WARNINGS: Yaoi! (If you don't know what this means, another word for it is Slash but to put it easily is Male/Male sex scene at some point) NCS! Sheik-torture. This is supposed to be SheikxLink but it won't be the first one. But don't worry; I'll get around to it eventually! And slight Zelda-Bashing!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Zelda. Never have and never will so don't sue. Thanks!

Notes: Hi Again! I hope it hasn't been too long since I updated. Anyway I recently had my laptop whipped and my home computer has gone in for repairs and we had to get a totally new screen as well...and well I don't have very many computer resources except for school but, you know teachers. Always, telling you to do this and that. Annoying really...but now I think about it, I'm rattling on so I'll get on with it!
R&R at the end of the chapter please!
'Thoughts'

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3rd Person POV

Sheik arrived at the water temple, just a dawn, having ridden through the day and all night, just to get here. Fyruii, his black stallion, was covered in sweat, but he didn't notice. "Link...Are you here?" he called out into the night, hoping to hear a reply. Nothing came...dead silence. Even the water wasn't lapping against the temple walls.

Something was wrong and it was sending shivers down his back. He patted Fyruii's neck, though he wasn't sure who he was trying to comfort. Himself or his horse. It felt so wrong here. He pulled out his harp and started to play Epona's song, hoping that it would give him a clue if Link was around.

As he finished, he put the harp away and dismounted from Fyruii's back. He looked towards the sun, hoping to see something, anything that would help him. Hoof beats came from behind him. Sheik whipped around to come face to face with Epona. "ARGH!" he shrieked, from surprise, falling down landing flat at Epona's feet.

She looked down at him, her mane and tail blowing out the side. Her expression seemed to say, 'What are you doing down there?' Sheik just grumbled pulling himself to his feet. "Hey, girl. You seen Link?" Epona nodded. Was this just coincidence? He wasn't sure... Epona had shown numerous times that she was smarter than the average horse but still... it was a bit unreasonable.

"Is he with you?" a head shake. "Is he in the temple, girl?" a nod. What the? This was getting freaky. Sheik eyed Epona, warily. He moved off to the side, dismissing both the horses, and sat down by the waters edge. 'Link? Are you ok? I wish I knew where you were'...Sheik thought, wistfully. They could be making out under the rising sun right now...if Link wasn't missing of course, or wasn't busy saving something right that minute.

"Enough of that Sheik. Link could be hurt, and you're thinking about making out with him" Sheik scolded himself. Some bard...He felt a presence behind him. It felt oddly familiar but it also had an alien feeling to it. It was the same with Link...it was almost exact actually. "Hey Link! You're o-!" he turned around...and stopped.

"Well...what've we got here?" a deep husky voice, echoed through the water and air, making it ripple. "Wa- Wait...You're not Link!" "Right...you must be Sheik, mage of Shadow, isn't it?" Sheik looked over the new comer. He looked exactly like Link...but also so different. He had black hair, red eyes, a black tunic, tights and boots, red eyes and dark skin. He even had the same Shield, sword and faerie but all black, with the faerie as the exception. It was a blood red, the same as his eyes.

"It's rude not answer and stare instead you know..." he snapped, his eyes flashing. Sheik hurriedly looked away. "What do you want?" "Nothing, Oh Bard." His tone was mocking...and suddenly, Sheik couldn't feel anything. When he looked around,properly, the stranger was gone, except for...'The Master Sword!'

He scrambled onto his feet, and picked up the sword, dropping it instantly, as it burnt his hand. Muttering obscene curses, in all different languages, he stripped off his mask and wrapped it around his, picking up that damned blade again.

Stowing it safely away in his belt he moved towards the lake warily. He'd heard stories about this place and his recent encounter with that...person...who ever it was, hadn't helped much. Since the temple was under water... 'How am I supposed to get down there at all?'

1 Hour Later

After Sheik finally figured out an interesting way to get down to the temple, he looked around. The temple was eerily quiet. Walking silently through the temple, Sheik followed the trail of dead creatures. 'Link must have been through here. Who else would do this?'

He hurried on, hoping to find Link soon. It was too creepy in here to feel comfortable.

SPLASH

"...Ew" Sheik muttered, picking foot out of the cold, clear water. He'd been watching the walls and corridors for anything alive, only to come to this room and step into the water he hadn't noticed that was on the floor. There wasn't anything dead in here...there wasn't anything at all in here, except water...and an odd tree in the middle.

"Link?" Link? ...Link? ...Link? Came the echoes. A cruel laugh seemed to echo back, but the original laugh hadn't been heard. Dismissing it as a coincidence, Sheik moved further into the strange room. Looking around the tree wasn't the only thing in the room. There was a door...

He ran over to it, and searched for a lock, key-hole, trigger, anything that might open the door. "Open you stupid thing!" Sheik cried, pounding on the door. A moan came as he was about to hit it once again. He whipped around, looking for the source of the noise.

"...Link?" he chocked out. Another pain filled moan. He slowly started moving towards the tree, the only place he couldn't really see. The other side came into view, "God...Link!" he rushed forwards. "What happened?" Link's hair matted and brown looking, his skin much darker with bruises, his blood dripping from his mouth and numerous other places, turning his originally blue Zora tunic, a dark purple.

"He's not dead..." a sadly familiar, icy voice came from behind...

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TBC!

Answering Reviews

- In this story Sheik is a guy. I believe that he and Zelda are not the same person.

SaKuRaNeKo15 - Thanks for the review!

Ok. A better cliffy this time...I don't know if you could actually count the last one was a cliffy but I was excited...for whatever reason I can't remember now...though I'm high now...nail polish got EVERYWHERE today and I was cleaning it up for about half an hour so with the nail polish remover and the nail polish fumes I am sufficiently hyper! Anyway R&R! Please? A couple more reviews would be nice...please?