Guardian Canine
A/N: Here is the first promised chapter of Guardian Canine. This shall be a LinkxMidna story. I have some ideas where the plotline is going, but this was mainly sort of a spontaneous idea that I'm going with. First chapter is a little short and choppy. Hopefully they will get better and longer. Reviews are love:3
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The Plan
Midna cursed quietly under her breath, pressing her hands to her throbbing temples. That had been the third attempt on her life this week! She turned away so she wouldn't have to watch the body of the would-be assassin being dragged away. The guards at her door were so incompetent… They had let another one through. A week of guarding the latrines should take care of that…
She grinned wickedly, and then flinched as it hurt her slashed cheek. The wound would leave an ugly scar. Unbidden, a stray thought slipped into her mind.
Link wouldn't have let that person through…
She tried to silence the thought as she nodded dismissal at the maids who had cleaned up the blood. They left her to try and get what sleep she could… If any.
She sighed and walked to the tall window, leaning against it and staring out at her darkened kingdom. The sun never fully rose in Twilight, but nor did it fully set- the time was only discernable by a faint darkening or lightening of the gloom. She growled under her breath and began to pace, trying to figure out a solution to her problem.
Unbidden, the stray thought from earlier surfaced. Instead of banishing it, she let it mull over in her mind.
It wasn't uncommon for rulers to have exotic carnivores as guard animals, was it? She crossed into her living chambers to her bookshelf. Her eyes needed no light in their natural element as she pulled a heavy volume off the shelf. A large biography of the most recent rulers of Twilight. She flipped pages aimlessly, searching for portraits.
There! Her grandfather with a large Twilight Karagok on a heavy chain… Her great-grandfather with a Wolfos… And she vividly remembered playing with her mother's guard leopard- or rather, teasing it just beyond the reach of its chain. Link in Sacred Wolf form could do the job quite nicely.
Besides the pressing matter of her need for protection, a want born of pure loneliness craved his company. She missed being able to rant to the silent warrior, seeing his gentle smile… And the feeling of being truly close to someone you trusted with your life and soul. And she knew he missed her. Unknown to the light-dwellers, the Twilight Palace contained several pools of dark water known only to a select few. These reservoirs of water were appropriately called 'Watching Pools'. They did what their name suggested. By reciting a specific spell, one could watch anything one desired in the Light World. Midna had made use of these quite often to watch Link.
He had been forced into an unwilling marriage with Zelda, whom he cared for but did not love. He often took up his wolf form and traveled to Gerudo desert- and from there to the Arbiter's Ground and the Mirror Chamber. He stared for long hours at the pedestal of the shattered mirror. Even from her palace she could dimly feel his emotions… Sadness, depression, loneliness… And a taste of a foreign emotion she couldn't identify. She sighed and shook her head as she replaced the volume.
A small rift in the border that only she knew about would serve the purpose of getting back to the Light Realm and also bringing Link back with her. Once here, he would serve as her guard wolf… If was a perfect plan.
With that thought she returned to bed, a satisfied smile upon her face.
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A/N: And so ends Chapter One. Tell me that you think!
-Erisna Deathclaw