A heroes destiny

Chapter 1-

Link woke up in a haze. Pain bashed his eyes as light seeped in between his eyelids. He closed them and waited for the pain of the sun to subside and slowly opened them once more, now adjusting them to the light. He looked around the room realizing he was in the medical room of the academy. Link tried to move his arm, he was immediately jarred with pain, eyes opening wide.

"Link! Are you OK?" he recognized the comforting voice coming from his side and turned to answer it. The man was tall and lean, a freckled brunette. He was wearing a yellow academy uniform showing off his senior status to all. Pipit sat half off his seat leaning over Link; worry covered his face.

"I'm fine, better now" Link croaked out of his dry throat with a forced, painful smile. Of course, Pipit did not believe it, and Link knew it. Pipit always knew when Link was lying, and it frustrated Link beyond words. He gave Link a serious look and asked him again, this time with a serious, parental tone to it.
"Seriously, I'm fine!" Link reiterated once again. It still didn't fool the freckled brunette who gave him an even sterner look. This time Link knew he was not kidding.

"I feel like a big burnt vegetable cut into a million pieces" Link said honestly.
"Well, the nurse said that's probably how you would feel. Here, take some of this" Pipit handed Link a clay mug filled with a hot substance inside. Since Link was quite thirsty he gladly took it.

"Goddess, this stuff is horrible!" Link exclaimed, rejecting any more of the substance, putting it back on the side table.

"Well too bad, you need to drink the whole mug or else you won't get any better." Pipit avoided Links eyes "You need to save Zelda..." He stared out of the window for a second before looking back at Link with bright smiling eyes. Regaining a momentary loss in confidence, Pipit grabbed the mug and gave it to Link, watching as Link drank the whole mug in one forced gulp. "Besides, you have an entire town waiting to see you better and walking around, it gives them courage." Again he looked out through the window as if thinking about something. He quickly regained consciousness before Link could notice the momentary change.

Link sighed at the thought of having to go out and deal with every townsperson all over again. And then he would have to go back out into the surface, which had brought him into the medical room in the first place. He was tired of it all. He remembered the old times, before the surface, when Pipit and him would glide together.

The blue loft wing spread its wings out feeling the full force of the summer breeze as it soared through the sky. The hands of a freckled brunette firmly held the reigns of the bird. He looked over his shoulder at Links wide open eyes as he experienced his first time flying.

"This is amazing Pipit! I can't believe you are allowed to do this!"

"it's not exactly allowed, make sure this stays between us!" Pipit replied with a mischievous grin before forcing his bird up after the air currents for an extra boost. Link screamed in delight, looking out at the island from an entirely new perspective. Pipit glanced backwards at Link and his perpetual grin and laughed as if it were contagious.

"Having fun yet?" Pipit yelled jokingly. "How about a little more eh?"

"Heck yeah! Let's do it!" Link replied with enthusiasm.

Pipit laughed and immediately pulled the reins on Gerudon, forcing the bird to dip into a vertical dive facing the clouded floor of their little domain. The bird immediately gained speed and quickly kept gaining it. The world flew past Link and Pipit so quickly, Link could not keep up with all the imagery. He gave up soon enough and looked ahead to feel the greatest experience he had ever felt.

And in that moment of bliss, the boys heard a snap, Link looked at Pipit who turned his head, his grin disappearing and showed Link his hand holding the other half of Gerudon's reign.

Pipit grabbed the one remaining reign with both hands. The bird halted its right-wing abiding to Pipits command and curtailed 90 degrees towards the underbelly of the main island. Both boys screamed as they nearly missed a floating boulder. A sigh of relief flew out of Links mouth just in time when Pipit pulled the right reign again and brought the bird spinning into a flat plateau.

"When I count down to one we jump off got it?"

"Got it!"

Pipit got Gerudon into place and nodded at Link as confirmation to get ready.

"3..." Pipit looked at Link to make sure he was prepared.

"..2..

"...1!" Link jumped as far as he could followed shortly after by Pipit who had cut the reins from Gerudon allowing the bird to land itself instead of the crash landing it foresaw.

Link landed on his face in a field of mud, sliding five feet before coming to a stop. He laid there for a second feeling the squishy mud all over his torso. He wiped up the mud from his eyes and looked up to see Pipits body flying towards him. His eyes grew wide and he scrambled to his feet. As soon as a foothold in the mud was achieved and escape seemed hopeful, Pipit crashed onto Link and both boys went plummeting back into the mud field.

Link woke up in a haze, Opening his eyes to see where he was. His immediately remembered everything that had happened in a huge influx of memory which woke him up. He looked up and saw Pipit laying on top of him unconscious.

"Pipit.. Pipit wake up!" Link urged as he nudged at Pipit. "Pipit, would you just wake up you lazy cow!" Link yelled. Every morning Link would say this to Pipit who would always sleep like there was no tomorrow.

Pipit's eyes opened up slowly and he looked around to see where he was. When he saw Link, a grin grew on his face.

"Enjoy the flight?" Pipit asked sarcastically. Link gave him a serious look but couldn't help laughing at Pipit's silly face.

"As a matter of fact, I loved the flight... you know, until we crash landed on a field of mud!"

"Oh, it's not that bad; I mean, the mud cushioned our fall, so be thankful it was here!"

"Actually, the mud cushioned my fall; I cushioned you when you fell on me!" Link tried putting a serious face on but couldn't help returning Pipits contagious grin. "And here we are, in a pile of mud and you're on top of me!" It then dawned on the boys how close they were to each other. The boy's bodies were in complete contact except for their heads which hung near inches away from each other.

"Link, you seem to have some mud on your face."

"I did land on a field of mud, you know."

Pipit got his hand and put it on Links forehead and gently drew and trail over his eye and through his cheek, wiping off the mud that had been on links eye. He gently repeated the step to the other eye, both boys were in complete silence staring at each other. Link seemed to break from his hypnosis state and looked away uncomfortably.

"Uhh, Pipit, could you get off my organs" Link said hesitantly. Pipit's eyes broke from Links as if snapped from a hypnosis as well.

"Uh, yeah, sure." Pipit said, quickly removing his weight from Link. The boys sat awkwardly for a moment, until Pipit got up and with a grin helped Link up. Breaking the silence. Pipit look over the cliff and then at Link, his grin growing even more.

"How about some free rein flying, huh? You up for it?"

"You bet!" Link yelled enthusiastically. Link and Pipit jumped onto Gerudon's back and flew off the cliff already ready for another flight. All the while covered in mud.

Link blinked for a moment, coming back to reality. He looked over and saw Pipit's questioning expression.

"Sorry about that, just thinking about the good ol' times" Link said with an honest grin now.

"Well, enough of that" Pipit said. "You need to get some rest. The nurse will be here to give you food when you wake up. For now, get some rest!" Pipit started to walk out of the medical room.

"Pipit, wait!"

"Yeah?"

"Would you be willing to stay here, just until I fall asleep? This place gives me the creeps." Link eyed Pipit pleadingly and Pipit could not help but smile.

"Alright, I'll stay, but you need to get over this haunted medical room thing; they're just rumors you know" Pipit said laughingly, he added "It's the janitor's closet that's haunted."

Link was already falling asleep when he murmured something. Pipit could have sworn he had said "I know" but the boy was already fast asleep and could not be questioned further.