My Midnight Angel

Chapter Two

I awoke slowly to the sounds of small birds chirping their morning melodies and the quiet, almost inaudible sound of the small pool of water that lay just a few yards away from us. The morning sun had just begun to rise and the clearing was just barely light enough for me to see my surroundings.

When I allowed my eyes to creep open for the first time this morning, I looked down to find Zelda sleeping softly up against my body. Her head as well as one of her silky hands rested weightlessly on my bare chest. Some of the golden wisps of her hair tickled my exposed skin as it blew in the cool breeze that swept over our bodies. She stirred slightly in her sleep and hugged herself closer to the warm embrace that I had around her, allowing me to feel that her heart beat was in complete rhythm with mine. I leaned forward to press a light kiss on her forehead and to take in the pleasurable aroma of her cornflower hair that gleamed in the light of the sun as it crept up into the purple and pink streaked sky.

A small, muffled moan escaped Zelda's perfectly pink lips as she awoke in my arms. Her sapphire eyes fluttered open and she smiled warmly up at me. Again, I leaned down closer to her face, but this time I kissed her gently on the tip of her nose. She let out a hushed giggle into the soundless clearing in which we rested before she raised herself up to delicately press her lips against my own. When the few articles of clothing that covered our bodies fell away from Zelda's bare chest, my eyes must have widened significantly at her newly exposed torso because she giggled once again.

Zelda snuggled closer to my body, making me further regret the words that I knew must be said. I sighed and said huskily in my early morning voice, "We better get up and dressed so I can take you home before your father finds out that you're gone and alerts the whole kingdom of Hyrule."

She turned over and mumbled quietly, "Umm…mmm…" while she shook her head slightly in protest to my words.

One of my hands gently caressed her lower back while the other stroked her beautiful silky hair and the back of her neck. "Really Zelda. We have to go."

She didn't move to get up, but instead she moved to plant kisses on my chest, collarbone, and then up to my neck and earlobe, causing shivers of pleasure to run up and down my spine. Now I didn't want to leave even more, damn my secret weaknesses.

It took me a minute to regain my consciousness to what must be done before sunrise, which was all too near for me. "Come on Zel… Get up." I had always called her 'Zel' since we were children; it was kind of a little nickname that only I used for her.

She sat up and looked me in the eyes and pretended to pout. "Link…" she whined while giving me her big, sad, puppy-eyes, "Can't we just stay here a little longer…? Please…" At this time Zelda leaned forward to sit in my lap while she kissed me quite fervently and tickled my lips with her tongue. Somehow I just wasn't able to refuse her when she did things like this, probably because it felt so damn good.

My hood had already been discarded on the ground somewhere around us late last night so she took the opportunity to tenderly run her fingers through the wispy, fair-colored locks of my hair that fell in different lengths around my Elvin ears.

Zelda had always begged me to abandon my ever-famous forest green hood because she loved my blond hair to be exposed without it. It's not that I don't like my hair; I just always wore my hood because I was raised as a Kokiri, and that whole race of people wore green clothing and most wore hoods like my own. Even when I found out that I was not a Kokiri, but indeed a Hylian, I still wasn't able to give up the traditional Kokiri garments, even if I did get a lot of strange looks from the town's people of Hyrule.

She kissed me and I kissed her back until my lungs felt as if they were going to burst at any second. Finally we both pulled away from out passion-driven lip-lock in unison to take in a much need gasp of oxygen.

I panted for a few seconds until my breathing returned to normal and then rummaged around in search of my tunic and all of my other garments. I immediately missed the comforting warmth of her body next to mine. She looked slightly disappointed that I let go of her to get my clothes, but she soon gave up on me coming back to kiss her again so she got up and gathered her attire just as I was currently busy doing.

A few times I tried to glance over at her bare figure without her discovering me, but when she noticed that I was obviously staring at her, she came over to me and smacked me playfully on the back of my head. Zelda was never really the type to come up and slap someone when they made her mad, so this surprised me and struck me as unusual and somewhat funny. I chuckled lightly and she turned to face me and while trying to pretend to be upset with me, she snapped, "Shut up Link!" This made me laugh even more. Zelda always tried to act like she was mad at me, but I just thought it was funny, and really cute. Besides, I wasn't really laughing at her, just at the situation. I assume that she knew that, but she continued to shout at me anyway, "It was your idea to get up in the first place! Don't laugh! It's not funny!"

When I regained my composure I stood to put on my undergarments and tunic and replied, "I'm not laughing at you."

She stood as I did and also began to dress herself with her back turned to me in defiance. "Sure you weren't."

"Really Zel, I was laughing because I had absolutely no idea that you were going to hit me like that. It just surprised me and it happened to make me laugh, that's all." I now had on everything, including my tobacco, brown boots, but I couldn't find my hood anywhere.

She stood in front of me, fully dressed, with something in her hands, and hidden behind her back. A smirk was plastered across her lips, and I vaguely wondered what she was up to before she revealed what was hidden behind her back. I looked down to the object in her hands and was astonished to see that it was the object that I had been frantically searching for, my beloved green hood.

I glared up into Zelda's devious little eyes for a moment and then I lunged forward to try and tackle her so that I could retrieve my precious cap, but she shrieked and took off into a sprint in the other direction, leaving me empty-handed, for now... I ran over to the opposite side of the clearing where she stood cornered, and pulled her into a bear hug so she was unable to get away from me. She was giggling wildly while desperately attempting to wriggle herself away from my grasp.

When I began tickling her sides with the tips of my fingers, she erupted into yet another fit of giggles, but she managed to blurt out between her near-constant laughing, "Link… Stop! Stop it!"

I snickered to myself. "Ticklish are we?"

Now she was panting between laughs to try to speak. "No!"

She was still laughing which gave away that she was lying, she never lied to me, and she was bad at it. I always knew she was ticklish, I think just about everyone I have ever met is, but now I knew where her ticklish spot was, and I could use this knowledge to get whatever I wanted from her, which at the moment, was my cherished hat.

"S-stop! Link please…stop it…it tickles!" She was still squirming in my arms and giggling wildly.

"So are you going to give me back my hood now?"

"On one condition."

I cocked an eyebrow in curiosity and slowed my fingers' actions so she was able to speak. "And what might that be?"

Zelda turned in my arms to look me in the eyes with a smirk on across her lips. "Kiss me."

I smiled as I looked down into her incredible azure eyes. "Your wish is my com-umph." Her lips reached my own and I was cut off mid-sentence, not that I really minded at all. I could feel her lips form into a smile and when she pulled away from me she was grinning up at me fanatically. I guess she was as stunned as I was that this was actually happening. I never dreamed in a million years that we would end up together in this way, but again, I really didn't mind, in fact I loved it, or rather, I loved her.

Zelda reached up and returned my hood to it's home on the top of my head while never taking her eyes off of mine or disrupting her bright smile. She kissed me on the cheek and then I took her hand in mine and led her out of the clearing to where Epona rested lazily. When my steed finally noticed our presence she whinnied to welcome us. "Hey girl." I said while patting her snout and stroking her off-white mane.

Before I knew it, Zelda had climbed on Epona's back and was looking down at me. "Come on Link. Hop on."

"And what makes you think that I'm going to let you ride in the front?"

She put her hands on her hips in defiance. "Hey! I can ride a horse just as well as you can!"

"Fine." She smiled in satisfaction as I backed off and let her win our argument. "You can ride in front this time." I mounted my horse and took my place behind Zelda. "Just take it easy and don't go too faaaaaast!" I struggled to stay on my horse's back as Zelda thrust her heels into Epona's sides and she took off in the direction of the clearing's exit, leaving me barely hanging on. Zelda never did want to listen to me.

I took hold of her shoulders and hung on for dear life until we reached the side of the castle wall just as the bright morning sun began peaking out from behind the snow-capped mountains in the East. Zelda gently pulled on Epona's reins to slow her to a stop as I hopped to the ground. I decided to have some fun with her so I took a little bow and held my hand out to her so she could dismount my steed as I said with a somewhat English accent, "My lady."

Zelda rolled her eyes and hopped down next to me before giving me a little shove to let me know that she was slightly annoyed with my stupid joke. "You know how much I hate that stupid royal treatment crap."

"I know. That's why I do it." I laughed sarcastically.

She started to walk in the direction of the castle entrance and I followed behind her. At least she would be able to walk right in to the castle and get back up to her bedroom without any hassle from the guards. All she would have to say is that she went out for an early morning walk, and her personal guard and close friend Impa would back her story up and then escort her back to her quarters with no questions asked. Goddesses, she had it much easier than I did getting into the castle. Well that's probably because she lives there and I was banished.

I held her hand as we made our way along the huge stonewall that surrounded the castle towards the main entrance. At the last point in which we would be out of any of the guards' sight, she gave me a warm smile and a peck on the cheek before strolling into the interior of Hyrule Castle. I watched her as some of the guards approached her and frantically asked if she was okay and where she had been. She simply strode past them telling them one of the old lies that she used to get away with sneaking out when we were young and, as I had expected, Impa was there to conveniently usher Zelda back up to her room so she wouldn't get caught.

I let out a sigh of relief that we had gotten away with being out all night together. But just as I thought I was home free, when I my eyes reached the figure of my stallion, there stood none other than the King of Hyrule himself. My heart started beating wildly and it pounded in my ears with every beat. My stomach suddenly felt sick and I felt light-headed as though I was going to pass out. I wanted desperately to turn around and run as fast as I possibly could, but I had to take Epona with me. And besides, he had already seen my horse, so he obviously knew that I was here, what else could I do, but be a man and face him.

As I strode nearer to the two figures I could see that he was gently petting Epona on her nose, and, strangely enough, there were no guards there with him. Maybe it would be easier to try to explain where his daughter had been with me all night long if no one else was around. Yeah, right.

I stopped about two yards away from him and I took a hard swallow to try to swallow the nervous induced lump in my throat that was preventing me from speaking at the moment. Luckily, he spoke up first to break the silence. "Good morning, Link."

I was surprised that the tone of his deep, raspy voice contained absolutely no signs of anger and furthermore, he actually addressed me by name. My voice cracked and I stumbled over my words. "Uh…yeah…good morning to you too…Your Highness…Uh…or…Your Majesty…Mr. Hyrule…uh…Sir…"

He took a large step towards me and put his hand on my shoulder, I guessed that he was trying to make me feel more comfortable before he killed me. "Please son, call me Bob." He chuckled slightly and I laughed uneasily under his stare as he removed his hand. "Listen Link, I know we've had our differences, but…I have somewhat of a…proposition for you…"

(A.N.) Dun dun dun… What will happen next? Well…you'll just have to wait and see in the next chappie! Until then… please review!