Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ The Sailor Moon Legend of Zelda ❯ Part Four: Showdown with Morpha ( Chapter 22 )

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By: Mykan

All I can say in this chapter is...

Morpha's going down
and Link's hopes are going up.

(She's still alive)

Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Horror / Adventure / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 02.11.2007 | Pages: 12 | Words: 9.0K | Visits: 419 | Status: Completed

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Mercury and Link used the warp point Link made to get back to the main Chamber quickly, and there only one last ledge they hadn't explored… the one on the third floor with the dog statue.

But First they had to raise the water back to the top so the statue would rise up allowing them to Hookshot over.

Once on the ledge they entered through a door and saw the Big Boss door with the huge locks and chains… all the way up a step slop with spiky spinning blades moving from side to side at different heights up the slope.

“Be careful.” Link said, “Don't let those spikes hit you, and don't stop, even for a second or you'll slip.”

“But Master?”

But Link was already bounding his way up the slope, he skidded a few times and almost got hit by the spikes… but he made it.

“Come on Mercury! Come on!”

Mercury drew in a deep breath. “Here goes…!” she cried and she began to rush up the slope too.

“Hurry! Hurry!”

Mercury made it two thirds of the way up, but suddenly she slipped and her foot got caught in a chipped piece of the rock.

“Ah! Let me go! Let me go!” she cried as she struggled to pull free, but it wasn't working. Worst of all… there was a spike heading straight for her.

“Whoa… Whoa… Whoa! That thing's coming right for me!” she squealed.

“Grab on!” Link called as he stretched out his hand. She grabbed it and he pulled as hard as he could. “Come on! Come on!” he cried.

With one giant tug… he got her out just before the spike barely touched her. “That's as close as I ever want to cut it.”

Now that they were both safely up, and Link had the key. “Ready?!”

Mercury nodded. “Let's do this!”

So Link unlocked the door, and they both walked inside.

Meanwhile, a the resort…

A lot of people were up already due to the fact that it were pretty chilly. So chilly, that some of the radiators had icicles in them.

The Girls and Darien were already up, and they were keeping alert not to let anyone notice that Link and Amy were still in the Water Temple.

So far no one had gone outside to observe the lake, but there was just one thing though…

Most of the families at the resort were already planning to leave, including Serena's folks. They didn't mention anything about Amy and Link, but what they did say was to make sure everyone was ready to go by 7:00.

“Oh… I hope they hurry back and soon.” cried Serena.

“So do I.” added Darien, “I hope they're okay.”

…

Back in the Water Temple…

The Boss room was about 100 feet square, with Spikes on the wall near the floor, and Hookshot targets along the higher walls.

The center of the room consisted of a large pool of water, about 70 feet square, with four large pillars at the center.

So far everything was there… Everything, except the Boss.

“Where is he?” Link asked as he search by the pool.

Mercury used her Visor to look around, and she gasped. “Master, look out! That water isn't normal over there.” she cried.

She came over, and she and Link looked at the water all confused.

Well… it did look slightly darker than ordinary water… but it felt like ordinary water. It had no smell like ordinary water. So what made it different?

Link suddenly felt something tap him on the shoulder. “Mercury, not now.” he said irritated.

Mercury looked up. “Not now what?” she asked. “What are you talking about?”

Link was all confused. “I don't get it. Didn't you just tap my shoulder?”

Mercury shook her head, then they both went back to observing the water. That's when mercury felt something grab her leg and flip her over.

“Hey! Master, what did you do that for?!” she asked.

“Do what?” Link asked. “I didn't even touch you.”

They both then got the sudden feeling that something strange was going on. Then… they saw it!!

A small tentacle was waving at them through the water, and the water around it began to bubble, and bubble. Link and Mercury back up a bit and then… there he was.

GIANT AQUATIC AMEOBA: MORPHA

“Hmm, mm, mm, ah, ah, ah! Got you, didn't I.” he mocked them. “And I got plenty more where that came from.”

Mercury and Link's expressions curled into angry sneers. “We don't have time for your games, Morpha.” Link said as he drew his sword.

Mercury stood her ground. “You should give up now, before we make a mess of you.”

Morpha snorted. “Oh, please!”

Then he quickly pointed over behind them. “Hey… look at that!”

Link and Mercury turned round, “Look at what?”

“THIS!!” Morpha shouted as his huge body ensnared Mercury, and lifted her he up in the air.

“AGH!! MASTER!!”

“Mercury!” cried Link. “Let her go right now!”

“Whatever you say. Hmm, mm, heh, heh, ah, ah, ah!” and Morpha began to shake Mercury all around the pool and eventually throw her like a javelin to the other side of the room.

“You alright Mercury?” Link called out.

“I'm okay.” she answered. “Now, let's get him.”

Link nodded, and he waited until Morpha tried to grab for him. He dodged the tentacle and took one big slash of his sword…

But the sword on passed right through Morpha's body with a small splash. “Ooh?! Ho, ho, ho.” Morpha chuckled. “Close, but it doesn't cut the water.”

He slammed his tentacle down again, and Link dodged it. “Mercury… He's made of water.” he called.

Mercury was running along to dodge the tentacles that were chasing her. “I can't seem to get him to hold still so I can scan for a weakness.”

“Of course you can't you miserable brat!” growled Morpha. He disappeared under the water, and then popped back up again to resume slamming.

“I have absolute control of all the water. You can never get close enough to attack me.”

He was right too.

Every time Link or Mercury tried to get near him, Morpha would either grab them and toss them hard to another side of the room… or he'd sink back into the pool and reappear somewhere else unexpectedly.

Even if they could attack him… what with?

He was made entirely of water, the only things that would stand a chance against that would be electricity, or grass-attacks… but neither Link nor Mercury had that kind of power in them.

WHACK!!

Link got bashed in the face hard, and Mercury got whipped from behind. They weren't hurt too badly… but still were being beaten hard.

“Heh, ha, ha, ah, ah, ah! This is far too easy.” Morpha sniggered. “Tell you what… If you two behave and give me the two Triforce shards you have… I'll let you two join my army.”

Mercury and Link sneered at that proposal. “Us, join you?!” snapped Mercury. “Forget it.”

Link nodded in agreement. “I'd rather die 1,000 deaths before ever considering to team up with the dark side!”

“Fine then! That can be arranged.” and Morpha went wild again. Mercury dodged his blow, but Link was cornered with no place to run.

“I got you now, Hero!” Morpha bellowed as he charged forward. “Your shards are mine!”

“MASTER!” cried Mercury. “GET OUT OF THERE!!”

Link looked around him and his only chance was to Hookshot his way out of this. Hopefully his shot would go right through Morpha's body and drag him safely through it and out the other side.

“Here goes nothing!” he cried as he fired his Hookshot… but strangely, instead when the Hookshot slammed into Morpha's body it pulled something straight out from the water, and into Link's hands.

“Huh?!”

“What?!”

Link had pulled out what appeared to be the gigantic nucleus that was floating around in the water body.

“You… how could you!” the Nucleus growled, it leapt up and began bouncing and bashing on Link's face like a bal before headed back to the water.

Mercury and Link also realized that the Morpha's water body seemed to have vanished. “It's gone.”

“Where did it go?”

Suddenly, it appeared again. “Ahh! That's better.” Morpha said. “Now where were we? Ah, yes!” and he began to attack the duo again.

Link and Mercury caught up to one another and began running around the room together while avoiding Morpha's attack.

“You're beginning to make me angry, the both of you!” he roared. “Give up while you have the chance. I can go on forever!” but Link and Mercury just kept right on running.

“Mercury did you see what happened?”

Mercury nodded. “You just pulled out that giant Nucleus from his body and it vanished.”

“And what's more…” replied Link. “That Nucleus was talking to me with Morpha's voice.”

They thought at it for a moment and then. “Are you thinking what I'm thinking?” Link asked.

“Mmm-hmm.” Mercury sniggered with a sneaky look on her face. They just may had discovered what Morpha's weakness was.

They stood their guard and waved at him. “Hey! You overgrown bucket of wetlands! Over hear!”

Morpha turned and growled loudly. “I'll make you wish you hadn't said that!!” and he began to charge right for them.

He moved closer, and closer, and then… Mercury fired her Hookshot and snatched the Nucleus from the body dragging it closer to the them onto the land.

“Ha! Got you!” said Mercury as she held onto the slippery cell with all her might.

“UGH!! Hey! Let me go!” growled the Morpha, and that was all the evidence that the duo needed.

The Nucleus was in fact Morpha's true form, it just had control of the water. So if they could just destroy it, they would finish him off.

“Anyone care for soccer.” Link chuckled as he gave the Nucleus a huge hard kick back into the pool.

The Nucleus now blazing red with anger, formed another water tentacle. “So you discovered my weakness. Perhaps I underestimated you.” He sniggered. “But don't think you'll escape from here alive to tell it.”

“We'll see about that!” Link snapped, and the fight waged on.

The tables really had turned on Morpha, because with their Hookshots upgraded, they could stand far away from him without him being able to grab them.

Then they could grab a hold of the Nucleus and perform series of punishment, and attacks on it before it headed back into the water to resume it's aqua-from.

Morpha had taken a lot of damage. By this point he decided t make the fight equal. If not… then tip it back into his favor.

“Give up Morhpa!” bellowed Link. “There's no way you can beat us.”

“That's right.” added Mercury. “When two work as a team… they always come out victorious.”

The Nucleus for a moment just puff and panted as it sat there on one of the four pillars, and then it began to laugh maniacally. “Heh, heh, heh! You are right about one thing.” He said.

He plopped into the water and made another Tentacle body… alongside four other tentacles. “Teamwork, is great… I prefer to have more than two!”

There were no less than three tentacles poking around different sections of the pool. Only one had the Nucleus in it, but the rest of them were just being controlled, but nevertheless, now Link and Mercury were once again on the defensive.

This time, they had several tentacles rather than just the one tentacle to dodge. They barely even had enough space to run without getting slammed on.

Even if they had a chance to shoot for the Nucleus, the Nucleus was able to hop from one tentacle to another and avoid capture, while the empty tentacles could grab the duo and toss them around like rag dolls.

Link and Mercury couldn't stand up to anymore of this punishment, but what were they to do? “As long as the Nucleus has the other Tentacles to hide in, we can't touch it.” Link said.

“There has to be some way we can render the tentacles useless, and trap the Nucleus.” Mercury said, then suddenly, she had an idea. She got up and ran towards the pool.

“Mercury, what are you doing?!” cried Link.

“Trust me!” she called back to him.

Mercury knew that if the Nucleus had complete control over the water; what would happen if the Nucleus had no water to control.

Even though she remembered what Link had told her about trying this stunt, now seemed like a perfect time to forget it.

All of Morpha's tentacles focused on Mercury. “Here I come! Ready or not!!” he roared and with a swift rage he began to charge toward her.

Mercury first blasted her Hookshot, and scared the Nucleus out from it's tentacle. “Ha! You missed me! Hee, hee, hee!”

“I planned on it.” Mercury said with a wicked smirk. Then she summoned up all her power. “MERCURY ICE BUBBLES… FREEZE!!”

The Nucleus was horrified, “AAH-AAH-AAH! What have you done?!” he bellowed. “All my precious water is completely frozen!”

“Mercury, Great move!” Link said.

Mercury nodded her head. “Morhpa may be in control of all the water, but if he can't even get through to it, he can't pretty much do anything.”

Morpha's weakness has been exposed. Now that the Nucleus couldn't get through to the ice, it was completely defenseless.

Mercury also used her ice arrows to freeze the Nucleus on the spot. “ARGH!! STOP!! STOP!!” he cried in pain. “I'm… getting… weak…!”

Finally the Nucleus was weak enough to destroy… and what better way to do it than with a touch of electricity.

Link got out his mask, “GO FIERCE DEITY!!” and changed into his strongest form. “All right, Morpha. Get ready for the big blow out.” He pulled out his double-Helix sword and it began to glow.

“I'll see you dead yet!!” Morpha growled.

“No Morpha!” said Mercury, “See you at the bottom of the sea!”

Link's sword was ready to go, “SACRED… FIERCE-DEITY… HELIX-SWORD… ATTACK!!” and he fired a strong bolt of lighting right at the Nucleus.

“AAH!!! AAAAHHHH!!!”

It was working, the Nucleus was beginning to break up, and the Temple was beginning to crumple. Link transformed back to his regular form. “LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!” he cried.

Luckily the tube of blue light appeared right alongside the pool. So, they both hoped in an were gone.

The rocks were starting to tumble down from the ceiling as the pressure of the water blasted the walls down, and Morpha was doomed.

“Master! You must help! Get me out of here!” He cried.

Just then, a holographic image of Ganondorf appeared. “Help you escape. I'll do no such thing!” he said with a sneer.

“Uh?! But--”

Ganondorf pointed at the decaying water-beast. “You worthless piece of evil.” He growled. “I've been leading you on this whole time.”

“You destroyed, Volvagia, and after all the times I had continuously ordered you not to interfere. You disobeyed me… destroyed one of my finest warriors, and worst of all you let the kid and the Sailor's get away.”

“SO PREPARE FOR YOUR PUNISHMENT!!” He powered up a shadow-ball in his hand, and blasted at Morpha, absorbing his energy and disintegrate him completely.

“MASTER, NO!! YEOW!! AAARRRGGGH!!”

“Finally, I have all that I need to unveil my next greatest thing.” Ganondorf chuckled. “Enjoy this victory while you can Hero, and Sailor scouts… It will be your last. Hmm, mm, mm, ah, ah, ah, ah!”

Then he vanished.

Outside…

The whole resort was under the stress of an earthquake… unbeknownst to them that it was due to the Water Temple breaking up.

“Everyone get back!!” cried the Foremen of the Lake inspectors. Everyone ran for the hills as the Huge rock exploded in a huge hydro-blast and was gone.

Serena's folks, and Sammy were really worried for Serena and friends weren't with them. “I just hope their okay.”

…

Link and Mercury had landed safely just along the shores opposite from the lake. “Mercury…” Link panted. “You alright?”

Mercury slowly got to her feet. “I never thought we'd make it.” She panted, “But it sure feels good to be back on dry land.”

“I'd have to agree with that.” Came a voice from behind. Link and Mercury thought that sounding like Lita, but when they turned around they were surprised…

There in a tube of blue light was a half-human, half-fish like creature… exactly the same as from Link's story. It was Princess Ruto of the Zora's, and the Sage of Water.

“Mmm, hmm, mm. Hi there Linkie-Pooh.” She giggled. “It's been a long time hasn't it.”

Link sighed and held a hand to his head. “Ruto?!” he said sounding embarrassed. “Don't tell me you're still on about that stuff.”

“Well… a girl can still dream can't she.” Ruto said. “I would have expected more from the man who would be my husband in any case.”

Mercury couldn't help but giggle.

“Ruto, cut it out already.” Links said. “You know very well that you and I were never really that much of an item to begin with.”

Ruto sighed. “Thanks for brining that up.” she said. “But yeah… I know, you did what you did, because it couldn't be helped.”

“Besides, Zelda just recently told me she knows that you love her so very much.”

Link and Mercury's heads snapped up. What did she just say about Zelda?

“Ruto, what are you playing at?” Link said. “You know just as well as I do that Zelda's gone… she--”

“Died when Legora blew up?” Ruto cut in then she shook her head. “Nope… she didn't die Link.”

Link's heart was beginning to race. “Ruto.. what are you trying to tell me?” he asked with a mixture of excitement and happiness in his eyes. “Wait… you mean? …Is she?”

Ruto nodded. “Mmm, hmm. It's true.” she said. “Zelda's still very much alive Link. I don't how she survived, but she is alive. I don't where she is, but all I can tell you is that she's somewhere on Earth, and she still loves you very much.”

Link collapsed to his knees as tears of happiness streamed down his face. “She's… She's alive.” He cried and he fell onto his back and began to cry. “It's … it's a miracle.”

Mercury felt so happy for him. His true love was still out there, and she was closer than they all knew.

“Mercury… Master!”

Mercury turned round and saw all the others coming up to them. “Thank goodness you're all safe.” Luna said.

“Who's this?” Darien asked as he gestured to Ruto.

“This is Ruto: The Sage of Water.” Mercury answered.

Then they all noticed Link was on the ground in tears of happiness. “I just told him that Zelda is still alive.” Ruto said.

Everyone was shocked. One: because they couldn't blame Link for being so happy.

The other was because…

“Lita… she's sounds just like you.” said Mina.

Lita approached Ruto's image, and the two of them, both shocked that their voices were identical… They pointed at each other, and…

“She sounds like me?” they said at the same time, and they just did it again and again.

“No you don't.”

“Yes I do!”

“CUT IT OUT!!”

Obviously Lita had gotten a taste of Ruto's bad bone, but Ruto knew she didn't have time for this. She told Mercury to approach her.

“Sailor Mercury…” she said. “It seems as though I can trust you. For I can see that nothing will stop you or your teammates in your quest to aid Link.”

“You must take my power in this Medallion. Take it respectfully.”

She held out her arms and there was a Blue Medallion. It hovered about, and then it vanished into Mercury's chest. At long last, the Fourth Medallion was obtained, and Mercury was now awakened as the Sage of Water reborn.

“We did it.” Mercury said softly. “We have the Water-Medallion.”

Everyone was very grateful for Mercury, and for Link too even though he was still spaced out know that he knew the truth.

As Ruto disappeared she left them all with. “Be on the look out for Sheik, and tell him I said hello.” And then she was gone.

No sooner had Ruto left did the lake begin to bubble, and the water was slowly beginning to rise back up to it's regular level. As well as the frozen winds had ceased.

Link finally got up from his daze. “I guess when we crushed the Temple, we restored the lake back to normal.” He said.

“And so you did.” Came a male voice from behind them, it was Sheik. In everyone's opinion… that guy had the strangest habit of appearing from out of nowhere.

“Sheik?” Link said, “Uh… Ruto--”

Sheik stopped him. “I know, I know… and I accept her greeting.” He said. “But just look at what you and Sailor Mercury have accomplished, Link.”

He gestured them all to gaze at the lake that was once again filled with pure water. All as was like it was before.

“Link… Mercury…” Sheik said, “I have but a melody to teach to you both, if you would care to listen. As it will help you in your quest.”

Everyone turned back to face Sheik.

“Time passes… people move… like a river's flow, it never ends.” replied Sheik. “Childish mind will turn to noble ambition… Young love will become deep affections… The clear water's surface reflects growth.”

“Now, Listen to the Serenade of Water… to reflect upon yourselves.”

Sheik got out his harp, and began to play five very mystical notes. Link repeated the sequence with his Ocarina, and the song started.

Everyone felt as though their were… floating down a magic river with the melody playing. “Wow… what a song.” said Rei.

“I've never heard anything like it before.” added Mina.

The song ended, and Sheik put his harp away. “Link… Sailors… we shall meet again.” and then like before, he was gone in a flash.

“Now that is one strange, dude.” said Darien.

…

Even though the resort was back to normal, most of the people did decided to head home on the count of the weekend was almost over.

On the train ride home that evening, once again, Serena and Rei, had scuffed down several pork-chops… much to everyone's dismay.

“So, did everyone have a good time?” asked Serena's dad. Everyone agreed that they had fun… apart from their Sailor Secrets.

“Hey. Where are Amy and Link.?” Asked Serena's mom.

Well, as strange as it was. Link and Mercury were both kind of beat from the excitement they had that day, and so after one helping of dinner, they went right to bed.

Amy of course was thinking about all the studying she'd have to do when they got home, and as for Link… Well… it was pretty obvious what was on his mind.

“I'll find you Zelda. You're out there somewhere… but I will find you.”

HERO AND SAILOR'S SAY

Link: “So Zelda is really alive. I could barely believe it, but it looks as though it was true. Now I have all the more reason to keep fighting, and continue forward.”

Amy: “Yes. Sometimes a task can seem difficult to accomplish, but with just the right motivation, you can accomplish anything.”

Serena: “Having someone special that inspires you is one of the most wonderful things you can have, or something come to that.”

Rei: “Something you can work hard to accomplish, or to earn something special, who would want to ignore that?”

Lita: “Even if you lose that Special someone, or something, at least you can do things in their honor. That's something you can really say you have motivation for.”

Mina: “But always remember… the right motivation, for the right task, will always equal bold new possibilities.”

(Song: Sung by Link in a dream world)

(Link)

Come out moon
Come out wishing star
Come out
Come out
Wherever you are

I'm out here in the dark
All alone and wide awake
Come and find me
I'm empty and I'm cold
And my heart is going to break
Come and find me

I need you to come here and find me
Cause without you I shall become lost
I've hung a wish on every star
It hasn't done much good so far
I can only dream of you
Wherever you are

I'll hear you laugh
I'll see you smile
I'll be with you just for a while
But when the morning comes
And the sun begins to rise
I'll lose you

Because it's just a dream
When I open up my eyes
I'll lose you

I use to believe in forever
But forever is to good to be true
I've hung a wish on every star
It hasn't done much good so far

I don't know what else to do
Except to try to dream of you
And wonder if you are dreaming to
Wherever you are

Wherever you are