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Chapter 3 – Love, Secrets, Silence
Penny
After the swimming, Katie and I were tired. She lit a fire and we all sat around it talking about life and teasing each other.
"Well I think that was good training girls." Link said, leaning back and looking comfortable.
"Training? It was simply an excuse for you to flirt as much as you possibly could with –" Katie retorted. Link cut in, "Me, flirting? I shan't listen to such accusations Katie, I'm far too innocent."
"My ass!" Katie exclaimed.
"It's a very nice ass too!" Link smiled at her.
"I'll sue you for sexual harassment Link!" Katie threatened. I laughed at their antics. "Now come on, let's practise on Penny. You have to start by saying something encouraging yet convincing. Let's try something like, 'Penny, you are a valued member of the team and we would not be able to conquer Hyrule without you!'"
"Who the hell said anything about conquering Hyrule? You're definitely never conquering Hyrule! I won't allow it!" I said to Katie. She grinned at me like a naughty 6 year old. "Not the point Penny, now come on Link! Let's try it."
Link smirked and his blue eyes glinted at me. He sighed before speaking in a monotonous tone yet cleverly imitating Katie, "Penny, you are a valued member of the team and you will conquer Hyrule if you go out on the field tomorrow without your shirt on."
"LINK!" I gasped in shock. Katie gave him a punch. "What?" He said trying to look innocent.
"Now try it again! And do it better this time!" Katie challenged. He breathed in through his nose and paused, ". . . . . .Nice ass."
I burst into a fit of giggles and decided to reach over and attack him. He grabbed my hands and wrestled with me. "Oh! I'm so sorry, it just slipped out!" I gave him a smack across the face. "Oh! I'm SO sorry, it just slipped!"
"That's it; you're going back in the lake, clothes or no clothes!" He said, easily picking me up. I squealed and grasped onto Katie's arm in hope of safety. "Oh no you don't! I'm not going down with this ship!"
"Aaw, hey I'm just teasing." Link said putting me down by holding my legs, so I sank to the floor head first, red in the face and giggling like a school girl. "Hey, I'm just going to get a drink." He said, indicating to the lake and walking off.
I carried on giggling quietly and twisted my hair around the index finger of my left hand. I watched him for a little while, when I noticed Katie looking at me out of the corner of my eye. I turned to her, suddenly very aware that I was grinning like an idiot.
"I saw that." She said quietly, folding her arms with her eyebrows raised. "What?" I defended a little too defiantly. "You like him." She smiled ominously.
"Well! Of course I do!" I laughed a little falsely. "I mean, we're hanging out with him in retrospect. . ." I trailed off, trying to look totally angelic. Katie was not convinced. She sighed. "You be careful young lady, marrying outside of the tribe is dangerous enough, let alone someone who's not even from your own world, you don't cross those boundaries easily." She warned me. I'd never seen her being this wise, but my stubbornness overcomes most obstacles.
"Don't be ridiculous! I'm not going to marry him!"
Link was standing next to me. "Who aren't you going to marry?"
"Aaaah. . . Henry!" I said quickly. Katie burst out laughing. "HENRY?"
"Shut up!" I hissed through gritted teeth. "Henry?" Link said. "That's a funny name, who's he?"
"Oh don't worry about Henry, Link. Like Penny said she's not exactly going to marry him is she?" Katie looked up at him, her eyes glinting. My face was bright red and I wouldn't have minded putting it into the ground. I breathed in and pushed my hair behind my ears trying to look dignified. Katie suddenly jolted and went rigid.
Link chuckled and looked at her quizzically. She was staring at my ears. "Everything alright, Katie?"
She gaped at me like a fish out of water, then blinked, shook her head and looked up again. "Penny! Look at me! Am I any different? Can you see a difference?"
I frowned and cocked my head to the side. "No. . .you're as startlingly unremarkable as you were a few minutes ago." I offered. She narrowed her eyes at me. "Hilarious Penny, true wit you've got there, save it up just in case you run out any time soon. My ears you fool! Look at them!"
I moved closer to inspect her ears, expecting to find she'd snagged it on something and there was a scratch she wanted me to deal with or something equally as insignificant when I noticed. . ."Oh my gosh! They're becoming pointed!" She quickly whipped her hand up to her ear and then recoiled as if she had had an electric shock. Link started laughing as he sat down beside me. "THIS IS NOT FUNNY LINK!" Katie shouted at him.
"Hey! I didn't say a word!" He was obviously going to use this to his advantage. I reached up and felt my ear. It certainly was becoming more pointed. I personally thought it was quite cool, nothing to worry about.
I looked to Katie who was having a mild panic attack feeling over every inch of her face to see what was changing. "If I start tanning and my hair goes orange, please please please don't send me to be a Gerudo! They're probably all lesbians. . .which would be funny for a while but I can't live like that!" She moaned.
"You never know Katie; you could make millions of rupees by inventing the two-way!" I giggled. She looked at me threateningly.
"Hey Katie," Link smiled pleasantly so I knew he was going to be mean, "Your nose just grew an inch!" Her hand shot up to her nose, then she realised that he was having her on.
"Why you good for nothing. . ." she growled, rising to a stand, an expression of pure evil flickered across her face. "DOGPILE!" She yelled, leaping on top of Link.
I had to clutch my stomach as I laughed; Link pretended to squeal like a girl but then easily got the upper hand, rolled her onto her stomach and sat on her back.
"Not. . .FAIR!" She wheezed.
"Hmm, comfy!" Link said, moving up and down, giving her small doses of his full weight.
"AUUUGH!" She cried. Link grinned at me. I smiled back shyly and looked away. He patted Katie's bum with a few sharp slaps. "Come on Penny, plenty of cushioning!"
"How dare you sir!" Katie managed to gasp. I couldn't resist and went over.
"MY HIPS! My precious hips – the most bodacious of all my assets!" Katie screamed, squirming restlessly as I lowered myself as gently as I could, "Aaw fuck it you two! I don't even want to know what you'll get up to next!"
"Oh Penny!" Link said, eyes widening mischievously. "Let's get down to business." He began to bob up and down, signalling for me to join in. I had to bite my finger to stop myself from laughing so hard.
"Eeeeewww!" She coughed. "Stop using me as a bed!" She began to struggle even harder but it was all in vain. Link began to put all of his weight on Katie, who screamed loudly. "Guys please! I can't breathe!"
"Go on pointy ears, beg for mercy!" Link said, tugging at one of her ears. "THAT'S NOT FUNNY!" She yelled furiously. I turned to Link, laughing but I hadn't realised her was looking at me. Neither had I realised how close our faces were. He smiled at me and I hesitantly smiled back. He moved in closer, my eyes widened, I couldn't believe it. I'd spent most of my teenage years watching this unknown personality running around my TV screen defeating the enemies of Hyrule under my control and now he was right here, about to kiss me. . .when. . .
"HEY YOU BLASTED KIDS!" Link and I leapt to our feet, the moment shattered and we suddenly realised where we were. Katie spluttered a cough, moaned and then got up slowly and groggily. "Oh great, headrush!" She muttered. The scientist stood framed in his door way in a night shirt, little night cap balanced on his head. "Can't an old man get a little shut eye around here?"
My mouth hung open, I had been so close.
Katie
The scientist just saved my life! He still sucked for ruining our fun, though I was very thankful that I could now safely breathe. Link looked very miffed about something and Penny waved to the little old man. "Sorry sir!" She yelled.
"I should think so too!" he turned around, slamming his door shut. We could still clearly hear mutters of. . .unrepeatable stuff! Penny burst into a fit of giggles, and I couldn't hold back a large grin.
"Did. . . .you. . . .see. . . . . .his. . . . . . . .face?" She squeaked between spurts of laughter. Link couldn't hold back a chuckle as he thought about it.
"Guys, I didn't like the part near the end there where you went all quiet, what was that all about?" I said suspiciously.
"Oh we were just about to get really busy! I was just taking off my boxers. . ." Link lied to me.
"Yeah, yeah!" I said, rubbing the place where Penny had planted her rather large posterior. "Never do it again you hear? I will not be your mattress! Infact, I will create a list of places in Hyrule where you are not to do anything!" I meant it too. I looked at Penny sternly, she smiled brightly.
I suddenly noticed just how dark it was, really was night time now. It was strange how warm it was, and it was also strange how nice Hyrule smelt. It was so strange in general, being somewhere you thought was pixels when you safely thought you were atoms. Was there some, grouchy higher being at work here? Had the cruel hand of fate dealt a strange and rare card in our deck? Had we simply done the wrong thing at the wrong time? Was this a dream?
It was certainly too real to be a dream, but I finally came to the conclusion this had to be just destiny. Another chapter in the story of our lives which we would have to live through and why shouldn't we enjoy it as much as we could, finding out all the things about Hyrule we always wanted to know. I started with a question that had always bothered me.
"Link, what's outside of Hyrule? You seem to have these conveniently high cliff walls acting as barriers all around the edge. What's up with that?"
Penny nodded her head. "Yeah, that is a good question, what's outside of Hyrule?"
Link looked shocked that we'd asked this and didn't really say anything for a few moments as he frowned and scratched his head. "I don't really know. I guess, more countries?" He shrugged. I looked at Penny and she looked back. "Shall we go and see?"
"No!" Link said quickly, reaching out and grabbing me. I wriggled my arm out of his grasp and looked at him. "What?"
"I have no idea what's out there, there could be more monsters, strange creatures or other hostile territories. It's probably really dangerous! For all I know it could be a totally different realm!"
"Ok, ok we'll leave it for now. Don't pass out or anything." I grinned. I lay back on the grass and the others followed suit. I gazed at the stars and smiled. "Beautiful. Really comforting to think that they're huge burning infernos millions of miles away."
"WHAT?" Link sat up like something had bitten him hard. "No no! They're fairies! They're fairies like Navi lighting the night sky and protecting us." He laughed at me as if I was stupid.
I looked at Penny who just shook her head. "Suit yourself Link. . .suit yourself."
"That's a point!" Penny piped up suddenly. "Where is Navi?"
"Oh!" Link turned over on his side to face her. I didn't like how close he edged up to my friend. "Well, after Zelda sent me back in time to relive my life in full, by the time I left Kokiri forest I didn't really need Navi anymore and there were some new Kokiri children born and she wanted to help out."
"I guess that's fair enough." Penny said quietly. She yawned and nuzzled down deeper into the grass. "See that constellation?" She pointed and I followed her finger. "It looks like a Zora."
I squinted at it. "Oh yeah!" I agreed. I looked around for something. I spotted a pattern. "Check it out, that looks like some dodongos killing each other for a scrap of meat!" I laughed. Silence greeted my words and I looked over to meet the raised eyebrows of my friends. "What? Well excuse me for having an imagination!"
"That's. . .that's just brutal, Katie!" Link said, shocked.
"You don't know the half of it!" I grinned. I looked over and realised Penny was asleep. "Aaw, how sweet." I smiled.
I wanted to stay awake to check Link didn't do anything out of order but he seemed to just be lying there vaguely dozing. I took another look at my constellation which melted into my dream of the fairies of Hyrule slowly drifting down like snow. It was good to get away from the real world. . .
I am actually so envious of these two! I want to go to Hyrule with Katie for real! It's way too cool! God, the things I would do! Haha! Anyway, my song just came on the radio, no one to share it with, sniff sniff! I hate love, it messes me around so much. . .
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