New chapter, well, it hasn't been that long I guess since the last chapter but I was so full of inspiration after that last chapter I decided to carry on! Lucky you! Where has princess of the pixies gone, she hasn't been here for ages, and she reviewed so often T_T come back Princess!!! I mean, it seems like all the old Zelda forum ppl have gone, like Chica: Tofu Ninja and Power Skull Kid and Misty Dawn and the others. Where has all the love gone people? Thanks to all the people who have reviewed so far ^_^ you guys rock. Thanks for the Gundam OJR! It rocks! Sorry, this is a mini rant/credits thing for this story so far. Ok, on with da show!
We ran out toward the gates. The hall was brightly lit behind us as we ran into the dark.
The wind brushed out hair and Link ripped off his clothes (yes, he did) and appeared to have his tunic on underneath. He also ripped out the earrings and replaced them with his own and wiped off the make-up.
And yes, he did this while running at top speed. Amazing.
I ran as fast as I could, I could see Lucy to my side. I could see she was doing what Link had done. Wiping off all the make-up and ripping of the necklace and bracelets she had received.
I shrugged inwardly and decided to do the same. It was all too heavy to go into the desert with anyway. I adjusted the backpack on my back and ran with them. (Yes I still have it by a miracle)
We reached the huge gates and stopped. Link dashed up the ladder like a monkey, his green hat swinging in the breeze. He disappeared in to the darkness at the top of the ladder. We held our breath. Was he coming back?
The ground shuddered. We jumped as the gate began to slowly rise. The howling wind that had been kept at bay now whipped into us, we dug our heels into the ground and waited for Link.
I sliding noise reached us and Link slid down the ladder. He had gripped the sides with his feet and loosely with his hands and had just done that thing window cleaners do in musicals to get down.
"Let's go," he said gravely and walked under the gate.
I hesitated. The desert was pitch black from where we stood. I couldn't see further than a few metres outside the gate. I stood still.
"Don't worry" Lucy whispered, "He knows what he's doing"
"I hope so" I linked arms with her and we walked after Link into the darkness.
I had never felt claustrophobic in my life. But this was different. I doubted we had entered the proper desert yet. As I hadn't seen the first flag post yet either. The darkness and wind clamped down on me and hugged my body.
I squeezed Lucy's arm.
"Have you seen Link yet?" I shouted over the wind
"No" she replied a little strangled "But you're cutting off my blood supply"
"Sorry" I yelled back and let go of her arm slightly
"I'm scared" she called into my ear "I haven't seen Link and I can't see my hand in front of my face"
"Let's stand still and wait," I told her "He can come and get us"
"Ok" we stopped still
And we waited.
And waited.
And waited.
I was very worried. The kind of worried you get when you throw up. I didn't want to tell Lucy I didn't know where we were. I was supposed to have played the game. Yet everything was so different now it was real again.
Sure I had seen them when I was younger. But not this vivid. Never like this, and it scared me.
A hand clamped down on my shoulder.
"F***!" I screamed as the hand clamped over my mouth
"S***!" I heard Lucy yell and I felt her jerk
"Shut up!" a voice hissed into our ears over the noise "You'll bring the drunkards back to the world of the living!"
I relaxed a fraction. Link had returned. The safe feeling was swallowed by anger.
"You left us in the dark!" I turned around and kicked him
"Ah crap!" he jumped back "Watch it. Is that how you treat all the people who come to help you?"
"Yes" Lucy replied, she grabbed my arm again and I felt her reach out for Link "Get yourself here now!" she shouted in the midst of the wailing wind "Otherwise we won't be able to go anywhere"
"I'm so stupid!" he screamed back at us, "We should have come in the day! There's hardly any way we can navigate the desert flags at night!"
"What?" I yelled, "Are you trying to tell us that you got us lost!"
"No" Link replied, "I'm trying to tell you that we're dead meat"
"Oh you have done it now!" Lucy shrieked, "I am really mad!" she hit him hard on the head "You get us out of here or I'll kick you where the sun don't shine"
"I'll try to get to the first flag!" he called, "Don't let go of me and just follow!"
"Okay" we replied, Lucy grabbed his hand, I grabbed Lucy's and we slowly headed into the black in front
It was like, walking in a can of coke. But a coke can without the wet, sticky coke in and around us. The wind whipped around us and every so often we entered bubbles of calm, where the wind stopped for a minute then started again.
I felt calm though in these small bubbles. Even though I knew that we would have to leave them sooner or later. It reminded me that not everything was dark and noisy and windy and wrecked my hairstyle and made my eyes water.
I felt the two ahead of me stop. What? Why had we stopped? I got nervous as I stood waiting for a command of some sort. Lucy tugged me and brought me forward slowly. I put out my free hand and as I did, it hit something.
I felt around for a while and realised it was made of wood. The flag post! I grinned in the darkness and hugged the post. I felt the others doing the same. We sand onto the sand with our arms wrapped around the post and each other.
Walking in a sand storm was exhausting, and all we wanted to do was sleep. So we slept. Right there, in the middle of the wind and sand. We slept.
I woke to the rough taste of sand in my mouth. I spluttered and coughed it out, wiping my mouth of my arm. Ewww.
"You awake?" I growled to the person holding my hand
"Whuh?" Lucy opened an eye, "Is it still a storm?"
"Yuh" I replied affirmative, "Never stops, just gets a bit lighter in the day
"Let's go" I groan sounded from behind the post
Link sat up and shook his hat, his hair was full of sand, and his hat was half full of sand, he looked a mess, but I'm sure I did too.
We looked around. It was brighter, and now we could see a post in the distance through all the sand. It gave hope I guess; I don't really know what hope feels like. But I guess it made you feel good.
"Let's go" Link took our hands again and began to lead us toward the post
It was a dot on the horizon that grew and grew as we walked. I hadn't noticed before but Link kept falling over. Well, nearly falling over. He caught himself. I looked at his feet. His boots had wings on. Ah ha! Hover boots. That's how we'd managed to cross the sinking sand at the beginning, he's held us in the air and we'd been walking on the field that the boots generated.
As we reached it, we saw another flag post. We laughed and started to run to it. Then to the next. And then to the next. We were finally getting somewhere! It must have been the easiest leg of the journey so far. As we reached the last one Link pointed out the platform.
The platform with the guiding ghost attached to it. It would also provide shelter for a time from the storm while we rested. More good warmth filled me. It must be hope, what else can it be? A fever? Nope.
As we reached the platform we stopped to get our bearings through the masses of sand. Link handed round a gourd of water he produced from his secret pocket and took a swig himself. The platform itself was grubby rock that looked like a shrine of some sort. Maybe to the ghost or something. I didn't know.
"Time to head downstairs" he said and went for a hole in the side of the platform "Follow me and watch your step" he began to disappear downwards
We followed slowly. The ladder was rusty and turned my hands a dull brown, and they hurt your feet. But we still followed, I was glad that I wasn't wearing a skirt. But Link would be too much of a gentleman to look anyway. I think Lucy was thinking the same thing too as she went down the rungs really easily.
As we reached the bottom we fell against the wall for support. Tiring or what. I was very sleepy. I slid down the wall sideways to lie down on the floor.
"Oh my god!" Link cried and grabbed me; he pulled me up and started to check over me "What happened? Does it hurt? Tell me something"
"What the hell?" I grumbled "Lucy what is he doing?"
"Um, look at the wall" Lucy pointed
I followed the hand. Blood. In a straight line after where I'd slid. My stomach lurched. Was I hurt? No, get a hold of yourself. I slapped myself mentally. I knew what had happened. My pants were leaking.
Link on the other hand was going mad at me; he was practically undressing me to get at the 'wound'. He was like my mother, but I guess he felt responsible for Lucy and me since he brought us here.
"Link" I pushed him off me, "Stop that right now"
"But you're bleeding" he said, "You have to treat wounds as soon as possible"
"Yeah monthly wounds" Lucy giggled, she was finding it hysterical
"Link" I said, "Do you want to be taught something about girls?"
He nodded uncertainly "Um...ok" he stammered
I pulled down my trousers slightly. My thighs were stained with blood. Even I hadn't thought it would be that much. I gave an inward shrug. Must have been the running, plus it had been twenty-four hours.
"Holy cow" Link said starting to get up, "We need a healer"
"No we don't" Lucy said coming up behind me and pulling my trousers up "It's normal for us didn't anyone ever tell you about a monthly cycle" I could see here searching for the right words
"No" Link said, "What is it? A spell?"
"Not exactly" I said sitting down, "You see, when a girl is a puberty. You know what that is?" he nodded, "They start to produce eggs to have a baby from. But for the egg to grow into a child, it needs to be cushioned on a special lining. Like having a blanket. This lining is thick with blood to make it nice and comfy for the unborn child. But unless the egg is fertilised by a male, the lining isn't needed and it and the eggs are cleaned out as waste"
"Kind of like a monthly clean up" Lucy put in
"Yes" I nodded, "When the lining is put out, it has to come out somewhere" I made a gesture "So it comes out there and it's bleeding. The bleeding lasts until the whole lining and egg are gone and then it stops. It lasts about a week, maybe less or more. It depends on who you are. Now when it's finished. The lining starts to build up again to cushion another egg if it's fertilised and the whole cycle begins again in about a month"
"So it builds up, breaks down, flushes out and starts all over again" Lucy smiled, "Understand?"
"Yeah" Link looked at little dumbstruck. Like a kid learning how he was born "So you're just cleaning up?"
"Yah" I nodded, "So don 't worry about it ok? I'll tell you when I need sympathy or medical attention"
"Ok" he looked happier, and we all felt happier being out of the sand and wind. We settled down for a break till later.
We ran out toward the gates. The hall was brightly lit behind us as we ran into the dark.
The wind brushed out hair and Link ripped off his clothes (yes, he did) and appeared to have his tunic on underneath. He also ripped out the earrings and replaced them with his own and wiped off the make-up.
And yes, he did this while running at top speed. Amazing.
I ran as fast as I could, I could see Lucy to my side. I could see she was doing what Link had done. Wiping off all the make-up and ripping of the necklace and bracelets she had received.
I shrugged inwardly and decided to do the same. It was all too heavy to go into the desert with anyway. I adjusted the backpack on my back and ran with them. (Yes I still have it by a miracle)
We reached the huge gates and stopped. Link dashed up the ladder like a monkey, his green hat swinging in the breeze. He disappeared in to the darkness at the top of the ladder. We held our breath. Was he coming back?
The ground shuddered. We jumped as the gate began to slowly rise. The howling wind that had been kept at bay now whipped into us, we dug our heels into the ground and waited for Link.
I sliding noise reached us and Link slid down the ladder. He had gripped the sides with his feet and loosely with his hands and had just done that thing window cleaners do in musicals to get down.
"Let's go," he said gravely and walked under the gate.
I hesitated. The desert was pitch black from where we stood. I couldn't see further than a few metres outside the gate. I stood still.
"Don't worry" Lucy whispered, "He knows what he's doing"
"I hope so" I linked arms with her and we walked after Link into the darkness.
I had never felt claustrophobic in my life. But this was different. I doubted we had entered the proper desert yet. As I hadn't seen the first flag post yet either. The darkness and wind clamped down on me and hugged my body.
I squeezed Lucy's arm.
"Have you seen Link yet?" I shouted over the wind
"No" she replied a little strangled "But you're cutting off my blood supply"
"Sorry" I yelled back and let go of her arm slightly
"I'm scared" she called into my ear "I haven't seen Link and I can't see my hand in front of my face"
"Let's stand still and wait," I told her "He can come and get us"
"Ok" we stopped still
And we waited.
And waited.
And waited.
I was very worried. The kind of worried you get when you throw up. I didn't want to tell Lucy I didn't know where we were. I was supposed to have played the game. Yet everything was so different now it was real again.
Sure I had seen them when I was younger. But not this vivid. Never like this, and it scared me.
A hand clamped down on my shoulder.
"F***!" I screamed as the hand clamped over my mouth
"S***!" I heard Lucy yell and I felt her jerk
"Shut up!" a voice hissed into our ears over the noise "You'll bring the drunkards back to the world of the living!"
I relaxed a fraction. Link had returned. The safe feeling was swallowed by anger.
"You left us in the dark!" I turned around and kicked him
"Ah crap!" he jumped back "Watch it. Is that how you treat all the people who come to help you?"
"Yes" Lucy replied, she grabbed my arm again and I felt her reach out for Link "Get yourself here now!" she shouted in the midst of the wailing wind "Otherwise we won't be able to go anywhere"
"I'm so stupid!" he screamed back at us, "We should have come in the day! There's hardly any way we can navigate the desert flags at night!"
"What?" I yelled, "Are you trying to tell us that you got us lost!"
"No" Link replied, "I'm trying to tell you that we're dead meat"
"Oh you have done it now!" Lucy shrieked, "I am really mad!" she hit him hard on the head "You get us out of here or I'll kick you where the sun don't shine"
"I'll try to get to the first flag!" he called, "Don't let go of me and just follow!"
"Okay" we replied, Lucy grabbed his hand, I grabbed Lucy's and we slowly headed into the black in front
It was like, walking in a can of coke. But a coke can without the wet, sticky coke in and around us. The wind whipped around us and every so often we entered bubbles of calm, where the wind stopped for a minute then started again.
I felt calm though in these small bubbles. Even though I knew that we would have to leave them sooner or later. It reminded me that not everything was dark and noisy and windy and wrecked my hairstyle and made my eyes water.
I felt the two ahead of me stop. What? Why had we stopped? I got nervous as I stood waiting for a command of some sort. Lucy tugged me and brought me forward slowly. I put out my free hand and as I did, it hit something.
I felt around for a while and realised it was made of wood. The flag post! I grinned in the darkness and hugged the post. I felt the others doing the same. We sand onto the sand with our arms wrapped around the post and each other.
Walking in a sand storm was exhausting, and all we wanted to do was sleep. So we slept. Right there, in the middle of the wind and sand. We slept.
I woke to the rough taste of sand in my mouth. I spluttered and coughed it out, wiping my mouth of my arm. Ewww.
"You awake?" I growled to the person holding my hand
"Whuh?" Lucy opened an eye, "Is it still a storm?"
"Yuh" I replied affirmative, "Never stops, just gets a bit lighter in the day
"Let's go" I groan sounded from behind the post
Link sat up and shook his hat, his hair was full of sand, and his hat was half full of sand, he looked a mess, but I'm sure I did too.
We looked around. It was brighter, and now we could see a post in the distance through all the sand. It gave hope I guess; I don't really know what hope feels like. But I guess it made you feel good.
"Let's go" Link took our hands again and began to lead us toward the post
It was a dot on the horizon that grew and grew as we walked. I hadn't noticed before but Link kept falling over. Well, nearly falling over. He caught himself. I looked at his feet. His boots had wings on. Ah ha! Hover boots. That's how we'd managed to cross the sinking sand at the beginning, he's held us in the air and we'd been walking on the field that the boots generated.
As we reached it, we saw another flag post. We laughed and started to run to it. Then to the next. And then to the next. We were finally getting somewhere! It must have been the easiest leg of the journey so far. As we reached the last one Link pointed out the platform.
The platform with the guiding ghost attached to it. It would also provide shelter for a time from the storm while we rested. More good warmth filled me. It must be hope, what else can it be? A fever? Nope.
As we reached the platform we stopped to get our bearings through the masses of sand. Link handed round a gourd of water he produced from his secret pocket and took a swig himself. The platform itself was grubby rock that looked like a shrine of some sort. Maybe to the ghost or something. I didn't know.
"Time to head downstairs" he said and went for a hole in the side of the platform "Follow me and watch your step" he began to disappear downwards
We followed slowly. The ladder was rusty and turned my hands a dull brown, and they hurt your feet. But we still followed, I was glad that I wasn't wearing a skirt. But Link would be too much of a gentleman to look anyway. I think Lucy was thinking the same thing too as she went down the rungs really easily.
As we reached the bottom we fell against the wall for support. Tiring or what. I was very sleepy. I slid down the wall sideways to lie down on the floor.
"Oh my god!" Link cried and grabbed me; he pulled me up and started to check over me "What happened? Does it hurt? Tell me something"
"What the hell?" I grumbled "Lucy what is he doing?"
"Um, look at the wall" Lucy pointed
I followed the hand. Blood. In a straight line after where I'd slid. My stomach lurched. Was I hurt? No, get a hold of yourself. I slapped myself mentally. I knew what had happened. My pants were leaking.
Link on the other hand was going mad at me; he was practically undressing me to get at the 'wound'. He was like my mother, but I guess he felt responsible for Lucy and me since he brought us here.
"Link" I pushed him off me, "Stop that right now"
"But you're bleeding" he said, "You have to treat wounds as soon as possible"
"Yeah monthly wounds" Lucy giggled, she was finding it hysterical
"Link" I said, "Do you want to be taught something about girls?"
He nodded uncertainly "Um...ok" he stammered
I pulled down my trousers slightly. My thighs were stained with blood. Even I hadn't thought it would be that much. I gave an inward shrug. Must have been the running, plus it had been twenty-four hours.
"Holy cow" Link said starting to get up, "We need a healer"
"No we don't" Lucy said coming up behind me and pulling my trousers up "It's normal for us didn't anyone ever tell you about a monthly cycle" I could see here searching for the right words
"No" Link said, "What is it? A spell?"
"Not exactly" I said sitting down, "You see, when a girl is a puberty. You know what that is?" he nodded, "They start to produce eggs to have a baby from. But for the egg to grow into a child, it needs to be cushioned on a special lining. Like having a blanket. This lining is thick with blood to make it nice and comfy for the unborn child. But unless the egg is fertilised by a male, the lining isn't needed and it and the eggs are cleaned out as waste"
"Kind of like a monthly clean up" Lucy put in
"Yes" I nodded, "When the lining is put out, it has to come out somewhere" I made a gesture "So it comes out there and it's bleeding. The bleeding lasts until the whole lining and egg are gone and then it stops. It lasts about a week, maybe less or more. It depends on who you are. Now when it's finished. The lining starts to build up again to cushion another egg if it's fertilised and the whole cycle begins again in about a month"
"So it builds up, breaks down, flushes out and starts all over again" Lucy smiled, "Understand?"
"Yeah" Link looked at little dumbstruck. Like a kid learning how he was born "So you're just cleaning up?"
"Yah" I nodded, "So don 't worry about it ok? I'll tell you when I need sympathy or medical attention"
"Ok" he looked happier, and we all felt happier being out of the sand and wind. We settled down for a break till later.