AN: You guys are awesome!!!! Sigh. I love reviews. So you guys want more
detail and description? Hee. I'll see what I can do, but I make no
promises. ( By the way, it should be easy to tell where I got my
inspiration from, hee. By the way, I know next to nothing about boats, so
don't hold that against me.
Starting the voyage to Tevir to see Prince Leon was not as easy as it should have been.
Firstly, Sheik had to wait twenty minutes for Nadia to finish arguing with her father. He was not joining them on the trip, which made Sheik wonder if something was going on that he didn't know about. And then Nadia had gone to her room and locked the door, refusing to go. Sheik only managed to get her on the ship by promising to teach her how to sword-fight, and as he was a man of his word, he couldn't back out of the deal no matter how much it would suck to be him later on.
When she did finally leave her room, she was wearing form hugging pants and a linen shirt instead of a dress. After staring at her for a whole minute he finally said, "Oh what the hell, I don't care."
The voyage proceeded smoothly after that, and as he had promised, Sheik began teaching Nadia how to fight, though he had to call an end to it when her long black braid hit him in one crimson eye, making it redder than it already was. Nadia's hair reached far down her back in length, and was jet black in color. Her hair was the only thing that she liked about her looks, but since having long hair was considered 'princessly', Nadia wore it in a braid just for spite. It wasn't that Nadia wasn't pretty-she was, beautiful in fact, according to many people- but she just had it in her head that she wasn't. After all, it was her sisters who received all the compliments.
Nadia assumed that she would never get married because really, what man would want her? And what man could she possibly want? One that didn't try to control her, but one that could. Nadia sighed and plopped down on the deck whilst Sheik leaned against the crow's nest. He was scowling at her, and she just grinned back at him. She was slightly disappointed that they had stopped; she'd been doing very well and having a lot of fun.
Her eyes fell on Sheik again. She was sweating in her lightweight clothes, so wasn't he hot in that outfit of his? He was covered from head to foot in a spandex type of material of many patches of blue, all separated by a white lining. His wrists and forearms were wrapped in a white cloth that looked remarkably like bandages, as was his chest and the top of his head. The lower half of his face was covered by the large collar attached to the ripped shirt that fell over the front half of his body, and the symbol of the gossip stones was on it in red and blue.
It was an interesting outfit, Nadia had to give him that, though for all of the secrets that the Sheikah race held, she had to wonder why showing every curve of their body was fine, but showing their face was not. Only a few of the higher ranking Sheikah kept their faces uncovered, and certainly, as a guardian to the royal family and one with the 'noble' destiny, Sheik held that right too, but he still kept his face covered. The only thing Nadia knew about how Sheik looked was his crimson eyes and gold-blond hair that his bandages did not cover. She was very curious to see if he was handsome or not, because really, who wouldn't be? He had a great body though. All the Sheikah did. And why wouldn't they? All they did was train all day.
Nadia sighed. Maybe she should work on a plan to unmask Sheik.
* * *
Zelda was standing at the bow of the boat when she spotted it; a ship in the distance. As it drew nearer, her eyes caught sight of a black flag waving wildly in the wind.
A pirate ship.
"Pirate ship! There's a pirate ship ahead!" she cried, pointing urgently at the approaching menace.
One of the sailors looked up. "So it is," he said, only a small amount of nervousness in his tone. He looked back down and continued working. None of the other sailors were even paying attention to the news. Shouldn't they be worried? There was a pirate ship approaching for Din's sake!
Zelda ran up to the helm, her heart pounding in her chest. Captain Norom would know what to do. "Captain! There are pirates approaching!"
Captain Norom, a tall man with graying hair, did not look the least bit fazed. "I know," he said, and suddenly Zelda understood and her eyes widened in realization. She wasn't the holder of the Tri-Force of Wisdom for nothing. "You're taking us to them, aren't you," she accused, and Norom merely looked at her. That was all she needed, and she took flight to Sheik. He would know what to do, wouldn't he?
When she reached him, he was scowling at Nadia, one eye shut tight, as she stared at him, a mischievous glint in her eyes.
"Sheik! They're taking us to pirates!"
Sheik knew enough to know that Zelda would never lie or overreact, and so he believed her immediately and completely. So did Nadia, and she jumped to her feet, eyes flashing.
"Tell me you didn't know," Nadia ordered Sheik, and he complied.
"I didn't know."
Nadia was still eyeing him distrustfully but the captain stepped forward.
"The Sheikah knew nothing. The king though that it would compromise his position."
"The king?" Zelda repeated. Father, you didn't.
"King's orders my lady." The Captain proceeded to call for his cabin boy, who quickly ran up and handed him a scroll. The Captain promptly handed it to Sheik as Rose emerged from below deck and joined them.
Unrolling it, his eyes traveled from word to word till at last he looked sick to his stomach. Nadia was trying to lean over his shoulder but was not succeeding due to her height. Sheik had a good six inches on her five- four frame.
"What? Let me see!"
Wordlessly he handed it to her, and when she too had read it, she chucked the scroll at the Captain's head and let fly a string of curses that made her younger sister blush. No one tried to calm her, not even Sheik, but finally Rose had to ask, "What is it? What's going on?"
"Dear old Dad," Nadia spit out, "has made a deal with a pirate. One of us has to marry the Captain of the Wind Waker."
Rose gasped and toppled over, but Sheik caught her quickly.
"Now's not the time highness," he said, but she did not move from his arms and only stared at her sister in shock and disbelief.
"One of us has to marry a pirate?" she whispered, as the ship bared down on them. The pirates faces were nearly visible now.
"I will go," Zelda volunteered, not wanting her sisters to go through that misery, but Captain Norom shook his head.
"No. It was agreed that Captain Link would choose."
"Well he'll obviously choose Zelda, but we can't let that happen," Nadia proclaimed fiercely.
"We can't?" Zelda said, confused, and Rose nodded.
"You're the oldest. We can't let a pirate become king of Hyrule, can we?" The ship came to the side, dropping anchor
Hurt drifted through her. Was that the only reason? "I suppose not."
The pirates leaned in, anxious, whilst both crews of both ships set up a bridge between the two ships.
"But I won't let him take one of us either!" Nadia exclaimed, stealing a sword from the knight closest to her who jumped back in surprise but did not stop her. Sheik rolled his eyes, but Rose looked calmer now at her sister's bravery.
"Are ye goin' ta fight me?" a deep voice asked, sounding amused. All looked up to see a young man standing on the bridge between the two ships. He wore the usual pirates' clothing, faded brown cotton, button-fly pants, linen shirt, brown suede knee-high boots, and a dark green almost black tailcoat, complete with a black leather tri-corn hat and a green sash around his waist and hair. His hair was long and dark blond in color, but he was, unusually enough, clean-shaven. The pirate bowed from where he stood, pleased with their shocked looks. "Captain Link, at your service," he said, throwing a small wink at the girls.
This didn't faze Nadia for too long.
"I do not intend to come willingly," she told him, glaring daggers.
The pirate actually looked interested. "Alrigh'," he said abruptly, "I'll make ye a deal." The three princesses, as well as Sheik, looked a little apprehensive at this statement, and exchanged nervous looks as the pirate walked the rest of the length of the bridge and jumped down onto the deck. Link gave Sheik a curious glance as his eyes scanned the group. "Wha' 'appened ta ye eye mate?" Sheik glared at him as best as he could with only one eye and Link shrugged. "Oh well. Anyway, I really don't care tha' ye were ne'er told of the arrangement," he continued, "but I'll give ye a chance ta break the deal." He paused, looking at the three girls, as if sizing them up. "If one of ye princesses can best me in swordplay, I'll let ye go."
Sheik was too late in covering Nadia's mouth, as he had his hands full with Rose. "Fine," she said, and stepped forward as the crew of Nayru's Love moved out of the way.
"It'd be a pity if ye won," Link commented, eyeing her up and down suggestively, "a real pity."
Nadia growled at him in disgust, covering up Sheik's own. Link winked at her and drew his blade.
Nadia darted forward with an inward strike but Link deflected it easily. She came at him with a couple more blows but he grinned at her as he blocked them all. "Is tha' all ye got?"
She attacked him a few more times while everyone else looked on anxiously. Finally, Link thrust forward with his sword and disarmed her with a flick of his wrist. Everyone on board Nayru's Love ducked out of the way as her sword went sailing over their heads and landed with a splash in the ocean.
Link chuckled and let the flat part of his blade rest on his shoulder while Nadia glared at him with pure hatred. "I admi' ye got some heart, lass, but ye should finish learnin' how ta fight firs'." Nadia's glared grew darker. "So I guess tha's it then?" Link sheathed his blade, seeing as the other two girls were not stepping forward.
"Don't be so quick to disarm, captain. You might need that," a soft voice said, and Link quirked an eyebrow in amusement then unsheathed his blade once more.
"Hav' at thee," he replied with a flourishing bow.
AN: Yeah yeah yeah. I know, it's short, but what can I say? I just had to leave it off at that point. So what do you think? Man, writing Link's pirate accent is a pain. Hopefully it doesn't hurt my faithful readers, (and reviewers, wink wink, nudge nudge). Yeah, so did you guess that my inspiration was Pirates of the Caribbean? Hee. Anyway, I don't own that or Zelda. So, what are you waiting for? REVIEW!!!
Starting the voyage to Tevir to see Prince Leon was not as easy as it should have been.
Firstly, Sheik had to wait twenty minutes for Nadia to finish arguing with her father. He was not joining them on the trip, which made Sheik wonder if something was going on that he didn't know about. And then Nadia had gone to her room and locked the door, refusing to go. Sheik only managed to get her on the ship by promising to teach her how to sword-fight, and as he was a man of his word, he couldn't back out of the deal no matter how much it would suck to be him later on.
When she did finally leave her room, she was wearing form hugging pants and a linen shirt instead of a dress. After staring at her for a whole minute he finally said, "Oh what the hell, I don't care."
The voyage proceeded smoothly after that, and as he had promised, Sheik began teaching Nadia how to fight, though he had to call an end to it when her long black braid hit him in one crimson eye, making it redder than it already was. Nadia's hair reached far down her back in length, and was jet black in color. Her hair was the only thing that she liked about her looks, but since having long hair was considered 'princessly', Nadia wore it in a braid just for spite. It wasn't that Nadia wasn't pretty-she was, beautiful in fact, according to many people- but she just had it in her head that she wasn't. After all, it was her sisters who received all the compliments.
Nadia assumed that she would never get married because really, what man would want her? And what man could she possibly want? One that didn't try to control her, but one that could. Nadia sighed and plopped down on the deck whilst Sheik leaned against the crow's nest. He was scowling at her, and she just grinned back at him. She was slightly disappointed that they had stopped; she'd been doing very well and having a lot of fun.
Her eyes fell on Sheik again. She was sweating in her lightweight clothes, so wasn't he hot in that outfit of his? He was covered from head to foot in a spandex type of material of many patches of blue, all separated by a white lining. His wrists and forearms were wrapped in a white cloth that looked remarkably like bandages, as was his chest and the top of his head. The lower half of his face was covered by the large collar attached to the ripped shirt that fell over the front half of his body, and the symbol of the gossip stones was on it in red and blue.
It was an interesting outfit, Nadia had to give him that, though for all of the secrets that the Sheikah race held, she had to wonder why showing every curve of their body was fine, but showing their face was not. Only a few of the higher ranking Sheikah kept their faces uncovered, and certainly, as a guardian to the royal family and one with the 'noble' destiny, Sheik held that right too, but he still kept his face covered. The only thing Nadia knew about how Sheik looked was his crimson eyes and gold-blond hair that his bandages did not cover. She was very curious to see if he was handsome or not, because really, who wouldn't be? He had a great body though. All the Sheikah did. And why wouldn't they? All they did was train all day.
Nadia sighed. Maybe she should work on a plan to unmask Sheik.
* * *
Zelda was standing at the bow of the boat when she spotted it; a ship in the distance. As it drew nearer, her eyes caught sight of a black flag waving wildly in the wind.
A pirate ship.
"Pirate ship! There's a pirate ship ahead!" she cried, pointing urgently at the approaching menace.
One of the sailors looked up. "So it is," he said, only a small amount of nervousness in his tone. He looked back down and continued working. None of the other sailors were even paying attention to the news. Shouldn't they be worried? There was a pirate ship approaching for Din's sake!
Zelda ran up to the helm, her heart pounding in her chest. Captain Norom would know what to do. "Captain! There are pirates approaching!"
Captain Norom, a tall man with graying hair, did not look the least bit fazed. "I know," he said, and suddenly Zelda understood and her eyes widened in realization. She wasn't the holder of the Tri-Force of Wisdom for nothing. "You're taking us to them, aren't you," she accused, and Norom merely looked at her. That was all she needed, and she took flight to Sheik. He would know what to do, wouldn't he?
When she reached him, he was scowling at Nadia, one eye shut tight, as she stared at him, a mischievous glint in her eyes.
"Sheik! They're taking us to pirates!"
Sheik knew enough to know that Zelda would never lie or overreact, and so he believed her immediately and completely. So did Nadia, and she jumped to her feet, eyes flashing.
"Tell me you didn't know," Nadia ordered Sheik, and he complied.
"I didn't know."
Nadia was still eyeing him distrustfully but the captain stepped forward.
"The Sheikah knew nothing. The king though that it would compromise his position."
"The king?" Zelda repeated. Father, you didn't.
"King's orders my lady." The Captain proceeded to call for his cabin boy, who quickly ran up and handed him a scroll. The Captain promptly handed it to Sheik as Rose emerged from below deck and joined them.
Unrolling it, his eyes traveled from word to word till at last he looked sick to his stomach. Nadia was trying to lean over his shoulder but was not succeeding due to her height. Sheik had a good six inches on her five- four frame.
"What? Let me see!"
Wordlessly he handed it to her, and when she too had read it, she chucked the scroll at the Captain's head and let fly a string of curses that made her younger sister blush. No one tried to calm her, not even Sheik, but finally Rose had to ask, "What is it? What's going on?"
"Dear old Dad," Nadia spit out, "has made a deal with a pirate. One of us has to marry the Captain of the Wind Waker."
Rose gasped and toppled over, but Sheik caught her quickly.
"Now's not the time highness," he said, but she did not move from his arms and only stared at her sister in shock and disbelief.
"One of us has to marry a pirate?" she whispered, as the ship bared down on them. The pirates faces were nearly visible now.
"I will go," Zelda volunteered, not wanting her sisters to go through that misery, but Captain Norom shook his head.
"No. It was agreed that Captain Link would choose."
"Well he'll obviously choose Zelda, but we can't let that happen," Nadia proclaimed fiercely.
"We can't?" Zelda said, confused, and Rose nodded.
"You're the oldest. We can't let a pirate become king of Hyrule, can we?" The ship came to the side, dropping anchor
Hurt drifted through her. Was that the only reason? "I suppose not."
The pirates leaned in, anxious, whilst both crews of both ships set up a bridge between the two ships.
"But I won't let him take one of us either!" Nadia exclaimed, stealing a sword from the knight closest to her who jumped back in surprise but did not stop her. Sheik rolled his eyes, but Rose looked calmer now at her sister's bravery.
"Are ye goin' ta fight me?" a deep voice asked, sounding amused. All looked up to see a young man standing on the bridge between the two ships. He wore the usual pirates' clothing, faded brown cotton, button-fly pants, linen shirt, brown suede knee-high boots, and a dark green almost black tailcoat, complete with a black leather tri-corn hat and a green sash around his waist and hair. His hair was long and dark blond in color, but he was, unusually enough, clean-shaven. The pirate bowed from where he stood, pleased with their shocked looks. "Captain Link, at your service," he said, throwing a small wink at the girls.
This didn't faze Nadia for too long.
"I do not intend to come willingly," she told him, glaring daggers.
The pirate actually looked interested. "Alrigh'," he said abruptly, "I'll make ye a deal." The three princesses, as well as Sheik, looked a little apprehensive at this statement, and exchanged nervous looks as the pirate walked the rest of the length of the bridge and jumped down onto the deck. Link gave Sheik a curious glance as his eyes scanned the group. "Wha' 'appened ta ye eye mate?" Sheik glared at him as best as he could with only one eye and Link shrugged. "Oh well. Anyway, I really don't care tha' ye were ne'er told of the arrangement," he continued, "but I'll give ye a chance ta break the deal." He paused, looking at the three girls, as if sizing them up. "If one of ye princesses can best me in swordplay, I'll let ye go."
Sheik was too late in covering Nadia's mouth, as he had his hands full with Rose. "Fine," she said, and stepped forward as the crew of Nayru's Love moved out of the way.
"It'd be a pity if ye won," Link commented, eyeing her up and down suggestively, "a real pity."
Nadia growled at him in disgust, covering up Sheik's own. Link winked at her and drew his blade.
Nadia darted forward with an inward strike but Link deflected it easily. She came at him with a couple more blows but he grinned at her as he blocked them all. "Is tha' all ye got?"
She attacked him a few more times while everyone else looked on anxiously. Finally, Link thrust forward with his sword and disarmed her with a flick of his wrist. Everyone on board Nayru's Love ducked out of the way as her sword went sailing over their heads and landed with a splash in the ocean.
Link chuckled and let the flat part of his blade rest on his shoulder while Nadia glared at him with pure hatred. "I admi' ye got some heart, lass, but ye should finish learnin' how ta fight firs'." Nadia's glared grew darker. "So I guess tha's it then?" Link sheathed his blade, seeing as the other two girls were not stepping forward.
"Don't be so quick to disarm, captain. You might need that," a soft voice said, and Link quirked an eyebrow in amusement then unsheathed his blade once more.
"Hav' at thee," he replied with a flourishing bow.
AN: Yeah yeah yeah. I know, it's short, but what can I say? I just had to leave it off at that point. So what do you think? Man, writing Link's pirate accent is a pain. Hopefully it doesn't hurt my faithful readers, (and reviewers, wink wink, nudge nudge). Yeah, so did you guess that my inspiration was Pirates of the Caribbean? Hee. Anyway, I don't own that or Zelda. So, what are you waiting for? REVIEW!!!
