The beginning of this story, how Katie actually gets to Hyrule, isn't
included, because this story is a continuation of Storm-Child's " So many
worlds apart yet so, so close". So read that first if you want to
understand the full story.
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With Penny and Link getting cosy in the corner of the treehouse, I figured this was something even I shouldn't try to join in with. I hadn't played Zelda in our world half as much as Penny, but I knew my way around the main part of Hyrule well enough, and I knew that I wanted to head for the Graveyard. It was still just about light so I decided I ought to be safe enough and started the walk. (Besides, if it got too dark I could light a fire!)
I was a bit pissed about the Penz-Link smoochy situation, I almost puked when they were doing god knows what on my back the other day, but I told myself that I didn't want that kinda crap, I was here to have fun, and anyway, I bet Link's a really slobbery pull….yeuch *shudder* who can stand SLOBBERERS!?.
Deep in thought I hadn't realised I was approaching the graveyard. The graves were in the same positions as in the game, not that I had really expected any different, and I thought it'd be funny to do what I had done when I'd been playing the game, and open all the graves up, random, but I was bored and didn't want to go back to the forest where all I could hear was Link and Penny giggling and Saria moaning about them. Suddenly I was excited, and pulled all the stones back, revealing, of course, all the poes that were trapped in them…only then did I remember that I WASN'T Link, and DIDN'T have a big shiny sword or a slingshot full of deku seeds. I hadn't noticed the first few poes in my strangely manic excitement, and had pulled eight of the graves open. Now I stood there completely frozen, except for my voice box, which was going full blast "SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTT!!!!!!!!!!" From the last stone I'd moved, and was currently clutching as if it were life itself, there came yet another poe, and as it came towards me I tried to put on a fighting face, but it stopped mere inches away from my face and said in its ghostly voice "MAN, you are totally HOT!!"
Did that mean I looked like a poe?? This was just too much. I gulped and darted glances to the other circling, approaching poes. These ones sure didn't look as if they thought I was cute. I was dinner. I stepped backwards and tripped over a skeleton that had suddenly appeared in the scene, and landed on its skull, teeth clamping into my arse. " OW! Oh FUCK IT!"
Having been staring at me for the past thirty seconds, the poe floating by my face reacted. He turned around and called over his shoulder " Never fear fair princess, Bob shall save ye!" "What the hell is he ON!?" I thought. He'd charged at the group, and had just started throwing punches at one of the other seven poes, and clearly none of the others were on his side.
One by one the other poes fell, and with each one my head cleared, and I couldn't stifle a laugh. My "Hero" was screeching gallant phrases like " Die foul fiend" and "Return to the earth from whenst thou came scum!" with every punch. Finally the last poe hissed its farewell and fell back to its grave, and all was silent. Including me. Bob was now inspecting the area for any hidden foes, and was therefore invisible to me. I looked around trying to spot something that would give away his position, and said " I…….you…..you SAVED me!? But, I thought poes were meant to be, like, evil??" I was getting seriously worried about his disappearance now, maybe he had just saved me to eat me himself, but suddenly I heard a voice at my shoulder " I just couldn't resist saving someone so sexy" I whipped around and he floated gently back, visible now. " That's all very well," I said "but you're a poe, I'm a human, doesn't work see? Anyway, have to be getting back to my friends now, they'll be worrying about me" I knew they wouldn't be but I had to say something. I got up, extracted a few teeth from my jeans and walked off without another word. Halfway back to Kokiri Forest I could've sworn I heard a breath on the wind saying "Meet me by the drawbridge at midnight tomorrow." It wasn't a question and I quickened my pace and said loudly "If you're gonna follow me don't bother being invisible" almost before I'd finished the word I screamed. Bob had appeared suddenly in front of my face again. "Do you wanna quit that?" I was embarrassed that I'd screamed. I don't do screaming. The poe just chuckled and retreated so he was floating a to one side of me. "Look, what do you want with me?" again he just smiled. I'd got over the shock now, and was just plain mad. "Look, I dunno who you are…or rather, were, but I have a life to get on with." He still wasn't talking and I felt like hitting his puny legless body. Eventually, after about five minutes of just standing there with me looking him in the eye, he spoke. " I thought you'd be grateful that I'd just saved your life…" instantly I felt kinda bad "oh look I'm sorry, thanks, but yeah, I really have to go ya know."
He sighed, circled my head a few times, and then asked "I'll let you go if you say you'll meet me tomorrow, you know where the drawbridge is right?"
I vowed not to tell Penny about my escapade, she'd only tell Linky- Poo, and they'd both want to come with me the next day and ruin my fun, and so I walked back into Links treehouse apparantly unnoticed by the two in the corner. " Oh for fucks sake, they can't STILL be at it!?"
Knowing I wouldn't be able to sleep if I stayed, I went back down to the forest floor to see what some of the little dudes were up to. Most people were in bed, and the only person I could find was a random guy humping a rock outside another house. I decided to avoid him. Suddenly an idea hit me, what did I do when I was bored and annoyed in the game? I ran back to Link's place and poked my head round the door, yup they were still at it, and Link's sword was close to them, I sneaked in and slowly lifted up the sword when Link seemed particularly engrossed (I have to put stress on the Gross!) in Penny's lips, yeuch! Anyway, I'd managed to get the sword and was now heading towards Hyrule field again. I'd been surprised at how heavy the sword had been, Link must be stronger than I'd given him credit for, as it was clearly a one-handed sword, but to wield it at all I had to use both mine. Soon I cam across a bunch of ferny-type plants, and grinned as I imagined what they'd look like after I'd finished with them. And with that I swung the sword, very clumsily down, and began hacking the plants. Leaves were flying, and I was getting tired quickly, but I was determined to finish them all off, and my annoyance with Penny gave me unfound strength. I wasn't sure why I was so annoyed, I didn't exactly fancy Link, so I wasn't jealous, it was just that she was sucking up to him so badly. Finally all the plants had been hacked to the roots, and I stuck the sword in the ground and collapsed on the ground, panting. My head was spinning, and I didn't hear soft footsteps approaching. "So it was you making all that racket," said a voice with a chuckle. For the second time that evening I'd been jumped on, and I wasn't happy. "Why do people keep doing that!?" I muttered angrily. "whoah, sorry, I was just coming to see what was going on over here, my cousin sent me cause he was woken up by someone screeching or something. He wasn't too pleased, he likes his sleep!" Hardly having taken any of this in, I looked at the guy towering over me and blinked. "Umm… who are you?" I was trying to get to my feet and he put his hand down to help, I took it gratefully. "I'm called Matt, I live over in the town with my cousin now cause my parents are away for a while. Where are you from? I don't think I've seen you around before, and you don't look Hylian." Now standing, I had a sudden headrush, and moaned painfully. I really didn't feel up to explaining about me and Penny and how we'd got here. " I'm Katie, I'm staying in Kokiri but you're right I'm not from round here." Feeling a bit better I looked up at his face and saw him clearly for the first time. I breathed in suddenly, he was gorgeous! He had short black spiky hair, but it had been bleached at the tips. He was tall, tanned, and…wow. I must've been staring open mouthed cause he grinned and said, "I'm not from round here either, you can probably tell by the ears!" I didn't know what to say. I was suddenly aware of my sweaty face, muddy clothes and scruffed up hair. "Do you want me to walk you back to the forest?" he asked with a smile. "That'd be great, thanks" I grinned nervously and turned to the sword half submerged in the soil. I tugged fruitlessly at it and sighed. Link could get it in the morning. But before I turned around arms had come round my body and were holding the hilt, pressed on top of mine. I could smell the all-too-familiar smell of Linx and Brylcreem, and heard Matt counting to three before we heaved at the sword and it came out. It hadn't been as hard as we'd thought, and when it came out easily, we both stumbled, and fell backwards, with me landing awkwardly on top of Matt. "oh, I'm so sorry" I stammered, then burst into giggles as I remembered that I'd done exactly the same thing in the graveyard earlier, only this time it wasn't a skeleton beneath me. "What's up with you?" he looked genuinely puzzled at my outburst and a bit worried too. "It's nothing," I assured him "just something that happened to me earlier" I was standing up now and looked down at him, still lying spread- eagled on the grass. "Are you going to walk me home or are you going to stay there all night?" I asked pompously. He scrambled up and then bowed low, saying as he did, "of course I shall escort m'lady back to her palace." He came back up with a broad grin on his face, and we both laughed. Then he picked up Link's sword and handed it back to me. "come on lets go, my cousin will want to know where I've been, although he's probably gone back to sleep knowing him…" I had a question that had been burning inside me since he had helped me pull out the sword, and it was only as we reached the forest and he made to say good-night that I managed to blurt it out. "You're not from this world are you?" he looked a bit stunned "how did you know?" I looked a bit sheepish now " I love the smell of brylcreem and I'd know it anywhere, and I recognise the Linx smell cause it's the same one my brother has" I shrugged and left it at that, but Matt was obviously intrigued. "That means you must come from the same world as me then" he said, half to himself. "Yeah, unless some other world has Brylcreem!" he still looked confused though. "But how did you get here?" he said slowly. I grinned and replied, "I could ask you the same question. It's a long story, I should be going, but I could tell you if we saw each other some other time." "OK," he said, "meet me tomorrow at sunset by the drawbridge." It was weird, that was three things that had happened twice in one night, first the falling over, then him talking like some olde englishe toff, and now wanting to meet me by the drawbridge, but I agreed and Matt waved and left. I watched him until he was out of sight, and then sighed and climbed back up the ladder to see Penny and Link in each other's arms fast asleep. Well, I thought, looks like she won't be the only one around here with a love life. And with that I fell, exhausted on to the bed and grinned. It had been some night!
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Well, that's the first chappy and there'll be more! PLEASE review it, even if you think it's crap, and tell me if you wanna be included or anything coz I'm more than willing to have random characters appear out of no where!
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With Penny and Link getting cosy in the corner of the treehouse, I figured this was something even I shouldn't try to join in with. I hadn't played Zelda in our world half as much as Penny, but I knew my way around the main part of Hyrule well enough, and I knew that I wanted to head for the Graveyard. It was still just about light so I decided I ought to be safe enough and started the walk. (Besides, if it got too dark I could light a fire!)
I was a bit pissed about the Penz-Link smoochy situation, I almost puked when they were doing god knows what on my back the other day, but I told myself that I didn't want that kinda crap, I was here to have fun, and anyway, I bet Link's a really slobbery pull….yeuch *shudder* who can stand SLOBBERERS!?.
Deep in thought I hadn't realised I was approaching the graveyard. The graves were in the same positions as in the game, not that I had really expected any different, and I thought it'd be funny to do what I had done when I'd been playing the game, and open all the graves up, random, but I was bored and didn't want to go back to the forest where all I could hear was Link and Penny giggling and Saria moaning about them. Suddenly I was excited, and pulled all the stones back, revealing, of course, all the poes that were trapped in them…only then did I remember that I WASN'T Link, and DIDN'T have a big shiny sword or a slingshot full of deku seeds. I hadn't noticed the first few poes in my strangely manic excitement, and had pulled eight of the graves open. Now I stood there completely frozen, except for my voice box, which was going full blast "SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTT!!!!!!!!!!" From the last stone I'd moved, and was currently clutching as if it were life itself, there came yet another poe, and as it came towards me I tried to put on a fighting face, but it stopped mere inches away from my face and said in its ghostly voice "MAN, you are totally HOT!!"
Did that mean I looked like a poe?? This was just too much. I gulped and darted glances to the other circling, approaching poes. These ones sure didn't look as if they thought I was cute. I was dinner. I stepped backwards and tripped over a skeleton that had suddenly appeared in the scene, and landed on its skull, teeth clamping into my arse. " OW! Oh FUCK IT!"
Having been staring at me for the past thirty seconds, the poe floating by my face reacted. He turned around and called over his shoulder " Never fear fair princess, Bob shall save ye!" "What the hell is he ON!?" I thought. He'd charged at the group, and had just started throwing punches at one of the other seven poes, and clearly none of the others were on his side.
One by one the other poes fell, and with each one my head cleared, and I couldn't stifle a laugh. My "Hero" was screeching gallant phrases like " Die foul fiend" and "Return to the earth from whenst thou came scum!" with every punch. Finally the last poe hissed its farewell and fell back to its grave, and all was silent. Including me. Bob was now inspecting the area for any hidden foes, and was therefore invisible to me. I looked around trying to spot something that would give away his position, and said " I…….you…..you SAVED me!? But, I thought poes were meant to be, like, evil??" I was getting seriously worried about his disappearance now, maybe he had just saved me to eat me himself, but suddenly I heard a voice at my shoulder " I just couldn't resist saving someone so sexy" I whipped around and he floated gently back, visible now. " That's all very well," I said "but you're a poe, I'm a human, doesn't work see? Anyway, have to be getting back to my friends now, they'll be worrying about me" I knew they wouldn't be but I had to say something. I got up, extracted a few teeth from my jeans and walked off without another word. Halfway back to Kokiri Forest I could've sworn I heard a breath on the wind saying "Meet me by the drawbridge at midnight tomorrow." It wasn't a question and I quickened my pace and said loudly "If you're gonna follow me don't bother being invisible" almost before I'd finished the word I screamed. Bob had appeared suddenly in front of my face again. "Do you wanna quit that?" I was embarrassed that I'd screamed. I don't do screaming. The poe just chuckled and retreated so he was floating a to one side of me. "Look, what do you want with me?" again he just smiled. I'd got over the shock now, and was just plain mad. "Look, I dunno who you are…or rather, were, but I have a life to get on with." He still wasn't talking and I felt like hitting his puny legless body. Eventually, after about five minutes of just standing there with me looking him in the eye, he spoke. " I thought you'd be grateful that I'd just saved your life…" instantly I felt kinda bad "oh look I'm sorry, thanks, but yeah, I really have to go ya know."
He sighed, circled my head a few times, and then asked "I'll let you go if you say you'll meet me tomorrow, you know where the drawbridge is right?"
I vowed not to tell Penny about my escapade, she'd only tell Linky- Poo, and they'd both want to come with me the next day and ruin my fun, and so I walked back into Links treehouse apparantly unnoticed by the two in the corner. " Oh for fucks sake, they can't STILL be at it!?"
Knowing I wouldn't be able to sleep if I stayed, I went back down to the forest floor to see what some of the little dudes were up to. Most people were in bed, and the only person I could find was a random guy humping a rock outside another house. I decided to avoid him. Suddenly an idea hit me, what did I do when I was bored and annoyed in the game? I ran back to Link's place and poked my head round the door, yup they were still at it, and Link's sword was close to them, I sneaked in and slowly lifted up the sword when Link seemed particularly engrossed (I have to put stress on the Gross!) in Penny's lips, yeuch! Anyway, I'd managed to get the sword and was now heading towards Hyrule field again. I'd been surprised at how heavy the sword had been, Link must be stronger than I'd given him credit for, as it was clearly a one-handed sword, but to wield it at all I had to use both mine. Soon I cam across a bunch of ferny-type plants, and grinned as I imagined what they'd look like after I'd finished with them. And with that I swung the sword, very clumsily down, and began hacking the plants. Leaves were flying, and I was getting tired quickly, but I was determined to finish them all off, and my annoyance with Penny gave me unfound strength. I wasn't sure why I was so annoyed, I didn't exactly fancy Link, so I wasn't jealous, it was just that she was sucking up to him so badly. Finally all the plants had been hacked to the roots, and I stuck the sword in the ground and collapsed on the ground, panting. My head was spinning, and I didn't hear soft footsteps approaching. "So it was you making all that racket," said a voice with a chuckle. For the second time that evening I'd been jumped on, and I wasn't happy. "Why do people keep doing that!?" I muttered angrily. "whoah, sorry, I was just coming to see what was going on over here, my cousin sent me cause he was woken up by someone screeching or something. He wasn't too pleased, he likes his sleep!" Hardly having taken any of this in, I looked at the guy towering over me and blinked. "Umm… who are you?" I was trying to get to my feet and he put his hand down to help, I took it gratefully. "I'm called Matt, I live over in the town with my cousin now cause my parents are away for a while. Where are you from? I don't think I've seen you around before, and you don't look Hylian." Now standing, I had a sudden headrush, and moaned painfully. I really didn't feel up to explaining about me and Penny and how we'd got here. " I'm Katie, I'm staying in Kokiri but you're right I'm not from round here." Feeling a bit better I looked up at his face and saw him clearly for the first time. I breathed in suddenly, he was gorgeous! He had short black spiky hair, but it had been bleached at the tips. He was tall, tanned, and…wow. I must've been staring open mouthed cause he grinned and said, "I'm not from round here either, you can probably tell by the ears!" I didn't know what to say. I was suddenly aware of my sweaty face, muddy clothes and scruffed up hair. "Do you want me to walk you back to the forest?" he asked with a smile. "That'd be great, thanks" I grinned nervously and turned to the sword half submerged in the soil. I tugged fruitlessly at it and sighed. Link could get it in the morning. But before I turned around arms had come round my body and were holding the hilt, pressed on top of mine. I could smell the all-too-familiar smell of Linx and Brylcreem, and heard Matt counting to three before we heaved at the sword and it came out. It hadn't been as hard as we'd thought, and when it came out easily, we both stumbled, and fell backwards, with me landing awkwardly on top of Matt. "oh, I'm so sorry" I stammered, then burst into giggles as I remembered that I'd done exactly the same thing in the graveyard earlier, only this time it wasn't a skeleton beneath me. "What's up with you?" he looked genuinely puzzled at my outburst and a bit worried too. "It's nothing," I assured him "just something that happened to me earlier" I was standing up now and looked down at him, still lying spread- eagled on the grass. "Are you going to walk me home or are you going to stay there all night?" I asked pompously. He scrambled up and then bowed low, saying as he did, "of course I shall escort m'lady back to her palace." He came back up with a broad grin on his face, and we both laughed. Then he picked up Link's sword and handed it back to me. "come on lets go, my cousin will want to know where I've been, although he's probably gone back to sleep knowing him…" I had a question that had been burning inside me since he had helped me pull out the sword, and it was only as we reached the forest and he made to say good-night that I managed to blurt it out. "You're not from this world are you?" he looked a bit stunned "how did you know?" I looked a bit sheepish now " I love the smell of brylcreem and I'd know it anywhere, and I recognise the Linx smell cause it's the same one my brother has" I shrugged and left it at that, but Matt was obviously intrigued. "That means you must come from the same world as me then" he said, half to himself. "Yeah, unless some other world has Brylcreem!" he still looked confused though. "But how did you get here?" he said slowly. I grinned and replied, "I could ask you the same question. It's a long story, I should be going, but I could tell you if we saw each other some other time." "OK," he said, "meet me tomorrow at sunset by the drawbridge." It was weird, that was three things that had happened twice in one night, first the falling over, then him talking like some olde englishe toff, and now wanting to meet me by the drawbridge, but I agreed and Matt waved and left. I watched him until he was out of sight, and then sighed and climbed back up the ladder to see Penny and Link in each other's arms fast asleep. Well, I thought, looks like she won't be the only one around here with a love life. And with that I fell, exhausted on to the bed and grinned. It had been some night!
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Well, that's the first chappy and there'll be more! PLEASE review it, even if you think it's crap, and tell me if you wanna be included or anything coz I'm more than willing to have random characters appear out of no where!