A/N: Ok, so. Ninth chapter, huh? Soon we'll hit the two digits.
Woah.
Umm, yeah, sorry for the lack of enthusiasm, but this is not a good moment for me... you would think I would be happy, the school year is ending tomorrow as I'm writing this... the truth is, I don't want it to end! I am failing big time in more than one subject, and I need more fucking grades!
Yeah, anyway. I don't know if I'll be able to update during summer. My dad is pretty much certain that are videogames, manga and the Internet that make me fail (not true! Come on man, you have been living in my house for sixteen years, you can't not know that I have a sucky memory! I can't even remember to take my medicines, I even forgot about my own birthday, how do you think I can remember Latin verbs?! HOW IN THE WORLD IS LATIN EVEN REMOTELY USEFUL?!), and he might decide to take my PC, phone, 3DS, DS, WiiU and pretty much everything else. JOY.
Edit, several weeks later: Ok, so. I kind of... passed, I think? Um, I don't know if that's exactly the case, (I doubt school in your country works the same way) but at least I didn't fail. Then, what else... enjoying my new dorky glasses, started playing Darksiders II (one of the presents for my 16th birthday) and got into Homestuck. That thing is like, woah. What the fuck. But it's still awesome. Oh, and daddy didn't take my babies away. Wohoo! But now I can't use them too often. YAY.
Anyway.
ANOTHER EDIT, MONTHS LATER: Well, I took the exams. And I passed like a boss. I am so sorry, I didn't want to put this story on hiatus, but I had little to no time to write this, and so... (also, sucky PC is sucky. It hasn't worked that well since months).
Results of the litul game of the extra chapter!
Um, yeah, actually nobody got both of them right... but Alfemorphia and Kitty Lue got one of them, and crazy dragon ninja deserves a mention for the good guess!
The jokes were actually:
1) Bonnie: Bonnie is one of the animatronics of Five Nights at Freddy's. He is a purple bunny with red/magenta eyes, and the whole fandom was divided on his gender until Scott Cawthon himself declared officially he was a male. Bonnie shows up frequently at the door (and with "frequently", I mean "LEAVE ME ALONE YOU WERE HERE THREE MINUTES AGO"), and a lot of people joked on that by making similes with Mormons. Um, yeah, maybe it was a bit obscure, I'm sorry. Insulting Mormons was also not my intention ^^;
2) The cockroach: It was a joke on an episode of Fairy Oddparents, where Cosmo tries to kill a super-intelligent cockroach by using his magic, but it walks away unscathed. Wanda later says that everyone knows that cockroaches are resistant to magic. It was actually Neo-Devil who made me remember that episode. Thanks!
Multipule-Characters1-act: BECAUSE I CAN. MWAHAHAHAHAHAH.
BrandonBgamer: Um, yeah, it was a rhetorical question...
The Truth of Words: That's what I was aiming for ;-)
ChangelingRin: "Far more than you should"? Dragons are love, dragons are life! You can't love them more than you should! Unless you're khaleesi. In that case then yeah, maybe you love them a bit' too much.
Infinityworlds: Really? It was the first actual fighting scene I ever wrote, I thought it was pretty sucky... Thank you, anyway!
Dragonspirit996: Nah, you are not coming off self-centered, don't worry. Um, yeah. About the whole "gender and/or identity" thing, I'm afraid I can't spoiler anything. It's not being evil, I just want the story to grow without people knowing what will happen next. And I want to insert dramatic scenes. Like with the Commander, ya' know? I mean, probably everyone understood who he is by now, but I still won't say his name until the right scene.
KiKat1225: Like I said, no spoilers. But I can tell you it's unlikely that Sheik will appear on Earth.
Grandshadowseal: It's not about you (as much as I love all my readers, you included, this is my story, and I write it like I want). I simply am a drama queen. Everything will come into place by itself (with dramatic revelations of course).
Multipule-Characters1-act: Yay!
Telron: Haha, thank you! ^^
FwooshEye: Oh... my... God... O.O *turns toward the books * IS THAT TRUE?! ANSWER ME, ROWLING!
crazy dragon ninja: Grazie! *bows *
grandshadowseal: See the answer to the first question. BUT I STILL LOVE YOU (today I'm a bit emotional, please don't mind the four-eyed geek virtually hugging you).
Multipule-Characters1-act: Amen. Also, what is better than fourth-wall breaking in crack? Oh, right. Friggin' nothing. XD
Infinityworlds: I'll try... can't promise anything, though.
GeekyGamer: Oh-kay, so my fake chapters are better than the "official" ones... good to know XD
Dragonspirit996: Maybe... *wink wink * No, okay, I do plan a crossover with Kid Icarus. Two, to be honest, one with Legend of Zelda and one with Naruto. I'll have to finish this story and Of Spaceships and Magic before, though...
Telron: Haha, actually "Orochimaru" was a little joke, as he and the Commander share similar personalities and styles...
im asian hi: yeah, I read bad the word on my dictionary and then, when I noticed I told myself "Well, why changing it? It's actually quite fitting to the idea I want to give of Zelda..." Happy you liked it, anyway!
Katie Jaegeroc: I know... cool name, isn't it?
le chat noir 95: I'm so happy you reviewed! And I'm even happier you liked it! Lol, yes, at least cockroaches are not allergic to a green rock XD
Sianna Scale: Here you go the "moar" you asked for! ;-D
Guest: Awww, I love you too ^^
DragonStar7Queen: Thank you very much for the tips! I, yeah, kind of forgot that the twins come to age only in the fifth book... whoops ^^;
… just pretend everybody was too freaked out by the attack to notice them, okay? My pc erased the original file and I sincerely don't feel like re-writing the whole thing. About the typo, thank you very much for making me notice it. I am a grammar nazi, but English is still not my first language, so...
trnjakiller: *laughs awkwardly *
Kitty Lue: Eeeee! Thank you senpai! Yeah, I speak Italian. Maybe because I am Italian, hehe ;-). I plan on finishing this story no matter what (my motto is "at most hiatus, never discontinuing!"), but I will update slowly. Mostly because I have to study, but some time ago a tornado hit Florence, right in my district, so, yeah.
About the Mormon thing, I am really sorry. I didn't mean to insult you at all, I simply thought that Shadow, being both a demon and a creature from another world, would be pretty annoyed by any religion, not only Mormonism. I am an atheist, so I basically didn't think that it could be offensive also, I thought I had make that chapter stupid enough not to be taken seriously. I am really sorry. And, yeah. Fnaf is love, fnaf is life. I am a FnaFgirl.
Amber: Mwahahahah, don't worry, I will
KinkyWithKiku: Link is something definitely worth of fangirling over, huh?
Xx-Yaoi-Ninja-xX: Sorry for the HUGE delay :((((( I hope you can forgive me :(
Alfemorphia: hashtag not even ashamed of it
Midna18: Glad you like it :D
Chapter nine
Training to be the very best
"I'm not even asking..."
Harry puffed out his cheeks. "It wasn't my fault, pro-"
Link waved his hand in frustration, cutting him off. "I don't want to know, Potter."
The young teacher straightened up and started walking around the office nervously. Harry gulped as the nineteen years old started mumbling worriedly to himself. He'd never seen the man so perturbed, and it was a bit scary.
Harry looked away, feeling weirdly guilty even though that all that racket wasn't exactly his fault. The man was tormenting himself because of him, and it just didn't feel right.
He took the chance to observe Link's office. He'd never been there before, and he had no idea what to expect when the teacher had called him in.
The place was, for the lack of a better term, a mess.
Heh, what an understatement actually.
Weapons of every kind (including a lethal-looking metal ball with a chain) were sprawled around the room, along with tons of books (most in English, some handwritten in a weird alphabet he was sure he'd never seen before) and some weird-looking objects and devices he wasn't sure the nature of (like what looked like an overgrown steampunk whirligig). The walls were covered by drawings of monsters and creatures, both known and unknown, and writings in that same alphabet of the books.
The bed remained unseen under all that stuff, no matter how hard he squinted.
On the desk, maybe the only thing along with the two chairs that wasn't invisible, there were several sketches of what looked like some kind of imp, with a fanged, malicious-looking smirk and a young lady, a sword (the same he'd used to fight the dragon during the lesson), and a small golden pendant.
Yep, the room definitely described Link's personality.
A mess.
A sigh of the young man brought him back on Earth. Link sat down again, a tired smile on his face.
"You know Harry, you remind me a lot of myself." He chuckled, a vaguely bitter tone in his voice. "Even if I try to avoid them, troubles always seem to follow me, anywhere I go."
Harry found himself thinking that it was a fairly accurate description of his life.
Link sighed again. "Well, crying over the spilled milk won't help us." He smiled, this time reassuringly. "Don't worry, Potter. I'll do whatever I can to help and prepare you for this tournament."
Harry smiled back, feeling for once really safe.
Xxx
Shadow kicked an empty can in frustration.
He'd looked everywhere in the school (and discovered that was a school for young delinquents, much to his surprise), and Potter was nowhere to be seen.
He even started to suspect that the boy might have lied to him. But it didn't make any sense.
"Why would he lie over something like this?" He mumbled, closing his mouth shut when a hint of a growl resonated in his voice. Couldn't have the students hear him growling like an animal, could he?
A sigh escaped his lips. Why did he think going there was a good idea, anyway? On a second thought, it was obvious that it wasn't. Risking his newly renovated freedom to search for a kid that had apparently lied to him about his true location during winter and autumn.
Damn Potter.
Damn him to the deepest points of the Dark Realm. And beyond.
On a second thought, better not. He lived there most of the time after all.
He sighed again, this time angrily.
Earth sucked.
Xxx
"Shouldn't we start with something inherent the trials?" Asked Harry.
Link chuckled, as he dragged out a trunk that probably weighted something like two tons. "Nah. Truth to be told, I have no idea what the trials are about and, if I did, I guess it wouldn't be correct if I told you."
"Oh."
Link and Harry had started the training almost instantly. The elvish nineteen years old had brought him to a room that Harry recognized instantly as the room where Lupin had taught him the patronus incantation.
"So, what are we going to do?"
Link smirked. "I think you already faced this, however..." He pointed to the trunk. "In there there's a boggart."
"Oh, um. A boggart, prof? But you don't..." Link was staring at him "have a..." still staring, this was getting uncomfortable "... a... wand...?" It sounded more like a question that a statement.
The man raised an eyebrow, a small smile still lingering on his lips. "I don't think that ever stopped me. Not to mention, it's not me the one who has to face it, and you do have a wand... unless you manage to somehow lose it!" He chuckled again as Harry blushed deeply. Knowing his luck, that's exactly what would happen.
"Whatever. Let's get started, shall we? En garde!"
He opened the chest even before Harry was in attack position.
The well-known image of a dementor came out of the wooden thing. Harry grimaced as the hooded image came near him, and could see Link pull a face as well, mumbling something under his breath. He pulled out the wand, but the teacher's voice stopped him.
"Don't attack it yet. I know you are perfectly able to fight a boggart. The question is: how long can you avoid lethal attacks?"
Wait, what?
"You sure this is an effective method of training?" He shrieked, as the dementor/boggart (bogentor? Demoggart?) chased him throughout the room.
"Well, it worked for me, didn't it?" Laughed Link, and suddenly Harry felt the desire to kill him.
The after three minutes, he was already out of breath.
"Pro-hfeh-sshor-" Gasped the boy, stammering and slurring the word almost comically.
Link chuckled. "Somebody is out of shape, I see. Okay, riddikulus that thing and let's get this over with."
xxx
"I hate training with Avalon." Groaned Harry.
Ron looked at him, confused. "I thought you liked his lessons?"
"I did, but you haven't ever seen him in trainer mode!" He huffed again. "You don't know what ruthless means till you have to run for ten minutes followed by a creature with the face of your biggest fear and unable to use your wand to protect yourself. I almost wish I had to train with Snape. At least with potions I wouldn't fear to kill myself out of sheer exhaustion."
"Sheer exhaustion?"
"Remember Fullmetal Jacket?"
Hermione's eyebrows shot up. "Hartman? That bad?"
"Worse."
The girl had to repress an impressed whistle.
"Who's Hartman?" Asked Ron, confused by the exchange.
Xxx
That night, Link went back to the training room, this time alone.
He looked at the chest, the boggart still inside and a curious smile on his lips.
"You know I'm curious? What would you become for me?"
The trunk rumbled, and Link laughed. "Yeah, I was fairly sure you wouldn't answer. But, really. I know I'm not fearless, Triforce of Courage or not, but what's my biggest fear? Something so horrible I almost can't face?" He knelt. "Can you show me?"
Rrrrrumble.
Link chuckled again. "Well, I want to find out, whether you want to show me or not."
With a kick, the boggart was out, and horror made its way inside the Hylian's heart.
Xxx
Vlye gazed puzzled at Sheik, as the young man looked at the sky, eyes wide open.
"Sheik? Something bothers you?"
No answer.
"Sheik?"
"Uh?" The man looked at her, startled. The zora flinched at the scared look in his eyes. That much skin she could see was considerably paler than before, and his hands appeared to be shaking slightly.
"Are you okay? You look like you've seen a ghost."
He shook his head. "Y-yeah. I'm fine. Don't worry."
He walked away before she could ask anything.
Xxx
Shadow turned restless in his sleep, pain and terror on his delicate features, distorting them into a fairly scary snarl.
Nightmares of scales and flame hair didn't help having a good night of sleep.
Xxx
Link stared in horror at the figure before him.
It (he?) was tall. So much taller than him, taller than Zelda, and, although in his life he'd seen his fair share of horrifying creatures, this one took the price.
Dark brown scales, smooth and lucid, covered its muscled body, the only piece of cloth on it a dark, gown-like piece of fabric around his hips. The fingers of both hands and feet had a hand long claws, that looked like they could shred metal. On a thick neck rested a squared head, with a flat nose, small beady eyes and a x shaped scar on his nose. Bright red flames fell down his head like long hair. It didn't look extremely creepy, compared to other things he'd seen, but there just was something that told him he couldn't, wouldn't fight that.
HeRo
He didn't hear the sound. He felt it.
I rEmEmBeR yOu
YoU tHoUgHt YoU cOuLd KiLl Me?
Link gulped, not answering.
DoN't Be ScArEd, It'S jUsT a QuEsTiOn.
YoU'lL dIe AnYwAy
Link whined, not even embarrassed the sound had left his mouth.
ThAt'S dIsApPoInTiNg.
I tHoUgHt YoU wOuLd ReMeMbEr Me MoRe ThAn JuSt InCoNcIoUsLy.
The demon laughed deeply, and Link whined again.
FaReWeLl, HeRo. We'Ll MeEt EaCh OtHeR aGaIn SoOn, I tRuSt.
The boggart screeched, as it went back to its original form, before bursting in a mass of black blob, dropping dead on the floor.
Link just stood there, panting hard.
"De-?"
A/N: Well, Link is an idiot and I'm an asshole for not updating for nine months or so and then providing a piece of steaming, fragrant horsecrap instead of an actual chapter.
So, it's been a while since I let you know something about my headcanon about Hyruleans...
-Hylian eyes glow lightly in the dark. Play Wind Waker and you'll agree with me. Or, if you have Twilight Princess, go in the basement of Link's house, lit up the lantern till you are staring into the mirror and then shut it down.
EYES.
-Hyrulean blood is different that human's. Hylian blood is slightly lighter and more transparent that human's one, Sheikah's is much darker, almost black, Zora's is really liquid, almost completely transparent and pinkish or blueish based on genetic, Gerudo's is bronze green and dense (because why not, in OoT 3D Ganondorf spat green blood), Goron's is... do Gorons even have blood? Well, if they do it looks like human blood, just denser and boiling hot. And Kokiri's is yellowish green. Obviously. Even though there are no Kokiris in Hyrule during Twilight Princess.
Yes, I've been reading Homestuck. You already know that.
-Hylians are pretty touchy about their ears. Because why not XD
I have this idea that every time they had somebody tease their big pointy ears they would automatically go like:
"the fuck you say 'bout my ears"
"hold my sword"
"kick his ass baby, I got yo sword"