Another attempt at Legend of Zelda fanfiction... This one is supposed to become 5 chapters.
The girls should love this one...
I own nothing of the Legend of Zelda franchise.
Moodily, Link sat down at the bar, taking one of the stool before the barkeeper.
"What'll ye have man?"
Link asked for a large tankard of ale, which the barkeeper soon brought over. After nodding his thanks, Link took a gulp of the brew, wishing that the cold would clear away his unhappy thoughts. Thoughts about the princess...
"Whooooaaa...! Look'it dat lassie!"
Link sighed and took another swig; he really didn't want to think about women right now. Alas, all the whistles and rude calls somehow made him glance at her.
At once his disinterest was replaced by surprise!
Walking down the stairs from the upper floor, a hylian girl came down into the inn's dining hall. She was a couple of years too young to call her a woman. She had bright blonde hair and sky-blue eyes, and wore a green hooded coat over her light traveling clothes, which were above a pair of sturdy thigh-high leather boots.
Normally, all those things would have made no impression on Link but... Never had Link wondered what he'd look like as a girl... but looking at her, he instantly knew that he would look similar to, if not exactly like her! Was she his lost sister or something?!
Annoyed by all the men, the girl made her to the bar, decidedly refusing to look at any of the ruffians. But she had to look at the bar she jerked to a halt; eyes wide, mouth agape.
After a moment she sat on one of the stools, leaving two between herself and Link, and never taking her eyes off him.
"What'll ye have lass?"
"...your strongest brew..."
Link thought he should have ordered that too.
A short moment later the girl received her drink and raised the tankard to her lips.
"Ah."
"Y-yes?"
"Um..." Why had he spoken out like that?
After a moment of uncertainty, Link hesitantly raised his tankard in a cheers-gesture.
With a confused but kind smile the girl raised hers as well and they both drank (though neither knew what they were drinking to.)
After putting down their tankards down on the counter-top (the girl was grimacing a bit) they took a long look at each other. Eventually they came to terms with the strange experience of meeting a look-alike of the opposite sex, and soon they were grinning stupidly at each other.
Then a pair of ruffians came over...
"'Ey prettie, com wit' us, will ya?"
"I'm with him." She gestured at Link, who nodded in agreement; stranger or not, he'd never leave a woman in the company of such shady characters.
But the thug who had placed himself between her and Link just sneered, "Nah... we were watching yew tew. Yer not with dat bum."
He was about to put his dirty paw of a hand on her shoulder when suddenly he gasped and almost folded in half; the girl had driven her small elbow in between his rips!
"Why ye- ARRGH!" Quick like a striking viper her arm had snapped, back-fisting her little fist into the other ass' eye!
"Ye bi-?!" Still holding his aching side, the other scumbag raised his fist but something prevented him from fully doing so.
He turned his surprised head right in time to receive a left hook full-force face-on. The idiot had threatened the wrong girl and bad-mouthed the wrong guy; no one called Link a bum!
Speaking of the girl, she grabbed the other bastard by his hair and rammed his head nose-first into the edge of the counter-top. Still holding on to him, she slid off her stool and practically threw him towards Link, who welcomed him with a right straight punch that knocked the rogue onto his back, sliding a few feet across the floor.
Link and the girl relaxed a bit but stood ready as they looked at the two thugs.
...Link didn't know much about fist-fighting...
Both the ruffians were out cold and would probably be so until the next morn.
...but he'd be damn good at it!
The girl looked at Link appreciatively, "Thanks for the help! ...?"She followed Link's gaze when he didn't react and sighed, "...of course... unruly bastards are always in a pack...!"
Two more thugs were menacingly coming over; weapon in hand.
Suddenly the girl felt Link's gaze on her. He nodded to her and she nodded back. Slowly they stepped away from each other and unsheathed their swords, their blades singing out in unison, as though to call out a warning!
Link held his trustworthy hand-and-a-half sword, a sturdy well-balanced blade suited for any kind of combat. The girl on the other hand held a simple one-handed sword; it was seemed light and a bit short, and the blade was somewhat narrow too. Link recognized it as a dueling sword, not one for battle.
Link confronted the ruffian with a crude, single-edged battleaxe.
For a moment they just stared at one another, studying each other...
Then the brute yelled and charged; axe high above his head!
Calmly, Link let him approach and moved his swordarm across his chest...
As the axe descended, Link forcefully knocked the weapon aside! Before the thug could pull it back, Link swung his sword back inward! He could have beheaded the hoodlum right then and there but Link was kind enough to just slam the flat steel full-force against the scum's skull.
Ignoring the man on the floor, Link turned his attention to the girl's fight.
It did not go so smoothly; the girl's thin shortsword was not really good against the bastard's rough spiked club, and his arms were longer too, so she couldn't get a cut in. But she was quite nimble on her feet!
"War's the matta, girlie? Yer afraid?" The dirtbag taunted.
But the girl just smirked, "Of what? You're so slow and your swings are weak and sloppy! I don't even need my sword! I could win just by dodging seeming that you're too fat and slow to keep up!"
"Why you-?!" The hot-headed idiot swung his club again and again, almost running after the retreating girl to make the hit.
Suddenly she stopped and let the spiked club come at her before ducking to the side at the last moment!
Wham!
The club hit one of the wooden posts that supported the upper floor.
Smirking, the girl dashed in; Link was smirking too!
The bastard pulled back his club to strike again! ...but the spikes of his club got stuck in the wooden post!
"YAAARGH!"
Link's face scrunched; that thin blade cutting across the face... must have felt like a whiplash!
The girl wasn't done!
Whumph!
"Ooooooohhhh..."
Link winched and had the urge to cover his groin...
The girl went in for the kill; grabbing the ass' head, she jumped up and pulled down! Knee met face and the buffoon was out!
After giving her knee a quick rub, she made her way back to the bar when she caught Link looking at her. He was smiling at her with acknowledgement and respect.
Nice.
The girl blushed and smiled back in appreciation.
Suddenly a group of armed men rushed into the inn and held everyone at sword-point.
"What is happening here?!"
Seeing Link and the girl among the men they brought down, the armed men immediately surrounded them, and the two found themselves facing the pointed steel of spears...
Damn cliffhanger, I know, but this is just the introductory chapter. Don't worry the next follows soon.
Weird, the manuscript looked a whole lot more than this...
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-I'mNoOneSpecial