Chapter 6: Din's Choice
Link led them to the library where the sages waited "Tula," Link spoke calmly. She immediately explained what Melia was after.
"It's okay child," Rauru comforted, "Nabooru."
" Yes," Nabooru faced Sheik, "Take these." She threw a pair of leather gloves at Sheik. Upon examining them he saw that they were rather slim looking and plain, he tried them on and they went to his elbows and fit a little tightly.
"What are these?" Sheik was a little surprised by the sudden present.
"Using too much offensive magic will damage your hands."
"Your sister has a pair to protect her hands because of her sword correct?" Darunia asked.
"Yes," Sheik remembered her owning a pair.but not actually wearing them more than two or three times.
"Tula will stay with us while you go to your sister and be ready for anything at any moment," Rauru commanded and Sheik went to Linka's side without any argument.
"Link, I know this will be hard, but you-"
"I can't stand just watching," Link interrupted Ruto, "I'm not useless just because I'm not a sage, or the 'Hero of Time' anymore," he looked down and away from them, "my children mean everything to me and I can't let them just go out and face Gannon I mean, I can't loose them like I almost lost Zelda.
Ralf sat on the edge of the bed by Linka's side. "Mmmm," she stirred slightly and noticed that someone was holding her hand. Her eyes opened peacefully and slowly, "Ralf?"
"Yes, my princess?" his voice was soothing and calm.
"What's with this 'princess' thing? Wait where's Sheik? Tula? Dad? What happened to Melia?" Linka tried to sit up resulting in her falling on Ralf. He caught her with a smile on his face.
"Calm down," he sat her back on the bed, "thought I'd be nice, with the sages I assume and you scared her off," he smiled down at her, "You're not getting out of bed." He was sitting in a chair next to her bed with his hands over hers.
"Ralf, it's you!" She suddenly exclaimed, "You are the one Din wants."
"What? No I'm not," Ralf couldn't believe her. He couldn't be the he?
"Yes, you are, what Melia said, and Scott can't wield it. She wants you I know it's true," she looked at his right hand. He always kept a black fingerless, cloth glove on it. She took his glove off his hand before he could stop her. "See," she pointed to the Triforce on his hand. She fell back onto the pillows.
"Why me? Linka are you okay?"
"Ask Mr. Wisdom, I'll be fine," her voice was quiet and very weak-he didn't like it at all. "I'm going to take a nap now," Ralf watched as she fell into a peaceful slumber. 'It can't be me,' he thought, his mind was racing with thoughts. Now that he knew all this, it made sense, why everyone was attacked, why Linka was almost...
Sheik walked in. "Did she wake up?"
"Yeah," Ralf stood up, his red covered his eyes.
"What did she say?" Sheik looked over at his sister. He couldn't stand seeing her like that. She appeared so fragile, so weak, and so helpless.
"I'll be back," Ralf left the room. Sheik stared blankly at where his friend had been.
'I know what I have to do,' Ralf thought to himself. He arrived at Scott's room. "Cally, I would like a moment with Scott."
"But, Ralf," She didn't like the look in Ralf's eyes. It was too serious. When she looked at him he gave her a look that stopped any further argument. She stood up and left the room.
"Scott," Ralf walked over to the edge of Scott's bed. Scott looked up at him, their red eyes met. "You knew what Melia was after. You knew she was after King Link and Queen Zelda. You knew she might have gone after Linka and Sheik," Scott looked away from his accuser. Ralf was becoming a little more than angry now, "You did nothing, but play along in Melia's scheme. You don't deserve those powers, relinquish them to their rightful owner."
"No," Scott's voice was barely audible, "Mother wants it this way. I will always do what she wants no matter what. That is what family does."
"Don't be a fool, don't follow in his foot-steps."
"What do you know about him?" Scott voice was gaining a little strength. You don't know anything, Nasha abandoned his memory and her people."
"Leave my grandmother out of this, look if Melia is your mother-"
"She's not, my mother is long dead. Melia's my grandmother-"
"Look, I don't care who she is. If you're following her orders and she wants Linka dead. If you lay so much as a fingernail on Linka, I will deal with you myself." Scott just looked up at Ralf. "You can keep the Triforce of Power for now if you want it so much, but when you can't handle it anymore I'll take it off your hands," Ralf turned to leave.
"It's not like that. I just want to make my grandmother happy, and I must do that by freeing the King-" Ralf stopped to listen, but Scott had passed out. He thought about things with a more calm and opened mind. After he thought for a moment he realized that either Scott was lying or he only knew a little more than Ralf did.then again Ralf could be the one to know more. Was Melia keeping Scott in the dark? It didn't matter Ralf would protect Linka no matter what, but.he had a strange feeling about Scott and Tula, not bad, but strange.
He placed his hand over Scott's, 'You do not deserve this pain, Din please help him.' The Marks started to glow, but before the Triforce could be transferred, a voice called out, "GET AWAY FROM MY SON!" Melia pushed Ralf aside. She picked Scott's body up gingerly, "Tell that traitorous Tula not to get in my way."
"NO!" Ralf ran at her, but she had disappeared. He went back to Linka's room, there he saw Cally checking on her friend. "Hey Cally, Melia took Scott."
"WHAT?" came Sheik and Cally's combined voices.
"How I Linka doing?" Ralf walked over to Linka.
"I'm awake enough to hear you. What do you mean?" Linka sat up.
"Just what I said, Melia took Scott."
"We have to inform Dad," Linka went to get out of bed, but swayed a little, "Someone please go get me a blue potion. Ralf why did you go to Scott's room?" She leaned against him for support. "Was it something I said?" Ralf cast his gaze down and away from her.
Impa walked in with a bottle in her hand, "I have just finished making Linka's potion. I don't trust those store bought ones. Cally why aren't you with Scott?"
"Melia took him, we must inform the sages," Sheik explained while Linka drank the sweet liquid. She could feel her strength returning as she felt the potion fill her.
"Of course, follow me at once," Impa hurried as the teens followed her. They quickly reached the sages.
"We have trouble," Impa informed the other sages, then Linka explained that she felt Scott was not the chosen and Ralf was.
"Then it is as we expected," Nabooru commented more to herself than to the others.
"He wouldn't give up the Triforce when he was clearly weak. How am I supposed to receive it?"
"If I know Gannondorf then he is only using Scott. Making sure that the Triforce of Power is where he can retrieve it easy, when he returns."
"Then we'll have to take it and make sure Gannon doesn't return!" Linka and Link proclaimed.
"No, Linka, Sheik, and Ralf will go and retrieve it."
"But-" Link and Cally began, but Rauru merely put up his hand to silence them.
"We will only help in finding them."
"Let's get ready," Linka took charge.
"Gannon what is happening to my son?"
"Melia, my beloved sister. Don't worry I will help him. First you must free me," Gannon's voice rang in her head as she tended to Scott.
He lay on a cot, set next to a table. The room they were in was made of the stone and had two tables covered in map, spells books and other such items.
"I didn't know Din would reject my worthy grand-nephew."
"Gannon, if anything happens to him-"
"What Melia? A threat, you don't think I fear you do you?" His voice held a mocking tone, "You trusted me twenty-five years ago, why not now?"
"How do I know your even telling the truth? He could be dieing and you say to not worry."
"You don't know you can trust me."
"GANNON!" he didn't respond, "GANNON!"
"I know you're worried, but I'm the only one who can save him. You must set me free."
"Fine, I'll leave to retrieve the-"
"Don't bother, they'll come to you."
"Are you sure?"
"Linka is a fool just like her father. If someone is in danger then she will go to help and Sheik will follow his sister to their grave." An evil laugh filled the air.
Hey guys, I finished YAY! Sigh well guys.it's getting good, my secret is that I'm almost done writing the rough draft. Thank you to all my repeated readers, the fact that you keep coming back makes me feel like I want to write more.then I do. And remember Random Love by Anime Foxy has my main RPG character as a guest.but not for a few chapters. Read it anyway! On to the next Chapter!