Girl of New Forest
Disclaimer: I don't own Zelda. Thus the world is cruel because of it.
Where we last left off Zelda and Shara fainted for some reason. Shara had also met with Sein, the half Zora, who also said he was the son of someone named Cor. Hint hint, the name Cor was mentioned in the Cursed Sword the first edition. But how could Sein be the son of Cor? Lol I know, hard to figure out, or is it? Sein apparently knows when everything will happen and what will happen. Thanks to the help of Sein, Shara arrives at Desert Colossus where, currently, Ganon and Relin are located. Hope you enjoy this chapter!
A room in Desert Colossus…
It was a medium sized room, about two times smaller then the room with the statue. A large carpet covered the ground giving it the color of red to the dark room. Torches hung on either side of the door leading in, giving very little light to the large room. A bed was found deep in a corner covered in darkness, slightly noticeable from the dim light. It was untouched, the room, in till Ganon came barging in with Relin in his grasp and struggling.
Ganon roared with anger and flung Relin onto the carpet that lay on the ground of the huge room. Relin toppled on the ground and instantly scrambled away like a scared rat. "You fool, you ruined my plan!" he shouted. Relin coward on the ground, not answering, he hadn't said a word since the dream where he first met him. Ganon gritted his teeth in frustration, not a word out of the boy; nothing but the intense glare through brown firm eyes. "I best dispose of you before you ruin anything else." He grumbled.
Ganon clapped his hands together and Relin vanished. Ganon gritted his teeth again; even with the boy gone he could still feel the presence of his eyes on Ganon's face. He grunted and turned away from the spot where Relin once was, heading towards the door. With a jerk it swung open and stride out of the dark room that belonged to Alicon.
On the steps of Desert Colossus…
Shara held her head, thoughts spinning through her mind, what happened, who was Sein? She had fainted; she remembered that much, as it seemed Sein had carried her all the way to Desert Colossus. Before she fainted Sein had told her he knew where Ganon would reappear. No doubt he had taken her there, to where Ganon would reappear.
Shara staggered her body still unsettled, she had felt an overwhelming power surge through her body, it made her faint. She glanced up at the overwhelming tower, a large women stood coming out from the tall tower, her hands to her sides her palms open as if praising someone, or giving something up. So this is Desert Colossus? She thought to herself, she grinned, even when she was about to face Ganon, she felt confident. Not what I expected. She laughed and stood up straighter, for some reason, she felt more courage flowing through her, like when she first met Ganon. She stepped forward towards the entrance, her spirits high.
A large field between Termina and Hyrule…
The wagon creaked as it bumped into rocks along the road. Aaron fumed, blowing up at his hair to cool himself off from the scorching heat. "Tell me again why we're doing this? Adia told us not to return." He said over his shoulder.
Zelda stayed curled up in a ball hugging her knees as she gazed out behind the wagon back towards Termina. Shortly after recovering from her event in the square in Clock Town she had screamed at Aaron to bring her back to Hyrule immediately. Aaron had complied without question; he got a wagon from the mayor and headed off. She hadn't spoke since then, her voice quiet as she sat in the back in the wagon. Her mind was rattling around on the same question, why go back to Hyrule? Adia had told them not to come back, but he had also said that they had to stay away for awhile. Maybe the time for them to return was now.
The feeling was the same as from before, the overwhelming power, it had shocked her so much she fainted. Zelda tightened her grip on her knees, she was scared, scared to see her son, if he was even alive. What she had felt meant only one thing, the Triforce had been split again. When Nayru connected with her, Nayru had given her the knowledge that Relin had split the Triforce; she showed the view Nayru had of Relin while he touched the Triforce. The sight of her son almost made her cry, but instead she just murmured his name. The thing that was frightening the most through the vision was the man that stood behind Relin, he was facing the other direction but she could notice. It was Ganon.
"Zelda?" Aaron asked, turning to look at her. Zelda didn't flinch from her spot. "Fine, don't talk to me." Zelda sighed and closed her eyes; finally arriving at Hyrule won't be easy. First to return to her brother and then there was the matter of Relin. She had to return to Relin to try and claim her son again.
Outside the entrance to Lake Hylia…
Fear and some other emotions that conflicted with his fear, making him keep on running. Relin stumbled as he collapsed over his trembling feat. He didn't know why his feet were trembling, he didn't feel afraid. Instead of stopping to wonder around his landscape to find out where he was he continued to run. Not only from the presence inside of himself, but from Ganon. The blood still stained his mouth from when Ganon had hit him.
Confusion, mixed along with his fear and other emotions. He knew where he was, near the entrance to Lake Hylia no doubt. He could see Lon Lon Ranch in the distance. However, he did not run towards the ranch, he did not want to return to the family who had lied to him for all this time. Instead he continued to stumble, his shoulders brushing by trees that stood in his way but he could not see. He was on the right side of the entrance to Lake Hylia if you've just left it. Along the side of the entrance trees upon trees aligned it like an impenetrable wall of stone. The trees were so closely packed that no one dared try and get through it, fear of death from no air.
Anger, mixed along with his confusion and fear and other emotions; however, the anger was half his own and half not. Relin ran his hand along the wall of trees as he ran, keeping the wall of trees as a brace incase he fell forward. Stumbling, forever falling, with no one to catch him incase he fell forward and hit his head on a rock and died. It wasn't like anyone would care though, his own parents abandoned him.
Suddenly, his protective wall vanished. Relin fell forward; his mouth almost creasing into a smile, knowing he probably will die. A rock, please be a rock. Only to be welcomed by a mouthful of dirt in his face. Relin coughed, his face darkened even more from the dirt. Cough, cough, an awful taste to be sure. Relin shook his head violently, dirt flaking out from his hair. Why did the wall have to vanish and the goddesses not bless it with a rock on the ground to kill him with?
Relin sat up abruptly and looked towards the wall of trees in anger. He gasped an opening in the wall. Relin stumbled to his feet and gazed at the opening in amazement, a place no one knew of. The best place to hide from Ganon, Relin glanced over his shoulder just incase any one was watching and slowly crept towards the break in the trees.
It wasn't very wide, just wide enough for Relin to slip through the gap. Branches caught at his shirt and tore in, scaring his skin, pain added with his emotions, thus he didn't feel it. He continued to run through the small gap like he did outside of it. From his mix of emotions his eyes blurred his vision and he didn't notice the surroundings, or the fact that the branches no longer cut at him.
The gap widened as he entered, the trees became more spacious, and the wall had expanded. In fact, it was no longer a wall, but a forest, a wide forest that would have sent shivers down his spine if he had stopped to look. A light fog seemed to be settled over the large forest, making it seem as if there was no end to the trees. Bugs swirled around him, avoiding him as he disturbed the silence.
Suddenly the gape stopped, just completely stopped, but Relin didn't stop running. Suddenly, out of notice Relin tripped and tumbled forward into the new forest he found. Relin flipped forward in till his back smashed into a tree, making him stop. He slid down the tree, his head bending over as it touched the ground. Like from the branches, he couldn't feel it, but he could hear a slight giggle.
Relin's eyes flew open and he flipped back onto his knees, away from the tree. "Show yourself!" he screamed, then instantly shut his mouth, the other presence had talked for him.
Suddenly a giant wolf came out from the fog and lumbered towards him. Relin yelped and flipped over onto his back and started to crawl away from the huge wolf. It approached him, bearing huge fangs about the size of his fist. It growled, its ears bent back and its mouth tensed as it bared its fangs at the intruder. Besides its overwhelming size and fearsome face that it showed to him now, it was a beauty of a wolf. Its sleek white coat of fur, its front right paw marked with black fur was a beauty to behold.
Relin backed farther away fear showing ever more, and then he stopped, along with the sound of the wolf's growls was the sound of a girl's giggling. Suddenly a girl dropped down from a tree. Relin gasped when he noticed her.
The girl was maybe a year or so younger then Relin, she was shorter then him about 5 inches. Her left hand rested on the back of the giant wolf a smile spreading her cheerful face. Her eyes were wide and a light brown even in the fog, her eyebrows arched in excitement and worry. Her cheekbones showing with smudges of dirt here and there, they arched over making a small chin under her small mouth. Her nose was like a little ball that adapted to her skin. Her body was covered in shaved deerskin, covering her torso with one strap on her left shoulder; with a deerskin skirt to cover the rest.
Relin stared in wonder at the girl. Cute isn't she? He violently shook his head to get it cleared and looked to the girl again.
"Don't worry. She won't hurt you," The girl said, smiling and then started giggling, "much."
Relin struggled up to his feet and stared at the wolf, hardly believing that the wolf wouldn't eat him when it continued to growl.
The girl giggled and hugged the wolf making it stop growl and instead whimper and rub the girl with the side of its face. Relin stared in wonder at the girl and the wolf, amazed at how it actually didn't eat her. "See? She doesn't bite." The girl said, turning back towards him with her head rested on the wolf's side. "What's your name?" she asked politely, a smile still on her face.
Relin gulped and licked his bloody and cracked lips. "Re… Relin." He answered, his voice shivering slightly from the recent events.
The girl burst out giggling again. "You have a funny name, Relin." She said, still giggling. "My name's Alanna. Nice to meet you, Relin, I haven't seen anyone like me, except Gin, but she's a wolf."
Happiness finally swirled with his fear, confusion, pain, and anger. Relin smiled, breaking his lips as his mouth widened, making them bleed once more. Alanna blinked at Relin's smile. "Your hurt!" she exclaimed. She rushed over and pulled out a handkerchief and reached out to touch Relin.
Relin jumped back, hitting a tree as he did so. "No, no, I'm fine." He said, fear bubbled inside him once more. "Its just a scratch."
"Looks like more then just a scratch." Alanna huffed, her hands balled in fists on her hips.
Relin picked at the scab on his lip, making it bleed more, he licked it off and tasted it, and it tasted like metal. The taste flowed through his mind, making him think of the Triforce once more. "Please, you have to help me!" he shouted suddenly. "You have to help me Alanna! I can't get there fast enough to be there in time!"
"Woah, what?" Alanna asked, her eyebrow arched.
Relin quickly wiped away blood that dribbled down his chin. "I have to do what's right! I have to finish what I started. With your wolf… Gin's help I can get there fast enough before anything bad happens!" he explained.
"Finish what? What do you have to do?" Alanna asked, walking away from Gin and closer to Relin.
"My grandfather, I think, I don't know for sure if he really is. I have to stop him! I started it by ruining his plan; I need to finish it by stopping him. The only way I can do that is by killing him." Relin explained, sweat trickling down his face. "The only way." He spoke softly. "You need to help me get out of here… this forest, and to the desert! It's too far for me to make it by foot. Gin can help me get there, if she'll let me ride her."
Alanna nodded and smiled; suddenly she reached out and grasped Relin's hand. Relin jumped but stayed steady, the only kindness he'd ever seen was from Shara, no one else. "Then let's go! Let's go, Gin, fast like the winds and the eagles!" she shouted gleefully as she jumped onto the wolf's back and helped hoist Relin up as well.
Desert Colossus…
It was quiet… to quiet for Shara's comfort. She slowly walked through the endless halls and went from door to door looking for the room that Ganon could possibly be in. As she walked through a hallway she had been to before she stopped as she noticed a door she overlooked. Curious she slowly opened the door and peeked through.
A large room, with a statue in the middle, she could see nothing more from the statue because stares leading up blocked her view of the face of the statue. Curious Shara opened the door wider and stepped through. Carefully she closed the door behind her, unfortunately the door gave a loud click.
Ganon suddenly looked up from his work on the dirty wall when he heard the sound of a click from a door. Smiling he turned to look over his shoulder towards the staircase on the far right corner from where he stood on the far left of the room. Ganon continued to smile as he dusted off his hands and turned to look behind him. "Ah, Shara, how nice to see you again." He said and chuckled.
Shara stood firmly as she saw Ganon turn, no doubt the door gave her away. "I'm not afraid of you Ganon." She said firmly, her voice not wavering.
"So I see." Ganon replied, pointing towards Shara left hand. Shara looked down to finally notice the Triforce glowing on her hand. She looked closer and saw as the bottom right triangle glow brighter then the other two triangles. "I should have guessed. Oh beautiful Shara, you and your courage. You said it to me last time we met; your mother had said you have lots of courage, unlike your father now. I actually didn't think you would be brave enough to come." He said gesturing around him to the room.
Shara grimaced. "How humorous." She said as she lowered her hand and glared at Ganon once again. "I won't scream or cry for you anymore, Ganon."
Ganon laughed darkly. "With what I have planned for you, my beauty, you'll regret you promised that to yourself." He replied, grinning. He charged, before Shara could even react he grasped hold of her wrists and pinned her against a wall. "For what I have planned for you is for my pleasure more then your own." He said smiling brighter, and his eyes gleaming.
Ganon was right, she had promised she would not scream or cry for him. She regretted her decision when she felt Ganon forcefully pull down her pants, for she knew what he had planned for her. She knew for a fact she couldn't keep herself from screaming.
