Kiki Rukata: (Edited) Hi! Been a while since my last story. (Which I never finished...) But hopefully I will actually get through this one! It's just an idea always gets to me and wont leave me alone till I put it up, then I can't think of anything else after it. (Which is why I mostly do one-shots...) Anything you want to add Crazy-Chan?
Crazy-Chan: Oh, I do the same thing. I have so many ideas written down that I've never gone further with. But I will, someday. You never know what you'll think of later.
But anyway, we'll make sure you finish this one.
So everyone read on and give your support so Kiki Rukata will continue her story. .
(6/5/2010)ShiningwingX: Hey guys! I'm ShiningwingX. I'm Kiki Rukata's boyfriend, and her new beta. No, I'm not taking over for Crazy. She's still a Beta if she wants to be, I'm just helping out. Anyways! Hope you guys like this story. She's worked hard on it. If you have any suggestions or comments, please review and speak your mind. Just be constructive about it please? Now then! Why are you still reading my ramblings? Onward to the story!
Declaimer: Zelda is NOT mine, if it was it would have much more blood, cursing, more enemies, Ganondorf would be tougher to beat, and Yaoi, can't forget the Yaoi.
Beta(s): Crazy PurpleSage and ShiningwingX (The latter as of 6/5/2010)
Flashbacks
and thoughts will be in Italics.
Quote: "There are but two boons in life; the love of art, and the art of love."
In the vast, deep forest of Hyrule...Long have I served as the guardian spirit. I am known as the Deku Tree. The children of the forest, The Kokiri live here with me. Each Kokiri has his or her own guardian fairy. However, there are two, a boy and a girl, who do not have fairies...
Soukei's POV:
"Link! Give it back!"
"Never!"
"Come on! You know I don't like not having it!"
"Ha-ha!"
A few moments later...
"HEY! Soukei!"
"Ha! Now give mine back or I'll keep yours!"
"Noooo! Fine."
"Thank you...here's yours back." I say, handing my brother his hat while taking mine back quickly in case he tried anything funny. I grin mischievously.
"Race you to the Lost Woods!"
"Hey, that's not fair you got a head start!" Link shouts as I start to run ahead.
"Too bad!"
So starts the usual day in Kokiri Forest between the two of us, my brother and I. Things like this happened everyday. It was so common that everyone had gotten used to it quite a while ago.
Link and I… we're fraternal twins. He was born first though so I guess that would make him the 'older' of us, not that it matters much. Neither of us will say it out loud, but we both see each other as the best of friends. We argue, and tease each other sure, but what siblings don't?
"Soukei! You need to keep control of that hair of yours, I've gotten hit like a bazillion times already!" Link complains.
I spin around and look my brother in the eye. "Well it's not my fault you're so slow that you have to run behind me instead of beside me… or even in front of me!" I say with a huge grin. "I'm just plain faster than you so either get faster or deal with my long hair." I turn and sprint away in the direction of the words, not bothering to hear his reply.
"Gaah, sisters..." I hear him mutter behind me as he tries to catch up, despite his disadvantage.
We stop at a tree that marks a fork in the path in the Lost Woods.
"OK Linky, you go to the left, this time, and catch some fish for dinner." I say, pointing in the direction of our favorite fishing hole. "I'll go right and gather some fruits and nuts OK?" Not even waiting for an answer I began to head down the opposite path, waving to Link as I go.
"OK...Be careful Soukei!"
"Don't worry so much! I'll be fine."
"Geez, just 'cuz I'm a girl..." I quietly whisper to myself.
Walking along I begin to look around for my favorite tree. "At least that's something else I'm better then him at. Climbing trees is my forte." Grinning, I run at the fairly large tree, jumping at it and using no hand holes, foot holes, or branches, begin to claw my way up to the top. Finally resting up on one of the top-most branches she looks around to find the fruits I came for.
"Ah-ha!" I pluck an apple from the twig right next to my head, then another next to my right foot, and finally two more from behind me. "There that should be good..." This tree produces some of the most delicious apples in the forest. It was a little secret of mine and Link's where we found our food… and it always made us proud when the other Kokiri would always try to discover this secret for themselves. Looking down from the tree, I search for the best place to jump down. "Let's see...a place were I won't hit a branch...or a rock...or anything else..." I jump from branch to branch with ease."There we go." Crouching down and putting all my weight on my legs she leaps into the air, before letting gravity take over.
"Hy-yaa!" I curl into a ball and push myself into a roll in order to cushion the landing. After rolling about twenty feet I finally stand up and check my body for any injuries or unwanted dust. "Ha not a scratch... Take that Link," I stick my tongue out at no one in particular. Gathering the four ripe red apples, I head back to the tree we had decided to meet at, grabbing a few nuts, berries and the like along the way.
Link's POV:
I call out to my sister as she starts off in the opposite direction, "OK...Be careful Soukei!".
"Don't worry so much! I'll be fine." She yells back.
A sigh escapes my lips as I walk down the other path toward the fishing hole. "I wish she would realize that she needs to be more careful. We only have one more potion back home, and who knows how long it will be before some Hylian comes into the woods again... I just hope she doesn't try to play with any more wolfos cubs...
Link's flashback:
"Okay Soukei. You stay here while I go and get some wood, okay?"
"Okay..." She replies and sits next to a tree.
"'kay..." I leave the clearing, heading toward a small area in the forest to gather the branches fallen from the trees. As Kokiri, we were limited only to gathering wood that had fallen from trees due to storms or other such circumstances. Cutting trees down for lumber was strictly forbidden. All of our furniture was carved from the insides of the trees which made up our homes, so we rarely ever needed wood for anything besides cooking, and the creation of various utensils.
I sigh again, my thoughts returning once more to Soukei. 'I hope she listens. But I know she won't. She nev-' my thoughts are cut off by a scream coming from the direction I had just come from. 'By Din's fire!" I quickly turn around and run back, gasping as I reach the clearing and seeing what the cause of the commotion was. Two wolfos cubs were huddled next to Soukei, who was laying on the ground about two inches from them with blood coming from her head and left arm, forming a small puddle next to them. The cubs were fearfully looking in my direction, but I paid no attention being more worried for the well being of my sister. "Oh Farore!" I run over to her and shoo the cubs, who scamper away Soukei's body, I turn her over to get a better look at the wounds. A deep growl from behind him startles the boy. Slowly he turns his head.
"For the love of Nayru!"
When I turned around, there was a very protective looking female wolfos. Now I understood why the cubs were so afraid… They were not afraid of me, but for the aggressive female who lurked behind me the entire time…
Tripping over several roots, I am sharply brought back from my daydream. "Stupid roots...Hey?" I blink a couple of times, noticing that I had already reached the small pond.
Smiling pleasantly, I take out a fishing pole near a cluster of rocks before setting to the task that Soukei gave me. 'I wonder if Mido will try to beat me up again today...I hope that Ankan doesn't try anything either...'
Mido is the orange haired, foul tempered bully of the village. He fancies himself the leader of the Kokiri due to supposedly being the strongest of us. The fact of the matter is that the Kokiri have no leader save the Great Deku Tree however. Mido simply parades around the title so he can tell others what to do. Ankan, another Kokiri boy, had dark red hair and greenish-red eyes. Ankan is a very calm, very fun loving Kokiri boy who just enjoys being alive. He seems dull witted at times, but he's actually really smart. Sometimes, it actually seems like he has a crush on Soukei. Those two together… now that's a disturbing thought.
My train of thought shifts to another subject, and I frown slightly, 'Hmm, why don't we have Fairies?'
We're probably the youngest Kokiri in the forest, having only been here for eleven years. The rest of the Kokiri were much older, some as young as fifty, others well into their hundreds. Young though we are. The Great Deku Tree, our father, has always seemed to like us. He talks to us, and has offered to help us many times when Saria and Ankan were not able. It was a rare privilege to speak with the Great Deku Tree, but one we were given quite often… much to the awe of the other Kokiri and to the annoyance of Mido.
And also to the pride of Saria and Ankan. The four of us are practically inseparable as friends. Saria and Ankan are much older than Soukei and I, and they'd cared for us while we were growing up. Ankan and I have become close friends over the years, as have Soukei and Saria. Through that, we've all become closer than most of the other children.
A tug on the line pulls me out of my thoughts, and I quickly jerk on the fishing poll with all my strength, trying to overpower the fish who was fighting desperately to get loose. 'Din, how big is this stupid fish?' I grunt while slowly walking backwards while holding tightly on to the line.
My foot catches a rock, and I stumble backwards, landing flat on my back in the grass. The force ends up pulling the fish out of the water. Said fish lands my chest and starts to flop about.
"Ha-ha very funny..." he grins down at the slippery little animal. 'Not...'
Taking the fish, I place it in a bottle filled with water before catching another one and doing the same.
"There, that should do it..." I replace the fishing rod and gather the two fish before making my way back into the woods toward our decided meeting place.
Once I get there, I can't help but smile and shake my head, as I notice a sleeping Soukei leaning against the tree, looking quite peaceful. A mischievous thought passes through my head and I silently make my way over to her, pulling out another bottle, and pouring cool water over her head.
"Wake uuuuuuup!" I tease.
She jumps about two feet in the air… an action which forces out my suppressed laughter.
I throw back my head, laughing so loud that it makes my throat hurt. Soukei quickly shoots to her feet and promptly slaps me him upside my head, shutting me up. 'Yup...definitely deserved that one...'
Soukei's POV.
Dream sequence.
I stand with my brother in the middle of the pouring rain, in front of a gigantic wall made of stone with a large wooden drawbridge. Something is very different about this place. We are not in the forest… two small lights float beside us; his is light blue, while mine is dark red.
Suddenly then it hits me, 'They're fairies!'
But before I cab even properly register the thought, the wooden drawbridge starts to slowly come down over the water that surrounded the large stone structure.
Only seconds later, a beautiful snow white horse comes rushing through carrying two women. One was a young girl about our age. The other was a taller, older lady.
As they rush past, the younger one throws two items at the siblings. Two objects, one a pure white and the other pitch black, fall into the water. I could not get a good look at their faces, but from the way they are dressed they are certainly not forest children like us.
When they finally ride away beyond sight another noise bursts forward, crossing the wooden bridge and stopping just beside the two of us. The horse is dark brown in color, almost black with bright red, unworldly eyes. Mounted upon the horse is a man in heavy armor in colors of black, red, and tan. His skin is tanned a strange shade of brownish green, and his beady yellow eyes glint frighteningly in the darkness. His crop of orange hair looks like fire in the night.
'Oh man is this guy UGLY!' I think as I look him over
"You two! Boy and girl. The white horse, where did it go? Answer me!" She knew that the two women obviously didn't want this guy following them, so she lied.
"Why do you want to know so badly?" Link asked, narrowing his eyes a little. I nudge him with my elbow to keep him quiet.
"Don't play games with me, boy. I ask you again. Where did they go?"
I can tell this man was dangerous, and I know that it's likely this man those people from before were running from. I'm willing to make this guy angry… but I'm not going to tell him what he wants either. I lie "I don't know I believe they went that way." I point to the left fork of the road, opposite of where they were headed.
"Good." He looks in that direction, and then turns back to look at us. "You are no longer of use, along with that boy." He raises his large, bulky arm, and opens his palm where a large ball of energy forms. He draws back his arm, preparing to throw the dangerous magic at me and Link. My eyes widen, and I prepare to run when-
"Wake uuuuuuup!"
"GAAHH!" I jump about two feet in the air, startled, and soaking wet. Water trails down my face as I blink my eyes in confusion. Before I can do anything though, a fit of laughter beside me causes me to glance around until my eyes fall on Link laughing his head off.
Getting to my feet, I slap him upside the head. 'Oh he soooo deserved that one...'
"Yeah, I probably deserved that one..." He says, rubbing his head.
"Yes, yes you did..." I reply in irritation.
"Sorry couldn't help it."
"Oh shut up. Let's go, its getting dark..."
"Yeah I'm starving!"
"Where do you keep it all?" I mutter to herself.
We start off, looking for an area to sit down and eat before stopping in the middle of a small clearing. Sitting down, I pull out the fruits and nuts I collected, setting them aside, as Link brings out the fish and skewers them on a couple of small sticks. He passes them to me while he starts to make a fire. After the flames begin to burn nicely, Link attempts to grab the fish from me, causing me to quickly yank them away from his reach.
"No. Remember what happened last time? You burned the fish! I will not eat burnt fish again, so you no cook." I stick the ends of the sticks into the ground right next to the fire and throw an apple at him. "Eat that or no fish."
"Yes Soukei..." he replies, forcefully. I roll my eyes.
'Tonight's gonna be a long night' I think tiredly.
TBC
Kiki Rukata: Ahhh the first chapter of my hopefully continuous story of Legend of Zelda:Divided Courage,Anything else you wish to add Crazy-chan to our viewers?
Crazy-Chan: Nope, I think that about sums it up. Good work. Now if everyone would please review for our lovely Kiki Rukata we would greatly appreciate it!
ShinningWingX: Not much to say. Hope the edits helped to make the story a bit more original. Let our lovely author know what you think! :)
