Sinister Preparations

Link sat on the deck of the ship deep in thought.

Why did I do that? Why did she do it? And why did it feel so...right? were questions running through Link's mind along with many others. What was he to do? Kill himself? That seemed logical.

He found a sharp piece of wood and held it up to his neck, but then he realized that there would probably be no money or drugs in hell, so he decided not to go through with the plan.

Link paced the deck of the ship. He felt extremely anxious, trapped, lost... He couldn't face Tetra, and there was no one else to talk to.

"I'm gonna go insane..." he muttered, shaking his head as he wondered how Tetra was feeling about all of this.

Tetra sat on her bed twiddling her thumbs, pushing herself further into denial. She realized that she liked the kiss, but didn't want to. Suddenly, the captain heard a knock at her door. She stood up and answered it.

"Hello, captain. Is everything alright? Link seems anxious, and I was wondering what was going on..." Bambi said.

"Huh...?" Tetra replied absentmindedly.

"Is everything ok?"

"Wait...what?"

"I ASKED IF EVERYTHING WAS OK!" Bambi shouted.

"Yeah, uh...everything's fine..." Tetra told her.

"Well...what happened?"

"Um..."

"Do you want to talk about it?" Bambi asked.

There was a long moment of silence.

"Tetra, do you want to talk about it?"

Tetra was silent.

"HELLO?"

"What were we talking about again?"

Bambi did not reply; she just turned and walked away. Tetra shrugged and shut the door behind her.

A normal person would be discouraged by such a thing, but seeing as Bambi was not a normal person, this didn't bother her. It was the opposite, actually. Link and Tetra's lack of focus fit perfectly with her plans, for they would let their guard down. After all...she needed them for her plan, and they needed to have their defenses down or else it could not be done.

Bambi entered the room where all the pirates sleep (I forget what it's called.), looked around, and seeing that she was alone, smirked and shut the door. The other pirates were on deck finishing chores. Bambi strode over to her cot, and opened up her bag which was laying on top of it. She pulled out a scroll, the smirk still on her face.

"Tonight is the night when I start my most genius plan... Well, it's not my plan, I didn't write it or anything, but oh well. I must gather the blood of the three holders of the sacred crests, and send the blood into the seas on the Night of the Gods, and thus, a land long forgotten shall return! I will travel to that land, work my magic, and bring it to the surface once more! Then I am to take the entire Triforce, but that can only be done through murder... Wow, this plan will be fun," she said, examining the scroll. Next, Bambi took out four vials, three of which were empty. The last one, however, contained a puke-green liquid...

A few minutes later, Bambi poured the liquid into a glass of water and walked to the deck of the ship to find Link. After looking around, she found him on the crow's nest and climbed up. He was sitting, his back facing her, hugging his knees.

"Link?"

Link jumped and spun around.

"What the? Bambi, what the hell are you doing up here! Go away!"

"You seem so very, very troubled... I wanted to help, so I brought you some water."

Link stared at the glass warily.

"Ok, what'd you do to it?"

"Me? Do something to a simple glass of water? Why, how silly of you to think of such a thing, Link! I would never hurt you!"

"Then why did you say you were gonna kill me?"

"Did I say that?" Bambi asked enthusiastically.

"Um, yeah. Yeah, you did," Link replied flatly.

Bambi set the glass of water down and started massaging Link's shoulders.

"Well, I didn't mean it, honestly..."

Link's eyes widened. He shook Bambi off and stood up.

"Stop flirting with me! Jeez, I'm in love with someone!"

Link then realized that he had referred to Tetra.

"Ok, I'm going to kill myself now," he said, picking up the sharp piece of wood which had magically appeared on the crow's nest.

Bambi's eyes widened, and just as Link was about to stab himself in the neck with it, she grabbed his wrist tightly to stop him.

"NO! You can't die until after the night of the ceremony!" she cried.

Link stared at her fearfully, realizing that he was the victim of a person who was crazier than he originally thought.

"What the hell's that supposed to mean?"

"Um, nothing! Nothing at all! Now just put down the sharp piece of wood and-"

Link tried to pull away.

"NO! I'M GOING TO KILL MYSELF WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!"

Bambi grabbed his other wrist and tried to keep him still as she replied, "STOP IT!"

Link struggled harder.

"NO, I HAVE TO STAB MYSELF IN THE NECK WITH THIS SHARP PIECE OF WOOD, NOW GO AWAY!"

Bambi wrestled Link to the floor and pinned him down. She quickly grabbed the glass of water and forced the liquid down his throat. Link sputtered and coughed, but it was already down. Bambi took the piece of wood away from Link, stood up, and cheerfully said, "Ok, that's all I needed to do. Have a nice rest!" Then she left.

Link sat up, wondering what she had just done to him. Suddenly, a wave of dizziness swept over him, and he passed out...

Bambi entered Tetra's room with a glass of water a few minutes later...

"Oh, Tetra, you seem so very, very troubled...how about a nice glass of water?"

Link stirred, having been awakened from his deep sleep. He lay with his eyes still closed, waiting for the feeling to return to his mysteriously numb body. At last, it slowly came back...

At first, he felt pain in his forearm, the type of pain one feels when cut... He felt glass touch his skin, and then realized his wrist was held by a cold hand; his arm was lifted. Link struggled to regain full conciousness, but it was useless, he felt too weak and tired to even cry out because of the pain or struggle to get away from the hand. While this was going on, another feeling arrived, a tingling in Link's neck right where he bore the mark of an eye... After a moment, the tingling turned into severe pain. This was enough to shock Link back into full conciousness.

He opened his eyes and cried out in pain. He heard a gasp and felt the hand leave his wrist. Link sat up, grimacing out of pain. He turned his head to look at the owner of the hand, and was shocked when he saw the culprit. It was none other than the shadow creature!

Despite being in pain, Link reacted by picking up the sharp piece of wood (It mysteriously appeared again.) and slashing the creature across the face with it.

"DIE!" he screamed.

The creature yelped and brought her hands to her face, dropping threw vials, two full of blood, one empty. The creature put her hands down after a few seconds and glared at Link, who took another swing at her with the piece of wood. The shadow creature dodged and grabbed Link by the hair, jerking his head toward her.

"FOOL! YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT! PREPARE FOR UNIMAGINABLE PAIN!" she cried, slamming her other hand down on the eye mark on Link's neck.

Link screamed loudly, it felt as if the skin the eye mark rested upon was on fire while the rest of his body was in ice.

All the pirates sat up and stared, Tetra burst in through the door. The shadow creature suddenly become aware of everyone gaping at her, and removed her hand from Link's neck. She scrambled to the vials, picked them up, and disappeared.

Link fell back, gasping and moaning from the lingering pain. Tetra ran to him and took his hand.

"Link, can you hear me?"

Link panted and squeezed her hand. Tetra took his other hand in her's.

"Calm down..." she said softly.

Some time later, Link awoke once more. He found himself in Tetra's bed and sat up quickly.

"What the hell?" he gasped.

Tetra; who had been sitting next to him; blinked out of surprise and got off the bed. Link stared at her.

"What the...what happened? Why am I in your bed? What were you doing next to me?"

Tetra blushed and looked away.

"Did you rape me?" Link asked.

Tetra looked at him again.

"NO! No, I didn't rape you! I just put you in my bed so you didn't have to lay in pain on the floor, ok?"

"Why were you staring at me?"

"I was...just checking out that eye mark again..."

"Sure. Right. Yeah."

There was a long moment of silence.

"Wait a second...are you really concerned about me?" Link gasped.

Tetra said nothing. Link smirked.

"You ARE!" he exclaimed.

"OH, SHUT UP! LET'S FACE IT, I LOVE YOU, OK!"

Link was shocked.

"I...I love you, too..." he uttered.

Another moment of silence followed.

"Oh, shit, I can't believe I just said that. Ok, I'm going to kill myself now," Link said, picking up the mysterious piece of sharp wood. Tetra grabbed his wrist.

"Oh, stop it. We love eachother, got it?"

"Yes, ma'am..." Link replied, dropping the wood.

"But we can talk about that later. Right now we have bigger problems... Tell me, Link...did you get cut, too?" Tetra asked, lifting up her arm to show Link a cut. Link looked at his arm and saw a very similar sight.

"Well, apparently, yes," he said, showing Tetra his arm.

Tetra looked at the wound.

"I woke up halfway to feel someone cut my arm. I felt really weak and tired, I couldn't even open my eyes or anything..." she said.

"The same thing happened to me. The shadow creature from before did it, and I know her true identity..." Link replied.

Tetra stared at Link.

"It's Bambi!" he said.

Tetra rolled her eyes.

"Oh, come off it, Link..."

"I'm serious!"

Bambi stumbled onto the deck of the ship, breathing in shuddering gasps, a hand to her face, the other one clutching three vials. She made her way to the very front of the ship and sat down.

"Dammit... DAMN IT ALL TO HELL! UGH! Ooooh, that Link... I will get my revenge..." she growled, taking the hand off of her face and looking at it. It was covered in blood from her face.

"Oh well... I got what I needed, but just barely... Stupid drug. It wasn't strong enough to keep Link unconcious!"

Bambi looked at the two vials filled with blood.

"I have the blood of the courage and wisdom crest bearers...all that remains..." Bambi filled the final vial with the blood from her face. "Is my own blood... At last! I have all the ingedients for my plan... Nothing will stand in my way! Not even Link! NOT EVER!"