The Twists of Time
The Thieves
Both Links stood, watching the fairy and the feline arguing. It was very odd, since the fairy would scream them the feline would reply calmly. Soon the moon was high in the sky and the younger of the two Links made a fire.
"We may as well rest while those 2 are bickering." He said seeing the elders look of surprise. The elder nodded, and sat down to lean against the wall.
"I'll take first watch then." The younger said, watching the elder slowly fall to sleep. The small flame kept alive through out the night and, by the time morning had come; everyone around the small fire had fallen asleep.
The group went to their destination in utter silence. Each had their own reason. Navi didn't speak because her voice was horse from all the shouting, while the younger Link had bowed his head in disgrace, for not being able to stay awake on the alert for danger. The elder Link just didn't know what to say and Fer just kept quite because no one else was talking. It was a very awkward situation. A sigh was heard from the elder Link.
"It seems so unnatural for us to travel in silence." The elder said, looking towards the younger, who was stroking Fer. Fer nodded.
"Indeed. The field seems so quite at the present time." Fer said, looking out to the field.
"I didn't notice, but that just might be because I'm use to working in silence." The younger said, also looking out at the field. The elder stared at the younger boy.
"You worked alone?" He asked more then surprised. He had never gotten where he was if Navi hadn't helped him. The younger boy looked at him.
"I had a small amount of help. But most of the time, I was alone." The younger smiled. The elder couldn't help but smile back.
"What is it like? In the future, I mean." The elder asked. The question had been nagging him ever since the younger Link said, "I came back a few hundred years".
"It is quite similar. I suppose that there are a few changes- what is that?" The younger said, pointing towards something with high fences around it. The elder looked and laughed slightly.
"That's the Lon Lon Ranch. I guess it isn't in the future by the way you just acted." The elder said. The other just nodded. He continued to stare at it for a while.
"Hey, shouldn't we turn now to get to the Gerudo Valley?" Fer said. The younger Link nodded, as did the older. Turning, they entered the desert like area. As they went further, they found a broken bridge.
"How do you suppose we get across?" The younger asked looking at the long fall down. Fer just surprised him by, biting the back of his collar and jumping across. The elder came across using the hookshot. The younger got up, shaking slightly. After he had recovered from shock, they both went over to a man staring at no one mumbling something.
"Sir, is something wrong?" The elder inquired. The man turned to face them.
"Is something wrong? IS SOMETHING WRONG?! OF COURSE SOMETHING IS WRONG! MY FOOLISH WORKERS HAVE GONE INTO THAT COLONY AND THEY HAVEN'T COME BACK!" The man yelled. The younger Link stepped forward.
"Would you like us to go find your workers?" he inquired. The man just looked at one, then the other.
"If you can, we will finish building this bridge. Then we can all leave this place." The man said. The two boys walked into the city. The first thing they noticed were all the guards.
"One of us needs to draw the attention of all the guards while the other searches the fortress for the workers." The younger said. The elder looked around.
"Get ready to sneak in." The elder whispered, then left the younger. A few minutes later, a huge bang, similar to that of a bomb exploding, was heard on the other side of the Fortress. All the guards then ran over there and furious clangs of metal against metal could be heard. The younger Link, not wasting any time, dashed over to the nearest building and entered it. He quickly hid behind a wooden box and waited for the guards to come back. After minutes that seemed to drag on for hours, 2 guards entered talking.
"He sure was a tough one, wasn't he?"
"Yeah, but also stupid. Did he just think he could attempt to destroy the gate without being caught?"
"I don't know, I just don't think it was stupidity."
"Why?"
"Well, during one part of the battle he smiled, even though he was being over powered, like it was a scheme. It just isn't right for someone to smile when being over powered. Any way, we should get back to our job, guarding the prisoners." Link younger smiled and followed the 2 females to one of the prison blocks. Noticing it had a lock on it, he went to talk to the man sitting inside the prison.
"Look out, behind you!" The prisoner yelled as Link walked towards him. A female jumped down and knocked Link into the poles in front of the man. Quickly, Link got up, his eyes narrowing. He drew his sword out and got ready for battle. His shield, shining light on to the face of the guard, blinding her for a moment. In those few moments, Link was able to run up and slash her a couple of times, crippling her. Her wounds may not have been fatal, but they would have hurt a lot seeing as Link had slashed lightly at open skin and blood was leaking out of her body. She limped away, throwing a set of keys at Link.
"Wow...that was amazing!" The prisoner said as Link unlocked his cell. "How can I repay you?"
"Can you get out of this fortress without being captured again?" Link questioned.
"I can try. Please save my 4 friends." The man ran off after that. Link sighed.
"1 down, five to go"
The elder Link looked up. He smirked seeing the wooden hatch open.
"Hey Navi?"
"What?" Navi's voice was very croaky.
"Let's get out of here." Link aimed the hookshot towards the wooden hatch, and fired. Now he could see the entire Fortress. He studied and memorized the movements of all the guards and Navi decide to sleep under Link's cap. Link carefully scheduled his jump and he jumped when the guards wouldn't be able to see him. Entering the house like area, he was almost spotted by another guard. After knocking the guard out with a crate (AN: sorry if you can't actually do this, I just think that an arrow would kill them) he walked down a chamber to see a man stuck behind bars.
"You there, will you come and help me? My friends and me thought it would be cool to join a gang of thieves but instead they locked us up. We don't think that any more. I just wish to get out of here. There may be a lot of guards around- Look out, there is one behind you!" The man said, in one breath to Link's amassment. He quickly sidestepped, as the guard crashed into the bars of the cell. She quickly jumped up and ran over and slashed at Link. Link held up his shield, waiting for her to finish attacking. She didn't give up for some time, and it wasn't until Link decided to move, did she stop the attacking. He quickly jumped up and slashed her. As soon as he had done that, he regretted it. She had screamed, loudly at that. Guards had come filling in just after he passed the key to the prisoner. Then he got thrown back into the same cell. 'Are they stupid or what!' He thought as he escaped the cell once again.
After rescuing another prisoner, the younger Link walked down to the last cell and bumped into the elder Link. A look of surprise crossed both their faces.
"You two would make great thieves, to bad I have to capture you." A gerudo said raising her sword and aiming straight for the elder Link, who barely dodged. The younger Link held his sword to her neck.
"Give me the keys and I won't kill you." He said, moving the point of the blade closer to her neck. She, trembling badly, handed the key and two other things to the younger Link. After releasing the prisoner, they looked at the other things they had gotten.
"We are now members of the Gerudo tribe. Well, that's useful..." The younger Link said, looking at the small sheet of paper that stated them as Gerudo's.
"Lets go." The elder said. Walking out into the center of the fortress, the women just smiled and walked past.
"I'm never going to get use to this..." The younger mumbled. The elder nodded in agreement.
"How about we try going out into the desert?" The elder asked. The younger just nodded. Soon they came to the huge gate.
"Can we go through?" The elder Link asked politely.
"To get to the spirit temple, you will need the eye of truth." The gate lifted at the words of the guard. They walked through quickly.
"What do you think she meant by eye of truth?" The younger asked, looking back at the female. The elder shrugged.
"I have no idea." Soon, they got to the rough part of the desert, with sand flying everywhere, blinding them. They didn't talk; otherwise they got sand in their mouth. Slowly, a small stone building could be seen, and the two boys went inside.
"There's nothing around here to lead us. You would think they would continue the flags till the temple." The younger said, climbing down the ladder.
"It is odd. Maybe we need this eye of truth to continue into the desert." The elder replied. Navi just flew out from under his hat.
"Well, maybe we should go looking in the past for it." Navi said, her voice slightly recovered. The elder seemed to bite his lip.
"Maybe your right, do you think we can get back to the fortress now?" The elder said some what reluctantly. Navi flew to the entrance of the small cave-like area.
"The sun is setting, so it would be a risk." Navi said.
"Let's leave when the sun rises. It will be easier to see the flags then." The younger Link said. The elder smiled.
"We don't have to wait." The elder said a small smirk on his face. He quickly got out a beautiful blue ocarina. Holding it up to his lips, he played a simple tune. It echoed around the area, increasing the volume of the sound. The younger shut his eyes and listened intently to the song. When the music stopped, he opened his eyes to find himself alone. He sighed and made a small fire and waited for the night to end.
This wasn't a very good chapter, in my opinion at least... Next chapter will be fun to write! The younger Link, all alone, apart from Fer, exploring the land of Hyrule!
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