*Sings* I'm in love! I'm in love!!! But it's all messed up and I hate my hormones! Someone, shoot me now! *Stops singing* I really wish I was in Hyrule, then I wouldn't have all these problems!!!
~*Storm*~
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Penny
"Come ON Legolas!", I called from outside the room.
"I'm coming!", he called back, "You're the one who took all the time in the bathroom!".
"That is no excuse!", I yelled, looking down the corridor at Hillary and Link who were waiting for us, hand in hand grinning devilishly. I rolled my eyes and grinned and legolas came rushing out of the door.
"Okay! Okay! I'm ready now!", he said, breathing heavily. I linked my arm through his and we all went down a corridor. Link seemed to know the way so we followed him and Hillary.
We turned and went down a really huge marble stair case with a plush purple carpet running down the middle.
We all walked through a huge marble archway and into the massive dining room. It was beautiful, tapestries and purple banners everywhere. The table was narrow enough to talk over but so long I felt I could of roller bladed across it and still not reached the end after hours of trying…whatever I'm rambling be good for jackass though (A/N JACKASS RULES!!!).
People were milling around finding their seats, and the servants were scooting in and out between chairs, putting down huge silver platters, pouring drinks for seated Lords and ladies, and showing some of the unseated ones to their seats.
A servant approached us, she was young with shocking blue hair. I leaned towards Link. "Is that color natural?", I asked.
"Yeah, I don't know what you have in your world but we have a huge array of natural colors. The only one we hardly ever have is brown on women, it's seriously rare, that's probably why you'll get a lot of strange looks", he said back. I thought hard, trying to remember from the Nintendo game who did have brown hair. Cucco Lady was all I could think of, and even then, she had a slightly reddish tint to it. "Coooool!", I said to Hillary, "I'm rare!". She giggled.
"Penny, you moron!".
"Fine! I'll try someone else who is nicer!", I said with a grin, turning to Legolas. "Guess what honey! I'm rare!", I said proudly. He laughed.
"Of course, you're one of a kind", he smiled at me.
"Ya hear that Hill! I'm special!", I announced with a smug look. Hillary rolled her eyes, then suddenly jerked with a small yelp as Link grabbed her hand and strode off after the blue haired girl. Me and Legolas followed. We were seated in couples at opposite sides of the table. I was facing Link and Legolas was facing Hillary and Vice versa. Unfortunately we were near the head of the table and me and Link were right next to Zelda. She hadn't sat down yet but Link was making rude remarks and gagging noises while pointing to her seat so I got the point.
I sighed and looked down the table. 'Let's see', I thought to myself, 'one, two, three, four, five….'. I carried on counting solidly for the next thirty seconds.
"Forty seven", I said quietly. Link looked at me.
"Huh?", he said, frowning.
"There is a total of forty seven different expressions on the faces of people staring at my hair", I said to him. He looked down the table.
"Goddesses Penz, like, everyone is staring at you…".
"She could of dyed it Hilda!", I heard a voice say with exasperation. I listened in.
"No Harold! Look at her eyebrows! You don't dye your eyebrows! And no roots are showing! Oh Harold, why can't I have hair like that!?".
'In my world, everyone wants to be blonde, here they want to be brown……cunning', I thought to myself with a grin. I flicked my hair to show off. Hillary was giggling, "I cannot believe this!", she cried, "In our world everyone wants to be blonde!".
"Really?", said Link and Legolas in unison, grinning.
Suddenly, Zelda waltzed up to her place at the table, and gracefully banged a spoon on her glass to get everyone's attention.
"Thank you, thank you all for coming to this special dinner in honor of my 18th Birthday party it has been a fantastic life, although riddled with difficulties. Especially that of going into hiding from the evil king Ganondorf…".
'Hello, this is Penny reporting live from Hyrule castle. We interrupt Zelda's speech because it is too fucking boring. We will now bring on our animal psychologist to see what we can find interesting about anything in this room'. My thoughts carried on in a posh English, nature programme guy voice, 'As we listen to the birthday girl of the pack, we look around intently at the rest of the group gathered here. We see the male opposite the camera, digging for gold up his nasal passage. Again we see another, female of this fascinating species, next to the camera, looking intently with disgust at the male who is digging for gold. She has just hit him. This could turn out big. The Dominant Female who has been talking for the past couple of minutes about herself has just finished rambling, Tune in later to see if anything happens between gold digger, and his mate…'.
"…So it is with great honor, that I pronounce the feast, started!", Zelda FINALLY finished.
"Grub's up!", I said to Link who was sitting opposite me. I picked up my spoon and begun to lap up the soup from the bowl which had just been put in front of me.
"So…excuse me, I have forgotten your name", said Zelda to me.
"Oh It's Penny your majesty", I said with a really over-exaggerated grin.
"Oh! What an unusual name! It's rather nice, where does it originate from?".
I had to think quick, oh crud… "I believe it was of…uh, Gerudo origin, but then uh…higher classes begun to use it".
"Why yes of course!".
'Heh…sucker!', I thought to myself evilly.
"And what is yours", said Zelda flatly at Hillary, hardly even looking at her. "Hillary your highness", Hillary mumbled, she looked like she was about to explode.
"Oh…heard it before", said Zelda, extremely nastily. "And yours?", Zelda turned to Legolas, a seductive glint in her eyes. My eyes whisked straight to my knife, man I was murderous today!
"Uh…Legolas", legs said, shyly.
"That's a nice name", said Zelda sweetly, batting her eyelashes. This has GOT to stop! My eyes fell on a medium sized spider on the table next to my plate. I gently pushed it into my hand and a plan sprung up in my mind.
"I'm terribly sorry to interrupt Zelda, but there is a spider in your hair…", I grinned.
Link
Zelda's eyes shot to their widest I'd ever seen them and she leapt up squealing and slapping at her hair.
"Hold still and let me get it for you", I heard Penny say over the screams. Penny got up and started rooting through Zelda's blonde hair. It's funny to think I hadn't noticed anything black that crawled before Penny got up but there the spider was. It crawled over onto Zelda's forehead and past her eye. Here came the worst bit…Zelda saw it.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!! SPIDER!!!", she screeched, clawing at her face. Hillary was practically on the floor she was laughing too hard. By now many people were getting up trying to get the spider away. Penny was having a whale of a time ordering people about.
"It's on her neck! It's down her dress!", at this many young men leapt out of their seats to help.
"GET IT OFFFFFFFFFFF MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!", yelled Zelda at the top of her voice.
"Oh for crying out loud!", said Impa sternly, marching over. Everyone backed off as she went straight in and easily picked out the offending arachnid. Zelda staggered over to her chair and Penny knelt down beside her.
"Are you okay princess? That was terrible, do you want me to ask for a glass of water?". I knew Penny was completely taking the piss, but the word piss wasn't even in Zelda's vocabulary so she thought Penny was just being a nice polite young girl.
"No, no thank you for your help Penny, I'll be alright".
Penny sat down again, and found that her main course was winking her in the face. "Oh…fine!", she said, picking up her knife and fork.
I looked over at Hillary and noticed she was eating in the informal 'peasant', way as Zelda liked to call it… bitch.
"Psst, Hill", Penny whispered, she'd obviously noticed as well. "Turn your fork over and put it in your left hand! They're eating in the English way!!!".
Hillary hastily copied us as she knew Zelda would probably use it as an excuse to shame her. I hated it when Zelda did this, to all my girlfriends…although I hadn't dated properly before…forget it!
We finished the main course, and we talked for a bit before dessert came. There wasn't really much to say because no one said anything interesting…but…finally dessert came, vanilla ice cream, laced with strawberries and sugar.
Penny's was gone within about two seconds flat. "That was absolutely spiffing!", she joked.
"Jolly good!", Zelda said back. Penny looked like she was about to piss herself she was trying so hard not to laugh.
I hadn't noticed the music before playing softly from the musicians in the corner, but suddenly they struck up quite loudly with a waltz. Within about three seconds, Zelda was next to me, "Link, may I have this dance?".
As much as I wanted to, you NEVER say no to Zelda and Live to get away with it. "Sure Zelda", I smiled weakly and got up onto the dance floor. This was so embarrassing, the first dance, and all eyes are on you. I ain't kissing her at the end! NO FUCKING WAY!!! Hillary would KILL me!
Legolas
I had to stifle a laugh as Link slowly made his way round the dance floor with Zelda. He was bright red from embarrassment and kept making "Help me", faces at Hillary who just shook her head with an amused smile on her lips. Finally the dance ended, Zelda pouted her lips, looking ready for a kiss. Link hesitated, kissed her on the cheek, very quickly like she was about to burn him, and then hurriedly asked Hillary to dance. I noticed by now that a lot of couples were getting up for a dance. And I couldn't fail to notice the group of young men who were making for Penny.
"Penny, do you want to dance". I asked her.
"Well I'm a bit…".
"Just do it okay!? There's a group of…ugly men making for you".
"WHAT?", she yelled, leaping up. I grabbed her hand and lead her on to the dance floor, and copied whatever dance everyone else was doing. I saw the group of young men waiting at the edge of the dance floor like vultures.
"The brown haired one is mine!", announced the tallest one. He looked highly suspicious, he had ginger hair, one bright violet eye, the other was glazed over and pale blue with a scar running through it. (A/N recognise him Hill? Hee hee! My favourite villain!!!)
"I want the red head", said another, slightly shorter one with blood red hair.
"Is that the bunch of guys?", Penny whispered in my ear.
"Yeah, that's them", I answered back.
"They look like a bunch of pirates!", Penny giggled. "I thought you said they were ugly!".
"They are!", I retorted, I didn't think much of them at all.
"Well come on, they're not going to leave us alone until I dance with Mr. bossy boots in the middle are they? Just let him ask me, then I'll come back to you, coz they really are just popping up everywhere I look!".
"Y-you….you won't kiss him will you?", I asked somewhat stupidly.
"Hell NO!", Penny cried. The dance ended, so I kissed her gently, and she went off to get a drink. I was about to walk off the dance floor when the blond princess girl came up to me.
"Would you care to dance?", she asked sweetly.
"Err……ok?", I stammered, she dragged me rather forcefully into a grip and we begun to dance.
I watched over her shoulder as Penny was approached by the young man, and asked to dance. She accepted without a smile or anything really, and moved onto the dance floor with him.
I looked around and saw Hillary dancing with the blood red-haired man and Link was talking to Impa, holding a glass of something alcoholic no doubt.
I could feel the dance coming to and end as the music slowed down. As it ended Zelda stepped slightly away from me.
"You're a very good dancer you know, thank you very much", she said seductively. I blinked and stared, there was something very strange about her eyes, they'd gone a funny purple color…wow….pretty……what's happening…. I feel……so…..so drowsy……Then I blacked out…but I didn't feel myself hit the floor, what was happening? Something that would ruin the whole evening, that's what was happening, but I had no control over it, and no idea what was going on…
Penny
So I was dancing with this dude called Lethys (A/N If you didn't get it in the description Hills, I'm bloody sure you'll get it now!) He seemed a nice enough guy, if not a little bit pirate looking. He kept asking me all this stuff about my necklace, and I was getting thoroughly annoyed about it. The dance ended and I started walking away from him, after saying thank you of course. I picked up a glass of punch and looked around for my friends. Hillary was walking over to and so was Link, but where the hell was…
My eyes fell on him, and I felt my heart shatter. He was standing with Zelda, KISSING HER! TONGUES AND ALL! And what's more he looked like he was enjoying it. My mouth fell open in shock and I heard the glass smash to the floor. I didn't care about al the people who turned to see what had happened. My eyes stung with tears, and within seconds I found myself running out of the hall, a river of tears streaming down my face. I ran up the purple carpeted staircase two at a time, and tripped near the top, but I didn't care, and ran along the corridor, bashing into the walls, and sobbing so much I couldn't run. I heard footsteps behind me and a strong hand grabbed my shoulder firmly but gently. Link held me against the wall and looked into my eyes.
"Penny! STOP! What the hell is wrong with you!!??". He asked sternly.
"Legolas……..with….Zelda……", I managed to get out, but it hurt so much I couldn't talk.
"What..??? What were they doing?". He asked me, a look of great concern spreading across his face, as he begun to see how much emotional pain I was in.
"…….k-k-…….kissing…….", I managed before bursting into a wave of fresh tears, racking sobs echoed down the corridor, and I buried my face in Link's chest as he drew me into a warm, comforting hug.
"I can't believe he'd do such a thing…it must be one of her spiteful tricks Penny, don't be upset".
I just carried on crying, and Link knew there was nothing he could say to stop me. More footsteps were heard as Hillary and Legolas came thundering up the stairs. At the site of Legolas I felt like my heart and soul had been ripped out and dashed on a rock. I hid my face in Link's chest.
"What happened?", said Legolas. I can't believe he said that!
"You of all people should know!", Link snapped angrily.
"Legolas, we all saw you, don't lie about it", said Hillary, more calmly, but still with flames in her voice.
Link dragged me away to my room, leaving Hillary to tell Legolas what he'd done.
Legolas
"I WHAT???", I roared, as Hillary told me what she'd seen.
"Yes, and then before I knew it Penny was sprinting out of the hall in floods of tears".
I leant against the wall shaking my head in utter disbelief.
"But I promise, I'd never do that…".
"Then why did you do it!", said Hillary sounding exasperated.
"I don't know, It was like, one moment I was dancing with her, her eyes went purple, I blacked out and then, there was you, dragging me out of the hall telling me that Penny was crying…".
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Rewind! Her eyes did what?".
"Went all purple and swirly…".
"Hmm…sounds like the bitch hypnotised you. Don't worry legs, Penny is a really forgiving person, and you'll be back together in no time, it's just she has to get over the shock". Hillary comforted me, but I still felt awful. It hurt so much inside, to know I was the cause of her pain. The only girl I've ever truly loved and I blew it.
Hillary went up the corridor and into mine and Penny's room where it sounded like link was talking to her.
'I can't believe the bitch did that, I never should of said yes…', I thought to myself in vain.
Link came out, he looked like a thundercloud. "Tell me what happened", he said flatly and angrily. I told him what I'd told Hillary. Link's face softened.
"Bitch…", he muttered. "That's all she ever does, she always tries to hurt my friends so she can have me to herself". He looked around and sighed. "Go in and talk to Penny, she'll be fine by the morning, so don't worry about it".
I thanked Link for his help and went on into my room. I saw Penny out on the balcony and hesitated, before deciding to join her.
Penny
I was standing on the balcony when I heard Legolas come in. I felt slightly sorry for him, I didn't want to appear this upset, everyone gets carried away at dances, it was probably just a spur of the moment thing… but there was something about it which really hurt me bad, right there where my heart was felt empty and used. He came and stood next to me.
"Penny…? I'm….I'm really, really sorry about what happened, it wasn't meant to….I just…. I couldn't…..".
"Legolas…", I said sadly, turning around and shaking my head slowly, "Please, just…let me sleep on it ok?". I turned away again, and immediately felt awful. I know that had just hurt him…a lot.
I stayed out on the balcony for a long time just thinking it all over and about what Hillary had told me…
Legolas had been in bed with the lights turned out for about fifteen minutes when I decided to settle down and go to sleep. I changed into a nightdress provided by the castle and slipped between the sheets. Just as my head hit the pillow I drifted off to sleep.
#~#~# I was by a waterfall looking out into the pool it fell into, but there was no noise from the waterfall, just the gentle lapping of the water. Everything had a slightly green tinge to it, including the steamy mist that floated around everywhere.
A figure moved towards me through the mist. I was scared for a moment, but then emerged a beautiful unicorn ridden by a woman, she had pale green skin, deep evergreen hair and eyes of green flame.
I immediately recognised her as Farore. "You are the girl with my necklace", she said with a kindly smile. "Well, it has my power inside it, but it is really that of my sister, Din".
I was puzzled, but then I thought of the green flame that had mysteriously appeared inside my necklace. I noticed that the longer I'd stayed in Hyrule, the more power it was gathering.
"That's right child. Don't be afraid of it, but the power is slowly seeping into the wearer…you…You may of noticed a couple of strange powers since the green flame appeared..telepathy being one of them".
"Yes", I said, speaking for the first time. "Yes I have, but excuse me for asking, but it has your power, but you say it is not your necklace…???".
"Ahh yes, well the symbol is wrong, that is why the magic is growing very slowly inside it. But not to worry, the symbol will soon change from the Dragon of Din to the Unicorn of Farore. Please be careful with it Penny, Ganondorf has the two other necklaces, which are also jumbled around. Din's power is growing inside Nayru's phoenix and Nayru's power is growing inside my unicorn, but you see we did this to slow down the power gathering process so Ganondorf would hopefully be stopped before it could gather completely, and allow him total freedom from his prison… and perhaps access to the triforce again".
"Why do I need to know this?", I asked the goddess. She smiled.
"You are now the protector of this necklace. I will let you depart back to your world now, but before you go, please listen to me. Your love, Legolas, it is not his fault, the whole thing was a set up by Ganondorf's special powers of Heart break so hopefully you would kill yourself in your grief leading to the easy access of the necklace. Thank my sisters, you have a strong heart, and would not be so foolish as to commit suicide. Please forgive Legolas".
"I will", as I said this, a green light surrounded me, and I felt myself being dragged back into the world of the conscious again.
"Oh and Penny… don't trust Lethys…", those were the last words I heard, in this heart mending dream.#~#~#
I awoke with a start and sat bolt upright in bed. Legolas sat up too.
"Gods, are you okay?", he asked.
"NO!", I wailed, embracing him tightly, "I've been so nasty and so foolish, can you ever forgive me??".
"Of course I can", he smiled, kissing me lightly on the forehead.
"Oh gosh, how can I ever repay you?". I said. Legolas said nothing, but I felt a hand slide up my thigh. I looked into his eyes, before kissing him passionately, straddling his body, and letting him work his magic…
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WickedOne: I'm….shocked…..you….you…
Storm-child: Isn't it so sweet? So romantic?
WickedOne: Cool! SEX!!!
Storm-child: Trust you to put it so bluntly!!!
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