Last major OC, probably, and a look at some of his powers and an example of Veronica's.
Chapter 10:
Link never did get a reply from Veronica regarding her clothing. Link didn't ask again, mostly due to the fact that he doubted he would get an answer. Link walked back to Malon's bar, assuming Veronica would follow him. She didn't.
Link, after having walked to the top of the ridiculously long staircase that led to the lower part of the villager, looked back and saw her still standing in front of her house, watching him. Link sighed, irritated that he had to get her to follow him. "You agreed to come with me. Come on," Link said, though he said it a bit harsher than he meant.
"I agreed to join you, not to follow you around wherever you go," Veronica replied.
"Alright, fine. Why don't you want to come with me, and how do you plan on joining me if you won't come with me?" Link asked.
"Well, I was expecting you to tell me where you needed to go to find these shades or whatever they are and I'd just teleport there, translate, and leave. As for joining you, you're the Hero. A lot of dangerous stuff happened to you in the past. I don't want to get hurt, and it seems that by joining you I would get seriously hurt," Veronica replied.
"Fine, let's make a deal. I promise to protect you from danger to the best of my ability if you agree to come with me, and promise not to flee. If you do flee, I will find you, I will force you to come with me, and you will submit, and if I have to do that, then I will no longer be bound by my promise to protect you. Deal?" Link held out his hand. Though Link was reluctant to use any form of magic, even the magic of his Triforce piece, he felt that he had no choice. Link tapped into his Triforce of Courage and activated its sealing power, to make this agreement magically binding. His Triforce piece began to glow, drawing the attention of Veronica.
"Why is that mark glowing?" Veronica asked.
"It binds me to keep my end of the bargain. I will have no choice but to protect you danger, at least as far as I am able. Now, do we have a deal?" Link replied.
Veronica hesitated for a moment, then nodded her head and shook Link's hand. The glowing from the Triforce of Courage surrounded them and pierced through both of their hearts, briefly linking them together by a golden light. Link felt no pain from this, but it did feel odd. Link had no way of describing it other than weird.
When the light faded Link said to Veronica "Well, that was odd. Now, we need to find a boy named Norman. Can you help?"
"No, not without knowing him first. And I don't know any Normans, sorry."
Link just sighed in response and walked to Malon's bar, knowing Veronica would follow. Link entered Malon's bar and walked in to a noticeably less stuffy room. Link noticed that since he left Malon opened a window. There were two guys in the room, each sitting on the opposite side of the room as the other. The one closest to Link was wearing a brown robe and had short, dark hair. His back was turned to Link, so Link couldn't see the guy's face, but Link could tell he was fairly small in size. The other one was huge, wore a brown shirt and a set of plain white leggings. His arms were scarred and he had a massive scar on his face, from his chin to the tip of his brown eye. Malon seemed stressed, so Link guessed that the two guys were fighting before.
Malon looked at Link and Veronica, and when she saw Veronica her eyes widened in shock. She ran over to Veronica and hugged her. "Veronica, I can't believe it! You're back! Groose said you weren't coming back!"
"I wasn't, but my dad brought me back, at the request of the Hero," Veronica replied. Link just stood there in an awkward shock.
"Wait, you two know each other? How?" Link asked.
"See what happens when you don't visit for three years? You miss stuff. About two weeks after your last visit Veronica and her dad moved into the village. Over the course of about eight or nine months, Veronica and I got to be good friends. She visited the bar every day. But, two years ago she was told that she left to go on some journey. She didn't tell anyone anything, but Groose has a way of knowing things. He said she was never coming back, so I assumed he knew what he was talking about. Looks like I was wrong," Malon said. Veronica just nodded her head in agreement with everything Malon said, and Link figured she wasn't going to say why she left, so he didn't bother asking.
"Okay, so have you seen Norman around?" Link asked, very abruptly changing the subject.
"Yeah, he's the guy in the robe." Malon pointed to Norman. Link was now able to see his face and noticed that Norman had silver eyes. Norman stood up and walked over to Link.
"Hello, my name is Norman. I overheard you asking about me and saw Malon pointing me out. What is it you need?" Norman asked in a deep, powerful voice.
"Uh, my name is Link and I'm the Hero. I'm trying to stop Ganondorf and Vaati and was told that you would be necessary in order to complete my quest. I can't really say much more than that, simply because that's all I know right now. Will you join me?"
"Your hands are glowing with a powerful silver light, though through the silver on your left hand I see a great and powerful golden light. I will join you," Norman replied. Link personally thought this guy was really weird. Link also thought Veronica was going to be very high maintenance. Link wondered why he needed them specifically; he was sure he could find less strange people to travel with.
"Um, alright then. Welcome to the team. This is Veronica, she will also be joining us," Link said.
"Yes, I see in her a bright, purple light," Norman said.
"You keep saying that you can see a light in us, what does that mean?" Link asked.
"Norman can see power in the form of light. He's probably referring to Veronica's teleportation powers and your Triforce of Courage, though I'm not sure about the silver. Maybe your new gauntlets," Malon said.
Link wasn't sure about this. Both of his new companions seemed to be highly skilled in magic, and Link was reluctant to have anything to do with it. But Link trusted the dead, and if a dead spirit told him he needed those two, them Link would bring them along.
"I assume you want a demonstration of what all I can do?" Norman asked.
"Uh, yeah, I guess that'd be a good idea." Link said. "I should probably get an idea of what you too can do, Veronica."
Veronica agreed to show Link some of her powers, though reluctantly, and she refused to show everything she could do. Her reasoning was that if she didn't need to use those abilities on this journey, which she doubted she would, then there was no need to share them. Norman agreed with Veronica, Link didn't really care one way or another. If she had some secret trick up her sleeve, then she could keep it up her sleeve if she wanted. Norman led the group to a rocky outcrop just off the trail up Death Mountain. It was a dry, dusty area of nothing but rocks and dust. Norman told Link and Veronica to stay near the path; he walked into the center of the outcrop. Norman closed his eyes and seemed to do nothing. He then suddenly opened his eyes and two enormous boulders began to float. He reached out his hands towards the boulders and lifted his hands. The boulders followed the path of his hands. Norman then thrust his palms forwards. The boulders flew straight forward, each hitting a rock spire and destroying it on impact. Norman smiled and telekinetically lifted the small pebbles left from the rock spires. He moved had them spin around him in an insanely fast circle. Norman lifted a nearby boulder and pulled it towards himself, only to have it obliterated by the pebbles. Link was impressed. Norman all the pebbles and swayed a bit. Link ran up to make sure Norman was okay. He was, but the telekinesis he did took a lot out of him. Link heard Veronica sneeze behind him, probably due to all the dust, and turned around to say "Bless you." Before Link said anything he saw that Veronica was gone. He was about to say something when she reappeared, red with embarrassment.
"What was that about?" Link asked.
"Sorry, when I sneeze I accidentally teleport. Usually myself, but I've teleported other people and other things before, too," Veronica replied.
"Great," Link muttered. Norman asked Link what they were going to do next.
Link replied and said "We're going to Hyrule Castle. The Princess has been expecting me."
Author's note:
Well, this chapter seems a bit weird. Then again, so did the last chapter. Don't worry, the story will be back to feeling more Zelda like very soon, and Norman will be the last major OC in the story. I make no promises regarding minor ones, but no more major ones. I also won't be adding to Link's group, since three main characters are all I think I can handle at once. Veronica's sneeze teleport thing will be mostly comic relief and won't show up in the story very often. Please leave a review and I'm still looking for Triforce powers, any ideas at all would be appreciated.