"Do those push ups!" Link demanded, his boot on the black tunic of the ten year old clone. At first, when Shadow Link gave him tude with the 'What are you looking at?', Link tried to extend a peaceful hand, but it all really went down hill and fast. From Epona being untied, thankfully she didn't run away and ended up telling on Shadow Link, to him throwing all Link's stuff into the water.
At that current time Link had him doing push-ups, as Epona walked around in a pond washing off a stain of different berries. Link, who had slept in late from making sure his evil version didn't try anything funny over night, woke up to the sound of Epona crying and when he cheeked to see what was on he saw little Link tossing what was mashed balls of their food at the horse.
"How...Many...Do...I...Have...To...Do…?" He asked, every time he feel down he spat a word out.
"Until Epona is clean or you're arms fall off." Link snapped. Epona, other than the ocarina, was the only thing to remind him of his homeland. So when he seen her covered in mashed food he was done playing. "I can't believe my only ticket home is to train this…. this…. Thing!" He snapped, not caring who heard it. It's not like the thing at his feet had any actual feelings. He glared down at the black haired imp as he bared his foot down on him, watching him do ten more push ups as Epona walked beside him.
"You think he's had enough?" He asked Epona, and she nuzzled his head, "Hey why are you taking his side? He's the one who threw all the food- Our food! At you!"
She snorted and stomped at Link.
"Whatever." He snapped, letting his foot up, "You're free to go."
Shadow Link didn't wait for his bigger light self to change his mind and darted off and ran to the the nearest before turning around to face Link, glaring at him with his ruby red eyes.
"Nuh…!" He taunted at the two, sticking his tongue out and pulling his right eyelid down, then running off into the woods. Running past the seemingly never ending stretch of trees. As he ran he grinned his teeth ane he bared them. His vision getting blurry as tears flowed down his cheek and flying away from his body, sparkling in the air before falling to the green forest floor, greedily drink them.
"It's not fair!" He finally stopped and fell to the ground. Tears continued to stream off his face as he dug into the ground, digging up the rich black soil. This whole thing to him was just stupid. He spent his entire life in his in darkness with the only goal of taking down Link. Now he was stuck as a kid being trained by the man he was suppose to enemies with. Ganon's voice, that whispered in his ears the action to make fueling him to continue fighting harder. But now his head was empty, filled with his own thoughts. It was to quiet!
"Ah!" He cried as he broke into another sprint, but only going a few feet before tripping on a root, and went flying into the air and, with his arms flapping like a cucos, crashing to the ground, sliding a little and filling his mouth with grass and dirt.
"This is all you fault!" He spat, figuratively and literally with dirt, at the sky. He imagined all three of the golden goddesses standing up, where ever it is they were, laughing at him. The once powerful warrior of Ganon reduced to nothing but a dirt eating munchkin. "Why did you do this?!" He demand to know falling to the ground punching it. It's like his light version said, he was an it a imp. There was no way something born in darkness could ever be good.
As he laid on the ground, he felt his head grow warm, like someone was touching it. He looked up and was only blinded by a shining a bright light, blinding him, making him cover his face with his sleeve. Once the light died down, Shadow Link lowered his sleeve, and in front of him was a flower. Unrooted by his fall he guess. He stared at it with his ruby red eyes for a second, looking at its roots sticking out the clump of dirt, that came out with it. It's pale white petals facing up at him. He looked at it, tilting his head sideways, and his left pointed ear flicking forwards and back. Squinting at it, he had no idea why he found it so interesting. Actually, the more he thought about it, he kinda had this bad feeling in him. It felt like a needle was poking him in the chest.
"W-what?" He asked himself as he picked it up, "Y-you didn't deserve it. You were just doing what flowers do, and I uprooted you."
As if to answer, one of the petals fell and started to float to the ground.
"No!" He said grabbing it, "I'm sorry!" He yelled as he tried to put the pedal back on the flower but it just fell to the ground every time. He looked around and seen the huge divot in the ground, that his face had made, and put the flower into it and used his hands to surround the plant with the black dirt.
"Hopefully you'll get better." He said holding onto the petal.
"You ok?" Someone asked, sending a shiver from the top of his head down to the tips of his toe. He jumped up and turned around to face whoever it was that dared to sneak up behind him. "Chill!" Link said, holding his hands up in peace, "I saw you fall to the ground and Epona told me to check on you."
Shadow Link puffed out his cheeks out, crossed his, and turned his hand, "I'm sure it must've killed you to follow me through the woods so you could talk to some imp."
Link felt like got punched in the gut as those words were spat back at him
"I'm sorry for calling you that." He sighed rolling his eyes, "But you've proven you're not a monster. You've proven that today."
Shadow Link's ears flicked in annoyance being called 'not a monster'. "How have I 'proven that'?"
"Well, for starters you were crying." He started, "I've been fighting monsters for a while and I've never seen one cry."
Shadow Link's cheeks flashed red, "I was not crying!"
"We'll you were doing something that was making water come out of your eyes." Link said, "And over a flower. I've never seen a monster do that either."
Ignoring his olderself, he looked down at the flower. The pin poking him feeling went away and a warm feeling spread across his chest as he saw the flower looking up at him.
"I-I'm sorry." He said again. But this time at Link, "I shouldn't of thrown that food at Epona, and for using all our food."
"Oh!" Link said, not expecting it. He stared down at his mini self, who was looking down at the ground, and sighed before ruffling his hair, "It's alright Shady."
"Shady?" He asked looking up at him.
"Yeah." Link chuckled, "I figured if we're going to be stuck with one another we can't be call each other Link. Especially when we go into towns, which will be soon since we need more food."
"Was the Epona's idea?" Shady asked
"Hey! I can have ideas to!" The hero huffed, "But yell it was."
Shady chuckled at that, "Shady…." He said, liking the sound of it, "So you chased after me to tell me that?"
Link raised his eye confused, "Chased after you?"
"Yeah! I ran away trying to get away."
"Well then you ran in a circle." He said moving out of the way. Shady looked and saw the blue lake, that sparkled as the sun shined on it, that they had made camp by earlier. Even the tents that they slept in were still up, and the cooking pot still had a fire under it. Epona was even staring at them as she stood behind a tree.
"We better get back before she drags us back." Link sighed looking down at Shady and frowning.
"What?" The young boy asked.
"Have you always had green eyes?" He asked. He could've sworn that they were red.
"No." He said confused walking over to the lake. And his eyes were green, green and shiny like emeralds. He reached his hand towards the reflection, but before he could touch it he felt something grab the bottom of his tunic and start to drag him, his stomach rubbing against the dirt.
"Ah!" Shady cried, looking behind him to who was pulling him and was meat with the stern gaze of Epona, "Epona let me go!"