)Hi!
I'm writing the third chapter. Yay! There ain't much more to this story, so.blah.
Tuna!
I just decorated my Christmas Tree. Cheers!
))R.E.A.D.(Really evil awful disclaimer): I own Rhone and Nori. Maybe cause I don't own Link I should kill him..
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"Hey! Wake up, Link, or whatever the hell your name is."
Link's eyes flashed open. Instinct kicked in, and he leapt up and drew his sword, facing the one who had spoken.
It was a teddy bear, slightly shorter than Link. Many of its seams were ripped, and it was missing an ear, but its eyes showed a keen intelligence. It was also smoking fragrant cigar that it would occasionally choke on. Link was amused to realize it was like the teddy bear he had owned as a child.
"Where am I?" Link asked, sheathing his blade.
"Why you're in the City of Toyland." the teddy bear said.
"Am I still in Dulcea?" the Hylian asked, sheathing his sword.
"Yeah." the teddy bear said slowly. "Were you supposed to go somewhere else?"
"No." Link said, as he looked around the room. He was in a room that looked like a gatehouse. There was a small cot in one corner, a table, and a small fire burned merrily in a fireplace.
"How did I get here?" Link asked.
"Damn, you ask a lot of questions." it said. Link could tell that the teddy was avoiding the subject.
"Did the goddesses send me here?" Link asked.
"Shhh!" the teddy bear whispered, glancing about as if someone was watching through the walls. "If anyone heard you talkin' 'bout Them, you'd be deader than dirt."
"Why?" asked Link. The bear stared at him in disbelief.
"You really aren't from around here are you?" asked the bear. Link shook his head, smiling sheepishly. "Well, Toyland used to be a nice little city. Toys could really have a good time. But about six months ago, some weird guy came, overthrew the King, and made himself the new ruler. It seems like he's been poisoning the minds of the toys downtown. They're like his personal slaves. I live out here, so I don't go into the big city much, so I haven't been affected yet. But he'll get me eventually." the bear sat down on his cot, putting his head in his paws. "Now I'm the only one in the city who remembers the goddesses." he looked up at Link. "Except for you. They brought you here, told me to look after you till you woke up."
"Ah." said Link. Suddenly there was a voice in his head.
-Link? - the voice said -This is Rhone. We need you to leave the city by the west road. We have some friends we need you to meet. Oh, and say hi to Ted for me. -
"K, Rhone." he muttered as he felt the connection being broken off. He turned to Ted. "The goddesses say hi." Link said.
Ted stared at him, bugging his eyes out. Literally, they were almost falling off. He quickly fixed them.
"You can just talk to them?" the bear whispered.
"Yeah." Link said. "I need to leave by the west gate. Do you know where that is?"
The bear stared at him a moment longer then smiled hugely, ripping his stitches. "You're in luck! I'm in charge of the West Gate."
"I have to leave right now."
"Well, I can get you out easily, but food is rationed, so I'm afraid I can't get you any provisions."
"Oh, that's all right, I'll find an inn or something.
Ted walked out, and turned the crank that opened the gate. Link walked out through the gate into the dusty road, and looked up at the small stuffed figure that stood on top of the wall.
"Good luck to you, Link!"
""Luck to you too, Ted." Link said. "Farewell!" Link turned and began running down the road, into the west.
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Hours later he slowed, breathing lightly. The terrain had been easy, with the wide road pounded flat and hard by past travelers. In all directions a desert stretched, scrubby bushes dotting the landscape. Shielding his eyes, he looked into the distance to see a building not too far away.
He smiled, then broke into a swift, ground-eating sprint.
The inn was large, and obviously made to accommodate more people, but he, apparently, was the only traveler there, besides an old man who had taken residence there.
He ordered a drink and sat by the fire, sipping the mulled wine slowly.
"Hey." said a voice.
He turned to see the tavern girl, looking at him. What does she want? he thought to himself but he smiled anyway. "Yes?"
"Where do you come from?" the girl asked, sitting in the chair next to his. Link studied her for a moment. The girl was slender, with long, elegant fingers. She stared into the fire with deep green eyes, glancing at him occasionally. A lock of golden brown hair fell into her face, and she brushed it behind her ear in a swift, fluid movement. She wasn't beautiful, but there was a certain grace about her. It seemed to Link that this girl did not belong here.
"I'm not sure I even know who I am anymore, let alone where I came from." Link said. He had been looking intently into his mug, but now glanced upward, at the girl.
"What's your name?" he asked curiously.
"Avari." she said looking down.
"I'm Link." he said. After a few moments his curiosity overcame him once again. "Why do you work here?"
"Why?" she repeated softly to herself. "I used to live in Oze, the city of innocents. Then Cho-elen came down to us, and told us that deceit and lust was more fun. He used his stolen magic to transform the city, and it's people into horrible shadows of the good people they had once been. I was visiting my friend, who lived outside the city, so I was not transformed like the others." She looked up at Link now, tears forming in her eyes. "That was my home, and it was beautiful. Now it's a city of filth and greed and lust and, and." the tears she had been holding back now flooded forth, and she threw herself at Link, wrapping her arms around him and crying desperately. Link was completely astounded and stared down at the crying female for a few moments, then he patted her back gingerly.
"Shhh, it's all right, I'm here to fix things." Link said, trying to calm the hysterical girl.
"Really?" she asked, her voice muffled by his tunic and distorted by a runny nose.
"Really." he said. He pulled a handkerchief out of his pocket. "Here." He said, giving her the cloth, and helping her back into her seat.
She blew her nose, leaving his kerchief thoroughly disgusting. She started to hand it back to him. "No," he said quickly. "You can keep it." He started to walk out of the room.
"Link?" He turned at the sound of his name.
"Yes?"
"Be. be careful." She said.
"I will." He said with a smile, then went up to his room. He sat cross-legged on the bed, his back against the wall and his naked blade lying across his knees. This was how he slept, unless he was in the Kokiri forest, where he slept normally on his own bed.
Link waited for the pang of homesickness to come, like it usually did when he was out traveling, but surprisingly, it never came. Rhone's mental block must be keeping away homesickness too, he thought as he fell asleep.
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This chapter was going to be a lot longer, but I've been getting impatient to finish this chapter. It was being a bitch when I was trying to write it. But, it's being better now, so. yeah.
REVIEW!
The Pineapple lives! Frodo lives!
Aah! The Christmas Tree is trying to eat me!!!!
AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
I'm writing the third chapter. Yay! There ain't much more to this story, so.blah.
Tuna!
I just decorated my Christmas Tree. Cheers!
))R.E.A.D.(Really evil awful disclaimer): I own Rhone and Nori. Maybe cause I don't own Link I should kill him..
~~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~
"Hey! Wake up, Link, or whatever the hell your name is."
Link's eyes flashed open. Instinct kicked in, and he leapt up and drew his sword, facing the one who had spoken.
It was a teddy bear, slightly shorter than Link. Many of its seams were ripped, and it was missing an ear, but its eyes showed a keen intelligence. It was also smoking fragrant cigar that it would occasionally choke on. Link was amused to realize it was like the teddy bear he had owned as a child.
"Where am I?" Link asked, sheathing his blade.
"Why you're in the City of Toyland." the teddy bear said.
"Am I still in Dulcea?" the Hylian asked, sheathing his sword.
"Yeah." the teddy bear said slowly. "Were you supposed to go somewhere else?"
"No." Link said, as he looked around the room. He was in a room that looked like a gatehouse. There was a small cot in one corner, a table, and a small fire burned merrily in a fireplace.
"How did I get here?" Link asked.
"Damn, you ask a lot of questions." it said. Link could tell that the teddy was avoiding the subject.
"Did the goddesses send me here?" Link asked.
"Shhh!" the teddy bear whispered, glancing about as if someone was watching through the walls. "If anyone heard you talkin' 'bout Them, you'd be deader than dirt."
"Why?" asked Link. The bear stared at him in disbelief.
"You really aren't from around here are you?" asked the bear. Link shook his head, smiling sheepishly. "Well, Toyland used to be a nice little city. Toys could really have a good time. But about six months ago, some weird guy came, overthrew the King, and made himself the new ruler. It seems like he's been poisoning the minds of the toys downtown. They're like his personal slaves. I live out here, so I don't go into the big city much, so I haven't been affected yet. But he'll get me eventually." the bear sat down on his cot, putting his head in his paws. "Now I'm the only one in the city who remembers the goddesses." he looked up at Link. "Except for you. They brought you here, told me to look after you till you woke up."
"Ah." said Link. Suddenly there was a voice in his head.
-Link? - the voice said -This is Rhone. We need you to leave the city by the west road. We have some friends we need you to meet. Oh, and say hi to Ted for me. -
"K, Rhone." he muttered as he felt the connection being broken off. He turned to Ted. "The goddesses say hi." Link said.
Ted stared at him, bugging his eyes out. Literally, they were almost falling off. He quickly fixed them.
"You can just talk to them?" the bear whispered.
"Yeah." Link said. "I need to leave by the west gate. Do you know where that is?"
The bear stared at him a moment longer then smiled hugely, ripping his stitches. "You're in luck! I'm in charge of the West Gate."
"I have to leave right now."
"Well, I can get you out easily, but food is rationed, so I'm afraid I can't get you any provisions."
"Oh, that's all right, I'll find an inn or something.
Ted walked out, and turned the crank that opened the gate. Link walked out through the gate into the dusty road, and looked up at the small stuffed figure that stood on top of the wall.
"Good luck to you, Link!"
""Luck to you too, Ted." Link said. "Farewell!" Link turned and began running down the road, into the west.
* * * * * * *
Hours later he slowed, breathing lightly. The terrain had been easy, with the wide road pounded flat and hard by past travelers. In all directions a desert stretched, scrubby bushes dotting the landscape. Shielding his eyes, he looked into the distance to see a building not too far away.
He smiled, then broke into a swift, ground-eating sprint.
The inn was large, and obviously made to accommodate more people, but he, apparently, was the only traveler there, besides an old man who had taken residence there.
He ordered a drink and sat by the fire, sipping the mulled wine slowly.
"Hey." said a voice.
He turned to see the tavern girl, looking at him. What does she want? he thought to himself but he smiled anyway. "Yes?"
"Where do you come from?" the girl asked, sitting in the chair next to his. Link studied her for a moment. The girl was slender, with long, elegant fingers. She stared into the fire with deep green eyes, glancing at him occasionally. A lock of golden brown hair fell into her face, and she brushed it behind her ear in a swift, fluid movement. She wasn't beautiful, but there was a certain grace about her. It seemed to Link that this girl did not belong here.
"I'm not sure I even know who I am anymore, let alone where I came from." Link said. He had been looking intently into his mug, but now glanced upward, at the girl.
"What's your name?" he asked curiously.
"Avari." she said looking down.
"I'm Link." he said. After a few moments his curiosity overcame him once again. "Why do you work here?"
"Why?" she repeated softly to herself. "I used to live in Oze, the city of innocents. Then Cho-elen came down to us, and told us that deceit and lust was more fun. He used his stolen magic to transform the city, and it's people into horrible shadows of the good people they had once been. I was visiting my friend, who lived outside the city, so I was not transformed like the others." She looked up at Link now, tears forming in her eyes. "That was my home, and it was beautiful. Now it's a city of filth and greed and lust and, and." the tears she had been holding back now flooded forth, and she threw herself at Link, wrapping her arms around him and crying desperately. Link was completely astounded and stared down at the crying female for a few moments, then he patted her back gingerly.
"Shhh, it's all right, I'm here to fix things." Link said, trying to calm the hysterical girl.
"Really?" she asked, her voice muffled by his tunic and distorted by a runny nose.
"Really." he said. He pulled a handkerchief out of his pocket. "Here." He said, giving her the cloth, and helping her back into her seat.
She blew her nose, leaving his kerchief thoroughly disgusting. She started to hand it back to him. "No," he said quickly. "You can keep it." He started to walk out of the room.
"Link?" He turned at the sound of his name.
"Yes?"
"Be. be careful." She said.
"I will." He said with a smile, then went up to his room. He sat cross-legged on the bed, his back against the wall and his naked blade lying across his knees. This was how he slept, unless he was in the Kokiri forest, where he slept normally on his own bed.
Link waited for the pang of homesickness to come, like it usually did when he was out traveling, but surprisingly, it never came. Rhone's mental block must be keeping away homesickness too, he thought as he fell asleep.
~~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~
This chapter was going to be a lot longer, but I've been getting impatient to finish this chapter. It was being a bitch when I was trying to write it. But, it's being better now, so. yeah.
REVIEW!
The Pineapple lives! Frodo lives!
Aah! The Christmas Tree is trying to eat me!!!!
AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!