HEY!!!! Wow it's been a while since I updated, but I decided to because… well, actually I'm not sure why I updated but w/e, I did it. I apologize if you were looking forward to see some romance in this chapter, but sadly there is not very much love in this one. Don't fret! There will be sometime, somewhere,right now I'm not sure of that….well I'll just shut up now. BYZ!
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CHAPTER 10
Saved by the Sage
Yes, yet again Zelda had something sharp to her throat. ' Hey. This must be my lucky day.', she thought sarcastically. She stared down at the sharp pointed metal attached to the long stick. Link was standing right beside her, holding her hand.
"Sate your business.", someone said from behind the guards. She looked up to see three teenage girls with their hands on their hips waiting for an answer.
She noticed something odd about one of them. The one on the right had blonde hair. That couldn't be. Gerudo's have red hair.
"Well? What are you doing intruding?", asked the one in the middle. Her features looked oddly familiar. Link spoke up now.
"We come to negotiate with you.", he said.
"About what?"
"War"
"What is your name?"
"His name is Link.", said someone from behind. The girl in the middle looked up.
"Mother?… How do you know?", she asked. The woman came from behind and stepped in front of them.
"Old friends.", she said simply. "Let them go." The guards withdrew their spears and walked away.
"Nabooru!!", Link exclaimed. She smiled.
"Link, just as handsome as I remember you.", she said. He grinned.
"Mother…. Who are these people?", asked the middle girl.
"Oh, yes. Link, Princess Zelda, and…err, friends. I'd like you to meet my daughter, Princess Lena.", exclaimed Nabooru. That's where the resemblance came from. This girl was the spitting image of Nabooru.
Link gaped at her. "You have a daughter?! Since when?", he sounded surprised, Zelda was also. Nabooru didn't seem the type to be a mother. She also looked well under her thirties.
"Well, since sixteen years ago, I suppose.", she said grinning at the shocked expressions they had on their face.
Zelda shook the shock out of her. "Nice to meet you.", she said offering her hand.
The girl halfheartedly smiled, but didn't take Zelda's hand shake, leaving her to look like an idiot. 'Well, that was rude!', she thought.
"Hi, I'm Lilu", said the blond. She wore her hair up like the normal Gerudo's did, but left one strand to fall from the side.
"And I'm Misty. Nice to meet you Princess Zelda.", said the one to the left of Lena. Her hair was cut short and went outward from her face. It was a very cute hair style in Zelda's perspective.
"Nice to meet you too.", said Zelda. She didn't put her hand out this time in case of rejection. The rest of the group repeated Zelda's words after introducing themselves also.
Lena moved close to Link. "So… what's your name cutie?", she asked.
Zelda couldn't believe what she just heard. 'Why that little..', she thought. Link glanced at Princess Lena nervously. Zelda grabbed his arm and flakily smiled at her. "This belongs to me, by the way.", remarked Zelda.
Lena rolled her eyes and shot up her nose. This was gonna be interesting. Nabooru caught the tension between the girls already.
'Not another Malon', thought Zelda wearily.
"Okay… Why don't we discus this inside.", trying to break the hostility lingering in the air. The two shot looks like they were trying to laser each other. Everyone followed Nabooru into a large dinning room.
"Won't you stay for dinner? We can talk while we're eating", said Nabooru.
"Yes, that would be wonderful.", exclaimed Zelda. Her stomach had been growling for a while now. They sat down and waited for someone to bring food out.
"What have you been up to Link?", asked Nabooru. "Well, I know you've been gone for quiet a while now, but how is it. What is it like?"
"Well…", he started trying to start with one thing at a time. "It's hard to explain. There is… technology"
She looked at him weird. "Technology?"
"Err… Like cars and computers.", he said. Zelda looked at him.
"How are they supposed to know what those are?" ,she asked him. She turned back to the table. "Cars are like large seating in a box-like… frame. It moves and is much faster than horse."
Nabooru lifted one eyebrow. "You know, never mind about talking about the future. It seems too confusing." Zelda was relieved she didn't have to explain it. "Anyway. We will help you by any means toward the war on one condition."
They stared at her, awaiting for her proposal. "I would ask if you could defeat a monster for us. Just yesterday it arrived in the village. We managed to chase it away into the desert, but I don't think it'll stay that long in there. Will you do it?", she asked.
Link nodded. Kevin spoke up now. "What about the girls, they can't go."
"I'm perfectly capable to go", Zelda defended herself.
"With all do respect, princess, but your only a woman.", he said. Zelda was angered by this and shot a shock to him with her power. He jumped in his seat. Snickering was heard throughout the room, even from Lena.
"I think she can handle it", said Link. Kevin didn't proceeded to argue.
"Great. That'll let me practice for him. If that Dark Link is still alive when I get to him… oh, I wanna kill him", muttered Zelda.
"Then it's settled. If you kill the monster, I will gladly hand over my greatest sorceresses.", said Nabooru. She began to eat her food. "Oh yes, we must arrange for you to stay the night I suppose?"
"That would be great.", said Saria.
After dinner, Nabooru guided them to their rooms. The girls all stayed in one large room, and Link and Kevin stayed in slightly smaller one across from them. Lilu and Misty urged Lena to come stay the night with the girls so they could get to know them.
The room's floor had been covered with large sleeping pillows of exotic colors. Chandeliers hung down from the ceiling holding pink colored candles.. The windows had been draped with satin curtains. It was very nice.
The girls all sat in a circle ready for a long night of girl talk. Zelda, Misty, Saria, Lilu, Malon, and Kate laid down on the pillows facing each other. Lena, though, had decided socializing wasn't her thing, so she sat in a corner of the room fanning herself with a large palm leaf.
"So, Zelda. Your going out with that guy Link, right?", asked Lilu with anticipation. Saria, as a bad habit, was about to answer her, but Zelda caught her before she could.
"Yup. We've been together for a few weeks now.", said Zelda in the direction of Lena, so she would get the point out.
"That's cool… I know Nabooru didn't care to hear about the future, but I would like to. What is a car again?", asked Misty.
"It's really hard to explain. Pretty much a mode of transportation that's much faster than horse.", answered Saria. Zelda sighed. Once again she was answering a question somebody asked her, but she didn't mind because she didn't feel like explaining a car. She didn't really care for cars in the first place, as long as it got her to the mall or movies then she had no other use for it. It was more of a guy subject.
After about a half an hour of Saria trying to explain what "technology" was, Zelda decided to change the subject.
"So, Misty and Lilu. Your like best friends of Lena?", she asked.
"Well, sort of. We're all kind of like half sisters.", said Lilu.
"Really? Is Nabooru all your mothers?", asked Malon.
"No. We have the same father.", said Misty getting a little uneasy on the subject.
"Oh, is he Hylian?", asked Saria.
"No.", spoke Lena. Everyone looked over at her. "Our father is the 'Great Evil King' himself." She went back to her fanning.
"Gannondorf?!! He had kids!", exclaimed Zelda in disbelieve.
"How do you think I'm the only one who was crowned princess?", she said more than asked. "Nabooru and Gannon were both in line for royalty.", she said simply.
"Oh", said the girls in unison.
"Don't worry. I'm not evil, just powerful.", she winked. "When you have a sage and an evil wizard, that happens to be the most powerful one, and they're your parents, yeah, your bound to get something from it."
"The jackass cheated on Nabooru and got friendly with our mothers.", said Lilu. "He killed my mother after using her. He also killed her husband, Roy."
"Roy?… Your mother was Marie?", asked Saria remembering the story the owl had told.
"Yeah, when the Gerudo's invaded, they took my mother and Roy. She was held prisoner until I was born. He was hoping to pass the evil on I guess. Then Nabooru raised me when they drove him out…"
"I'm sorry about your mother.", apologized Zelda.
"What about you, Misty?", asked Malon.
"Well, my mother is still with us. She might as well be dead though. She doesn't care for me; I've spent most of my life hanging around with them. That's why it seems we're more than just half sisters."
"Yes, Nabooru has taken us under her wing and we're grateful for it.", said Lilu.
The girls talked for a long while. Lena still fanning herself, sometimes dropping in on the conversation. In a way it was somewhat rude, but no one minded.
Zelda had slowly made her way out of the group, hopng no one would notice. It was late now, and she wanted to sleep. Before she buried her head under one of the pillows, Saria had come to be her side.
"What's wrong?", she asked.
"Just tired, you know.", answered Zelda.
"No, I don't mean that. I've noticed lately that something's different about you.", she inquired.
"Nothing…", she said, but even she could tell that it sounded phony.
"Yea right. Tell me. I'm your best friend."
"Well… I'm just kind of homesick. I even miss Chris.", she said. Saria's eyes cast down to the floor when she mentioned Chris.
"I do too…", she said in a solemn voice.
"I've noticed that we haven't really gotten to talk either. Were always too busy or something."
"Oh, Zelly…I'm sorry. I thought you wanted time alone with Link, so I backed off some.", said Saria. She gave her friend a hug.
"You know, I haven't even got much time with him either." She started to realize that the whole time they spent was trying to find recruits, and never having a time to rest. "So anyway…", she said, changing the subject. "You and Malon are friends now?"
"Well…. Not really. I mean we talk, but I think her only friends here are Kevin and Kate."
Zelda laid back into the large pillow and rested her head. "Do you remember that we used to hate her?", she asked.
Saria shifted uneasily. She knew Zelda wasn't very pleased at this. "She's not at all a bad person when you actually talk to her. Yeah she's a real snob, but when you get to know her, she's just like us."
"So are you saying I'm evil?", she laughed half heartedly, trying to make it seem like a joke.
"No, I'm just saying that you need to put differences aside and just make friends. Zel, we have to cooperate if we are going to be on the same team." Her voice seemed to have a little bit of annoyance in it, which was very rare from her.
"Yeah, whatever.", she said, rolling over to sleep. Saria wished to say more, she even wanted to yell at her for being so petty, but she decided this was her best friend and now wasn't the time to go starting something.
"Just do the right thing, Zel. I know you will.", she said at last and flopped back into the pillows to get some sleep herself.
Gradually, Zelda feel asleep, though the other girls were loud as heck, she was way too tired to notice. Meanwhile in the room Link and Kevin were staying in, the two talked amongst themselves.
"Man, Link, Zelda's hot! How did you get her?", asked Kevin.
Link thought this question was pretty rude, but Kevin didn't intend it to be. For many the hours they were talking, Kevin said many stupid things. He was surprised that Malon would go out with this guy. Link simply dismissed his question and shot back at him.
"I don't know, Kevin. Malon's hot, how did you get her?", asked Link slightly frustrated. He wanted to go to sleep, but Kevin wouldn't shut up. Link, being the kind kid he was, didn't want to say anything that seemed offensive. So, for the last hour, he had been answering Kevin's annoying question, hoping that he would get tired.
Kevin, being the air headed guy he was, didn't catch the sarcasticness of the question. "Well, it all started at the ball…."
'Geese, is this guy slow. I can't believe Malon didn't catch that. Then again, maybe she did and just cared about how he looked. Oh, is he still rambling on? He doesn't even notice I'm not listening…'
"….So yeah, that's how we got together.", he said proudly. Link rolled his eyes, but said nothing back. He had his head rested against a pillow. Every now and then, his eye lids would seem heavy.
"Yeah, anyway, Zelda is something, but she's got an attitude don't you think?", asked Kevin.
'Is he serious?! ', he thought furiously. This guy was an idiot. Who goes up to a guy and says his girlfriend is a snob. He had some nerve.
"Well, I wouldn't be talking. Malon was known as the biggest brat at our school", retaliated Link through gritted teeth. He really wanted to hit this guy.
"I have no idea what your talking about. She is the sweetest girl in Hyrule, besides my sister.", said Kevin.
"Well, you must have not met many girls now.", Link mumbled. Then a thought came to his mind. "You know, that is very dishonorable, to be talking about your princess like that. I swear I thought you could get beheaded for that. Hmmmm…." He watched in pleasure as Kevin stiffed up. He started to sweat, and was speechless.
"I think we should sleep now.", suggested Link. Kevin nodded and slowly laid down.
In the morning, Zelda ventured outside to the archery range. She wasn't surprised to see that Link and Kevin were there, practicing with their bows.
When Kevin saw that she was there, he immediately became nervous. He ran up in front of Zelda and bowed. He even took her hand and tried to kiss it. Zelda pulled away before he did.
"Um…I thought I said that wasn't necessary.", said Zelda. She looked up to see Link who was trying to hold back a laugh. She walked right passed Kevin as if he wasn't there, and up to Link.
"What did you say?", she asked with a sly smile.
"Oh, nothing. Just putting him in his place.", replied Link.
"Fine. I guess I'll just have to deal with that answer.", she sighed. "When are we going to fight this thing?"
"We've decided to go after lunch. That's okay, right?", he asked.
"Yeah. Is it okay if I spend time with Saria, then? We haven't been able to hang out lately."
Link looked a little disappointed, but he shook it off . "Yeah, that's alright." She kissed him goodbye and ran back into the fortress.
Zelda entered there room to see mostly everyone was still asleep. Saria was up in the far corner of the room. She was facing the wall.
Zelda walked closer to her friend to see what was wrong. As she got closer she heard muffled cries from her. Slowly she kneeled down beside her and put a hand on her shoulder.
Saria's head quickly turned to see who it was. When she found it was Zelda she rubbed her eyes and looked back at her.
"What's wrong?", she asked concerned. Saria fully turned around to face her.
"I… I miss Chris.", she said in a small voice.
"I miss Chris too." she said, pulling her into a hug.
"What…what if….he found someone else already?", she cried.
"He would never do that, Saria. He loves you."
"What if he thinks we're not coming home. It's been so long. I didn't think we'd be here for so long.", she sobbed.
"It's okay. I know Chris. He's good guy. Nothing would ever tear you apart from him.", she reassured Saria.
"What's going to happen when we come home? Do you think we'll get in trouble?", she asked.
Zelda started to think of that. She never worried about that. She was too into what was happening now that she didn't seem to care what happened when they came back.
"I really don't know.", she said worried. They couldn't just walk into the house and say they went somewhere for a while. Saria was right, it had been longer than she thought. They weren't even ready to fight yet.
"I'm scared to go home. People might think we're runaways or something.", said Saria.
"Yeah, I know. What if they send us to some detention school or something."
"Or maybe they'll just be happy we're alive."
Zelda and Saria turned to see Malon behind them. Without thinking, Zelda moved aside for her to join the group. "If we are still alive."
"Yeah, you have a point.", Malon agreed. Malon agreed? What?
"Do you think we're going to die?", asked Saria scared.
"There's a chance.", said Malon.
"Chris will never know what happened to us", she cried.
"Are you afraid?", asked Zelda.
"To what? Die?", asked Malon. Zelda nodded. "Well, not really. I mean I believe something happens after you die, so I'm not afraid to face it."
"What about you Saria?"
"I don't want to die! I want to be with Chris."
Zelda thought of the story she heard from the owl. "I wouldn't care if I didn't die alone."
They looked at her questionably. "I mean. If your going somewhere after death, wouldn't you want to be with someone?"
"Yeah I guess.", said Malon. She decided to change the depressing subject. "…I'm hungry. Lets go eat breakfast." She got up. Without any word, Zelda and Saria followed her out to the dinning room.
When they got there, they noticed the three sisters had woke up and had gone to the breakfast table. Only one girl did not wake, and that was Kate. Malon said she was a late sleeper.
Link and Kevin had retired from archery for the day, and were halfway through eating. On the table, laid many pastries that looked delicious. They were. Zelda couldn't believe people so back in time could have such great food.
After breakfast the girls went back to the room to just hang around. Kate had finally woke up when they got to the room. She hurried out to eat. Malon followed.
Saria and Zelda went back to their corner and talked some more.
"You know. I think your right Saria. Malon isn't that bad when you talk to her.", she stated.
"Told you so.", Saria said with a smile. She sighed. "God, I wish they had TV's!"
"I know! I'm so totally bored.", exclaimed Zelda. "I wish they had air conditioning."
"Seriously.", she agreed, fanning herself with her hand. It had been steaming here. There was no way to get cool around this place.
For a few hours, the girls had fun agreeing with each other for what they wished existed. Malon and Kate had come to join. With everything the girls mentioned, Kate would look dumbfounded. The three sisters had to go attend to matters of there own, so they were nowhere to be seen. Time seemed to pass by like minutes.
The closer it got to noon, the more uneasy Zelda grew. See was nervous. The only thing she fought before was a stalchild in Mr. Zaloof's training area. She regretted volunteering to fight with Link and Kevin.
Before she knew it, a servant had come to the room to announce lunch time. After lunch, Link, Zelda, and Kevin, headed towards the dessert. As they neared the gate, she could hear the cries of the monster. A nauseous feeling was growing in her stomach.
In front of the gate they stood, waiting for Nabooru to come and open it. Link stood right beside her.
"You sure you want to fight?", he asked her. Zelda bit her lip.
"Yes. I want to do this.", she answered.
"Well if we die.", he joked. "Have this." He turned to her, grabbed her by the waist, and took her close for a kiss. She willingly welcomed it, and for at least a minute they were caught in each others emotion.
Zelda broke apart to take a breath. "Okay…. I think I'm ready now.", she said with confidence.
Nabooru arrived and opened the gate. "You must go and find it first. I doubt it will take long. Good luck, I know you can do it.", she said.
The three walked into the sandstorm wasteland, Nabooru closed the gate behind them. On they went…
What you think? I swear I misspelled desert as dessert so I correct myself. But if I didn't well yay for me. Review plz!
