A/N: Fixations done at 23.8.2015.

The picture I have in use as the cover for my CaH saga is from dA by an artist lychi and the picture's name is just simply Zelda.

I have to do a surprise page attack since if all goes according to plans, I won't be on my PC at Saturday. But, here's the next chapter! =D

Also: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Duskinator! ^.^

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DARK LINK'S QUEST

CHAPTER 3: Awake and in trouble

"Someone's playing with my hair... Never felt that before... But I like it..."

Dark opened his eyes very slowly. He was feeling thoroughly weak and the light, even though very dim, was slightly dazzling. The dark Hylian took few deep breaths while getting his eyesight clear. It took him a while to realize what he was actually seeing.

Link was sitting on the bed next to Dark. His right hand was in Dark's hair and twirling some of black hair in his fingers. The Hero's left leg was on the bed quite close to his chest and he was leaning his left hand at the knee while holding a book in the said hand. Link wasn't fully reading but it gave him something to do while waiting for Dark to wake up.

Dark blinked few times in slight confusion. "L-Link...?" He called weakly. The swirling of hair stopped and the book Link was holding was shut off while slipping off of the knee. The Hero blinked few times while turning around to see the darker Hylian.

On the second Link saw Dark's red eyes, the Hero smiled widely. "Dark!" He called happily. "You really don't know how happy I am to see you awake!" Link continued but that was as far as he could get.

Dark ignored his body's command of staying put and just shot forward towards Link. He hugged the Hero tightly while keeping his broken left arm between the two of them. "Am... Am I... Am I dead?" He whispered while crying.

Link was thoroughly taken off guard. He returned the hug before nearly forcing the darker Hylian back down to the bed. "No, you silly. You're not dead." The Hero stated with a slight lopsided smile. Dark blinked few times in confusion. Link chuckled slightly and shook his head while brushing the tears away from Dark's face.

Dark was just going to ask the next question but Link brought his finger over his lips. "And neither am I." The Hero stated carefully. The dark Hylian sighed and relaxed fully. "Why would you even think about such?" Link asked bit puzzled.

Dark nearly flinched and slumped fully. "I... I thought..." He mumbled quietly while avoiding to look Link straight in the eyes.

"Thought what?" Link asked worriedly. Dark sighed and closed his eyes sadly.

"I thought you were dead..." The dark Hylian replied quietly. Link frowned fully at that reply.

"Why in Goddesses names would you think that?" The Hero asked thoroughly confused and bit worried. Dark just shrugged without meeting Link's gaze. "Dark? Who claimed that I was dead?" Link continued while frowning even more. Dark gulped and slumped again. "Was it those three guards?" The Hero continued his questioning. If any possibilities, Dark slumped even more which was enough of an answer for Link.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Link sighed because he still had lots of questions to ask from the dark Hylian. The door opened after the knocking and the princess of Hyrule walked in. The Hero sighed again and turned his gaze off of her which only got Dark to frown in confusion.

Zelda ignored fully Link's way of acting and walked straight to the bed. "Dark." She started carefully while sitting down to the bed to the dark Hylian's other side. Link half glared at her but stayed silent. "I am thoroughly sorry for what happened. There was no rights to throw you into jail. Please forgive me." The princess said and slightly bowed her head in shame.

Dark blinked few times in surprise and glanced at Link. The Hero had already turned his gaze off but he didn't meet the darker Hylian's gaze either. "Um... You just did what you looked to be right... Your Highness..." Dark answered bit uncertainly.

"And yet I chose wrongly." Zelda continued with a sad sigh. "Those three guards will be punished for what they did." She continued while raising her gaze to meet Dark's eyes. The dark Hylian slumped once again and turned his gaze off slightly ashamed about the situation.

"She hates me so why is she trying to do things right? And why is Link angry with her?" Dark thought sadly while trying to figure out what to answer to the princess' words. "I... Um..." The dark Hylian started before sighing sadly. "I don't want them to be punished." He eventually mumbled.

Both Link and Zelda were startled about Dark's words. "But they hurt you!" The Hero shouted in slight anger and got the dark Hylian to flinch. Link flinched too while dropping his gaze down. "I'm not going to let them get away with that..." He continued and glanced once at Dark.

Dark sighed and shook his head. "It's not they, it's—" He started but cut himself short when he realized what he was actually saying. "Just forget it... It doesn't—" Dark continued but this time Link was the one to cut him off.

"Don't you dare say it doesn't matter!" The Hero shouted at him. "If it doesn't matter to you, it certainly matters to me! And I am NOT going to let them walk away with hurting you!" Link continued furiously.

Dark slumped fully and closed his eyes tightly. "He's mad at me..." He thought while waiting for Link's reaction in fear.

Link blinked few times in pure shock. The dark Hylian's reaction was something he had not waited for. There had been few situations in Link's life that he had seen such reaction and it worried him fully. "Is he waiting for me to hit him?" The Hero thought in near panic. "...Dark?" Link eventually called worriedly.

Dark flinched and fought back against the tears that were starting to form in his eyes. Zelda stared in pure shock at the dark Hylian. This certainly was something she had never thought to witness, especially not by Dark. "Oh dear goddesses... What has he lived through?" The princess thought worriedly while actually having a wish to hug the now slightly shaking dark Hylian.

Link sighed sadly and moved carefully on the bed. Dark flinched again while shaking out of fear and crying. The Hero came right next to him and very carefully hugged him. "There's nothing to be scared about, Dark. I'll never hurt you. And you should know that by now." Link whispered quietly.

Dark sighed while slightly relaxing in Link's arms. He gave a small nod before wiping the tears off. "I know... It's just..." The dark Hylian whispered and sighed then. "You could say it's an old habit... I guess..." Dark mumbled while staring at the bed.

Link sighed and nodded while pulling off. He really wanted to ask what Dark was meaning by his words but decided to leave it for later inquiring. The dark Hylian had been going through way too much already so calming down from it all would be in order. "So... How about we'd leave the topic off for the time being and concentrate to something different?" Link eventually asked and reached to the book he had been going through earlier. Once he got it into his hands, the Hero laid down next to the darker Hylian.

Dark frowned a bit but stayed silent. The Hero brought the book in front of the two of them and opened it from the start which ended up being the index page of the book. "So, pick a topic that's most interesting one." Link stated with a slight smile.

Dark chuckled a bit while finally relaxing fully. He skimmed through the topics and eventually chose one of them. Link turned the pages to find the right place and while the duo started to go through the book, Zelda left the room very quietly.

The time went past quite fast. Link started to have bit of hard time in keeping the darker Hylian in the bed but so far he had managed to more or less to bribe him to stay in the bed. Dark really wanted to get off of the bed but orders were what they were.

It was middle of the night and the dark Hylian just couldn't sleep. Link had fallen asleep hours ago while Dark had just faked it. The reason for it was the fact that the Hero hadn't slept much while looking after the darker Hylian and Dark just couldn't let that go on anymore.

Dark got off of the bed very carefully and quietly. He didn't want to wake Link up but he didn't want to stay in the bed either. "I've been trapped to one place for way too long..." Dark thought while silently slipping out of the room and into the corridors. He checked both ways before starting to walk down the hall quite slowly since his left leg was still slightly healing and he hadn't been walking for two weeks or so.

The silent castle slightly worried the dark Hylian. He knew that no-one was up at that time of the night but he hadn't gotten used to the quietness during the night. Dark was grateful of being able to sleep through the nights but there were times like this when he just couldn't sleep.

Dark jumped at nearly every little sound he heard. "Should I get back into the Infirmary?" He wondered but kept on walking forward. "Maybe bit of fresh air could do some good... I probably should've taken Link along after all..." The dark Hylian thought while getting even more scared the further he walked. Something just didn't feel right and he was just going to turn around and head back when that something came at him.

"Well, well, well... Didn't think I'd have the luck of crashing up with you anymore." Someone stated out quite cruelly. Dark stopped dead on his tracks and gulped without having the courage of turning around to face the guy. "Since you've had time to heal this'll be even more fun than before..." The leader guard continued while starting to walk closer.

Dark was frozen by the fear. He truly wanted to run away but instead he just closed his eyes and waited. The two other guards came in front of him while the third stayed behind. "So, freak, what's your plan of reviving Ganondorf?" The leading guard asked cruelly.

Dark was bewildered about the accusation and he opened his eyes in a flash before turning around. "Reviving Ganondorf? Are you out of your mind?!" The dark Hylian shouted furiously. "I would never follow that bastard and there is no freaking chances that I'd revive him!" He continued angrily.

The guard was bit taken aback about the outburst but very soon he started to laugh. "Oh, come on! You're he's follower! What else can I wait from you, huh?" The guard replied nonchalantly while chuckling. "You might fool the Hero and the princess but you can't fool me with your little show." He continued while crossing his arms over his chest.

Dark narrowed his eyes but grinned quite soon. "How can I be sure that you won't try and revive Ganondorf, hmm?" He countered smugly. The guard narrowed his eyes in anger and took a step forward. The dark Hylian stood his ground and waited but his confidence and courage were already running out.

Zelda couldn't sleep either at that night. Unlike the dark Hylian, she enjoyed the quietness of the castle. The princess often snuck around the castle during the night just for the stillness of the night and silence of the whole place. And so she was just quietly walking through the corridors when she heard voices. Interested to know who was up at that time of the night with her, Zelda went to investigate.

The closer she got to the place, the better she managed to recognize the voices. The first worrying thing was to realize that Dark was up and walking around without Link. The next was to hear the guard's cruel and very angry voice.

"How dare you suggest something like that!" The guard sneered in rage. "You'll pay for your words..." He continued while taking a grip of Dark's tunic and pulling him forward.

"If you would've gone through what I did, you'd hate him even more..." The dark Hylian stated equally angrily in a whisper. The guard's eyes flashed with slight shock but right after that he narrowed them again and punched Dark very harshly.

Dark gasped at the hit. The guard had let go of him during his attack so the dark Hylian crashed to the floor. The guard laughed. "You really think you can fool me off with something like that, huh? Idiot." He stated while shaking his head.

Dark sighed and stood back up. He was just going to say something when a flying blue ball caught his notion. It flew right at him and crashed into the dark Hylian's face. Dark gasped and recoiled backwards but managed to catch the blue ball from falling to ground. "The heck?" He asked very confused.

The blue ball shook a little before giving out very girly scream and jumping up into midair. Dark and the guards stared at the blue ball quite startled. Suddenly the dark Hylian narrowed his eyes. "Navi, right? You used to be with Link, am I right?" He asked carefully.

The blue ball came down to the dark Hylian's eyelevel and bounced few times up and down. "And you are the guy from the Water Temple whom Link fought with... But there's something different about you... You're not having that evilish aura around you anymore... Which is strange..." The blue ball stated carefully.

Dark sighed bit relieved. "What are you actually doing in here?" He asked calmly with a slight smile. Navi looked around her before giving a slight sigh.

"I'm actually searching for Link." The fairy replied bit sadly. "But I don't know where to find him... Would you have any ideas where to search from since the castle's so huge." She continued nicely.

Dark nodded. "Try the Infirmary—" He started but had to stop talking when Navi gave out a shilling shriek.

"Infirmary! What in goddesses names has happened to him?!" She screamed in pure worry while flying around without being able to stay put. Dark blinked few times while hoping his hearing hadn't been damaged by that scream.

"If you would've listened to end I would've told you that he's okay and not in there because he'd be hurt or sick." Dark replied after his ears stopped ringing. "I'm the one who's actually hurt and Link has just kept me bit of company at there." He continued since he was sure that the fairy was looking thoroughly confused at the moment.

Navi sighed in relief. "Good." She replied and without any other words, she left to fly towards the Infirmary. Yet, she stopped right off after the first corridor when she nearly crashed with the Hero. Link showed to her to be thoroughly silent. The fairy was happy to see Link again and without second thought she hid underneath Link's hat once again like so long ago.

From her safe place she started to explain her reason for searching Link. "The Great Deku Tree Sapling wants to see both you and that dark Hylian. He's saying it's urgent." The fairy stated. Link nodded but didn't answer to her words. Instead, the Hero was desperately listening to what was going on in the corridor.

The Hero had woken up about half an hour after the dark Hylian had left the room. He had freaked out at first to find the bed empty but had waited for about ten minutes in case he was just gone to bathroom before leaving to search for Dark. The corridors had been very quiet but after fifteen minutes of searching he eventually heard talking. Bit fearfully and worried for the darker Hylian's safety, Link had gone to investigate. And he definitely didn't like where the current conversation was going towards. He needed to figure out a way to salvage the situation before Dark would get hurt... But how?

"Even if the Hero's fairy states that you're not evil doesn't mean that you wouldn't be up and about for something wrong." The guard stated bit angrily. Dark just shrugged.

"Well, that's your choice. There doesn't seem to be any of way to prove you wrong." The dark Hylian replied nearly nonchalantly. He had caught his confidence back after talking with Navi. Since she claimed him not to have evil aura around him, it was good enough proof for Dark.

Suddenly they heard quite a confident and bit of a commanding voice stating out one simple question: "How about truly proving who's good and who's evil?" All four turned around bit startled after hearing the Hero of Hyrule's voice. Link walked to them while drawing out his Master Sword. "As anyone and everyone knows, Master Sword can easily tell off who's a threat to Hyrule. If you want to prove your worth, then try and touch the sword." The Hero stated while offering the hilt towards the group.

Dark grinned and nodded after recovering from the first surprise and slight worry of Link actually being mad at him for having left without a word. "That seems to be a good idea." He replied while coming to Link and taking the sword. The sword flashed once blue but there was no trouble for the dark Hylian to hold it. The only real problem was the fact that Dark's left arm wasn't fully healed yet.

Dark gave the sword back to Link quite soon after he had swirled it couple of times in his hands. After that he rubbed his left arm which worried Link quite a much. "Sorry... My arm's not yet fully healed..." The dark Hylian replied sheepishly. The Hero sighed and nearly facepalmed.

"You just had to be an idiot, huh?" Link asked with slight huff. Dark gave nervous chuckle and shrugged. "You couldn't come up with the idea of actually taking the sword into your right hand?" The Hero continued bit annoyed.

"Sorry, but I'm left handed. Didn't really think about it until I already took the sword up." Dark replied with a shrug. Link sighed and shook his head slightly while rolling his eyes at the darker Hylian's actions.

"Anyone else willing to give the proof?" The Hero asked and looked straight at the leader of the three. The two other guards walked straight to Link. Neither had any of trouble to touch the sword. "What about you then? Or are you scared?" The Hero continued with a slight grin on his face.

The guard huffed and walked straight to Link. He took the sword very confidently but screamed out in pain nearly straight off. The sword had flashed red and the guard dropped it off since it had nearly burned his hand. Link, Dark and the two guards were all quite startled about the situation.

The guard narrowed his eyes in fury and hatred before already very quickly launching at Dark. The guard pulled the dark Hylian to his chest and brought out a knife to Dark's throat while backing off. "This wasn't exactly in my plans but it works none the less..." He stated with a slight shrug.

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A/N: And again I leave it into a cliffhanger. -.-' SORRY! =/ Um... Next chapter will be up at Saturday 21.9. ^^;

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