Hello people. I am pleased to present the next chapter of Dovetail and, indefinitely LESS pleased to once again announce that I do not own Legend of Zelda.
Chapter 8: Into the Woods
(and other fairy tales)
(Dove's POV)
I stretched and yawned lazily, leaning back against a tree as I watch Link part tall grass by stomping on it. He had been at it for a good half hour and had yet to make much progress.
"Dimwit," I muttered.
Link stopped and wiped the sweat off his face. "What did you just call me?" he demanded.
"I said you're a dimwit!" I snapped, "If we want to get out of here sometime this YEAR, why don't you take your freakin' sword out and slice through that crap?"
Link glared and unsheathe the sword, his eyes betraying his embarrassment. The moron had probably forgotten it was there due to the fact that he wasn't used to having to carry a sword with him everywhere. Wordlessly, he began to work on hacking at the grass. About halfway through the sea of weeds, he turned and gave me an angry look.
"If you really want to speed things up then get off your lazy butt and help!" he growled.
"Well as much as I would LOVE to do that," I said sarcastically, "I don't have a nice, shiny piece of metal to work with, so no thanks!"
Link scowled at this and took his old sword out.
"Hn," I grunted, "You look an awful lot like a piece of grass."
"Is that a threat?" he demanded.
"Probably," I snorted, shooting him a sidelong glance.
He resheathe the practice sword. "Never mind," he said, obviously having second thoughts about his offer.
(Link's POV)
I resheathe my sword and used the end of my hat to wipe my face. I had decided that I was going to calm down and at least TRY to get along with Dove. I told myself that if I let every little thing that she said or did bug me, we'd tear each other apart before we found Zelda.
I took a deep breath and calmly turned around. "Alright Dove, let's-" I began.
Before I could finish, said girl shoved me aside. "Move," she said curtly.
Just like that, the calmness that I had established evaporated. I gritted my teeth and stamped my foot childishly.
"Screw you too," I grumbled, stalking off after her.
(Dove's POV)
"Come on!" I shouted, glaring at Link from the ledge I had climbed up on.
Link growled loudly and jumped up, catching the edge of the legde with his fingers and pulling himself up. He stood back and dusted off his tunic.
"Hn, about darn time!" I grumbled, stomping off down the path.
"Just what do you mean, 'about darn time'?" he shouted, clenching his fist.
"That you're slow and idiotic," I stated bluntly.
You could practically see a group of flashing, red anime anger symbols appear above his head. "What was that?" he said in a deadly calm tone, "You little runt. I dare you to say that again."
"Ha! If you think you can control this entire mission and tell me exactly what to do just because you're a few years older than me, you've got another thing coming," I told him.
"You little- I'm older than you AND smarter! Ergo, you do have to listen to me!" he answered.
"Well, you got the older part right," I smirked.
"You're rude, annoying, arrogant, and- FOR NAYRU'S LOVE! WATCH OUT!"
I turned just in time to see the world's biggest freakin' knife on a collision course with my head! Link's sword was drawn and thrust in front of me to block the oncoming blade.
The weapon belonged to a medium-sized red monster with sharp teeth and boar-like features. Three more appeared from over the nearby ridge.
Link looked at me. "Can I let you take half of them?" he inquired.
"Hn," I grunted, "Need you ask? Today I settle my debt to you!"
(Still Dove's POV)
My fist connected with the club-wielding creature, which gave a snarl of discomfort. It swung again and gave a surprised growl when I ducked underneath it's blow and knocked it's feet out from under it. The creature lost its grip on the club, which fell on its head. There it lay, killed by it's own weapon.
I glanced over at Link, who was currently exchanging sword blows with a heavily armed monster. "Keep your eye on your own battle!" he scolded, taking another swipe at the creature.
I turned to face the second monster, which was readying it's weapon. The blade gleamed in the sun as it lowered it and prepared to charge. My eyes fixed on the blade, I blanked out.
(Dramatic Flashback Time, Yo!)
Gotta run! Gotta find a safe place!
How did this happen? Nothing like this had ever happened before. The creature that had appeared was like nothing we'd ever seen. At least not for real. The stories often spoke of things like that, huge monsters with large, leathery wings, their claws and teeth as sharp as knives and their small, red eyes mercilessly fixed on their prey.
A second creature launched itself from the back of the first, cloaked in black armor and wielding an enormous sword.
Gotta run! What's a safe place? Home! Home's a safe place! Home is nice and warm! That's it, I gotta get home!
Made it! There's the front door! But why won't it open? Is it stuck? It's old, it must be stuck! It can't be locked! It just can't!
Where are you? Why won't you come and help? The door's stuck! It's stuck! Can't you tell? Why aren't you coming?
There you are! But why are you way up there? Why are you upstairs at the window? Why are you just standing there? Can't you see me? I'm out here!
"Daddy!"
What is it? Why are you looking at me like that?
"In this world, the strong live and the weak die," he says.
I don't get it! Why are you telling me this? Why don't you just let me in?
"Show them!" he shouts, "Prove you're strong! Fight! Fight, Dove!"
Fight? Fight what? I don't know how! Daddy I'm scared! Please! Please help me!
The large armored creature raises its sword and prepares to strike. The blade flashes in the pale moonlight as I tightly close my eyes.
"Fight Dove!"
(End Flashback)
A shower of sparks flew as the creature's blade crashed against Link's sword. He pushed back and slipped his sword through a gap in the creature's defense, ending the battle.
"I swear," he said, wiping his blade, "What goes on inside your head?"
I fell over backwards and stared straight ahead, not hearing a word he was saying through the minor state of shock I was in.
"You can be really idiotic sometimes! You know that?" he continued, "All that martial arts crap earlier and I think 'oh, she'll be fine. She knows how to fight!' But you can't even defend yourself against a flimsy knife like that!" he ranted.
A flimsy knife? It looked like a huge word to me. A huge sword wielded by a monster, who forever haunts my dreams.
Dun, dun, duuuuun! Okay so Dove's afraid of blades, who woulda thought? Also, it looks like Dove's dad had some pretty blunt ideas about how the cycle of life and death is supposed to work.
Now I've been looking for character themes, which I'm going to post for the next few chapters. The themes I have so far are Link, Zelda, Fi, ZeLink, Ghirahim, and Dove. If you have one for anyone not mentioned there let me know. I'll be posting one theme per chapter.
Link's theme: h t t p:/ /www. youtube. com/ watch?v =V_OaWoatkZ4
(remember to remove the spaces y'all! ^_^)
