Fairy Tail and Legend of Zelda Crossover

Fairy Tail: Rise of the Hylian Warriors

Chapter 2: Roaring flames, Soaring ice, and Flying cats

Darunia

Darunia was speechless. He'd never expected to someone like this Natsu kid to show up in Hyrule. Especially now of all times. He had some suspicions about the pink haired youth when he heard him say the volcano's heat didn't bother him, but when he launched off, it confirmed those suspicions.

A Dragon Slayer.

A Fire Dragon Slayer at that, Darunia mused as a large platform shot out of the vertical shaft Natsu jumped into and landed in-between his platform and Natsu's. Darunia just started laughing. Yes. Dragon Slayer indeed. And it would seem this Natsu seemed to have a lot of impatience. Just like-

He was brought out of his musings when the door opened again. This time, it was the person he was waiting for. She was wearing a blood red tunic over some chain mail and a white shirt. Her white pants were tucked neatly into her boots. Her hair hung loosely around her face, stopping neatly just under her ears. A red hat replaced her green one.

Darunia smiled at her. "It's been a while hasn't it, Link?" he asked her.

She changed considerably the past seven years. Her figure filled out, which was shown through her tunic. Her eyes still held that fire she had at ten years old, but now it showed more maturity than he'd seen her all those years ago.

The seventeen year old heroine looked at him. "Darunia, what's happened to Death Mountain?" she asked, still sounding somewhat like the young child he remembered.

Darunia shook his head. "It's been tainted with the dark influence of the man whose been destroying Hyrule. He revived an ancient dragon who caused my people great suffering many years ago." He gestured behind him. "Behind this door is where it lies. But sadly, without the weapon my ancestors created, there is little chance to beat him." He looked at the blonde warrior and continued, "Link, I must ask you first to save my brothers. This dragon, if he is released, will eat my kinsman at the earliest opportunity. Then I need you to find the weapon I spoke of and meet me inside this antechamber to finish off this vile creature for good."

Link nodded without hesitation. "Of course, you can count on me." Her voice was reinforced with steel.

Darunia smiled. "Thank you. Oh, and other thing, while you save my brothers, I want you to keep an eye out for a certain someone who has appeared in the temple."

Link raised an eyebrow. "Huh?"

Darunia chuckled. "Just before you arrived, I spoke with another human who apparently found his way into this temple."

Link's eyes widened. "A human? Here? Is he with Ganondo-"

"He doesn't work for Ganondorf," Darunia reassured her. "As a matter of fact, I believe the Goddesses sent him here to help you."

Link looked confused. "Help? Why?"

Darunia shrugged. "Not sure, but every bone in my body says he's here to help you." His face sobered up. "He is currently searching for a friend he claims is also in here. If you find him, I pray you accept his help. It appears the Goddesses don't want you to carry your burden alone anymore."
With that, it seemed a weight seemed to be lifted from her shoulders. He remembered seven years ago she was just ten years old and seemed so downcast about bearing such a burden as saving Hyrule alone. Darunia was always sympathetic towards her. He wasn't sure why, he just was.

Link looked at Darunia again with more conviction shining in her eyes this time; however, a trained eye could see a smallest amount of hope in them. "How will I know this person?" she asked.

Darunia chuckled as he turned toward the chained doors. "Oh, you'll know him. He's kinda hard to miss. And if need be, I suggest following the path of destruction." Darunia laughed as he entered Valvagia's chamber, leaving Link standing there confused.

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Natsu Dragneel

As I neared the shaft's opening, I noticed it was closed off. I merely threw a blazing fist into it and propelled it high enough for me to get through. I quickly landed on a raised platform as the block I punched fall back down the shaft. I quickly scanned the area while using all my senses to locate Happy. The room itself was set up with pillars which had flames periodically shooting in-between them. Happy's sent lead to the right of the room behind a large wall of fire. Happy's sent also mingled with yet another familiar scent, but I paid little attention to it. Mainly because my hearing caught a particular high pitched voice.

"NATSU! NATSU, WHERE ARE YOU?!"

"Don't worry Happy, I'm comin'!" I yelled as I charged forward. The flames that shot in-between the pillars seemed to activate when someone tried to charge through them, however, they had no effect on me. I raced forward and jumped through the wall of fire. As I landed, I raced for the only door around, which happened to have a similar face to the statues at the temples entrance and chains and a padlock.

I set my fist ablaze and destroyed the door. As I landed, I called out, "HAPPY!"

On cue, the little blue Exceed flew towards me, crash landing on my chest with tears in his eyes. "Natsu!" he whined. "I thought I'd never see you again!"

I patted him on the head and said, "It's alright, Little Buddy. You okay?"

He nodded. I gave a salamander grin. "Then let's get the hell outa here!"

Happy immediately perked up. "Aye, sir!" he said with his usual demeanor, his paw raised high.

I laughed at the action, but suddenly felt a spike in magic energy behind me. I grabbed Happy and dodged an attack meant to decapitate me. I turned and was met with the most unusual creature. The body itself seemed to be made orange flames with a black bomb-like thing floating in the center of it.

"Impressive dodge, human," the creature stated, "but you will not leave this room alive."

Normally, I probably found the creature pretty cool, being talking bomb with a body made of flames and all, but after seeing Darunia, it wasn't very interesting. And it was threatening me. "You wanna bet on that?" I asked, a large grin finding its way on my face.

Happy took to flying around my head, raising his paws in the air. "Yeah, kick its butt, Natsu!" he cheered. I grinned again as I shot forward, surprising the monster greatly, if its posture was anything to go by. But what really got its attention is when flames began to surround my fist.

"What the-" the creature began, but was cut off when my fist made contact when the floating bomb.

"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" I called out as the bomb was sent flying into the wall and exploded.

I blinked. That's it? That's all it took? Talk about anticlimactic.

Happy seemed to enjoy it, though. "Wow, Natsu, that's was awesome! Did you see that thing? It exploded with one punch!"

I shook my head. "Yeah, but that was a bit too easy. I really hope it gets more challenging. That was boring!"

Happy shook his head at me. "Same old Natsu."

I glared at the cat. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing." Happy's face sobered up. "Hey Natsu, do you know where we are? It's really hot in here and I'm afraid my fur's gonna singe."

I rolled my eyes at his theatrics, but said, "Well, that's a bit tricky, 'cuz I'm not sure mysel-"

I stopped as a familiar scent came to my nose. It was the same one that I smelt when I got to this chamber. As I sniffed the air hoping to identify the scent, I shuddered. I'd recognized that scent a mile away.

"What's up, Natsu?" Happy asked sniffing the air until his eyes widened. "Is that-?"

"Yeah it is, Happy," I confirmed. "It looks like Ice Princess is here too."

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Gray Fullbuster

I felt like hell. My head hurt. My arms hurt. Hell, everything hurt. Uh, what in Earthland hit me? A freakin' train?!

As my senses returned to me, I noticed wherever I was was extremely hot. I sat up and said, "Damn-it, Natsu, I swear if you don-"

I stopped talking when I opened my eyes, 'cuz I saw I wasn't back at the Guild, or anywhere I knew for that matter. Suddenly, it all came back to me. The S-class exams. Grimmiore Heart. Acnologia. I groaned and laid back down.

"Damn-it," I muttered, head still feeling like I got ran over that damn train. Nothing is ever simple for a Fairy Tail wizard. I got up slowly and began to survey my surroundings. The area I was in was like a giant maze of corridors. I found myself on top of a square platform overlooking the maze. What really got my attention, however, were the giant boulders rolling through the maze!

"Damn-it, where the hell am I?!" I screamed.

Suddenly, my danger senses went off, telling me to duck. I ducked and rolled out of the way, only to come face to face with the weirdest monsters I have ever seen. They were lizards standing about as tall as me. Their scales were a bright green and were wearing what looked like red togas and had a shield on their left arm and a sword in their right. But what caught my attention was that they had bright golden eyes.

"Heh, so you dodged human, big deal," one lizard said, utterly shocking me. "You'll be dead soon enough."

"Enough," the other said. "Just kill him."

I finally got over my shock and shook my head. "Hey, lizard freaks! Don't you know it's not polite to talk about someone like they're not here, huh?!"

"I honestly don't care, human," the second one said. "Why worry about a dead man, anyways?"

I smirked. "Well, this 'dead man's' got some tricks up his sleeve," I said, as I brought up my right fist into my left palm. A familiar wave of cool air rushed through my veins as an ice blue magic circle appeared before me, shocking the lizard guys if their faces were anything to go by.

"Ice Make: Knuckle!" I yelled as I slammed my hands into the ground and several fists of ice appeared under the lizard guys, sending them into the air.

"An ice mage?" the first lizard asked, shocked written on his face.

"You guys were gonna try and kill me. So, let me return the favor! Ice Make: Lance!" I yelled again, as a dozen lances made entirely of ice rained down on the first lizard swordsman. They connected, and the lizard roared in pain as he turned to dust, much to my confusion.

However, that moment of confusion was enough for the second to take a swipe at me with his sword, which caught me in the arm. I hissed in pain as I jumped a safe distance away,

The lizard growled. "Just stay still and die!" he roared as he ran towards me.

I quickly made an ice sword and deflected his blade. "Like hell I'm gonna do that!" I retorted as I slashed at him.

The lizard looked somewhat impressed. "Ho ho! So you're a swordsman too, eh? Well then, this got a hell of a lot more interesting!" he said as charged again.

The sword fight lasted a good ten minutes. Ten freakin' minutes of slashing, parrying, and feinting, until I did a horizontal slash at him and he feinted and deflected my blade. I stumbled. He charged me again, sword poised to impale me.

"Now die!" it roared as it drew closer.

No! No way I'm dying here! I thought as I tried to think of some plan.

However, it appeared Lady Luck was on my side, as something unexpected happened. The lizard man suddenly stopped, muscles tensed. My eyes widened as I saw its beady eyes roll back into its head, then fell to the ground, slowly melting away. I wondered for a brief moment about why it did that, but I looked up and my eyes widened again as I saw who killed the lizard man.

She was the same age as Natsu and me, give or take a year. She had the bluest eyes I've ever seen, and had short cut blonde hair that stopped just under her ears (which were POINTED. What the hell?), just like Lucy's haircut without the side ponytail. She had an amazing figure, which was shown off with the attire she was wearing. She wore a blood red tunic over some chainmail and a white shirt. She also wore some white pants and some worn leather boots. Her hands were covered with fingerless gloves. She wore a red hat on her head. A sword and shield were strapped to her back and several pouches were attached to her belt.

I stood there shocked. I couldn't breathe, I couldn't talk. My heart rate sped up, I'm certain I felt my cheeks heat up. It was like my world just stopped. It was like-

"You should be more careful."

Her voice cut through my thoughts, making me jump slightly. Her voice sounded like a harp being played by a master. She was looking at me with her eyebrows furrowed slightly, as if inspecting me. Her eyes narrowed slightly.

"H-huh? Wha-" was my intelligent answer.

She scowled. "You need to be more careful," she reiterated. "Lizalfos are very deadly in pairs. It's best to always make sure your swordsmanship is top notch."

She leaned in close, examining my face. I leaned back slightly under her gaze. It really didn't help matters that I felt my face start burning even hotter. She seemed oblivious to it.

"You know, I kinda didn't know what to expect when Darunia told me you were in this temple," she mused, mostly to herself. "You do seem to know how to defend yourself, and ain't too bad with a sword." Her eyebrows furrowed together, making her look really cute, and continued: "But honestly, I thought there'd be more destruct-"

She was cut off by a loud explosion. Her face went blank, blinking owlishly (which made her look even cuter. Damn-it what's going on with me?!). Two figures flew out of the resulting cloud and landed in front of the girl and me. I looked down and I felt my eyes widen. It was another pair of those Lizalfos that this girl was talking about! Their bodies had been burnt black and were twitching slightly. The girl turned around and her eyes widened as she saw the lizards turned to dust.

"W-what was-" Link tried, but was interrupted again.

"Agh! Stupid lizards! Get out of my way!"

I blanched. Only one person could sound that annoying. And given the destruction…..

"Natsu!" I called out, wondering if I was right.

"Gray? Gray! You perverted stripper! Where the hell are you?!" the Fire Dragon Slayer shouted out.

Yep. That's definitely Natsu, I thought dryly. I ran over to the edge of the platform I was on and looked over at the dust cloud rising from under a platform stationed at the wall in front of me several feet away. Sure enough, a figure walked out of the dust cloud. The first thing I noticed was, of course, was his pink hair, then the scarf, and a little blue cat with a white belly on his shoul- yep, definitely the hothead.

The pink-headed idiot looked around before shouting out, "Oi! Ice Princess! Where you at?!"

"Up here, Fang Face!" I shouted back. Hopefully, between the two of us (three including Happy), we can find out where we are.

Natsu looked up and yelled, "Hey, there you are!" He began walking forward as he continued talking. "Man, Gray, you're a pain in the ass to find, you know that? Especially in this place. Hey Happy, give me a lift up there, 'kay?"

"Aye, sir," the blue talking flying cat responded as he grabbed Natsu's tattered vest and flew up to where I was. As Natsu touched down, Happy quickly took position on Natsu's head.

"Alright, Natsu, spill it. What do you mean 'especially this place?'?" I asked. "Have you been here before or something?"

Natsu shook his head. "Not really," he admitted. "But it does seem familiar, though," he muttered. I raised an eyebrow as he continued. "Anyway, all I know is that we're in a temple seemingly built in an active volcano by a race rock men."

That's where he lost me. "W-what? AN ACTIVE VOLCANO?! YOU'RE KIDDING ME, RIGHT?! AND ROCK MEN?! LIKE MEN MADE OF ROCK?!" I quickly composed myself. "That's… that's pretty cool." Okay, I'll admit it DOES sound awesome. Who wouldn't?

Immediately, Natsu got that weird starry look in his eyes. "Yeah! I met this one rock guy and he so awesome looking," he told me eagerly. I hate to admit it, but I was actually interested in what he had to say (is it the end of the world?) "If I remember correctly, they're called…..Gorgos? Rogos? Oh, Gorons! That's it! Gorons! Well, the one I met had white spiky hair sticking out of the sides of his head like Gramp's does!"

"Really?" I couldn't help but ask. That was… wow.

Natsu nodded. "Yeah. I think his name was Daru or something like that."

"Ahem."

Both of us turned towards the sound. Crap. I forgot she was there! She was looking at us with an amused expression on her face. Natsu's eyes widened at the sight of her, as if recognized her or something, but I wasn't too sure. Besides, I was too busy trying to make my heart start up again.

"Um, boys," she said in her harp-like voice, "I think the name you're looking for is 'Darunia.'"

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Link

Link really was at a loss for words. First, Darunia tells her some guy is in the temple who he believes was sent to help her and that she had to "follow the destruction" to find him (Yeah, nice, helpful, tip, you old rock, she had thought dryly). Then, she was attacked by Lizalfo and a couple of torch slugs (annoying really). All the while freeing the Gorons she found imprisoned. She finally finds a way onto the platforms in 'The Maze Room' as she called it, and sees a black haired male sword fighting a Lizalfo, the other already dust on the wind. She had jumped in to help as he fell for a feint. She first thought this was the man Darunia told her about, but that was blown out of the water. Literally.

She had watched with fascination and awe when another man, this time with pink hair, flew up and landed by the black haired one. Her eyes widened when she saw how he got up there with them. A blue. Talking. Flying. Cat.

Must not squeeze to death, must not squeeze to death, she continue to chant in her head. She really couldn't help it. The cat was too damn cute, for Din's sake! It took all her willpower not to hug it to death.

As they began talking, she giggled quietly. The black haired one's reaction to the Fire Temple was amusing. And she couldn't fault either of them for their fascination with the Gorons. Seven years ago, she was the same way.

When the pink haired one started to talking about Darunia, she decided to speak up. "Ahem," she cleared her throat. They turned and she watched as they looked at her with wide eyes, she found it very amusing, indeed.

"Um, boys," she said, "I think the name you're looking for is 'Darunia.'"

The black haired one stuttered for a bit, but it would seem the pink haired one wasn't as flustered. "Oi! Who are you?! And how do know the rock man?!" he shouted as he fell into a fighting stance.

Link felt the urge to face palm. Ugh, she was so stupid! She forgot to introduce herself. Well, better late than never.

"Sorry, my name's Link," she told them.

The pinkette perked up a bit. "Link? Darunia said that name before. You're Link?!" he asked. Link titled her head to the side but nodded nonetheless.

Suddenly, he broke off into a grin. "Well, if you know him, then you're okay in my book! I'm Natsu." He gestured to the cat on his head. "And this is Happy."

The cat raised his paw and said, "Aye!" Link felt herself twitch. Oh, it was hard not to hug the cat.

"Yeah, sorry, 'bout earlier. Probably didn't make a good first impression, did I? I'm Gray," the black haired man said.

Link looked at the three of them and smiled. "Nice to meet the three of you," she said, bowing slightly.

"Wow! Look at her ears! They're so cool!" Happy shouted, floating over to her to inspect her ears. She twitched again, but she held strong…..until the cat landed on her head. "Are these normal or-"

"By the Goddesses, I can't take it anymore!" Link shouted, startling Natsu and Gray. She grabbed Happy and hugged him to her chest tightly. "HE'S TOO CUTE!"

"Agh! I knew my cuteness would come back to haunt me!" Happy wailed whist being crushed between her breasts.

Natsu and Gray began laughing. This was a common occurrence with Happy. Link didn't know that. She just continued to squeeze the life out of the poor little Exceed.

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