Hello my dear readers! Yep, third one in a row. You guys like it when I'm in a writing frenzy huh?
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Shelda had to take a moment to register what Blue said, staring at said blonde looked at her, determination and urgency clear on his face. Sighing, Shelda rubbed her head as she responded to his demand,
"Blue, I understand that Vio is in danger, but we cant just up and leave. Red's still recuperating being a person again, and now Green's injured." Looking Blue straight in the eye, Shelda could clearly see that her statements didn't make his thoughts waver. Taking a deep breath, Shelda added,
"We'll leave tomorrow morning, just liked we planned. If you try to do differently, I personally will tie you up." Thinking back to what Blue said about his 'visions', Shelda curiously looked at him,
"When you see these 'visions', does reality cancel out around you?" She watched as Blue's stare turned into a blank one, and spoke in a deadpanned voice,
"What the fuck do you mean by that?" Shelda couldn't help but drop her head as an exasperated sigh escaped her lips. Taking a deep breath, Shelda looked back up and clarified simply;
"Is it like your there when you have these visions?"
"Oh." Was the only response he gave for a moment before looking down to the table in thought.
"I mean, yeah. Everything just suddenly closes off anything around me and I just... find myself in them. No warning what so fucking ever."
"Alright, chill." Shelda, hands raised in surrender as he added the last sentence in bitterness. One thing did stand out that confused Shelda, and couldn't help but ask,
"Why did you rub your blind eye after seeing Vio?" She dimly heard him sigh before the blue clothed boy answered,
"That's the fucked up part. When ever I see these things, I see them through my blind eye." Shelda couldn't help but stare at him blankly, blinking every so often.
"What?" he snapped at her.
"Why didn't you start with that?" Shelda asked in the most annoyed, yet deadpanned voice.
"W-what?" Blue asked kind of confused by her response. Shelda sighed.
"I shouldn't be surprised you don't know of those kinds of things." Shelda mumbled, but made sure it was still loud enough for Blue to hear. Taking a deep breath, Shelda leaned back in her chair comfortably before explaining in a somewhat mellow voice,
"Think of it as ancient powers, so to speak. They were when certain things befallen on someone who didn't deserve it, or weren't destined to have it happen, yet is inevitable, get unknown sort of 'powers' to replace what they lost. In your case; your eye. It was something that kinda floats around the Dark Realm, like when you were a kid and talked about those unbelievable things that happened, and gushing at how cool it would be to be that person. That's more or less how I heard of it. According to the small research I could do on it, it was a very… religious happening in this realm, saying something about the goddesses being the ones to pity the one and blessing them with this impossible replacement. But for some reason, it didn't carry on like it does in the Dark Realm. Probably because you guys have better things to do than talk about those kinds of things." She mumbled that last part almost humorously. She watched as Blue processed this, and couldn't help but added,
"I'm not positive on this, but there's a possibility that the reason you saw those visions is because your connected to the other Links." After thinking for a second, Shelda had to add,
"Except that first one. That's on you." Blue looked up at her, raising a brow as he asked,
"What do you mean?"
"Well," Shelda said thoughtfully, staring up at the ceiling as she explained, "I'm not to certain on this, but because the other four are a part of you, you might be seeing the 'truth'" She emphasized that word by making quotation marks with her fingers before continuing, "in what one of them has done. And to explain, I'm going through the visions you had and making sense to them. Except that first one. Alright, so, you saw me and Shadow talking to a Zora at a throne? We actually did that while trying to find you. The wolf one must have confirmed my thought at that being the curse's doing.-"
"And that last one?" Blue asked, seeming to hold his breath to wait for the answer. Shelda stole a glance at Blue at this. His face look emotionless, but his eye shone with concern and worry. Sighing, Shelda answered somewhat sympathetically,
"It was probably showing how Vio felt. And if that's true, then those figure on broomsticks you saw must be Twinrova. Those fuckers ride those things more than they sit on their wrinkled old asses."
"Shelda." Blue said in a matter-of-fact tone, "They sit on the broomsticks."
"My point." Shelda said with a smile, enjoying the baffled look the hot head was giving her.
"But that makes no fucking sense!" he exclaimed, throwing his hands into the air. Not being able to hold it in any longer, Shelda burst out laughing, and ended up leaning to far back on her chair. Giving a short shout of surprise, Shelda fell on her back with a 'THUMP', which caused Blue to be the one to laugh now. Shelda rolled her eyes before standing up, and straightened her chair up as well.
"Har de har." She said sarcastically as she reached out and grabbed the bag with the food in it. "Because of that, I'm not giving you any food."
"What are you, twelve?" he immediately asked her as she pulled out two clothed wrapped lumps, throwing one to him.
"No." Shelda answered as she untied her own cloth, revealing two loafs, one long and one round. "I was just messing with you. I'd never purposely starve someone, friend or foe." It was quiet as Shelda took a huge bite from the long loaf, and looked up to see Blue not touching his, deep in thought.
"Might want to eat that before bottomless pit comes in." Broken out of his thoughts, Shelda simply looked at Blue as he asked in a confused voice,
"What?"
"Shadow." She clarified. Not needing further explanation, Blue nodded before untying his own cloth and digging in. The two were silent as they enjoyed their meals, the quietness of the cabin reminding Shelda of her lonely days back in the Dark Realm. Back before she met Shadow and Vaati. Shelda couldn't help but produce a small smile at the thought of being here. It was all because of them. It was because they gave her something her creators tried so hard not to give her;
A choice.
It was something Shelda never had. Never did she have the choice to do something, it was always 'do it or cease from existence'. And now that she thought about, those two gave so much more than just a choice. They gave her a name. They gave her the knowledge of right and wrong. They gave her their friendship. They destroyed her loneliness. As she thought of it, Shelda noticed the different between the quietness from back then and now. Now, it was peaceful. It was with company. And it felt good. For the small times her mind questioned why she was helping these people, Shelda thought about this feeling; the feeling of warmth spreading through her chest. And just like that; the doubts disappear. Shelda probably would have gone into even deeper thought if it wasn't for the sound of the bedroom door opening. Shelda, her back to the door, turned around to see Red walking up, his hat missing and hair in a mess.
"Mor'in Re'd" Blue greeted around the mouthful of bread that was in his mouth. Smiling at the blue clothed ones antics, Shelda watched Red drowsily sit in the chair on the end between her and Blue, giving a small, sleepy smile and wave.
"Hey, Red." Shelda greeted as she took another bite from her own bread. Catching him in the side of her vision, Shelda saw Red eyeing her and Blue's food, the sleepiness now gone. Chuckling, Shelda swallowed the bread before asking the red clothed comrade the obvious question,
"Ya hungry, Red?" An immediate, frequent nod of his head answered the question. Shelda reached in the bag and grabbed another cloth wrapped pile and was about to hand it to Red when a sudden thought came to her mind, and Shelda pulled it out of his hand reach at the last second.
"Wait a second." She said to him, a kind of tone to her like a parent would have to their child when reminding them something. "Where's your water?" Red, immediately knowing what she was taking about, jumped out of the chair and basically ran into the room before coming back, the glass of water in his hand. Satisfied, Shelda tossed the wrapped food into his eager hands, and went back to her own.
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It was the one of the few times where Shadow woke up peacefully. Yawning, Shadow opened his eyes to find himself to be staring up at the wooden ceiling of the cabin. Rubbing the sleepiness out of his eyes, Shadow carefully sat up, feeling the weight of Red on his lap. However, when Shadow looked down, it wasn't Red he saw using his lap like a pillow, but Green.
"Either that or Red turned into a wolf in his sleep." Shadow thought half-jokingly, but was still pondering as to why and when it went from Red to Green. Yawning, Shadow found he really didn't give a fuck. Listening through half closed door, Shadow could hear the mumbles of Shelda and Blue, and decided that if they weren't bothered by this, then he won't be either. Having like the previous nap, and still feeling sleepy, Shadow laid back down and fell into another peaceful, dreamless sleep.
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Shadow was pulled out of the peaceful voice and into the real world by someone shaking his shoulder, and a calm, quiet voice calling out to him.
"Shadow." The feminine voice called, gently shaking his shoulder as he tried to go back to the blackness of sleep. After realizing she wasn't giving up, Shadow spoke up grumpily,
"Shelda, I'm awake. Couldn't you have just let me sleep for a little bit more? I was sleeping so well."
"Ok, first off," Shelda replied, causing Shadow to open his eyes half lidded as she continued,
"A- I woke you up a whole hour after we planned to, and B- you slept all yesterday afternoon and all night." Shadow couldn't help but blink a few times, trying to get his tired mind to processes this before saying dumbly,
"I was?"
"Yeah." Shelda affirmed, then added, "And you missed a bit during that time." Sitting up, Shadow vaguely noticed that Green wasn't on his lap anymore, and neither was anyone else, and asked her curiously,
"Like what?" He watched as Shelda sighed before filling him in,
"Alright, I'm being quick on this. Green went savage for a minute, killing a Dark Knight, Blue started getting visions, and he also got one of Vio running from what we assume Twinrova and a giant ass bird, and Red can somewhat talk now. So yeah, everyone else is ready to go, so if your up yet.-"
"Wait wait wait." Shadow interrupted, having to take a second to catch what she said.
"Explain?" he asked, which was responded by his boots being thrown at his face.
"Once we're on the road." She answered, walking out of the room.
"Now come on!" she called, causing Shadow to snap out of his sleepiness and hurriedly put his boots on, and placed his hat on his head before dashing out of the house to the others. Keeping her promise, Shelda started telling Shadow everything that happened the day before as Shadow realized Red happily carrying Green.
Yeah. Kinda rushed ending, but I didn't want to start the temple on this chapter, so I decided to end it here.
So! We got an answer due to Blue's new ability, and some ShadowxSleep.
Hope you guys enjoyed this chap! Next one will hopefully be up later in the week!
See ya!
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