A/N: Well, two more chapters to go! Always, Zelda belongs to the N team and Kane is still to me!
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~ LoveandZeLink
Chapter Seven
Too bad that you couldn't see
See that man that boy could be
There is more that meets the eye
I see the soul that is inside
"Don't you dare open that door."I hissed slash whispered at the man who holds my fate with him. Him, by the way, who has these long ears that can probably hear my threatening hiss of a whisper.
Crap.
Kane creased his forehead thoughtfully. His green gaze deliberately flickered over to me, me who was madly trying to screw off my own head with my frantic motioning of oh hell no with my over spastic hands. He silently stared, before looking to come to a decision, as he coolly raised from his spot next to me. I sucked in a hiss of thin breath, desperately grabbing at his sleeve.
He stopped, then languidly turning around to face me with smiling features, "Don't worry about it," Kane advised softly, prying my tight fingers from his sleeve and motherly pulling the super soft blanket closer around myself, "Don't think he'll be getting away with anything."
I rebelliously puckered my lips, in thought, before demanding, "Then take off your vest."
In shock, he creased his forehead again, before in one clean motion, took off his sweater vest and handed it to me. I gratefully clutched it from him and next gestured for him to unclasped some of his buttons. He furthered to crease his temple, then hesitantly undid the first three buttons of his shirt. His fingers reached for the fourth, but I hurriedly shook my head. Smiling slightly, Kane held his hands out in a Is-this-okay? position.
I shook my head again, greedily grabbing at his shoulder to get access to his head. My hand reached for his blonde hair—already perfectly tousled—until my feminine fingers ran through the stringy strands. It took a moment for me to get the perfect look. Then my fingers slid off his head and down his shirt, where creases are created in all the right places too.
Finally, I leaned back from his self, squinting at the look he should be clearly suggesting.
And by gods, I think I got it.
Satisfied, I excitedly motioned for him to go get the door.
Kane smiled sadly at me, then he went off and over to the entrance door, out of sight. I quickly yanked on his navy vest, covering my skimpy tank top and threw his stupid guitar tie onto the floor. Quickly, I disheveled the vest, furthering the suggested look it can vibe off. To get him to know two can play at that game.
Just as I heard a pregnant pause—that gave me a inside fist bump to myself—and then a dubious "Thanks man, I really need—" I hurried my fingers on Kane's phone, beaming mischievously as he and Kane both took the chance to enter.
In his disheveled glory, Kane was actually frowning and walking a few behind him. He who secretly spared a small glance back at Kane before quickly walking in front of me; sadly eyeing my broken leg and the rumbled vest I proudly was wearing. He also gave Kane another quick, unsure glance, before sitting before me in a cloud of disquiet.
An appearance worthy of crappiness belonged to him. Droplets of storm water were nestled into his hair, dripping abundantly onto his tee with large dark stains. He could have caused a mere lake within a few seconds. Lastly, I've noticed the Master Guitar strapped onto his back.
What the hell, is he going to serenade me to come back?
"Oh, Zelda…" He emptily sorrowed, reaching out to me with long fingers, but I shoved my hand, palm outwards, to him; telling him to stop. He'd better stop.
But then, I can't say when he spoke my name from his lovely lips, I felt nothing. Those haunting, azure eyes were pleading with me, and that usually gets to me. But now, it only got to my soft side, the stupid weakling of a heart. It knows I still have terrible feelings for Link, but still. It has to look past the pretty azure eyes and his magnificent, liquid voice.
He lied on me. With her of all people.
"I didn't say you were forgiven," I mumbled to him, flinging Kane back his phone and then crossly crossing my arms. Kane awkwardly grabbed at the phone, still holding his frown. He took the spot on where I originally met him, in an armchair to my far left. So there was Kane to my left, him directly in front, and both are watching me; one with a curious green watch and the other with a begging azure gaze.
There was a predictable awkward silence.
"Listen, Zelda, I—"
"The bitter taste of hot burning SPICE—" tunefully tilled from inside Kane's hands. He instantly shot a confused and desperate look at his hands, his phone, before accusingly glaring at me. I nonchalantly shrugged and averted my amused gaze, as if I had nothing to do with it. Kane knew better. While he awkwardly rubbed at his neck, already feeling more out of place with Kane as he was before.
Casually standing up and just leisurely walking away, Kane sang along with the blaring phone that was raised into the air, "Just this once I'll let you take a bite," He twirled his forefinger along with the song, "Because I know you're taken with—with my taste, and doesn't it make you love it more?" At the end of the tone, he frowned at me, before he clicked on with a "Hello, you've currently reached Knil."
I flirtatiously giggled from the surprise he knew the song better than I do.
Link looked at me worriedly, furrowing his brow. A once cute move on me.
I glared at him, giving him a harsh look saying, 'Take that, you cheater hero!'
"Zelda." He addressed me.
Silence.
"What more do you want from me, Link?"
"Zelda, I… I just—I want you to listen to me." I opened my mouth to retort, but Link shoved a finger onto my lips. That was momentarily tingling from Kane's kiss. Heheh. "Please. For me."
I squished my face in mock thought, before humphing my one grumble of an agreement
"Okay," He sighed. "Okay. So what you saw what true. Yes, me and Midna had something going on back there. But Zelda, let me give it to you straight." I nodded impatiently. "I was drugged."
I burst into laughter before mockingly retorting that ever patient comeback, "Oh right. That's so original, Link. Look at me I'm Link and I need to be drugged so I can go—"
"I'm serious, Zel."
"Dead serious?"
"Dead serious."
For a second, I contemplated on whether the seriousness in Link's eyes were true. The azure light was stronger, brighter, and I, for once in this horrible night, could tell he was true. Maybe his heart was true too.
Sensing the tiny cloud of doubt, Link then reached in his pocket and pulled out a tin. He placed the item near a flickering candle. The dim light was able to display the label on the tin as 'Guitar Shine.' I rapidly blinked at him in alarm and awe. That's what he wanted me to see? A guitar shine?
"A guitar shine drugged you?" I resolved for him, picking up the tin. Smiling mischievously, I sing-songed, "Oh look at me, I'm a tin of guitar shine and I can drug people with no brains into thinking—"
"Pass me back the shine?" He mumbled, a bit hurt from my song there.
Well, good for you!
Rolling my eyes, I passed him the shine without meeting his eyes. He spoke softly again. "So it's a guitar shine, yes, it's quite no big deal. But let me tell the complete story." I nodded, peeking a bit at his quiet mask. "So I went to my dressing room, correct? To change the strings. And then I found that." He held up the tin and I quietly scoffed. "It looks like an ordinary tin of guitar shine, correct? Well guess again." With that, he screwed open the top and cautiously held it out to me. The tin held some sort of shiny oily substance, a lot like ordinary guitar shine, and there sure seemed to be nothing wrong with it.
Until I leaned in.
Big mistake. I learned that the hard way.
Oh. My. Goooodddsss. The smell. Of such shine. Should be banned.
My head was rapidly ambushed by that smell and the scent contagiously tuned to turn off all activity in my brain, only leaving a dumb and numb sense throughout my body. The numbing started slow, first in my head, then moving slowly to dull down every one of my senses as they savagely trespassed downward.
I seriously could not think straight
"Wha…?" I coughed once, but it was useless and created a powerful spasm in my brain, "iiisssss—dis—this—gack—aaaawwww hell…"
"Welp." Link quickly snapped the top back in place and fumbling, screwed it shut. "She inhaled too much…"
"Llll—iiiiinnnn—kkkuuuhhh…" I moaned, dropping my spazzing head onto my raised knees. The numbing began to block out the spazz attack and was leaving behind a clear sense of obscurity. I felt like I couldn't tell from black and white!
"Zelda," I hear him murmur to me and even drugged, I see him holding the tin so tight I could see white fingers, "I do love you, you know that right?"
I answered with obscurity yanking their hold onto my head, "Yeh… mehhh tttoooo…"
Just then, Kane snapped back in the room with the phone out of sight, yelling, "What the hell do you think you're doing?" He snatched the tin from Link and flung it underneath the table, as if that'll be any help. I continued to be sabotaged by such shine, going far by squeezing my head in a death grip. For some reason, Kane hurriedly grabbed at a candle, then instantly placed the flame right underneath my nose. I breathed in.
Heat flared into my system.
I really don't know what happened but the next thing I know, I'm having a coughing fit. Coughing out the bad, icky numbness that was releasing it's easy hold it had. Slowly, but carefully, my sensitivity came back to me and soon enough, I could think straight again. Kane set down the candle, watching me carefully with concern eyes.
"Ouch," I mumbled, trailing a few fingers onto my slightly loosening head as Kane took the seat next to me and patted my back in small claps. I looked up at him first, then cautiously at Link. "What was hell was that?"
Link seriously shrugged as Kane answered like some sort of scientist, "It was the leftover oil from a Leever plant. Dangerous stuff."
Coughing once more, I asked, "And you know because…?"
"You don't want to be me." He replied with a small, stupid smirk.
Rolling my eyes, I settled back into the cushion, fanning at myself for what had happened. Link bowed his head in some sort of mix of confusion and sadness as Kane also dropped his watchful eyes to the flooring, clasping his pale hands together. The moment was tense and silent before Kane cut through.
"That's a new low."
Link and I snapped our attention to him. I curiously raised my eyebrows as Link drew pale in the dimness.
"What…?"
"You heard me." Kane creased his forehead in anger. "What kind of guy drugs his ex to get her back? I've heard of other stupid moves, but drugging her? That's not right. And I don't think it ever will." Emerald eyes raised into confused blue ones. The moment was too slow.
"I wasn't trying to drug her," Link instantly snapped, regaining some color into his flesh, "I was trying to show her that I was the one that had been drugged." His azure eyes narrowed from anger too, yet his had a tighter fierceness that attracted me so much before. Kane's green glare narrowed too, so each was scowling at each other with contempt and disregard for each other.
"Okay, guys," I immediately shoved between the two of them by sharply angling into each others' visions, "cut the crap. And shut the hell up while you're at it. I'm the one who will be doing the talking around here." I turned to Link, a straight face set on me. He softened his glare, curiously gazing for my next words.
"So you inhaled that crap and—oh—let me guess what happened next; Midna came in, professed her long lost love for you, drugged-you agreed or some crap, and some other crap that no one wants to see again followed after that. Yeah?"
Link smiled widely. "Yeah."
"So you really don't have unresolved feelings for her and you actually knew what you were gonna think when she came through that door?"
"Oh yeah, about that—"
"But Link," I interrupted, lining my lips with a sulk, "how can you really put a drug to blame? I know it does make sense and all, but you and Midna had a history. A really close to intimate one. It just doesn't… click that the drug was everything, and that some chemistry between the two of you, didn't help at all."
"Maybe you're right." Link mumbled, leaning forward with glassy azure eyes and thoughtfully taking both of my hands in his callused own. "But does it reallymatter when that relationship is now history? So why would it mean anything to me or even you when the kiss never did?" Out of the corner of my eye, Kane started to line a smile onto his lips, aiming it at Link.
"Does that make their mistake just as bad as ours? Or more importantly, did it really mean anything?"
I stopped. They stopped. Another predictable, awkward silence.
I then turned to Kane whose still smiling so brightly, it could have lit up the whole room. I continued to gape at him, trembling slightly at the revolution that I could see now.
Really, there's more beyond than the eye can see. Or really my eye. But I should have looked past what I was thrown in front of me, I should have looked past that and known true, courageous Link would have a better reason for that when there seemed none. He was forced, no less, 'cause he's Link.
He's my Link.
Blubbering out into tears, I awkwardly dropped forward. Link heroically caught onto me, immediately burying me into his self. Even though our position is awkward—thanks to my broken leg—his arms pulled me in, so I could only yield to his constant compassion of his steadfast heart. But I didn't deserve this. Link was loyal to me all this time and all I did was run off, not letting him have a well-deserved chance to explain. The thought filled completely into my mind and so did guilt.
"I'm the one who should be so sorry, Link," I mumbled into his throat, recklessly beginning to settle off of him.
But he doesn't allow me, only pulling me in closer. As if I was something dear to him.
"Don't beat yourself so much about it." He chuckled softly into the down of my rumpled hair. "All is forgiven though, right?" He turned his smile closer to my expression so he could meet my trembling ceruleans.
"Right." I sniffled, smiling slightly.
We made up with a sweet kiss.
"Well," Kane interrupted from his corner, "I'm all for forgiving, but I know one thing here, for sure. Who ever put that shine in your dressing room, Link, came from the Gerudo Desert."
We both looked up at him. "How did you know?"
Kane was holding the tin back into his fingers and casually replied, "It's on the tin. Made and only sold from the Gerudo Desert. This is pretty powerful stuff too, so whoever got this had some major connections."
Instantly, Link snapped his paling eyes off of him and whispered under his breath, "So my suspicions were right…" He turned to me with a grave expression and with azure eyes narrowing in fierce determination. "Please stay here, okay? I got some resolving to do." With a quick kiss to my mouth, he got up from the table, and dashed out the door.
After the door slammed close, I casually turned to Kane. In response, he grinned. We're then both up and out of the door too, him carrying me more efficiently in bridal-style. He lead us down and out of the apartment, until we heard some yelling coming from the rooftops, so we had a change of plans. We headed up there instead, so once arriving, we came in time to scene an angry Link and a deviously grinning third member, Ganondorf.
Kane hid us back behind the wall of the dark door, the sound of the opening was drowned out of thunder. "Why would you do try to break me and Zelda apart, Ganondorf?" Link fiercely demanded of the Gerudo-bred man.
"You two were in the limelight! They had no attention to me as I had no existence in this clueless group! I could have been greater than anybody else, but you two had snatched that opportunity from me! So I had to ruin you! And her! It was the way the public wanted it. You two were unbefitting of the popularity swarming around you as I am not! This publicity was too serious for you and I had to take it for myself!"
"What?" I screamed against another round of thunder. The two of them turned to me and Kane. Dead silence. Except for the audience of rain pattering all around us, with the occasion participant of thunder.
"Good for you to join us," Ganondorf sarcastically snarled, stepping closer to us and away from the railing he first leaned upon, "but I'm afraid the two of you will now have to suffer a more dire consequence." With that, he retrieved his black drumsticks from his back pockets and raised them into the howling air.
Light raged as a silhouette of three thunderbolt symbol blared from his the back of his left hand. The top bolt gleamed a malicious red and just as it was filling the entire contour with an neon scarlet glow, that happened.
Great thunder changed Ganondorf's drumsticks to a pair of long, demonic black swords, each successfully menacing in a two tight holds. As they maliciously gleamed from a spark of blinding thunder, I realized they looked a little like…
"Familiar princess?" He called, risking another step. Kane pushed me behind the door, eyeing the swords. "Of course they are! They once were used by that pathetic Zant until I've obtained to transform it into something much more powerful!" He maniacally laughed, a lot like a villain would have.
Oh crap, is he for real?
But then this is not an situation in which we haven't been into before.
Beaming competitively, Link effortlessly strapped off his guitar and as a green glow emitted from his left hand, the instrument burst into a beautiful sword of purple hilt, and shiny blade; also separating into another useful weapon, the legendary shield. With a bright grin, Link then reached into his pockets to toss me my old microphone with the bright wires strapped around and as soon it touched my left glowing hand, it changed into the same neon pink, gorgeous bow and a light, filled quiver strapped onto my back. Both Link and my stuff were being mercilessly decorated with raindrops.
However, Kane refused to let me go over to the Sk8er Hero by myself so he assisted me over to Link's side; all the while, I cursed myself for gaining a broken leg on all nights.
"Are you ready to rock, Zel?" He murmured over pelting raindrops, his gaze on the betraying target.
"You know it, babe." I replied coolly, cracking a heroic smile.
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