A/N: Whelp, here we are. The last chapter before I decided to drop it! Yay! And so you all know I already have Chapter 12 written and I'm working on number 13. And from here on out, the chapters will be a lot longer than they've been and I will promise a longer story than 'Link to Snow' (wanna read it? Go to my profile).

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Chapter 11: Books Books and More Books

Darks' POV

We were walking to the royal Library, and Link still wasn't speaking to me. I had complemented the girl to try and make her feel welcome, and the next thing I knew Link was trying to kill me. I fought back, of course, but in the end Rift had stopped us. She said, "If you don't stop, you two will wake up the entire castle!" So naturally we both stopped what we were doing, however Link hasn't spoken to me since then. I don't know why though.

"Link, we almost there?" I whisper kinda loudly. We had been walking for a while, and I was starting to think we would never get there. Link whispered something into Rifts' ear and she slowed down to walk next to me.

"He said, 'Yes, just a little longer."

I sigh, "Did he say anything else?"

"He also said to stop talking to him, he's still mad at you."

"Why's he mad at me? I don't even know what I did." I say, irritated, to Rift.

"I wish I knew," Rift sighed and shrugged, "I'm tired of being his messenger."

"You are pretty good at it." I tease.

"Shut up." She smiles as she softly slugged me in the arm. She then walked back up to Link.

The entire walk had gone like this so far; I had tried to talk to Link, he whispered his response to Rift, who told it to me. I never thought that a prince would throw such a tantrum for no reason. In my opinion he's acting like a kid.

"We're here." I hear Link mutter. I refrain from my first thought, making a smart ### comment, I decide to walk up next to him.

"Thanks, Link." I smile at him as I put my hand on his shoulder. I could see Links' anger begin to ebb away a bit, but not by much.

We quietly open the door to the Library, and my eyes open in amazement. There were tons of books here, more than I have seen in my whole life. I decide to see what Rifts' reaction was, but when I looked for her she was already sitting down, having her nose in a book. Guess she wasn't as amazed at the sheer quantity of books as I was.

"We better get looking." Link says to me, plain tone, as he walks off to one of the many shelfs of books.

I look over the massive book shelves, and sigh. This was going to be a long night; these books weren't going to read themselves.

Links' POV

I looked out the window, and the light of daybreak were beginning to appear. Rift, Dark, and I had been up all night trying to find something that would help us find the supposed 'Lost Prince'. At least Dark seemed to be excited when we got here. I looked over to my silver-haired lookalike, as soon as he started he hasn't had his head out of some book or another. Same with Rift, she seemed to be getting all of the high-shelved books. I started thinking about the conversation we had earlier.

~flashback~

"Hey, Rift. Where did you get that book?" I asked her, slightly confused. She had a book of old Hylian lore and from what I remembered it came from the upper shelf.

"I got it from up there." Rift replied pointing to the top shelf, confirming what I had thought.

"How?" There weren't any ladders in the Royal Library or anything like that. If anyone ever wanted to get a book they couldn't reach, you had to ask the Rito Librarian.

"It's a secret." She had said putting her finger on her lips, and giving me a wink.

~flashback end~

"'Sup." I hear Dark say to me, pulling me from my thought.

"What?" I ask in a harsh way, hiding the fact that he startled me. He sits down next to me.

"So…why're you so mad at me?" I looked at Dark, his green eyes giving me a serious look.

"I…I don't know." I admit, hanging my head in shame, "I just saw you get all…cozy with Rift, and I don't know…"

With that Dark started to laugh a little.

"What's so funny?!" I ask defensively, I didn't realize that I had said something funny.

"Nothing." Dark said a smile still on his face as he waves off my question, "It just dawned on me why you were so pissed at me."

My ear twitches at his language, "You…you did?"

"Yep… I can't believe I didn't realize it before," Dark says with a Cheshire grin, "You're jealous!"

"I am not!" I almost yell, feeling my face becoming hot.

"Green with envy!" Dark chuckles as he points at my tunic.

I playfully punch his arm. "Shut up, Dark"

"You know…I've been told that twice today," He says sticking out his tongue playfully.

"Told what?"

"To 'shut up',"

I chuckle, "Maybe you should listen."

"Maybe…" Dark replies, shrugging.

"So…is there any other reason on why you came over here, or did you just want to 'make-up'?" I had a feeling that this conversation was hitting a dead-end.

"Actually, there is." He says sounding like he just remembered, and with that he showed me a book. It wasn't an old-looking book, I actually looked pretty new. It had the Hylian crest indented on it and a golden trim edging. As I observe it, I couldn't seem to find the title.

"Where did you find this?" I ask, the book seeming slightly familiar.

"On a bookshelf." Dark answers, as vague as possible.

I open the book, and the pages looked just as new. As me and Dark looked through the pages, we noticed that there were a lot of photos in there, I guessed it was a scrapbook there were a lot of pictures of my mother and father when they were younger. Looking through the pages, I noticed a picture that caught my eye; it was a picture of my mother and my father. However, in my mothers' arms was a baby that looked like me, my father also looked like he was holding a baby but I couldn't see its' face. Someone had covered it in some black substance, which I guessed was ink.

"So, it looks like you do have a brother. Or did at least." Dark quickly revises, earning him an annoyed look from me, "Now where can we find his crown…?"

"I may have an idea," Rift says, having appeared behind us, looking at the scrapbook as well.

"Rift!" I say almost yelling, my hand holding onto my chest. This was the second time someone snuck up on me, "You nearly gave me a heart attack!"

Rift smiles at me coyly, "Sorry Link, wasn't trying to scare you."

"Your idea, Rift?" Dark cuts in, starting to sound impatient.

"Well, the King of Lorule got notice that Hyrule got raided from Gerudo sixteen years ago. Hilda found out and told my brother, who in turn told me."

I nod solemnly "I think I recall being told that by my mother years ago."

I look over at Dark, who was silent through the whole discussion, he seemed to be spaced out. For some reason, I felt like something was on his mind. Not knowing what else to do, I put my hand on Dark's shoulder, hoping that it was enough to ease him. Dark looked at me and gives me a smirk.

"We better get going then," Dark said standing up, "I have a feeling that if we stay any longer, I may be 'royally' screwed."

Rift cracks a smile and I sigh, Dark was right, however. My parents would go nuts if they found Dark, who is a bandit, here.

"I agree with Dark," Rift nods, still smiling, "I say we should make preparations and head to the Gerudo fortress."

I shrug, "I guess that makes three."

And with that, we hastily put the books away, and soundlessly run to my room. Hoping to The Goddesses that we wouldn't get caught.


A/N: Okay I have two more things to add;

One: Who do you think should end up with Rift in the end?

Two: I think I'll take questions for the brothers again (Rift too). So if there's anything you want to tell them, or ask them. Make sure to Review or PM it to me. Thanks :D