Time for chapter 9. I'm having a bit of trouble with the next major arc, so as promised I pulled out this little chapter. Enjoy!
Link took a look around, it was just a second ago he had fell asleep and yet he suddenly found himself in a strange but familiar place.
"Been a while since I was here." Link said to himself.
He had just fallen asleep after another hot night with Nabooru. She had been delighted about the success of the livestock transport and decided he was due for a reward. Link was starting to get used to the love-making sessions with Nabooru, and she was keen to teach him many ways to pleasure a woman as they did. He had wanted to take some time to think about just what she was to him, but it seemed he had another situation to deal with instead.
It was that strange dark void from before, that dream he had shortly after meeting, and getting his butt kicked, by Nemisa when he arrived at Gerudo Town. He took the opportunity to survey his surroundings and try to get an idea of where he was. He could see some kind of tall large object in the distance, but wasn't certain what exactly it was.
"Was that there last time I was here?" Link muttered.
"Hey there pal, long time no see."
Link quickly whipped around and saw the dark figure from before. He could see it a little clearer, that it was a man of some kind, but like the large object he couldn't make out any details of him.
"So did you enjoy the taste of it?" asked the man, "It was just a sample of what you could have."
"I'm sorry, I still don't know what you're talking about." Link shook his head.
"Never mind, you still got a while to go." chuckled the man, "Well have fun with them in the mean time."
"Hey wai-" Link was cut off by the ground disappearing again, and he fell into the void.
Link snapped awake, looking around to figure out where he was, only to see he was back in his bedroom, laying back on the soft pillows he had been sleeping on for the past weeks, and it was still nighttime outside. He felt a warmth against him and looked to see Nabooru, her arms wrapped around his chest, holding him close to her.
He found himself looking to her face and just stared at her lips. Usually Nabooru wore lipstick, but she had washed it off before they spent the night together. While the makeup did make her lips stand out more, he found the natural beauty of her lips to be just as lovely, if not better. Some nights rather then making love they'd just make out, and she took the time to train him on the best ways to do even that. Her full lips were rather enticing, so he leaned down and gave her a gentle kiss, making her smile lightly in her sleep.
Seeing his lover's smile gave him a real sense of bliss and comfort, it felt like the unease of that dream, the pain he had suffered during his battles the other day, and the anger he felt towards General Wallace in particular just melt away.
He shifted himself towards Nabooru and wrapped his own arms around her, leaning his head towards hers. Link could hear Nabooru make a blissful moan and tightened her hold on him, and the two of them just held each other for the rest of the night.
"Link!" shouted a voice, causing Link to stir. He slowly opened an eyes to see Aviel looking down at him, her face inches from his own.
"A-Aviel?!" exclaimed Link, realizing she was sitting on his stomach. He turned and noticed Nabooru was already gone.
"Are you just gonna sleep in all day?" she asked, "You're gong to miss breakfast!"
"O-Okay, just get offa me." Link said, feeling a little embarrassed seeing her so close to him like that as he laid back on his bed of pillows, and bear-chested on top of that.
"But you're comfy." Aviel said, only to be grabbed from behind by Nemisa and lifted into the air by her.
"Okay you, don't trouble our king." she then glared down at Link, her face flushed red seeing him once again shirtless, then turned and walked off, carrying a wiggling-around Aviel, "Hurry and get up, Nabooru wants to discuss more about what happened with the caravan trade."
"R-Right..." said Link.
"Hmph, it's hard to believe something like that happened with the Hylian guards." Nabooru muttered, "It was bad enough when they were tolling us at the bridge, but going that far?"
"What do you expect from those arrogant Hylian knights and their bloated monarchy?" Nemisa said angerly.
"Hey, I'm sure those knights we fought were just rogue ones trying to self-profit off us." Link clarified, "There's no way the king would place an order like that."
"You don't think?" Nemisa asked, "He did banish us all from Hyrule, with little hope of survival."
"Yeah, but..." Honestly even Link was unsure of what to think anymore after what happened yesterday.
"Okay, how about a change of subject?" Nabooru sighed, "On the plus side, you all did a fine job with the trade. Togau told me the lot of you did splendidly and the animals were completely unharmed."
"Togau was really fun to be around!" Aviel said, looking up from her bowl of oats, "And she and Link really hit it off!"
"Oh really now?" Nabooru looked to Link with a knowing smirk.
"Well..." Link blushed, "She's a good person, and we did play some great music together."
"Play music together... So is that what you call it?" Nabooru gave a suggestive wink.
"What? No!" Link exclaimed, "We didn't do anything like that!"
"And you should have seen the way Nemisa moved as they did it together!" Aviel said, only to get bonked upside the head by the warrior.
"That was the absolute worst way to phrase that ever!" shouted Nemisa.
Nabooru just laughed wholeheartedly, "Sounds like the lot of you got along well! So as for today, nothing's big is going on, so why not take the day to relax?"
"Alright, I was thinking about picking up a few things from the marketplace, did you want to come with me Link?" Aviel asked.
"Oh, sure." Link nodded, I wanted to see some more places that you told me about during our tour."
"Guess I'll go as well." agreed Nemisa.
The two girls got up and left to prepare, leaving Link and Nabooru alone.
"The three of you are getting along pretty well lately." Nabooru said, "Even Nemisa seems to be opening up to you more."
"I'm glad you think so." Link said, "But I'm still undecided on this whole king thing."
"Really? Aviel said you refereed yourself as the Gerudo King to the knights that you fought the other day." Nabooru said grinning.
"D-Did she say that?" Link laughed nervously. "I was just saying that to hopefully make them back off... I wasn't... well..."
"Either way, you did us a great service." Nabooru smiled warmly, "And I'm glad you're getting along with Togau as well. Do you think perhaps she'll be-"
"Hey Link, get your butt out here!" shouted Aviel, interrupting Nabooru.
"What was that Nabooru?" Link asked.
"...nothing. I'll tell you about later." Nabooru nodded.
"Guess I'll be heading out now." Link said, getting up to meet with Aviel and Nemisa.
Nabooru just leans back and grinned, taking a sip of he drink.
"Eh, I'll talk to him about it later."
That evening, Link, Aviel, Nemisa and Nabooru were having dinner. It was a pretty pleasant night, Link himself feeling more and more comfortable with his living situation. He took a glance to Aviel and noticed she was holding some kind of heart shaped locket on a chain.
"That's a nice locket you got there." Link said to Aviel, "Where did you get it?"
"Got it from one of the traders at the marketplace. She said it was found among the ruins that used to be here before we converted it into Gerudo Town." Aviel said, "It's really pretty... but I can't figure out how to open it..." she muttered in frustration as she fiddled around with the locket, "I was hoping I could keep something inside it... I hope it's not broken."
"Well let the buyer beware." shrugged Nemisa.
"Hmph." Aviel said with a pout.
The group dropped the subject and spent the night talking about the rest of their day, and some of the recent events that had been going on. Time passed, and it wasn't long before it was somewhat late night, and the group grew tired.
"I'm heading to my room now." Aviel said, taking her locket and leaving.
Aviel walked down the hallway towards her bedroom. While she primarily enjoyed spending time with Link, she had to admit she enjoyed a lot of the benefits of being the king's personal guard, one of which being able to live in a nice comfortable place like the palace. As a minor lookout guard before she didn't have much of a living place and she constantly had to budget her food expenses, but now she had a soft bed and regular square meals. All in all, life for the young guard was really good.
It was then she felt a strange sensation, like there was someone nearby. She turned herself around to see, but there was no one. She felt a bit unnerved as she walked faster to her bedroom. It was then she felt that strange sensation again, and looked behind her, but again nothing.
"Maybe I've been overdoing it... I should probably get some sleep..."
Aviel sighed, turning back towards her destination, only to find herself face-to-face with something that stopped her cold. Aviel's eyes were wide, and she broke out into a cold sweat, her body shook nervously, and let out a terrified high-pitched scream.
"Aviel?!" Link shouted, sticking his head out from his bedroom, along with Nabooru.
"Sire, did you hear that too?!" shouted Nemisa, running up to the two, "I believe that was Aviel's scream!"
"Yeah, we all better go find her." nodded Link.
"Well, before we do," Nabooru said, "We should probably get dressed first."
"Huh?"
Link paused on that note and then realized he and Nabooru were both in the nude, as Nabooru was in the mood for another night together, just before they heard the scream. Link took a nervous look at Nemisa, who was staring at him with wide empty eyes, and her face a bright red.
"Uh, this... um..." Link started, then sighed and rolled his eyes, "Okay, I have no excuse for this."
"Y-You... two..." Nemisa stammered, "You two are shameless!" she shouted in anger, whacking Link upside the head with a sweeping kick.
"Can we just prioritize Aviel's situation first?" Nabooru said flatly.
Having quickly gotten dressed, Link and Nabooru, along with Nemisa, ran off in the direction of Aviel's bedroom, with growing concern for their friend. As they rounded a corner, the three of them collided into another person and they all impacted onto the ground.
"Oow, who the heck-" Link was cut off by being immediately hugged by a pair of familiar bird wings.
"Link! Thank Aifet it's you!" Aviel shouted, with tears in her eyes.
"Aviel, what happened?!" Link asked, finding himself impulsively hugging her back.
"I was... I was just going to my bedroom and... I saw a ghost!" she exclaimed.
"Wait, a ghost, in the palace? You can't be serious!" said Nemisa.
"I am serious!" Aviel said waving her wings, "It was a real ghost!"
"Maybe it was a Poe?" pondered Link, thinking about the ghostly creatures that sometimes popped up around the land of Hyrule.
"Um, it didn't look like a Poe at all.." Aviel whimpered.
"Hmm, I... hate to bring up the possibility, but what if it's another assassin?" Nabooru suggested, her eyes narrowed.
"You mean like The Slicer?!" Nemisa exclaimed.
"Sure hope not..." muttered Link.
"Does that mean Link has to wear the woman's outfit I bought him again?" Aviel asked.
"Now I really hope not." groaned Link.
"The guards haven't said anything about intruders, but it's not out of question. I'll have them keep their eyes peeled, but for now, we should see into this 'ghost' of ours." Nabooru said.
The four of them wandered through the hallways of the palace, looking out for anything unusual or at least out of place. Normally the palace was peaceful place that the group had no problem going through, even during night, but the creeping sense of what Aviel had seen made everyone a bit unnerved about it.
Link took a glance over at Aviel, who was now wearing a saucepan on her head, some pottery covering her shoulders and chest, and she was holding a large wooden spoon with both hands.
"What's with all that?" Link asked her.
"To protect me from the spook..." Aviel looked left and right nervously, "You can't shoot ghosts with an arrow..."
"I don't think a spoon is going to do any better, dear." Nemisa said sweatdropping.
"It'll be fine." Link said, "Even if it is a ghost, it's nothing to be afraid of. They can't hurt us at all."
"Have you seen ghosts before?" Aviel asked.
"Yeah, I've traveled to all sorts of places over the past years, and I've seen my share of wandering spirits, they're just harmless lost souls who have unfinished business in their past life. Once they find what they're looking for they become satisfied and pass on to the afterlife." Link said.
"O-Okay, thank you. Link." Aviel said nodding, she walked closer to Link and hugged his arm.
Nemisa took a look at the two and saw the sincerity in Link's eyes as he looked down to Aviel. She couldn't help but feel a bit more understanding of that kindness Nabooru spoke of about him.
"I think you're going to make a great father someday Link." brought up Nabooru, which startled the others.
"A father?!" exclaimed Nemisa.
"Hee hee, Link a daddy? I bet he'd be the best!" Aviel giggled.
"Ahaha," Link said nervously, "I don't know about tha-"
"Wait," said Nabooru, stopping the group, "Do you all see that?"
The group looked ahead to see something moving around in the darkness of the hallway, it was some type of wisp that illuminated with a gentle light to it, it was blue and see-through and seemed to be swaying around in the air.
"Is... that the ghost...?" Nabooru asked.
"Maybe.." Aviel muttered, hiding behind Link, "It is the same color... and has that wavy thing going on... But I guess it doesn't look creepy like I remember..."
Link nodded and looked down to Aviel, "See? It's nothing to be afraid of." he turned to the spirit and spoke out to it, "Excuse me, are you looking for somethi-"
It was then that the floating wisp grew empty hollow eye sockets and a long mouth, moaning out with a bone-chilling sound.
The group stood there for a second, before shouting out in horror and running the other way.
"I thought you said you weren't scared of ghosts!" shouted Nemisa to Link as the four ran.
"Yeah, but that doesn't mean I know what this one's capable of!" shouted Link.
"It's even worse then I remember!" exclaimed Aviel, hanging and flailing off of Link's arm as he ran.
"Less talking, more running!" shouted Nabooru, trying to think about what could be going on..
Eventually the four reached a door and ran in, slamming the door shut. They then immediately started covering the door with various furniture they could find to barricade the path in
"I don't know what good this is going to do if that thing can go through walls, " sighed Nabooru.
"Then why did you help us move the dresser?!" Nemisa asked annoyed.
"You expect someone panicking to be rational?!" Nabooru retorted.
It was then that they heard something new, another moaning sound. This one had a higher pitch to it, but it sounded dreadful to the four.
"T-That's..." Nemisa started, her face paled.
"The ghost already found us?!" exclaimed Aviel.
They soon saw a figure slowly walking into the room from the open door on the other side of the room, the figure's arms were out in front of them and they had a gloomy look on their face, and the moans it made chilled them as much as the ghost did..
"Could... that be a Redead?" Link asked, recalling the zombie-like creatures he fought on his past adventures.
"First ghosts and now the walking dead? You're kidding me!" exclaimed Nemisa.
The group stood in place, not sure of what to say or do. Link took a breath and grabbed a nearby broom for defense while Nemisa went into a battle pose. Aviel meanwhile hugged Nabooru in fear.
Soon the lumbering figure stopped in it's tracks, then yawned and stretched out.
"Ugh, what happened...?" muttered the figure, in an oddly familiar sounding voice.
"Wait, that's..." Link realized.
"Huh? Oh, howdy yall!" said the figure, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, "Whatcha doin' at my place?"
"Togau?!" exclaimed Link, "What are you doing here?"
"Hey, I asked that question first!" Togau said, "You weren't planning on takin' me in mah sleep, were ya, your highness? she inquired with a mischievous grin.
"What?! No way!" Link exclaimed.
"You're the one in the palace!" Nemisa pointed out to Togau.
"I... am?" asked Togau looking around, "Ah shootfire, it happened again."
"Again? What are you talking about?" Nabooru asked.
"Well, ya see, my ranch hands tell me I sometimes go sleepwalkin' around the ranch some nights." she said rubbing the back of her head sheepishly, "Guess I just get a little restless at times. Sorry bout that."
"Then what are you doing in the palace?" Link asked.
"I... dunno." Togau said scratching her chin, "Going this far out is a first fer me." she then turned to the others and saw the pile of furniture blocking the door, "So whatcha guys doin', moving?"
"We're running from a ghost," Aviel explained, "A really scary one!"
"Ghost?" asked Togau, "Ya gotta be kiddin' me. Those kinds of things aren't anythin' ta be scared of, why I remember this one time me and Mally were..."
As Togau spoke, they noticed something appearing behind her, it was a wisp like the blue thing, only this one was colored more yellow or orange-like, and it's body seemed to crackle and fume. They all paled as they saw the wisp develop a similar looking hollow, creepy expression on it's face.
"...but it turned out to just be Talon havin' a case of indigestion!" Togau laughed. She took a look at the four and asked, "Hey, what's with those faces?"
Togau then heard a loud moan behind her, she turned to see the yellow-orange wisp right in her face. She paused, took a small gulp, and ran right over to join the other four. The wisp came right at them, but they quickly removed all the furniture and burst through the door to escape.
"What in tarnation was that?!" exclaimed Togau, "This palace has a real ghost problem?!"
"We were trying to figure that out ourselves!" Link said.
"Strange," muttered Nabooru, "That ghost seemed a little too different..."
"How do you mean?" Nemisa asked.
"It was like a complete opposite of-" Nabooru cut off her thoughts as she realized it, "Wait, I know what's going on! I know what those-"
But before Nabooru could clarify things, her foot slipped on something on the ground, causing her to lose her balance and fall over, the back of her head banging onto the side of a nearby table, and she fell to the ground.
"Nabooru!" shouted Link as he came to a stop, running over and holding her.
"Oooh..." Nabooru had a large bump on the back of her head, a slaphappy expression on her lips, and her eyes are spiraling, "I'll have the lime coconut spritz with extra squirrel.." she muttered in a dizzy fit.
"Let's get her to a safe place..." Link sighed.
The group managed to haul Nabooru back to her and Link's bedroom, where they laid her on the pillows.
"Well shes out-cold. Now what?" Togau said.
"Guess we'll have to deal with these ghosts ourselves." Link said, the group nodded and headed out of the bedroom shutting the door behind them.
"What a pain," Nemisa sighed, "Lady Nabooru even sounded like she figured out what was happening too."
"So what do we do then?" Aviel asked desperately, "Can we even fight those things?"
"Not sure, It's hard to tell with ghosts." Link said. Despite his uncertainly though, he decided to get his sword and shield equipped just in case.
"I don't have my handaxe, and Imra and Oseg are back at barn, so I'm so I guess we're relaying on you two!" Togau said, gesturing to Link and Nemisa.
"Great, am I going to punch a ghost, then?" Nemisa asked rolling her eyes.
"Come on, less arguing, more searching." Link said. As he went on ahead, an odd thought occurred to him.
'Wait, could the ghost possibly be that dark man I saw in my dreams..." Link thought, 'Am I putting everyone in danger with this...?'
He then shook his head to try and clear those thoughts and they all continued on.
The group eventually made their way back to the hallway where Nabooru ha d slipped and fell. As they looked around, Togau realized her barefoot had stepped in some liquid.
"Weird," she said, kneeling down and looking at the puddle, "This is where Nabooru slipped, but it's just a small bit of water."
"What was a puddle of water doing here?" Nemisa said looking around. "There's no bowl or anything."
"This is really weird and creepy..." Aviel said.
The group continued on through the halls, it was then they heard a strange sound in one of the rooms. Aviel froze up and clung to Link.
"W-What was that?" she asked.
"Sounds like it came from that room." Togau said, pointing to a nearby door.
"Okay, I'll go check." Link said, gripping his sword as he approached the door.
"Ah wait!" Nemisa shouted, a little too frantically, "I-I don't think the ghost would be in there!"
"Why not?" asked Togau.
"W-Well, it's um..."
"Its okay Nemisa," Link nodded, "I'll be fine." he started to enter the room.
"Wait, you can't!" shouted Nemisa, suddenly running up pushing at him, knocking the two of them forward into the room, and the door slammed shut.
"Ack, the heck was that for Nemis-" Link paused as he realized where he was, a bedroom of sorts, but he wasn't sure who's it was.
One thing was for sure, while the room was done up like most living quarters in the palace, what made this one standout was it was filled with numerous plush dolls of various animals and creatures; pretty much all them cutely designed. Some were made after cuccos, Deku Scrubs, Gorons, some Chus, even a Poe or two. Link looked around left and right, seeing them piled up on the bed and on the shelves.
"Just what is all this-" Link before he felt the presence of a powerful force growing behind him. He turned to see Nemisa clenching her fist with an almost demonic look in her eyes. "N-Nemisa? ...w-wait, is this your room?"
"Your highness..." she said darkly, as she cracked her knuckles, "Please stand still for a few minutes while I beat your memory of this room out of your mind..."
"Wait, that's not how amnesia works!" exclaimed Link.
Meanwhile, outside of the room, Aviel and Togau stayed together, not sure of what was going on in there.
"Do you think they're alright?" Aviel asked.
"Course reckon." Togau said grinning, "They'll be fine, those two are tough as nails!"
"Do nails work on ghost though?" Aviel asked.
Suddenly, Link went bursting out of the door and crashing into a wall. Aviel and Togau stood in disbelief as they watched him slowly slide down the wall and fall head first into a large jug, his legs ticking out of the top of it.
Nemisa soon came out after that and shut the door.
"W-What just happened?" Togau asked.
"A crisis has been averted." Nemisa said simply, shutting the door.
"Sorry..." muttered Link from inside the pot.
The group went back to their investigation, walking down the halls. Nemisa was still a bit flustered by what happened earlier. She took a look to Link who was walking ahead, and then back to Aviel and Togau who were walking behind them. She made a small sigh as she paced herself faster to catch up to Link, nudging him to get his attention.
"Hm? Something the matter Nemisa?" Link asked.
"Your highness, I... apologize for my action earlier... What happened in there was... well..." she whispered, "J-Just... don't say anything about that to anyone, okay?"
"It's okay." Link shrugged, "I won't tell anyone. I don't even think there's anything wrong with having an interest like that." he scratched his cheek with a small grin, "If anything, it's kind of cute of you..."
Nemisa's head flushed lightly from those words, before she whacked Link lightly on the back.
"Y-You don't have to put it like that!" Nemisa whispered loudly.
"What are you two talkin' bout?" asked Togau.
"It's nothing!" said Nemisa.
"Ah, I see." nodded Togau, "A lover's quarrel."
"L-Lovers?!" exclaimed Nemisa, "It's nothing of the sort!"
As Link watched Nemisa and Togau arguing, he glanced up and couldn't help but notice something... odd about a lit torch above them. The way it flickered was unusual to say the least. It seemed to be growing and changing shape.
"Um... guys...?" Link said, pointing up at the odd torch. Everyone looked up to see the torch come to life and cackle evilly, it's form making a horrific hollow expression and coming down at the group.
"The ghost!" screamed Aviel, she turned to run away, only to see the blue wisp right in front of her. "The other ghost!" Link ran in front of her with his sword out, ready to fight the blue wisp, only for them to see something coming up from behind the blue one, even more yellow and blue wisps coming up, all with those eerie hollow faces.
"EVEN MORE GHOSTS!" shouted Aviel.
"Screw it, let's get outta here!" shouted Togau, and the four of them went running away from the gang of ghosts.
"What re we going to do?!" shouted Aviel, "There's too many of them!"
Their escape was halted by another cluster of ghosts coming down from the other end of the hallway, all laughing and cackling like the others.
"This whole place is haunted!" exclaimed Nemisa.
Link eyed a door right by them, and saw the ghost coming at them from both sides.
"Quick, get in here!" Link said, opening the door and letting everyone in, before he went in and slammed the door shut.
"Whew..." Link said. "I don't know how long this will throw them off, we'll have to figure out our next plan and-"
"Your highness." Nemisa said in a petrified voice, "Look."
Link turned around, in confusion of what they were talking about, only to see the three of them cowering at the sight of two creatures before them. They were vaguely human in appearance, though they seemed to be covered in some kind of energy, one as a yellow-orangish color while the other was a light-to-darkish blue. They were both smiling gleefully and flying around the normally vacant room laughing creepily.
"Kyyyaaa!" screamed Aviel at the top of her lungs, clinging to Link's arm.
"W-What the heck kinda spooks are those?!" exclaimed Togau, grabbing onto Link's other arm.
"Can... we even do anything about this?!" Nemisa said, finding herself backing up.
Link narrowed his eyes, broke out of the girl's grip and pulled out his sword, "Everyone get out of here, I'll hold them off!"
"How can you even fight them?!" exclaimed Aviel.
"I don't know, but I'll do whatever I can!" Link said with determination in his eyes.
Nemisa stared at Link, seeing the sharp look in his expression. She paused, before she nodded to herself and stood beside Link, bringing up her fists.
"Fine, I'll fight by your side, your highness!" she stated, pumping her fists.
Link nodded and turned back to confront the two spirits, who floated forward, looking at the four slightly. Their gleeful expressions turned to hollow ghastly ones and flew straight out at Link and Nemisa.
"Get ready!" Link shouted.
It was then that seemingly out of nowhere, a large splash of water came down on the two spirits, knocking them to the ground.
"Kyyaaa!" they heard two high-pitched voices scream.
"Huh?" Link exclaimed, he and the girls standing there blankly as they saw the two spirits bodies were... more solid then they thought.
"There!" shouted a new voice Everyone turned to see Nabooru holding a bucket with water dripping down from it, "Finally found you all!"
"Aww, Lady Nabooru ruined our fun." said one of the 'spirits'.
"I think we have bigger problems then that now, sister..." said the other.
Everyone finally got to see the two of them were actually normal Gerudo women, ones that Link recognized. They looked nearly identical to each other, the only difference was one wore orange clothes and had a bright expression in her eyes, while the other wore blue and had a deadpan look in hers.
"Ah heh heh..." chuckled the orange-clad lady, "Hello your highness, How do you do this dark and gloomy night?"
"Greetings our king, we hope you weren't too filled with dread and fright." rhymed the other, bowing her head.
"Y-You're the two that I met the morning after I got here!" Link exclaimed.
"I... think we need to discuss this matter." Nabooru said crossly.
"Link, I'd like to introduce you to these two..." sighed Nabooru, the group had finally recollected their senses after the encounter with the two 'spirits' and were now resting at the dining room.
"Allow us Lady Nabooru," said the orange girl, she conjured fireballs in her hands and juggled them like toy balls, "I am the mystic of fire, who burns with passion, I am Kesuta, lady of the flame!
The blue girl waved her hands around her, generating ice magic which blew in gentle waves, "And I am the mistress of ice, cold and rigid... Korume of frost is my name..."
"They're our town mystics." Nabooru explained, "They help us around here with any matters involving spirits, magic or occult matters." she paused and glared at them, "They're also known for pulling pranks."
"Wait, you mean to tell me this whole thing was some practical joke?!" exclaimed Nemisa in a fit of fury.
"Do you know these two?" Link asked the others.
"I've heard we have mystics, but I never actually met them, or knew what their powers were." Nemisa said.
"Yes, it appears those spirits we thought we saw were just these two using their fire and ice magic." Nabooru explained.
"Correct, we specialize in elemental magic of the two extreme temperatures." Kesuta said, putting her hands together gleefully.
"We rarely get to use our powers for battle, so it's fun to unwind and use them for pranks." chuckled Korume darkly.
"That explains the water puddle then." Link nodded, "That must have been ice left behind by one of the 'spirits'."
"You gotta be kiddin' me..." Togau sighed.
"You guys are meanies!" shouted Aviel.
"Please our dear king, you must forgive us!" pleaded Kesuta, coming up to Link quickly and wrapping her arms around his chest.
"Yes, if you do, then we promise to cause less of a fuss!" rhymed Korume, putting her arms around his neck.
"Hey, quit kissing up to him!" shouted Nemisa.
"Oh, does the king's bodyguard wish to take him herself?" asked Korume, leaning her head against Link.
"No way!" shouted Nemisa, restraining herself from clobbering them.
Link awkwardly cleared his throat, "Okay, okay. I'll tell you what, I'll forgive the two of you, as long as you atone for scaring everyone and causing Nabooru to get injured."
"Of course, our king!" the two of them both nodded.
"There is just one thing that bugs me though..." Aviel said.
"What is it?" Togau asked, "These two were the ghosts that caused all that trouble, what else is there?"
"It's just... they didn't look anything like the ghost I saw..." Aviel pondered.
"T-That you saw..?"
"Come to think of it, sister..." muttered Kesuta, "Did you not feel a strange presence earlier...?"
"I did..." said Korume, "It somewhat unnerved me, but I wasn't sure what it was..."
"Oh there you are!" said a new voice with a strange echo to it, "I was trying to find you, miss."
The two group turned in shock to see a woman standing before them, she seemed to be a Gerudo, but her body had a blue tint to it and was see-through, with some faint wisps floating around her body.
"I was going to ask you if I could see that locket you have there." she said with a gentle smile, "But you ran away before I could ask you."
Aviel stood frozen, and without a word, nervously nodded and handed the ghost the locket she had.
"Thank you." the ghost said, she moved her hand over the locket and opened it up. Gazing into the locket, she looked up to Aviel and smiled warmly. "I lost this in the ruins long ago, it contained a picture of my boyfriend. Now that I finally remember his face, I can go greet him in the next world. Thank you so much." she said bowing, before her body faded out of existence.
The group stood there blankly, without a word, before Aviel's eyes rolled in the back of her head and she fell backwards into Link's arms.
The next morning, Kesuta and Korume were busy cleaning the halls of the palace of everything they had caused with her tricks. Link, Nabooru, and Nemisa all watched over them while Aviel and Togau were resting.
"Please reflect on your actions, you two." said Nabooru, now wearing a bandage on the back of her head to cover the injury she had, "I hope you've both learned a lesson."
"Yes we have Lady Nabooru, there's something we've both been taught..." sighed Kesuta, worn out from the physical labor she wasn't used to.
"Next time we'll try harder not to get caught.." rhymed Korume, who despite being just as tired didn't show it.
Two seconds later, the two girls were laying face fist on the ground with bumps all over their heads from Nemisa clobbering them.
Meanwhile, Link looked to Nabooru and whispered, "Hey, I was wondering... Are those two... you know, related to...?" he trailed off.
"Yes." nodded Nabooru, "These two are descendants of Kotuke and Koume, also known as Twinrova."
"I thought so..." muttered Link, "And you can trust them?"
"They may be childish pranksters, but they're indeed trustworthy and good at what they do." Nabooru said, "They monitor the town for dark forces, and help us keep tabs on Ganondorf's situation in prison."
"Well, I guess if you trust them, then I will too." Link nodded. Despite that though, another thought nagged at him.
'They sensed something dark inside of me that one night...' he thought to himself, 'Was it because of that dream...?'
Link had a feeling this new life of his was only going to get stranger from then on.
Hopefully without the ghosts of the past haunting him...
Well I ended up enjoying this chapter more then I thought I would. It was a lot more comedic, and I was able to properly introduce the mystic twins, which will help me later down the road. I'm still ironing out the details of the next chapter, so give it some time. Thanks everyone for reading, and give me a like, follow or review if you enjoyed it!