Link groaned and turned over in bed. He wanted more time to go over his dream. It was slipping away, just a little bit. "Just because you wake up at the fricken crack of dawn, doesnt mean that everyone else does..."
"Hmph. Mr. I-spent-over-a-month-with-little-or-no-sleep-to-save-the-world and here you are complaining about me waking you up after the sun rises?" Zelda pushed him out of bed, literally, causing him to fall to the floor with a thud.
"Ouch! You didn't need to do that!" complained Link. He got up and glared at her. Zelda just smiled warmly at him.
"God, you're a literall bear in the morning aren't you?" remarked Zelda. Link stuck out his tounge and Zelda rolled her eyes. "Oh yea, real witty comeback."
Link just turned away and walked up the stairs where Nohansen was drinking coffee. "How in the blue blazes of Hades did you ever manage to wake up at the crack of dawn? You of all people! YOU ARE FRICKEN ROYALTY!" Nohansen smiled softly and turned to Link.
"Let me be the first to say, no royalty can match Zelda's...mode of persuasion (Author's note: If you are thinking what I think you are thinking...QUIT THINKING IT PERVERT!) is quite well...persuasive." Nohansen took a bite of some bread and took another swig of coffee.
"Lemme guess. She pushed you out of bed, right?" Link walked over to the pot of coffee and poured himself a tankard. (Author's note: I know, I know. Technicly coffee doesnt exist in this time period, but just work with me people.)
"Kicked is more like it. I'm too heavy to push you know." Nohansen managed to say with a straight face. Link laughed himself though. From the fireplace-turned-staircase came Zelda. "Now waking up this early isn't that bad now is it?" She was awnsered by a flying pastery to the face.
"Not so bad my heroic arse." Link gulped down his coffee and wiped his mouth on his sleeve. Then he walked over to a picture of his grandma and sister, swung it to the side and opened up the safe that was behind it. He then pulled out his equipment from the safe and closed it, giving the wheel a spin. Then he turned to Zelda, who was fuming and Nohansen who was on the verge of laughing. "I'm going to head out to Windfall one more time. I gotta go get something. You guys coming along?"
"Do you think its wise to bring Zelda along with you Link?" Nohansen asked, trying to contain his mirth.
Link took one look at the boiling Zelda and grimaced. "On second though, you guys hold the fort and good bye!" Link the ran out of the Cabana for his life.
**Windfall Island**
Link sat down at at table, with his lunch. He took a bite of his sandwich and took a swig of water. His mind was preoccupied with the thoughts of his dream. So preoccupied that he didn't notice an odd figure until he accdently bumped into him. "Oh, I'm...YIKES!" Link jumped from his seat as he stared at the figure before him.
One could describe him as a living shadow, another could describe him as the sky on a moonless night. Either way, his appearence was quite a commotion for the people of Windfall. "I apologize good sir. I did not see you. Please forgive me." The being replied, bowing.
Link gulped and replied, "Tha-thats alright. W-what is your name?"
"I am Wraith. Are you the one you call Link?" he asked.
"Y-yes I am. What business would you have with me?"
"Only to join you on your voyage. I had recived a message from a strange man in a dream, like an older version of you. He told me to come here and to find you. I was to join you on your quest. If you are suspicious, that is alright. Many people find my appearence to be quite...shocking, to say the least."
Link calmed down a bit. Wraith seemed polite and well manered. Plus there was that fact that he had described the first Link. And he also had a strange dream. "Well...what skills do you bring along?"
"I'm pleased you asked. I am skilled in the black arts, after all I am a shadow, I am a first class swordsman, I also am skilled in the reading of many ancient languages and I am familair with the history of many cultures." Wraith described. Link whistled, obviously impressed.
"Well...I don't see why not. I mean we do have enough for six people for a number of months..."
"Do not worry about me. I don't eat, nor do I sleep. I need those things not."
Link took a bite of his sandwhich thinking. He swallowed, smiled and replied, "Welcome aboard Wraith...Now let me finish my lunch, and we'll be on our way!"
**Link's Cabana**
Zelda sat there, bored. She should have gone with Link, but he left in too much of a hurry for her to catch up to him. Oh well. She had asked for it. After all, it had been at least five years since he ever had to wake up early. "Dad?" asked Zelda.
"Yes Zelda?" Nohansen asked. He was reading over a book of sword skills that he had found on a book case.
"About Link...how do you figure...you know...Him and I...?"
Nohansen found it hard not to break into peals of laughter at that comment. So like a women to beat around the bush for a touchy comment. he thought. "Well if you must know, and don't kill me for this, you two are perfect for each other. You both are tough as nails, you both have a nice side, though I do say that Link shows it far more often, you share a love of adventure and you both usually work for the common good, even if you don't say so. You just go about it a different way."
Zelda rolled that over in her mind. She had been feeling odd about Link lately, but couldn't quite place her finger on the emotion...it felt stonger than friendship...could it be love? Nah. Not now. They had been gone too long for anything to had blossomed lately. Zelda shook her head, trying to clear her mind. There was a knock at the door and Zelda opened it. "Oh, hey Komali."
"Where's Link?" asked Komali. He was carrying a bag over his shoulder.
"I don't...wait, there he...OH MY GOD!" Zelda screamed when she saw Wraith sitting behind Link like a fearsome specter of death...