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Part 2 of The Chance to Choose
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2025-02-23
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2025-12-06
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Brother's Courage

Summary:

Nine heroes of courage bound by an ancient curse. Nine boys named Link forced together through time and space. Solitary adventures are all they know, but now teamwork is essential for survival against enhanced black blooded monsters in both their present, and their pasts.

Some of the worst parts of the Link's lives have been made far more terrifying by the addition of black blood, which will surely kill their younger selves if they don't intervene. But what will happen if the Links intervene to save their younger selves, they don't know.

 

Or, part 2 of a beginning to end Linked Universe quest where the Links and Zeldas travel through time as their distinct groups, working together to stop their greatest foes reincarnated, who are also working together, to change the history of Hyrule.

Notes:

Welcome ladies and gents to the Linked Universe story that took over my brain and wouldn't let me think about anything else, much less write anything else, until it was in words on a page. This all started with a scene that my mind created of the Chain meeting Legend (which is the very last scene of part 1) that sat in my brain for over a week screaming at me and demanding attention. I did my very best to ignore it (obviously not successfully) because I knew that if I wrote it down I would have to write a hecking giant story to go with it.

This is part 2 of that story, and if you haven't read part 1, I HIGHLY recommend that you go and read that first, because this picks up right where that left off, and it assumes that you have already read part 1. If you start this part without reading part 1, you will most likely be very confused, and won't know anything that's happened already before this point. You have been warned.

As I said in the notes of the last chapter in part 1, if you want to keep reading this story, please subscribe to me or this work/series in some way, as I will be writing and editing these chapters as I go before posting them, so there will be no consistency or real scheduling like there was in part 1, and there may be somewhat large gaps between chapter postings depending on what life throws at me and the free time I have to dedicate to writing.

I hope you enjoy this pure passion project of mine! You can get an exciting glimpse of what is to come from the tags, so I won't tease anything here.

Without further ado, I give you... Ravio!

Chapter 1: Interlude: 2

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

And that, my idiotic ladies and gentlemen, is how my beloved landlord was taken from me... ABSCONDED!!!

 

*Dramatic betrayal face*

 

What will past me do in the wake of such a tragedy you ask?

 

...Do some laundry. A bit of mending. Feed Sheerow. Check the lock on one of the cursed item chests. Ya know, important stuff.

 

What? Don't give me that look! I was out of socks! Which is also why I was mending, so that I'd have more socks! And I had to feed Sheerow, he's the leader of the household! And if the lock on that chest had broken, well... we'd ALL be dead, so you should be grateful I was able to muddle through my distress at losing Mr Hero, again, to keep everyone from becoming deaded.

 

*Sigh*

 

The amount of disrespect I face. Can't Zel make a decree or something?

 

...Ya know, that's not a bad idea–

 

FOCUS!

 

By this point in the tale of idiots, idiots, and a couple more idiots, you've met a solid third-ish of the main cast. Go you! Things are just now getting going, though, so keep your socks close, hold them tight, don't ever, ever let them go. You think I'm joking, but have you ever been without good socks? Nightmare fuel...

 

Anyways, I wanted to conduct a sort of experiment, if you'll do me the pleasure. Those of you who are utter idiots, should really hopefully have noticed, that each time one of our favorite Link hero types was introduced to us, one of the other Link hero types gave you idiotic readers a nice detailed description of them. Those of you who are only slight idiots, will have noticed that there was one of our beloved Link hero types who was never described.

 

THE TRAGEDY!!! *Dramatic lean and hand across forehead*

 

That, ladies and gents, is what I am going to give you now for your reading pleasure. The absolute idiots –which is far worse than being utter idiots, in case you were wondering– will have to go back and figure out which of our Link hero types this belongs to. The rest of you other degrees of idiots, will do no such foolish thing, and know exactly who I am talking about. Don't worry, I'll try and be as non descriptive as possible in my description so that we can root out the dumblings!

 

*Cough* *Cough*

 

He had thick short sandy blond hair, a soft, kind face, a stocky but muscular build, was an average height, and had bright blue eyes. He wore a cream long sleeve front lace up shirt with a small collar and blue embroidery, a light tan long sleeve over shirt with blue embroidery, and darker tan pants. He also wore dark brown leather boots, a chainmail tunic, green over tunic, a red and white sash held by a dark brown leather belt, elbow to hand fingerless leather gauntlets, and a piece of cloth worn as a cape held by a blue sapphire clasp around his neck.

 

*Happy sigh*

 

Justice has been served, and the dumblings have been found.

 

I hope you have fun in the next part! Nothing bad will happen, I promise. Hand on heart!

 

Well... I guess that might depend on what your preferred definition of "bad" is. Hm... oh well, toodly woodles! Auf Wiedersehen! Adios por ahora! Au revoir pour l'instant! Farvel for nu! Hyvästi toistaiseksi! Veloma aloha! ಇತ್ತೆಗ್ ಗುಡ್ ಬೈ! Амдыызында байырлыг! זייַ געזונט פֿאַר איצט! હમણાં માટે ગુડબાય! ߊ߲ ߣߌ߫ ߞߐ߫ ߛߌߛߍ߲߬! ⴰⵔ ⵜⵓⴼⴰⵜ ⵜⵓⵔⴰ!

 

...Your welcome :)

Notes:

Were you one of the absolute idiots? Or just a lesser degree of idiot? A certain *cough* friend of mine did a dramatic reading of this in front of me (one of the weirdest experiences as a writer) and even she turned out to be an absolute idiot. *Sigh* I tell ya, it's hard to find competent people these days... (this is all a sarcastic joke, I don't actually think most people are idiots!)

The next chapter will be posted POTENTIALLY next Sunday (a week from today) if I have time to edit and post it. Fingers crossed! Until then, I hope you enjoyed your fun times with Ravio. This is a five part story and if you haven't noticed the theme yet, Ravio will open every part with a short snippet written late at night by me! (Not because of procrastination, this was actually written ages ago, I can just only write Ravio late at night during my peak writer brain hours!)

As always, any thoughts, questions, comments, concerns, or ideas for the story, lmk!