A/N: Ok, for a lil' example of how awesome you guys are; I posted the third chapter really late last night, and boom, the morning following I got 6 reviews. . You see? Those reviews have me typing this Author's Note which is also part of the chapter. See where I'm going with this? Eh? Eh?
Also, SCHOOL'S OVER!!! So, S.D., and the Legend of R & J will all be worked on! I actually have time now! No more essays! -dances the Irish jig-
Heh, I'm made Dark sound weirdly ghetto in one part, so just laugh with me! Plus, Termina and Hyrule are kinda just….one in this…..tee hee, my fanfiction, my way P.
The Great Sinbad- -- I'm really glad you liked it, and I hope you like all the drama/comedy/what-the-heck-is-going-on stuff I'm putting together!!! Thanks a bunch for the sweet review!
Dark Zelda- The more demanding, the better. P
Shinomori Kyrs- May Skull Kid live on!
Zonr-00- I actually wouldn't gotten a lil' shot gun and….hell no, you guys know by now I love DL too much to hate him for long. --
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Chapter Four: Live and Laugh at it All
"Come on, Link. He's been a jerk, but you're not concerned at all?"
"Nope."
"But's it's 4th period! He's missed most of school! What if something happened to him."
"What if he's off stealin' the spot light offa someone else? Should I care then?"
Three periods had past and Dark was nowhere to be found. The morning after the big fight he wasn't oversleeping in his bed like usual, as the door of his room was opened and Link could plainly see he wasn't there. At first it didn't bother him. Dark Link was a complete asshole for what he did, right? Why should I care where the hell he is now? Skull Kid and Link argued over whether to care or not over the shadow's disappearance as they walked with their lunch trays to an empty table. "Fine, let me see your cell phone, Link."
Ignoring Dark's absence as much as possible, Link smirked as if nothing was wrong. "Ha, I thought you said they weren't aloud in school. Remember?"
Yet SK's face was stern and held no feeling of joke or goofiness. "I mean it, just let me see it. Mine's turned off in my locker." Hesitantly, Link obeyed the odd command and reached into his pant pocket to get out his cell phone, pondering what Skull was going to do with it. "I'm calling his cell."
"What? Not with my phone!"
"Link! Something could've happened to DL! From the sound of it, your fight seemed to have equaled to the same viciousness as the Imprisoning War!" The Hylian gave a funny look to his wood faced friend. Skull Kid sighed and began dialing some numbers. "I think you really hurt his feelings."
Link snorted and glared at the wall. "Shadows don't have feelings and they act like normal beings don't have feelings either."
Skull gave a very disappointed glare at Link, but hunched a bit and covered his ear with his hand to hide the cell phone when he heard the dial tone. After several dials, Skull Kid heard a very cheerful and familiar 'Yo! This is Dark!' and grinned. "Thank the Goddesses, I thought you were-"
"I'm not here obviously 'cause I've found something that's more entertaining than you! –Laugh- But leave a message and junk and I'll see if you're worth my sexy shadowy time.-laugh- Peace ooot!"
There was a 'beep' sound and Skull Kid frowned. "Hey, Dark it's me, SK. You're really worrying us-" Link snorted and made a rude remark. "-so I'd really be great if you'd call one of us back or stop by. Hopefully you'll get this before school's out. See ya later." Slowly Skull hung up and passed it back to Link. The lunch went by quickly when neither Link nor Skull Kid said a word, but before the bell rang to get back to class, Skull stood up in front of Link. "Ya know, I bet you're worried about behind that whole act."
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Soon Link too began to worry, but he kept his ground and acted as if he didn't care. The usual seat in 5th period that Link's old best friend sat in was empty while the seats began to fill. Five minutes before the bell rang, he finally came in, but sat in a seat near the back. Dark Link had his hand in his face for another minute, but soon looked up tiredly. Link stared for a moment, but turned away and pretended nothing was wrong. Yet, nothing was right. He looked exhausted and groggy, like he hadn't slept for days. Link glanced back, and then the bell rang. DL wiped his eyes a final time and yawned, shaking his head and looking up with a more alert face. The period passed quickly, and soon Link felt himself hesitating to walk out so easily; not without another glance at the dark figure in the back of the room still gathering his things. Yet the Hylian forced himself to remember that he was furious with Dark, and found himself walking down the hallway without caring.
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The shadow tapped the glass of the boys bathroom as the beginning of 6th period began with the bell ring. "Well, shadow, what a fine mess you've gotten yourself into." He chuckled and turned the faucet so that the cold water could run through his fingers. His stomach threatened him again, but he held it in and tried to wipe his face with some water. "This time, though, detentions can't repent and drinks don't do a damn thing either." He sighed while hunched over, staring at his reflection. "Damn…I hate hangovers…" For the last time he rubbed his brow and soon walked over to a bathroom stall, clumsily putting the seat down and sitting with his head laid back. There was no point coming to school if I had known that I was just going to sleep it out anyway.
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"Drinking?!" SK began to laugh to make his sudden yell seem like a joke. When enough faces went back to wandering school, he resumed his nervous expression and leaned against the wall with his cell phone smudged up next to his ear. "You were drinking?! B-But you're underage! Is that why you weren't here for most of the day."
DL could be heard yawning at the other end of the line, but he gave a faint chuckle and spoke back. "I'm Link's dark side, Skull. He takes a shot and I take a shot are completely opposite with very different outcomes. Besides, it was just one day. From the message, I'm guessing I gave you quite a scare."
Skull sighed and simply told him to come to school the next day, well rested. Dark chuckled and hung up, on his way home now that his depressed state had past along with his hangover. The rehearsal went horribly, though you couldn't tell from his trademark smirk he always worn, even at the worst of times. He barely remembered his lines, and his mind continuously drifted somewhere away from tragedies of old age. The instructor was furious that he had come to rehearsal in such a state, yet luckily only some of his fellow cast members realized what he had been doing in the previous hours and went along with his lie that he hadn't gotten any sleep. He sighed getting into the elevator and pressing his floor's button, remember what the old, cranky voice threatened him. 'I'm serious, if you show up again like you did today, I will be forced to replace you, dear.'
The elevator stopped and opened its doors, surprising DL with someone who had been waiting for the elevator. He gaze turned away when Link stared back at him, a cell phone to his ear and talking lowly. Dark glared at the floor and walked out of the elevator, calmly shoving Link with his shoulder as Link entered the elevator glaring.
Once the door was locked behind him, DL sighed, relieved to be home after for what seemed like years. "Home sweet home."
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"He's on his way home, maybe you'll meet up." Link snorted and shook his head to the voice on the other end of the line.
"Believe it or not, Skull, I just past him."
"Really? What happened?"
"He was as bright and cheery as ever. Said he was sorry, gave me a hug and even told me that Zelda was edging to meet up with me again. By the way, did I mention that I'm going out for coffee with the Three Goddesses tomorrow?"
Link chuckled when he heard Skull Kid sigh. The elevator stopped and the Hylian walked out, faintly glancing up at his floor before walking off to the sidewalk. "Link, are you guys really keeping this up? You've fought hundreds of times before and it always resulted both of you laughing, but the only laughing I've heard is you guys pretend laughing. You know that's creepy and obviously fake."
"It's that obvious?"
"Doesn't fool anybody. Especially when you were trying to suck up the to teacher."
"Is that why she gave me extra homework? I thought the laugh was supporting!"
"She thought you were making fun of her."
"Oh."
"Anyway, hurry up. If you're getting any credit with this project, you should at least do some of it."
"I'm coming, just make sure your little brother doesn't barge in dancing like that again."
"He was just hyper, and that's a traditional dance of my heritage!"
"That was a freaky dance."
"Whatever, hurry up."
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Carnival of Time Festival Dance
Friday Night
7 - 11 p.m.
"Who are you going with, Zelda? Only a few days left."
"I have someone in mind, but I'm not sure if he's even willing to talk to me." Malon and Zelda both preferred to chat instead of following the instructions written on the front dry-erase board, and so Malon had gotten out a flyer and laid it on the front page of her History of Hyrule text book, making it seem like she was reviewing the discoveries of major rupee mines in the southern Hyrulian Fields.
"It's been how long, he couldn't still be mad-wait, a minute." Malon suddenly smiled in the opposite direction and casually ran her fingers through her hair as a purple haired young man looked over. Kafei seemed not to have noticed and instead turned to someone to his side, Skull Kid. SK nodded and simply whispered a few things and pointed to a paragraph in the textbook.
Suddenly, the princess thought of an idea, and frantically pulled out a small piece of paper and scribbled on it. A minute later, she tapped the back of Skull Kid's shoulder while Malon quietly 'hmpth' when Kafei didn't pay attention to her. When SK took the paper and read it, he turned and shook his head, crashing Zelda's false hope. "Who knew a guy could keep such a grudge."
Malon drifted out of her pouting and gazed at Zelda questioningly while the teacher sat oblivious to the conversations at her desk. "Of all the guys, just go with someone else, Zel. Link'll come around, but until then you can probably get anyone you want. What about Dark? I don't think he's got anyone get."
Malon cringed a bit at seeing Zelda's shocked face, realizing what she had said was out of line. "Are you out of your mind?" The farm girl nudged Zelda to whisper. "Sorry…but Malon, no! Link would hate me! Besides, Dark's nice, but he'd never…oh, Malon. No way. I'd only ruin their relationship."
Skull Kid slowly leaned back on his chair, having already finished his assignment. "I don't think their relationship could get any worse. Both of them don't talk to each other, but you can tell if they did…sheesh, they'd give a whole new meaning to 'crossing the line'."
For a moment, the princess stared at the Skull Kid, then laid her head in her hands. "You know, I'm not even sure if I like like Link. He's cute and nice…but…" The bell rang while Zelda still fumbled for words.
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"Remember, kids! The Festival of Time Dance is this Friday! So be ready to have funny fun fun time!
Today, being Wednesday, please remember that the library closes an hour earlier for Book Club.
In other news, rehearsal for the school play Romeo and Juliet is going to be canceled today. The instructor isn't feeling well and the auditorium is still being cleaned after the stink bomb with set off yesterday after school. If you know who did it, or if you did it yourself, please tell the principal. Remember, you can't spell principal without spelling 'pal' at the end."
The 2nd period announcements ended with Link staring at the speaker planted on the ceiling of his classroom. He covered his head in his hands, drifting into a deep thought as the teacher announced the coming of a test. With no rehearsal, the principal would gladly make him take him detention earlier so he would be able to go home. The periods went by slowly, almost as if time itself was hesitating to go to detention.
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"Hey! Maybe this is the chance you two can finally make up!"
"Don't count on it. He won't talk to me, and I'll choke before I speak to him." The bell had run, signaling to all the students that they could once again roam free until the morning bell rang the next day. Skull retired from staying after class for extra note taking only because Link had rushed over to SK's last class to urge him for some quick advice.
"You know, though, that Zelda doesn't like Dark right? She said it in her own words. The whole case is just another one of Dark's pranks gone wrong."
"Well, if the Shadow hasn't tried to apologized at all, then obviously he doesn't care that his prank's gone wrong."
"Why do you keep calling him 'Shadow' like that? Recently you've acted like a jerk too, Link."
"Don't tell me you're taking his side, Skull."
"I'm on my own side 'cause both of your sides seem likely to cause another war."
Link scolded walking down the dreary tiles only to be forced to spend a wasting two hours with someone he'd rather fight than be friends with. SK had bravely volunteered to acompany the Hylian until the DETENTION doors came into view.
Just as Link expected, the principal had his daily newspaper propped up with his chubby fingers gripping the sides. Just as Link dreaded and despised, his shadowy look-alike was sitting near the back of the classroom with his legs crossed around one another on the desk in front of him. Without noticing, or caring about the Hylian that had just hesitantly entered the classroom, Dark Link seemed consumed by the piece of notebook paper drooping over his grip as he read further down. Reluctantly, Link sat a row ahead of him to the far left, ignoring any possible trace of another behind him.
The principal grunted as he folded his paper, and began as usual by telling the boys off by using made of 'proper' names for Link and Dark's past misdeeds. With an annoyed sigh, Link swung his hand into his backpack, reaching around for paper and a pencil to begin 300 meaningless words that reflected the harsh times of the Imprisoning War veterans while DL got up to walk to the board and waste chalk by writing 40 reasons why troublesome wasn't the way to be. As the shadow walked by, a small note flung from his left hand onto Link's desk, followed by a smirk. Link's first thoughts were to toss it in the trash, but that shadowy smirk tempted him to at least see what it was. It was a note with two different handwritings on it. The Hylian scanned the note, then, reaching the end, covered his mouth to contain his laughter.