Shadowess: Okay! This is a new story. I started this a long while ago and didn't get far so... I'm hoping to get input on this one. There are no pairings so far but I'll let y'all know if there will be or not! This is an OC, so enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Legend of Zelda, Nintendo, Honda, or anything except for my OC

The Missing Piece

Chapter I: Enter Nyx

The sunny sky began to cloud over as the local time reached four in the afternoon. The roads gradually became crowded with vehicles as parents rushed to pick up their children from school. The sidewalks became occupied with more people as well. Amongst those individuals was a girl of black-blue hair and dark sapphire blue eyes.

Clad in dark brown boots, black bellbottom pants, light blue baggy sleeve peasant top that revealed her stomach, a tie-up black vest on top, and a hematite chocker around her neck. She appeared like any young adult. That's if you did not see what was hidden beneath her hair…pointed ears.

Adjusting the black and grey bag over her shoulder, she turned to walk through a park. With this unique physical feature, she had a unique name. Her name is Nyx.

Nyx has a foster family, with just a mom and dad. She doesn't know her real parents, not really wishing to know. Having been taken in at the age of 10, being 9 years ago now, she was cared for by Lisa and Jacob Shade. Making things easier, they registered Nyx under that last name to go to school. They didn't mind her elf-like ears, but the other children…

"What's wrong with your ears?"

"They're pointed!"

"She's an alien!"

"No! She's a human freak!"

"Horn ears!"

"Pointy ear!"

"It's an evil Romulan from Star Trek!"

"Pointy!"

"Pointy!"

"Pointy freak!"

Crude teasing for her… It wasn't her fault that she had those ears. She was born with them. Not just the ears though, but also her reflexes and… intuition as her foster mom calls it.

Bullies didn't pick on her physically. She never let them touch her. When one tried to strike at her from behind, she would duck or evade very quickly. This got her a good place as a goalie during gym class. That didn't stop the name calling though.

Feeling very self conscious, Nyx grew her hair out to cover her ears. Her foster parents noticed her depression and gradual desensitization towards others. They offered her solo after-school classes to build her confidence.

Lisa and Jacob supported her as though she were their own blood. Nyx appeared happy but never had anyone to call a friend.

There was one though. One. In high school, while sitting beneath the stairs doing some homework, a boy dropped a book and it landed in front of her…

With a flutter in the air, Nyx looked up from where she sat to see a book land in front of her. It looked like a journal. Turning her sapphire eyes to the shadow, she rested her sight on a boy with dirty blond hair and sapphire eyes, though they weren't as dark as hers.

"Hi there! Sorry if I'm disturbing you, my book fell out of my bag." He picked it up. He smiled to her.

She shrugged a little. "…It's okay."

"Mind if I join you?"

This was a first. "I… don't mind."

"Thanks." He sat down beside her. "My name's Darren Naito. But everyone calls me Link. What's your name?"

"Nyx Shade."

"That's a cool name, Nyx. A pleasure to meet you." He held out his hand to her.

Nyx gave him a real smile. "Like-wise, Darren." She shook his hand.

Nyx heard laughing and some crying ahead on the park path. There were three rather larg boys picking on two smaller kids; a boy and girl, and they looked like twins. The larger boys were throwing rocks at them.

Nyx went up to the leader of the boys and crabbed his wrist to stop him from throwing another rock. He struggled and looked up at her.

"Let me go, crazy lady!" he kicked at her.

"Leave those two alone." She said in a calm voice.

"Make me, witch!"

"How about I make a deal… If you can hit me, I'll leave and take the little ones home. But if you can't hit me, you must tell me all your names so that I can tell your moms and dads what you're doing."

"Like she can really dodge all of us! Get the witch!" All three boys launched at her.

Nyx just walked backwards, evading all of the brats. After about five minutes, the boys got tired. She looked one straight in the eyes.

"Your name…?"

"M-M-M-Mickey Wiles…" he looked scared.

She looked the second boy in the eyes. "You're name?"

"Ta-Ta-Taylor Lucas…" He started to tear.

Nyx looked at the leader. "…Your name?"

"Brian M-Moore…"

"Now, boys, do you know what to do now?"

They shamefully shook their heads.

"You all go home and tell your mothers what you're doing before I tell them that you were beating on innocent little kids. Now get!"

The three took off, all crying in the distance. Nyx looked to the twins and smiled to them. "Are you okay?"

They nodded. "Thank you, pretty lady." The boy said.

"You were amazing!" the girl smiled.

Nyx smiled. "I come through the park here often. If they bother you again, please tell me. My name is Nyx. And you two are?"

"I'm Adam."

"I'm Ava."

"Okay Adam and Ava. You two be careful out here, alright?"

Okay!" they both said out.

Nyx game them each a gentle pat on the head before continuing on down the path to her home. They could make it home on their own, and if they were really scared, those two kids would run after her.

Her house was only a block away from the part so she didn't have to walk far from work. Lisa and Jacob's home was two stories with no basement. There were three rooms upstairs, one being her room. The main floor had the basics; kitchen, living room, dining room, and her foster parent's bedroom. The two other rooms were spare bedrooms in case of visitors. Of course, they had beds and everything but no one really went in them except for cleaning.

Walking up the driveway, Nyx noted that the 2002 Honda CR-V was gone, meaning that Jacob was not home, but Lisa could be.

Taking the three porch steps up to the door, she went inside the unlocked door. Once she closed the door, she tucked her hair behind her ears, showing the full point extent of her feature.

Her foster mom wasn't there. Her shoes were gone. Nyx walked to the stairs, believing that Lisa had gone for a walk or something. She went in to her room and closed the door.

Before her eyes was a dark colored room, with deep reds, rich blues, and traces of green. Not exactly the primary colors, cause yellow disturbed her color-wise. She pulled out a brush and started getting the wind tangles out of her hair.

Nyx sat down in a small but comfy nest chair in front of a small television set. A Game Cube was attached to it, laying neatly with the controller untouched. She only had a few games for it, none which she bought. She didn't even buy the game system.

They belonged to Darren… well, used to. Darren left the Game Cube and his favorite games to her, including his Zelda games.

'Attention students. We are sad to inform you that Darren Naito…'

Nyx raised her head from her work to listen more carefully.

'…Has been in an accident. Doctors found that the damage is too great to his internal organs… If you want to see him, he's at St. Boney hospital. Think positive thoughts for him.'

Nyx threw her books in to her bag and shot up from her desk.

"Miss Shade! Take your seat!" the teacher yelled.

She didn't listen as she bolted out the door and our of the school. She felt… panic, fear, and something that clutched around her heart.

At the hospital, where beeping of heart monitors pierced through her hearing, she stopped for air at the front desk.

"Oh! Goodness, dear, are you okay?" the nurse looked a bit startled at Nyx's sudden entry.

"Yes…" she coughed. "C-can I see Darren Naito?"

"Mr. Naito is in ICU, room 379."

"Thank you." She took off again, but not as fast. The hospital was on the other side of town, which took 20 straight minutes of running. So her legs were stinging now…

Up the elevator to the third floor, she found the right room, with a notebook printed 'NAITO' hanging on the door. She went in and gasped. He was a mess. Bandages, casts, tubes, all over him. Slowly, Nyx approached him.

He was pale, and he slowly opened his eyes. "Nyx…?" his voice was weak.

"Y-yeah. I'm here." She gently took his hand.

"Man… my gut is killing me." He forced out a smile. But it was that literal.

"I…I bet… Do you know what happened, Darren…?" Nyx was having a hard time keeping herself together.

"Some…things… were driving a car… I was on the sidewalk and there were… four kids on the road…" His fist tightened at recalling what happened. "He.. or they or whoever they were… they were going to run them over… I ran to the kids…" he coughed. "I got them out of the way but… the engine revved… Everything went black as I felt the car hit me hard."

"They… deliberately ran you over…?!"

Darren nodded. "I woke up in here while the doctor was talking to my parents… Just when he said, 'we can't stop the bleeding...'."

A tear, glistening in the lights fell on to Darren's hand. "Oh, Darren… please, can you remember what the car looked like? Or the driver…?"

He shook his head. "Sorry, Nyx… But they did take something me me… Me chain and pendant you gave me…" He couldn't look her in the eye.

"I promise, Darren, I promise that I will find these guys and kill whoever did this to you…"

"Just get them in jail, don't kill them."

"I can't do that…" Nyx whispered. "They deliberately hit you…"

"I know…" Darren coughed. "Can yo help me with something…?"

"Anything."

"…Help me write my will."

She did. Everything he said, she wrote. They had two nurses there as witnesses. By the time they were done, and the nurses signed, Darren was white.

"Don't cry for me, Nyx. It's okay…" he wiped a tear from her cheek.

"Darren… Link… I… I…"

He gave a weak smile. "I know… I love you too…"

With one last choke on tears, she leaned down and gently kissed him. "…Thank you…"

"No prob…" he coughed and closed his eyes. His heart beat dropped until he hit flat-line.

"Good bye… Link…" Nyx pressed her lips to his hand before walking to the door to get the nurse.

The funeral was held two days later. Nyx was there with his mom and dad. They cremated him in his finest clothes, then they brought his ashes to an open green field. They each took a handful and tossed it to the wind.

Darren's mom wept while his dad looked on with sadness. Nyx would not will herself to cry, just sore eyes. She kept the promise to herself; still waiting to find Darren's murderer.

Darren left the Game Cube and all of his Zelda items to her, along with a box… with a tag that said 'DO NOT HOPE TIL UR BDAY AT 19'.

That was a few weeks ago, but she hadn't opened it. She was scared to.

With that aside, she picked up one of the games, 'Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.' The character on the box looked like Darren, but with ears like hers…

"Oh honey…" a quiet voice said behind her. "You miss him so much… Maybe you should try and play it…" Lisa, her foster mom, rested a hand on her shoulder. "Maybe you can see why he liked the games so much, and why he wanted you to have them."

"Mom… I just don't know anymore…"

"Just try, Nyx… Maybe you can listen to the game music. These games have no vocals, orchestrated."

Nyx liked music without vocals. It could help. "..Okay… I'll play."

Lisa smiled. "I'll bring up some food for you."

"Thank you…"

Lisa left the room. Nyx sighed and go the game set up. She started it. There was a crash downstairs, a vase breaking. Nyx got up and ran out of her room to see what happened.

"Shoo! Out!" Lisa cried out.

A cat, a calico bred cat, had gotten in to the house and knocked over a vase. It was running around, almost toying with Lisa.

"Honey! He's heading for the stairs!" Lisa called as the cat took off towards Nyx. The cat dove right under her, just missing Nyx's hands by centimeters.

Nyx ran after it and ended up back in her room. It jumped all over, threatening to knock various items down. Nyx watched its movements, closing the door. The calico jumped. With her reflexes, she jumped and reached out, grabbing the cat by its mid-section.

"Ah!" She recoiled but held on to the cat. "You're going back outside, you rotten thing."

It calmed down and meowed. Nyx sighed and went out of her room after a drop of blood dripped from her arm. She went back downstairs and set the cat outside in the front yard, shooing it off.

Lisa saw her arm. "Oh my, he got you good. You should clean that up."

Nyx looked at it. "It'll be okay. I'll just clean off the blood." She went back to the stairs.

"before you go up, I made you sandwiches and biscuits." Lisa always called cookies 'biscuits'. She handed Nyx a plate.

"Tank you." She gave a small smile and went up to her room. Setting the plate down, she noticed that the screen was doing something odd.

The introduction screenplay to the game was… going backwards and paused at some strange characters… then finally on a wolf howling. The speakers started to give off a very high pitch. To normal ears, it'd be a mild buzz. But to Nyx, it was agonizing. She covered her ears but it got louder and louder. She tried to move to the game system to turn it off, but her vision swirled. She tripped on the controller and fell to the ground.

The game cube slowly shut down on its own. A drop of blood slid through the lid, making a spark. Nyx's vision and senses went dark.

Shadowess: Well that seems like a good place to stop. I'd like to have at least 1 review for this chapter. I'll have the next one out by next week! Reviews are love and not forced. Arigato!