A/N: Fixations done at 23.8.2015.
The picture I have in use as the cover for my CaH saga is from dA by an artist lychi and the picture's name is just simply Zelda.
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DARK LINK'S QUEST
CHAPTER 2: Found
Link woke up in the Infirmary with a start. "Dark!" He shouted out while sitting up in fear. The Hero was breathing fast and bit shakily while his eyes were wide with shock.
"Link! Thank goddesses you're awake!" Zelda shouted out while going to hug him. "I was so worried about you. How are you feeling?" She continued and was quite startled when Link pulled free from her embrace.
"Where's Dark?!" The Hero questioned straight off while turning around to face her. "Is he alright?" He continued worriedly. Zelda sighed, slumped and dropped her gaze down to the bed.
"I'm sorry but he's dead." She replied quietly. Link inhaled sharply while standing up from the bed and backing off few steps. He shook his head.
"No... Y-you're lying..." The Hero whispered, closed his eyes and turned his hands into fists while shaking slightly. "YOU'RE LYING! I'D KNOW IF HE WAS DEAD!" Link screamed and slammed both of his hands against the bed right in front of the princess. "Tell me the truth, Zelda." He continued with cold voice and stern look in his eyes.
Zelda recoiled backwards by the shock of Link's behavior. She had never seen or heard the Hero like this and it freaked her out. The princess gulped once before taking a deep breath. "...He's at the jail..." She whispered quietly. The next thing Zelda heard was Link's running footsteps and slamming of the door which got her to flinch.
Link ran as fast as he could. He remembered way too well the condition the dark Hylian had been in when the Hero had last seen him. "Oh dear goddesses, please, let him be okay..." He thought while nearly jumping the stairs down three at a time and almost crashing to walls while taking sharp turns on the corners.
"DARK!" Link called straight off when he got to the right floor. He kept calling the dark Hylian's name over and over again while nearly running through the corridors in search of the right jail. Suddenly he saw three guards in front of one of the jails. Link's eyes narrowed in anger. "Either they can tell me where to find Dark or then they're responsible for Dark to be in here..."
The closer the Hero got to the jail, the clearer it was that Dark was in there. "DARK!" Link screamed in fear when he saw the darker Hylian. The three guards backed off of the way in bit of surprise. "Open the door on this instant or I'll break it!" The Hero shouted out his command. The closest guard came bit shakily to the door and opened it as fast as he could.
On the second the door was unlocked, Link rushed inside the jail. He ran straight to the unconscious darker Hylian while calling his name over and over again. Dark didn't move but the Hero could easily see that the dark Hylian was in worse condition than what he had last seen. And to make matters worse, he was having a high fever too.
"What the hell has happened in here?!" Link shouted in anger while turning his gaze into the guards. The guards took few steps backwards but unlike the two others, the leader met the Hero's gaze without fear.
"We don't know. We just came to check on here and thought him to be asleep." The guard stated with a shrug. Link narrowed his eyes at him but didn't say a word. Instead he turned his notion back to Dark and carefully took him up from the cold prison floor.
"OUT OF MY WAY!" Link screamed while starting to rush back to the Infirmary with Dark in his arms. One of the three guards left after the Hero in hopes of being able to help. The leader of the trio just shrugged while heading the other way out of there. The third guard followed his leader after once glancing worriedly at the way Link had gone to.
Zelda had went to open the door to the Infirmary after having calmed down from the slight fight like conversation she had had with Link. After that she went to the doctor and told to be waiting for the dark Hylian to come into there. The doctor didn't ask even slightest bit of why Dark hadn't been in the Infirmary with Link in the first place but instead he got things ready. As far as the princess knew, there was going to be healing of broken bones and several bad wounds.
If it wasn't for the guard following him, Link would've thoroughly crashed against the closed doors to open them in his hurry while still being careful not to hurt Dark. Once they got into the Infirmary, the Hero laid the darker Hylian very carefully into the bed before screaming for the doctor.
"No need to shout. I'm already here." The doctor stated while standing up from his place and going to the bed. Link was bit startled but he sighed in relief and backed off to let the doctor check the darker Hylian. On the second he realized what was going on with his patient, the doctor threw Link out. "OUT. NOW!" He shouted and nearly pushed the Hero through the open door and slammed it shut right after that.
Link was thoroughly terrified at that moment. He would've wanted to stay in the room for Dark's sake but knew that the doctor needed the space and Link would've just been on the way. The Hero tried to stay in one piece while starting to pace behind the closed door and pray for the best. "Who the hell has hurt him? And who threw him into jail?" Link wondered in fear while trying to get his mind away from the worry for the darker Hylian's condition.
The guard had left the place on the second the doctor started to talk. He truly didn't want to be around when the Hero would take his anger and worry out on someone. And he needed to meet up with his friend to talk about few very important matters.
Link was still pacing behind the closed door when Zelda came to there. "Link..." She called quietly. The Hero stopped his pacing and turned to look at her. On the second he got her in his sight, Link narrowed his eyes in anger.
"Why in the Goddesses names did you throw him into jail?!" Link screamed in fury. Zelda recoiled backwards in shock.
"I... I was..." She started but sighed then. The princess took once a deep breath to calm herself down before meeting the Hero's gaze as calmly and confidently as possible. "I was informed that the two of you had been fighting." Zelda eventually stated out.
Link was startled but very soon he narrowed his eyes again. "Well, you were lied to, princess." He replied while seething with rage. "The two of us would never fight like that. I thought Dark had proved well enough to be no threat to me, you or to Hyrule. And for your knowledge, Zelda, we were coming back from the mission you send us into." The Hero stated out while crossing his arms over his chest.
Zelda was just going to open her mouth and say something, but Link wasn't ready. "And it should've been Dark at the Infirmary instead of me! He took most of the fight! He stood between me and the monsters even though he fucking well knows that I can fight for myself! He dragged me back home even though it should've been him who needed the help and not me! And...!" The Hero grit his teeth while turning his hands into fists. "And... He might not make through of this..." Link whispered quietly while closing his eyes tightly and slumped a bit. "And if he doesn't survive from this, you'd better know that I'll hold you partly responsible for his fate." He continued in a hiss while opening his eyes and glaring at her.
Zelda stared at Link with wide eyes. The Hero fought not to break down and tried to cool off. "I found him unconscious from the jail. He's having a fever and I don't know if it's because he's sick or because his wounds have been infected or... And that's not even all... He's been beaten up... At here, at the castle." Link continued, closed his eyes for a while before opening them and staring at the floor but during the last sentence he raised his gaze back to meet hers.
Zelda gasped in shock and brought her hand over her mouth. Link sighed and leaned against the wall behind him. He glanced once at Zelda but narrowed his eyes right at the sight. "You know something..." The Hero stated bit coldly.
Zelda gulped once. "I... I'm not sure what I saw but I might have a good guess of who is responsible for Dark's condition." She answered bit hesitantly. Link nodded.
"Those three guards." He replied. Zelda was bit surprised but she nodded. "Saw them at the jail. Two out of three were fearful about me but that third guy... I gotta say I don't like him at all..." Link continued bit angrily. Zelda nodded again in agreement.
Suddenly the door to the Infirmary opened. Link shot to his feet from leaning against the wall and took very fast those few steps that were needed to get to the door. The doctor came out and before he managed to close the door, the Hero was already questioning him: "How is he? Will he survive?!"
The doctor was bit taken aback and leaned against the door. "Calm down, Link." He stated but knew that those words went right past the Hero. The doctor sighed and calmed down while Link kept repeating his questions. "He will get through this." The doctor started and was quite taken aback when Link sighed and crashed to his knees in relief.
"Thank the goddesses... Thank you, thank you, thank you!" The Hero nearly shouted and looked up to the doctor. "Can I go to see him? Please?" Link continued straight off and stood up while nearly showing puppy-dog-eyes at the doctor.
The doctor blinked few times in near bewilderment before sighing. "In a minute, Link..." He started and rubbed his forehead because of starting of a headache. Link slumped a bit about the answer but waited for the doctor to continue. "You are not to bother him on any of way. You have no rights to make yourself known to him. He needs rest and once he does wake up, make sure he'll stay at the bed. The blood loss has made him very weak. And his broken arm and badly fractured leg do need time to heal. Which means about two weeks to a month or so." The doctor stated out very strictly and looked sternly at the Hero. "Understood?" He eventually asked.
Link nodded nearly constantly while listening. The doctor stared at the Hero for a while longer before finally moving away from the door. "Remember my words, Hero." He stated before letting Link through. Link just nodded again and slipped inside the Infirmary very swiftly and very quietly. The doctor watched from the door how the Hero nearly sneaked through the room as silently as possible and sat down to the chair that was closest to the bed. The doctor sighed and quietly closed the door while shaking his head.
"Dark will survive, right?" Zelda asked quietly from the doctor. The doctor sighed but nodded.
"He will but it certainly wasn't any of easy feature to get done. He barely was awake when I got him to drink the potion. Even though he's very weak, he still fought back. And I don't understand why he did that." The doctor replied sadly. "It felt a bit like he didn't want to heal... Like he would've wanted to die..." He continued in worry and confusion. The doctor sighed and shook his head. "I need to go and get some rest... So far he has been one of the hardest patients to heal..." He mumbled while leaving the place towards his own room which was very close to the Infirmary just in case.
Zelda nodded slowly while starting to think about the given information. She stood on her place for a long while. Eventually the princess sighed, glanced once at the closed door and left then to handle some of the important tasks.
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A/N: Sorry for short chapters so far. But, don't worry... The further we get, the longer the chapters become! XD Also, I have decided to update this story at every Saturday... Unless something comes up to stop me. -.-'
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Still in working:
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