Celestial Being Chronicles - Chapter 96
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Gundam series, nor any of the various series which are used or referenced in my fic, so please point that damned lawsuit cannon at someone else, also, don't read this if you are not of legal age to read such material. The story contains possibly disturbing content and should not be read by close-minded people (i.e., people who are easily offended.) Everything in the story is fictional. I am also not responsible for any actions taken by people who read this story and society's problems. I do, however, own my original character; Hope Yamato.
The Divinity Gundam, blazing with the distinctive blood red light of Trans-Am, screamed through the skies above Tokyo in its sleek flight mode. The angelic machine leaving an army of brightly glowing afterimages in its wake, even as hundreds of anti-aircraft rounds and beam blasts bounced off the machine's advanced armor, while flak shells exploded harmlessly all around it.
"Where the hell did the Death Star come from?" Lexi's panicked voice suddenly yelled through the speakers.
"The Death Star is here?" Shinn asked in disbelief from the cockpit of the Eclipse Gundam.
"Yes!" Lexi answered, her voice still somewhat panicked as the dagger-shaped warship opened up on the massive sphereical space station with millions of beam cannons, rail guns, missiles, flak cannons and anti-aircraft guns. "I'd be very surprised if you are unable see it from the surface."
"Yeah, about that." Luna replied as the Twilight Gundam dodged the searing yellow-orange energy blast which had been belched forth from the main cannon of the mobile armor know only as the MA-08 Big Zam. "We're kind of busy down here."
"Wait, since when was there a country called Hyrule?" Lexi asked as the Excalibur's sensors suddenly detected a new timeline on the war-torn planet below. This newly formed timeline, which apparently contained a country called 'Hyrule' was located in what had previously been the highly radioactive remains of Germany.
Within the cockpit of the Divinity, Kira closed his eyes quickly focusing on the massive form of the Death Star, then an instant later, all of the life readings from within the massive station vanished, everyone onboard having been erased from existence. "Lexi." The amethyst-eyed man called as he ignited his GN field, blocking another searing beam blast from the Big Zam. "Hack into the Death Star's computers, lower its shields and then send a boarding party over to the station."
"Understood." Lexi replied as the Excalibur's weapons fell silent, even as she hacked into the Death Star's computers, lowered its shields and transported a boarding party over to the now unoccoupied station.
"Wow, this is just sad. There aren't any mobile suits." The voice of Patrick Zala said through the communications line, nearly five minutes later. Patrick Zala was the eighteen-year-old son of Athrun Zala and Meyrin Hawke, having been named in rememberence of Athrun's own father. Patrick posessed brillant magenta-colored hair, like that of his mother, but he also posessed the piercing emerald-colored eyes of his father. "The hangers are filled with small one-man fighters."
"Those are called TIE Fighters." The voice of Luke Skywalker said through the communications line, even as his own boarding party carefully made its way into one of the Death Star's many control rooms.
"Either way." Patrick replied. "I doubt that they would stand much of a chance against any mobile suit, even one of ZAFT's first generation GINNs." After that, the two boarding parties continued to explore the massive station in reletive silence.
Meanwhile, in Earth's atmosphere, the Divinity Gundam had broken off from the fight over Tokyo, the angel-winged mobile suit transforming into its flight mode and speeding away to investigate the newly formed timeline in what had formerly been Germany.
"Kira." Lexi's voice spoke through the communications line twenty minutes later, five minutes prior to when the Divinity was estimated to enter Hylan airspace. "I'm not detecting any form of advanced technology within that country. I suggest that you reduce the Divinity Gundam to human-size and project your own image over the armor."
"Understood." Kira calmly answered, even as the angelic machine transformed back into its mobile suit mode and landed in a huge wheat field, before then shrinking down to the size of an average human and projecting the image of its pilot; Kira Yamato, over the armor. As he began to walk forward, Kira made sure that the holoshroud didn't cover either of the physical blades that he now wielded; those physical blades being the Tenseiga and Tessaiga, he also made sure that the holoshroud didn't cover the physical shield on his right forearm. "Divinity will now proceed to investigate the country identified as Hyrule."
The sentry walked his rounds just outside of Hyrule Castle. The sentry loosened his collar in the unusually stifling heat and humidity. It was fated to be his last mortal action. Suddenly his head was jerked to the side as if he had just been punched across the mouth. Blood poured from his shattered skull and splattered on the ground. The man literally never knew what hit him.
"Sentry is down." Kira Yamato said over his encrypted radio as he shifted his sniper rifle's point of aim to a neutral position, calmly waiting for more targets. Below him, between the carefully trimmed bushes which led to the main gates of the castle, two men clad in heavy armor raced forward in a coordinated advance, only to stop at the fallen form of their comrade.
As the two soldiers carefully examined the body of their dead comrade, as well as the surrounding area for the cause of their comrade's death, Kira released a single, fly-sized spy robot from his machine's left shoulder. The tiny spy robot was quick to infiltrate the castle, even as Kira himself dashed off in another direction, leaving the tiny spy robot to perform its reconnaissance mission.
Less than a mile away, in a meadow within the vast kingdom of Hyrule. The long lush strands of green grass waved and billowed from the gust of gentle northwestern wind. The meadow was a haven for many creatures that called Hyrule home, like the Octorks and Like Likes. They milled about in their grassy kingdom and ruled over all they surveyed in perfect harmony with the other creatures of the vicinity.
A sweet tune rolled over the meadow. Fluid notes of music whistled over the breeze like an angel's breath on the world. It softly died away. "That was lovely, Link." The teenaged female Hylain sighed, her mind whisked half-way to dreams by the sweet melody as she leaned on a nearby boulder.
The other teenage Hylain, sitting against a small tree and dressed in green took his lips off the pale Ocarina in his hands and looked up to his companion. "Thank you, my lady Zelda." He replied.
"Must you be so formal?" Zelda asked. "While we are all alone out here in the meadow?"
"You are a princess." Link joked softly. "And you shall be treated as such."
"Oh, nonsense." Zelda giggled as Link slowly got up off the treestump which he had been using as a seat and gently kissed her hand.
"Will you play me another?" Zelda asked.
"Certainly, my lady." Link replied, raising the ocarina to his lips as he rested beside Zelda on her boulder. Taking in a deep breath, Link slowly exhaled into the small shell-like ocarina, and another soothing melody whispered along the wind as his fingertips raced around the ocarina's note holes. Zelda sighed and closed her eyes.
Zelda imagined she was flying. Flying without effort over Hyrule. Although she had never seen the castle from above, her mind created a mental image of an overhead view of her home, as she soared over it with hardly a thought of keeping aloft. She glided over the trees and rivers like a sparrow, the sweet music flowing from Link's ocarina taking hold of her and letting her soar over the skies.
Suddenly, her tranquil dream was abruptly shattered by the ear-piercing death shriek of a pheonix as the mystical flaming bird fell from the sky, its left wing completely gone.
"Damned wildlife." A new voice growled, even as another man, whom appeared to be in his late teens or early twenties, with short brown hair, deep amethyst eyes and dressed in a pure white uniform with a few ornate, gold-colored accents, leapt from the edge of a nearby cliff. Despite the fact that the drop from the cliff was in excess of 100 feet, the young man floated gently to the ground, his feet touching the soil without so much as a single sound.
Link was quick to unsheath his sword, pointing the tip at the mysterious intruder. "Identify yourself, stranger." Even as he did this, Link silently signaled for Zelda to return to the castle, and much to his relief, she was quite quick to follow his unspoken instructions.
"You dare to wave your sword at a god?" Kira asked, his voice completely calm, despite the conflict which could potentially arise from the current situation. "Just who the hell do you think you are?" Without waiting for an answer, Kira dropped the holoshroud around the Divinity's angelic wings, making it appear as though the white, feathery wings were his own. The amethyst-eyed man then freed the standard anti-ship sword from behind his right wing, but he didn't ignite the beam blade, as he wanted this fight to be somewhat fair.
"Who and what are you?" Link asked.
"I already told you who I am, Hero of Time." Kira answered. "I am the one you call God."
"If that's true." Link replied. "Why do you seem so eager to fight against me?"
"I simply wish to test your skills." The amethyst-eyed man smiled. "We certianly can't have the Hero of Time losing his fighting skills, now can we?"
"I suppose you do have a slight point there, stranger." Link agreed, after a long moment of silence. Kira smirked slightly as the Hero of Time rushed forward and swung the master sword.
Kira parried the attack perfectly and Link's sword slid off Kira's anti-ship sword, which instantly swung out to block the next slash. In less time than it took to blink, Kira's right leg came up and snapped out. Link knew he was unable to block the kick, so he tried jumping backward, only to fall onto his back. Link quickly jumped back to his feet, only for Kira's anti-ship sword to slam down against his shield.
"I had expected the Hero of Time to be much more skilled than this!" Kira laughed, even as he used his free hand and freed the quantum crystal anti-ship sword from behind his right wing, before then swinging the weapon and slicing Link's hylian shield in half.
"H-how in the world?" Link asked in disbelief as he dropped the two halves of his now ruined and useless shield to the ground.
"I thought I told you already." Kira smirked, stowing both of his anti-ship swords and using his now free right hand to take hold of his beam rifle. "I am the one you call God." With that, Kira raised the beam rifle and fired, a single bolt of searing green energy shot from the rifle and hit the master sword. Link dropped the now searing hot master sword almost instantly, to avoid burning his hand.
Kira smirked as he calmly holstered his beam rifle approached Link. The Hero of time, having never seen guns, much less beam rifles, slowly backed away from the dropped master sword. The amethsyt-eyed man simply smiled as he picked up the master sword, and sheathed the weapon on his left hip.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Link yelled.
"I'm taking your sword." Kira calmly answered, even as he turned and began to walk away. "It is obvious that you are not fit to wield the master sword."
Link scowled as he took out his bow and notched a trio of arrows, one light, one fire and one ice. With a slight smirk, he let the three arrows fly, all of them speeding unerringly towards their target.
"Please." Kira sighed, instantly spinning around, freeing the Tenseiga and Tessaiga from their sheaths, the Tenseiga in his left hand and the Tessaiga in his right. The amethsyt-eyed man calmly smirked as he held the Tenseiga horizontal, the blade glowing with a sky blue light. "Behold, dragon strike."
Link's eyes widened in shock as dozens of lightning bolts, each one nearly fifty feet in height, shot out of the blade in Kira's left hand, the blue bolts of electricity racing towards their target and vaporizing it. A nearly inaudible sigh escaped the amethyst-eyed man's lips as he once again sheathed the twin blades, before then deactivating the holoshroud and restoring the Divinity Gundam to its true height, finally he ignited his thrusters and flew away, leaving a large swath of the field smoking and burning.