The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (Himekawa)

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (ゼルダの伝説 4つの剣+ Zeruda no Densetsu Yottsu no Tsurugi Purasu) is a manga by Akira Himekawa loosely based on the story of Four Swords Adventures. It spans 2 volumes and 12 chapters. The second volume includes a bonus story.

The Four Links
The chapter begins with a raid from a gang led by a man named Jago which is apprehended by Link. Link is scorned by his father over acting alone. Link cockily dismisses him and walks off. Link's father goes to Link's childhood friend the Princess Zelda and asks her to talk to him. After he leaves, Link (who was hiding behind Zelda's throne the whole time) and Zelda talk of old time. Then the six maidens enter and tell Zelda that they are ready to check the seal on the Four Sword. In the Four Swords' chamber the reader learns how the evil sorcerer Vaati was defeated by a hero who pulled the Four Sword. The maidens suddenly disappear in pillars of light and a boy who looks like Link excluding his purple hair, black tunic and boots and white shirt and leggings. Link attempts to fight him but just goes right through Shadow Link. Shadow Link kidnaps Zelda and leaves Link unconscious. Link awakens and pulls the Four Sword so he may be able to save Zelda. Link splits into four. The difference between them is that they have different tunic colors (the original green plus red, blue and violet). After a very brief discussion a large stone creature appears and reveals its self as Vaati. They attempt to cut different places on his body so he can not regenerate but fail as they are unable to work together due to the cocky attitudes. They are almost sucked up by Vaati but remembering how Zelda needs there help they work together and defeat him for the time. Shadow Link, who was watching, thinks how their actions will lead to Vaati taking over the world.

The Fall of Hyrule Castle
Meanwhile as the Links return to Hyrule, Shadow Link and his minions are taking over the town and Links' father tries to find Zelda in her throne room and finds what looks like a dieing Link. After begging that his son be okay Shadow Link reveals his ruse and apparently destroys him. While the Links are making there way to Hyrule the Red Link comes up with calling them by the colors of there tunics (excluding the Violet Link who would be called simply Vio). Although the short tempered Blue would rather be called Link. On the way they encounter a woman and young girl from Hyrule who tells them of what Shadow Link is doing. They arrive in the ruined Hyrule and are met by a large group of possessed knights. Green convinces the others (besides Blue) to not fight them and Shadow Link appears and calls them off. He talks of Vaati's plan to sacrifice Zelda so he can gain power and take over the world. The Links attempt to fight him but he shakes off them off and almost kills them but, the Blue Maiden uses her power to send a fairy to scare Shadow Link away and teleport them to her. She tells them they are not powerful enough as Vaati weakened the power of the Four Swords and they must regain Force to power their swords by fighting. The Blue Maiden tells them to go east to find another maiden.

Erune and Rosie
While training to gain Force a sphere shaped stone with an eye rolls down a crack in the ground to Shadow Link who after learning of their plan to get stronger has the stone go back and spy on them. Meanwhile in a town people in a long line are fighting and a girl named Erune attempts to calm them down and she almost gets hurt but the Links help her. Later in her house she tells the Links (who are all smitten with her) how ten days before a tornado hit and 18 children disappeared. The Links decide to look for the children. Later that night they find the rock but believing it to be a normal rock throw it out the window. Meanwhile Green finds Erune talking to her doll Rosie who she will be giving away soon and he tells her if it is her most prized possession to keep it. Suddenly Blue grabs Green in anger and jealousy that he was talking to her alone and Erune hears Rosie talking to her and she disappears and Green runs after her foot prints and see's what looks like her shadow and the rock with the eye speaks to him and scares him off. He goes unconscious and awakens with the others in a world said by Vio to be a representation of the real world. They find some of the children turned into toys including Erune who was turned into a doll. Suddenly a large stone with many eyes and many smaller ones with one eye each come and attack them. They grab toys to use as weapons. A boomerang for Green, a bow for Vio, a slingshot for Red, and a hammer for Blue. They destroy the smaller ones which drop force and then the big one cries for them and it's tears dry like cement and trap the also crying Red. Vio shoots many arrows in it's eye and Blue smashes it with his hammer freeing Red in the process. They free the yellow maiden who gives Green the Moon Pearl to shine in the moonlight to enter the Dark World. As they leave they fight over Erune again.

Links Torn Apart
The Links use a canoe to make it to Death Mountain until Vio notes the mountain seems to be getting further away and Red blissfully reveals they are going the wrong way and Blue flies off the handle. Then Blue and Green argue. They attempt to get on course but go down a waterfall. Green somehow appears in a desert town and is given a massage by a beautiful woman and fall asleep. Meanwhile Blue awakens on a snowy mountain believing he has become one again. He sees and saves a man in the snow. The man tells him the weather change is due to Vaati and shows him a cave that Vaati is in. Blue rushes in and is frozen after he discovers Vaati is not there and the man tells him that Vaati is not his only enemy. Red wakes in a forest near a burning village and a boy who the town believes started the fire seeks help from Red who unknowingly distracts them trying to fight for the boys innocence until he notices his sword and shield are gone as well as the boy. The town blames Red and chases after him. While Red hides the boy comes tells him he did not have a sword or shield and gives him a Fire Rod which Red accidentally activates and the townspeople chase him. Vio lands in a forest where most things are monsters some of which tell him of there master named Ganon. A name which Vio realizes most likely belongs to a member of the Gerudo Tribe and goes of to find the others. Suddenly Shadow Link jumps from a tree and begins to talk of how futile their attempts are and he convinces Vio to join them. Green awakens and runs into the desert and the people in the desert are revealed to be the Gerudo Tribe. Green enters a pyramid and the power in his Four Sword drains. He finds someone in armor who seams faded and can attack Green but Green can not fight back.

Deadly Battle at the Pyramid
Green attempts to flee the shadow knight but the creature follows him and Green finds a window where moonlight is shining in and Green pulls out the Moon Pearl and enters the Dark World where he can fight the shadow knight and cracks his helmet open revealing Valenzuela, one of the Hyrule Knights. He tells Green that someone more powerful than Vaati or Shadow Link trapped him in the Dark World and gives him a Gem Key which can allow him and the others to enter the Tower of Winds where Vaati made his palace. Green leaves the Dark World and the pyramid. When Green leaves the fairy takes Red to the pyramid and they follow tracks to the cave Blue is in and the creature that froze Blue attempts the same on Red but he uses his Fire Rod to defeat it and at the fairies insistence unfreezes Blue. After Red is scolded and hit with Blues' hammer they leave in search of Green. They come to a temple once known as the Temple of Light and find Vio.

Temple of Darkness
At Vaati's palace Shadow Link tells him of his plan to bring the other Links to there side or kill them and it is revealed that they have Red's Four Sword. Vaati sends a creature called the Big Poe to destroy them. On a building on a tower where Zelda is hidden Shadow Link tells her how the wind will create a wall so she can not escape. Shadow Link taunts her which she quickly turns back on him and Vio tell Red and Blue that Green is inside the temple. Vio shows them a coffin with Green's Four Sword on and they find it empty and Vio claims he was burned to ashes. Blue angrily smashed the Four Sword and finds it is a fake made of mason and they see Vio is gone. Suddenly a Moldorm springs from the ground and attacks them. Blue is able to defeat it but Red has all but lost hope. They enter a dark corridor and the Big Poe (loudly) makes itself known. They run in fear and the fairy appears and they find a lantern and the Big Poe appears and almost consumes Blues' soul but he uses the lantern to scare it off. They try to use the lantern to light all the torches but the Big Poe takes them out and accidentally eats Blue whole and tries to crush him but Red uses the Fire Rod to light the torches. Blue escapes and kills the Big Poe in the process and the Four Swords all glow and Vaati mulls over how the Four Swords are coming together like an attempt to kill him.

Climb Death Mountain!
While climbing Death Mountain Green finds and rescues a man under a boulder who presents himself as Tingle who is collecting Force Gems in an attempt to become a fairy. Green tries to rebuff Tingle's attempts to follow him and "help" him. They are attacked by a cyclops sent by Vaati and Tingle leaves with a purple Force Gem. Luckily Red and Blue come through a portal made by the fairy and defeat the cyclops but a large group of cyclops's appear and they run but find a dead end in a lava river. They turn to fight but find them bowing to something and they turn and Find Vio sitting on a throne. Vio tells them how he is working with the others and Shadow Link appears to confirm that it is the real Vio and Green challenges Vio to a duel and they begin to fight on a small piece of land in the lava river. The two fight with Red crying Blue yelling and Shadow Link rolling on the floor laughing. At first they are evenly matched but Green seams to get the upper hand but Vio ends victorious and apparently kills Green. Shadow Link (who considers him and Vio best buddies) and Vio go to celebrate. The fairy reveals Green is merely unconscious and he states the Vio is most likely trying to do something to the enemy.

Sad Shadow Link
The fairy in order to not blow Vio's cover goes ahead to spy and Shadow Link tells Vio of his plan to usurp Vaati but he knows he is unable to do anything about Ganon who is revealed to be the one who got Shadow Link to there world. Shadow Link shows Vio the Dark Mirror which give them there power but Zelda's power could make it do the opposite which Vio says to use to there advantage to kill Ganon. Shadow Link says that is a good idea and tells Vio that he is the one person he trusts which saddens Vio a little. Later that night they and a horde of monsters go to destroy a town. The next day Vio tries to destroy the dark mirror but Tingle appears and awakens a cyclops who Vio kills and Shadow Link and many monsters appear. Shadow Link askes Vio what happened and he said that the cyclops attacked him and Tingle tried to break the mirror. Shadow Link uses the mirror to see that Green is alive and Vio tried to destroy the mirror which causes him to fly in rage and the monsters grab Vio. The fairy tells the remaining Links of this and they rush to save him. Vio was chained to a stone pillar on an boulder in the lava with his and Red's Four Swords. Shadow Links scolds him for his double-cross and a cyclops hits the boulder and it slowly sinks into the lava. Red uses his Fire Rod changed by the fairy to an Ice Rod to freeze the lava. They defeat the cyclops's and talk to Shadow Link who still angry attempts to kill them they use the power of the Four Swords to destroy him. Later while hugging him Red accidentally steps on the foot Green stomped on to gain an advantage in their fight. While laughing about this Vio can't help but thinking about Shadow Link.

On to the Tower of Winds
While walking the Links talk about how they need each other and the fairy takes them to the Four Sword Sanctuary and the maidens freed by the Four Swords' power take them to the tower. Meanwhile Links' father awakens in the Tower of Winds and finds Zelda who he realizes is a fake all to late and she places a helmet on his head which takes over his mind. The Links make it and realize they do not have all the Gem Keys. As the head to turn back Link's father appears and tries to fight Green apparently believing he is Shadow Link.

A Fight Against Father
The Links although reluctant to fight try to at least disarm him but he uses dark power to stop them. During the fight Zelda enters and tells them that they must kill him. Green attempts to destroy him with a force blast but Blue stops him to do it himself. They find that it was there real dad who gets up and almost seams to attempt to kill Blue but he throws a dagger at Zelda who is revealed to be Vaati in disguise. He tries to attack him but the Hyrule Knights intervene and Vaati leaves. The knights give them the Gem Keys. The Links go up the tower and find Vaati and they begin to fight.

The Immortal Demon Vaati
They fight and Red is nearly devoured but Green saves him with his boomerang and Blue catches him which causes Red to blush and freak out Blue. Vaati soon has them all and is about to eat them when the Hyrule Knights intervene. The Links follow Vaati into a dark cloud. They find themselves surrounded by needles growing out of the ground and Blue smashes them with his hammer and they make a trail. After a bit they hear Vaati's voice and see the trail now a hand shape which turns into Vaati's hand and they fall to lower parts of the pillars. Meanwhile Zelda is in the room with the Dark Mirror and Shadow Link crawls out vey weakened. Zelda reminds him that he is one of the Links and is still a hero. Suddenly a dark cloud takes Zelda and says it is on Ganon's orders and leaves. Shadow Link is barley able to leave the tower. Red awakens and finds Vio badly hurt from the fall and the reunite with the others and Vio showes knowledge of the palace and they go on and find Vaati. Vio some how knows Vaati's weakness and Green stabs him on the tip of the head and the real Vio appears and Shadow Link disguised as him flees to the Dark Mirror. While the Links fight Shadow Link breaks the mirror with Zelda's chair.

The Four Sword Forever!
During there fight when it seems most likely they will die Vaati begins to shrink and he goes to the still barely OK mirror and tells Shadow Link that destroying it is suicide but Shadow Link does it anyway. The Links find him and after a talk Shadow Link finally passes. Suddenly Ganon in his demon boar form comes and fights the Links with him having the advantage. The powered Four Swords open the dark cloud and Zelda floats out and they use their power to defeat Ganon. The four Links and Zelda go to the Four Sword Sanctuary and place their swords back and become one again. Link and Zelda walk off hand and hand and Links shadow makes the thumbs up sign.

Part One
One day, the Links decide go to an amusement park. But due to the ticket cost, Green goes in and presses L, making the others follow; this causes Blue to call Green "Cheap."

It's a Small Compulsion
When the Links settle down for the night, Green notices fold lines in Blues' hat. It is revealed that Blue can not sleep without knowing that his belongings are neatly folded.

Takoyaki
A takoyaki (pieces of octopus, battered and fried) in the shape of Vaati, begs Red not to eat him; Red does so anyway.

It's Not Easy Being Purple
Vio is seen to viciously win a game where you hit the heads of the other Links

About That Time
Shadow Link watches the others at the amusement park through the Dark Mirror and since is afraid of the light plays indoors.

Shadow Link's Blog
Shadow Link has his own website, but since he can't go outside, makes up a story about going to an amusement park with his girlfriend.

Shopping Online
Shadow Link is seen shopping online until he sees a picture of Vaati. Once he sees it, he immediately slams shut his laptop.

Actually, He Was There
It is revealed that Tingle was at the final fight with Vaati, but no one noticed because he got crushed under a giant Force Gem.

Sukiyaki Day
The Links are seen playing a food game, but Red is so hungry, he forgets the rules.

Fear Like Never Before
When Green puts the Four Sword back in its pedestal, Red, Blue, and Vio don't disappear. Panicking, Green pulls the Four Sword out and puts it back in and the other Links disappear.