Wow ! Thank you again Lil'sheep ! And you too Ob-jexxx ! (many many many hugs !) I was so happy you liked it ! X3
So here a new chapter it's really short and there isn't much action in this one but I promise you there will be in the next one ! I couldn't develop the story as much as I had planned, so I'm sorry and be patient please I will try to update soon.
Please forgive the mistakes ^^
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Chapter 4
On the road the three hadn't really spoken.
Kodjo had been lost in his thoughts. Judging by the frown that had been plastered on his face the two other had deduced they weren't particularly pleasant. Sasha suspected it had something to do with the conversation he had with the creepy boy two days ago but she refused to ask him. What if he discovered they had been eavesdropping on them ? Arisa had said it wouldn't be a good thing.
Regardless Alinor had tried to ask him what was wrong but he had waved the question away with a big (and fake) smile. She had known better than insisting.
So here they were four hours later, exhausted (well...only Sasha because Alinor was still on her shoulder) sitting on a big rock on the edge of a dusty path they had been following since Kodjo left them. They began to discern the emerald sea of trees that was the forest.
« Oh my god it's still so far away. » the young girl sighed.
« Don't say that we are almost there. »
« Almost ? Are you kidding ? I will have to walk for at least an hour to just enter the forest. »
« We will be there earlier if you could just stop complaining. »
« You look like my mother. » she groaned in response.
« Someone has to : you're acting like a child. »
« Easy to say when you're not the one walking. »
« Yeah yeah now stand up lazy baby. »
Sasha huffed and ignoring the protests of her legs she did as she had been told.
How did I manage to survive last time ?
They finally made it to the woods in the middle of the afternoon. Sasha welcomed the shadows of the trees with joy. Her cheeks were burned by the sun making her look like she was permanently blushing. She had a headache (also due to the sun) and had nearly drunk all the water she had brought.
The girl leaned against a trunk and took a deep breath. The cold wind sent a chill down her spine. Was it her or the temperature had just dropped ? Alinor must have seen the incertitude on her face because she then explained it was the monsters that were disturbing the nature since their appearing.
Sasha nodded and followed her fairy who was showing the way in what looked like a maze of trees.
The more they advanced the more monsters appeared. They had to walk between the trees -instead of the small path that must have been created by the animals -in order to avoid them. Sasha still had to kill a few carnivore plants that had tried to gob the poor Alinor.
It had been funny, in her opinion at least, to see the little pink light flying in every direction trying to escape the plant without crashing into a tree while screaming bloody murder. But when another deadly flower had begun to attack her friend she had finally decided to act and very calmly she had approached the monster. With one hand she had grabbed the stalk and taking out her dagger with the other she had neatly cut down the plant that had fall lifeless on the grass. After having killed the second one she had turned to the fairy laughing.
« That's what I call team work ! You distract the monsters and I stab them ! Why didn't I think about it before ? »
After a little fight between the two in which Alinor had tried to save the little pride she had left, they continued their way with the fairy flying much nearer to Sasha than previously.
An hour later Sasha had slipped in the mud almost losing a shoe in the process, scratched her face with branches, gone through a part of the forest (jungle in her opinion) where light probably had never shone which forced her to put on her cloak in order not to freeze to death, been attacked by a giant spider -in consequences also used her bow for the first time and lost three arrows (don't be too cruel it was her first after all)-, met her first moblins -not really met, just seen because she quickly run away -and saved Alinor three other times.
Not bad for a single hour.
The moblins especially had shocked her, those giant man like creatures that would leave the best body built men of her world ashamed. Even their spears were at least twice taller than her. What comforted her was that they looked fairly stupid with their tiny eyes on their huge head. Alinor had said that their weak points were their back and their lack of brain so if they were quick and discrete enough the moblins wouldn't even notice their presence. According to her they weren't many even on their territory which was unfortunately surrounding the forest temple.
Of course it would have been too easy otherwise.
Oh and I forgot they also arrived in the Kokiri village. It wasn't a big place, the town had been built in a small glade and the 'buildings' were trunks of what must have been millennial trees. A river was running between the houses and the dust particles that were shining in the sun light gave to the place a magical aspect.
But despite the beauty of the place it also seemed dead. Not a single bird was singing, and where Sasha had expected to see children there were only dead leaves and deku baba, those hungry carnivore plants. Alinor had explained that the Kokiri were forest kids each one had its own guardian fairy and that they never grow up. A bit like Peter Pan she had thought. But here there wasn't anyone.
Sasha was about to take a step in the village when a big rock flew just a few inches from her nose. She stopped and blinked. Turning her head to the right to see what had just happened, she came face to 'face' with another rock which was coming to her face.
« Watch out ! » Alinor cried out.
She quickly dodged by crouching herself on the floor. When she looked up, she saw that her enemy was a little ball of brown fur with leaves on the top of its 'head' and a cupping-glass like muzzle.
« What is it ? » she asked her friend.
« A deku scrub, it's -Eh ! »
The fairy barely avoided the next projectile and Sasha saw the deku thing prepared another attack. She raised an eyebrow. Standing up she picked up a stone and threw it at the little beast with all her strength. It hit just between its yellow eyes. The scrub let out a strange cute « u-iii » (a/n : sorry about that but I love this monster ! X3) and fell backward.
« Are you ok Alinor ? »
« He nearly broke my wings but yes I'm alright. »
« How strange that they always focus on you only. » the young girl stated with a smirk.
« Are you jealous ? »
Sasha chuckled before making her way toward the first little house. The door was so small she felt like Snow-White. They spent the next five minutes knocking at the same door. They were about to give up and go to another house when they heard someone talking to them from far behind them.
« Go away ! You are not welcome here ! »
Sasha turned around ready to retort but something smacked hard in her head just on her left eyebrow. She took a few steps back, cursing. Taking her hand to her eye she so blood on it.
« If I catch the bastard who did this. » she muttered between gritted teeth.
« Let me see. A nut can't be that harmful. » her fairy said taking a look at her face.
« A-A nut ? He just threw me a fucking NUT ? »
« Calm down Sasha he must have- »
« A death wish ? Don't worry I'm going to ki- »
« Maybe too but I wasn't thinking about that. I will heal it but in a few hours you will have a bad fever not as strong as last time but still quite bad. » Alinor answered in a professional voice.
« Why ? »
« Your body is not used to my magic yet but I think it will soon be. »
The burning sensation appeared like a week ago and she bit her lips to prevent herself from complaining. Once the pain disappeared she relaxed a bit.
« So ? Scar or not ? »
« No you won't have one this time. Why? Disappointed? » the fairy asked in a mocking tone.
« Oh yes really. » the human said sarcastically.
She looked around with a tired expression and sighed.
« I want to sleep we need to find a place. »
« I know but I don't think the kids here will let us in willingly. »
« You-You can use Link's house he-he hasn't come for a while. »
Two pairs of wide eyes turned to the door they were leaning on. It was the voice of a young boy.
So there had been someone in all the time.
« Why didn't you- »
« The o-one with the ladder. »
« What ? »
« Th-The second to your l-left after the shop. »
« Why didn't you open when we knocked ? »
The kid didn't answer. He refused to say even another single word.
Really cooperative those children.
Our two hero followed the instructions they had been given too exhausted to argue and arrived in front of the house. It seemed a bit old : the moss was probably the only thing that kept the ladder from collapsing, even the tree itself seemed to have known better days. The inside was dusty and some small accessories like mugs or plates were broken. Sasha shut the door up with the table -you never know if monsters decided to attack -and sat on the small bed. She closed her eyes enjoying the rest.
« Why are you so silent ? » she asked to her friend who hadn't spoken a world since they had begun to search for the house.
« You know...This place... »
« What about it ? »
« It's where Link had grown up. »
« Er...I guess so. It's HIS house after all. » she said arching a brow.
« Yes I know but it's...impressing ! »
« You're right. I think it's all the dust that make this place unique. » she mocked.
« You don't understand ! » the fairy answered angrily and then softened her tone as if she was telling the most important secret ever. « Link is the hero of time ! It's him who will save our world. He was raised as a Kokiri but in truth he was an hylian that's why he was an adult when you saw him in the temple. Real Kokiri doesn't grow normally. »
Sasha's mouth formed a perfect « O ».
« Well...I hope he doesn't mind me using his bed. » she said curling up on the small bed like a cat and fell asleep in a second.
« Sasha ! » the fairy cried out indignant.