I will be finishing posting this tonight then I'll get the sequel up as well. Chapter name is, Pranks and conversations.
"You know I used to hate Hylia." Link said suddenly out of the blue while in Demise's office.
The Demon King was so shocked by the words that he spilled ink all over the documents he was working on. He scowled at the mess then looked at the hero who was sitting by the window looking out at the market.
"What?" Demise asked confused as to where this had come from.
"Hylia...I wasn't fond of her at first. I just get free from prison, my own people who let me rot there need me...want me to fight and even the goddess herself wants me to." Link scoffed lowering his head with a bitter sad smile. "They needed me so they made use of me, I wonder sometimes if I had succeeded would they have left me alone?"
Demise stood from his chair and made his way around the desk to stand beside the hero who didn't look at him.
"Or would they have wanted me to help build our new home when all I would want at that point is just to rest and be left to my own devices…" Link wasn't sure why he was telling Demise all this, it wasn't like the Demon King cared- no he did care about Link in his own way but care about his past, thoughts and feelings? No way.
"Feeling depressed and nostalgic Link?" Demise asked as he sat across the hero who looked at him surprised. Demise didn't call him by name often.
"...I guess I am." The first hero said with a long sigh. "Why I'm telling you I don't know."
"Perhaps because I'm not going to judge you? We did have a little talk once before." The Demon King reminded him.
"We did." Link agreed with a nod.
"So if you had lived and brought me down," Demise started looking at the hero closely. "What would you have done? Settled down had started a family?"
Link shook his head slowly. "Either you're blind or just didn't pay attention. While I didn't like Hylia at first I didn't hate her forever...we had a relationship...you don't look too surprised. Why did you bother asking if you already knew?"
"Because if you had lived hero, Hylia wouldn't have stuck around, you would have had to pick another woman." Demise responded. This talk of the hero having a family gave him a touch of irritation that he wasn't happy to be feeling.
Link didn't notice the Demon King's mood getting bad. "I suppose you're right." Link looked back out the window. "It might have taken me awhile to get over Hylia and find another woman."
Demise frowned as thought came to him. "...Does that mean you didn't have a woman in your life before prison?" He asked.
Link snorted. "I wasn't interested really, to be honest I still really wasn't even with Hylia but at that point I knew you would kill me so I just enjoyed what I had." The hero replied giving Demise a dull look. How did they end up in this conversation? "My love life life was pretty non existent and yes that means I died a virgin." Link laughed at Demise's shocked face. "My fellow knights reacted around the same way when they found out I had never been with a woman before, priceless." Link held his laughter slightly but didn't manage to stop.
"If you knew you would die why not make a request from Hylia? I doubt she would have denied you." Demise commented when the hero stopped laughing.
"Huh...no." Link snapped giving Demise a glare. "Do you know how many women were interested in me? A good lot of them, anyone of them would have and I have no doubts Hylia would have said no if I asked but I would have rather there be strong feelings attached instead of it merely being physical. You and other demons may not care but most of us humans do."
Demise's eyes narrowed. "You aren't suggesting I've ever forced anyone are you?"
The hero shrugged. "I wouldn't put it past you or your legions, you are demons after all."
"I'll have you know hero," Demise growled feeling a touch insulted that the hero thought that of him. "If I was ever in the habit of forcing humans you would have been the first." Demise took a breath. "I have done many things and allowed my demons to do things but that has always been one thing I have not allowed."
Link kept a straight face at the first sentence then relaxed at the next one. He was rather glad Demise had never liked that kind of thing now.
"Why not try now hero?" Demise asked the man. "Plenty of gerudo to pick from."
Link gave a long sigh. "I'm sorry but did you forget I'm not here by choice Demise?" The hero asked giving the Demon King a frown. "I still often think of getting away and going back to the heavens where I belong. Besides, I still have feelings for Hylia. It isn't right to be with a woman while thinking of another." He said not looking at Demise knowing he'd be displeased to know Link hadn't given up on getting away. To his surprise though Demise didn't react and merely changed the subject.
That was...strange.
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Link was currently wondering if pranking a Demon King was a good idea...he was thinking no it wasn't.
"Hello, bye!" Link said quickly as he ran past a small group of gerudo who laughed at him. Yeah they could laugh since Demise wasn't out for their blood.
"Shit!" Link hissed picking up pace and vaulting over a short stone wall heading to the farms, he could hide there somewhere while Demise cooled off. He really needed it as he was growling while chasing him. Link was never going to prank him again after this!
"Hero you better stop running or things will be worse for you!" Demise roared from somewhere behind him.
The was no way in hell Link was going to stop! He hadn't seen Demise this pissed off in ages, he would rather keep all his limbs thank you very much.
Link pushed a cart behind him hoping it'd buy a him a few seconds to hide, this was a narrow path and Demise wasn't a small man. Quickly the hero found some tall wheat that hadn't yet been harvested and dove into it, he made sure to keep moving for a bit but slowly so Demise would think it was the wind.
He was going to stay put for a few hours.
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Link had been hiding in the wheat for around thirty minutes when he abruptly found himself knocked over and pinned to the dirt. Demise glared down at him. "...I'm sorry?" Link tried giving an innocent look. "Gah!" The hero found himself lifted up and held under Demise's arm. He hadn't thought that would work but it was worth a try.
"You're going to clean up the mess you made then I'll decide what to do with you hero." Demise growled as he began the walk back to the castle.
Link groaned, he was never ever going to prank Demise again. It wasn't worth it.
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"How long am I staying here for?" Link asked with an annoyed sigh.
"Until I can trust you not make another mess." Demise snapped from his desk.
Link was stuck under a dark purple barrier on the floor in the corner of the office, he was sitting with his back to the wall arms crossed and very bored. He was glad that Demise hadn't hurt him though, there was no end of ways to harm him without leaving permanent damage. Since he was stuck here feeling bored he decided to hum some of the ocarina songs The Hero of Time learned. He had them memorized...he wished he had a flute or ocarina sometimes, playing music was a good pass time.
Demise looked up from his paperwork to gaze at the hero dryly then blankly as he was humming. Was that...Zelda's Lullaby? He'd heard it a few times over all the reincarnations, he wouldn't deny that it was a nice song. The hero then switched to a song he didn't know.
"What is that one?" Demise asked as he filled out the document.
The hero looked over at the Demon King and shrugged, it wouldn't hurt anything to tell him. "The Elegy of Emptiness. The Hero of Time used it while he was in Termina." Link explained.
"...I don't remember that place." Demise said confused.
"That's because it's an alternate world or something. He ended up there while searching for his fairy Navi. He got turned into a Deku Scrub by a Skull Kid who was being controlled by an evil mask and no I will not tell you about said mask I don't even know where the thing is." Link said quickly seeing Demise get interested. He almost laughed at the fake pout he got in return. "The mask made the moon come closer to the town where in three days it would fall and destroy and kill all."
"...Are you telling me that hero managed to stop that within three days without stopping to eat and sleep all while a Deku?" Demise asked in disbelief.
The first hero laughed softly. "No, no. Here I'll explain…"
There had been a few times Demise hadn't been the danger, it was something or someone else. Demise likely didn't care to keep up with all the heros either so it wasn't a huge shocker he didn't know about these times.
However Link didn't fail to notice the barrier coming down and Demise calming sooner than he usually did when angry. He was calmer and a touch nicer lately. It was starting to make him concerned, what was the Demon King planning?
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Link often said he hated Demise now he really did. Demise had been in a rather good mood a week after the prank Link had pulled and decided to introduce Link to a game the gerudo played now and then. Of course the Demon King didn't bother to tell him one has to have some power over magic to make the game work.
It's called Sand Surfing, you control the sand at your feet and move along, most tend to race. Link has never been one to use magic, some of his incarnates have used it but him? No.
Demise had sent him rolling out into the main desert when the Demon King was controlling the sand for him. The hero had ended up rolling right into quicksand, it had taken him ten minutes to get out safely and by that time Demise had lost track of him.
If this was payback for the prank it was in very poor taste.
It had been.
Link hadn't known where to go to get back to the town so he hadn't moved from beside the quicksand, he knew when you got lost you didn't wander around you stayed put. The hero had been out in the desert until late at night, it was when the gerudo finally found him.
Getting him back to the town there was high chances of him getting a fever due to the cold, he also had a sprained wrist from his roll down the sand.
Demise had gotten an earful from the healers for not being more careful. Link had been happy to hear that. He was bored now, he was stuck in bed with a fever that refused to break and his wrist was taking it's time to heal. He had books to read but he wasn't in the mood to read them, he'd gone through most of them already.
Link looked away from the light up window when sensed someone at the door. "Go away Demise, this is your fault." Link snapped then ended up laughing when he saw the reason Demise was here. The healer who always gave him an earful was pushing him into the room while dragging a small cart behind her.
"You caused this," She said poking the Demon King's chest. "You take care of him and be nice or else." She turned and left the room leaving a heavily amused Link and annoyed Demise behind.
"Hero stop laughing before you get a coughing fit." Demise grumbled as he glared at the man who was laughing at his expense.
Link merely gave him a cheeky grin and kept laughing...he did end up with a coughing fit that made him think better of laughing more.
The fever got worse due to a scratch that hadn't been found, quicksand and who knew what else had gotten in it. The fever had gotten so bad the healers were worried he would die from it, Demise found himself on pins and needles hoping the hero wouldn't die as it would take too much effort to drag his soul back down again. Thankfully Link did beat the fever, the first thing he did when he was fully better was glare at Demise and say, "If you ever want to have fun again go by yourself." That had gotten a laugh out of the healers.
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"What are you?- Hey! Don't mess with that!"
Two gerudo woman paused in walking to the kitchen hearing Link's voice.
"Do calm down it's like look I'm going to-"
There was a loud thumping sound which had the two women racing around the corner to see what happened and burst out laughing at what they saw.
A bag of flour was on the floor both their Lord Ganon and Link were covered in it. Link had his eyes shut tightly, jaw locked and lips pressed together, his hands were held up in front of his chest as though he had tried to stop the flour. Lord Ganon was glaring down at the bag even though they could bet it was his own fault this happened.
Link rubbed the flour off his face then glared at Demise. "Thank you ever so much for that." He gave the two gerudo dry look. "Just gonna laugh or help clean?"
Both women stopped laughing and to Link's sadness got out of the kitchen.
"Oh no you don't!" Link hissed as he grabbed Demise's wrist. "You made this mess you are going to help me clean it up!"
"Oh am I now?" Demise growled dangerously.
"Don't you growl at me, I'll get your favorite person." Link threatened.
The Demon King and hero had a glaring match that Link ended up winning, Demise didn't want to deal with the hot tempered healer again even if it had been a week since the hero got better.
"What were you doing anyway hero?" Demise asked as they both worked on wiping down the counters that had flour on them.
"I'm fond of black forest cake I decided to make some." Link explain as he pointed over to the other counter where everything he needed for the cake was. "I'll need more flour now, thanks ever so much." He snipped.
"...I thought baking was woman's work?" The Demon King said confused. "There are cooks you could have asked as well."
Link rolled his eyes. "You are one of those people huh? Men can bake and cook too. I had to learn when I lost my parents, I didn't want to bother anyone to cook my meals for me. It wasn't a problem after I became a knight, the barracks had a cook." The hero explained this as he brushed the last of the flour off the counter then got a dustpan to sweep it up. "There were cleaners too, I helped the cooks and clears sometimes. I will never understand how some people can just toss out good food and leave trash all over, it isn't hard to put trash in the garbage and out right clean up after yourself."
"You're forgetting hero that just because you were brought up to clean up after yourself it doesn't mean others are or have been, even if they had it doesn't mean they will keep up with it once their families can no longer tell them off for not doing it."
Link gave a short laugh. "You aren't wrong you know? I snapped at a fellow knight once he promised to clean up better, not two days later I catch him just tossing things around." The hero shook his head fondly. "I'm glad he didn't want to be a father, his wife would have always been yelling at him to stop making a mess and set a better example."
Even Demise gave a snort at that. "Would have helped the kid make a mess of the bedrooms I imagine."
Link gave another laugh.
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Another month had gone by, a month of which Demise had been way too nice and calm no matter what had happened. Link was confused and had an incredibly bad feeling. He'd get his answers in Demise's office, the Demon King had been reading an awful lot of books lately, the answer had to be in one of them.
The first hero glanced around then carefully peered through the lock on the door, it was big enough to make that work. The Demon King wasn't in there, good he could look around.
Of course the door was locked, however Link had come prepared. He knew how to pick locks, he had taken up a few things while up in the heavens. It could take hundreds to thousands of years for a new hero to be born sometimes, he needed something to do while he wasn't needed. Only The Hero of Time knew he could pick locks, he was the one who suggested the idea. Too bad he never thought to take it up himself, would have saved a ton of trouble. Maybe one day a Link would learn how to pick locks.
A soft click sounded through the empty hall, the hero grinned in victory. That had been a challenging lock, it gave way thank goodness. He needed to look at those books.
Opening the door slowly so as not to make a sound Link carefully snuck into the office, he shut the door and placed a chair near it so if it began to open he would have a warning and few seconds to come up with an excuse to be in here.
He started his search at the desk and only found one book of interest. Roiyaritī...he'd seen the word before. He'd read it before Demise tossed him out of the office. What did it mean? Link started to look through the bookshelves, he found a book titled, "Roiyaritibaundo" the word was longer and looked different but it was mostly the same. The hero flicked the book open scanning the pages trying to figure out what the word was.
Link frowned. It meant loyalty? Why did Demise refuse to let him see this if it just meant loy- roiyaritī meant loyalty, roiyaritibaundo meant Loyalty Bound. Link had bad feeling...he kept reading nonetheless he needed to know what this was-
All color drained from Link's face. It was a spell to force loyalty, it caused a great deal of pain as it took effect and changed physical appearance.
"It would have been better," Link jumped violently dropping the book and turned sharply at Demise's voice. He was giving Link a mixture of a disappointed look and sadness. "If you had not felt the need to snoop."
Link quickly moved away from the bookshelves and darted behind Demise's desk as the Demon King got closer. He couldn't let Demise cast that spell over him, he couldn't!