Ah, so before you read, I feel it important for you to know…..this is my first fanfic. Ever. So please put up with me and don't hold back on constructive criticism. Also, I find the hardest part of writing any story is starting it, so if the starting is, ah, lackluster, then forgive me ;A;
Also, there may be some OOC. Unintentional, but it may be there. Oh, and I'll post appropriate warnings at the beginning of each chapter, but the story overall will have yaoi (male on male lovin'), violence, and probably non/dub con.
P.S. I don't own Zelda, Nintendo does.
Chapter 1
"Hehehe, come on Link, how does the cake taste?" I hear Zelda ask. I was currently chewing on this delicious anchor before she presented me with a chocolate pudding and pineapple cake. For the life of me, I can't think of why I would be eating either, one obviously something inedible by people, and the other just plain….gross. But I throw my face down into the cake and begin eating it as if it was the most natural thing to do, despite the strangeness of the whole situation. While eating, I take in my surroundings and, although acknowledging my environment, nothing really stuck, as if nothing was really there. Even Zelda seemed to be almost not there, even though she was clearly in the room and now providing me with a grass tart after I had finished my unexpectedly good cake.
I look at Zelda while she hands me yet another strange food item. "So what's the occasion Zel? Is today the day the Loft wings finally decided to turn into marshmallows?" The content of the question was utterly absurd, yet it seemed like a perfectly plausible thing to ask, strangely.
"SQUAWK"
"Come on Zelda, don't say that" It didn't come off as strange that she squawked at me, I mean, she's always had the head of a Loft wing, so her squawking wasn't really so strange.
The room suddenly got much, much darker. 'Huh? Why is it so dark?' "Zelda!" I shout into the darkness, but only the echo of my voice responds. I start to feel an intense anxiety grip me, as if a menacing beast had me in its claws, ready to tear me to shreds. The darkness dies a bit, revealing the scene of trees. 'Wow, I've never seen so many trees!' I observed in spite of the tightening sense of dread engulfing me. 'What's that?' I notice a crack in the ground under the thicket of trees. 'It looks as if something is trying to come up from under it…' Then a terrifying sight greets me. A sinister looking….thing. I don't know how to describe it other than as a scale-covered blackness with teeth.
Just when it appears, it disappears. "What? Where did it go? OH! Zelda, there you are, do you know what that thing was? …Zelda?" I see Zelda in front of me, floating above the sea of trees as I am. "SQUAWK…..AAAAWK" 'Huh, now you're not making any sense Zel' I think to myself. I notice that the area has gotten brighter, like a light is being shone on my closed eyes. 'Wait…closed?' I open my eyes and the first thing I notice is my ceiling. The second thing I notice is a blue bird's giant head sticking through my now open window above my head, letting the accursed rays of light from the sun to enter, and if waking me from my slumber wasn't enough, the thing spits something at my head and leaves before I was awake enough to give it a piece of my mind.
I sit up in my bed and absently look around my room. 'So, it was a dream, huh? Weird…' I usually don't remember my dreams, and the ones I do remember are fairly normal. Well, they aren't really bad dreams at least. I shudder as I remember that intense dread I felt in the last part of the dream. I don't remember ever feeling such real emotion from any of my dreams. I can still feel the coldness of that monster's menacing presence. I decide to forget about that nightmare. 'Best not to dwell on it, I'll just freak myself out…" I look at the object that Zelda's Loft wing hit me with. It's an envelope, fancifully decorated with gold embroidery and sealed with wax. 'So old-fashioned' I think. I find it charming though. I open the letter, the wax seal making it easing to open, as opposed to those that have adhesive along the flap. I almost always have to tear those thing apart before I can open them. I remove a piece of paper that had been folded perfectly in even thirds from the envelope, unfold it, and begin to read.
"Hey, sleepyhead. I know how much you like to sleep in, so I'm guessing this letter will be your alarm clock this morning." 'Yeah, you caused me to have a strange dream Zel' I think to myself as I continue reading. It goes on to talk about how today is the Wing Ceremony, and that I promised to meet her before it started. 'Oh man! I gotta hurry if I don't want Zelda to yell at me again!' I hastily get dressed out of my nightwear into my Skyloftian clothes and rush off to Zelda. As I exit my room, I notice Pipit. I would have passed him on by, except I don't think Zel actually mentioned where she would be in her letter, so I decide to stop and ask him if he knew where she was. "Hey, Pipit, do you know where Zel is? I was supposed to meet her before the ceremony, but I she didn't say where to meet." This, for me, was a mouthful. I usually don't talk much. I usually can't really find the motivation to communicate vocally if I can use gestures. Zelda says it's because I'm so lazy, and honestly, I can agree with her.
Pipit turns to face me, his face radiating friendliness and all around pleasantness. The yellow of his knight outfit suits him completely, even if the hat does look ridiculous. He answers with a cheery "OH! Hi Link! Uh, I think I heard Zelda telling her Headmaster Gaepora that she was going to greet you at the goddess statue. I also noticed what she was wearing and, I gotta say Link, your obliviousness kinda hurts my soul sometimes." I look at Pipit with a confused expression—'I'm oblivious?'—and in favor of getting to Zelda before she gets tired of waiting, I decide to ask him about it later. I give Pipit a short thanks and speed to the doors that led outside and notice Fledge trying to lift some barrels. And curse my helpful nature, I approach him. Thankfully, before I could ask what he was doing, he explained to me that he needed to get the barrels to the kitchen and, as quickly as I could, I help him.
After much gratitude from Fledge, I am finally on my way to the goddess statue. 'So many distractions this morning. First Fledge, and then Professor Horwell has me get a remlit from the academy's roof.' I make my trek up the bridge that leads to the small island with the statue. 'Finally, and there's Zel-' I stop myself mid thought as I look at Zelda. She's wearing a very pretty pink dress and it's so…pretty. 'Whaaa! Link, no! What are you thinking? Get a grip man!' But the shock of seeing her wearing something so….girly was just too much. She has always been a tomboy and rarely ever wore anything other than the school uniform.
"Link! Good morning sleepyhead." She looks at me with such a happy expression. It's so refreshing, and with that dress, it makes her look so lovely. But I would never tell her that.
"So? What do you think?" She makes a pose to show off her outfit and it's just so uncharacteristically cute of her. "Pfft….nice costume." I tease and amusedly watch her pout at the response. I can't tell her what I actually think. 'That would be awkward….' She lightly punches my arm and scolds me for being 'insensitive' and how I should always compliment a girl's clothes, even if I think otherwise. She then goes on about how I should be practicing for the ceremony and such, but I only pay a little attention to it. Her father appeared at one point, talking about mine and my Loft wing's connection as I look up at the sky. 'Hm….something's not right….'
"Come on, we need to get some last minute practice before the ceremony." Zelda pulls me out of my musings and quickly brings me over to the diving platform. She makes to push me off, but I tell her that I don't sense my Loft wing. "Stop making excuses Link." She laughs/scolds as she pushes me off the edge.
Despite not being able to feel the presence of Pride, which is my Loft wing's name, I call for him anyway because, ya know, drowning and grasping for straws and all that. To my horror and not-surprise, I do not hear the familiar screech of my Loft wing, nor do I see even a flash of his vibrant red feathers. I scream in fear that I'm going to fall into the nothingness that is below the cloud barrier and vaguely acknowledge Zelda calling for her bird. Thankfully, Zelda and Spring—her Loft wing—caught me midway between the island and the clouds. I didn't register this, however, until we were safely on the solid ground of our floating island. We all pant as the adrenaline leaves our bodies.
"Oh no, Spring's hurt! She sprained her wing…I wonder why Pride didn't come when you called Link. Loft wings always come when there partners whistle for them." Zelda's voice brings me out of my relief as I begin to worry about my partner. "I don't know, I told you I couldn't sense him." 'This is bad, I hope he's all right.' I worriedly think of all the things that could have happened to him, but Zelda's father bring me out of my internal turmoil. "You should inform Horwell of this. We can delay the ceremony until you find him Link." I nod in determination and hastily make my way back to the academy to inform the professor. Fortunately, he accepted the decision to postpone, and I head off to the one I think is more than likely responsible. 'Groose.' I met Pipit in my search for Groose, and he mentioned he was at the Plaza.
I confront him and his bully companions, make fun of his hair of which his response entertains me to no end, am begrudgingly saved from him by Zelda, get a sword, conquer a cave and, finally, find Pride caged. I release him and we take off, and this long, tiring morning is forgotten instantly as I feel the wind blow around us. This freedom is like nothing else and the feeling is incomparable. My anxieties and frustrations are wiped from my worried mind and I can relax as we soar the skies. But I know that I can't take my time to enjoy this reverie forever and make my way back to the Plaza, where everyone is waiting to finally start this ceremony.
The Ceremony begins and all the competitors of running to the diving platform. We jump and whistle for our partners and take off in pursuit for the prize. It wasn't a hard competition really. Not to be arrogant or anything, but flying is probably the thing I am best at and I'm proud of mine and my partner's skill. Although I felt it was an easy victory, I was still humble about it, but I'm definitely going to rub it in Groose's face later, just because it's fun to see him get all hot-headed, even if it does cause me to come out of it bruised later, it's worth it.
Zelda recklessly jumps from the edge of the island right as I pass under and I catch her in my arms. I look at her, ready to scold her when she says something that makes me hesitate. "I'm glad it was you that won Link." Zelda tells me, and hopefully she doesn't notice my face reddening, which I'm sure it is. "We need to go to the goddess statue now, so that we can finish the ceremony." She smiles at me and I nod bashfully, changing course for the statue.
We land on top of the statue and she takes the smaller statue from the ceremony and positions it while sing a song. "Since I knew that I was going to play the role of the Goddess this year, I prepared a prize for the winner, and I'm glad that you're the one I'm giving it to, Link." She says, making me blush again, 'Why does she do that?' She takes off the cover of her dress that was draped over her shoulders and hands it to me. "It's a sailcloth. It'll slow you down when you're falling." She explains. But then, her demeanor changed and she takes on an almost….flirty tone. "You do know what happens next…..don't you?" She asks and I almost stutter in response. So in order to save my self the embarrassment, I just nod, obviously not confident in my answer. She approaches, and I feel myself tense. 'Is she….no, I'm not ready for this' I think, panicking that she was going to kiss me. But then, she turns me around and nudges me to the edge of the statue….and the pushes me off. I don't even take the time to scream my shock, so I quickly grab my newly acquired sailcloth and opening it, slowly making my way to the circle pattern on the ground. I swear, I'm surprised I haven't died of heart-attack today with what's happened.
I breathe a sigh of relief as I feel the firm ground below my feet and Zelda makes her way to me on Spring. I give her a scowl to show her my disapproval, but she just laughs, and I relent and laugh with her. "Hey, to celebrate, let's fly together." I ignore the thought that this would be a date. 'Don't get your hopes up Link.' I nod and we both take off away from Skyloft.
As we are enjoying the beauty of the sky and the serenity of flying, Zelda flies closer to me. "Ya know, Link. There's something I want to tell you—" She begins, but we are both taken by surprise by a tornado that seemed to appear as if by magic. We struggle to get out of the powerful gales, and I succeed, but Zelda isn't so lucky. 'No…..NO!' Fear grips my heart and I don't hesitate to plunge into the vortex after her. 'I won't lose her…' "ZELDA!" I yell as the powerful winds mysteriously throw me away, but continue to take her down. Below the clouds.
Okay, that's it. Please let me know if it's good. Or bad. Both are good observations. :D