InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Green-clothed Warrior ❯ Link's Origins and the Master Sword's Unfathomable Power ( Chapter 8 )

The Green-clothed Warrior

An InuYasha/Legend of Zelda Crossover Fanfiction

By: Patriot1776

Chapter Seven: Link's Origins and the Master Sword's Unfathomable Power

Both of them stared up at Ganondorf in disbelief. Link was in total shock, Kagome was wide eyed, surprised. Ganondorf grinned, then raised an arm toward his head…and took off his face! A scary looking skull was left where his head had been. Link's face turned from one of shock to one of narrow eyed intensity.

"A trick. Should've figured that." Link said unemotionally. Kagome's face now turned to shock. The horse and figure rose up off the ground, and magically rode into one of the pictures! "Kagome, stay back, and keep your bow ready if he tries to attack you. I'll handle this."

Link was now scanning each of the pictures, trying to decide which one this `Phantom Ganon' would ride out of. He saw a glimpse of what looked like this enemy in one of them, and readied the Master Sword. However, just when it looked like it was about to jump out, the figure turned around and ran the other way! `What the-' Link thought, but he never finished the thought. The next instant a bolt of energy hit him in the back! The real Phantom Ganon had come out of the picture behind him and threw down a ball of energy as he rode overhead, and into another picture. Link dropped to his knees in extreme pain.

"Link!" Kagome shouted, and tried to shoot Phantom Ganon as he entered another picture. Her shot wasn`t even close.

"Crap!" Link muttered as he gritted his teeth and got back up, shaking off the pain he had felt. He started scanning again. He saw what looked like Phantom Ganon again, but ignored it, and this time looked for another picture like it. He found it, and readied. This time he got it right, and the real Phantom Ganon rode out. He tried to slash at Phantom Ganon and his horse, but he was too high up, and Link couldn't reach him. Link jumped sideways and avoided the new ball of energy Phantom Ganon threw down. He now knew which one was the real Phantom Ganon, and which one was the illusion.

"Kagome, start scanning the pictures, and be ready to shoot this enemy when he starts to exit a picture! Ignore a picture that has a shadowy looking version of him in it, and go for the one that has him brightly standing out! Use your magical arrows!" Link shouted to her.

"Got it!" she shouted back. She then moved to where Link was, in the center of the arena, and started watching the pictures closely. She found the right picture, and readied, charging up her enchanted arrow. Just as Phantom Ganon started to come out, she let fly. The arrow landed, and the enemy screamed in pain before turning around in the picture and riding back. She repeated this two more times. The third time, Phantom Ganon was thrown off of his horse, and didn't return to a picture. Instead, he started floating around the room.

"Alright Kagome, I'll take it from here." Link said. Kagome then stepped back. Link and Phantom Ganon eyed each other for moment, then Phantom Ganon charged up another ball and threw it at Link! Link was ready however, and, like he had done when InuYasha had tried to hit him with the Wind Scar, he used the Master Sword to reflect the ball of energy back at Phantom Ganon. Phantom Ganon however, reflected it back too, and a dangerous game of tennis developed between them, both of them reflecting the same ball of energy back and forth, the ball of energy picking up speed with each reflection! Moments later, Phantom Ganon mistimed his attempt to reflect it back, and got hit with his own attack. He dropped to the ground, stunned. Link then ran up and slashed and hacked away at him skillfully. Phantom Ganon soon recovered though, and got back up. He threw another ball at Link, and the two then resumed their deadly tennis match. This time, Link mistimed once and got hit! Kagome screamed in fear at the sight, but was relieved when Link got back up. He was looking hurt, but not badly, and he sure wasn't acting like it. The Phantom Ganon again threw another ball, and Link reflected it back hard, swinging the Master Sword with everything he had, and this time Phantom Ganon was stunned again. Link ran up and, gritting his teeth, brought the Master Sword down in a mighty downslash that finished him off. Kagome then ran up to Link.

"You OK?" She asked him.

"I'll be sore for awhile, but I'll manage." He then sheathed the Master Sword and his shield. Just then they heard an evil voice that seemed to emanate from the air in the room.

"Not bad, you two." It echoed throughout the room. "It looks like you are gaining some skill. But you have defeated only my Phantom. When you fight the real me, it won't be so easy. That is, if you can even make it to me! Hahahaha!" The voice paused, then continued. "That ghost was nothing but a waste of time! I shall banish it to the gab between dimensions!" The dead Phantom Ganon then disappeared.

"Link, what was that voice?" Kagome then asked, a little fearful.

"That was Ganondorf himself, trying to psyche us out. It won`t work however." he replied. In the meantime, a bright circle of light had formed in the center of the room, big enough for both Link and Kagome to stand in. They both walked over and stepped into it, and vanished.

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When Kagome opened her eyes after closing them to shield them from the bright light, she immediately saw that her and Link were not in the Forest Temple anymore. They were instead now it seemed in a large, dark, blue room, with columns of light in different places. Her and Link were standing on a large, hexagonal platform with a Triforce crest on it. Along the perimeter of the platform were six pedestals, each one a different color and with a strange emblem on it. A green-haired Kokiri girl was standing on the green colored pedestal.

"Link where are we?" Kagome asked.

"You are in the Chamber of Sages, inside the Temple of Light in the Sacred Realm." the green-haired girl said.

"Saria! Where were you? We couldn't find you in the Temple!" Link said to her.

"I was trying to get here when that Phantom Ganon monster stopped me and trapped me. Thanks to you and this girl you have with you, I was able to finally awaken as the Sage of the Forest. Thank you. What is your name?" the girl, Saria, then asked Kagome.

"I am Kagome, and I guess one of the so-called `helpers' that are helping Link to defeat Ganondorf." Kagome replied.

"Well, the prophecy it seems came true, about the gods sending help. Are you the only one?" Saria then asked.

"No, she isn't. There's four others who are with her. They're waiting for us at the entrance to the Forest Temple. Saria, why have only I grown up? You and the others are still kids!" Link then asked her.

"I know it may be hard for you to accept at the moment, but it is destiny that you and I cannot live in the same world. I've already accepted it. Go see the Great Deku Tree Sprout, in the Deku Tree's Meadow, to find your answers. He'll explain everything. Now Link, I must give this to you." Saria replied, then raising her arms up. Out of the blackness above, a green medallion floated down. "This is the Forest Medallion, and contains my powers. I must remain here to help you seal Ganondorf here when the other Sages are awakened, but you can still use my song to talk to me." Link then took the Forest Medallion, and then he and Kagome vanished.

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InuYasha and Shippo were arguing over why Kagome had to go with Link into the Temple and not him.

"He defeated you in that fight! That's why she had to go in there with him. He's obviously more powerful than you are!" Shippo said to InuYasha. That was the last straw for InuYasha. He growled meanly and grabbed Shippo by the tail. He was preparing to turn Shippo into a punching bag when a bright column of light appeared at the center of the hexagonal platform, and Link and Kagome descended from the sky and gently landed on it!! Sango and Miroku were shocked out their wits at that sight.

"SIT, boy!!" Kagome shouted, when she saw what InuYasha was about to do. InuYasha lost his grip on Shippo, and the kitsune jumped out of the way just in time when InuYasha slammed to the ground. He growled as Kagome and Link walked up to him. "Now, would you mind telling me what brought that on?" Kagome sternly asked InuYasha as he started to get up.

"They started arguing about why you had to go in there with Link, and not him." Miroku answered.

"She was needed in there. Her bow came in handy when we fought the monster inside." Link said. He then recounted their experiences in the Temple and in the Chamber of Sages. When he finished, InuYasha looked at the blue hilt of the Master Sword sticking out of its sheath on Link's back, a slight grin on his face.

"You weren't kidding then when you said that thing could reflect any kind of magical attack. That is a powerful sword." InuYasha then said, referring to Link`s fight with Phantom Ganon.

"That's right, but the blasts that Phantom Ganon were sending at me were nothing compared to that attack you tried on me. What was it called again?" Link asked.

"The Wind Scar. It can slay up to 100 monsters at once, if that many got grouped together tight enough." InuYasha replied. Link let out a low whistle at that.

"Well, I don't have any doubts now about the Master Sword's ability to reflect magic. Ganondorf may not have an attack that powerful, but he just might, and it's good to know now that the Master Sword can reflect an attack as strong as the Wind Scar." he then said.

"Link, Saria was one of these `Sages'?" Miroku then asked.

"Yes, she was. When all of them are awakened, they will seal Ganondorf in the Sacred Realm after I've weakened him using the Master Sword." Link replied.

"Where we off to next?" Kagome then asked.

"Well, to get the next medallion, I think we now have to go up Death Mountain itself." Link replied. They all then heard a thump as Shippo hit the ground after fainting. An uneasy look came to the faces of InuYasha and the others.

"I knew we were going to have to go up that damn mountain at some point, I just knew it! Great, just great!" InuYasha said, and started to pace around.

"Hold on, hold on. Not just yet. There's some things I want to do first." Link then reassured them.

"Like what?" Sango then asked.

"First I want to get some answers as to why only I have grown up while the rest of the Kokiri haven't." Link said, making his way back to the Forest Meadow maze. The others followed him, InuYasha carrying the still unconscious Shippo by the tail. When they were out of the Lost Woods and back in Kokiri Forest, Link led the way to a large meadow where a massively giant, yet dead tree sat. The tree seemed to have a face.

"What the heck is that thing?" Sango asked.

"The Great Deku Tree. I went inside of it seven years ago to try and save it by destroying a monster inside. I did destroy the monster, but I was still too late, and it still died. I'm not sad though, because it told me before it died that it was doomed before I even entered, and wanted me to kill the monster just to test my skills and courage. It gave me the first of the three Spiritual Stones." Link said. He then walked up to the base of it, where a small stubby sprout was sticking up out of the ground. As he approached it, a small, young, fat looking tree suddenly sprung up out of the ground where the sprout was! Link jumped back for a moment. "Are you the Deku Tree Sprout?" Link then asked it.

"Yes, Hero of Time. Thanks to you, Saria, and Kagome, I can now grow since the evil has been removed from the Forest Temple. Did you come to ask me why only you have grown up, and not rest of the Kokiri?" the Sprout replied.

"Yes, and how do you know?" Link asked, surprised. The others, except for InuYasha, watched curiously. InuYasha instead laid down on the ground and looked up at the sky, bored and a little irritated. The Deku Tree Sprout then spoke:

"I have the same knowledge as the original Deku Tree. Anyway, you may have already guessed this, but you are not a Kokiri. You are actually a Hylian! The Kokiri never grow up!" It paused for moment to let that sink in to them. Link wasn't surprised that much, but the others were, including InuYasha.

"If I'm a Hylian, then how did I wind up growing up here in this forest?" Link then asked. The Deku Tree Sprout smiled, then answered.

"I'm happy to finally be able to reveal this secret to you, now that you are old enough to understand it. Before the King of Hyrule unified this land, there was a fierce war in it. To escape from the fires of the war, a young Hylian mother entered this forbidden forest with her baby boy. The mother was gravely injured and would die soon, so she had no choice but to try and entrust the child to The Great Deku Tree, the guardian spirit of the forest. The Deku Tree accepted the child because it sensed the child to be a child of destiny, whose fate would have a monumental impact on the world. After the mother passed away, the child was raised as a Kokiri, and now finally the day of destiny has come." It finished.

"So I am that child?" Link then asked.

"Yes, you are. You now of course know what you must do. Are these who are with you the ones who were prophesied would be sent by the gods to aid in bringing about Ganondorf's downfall?" The sprout then asked.

"Yes, we apparently are." Miroku then said, stepping up. He then introduced himself and the others to the sprout.

"Indeed then, Ganondorf is extremely powerful for the gods to have sent help in this form. All of you must not fail to awaken the other Sages, for only when all of them have been awakened will Ganondorf's defeat become possible. Go now, for I have now told you all that I can."

"Thank you very, very much for answering my questions. I have no doubts about myself or what I need to do now." Link said back at it as they began to leave. They started for the log-tunnel leading back to Hyrule Field. They went through it, and were back in Hyrule Field. Link got back on Epona, Kagome her bike, and Kiara made herself huge so Sango, Miroku and Shippo could get on her.

"We headed to Death Mountain now?" Miroku asked down at Link.

"No, not yet. I want to pay a visit to the Temple of Time, located in the ruins, and have another talk with Sheik, the one who met us outside of the Forest Temple." Link replied.

"What for?" Kagome asked.

"I want to see if he has anything else to tell me about the Sages." They then set off again for the ruins of Hyrule Castle Town, where they had first met Link.

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When they entered the ruins of Hyrule Castle Town, they again saw the zombies roaming. InuYasha unsheathed the Tetsusaiga.

"Go ahead and kill them if you want, just make sure you don't let them look directly at you, or you'll be paralyzed like you were before." Link advised him.

"Thanks for the heads up, like I didn`t know that already." InuYasha said bluntly, before he jumped high into the air and started using the ruined buildings to easily get the jump on the zombies. They were hardly any trouble at all as they were still pitifully slow, and InuYasha felled them with a single swing of the Tetsusaiga for each of them. The zombies were being completely disintegrated by the Tetsusaiga. When InuYasha had finished with the zombies, they walked up to the cathedral-like building, the Temple of Time, and entered.

The inside of the Temple of Time was unlike anything InuYasha and the others had ever seen. White stone graced every corner of the Temple. The inside of the Temple looked like a traditional gothic, Catholic cathedral. In the middle of the room they were in, there was another large hexagonal platform like the one they saw in front of the Forest Temple. At the far end of it stood an altar with three glowing stones sitting upon it. One stone was green, the next one red, and the last one was blue. Behind the altar stood an open doorway leading down a long hall to a deeper inner chamber. Above the doorway, embedded in the wall was another crest of the Triforce, this one glowing with an ominous looking yellow aura.

Immediately upon entering the temple and seeing the altar and doorway, Miroku dropped to his knees and started praying.

"What are you doing?" InuYasha then asked him.

"This is a very sacred place. I'm paying my respects." he replied. He finished praying, and got back up. Sango meanwhile had walked up to the altar and started looking at the stones.

"Hey Link, are these stones those Spiritual Stones you talked about?" she asked.

"Yes, and the doorway behind the altar was sealed by the Door of Time until I used the Stones and the Ocarina to open it." he replied. InuYasha meanwhile had been looking around casually, not paying much heed to the stones. He hadn't minded coming here because deep down he was a little uneasy about going up Death Mountain, but wasn't showing it. Shippo was glad to be here too, as he did not want to go up Death Mountain at all, and wished that he could stay here. Kagome and Sango were both looking around in awe. For Kagome, there weren't any buildings in Tokyo that looked like this, and she was taking in all that she could see with wonder. For Sango, she didn't know it was possible to build buildings like this.

"So, this Temple guards the entrance to the Sacred Realm?" Kagome then said.

"It did, before I pulled the Master Sword. It will again after Ganondorf has been defeated. Come, we must proceed on to the inner chamber." Link said, and started through the stone doorway and down the hall to the inner chamber. The others followed, except Miroku until after he said another prayer.

The inner chamber was a massive, octagonally shaped room with a very, very high arched ceiling. A single window stood high up in the farthest wall, allowing light to shine down onto what Kagome saw was a platform almost exactly like the one her and Link had stood on in the Chamber of Sages. This one was different however, in that where the other pedestals had been on the one in the Chamber, there were only carvings in this one. In the center of the Triforce crest of this one too was a small, rectangular pedestal. Sheik was standing beside this pedestal when they entered.

"Welcome to the Temple of Time." Sheik said to InuYasha and his friends. "Link, I can see that you and Kagome were successful in breaking the curse on the Forest Temple and awakening the Forest Sage. But in order to defeat Ganondorf, Link, you must become ever more powerful. Not only will you have to travel over mountains, and under water, you will have to travel even through time itself!" Link, and everybody else's eyes bugged out at those words from Sheik.

"How am going to do that?" Link asked him, flabbergasted.

"That is simple. Simply place the Master Sword back into the Pedestal of Time." Sheik replied, pointing at the small pedestal. "By doing this, you and you alone will travel back in time seven years to your home time. The others cannot follow you." The others, especially Miroku, were very skeptical of this. Sheik spoke again. "Link, the time will come will you will need to return here quickly, so I teach you this song for when that time comes. This is the Prelude of Light, and will transport only you back here, since the others cannot follow you back into the past." Sheik then got out his harp again. Link followed suit with the Ocarina of Time. Sheik then taught the tune to him. "Link, as long as you hold the Ocarina of Time and the Master Sword, you hold time itself in your hands. I'll see you all again." With that, Sheik threw another blinding magic device on the ground and vanished. When he was gone, Link walked up to the Pedestal of Time.

"What are you gonna to do? Try it out?" InuYasha asked.

"That`s right. I just want to see what happens. I won't be gone long. Now stand back, all of you." Link replied. The others walked over to the entrance to the room, a safe distance from Link and the Pedestal. Link then unsheathed the Master Sword, and, gritting his teeth, he slid it into the Pedestal of Time. A loud whirring noise was then heard, the platform itself started to glow blue, and the Triforce crest on the platform began to glow a bright white. A wall of blue magic surrounded Link and the Pedestal of Time, and Link vanished! InuYasha and the others' jaws dropped to the floor!