Chapter 4: Weapon

Higahi, not realizing Dark Link's obvious difference in appearance, looked down the line. "All right, as you girls know, today is when we start putting your fighting skills to the test." She clapped twice, and the door behind her opened. "Now, you realize that in our code of honor we prefer not to have to fight, let alone kill, but that doesn't mean that you won't need to learn how to defend yourself if you get caught in your thieving careers." She turned around and walked into the building. The line of young Gerudo followed close behind.

Higahi turned right and thumped her fist against the door. As the door slid open, she turned to her students. "As you will see, some of our warriors have collected some creatures of a rather fierce variety. Compared to these, you'll find most men easy. Of course, you will be banished if you kill a woman or child. The only exception would be with the Sheikah. Little more than the attacking toys of the Hylians, or at least, they used to be."

Kosun raised her hand. "What about King Ganondorf? He kills everyone indiscriminately."

Higahi glared at Kosun. "Realize this, child. Ganondorf may be our king, but he is, perhaps, the one we must be most worried about. He thinks the honor code of the ancients as little more than trash, and he has all but turned on us as he has done on the rest of Hyrule." She cleared her throat. "But that is not our purpose for this training."

She stepped to the side. The girls and Dark Link could see several lizard-like beings walking around the interior. Aside from thick armor, each of the creatures were equipped with vicious-looking swords. Bladed machines scuttled their way across the floor.

Higahi stood erect. "Right, now when I call your name, I want you to go in and defeat one of the creatures within."

As soon as "defeat" was mentioned, Dark Link's eyes shrunk mechanically. As if controlled, he ran over and grabbed the sabres from Higahi's belt and ran into the room.

The lizardmen turned to the little boy. Dark Link just leapt up, using the swords to prop himself up on one of the machines. He flipped over the first lizardman and landed on its turning, pressing in against the blades on the machine. He finished it off with a quick stab in the back.

He jumped off before the next lizardman ran up. His eyes were pointed towards what looked like a short pillar in the middle of the room. The Beamos's eye was about to shoot at the boy, but Dark Link leapt up and landed on the statuesque creature's head. He used the sabres to turn the beamos's head so that the beam fried two of the lizardmen. Dark Link stabbed the Beamos's eye and jumped off before the creature exploded.

"Dark Link, look out!" shouted Ootau.

Without looking, Dark Link threw one of the sabres in his hands. It ricocheted off one of the bladed machines, then the other, the ceiling, and lodged itself in the head of the lizardman that was running up to his back.

Dark Link stood up, dodging the lizard's falling blade. His shook his head, and his eyes became normal. He looked like he had woken up from a heavily drugged slumber. "Defeat?"

Higahi's jaw dropped as the young girls stared at the boy in awe.

Higahi closed her mouth and pointed at Dark Link. "Who is that?"

"Dark Link," answered Patta. "He's new around here. Supposed to be one of Ganondorf's creations or something."

Higahi inhaled deeply. "Um, right. Listen, class is dismissed for now. I need to see about talking to our king." She walked out, her eyes never leaving Dark Link.

The girls watched their teacher leave. When they were alone, they turned back to Dark Link.

Kosun turned away solemnly. "Show off."

Patta shrugged. "I could have done that. You just beat me to it."

Ootau laughed. "No way could you have fought that well." She gave Dark Link a thumb's up. "That was totally awesome, though."

Dark Link tilted his head questioningly. "Awe... Awe... Awesome?"

Napaka and Faroone clasped their hands together. "Oh, he is just too cute!"

Rudani chuckled. "That he is, and strong, too."

Kosun scoffed. "I'm getting out of here."

Napaka turned her nose up as she ran her fingers through Dark Link's bangs. "Don't mind her. She's just a mean person." She smiled and held Dark Link close. "But you're just so cute that I want to take you home."

Faroone nodded. "Yeah, can we take him home, big sister. Can we?"

Patta shrugged and smirked. "You can do what you want. Zulu did say that he was the tribe's child."

Napaka grasped Dark Link's head harder into her well-developed prepubescent chest. "Oh, what fun you'll have at our house."

Rudani took a hold of Dark Link's arm and tugged him away from Napaka. "No way. He's going to come home with me."

Napaka and Faroone grabbed onto Dark Link's other hand. "No! He's coming home with us."

Ootau stepped up. "Hey. Calm down. You might tear him in half like that."

The three tug-o'-warring girls turned to glare at Ootau.

Ootau held her hands up defensively. "Hey, what I meant was we could take turns with Dark Link. It's not like he's going anywhere. Until we need to decide, though, how about we play with him together?"

Dark Link tilted his head curiously. "Play?"

Napaka nodded. "Yeah, Faroone and I can handle that."

Rudani let go of Dark Link's hand. "Yeah, and how about Ootau takes him first. Then we can decide using some organized means from then on."

Faroone nodded. "I suppose that could work."

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Okay, this chapter was to show that Dark Link was called a superweapon by Ganondorf for a reason.

Now, the Gerudo are majorly a female race, so there will be some flirting humor in future chapters. The timeline will also move a lot faster. I mean, I'm trying to cover more than seven years in this story.

Anyways, see you next time, and please enjoy.