Nintendo created all the characters and places and stuff. I just made the story up. The cover was done by Zeliga of DeviantART.
Chapter Ten - Bad Questions and Pink Lights
Link let out a moan and opened his eyes to tiny slits; his eyelashes were covered in sleep
"Link?" a female voice spoke, a face blocked his view of the room. He closed his eyes fully for a moment before snapping them open in shock. Zelda's forehead was pressed against his own he swallowed hard to the point that an audible gulp was heard; Zelda meanwhile, held a steady glare and Pippa was nowhere in sight. "Why didn't you tell me that you were part Sheikah?"
Link shrugged, giving her a confused glance as he did so, what was she talking about?
"You have purple eyes. You are Half-Shadow! Why did you lie by saying you weren't a Sheikah?!" Zelda roared
Link groaned into his pillow, wishing with all his might that something would come to his aid.
"Are you trying to wake the whole Temple?" a frosty voice asked, the body leaning on the door frame
"Tell him, Impa!" Zelda shouted, pulling at Link's collar "He lied!"
Impa gave her a confused expression "Don't shout at him. He didn't know."
Link gave a small sigh of relief and sank into the pillows
"How can you not notice purple eyes?!" Zelda groaned jumping off the bed; Link shot up and moaned, she had elbowed him in the stomach.
"Very simple when they were blue." Impa muttered, a frown appearing. Zelda chewed her lip before turning to face Link again, Pippa trotted in through the open door and hopped onto the bed, curling up on Link's lap with a sigh "Powerful magic or natural disguise, I'm not sure."
"Link, how are you alive?" she whispered,
Link cocked his head and let out a short chuckle not understanding her question; she saw his glance and sighed.
"When Sheikah and another race have a child together; the baby never survives the night or day that follows; their bodies unable to function in sun or shadow. But you, you have broken the natural law, how?!"
He lowered his head with a shrug; Pippa licked his cheek
"I think we should get you mother to tell you about your heritage, you are a new race! Imagine what you can do for this world!" Zelda giggled lifting her ears and slapping her hands on his shoulders
Link shook his head and stroked Pippa's back, she sighed again and licked his hand
"Why not?!" Zelda shrieked shaking his shoulders, Pippa gave her a threatening growl, but Link warned her from taking it further
"Though I may be the last of my race in Hyrule, who's to say that I am in other lands?" Impa spoke, offering Pippa a piece of meat "Shadow Folk don't take kindly to Half-Shadow."
Link rubbed his throat and widened his eyes; everyone wanted his head these days
"Oh." Zelda mumbled "But that still doesn't answer on how you broke the law of nature."
Link shrugged again, Zelda revived another warning growl from Pippa. The pair locked eyes, the more that Zelda questioned Link, the more Pippa would snarl. Highly suspect.
"Well, as Princess, I order you to take me to your mother." Zelda spoke, folding her arms.
Link sniggered and gave her a funny look
"I know that sentence sounds wrong but c'mon! I want to know! Where's your sense of adventure?! You have the name of a great man!" Zelda spoke, something seemed to click; Link chewed his lip and stared at his feet
"She does have a point." Impa informed "And you have ice arrows, there are many questions there."
Link stood up with a sigh, what did he have to lose?
"Yay! I'll get us some horses!" Zelda cheered rushing out. Link rubbed his temples and looked at Impa through his fingers, narrowing his eyes jokingly
"Alright, I took her side." Impa laughed, staring into Link's eyes, watching them decide on colour, to either be as blue as the ocean or as purple as the grape. "Link, you can't be expected to ride with plastered arms, so I'll give you a secret that he told me."
Link gave her his full attention; Pippa raised her head from between her paws, taking more interest than normal in conversation
"There is something called a Fairy Fountain near the castle, you can pose as a Training Sage to get past the guards around the grounds; you can heal your injuries fully there." Impa whispered, taking Link's hand in hers, her smile turned upside down, Link squeezed her hand and cocked his head, similarly to the way that Pippa did on the bed "I am the last of the Sheikah in Hyrule as I have said, but I know and hope that I am not the last of the Sheikah in the world. If you do find out where your father is, tell me. I would be humbly grateful."
Link nodded and put a hand on his left eye, sliding it down his cheek. Impa flinched but did the same; after which, Link signaled Pippa to his heel and the pair walked away to the Fairy Fountain dressing up in a robe on the way.
Impa leaned against the wall with a heavy sigh; Saria came into view, Arbori sitting high on her shoulder to avoid being chased by Pippa; the dog did not even lift her head.
"What's wrong? You look like you've just seen a ghost." Saria asked, Arbori fluttered down and landed on Impa's shoulder
"Link used a teardrop promise. I don't know where he could have learned that. It's kept to the Sheikah tribes." Impa mumbled
"I know it and I'm not a Sheikah." Saria shrugged. Impa lowered her head but then raised it sharply.
"Something's wrong." Impa spoke, her voice almost a whisper "The air turned cold for a moment."
"I felt it too." Saria hissed hugging her shoulders "Arbori, look around for anything abnormal on the grounds."
The fairy nodded and fluttered her wings.
Link refused the mask and wore his own; the feeling of the feathers was comforting on his skin. Though he missed home, he felt like there was a danger around every corner, even more so since the chopping block and axe was still waiting in the plaza as he passed, the metal of the axe gleaming off the moon that shone through the snow clouds. Pippa walked at his side, her tiny footprints barely crunching on the snow unlike his, she had never seen snow before. The streets were quiet and peaceful, many lights were out and slumbering folks were hidden within the gentle shadows that the night provided, snow still fluttered down from the sky, landing on his warm face and melting into fake tears; Pippa tried to catch the falling snowflakes till some snow fell from a roof nearby, coating her in the white stuff. Link laughed as she dug through it, shaking the snow from her coat as she burst through, her face white.
Link shivered and looked around, something did not feel right. The air had turned as cold as death, filling the streets with mist as it did so; Pippa whined with concern and pawed his legs to be lifted up, but Link sliced the air, coming down to her instead, a gentle blue light passed by; one with the white eyes he was familiar with. Link waved a hand, but Pippa broke into a snarl, arching her back and straightening her tail, the light passed by and flew into a house, the thick winter curtains parted with a whoosh as it got close. But then, just like that, the mist cleared and heat started to come back to him. Pippa continued to growl, this time her nose was to the house the light had gone in, she was backing up snarling through her teeth till she hit Link's legs. He swallowed hard and dashed away from the plaza.
Unbeknownst to him, a little green bird with silver wings watched him from a rooftop, its tiny claws clinging onto a chimney pot. It spread out its wings and then tucked them back in, the silver tips of its feathers slowly started to change colour, almost to an ice blue as it turned its tiny head, focusing its black eyes on the boy. The bird seemed to smile, the corners of its beak turning up.
Link continued to run all the way to the castle gates, but as he was about to reach the guards that walked along the trench they had made in the snow; something grabbed the sash of the robe, showing an enormous feat of strength they pulled him to the safety of some old vines, ones that were decades old, their leaves covered in snow. He lost his balance and crashed to the floor.
"I finally found you!" Arbori panted landing on his head with a gasp "Saria sent me to look for strange things about the Temple of Time. And nothing is stranger than you two. I overheard Impa telling you about the Fairy Fountain; there is a faster way."
Link glanced up as the fairy leaned over, grabbing a few strands of his hair and placing her feet on the bridge of his nose
"You do know I can carry huge weight, right?" Arbori asked placing one hand on her hip
Link nodded, tying the sash of his robe.
"If can pull you along the ground; imagine what more of me could do." Arbori smirked placing a thumb and finger into her mouth; though her face nearly went red with blowing so hard, no sound came.
Link glanced down to Pippa, she was bringing her forepaws over her nose; her ears lifted as she did so, he had never seen her do that before.
"Just give it a moment." Arbori whispered landing on the ground. Her light was shining bright in the dark; he hoped it would not give them away.
She was joined by another light, a baby pink one; it floated down from the sky on short, stubby wings that were totally different from Arbori's huge, heavy ones. Another of the same colour came down; landing slowly and gently on Link's shoulder before sliding down to his broken wrist, he felt their tiny fingers unravel the careful, if not slightly dirty bandaging. Another pink light came into view, landing on his cut arm; their tiny feet finding every cut and scar there.
On Link's count there were thirteen fairies, including Arbori. They all surrounded him, grabbing anything their hands could seize in their grip; clothing, hair, fingers, anything. Pippa sat still as some even floated around her; though she did not attack as they slid under her stomach, three fairies lifted her gently off the ground holding her up enough for Link to see their power
"Alright, one, two, three!" Arbori ordered, Link felt tiny pairs of hands pull on what they had grabbed; their wings humming under his weight but even so, he was moving, the tiny creatures carrying both him and Pippa up off the ground with steady control.
He smiled as the fairies stopped their ascent into the sky and began to fly him slowly forward; the cliff they passed was filled with tiny pink flowers, each one bright and glittery in the fallen snow, as he passed them, he felt like he was increasing in speed, flying faster and with much more control, he looked around, he was sure he had counted thirteen, now there was at least twenty two and more were appearing from the flowers. They were the flowers. The guards were distracted by the sight of a few fairies dancing in front of their faces to watch the boy and pup fly into a small hole in the rock walls.
He stayed their till morning. Long after the sun rose just watching the pink balls of light fly around him, mending his clothes of holes without a needle and thread, washing his hair without soap, healing his wounds without medicine, even Pippa lay down to let the tiny hands scrub her coat clean. He was relaxed here and they were with him; though all he could hear were their bell-like voices and the gentle humming of their wings, he was calm, so calm that he lay on his back inside the cave, one that was lit gently with silver flames, water soaked though his clothes but he did not really mind, the water was nice and warm, but very shallow. Which begged the questions where was it coming from and where was it going?
He shut his eyes and then opened them slowly again, a pink fairy landed on the tip of his nose; he got a glimpse of her, a young lady in appearance wearing a short sleeved top and puffy skirt that looked like it had been made out of the end of a lily, in her long pink hair she had a tiny daisy, no bigger than the nail on his smallest finger.
"I remember you." she whispered sitting on his nose
Link blinked hard, her voice was unusually clear
"You were born here, so was your sister." she spoke
Link turned alert and sat up so quickly that the fairies around him jumped
"We kept your mother alive." the fairy said with a smile
Link lay back down and looked at the ceiling, his eyes unblinking. Pippa shook off the fairies and padded over, sitting down next to him, he let out a light laugh and stroked her chin. His eyelids began to feel heavy as Pippa lay down, snuggling into Link's side as he settled. The pair of them fell asleep in the water, knowing that if anything did come after them, the fairies would warn them.
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'Take me to your mother!'...That's a question. So, Link was born in a Fairy Fountain, is that how he is alive or is there something else at work? Who is the green bird? Is that from the story Zelda told him last chapter or are there other things watching him, both good an evil? Speaking of which, Pippa didn't bark at him, did she ignore him or did she not smell him? OOH, plot elements!
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