I draw! Big Woop right? So if you want to know what Serena looks like, just ask and I'll scan one of my drawings of her.
[edit] I scanned a drawing of her! :D She's on my deviant art page. I can't post the link in here so go see the one in my profile.
Starting from Serena's house, which was somewhere near Castle town, it took them 5 days to get to Ordon. And that was no thanks to Link. When he tried to lead the way he'd end up following a path that was not there, at least not in this time. This Hyrule was so much like his own. Not much has changed forest wise, then again, a forest was a forest. So sometimes he would forget he was 100 years in the future and disregard the map Serena kept shoving in his face.
"Hey!" Link stopped in his tracks, his face an inch from a tree of Ordon. "What are you doing? Get your head out of the clouds." Serena gave him a look before continuing on.
Link shook his head. 'She's right. Stop daydreaming' He told himself right before his thoughts drifted to how much cooler the wind felt here. Then a branch came into his view a little too late. He stopped to pick the leaves from his hair. By the time he was done Serena was already an acre away.
He resorted to following Serena's gray shirt through the woods she seemed to know well. And she did know this place well. This exact path that she made from her frequent visits. She's only been to the areas where there are places to hide. When she first came here she was tempted to go say hi to the villagers. But this is where the soon to be Hero lives. And THEY will most certainly be keeping an eye on him. So she stayed out of sight and watched the happy Ordonians.
The other Link, the one from 100 years ago, was eying each and every one of the trees they passed. They were so similar to the ones he knew in his Hyrule. The bark felt almost the same. The place even seemed to remember him as well. The way the tree's branches swayed toward him as if they were welcoming him. Their beautiful leaves cascading down the breeze. Even if it was changed through time, he was still at home.
Link couldn't help but smile.
And because of that smile he didn't see Serena's hand reaching toward the back of his neck. She grabbed his collar and jerked him in her direction. Ignoring his protests she pointed at the small town in the distance beyond the body of water they were just above.
"Well, here we are." She said with a somewhat irritated face. That's a look one would see a lot on her. "Watch your step."
She told Link as he stepped closer. There were some children playing on the small bridge. He counted 4. One of the kids was teasing another. Link frowned as a thought came to him. 'Those two...they remind me of Mido and me. And the other two watching they could be the know it all brothers. Oh wait that one is a girl. Then she's one of the twins.' He thought with a smile.
"The bully is Talo, the bullied is Collin. The two spectators are Malo and Beth, Beth being the girl and not that little emperor." Serena picked at her nails leaning against a tree, explaining who the villagers were. They didn't have to be worried about being spotted at this distance.
A teenager came into view. She appeared to be scolding Link's embodiment of Mido.
He smiled. 'She's definitely Saria.' He though as she comforted the teased kid.
"That there is Ilia." Another teenager came into the scene. Even from this far range of sight, the similarities of the two who shared the name Link, were as clear as day. "And that is..." The Ordonian Link was soon surrounded by the children responding to whatever nonsense they were saying with a smile.
"there's me..." Link stepped closer to the edge taking no notice of Serena's words of caution.
He was popular with the children. He had that same friendly feeling that the Links' of time gave off. His good build looked promising. They could see it from here that he was fit from the work of a farm boy.
'But that doesn't me you're fit to take my place. No, not yet. I have to see how strong he is. How courageous he is. And most of all...' He gave a quick frown at his alleged successor. 'How well you go into your role as the chosen one" The new hero had it cut out for him. He had a tough judge whose gaze made your hairs stand on edge.
Link waved to a man on one of the docks. Happy to see everyone so peaceful. He frowned, this peace will come to an end. He narrowed his eyes and observed his descendant closely.
"He's right handed." He said somewhat surprised.
"Well, yeah. A lot of people are." She folded her hand and stretched toward the cyan blue sky. "And I believe I told you that he was right handed a few days ago."
"That you did."
"He has blue earrings." He touched his own silver ones hanging on his ear.
"hm that's strange... But not uncommon." Serena thought about it for a while, letting the matter settle. Link went back to monitoring the right handed Link, speaking what facts he could deduct from the 17 year old.
"His hairs parted differently than mine. It's swept to the side instead of parted to the middle."
"You're actually the only Link who has his bangs that way. And I think you're the only one who has a pony tail." He stepped closer to examine something else, earning another 'careful' from his companion.
"He has a horse."
"That would be Epona." Link smiled.
"And it seems he works with animals." He edged closer yet again. A sigh escaped the girls lips. 'Sooner or later he's going to fall and then I can say "I told you so" to him. I've warned him enough.' She rolled her eyes.
"Goats. He's a ranch hand. Helps Fado out up there." she pointed to the ranch up the hill.
"Ah.. I see."
"..." Serena started to grasp what he was saying. The accuracy of the facts. "wah! Wait a Minute!" she scrambled out of her mouth.
"hm?"
"How the heck can you know those things! I didn't tell you this! Well maybe the hair parted to the side thing but not anything else!" Her eyes were wide while Link's were still fixed on the villagers.
"I can tell just from looking at him." He responded calmly. His calmness was beginning to get on her nerves.
"What? How?"
"Right now he used his right hand, er arm, to help that woman carry her things."
"That's Uli"
"And he has two types of animal fur on his clothes. One of them I knew was to be horse hair and the other, as you pointed out, was goat hair... fur? I'm not really sure what to call it."
"..." Serena looked defeated. 'What amazing observation skills.' she thought her eyes beginning to droop. "Wait, what about the earrings?"
"Well, I can see them fine from over here."
"What?" She came to his side. "You can't see a thing from over here." Her hand went above her eyes in the position you would normally see people doing when they were looking for something far away. Her eyes were squinted as well.
"I can't even see his ears let alone his earrings!" She growled. "And I'm far sighted!"
Her long hylian ears dropping down, and expressive trait for any hylian. Link's might have gone down as well, in a pity-ish sort of way. But he learned how to control his expression of emotions long ago. Though every, once and a while, his eyes betrayed his feelings.
Serena looked at Link and back at Link. 'How can he see all the way over there? Did my days(years) studying by candlelight ruin my eyes?' She watched in irritation when Link edge himself even closer to the border of the low cliff.
"Stop that. You'll fall eventually and then you're going to regret not listening to me-!"
She fell...
and in such an ungraceful way too. Her arms flailing in a failed attempt to slow her fall. Or maybe it did slow her fall. We will never really know since Link caught her.
"Can you see it now?" He said teasingly still holding onto her collar.
"Like I would see better in this position. Pull me up already!" She yelled along with a few sheikah curses. She swayed side to side with her protests.
"hmm..." Link watched as his descendant walk to Fado's ranch. This seems like a calm day... Like the calm before the storm.
"Don't 'hmm' me! You shouldn't have to think about this!" Serena was fuming. Her frustration at her attempts to pull herself up made him heave a sigh. Link pulled her up without another word. Once her small feet were safely on the grass he walked away. "And where do you think you're going?
"I'm going to follow him." His companion grunted as she reluctantly followed.
The Ordon Link was in the middle of calling Epona when the two reached the ranch.
"What's that?" Link asked curiously completely ignoring the fact that Serena was exhausted from going up the steep hill.
"That?" She managed between breathes. She finally caught some air before explaining what the plant was. "That is horse grass. It grows in places that have grass and the sort. Hence horse grass. We passed by a few on our way here." She then complained about his pace, but he wasn't paying any her attention after her explanation.
"Why doesn't he just keep one for later?" He noticed how Link just disregards the reed after it's single use.
"The reed is pretty fragile. So after a while it'll get really brittle. and you can't use it anymore." She paused. "Actually I think it can only be used right after picking it. The tune wouldn't sound the same if you didn't." Link nodded in understanding.
The hours passed by as they watched Link work as a ranch hand. The left handed Link refused to leave the ranch so Serena left him alone for a while to raid the villagers.
Or so she says.
He didn't really believe her.
It was around Midday when Link was released from his day job. The Link in the shadows watched with interest as the girl named Ilia stole his horse away from a proclaimed injury to the horse.
His mouth turned itself into a smirk. Not that he thinks about it she resembles Malon more than Saria. The way she scolds him and her love for horses, especially Epona. He watched Link follow Ilia to the springs at the price of his wooden sword. He was about to follow him when he noticed a dark figure moving around in the tree house.
'A burglar?'
He sneaked into the house from the highest window. Good thing those kids were too preoccupied with that sword, they would have seen him. Link once inside he drew his sword. The figure was looking through some of his drawers and was making quite a mess. Link sighed sheathing the sword, he declared this person not a threat.
'This won't take long' He pounced on the perpetrator. The things it was holding fell making the figure as small as she really was.
"hmm?" Link took another look at the person he had pinned to the floor. Though he didn't get a glimpse of her before she slammed her fist into his face.
"You Idiot!" She grabbed the closest thing, which was one of Link's shirts, and threw it at his head. "It's me!"
"W-what?" Link pulled the cloth from his field of view only to get another one thrown at his face to replace it. "What are you doing in here? I thought you were a thief." He paused. Serena was stashing some of Link's belongings into her fairy pouch, which he had oh so kindly lent her to use. "You are a thief! stop that!" He yelled trying to grab her hands.
"Why?" She sneered at him stuffing some food into the pouch.
"Wha-? This is someone's house, his things! you can't just take them."
"Actually this stuff" she gestured to the fallen items, "are from a lot of other peoples houses. And besides Link isn't going to come in here for a loooong time. So might as well."
"This is his house?"
"Yup. He lives in a tree, what a freak."
He wanted to protest about benefits of tree living conditions but refrained from doing so.
Link dropped his guard in defeat. It was pointless trying to argue with her. She proved that on their way over here. She had gone out of her way to prove or correct him every chance she got. The hero sighed. He looked out the window so see Talo trying to do a vertical slash. Beth and Malo were taunting him, asking if he could really use that thing. 'It seems they haven't heard us'
"Here." Serena tossed some clothes in his direction. If Link didn't catch it, the clothes would have gone through the window."Put this on."
Link raised his eyebrow.
"Are you going to wear the same clothes for another 5 days?" She rolled her eyes even though spent more than that time in her own clothes. "I know you practically lived in that kokiri tunic your whole life but come on."
"okay..." He looked around uncertainly. "Where should I...?"
"Meh, anywhere is fine. I won't look." she tossed her remark over her shoulder. She was sitting cross legged looking through some of the clothes she had to choose from.
"Tch. This village only has 3 girls. Ilia's clothes are a little too big for me, and Sera's even more so. That leaves Beth's... ARGH! I'll just improvise then" She took out some of the other pieces of clothing and started laying them out to choose. She finally picked her clothes, now she just had to tailor it to fit her. It wasn't that she wasn't tall enough, she was just a lot thinner than most people. She was almost done and was about to try them on but remembered that Link was still in the room.
"Are you done?" she asked impatiently. She put away the other articles of clothing.
"Yeah." He was wearing an Ordon shirt with green edges. His pants were gray. He kept his leather harness and belt in the same position.
"hmm.. looks good on you." She took his old clothes from him to wash later. "But switch your sheath to the other side."
"What? why?"
"Most people use their right hand and if we ever do get seen in public it'll be easier to blend in."
"How does switching hands make me blend in?"
"When you fight a monster do you go all out?"
"If it poses a threat, yes."
"Then using your weak hand would be best to look normal. You need some sort of restriction, so as of now you are right handed. Can't let you out stage Link, Link." He shrugged.
"Anything else you want to change?" He switched the harness to his right side.
"mm, yes. Your name."
"Come again?"
"You're both blond, have blue eyes, similar facial structure and the same name... We have to change at least one of those to avoid further confusion and I don't think you want to dye you're hair blue."
"Alright, What do you have in mind?" She relaxed her hands, her eyes drifted to a nearby object or at least she tried to but her hair was in her face. She blew at it and it pulled away slightly revealing a broken raven feather. 'I remember this. This is from those pesky rats with wings while I was hiding from those bulbins.' hmm..
"Raven... Yeah, go with Raven." Link shifted his head to the side. "It's one of you're descendants names. Or at least I think was... He was a knight from a distant country so I am not really sure how he can be a descendant of yours."
He was about to ask for other options when a crash broke the peace followed by a few high pitched screams. Raven-Link rushed to the closest window to see a few bulblins on wild boars invade the village. Though they weren't as nearly as threatening as the one in Ordon's springs. Link was in the process of leaping out the window but then Serena appeared at his side. She shook her head.
This wasn't his fight.
The children that resided in front of Link's house were already running away in fear. Most of the adults were just as scared as the children. Some were to frightened to move. Rusl, the only one with battle experience, was fighting them off. Though his efforts were valiant the monster took the children in no less than a minute.
The sound of a horn drew the attention of the boar riders. They responded to the call of their leader, taking their captives away. Rusl ran after them his sword at hand. A bulblin archer shot an arrow into his forearm. He stumbled, and tried to regain balance. It didn't help that his ankle was sprained. The monsters got away with the children, not a single one of them harmed during the attack.
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Favorite zelda song! :D (mine is the song of storms, but a special version of the song of storms)
-I need a new name for Link... Someone in my other story commented Recht, meaning Right since Link's name means left. I'm not not sure about that one yet... so for the time being I'm going to be using the one I used in my old story Hero of a Different Time. Which is Raven.
