Saishi no Hyrule: Part Two
Authoress: Tsutae Kouken
.oO~*-*~Oo.
"Link...are you sure that it'll be okay to carry it this way??" Zelda looked at the small
cart hitched to Epona. Malon giggled at the Princess' discomfort. Personally, she wanted
to get to know the strange being that lay in the cart.
They had gone to see Malon, for they knew she'd have a cart for Epona to pull, it being a
ranch, and having to haul things. Malon had gladly consented, for Link's sake.
Epona stamped her white stockinged hoof and snorted, ruffling Malon's auburn hair,
making her laugh.
"I'm sure that she'll be okay. We just have to get her to the woods, and then Saria will
take care of her." Link said, touching the girl that lay on the straw on the shoulder. She
made that funny gasping noise again.
Zelda didn't look nervous this time at the noise, she was getting kind of used to it. In fact,
she had to help make sure the girl breathed on the trip to see Saria.
Link smiled with relief. He was glad she didn't feel afraid of the unconscious girl
anymore. That was one of the reasons he loved her so. She wasn't the bravest of people,
for she was a Princess, raised as a lady, but when she had to do something to save
someone or help someone in need, she was there to do it and did it with great vim.
Zelda caught the smile and returned it.
Malon watched the two lovers as they started to set out on the trip to the center of the
woods. She envied Zelda secretly, for the Princess had the most amazing man in Hyrule.
Malon sighed. Romance didn't come to rancher girls in the fairy tale style like it did to
Princesses.
Zelda noticed the look on the pretty girl's face and the troubled look in her blue eyes.
Zelda smiled at her warmly and Malon smiled back.
'Zelda isn't so bad...she's really one of the nicest and friendliest people I know...besides
Link.' Malon thought, and decided to slip in a couple flasks of milk, just in case Link and
Zelda got thirsty.
She ducked into the house, and quickly returned with the two milk flasks. Link was
checking on the fastenings of the harness and Zelda was touching the girl on the shoulder
again, making her breathe.
Malon gently got in next to the girl in the cart hitched to her beautiful blood bay horse.
Finding a bag, Malon slipped the flasks into it.
Zelda watched this out of the corner of her eye and smiled. 'Malon really does care for
us...I can't believe I was so paranoid about her stealing Link from me...I guess we all
can be mistaken sometimes..." She thought, shaking the dark haired girl who lay beside
her again, and hearing that strange intake of air.
"I wonder...how she got that scar? She's so strange. I wonder what the world looks like
that she came from?" Malon said more to herself, sitting next to the girl.
"I don't know much about it. Link says it must come from an alternate time. I just
wonder...do all of them dress like this there? Where ever did it come from??" Zelda said,
just as puzzled as Malon.
Malon started laughing, making Link look up at the two girls talking.
"What?" Zelda asked, feeling that the rancher's daughter was laughing at her.
"You...you keep on calling her an 'it'! You can most definitely see that she's a she!"
Malon said, convulsing with laughter.
Zelda frowned slightly. She didn't like being corrected much or being laughed at either.
But looking down at the being laying in the hay, she could see that Malon was right. The
curves of the body were too feminine to be called 'it'. Zelda laughed half-heartedly with
Malon, wishing Link would hurry up, drop the girl off at Saria's, and then they could go
back to Hyrule Castle Town.
"Are you all ready, Zelda? How is she doing?" Link said, coming around the cart, and
looking over the edge. Zelda pressed on the girl's shoulder again, and the strange intake
of air told Link the girl was still alive.
"I'm ready." Zelda said simply, pulling a rough blanket over her shoulders. She kept her
hand on the girl's shoulder.
Malon raised an eyebrow at the Princess. Zelda just looked away as Malon took another
blanket and tucked it around the girl. The touch of Malon's hand brought the strange gasp
of air. Malon flinched slightly, but resumed making the girl more comfortable.
Link and Zelda watched the auburn haired girl finish her task. When she was done,
Malon hopped off of the cart.
Link climbed into the saddle and settled on Epona's broad back. Making a small clicking
noise with his tongue and gently nudging the mare's sides with his heels, the horse began
slowly moving down the path that led out of the ranch.
When they exited the gates, Epona began moving at a smooth trot, at Link's gentle urge.
Zelda kept her hand on the inert figure in the cart with her and looked back.
Malon was waving happily to them.
Zelda lifted her own hand and waved back.
.oO~*-*~Oo.
Cerena had begun preparing a bed in one of the carefully and beautifully carved rooms in
her house soon after she calmed down. She felt particularly mortified for crying in front
of someone, and she just hoped that Saria wouldn't bring up the subject again.
She heard Saria moving around in one of the three rooms in the tree. She smiled and
began tearing a clean sheet into strips, to be used in case of needed for cleansing or
washing.
Saria poked her head into the room. "What are you so happy about?" She teased.
"I like it when Link comes over to see us. He's funny and he makes me laugh. A really
pleasant change having him come here." Cerena said, folding the torn strips of sheet and
placing them next to a large basin, which would be filled with either hot or cold water.
"I think...you have a crush on a taken man!" Saria ventured. Cerena seemed to turn to
stone at those words. Saria knew she had made a mistake.
"I don't care for anyone except for Dokoru. And you know that. Don't ever tell me
anything like that ever again." Cerena said, in a cold voice. She began to work at making
the bed neater than it already was. Angry words and thoughts tumbled through her mind.
And a memory that would not go away...
~*~ Flashback ~*~
Cerena stood near the edge of the Kokiri village. Holding in her hand...
A single white rose...
A boy, her age, came from behind a tree, where he had been waiting to meet her.
Both Hylians, both with a love for the forests, both with a love for each other.
Cerena smiled, tears coming to her eyes. Their meetings were so rare. He was always
going somewhere to help someone in need. That was one of the reasons she loved him.
She clasped the white rose to her chest as he approached her.
"I'll be...going away for a long time, Cere." His voice was husky, and his eyes, the
familiar violet she loved, was dark and clouded with pain and passion.
"I know...I know you will come back to me, Koru." Cerena said, as he moved closer to
her.
The wind and sunlight kissed his violet hair, bringing out golden highlights and streaks in
it. He was tall and handsome, and wore the usual Hylian tunic in green and gold. To her,
he was like a god.
He watched her, and reached out for her as he saw the understanding in her eyes. Nothing
ever made him feel so at home...
At peace...
Loved...
...then when he was with her.
Taking Cerena in his arms, Dokoru held her tight against him. Cerena buried her blushing
face in his shoulder, her brown hair falling over his arm.
"Cere...I'm going to miss you..." He whispered into her hair.
"I'll be waiting for you...Koru...don't stay away long." Cerena pulled back from him,
and pressed her white rose into his hand.
Dokoru looked down at the white flower in surprise. No one had ever given him anything
like this. He was always considered an outsider. He looked back into Cerena's blue eyes.
"...I...love you..." Dokoru said, feeling his voice choking inside of his throat. Cerena's
eyes widened.
"I love you too..." Cerena said without hesitation. She knew from the time they met she loved
him.
Dokoru leaned in and kissed her for the first time. He didn't know it would also be his
last time...
Cerena and Dokoru parted, him looking back at her with his sword in it's sheath. Cerena
had a tear falling down her cheek as he faded from view.
...Many months later...
Dokoru still hadn't come back. She had waited so long for him. Until she ran into the
curious little Skull Kid...
She had been walking through the woods, when she stumbled into the short little ragged
figure. It stared up at Cerena in surprise.
'Dokoru...' His name flashed in her mind when she saw what was on his coat...
...a single white rose...
...her rose...
She held out her hand to him. He took it and they stood there, the whole world seeming to
have stopped.
'I can never ever make you understand...It wasn't supposed to happen...' Dokoru's voice
echoed in her mind, before the little sprightly figure let go of her hand and disappeared
into the wood.
She never saw him since.
~*~ End Flashback ~*~
Cerena began to cry into one of the sheets she was holding.
"Damn that Dokoru...damn that boy for becoming the Skull Kid...and for never coming
back..." Saria said under her breath, leaving Cerena to her own sorrow filled thoughts.
Saria headed to the kitchen room, when she heard a knock at the door. She quickly
moved to the door, thinking it couldn't be Link, it was too early for him to be there. She
reached up and opened the door, and looked around.
There was no one there.
But there was a white piece of paper on the ground in front of the door...
...bearing Cerena's name on it...
"Cerena!!"
.oO~*-*~Oo.
Link stopped for a minute. They had just entered the woods and it was growing dark. The
cart creaked as it stopped in the soft green grass.
"What is it, Link?" Zelda called to him.
"I don't know. I heard something." Link said, looking around him. There it was again. A
slight coughing sound...but more like a sigh. Or a slight humming of a song. It was
strange.
Link felt his ears grow numb with listening so hard and he began to feel tired.
"Link...what's the matter? What is that song?" Zelda cried out, her eyes growing heavy.
Even Epona began to fall asleep.
"What?! The hell! ZELDA!!!" Link cried out as a shadowy figure appeared behind the
Princess.
Zelda screamed when she turned around, sure she was going to be attacked. But when the
figure passed her and reached out for the girl Zelda had been watching, it made her
equally mad as if he had touched her.
Zelda kicked the figure and heard a low grunt of pain.
"Why you..." The figure said. Zelda kicked him again when she found he wasn't
going to strike her.
He grunted again when her foot found it's way to his ribs. He turned and waved his hand
in front of her face. Before she fell into an inky warm blackness, she could see his face.
White hair...and golden eyes...
An eagle's...crested pendant...
A...sage...?
Zelda fell into the sea of unconsiousness.
"DAMN YOU!!" Link yelled, falling off of Epona in his mad but tired attempt to pull out
his sword and get off of the horse at the same time.
The figure turned to Link and shook his head. He turned back to the girl in the cart and
picked her up easily in his arms.
Link grit his teeth and growled. Then he lunged for his attacker, the man who made his
princess fall.
The figure turned and looked at Link with his golden eyes, golden like a large cat's. Link
felt as if he was frozen in place.
"I...need...her..." He said, seeming to fumble his words. He turned, the girl in his arms,
and seemed to jump into the air and fly away into the coming night.
"Dammit..." Link said, his sword falling to the ground, as a sleep spell began to take
effect on him. He collapsed to the ground, his hand outstretched for the cart where his
Princess lay, dead or alive, he didn't know.
"Zelda..."
.oO~*-*~Oo.
A/N:
It was a little short...
There's that part! Man...I am really glad you guys are liking this! I am really glad for all
of your reviews and PLEASE keep them coming!! I've only been writing for a little and
so I'm really an amature authoress! Thank you and your encouragement really helps me!
Ja ne!
R&R
Authoress: Tsutae Kouken
.oO~*-*~Oo.
"Link...are you sure that it'll be okay to carry it this way??" Zelda looked at the small
cart hitched to Epona. Malon giggled at the Princess' discomfort. Personally, she wanted
to get to know the strange being that lay in the cart.
They had gone to see Malon, for they knew she'd have a cart for Epona to pull, it being a
ranch, and having to haul things. Malon had gladly consented, for Link's sake.
Epona stamped her white stockinged hoof and snorted, ruffling Malon's auburn hair,
making her laugh.
"I'm sure that she'll be okay. We just have to get her to the woods, and then Saria will
take care of her." Link said, touching the girl that lay on the straw on the shoulder. She
made that funny gasping noise again.
Zelda didn't look nervous this time at the noise, she was getting kind of used to it. In fact,
she had to help make sure the girl breathed on the trip to see Saria.
Link smiled with relief. He was glad she didn't feel afraid of the unconscious girl
anymore. That was one of the reasons he loved her so. She wasn't the bravest of people,
for she was a Princess, raised as a lady, but when she had to do something to save
someone or help someone in need, she was there to do it and did it with great vim.
Zelda caught the smile and returned it.
Malon watched the two lovers as they started to set out on the trip to the center of the
woods. She envied Zelda secretly, for the Princess had the most amazing man in Hyrule.
Malon sighed. Romance didn't come to rancher girls in the fairy tale style like it did to
Princesses.
Zelda noticed the look on the pretty girl's face and the troubled look in her blue eyes.
Zelda smiled at her warmly and Malon smiled back.
'Zelda isn't so bad...she's really one of the nicest and friendliest people I know...besides
Link.' Malon thought, and decided to slip in a couple flasks of milk, just in case Link and
Zelda got thirsty.
She ducked into the house, and quickly returned with the two milk flasks. Link was
checking on the fastenings of the harness and Zelda was touching the girl on the shoulder
again, making her breathe.
Malon gently got in next to the girl in the cart hitched to her beautiful blood bay horse.
Finding a bag, Malon slipped the flasks into it.
Zelda watched this out of the corner of her eye and smiled. 'Malon really does care for
us...I can't believe I was so paranoid about her stealing Link from me...I guess we all
can be mistaken sometimes..." She thought, shaking the dark haired girl who lay beside
her again, and hearing that strange intake of air.
"I wonder...how she got that scar? She's so strange. I wonder what the world looks like
that she came from?" Malon said more to herself, sitting next to the girl.
"I don't know much about it. Link says it must come from an alternate time. I just
wonder...do all of them dress like this there? Where ever did it come from??" Zelda said,
just as puzzled as Malon.
Malon started laughing, making Link look up at the two girls talking.
"What?" Zelda asked, feeling that the rancher's daughter was laughing at her.
"You...you keep on calling her an 'it'! You can most definitely see that she's a she!"
Malon said, convulsing with laughter.
Zelda frowned slightly. She didn't like being corrected much or being laughed at either.
But looking down at the being laying in the hay, she could see that Malon was right. The
curves of the body were too feminine to be called 'it'. Zelda laughed half-heartedly with
Malon, wishing Link would hurry up, drop the girl off at Saria's, and then they could go
back to Hyrule Castle Town.
"Are you all ready, Zelda? How is she doing?" Link said, coming around the cart, and
looking over the edge. Zelda pressed on the girl's shoulder again, and the strange intake
of air told Link the girl was still alive.
"I'm ready." Zelda said simply, pulling a rough blanket over her shoulders. She kept her
hand on the girl's shoulder.
Malon raised an eyebrow at the Princess. Zelda just looked away as Malon took another
blanket and tucked it around the girl. The touch of Malon's hand brought the strange gasp
of air. Malon flinched slightly, but resumed making the girl more comfortable.
Link and Zelda watched the auburn haired girl finish her task. When she was done,
Malon hopped off of the cart.
Link climbed into the saddle and settled on Epona's broad back. Making a small clicking
noise with his tongue and gently nudging the mare's sides with his heels, the horse began
slowly moving down the path that led out of the ranch.
When they exited the gates, Epona began moving at a smooth trot, at Link's gentle urge.
Zelda kept her hand on the inert figure in the cart with her and looked back.
Malon was waving happily to them.
Zelda lifted her own hand and waved back.
.oO~*-*~Oo.
Cerena had begun preparing a bed in one of the carefully and beautifully carved rooms in
her house soon after she calmed down. She felt particularly mortified for crying in front
of someone, and she just hoped that Saria wouldn't bring up the subject again.
She heard Saria moving around in one of the three rooms in the tree. She smiled and
began tearing a clean sheet into strips, to be used in case of needed for cleansing or
washing.
Saria poked her head into the room. "What are you so happy about?" She teased.
"I like it when Link comes over to see us. He's funny and he makes me laugh. A really
pleasant change having him come here." Cerena said, folding the torn strips of sheet and
placing them next to a large basin, which would be filled with either hot or cold water.
"I think...you have a crush on a taken man!" Saria ventured. Cerena seemed to turn to
stone at those words. Saria knew she had made a mistake.
"I don't care for anyone except for Dokoru. And you know that. Don't ever tell me
anything like that ever again." Cerena said, in a cold voice. She began to work at making
the bed neater than it already was. Angry words and thoughts tumbled through her mind.
And a memory that would not go away...
~*~ Flashback ~*~
Cerena stood near the edge of the Kokiri village. Holding in her hand...
A single white rose...
A boy, her age, came from behind a tree, where he had been waiting to meet her.
Both Hylians, both with a love for the forests, both with a love for each other.
Cerena smiled, tears coming to her eyes. Their meetings were so rare. He was always
going somewhere to help someone in need. That was one of the reasons she loved him.
She clasped the white rose to her chest as he approached her.
"I'll be...going away for a long time, Cere." His voice was husky, and his eyes, the
familiar violet she loved, was dark and clouded with pain and passion.
"I know...I know you will come back to me, Koru." Cerena said, as he moved closer to
her.
The wind and sunlight kissed his violet hair, bringing out golden highlights and streaks in
it. He was tall and handsome, and wore the usual Hylian tunic in green and gold. To her,
he was like a god.
He watched her, and reached out for her as he saw the understanding in her eyes. Nothing
ever made him feel so at home...
At peace...
Loved...
...then when he was with her.
Taking Cerena in his arms, Dokoru held her tight against him. Cerena buried her blushing
face in his shoulder, her brown hair falling over his arm.
"Cere...I'm going to miss you..." He whispered into her hair.
"I'll be waiting for you...Koru...don't stay away long." Cerena pulled back from him,
and pressed her white rose into his hand.
Dokoru looked down at the white flower in surprise. No one had ever given him anything
like this. He was always considered an outsider. He looked back into Cerena's blue eyes.
"...I...love you..." Dokoru said, feeling his voice choking inside of his throat. Cerena's
eyes widened.
"I love you too..." Cerena said without hesitation. She knew from the time they met she loved
him.
Dokoru leaned in and kissed her for the first time. He didn't know it would also be his
last time...
Cerena and Dokoru parted, him looking back at her with his sword in it's sheath. Cerena
had a tear falling down her cheek as he faded from view.
...Many months later...
Dokoru still hadn't come back. She had waited so long for him. Until she ran into the
curious little Skull Kid...
She had been walking through the woods, when she stumbled into the short little ragged
figure. It stared up at Cerena in surprise.
'Dokoru...' His name flashed in her mind when she saw what was on his coat...
...a single white rose...
...her rose...
She held out her hand to him. He took it and they stood there, the whole world seeming to
have stopped.
'I can never ever make you understand...It wasn't supposed to happen...' Dokoru's voice
echoed in her mind, before the little sprightly figure let go of her hand and disappeared
into the wood.
She never saw him since.
~*~ End Flashback ~*~
Cerena began to cry into one of the sheets she was holding.
"Damn that Dokoru...damn that boy for becoming the Skull Kid...and for never coming
back..." Saria said under her breath, leaving Cerena to her own sorrow filled thoughts.
Saria headed to the kitchen room, when she heard a knock at the door. She quickly
moved to the door, thinking it couldn't be Link, it was too early for him to be there. She
reached up and opened the door, and looked around.
There was no one there.
But there was a white piece of paper on the ground in front of the door...
...bearing Cerena's name on it...
"Cerena!!"
.oO~*-*~Oo.
Link stopped for a minute. They had just entered the woods and it was growing dark. The
cart creaked as it stopped in the soft green grass.
"What is it, Link?" Zelda called to him.
"I don't know. I heard something." Link said, looking around him. There it was again. A
slight coughing sound...but more like a sigh. Or a slight humming of a song. It was
strange.
Link felt his ears grow numb with listening so hard and he began to feel tired.
"Link...what's the matter? What is that song?" Zelda cried out, her eyes growing heavy.
Even Epona began to fall asleep.
"What?! The hell! ZELDA!!!" Link cried out as a shadowy figure appeared behind the
Princess.
Zelda screamed when she turned around, sure she was going to be attacked. But when the
figure passed her and reached out for the girl Zelda had been watching, it made her
equally mad as if he had touched her.
Zelda kicked the figure and heard a low grunt of pain.
"Why you..." The figure said. Zelda kicked him again when she found he wasn't
going to strike her.
He grunted again when her foot found it's way to his ribs. He turned and waved his hand
in front of her face. Before she fell into an inky warm blackness, she could see his face.
White hair...and golden eyes...
An eagle's...crested pendant...
A...sage...?
Zelda fell into the sea of unconsiousness.
"DAMN YOU!!" Link yelled, falling off of Epona in his mad but tired attempt to pull out
his sword and get off of the horse at the same time.
The figure turned to Link and shook his head. He turned back to the girl in the cart and
picked her up easily in his arms.
Link grit his teeth and growled. Then he lunged for his attacker, the man who made his
princess fall.
The figure turned and looked at Link with his golden eyes, golden like a large cat's. Link
felt as if he was frozen in place.
"I...need...her..." He said, seeming to fumble his words. He turned, the girl in his arms,
and seemed to jump into the air and fly away into the coming night.
"Dammit..." Link said, his sword falling to the ground, as a sleep spell began to take
effect on him. He collapsed to the ground, his hand outstretched for the cart where his
Princess lay, dead or alive, he didn't know.
"Zelda..."
.oO~*-*~Oo.
A/N:
It was a little short...
There's that part! Man...I am really glad you guys are liking this! I am really glad for all
of your reviews and PLEASE keep them coming!! I've only been writing for a little and
so I'm really an amature authoress! Thank you and your encouragement really helps me!
Ja ne!
R&R