This story is a Zelda version of the movie, "Freaky Friday." Link and his
father, Angelous walk a mile in each other's ... boots, told from Link's
p.o.v. In my stories, Hyrule is a technologically advanced kingdom,
compared to those that surround it at this time with medicine, electricity,
and so on. Go with me on this one. It's short because it's supposed to be
like a t.v. episode kinda thing. I've added parts to it, so it may not be
exactly like the movie. And, it's not as long. You can read it if you want.
If you don't, then don't.
Have you ever felt like you've just had enough, where you'd want to live the life of another person? Like the stress has gotten the best of you, and you'd want to live a day in the place of a person who you thought had the perfect life? Well, be careful what you wish for. Because it did come true for me and my father, Angelous. And it was the worst day of both of our lives ...
It was a morning just like every morning that I was forced to go to school. I pounded my alarm clock and went back to sleep, just before Navi flew in and woke me up for a second time. "Link, get down stairs and eat your breakfast! You have school today!" I lifted my head from my pillow and glared at her. Her blue glow made it hard on my eyes and I couldn't see her true form. I stared at her for a few more seconds.
"... You're not my mother ..." I said. Navi sighed and tried to get me up.
"That's right, 'cuz if I were, you'd be up for adoption, now get up!" She started pulling on my ear like she always does when she wants me to get moving.
"Ow! Ow! Ow! Alright, alright." As soon as I was walking to the door, she blocked me.
"Link, get dressed before you go down! Unless you want everyone at school to make fun of you in your jammies." I gave her a long look. "Don't look at me like that. Now, I have to go get your sister up." Finally, she left. I walked over to my bathroom to brush my hair and teeth. When I reached for the tube of toothpaste, it splattered all over me. This could have been the work of only one evil person.
"ARYLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed.
Afterward, I went down to the kitchen to confront my baby sister. "Aryll, have you been snooping around my room again?" Aryll put on her "I'm innocent" face.
"Why no, Big Brother. Why would you say that?" I looked at her, not falling for her cutie act.
"Then how come my toothpaste was booby – trapped this morning?"
"That's all you fell for? The toothpaste? Man, if I would have known that all you were gonna fall for was the toothpaste, I wouldn't have spent all that time trapping your entire side of the west wing." She said with a smile. This was the last straw. My baby sister may have only been eight, but I swear she had the mind of a diabolical villain.
"Aryll, I'm gonna give you a head start. Then, I'm gonna psy – blast you."
"You wouldn't!"
"Oh, would I? One ... two ..."
"Oh, c'mon, Link! Quite being a party pooper!" I raised my voice a little bit so she knew that I wasn't playing around.
"Three ... four ..."
"Fine! Be a stick in the mud!" She grabbed her bag and left for school." My mother and step – dad came in. They heard the whole thing.
"Link, why do you always have to give her such a hard time?" Dad asked me.
"Oh, it's part of my morning routine, Dad. Take a shower, brush my teeth, fight with Aryll, eat a muffin." Mother gave me a sigh of shame.
"Well, I think you need to be just a little bit nicer to her. She does love you after all."
"No, Mother. She loves to make my life miserable. Just like everyone else. They put too much stress on me." Dad looked at me.
"Who does?"
"Never mind. I better get to school. Love you guys."
Later that day, I went to train with my biological father, Angelous. You know, the Fierce Deity, also known as the God of War. Angelous and I train just for the fun of it. A couple of weeks ago, I had an episode that made Angelous decide to train me mentally as well as physically. My psychic powers had grown so intense that I couldn't handle it anymore. With telekinesis, telepathy, feeling the presence of everyone in the world, and having empathy, it all crammed together, and I couldn't take it. That's when Angelous decided to start training me mentally every once in a while. We train in a little place that's just outside of Lon Lon Ranch. It's our own little place. Away from any cities or towns that might be distracting. Angelous hates it when I get distracted. He makes me do the worst things when I get distracted or in trouble. Having a mother, a father, and also a step – father isn't exactly what one would call ... prosperity. Oh, get this. When Aryll and I get in trouble, she gets a one punishment from Mother, and one punishment from Dad. When I get in trouble, I get a punishment from Mother and Dad, then, I get one from Angelous as well. Angelous makes me do at least two hundred sit – ups and push – ups, and ten laps around the entire training grounds, which are over five miles long. And I can't use my powers. Anyway, this day was a mental training day. Often, he'd have me levitate myself. This day, I had to balance on a ball, upside down, levitating myself, while levitating other things as well. It was hard keeping my balance. "Focus your mind. Don't think about anything but the task at hand." I found it even more difficult as time went on, but I had to learn how to control my powers. I lifted my left arm. "Good. Now pick up the rock." I obeyed Angelous' command. The rock was a little bit heavy. I was used to picking up small objects. I carefully placed it on the other side of the field, trying so hard not to lose concentration. "Do you feel any control over your powers yet?"
"No, just the blood rushing to my head --- WHOA!" I feel to the floor, almost breaking my neck. Angelous rolled his eyes and sighed at me.
"Link, you lost your concentration. Your problem is that you get distracted way too easily.
"Yeah, no kiddin'." I added, sarcastically.
"Don't you talk back to me like that, Young Man!" I growled softly to myself.
"Will you back off?! I had a really stressful morning, followed by a really stressful day."
"What, did you get detention again?" I didn't look him in the eye. That's how he found out my answer. "Link, that's the fourth time this month. Keep it up and you could be expelled." Can I get that in writing? I thought to myself.
"High school is tough, okay? It's like everyone there is out to get me. They accuse me of using my powers even when I don't." Angelous stood there, cross – armed.
"Have you tried talking to the teacher about this?"
"They do the same thing."
"Well, sounds like you have to put out more of an effort." I looked at Angelous before I started rubbing my face with the water that I used to cool off.
"I tried that."
"You'll have to try harder." I looked at him in shock this time.
"Look, Angelous, it's not like they're just going to accept me. I'm a demi – god. No matter what I do, I'll never be accepted.
"Link, you have to learn to deal with it. People may never understand you, but you could try to understand them." Inside I was laughing at that statement.
"Angelous, it's a lot harder then it sounds, okay?" I turned around to put my shirt back on.
"How hard could it be? I could probably understand most of those people just by being there in person." I turned to Angelous as soon as I had my shirt on.
"You couldn't last one day in my high school! Or take on the responsibilities as the Hero of Time." Angelous took my challenge.
"I could so. And I could do it without getting detention." I made a mocking laugh toward him. "Like you could take my responsibilities as the God of War." At that statement, I really started to laugh.
"Puh – leez, Angelous. How hard can it be? 'Oh, I feel like starting a war. And I think I want this side to win. Oh, look. Another point for me!'" I mocked. Angelous stared at me long and hard. "It is much more complicated then that!" I stared at him as well.
"Yeah, I'm sure having the perfect life is really difficult ..." Angelous' jaw dropped.
"You think my life is perfect?!" I turned to him after putting all my equipment in my bag.
"Well, let's see; being one of the most powerful gods in the heavens, being worshiped by all of Hyrule, and being the most powerful worrier to ever exist; hmm, let me think ... YES!" Angelous didn't say anything for a full minute. He was starting to scare me.
"If anything, your life is much better off then mine."
"Can you back that statement up?" Angelous and I had another staring contest until I said something. "Whatever. I'm going." Before I could take one step, Angelous thundered in front of me.
"And just where do you think you're going, Young Man?"
"Uh, to hang out with Zelda and Shawn at our secret place. So, I'm goin' now. Love ya, Angelous." Angelous raised his hand and shook his head.
"Negative. You will go home and study." Now it was my turn to be shocked.
"No way! I promised them that I'd meet them there!"
"You don't have time to have fun with your girlfriend and best friend. I will inform your mother that you are coming straight home. And if you don't, you will be punished severally."
"I hate my life!" After that remark, I shimmered back to the mansion. Angelous let out a deep sigh after I left.
"Well, someday you should try mine ... "
Later that night, I told my mother I was going over to Shawn's house to study, but I don't think she bought it. Shawn lived next door, so she could send any one of the staff members, or Aryll to follow me. "He thinks he can just run my life, and it angers me so!" Shawn sighed and shook his head.
"Dude, I'm glad I don't have your life. Being both a Hylian and demi – god, I couldn't take it. Especially with a little sister and three parents.
"Sometimes, I wonder why I was given this life. I never have any privacy, everyone expects me to drop everything and save them, and I'm a mixture of species."
"Aw, cheer up, Dude. It can't be all that bad. What about all of your powers? That's gotta be a plus." I scoffed.
"Yeah. The only useful thing Angelous gave me was my ability to have powers. But even so, feeling everyone, and even worse, feeling what they feel is just too much sometimes. And Angelous doesn't understand that. I wish that just for one day, he could see just how stressful my life really is." While Shawn and I were talking, little did we know that the messenger of the gods, Kapora Gabora, or K.G. as we like to call him, and the youngest of the Royal Heavenly family, Farore, were both listening to our conversation. Farore is what you would call ... my godmother. She watches over me all the time and I find that I have more in common with her then I do with my own father. They looked at each other and headed back to the heavens.
Upon their arrival, Din, Angelous and Nayru were all sitting together in the Heavenly Palace, having their own conversation. The two of them were unnoticed. "What does he think gives him the right to talk back to me like that?! He thinks he can talk to his own father like that, and it angers me so!" Angelous yelled, obviously not to his knowledge. Din chuckled to herself, knowing that Angelous and I were trying to fix out dysfunctional father / son relationship, and getting nowhere fast. Nayru sighed and turned to her older brother.
"Angelous, did you ever stop to think that he does all this, you know, talking back to you, using his powers on you, and constantly nagging you because he loves you?" Angelous raised an eye brow, and gave Nayru the most confused look you've ever seen. Din chuckled again.
"What Nayru is trying to say, is that you used to do that all the time to us, Angelous. You would back talk me, and taunt Nayru and Farore when we were younger. It's how both of you show affection for one another. He's more like you then you'll ever know." Angelous blinked a few times.
"Even so ... "Angelous said. He lost himself in his own thoughts. Din and Nayru got up.
"Well, Nayru and I have business to attend to. Good – bye, Angelous. Love you."
"You too." Angelous said, without even looking at them. Farore and K.G. looked at each other and headed off to a part of the palace that was not known by the rest of the family.
"So, Father and son are getting on each other's nerves, huh? Maybe we should do something to help.
"I don't know, Farore. Remember what happened the last time you tried to interfere with those two?"
"Well, this time I'll make sure I don't get caught. And that it's not an eruption day for Mt. Death ..."
That night, while I was asleep and Angelous was resting in his room, Farore and K.G. were doing some kind of ancient Hylian ritual. One that made us experience that the other one was like. While Farore chanted, K.G. put in the ingredients needed for the ritual to work. Just then, my spirit lifted from my body, and traveled up to the heavens into Angelous' body. Then, his spirit floated down to Hyrule into my body. The ritual was complete. Farore and K.G. winked at each other. The night went by fast.
The next morning, my alarm clock went off again. And as if on cue, Navi came in to wake, who she thought, was me, up. Navi dropped the clock on his head. Angelous woke up, angry as ever. "HOW DARE YOU!" He yelled in his deep voice coming out of my mouth.
"Finally, I thought you would never get up, Link. Your mother and father told me to wake you up if you plan on going to school." Angelous rubbed his head.
"Navi, why are you calling me 'Link?'" Navi stared at him with a look of confusion.
"... Because it's your name. Now get ready for school. I have a lot to do today, and I don't need to waste time trying to get you out of bed." Navi flew away. Angelous was still too tired to comprehend what she said. He walked over to my dresser. And with just one look, he yelped at the sight of what he saw in the mirror. He looked deeper into it. Blonde hair, blue eyes, and youthful skin. Then, he realized that he was inside my body.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?!?!?!"
Meanwhile, up in the heavens, I got a rude awakening as well. While I slept in Angelous' bed (and it was quite comfortable too. Nothing but pure cloud), Din came in. She shook her head at the sight of her strong, younger brother, or at least she thought was her younger brother, still in bed. "Oh, Little Brother, it was time to wake up twelve hours ago!"
"If you give me five more minutes, I'll make breakfast." I said in my sleep. Din shook her head and proved why she's the Goddess of Power. She lifted the bed, and then dropped it with intense power. "Whoa! Okay, I'm up!"
"Good. Now get to work!" I looked at her in confusion.
"Din, what are you doing here?" She looked at me.
"I live here. Now, get to work, Angelous! I don't want to have to tell you twice!" After she left, I went to the mirror to find out that my worst nightmare has come true. ... I had finally become my father, literally!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Meanwhile, still in my room and pajamas, Angelous was pacing around the whole room. "Alright, there's no need to panic. I just have to get in touch with Link somehow!" Before he could get another word in, I thundered into my room. "... Thanks." He said, looking at the ceiling.
"Angelous, something has --- whoa ... "I looked at him in my body.
"Something has happened to the both of us." I started stuttering. "Link, this is no time to panic."
"I think it's a perfect time to panic!" I started to whine like a little two – year – old as I looked in the mirror at my current condition. "I don't like it in here! I want out!"
"Link, calm down. There's got to be some logical explanation for this." I moved my gaze from the mirror to him.
"Angelous, I've spent three – fourths of my life chasing monsters and demons, and you're looking for a logical explanation?" It was weird hearing his voice come out of my mouth. That voice was too deep to be in my body.
"Enough with your mouth! I am a full – grown deity trapped in my son's body!" Angelous turned to the other side of the room. I crossed my arms.
"Aw, big fat bummer." He turned his head to me.
"You seem awfully amused by this."
"Oh, I am. I seriously am." Then he turned his whole body toward me.
"Oh, and why is that? I smiled a sinister smile.
"Because. Now, you're gonna find out what it's like being me. Just wait 'till those feelings and noises start kicking in." Angelous opened his mouth to say something when Navi came in.
"Link, your parents want me to --- oh, hello, Lord Angelous. What brings you here so early?"
"Navi, it's me, Link!" Navi giggled.
"That's a good one, Angelous you sound exactly like him, the same way he sounds like –-"
"Navi ... "Angelous cut her off. She looked at him. "I am Angelous." She continued to look at him, moving closer to look into his eyes. Normally, she would see pure innocence, and nothing but kindness and generosity. This time, she saw darkness and the love of war in his eyes. She looked at me, even though she knew it was true. I nodded my head once.
"It's true." Navi almost fell to the floor, but Angelous caught her.
"How did this happen?" He sighed again.
"That's what we need to figure out. We need to discover who did this, and the purpose for putting this spell on us." I looked in the mirror again.
"Are we stuck this way?"
"For now. At least until we can find a way to reverse it. We have to make an appearance that we actually are each other." I chuckled and sat on my bed with my arms folded. "What's so funny?"
"You think you can be me?" Angelous looked at me in a mocking way.
"Watch me. 'Oh no, this is too stressful, everyone's out to get me, you're ruining my life!' I looked at him with my mouth open. Angelous smiled at me. "Dead on, isn't it?" I stood up.
"Yeah, well, it's easy to be you; I'll just suck the fun right outta the room!"
"I do not suck the fun out of the room." I shook my head.
"Fun – sucker!" Angelous sighed yet again.
"Look, we don't have time for this! It's only a matter of time before my sisters start looking for me, and the last thing you need is to be tardy to school." Angelous kept talking, but I wasn't listening. I was too busy observing my hand. "Link, are you listening to me?" All of a sudden, a black and purple energy ball flew out of my hand and knocked over my lamp.
"... Oops." I said, innocently.
"Nice going!" Navi hit me on the head.
"Oh no! My power! I forgot about them! You have all my godly powers, but have no idea how to use them properly!" I scoffed at that remark.
"Like you can control my powers?" I asked as a challenge.
"Please, how hard can telekinesis be?" I took this challenge with a smile.
"Alright, try to levitate something." Angelous saw a pencil on my desk and tried to levitate it. He squinted his eyes to its limit. I smiled, knowing that he couldn't use psychic powers. He let out a groan of struggle. "Think harder."
"If I think any harder, your head will explode." I smiled.
"Harder then it looks, isn't it?" Angelous sighed.
"Alright, we don't use each other's powers. Now, you stay here and make me a copy of your schedule while I attend to some business." He disappeared into my bathroom. I scoffed.
"Man, no matter what body he's in, he's still bossy." Navi agreed.
About fifteen minutes later, he came out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist. "Angelous, I wish you hadn't done that!" Angelous looked at me with his hands on his hips.
"Oh, please, Link. I used to change your diapers. I know what you look like." I turned to Navi.
"There's something very sweet and ... disturbing about that." Angelous got dressed as I finished the schedule. "Alright, here it is. Basically, you have every class with Shawn and Zel --- oh no, Zelda!"
"What about her?"
"I promised I would take her to the dance tonight!"
"Well, I guess you're going as me." I shook my head hard.
"No, I can't go as you, you still freak her out a little!"
"Well, then what do you propose we do?" Navi and I looked at each other and then at Angelous with a smile. Unfortunatly, he found out what our plan was. "Oh, no! No!"
"Please, Angelous? Come on, I would owe you so much." Angelous shook his head that must have been a million times.
"Link, no! I'm not making out with your girlfriend for you!" I made a grossed out look.
"Gross! Look, all you have to do is take her to the dance. I'll do all the making out once we switch back." Angelous looked at me with a straight face and his arms folded. Then I decided to use the one weapon I had that was absolutely guaranteed to work against him. "Please ... Dad." Angelous continued to stare at me. I could hear Navi giggling her little giggle. He finally unfolded his arms and sighed.
"Why am I such a sucker for that? ... Alright ..."
"Yes!" Then I noticed something. "Uh – oh ... Angelous, look at your left hand."
"What about it?"
"The Triforce isn't on it." Angelous could see this as well.
"Link, look at your hand." I took off the glove that covered my left hand. And there it was. The Triforce of Courage had jumped from my body to Angelous' body. "It must be connected to your spirit." I put the glove back on and went through my dresser. I threw a pair of gloves over to Angelous.
"Here, wear these. Zelda will definitely know that the Triforce is missing." Angelous reluctantly did as he was told.
"Don't think that just because we switched bodies changes anything, Link. I am still your father, and you are still my son."
"I know. Now, you better get down to breakfast before Mother gets really mad.
"... Link, I don't eat mortal food."
"Well, you're gonna have to try." I added with a smile.
Later, Angelous and I were walking to the school. I can tell that he was starting to feel the empathy power. There were too many students in this school. He could feel all of their presences, and what each and every one of them were feeling. The thing about being empathic is that you have to know how to focus your powers. Angelous has been training me to do that, but he wasn't meant to have that power. You can only handle empathy if you were meant to have that power, like me.
"You okay?" I asked. Angelous made struggling noises.
"Fine." He said. In the distance, I could see Zelda, and Shawn. Zelda waved to us.
"Link!" She said.
"Brace yourself." I told him. Angelous looked up at me.
"Why? --- Oww!" Zelda jumped onto him and kissed him on the cheek.
"That's why." I said. Angelous gave me a dirty look as Zelda continued to squeeze him.
"Good – morning, Link! How are you doing today?"
"I'm fine, how are the two of you doing?" I rolled my eyes. Angelous was using grammar that was way too good. They're definitely gonna find out. We are so toast ... I thought to myself. Shawn cocked his head.
"You okay, Dude? You sound a little ... different." Angelous hesitated.
"I'm fine." I couldn't help but let a little smile across my face. "Will the two of you excuse me; I have to speak with my ... father for a moment." Angelous took me by the arm and pulled me away from the group. Shawn and Zelda looked at each other. He pulled me to a spot where he knew they wouldn't be able to hear us, as loudly. Hylians have super – sensitive hearing. We can hear a few miles away.
"Oww!" I whined.
"Alright, I have everything under control here. You must return to the Heavenly Palace and take my place." I smiled.
"Easier done then said."
"Navi, go with him. Make sure he doesn't get into too much trouble." I rolled my eyes. Navi thought for a second.
"Hmm, ya got room service?" Angelous nodded.
"Of course."
"Okay, I'm in." She hid under my hat as Zelda came over to us.
"Are you sure you're okay, Link? Things seem, a little ... difficult for you, and you sound very different."
"I ... have a cold, and I don't want you to get it."
"Smooth." I added under my breath.
"Aww, you're so sweet, Link. I love you!" Angelous just kept the pointless smile he had on his face. I cleared my throat and circled him.
"Tell her you love her." I told him as I walked away. Angelous watched me walk way a few steps. He smiled to Zelda.
"You too, Zelda." I sighed heavily. Zelda took his arm and dragged him into the building as the bell rang. I walked down the sidewalk with my hands in my pockets, and Navi at my side.
"So you think Angelous knows he does that?" Navi shrugged.
"Probably, but Angelous has never been one to express feelings.
"I guess you're right. After that, I thundered us both to the Heavens.
To Be Continued ...
Have you ever felt like you've just had enough, where you'd want to live the life of another person? Like the stress has gotten the best of you, and you'd want to live a day in the place of a person who you thought had the perfect life? Well, be careful what you wish for. Because it did come true for me and my father, Angelous. And it was the worst day of both of our lives ...
It was a morning just like every morning that I was forced to go to school. I pounded my alarm clock and went back to sleep, just before Navi flew in and woke me up for a second time. "Link, get down stairs and eat your breakfast! You have school today!" I lifted my head from my pillow and glared at her. Her blue glow made it hard on my eyes and I couldn't see her true form. I stared at her for a few more seconds.
"... You're not my mother ..." I said. Navi sighed and tried to get me up.
"That's right, 'cuz if I were, you'd be up for adoption, now get up!" She started pulling on my ear like she always does when she wants me to get moving.
"Ow! Ow! Ow! Alright, alright." As soon as I was walking to the door, she blocked me.
"Link, get dressed before you go down! Unless you want everyone at school to make fun of you in your jammies." I gave her a long look. "Don't look at me like that. Now, I have to go get your sister up." Finally, she left. I walked over to my bathroom to brush my hair and teeth. When I reached for the tube of toothpaste, it splattered all over me. This could have been the work of only one evil person.
"ARYLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed.
Afterward, I went down to the kitchen to confront my baby sister. "Aryll, have you been snooping around my room again?" Aryll put on her "I'm innocent" face.
"Why no, Big Brother. Why would you say that?" I looked at her, not falling for her cutie act.
"Then how come my toothpaste was booby – trapped this morning?"
"That's all you fell for? The toothpaste? Man, if I would have known that all you were gonna fall for was the toothpaste, I wouldn't have spent all that time trapping your entire side of the west wing." She said with a smile. This was the last straw. My baby sister may have only been eight, but I swear she had the mind of a diabolical villain.
"Aryll, I'm gonna give you a head start. Then, I'm gonna psy – blast you."
"You wouldn't!"
"Oh, would I? One ... two ..."
"Oh, c'mon, Link! Quite being a party pooper!" I raised my voice a little bit so she knew that I wasn't playing around.
"Three ... four ..."
"Fine! Be a stick in the mud!" She grabbed her bag and left for school." My mother and step – dad came in. They heard the whole thing.
"Link, why do you always have to give her such a hard time?" Dad asked me.
"Oh, it's part of my morning routine, Dad. Take a shower, brush my teeth, fight with Aryll, eat a muffin." Mother gave me a sigh of shame.
"Well, I think you need to be just a little bit nicer to her. She does love you after all."
"No, Mother. She loves to make my life miserable. Just like everyone else. They put too much stress on me." Dad looked at me.
"Who does?"
"Never mind. I better get to school. Love you guys."
Later that day, I went to train with my biological father, Angelous. You know, the Fierce Deity, also known as the God of War. Angelous and I train just for the fun of it. A couple of weeks ago, I had an episode that made Angelous decide to train me mentally as well as physically. My psychic powers had grown so intense that I couldn't handle it anymore. With telekinesis, telepathy, feeling the presence of everyone in the world, and having empathy, it all crammed together, and I couldn't take it. That's when Angelous decided to start training me mentally every once in a while. We train in a little place that's just outside of Lon Lon Ranch. It's our own little place. Away from any cities or towns that might be distracting. Angelous hates it when I get distracted. He makes me do the worst things when I get distracted or in trouble. Having a mother, a father, and also a step – father isn't exactly what one would call ... prosperity. Oh, get this. When Aryll and I get in trouble, she gets a one punishment from Mother, and one punishment from Dad. When I get in trouble, I get a punishment from Mother and Dad, then, I get one from Angelous as well. Angelous makes me do at least two hundred sit – ups and push – ups, and ten laps around the entire training grounds, which are over five miles long. And I can't use my powers. Anyway, this day was a mental training day. Often, he'd have me levitate myself. This day, I had to balance on a ball, upside down, levitating myself, while levitating other things as well. It was hard keeping my balance. "Focus your mind. Don't think about anything but the task at hand." I found it even more difficult as time went on, but I had to learn how to control my powers. I lifted my left arm. "Good. Now pick up the rock." I obeyed Angelous' command. The rock was a little bit heavy. I was used to picking up small objects. I carefully placed it on the other side of the field, trying so hard not to lose concentration. "Do you feel any control over your powers yet?"
"No, just the blood rushing to my head --- WHOA!" I feel to the floor, almost breaking my neck. Angelous rolled his eyes and sighed at me.
"Link, you lost your concentration. Your problem is that you get distracted way too easily.
"Yeah, no kiddin'." I added, sarcastically.
"Don't you talk back to me like that, Young Man!" I growled softly to myself.
"Will you back off?! I had a really stressful morning, followed by a really stressful day."
"What, did you get detention again?" I didn't look him in the eye. That's how he found out my answer. "Link, that's the fourth time this month. Keep it up and you could be expelled." Can I get that in writing? I thought to myself.
"High school is tough, okay? It's like everyone there is out to get me. They accuse me of using my powers even when I don't." Angelous stood there, cross – armed.
"Have you tried talking to the teacher about this?"
"They do the same thing."
"Well, sounds like you have to put out more of an effort." I looked at Angelous before I started rubbing my face with the water that I used to cool off.
"I tried that."
"You'll have to try harder." I looked at him in shock this time.
"Look, Angelous, it's not like they're just going to accept me. I'm a demi – god. No matter what I do, I'll never be accepted.
"Link, you have to learn to deal with it. People may never understand you, but you could try to understand them." Inside I was laughing at that statement.
"Angelous, it's a lot harder then it sounds, okay?" I turned around to put my shirt back on.
"How hard could it be? I could probably understand most of those people just by being there in person." I turned to Angelous as soon as I had my shirt on.
"You couldn't last one day in my high school! Or take on the responsibilities as the Hero of Time." Angelous took my challenge.
"I could so. And I could do it without getting detention." I made a mocking laugh toward him. "Like you could take my responsibilities as the God of War." At that statement, I really started to laugh.
"Puh – leez, Angelous. How hard can it be? 'Oh, I feel like starting a war. And I think I want this side to win. Oh, look. Another point for me!'" I mocked. Angelous stared at me long and hard. "It is much more complicated then that!" I stared at him as well.
"Yeah, I'm sure having the perfect life is really difficult ..." Angelous' jaw dropped.
"You think my life is perfect?!" I turned to him after putting all my equipment in my bag.
"Well, let's see; being one of the most powerful gods in the heavens, being worshiped by all of Hyrule, and being the most powerful worrier to ever exist; hmm, let me think ... YES!" Angelous didn't say anything for a full minute. He was starting to scare me.
"If anything, your life is much better off then mine."
"Can you back that statement up?" Angelous and I had another staring contest until I said something. "Whatever. I'm going." Before I could take one step, Angelous thundered in front of me.
"And just where do you think you're going, Young Man?"
"Uh, to hang out with Zelda and Shawn at our secret place. So, I'm goin' now. Love ya, Angelous." Angelous raised his hand and shook his head.
"Negative. You will go home and study." Now it was my turn to be shocked.
"No way! I promised them that I'd meet them there!"
"You don't have time to have fun with your girlfriend and best friend. I will inform your mother that you are coming straight home. And if you don't, you will be punished severally."
"I hate my life!" After that remark, I shimmered back to the mansion. Angelous let out a deep sigh after I left.
"Well, someday you should try mine ... "
Later that night, I told my mother I was going over to Shawn's house to study, but I don't think she bought it. Shawn lived next door, so she could send any one of the staff members, or Aryll to follow me. "He thinks he can just run my life, and it angers me so!" Shawn sighed and shook his head.
"Dude, I'm glad I don't have your life. Being both a Hylian and demi – god, I couldn't take it. Especially with a little sister and three parents.
"Sometimes, I wonder why I was given this life. I never have any privacy, everyone expects me to drop everything and save them, and I'm a mixture of species."
"Aw, cheer up, Dude. It can't be all that bad. What about all of your powers? That's gotta be a plus." I scoffed.
"Yeah. The only useful thing Angelous gave me was my ability to have powers. But even so, feeling everyone, and even worse, feeling what they feel is just too much sometimes. And Angelous doesn't understand that. I wish that just for one day, he could see just how stressful my life really is." While Shawn and I were talking, little did we know that the messenger of the gods, Kapora Gabora, or K.G. as we like to call him, and the youngest of the Royal Heavenly family, Farore, were both listening to our conversation. Farore is what you would call ... my godmother. She watches over me all the time and I find that I have more in common with her then I do with my own father. They looked at each other and headed back to the heavens.
Upon their arrival, Din, Angelous and Nayru were all sitting together in the Heavenly Palace, having their own conversation. The two of them were unnoticed. "What does he think gives him the right to talk back to me like that?! He thinks he can talk to his own father like that, and it angers me so!" Angelous yelled, obviously not to his knowledge. Din chuckled to herself, knowing that Angelous and I were trying to fix out dysfunctional father / son relationship, and getting nowhere fast. Nayru sighed and turned to her older brother.
"Angelous, did you ever stop to think that he does all this, you know, talking back to you, using his powers on you, and constantly nagging you because he loves you?" Angelous raised an eye brow, and gave Nayru the most confused look you've ever seen. Din chuckled again.
"What Nayru is trying to say, is that you used to do that all the time to us, Angelous. You would back talk me, and taunt Nayru and Farore when we were younger. It's how both of you show affection for one another. He's more like you then you'll ever know." Angelous blinked a few times.
"Even so ... "Angelous said. He lost himself in his own thoughts. Din and Nayru got up.
"Well, Nayru and I have business to attend to. Good – bye, Angelous. Love you."
"You too." Angelous said, without even looking at them. Farore and K.G. looked at each other and headed off to a part of the palace that was not known by the rest of the family.
"So, Father and son are getting on each other's nerves, huh? Maybe we should do something to help.
"I don't know, Farore. Remember what happened the last time you tried to interfere with those two?"
"Well, this time I'll make sure I don't get caught. And that it's not an eruption day for Mt. Death ..."
That night, while I was asleep and Angelous was resting in his room, Farore and K.G. were doing some kind of ancient Hylian ritual. One that made us experience that the other one was like. While Farore chanted, K.G. put in the ingredients needed for the ritual to work. Just then, my spirit lifted from my body, and traveled up to the heavens into Angelous' body. Then, his spirit floated down to Hyrule into my body. The ritual was complete. Farore and K.G. winked at each other. The night went by fast.
The next morning, my alarm clock went off again. And as if on cue, Navi came in to wake, who she thought, was me, up. Navi dropped the clock on his head. Angelous woke up, angry as ever. "HOW DARE YOU!" He yelled in his deep voice coming out of my mouth.
"Finally, I thought you would never get up, Link. Your mother and father told me to wake you up if you plan on going to school." Angelous rubbed his head.
"Navi, why are you calling me 'Link?'" Navi stared at him with a look of confusion.
"... Because it's your name. Now get ready for school. I have a lot to do today, and I don't need to waste time trying to get you out of bed." Navi flew away. Angelous was still too tired to comprehend what she said. He walked over to my dresser. And with just one look, he yelped at the sight of what he saw in the mirror. He looked deeper into it. Blonde hair, blue eyes, and youthful skin. Then, he realized that he was inside my body.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?!?!?!"
Meanwhile, up in the heavens, I got a rude awakening as well. While I slept in Angelous' bed (and it was quite comfortable too. Nothing but pure cloud), Din came in. She shook her head at the sight of her strong, younger brother, or at least she thought was her younger brother, still in bed. "Oh, Little Brother, it was time to wake up twelve hours ago!"
"If you give me five more minutes, I'll make breakfast." I said in my sleep. Din shook her head and proved why she's the Goddess of Power. She lifted the bed, and then dropped it with intense power. "Whoa! Okay, I'm up!"
"Good. Now get to work!" I looked at her in confusion.
"Din, what are you doing here?" She looked at me.
"I live here. Now, get to work, Angelous! I don't want to have to tell you twice!" After she left, I went to the mirror to find out that my worst nightmare has come true. ... I had finally become my father, literally!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Meanwhile, still in my room and pajamas, Angelous was pacing around the whole room. "Alright, there's no need to panic. I just have to get in touch with Link somehow!" Before he could get another word in, I thundered into my room. "... Thanks." He said, looking at the ceiling.
"Angelous, something has --- whoa ... "I looked at him in my body.
"Something has happened to the both of us." I started stuttering. "Link, this is no time to panic."
"I think it's a perfect time to panic!" I started to whine like a little two – year – old as I looked in the mirror at my current condition. "I don't like it in here! I want out!"
"Link, calm down. There's got to be some logical explanation for this." I moved my gaze from the mirror to him.
"Angelous, I've spent three – fourths of my life chasing monsters and demons, and you're looking for a logical explanation?" It was weird hearing his voice come out of my mouth. That voice was too deep to be in my body.
"Enough with your mouth! I am a full – grown deity trapped in my son's body!" Angelous turned to the other side of the room. I crossed my arms.
"Aw, big fat bummer." He turned his head to me.
"You seem awfully amused by this."
"Oh, I am. I seriously am." Then he turned his whole body toward me.
"Oh, and why is that? I smiled a sinister smile.
"Because. Now, you're gonna find out what it's like being me. Just wait 'till those feelings and noises start kicking in." Angelous opened his mouth to say something when Navi came in.
"Link, your parents want me to --- oh, hello, Lord Angelous. What brings you here so early?"
"Navi, it's me, Link!" Navi giggled.
"That's a good one, Angelous you sound exactly like him, the same way he sounds like –-"
"Navi ... "Angelous cut her off. She looked at him. "I am Angelous." She continued to look at him, moving closer to look into his eyes. Normally, she would see pure innocence, and nothing but kindness and generosity. This time, she saw darkness and the love of war in his eyes. She looked at me, even though she knew it was true. I nodded my head once.
"It's true." Navi almost fell to the floor, but Angelous caught her.
"How did this happen?" He sighed again.
"That's what we need to figure out. We need to discover who did this, and the purpose for putting this spell on us." I looked in the mirror again.
"Are we stuck this way?"
"For now. At least until we can find a way to reverse it. We have to make an appearance that we actually are each other." I chuckled and sat on my bed with my arms folded. "What's so funny?"
"You think you can be me?" Angelous looked at me in a mocking way.
"Watch me. 'Oh no, this is too stressful, everyone's out to get me, you're ruining my life!' I looked at him with my mouth open. Angelous smiled at me. "Dead on, isn't it?" I stood up.
"Yeah, well, it's easy to be you; I'll just suck the fun right outta the room!"
"I do not suck the fun out of the room." I shook my head.
"Fun – sucker!" Angelous sighed yet again.
"Look, we don't have time for this! It's only a matter of time before my sisters start looking for me, and the last thing you need is to be tardy to school." Angelous kept talking, but I wasn't listening. I was too busy observing my hand. "Link, are you listening to me?" All of a sudden, a black and purple energy ball flew out of my hand and knocked over my lamp.
"... Oops." I said, innocently.
"Nice going!" Navi hit me on the head.
"Oh no! My power! I forgot about them! You have all my godly powers, but have no idea how to use them properly!" I scoffed at that remark.
"Like you can control my powers?" I asked as a challenge.
"Please, how hard can telekinesis be?" I took this challenge with a smile.
"Alright, try to levitate something." Angelous saw a pencil on my desk and tried to levitate it. He squinted his eyes to its limit. I smiled, knowing that he couldn't use psychic powers. He let out a groan of struggle. "Think harder."
"If I think any harder, your head will explode." I smiled.
"Harder then it looks, isn't it?" Angelous sighed.
"Alright, we don't use each other's powers. Now, you stay here and make me a copy of your schedule while I attend to some business." He disappeared into my bathroom. I scoffed.
"Man, no matter what body he's in, he's still bossy." Navi agreed.
About fifteen minutes later, he came out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist. "Angelous, I wish you hadn't done that!" Angelous looked at me with his hands on his hips.
"Oh, please, Link. I used to change your diapers. I know what you look like." I turned to Navi.
"There's something very sweet and ... disturbing about that." Angelous got dressed as I finished the schedule. "Alright, here it is. Basically, you have every class with Shawn and Zel --- oh no, Zelda!"
"What about her?"
"I promised I would take her to the dance tonight!"
"Well, I guess you're going as me." I shook my head hard.
"No, I can't go as you, you still freak her out a little!"
"Well, then what do you propose we do?" Navi and I looked at each other and then at Angelous with a smile. Unfortunatly, he found out what our plan was. "Oh, no! No!"
"Please, Angelous? Come on, I would owe you so much." Angelous shook his head that must have been a million times.
"Link, no! I'm not making out with your girlfriend for you!" I made a grossed out look.
"Gross! Look, all you have to do is take her to the dance. I'll do all the making out once we switch back." Angelous looked at me with a straight face and his arms folded. Then I decided to use the one weapon I had that was absolutely guaranteed to work against him. "Please ... Dad." Angelous continued to stare at me. I could hear Navi giggling her little giggle. He finally unfolded his arms and sighed.
"Why am I such a sucker for that? ... Alright ..."
"Yes!" Then I noticed something. "Uh – oh ... Angelous, look at your left hand."
"What about it?"
"The Triforce isn't on it." Angelous could see this as well.
"Link, look at your hand." I took off the glove that covered my left hand. And there it was. The Triforce of Courage had jumped from my body to Angelous' body. "It must be connected to your spirit." I put the glove back on and went through my dresser. I threw a pair of gloves over to Angelous.
"Here, wear these. Zelda will definitely know that the Triforce is missing." Angelous reluctantly did as he was told.
"Don't think that just because we switched bodies changes anything, Link. I am still your father, and you are still my son."
"I know. Now, you better get down to breakfast before Mother gets really mad.
"... Link, I don't eat mortal food."
"Well, you're gonna have to try." I added with a smile.
Later, Angelous and I were walking to the school. I can tell that he was starting to feel the empathy power. There were too many students in this school. He could feel all of their presences, and what each and every one of them were feeling. The thing about being empathic is that you have to know how to focus your powers. Angelous has been training me to do that, but he wasn't meant to have that power. You can only handle empathy if you were meant to have that power, like me.
"You okay?" I asked. Angelous made struggling noises.
"Fine." He said. In the distance, I could see Zelda, and Shawn. Zelda waved to us.
"Link!" She said.
"Brace yourself." I told him. Angelous looked up at me.
"Why? --- Oww!" Zelda jumped onto him and kissed him on the cheek.
"That's why." I said. Angelous gave me a dirty look as Zelda continued to squeeze him.
"Good – morning, Link! How are you doing today?"
"I'm fine, how are the two of you doing?" I rolled my eyes. Angelous was using grammar that was way too good. They're definitely gonna find out. We are so toast ... I thought to myself. Shawn cocked his head.
"You okay, Dude? You sound a little ... different." Angelous hesitated.
"I'm fine." I couldn't help but let a little smile across my face. "Will the two of you excuse me; I have to speak with my ... father for a moment." Angelous took me by the arm and pulled me away from the group. Shawn and Zelda looked at each other. He pulled me to a spot where he knew they wouldn't be able to hear us, as loudly. Hylians have super – sensitive hearing. We can hear a few miles away.
"Oww!" I whined.
"Alright, I have everything under control here. You must return to the Heavenly Palace and take my place." I smiled.
"Easier done then said."
"Navi, go with him. Make sure he doesn't get into too much trouble." I rolled my eyes. Navi thought for a second.
"Hmm, ya got room service?" Angelous nodded.
"Of course."
"Okay, I'm in." She hid under my hat as Zelda came over to us.
"Are you sure you're okay, Link? Things seem, a little ... difficult for you, and you sound very different."
"I ... have a cold, and I don't want you to get it."
"Smooth." I added under my breath.
"Aww, you're so sweet, Link. I love you!" Angelous just kept the pointless smile he had on his face. I cleared my throat and circled him.
"Tell her you love her." I told him as I walked away. Angelous watched me walk way a few steps. He smiled to Zelda.
"You too, Zelda." I sighed heavily. Zelda took his arm and dragged him into the building as the bell rang. I walked down the sidewalk with my hands in my pockets, and Navi at my side.
"So you think Angelous knows he does that?" Navi shrugged.
"Probably, but Angelous has never been one to express feelings.
"I guess you're right. After that, I thundered us both to the Heavens.
To Be Continued ...