Sway
By Silvertress
Disclaimer: I don't own Legend of Zelda
Author's Note: Long time no review. I do love this story and will try to finish it by the end of the summer.(I'm never good with updating). But I've kinda been inspired by the disappearance of a few amazing Zelda websites, but I know the fandom will stay strong.. . Read, Review and Enjoy.
"Life is the struggle against chaos." Nabooru added. Her golden eyes were focused on the mystified Sage of Wisdom. "To eliminate chaos there must be order."
"What good do abstract references of philosophy do us now?" Impa stepped forward to block the Spirit Sage's view of the princess.
"We are dealing with Gods. The only way to define them is by abstract references. We are beneath them." Sheik answered his mother. He stepped towards Zelda who continued to be silent. A bandaged hand grasped her shaking, ashen hands. Her fingers lightly squeezed his fingertips. "Somehow we are going to have to understand them."
"We couldn't even sense what was going on until now. There is no telling how long this has been going on for," Link added. "The only reason we know anything is because Chaos wanted us to know, he was the first one to strike."
"Is there anyway to figure out his motives? We need to know our forces. How many pieces of the tri-force are safe and how much power we still have?" Saria said as she started to wipe Link's swollen cheek with some unknown liquid on her handkerchief.
"There is a way…" Link replied, his sapphire eyes focused on Sheik. The hero strode over to Princess Zelda. He sat down on the side of her not covered in Sheik's tears and gently pulled her hand away from Sheik.
"What are you doing?" Zelda tried to retract her hand and let it rest on Sheik's again.
"Trust me Princess." Link let her go and started to undo his leather gauntlet. The tri-force mark on his hand slowly started to glow as Link brought his naked hand to touch Zelda's. His face lit up in a small smile as he saw an identical mark start to appear on Zelda's hand. Her hand was responding; he could feel the divine warmth like sunshine on Hyrule field in spring. There was hope.
"This isn't right… It doesn't feel right… Link..." The warmth was turning into sweltering heat as the hero could feel his hand start to blister from the heat. The mark on the Princess's hand went from a soft sky blue to obsidian.
"Link... What is this!" Shiek was the first to yell at the hero.
He couldn't reply. Link felt as if something was pulling him somewhere beyond the garden.
"Release her," Sheik grabbed Link's white undershirt and threw him away from the Princess. Saria ran to Link, her eyes grew wide as she saw the hero's raw, pink flesh as it started to crack with white blisters. Sheik cradled the princess as the mark on the back of her hand disappeared.
"What in the divine realm was that?" Impa's crimson eyes were on fire as they narrowed in on the hero.
"That was not the tri-force of Wisdom. Nayru is no longer available." Sheik caressed the back of Zelda's now clear hand.
"Just as we dreaded… We are alone…" Link sighed as he replaced his gauntlet.
"Didn't we already come to that conclusion?" Sheik's voice was low as he stood up slowly, his subtle grace restored to his tired limbs. "Was that necessary? You drew unwanted attention." The Sheikah grabbed at the hero's arm again. "You put the Princess's life in danger and yet it is your sacred duty to protect her." The bandages of Sheik's hand started to unravel as his grip on the hero's arm grew tighter.
"Release me." Link gazed straight into Sheik's crimson eyes that the high noon sun lit ablaze. "Your passion for my duty is both honorable and notable but unfounded. I am the hero. I realize my duty. I was trying to contact Nayru with the little protection Farore gave to me. It could've helped us…" Link hissed in the other's pointed ear. "Don't question my motives." Link swatted Sheiks smaller hand away. "Now, we should find if there is a way to see if this Chaos has consumed the tri-force of Power."
"If Chaos has consumed the Divine Realm, it's logical to think that it is certain that it has reached the tri-force of power." Sheik jeered under his breath.
"He's right… I didn't even realize that I'm powerless." Zelda whispered.
"We'll restore it somehow." Impa smiled at her young charge even though the older warrior felt more out of the know than usual.
"I'm still protected and with that I will restore order." The Hero's sapphire eyes disappeared as he closed his them for a moment. All the attention in the garden fell upon the hero as he remained perfectly still; it was as if even the wind was waiting for his permission to start blowing again. "Go to your temples for now and protect them. It will be a challenge to keep them sacred if the Goddesses' power is no longer feeding them energy. Princess, rest and as soon as possible return to your diplomatic and state duties. We need to keep up appearances for our guests. I'll go try and find some followers or minions of some sort. There must be some one or something that we can either question, fight, or both. If anything happens we'll meet again."
"You're right… I'm useless to you for now." Zelda's gaze only made it up to the hero's nose…. She couldn't face him for some reason. "The last thing we need now is a war."
"No matter what we do we'll have to fight somehow." Sheik's lower voice slinked into the conversation. His statement hovered in the air, everyone heard it, but no one comment.
"Good luck," Link said breaking the tension. After a quick bow, he was walking casually out of the garden with Saria following at his heels.
"You didn't have to be that cold." She said as the pair passed a few guards that were trying to eavesdrop out of boredom. Gossip was the blood and morale of the notorious squad eight. That was why they were exiled to guard the outer outer garden of the Temple of Time where the greatest threat or thread of gossip would be from the many woodland animals and foul that occupied the grounds. Seeing the Hero, Link, was the most excitement the majority of them had seen in over a season. "Sheik isn't any sort of threat."
"Why are you so concerned? We have a plan." Link started to walk faster.
"Don't try to escape." Somehow Saria magically found herself in front of the Hero's path.
"I am not. I had to be that way. None of you can feel it." Link started in an ancient Hyrulian dialect. He couldn't help but hear a sorrowful groan from one of the closest guards.
"What are you talking about? We understand how serious the situation is." Saria ignored the guards around her.
"Hyrule soon will know the frostbitten touch of how it feels to be forsaken from the Goddesses. The whole Earth will shake from terror and I'm still not certain if we can stop it."
"No matter how uncertain you are, you still need the determination to make sure we do. You've been reading the old scrolls of prophecy again. I don't think I've heard you speak in metaphor since you went through that phase when you felt poetry was the best way to pick up girls." Saria tried to keep smiling but her friend just kept a stoic look on his face. He hadn't been this serious since he returned from his first mission or the last time he got dumped.
"Poetry is good for both the soul and predictions of doom." Link replied. "I'll be fine, but your temple may not be if you don't return to it soon. I have to see some men about some spirits." He took his ocarina and played a quick tune and in a blink of the eye the two were gone.
"Sooo, I heard something about being cold, poetry, and doom." Gerade the second to last in command of the squad, but best eavesdropper, whispered to his fellow guards.
"Same." His comrades nodded.
"Does that mean that he is either seeing, broken up with, or knocked someone up?"
"Maybe it's a diplomat."
"No, don't be such a witless idiot. It's someone noble. He's a hero."
"Someone rich."
"Impa?"
"That thief… Nabooru?"
"No, men please….You've got this all wrong. It must have something to do with the princess. She gets captured enough that the poor boy has to save her every fortnight. There is no way that our mighty leader actually gets herself kidnapped that much. It has to have something to do with Zelda."
All the guards nodded in agreement.
Author's Note: Just a quick update. More action soon to follow as we find Malon again, Navi is sobered up and some shady informant/enemy types. Thank you for reading. Please leave any kind of criticism.