CH. 7
Mevy: We don't own Zelda and it's really late and I don't want to do author notes right now.
"Oh great Deku Tree, now that we have slain the monster and are covered in its nasty, greenish guts, may we have some Faeries please?" Shanti asked.
"Thank you for freeing me from her grasp, I don't think Faeries would be too much to ask." He said.
"Climb to the topmost branches and then call for them."
"Ren, you know how to climb a tree right?"
"Why do you think I wear pants? Of course!" She said, already halfway up the tree.
"Man girl, you are like a monkey! I mean, you climb fast, and you look just like one too!" Shanti teased.
"Yeah yeah well at least I'm not a FISH." Ren shot back, already at the top and playing with her Faerie.
"Oh you're so cute! Yes you are! What's your name little Faerie? Aww you are so CUTE!" Ren said playing with it like it was a cat.
"Would the Emerald be too much to ask, oh Great Deku Tree?" Renzoku found herself getting back to focused mode.
"Yes, unless you can prove that you indeed deserve it by finding the person who shares their body with Zelda's soul."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!" Shanti asked, now playing with HER Faerie.
"Let me tell you a story. Once there was a great attack on Hyrule from Ganondorf and his army."
Renzoku fumed. *IT WASN'T GANONDORF'S ARMY IT WAS NIKU'S!!! *
"The princess Zelda was mercilessly slaughtered, and thus given a chance to live inside a persons soul. Now the time has come where the person who shares the soul with Zelda must come fourth to save us, I save the Emerald for only her."
"No, no Mr. Deku Tree, you have it all wrong! You see the army was lead by a guy who worked under Ganondorf named Hikari, who went by Niku. He sent a scout to find and kill the princess. This scout was a guy, but I shant speak his name. Well Zelda was mean and terrible and tortured the scout after I begged her not to. So then I killed her, and her father told me that I owed fate and that in seven years I would have to go on a journey to find Zelda! Zelda was the cruel person! Then I met up with this freaky fish girl and I have been searching for her ever since!"
"YOU killed the Princess Zelda?!" Both the Deku Tree and Shanti stared in amazement. "How old are you really?"
"I don't want to get into that right now, but I am 15, I killed her when I was very young."
"I see...well in any case I can't believe that! And the only reason you have been around me is for protection until you find Zelda?"
"That is pretty much it. Yeah. Then I found out you were lesbo so I might have to get a new bodyguard soon..." Ren winked at Shanti, both smiled. "Ok Deku Tree, we will find her." CH. 6 (cont., in a way.........)
Mevy: Blame it on Kirsty.
Kirsty: Oh yes, blame EVERYTHING on poor little me!!
Mevy: NO, not everything.
Kirsty: Yeah? Like what??
Mevy: Us getting an A in math on our project.
Kirsty: *glares* Alright, so we don't own Zelda blah bahblah...
Mevy: Just read and Review.
Shanti, Zekkag and Renzoku had had a nights sleep. It wasn't good or bad, just sleep.
Renzoku had changed into a new outfit; it was very cool. The shirt was a V cut, it hooked at the chest with a Triforce pin, and the shirt ended at her waist, the sleeves at her wrists, and there was a big pentagon cut out of the front of the stomach area and lined with black velvet. Anywhere where a seam could possibly be was also lined in velvet (e.g. the shoulder to the end of the sleeve, the armpit to the end of the sleeve, the armpit down to the end of the shirt, etc.) The part of the V that touched her bare skin was also lined with velvet. There was a belt around her stomach, at approximately the middle of the pentagon, and another around her neck like a choker. She had ribbons tied around her arms and below the knees still. Her shoes were like combat boots with heels (a/n finally I found a decent pair of shoes for her!) and her socks went up to about an inch under the ribbons. She wore black gloves that cut off at the fingers. She also wore a see through cape that ended at the end of the short shorts that she was wearing. These were velvet lined at the seams too. They cut up so the longest part of the shorts was the inside of the leg. It was a cool outfit! And even though she was excited about the new emerald-green-and-black- lining-outfit, she was groggy and didn't want to move.
Shanti stood. "Well, if we are ever gonna find her, we have to get up and get moving. Hey, if there is a Zelda, do you think that there is a...a Hero of Time too?" she asked. She helped Renzoku up to her feet. Renzoku's eyes went nearly blank. She stared at something over Shanti's shoulder, suddenly, her eyes regained their former shine but she saw something new in them. Fire, hate, sadness, and something that resembled.........betrayal? Well, whatever the case, it wasn't there before. Renzoku suddenly smiled, drew her ivory, engraved bow and nocked a silver arrow, and, pointing directly over Shanti's shoulder, shot.
"Since when did you have that?!" Shanti wondered aloud.
"Since I met you...didn't you notice it on my back?"
"No.........no wonder you were so heavy!" Shanti remembered carrying her up the river.
The next thing Shanti heard was silver hitting the ground. "What a welcome. I never expected YOU to ever pick up a weapon." an unfamiliar voice spoke out. "I never expected you to do a lot of things. Like that there. How did you do that?" Ren asked, clearly uninterested by the large aura that had protected the person and just suddenly faded soon after. "Oh, just something fate tends to throw me whenever someone tries to kill me before my time, that's all." the voice replied. Clearly a males. "Really...then I can't kill you until you solve our problem? Darn it." Shanti finally decided to turn around. Standing in front of her was a boy; he looked to be about 25.
"So, do you go by Hikari or by Niku nowadays?" Ren asked. "Niku, but you can call me Hikari if you WANT" he replied. "Shanti, this is Niku, responsible for what you saw behind my eyes a few minutes ago."
Shanti had become used to things like that. She had learned to accept the fact that Renzoku was omnipotent... *wonder who this guy is...he must be a total jerk!* She thought to herself, hoping Ren wouldn't pick it up. Niku approached her and waved a hand over her face, she suddenly looked a lot older. Her eyes became smaller and bitter, her face more narrow, she had aged past 15, *How old IS she?* "So then, if I can't kill you by my weapon, maybe..." Renzoku thought for a minute. "Maybe I will just find your purpose in life, make you fulfil it, then kill you..." She pondered, grinning psychotically. "Stop. First of all, who IS this guy? I don't want some stupid guy hanging out with us on our mission just because you want your revenge on him!"
"But I WANT him to come with us. He HAS to. He is a part of the mission. I will explain later. Just, right now..." Quick as lightning, she ran off. "So, YOU are the one responsible for her mysterious past. I know your name is Hikari, but... Just who are you?" Shanti confused herself. " I cannot tell you if you don't already know. My name is Hikari but call me Niku." the boy replied. He had brownish blonde hair, he was fairly tall, and he didn't carry a weapon. Just some sort of staff. And he looked as if he had the same or similar past as Renzoku. "Well, I don't know about anyone's past but my own and you won't be here much longer unless you tell me yours!" She said, getting angry. "Fine, then I won't be here much longer." With that he ran off after Renzoku.
Shanti sat down under a large tree next to Zekkag. Tree...they could maybe ask the Great Deku Tree? He may know a good method of finding Zelda! The Great Deku tree IS wise beyond all reason right? *That name sounds familiar...when did I hear it before? Hikari/Niku...yeah that's it! He was the person leading the army under Ganondorf! So, I wonder what is up between them, forbidden love? Maybe, who knows...* She shuddered at the thought of someone working under Ganondorf following them, and then started mumbling something about Hikari/Niku and Zelda and Renzoku (which earned her a look from Zekkag) and soon drifted...
"Guess I could take a walk now if I want to..." Zekkag got up and started wandering around aimlessly.
"Leave me alone." Ren said coldly. "I will. But just, tell me, if I have never seen you do it before, why are you crying now? After all you went through, and you swore to him never to cry again, and now suddenly I have a whole Zora river of my own!" Niku was being very vague. "That's because YOU are here! And I don't think he would mind if I cried every once in a while!" Ren snapped. "What's so bad about me being here? We used to be ENGAGED if you will remember..." Niku sulked. "Yeah, I do remember. But now I am Shanti's friend and I HATE you." Something inside this girl was saying run away from all your problems! She listened to this instinct.
Approaching a sleeping Shanti, she whispered "You must have had it rough too, kiddo, but not like me. Not like me at all." "Yeah, I bet you had it a lot tougher than me, and I bet the whole thing was a tragic and romantic horror story that would make me throw up again. How old are you in reality?" Shanti asked, waking up. "Umm.... well, I'm 21 if you want to know!" Renzoku covered her mouth. BUSTED! "21? Wow, how do you DO it? You always seem to be a little, annoying, selfish, bratty..." Shanti gritted her teeth, closed her eyes and clenched her fist and looked as if she was trying to calm down. "Ball of energy who can fight off enemies." Shanti finished, finally calmed.
Niku had finally caught up, giving a whole speech on "Do you remember what you used to tell me every morning when we saw each other around the castle?" And then there was a good long thing about how they were supposed to get married and never did. God, this guy is almost as annoying and corny as Renzoku..."I heard that! And I am NOT corny!" Renzoku whacked Shanti on the back of the head. Shanti growled and Renzoku, like a little girl scared off a large dog, ran and hid behind Niku. "Is it safe?" she whispered. "No, you just got here." "I know. I wanna leave. ASAP." Ren replied softly. "You said that last time too." He replied.
"I can't help it anymore. Niku...I...don't leave me alone again, Niku, it hurts so badly..." She was crying hot tears that hit the backs of her hands and nearly burnt them. She came around to the front of him and smiled, still crying a little and put a hand on his cheek. She let it slide and flung herself into his chest sobbing the words "No" and "I can't help it". He pushed her away from him and slapped her across the face; it looked painful. "You are breaking down. Leave me out of it. It's not MY fault for what happened to you. YOU were the one who chose to run away. Then you came back and we were going to get married, but you left again! With only an excuse about how you owed fate! When you told me that...when you told me that you would do all that stuff, I knew you didn't mean it, and I know you don't now!"
Her eyes glazed over; she was having a flashback. Kidnapped. Niku had kidnapped her. Ganondorf needed a psychic such as herself in a master plan to attack Hyrule at just the precise moment when victory was inevitable. She fell in love with her kidnapper, somehow she saw through the evils that he showed her day in and day out. Finally, gradually accepting it, Niku had lightened up a lot, and decided that he loved her too. He much later proposed, and she had a vision. A horrible vision. So she had to run away to find herself, and to prevent things from happening. Niku heard her trying to sneak out that night and told her to keep the ring, and held the door open for her as she left. She told him that she loved him and that they would meet again.
Along the way, many terrible things happened to her, which I won't get into in this chapter. She was heartbroken and didn't care about a thing that happened to her after that, and she realized that destiny had only designed her for one person, and she had run away from him. Renzoku decided that her only real option was to return to Niku. So she did. Soon after the war where she killed Zelda, she had found Niku and told him that once everything was over and her debt to the royal family repaid...then they would get married. She had to repay the debt though, and that would require waiting seven years. *Why did I have to be the one? Why did all that terrible stuff happen to me? Why don't I feel emotions too deeply anymore? Why won't Shanti just let me DIE?*
"HELLO?! Anybody there?!" Shanti screamed at her. "FINALLY I got your attention! Now, what is UP with him? If you hate him so much then why don't you just let him go!" Zekkag had been standing there for quite some time and decided to put in his two cents. "Yeah, let him leave and never think back on it again." "I can't do that." Ren said firmly. "I can't just let him go. I love him no matter how much he hates me. There is another reason he has to come. We need him because he can sense where Zelda is. We need him because he is the descendant of..."
"OF WHO?!" Shanti nearly fell over in suspense. "Of the Hero of Time."
A/N YEAH! So Niku can sense out where Zelda is and everything will be peachy! Peachy...*cries* NOOOOOOOO
Mevy: What's up with you?
Kirsty: it's part of Ren's past....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *sobs*
Mevy: 0_o
Kirsty: Anyway, I love Renzoku's new outfit! And uh...yeah. It wasn't all THAT romantic as I thought, but the whole 3 chapters of Renzoku's past is...I can't wait to post that, but there are spoilers to the end of this fiction in the Authors Notes so I can't! NOOOOOO oh well, I'm going insane.
Mevy: You already are. You're affecting us all. That's why this isn't edited.
Kirsty: Of course ^^ well r+r peoples!
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Mevy: We don't own Zelda and it's really late and I don't want to do author notes right now.
"Oh great Deku Tree, now that we have slain the monster and are covered in its nasty, greenish guts, may we have some Faeries please?" Shanti asked.
"Thank you for freeing me from her grasp, I don't think Faeries would be too much to ask." He said.
"Climb to the topmost branches and then call for them."
"Ren, you know how to climb a tree right?"
"Why do you think I wear pants? Of course!" She said, already halfway up the tree.
"Man girl, you are like a monkey! I mean, you climb fast, and you look just like one too!" Shanti teased.
"Yeah yeah well at least I'm not a FISH." Ren shot back, already at the top and playing with her Faerie.
"Oh you're so cute! Yes you are! What's your name little Faerie? Aww you are so CUTE!" Ren said playing with it like it was a cat.
"Would the Emerald be too much to ask, oh Great Deku Tree?" Renzoku found herself getting back to focused mode.
"Yes, unless you can prove that you indeed deserve it by finding the person who shares their body with Zelda's soul."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!" Shanti asked, now playing with HER Faerie.
"Let me tell you a story. Once there was a great attack on Hyrule from Ganondorf and his army."
Renzoku fumed. *IT WASN'T GANONDORF'S ARMY IT WAS NIKU'S!!! *
"The princess Zelda was mercilessly slaughtered, and thus given a chance to live inside a persons soul. Now the time has come where the person who shares the soul with Zelda must come fourth to save us, I save the Emerald for only her."
"No, no Mr. Deku Tree, you have it all wrong! You see the army was lead by a guy who worked under Ganondorf named Hikari, who went by Niku. He sent a scout to find and kill the princess. This scout was a guy, but I shant speak his name. Well Zelda was mean and terrible and tortured the scout after I begged her not to. So then I killed her, and her father told me that I owed fate and that in seven years I would have to go on a journey to find Zelda! Zelda was the cruel person! Then I met up with this freaky fish girl and I have been searching for her ever since!"
"YOU killed the Princess Zelda?!" Both the Deku Tree and Shanti stared in amazement. "How old are you really?"
"I don't want to get into that right now, but I am 15, I killed her when I was very young."
"I see...well in any case I can't believe that! And the only reason you have been around me is for protection until you find Zelda?"
"That is pretty much it. Yeah. Then I found out you were lesbo so I might have to get a new bodyguard soon..." Ren winked at Shanti, both smiled. "Ok Deku Tree, we will find her." CH. 6 (cont., in a way.........)
Mevy: Blame it on Kirsty.
Kirsty: Oh yes, blame EVERYTHING on poor little me!!
Mevy: NO, not everything.
Kirsty: Yeah? Like what??
Mevy: Us getting an A in math on our project.
Kirsty: *glares* Alright, so we don't own Zelda blah bahblah...
Mevy: Just read and Review.
Shanti, Zekkag and Renzoku had had a nights sleep. It wasn't good or bad, just sleep.
Renzoku had changed into a new outfit; it was very cool. The shirt was a V cut, it hooked at the chest with a Triforce pin, and the shirt ended at her waist, the sleeves at her wrists, and there was a big pentagon cut out of the front of the stomach area and lined with black velvet. Anywhere where a seam could possibly be was also lined in velvet (e.g. the shoulder to the end of the sleeve, the armpit to the end of the sleeve, the armpit down to the end of the shirt, etc.) The part of the V that touched her bare skin was also lined with velvet. There was a belt around her stomach, at approximately the middle of the pentagon, and another around her neck like a choker. She had ribbons tied around her arms and below the knees still. Her shoes were like combat boots with heels (a/n finally I found a decent pair of shoes for her!) and her socks went up to about an inch under the ribbons. She wore black gloves that cut off at the fingers. She also wore a see through cape that ended at the end of the short shorts that she was wearing. These were velvet lined at the seams too. They cut up so the longest part of the shorts was the inside of the leg. It was a cool outfit! And even though she was excited about the new emerald-green-and-black- lining-outfit, she was groggy and didn't want to move.
Shanti stood. "Well, if we are ever gonna find her, we have to get up and get moving. Hey, if there is a Zelda, do you think that there is a...a Hero of Time too?" she asked. She helped Renzoku up to her feet. Renzoku's eyes went nearly blank. She stared at something over Shanti's shoulder, suddenly, her eyes regained their former shine but she saw something new in them. Fire, hate, sadness, and something that resembled.........betrayal? Well, whatever the case, it wasn't there before. Renzoku suddenly smiled, drew her ivory, engraved bow and nocked a silver arrow, and, pointing directly over Shanti's shoulder, shot.
"Since when did you have that?!" Shanti wondered aloud.
"Since I met you...didn't you notice it on my back?"
"No.........no wonder you were so heavy!" Shanti remembered carrying her up the river.
The next thing Shanti heard was silver hitting the ground. "What a welcome. I never expected YOU to ever pick up a weapon." an unfamiliar voice spoke out. "I never expected you to do a lot of things. Like that there. How did you do that?" Ren asked, clearly uninterested by the large aura that had protected the person and just suddenly faded soon after. "Oh, just something fate tends to throw me whenever someone tries to kill me before my time, that's all." the voice replied. Clearly a males. "Really...then I can't kill you until you solve our problem? Darn it." Shanti finally decided to turn around. Standing in front of her was a boy; he looked to be about 25.
"So, do you go by Hikari or by Niku nowadays?" Ren asked. "Niku, but you can call me Hikari if you WANT" he replied. "Shanti, this is Niku, responsible for what you saw behind my eyes a few minutes ago."
Shanti had become used to things like that. She had learned to accept the fact that Renzoku was omnipotent... *wonder who this guy is...he must be a total jerk!* She thought to herself, hoping Ren wouldn't pick it up. Niku approached her and waved a hand over her face, she suddenly looked a lot older. Her eyes became smaller and bitter, her face more narrow, she had aged past 15, *How old IS she?* "So then, if I can't kill you by my weapon, maybe..." Renzoku thought for a minute. "Maybe I will just find your purpose in life, make you fulfil it, then kill you..." She pondered, grinning psychotically. "Stop. First of all, who IS this guy? I don't want some stupid guy hanging out with us on our mission just because you want your revenge on him!"
"But I WANT him to come with us. He HAS to. He is a part of the mission. I will explain later. Just, right now..." Quick as lightning, she ran off. "So, YOU are the one responsible for her mysterious past. I know your name is Hikari, but... Just who are you?" Shanti confused herself. " I cannot tell you if you don't already know. My name is Hikari but call me Niku." the boy replied. He had brownish blonde hair, he was fairly tall, and he didn't carry a weapon. Just some sort of staff. And he looked as if he had the same or similar past as Renzoku. "Well, I don't know about anyone's past but my own and you won't be here much longer unless you tell me yours!" She said, getting angry. "Fine, then I won't be here much longer." With that he ran off after Renzoku.
Shanti sat down under a large tree next to Zekkag. Tree...they could maybe ask the Great Deku Tree? He may know a good method of finding Zelda! The Great Deku tree IS wise beyond all reason right? *That name sounds familiar...when did I hear it before? Hikari/Niku...yeah that's it! He was the person leading the army under Ganondorf! So, I wonder what is up between them, forbidden love? Maybe, who knows...* She shuddered at the thought of someone working under Ganondorf following them, and then started mumbling something about Hikari/Niku and Zelda and Renzoku (which earned her a look from Zekkag) and soon drifted...
"Guess I could take a walk now if I want to..." Zekkag got up and started wandering around aimlessly.
"Leave me alone." Ren said coldly. "I will. But just, tell me, if I have never seen you do it before, why are you crying now? After all you went through, and you swore to him never to cry again, and now suddenly I have a whole Zora river of my own!" Niku was being very vague. "That's because YOU are here! And I don't think he would mind if I cried every once in a while!" Ren snapped. "What's so bad about me being here? We used to be ENGAGED if you will remember..." Niku sulked. "Yeah, I do remember. But now I am Shanti's friend and I HATE you." Something inside this girl was saying run away from all your problems! She listened to this instinct.
Approaching a sleeping Shanti, she whispered "You must have had it rough too, kiddo, but not like me. Not like me at all." "Yeah, I bet you had it a lot tougher than me, and I bet the whole thing was a tragic and romantic horror story that would make me throw up again. How old are you in reality?" Shanti asked, waking up. "Umm.... well, I'm 21 if you want to know!" Renzoku covered her mouth. BUSTED! "21? Wow, how do you DO it? You always seem to be a little, annoying, selfish, bratty..." Shanti gritted her teeth, closed her eyes and clenched her fist and looked as if she was trying to calm down. "Ball of energy who can fight off enemies." Shanti finished, finally calmed.
Niku had finally caught up, giving a whole speech on "Do you remember what you used to tell me every morning when we saw each other around the castle?" And then there was a good long thing about how they were supposed to get married and never did. God, this guy is almost as annoying and corny as Renzoku..."I heard that! And I am NOT corny!" Renzoku whacked Shanti on the back of the head. Shanti growled and Renzoku, like a little girl scared off a large dog, ran and hid behind Niku. "Is it safe?" she whispered. "No, you just got here." "I know. I wanna leave. ASAP." Ren replied softly. "You said that last time too." He replied.
"I can't help it anymore. Niku...I...don't leave me alone again, Niku, it hurts so badly..." She was crying hot tears that hit the backs of her hands and nearly burnt them. She came around to the front of him and smiled, still crying a little and put a hand on his cheek. She let it slide and flung herself into his chest sobbing the words "No" and "I can't help it". He pushed her away from him and slapped her across the face; it looked painful. "You are breaking down. Leave me out of it. It's not MY fault for what happened to you. YOU were the one who chose to run away. Then you came back and we were going to get married, but you left again! With only an excuse about how you owed fate! When you told me that...when you told me that you would do all that stuff, I knew you didn't mean it, and I know you don't now!"
Her eyes glazed over; she was having a flashback. Kidnapped. Niku had kidnapped her. Ganondorf needed a psychic such as herself in a master plan to attack Hyrule at just the precise moment when victory was inevitable. She fell in love with her kidnapper, somehow she saw through the evils that he showed her day in and day out. Finally, gradually accepting it, Niku had lightened up a lot, and decided that he loved her too. He much later proposed, and she had a vision. A horrible vision. So she had to run away to find herself, and to prevent things from happening. Niku heard her trying to sneak out that night and told her to keep the ring, and held the door open for her as she left. She told him that she loved him and that they would meet again.
Along the way, many terrible things happened to her, which I won't get into in this chapter. She was heartbroken and didn't care about a thing that happened to her after that, and she realized that destiny had only designed her for one person, and she had run away from him. Renzoku decided that her only real option was to return to Niku. So she did. Soon after the war where she killed Zelda, she had found Niku and told him that once everything was over and her debt to the royal family repaid...then they would get married. She had to repay the debt though, and that would require waiting seven years. *Why did I have to be the one? Why did all that terrible stuff happen to me? Why don't I feel emotions too deeply anymore? Why won't Shanti just let me DIE?*
"HELLO?! Anybody there?!" Shanti screamed at her. "FINALLY I got your attention! Now, what is UP with him? If you hate him so much then why don't you just let him go!" Zekkag had been standing there for quite some time and decided to put in his two cents. "Yeah, let him leave and never think back on it again." "I can't do that." Ren said firmly. "I can't just let him go. I love him no matter how much he hates me. There is another reason he has to come. We need him because he can sense where Zelda is. We need him because he is the descendant of..."
"OF WHO?!" Shanti nearly fell over in suspense. "Of the Hero of Time."
A/N YEAH! So Niku can sense out where Zelda is and everything will be peachy! Peachy...*cries* NOOOOOOOO
Mevy: What's up with you?
Kirsty: it's part of Ren's past....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *sobs*
Mevy: 0_o
Kirsty: Anyway, I love Renzoku's new outfit! And uh...yeah. It wasn't all THAT romantic as I thought, but the whole 3 chapters of Renzoku's past is...I can't wait to post that, but there are spoilers to the end of this fiction in the Authors Notes so I can't! NOOOOOO oh well, I'm going insane.
Mevy: You already are. You're affecting us all. That's why this isn't edited.
Kirsty: Of course ^^ well r+r peoples!
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