Sorry this is so delayed. I've been super lazy lately and haven't really been in the mood for writing anything, but when I finally force myself to sit down and write a chapter I couldn't get go or get anything to work out. I'm sorry if this chapter is a little on the slow side again, but it's going to get better soon. please review and tell me what you think.
Chapter 6
"Link!" Link turned his attention upwards and saw a young bird woman, her wings flapping slowly at her side as she descended towards the ground. There was a soft smile on her face as she landed and walked towards him pulling the young man into a tight hug. Link would have been happier to see Medli if the situation was better, he consider Medli and Prince Komali two of his very closest friends, but considering the situation he couldn't bring himself to be happy right now. "Where's Tetra? Weren't you traveling with her?"
Medli saw the instant change in Link's expression and she was taken aback. "Link, what's wrong, has something happened to Tetra?"
Link sighed. He looked around the room and noticed too many people were around, he didn't want that many people listing to what he had to say so instead, so instead he asked, "Do you have somewhere private we can talk?"
Medli gave a curt nod and without another question motioned for Link to follow her into another room. Link fell in stride behind her and the two of them walked into another room just off the side of the large entrance room.
"So whatever is affecting Tetra you think that the answer is going to be in this book?" she asked taking the book from Link's outstretched hand. She pulled the leather book open and began to examine its contents. Her brow furrow. "This text, it's old."
"I know, but I figured since you can understand what Valoo is saying to you, you might be able to understand what this books contents. You are the only person I know that can understand anything like this and I really need your help. This book might save Tetra's life."
She pursed her lips staring at the pages before her for a little longer. "I...I'll do what I can Link, but it might take some time and it might be a really rough translation at best, please understand Link I..."
Link cut her off. "I know, you'll do what you can to help me out, and I appreciate that. Please, we're wasting time discussing this."
She nodded. Heading towards the door she reached for the handle before turning. "I'll do whatever I can Link, you help out my people so much it's all I can do in return to help you." With that she ducked out the door shutting it soundly behind her.
"Link!"
The voice jolted Link awake. Looking around he found himself sitting on Tetra's green couch in the cabin on her ship. But what shocked him more was that Tetra was standing a few feet away from him, in her pirate clothing, but with a look of pure anger on her face. Her hands were at rest on her lips, and her foot was tapping the floor in an annoyed manor. The piece of the triforce that was hanging around her neck was glowing brightly.
Link didn't know if he was asleep, but this felt like a dream, everything around him felt smooth and soft, and like and out of body experience. 'What is going on here?"
"Link!" Tetra cried drawing Link out of his thoughts, she moved across the room and stood a few feet away from him now, her foot tapping in an even more annoyed manor. "What, exactly, do you think you are doing Link?"
"I'm…" began Link, but Tetra cut him off before he could finish.
"There's more going on here Link that you understand, you've got to be careful, because whoever this is pulling the strings here, he's very powerful."
"How do you know this?" Link asked.
"That doesn't matter, but you have to know that he will stop at nothing to make sure that you fail and…I…"
Link rushed forward grabbing a hold of Tetra's hand tightly in his own. He started deep into her eyes, that were now full of surprise and shock at Link's quick movement."I'm not going to let that happen Tetra. You're not going to die. I'm not going to let you, I lo-"
Link felt his voice catch in his dry throat as he saw the tears starting to brim in Tetra's brown eyes. His hands were sweating and shaking slightly. "Tetra I..."
Link opened his eyes to a dark sky outside the window of the room that Medli had offered him while she looked over the book. He didn't remember falling asleep, but given that it was early morning when he first arrive and now it was after dusk, he was more tired than he realized. When was the last time he had slept? The night before Tetra had fallen ill?
He sat up, groaning at how sore he was. Before looking around the room for what had woken him up. Until he heard a knock at his door. He walked over to the door, turning the handle and there in the entry way of the room was Prince Komali. "Can I come in?" he asked. Link nodded without a word and stepped aside allowing Komali to enter shutting the door soundly behind him.
"Any news from Medli yet?" Link asked after the Prince sat down on the couch Link had been sleeping on before. He shook his head in response.
"She has been buried in that book you've given her for hours, locked up in that room. I went to visit her a little while ago, but she look busy scribbling something down on a pad of paper."
"Can you take me to her, I want to see if she's made any progress."
Komali nodded in response.
The loud knock at her bedroom door drew Medli out of her thoughts, shutting the leather book over she called to the person on the other side of the door to enter and as the door opened Link and Komali entered inside. Komali shut the door behind him after he walked inside as Link moved over toward Medli's desk.
"How's it going Medli?" Link asked glancing at her desk. What he saw was several pages of paper with words and phrases written on them. Most of them were scribbled or X out while others didn't make much sense. "Did you find anything useful in that book?"
Medli sighed, exhausted, as she stretched her arms above her head, her body complained in response to her actions, before letting them fall to her side again. "The writing in this book, it's really old, a lot of the phases and places that it references no longer exist in our world."
Link sighed. "I was afraid that this might be a dead end."
"But," Medli moved from Link's side and to her desk and grabbed the sheet of paper that was on top of the pile and the black leather book and handed them over to Link. "toward the end of the book there was this tale of an illness, a sickness, that plague the land a long time ago. It killed a lot of the residents and if not for a young man garbed in green clothing that brought a cure to the land saving hundreds of lives in the process."
"Really?"
Medli nodded. "From what I could translate from the book, on that paper I gave you is a list of ingredients that you need to recreate the cure that the hero had created. It might not only save Tetra but it could also save the residents of that town. But there is a problem, most of the things listed on here, these are places that haven't been around for hundreds of years. I don't know if they even exist anymore or where you could even start to look for them. It's an answer, but not the one that you're looking for. I'm sorry Link, that's all I could find."
Link looked dejected. He glanced at the book and the paper that Medli had given back to him. "It an answer, it's more than I had a few hours ago, thank you Medli for all that you've done."
Medli gave Link a sad smile. "You're welcome, where are you going to go now Link?"
"There is only one place I know of that I can find the answer to this Legend and list of ingredients. The Great Deku Tree on Forest Haven often spoke about the time before the Great Flood and he might know more about the young boy in green of the plague the swept the land. It's not much but it's all I can go on right now."
"You're leaving right now?" Komli exclaimed. "You're exhausted Link, are you sure you don't want to rest here for a while and then go to Forest Haven first thing in the morning?"
Link shook his head. "I don't have much time, Tetra's life is hanging in the balance, and ever second that I hesitate or delay is another minute that I'm close to losing her. Thank you both for your help, I'll be back soon."
Medli gave Link a hug and Komli gave Link a pat on the back and a wish of good Link before Link darted out the door to collect his belonging and make his way to Forest Haven.
Gonzo sat at the edge of Tetra's bed, held tightly in his own was on of Tetra's hand, while is own hands were pressed against his lips. He hadn't moved from this spot since Link had left, despite the arrival of other members of her crew to relieve him so he can get some rest or food but Gonzo refused all of their offers. He needed to stay here, he promised Tetra's mother, before she died, that he was going to take care of Tetra, and he had failed, he felt the pain weld up in his chest at that thought. He was failing the promise that he had made to protect Tetra and until Link was to return he wasn't going to leave her side.
He sighed, looking away from Tetra and to the window on the opposite side of the room. There was nothing but ocean stretched out as he could see. But he knew that Link was somewhere out there, somewhere looking for Tetra's cure, and all he could do was hope that the kid returned again soon with whatever he needed to save Tetra. "Please, please come back soon, please, save her."
Alright Chapter 6 down. Please don't forget to review, they really keep me going and keep me motivated. Thanks in advance.
