The Legend of Twilight: Link Between Equestria

Link soon began to open his eyes but covered them when they were hit by the harsh sunlight. Links then suddenly sat up and open his eyes. He looked around the area he was and saw that he was no longer in the crystal empire but a large grassy field.

"What the, where am I." Link muttered to himself. "I was just at the Crystal empire fighting Sombra but where am I now?"

Link rubbed his face when he noticed something about his appendage, it was a hand. Link stared wide eyed at the familiar appendage on him and wondered what happened. Link looked at his whole body to see that he was back in his old body. He sighed in relief to be back to normal but what about the crystal empire, Sombra, and the ponies were they all just a dream. Link shook his head maybe it was but right now he needed to figure out where he was.

Link stood up and looked around the field until he saw something familiar in the distance. A large mountain with a smoke ring around it. Link only knew of one mountain that could have that.

"I'm back in Hyrule." Link whispered to himself. "I'm home." Link smiled remembering seeing his old home land has not changed. Link soon began walking towards death mountain. It's been ten years since he's seen Zelda she'll be surprised to see him back after so long.

As Link neared the castle he saw that dark clouds were beginning to fill the sky. Link began running toward the castle in order to get some cover from the rain. Link soon crossed the bridge and just in time as it started closing. Link felt the drops of rain start falling. He sighed guess he couldn't see Zelda today. Link decided to rest in one of the inns they have here. Link soon began toward the market area, on the way he saw a guard who he waved to but the guard glared hard at him. Link lowered his hand and scratched his head in confusion, did that guard seem angry that he was here.

Link shook his head and continued walking, he however didn't notice another guard come out from a building and soon the two began following him. Link continued walking through the castle town while having his shield over his head to cover him from some of the rain. Link sighed his luck wasn't good these past few days but hopefully something good will happen soon. Link soon reached the market area and was by the fountain. He remembered this place, this is were he first met Zelda. Link sighed he always did get lost in the castle town when he was younger it seems it wasn't so different here and now. Link then felt something wrong he looked behind him to see a pair of guards were glaring at him.

Link wondered what was going on when more guards had started appearing. Link looked around the area and saw that many guards formed a circle around him. The circle opened up and someone familiar appeared. It was princess Zelda.

Link smiled at seeing his old friend after all these years. Link decided to go and greet her.

"Hey Zelda its been so long." Link was about to reach when suddenly multiple sword were pointed to his throat, this caused Link to stop in his tracks. Link looked to his left and right seeing the nearby guards having their swords on his throat Link raised his arms defensively.

"Hey calm down you guys its me Link." Link tried to calm the guards nerves but they kept their swords toward his throat. "Zelda can  you please tell the guards to calm down its just me."

"Silence." Zelda snapped at Link who was taken aback. "Link you are under arrest for committing attempted genocide of the goron, and the zora tribes, and the burning of Kakariko village which left no survivors." The punishment for these crimes is death. Zelda then summoned a rapier and thrust it at Link who was barely able to dodge it.

"What, Zelda you're talking crazy I never did any of that you know I never would." Link then barely dodged a swing from one of the guards sword. "I've been gone for ten years I never done anything like that"

"Silence a criminal such as yourself has no right to speak." Zelda yelled at Link then raised her sword in the air and pointed it at Link. "Guards kill the criminal that stands before us and do not let him escape." Soon every guard surrounding Link charged at him at once. Link tried to look for some way to escape but couldn't find anything he could use. Link closed his eyes waiting for the pain from the weapons to come but after a few second nothing happened. He opened his eyes and couldn't believe the sight all the guards laid motionless on the ground each with a large slash mark oozing out blood. Link looked up and couldn't believe the sight in front of him. There holding Zelda lifeless body by her neck and a sword through his chest was him but at the same time wasn't. The lookalike in front of him wore a black tunic and had silver hair his eyes a crimson red color. Soon the doppelganger removed the sword and threw Zelda lifeless body to the ground. He then turned and faced towards Link with a unnerving smile.

"Well what do we have here." The lookalike said. "The famous hero of time comes home after so many years of being gone and all he gets is a order to have him dead. I got to say this has to be the worst homecoming party ever. The doppelganger soon began to walk towards Link. I gotta say that felt real good what you and I did killing all these guards and the princess."

Link was shocked to hear what the doppelganger was saying but soon that shock turned into anger. "What the hell are you talking about I didn't do any of this and just who are you anyways."

"Aw come on Link don't hurt my feelings like that I mean we're practically related but ok i'll introduce myself." The doppelganger did a mock  bow and raised his head up to look at Link. "My name is Dark Link you're dark side.  And of course you did this Link while it wasn't directly you it was still you in the end. Dark Link then began to chuckle.  You know what let me start from the beginning."

"I represent everything that you aren't in other words every negative thing about you. While you are the selfless hero who would face anything and anyone to help people, I am the one who rather be the one to kill them. Link the thing about you is that you may have killed plenty of monsters but you never really took another human being or any other tribes life. Heck you didn't kill Ganondorf you just had the sages help and sealed him away and Twinrova well they weren't really human more like demons. What I'm saying Link is that even though you never really killed another human being you always wanted to. I mean why not you do some much for these damn people but in the end what do you get in return nothing, not a single bit of praise or admiration once you helped them they forget all about you. Whenever they have a problem they can do themselves they always expected you to do it. I mean seriously why should the hero of time even help a bunch of carpenters that got themselves trapped in a Woman only fortress."

"You hated it all but you hid it deep down inside you because that wasn't you, you're the selfless hero who couldn't hate anyone so you hid that hate somewhere dark and that dark place was me. I am everything you don't want. You're hate for the people of Hyrule and other lands, the pride that just shows how great you are but you don't believe it because it could change you for the worse, and best of all your want to kill innocent lives. I mean seriously I never seen someone want to kill anyone so badly. Lets check the list." Dark Link then raised his hand.

"There's the goddesses who choose you to be the hero even though you wanted to live a perfectly normal life, The six sages for half of them who happened to be friends of yours leaving you behind to be normal while they stayed in there little chamber ignoring you, Princess Zelda who you thought would be a good friend of yours till the end but was just something to help keep her Kingdom in peace, and lets not forget the best one of all Navi the fairy companion who stayed with you throughout you're whole adventure but just abandoned you without a reason and made you waste ten years of you're life looking for her sorry ass. And you want to know why she left you its quiet funny actually. Don't you remember how after a fairy fulfills its duty it disappears and dies in peace knowing it accomplished it goal. Well her little goal was to make sure that you didn't screw up on you're quest. And when it was all over she just abandon you because she just wanted you waste you're life all for a lost cause and that cause was finding her so that you wouldn't be alone. If she had just told you she was dying you could have moved on and made some new friends but I guess that's not what she wanted. She just wanted you to be miserable."

Dark Link chuckled at the look on Links face. It looked like he didn't want to believe it but with his influence he would be under his control very soon.

So after spending part of your life searching for a friend who was dead and finding her nowhere in the world. You wanted someone to pay for you're pain to make people suffer like you did but you hid those emotions deep down inside of you not wanting them to come out. I can however do all that for you Link I can make other people suffer like you did all you have to do is give me control over you're body. And when you're satisfied you can have your body back and have a clean slate because you weren't the one who did that it was all me. So Link do we have a deal I take control of your body and make everyone suffer and you wouldn't be the cause of it.

Dark Link brought his hand up in a hand shaking gesture. Link stared at the hand wondering what he was going to do. If what he said was true then maybe people had the right to suffer like he did. Link slowly began to raise his hand and went to grab Dark Links who had a evil grin plastered on his face. As Link was about to grab it something began glowing. Link looked down and saw that the triforce of courage was shining bright. Link then snapped back to normal and saw Dark Link covering his eyes. Link seeing his dark half was blinded drew his sword and stabbed him in the chest. Dark Link gasped as he felt the sword go through his body and coughed out a bit of blood. He gripped the sword and looked up to see Link face.

"You almost had me there for a minute I was actually willing to go along with this stupid plan of yours. Listen here and listen good. I don't believe a damn word you said. I would never kill innocent lives and I never will. Zelda and the sages they all had a job to do. And even if I can't see them ever again they will always be my friends. Navi may have left me and it is possible she died after our adventure but she did give the one thing I always wanted to do. I finally got to travel the world and that's the best thing a friend could do. Now I'm done with you and you better hope I don't see you again." Link then brought his foot up and kicked Dark Link in the stomach so hard that he was launched back and crashed through a wall of a house.

Link sheathed his sword and saw that the world was distorting. Soon Link was covered in a light and soon disappeared leaving behind the fake hyrule town which began disappearing. Dark Link step through the hole and coughed out some blood. He then slammed his fist into the house which caused it to crack.

"Dammit I was so close." Dark Link grunted still hurt from the wound, even though this nightmare world Link woke up in was fake Dark Link was very much real. "I'll get him one day and once I do I will be in control of this body and they will see his true nature they will see the real Link." Dark Link soon began to chuckle as the dream world began to disappear into darkness.

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Link soon began to open his eyes and saw that he was back on the balcony of the castle. Link slowly got up on his hooves and looked up and saw that Sombra was against the railing with his eyes closed, this was Links chance. Picking up his sword Link raised it with his right hoof and started charging it with magic but stopped. He then lowered his sword.

'What am I thinking, if it didn't work before what makes me think it will work now.' Link thought to himself. He then noticed the crystal heart was right next to him. Link then remembered something.

The crystal heart was the key to stopping Sombra and in the note it said it could kill him. its filled with negative energy so I need positive energy to counter it. Link looked to see the crystal heart next to Sombra Link grabbed it and placed on his back his sword strap keeping it in place. Link charged up his sword and charged at Sombra. In one swift motion Link stabbed Sombra. Sombra eyes were quickly opened as he released a grunt of pain. Sombra looked up and soon his eyes widen at the one stabbing him

"Impossible how did you escape!?" Sombra managed to choke out. "The spell I used on you combined with the negative energy of the crystal heart should have you living a never ending nightmare."

"I simple nightmare isn't what it takes to beat me Sombra you're going to have to try harder than that if you want to kill me." Link said. "Now we're going on a little trip." Link then grabbed Sombra by his neck and removed his sword and jumped off the balcony.

Link kept his hoof on Sombra throat keeping him on the bottom, he then raised his sword which was charged with magic and began to repeatedly stab Sombra in the chest. Link each time in a different area, Sombra tried to do something to stop him but each stab was making him weaker and losing more and more blood. Soon the two crashed into the ground of the empire which caused large spiderweb cracking to form and Sombra armor soon began to break apart showing a large crack in the center of his chest. Link seeing this raised his sword one last time and stabbed Sombra in the center of the crack. Sombra roared in pain as pain surged throughout his whole body.

Link kept his sword embedded in Sombras chest knowing he wouldn't be getting up anytime soon. Link then noticed the group of ponies that he saved from the dungeon were right in front of him with looks ranging from amazement, disgust or fear. Link then grabbed the crystal heart and threw it at the group.

Twilight seeing that Link threw the heart grabbed it with her magic. She stared as the heart as it glowed its dark black color.

"Get the heart to the crystal ponies." Link yelled. "I'll hold him back as long as I can." Twilight nodded and she along with her friends went to go find Cadence and Shining Armor. Link sighed in relief but felt pain in his stomach as he was launched up in the air along with his sword. Link landed with a thud and slowly raised his back to see Sombra slowly getting up.

"You think you can defeat me that easily." Sombra said trying to bring himself back up but fell down on his back. "I am this empire rightful king. I took control of this empire a thousand years ago. I won't have a damn colt like you take away my kingdom. I refuse to believe that a simple earth pony could ever defeat me. I won't I will not accept it. "

Link looked at Sombra noting how he was talking. He is in denial right now. He doesn't realized that it is all over that he had lost. Link almost felt pity at how the false king has fallen but right now he doesn't care. Link soon noticed a bright light in the distance. Link looked up and saw that the crystal heart was rising in the air.

raise your sword.

Link looked around looking for the voice that just spoke but found no one. He looked at his sword and raised it high above his head. Link then felt a powerful surge of power. His gilded sword was now glowing a blue color and he noticed that the triforce of courage was on his left hoof glowing its signature gold color.

Link then jumped into the air and brought his sword behind his head in a stabbing position and brought it down on Sombra chest making him roar in pain. Soon the stab mark from Links final attack began cracking his entire body like he was made of glass. Cracks then began to cover his whole body. A bright light suddenly appeared making Link close his eyes. When the light was gone Link opened his eyes but found that Sombra was no where to be seen. The light from Links sword soon began to disappear, once it was gone he swung it right and left spun it around twice and sheathed it.

Link looked around seeing the dark colors of the empire were changing back to their original colors. Link soon noticed that his coat was shining just like a crystal. He liked how it looked but the sight of his torn and burnt tunic made it less appealing. Link sighed he had worn this same tunic since he was a child but now it looked beyond any repair. He removed the tunic and put it in his item pouch. After that Link smiled looking at the shining empire. Now that he's done all that he can to help Link made his way out of the empire. He still needed to find a way to turn back to normal and to get home to Hyrule.

Links vision then was filled with blue which caused him to yelp in surprise and fall back.

"And where do you think you're going." A pink pony with a really bubbly mane said. "You're not going to miss out on the party are you?"

Link looked up to see that it was the pink pony he saved from the dungeon he noticed that her coat was glowing like a crystal to."I, um, really don't do parties not really my things." Link said while rubbing the back of his head. "I'm just gonna go now if you don't mind." Link got up and walked around the pony but felt his hoof grabbed and was suddenly being pulled away and by pulled he was dragged across the ground.

"Oh no you're not you are going to stay here and enjoy the party with all of us." The pony said, then started pulling towards somewhere really fast. "And I can't wait to introduce you to all my friends I know we met before in the dungeon when you saved us but we never really got a chance to talk and ohmygosh I never learned your name mines Pinkie Pie but you can call me Pinkie. So what's your name"

Link was really confused at how fast this pony was talking. He sighed there doesn't seem any way for him to get out of this one.  "It's Link." He answered, still being dragged by Pinkie until they both stopped in front of the same group of ponies Link saved from the castle dungeon. Link looked up to see that Twilight was looking apologetic

"Sorry about Pinkie she can be a little energetic." She said. "Here let me help you up."

"Its alright no harm done." Link said, as Twilight brought him back to his hooves but as soon as he did he collapsed falling onto his knees. Link soon began to feel the aftermath of his battle with Sombra. Link always managed to fight off the pain during battles but after that's when they really started to hurt.

Hang on a second. Link said raising a hoof thinking he was raising one finger in a wait motion. Link then reached for his item pouch. Link then pulled out a red potion and drank half its contents. Soon almost all of his injuries began to heal only leaving a few scorch mark and a barely visible scar over his heart. The girls were all surprised to see him heal all his injuries in a instant.

Link wiped his mouth and breath out a puff of red smoke then smiled. So I think introductions are in order just call me Link. Twilight came up and smiled.

"My names Twilight Sparkle and these are my friends." She pointed toward the group and started at Pinkie. 'Of course you met Pinkie, this is Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, And Fluttershy. She pointed to the rest of her friends." Link smiled and nodded remembering each of their names.

'Well I guess its nice to properly meet all of you. Link said. We just seen each other around the Empire and we never really did introduce ourselves.

Well Its nice to finally meet the pony who just saved the crystal empire single hoofed. Twilight said with a bit of sadness but went unnoticed by everypony but Link. I got to say you look familiar.

Link began to sweat a bit hoping she didn't remember that he basically snuck into the castle and listened in on her private conversation with one of its rulers. "Didn't we meet here in the empire, you know I was the one not talking to you at all." Link replied hoping that was she remembered.

Before Twilight had a chance to reply Rainbow butted in. Yeah and you're the guy who ditched me in a middle of a joust. Rainbow said poking him in the chest. "I still want that rematch and there is no way you're getting out of this one."

Link nodded and looked around seeing that the crystal fair was being set back up he barely had time to enjoy with Sombra breaking into the empire. I guess I could stay for a bit. Link admitted, then was pulled into a hug.

"Great come I can show you all the fun stands and games that there are and I have to show you my new flugelhorn." Pinkie said as she sped away with Link to show him around the fair. The girls all giggled at Pinkie antics.

Soon they all separated to go enjoy the fair. The empire was free and they were going to enjoy it.

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In a dark alley in the empire laid a red colored horn. The horn began to glow and soon a shadow formed from it.

"Twice. The shadow muttered. Twice I have lost control over my empire and bested in combat. And this time to a damn earth pony!" The shadow roared in its thoughts.

The shadow soon calmed down. "It does not matter now. I was not at my full power against Link but I shall return and I will take back my Empire and this time nopony will be able to stop me."

"I have something else planned for you Sombra." A voice called out from behind the horn. Sombra didn't have a chance to see who the voice belonged to before he was engulfed in a bright light.

The figure looked out the alley to see the crystal ponies enjoying there time at the crystal fair. The figure smiled and sighed.

"Link your quest is far from over." The figure said speaking to them self. You may have saved this empire but you still have much to do in this land. Evil roams this land and you are destined to put a end to it all but you cannot do it alone. The figure then looked to the sky. The greatest evil you will face in this land cannot be defeated alone you need all the help that you can get. Soon the figure disappeared leaving no sign of her ever being there.

Soon a bright red light lite up the alleyway. On the floor laid a creature of some kind which was glowing black with the edges being red and sported a pair of crystal wings. Once the creature would awake it would be very angry at this change.