Chapter 6 is here! This one turned out a bit lengthier then i thought, but I hope you all enjoy it.
"False king...?" Link muttered as he stared down the cloaked woman known as the Slicer, facing him and Aviel.
"Hold it!" shouted Aviel, deploying her crossbow instantly, aiming it right at the cloaked woman's chest, "I won't let you hurt Link! Now surrender or I'll shoot!"
"Now cute." said the Slicer, reaching back her hand to use another mysterious attack
Aviel deciding not to risk anything, instinctively shot off an arrow from her crossbow right at Slicer, but before the arrow could even make contact, the arrow was suddenly torn to pieces, of which fell to the ground harmlessly
"W-What...?" Aviel said in shock.
"Come on, let's run!" Link shouted, grabbing Aviel's arm along with the shopping bags,and running, he was seriously regretting not bringing his sword now. The two of them ran into a building nearby in the hope of finding help.
"Heh, run as much as you wish." chuckled Slicer, sinking back into the shadows, "But you'll soon meet your end."
Link and Aviel peeked out from a window, not seeing very many people out that evening.
"Maybe we should tell a guard about that hooded woman..." Aviel suggested.
"No.., that person is only after me. If we get anyone else involved it could just result in others getting hurt. We should lay low for now until we can get to the palace." he explained. "And you should go fly over there yourself."
"I can't leave you alone!" exclaimed Aviel, "I'm your tour guide!"
"Please Aviel, I don't want you getting hurt." Link said.
"No! I don't care how tough that lady is, I'll protect you with everything I got!" she said.
Link sighed, he knew he was fighting a losing battle with her, plus he admitted he could be just as stubborn at times.
"Well okay, but what can we do?" Link asked. "I kind of stand out too much being the only guy around here."
"Hm, I might have an idea..." Aviel said, rummaging through her shopping bags.
"Wowie..." Aviel said with a big grin, "I didn't think this would work out so well!"
"You... got to be kidding me." Link muttered.
He stood there blankly, clad in one of the girl's outfits Aviel bought, specifically the pink silk hood and veil, the matching pink chest top and the light blue pants.
"I wasn't too sure at first, but that outfit really suits you!" Aviel said, she herself was now in different clothing then before to help hide her identity, "Did you want to keep it afterwards?"
"Heck no!" Link exclaimed. He had to admit as embarrassing as it was, it did provide a perfect disguise.
The two of them slowly walked out of the building into the town and started on their way. As the two walked through the town, a few of the Gerudo citizens couldn't help but take a look at the blond lady in the bright pink outfit.
"Psst!" Aviel said under her breath, "Don't walk like a guy, put a bit of sway in your step!"
Link nodded, and started awkwardly shifting his hips as he walked. He pondered which would be the fastest direction to get to the place until a new thought occurred to him.
"Hm, now that I think about it more, we should probably not head straight to the palace." Link whispered, "The Slicer knew I'm the future king, so she might be looking around that area.. Let's visit a few more places to throw her off our trail."
"Okay, but where?" Aviel asked.
Their question was soon answered by a large group of women walking together down the street, chatting among each other and their next destination.
"Come on," Link said,, "Let's go with them. If we stay with a group the Slicer will have a hard time noticing us."
Link and Aviel went ahead and tagged along with the group of Gerudo who either didn't notice their two new companions or just didn't mind, and they eventually made their way to another building, a larger one with three floors.
"What is this place?" whispered Link.
"Dunno, this building is usually closed during the daytime." Aviel replied.
The two of them entered and followed the other girls down a long hallway and past a silk curtain, when they arrived at the end they saw it to be a type of theater with girls in exotic clothing dancing on stage, a fully loaded bar, and even drink girls going around the tables to serve customers.
"Woah, I didn't know a place like this existed here!" said Aviel, looking around.
"This worked out pretty good, it seems like a good place to hide." observed Link. The two of them went over a table and sat down on the pillow seats, and watched the dancers on stage. The club was filled with the music of some women playing various instruments, and a faint smell of lavender throughout the room. It was quite a relaxing place.
A lady soon came up to the two of them with a tray and some empty cups on it.
"So what can we get you ladies tonight?" asked the drink lady.
"Green Chu juice." Link instinctively, making sure to use a more high-pitched voice to sound more like a woman, "With two parts red, one purple, no ice."
"Hm, a woman of taste." nodded the lady, turning to Aviel, "And you?"
"Shaved ice please, with cherry syrup!" Aviel said.
"Uh, alright, I'll see what I can do." the drink lady said sweatdropping, walking off to complete the order.
Link and Aviel just sat back and continued watching the dancing girls on stage, Link had to admit they put on a pretty good show. It wasn't partiality explicit or anything, though their dancing clothes were more revealing then Gerudo outfits usually were. Link himself kept an eye out in every direction to see any hint of the assassin being around. Eventually the drink lady arrived, handing Link his Chu drink and Aviel a bowl of heavily crushed ice with red maraschino cherry juice on it.
"Well, it's not shaved, but I'll take what I can get." Aviel sighed, taking a bite, while Link just sipped his Chu juice slowly, continuing to watch the show.
Eventually the music ended, as the dancing girls came to a slow stop, doing a bow, earning a round of applause form the crowd.
"And that was Tales of a Thousand and One Nights." said a Gerudo walking onto the stage, who Link assumed was the host of the club, "Now for the time you've all been waiting for, our grand show for the night, the beautiful and mysterious red goddess of dance who charms the hearts of all who witness her, the lovely Madame Scarlet!"
The hostess bowed and left the stage while the crowd cheered loudly.
"Sounds like this Madame Scarlet is a popular one." Link said, "You know her?"
"Never heard of her." Aviel admitted, taking another bite of her ice.
Soon the curtain came up, and standing there was a rather stunning looking woman that made Link's jaw drop..
Madame Scarlet stood wearing a dancer's outfit consisting of a red silk hood and veil to hide her facial features. She had long red hair that stuck out from the hood and went down to her waist. Her top was minimal enough to show off her nice chest and shoulders without giving the audience a peep show. Rather then the baggy pants Gerudo were known for, she wore a thong with decorative gold along the top, and a long sash hanging down on both the front and back, which did well to show off her fit but still curvy form, with generous hips, as well her long legs, the left leg itself had a piece of gold jewelry around it. Speaking of jewelry, she was wearing plenty of it, just enough to radiate her beauty rather then distract from it. Her arms had long silk sashes at the wrists, one of the arm straps seemed to be longer then the other.
Link was in awe of her, he was normally not one to gawk at a beautiful woman, but something about her just stood out to him, more then most women he knew. He had met many attractive women in his life, Nabooru in particular stood out quite well, but Madame Scarlet was just on a whole other level.
The music soon started, and Madame Scarlet began her dance. Her poise was refined and delicate, her gentle movements seemed to flow almost like water, and she never once missed a step as she moved.
"Dance is an art that can tell many a tale," explained the show host out loud to the crowd, "One movement can speak of joy or sorrow, of romance or tragedy, and then shift right to the next. Madame Scarlet writes all her own dances, but never tells a soul of what they represent. It's what makes her so renowned in our show!"
Link took those words into account and watched Scarlet intently, her movements could be so slow and sensual, but then shift quickly to passionate energy. He wondered just what happiness, or sadness she carried in her heart...
The song soon came to an end, and the crowd cheered out loudly, whistling and screaming to Madame Scarlet.
"And now for the last show, we have a special treat tonight," said the hostess, "Our beloved Madame Scarlet herself will select a member of our audience to join her in her next dance! Who will be the lucky one?"
The girls all screamed and cheered as Scarlet came down from the stage and walked around the club, looking intently at everyone there.
"Ooh! Pick me Madame Scarlet!" shouted Aviel, waving her arms which were now in their bird wing form.
"Hey,, don't do that!" Link said whispering loudly, "Don't forget we're being hunted by an assassin! You'll blow our cover!"
"I could say the same about you!" grinned Aviel, her arms changing back to normal, "You couldn't keep your eyes off of her!"
Link cleared his throat awkwardly, "T-that's uh... I thought maybe she was the assassin in disguise and I was just... uh, you know... observing her?"
"Um, speaking of observing..." Aviel suddenly said with wide eyes, poking Link on the shoulder, "Someone's checking you out.."
Link wondered if it was the Slicer, and turned to instead see Madame Scarlet looking down at him. Link caught himself staring into her emerald green eyes, she was even more beautiful from close up. She didn't say a word, but simply reached down, taking her hand out to Link.
"Go for it!" whispered Aviel from behind Link, pushing him forward a little. Link nervously nodded and accepted Madame Scarlet's hand, it was a gentle touch that sent shivers up his spine. She then took Link and led him towards the stage, the crowd in shock and awe of her choice.
Link then suddenly remembered what she had chosen him for, and his nerves were shot. She led him up to the stage and looked out at the crowd in front of him, gulping. He was worried not just about dancing, but being in a woman's outfit at that very moment.
'I could blow my cover doing something like this!' Link thought frantically.
"It seems Madame Scarlet has chosen her co-dancer!" said the hostess, "This one appears to be a fine specimen of half-Hylian! In these dark times when we Gerudo are confined to the desert wastes, those who suffer the most are those who were born and grew up in the gentle plains of Hyrule, before they were banished to this cruel place by the Hyrule Parliament. We must show this girl how welcome she is in our home, and acknowledge her as our dear sister!"
The crowd cheered out wildly, and Link just reflected on the words the hostess said. Not just the exile that Nabootu had told him about, but how the Gerudo had accepted so many outsiders into their home. It was almost as if the people of this town were like a huge family...
"Ready?" whispered a sensual voice. Link tuned to see who had just spoken to him, Madame Scarlet.
"I... I'm not sure..." Link said in his disguised feminine voice.
"Relax," she said, despite her mouth being hidden by the veil, he could tell she was smiling slightly, "I'll do most of the work, just have some fun tonight, okay?"
"O-Okay..." Link nodded. For some reason , he was reminded of his previous night here that he spent with Nabooru...
The music started to play, as Link and Scarlet began dancing. Link's movements were a bit awkward, trying to his best to mimic or at least somewhat resemble Scarlet's. As the two danced, he couldn't help but notice Scarlet's movements were so close to his body, forcing him to try and stay one step ahead of hers, and eventually he found his movements to have more grace to them. It occurred to Link that Scarlet was helping him sync up with her own dancing, making his clumsy movement instead flow with hers.
'She's amazing...' Link thought to himself.
As the two continued, he took a look out to the crowd to see everyone in awe of their dance, Aviel in particular was sporting two big thumbs up in encouragement.
However, the enjoyment he was feeling was quickly shattered by the presence of a certain hooded figure walking into the club and sitting down at a vacant seat.
It was the Slicer, she seemed to be shift her gaze left and right, before ordering a drink and sitting back to watch the show.
Link didn't know what to do, he didn't want to risk shouting out to the crowd of who the Slicer was,, for risk of them getting hurt by that assassin. Even if he did try to fight somehow, he didn't know exactly what her weapon was.
He glanced over at Aviel, who was watching the two of them, unaware of the Slicer's presence. Link looked directly to Aviel and nodded at her to let her know something was wrong. Aviel looked in confusion, before puling her goggles down over her eyes which allowed her to get a good look at Link's expression, and saw Link doing slight head and eye gestures to signal to tell Aviel where to go. Aviel didn't know what it was about, but nodded and got up, walking off calmly towards the back of the club, over near the stage.
Link meanwhile, turned to Scarlet, who was still preoccupied with the dance. He hated to end the dance, esoterically since she was so into it at the moment, but he had no choice. Taking a moment to collect himself, he started taking the initiative in the dance, his movement forcing Scarlet to change her routine, which caught her off guard. Link put his hand to her waist and his other hand to her own, and their dancing became closer.
The crowd was in shock at how forward the chosen girl had become with the dancer. Scarlet's movements went back to taking over but then Link's went right back to making the dance his own. It was almost like a battle to see who would be the dominate one in the dance. Eventually, the music was starting to fade down, and Link took that has the chance to do one final move, leaning Scarlet backwards while looking down at her, just as the music came to an end, before pulling Scarlet behind the back curtain.
"T-There you have it everyone!" said the hostess, "Give a big hand for the great Madame Scarlet and her co-dancer!"
The crowd paused, then cheered out wildly for the two dancers, even the Slicer herself couldn't help but clap slowly. Her clap soon died down though, and an evil grin formed from under her cloak.
Backstage, Link and Scarlet took a deep breath, both exhausted from their dancing.
"That was... something else." said Madame Scarlet, "Where did you learn to dance like that?"
"Um, just instincts I guess?" Link answered.
"Those are some instincts." Scarlet said with a smirk, "I've never had a co-dancer take the lead before."
"Sorry but I'm coming in!" exclaimed a voice. The two turned to see Aviel running up to the two of them.
"I saw it, that slicing lady is n the back of the club!" she said.
"A-Aviel, what are you doing here?" Madame Scarlet asked.
"Wait, you know each other?: Link asked Aviel.
"We know each other?" Aviel asked herself.
"Maybe... we should go to my dressing room." said Scarlet.
They three of them headed to the far back, where there was a personal dressing room with a wooden door. Then the three entered, Scarlet locked the door and turned to her two guests.
"Now that we're all alone, what's going on?" she inquired.
"Me and L-" Aviel started, she looked at Link and then to Scarlet, and made the decision not to blow Link's cover, "my friend... um, Lifeaf here are being attacked by an assassin!"
"What?!" exclaimed Scarlet.
"She called herself the Slicer." ' Lifeaf' explained, thankful Aviel was so quick to decide on covering his identity, "We came here to the club to hide out, but she turned up just before the dance ended.."
"We need to get Lifeaf to the palace where she'll be safe!" said Aviel.
"Hm, very well, just allow me to change first." said Scarlet. She then removed her hood and veil, showing off her face. Aviel and Link sat there for a few seconds, registering how she looked, before they were both hit with realization.
"Nemisa?!" exclaimed Aviel, "You're Madame Scarlet?!"
Link meanwhile was covering his mouth in an attempt to silence himself from shouting out in his masculine voice.
"Yes, I try to keep my identity a secret, but since your situation is what it is I'll make an exception. Besides that, I wouldn't turn my back on someone with the heart of a dancer such as you, friend." she said to 'Lifeaf' with a gentle smile.
'If only she knew...' Link thought, he took that moment to admire how pleasant her smile was, then spoke out loud, "I've seen you before Lady Nemisa, but I would had never known you to be such a great dancer."
"It's just something I started to do to relive some tension and stress." she said, taking her long hair and quickly raveling it up into her usual loose bun, "But its become something I've grown to love doing more and more now."
"I can understand, " Link said, "I've seen a few entertainers in my life, but I've never seen someone dance so beautifully and with so much passion. It's no wonder they call you the red goddess of dance."
Nemisa's face flushed lightly, before she went back to changing. She turned around and removed her top, causing Link to cover his eyes. As Nemisa removed her thong she took a look back to the two, and saw the blond 'girl' trying to avert her gaze.
"Is she okay?" asked Nemisa, now removing her jewelry.
"Y-Yeah," Aviel said, "She's just uh, shy! I'm gong to go stick my head outside and check for the Slicer." with that, she got up and went to go look out the door.
"Nothing to be shy about sister Lifeaf," Nemisa said with a giggle, "It's just us girls around here."
"R-Right..." Link had to admit even in that awkward moment that Nemisa had a nice laugh as well, it was strange for him to see this side of her.
He then saw her remove the sashes from her arms, and noticed something unusual about her wrist, a dark red mark that, by his experience in battle, looked like it had been made by a rather sharp and brutal bladed weapon..
"What's with that scar on your wrist?" Link asked curiously. Nemisa realized what 'she' was talking about and covered it with her other hand.
"This is... well..." she paused, "H-Have you heard the phrase... 'Time heals all wounds'', sister Lifeaf?" asked Nemisa
"One or twice, yes." Link said.
"Well this is a wound that no amount of time could ever mend..." Nemisa said, somewhat distantly.
"...I... heard you fought the man that was chosen as our king the other day." Link said, a tinge of guilt nagging at him, "Did it come from that?"'
"No, this is from... something else... long ago." Nemisa said, putting one of her steel bands around the wrist, covering it completely, "That weak male couldn't possibly hurt me enough to lave this mark. Just... please try to forget you saw it..."
Link was unsure of what to say about it, could this have had something to do with her hatred of men that Nabooru mentioned before...?
"So do... you hate the future king?" Link asked, deicing to take this chance to hear her out about him.
"He's... a fool, a weakling, and a pervert." said Nemisa, each of the three words she used to describe him practically pierced through his body like spears.
"However..." she continued, "Lady Nabooru holds him in such high respect, especially to decide to make him our king.. and Aviel has taken quite a shine to him, Honestly, I'm just not sure what to believe about him right now..."
Link wasn't sure what to say to Nemisa about her feelings, but decided to set them aside for now and concentrate on surviving. By that point, Nemisa had finished dressing back in her usual red top and pants, and put on her steel wrist and shin bands.
"Okay, let's go." said Nemisa, "Is it clear to leave Aviel?"
"Yep! Let's get moving!" Aviel said.
"So where are we going exactly?" Link asked, as he, Aviel and Nemisa went up a staircase within the dance club building, before starting to go down a hallway.
"I have a secret route that leads out to the rooftops, I use it to hide my identity as Madame Scarlet." Nemisa explained, "We can use the route to get you to Lady Nabooru."
"Thank you for this." Link said nervously.
"Don't mention it, friend." Nemisa smiled.
"She's a lot nicer then I thought...' Link whispered to Aviel.
"Yeah, she may be a man-hater, but she's really nice to other girls, you just need to get to know her better!" nodded Aviel.
"Honestly..." Link whispered back, "I think I already do..."
The two of them suddenly bumped into Nemisa, who was standing still in shock.
"Hello there," chuckled the dark voice of a figure ahead of them, "It seems the spider has caught her flies."
"The Slicer..." Link muttered, recognizing her voice.
"Hear me assassin!" shouted Nemisa, "I don't know who is having you attack this poor girl, but leave now or I'll be forced to strike you down!"
"Poor... girl? Heh." said Slicer with a wicked grin, "I'll be taking that 'poor girl's' life right now."
With that, Slicer extended out her hands, and the group could feel something zip past the three of them.
"Wha- What was that?" Nemisa asked looking around. Suddenly, Link shouted out in pain as a few cuts formed across his body.
"What happened?!" exclaimed Nemisa, "Ae you okay Lefie-" she was cut off by seeing Link's top and veil had come off, exposing his true identity to her.
"Uh, I can explain..." Link said, clutching his wound..
"I-It's you, the Hylian male?!" exclaimed Nemisa.
"Now die, all of you!" shouted Slicer, she brought back her hands, with her fingers still sticking out, but before she could anything else, a single arrow flew out from nowhere and came inches from hitting Slicer in the face, as she had just barely moved her head to the side to evade it. "What?!"
Link and Nemisa looked to see Aviel holing her crossbow, "I told you what would happen if you attacked my friend!"
Aviel then loaded and fired more arrows straight at Slicer, who sidestepped away and ran off.
"Nice work Aviel!" Link said, "Now let's get out of here!"
As the three went running down the route to Nemisa's secret exit, the woman in red was so furious even her tan skin was a matching red.
"I can't believe this... dressing as one of our own, that dancing, then I was changing in front of you..." she muttered to herself, "You have a lot to answer for, Hylian male!"
"Okaaay, but how about for now we focus on not getting murdered by the crazy assassin woman?" Link said.
"Grr, fine, I'll lead us out!" Nemisa said, running ahead, "Just don't get in my way!"
Link sighed at her short-temperness, but then saw a gleam of light ahead of them, a reflection caused by the light of the moon shining through a nearby window. It occurred to him what it was and he darted forward.
"Nemisa, wait!"
"What are you-"
Nemisa was cut off by Link running out, grabbing her around the waist with one hand, and gripping his other hand onto her own, the two almost stumbled backwards like this, but Link quickly turned and threw Nemisa away from the direction they had been running, as he fell against something that made him shout out in pain, as blood shot out form his side.
"Link!" shouted Aviel, she was going to run up to help him but Link held up his hand.
"Keep back!" shouted Link, "I figured out what's going on, she's using some kind of nearly invisible wire to trap and cut at us!"
"Fufufu..." chuckled a voice, as the Slicer emerged from a dark room, gripping at something in her hand, "You caught on faster then most of my prey. You're lucky it didn't cut your legs off like I had intended with that friend of yours, though it must have still hurt. But don't worry, soon you won't feel a thing."
Nemisa just stared down at Link, who was clutching his side in pain. She thought back to when the two of them fought outside the town, when she ran into him in the palace,when he danced with her...
"You moron..." Nemisa muttered, falling to her knees and looking down at him, "Why did you do something like that?! You could have been killed yourself!"
"Heh, I had to..." Link said with a grin, "I couldn't let one of the best dancers lose the use of her legs... much less see one of my friends get hurt..."
Nemisa's eyes widened, staring down at Link.
"Hold it, you slicing lady!" shouted Aviel wielding her crossbow, "I'll make you into a pin cushion if you try anything else!"
Slicer smirked and called her threat, taking a step forward, prompting Aviel to fire a barrage of arrows, straight at her. But this time, Slicer pulled on some wires, causing the arrows to get cut and reduced to pieces in front of her.
'Uh oh." Aviels said.
"Aviel, protect him if you can!" said Nemisa, standing upright and narrowing her eyes, "I'll fight her."
"O-Okay..." Aviel said, running over and helping Link up, while Nemisa stood before Slicer, going into her karate fighting pose.
"Heh, no weapon? How foolish." said Slicer, "Once I'm done with you the false king is dead."
"Try me." said Nemisa, before charging into battle.
Slicer smirked and brought up her hands, as some wires shot out in all directions, Nemisa quickly flipped over and ducked under the wires as they shot out, using the light of the moon coming fom the window to tell where they were, before coming right up to Slicer and kicking her leg at her. Slicer blocked, then swung some wires from her hand across the floor to cu Nemisa's knee, but she jumped up and kicked Slicer in the chin.
"Gaarrghh!" shouted Slicer, stepping back. She extend=ed out wires all around Nemisa, but the Gerudo warrior took a deep breath, and as the wires swung out to cut her, Nemisa stepped forward slowly, swaying her body left and right, almost like a rhythmic dance, avoiding each wire that tried to cut at her, before lunging out and punching Slicer in the stomach.
"Whoa, look at her go!" exclaimed Aviel.
"She uses her dance moves in battle too..." Link said, even in this dangerous moment he was awestruck by her dancing ability.
"You bitch!" scowled Slicer, "I'll slice off those pretty feet of yours now!" with that, she pulled her pinky finger backwards, causing a wire to appear in front of Nemisa's shins and strike against them.
"Ahahahaha! The red goddess of dance is now nothi- huh?" Slicer realized Nemisa was just standing there, but even flinching n the slightest. Nemisa smirked as she swung up her leg, yanking the wire up, allowing it to wrap around the steel band protecting her skin from the wires, then swinging her leg out with the wire, casing it to strike across Slicer like a whip.
"GYYYAAAHHH!" Slicer screamed as blood flew out from her chest.
Nemisa took that chance to run up and pummel Slicer with everything she had, before delivering one final kick that sent her flying backwards and tumbling to the ground.
"It's over." said Nemisa, "Surrender and we'll spare you."
"Surrender? Not likely..." chuckled Slicer darkly, "You may have beaten me, but the false king will die some day... my master demands it!" with that, Slicer pulled a single wire with her thumb... causing it to shrike across the entirety of her own body, she laughed out insanely as blood sprayed out from her, and soon she fell to the ground lifelessly.
"...s-she took her own life...?" Aviel muttered, holding Link closely.
"Just what was that all about?" Link asked, before flinching in pain.
"...maybe we should just get back to the palace." said Nemisa.
"Ugh," Nabooru groaned, "I can't believe he's already been targeted by an assassin."
Aviel and Nemisa were able to bring Link right back to the palace after the battle, and his injuries were being treated by an expert Gerudo doctor.
"Is Link going to be okay?!" exclaimed Aviel.
"He'll be fine." said the doctor. She was a tall slightly-older woman with a darker tan skin then some others. Her red hair was long and wavy with strands of hair covering her left eye. She wore the typical Gerudo outfits, but added to it with a long sleeveless white vest, and she wore a pair of round glasses.
"His injuries are bad, but not lethal. He's quite strong and healthy, and recovering quickly. I'd say he'll recover in about a week's time." the doctor said.
"Thank you so much Dr. Sarami." Nabooru said nodding, "You saved our king."
"Its nothing really, it's what I do," she sported a sweet smile, "Though if you truly want to thank me you'll let me visit him extensively after he recovers..." she added with a snide grin, her glasses gleaming with mischievousness.
"Ahem!" Nemisa cleared her throat, "I think it's a little too early to be talking about THAT kind of thing."
"Oh, did you want to take him first?" Sarami asked with her sweet demeanor, causing Nemisa to fall over.
"Hey, Nemisa...?" Link asked weakly. Nemisa's eyes widened and she slowly went over to see Link.
"What is it..?"
"I, wanted to apologize for what happened last night." Link said, "We were in a bad situation, but I didn't mean to get you involved in all that."
"Why are you the one apologizing?" she asked in annoyance, "You were injured like that because of me."
"I don't mind that," Link grinned, "I just needed to watch out for my friend."
"You, consider me a friend..." muttered Nemisa, "Even after everything I've done to you?"
"Of course," Link said grinning, "You're a good person, and I wouldn't had made it out of that mess if not for you."
Nemisa flushed red, at a loss of what to say to him.
Eventually Sarami made everyone leave so that Link could get some rest.
A week later...
"You doing okay now Link?" said Nabooru, seeing Link leave his room with his bandages gone.
"Yup, I feel great now!" Link said, pumping his fist. "Ready to seize the day!"
"Sounds good." Nabooru nodded, "By the way, we checked out that Slicer assassin's body, but unfortunately we couldn't find any kind of identification on her or her client. Seems she made every effort to hide her purpose in case she did fail."
"It's weird." sighed Link, "She kept calling me 'false king' and said something about a master. Do you think Ganondorf is behind this?"
"Doubtful." said Nabooru, "He's been sealed in a magical barrier in Hyrule prison, he couldn't so much as talk to a fly without them finding out. No, I'm not certain, but I think this might be... something else..."
"Hm." Link thought to himself, "So should I just stay here at the palace from now on or what?"
"Oh don't worry about that, things are going to be different now." Nabooru said, "I'm stepping up the guards around town, and I even have something ready to ensure your safety!" With that, she clapped her hands, and the doorway into the room opened...
And a young woman with bird wings immediately flew up and hugged Link.
"Link!" shouted Aviel, "I'm glad to see you again!"
"Seriously Aviel, it's only been seven days." sighed Nemisa, walking in as well.
"Huh? What are you two here for?" Link asked.
"Link," started Nabooru, "I'd like to reintroduce you to Aviel and Nemisa; your two new body guards!"
"W-What?!" exclaimed Link.
"Yep, looks like we'll be protect you from now on Link!" exclaimed Aviel,
"Um, thanks... a-are you okay with this Nemisa?" Link asked.
"It's... fine." Nemisa said, ignoring Nabooru's comment, "Allowing a reckless moron like yourself to run around getting in trouble without protection is the same to me as advocating murder."
"Heh. Well then, I guess I'll be in your guy's care." Link said bowing at them.
"Don't bow to us, you're the one supposed to be the king!" Nemisa snapped.
"So what do you want to do today Link?" asked Aviel.
"Actually," Link said, he took a look over at Aviel and grinned. "I had a few things in mind, but I was wondering if maybe later tonight we could go to that one night club..."
Nemisa raised an eyebrow at that.
"I... know a great performer over there, a dancer who's the best I've ever seen." he said with a light blush.
Nemisa's face flushed a little at that as well, but then she regained her senses,, closed her eyes and smirked a bit.
"I suppose we can find time to do that... um, your highness."
"Your highness? So we went from 'Hylian male'' to that? What a great promotion!" Link grinned.
"Ugh, don't let it get to your head." Nemisa rolled her eyes,
"Well if you don't want that, why not just call me Link then?" he asked.
"I... I'll thank about it, your highness." Nemisa said.
"Well what are we waiting for?!" said Avial, "let's go out into town!" She used her bird wings to start pushing Link and Nemisa out the door.
"Hey, cut it out Aviel! That tickles!" exclaimed Nemisa.
Nabooru laid back in her chair and laughed at the three, taking a moment to look out the window.
"Those three have gotten quite close, at this rate I wonder how soon it'll be before he'll.."
Nabooru paused on that note.
"Ah, never mind for now."
Meanwhile, in another location far from Gerudo Town...
"Master, I'm afraid the Slicer has fallen."
"A shame, she was a fine and beautiful assassin. Thank you Slicer, for all your hard work, may you rest in peace."
"So what do we do now?"
"I thought it would be simple to kill the false king, but it seems he's more capable them I assumed. We'll wait, and see what happens for now. Keep me posted when something new comes up."
"Of course master."
And there's chapter 6. This was probably one of the most difficult ones for me to write, especially when I was describing things in more artistic ways. It's something I'm probably not going to do that too often.
I'll have chapter 7 out as soon as I can, next time Link meets a new friend, and learns some dark secrets about the world he's come back to...