The Dancer...
"C'mon Jak, it's time to celebrate getting past round one," Patch said eagerly as jogged to the Phoenix Pub, the main pub of the Gerudo Fortress.
"Okay, but just a few drinks; I don't want a hangover at round two," Jak replied hurrying alongside Patch.
"Oh, c'mon, you know you can't resist good Gerudo beer," Patch urged him.
"Forget it. You're not going to drink much either; I wanna win, not lose."
"Fine, Mom," Patch said sarcastically as he opened the door to the pub for Jak, and then followed after him.
The place was in a ruckus, and not only because of the games, but also because the Gerudos always party hard whether there was something to celebrate or not. In the center was where everybody danced, to the left in a small corner was where some Zora band played music, and to the northern left were the bathrooms, all of the right was where everyone sat, talked, drank, and threw up on the sofas, to the southern right was the bathrooms, and straight ahead beyond the dance floor was the bar. Only during the games were there Gerudos who danced on the bar, but no one was there.
"That was odd," thought Patch who followed Jak as he was going through the crowd to the bar.
The bartender, a very pretty Gerudo with odd blue eyes who's name (according to Jak) was Rita, stood up on the bar and the band stopped playing their music, the people stopped dancing, and people who were throwing up stopped vomiting. She wore tight black pants that had flames up the sides, and wore a black mid-drift shirt that had a flame coming up the center and up the back. Her long, red hair had black ribbons going through it making it seem like it was a flame itself.
"Alright, I know everyone has been waiting for the show to go on, and now that all my girls have arrived, let it start," she said stepping off the bar and the music started up again, except it was a different tune than before.
A girl dropped from the ceiling and landed in a perfect split on the bar. She was also a pretty Gerudo, with pretty red hair in a pony tail that was wearing black leather outfit with pants and a mid-drift shirt as well. She did some fancy moves, which involved a lot of back flips, twirls, and splits, all of which were timed to the beat of the music.
Soon another girl fell from the open ceiling as well. Patch recognized her as the Gerudo that hung out with that human. She was wearing an outfit that matched the first girl's outfit, even the hair was the same, the only way you could tell who was who was by their eyes; the human's friend had blue eyes and the first girl to fall from the ceiling had yellow eyes. And soon, they started dancing again, more involved with lifting each other, and making back flips over one another's sweeps. As they did a flip that passed one another and ended up on opposite sides of the bar, four lit torches fell from the ceiling, dangerously twirling. Both of them caught two torches in mid air and started twirling them.
It looked amazing, and as they did a flip past one another, one more girl fell from the ceiling and nearly landed on the two girls in mid-flip. She landed perfectly in the center in a kneeling position, as the other two landed in kneels on opposite sides of the bar. It was the human! She was wearing a white outfit that showed much more than the black outfit the two other girls were wearing; the mid-drift shirt was very low cut and had cuts through the back of the shirt, and the pants had a bunch of cuts through them, but it looked stylish, not ragged.
The two girls attacked her with their torches, but the human dodged every single one gracefully. Soon, both Gerudos did a back flip to the end of their side of the bar, and threw their torches at the human. She dodged them using graceful flips, and they went to the Gerudo at the opposite end of the bar of their owner. They once again threw the torches at the girl, but this time the human caught them all in a twirl, and then did some awesome torch balancing with all four, and then started to twirl again and threw the torches back to their owner's. As she had stopped twirling, two broadswords fell from the ceiling. She held out her arms dramatically, and as the swords barley passed her arms, she caught them and started to twirl them in her hands.
The music's beat took a great upturn as the two Gerudos moved in on the girl in the center, their torches always twirling. The human lowered to her knees, and stuck her swords into the bar, reached behind her and threw a liquid upon the bar. She put both hands on the swords that were in the bar and lifted herself to an upside down position with her back toward the audience, and with her hands still on the swords. She pulled her right sword out and made a twirling movement with it, still holding herself up with the other sword. Both of the Gerudos started to attack her but she fended them off with the sword, finally cutting all four in half and letting them fall on to the bar, which lit it on fire. Both of the Gerudos jumped off at that precise moment, but the human remained, jumping off the left sword and landing upright on the bar. She pulled out her sword and started dancing on the fire. As the music made its final beats, she started juggling the swords, slowly going higher. And finally, she threw one sword really far up and water fell, extinguishing the fire. She was drenched but managed to catch the sword in mid-air and flipped backwards out of view.
There was a loud applause, cheering, and people asking for an encore, Patch included. He was actually hoping that the human would once again come into view from behind the bar, but she never did it before the bartender stepped onto the bar and made another announcement. "I'm glad you all enjoyed our performance, and they will be performing for every weekend of the Hero Games. And if anyone wants to meet our performers, they shall see them in the Games. Their names are: Jackie (she stood up on the left side of the bar), Tanya (she stood up on the right side of the bar), and our best swordswoman, Luna! (she flipped out from behind the bar right in front of Patch and Jak to greet a tumultuous applause from the audience, but not Jak)"
At first Patch was curious whether or not she meant to land in front of them, but it became obvious when she looked shocked to see them.
"Uh, h-hello there," she said shakily.
"You did a great job... I wish I could do that with swords," Patch said with a nasty look from Jak.
Luna obviously noticed Jak's nasty look, but continued in spite of him, "I would be happy to show you any time you want." Patch loved to piss off Jak, so he said, "Well, how about now? I have all night."
"I'm sorry, but he can't. He has to get his sleep for tomorrow's match, but I'm sure you wouldn't understand that," Jak said sneeringly.
"On no, I understand perfectly. He is a Hyrulian after all... besides daylight is a much easier time to practice. I'll meet you after your second round, alright?"
"I'd be delighted," he said smiling at Jak, "if only you would let Jak, who is posing as my mother tonight, joins us as well."
She gave Jak a calculating look and answered before Jak could, "I'll see you then," and walked off toward the right side of the bar.
"I think she likes you," Patch laughed.
"Yea well, hell will freeze over before I join you two in 'practice'"
"I might be planning something more, but if you didn't notice, she was going to say she rather hump a pig than see me tonight."
"How do you know?"
"Because, I could read it in those pretty green eyes. Besides, if she wasn't going to slap me in those next couple of seconds, she would prove that blondes really are dumb," Patch laughed.
Jak just nodded as his friend ordered drinks from the bartender. Jak was thinking about tomorrow. He might have a chance to actually kill a human, but Luna was likely to bring a friend for protection anyway. That would be a little hard to explain if there were witnesses there too. Besides, he wasn't quite sure if Patch would be on his side if he did. He still couldn't believe Patch would dare flirt with a human, of all the races. And Jak had a feeling that Patch liked the human more than he showed. As he went to stare after where the human had disappeared, he was swiftly reminded of his little cousin, Princess Zelda. He was half surprised that the girl wasn't here yet. Or maybe she was, but she was in disguise. "Yea, that'd be more like her," Jak thought as he emptied his drink. He might actually see her tomorrow, now that he was going to look.
Then realizing what the time was, and how many drinks that Patch had, he stubbornly insisted that they go to the Corona's Inn. Patch put up a fight, but Jak slowly got Patch to come with him to the inn. As he left, he noticed a shadow over by the band's raised platform. When he looked, no one was there. Assuring himself that he was tired, he pushed Patch out of the bar, and into the inn, where he also shoved Patch all the way to their room and onto Patch's bed, where he in turn fell on his own bed, thinking of the human, Luna.
"C'mon Jak, it's time to celebrate getting past round one," Patch said eagerly as jogged to the Phoenix Pub, the main pub of the Gerudo Fortress.
"Okay, but just a few drinks; I don't want a hangover at round two," Jak replied hurrying alongside Patch.
"Oh, c'mon, you know you can't resist good Gerudo beer," Patch urged him.
"Forget it. You're not going to drink much either; I wanna win, not lose."
"Fine, Mom," Patch said sarcastically as he opened the door to the pub for Jak, and then followed after him.
The place was in a ruckus, and not only because of the games, but also because the Gerudos always party hard whether there was something to celebrate or not. In the center was where everybody danced, to the left in a small corner was where some Zora band played music, and to the northern left were the bathrooms, all of the right was where everyone sat, talked, drank, and threw up on the sofas, to the southern right was the bathrooms, and straight ahead beyond the dance floor was the bar. Only during the games were there Gerudos who danced on the bar, but no one was there.
"That was odd," thought Patch who followed Jak as he was going through the crowd to the bar.
The bartender, a very pretty Gerudo with odd blue eyes who's name (according to Jak) was Rita, stood up on the bar and the band stopped playing their music, the people stopped dancing, and people who were throwing up stopped vomiting. She wore tight black pants that had flames up the sides, and wore a black mid-drift shirt that had a flame coming up the center and up the back. Her long, red hair had black ribbons going through it making it seem like it was a flame itself.
"Alright, I know everyone has been waiting for the show to go on, and now that all my girls have arrived, let it start," she said stepping off the bar and the music started up again, except it was a different tune than before.
A girl dropped from the ceiling and landed in a perfect split on the bar. She was also a pretty Gerudo, with pretty red hair in a pony tail that was wearing black leather outfit with pants and a mid-drift shirt as well. She did some fancy moves, which involved a lot of back flips, twirls, and splits, all of which were timed to the beat of the music.
Soon another girl fell from the open ceiling as well. Patch recognized her as the Gerudo that hung out with that human. She was wearing an outfit that matched the first girl's outfit, even the hair was the same, the only way you could tell who was who was by their eyes; the human's friend had blue eyes and the first girl to fall from the ceiling had yellow eyes. And soon, they started dancing again, more involved with lifting each other, and making back flips over one another's sweeps. As they did a flip that passed one another and ended up on opposite sides of the bar, four lit torches fell from the ceiling, dangerously twirling. Both of them caught two torches in mid air and started twirling them.
It looked amazing, and as they did a flip past one another, one more girl fell from the ceiling and nearly landed on the two girls in mid-flip. She landed perfectly in the center in a kneeling position, as the other two landed in kneels on opposite sides of the bar. It was the human! She was wearing a white outfit that showed much more than the black outfit the two other girls were wearing; the mid-drift shirt was very low cut and had cuts through the back of the shirt, and the pants had a bunch of cuts through them, but it looked stylish, not ragged.
The two girls attacked her with their torches, but the human dodged every single one gracefully. Soon, both Gerudos did a back flip to the end of their side of the bar, and threw their torches at the human. She dodged them using graceful flips, and they went to the Gerudo at the opposite end of the bar of their owner. They once again threw the torches at the girl, but this time the human caught them all in a twirl, and then did some awesome torch balancing with all four, and then started to twirl again and threw the torches back to their owner's. As she had stopped twirling, two broadswords fell from the ceiling. She held out her arms dramatically, and as the swords barley passed her arms, she caught them and started to twirl them in her hands.
The music's beat took a great upturn as the two Gerudos moved in on the girl in the center, their torches always twirling. The human lowered to her knees, and stuck her swords into the bar, reached behind her and threw a liquid upon the bar. She put both hands on the swords that were in the bar and lifted herself to an upside down position with her back toward the audience, and with her hands still on the swords. She pulled her right sword out and made a twirling movement with it, still holding herself up with the other sword. Both of the Gerudos started to attack her but she fended them off with the sword, finally cutting all four in half and letting them fall on to the bar, which lit it on fire. Both of the Gerudos jumped off at that precise moment, but the human remained, jumping off the left sword and landing upright on the bar. She pulled out her sword and started dancing on the fire. As the music made its final beats, she started juggling the swords, slowly going higher. And finally, she threw one sword really far up and water fell, extinguishing the fire. She was drenched but managed to catch the sword in mid-air and flipped backwards out of view.
There was a loud applause, cheering, and people asking for an encore, Patch included. He was actually hoping that the human would once again come into view from behind the bar, but she never did it before the bartender stepped onto the bar and made another announcement. "I'm glad you all enjoyed our performance, and they will be performing for every weekend of the Hero Games. And if anyone wants to meet our performers, they shall see them in the Games. Their names are: Jackie (she stood up on the left side of the bar), Tanya (she stood up on the right side of the bar), and our best swordswoman, Luna! (she flipped out from behind the bar right in front of Patch and Jak to greet a tumultuous applause from the audience, but not Jak)"
At first Patch was curious whether or not she meant to land in front of them, but it became obvious when she looked shocked to see them.
"Uh, h-hello there," she said shakily.
"You did a great job... I wish I could do that with swords," Patch said with a nasty look from Jak.
Luna obviously noticed Jak's nasty look, but continued in spite of him, "I would be happy to show you any time you want." Patch loved to piss off Jak, so he said, "Well, how about now? I have all night."
"I'm sorry, but he can't. He has to get his sleep for tomorrow's match, but I'm sure you wouldn't understand that," Jak said sneeringly.
"On no, I understand perfectly. He is a Hyrulian after all... besides daylight is a much easier time to practice. I'll meet you after your second round, alright?"
"I'd be delighted," he said smiling at Jak, "if only you would let Jak, who is posing as my mother tonight, joins us as well."
She gave Jak a calculating look and answered before Jak could, "I'll see you then," and walked off toward the right side of the bar.
"I think she likes you," Patch laughed.
"Yea well, hell will freeze over before I join you two in 'practice'"
"I might be planning something more, but if you didn't notice, she was going to say she rather hump a pig than see me tonight."
"How do you know?"
"Because, I could read it in those pretty green eyes. Besides, if she wasn't going to slap me in those next couple of seconds, she would prove that blondes really are dumb," Patch laughed.
Jak just nodded as his friend ordered drinks from the bartender. Jak was thinking about tomorrow. He might have a chance to actually kill a human, but Luna was likely to bring a friend for protection anyway. That would be a little hard to explain if there were witnesses there too. Besides, he wasn't quite sure if Patch would be on his side if he did. He still couldn't believe Patch would dare flirt with a human, of all the races. And Jak had a feeling that Patch liked the human more than he showed. As he went to stare after where the human had disappeared, he was swiftly reminded of his little cousin, Princess Zelda. He was half surprised that the girl wasn't here yet. Or maybe she was, but she was in disguise. "Yea, that'd be more like her," Jak thought as he emptied his drink. He might actually see her tomorrow, now that he was going to look.
Then realizing what the time was, and how many drinks that Patch had, he stubbornly insisted that they go to the Corona's Inn. Patch put up a fight, but Jak slowly got Patch to come with him to the inn. As he left, he noticed a shadow over by the band's raised platform. When he looked, no one was there. Assuring himself that he was tired, he pushed Patch out of the bar, and into the inn, where he also shoved Patch all the way to their room and onto Patch's bed, where he in turn fell on his own bed, thinking of the human, Luna.