Okay okay….I have started it up again…how come I never saw u reviewers before??? The reason I did stop if before was cuz of the lack of reviews…I thought no one was reading it. So if u r. plz let me know, and what u think of it. : ) oh and this chappie is a bit humorous cuz I was a lil hyper.
Chapter 11
Those three words.
Zelda paced back in forth, kicking up the sand. Kevin and Link were slumped on two boxes supporting their heads in their hands, and watching the bored princess.
"Must go and find it first. I doubt it will take long", mocked Zelda angrily. "Where the hell is this thing?!"
Link wiped his forehead. The heat was unbearable, and they had been out there for two hours at the least. He noticed that all of them had gotten a very good tan also. Zelda's normally milky-white skin had turned into a shade bronze.
What happened??? I swear I heard the damn thing as we were walking to the gate. She sighed. at least I borrowed a Gerudo outfit and put up my hair before I left. She looked down at herself.
"WOW! I finally got a decent tan!", she cried happily. The heat was getting to her. "Look Link." She posed in front of him.
"Wonderful…" he groaned. She came up to sit on the box, beside him. She leaned up against him, which made it even more hot. "Zel…it too hot for leaning on me.", he wined. She didn't respond.
"If this thing doesn't get here soon, I'll…", Kevin's words jolted to a holt. He seemed to turn pale, looking past Zelda and Link.
"What??", asked Link. He turned and stiffened.
Zelda sighed, reluctantly turning her head to the side. What caught her gaze made her freeze. Twenty feet in front of them was a massive, worm-like creature protruding out from the sand.
"Come on!", yelled Link, grabbing her away from the box, where the worm creature had just destroyed. Zelda had trouble standing when Link got her up.
"We have to fight that!?", yelled Zelda in disbelieve. She stood in the middle of Link and Kevin.
Her eyes went wide as the giant worm came towards them at full speed. "Link!", she hesitated. "What do I do?"
He took out his sword and stood in attack position. "Get ready…" She whimpered at his not so helpful advise.
This is crazy….I feel like I'm playing chicken. The creature advanced on them. Shit!
"Move!", she yelled, jumping out of the way of the worm's path. Once the group dodged the attempt of it eating them, they tried to regain their composure.
"Okay, look for it's weakness.", yelled Kevin. Sounds easy. Zelda looked at it's body. Nothing that stood out.
"I..I don't see anything.", stuttered Zelda. "Wait! Look, right there!" She pointed to a little eye on it's side. Why the eye was there, she had no idea.
"Okay…I'll shoot the eye, Link, you slash at it when it's stunned.", yelled Kevin. Zelda crossed her arms, glaring at him. He rolled his eyes. "Okay, you blast it with magic after Link hits it." Kevin took out his bow and arrow, and began to aim.
He shot the arrow perfectly, hitting it square in the eye. The beast cried in pain, stunned and unmoving. Link then charged at it with his sword, and Zelda threw a few blasts at it.
Repeating the steps a few times had done the trick and now they had defeated it. "Ha! You stupid beast! We killed you!", Zelda yelled at the small pile of dust it became.
She was stopped by Link putting a hand on her shoulder. She turned and smiled at him. "I can do it! I can zap things."
Link laughed lightly. "I'm proud of you.", he said. "now come on, lets get out of the heat."
Once returning, they were greeted by their friends. Saria, once again, had been worried for their well being, giving each a, literally, breathtaking hug.
"You were gone for hours!", nagged Saria. She sounded like someone's mother. "and look at that tan." She shook her head.
"What was I supposed to do, Saria, wear sunscreen?", fended Zelda, looking down at herself. "It does make me look good though."
Saria rolled her eyes. "It won't look good when you develop cancer." Zelda laughed lightly at her comment. She never gives up.
Malon had surprisingly, had gave Zelda a hug too. She tried her best not to show her astonishment. Maybe the heat was getting to her.
She knew it was definitely getting to herself. It was scorching hot out, and she had been standing in it for hours. She was starting to feel dizzy.
"Saria, I think we should go inside now, I think I might faint.", she said, leaning on her friend.
Later that day, the sun was setting, and the crew was back at the castle. Zelda and Link were sitting on her balcony cuddling. They were sitting on a, surprisingly, comfy bench, wrapped up in a large, woolly blanket, leaning against the wall. The climate was much different from Gerudo Fortress. Now, it was a chilly night.
Zelda rested her head against his chest, and looked out to the night sky. The sun was fully gone now. "So we have an army, what do we do now?", she asked.
"We wait, I guess."
Link loomed over her shoulder and gazed at the object around her neck. "What's so important about that necklace that makes you wear it 24/7?", he asked, changing the subject.
Zelda took hold of the necklace, looking down at it. "I've had it before I can remember. I always thought that if my real parents ever saw me wearing it, they would know it was me and take me back. I've grown attached to it over the years. It was always something that reminded me, that somewhere there was my life, and not the lie I was living before that. I guess it worked too."
"But, I've realized, that I wasn't living a lie. That too was my life. I have more of a family there than I do here.", she said weakly. "I have memories of these people. My realy father. You know, he never did take me anywhere or do anything fathers are supposed to do."
"I think you just have to give them a chance.", replied Link.
"What for? Once we finish our job, we'll be back home where we belong. Like we never even existed here."
"Can you be sure which place is your home?"
Zelda turned to look at him oddly. "What are you getting to?"
"Maybe, well….maybe after this, we should stay here." Zelda was utterly shocked by his suggestion. Stay here? Stay here! Why in the world would we stay here?
It hadn't occurred to Zelda, that unlike her, Link had little that was waiting for him. Zelda had friends, had family, everyone at school was familiar with her. She had the world to back to. Link, on the other hand, had Mr. Zaloof, and a handful of friends. Half being the ones already with him.
"Why wouldn't we go back?", she asked, trying to keep her temper.
"Look Zel.", he said, pointing across the lands before them. "This place, it's so much more different then our world. This place has something ours doesn't. It has people that aren't worried about what they'll be when they grow up, people that take their time and live day by day, not having to worry about high school, pollution, and all the crap that goes along with our world. This place has simplicity."
He had made a point. It felt like she was living far away from the city, into the country, where no one sat around all day watching football, or an abundant number of obese people, or even having to worry if your going to get to your destination on time because of traffic. It seemed almost perfect.
"I wish there was something I could do to change our world to be like this. That way, we'd both get what we want. Link, this is not our life. Yes, we did grow up here once, and we have all the memories, but we don't belong. It's as if we had died, reincarnated, and learned about our past lives. It's not who we are anymore."
"I feel like I belong.", he said nearly under his breath.
"Don't you see? We are totally different from the people we used to be. Our world has changed us into twenty-first century, electronic loving, money greedy humans. We are too accustomed to our way of life that it wouldn't be normal to live here."
The look on his face, as Zelda could tell, was hurt. She knew exactly why too. When they lived among Hyrule, he and she shared an unspoken love. She had felt it. He had cared about her before any of this had happened, and these memories had made the feeling even stronger. And to hear that the two wanted to go different ways, was, well devastating to the both of them.
"I think we should talk about this some other time.", she whispered, leaning back on his chest, trying to fall asleep in his arms.
He doesn't understand. I would give the world to live here forever. I just couldn't do that to the people I love.
A half an hour in of resting her eyes, Zelda started to hear Link saying something to her, supposedly , sleeping form. She listened closely to what he was saying.
"Your beautiful when your sleeping.", he said softly. "I don't ever want to loose you."
Her heart jumped at what he was saying. If only he knew she was up. She smiled to herself.
"I wish you could see things like I do. I know you want to go home, I understand where your coming from. I just wish I had a reason too."
Oh Link, please don't tell me your going to stay. Please don't.
"But I don't have a choice. I can't live with the guilt that I would let you go."Yes! Yes! Yes!
"Because…I love you."
FINALLY! Damn, u know how long it took to make that chappie? Course you do cuz I made you wait, BUT I did it. Sorry, I wasn't sure how to start it back up again. Plus, I wasn't familiar with it becuz its been so long, so I had go read over my other chapters. Well, you better review, becuz it took me a long time to figure what to write. So go! Bye now. (oh n I will start responding to reviews in the next chappie)
