Chapter 2: Searching For Heroes
"Hey you, wake up Sleeping Ugly!" barked Urien's voice.
Ganondorf, King of Evil, stirred as he heard Urien yelling at him. He slowly rose to his feet as the world materialized before him in a blurry haze and shook his head in an effort to stimulate regaining his composure.
"I'm not really glad to see you're awake, but I suppose it's better that your corpse doesn't stain the grounds," remarked Urien.
"Silence your tongue fool! And tell me, where am I?" asked Ganondorf.
"How would I know, we got misplaced after our worlds fused thanks you and my brother," answered Urien.
"Your brother is quite powerful, he must strike fear into the hearts of the people in your world," commented Ganondorf.
"No, he'd rather be a benevolent ruler, in fact he's aiming to create a utopia for these pitiful life forms that walk our world, I find it to be absolute rubbish," replied Urien.
"Heh, well, thanks for that information, now leave my sight, I have a newly fused world to conquer!" ordered Ganondorf.
"Why should I go anywhere, I want to conquer this world as well!" retorted Urien.
"Then why haven't you usurped your brother yet?" inquired Ganondorf.
"Because I don't have his powers, so I still have yet to find a method to get him out of my way," answered Urien.
"You envy your brother's power? If that's the case, that's a power I'd like to have for myself, I shall strip your brother of his powers and use them myself to bring this new world to its knees!" announced Ganondorf in a booming tone.
"No way! No one will destroy Gill but me!" objected Urien.
"Very well, I see we have a common goal, why no work together to take over this world, we would make an unstoppable combination," suggested Ganondorf.
"I don't normally like partners, but you seem like a guy I could actually like, so okay, we'll rule this world together partner!" responded Urien.
"We shall not allow you to touch Gill!" spoke an omnipotent voice from out of nowhere as a circle of golden light formed in sky and all of a sudden, a gold colored spherical barrier barricaded the area where Gill's Illuminati base was.
"Curses, the sages of my world just had to interfere! Surely there must be a way to dispel that barrier," mused Ganondorf.
"The Secret Texts of the Illuminati, if we could find those texts that my ancestors have hid away, we could gain enough power to break that barrier, get to my brother, take his powers, and accomplish our goal!" informed Urien.
"Then why are we lollygagging about, we're going to find these secret texts you speak of, nothings going to stand in my way of world domination!" roared Ganondorf as he looked at the Triforce of Power pulsating in his hand.
"Then off we go, soon Gill's powers and the wolrd will be ours!" boasted Urien as him and Ganondorf walked off into the horizon to look for clues as to where the Secret Texts of the Illuminati were hiding in the fused world. Meanwhile, back on the Illuminati base, Gill was wondering what the strange barrier around base was.
"Can someone explain to me why this weird golden sphere is encircling my base?" asked Gill.
"Gill, your borother has teamed with an evil man from another world. He wields the power of those world's gods. Working together, those two aim to take your godly powers from you and use them to conquer this world for sinister purposes," answered the booming omnipotent voice again.
"And who might you be?" inquired Gill.
"We are the Sages of Hyrule, we placed this barrier around your base to keep Ganondorf and Urien from raching you, everything should be all right for now, but you must remain prepared to fight if we need you to," spoke the voice again.
"Very well, I shall be ready for whatever may come this way," commented Gill as he walked into his base to rally his soldiers. Elsewhere, Link had just woken upto see Zelda and Epona standing over him, as he sat up, he looked arond at his surroundings and then turned to Zelda.
"Where are we Zelda, this sure doesn't look like Hyrule to me," wondered Link.
"I think we're in a location that's part of the other world that Hyrule fused with, but I see no sign of Ganondorf and I fear he may be up to no good," commented Zelda.
"We must reamin on guard, for we do not know if he's hiding and waiting to ambush us," stated Link.
As Link and Zelda mounted Epona and began to ride, a car came zooming from out of nowhere and nearly collided with Epona, the car swerved at the last second as the driver slammed on his brakes and rolled down his window to yell at Link and Zelda.
"You're on the wrong side of the road you idiot!" screamed the driver.
"Wow this world is full of oddities," gasped Zelda.
"I know, they dress odd, there's so many buildings all over the place, people operate giant hunks of metal on wheels, how could anyone live in a world so hectic," remarked Link.
As Link and Zelda continued to examine their surroundings while riding Epona, everything suddenly froze leaving the duo to wonder what was happening now.
"Strange, everything just stopped, is this a normal occurrence in this world?" inquired Link.
"No it is not, but however, I have asked the sages to freeze time so I can speak to you without alarming these folk," spoke an elderly sounding voice.
"Who are you?" questioned Zelda.
Immediately after Zelda finished speaking, a spectral form of an old man appeared, he was baldheaded and wrinkled with a thick white beard and clothed in green robes. His coal black eyes gazed firmly at Link, Zelda, and Epona.
"My name is Sahasrala, I'm a wise old man who lived in Hyrule many ages ago, the sages have sent my spirit to give you some answers and help guide you along on your quest," spoke the old spirit.
"Quest, we're supposed to go on a quest?" asked Zelda.
"Yes, for you see, Ganondorf has set his sights on taking over Tokeau and he's got someone helping him on his mission to do so," answered Sahasrala.
"Tokeau, what is that?" inquired Link.
"The name the sages have given the fused world, Ganondorf has teamed with a sinister demi-god named Urien, their goal is to find secret texts that an organization called the Illuminati had written, with those, they wll grow more powerful, steal the powers from the leader of the Illuminati, Gill, and use his powers to conquer this world, it's up to you to stop this from happening," informed Sahasrala.
"What about splitting the worlds back into two?" asked Link.
"The worlds will only become seperated once Ganondorf is defeated. But with Urien assisting him now, he's a lot more dangerous, you will also need some help this time around. There are four chosen ones from Earth you must find to help you save Tokeau.
"Four of them, who are they so that way when we find them, we know," stated Link.
Images of four different people materialized in front of Link and Zelda's eyes. Sahasrala illuminated one of the images and pointed at it. The image was of a muscular man with long blonde hair, he wore a read band around his head, green pants, and brown boots.
"This man is the youngest of the four heroes you must find, he's a very strong ally who Gill sees a lot of potential in, he is known as Alex, the Young Blood," informed Sahasrala as he then illuminated the next image. It was a Chinese woman with a thick figure. Her brown hair was done up in two buns, and she was clad in a blue martial arts dress with spiked bracelets and white boots.
"This former officer of the law brought down a powerful criminal organization with her mighty legs. She is Chun-Li, the Kicking Beauty," said Sahasrala. After Link and Zelda acknowledged who she was, the next image illuminated, a man of about average height with a finely toned physique. He had blonde hair that draped to his neck, and was clothed in a bright red martial arts uniform complete with a black belt and brown gloves.
"This man is a strong martial artists who has won many titles and is quite well known for his deadly fist of fire. he is known as Ken Masters, the Flaming Dragon," informed Sahasrala. Again, Link and Zelda nodded to affirm they heard Sahasrala's explanation as he illuminated the fourth and final image. A man similar in build to the previous one, he had short black hair tied up in a red headband and was clothed in a white martial arts gi complete with his black belt and brown gloves.
"This man travels around the world looking for strong warriors to challenge, fighting consumes practically his entire life. His name is Ryu, the Eternal Challenger," stated Sahasrala.
"So these are the four we must find to help us combat Ganondorf and Urien, where do we find them?" asked Zelda.
"I can feel the prescence of one of them nearby. Once I find the other three, I will transport you to their location, you must move quickly, for time is of the essence if we are to keep Tokeau safe from Ganondorf and Urien's tyranny," commented Sahasrala.
"You got it, we'll get right on finding these four and hopefully we'll reach them before the villains do," commented Link.
"May the gods be on your side," said Sahasrala as his spirit faded away. Right as the old man's spirit disappeared from sight, time unfroze and Link and Zelda continued their ride on Epona looking around for any tell tale signs as to where the four warriors they needed to find were. At that moment, off in the distance, Link and Zelda saw a horde of Bulblins riding on wild boars towards a nearby park, the Bulblins were schreching and yelling wildly as they rode by causing many bystanders to freak out.
"What are those things?"
"What's going on here?"
"Man this world is getting stranger by the minute,"
"I wonder why those Bulblins are in such a rush to go to that park, I know it's not for recreational purposes, we should investigate this," suggested Link.
"Indeed we should, it could lead us in a direction we want to go," added Zelda.
"Follow those Bulblins Epona!" ordered Link to his horse who immediately began following the path the Bulblins had taken. In that park, which happened to be New York's Central park. Alex was busy working out by taking a jog through the park. As he ran through the park, he could feel the sweat running down his forehead making him glisten in the sun. After doing a few laps around the park, Alex sat down on a nearby park bench, took out a bottle of water and took a swig of it. The buff blonde fighter let out a sigh of relief after swallowing the liquid, as he reclined on the bench, he watched the pigeons fighting over crumbs of food lying on the pavement and little kids playing with balls and frisbees in the grassy regions.
"So much out there in the world, I must keep myself in shape, after that strange earthquake that merged our world with some other world, who knows what may happen," mumbled Alex to himself as he stared off into the sky. From out of nowhere, a loud shriek echoed through the air and Alex sprang to his feet upon heraing the shriek. Shortly afterwards, the grunts of a wild boar became audible as Alex looked over to his left and saw the Bulblins stampeding about on their wild boars firing arrows at the people at the park. Alex glared at the Bulblins angrily as one of them let out a scratchy sounding laugh.
"Hey, I don't know what the hell you're up to, but I'm not letting you hurt any innocent people here!" shouted Alex to the Bulblins.
The Bulblins whirled around and narrowed their beady red eyes at Alex before letting out a shrill battle cry and prompting the boar to charge directly at Alex. Thinking instinctively Alex picked up some dirt off the ground and chucked it into the charging boar's eyes blinding the tusked animal and sending him thrashing about wildly. The Bulblins riding that boar flew off his back and landed on the ground hard as the boar crashed into a tree knocking itself unconscious. The Bulblins quickly scrambled to their feet and ran towards Alex with clubs in hand.
"You can't win this fight!" exclaimed Alex as he took a battle stance against the army of Bulblins. One of the Bulblins swung his club at the muscular blonde fighter, but Alex deftly dodged the blow and grabbed the Bulblin and hit him with a suplex. The other Bulblin tried to nail Alex as well, but Alex just swatted the club away and hit the Bulblin in the stomach with his knee and chained the kick into his Flash Chop attack seding the Bulbin flying onto the ground unconscious.
"How pathetic of all of you," commented Alex. Just then, an arrow whizzed by barely missing Alex, as another group of Bulblins ran forward shooting arrows, Alex ducked behind a tree as he tried to plan out a way to attack the Bulblins witout getting shot by the arrows.
"Damn it, how am I gonna get through all these arrows?" thought Alex to himself. From out of nowhere, the whinny of a horse became audible as Link and Zelda came charging into the park on Epona, the Bulblins stopped firing arrows as they looking at Epona charge towards them. Link unsheathed his sword and leapt off of Epona and came down slicing one of the Bulblins, sending the horned green skinned monster to the floor. Alex ran back into the fray standing side by side with Link.
"Hey, thanks for the save man," said Alex.
"You can thank me later, we must stop these Bulblins from rampaging," replied Link.
"I agree wholeheartedly," remarked Alex.
An angry Bulblin tried to jump at Link from behind and smack him with his club, but Alex saw the Bulblin leap in the air and jumped up intercepting the monster by smacking him with his knee and knocking him to the ground driving his knee into the Bulblin causing it tremendous amounts of pain. Another group of Bulblins came charging on a boar towards Link and Alex, but Zelda who still on Epona sent forth a small fiery ball of energy towards the Bulblins and made it explode just shy of the boar. the explosion however startled the boar causing him to throw the Bulblin horde off his back. All the Bulblins quickly got up however and drew their bows, Link raised his shield and turned to Alex.
"Follow my lead!" called out Link.
Alex nodded in agreement as he ran behind Link who charged the Bulbins deflecting all their arrows with his sturdy Hylian Shield. Link then leapt in the air causing the Bulblins to aim upward. Unbeknownst to the monsters, Alex charged up to them and decked all the Bulblins with his powerful Slash Elbow technique, flooring them. Link descended on a Bulblin driving his Master Sword through the monster who promptly disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Link allow me to assist you," said Zelda as she fired off another Din's Fire, singing some of the Bulblins. One by one, each Bulblin began to fall under the power of Alex's strength, Zelda's magic, and Link's mighty sword. Working together, Link, Zelda, and Alex were able to defeat the Bulblin militia to the point where the ones that weren't destroyed retreated out of fear for their lives.
"Damn, things are getting way too strange in this world for me," grumbled Alex.
"That's to be expected when your world and our world have fused together," commented Zelda.
"So you're from that other world, that explains the attire," remarked Alex.
"I am Link, the hero of Hyrule, this the princess of that land, Zelda, we have been sent to find you Alex," informed Link.
"How on Earth did you know my name?" inquired Alex.
"Actually, the fused world has been named Tokeau young Alex," boomed Sahasrala's voice as once again, time froze for everyone but Link, Zelda, Epona, and Alex.
"Tokeau, can someone explain what is going on?" asked Alex.
"Alex, as you know, your world fused with Link and Zelda's world, an evil man named Ganondorf has teamed with someone you're familiar with, Urien." commented Sahasrala.
"So Gill's brother has teamed with a guy named Ganondorf, okay, and how is that bad?" asked Alex.
"The two are looking for ancient texts that will allow them to strip Gill of his powers, transfer them into those two and they aim to take over this fused world with the use of Gill's powers. You are one of the four chosen ones to aid Link and Zelda in protecting Tokeau from the vile clutches of those two diabolical men," answered Sahasrala.
"First Gill says he sees something special in me, now you tell me I was chosen to be a hero to this new world, I must really be special," remarked Alex.
"You are correct, I know this might be a heavy load to swallow, but you must accept the task handed to you Young Blood. Your power is neccessary for success in our mission," informed Sahasrala.
"All right, I suppose we should track down the other three that are gonna be helping us then," suggested Alex.
"Right, about that, have you found out where Chun-Li, Ken, or Ryu is located in this world?" asked Zelda.
"Those three are the other chosen ones, wow talk about a shocker, but I welcome them," stated Alex.
"I have found the location of Chun-Li, she is in a land called China, I shall send you there with the power of the sages," answered Sahasrala.
"Okay, let's get to her before Ganondorf and Urien's minions do, we need to make sure none of the other chosen ones are taken from us," commented Link.
"Good luck and my the gods be with you all," stated Sahasrala as a blue light surrounded Link, Zelda, Epona, and Alex and the three soon vanished in the blue light. Time unfroze for everyone as the heroes disappeared in a streak of blue light headed towards China to locate Chun-Li.
Author's Note: Sorry for the long wait, work and school have really been eating up all my time, that and I've been sidetracked by Super Smash Bros. Brawl as of late as well, but it's an awesome game so can you blame me. Just to let you know, the name I gave the fused world, Tokeau, is a Japanese word meaning fuse or blend. Well Alex has joined Link's group and so next chapter, they're off to find Chun-Li, then Ken, and Ryu will be last. I'll try to update a lot sooner this time. Anyways until then, please read and review! Go home and be a family man!