I'm glad you all liked the last chapter; I have a weird feeling that this story will be shorter than the first one 0_0
A note to all, it wasn't stated blatantly that the main character liked Link in the first story but it was hinted that both Lucy and the main character liked him and at the end I tried to create a sort of reluctance for them to go home. And the first story was when...Lucy and her were 14 and Link was...how old was he in the second half of Ocarina? 16? 17? Yeah, that sort of age, so it was feasible that could have worked something out, I mean, heck, people who are 14 sleep with men in their 20's! I married Link and Kestrel off because...I don't know why; they both deserve it because they're getting old.
Anyway, so that's why there is this sort of pull toward Dark Link because he hasn't grown any older even though Link has, I think that Dark Link is the embodiment of all the opposites of Link's and since Link's soul kinda thing is still young, he feels young I mean, Dark Link is young or that Link is old so Dark Link is young. I guess it depends on Link. I'm not sure, if anyone has theories on Dark Link please put them in your review! I'm getting confused!
Anyway, thanks for all your reviews I really love reading them! I don't think I ever had this many for 12 chapters in the first story. I thought I was doing well to get 60 reviews at 23 chapters! I'm glad you like the story!
Sorry that it's taking so long to get these chapters out, I'm also trying to chunk out chapters of my new Escaflowne fic too! Sorry!
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Dawn broke in the east, Snow head twinkling in the pink light to the north and the sea to the west or whatever, I couldn't remember which direction we were going in but since the sun was in ne direction I figured a strong south west, if these could be applied to Termina. We didn't even have the same constellations.
We had stopped for an hour in the dark next to a stream to water the horses and a rest; I couldn't sleep so I kept watch while Sao had a break before riding off again.
The tracks below became easier to see in the growing light and gradually the skulls around is faded away as the beams of sunlight filled the field with long shadows and the birds began their morning song.
The tracks, now that I could see clearly, we wide and a far across, horses tracks from what I could see where around the main set of foot prints so I assumed they'd been the guards, I wondered whether Dark Link had been one of them.
So they'd been marched along to where Dark Link was holding, was Lucy being marched too was she a captive on a horse because she'd been with me, I rubbed my shoulder where the blade had bitten too deep for me to live. My stomach aching with old wounds. How had I been saved? I wondered for the millionth time.
Occasionally we passed an item of clothing or some other personal belonging that had been saved from the plains. They were obviously alive and well because every so often, Sao would point out with his keen eyes where the tracks dashed off and scuffles of feet shifting had taken place, which apparently indicated captives running off to have a quick punch up before being marched again.
I smelled the air, the burnt out smell of the campsite replaced by the drifting wood smoke of a nearby forest. The nearby birds twittering and carrying on as normal as if they had not seen captives being marched towards a most likely death.
We had been heading toward the swamp but soon after the sun had come up the tracks had taken a sharp turn down a small canyon type road and along the edge of Termina field and back along to the desert mountains where the fourth temple was, and loads of real bomb-chu but that was beside the point.
"Where are they going?" Sao mused to himself more than to me
I looked into the distance where the tracks faded; they curled round into the gorge that led up to the ghost village and the graveyard. I shuddered; I never liked that place even in the game, all the Skull kids and that. Without the mask that meant they wouldn't attack us...well we were for it because they would keep on coming.
I hated the bomb-chu in the game, horrible little things. I didn't want to face them in real life where I actually WOULD be hurt.
I glances round at the countryside, I kept thinking that maybe Link was watching us, trying to figure out if I was in Sao's capture or whatever, maybe he was going to come over the hill any minute to help us save the others. The way he'd charged off, maybe he'd felt Dark Link that night and gone to fight him, the screeching and ugliness that Dark Link had sent through the air in ripples back then felt so far away.
And he hadn't seemed evil in the dream...except he'd been scary when he'd gotten by wrists...maybe he was just misunderstood...yeah right.
Think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts.
Impossible.
Too much was going on for or me to think about happy things, I was going to be killed if I went and Lucy would be killed if I didn't and Link had just gone off! Then Dark Link was to be considered...I wondered if Sao really liked Lucy.
She got all the guys.
Ah well, maybe I'll be dead, then we'll see who gets the guys...um...obviously not me. Because I'd be dead. Ugh. Things never work out for me.
I was getting hungry to top it all off, I'd had nothing to eat since leaving the inn and holding the sword and bags all the time made my arms hurt. I shifted them uncomfortable and said 'Hungry..." rather loudly
Sao looked back at me and shrugged, "Can't do anything about that, neither of us thought to get food did we? Stupid"
Wait, I had gotten food! Anju, excellent woman! I was going to get Kafei back for this!
"I got food!" I said triumphantly, slowing Bertha down so I could fumble with my bag "At least only one of us is stupid"
Sao pulled back and said, "What did you get?"
I surveyed the food bag, "Apples, bread, canteens of water, cheese, biscuits"
"A feast for hungry people" he eyed the cheese greedily
I slapped his hand away as he went for a slice of cheese "Rations, porky! We don't know how long we'll be on the road for or whether we'll have to feed starving prisoners at our destination!"
His face fell.
I sighed and handed him a canteen of water and a slice of cheese.
He let out a whoop and stuffed the cheese gratefully into his mouth with a heavenly sigh "Mwnfu"
"Welcome" I took a bit of bread and some water and wrapped the rest up carefully
My stomach growled and I quietened it with the loaf and adjusted the weighty sword at my side.
"Would you be able to use that thing when it's time to fight?" Sao asked, out of the corner of his eyes throwing a doubting look at my arms and the sword
I looked at the sword myself; unsure that I could, even though I'd have a five-minute crash course when we'd brought some in Kakariko last time we were here in arrows and sword basics I hadn't REALLY had to use them.
I shook the thoughts away, how hard could it be? "Sure I can use a sword," I said with my nose in the air, praying my lies wouldn't have to be proved "Anyone can use a sword"
"Well..."
"Can't they?"
"I guess"
"Well then" I said, finishing the conversation
Sometimes fate decides to give you a helping hand, I hoped she'd give me one when it was time to fight because otherwise I'd be finished off even before Dark Link got me.
My heart did an involuntary leap at the mention of Dark Link; I cursed it, why did my body go against me like this? It wasn't right that my stomach caught butterflies when I thought about the dream, it wasn't my fault, it did it on it's own. Curses, curses, curses, as they say. It hadn't even been a romantic dream, damn it! He'd threatened to kill me.
If he hadn't looked like Link I'd be perfectly ok. And now my body decided it was going to have a crush on him, even though my head was saying 'You're crazy! He's evil, he is going to kill you!'
He probably would kill me, I had no way to protect myself, and I'd be used as a gateway to let Reika and Gannondorf out of their prison in the Sacred Realm, if only a Goddess would show up now!
Fairly certain that the tribe and Lucy wouldn't be dead by the time we reached wherever the tracks led, we rode into the canyon in the morning sunlight and came to an abrupt stop.
Bomb-chu, everywhere and anywhere. Up the walls and all over the floors. It was scary, there were so many, not just the occasional ones I'd expected. They were like a carpet.
"Well" I said slowly "How are we going to get through them?"
Sao thought for a moment then looked around the canyon, back to the pillars in the distance and then back to the canyon.
"We can go over the top"
"What?"
Sao pointed to the top of the rock ridge "We'd have to leave the horses but if we could climb up there then we'd be able to follow the canyon around without Bomb-chu trouble"
I looked up, the top of the canyon was at least 5 floors of a building up, my arms weren't that strong.
Sao swung off his horse and pulled off a rope that had been on his saddle horn and began to tie it around his waist.
I stared "I can't do it"
Sao looked shocked "You can't climb?"
"No"
He looked up at the mountain and back at me "This is barely a hill, even the children in our climb could climb this"
I stared "F*** no"
"Get off the horse" Sao began to move towards me
"No, no, no, no, no" I pulled Bertha back "No climbing for me"
"Don't be such a baby"
He began to walk towards me and reach out for Bertha's reins, as soon as he grabbed them I leapt off the horse and began heading in the opposite direction, oblivious to the bomb-chu.
"Hey! Stop!"
I ignored his calls; I wanted to help Lucy, sure. But then, I wasn't prepared to climb up a mountain.
I heard him curse and tie the horses together before the rush of footsteps joined in with my pace.
Nope, wasn't going to stop.
Unfortunately the bomb-chu had other ideas.
They began to chase me.
"Run!" Sao was actually telling me to run now, how ironic
I didn't stop to think about it twice I sped up even though stitch was getting to me and I began to run out of breath,
I could hear fizzing from all directions; I was definitely heading for heaven at this rate.
Once more, it was death's knell for me.
My heart skipped a beat and I couldn't run anymore, stumbling I fell onto the dusty floor, tired out.
The bomb-chu rushed towards me and began to detonate themselves.
I stared up at the blue sky and waited.
An explosion rocked the world.
...
...
...
But nothing hit me, nothing happened.
Quiet.
I sat up.
I was on the grassy plain again. The world my head had created.
"Great" I stood up "I must have been knocked out"
The quiet was deafening, the plain's wind had disappeared and the stillness was fairly frightening.
"You're pretty stupid"
I jumped out my skin and turned to find Dark Link had returned to my head, against my will, my heart began to beat faster. I folded my arms, worried that he might hear it or something.
He seemed unimpressed "Are you trying to kill yourself before you get to me?"
I grinned "That would make it harder for you to open a gateway"
"Yes, but then all those poor people will die"
"Good point"
He had Link's sense of humour, they were so alike yet so unlike. I just felt like I was having a conversation with Link.
"You ARE stupid if you agree with me" Dark Link pouted "And here I was thinking that you had a brain on you"
"If you're going to insult me, I'm going to have to wake up" I replied, waving my hand dismissively, "Go on, just leave, you're trespassing anyway"
Dark Link stared, a bit in disbelief I think.
"...No one has...ever stood up to ME before" he said slowly
I stared back at him "What?"
Dark Link coughed and looked away, did his face just go red? Maybe he was more like Link than I thought.
He turned away and said "I'm still going to kill you"
He disappeared.
I looked around as the plain faded and said out loud "But I didn't question it"
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I came around gradually to the banter of Sao; I assumed it was on my recklessness because it was in that sort of tone. I couldn't really make out the words because my head felt fuzzy.
I could vaguely feel the movement of something beneath me and as I opened my eyes I realised he was giving me a piggyback to where we'd left the horses (I could see them wandering in the distance under the rough terrain of the mountains).
"How could you be so stupid to run off like that?" I heard him snap, "You could have been seriously hurt, I don't even know HOW you're not hurt"
I shook my head "W-what?"
Sao grunted in surprise "You're awake, huh? Well good, at least now you can hear my ranting and learn something"
I tried to shake the grogginess again "I wasn't hurt? I thought I was dead"
"I don't know how it happened but" Sao put me down next to Bertha and continued with "You don't have a mark on you"
I inspected my arms and face carefully, apart from the black eye I sported from Sao there were no other injuries.
'I'm still going to kill you'
Dark Link's voice came back to me suddenly, had he protected me? To make sure I got there so he could kill me? Was that what he'd been talking about? Probably, I wouldn't be surprised.
"You didn't see anyone protect me did you?" I asked Sao
"Nope, no one except you and the bomb-chu" Sao sighed "I really thought you were going to die"
I grinned "Sao, were you worried?"
For an instant I saw Dark Link's expression in Sao as he did the same cough thing and turned away with an "Of course not"
"Oh"
"Yep, I just need a climbing partner"
"Right"
I didn't believe him, I secretly laughed at how he acted like he was so cool when I knew how emotional he could get. He'd found me the only survivor at one point and cried and then he'd punched me. Nice.
So anyway, after the little episode with more Dark Link and some bomb-chu I decided that I would climb the mountain, but only if...
"I am NOT giving you a piggy back up the mountain"
"Why not?" I knew I was whining, I was nearly 18 and I still had one of the best whines around my area, I could get anyone to do anything
"I SAID NO!"
Maybe not.
Must be losing my touch.
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Sorry it took so long for this chapter to get out! I was going to make it longer but I've been snowed under by revision and my new fic and I promise this one will not die out! I'm determined to finish the trilogy! Please read and review!
A note to all, it wasn't stated blatantly that the main character liked Link in the first story but it was hinted that both Lucy and the main character liked him and at the end I tried to create a sort of reluctance for them to go home. And the first story was when...Lucy and her were 14 and Link was...how old was he in the second half of Ocarina? 16? 17? Yeah, that sort of age, so it was feasible that could have worked something out, I mean, heck, people who are 14 sleep with men in their 20's! I married Link and Kestrel off because...I don't know why; they both deserve it because they're getting old.
Anyway, so that's why there is this sort of pull toward Dark Link because he hasn't grown any older even though Link has, I think that Dark Link is the embodiment of all the opposites of Link's and since Link's soul kinda thing is still young, he feels young I mean, Dark Link is young or that Link is old so Dark Link is young. I guess it depends on Link. I'm not sure, if anyone has theories on Dark Link please put them in your review! I'm getting confused!
Anyway, thanks for all your reviews I really love reading them! I don't think I ever had this many for 12 chapters in the first story. I thought I was doing well to get 60 reviews at 23 chapters! I'm glad you like the story!
Sorry that it's taking so long to get these chapters out, I'm also trying to chunk out chapters of my new Escaflowne fic too! Sorry!
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Dawn broke in the east, Snow head twinkling in the pink light to the north and the sea to the west or whatever, I couldn't remember which direction we were going in but since the sun was in ne direction I figured a strong south west, if these could be applied to Termina. We didn't even have the same constellations.
We had stopped for an hour in the dark next to a stream to water the horses and a rest; I couldn't sleep so I kept watch while Sao had a break before riding off again.
The tracks below became easier to see in the growing light and gradually the skulls around is faded away as the beams of sunlight filled the field with long shadows and the birds began their morning song.
The tracks, now that I could see clearly, we wide and a far across, horses tracks from what I could see where around the main set of foot prints so I assumed they'd been the guards, I wondered whether Dark Link had been one of them.
So they'd been marched along to where Dark Link was holding, was Lucy being marched too was she a captive on a horse because she'd been with me, I rubbed my shoulder where the blade had bitten too deep for me to live. My stomach aching with old wounds. How had I been saved? I wondered for the millionth time.
Occasionally we passed an item of clothing or some other personal belonging that had been saved from the plains. They were obviously alive and well because every so often, Sao would point out with his keen eyes where the tracks dashed off and scuffles of feet shifting had taken place, which apparently indicated captives running off to have a quick punch up before being marched again.
I smelled the air, the burnt out smell of the campsite replaced by the drifting wood smoke of a nearby forest. The nearby birds twittering and carrying on as normal as if they had not seen captives being marched towards a most likely death.
We had been heading toward the swamp but soon after the sun had come up the tracks had taken a sharp turn down a small canyon type road and along the edge of Termina field and back along to the desert mountains where the fourth temple was, and loads of real bomb-chu but that was beside the point.
"Where are they going?" Sao mused to himself more than to me
I looked into the distance where the tracks faded; they curled round into the gorge that led up to the ghost village and the graveyard. I shuddered; I never liked that place even in the game, all the Skull kids and that. Without the mask that meant they wouldn't attack us...well we were for it because they would keep on coming.
I hated the bomb-chu in the game, horrible little things. I didn't want to face them in real life where I actually WOULD be hurt.
I glances round at the countryside, I kept thinking that maybe Link was watching us, trying to figure out if I was in Sao's capture or whatever, maybe he was going to come over the hill any minute to help us save the others. The way he'd charged off, maybe he'd felt Dark Link that night and gone to fight him, the screeching and ugliness that Dark Link had sent through the air in ripples back then felt so far away.
And he hadn't seemed evil in the dream...except he'd been scary when he'd gotten by wrists...maybe he was just misunderstood...yeah right.
Think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts.
Impossible.
Too much was going on for or me to think about happy things, I was going to be killed if I went and Lucy would be killed if I didn't and Link had just gone off! Then Dark Link was to be considered...I wondered if Sao really liked Lucy.
She got all the guys.
Ah well, maybe I'll be dead, then we'll see who gets the guys...um...obviously not me. Because I'd be dead. Ugh. Things never work out for me.
I was getting hungry to top it all off, I'd had nothing to eat since leaving the inn and holding the sword and bags all the time made my arms hurt. I shifted them uncomfortable and said 'Hungry..." rather loudly
Sao looked back at me and shrugged, "Can't do anything about that, neither of us thought to get food did we? Stupid"
Wait, I had gotten food! Anju, excellent woman! I was going to get Kafei back for this!
"I got food!" I said triumphantly, slowing Bertha down so I could fumble with my bag "At least only one of us is stupid"
Sao pulled back and said, "What did you get?"
I surveyed the food bag, "Apples, bread, canteens of water, cheese, biscuits"
"A feast for hungry people" he eyed the cheese greedily
I slapped his hand away as he went for a slice of cheese "Rations, porky! We don't know how long we'll be on the road for or whether we'll have to feed starving prisoners at our destination!"
His face fell.
I sighed and handed him a canteen of water and a slice of cheese.
He let out a whoop and stuffed the cheese gratefully into his mouth with a heavenly sigh "Mwnfu"
"Welcome" I took a bit of bread and some water and wrapped the rest up carefully
My stomach growled and I quietened it with the loaf and adjusted the weighty sword at my side.
"Would you be able to use that thing when it's time to fight?" Sao asked, out of the corner of his eyes throwing a doubting look at my arms and the sword
I looked at the sword myself; unsure that I could, even though I'd have a five-minute crash course when we'd brought some in Kakariko last time we were here in arrows and sword basics I hadn't REALLY had to use them.
I shook the thoughts away, how hard could it be? "Sure I can use a sword," I said with my nose in the air, praying my lies wouldn't have to be proved "Anyone can use a sword"
"Well..."
"Can't they?"
"I guess"
"Well then" I said, finishing the conversation
Sometimes fate decides to give you a helping hand, I hoped she'd give me one when it was time to fight because otherwise I'd be finished off even before Dark Link got me.
My heart did an involuntary leap at the mention of Dark Link; I cursed it, why did my body go against me like this? It wasn't right that my stomach caught butterflies when I thought about the dream, it wasn't my fault, it did it on it's own. Curses, curses, curses, as they say. It hadn't even been a romantic dream, damn it! He'd threatened to kill me.
If he hadn't looked like Link I'd be perfectly ok. And now my body decided it was going to have a crush on him, even though my head was saying 'You're crazy! He's evil, he is going to kill you!'
He probably would kill me, I had no way to protect myself, and I'd be used as a gateway to let Reika and Gannondorf out of their prison in the Sacred Realm, if only a Goddess would show up now!
Fairly certain that the tribe and Lucy wouldn't be dead by the time we reached wherever the tracks led, we rode into the canyon in the morning sunlight and came to an abrupt stop.
Bomb-chu, everywhere and anywhere. Up the walls and all over the floors. It was scary, there were so many, not just the occasional ones I'd expected. They were like a carpet.
"Well" I said slowly "How are we going to get through them?"
Sao thought for a moment then looked around the canyon, back to the pillars in the distance and then back to the canyon.
"We can go over the top"
"What?"
Sao pointed to the top of the rock ridge "We'd have to leave the horses but if we could climb up there then we'd be able to follow the canyon around without Bomb-chu trouble"
I looked up, the top of the canyon was at least 5 floors of a building up, my arms weren't that strong.
Sao swung off his horse and pulled off a rope that had been on his saddle horn and began to tie it around his waist.
I stared "I can't do it"
Sao looked shocked "You can't climb?"
"No"
He looked up at the mountain and back at me "This is barely a hill, even the children in our climb could climb this"
I stared "F*** no"
"Get off the horse" Sao began to move towards me
"No, no, no, no, no" I pulled Bertha back "No climbing for me"
"Don't be such a baby"
He began to walk towards me and reach out for Bertha's reins, as soon as he grabbed them I leapt off the horse and began heading in the opposite direction, oblivious to the bomb-chu.
"Hey! Stop!"
I ignored his calls; I wanted to help Lucy, sure. But then, I wasn't prepared to climb up a mountain.
I heard him curse and tie the horses together before the rush of footsteps joined in with my pace.
Nope, wasn't going to stop.
Unfortunately the bomb-chu had other ideas.
They began to chase me.
"Run!" Sao was actually telling me to run now, how ironic
I didn't stop to think about it twice I sped up even though stitch was getting to me and I began to run out of breath,
I could hear fizzing from all directions; I was definitely heading for heaven at this rate.
Once more, it was death's knell for me.
My heart skipped a beat and I couldn't run anymore, stumbling I fell onto the dusty floor, tired out.
The bomb-chu rushed towards me and began to detonate themselves.
I stared up at the blue sky and waited.
An explosion rocked the world.
...
...
...
But nothing hit me, nothing happened.
Quiet.
I sat up.
I was on the grassy plain again. The world my head had created.
"Great" I stood up "I must have been knocked out"
The quiet was deafening, the plain's wind had disappeared and the stillness was fairly frightening.
"You're pretty stupid"
I jumped out my skin and turned to find Dark Link had returned to my head, against my will, my heart began to beat faster. I folded my arms, worried that he might hear it or something.
He seemed unimpressed "Are you trying to kill yourself before you get to me?"
I grinned "That would make it harder for you to open a gateway"
"Yes, but then all those poor people will die"
"Good point"
He had Link's sense of humour, they were so alike yet so unlike. I just felt like I was having a conversation with Link.
"You ARE stupid if you agree with me" Dark Link pouted "And here I was thinking that you had a brain on you"
"If you're going to insult me, I'm going to have to wake up" I replied, waving my hand dismissively, "Go on, just leave, you're trespassing anyway"
Dark Link stared, a bit in disbelief I think.
"...No one has...ever stood up to ME before" he said slowly
I stared back at him "What?"
Dark Link coughed and looked away, did his face just go red? Maybe he was more like Link than I thought.
He turned away and said "I'm still going to kill you"
He disappeared.
I looked around as the plain faded and said out loud "But I didn't question it"
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I came around gradually to the banter of Sao; I assumed it was on my recklessness because it was in that sort of tone. I couldn't really make out the words because my head felt fuzzy.
I could vaguely feel the movement of something beneath me and as I opened my eyes I realised he was giving me a piggyback to where we'd left the horses (I could see them wandering in the distance under the rough terrain of the mountains).
"How could you be so stupid to run off like that?" I heard him snap, "You could have been seriously hurt, I don't even know HOW you're not hurt"
I shook my head "W-what?"
Sao grunted in surprise "You're awake, huh? Well good, at least now you can hear my ranting and learn something"
I tried to shake the grogginess again "I wasn't hurt? I thought I was dead"
"I don't know how it happened but" Sao put me down next to Bertha and continued with "You don't have a mark on you"
I inspected my arms and face carefully, apart from the black eye I sported from Sao there were no other injuries.
'I'm still going to kill you'
Dark Link's voice came back to me suddenly, had he protected me? To make sure I got there so he could kill me? Was that what he'd been talking about? Probably, I wouldn't be surprised.
"You didn't see anyone protect me did you?" I asked Sao
"Nope, no one except you and the bomb-chu" Sao sighed "I really thought you were going to die"
I grinned "Sao, were you worried?"
For an instant I saw Dark Link's expression in Sao as he did the same cough thing and turned away with an "Of course not"
"Oh"
"Yep, I just need a climbing partner"
"Right"
I didn't believe him, I secretly laughed at how he acted like he was so cool when I knew how emotional he could get. He'd found me the only survivor at one point and cried and then he'd punched me. Nice.
So anyway, after the little episode with more Dark Link and some bomb-chu I decided that I would climb the mountain, but only if...
"I am NOT giving you a piggy back up the mountain"
"Why not?" I knew I was whining, I was nearly 18 and I still had one of the best whines around my area, I could get anyone to do anything
"I SAID NO!"
Maybe not.
Must be losing my touch.
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Sorry it took so long for this chapter to get out! I was going to make it longer but I've been snowed under by revision and my new fic and I promise this one will not die out! I'm determined to finish the trilogy! Please read and review!
