A/N: The picture I have in use is from dA by an artist lychi and the picture's name is just simply Zelda.
Also, another note: I do NOT own the characters or places unless said otherwise. Nintendo has the rights. =P Honestly speaking, all I have is the idea for the story, few monsters, creatures and bit of changing the places. Oh, and couple of OCs here and there. ^^; I'm certain everyone can figure out which belongs to me and which doesn't. =)
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Summary: Easter has come into Hyrule and it's the first one for the dark Hylian. Link got few plans for the time and he efficiently ropes Dark into it too. Yet, the dark Hylian realizes very quickly how much the celebrated time can be.
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Enjoy the chapter! ^.^
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Situations from their lives
CHAPTER 9: Easter at Hyrule (2014)
"Link?" Dark called as he came into their room. The dark Hylian had slightly confused frown on his face as he walked to the bed and sat down. Link hummed and turned his gaze from the ceiling into his brother. "What's Easter?" Dark inquired while slightly tipping his head to side.
"Easter?" The Hero asked and sat up. His slightly confused look turned into a smile. "What do you know about it so far?" Link queried while watching the darker Hylian.
Dark dropped his gaze into the bed and shrugged. "Not much. There's lot of decoration by the color of yellow. Lots of bunnies and little chickens. And eggs." He replied but frowned even more. "And not just any eggs but, um... Colored ones." The dark Hylian raised his gaze to the Hero. "Is there a difference between the colored ones and normal ones? I mean that... I just..." He trailed off while trying to figure things out.
Link chuckled and crawled over to his closest friend and hugged him. "Easter is a time when kids can color eggs, eat lots of candies and chocolate. It's about searching for those colored eggs which usually are made of chocolate. Some of them actually does have a slight surprise inside. Some of kids even dress up like at Halloween but not as freaky going. Um... Actually, Easter is pretty much like Halloween minus the scary stuff." He explained carefully. "Also, while Halloween is only for one day and night, Easter is for about a week or so." The Hero continued.
Dark stayed quiet for a long while as he went through all of the information. Once he had made his conclusions, he slumped and sighed. "So, it's just for kids, huh?" The dark Hylian asked bit defeated.
Link chuckled and shook his head. "No. It's for everyone. It's just that kids don't have as much of fear of showing things off than what adults do. Anyways, since we got into this topic, I have had something in my mind for a while now." He answered and started to grin. "Come on! Follow me!" The Hero half shouted while already getting off of the bed and dragging Dark along.
The duo went through the castle and straight into the kitchen. It was oddly free of people but that was all the better for the Hero's thought. "Take a seat. I'll be right back!" Link stated, winked once and left through the backdoor. Dark sighed and slumped down to the closest table.
Soon the Hero came back with a basket full of white eggs, few different sized paintbrushes and lots of different paints. "Let's have some fun!" Link said eagerly as he put the things to the table. The dark Hylian watched fully confused as the Hero opened the paints, took the eggs carefully out of the basket and got everything ready. "Pick an egg, brush and paint and start to decorate it. Have fun and do whatever comes into your mind!" Link explained very swiftly before already rolling up his sleeves and taking the first egg up.
Dark was still fully surprised so he just watched what the Hero was doing. The white egg got waves of green, squared of blue, two yellow bit of childish looking little chickens, one red bunny, top of the egg was a violet star while the other end got orange dots. Link checked his work with a small smile. "Probably not what you'd have in mind but good enough." He stated with a slight grin before using very small amount of heat of Din's Fire to dry the colors and put the egg into the basket after that. "So, come on! There's lot of eggs. I can't do them all!" The Hero coaxed happily.
The dark Hylian was still bit reluctant but he finally took up an egg and a paintbrush. He bit slightly to his lower lip as he dipped the paintbrush to the first color and started to work with the egg. "Darky..." Link called as Dark was taking lot of notion and time with doing Triforce into there. The dark Hylian raised his gaze up. "It's supposed to be fun, quick and just to do whatever comes into mind. No offence, but you're not supposed to be doing masterpieces of them." The Hero explained and gave a nervous smile. "Um... These are chocolate eggs which means that, um... They're gonna break the egg." He said bit sorrowfully.
Dark stared wide-eyed at Link for a while before dropping his gaze back into the egg in his hand. "I..." He whispered before sighing and slumping. "But, why to color them then?" The dark Hylian inquired fully confused.
"For fun. For showing off." The Hero answered and shrugged before grinning. "Besides, it's more fun to search for nicely colored eggs than fully white ones, don't ya think?" Link stated bit mischievously. Dark frowned as the thought the words through but he eventually nodded slowly as he understood what the Hero was meaning.
"What kind of things is connected with Easter?" The dark Hylian inquired while raising his gaze back into Link. The Hero frowned a bit as he thought the question through.
"Hmm... That's a good one. Let's see... Like you said, bunnies and chickens. Black cats and witches. The yellow color." Link said and shrugged. "That's pretty much the main things."
Dark nodded and turned his gaze back into the egg. He stared at it before he let the paintbrush just slightly grace the white egg. It left a yellow dot into there. The dark Hylian frowned a bit and repeated his work. "Well... Why not... Just this time..." He thought as his frown cleared off and he slightly smiled while letting the brush touch the egg several more times and leaving yellow dots here and there. After that Dark changed color and just repeated his earlier work. Green Triforce and green dots. Third brought blue Triforce and blue dots. "You think this is good?" He finally asked while giving the egg to Link.
The Hero checked the egg and nodded with a smile. "I think it's perfect." He replied happily while putting the egg into the basket where about three eggs were already. "Just keep doing and have fun. Don't think. Just go for the first thing that comes to mind while thinking about Easter. Okay?" Link advised as Dark picked up second white egg.
The dark Hylian nodded and this time just started to color the egg. For once he didn't care of mistakes or what he was doing. He just went for whatever came into his mind. Dark didn't even cringe as he created a small yellow chicken that didn't have the eyes and the legs were yellow instead of orange. Same kind of thing went with a black cat.
Link was fully happy as he saw how much the dark Hylian was starting enjoy their little egg painting session. The more fun Dark was having, the more of eggs he was able to do. And he didn't ask from the Hero whether or not the egg was good enough. Instead he just checked it once around, dried the paints and put it among other Easter eggs.
About an hour later from the time they started, the last egg was colored. "W-was that the last one?" Dark inquired bit startled as he looked around in case there would've been one more. Link chuckled and gave bit of an apolitical smile.
"Looks like that. But, we're up for different thing now." The Hero replied as he started to gather the paintbrushes to get them cleaned. "Can you put the lids into the paints?" He inquired and glanced at the dark Hylian. Dark simply nodded and started to help with the cleaning of the room.
Once all was cleaned, Link fetched another basket with eggs but these ones were already colored. It bit disappointed the dark Hylian but he very soon found out the reason why they were already done. "The kids from all around Hyrule came over couple of days ago and colored these. They're going to come back tomorrow and by that time these eggs gotta be hidden." The Hero explained as they started to leave the kitchen. "Tomorrow whole castle, minus our and Zelda's rooms, are fully open for them. They have two parts to search for these. Inside the castle and outside from the country yards. These two baskets are the last patch to hide anymore." Link continued as he gave the basket they had done to Dark.
The Hero grinned and nodded. "Get going. Hide those as well as you can. Inside or outside, which ever you prefer. Once you're ready, we'll see at here. Got it?" He stated calmly.
Dark blinked and looked at the colorful eggs. "I... I can hide these? Wherever I want to?" He inquired bit surprised. Link just simply nodded and the dark Hylian slowly started to smile. "AWESOME! This'll be so much of fun!" He nearly shouted before he already grinned widely. "See you soon, Link!" The dark Hylian called before he already dashed off.
The Hero smiled widely and watched him leave. "Have fun, Dark. I still got few ideas for ya..." He thought happily before leaving to hide the last basket of Easter eggs.
It took few hours before the duo met up again. Dark was actually already waiting for Link with a wide smile on his face. "Anything else for Easter?" He inquired straight off when the Hero came back with the empty basket. Link chuckled and nodded.
"You're eager with this. But, that's only good. And yeah, I still got few good ideas if you're willing." He replied and sat down opposite the dark Hylian. Dark nodded eagerly and waited for Link to continue. "The castle needs bit of decoration for the Easter. I got lots of paper and carbon but we need to cut small things out of them before planting them all around the castle. You willing for this?" He explained before already going to get the needed things and planted them down to the table. "You in?" The Hero inquired.
Dark blinked few times before grinning widely. "Oh yeah! I'm in!" He replied eagerly, took the first yellow colored paper and scissors before already starting to cut a small chicken out of it. Link watched for a while as the dark Hylian worked the small animal out of the paper without any of problem or backup. After that he took up a pen and drew eyes and wings for the yellow chicken. "This what you meant, right?" Dark inquired carefully.
The Hero nodded while smiling. "Fully." He replied before starting to work too. The darker Hylian's smile widened if any possibilities and he took up a new paper. After doing a light brown rabbit, he started to frown a bit.
"Link..." Dark called bit hesitantly. Link raised his gaze up with a slight worried frown and nodded that he's listening. "Is there any of chances that I could, um... Decorate these too?" The dark Hylian inquired and glanced at the yellow chicken and light brown bunny he had done so far.
The Hero chuckled and nodded. "Of course you can. The more colorful they are, the better. You can do whatever you want for them." He replied smiling which only widened as Dark's expression brightened and worked up few colorful decorations for his works. The bunny got a red ribbon and an Easter egg into its paws. The yellow chicken got different colored dots all around it.
They continued like that. After having used all there was of the papers, the duo left to decorate the castle. Yellow small chickens, few different colored bunnies, couple of black cats and few witches were soon all around the castle. Dark was fully having fun while making the castle fully ready for the Easter.
All this had taken the whole day but the dark Hylian just barely got to sleep since he was fully eager of the next day. They, along with lots of guards and knights, were going to look after the kids when they'd come. The next day started off early and only couple of hours after the duo had woken up, the children came over.
The day went fully while looking after the kids so that they wouldn't get themselves harmed nor causing trouble for others. Dark helped several of the younger children as they had bit of trouble in finding the hidden eggs. It wasn't much of other than few simple riddles. Those didn't need much of thinking since the dark Hylian had put some of the decorations pretty much right over the place where a colored egg was hidden into. He especially helped those who hadn't found even one egg. Dark was not going to let any of the kids leave without having found at least one egg from the hundreds if not thousands of colored eggs that were hidden into the castle and its surroundings.
"You're being bit too nice with them, you know." Link told him once when no-one else was around but his smile was fully going against his accusation.
Dark just simply shrugged. "I think I'm only being fair." He replied with a slight grin.
The Hero chuckled and nodded. "Better that way." Link answered while being fully grateful that his brother was looking after the kids so willingly and helping them as well as he could without plain out stating the hiding places out to the children.
The day went fully while watching after the children. The next day started off late since both Link and Dark slept long simply because there wasn't anything that they had to do. Yet, the Hero was awake before the dark Hylian which was good for Link's own little plan.
Once Dark finally started to wake up, the first thing he found was a very colorful egg not too far from his face. He blinked few times and frowned while getting up. "It's for you, bro." The Hero stated happily while sitting on the bed and just watching the darker Hylian.
Dark frowned but took the Easter egg up tentatively. "It's... It's not normal egg, is it?" He inquired fully confused as he felt the paper instead of the smooth shell of the egg.
Link nodded his confirmation. "Open it." He replied while smiling a bit. The darker Hylian still frowned as he carefully and bit slowly took the paper off of the egg.
"Chocolate?" He inquired fully puzzled. "But... It's not full chocolate, is it?" Dark continued while not knowing what he was supposed to feel or do.
The Hero chuckled and grinned a bit. "Crack it open, Darky." He said as an answer.
"Huh?" Dark replied even more confused.
Link sighed a bit but he was still smiling. "Shake it." He nearly commanded. The darker Hylian slumped a bit but did as he was told... Only to hear the slight sound of something hitting into the walls of the chocolate egg.
"What the...?!" He half shouted in shock and stared wide-eyed at the egg in his hands. The Hero was grinning again.
"Like I said, open it." Link stated. "Don't worry at all. Just get it opened whatever way you want to do it." He continued calmly.
Dark looked at the Hero with fully puzzled look at his face but stayed silent as he tried to figure out a way to get the chocolate egg opened. Eventually he carefully licked at the chocolate, mainly to make sure it really was chocolate. Once he had confirmed that, he gave a very small and tentative bite to the peak of the egg. That gave a slight chance to take a peek into the inside of the chocolate egg. Unfortunately, though, it was still too small for whatever the egg contained to come out yet.
Link watched as Dark started to eat the egg and create the hole bigger. Eventually he got the small thing out but frowned again as the thing seemed to have some kind of paper around it. "Open it." The Hero stated again and nodded to him. The dark Hylian was bit uncertain but he started to unwrap the papers around the small thing. "What is it?" Link inquired carefully while trying to get a notion of what Dark got.
The dark Hylian gasped a bit as he finally got the small thing out of hiding. It was a small Wolfos toy. Sure, it had some small mistakes but the toy was that of small that the mistakes could be forgiven. Dark smiled as he showed the toy to Link. "Wolfos. Looks quite nice too." He said happily.
"I agree with that fully." The Hero replied before hugging the dark Hylian. "Happy Easter, bro." He whispered with a wide smile.
Dark answered to the hold very swiftly. "Likewise, Link. Thanks." He answered while fully knowing that Easter was something he was going to like from year to year.
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