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Chapter 22
"Ah… I'd kill for a bar of chocolate just about now" Vaati muttered to himself.
"I don't think that's a good idea" Link replied "Weren't you trying to get back into shape?"
"Stupid twins" Vaati rolled over in bed.
Link just shook his head. It had taken a good deal of time for Vaati get over the fact that he was actually having two babies. But after a whole month the Minish was back to being his relatively normal self. Being stubborn, pouting, and worrying about his ever worsening figure.
"Hey…" Vaati sat up and looked at Link while the hero spoke "If Ganondorf is balding… will the babies pick that up from him?"
"Minish can't go bald" Vaati replied before lying back down "Now get me a chocolate bar of get out of here"
Link laughed and left the room.
Once he was gone Vaati sat up and rubbed his swollen belly. He felt one of the twins kick his hand. A soft smile found its way to his face.
He quickly covered it with a scowl "No" he said dryly. Then lay back down "I really want chocolate though…"
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"Dark"
"mmm-hmmm"
Ganondorf slapped him "Dark. We need to talk"
"Yup" Dark nodded "What do you need?"
"You" Ganondorf said "Paying more attention. On missions. For a whole month now you've been spacing out and wandering off. Nothing will work properly if you keep this up"
"I'm sorry, my lord" Dark bowed "I just-"
"Don't want to hear about your personal life"
"Yes, my lord"
"In fact, you shouldn't have a personal life"
"My lord?"
"What?"
"May I live outside the castle?" Dark asked
"Where, outside the castle, Dark?" Ganondorf sighed. Shadows were such a pain.
"Well… I was thinking… thinking about somewhere near the town"
"And why there?"
"Because" Dark searched his mind for an answer his lord would accept "I can observe the people there more easily. Plus, Link and Zelda go to town often and I can spy on them as well"
Ganondorf thought about this for a minute "Very well" he said "I will send Ene to visit you every other week to find out what you've learned"
"And if I haven't learned anything?"
"Let's hope not, for your sake"
Dark swallowed and nodded.
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Zelda looked around as she and Lenee entered Link's house "You've redecorated"
"Vaati made me" Link grumbled "He said he didn't like how this was here and that was there and it would look so much better if the one was against the other wall. And when I told him if he wanted it that way he should move it, then he started crying and saying I was making fun of him for being pregnant (the furniture is to heavy for him to be moving around) and whenever he gets emotional weird things happen so I did what he said to calm him down" Link paused for a second to catch his breath "And then once I was done he said he liked it better the way I had it set up at first and went upstairs complaining that he wanted chocolate"
Zelda laughed "chocolates, huh? Is he finally done wanting eggs then?"
"I guess…" Link sighed "I don't think I can take much more of this"
"Vaati's probably getting to his limit too" Zelda agreed "A pregnant boy can only live with an insensitive rival for so long"
"I'm not insensitive!" Link snapped "I just… things just slip out of my mouth. I don't mean to call him fat, or short, even if he is"
Vaati, who'd been coming downstairs to see Zelda and Lenee, picked up a nearby vase and through it at Link before running back upstairs crying. Outside snow began to fall.
"Link, you hurt his feelings" Zelda said before going upstairs to calm him down and check on the babies.
"You should try not to upset him as much" Lenee said, sounding utterly bored "When a mage goes to long without using magic, so long as something isn't repressing it, the magic comes out on its own. Vaati's trying not to cast spells because of his condition, so when you upset him it seems to affect the weather"
"And doesn't that hurt the baby?" Link asked dryly
"No. Vaati isn't channeling magic through him, because he isn't using it. It's using itself"
"Oh"
"How long has this been happening?"
"About a month. Since Zelda's party. He asked if he was heavy, then I accidentally called him fat, and tried to make up for it by saying he wasn't as fat as he was short. It got really hot, and he wouldn't talk to me for a day. He didn't even let me go into the bed room…"
"What calmed him down?"
"I don't know. He went outside before all the snow he melted away came back, and when he came back in he looked a little freaked out. I never asked him what happened, but he must have forgotten he was mad at me"
"I'm going to go ask him"
Lenee went upstairs, with Link in tow, just in time to see Zelda finish her examination "They seem healthy" she was saying "But I don't think you've been eating enough lately. Don't worry about how you look right now, it's completely natural for someone when they're having a baby"
"Speaking of babies, are Vaati's going to go bald?"
"Fortunately for them, Picori can't go bald" Zelda said "A trait which Vaati seems to be passing on"
"Can you tell how they're going to look yet?"
Zelda shook her head "To early"
"He's been pregnant for over five months" Link complained "How can it be too early? Doesn't he give birth soon?"
"Pregnancy lasts nine months" Zelda said "And that reminds me" she turned and handed a small pill to Vaati "swallow that"
Vaati obeyed "What does it do?" he asked once he'd swallowed.
"When someone's having multiples there's a high risk of going into labor early, even higher when the mother-" Vaati blushed "-is underage. You're turning fifteen soon, right?" Vaati nodded "Way to young" Zelda continued "And it's a bit of a problem because of your size to. That pill will keep you from going into labor for a month. You'll need another one then. It's the safest way to prevent the babies from coming out to soon"
Vaati grumbled something and left the room.
Lenee yawned "Check up's done. Babies are fine. We should go now" She must have decided she didn't care why Vaati had calmed down the other day.
Zelda, who was used to Lenee by now, nodded "I guess so. Se you soon, Link"
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"Is here good?"
Dark nodded.
The Gerudo girl set down some wooden supplies, another girl got to work setting up the base of the house while the remaining three started discussing how the house should look.
"Dark" Dark ignored the voice "Dark. Dark. Dark. Dark"
"What?" Dark snapped, getting Shadow Link to flinch.
"I want the house to be closer to the woods. There isn't as much light there"
"This is my job" Dark began to push Shadow down, getting a yelp out of the smaller one "I don't need some failed experiment following me around or telling me what to do. It's bad enough lord Ganondorf is making you come with me"
Shadow ducked out from under Dark "You jerk! Just because you turned out better than I did you-"
Dark swatted him away "How long will it take to finish building the house?" he asked.
"If all goes well, about two days" one of the Gerudo told him.
"Keep an eye on this squirt" he pointed to Shadow "I've got something to do"
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Vaati sighed. He'd returned to the bedroom after Zelda left and gotten a lecture from Link on how he needed to not be so uptight about everything.
"Jerk" he muttered "I can't help it. Stupid Ganondorf. This is your fault"
He lay down on the bed "And I still didn't get that chocolate…"
"Then maybe this would make you feel better?"
Vaati blinked and sat up. Dark was standing at the foot of his bed holding out a bar of chocolate. There were several more in his other hand.
"YOU!" Vaati looked at him in shock, before quickly shutting and locking the door to the stairs "What are you doing here. How'd you get in?"
"You left the window open" Dark crawled over the bed to get to Vaati, kissing him on the cheek "It just killed me to go so long without seeing you"
"You should have stayed dead" Vaati muttered softly.
"Does that mean you don't want the chocolates I got you?"
Vaati considered it for a second "Fine. Hand 'em over" Dark grinned and handed Vaati the chocolates.
Vaati scowled and sat down on the bed, taking a bite out of the first bar "You know" he said "The last guy who showed interest in me only gave me things when he was about to rape me"
"You're stomach is getting bigger" Dark said "You can't just be gaining weight. It's only your stomach. A fat person would also have to have chubby arms and a fat face and really thick legs"
"Great" Vaati said dryly
"So what is it?" Dark asked, putting a hand on Vaati's stomach.
The baby kicked.
Hard.
Vaati grimaced. Dark yelped and moved his hand away "What was that"
After an awkward silence he poked Vaati's belly "Is there something in there…?" remembering what the Gerudo girl had told him Dark suddenly realized what was going on "Are you pregnant? You said you were a guy!"
"I-it's a magic accident" Vaati stuttered "I just… I messed up my gender one time shape shifting and… and now its. Oh my god, I swear, if you tell anyone I'll rip out your eyeballs and force you to swallow them"
Dark grimaced at the thought of having to eat his own eyeballs "I won't tell" he said quickly "Not because of the threat" he added "If you don't want people knowing that's enough for me" he leaned against Vaati. Vaati scooted away.
"I gotta go" Dark said "The girls are gonna be getting on my case if I'm gone much longer" he kissed Vaati on the cheek "I live closer now, so I'll get to see you more often"
Vaati waited until Dark was gone before rubbing at the area where he'd been kissed with his sleeve. Once that was done, he opened the door again.
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Rune Caster: Longer chapter. Sorry bout the time jump. The story was taking to long so I skipped a bit.