Whoa! I didn't realize how long ago since the last chapter (I just realize it has only been four days *cough cough*). Well, I am back with a new chapter, and honestly I think you guys will like this chapter all the way towards the very end of this chapter. And I also realize that I put Naboris instead of Nabooru in the last chapter, sorry. I will eventually find some time to fix all these grammar problems, so until then sit tight.
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Chapter 11: Capture Memories
Before they left, Pikango, a traveling Sheikah man, had stopped them and asked them about the location of the Great Fairy near the village. Pikango asked them to take a picture of the location. While searching for the Great Fairy Fountain, they picked up some Hylian shrooms and apples to save for later. Pikango could only take his senior legs so far up, and so the group went ahead to take the picture of the Great Fairy Fountain.
They found the Great Fairy's home not long after leaving Pikango behind. The poor fairy had asked them for 100 rupees in order to restore her powers. Links, being the goody-two-shoes they were, gave her the exact amount of rupees. Once her powers were restored, she offered to upgrade their armors in exchange for releasing her. After they were upgraded, she went back into her home, and then took the picture.
Prince looked around the area in amazement. He had almost wished that his world was just like this one, but then remembered that he rather not see his Hyrule in such a state. Spirit walked with him, "Wild's Hyrule is pretty isn't it?" Prince could only nod his head in wonder as he looked at the wildlife. Spirit turned around to face the others, "If things didn't happen the way it did 100 years ago, would… Oh, come on! Four! You were suppose to be watching him!" the descendant of Wind cried in frustration. The others, except Prince who looked utterly confused and Wild who just sighed, groaned.
"Eh? How did I get here?" Realm asked to no one but himself. He somehow got to the west side of Naydra Snowfield. Somewhere in the back of his mind something told him to stay put.
"I'm on it," Wild walked to where there was a little bit more space and squatted down. He tilted his head back as his eyes closed. A few seconds later, he walked over to them with an exasperated look etched on his face. Myth was about to ask him where the missing member was, but Wild gave him a glare that could instantly kill someone. Prince whispered to Mask as quietly as possible, "He is always like that when he's angry?" He looked at him weirdly.
"Wild's not angry," Prince blinked at him as if he was joking.
"But–" The older Hero of Time interrupted him, "He's just annoyed, very annoyed." He patted the new member's shoulder and followed Wild to where ever he was going. They stopped by Pikango and showed the picture to him, who was slightly disappointed. He offered to help them look for the locations depicted from the camera that the princess used 100 years ago.
"A large gate with a snowy mountain beyond it… Oh, I know that place! There is a big mountain east of this village…It's called Mount Lanayru. At the base of Mount Lanayru, on the west side of Naydra Snowfield, lies that gate, I'm almost certain," Pikango informed them of what they wanted to know. The group departed from the senior Sheikah man, and set their sights to the entrance of Mount Lanayru.
Prince looked at the group while walking, "Um… Are we going to look for Realm?" he asked.
"Oh, we are," Wild said with a strange calmness that frighten him, "He's already at the place we are going to," Prince just decided to shove all logic out the window for the sake of keeping his sanity sane, but he was pretty sure that he too, was also insane just like the rest.
After a few hours on horseback, they arrived at the designated place. Realm was found sleeping soundly on the small patches of grass, but woke up as soon as he heard trotting. Everyone scolded him for somehow leaving the confines of the Four without them noticing. Prince looked at Wild, "I never going to doubt your senses ever." Then he looked at Realm, who was scratching his head sheepishly.
"And now I can agree with the others that you are bad at directions and losing stuff." Said person sulked.
All the Links, from different time periods and universes, looked at Wild who was looking at the surrounding area. Wild then pulled out the Sheikah Slate from its straps, and glanced at the picture from 100 years ago. Then, he looked up to the scene before him. Wild squinted really hard until he felt a sudden headache coming along. All of them were suddenly caught off guard as something phenomenon transpired before their every eyes.
As the sun was setting, there were four different species waiting in front of the entrance as two figures who were begrudgingly walking towards them. The two figures were Hylians. One of them was a female wearing a white dress and the other was a male in a teal colored tunic with a sword strapped onto his back. As the two of them approached the four waiting at the entrance, the Goron spoke up knowing full well what had happen from the look on the blonde haired Hylian's face, "Well? Don't keep us in suspense. How'd everything go up there on the mountain?"
The person in question stopped walking with disappointment and failure on her face. She shook her head slowly in reply. She didn't meet their gaze, only looking at the floor. There was a mere moment of silence. The Rito spoke in a softer tone, "So you didn't feel anything? No power at all?"
The girl answered looking completely apologetic to them, "I'm sorry, no." She still couldn't look at them in the eye.
"Then let's move on," the Gerudo tried to liven the atmosphere a bit, "You've done all you could. Feeling sorry for yourself won't be of any help. After all, it's not like your last shot was up there on Mt. Lanayru." The Goron nodded his head as the Rito's silence was a confirmation of the vai Gerudo's statement.
"Anything could finally spark the power to seal Ganon away. We just have to keep looking for that…thing," the vai Gerudo said to the forlorned girl. The Zora stole a glance at Wild, from 100 years ago, who was looking at the Hylian female with worried.
"That's kind of you. Thank you," she muttered to the Gerudo, still not looking up, with a sad tone in her voice. The Zora stepped forward a bit hesitant, but nonetheless voiced what was on her mind: "If I may…," the female Zora started. The Hylian finally looked up to meet her gaze.
"I thought you… Well, I'm not sure how to put this into words… I'm actually quite embarrassed to say it. But I was thinking about what I do when I'm healing. You know, what usually goes through my mind…," She hesitated before saying, "It helps when I think—when I think about—,"
However, in that moment the ground started to shake tremendously. Link held Zelda steady in his arms during the tremors. The Rito flew up into the air to see what was happening. The same evil darkness was surround Hyrule Castle from the ground and from above. Calamity Ganon let out a frightening roar that echoed throughout Hyrule.
"It's here," the Rito told them as he touched the ground.
"This is it, then…," The Goron's expression harden into battle mode.
"Are you sure?" the Zora said not believing that all of this was happening so fast, and so soon.
The Rito answered, "Positive."
"It's awake… Ganon!" Princess Zelda exclaimed, not quite registering all of this at once. The dark clouds began to spread over the red orange sky.
The Goron turned towards the princess of Hyrule: "Let's stop wasting time! We're gonna need everything we got to take that thing down! Now Champions! To your Divine Beasts! Show that swirling swine who's boss!"
He ordered, "Link will need to meet Ganon head non when we attack! This needs to be a unified assault!" The Goron looked towards Link: "Littly guy! You get to Hyrule Castle."
Link was looking at the Goron, not realizing the Rito was giving him a jealous look, and nodded.
"You can count on us for support. But it's up to you to pound Ganon into oblivion!"
The vai Gerudo placed both her hands on the princess's shoulders, "Come. We should go. We need to get you someplace safe."
"No!" Zelda declared with unwavering determination.
"I am not a child anymore! I may not be much use on the battlefield… But there must… There must be something I can do to help!" she proclaimed wanting to be useful to her Champions.
All the Links jolted from their places when the memory suddenly came to an end.
"That was–,"
"Your/My memories!" The amnesic Link turned to the others in shock, "I can also see why all of you like Zelda." Those who weren't engaged, some do to the lack of courage as for the others it is because they are too young, blanched at his comment. Prince fellow over from a fit of laughter.
"Finally! I thought I was the only one who noticed it," he said, still laughing. Wild smirked.
"In case you forgot. Six sense."
"Right. I completely forgot about that for a minute," Prince was slowly rising to his feet, but his laugh was now a soft chuckle, as he dust off the dirt from his green tunic.
"Going back to the topic of liking Zelda," Blue glanced at Realm, "I'm pretty sure that at the end of Realm's adventure, the last cutscene, just as the curtains were closing, showed Realm and Princess Zelda ki–"
Deku nuts suddenly rained down upon Blue's head promptly cutting him off of what he was going to say.
"Where in Hyrule are these Deku nuts coming from?!" Blue rubbed his head as he glared up into the sky.
Prince blinked: "What in the name of Hylia just happen?"
"He's just breaking things," Vio informed the new member. His eyebrows furrowed a bit.
The sun was soon beginning to set. The clouds in the sky was a light orange color signifying that the cold and dark night is coming.
"Alrighty! Wild, go ahead and zap us back to Ka-," Myth's sentence was cut short as Wild had already activated the teleportation feature much to the others comfort. They were teleported to the shrine near the village, and from there they headed towards the elderly woman's house.
Upon their arrival, Paya instantly greeted them even though she whispered and stuttered it to them. The group of Links walked up to Impa, who was still seated as if they had never left the house in the first place, however, lying on her lap was a blue shirt folded neatly on her lap. The first thing Impa noticed was the aura around Wild. It was a bit more gentle than the first time they had met, yet unflinching with determination.
"We're back!" Myth singed. The others just blatantly ignored him and his antics.
"I got a piece of my memories," the native Link informed the elder Sheikah woman.
"That good," She smiled at him, "Now that you have seen some of the princess's memories, you must have started to remember certain things…" Impa held out the piece of clothing that was on her lap: "Here. I will hand this over to you now, before I forget."
Wild carefully took and unfolded the blue colored clothing to where he could see every details on the blue tunic. The Links in the room looked at the clothing. It was the very same tunic that he had worn 100 years ago.
"My… Champion Tunic," The name of the tunic came out of his mouth subconsciously.
"This is something of yours that I have been keeping safe, by request of the princess," she made a slight pause before continuing, "This clothing was specially made for you when you became a Champion. Please handle it with care."
Wild quickly went to an empty room, so he could change into the Champion's Tunic. They once again spent the night at the house, sprawled out all over the floor. Twilight turned into his wolf form making it easier for him to sleep on the floor, but his new form had nearly startled Impa's poor light-hearted granddaughter.
There was a momentary pause between the Links that is until Wisdom whispered just enough for everyone to hear, "I think all of us should tackle at least one of the four Divine Beasts tomorrow, or at least get a head start on it. While I do admit that Wild's memories are top priority along with defeating Ganon, and rescuing Princess Zelda."
"It would seem that the four Divine Beasts: Vah Rudania, Vah Medoh, Vah Ruta, and Vah Naboris are essentially critical in the defeat of Calamity Ganon," Vio added the crucial information.
"I never thought that Darunia, Rito, and Nabooru would actually have somewhat of a legacy even after death," Time chuckled. Mask snorted, "And last time I checked you are still engaged to Princess Ruto of the Zora."
"We were never engaged!"
"Ruto says otherwise."
"Speaking of the Zoras. Did you guys know that the Ritos are actually descendants of the Zoras? It's true. Medli is a Rito, and a direct descendant of Zora sage that guards the Earth Temple," Wind's sudden information left them all speechless.
"...What," Blue answered what was on everybody's mind
Wild snapped out of his stupor, "So, you mean to tell us that the Rito, birds that can fly in the sky and talk, are actually relatives of the Zora, man-fish people that live in bodies of water… Actually, now that I think about it, it does make sense. I mean, the name of the Ritos could be in honor of the deceased Princess Ruto from long, long ago. And the lifespan of a Zora is significantly much longer than an average Hylian and Gerudo. So it is possible to say that at some point in time, a small group of Zoras split up from the rest of their species, and over time they lost their fins which had evolved into feathers for flight."
"In other words, they are the only subspecies that fallen under the Zora in theory. The Gerudos could also theoretically fall under the subspecies of Hylians unless it is proven otherwise," Vio stated his theory
"Is anyone understanding what they are saying? Cuz the four of us, for sure, don't," the Four emphasized.
"CAN WE ALL JUST GET SOME SLEEP?!" They couldn't understand Twilight, but they were smart enough that he was clearly annoyed and wanted to sleep when he gave a low humming growl, which was enough for them to shut up. There was a slight pause in the air until Wild spoke in a very soft tone, "We shall head for the nearest dot on the Sheikah Slate."
The Golden Goddesses watched as the Chosen Heroes slept like a bunch of logs. Nayru let out a sigh, "I should probably go and check on my chosen aspect," she said as she walked out of the room. It was now just Din and Farore who were left in the room.
"You know, why don't we recruit Him along with the others?" Din asked the Goddess right next to her.
"Why don't you take that up to Nayru?" Farore replied in a mock tone. It was in that moment, Nayru came back into the room. Din asked her the same question.
Nayru gave her a harsh glare: "He's already been through so much. Must we bring him back through the ringer once more?"
Din paused before giving her sister her answer, "You're right. You are absolutely right."
"You know, I would appreciate if you guys don't talk about me since I am right here."
"Yes, I appreciate that the two of you-ahhh!" The Goddess of Courage gave a bloodcurdling scream, "Don't do that!"
"Do what?" The mysterious man blinked at her.
The man appeared to be in his mid twenties. He had bleach blonde, almost white, shaggy hair, his eyes were a pale blue color, he wore a familiar green tunic and hat, underneath the tunic was a chainmail and a white collared shirt. Upon his left shoulder was a golden shoulder armor pad. And a pair of gauntlets and wood brown fingerless gloves His features and clothing were very strikingly similar to the Links throughout time, however, the only difference between them and him was that he wore a red cape. His lips were pressed into a very line, one that expressed that he was clearly annoyed.
Din went to help Farore up on her feet as Nayru strike up a conversation with the man, "H-how?" The tone of her voice was clearly surprise.
"If you are wondering how I got here, I walked. As to how I have a body? That would require me to break the Fourth Wall, which I am not very keen on doing," he stated to the blue haired Goddess.
"Now, what was it about recruiting me?" The Goddesses were a bit hesitant, but nonetheless began to tell the man all that had occurred while he was in the afterlife all in somewhat or under seven hours.
He gave the three Goddesses a concerning light chuckle, "To think the very enigma of evil would be reincarnated and curse my legacy to a never ending battle," His lips formed into a grim smile: "I shall fight along side my legacy to put an end to what I started many millenias ago," he boldly proclaimed to the three Goddesses.
Din let out a heartfelt laugh, "The man who is faithfully loyal to our elder sister Goddess Hylia to the ends of the earth, the man who was incorrectly accused for treason amongst his own race, yet never once betrayed his people, the hero who commanded what little army of humans against the hordes of demons, the hero who slew thousands upon thousands of demons, and the hero who challenged the Demon King Demise himself. You truly are worthy of being Hylia's Chosen Hero, Link. Not once you have changed. Not once," the Goddess of Power smiled.
Nayru sighed knowing whatever reasons she threw at him, he would never listen, "Alright then, I, Nayru, one of the three Goddesses of Creation give you, Link, permission to join your descendants in battle and rescue Goddess Hylia's reincarnation from the very same evil that threatens the land of Hyrule once more."
Farore stepped towards Link with the Master Sword in her hands and a trinket that was very much similar to the ones they crafted for his descendants: "Tis time for you to take up the Blade of Evil's Bane once more. Wear this around your neck. When you are in need of a steed or a ride, this will allow you to call upon your ride."
Link took the sword and piece of jewelry from her hands and sheathed it upon his back. As for the jewelry, around his neck. The three Goddesses formed a triangle around him and begin reciting a spell to take him to the specific time period of Hyrule. In a white blinding flash of light he was gone.
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"Master," the sword spoke to him and he smiled.
"It has been a long time, Fi," he greeted the spirit of the sword, who was still residing in the sword.