Chapter 4
Ander sat on the ground, questions zooming through his mind making his head hurt.
"W...why..." he stuttered, "Why did you do that?"
"Do what?" Kiri asked.
"I-I-I....don't know..."
"It's all right, ill explain everything later when we get back." Kiri flicked his hair out of his face.
"Back where?" Ander asked. This guy's weird, he thought.
Kiri, ignoring Ander's question, rubbed his forehead, "Man, I'm starved. Let's hurry."
"O...k..."
Kiri whistled loudly and Tycoon came pouncing crazily over to his master barking happily. "I don't recall ever getting your name." He asked Ander.
"Oh...my name's Ander."
"Nice name, well, lets go."
Kiri walked in front, Ander behind playing with Tycoon. They walked through some fields and trees fore two hours when Ander began to hear water. They emerged from the trees into a beautiful sandy beach with sparkling silver sand and clear blue water. Tall tropical trees stood high with rich green leaves protecting small coconuts from the blazing hot sun. But what caught Ander's eye was the big wooden ships that were far off to the left floating quite a ways of shore.
"What the-," Ander thought to himself, could they be pirates?
"Pirates," Kiri explained, "We try to stay as far away from them as possible. They're an all-female group. You probably have heard of them."
They walked a bit longer along the beach, Tycoon was happily chasing crabs that were unfortunate enough to be in sight. Ander soon caught sight of a small cottage that stood beside the trees on the beach. Lots of kids were playing around the area, laughing and running around.
"I own an orphanage," Kiri said proudly, "All the people here are as happy as can be. Well, I think they are..."
They walked through the door and a small rusted bell jingled loudly. Inside the cottage there was a small counter which lots of dishes, drinks, cutlery, and all that kitchen stuff. There were two long big tables that took up half the room of the cottage; the rest of the room was covered in beds lying on the floor.
"They look a bit uncomfortable." Ander said quietly.
"Well, it's better than nothing, that's what I tell the kids at least." Kiri said with a sad smile.
There were older kids in their teens who were sitting at the counter drinking small beverages of some sort and so on. Kiri led Ander past a door with green paint slashed diagonally across the door. Kiri didn't bother to explain this and they went on and the came to the end of the hall where they walked into another room. A small bed like the other ones in the main room and a bookshelf; those were the only two things in this room besides the lantern that hung on the roof.
"And this is my room. That's about it. Make yourself welcome here and first things first." Kiri grabbed Ander's wrist and led him back down the hall, "A drink for a lost soul?"
"Um... ok." Ander said, dying to ask questions soon.
Kiri dragged him back to the small counter and poured a drink of water in a small glass, " Here you are." Kiri shoved the drink in ander's hand, "So, questions. Ask away."
Ander sat down on a small chair and began, "Well, first, why was I kidnapped from that guy?"
"Ah, Strophe, he's a Shiekah. I'll tell you something. These Shiekah used to be mysterious people but everyone knew they were good. Their kindness was in remembrance by their leader, Impa, who served in Ancient Hyrule's Castle. But, soon after, you probably know, the Great Division started. No one really knows what happened, but, every race began to go a bit crazy. The Shiekah and the Zoras especially. But the Shiekah began to kidnap people with any relation with the Hero of Time or the princess. Like, long ears, the name Link or Zelda, green tunics, you know. But they could never find the right person. They kidnapped people because their new leader, the Evil Empire, was looking for the Hero of Time and the princess for reasons unknown. But it's obvious that they held the Triforce pieces. No one knows, either, how the Evil Empire escaped his chamber in time, the dark realm, but rumors know that he wants to destroy Hyrule and make the whole world a living hell. If you have noticed, monsters have begun to appear, killing Hylians, Gorons, Zoras, Kokiri, and many other beings. And strange enough, not the Shiekah, but, then the Shiekah aren't seen to often anymore anyway. As you noticed when I was fighting with Strophe I mentioned a Goron being eaten by a Dragon, well, that Goron's name was Link Junior. He exclaimed that his father was Link but, we all know that that is impossible." Kiri took a deep breath and had a sip of his own water before he continued. "Now, the reason you were kidnapped was because of that!" Kiri grabbed Ander's hand and showed the ring with the silver wolfos carved in it.
"That piece of junk?" Ander asked confused.
"Where did you get this?" Kiri's eyes looked very determined and scared.
"My father had given this to me. Not to mention he was a drunk and always exclaimed he knew the Hero of Time and that his father worked in the Castle of Hyrule. So really, I never thought much of this." He said pointing at the ring.
"Hmm. Well, I don't know any other way he could have received this ring if he didn't know the Hero of Time. Now, I'm going to tell you of the importance of this 'Piece of Junk'...A long time ago, before time and the world, there were three great goddesses. One, Nayru, the Goddess of Wisdom; Two, Din, the Goddess of Power; and Three, Farore, the Goddess of Courage. Once they had made the earth for what it is they all created pets. Din had created a Dragon, Volvagia, but she was consumed by evil once Gannondorf tamed her with his powers. Now Nayru had created a giant pet Wolfos, the Wish Hound, to protect the owner of the Triforce of Wisdom. Of course, the spirit of the Wolfos was sealed into a silver, platinum ring. It was clear the princess started out with this ring but she gave it freely to the Hero of Time. Since he wasn't the owner of the Triforce of Wisdom the ring was useless to him. But the princess put some of her power into it. Now the Wolfos could only recognize the small bit of power in the ring and would only come to aid in the graves danger. Also the Hero of Time learned how to control the giant Wolfos so it would come to his aid. He'd chant a song and he would summon the Wish Hound. Once the Evil Empire Had head of this animal, he searched for it to turn it evil. That is why Strophe kidnapped you." Kiri took another sip of his water, "I'm assuming your father did know the Hero of time and was a great friend of his. And I'm sure that ring was a gift to your father. And now to you." Kiri closed his eyes and took another deep breath.
"Wow..." Ander sat dumbfounded, eyes wide open, "All right, second question; what was he talking about, something to do with your past?"
"Ah, that's not to important, but I'll tell you anyway. When I was young, I was brought up at a house in Kakariko village, a while after the Great Division. Now, I was always getting into trouble and once I nearly got my friend and I killed. My friend was Strophe, and that's why he hates me now. I dragged him to come with me to the Castle to see it's ruins. Once we got there, we were capture by an Iron Kuckle. It would've killed us if it weren't for Strophe's mother, Xianghua. She saved my friend and I but I had almost killed Strophe. We were forbidden to be friends and he hated me ever since." Kiri seemed a bit sad but he really didn't seem to care much.
"Ok...last question, what was in that door? You know, the one we passed?" Ander knew the answer though.
Kiri's mood changed dramatically, "No one is allowed in that room. End of discussion. And I don't want you going in there. For sleeping, you may have one of the beds in the far corner. As I said before, make yourself at home."
"You mean...I can't go back to my village?" Ander seemed very disappointed and began to get irritated.
"No, much to dangerous now. There's no way you can get back to your village. You'd pass through the dragon lands and you'll be killed for sure."
"What about my family?"
"They'll be sad, but they'll assume your dead anyway. I'm sorry. But, the same thing happened to all of these people and these children were found wandering, claiming to be lost in the mountains or the forest." Kiri drank the rest of his water in one big gulp, "make some friends here. Have a good time. Lots of these kids need friends. The day is still young, have a good time here."
Ander walked outside to see some kids playing with Tycoon, running around wildly. He noticed there was a young boy hiding behind the trees, eyeing the other kids sadly. Ander walked up to him slowly, "Hey, what's the matter?"
The boy seemed startled and rotated around the tree so his body couldn't be seen, " Whadda' you want?" he said grumpily.
"Well I was just wondering why you weren't playing with the other kids," Ander pointed to the fury of fun, "They look like they're having a fun time."
"They don't want a freak playing with them." The boy talked without looking Ander in the eyes.
"I don't see anything freakish about you."
"That's cus I'm hiding it," he emerged from the tree and Ander stared sadly at him. Two big scaled, webbed wings stuck from his back and a long thing tail sat at his tailbone. The light shone on two horns on his head above his ears. He looked around 10 years of age, he had tanned skin but lots of scales covered his skinand he had beautiful yellow eyes but the look of misery was clear in them. He wore a blue baggy, long-sleeved shirt with designs of dragons and clouds around the rim of it. He had baggy red shorts with fire designs at the bottom of them. His feet sat on brown sandals and white material wrapped around his heels. But his feet seemed to have only three toes, which were cover in scales and a sharp jagged spike as a toenail on each toe. His hands seemed to be the same too.
"There, now you know. I am a freak that shouldn't be here."
"Sometimes you shouldn't look at people from the outside," Ander said pitying the poor boy, "in fact, if you tuck your wings behind you, you can barely see them. And well, they look pretty cool anyway."
The boy looked up at him for the first time, "You're new here, aren't you? I saw the Master come here with you."
Ander stuck his hand out, "My name's Ander."
The Drakez looked at his hand but grabbed his hand and shook it lightly, "My name's Guin. I'm a Drakai. I was separated from my tribe cus' my family was out flying around an active volcano and a rock blew through the air and caught me in my ankles. As you see," Guin pointed at his ankles. Suddenly, he started to cry softly, "I've never been able to shake someone else's hand before. They'd stick out their hand and I'd go to shake it but they'd either smack me across the face or they'd pull their hand back and just walk away laughing." Guin began to sob a bit louder, "The m-master is the o-only one who actually cared. I owe it all to him," he wiped the tears from his eyes and stopped crying. "You're a nice person. I like you. Can we be friends?"
"Sure. Hey, want to go grab a drink at the counter?" Ander said pointing at the little cottage.
Guin looked at it shyly, "I dunno' if I'll be welcome."
"Of course you'll be welcome, why wouldn't you be?"
Guin smiled slightly, " Thank you, but I might be picked on..."
"Ah, don't worry about it, I'll be there to battle them off for you." Ander smiled, clenched his fist jokingly and laughed loudly. Guin laughed shyly and quietly. They walked through the door, grabbed some orange juice, and sat down at one of the tables.
"Hey, look! Freaky has a friend!" Five older boys walked into the cottage sat down on the opposite side of the table, directly in front of them, "That's a first," they all were pitching in rude comments.
The comments made Guin feel very, very small. He squeezed his wings tightly to his back and wrapped his tail around a leg of the seat.
"Aww, look he's curling himself into a 'wittle ball," A guy with black hair, their leader, said with a babyish voice, "Geeze, what a looser!"
"Takes one to know one," Ander muttered calmly, sipping his orange juice.
"Is that a death wish?" the boy said with a sarcastic face.
"I dunno, are you a Genie? Because I have two more wishes right?" Ander came back.
"Fuck you, bastard!" the boy spat at him, "Come on boys, let's go where cool kids go."
Ander coughed jokingly, "(Cough)sonofabitch(cough)."
Guin chuckled a bit letting his tension go as the bullies left, "Thank you, but, I have to learn to fight my own battles one day."
"Hey, no problem, friends stick up for eachother, right?" Ander smiled at the Drakai.
ok
the gerudo bandit is kinda the first 6 chapters of this story but there is a gap of time. A real big gap.
Itll all be explained soon so.
Special thanx toDan who inspired me to write more and to draw. ThAnk u!!!
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