Link's POV
So, apparently, the Big yeti thing was holding a Reekfish, so in order to find him we would need to get the scent. Evienne tried to fish one out, but nothing is ever that easy. We had to go back to Kakariko (and talk to Renado,to find the Zora child, who was now well, which was awkward) and go ask the Zora kid how to catch the fish.
He explained that you need a special lure, that was his earring, and he gave us it. We thanked him and walked out of the village, using Midna to warp us.
Before we went to the Zora river we, went back to Telma's Bar, wanting to ask Ashei if she had any extra information that would be useful about the Yeti, in hopes she was back, but, she wasn't there. No one really knew where she was, but she wasn't there. We were going to leave, but Telma insisted we stay for a little while longer.
"Evienne, hun, can you come up stairs with me for a second?" asked Telma.
"Uh... Yeah sure," She replied.
What…?
Evienne's POV
"Evienne, hun, can you come up stairs with me for a second?" Telma asked me.
Well, what else am I supposed to say? 'No, screw you.' Psh, yeah, right. Although I felt nervousness in my stomach I said 'yes' anyways.
I slowly followed her as she lead up the stairs of bar.
"Is it really hurting you?"
I looked at her confused, "What?"
"You neck honey, it must sting, it looks pretty bad."
Oh…
"Oh, uh, yeah it's been bugging me but, I cant really do anything about it.." I replied, feeling the blush growing on my cheeks.
The one that was the worst was right near the start of my shoulder. Link bit me really hard. I think being a dog did something to him…
"Come here, this will help." She said beckoning me over. I just now realized she was holding a bottle.
I walked over and she put some sort of gooey cream on my neck.
"It'll soak into your skin, it wont really help with the pain right now, but it will make them go away faster." She explained.
I could feel my face getting hotter.
"Uh, yeah, thanks Telma." I told her. Then I smiled.
"It's no problem, dear, just try to keep the boy off you, okay? You guys are in the middle of an important adventure," she warned, winking at me.
"Uhm, yeah! ... Okay...bye!" I said quickly then walking down the stairs, red faced. I grabbed Links arm and pulled him outside.
"What the heck!" He asked one we were in the alley. My face was still red. He stopped me and looked at me "What did she say to you?" He questioned.
Damn it Link, why did you have to ask that?
"Uh…Nothing?" It sounded more like a question, like I was asking if he would believe me.
Well, guess what? He didn't. I started to walk out of the alley when he pulled me back and pinned me to the wall.
"Evienne, what did she say?" He asked me.
"Well, uh, she just put some stuff…on my neck.. to help it stop hurting." I mumbled, looking at the floor. I felt awkward.
I heard him sigh.
"I'm sorry." He said.
I looked up at him, confused. "What?" I asked.
He didn't answer, he just trailed his arm up to my neck and touched it. I winced and sucked in air at the contact.
"I'm sorry, I guess I got a little carried away… I shouldn't have done anything." He said, closing his eyes and putting his forehead to mine.
Oh man, he was guilty. He shouldn't be guilty, its not like I was mad.
"No! Link, its not that bad, really! Its okay!" I told him.
"No, its not, Eve. Look at how far we went. What if Renado didn't walk in? We could have gone farther then we should have... We could have..."
"Link..I.. Its okay.." I said. not really knowing what to say. He was right. And we both knew it.
"Evienne, stop trying to make me feel better. How would I be able to forgive myself if I pressured you into something you didn't want to do?"
"Link, don't say that, you weren't pressuring me into anything."
"Evi, we both know you can't honestly say that. I pressured you into going that far, and i feel horrible for doing that to you. I... I invaded your privacy, for heaven's sake! Its not right for me to...touch you like that. We both know I wasnt letting you stop me or even giving you a chance to think about anything," He told me sounding so mad at him self.
I placed a soft kiss on his lips. "Link, you know I wouldnt have let you do anything if i didnt want you too. I love you Link. Just because my neck hurts a little bit doesnt mean i would change anything about what we did. To be honest im just glad you dont hate me..."
He opened his eyes and looked into mine. "Your sweet," he said, then moved away from me and held out his hand, "Come on, lets go catch one of those fish."
I smiled and took his hand in mine.
After successfully catching a Reekfish, which by it's name, we should have known it would smell horrible, we venture back to the mountains. Ashei was gone from here too. Now she must have gone back. Link quickly turned into a wolf, and sniffed the fish, made a face, but got the scent anyway, and carefully lead us up the mountain.
Then, Mr. Wolf and I found a yeti.
He scared the crap out of us, so we only watched him from a few feet away. Dude was like 10 feet tall.
"Alright, wolfy, change back now." I told him.
He growled at me and I grabbed his ears and started flopping them around. He growled again and I laughed and grabbed his mouth.
"Bad doggie! no treats for you!" Then he pounced on me and started licking my face.
He knew how I hated that.
"EW! Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew! Link! get off of me!" I screamed, pushing his head away, but only getting my hands licked as well.
He stood on top of me and looked at me, then he got off while I wiped my face.
"EWW! I'm covered in Dog slobber!"
He just laughed at me. I turned around and faced him.
Midna then turned him back into a human, and I quickly grabbed his ears.
"You know, its fun to play with a dogs ears, but your ears are really long, so that is fun too," I said while laughing and pulling on his ears.
"Hey!" he said while grabbing my wrist and putting my hands at my sides, "That's not funny," he said.
I thought it was…
We walked up to the Yeti and he asked if we were on a spiritual journey. Link just said 'yeah sure', and then he told us to snow board with him to his house, then left.
Screw that, I would kill myself.
"Come on, please?" Link asked.
"No! I don't have any sense of balance, I will just like, fall off the edge!"
Then he grabbed me and put me on his shoulder.
"What are you..?" Then I realized...
"Jesus, Link! No! Don't you dare!" I warned him.
He ignored my warning and just hopped on the so-called snowboard, a scoop of bare ice, and slid down. From his back, I got a good view of the cliff we were on.
And the fact that we could fall down it, pretty easily.
When we reached the end, I had tears in my eyes.
That scared the living hell out of me.
"Woah, what's wrong?" Link asked as he saw the few tears that went down my cheeks against my wishes to blink them all away.
"Do you know how much that scared me! I'm not too fond of heights, I thought you figured that out when I had to go flying out of a damn cannon!"
"Oh, I'm sorry Evi, I didn't realize because you were always flying."
"Yeah, but when I would fly, I wouldn't go any higher than at least 35 feet if I had the choice, and it wasn't against my will over cliffs! Besides, if I ever fell from any of those kinds of places, I would be able to bring myself back up! Not like now..." I retorted. "You know what, what ever, we are here now, so lets just go inside," I continued and started walking towards the yeti's home, which was surprisingly a mansion.. I heard Link follow behind me.
So as it turns out, the yeti is named Yeto, and he only got that fish because his wife was sick, and he was making her a soup to make her feel better, and he needed it for the soup.
It sounded weird, but why would a yeti suddenly fall sick like that. They were used to the cold.
Does that mean this temple is the house?
Damn, that's so cool. That was a good idea, Nintendo. Wait a minute, that's right, Nintendo. How can I be sure I'm not just crazy? This is just a game after all, right?
"So what do we do here?" I asked.
"We're going to look for the mirror shard," he said simply.
I then realized I didn't know what he was talking about.
"For what?"
"The Mirror of Twilight," he said, raising his eyebrow at me.
I only smiled in confusion, so he had to explain to me what happened back at the Arbiter's Grounds.
"Zant broke it?" I growled.
"He knew we were coming at him," Link said with a nod.
I hissed in anger.
That damn wimp!
As soon as we came across Yeto's wife, Yeta, I screamed in delight and ran to her, and gave her a huge hug.
"She's so cute!" I screamed.
"Uh... You must be the humans... Uh, that husband brought," she said, her voice weak.
I quickly pulled up a chair and sat in front her, Link sitting on the edge of it.
"Yeah, we're here to help you. Exactly...how did you get sick," Link asked.
She quickly made her fluffy self comfortable in her own chair, "It happened, uh...back when Husband find pretty mirror, uh... And gave it to Yeta as a gift. Monsters started appearing, too, uh..."
Oh, so she was talking in third person...
"We think that's what made you ill," I explained, "If you don't mind, we wanted to find that mirror, and take it with us. We need it for our adventure, and it would really benefit your health," I coaxed.
She only smiled and marked a point in a map of her house she was nice enough to give us.
"Key to mirror room, uh... Here..." she said before falling asleep.
I smiled over at Link, and quickly got up, but he pushed me back down.
"Hey!" I whispered.
He shook his head, "Stay here. You're only just recovering from you're own illness, and I can't risk having you get sick again."
I scoffed, "I can handle it, it snows all the time where I'm from," I said.
"Does it?" he said, giving me the eye.
I shivered, "...No."
"Didn't think so. Besides, you can watch over Yeta, since she's so cute to you," he said, almost sounding jealous.
I snickered, and watched as he left. There he goes, sacrificing himself for me again...
Which left me here, sitting by a fire with a sick Yeti and thinking about my sanity. And some things I should have probably thought about long ago... But for some reason it was only coming to me now.
How is it possible for me to be in a video game?
But it feels so real.
And yesterday… Theres no way I could have imagined Link doing that to me, it has to be real... Right? I don't know, but this has happened twice, so I think its real, it's got to be.
Or...am I just saying that to reassure myself.
Ugh.
Then link walked in the door where Yeto is.
I stood up and before I could ask he said, "No. It was a pumpkin. From Ordon," then walked up to the Yeta, and gently shook her awake.
She apologized and said the illness must have affected her memory, gave him another room to check in and then unlocked the door to it.
Something told me this room isn't right either. It's just typical Nintendo to make you go around 3243243325324 times doing something. Like playing the ocarina to rise and lower the water levels in a temple...
Oh well. I'm just glad I don't have to go in the cold, but, I feel bad for Link. He's always sacrificing his happiness for others.
He truly is the sweetest guy I know.
Hey come to think of Link and Nintendo games, doesn't his partner always…leave..? Is midna gunna leave?
Then I remembered something about only a ruler being able to truly destroy the Mirror of Twilight. I know Link told me the sages had explained that. But I felt as if I had...read it...somewhere.
The game was called Twilight Princess, but, isn't that who Zelda is? But, then, why did Midna care so much about recovering the place.
Could she be... …No. She can't be. That's impossible.
I was growing impatient.
I ran into Yeto's kitchen to find him stirring his huge cauldron of soup.
"Hey, had Link passed by-"
"Oh! Human girl! Uh, good timing! Take soup to wife, uh," he ordered, pushing a bowl of sweet smelling soup into my hands and shoving me out.
I stared at the bowl, wondering what the hell just happened.
I simply sighed and walked over to Yeta, and offered her the soup.
"It's from Yeto, eat it to gain some strength.," i said, then noticed a large blanket around her blocked use of her arms.
She smiled as I apologized and instead insisted to feed her.
"It's good, uh..." she replied after a spoon full.
I smiled, "Do you feel better?"
She slowly nodded, "Only a little, uh."
I set down the bowl and walked back to the kitchen to find Yeto tackling Link to the ground for what seemed like cheese. He quickly tossed it into the soup and began stirring again.
"Human girl! How Wife like soup?" he said.
"How did... Wha..?" I whispered, then snapped my fingers and smiled at him, "Yeah, she says she feels slightly better. Maybe that cheese is what it needed," I said with humor in my voice as I watched Link get up.
"Quit it, it is NOT funny," he said with a glare.
I raised an eyebrow and smiled, "Well what are you doing? You're supposed to be looking for a key right? Why are you bringing Ordon's fruits and dairy producst instead?" I laughed.
He groaned and straightened out his back, "I keep going through the rooms Yeta's showing me, but this is all I'm finding!" he explained.
I picked up another bowl from Yetoa and took it and Link back with me to Yeta, "I'm sure this one's got to be it," I said.
He rolled up his once again marked map, and sighed, "Hopefully."
I sat down quietly and held a spoon full to Yeta's mouth, "But if you happen to find any milk, can you bring it too?" I joked.
He only groaned and walked away.
As I fed Yeta the soup, she seemed to lighten up some.
"Uh, Yeta feeling better, uh," she said with a smile.
I smiled back and nodded, "I thought you might! Ordon has some pretty healing products," I joked, and she laughed lightly in agreement.
After Yeta finished her soup, she quickly dozed off for a second, and I took the time to go back to Yeto's and give him the two bowls.
"It worked, she's feeling better," I said, setting the bowls on a stool beside a table covered in Reekfish guts.
"Yep! Cheese make fine addition to soup!" was all he said before going back to his stirring.
I nodded awkwardly and stepped out, then sat back down on my chair and watched the fire for a while, but quickly grew drowsy watching Yeta sleep, and currled up against my chair, dozing off myself.
"Wave up..." a quiet voice, but it pierced my ears.
I groaned and shifted my head.
"Come on Evienne, wake up," the voice said again.
I groaned louder and shifted my head.
"Wake up!" the voice cheered.
"Who?" I quickly jumped and trust my fist through the air, then felt it come into contact with something soft, and a bit squishy.
I slowly sat back up normally and rubbed my eyes, then looked to the floor to find Link on his knees, biting his lip with his hands over his groin.
I yawned and jumped to my feet, "Link, what is wrong with you?" I asked, giving him a weird stare.
He looked up and glared at me, "What the heck is wrong with you?" he groaned back weakly.
I stared at him for a while, then looked at my hand, remembering the feel of the squishy surface.
I gasped, "Oh man! Sorry! Are you alright? Does 'it' hurt?" I awkwardly asked, and slowly helped him to his feet.
He gave me a sarcastic smile, "Psh! No, I loved that," he practically hissed.
I scoffed and stepped back from him, "Well maybe you shouldn't have screamed in my ear," I advised him.
He glared at me again, "Anyway, I found the key."
I smiled, "That's great!"
I saw the small yeti beside me get to her feet and smile as well, "Follow Yeta, uh. We go to mirror room, uh."
We both nodded and followed her outside, and towards this room of hers.
