Here is another chapter of Truth!
Navi: Here we go!
Ah, I love writing... but NOT when I HAVE WRITERS BLOCK!!!! AHHHHH!
Navi: She had writers block the whole time for both Truth AND her GoldenSun story, it was horrible. And do you guys remember Sleet, Hail, and Gust? Well, they were there too, trying to get her to type or AT LEAST touch the keyboard! So no worries about them, they are doing JUST FINE! Grrrr....
Navi's angry because they thought that she was a bug, and so they kept on trying to eat her.
Navi: Do they even have mouths?
I have no idea. But more to the point! Here is the story, and, Zelda's little... outburst in the story is just to keep a reminder of how freaking stubborn she is! I think that it worked, although, I have a feeling that I might have shown that she isn't soft. Oh well, I guess it was just to show that she IS NOT a normal girl in being polite. Ok, I hope that you like this chapter!
Navi: Aren't you forgetting something?
Oh yeah! I own nothing of Zelda and never will, but this story line is mine and if you try and take it, I get to sue you! Epee Yaw!
Chapter Fifteen: Getting Ready
Zelda had just finished Link about her meeting with the Great Deku Tree, leaving out a few details at the same time.
"I can't believe that you wondered into the Deku Tree's meadow!" Link exclaimed right after Zelda finished telling him her story.
"Yes, well, it was an accident...." Zelda replied, trying not to blush.
"And he gave you more magic? I can't believe it! What did you say to him? You never told me that part."
Zelda felt a huge sweat drop go down her head, how was she going to say this?
"Oh, never mind!" Link told her, he seemed a little too excided, at least in Zelda's eyes. "But I still can't believe that! I mean, wow... I mean, I guess he had to talk to you since you began cutting the plants that were right next to him, but more magic? It's amazing!"
"OH!" Navi shrieked as she whizzed around in circles like a kid who had waaaaaaaaay too much candy. "YOU MET HIM! YOU MET HIM!"
"Yes, Navi, I did." Zelda said, starting to get annoyed by Navi's buzzing around. Link saw this and looked at Navi.
"Hey, Navi, maybe you should you go tell the wild fairies?"
"OF COURSE! HOW COULD I GET FORGET? I NEED TO GO GO GO!" Navi shot out the window, Zelda sighed happily, Navi was nice, but sometimes she just went over the edge.
"Thank you Link." Zelda told Link in a grateful voice, she owed him for this!
"Well, Navi can go a little nuts." Link told her, Zelda smiled at him.
An awkward silence passed over them, and both started to blush. Zelda stood up after while, and Link looked at her with questionable eyes.
"I still need to get some herbs, to make potions, I don't have enough." She told Link as she picked up the pack that held the plants that she had gotten earlier. Link stood up as well, this time Zelda looked at him with question.
"Erm, can I go?" he asked Zelda, Zelda gave him a warm smile.
"Of course you can, besides, it can get lonely.... Oh, that must have sounded stupid!"
"Nah, it didn't, I get lonely when I go out... and, um...." Link trailed off, feeling a little stupid himself for not knowing what to say.
"Thank you Link, I'll need your help." Link nodded and followed Zelda, grateful that she didn't just stand there and stare at like Navi and the Korkori would have done.
Link walked behind Zelda, thinking, why did the Great Deku Tree talk to Zelda? He barely even noticed when he and Zelda were deep in the woods, and several times he almost ran into trees and large plants. He caught himself every time, and if Zelda noticed this, she chose to not say anything. Link was grateful for that, Navi would have been buzzing in his ear wondering why he was acting like a Stale Child.
It seemed about an hour had passes, Link had forgotten his thoughts, but neither Zelda nor him had said anything. Zelda would just look at plants, often just passing them. Some she bent over and cut with a magic dagger, then would put whatever plant it was in a pouch. Link thought that her back would brake off from bending over so much, but this didn't seem to bother her at all.
Link wanted to say something, but the problem was, was that he had nothing to say. It was an odd silence, it didn't seem to bother Zelda, but then again, he couldn't even see her face.
"Link?" Link jumped when Zelda finally broke the silence, she was looking at the ground.
"Uh, yes?"
"Who... who was your mother and father?"
"Uh, I don't know." Link replied in shocked voice, what kind of a question was that?
"You don't know?"
"Well, the Great Deku Tree always told me that I was given to him by someone. But he never told me who. I think it must have been one of my parents, but I don't know if they're dead or not."
"Hmm."
"What about you?"
"Impa."
"What?"
"Impa," Zelda told Link in more forceful voice.
"Impa? Isn't that the name of that Sheikah you told me about?"
"Yes."
"You never told me that you were a Sheikah! You sure don't look like one."
"Oh, I'm not, I just consider Impa my mother. I think that it doesn't matter if you're related by blood, I think, that it matters by heart. I don't know who my mother or father was, but it doesn't matter to me, just as long as I have Impa."
Link looked at Zelda's back that was one of things that she had told him that had been of wisdom. Actually, it was almost like the first thing that she had told him that was wise that wasn't part of trying to fix a Forest Temple. This made Link respect her a little more, and in another way that he had never felt before.
"Hey, Zelda, uh...." Link wanted to continue talking, but nothing seemed to stick out of his head. "When will you be finished?" Link gripped his hands that came out wrong, now it sounded like he was bored, even though he wasn't. He liked walking in the forest with Zelda, even if that did sound a little odd.
"Once I finish getting all of the plants I need, I'll be done. If you're getting bored, you can go."
"No, no, I just didn't know what to say, that's all. I like walking, I really do."
"Glad that you do." Zelda told him, for a moment Link thought that he had heard some type of sad tone in her voice, but it was so small that he decided that it was nothing.
"Hey, if you're hungry, I think that there's a fruit tree nearby. And a stream, I think that I can hear it."
"Ok...."
"What is it? Is there something bothering you?"
"Well, it's just that, when I get new magic like I just did, for some reason, I start think unhappy thoughts."
"Is that all?"
"Hmm, the magic that the Deku Tree gave me, and the one from that weird spiritual stone, I don't know.... It just doesn't feel very comfortable in me; it's trying to get out. It's forest magic, and I've never really handled it before, so, I'm having a hard time getting under control. I just feel kind of...."
Zelda finished her words by falling backwards; Link caught her, and saw that she was unconscious. Link laughed for some reason he didn't know, but he just picked her up and began walking to a stream nearby.
There wasn't anyone there, but that was fine for Link, it didn't bother him if there was someone there or not. He rested Zelda on the ground next to the river, then, he took his boots off and put his feet in the cool water. He sighed and looked around, seeing a berry bush off to the side, he walked over and checked if they were edible. Making sure that they were, he picked a handful and then sat down next to Zelda, his feet resting in the peaceful stream again.
He ate all of the berries, and then he drank and washed his mouth with water. He didn't like his teeth to be covered with berry juice. Once he felt that his mouth was clean, was trotted over to Zelda and sat down again.
Link looked down at Zelda, pondering.
What did she think of him? Did she like him? Or did she hate him? Those were two main questions zooming across his mind. Link liked Zelda, as a friend of course, but he couldn't help but feel like that she didn't enjoy his company. Normally he didn't care about things like this, but for some reason it felt like it mattered more. Link shook his head, it was nothing. They were partners for fighting, nothing else, besides, after they completed the Forest Temple; she was going to leave, wasn't she?
Link felt a sudden stab of sadness; he didn't want Zelda to leave. It was the first time that he had actually met someone who was a human, and he didn't him or her to leave. But then again, she was the first person that he had ever met and then had become fighting partners. It was an odd partnership, but it was one.
His mind drifted to someone that he hadn't thought about for a long while....
Who had been the Sheikah man that Link had met in Hyrule Field?
Link shook his head again; he was thing of stupid things. There were better things to think about, he just had to find them....
"Thinking?"
Link jumped and looked at Zelda, who was sitting up and looking at him with low eyelids.
"Uh, have a nice sleep Zelda?"
"Sure, where are we?"
"Uh, a stream."
"Mm."
Zelda went on her back again, and Link heard her sigh.
"Something bothering you?" Link asked Zelda in a simple voice.
"No-o-o...." It was obvious that she didn't bother to cover up her voice tone.
"Am I supposed to believe you?"
"It's nothing, really, nothing."
"Right, I still don't believe you."
"Well, I'm just thinking, like I said earlier, when I get magic like this, I start thinking unhappy thoughts."
Link had a feeling that she was lying, and he knew that he shouldn't pry, but at the same time, he knew that whatever Zelda was troubled over might be serious.
"Zelda, what's wrong?"
"Nothing."
"I can tell that you're lying."
"Oh well." She sighed, looking at the trees.
"Please Zelda, tell me."
Zelda didn't say anything; she just looked at the sky, and then slowly closed her eyes again. Link sighed and looked at the water it was useless she really was stubborn.
Zelda closed her eyes, trying to get a feeling of sorrow from levitating over. But she couldn't, something was wrong, but she didn't know what.
It was bothering her, like a splinter in her mind. It just wouldn't go away.
'Something is bothering you, Zelda.' Kale told Zelda in her mind.
'Yes, but I don't know what.'
Kale sighed, 'Are you sure that you don't know?'
'....'
'Well then, that's a grand answer.'
'I don't want to talk, I, I, miss Impa.... But that isn't it, the dead, they're getting unsettled. I can see the dead forest creatures, they're nervous, something is wrong. I want to see what it could be, but....'
'You want to stay with Link?'
'I think that I'm growing fond of the forest boy.'
'Why is that bad?'
'I don't want to like him.'
'Why not?'
'I don't know! I like it when I start getting used to people, it bothers me.... I don't know why, I only trust the Shadow People. I can trust them.'
Kale didn't reply, and Zelda didn't want her to. Because it was the truth, she trusted the Sheikah, they were her family, and she didn't want to leave that family. So many Sheikah that she could trust, so little of those who were not of the Shadow People she could trust.
Zelda opened her eyes again, Link was napping nearby her.
Zelda quietly stood up and snuck away, she needed to be alone.
Zelda walked for a while, then, she settled down next to a stream and started pulling out all of the plants that she had collected. Placing them out neatly, she got out her tools and started making the potions. They weren't really potions, but creams. Zelda just called them potions because that's what the Sheikah would call them.
It didn't take too long; Zelda finished within an hour and had already put all of the potions in jars. She stood up and walked, she needed to find some food. She didn't want to kill any animal in this peaceful forest, but she needed to add some dry meat to her food for strength. She wanted to put that at the end of her list, so she started gathering nuts. After she had a few, she started looking for a certain plant. She didn't find it, but almost jumped with glee when she found a huge group of plants with long steams with white flowers on the tips.
She immediately started taking some of the long stems and placing them in a neat stack. Once she had a few, she cut all of the flowers off, one taste of those and you would be dead in a few seconds. She made sure that all that there was left was long thick branches, and then started cutting those until they could fit in her pack without taking much room. Zelda stood back up, pleased by her success. She had found 'White Death,' it sounded deadly, but the steams were considered a delicacy among the Sheikah, and were EXTREMELY rare. It was like candy, it tasted like candy, and seemed to give you energy when you ate it. Zelda would save these for later, sweet Nayru would they taste good!
Zelda decided that instead of gathering fruit, she should start gathering some Sheikah food. Sheikah food was often roots, leaves, flowers, and grass. It was an odd diet, but if you grew up with it, it tasted just fine.
Zelda went inside of a cave; she needed some privacy to do this. Making sure that she was well inside of the cave and that no one was in the cave, she began chanting:
"Ka sha homani shashi nomali lebequina, Sheik."
A few minutes later, a strange Sheikah man with dirt blond hair and red eyes stepped out from a cave. His hair was done up in wraps, even so some hair fell out freely as bangs. His face was covered up with a shawl, and in one hand he held a thin and long sword out, covered with Sheikah symbols. It was called, 'Nocturnal Edge.'
Stretching, the young Sheikah man did a flip to make sure that he wasn't rusty. Then, he jumped up into a tree. Once he was on it, he jumped to the other tree, and then the next after that, and the next after that. He was just waiting to find the right tree that he could see through but not be seen by things below. He didn't have to wait that long, he found the perfect tree, with a group of deer underneath. He sheathed his Nocturnal Edge, and instead, pulled out needles about nine inches long each and thin, as a needle should be.
He was aiming for the oldest deer, when a group of Korkori suddenly burst out just as he was about to throw the needle. The deer scattered, and the group of boys started laughing.
"That was great!" cried out one of the boys all of the others gave each other back-pats and handshakes. Sheik felt anger boil within him, it wasn't because they had scared off the game, it was because they found so much delight in frightening peaceful animals. It was one thing to hunt, for that was for food, but to scare them just laughter, that was cruel.
Sheik leapt down from the trees, and landed so quietly that the boys didn't even notice him until one of them let out an ear-piercing scream and pointed at him. They all froze and stared at Sheik, Sheik almost felt bad for them, they looked like they were going to pee.
"How dare you find humor in frightening animals! It is a cruel thing, and you will not go unpunished!"
They squealed and huddled together, they were thinking that Sheik was going to kill them! Sheik pulled out a marble from behind his, then, he tossed it towards the boys.
It cracked open, and out came a smell so horrible you might as well consider it even worse then rotting flesh. The boys howled and covered their noses as Sheik jumped up into the trees to escape the stomach wrenching smell. He glanced down as the boys found that no matter how much they tried, the smell could pass through their tunics and hands. It would fade away in about a minute, but it would teach those mischievous Korkori a lesson.
Sheik smiled and then jumped to the next tree, hoping that he would still be able to find some game.
Link had woken up and found that Zelda had left, so he had shrugged and went back to his home. When he had gotten home, Navi was still gone and Zelda wasn't there either. Link didn't worry and just sat down and started polishing his sword, it deserved it. Once he finished that, neither of his friends were back so he set on making sure that all of his equipment was in well condition. Once he finished, Zelda came in, carrying a pack on her back. Link raised an eyebrow and looked at Zelda as she set her items to the floor and then pulled out a huge ball of white string.
"Where have you been?" He asked Zelda as she started using her magic to take it apart.
"Getting some food."
"You've been gone for all that time getting food?"
"Well, I couldn't find that much game so it took a while."
"You went hunting?"
"Yes," she said, as the ball was completely unraveled. Now Zelda used her magic to bring it down towards her. Then, she pulled out a clear saber made of crystal that made a steady glow of light. She cut the string in half in one place, and then she put her saber back and started weaving the strings together.
"What was that?"
"What was what Link?"
"I didn't know that you had a weapon besides your magic!"
He saw Zelda look at him with a smile, her eyes unclear.
"Well, I just found when I was exploring inside of a cave. I'm going to get ride of it soon though, I don't want it."
"I'll take it!"
"No, besides, you wouldn't know how to use it, it's a Sheikah weapon. Someone must have lost it. You know what, I think that I'm going to try and find that Sheikah! After I finished this, I won't have anything else to do, so, I might as well."
"Ok, what are you making anyway? Is it a blanket?"
"Cloak, I love them."
"Oh yeah, what happened to your other cloak?"
"I left it here. But I decided that it was time for a new one. But I can't find it, so it's that reason at the same time."
"Hmm, I wonder where it went?"
Zelda shrugged as she finished weaving the cloak, it floated down into her lap and then was let go of her magic.
"Ah, the advantages of magic. Normally I would have weaved it myself, but, I wanted to finish fast so I could find that Sheikah.... Oh, dang it!"
"What is it?"
"I need another circlet."
"What? Why?"
"This one is getting old, and tight. I need a new one, I've had it for about a year and like I said, it's tight. But I don't think that the Korkori have a blacksmith, do they?"
"Nope, but why do you need one?"
"Well, even though it doesn't seem that sturdy, it can also work as a magical storage system.... I just haven't tried to use it for that yet. You have to get the correct type of metal, and make sure that it isn't a fake. Sounds stupid, but it works. Ok, I'm going now, I'll be back... later."
Link watched Zelda get up and leave, taking her new cloak bundled in her arms, and everything else that was hers. Which wasn't much.
She turned around and looked at Link at the doorway, and then she turned around and left.
Link sighed, there was nothing to do but rest, but if he slept now, he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight. He stood up; a practice with his sword would be pretty good.
Zelda walked out of the circle of Korkori homes, she found a place where it was just mainly trees and started walking towards them.
'Where are we going?' Kale asked inside Zelda's mind.
'You haven't spoken for a while, we're going to find a Gossip Stone.'
'What is that?'
'They are stones scattered across Hyrule, and they lead down to the Sheikah tunnels hundreds of feet beneath the earth. You have to swear to me that you will never make so much a mumble of this in your sleep to anyone until you crossed in the realm of Great Goddess.'
'I swear, it must be important to hide.'
'It is, the Sheikah were thought to be nearly dead, but that isn't true at all, they live in the ground. And some are even hidden in the shadows of the outside, right under your nose.'
'And I suppose that you know where each of them lay?'
'Almost. My guardian Impa has taken me to a few homes of those on the outside, but I've never seen a map that points out where they live.'
'Another question, why do they except you as their own?'
'Well, because I grew up among them. My guardian Impa treated me just as she would her own child, and the other Sheikah treated me as if I was of their own clan. You see, Impa adopted me. So I became part of the clan. At least, that is what she has told me. Is that Gossip Stone?'
Zelda ventured over to a large stone, and to her happiness, it was an old worn-out Gossip Stone. To others it just looked like a large rock with uneven levels, but Zelda could tell that it actually had the symbol of a Gossip Stone on it. Zelda smiled and then pulled out her harp, she lovingly touched the rim, how long had it been since Zelda had played this? Too long, it seemed.
Zelda closed her eyes and let her fingers fly across the strings freely, playing the song the Nocturnal of Shadow. She felt the pull of the song starting to teleport her to the Karkariko Village Graveyard, but Zelda firmly stated in her mind that she wanted the Gossip Stone to answer her. It worked, and the Gossip Stone's eye turned purple. Then, it seemed it glide backwards, and a hole underneath it opened up and made itself large enough for five people to fit through.
'Sheikah magic,' Zelda explained to Kale, who nodded inside of Zelda.
Zelda went in, and heard the ground move and conceal the evidence of the passageway. There was no light, but that was because Zelda knew that that was because this passageway hadn't been used for a long time. She should have brought a torch, but then again, she would have probably just set the whole forest on fire.
Zelda lifted her palm, and said, "Let Light Be My Eyes." It was different spell from the one that she had used when she and Link had been on Death Mountain, but this spell aloud the light follow Zelda without her holding.
The light appeared and floated to where it was in front of Zelda. Zelda started walking, and the light always stayed four steps ahead of her. Whenever Zelda wanted it to turn to the right, she would just think it and it would do so. Another advantage of the spell is that it was linked to her mind, and so she would think what she want it to do and it would do so.
There was still nothing to be seen, but this didn't surprise Zelda, these were old tunnels. But she needed to get to some of the Sheikah fast, she couldn't stay here long.
"Ka sha homani shashi nomali lebequina, Sheik."
A few moments, and Sheik had his hair up, his circlet gone, finger wrapped, and shawl up. He didn't need to go so into his disguise since all of the Sheikah knew whom he really was, but he preferred to.
Stretching his legs and arms, he got ready to run. Once Sheik was sure that he wouldn't pull a muscle, he got in a ready running position.
"I No Longer Need A Third Eye." The light that had been guiding Sheik disappeared, he could see better in the darkness then he could in the day, and the light might get in his eyes and make him hit something. And as fast as Sheik could run, if he hit something he would probably wake up in a few hours with a large bruise.
"Ready, set, go!" Sheik started running, using magic to make him go faster. If not for his Sheikah eyes, then everything would have just been a large blur; he just hoped that he would find some Sheikah soon.
Link swung his sword high and then low, and then made a stab middle length. He continued a series of swings and stabs, doing it until he was sure that he did every move perfectly and until he was covered with sweat.
Link collapsed on his bed, his muscles burning steadily. Now THAT was a workout. Link took in deep breath, in the morning; it was time to go back to the Forest Temple. He wanted to be ready for that; he was going to use every ounce of his strength to save Saria.
Link sat up, what was going to be for dinner? Perhaps a couple of fresh berries and fruit? He got up and walked out of the house, then, for a moment, he smelt himself. He needed a bath.
After about half an hour, Sheik had almost run into a dead end, luckily he had caught himself and had managed to only hit the wall enough to knock him back a little but not suffer any bruises. Sheik got up instantly and looked at the wall, this wasn't too good. None of the tunnels had dead ends, so why did this one?
Sheik sighed and transformed back into Zelda, once she had taken all of her wraps off and gotten her circlet back on. She touched the wall, and then she put her ear on it and listened....
Off, somewhere, Zelda could hear the sound of people moving about in a hall. Talking to each other, and some just walking. This passage had been sealed off because of the Korkori; the Korkori must have started to realize that something was underneath them. The Sheikah moved the instant they suspected that someone knew if they were there, and so then they must have sealed off this tunnel just in case.
Zelda didn't want to blast the tunnel open, but she couldn't teleport through walls.
Zelda started punching the wall, she didn't think that knocking could be heard. After a few second she stopped and put her ear to the wall to see if any of the noise had stopped, but it hadn't they still couldn't hear her. Zelda pounded harder on the wall, after that, she stopped and listen, no change at all.
Zelda growled and kicked the wall in anger, how was this supposed to work?
Then, Zelda heard some sort of a knocking behind her; she put her ear on the wall and listened quietly. They had heard the kick!
Zelda smiled and then started kicking the wall; she kicked in special patterns to where it was the melody of peace that only the Sheikah knew. After finishing, she put her ear back on the wall, listening. The others on the wall were telling her to stand back. Once they finished, Zelda kicked the wall to tell them that she understood. She ran from the wall, when she realized that she couldn't see anything she put a hand on the wall and used to guide her away from the dead-end. Then, when she felt that she had gone far enough, she stopped and waited. She was humming the lullaby tune that Impa played to her when the wall exploded; it was strong enough to make Zelda fall over. Zelda immediately got back up as a Sheikah man walked over to her.
"Zelda? Is that you?" the man asked as he helped her up, Zelda coughed a little and then replied.
"Yes Priest Rinul, it is I."
"What are you doing here?"
"Can I tell you after get a new circlet, and couple of other things?"
There you go people! Sorry for the hold up, again, BUT I HAD EVIL WRITERS BLOCK! I swear, I HATE IT!
Navi: Do I look like a bug? DO I?!
Um, yeah.
Navi: What? No I don't! How DARE you think that?
Well, you do... you're still angry over the whole Hail, Sleet, and Gust thing, aren't you?
Navi: Well how did you know? HOW DARE THEY TRY AND EAT MEEEEE! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Oo0 Ok, before something weird and something stupid happens, I just want to tell you to review.... Oh, and thank you Hououza for answering my add on my Bio, you go dud!
So Until Next Time,
CrypticElf....
Navi: Here we go!
Ah, I love writing... but NOT when I HAVE WRITERS BLOCK!!!! AHHHHH!
Navi: She had writers block the whole time for both Truth AND her GoldenSun story, it was horrible. And do you guys remember Sleet, Hail, and Gust? Well, they were there too, trying to get her to type or AT LEAST touch the keyboard! So no worries about them, they are doing JUST FINE! Grrrr....
Navi's angry because they thought that she was a bug, and so they kept on trying to eat her.
Navi: Do they even have mouths?
I have no idea. But more to the point! Here is the story, and, Zelda's little... outburst in the story is just to keep a reminder of how freaking stubborn she is! I think that it worked, although, I have a feeling that I might have shown that she isn't soft. Oh well, I guess it was just to show that she IS NOT a normal girl in being polite. Ok, I hope that you like this chapter!
Navi: Aren't you forgetting something?
Oh yeah! I own nothing of Zelda and never will, but this story line is mine and if you try and take it, I get to sue you! Epee Yaw!
Chapter Fifteen: Getting Ready
Zelda had just finished Link about her meeting with the Great Deku Tree, leaving out a few details at the same time.
"I can't believe that you wondered into the Deku Tree's meadow!" Link exclaimed right after Zelda finished telling him her story.
"Yes, well, it was an accident...." Zelda replied, trying not to blush.
"And he gave you more magic? I can't believe it! What did you say to him? You never told me that part."
Zelda felt a huge sweat drop go down her head, how was she going to say this?
"Oh, never mind!" Link told her, he seemed a little too excided, at least in Zelda's eyes. "But I still can't believe that! I mean, wow... I mean, I guess he had to talk to you since you began cutting the plants that were right next to him, but more magic? It's amazing!"
"OH!" Navi shrieked as she whizzed around in circles like a kid who had waaaaaaaaay too much candy. "YOU MET HIM! YOU MET HIM!"
"Yes, Navi, I did." Zelda said, starting to get annoyed by Navi's buzzing around. Link saw this and looked at Navi.
"Hey, Navi, maybe you should you go tell the wild fairies?"
"OF COURSE! HOW COULD I GET FORGET? I NEED TO GO GO GO!" Navi shot out the window, Zelda sighed happily, Navi was nice, but sometimes she just went over the edge.
"Thank you Link." Zelda told Link in a grateful voice, she owed him for this!
"Well, Navi can go a little nuts." Link told her, Zelda smiled at him.
An awkward silence passed over them, and both started to blush. Zelda stood up after while, and Link looked at her with questionable eyes.
"I still need to get some herbs, to make potions, I don't have enough." She told Link as she picked up the pack that held the plants that she had gotten earlier. Link stood up as well, this time Zelda looked at him with question.
"Erm, can I go?" he asked Zelda, Zelda gave him a warm smile.
"Of course you can, besides, it can get lonely.... Oh, that must have sounded stupid!"
"Nah, it didn't, I get lonely when I go out... and, um...." Link trailed off, feeling a little stupid himself for not knowing what to say.
"Thank you Link, I'll need your help." Link nodded and followed Zelda, grateful that she didn't just stand there and stare at like Navi and the Korkori would have done.
Link walked behind Zelda, thinking, why did the Great Deku Tree talk to Zelda? He barely even noticed when he and Zelda were deep in the woods, and several times he almost ran into trees and large plants. He caught himself every time, and if Zelda noticed this, she chose to not say anything. Link was grateful for that, Navi would have been buzzing in his ear wondering why he was acting like a Stale Child.
It seemed about an hour had passes, Link had forgotten his thoughts, but neither Zelda nor him had said anything. Zelda would just look at plants, often just passing them. Some she bent over and cut with a magic dagger, then would put whatever plant it was in a pouch. Link thought that her back would brake off from bending over so much, but this didn't seem to bother her at all.
Link wanted to say something, but the problem was, was that he had nothing to say. It was an odd silence, it didn't seem to bother Zelda, but then again, he couldn't even see her face.
"Link?" Link jumped when Zelda finally broke the silence, she was looking at the ground.
"Uh, yes?"
"Who... who was your mother and father?"
"Uh, I don't know." Link replied in shocked voice, what kind of a question was that?
"You don't know?"
"Well, the Great Deku Tree always told me that I was given to him by someone. But he never told me who. I think it must have been one of my parents, but I don't know if they're dead or not."
"Hmm."
"What about you?"
"Impa."
"What?"
"Impa," Zelda told Link in more forceful voice.
"Impa? Isn't that the name of that Sheikah you told me about?"
"Yes."
"You never told me that you were a Sheikah! You sure don't look like one."
"Oh, I'm not, I just consider Impa my mother. I think that it doesn't matter if you're related by blood, I think, that it matters by heart. I don't know who my mother or father was, but it doesn't matter to me, just as long as I have Impa."
Link looked at Zelda's back that was one of things that she had told him that had been of wisdom. Actually, it was almost like the first thing that she had told him that was wise that wasn't part of trying to fix a Forest Temple. This made Link respect her a little more, and in another way that he had never felt before.
"Hey, Zelda, uh...." Link wanted to continue talking, but nothing seemed to stick out of his head. "When will you be finished?" Link gripped his hands that came out wrong, now it sounded like he was bored, even though he wasn't. He liked walking in the forest with Zelda, even if that did sound a little odd.
"Once I finish getting all of the plants I need, I'll be done. If you're getting bored, you can go."
"No, no, I just didn't know what to say, that's all. I like walking, I really do."
"Glad that you do." Zelda told him, for a moment Link thought that he had heard some type of sad tone in her voice, but it was so small that he decided that it was nothing.
"Hey, if you're hungry, I think that there's a fruit tree nearby. And a stream, I think that I can hear it."
"Ok...."
"What is it? Is there something bothering you?"
"Well, it's just that, when I get new magic like I just did, for some reason, I start think unhappy thoughts."
"Is that all?"
"Hmm, the magic that the Deku Tree gave me, and the one from that weird spiritual stone, I don't know.... It just doesn't feel very comfortable in me; it's trying to get out. It's forest magic, and I've never really handled it before, so, I'm having a hard time getting under control. I just feel kind of...."
Zelda finished her words by falling backwards; Link caught her, and saw that she was unconscious. Link laughed for some reason he didn't know, but he just picked her up and began walking to a stream nearby.
There wasn't anyone there, but that was fine for Link, it didn't bother him if there was someone there or not. He rested Zelda on the ground next to the river, then, he took his boots off and put his feet in the cool water. He sighed and looked around, seeing a berry bush off to the side, he walked over and checked if they were edible. Making sure that they were, he picked a handful and then sat down next to Zelda, his feet resting in the peaceful stream again.
He ate all of the berries, and then he drank and washed his mouth with water. He didn't like his teeth to be covered with berry juice. Once he felt that his mouth was clean, was trotted over to Zelda and sat down again.
Link looked down at Zelda, pondering.
What did she think of him? Did she like him? Or did she hate him? Those were two main questions zooming across his mind. Link liked Zelda, as a friend of course, but he couldn't help but feel like that she didn't enjoy his company. Normally he didn't care about things like this, but for some reason it felt like it mattered more. Link shook his head, it was nothing. They were partners for fighting, nothing else, besides, after they completed the Forest Temple; she was going to leave, wasn't she?
Link felt a sudden stab of sadness; he didn't want Zelda to leave. It was the first time that he had actually met someone who was a human, and he didn't him or her to leave. But then again, she was the first person that he had ever met and then had become fighting partners. It was an odd partnership, but it was one.
His mind drifted to someone that he hadn't thought about for a long while....
Who had been the Sheikah man that Link had met in Hyrule Field?
Link shook his head again; he was thing of stupid things. There were better things to think about, he just had to find them....
"Thinking?"
Link jumped and looked at Zelda, who was sitting up and looking at him with low eyelids.
"Uh, have a nice sleep Zelda?"
"Sure, where are we?"
"Uh, a stream."
"Mm."
Zelda went on her back again, and Link heard her sigh.
"Something bothering you?" Link asked Zelda in a simple voice.
"No-o-o...." It was obvious that she didn't bother to cover up her voice tone.
"Am I supposed to believe you?"
"It's nothing, really, nothing."
"Right, I still don't believe you."
"Well, I'm just thinking, like I said earlier, when I get magic like this, I start thinking unhappy thoughts."
Link had a feeling that she was lying, and he knew that he shouldn't pry, but at the same time, he knew that whatever Zelda was troubled over might be serious.
"Zelda, what's wrong?"
"Nothing."
"I can tell that you're lying."
"Oh well." She sighed, looking at the trees.
"Please Zelda, tell me."
Zelda didn't say anything; she just looked at the sky, and then slowly closed her eyes again. Link sighed and looked at the water it was useless she really was stubborn.
Zelda closed her eyes, trying to get a feeling of sorrow from levitating over. But she couldn't, something was wrong, but she didn't know what.
It was bothering her, like a splinter in her mind. It just wouldn't go away.
'Something is bothering you, Zelda.' Kale told Zelda in her mind.
'Yes, but I don't know what.'
Kale sighed, 'Are you sure that you don't know?'
'....'
'Well then, that's a grand answer.'
'I don't want to talk, I, I, miss Impa.... But that isn't it, the dead, they're getting unsettled. I can see the dead forest creatures, they're nervous, something is wrong. I want to see what it could be, but....'
'You want to stay with Link?'
'I think that I'm growing fond of the forest boy.'
'Why is that bad?'
'I don't want to like him.'
'Why not?'
'I don't know! I like it when I start getting used to people, it bothers me.... I don't know why, I only trust the Shadow People. I can trust them.'
Kale didn't reply, and Zelda didn't want her to. Because it was the truth, she trusted the Sheikah, they were her family, and she didn't want to leave that family. So many Sheikah that she could trust, so little of those who were not of the Shadow People she could trust.
Zelda opened her eyes again, Link was napping nearby her.
Zelda quietly stood up and snuck away, she needed to be alone.
Zelda walked for a while, then, she settled down next to a stream and started pulling out all of the plants that she had collected. Placing them out neatly, she got out her tools and started making the potions. They weren't really potions, but creams. Zelda just called them potions because that's what the Sheikah would call them.
It didn't take too long; Zelda finished within an hour and had already put all of the potions in jars. She stood up and walked, she needed to find some food. She didn't want to kill any animal in this peaceful forest, but she needed to add some dry meat to her food for strength. She wanted to put that at the end of her list, so she started gathering nuts. After she had a few, she started looking for a certain plant. She didn't find it, but almost jumped with glee when she found a huge group of plants with long steams with white flowers on the tips.
She immediately started taking some of the long stems and placing them in a neat stack. Once she had a few, she cut all of the flowers off, one taste of those and you would be dead in a few seconds. She made sure that all that there was left was long thick branches, and then started cutting those until they could fit in her pack without taking much room. Zelda stood back up, pleased by her success. She had found 'White Death,' it sounded deadly, but the steams were considered a delicacy among the Sheikah, and were EXTREMELY rare. It was like candy, it tasted like candy, and seemed to give you energy when you ate it. Zelda would save these for later, sweet Nayru would they taste good!
Zelda decided that instead of gathering fruit, she should start gathering some Sheikah food. Sheikah food was often roots, leaves, flowers, and grass. It was an odd diet, but if you grew up with it, it tasted just fine.
Zelda went inside of a cave; she needed some privacy to do this. Making sure that she was well inside of the cave and that no one was in the cave, she began chanting:
"Ka sha homani shashi nomali lebequina, Sheik."
A few minutes later, a strange Sheikah man with dirt blond hair and red eyes stepped out from a cave. His hair was done up in wraps, even so some hair fell out freely as bangs. His face was covered up with a shawl, and in one hand he held a thin and long sword out, covered with Sheikah symbols. It was called, 'Nocturnal Edge.'
Stretching, the young Sheikah man did a flip to make sure that he wasn't rusty. Then, he jumped up into a tree. Once he was on it, he jumped to the other tree, and then the next after that, and the next after that. He was just waiting to find the right tree that he could see through but not be seen by things below. He didn't have to wait that long, he found the perfect tree, with a group of deer underneath. He sheathed his Nocturnal Edge, and instead, pulled out needles about nine inches long each and thin, as a needle should be.
He was aiming for the oldest deer, when a group of Korkori suddenly burst out just as he was about to throw the needle. The deer scattered, and the group of boys started laughing.
"That was great!" cried out one of the boys all of the others gave each other back-pats and handshakes. Sheik felt anger boil within him, it wasn't because they had scared off the game, it was because they found so much delight in frightening peaceful animals. It was one thing to hunt, for that was for food, but to scare them just laughter, that was cruel.
Sheik leapt down from the trees, and landed so quietly that the boys didn't even notice him until one of them let out an ear-piercing scream and pointed at him. They all froze and stared at Sheik, Sheik almost felt bad for them, they looked like they were going to pee.
"How dare you find humor in frightening animals! It is a cruel thing, and you will not go unpunished!"
They squealed and huddled together, they were thinking that Sheik was going to kill them! Sheik pulled out a marble from behind his, then, he tossed it towards the boys.
It cracked open, and out came a smell so horrible you might as well consider it even worse then rotting flesh. The boys howled and covered their noses as Sheik jumped up into the trees to escape the stomach wrenching smell. He glanced down as the boys found that no matter how much they tried, the smell could pass through their tunics and hands. It would fade away in about a minute, but it would teach those mischievous Korkori a lesson.
Sheik smiled and then jumped to the next tree, hoping that he would still be able to find some game.
Link had woken up and found that Zelda had left, so he had shrugged and went back to his home. When he had gotten home, Navi was still gone and Zelda wasn't there either. Link didn't worry and just sat down and started polishing his sword, it deserved it. Once he finished that, neither of his friends were back so he set on making sure that all of his equipment was in well condition. Once he finished, Zelda came in, carrying a pack on her back. Link raised an eyebrow and looked at Zelda as she set her items to the floor and then pulled out a huge ball of white string.
"Where have you been?" He asked Zelda as she started using her magic to take it apart.
"Getting some food."
"You've been gone for all that time getting food?"
"Well, I couldn't find that much game so it took a while."
"You went hunting?"
"Yes," she said, as the ball was completely unraveled. Now Zelda used her magic to bring it down towards her. Then, she pulled out a clear saber made of crystal that made a steady glow of light. She cut the string in half in one place, and then she put her saber back and started weaving the strings together.
"What was that?"
"What was what Link?"
"I didn't know that you had a weapon besides your magic!"
He saw Zelda look at him with a smile, her eyes unclear.
"Well, I just found when I was exploring inside of a cave. I'm going to get ride of it soon though, I don't want it."
"I'll take it!"
"No, besides, you wouldn't know how to use it, it's a Sheikah weapon. Someone must have lost it. You know what, I think that I'm going to try and find that Sheikah! After I finished this, I won't have anything else to do, so, I might as well."
"Ok, what are you making anyway? Is it a blanket?"
"Cloak, I love them."
"Oh yeah, what happened to your other cloak?"
"I left it here. But I decided that it was time for a new one. But I can't find it, so it's that reason at the same time."
"Hmm, I wonder where it went?"
Zelda shrugged as she finished weaving the cloak, it floated down into her lap and then was let go of her magic.
"Ah, the advantages of magic. Normally I would have weaved it myself, but, I wanted to finish fast so I could find that Sheikah.... Oh, dang it!"
"What is it?"
"I need another circlet."
"What? Why?"
"This one is getting old, and tight. I need a new one, I've had it for about a year and like I said, it's tight. But I don't think that the Korkori have a blacksmith, do they?"
"Nope, but why do you need one?"
"Well, even though it doesn't seem that sturdy, it can also work as a magical storage system.... I just haven't tried to use it for that yet. You have to get the correct type of metal, and make sure that it isn't a fake. Sounds stupid, but it works. Ok, I'm going now, I'll be back... later."
Link watched Zelda get up and leave, taking her new cloak bundled in her arms, and everything else that was hers. Which wasn't much.
She turned around and looked at Link at the doorway, and then she turned around and left.
Link sighed, there was nothing to do but rest, but if he slept now, he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight. He stood up; a practice with his sword would be pretty good.
Zelda walked out of the circle of Korkori homes, she found a place where it was just mainly trees and started walking towards them.
'Where are we going?' Kale asked inside Zelda's mind.
'You haven't spoken for a while, we're going to find a Gossip Stone.'
'What is that?'
'They are stones scattered across Hyrule, and they lead down to the Sheikah tunnels hundreds of feet beneath the earth. You have to swear to me that you will never make so much a mumble of this in your sleep to anyone until you crossed in the realm of Great Goddess.'
'I swear, it must be important to hide.'
'It is, the Sheikah were thought to be nearly dead, but that isn't true at all, they live in the ground. And some are even hidden in the shadows of the outside, right under your nose.'
'And I suppose that you know where each of them lay?'
'Almost. My guardian Impa has taken me to a few homes of those on the outside, but I've never seen a map that points out where they live.'
'Another question, why do they except you as their own?'
'Well, because I grew up among them. My guardian Impa treated me just as she would her own child, and the other Sheikah treated me as if I was of their own clan. You see, Impa adopted me. So I became part of the clan. At least, that is what she has told me. Is that Gossip Stone?'
Zelda ventured over to a large stone, and to her happiness, it was an old worn-out Gossip Stone. To others it just looked like a large rock with uneven levels, but Zelda could tell that it actually had the symbol of a Gossip Stone on it. Zelda smiled and then pulled out her harp, she lovingly touched the rim, how long had it been since Zelda had played this? Too long, it seemed.
Zelda closed her eyes and let her fingers fly across the strings freely, playing the song the Nocturnal of Shadow. She felt the pull of the song starting to teleport her to the Karkariko Village Graveyard, but Zelda firmly stated in her mind that she wanted the Gossip Stone to answer her. It worked, and the Gossip Stone's eye turned purple. Then, it seemed it glide backwards, and a hole underneath it opened up and made itself large enough for five people to fit through.
'Sheikah magic,' Zelda explained to Kale, who nodded inside of Zelda.
Zelda went in, and heard the ground move and conceal the evidence of the passageway. There was no light, but that was because Zelda knew that that was because this passageway hadn't been used for a long time. She should have brought a torch, but then again, she would have probably just set the whole forest on fire.
Zelda lifted her palm, and said, "Let Light Be My Eyes." It was different spell from the one that she had used when she and Link had been on Death Mountain, but this spell aloud the light follow Zelda without her holding.
The light appeared and floated to where it was in front of Zelda. Zelda started walking, and the light always stayed four steps ahead of her. Whenever Zelda wanted it to turn to the right, she would just think it and it would do so. Another advantage of the spell is that it was linked to her mind, and so she would think what she want it to do and it would do so.
There was still nothing to be seen, but this didn't surprise Zelda, these were old tunnels. But she needed to get to some of the Sheikah fast, she couldn't stay here long.
"Ka sha homani shashi nomali lebequina, Sheik."
A few moments, and Sheik had his hair up, his circlet gone, finger wrapped, and shawl up. He didn't need to go so into his disguise since all of the Sheikah knew whom he really was, but he preferred to.
Stretching his legs and arms, he got ready to run. Once Sheik was sure that he wouldn't pull a muscle, he got in a ready running position.
"I No Longer Need A Third Eye." The light that had been guiding Sheik disappeared, he could see better in the darkness then he could in the day, and the light might get in his eyes and make him hit something. And as fast as Sheik could run, if he hit something he would probably wake up in a few hours with a large bruise.
"Ready, set, go!" Sheik started running, using magic to make him go faster. If not for his Sheikah eyes, then everything would have just been a large blur; he just hoped that he would find some Sheikah soon.
Link swung his sword high and then low, and then made a stab middle length. He continued a series of swings and stabs, doing it until he was sure that he did every move perfectly and until he was covered with sweat.
Link collapsed on his bed, his muscles burning steadily. Now THAT was a workout. Link took in deep breath, in the morning; it was time to go back to the Forest Temple. He wanted to be ready for that; he was going to use every ounce of his strength to save Saria.
Link sat up, what was going to be for dinner? Perhaps a couple of fresh berries and fruit? He got up and walked out of the house, then, for a moment, he smelt himself. He needed a bath.
After about half an hour, Sheik had almost run into a dead end, luckily he had caught himself and had managed to only hit the wall enough to knock him back a little but not suffer any bruises. Sheik got up instantly and looked at the wall, this wasn't too good. None of the tunnels had dead ends, so why did this one?
Sheik sighed and transformed back into Zelda, once she had taken all of her wraps off and gotten her circlet back on. She touched the wall, and then she put her ear on it and listened....
Off, somewhere, Zelda could hear the sound of people moving about in a hall. Talking to each other, and some just walking. This passage had been sealed off because of the Korkori; the Korkori must have started to realize that something was underneath them. The Sheikah moved the instant they suspected that someone knew if they were there, and so then they must have sealed off this tunnel just in case.
Zelda didn't want to blast the tunnel open, but she couldn't teleport through walls.
Zelda started punching the wall, she didn't think that knocking could be heard. After a few second she stopped and put her ear to the wall to see if any of the noise had stopped, but it hadn't they still couldn't hear her. Zelda pounded harder on the wall, after that, she stopped and listen, no change at all.
Zelda growled and kicked the wall in anger, how was this supposed to work?
Then, Zelda heard some sort of a knocking behind her; she put her ear on the wall and listened quietly. They had heard the kick!
Zelda smiled and then started kicking the wall; she kicked in special patterns to where it was the melody of peace that only the Sheikah knew. After finishing, she put her ear back on the wall, listening. The others on the wall were telling her to stand back. Once they finished, Zelda kicked the wall to tell them that she understood. She ran from the wall, when she realized that she couldn't see anything she put a hand on the wall and used to guide her away from the dead-end. Then, when she felt that she had gone far enough, she stopped and waited. She was humming the lullaby tune that Impa played to her when the wall exploded; it was strong enough to make Zelda fall over. Zelda immediately got back up as a Sheikah man walked over to her.
"Zelda? Is that you?" the man asked as he helped her up, Zelda coughed a little and then replied.
"Yes Priest Rinul, it is I."
"What are you doing here?"
"Can I tell you after get a new circlet, and couple of other things?"
There you go people! Sorry for the hold up, again, BUT I HAD EVIL WRITERS BLOCK! I swear, I HATE IT!
Navi: Do I look like a bug? DO I?!
Um, yeah.
Navi: What? No I don't! How DARE you think that?
Well, you do... you're still angry over the whole Hail, Sleet, and Gust thing, aren't you?
Navi: Well how did you know? HOW DARE THEY TRY AND EAT MEEEEE! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Oo0 Ok, before something weird and something stupid happens, I just want to tell you to review.... Oh, and thank you Hououza for answering my add on my Bio, you go dud!
So Until Next Time,
CrypticElf....