Hi everyone! I've got great news! Dreamer is no longer lazy!
Dreamer- What does that mean?
Teller- It means you FINALLY started on your story.
Dreamer- … no comment.
Teller- Ok. That works for me :D
Dreamer- .. *looks at reader* right now I'm working on a Fairy Tail story based on my OC.-
Teller- HEY! No advertising!
Dreamer- *rolls eyes* whatever, I'm going back to my story.
Teller- Fine! Be that way. :P
Dreamer- *waves at reader* bye! I'll be back to annoy Teller and you later! *leaves*
Teller- … *sigh* sadly, I know she's going to come back..
Ok, before she does come back, lets start on the chapter shall we?
On With The Story!
Link stood in front of the fire, watching as the meat he was cooking slowly started to brown. Link glanced behind him to look over at his father as said man worked on putting fruit into a leather sack. It was mid mourning and it wasn't but an hour ago when they both decided that Link would head out to the Four Sword Shrine to hopefully understand what the Blue Fairy wanted. Better safe then sorry was Link motto and had saved him many times before. Taking a knife and cutting the meat open and checking it done, Link carefully removed the meat from the fire and took it over to his father to pack. Glancing at his dad, Link couldn't help but notice the look of uncertainty in his eyes. The boy, without a thought, understood that his father was worried of the thought of his only son leaving with the threat of an unknown darkness coming to rid said boy of the world.
"I'll be fine." said Link as they both slowly, yet at the same time quickly, packing the supplies in the pouch. When he spoke up, the Captain looked at Link without bothering to raise his head. Taking a deep breath, Captain raised his head and leaned back a bit on his feet, and meeting Link's eyes, gave a small smile.
"I know." he said quietly "but a father has a right to worry." Link returned the smile before going back to the packing.
"I'll come back." said Link, meeting his father's eyes again as he added; "I promise."
Link walked out into the streets, his father closing the door behind them both. They both walked in silence as they made their way to the stable on the outskirts of Hyrule Castle. When Link got Epona saddled and mounted her, ready to go, his father held the reigns as he made eye contact with his son.
"Link." he said as he handed the reigns over. "Be careful and cautions, ok?" Link, giving his father a reassured smile as he pulled on Epona's reigns to turn her around, said in a cheery voice;
"Of Course! When am I not?" with that, Link clicked his heels on Epona's sides and galloped out of the town.
Link held the reign with one hand as him and his horse galloped through the woods towards the shrine. As they came closer and closer, Link glanced up and saw a storm approaching. He couldn't help but get the feeling that this would be worse than a simple storm. Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, Link slowed Epona down as they started to approach the shrine, the storm clouds a few miles away from him heading towards Castle Town. As he arrived right outside the shrine, Link dismounted from his horse, who seemed to be a bit spooked from the storm clouds and thunder that came with it.
"It's ok girl." he told her as he tied her to a nearby branch. Making sure his horse was calm, Link walked up to the entrance to the shrine. It wasn't till now did Link hear the voices from inside. Slowing down his walk, Link quietly made his way to the entrance, his left hand hovering over his sword as he listened.
"I'm going to tell you one more time; I. Am. Not. A . PUFFBALL!" screamed a familiar voice. Link stopped short at hearing the fairy so agitated.
'That's a first' thought Link as he peeked around the corner to see two humans and a certain blue lighted fairy.
"I don't know." said a woman's voice unknown to Link, who stood in front of the fairy, hand on chin in a joking thoughtful manner.
"Your tiny, ball shaped, and look a little like a cotton ball. I'd say that's a good relative to a puffball. Wouldn't you agree Shad?" as the girl added that, she looked over to the other human who sat on the stairs that lead up to the podium that held the Four Sword. Link felt his voice catch as 'Shad' spoke up with a unmistakable voice.
"Leave me out of this. I'm not getting caught in your cross fire." At that, Link slowly walked out of his hiding spot, still shocked that he was here.
"Oh come on!" said the girl, none of them aware of Link's presence. "It's a simple question; Does Blue Fairy look like a puffball? it's a yes or no question! It can't be that hard to answer."
"It isn't." said Shadow truthfully. "But I'd rather not be the tie-breaker and have the other mad at me." by then, Link stopped and stood in front of the entrance, waiting to be noticed. Luckily for him, Shadow saw him almost immediately as the girl went on.
"Aw don't worry Shad. I'll make sure Bluie here won't hurt you!" Shadow, rolling his eyes, made quick eye contact with Link before shrugging his shoulder.
"Even if I did answer, Shelda," he said, leaning back on his arms, having Link unintentionally notice how his arms wobbled and shook from the extra weight on them. "You'd still have to pursue him to agree with you." at that, Shadow leaned forward to be able to jester over to Link. Link, realizing what Shadow was doing, let the smile spread on his face as both Shelda and Blue Fairy whipped around to face Link standing there, giving a small wave as they both just stood there.
"So.." said Link, looking over at Shadow as the two women stood there dumbstruck. Said boy looked at Link with a raised eyebrow as he waited for Link to continue.
"What's new?"
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"What's new?" Shadow couldn't help but laugh at how that's the question Link asks! You'd think he'd be like 'What's going on?! or 'Shadow! What are you doing here? Who's she?'.But nope, he asks what's new. In some ways, that didn't surprise Shadow, it just highly amused him. Of course, laughing in his condition has not been proven to be good so far, this being no exception.
"Oh man." he said as he hugged himself while his laughter turned into giggles and slowly eased away.
"Man, I've really got to stop doing that." Shadow said just above a whisper as he laid on his lower half, forehead resting on his knees as he tried to catch his breath from the pain that pulsed from his most recent wound on his left side.
Shelda, now broken out of her trance, looked over at Shadow, concern clear in her voice.
"You alright there Shad?" she asked as she walked over to her friend.
"Yeah," he said in a whisper just loud enough to echo off the walls of the shrine. For a moment, Shelda completely forgot about Link being there, that is, until a certain blue ball with wings spoke up.
"Oh Link!" she said with much happiness like as if Shadow's condition didn't matter.
"I'm so glad you have come! I have a very urgent request for you-"
"Yeah yeah, hang on a minute." interrupted Link as he walked over to crouch beside Shadow, being careful as he placed a hand on the other boy's shoulder. Shelda watched worriedly as Shadow took deep, uneven breaths trying to get the freaking pain to ease.
"Shadow?" Link asked, worry etched in his voice. "You ok?" after a couple seconds of silence, Shadow suddenly wrapped his arm around Link, surprising said boy. Shadow, finally able to get his breathing under control, slowly pushed himself up back in a sitting position using Link as support for a moment, facing the sky with his eyes closed. Shelda crouched on the opposite side of Shadow, allowing him to lean on her as well.
"We don't have time for this!" exclaimed Blue Fairy, flying over in Link's face.
"You need to pull the Four Sword! Quickly! Stop stalling and do it!" Shelda, being quite annoyed of this fairy's persistence, snapped.
"Hey, if you would explain yourself, maybe we would be quicker. How about you do that now; hm puffball?" Blue Fairy made a huff of anger and annoyance before speaking again.
"Fine!" Blue Fairy said, her light blue light becoming tinted red.
"An awful evil is coming! Worse than Ganon! And its-"
"Coming for Link, Shadow and I already know." interrupted Shelda, taking a deep breath as she thought about it.
"What? You knew?!" Shelda, remembering who was with them, ignored Bluie (her new nickname) and look at Link dead in the eyes.
"Two sorceress named Twinrova sent me to come and kill you, but your buddy here," Shelda nodded to Shadow at that. "convinced me otherwise. Be glad I took his advice." giving a wink to Link, Shelda than carefully helped Shadow stand up.
"Well" said Shadow as he stood on his own, looking at Link as, he too, stood.
"No reason to stale anymore huh?" looking at Shelda, he asked in a serious tone.
"How long did Twinrova give 'ya?" Shelda thought for a moment before answering.
"I don't know." she replied honestly. "All they said was do it soon. So, for all we know they could-" at that, Shelda suddenly went quiet and snapped her head over to the entrance, suddenly tense and alert, two thing that Shelda never was unless something was wrong.
"Shel?" asked Shadow, his voice low as he watched her. Both Link nor Bluie knew what was going on but knew enough to stay quiet. After the seconds dragged on for another few seconds, Shelda finally spoke up in a soft urgent whisper.
"They're coming." Shadow and Link exchanged a look before Link spoke up;
"Who?" he asked, Shadow could clearly hear the dread in his voice.
"Twinrova." she said in the same soft voice. "You need to get the sword Link."
"What-why?" Link asked, panic clear in his eyes.
"Do it." she said with more demand in her voice as she pushed Link towards the podium, still looking towards the entrance. Not knowing what was going on, Shadow looked over to the entrance and saw dark clouds in the distance, coming to them.
'damn it' thought Shadow as soon as he realized those weren't normal storm clouds.
'Why didn't we see those sooner?'
"Link!" snapped Shelda, finally looking at Link instead of the entrance.
"Go to that freaking sword and freaking pull it out of its freaking pedestal!" with those last words said, Shelda gave on last shove before whipping around to look at Bluie.
"No matter what." she said as Link made his way to the sword. "You have to stay with one of them, OK? Stay with one of the four Links!" Bluie, taken aback, did what one would consider as a nod. Once Shelda saw that, she speed walked over to Shadow before grabbing his arm and dragging him out of the shrine.
"Shelda?" he asked, not knowing what his friend had in mind. Epona whined and pulled at its still tied reigns, trying to escape. Shelda, seeing the horse, ran over to it as lighting flashed and rain started to pour down. Pulling out her sword, Shelda raised it above her head before bringing it down on the reigns, cutting Epona free. Once she saw she was free, Epona reared up before bolting out into the darkness, leaving the two shadows in the rain. Looking around, Shelda started to drag Shadow into the woods.
"Shelda! What are we doing?" asked Shadow, kinda alarmed at how they're leaving Link(s?).
"We can't fight them." said Shelda with a voice mixed with determination and regret. Shadow, not understanding, asked;
"What?" before his answer could be answered, however, Shelda stopped and looked over at a tall wall of stone before pushing Shadow over to a crack in the wall, following after him. Shadow, never liking tight places, tried to speak up and ask again, but Shelda took her hand and covered his mouth before turning around to face the opening, pushing Shadow and herself against the far wall as much as possible. Everything was quiet besides the continuous pitter-patter of rain and occasional booms of thunder. That is, until Shadow picked up the sound of mutable footsteps, more then he could count. Peeking around Shelda's tense body, Shadow caught sight of hundreds of figures walking by in a fast motion as they quickly made their way through the pelting rain. Once he realized which direction they were heading, Shadow tried to push past Shelda to warn Link. However, all Shelda did was push herself harder against Shadow into the wall.
"Shelda!" hissed Shadow, still trying to push through "He needs us!"
"I told you!" snapped Shelda in a strict, cold whisper, catching Shadow by surprise. "There are to many! If we stayed, we would have been killed and Hyrule would be conquered by them! That's why I told Bluie to stay with them! If she stays with one of them, we'll be able to find them faster." turning to actually look at Shadow, Shelda met his eyes as a tear pecked her eyes.
"I'm sorry Shadow." she said just above a whisper as the tear slowly ran down her cheek.
"There was nothing else I could do. I'm sorry." Shadow, shocked at how… broken his friend looked, couldn't help but wrap his arms around her waist and setting his head on her shoulder.
"It's ok." he said in the same quiet whisper, letting out a tired sigh.
'this is going to be more difficult that I thought..' he thought tiredly as they both slowly slid down to sit. Letting go of Shelda, Shadow leaned against the wall, ignoring the pain that tingled through his back.
"..Shelda?" he asked out into the quiet air drowsily.
"Hm?" she responded, sounding just as tired.
"What do we do now?" it was quiet for a while as she thought about it, and even though he was just ready to pass out, Shadow stayed awake until he heard Shelda's reply.
"For now, we try to figure out where the Links are. Once we do that, we overthrow those old ass witches."
"What did I say about swearing?-"
"Shh." said Shelda like as if she was only half awake.
"Sleep now, lecture later." Shadow, opening his mouth to disagree, yawned instead and deciding it would be better to sleep now while they could. Nodding to Shelda in agreement, Shadow closed his eyes and immediately fell into a dreamless sleep.
DONE! Omg that took forever.
Sorry about the short delay, but I kinda got writers block and it took a few days to rid it.
Dreamer- well, at lest your not becoming one of those people who make amazing stories and then leave midway like 'meh, I don't need to finish this, no one has really responded to it.' and quit, never seeing the reviews begging them to continue.
Teller- yeah.. Good thing.
Dreamer- … so.. Whatcha gonna do with those virtual cookies?
Teller- what do you mean?
Dreamer- no one responded to your question, so no one got any.
Teller- …. Don't remind me.. L
Dreamer- ok, before she cries of whatnot, I'm gonna ask; read, review, and love or she's gonna stop!
Teller- no I won't..
Dreamer- SHH! Scared them into reviewing!
Teller- or I could just do this;
Read, Review (flame if you want) and Follow! More feedback I get, the more motivated I'll be to write :D
Dreamer- meh, that'll work.
Teller- *eye roll* whatever alright, BYE!
Dreamer- B-
Teller- GO AWAY! THIS IS MY STORY, GO TO YOUR OWN!
Dreamer- Fine! *leaves*
Teller- *sigh* finally..
Well, like I said before- Read, Review and Follow! And have a good night/mourning!