Warning: slight spoiler for ending of OoT.
This one was fun to write. I know lots of people don't like Navi, but give this a try, please?
Link and Navi
Stolen moments
Navi floated, staring in dismay at the room before her. All the monsters were gone from it, leaving the inner temple unguarded. Quickly, she flew through the room into the one beyond it, and then another, and another, finding them all in the same guardless state. When she reached the innermost chamber, where the boss lurked, she found it lying on the ground, slowly disintegrating, with a figure in gold armor standing over it, cleaning his sword of their guardian's guts.
"Hey!" she shrieked, fluttering to the chamber floor, "Who are you? How dare you intrude on our sanctum!" The figure turned around, lifting its sword, and looked around for an opponent.
Navi grinned, here came the fun part. She closed her eyes and called on her magic, dimming her aura and increasing her size dramatically until it matched that of a human. She wore a short light blue dress, her blue hair ran loose down her shoulders, and her wings waved gently behind her.
While she had been here, she had learned to do that very, very, fast. To the untrained eye, it looked as if a winged warrior had appeared from nowhere. Even a trained eye would have trouble spotting the transition.
The fairy looked the intruder up and down. "Who are you and what are you doing here?" she asked.
The stranger made no response, so she fell into fighting stance, summoning her two straight swords effortlessly out of her magic 'pocket'. "I'm asking this one last time, vagrant, so you'd better answer," she growled, "What are you doing here?"
"The villagers said there were monsters here, so I came to cleanse the temple," it explained. From the sound of the voice, a male occupied the armor. His voice sounded slightly familiar, but the blue fairy brushed it away.
"But it's our temple!" Navi protested, "the humans have no right to it!"
The intruder pulled out his sword and settled into his own fighting stance. "They said you would lay claim to it," he said, "They said I was not to trust the winged ones."
Navi did not give him a chance to speak more, launching herself forward. Their blades clashed and they sprang apart, circling and locking again in a dance that was both graceful and deadly; a dance where a misstep meant death.
As she fought, Navi scrutinized his fighting. His moves seemed familiar to her, rather similar to her own. She spotted the flaw in his motions as he feinted right and slipped under his guard, twisting her sword and sending his flying across the room.
"Surrender," she ordered, leveling her blade at where his chest plate met his helmet. Shakily, he raised his hands to the level of his head.
"Agri!" she called to the empty room, never taking her eyes off her disarmed opponent. In response to her call, the little yellow fairy appeared just above her right shoulder.
"You called, lady?" he asked.
"Yes, I did. Tell Kopu that the humans have sent another champion to attempt to gain control of our temple. I have captured him and will bring him shortly," she told the messenger.
When Agri had appeared, the intruder had started, like he was seeing a ghost. Agri made to fly away and he called out "wait!"
Both fairies were startled by this, but Navi did not let it show. "What is it, prisoner?" she barked.
He ignored her, addressing Agri instead. "Are there more fairies, where you come from?" he asked.
Agri replied affirmative.
"Is one of them named Navi?" he said, almost pleadingly.
Agri stiffened. "Her title is Lady Navi," he haughtily told the stranger, "she is the future queen, and deserves to be addressed with respect."
"Can you tell her I miss her?" the human pleaded.
"Tell her yourself," Agri scoffed, nodding to Navi before zipping off.
He turned to her, "Navi?" he asked.
"That is my name," the fairy replied imperiously, "How do you know me?"
For answer, the human's champion removed his helmet with hands that shook. Navi scrutinized his face, dirty blond hair, deep blue eyes, it couldn't be.
"L-Link?" she asked.
Link's face broke into a wide smile. "The same."
Navi's swords clattered to the ground as she raced the few steps between them and flung her arms around him. Link returned the embrace fiercely.
"Why did you leave?" he whispered into her hair.
"I had to," she confessed, "Kopu is old, so he has to choose a successor. That'd be me."
Link pulled back enough to look her in the eyes, "Why didn't you say anything?" he asked.
"I figured you would forget me," Navi said, examining the floor between her bare feet.
"Navi, forgetting you was the furthest thing from my mind," the hero told her, "I never stopped looking for you these last seven years. I missed you."
Navi wrapped her arms around him again. "I missed you too," she murmured, "please don't leave."
"Never," he assured her, dropping a kiss on the top of her head.
They would sort out the mess he had created later, but for now the once-korkiri and future-queen just enjoyed this stolen moment.
Navi's song: "I miss you" by Sweetbox
