AN:
Please be careful, this is not the same as the first chapter, it is
very close and the same basic idea though, so I grouped them
together. I've also decided to use the same dialogue as I'm lazy.
More notes in my bio – look for the title of the fic.
To Be a Hero: Zelda's Side
She sat silently in the safe house, using her magic in trying to track the progress of the Hero Link. He was going slower then she had thought he would but she was not worried. He was the Hero and would pull through.
Her eyes snapped open, something was wrong. The Hero had suddenly started heading for the Light Temple at a fast pace. She knew of no reason for him to go there.
Standing she started to chant the words that would allow her the disguise of the Sheikah. Impa's nephew, a small boy, had taught her it. She found it slightly amusing that although he was small he was actually a few years older then herself. Her eyes closed again as she tried to concentrate, loose thoughts would not help her.
Eyes opening the color of red she used the teleporting spell to arrive before Link then hide herself using magic. She waited only a few moments before Link came striding through the door. Though his steps were sure he looked somehow defeated. His back was hunched over, his face shadowed, his hair a mess and his clothes crinkled. His fairy trailed after him looking lost as well, her tiny body stressed and flittering about Link.
He didn't pause once, heading straight for the room where he had been asleep for seven years. When he reached the pedestal he finally stopped, only to draw his sword.
"Link." Her voice was high for a man's she knew, but not too high. The spell changed it enough that one might be in question but it was not unbelievable for her to be male.
He stopped, but did not turn to look at her. "Did you want something Sheik?"
Sheik, the name she chose to introduce herself as, she found it strange for him to call her it but it was needed for her own safety, as was this disguise. She took a few steps towards Link, trying to figure out what he was doing, as he obviously wasn't in his right mind, "Link, what are you doing?"
"I can't handle it." His voice cracked slightly, "I'm not a hero, not the one you're looking for. And so, I'm going to return the Master Sword."
What does he mean he can't handle it, who else could be the Hero? The Goddesses chose him and he had to perform as they asked. Zelda walked forward until she reached Link then put her hand on his shoulder in an attempt to comfort what she did not understand. "You can't, only one can wield the master sword and you are the chosen."
Link brushed the hand off and laughed slightly, "Only one, me? Please, you must know of my progress in the Forest Temple, I made near none and all of it slow."
Zelda persisted though, trying to explain to him his own strength and importance, of how no one else who had went had even made it past the door, not even herself, "Yet you did it, you, when no one else could, saved the forest sage and all in the forest."
"Please, I have made up my mind." Link took the last step and put the sword into the stone.
A flash lit and when it was gone Link still stood, sword in his hand once more. It happened so fast Zelda could do no more then stumble back as the light flashed.
"Link?" Zelda asked, silently she added, what had just happened?
"Sheik." Link's voice was different, even his posture was different. He was standing tall now, clothes straight and neat. His back remained to her though, so she couldn't tell if anything else changed and Navi was nowhere to be seen. She was most likely hiding in his hat. "How silly I've been, how selfish."
Silly, selfish? How? And why would a flash of light reveal that? "I do not understand Hero, could you please explain to me?"
Link turned finally and she was slightly shocked, his face, which had seemed so old and shadowed had regained its youth. His face was clear and his eyes bright. Somehow he had found peace. "I did not understand, and so was refusing my responsibility. Instead of trying to find a way to understand I was attempting to run. But now," he waved his arms slightly, "I'm prepared."
Zelda nodded, "Then I must leave you to continue your quest. I would suggest looking to the mountains of your old friends, the Gorons." And I must leave myself to my confusion. She threw down a deku nut and as he stood stunned cast the teleportation spell.
She reappeared back at the safe-house full of questions. So far Impa or her nephew would tell her what she needed to tell Link only directly before she went to see him, often she did not understand the clues. Usually though she refrained from questions, this however, needed explaining.
But at least they had their Hero back.
End
