Nagara: Sorry I havent uploaded in a long time. I've been paranoid of Link. He keeps talking about...weird stuff...
Midna: -running in- HE'S BACK!
Nagara: OH SHOOT! DUCK AND COVER! -dives behind a table on its side-
Midna: DON'T LEAVE ME! -jumps over table-
Nagara: OW!
Midna: Sorry...
Link: -walks in- Hey guys! I went to a mad scientist who straightened my head out!...Guys? I know I've been a creeper lately but I feel -notices table- -inches towards it- a lot better. I came to offer to do the disclaimer. -flips table- AHA!
Nagara and Midna: AHHHH! -huddling in fear- Wait you want to do the disclaimer?
Link: Yep
Midna: Go ahead
Link: Nagara only owns her OC and the concept. All other characters belong to Nintendo. All song lyrics belong to the artist. And dont worry, this chap may look long cuz of the downscroal bar, because it is, but its not a long as you think.
Same basic routine for a long time. I was always the first one up in the house. I always did the water. Sera said every time I did this, I could help myself to a piece of bread for breakfast. Which I admit I was selfish about. I always took the cinnamon bread. Of course, I used the rupees I found in the grass – at least one odd thing about the videogame world was real – to pay for taking the expensive stuff. Only about five per slice, which Sera said was more than enough.
I did ask Bo for permission to hunt, but he declined. He said that feeding the entire village would decline the wild animal population. This annoyed me, 'cause the population probably would be dented at the most. There were about one hundred villagers, so…yeah. If I said rabbits populate like thirty per litter, Bo would've been suspicious about how I knew that. I could've lied and said my troupe raised rabbits for food, but traveling with rabbit hutches would've been an inconvenience, so I couldn't say that. I was allowed to hunt a couple times a month, and I was allowed to hunt during the winter for meat and fur purposes.
Link sorta went into social recluse for days on end. I used the time I would've spent with him helping out with the village. Jaggle and Pergie, I should say, didn't have the best marriage in the village, - no, that was Rusl and Uli by far - but Sera and Hanch had the worst. It was happy, but the problem was that Sera was the dominant one, and more than once I found Hanch ranting no nobody about their problems. If I didn't know better – which I do -, I'd say their relationship was in serious jeopardy.
Anyway, back to Jaggle and Pergie: They didn't spend much time together. Jaggle was a lazy butt and I think everybody in the village thought so too. They called each other the lovey-dovey names that make me sick, but I learned this was a farce when I heard Pergie writing out loud in her diary about how cute the blacksmith is – uh….the woman has bad eyesight…really, she does -. I heard the same thing coming from Jaggle concerning the weaver, who also overpriced things, like the shoemaker – thus proving love is blind, the man's eyes are almost never open -.
It may seem like I'm just badmouthing them, but this is what I saw in the two relationships. Rusl an Uli were the blissfully unaware two in the village. Faro and Bo hated each other. Talo actually flirted with Beth, and Beth was two years older at the time I discovered this. Colin had that crush on Ilia that some boys develop on their babysitters.
I caught Ilia looking up at Link's house on more than one occasion. She paid me five rupees every time to keep me quiet. It worked too. Link eventually figured out Ilia had feelings for him, but I happen to know he rejected her, saying even if they knew each other for years, he wasn't ready to have a romantic relationship, even for her. Sure enough, I learned this the night Ilia invited me to go camping with her, which was filled with "salt water", courtesy of her.
There were other kids in the village our age. The blacksmith's son Chardon is – as far as I'm still aware of - an egotistic flirt. One of those guys that date every girl in the school just because nobody knows why. He said cheesy Hyrulian pick-up lines to the other girls, including Ilia and me. The couple that ran the bakery were like the other artisans, keeping to themselves. Their son Jacob was – not anymore, duh - eleven, nice, but shy. I tried to befriend him, because he apparently only had Beth and Colin. Ilia said he only opened to them 'cause they were the only ones ten and eleven. Jacob and Colin are best friends, even though Jacob is a year older. The innkeeper's daughter…I don't want to talk about her that much. I have one thing to say about her: she was growing up to be…look up synonyms for innkeepers that start with the letter "P". The weaver's daughter Elaine is much better than her mother. While her mother sold things outrageously, Elaine sometimes stole from her mother's shop for the people that needed something else. She also patched people's clothes, but she had to charge for that, otherwise she would've been caught, and therefore shut down. Elaine was the selfless Robin Hood of the village.
Elaine was fifteen as well, and Ilia and my other best friend. Elaine apparently had a crush on Link she only admitted to the two of us. The time she said that, I wanted to say we were Link's first official fangirls in this world, but I didn't. She got over it the time Ilia started to act moony on topics about Link. This just emphasized how nice she is; she gave up her own feelings for the sake of her best friend.
Sky and Raine are the shoemaker's illegitimate fraternal twins, Sky the boy and Raine the girl. Don't worry, that's actually how they announced themselves to me. The story is that the unmarried shoemaker "messed around" with some traveling woman, and she left right after she gave birth. Turned out her total time in Ordon Village was ten months. Those two are the village thieves. They're as thick as thieves, and did steal from the shop, that is until they were caught. I'd rather not say what their punishment was…
Eventually, spring was almost gone. I learned to love Hyrule. Spring in the Ordona Province was lovely. The fruit trees that doted the area had blooms from pink to blue. Once again, the real world was much more vivid than the game. I knew that this wasn't going to last though. I thought about traveling alone after the adventure ends.
Maybe I should say some of the smaller details I thought were unimportant over the months and in some cases seasons. Well, they had a calendar identical, as far as I'm aware of, to Earth's. Link's Birthday is the first day of summer, which makes the journey over three months, assuming he kills Ganondorf around that day, and I was dropped exactly one year before the start. Lucky me, God told me he would stop my body for this time. I thanked him for that. I knew if I thought about it a lot, I would begin to doubt him, so I never thought about it.
Sera's shop worked by reselling the things the artisans made. One loaf of bread the backer's make is like forty rupees through them, but fifty though Sera. This system actually worked though. The villagers bought through the makers, but travelers that passed by saw the shop first, so they bought there. Everybody gained in the end.
I knew how to swim before, but Link taught me to swim the way he did. It was quieter, which was better. My aim also got better and better with time. Once, I even split an arrow down the middle. Once. I memorized a lot of songs out of my book, even though I knew most of them before.
Link taught me how to do front flips and back flips and run to summersault and handstands and cartwheels and even backwards rolls. I really enjoyed learning to do that stuff. It was easier with him, and not a bunch of wannabe P.E instructors saying I'm a terrible spotter, and none of them willing to help complete the movements.
It took a long time for me to physically improve like this, its not like I took naturally. I quit gymnastics at five, but since I was in karate, I was already flexible, had above-average lower-body strength, and balance, but I had to develop upper body strength. I also had to develop trust in myself, like the get rid of the fear that I would break my neck when I do a back flip. That alone took an amazingly long amount of time for me to develop. Point: I took a long time to do these physical feats.
I read the herbal guide so much I almost memorized it. Almost, I mainly only memorized the stuff that was for preventing infections and speeding up healing time and the immune system – at least that had been discovered -. Plus I read the Bible often. Not to the point of memorization, but I did preach to those willing to listen for a while, but I don't think it did much. Some people's God-given talent is converting people. Mine wasn't. It didn't stop me though. All in all, life was good.
~~X~~
By Link's birthday, I officially had no feelings for him. He came out of a particularly long recluse time for his party. I knew I was going to have fun with this. I may have had no special feelings, but that didn't mean I stopped messing with him from time to time. I got the idea from a fanfiction I read. It was what "Link" said made him fall in love with Ilia. I can say in a clean conscious that wasn't my goal: it was a great prank, that's why I wanted to do it. I told Ilia about my plan, and said I had no feelings. I just thought it would be funny. I told her about what it did to Link in the story, but she told me to go for it.
See, for weeks, I told him on our way to work that I had an amazing gift ready for him; so amazing he wouldn't believe it. This killed him; he was dying to know what it was. I never let on. Well, the day of his party rolled around, and there was lots of food, even two old cuccos were killed.
The party died down and I lead him to the goat barn. He was desperate to know what it was, and I told him to close his eyes. He did, but he was clearly suspicious. No surprise, I bet he remembered the stunt I pulled last time I told him to close his eyes. Well, one would think I would kiss him, but I didn't. I broke an egg on his forehead. "Happy Birthday!"
He was furious at me, but I smiled at it. For some reason, I didn't laugh at him. I have to admit, he looked fully with half an eggshell sliding into place over his nose, and the yellowing whites smeared over his face. I apologized, and gave him his real present. It was a bracelet I made.
As I said earlier, I was allowed to hunt for the village every now and then, and at one point I killed a rabbit with the most beautiful pelt. It was for my adopted family, so I asked for the pelt. Beth thought I was gross, but they let me keep it. Faro knew how to tan animal hide, so he helped me tan the pelt. When it was done, I cut a strip from the stomach, where the fur was softest. After a long time, I made a snap buckle. Y'know, the ones with the little holes that had the bumps that fit inside? Well, it took practice, but I made one out of wood. Ilia sewed it to the pelt strip. In itself, it would have been pretty, - not especially comfortable, since he would wear the tanned side - but I wanted it to be special. Who remembers the rock that my machete broke? I used the machete to carve a Triforce into it. It wasn't especially big, but it was noticeable, and clearly the Triforce. I could sew it into the bracelet by myself, so that was the easy part.
I brought a rag with me and helped Link clean himself. Afterwards, I told him, "Hold out your wrist." Slightly confused, he gave me his left hand. I snapped on the bracelet so he could see the Triforce marking. He actually loved it. I admitted that Ilia and Faro helped, but he still loved it. He hugged me, and I hugged him back. This is my viewpoint, so asking me if it was a romantic hug, the answer is no.
~~X~~
Everybody did the same thing for birthdays. I usually gave everybody something similar. I kept the pelt for this purpose. I became sufficient at making these snaps, but I needed Ilia to sew them to the pelt. I could've asked someone else, but Ilia was the second best at sewing. I could've asked the weaver, but she would've charged like thirty rupees per stitch. I could've asked Elaine, but I just didn't, don't ask why. The charms were from pieces of wood I found, and I got Link to carve the charm most of the time. So, in total, the gifts were from: Ilia, Faro, Link, and myself. I only count myself because I killed the rabbit, made the snaps, and cut the pelt. All three said I deserved more credit, but I always said they deserved the most. Maybe I did, maybe I didn't, but I felt they did.
The charm changed depending on my relationship with the person. Both Hanch and Sera's charm was a rupee. Both Rusl and Talo got a sword. Faro's was the Ordon Goat Horns. Colin's was a book, due to his studious nature involving the Bible. Both Jaggle and Pergie go a pumpkin. Uli's was a heart, because she was the most motherly to me. Malo had a little wave design – he fell in the pond, I jumped in after him -. Beth had a music note, since I did teach her a few songs. Bo knew I would do this by the time his birthday was coming, and said I didn't have to do anything, since he admitted there wasn't anything I really could do involving him. Ilia told me to make a joke and do a fish, since he loves fish. Bo laughed at his gift, but he still wore it. Most of the artisans didn't join in on parties. I gave them each a bracelet though, even if they didn't have a party. The charm usually revolved around their line of work, like the blacksmith got a hammer. Some of them got nothing though, like I didn't give Chardon or Sky or Raine anything, but I did give Elaine and Jacob both a heart as a sign of friendship.
Ilia's birthdays and mine are the only one's in winter – I should say the weather in Hyrule is a little whacked. Fall on Earth is winter in Hyrule. Winter is spring, spring is summer, and you get the idea. – But this part isn't about birthdays this is about weather. The winter was brutal! The heavy snowfall blanketed the ground to an extreme. The horses had to be inside the cow barn because if they were exposed outside, they would've gotten frostbite on something. Jaggle lost a toe to frostbite. Most of the time people stayed indoors around a fire. 'Course Ilia and I hung out around Link's fire. The most dreaded task was getting firewood. I did this most of the time, 'cause my dress is the warmest outfit in the village.
Most people didn't have clothes except the ones on their back. Nothing warm, no mittens, no socks, only thinned out work clothes. The weaver was too selfish to give anything away to her fellow villagers, or even just discount things. Elaine gave away some mittens whenever she could, but after getting caught…I think you can figure out what the punishment for a thieving apprentice is…
Ilia's birthday was the second to last to come around – 'cause mine was a week later - since it was in the middle of winter. Hers was a horseshoe. This was the only one I made myself. I did the carving, I made the snaps, and I had run out of rabbit, so I tanned more hide. I even figured out how to do the stitch that I saw in a lot of clothing, like on the back of Ilia's shirt.
My birthday is the thirtieth of November. I had as much of a party as the other main villagers, but mine was special. Link lead me to the barn, and I was thinking, "Oh shoot…" He was going to pull the same, if not a similar prank on me as I did on him. To add to my paranoia, he had become extra friendly over the months. He maaaaaaaay have had a crush on me. When he told me to close my eyes, I pulled my lips in. He wasn't going to kiss me on my lips! Lucky, somewhat, for me, he cracked two eggs on me. He did it in my hair though, so I had a set of egg horns. If it were anybody else, I would've socked them in the face. But I knew I had to take what I dished out. I just smiled and said thanks for the eggs. He was confused that I wasn't mad, but I smeared some of the white and yoke in his hair. We laughed it off.
My real gift was the same type of bracelet as the ones I gave everybody else. I recalled once giving Link a handsome rabbit, so I knew where he got the pelt. My charm was my mark: the Cross, wings, and a halo. Mine was also carved out of stone, not wood. It looked like the same type of stone I made Link's charm out of. I did recall a time where I couldn't find the other half, but I assumed it rolled to the bottom of the pond.
Tears actually came to my eyes at this. I didn't hug him though: I glomped him. I weighed less than before due to my smaller diet, I knew that, but Link fell down. Actually, he was shocked, stumbled, and fell in front of the barn. There was a flurry of snow, so I couldn't see anything, and the cold feeling impaired my sense of touch. Realizing I was on top of Link, I turned madly red, and jumped off him. We didn't look at each other for the rest of the day. I didn't because I had a crush on him again. Note I said day. Oh, I know what's going through your head right now, and that's not what I meant.
~~X~~
I often would wake up and go to Faron Spring in the middle of the night to sing. I never heard Link talk in his sleep though, which disappointed me. Sometimes, I didn't hear anything coming from his house, so it unnerved me a little. Evidently, on the night of my birthday, I had reached the spring, when a twig snapped behind me. I unsheathed my sword and ran after whoever was following me. This person tripped and I got him at blade point. It was Link. "What the heck are you doing?" I demanded
He supported himself on his elbows, and looked me dead in the eye. With a lot of pride in his voice, he said, "Following you. I heard you leave and I wanted to make sure you were safe."
I just disbelievingly laughed at that. After my chuckle, I said, "Safe? The first time I did this was my second night in Ordon. I've been doing this for about a year. If I was safe then, what makes you think I wasn't anymore?"
Link looked at the ground. Out of guilt, embarrassment, or what I don't know. He mumbled, "I didn't know…."
I cocked my head, narrowed my eyes, and asked, "For how long have you been doing this?"
"Three months….?"
I let out a sigh and said, "I was alive every day."
"Can you let me up?" I was a little embarrassed when I realized Link was still on his back with my sword tip on his throat. I sheathed it back in, and helped him up.
"I can look after myself. Why're you worried about me?"
Link sighed and said, "Honestly…..I wanted to hear you sing."
This actually wasn't farfetched. Everybody in the village had heard me sing at this point. In fact, they often made me do little concerts. Ilia, Beth, and myself actually could sing a couple songs together. We used this to our advantage, by swindling any travelers into saying we were separated from our troupe – my "life" was the basis, but this was Beth's idea – and needed money. We sang a couple songs, Ilia danced a little, and we were each about five rupees richer at the least.
I leaned slightly forward and said, "Why didn't you just tell me? I would've let you watch."
"If you were singing in the middle of the night, I assumed you wanted to be alone."
"Thanks for your concern, but I just did it to kill time before falling asleep again. Here….to show no hard feelings, I'll sing my favorite song for you. Nobody has ever heard me sing it." Link was excited by this; I could see his eyes light up, even in the dim lantern light. The song was Strong Enough to Save by Tenth Avenue North. I wasn't lying either. Maybe my mom heard me sing along in the car to the radio, or my old friends hearing me whisper the chorus to my iPod, but nobody had ever heard me sing it from beginning to end.
I thing it was the best song I ever sang and probably ever will sing. It came out beautifully. I spun around in circles after the first chorus like a seven year old because I was so blissfully happy.
~~X~~
You fought
but you were just too weak
so you lost
all the things you tried to keep
now you're on your knees, you're on your knees
But wait,
yeah everything can change,
in a moments time
you don't have to be afraid,
'cause fear is just a lie
open up your eyes
And he'll break
open the skies to save
those who cry out His name
the One the wind and waves obey
is strong enough to save you
Look
yeah now is not too late
lift up your head
let the rain fall on your face
you're not far from grace, your not too far from grace
And he'll break
open the skies to save
those who cry out His name
the One the wind and waves obey
is strong enough to save you
Break
open the skies to save
those who cry out His name
the One the wind and waves obey
is strong enough to save you
I know the weight of this world can take you down like gravity and
Yeah I know the current of yourself can take you out,
out to sea
but hold on,
hold on
And he'll break
open the skies to save
those who cry out His name
the One the wind and waves obey
is strong enough to save you
Break
open the skies to save
those who cry out His name
the One the wind and waves obey
is strong enough to save you
The neat thing was, that it started to rain a little right when I started singing. While I sang the chorus for second time – the part after "Let the rain fall on your face," -, the clouds over Faron Spring parted. And it wasn't the wind. No, the clouds parted like a zipper. The moon was directly over Faron Spring too. I imagine I looked amazingly stupid spinning in circles ankle-deep in water, turning slightly silver in color, but only Link and the God(s) know. I even grabbed Link and made him spin with me towards the end. When the song ended, I admit; we had a tender moment. He was a full head taller than me, so I hugged him around his neck, and he hugged me by my waist, and rested his chin on my head. Thankfully, he didn't touch my butt. We stood there for a good minute or so, and we broke apart.
What Link said next made my heart swell to twice its size. "What do I have to do to join you religion?"
Tears started to flow down my eyes. I couldn't believe it! He had heard me preach before, but not enough for me to think it reached his heart. And to top off my joy, I imagined this moment back home! But I knew I had to answer the question to complete the fantasy turned reality. "Believe four things: Jesus is the Son of God, Jesus lived a sinless life, he died on the Cross for our sins, and rose again on the third day, he then went to heaven, and that Jesus will go back to my world, and take all that believe these things to be with him in heaven."
"That's seven things." Just like him to be difficult. We laughed at this. As he wiped the tears from my eyes, he said a beautiful oath. "I, Link, Farmhand of Ordon Village, in the Ordona Province, promise to believe, from here on out, in the religion of Layla, Farmhand of Ordon Village, in the Ordona Province. I believe that her God placed his likeness into a woman, and the Son of God, Jesus was born. I believe Jesus lived a life without sin. I believe that Jesus died on the crucifix for our sins. I believe Jesus rose from the grave on the third day, and then went to heaven to be with his heavenly father. And finally, I believe he will go back to her world to take all that believe these things to be in heaven."
The tears stopped falling, and I hugged him again. I buried my face in his shirt and said, "It wasn't necessary to go all out like that. If you just believe in these facts with your heart, you are an official Christian"
He just returned the hug and stroaked my head a little, saying, "It wasn't necessary?"
The moonlight shone brighter on us, but at the same time, there was loud thunder. We broke apart and covered our ears 'cause it was so loud. "Our God approves, but your old ones disprove." That was my comment when the thunder went away.
"Clearly."
~~X~~
Let the pro-teen relationship girls attack me now; I raced him back to the village. We didn't hold hands, we had a race, and it was fun. But girls I will admit: I was falling in love with him again. Can you blame me? He just converted to my religion! At I was falling at an ideal time, if I do say so myself, with the first day of spring if two weeks. The first day of spring was the day I fell into Hyrule.
Yeah, this chap was freaking long. Dont worry, only two more until the sequel, and one is really short
PLEASE DONT FLAME ME! I know a lot of people will hate me for converting Link, but its fanfiction. I promise I wont go far with religion.
I'm not ganna ask if Layla is a Mary Sue anymore, because I took a test, and she just barely passed. I again thank all those who said she isnt
I also would like to thank everyone who likes my story :)
PS: The real reason I havent uploaded is cuz I had a project overload then a homework overload