I luv Vaati-Oo. What were you expecting? A giant golem made out of the village houses? And Meg isn't evil, she's just a gossip who doesn't like Dark. If you paid attention earlier, she's actually the person in town Vaati interacts with the most so he atleast trusts her with things that aren't supposed to be secret.

Cutiecat-Kill you? Never! (hides bloody chainsaw behind back)

marium-Yay!

morferedir-hah. I'm just gonna guess that lightwieght means he can't handle alcohol.

Cherry Maiden-Welcome to LitD

Chapter 10

Dark rushed down the stairs and out the front door when she heard bits and pieces of conversation from outside, an impressive feat considering that her stomach was now a little larger than the average woman's at what was now six months.

Walking down the main street was Link, a look on his face like he owned the place. At his side was Shadow, who was looking around nervously, he knew what was coming. Since Link didn't, he was much more shocked when a sword came at him out of nowhere. He barely blocked in time and turned to see a furious pregnant shadow glaring at him, weapon in hand.

Murmuring erupted from the crowd.

"What are you doing?" Link demanded as he blocked Dark's attacks. As he was unable to return her blows due to her condition he could do nothing but get pushed back.

"Where-the fuck-where you?" Dark yelled at him in between blows. "The only-reason-I came-on this stupid-trip in-the first place was-so you and-Shadow would-tell me what-the heck happened-that was erased from-my memories!" A sheepish look crossed Link's face, revealing that he'd forgotten this oh so important piece of information "I had to-put up with-a bunch of-people who don't-trust me by-default-a sonuvabitch-mage-and the stupids-non blond girl-I've ever-met for-nothing and it's-all your-fault!"

"Dark, stop" Shadow ran up and clung to his 'sister's leg "Link was just-calm down!"

"And you!" Dark spun around and attacked Shadow, he yelped and jumped out of the way "You're the one who had the bright idea to drag me here in the first place! And you left too!"

"Hey, that's enough" Link stepped between Dark and Shadow "It was my idea, all right? Saving a country is more important than filling in a few blanks"

"Easy for you to say" Dark snapped "You're not the one who needed the filling in. You have no idea what I've had to put up with"

"Well you shouldn't have wandered off when we first arrived then!" Link snapped, finally losing his patients "It's not like we tried to run away from you so that you couldn't catch up! You're the one who got mad and stormed off"

"Well you could have at least waited for me to catch up before going of to Farore knows where" Dark replied, though her initial rage had subsided "Now I think you owe me some answers"

Link looked around and the townspeople "And them too… Shadow, you go tell Dark what you know while I talk with them. I'll catch up in a minute or two."

Shadow nodded and tried to lead Dark away. It was only after much hesitance that the 'older' of the two agreed.

Once they were what Shadow judged to be a safe enough distance from Horon Village he began to speak "Okay, so you're memory gap starts where?"

Dark frown, though not completely out of her anger and said "I was at the castle, in charge of the assassination attempts"

"You came back and reported that all the ones that we'd planned had failed, and that there had been one no one claimed responsibility for. Someone told me later that you rescued a girl from the unknown attempt who had caught your attention, but I never heard about her after that so you probably forgot about her after you met Vaati"

"Vaati!" Dark exclaimed "What does he have to do with this?"

"You met him? Again?"

"Yeah. This is where he lives! And he's the biggest, rudest, son of-"

"You fell in love with him" Dark's voice failed her "And you convinced Ganondorf to let you and I move closer to town. The reason you gave him was so you cold spy on the villagers, but you really wanted to be closer to where Vaati had been staying at the time. Link's."

"Why would he be living with Link?"

"I don't know! Anyway, at some point the issue of 'Vaati is straight' came up, so you left and found someone who was willing to turn you into a girl"

"The traveling wonder witch" Dark said bitterly, unable to believe that she would see a woman with such a ridiculous name for such a reason.

"When Vaati saw you he had some sort of panic attack and, well, I don't know what exactly happened, but he kind of completely shot you down. Then Ganondorf saw you and figured out you were acting more on your own and accused you of betraying him. He imprisoned you and held you as a hostage for Vaati, though why he was so interested in Vaati is beyond me. Vaati got over whatever had transpired between the two of you when he found out and managed to free you. After that you'd need Link to fill you in on the details"

"So Vaati and I were an item?" Dark asked "But why would he have been such a jerk to me?"

"Maybe you had a lovers quarrel" Shadow joked

"Yeah, and he was so made he erased all my memories that could be related to him" Dark concluded, actually taking it seriously. It was at this point that Link came up "Okay, so what happened after Vaati rescued me from Ganondorf?"

Link shrugged "He and some guy, a Minish, named Riek brought you back to my house" Now that she recognized the name, it got much more of a reaction out of her "You stayed with us until Vaati's kids were born then-"

"Vaati has kids?"

Dark nodded "Twins, I think. I saw them, but he wouldn't tell me anything about them"

Link also nodded "Vaati had a, um, a magic accident and… an incident with Ganondorf-not one that Vaati was… well… a willing participant of. Anyway, he ended up pregnant, like Dark is now. Zelda and I sheltered him from Ganondorf while he was expecting because we figured it would be safer if we took the kid, or kids, and made sure they couldn't be influenced by either parent. You stopped us from, well, kidnapping them. Though Zelda hasn't given up. She wanted me to talk to some supposed great mage here who might be able to help"

"Well then she's out of luck" Dark told him "Vaati's that mage"

Link laughed "Good, I don't really want to take the kids anyway. So you and Vaati got the twins back and warped to, well, here I guess. After that you'd have to ask him"

"Well, he pretended not to recognize me" Dark said hotly "So I doubt he'll tell me anything"

"It's worth a shot, now that you know what you do" Link said "In fact" he added, quieting down "He's the only person I can think of who would erase them. I've seen him erase some of Ganondorf's memories before, so he does no how. And we asked Din after we beat Onox, she wasn't even aware you existed-though it doesn't necessarily have to be someone from Holodrum. It could be a… a…" Link burst out in laughter, growing louder again "A 'traveling wonder witch'!"

Dark had missed the joke, having already run off to locate Vaati.

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Conveniently, at this time news of Link's return and his defeat of Onox had reached Vaati, who was now wondering how to go about returning Dark's memories. Before he could decided on the best method to do so with the least anger on Dark's part, something hit him on the head.

He spun around, looking up at a rather pissed of shadow "Guess who I just talked to?" she asked. Her voice was dripping with false sweetness.

"Link?"

"Good guess" Vaati was hit on the head again "Wanna guess what he told me? No-let me save you the trouble. He told me you're the one who sealed away my memories."

"I-"

"Give them back now. And give me a good reason for why you'd have taken them too, or I'll tell the whole village all about how you ended up with those babies."

Vaati chuckled nervously "O-okay. Just… please… calm down." He sighed "Do you have your necklace?"

Dark blinked, having forgotten it was there. She pulled it out from under her shirt "Here"

Vaati put a hand to the gem and whispered something in Minish. He stepped back just in time to avoid getting hit by the light that sprang out of it. The light flew around in several stray beams for a few seconds before forming an orb in front of Dark. She looked at Vaati for a second before reaching out and touching it.

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