The Lone Wolf
Chapter 11: Link's in a hell of a lot of trouble.
As Link was off in the woods howling, Rose was out in Hyrule field. She had the
ocarina in her paw, and was looking for a place to hide it.
She looked around the area by the town, trying to find a good place to hide it. She
thought of burying it near a tree, but the freshly dug earth would be too noticeable, and
link would be able to get her scent around it.
She looked at the moat around the city walls, at wasn't much help either, the water
would carry it somewhere else and Link might be able to find it.
Rose stroked her whiskers in thought. "Neither one alone will do, but..." She looked
over to the stone bridge, which lead to the small village.
"Maybe if I mixed the two?" she whispered to herself.
Rose jogged over to the little stone bridge, and she looked at the water. It was flowing
fairly fast, but she was a strong swimmer. She dove into the stream and swam under the
bridge, ocarina in one paw. She took a deep breath and submerged herself.
She hovered in the center of the water, and scratched out a small hole in the riverbed.
She then placed the ocarina in the small hole and buried it with a paw full of silt, and
lastly, heaved over a sizeable rock and laid it atop the soil where the ocarina was buried.
Her work done for the moment, Rose's head broke the surface of the water and she
gasped in a lungful of air. She hadn't gone deep, but she'd been underwater for a little
while.
Rose heaved herself out of the water and panted for breath.
"Well, that's done, now what should I do?" she thought.
"Well, now that that's done with, I should turn my attention back to Link and get him
back to my home." She thought.
* * * *
Meanwhile, in the Great Deku Tree's small meadow, Ruto conjured up a ball of water
and splashed it on Zelda's face.
Zelda woke up sputtering.
"*Hack, cough, cough...* what was that for?" she asked.
"You fainted." Nabooru answered.
Ruto, who was already pacing, had her fingertips in her mouth.
"Oh, my loved one, turned into such a vile creature! I cannot allow this to continue! We
must turn him back at once!"
"But he already stole the ocarina!" Zelda exclaimed. "Surely he's played the song of
healing already, hasn't he?" she asked, looking over at the Deku Tree sprout.
"No. He hasn't." the sprout answered.
"What? Why not?" Zelda asked.
"He wasn't the one who stole the ocarina." The sprout explained.
"Well then, who did?" Zelda asked.
"A black wolf woman, who has followed Link from the forests to the east back here to
Hyrule, stole it before Link got to your room Princess." The sprout answered.
"What did she do with the Ocarina?" Zelda asked.
"How should I know? I'm extremely wise, not omniscient! There is a difference!" the
sprout exclaimed.
All the sages were taken aback. Zelda regained her composure first.
"Ok, so then, how can I talk to link then if he's a... Wolf man, as you say?" She asked.
"Geez, you're a Telepath and you have to ask me that?" The sprout said.
"Huh?" was all Zelda said.
If the Deku Sprout had a neck, it would have shook it's head. "It's very simple
Princess, you use your Telepathic powers to understand those barks, yips and howls from
Link's viewpoint, or you contact him directly." He said.
"Oh, I see." Zelda said.
"And what about us?" Saria asked.
"Easy, you guys, and Impa if she want to come along, search for Link." The sprout
explained.
"How?" Ruto asked.
This time, the Sprout gave a sigh. "He's a nine foot tall, extremely muscular white wolf
man, and his eyes don't glow red like a white Wolfos', he's kind of hard to miss!" The
Deku scrub exclaimed.
When the sages stood there stunned at the Sprouts unusual irritability, he screamed
mentally.
"GET MOVING! DO YOU WANT HIM TO BE KILLED BY A MOB OF
VILLAGERS WIELDING PITCHFORKS? GO ALREADY!"
All the sages shot off in balls of colored light faster than lightning bolts.
* * * *
Link was wandering around the forest again, lost in his own mind. He was stuck,
trapped in this new form, unable to talk to his friends, unable to turn back to Hylian form.
He was alone in his own land. The only company he had was that of the monsters he
once slaughtered on a mass scale, and had tried to wipe out.
"Damn that Wizzrobe." Link muttered to himself. "I should have dodged that spell. I
could have avoided all this if I hadn't tried to take it with the mirror shield. Or if I'd
taken the ocarina with me in the first place this shape would have been a transformation
mask long ago!" he slammed his fist into a tree, and a few of it's dead needles fell off the
branches.
"Why did I have to be so cocky?" Link thought.
* * * *
Meanwhile, Ruto was searching everywhere around the water temple, the whole of the
Zora domain (ice cavern included) and could find no trace of the massive white wolf.
Nabooru had already checked the Gerudo fortress, and they all reported that nothing had
come past the fortress, whether by force or with a pass, but still she checked the desert
anyway, nothing.
Saria checked the whole of the lost woods, nothing there, but the forests of Hyrule were
vast and went beyond only the lost woods, and she couldn't do it all by herself.
Zelda had gotten Impa to aid her in checking the forest to the north of the castle, the two
of them covered a lot of ground, Impa went off to the north west to check that half of the
forest, while Zelda, disguised as Sheik, went to the north east.
And it was there that a black form began to trail after Zelda…
It was Rose.
* * * *
Rose was certain this was the princess that she had stolen the Ocarina from. She had the
same scent that had covered the room.
"So, you won't give up on your warrior princess? I can see why, he's a very attractive
male, but still, you should know that you cannot have him, you are royalty, and he is not.
Leave him, Link is destined to be my mate!" she thought.
After a while, the disguised princess began to call out Link's name.
"No! He'll hear you, you'll ruin it for me!" Rose thought frantically, and launched
herself at Zelda.
* * * *
Zelda whirled around just in time to see the snarling form of Rose, launching herself at
her. Zelda was knocked onto the ground from the force, and she defended herself as best
she could from the Female's fierce attack with claws and teeth.
When Rose's teeth clenched in Zelda's forearm, she screamed in pain.
Link wasn't very far away, and he heard Zelda's shriek of pain, just before he heard a
howl of pain a second later, a familiar one strangely.
"Zelda, and Rose?" he thought, dumbfounded. He dashed off in the direction of the
screams.
* * * *
Rose had howled because Zelda had just slashed her leg with a Shiekah dagger, and the
black wolf's blood was dripping onto the ground.
The two were still brawling ferociously, Zelda was taking a number of surface
scratches, while Rose got a number light cuts from the dagger tip.
They rolled around on the ground, and Zelda kicked Rose off of her. Rose flipped onto
her paws, while Zelda flipped back to her feet from the floor.
"He's mine!" Rose yelled. Zelda's telepathy, connected into the female's thoughts,
translated the barks into words.
"What?" she said, confused.
Rose launched herself at Zelda again, but before she hit, a flash of white came careening
out of the underbrush, and knocked the black wolf to the side, the white tumbling with it.
"ROSE ARE YOU INSANE? YOU COULD HAVE KILLED HER!" the white blur
yelled. And again, Zelda's telepathy translated the words.
"What the... Link!" the black wolf said astonished.
Zelda wiped the dirt from her eyes, and her vision cleared. Standing there, it's legs
braced and it's claws ready, was what seemed to be the largest white Wolfos she'd ever
seen, it looked like the one that had attached her, but it's fur had been tan with dirt then.
"Link...?" Zelda said astonished.
The white wolf nodded, not taking his eyes off Rose's sprawled form.
Zelda shook her head. "Link' I can understand you now, I can understand you with my
telepathy."
Link looked back at her with wide eyes, those same beautiful blue eyes he'd always had.
"You can understand me?" he asked.
"Yes." She said.
Rose was stunned from Link's blow, and was shakily getting to her feet (paws? What
the heck do I call them in this context?) with both of her paws gripping a tree for support.
"Zelda, I didn't steal the ocarina, I tried, but it was gone!" Link explained.
"I know you didn't steal it Link," Zelda turned her glance towards Rose. "She did!"
"What?" Link said, whirling around on Rose.
Rose stared at Link for a moment. "I'm sorry Link, I didn't want to loose you!"
"Loose me?" Link asked, anger creeping into his voice from this sudden betrayal.
Rose shook her head, her eyes watering at this confrontation. "I didn't want you turning
back to a Hylian, you're perfect as a mate! I couldn't let you go!" she said.
Link looked at her for a moment.
"You were the wolf that trailed me before the curse took hold aren't you?" He
exclaimed.
Rose backed up against the tree. "Link, I'm sorry, I knew the scent you gave off as a
newly cursed person, you needed help adjusting…"
"Adjusting huh? What about my Equipment? If you hadn't stole it, I wouldn't have
needed to adjust at all!" He yelled at her.
Rose's jaw dropped. "How did you know..."
Link growled in anger and turned around, his back facing her. "I didn't know, but I
thought I'd find you anyway. Now I know..."
He lowered his head, and growled deep in his throat.
"You were planning to seduce me from the start!" He exclaimed.
Rose took one step forward and placed a shaky paw on his shoulder. "Link, I..."
Link suddenly whirled around and struck Rose hard on the side of her muzzle. Her head
snapped over to the side and a sickening crack was heard.
Rose dropped like a stone, her head lolling off at a twisted angle. Her eyes open wide
from the sudden shock and her tongue lolling out of her mouth.
Link looked at her, stunned at his own actions.
"Great Goddess I didn't mean to..." He said in a hushed voice as he dashed over to
Rose's comatose form.
Just then, all the other female sages landed at the scene. And Zelda looked back at
them.
"We need a Great fairy, and we need one now!" she yelled.
Chapter 11: Link's in a hell of a lot of trouble.
As Link was off in the woods howling, Rose was out in Hyrule field. She had the
ocarina in her paw, and was looking for a place to hide it.
She looked around the area by the town, trying to find a good place to hide it. She
thought of burying it near a tree, but the freshly dug earth would be too noticeable, and
link would be able to get her scent around it.
She looked at the moat around the city walls, at wasn't much help either, the water
would carry it somewhere else and Link might be able to find it.
Rose stroked her whiskers in thought. "Neither one alone will do, but..." She looked
over to the stone bridge, which lead to the small village.
"Maybe if I mixed the two?" she whispered to herself.
Rose jogged over to the little stone bridge, and she looked at the water. It was flowing
fairly fast, but she was a strong swimmer. She dove into the stream and swam under the
bridge, ocarina in one paw. She took a deep breath and submerged herself.
She hovered in the center of the water, and scratched out a small hole in the riverbed.
She then placed the ocarina in the small hole and buried it with a paw full of silt, and
lastly, heaved over a sizeable rock and laid it atop the soil where the ocarina was buried.
Her work done for the moment, Rose's head broke the surface of the water and she
gasped in a lungful of air. She hadn't gone deep, but she'd been underwater for a little
while.
Rose heaved herself out of the water and panted for breath.
"Well, that's done, now what should I do?" she thought.
"Well, now that that's done with, I should turn my attention back to Link and get him
back to my home." She thought.
* * * *
Meanwhile, in the Great Deku Tree's small meadow, Ruto conjured up a ball of water
and splashed it on Zelda's face.
Zelda woke up sputtering.
"*Hack, cough, cough...* what was that for?" she asked.
"You fainted." Nabooru answered.
Ruto, who was already pacing, had her fingertips in her mouth.
"Oh, my loved one, turned into such a vile creature! I cannot allow this to continue! We
must turn him back at once!"
"But he already stole the ocarina!" Zelda exclaimed. "Surely he's played the song of
healing already, hasn't he?" she asked, looking over at the Deku Tree sprout.
"No. He hasn't." the sprout answered.
"What? Why not?" Zelda asked.
"He wasn't the one who stole the ocarina." The sprout explained.
"Well then, who did?" Zelda asked.
"A black wolf woman, who has followed Link from the forests to the east back here to
Hyrule, stole it before Link got to your room Princess." The sprout answered.
"What did she do with the Ocarina?" Zelda asked.
"How should I know? I'm extremely wise, not omniscient! There is a difference!" the
sprout exclaimed.
All the sages were taken aback. Zelda regained her composure first.
"Ok, so then, how can I talk to link then if he's a... Wolf man, as you say?" She asked.
"Geez, you're a Telepath and you have to ask me that?" The sprout said.
"Huh?" was all Zelda said.
If the Deku Sprout had a neck, it would have shook it's head. "It's very simple
Princess, you use your Telepathic powers to understand those barks, yips and howls from
Link's viewpoint, or you contact him directly." He said.
"Oh, I see." Zelda said.
"And what about us?" Saria asked.
"Easy, you guys, and Impa if she want to come along, search for Link." The sprout
explained.
"How?" Ruto asked.
This time, the Sprout gave a sigh. "He's a nine foot tall, extremely muscular white wolf
man, and his eyes don't glow red like a white Wolfos', he's kind of hard to miss!" The
Deku scrub exclaimed.
When the sages stood there stunned at the Sprouts unusual irritability, he screamed
mentally.
"GET MOVING! DO YOU WANT HIM TO BE KILLED BY A MOB OF
VILLAGERS WIELDING PITCHFORKS? GO ALREADY!"
All the sages shot off in balls of colored light faster than lightning bolts.
* * * *
Link was wandering around the forest again, lost in his own mind. He was stuck,
trapped in this new form, unable to talk to his friends, unable to turn back to Hylian form.
He was alone in his own land. The only company he had was that of the monsters he
once slaughtered on a mass scale, and had tried to wipe out.
"Damn that Wizzrobe." Link muttered to himself. "I should have dodged that spell. I
could have avoided all this if I hadn't tried to take it with the mirror shield. Or if I'd
taken the ocarina with me in the first place this shape would have been a transformation
mask long ago!" he slammed his fist into a tree, and a few of it's dead needles fell off the
branches.
"Why did I have to be so cocky?" Link thought.
* * * *
Meanwhile, Ruto was searching everywhere around the water temple, the whole of the
Zora domain (ice cavern included) and could find no trace of the massive white wolf.
Nabooru had already checked the Gerudo fortress, and they all reported that nothing had
come past the fortress, whether by force or with a pass, but still she checked the desert
anyway, nothing.
Saria checked the whole of the lost woods, nothing there, but the forests of Hyrule were
vast and went beyond only the lost woods, and she couldn't do it all by herself.
Zelda had gotten Impa to aid her in checking the forest to the north of the castle, the two
of them covered a lot of ground, Impa went off to the north west to check that half of the
forest, while Zelda, disguised as Sheik, went to the north east.
And it was there that a black form began to trail after Zelda…
It was Rose.
* * * *
Rose was certain this was the princess that she had stolen the Ocarina from. She had the
same scent that had covered the room.
"So, you won't give up on your warrior princess? I can see why, he's a very attractive
male, but still, you should know that you cannot have him, you are royalty, and he is not.
Leave him, Link is destined to be my mate!" she thought.
After a while, the disguised princess began to call out Link's name.
"No! He'll hear you, you'll ruin it for me!" Rose thought frantically, and launched
herself at Zelda.
* * * *
Zelda whirled around just in time to see the snarling form of Rose, launching herself at
her. Zelda was knocked onto the ground from the force, and she defended herself as best
she could from the Female's fierce attack with claws and teeth.
When Rose's teeth clenched in Zelda's forearm, she screamed in pain.
Link wasn't very far away, and he heard Zelda's shriek of pain, just before he heard a
howl of pain a second later, a familiar one strangely.
"Zelda, and Rose?" he thought, dumbfounded. He dashed off in the direction of the
screams.
* * * *
Rose had howled because Zelda had just slashed her leg with a Shiekah dagger, and the
black wolf's blood was dripping onto the ground.
The two were still brawling ferociously, Zelda was taking a number of surface
scratches, while Rose got a number light cuts from the dagger tip.
They rolled around on the ground, and Zelda kicked Rose off of her. Rose flipped onto
her paws, while Zelda flipped back to her feet from the floor.
"He's mine!" Rose yelled. Zelda's telepathy, connected into the female's thoughts,
translated the barks into words.
"What?" she said, confused.
Rose launched herself at Zelda again, but before she hit, a flash of white came careening
out of the underbrush, and knocked the black wolf to the side, the white tumbling with it.
"ROSE ARE YOU INSANE? YOU COULD HAVE KILLED HER!" the white blur
yelled. And again, Zelda's telepathy translated the words.
"What the... Link!" the black wolf said astonished.
Zelda wiped the dirt from her eyes, and her vision cleared. Standing there, it's legs
braced and it's claws ready, was what seemed to be the largest white Wolfos she'd ever
seen, it looked like the one that had attached her, but it's fur had been tan with dirt then.
"Link...?" Zelda said astonished.
The white wolf nodded, not taking his eyes off Rose's sprawled form.
Zelda shook her head. "Link' I can understand you now, I can understand you with my
telepathy."
Link looked back at her with wide eyes, those same beautiful blue eyes he'd always had.
"You can understand me?" he asked.
"Yes." She said.
Rose was stunned from Link's blow, and was shakily getting to her feet (paws? What
the heck do I call them in this context?) with both of her paws gripping a tree for support.
"Zelda, I didn't steal the ocarina, I tried, but it was gone!" Link explained.
"I know you didn't steal it Link," Zelda turned her glance towards Rose. "She did!"
"What?" Link said, whirling around on Rose.
Rose stared at Link for a moment. "I'm sorry Link, I didn't want to loose you!"
"Loose me?" Link asked, anger creeping into his voice from this sudden betrayal.
Rose shook her head, her eyes watering at this confrontation. "I didn't want you turning
back to a Hylian, you're perfect as a mate! I couldn't let you go!" she said.
Link looked at her for a moment.
"You were the wolf that trailed me before the curse took hold aren't you?" He
exclaimed.
Rose backed up against the tree. "Link, I'm sorry, I knew the scent you gave off as a
newly cursed person, you needed help adjusting…"
"Adjusting huh? What about my Equipment? If you hadn't stole it, I wouldn't have
needed to adjust at all!" He yelled at her.
Rose's jaw dropped. "How did you know..."
Link growled in anger and turned around, his back facing her. "I didn't know, but I
thought I'd find you anyway. Now I know..."
He lowered his head, and growled deep in his throat.
"You were planning to seduce me from the start!" He exclaimed.
Rose took one step forward and placed a shaky paw on his shoulder. "Link, I..."
Link suddenly whirled around and struck Rose hard on the side of her muzzle. Her head
snapped over to the side and a sickening crack was heard.
Rose dropped like a stone, her head lolling off at a twisted angle. Her eyes open wide
from the sudden shock and her tongue lolling out of her mouth.
Link looked at her, stunned at his own actions.
"Great Goddess I didn't mean to..." He said in a hushed voice as he dashed over to
Rose's comatose form.
Just then, all the other female sages landed at the scene. And Zelda looked back at
them.
"We need a Great fairy, and we need one now!" she yelled.