Got this as just a drabble. 5 chapter story .w.

Warning: Yaoi ahead.

Disc: I do not own ToZ or FE now I'll cry

I only own the not named characters and one OC: Rezo

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Trading love for freedom

Chapter 1: The chains that hold me

Castles show remarkable class. Everything must be on its right place, everyone must be treated within the social class they deserve.

But what happens when you get treated lower than deserved?

This story about to be tell it's not a fairy tale; otherwise it would have started with a 'once upon a time'.

But in order to understand the flow of it, we should get back a few years.

We dare say six years ago, when a time of slavery was at grow and merchants traveled across all lands looking for new merchancy; nobody was safe from them, not even royals or poor; before the sun started to set, everybody had to be at their houses, all windows locked and all doors secured, sleeping with an eye open and hiding a weapon under their pillows.

This is the story of one unique victim of this criminals. The only thing they left him to call his own was his name: Link.

Six years ago he was a fourteen year old kid, with no parents to take care of him. With no parents to take care of him but the hope of a child, he surely knew how to enjoy every second of life.

A simple way of living, friends and a normal job. He needed money for food after all.

He lived outside of the Ordon village; but what he thought it was a good place for peace suddenly transformed into a nightmare, because nobody hear the disastrous events that occurred that night.

It started with a thud outside his house. He lived up high in a tree so he decided to ignore it; his head facing the pillow.

A loud crash was what startled him, rapidly moving out of his bed and hiding behind the drawer with his slingshot ready in hand. He cursed himself for leaving his wooden sword at the living room.

Link heard voices outside the room, his blood running fast inside his veins, cold sweat trailing down his face and tension forming on his muscles. There were so many steps coming from the house; that could only mean one of two things: either there were lots of them looking for something, or just a few that didn't know what to do there.

Link remained hidden behind the drawer for what seemed to be hours as he heard crashes and bumps from outside the room. Right now he only cared about the intruders to leave.

Unfortunately that didn't happen. In the moment the door of his room opened and the lights turned on his seconds as a free person were counted.

Link tried to hold his breath, thinking it would help him to stay away from the intruders; but he couldn't think of something else when a firm pair of hands grabbed him from behind, pulling him out of his safety.

"Well, well, look at what we found here, hiding like a little mouse" the man holding Link said, his voice was deep and rash, and he was huge. One of his arms now holding Link by his neck, almost choking him "What do you think chief?" he said to the other man entering the room "A girl or a boy?"

The other man walked towards them; his face was covered by a cloak and Link couldn't even focus on him, feeling his breathe so thick it was impossible to escape from the big man.

"I think it's a boy" the cloaked man said, grabbing Link's face and looking better at it "A really girly boy" the man slapped Link and kicked him hard on his crotch, making the poor blond to let out a sore scream of pain.

"I think he'll do just fine" the man adjusted his cloak and walked to the exit "Make sure he doesn't try anything suspicious before we get out of here"

Link didn't have a chance to fight back, two other men entered at that time and tied his hands and legs up, they forced a clothe in his mouth and threw him into a sack.

At that moment Link started to cry in desperation. He was getting kidnapped, the most probably about to be sold to a sick maniac or to the slavery market.

He felt being thrown into a cart and leaving behind his home and his life.

Time passed slow for the poor boy; the rocks on the road causing the cart to tremble and the freezing air from the outside wanted him to embrace himself for warmth and support, but his hands were tied behind his back and the sack didn't allow him to move as much as he would want to. Link knew it was useless to cry out for help because it would end up in a painful way to shut him up in order to remain hidden.

Suddenly, the cart came to an abrupt stop. Link quickly tried to wipe off the tears he still had. Another brusque movement and he was now being taken out of the sack into a small cell. His hands and ankles handcuffed.

"Such a shame" one man looked at him from outside the cell "We won't have time to play with him"

Link tried to hide somewhere in that small square but outside of it lots of men were staring at him with so different kind of eyes it was creeping him out.

"Save it, we'll find a new one for you later" the cloaked man entered the cell and without warning shot a needle into Link's arm.

Link thought he yelled but the clothe he still had didn't allow the sound to come. Drool was coming from the corner of his mouth and tears were forming again.

"But that sight is just too tempting" the first man glared at the cloaked one that was closing the cell, keeping the key in his pocket.

"Enough of that, let's go make some business now that it's making effect..."

Link couldn't hear the rest of what they were saying. The room began to spin around him, his head was pulsing and his legs felt so shaky. His eyes tried to remain open but everything was blurry and bright it was hurting more. With a last glance to the door cell he collapsed to the floor.

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When he woke up again his hands and ankles were still handcuffed, but his mouth was now free.

He looked up and noticed he wasn't on a cell anymore but instead at a large room with other people inside it.

"You must be the new acquisition" someone behind Link said and startled him.

"I'm sorry if I scared you" the person automatically said, shaking his handcuffed hands in apologize "My name is Rezo by the way, yours?"

Link turned and looked at the man in front of him: he seemed to be almost thirty, his hair was green short and messy and his eyes were the same color as his hair. He had a big smile noticing one teeth missing.

"L...Link" Link stuttered his name, as if it was hard to say it. The man called Rezo looked around and then to Link again "Well Link, I guess the effect of the drug they used on you hasn't wore off at all"

Link remained silent, trying to concentrate on his legs to regain some force so he could stand up at least.

"Link? That's a weird name around here" Rezo looked at him closer "You are not from a laguz country are you?"

Link looked at him confused "La...laguz? What's that?"

Rezo sighed "You are not even from this lands" he looked around so nobody could hear him and asked "Tell me, where are you from?"

Link looked down, remembering his home only caused more tears to form "O...Ordon" he managed to say, trying to fight back the tears "Ordon, Hyrule"

"Hyrule!? That's... that's too far away from here" Rezo looked at him in shock but then softened his gaze "You must be a hylian then" he looked Link nodding and smiled "We can look into the bright side" Rezo sat next to Link "They didn't harm you or abused you"

Link stared at him in shock and amaze. How could this person be so calm about this whole situation?

"I've been here for more than twenty years if you were wondering" Rezo smiled again, noticing the shock in Link's eyes "I'm telling you" he said while looking at him "You were lucky, being bought by that kind of people. They just want your body for work, that's all"

Link didn't know whether to sigh in relief or not for those words "Work?"

Rezo nodded "You know, like cleaning, moving things, taking care of stuff. Or if you are a girl is cooking, being a maid, things like that" he looked at Link closer "You are a boy right?"

Link's ears twitched in annoyance "Of course I am!"

Rezo laughed at Link's reaction "I was joking kid. But they may mistake you as a girl if you don't get cautious"

Link ignored that last comment and asked "Where...where are we?"

Rezo smiled again and answered before the door opened "Welcome to the noble castle of the Crimea lands Link"

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The years passed by, and as Rezo had said, they've bought him for no more than work.

He was able to survive however, escaped from indecorous situations and problems. He had a lot of help from his self-proclaimed guardian Rezo.

He was also able to witness the royalty changes, as the new Queen appeared to rule the land of Crimea.

But nevertheless... he missed his home, his life as a free man.

How little did he know that was about to change.