Sorry for taking so long, guys! School was keeping me busy this week! X.X Anyway, you're lucky I got this one up. I don't really feel too good either. Have a runny nose and coughing a lot. o.e
Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
Cell
I was nudged fiercely on the shoulder.
"Wake up..." called a distant voice.
"What?" I asked, rubbing my eyes. I opened them up and I was staring into a brilliant, shining red. "Dark?" I mumbled.
"Yes, it is me."
I smiled. It was weird having company when I was usually alone. Or well, with Epona. I also couldn't believe I was this comfortable around a new stranger as well.
"Hey? Are we heading back to Hyrule Castle?" I asked.
"Yes, I'd like to meet the princess."
"What? I don't think that would be possible!"
"Well, why not? And have you noticed you're talking a lot more?"
"Yes, I have," I growled, getting off of the ground.
"Why can't I see Zelda?" he asked, starting to get whiney. He was already talking about her like he knew her as a friend.
"Um... don't you think she'd be a little frightened to see the opposite of me?" I asked sarcastically.
"She's seen Ganon," he snarled.
"Well, whatever. That's an exception. She was there at the wrong place and the wrong time. And you're no exception. Anyway, how would you get through the town without swords being pointed to your chest?"
"I'll hide as your shadow," he smirked.
"The same as...?"
"Yes, Midna." I flinched as he spoke her name. "You miss her, don't you?" He looked slightly sad.
"Yes." I tried to keep my voice from breaking. "I do."
"I'm sorry," he said, rather sympathetically.
"It's fine..." I looked the opposite way.
"Let's go, Link." He pulled at my arm, tugging me out of the hidden area.
I looked up at the sky. The sun was at its highest peak, which meant it was about twelve in the afternoon.
"Call your horse," he ordered.
"What? Why? Can't you just warp us there?" I asked.
"Fine, but not too close. Don't you think the town folk would freak if they saw their precious Hero appear out of nowhere?"
I laughed, nodding in reply.
He snapped his fingers and we reappeared in a different spot.
"Where are we?" I asked, feeling a little dazed. The warping felt weird as it was a lot different than Midna's way.
"Lanayru Province. A little ways north of the castle. Call your horse now."
I nodded, pulling out Ilia's Charm.
She came quite quickly. She stood on her back legs, kicking up at Dark. She seemed frightened of him.
"Whoa!" Dark appeared back a couple feet further.
"It's okay, girl!" I coaxed Epona. She snorted towards him again. "It's okay," I repeated, petting her snout. "Just a friend."
"Ha ha! I'm your friend already?" I heard Dark call behind me. I rolled my eyes sarcastically. I didn't even know why I said that out loud. I didn't even know how I could already trust that man...
"Be my shadow. Now," I commanded to Dark.
"Aw, come on! I've never ridden a horse before!"
"Fine!" I grabbed Epona's reins. "Come over here slowly or you'll make her skittish again!"
He tip-toed extra dramatically towards Epona and I.
"Here I am." He beamed. "Nice horse. Her name again?"
Epona looked at me with sad eyes. Was she trying to tell me to stay away from him? I looked over at Dark.
"I – her..."
"Hmm?" he asked, looking at me weirdly.
"Her name is Epona." Epona looked at me with those same sad eyes.
"I'm sorry." I whispered in her ear as I jumped on her back. "Come on!" I said in a louder voice towards Dark.
He floated onto the horse without jumping.
"How did you do that?" I asked.
"I'm a shadow, remember?"
"Yeah, sorry."
Dark sat in the back while I was in the front. I swished Epona's reins and we sped off towards Hyrule Castle.
0o0o0o0o0o0
We reached Castle Town's entrance.
"All right. Now be my shadow," I said.
"Aww. I just got used to walking."
"Don't use stupid excuses. Now come on," I urged.
He laughed. "Look at the ground before I'm your shadow."
I peered down at the ground. No shadow.
"Whoa. That's peculiar. So you actually are my shadow. When you're out I don't have one?"
"Precisely," he smiled and then disappeared. I looked down at the ground and I had my shadow again.
"Nice leggings." His taunting voice echoed inside of my head.
I flushed angrily. "So you talk in my head? And stop looking up my tunic!"
"Sorry," his voiced echoed.
I grunted in reply.
I walked through Castle Town and walked through the castle doors. I passed all of the guards and walked into the castle.
"Link!" Zelda called. She was right up ahead of me sitting in her throne and Triac was right beside her. "How did you get back so quickly?" she asked.
I walked towards them, bowing quickly in Triac's direction. He smirked, crossing his arms.
"I didn't actually ever go," my hands lied. I hated lying to Zelda. "Anyway, Zelda, I need to show you something."
"As you wish." Zelda began to get off of her chair but Triac held her back.
"One second, princess." He smiled beautifully. "I need to talk to him first."
She gave Triac a bemused look. "Oh, come on. Can't we talk altogether?"
"No, him and I –" He pointed at me. "– alone."
I growled quietly at him.
"Sorry, Link. It's me getting you angry." Dark's voice echoed.
"It's fine," my thoughts told him, "I hate this guy anyway. Without your help."
"Hero!" Triac called in his beautiful baritone voice.
I nodded.
"Come this way." He pointed toward a door on the left. I followed him as he went into the room.
He stopped abruptly and swiftly turned around in my direction.
"Listen," he said rudely, but his voice was a whisper, "I don't want you messing around with mine and Zelda's relationship."
"I'm not!" I yelled back, feeling my angry rising slowly.
"Link, calm down. You're fighting with the future king!" Dark echoed.
"Well," I thought back to him, "you're making me do this!"
"Fight against me," Dark laughed.
"You talk?" asked Triac in surprise.
"Yes, I do," I snarled at him.
"Link! Control yourself!" Dark exclaimed.
"I'm trying..." I thought slowly to Dark.
"Not hard enough," Dark tsk'd.
"Dark, you're hard to control," I thought harshly.
"You seem a little side-tracked, Hero," Triac laughed. "Something on your mind?"
"Many things," I growled.
Dark laughed loudly.
"Well, I don't think you need to be near Zelda anymore," Triac stated.
"Triac –" His name came out harshly, as if I were saying a curse word. "– I don't love Zelda."
"I don't trust you." He crossed his arms.
"Listen, I am only her friend and swordsman."
"I still don't wish for you to be near her," he spat at me.
"I can't – I won't listen to you! She's my friend! You can't take her away from me!"
"I am the future king of Hyrule and you are nothing but an insignificant, little peasant! I can do whatever the damn well I want to do!"
I started shaking slightly from all of the anger.
"I don't care... if you are going to be a king or not. I just... want to be with my friend!"
"By my orders, you are no longer to be able to be near the princess or on the castle grounds," he announced smugly.
"Link!" Dark echoed in surprise. "Don't you dare do what I think you're going to do. You'll regret it!"
"SCREW YOUR DAMN ORDERS!" I yelled to both of them.
I ran at Triac and punch him as hard as I could right at his jaw. He didn't even know what hit him.
"How dare you!" he whispered, barely being audible. "GUARDS!" he hollered painfully, holding his jaw. I was panting deeply, smiling slightly. Finally got that out of my system. Three men ran in the room in a flash. "Take him to the dungeons!" Triac pointed at me.
"It's the Hero, sire. What did he do wrong?" asked one of the guards.
"DON'T QUESTION MY AUTHORITY!" Triac bellowed. The guard flinched at Triac's tone and looked over at me.
"Seize him," the guard whispered to the two other men.
They grabbed my arms with much force, making sure I wouldn't get free. I struggled fiercely, trying to knock the men off guard. They didn't budge. I sighed in defeat and they dragged me out of the room, while the third one in command followed.
"Link! What happened?" cried Zelda, leaping off of her throne. The guards continued to drag me, ignoring the plea. "You three guards! Stop there!" she yelled in authority. "What has happened?" she asked the guard in command. I didn't look up at her.
"He is to be sent to the dungeons under Prince Triac's orders," he explained.
"She is not in control!" Her voice was cut off as Triac had burst through the door. He looked at the guards rudely. "Did I not tell you to take this scoundrel to the dungeons?"
The guards began to drag me again but they were stopped by Zelda once more. "Don't move unless I say so," she snarled at the guards holding me tightly. I felt the two holding me stiffen. "Triac!" she yelled at him. "What did Link do wrong?"
"That moron punched me in the face!" he cried.
"Link?" I looked up at her with sad eyes. "Is this true?" she asked.
I nodded reluctantly.
"She's angry with you," Dark laughed.
"Why would you do such a thing, Link?" she asked roughly.
"I'll explain in the dungeons," my hands told her.
"Fine." She crossed her arms, turning away from me.
Everyone was still.
"You can go now!" Zelda growled at the guards. The one in command nodded and directed the two guards and me towards the basement.
0o0o0o0o0o0
"Get in there!" One of the guards shouted as I fought from being pushed into a cell. No, the cell. The cell I was first thrown into while I was a wolf.
I was thrown in hitting my shoulder off of the cold, cell wall. I rubbed it painfully and looked up at the guard that took watch on me. The other two had left. He looked at me indifferently, almost in a way that he was upset to see that I would do something so terrible to the soon-to-be king.
I sat down against the wall, pulling my knees up to my chest. I was cold. I also didn't think I would ever be taken prisoner again. This was the first time as a human.
I closed my eyes, listening to my thoughts.
"I told you you would regret it," Dark interrupted.
"Eh, at least Triac got what was coming to him."
His snicker echoed loudly. "Yes. You are right."
I shivered.
"Are you cold?"
"Yes," I replied, in my head.
"I would come out there to warm you... but we're being watched."
I looked up at the guard. He was watching me intensely. He most likely was trying to notice if I would try and 'do something smart'.
"How would you warm me?" I asked him.
"I don't understand, Link."
"You're skin is icy cold. How would you warm me?" I inquired.
"Oh. I don't know." I could tell he was thinking stupidly of himself. "I've never noticed that I was cold."
"How could you not?" my thoughts asked him incredulously. I tried to keep my face as emotionless as possible when speaking to Dark or the guard would have definitely thought less of me.
"As I explained before, Ganondorf created me before you were born. I was only able to train or he said he would kill me. I've never had the time to understand my body temperature. When you were born, Ganondorf put me into your body. I was stuck there as your shadow for seventeen years. And now I can go in and out as I please so it would only be now that I'd figure out my body temperature."
"How can you go from being in my head to being outside of me?" I thought in wonder.
"When you expressed so much anger towards that man, I was freed. My power comes from your anger, sorrow, jealousy, and et cetera. I got out because of your anger."
"Okay, so how do you get back into me?"
"I'm not entirely sure. But, you need a shadow, am I correct?"
I chuckled, out loud. I noticed that the guard was looking at me like I went crazy.
"You are correct," I thought to him.
"The guard thought highly of you before you laughed out loud. Now he thinks you're a lunatic," Dark said, chuckling.
"All because of you, Dark, all because of you," I smiled.
He laughed his similar yet deeper version of my laugh.
"You remind me of myself. Except for the fact that your voice is slightly deeper," I thought to him.
"Is that quite so?" If he were standing next me, he would have been rubbing his chin.
"It's quite so," I laughed, in my head this time.
"Zelda's coming," he thought quickly to me, "I'll be soundless for a while."
"All right," I thought back to him.
Zelda soon came into the dungeons, holding the bottom of her dress up high.
"It's disgusting down here," she muttered to herself as she inspected the place. "It's cold too." I watched her shiver as she walked over towards me. "Link," she started, "I have a couple of things to say before you show me what you wanted to show me."
I nodded, slowly getting off of the stone floor.
"First of all... I thought you and Triac would become the best of friends. I didn't think you would dislike each other. What happened there?"
"He told me that I couldn't be your friend anymore!" My hands thrusted out at her. "He called me a peasant... an insignificant, little peasant!"
"He did, did he?" she asked angrily. "Why would he do such a thing?" she asked herself, more so than me. I shrugged, kicking a small pile of hay that lay against the wall. "I'll talk to him about that," she told me sincerely. I nodded. "And he also said he didn't want you to be my friend anymore? Why?"
"He thinks I love you..." my hands told her slowly.
"Do you?" Zelda held her hand to her mouth, her breathing uneven.
"No. No, I don't," my hands said. "Just as a friend."
She sighed in relief. "Well, then I don't see a problem with you being my friend."
I beamed at her.
"Lastly..." She was hesitant. "...you don't seem quite like yourself recently. You're having a lot of mood swings, Link."
I nodded absent-mindedly. "That's what I wanted to talk about," my hands explained.
I looked over at the guard. He was deep into our conversation.
"He has to leave." My hands gestured towards the guard.
She looked back at the guard. "You may be excused." She nodded at the guard. He nodded back at her, leaving the dungeons.
"Zelda," I talked out loud. She jumped, frightened by my voice.
"You're talking! To me!" Zelda squealed.
"Yes, I am," I replied.
"Goddesses, I've never heard you speak before."
"That's because I don't talk much."
She smiled at me. She seemed to enjoy my voice as much as Rusl did.
"Anyway, I wanted to show you something. No, someone..." I said slowly.
"Who? No one else is here." She turned around briskly, looking back at me with a confused expression.
"Dark, come out please," I muttered.
I felt a sudden small weight on my shoulder. An elbow. Dark's elbow. I peered over at him, smiling sheepishly. I looked back over at Zelda and she looked shocked.
"Well, hello, princess. Looking lovely today, aren't we?" He grinned widely, walking through the bars.
Dark knelt on one knee, grasped Zelda's gloved hand, and kissed the back of it. He stood back up and looked over at me.
"This is the princess in person?" he smiled.
"Yes," I growled.
She looked over at me. "Who is this? What is he?"
"I'm a shadow. Of yours truly..." He gestured towards me.
"Is he really?" she asked me, voice full of curiosity.
"Yes. He is why I am having the mood swings," I explained.
"Really? That's fascinating." She shyly looked back at Dark. "Can I touch you?"
I chucked softly. He was obviously going to take this in the wrong way.
"I think not!" He seemed shocked and a little frightened.
"No, I what I meant was that I was wondering if you felt like a solid or if I couldn't feel you, much like a gas or something."
"Oh," was all he said as he moved towards her. She took off her glove and touched his bare hand.
"You're cold!" she exclaimed, pulling her hand back. She slipped her gloved back on.
"I've been told." He looked over at me. I couldn't read his expression. Was he angry? Serious? Or just kidding around? I looked over at Zelda. I couldn't read her expression either. She either seemed confused or worried. Worried for me?
Both of them were watching me intensely. Dark's glowing red eyes and Zelda's shining violet eyes pierced into my mind.
"Link and I would like to be excused as there was no severe harm done," Dark directed to Zelda. "Is he allowed to be freed?"
"Yes, of course." Zelda shook her head, obviously trying to clear her thoughts. She pulled out a big, silver key that was in a hidden pocket on her dress. "I always keep one handy," she murmured as she unlocked the cell. I sauntered out of the cell and stood closely to Dark. "How will you leave without being caught?" Zelda asked the both of us.
"We'll warp," he told her.
"You have the same ability as Midna did?"
I flinched. I didn't know she knew that. Dark wrapped his arm around my shoulder, trying to comfort me.
"Yes, I do," he said briskly, understanding my pain. "We'll be out of your way. Shall we, Link?"
I nodded slowly. Zelda smiled.
"Nice meeting you...?" She let my shadow finish.
"– Dark Link," he smirked.
Zelda waved and Dark snapped his fingers.
I hope you enjoyed. My dad's trying to kick me off the compy right now! xD I keep telling him "just 5 minutes"! LOL.
Anyway, you know how I said "Pain" by "Three Days Grace" was an addicting song? Same with "In the Shadows" by "The Rasmus". Go search it up on YouTube and listen to it. It has a little bit of a secret message. The lead singer is actually talking about Dark Link! That's right! So go search it, it's Zelda related! xP I even heard on some forum that the lead singer is obsessed with Dark so they had to make a song! 0.0
And I'm waiting for those reviews!1shiftone
