WOW I UPDATED! woot...I haven't updated since when? iunno, don't liek to think about it! this has actualy been typed up and ready to go all but for the last sentensce for months...don't hurt me. so yes finaly...we get tothe plot o.o, so read if youwant, review if you do...i'm sooooooooo sorry by the way...but now one will prolly read this cause of my lack of updatung .
"goddess," Link said, "I haven't seen you since…since…." Link trailed off and he frowned.
"Since the funeral," Tavis filled in his sentence somberly. Link nodded and the momentary cheeriness of his old comrade's arrival vanished.
Zelda stood behind them, leaning on her desk. She knit her eyebrows together half in thought and half annoyed, she disliked not knowing the whole story.
"I have a feeling I'm not going to like why you're here?" Link said after a quiet moment.
"No, your not," the dark haired messenger said flatly looking down momentarily at his lack of shoes, "And as you can tell, it wasn't all sunsets and fairies getting here."
Link snorted, "last time I saw you, you were sitting pretty in the imperial fortress, and complaining about it I might add."
Tavis rubbed the back of his head uncomfortably at the remark, "this is going to be a long story…."
"I want to hear the whole thing," Zelda said, moving herself to a sitting position on her desk. The two men turned to look at her
"Starting where?" Tavis asked in a dignified way, his clumsy and awkwardness seemed to have melted away.
"Were ever you need to start for what you told me to make any sense at all," her tone was ruthlessly demanding. Tavis only nodded.
"What did you tell her?" Link asked suspiciously.
"It can wait," Zelda answered for him as he opened is mouth to answer. Link glared at her but her face remained that same neutral mask.
"Alright, well about fifty years ago the king of Chockit died. I was probably some secret coup de ta." He said with an off handed motion. "after that a series of regencies were set in place because the king had had no heir and the lower nobles were just falling over them self to take the throne," Tavis stood addressing her with his hands clasped behind his back the way one of her advisors or guards would report to her. "Finally one noble ascended to the throne, he wasn't much of leader. He was in it for the wealth. He was brutal, and his laws were unreasonable. When I was nine my father was executed for not being able to our taxes, and after, my sister was taken away to the imperial fortress as payment. That sort of thing was common then. And the people didn't to stand for it very long"
Zelda noted that his expression never changed as he spoke what she knew were painful words.
"It was a few years later that the resistance army appeared, it was lead by one of the escaped palace girls, of all things," Tavis was grinning now, " Her name was Jasmine, though most know her as strong hammer. Eventually we over threw the throne and set up the high council."
"I see," Zelda said crossing the room, "Where does this heir come into play?"
Link frowned again, "Jasmine died in childbirth, both her and her child."
"Then there isn't an heir? Come now you two make some sense," Zelda said with curiosity dripping unconcealed from every word. Though in a deeper part of her mind became concerned about the father of said child.
"Molly is her sister," Link said with a flat expression.
"She named link the god father as half a joke," Tavis explained, "and after her death, well, I'm not sure how but……"
"The villagers insisted that as godfather of her child I was her guardian." Link said just as flatly.
"Oh come on Blondie, you're wonderful with children!" Tavis burst out unexpectedly, "you should hear the way this fellow can spin a tale, giant spiders, magic songs and swords you should hear him, if you ever managed to get him drunk enough that is."
"Really now?" Zelda quirked an eyebrow and gave link a knowing glance, the blonde's face was going a quaint shade of scarlet. He fervently wished he hadn't mentioned that.
Tavis chuckled, "Anyways," He continued, "I was voted to lead the high council not long after Blondie vanished, I was um…..how should I say this……"
"You were on the high council?" Link asked incredulously
"I lead it!" Tavis said with a rueful smile, "till about six months ago……"
"Let me guess……" link rolled his eyes, "you failed miserably and it dissolved?"
"No….maybe. I was run out in the middle of the night by a small army of assassins…the indignity of it! I was in the bath for kami's sake! What was I supposed to do? Alls I know is who ever is in charge now is looking for the pipsqueak and is no better than the bastard we over threw" the messenger and ex-leader of the chockit nation shrugged to show his helplessness in the situation.
Link heaved a heavy sigh, "how hard are they looking?"
"They're on the war path, and they're winning. The nation had doubled in size before I reached the mountains. I have no doubt that delegates will be sent here with in the year, attack is unlikely I might add," he said turning to the queen.
"Between the desert and the mountains I would think so." Zelda then calmly asked, "What do you expect us to do?"
Tavis shrugged, " I hadn't thought that far ahead, I was hopping the second officer of our army would know?" Tavis snapped Link a mock salute.
"You expect me to think ahead?" Link asked, his mind was spinning. His entire half thought out plans for the future went swirling into oblivion. He had thought these kinds of things were over.
"You're his commanding officer?" Zelda asked watching the messenger relax his salute.
"Second in command," he said off handedly, "But that's another story though."
Zelda shook her head, there was just so much she didn't know about him anymore, and she knew so very little about the future and what she saw of it worried her. She sighed and looked at each man in turn, "I really don't see that there's much that can be done about it at the moment, and I need to…think …about all this" she said thoughtfully getting off the table and walking toward the door.
The two men stood silently in study watching her converse with the butler.
"Molly is still with you, isn't she?" Tavis asked a little nervously.
"Of course, you think I'd just ditch her some place?" Link said casually with half a smirk.
"No……..well maybe, I had to check." he said honestly shrugging again.
"I've got a question?" Link said after a moment of studding him, "what the hell is up with the frying pan?"
Tavis burst into laughter, making Zelda and the butler turn to stare at him, " I told you it wasn't all sun sets and fairies getting here, had to trade the old battle axe to get passage across that little inland sea."
Link shook his blond head; Tavis had never made much sense, "So you replaced it with a frying pan?"
Tavis shrugged, "Its close enough, don't cha think?" Link shook his head, half amused half disbelieving, it was just like old times, he thought grimly. He hadn't changed at all.
"Sirs," the butler said clearing his throat, "her majesty has instructed me to show our new guest to his quarters." He finished with a bow.
"oh lucky me…" tavis mocked, "Well, link," he slap his back, "its very good to know that not all your stories came out your ass. Whole time I was on my way her I was worried you mad the whole place up."
"It was all true," Was all link dared to say under the gaze of the queen.
The butler cleared his throat again in impatience; "Lead away!" tavis said with mock regality and followed the butler out.
Zelda was slightly bemused but the way the two had bantered and slightly concerned, there was so much she didn't know. He really wasn't the same person she had known. Link gave her a quick nod and a wave, which she returned, and followed his old friend out the door.
"How's the wine here?" she heard the bare foot messenger say loudly, "It better be good!" She heard links reply but not the words of it; she stood up straight and moved towards a window, crossed her arms and set herself to thinking.