The Legend of Twilight: Link Between Equestria

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Link heard the wolfos howl behind him meaning that he was still being chased by the wolf like monsters. Link took a quick look behind him to see that they were coming up behind him and fast. From what Link could see there were about 8 of them. Usually he can make quick work of these beasts. The problem was that Link has been travelling two days without food or rest even the great hero of time deprived of food and sleep become almost unable to fight.

Soon Link felt something heavy hit his back. A wolfos had managed to pounce onto his back. He felt the wolfos very sharp claws digging into his back . Link spotted the nearest tree that he could use and ran towards it. with his momentum link turned and jump backwards and slammed his back onto the wolfos making it let go.

That lead to a big problem the wolfos had managed to surrounded link. the wolfos Link slammed against the tree shook off his dizziness and rejoined his pack. Link started at the 8 pair of green eyes of these wolf like creatures all ready to fight for there meal. Link knew he had to fight but it was going to be tough and he could pass out at any minute. He needed to make this fight quick or else he'll be these beasts their next meal.

Link pulled out his gilded sword and mirror shield and took his battle stance. Just from puling his sword and shield tired his already weak arms and felt his legs shaking from fatigue. One wolfos came at link trying to swipe at him with it's two sharp claws but Link immediately step back to dodge the attack. Link slashed his blade horizontally cutting the wolf making it step back. Link was about to finish it off but another wolfos tried jumping at him. Link saw this and he quickly raised his shield making it hit it head first into the glass shield without even damaging it. Link raised his sword and  quickly slashed it's head cutting it into his head until he slashed all the way through splitting it's head. Thanks to the power of the triforce it was soon engulfed in flames and disappeared. Link was to distracted to notice another wolfos came up and slashed at his right side. Luckily it didn't cut in too deep so it didn't hurt him too much. Link then quickly slashed at the wolfos that got cutting the top half of it's head off. Link then turned to his left to see another wolfos pounced and was about to land on him. Link reacted fast and managed to stop it by stabbing it through the bottom of it's jaw till the tip of his blade came out the top thus killing and engulfing it in flames. Link turned back to the  remaining wolfos. He was surprised that the wolfos were so persistent to catch something that just killed 3 of it's members normally they would have run off by now. The remaining wolfos had began started circling him but this action had caused Link to grin. This was just perfect to end this fight. Link held his blade behind him getting ready to use his signature move the spin attack. Link then started pouring in his magic to charge it to make it more powerful and have longer range. Link had charged his blade to the max which was evident by the sword glowing orange but this had strained Link too much which caused pain to travel across his whole arm. Link dropped his sword from the pain which canceled his attack. Link was breathing very heavily from using too much magic and energy he should have released it sooner. Then Link's legs gave out leaving him on his knees.

Seeing their chance two of the wolfos pounced onto Link leaving him flat on his stomach. Link tried to get them off but he was too weak to move his arms and legs. Soon the two wolfos slashed at Link's back making a big x mark onto his back and ripping his tunic. Link screamed out in pain from the cut but he still tried to reach for his item pouch hoping to get nayru's love from there but the wolfos began to bite onto his arms. With a sudden adrenaline boost link had  managed to raised his arms and swung them hard enough to launch the three wolfos that were on his arms off. The rush didn't last long until link fell down again. his eyes had began to succumb to darkness he knew that this was the end for him. So link finally closed his eyes accepting his fate. He hoped he would die to some huge monster but it seems his fate was lost to a bunch of wolfs.

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The swordsman Link was a tough hunt for the wolfos and to lose three members of their pack for this one meal made it seem like it wasn't worth it to them. Though they did manage to take him down and now they can enjoy their victory meal and with all the meat on his bones this would be a very good meal for them.

The wolfos were about to bite into their prey when they heard the sound of rustling grass behind them. The wolfos pack turned around to see another man walking up to them. Even though he didn't have much meat on his bones more food for them was all the more better.

The wolfos licked their mouths seeing another easy prey right in front of them. The pack of five started walking up to the man ready to pounce. When they were neared him however they all began to feel a sense of dread inside all of them.

The pack was ready to kill this man and eat his corpse along with Link's. Yet they couldn't for some reason the wolfos couldn't attack him like a force preventing them. The wolfos were trembling from the mere presence of the man and they felt that he could do something worse than whatever link or any other adventurer could do. Not wanting to chance what possible pain that he could cause them they ran off leaving behind the near dead Link.

The man slowly walked up to link and started down at his body. His smile never leaving his face. He reached inside his backpack and pulled out a bottle filled with a blue liquid. He opened up link's mouth and poured it down Link mouth making sure he drank the whole thing. Soon almost all of Link's injuries soon start to fade except the one on his back no healing magic with remove that scar. The man continued to look down at Link seeing him start breathing normally.

"You've meet with a terrible fate haven't you." he said in a very calm voice keeping his very large smile.

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Link looked around the area he stood in it was a very strange place. Link looked down to see that he was standing on water and the sky had some clouds and the sun was out. Link wondered where he was and how he got there. He then remembered that the wolfos had managed to over power him. "

So is this the afterlife." Link thought to himself

All of a sudden there was a flash of light next to him that made him cover his eyes. Link turned to where the flash came from and saw a woman standing that wasn't there before standing near by. She had long green hair that went all the way toward her knees and she was wearing a long flowing green dress with a symbol at the center of her dress. It looked like a circle with two crescent moon shapes on the right.

She smiled at Link and started walking towards him. When she stopped a foot away from him. Link stood still wondering who this woman was and why he had a sense of familiarity like he knew her. Suddenly she had grabbed Link's left hand and put her right right hand over it.  Link wondered what was going on but soon saw both his and her were glowing a golden color. When it stopped Link could have sworn he heard the sound of something being unlocked.

Soon Link had began seeing visions. Link saw pictures of himself but at the same time they weren't him. The age was different from his current age and even though it looked like he was wearing his iconic green tunic it looked much different. All of a sudden memories had started pouring into his head. Memories of things he had never done before or places he had never seen in his life had began being filed into his mind. Link saw a image of a town high above the clouds, him running through a forest with a massive tree at the center, a mountain with lava around every corner and a massive dessert with strange crystals that somehow shifted time. Throughout all of these Images of himself running through these places he has never been to and to him fighting monsters he had never encountered and monsters he did encounter but were much different then the ones he fought and how he had fought them.

What Link saw must have been the strangest vision to appear inside his mind. Link saw that he was staring at his reflection in a lake and that's when something appeared next to him. He saw a small red horse with wings and a dark blonde mane and tail came up and look at his own reflection. Link was wondering why he was seeing this until he noticed the triforce with a harp in the center located on the rear side. Just  What was going on here  why are these images appearing and how can that be me him and how could he have been a small horse if he had never done any of these things or visited any of those places or fought those monsters or even transform into a small horse. All of a sudden his head started hurting immensely the pain was unbearable to link. The last vision he saw was of a strange man with white hair and a red cape holding a black sword.

The visions had stopped coming to link and the pain in his head had gone away. Link looked up to see the woman with a worried look on her face. Link started down at his triforce of courage and saw it disappear from his hand. Link looked back at the woman and saw her release a sigh of relief and soon she began smiling again. Then her right hand had started glowing again. She reached up and touched Link's head which had soon started to make him very tired. Link's eyes began to close but he heard one last thing before he went back to sleep.

"Hero of time I wish you good luck on your next journey. Just know I will watch over you as you learn to control your new abilities." Link heard the woman say before he went to sleep

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Link woke up to the sound to the sound of a organ being played which is strange because he should have died from the wolfos. Link opened his eyes to see his surroundings. Link looked at himself his tunic was off and his chest and arms were covered in bandages. This means that someone must have saved him. Link looked over to where he heard the organ playing and saw something a little surprising . Even though he was still in a deep part of the woods I saw that a organ was out in the open. Link seriously wondered how anyone could just bring a whole organ out into the woods and for what reason.

Link saw a man sitting in front of the organ still playing the song. He had orange hair and wore a long purple tunic, next to his seat was a big backpack with some masks out on display. He must be a mask salesman. Link thought to himself and he didn't know why but he has a strange feeling that he had met him once before.

Suddenly the man stopped playing. "Listen to this song for it shall help you ease the pain of others." He spoke to Link without turning his head he then place his hands back on the keyboard and played six notes slowly.

Understanding what he had to do Link pulled out his ocarina and played the few notes he had heard.

Soon those 6 notes had began to form into a song.

The song had made feel Link relaxed and it eased all the pain Link had felt from the wolfos. It eased the pain of not seeing his friends for so long and knowing that he was alone. The sages had to stay behind to make sure that Ganondorf never escaped. Malon had left her father's farm to travel to her cousin Romani's ranch help her and her sister with the livestock. Knowing his Kokiri friends wouldn't recognize him after he grew up and they would one day out live him. He couldn't see Zelda since she had many duties to attend to as princess and she couldn't make time form. He was all alone, so he hoped to find navi just so link wouldn't have to live his life alone without a friend to be there for him to help him whenever he had trouble or just someone to talk to. This song had eased all the pain he had felt these past ten years. He then stopped playing

The strange man then stopped playing his organ as well and got up from his seat and pressed a button on the organ which to Link's surprise made it fold up till it was smaller. He then placed both the folded up organ and chair in his backpack and put it on his back from the looks of it, it must have been very heavy. So either this man was very strong or all the items he had in there were very light. The man then turned towards Link's direction and started walking toward him. He simply started at Link with his eyes which were barely open and the smile he was giving Link was a bit creepy. When he finally reached Link he then reached inside his bag and pulled out a mask. It, for some strange reason, looked a lot like Link but it had white hair and a white cap and had red markings under the eyes and a blue marking on it's forehead.

"Take this mask," The mask salesman started. "The power within this mask is unmatched throughout this world, use it for only as a last resort."  He then placed the mask on the palm of his right hand.

Link stared at the mask wondering why the man had even gave it to him. Link was about to ask who he was and why he is giving it to him but when he looked up he was gone.

Link looked around hoping to see where he went but couldn't find any sign that he left. He shrugged it off knowing he had met a lot of weird people and other things during his travels and this was not the weirdest he encountered. Though he was up there.

Link placed the mask inside his item pouch with all of his other items and sat down to finally relax. Luckily the mask salesman camped near a river and left a fire here so at least he can have something to cook when he catches some fish to eat.

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(8 hours later)

After finally getting some rest and food Link continued his trek through the forest. He heard that many fairies lived here and he had hoped to find Navi here to see if she had began living here.

Link soon reached his location and was astonished by the sight. There were groups upon groups of fairies, all of different color and each had their own spring. Link walked through the springs and began to call out his friend's name hoping that she would hear him. Link went from one spring to another hoping to find her here but all he found where normal fairies, some were even the healing kind but at the moment they were useless and a waste to him. Soon Link's search came to a end at the last spring. He had checked each and everyone and not one of them held his friend.

Link fell to his knees and started to punch the ground with this fist. He had spent 10 long years searching for his friend 10 years of travelling the world and all its lands just to find her but found nothing. Any and all of his leads on her had always ended in dead ends. Soon a tear fell from his face and touched down into the spring. Deciding that now was a good moment to play the song he pulled out his ocarina and began playing, as the song played many of the fairies had started circling Link. Soon every fairy from every spring had began circling Link the colors of each of them had made a giant rainbow. When Link finished playing he saw the fairies were still circling him but thought they were just dancing to the music. Link got up and was about to leave when the area had suddenly gotten brighter.

Link looked up and was surprised to see a giant ball of light had appeared and was growing. Link then realized something, he was being pulled into it. The bright light had been sucking leaves and Links hat almost flew off before he grabbed it and held on to it. Link tried to go past the wall of faries but a barrier was blocking him from escaping. Link tried to grab on to something, anything, but there was nothing he could grab and even if he could his hands were wet from the spring water so he couldn't get a good grip on anything even if he tried. He couldn't put on his iron boots if he even did try by the time he puts them he'll already be sucked in. Link quickly pulled out his sword and stabbed it into the ground giving him something to grab on. The light however began to suck in everything a lot stronger and Link saw that his sword was starting to come out of the ground. Link desperately hoped that it wouldn't pull out but he knew that wasn't going to happen. That's when Link's sword detached from the ground and the portal soon pulled Link into it. Soon the fairies had stopped spinning and a few fell from using too much of their magic. The light then disappeared leaving no trace of it or Link anywhere.

From afar was floating a single blue fairy. It had watched the whole scene since it was the one who planned it out. She then began shedding tears. "The deed is done my goddesses just please watch over Link for me." She said before parts of her had began to disappear and soon she was gone letting one last tear fall on the spot where Link used to be.

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Celestia was suddenly woken up from her slumber. She had risen from her bed and looked out her window. "That was strange, what was that huge magical spike just now?" She asked herself.

Princess Celestia knew that a lot of young unicorn foals would have magical spikes some times in their life but they usually represent a unicorn with powerful magic, but those were few and far apart, but this was not of unicorn magic it felt a lot different, something else was the cause of it and she was not sure what the source was.

"I should send somepony to investigate perhaps one of the guards stationed in the north. I just hope whatever that was it's not dangerous."

Celestia sighed and returned to bed, she still had duties to perform tomorrow and if her predictions were correct the empire would be returning soon.

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When Link woke up his head was in a lot of pain for some reason. "Please don't tell me I drank a whole barrel again I really need to lay off the drinking." Soon a cold wind blew past Link and caused him to shiver. He tried reaching for the blanket but only felt snow. Link opened his eyes to see that he was outside in a blizzard.

Link sat up straight and looked at his surroundings, he was in a frozen wasteland. Somehow he had gotten sent from a forest to A wasteland of snow and freezing winds. Link saw his sword and grabbed it and placed it back in it's scabbard.

'How did I get here.' Link thought to himself. "The last thing I remember was arriving at the home of the fairies to look for Navi I couldn't find her and then." That's when Link figured it out.

'That's it the fairies sent me here... but why?' Link thought to himself. He tried to figure out an answer. "Fairies never do anything without a good purpose but what reason did they have for bringing me here."

Link kept trying to figure out an answer until he saw something under the snow. Link being cautious as ever drew his sword, he then slowly rose to his feet and walked toward the lump of snow. Once Link approached it he removed the snow and soon saw what it was. Underneath the snow was a small horse creature.

Link realizing what was under the snow sheathed his sword and began digging out the horse. Link then realized how small it was heck it was smaller than Epona when he first met her. Link then remembered Malon telling him about the smaller horses called ponies apparently they were like horses but they were smaller and didn't grow to be as large. Link then noticed it coat instead of the normal colors like brown white or black this one was a dark green color and what was more unusual was on its back was a pair of wings.

Link stared at the horse and placed his right hand on it. Link then realized that it wasn't breathing anymore meaning that it was dead. Link then felt something wet on his right hand he brought his hand up and saw there was blood on it. Link traced back to where his hand was and saw a large stab mark on the side of it's body.

"What happened to you?" Link said as he inspected the body. Link then saw there were more lumps of snow on the ground. Placing the pony body down Link went to each lump thinking he might find a actual person. Link dug up each and every lump but each held only held identical looking ponies with armor on. Link wondered what a bunch of ponies were doing in a harsh climate like this. Link then saw something above the green pony he first found was a shadow. Link recognizing what the shadow meant began to focus his magic into his eyes this. Soon his eyes turned a purple color and signified he was using his sight of truth a new skill which had the same ability of the lenses of truth but no longer required him to use the lens themselves.

What Link was expecting to find was a human soul not the pony he found. Link started up at the pony and saw that the bottom half of its torso was gone and replaced by a ghostly tail. Link must have been staring for a long time because the ghost had a surprised look on his face.

"Wait you can see me?" The pony said in a surprised tone. "How I thought I was dead, I mean that is my body right."  He then began inspecting both his ghostly body and dead body.

Link started wide eyed at the pony who just spoke and only wondered how it was possible for the pony to even be talking. Link shook his head and decided to figure out what happened here.

"Yes I can see you." Link began. "And yes you are dead I just have something that lets me see the dead. Link told the ghost pony still weird out that he was even talking to one."

"Oh really well this sucks." The ghost pony said crossing his forelegs and looking a bit crestfallen. "Well what are you anyways some kind of hairless monkey with really weird and sharp ears?"

Link got annoyed with the ear comment but he kept calm and answered the pony. "Something like that I guess. Just what happened here with all these dead bodies?"

The Pegasus sighed and looked at each of the dead ponies on the ground. "My team and I were on a scouting mission for princess Celestia, we were stationed here in the north waiting for something, I don't know what, to appear. We then got a scroll saying there was something that suddenly appeared out here and that we were to go investigate and find out what it was. This is where we were told where that source came from. We didn't have a chance to investigate when we were ambushed by a shadow with eyes. That shadow killed my whole team I was the last one left, I tried to fly away but I wasn't quick enough, it got me to."

The pony sighed and looked down at the ground. "I just wish there was someway I could have helped. Hey do you have anything that can heal me do you? If not do you have something that can help me pass on for some reason i'm stuck here."

Link knew that it was too late for him to use the one fairy he had on him. Link then thought of an idea that could do either of those two and that's when he thought of a idea. Link pulled out his ocarina and put it to his mouth.

'Third time I played it today but so far its all I can think of at the moment.' Link thought to himself

Link then began playing his ocarina. The pony wondered what the heck Link was doing but as he continued to play the song he soon closed his eyes and felt all his pain go away. When the song ended Link looked at the ghost and saw that he was glowing a gold color.

"What a nice song, it made me actually pretty happy."  He said while his bottom had began disappearing in gold sparkles. "I feel ready to go now, thank you for playing that for me." Then his middle section was gone leaving his upper body. "I just hope somepony is able to stop that Shadow from taking anymore lives." As soon as he said that his whole body was gone the gold sparkles then began gathering together forming a giant ball.

Link stared at the ball in amazement and wondered why it was formed. Suddenly the ball launched toward Link hitting his stomach and knocking him on his back and disappearing inside of him. Link felt his stomach hurt until something happened. His body had began feeling pain everywhere and it was pure torture. Link has never in all his life felt this much pain in his entire body.

He felt his whole body shifted, bones changing in every part of his body either becoming smaller or entirely different. The worst pain he felt was when something began growing out of his back. He felt two different parts of his back split open and shot out two appendages. Before it was all over he let out a scream of pure agony. That echoed across the snow filled area.

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When it was over Link was breathing very hard. He still felt pain throughout his body. Link slowly got up on his hooves and stretched each leg. He then checked if he had lost anything. His tunic was still intact, his mirror shield was on his right foreleg, his gilded sword still strapped to his left side of his chest, his item pouch was on the other side and his golden gauntlets were still on his front hooves. Link sighed in relief glad he had not lost anything.  Link was about to take his first step till he realized something.

"Wait hooves?" Link said to himself." Slowly Link raised his right arm were it was suppose to end in a hand with his gold gauntlet but when instead was a bare dark brown hoof. Link did the same with his other arm, the results were the same. He then looked at his legs instead of feet ended in hooves and that's when he noticed the blonde colored tail. Link did the only smart thing anyone could do in this sort of situation....... scream, and started freaking out.

After his little moment Link decided to try and figure out what happened. 'Okay why am I a pony now. Why did today have to be so horrible running from wolfos while starving, getting transported to a frozen wasteland, feeling terrible pain after helping a pony go to rest, turning into one, not finding my best friend.' Link thought to himself, after the last one link felt tears come to his eyes but wiped them off.

"Now isn't the time I have to figure out where I am and how to turn back to normal because this is not funny." Link said to himself. Link shakily got up on his four hooves trying to adapt at having four legs instead of two. Link surveyed the area around him seeing nothing but snow. "Great stuck in a snowstorm, in a place I have no idea about. Link sighed and shook his head. Might as well find someplace to rest and figure out what happened."

Link very slowly began to walk on his hooves but it was much harder then it looked. Link spent the first ten minutes learning how to walk on hoof and he soon began walking at a slow pace no longer face planting on the ground. Link nodded to himself and slowly began to walk in a random direction but soon felt something off. He looked at himself and saw that his whole body was glowing gold and was getting even more brighter. Link panicked wondering what was going on but he didn't have a chance to react when his body glowed the brightest and just like that he was gone.