Hi guys! So this is kinda a story about me... you'll find out why later. Anyway... I'm putting Mistress to a Demon on hold for a bit until I can come up with new material. And I had this huge brain wave and I remembered a Zelda character I had created. I'll tell you who she is in this chapter. I can't take full credit for her. But I claim most of the credit in this story, since this MY version. Enjoy.

I do not own Legend of Zelda or any of its characters. I only partly own the main character.

Chapter 1

"No! Please! Let me go!"

A crowd of Hylians swarmed a somewhat short girl. She had elbow length dark purple hair with bangs that covered the right side of her face, pointed ears, crimson red eyes, and black t shaped markings under both her eyes. Her clothing was now rags from running. The crowd bound the girl with thick rope, and a man slung the screaming, sobbing girl over his shoulder.

"Please! Let me go!" she sobbed.

The man didn't listen as her carried her to the castle. The guards then took her from the man and literally dragged her to the throne room. She continued to sob as she was forced to look at the king. She glared at him through her tears. To the king's right stood a boy clad in green, with a mess of blond hair, holding a sword and to his left was a girl about the same height as the green clad boy, with blond hair as well, she was wearing an elaborate pink dress. The king glared back at the sobbing girl.

"So. Vaati... we've finally caught you. And we also catch you in tears. How pathetic."

The girl stared at him in shock. So that was it? These people thought she was the Wind Sorcerer Vaati? She glared again and stood up.

"I'm not Vaati!" she yelled.

"Of course you are! You look exactly like him!" said the green clad boy.

"So? I'm NOT Vaati! I'm his- ah!"

The soldier had knocked her on the head to make fall to her knees again. She breathed heavily before looking back at the trio.

"I'm Vaati's shadow."

They all gasped. She smiled at this reaction.

"My name is Gufuu."

The girl in pink took her hand of her mouth.

"B-but how can that be? That's not possible. How?"

"Because he's lying Zelda! Don't believe a word!" yelled the boy.

"Link! You are so blind!" exclaimed Zelda. "If you look this person over, this clearly is a girl!"

Gufuu smiled at the princess. Finally some one was sane in this stupid kingdom.

"Enough you two!" yelled the king, making Link and Zelda shut up. "There is still the matter of where she came from, and why she is here."

"Untie me and I'll tell you."

The princess walked up to Gufuu and kneeled down to her eye level.

"First answer me this. If you are Vaati's shadow, then how are you a girl? Link's shadow was a boy."

"I'm a failed experiment. Vaati created me."

Zelda looked shocked.

"Then why are you here?"

Gufuu scowled. Obviously they weren't going to untie her and she would have to talk anyways. She sighed.

"I'm running away from my master."

Everyone stared at the shadow. It was dead silent until it was broken by Link.

"But why?"

"Because I was tortured and pushed far beyond my limits. Vaati tried to make me useful. I had enough of it and ran."

Suddenly there was a strong wind in the room, even though the windows were closed. Gufuu knew what was happening. She somehow managed to stand up again and began to use the wind to cut her bonds.

"What's going on?!" shouted Link as he fought to stay standing.

A tall man seemed to appear out of the wind itself. He looked exactly like Gufuu, but with more masculinity in his features, about three feet taller, and his hair was a lovely shade of lavender. He was wearing a purple tunic, around his waist was a golden belt with an eye shaped belt buckle, red pants that hugged his legs right below his knees, red sandals, a maroon cape with a high collar flowed down to the ground, and on his head was a purple hat that resembled Link's with a golden head band on its rim. Gufuu was blown back, trembling. The wind stopped and everyone stared at the new comer. Zelda gasped.

"I-it's t-the Wind Sorcerer Vaati." she stuttered.

Vaati ignored her and looked at the king with an evil smile.

"I thank you your majesty for finding my naughty shadow." He walked up to Gufuu and pulled her to her feet by her hair. "I'll take her back home now."

He vanished without another word. Taking the shadow with him.

Vaati marched down to a room he used for punishments. In the room Gufuu was chained to the wall. Her head was down and her messy hair hung over her face. He stood in front of her, with his arms crossed.

"Put your head up."

She did as she was told and looked up. But not into his eyes. He growled in frustration before forcing her to look into his eyes with a hand under her chin. Her crimson eyes were full of fear and hatred. He smiled at this, satisfied that she still feared him.

"You really thought you could escape me? How pitiful."

She snapped at him with her fangs but he pulled back.

"Really? Are you that much of a failure or are you just a weakling?"

She didn't answer. She just continued to glare. He became frustrated and slapped her across the face.

"Stupid child! Answer your master!" he yelled at her.

She just put her head down. Tears slid down her face and exploded on the stone floor.

"I'm n-not a f-failure..." she sobbed.

"Then why are you so weak?" he hissed.

"I-I'm n-not!" She half yelled, half sobbed.

He sighed, and flicked his wrist. The chains fell off and she dropped to her knees, hugging herself, continuing to sob. Vaati looked at her and shook his head. I'm getting soft, he thought as he also dropped to his knees next to the sobbing shadow and put his arms around her shoulders. She didn't object to this, she just leaned against him and sobbed into his shoulder. This shocked him a bit, but he just lifted her in his arms and carried her off. She sobbed as they walked through the darkened halls of the Tower of Winds.

"M-master... I-I'm s-sorry! I-I'm s-sorry!" she said between sobs. "I w-won't d-do i-it a-again!"

"Whatever. Just calm down you pitiful child."

She took deep breaths and her crying died down. But she was hyperventilating now instead of crying. He shook his head in frustration. This girl was more trouble than she was worth. But she was still his shadow, even if she was a failure. So he cupped his hand over her open mouth and blew a gentle gust of air into her lungs. Her breathing slowed as she sucked in the cool air. After a while she was breathing normally again. She pressed herself against his chest and fell asleep. He walked into a room where a boy about Gufuu's height sat at a table reading a book. He looked up and saw Vaati with Gufuu in his arms. He marked his page then closed the book. He walked up to Vaati and bowed low.

"Do you need something my lord?" he asked.

"Yes I do indeed Shadow Link. I want you to take Gufuu and make sure her breathing patterns are stable and she stays calm."

Shadow Link nodded and took Gufuu from Vaati. Vaati walked out of the room. She was a failure, but there was no use wasting something that took him a lot of magic and energy to create. So he still had to make sure his shadow was in good health.

Gufuu slowly opened her eyes and hissed as light hit her face. She closed her eyes again trying to block out the light.

"Hey. You awake?"

She opened one of her eyes and looked at the one who spoke. It was Shadow Link. The short boy who looked like Link, except his hair was a deep purple, his skin was almost paper white just like her's, and her clothing was jet black. He was holding a glass of thick red liquid.

"Yes. I'm awake." she was surprised how ragged and dry her voice sounded.

"Are you feeling okay?"

"Kinda. Weak. But all in all I feel fine."

He walked up to her and put his hand behind her back helping her to sit up. He put the glass up to her lips, and made her drink it. It wasn't red potion like she had thought at first. It tasted sweet, and sour, and bitter all at the same time. It was cold as ice, which it wasn't fresh. It was blood. Shadow pulled the glass away from her lips. She felt refreshed and the weakness left her body.

"Now how do you feel?"

She smiled at him.

"Fine. Perfectly fine. Arigato Kage-chan (1)." she said, kissing him lightly on the lips.

She giggled as Shadow Link's face turned bright red.

"A-Anata no kangei (2)." he stammered.

She got up and stumbled a bit. She caught herself and stood up strait. She looked herself over and growled with frustration. Her clothing was a mess. There were so many rips it looked as if she had climbed through a forest of thorn bushes. She snapped her fingers and her clothing mended itself. She was now wearing the same clothing as Vaati, only they were darker shades of purple and red. The only thing missing was her hat.

"Ah. Much better! I feel like my self again."

Shadow took her by the hand and led her out of the room.

"Lord Vaati wished me to take you to him when you were fine."

She groaned. Half a second after she did, pain stabbed her chest and she gasped. Her hand flew to her chest almost immediately. She fell to her knees, still holding Shadow's hand. He kneeled down beside her and looked at her in concern.

"Something wrong?"

"No. My chest just hurts. Master might help."

Suddenly the pain died away. When she had been miserable about seeing Vaati the pain came, but when she had been positive about it, the pain disappeared. Okay... positive thoughts equals good, negative thought equals bad, she noted. She stood up and crossed her arms.

"I'm fine now. Better not keep Lord Vaati waiting."

Shadow nodded and led her to the throne room. Gufuu wondered what was in store for her. She was obviously going to be either scolded or punished. Most likely punished.

WOW! That was long! So yeah... I don't take full credit for Gufuu. This is MY version. When I came up with her I was thinking about Shadow Link. In all retrospect, I thought, a shadow was the complete opposite of the original. So wouldn't that mean the gender is reversed too? And so Shadow Vaati or Gufuu was born! But instead of being male, she was female. Please don't be mad at me! I wanted to introduce her to everyone. I hope you like her. Please give me a comment about her. Anyway... my trademark... JAPANESE LESSONS!

(1)Arigato Kage-chan: I think you all already know that "Arigato" means thank you. "Kage" means shadow, and I added the suffix -chan because I read somewhere that -chan is used to express endearment, mostly towards girls. It is also used for little boys, pets, and even among lovers. It gives a sense of childish cuteness. They are love. I made her kiss him.

(2)Anata no kangei: This means Your Welcome.

Okay now that we got that out of the way: please review! Arigato!

~Wind-Mage-Vaati12

P.S.- I may be changing my pen name soon. Fair warning.