So hey Peeps. New Chap.
FYI instead of Green K it's something else entirely. but it more or less has the same effect as Green K.
Summary: An interpretation of the Superman story featuring our young hero Link as comes to grips with his emerging superpowers. He must hide his abilities from his new friends and try to uncover the mystery behind his parents disappearance. Complicating matters is the presence of a super villain, who may be connected.
Disclaimer: I do not own...but sue me anyways
Chapter 3: New Start
When I got back to Hateno I was in utter disbelief. Everything was gone. The house and the farm were completely destroyed at the bottom of the crater. Ma and Pa were gone. I couldn't believe it, I wouldn't believe it!
I watched as the news van was trying to film and as police vehicles were spreading out KEEP OUT! tape along the outside. I could tell they'd need a lot of it. A crowd was there as well and people started to video record on their cell phones. I ran up to an nearby police car that was blocking my way into the crater. I vaulted over it and immediately heard the shocked calls from the police officers.
"Hey kid, get back here!"
I ignored them and continued on. However, the closer I got to the center..the weaker I felt. I came to a stop once I reached one of the destroyed barn doors. I tried to push it away but for once, I struggled. It moved a bit and fortunately enough for me to slip through. Once through, I nearly faint at the overwhelming pain against my body. It felt like a ton of bricks were pounding against me. I've never felt this weak before.
Suddenly there's a soft red glow to the side of me. Once my eyes lock on to the object, I'm nearly drained of all my energy and I'm quickly losing focus. I notice something else on the ground— and it's Pa's watch! The one he always wore. I get happy that I found something so important to him, but then realization hits me. If the watch Pa always wore was here...then that only meant.
I intake an icy gasp, mortified. Why did this happen? Tears fall from my eyes as I hear the incoming sounds of policemen. They pry the barn doors open and go towards me, but I'm unaware. I had already passed out, with my father's watch tightly held in my hand.
"It's a shame what happened." spoke a voice.
"Yes..those poor boys, now they're all alone." replied another.
"Do we know if they had any other family members?"
"No.., Rusl Foreston had no prior ken and his wife Uli..well her parents won't return our calls."
There was a sudden knock and the sound of a door being opened.
"How is he?" said a new voice that sounded familiar. Like Colin's.
"He's doing fine, we just completed cleaning the red dust off him. We'll give you a moment with him." There was the sound of the door opening and closing once more as a scraping noise was heard. It sounded like a chair.
"H-Hey..Link..," said the voice that sounded near it's breaking point. It had to be Colin, but he was devastated.
"I don't know if you can hear me or not bro..but we're all alone now." Colin said. He must have been crying because I felt a sudden wetness on my shoulder.
"I've tried to put on a brave face in front of everyone but I simply can't keep that up!"
He cried into my shoulder and continued for a whole five minutes before I placed my hand into his blonde hair. He stiffen up, but probably because he didn't know I was awake.
" it's okay Col, I'm still here and I won't leave you. You can cry because I'll be brave for the both of us." I say as I soothingly rub his hair. It seems to work because he calms down slightly.
I finally open my eyes to see I'm in a white room and in what appears to be a medical bed.
"Where are we?" I ask him.
"We're in a hospital."
"A hospital?"
"Yeah, it's one of the advanced ones in the city."
"Oh.." that made a lot of sense actually. The ones back in Hateno didn't look this advanced or...sci fi. Before I could question him further, a middle aged tanned woman with a white coat walked in with two other people. One was...female and wore a baby blue nurse uniform while the other was a young male that wore a simple black suit and tie.
"Oh, it seems you are awake my boy. I am Doctor Nabooru, and this is my assistant Buliara." Doctor Nabooru stated. Though to both me and Colin Buliara looked like a bouncer.
"And this is Vice Principal Shad, from Hyrule Academy." Doctor Nabooru added on. Both Colin and I turn our heads in the direction of the Vice Principal. In my head I was in utter shock at seeing such a man from the esteemed Academy. I could only imagine Colin as I looked at him from the corner of my eye. His mouth was in a 'o' shape and I'm pretty sure a fly would find itself into it if he kept it that way.
"Not to be rude or anything… but what would a person, let alone a Vice President, from that school be doing here?" I ask.
"Mr. Foreston," Shads says, as he digs through his bag and pulls out a letter, " Allow this letter to explain." Shad says as he hands me a rectangular, brown-colored envelope, sealed together neatly with a three triangle symbol embossed on it.
I turn it over to look to look at the front and to feel the texture. I see me and Colin's name written in fine calligraphy. I see another name, that's long and complicated. " Who's Rhoam Bosphoramus?"
"You'll find out," he replies, " Now open it Mr. Foreston."
I listen and carefully open the envelope without damaging the seal. I pull out a another letter with a signed name at the bottom. I read the letter loud enough for Colin to hear.
" Dear Link and Colin Foreston,
I have received word of your tragedy, and I send you my sincerest condolences.
I would like you both to attend Hyrule Academy, it is a private school located in the west district of Castle Town. We birth some of the most intelligent and successful bright mind young individuals in all of the kingdom. The academy offers multiple chances for a future career.
I am writing this letter to you two young men to persuade you to attend our school. Both of your tuitions, if you both choose to attend, will be paid for in full.
Again, I am truly sorry for your loss and I hope you consider accepting my offer.
Sincerely,
Headmaster Rhoam Bosphoramus of Hyrule Academy"
"Holy Din.." is what I hear Colin say, and I'm not far off from his thought process. Why would they want us to attend there? We're nowhere near or even able to breath near their social class. Well at least it's a full scholarship. I can't complain.
Shad clears his throat to get our attention back. " whatever you boys decided, I will be outside waiting for you."
Wait.
Hold on.
We got to decide today?
Shad apparently noticed the shock look on my face and let out a small laugh. " no, you don't have decide today, though it is preferable. I'll simply be outside until you do," he said before adding, " if you decide today, you both leave tomorrow. There will be two students from our buddy system that will come via limo to pick you both up. I'm just here to confirm your choice."
I look at Colin who appears to be in deep thought, if only one of my abilities were to read minds.
"Well I'll leave you both to it," Shad says as he follows both Doctor Nabooru and nurse Buliara out. Leaving me and Colin to ourselves.
Nothing seems to come to mind until Colin speaks up.
"I-I think we should take him up on the offer."
I look at him in the eyes to see if I can spot any doubt.
"You sure lil bro?"
"I think...I may want to attend the academy…" he says before adding, " it.. hurts to go back to Hateno..I don't want to go back."
I pull him into my arms and hold him close.
" We won't."
We both make our way to the limo that Vice Principal Shad road in and I waved at the window.
He rolled it down and looked at us with expectants.
"So?" he asks.
"We accept."
The next Day…
Monday, October 8
"Wait, what?" Ilia asked in shocked. "You guys are leaving?"
It's been a whole day since Shad left and he told us to say our farewells to anyone we were close to. I wanted to keep things as quiet as possible but Colin wanted to at least say good to Ilia and Talo. The reason I didn't want to say anything was because I didn't want to see the devastation on their faces. Or to see them try and make us stay. Which Ilia of course did.
"You guys can't leave!" she exclaims, before turning to face me. " Link, we're sorry about your..parents, but running away is not the answer!" Talo was silently in the corner of the patient room, he looked to be in another room entirely.
"We're not running away." I say, still wondering if Colin was smart for this decision, " We're attending Hyrule Academy."
Both of them look towards me with shocked expressions. Talo looks towards Colin as if to see if Link was telling the truth or hadn't hit his head from the accident.
"It's true Talo, we're attending the school." Colin told him.
"But- But Hyrule Academy is a prestigious High school! Din, Link; how could you possibly afford for both of you to go?!" Ilia ask.
"The headmaster offered to cover our tuitions."
"But why?" This time Talo asked. I guess he couldn't imagine anyone from the city giving anything out free.
"I know why," Interjected Ilia, " it's a publicity stunt to gain attention for their school! I can see it now, 'CNN: Headmaster takes in Orphans!'"
I saw as Colin stiffened at her words and apparently so did she.
"Ah! I'm sorry Col..I didn't mean that.." she apologized to him.
"It's fine, you just caught me off guard," he said and waved his hand to show he forgave her, " anyways, please guys; me and Link need to do this."
Noticing that Ilia started to cry, I thought to comfort her, but instead stay where I am to not make anything worse. Talo sighs, then, suddenly places a hand on my shoulder and smiles at me.
"So, the Foreston brothers are going to the big time, eh?"
Colin and I both smile at him.
"I guess so."
Once Talo and Ilia had left, the limousine from Hyrule Academy pulled up. The windows pull down and there are two boys smiling back at us.
They both got out the car and stood right up to us. The taller one, who seemed about my height, had blonde hair make shifted into a braided ponytail and intense red eyes. He wore a black jacket that had the schools insignia, black slacks and a pair of converses. The shorter boy, even shorter than Colin, had green hair and wore the same clothing as the taller boy.
Must be the school uniform?
" I'm Shiek, and this here is Skull." he says pointing towards the shorter kid.
" I'll assume you're Link," he says points pointing to Colin, " and you're Colin." he says pointing at me.
I let out an actual laugh before correcting him. " actually it's the other way around."
"Oh..well nice to meet you guys, we're your buddy system." Shiek says before gesturing us into the limo.
"Woah.." Colin says as he surveys the inside of the limo.
"Never been in a Limo before?" Skull asked, as he watches Colin's reaction.
"Nope, first time" he says quietly.
We soon head off and make our way towards the academy. While in the car, Shiek and Skull tells us what will happen once we get there.
" So, once we arrive, Skull and I will take you to the headmaster's office where he'll get you your schedules, school access code, and other necessary supplies."
"Okay," I say, before something he said confuses me. " hold on, it's school today?"
"Yeah, it's Monday" Skull answers my inquiry. " School starts at eight every morning and ends at two in the afternoon. A whole six hours."
"But are we even prepared for school?" Colin asks as he looks at me. I merely shrug as I really don't know.
"Don't worry, we got you guys back" Shiek says as he gives us a gleaming smile.
"Ah, okay," Well, they did seem nice, so it couldn't be that bad. "Thanks." I add.
"Don't thank me yet Link, not until you meet our friends." Shiek says grinning from ear to ear. "They'll definitely like you guys."
Well, that smile made things slightly more bad.
"Uh, don't ever smile like that again ," I say as I burst out laughing. Shiek looked at me quizzically before he too started to laugh. Eventually so did Skull and Colin.
"Anyways, what's their names?" Colin questions.
"Well, our closest friends sit at our table during B lunch. That would be Daruk, Revali, and Mido." he says. Then after a short moment he snaps his fingers, " oh there's some girls as well that sit across from us at a different table. They're pretty chill." He says. " there sits Mipha, Midna, Saria, and Malon— whom by the way is taken."
"Oh, by who?" I ask.
"By me!" Shiek says, before getting smacked on his head by Skull.
"You wish." he says, before telling the real truth. " Shiek likes Malon, and they're basically together."
"I detect a but in there." Colin says.
"He hasn't told her, and she hasn't said anything either."
"Wow." I say. " anyone else we should know about?"
"Oh, uh Zelda," he says after a moment of thought, " she sits there too."
"Zelda is my sister," Shiek says. " she's cool."
"And a lot of guys like her~" Skull taunts Shiek.
"Don't remind me."
Me and Colin laugh at the exchange. We had to admit, Shiek and Skull were funny.
"So you guys play any sports?"
Shrugging, I mentioned that me and Colin played basketball from time to time.
"You guys any good?"
"I'm okay, but Colin I feel has more potential."
Shiek looks towards Colin and speaks to him.
"You should join the team! Tryouts are next week."
" I may, if I have the time." he says.
"Me and my friends play to. They're more into it than I am. I prefer tennis." Shiek says proudly. Though Skull fakes a cough and says "wuss".
I laugh as they both wrestle inside the limo. After they seem to calm down, I ask a question that's been bugging me. " So, where will we live?"
"Oh, um. So like the there's a dorm building that's separate from the school. B Wing is the boys side and G Wing is for the girls. The headmaster will give you guys a room, but you'll likely have separate roommates."
"Oh, why's that?" Colin asked.
" Dorms are set up by grade level. So whoever is in the same grade as you will be your mate." Shiek says.
"Okay, makes sense." Colin says a bit sadly.
"Don't worry, you might get to bunk with me." Skull says as he smiles at Colin. Colin returns the smile though he would have rather stayed with his brother.
Suddenly the limo slows to a stop meaning they arrived at the school.
Shiek and Skull get out and soon me and Colin do as well.
I take a look at the campus and my breath is taken away.
"Well, we're sure not in Hateno anymore."
till next time