Chapter Two
Zelda and I stood our ground as we saw the stranger with a black cape and all black outfit.
"…Sorin?" I asked curiously. "Is that really you?"
"What?" Sorin asked with a grin. "New haircut, okay?" His hair was pushed to the side before, but now he had bangs.
"Sorin!" Zelda exclaimed as I shook his hand, leaned in, and patted him on the back.
"It's been a while!" Sorin said with a booming voice.
"That it has." I said smiling.
"It's only been four months." Zelda giggled.
Sorin adjusted his cape a little. "Hey, a lot can happen in four months, you know?"
"Good to see a great friend again." I smiled as Zelda hugged him. There was a strange object floating in the sky as all of us looked up. It swayed from side to side and started heading toward us.
"What in the…?" I said, trying to make out what it was. The object flew towards Sorin, as it knocked him over and made a loud poof.
"As you can see…" Sorin said as he grunted. A young woman started to slowly get up, as she brushed off her long sleeve, red velvet dress. She held a broom in her hand and looked up at the both of us. "A lot can happen…" Sorin groaned as he tried to get up.
"Hey!" She exclaimed, while smiling and approaching us. She completely ignored her husband. Sorin had a dull look on his face and scruffed his hair. "Link, Zelda! How are you?!"
"Amelia! You haven't aged a bit, love!" Zelda hugged her tightly and smiled.
"Oh, girl, neither have you!" Sorin and I rolled our eyes as they had their own lady thing going on. I finally gave Amelia a hug as Sorin spoke.
"You know, you shouldn't be flying around like that, hun. It's broad day light; people can see."
"Oh, whatever. People don't know me!" She smiled as she held her broom.
"Keep flying around like that and they will." Sorin said bluntly. She rolled her eyes at him.
"Hold on… you're one-hundred and forty one and you barely learned how to fly on a broom…?" I asked as I smirked.
"Don't judge me! And that's one-hundred and forty two, now." She looked at Sorin as she giggled. His outfit was still dirty as she tried to brush it off.
"Still makes you a cougar." I grinned while Zelda giggled.
"You're never going to let that go, are you?" She raised an eyebrow and smirked.
"Mm… probably not…" I laughed as she tried to swing at me, I backed away.
"So, what've you two been up to?" She beamed at both of us.
I sighed wearily. "Politics…" I frowned.
"Helping Link with politics…" Zelda said as well. Her frown disappeared as she spoke once more. "And, expecting a child…" My frown disappeared as well, while I held her stomach. It barely showed.
"Ahh, the child…" Amelia looked at Sorin with a frown. "We were expecting one, but…"
"But?" I thought for a moment as Sorin and Amelia looked at each other. "Are you not able to get pregnant…?" I asked curiously.
"No, it's not that…" Sorin said sadly. "She already is… but we're afraid…"
"Of..?" Zelda asked innocently.
"We're afraid we might cause an uproar." Sorin claimed as he looked at Amelia's stomach.
"What do you mean?" I asked again.
"Our unborn is a mixture, between a witch and a vampire. This kind of thing hasn't happened in a century and both of our folks would never approve…" Zelda and I looked at Amelia's stomach with deep sadness. "On top of that, if either one knew… They'd try to kill our child, probably Amelia in the process…"
Zelda gasped a little as I saw a tear forming in her eye. "Why that's, that's just horrible…" She hugged me as Sorin hugged Amelia. She felt a feeling of the pain as she too, was going to be a mother.
"Link... we've actually come here to ask of your help… I left my kingdom, with my brother, Kadel, as I said before, he's next in line to the throne." Sorin thought for a moment as he closed his eyes. "He can have it, I could care less… but we traveled here to keep our child out of harm's way. No one in my kingdom even had suspicions that Amelia was a witch. The same rule applies, you still have my word. If anything should go wrong, you can exile me out of your kingdom…"
I looked at Sorin with a serous glint in my eyes. "Sorin, you're always welcomed here." We did our little hand shake again.
"Thank you, Link…" Sorin bowed with humble appreciation. "I am forever in your debt…"
"A king should never bow to another king." I said as I smiled. "You know you don't need to do that."
"But a friend should always express his appreciation to his friend he can never find another one of." Sorin smirked as I did the same.
We both started to walk into the castle. I had a special meal prepared for all of us as we ate and drank most of the night. Sorin and I talked of mainly politics as Zelda and Amelia spoke of how they were both excited for their unborn child. They spoke of how they felt at times, how their mood would change, and how to deal with some other things. Laughter and sighs filled the main hall. Sorin pulled out a glass container bottle as they looked like the ones I had. A dark red color filled the one he pulled out, as he was about to put it in one of the goblets.
"Do you mind, Link?" He asked, trying not to be rude.
"Not at all." I stared at the blood, completely interested, trying to figure out where it could be from.
"And then, you know in public, I just try to hide it by pouring it inside the goblets, usually under the table." Sorin smirked and chuckled a bit. "Like this…" His hand moved quickly under the table as he poured the blood in the goblet. Amelia and Zelda gasped as it was too fast for them to see. I could only see half of it. Damn these old Sheikah techniques.
"So, I don't mean to ask away, but what kind of animal is that blood from?" Sorin chuckled again.
"Glad you asked, actually, it's from pig. I didn't even have to kill it." He took another sip. "These bottles I carry are sample tests of blood from doctors. I got this one from Lake Hylia. I take a blood sample from each animal, so it's actually not that bad at all. If I have to, I'll hunt animals in the wild or outside."
"That's clever. Seems like you're getting better at handling it." I smirked as Sorin put both hands behind his head.
"Yeah, I'm really glad about it too." We both looked up as the girls started to yawn.
"Well, best not keep both the Mrs.' from getting any rest." I said as Sorin and I both chuckled. "Hell, I envy that you barely even need sleep, Sorin."
We both escorted our wives back to our chambers. Sorin and I stayed awake a little longer as we talked on the balcony. Sorin sat on the edge, perfectly balanced. He leaned against the wall with an arm dangling off his knee. The night had turned the sky into a deep purple and black. The stars shine brightly as I let the cold wind pierce my face. I stood, my leg up, and leaned on the other wall with my arms crossed.
"What's it like…?" I asked curiously.
"Thought you'd never ask." Sorin smirked as he looked at the view. "It's good and bad, in my opinion. The reason why it's good is because you have special abilities, you can protect the ones you love, you can live forever, it's preferable you have a loved one to live it with. The reason why it's bad is because, you feel stuck in time. You think that everyday feels exactly the same as a human?" Sorin chuckled. "Try doing it as a vampire. There are times where you just want to pull your fucking hair out."
"I see. Sounds like a real rockslide…" That reminded me of Impa. I remembered she said she went to go stay in Termina for a while with Nina. And, just like with Sorin and Amelia, it had been four months… I gathered my thoughts a Sorin spoke quietly. His tone filled with depression.
"Then again, the worst is the pain you could suffer for many years…"
"How you became a vampire…?" I asked, hoping I was right.
He smiled as he closed his eyes. "Yes… there was a war. I can't remember most of it, but some… I was trying to protect the woman I loved, then. She held my hand tight as we both tried to escape. She was hesitant, though, as if she'd rather die than be with me. I didn't know why, but it felt like that." Sorin smiled started to disappear as he gritted his teeth a little. I could see the pearly whites from where I was standing, and two small sharp ones.
I looked down. "Mm…"
"Fair enough, we ran through a house that had been burning… I put her in front of me the whole time so she could get out and survive. A large plank of wood fell on me from the house… I needed help… my leg got stuck as I pushed her out of harm's way… She let go of my hand and had tears in her eyes… She looked at me for a while as I looked confused. She had time to save me… but backed away and ran over to another man that had also been in love with her. She wanted to escape the war with him and not me. So she left me as I lay there, frozen, in disbelief. It tore me inside out… I didn't care if I died or not then… Some guy bit my neck, I thought he went mad, but after he bit me, something else started to hurt way more than my leg. It was the most unbearable and sufferable pain I've ever felt in my life…
"When you turned…" Sorin nodded.
"You feel like your insides are getting ripped apart, your ribs hurt the most, your head feels like it's going to explode… even though, it was only what she did that haunted me for a long time… After I found my way over to Amelia, things got more than better, but… if I ever see that woman again…" Sorin shook his head as he closed his eyes.
Sorin looked down. "I'm sorry…"
"It would've been better to be human, at least I could've died earlier… but I had to suffer many years, remembering what that woman did to me…" I looked down as I couldn't believe Sorin's story…
"Shit… I don't know how you did it…" I yawned a little and still frowned.
"Well, it's in the past… Anyway, Link, you should get some sleep…"
"Yeah." I covered another yawn and started to straighten up. "You should get some sleep… I mean rest, at least. Whatever you vampires do." I smirked a little as Sorin remained balanced on the ledge.
"I think I'll stay out here for a bit. Don't worry, I won't keep Amelia waiting long." He grinned as I smirked back and started to head to my dorm.
I quietly opened the door as Zelda lay in bed. She moaned to the sound of the squeak that came from the door and stretched. I stared at my wife's body as she moaned some more. I started to dress into something more comfortable. I whispered in Zelda's ear.
"Zelda, stop making those sounds." I chuckled as she spoke half asleep.
"Why…?"
"You know why…" I said grinning.
"Okay, I know why…" She said as she rolled over and tried to lay diagonal on the bed.
I laughed a little as she spread out like a snow angel. "Where's room for me, my love?"
"In my heart, always." She said as a smiled curved on her lips.
"I'm glad to hear that, honey, but you always take so much room on the bed. Amazing how something so tiny can take up that much space." I said kissing her cheek. "You going to let me lay down, cutie?"
"Like trees and kittens on a cloud…" She mumbled in her sleep. I carried her gently and moved her so her back was facing me. I wrapped my arm around her and gave her one final kiss on her head. Later on, I felt Zelda tossing and turning. She was mumbling in her sleep and kept moaning. She was having a nightmare…