Clash of Time and Wind
Chapter 11: The Mysterious Stranger
Link woke up. He just had a weird dream. He turned his head left to the window of the small house. It was still night. By the looks of it, he had only been asleep for few minutes.
He tried to remember what he had dreamed about. He saw Daphnes in it. He also saw a spirit. He couldn't remember what the spirit said, did, what it took, or even what it looked like! He sighed. It was midnight by the position of the moon.
I guess it wouldn't be a crime to take a snack at the bar, Link thought. He got up, stretched, and put his clothes on. He walked out.
He sat down.
"Beer sir," the waitress offered.
"No thanks, I don't drink," Link said. "But I'll take the snack you offer at this time. I hear it's really good."
"It is," the waitress assured him.
"We'll have the midnight snack!" the waitress yelled to the bar. She then moved over to another table to serve a hooded stranger. The stranger from his dream! If only he could remember anything about him. The memory of his form came back to him though. It was a human form.
The waitress started talking. The figure wasn't sitting too far, so Link could distinctly hear what the waitress was saying.
"Will you have more food sir?"
"No thank you," the figure said in a voice quite unlike the one Link heard in his dream. It was now more of a deep.
"How about some beer?" she asked.
"Same answer as the small boy over there," the figure answered.
So the waitress instead offered him some tobacco. The figure looked at it and said with disgust, "Firstly, some would say I am too young. Secondly, take it away!"
Link thought the figure wasn't anyone he'd like to cross.
"You have to take something sir, you've been sitting here doing nothing all night," the waitress said.
The figure seemed to realize that as well, and said, "I'll take a small chocolate bar."
"That's it?" the waitress said, dispiritedly.
"Yes!"
The waitress seemed to get the message and left. Link gazed at the figure. The figure was looking the other way until they caught each other's eye. Link couldn't see his face. The figure kept his gaze on Link.
"Something interesting about me?" the figure asked.
"No, I'm just looking around," Link replied.
"Well, you seem to be fairly interested in me!" the figure said back.
Link shrugged and looked away, taking his snack from the waitress, who then moved over to serve the figure in the black cloak.
Even though Link kept his eyes off him, the stranger kept his own eyes on Link the rest of the visit in the bar. Eventually though, he left.
Link left about half an hour after the mysterious one did, but even so they met outside the bar and down near the shop stand.
It wasn't a normal meeting. Out of nowhere, a black figure jumped in and attacked with a sword.
Link blocked it and jumped back.
The figure did the same, but jumped at him again without waiting.
Link blocked all the attacks, and did a low swipe.
The figure quickly jumped over it and kicked Link.
Link flew through the air and landed with a thud against the stairs. He screamed in pain.
The figure above him jumped down at him, sword raised high, attempting to slice Link in half!