Ok, here's Chapter Five! Sorry for the delay on everything, I was
just really busy. So, I don't have anything else to say except to read and
review!
=Flashback & end of flashback
Chapter Five:
Link stared at the young woman in front of him, she was blushing madly and then after a moment he realized that it was that Zelda girl that had rammed into him like a goat!
"Aren't you that girl on Hyrule Field that I met? How on earth did you get here all by yourself! I thought that a monster would eat you when you slipped away from me! How the heck did you manage to get away anyway?"
Link watched as Zelda crimson face returned to her normal delicately pale skin, and she stepped away from so that they weren't right only an inch next to each other.
"I told you I could take of myself!"
"Yeah, you did say that, and I guess that you were right and I was wrong. But that still doesn't explain how you got here!"
"I don't need to answer that, and what are exactly are you doing?"
"I'm here to get some rupees and then I'm going to climb up Death Mountain Trail! You happy that you know?"
Zelda stared at him for a few seconds, then she stubbornly replied, her voice higher then usual.
"YOU'RE going up to Death Mountain too?"
"Yes, I am! And I don't want.... Hey wait, you're going up there too?"
"Yes, and I'm not going to let you or anyone else get in my way."
"Why are going up there anyway?"
"I could ask you the same question!"
"It's way too dangerous for a GIRL to go up there! You'll get killed!"
"How do you think I got here in Karkariko Village? BY TAKING CARE OF MYSELF! I'M NOT SOME LITTLE GIRL WHO'S AFRAID TO GET A STAIN ON HER DRESS! I CAN TAKE OF MYSELF!"
Both of them were completely oblivious from the crowd that was gathering around them, and stares and giggles that spread through it.
"Fine, but why are you here anyway?"
"To get potions and rupees."
"What about a weapon?"
"I don't need a damn weapon!"
Link stared at her with wide eyes, did a girl just curse?
"You... you just cursed!"
"Yes I did of that's so amazing to you!"
Finally they both became aware of the crowd that had gathered around them, some of them with their mouths open from just hearing a lady curse.
"What are all of you staring at? Scat!" Zelda screamed at them, most of the crowd looked away and began walking off, while some of them were still dazed from hearing Zelda speak a foul word.
Link looked at her with amazed eyes,
"Goddess you are spoiled."
Zelda spun back around and gave him a death glare, and then she walked off, feeling angry beyond her belief.
'Spoiled! I am not spoiled! Argh I hate that guys guts! How dare he call me spoiled...! Where's Impa to talk to when you need her....'
After a while, Zelda's anger was starting to be replaced by sadness.
'Am I spoiled? I don't think I am. A spoiled person is who demands to get what they want and screams and cries if they don't get it, and they won't even do any work to earn it. Heck, I'm not even sure of I get it! I just screamed at someone for probably no reason. But I didn't cry. Goddess Impa, I need to talk to you. I know that she would tell me if I was spoiled, whenever I ask her something about myself she tells me the truth. She doesn't just go off and say, 'Oh my little snuggle-bun your just perfect! I wouldn't change you a bit!' No, she would tell me my flaws and what's good about me. But why do I feel so sad about what one boy said? Things like this never get to me.'
She sighed and looked around herself, a breeze making her hair stand up.
'I should have brought my cloak, this wind is getting cold.'
Link walked around, not fuming but he still felt a little pissed off at that stupid Zelda girl. What was her problem? Did she have a brain underneath all of that hair of hers? She sure was beautiful but it seemed like she had absolute no concern for her life whatsoever. She wasn't even going to bring a weapon with her! She just planned to go up the trail and get herself murdered.
'Well she can do it for all I care! She doesn't want anyone to get in her way, so I won't get in her way! It won't be my fault if someone finds a skull with a silver circlet and some golden hairs still attached to it rolling down the trail! What a spoiled person.'
He walked into a black smiths shop, hoping he could pound the anger out on some steel.
"I know how to blacksmith," He told a man in the back who was covered with soot, "I can make swords and arrows, I learned how by the Gorons up at Death Mountain."
The blacksmith eyed him for a moment then replied with a husky voice,
"You'll do just fine. Just prepare to get filthy."
Zelda sat down on a grave in Karkariko's Village graveyard, she felt a little tired, she had found work and had helped a woman take care of her cuccos. But the challenge of it was, was that her cuccos had a bad habit of running off and she couldn't even touch them because she was allergic to them. So Zelda had spent pretty much most of four hours catching mischievous cuccos and bring them back to their pen only to have them escape some other way and then she had to chase them all over again!
"Goddess she needs to build a something called, 'a higher fence.'" Zelda mumbled sourly underneath her breath, "I really shouldn't be complaining though, she gave me a lot of rupees...."
"Zelda?"
Zelda leaped off the rock and whizzed around to see a certain Sheikah standing a few yards away from her.
"Impa!"
Zelda ran up to her and Impa held her arms to out to her and hugged Zelda tightly in a motherly way.
"Good afternoon, my Zelda."
Zelda hugged Impa and looked up at Impa's face,
"Impa, I thought that you said that you had Sheikah business to attend to?"
"I did, but it didn't take that long. What were mourning over?"
Zelda loosened her grip but Impa kept her arms tight around Zelda.
"Impa, do you think that I'm spoiled?"
Impa looked at Zelda with shock, why would her Zelda think of herself as spoiled?
"Why do ask me Zelda? Do you think as yourself as spoiled?"
"Well, this boy told that I was spoiled, he said, 'Goddess your spoiled."
"Why did he tell you that?"
"Well, actually, I had meet him in Hyrule Field, and he had demanded that he at least escorted me to Lon Lon Ranch because he didn't think that I could take of myself. After a while I realized that he would just follow me even if I told him no, So I told him yes, but then after we ate dinner I said I needed to go to the bathroom. When I was out of his sight I turned into you-know-who and then ran off. And then when I was you-know-who I found him when he was looking for me at night. Then when I left him and came here. And about four hours ago I saw him again and he called me spoiled."
"Zelda, why would he tell you that?"
"Well, we were argueing and kept telling that I could take care of myself, and then when he asked me about a weapon I told him I didn't need a damn weapon."
"You cursed in front of him?"
"Yes... I guess that my temper got the best of me...."
"It sure did! I can tell why he thinks that you're spoiled!"
"So, I am spoiled?"
"No, just extremely stubborn."
Zelda looked at Impa confused, which made the Sheikah give out a deep laugh that she only did in front of Zelda.
"When you are spoiled you demand things and scream and pout and cry for them. And you always say that you never need help when you really do need it. When you are stubborn, you demand things, and go through extreme measures to get them. The difference between them is that when you're stubborn, you WORK to get things and work through extreme measures to get whatever it is, when you are spoiled, you don't even do anything to try and get it, you just make other people get it and keep on demanding. So he probably thinks that your spoiled because you keep telling him that you don't need help when he say that you do, so he thinks that your being independent and being foolish. So just remember that your not spoiled, just EXTREMELY stubborn."
Zelda instantly felt all of the sadness lift off of her shoulders and gave Impa a hardy hug, and Impa happily returned it.
"Zelda, I brought you a gift."
Zelda lifted her head up instantly and her eyes widened with excitement,
"What is it?"
Impa released Zelda and took a pack off her back; she laid it on the ground and began rummaging through it, Zelda hovering over her shoulder. She finally found what she was looking and pulled it out, she held it out Zelda, who was looking over it with delicate eyes.
"It's... its another book, thank you Impa!"
Impa gladly let Zelda take the fat book from her arms and watched happily as Zelda lightly touched the cover of it with the tip of her fingers. She looked up at Impa with shining eyes, then leaped up onto Impa and gave her tighter hug then she had first given her.
"I have a room at the inn, do you want to come? The hostess will GLADY except you."
Impa raised a suspicious eyebrow, "Why would the hostess except me into the inn?"
Zelda only smiled at her, and then tucking the fat book under arm with a little difficulty she got Impa's hand and began marching off to the inn with her guardian in tow.
Link walked through the hallway upstairs of the inn behind the hostess, he was covered with grease and soot, and he had a slight slouch in his stand.
"Here we are Link, just make sure to take a bath before you start laying on the bed, the bathing rooms are on the bottom floor, just ask me or my husband where it is and we'll escort you there in no time. Make yourself at home!"
She unlocked the door and then gave Link the key, which took it with a polite hand.
"Thank you, Della, it was nice to see you again."
Della chuckled at him as she moved aside to let him through, and watched as he took his sword and other items off and laid them next to the bedpost with a grunt.
"Link, maybe you shouldn't carry so many items all of the time? Even when I first meet you, that was when you were ten, you would always carry more items then your back could handle. Do you really have to carry so much?"
"If I don't want head being devoured by a Wolfos, then yes I ALWAYS have to. I think I'll see about that bath after put my stuff up."
"Alright, see you soon."
She gingerly closed the door behind her and left Link to his privacy, who was looking around his room with a smile. This was the same room that she always gave him, and it was always away from most of the noise. He smiled as he tried to think of how many times he had stayed here in this room, it was almost like his home because he came here so many times. Well, his second home, he still had one in Korkori Forest, he hadn't gone there in a long while. An image appeared in his mind, it was the memory of him just before he was about to venture out of the forest grounds. Flashback
Saria nervously grabbed Link's wrist in another attempt to try and
stop him from going outside of the forest, her best friend would be
killed!
"Link, please don't go! Don't listen to Mido, you know he just
trying to get rid of you!"
Link stopped and looked back at Saria, who was begging him with
her deep emerald eyes.
"Saria, he's right. I won't die if not a Korkori."
"But Link, you ARE a Korkori! Mido's just jealous of you, he's
always been jealous!"
"But everyone else has a fairy except for me, and every Korkori
is supposed to have a fairy, but I DON'T have one! So I won't die!"
"Why don't you just see if you get older? Korkori don't get old,
they always stay young!"
"That'll take to long!"
"But...."
"Nothing you can say will change my mind Saria. I'm going to do
it!"
By now all of the children of the forest had heard what their
friend Link was going to do and were all gathering around him in a
large circle. Most of them were the same height and all the same age,
but each looked different in their own way.
"Look everyone, I'm gonna go no matter what any of you say, so
don't try and get in my way!"
On girl with long curly vivid blue hair and eyes stepped out and
tugged on Link's arm.
"But Link, Saria's right! You'll die! The forest won't be the
same if you go; no one wants you to go!"
"Mido does."
"Who cares what that bully thinks! Everyone else doesn't want
you to go!"
"Kasi, this is what I wanna to do."
Kasi's fairy flew up to Link's face and gave his cheek a small
kiss.
"Good luck Link!" Kasi's fairy told him in an encouraging voice,
her blue aura sparkling around her. Other fairies flew from their
masters and surrounded Link and blew sparkles all around him. The
Korkori glared at their fairies for giving their friend more courage
to lead himself into certain death, the youngest and bravest out of
them all.
"Thank you fairies, when I come back I'll be sure to thank you
again! Saria let go of my arm so I can go. I'll come back; I promise
everyone that I'll come back! I promise on the Wollum Flower that I'll
come back, how's that?"
Everything in the forest quieted, not even the wind or a bird
chirp sounded through the forest. No one EVER broke a promise on the
Wollum Flower, not even Mido would break a promise on such a high
degree.
"OK...."
Saria whispered under her breath as she let go of his wrist,
with tears building around her eyes, struggling to stay in. Now the
silence was broke with sniffles all around Link, gave Saria him a deep
hug, and he returned it. Then he turned around to everyone else around
him.
"I'll be back in three days! If I'm not back by then... well... I
guess I'm not a Korkori."
He stepped forward and all of the children of the forest moved
out his path, most of them crying, with their fairies trying to
comfort them the best they could. He walked up to the black hole and
then onto the bridge beyond it, he took a shaky breath in, finally
realizing how crazy this actually was. He was about to step into the
next black hole when he heard Saria call after him. It was odd, she
sounded so far away, but he knew that she was only a few yards away,
somewhere behind that blanket of darkness. He heard her footsteps, and
then eventually saw her running towards him through the black,
cradling something in her hands.
"Link!"
She ran up to him and held out something wrapped in a white
cloth.
"Take it."
He reached out with both hands and took it as gently as he
could, he held it in one hand and moved the cloth to reveal an
instrument, with holes covering it.
"It's a Fairy Ocarina, remember that thing that I play when
we're in the Lost Woods together? That's what this is, it's not the
same though, I carved that one a little while ago because for some
reason I felt that you would need soon. And right after you went into
that black hole I knew that I had to give to you! So Link, even if you
are a Korkori and you do die, I know that you'll have this with you
when you see the Three Great Goddess the Great Deku has told us so
much about! Play this song with me, it's a song I heard the spirits
playing in the Lost Woods one day, I call it, Saria's Song."
Saria pulled out her Fairy Ocarina from her belt and began
playing a tune that Link had heard in the Lost Woods, and felt its
melody play through his body. He held his Ocarina up to his lips, and
in some way, he had no idea how, he began playing the song with Saria,
hitting the notes perfectly and never missing a bit of the tune. They
played together for longer then either of them knew, simply letting
the tune pour into their souls. When they did stop, Link noticed tears
going Saria's face, and he took a hand and whipped them away gently.
She smiled warmly at him, and then told him one last thing.
"This song seems to let you talk to the spirits in the forest,
and I've also found that the Lost Woods is connected to other places,
so whenever you hear this song the Lost Woods is somewhere nearby, I
don't know where these other places are though. Remember that only
those of a pure heart can hear this song, and Korkori can hear it too,
but only those certain people. Whenever you feel lonely, just play
that song and I will answer you. Good luck."
Link nodded and then turned around and ran out of the forest,
because he knew that if he looked back, he would never get the courage
to leave his home again.
End of Flashback
Link's smile widened, he remembered how interested he had been
at the outside world, and how instead of coming back in three days he
had come back in two weeks. He remembered how excited everyone had
been when he had come back, and how many tears Saria had shed in joy.
He even remembered how happy he was when he had first meet Navi, his
guardian fairy.
Flashback
"Hi! My name's Navi! I'm gonna be your partner from now on! The
Deku Tree sent because Saria told him your story of how you ventured
out of the forest and then came back. SO! The Great Deku Tree sent me
as a way of telling you that even though you're not a Korkori by
blood, you're a Korkori by heart and soul! And that's what really
counts! So Link, it's nice to meet you!"
Link blinked a couple of couple times as this ball of white
light with an incredibly high-pitched voice grabbed his hand and shook
it up and down. Fairies at a glance only looked like balls of light,
but when you actually looked into the light you could see a small
fully matured female body or male body. When Link looked into Navi's
light, he saw long dark purple hair done down in long braids with
flowers twisted into them down farther then her toes, she wore vines
and flowers as clothing, and crystal clear butterfly wings stuck out
between her back bones.
Link wasn't trying to boast about his fairy, but she was the
most beautiful fairy he had ever seen, and all of the other Korkori's
except for Mido thought so too. They all had a forest party, for the
arrival of Link's new fairy and just the fact that Link had come back
after everyone thought he had been dead, it took place in front of the
Deku Tree, where all of the parties took place.
End of Flashback
"I should visit all of my friends after I take of this Death
Mountain problem.... And besides, I miss Navi...."
Navi hadn't come back out with him on his last visit to the
forest because he realized how much she had missed the forest, so
after a tiring debate he had finally gotten her to agree to stay. And
he knew that she had been happier then he had been for her about
taking a vacation from his wondering outside of the forest. He
couldn't wait to see his fairy again, and all of the familiar faces of
the Korkori, he had even gotten Mido to soften up on him, although he
still harassed Link a lot anyway.
Link put all of his thing away, then touching his right shoulder
where Navi always sat fondly he stepped out of room, taking another
green tunic for clean clothes.
Zelda couldn't help but smile as she watched the reaction on
Della's face when she saw Impa, the woman who had saved her whole
family from Ganondorf's wrath. She had shook Impa's hands with tears
going down her face, while Impa couldn't help but smile back. She had
gratefully led Impa upstairs and into Zelda's room, once they were
there she had insisted on bring up another mattress for Impa since she
wouldn't take her own room.
Della closed the door gleefully and Zelda sat down on the bed on
her belly and opened up the new book that Impa had got her. She felt
the bed move as Impa sat down next to her, her strong hand stroking
Zelda's long blond hair.
"So THAT was what you were talking about, was it not?"
"Yep, you hit the jackpot Impa!" Zelda told her happily, her
eyes not leaving the pages of the book in front of her.
"Maybe I should of given you that book later, because now you'll
be up all night reading and then I won't be able to wake you up in the
morning."
"That's not true!" Zelda told Impa in defense.
"Your eyes won't even leave the page, how can what I say not be
true?"
"Because," she stated proudly, "I'm going to go to bed early so
that I can go and see what's wrong with Death Mountain. I know that
you've seen what its smoke looks like, all weird and disoriented. And
you told me that the smoke only gets that way whenever the Temple of
Fire in your Sheikah stories powers get messed up. So I'm going to fix
it!"
"How does what you say not surprise me...? Are you sure you want
to go up there? I know you have memorized the way up to the Goron's
home, but once you get inside the crater, you'll be burned up before
you know it. Only the Gorons can withstand such outrages temperatures,
did you even bother to think on how you will be able to live through
the scorching heat?"
"Well... uh... no...." Zelda replied, her voice dumbfounded, Impa
chuckled and continued to stroke Zelda's hair, she knew her Zelda
would find a way to get through the horrible heat, after all, it was
her destiny.
A few minutes later Della came back up with some young men carry
up the mattress, once it was in place, Della asked if they needed
anything else. Impa just told her that if they needed anything else,
that she would tell Della immediately. Once Della was satisfied, she
left Zelda and Impa and left the door cracked open just to let the air
circulate through the room.
"Well," Impa said Zelda, walking over to her mattress on the
other side of the room. "I guess that whenever we go here well get
everything free of charge. Right Zelda?"
"Uh, what?"
"Are you ever going to put that book down? What page are you on
anyway?"
"Yes I will put the book down soon, and I'm on page forty-one."
"In Farore's name, HOW can read that many pages in only thirty
minutes?"
"Practice makes perfect.... Guess I just read so many books that I
got such quick eyes."
"You're telling me! I think that you should out that book down
now before it's too late to stop you."
Zelda closed the book and rolled onto her back and then sat up,
grinning happily at Impa.
"Impa, I think that even if I knew who my parents were, I would
still love you more."
"I'm not so sure about! Your mother is beautiful beyond compare,
and her wisdom is unmatched. Go to bed my Zelda, let me play me your
lullaby."
Zelda's smiled widened as she looked into Impa's caring eyes;
Impa had played her the same lullaby since she was first born. She
loved the lullaby so much; she remembered that when she was small, she
wouldn't even be able to go to sleep without hearing at least one note
from Impa's strange whistle like instrument. Now she could go to sleep
without hearing it, but whenever she did hear it, she would go to
sleep almost instantly, and have dreams of wonderful things.
Zelda got up and switched into her nightgown that she only wore
when she was indoors, taking her circlet off she took a brush and ran
it through her hair. There were almost no tangles, and usually there
never was, she went back to her bed and laid down underneath the
covers. Impa began playing the lullaby, and Zelda felt herself begin
drifting off into the tide of her dreams and sleep. She closed her
eyes as the lullaby came to its last notes, and fell asleep at the
very end.
Impa put the instrument down from her lips and looked at Zelda's
soft face, with a careful hand she lightly brushed the hair covering
up Zelda's eyes. She whispered silently and sweetly underneath her
breath, "Sleep well, my Zelda."
Link laid down on top of his bed, not bothering to get
underneath the covers. He stared out of his window, looking out into
the sky.
'I wonder, if I'll ever learn who my parents really are? I
always ask the Goddess, well, actually I always ask Farore, but they
never answer me. Are the Three Great Goddess ever listening to my
prayers? Why don't they ever answer me? I want to ask so many
questions, like why I was abandoned in the forest, who am I, do I have
a family, were my parents important people, I'm I a Hylian, do I come
from some foreign land....Why don't they answer me?'
Link clenched his hands, and then let them go loose again.
"Being angry at the Goddess isn't going to do anything. I need
to think about my Death Mountain mission! Oh great, now I just thought
about that stupid girl again, Zelda! Gees, is she an annoying
parasite, how can she expect to have a long life when she counties to
do all of these dangerous things? I mean, I know how to use a sword
and a bow and so I at least know how to protect myself. But she isn't
even going to bring a damn rock to protect her, what a stupid moron.
She's going to get herself killed before she knows it, I hope someone
does something to try and stop her, because I'm tired of trying to
help her!
OK Link, just stop thinking about that brat, and concentrate.
I'm going to leave on my journey the day after tomorrow, so tomorrow I
should use all of my morning gathering up rupees, and then.... I'll just
do whatever feels like I should next. OK, time to get some shut eye!'
Link closed his eyes, and then instantly fell into a deep
slumber.
Zelda opened her eyes and saw sunlight pouring in through her
window; she blinked and then sat up, rubbing her eyes at the same
time. She looked sleepily around the room, and then noticed a note on
top of Impa's mattress. Yawning, she got out of bed and strode over to
read the read the note, it read:
Good morning my dear Zelda, I had to go and didn't want to
disturb you because you looked too peaceful to wake up. I'm out doing
Sheikah business, and I won't be back for a long while. Don't go into
the Death Mountain Crater without having a small meeting with the Big
Brother first, he should give something to help you survive the
blazing heat.
Lots of Love,
Impa
Zelda put the note down on top of her bed stand, she yawned
again, and then reaching into a dresser she took out a robe and
started undressing when she noticed that the door was halfway open.
Cursing she ran over to it before a dirty boy or man could catch a
glimpse of her naked breasts, she closed it as fast as she could and
then locked to make sure no one could barge in on her. She removed all
of her clothes and then put the robe, and she made sure it wouldn't
'accidentally' slip off when a man bumped into her.
"Disgusting perverts...."
She meekly opened the door to make sure that no one was in the
hallway; she tucked her newer clothes underneath arm and then walked
out shyly into the hallway.
'What kind of damn sissy am I? I can't even help but turn into
an apple whenever a man sees me in a robe, I know I don't normally
stay in inn's, heck, I've NEVER stayed at the Karkariko Village inn
before! So I guess I should be a little shy... oh shit! Its Link!'
Link stepped out of room after finishing putting on his new
clothes; he reached is hands up above his head to stretch out his
sides. Putting his arms down, he noticed something white out of the
corner of his eye. He turned to look at it and felt his right eyes
twitch when he saw Zelda in bathing robe, her face a crimson red. He
slightly blushed too, he wasn't used to seeing a blonde beauty dressed
in a... what! Blond haired beauty! She was an annoying girl who was a
spoiled brat and trying to get herself killed!
"Are going to take a bath?" Link asked her after he had calmed
down; she only returned his comment by blushing even harder.
'Gees, what's wrong with this girl? If she blushes any harder
her head going to explode!'
"Why are you blushing like that?"
Zelda looked at him, and then blushed even an even deeper red.
He walked over to her and looked her in the eyes, crossing his arms.
"Are you sick or something? I've never seen anybody blush so
much in my life."
Again, Zelda's face blushed more until she was practically
purple, then Link realized what was wrong.
"Do you not like me looking at you when you're in a bath robe?"
He watched as she nodded, and he sighed and pressed his body
against the wall to let her go by him. She ran past him, and he stared
as she ran across the hallway, her robe flapping behind her.
'She is weird, normally girls would try and stick their legs out
at me, which I absolutely hate, but I think that she doesn't like to
see boys looking at her when she's wearing a robe. OK, I think I will
classify her as one of the weirdest people that I've ever meet.'
Link shook his head and began to advance to the stairs, he was
walking down the hall when he heard a young woman scream, and he
instantly ran to where the source was. He stopped quickly when saw
Zelda being surrounded by a group of men, she was up against the wall
and one of the members of the group had both of hands together so that
she couldn't do anything like slap him.
Link hesitated, he really hated this spoiled brat, but he knew
that he should help her before this began turning into something
HORRIBLY unpleasant to her.
He was about to step forward when he saw Zelda's hair stand up,
almost as if it were being pulled up by the wind. Glittering light
surrounded her body, and her eyes went white, the man who was holding
her was somehow thrown back an invisible force.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" She screeched at them, she lifted her left
hand and moved it like she was slapping someone in front of her. And
to Link's amazement the whole group was sent flying to her left side
almost as if she had slapped them all at once with terrific force.
Once they were all sprawled out on the ground her hair fell back down,
the aura around her body vanished, and her eyes returned to normal.
She placed her hand across her mouth once she had realized what she
had done, and Link heard footsteps racing up the stairs. He ran
forward and grabbed Zelda by the hand and roughly jerked her away, she
tried to resist at first but then stopped when Link told her, "What
will all of those people say when they see you and then those men tell
them what happened?"
She followed him back to his room; once they were inside he
closed and locked the door. He turned around and looked Zelda, who was
taking in deep breaths. They stood there for a few minutes in silence
until Zelda broke it.
"That was stupid...." She mumbled under breath nervously, Link put
his hand on her shoulder and made her look at him.
"What, what in the world was that light? And how did you make
those men fly across the hall like that?"
She swallowed and looked into his eyes, and Link saw how nervous
she was in what she was about to tell him.
"Magic."
She told him quietly, he stared at her, feeling totally
confused.
"Magic?"
He asked her, she nodded slowly, and he looked even deeper into
her eyes, and then looked away. He took his hand off of her shoulder
and turned away from her, and then spoke again.
"So, is that how you got here and that's what you plan to use to
go up Death Mountain?"
"You... believe me?"
"I didn't say that I believed you, and I asked a question, so
please answer it."
"Yes, I can use magic to protect myself, if you want, I can tell
how it was to let me use magic."
Link turned around and faced her again, he looked at her face,
and then at her robe and then clothes that he had thought had fallen
on the floor.
"You might want to take that bath first, I think everyone in the
hallway is gone."
"How do you know that I will come back?"
"For some reason, you don't seem like the kind of person that
would do that."
"I thought I was the spoiled brat."
She replied back to him, a hint of sadness in her voice.
"I didn't say I didn't think that you're not a spoiled brat
anymore. Hurry up and come back up here, I'll be waiting."
Link walked over to the door and opened it, and Zelda went
through it slowly, checking to make sure no one was in the hallway.
She walked out of his doorway without looking back at Link, who closed
the door after her.
He locked the door and then sat down on his bed, one of his
hands moving through his dirty-blond bangs in confusion. He could
remember the Great Deku Tree telling all of the Korkori that the Great
Fairies choose special being to have the power to control magic. But
there were only so little chosen that someone would only see a magic
wielder once in his or her life, and you wouldn't even know it.
'I wonder... what this Zelda is really all about. Was I wrong
about her?'
Link sighed and then took his hat off, revealing a ponytail,
when was the last time he had bothered to cut his hair?
Well, there's your chapter people! I can't answer review
questions because after I upload this to the story my time on the
computer is up, and I don't want to keep you guys waiting. So I'll do
my best to try and answer them next chapter. And wasn't this chapter
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So until next time,
CrypticElf....
=Flashback & end of flashback
Chapter Five:
Link stared at the young woman in front of him, she was blushing madly and then after a moment he realized that it was that Zelda girl that had rammed into him like a goat!
"Aren't you that girl on Hyrule Field that I met? How on earth did you get here all by yourself! I thought that a monster would eat you when you slipped away from me! How the heck did you manage to get away anyway?"
Link watched as Zelda crimson face returned to her normal delicately pale skin, and she stepped away from so that they weren't right only an inch next to each other.
"I told you I could take of myself!"
"Yeah, you did say that, and I guess that you were right and I was wrong. But that still doesn't explain how you got here!"
"I don't need to answer that, and what are exactly are you doing?"
"I'm here to get some rupees and then I'm going to climb up Death Mountain Trail! You happy that you know?"
Zelda stared at him for a few seconds, then she stubbornly replied, her voice higher then usual.
"YOU'RE going up to Death Mountain too?"
"Yes, I am! And I don't want.... Hey wait, you're going up there too?"
"Yes, and I'm not going to let you or anyone else get in my way."
"Why are going up there anyway?"
"I could ask you the same question!"
"It's way too dangerous for a GIRL to go up there! You'll get killed!"
"How do you think I got here in Karkariko Village? BY TAKING CARE OF MYSELF! I'M NOT SOME LITTLE GIRL WHO'S AFRAID TO GET A STAIN ON HER DRESS! I CAN TAKE OF MYSELF!"
Both of them were completely oblivious from the crowd that was gathering around them, and stares and giggles that spread through it.
"Fine, but why are you here anyway?"
"To get potions and rupees."
"What about a weapon?"
"I don't need a damn weapon!"
Link stared at her with wide eyes, did a girl just curse?
"You... you just cursed!"
"Yes I did of that's so amazing to you!"
Finally they both became aware of the crowd that had gathered around them, some of them with their mouths open from just hearing a lady curse.
"What are all of you staring at? Scat!" Zelda screamed at them, most of the crowd looked away and began walking off, while some of them were still dazed from hearing Zelda speak a foul word.
Link looked at her with amazed eyes,
"Goddess you are spoiled."
Zelda spun back around and gave him a death glare, and then she walked off, feeling angry beyond her belief.
'Spoiled! I am not spoiled! Argh I hate that guys guts! How dare he call me spoiled...! Where's Impa to talk to when you need her....'
After a while, Zelda's anger was starting to be replaced by sadness.
'Am I spoiled? I don't think I am. A spoiled person is who demands to get what they want and screams and cries if they don't get it, and they won't even do any work to earn it. Heck, I'm not even sure of I get it! I just screamed at someone for probably no reason. But I didn't cry. Goddess Impa, I need to talk to you. I know that she would tell me if I was spoiled, whenever I ask her something about myself she tells me the truth. She doesn't just go off and say, 'Oh my little snuggle-bun your just perfect! I wouldn't change you a bit!' No, she would tell me my flaws and what's good about me. But why do I feel so sad about what one boy said? Things like this never get to me.'
She sighed and looked around herself, a breeze making her hair stand up.
'I should have brought my cloak, this wind is getting cold.'
Link walked around, not fuming but he still felt a little pissed off at that stupid Zelda girl. What was her problem? Did she have a brain underneath all of that hair of hers? She sure was beautiful but it seemed like she had absolute no concern for her life whatsoever. She wasn't even going to bring a weapon with her! She just planned to go up the trail and get herself murdered.
'Well she can do it for all I care! She doesn't want anyone to get in her way, so I won't get in her way! It won't be my fault if someone finds a skull with a silver circlet and some golden hairs still attached to it rolling down the trail! What a spoiled person.'
He walked into a black smiths shop, hoping he could pound the anger out on some steel.
"I know how to blacksmith," He told a man in the back who was covered with soot, "I can make swords and arrows, I learned how by the Gorons up at Death Mountain."
The blacksmith eyed him for a moment then replied with a husky voice,
"You'll do just fine. Just prepare to get filthy."
Zelda sat down on a grave in Karkariko's Village graveyard, she felt a little tired, she had found work and had helped a woman take care of her cuccos. But the challenge of it was, was that her cuccos had a bad habit of running off and she couldn't even touch them because she was allergic to them. So Zelda had spent pretty much most of four hours catching mischievous cuccos and bring them back to their pen only to have them escape some other way and then she had to chase them all over again!
"Goddess she needs to build a something called, 'a higher fence.'" Zelda mumbled sourly underneath her breath, "I really shouldn't be complaining though, she gave me a lot of rupees...."
"Zelda?"
Zelda leaped off the rock and whizzed around to see a certain Sheikah standing a few yards away from her.
"Impa!"
Zelda ran up to her and Impa held her arms to out to her and hugged Zelda tightly in a motherly way.
"Good afternoon, my Zelda."
Zelda hugged Impa and looked up at Impa's face,
"Impa, I thought that you said that you had Sheikah business to attend to?"
"I did, but it didn't take that long. What were mourning over?"
Zelda loosened her grip but Impa kept her arms tight around Zelda.
"Impa, do you think that I'm spoiled?"
Impa looked at Zelda with shock, why would her Zelda think of herself as spoiled?
"Why do ask me Zelda? Do you think as yourself as spoiled?"
"Well, this boy told that I was spoiled, he said, 'Goddess your spoiled."
"Why did he tell you that?"
"Well, actually, I had meet him in Hyrule Field, and he had demanded that he at least escorted me to Lon Lon Ranch because he didn't think that I could take of myself. After a while I realized that he would just follow me even if I told him no, So I told him yes, but then after we ate dinner I said I needed to go to the bathroom. When I was out of his sight I turned into you-know-who and then ran off. And then when I was you-know-who I found him when he was looking for me at night. Then when I left him and came here. And about four hours ago I saw him again and he called me spoiled."
"Zelda, why would he tell you that?"
"Well, we were argueing and kept telling that I could take care of myself, and then when he asked me about a weapon I told him I didn't need a damn weapon."
"You cursed in front of him?"
"Yes... I guess that my temper got the best of me...."
"It sure did! I can tell why he thinks that you're spoiled!"
"So, I am spoiled?"
"No, just extremely stubborn."
Zelda looked at Impa confused, which made the Sheikah give out a deep laugh that she only did in front of Zelda.
"When you are spoiled you demand things and scream and pout and cry for them. And you always say that you never need help when you really do need it. When you are stubborn, you demand things, and go through extreme measures to get them. The difference between them is that when you're stubborn, you WORK to get things and work through extreme measures to get whatever it is, when you are spoiled, you don't even do anything to try and get it, you just make other people get it and keep on demanding. So he probably thinks that your spoiled because you keep telling him that you don't need help when he say that you do, so he thinks that your being independent and being foolish. So just remember that your not spoiled, just EXTREMELY stubborn."
Zelda instantly felt all of the sadness lift off of her shoulders and gave Impa a hardy hug, and Impa happily returned it.
"Zelda, I brought you a gift."
Zelda lifted her head up instantly and her eyes widened with excitement,
"What is it?"
Impa released Zelda and took a pack off her back; she laid it on the ground and began rummaging through it, Zelda hovering over her shoulder. She finally found what she was looking and pulled it out, she held it out Zelda, who was looking over it with delicate eyes.
"It's... its another book, thank you Impa!"
Impa gladly let Zelda take the fat book from her arms and watched happily as Zelda lightly touched the cover of it with the tip of her fingers. She looked up at Impa with shining eyes, then leaped up onto Impa and gave her tighter hug then she had first given her.
"I have a room at the inn, do you want to come? The hostess will GLADY except you."
Impa raised a suspicious eyebrow, "Why would the hostess except me into the inn?"
Zelda only smiled at her, and then tucking the fat book under arm with a little difficulty she got Impa's hand and began marching off to the inn with her guardian in tow.
Link walked through the hallway upstairs of the inn behind the hostess, he was covered with grease and soot, and he had a slight slouch in his stand.
"Here we are Link, just make sure to take a bath before you start laying on the bed, the bathing rooms are on the bottom floor, just ask me or my husband where it is and we'll escort you there in no time. Make yourself at home!"
She unlocked the door and then gave Link the key, which took it with a polite hand.
"Thank you, Della, it was nice to see you again."
Della chuckled at him as she moved aside to let him through, and watched as he took his sword and other items off and laid them next to the bedpost with a grunt.
"Link, maybe you shouldn't carry so many items all of the time? Even when I first meet you, that was when you were ten, you would always carry more items then your back could handle. Do you really have to carry so much?"
"If I don't want head being devoured by a Wolfos, then yes I ALWAYS have to. I think I'll see about that bath after put my stuff up."
"Alright, see you soon."
She gingerly closed the door behind her and left Link to his privacy, who was looking around his room with a smile. This was the same room that she always gave him, and it was always away from most of the noise. He smiled as he tried to think of how many times he had stayed here in this room, it was almost like his home because he came here so many times. Well, his second home, he still had one in Korkori Forest, he hadn't gone there in a long while. An image appeared in his mind, it was the memory of him just before he was about to venture out of the forest grounds. Flashback
Saria nervously grabbed Link's wrist in another attempt to try and
stop him from going outside of the forest, her best friend would be
killed!
"Link, please don't go! Don't listen to Mido, you know he just
trying to get rid of you!"
Link stopped and looked back at Saria, who was begging him with
her deep emerald eyes.
"Saria, he's right. I won't die if not a Korkori."
"But Link, you ARE a Korkori! Mido's just jealous of you, he's
always been jealous!"
"But everyone else has a fairy except for me, and every Korkori
is supposed to have a fairy, but I DON'T have one! So I won't die!"
"Why don't you just see if you get older? Korkori don't get old,
they always stay young!"
"That'll take to long!"
"But...."
"Nothing you can say will change my mind Saria. I'm going to do
it!"
By now all of the children of the forest had heard what their
friend Link was going to do and were all gathering around him in a
large circle. Most of them were the same height and all the same age,
but each looked different in their own way.
"Look everyone, I'm gonna go no matter what any of you say, so
don't try and get in my way!"
On girl with long curly vivid blue hair and eyes stepped out and
tugged on Link's arm.
"But Link, Saria's right! You'll die! The forest won't be the
same if you go; no one wants you to go!"
"Mido does."
"Who cares what that bully thinks! Everyone else doesn't want
you to go!"
"Kasi, this is what I wanna to do."
Kasi's fairy flew up to Link's face and gave his cheek a small
kiss.
"Good luck Link!" Kasi's fairy told him in an encouraging voice,
her blue aura sparkling around her. Other fairies flew from their
masters and surrounded Link and blew sparkles all around him. The
Korkori glared at their fairies for giving their friend more courage
to lead himself into certain death, the youngest and bravest out of
them all.
"Thank you fairies, when I come back I'll be sure to thank you
again! Saria let go of my arm so I can go. I'll come back; I promise
everyone that I'll come back! I promise on the Wollum Flower that I'll
come back, how's that?"
Everything in the forest quieted, not even the wind or a bird
chirp sounded through the forest. No one EVER broke a promise on the
Wollum Flower, not even Mido would break a promise on such a high
degree.
"OK...."
Saria whispered under her breath as she let go of his wrist,
with tears building around her eyes, struggling to stay in. Now the
silence was broke with sniffles all around Link, gave Saria him a deep
hug, and he returned it. Then he turned around to everyone else around
him.
"I'll be back in three days! If I'm not back by then... well... I
guess I'm not a Korkori."
He stepped forward and all of the children of the forest moved
out his path, most of them crying, with their fairies trying to
comfort them the best they could. He walked up to the black hole and
then onto the bridge beyond it, he took a shaky breath in, finally
realizing how crazy this actually was. He was about to step into the
next black hole when he heard Saria call after him. It was odd, she
sounded so far away, but he knew that she was only a few yards away,
somewhere behind that blanket of darkness. He heard her footsteps, and
then eventually saw her running towards him through the black,
cradling something in her hands.
"Link!"
She ran up to him and held out something wrapped in a white
cloth.
"Take it."
He reached out with both hands and took it as gently as he
could, he held it in one hand and moved the cloth to reveal an
instrument, with holes covering it.
"It's a Fairy Ocarina, remember that thing that I play when
we're in the Lost Woods together? That's what this is, it's not the
same though, I carved that one a little while ago because for some
reason I felt that you would need soon. And right after you went into
that black hole I knew that I had to give to you! So Link, even if you
are a Korkori and you do die, I know that you'll have this with you
when you see the Three Great Goddess the Great Deku has told us so
much about! Play this song with me, it's a song I heard the spirits
playing in the Lost Woods one day, I call it, Saria's Song."
Saria pulled out her Fairy Ocarina from her belt and began
playing a tune that Link had heard in the Lost Woods, and felt its
melody play through his body. He held his Ocarina up to his lips, and
in some way, he had no idea how, he began playing the song with Saria,
hitting the notes perfectly and never missing a bit of the tune. They
played together for longer then either of them knew, simply letting
the tune pour into their souls. When they did stop, Link noticed tears
going Saria's face, and he took a hand and whipped them away gently.
She smiled warmly at him, and then told him one last thing.
"This song seems to let you talk to the spirits in the forest,
and I've also found that the Lost Woods is connected to other places,
so whenever you hear this song the Lost Woods is somewhere nearby, I
don't know where these other places are though. Remember that only
those of a pure heart can hear this song, and Korkori can hear it too,
but only those certain people. Whenever you feel lonely, just play
that song and I will answer you. Good luck."
Link nodded and then turned around and ran out of the forest,
because he knew that if he looked back, he would never get the courage
to leave his home again.
End of Flashback
Link's smile widened, he remembered how interested he had been
at the outside world, and how instead of coming back in three days he
had come back in two weeks. He remembered how excited everyone had
been when he had come back, and how many tears Saria had shed in joy.
He even remembered how happy he was when he had first meet Navi, his
guardian fairy.
Flashback
"Hi! My name's Navi! I'm gonna be your partner from now on! The
Deku Tree sent because Saria told him your story of how you ventured
out of the forest and then came back. SO! The Great Deku Tree sent me
as a way of telling you that even though you're not a Korkori by
blood, you're a Korkori by heart and soul! And that's what really
counts! So Link, it's nice to meet you!"
Link blinked a couple of couple times as this ball of white
light with an incredibly high-pitched voice grabbed his hand and shook
it up and down. Fairies at a glance only looked like balls of light,
but when you actually looked into the light you could see a small
fully matured female body or male body. When Link looked into Navi's
light, he saw long dark purple hair done down in long braids with
flowers twisted into them down farther then her toes, she wore vines
and flowers as clothing, and crystal clear butterfly wings stuck out
between her back bones.
Link wasn't trying to boast about his fairy, but she was the
most beautiful fairy he had ever seen, and all of the other Korkori's
except for Mido thought so too. They all had a forest party, for the
arrival of Link's new fairy and just the fact that Link had come back
after everyone thought he had been dead, it took place in front of the
Deku Tree, where all of the parties took place.
End of Flashback
"I should visit all of my friends after I take of this Death
Mountain problem.... And besides, I miss Navi...."
Navi hadn't come back out with him on his last visit to the
forest because he realized how much she had missed the forest, so
after a tiring debate he had finally gotten her to agree to stay. And
he knew that she had been happier then he had been for her about
taking a vacation from his wondering outside of the forest. He
couldn't wait to see his fairy again, and all of the familiar faces of
the Korkori, he had even gotten Mido to soften up on him, although he
still harassed Link a lot anyway.
Link put all of his thing away, then touching his right shoulder
where Navi always sat fondly he stepped out of room, taking another
green tunic for clean clothes.
Zelda couldn't help but smile as she watched the reaction on
Della's face when she saw Impa, the woman who had saved her whole
family from Ganondorf's wrath. She had shook Impa's hands with tears
going down her face, while Impa couldn't help but smile back. She had
gratefully led Impa upstairs and into Zelda's room, once they were
there she had insisted on bring up another mattress for Impa since she
wouldn't take her own room.
Della closed the door gleefully and Zelda sat down on the bed on
her belly and opened up the new book that Impa had got her. She felt
the bed move as Impa sat down next to her, her strong hand stroking
Zelda's long blond hair.
"So THAT was what you were talking about, was it not?"
"Yep, you hit the jackpot Impa!" Zelda told her happily, her
eyes not leaving the pages of the book in front of her.
"Maybe I should of given you that book later, because now you'll
be up all night reading and then I won't be able to wake you up in the
morning."
"That's not true!" Zelda told Impa in defense.
"Your eyes won't even leave the page, how can what I say not be
true?"
"Because," she stated proudly, "I'm going to go to bed early so
that I can go and see what's wrong with Death Mountain. I know that
you've seen what its smoke looks like, all weird and disoriented. And
you told me that the smoke only gets that way whenever the Temple of
Fire in your Sheikah stories powers get messed up. So I'm going to fix
it!"
"How does what you say not surprise me...? Are you sure you want
to go up there? I know you have memorized the way up to the Goron's
home, but once you get inside the crater, you'll be burned up before
you know it. Only the Gorons can withstand such outrages temperatures,
did you even bother to think on how you will be able to live through
the scorching heat?"
"Well... uh... no...." Zelda replied, her voice dumbfounded, Impa
chuckled and continued to stroke Zelda's hair, she knew her Zelda
would find a way to get through the horrible heat, after all, it was
her destiny.
A few minutes later Della came back up with some young men carry
up the mattress, once it was in place, Della asked if they needed
anything else. Impa just told her that if they needed anything else,
that she would tell Della immediately. Once Della was satisfied, she
left Zelda and Impa and left the door cracked open just to let the air
circulate through the room.
"Well," Impa said Zelda, walking over to her mattress on the
other side of the room. "I guess that whenever we go here well get
everything free of charge. Right Zelda?"
"Uh, what?"
"Are you ever going to put that book down? What page are you on
anyway?"
"Yes I will put the book down soon, and I'm on page forty-one."
"In Farore's name, HOW can read that many pages in only thirty
minutes?"
"Practice makes perfect.... Guess I just read so many books that I
got such quick eyes."
"You're telling me! I think that you should out that book down
now before it's too late to stop you."
Zelda closed the book and rolled onto her back and then sat up,
grinning happily at Impa.
"Impa, I think that even if I knew who my parents were, I would
still love you more."
"I'm not so sure about! Your mother is beautiful beyond compare,
and her wisdom is unmatched. Go to bed my Zelda, let me play me your
lullaby."
Zelda's smiled widened as she looked into Impa's caring eyes;
Impa had played her the same lullaby since she was first born. She
loved the lullaby so much; she remembered that when she was small, she
wouldn't even be able to go to sleep without hearing at least one note
from Impa's strange whistle like instrument. Now she could go to sleep
without hearing it, but whenever she did hear it, she would go to
sleep almost instantly, and have dreams of wonderful things.
Zelda got up and switched into her nightgown that she only wore
when she was indoors, taking her circlet off she took a brush and ran
it through her hair. There were almost no tangles, and usually there
never was, she went back to her bed and laid down underneath the
covers. Impa began playing the lullaby, and Zelda felt herself begin
drifting off into the tide of her dreams and sleep. She closed her
eyes as the lullaby came to its last notes, and fell asleep at the
very end.
Impa put the instrument down from her lips and looked at Zelda's
soft face, with a careful hand she lightly brushed the hair covering
up Zelda's eyes. She whispered silently and sweetly underneath her
breath, "Sleep well, my Zelda."
Link laid down on top of his bed, not bothering to get
underneath the covers. He stared out of his window, looking out into
the sky.
'I wonder, if I'll ever learn who my parents really are? I
always ask the Goddess, well, actually I always ask Farore, but they
never answer me. Are the Three Great Goddess ever listening to my
prayers? Why don't they ever answer me? I want to ask so many
questions, like why I was abandoned in the forest, who am I, do I have
a family, were my parents important people, I'm I a Hylian, do I come
from some foreign land....Why don't they answer me?'
Link clenched his hands, and then let them go loose again.
"Being angry at the Goddess isn't going to do anything. I need
to think about my Death Mountain mission! Oh great, now I just thought
about that stupid girl again, Zelda! Gees, is she an annoying
parasite, how can she expect to have a long life when she counties to
do all of these dangerous things? I mean, I know how to use a sword
and a bow and so I at least know how to protect myself. But she isn't
even going to bring a damn rock to protect her, what a stupid moron.
She's going to get herself killed before she knows it, I hope someone
does something to try and stop her, because I'm tired of trying to
help her!
OK Link, just stop thinking about that brat, and concentrate.
I'm going to leave on my journey the day after tomorrow, so tomorrow I
should use all of my morning gathering up rupees, and then.... I'll just
do whatever feels like I should next. OK, time to get some shut eye!'
Link closed his eyes, and then instantly fell into a deep
slumber.
Zelda opened her eyes and saw sunlight pouring in through her
window; she blinked and then sat up, rubbing her eyes at the same
time. She looked sleepily around the room, and then noticed a note on
top of Impa's mattress. Yawning, she got out of bed and strode over to
read the read the note, it read:
Good morning my dear Zelda, I had to go and didn't want to
disturb you because you looked too peaceful to wake up. I'm out doing
Sheikah business, and I won't be back for a long while. Don't go into
the Death Mountain Crater without having a small meeting with the Big
Brother first, he should give something to help you survive the
blazing heat.
Lots of Love,
Impa
Zelda put the note down on top of her bed stand, she yawned
again, and then reaching into a dresser she took out a robe and
started undressing when she noticed that the door was halfway open.
Cursing she ran over to it before a dirty boy or man could catch a
glimpse of her naked breasts, she closed it as fast as she could and
then locked to make sure no one could barge in on her. She removed all
of her clothes and then put the robe, and she made sure it wouldn't
'accidentally' slip off when a man bumped into her.
"Disgusting perverts...."
She meekly opened the door to make sure that no one was in the
hallway; she tucked her newer clothes underneath arm and then walked
out shyly into the hallway.
'What kind of damn sissy am I? I can't even help but turn into
an apple whenever a man sees me in a robe, I know I don't normally
stay in inn's, heck, I've NEVER stayed at the Karkariko Village inn
before! So I guess I should be a little shy... oh shit! Its Link!'
Link stepped out of room after finishing putting on his new
clothes; he reached is hands up above his head to stretch out his
sides. Putting his arms down, he noticed something white out of the
corner of his eye. He turned to look at it and felt his right eyes
twitch when he saw Zelda in bathing robe, her face a crimson red. He
slightly blushed too, he wasn't used to seeing a blonde beauty dressed
in a... what! Blond haired beauty! She was an annoying girl who was a
spoiled brat and trying to get herself killed!
"Are going to take a bath?" Link asked her after he had calmed
down; she only returned his comment by blushing even harder.
'Gees, what's wrong with this girl? If she blushes any harder
her head going to explode!'
"Why are you blushing like that?"
Zelda looked at him, and then blushed even an even deeper red.
He walked over to her and looked her in the eyes, crossing his arms.
"Are you sick or something? I've never seen anybody blush so
much in my life."
Again, Zelda's face blushed more until she was practically
purple, then Link realized what was wrong.
"Do you not like me looking at you when you're in a bath robe?"
He watched as she nodded, and he sighed and pressed his body
against the wall to let her go by him. She ran past him, and he stared
as she ran across the hallway, her robe flapping behind her.
'She is weird, normally girls would try and stick their legs out
at me, which I absolutely hate, but I think that she doesn't like to
see boys looking at her when she's wearing a robe. OK, I think I will
classify her as one of the weirdest people that I've ever meet.'
Link shook his head and began to advance to the stairs, he was
walking down the hall when he heard a young woman scream, and he
instantly ran to where the source was. He stopped quickly when saw
Zelda being surrounded by a group of men, she was up against the wall
and one of the members of the group had both of hands together so that
she couldn't do anything like slap him.
Link hesitated, he really hated this spoiled brat, but he knew
that he should help her before this began turning into something
HORRIBLY unpleasant to her.
He was about to step forward when he saw Zelda's hair stand up,
almost as if it were being pulled up by the wind. Glittering light
surrounded her body, and her eyes went white, the man who was holding
her was somehow thrown back an invisible force.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" She screeched at them, she lifted her left
hand and moved it like she was slapping someone in front of her. And
to Link's amazement the whole group was sent flying to her left side
almost as if she had slapped them all at once with terrific force.
Once they were all sprawled out on the ground her hair fell back down,
the aura around her body vanished, and her eyes returned to normal.
She placed her hand across her mouth once she had realized what she
had done, and Link heard footsteps racing up the stairs. He ran
forward and grabbed Zelda by the hand and roughly jerked her away, she
tried to resist at first but then stopped when Link told her, "What
will all of those people say when they see you and then those men tell
them what happened?"
She followed him back to his room; once they were inside he
closed and locked the door. He turned around and looked Zelda, who was
taking in deep breaths. They stood there for a few minutes in silence
until Zelda broke it.
"That was stupid...." She mumbled under breath nervously, Link put
his hand on her shoulder and made her look at him.
"What, what in the world was that light? And how did you make
those men fly across the hall like that?"
She swallowed and looked into his eyes, and Link saw how nervous
she was in what she was about to tell him.
"Magic."
She told him quietly, he stared at her, feeling totally
confused.
"Magic?"
He asked her, she nodded slowly, and he looked even deeper into
her eyes, and then looked away. He took his hand off of her shoulder
and turned away from her, and then spoke again.
"So, is that how you got here and that's what you plan to use to
go up Death Mountain?"
"You... believe me?"
"I didn't say that I believed you, and I asked a question, so
please answer it."
"Yes, I can use magic to protect myself, if you want, I can tell
how it was to let me use magic."
Link turned around and faced her again, he looked at her face,
and then at her robe and then clothes that he had thought had fallen
on the floor.
"You might want to take that bath first, I think everyone in the
hallway is gone."
"How do you know that I will come back?"
"For some reason, you don't seem like the kind of person that
would do that."
"I thought I was the spoiled brat."
She replied back to him, a hint of sadness in her voice.
"I didn't say I didn't think that you're not a spoiled brat
anymore. Hurry up and come back up here, I'll be waiting."
Link walked over to the door and opened it, and Zelda went
through it slowly, checking to make sure no one was in the hallway.
She walked out of his doorway without looking back at Link, who closed
the door after her.
He locked the door and then sat down on his bed, one of his
hands moving through his dirty-blond bangs in confusion. He could
remember the Great Deku Tree telling all of the Korkori that the Great
Fairies choose special being to have the power to control magic. But
there were only so little chosen that someone would only see a magic
wielder once in his or her life, and you wouldn't even know it.
'I wonder... what this Zelda is really all about. Was I wrong
about her?'
Link sighed and then took his hat off, revealing a ponytail,
when was the last time he had bothered to cut his hair?
Well, there's your chapter people! I can't answer review
questions because after I upload this to the story my time on the
computer is up, and I don't want to keep you guys waiting. So I'll do
my best to try and answer them next chapter. And wasn't this chapter
long? It reads twelve pages on the Microsoft Word!
So until next time,
CrypticElf....