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Chapter One: Wings for the Wounded.
-Four years later-
A loud bang echoed through my small dorm room at the Skyloft Knight Academy. It paused for a moment and voices spoke from behind the wooden door. I groaned loudly and rolled over throwing my only pillow at the door. It hit with a successful silent bang as I pulled the blankets over my head. I heard three voices laugh, I knew who they were from but I didn't bother getting up.
"June, It's the day we are all supposed to get our Loftwing's… You need to wake up."
I heard a kind young voice of a boy maybe one year older than I was now. He knocked on my door again as the others all walked away and left him to deal with the stubborn girl. I mumbled incoherently from under the blankets before throwing them off me and stumbling out of bed to my wardrobe.
"Fine… I'll be out in a few minutes…"
I heard a smile through the door and I smiled dimly before pulling an aqua blue dress over my head. It had a white bird figure on the front of the dress and I put a silver cord like sash around my waist. I put two matching blue bracelets on both my wrists, and then I ran the wooden comb through my now wavy dark brown hair that reached my mid-back. The sleeves of the blue dress went just above my wrists, but right under my elbow. I slipped on the leather boots that had been bought for me for my ninth birthday and tucked my white pant like garments into the boots. The dress now rested at my ankles as I lightly shuffled my feet.
I looked into the mirror and grabbed another strong silver belt like cord and began putting my hair up into a pony-tail. The pony rested in the middle of the back of my head and two shorter strands of hair waved in front of my ears. Feeling like the beautiful daughter I was; I smiled as I touched the pendant that hung around my neck.
I then walked to the door and reached a hand out for the wooden knob when a voice sounded in my head, "Morning June, Happy Birthday my darling girl!" I stopped reaching for the door knob and looked around.
"Mom…?"
I closed my eyes in sorrow before shaking my head. I was just turning ten but I knew that what happened four years ago was why my parents didn't come for me. I was smarter than that even for being too young to understand. I finally opened my blue orbs and turned the door knob and left my room. The young boy was waiting right outside for me.
He had dirty blonde hair and young traditional wear for the boys. It consisted of a white long-sleeve shirt with a burgundy belt type thing and brown khaki pants with leather boots. He had deep blue eyes and as I left the room he smiled lightly.
"Y-You look nice June."
"Thanks Link…" I said with a light smile before we both walked outside and followed the group ahead of us to the ceremony.
We walked through a gate and down a wooden bridge. A huge purple tent, that held the bazaar, stood in the center of the multiple floating islands. Several more strides away was a bench that an old couple sat on as they watched the ceremony begin. Link and I looked to each other before quickly looking to the ceremony. We both got a look of shock on our faces before we both broke into a quick sprint. We arrived at the watch tower by the diving decks as three men stood there.
One was wearing a dark brown robe as he had his long white hair thrown over his shoulders. His eyes were a dull green before he closed them in thought and grasped his hands in front of himself in deep thought.
There was another man that looked exactly like the previous one, but he had long brown hair thrown over his shoulders with light brown eyes. He wore a light cream colored robe and his arms were folded into the huge emptiness of his huge sleeves.
The last man was an older man, the headmaster, and he had a white beard with a white unibrow. He was quite round at the stomach as he had been eating well in the past few years. He wore a red robe with a bright yellow trimming the edges and he had a dark wooden necklace around his neck.
"Good morning fellow apprentices." Head master Gaepora said as he looked to all of the young apprentices. "Now I know some of you are tired, but I'm glad you could come to your Loftwing ceremony."
"This is the day your Loftwing will be gifted to you, and you will be able to take your first flight to bond with your bird."
Gaepora added to his previous sentence. Link and I looked at each other and smiled. I never talked much, but when I was talking with Link we both wanted nothing more than to fly through the sky. It seemed like such an amazing concept, and to finally get our own birds. The excitement continued to grow inside of me as I hoped for the best. One reason being it was my tenth birthday, and the other reason being I wanted to forget my past.
"Who would like to go first?" Gaepora asked as he looked around.
Three hours passed as everyone went before Link and I as we hid in the back of the group remaining. I stared at Groose as he bragged about how his Loftwing having the same ridicules pompadour that he had. I scoffed and he looked over at me with a sinister grin.
"Are you jealous because you don't have a Loftwing yet? I bet you are June-bug, because you're not going to get a Loftwing. Your parents would be so ashamed of their failure of a daughter!"
"You leave my parents out of this!"
He laughed like a joker who had just pulled the best prank ever. My fist clenched as he leaned down into my face, bragging even more. I pulled my fist back and before I could swing it forward Link grabbed my wrist. I struggled to swing it forward before falling to my knees. My eyes were shut tightly as I struggled against the wave of emotions.
Link kneeled down next to me, "June… are you okay?"
I just shook my head as memories came flooding back to me of four years ago. Link placed a hand on my shoulder and a small stream of tears ran down my cheeks and hit the ground. I brought my hands to cover my face and Groose came in for another attack.
"Awh... look! Little June-bug is crying-"
"Groose! That is enough!"
Headmaster Gaepora's voice boomed from the bottom of the tower and Groose stopped. He took several steps back away from Link and I as Gaepora walked up to me and placed a gentle, fatherly, hand on my shoulder. I looked up at him immediately as tears still shimmered in my eyes.
"You are fine June, I know your parents would be proud of where you've come."
His deep voice rumbled and he smiled gently at me before I began to stand up. Link stepped back carefully with worried eyes on me. Groose just scowled at me as he saw I was getting all the treatment. Gaepora led me up to the diving deck and I looked towards the sky.
"I feel it's your turn to receive the Loftwing you will be spending your time with."
Gaepora said with a kind voice before stepping back several feet. I felt at peace seeing the sky, and the wind that blew my dark brown hair around. I heard a loud screech sound out through the sky, and a bright silver Loftwing came soaring down from the sky. It flapped its giant wings and landed right next to me as its soft green eyes gazed into my blue eyes. It cooed softly and I held out a hand to it as it leaned its golden beak down, and placed its beak right under my hand. There was a dull orange stripe on the Loftwing's chest and the tip of the birds tail was bright silver like its body was.
The wings were the same bright silver but the two sets of flight feathers were different colors. The middle section of the feathers was a dark royal blue, and the layer of feathers after that was a bright snow white. The last layer of wing feathers was a dull orange, just like my mother's bird. The three thick feathers on its head were a bright silver and snow white mixed together. Those three feathers on its head were also slightly wavy as if the wind had blown them from two different directions and made them shape into what they were.
I moved my hand up to the soft feathers and it closed its eyes and lowered its head more. I gently ran my hand over its head and it let out a soft purring noise before I smiled gently and brought my hand back to the silver cord in my hair. I pulled it loose and held it up to the Loftwing's golden beak. It nudged it before letting me tie it loosely around its neck. I left my hand on my new friend's wing and looked over to Link smiling.
He had his own Loftwing now, a Crimson Loftwing. It had golden eyes with white feather tips. It had the same golden beak that all the other Loftwing's had. Link looked over to me with the same excited smile plastered on his face. Before the instructors could tell us what to do we were already hopping onto our birds.
The two birds lifted off into the sky and flew off into the blue abyss. I held onto the silver cord as my wavy hair flew behind me. I closed my eyes with a smile before feeling the bird take a sharp left. I opened my eyes to see Link's bird flying next to me, on my right, and I saw him smiling over at me.
"Alright you two, try to land back here!"
I looked back and my bird turned quickly and flew back to the decks and landed. She let me climb off before nudging me forward gently and then flying back into the sky. I smiled as I felt the connection between us, and when I looked back at the instructors they were smiling as well.
Back at the Academy everyone celebrated the fact that they got a Loftwing. Link and I sat there in our own little corner of the room talking about how happy we were. I laughed as he said he had never really thought that flying would be that fun.
"I agree flying is a lot of fun. I never knew it could be so free."
Link nodded as I then began to stand up, the late night was beginning to take its toll on me and I yawned as I stretched out. Link stood up as well and I looked to the party as they motioned the two of us over. I gently shook my head before motioning to the window. The moon was high in the sky and there were silver clouds drifting in front of the moon in the dark night sky.
"Sorry, but it's getting a little too late for me."
"Oh come on, June! You can stay up a little bit later with us."
Zelda said with a cheery smile. She had long light blonde hair and light blue eyes. She had a red dress like mine, with a blue side cloth that bore the crest of our Academy. She had a golden belt going slanted across her waist, and she looked to Link for help to make me stay.
"Can you at least stay with us for thirty more minutes? It wouldn't hurt, especially since the instructors said we could stay up later celebrating."
Link said as he walked up beside me. I sighed gently looking out to where my room was on the bottom floor. I closed my eyes and looked back to my two new friends. I opened my eyes and smiled at the two, in return they smiled as well and we went to join the small party group.
Thirty minutes quickly passed and everyone retired to their dorms. I yawned as I didn't even bother changing into my sleep wear. I lay down on my bed and stared up at the ceiling as I thought of everything that had happened today. I smiled lightly before closing my eyes and letting my thoughts take over.
"Goodnight our daughter, sleep well."
Voices whispered into my ear as I started to fall into the darkness of sleep, being too tired to notice that the voices sounded like my lost parents. Later on, when I would wake and contemplate what I heard, I pushed it off on my mind playing tricks on me.
A tear of joyful sorrow slipped down my cheek as I then drifted off to into a light sleep.
"Goodnight mom… dad…"
