A Different Fan
By Princess of the Pixies
"There. Who's next?" Link asked as he was swarmed with "Me! Me!"s and "Oh Link, me!"s. Every time he came into Hyrule Market, he was flocked with children begging for his autograph. Little children asked to hold his sword. Link looked at them and for the first time noticed, that they were all boys. He wasn't sure how he felt about this, of course girls wouldn't want to hold his sword, (well, the ones that had a crush on him..) but he felt that there should at least be SOME girls that admired him? He wondered why he hadn't met anyone else who could wield a sword. 'Maybe I can teach one of these young 'uns' he thought
In the coroner of the Hyrule Castle town sat a girl about the age 16 gazing-not at him-but his sword. Link slowly came to realize this and smiled to himself and turned his back to her so she could look at the entire sword and took off his shield and laid it on the ground. After all the children went home he walked up to her and said,
"I couldn't help but notice you looking at my sword" (a/n: sorry to interrupt, but that sounded like a terrible pick-up line or something nasty.)
Her dark, almond-brown face flushed. She replied,
"Sorry sir, but I've always wanted to know how to sword-fight, but the opportunity has never risen."
He was slightly taken back by a girl her age wanting to sword fight rather than being obsessed with her looks or having a crush on him. Then he gave her a look-over; she was wearing a Kokiri tunic, she had rich, deep brown eyes, and her hair a light brown and extremely short and stuck out in the back and she also had soft green leggings. She was as well wearing Kokiri boots yet he was quite sure she was not Kokiri. She may not have been obsessed with her looks, but that didn't mean she wasn't good looking. He himself was wearing his Goron Tunic and white leggings, his Master Sword in the sheath on his back and he had his Hylian Shield in hand.
After a pause he then said thoughtfully, "Has anyone offered to teach you sword fighting?"
"No sir."
"I'll teach you."
A look of excitement ran through her like a current running through her.
She jumped off the crates and asked, "Really? Really you would teach me??"
"Yes." He said smiling, "If you head towards Hyrule Castle, you will see some vines, climb those and you can meet me by the gossip stone at 0900 hours sharp, alright?"
"Yes sir! Thank you so much! Will the lessons start tomorrow? Also will I need to purchase a sword of my own?" She asked with excitement,
"Yes we shall start tomorrow, no I may have a sword for you, but it my be too small, I used it when I was 10, we will use shields in later lessons, but if you would like to bring one tomorrow, then you can either purchase a Hylian Shield in the market or go to Kakariko Village and take one from a grave." Link said matter-of-factly.
"Thank you so much, Link, sir!" she said and hugged him and ran off away from the town and what seemed to him towards Kakariko Village.
He chuckled to himself,
"Humph, that's a different fan."
* * *
When Link reached his home, he thought about things that had happened today. 'What a strange turn of events,' he thought to himself, 'Oh! And I didn't even get her name! Oh well.'
"Now where is that blasted Kokiri Sword?" he muttered out loud. "Oh! Here."
* * *
The girl was overjoyed, she took Link's advice and decided to look in a grave in Kakariko Village. She moved a gravestone, but nothing was there. 'Odd.' she thought 'he said there would be a shield in a grave.' She looked around herself and noticed that there were probably fifty graves around her. She kicked herself mentally for making a foolish mistake in not asking which one, 'I guess I was too excited..' she smiled to herself, thinking back at how shocked Link was when she asked about sword-fighting instead of an autograph or wanting to shag him. She was approaching her last grave, when a hole appeared, she guessed that was it, so she shrugged and took a plunge down.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH H--" THUD! She landed at the bottom on her behind with an "OOF!" She looked around and noticed a red treasure chest with ornate carvings, it looked pretty big, and then she noticed a big, shiny lock.
"Oh no!" she groaned, "Great!" she muttered sarcastically, "Perfect, really." She started to get up to figure out a way to get a key when a screeching bat came flying at her.
"Holy crimney!!" She screamed and tore off, she regained her senses and chuckled to herself,
"It was only a bat! I'm such a wus-AAAAAAAAAAAH!! KILLER BAT!!" this time before she ran off, she quickly took her boot off and hurled it at the bat, stunned, the bat fluttered to the ground and a key appeared in its place. She got up and picked up the key. Examining it closely, she noticed it had the same makings as on the treasure chest, she shrugged and tried putting the key into the hole, the key fit in perfectly, as she opened the chest, a yellow glow submerged the room and she fell over from the shear force of the energy. She got up and looked in the chest, reaching in, she found a sword and shield. She picked up the sword and looked at the hilt, 'oh my.' she thought to herself in awe, 'This beautiful!' the hilt was covered in tiny green and pink jewels. On one side, there was a pink eye made with all the tiny jewels, and on the other side there was a tiny leaf made out of the green jewels.
She unsheathed the sword to look at the blade; it made a smooth 'ching' sound as she slid it out. 'Wow! Oh wow!' she sheathed the sword and put it on her back. As she fitted it on, she noticed that it was perfect length and weight and the sheath strap fit perfectly. She picked up the shield, 'Hey! This is the perfect weight and size too!' examining the pattern on the shield she found that there was what looked like a swirl of four white stars with a royal blue background. She wondered about that for a minute, but then decided to go back outside and find something to eat and a place to rest.
* * *
Link yawned and got out of bed, he got out of his tree house and went over to the gossip stone close to the Lost Woods.
"BOING! BOING! The time is, 0800!"
"Ok!" Link said, "Only an hour." Then he actually realized what time it was! "Eight? Oh my!" He walked to Saria's house and knocked on the door,
"Come in, Link!" she hollered from inside.
Link smiled and walked in "Saria, what would I eat without you? You always know when I'll be awake and when I'll want breakfast!" he said, grinning, "Gimme a hug, you're too nice!" Link scooped Saria into his arms and gave her a hug and a twirl. Link was sort of like and older brother to Saria, even though they were the same age. Still, the Kokiri maintained their childlike effervescence.
Saria giggled and said "Wee! Link, that was fun! Here's your Foofinberry omelet!" She said with a smile. Foofinberry was the Kokiri's main special ingredient that made all meals taste good, and people happy all day. After Link at his omelet, it was 0830 hours.
"Saria, thanks for the meal! I have to go now! Thanks again! Bye!" Link said as he left.
"Bye Link!!" Saira bellowed from behind.
As Link made his way to Hyrule Castle Town, he remembered 'She never told me her name.' he also wondered where exactly she was from. She looked like she would be Geurdo, but she would know sword fighting then, so where was she from? What a thought to ponder.
As he reached the Castle town, he thought I wonder why I'm doing this, I mean, sure I don't really have any new adventures, but what's attracting her to me?
* * *
She didn't have a place to sleep, so she decided to go and sleep at the place Link told her to meet him. As Link came up the vines, around 0845 hours, 15 minutes early, he saw her sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed. Unsure if he should disturb her, he just stood there and waited for her to open her eyes. After a few minutes, her eyes opened and she saw him, she quickly got up and bowed to him.
"No, no, no need for that! It's ok, here," he said handing her the Kokiri sword.
"Oh, thanks, but remember when you told me to look in a tomb? Well I found this," She said, pulling the sword she had found out of the sheath and handing it to him, with 'hmmm's and 'mmmm's he examined the hilt and the blade. Finally, he spoke up,
"This is excellent craftsmanship! This is a great treasure, did you get a shield too?"
She nodded and showed him the shield with the stars on it. He looked at the shield, very pleased,
"This is great! The Kokiri Sword would have been too small for you anyways," he said knocking on the shield to hear a metal clinking sound. "Ok, now, let's see your grip on that sword." She took the hilt in her hand and slid the sword out.
"Now, I want you to hold he sword out, parallel to the ground, but don't point it down, unless you have a hip sheath, which you don't. " Link instructed, "Now you can stand with your legs shoulder-width apart, if you're of guard, like if you sense something might attack." She was doing everything he told her as he said it. (a/n: I have absolutely NO CLUE about sword fighting, so fencing people,. Sorry! I'm just thinking of stuff from the game!)
"Now if you're facing something to attack, you would grip your sword in both hands, now what handed are you? Left or right?" said Link.
"I'm right-handed," she said.
"You know what, put away your sword, this is very bad of me, I don't even know your name, we're going to see each other every other day, we should get aquatinted."
"Ok well I know you're Link, the Hero of Time, I'm Lola.I can't remember much else, I just sort of appeared here one morning. It was very strange."
"Indeed, strange." Link said thoughtfully, "So then, where would you be staying?"
Lola looked at him for a while, like looking for trust in his face,
"Since I have only just come here, I slept on the ground, and will continue looking for a place to sleep until I leave Hyrule."
Link look ashamed, for he took his nice bed for granted, he always had a place to go, never left out in the cold. He wasn't sure what to say to this. He felt, as though, he needed to compensate for his folly. Suddenly, he remembered something he wanted to give her.
"When I went home the other day, I asked the Deku tree for a favor. This is for you." He said, handing her a bottle with a fairy in it.
She looked at the bright fairy in amazement and gave Link a hug and cried,
"Thank you!!"
"Don't be thanking me now!" he chuckled, "You're going to be working hard! And you won't like me so much for it."
She laughed and said, "Ok then let's bring it on!"
"Ok, so do you want to know your fairy's name?" Link asked.
"Of course! I almost forgot about her!" Lola said.
"Him" Link corrected.
"Don't forget about me!" a little voice piped up
"Ah yes, Ayden! How could we forget you?"
The fairy laughed and said, "Just making sure!"
"Ok so on with this lesson!"
After showing Lola horizontal and vertical cuts, Link decided to practice on the gossip stone, he got out an ice arrow and froze he stone so it wouldn't cause any sharp recoil.
"Now Lola, try and focus on your sword and your sword making contact with the ice. It's nothing else but the power in your sword making contact with such force, practice this once without actually making contact a few feet away then move up and strike the stone."
Lola breathed in deeply and held the sword the way Link told her to, she was thinking about the sword, making contact with the ice, and putting all of her force into the sword. She was going to do a horizontal strike so she held the sword out with one hand, she did not just swing the sword, she put a thrust into it. She had her eyes closed the whole time, making her feel like she put more energy into it. When she opened her eyes, Ayden was flying around her frantically asking if she was ok and Link came running up to her.
Author's Note: so do you want me to continue? I just feel like a newbie that's fan fiction just ready to be Misted! But GG encouraged me over IM to continue! Thanks GG!
Yeah and also, this is old; I just revamped it because it sucked. Not saying that it doesn't suck anymore, but I think a little less. I WILL continue, because I found someone stole my idea and wrote it better, now I'm determined to fix this so it's a good story.
By Princess of the Pixies
"There. Who's next?" Link asked as he was swarmed with "Me! Me!"s and "Oh Link, me!"s. Every time he came into Hyrule Market, he was flocked with children begging for his autograph. Little children asked to hold his sword. Link looked at them and for the first time noticed, that they were all boys. He wasn't sure how he felt about this, of course girls wouldn't want to hold his sword, (well, the ones that had a crush on him..) but he felt that there should at least be SOME girls that admired him? He wondered why he hadn't met anyone else who could wield a sword. 'Maybe I can teach one of these young 'uns' he thought
In the coroner of the Hyrule Castle town sat a girl about the age 16 gazing-not at him-but his sword. Link slowly came to realize this and smiled to himself and turned his back to her so she could look at the entire sword and took off his shield and laid it on the ground. After all the children went home he walked up to her and said,
"I couldn't help but notice you looking at my sword" (a/n: sorry to interrupt, but that sounded like a terrible pick-up line or something nasty.)
Her dark, almond-brown face flushed. She replied,
"Sorry sir, but I've always wanted to know how to sword-fight, but the opportunity has never risen."
He was slightly taken back by a girl her age wanting to sword fight rather than being obsessed with her looks or having a crush on him. Then he gave her a look-over; she was wearing a Kokiri tunic, she had rich, deep brown eyes, and her hair a light brown and extremely short and stuck out in the back and she also had soft green leggings. She was as well wearing Kokiri boots yet he was quite sure she was not Kokiri. She may not have been obsessed with her looks, but that didn't mean she wasn't good looking. He himself was wearing his Goron Tunic and white leggings, his Master Sword in the sheath on his back and he had his Hylian Shield in hand.
After a pause he then said thoughtfully, "Has anyone offered to teach you sword fighting?"
"No sir."
"I'll teach you."
A look of excitement ran through her like a current running through her.
She jumped off the crates and asked, "Really? Really you would teach me??"
"Yes." He said smiling, "If you head towards Hyrule Castle, you will see some vines, climb those and you can meet me by the gossip stone at 0900 hours sharp, alright?"
"Yes sir! Thank you so much! Will the lessons start tomorrow? Also will I need to purchase a sword of my own?" She asked with excitement,
"Yes we shall start tomorrow, no I may have a sword for you, but it my be too small, I used it when I was 10, we will use shields in later lessons, but if you would like to bring one tomorrow, then you can either purchase a Hylian Shield in the market or go to Kakariko Village and take one from a grave." Link said matter-of-factly.
"Thank you so much, Link, sir!" she said and hugged him and ran off away from the town and what seemed to him towards Kakariko Village.
He chuckled to himself,
"Humph, that's a different fan."
* * *
When Link reached his home, he thought about things that had happened today. 'What a strange turn of events,' he thought to himself, 'Oh! And I didn't even get her name! Oh well.'
"Now where is that blasted Kokiri Sword?" he muttered out loud. "Oh! Here."
* * *
The girl was overjoyed, she took Link's advice and decided to look in a grave in Kakariko Village. She moved a gravestone, but nothing was there. 'Odd.' she thought 'he said there would be a shield in a grave.' She looked around herself and noticed that there were probably fifty graves around her. She kicked herself mentally for making a foolish mistake in not asking which one, 'I guess I was too excited..' she smiled to herself, thinking back at how shocked Link was when she asked about sword-fighting instead of an autograph or wanting to shag him. She was approaching her last grave, when a hole appeared, she guessed that was it, so she shrugged and took a plunge down.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH H--" THUD! She landed at the bottom on her behind with an "OOF!" She looked around and noticed a red treasure chest with ornate carvings, it looked pretty big, and then she noticed a big, shiny lock.
"Oh no!" she groaned, "Great!" she muttered sarcastically, "Perfect, really." She started to get up to figure out a way to get a key when a screeching bat came flying at her.
"Holy crimney!!" She screamed and tore off, she regained her senses and chuckled to herself,
"It was only a bat! I'm such a wus-AAAAAAAAAAAH!! KILLER BAT!!" this time before she ran off, she quickly took her boot off and hurled it at the bat, stunned, the bat fluttered to the ground and a key appeared in its place. She got up and picked up the key. Examining it closely, she noticed it had the same makings as on the treasure chest, she shrugged and tried putting the key into the hole, the key fit in perfectly, as she opened the chest, a yellow glow submerged the room and she fell over from the shear force of the energy. She got up and looked in the chest, reaching in, she found a sword and shield. She picked up the sword and looked at the hilt, 'oh my.' she thought to herself in awe, 'This beautiful!' the hilt was covered in tiny green and pink jewels. On one side, there was a pink eye made with all the tiny jewels, and on the other side there was a tiny leaf made out of the green jewels.
She unsheathed the sword to look at the blade; it made a smooth 'ching' sound as she slid it out. 'Wow! Oh wow!' she sheathed the sword and put it on her back. As she fitted it on, she noticed that it was perfect length and weight and the sheath strap fit perfectly. She picked up the shield, 'Hey! This is the perfect weight and size too!' examining the pattern on the shield she found that there was what looked like a swirl of four white stars with a royal blue background. She wondered about that for a minute, but then decided to go back outside and find something to eat and a place to rest.
* * *
Link yawned and got out of bed, he got out of his tree house and went over to the gossip stone close to the Lost Woods.
"BOING! BOING! The time is, 0800!"
"Ok!" Link said, "Only an hour." Then he actually realized what time it was! "Eight? Oh my!" He walked to Saria's house and knocked on the door,
"Come in, Link!" she hollered from inside.
Link smiled and walked in "Saria, what would I eat without you? You always know when I'll be awake and when I'll want breakfast!" he said, grinning, "Gimme a hug, you're too nice!" Link scooped Saria into his arms and gave her a hug and a twirl. Link was sort of like and older brother to Saria, even though they were the same age. Still, the Kokiri maintained their childlike effervescence.
Saria giggled and said "Wee! Link, that was fun! Here's your Foofinberry omelet!" She said with a smile. Foofinberry was the Kokiri's main special ingredient that made all meals taste good, and people happy all day. After Link at his omelet, it was 0830 hours.
"Saria, thanks for the meal! I have to go now! Thanks again! Bye!" Link said as he left.
"Bye Link!!" Saira bellowed from behind.
As Link made his way to Hyrule Castle Town, he remembered 'She never told me her name.' he also wondered where exactly she was from. She looked like she would be Geurdo, but she would know sword fighting then, so where was she from? What a thought to ponder.
As he reached the Castle town, he thought I wonder why I'm doing this, I mean, sure I don't really have any new adventures, but what's attracting her to me?
* * *
She didn't have a place to sleep, so she decided to go and sleep at the place Link told her to meet him. As Link came up the vines, around 0845 hours, 15 minutes early, he saw her sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed. Unsure if he should disturb her, he just stood there and waited for her to open her eyes. After a few minutes, her eyes opened and she saw him, she quickly got up and bowed to him.
"No, no, no need for that! It's ok, here," he said handing her the Kokiri sword.
"Oh, thanks, but remember when you told me to look in a tomb? Well I found this," She said, pulling the sword she had found out of the sheath and handing it to him, with 'hmmm's and 'mmmm's he examined the hilt and the blade. Finally, he spoke up,
"This is excellent craftsmanship! This is a great treasure, did you get a shield too?"
She nodded and showed him the shield with the stars on it. He looked at the shield, very pleased,
"This is great! The Kokiri Sword would have been too small for you anyways," he said knocking on the shield to hear a metal clinking sound. "Ok, now, let's see your grip on that sword." She took the hilt in her hand and slid the sword out.
"Now, I want you to hold he sword out, parallel to the ground, but don't point it down, unless you have a hip sheath, which you don't. " Link instructed, "Now you can stand with your legs shoulder-width apart, if you're of guard, like if you sense something might attack." She was doing everything he told her as he said it. (a/n: I have absolutely NO CLUE about sword fighting, so fencing people,. Sorry! I'm just thinking of stuff from the game!)
"Now if you're facing something to attack, you would grip your sword in both hands, now what handed are you? Left or right?" said Link.
"I'm right-handed," she said.
"You know what, put away your sword, this is very bad of me, I don't even know your name, we're going to see each other every other day, we should get aquatinted."
"Ok well I know you're Link, the Hero of Time, I'm Lola.I can't remember much else, I just sort of appeared here one morning. It was very strange."
"Indeed, strange." Link said thoughtfully, "So then, where would you be staying?"
Lola looked at him for a while, like looking for trust in his face,
"Since I have only just come here, I slept on the ground, and will continue looking for a place to sleep until I leave Hyrule."
Link look ashamed, for he took his nice bed for granted, he always had a place to go, never left out in the cold. He wasn't sure what to say to this. He felt, as though, he needed to compensate for his folly. Suddenly, he remembered something he wanted to give her.
"When I went home the other day, I asked the Deku tree for a favor. This is for you." He said, handing her a bottle with a fairy in it.
She looked at the bright fairy in amazement and gave Link a hug and cried,
"Thank you!!"
"Don't be thanking me now!" he chuckled, "You're going to be working hard! And you won't like me so much for it."
She laughed and said, "Ok then let's bring it on!"
"Ok, so do you want to know your fairy's name?" Link asked.
"Of course! I almost forgot about her!" Lola said.
"Him" Link corrected.
"Don't forget about me!" a little voice piped up
"Ah yes, Ayden! How could we forget you?"
The fairy laughed and said, "Just making sure!"
"Ok so on with this lesson!"
After showing Lola horizontal and vertical cuts, Link decided to practice on the gossip stone, he got out an ice arrow and froze he stone so it wouldn't cause any sharp recoil.
"Now Lola, try and focus on your sword and your sword making contact with the ice. It's nothing else but the power in your sword making contact with such force, practice this once without actually making contact a few feet away then move up and strike the stone."
Lola breathed in deeply and held the sword the way Link told her to, she was thinking about the sword, making contact with the ice, and putting all of her force into the sword. She was going to do a horizontal strike so she held the sword out with one hand, she did not just swing the sword, she put a thrust into it. She had her eyes closed the whole time, making her feel like she put more energy into it. When she opened her eyes, Ayden was flying around her frantically asking if she was ok and Link came running up to her.
Author's Note: so do you want me to continue? I just feel like a newbie that's fan fiction just ready to be Misted! But GG encouraged me over IM to continue! Thanks GG!
Yeah and also, this is old; I just revamped it because it sucked. Not saying that it doesn't suck anymore, but I think a little less. I WILL continue, because I found someone stole my idea and wrote it better, now I'm determined to fix this so it's a good story.