|| Chapter 2 ||
||Hero of some sort ||
Sage yawned, turning over the yellowed pages of a book on the geography of the land of Hyrule. The two girls have been cooped up in her house for around 2 hours and every now and then, they could hear the sound of wood clashing against wood, as if something was being built.
Faith would look out the window every few minutes to see if they were going to burn the witch anytime soon. The half-asleep girl had already confirmed her suspicions about the hooded girl wanting to save the witch – due to the fact that the two of them knew the girl about to be burnt at stake.
"How long do they take to build that freaking pyre? I'm itching to try to shoot something and see the red ice in action." Faith groaned, eyes still fixated on the green book in her hands. Sage has said that she could keep it, as well as two other books that discussed the Twilight Realm and the monsters that could be found all over Hyrule .
"Are you sure that the red ice won't just. . . I don't know, melt away?" Sage inquired, picking up an arrow that fell out of the quiver and throwing it at Faith – who caught it and tucked it into the quiver with the others.
"Oh trust me, it won't. The only fire that will melt it is blue fire and it has to be from one of those ice caverns near Zora's Domain." Faith assured, pulling out a bottle with a beautiful, blue flame dancing and crackling in the small, confined space.
"In all honesty, I'm surprised it didn't go out even if I sealed it off from oxygen for about a month or so." Faith shrugged, tapping the glass bottle a few times before putting it back inside her satchel.
"I'm surprised it didn't burn your satchel." Sage joked and Faith rolled her eyes playfully.
A comfortable silence fell upon the room as the two Hyrulians continued reading the books that were either on their laps or in their hands.
"What page are you on?" Sage asked, lifting her book from atop her face and looking at Faith, who was now sitting on the windowsill. "I'm on page 243 now." Faith answered, as she turned the page while looking out the window – that had a perfect view of the center of Castle Town.
"Which hero are you reading 'bout?"
"The Hero of. . . Time. . ." Faith said, before placing the books into her satchel and jumping off and onto the carpeted floor. She strapped her quiver onto her back and placed her clawshot and one of her sharpest daggers on her belt. Her sword and shield was on her back too -for once- and not in her hands as Sage was confident she wouldn't need it.
With one ice arrow in her left hand and the bow on her right, the hooded girl looked over at the girl that still lay on the ground.
"Showtime?" Sage asked, standing up and dusting herself off. Faith nodded with a small smirk and raced towards the Town Square – of sorts -, dragging the bespectacled girl with her.
Once they closed the door behind them, they could hear the chanting of the crowd. They chanted something along the lines of 'Penitence and your life'.
The sky was of a crimson hue, much like the fire that was lit on a torch near the pyre. The crowd was thick but not all of them had an expression that expressed pure hate. Some appeared to be sad and some seemed to be happy that the witch was going to be burnt. Some raised their hands close to their face as if they wanted to look away, and some kept their eyes glued onto the pyre.
The witch was tied up to her chest, though everyone knew she would be tied up until her eyes if the guards were ordered to or had the chance to do so. Sage has noticed that Charlotte's – the witch - hair has been cut short and wondered why they would actually make the process longer.
Faith was more curious about why the Prince and a princess from a visiting country were there, closest to the pyre. The blue eyed girl tugged on Sage's arm and dragged her along to confront the Prince, who of course, is a friend of theirs as well.
"Why are you burning her on the pyre, Raymond?!" Sage yelled, quite infuriated. The members of royalty - as well as their guards- looked at the two of them.
"Faith? Sage? Why are you two here?" Raymond inquired, shocked. That seemed to tick Sage off even more. Faith however, let Sage yell at the boy, both for amusement and for a distraction of sorts when they decide to light the wood on fire.
"Who are you two?! I command you to tell me at once!" The princess' voice boomed and the guards seemed to flinch before raising their spears and pointing them at the two girls.
By this point, they put two and two together.
'So . . . this princess likes Raymond, but he has taken quite the shine to Lottie over there. So somehow, she was able to find out Lottie was a witch and then trick Raymond by saying that the love he felt for and with her was merely a spell.' These - seemingly - sensible set of events were played in their minds and they smirked.
"Geez, Raymond. For a person that's been thought by the holder of the Triforce of Wisdom, you don't seem very bright." Faith insulted as the Prince snorted.
"And you're as brave as your father and mother?"
"Oh trust me, I didn't want to be the next bearer of this-"She raised her right hand and almost immediately, the shard at the bottom right started glowing a gold hue. "-thing. But I'm sure I have a hell lot more courage than any of you." Faith retorted.
"This girl is the daughter of the Heroes of Twilight? Ha! What a joke!" The princess laughed and Faith glared at her almost immediately, before switching her gaze to the bow.
"Well at least she's known! Even a 'commoner' like me doesn't know who you are, and we 'commoners' are supposed to praise you 'royals' like you're deities!" Sage shot back, but before Raymond or Faith could say anything else, the princess yelled something in an unknown language.
The guard at her side nodded, before snatching a lit torch and setting the stack of wood beneath Charlotte's feet on fire.
Faith smirked and sighed in relief, drawing her bow. "Geez, finally have something to shoot!"
Pulling back the string, she aimed right for the bottom of the wooden stack so that the red ice wouldn't end up freezing 'Lottie' as well. Taking a deep breath, she let go of the string and the arrow landed onto the pile with the sound of something shattering.
There was a few seconds of silence. The –still unknown -
The frost you'd likely see on windows every freezing, winter's night appeared and curled around the pile of wood, as if trying to encase it in layers of the red ice. The fire that was started by the guard was put out once the frost appeared, so, without further a-do, Faith launched the claw of the clawshot at the pole that the blonde haired girl was tied onto.
Once the claw retracted back into the contraption, she brought out her dagger and cut the ropes that bind her to the pole. Rashes were littered all over her arms and wrists which would cause Sage to frown. People were gasping, some people were smiling and some people were growling.
"Well, I have to be a 'Hero' of some sort, right?" Faith stuck her tongue out, before undoing the knots of the blindfold that would restrict her from seeing anything.
"Why did y-?!" The young witch was interrupted by the soldiers that marched onward onto the stage. Faith grabbed her wrist and bolted into the backstreets of the town.
Sage was long gone by the time and was waiting in front of the house that was owned by Jovani, the man that was turned to gold. However, he's hanging around in Telma's bar now, since the heroes were able to get all 60 Poe souls for him, Gengle –his cat – still resides there, however.
"Where are we going?" Charlotte inquired, breathing heavily and rubbing the rashes on her arms. Faith let go of her wrist – seeing as though she could run just fine – and flashed her a smile.
"Well, Sage is waiting for us at Jovani's house . . ."
"You mean the guy that was turned to gold?"
"Yeah, that's Jovani. We'll wait until the guards are done searching, then you'll go with Sage." Faith explained, but the witch mentioned something a little alarming in her sentence.
"What about you?" She raised an eyebrow at the tunic-clad girl, who just chuckled and smiled with a faraway look in her eyes.
"Maybe I'll continue finding my parents. Heck, maybe I'll try to get my brother back to normal. I'm not staying here for any longer though." Her expression turned stern before she turned on her heel and heading toward their destination.
I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE ACTUALLY READ THE FIRST CHP. I AM SO HAPPY, GAWD. :]
Next chp will focus on Link and (Name), then it'll go to Faith and her brother, Michael.
Also, hopefully I'll get the next Five Nights at Leo's thing running. See ya later!
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