HYRULE'S SECOND RELIC:
CHAPTER 10:
Zelda was in a briefing room with her father and there before them was Link and beside him Tayl and Katina.
"So the summary of the whole meeting today would be that this girl, Tayl, was looking for you, and that was why she trespassed into the castle and the sole same who was asking around about you." The King said.
"That pretty much sums my intentions, your majesty." Tayl said, bowing her head.
"And you two......know each other...." Zelda added.
There was a glint of laughter in the green eyes the two girls shared. Link ever since he had seen the two together couldn't help but look between them. They definitely looked the same in some ways. There was something there he was missing.....just what was it?"
"We don't just know each other, your Majesty...." Tayl said with a roguish grin.
Zelda looked to Katina for an answer.
"Tayl is....my cousin." Katina supplied.
Now even the King and Zelda were looking from one to the other. They both had those startling green eyes, although Katina's were brighter and more shocking, Tayl's seemed a little more watered down in colour.
"Is that a bad thing to be related to this great pain in the ass?" Tayl said laughing.
"All the years we've known Katina we hardly know anything about her past or family." Link said. "It's just amazing to find that she has family."
Tayl chuckled. "Well the worst things happen at sea, and we're not at sea, so this couldn't be the worst case scenario."
"And you two both have those amazing swords....the craftsmanship and the skill in putting in their attributes. It's just amazing." Navi said.
"Family heirlooms." Katina said. "Each of these were made by our ancestors. Tayl has to use the two swords because they make up a single weapon."
~************************************~
Tayl was sat at the edge of lake Hylia. Katina came and sat by her and watched as Tayl stubbornly wiped the tears from her eyes.
"You realise you're in big trouble....since you left...." Tayl said.
Katina sighed. "Look....I'm sorry....but the fate of Hyrule was slipping-"
"You're not a damn Hylian! You don't even come from here! YOU'RE NOT A HYLIAN! STAY OUT OF THEIR PROBLEMS!" Tayl said, surging to her feet.
"I know you're angry with em and I can't change that...but I had to leave...." Katina said.
"Even still....you...YOU DIDN'T SAY GOODBYE!" Tayl had started off in a low voice and gone up to a shout.
"If I had....If I had I wouldn't have done my duty." Katina said.
Tayl slapped her and slapped her hard. "Duty! That's all you care about! STUPID DUTY! It's taken long and hard years for me to stop thinking you left because of me or....or somebody else! It took me years to figure it out. Now I know I was really dumb. I know you. You're just too into the duty gig."
Katina put her hand to where the slap had hit across her jaw. "I....I'm sorry. I deserved that..except I deserve worse."
"You ran away from the land!" Tayl said.
Anger blazed into Katina's face. "I DID NOT TURN MY BACK ON THE LAND!"
Katina startled both herself and Tayl, Katina had to stop until she could trust her voice.
"Then what do you call it? Duty? You got sent? Well?" Tayl's cheeks burned and for a moment the two seemed like twins. "Well?"
"So you were sent to yell at me, is that right? We meet again after all these years and you yell at me?" Katina said, turning on her heal.
"Don't you DARE turn your back on me! You walk away again....and you'll be sorry! You can't keep turning away from your problems, Katina Elmyani." Tayl said in a strong yet low voice which projected itself to Katina's ears.
"But you shouldn't be my problem, Tayl. We're cousins, no....almost sisters. We could have been provided we were born different, born to the same parents." Katina said, turning her head. "And I'm sorry it had to be this way, I had no choice. I'm not what you say I am anymore. Home is gone, Tayl. And it will never return. Ever. So I am a Hylian now. It's all I can be."
"You let me think you we're dead, Katina. Doesn't that count as a lie?" Tayl snapped.
Katina turned around. "How did you find out?"
"I had to find out from Morti. I was told to go and find you and I was told to go to Hyrule to do it. I came here for that only to find brethren turned into something she isn't. You're not a Hylian, Katina, don't pretend to be. Sure they see you as one of them, but you never will be." Tayl answered.
Katina sighed shakily. "I have nothing else to be, Tayl. Nothing."
Tayl slowly walked up to her, anger drained, and she hugged her cousin for the first time in ages. "I'm sorry Katina. I can't help being a little selfish....it's only a natural thing, isn't it?"
"Only in half of us anyway." Katina agreed with a laugh.
Link came running up and saw them there and stopped. They hadn't seen each other in so long, family split apart....he knew the feeling too well. What he wouldn't give just for a few moment like that with his mother. Knowing she was still alive yet he couldn't see her was worse than a hammer smashing into his heart.
Navi whizzed out of his hood. "Link....."
"I'll wait a bit...give them more time...." Link said in a quiet whisper.
"I know why...you're doing this...." Navi said.
Link sighed shakily. "And today was the day."
"You'll get to see her one day again, Link." Navi promised. "When I was told to go with you...you remember I promised you and me would go back for her, together?"
"Yeah....I remember." Link said.
Tayl and Katina parted and looked up at Link, realising he'd been standing there.
"Zelda told me to find you two....she said soon there's going to be a dinner being served." Link said.
~******************~
After dinner, the two girls had proven themselves to be a dangerous duo when eating. The two between them had eaten at least half of the banquet between them. But then Katina had always had a naturally large appetites. But then Katina didn't always have to eat, she could go a few days healthily without any food and just a little water.
Tayl was taken away to be cleaned and groomed, which she highly protested about, and then she was to be suited up with a set of useful clothes, which would get her recognised as a friend of the castle. Meanwhile Katina and Link sat down polishing their swords.
"You never said anything about your family." Link said.
"I....don't like to talk about it...that's all." Katina said, her voice unsteady again.
"Oh," Link said awkwardly. "I'm...really very sorry."
"No....you've got nothing to be sorry about." Katina said, her voice normal again.
"We really don't know anything about you." Navi said.
~It's better that way~ Katina thought. "There's not much to know about me."
"What about...." Link then stopped and didn't say anything else, feeling he'd already trespassed Katina enough already. He wanted to ask who had beaten her up the night he'd first seen her, when he'd run into her on the stairs and she was battered, bruised and unconscious. He wanted to know where she came from, he wanted to know about the ancestors that made such amazing swords.
He realised he wanted to know everything about her.
"I know what you're thinking." Katina said. "The night you found me....but...it doesn't really matter. It was a bad break out between me and a life time rival, that's all."
"You have a rival?" Navi asked, slightly amused.
"Had a rival." Katina suddenly corrected.
"....What happened to them?" Link dared to ask.
"Destroyed himself over his frustration. He was always so determined to be able to do the things I could do the way I did them..he got so angry and so frustrated that he didn't understand what he was doing wrong and in the end it took him to his death." Katina said.
There was a heavy silence.
There was the sound of a door opening and Tayl walked in looking very different. Raven black hair was tamed now, tied into a half braid which snaked down her back, her fringe was organised, it even looked as though her hair had been washed and given a quick cut. Instead of her heavy-duty blue trousers she had slim line but still hardwearing leather black, a high collared white shirt and a short jacket like her other only waxed brown leather.
"Well...kicking and screaming but clean anyway." Katina said.
Tayl said something in a strange language which none of the others understood and Katina laughed.
"What was that?" Navi asked.
"She just told me to piss off." Katina said, still laughing.
"What language was that?" link asked.
"Old home language, Link." Tayl said. "Old home language."
Nobody said anything.
Then Master craven walked in and began an inspection of Tayl, which surprised them all.
"Yes." He said. "Definitely related to Katina....well, Link, you need all the help to watch your back. Tayl, welcome to the team."
Still confused as to how he got there so fast and his attitude nobody answered him, and the old man walked out before anybody could react.
"And that was.....besides weird....who?" Tayl asked.
"Our training master, Master Craven." Link said. "He's taught us how to use a sword and how to protect Hyrule."
Tayl sighed. "Erm...is there anything else like ceremonial wise that we have to do or am I just in the team?"
Katina laughed. "You're just in it I guess."
CHAPTER 10:
Zelda was in a briefing room with her father and there before them was Link and beside him Tayl and Katina.
"So the summary of the whole meeting today would be that this girl, Tayl, was looking for you, and that was why she trespassed into the castle and the sole same who was asking around about you." The King said.
"That pretty much sums my intentions, your majesty." Tayl said, bowing her head.
"And you two......know each other...." Zelda added.
There was a glint of laughter in the green eyes the two girls shared. Link ever since he had seen the two together couldn't help but look between them. They definitely looked the same in some ways. There was something there he was missing.....just what was it?"
"We don't just know each other, your Majesty...." Tayl said with a roguish grin.
Zelda looked to Katina for an answer.
"Tayl is....my cousin." Katina supplied.
Now even the King and Zelda were looking from one to the other. They both had those startling green eyes, although Katina's were brighter and more shocking, Tayl's seemed a little more watered down in colour.
"Is that a bad thing to be related to this great pain in the ass?" Tayl said laughing.
"All the years we've known Katina we hardly know anything about her past or family." Link said. "It's just amazing to find that she has family."
Tayl chuckled. "Well the worst things happen at sea, and we're not at sea, so this couldn't be the worst case scenario."
"And you two both have those amazing swords....the craftsmanship and the skill in putting in their attributes. It's just amazing." Navi said.
"Family heirlooms." Katina said. "Each of these were made by our ancestors. Tayl has to use the two swords because they make up a single weapon."
~************************************~
Tayl was sat at the edge of lake Hylia. Katina came and sat by her and watched as Tayl stubbornly wiped the tears from her eyes.
"You realise you're in big trouble....since you left...." Tayl said.
Katina sighed. "Look....I'm sorry....but the fate of Hyrule was slipping-"
"You're not a damn Hylian! You don't even come from here! YOU'RE NOT A HYLIAN! STAY OUT OF THEIR PROBLEMS!" Tayl said, surging to her feet.
"I know you're angry with em and I can't change that...but I had to leave...." Katina said.
"Even still....you...YOU DIDN'T SAY GOODBYE!" Tayl had started off in a low voice and gone up to a shout.
"If I had....If I had I wouldn't have done my duty." Katina said.
Tayl slapped her and slapped her hard. "Duty! That's all you care about! STUPID DUTY! It's taken long and hard years for me to stop thinking you left because of me or....or somebody else! It took me years to figure it out. Now I know I was really dumb. I know you. You're just too into the duty gig."
Katina put her hand to where the slap had hit across her jaw. "I....I'm sorry. I deserved that..except I deserve worse."
"You ran away from the land!" Tayl said.
Anger blazed into Katina's face. "I DID NOT TURN MY BACK ON THE LAND!"
Katina startled both herself and Tayl, Katina had to stop until she could trust her voice.
"Then what do you call it? Duty? You got sent? Well?" Tayl's cheeks burned and for a moment the two seemed like twins. "Well?"
"So you were sent to yell at me, is that right? We meet again after all these years and you yell at me?" Katina said, turning on her heal.
"Don't you DARE turn your back on me! You walk away again....and you'll be sorry! You can't keep turning away from your problems, Katina Elmyani." Tayl said in a strong yet low voice which projected itself to Katina's ears.
"But you shouldn't be my problem, Tayl. We're cousins, no....almost sisters. We could have been provided we were born different, born to the same parents." Katina said, turning her head. "And I'm sorry it had to be this way, I had no choice. I'm not what you say I am anymore. Home is gone, Tayl. And it will never return. Ever. So I am a Hylian now. It's all I can be."
"You let me think you we're dead, Katina. Doesn't that count as a lie?" Tayl snapped.
Katina turned around. "How did you find out?"
"I had to find out from Morti. I was told to go and find you and I was told to go to Hyrule to do it. I came here for that only to find brethren turned into something she isn't. You're not a Hylian, Katina, don't pretend to be. Sure they see you as one of them, but you never will be." Tayl answered.
Katina sighed shakily. "I have nothing else to be, Tayl. Nothing."
Tayl slowly walked up to her, anger drained, and she hugged her cousin for the first time in ages. "I'm sorry Katina. I can't help being a little selfish....it's only a natural thing, isn't it?"
"Only in half of us anyway." Katina agreed with a laugh.
Link came running up and saw them there and stopped. They hadn't seen each other in so long, family split apart....he knew the feeling too well. What he wouldn't give just for a few moment like that with his mother. Knowing she was still alive yet he couldn't see her was worse than a hammer smashing into his heart.
Navi whizzed out of his hood. "Link....."
"I'll wait a bit...give them more time...." Link said in a quiet whisper.
"I know why...you're doing this...." Navi said.
Link sighed shakily. "And today was the day."
"You'll get to see her one day again, Link." Navi promised. "When I was told to go with you...you remember I promised you and me would go back for her, together?"
"Yeah....I remember." Link said.
Tayl and Katina parted and looked up at Link, realising he'd been standing there.
"Zelda told me to find you two....she said soon there's going to be a dinner being served." Link said.
~******************~
After dinner, the two girls had proven themselves to be a dangerous duo when eating. The two between them had eaten at least half of the banquet between them. But then Katina had always had a naturally large appetites. But then Katina didn't always have to eat, she could go a few days healthily without any food and just a little water.
Tayl was taken away to be cleaned and groomed, which she highly protested about, and then she was to be suited up with a set of useful clothes, which would get her recognised as a friend of the castle. Meanwhile Katina and Link sat down polishing their swords.
"You never said anything about your family." Link said.
"I....don't like to talk about it...that's all." Katina said, her voice unsteady again.
"Oh," Link said awkwardly. "I'm...really very sorry."
"No....you've got nothing to be sorry about." Katina said, her voice normal again.
"We really don't know anything about you." Navi said.
~It's better that way~ Katina thought. "There's not much to know about me."
"What about...." Link then stopped and didn't say anything else, feeling he'd already trespassed Katina enough already. He wanted to ask who had beaten her up the night he'd first seen her, when he'd run into her on the stairs and she was battered, bruised and unconscious. He wanted to know where she came from, he wanted to know about the ancestors that made such amazing swords.
He realised he wanted to know everything about her.
"I know what you're thinking." Katina said. "The night you found me....but...it doesn't really matter. It was a bad break out between me and a life time rival, that's all."
"You have a rival?" Navi asked, slightly amused.
"Had a rival." Katina suddenly corrected.
"....What happened to them?" Link dared to ask.
"Destroyed himself over his frustration. He was always so determined to be able to do the things I could do the way I did them..he got so angry and so frustrated that he didn't understand what he was doing wrong and in the end it took him to his death." Katina said.
There was a heavy silence.
There was the sound of a door opening and Tayl walked in looking very different. Raven black hair was tamed now, tied into a half braid which snaked down her back, her fringe was organised, it even looked as though her hair had been washed and given a quick cut. Instead of her heavy-duty blue trousers she had slim line but still hardwearing leather black, a high collared white shirt and a short jacket like her other only waxed brown leather.
"Well...kicking and screaming but clean anyway." Katina said.
Tayl said something in a strange language which none of the others understood and Katina laughed.
"What was that?" Navi asked.
"She just told me to piss off." Katina said, still laughing.
"What language was that?" link asked.
"Old home language, Link." Tayl said. "Old home language."
Nobody said anything.
Then Master craven walked in and began an inspection of Tayl, which surprised them all.
"Yes." He said. "Definitely related to Katina....well, Link, you need all the help to watch your back. Tayl, welcome to the team."
Still confused as to how he got there so fast and his attitude nobody answered him, and the old man walked out before anybody could react.
"And that was.....besides weird....who?" Tayl asked.
"Our training master, Master Craven." Link said. "He's taught us how to use a sword and how to protect Hyrule."
Tayl sighed. "Erm...is there anything else like ceremonial wise that we have to do or am I just in the team?"
Katina laughed. "You're just in it I guess."