Hey guys! I'm getting a lot of positive reviews and I thank you all so much. I'm so glad you're all enjoying it so far. But I've also heard from a couple people that Revali seems out of character. I can kind of see that, and I can't exactly replicate his character. I've been trying my best to get it as close as I can but I'm also trying to develop the relationship between him and my OC. So between romantic and flirty and his normal attitude is difficult for me to write out.
But so far, I'm glad that you are all enjoying like I said. :)
I do not own Zelda or it's characters. Serina belongs to me and Jayne belongs to gina . marie . 1291421
Without further ado
LADIES AND GENTLEDUDES, I NOW PRESENT:
Chapter 8 – So Many Memories
After checking up on Teba to make sure he was still alright, Serina left Rito Village and set up camp at the designated point she instructed Link to meet her at. It was a cave nearby the Dueling Peaks Tower. She set up a small fire to keep warm, and laid out a blanket next to it. She sat down and stared into the flames, thinking of her encounter with Revali. Every once and a while, her arm bothering her would snap her out of the thought.
The bow Teba had given her stayed by her side. Often she found herself glancing over at it, the firelight casting an eerie glow over it.
Staring into the flames dancing over the slowly depleting wood reminded her of when Revali and her finally started getting along. When their journey had started, she strongly disliked him. She would often yell at him when she caught him antagonizing Link. His overall attitude of certain situations irritated her. No doubt the fact of her being so irritated bothered Revali too.
Flashback
Still at the Rito Village, Link stood out on the landing. A large updraft caught him off guard, and Revali landed on the railing.
Serina was near the landing. She sat on a rock drawing a picture of the landing and its horizon. She did this at Death Mountain, Zora Village and Gerudo Desert. Any landmark she felt had significance, she drew so she had memories of each place she went.
Revali walked around Link, eying him in a disapproving way. Serina caught wind of some of what he said.
Jayne walked up and sat on the large rock next to her, "What do you think his problem is?"
"He's jealous." Serina said, not looking up from her drawing.
Jayne looked at Revali chastising Link, "He does sound like he's a little full of himself."
"A little?" Serina repeated, "Clearly you haven't heard him boasting about how good of an archer he is."
"Can't be as good as you though," Jayne nudged her friend.
"He took me to the flight range and had me shoot." Serina said.
"Well that can't be too bad." Jayne shrugged.
"It wasn't," She said, "I just felt like he was silently judging me the whole time, but was just acting nice."
"That sounds like it's just a little thing though." Jayne commented.
"It wasn't the worst experience," Serina looked up from her picture and looked up at Link, "But I'm not sure I like how he's treating Link."
"Yeah, that's not fair for Link." Jayne agreed.
Time Lapse
The group waited outside of the first spring that Zelda attempted to pray at, searching for the power asleep inside of her. They all stood outside in the field and waited for Link and Zelda to come back with the results.
"I hope they made it into the spring without any problems." Mipha said.
"They'll be alright," Jayne smiled, "Link is with her, they're safe."
"Oh yes, the human she refuses to accept as her appointed knight. They should be just fine." Revali scoffed.
Mipha caught wind of Revali's comment and looked down. Serina looked over at her and glared at Revali. She walked over to him and crossed her arms.
"You know, your negativity is affecting everyone here." She said, "Whatever your problem is with Link, you need to just get over it. The fact that you haven't and that you antagonize him is one problem too many. We have bigger things to worry about here."
"What, did I offend your little love interest?" He put his hand on his hip.
"He's not my love interest," She said, "The only reason I say this, is because you don't know how to keep your negative comments to yourself, so it's my concern that you aren't even really focused on the task at hand."
"What you should do is mind your own business." Revali glared at her.
"He happens to be close friends with a few of us here, so it is my business to make sure there isn't anything to interfere with his part in what we're trying to do." Serina retaliated.
Without saying anything, he scoffed and walked away from her, annoyed that she felt the need to say something to him.
Serina walked back to the others and noticed that Link and Zelda were exiting the spring.
"Well?" Urbosa looked at Zelda.
"Nothing.." Zelda shook her head.
"Well, then let's keep searching. There are two other springs that you haven't gone to yet. There's still hope." Urbosa put her hand on the princess' shoulder.
Revali re-approached the group.
"I will travel to the other springs, the four of you should return to your divine beasts and continue to practice working with them. Jayne can go with Mipha, and Serina, you can go with Revali." Zelda said.
"What?" Serina asked.
"You can go to Vah Medoh with Revali." Zelda repeated, "Is there something wrong?"
Urbosa laughed, "You just missed it."
"Missed what?" Zelda asked.
"Oh, they just got into a little argument." Daruk scratched the back of his head.
"I wouldn't say 'a little.' They looked quite angry with each other." Mipha said.
"Well, arguments aside, they'll need to go together." Zelda said.
"Then let's get going." Daruk said, "We don't have a lot of time to lose."
The group gathered their things and split up. Serina and Revali pinpointed Rito Village on a map and started heading that direction. It was a long journey from where they were at.
Serina walked ahead of Revali, scanning the area ahead of her.
"You do know you have us going down the longer way right?" Revali sighed.
She stopped in her tracks and brought out her map. He caught up with her and looked over her shoulder at the map.
"If we go this way, it'll get us there in about two days rather than three." He said.
"Then why don't you lead the way?" Serina put the map away.
"I would, but it seems you're pushing ahead of me on purpose." He pointed out.
She sighed and moved out of his way, allowing him to take the lead.
As they walked, the sun began to sink below the horizon.
"We should probably start looking for somewhere to camp out for the night." Serina suggested.
Revali stopped in his tracks and started looking around. Not too far off, they could hear someone blowing a horn. They noticed a bokoblin camp nearby and they had been spotted. The bokoblins came running towards them with weapons of all sorts.
Revali took off into the air, grabbing out his bow and starting to shoot at some of them. Serina began doing the same. She grabbed out her sword and began slashing away at the bokobins. One of them hit her left arm, leaving a deep scratch. Soon she found herself surrounded. She held up her sword, trying to come up with a way to get out of the situation.
The bokoblin in front of her tried attacking first, so she defended against that, but there was another one behind her that she could hear approaching. She was busy trying to fend off the other, and she knew she was going to get hit. Just as she defeated the one, she turned around to notice the one behind her had a large axe preparing to swing at her.
An arrow whistled past her head, striking the bokoblin in the chest. It dropped to the ground.
Revali landed and fastened his bow onto his back.
"We can set up camp over there," He pointed at the now empty bokoblin camp.
She nodded.
They found the bokoblin's fire still burning and set down their things. Serina gathered a bundle of wood to keep the fire going and threw in a couple pieces. They both sat next to the fire.
She reached into her pouch and grabbed out a bandage, healing solution, and some extra cloth to clean up the deep scratch on her arm. Revali got up and sat next to her.
"Let me help." He said.
"I should be fine." She whispered.
"Please," He persisted.
She looked at him, a little surprised, and hand him the cloth. He took it and dipped it into her healing solution and began to clean up the wound.
"Ow," She winced.
"Sorry." He said.
Serina watched as he focused on the scratch. For a few minutes it was painfully silent. What made it worse was that she was still irritated, and he knew it. Yet, she didn't want the silence to be so tense.
"Um, thanks for earlier." She said, "For a minute I thought I was screwed."
"It was nothing." He didn't look up from cleaning the scratch.
"Actually, yeah it was something." She said, "After how I blew up on you earlier, I honestly didn't expect you to help me out in a situation like that."
"You're of no use to our group dead, you know." He said.
"I don't really do much but help if we're ambushed and give words of advice. I'm not really that useful." She looked down.
"You try to keep everyone in line, even if it means having to yell at them." He finished cleaning her arm and grabbed the bandage.
"I'm sorry about that." She admitted.
"Why?" He finally looked up at her.
"I'm just one of those friends that get extremely protective, so I got a little heated when you made that comment. I'm still unhappy with it, but I could have approached the situation a little more calmly." She looked ahead, avoiding eye contact.
"So you were helping a friend. I can understand that." He started to wrap up her arm.
"You looked just as angry as I was." She giggled a little, "Doesn't seem very understanding to me."
"I was a bit frustrated at the time." He said.
"A bit." Serina repeated.
As he tied off the bandage he accidentally added too much pressure to the cut.
"Ouch." She winced again.
"Sorry," He said, "Feel any better?"
"A little, still stings." She answered,
"What about just everything that happened today? How are you feeling?" Revali laid back onto the ground.
"I'm fine now… I just get mad about the smallest things once and a while. I'll just need a bit to cool off whenever that happens." She explained.
"So you don't hate me then?" He put one of his arms behind his head.
"I don't hate you… I just don't like the attitude sometimes." Serina held her hands over the fire to keep warm.
He nodded and folded his arms over his chest, closing his eyes. It didn't take long for him to drift off to sleep.
Serina, on the other hand couldn't go to sleep, it was too cold for her in order to do so, and the fire wasn't helping whenever she laid down.
A few hours went by, and Revali woke up in the middle of the night, noticing Serina wasn't by the fire. He sat up and looked around, eventually noticing that she wasn't too far off. She sat on top of a hill, hugging her knees to her chest, gazing up at the glittering sky.
"Now, just what do you think you're up to, Miss?" Serina turned her head to see him standing next to her.
"Can't sleep, so I decided to come over here. There's a better view of the stars." She said.
He sat next to her, "Mind if I join you?"
She shrugged, "If you want to."
"So what's preventing you from getting some rest?" He asked.
"It's silly." She said.
"Oh?" He raised an eyebrow at her, "Don't you want to share?"
"Well… It's just a little cold out." Serina admitted.
"Then why are you so far from the fire?" He chuckled.
"The fire kept me comfortable enough awake, but trying to sleep is difficult." She said, "It's weird, I know."
"Well then, let me make everything up to you." He held his wing out for her.
"You already have done a lot for me today… I don't want to ask for anything else." She smiled, "It's kind of my fault anyway, I my mood and yours just sort of clashed."
"Then let's call a truce, maybe it was just a bad day for the both of us." He said, "I'd like to avoid arguing with you, maybe get to know you a bit better."
He still held his wing out for her. She kept her smile, but was a little shy to accept the kind offer.
"I don't bite," he extended his wing out more.
Serina scooted closer to him and allowed him to wrap his wing around her shoulders. She shivered from the transition of cold to warmth. Immediately, she was aware of how soft his feathers were.
"Any better?" Revali asked.
"Very much so.. Thank you." She smiled.
She couldn't resist stroking the inside of his wing. This caught more of his attention, but he let her continue. He watched as she became engrossed in what she was doing. Serina reminded him of a child that wanted to touch everything.
"You've got some pretty well kept feathers here, you must be trying to impress someone." She teased.
"Is it working?" He smirked.
She blushed, "Don't get too ahead of yourself.."
Unaware, she was still stroking the inside of his wing with the back of her hand.
"I don't think I am," He smiled, "You're still petting my wing."
"I'm sorry," she stopped.
He chuckled, "It's fine, just because I pointed it out doesn't mean you have to quit."
Serina resumed petting his wing, "I don't know why, but I find it therapeutic."
"Then by all means, go ahead." Revali secured his wing around her.
"It reminds me of a pet bird I had." She said, "He was a little thing, and he'd sit on my finger. I'd just pet him. I never kept him in his cage, and he just stayed with me all the time."
"I'd go mad if I were put in a cage." He said.
"That's why I kept him out of it as much as I could. Birds are meant to fly, not to be confined. This little bird was some of the best company. He'd sing to me once and a while. I taught him a few simple songs." She smiled at the memory, "He'd go out and fly, then come back to me. That bird made me happy."
Revali smiled at her reminiscing. As she reflected on the happy memory, she started feeling tired. Eventually, she was unable to keep her eyes open. He felt her head on his shoulder and looked down. She had very quickly fallen asleep. He didn't bother to wake her, as she needed her rest.
End Flashback
Revali: Truly Serina, can you make this any longer of a chapter?
Me: Do you want it to be longer? Give me 30 more minutes and I'll make it longer.
Revali: Please no. Don't overwhelm your poor readers.
Me: Then we can do without the sarcasm. Ahem, anywho, I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, of course leave a review and stay tuned for the next. See you all then! :D
