Hello all of my readers! It tis CrypticElf here, and I just wanted to
thank everyone for their reviews! One of my reviewers asked an interesting
question, and after reading it I thought it would be good if everyone knew
the answer. The question was, where did I get the penname Cryptic Elf,
well, I before I became a fanfiction writer, I read lots of fanfictions
from other people. One day one of the people that I read from told that I
should write my own so they instructed me through it, so when I was going
to put in my review name, ShadowElf, I found it was already taken. So I
tried DarkElf, BlackElf, MidnightElf, until finally went to the good old
thesaurus and looked up dark and found cryptic. I had absoluty no idea what
it meant but I liked the way it sounded so I put it in! Kind of a weird
story huh? (I hate the thesaurus, but since it helped me, we decided a
truth.) So after I learned what it meant I felt a little freaked out when
it meant like death or something, but I like it and so it doesn't matter!
(I am not one of those weird people that wear black and paint their
nails black and wear freaky makeup. Those people freak the hell out of me.
Fact is, I hate nail polish and makeup and I just pull out anything that's
in closet. I don't care if it matches or not! I'm not a normal girl, I hate
pink and hate the way girls run, and I hate shopping, I only like it if
it's for a new video game! Which it never is. TT) So, please read and
review!
Chapter Six:
Zelda slipped into the bathtub full of piping-hot water and eased herself in slowly. Even though the water was burning her skin, it was helping take her mind about had just happened.
'What was I THINKING! Why do I always have to be so nervous when men approach me and I'm a robe and we make physical contact? If I hadn't screamed like that...! Oh crap, of SHIT I'm I in a big mess! Why did I tell that boy Link that I can control magic? Stupid, stupid, stupid Zelda! You're usually smarter then this, what's wrong with you? Ouch! Gees this water is hot.'
Zelda got in shoulder deep, and then leaned back over the side to get a bucket to dump water over her head. Getting back in the water she took the bucket and dipped it into the water and then poured on her head. She had to bite her lip in order to keep herself from screaming from the heat, she knew that she would eventually get used to the waters temperature, it would just take about a minute longer. She sighed and reached over to get some soap. She grabbed it and began washing herself, making sure not to miss a spot.
"If Impa finds out about this, which she probably will, she'll kill me!'
She shivered as she remembered the last time Impa had punished her for doing something wrong. Impa always punished Zelda the way the Sheikah mothers would punished their children, there were many different ways, and Zelda was terrified of each one.
She rinsed herself and then began washing her hair, her mind still wandering off in different directions. She began to think of one of her most mind-twisting thoughts, the forest.
'I wonder if that place really exists? The hidden forest, where it is said for the smaller fairies to dwell along with other living things. One for such, was the tale of the Korkori, demons created out of the dark side of the forest, it is said that they take anyone who wanders into their grounds and then eat them, burning them alive but not killing them completely and then start eating the pour soul while they are still breathing. And the something called the Great Deku Tree, a cursed tree that has the power to talk, and whenever does only bad things happened. I've always wondered about that place, I wonder if the Korkori demons really exist? Or the Deku Tree? Or maybe it's just a tale? I've always searched for this hidden forest, but I've never found it....
Zelda continued to scrub her fingernails into her scalp, it felt itchy and she enjoyed the sensations that she was getting from scratching it. Washing her hair was always her favorite part of taking a bath, and would usually spend more time on it then just soaking in the water or soaping her body. Zelda couldn't help but giggle, whenever Zelda and Impa would take baths at the hot springs at Death Mountain or at Zora's Domain and Impa would always comment on how much time Zelda would spend on her hair. She just spent a few more moments on her hair and then decided to just dunk herself under. Taking in a deep breath, she took her head under and held her breath; once she was back at the surface she sat down for a little while. Starting to remember what she would have to tell a certain boy when she got out.
She stared into her reflection and saw the image of a young Sheikah man without his mask on and surprising long dirty-blond hair and diamond ruby eyes staring at her.
She sighed as she looked into the water
Zelda only shook her head and felt a memory of when she was sevan enter her mind. Flashback
Zelda looked at the burning torches while holding Impa's hand as they walked down a tunnel, she had been her many times before, and it was the underground passageways of the Sheikah. Tunnel like this were deep under Hyrule, the tunnel reached hundreds of feet under the ground, kept secret from outsiders. They were all connected and had many rooms and different passageways, and stretched out farther then Hyrule's land did.
Impa kept a tight grip on Zelda's small hand and kept on moving, they were almost there.
"Impa?"
"Hmm?"
"Why are we here? Is there gonna be another one of Goddess ceremonies again?"
"No, and before you ask we are almost to our destination."
Zelda looked foreword and kept her mouth from making another sound, she knew that even she asked Impa, Impa wouldn't say where they were going.
They walked for five minutes longer and then Impa took a sharp turn and entered a room behind a white fur blanket. Zelda looked around the room; it had a small statue of Nayru on a rock with candles circling around it. Now that Zelda looked around, the whole room had candles in it, on the floor, on the walls and ceiling, only the candles didn't go over a red carpet that led to the center of the room where a large circular rug was, and a hooded woman sat in a meditating, palms up and index and thumb fingers touching.
Impa looked down at Zelda's face and smiled at her, and the little girl smiled back. Impa led them forward to the woman in the room, and now Zelda was using both of her hands to hold Impa's. She felt like there was something in this room, it wasn't like at the ghosts in Karkariko Village's graveyard, there Zelda could talk and speak with the ghosts there with her magic. And most of them were the Sheikah who had died while protecting a royal family member, some others were just plain peasant folk, some of them were even royal family members. They would talk and play with Zelda, but here, Zelda felt like she hear, smell, taste, and touch the presence, everything except see it. "Sulna?"
The woman flinched, obviously recognizing Impa's strong voice, and Zelda perked with joy, she knew this woman! Sulna took her hands lifted her hood off, and smiled when she saw Zelda's familiar face. She stayed in her meditating position but held her arms out to Zelda, and Zelda let go of Impa's hand and ran up to her and gave her a hug. As the Sheikah woman embraced Zelda she looked up at Impa, her smile disappeared from her face. "Impa, I am quiet happy to see you," she told Impa, her voice smooth and surprising youthful for her forty-six age. "But I have a feeling that this is a visit of business, not wine." Impa nodded as Zelda let go of the older woman and then stood up to inspect the statue of Nayru, and got lost in interest. She didn't pay attention the urgent whispers that were going between the two older women. She continued to look at the statue and admired its beauty and grace, Nayru, her favorite goddess. People would usually praise Farore more then the other two goddess, Din and Nayru, because she was the mother to their crops and life in general. Din, creator of fire and the land that sustained life, and Nayru, who had used her wisdom to create the sky of air and seas of water were usually only praised by small numbers. It wasn't fair, she would always think, if not for Nayru then how would life live without air to breath? Or water to drink? And what about Din's fire for warmth? Or her land to live on?
"Zelda."
Zelda turned around obediently at the sound of her guardian's commanding voice, she knew that tone, Zelda was going to do something EXTREMELY important.
"Yes Impa?"
"Come here, I need you to follow Sulna's instructions. But if you do something wrong, you'll...."
Impa's voice trailed off, making Zelda's eyebrows go together in confusion, what was wrong? Impa seemed distressed, and she never was.
"You won't be able to see Hyrule Field again." Sulna said this in a surprisingly calm voice, even though it looked like she was about to cry. She turned to Impa and looked not at her eyes, but at the strange marks that looked something like tears under her eyes.
"Impa if you would."
Impa bowed to Sulna, and then left the room without a word, Zelda walked foreword to follow her but was stopped by Sulna.
"Impa's going to go, she'll be back after you finish."
"OK." Zelda replied back, smiling at Sulna.
"Sit down Zelda."
Zelda sat down on the rug that was so soft and plush that if someone jumped on it it wouldn't be a surprise if the person crashed into the ceiling.
"Sit down in the position I was in when you first came in." She paused and let Zelda follow. "Good. Now, close your eyes, and let every thought that you have slip through your mind, like water." Sulna told her these directions slowly, like a teacher.
"Now, grab your magic, not a lot, and then pull it, but don't use as an attack, wrap it around yourself like a cloak."
Zelda did as she was told, this was easy for her, it was like when she would meditate with Impa.
"Now, I am going to do something with the magic that you have around yourself, but be prepared. It will hurt very badly. Just remember, to hold on to a thread of the magic that you have inside. I'm going to do it now, try not to scream."
Zelda grabbed a little thread of her inside magic and sensed Sheikah magic; all Sheikahs could use magic, but not like Zelda could. They could only use theirs to disappear and hide and a few other things, but they couldn't use it to attack.
Zelda sensed the Sheikah crawling towards her like a snake, and then felt it creep around her. It began to fuse with the magic that Zelda had around herself, and it mixed and mingled together.
"You're going to hurt now."
Zelda almost screamed as she felt the magic began to thrash at her, it felt like was cutting her, pushing itself into all of her pours. She felt like her skin ripping apart, being replaced by another. She opened her eyes and looked down, and saw that her skin WAS ripping apart and being replaced, the newer skin was much darker. She watched as she saw her skin ripping with blood pouring out, and then the darker skin covering over it like a blanket. She couldn't hold back the scream of pain when her head and eyes pounded like they were being smashed by billions of boulders all the same time. She fell over out of meditating position and curled into the smallest ball that she could press herself into.
She gave one finale scream of pain as she felt her bones moves, making her taller. Then, all that she saw darkness, without noise or pain to bother her. End of Flashback
Zelda stepped out of the water and grabbed a towel, drying herself she made sure to get every spot that was wet before she began to put on the clean clothes she had brought.
'So much pain,' she thought as she lifted her tunic off a chair, this one was a light blue like ice. 'I can remember when I woke up, that was the time when I learned how to turn into Sheik.'
She put down her tunic and then put on breast-wraps and underwear and then pulled her tunic over her head.
"Maybe I should get some gaulets...."
She walked out of the bathing room, and prepared herself for what she was about to tell.
OK! That chapter was kind of pointless, it would have been longer, but then again I'm going to New Jersey on Saturday morning at five in the morning. And for any of you smart people out there, it's FRIDAY! I'm going to be up there for three weeks, but I'll try and update anyway! But just to let you know, they're all probably going to be short and updated slowly. Zelda: You mean you don't CARE about Link and me? CrypticElf: HEY! That is not what I-! Zelda: Yeah right you liar! (Runs off and cry in a corner.) CrypticElf: Aren't you supposed to be mature? Zelda: (Still crying in corner.) (Suddenly Link comes through the door) CrypticElf: How did you get here? Link: I don't know, isn't that weird? Say where is Zelda? CrypticElf: Uhhhhhhhh.... (Zelda jumps on Link and hugs him, still crying) Zelda: Oh Link you're here! She doesn't care about us anymore! She said that she's going to update really slowly! And that the chapters about us are going to be really short! CrypticElf: I said- Link: This means war! (Draws his sword and charges at me.) CrypticElf: Crap! Uh, hey Link want some Moo Moo Milk? (Stops charging and looks around franticly.) Link: Moo Moo Milk? Where? CrypticElf: Down that big hole over there! (Runs and then dives into the big hole) Link: AHHHHHHH! Zelda and CrypticElf: 0oO OK.... Now that he's out of the way.... (Zelda looks into the hole, you can still hear Link screaming)
Uhhh, I can't answer any of your review questions now, but I'll try to do it next chapter if I have time! Right now, I need to figure out how to get wonder boy here out of the hole, rr! So until next time, which will be after I get Link out of never-ending hole, CrypticElf.... (Link still screaming)
Chapter Six:
Zelda slipped into the bathtub full of piping-hot water and eased herself in slowly. Even though the water was burning her skin, it was helping take her mind about had just happened.
'What was I THINKING! Why do I always have to be so nervous when men approach me and I'm a robe and we make physical contact? If I hadn't screamed like that...! Oh crap, of SHIT I'm I in a big mess! Why did I tell that boy Link that I can control magic? Stupid, stupid, stupid Zelda! You're usually smarter then this, what's wrong with you? Ouch! Gees this water is hot.'
Zelda got in shoulder deep, and then leaned back over the side to get a bucket to dump water over her head. Getting back in the water she took the bucket and dipped it into the water and then poured on her head. She had to bite her lip in order to keep herself from screaming from the heat, she knew that she would eventually get used to the waters temperature, it would just take about a minute longer. She sighed and reached over to get some soap. She grabbed it and began washing herself, making sure not to miss a spot.
"If Impa finds out about this, which she probably will, she'll kill me!'
She shivered as she remembered the last time Impa had punished her for doing something wrong. Impa always punished Zelda the way the Sheikah mothers would punished their children, there were many different ways, and Zelda was terrified of each one.
She rinsed herself and then began washing her hair, her mind still wandering off in different directions. She began to think of one of her most mind-twisting thoughts, the forest.
'I wonder if that place really exists? The hidden forest, where it is said for the smaller fairies to dwell along with other living things. One for such, was the tale of the Korkori, demons created out of the dark side of the forest, it is said that they take anyone who wanders into their grounds and then eat them, burning them alive but not killing them completely and then start eating the pour soul while they are still breathing. And the something called the Great Deku Tree, a cursed tree that has the power to talk, and whenever does only bad things happened. I've always wondered about that place, I wonder if the Korkori demons really exist? Or the Deku Tree? Or maybe it's just a tale? I've always searched for this hidden forest, but I've never found it....
Zelda continued to scrub her fingernails into her scalp, it felt itchy and she enjoyed the sensations that she was getting from scratching it. Washing her hair was always her favorite part of taking a bath, and would usually spend more time on it then just soaking in the water or soaping her body. Zelda couldn't help but giggle, whenever Zelda and Impa would take baths at the hot springs at Death Mountain or at Zora's Domain and Impa would always comment on how much time Zelda would spend on her hair. She just spent a few more moments on her hair and then decided to just dunk herself under. Taking in a deep breath, she took her head under and held her breath; once she was back at the surface she sat down for a little while. Starting to remember what she would have to tell a certain boy when she got out.
She stared into her reflection and saw the image of a young Sheikah man without his mask on and surprising long dirty-blond hair and diamond ruby eyes staring at her.
She sighed as she looked into the water
Zelda only shook her head and felt a memory of when she was sevan enter her mind. Flashback
Zelda looked at the burning torches while holding Impa's hand as they walked down a tunnel, she had been her many times before, and it was the underground passageways of the Sheikah. Tunnel like this were deep under Hyrule, the tunnel reached hundreds of feet under the ground, kept secret from outsiders. They were all connected and had many rooms and different passageways, and stretched out farther then Hyrule's land did.
Impa kept a tight grip on Zelda's small hand and kept on moving, they were almost there.
"Impa?"
"Hmm?"
"Why are we here? Is there gonna be another one of Goddess ceremonies again?"
"No, and before you ask we are almost to our destination."
Zelda looked foreword and kept her mouth from making another sound, she knew that even she asked Impa, Impa wouldn't say where they were going.
They walked for five minutes longer and then Impa took a sharp turn and entered a room behind a white fur blanket. Zelda looked around the room; it had a small statue of Nayru on a rock with candles circling around it. Now that Zelda looked around, the whole room had candles in it, on the floor, on the walls and ceiling, only the candles didn't go over a red carpet that led to the center of the room where a large circular rug was, and a hooded woman sat in a meditating, palms up and index and thumb fingers touching.
Impa looked down at Zelda's face and smiled at her, and the little girl smiled back. Impa led them forward to the woman in the room, and now Zelda was using both of her hands to hold Impa's. She felt like there was something in this room, it wasn't like at the ghosts in Karkariko Village's graveyard, there Zelda could talk and speak with the ghosts there with her magic. And most of them were the Sheikah who had died while protecting a royal family member, some others were just plain peasant folk, some of them were even royal family members. They would talk and play with Zelda, but here, Zelda felt like she hear, smell, taste, and touch the presence, everything except see it. "Sulna?"
The woman flinched, obviously recognizing Impa's strong voice, and Zelda perked with joy, she knew this woman! Sulna took her hands lifted her hood off, and smiled when she saw Zelda's familiar face. She stayed in her meditating position but held her arms out to Zelda, and Zelda let go of Impa's hand and ran up to her and gave her a hug. As the Sheikah woman embraced Zelda she looked up at Impa, her smile disappeared from her face. "Impa, I am quiet happy to see you," she told Impa, her voice smooth and surprising youthful for her forty-six age. "But I have a feeling that this is a visit of business, not wine." Impa nodded as Zelda let go of the older woman and then stood up to inspect the statue of Nayru, and got lost in interest. She didn't pay attention the urgent whispers that were going between the two older women. She continued to look at the statue and admired its beauty and grace, Nayru, her favorite goddess. People would usually praise Farore more then the other two goddess, Din and Nayru, because she was the mother to their crops and life in general. Din, creator of fire and the land that sustained life, and Nayru, who had used her wisdom to create the sky of air and seas of water were usually only praised by small numbers. It wasn't fair, she would always think, if not for Nayru then how would life live without air to breath? Or water to drink? And what about Din's fire for warmth? Or her land to live on?
"Zelda."
Zelda turned around obediently at the sound of her guardian's commanding voice, she knew that tone, Zelda was going to do something EXTREMELY important.
"Yes Impa?"
"Come here, I need you to follow Sulna's instructions. But if you do something wrong, you'll...."
Impa's voice trailed off, making Zelda's eyebrows go together in confusion, what was wrong? Impa seemed distressed, and she never was.
"You won't be able to see Hyrule Field again." Sulna said this in a surprisingly calm voice, even though it looked like she was about to cry. She turned to Impa and looked not at her eyes, but at the strange marks that looked something like tears under her eyes.
"Impa if you would."
Impa bowed to Sulna, and then left the room without a word, Zelda walked foreword to follow her but was stopped by Sulna.
"Impa's going to go, she'll be back after you finish."
"OK." Zelda replied back, smiling at Sulna.
"Sit down Zelda."
Zelda sat down on the rug that was so soft and plush that if someone jumped on it it wouldn't be a surprise if the person crashed into the ceiling.
"Sit down in the position I was in when you first came in." She paused and let Zelda follow. "Good. Now, close your eyes, and let every thought that you have slip through your mind, like water." Sulna told her these directions slowly, like a teacher.
"Now, grab your magic, not a lot, and then pull it, but don't use as an attack, wrap it around yourself like a cloak."
Zelda did as she was told, this was easy for her, it was like when she would meditate with Impa.
"Now, I am going to do something with the magic that you have around yourself, but be prepared. It will hurt very badly. Just remember, to hold on to a thread of the magic that you have inside. I'm going to do it now, try not to scream."
Zelda grabbed a little thread of her inside magic and sensed Sheikah magic; all Sheikahs could use magic, but not like Zelda could. They could only use theirs to disappear and hide and a few other things, but they couldn't use it to attack.
Zelda sensed the Sheikah crawling towards her like a snake, and then felt it creep around her. It began to fuse with the magic that Zelda had around herself, and it mixed and mingled together.
"You're going to hurt now."
Zelda almost screamed as she felt the magic began to thrash at her, it felt like was cutting her, pushing itself into all of her pours. She felt like her skin ripping apart, being replaced by another. She opened her eyes and looked down, and saw that her skin WAS ripping apart and being replaced, the newer skin was much darker. She watched as she saw her skin ripping with blood pouring out, and then the darker skin covering over it like a blanket. She couldn't hold back the scream of pain when her head and eyes pounded like they were being smashed by billions of boulders all the same time. She fell over out of meditating position and curled into the smallest ball that she could press herself into.
She gave one finale scream of pain as she felt her bones moves, making her taller. Then, all that she saw darkness, without noise or pain to bother her. End of Flashback
Zelda stepped out of the water and grabbed a towel, drying herself she made sure to get every spot that was wet before she began to put on the clean clothes she had brought.
'So much pain,' she thought as she lifted her tunic off a chair, this one was a light blue like ice. 'I can remember when I woke up, that was the time when I learned how to turn into Sheik.'
She put down her tunic and then put on breast-wraps and underwear and then pulled her tunic over her head.
"Maybe I should get some gaulets...."
She walked out of the bathing room, and prepared herself for what she was about to tell.
OK! That chapter was kind of pointless, it would have been longer, but then again I'm going to New Jersey on Saturday morning at five in the morning. And for any of you smart people out there, it's FRIDAY! I'm going to be up there for three weeks, but I'll try and update anyway! But just to let you know, they're all probably going to be short and updated slowly. Zelda: You mean you don't CARE about Link and me? CrypticElf: HEY! That is not what I-! Zelda: Yeah right you liar! (Runs off and cry in a corner.) CrypticElf: Aren't you supposed to be mature? Zelda: (Still crying in corner.) (Suddenly Link comes through the door) CrypticElf: How did you get here? Link: I don't know, isn't that weird? Say where is Zelda? CrypticElf: Uhhhhhhhh.... (Zelda jumps on Link and hugs him, still crying) Zelda: Oh Link you're here! She doesn't care about us anymore! She said that she's going to update really slowly! And that the chapters about us are going to be really short! CrypticElf: I said- Link: This means war! (Draws his sword and charges at me.) CrypticElf: Crap! Uh, hey Link want some Moo Moo Milk? (Stops charging and looks around franticly.) Link: Moo Moo Milk? Where? CrypticElf: Down that big hole over there! (Runs and then dives into the big hole) Link: AHHHHHHH! Zelda and CrypticElf: 0oO OK.... Now that he's out of the way.... (Zelda looks into the hole, you can still hear Link screaming)
Uhhh, I can't answer any of your review questions now, but I'll try to do it next chapter if I have time! Right now, I need to figure out how to get wonder boy here out of the hole, rr! So until next time, which will be after I get Link out of never-ending hole, CrypticElf.... (Link still screaming)