xjx-I asume you are a dark fangirl, or at least a big dark fan...
General Banana-Gay zombie magnet!
Oniyuri Tiger Lily-shonen-ai... I think I know that term... and btw, I am a firm believer that Link is not all that bright, why else would he listen to Midna, Navi, Tatl, and Ezlo (along with any other assistant characters I've left out)
Dark Ruby Sage-I'm not gonna lie. This is my favorite review. Don't worry, Dark will redem herself... in a few cahpters
Coconut Wax-Apology accepted. What's gonna happen to Vaati?
morferedir-Ganondorf has a larger list of evil deeds... and he's bigger... and uglier... but I get your point. Vaati never needed the triforce, and he's need four link's to whup him all but the time he was cute.
Chapter 26
Vaati slipped out the door and looked around. Zelda was busy arguing with Lenee over what to do should one of his children be a boy (seeing as the Gerudo law apparently didn't apply to him). And Link was out buying food, since Vaati had accidentally blown up most of what was in the kitchen during his latest mood swing.
He waited a second to see if either girl would come after him before running as fast as he could with a huge bulge in his stomach in the direction of Dark's house. It had been several weeks since he'd yelled at the boy/girl. It was actually spring. He hadn't heard from Dark at all since then.
He'd never admit that he felt guilty about upsetting her. The more he'd though about it, the less likely it seemed that Dark would change genders on Ganondorf's orders, so he was starting to believe that it had been to make him love her. He felt horrible about attacking her, but told himself he just wanted to see if Dark was still a girl or not. After all, he was Vaati. Vaati couldn't have feelings for an enemy's minion.
He could certainly feel terrified when he saw what had one been Dark's house, though. It was nothing more than a pile of scrap would and little bits of metal.
Looking around, Vaati spotted Shadow hiding under some of the wood, he looked asleep.
"Shadow?!" the boy woke up and looked at Vaati as he attempted to climb over to him. "What happened? Where's Dark?"
"You liar. You gave me a fake name"
"Huh?"
"Master Ganondorf came by" Shadow muttered "He wasn't happy with Dark, because she made herself a girl, and because she'd tricked him into letting us live here so she could be closer to you. He took her back to the castle"
"Well…" Vaati considered how rude it would be to say 'At least Dark'll leave me alone now'. Then something occurred to him, Ganondorf wasn't happy with Dark, meaning "When you say 'wasn't happy' do you mean…"
"Down right furious and torturing her like there's no tomorrow? Yup"
Vaati cringed. Either this was a freakishly elaborate scheme which he doubted Ganondorf had the brain power to conduct, or Dark was in a lot of trouble because she'd tried so hard to get his attention.
He turned to run back to Link's for help when Shadow spoke up again "Wait"
"What?"
"…Dark was really mean to me but… but at least she acknowledged me… I mean… most of the Gerudo actually wanted me dead. Even though Dark picked on me h-she stood up for me when Ganondorf first tried to get rid of me and…" he took a deep breath "Please get her back!"
"O… okay…."
"But you can't go to Link" Shadow continued "Ganondorf said if he saw Link he'd kill Dark!"
Vaati grimaced. No Link… no control over magic… strong urge to save someone being held by a psycho who raped him. Great…
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Dark sobbed, everything hurt. She'd never been in so much pain before. Not when going through the Gerudo training, not while working like a slave for the witch who'd changed her gender, not even when Link had defeated her. Ganondorf really did give a whole knew meaning to the word cold.
She looked up at her creator, master, and torturer, trying to read his expression. Was she going to be hurt more?
"Stop looking at me like that" Ganondorf said casually "This isn't my fault. You're simply being taught what happens to those who are disobedient" Dark whimpered as Ganondorf reached down and yanked her up by the hair, forcing her to stand "did you forget what you owed me for bringing you into this world?" Ganondorf laughed and dropped Dark "Besides, I left a message for Vaati. If he really cared, he would have come for you by now. I suppose even someone as low down as him doesn't care for garbage like you."
Dark lay on the floor crying and thinking about this. Of course Vaati wouldn't come, and that hurt most of all.
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"You let him go?" Link asked.
"You've kept him inside for a while. I though he just wanted to go down to the river"
"Does it look like he's at the river?"
"Not really" Zelda admitted "But he couldn't have gone too far. I sent Lenee out to look for him. She won't take to long, with those eyes of hers"
"Yeah… besides, I bed Ganondorf is still mad-assuming he was telling the truth about…"
"About what?"
"Nothing"
"I can try to locate him with magic. He's got so much magical build up that it couldn't be too hard…"
"Wait for Lenee"
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Vaati starred at the stump. He felt as though he'd been defeated before even starting. The Minish Portal was probably only a third of his size, and if he weren't pregnant climbing up it would be easy. Unfortunately, he was pregnant, and it was difficult to climb onto something half his height. Finally, giving a deep sigh, Vaati made the attempt. With much struggling, he made it up.
Quickly whispering the proper chant to activate the dormant magic of the portal, Vaati was shrunk down to his original size.
Fingering the pendant Zelda had given him, and very cautiously channeling magic into it to strengthen its illusion, Vaati stepped out of the stump to be tackled by a young Minish girl.
"Vaati! Ohmygosh,you'reback! Makasaidyou'dforgottenallaboutusbutIsaidyouwouldn'tevenifyoudidn'tcometovisitusformonthsandmonthsandmonthsandmonths! Areyouokay? ThoseHyliansdidn'tdoanythingweirdtoyoudidthey! I'msohappytoseeyou!!"
"Hi, Carr" Vaati said softly.
Carr giggled and let go of Vaati. She was, without a doubt, his youngest follower. Several Hylian years younger than him, to be exact. She was also probably the only Minish he'd ever met (aside from himself) who refused to wear grass and leaves. Even now, Carr was in an outfit sown from scrap fabric used for human clothing. Carr, along with her brother who was Vaati's age, had been apprenticed to one of Ezlo's rivals.
Speaking of Carr's brother, he came up right then "Long time no see. Could have sworn you forgot you even left us here"
"It's good to see you too, Riek"
Riek nodded "In what way do you plan on manipulating everyone this time?" Riek was the speaker. He and Vaati had been close friends, and coming to the Hylian world had actually been a joint plan. Riek would use his ability to speak well to keep the Minish loyal to Vaati, and convince them to do what Vaati wanted, and Vaati used his magic to gain respect and convince them to still be in control. Riek was also the only Minish who knew a thing about Vaati's childhood.
"I… hm… this is long. Carr, you go let everyone know we're having a meeting. Get them gathered at the center of the village while your brother and I talk" Carr nodded and ran off.
"Some boy mistook me for a girl-"
"That's it?"
"I'm not done. He mistook me for a girl, decided I was interesting, found out I was a guy, instantly decided he didn't care (so I think he's bi) then he fell in love with me and wouldn't leave me alone so I told him I was straight and he found a witch who was willing to make him a girl but I freaked out and had some weird panic attack and hurt… her. Then the guy she was working for got really mad and attacked her and locked her up and I fell kind of guilty-and I've wanted to get him back for a while anyway since he raped me-but I'm worried about her and I doubt I could storm a whole castle by myself so I though maybe you could help…" there was a moment of silence "by the way, do I look different?"
"Different? No. Well, if this girl is-wait, raped?"
"It's… nothing. I didn't say it. Come on. Let's go too the center of the village"
"It's not nothing! What happened?"
Vaati glanced around to make sure no one was listening "Ah… I messed up a shape shifting spell and accidentally made myself a girl once, and this man-Ganondorf-he didn't know this, but he raped me anyway and… and I'm… kind of pregnant"
"WHAT?!"
"Quiet down" Vaati hissed "I don't want anyone else to here" Riek scowled, but kept his mouth shut "I… it's just… it's nothing I…"
"Did this happen recently? You don't look pregnant. How long ago was this?"
"Stupid pendant" Vaati looked at the necklace "It's supposed to stop working on people who know"
"Oh, nice charm. Did you charge it?"
"Yeah. I was worried that Minish might be able to see through it since Hylian magic is so ineffective. I guess I put to much energy into it, it's really hard to control my magic right now…"
"I heard that happens but-honestly Vaati, you didn't come to us right away?"
"Well, I kind of got stuck living with Link, which is okay because even though he's the one who stopped me when we first crossed over he protected me from Ganondorf, and I kind of just got used to the fact and… sorry"
Riek sighed "Fine. Don't worry about the lack of magic. Carr's taught herself how to blow things up so we have no reason to worry about what to do without your abilities. What's the plan?"
"We're storming Ganondorf's castle. I need the other Minish causing so much chaos that even if Ganondorf knows it's just a distraction he can't do anything but go fight them. You and I, can go find Dark while this is going on"
"Is Dark the he/she?"
"Yeah"
"Come on" Riek began to lead Vaati towards the village "So how far along are you?"
"About seven months. I look like more though. Stupid twins"
"Twins?!"
"Twins"
"And you waited seven months to get him back?"
"Yup. Actually, my back kind of hurts. Are you sure you can't tell? I'm worried one of the Minish will see through it and reveal it to everyone. I doubt most of them would follow me then"
"Do you know the gender?"
"You seem to be adapting to this a little fast"
"Thank you. All right, I have a speech ready. Let's go"
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5th Element: Guess what, my mom's friend from kindergarten and my dad's little brother and his wife live in the same town, but they never saw each other. But the girl that my mom's friend adopted recently (since they've only adopted a million already) turns out to be best friends with my little cousin. Ain't that something?
By the way, I'm officially back to posting chapters as I finish them.