Lifeless Feathers

A fan fiction of Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword

By Agent Beetle

Chapter one Aimless

We flew into the sky, away from the reason we were created. Since Link and Zelda were going to stay on the surface they didn't need us anymore. No more flying them around island to island, no more delivering letters, and no more love. Link and I had a special bond. He was a special person and I'm a special bird, but that didn't seem to matter once he found Zelda. I just need to face it he loves her more than me. I just can't bear the thought of never seeing him again and what of the loftwing flying with me. Tetra must be twice as upset as me. At least I saw Link when he was looking for Zelda. She didn't see her rider until a minute ago and now she won't see her again. Loftwings were made to be ridden by the people of Skyloft and if we're not needed anymore where will we go. It's just Tetra and I with no places to go and no people to see.

We could find some other humans to be our riders. No, even though he dropped me Link is still my one and only rider. Maybe we could go the loftwing skies. The place where loftwings are born, learn to fly, and those who don't get riders live their life. Yeah, I think that's where we'll go. Loftwing skies are just above the Skyloft skies. We could live just above wear Link and Zelda would live, so that one day if it comes when they call us we can hear it. Listen to me, abandoned by my rider and thinking about the day when he calls me again, a day that will never come. He doesn't need me I know that, but I still hope. What a waste of time, worrying myself by hoping for the hopeless

As Tetra and I flew above the cloud barrier, a disobedience of the Goddess I'd become use to since Link started his journey, we were attacked by two octorocks. Easily I dodged the rock one of them spit and spun charged my foe, a trick Link taught me. I looked back and saw Tetra having trouble landing a hit. I didn't help her. If we were to live on our own she needed to learn to protect herself. She took a hit to the leg and instinctively I dove in and finished the bugger. She could still fly. She would learn another time. We landed on the rock the octorocks were on. We sat for a minute and then started at each other.

I started "so where do think we should go now that we're not needed" I realized that sounded mean, but she didn't mind. She was thought about it in the same way.

"I don't know. I wasn't thinking about it" she replied in a lifeless, dull voice.

"I was thinking we head up to the loftwing skies above Link and Zelda, to be uh… to be close to them. If you want?" I said having a hard time wording the things I had been thinking so they made sense when said out loud.

"To be close to them?" she said half confused, half angered.

"Yeah well uh… they may not want us but I-I still want to be near him. You know just in case. I know it sounds idiotic "just in case" yeah right but I can't help but hope." I sputtered the words out. She seemed to get what I was desperately trying to say that or she saw me get defensive and guessed it wasn't what she implied. Either way she let it go. "So what do you think?"

"sounds alright I guess" at this point she finally noticed she was being difficult and though she was even more depressed than me she brightened up and gave me something to work with, "listen we're both hurt right now why don't we take the night to sort things out in our heads and make plans tomorrow?"

"If you need it then ok, but we better find a bigger island for the night, so we don't have to be so close" I offered the idea more confidently. Tetra needed a strong wing to help her now and on the rock we were wing to wing just to fit on it.

We did find a small island with nice soft grass. Though we found it so we didn't have to get stuck close together, like on the rock where we fought the octorocks, we ended up sleeping leaning on each other.

Chapter two

The next day I woke up to a screening in my ear. Tetra had gotten up first and decided not to wait for me. Slowly I rose to my talons and shook the sleepiness out of me, now time for breakfast. I stretched my wings and took off. Tetra was right next to me. We