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Disclaimer: Blah blah blah Link is not mine because if he were…*trails off* nothing is mine except my Mya cuz she's awesome :D anyway enough ranting and on with the story . …
I woke up and hummed into the warmth that surrounded me in its pleasant cocoon my eyes blinked open and my face snuggled into his chest. His arm was draped across my hip. I swear this guy was like my own personal heater it almost made me sweat. I removed his arm and noticed he had taken off his gloves and there was a triangle that looked tattooed on top of his hand. I slowly traced my finger along it thinking to myself.
I felt him stir and grumble in his sleep and I gasped when his hand shot back around me and pulled me closer like I was some sort of teddy bear . Okay as pleasant as this was we had to get moving.
Wedging my hand loose I poked him in his sharp nose "Link…Link" his face wrinkled and he let out a husky groan and swatted my hand away "Link wake up" morning lit cerulean eyes snapped open to meet my amused brown ones "can you …release me please… as flattering as this is I need to breathe" my suffocated voice squeaked as he instantly let me go and sat up.
The moment his skin was away from mine I felt cold but ignored it and started rolling both sleeping bags one of which was the discarded one "well aren't you all clingy when you sleep" I muttered sarcastically as he slipped on his gloves and shield.
"I'm not the only one" he replied in a groggy tone which just seemed to be the way he always was in the morning. Can't blame him I am pretty clingy.
"Well" I stretched and yawned "we slept in too late so now we have the pleasure of stealing Ponyo back at night" which was probably better anyway so that those Gerudean bitches wouldn't see us.
The morning dew was still wisping about in the air and clung to my skin in little droplets. Bugs and birds could be heard by the small pond chasing each other about franticly making cute little buzzing and chirping noises that reminded me so much of home when my family and I used to camp by the lake.
"you might want to have that crossbow ready, were getting near the twilight and even if we're not in it ,the Bublins won't be far" Link glided his palm along the edge of his sword and stuck in it sheath on his back.
I strapped myself full of weapons as well which consisted of one short sword, quiver of arrows and crossbow and even if I wasn't the best at them Renado taught me enough to shoot was what needed to be shot.
We rode for next five hours seemingly in the same direction and made me just wonder how big Hyrule field was and how terrible my world would be without cars and sheesh was my ass killing me. I clung to Links back trying my best to stay awake but after a while I found myself dozing off but kept one foot in reality because it was impossible to fully sleep due to all the bouncing or when an arrow flies by your head.
"Mya wake up, Bublins!" I shot up straight so fast I could have flown off. Coming up behind us was three of those riding pig guys, yea the really ugly ones like the one who took Colin and the kids. Anger and excitement started to boil up in me and while grabbing onto Links shoulder for support I spun backwards on Epona's saddle and loaded an arrow "keep riding elf boy I'll try to shoot them down" yea 'try' was the keyword.
I felt him nod behind me and kick Epona causing her to nearly jerk me off as I winded up the crossbow and aimed down the notch in the end. The first arrow, which released with such velocity it could hardly be seen as it whizzed away and onto the lead Bublin's shoulder and he fell of with a loud thunk on the grazzy terrain. I smiled in victory but it didn't last long as two more arrows flew by on both sides of my head. I tried to shoot them again and again but if it didn't miss they were blocked by their shields.
"Aww why can't these be as dumb as the last ones?" I muttered to myself trying once again but failing.
"Hang on Mya" I shifted myself around as he made a sharp U turn with Epona and started running toward the bad guy. Wait what the hell is he doing?
"Link what are you-" a sudden pain shot like lightening through my shoulder and it was that kinda pain where it hurts so much you just lost all other body functions for a few seconds or enough for me to fall of Epona's saddle and onto the hard unforgiving ground.
Link , the asshole, apparently hadn't even noticed I was gone and had an arrow protruding from my shoulder and continued toward the goblin monsters with his sword held out. I watched in awe and in pain as he took two of them out with one thrusty sweep of his blade. Unfortunately the remaining one decided to take an interest in me and guided the ugly boar he was on and came bounding at me. Honestly how do things with such small legs run?
I dove, or more like flopped out of the way as the beast charged by and the glint of a sword could be seen slicing above my head. I cowered on the ground with my hands over my head like I was in some sort of tornado drill until everything went quiet.
"Mya are you okay?" I felt him help me up and the next thing he did was totally unexpected "ow you stupid green son of a bitch what did you do that for!!?" he had ripped the arrow out the opposite direction and the pain nearly had me doubling over but he forced me back up and started applying that red goop known as chu jelly which I had to admit worked pretty well all in all.
"I'm gonna kill you" I hissed through my teeth as I finally had the strength to stand up on my own after he applied the bandages.
Surrendering a nervous chuckle he helped me back up onto the horse "you gonna be alright?" I leaned forward and rested my head on Epona's neck "yea just kill me now".
He got on behind me and took hold of Epona's reins kicking her into a steady trot until he was satisfied and went to full canter "we'll just skirt the edge of the mountains like you said and hopefully there won't be any Bublins there" I forced myself up despite the uncomfort of my position.
"nah I could take another" obviously lying I was.
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"Mya."
"…."
"Mya wake up were here?"
My eyes blinked the heavy dust off of them and I had noticed it was near evening. I had been leaning back against Link and had fell asleep ..for hours by the looks of it. Damn how could I sleep that long, maybe from blood loss.
I took a look around and we were still in Hyrule field but mountains stretched out to the right of us, their sharp, knife edge peaks looming above cloaking the fields in a eerie shadow. Epona was walking now, her stomach heaving up and down and brown coat matted in sweat. The poor thing was exhausted.
"Link..I thought you said we were there" I winced and rolled my shoulder to test the strength. If I wasn't gonna be able to hold a crossbow then I was screwed.
His arms reach around me and pulled Epona to a stop "we are here, Gerudo fortress is just half a mile ahead" I shivered as his warm breath creeped down the back of my neck due to the frost of late evening.
"Okay" I hopped down landing in a crouch "we walk the rest of the way to give Epona here a break" I patted her on the nose and Link nodded jumping down with me. The horse seemed to sigh in relief as the weight of two people were extracted. Together we walked her , keeping close to the mountains until we could hear songs and voices being played.
"Wait" Link put his arm out to stop me "we should leave Epona here" without waiting for my approval he hooked the reins around her saddle and whispered something while stroking her nose. Her horse ears perked and twisted at her master's voice and she turned around and trotted away until her shadow couldn't be seen.
"Umm Link, that was our ride by the way" I had a dumbfounded look on my face.
"Epona's smart she will stay out of sight until I call for her the Gerudo fortress is just a little ways up ahead but you don't happen to have a map do you?"
I shook my head.
"Alright" he exhaled deeply "we'll just have to 'liberate' one then" he looked at the red spot that had finished leaking through my shoulder "are you gonna be alright to continue?"
I batted my hands at his comment "let's just liberate that map and get Ponyo back"
We crept along the shadows of the hills and mountains until they faded off into a deep forest from which drums and loud female voices could be heard.
"Yep those are the butch dikes alright" I whispered but Link lifted a hand to silence me and pointed to something off in the forest.
It was getting dark so I had to squint until a tall watchtower that was well camouflaged to look like a tree. On the top of it one fiery haired woman stood pacing back and forth, her face stone and solid just like the one who thieved me.
The sound of a blade chinking out of its sheath made me jump "okay" Link started swinging the blade out in front of him it's silver glint glimmered against the setting sun "I'll take care of her and-"
"-You're not going to kill her are you?" I interrupted giving him a salty glare, as much as I hated the people I couldn't see myself letting him kill a watch tower guard.
His expression dropped and he sheathed his sword "no I suppose not, stay here" without giving me a chance to reply he darted off into the woods instantly becoming one with the shadows of the forest.
When his silhouette faded my dilated eyes shifted up to the guard tower while I hid behind a cluster of rocks ducking my head whenever her stiffening gaze would wash over my area. I heard a loud thunk from the tower that sounded like the impact of steel and skull. My head snapped up and the head of the Gerudean was no longer in sight and not moments after Link came rushing back with a rolled up paper clutched in one hand.
"Way to go, did you put the woman in a coma?" I whispered harshly as he joined me behind the cluster. His face was lashed with red streaks and particles of leaves still clung to his tunic and hair.
"No she's unconscious and gagged" he hissed back and unrolled the piece of parchment. On it was a round fortress ,from aerial view of course, and lines indicated walls, buildings and other various buildings.
A gloved finger pointed to a section of the map that looked like blocks stacked up on top of each other "I'm guessing this is where the stables are".
I bent over to see "doesn't look so far into the territory either, this should be cake then" I grinned up at him but he shook his head "it's not all that simple, from what I know this is the last civilization of the Gerudos and they will have it well guarded even if it's at the tip of their fortress".
"Okay" I breathed a heavy sigh brushing my matted loose bangs back. Man I would literally kill for shower time. "So..what's the plan then?"
He scrunched up his mouth in thought and looked back down at the map "the forest is thick enough to hide us until we reach here "he pointed to the front gates that ran from one edge of the mountain to the other, shielding their way to the stables "from then on we'll just have to wing it" he looked up at me cerulean eyes filled with seriousness "are you sure you want to do this?"
Without answering him I stood up and brushed myself off "let' s go"
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We clung to the shadows of the forest like shade monsters ourselves, the sun was invisible now as it shrank and kissed the world goodbye with a deep violet rainbow of clouds that faded into a blanket of twinkling stars. My breath flowed in and out my nose as to Link's instruction which I found harder than it looked. Branches and vines whipped across my face as we struggled through thick patches of brush but also careful not to make too much noise. Link lead like he had done this a dozen times before which didn't surprise me since he practically lived in the woods.
I was ordered to stop when the faint flicker of a giant torch could be seen as it wedged its way through the undergrowth. Link moved swiftly and I struggled to keep pace until we came upon one of the towers of the Gerudo wall that was the only barrier between us and the stables and hopefully Ponyo.
It was made of many wooden posts that used to be thick tree trucks and reached a good fifty feet in the air. Numerous Arab dressed women could be seen in the faint glow of torches walking back and forth along the walls and in the tower, their common red hair mirroring their eyes as they scanned along the forest line with twin blades strapped across their backs and glinting silver in the firelight.
I turned to Link seeing he was biting his lower lip in concentration and I did the same until he pulled me back behind the brush where we were hiding "okay there might be a way to get in there but I'm not sure if you can come".
I wrinkled my nose bitterly "what ya mean I can't come?"
His twin pools of blue tilted town toward his shadow "Midna".
The imp seemed to slip out from the blackness beneath his feet and twirled in front of us like a phantom. So that's where the runts been hiding. A not so pleasant frown spread across her round head "what is it?" gee someone's pms'ing.
"I need you to turn me into wolf form do I can dig under that fence" he apparently ignored the idiotic glare from me. I knew he could turn into wolf form but leaving me here was a no go.
"Wait you can't leave me here, you don't even know what Ponyo looks like" I whispered harshly at the two of them. Midna cackled silently to herself "the elf girl doesn't want to get left behind huh?" Then her gaze turned to Link "you can't be in your beast form unless you're in the twilight..but however I guess I can give up an ounce of my power to do so but only this once".
Link smiled at the imp then back at me "you've touched Ponyo right?" I blinked dumbly at him "yea what's your point?"
He ignored my question "I need you to create a distraction do you know how?" was this guy serious? "Mya we don't have a lot of time can you?" his face was in shadow so I couldn't tell what his emotions were.
Sparing a distasteful glance at him I fumbled at the bottom of the bag muttering to myself "please let it be here please…" my fingers wrapped around something round deep in my satchel "here, Barnes lent me this I could make it go off near the opposite end of the gate, it should cause a big enough explosion to get their attention for a few" confusion still dripped in my voice at his plan "what exactly do you intend to do?"
He looked at Midna regretfully "just keep their attention long enough and when you set off the bomb they'll be after you hard so get out of here and find Epona, I'll meet you when I'm done".
Leaving me wordless he turned to the floating phantom of an imp and nodded. Midna let out an uninterested yawn "don't forget what the important stuff is hero" a ghostly finger poked him in the chest "after this is done no more fooling around, you listen to what I say"
Gee controlling much? My jaw slacked open when a single flick of her finger turned Link into the said wolf. He didn't look like an ordinary wolf he was much bigger and had distinct patterns on his head and had a bigger muscle build. Link shifted around shaking his gray and black tufts of fur, his still blue eyes looked at me in shame.
At first I didn't know what to do, I wasn't scared or horrified it was more surprising and more amazing than anything I have ever seen..he was beautiful. I knelt down on both knees, hesitating at first my hand glided down the side of his muzzle. His ears perked and eyes saddened a little before he seemed to shake off the feeling and sniffed her hands. It took me a while to realize he was getting Ponyo's scent.
After giving my hands a few more sniffs he backed up and gave me a nod before he disappeared to the left of her in the woods and after I stared after a moment in amazement I remembered my job and took off the other direction, careful to keep out of the watch of the Gerudo women.
Ugh slightly longer chapter than the last chapter but have been working on this for a couple of days and also have been working on improving my descriptions a bit which I know still needs work XDD gee I'm such a lost cause. Anyway here's part 1 of Ponyo's rescue and I beg you to Review and tell me how the story is so far and which part you like best because if you don't *dangles package of Skittles in front of your face then pulls back* you won't get one MWAHAHAHAH!! *COUGH COUGH*
I'm thinking about rewriting the first few chapters and putting them in first person, do you guys think I should do that or not?
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