AN: Believe it, or not, I am writing another LOZOOT story. But, this one has a twist to it...
Disclaimer: I don't own LOZ, I don't own Zelda-if I did, then, Anshi-chan and me would get rid of her and alter a few other details...like when Link loses his tunics because the demon slug things eat them (you'd have to equipe a new tunic for him to wear one ). I don't own Li, Blade does. I don't own Lita, Anshi-chan does. I made up the character but I am going to say that I don't own Jetta, Aramis does. I do own Kaylynn, steal her and die.
Rating: Jeez! Rate it yourself! I'll see what you people think, then post the rating in the summary later.
Genre: Romance/Action/Adventure and, is Weird a genre?
Content: OOC, I guess it could probably be considered an AU on a certain level, blood, language, me, yaio, shonen ai, possibly lemon-but ONLY maybe-, possibly a rape scene-but less likely then all the others, accept the whole 'lemon' idea.
Pairings: Kaylynn and Dark Link, Link and Sheik.
Summary: Four teens from the real world are sucked into a land called Hyrule. Where they meet a boy named Link. The four help him on his journey, later they meet a golden haired boy named Sheik, who drags Link around by the heartstrings. Link and Lita find out something shocking from their two psychic friends, Li and Kaylynn. But, while Sheik is catching Link's eye, he is also doing the same to the King of Evil...
Thankies and Huggles: I thank Lee Lee for her story-Pieces, which I read and loved, even though she didn't make it for me. I thank Anshi-chan for even getting me interested in Legand of Zelda, I thank Li, Yami Blue and Anshi-chan for their reviews. And I thank Sheik-Princess "Piss-Me-Off" Zelda's male alter ego(who is not an author, but an eighteen or seventeen year old Sheikah boy that is giving me a glare of pure death at this point ;)-for not injuring me prior to my coming up with these ideas.
Title: Quest of Faith and Heart
Spoilers: Jesus, fucking, Christ! What the Goddam Hell is a spoiler!
Anything Else: Eh...nope...don't think so...Oh! there is something! Sheik and Zelda are two different people! Ok, that's it.
Quest of Faith and Heart
Ch. 1
By Azuril Noir Raine (You said 'ass')
Once upon a time...
(in a galaxy far far away...oops, wrong plot line...)
A time before there was earth, ocean and any life...
Upon this chaotic world of Hyrule, three goddesses of the Golden Land decended.
The Goddess of Power, Din...
With her strength, and hands of fire, she cultivated the land and built the red earth.
The Goddess of Wisdom, Nayru...
Poured her knowledge into the earth, giving the world its order.
Lastly, the Goddess of Courage, Faerore...
Who, with her rich heart, gave life to those who would protect the law of the land.
When the three goddesses finished their tasks and returned to the heavens, they left behind the Sacred Triangle of the Golden Land, the Triforce, and that place became the Sacred Realm.
To protect the wish-granting Triforce from the evil-hearted,
The Sages built a temple, and sealed it at the Gate of Time.
"He who collects the three Spiritual Stones,
Stand here and play the Song of Time.
If done...
Then the gate shall open..."
"Aaaahhhh!-" thud "oof!"
"Whhoooaaa!-" thump "Ouch."
"Aaaah!-" smack "Iiyyeeee..."
"Aaaaahhyyiieeeeee!-" smuck "Ay, dat 'urt."
Four teens were sprawled on the ground by the entrance to the Lost Woods in Hyrule.
A brown-blonde haired girl with strangely flouresant eyes that changed from a steely blue to a mild brown, to a dark gray depending on what angle her head was at, her hair was frizzy, kinky, curly, wavy, fluffy and straight all at the same time, fell down to the middle of her shoulder blades and was pulled into a loose ponytail by the bottom of her head.
A red-brown haired girl, with cobalt blue eyes, the only member of the group with straight hair, that fell down a little past her shoulder blades.
A curly haired blonde girl with fiery blue eyes made up the last female member of the group, her hair was a mix of curl and kink and fell down to the middle of her back, it was pulled up into a relatively tight ponytail and was also a bit frizzy.
The last member of the group was a light golden blonde haired boy with icy blue eyes, his skin was the second lightest of the group and his hair was as long as the blond-brown haired girl's, he was the only male member of the group.
The four weren't dressed like Hylians, Kokiries, or anyone else from the land they were now in.
The blonde haired girl wore a black, leather tank top with buckles going down the front, two straps attatched to a thick black collar with a think piece of black leather lacing up the back of it, holding the collar together with a tie, a large sapphire gem-stone was on the fron of the collar, black straight-legged jeans that were destroyed at the knees, two black colored athletic braces covered her wrists, and a pair of combat boots, along with a necklace that had a clear, perfectly circular gemstone on it.
The cobalt blue eyed girl wore fingerless gloves, a black ribbon choker, a wrinkled, white tank top with the words 'Super Tramp' on it in a strange brownish color that had gotten lighter from fading, a denim duster was over it, she too wore straight legged jeans, one loose thin belt and one tight thick belt, the loose belt had a hunting knife hanging off it, and worn out canvas hightops, she wore a necklace with several emerald rings hanging from it, two cresant moon ear rings hung from her ears, a pearl stud was in a second hole on her left ear.
The brown-blonde haired girl wore a black long sleeved shirt with the sleeves rolled up only a bit past her elbows, faded, slightly baggy dark blue jeans, motorcycle boots, a red, sleeveless shirt with buttons going up over her chest on either side of the front, one side wrapping up around her neck, buttons lining that as well, the shirt would have been belly bearing, had it not been for the black shirt under it, she had a black clasp on her right ear, under it, a pendulum-like earring, with a triangular ruby on it, no piercings in her left ear, along, red bandana was wrapped half-hazardly around her head, hair hanging down at several different areas, she had gold bracelets on her left arm, going all the way up to her elbow, gold rings on each finger of her left hand. The finishing touch to her outfit was a long, red trenchcoat that hung over her shoulders, held closed at the top by several black buckles around the high collar, covering part of her face.
The boy wore black, baggy shorts, a black tank top, a gold and peral crusafix hung from a chain around his neck, he wore hiking boots on his feet, a black fingerless glove covered his left hand, a pair of thin belts wrapped tightly around his waist, two ticker belts hung down looser over them, his tank top was tucked loosely into his pants, he had one small hoop ear ring in his left ear, a trio of rings with a strangely shaped skull on each of them on his right hand. His long blond hair pulled back into a ponytail with a thin strip of black leather. The final touch was a long black trench coat.
The four slowly sat up, rubbing their heads, each of them had a bag or back pack of some kind lying near them,
"Um...ouch." the red-brown haired girl said sounding groggy,
"Pain. Lots of pain." The blonde haired girl said, sounding equally as grogy,
"Whoa...um...ouches...and...pain and...stuff..." The boy said, he then laid back down, not wanting to move.
"Well, that hurt. Did anyone get the lisance plate number of the space shuttle that hit me?" The brown-blonde haired girl asked
"No. I was too busy wondering why we were falling from the sky to worry about a falling space shuttle." The boy replied, then he finally sat up and stayed up, "We're sitting ducks out in the open, we don't know anything about where we are, and there's a little skeleton behind Jetta." The boy said in a flat voice, then all four of them stopped and looked, wide eyed, at each other, they then looked at the cobalt eyed girl, who shook her head and mouthed the word, 'No.', but her three friends only nodded slowly and in unison, then she slowly stood up and turned around, to find a small skeleton looking creature standing behind her, then she screamed and led the retreat as she and her friends ran for their lives.
"What gasp was gasp that? gasp" The cobalt eyed girl asked, she and her friends were now in a village at the foot of a huge mountain,
"I don't know, and I wasn't reading up on finding out." The brown blonde haired girl said, then she started to pant heavier and fell over, "Do I hafta move any time soon?"
"No." The blonde haired girl said, she was leaning against a wall, her hand on her chest where her heart was, breathing in long gasps, the cobalt eyed girl was bent over with her hands on her knees not even six feet away, the boy was sitting down, leaning against another wall, he sat cross legged and had his head leaned back as he tried to catch his breath, the brown-blonde haired girl was still on her back with her knees bent up by her stomach, her arms streached out to the sides, she was breathing hard and her chest rose and fell from both her breaths and her heart's rapid thumping.
"Gee, Jet, if you wanna go back and ask that thing what it was, then that's fine by me, in fact I'm slightly curious too, but you're goin alone." The boy said, he then leaned forward and his head followed suit, he was now propping himself up on his elbows, which were on his knees, his hands folded under his chin, his icy blue eyes looking at his three friends,
"No, thanks, but no." The cobalt eyed girl replied, gazing at him for a second, then she lowered her eyes and went back to trying to regulate her breaths.
"Yeah, gee, Li, I would, but, it involves moving something besides my overly worked mouth." The brown-blonde haired girl said from the ground, not moving at all,
"Well, let's look around." The blonde haired girl said, getting off the wall, the boy stood up, the cobalt eyed girl straightened herself up, and the brown-blonde haired girl sat up, received assistance from the blonde haired girl, and stood up, then they set off to look around the village.
"Wouldn't chya know it," the brown-blonde haired girl said, "A village that looks creepy and deserted at night has a creepy and deserted cemetery in the back of it."
"Scared?" the boy challenged,
"No!" She snapped at him, "Just...not exactly not scared either." She said the last part in a tiny voice and looked around behind her for a second, then all four of the teens heard something from behind them-they were farthest from the entrance and were standing by a hole in the ground looking at the whole cemetery-and turned to look.
"There's someone climbing out of that hole." The cobalt eyed girl said,
"Told ya it was creepy." The brown-blonde haired girl said,
"What's the matter, Kaylynn? You never seen a walking dead guy before?" The blonde haired girl teased, though she too didn't like that idea,
"Noooooooot many." The boy answered for his friend, then the form from the hole was totally out of the ground and the four screamed in unison, the figure screaming as well,
"Hey," The cobalt eyed girl said, her friends stopped screaming, never taking their eyes off the shadowed figure in front of them, "Can ghosts scream in terror?"
"Well, tchnacly, they can if they're reinacting parts of their deaths, but that was back home, and-I'm guessing that-since we were lagging behind the camping group in the middle of a dark forest-the group being a bunch of people who hate us and don't notice we're even alive at that-, fell down a hole in the ground that wasn't even there, braught along all our bags, not leaving any trace of where we fell, landed some place where we were chased by a skeleton and where there isn't even a trace of a small scent of gasoline from cars any where, I'm guessing...we are so not in Kansas any more, ladies and gent." The brown-blonde haired girl said, then the boy opened his mouth to say something when a blade could be heard against the rough material of its scabbard, that got their attention, the shadowed figure was holding a glistening blade and had a shield out, the cobalt eyed girl and the boy backed away and the blonde haired girl and the brown-blonde haired girl got into fighting stances, the brown-blond haired girl taking her coat off, tossing it aside, the figure attacked first, resieving a sharp kick in the jaw from the brown-blonde haired girl, who then back flipped away from her attacker, the blonde girl waiting until her friend was tired or cornered, not wanting to take the chance of them running out of energy to fight in case this guy was more powerful then he looked. The shadowed swordsman swung the blade at the girl that had kicked him and she grabbed hold of the flat sides with her palms, holding the blade tightly so it didn't hit her, then she pushed hard upward and the swordsman stumbled, giving her time to swing five punches as fast as she could, hitting him in the stomach and chest, then he swung the sword again and she ducked and crouched down, then she swung one of her legs around and caught his ankles, sending him sprawling onto his back, his sword and shield flying away from him. The blonde haired girl ran to grab them so he couldn't and when she saw the shield she gasped and turned back to her friend,
"Kaylynn!" She cried, but the girl didn't hear her, due to the fact that her attacker had her by her ankle, she struggled to pry her foot free of his grasp but couldn't get it, so she swung her other foot straight up and braught it straight back down, onto his stomach, he audibly gasped for breath and let go of her, she then looked over to the blonde haired girl, who showed her the shield,
"eeoooowww...oops." she said as she looked down at the gasping and caughing form that owned the shield, "Sorry 'bout that." She said as she backed slowly away from him, then hid behind her other two friends,
"Who is it?" The cobalt eyed girl asked,
"Link." Answered the brown-blonde haired girl in a small whisper,
"sshhhheeeeee tch, oooooo..." The cobalt eyed girl moaned, then she patted her friend's shoulder sympatheticly, "Bad move. Bad, bad move."
"You got some kinda death wish, Kay?" The boy asked,
"No! I didn't know it was him!" She said,
"It's ok, I won't kill you." The blonde haired girl said, "Besides, I was ready to attack him too. Remember?"
"Oh, yeaaah!" The brown-blonde haired girl said, a small smile crossing over her face. She picked up her coat, hanging it back over her shoulders, buckling the collar again. Then the four teens froze, looking wide eyed at each other,
"um, did you say Link?" the boy saked, his friend nodded
"Yeah." she said, he shook his head,
"No way." she nodded,
"Yes way." the brown haired girl started ripping at her hair,
"Shit!" she cried,
"What the hell!" the blond girl yelled,
"What the bloody fuck!" the boy cried,
"How the hell'd this happen!" the brown-blond haired girl cried
"Is he ok?" The cobalt eyed girl asked,
"Well, Kaylynn did Hammer Kick him pretty hard." The boy said as the figure on the ground moaned slightly then rolled over onto his hands and knees, then he coughed more and looked up, fiery-blue eyes gazed quizzically from one of the four other people to the other, then his eyes rested on the blonde girl, who was wearing his shield and holding his sword, which was-unknown to her-glowing slightly with a sapphire blue light.
"Who...are you?" he asked in a hoarse voice, his throat sore from caughing,
"We're lost." The girl with his sword answered, "But, our names are Lita."
"Jetta." The cobalt blue eyed girl said,
"Kaylynn." The girl that had beat on him said with a sheepish grin,
"And, Li." The boy said, "We already know you, you're famous. And, you're Link." The boy on the ground nodded, then stood up slowly, he swayed on his feet a bit, but caught himself several times before he fell, then he walked over to the girl named Lita and looked at the blade in her hand, which was still glowing, then he looked her in the face,
"The Master Sword is reacting with something in you." Lita looked at the blade curiously and blinked at it a few times,
"Well, um...sorry." she said, then she gave him the sword and shield back and stepped over by her friends, "We aren't from this world, see, we sorta dropped in to your world and we don't know how."
"And, we don't know how to get back either." The girl named Jetta said, then the girl, Kaylynn, started jumping up and down, waving her arms franticly,
"Ooo! Ooo! Ooo! I seen dis movie!" The four other teens present were staring at her strangly,
"Huh?" They said in unison,
"Ok, well, it's just like most of those scifi movies where the space dudes get stuck on another planet or in another dimention and they gotta do something, or-or get something for some one, or go on a quest before they can go back home." She explained excitedly, then Jetta raised her eyebrows and mouthed, 'Ooooooohh...i get it' then she spoke up,
"Like in Lord of the Rings, all of them hafta go on this quest or their world will be destroyed if the bad guys get the Ring." At that statement, Kaylynn grabbed hold of a gold ring on her middle finger and said in a horribly faked low raspy voice,
"No, they can't take the Precious! Bad, bad, evil hobits!" The two girls burst into a fit of giggles, leaving Lita, Link and the boy Li to watch them, exchange a confused glance and shrug all in unison.
"They're always like this." Lita said,
"You're no better." Li said,
"Neither are you."
"Ok, I admit it, all four of us have our moments when we're just down right weird." Li said, crossing his arms over his chest, "Now, we need to talk."
"About what?" Link said,
"About the Sages." Li answered, "See, we can give you information, like, the fat, old dude, Rauru, said that there were six of 'em, but, there aren't. There are seven Sages. One isn't in a temple though." Link stared at him for a second, then Lita spoke up and said,
"Princess Zelda is perfectly safe right now, she's very well protected and she'll meet you once you've awakened the five 'templed' Sages."
"You're gonna have to beat a Big Boss in each of the Temples. And they get harder each time. But, if you listen to us, use the right weapons and watch your back, then you'll make it." Kaylynn said as she and Jetta walked up to join their friends,
"When you awaken a Sage, they'll always be someone you know, and they'll share their power with you by giving you a Medallion. Like the one you got from Rauru." Jetta said,
"There was a boy, named Sheik, in the Temple of Time when I was last there, what about him?" Link asked,
"Sheik'll pop up when ever you're about to enter a new Temple. He'll teach you an ocarina song to warp you back to that spot, then he'll disappear until the next Temple." Kaylynn said, Link had a look of mild joy on his face but his eyes seemed slightly disappointed in something, "Sheik'll give you important information in the Temple of Time right before you meet the Pricess, then, that's the last time you're supposed to see him." She finished, Link stared at her with an unreadable expression, then he said,
"Where is the first Temple?"
"Do you have the Hookshot?" Lita asked,
"The what?"
"I'll take that as a 'no'. Come on." She said as she walked away from them, Li, Jetta and Kaylynn followed right away and, after a moment's hesitation, Link put away his sword and shield and followed after them.
"What're you doing?" He asked as he watched all four of them in different rows of the cemetery, pushing the graves aside, "Kaylynn, where did you get that lantern?" He asked her, she had a strangely shaped lantern hooked around her arm, it glowed with an eerie light and looked vaguely familiar to the group, Kaylynn's answer placed where they'd seen it before,
"I found it on the ground, there are a few more around here too." She then stopped pushing the gravestone and said, "Why?" a ting of nervousness was seen clearly in the corners of her eyes and when Link moved towards her to take the lantern, a Poe appeared from ot, Kaylynn watched the ghost float around until Link had backed away a bit, then it flew back into the lantern,
"I...guess it likes her." Li said,
"No, it couldn't." Lita said, a little puzzled, "Poe's are made from pure hate. They hate everything. How could it like her?"
"Point. But, it does." Jetta said, the Poe floated out of its lantern again and floated in circles around Kaylynn's head, she continued to push on the gravestone, until a scream filled the air as she fell down the hole that the stone had hidden,
"I told her she was supposed to pull." Jetta said, the Poe turned into a tongue of fire and floated down the hole, where they guessed it had gone back into its lantern,
"Well?" Jetta said to Lita, "She found the grave where the Hookshot is."
"Yeah. She did." Lita said, "Link, Li, you two go down there and send Kaylynn back up, then do whatever the nice dead man says to ok?"
"Why me?" Li said, pointing to himself, "I mean, I can understand Link, but, why me?"
"Because you're the star sprinter on the track team back home." Lita said (Hee, hee, I'm making Li look good accidentally, hee, hee.) "If Link can't keep up, he'll find his way back to the entrance and you can keep on going."
"Uh, hello? Guys? Any one? Help!" Kaylynn's cries echoed from the hole, "Please." She added after a few seconds,
"Get going." Lita snapped, Li jumped down the hole and Link followed,
"Well, what do we do? The race doesn't end back down there." Jetta said,
"We're going to the Windmill." Lita said, "The race does end there."
"Li! Link! My heroes!" Kaylynn cried upon seeing them, the lantern still hooked on her arm,
"Yeah, well, we're supposed to get you atta here and run the race." Li said,
"But, I can run it too." Kaylynn said, sounding like a small child,
"No, Lita said to get you back up and then get the Hookshot." Li said,
"I'm going!" Kaylynn snapped, then the Poe appeared and started firing fireballs at the two boys, who dodged them until Kaylynn got them to give in, then they went to talk to the ghost of Dampè,
"Uh, Kaylynn, why don't you talk to him?" Li suggested as he seemed to hide behind her and pushed her forward, holding onto her upper arms loosely, Link walked a step behind her, staring strangely at Li, who glared at him, "What?"
"Nothing." Link said, looking ahead of him,
"I have a thing about talking to dead people, that's all." Li said, "Kaylynn does it all the time, but, me? No, sir."
"She what?" Link said, staring at Li, a little shock on his face,
"Never mind, I'll tell you later." The group had gotten to where Dampé floated and Kaylynn smiled broadly, but nervously and sweat dropped, Li and Link also had a few small sweat drops and nervous smiles on their faces, Dampé grinned broadly at Kaylynn,
"You remind me of my grand daughter." He said,
"Ehh...thanks...sir, um..."
"Dampé. The former Gravekeeper of Kakariko Village Cemetary."
"Oh. Well, it looks real nice, I mean, I'm sure it looked a lot better before everything fell apart because of Ganondorf, but, I can tell you took a lot of care into keeping it as it was, right?" Kaylynn said cheerily, that was why Li had wanted her to talk to the ghost, once she got a name from someone, she could talk to them with her usual 'happy-go-lucky' and totally care-free attitude and she wouldn't give a care if they were dead or not.
"Why, thank you. Yes I did take a lot of pride in that old place, and I sometimes miss my duties there, but, now I have other duties to worry about."
"Oh, it must be so sad and lonely down here, do you miss living much?" Kaylynn said, sympathy seeping into her voice, Link looked at Li, who mouthed, 'I'll explain later' to him, Link nodded and then turned back to the ghost of the Gravekeeper
"Not too much. Not having a real body isn't so bad, you wouldn't believe what I save on food bills alone. But, I still get to enjoy the finer things in life." Dampé said, Kaylynn had her usual crooked smile on her face and her head was tilted ever so slightly to the side as she listened to the ghost, "Like the curiosity of young people." Kaylynn smiled broader at this, "And the friendly conversations of a sweet and kind young lady. You've already brightened my day by talking to me. It is very lonely down here, and I do often miss talking with other people." Dampé said, then Kaylynn smiled brighter and said as kindly as she could,
"Is there anything else that would make you feel less lonely?" Dampé seemed to think about this statement for a few minutes when he finally said,
"I have always wanted a companion of some kind, a pet maybe, but, I'd be so sad when it died." Then, Li looked down at the lantern hooked on Kaylynn's arm, which was crossed over her chest, hanging onto her other arm, which hung down at her side, Li jabbed her in the side,
"What?" She muttered, (Aken: You did this on purpose! ANR: No, actually, I didn't, when I had then talk to him, I'd totally forgotten about the lantern and the Poe and then, when I had her say if there was anything else to make him less lonely, I remembered the Poe. Aken: Sure... ANR: It's true!)
"The Poe." He whispered, "It's a ghost, so it won't die, and, this one's different, it likes people." Li said, Kaylynn looked, a little sadly, down at the lantern, which glowed dully hanging from her arm. The Poe flew out and she patted its head,
"Hey, buddy, you shouldn't come with us, we're going far off from here and you might get hurt, so, I found you some place to stay while we're gone, and after that too, cuz, I don't know if we'll come back at all." The Poe drooped in the air and made a sad noise, Kaylynn smiled slightly and said, "I know you're gonna be lonely with out some friends, so, I found you one. He's all alone too. And, you both need a friend." The Poe looked at her, then at Dampé, then back at her, then it floated back a bit and Kaylynn handed it its lantern, then it started to spin in mid air, slowly at first, then, it picked up speed and turned into a puff of smoke. When just a small round cloud of smoke floated there a small ball of fire shot out of it and Kaylynn caught it, she clutched it in her hands and when she opened them, she saw a black ocarina sitting in her palms, "Whoa." She said, when she looked back up the Poe was there again, "Is this for me to keep?" It nodded slowly, "It's a keepsake, isn't it?" Another nod, "Ok, then, here's one for you." She said as she reached into her pants pocket and pulled out a necklace, it was a plain metal chain with an hour glass hanging from it, the hour glass' top and bottom were silver and the sand looked like gold dust, she put it on the Poe, "Think of it as a way to be different from all the others. You're special now." The Poe made another noise and nudged her arm a bit, then it floated over to Dampé, who patted its head, a noise that resembled a purr was heard from the Poe and Dampé smiled, then he turned back to the three teens in front of him,
"Thank you, so very much, young lady, for making me happy and for bringing me a companion. Here's something in return for your kindness." Then a chest appeared and Kaylynn looked at it, then pointed to herself, the old Gravekeeper nodded and Kaylynn shrugged slightly and walked over to the chest, opened it and pulled out...
"The Hookshot!" Li said, "Kaylynn got it from Dampé for a gift, so, we don't have to run the race any more." Link smiled back at the boy and nodded,
"Thank you very much, sir." Kaylynn said giving a polite bow as if she were from Japan-she was really born in Waukegan, Illinois, then she was raised in Racine, Wisconsin. (ANR: No place worse then Wisconsin! Aken: Oy vei…! ANR: My uncle says that it's the FIB's coming into it and driving badly that make parts of it bad. Aken: The what? ANR: He said they were called FIB's. I'll tell you later.) Dampé smiled and nodded, then the three said their good byes and left through where they'd come, to find Lita and Jetta were gone and Sheik was waiting for them, Link froze when he saw the boy and Kaylynn smiled as she put her new ocarina into her pocket, then she said, "I'm gonna miss that hourglass, though."
"So, they went to the Temple of Time to wait for us?" Li said to Sheik, who nodded, the group was leaving the cemetery and heading for the entrance to the city, Kaylynn farthest to the left, then Sheik on her right, Li on Sheik's right and Link farthest to the right.
"I saw them in the windmill and they explained their position, I told them to wait in the Temple of Time for you three." He said, Kaylynn had her new ocarina out and was playing it perfectly, Li watched her puzzled, Kaylynn couldn't even hum a tune without messing up, and now she was playing a song perfectly on a brand new instrument!
"That thing magic?" He said to her, she stopped playing,
"Hm?" She looked at him and shook her head, her mouth just a small circle on her face, then she shrugged and grinned for a second, before taking a deep breath, and playing her ocarina again, the same mournful, eerily haunting melody. Li had never heard it before, neither had Link, or Sheik. Then Sheik started to hug himself tightly as if cold, and said,
"That tune..." Kaylynn stopped again and looked at him, the same quizzical look on her face, her mouth a small froun now, "It...it's so...haunting, it's frightening. And, you play it...so...guiltlessly, I...I think..." He stopped for a second and swallowed the lump that had formed in his throat, "I think I'm...afraid of...the song." Li nodded somberly, Link was looking worriedly at the Sheikah boy, he looked so small and frail, like a child. Kaylynn's sinical laugh made her three friends look at her with verying levels of shock,
"That's silly, Sheik." She said, her crooked grin in place again, "How can you be afraid of a song? It can't hurt you. It's only music. A melody that I made up off the top of my head that I decided to play on a new ocarina. That's all. No special powers, no magic stuff, no chanting, no mystic mumbo-jumbo. Just notes on a musical staff that I haven't even put on paper yet." Then she stopped her unknown teasings and was silent for a while, then she said, "Which I will do the first chance I get. Then, I know this is gonna sound bad but, could you play it on your harp thingy? I think my song would sound so pretty on your harp." She was watching him with those questioning eyes and he finally said in a quiet, almost nervous and frightened, voice,
"Sure." Then Sheik looked at his feet as Kaylynn smiled broadly and then turned back to her ocarina, but she was now playing a different tune, the Song of Storms echoed cheerfully through the air, but not a drop of rain fell, the four remained dry. Link watched Sheik a bit more, the boy was starting to loosen up, he was listening to the music from Kaylynn's ocarina and he seemed more relaxed now that she'd stopped playing that song from before. Then, crystalline eyes were gazing into his and he looked away, blushing, then he heard Sheik laugh quietly and looked back up, the boy was now watching him, when Link's blush darkened Sheik laughed a bit more, then, Li leaned forward slightly and said,
"Hey, Kaylynn, can I try playing something?" Kaylynn thought for a second, then said,
"Well, I'd let you, but, I don't have anything to clean of the mouth piece with. My everything is somehow dirty." Li nodded and straightened back up, a few seconds later, Link was handing him the Fairy Ocarina,
"Huh?" Li said as he took it,
"Take it. I have another ocarina and there's no point in my having two." Link said smiling at Li, who said his thanks then moved over to Kaylynn's left, then she started to teach him how to play, it was about then that the group was out of the village and part way down the stairs back to the field. Link was blushing more as he realized Li-his human shield-had left and was now farthest from him, and that Sheik was right next to him, his face still partly covered by the collar of his clothes and the turban-like cloth wrap was still on his head, covering most of his golden hair, the thick bangs that stuck out from under the cloth shone brightly in the setting sun, the large crystalline eyes glowed and glistened in the fading light as well, that's when Link realized that Sheik was watching him as he watched him. Link's eyes went wide and he turned his head away from the other boy, who turned his gaze towards the front again, Kaylynn and Li's soft music filled the air and Link looked out of the corner of his eye at the boy next to him, Sheik was still watching to the front and didn't know Link was staring at him again, Link's cheeks were pink again as he watched the other boy with half closed eyes. He really hoped Sheik would stay with them throughout their entire journey, if he didn't Link thought he might go mad.
"Hey, guys, why didn't you send Kaylynn back?" Lita said, "You were supposed to run the race by yourselves."
"Well, it turned out to be a good thing that we didn't send her back, see, the ghost, he was lonely, so Kaylynn talked to him and he started to cheer up a bit, then, she gave him that Poe that she'd found and the Poe gave her an ocarina, and then the ghost dude, he gave her the Hookshot."
"Which I gave to Link." Kaylynn said as she played some more on her ocarina, "Guess what, Sheik's scared of a song." Sheik shuddered slightly obviously distressed at the memory of the song, then Link spoke up,
"We still need to awaken five Sages." The group nodded and Sheik gave them the information they needed, but, when he was getting ready to leave, Kaylynn's haunting melody from earlier filled the air, then another set of notes joined it, Sheik stopped moving and turned to watch Kaylynn and Li play the song he was so frightened by, tremors of chills ran through him as they continued to play, when they'd both stopped, Kaylynn smiled wickedly at the Sheikah boy,
"You promised to play this song on your herp. And, couldn't you stay with us? It would sure beat just appearing, wouldn't it?" She said, before playing all the notes on her ocarina in a fast instant from highest to lowest then back to highest again. A childish smile playing over her lips. Sheik looked at the group, Li was playing his new ocarina quietly with his eyes mostly closed, Kaylynn still held her ocarina, but didn't play it, she just watched him, waiting for the answer, Lita and Jetta were both smiling at him also waiting for his response, then, Sheik's eyes fell on Link, who was staring at him in a way no one ever had before, Link realized he was staring and looked at his feet, guilt written on his face-under the thick blush on his cheeks. Sheik's smile remained hidden under the tall collar he wore, so did the light blush on his cheeks. Then he said quietly,
"I will stay with you, I don't know why, but, it feels...somehow...right for me to do so." The look on Link's face was that of pure joy, then he quickly tried to cover it up, Sheik smiled again as the hidden blush on his face darkened. Then, the group walked towards the Forest Temple, not warping because of questions that needed to be answered and things that needed to be said.
Lita and Jetta were in the lead, they were talking and laughing about something. Li and Kaylynn were behind them, looking back at Link and Sheik. Link was watching Sheik again, Sheik was watching the ground, his eyes partly closed,
"Geez, that guy fucking sucks at hiding things." Li looked at Kaylynn oddly after she'd said this,
"What'd ya mean?" He asked,
"You mean you haven't noticed?" she said, sounding stunned, "He's constantly watching Sheik, almost everytime I've looked at him he's been watching the poor boy."
"So, you're saying..."
"Bingo! Give the boy a prize! How long did it take ya, Li?" Kaylynn said, bumping the ball of her hand against her forehead, "He sucks to fucking hell at hiding his feelings. I mean, I'm surprised Sheik stayed with us." Li looked at her wide eyed, then back at the two boys behind them, Kaylynn following his gaze,
"I wonder...how long it'll take for Lita to figure it out." Li said, Kaylynn nodded her agreement as the group walked towards Lon Long Ranch to obtain Epona.
AN: Yes! That sucked! This is the first chapter that I didn't know would be a chapter, I wanted to get in, write a lemon and get out in a one-shot deal, but, the stupid thing just dragged on and on and I realized, he still has to get the horse, beat the temples, admit how he feels, fuck Sheik blind...
Sheik: If Link or Anshi doesn't kill her, I WILL!
AN: Eep! Chapter 2 is on its way...if I make it that far...
