I have been thinking for quite some time if I should upload this or not, for I am still super, super shy whenever I upload stories like these.

As a little warning in advance:
this is a tickle story (but NOT a fetish story, because I DON'T write and DON'T like this stuff!), so if you don't like it, then don't read it.

But since I wanna be more open about this (and since I found this super cute),
and since I have uploaded so much dark stuff recently, I decided to upload this silly story now.
Aaaaaand it is also the start of a trilogy, meaning: Two more chapters will come afterwards ;).

I hope you like it and as always feedback in the form of a comment is very much appreciated
(even if I know that only one person still reads these stories of mine *sighs*.
But I appreciate your support very, very much *you know who you are* THANK YOU! :))

Summary:
Link and Midna spend the night under the stars in Hyrule field. While Link loves to sleep in, Midna is already wide awake and she decides to wake the hero up...of course in her own way. And she has found out about something interesting and she wants to try this out on Link, in hope it will wake him up...

Laziness and consequences

Silence still lay over the land of Hyrule.

The creatures of this world were still in the Land of Dreams.

No noise was heard.

Only silence surrounded her.

But she could see that the night was almost over and that another day started to dawn, because she could see how some of the clouds turned slightly red from the light of the dawning sun.

A sight that made her smile…

Many months had passed and she still couldn't get over it how beautiful the World of Light could be.

She was a creature, born in the darkness.

A creature, that should hate the World of Light with a passion, but she didn't.

In the past months, when she had started her journey with him, she had started to love the beauty of the Light World and she wasn't ashamed to admit this out loud…not anymore…

Her smile grew as she thought about that and her head turned to the side and she looked at the sleeping hero next to her.

Link was still sleeping peacefully right next to the fire he had made before he had gone to sleep.

Midna didn't need much sleep and thus she was awake since a few hours and she had been watching over the hero of Hyrule for the whole time. She loved to watch Link while he was sleeping, since he looked like a small, innocent kid then and she kind of liked that (but that was something she wouldn't admit out loud. After all she had a pride to lose…).

When Link was awake, she always pretended to be the hard shadow creature she was supposed to be, but when the boy was asleep, the tough shadow creature turned into a little softi.

The boy had changed her; had changed her to the better and yes, Midna enjoyed every second she could spend with him now. But even if she had softened, that didn't mean that she had also stopped teasing him. She still was the mischievous shadow creature Link had met months ago and yes, sometimes she was getting extremely onto the hero's nerves, but she couldn't help it.

It was just too much fun to tease him…

She had to chuckle quietly to herself when she thought about that and her eyes wandered back to Link and a small, sneaky grin spread across her face as she thought about something else.

The new day had begun and they had to continue their journey.

They had been on the way to the Arbiter's Grounds, but Link had insisted to take a small break from their long journey and Midna couldn't blame him for that. The first three temples, the encounter with Zant and the fight with the skull kid, before he had gotten the Master sword had robbed him of his strength and the boy deserved a break; even the small shadow princess had to admit this.

And here they were now, in a small forest part that was on the edge of Hyrule field.

Link had been sleeping for the past ten hours and slowly but surely Midna wanted him to wake up, so that they could continue their journey. This sleepyhead could take another break once they would reach the desert or Lake Hylia, since he had insisted to stop by at the lake for another break.

But not even Link's horse, Epona, was awake yet.

The mare was sleeping peacefully a few meters away from them and she didn't look like she would wake up soon.

Great…

Midna rolled her eyes at that and once again she looked at the sleeping hero next to her.

She thought about it for a moment, but then there was this slightly mischievous grin on her lips again when she decided to wake Link up.

Ten hours of sleep had to be enough for him to be able to travel to Lake Hylia.

And thus the little shadow creature scooted closer to the hero, putting her hand gently onto his shoulder and started shaking it a bit.

"Link? Hey, Link. Wake up. We have to go."

No response came and Link didn't even move a muscle and that made the shadow creature roll her eyes again and once again she shook his shoulder; a bit harder this time, but still Link didn't move a muscle.

"You really have a strong sleep, kid…" she muttered to herself and for a third time she shook his shoulder and this time she even got a response for her attempt of waking him up, but instead of waking up, Link murmured in his sleep and turned onto his other side, so that his back was facing Midna now.

That wasn't the reaction the shadow princess had been hoping for.

But she wouldn't give up so fast.

She just smirked and her visible eye started to glow a bit as she moved into the air and hovered above the still sleeping boy.

Link wanted to switch to stubborn?

Fine!

Midna could be stubborn as well!

And besides: She knew ways to wake him up…

She immediately set her "evil plan" into action and set to work.

This time she was aiming for his ear and when she pulled on it, a growl came over his lips and he shook his head and at the same time he used his arm to protect his ear with it, muttering a "Stop that, Midna and let me sleep…"

"You have slept enough. It's time for you to get up, you sleepyhead."

"It's too early, Midna…go away…"

Oh yes, now Link sounded like a stubborn, little kid, instead of the hero he was supposed to be.

A thought, which made the shadow princess roll her eyes.

But the grin was right back on her face.

Link wanted to act like a little kid?

Fine!

Then she would treat him like one.

She had been watching humans for a long time now and she had seen how adult humans treated their kids and she had also seen how many of them woke their kids up and it had always been working.

And Midna was curious if this waking method, which she had seen every so often, would work on Link too.

She didn't know him long enough to know if it was working or not, but she would find this out now.

And Link was already in a perfect position for her little "experiment", since he was still lying on his side and had his arm risen, to be able to protect his ear with it.

"I hope this will be working on you…"

"What should work on me…?" the hero muttered and he sounded as if he was back in the land of dreams already.

"That!" Midna said as she was right behind him and she immediately shoved her hand underneath Link's arm, starting to wiggle her fingers in hope this would be working, digging really hard into his armpit to get through the thick chainmail he was wearing to protect his body from injuries during his fights.

Oh and how it was working!

A loud and pretty unmanly squeal left the hero's lips and his whole body jumped at the sudden tickling feeling underneath his arm and out of pure reflex he clamped his arm down, only trapping Midna's hand underneath. When the tickling sensation didn't stop, he bit down on his lower lip, trying to suppress the laughter that bubbled up inside his belly, but without much success, because a few giggles slipped over his lips anyways as his sneaky friend kept wiggling her fingers in his hollow.

"Wh-what are you d-doing, Midna?"

"To be honest? I have no idea what I am doing here, but whatever it is, it's fun. A lot of fun I have to admit. And apparently it's fun for you as well. After all I can hear you giggling! What's so funny, hero?"

Link didn't know if she was serious or if she was just teasing him.

He couldn't really imagine that Midna had never heard of tickling before, but judging by her surprised voice and her reactions in general this had to be the case.

Oh great, this was getting more and more embarrassing for him!

Getting tickled by someone who had never heard of this before was already bad enough, but getting teased about it was just too much and he could feel how his giggling turned more and more into bright laughter, as his shadowy friend doubled her efforts underneath his arm.

"I-it cahahahalls tihihihickling Midnahahaha. A-and now…s-stohohohop ihihit!"

"Oh, so that's tickling?"

She dug her fingers a bit deeper into his tunic and chainmail to get at the ticklish skin underneath and the boy jumped and squealed again.

"YES!" he squeaked and movement went into his body as he started squirming around underneath his friend's surprisingly skillful fingers.

"And now…STOP IT!"

"But why? You are laughing, aren't you? And after all I have seen, you humans are happy when you laugh. Why do you want me to stop then?"

That was a good question and something Link couldn't describe very well.

But who said that he needed words to show Midna what he meant?

Despite everything, his own lips twisted into a slightly sneaky grin and he quickly turned around so that he was lying on his back and before Midna knew what was happening, Link had already grabbed her, pinning her against his chest and his free hand set to work on her side immediately.

The shadow princess didn't know what hit her and before she knew what was happening, she was already laughing; even if she had no idea why. This situation was anything but funny to her (okay maybe just a little bit funny), but she was forced to laugh anyways. Link's wiggling fingers felt strange on her skin and the sensation they produced felt even stranger and she found herself unable to stop laughing once the hero had started…what was the word?...tickling her. She started to twist and squirm around in his grip, squealed and laughed and kicked her legs out, when Link's hand aimed for her stomach and it wasn't long before she heard the hero laughing along with her.

"There. That's tickling," he said right into her ear and his breath tickled her even more.

"Feels strange, doesn't it?"

Midna could only nod her head, since she got more and more lost in her laughter, since Link didn't stop moving his tickling hand over her belly.

But eventually the hero of Hyrule had to find out that Midna was still much stronger than he would ever be and when it got too much for his shadowy friend, she freed herself from his grip and flew a few meters away from him; still giggling since she still could feel the tickling sensation rushing through her small body.

When she heard Link laughing at her, a growl rose in her own throat and she spun around, manifested her orange hair into a big hand and using it against her friend.

Link didn't even know what hit him, when it was already too late for him, because Midna was on him faster than he could blink. His hands got pinned above his head with her big hand and the little shadow creature straddled his belly, looking into his face with a "I am not amused" look, but if Link looked closely he could see that she wasn't serious and that she was just playing around with him.

After all Midna was just too proud to let go and enjoy herself a bit and thus she had to cover her joy with faked angry reactions like this.

"How dare you doing something like this to me?!" she growled, but Link only smirked at her.

"Doing what? Tickling you?"

"Yes!"

"Well, let me remind you that it was you who started this."

"I just wanted to wake you up and I saw a lot of humans who did this to their kids."

"Oh, so now I am a kid to you?"

Midna smirked.

"Yes, you are. A pretty lazy kid, by that way."

"Oh come on. I deserve a bit of leisure every now and then."

Midna had to admit that Link was right, but she didn't want to say that out loud.

Her attention was back on him the moment the boy tried to wrench his arms free from her iron like grip around his wrists.

"Could you please let go of me now?"

The smirk was right back on Midna's face and to tease him some more, she tightened her grip around his wrists a bit more, which made Link growl.

"No," was all she said.

"Why?"

She leaned her head down to him and the grin on her lips grew wider and became slightly evil.

"Because there is something calls revenge."

Even Link had to grin at this and he gave her a challenging look.

"Oh yes? Is that so? Well, good luck with your revenge, Midna. Since you don't know anything about tickling I am sure it will take you some time to find out how to make me laugh."

"I wouldn't be so sure about that, hero. I have watched humans for a long, long time now and I saw many of them tickling each other. And besides…"

She stroked one of her fingers over Link's right armpit, making the boy flinch and giggle in anticipation.

"I already know one tickle spot of yours and I am sure I will find the rest soon enough. Then, when you least expect it...kid…"

"I hope you know that I can turn the tables on you, right? Let's see who is laughing then!"

"Maybe this is true, but you know what?"

"What?"

Without a warning, her fingers were back under his arms, tickling him and Link threw his head back in loud, happy laughter, squirming around and tugging on his arms, but he wasn't able to free himself and this thought alone made him laugh even harder, since he knew that he was totally vulnerable and at her mercy now.

"For now it's you who won't be able to stop laughing anytime soon…"

To be continued…