Next chapter yay! I did a whole chapter writing about riding a horse ^_^' I will try to make this better.
"I think my butt's broke" Lucy yelped as we headed into the canyon
"Can't be as bad as me" Link called up to us. After being dumped and dragged by his horse, he couldn't get the horse to stop plodding along. Even Lucy and me tried, we couldn't stop the horse. So there was Link being dragged along by his foot across Hyrule field.
"Oh come on you two we're almost there now," I said pointing ahead the opening of the canyon
What's that noise?" Lucy asked sitting up and looking around.
A loud rumbling had started up behind us on the field. Link bolted up, remembered he was being dragged and pulled his foot out of the horse's stirrup (lucky for me I got Epona, perhaps that was why I'd been so successful in riding) he took a running jump back onto the horse.
"Why didn't he do that before?" Lucy wondered
"I think he wanted us to help him" I replied
Link drew the horse up in a Lone Ranger position and rode to the ledge that signals the beginning of the canyon. You know, the one that hangs out by a pea hat.
We shrugged and followed. Up and up that steep ledge that looks a metre high but is really a lot more.
Link shuddered "Don't come up any further" he held his hand up to us "I don't want you to see this"
"F*** that" I rode up beside him, and immediately regretted it
"What is it?" Lucy came up beside me and gasped
"A battle" Link supplied
Out on the field, just on the horizon, near the Lake's entrance, a glimmer of steel flickered in the sunlight. A faint thunder was heard as the two sides met. One on horses, maybe Gerudo or Hylian, they met with Zoras. They met with a sound like thunder, screams floating up to us like a bad smell. As we watched the sides fight, my heart felt like it could be heard a mile away, and perhaps they would come after us too.
Link shook his head and walked away, trying to show the screams didn't get to him. Trying to be the hero of time again, trying to be the brave one who wasn't scared like us.
"What shall we do?" Lucy asked
"There's nothing we can do" I replied quietly "Except complete what we have been set"
"And what was that again?"
"Well," I recapped "We have to free the great fairies since they are the only ones to rescue the races of their domains. Once we free them all, hopefully everything will go back to normal"
"What's normal again?" Lucy asked staring at the battle
"No war, no bloodshed, trading, the way things are in the game" I replied and began to head down the slope
"I don't want to be a hero anymore" Lucy whispered as she followed
We galloped into the Canyon around dusk, it took like, five hours longer than it does in the game which was stupid, but, we did get there, and tried not to look down as we crossed the edge on the bridge, and in front of us was a tent. Yeah, we all know who these guys are don't we.
"Hello?" Link called, dismounting in a smooth jump, us following less delicately
A stout man came out to greet us. He was less than friendly "Yeah?" he said gruffly "What do you want?"
"We thought, maybe we could stay here on our travels?" Link asked hopefully "After all I did save your workers"
The man's face changed "Oh yes, of course, come in"
We tied up the horses and entered the tent. It was quite cosy, with a bright fire in the middle, around which, six men sat eating. They goggled at Lucy and me as we sat down with Link and the old man. We smiled politely and sat on a cushion by the fire.
"We haven't had guests for a while" one of the sitting men said gingerly "We were thinking of moving back to town"
"Really?" I replied, "What do you do?" even though I already knew
"We're carpenters" another said proudly
"That's cool" Lucy said smiling "What kind of things do you make?"
"We made that bridge out there," the first one said
"Yep" Link sat down "Right after I saved them"
"And we're eternally grateful for that" the old man said giving each of us a bowl and filling it with soup
"So how have you been holding up with the wars?" Lucy asked simply
"Not too good" another carpenter said "The guerudos raid us nearly every time we get a new shipment. We fight as best we can, but we can't defend against their numbers"
"So we can't build anything and buy things with our profits" the carpenter next time said
"So we're going back to town soon" the old man said with his mouth full "The boys aren't exactly young and I need to marry them off to produce an heir to the business" he eyes me and Lucy with thoughtfulness "Are you two married?"
"Me?" I stuttered "Of course not!"
His face broke into a smile.
Lucy thumped me "We're courting at the moment!" she blurted out
Link's mouth dropped, so did everyone else's, even mine. But I caught on soon.
"Yes, we're both courting a man of very good breeding" I announced smiling
"Oh?" the old man said, "Who is he? Maybe we've met"
"Um...um...Link!" I grabbed Link's arm and hugged it tightly "What can I say we're in love!"
"And you?" he asked Lucy
"Um.... same!" Lucy grabbed Link's other arm and hugged it too "We're all living together happily in our big house with his other ten girlfriends" she couldn't resist annoying Link at the same moment "We're one big happy family, with his twenty two kids we're getting along fine"
I smiled at Link sweetly "Honey, when do you want to get married?"
The old man laughed heartily "Blimey son, you've been getting along fast with the ladies haven't you, that's my boy, get in there while you're young!"
All three of us stared and then blushed; drawing away from our hole we'd dug ourselves into.
"I guess you'll want your own tent to sleep in?" the old man brought out a bag and blankets, he threw it at Link "Look after your future wives"
Link got up and quickly walked out of the tent. We followed. We heard the sound of laughter and men's jokes inside.
"Great idea" Link growled as he put up the tent
"Wasn't it?" I said smiling, sitting on a rock "This way we don't have to get married"
"I'd love you to get married off" Link said, "You two are annoying"
"Please" Lucy batted her eyes at it "You know you loved it"
Link blushed then carried on doing the tent. Lucy and I laughed at his actions.
He was amazingly quick at putting up the tent, and luckily the tent had two sections, we split up. Though we could talk through the material. We settled into our side and spread out our blankets.
"So what's the plan?" Link asked
"You're asking us?" Lucy retorted
"Well," I said lying down "The Gerudos hate men, and they don't let them into their hideout right?"
"I got a pass" Link put in
"Like it will work now" I replied "We need to get into the desert. So, we dress as girls, act as Travelling Minstrels to get in"
"You're already girls"
"But your not" Lucy grinned evilly "Tomorrow it's make over time!"
I heard Link swear, but he countered by "We don't know how to sing"
I rolled my eyes "Please, of course we do, I was in a symphony choir for a whole year, and Lucy's not bad. Anyway, we can always mime, I have got my stereo you know"
"That's right" Lucy giggled "And she brought make up and spare clothes too"
We fell about laughing, Link groaned and turned out the light.
"Goodnight girls"
"Goodnight hubby" we chorused
The next day we woke up bright and early ready to break into a fortress. Typical day here I guess. The carpenters weren't up, so we left our horses there, Epona rode off back to the field by herself, and a note to say where we'd gone.
We walked up to the entrance of the fortress, and then climbed a ledge to get a better view. The building was a vast maze of doors, walls and bridges; the design was so complex it looked like how you'd imagine the labyrinth of the Minotaur!
We crawled back to the camp and went into our tent. Link looked uneasy
"What are you going to do to me?" he asked quietly
We grinned "Nothing much" I replied pulling out my make up bag.
Link looked at the bag and started to back toward the door, Lucy grappled him to the ground.
"You are not getting out of this that easily!" she yelled as she turned him over
"Pull his hat off!" I yelled squatting down
Lucy obeyed and pulled off the green hat no one has ever seen under. Neck length blonde hair tumbled out; it was almost the colour of hay. It was longer than mine!! Link stood still aware we had seen his biggest secret.
"Wow" Lucy put his hair in pigtails with her hands "I think we may have something to work with!"
I smiled and brought out a lip-gloss "Hold still Link"
It took us about an hour to make him look presentable, but it took even longer to dress him in my spare clothes, his chest didn't fill up the chest of the top so we had to stuff it with the Zoras tunic.
"We let his hair hang loose and we gelled it some. He had the most hairy legs I had ever seen, we went out so Link could use his sword and shave them up to his knees (I didn't want to see further than that) he also shaved his face, under arms, arms, chest and where ever else we hadn't know about to make himself look more girl. He stepped out later and we gasped, it could have been Zelda staring out at us embarrassed.
I didn't have the heart to laugh at him after he's worked so hard so I just smiled.
Lucy didn't have so much trouble.
"You look great" she giggled as she walked round him in inspection "Better than us!"
"I'll take that as a compliment" Link replied flicking his hair over his shoulder
"Guys" I said, "What are we going to sing? We're supposed to be travelling minstrels, what shall we sing?"
Lucy thought hard for a moment "What CD's have you got?"
I brought them out one by one. Linkin Park. Alisha's Attic. Dido. Red Hot Chili Peppers. My CD of Japanese JPOP music. The Buffy album. And last but not least, Alanis Morresette.
"What songs do we know the words too?" Lucy asked "That should narrow it down"
"Um" I looked over the backs, "I know the Dido words. And The Alisha's Attic words. And also Linkin Park's words"
"Well" Link put in "I know none of these"
"I know the Linkin Park and Dido songs too" Lucy said, "How about we do crawling?"
"Can you do the chorus?" I asked her
"No" she admitted, "But Link could"
"As a woman?" I replied, "I don't think so"
"Hey!" Link said, "I'm standing right here you know!"
"How about Lady Marmalade?" Lucy said, "Did you bring it?"
"Um..." I took another look and brought out the L.M single "The last one, good luck huh?"
"How big is your backpack?" Lucy asked bewildered
"Oh as big as Link's pocket" I replied, "Can we make him do the dance moves?"
"Him?" Link butted in "Hello? I am right here!"
"We know" Lucy said, "Now let's try it out"
We stood up and took places in a line as the first line started.
'Hey sister, soul sister let me hear that flow sister'
'Hey sister, go sister'
Lucy and me started the dance, Link followed clumsily
"He met marmalade down in old Moulin Rouge, strutting her stuff on the street" I sang, "She said hello, hey Joe, you want to give it a go?"
We burst into song "Gouge, gouge, ya, ya, dada! Hey, hey, hey, gouge, gouge, ya, ya, here. Mocha choca, latte ya ya! Creole Lady Marmalade"
*I have no idea of the actual words so sorry if I get them wrong*
Lucy sang the next bit and we pushed Link into singing Lil' Kim's part. And my god it was funny.
Our dance was pretty cool too. We'd seen the video so we knew what to do. And please, don't ask.
We also chose an Alisha's Attic song called the Air and Angels, which was an easy song to learn, we were prepared, Lucy and me were dolled up, so was Link, we were ready to go.
We rode right into the fortress easily. No guys I guess meant friends. They looked at us strangely and when we dismounted a crowd had gathered. One woman came forward, she looked like the leader.
"Identify yourselves," she commanded
"I'm..." I thought hard of names Zelda characters would use, I picked three "Belldandy" I mentally smacked myself, what a name! "This" I pointed to Lucy "Is Kid. And this babe" I pointed at Link "She's called Tiger Lilly" Link glared at me but I took no notice "So we're Belldandy, Kid and Tiger Lilly"
Lucy grinned and Link made a kind of, semi-curtsy.
"We're travelling minstrels!" Lucy said gleefully "We travel far and wide to bring modern music and dance to the world of thieves"
There was a murmur among the crowd.
"Yes" I continued, "In fact, our last show was for Ali Baba and his forty thieves!"
A sigh of impressments went off.
"We've also performed for the greats of eastern land" Lucy cried, "Sultans, Maharajas and great female warriors by names of Shazarada who saved the lives of women by telling stories for one thousand nights! And Athena, goddess of wisdom and war!"
Another gasp of impressments went off. We grinned; we'd done enough to convince them we were good.
"Will you be performing for us?" a young female guard asked
I kicked Link to make him stop goggling at the scantily clad girl "Yes" I said, "A once in a life time performance"
"Then we shall have a fest!" Yelled the leader to her people "A fest to celebrate the minstrels, it shall be tomorrow at dusk!"
A yell of triumph went off. We were escorted away to our guests' quarters.
So now we have to do a concert? This fic is crazy huh? Well, keep your eyes peeled for the next chapter!
"I think my butt's broke" Lucy yelped as we headed into the canyon
"Can't be as bad as me" Link called up to us. After being dumped and dragged by his horse, he couldn't get the horse to stop plodding along. Even Lucy and me tried, we couldn't stop the horse. So there was Link being dragged along by his foot across Hyrule field.
"Oh come on you two we're almost there now," I said pointing ahead the opening of the canyon
What's that noise?" Lucy asked sitting up and looking around.
A loud rumbling had started up behind us on the field. Link bolted up, remembered he was being dragged and pulled his foot out of the horse's stirrup (lucky for me I got Epona, perhaps that was why I'd been so successful in riding) he took a running jump back onto the horse.
"Why didn't he do that before?" Lucy wondered
"I think he wanted us to help him" I replied
Link drew the horse up in a Lone Ranger position and rode to the ledge that signals the beginning of the canyon. You know, the one that hangs out by a pea hat.
We shrugged and followed. Up and up that steep ledge that looks a metre high but is really a lot more.
Link shuddered "Don't come up any further" he held his hand up to us "I don't want you to see this"
"F*** that" I rode up beside him, and immediately regretted it
"What is it?" Lucy came up beside me and gasped
"A battle" Link supplied
Out on the field, just on the horizon, near the Lake's entrance, a glimmer of steel flickered in the sunlight. A faint thunder was heard as the two sides met. One on horses, maybe Gerudo or Hylian, they met with Zoras. They met with a sound like thunder, screams floating up to us like a bad smell. As we watched the sides fight, my heart felt like it could be heard a mile away, and perhaps they would come after us too.
Link shook his head and walked away, trying to show the screams didn't get to him. Trying to be the hero of time again, trying to be the brave one who wasn't scared like us.
"What shall we do?" Lucy asked
"There's nothing we can do" I replied quietly "Except complete what we have been set"
"And what was that again?"
"Well," I recapped "We have to free the great fairies since they are the only ones to rescue the races of their domains. Once we free them all, hopefully everything will go back to normal"
"What's normal again?" Lucy asked staring at the battle
"No war, no bloodshed, trading, the way things are in the game" I replied and began to head down the slope
"I don't want to be a hero anymore" Lucy whispered as she followed
We galloped into the Canyon around dusk, it took like, five hours longer than it does in the game which was stupid, but, we did get there, and tried not to look down as we crossed the edge on the bridge, and in front of us was a tent. Yeah, we all know who these guys are don't we.
"Hello?" Link called, dismounting in a smooth jump, us following less delicately
A stout man came out to greet us. He was less than friendly "Yeah?" he said gruffly "What do you want?"
"We thought, maybe we could stay here on our travels?" Link asked hopefully "After all I did save your workers"
The man's face changed "Oh yes, of course, come in"
We tied up the horses and entered the tent. It was quite cosy, with a bright fire in the middle, around which, six men sat eating. They goggled at Lucy and me as we sat down with Link and the old man. We smiled politely and sat on a cushion by the fire.
"We haven't had guests for a while" one of the sitting men said gingerly "We were thinking of moving back to town"
"Really?" I replied, "What do you do?" even though I already knew
"We're carpenters" another said proudly
"That's cool" Lucy said smiling "What kind of things do you make?"
"We made that bridge out there," the first one said
"Yep" Link sat down "Right after I saved them"
"And we're eternally grateful for that" the old man said giving each of us a bowl and filling it with soup
"So how have you been holding up with the wars?" Lucy asked simply
"Not too good" another carpenter said "The guerudos raid us nearly every time we get a new shipment. We fight as best we can, but we can't defend against their numbers"
"So we can't build anything and buy things with our profits" the carpenter next time said
"So we're going back to town soon" the old man said with his mouth full "The boys aren't exactly young and I need to marry them off to produce an heir to the business" he eyes me and Lucy with thoughtfulness "Are you two married?"
"Me?" I stuttered "Of course not!"
His face broke into a smile.
Lucy thumped me "We're courting at the moment!" she blurted out
Link's mouth dropped, so did everyone else's, even mine. But I caught on soon.
"Yes, we're both courting a man of very good breeding" I announced smiling
"Oh?" the old man said, "Who is he? Maybe we've met"
"Um...um...Link!" I grabbed Link's arm and hugged it tightly "What can I say we're in love!"
"And you?" he asked Lucy
"Um.... same!" Lucy grabbed Link's other arm and hugged it too "We're all living together happily in our big house with his other ten girlfriends" she couldn't resist annoying Link at the same moment "We're one big happy family, with his twenty two kids we're getting along fine"
I smiled at Link sweetly "Honey, when do you want to get married?"
The old man laughed heartily "Blimey son, you've been getting along fast with the ladies haven't you, that's my boy, get in there while you're young!"
All three of us stared and then blushed; drawing away from our hole we'd dug ourselves into.
"I guess you'll want your own tent to sleep in?" the old man brought out a bag and blankets, he threw it at Link "Look after your future wives"
Link got up and quickly walked out of the tent. We followed. We heard the sound of laughter and men's jokes inside.
"Great idea" Link growled as he put up the tent
"Wasn't it?" I said smiling, sitting on a rock "This way we don't have to get married"
"I'd love you to get married off" Link said, "You two are annoying"
"Please" Lucy batted her eyes at it "You know you loved it"
Link blushed then carried on doing the tent. Lucy and I laughed at his actions.
He was amazingly quick at putting up the tent, and luckily the tent had two sections, we split up. Though we could talk through the material. We settled into our side and spread out our blankets.
"So what's the plan?" Link asked
"You're asking us?" Lucy retorted
"Well," I said lying down "The Gerudos hate men, and they don't let them into their hideout right?"
"I got a pass" Link put in
"Like it will work now" I replied "We need to get into the desert. So, we dress as girls, act as Travelling Minstrels to get in"
"You're already girls"
"But your not" Lucy grinned evilly "Tomorrow it's make over time!"
I heard Link swear, but he countered by "We don't know how to sing"
I rolled my eyes "Please, of course we do, I was in a symphony choir for a whole year, and Lucy's not bad. Anyway, we can always mime, I have got my stereo you know"
"That's right" Lucy giggled "And she brought make up and spare clothes too"
We fell about laughing, Link groaned and turned out the light.
"Goodnight girls"
"Goodnight hubby" we chorused
The next day we woke up bright and early ready to break into a fortress. Typical day here I guess. The carpenters weren't up, so we left our horses there, Epona rode off back to the field by herself, and a note to say where we'd gone.
We walked up to the entrance of the fortress, and then climbed a ledge to get a better view. The building was a vast maze of doors, walls and bridges; the design was so complex it looked like how you'd imagine the labyrinth of the Minotaur!
We crawled back to the camp and went into our tent. Link looked uneasy
"What are you going to do to me?" he asked quietly
We grinned "Nothing much" I replied pulling out my make up bag.
Link looked at the bag and started to back toward the door, Lucy grappled him to the ground.
"You are not getting out of this that easily!" she yelled as she turned him over
"Pull his hat off!" I yelled squatting down
Lucy obeyed and pulled off the green hat no one has ever seen under. Neck length blonde hair tumbled out; it was almost the colour of hay. It was longer than mine!! Link stood still aware we had seen his biggest secret.
"Wow" Lucy put his hair in pigtails with her hands "I think we may have something to work with!"
I smiled and brought out a lip-gloss "Hold still Link"
It took us about an hour to make him look presentable, but it took even longer to dress him in my spare clothes, his chest didn't fill up the chest of the top so we had to stuff it with the Zoras tunic.
"We let his hair hang loose and we gelled it some. He had the most hairy legs I had ever seen, we went out so Link could use his sword and shave them up to his knees (I didn't want to see further than that) he also shaved his face, under arms, arms, chest and where ever else we hadn't know about to make himself look more girl. He stepped out later and we gasped, it could have been Zelda staring out at us embarrassed.
I didn't have the heart to laugh at him after he's worked so hard so I just smiled.
Lucy didn't have so much trouble.
"You look great" she giggled as she walked round him in inspection "Better than us!"
"I'll take that as a compliment" Link replied flicking his hair over his shoulder
"Guys" I said, "What are we going to sing? We're supposed to be travelling minstrels, what shall we sing?"
Lucy thought hard for a moment "What CD's have you got?"
I brought them out one by one. Linkin Park. Alisha's Attic. Dido. Red Hot Chili Peppers. My CD of Japanese JPOP music. The Buffy album. And last but not least, Alanis Morresette.
"What songs do we know the words too?" Lucy asked "That should narrow it down"
"Um" I looked over the backs, "I know the Dido words. And The Alisha's Attic words. And also Linkin Park's words"
"Well" Link put in "I know none of these"
"I know the Linkin Park and Dido songs too" Lucy said, "How about we do crawling?"
"Can you do the chorus?" I asked her
"No" she admitted, "But Link could"
"As a woman?" I replied, "I don't think so"
"Hey!" Link said, "I'm standing right here you know!"
"How about Lady Marmalade?" Lucy said, "Did you bring it?"
"Um..." I took another look and brought out the L.M single "The last one, good luck huh?"
"How big is your backpack?" Lucy asked bewildered
"Oh as big as Link's pocket" I replied, "Can we make him do the dance moves?"
"Him?" Link butted in "Hello? I am right here!"
"We know" Lucy said, "Now let's try it out"
We stood up and took places in a line as the first line started.
'Hey sister, soul sister let me hear that flow sister'
'Hey sister, go sister'
Lucy and me started the dance, Link followed clumsily
"He met marmalade down in old Moulin Rouge, strutting her stuff on the street" I sang, "She said hello, hey Joe, you want to give it a go?"
We burst into song "Gouge, gouge, ya, ya, dada! Hey, hey, hey, gouge, gouge, ya, ya, here. Mocha choca, latte ya ya! Creole Lady Marmalade"
*I have no idea of the actual words so sorry if I get them wrong*
Lucy sang the next bit and we pushed Link into singing Lil' Kim's part. And my god it was funny.
Our dance was pretty cool too. We'd seen the video so we knew what to do. And please, don't ask.
We also chose an Alisha's Attic song called the Air and Angels, which was an easy song to learn, we were prepared, Lucy and me were dolled up, so was Link, we were ready to go.
We rode right into the fortress easily. No guys I guess meant friends. They looked at us strangely and when we dismounted a crowd had gathered. One woman came forward, she looked like the leader.
"Identify yourselves," she commanded
"I'm..." I thought hard of names Zelda characters would use, I picked three "Belldandy" I mentally smacked myself, what a name! "This" I pointed to Lucy "Is Kid. And this babe" I pointed at Link "She's called Tiger Lilly" Link glared at me but I took no notice "So we're Belldandy, Kid and Tiger Lilly"
Lucy grinned and Link made a kind of, semi-curtsy.
"We're travelling minstrels!" Lucy said gleefully "We travel far and wide to bring modern music and dance to the world of thieves"
There was a murmur among the crowd.
"Yes" I continued, "In fact, our last show was for Ali Baba and his forty thieves!"
A sigh of impressments went off.
"We've also performed for the greats of eastern land" Lucy cried, "Sultans, Maharajas and great female warriors by names of Shazarada who saved the lives of women by telling stories for one thousand nights! And Athena, goddess of wisdom and war!"
Another gasp of impressments went off. We grinned; we'd done enough to convince them we were good.
"Will you be performing for us?" a young female guard asked
I kicked Link to make him stop goggling at the scantily clad girl "Yes" I said, "A once in a life time performance"
"Then we shall have a fest!" Yelled the leader to her people "A fest to celebrate the minstrels, it shall be tomorrow at dusk!"
A yell of triumph went off. We were escorted away to our guests' quarters.
So now we have to do a concert? This fic is crazy huh? Well, keep your eyes peeled for the next chapter!