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Chapter 8: Questions, Questions, and More Questions
Zelda walked through the street cats as they talked to one another. Her dark blue eyes searched the alley until they rested on a familiar golden pelt. Link crouched next to a puddle towards the side of the alley, lapping up the water. She looked at him, a little nervous. I just want to know. She said to herself. Taking a deep breath and exhaling, Zelda walked toward the brown pawed, gold tortoiseshell. Once she approached, she took a seat next to him.
"Hi Link." She said with a nervous smile. Link looked up and acknowledged her with a nod, still drinking. Zelda shifted her paws and looked at the ground. "Soooo, Link. After seeing that there are kits, I took notice that you and Toony look almost alike." Link continued to look at her curiously, wondering where this was going. "Also seeing how close you and Sheik are, I was curious and wanting to know..." She looked into his cerulean eyes. "Are you and Sheik mates?"
Link's eyes widen in surprise at her question and he did a spit take, squirting water right out of his mouth and began to cough. Zelda looked at him with concern and began to pat him on the back to ease his choking. When his coughing died down, he looked up at her with utmost confusion.
"What?" He asked. "What made you think that Sheik and I were mates?" Zelda looked down at her paws again in embarrassment.
"It's just...I thought that in order for kits to be here, some of you had to be mates. Like I said, you and Sheik are pretty close and that Toony looks so much like you, I thought that you and Sheik were mates and the parents to Toony." Link looked at her and his confusion began to fade into amusement. He started to chuckle and as he did so, Zelda tilted her head, now the confused one.
"Why are you laughing?" She asked.
"Your thoughts." Link replied. He looked into her questioning gaze. "I can see how you would think those things, but none are true. Me and Toony are half-brothers and me and Sheik, we're just best friends. Since we were kits, we've been friends and nothing more. I see her more as a sister and I know she sees me in the same way." Zelda took in this information and sighed with a smile.
"Okay, that really clears things up." She said. Link smiled back at her.
"Good." He said. Now knowing that Link and Sheik are not mates with no kits, it made Zelda feel relieved and less disappointed and, well, glad. Why she felt this way, she still wasn't sure. Both sat in a silence for a moment. One question still lingered in Zelda's mind, though.
"Well, if there are kits here, then who are their parents?" She asked.
"To be honest, I don't know." Link responded. Zelda gave him another confused look.
"Then where...?"
"Here, I'll explain. The only two that are in a relationship are Ike and Samus, and they don't have kits. How we have the ones that live with us is a different story. Toony, you already know, is my half-brother so that's why he's here, but the others, we found. They were either abandon by humans, like Popo, Nana, and Ness. We found the tortoiseshells in a box by the highway. Ness, we found in an abandon house. And the others, they were abandon by their parents. Villager was the runt of his litter so he was left behind by his family. By what Lucas told us, his mother died of a disease and his brother was killed by a pitbull. After that, his father just shut down and left him to fend for himself, that's how we found him."
Zelda listened to the stories he told. "Okay, i get it now. They were all just abandon and you guys took them in."
Link nodded. "That's right."
"Wow, that's really nice of you all."
"Heh, heh. Well it's what we do. Help others."
Zelda thought for a moment then asked another question. "How did you all meet?"
"Well, we were all just normal, independent alley cats." Link replied. "We kept to ourselves and didn't bother others. The only ones that I interacted with were Toony and Sheik. It stayed that way for a while until Ganondorf and his cronies moved here. He threaten everyone and attacked them. No one could face him on their own, so we all came together into a little clan so that we could have a better defense. After a while, we got to know each other better and soon, we all became friends."
Zelda nodded her head at the new information she just learned. Everything is just so free here! She said to herself. They look after one another and just explore. This is the way I want to live. Like them.
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"Here's where you can sleep for the night." Mario said. The street cats were now retiring to their box-dens for the night. Mario had then showed the housecats where they can stay. A large box that had a little worn out blanket in it. "It's no cat bed or anything," The brown cat continued apologetically. "but it's the cleanest box we have."
"Don't worry, it's perfectly fine." Marth said and Zelda and Midna nodded in agreement. Peach, however, looked at the worn blanket and small dirt stains on the box and looked as if she wanted to complain, but Midna gave her a warning glare and she didn't.
Mario dipped his head. "Well then, have a good nights sleep and we'll see you in the morning." As the brown cat bounded away, the housecats turned and entered the large box and settled down on the blanket.
"Well, today was an interesting day, wasn't it?" Midna asked.
"Most definitely." Marth agreed.
"I like these alley cats." Zelda said. "They're really nice." Especially Link.
"We should get to sleep, though." Peach meowed with a yawn. The others agreed and rested their heads on their paws. Zelda, though, couldn't sleep. Link still lingered in her mind. His handsome, golden tortoiseshell fur cascading his body and his dark brown paws and his bright cerulean eyes glistening. I can't take it anymore! Zelda quietly, so not to wake her friends, got up and exited the box-den. She trotted across the alley to the other box-dens until she found one with Link's familiar golden pelt in it.
Cautiously, she approached the box-den and poked her head in. Link was curled up in a ball with his legs pressed against his body and his tail wrapped around and covered his nose. She smiled at his adorable state and bent down and nudged him with her paw.
"Link." Zelda whispered in his ear. Link shifted and opened his eyes to see two dark blue orbs staring down at him.
"AAAAHHH!" He freaked out and abruptly shot up, bashing his and Zelda's heads together in the process. The two meowed in pain and rubbed their for heads. Link looked at the cat that woke him up and immediately recognized who she was.
"Zelda!" He said in surprise. "I'm sorry! Are you alright?" He walked up and nuzzled her forehead, worry shining in his eyes. Zelda looked at him.
"Don't worry, I'm fine." She reassured. "Anyways, I'm sorry for waking you up and scaring you."
Link smiled warmly. "It's okay, do you need anything?"
"Well, uh..." Zelda looked down in embarrassment. "I was just wondering...if I could, well...sleep with you in your den." An awkward atmosphere spread between the two. Link's eyes widen and he blushed.
"You want to sleep, with me?" He asked. Zelda nodded and lightly blushed as well.
"That's if it's okay with you." She added in quickly. "If it isn't, that's okay, I'll go."
"No, no. It's okay. If it's what you want."
Zelda looked up to meet his gaze and smiled warmly. She stepped fully into the box-den as Link settled back down. She curled up next to him and snuggled into his side, causing him to blush more due to her closeness. Link rested his head on his paws.
"Good night Zelda." He said quietly.
"Good night Link." Zelda replied.
And together, the two drifted to sleep.
Done! Sorry if this was a short chapter. Trying to keep a pace here. Also, another sweet Zelink moment! Yay! Thank you all for reading! I hope you enjoyed, the next chapter will be up soon. See ya!
