.:Chapter 1:.
"Ugh, why is it always SO boring around here?" Blue huffed. He was leaning on the windowsill, his face pressed up against the glass. It was raining outside. Every time one of them opened the door, a cold November wind would sweep in, instantly chilling anyone who was near it to the bone.
It was as if the Autumn's beauty came with the horrible price of unpleasant weather.
Vio then came strolling by, his nose in his book. He'd passed Blue, not seeming like he noticed him, but as he went up the stairs and stood at the doorway of the bedroom they all shared, he called out: "You're gonna catch a cold with your face pressed up against the window like that."
"It's not my fault it's so boring around here," He angrily muttered to himself.
"Well if it's so boring, how about you play War of Horses with me?" Red said out of nowhere, startling Blue a little.
"Is that the stupid game you made up?" Blue asked, annoyed.
Red thought about it for a second, "Um...Yes?" He said slowly.
"Then no, I don't want to play War of Horses," Blue turned back to the windowsill, gazing at the ever so rolling hills of Hyrule.
"Okay, well if you ever need anyone to play with while you're waiting for Green, just tell me!" He happily walked away.
Blue sighed, he'd watched Green and Red play War of Horses before. The rules were:
1. No cheating
2. Four people at max can play since there's only four corners on the board.
3. If your "horses" didn't look like horses, you couldn't play
4. Betting is optional, but everyone has to if one person does
5. If you lose and throw a fit over it, no food for a week (But Green wouldn't let that one be a rule.)
The main game-play was that you made the horses fight each other on a chess board by taking turns. You got five tries, but if you couldn't overthrow the other person's horse in certain amount of moves, you lose. You cheated by intentionally distracting the other player and taking extra moves while they weren't looking.
But you couldn't cheat when Vio was watching or playing. Even if he seems like he isn't watching you, he definitely is.
Blue had once tried to do that, but he got caught as soon as he set the piece down.
"No cheating," Vio had said, pointing to the horse. He had originally been looking in his book, trying to memorize a few new spells. To be honest, he knew Blue was cheating as soon as he took his eyes off the board.
Blue frowned, knowing he'd been caught, "I'm not cheating," He countered, crossing his arms.
"Yes you were, put your horse back to where it was," Vio said, putting a bookmark in his place and closing the book.
He squinted his eyes, thinking of a way to get out of this. But instead of admitting it and giving up, a sly smile crossed his face, "I forgot where it was." Blue said, a challenge in his eyes.
"Really Blue? I doubt that," Vio's expression went from it's usual unreadable expression to annoyed.
Blue tried to look confused to try to really sell that he didn't know, "No, I'm serious, I really have no idea where it was."
And it was a pretty convincing act Blue was pulling too, but Vio doesn't fall for things that easily. He waved his hand over Blue's horse, it floating back to where it was.
His face burned bright red, "You cheated!"
Vio rolled his eyes, "For God's sake that's not cheating, Blue. I was merely putting your horse back to where it was."
"Reedddd! Vio's cheating at War of Horses!" Blue whined. He was actually pretty mad that Vio remembered where it had stood.
Red walked into the room, a look of uncertainty on his face, "What's wrong?" He asked.
Blue pointed at Vio, "Vio's cheating!"
"Red don't believe him. I was putting his horse back to where it was be he was cheating," Vio explained, gesturing to the horse.
He paused for minute, being more confused than ever, "...Blue, no cheating."
"WHAT!?" Blue screamed, "WHY DO YOU BELIEVE HIM!?"
"Because Vio never cheats, plus I saw you," Red winked and smiled, then went back to what he'd been doing.
Basically cheating with Vio in the room never got you anywhere, but Blue didn't feel like getting told what to do or playing a game. His watching of the wind tumble by and the rain tap out a tune was all he interested in. In fact, he was so intrigued by it, he completely missed Green running up to the door.
He burst in, shivering and soaking wet.
Red happily ran up to him, "So how was your day?"
"Red, before I tell you, how about you let me take a warm shower first?" Green shivered, then started off toward the bathroom upstairs.
Moments later, Vio came out of their room and down the stairs, his book of spells still in his hands as he took a seat in one of the arm chairs.
Blue had always thought that Vio just liked to read a lot, but sometimes he swore that Vio read books in his sleep. Like he would get more than nose deep in his book. "Vio, dude, do you ever take a break from reading?" he asked.
He just gave him a look that said 'Are you seriously asking me that?'.
"Okay, okay. I get it, your book is too important as to why you never stop reading it," Blue sarcastically agreed. He went over to a bookshelf and grabbed a picture book.
Vio smirked, "You're going to read that? Haha sorry, but I've read books way longer and faster than you can start a fight when someone accidentally bumps into you."
"Oh shut up. At least I take a break from reading, unlike someone," He said back, shoving the book back on the shelf.
"Please, if I were to fight you, even with your crazy and disorganized tactics, I would still win. No doubt about it," Vio bragged, a smile on his face.
Yeah right, "Red!-"
He poked his head out the kitchen door, his cheeks full of a peach he'd been eating, "Yuss?" His voice muffled.
"Who would win in a fight, me or Vio/Sir Reads-A-Lot?" Blue challenged.
"Ummm..." Vio would, But Red knew that if he picked either side something bad was gonna happen. He swallowed the rest of the fruit that was in his mouth, smiling nervously, "How about we ask Green?"
"Ask me what?" He asked as he came down the stairs in a towel.
"Oh, Blue and Vio are wondering who would win in a fight, and I suggested that you tell them considering you work with knights all day and stuff," Red explained.
Green turned to Vio and Blue, Well Vio would, hell he kicked my ass that one time…
Vio was standing now, a hand on his hip, giving Blue a death glare. Blue had his crossed arms, staring at Green intently.
Of course something was gonna go down if he said really anything at all, and he did not want to be the reason why that happened, so he decided to change the subject, "Um...so today on guard duty, I..uh" He shrugged.
But Red saw what he was doing, "Oh yeah, how was guard duty? It was awfully cold and rainy today."
"Bill was an ass as always, telling me to do this and do that and etc.," He sighed, "I honestly just need to get away from Bill and his dumb friends Bob and Frank." He took a seat on the couch.
Blue rolled his eyes, "Well what did he make you do?" He huffed, bored all of the sudden, but still kinda interested.
"Abuse his powers as second in command by making me clean the bathrooms, clean the grout with a toothbrush, and keep me out of lunch when I was late because of all the stupid crap he gave me. He said 'Sorry Link, but if you really wanted to eat today, you wouldn't have been late.'"
The other three sat back in surprise, this was abuse, "Aand why don't you kick his ass?" Blue asked, just throwing the question out there.
"Because if I do, my Dad will pick out one of the most, if not the most, embarrassing punishment ever," Green explained, "And I'm not about to face the wrath of whatever that would be."
"What time do you eat again?" Red asked, worried.
"1:30"
"And what time is it now?"
Vio pointed to the clock, "7:36"
He gasped, "That means you haven't eaten in 6 hours!"
Green waved his reaction away, "Don't worry, when Bill shut me out, on my afternoon patrol, I snuck into a bakery and got some cookies, it's no big deal."
"Well that's a relief," Blue grumbled, "Do you have any left?"
Vio gave Blue an annoyed look.
"What?"
"No of course he doesn't you dumbass!" Vio retorted.
"Anyways," Green continued, "Today, I was also asked to come back to the castle next Thursday for Thanksgiving."
Red's eyes sparkled, "Oh really? What did you say?" He already couldn't wait.
"I said, I'll think about it," Green replied, standing.
"Why would you say something like that?" Blue asked, he would've said yes on the spot.
"Mainly because I wanted you guys to decide. It's getting weird being down here with nothing but a towel on, so I'm gonna go change, and you guys can come up with an answer." With that, Green went back up the stairs and into their room, locking the door.
"So do you guys want to go?" Vio asked.
"Hell yeah I do!" Blue exclaimed.
"Yeah! I think Green should go too!" Red happily agreed.
"Eh?" Blue looked down at Red like he was crazy, "What are you talking about?"
"I said 'Green should go too', right?" Red questioned, confused.
Blue now looked to Vio, "We're all going, aren't we?"
Vio shrugged, "He never said that, but I think we or he should go either way."
Blue sat up in a kingly manner, talking in the most royal voice he could manage, "I shall go ask him!" He got up and stomped up the stairs to their room.
BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!
"HEY! ARE WE ALL GOING OR WHAT!?" He yelled through the door, ending his question with one last 'knock'.
Green slowly opened the door, angrily huffing and puffing, an eye twitching, "WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO!? BREAK DOWN THE DAMN DOOR!?" He screamed, as red as a beet with only his shirt and leggings on.
"I was just trying to ask you a question," Blue said in a calm but snooty way. He could hear the faint slap of Vio doing a facepalm and Red giggling from downstairs.
Green took a deep breath, "How about you just KNOCK next time." He suddenly looked around, feeling as though an unwanted presence was there. He shook away the feeling, "So what is it?"
"Good point, as I was saying, is it just you who's going to this feast or all of us?" Blue asked.
Green gave him a seriously-how-stupid-do-you-think-I-am look, "Duh, yes! I've already worked out the plans and everything!"
Blue squinted his eyes, "...Wait, that didn't answer my—" But Green already closed the door, opening it a second later with all of his clothes on.
"Okay let's—"
"Hey whoa, WHOA tiger. I didn't even say I wanted to go."
"Don't give me that. I heard "Heck yes", "Yeah", and, "I think we should go." They both headed back down the stairs.
"So what's the plan?" Vio asked, he wanted to know how this night was going to go.
"Okay, so since I consider you guys my brothers, I was thinking Vio can dye you guy's har. Obviously my dad doesn't have four kids, he has just me, and I don't really even want him to know about us either. So we dye our hair, you guys get some new clothes, and I'll say to my dad that I invited some friends from town over for a sleepover. How does that sound?"
"Hmm…" Vio was thinking about all of the possibilities of something bad happening.
"I think it's a great idea!" Red exclaimed.
"Not bad, but I feel like there's a small catch to this," Blue said.
Green looked confused, then his eyes lit up as he remembered.
"What is it Green?" Red asked, intrigued.
"Well, Blue, you're right. There is one small catch to this plan…" Green turned to Vio, a hurt look on his face.
"Well?" Vio wanted to know what Green was talking about. He turned to him so it must have something to do with him.
"You know that sorcerer that came around last year?" He said, remembering the huge adventure they went on to stop the sorcerer.
"Yeah." The three of them said.
"Well since you guys haven't been to town as much as I have, they've been putting up signs about sorcerers and magical stuff."
"What did it say?" Blue asked impatiently, the suspense was getting to him.
"It said that if anything magical or something like that were to be found they would be killed immediately." Green made a face as if he had accidentally stepped on a bunny.
That hit Vio hard, he could do magic! Cast spells, teleport (small distances), and all that jazz, but if he did any of that stuff he would be killed!? "What!?" Vio gasped. He took a deep breath, letting his 'cool' restore to normal levels, "So what you're saying is that if I look, do, or say anything like a sorcerer would, I would get slaughtered right on the spot?"
"Sort of, but hey, it's not like you cast spells all the time, right?" Green reasoned.
Vio gave him the puppy eyes that melted Green's heart. He sighed, yes you could say it really does suck not being able to do things you love, but like most times in his life, he has a plan. "Well, I could use magic in secret," Vio slyly said, his plan was very simple.
"But Vio, what if they catch you?" Red worried, he really didn't want Vio dead.
"Oh c'mon guys, I'll just have a bit of fun in Green's room. Like making that particular room not have gravity, or something like that," Vio said, he knows a lot about the knight academy Green goes to every morning. He used to stay there with his dad until him and the other two came along and started living in an old, abandoned house in Faron Woods. Either way, Vio probably knew more about the castle itself than Green did, so he was well prepared for anything that comes.
