The Lone Wolf
Chapter 7: The Wolves "Winter Festival."
It was almost two weeks since Link had found himself in the care of Rose. He was still
bedridden for the most part, even though Link swore that his arm was fine (Rose insisted
that the scabs should close to scars properly before he could get up).
Early one morning, Rose awoke to the sound of crunching snow outside the cave
entrance. She went to investigate, and found a gray furred Wolf man approaching her
cave.
"Good morning sister. It's good to see you!" the male called out to her.
"Oh, Derran, how are you? It's been so long since I've seen you!" Rose said jogging
over to her brother and hugging him warmly.
"I've been ok, but what I wanted to know is, what happened to you? You didn't show
up for the last two pack gatherings." He explained.
"Oh, that. Well, I found a traveler that got hurt by a bear, I've been healing him for a
while here."
"A traveler eh?" he said raising one eyebrow. "Were you following him first? Because
this is your summer home."
If Rose had any bare skin on her face, she'd have blushed. "Well, he's not an average
traveler." She said trying to explain.
"How so?" Derran asked.
Rose sighed. "He got newly changed Derran. I followed him because I knew he'd need
help adjusting."
"Ah, I see." He said shaking his head.
Meanwhile, in the cave, Link was waking up. He heard the sound of voices talking
outside the cave. One of them Rose's voice, the other a distinctly male one. He got up
and went to the entrance to the cave and listened
"Well, I wish you the best of luck. Oh, and, by the way Rose. The midwinter festival in
the old castle town is going to be starting in about two weeks."
"Just about enough time to get there. I was going to go, but then he showed up… I can't
just leave him here…"
"So bring him along." Derran suggested. "Let him mingle with our people, and if I
know most travelers, let him learn how to fight from a master. They give demonstrations
and voluntary drills there you know." He reminded her.
"I'll think about it Derran, now, shouldn't you be getting over back to your own
Territory and get your family going?" Rose said
Derran Nuzzled Rose on the cheek with his nose (A motion of greeting and farewell
with the wolves) turned and left. Rose then went back to her cave.
Link, who had heard everything, was leaning against the cave wall behind the pelt flap
that served as the door when Rose got back in. When she saw him there she looked very
surprised.
"Link!? What are you doing up? Didn't I tell you to stay in bed till your shoulder fully
healed?" she said, regaining her composure slowly.
Link didn't reply, instead, he pinched the cloth bandage at one point and tore it in half,
and let the binding unravel and fall off his shoulder onto the floor. Under where the
Bandage had been were a few bright pink, newly formed scars where the bear had clawed
at him.
"We're going to that festival Rose." It was a statement, not a request.
Rose sighed. "As you wish Link, as you wish…"
* * * *
Two weeks later found Link and Rose standing at the stone bridge to a humongous, but
slightly run down looking castle and town.
As Link entered, holding Rose's left paw, he saw that the Immediate entranceway to the
town looked like Hyrule castle town at Harvest time.
Wolf people were everywhere.
"Wow!" Was all Link could say.
Link and rose walked into the thick of the living mass of creatures. And link found that,
unlike most of the Wolf people, a few of them wore some strange kind of clothing. Like,
for example, loose tunics, jerkins and short chaps.
Link whispered into Rose's ear. "Uh… Rose… why are some of these Wolf people
wearing clothing and we aren't?"
She looked up at him and smiled. "A few people stayed in and around the town after
the war 300 years ago, they stayed true to human culture, while the rest of us went about
things our own way. Don't feel embarrassed, they accept us 'Wild ones' just as much as
we accept them. If we didn't, how do you think we'd be able to have the gathering
here?" she finished.
"I didn't think of it that way." Link said and continued looking around.
Link noticed a number of vendors along the side of the market street heading to the
main grounds. They would trade or sell things to other lupines, like dried herbs, fish,
bread, and clothing. The clothed wolves would pay with copper, silver, or gold coins,
while the more wild forest wolves would trade pelts, root herbs, or raw Rupee-like
crystals in exchange for the goods.
Link noticed that some of the wild forest wolves, who had multiple pouches and crude
Fang covered jewelry all over them, were buying a gauze–like fabric.
"They're healers, they need some kind of cloth handy that they can tear and use to set
wounds, like I did with you." Rose explained when she saw Link looking at them.
"Oh…" Link said, his curiosity satisfied.
A few minutes later they got into a large town square area. Rose stopped abruptly and
tugged on links arm.
"Link, look, it's my parents!" she told him excitedly.
"Where?" he asked, glancing about.
She pointed over towards a large fountain. There, on the edge of the pool sat a number
of wolves, most of them gray. But one rather large, solid black furred male stood out
among them. Next to him was a gray female who was holding a very young infant,
wrapped tightly in a bundle of cloth.
"The black one's my dad, the gray's my mom. And that's their latest pup. C'mon, I
want you to meet them." She said, dragging him over in a quick jog toward her parents.
The black male looked up at them as they came bounding over. He smiled broadly and
waved at them.
"Hello Rose! It's good to see you! Who's your male friend that you're towing around
there?" he called over at the two of them, as they got close.
"Hello Daddy!" she called back. A moment later Rose stopped running and Link
staggered a bit to get his balance.
The gray female looked up as they got there. "Hello Rose. Oh! My goodness, what do
we have here?" She said, stood up and pinched Link's cheek in one paw. "My, aren't
you a handsome one! Rose, where did you find him?" She said jokingly.
"Mom… Please…" she said embarrassed.
After Rose's mother released his cheek, Link stood up as straight as he could, bowed,
took her paw in his, and kissed it politely.
"Hello pretty lady, my name's Link. May I ask you yours?" he asked.
Rose's mother's eyes got wider. "And polite as well! My word Rose, you sure know
how to pick them!" she said.
"MOM!" Rose shout was just below a scream.
Link looked over at Rose's father confused, and the big black male just laughed.
"HA HA HA!" he rumbled a deep, hearty belly laugh. Which almost had Link starting
to crack up (as they say, a laugh is contagious)."Please Nyssa, It seems you're
embarrassing our daughter in front of her male friend here!" He said, a touch of laughter
at the edge of his voice. "Anyway, where are my manners? My name's Gerard, my
mate's name is Nyssa, and our youngest here is named Fani." Gerard said, finishing
introductions.
"It's very nice to meet you." Link said, and grasped Gerard's offered paw in a
handshake.
* * * *
About an hour later, Link had managed to get Rose away from the market area (she had
brought a collection of fine furs and some small surface gems she'd dug up for trading)
and over to the warrior's area. There, a number of large, battle-scarred males were
sparring, weaponless, on small raised platforms with sparring ring's outlined in white
paint. Meanwhile young pups watched, spellbound by the side of the rings. Link went
over to an empty platform and saw one grizzled gray veteran with his right eye missing,
setting up equipment, should any of them want to actually use weapons (Link had seen a
few of what the wolves called swords, they were straight enough in the blade, but the
hilts weren't cylinders, they had depressions that each paw/finger pad settled into for the
grip).
"Hello?" Link called over to him. The warrior's ears flicked over in Link's direction,
the left one only half an ear, as it had long since been severed, and he turned the left side
of his face toward him.
"Yes?" The older male replied.
"I was wondering if you could spare a few minutes and show a rookie a few moves."
Link said politely as possible.
The male's ears flicked in again as he thought, then he looked at Link directly, letting
him see the scarred spot where his right eye had once been. "Why not, it's been a while
since I've had any newcomers want to learn how to fight properly." The male gestured
for Link to come onto the wooden platform where the ring was set up.
Link bounded up the few steps to the platform, and the warrior looked at him for a
moment.
"You want to go with or without weapons?" he asked.
"Without, please." He said.
The male nodded. And took place behind a white mark near the middle of the ring, Link
took place opposite him.
"You know how to fight at all kid?" The old male asked flexing his claws.
Link fought the urge to laugh really hard. "Yeah, I know how to fight, but only with a
sword, I want to learn how to fight with my claws."
The gray male nodded. "Ok kid, let me show you the right stance to take when in a
fight, you do know how to hunt unarmed right?" he asked, Link nodded.
"Well, good, you have to brace your legs a bit, spread them and bend them so you're
standing a little less than your normal walking height." He explained. Link got into the
position.
"Good, good. That stance lowers your center of gravity, increases balance, and allows
you to get into motion faster than if you were standing normal. Next, the block…"
The training continued into the late afternoon and evening.
* * * *
The festival was six days and seven nights long. Link spent the first half of every day
walking around with Rose as she introduced him to her friends and traded, and the second
half taking lessons from the old male, whose name happened to be Markus. After the
second day, Rose started watching Link Taking fighting lessons, and after two days,
started taking some tutoring herself.
In the evenings, Link found himself in a tavern, eating dinner with Rose and her family.
They'd trade stories, Rose and her family would tell about some old happenings, like
when Rose had broken her leg as a pup, or something else, like one time they'd found a
chest full of gold half buried in a rotten cart in the woods (this had bought them a number
of furnishings for Gerard's large, multi-family, pack dwelling). Link would tell them
about the Gorons and the Zora, and the Gerudo. Making no mention of whether he was
or wasn't a wolf at the time.
On the evening of the last day of the festival, the entire race of wolves were gathered in
the massive field between the town and the run down castle. In the center of the field
was a massive bonfire. Everyone sat at long tables with benches while platters of food
were passed around.
After everyone heard story's from each other and poems from older storytellers, Gerard
looked to Link for another of his stories, as he'd heard all of the other Wolves stories
already.
The story started at about the end of Rose's brother telling Rose's "Leg story"…
* * * *
"So, she was stuck in that cave for about 4 hours before we got there. She was crying
her little heart out, thought we'd left her there and forgotten about her." Derran chuckled.
"That was the last time she went looking for crystals in that cave!"
Rose had her face in her paws, embarrassed to no end. "Derran, enough with that story
please!" she pleaded.
Gerard laughed. "Hey, Link, you got another one of those races you want to tell us
about?" he asked.
Link pondered for a minute. "No, not tonight."
Everyone looked at Link a little stunned. "No more stories Link?" Rose asked a little
sadly.
Link looked at her calmly. "Now I didn't say that." He said.
Everyone sighed, relieved.
"What are you going to tell us about today Link?" Nyssa asked.
"Well, I've heard a lot of stories tonight about the gods you worship and everything, so I
thought I'd tell you about the legend of the Triforce over in Hyrule."
Everyone in hearing range looked over at Link intently.
"In the distant past, three golden goddesses descended upon the chaos that was the
world. Din, the goddess of power, with her flaming arms cultivated the land, and created
the red earth. Nayru, the goddess of wisdom, gave order to the world. And Farore, the
goddess of courage, created all forms of life, to uphold the law. With their labors
completed, the three Goddesses returned to where they had come from, and at the point
they left the world, three golden triangles remained behind, each holding a portion of
each goddess' power. It was so said, that the person who should touch this golden
triangle, the complete Triforce, should become the ruler of the world, but only if that
person's heart had Power, Wisdom and Courage in balance. A Gerudo, from the desert
west of Hyrule, was the first man to ever touch this golden treasure, but he was evil, and
his heart was not in balance. The force he held above the others was power, so only that
one part of the Triforce remained for him. The other two disappeared, and was granted to
two others, who embodied those forces. The Evil man used the Triforce to become a
mighty evil king, but he wanted more, so he went in search of those who the other
Triforce parts belonged to. He had to kill them to take the parts from them, so they
resisted with all their power, and looked for a way to defeat the evil king."
"Were they able to defeat the evil king?" A younger female asked from a nearby table.
As link caught his breath, he found that the whole place had gone dead silent. Everyone
was listening to him telling his tale.
Link took a deep breath and continued. "The two found help in the form of six powerful
sages, these sages too wanted to be rid of the evil King, so they joined forces. The two
Triforce bearers broke curses on several temples that the sages inhabited, and allowed the
sages to use their powers. After a ferocious battle at the evil King's castle, the sages
were able to use their combined power to entrap the evil king in the Evil realm, and
released Hyrule from his clutches."
Everyone sat there for a minute, still spellbound from Link's tale. Eventually they went
back to talking amongst themselves.
Eventually, the main course was served, and everyone, including Link, ate like a bunch
of pigs.
After the main course, wines and desserts were served. Link tried one of the wines, and
found it very good. Rose had the same.
Eventually, Link's mind became fogged, and he started gazing at Rose, and for the first
time, letting the new part of his mind, the wolfish one, appraise her form. He was now
able to see the things that made her beautiful for her kind. Like for a Hylian girl, her
shapely curves were a thing of beauty, but her sinewy legs also now seemed quite
attractive. And her fur covered, shapely chest added to her appeal.
Link didn't notice that she was also looking him over with the same roguish glance, not
to mention that a lot of the other adult Males and Females were doing the same.
Eventually, Rose put her paw on Links shoulder, and nudged him to get up, which he
willingly did. And she led him back to the tavern where they were staying.
After that, Link's memory became a blur…
* * * *
Link awoke the next morning with a splitting headache, and the feeling of some heavy,
warm object lying on top of him.
Link rubbed the back of his head, and tried to sit up, but he couldn't. He opened his
eyes, and gasped.
Rose was lying on top of him, her chest to his, with a mighty big smile on her face.
"Oh great goddess Nayru please tell me this isn't happening!" Link thought to himself.
Chapter 7: The Wolves "Winter Festival."
It was almost two weeks since Link had found himself in the care of Rose. He was still
bedridden for the most part, even though Link swore that his arm was fine (Rose insisted
that the scabs should close to scars properly before he could get up).
Early one morning, Rose awoke to the sound of crunching snow outside the cave
entrance. She went to investigate, and found a gray furred Wolf man approaching her
cave.
"Good morning sister. It's good to see you!" the male called out to her.
"Oh, Derran, how are you? It's been so long since I've seen you!" Rose said jogging
over to her brother and hugging him warmly.
"I've been ok, but what I wanted to know is, what happened to you? You didn't show
up for the last two pack gatherings." He explained.
"Oh, that. Well, I found a traveler that got hurt by a bear, I've been healing him for a
while here."
"A traveler eh?" he said raising one eyebrow. "Were you following him first? Because
this is your summer home."
If Rose had any bare skin on her face, she'd have blushed. "Well, he's not an average
traveler." She said trying to explain.
"How so?" Derran asked.
Rose sighed. "He got newly changed Derran. I followed him because I knew he'd need
help adjusting."
"Ah, I see." He said shaking his head.
Meanwhile, in the cave, Link was waking up. He heard the sound of voices talking
outside the cave. One of them Rose's voice, the other a distinctly male one. He got up
and went to the entrance to the cave and listened
"Well, I wish you the best of luck. Oh, and, by the way Rose. The midwinter festival in
the old castle town is going to be starting in about two weeks."
"Just about enough time to get there. I was going to go, but then he showed up… I can't
just leave him here…"
"So bring him along." Derran suggested. "Let him mingle with our people, and if I
know most travelers, let him learn how to fight from a master. They give demonstrations
and voluntary drills there you know." He reminded her.
"I'll think about it Derran, now, shouldn't you be getting over back to your own
Territory and get your family going?" Rose said
Derran Nuzzled Rose on the cheek with his nose (A motion of greeting and farewell
with the wolves) turned and left. Rose then went back to her cave.
Link, who had heard everything, was leaning against the cave wall behind the pelt flap
that served as the door when Rose got back in. When she saw him there she looked very
surprised.
"Link!? What are you doing up? Didn't I tell you to stay in bed till your shoulder fully
healed?" she said, regaining her composure slowly.
Link didn't reply, instead, he pinched the cloth bandage at one point and tore it in half,
and let the binding unravel and fall off his shoulder onto the floor. Under where the
Bandage had been were a few bright pink, newly formed scars where the bear had clawed
at him.
"We're going to that festival Rose." It was a statement, not a request.
Rose sighed. "As you wish Link, as you wish…"
* * * *
Two weeks later found Link and Rose standing at the stone bridge to a humongous, but
slightly run down looking castle and town.
As Link entered, holding Rose's left paw, he saw that the Immediate entranceway to the
town looked like Hyrule castle town at Harvest time.
Wolf people were everywhere.
"Wow!" Was all Link could say.
Link and rose walked into the thick of the living mass of creatures. And link found that,
unlike most of the Wolf people, a few of them wore some strange kind of clothing. Like,
for example, loose tunics, jerkins and short chaps.
Link whispered into Rose's ear. "Uh… Rose… why are some of these Wolf people
wearing clothing and we aren't?"
She looked up at him and smiled. "A few people stayed in and around the town after
the war 300 years ago, they stayed true to human culture, while the rest of us went about
things our own way. Don't feel embarrassed, they accept us 'Wild ones' just as much as
we accept them. If we didn't, how do you think we'd be able to have the gathering
here?" she finished.
"I didn't think of it that way." Link said and continued looking around.
Link noticed a number of vendors along the side of the market street heading to the
main grounds. They would trade or sell things to other lupines, like dried herbs, fish,
bread, and clothing. The clothed wolves would pay with copper, silver, or gold coins,
while the more wild forest wolves would trade pelts, root herbs, or raw Rupee-like
crystals in exchange for the goods.
Link noticed that some of the wild forest wolves, who had multiple pouches and crude
Fang covered jewelry all over them, were buying a gauze–like fabric.
"They're healers, they need some kind of cloth handy that they can tear and use to set
wounds, like I did with you." Rose explained when she saw Link looking at them.
"Oh…" Link said, his curiosity satisfied.
A few minutes later they got into a large town square area. Rose stopped abruptly and
tugged on links arm.
"Link, look, it's my parents!" she told him excitedly.
"Where?" he asked, glancing about.
She pointed over towards a large fountain. There, on the edge of the pool sat a number
of wolves, most of them gray. But one rather large, solid black furred male stood out
among them. Next to him was a gray female who was holding a very young infant,
wrapped tightly in a bundle of cloth.
"The black one's my dad, the gray's my mom. And that's their latest pup. C'mon, I
want you to meet them." She said, dragging him over in a quick jog toward her parents.
The black male looked up at them as they came bounding over. He smiled broadly and
waved at them.
"Hello Rose! It's good to see you! Who's your male friend that you're towing around
there?" he called over at the two of them, as they got close.
"Hello Daddy!" she called back. A moment later Rose stopped running and Link
staggered a bit to get his balance.
The gray female looked up as they got there. "Hello Rose. Oh! My goodness, what do
we have here?" She said, stood up and pinched Link's cheek in one paw. "My, aren't
you a handsome one! Rose, where did you find him?" She said jokingly.
"Mom… Please…" she said embarrassed.
After Rose's mother released his cheek, Link stood up as straight as he could, bowed,
took her paw in his, and kissed it politely.
"Hello pretty lady, my name's Link. May I ask you yours?" he asked.
Rose's mother's eyes got wider. "And polite as well! My word Rose, you sure know
how to pick them!" she said.
"MOM!" Rose shout was just below a scream.
Link looked over at Rose's father confused, and the big black male just laughed.
"HA HA HA!" he rumbled a deep, hearty belly laugh. Which almost had Link starting
to crack up (as they say, a laugh is contagious)."Please Nyssa, It seems you're
embarrassing our daughter in front of her male friend here!" He said, a touch of laughter
at the edge of his voice. "Anyway, where are my manners? My name's Gerard, my
mate's name is Nyssa, and our youngest here is named Fani." Gerard said, finishing
introductions.
"It's very nice to meet you." Link said, and grasped Gerard's offered paw in a
handshake.
* * * *
About an hour later, Link had managed to get Rose away from the market area (she had
brought a collection of fine furs and some small surface gems she'd dug up for trading)
and over to the warrior's area. There, a number of large, battle-scarred males were
sparring, weaponless, on small raised platforms with sparring ring's outlined in white
paint. Meanwhile young pups watched, spellbound by the side of the rings. Link went
over to an empty platform and saw one grizzled gray veteran with his right eye missing,
setting up equipment, should any of them want to actually use weapons (Link had seen a
few of what the wolves called swords, they were straight enough in the blade, but the
hilts weren't cylinders, they had depressions that each paw/finger pad settled into for the
grip).
"Hello?" Link called over to him. The warrior's ears flicked over in Link's direction,
the left one only half an ear, as it had long since been severed, and he turned the left side
of his face toward him.
"Yes?" The older male replied.
"I was wondering if you could spare a few minutes and show a rookie a few moves."
Link said politely as possible.
The male's ears flicked in again as he thought, then he looked at Link directly, letting
him see the scarred spot where his right eye had once been. "Why not, it's been a while
since I've had any newcomers want to learn how to fight properly." The male gestured
for Link to come onto the wooden platform where the ring was set up.
Link bounded up the few steps to the platform, and the warrior looked at him for a
moment.
"You want to go with or without weapons?" he asked.
"Without, please." He said.
The male nodded. And took place behind a white mark near the middle of the ring, Link
took place opposite him.
"You know how to fight at all kid?" The old male asked flexing his claws.
Link fought the urge to laugh really hard. "Yeah, I know how to fight, but only with a
sword, I want to learn how to fight with my claws."
The gray male nodded. "Ok kid, let me show you the right stance to take when in a
fight, you do know how to hunt unarmed right?" he asked, Link nodded.
"Well, good, you have to brace your legs a bit, spread them and bend them so you're
standing a little less than your normal walking height." He explained. Link got into the
position.
"Good, good. That stance lowers your center of gravity, increases balance, and allows
you to get into motion faster than if you were standing normal. Next, the block…"
The training continued into the late afternoon and evening.
* * * *
The festival was six days and seven nights long. Link spent the first half of every day
walking around with Rose as she introduced him to her friends and traded, and the second
half taking lessons from the old male, whose name happened to be Markus. After the
second day, Rose started watching Link Taking fighting lessons, and after two days,
started taking some tutoring herself.
In the evenings, Link found himself in a tavern, eating dinner with Rose and her family.
They'd trade stories, Rose and her family would tell about some old happenings, like
when Rose had broken her leg as a pup, or something else, like one time they'd found a
chest full of gold half buried in a rotten cart in the woods (this had bought them a number
of furnishings for Gerard's large, multi-family, pack dwelling). Link would tell them
about the Gorons and the Zora, and the Gerudo. Making no mention of whether he was
or wasn't a wolf at the time.
On the evening of the last day of the festival, the entire race of wolves were gathered in
the massive field between the town and the run down castle. In the center of the field
was a massive bonfire. Everyone sat at long tables with benches while platters of food
were passed around.
After everyone heard story's from each other and poems from older storytellers, Gerard
looked to Link for another of his stories, as he'd heard all of the other Wolves stories
already.
The story started at about the end of Rose's brother telling Rose's "Leg story"…
* * * *
"So, she was stuck in that cave for about 4 hours before we got there. She was crying
her little heart out, thought we'd left her there and forgotten about her." Derran chuckled.
"That was the last time she went looking for crystals in that cave!"
Rose had her face in her paws, embarrassed to no end. "Derran, enough with that story
please!" she pleaded.
Gerard laughed. "Hey, Link, you got another one of those races you want to tell us
about?" he asked.
Link pondered for a minute. "No, not tonight."
Everyone looked at Link a little stunned. "No more stories Link?" Rose asked a little
sadly.
Link looked at her calmly. "Now I didn't say that." He said.
Everyone sighed, relieved.
"What are you going to tell us about today Link?" Nyssa asked.
"Well, I've heard a lot of stories tonight about the gods you worship and everything, so I
thought I'd tell you about the legend of the Triforce over in Hyrule."
Everyone in hearing range looked over at Link intently.
"In the distant past, three golden goddesses descended upon the chaos that was the
world. Din, the goddess of power, with her flaming arms cultivated the land, and created
the red earth. Nayru, the goddess of wisdom, gave order to the world. And Farore, the
goddess of courage, created all forms of life, to uphold the law. With their labors
completed, the three Goddesses returned to where they had come from, and at the point
they left the world, three golden triangles remained behind, each holding a portion of
each goddess' power. It was so said, that the person who should touch this golden
triangle, the complete Triforce, should become the ruler of the world, but only if that
person's heart had Power, Wisdom and Courage in balance. A Gerudo, from the desert
west of Hyrule, was the first man to ever touch this golden treasure, but he was evil, and
his heart was not in balance. The force he held above the others was power, so only that
one part of the Triforce remained for him. The other two disappeared, and was granted to
two others, who embodied those forces. The Evil man used the Triforce to become a
mighty evil king, but he wanted more, so he went in search of those who the other
Triforce parts belonged to. He had to kill them to take the parts from them, so they
resisted with all their power, and looked for a way to defeat the evil king."
"Were they able to defeat the evil king?" A younger female asked from a nearby table.
As link caught his breath, he found that the whole place had gone dead silent. Everyone
was listening to him telling his tale.
Link took a deep breath and continued. "The two found help in the form of six powerful
sages, these sages too wanted to be rid of the evil King, so they joined forces. The two
Triforce bearers broke curses on several temples that the sages inhabited, and allowed the
sages to use their powers. After a ferocious battle at the evil King's castle, the sages
were able to use their combined power to entrap the evil king in the Evil realm, and
released Hyrule from his clutches."
Everyone sat there for a minute, still spellbound from Link's tale. Eventually they went
back to talking amongst themselves.
Eventually, the main course was served, and everyone, including Link, ate like a bunch
of pigs.
After the main course, wines and desserts were served. Link tried one of the wines, and
found it very good. Rose had the same.
Eventually, Link's mind became fogged, and he started gazing at Rose, and for the first
time, letting the new part of his mind, the wolfish one, appraise her form. He was now
able to see the things that made her beautiful for her kind. Like for a Hylian girl, her
shapely curves were a thing of beauty, but her sinewy legs also now seemed quite
attractive. And her fur covered, shapely chest added to her appeal.
Link didn't notice that she was also looking him over with the same roguish glance, not
to mention that a lot of the other adult Males and Females were doing the same.
Eventually, Rose put her paw on Links shoulder, and nudged him to get up, which he
willingly did. And she led him back to the tavern where they were staying.
After that, Link's memory became a blur…
* * * *
Link awoke the next morning with a splitting headache, and the feeling of some heavy,
warm object lying on top of him.
Link rubbed the back of his head, and tried to sit up, but he couldn't. He opened his
eyes, and gasped.
Rose was lying on top of him, her chest to his, with a mighty big smile on her face.
"Oh great goddess Nayru please tell me this isn't happening!" Link thought to himself.