Alright! Get ready for Round Two, people! Grab your drinks and snacks, because it's time for another chapter of the story!
CL: Fees….fees….need more money…send more money…What's with these people!?
Adult Link: What's a senior package?
CL: A horrible plague…
AL: Really?
CL: (smacks face with hand) No, Link. I was just kidding…
AL: Hey! You got reviews!
CL: YAY!! (opens reviews)
JoJo10: Kadena's background will be revealed as the story unfolds, so all will be revealed. As for detail, I will agree. It was sorta thrown together and here is the revised version for your detail craving pleasure! (smiles)
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Keep up the reading and reviewing! (smiles)
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- Start Transmission -
Of Pointy Ears and Strange Girls
Episode Two: She Called Me A What?!
"-tavern whore… I am not a freakin' whore…"
-Kadena
She had never been so sick of stairs in her whole life.
"They never showed this part in the game…" She mumbled to herself.
"You say something?"
"How much farther 'til we get to the top?"
"Just a little farther."
The girl gave an aggravated sigh.
"You said that a while ago!"
/ I /
"Finally! We're here!"
The village of Kakariko was just as she had imagined it to be. A tiny, quiet place nestled among the cliffs at the foot of Death Mountain. Various buildings dotted the many raised levels of the landscape only to be dwarfed by the ever so slow yet steady turning windmill that sat perched like a sentinel on a tall cliff face. Since they had arrived at dusk, the whole town was covered by a red-orange tint. No one, save two, was rambling through the place, everyone having went indoors to ready themselves for the evening.
Despite the serene sight before her, she could not help but to feel the deadly hush that one feels before something bad happens. After the girl shook her head to try and rid herself of the strange feeling, the brown haired girl came up to Link's side.
"Now what, oh great leader?" she asked as she readjusted the tunic's sleeves.
He looked down at her before he started walking towards a house that was nestled at the bottom of one of the town's many small cliffs.
"We find a place to sleep for the night."
'And not an inn in sight…'
"So where will we be stayin' then?"
Link never slowed his stride.
"Anyone that will take us for the time being."
The girl stopped dead in her tracks.
"Hold the phone, sword boy! You really think someone'll take two complete strangers in their house for the night?" she nearly shrieked.
The blue-eyed warrior did not pause his pace.
"I do not understand what this 'phone' is that you wish me to hold, but, yes, I'm sure someone will have us for the night. There's a nice woman that housed a group of carpenters while they were helping better the town."
" What in the name of the Great Deku Tree is a phone? Not only does this girl dress strange, but she speaks in a strange tongues as well…"
Glaring at his back, she went to follow him, barely catching the last snippet of the conversation between two talkative men that stood at the base of a somewhat large tree.
"-I saw him! I saw the ghostly figure of Dampé the gravekeeper sinking into his grave. It looked like he was holding some kind of treasure!"
'That'll come in handy for him to know later…'
The young woman reached Link as the door to the house opened, revealing a rather plump woman with frizzy brown hair.
"Can I help you two?"
The young man wrapped an arm around the girl's shoulders.
"My companion and I have been traveling all day and were wondering if you would be kind enough to let us rest here for the night."
"There's not been much room since seven years ago, lad. The only space left is the floor."
Link smiled warmly to the lady.
"That would be very nice of you, ma'am. A spot by the fire will be fine."
/ I /
Long after their hosts had kindly shared their supper and fallen asleep, the traveling pair still remained awake.
"-tavern whore… I am not a freakin' whore…"
"You should have kept the tunic on and you can't blame the poor women. You're barely covered at all."
A mumbled, inaudible reply came from the young woman.
Link, now redressed in his green tunic, watched the girl out of the corner of his eye as he sat with his back to one of the large storage pots near the hearth; an arm resting on one raised knee. She was a very strange creature in her own right and was very different from the other females he had met before.
He turned his head to fully look at the brown-haired girl, once again in her revealing attire, sitting on her knees in front of the fire.
"Since it appears we'll be sharing company for a while and you seem to already know my name, it would make things easier if I knew yours. Or should I just keep calling you 'girl'?"
The young man watched a frown come across her lips.
"I'll tell you my name when you stop being an egotistical jerk to me." She retorted, keeping her gaze on the flames before her.
A small smirk worked its way to his face.
"Pardon me, I didn't mean to give such an impression."
"Sure you didn't."
She shifted her position to where she sat cross-legged and propped her elbow upon her knee, resting her chin in her upturned palm. Then she turned her head enough to look at him.
"The name's Kadena Blaze."
"Strange sounding name…"
The girl gave a small smirk of her own.
"I never was considered normal."
"You certainly aren't meek like the other women around here."
"Women have to be strong where I come from."
"Exactly where is it that you come from?" the warrior asked as he maneuvered himself to sit cross-legged as well.
The brown-haired female looked back to the flames.
"A place very far away from here."
"And does this place have a name?"
"America."
"How far away is your land?"
He watched her eyes become clouded by a thoughtful look that quickly turned depressed.
"Far enough that I can't get back home."
The blonde Hylian frowned slightly. He knew what pains it brought to the heart to be away from what one considered home.
"What direction is your land from Hyrule? After my quest, I could see to returning you home."
Kadena raised her head and fully turned herself to face him.
"What quest?"
Link gave took a deep breath. How was he going to explain this?
"When I was a child, I began a journey to prevent an evil man named Ganondorf from taking over Hyrule. I was instructed by Princess Zelda to seek out and bring back three powerful gems called Spiritual Stones."
'I know all about this, but strangely I like hearing it from his point of view. Oddly calming…ACK! What am I thinking!? This is the Hero of Time I'm thinking about!' she gave a mental sigh, 'Well…it doesn't surprise me. I always was a sucker for a blonde…'
"-and when I awoke in the Sacred Realm, I found that I had the form that you see now." The warrior finished, unaware of her lack of attention.
'And not a bad looking form at all…Those lousy 64 graphics did him no justice! ARGH! There I go again!'
"I see."
"It is a bit strange though…considering that I'm a Kokiri. I should not have grown up."
"Maybe you're not a Kokiri?" she questioned, feigning innocence.
Link merely sat in silence and gazed off to the side. Kadena turned back towards the fire.
"Uh…Sorry."
"It would explain why I didn't have a faerie like the others…Perhaps Saria will have some answers." He mused as he focused his gaze on his faerie companion sleeping soundly on top of the stone hearth.
"A Kokiri friend of yours?"
"Yes. How did you know?"
"You, eh, sounded fond of her."
"Correct. She's my best friend. And about the only one in the village that didn't shun me away."
"Oh. I figured she'd be your girlfriend or something." A mischievous grin slipped onto her lips.
"Girlfriend?"
The grin fell from her face.
"Courting her?"
"I-I would never think such a thing of Saria! She is like a sister to me!!"
The brown-haired young woman looked towards the warrior just in time to catch an angry red tint on his face.
"Calm down, you wanna to wake up everyone in the village? …sheesh. It was just a joke, Link."
"I fail to see how such an outlandish suggestion is humorous…" the blonde Hylian stated stiffly, a tint of anger seething in his voice as he crossed his arms over his chest.
Kadena placed a hand over her face, sighing deeply.
"Look. I'm sorry. It was suppose to be just a joke. I had no idea that you'd take it so seriously."
Link's angry expression lifted somewhat, nodding slightly.
"Forgiven."
She inwardly gave a sigh of relief.
"Anyway… I overheard one of the guys under the tree outside talkin' about a ghost with a treasure before we came in. Maybe it's a clue to what you need ta find here?"
The young man looked back at her.
"I'll see to it in the morning. For now, let's just get some rest."
Kadena turned back to the fire, habitually pushing her hair behind her ear.
"Easy for you to say."
The blonde young man went to respond, only to pause as he took note of a tiny detail he hadn't noticed before. Where there should have been a slender, pointed ear was a small, rounded one. The last time he had seen such strange looking ears was on the man he had been told to destroy.
"It would be best to keep those strange ears of yours covered. One might mistake you for a pale Gerudo."
She moved to lie on her back before the fire.
"And where I come from, those pointy ears of yours would make you the butt of a lot of jokes."
Silence hung between them for a moment before Kadena looked up.
Link sat there with a hurt expression on his face.
Feeling a twinge of anger towards herself for her big mouth, she spoke again.
"I know you're just trying to watch out for me. But for me, the situation really, really sucks." Throwing a finger into the air to accent her frustration.
"Sucks?" he echoed in confusion.
"Blows. Bites. Not shway. Wait, you don't get that either…."
The warrior merely blinked in further confusion.
-End Transmission-
Hooray! Here is your revised Episode Two, my faithful readers! Rejoice in my power!! Bwahahahaha!!!!
(gets struck by lightning)
Ow…
CL: (sits on BZ's shoulders) As for Kadena's last statement, I'm sure all you Batman Forever fans found it quite familiar.
VtS: (blinks) I don't get it.
(Mirai Trunks comes and carries the confused Plant back to his room)
CL: Remember to review, review, review, people!! And please be constructive people! If you're nice to me, I might just take your suggestions to heart and rewrite it!! (smiles)
BZ: Ya'll git ready an' come back for tha third installment ta Of Pointy Ears and Strange Girls!!