This is my first fic, please be kind!
Disclaimer: I do NOT own The Legend of Zelda. I may like the series, but it's Nintendo who own it.
I just want to apologise to everyone for two things:
One: Keeping everyone waiting for the next chapter. School started weeks ago for me and I'm getting a LOT of homework. So blame school, not me.
Two: You might have noticed the chapters getting shorter. This will not happen any more. Okay?
Well, here's the next chapter. I hope you like it, and again, sorry for the long wait!
Powers of a Black Rose Chapter 5A new enemy
Six years had passed to the day Link had sealed away the Fierce Deity Mask. Link had never completely recovered from what the Mask had done to him, but slowly he had started to go back to normal. At first, for the first year, Link felt depressed and miserable. It was hard work making him do anything. It was almost as if he wanted to die, slowly.
But in the third year he'd started to get back to normal. He'd become a bit of a hermit, so there was a lot for him to catch up on. Everyone (except Saria and the Kokiris) had grown considerably. Zelda was now looking almost like the woman Link had met when he'd been in his future life, seven years later. Saria was still cheerful as ever. And Ruto, Princess of the Zoras, was no longer short and stubborn, but now a tall, graceful young Zora.
Link, on this particular day, was practicing swordplay in the Castle Courtyard. Being old enough to be listened to properly, Zelda had ordered the guards to leave Link alone and gave him permanent access to the castle. His training companions were two guards, one known as Kingsley, the other Simpkins. Though they were skilled, and outnumbered Link, he quickly disarmed them each time they began a fight. Zelda watched quietly from a window. She was finding less and less time to spend it with Link. She had to stay inside and learn the ways of a princess properly. She spent late nights learning royal spells passed down by the Hylian bloodline. Impa, meanwhile, had taught her to pass herself off as a Sheikah. Zelda often practised her ninja skills by sneaking in and out of the castle in the form of Sheik.
"I think we'll leave it for today." Kingsley's voice panted for air.
"Wimp!" Link smirked as he took out a bottle filled with creamy Lon Lon Milk. He downed it in one go.
"Come on, Link, you know we don't have the same skills as you!" Simpkins sheathed his sword and began walking back towards the door to the castle. But as he touched the door, he took out a chakram and hurled it towards Link. What happened next, neither Simpkins not Kingsley could recall. Link calmly sidestepped the chakram, whilst drawing his sword. As it passed him, he plunged the sword through the middle of it, so that it was now stuck, slowly making its way down the blade. As it touched the ground, he drew it out from the ground and swung it in the direction of the two guards. The chakram was broken in two, and as one piece hit the first guard, the second hit Simpkins. They didn't even make a sound as they collapsed to the ground.
Link suddenly realised what he had done. He heard footsteps behind him. Turning, he saw Zelda in an elegant dress. Her face was twisted in anger.
"What on earth were you doing?"
"Sorry," Link said lightly. "I got carried away with sword practice.
"That wasn't practice!" Zelda snarled. "You just knocked out two of our best guards. Plus, you've destroyed one of the chakrams!"
"It's okay! I've got enough Red Potion for them." Before Zelda could make any other utterance, he strode past her and knelt beside the unconscious guards. He checked for their pulse. It was normal. "It's okay!" he said again, over his shoulder. "They're not dead!"
"Well, that's lucky isn't it!" Zelda's words were dripping with sarcasm. "They're not dead!"
"Shh!" Link concentrated on giving them Potion without them choking on it. Within half a minute, both of them had come to.
A little later, Zelda and Link were talking in a room together. Link was struggling not to get angry. "That's part of the Fierce Deity," he thought bitterly. "Why, when it's been so many years ago, can't I let go?"
"Are you even listening to me!" Zelda's furious voice jolted him from his thoughts.
"Sorry. I've been thinking about…that mask."
"That's what you always say! Why don't you let go?"
"If you were partly possessed by the Fierce Deity at some point, you'd find it hard to let go."
"I'd know better than to keep thinking about it? You're a strong man, and you can figure out puzzles. But you just don't understand-"
"Understand what?"
"That…that you can't tell the difference between something good and something bad!"
"That's not true! I could feel its evil the first time I touched it with my hands!"
"Why did you even put it on? Why?"
"If I hadn't, the neighbouring kingdom of Termina would be an ashen land by now, with only the dead wandering it!"
"Well, maybe you should have just tried to beat that thing on your own. You've got plenty of experience-"
"What! You think I can't handle a mask?"
"No, that's not what I-"
"You think I'm a weakling? I'll show you!"
SLAP.
Zelda lay on the floor, Link standing over her with an outraged look on his face.
"Nobody calls me weak! I am the strongest, with this power in my veins!"
"Link…get out."
"What?"
Zelda stood up, revealing the side of her face Link had just hit. Link gasped. There was already an ugly bruise there, and Zelda's eyes were brimming with tears.
"Get out right now, before I call the guards."
Link tried to say something, but Zelda turned on her heel and stumbled out of the room. He paused for a second, and then he could hear guard's voices. He quickly drew his Hookshot out, and fired it through a window. It latched onto part of another roof and he was pulled toward it. Standing on the roof, he played Epona's Song as quickly he could. Within seconds, his loyal steed appeared from nowhere, and Link jumped onto her back.
"Yah!"
Zelda watched from a window, watching Link's silhouette get farther and farther away. She turned away from it, many tears pouring down her cheeks.
Woah! That was a nasty scene! Are the troubles of Link over? It's not over yet! Please read and review! Thanks! And I apologise to everyone who had to wait ages once again. Updates will be sparse, but I WILL finish this story! Don't you worry!