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Four Swords + (Please add original Japanese name and translation) is a manga Written by Akira Himekawa based on The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, it spans 2 volumes and 12 chapters. Included in volume two is an omake.

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 one of the Hyrule knight's later revealed to be 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 her 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 Gufuu 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 black hair, tunic, 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 Gufuu. 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 Gufuu but remembering how Zelda needs there help they work together and defeat him for the time. Shadow link who was watching thinks how there actions will lead to Gufuu taking over the world.

Hyrule Castle Falls

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 talk of Gufuu'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 their attempts. and almost kill them but the maidens use there power to send a fairy to scare Shadow Link away and teleport them to her. She tells them they are not powerful enough as Gufuu weakened the power of the Four Swords and they must regain Force to power their swords by fighting. The Blue Maiden tell them to go east to find another maiden.

Elne and Rosy

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 there 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 Elne 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 Elne talking to her doll Rosy 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 Elne hears Rosy 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 Elne 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 Elne again.

The Separated Links

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 Blu 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 tell him the weather change is doe to Gufuu and shows him a cave that Gufuu is in. Blue Rushes in and is frozen after he discovers Gufuu is not there and the man tells him that Gufuu 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 land 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.

The Pyramid Struggle

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 Gufuu or Shadow Link trapped him in the Dark World and gives him a Jewel Key which can allow him and the others to enter the Sky-Tall Tower where Gufuu made his palace. Green leaves the Dark World and the pyramid. When Green leaves the fairy takes Red to the pyramid and they fallow 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 one known as the Temple of Light and find Vio.