirl around him covering his entire being. Soon the blackness started to dissipate and there stood a blue skinned human-like creature with a long white cap and purplish robes on.
"Oh Dark Link you know me too well!" Vaati said shrugging his shoulders with a smile, "I was sent by Gannondorf to be sure that you follow through on the plan by whatever means necessary."
"Please Gannondorf is imprisoned no one will listen to him anymore." Dark Link said shrugging off Vaati's implied threat, "And if you think you can make me you're gravely mistaken."
"Please I'm not so bold as to think I could take on the shadow of the great Hero of the Goddesses however there are other means of convincing someone." Vaati said and a puff of black smoke came from his outstretched hand and formed a life-size shadow of Bubbles.
"DON'T THREATEN ME!" Dark Link yelled and ran over to Vaati and grabbed his tunic only to realize he had a lot of black smoke.
From the top of a nearby building there came Vaati's voice, "Oh come now is that any way to treat a fellow general in Gannondorf's army?"
Dark Link was furious he stood straight up and allowed the anger to course through his veins. His skin turned as dark as the night around him and his eyes glowed with a deep crimson. He backed up into the shadow of a nearby building where Vaati saw his eye's disappear, however, Vaati couldn't see glowing red eye's appear in the shadow of the doorway behind him and before he knew it Dark Link had him in a death hold.
"I warn you if you touch her there will be one less general in the Dark Army."
Vaati managed to smoke out of the hold and landed on the roof top behind Link, "Hit a soft spot have we?" He said panting and holding his throat, "I suggest if you want Bubbles to live then you keep your end of the bargain." Vaati finished and disappeared into the night.
The next day Dark Link woke up on a bench outside of City Park where Link was buried. He'd stopped there to try and sort through why he didn't want to help Gannondorf escape but no true answer had come.
"I have no heart so it couldn't be that I feel anything for this planet. Neither do I have any physical connection to this planet. I am evil, it was how I was created and I cannot escape that fact!" He continued his interior argument.
He looked around and there were people all around the park, fathers and mothers with their children, old folks sitting together feeding the birds and the occasional cyclist. The beauty of the region made Dark Link sit back and relax feeling the cool mid-day breeze on his cheek.
Out of nowhere Blossom and Buttercup came running/hobbling over to Dark Link, "Drake have you seen Bubbles? She is nowhere to be found and her Gran-gran said she never came down the stairs this morning but she's not in her room." They said in unison and with one breath
"He DIDN'T!" Dark Link said rising to his feet. He stretched out his hand towards the calm water of a small lake nearby. A black cloud of dust flowed from his palm and made a small circle in the lake. Blossom and Buttercup around his arms to see what was going on.
"I was wondering when you were going to call. Really for someone who seems to care for this girl you didn't notice till now? Shame." Came the voice of Vaati
"Who's that?" Buttercup asked while Blossom shook her head
"Vaati you bring her back right now or I'll…" Dark Link started with his eyes turning red.
"Ah, ah, ah! I wouldn't do that if I were you!" Vaati said moving to the side, Bubbles was hanging by some shackles against a damp stone wall. She had fainted and there was a small drip of blood coming from the side of her mouth. "If you put so much as your tiny toe here she'll die before you get a chance to get any nearer!"
With this Vaati withdrew a long staff and whirled around and hit Bubbles squarely in this stomach causing her to lurch forward.
"YOU MONSTER!" Buttercup screamed and Blossom had to hold her back from striking the water.
Vaati stood there laughing and the circle dissipated.
"Why would he do something like that?" Blossom asked worriedly
"Because he's evil and that's what us bad guys do!" Dark Link said with his hands behind his back walking away.
"You're not just going to sit there and let him do that to Bubbles are you?" Blossom said angrily
"Why not? I'm a bad guy too in fact it was me that got her into this so why should I worsen the condition." Dark Link said with indifference
Blossom ran up and punched Dark Link squarely on the face, "After all she's done for you…" She yelled hitting him again, "You would sit there…" Another square punch to the stomach, "And let her die?" she finished by giving him a huge kick to the stomach. Buttercup wanted to help beat him up but her foot was in bandages from the day before and she couldn't muster enough energy to even get the foot off the ground.
Dark Link seemed barely to notice the attacks and the girls noticed that his skin was a few shades darker than it was before. Eventually Blossom stopped hitting and fell to her knees before Dark Link, "Please, Please, I will do anything for you just save our friend."
"Don't you get it!?" Dark Link said not having moved from his position since the start of the beating, "I am the reason she is in pain right now, ME! I am the reason your friend was taken by Vaati and no matter what I do I can't change those circumstances, so I might as well fulfill the measure of my creation and become a bad guy just like I was destined to be."
Buttercup looked surprised but Blossom didn't even look up. Dark Link started to walk away.
"You're wrong!" Blossom said softly and Dark Link turned to look at her, "There was a time a little while ago where I hurt someone I cared about. I let darkness inside me and in the end all I did was continue hurting those that were trying to help me. At first I thought that I couldn't change who I was and I would be doomed to walk in a path of destruction but then I learned that I needed to forgive myself and move on. We are what choices we make and if we choose to be bad then we are bad but if we choose to do good then nothing bad in the world can change that. I was able to chase away the darkness thanks to my friends and now you stand there and the only friend you have in the world is getting beat to death."
Link looked surprised at this, friend? "Bubbles isn't my friend she can't even stand the sight of me and I don't blame her look at me, created from evil born of the shadows meant to destroy it is my destiny where as she…," Dark Link put his arms to his side, "She is the very essence of good, created to protect."
Buttercup started to laugh, "You're starting to sound like me now!" She said looking to the side with her eyes closed, "I used to think that Link would hate someone like me, he'd surely want someone girly like Bubbles or Blossom but," She said turning to Dark Link, "I couldn't have been more wrong! My mother told me that true love always shines through no matter what's covering it up. And deep down everyone can see that Bubbles cares for you. She is truly looking out for your happiness."
Dark Link just stood there, his inner turmoil turned to overdrive as he considered all the possibilities. He was the very essence of evil how could someone so pure care that much about him.
"Let's go Buttercup it looks like we'll have to find Bubbles on our own!" Blossom stated and flew off
Buttercup transformed and followed her large bowed companion.
They flew over New Townsville for what seemed like hours and couldn't find any sign as to where Vaati could have taken Bubbles. Suddenly a dark figure jumped high above them and landed in front of them on a rooftop nearby.
"Drake!" Buttercup and Blossom said in unison.
"You won't get to her in time like this come here." Dark Link said and the girls floated over to him hesitantly. He grabbed them and wrapped Buttercup in his left arm and Blossom in his right. His skin turned dark as night and his eyes burned with a bright red he backed into a shadow and the last thing the girls saw was New Townsville disappearing in the darkness.
Thanks for supporting the story, about 100 views in three days for this unique story I never thought it'd be so popular. I hope that everything is coming out satisfactorily to all you Zelda/PPGZ fans out there. And just so you all know I expect this story to only be about 30 chapters long so enjoy it while you can as I enjoy writing it, Ultima S. Next Bunny we won't forget.