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Chapter 4: Link meets Links
Before the watchful presence made their appearance, the voice that had been guiding him called to him, "Remember… Try… Try to remember…"
Down below the other Links had heard her words, unlike the one at the top of the tower they were confused. All of the Links felt a powerful and gentle presence from within the castle. The Links that only saw the towers moved to where they could. The voice continued, "You have been asleep for the past 100 years."
There was another huge tremor: "The beast… When the beast regains its true power, this world will face its end." Darkness came up from underneath Hyrule castle creating a wild boar-like shape as it lets out a ferocious roar. Its yellow eyes were staring at the Link from the top of the tower, not caring about the others on the ground.
"Now then… You must hurry, Link. Before it's too late…," the voice parted him once again. Link, at the top of the tower, sensed multiple people on the ground floor and decided to check it out.
Link, Link's Awakening, cursed in five different languages at the top of his lungs shocking the other Links who were on the ground with him. From there all hell broke loose.
"Why do you look like me?!"
"No, why do you look like me?!"
And from there some of them had managed to spill out their entire heart spilling adventures as the others listened in on their stories. One of the Links stated, "If we're all named Link, then calling each other Link will be very confusing."
One of the four Links, Four Swords Adventure, Green stated, "Well we've already gotten our nicknames situated out. I'm Green. That's Blue, Vio, and the last one is Red."
The one named Vio asked, "Perhaps we could base the nicknames of your titles." The two Links that look exactly the same except the height put up their hands. The younger looking one claimed, "Me and Link here are one and the same just from different time periods. The Link besides me has a mind of a… You know what, I'll spare you all the details of time traveling. I'm the older one and the other is the younger and we're both the Hero of Time." To prove the old-younger looking Link the younger but older looking Link nodded his head.
"But there is one thing that he does have that I don't have yet. Masks," the younger but older looking Link pointed out the fact.
"I'm fine with being call Mask," Link, now the newly proclaimed Mask, said.
"Then I shall go with Time," the adult-look-alike proclaimed.
"My title is the Hero of the Sky," one of the Link spoke out.
"Hero of Wind."
"Hero of Twilight."
"Hero of Legends or the Hero of the Essences of Time and Nature. My last adventure, however, could probably be counted as a myth though." The others who didn't really have a specific title. The green Link, Triforce Heroes, commented, "The three of us kind of represent the Triforce in a way. I could be called Courage. Red Link can be called Power. And Blue Link's nickname will be Wisdom." The rest of the Links agreed upon those being their names. Red chirped, "You are Sky. Wind. Twilight. And boy, your second title is long, so I'm just gonna call you Myth."
Red wanted to give nicknames to the ones who haven't had specific title. He walked up to Link, Adventures of Link, and asked, "What's your title?"
Link blinked, "Um, mine is just the Hero of Hyrule."
"Well, we can't name you Hyrule because that would be too confusing. And Hyrule is a land, a country." An idea popped up in his: "Hey, Vio? Got any words for either land or country?"
"Don't you mean synonyms." Vio sighed, "Domain, field, dimension, world, territory, realm–"
"It's official! I hereby proclaim this Link's nickname be Realm," Red did a cute cat-like smile.
"Realm? I mean it is cool and all, but…," Whatever words he was going to say immediately died as he was met with abnormally huge and cute puppy eyes from Red. It was right there and then that Link had found a significant weakness within himself, puppy eyes. Green and Blue gave him sympathetic looks while Vio just shrugged. Most of the other Links were stifling a snicker as for the slightly matured ones couldn't help but smile. Red had given the others their nicknames. They were also protesting, and found out that they too had a weakness for those adorable huge puppy eyes. Link that can turn into a painting was called Paint. The one that could shrink was Tiny. The other four sword Link was called the Four. The last Link, that could see ghosts, was Spirit.
Twilight tensed up as he felt a presence watching them: "Whoever is there, come out now," His left hand was on the handle of the Master Sword, but the sword remain sheathed. Twilight and the others turned towards the tower to find another them leaning against the structure, but this one wasn't wearing a tunic not to mention the different types of weapons and one shabby looking shield. This Link's hair was up in a ponytail held up by a light blue ribbon.
Spirit sputtered, "Huh?! Wha?! When?!"
Link, who was still leaning against the tower's structure, spoke to the large group of him for the first time, "Since some mes began pouring out their heart tugging story, so about three hours." Blue was about to retort when Link held up one finger, "Hold your thought for just a few minutes. We've got a visitor." And just like Link said, the mysterious old man that he had met earlier landed safely right next to him with paraglider. The younger versions of Link, except Mask, gaped.
"My, my… It would seem that we have quite the enigma here," The old man continued on with his ranting, "This tower and others just like it, have erupted across the land, one after another. It was almost as though… a long-dormant power has awoken quite suddenly." The old man stole a glance to the multiple Links, but in a split second, brought his attention back to the Link still leaning on the tower.
"If you do not mind me asking… Did anything… odd occur while you were at the top of the tower?" the stranger asked him: "I heard a voice," Link stoically informed him. The stranger was quite surprised at his response: "Well now! A voice, you say?" He said it as more of a statement than a question. The group of Links said something as well, but Link ignored them for a bit.
"And did you happen to recognize this mysterious voice?" the senior citizen questioned. Link answered his question with silence.
"It seems that I have some work to do as far as earning your trust goes. I suppose that is understandable." The man then turned in the direction of the castle.
"I assume that you… and the others, caught sight of that atrocity enshrouding the castle." Link rolled his eyes sarcastically before turning his sights on the castle as did the other Links.
"That… is Calamity Ganon. One hundred years ago, that vile entity brought the kingdom of Hyrule to ruin. It appeared suddenly and destroyed everything in its path. So many innocent lives were lost in its wake." All the Links frowned at his story. The Link on the wall narrowed his eyes in suspicion at the mysterious man as said man continued on, "For a century, the very symbol of our kingdom, Hyrule Castle, has managed to contain that evil. But just barely."
"Barely?" Mask furrowed his eyebrows: "There it festers, building its strength for the moment it will unleash its blight upon the land once again. It would appear that moment is fast approaching…"
The cloaked stranger turned his head towards all the Links and asked, "I must ask you, courageous ones… Do you intend to make your way to the castle?" They responded with a nod causing the man to chuckle, "I had a feeling you would say that. Here, on the isolated plateau we are surrounded on all sides by steep cliffs, with no way down. If you were all to jump off, well… no death could be more certain. Or more foolish.
"Of course, if you have a paraglider like mine, that would be another story." The Link on the wall was about to demand the old man to fork over his paraglider until Time asked him what a paraglider is, to which the man laughed. He said he would be happy to hand some over to the ones that didn't have one, but not for free. The stranger then told all of them to follow him, which they did. They stopped at the top of the hill that was literally five yards from where they were. He pointed to the structure with orange glowing lights. He then begins to tell them that it might hold some sort of treasures inside which perked their interest. Without much thought, the large group of Links began to make their way towards the glowing structure.
Red tried to make conversation with the new Link, "So, your name is obviously Link isn't it? What it's your title? It's so that we don't get confused with who is who." The new addition to the group suddenly crouched down into the grass. The others were confused as to what he was doing until they suddenly saw what he was looking at. Link murmured, "One Bokoblin is on look out. Three Bokoblins dancing around the fire with a black stainless steel pot and on the other look out tower has a chest with glowing purple lights. If I had to guess, I must defeat all of them if I want the chest were to open."
Wisdom looked at him wide eyes, "How in the world can you see that far?!" Link shrugged not knowing why he could.
"I need to get in a closer range to fire arrows at the watcher," Link stealthily got closer and closer as he readied his Boko Bow and arrow, and waited as he could see its head. The others were just watch as their counterpart easily dispose the camp of Bokoblins without their help. Link carefully examined the watch tower with the chest at the top as the others walked over to him.
"You my friend are—," Myth was interrupted as Link swung his axe with precise precision where the structure's weakness was, with all of the his might causing the tower to completely collapse in on itself. None of them spoke a word as Link opened the chest containing another Traveler's Sword to which he somehow managed to put in his pouch, then he turned his attention to the crates. In the them were apples, a good handful of them too, a few acorns, a restless cricket, a handful of arrows
"Wickedly wild! You, my handsome friend, we're gonna get along just fine," Myth exclaimed happily as the other, except the nameless-nickname Link, gave him odd looks. Red lit up like a christmas tree, "That's it! Myth you're a genius!"
"Of co… Wait, how am I a genius again?" Red beamed at the nameless-nickname Link.
"From now on, you are going to be called Wild" Red did his puppy face unintentionally as Wild pat his head, without saying anything more.
"Um, guys? Has anyone seen my sword around?" Realm asked in an awkwardly manner. Wild looked at him dully: "Judging by what I have seen so far, you, Realm, will somehow misplace your sword and shield in places that you've never been to or quite far, but still close, to you but in weird places. This might also be off the mark, but if you lose things easily, you probably have a horrendous, extremely terrible, navigation abilities meaning that you don't know where you are going in a straight hallway. In other words, you get lost," Wild analized from Realm's awkward behavior.
Every single Link turned their head towards Realm. Said person's eyes were wide and mouth hung slightly. He sputter, "How did you… Wild, you got all of that just from what you've seen from me so far? But… how?"
"Your sword is at the bottom in the middle of that pond that is closer to the Bokoblin's camp, which is infested with small monsters. Although, how it got over is a whole nother question," Wild sighed not bothering to answer his question. He then pointed to Wind.
"And from what I heard from your story earlier, you are the best navigator, so go with him incase he somehow gets himself lost and ends up inside a volcano." And just like Wild said about Realm's sword, Realm somehow managed to retrieve his sword from the bottom of the pond, infested with small monsters. When the two of them got back to the group, Realm noticed something else was missing.
Wild sighed once more, "Your shield is somewhere in the rubbles of that watch tower behind me." Again, his answer was correct. For a moment, there was complete silence. It was Paint that managed to break the silence, "I don't know how you knew, without moving your eyes, but you've got to teach me how to do what you just did." Wild was already halfway there towards the strange structure.
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"Oi! Wild it's…," Tiny's word drifted off as he spotted Wild in an upright position with his back against one of the pillars, one knee up as support for his right arm as it supported his head, and his weapons and shabby looking shield were laid out beside him. An evil grin formed across Mask's face. Time glanced at his younger-but-older self.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"If you are thinking what I am thinking, then yes. Yes, I do think what you are thinking," There was a glint in Time's eyes. The two Heroes of Time told the other Links their plan, and soon enough they too, pitched in. That night was filled with screams of terror.