Chapter 3: Allies and Planning
-The day after the tournament-
Link was being tended to by Taki during the next day after the tournament was crashed by Nightmare and Tira, but all wasn't at a loss to the warriors who wished for Soul Edge to be destroyed for they got what the needed, new allies. But for some reason Link had a strange feeling Taki was staring at him when she wasnt making sure that he was in a good condition. Could it be that something attracted her to the Hylian? Link made a mental note to ask Beltharion.
Speaking of him The Dragon of Hyrule was still unconcious but for some reason alert as when they were taking of his armor he made a mumbling statement, "Anybody touch the cloak you're going to get it." before falling back into unconsciousness. No one even bothered to touch the cloak out of that note. However Hilde and Cassandra snuck in to try and see what was so important about the cloak that Beltharion needed to protect.
"Do you think he's a hunchback?" asked Cassandra, "Cause maybe thats why he doesn'l like to take off the cloak?"
"Cassandra, that's ridiculous!" Hilde exclaimed, "You should know better then to- Wait. His door's open, that means he's outside..."
"Now who's being ridiculous?" Cassandra said, "He's been knocked out for hours how can he just wake up?"
-Meanwhile with Link-
"I wonder if he's up yet?" The Hylian said out loud to himself.
"Who? Your friend elf?" Taki asked in a suspicious tone. The ninja was trying to also figure out if his ears were real or not.
"Yes my friend Beltharion, and who do you think you are calling me... whatever it was! My name is Link!" Link exclaimed because he quickly grew to not enjoy the word 'elf'.
"Well your ears are pointed like an elf. Thanks for telling me your name, I'm Taki." the Ninja said giggling about the reaction the flustered hylian gave.
Link could hardly believe he fell for the female ninja's bait. 'Oh well,' he thought, 'at least it's not the girl with that whip-sword, but she does have a fascination for Beltharion though, along with almost every other girl in this rowdy group. Better make sure he doesn't get into too much trouble.' His thought was interrupted by Hilde and Cassandra rushing down the stairs and rushing towards the door nearly running him over.
Taki nearly laughed when Link was knocked out because he had a few swirls in his eyes.
-Meanwhile outside the Alexandra Residence near a river-
Beltharion was quietly rubbing water on his face and hands to make sure he felt clean and sighs with relief as he looks around the forests while thinking of his early years, being with his adoptive father the Archmage, and also his brother Volvagia. "Why can't it be more like those days?" he said to himself aloud as he senses Hilde and Cassandra trying to track him down. He sighs with great displeasure having a feeling curiosity had gotten the better of them.
"Well they'll not try to touch my cloak. Not in a million years." He suddenly felt another presence when he heard the clinking of a snake sword behind him. "Din, Farore and Nayru." He muttered under his breath as Ivy grabbed the poor dragon by the cloak and pulls him into a bush. "Oh dis is bad!" he cried out right before the white haired alchemist covered his mouth.
"Shush or you'll get us in trouble you rascal." Ivy said in a seducing tone. In consequence it made the dragon's eyes widen with surprise.
"Now let's see what's underneath that cloak..." and Ivy was close to pulling it off until The sounds of Hilde and Cassandra got closer.
Ivy rolled her eyes and turned to look at Beltharion. "Well then love, they won't find us if you keep your mouth shut." Beltharion felt like he either wanted to growl or start producing steam from his mouth he was so mad but then he decided to pull off an old Hylian trick.
Beltharion pretended to struggle until he seemingly passed out from no oxygen, causing Ivy to become concerned and let go. Thus the man opened his eyes and screamed as loud as he can this word, "BOO!" which thus made Ivy jump out of the bushes in fear, and getting caught by Hilde and Cassandra.
"Ivy? What are you doing?" Hilde asked suspiciously. In the bushes they could barely hear Beltharion's chuckling from his trick.
'Man! That NEVER gets old!' Beltharon thought. 'The old hyllian play dead trick still scares the living daylights out of people. Now to sneak back to the residence before, wait... where's my hat?' The troubled Dragon of Hyrule looked around and noticed it Right next to the three women. Beltharion got even more alert because he realized he would have to get it without being caught... and he was bad at making sure he never gets caught.
"Wait you tried to get a look at that Beltharion idiot without his cloak?" Cassandra yelled out and nearly stomped her foot on the ground when she realized that she was about to step on a Blue three cornered hat and veered the direction of the foot. Unfortunately for Beltharion, who was reaching out to grab his hat, his poor hand got the hard part of Cassandra's shoe and foot.
"AY!" Beltharion cried out, "Din, Farore, and Nayru! My hand! Ow-hoo-hoo-hoo!"
Hilde and Ivy openly looked and started to laugh at Cassandra's accidental harming of Beltharion's hand.
-Back at the Alexandra home-
Link heard a loud screaming and realized that Beltharion got himself into trouble. "Uh Taki? Can you help me up we gotta investigate what on earth happened."
Taki knew that Link was right and that Cassandra and Hilde were probably the cause of what's happening and thus helped him up while trying hard not to blush about helping him.
-Back at the river-
"If I told you once, I told you twice! Never. Touch. My. Cloak. Got it?" Beltharion lectured to the three women with a hint of anger, frustration, and all in all annoyed tone in his voice.
"Look what does it matter to you, you have to be honest about these things Mr. Hunchback, otherwise you get names like what I just said!" Cassandra said.
"We're sorry ok?" Hilde said while placing her hands on her hips. "We were just curious. Ivy is also sorry for nearly destroying your personal space."
Beltharion just rolls his eyes but he then asked. "Well then, Where do we start first on our journey?"
Hilde sighs and says, "As soon as we are prepared, we go to Ostrheinsburg . It's the more notable place where the demonic sword is, if it's not there we have to follow the trail somehow."
"I see," Beltharion said. "Well I better tell Link and his little ninja friend that." and with that he started to walk back towards the Alexandra home with the others following, not realizing that someone was listening in on their plans.
"So, They want to invade my home will they?" Said the Voice of an Aristocrat, "Well I have a small surprise for them...I'll have to tell my servants to arrange my new little pet Fafnir to be delivered a bit faster then scheduled."
-Back at the Alexandra abode-
After telling Link what in the name of Hyrule happened while he was out of the house, Beltharion got the most laughable reaction in his life.
"Wait so, what on earth are you trying to hide in your cloak anyway?" Link asked.
"Well Link since we are both hylians I should admit that I am... a bit bad at my shapeshifting abilities as a dragon. I could never get my wings to change..." Beltharion started to explain.
"So you're telling me that behind you're cloak is your?" Link decided not to finish the question.
"Yes my wings are under the cloak, folded up and all that jazz." Beltharion confirmed.
"Wow, so you're just hiding an embarrassment?" Link asked with a normal voice.
"Yup. Anyway what am I going to do about those three girls? They all seem to stare at me and try to pursue me." Beltharion complained.
"Well its obvious all three have a crush on you!" Said a new voice in the door which Beltharion angrily opened and Dampierre (Who spoke) fell through the doorway and hitting his head.
"How much did you hear and why did you listen?" Beltharion demanded.
Dampierre looked around before running off. "Figures," Beltharion said, "I can deal with that little problem later but first we must be ready for the next move, we go to Ostrheinsburg."
Wow, well the heroes have laid out their plans, whilst having a few laughs. But now Beltharion and Link have a few new problems, girls crushing on them, well Beltharion has three girls and Link has one ninja, but anyway, I need a bit of a vote here, you reviewers can participate in it, which girl do you think likes Beltharion, Dragon of Hyrule more, Cassandra, Ivy, Or Hilde? I may add more to this I may not but this is just what im asking. Oh and, who the heck is planning to ambush them? answerers get Virtual Cookies! Review!