Link X Cremia chapter by Klyn Farseer
Inception
A blur of steel, an inhuman cry and then nothing. Those were the extent of the memories in Link's mind as the light enveloped him, and they played over and over. Every now and then Link's resting mind would change the order. To say the least of his state, Link was emotionally charged.
Link's mind reared in annoyance as some outside force decided to alter the hype it was in, that state of raw energy that flowed through him during an intense battle. The mind tried ignoring the presence and rejecting its existence, but alas, the moment was gone. The facade that existed after a well-fought battle faded and Link was left returning to the real world.
Groaning not in pain or tiredness but simply as anyone would at being woken from a state of euphoria, Link was slow to open his eyes. Link could feel the slight abrasion as his tunic rubbed against skin and instantly knew someone was shaking him awake. Why did they always have to do that?
Link moved his hand over to whoever's was shaking him and simply pushed the soft flesh away.
With a childish 'humph,' Link popped onto his feet. He smirked as he saw the female staring at him in slight shock.
"What, did you think I'd get injured?" Link asked teasingly to the older of the two ranchers. "That moon was nothing, I fought tougher things when I was a little kid."
Cremia looked at him for a second longer before attempting to punch him in the arm, a move he dodged with practiced ease. "You idiot! What the heck did you think you were doing? One minute you're eating dinner with Romani and I, the next you're riding into the center of town!"
Link couldn't help but laugh, "Cremia," he said, slurring the last two vowels so it made one syllable, "I thought I was going to go and have some fun. Do you know how boring it can get, being a swordfighter and having nothing to do?"
Cremia's eyebrows were getting closer to her nose, and over his unknown period of traveling through time he'd learned that was a bad sign. Still, he was a brave man and stood his ground as she erupted at him again.
"So you run under a falling moon? That was just stupid! What could you hope to accomplish?"
Link knew he'd probably only increase her ire, but he couldn't stop himself from chuckling, "Saving the world for one. The moon was being pulled by some mask thing that wanted to kill everyone and that said it was a god. I really hope it was lying, because if I can trip a god, then I might start losing my faith. 'Course I'm not sure if the deities I do believe in exist here."
To Link's surprise Cremia simply sighed instead of yelling more, "You and my Sister both. You're gonna be the death of me. Saying all that stuff about ghost aliens wasn't enough for you was it?"
Link finally held in his laughter, "Cremia, I was being serious. Well, sort of serious anyway. I used... magic I guess, to call those giants, and they stopped the moon from falling until I could beat the thing that was pulling it down in the first place."
Cremia was about to argue more when a voice interrupted her. "What the Hero says is true, redheaded one with the temper, he fought the god that was sealed in the mask of Majora. About the mask..." The Happy Mask Salesman held his hand out to explain his meaning.
"Mask?" Link asked innocently, "What mask? You wanted me to get a mask?"
The eyes of the man flashed dangerously and in a heart beat he was in front of Link, grabbing him by the front of the shirt. "GIVE ME THAT WHICH YOU PROMISED ME!"
Cremia stood in shocked silence and had to sit on the ground as a headache formed from the intense illogic. Link on the other hand just laughed. "I'm just messin' with ya Larry, calm down. The mask's right here."
Cremia was slowly losing her mind. Unless her eyes were mistaking her, something a part of her hoped for, 'Larry' was now bowing profusely. Cremia forced her eyes shut, and prayed that when she opened them things would be back to following the laws of normalcy.
When she opened her eyes 'Larry' was gone, but standing in his place was some kind of... thing...
"Don't think mean thoughts to Samantha," Link chastised her.
Cremia's mouth simply fell open and some kind of weird bubbling noise came out. When two fairies divebombed her from behind, she promptly fainted.
"All too easy," Link said beneath his breath, then said goodbye to his friends and lifted Cremia onto Epona. It had taken him four run throughs of time to get everything right, and it was worth it.
Fear, insanity and a mix of the two played through Cremia's mind as she lay unconcious. It was with complete and utter relief that she woke up when she felt a hand shaking her. Taking in the surroundings of her bedroom at the ranch in an instant she breathed in a deep breath of the familiar environment. And then she saw the boy in green standing above her.
"Agh!" She cried out incoherently, and she heard her sister stifle a laugh from somewhere in the room. "What the... What did you do?" She yelled at Link.
"What do you mean?" He asked, his voice sounding genuinely confused.
"You were... and Larry... and then Samantha... You said you stopped the moon!"
The Hero bit his tongue so that he could save the plan. "Romani, I think you're sister's still not feeling well. Do you know if she was feeling sick before we left?"
Romani bobbed her head up and down, "Yeah, the day before you showed up she was complaining about a fever."
Cremia could only blink at this point, and Link put a hand on her arm, "We were going in to deliver the Chateau to the bar when you started telling me you had a headache. We delivered the milk, but on the way back you started swaying around and you fell unconcious. I took the carriage back here and the two of us have been taking care of you since then. Oh, Romani, you should probably get some soup ready."
Romani gave a sort of bow thing and Cremia kept blinking her eyes in confusion, "But... the moon was falling..."
Link snorted, "Some dream. Cremia, I can honestly tell you that the moon did not fall. Do you think we'd be alive if it did?"
"All of it... a dream?"
"Yeah, you've been out for two days. Your sister got worried, but I knew you'd pull through. You're too stubborn to let something as stupid as a fever kill you."
Finally coming to terms with everything, Cremia said, "You have that right. So, did you shoot of a couple of bandits, or was that just my imagination too?"
"Me? Shoot off bandits? Well, there was this bird that tried to steal some stuff, but I shot it. No bandits. It is sweet though that you think I'm a hero, even in your dreams." This had been the point that Link was most nervous about, though it was also the point that got Romani working her best to help. Yes, Romani like Link, but she was only eleven, much too young for any, well, romantic feelings. No, she was more than content to have Link around as a brother-in-law/dad, seeing as Cremia filled the role of sister and mother herself.
"What?" Cremia exclaimed, blushing furiously. "I-what?" Link and Romani had both agreed that yes, Cremia like him. Cremia didn't just hug anybody, and the way that she looked at Link... In fact, to his luck on this time through, Cremia had actually dropped some hints to Romani about Link. So, they were really just helping Cremia to confront her own feelings and fall in love.
"I think you're great too Cremia," he said, emboldened by the Triforce of Courage. And the fact that if this didn't work he and Romani had worked out a way to knock her out again, convince her that this had been a dream too, and further reinforce her concious knowledge that she at least subconciously loved Link.
Link reached down and grabbed her hand, rubbing it with his. You're my favorite person. When I'm around you," and Link knew he could really ham it up too, thanks to the power of the statement 'it was a dream,' "I feel... I feel like I'm on fire, but it doesn't hurt. It's just this... inexplicable warmth." Of course, it being hammed up didn't make it any less true, just made it so he could present it... well, hammily.
"Link, I... I don't know what to say..."
Link smiled, making sure to make it seem a little sad, "You don't need to say much, just tell me. Do you... feel love for me?"
"I- Link, I think I do... It's just... Link, whenever you talk I can feel myself... happy. It's like I know you'll protect my family and I, no matter what. And it makes me feel... Yes, Link, I love you."
Link leaned down and gave her a chaste kiss on the lips, it wouldn't do to scare her away now after all that work. "Thank you," he said, pulling away from her.
The door burst open, "Cremia, the soup's turning into a mutated cuckoo and an army of Dodongo riders are attacking the ranch with cheese sauce!" Romani ran into the room, wearing a costume that looked remarkably like the ghost/aliens that he'd fought off, complete with beams of light coming from the eyes. Cremia fell back into the bed and passed out.
Link sighed, "Romani?"
Romani pulled off the mask she was wearing, "Yes Grasshopper?"
"Did you hear the signal?"
"Wh- oh! It worked?"
Link nodded his head, forcing a smile onto his face, "Yes Romani, it worked."
"That's great! Romani is so happy that Grasshopper will be- oh. Romani messed up."
Link patted her on the shoulder. "It's alright, everyone makes mistakes. But I got her to admit that she loved me, so it's going to be a lot easier next time, I'm sure it'll work. So, now we just have to wait until we can convince her this was all another dream. You remember the back-up plan?"
"Yup!" Romani exclaimed grinning.
AN: Just a little bit I wanted to point out, but couldn't find a place for it in the story. Link is older in Major than he was in Ocarina, so I'm stretching that age a bit here. I think it's safe to assume that Cremia's seventeen or eighteen, and in Ocarina Link was eleven. Well, in Majora he seems like he could be a few years older, so I'm taking that and saying he's fourteen/fifteen, in that age area.
