Not much to say. This chapter focuses in on Quasar a bit, and tries to capture her not-so-happy personality. (She's got some moodiness abotu her...)
On with the show!
Enjoy!
"That piece doesn't go there you doofus!" Quasar threw a metal screw she had been trying to fit into the wrong slot for the past two minutes at her father's head. The project was getting to them, making them go haywire. XT had been trying to fit a massive glowing crystal into a small space that he was sure it fit into somehow.
"Yes it does! I built this machine for your information! I know what I'm doing." XT stuck his tongue out at her and tossed the screw back at her. "Put the one on the hole to your left instead of your right dumbo."
"Well excuse me princess!" Quasar stuck her tongue out at her father.
"How dare you insult my feminine qualities? I am your father!"
"Pah! Start delivering then, dad. C'mon, build this machine." Quasar taunted in a voice filled with mockery.
"We have gotten far on it."
"Oh yeah, half way and we are already at the point when we said we'd be done." Quasar rolled her eyes in the now glimmering cave, filled with lights, and whirring gadgets all designed or imagined by XT-421.
"Well, we are encountering some minor setbacks. Why don't you go check on the people outside?"
"Because they are all asleep,"
"Or making love… oh yeah…" XT grumbled.
"Life is so boring without people who are awake!"
"It can be, but that's when you do your planning and execute the devious plans like this one. You know, you are holding me back a lot, and you keep making me stop what I'm doing to help you. Why don't you go check on where everyone is anyway? You almost spied on Brunis and Daisy so long ago."
"Ugh! Pervert!"
"All it is is mamillians reproducing, or trying to. What's wrong with that?"
"I swear… how are you my father?" Quasar grumbled as she stormed out, XT smiled victoriously as she did so.
"Hahahahahahahaha! Now a one and a two, and a one two ready go!" XT began to sing as he hopped around the cavern, piecing together the parts to whatever he was building. (A/N: You'd be happy too if you got away from an annoying person for a little bit, even if she was your daughter.)
Whatever it was, it was huge enough to fit perfectly under the entire Square.
Quasar ran, or drove, as her case usually was, to Lake Hylia first. Wondering where the first objective lay.
"Oh how I love my amphibious car!" Quasar hummed into the night, pressing a few buttons on her car's dashboards as she drove into the water.
The a few moments later, the vehicle began to float, and a motor came from the trunk.
"Yeehaw!" Quasar roared as she floored the gas, and the car-made-boat tore through the water.
Her car drifted to a stop as she let go of the gas and hopped onto one of the few small islands in the lake, not connected by the bridge.
"Eww… this is so wrong… How can you do this dad?" Quasar grimaced as she looked at Zelda and Steven, both covered in half a blanket, on top of the other.
Quasar's body rippled for a moment, and she strode gracefully over to them, throwing their clothes in the basket they ate in, and then went to her car.
She made the trip once more, this time picking up the barely concealed couple, and placing them inside the passenger seat of her car. By some miracle, neither of them woke up.
Now quietly, her car hummed back to the mainland, and converted to a land vehicle again. Still purring, her car made it over 300 miles per hour, and she weaved carefully in between obstacles with her perfect vision to the castle.
Hanging the basket on her hat, she hoisted the couple up from her car, and began to walk to the castle, thanking the three deities she had yet to see that no one was there to stare at any of them.
"How am I going to do this?" Quasar groaned, looking at their castle, all of the lights still on, making the whole crystalline structure glow.
"Ugh!" Quasar grunted, placing the two on the ground, and praying forgiveness to her mother in advance.
She laid the large blanket on the ground, and quickly placing the two, still too close for Quasar to admire anything about, in the middle, and wrapped them up with the corners of the blanket.
"EW! Fleshies are SO disgusting!" Quasar's form rippled again, and the moment she stopped, she sighed, and transformed into a spider. (A/N: Fleshie is my 'racist' statement for all beings that are alive. Quasar can use it because she isn't alive by technical terms.)
Using three of her four engines, she began to hover in the air, and picked up the corners with her fourth claw, making sure no to use that unit of propulsion.
She sluggishly began to pull the package upwards, and cleared the wall, and then, keeping low to the ground because she didn't trust the fabric, she trudged on to the room in which Zelda and Steven stayed.
The moment she got there, she contemplated leaving, but something tugged her to tuck them into bed.
"Oh how I hate this half of the job…" Quasar groaned, placing the couple in their bed, and throwing the blanket on top of them, and the basket of clothes, still on Quasar's head, on the floor next to them.
Quasar then bolted it back to her car, running away from the horrors of flesh-bearing creatures.
Arrow was lonely and hungry. The strange people his mother left him with didn't have any good food on them. That littler creature they called 'Tommy' was in bed, and the oldest two people where somewhere outside, and hadn't come back quite yet. He curled up into a small brown lump on the couch they had, and nestled his way into a small crack for added warmth.
Silently, he fell into s deep slumber.
Seemingly moments later, his life became more exciting.
A few taps on the door, and his canine instincts took him over.
He hopped out of the couch and started yelping in his high pitch bark and shuffled on the ground to the door.
The moment it was opened, he stopped barking, and smiled, letting his little pink tongue hang out of the side of his mouth, and allowing his tail to wag rapidly.
"Hello Arrow! Mommy's back!" Quasar held out her arms, and he jumped into them, being warmed by Quasar's artificial body warmth.
"Where are the rest of them?" She asked excitedly, not helping Arrow contain his happiness. He jumped out of her arms and whimpered at the door.
"You want to go outside?" Quasar followed him out there, and he dashed across the ground, Quasar found it fun to keep up.
"Where are you going?" She wondered aloud, she would've wagged a tail if she had one.
The Eevee pointed at a blanket over on a section of land, very good to overlook, a bit less than a mile away from the house.
"You've GOT to be kidding me, ANOTHER FLESHIE COUPLE MAKING LOVE? Good heavens! What has gotten into these people!" Quasar's eyes were as large as moons.
"I'll leave them there. C'mon, let's go inside, and let them feel like idiots for sleeping in the nude." Quasar turned around, and her pet followed her happily at her side.
"Saria! Saria!" Link called to her urgently, awaking her from her slumber.
"Huh?" Saria asked groggily, feeling the strange fabric of unknown bedding cover all of her smooth skin. She blushed faintly at her lack of any clothes.
"Oh Saria… you scared me so badly!" Link sighed, kissing her on her forehead gently, opening her eyes, she saw that his hair was a bit wet.
"Link? What… happened?" Saria moaned, her head hurt terribly.
"Well, you know, the lake? Cleaning ourselves off a bit? You kind of sunk under the water with me and found out the hard way you can't breathe underwater, or hold your breath as well as I can." Link chuckled.
"Oh my gosh… I nearly drowned in our little water experiment?" (A/N: It was in the lemon scene last chapter, still up for grabs if anyone wants to PM me...)
"Yeah… let's not do that again…" Link smiled.
"What time is it?"
"Time to go to bed. It have to be a few hours past midnight. You've been unconscious for the past hour. I was so worried…"
Saria felt one article still on her, her ring.
"Oh my… it wasn't a dream… I really did get proposed to by the best man in the world." Saria awed at her leaf shaped ring.
"And the most beautiful woman said yes to me." Link kissed her again.
"Sleep with me? Nothing more than sleeping? I can assume you're as tired as I am?"
"I have more stamina than most." Link boasted.
"Alright you. Bed. Now. Easier?"
"Much. Yes your majesty." Link hopped into the bed with her, he was wearing a pair of loose fitting pants.
"Aw… must the pants stay on? They are irritating me." Saria complained. Before she could say anything more, the pants of Link's, and obviously everything else he was wearing, fell into a neat little pile on the unfamiliar floor.
"Where are we?"
"I dragged you back home. We're in your old house in Kokiri. It hasn't changed much."
That's weird… I lived her for over 500 years, and I can't recognize my own home? Saria figured it must have something to do with her being a Hylian.
"Has anyone seen me yet?"
"No. Mido hasn't shown his face yet. He'll be surprised to see us here. Much more if he sees us like this. And much, much more when he sees you with a wedding ring on. So much can happen in seven years when you're not frozen in time. I should know, eh?"
"We should know. I am experiencing this first hand too."
"As you say my love." Link kissed her on her neck, and Saria began to drift into a dreamy reality where she soon found the comfort of a dream Link. Whether or not this was the real person she was going to marry one day, or just a figment of her imagination, she couldn't tell. She was already asleep.
Quasar and Arrow fell 'asleep' for much of that time. Quasar leaned on the couch, and Arrow slept in her arms. She didn't move, nor thought much. She just sat there, and waited, humming the melodies of foreign tunes no one but she and XT, and maybe Rareen, could guess.
At the time she normally did, Rareen appeared from her room, as if she had been there all night and yesterday, which was not at all the case, as she wasn't in her room at all.
She methodically began cooking for a family that wasn't there.
"Where've you been?" Quasar asked, staring into the wall in front of her, not bothering to look at Rareen.
"Oh, working on something… John, come on in honey."
"Do I have to? I'm not good at it yet!" His voice whined from the room.
"Yes you do, it's an order."
"Yes ma'am." John, a small, fairy sized ball with wings now, flitted into the room like a drunken fairy. (A/N: I had to make him similar to Rareen, it evens the scales out a bit.)
"Ha! Were you drinking John?" Quasar taunted, staring at him.
"No! Rareen forbade me to drink when I'm going to fly. Not yet at least."
"So what's the damage?"
"Well, if you're asking about the wings, it's kind of nice actually… whenever I drink that potion of Rareen's, I grow wings, and become a fairy, in a sense… but I still age, and don't shine as much…"
"And when he eats the cake, he turns into a full bred, no wings human. I'm not letting him turn into a human for a few days though. He must learn how to fly. I will make an exception for that wedding though, he's free then." Rareen said.
"How in the world did this happen?"
"Well… it was a long process," Rareen explained, "but I got my Queen to infuse him, when he's small, to become like a fairy, so, he becomes a fairy." Simple, or was it?
"What's the catch?" Quasar asked, detecting withheld information.
"Oh, something about giving her kids, and possibly marrying her… But we're all not sure. We'd rather get to know each other first. Well enough before we do anything like kids."
"Saria." Rareen coughed rudely.
"Rareen, FYI: she is engaged."
"WHAT?!"
"I heard all of it last night. Saria and Link, Steven and Zelda, and Cheryl and Xavier all proposed at exactly 12:00 this morning. All EXACTLY at the same time. Like, all said "will you marry me?" at identical time periods. XT and I, I know, have something to do with this. Wherever we go, love seems to follow, and now with both of us here, I am surprised more people aren't ending up how all three couples ended up last night."
"Engaged?"
"Well, I was going to say asleep outside in the process of making love, but that works too." Quasar cackled nervously, shivering at the memory.
Rareen's pink turned red.
"SARIA SLEPT WITH LINK OUTSIDE!? WHERE?"
"Kokiri Forest. She's probably still sleeping."
"OOH!"
"Honey, calm down." John hovered near her, stumbling midair a bit.
Rareen sat down and began to breathe deeply.
"We made love too, one day we'll probably go outside too." John tried to comfort.
"Well, it is getting closer to wake up call. Do you want to make Cheryl and Xavier feel like idiots for falling asleep outside without their clothes?"
"Ooh!" Rareen jumped, "we all need to hide their clothes. How far away are they?"
"About a mile that way." Quasar pointed in a random direction, waking up her little pet.
"Oh boy! C'mon John! We're going to mess with them!" Rareen dropped the food she was preparing, and ran outside, a small ball of yellow light followed her, bouncing and waving erratically in the air.
"No Arrow, we're not going with them, I don't want to see that couple again for a bit. Not until they are decent."
Arrow whined at her.
"No means no." She frowned at him.
Then Arrow began to struggle from her metal arms, and she sighed.
"Fine!" She let the alien jump out of her arms and run out the door, she followed shortly after.
Rareen smiled widely at her friend's condition. The two numbskulls did it again, fell asleep in an easily accessible area in the act of making love. Rareen remembered when they first did this, what she and XT did to them; they hid their clothes, and gave them to them when they woke up, and felt strange and awkward about it. Today would be a bit different.
Rareen quickly found their clothes, and instead of taking them, she removed one article piece by piece and hid them in places around the area, designed to make them stay put, in fear of getting seen.
She hid Cheryl's brassiere in a nearby bush, Xavier's boxers in a tree, his tunic in another small shrubbery, and her blouse in between a few cattails bordering the nearby lake. Rareen was stumped though, as to wear she would hide the rest.
She finally placed Cheryl's panties at the bottom of the lake, wedging it in the rocks, and weighing it down so it wouldn't go anywhere. But that left her with both of their pants.
"Where am I going to hide these?" She asked aloud, not realizing that Quasar and her pet were right behind her.
"What is that?"
"That is Arrow, he is an Eevee, an alien species of animal. He wants to help."
"What can he do?"
"Arrow, dig." Quasar commanded, and the little brown animal began to burrow into the ground. A moment later, his head popped out, with his paws holding him up, it was already too deep for him to touch the bottom.
"PERFECT! Can you do that again little buddy?" Rareen pleaded, placing Xavier's pants in the hole.
The Eevee nodded, and began to dig another hole a foot away from the one he made.
"No no no… over… here!" Rareen jumped over to another place, on the opposite side of the lovers, not caring about them being asleep.
Arrow dug down again, and then Rareen placed Cheryl's pants, which she still liked to wear in comparison to dresses, most of the time, inside.
Then, the two began to fill the holes again, leaving a small mound of dirt where they works.
"Ahahahaha! Take that missy! That'll teach you to have reckless sex! HA!" Rareen stuck her tongue out at the two. John and Quasar, watching the scene together in amusement, sighed.
John landed on Quasar's shoulder, a perch to him, and laughed a bit.
"You know, she says this, yet she doesn't even consider herself in the spectrum. How crazy she gets with me is this reckless sex that she is scolding Cheryl and Xavier for."
"And you're telling me because?"
"Isn't it your job to get people to make love?"
"Yeah, but I don't like to think about such biological processes."
"Why not?"
"It is disgusting." Quasar said flatly.
"No it isn't. It is just as magical as you are. Besides, you seem jealous."
"Why would I be jealous?"
"We can make love, reproduce, and enjoy ourselves, you can't."
"I enjoy myself by spending my time tricking people by making them fall in love spontaneously. Not by indulging myself in such activities."
"Are you sure you're not angry with how you are right now?"
"And how am I now?"
"You are a being who doesn't live, but exists consciously, only to mindlessly do a job with no one but yourself and family to really interact on the same level of intellect. I can see you wish you were like us, so you could be happy to."
"I don't need to be happy thank you. I just need to make others happy."
"Hmm… think about it. Someone one day will think the world of you, and when you find them, because like your father, as I can assume, you can travel through time, and thus WILL find them, what will you do? Will you have enough guts to crush them? Or would you too fall for their alluring qualities and try to get into a relationship with them?" John loved messing with people, and Quasar, though complex, was easy enough to read for him.
"Listen you damn fairy. Shut up, or I'll blow you up. Got it?"
"Someone's angry." John teased.
"And you asked for it." Quasar's fingers began to glow brightly, and she sent a burst of green light to her right shoulder, just as John left it.
John knew from now on to stay away from Quasar when she was having a mood swing.
As a group, the four, Cheryl and Xavier not included, left the scene, and headed off to Xavier's house for breakfast.
So, now you see that Quasar is just as moody as her father, and hates the living because of their happiness, even if she is the source of some of it, and yet, she longs for it subconsciously, wanting to find her someone special...
Well, enough of the teenaged drama (Quasar is supposed to be 15,) and on with the show. Next chapters, the wedding is coming up, yay! Zelda and Steven are getting married!
More coming soon...