Of fire and courage

[PyroTails]

This is my first fanfic. It was supposed to be part 2 of 3, with me and Haunter doing the first one, and Haunter doing the third but we've been to busy with lots of things to write them. So i may as well post what I have done(including an AWESOME battle) and see what you think. I haven't carried on because of lack of ideas. I may re-write this due to having more experience on Chaos Warriors on the light castle, but we shall see. I'll just copy and paste it all here in one lump.

Chapter one: a new friend means a new adventure

#this story takes place after ocarina of time and Majorca’s mask where link is currently living back in Kokiri forest.

Tails woke up in the night. He’d had a dream that he was being attacked by these flower type creatures. They were crowding around him. Then they backed off and ran away. He saw this small kid in a green cloak fighting them off. He had then woken up. Tails was currently on own journeys. He was flying around the world on his own and finding new adventures. So far, on his first adventure, he had entered the house of screams, met a ghost called Phantom and rescued a girl toad called Toadette.

He was flying over a windmill when his plane was hit by a sort of beam attack that shot his plane down. What was odd was that the plane was brought down gently to the ground, but it was not damaged or harmed in any way. Tails jumped out of the Tornado and rushed over to this small kid who was lying on the ground. He tried to contact the boy, but he seemed unconscious.

Tails walked over to the tornado, to check where he had been brought down, when a weird flower creature popped its head out of the ground. Then several others did the same. They started to crowd around Tails. Then a small boy in green clothes came and started to attack the creatures. The creatures ran away when they saw the boy. The small boy then pointed his sword at Tails. The small boy asked “who are you? Are you one of Ganondorf’s creatures?”

Tails was confused. He said “I’m Tails, a two tailed Fox. I’m travelling around in my plane and finding out about new lands as well as helping people. I’m not some kind of monster, and I’ve never heard of Ganondorf.”
“Never heard of Ganondorf! You are a traveller from a different place. My names Link. If you visit this land you should at least hear the adventures of the Hero of Time before you leave.”
“Well, I don’t know about leaving so soon but I have some time on my hands, so why not.”

Link told the full story of his adventures. Tails was curious. “Then what were those creatures that were attacking me?” Link said that they were Deku scrubs. Recently they had been attacking people. The small boy that Tails had seen had also been attacked by them. Link said “I’ve beaten Ganondorf, but it seems that some of the effects of his magic still remain. I’ve been given the task of removing all traces of his power from this great land.

Well I’m also a hero and so I’ll help you. After all that’s what heroes do. I know this seems weird, and a bit of a coincidence, but lately I’ve been dreaming. I was dreaming of being attacked by those Deku shrubs, maybe it was a vision of the future.”
“Maybe. Who knows what can happen. I’ve recently dreamed of Saria being carried away through the ground by a floormaster, but it’s probably nothing.

Tails walked over to the Tornado and checked the clock. “ it’s getting late. We should go and get some food and find somewhere to rest.” Link said “how about we go to the Kokiri Village. That’s the place where I grew up. We can get some food and we’ll find you a place to sleep.” And that’s what they did. They flew together in the Tornado. Link was only a small boy but he felt squished in the small passenger seat that was designed for chao.

Later that evening they managed to arrive in the Kokiri village. A monster had inhabited the body of the Great Deku Tree and so Mido, being the self proclaimed leader went off to battle it. This meant that Link had no problem with allowing Tails to stay. Tails ate dinner with the other Kokiri children and he learnt lots of things about the area and the history. He was offered Mido’s bed, but Tails preferred to camp out on the grass in a sleeping bag then borrow a bed form a Kokiri child who didn’t wash regularly. Tails had a second sleeping bag, so Link joined him.

Chapter 2: An abduction and a plan
Early that morning Link was woken up by the sound of a small girl screaming. Tails was still asleep. Link looked up, to see a long black hand pull a small Kokiri child into the ground. “Saria!!!” Link cried. “Oh I should have been awake to stop him.”
“What was that?” Tails asked?
“A Floormaster, summoned by Phantom Ganon. He’s the only one who could summon them, apart from Ganondorf. I guess he was never destroyed.” Tails looked confused. “You know I told you about when I had to destroy Phantom Ganon in the forest temple. Well, seeming as I never was imprisoned for 7 years and I never needed to rescue Saria and help her to become a sage, Phantom Ganon was never destroyed.”
Tails was even more confused. “But I thought you did beat him.”
“Yes, but when I defeated Ganondorf the effect of his imprisonment began from the moment he gained the Golden Power- the Triforce. Therefore Ganon never reigned for 7 years of terror and I was never sent to destroy him- I rewrote the future.”
“well, that isn’t good. It appears Ganon created his Phantom before he acquired his piece of the Triforce.”

Suddenly a small ghost appeared behind them. “Did you say Phantom?” Tails looked around and saw the small ghost floating there.
“Hi Phantom, what are you doing here? I thought you were staying back at Scream Mansion.”
“yep, but I’ve been following you just to make sure you were alright. After all, you mightn’t be able to look after yourself!”.
“Phantom, this is no time for jokes”
“Who said I was joking?”
“Grrrrrrr.”
“What about Saria”? Link cried
Tails then had a brainwave: “Phantom, did you see the big hand?”
“yes”
“can you follow it? Then we can find it’s lair.”
“gotcha!”

The ghost disappeared underneath the ground. Tails and Link looked around, and noticed that the Kokiri children had disappeared. They searched the grounds, fearing that they had been captured by Phantom Ganon. He climbed up the ladder and entered one of the small huts and found some Kokiri children cowering in fear.
“They’re scared of ghosts” Link explained.
There’s a Kokiri legend that says that the four ghostly Poe sisters were once beautiful witches that used to live in a hut in the middle of the forest. They were once deceived by a poor Kokiri child who was being kept as a slave by the ghostly sisters. He was made to do lots of hard work and he was fed up of it. He managed to escape and he came across the forest temple. He found the sage of the forest and told the sage his story. The sage put a curse on the sisters and made it so that they would live on the earth forever as ghosts, until a Kokiri child breaks the curse.”

“I never knew that your clan had such a fear of ghosts. I guess these are the four poe sisters you met in the forest temple before. I guess the only thing we can do is go back to sleep and wait for Phantom to arrive.” And that’s what they did. Link told Tails about his adventures in Termina and how he defeated the skull kid. Tails also noticed that Link fought the poe sisters a second time whilst he was there. They waited for a few days and then one afternoon they were interrupted. A column of blue light came down from the sky, indicating that someone had returned from the centre of the Deku Tree.

It was Mido. He walked over and said to Link “I beat it. It turned out that Queen Ghoma had left one of her babies behind. It was easy. I got lost and that’s why I took a long time getting there. One thing though, when I left I saw a load of ghosts appear. They were each a different colour and they looked like a load of big poes. It shouldn’t be much of a problem though.”
“Big poes? You mean the ones that I’ve fought twice, the ones in the legend? Tails, we’ve got to go in there!”

And before Mido had a chance to ask what Tails was or what they were talking about they ran off, hopped into the Tornado and raced off to the remains of the Great Deku Tree. Tails got inside and immediately launched the Tornado into a downwards spiral.
“Tails, this tunnel isn’t that deep!”
“what?” SPLAT. The Tornado was buried half way into the floor which was mud.
“Whoops, umm, err, Tails. If you don’t mind, I’d like to go on and fight those ghosts. Would you mind if I did that? I’ll be in the room over there”. Link pointed to a door over in the corner.
“Ok. I’ll bring backup as soon as I can get this thing out of the mud.”

Link ran over and charged though the door. He entered the room. Four ghosts were floating there. In the middle was a small boy, clothed in green. He was being kept imprisoned behind a barrier. The four ghosts cackled and attacked. They all spun around and tried to strike with their torch, all except the purple ghost. The purple ghost split up into 4 ghosts. They all charged with their torch. Link hid behind his Deku shield, but it was burnt to a crisp by the fiery attacks of the ghostly sisters. Link tried to slash at them but the twirling movements of the Poe’s blocked the attacks and sent his sword flying, where it stuck in the wall. Link ran over to the other side of the room to try and remove his sword and think of a plan at the same time.

Link was worried. He couldn’t find any way to actually attack the Poe’s. All he could do was wait for backup- BACKUP! Link remembered what Tails had said: “I’ll bring back up as soon as I can get this thing out of the mud.” Link realised that all he could do was hope for his friend Tails to come and help. He was unaware that the Poe sisters had another ability. They could hear his thoughts. One of the Poe sisters vanished and went to distract Tails.

Tails meanwhile was trying to pull the Tornado out of the mud. Suddenly a Poe appeared before him and started to attack him. Tails could do nothing but run away and try to sort out a way of stopping the ghost. The ghost had cornered Tails and he could do nothing. Link and Tails were both hiding and trying to escape the Poe’s when a great blue light appeared. Both Link and Tails were teleported to a weird place in the clouds. Before them stood a beautiful princess.

“Princess Zelda? Is that you? How is this possible? I am a child and you are an adult? Where are we?”
“Yeah, and what am I doing here? I’ve never even met you before, you must be Princess Zelda. Link told me about his adventures and about you.”
“ You are in the Sacred Realm. This is where time does not exist, and that is why we are different ages. We have met here before after you beat Ganondorf. I need tell you something. As you know I have great knowledge of magic and ancient history.”
“Did you say magic? When I came here my plane was shot down by some sort of weird projectile.”
“Ah yes, I took down your plane. I needed you here. You are destined to help Link prevent Ganondorf escape from the Sacred realm.”
“Escape! But he was locked away!”
“Link, please. I’m not even supposed to tell you this but without you Hyrule could once again fall into the hands of Ganon. I can’t reveal what’s going to happen even though I do know it won’t be easy. If I do help you by revealing what will happen then it will mess up the timeline. I rescued you before you were killed by the Poe sisters, but this is not the last time you will face them. Link, you must retrieve the tool of evil’s bane-the Master Sword and Tails, you must retrieve your Tornado as it is of great importance to you, and this quest.
Link spoke up: “How can I get the Master sword? It’s been locked away.”
“and what’s happened to Phantom? He’s been gone for ages.”
“ok, ok . All will be revealed in time. Link, you follow me, Tails you jump through this portal and go to the Great Deku Tree.
“Thanks Princess. Come on Link, lets get this mission started. Here, take this.”
Tails gave Link and Zelda a small box with a speaker on it.
“ This is a communication device. I’ve wired it so you can communicate anywhere, even between dimensions. You can call for backup or assistance at any time.”
“Thanks. Lets move out.”
Zelda opened a portal for Tails and lead Link off to where he would get the Master sword.

chapter 3: new problems and new powers

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Tails appeared in front of the Deku Tree. The small fox heard a buzzing noise coming from his pocket. He pulled out his communicator. “Tails , this is Zelda. What’s the plan if the Poe’s attack?”
“Don’t worry about that, I’ve got a secret weapon”
Tails flew into the Deku Tree and hovered down the huge gaping hole in the floor. He wandered over to the Tornado and found that it had been pulled out of the mud, and it appeared to be unharmed. He jumped into the thingypit and confirmed that it was the real thing and not a hallucination. He felt that the Tornado was actually being pulled over to the door and through it. He couldn’t stop the irresistible force that clung to his plane.

Link was having a easier time. He had literally strolled through a portal Zelda had created into a area that was literally empty. It was just empty except for the master sword in the middle of the room. Link realised where he was- the Temple of Time. Link pulled the sword out of the pedestal, but this time he was protected by a big barrier. His communicator also buzzed.
“Link, This is Zelda. I have shielded you in the Sacred Realm. This time I have protected you against the flow of time. You are an adult but you have not needed to wait for 7 years. This time you are still a child, but in your adult body. You have the Master Sword now. Return here and I will fill you in on your next task.

Tails was pulled through the door. He expected that the Poes had dragged him in, but the room was empty. He was puzzled. He the force parked him in the centre of the room, and a barrier fell down and trapped him and his Tornado. He pulled out his Communicator. Link? There’s been a complication. Could you come here and help? A secret wall collapsed revealing a dark figure. He reached through the barrier and snatched away Tails’ walkie talkie.
“Zelda, Link, you turn up to help your fox friend and you die. You don’t come and he dies.” The transmission ended as the dark figure crushed the transmitter in his hand.

Link came back in through a portal created by Zelda. “Ok. I have the Master Sword. Any idea’s for a distraction?”
“ Phantom is in great danger. Tails asked him to follow the floormaster. It passed Saria to Phantom Ganon who travelled through a dangerous area and Phantom was captured by Ganon’s minions. You must rescue Phantom from Ganon before Phantom is destroyed. This will also provide an excellent distraction.
“Ok on to rescue Phantom.”

Tails was trapped, but he realised that they could not hold him for long, not whilst he had the Tornado. He powered up his weapons and engaged them all into his most powerful attack- his Power Laser. His blast smashed through the shield and pushed the dark figure back into the wall where he had come from. Tails pushed the gear lever and turned into car mode. He pushed the accelerator and prepared to race out of there. Then he realised his mistake. During his charge up for his attack, he had put all power into the big blast. His vehicle relied on energy from a huge battery. All the power had been drained and now he was stuck. Also the shield was reforming as he sat there trying to get his vehicle to start. Tails realised that all he could do was wait for backup.

Link arrived in the dark section of the Sacred Realm where Ganondorf was being held prisoner after Link’s encounter with him in Ocarina of Time. Link was very cautious as he knew that Ganon’s power had grown a lot whilst being imprisoned. He knew he had to rescue Phantom and at least try to avoid Ganon. A showdown in this particular area may not end up in Link’s favour.

Link walked into the room which appeared to be Ganon’s. He ran inside, careful not to make too much noise. He hid behind one of the pillars in the room so he wouldn’t be noticed. He waited for a while when two floormasters brought in the prisoner. It was Phantom.
“Who are you, What are you and why did you try and invade the Sacred Realm?”
“Why should I tell you? What makes you think I would ever betray my friends? I know who you are. Your that despicable slime ball called Ganondorf. No way would I ever obey you. It would be a disgrace to everyone I know. I would rather be captured and put in a painting.”
“Fine then. I will dispose of you myself, and banish you to the gap between dimensions”

Link couldn’t take waiting any more. He charged out and slashed his way through the floormasters.
“Link??!!! Finally, I get to have a second showdown with you. And this time I will defeat you!”
“That ain’t gonna happen, Ganondorf.” He pulled out his communicator. “Zelda, we could do with some help, now”
“ok.”
A big blue ring of light surrounded the pair, and they were teleported away, before Ganon could get them.

“I will get you Link and when I do you will die, and you will suffer as I have done. And then I will be free to destroy the land of Hyrule”
Phantom Ganon appeared in the room. “My Lord, I have news. I have captured one of the enemies. He is an orange fox with two Tails and he seems to be riding in a vehicle which has some major technology, including a device that allows him to travel through dimensions.
“Travel through dimensions? Well then, bring the device to me. If I can adapt this device to my powers….
THE WORLD WILL BE MINE!!!!”

Tails sat in his Tornado. How could he get out? He’d tried several missiles and shots, but none of them had worked. He was stuck and he couldn’t get out. But he had a plan. He couldn’t get out so he just had to wait until someone rescued him, or that Phantom Ganon would be stupid enough to release the shield. He opened a small compartment and pulled out a small rectangular box. “This could take a while” he said to himself.

Link and Phantom appeared in the Temple of Time. Zelda appeared in front of them.
“Well done Hero of Time. Your quick acting saved Phantom from being banished.”
“Yeah, you saved me. Otherwise I would be stuck. Thanks.”
“Right, now we need to save Tails.” Link pulled out his communicator. “Tails, are you there?”
There was no reply
“TAILS, ARE YOU THERE?”
A voice came out of the communicator. “This particular communicator has been disabled due to heavy damage. There was one message recorded before the device went offline: “Zelda, Link, you turn up to help your fox friend and you die. You don’t come and he dies”

The dark figure got up and walked towards the shield. Phantom Ganon opened the shield and grabbed Tails. He threw him into a cell and picked up the Tornado. Tails felt dark power flowing into him. He struggled and broke free. Phantom Ganon grabbed the Tornado and threw it over to the other side of the room. A portal opened and the Tornado flew through.
“Well fox boy, ready for a fight?”
“No matter what you’ve done to my Tornado I will get it back, and then you’re toast!”

As luck would have it Link and Phantom just happened to come in at that precise moment. Phantom Ganon created a spherical physical barrier around himself and Tails.
“Oh no you don’t. I’m going to have a duel with Tails here, and I won’t have you interfering. This fight is between me and Tails only.”
“I’d fight, but I have no real way of attacking.”

Princess Zelda appeared. “Tails, I grant you a new power. When you go on a quest or a battle and you do not have your Tornado you can transform into PyroTails. With this you can create fire and use it at your will. Also you can use a fire shield to protect you from enemy attacks. You can use it against Phantom Ganon’s attacks and anytime you need it. Good luck.

Tails and the others were warped to a big area where they could duel. Phantom Ganon started off with several balls of dark energy which he fired at Tails. Tails used his own fire power to create fireballs that repelled Phantom Ganon’s. Tails replied by hitting Phantom Ganon with his one fireballs, which Phantom Ganon could not repel. Tails pulled out his flame cannon and struck Ganon’s Phantom with repeated blasts. Phantom Ganon charged up for his most powerful shadow blast and released a great blast of energy. PyroTails created a fire shield that blocked the blast. PyroTails hit him with a final flame cannon blast and Phantom Ganon was defeated.

Phantom Ganon fell to the ground. “I am defeated. You may have the Tornado back, that was if I hadn’t already given it to Ganon. Hahahahaha. You will never recover it now. When my master recovers the dimension travelling device from your machine he will be freed and will once again rule the world and this time the whole of reality! And now that I have delayed you enough to give him time to sort out the dimension drive he will let me rule by his side for eternity. And now you can do nothing to stop me!
“Yes, but I can.”
“Master! What’s going on? Why are you here”
“You failed me. Get out of my sight until I need you again, you impudent worm!”
“But Master Ganon…”
“GO!”

Ganon opened a portal and flew through. PyroTails walked up to Ganon and lit up a fireball in his hand.
“Ganon, Give me back my tornado, or I’ll burn you to a crisp”
“such strong words from such a small creature. You may have realised that this is MY domain, where my power is greatest. The only creature strong enough to defeat me is Link. Your strongest attack will do nothing.”

Tails hit Ganondorf with a shot from his flame cannon but it did nothing.
“Please, don’t bother. You don’t stand a chance. Your silly battle has actually given me enough time to access your Tornado. Now I can finally free myself from this prison! Nothing can stop me now!”
“Ganondorf, free? Not again! I barely managed to beat him the first time, now he’s even more powerful.”

Ganondorf opened a huge portal and Link, PyroTails and Phantom jumped through the portal after him. They spiralled down through Ganon’s portal. Ganon turned around and noticed the three of them following him. He trapped them in an invisible forcefield and shot them down another path.

[PyroTails]

Chapter 4: An attack on Lon Lon Ranch
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Link, Tails and Phantom landed in the middle of Hyrule Field. They looked around and found that they were standing in the middle of Lon Lon Ranch. A small girl with red hair came over to talk to them.

“Welcome to Lon Lon Ranch. We offer the…”
She was interrupted as some of the horses started to get anxious. They started to whinny and run around. Several of the workers tried to calm them down, but they wouldn’t stop. Suddenly a great thunderbolt struck down and destroyed the protective wall of the ranch. Link and the others turned around and gasped at what they saw.

They were surrounded by an army of Stalfos. These beasts were huge skeletons with shields and swords filled with evil and fire. But this was no ordinary set of Stalfos. These Stalfos were the remains of all the soldiers that had fought in the Great War of Hyrule that had resulted in Link’s mother being killed and having to hand Link over to the Great Deku Tree. They had completely surrounded the ranch. They also had completely covered the whole of Hyrule field. The giant Stalfos pointed it’s sword at link and the others. The entire army moved in to attack.

“Get all the horses and workers into the stables” Tails instructed. Tails then fell down clutching his side.
“He’s too weak to fight. What do we do Link?” asked Phantom
“I’ll have to hold them off on my own. Malon, can I borrow Epona?
“yeah sure.” Malon saddled Epona and Link got on.

Link charged down the pathway and out into the massive army of Stalfos. He charged with the Master Sword glowing brightly. He chopped Stalfos down left and right. They were falling like dominoes. Link’s sword even pierced the ones with armour making it shatter into pieces.

Meanwhile back at the ranch.
“Malon, go get me some milk” ordered her father. Malon ran off and fetched a bottle from the ranch house. She poured some of the cold white liquid into Tails’ mouth. Tails stirred a little and got up.
“How do you feel?” asked Malon.
“Great. Thanks. Uh, could you just move back for a minute?”
Tails got up and ignited. It was a shock for Malon, who ran back to her father in fright, and for the others who hadn’t seen it happen before. Tails turned around and said to Malon:
“Thanks for the energy boost. Now I’ve got to go help Link.”

During this time Phantom had been speaking to Princess Zelda. She had told him that he had the power to talk to Poe’s and how to make them messengers. Phantom had gone off to the other area’s and was delivering a message.

PyroTails had now joined Link in battle. He had been incinerating the skeletons while Link had been shattering all the evil from the creatures. They were doing rather well as they were eliminating all the Stalfos near them.
“Hey Link, were doing rather well”
“yeah, but how long can we keep this up? There are too many”
“I know. There’s nothing we can do about it though. We’ll just have to keep fighting.”

Ganondorf came out of a portal in the sky to asses how well his army was doing. He was surprised to see that part of the army of Stalfos had actually been chopped to pieces by Link who was allied with PyroTails. He bellowed out an order to his army to the Stalfos to stop standing around and attack Link. They all stormed towards Link and PyroTails who didn’t stand a chance. The Stalfos completely surrounded them, not giving them room to attack. As they were about to be struck down…..

A trumpet sounded from Hyrule Castle. Hundreds of soldiers stormed out of the gates and charged towards the Stalfos. An army of Gorons accompanied by a few villagers came from Kakariko village and Death Mountain. A few minutes later a load of women from the desert carrying swords charged shouting “Revenge against the Evil one!” The entire set of armies came and attacked the Stalfos. Left and right the skeletons either crumbled into small piles or broke apart. Phantom’s message had been delivered.

Seeing his army being destroyed Ganon prepared to go in personally and destroy Link. He was stopped by an invisible barrier. Princess Zelda came down and said to him:
“Ganon, you may have escaped from the Sacred Realm but you are still banished from this land so you may not interfere.”
“Such insolence from such a pathetic girl. I guess as I can’t get Link I’ll get him through you!”
Ganon tried to grab Zelda but she pushed him away and slapped him!
“How dare you! You will never capture me again.” She vanished from his sight.

Down in the battle the hero’s along with the extra armies were completely destroying the Stalfos. Link was struck on the head and he fainted. PyroTails ran out of energy and collapsed from exhaustion. When they woke up the battle had been won and the armies were giving the skeletons a proper mass burial.

Tails woke up in a bed. He looked around and felt that he could barely move his muscles. Malon sat on his bed holding a bottle of Lon Lon milk.
“Here, drink this. It will replenish your strength”
Tails drunk the cool mixture and felt strength coming back to his muscles and his fire burning up again.
“Wow! That filled me with super strength.”
“I’m glad it worked. I mixed in some hot spices. I expected it would help your fire power.”
“thanks. It sure helped.”

Tails stretched and looked over to Link, who was still asleep. He turned back to Malon and said: “Touch my arm”. His arm was on fire as it usually was when he was PyroTails. Malon looked into Tails’ eyes and saw that he could be trusted. She reached over and touched his arm. Instead of feeling heat and being burned she felt nothing.
“what? Why doesn’t it burn me?” asked Malon, who was surprised.
“Fire usually burns and destroys. This fire is special. The fire I have is a cleansing fire and will only destroy evil. Of course that doesn’t mean I can’t set something on fire if I want to.
“why are you telling me this?”
“when you first saw me, and gave me some of that revitalising milk, you were afraid of me. I wanted to show you that there is nothing to fear from me. How’s Link doing?”
“I’m not sure. Shall I wake him up?”
“no. Let him rest.”

Link was having a nightmare. He had found himself back in the Deku forest. Saria had just appeared before him. He ran over to see her, and she turned around. He looked into her eyes and saw… GANON!

Chapter 4: Tails explores the Forest Temple

Tails was training. He had found a way of training himself and helping all the townsfolk as well. He had helped start fires, cremate the towns rubbish and destroy all the gardeners weeds. Link had not stirred for days and Tails was getting anxious, so he went to see Princess Zelda. She told him that Link was having nightmares and these were keeping him entranced in a sleep he couldn’t wake from. Tails realised that it must be about Saria so he decided to go and explore in the forest. He told Mido that if they saw a giant fireball appear in the sky then the Kokiri should come and help.
To get past the problem of Tails getting lost in the forest and becoming a Stalfos Tails flew in overhead. He had little trouble finding the entrance to the Forest Temple. He located a small clearing with a slab of rock that had a Triforce symbol on it. There he sat down on a log and rested. While he rested he could hear music that he did not recognise coming from inside the temple. The music was good and Tails enjoyed listening to it.

Tails eventually got up and went inside the temple. Inside it was eerie and dark, but Tails could easily use his fire to light the way. He entered through a door and a hand fell down and grabbed him. The hand quickly jumped off in surprise and flew back up to the ceiling. Tails walked forward and the hand fell to the ground- The Floormaster hadn’t obviously thought about victims that used fire and it had burned itself to death on Tails’ red hot skin.

Tails could hear the music getting louder and louder as he approached a rather large door. Tails put his hand to the door and felt it. It was cold to the touch. Tails incinerated the door and walked through. After walking up a set of stairs Tails got onto a podium with a Triforce mark engraved on the surface. He was surprised to see a familiar face- Phantom Ganon!

“Haven’t you had enough of my fire already you poor excuse for a ghost!”
“well, let’s put it this way-soon you’ll wish you’d never come here in the first place.”
Tails walked forward onto where the Triforce mark was. A chamber fell down enclosing him in. Tails tried to burn his way through but as soon as he made even the slightest damage the magic healed it up again. Ice encased around Tails’ body. At first Tails easily melted the ice but he realised that he could not keep hot enough forever. After a few minutes the chamber was full of ice and he was completely frozen. Tails still managed to keep up enough heat to stay alive and he could still see.

A small girl in green walked in. Tails recognised the girl as Saria.
“Well, Phantom Ganon, you have done me proud. You may now come out of the painting I imprisoned you in. Tails, you didn’t expect a trap as simple and obvious as ice now did you? How I wish that I had my old body back, but it’s still imprisoned in the Sacred Realm. Thank you Tails for providing me with a way of escaping. The dimensional transporter wouldn’t let me escape but it would let others escape, so I possessed this girl I captured and now I walk again on the surface of Hyrule! And Link will never realise who I am until it’s too late!”

Meanwhile back at Lon Lon Ranch…

Link got up from his bed at last. He felt relaxed and rested but he had no idea what had happened while he had been asleep, nor did he have any idea of what he was going to face in the future.

Chapter 5 A fight to the death with an old enemy

Link had decided to go to the forest temple to search for Tails, who had been missing since the morning. He wandered into the temple, easily slaying two wolfos on the way in. Link entered the main foyer. Instead of seeing the plain, jungle like appearance to the room, the walls were white, with black markings on, like the plants had been singed.

Link’s attention was gained by the great bit of machinery in the centre of the room. In the middle was a chamber, made of glass and protected by dark magic, which contained Tails!

“Tails, are you ok?”
……no reply-Tails couldn’t hear him through the glass.
“Hey Tails, how do you turn this thing off?”
“There is no point trying to talk to him, he can’t hear you!”

A figure appeared. Link recognised it as Saria!
“Saria! I’m so glad your ok!”
“yes, Saria. Link, I’m afraid your not so lucky. She’s in for much worse. You may know me as the dark figure you fought in the water temple, so many years in the future. You knew me as Dark Link. But of course, you destroyed me before, so Ganon powered me up. And just so you know, I’ve invited some friends along for the trip.”

A circular platform appeared out of the ground. On top of it was a mirror. Dark Link jumped into the mirror, and two Dark Links came out. The mirror was connected to the machine Tails was hooked up to.
“Ganon has given me the ability to be able to change into any person or object I want. This machine is designed to suck the energy out of whatever is put inside the chamber. And what’s in this chamber, happens to be fire energy. I’m going to suck your friend dry, then I’m going to get you.”

Link drew his sword, and prepared for battle. Three dark links came out of the mirror. One transformed into an image of Link, one transformed into an image of PyroTails and the other transformed into the image of Ganon. Link stabbed straight through the Dark Link that was Link and he shot an arrow through the Dark Link that was Ganon. The PyroTails dark link was flying so Link pulled out an arrow, infused it with ice, and shot the Dark Link down.

“Is that the best you’ve got?”
“Hahaha, you really show some potential. But of course, potential is not good enough against… an army of wolves!”
“an army of wolves? Where are you going to get enough wolves to try and take me down?”
“good point. I guess then I’ll have to make one!”

Lots of spheres came out of the mirror. There were about 50 in all. They all formed lots of black wolves. Link drew his sword and braced himself. The wolfos charged towards him and he cut through two and three down, and defended himself with his shield from their claws. He charged towards them and he cut all the wolfos down. None of the wolves were left standing because Link charged towards then and cut them to pieces.

“Ok, I’m finished playing games. Hand over PyroTails and I won’t have to destroy you!”
“you? Destroy me? Don’t make me laugh! I’m the only one around here making threats, thank you. Tails stay’s with me, and there’s nothing you can do about it!”
“I’m fed up playing games! I guess I’ll just have to destroy your mirror”
Princess Zelda relayed a message into his mind: “It’s ok for you to break the dark mirror. I’ll shield you from any curses it may bring apon you!”

Link pulled out his old catapult which he hadn’t used since he was a kid. He put in a little stone, and pulled the elastic back. It smashed through the mirror and shattered it into a million tiny pieces. The Dark Link screamed in pain!

“The mirror! How dare you destroy my only way of recreating myself! I’m going to kill you! If the mirror is destroyed then I’ll just have to take my power from your friend here!”
Dark Link attached himself to the remains of the mirror, connecting himself to the power chords. His body absorbed the power, until Link smashed away the power chords using his boomerang. The dark Link turned. Instead of being plain black the power had turned him red! Zelda buzzed in: Link, be careful. He’s become overpowered. If you strike him, you’ll be paralysed, and if you don’t hit him he’ll overload and explode, destroying the temple and you with it. You’ll have to find some way to defeat him.


Link pondered for a second, then he reached for his ice arrows. As the power came from Tails then ice would be his weakness. He froze Dark link in mid air who fell to the ground. As he was inside the ice, Dark Link’s power started to fade. Dark Link realised he needed to charge up again if he was going to keep alive. He melted the ice and jumped back onto the machine, where he could absorb his power. Link froze Dark Link and proceeded to fire a continuous stream of arrows into the main cable of the machine, hoping to disable it. The machine faltered. The shield that was holding the unconscious body of Tails failed to do it’s job because the power supply was disrupted. Link grabbed Tails and legged it out of there, leaving a cold and irritated Dark Link behind.

Chapter 6 Gaining power

Tails was laid down by the fire, and warmed by some blankets. Link was talking to Zelda.
“So what’s next? Ganon’s attacked twice, and we need to strike back.”
“Yes Link, but Tails is not strong enough to face Ganon head on. We must not rule out the possibility that Tails may have to defeat Ganon. Something may happen to you. Therefore I am sending you to Death Mountain to retrieve Din’s pearl. The pearl gives you a little fire ability but combined with Tails’ power it can help him to create a fire sphere that can hold anyone captive, even Ganon. It will also make his attacks more powerful”
“yeah, but do you really think that Tails can climb up Death Mountain in his current state. He was really weakened by Dark Link. Are you sure it’s wise to send him on a trip already? Do you think I should go and get it for him?”
“No, Tails must go alone and prove himself.

For the next week Tails was in bed. The power drained from him was not dangerous enough to permanently harm him, but he had no energy to move at all. They kept him by the fire and fed him lots of healthy food, as well as lots of Malon’s spicy milk drink. After a week, Tails was back and he was feeling as good as new. Tails left Link to go and fly up to the top of Death Mountain. Due to him being able to fly he got up to the crater in an hour.

Up the top, he found an altar, filled with water. He walked forward and a great figure appeared. This half-naked figure was a Great Fairy. She had great big wings and eyes that looked to Tails like she had used far too much eyeliner. She said to him: “Tails, I have spoken to the Princess and I have been instructed to give you Din’s Pearl. This will upgrade your powers and allow you to defeat stronger enemies and melt away any ice that may attack you. I will take you up to the top of the mountain where we can proceed with your training.”

Tails found himself on top of Death Mountain. He was standing on the crater, and due to inactivity the crater had hardened to make a base of hardened lava, around the size of a football field, with no edges. If he fell from the top he’d fall to his death.
“The Din’s pearl will allow you to use several new moves as well as powering up your existing attacks. For instance if you spin your tails around very fast it will create a cyclone of fire which can be used to accelerate you in the opposite direction your tails are pointing. It can also be used as a powerful attack or to stop yourself from falling if your tails are pointing to the ground.”

Before the great fairy could finish giving him the instructions the ground started to tremble. A great beast smashed its way through the crust. This beast was as big as the mountain itself. It stuck its pointed head out of the ground and said “Hello, do you have any idea what this big rock is doing in the way of the sun?”
“Ah, Big Goron! How are you doing?”
“I’m good today Great Fairy. I was wandering around inside when I noticed the lava had hardened. I went into the main chamber and noticed this great load of rock blocking the entrance.”
“yes, this happens to Death Mountain every 10 years. The lava rises and the crust hardens, then the lava falls again leaving a thick hard crust. Then the Dodongo’s climb to the surface and have their tribe battle. Their two fiercest warriors fight each other and the winner becomes the tribe leader. The loser is thrown down the side of the mountain to a painful death down below and the people of Kakariko village have to deal with a great charred carcass. It is a great and interesting battle. I would recommend that you vacate the area Big Goron. Tails, if you wish to watch the battle I would make sure that you stay far in the air to avoid getting involved. In the meantime I would recommend you practice your new moves. Goodbye”.

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Two great Dodongo's came out of a cave. They butted horns and tried to push each other off of the mountain. Tails watched in awe as these two brutes pushed and shoved. He admired how they fought so valiantly because they knew that one would die and one would reign.

After much pushing and shoving one of the Dodongoes lost it's grip and it fell down the mountain. The body flew down to the ground, and smashed a poor man's house. The winner reared it's great head and roared. As it turned to go back into the cave the entrance was hit by a purple metiorite. Tails was also hit and he fell to the ground.

The Dodongo saw Tails and instinctivly thought that Tails was his prey. He charged at the fox who let off a jet of flame at the Dodongo. Despite the fire being extremely hot thanks to the Din's Pearl the dragon just rammed into Tails. Tails was thrown accross the floor. He got up and tried a fireball. It had no effect whatsoever. "How do you beat this think he asked?"
No-one replied.

The Dodongo gave Tails a great hit with his big scaley tail and sent Tails flying down the mountain. Luckily Tails managed to fly back up to the top.
"Think that can stop me?" He taunted.
The dodongo, not understanding english(or whatever language they speak) did not understand the effect of the taunt. It simply swung it's tail around. Tails easily jumped it. The Dodongo let out a jet of flame. Tails just stood there and took it. It did no damage at all. Tails then let off a jet of fire. That also did nothing. They both realised that they were both even.

Tails stopped to think of a stratergy that would help him win. Meanwhile the Dodongo simply walked forward and ate Tails. When inside the Dodongo Tails let off a fire blast, turning the poor creature's stomach into a blazing infurno. The creature charged off of the edge of the cliff. It figured that if it died, it would take it's prey with it!

Tails managed to climb out of the stomach onto the outside. He decided he would try a move he had calculated whilst watching the earlier fight. He spun his Tails around, whilst letting off fire. This created a cyclone which burnt away the remains of the Dodongo and shot Tails up back to the top of the mounain.

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There you go. I'll probably re-write the last few chapters cos they seem rushed, but we'll see. enjoy