A Healing Smile
The bustling City of Hylia was celebrating its 100th anniversary and a festival was being held along with a large prayer and offering to the Goddess. Fi and Ghirahim were strolling through the town looking for a place to set up the booth for the Archives and Library.
"Oh hello Fi!" The Headmaster of the Magi Academy walked up to her and Ghirahim setting up the booth.
Fi bowed, "Hello Headmaster!"
Ghirahim stopped working and bowed as well, "Good morning Headmaster Geapore."
"Good morning Ghirahim. I trust your instructors know that you are here for a City matter."
"Yes sir." Ghirahim replied.
"Very good. Now Fi where is your grandfather? How is he doing?"
"He is staying at the shop today, Sir. Mrs. Kokiro is with him while I am here running the booth for the festival. " she said.
"Ah..and how has his memory been?"
"Getting worse I'm afraid...I doubt that he would even remember you, Headmaster." Fi's mood turned less than happy.
"Ah..what a shame.. Your father and I were such good friends that I was a second son to your grandfather. Well, I hope to see him at the Ceremony."
"Yes he will be there."
"Very good. Well good luck today you two! May the Goddess protect you." He bowed.
"And also you. " Ghirahim and Fi both bowed in return before Headmaster Geapore turned and left. They turned back to their work, Ghirahim putting together the booth and Fi organizing books and scrolls on it. The display was about the history of Hylian City. Old public records for show and Fi had baked sweets for sale. As soon as Fi put the sweets on the table, Ghirahim snatched one.
"Hey!" Fi said as she snatched the cookie back, "Those are for customers only!" She said as she took a bite of the treat.
"What? So how do you get to have one?!" Ghirahim shouted.
"I have to test the taste to make sure they are for for sale." Fi joked and gave Ghirahim the rest of the cookie. He was glad that she was still joking, being her usual bubbly happy self, just likened nickname sake, a bluebird.
After a while Ghirahim decided to take Fi around to see the other booths and events going on. They passed into the clothing district. Booths with silk and wool, booths with jewels and lace, others with leather and ivory.
They passed a fabric booth and were stopped by a large man in clothes that were too small for his body.
"WHY HELLO THERE YOU TWO! WELCOME TO MADAME FARSIE'S FABULOUS COLLECTION OF FABRICS!" He said as he danced around. Fi and Ghirahim just stared at the odd looking man. He continued to dance back and forth until he was sure that they were going to respond, he spoke again, "PLEASE! Do come in!" He rushed them into the store.
He directed the two to a back corner with brightly colored tacky looking fabrics. He pulled one off of the wall with purple spots and yellow stripes, "THIS is PURE cotton mixed with polyester! It's just FABULOUS! Isn't it?!" Fi began to crack a laugh but she hid it not to be rude. "Or what about THIS lovely piece here?!" The man threw the tacky fabric aside and pulled out a red flannel fabric with an itchy texture, "LOOK! It matches your cape just FABULOUSLY!" He said as he held the fabric to Ghirahim's cloak. "Uh not really.." Ghirahim said.
"Oh PUH-LEASE! It is a PERFECT match! You would look SO FABULOUS in THIS instead of THAT! Like a fabulous prince of Hylian City!"
Fi began to laugh out loud, she could no longer contain her laughter. She walked out of the shop and Ghirahim followed. "You really think it's that funny?" Ghirahim asked now laughing himself because of Fi's giggling. "Yes!" Fi said through her laughing. Ghirahim proceeded to impersonate the man and flipped his hair from his face," SO FABULOUS DARLING! "
Fi burst into more laughter and almost fell over. Ghirahim chuckled, "come on, it's almost time for the Ceremony." He said as he lead Fi to close up the booth and go back to the Library to get her Grandfather.
"We gather here tonight to pray to our holy Goddess Hylia whom we named this City after in her honor. We gather here to thank the goddess for giving us all that we have after these 100 years." The Shiekan Temple Leader said to all of the citizens and Shiekah who attended the ceremony. Ghirahim looked over and saw Fi kneeling just like everyone else with their eyes closed, praying. He looked past Fi and saw Bender and his two lackies looking over his way. They were making faces and obscene gestures. Ghirahim turned back to his own business, but he turned back and looked at Bender again and this time he was making a punching gesture. Ghirahim turned back quickly.
Later that night, Ghirahim was walking back to the Mage Academy from the Library. He took a short cut down a long alley way when he was tripped. Ghirahim hit the ground, scratching his chin. Bender stepped out from the shadows followed by his lackies. "Where ya goin Ghira-her?" He asked tauntingly. His lackies laughed. Ghirahim get up and wiped his chin off. "Aww is she bleeding?" Bender swept Ghirahim's leg making his slip on the wet stone, knocking the wind out of him. Bender put a foot on Ghirahim's chest, "Hey..your girlfriend there? She's pretty good lookin... I think I'll take her on from here." Bender increased the weight on his foot on Ghirahim's chest, then hopped off and started to walk away. Ghirahim started to get up, his anger boiling in his entire body, only to be knocked down again by the feet of Bender's lackies. He was kicked repeatedly and knocked to the ground for the next few minutes.
The next morning, Ghirahim went into the library with bruises and scars. Fi gasped when she saw him, "Ghirahim! What happened?!" She rushed over to him and pulled out a chair for him to sit down. Ghirahim sat and Fi went to get some alcohol and cotton swabs. She cleaned his wounds. "Who did this..?" She asked softly.
"Bender..."
"Why?"
Ghirahim didn't answer, he didn't want to think about what he said any longer. Being with Fi made him want to forget everything, and eventually he always did. Her smile melted his worries. Her laugh made him smile. So when she asked, "how do you feel?" He answered, "just fabulous..." And she smiled and chuckled. He smiled back and started to forget, just like always.