Hi everyone here's the second chapter.
ornamental-reciprocity- You might be surprised, the character gave me a few ideas but I would say stay tuned. Nevertheless thank you for your review :)
A hint would be to look at the summary
Chapter 2 Autumn wind and Drought loss
There was once a young girl who grew up to be an orphan, but not just any orphan but an oracle of balance who had also fallen in love. Her love was different- Wind fell in love with water. Wind and Rain, both worked together even though different. They worked in perfect harmony after the Wind had a change of heart. Something to fight for- hope.
The oracle was blessed with a child but doomed to lose her love, when that happened she returned home. Her death was unexpected but it seemed to have been unleashed, by a sin called Envy and its counterpart Wrath. Both were moulded within one woman who developed a hatred for the oracle. However instead of dying from the pain, the oracles of season, time and secrets. Counterparts of the Triforce met with chaos, the last creator of the Triforce who had agreed to a deal so the young oracle could not only watch her child but be given another chance in life.
Chaos agreed after taking a liking to the kind, carefree spirit allowing her to watch alongside her sisters Din, Farore and Nayru in the form of a deity. Over the years the young oracle/deity watched and protected her child, until finally she was blessed with a second chance but at a price she lost her memories. To make it worse she could only like a short life, until the oracle was found by her lost love who had to be awakened from his shackles. Made by the curse of immortality within his child. Unable to move on, unable to live a life of his own- a second chance no matter what and no spell could unravel the chains of his imprisonment. Forced to be trapped within an eternal nightmare. Did he curse his love...no.
He waited until she was breathing... her presence, her kiss would wake him from his slumber and at the same time it would seal his doom... the spirit scales, what are the spirit scales? Were they a relic? A power source? Or was it actually alive?
Danielle had avoided Zephyr like the plague, which left her exhausted by the time she got home.
The first thing Danielle did as she arrived home was dropping her school bag by the door, took off her shoes near the shoe rack and paddled softly to the bedroom so she could collapse on the bed. That was the most disturbing set of days ever, not that she even expected anything else. Danielle never was a fan of the supernatural and most of the reason was that it would always find her, no matter how hard she tried.
Suddenly the phone rang making her groan for being disturbed without warning, just her luck. By the time she began to reach for the phone it stopped ringing.
Danielle reached for her pocket and turned the phone on: 53 messages and 39 missed calls were flashing on her phone. Danielle sighed in a vexed manner as she now saw that they were all from Link's home and mobile number telling her to call him asap. Didn't he know that calls overseas were expensive? What would his father say? She thought as her mind went to her guardian. Without waiting for Link to call back, Danielle dialled his number while pushing her fringe back.
"Link this better be good, I just came home" she sighed from fatigue only to hear sniffling, her ears perked up as she heard his voice on the other end. This wasn't going to end well.
Next day Danielle woke up, she had finished getting ready. Only this time the tired girl was wearing black, she used a black hair band in order to tie her hair into a ponytail and left robotically without breakfast. Still not having the stomach to eat after enduring last night's call.
Danielle's movements were slow and deliberate so by the time she reached school, people looked then moved away so they could gossip about her sudden mood. Danielle didn't have the heart to ignore, avoid or leave. Just sitting down and looked at her desk. Waiting until class started sounded appealing but that would mean thoughts would be consuming her mind with never ending questions. Like what the hell did Link do to endure something like that? It was cruel and barbaric!
Silver noticed her dead like expression and nudged Zephyr, whose eyes widened from as he noticed Danielle. The guilt he buried inside himself had surfaced making Zephyr develop an urge to go over and apologise but his pride wouldn't let him. Saying to himself that he did nothing wrong. It was a lie and they knew it.
"Hey Danielle what's eating you?" Silver said beating Zephyr to it. Danielle said nothing, did nothing either, she didn't even take her book out to read. The boys looked at one another now looking baffled at her sudden change in behaviour.
"Hey if it's because of what Zephyr did-" Danielle snapped from hearing Silver talk about yesterday. She glared at both boys with such hatred that it seemed they had just died, went to hell, only to hell had been frozen all over by the time they got there.
"I don't give a damn about him. So shut the hell up and leave me alone!" she screamed before leaving the room.
"Whoa Danielle! Wait a minute class is going to start!" Mr. Jotari called before turning towards the boys.
"Okay now what did you two do now?" Mr. Jotari asked now having a look that said that, he was going to kill them if they lied.
"Nothing sir, she was zombie like until I spoke to her" Silver's voice shook from Mr. Jotari's glare.
Mr. Jotari rubbed his chin as he pondered on what would of set the young girl off. Mr. Jotari placed his stuff on to desk, on cue the teacher's eyes spotted a piece of paper that had been left from the principle. Mr. Jotari's heart lurched from shock after he had finished reading the note.
"Oh Danielle... Silver I know what's wrong now. It's not your faults" Mr. Jotari said softly as he placed the paper down. Both boys looked at him with concern without truly knowing why, they just wanted to know and that was it.
"Is it bad sir?" Zephyr asked, now feeling nervous about the sudden change in Danielle's behaviour.
"It's about her uncle that's all I'm telling you" Mr. Jotari said sternly, signalling an end to the discussion. Silver without warning left the classroom immediately catching both their attention.
"What's gotten into him? Erm Silver where are you going?" Mr. Jotari asked the red haired male meanwhile Zephyr looked at Silver's retreating form grudgingly.
'Why is he going?' Zephyr muttered darkly.
"Okay everyone since it's a Cultural Day today, this involves St Whites day which is taking place in Japan right now" Mr. Jotari announced while trying to appear happy.
Some groaned as he mentioned Cultural Day.
"Why do we have to have St Whites Day?" asked a boy.
"Well since Danielle Is from Japan, I thought it would be nice to add some culture to the class and when I mean culture Zephyr. I don't mean pulling your trousers down and flashing it at the people outside or at the teachers" Mr. Jotari said with mirth in his eyes. Some students giggled at a now embarrassed Zephyr as his face went red, luckily Silver wasn't here to witness that.
"Yeah well that's what I think about cultures, it's a waste of time and it's a way of segregating people" Zephyr huffed at the very thought.
"Did your grandfather teach you or did you get teased enough to think that?" Zelda chuckled causing Zephyr to leer at her.
"Why not go back to your posh house and stay there! Seriously isn't everyone entitled to his or her opinion?" Zephyr asked angrily.
"There's that and there is just plain rude" said a girl with ocean blue hair, her had blue eyes, she wore a turquoise v shaped no sleeved top with a sky blue skirt, her sandals even matched her ocean blue hair.
"Butt out Nayru!" Zephyr snapped. He left the room in a huff after slammed the door harshly, this unfortunately caused the room to shake from the force of the slam. Nayru began to shake her head as she became disappointed from watching him behave badly once again.
'And just when I thought that the boy would change the moment he saw Danielle. I was a fool to actually think the boy change for the better. Once again another failure' she sighed before placing resting her head in her hand.
Zephyr booted the wall near the locker room causing it to have a dent.
The boy growled as he felt frustrated by the events from this morning, now turning his back to the wall and began to slid down slowly.
'What's the point of having culture days, especially when it is to do with love? We're teenagers for Din sake! But... what is Silver doing... gah I don't know anymore. Oh well might as well find that fool before the principle gives him another slip' Zephyr stood up so he could brush the dirt of himself.
The albino walked towards the library for some reason. Without how or even knowing why, he just did went forwards. Something told him to go there. It's not like he had anything better to do
'Silver is the only person who even understands... has been in a similar situations... he's like the brother I never had' Zephyr felt some relief as he remembered how they first met.
As Zephyr approached the doors of the very place, a place he never expected to even step foot inside of until today. Zephyr entered the room only to hear silence... a tranquil environment and what shocked him was that he liked it. The smell of musky books hit his nose but Zephyr didn't crinkle his nose from smelling it. He just inhaled it and smiled.
Zephyr then went to look at the books from the nearest shelf until he heard voices. One of the voices he recognised at Silver.
"I'm sorry you must have been close to him" Silver said. He handed a tissue to Danielle. Her eyes were red rimmed from crying a lot.
"He took me in straight after the incident, uncle didn't even know me but said that he had to, Uncle even said that he knew what it was like to lose someone valuable-someone close to the point it leaves you dead inside. Uncle was always worried about me and treated me like a daughter that he never had. Now Link is in Japan all by himself, I can't help but worry. Link told me to stay here and let the police find him... I still can't understand why Uncle Laurence went missing in the first place, he is a good man" Danielle started to shed tears again from the very thought that something happened to her uncle. This caused Silver to feel sad about what she was going through, but tried pushing it away by turning away. Silver heard a sigh leave his throat as he remembered his mother.
"My mother died when I was six, she died after finding out that my father was doing stuff right her back. The first thing my father did, he lied to mother by saying he was going to quit being the leader of a mafia group. The man even promised to leave the organization his mother built but ended up chickening out of it. The second thing he did was have an affair with another women, which as it turns out was really two women and not one" Silver huffed as he leaned back in anger. His back rested on the shelf they sat against. Danielle sniffled a bit as she listened to his tale.
"I'm sorry for your loss" the sad girl said, she felt empathy for the angry male beside her. It was kind of nice to know that she wasn't the only one with a troubled past.
"The person I feel sorry for is my little sister Annie, after all she was sent to a different country so I don't know if she's going to be okay and as it turns out. One of the ladies he had an affair with had the exact same name as her" Danielle choked on a laugh without meaning to which made him chuckle.
"The irony of it all" Danielle laughed harder which made Silver smile more until a laugh escaped his lips. Unable to disagree with that statement.
Zephyr however was beginning to feel a bit jealous from watching the scene unfold before him.
"He's getting too comfortable with her" Zephyr muttered quietly. He froze at what happened next, Zephyr could not comprehend why it happened.
The duo stopped laughing at looked at one another, red head looked at her as he stroked her cheek before closing in on the space between them. Silver placed his lips onto hers gently and kissed her softly, what took both males surprise was that Danielle allowed him.
Their kiss was soft and sweet which coaxed them to get closer. Neither moved from their spot after that except when she gripped his fleece tightly.
They released each other from the others grip, now looking at one another with silent surrounding the room. In someway Danielle liked the kiss, it was nice overall but… it was missing something. To make it worse she didn't know what it was.
"Sorry, your vulnerable I shouldn't of done that" Silver said as he looked down, now placing a hand to his head.
"Sorry" Danielle whispered softly. Silver looked at her while feeling his face go red from heat.
"It's my fault so don't worry" Silver felt a smile grace his lips at how shy Danielle was. Suddenly a book came down with a bump, this caused them to look at the direction of where the book fell. Silver's eyes widened in shock.
"Zephyr?! How long have you been standing there?!" Silver asked as he felt his body go cold, this was not a good to say the least. Zephyr however looked at Silver now feeling angry and betrayed. Silver had known that Zephyr liked her and yet the red head went behind his friend's back. Zephyr felt a storm of emotions stirring from within him making him sway slightly. Zephyr at the same time felt like he was drowning. Unable take the pain which started to leave him breathless to the point that he couldn't breathe, it was like a noose had been placed on to his neck and continued to tightened itself against him with each breath he took. So Zephyr did the only thing he felt was best- run.
Danielle looked at Silver's guilty face, she stroked his cheek softly and never turned her eyes from him.
"I'll go talk to him, don't worry" Danielle said. Giving him a reassuring smile so he could relax slightly, as she stood up and then ran after Zephyr.
'Be careful Danielle, he is really vulnerable at the moment ... and it is all my fault' Silver covered his face so he could hide his tears.
'I'm sorry Zephyr... I am so so sorry'
Zephyr rushed past the doors only to feel an incoming headache beat against his skull. Zephyr was completely heartbroken, and knowing that he lost her ever since the incident with Changing Room. Part of the Zephyr felt silly enough to think that she would forgive him.
But alas it wasn't meant to be.
"Zephyr!" came a voice that left him speechless. Suddenly Zephyr felt a massive migraine attack coming back in full force. It had got to the point that his vision turned completely white for a few minutes before changing back, Zephyr staggered near the railing of the stairs in order to steady himself. His knuckles will turn white as he griped the railing, Zephyr's eyes widened as panic settled in before gasping for air. Soon after that his eyes began to go dark and didn't go change back.
'No! Not again!' Zephyr cried in shock as he tried to run, the boy grunted while slamming against some of the walls as he swayed dangerously due to the lack of vision. Zephyr fought against the blackout with all his strength. Both eyes burned with the intensity of a thousand suns that were beginning to bore into Zephyr, it was as if burning him from the inside out.
Zephyr bit his lip while feeling pain circulate though out all of his body. Meanwhile Zephyr gripped his head from the overwhelming pressure, he refused to scream. The albino started to feel cold but soft hands touch the sides of his face. They felt familiar to him somehow.
"There you are Zephyr" the boy panicked as he realised who it was.
'Danielle… no go away!' Zephyr cried mentally.
"Do you know how worried I was? Seriously why can't you just listen for once? Don't you know running won't solve anything?" Danielle asked as she tried to soothe his frazzled mind. Zephyr felt part of him relax from hearing her voice, but regretted it instantly the moment he consciousness.
"Zephyr are you okay? Why aren't you speaking?" Danielle asked, fear started to claw into her mind as she watched him go still. Danielle felt his hand grip hers. Slowly Zephyr opened his eyes and looked at her. She felt déjà vu for a moment, this wasn't right. This wasn't the Zephyr she knew.
"Zephyr?" the albino asked he looked at her hands. Now taking her hands so they were close, and planting a kiss on Danielle's fingertips. She shivered with dislike.
"Yes, your name is Zephyr is it not?" Danielle asked angrily. Zephyr looked at her wordlessly, his eyes narrowed slightly.
"I have no idea on what you're talking about" the male replied icily, this causing her eyes to widen in shock. Danielle backed up after freeing her hands from his grasp before then rushed up the stairs. The frightened girl clutched her chest as she continued to run up the stairs, he's changed personality again. But why though? What caused the sudden change? It didn't make sense at all.
Not once did Danielle look back to see if he was following her, she just wanted to leave now and find Silver.
'Hopefully Silver will sort him out like he did last time' Danielle nodded as she ran.
'Zephyr' tilted his head to one side then muttered something under his breath. Wind picked up for a few seconds before disappearing surprising 'Zephyr'. His brow rose up from the lack of power.
"Why didn't-?" the male looked up only to see that Danielle had gone past two flights of stairs, he frowned from watching her run. Why would she need to run? A smile appeared on his lips, so the girl prefers to be chased?
'Well then young lady, let the chase begin' the male grinned.
Danielle's heart continued pounded against her ribs as she ran, unfortunately the girl stumbled a few times during her run. To Danielle's relief she was able to make it to the floor, which contained the library.
Danielle rushed towards the doors. Just as she was about to call Silver's name in order to alert the red head. The girl was flung against a nearby wall without warning, this caused her to cried out from the act. Pain shot through out her body as Danielle tried to get up in order to escape. She looked up to see "Zephyr" in front of her. Danielle cowered in fear as 'Zephyr' came closer until he was a few feet away from the girl.
"Stop! Don't come any closer or I'll scream" Danielle warned angrily but it fell on deaf ears, the male moved a few steps closer.
"I mean it" Danielle's eyes narrowed hatefully at the pursuer as he continued to ignore her. The albino watched her carefully. All he could see was Danielle, nothing else. Her words meant nothing to him what so ever. Danielle continued moved away from him, the need to run consumed her mind but it was all futile. She was a mouse trapped in a cage with no doors.
"Zephyr why are you doing this?" Danielle asked weakly as 'Zephyr' backed her into a corner away from the door and the stairway. He frowned.
"My name is not Zephyr woman. My name is Vaati. I am the greatest sorcerer alive" Danielle's eyes widened in shock making him frown from her response, he felt disappointed by her reaction.
"That can't be he's dead! There's a tomb with his name on it. I-I saw it with my own eyes. It can be! It's impossible! You can't be him!" she yelled in shock. The girl gasped from seeing his narrowed eyes, disbelief and anger filled the male to the point that he grabbed her chin and gripped it tightly. She whimpered as his nails started to mark her skin.
"Don't spit lies at me Sapphia! I am alive. I don't know why you dress like this but this has to stop now" he growled making her flinch in fear. Tears threatened to run down her face as his eyes bore into hers fiercely. That guy was angry.
"Who's Sapphia? I've never heard of her" Danielle asked fearfully, she immediately regretted the moment she opened her mouth and asked, 'Zephyr' gripped her chin a lot harder than before which made the girl cry out from the pain. He glared at her with such venom to the point that she started to shiver in fear, the girl's only thought was to shrivel and vanish completely from his sight.
Just then Danielle made a resolution like promise to herself, she was never going to give Link a hard time by giving angry glares again if she somehow survived this… well if he does go out and do any of his outdoor 'activities' again then that will the only exception. Danielle hated it when she saw him fight gangs, even if it was to make their homes safer. His safety was paramount in her books.
"Please stop that Zephyr that hurts! You're hurting me" Danielle pleaded at the male, tears started to fall down her cheeks and landed on his hand. He didn't notice them what so ever.
"I-told-you-my-name-is-not-Zephyr you stupid girl it's Vaati!" 'Zephyr' yelled in anger. She struggled once more against his vice like grip, unfortunately this was making him more than just angry. He was furious to see this woman deify him again.
"Stop struggling wo-" Vaati froze the moment he saw her tears.
Zephyr felt his eyes open without his consent, to the male's horror he saw Danielle crying as his hand gripped her chin. Zephyr removed his hand to see red marks on her lower chin. He immediately felt sick from realising what had happened.
'What have I done?' Zephyr choked as fear consumed him, he froze before looking at his right hand. It was now literally shaking and Zephyr couldn't stop at all.
The male fell backwards and landed hard on the floor, this caused him to bruise his lower back. However Zephyr felt no pain at all in fact... he just a numb.
Danielle looked at him weakly, now moving closer but kept her distance in order to see if it was really Zephyr this time.
"Z-Zephyr is that you?" Danielle asked while ignoring the stuttering. He looked at Danielle with an emotion that almost tore her heart-sorrow.
"I-I'm sorry I-I don't know what came over me. Please believe me I would never do that" Zephyr pleaded before flinching. He almost assumed that she was about to hit him but nothing happened. Instead Danielle held his face softly with both hands. Zephyr opened his eyes to see sad eyes reflecting back at him.
"Ssh Zephyr, its okay I don't know what is happening but I know this isn't you. I want to help but you need to be honest" he moaned in disagreement. Zephyr just wanted to leave and never come back, the mental institute was his first choice. If he was going to continue acting like that whenever she was in the room. Zephyr admitted that he was a little violent but never considered raising a hand against a girl. It was not only against his morals but his grandfather's to. Silver would even beat him until there was nothing but a heap of bones on the floor if he found out.
"Haven't I caused enough trouble as it is? You even hate me right? Now this is going to make you want to avoid me even more" Zephyr muttered, he hated how his voice went high as the male spoke. She frowned from hearing his words.
"For a bad boy, you sure are acting like a 5 year old kid" she commented dryly, this made Zephyr choke on an incoming laugh.
"You know nothing" Zephyr said bluntly now trying to act tough, unfortunately this just made her chuckle even more. The albino huffed angrily, meanwhile on the inside Zephyr smiled mentally from knowing that he was getting a positive reaction out of her, it won't undo what happened but it was something. After Danielle stopped before she smiling at him.
"I should say the same thing, sorry about the library it was the heat of the moment" Danielle said weakly as she turned away shyly to avoid Zephyr's gaze. His eyes turned glassy from remembering, it hurt like hell from seeing them kiss like that and it was in front of him as well. He said nothing though knowing that it wouldn't end well.
"Come on tough guy I want to show you something" Danielle said now trying to pick him up by the arm, this defiantly took Zephyr by surprise. Wasn't she afraid of him?
"Where are we going?" Zephyr asked now looking at her determined smile.
"To the tomb" he looked at her sharply as they walked past the library.
"Are you crazy it's class time! Even I have my limits" Danielle released her hold on him and then took a few steps back, she looked at him again and then smirked.
"Chicken" Danielle smiled deviously in hopes of getting him to come along, this made Zephyr laugh at how she was goading him to follow.
"I misjudged you miss, you're terrible" Danielle took a small bow to show that she was grateful for the comment. Within one minute she had jumped out of a four story window and landed on a big tree near the window. Danielle started jumping down on each tree branch before landing on the floor gracefully. She looked up to see him stunned, a laugh escaped her lips as she saw Zephyr's jaw had dropped.
"I am not doing that!" Zephyr loudly from the window, now making sure no one could hear him as he replied, his words final.
"Come on! I'll catch you honestly this is nothing! Its fun , so come on wuss!" Danielle challenged him by grinning.
"You asked for it" his eyes glinted at the challenge. Zephyr wasn't sure about why he had the urge to prove that he was better than her in something. In fact Zephyr didn't even have any idea on why it was important to do so but did it anyways, part of him trusted the girl without hesitation. Zephyr jumped from the window only to miss the first branch. The red eyed male started to scream as he felt his life flash before his eyes. Zephyr closed his eyes as he waited for the impact. However something else happened which took him by surprise.
"Gotcha! Seriously you need practice" Danielle muttered now feeling winded from the sudden move as she caught him.
He looked up at her eyes now feeling mixed emotions.
"How strong are you?" Zephyr said in fear as he spoke his thoughts out aloud.
"How rude!" Danielle snapped before dropped him, this made the male go "oof" as he landed on the grass she turned to one side in anger.
"I do stuff like this all the time" she huffed. Danielle's mind went to the times in when she always had to pull Link from when she had sat on trees, now a days he could do it by himself so they could watch the sun when it either rose up or settled. Danielle even had to aid her friend in fights when they got too much. Not that she was going to tell Zephyr that.
"Sorry" Zephyr muttered weakly. Danielle ignored him causing the male to sigh in defeat. "I'm sorry for insulting you Danielle" she looked and then nodded sharply.
"Apology accepted now come on" Danielle smiled before running ahead making him, Zephyr not wanting to be left behind started to go after her.
"Wait the gate is closed" Zephyr called as he caught up.
"Won't stop me, I can jump" she laughed at he went pale from shock. When they approached the gate Danielle started climbed the brick indents before flipped over the gate, she landed on her feet without any injury. Now that was over Danielle turned round and saw a stunned Zephyr.
"I can't do that" Zephyr shook his head signalling that was where he drew the line.
"Didn't ask you to" she went to the gate and opened it.
"Now come on" Danielle said with glee and took off.
"Wait up" Zephyr called as he tried to catch up with her.
They arrived in the town square, only to find that it was practically empty.
"Whoa it's deserted" Danielle commented with awe as she walked towards the angel statue. Next Danielle pulled the arm of the statue-nothing happened, it didn't even budge which made her frown even more.
"That's odd it worked before" Danielle said as she looked at the statue again, it should of worked so what was she missing?
"Let me try" Zephyr said now moving towards the angel. Danielle watched him as he pulled the statue's arm, still no results.
"Let's do it at the same time" Danielle suggested. He looked at her then shrugged. If it was that important to her then why not help?
"Okay worth a try" the albino nodded before looking at the statue again, something told him to stray away from it but shrugged it off. It was just a dumb statue after all, what's the worst it could? Just as Zephyr and Danielle were about to pulled the arm down. The ground below them suddenly trembled slightly taking them both by surprise. Suddenly it gave way before they could move.
They both released a scream of fear as they began to fall, Zephyr immediately pulled Danielle close to him instinctively in order to break her fall.
They both blacked out.
Bet no one saw that coming. I hope to hear your views soon.
Take care for now