Hi Hi Hi Hi!
I've been the tiniest bit busy but I'm PUMPED to continue!
I would have updated earlier, but just the other day I got a Lloyd LEGO minifigure! Yes, I do play with LEGO, is there a problem with that?
Dreamer- Yes, there is.
Teller … no one asked you.
Dreamer- I did.
Teller- I didn't hear you ask.
Dreamer- I did it telepathically :D
Teller- :/
Dreamer- :D
Teller- -_-
Dreamer- :^)
Teller- .._
Dreamer- :I
Teller- :I
Dreamer- :`^( *leaves*
Teller- …
Sorry about that, kinda annoyed of her now. *mumbles* kinda killed my mood…
ANYWAYS, for your sake, I'll continue! So…
On With the Story!
Link couldn't help but noticed as he came to that the inside of his eyelids were red from sunlight and that he was moving. That was the one that freaked him out a bit. At first, he thought those bandits actually got him while he was sleeping, but then he heard the unmistakable sound of one of the older knight's, Xander, talking to someone really close. Giving out a small groan Link slowly opened his eyes, having to blink a few times to adjust to the light. There were two things that Link noticed off the bat; he seemed to be laying down propped up a bit by something; and his father. At first, his father was looking away from Link and didn't notice his son's consciousness, but after a couple seconds, Link decided it would be best to speak up rather than his father turn around and have a heart attack from seeing his suppose to be asleep son staring at him.
"Dad?" Link couldn't help but give out a small yawn as he drowsily called out his father. Immediately the Captain snapped his head down to Link, who in return, gave a small sleepy smile.
"Sleep good?" asked the Captain, who retuned the smile. Link gave another small yawn as he answered.
"It was good. Wish I could take another." Link stopped a moment before looking at his dad, eyebrows barrowed in confusion.
"How long was I out?" At that, the Captain laughed, causing Link's whole body jerk at the movement. It wasn't till now did Link realize he was laying in his father's arms, leaning into his cold chest plate.
"Not long." replied Captain. "I found you passed out under a tree about.. I don't know.. an hour ago?"
"Mhm" mused Link as he covered his mouth with the back of his hand, trying to stifle an oncoming yawn. After a moment, Link couldn't help but snuggle deeper into his father's arms. He still felt a bit sleepy, but he decided that it would useless to go to sleep again. Link wouldn't be able to sleep tonight and that would just cause a repeat of today. Instead, Link decided he would enjoy this rare opportunity in his father's embrace. Smiling a bit to himself, Link leaned his head back to look up at his father and the canopy of trees above them.
"Taking another nap?" asked his father, looking down at him in amusement.
"Nah," replied Link, shifting into a more comfortable position. "Just being lazy." Link's smile grew as his father chuckled and shook his head, looking down at his son's sky blue eyes. Link couldn't help but stick his tongue out at his father, causing said man shake his head again before looking ahead.
"So Link." said a voice behind the green hat boy. Link tilted his head back until he was looking upside down at Valenzuela, who rode right beside them on his own horse. Valenzuela was one of the four knights who guarded the Royal Jewels, along with Link's father. His long blond waving hair was pulled back in the longest ponytail Link has ever seen a man have.
"Hm?" asked Link, looking at Valenzuela from his upside down perspective.
"You feeling up for a rematch when we return?" Link cringed in his mind remembering that it was, in fact, Valenzuela who jabbed him with that pole the other day. But, like he's told his dad, he's been through worse, so it wouldn't be that bad.
"Well, sure," said Link, having to reach out to grab his hat before it fell to the floor as he talked. "but I have to run an errand for Princess Zelda." this, of course, caught the Captain's attention.
"Oh? And what errand would that be?" he asked. Truth be told; there is no errand. Link just wanted to take a quick ride to the Four Swords Shrine to try and figure out what that stupid girl voice was talking about. Of course, he couldn't tell his father without a deep explanation and that was something he did not have. Right as he looked up at his father to answer, however, Link heard the sound of unfamiliar voices. Or, more like, voices Link haven't heard in a LONG time. Link quickly sat up to a point were he was saddled in front of his father as they came closer to the voices. It wasn't until they rounded the corner did Link see the two farmers of the area; Malon and Talon. Malon was a twelve year old red head with blue eyes and wearing a white dress with blue symbols along the seams, a yellow handkerchief tied around her neck and faded leather boots on her feet. Talon, her mid thirties father, had brown hair with a bald spot on the top and the rest in a short ponytail it connecting to his beard that covered most of his lower face. The big bellied man wore an old faded red shirt and multiple patched blue jean overalls with his mud stained leather pants. Link had met them one time a long time ago when he was about nine. Him and his father were on their way to the castle like usual when they came across a father and daughter with a wagon with a broken wheel. Being the kind man he's always been, Link's father offered to help reattach the wheel to the wagon. Being grateful for the help, the man accepted and as his father and the man worked on the wheel, Link and the man's daughter sat off to the side and talked about their lives. It was because of her Link had Epona. A few years later, while Link was visiting Malon's farm, one of their mares gave birth but had twins. Since mares don't have enough milk for two, the mare left the runt at the birthplace and took the other foal home. Not wanting the abandon foal to die, Malon took it home and nursed it until it was old enough to be sold and then, not wanting to never see the horse again, Malon sold the foal to Link. By then, Link was just starting his life as a knight and it was highly recommended to have a horse. Malon named her Epona back when she was little, believing if she named it after the said guardian of horses and mules, the tiny runt would grow into a great horse. In Link's opinion, she turned into the greatest horse in all of Hyrule. Link was brought back to the present when his father and him came within earshot of the two talking to each other.
"Papa! It's not so bad!" said Malon in a desperate voice, trying to get her father to see her point.
"Not that bad?" asked Talon in a somewhat angry tone, surprising Link since he's never seen the laid back man angry. "Malon, dear, you know better than doing something like that! They could have hurt you!" by now, the Captain and Link had come close enough on their horse. The Captain calmly caught their attention by a warm greeting.
"Good day Talon, Malon." he nodded to each in turn, who both nodded back, Talon mumbling a small 'Good day' back.
"Is something the matter?" asked the Captain, sounding a bit concern for them.
"Not really." answered Talon, glancing back at Malon as he continued. "Unless you count my daughter allowing two strangers sleep in our shed last night ok." at that, Malon let out a huff, pouting as she crossed her arms.
"Papa! I couldn't just kick them out! The one was badly injured and sick! Do you really expect me to kick them out when they have no where else to go and are dead tired?!" Link looked back at his dad, not sure what was going on, his father sharing the same look as him. Talon sighed as he turned fully to his daughter.
"No," he answered. "but I do expect you to tell me about it before you go ahead and hide them in the shed and try to take care of them yourself."
"I didn't hide them in the shed!" defended Malon "I found them there! Besides, the girl already took care of the boy. She seemed to know what she was doing." Malon, by now, had calm down and was only a little flustered. Talon, also now calm, sighed as he realized her point of the matter. Feeling now was a good time to do so, the Captain spoke up.
"Do you know where they heading Malon?" Malon, at first forgetting he was there for a good bit, jumped at Link's father speaking up. After a second of staring at the Captain blankly blinking, Malon slowly shook her head, mumbling;
"No. They just said they had to find their friend." Malon looked at Link when he spoke up.
"What did they look like?" Malon closed her eyes at the question and spoke with her eyes still closed.
"There were two of them. I think they were siblings but I never asked. There was one girl, one boy. When I came in, the girl was awake, but the boy was passed out. It was dark, so it was hard to see them, but the girl was about as tall as you, Link, possibly the same age too. She had on a shirt that only covered her chest, and a skirt that went down right above her knees." she paused for a second before opening her eyes to look at Link, eyebrows furrowed in confusion.
"The weirdest part" she continued, hand holding her chin as she thought more. "now that I think of it; was her hair and eyes. She had purple hair that was up in a half-tail, and crimson red eyes." Malon narrowed her eyes as she thought more, not noticing Link's eyes widen by the description.
"Actually," she said, closing her eyes again as she thought more. "I remember the boy had purple hair as well and-" she cut herself off and opened her eyes wide as she looked back up at Link, fear itching in her eyes.
"He.." her voice was nothing but a whisper as she said the next sentence that made Link's mind go blank.
"He looked almost just like you, Link."
Link tripped over his own feet as he was getting dragged by the elbow by a certain family member down the streets of Castle Town. After Malon gave the description, the Captain told them they would keep an eye out for the two incase the boy needed medical attention, and continued the ride back. However, to Link's surprise, once they got back his father hurriedly unsaddled their horses, and got their normal activities done, and made no hesitation in grabbing Link and speed walking out the door. For as long as he think, this was the earliest they have ever left the castle and headed home.
'Really?' he told himself. 'That's what your thinking about?' No. Not in the slightest. Once Malon mentioned the purple haired boy looking like him, Link couldn't help but think that its possible that that was in fact Shadow. The more he thought of it, the more Link believed it. At first, Link was questionable about that, if it was Shadow, how did he get injured, but then he remembered when Shadow and Vio (yes, he has the memories of all the Links, but gets a bad headache if he thinks to much on it) were in Death Mountain, Shadow had mentioned that the Dark Realm had similar rules as Hyrule. If that's true, then that means that Shadow must have been punished for treason and was badly injured in the process.
'but then..' thought Link as he was almost dragged down the streets. 'how did he get here? The Dark Realm wouldn't let him come to the Light Realm when this was the place he helped.' almost immediately, in answer, a flash of the girl in the field yesterday came to Link's mind. As Link thought of it, she matched Malon's description of the girl with Shadow.
'So that means, if that's true, that was Shadow jumping around in joy.' Link narrowed his eyes as he thought about it.
'and he wouldn't be doing that if he was in danger or being punished. Which means he and that girl somehow escaped the Dark Realm.. But that girl.. She looked so much like Zelda.. Why?' before Link could think more on that, he heard the unmistakable sound of a wooden front door being open. Link was literally dragged into their house this time as his father slammed it behind them. Link looked back at his father to see two emotions mixed in the old man's eyes; anger, and fear. Link didn't doubt it, Shadow was the one who said he killed Link and then had Vaati take over the man to fight his own son(s?). It was no surprise Link's father was fearful of the once demon-like form of himself.
"Link," said his father in his 'don't lie or your dead' voice. "What is going on?" Link gulped at the tone, one thought racing through his mind before he opened his mouth to explain all he knew;
'Maybe I should have told him about Shadow's heroic act before now..'
"Oh my gosh, Shad!" exclaimed Shelda as she watched said boy, who was sitting lazily down on a sad excuse for a bed, hungrily devoured the piece of bread Shelda was able to buy for them. At her exclaim, Shadow looked up, bread still in mouth.
"W'uat?" he asked around the bread. Shelda gave him a really? look, glancing from him to the bread and back again.
"Shad," she said, trying to hold in her giggles as she watched him; looking at her from the tops of his eyes, only half of the bread poking out of his mouth.
"W'uat?" he asked again, more demanding this time. Shelda rolled her eyes before leaning on her left hand as she sat on her own sad excuse for a bed.
"Your gonna choke yourself if you keep eating like that." at this, Shadow pulled the bread out of his mouth and said with a pout.
"But I'm really hungry!" again, Shelda rolled her eyes as she smiled, saying to Shadow in a some-what teasing voice.
"Hungry or not, the bread won't disappear if you eat it slower. Just take it easy, dude." Shadow, avoiding eye contact by looking at his bread, nodded in understanding before taking another bite of the bread. However, to Shelda's amusement and dismay, once he got the taste of fresh bread in his mouth again, Shadow started to eat ravenously again. Shelda just shook her head and gave up. He wasn't going to listen, like he said; he was hungry, and there was no way Shelda was going to try and pry that thing of bread out of his mouth. That would be suicide; trying to take a hungry man's food. Especially if that man knows how to use the sword that stood against the wall not but a couple feet away from said man. Shelda just gave a small smile to herself before going back to her own loaf of bread. Truth be told, she wasn't that hungry. Yeah, she could eat, but she wasn't Shadow hungry. According to what the guards said back in the Dark Realm, Shadow was only fed table scraps that the wolfs didn't eat. And Shelda was highly aware how much those wolfs could eat. She kinda felt bad, never bringing in her own food for him, but every time she thought that, she remembered the time the one guard tried to feed another prisoner and got severally beaten for it. Shelda glanced over at Shadow to see him licking his hands from crumbs. Chuckling at him, Shelda looked down at her own bread and saw there were only a few bite marks in it. Glancing at Shadow again, Shelda gave a small smile before taking the eaten side and pulling it off the rest. Looking up at Shadow, who was sitting on the edge of the bed yawning, Shelda held out the almost whole loaf towards him. Shadow opened his eyes to see another semi-eaten bread loaf right in front of him being held out by a certain person. Looking up to meet her eyes, Shadow blinked a couple times before opening his mouth;
"What?" Shelda rolled her eyes as she waved the bread around a bit while talking.
"C'mon, I know you want it. Just take it, I'm good." Shadow, sort of surprised at her offer, gave a small smile.
"It's okay." said Shadow. "You have your share, I'm not that hungry any-" before he could finish his sentence, Shadow's stomach gave a loud grumble, causing Shelda to snort in amusement.
"Yeah," Shelda said sarcastically. "you're totally not hungry, Shad. Just take it man, I probably won't even eat this little bit here." at that, Shelda gestured to the small bit of bread she had pulled off. Shadow looked at her for a second before looking at the bread, than back again.
"You sure?" he asked. Now a bit impatient, Shelda sighed and said with no hesitation;
"Yes! Just take the darn-" Shelda was cut off by Shadow snatching the bread from her hand to take a huge bite from it.
"Thunk 'ou." said Shadow with his mouth full of bread. Shelda gave a warm smile as she replied back.
"No problem, Shad." she looked at him and said in a teasing sort of seriousness,
"Just don't choke." Shadow looked up at her, half the bread already gone, and gave a big, honest smile, one that Shelda hasn't seen in a very long time. After a bit of Shelda nibbling and Shadow completely devouring, Shadow looked to Shelda again, eyebrows furrowed in confusion.
"Hey Shel?" Shelda looked up, quite amused at her new nickname.
"Yes, Shad?" Shadow lowered the last bite of bread away from his face as he talked.
"I wanted to ask once you got back, but then I saw the food." Shelda chuckled at that and leaned back on both her hands, still smiling as she watched Shadow with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes?" she asked. Shadow took a deep breath before he asked;
"How in the hell did we get here?" Shelda couldn't help but snort in laughter at his blunt question.
"Heh, yeah, forgot to tell you."
"Like a certain 'plan' you did?" Shelda looked at Shadow with a 'I said sorry ok?' look, but waved it off saying.
"Alright, I'm forgetful, you should know that about me fairly well now."
"You can say that again." Shelda stopped for a second before saying in a deadpanned voice;
"Did you want an answer or what?"
"Yes please." Shelda rolled her eyes at his politeness, but didn't want to get go off track again.
"Alright, alright." she said, leaning back on both hands again as she explained everything. "After you fell asleep, I stayed up for about another hour, and was starting to go to sleep when I heard the sound of a door in the far corner open." Shelda shifted so she was laying down on her back, remembering the previous night.
"At first, I thought it was a bandit or something. So, I did the most reasonable thing a person would do."
"And that was?" asked Shadow, worry etched in his face. Shelda, however, didn't catch the worry in his voice.
"I grabbed the closes weapon I could and attacked the intruder." Shelda shrugged as she said deadpan;
"How was I suppose to know it was just a curious twelve year old girl?" At this, Shadow sat up straight, exclaiming;
"Oh my gosh Shel! Don't tell me you hurt her!"
"NO!" snapped Shelda, huffing in agitation as she looked up at Shadow. Shelda sighed before looking away and continuing.
"No; I was close though.." she trailed of for a second, but continued before Shadow could speak up.
"She was a bit frighten at first, but when she realized I was only acting on instinct, she immediately forgave me and introduced herself as Malon." Shelda looked back and made eye contact with Shadow before continuing, "I told her our names, and she was more than willing to give us food, but I told her we were just staying the night, and didn't even know the place was non-vacant." Shelda broke eye contact and stared at the roof as she spoke. "She said the shed was vacant, in a way, but the house adjoined to it wasn't. She told me her and her father owned the land around here, and that they breed horses for the Hylian Knights." she looked at Shadow again with a small smile when she said the next part;
"And she said she was friends with Link." that made Shadow sit up straight again, looking at her in surprise.
"Giving me some money, and a couple weapons" Shelda gestured to the two swords that laid side by side between their beds. One a one-half sword, and the other a single handed. "Malon bared me farewell and I piggybacked you all the way here to Castle Town and in this cheap 'ol place." Looking back at Shadow, Shelda gave a small smile as she asked;
"Does that answer your question?" Shadow stared at her for a couple seconds before nodding.
"Yeah," he said "it does."
"Good." said Shelda, looking back at the roof as she closed her eyes. "Cuz I'm tired. Please don't disturb me unless you're in danger or dieing." Shadow couldn't help but chuckle at her before shifting so he was leaning against the backboard of his bed.
"Ok, I'll try not to. 'Night Shel." Shadow said in a quiet voice
"'Night Shad." replied Shelda in the same tone of voice.
Shadow couldn't help but glance over at Shelda for the umpteenth time in the last hour. Still in the same position, Shadow reached out at the forgotten piece of bread on the small end table and started to nibble at it as he look around the two room place. It was actually a one roomed place, with nothing but a corner kitchen that had more mold than countertop room and the two beds they laid on, but Shadow counted the bathroom being a separate room. He wasn't surprise in the slightest at the place's condition, knowing fairly well how expensive stuff was here and how much money a twelve year old farmer girl could offer. Shadow sighed as he thought of Link, knowing that they didn't have a lot of time before Twinrova came to take over Hyrule.
"How" he thought out loud, "in the world can we find Link and convince him to go to the Four Swords Shrine?" Shadow, of course, didn't expect his question to actually be answered. nor was he expecting a tiny, bell-like girl's voice to answer it;
"I already got that part of the plain done." she said, catching Shadow completely off guard. "All you have to do is go there."
FINALLY! I'm so glad I finally got this chapter done. I was had a little writer block as to what S&S's (Shadow and Shelda's) POV was going to be, but had a lot of fun doing Link's. If you haven't realized yet, I'm basing the story line on the Manga, but adding stuff from the game (Malon and Talon) to the story. a lot of stuff was left out of the manga, so you never know, they could have met. *shrug*
Any who, I might actually be able get another chapter before the end of the week, but don't get your hopes up; I'm just saying I might.
Well, I want to ask a couple questions-
1- Have you played LoZ? If so, which is your favorite?
2- Did any of you remember Valenzuela before I said who he was?
Good Night/Mourning to you all! TELLER OUT!