Ah praise, praise, oh praise. I've just realised, no disclaimer on any chapters so far ^^;
Disclaimer: I do not own any Zelda, not one bit; I only own my original characters. Thank you.
There we go. My hands are just not typing today, ugh. It's so hard to type, they just won't work. My project is halfway done but I'm bored so...yeah. Thanks for the reviews. I will try and encompass every ones views into this story but you MUST be patient. Let me do what I'm heading for and maybe you'll be rewarded.
Ah I just watched the saddest music video from a girl called OLIVIA and the song 'Into The Stars' she's like this girl who was enhanced to be a robot and her memory keeps playing back clips of this guy who gave her a ring and held her hand and everything. So she goes off to find him and then detects him ahead of her, so she walks in that direction, but then she breaks down!! And while she's breaking her memory keeps playing these clips and it keeps telling her he's right ahead but then she breaks and can't go after him!!! It's so sad!!
Anyway...on with the chapter!
"Oof"
I sat up painfully. Light, good, we needed light. Water. Cave. Seemed like the right place. Thank god there wasn't that crazy imp around.
"Where were you?" Link asked, already on the other side of the water and patting himself dry
"More to the point" I replied struggling to combat the weight of my backpack to stand "What were you about to say when you fell in"
"Well I was about to tell you the hole was ahead"
"Fine"
I stepped into the water, gasping as the coldness numbed my legs for a moment before I couldn't feel them anymore. Slowly, carefully I waded over to the next hunk f land and clambered out with the help of Link's arm.
I stood there shivering before I remembered that I had brought spare trousers.
I changed while Link went to investigate up ahead.
"Hey" he said on arrival back "Guess what I have"
"What?"
"Masks"
"What?"
He grinned "Don't know why, they just seem to be in my 'magic pocket' must be something to do with possessions or something. I thought they were Happy Mask Shop man's but obviously they felt I was their owner"
"But they weren't all his" I pointed out "So people must be missing them"
"Oh well" he shrugged "Masks are good things"
I didn't make him notice that a mask was the cause of most of Termina's problems in the past, and a cause of concern in Hyrule as well. If he wanted to play mask man then I wasn't going to stop him. He just better let me have a go with the damn things.
"Let's go" he was already walking across the floor toward the door at the end. The light came down in a spotlight and spread across the floor, I took the time to notice that instead of a triforce symbol, the Termina light was dappled into three separate triangles. I wondered what the mythology was briefly before running through the door after Link.
I caught up with him. He was a scrub.
Literally.
He'd put on the mask.
Man, that looked weird. Little deku scrub with a hat? It was funny, in a weird, grotesque way.
He looked up at me with the big amber eyes and motioned for me to grab onto his feet.
I did so.
Soon I was dangling dangerously from his feet and flying in the air, 50 feet from the ground. Terrified I squeezed to hard and we missed a few landing points. He couldn't speak so that meant he couldn't tell me off. He just acted p***** and went back.
Going through the ups and downs of the beginning tunnels to get through to the Clock Tower was tiring, but we made it to that tunnel that twists and stuff when you go along it.
I threw up.
What? You would too if you were walking up walls and upside down and were following a deku scrub. Luckily, at that moment we happened to be on the ceiling and the vomit went below us.
It was not pretty though.
Anyway, soon and sure enough we came up at the bottom of the windmill and I couldn't help but listen for the music that always plays in there. But I guess as always, no music. I hummed it instead while Link transformed back into a person.
Walking up the wooden planks Link commented "I really, really, really hope that the Happy Mask Man isn't there, he really freaked me out last time I was here" he shuddered as if to make his point
"You were a kid so it makes sense" I shrugged, that happy mask was a bit freaky though
I looked over the wooden rail of the slope and watched the water churning in the water wheel for a moment before we reached the floor of the Clock.
"I keep thinking I'm in a windmill," I said, as I looked at the cogs turning above us "It's weird, everything's backwards"
"Just be glad that right isn't left here, now THAT would be confusing" Link replied pushing open the door
"Are you okay with that door?" I asked
He seemed to be having a bit of trouble with the force outside the door. I shrugged and rubbed my arms; it was a bit chilly in the lofty windmill.
"I...got...it" Link growled through clenched teeth, managing to open the huge wooden door "Oh..."
I saw the force that had kept the door shut.
Snow.
I pulled my cloak around me further and blew on my hands instinctively. Wow, winter, that was something new. Lucy should have come and brought her dog. It loves snow.
I on the other hand, went in it when nessarcary.
"Winter," Link commented
"No kidding" I walked slowly into the knee-deep snow and groaned, as my foot went numb "I can't walk in these shoes in this," as the wet slush seeped through the material of my trainers
Fresh flakes began to fall from the gloomy grey above us and made me shiver even more.
"Come on then" Link said readjusting his pack
"Come on what?" I asked, rubbing my nose to get feeling back into it, the snow getting heavier
"To the inn of course"
He strode out to where I stood and grabbed my arm.
"What are you~"
He heaved and pulled backpack, weapons and me on top of his backpack, groaning as he shifted my weight and put a foot down.
So we went, through the quiet streets, up cold slopes and through the cloudy day. The snow turned to sleet, back to snow, then to rain, then back to snow. Up and down went the heavy boots below me as I moved with the slow motion of movement.
Clock Town was confusing in the snow, I recognised no faces, no buildings it was hidden in a blanket of powder snow.
I assumed we were heading for the inn as Link skirted around a frozen wooden pole in the centre of a square. I shuffled my weight and pulled down onto his shoulders more as he tugged open a door with one hand and walked through the wall of heat in front.
We stood (or lay) in that heat for a few moments, perhaps to get our bearings right. Being in the cold for a length of time meant we had to get used to the heat, or, as someone later said, we would get chill blains.
"May I help you?"
A large woman came out to the desk and opened a large book and dipped a large quill into a rather large inkpot. It's true when they say people match their furniture.
"Reservation?" she asked politely
Link snapped to attention and shook me off his back, out of all the times he'd dropped me before, this time I was glad to be numb from cold. I landed on a quiver of arrows. Luckily they weren't turned towards me.
I rubbed feeling into my fingers gingerly.
"Yes" Link was saying over the counter, friendly and perky "I'd like a room for the night"
"Reservation?" the woman repeated a bit more testily tapping her quill on the book
"No" Link said apologetically
She frowned "Well, I'm afraid we're booked up..."
Link winked and looked into the book carefully "Can't you make a teensy weensy little space for us? I'd be so, so, so gratefully. And you know" he looked at her smiling sweetly "You have such beautiful eyes"
She didn't seem taken, but she obviously could see how desperate he was and replied to him "Well maybe I could do something..."
"Thank you" Link sighed happily and rubbed his hands together
"Will you and the lady be..." the woman suggested uncertainly "Because we can't give too many rooms away..."
I looked at her and said, "Does it really look like I'd be crazy enough to be that way with him?"
The woman grinned and replied "At least we have one sensible lass around here, not like...ANJU! We'll be giving you two single beds then lad"
A small and red headed woman appeared round a corner "Yes mother?"
"See that this" she glanced at me "Pair are found a room or two in the inn somewhere for the night and that they get settled in alright"
"Yes mother" Anju hopped over the counter and took our bags like they were nothing in her arms and started toward the stairs "Follow me please"
As if the game designers had done NOTHING to show the size of this world at all, the inn had almost twice the number of rooms that it has normally. Link and I passed huge dormitories and small cabins filled to the brim with travellers obviously stuck here in the snow. I even caught a glimpse of a Zora or two. I briefly thought about Kestrel before following Anju again.
"You've got a small one room suite I'm afraid," Anju said bringing out a set of keys
"That's alright, at least you've got room" Link smiled "I guess the snows keeping everyone here"
"Yes" Anju confirmed fitting the keys to a lock "It's strange, the snow has come a little early this year, it wasn't due for another two months"
"What?" I blurted "A little early? That's WAY early, that's like very, very early!"
Link patted my arm "Down girl, it's probably just a weather blip"
"Hope so" Anju smiled and put our bags down, patting her belly lightly "I would like it to be a spring package"
I grinned "Oh wow! How many months are you?"
"Around one and a half" she replied beaming "My husband Kafei is so pleased! He's gone out of the Town for a few days to a ranch down in the south east" her smile fell a little "Around two weeks ago though...he hasn't retuned yet...I'm sure he will do"
"Yeah" Link smiled, though I'm sure I caught a worried look in his eyes "He's probably just keeping there till the snow lets up. He'll be right along soon, don't you worry"
"Thanks" Anju gave Link the key and hurried off "Dinners at 7pm!"
We picked up the remainder of our stuff and stepped through the doorway into a small cosy red little room with two beds, a washstand, screen, chairs and table. A chest stood at the end of each bed and orange drapes hung from the windows.
"Your flirting is so beneficial to the rest of us you know" I bounced on the bed appreciatively "I told you it was the shampoo"
Link shrugged "I have that affect on women, ask Zelda"
I raised my eyebrow "I'd rather not know what you to 'get up to'"
"Fine" he shrugged again with a smirk "What time is it?"
I was the only one in Termina with a digital watch obviously.
"5:18pm" I read, "We have an hour or two to kill. What do you think about Kafei?"
"Who?"
I kicked him "You know 'whom', Link. I've played you before and I know what went on here. You helped Kafei and Anju get married when you were a kid, so obviously you care about them. Even a little bit"
"Fine, maybe a little worried. One, the snow has come early. Two weeks is a LONG time, and with Anju pregnant, snow would NOT hold him up. Believe me, you know about all the stuff with that stupid mask as well as I do"
"Yeah, parental instinct" I nodded knowingly
"Pass me that bag, we'll unpack now"
So...what did you guys think?? Are you intrigued with the snowy part???? Well?? Read, review and be happy guys ^_~
Disclaimer: I do not own any Zelda, not one bit; I only own my original characters. Thank you.
There we go. My hands are just not typing today, ugh. It's so hard to type, they just won't work. My project is halfway done but I'm bored so...yeah. Thanks for the reviews. I will try and encompass every ones views into this story but you MUST be patient. Let me do what I'm heading for and maybe you'll be rewarded.
Ah I just watched the saddest music video from a girl called OLIVIA and the song 'Into The Stars' she's like this girl who was enhanced to be a robot and her memory keeps playing back clips of this guy who gave her a ring and held her hand and everything. So she goes off to find him and then detects him ahead of her, so she walks in that direction, but then she breaks down!! And while she's breaking her memory keeps playing these clips and it keeps telling her he's right ahead but then she breaks and can't go after him!!! It's so sad!!
Anyway...on with the chapter!
"Oof"
I sat up painfully. Light, good, we needed light. Water. Cave. Seemed like the right place. Thank god there wasn't that crazy imp around.
"Where were you?" Link asked, already on the other side of the water and patting himself dry
"More to the point" I replied struggling to combat the weight of my backpack to stand "What were you about to say when you fell in"
"Well I was about to tell you the hole was ahead"
"Fine"
I stepped into the water, gasping as the coldness numbed my legs for a moment before I couldn't feel them anymore. Slowly, carefully I waded over to the next hunk f land and clambered out with the help of Link's arm.
I stood there shivering before I remembered that I had brought spare trousers.
I changed while Link went to investigate up ahead.
"Hey" he said on arrival back "Guess what I have"
"What?"
"Masks"
"What?"
He grinned "Don't know why, they just seem to be in my 'magic pocket' must be something to do with possessions or something. I thought they were Happy Mask Shop man's but obviously they felt I was their owner"
"But they weren't all his" I pointed out "So people must be missing them"
"Oh well" he shrugged "Masks are good things"
I didn't make him notice that a mask was the cause of most of Termina's problems in the past, and a cause of concern in Hyrule as well. If he wanted to play mask man then I wasn't going to stop him. He just better let me have a go with the damn things.
"Let's go" he was already walking across the floor toward the door at the end. The light came down in a spotlight and spread across the floor, I took the time to notice that instead of a triforce symbol, the Termina light was dappled into three separate triangles. I wondered what the mythology was briefly before running through the door after Link.
I caught up with him. He was a scrub.
Literally.
He'd put on the mask.
Man, that looked weird. Little deku scrub with a hat? It was funny, in a weird, grotesque way.
He looked up at me with the big amber eyes and motioned for me to grab onto his feet.
I did so.
Soon I was dangling dangerously from his feet and flying in the air, 50 feet from the ground. Terrified I squeezed to hard and we missed a few landing points. He couldn't speak so that meant he couldn't tell me off. He just acted p***** and went back.
Going through the ups and downs of the beginning tunnels to get through to the Clock Tower was tiring, but we made it to that tunnel that twists and stuff when you go along it.
I threw up.
What? You would too if you were walking up walls and upside down and were following a deku scrub. Luckily, at that moment we happened to be on the ceiling and the vomit went below us.
It was not pretty though.
Anyway, soon and sure enough we came up at the bottom of the windmill and I couldn't help but listen for the music that always plays in there. But I guess as always, no music. I hummed it instead while Link transformed back into a person.
Walking up the wooden planks Link commented "I really, really, really hope that the Happy Mask Man isn't there, he really freaked me out last time I was here" he shuddered as if to make his point
"You were a kid so it makes sense" I shrugged, that happy mask was a bit freaky though
I looked over the wooden rail of the slope and watched the water churning in the water wheel for a moment before we reached the floor of the Clock.
"I keep thinking I'm in a windmill," I said, as I looked at the cogs turning above us "It's weird, everything's backwards"
"Just be glad that right isn't left here, now THAT would be confusing" Link replied pushing open the door
"Are you okay with that door?" I asked
He seemed to be having a bit of trouble with the force outside the door. I shrugged and rubbed my arms; it was a bit chilly in the lofty windmill.
"I...got...it" Link growled through clenched teeth, managing to open the huge wooden door "Oh..."
I saw the force that had kept the door shut.
Snow.
I pulled my cloak around me further and blew on my hands instinctively. Wow, winter, that was something new. Lucy should have come and brought her dog. It loves snow.
I on the other hand, went in it when nessarcary.
"Winter," Link commented
"No kidding" I walked slowly into the knee-deep snow and groaned, as my foot went numb "I can't walk in these shoes in this," as the wet slush seeped through the material of my trainers
Fresh flakes began to fall from the gloomy grey above us and made me shiver even more.
"Come on then" Link said readjusting his pack
"Come on what?" I asked, rubbing my nose to get feeling back into it, the snow getting heavier
"To the inn of course"
He strode out to where I stood and grabbed my arm.
"What are you~"
He heaved and pulled backpack, weapons and me on top of his backpack, groaning as he shifted my weight and put a foot down.
So we went, through the quiet streets, up cold slopes and through the cloudy day. The snow turned to sleet, back to snow, then to rain, then back to snow. Up and down went the heavy boots below me as I moved with the slow motion of movement.
Clock Town was confusing in the snow, I recognised no faces, no buildings it was hidden in a blanket of powder snow.
I assumed we were heading for the inn as Link skirted around a frozen wooden pole in the centre of a square. I shuffled my weight and pulled down onto his shoulders more as he tugged open a door with one hand and walked through the wall of heat in front.
We stood (or lay) in that heat for a few moments, perhaps to get our bearings right. Being in the cold for a length of time meant we had to get used to the heat, or, as someone later said, we would get chill blains.
"May I help you?"
A large woman came out to the desk and opened a large book and dipped a large quill into a rather large inkpot. It's true when they say people match their furniture.
"Reservation?" she asked politely
Link snapped to attention and shook me off his back, out of all the times he'd dropped me before, this time I was glad to be numb from cold. I landed on a quiver of arrows. Luckily they weren't turned towards me.
I rubbed feeling into my fingers gingerly.
"Yes" Link was saying over the counter, friendly and perky "I'd like a room for the night"
"Reservation?" the woman repeated a bit more testily tapping her quill on the book
"No" Link said apologetically
She frowned "Well, I'm afraid we're booked up..."
Link winked and looked into the book carefully "Can't you make a teensy weensy little space for us? I'd be so, so, so gratefully. And you know" he looked at her smiling sweetly "You have such beautiful eyes"
She didn't seem taken, but she obviously could see how desperate he was and replied to him "Well maybe I could do something..."
"Thank you" Link sighed happily and rubbed his hands together
"Will you and the lady be..." the woman suggested uncertainly "Because we can't give too many rooms away..."
I looked at her and said, "Does it really look like I'd be crazy enough to be that way with him?"
The woman grinned and replied "At least we have one sensible lass around here, not like...ANJU! We'll be giving you two single beds then lad"
A small and red headed woman appeared round a corner "Yes mother?"
"See that this" she glanced at me "Pair are found a room or two in the inn somewhere for the night and that they get settled in alright"
"Yes mother" Anju hopped over the counter and took our bags like they were nothing in her arms and started toward the stairs "Follow me please"
As if the game designers had done NOTHING to show the size of this world at all, the inn had almost twice the number of rooms that it has normally. Link and I passed huge dormitories and small cabins filled to the brim with travellers obviously stuck here in the snow. I even caught a glimpse of a Zora or two. I briefly thought about Kestrel before following Anju again.
"You've got a small one room suite I'm afraid," Anju said bringing out a set of keys
"That's alright, at least you've got room" Link smiled "I guess the snows keeping everyone here"
"Yes" Anju confirmed fitting the keys to a lock "It's strange, the snow has come a little early this year, it wasn't due for another two months"
"What?" I blurted "A little early? That's WAY early, that's like very, very early!"
Link patted my arm "Down girl, it's probably just a weather blip"
"Hope so" Anju smiled and put our bags down, patting her belly lightly "I would like it to be a spring package"
I grinned "Oh wow! How many months are you?"
"Around one and a half" she replied beaming "My husband Kafei is so pleased! He's gone out of the Town for a few days to a ranch down in the south east" her smile fell a little "Around two weeks ago though...he hasn't retuned yet...I'm sure he will do"
"Yeah" Link smiled, though I'm sure I caught a worried look in his eyes "He's probably just keeping there till the snow lets up. He'll be right along soon, don't you worry"
"Thanks" Anju gave Link the key and hurried off "Dinners at 7pm!"
We picked up the remainder of our stuff and stepped through the doorway into a small cosy red little room with two beds, a washstand, screen, chairs and table. A chest stood at the end of each bed and orange drapes hung from the windows.
"Your flirting is so beneficial to the rest of us you know" I bounced on the bed appreciatively "I told you it was the shampoo"
Link shrugged "I have that affect on women, ask Zelda"
I raised my eyebrow "I'd rather not know what you to 'get up to'"
"Fine" he shrugged again with a smirk "What time is it?"
I was the only one in Termina with a digital watch obviously.
"5:18pm" I read, "We have an hour or two to kill. What do you think about Kafei?"
"Who?"
I kicked him "You know 'whom', Link. I've played you before and I know what went on here. You helped Kafei and Anju get married when you were a kid, so obviously you care about them. Even a little bit"
"Fine, maybe a little worried. One, the snow has come early. Two weeks is a LONG time, and with Anju pregnant, snow would NOT hold him up. Believe me, you know about all the stuff with that stupid mask as well as I do"
"Yeah, parental instinct" I nodded knowingly
"Pass me that bag, we'll unpack now"
So...what did you guys think?? Are you intrigued with the snowy part???? Well?? Read, review and be happy guys ^_~
