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The Legend of Sonic: Twilight Princess: Chapter 15

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Chapter 15

"Zelda" the Gerudo

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After learning about the history of the Twilight Realm, Link looked toward the direction of the setting sun and caught sight of something white on one of the mesas a half a mile away. Even though Zant's spell enabled her to withstand the light more, Midna took cover in Link's shadow to stay out of the heat, which made Link envious as the rays of the sun began to cook her.

"What's that over there?" She asked herself.

Knowing that it wasn't going to get any cooler until night, Link took in a deep breath and began the trek toward the monolith. But as she walked a quarter of a mile, she heard something shift the sand. She turned around to find nothing as the shifting stopped. Pausing for a moment, Link returned to the direction of the monolith and continued her walk.

As she did, she began to wonder why Sonic and Shadow didn't wait for her. They knew that she would come after them to finish their quest, so why didn't they make camp and wait? Especially since Midna had told her some vital information about the Mirror of Twilight and the Twilight Realm itself. At this point, she was hoping that they were at the structure or the condemned prison to which their quest was taking them.

But as she finished that thought, Link heard the shifting of sand again. She was about to turn around but suspected that if she did, the source of the shifting sound would stop. So instead, she called on a little help as she whispered, still facing the structure.

"Midna. What's following us?"

Midna, who was also curious as to what the sound was, watched from inside Link's shadow as the heroine continued to walk. Sure enough, the imp caught sight of the sand shifting as if something was burrowing underneath it.

"Stop for a second, Link." Midna whispered.

Link obeyed and the imp saw the sand mound stop and flatten.

"There's something under the sand about a foot behind you. Better be quick about it."

Link quickly thought about which item she should use on the mysterious mound until she remembered the Clawshot she got from the Lakebed Temple. Reaching into her pouch, Link located the Clawshot and pulled it out. Turning quickly, Link fired the claw at the location that Midna pointed out. The claw dug into the sand and hit something solid. The chain quickly retracted to pull the object out of the sand.

Their follower turned out to be a sort of a worm the size of a cat. It was pyramid-shaped with a set of green, slited eyes and a triangular mouth that had three large teeth. One on each point of the triangle shape. The worm struggled fiercely as Link drew her sword while the chain continued to recoil. Once the chain reached the rest of the item, Link gave one swift move and sliced the worm in half. She then pressed the release button on the Clawshot and watched as the two halves of the worm dropped to the ground and squealed and twitched until it finally went limp.

Midna came out of Link's shadow to see the dead creature for herself and recoiled with disgust.

"That's what's been following us? I thought a desert was a barren wasteland."

Link returned the Master Sword to its scabbard and the Clawshot to the pouch, panting lightly under the hot sun.

"We need to keep moving. In this heat and with no shade, that worm is going to attract unwanted attention, and possibly kill us with the foul stench of its decaying flesh."

Midna shuddered at Link's description.

"I really didn't need to know that. But you are right. We should get moving."

With that, Midna returned to Link's shadow as the heroine continued on, unaware that their companions were in trouble.

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Meanwhile…

Sonic groaned as he slowly stirred, his head throbbing with a beating pain. He tried to move his arms to touch his head and prop himself up, only to find that his arms were somehow bound. Jerking his body up, Sonic managed to find a wall to lean back on as the world slowly became visible once again. But when he's eyes became clear, he saw that he wasn't in the desert anymore. Well, it was a bit obvious since it was cooler where he was than what it would be under the blazing sun.

He was in a room made of mud and stone with barred windows and a cell door. He was sitting on a cot that hung on one side of the cell. Across from him was Shadow, lying on another cot, out cold and with his arms and legs bound with rope and shackles. Sonic looked downward to find that ropes also bound his arms to his sides and iron shackles on his ankles to keep him from running.

The blue-haired man groaned in annoyance and the fact that this was the second time he and Shadow had been incarcerated in a foreign land.

"Man, I've got to work on NOT waking up in a cell unconscious."

It was at that moment that he heard Shadow groan. Sonic watched as his red and black doppelganger sat up with the same pain he had experienced.

"Point me at whatever hit me so I can kill it."

Despite his own pain, Sonic managed to chuckle as Shadow managed to take in his surroundings.

"Where are we? Another cell?"

"Most defiantly. As to who locked us up, I've only just woke up."

Shadow groaned as he leaned back towards his wall.

"Perfect. Just perfect. First, Link chose a fine time to be an emotional woman. Then, we've learned that we have to enter a condemned prison in the middle of a wasteland. Now, this!"

He then looked around once again.

"Where are our weapons?"

Sonic then realized that their pouches were gone, too. This was bad considering they each had one Royal Family Treasure. Sonic struggled to get out of his bonds, but to no avail.

"No good. Whoever tied us up did a bang-up job."

"I'll take that as a complement." A sultry voice spoke.

The two men turned their heads toward the door to find a tan woman standing in the doorway. She had long, fiery red hair tied in a high ponytail with a jeweled tie in her hair. She was wearing an indigo tube top with gold markings on it, indigo Arabian-style pants, and black curled shoes. She wore a ruby and gold pendent with emerald studded earrings, a gold snake-like armband on her upper right arm, and a gold bracelet on her left wrist. Her golden eyes held both mystique and contempt.

She reminded the pair of Rouge, only looking less friendly.

"I trust you find your new quarters comfortable?" The new woman asked.

Sonic took the time to make a slight sarcastic remark. "Be even more comfortable if we weren't tied up."

The woman shook her head.

"You have no idea how much trouble you are in, are you?"

Shadow then spoke, anger rising.

"Then, please. Enlighten us. Who are you? Where are we? Why are we locked up?"

The woman answered, her emotions well hidden.

"I am Naboona. I am a member of the Gerudo Tribe of the desert. You are in one of the prison cells of our fortress. And for the reason why…you have trespassed into our desert. And we don't take trespassers lightly."

It was Sonic who spoke up to Naboona.

"We didn't mean to trespass anywhere. We just need to get to the condemned prison near the lands of Hyrule."

After hearing the location, the tan Naboona turned pale.

"You do not mean the Arbiter's Grounds, do you? That place is a damned structure. Several of our warriors would go inside over the years, but only a small handful would come out. And they speak of a great evil that haunts its walls."

She then looked at the men suspiciously.

"Why do you wish to go to those cursed grounds? Either there is some kind of treasure inside that you wish to seek, you are on a dare, or do you both have a death wish?"

Sonic caught himself before his own emotions could betray him by revealing the Mirror of Twilight to this stranger. Especially if there was the possibility that Naboona and the rest of her tribe were aligned with Zant.

Shadow, on the other hand, answered for them.

"That us for us to know. Now release us and let us be!"

Naboona's composure returned to what seemed to be 'normal' and folded her arms, all whilst giving the pair a stern look.

"It seems that several days here may make you change your mind. As well as the fact that you two had trespassed into our desert."

She then turned to leave, only to stop to speak again without facing them.

"I am sorry. I do not make the rules. Only follow them."

She then left, the door closing behind her. The sound of the lock clicked, telling the prisoners that there was no escape. Lying down on his cot, Shadow muttered to Sonic.

"I pray to this world's goddesses that Link gets us out of here."

Sonic said nothing as he also lay down to sleep off his migraine.

"I hope so, too."

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Meanwhile…

Link was in front of the white marble monolith that she made her destination, looking up to try to recognize it. It had been a half an hour since she killed the worm that was trying to ambush her and she had killed several more on the way. So when she reached the mesa, Link was relived to finally be able to rest from constantly checking her trail for more of those worms. And even more relived after taking out a Twilight Messenger ambush without the help of her male companions.

When she reached the top of the mesa, Link noticed that the obelisk was made of some sort of white stone or marble. Unusual for a naturally made structure. Slowly, Link walked around the structure until she saw something on the north side of it.

It was blood. Old blood splattered downward, which was peculiar. Link then reached out her hand and touched the blood to examine it. It was at least two days old. Around the same time she battled the Bulblin King on the Great Bridge of Eldin. The memories involving that broken bridge came into play as Link remembered the large portion disappearing into a Twilight Portal.

No doubt about it. It was her blood that she was touching, mixed in with the King Bulblin's blood and the dirt and sand of the environment around her. This was the missing piece of the Great Bridge of Eldin!

"Midna? Would it be alright if we put the bridge piece back?" Link asked.

Midna answered by leaving Link's shadow and, like with the Kakariko Bridge, used her power to lift the bridge piece and disintegrate it into the Twilight Portal, taking Link with her.

When Link returned to her normal state, she was standing on the now-repaired Eldin Bridge. The bloodstains now faced the sun and would evaporate over time. With a nod from Link, Midna teleported the two of them back to the mesa in the Gerudo desert.

When they've returned, Link looked around until she found her tracks. At that moment, she realized something was wrong. How could she been so dense? If the men had gone ahead of her, they would've left tracks. But she saw none and the wind wasn't strong enough to cover any tracks.

With the mesa as her vantage point, Link shaded her eyes as she scoured the surrounding the land. Not one sign of either Sonic or Shadow.

"Something's wrong." She spoke. "There's no trace of those two anywhere."

Midna, equally concerned, decided to leave Link's shadow again.

"I'll look from above."

Link waited as Midna levitated into the air and spun slowly to search for any trace of the two. However, unlike Link, she stopped whilst facing the northwest, at least a couple of miles from their destination. Floating down, Midna spoke to Link, pointing in the direction of what she saw.

"There is a structure just northwest of here. It is by a canyon wall near another section of desert. There is a giant woman carved into the rock west of that place." She then cocked her head at Link. "Do you think it's possible that those two would be there?"

Link shrugged her shoulders.

"I do not know. But it's the only other place they could've gone to."

Without another word, Midna returned to Link's shadow as the heroine made the long trek to the fortress in the sand.

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Sunset…

It was a few hours later that Link found herself and Midna looking over the immense fortress that was hidden within the walls of a nearby canyon and sand. Upon further observation, the two saw that there was still life in the fortress and its grounds. But there was something odd. All the people they had spotted so far were all women. There were some pale ones with various hair colorings, but the most common kind were tanned skinned and red hair.

Remembering Auru's warning, Link realized who they were.

"That must be the Gerudo tribe that Auru warned me about."

Midna looked at her with interest.

"And you think that those two are in there."

"I didn't see any tracks that lead to the prison. So they must be in there."

"And how are we gonna get in there?"

Link looked around until she saw one Gerudo leave a room that what may be a bedroom.

"With a disguise."

Carefully and quietly, Link made her way towards the fortress. Keeping low to the ground and within the shadows, she crept her way toward a door on the eastern side. Using nearby crates to her advantage, Link entered the fortress.

The interior resembled a military fortress, little for normal decoration and more war-like, the walls strewn with weapons from conquests or battles to memorials of fallen Gerudo warriors. There was little cover so Link had to be extra careful as she crept down the halls and barracks to find an empty bedroom. Thanks to Midna's shadow abilities, Link passed each room without attracting the attention of the women on the other side of each room. It wasn't until they were four floors up that they found an empty bedroom.

Midna used her shadow form to enter the bedroom and unlock the door, which was a bit difficult without a key. None the less, she got the job done and Link quickly came inside. Once in, Link closed the door quietly and began to rummage through the dressers that were in the room until she found a set of clothing for her.

"Honestly, haven't these women ever heard of practical clothing?"

Midna snickered at Link's distaste for the clothing.

"I think that you're shy about your body being displayed like this."

Link blushed in frustration and embarrassment as she stripped herself of the Hero's Tunic and her items and put on her new clothing. The tube top and the pants were in a shade of light purple with silver markings. Pointed shoes of the same color on her feet and for extra measures, a light purple veil to conceal half her facial features. She combed her short hair so that it's smoothed out and kept. She then found a jeweled chocker and a pair of snake armbands along with a set of bracelets that she adorned.

Upon finishing her disguise, Link looked in a full-length mirror to examine herself. And she couldn't believe that this was her. Aside from the lack of a tan and the red hair and pointed ears, Link was a very convincing false Gerudo. Midna floated around her to examine the heroine.

"Hmmm. Not bad. This may be a better look for you than that old tunic you wear all the time."

Link rolled her eyes as she placed all her items in her pouch along with the Master Sword and Midna returned to her shadow. After she left the room, Link made her way down the halls until she turned a corner and came face to face with a real Gerudo. Link's heartbeat raced as the Gerudo came closer and closer until finally, she passed her without a second look.

Once the woman left, Link breathed a sigh of relief as she continued her tour. But as she passed the mess hall, a voice stopped Link.

"You! What are you doing here?"

Link stopped and turned slowly to find Naboona approaching her, though she didn't know who she was at the time.

"I-I was taking a look around. I'm new here."

"I can see that. Only rookies are pale. But what I want to know is who you are and what post are you."

Link had to think up a name and quick.

"M-my name is…"

She then spoke the only name that came to her, praying that the one she chose as a namesake would forgive her for using the name.

"…Zelda. I'm from Hyrule. As for post, I received no orders as of yet."

Naboona folded her arms and studied 'Zelda'.

"You do know that the name of the princess of Hyrule is also 'Zelda', right?"

Link nodded.

"It's a coincidence, actually. I had asked my parents that and that's what they told me."

Link hoped that this would be enough to trick the Gerudo as she approached her. But as she got close, the woman smiled and shook her hand.

"Next time, ask for directions. Otherwise, the girls will mistake you for a man."

She then motioned 'Zelda' to walk with her down the hall.

"By the way. I am Naboona. Second-in-command of the Gerudo tribe."

Link's eyes widened at the similarity between Naboona's name and another she had heard from the legend of the Hero of Time.

"Naboona…Forgive me if I'm being rude, but that name sounds similar to the name of the Sage of Spirit in the Hero of Time legend."

Naboona chuckled as they continued to walk.

"Well, that's because the sage was my ancestor and leader of the tribe: Nabooru."
Sorry for the wait.

Zelda was the only false name I could think of for Link's diguise.

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wow Apparently Link is a convincing Gerudo. when are you mading the next chapter?