Chapter 11: Another Flower?
"What's going on?" Roy looked around as the red lights blinked everywhere with loud noises, like in fire drills.
"I don't know!!" Marth shouted over it. He checked the hallways and they were abandoned. He came back to look at Link and Roy for any suggestions of what to do. Roy looked around as if deaf and was fascinated by the flashing lights. Link, on the other hand, looked at the ground quietly and emotionless like a zombie. 'Joy, just when I need them to be loud and obnoxious they're not'. Marth took over since no one else did.
"Okay, let's go to the office and see what's going on." Marth looked at Roy and Link. They both nodded.
"What about Link Jr.?" Link pointed to the little boy, who was surprisingly still asleep.
"It's probably just a drill," Marth thought since they always were but he had a gut feeling it wasn't, "And if it's not, then we can just run back and get him." Link nodded after he took a minute to think about it. They were jogging to the hidden office in the cafeteria.
"Where the heck is everyone?" Link asked when they reached the cafeteria. He didn't shout it like he usually did, but he was getting back to his normal self. They looked around, no one was there. It was deserted, it was a scary scene. All three of them could feel each other's nervousness even if they didn't care to share it.
"What do we do?" Roy asked his face pale with crazed widened eyes. He was shaking, or trying not to but couldn't stop himself.
"Roy, are you okay?" Roy shook his head, small beads of sweat started to appear on his face. "We'll go quickly check the office and then go back to the room okay?" Roy and Link nodded. Link stood by Roy looking all around him, something in the air wasn't right. Marth's put a hand on Roy's shaking shoulder as they neared the office. They didn't have a chance to open the door when it was kicked open by black clothed men. Guns were held at the ready, and it was all the information they needed to know for what to do next, run!
"GO to the dorm so that we can get Link, okay?!?!" Both nodded. Men were running after them, their heavy black boots beat on the ground like their racing hearts. Again, before they could open the door to the room, it was kicked open by the same people.
"AHHHH!!!" they shouted out of surprise. Link tightened his eyes, 'where's Link Jr.?' Soon his question was answered. One of the black soldiers of death were holding poor little Link who was unconscious with a dart in his side.
"GET THEMM!!! LET NONE OF THEM ESCAPE!!!" one of them shouted. It was hard to tell since they looked alike.
"RUNNN!!!!" Marth yelled. Roy took the lead while Marth had to drag the shocked Link. "We have to go, NOW!!!!"
"No, but we have to save him!" Link shoved and pushed to try to go back. Marth, for once, slapped Link across the face.
"GET A GRIPP!! If you didn't notice, there are tons and tons of soldiers trying to kill us!!! Yes, we'll save him, but not here and not now, I promise okay?" Link nodded, knowing Marth always kept his promises.
"MARTH, dead end ahead!" Roy shouted as he ran towards them. They rushed and took a right instead of going straight. A door passed them to the outside, a cold wind blew over their skin but it didn't slow them down. The dark forest came into view and soon they were in the maze of trees.
"Okay,…let's……stop,…….I think…..we ….should take…… a break for a few seconds." Marth panted when they stopped. The sweat evaporated off their skin, when the next wind came, it made them shiver in the cold.
"What do we do?" Roy looked around, at the tired faces of Marth and Link, at the direction of their infested school and now at the dark, dark forest around them. There were no other words to put it, he was scared. So many things were rushing into his head, he was freaking out. If Marth and Link, didn't know him than he would probably look crazy. To sum it all up, he was afraid of one thing the most, the dark.
"Chill, we'll probably have to camp out here tonight." Link said casually, his face betrayed him, showing how not being able to save Link Jr. really affected him.
"No, we're not camping right here. I can't! I CAN'T!!!"
"Shut up, you fucking retard!! They're going to find us!!" Link glared daggers at Roy, not having time for this.
"You guys, stop fighting please!!!" Marth begged as he watched the school to see if he could spot anyone coming.
"Well, tell him that or else!"
"Fine, Link stand watch." Link nodded, being glad he wasn't going to deal with the freaking out kid.
"Roy, are you okay?" Roy stood there, tense, trying not to shake. He shook his head as Marth neared him. "Please, tell us what's wrong, we can help you." Roy slowly opened his terrified eyes.
"Just, like good byes, I don't like the darkness." Roy whispered. Marth tried to remember why he didn't like good byes again.
"I'm sorry Roy. But you need to be strong right now or else we're going to get captured." Roy nodded trying to make himself not be scared, easier said than done.
"We should move, they're getting out of the school." Link walked over. Marth nodded as he tapped Roy's shoulder to follow Link. Roy nodded as Marth followed behind.
"Where are we going to do? We can't camp out here," Link looked behind at Roy, "because of Sir Scaredy Pants here." Roy could only look at the ground ashamed.
"Link, stop being a retard for once. We'll try to see if someone will be kind enough to let us spend the night." Roy looked at Marth with a small smile of gratitude.
"Yup, nothing weird about three boys in the forest at night." Link muttered to himself. Soon they saw lights in the dark forests. "Quick, get down." All three of them literally dropped down on the cold earthy floor. After a few minutes of lying on the freezing hard ground they got up seeing that the light weren't moving, and therefore, not people or a person. As they peered closer to see what it was, they saw a small little cottage with smoke coming from the stone chimney.
"I always wanted to live in a small cottage in the forest, with all my friends and family close by, having the starry sky all to myself, roasting marshmallows in the summer night that is my dream!"
'I miss you too, I hope that your dream does come true'
"Marth, Marth!!" Link shoved Marth forward after thirty seconds of silence.
"Wha!?!?! Sorry, I was having a flash back." Roy looked at him weird, while Link tried to look the same but failed, knowing exactly who he was thinking of. "Maybe they could let us stay for the night, or at least give us a match."
Knock, knock, banged the fist against the wooden, secure door.
"Well, let's go it looks like no one is going to answer-" suddenly the door was creaked open little by little to reveal a woman. She was a woman in her twenties wearing one of those old fashioned night gowns and bouquet. She only had a small candle that only revealed the bottom half of her face. Her blue eyes, on the other hand, didn't need much light to sparkle in the dark.
"Can I help you young gentle men? It's funny seeing people here at this hour." She giggled like a school girl as she looked up and down at their dirt covered bodies.
"Sorry to disturb you, but we were wondering if we could stay the night, or at least have a match to light a fire to kept us warm." Marth asked giving her a sad face, a face that no adult could resist.
"Well, my cottage is only for one person, so I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I can give you a match box. I also have a wood box outside next to the house that you can help yourself to, to help build your fire."
"Thank you so much." Roy beamed with a big smile, something that seemed to be lost a few hours ago. The woman was shocked as if Roy just popped out of thin air to thank her.
"Excuse me miss, are you okay?" Marth's voice snapped her back to reality.
"Yes, pardon me while I go get the matches."
"Whoa, what the heck just happened?" Link asked back to his old self. "I can't believe, that your charm worked, even though you're not that charming if I do say myself."
"And how do you know that I'm not charming?"
"Trust me, blue hair? I mean come on."
"Do you have a problem with my hair color, Barbie?"
"Okay that's it!!!" Before Roy knew it, they were on the floor wrestling each other.
"Um, sorry, am I interrupting anything?" The woman came back with a basket and a small box of matches.
"No they're just getting into fights, it just happens all the time." Roy smiled another big smile. She giggled again.
"Well, if you need any medical supplies, don't be afraid to ask okay?" Roy nodded, as the two other boys were to busy fighting. "Good night boys, you are welcome to breakfast tomorrow morning!!!"
"Good night, thank you so much!!" Roy shouted to her as he dragged Marth and Link out of the cottage door. "Wow, she was really nice, I like her!" Roy beamed as soon as Marth and Link stopped fighting and paid attention.
"Yeah, she is a very kind lady." Marth's mind wondered. 'Was it her? No that's impossible.'
"Well, let's go people, the fire isn't going to start itself." Link commanded.
"Yes, almighty Boss A Lot!!!" Roy shouted as he ran away from Link's dreaded anger.
"You're not going on his side are you?" Link turned to Marth.
"I'm staying out of this! I'll get some wood!" Before Link could say another thing he was off.
"AAAHHHH Link I didn't mean to, please don't kill me!?!?!" Roy pleaded as he went down into a begging position.
"Whoa, I just wanted to help you get some wood for the fire!" Roy cracked open his eyes at the sound of Marth's voice.
"Oh wrong person! Ahahahaha!"
"You seem back to yourself." Marth turned to Roy with a few logs in his arms.
"Yeah, I don't know how to describe it but, I was so freaked out but when I saw her, it all stopped as if she was an angel with a very comforting and safe presence. Wired, no?"
"Not at all. It's an amazing feeling, you never really come by those angels a lot."
"I guess you're right. I guess this broken heart still has a chance to heal." Marth would have asked more about it until Link came into view.
"Took you long enough."
"Roy, can you keep bring in some more wood while, me and Link go to find leaves and twigs?" Marth worried that Roy might say no from his fear of the dark.
"Sure!" The answer surprised both, Link and Marth.
"Okay, we'll be back in a little bit." Roy nodded and was off to get more wood.
"What happened to him?" Link asked, watching the happy figure disappear behind the house.
"What's the matter?" Link asked, noticing Marth's eyes wondered around every second.
"Do you think it's really her? Maybe not her exactly but a sister maybe?" Marth blue eyes shown in the dark like a star, full of hope.
"I don't know, it does seem like it doesn't it?" Marth nodded. "Remember, Roy and Daisy, the Angel?" Link laughed at the memory, while Marth chuckled.
"AAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Roy screamed as he clutched his left leg tightly.
"It's going to be okay??" Marth panicked trying to calm down the crying boy.
"I got her!!!" Link shouted dragging behind Daisy, who was trying to keep up with the sprinting boy. "He's right there!!!" He pointed to Roy.
"What happened?" Link and Marth exchanged looks not daring to say anything. "Aww, Roy what happened?" the crying boy looked up, snot and tears were a collage on his face. She took a towel and dabbed his face, getting rid off some of the snot.
"I FELL AND IT REAAAAAALLLY HURTSSS!!!!!!" Roy shouted between gasps for air, since he was hyperventilating, talking and crying all at the same time. He uncovered his skinning arms to reveal the blood pooling from his knee.
"Oh my! Lets go and fix it!" Daisy picked up and went back into the orphanage with Marth and Link following behind.
"So are we going to tell her what happened?" Link asked quietly for only Matrh to hear.
"Let's just keep it a secret between you and me okay?" Link nodded, "plus it was your fault anyways."
"Shhudd dup!"
Marth and Link went to collect some snacks while Daisy treated poor Roy.
"There you go!" Daisy put a big bright Elmo band aid on Roy's scrapped knee. After the chase to get Roy to sit down so that she could clean the wound, they were both exhausted.
"Thank you Daisy! Are you an angel?" Marth and Link were behind the wall listening in since they didn't want to interrupt with their gram crackers.
"What? Why do you say that?"
"Well, the clear thing you put on my knee really hurt, but right now I don't feel the pain because you're here. Plus you made the evil bacteria die so that they won't hurt me. I think that proves you're an angel!" Marth and Link tried not to fall down laughing.
"What's wrong?"
"Angels live forever and we don't. Are you going to miss me?" Daisy was surprised that he was talking about death already when he was this young.
"No Roy, I won't because, I will be your angel. I'll always guide and protect you!" Daisy hugged him, careful not to touch the knee.
"And don't forget love!"
"Yes, I love you Roy, always and forever."
"That was so beautiful!!" Marth whispered to Link wiping away a tear.
"You got to be kidding me." Link glanced at Marth as if asking Marth if he was that sappy.
"WE GOT GRAM CRAKERS!!!" Link shouted as they entered the room.
"We're not telling them that we were over hearing right?" Marth whispered to Link.
"Are you stupid? Of course we aren't." Link gave a fake innocent smile to Daisy, as he whispered back to Marth.