Chapter Six: We Have A Problem
Note: : : means thoughts
After a few hours of arguing, Sir Pigeon and Link fell asleep. It took them a "little" convincing that I would wake them when it was their turn/wouldn't /wouldn't turn them over to the gerudos. I have no intention of doing the last two. As for their first concern, maybe two or three hours before sunrise. I carefully double-checked they were really asleep before I venture into the valley, not leaving so much as a footprint in the sound nor making any sound. :Shiekian training does have its advantages.: I glide down a sand bank looking over the glistening sand that is covered in a silvery mist from the rays of the full golden moon. I gaze across the river of sand and think of Link's first encounter with the Gerudos. I glide down another bank and smile. :They had no idea what my little brother was capable of. I almost felt sorry for them… almost. I can never forgive them for that night… no normal person could, not truly, not even a saint… That night called the night of the dead seventeen years ago during the last great Hyrulian Civil War . . . I look down and see the sand beneath me is damp. :I'm crying…. I never cry… Then again who wouldn't cry when their family is slaughtered or torn from you? It was Ganondorf and his men… That horrible night they killed my father, but not before torturing him, teasing him, testing him, pulling him to his very limits before slowly killing him and leaving him with the horrifying knowledge that they would kill the rest of us, or attempt to. . . I was killed protecting Link… An arrow pierced my heart, taking my life but securing his…. as restitution the sages gave it back to me with the knowledge that he was the Hero Of Time… And I was the Guardian Of Life…. His guardian… When Ganondorf touched the Triforce, I received the most powerful piece, the fourth, the unifying Triforce of Love… Most have never heard of it as the Goddess of Love is hardly recognized as a sister to the three great creator goddesses… Yet Din, Nayru, and Farore agreed to allow their little known sister to add her magic to the Triforce, allowing it to be reunited if ever divided. Dianais, the Goddess of Love, also taught people about emotions, feelings, and how to care for one another and fore their world. Nevertheless the good goddess had an enemy, Taric, the God of Hate. However, that was a tale for another time.: I turned my hand over and looked at the middle silver glowing Triforce piece. :How ironic that Taric's servant Ganondorf would know about us and seek us out. Swearing on all that was evil that he would eliminate our line... It partly came to pass, yet Link still lives. He also killed Ganondorf, or as close to it as possible, and freed our parent's souls that were trapped here until he did so, they were kept mainly because of the power they added to his own. I was still trapped. I had to remain here to protect Link, while all I knew and loved when to the golden realm above.:
"Justice is just that… just." I mumbled to myself.
I see my feathers from my wings making a small covering on the ground. The light from the full moon forced a molt of them. I picked them up, they feel as light as air but I know their harder then dragon scales or Mithril. They can protect even against our second greatest weakness, iron. However it does nothing for protection against fire, our greatest weakness. :I'll make a shirt for Link out of these and hid them in the cloth. He'll never suspect a thing.: I close my eyes and a dark foreboding feeling comes over me.
:Link…:
I sprint back to our miniature campsite. They are safe…. for the moment. As the Sun rises over the Gerudo valley, my form changed back into the Hylian girl form from before. From the corner of my eye I noticed the first rays from the red-orange sun gleam off metal. :Arrowheads, Scimitars, Guisarmes, Falchions, Estoces…. They really spared no expense.: I walked over, knowing they wouldn't shoot me just yet.
"Link…. Wake up… we have a slight problem." I said in a singsong tone.
