A/N: Hello readers, so here is the second chapter of Faithful to the Hero. in this chapter I wanted to try and get more of a realistic feel of Ocarina of time. I really hope you enjoy it! I know I enjoyed writing it. It's a little shorted than chapter 1 but not by too much. Also, if you leave any reviews with questions or just PM me I will answer you at the beginning of chapters.
As he stepped out of the forest Link instantly noticed a difference in the air, it felt thin and cool compared to the dense humid air of the woods. The second thing he noticed was that there were no spirits floating about as they did in the forest. It was different, new, frightening.. Exciting. Without thinking the boy quickened his pace as he made his way throughout the last passage of trees to a wide opening revealing what he had only heard about in tales. He stopped in his tracks and tried to take in everything before him.
Hyrule field looked absolutely beautiful. It didn't have the same charm as did the forest yet its vast range of grass with the odd tree here and there made Link smile without his permission. As the sun met the horizon Hyrule Field began to glow gold. Link took his first step away from the trees when he heard a voice unlike anything he had heard before.
"Hoo Hoot! Look up here!" Link's eyes darted up to see a massive owl, perched on a tiny branch. He didn't have time to question it however as the owl began to speak. "It appears that the time has finally come for you to start your adventure! You will encounter many hardships ahead, that is your fate. Don't feel discouraged, even during the toughest times!" Link continued to stare at the beast as it spoke, he had no idea how to react.
"Go straight this way and you will reach Hyrule castle" The bird spoke, and Link's ears perked up. That's where the Deku Tree had told him to go. "You will meet a princess there.." 'A Princess?' he thought as the Owl continued to talk for what seemed to be hours, nothing after that initial information proving to be of any use to the hero. He knew how to read a map already; he didn't need to be taught. Finally the owl finished, spreading its wings and taking off into the air. "Good luck young hero!"
As the massive Owl flew away Link had to shake his head a little, unsure as to what he had just witnessed. Looking back out to his original goal of Hyrule field his heart sunk in his chest. The sun had almost completely disappeared over the horizon now, and the once golden field began to darken. Link had only been told of the creatures that sprouted at night here and didn't want to wait around long enough to see any. Looking around for any kind of shelter Link could only see Hyrule Castle off in the distance. But even if he could make it there during the night the drawbridge seemed to be lifting from the moat.
This didn't help Link's fear of Hyrule Field's beasts. Even castle town was locking up for the night, meaning he had to fend for himself. The boy stepped out into the field and instantly broke into a sprint in the general direction of castle town. Cave, cliff, house, he simply needed some place to hide or defend. And then he heard the sound that he feared, the shaking of bones. Fear cut through the boy's skin as he tried to run faster now blindly through the was un-natural, as if a black fog had moved in. Usually the boy could see the stars and shadows, but tonight everything was pitch black.
As if the shaking bones were not enough, Link began to hear their voices. "Kill... Kill the boy..." Link Began shaking, every muscle twitching as he attempted to keep running. "Kill the... Boy..." their voices began to mesh, as the sky grew even darker and Link's vision began to close in around him. He didn't know where he was, he didn't know where he was going, and all he could see was the moon hovering in the darkness. But then he saw something else, a blue glow..
Link carefully lifted his hat and scooped up the waking fairy, holding her up by his shoulder. Her light was barely anything in the dark but at least he could see right ahead of him. "Navi! Navi get up!" Link felt terrible about waking his fairy companion but knew that she could increase her glow if she tried. The little fairy's eyes began to move, and finally opened.
"Link?.." her blue eyes looked up at his and he instantly knew she was still in pain. But there was no other option. Quickly looking around Navi realized the situation they were in, walking through the dark with no sense of direction. She could also hear their voices, growing louder and wanting the boy that held her to be dead. Without having to be asked Navi clenched her muscles and squinted her eyes, the blue light beginning to grow.
Link began to scan the surrounding area with his eyes, but all he could see now were tiny pairs of red lights that seemed to be moving closer. Feeling his heart clench once again he spun on his heels and began to sprint in the opposite direction. But that was soon put to an end as he hit a wall, and hit it hard. Link instantly thought of Navi, quickly moving her out of the way as his shoulder took the brunt of the force. "Ah-" Link felt something pop but tried to contain himself.
"Link!" Navi cried, her little blue hand pointing out to his right. "Look! A sign!" Link's eyes darted in the direction she pointed and found the wooden sign which read 'Lon Lon Ranch'. That was all he needed to see, Link moved towards the sign and found a small path that led up a slanted hill. Turning to look behind them quickly he saw that the pairs of red lights were moving closer. The closest of the pairs stepped into Navi's radius of light and showed its full body.
The monster looked like a moving skeleton except it had a massive skull and huge claws. The beast was about the same height as Link but unquestionably bigger. The red lights were the monster's eyes glowing deep in the eye sockets of its skull. By the time Link had identified the creature it had made its way over to the boy and Link moved Navi to his right hand as he reached for his sword. Before he had a chance though, skeletal claws flew down at his thigh slicing through his tunic and into his flesh.
Link cried out with pain and pulled the Kokiri Sword from its sheath; swinging at the skeleton. Surprisingly the blade cut clean through its spinal column and each bone burst into a blue flame. The creature let out a shriek as it died but other than hurting his ears it no longer posed a threat to the young hero.
"That wasn't so bad" Link spoke more to himself then to Navi. He pulled the fairy close to his chest which earned him a little squeak but he ignored it. Looking up from the vanishing corps of his enemy the boy's confidence was lost to countless pairs of red lights. A few looked to be larger, up above the rest. "Kill… Kill the boy…"
Out of nowhere an orange glow engulfed Link and his surroundings; some of the skeletons were caught in it but instantly backed away into the darkness. "Hey! Boy! Get in here now!" a girl's voice sliced through the air and Link spun to see an open set of gates only a few paces away. Without a second thought the boy ran through the gates even though with each step he felt blood move down his leg and sharp pain shot through it. As he got through and spun around with sword at the ready Link tried to seem calm in the face of his opponents. The monsters were clawing at the light but would not step into it. He was safe, and felt even more so as the gates closed in front of him.
Link looked down at the fairy in his hands; she was also looking up at him. She looked hurt and scared, her injured wing folded under the other. His vision began to get blurry though, Navi turning into just a blue blob. It felt like the whole world was swaying around him and all he heard was Navi's voice. "Link! Hey! Listen to me, open your eyes!" link hadn't realized his eyes were closed until she told him, and then he heard and saw nothing at all. He was engulfed by the darkness once more.
"Link!"
Everything was black, but Link felt warm and relaxed. 'What happened?' he thought to himself. He was just fighting that weird skeleton creature...
"Link! Listen!"
And then he was hit but killed it. The light, it drove the other ones away and he escaped into the gate. 'But then what?...' the young hero couldn't remember anything. He was holding Navi, and then everything went black.
"Link! Get up!"
"N-Navi?" Link was snapped out of his thoughts as he realized that the fairy was calling him. He suddenly felt his body again, his arms lay by his side and one of his thighs was propped up on something soft. A pillow. Link forced his eyes open, expecting a bright light but instead found the pleasant glow of a torch which was hung on the wall above him. It lit the large room, and the smell of hay filled his nose. "Navi, where are we?"
Link winced as his thigh slipped of the pillow supporting it causing warm pain to move through it. The blood still felt wet, he hadn't been out long. Navi was down by the boy's leg simply looking at it as he moved. He hadn't seen her just standing still like that before, with wings simply resting folded behind her. Navi's body looked like all of the other girls that Link had seen in the forest just smaller. Usually the fairies were always glowing and flying therefore he'd never seen one this close.
Navi looked up into Link's eyes once again, it seemed like every time she spoke to him the little fairy would look through him. Her eyes were not harsh or angry though as they used to be when they'd met. Her blue eyes looked slightly watery, as if she had been crying. "We are in Lon Lon Ranch" Navi spoke matter-of-factly, and Link remembered the sign he had seen out front. He nodded slowly and sat up a little more, again dragging his leg which Navi moved to watch. Link had a clear look at it now, the cuts were still untreated and dirt had gotten into it.
Navi looked back to the boy and continued, adding "A girl named Malon helped us in, but right now she's out with the animals. Apparently the night scares them and this night in particular has been strange." Link nodded and tried to relax a little, they were safe now and that's what really matters. "Uhm..." Navi sounded nervous and Link eyed her out of the corner of his vision. "She said that she will come in the morning, she didn't think you would wake up. Should I go get her?" The fairy's cheeks seemed to get a little red but the boy didn't understand why.
Link's thoughts moved to Navi's wing and he blurted out "No! You can't go out its fine I'll be okay!" The boy looked at her wings which she had started to extend. They now began to slowly fold back down as she frowned.
"You noticed huh?" Navi asked quietly. At this Link couldn't help but chuckle a little bit and replied "you thought I wouldn't notice? I realized that you had hurt your wing back once we'd left Queen Gohma's lair. But tell me, when did you actually hurt it?" Navi tried to avoid the boy's gaze but he was insistent and forced her to comply.
"It was.. As we fell through the web into the base of the Deku Tree" Navi began to pace a little bit on the bed, obviously unhappy with what had happened. "I felt so stupid; I didn't want you to know. The Great Deku Tree, he told me to protect and guide you so I had to keep flying ahead. To make sure that there was nothing you couldn't handle." At this Link frowned a little, she really did think of him as a defenseless child. Navi walked over to Link's thigh and plopped down onto it looking across at the opposite injured leg. "I passed out, and look what happened to you."
"Navi, please stop." Link reached out his hand towards the fairy but kept himself from touching her fragile form. "I'm really fine. It doesn't hurt too bad and it'll heal quickly. I've gotten worse while playing with Saria in the woods.." At this the fairy finally smiled a little and looked up. Her blue eyes were watery again and Link smiled to try and get her to do the same. "Navi, I want you to lie down for a second, Mido gave me some red potion for your wing so I'll apply it for you. You shouldn't fly for a bit after though, alright?"
The small blue fairy looked as if she wanted to argue but couldn't find the words. Instead her voice went soft again and she replied "Link its okay you don't have to do that. Use the red potion for yourself, and just leave a little for me. I'll put it on myself." Link detected that she was bluffing though, and knew that to put the potion on she would have to stress her wings instead of relax them. He shook his head and moved to pick the small being up which she did not seem to enjoy.
"H-Hey! Put me down!" And that's exactly what he did, the boy placed Navi back down onto the bed beside him but not upright. He placed her on her stomach with wings now extended out behind. "Link.." He moved for the potion in his belt as the fairy frowned. "Please, just let me-"
"Navi weather you like it or not you're getting his potion. Now the more you wiggle the more will be wasted." This seemed to work, as the fairy thought of the young hero's own wounds and did not want any of the potion to go to waste. She did not argue, but plopped her face down into the blanket. Link took this as an okay to continue and popped off the lid to the red potion. Dipping two fingers into the potion he used his other hand to hold Navi's torn wing softly as he began to rub the potion in.
Navi squirmed a little at first but soon stopped and complained "It feels cold.." Link just laughed and continued to rub the potion in. Navi continued to speak as he did so, adding "maybe The Great Deku Tree was right about you Link..." The hero stayed quiet and perked his ears up; he didn't want to miss what the fairy said next. "You.. I think you may actually be the one to save us all. And you know.. At first I didn't want to accept that I was to be your fairy."
Link moved to get more potion on his fingers; it seemed to just seep into the fairy's wing. Although already he could see a change, the wing was beginning to mold back together so he continued to rub the delicate surface as Navi turned her head to look up at him and say "now I don't mind so much. I'm okay with it."
Her wing was almost healed, there was just a little more and Link went to get more potion as he replied "Okay with what?"
The blue being moved a little to sit up and turned her back away from the hero causing him to have to reach around to get at her wing. She looked up and him and said almost too softly to hear "I'm okay with being your fairy. You can call me yours now to anyone we meet instead of just 'Navi'." Link stared at her in confusion, but nodded softly. Navi tried to relax and let the boy massage the potion into her wing, thinking to herself 'Am I being selfish?... I'm his fairy. His companion. Nothing more.' What she really wanted was to be able to help him so no-one else had to.
Link finished massaging in the potion and smiled as he leant back to look at 'his' fairy. The small blue girl was going to be okay, and even though it looked like the wing may scar he didn't care about that. "Very well Navi, from now on I will introduce you as my fairy." For some reason the boy liked the sound of that. "Tonight you'll need to sleep on your stomach okay? And no flying tomorrow." with Navi's nod of acceptance Link felt content. But a warm liquid dripping down his thigh reminded him of the wound he'd suffered.
His thigh did not hurt so much as it throbbed, it didn't look so bad through his Tunic. But he had to get a better look and putting the potion on over the tunic would waste a lot of the healing liquid. Link moved to roll the tunic up his leg to reveal his thigh but stopped, remembering that Navi was right beside him. He peeked at her, and she seemed to have a little flush of red in her cheeks once again. "Navi, uhm... Are you okay?"
She nodded slowly, not moving her eyes up to meet her young hero's. "If I'm going to help you defeat the Evil King I can't let something like seeing your thigh stop me from being able to aid you." Link understood that Navi just wanted to help, and so he continued to roll up his tonic towards the top of his thigh to reveal his wound.
Almost immediately the boy felt sick to his stomach, the wound was much worse than he had thought. It was not a simple flesh wound, but four deep cuts from his outer to inner thigh in the shape of a claw being torn through his skin and muscle. Link could see his muscles twitch inside the wound but could barely feel them. "N-Navi!" he cried, the feeling in his stomach getting worse.
The hero's field of sight went from red to blue as his fairy flew in front of his eyes glowing as she usually did and grabbed his chin to lift it up towards the roof. Link didn't even complain about her flying, as he saw only the ceiling his thoughts were focused on his leg and not wanting to look as it again. Navi's voice chimed in and she said "close your eyes hero. I will take care of this, please do not look again."
Even though he desperately wanted to argue and tell Navi to rest, he couldn't. After seeing the gashes Link knew that it had to be treated right away and so he nodded firmly. "Just please stop flying. I can spare some time if it means you healing, flying will just make your wing tear again.
Although she did not reply Link knew that she agreed as he felt her small feet land on his other thigh. He felt her step off, and only moments later she was back by the injured side. Without any warning Navi pressed her hands against le boy's sounds and began working in the healing liquid. It stung as the fairy touched his open wounds but soon after would feel warm and tingly. Navi made a few trips back and forth, it seemed to be taking forever and Link asked "how much longer Navi?"
Her response was quick, saying "I'm only done about two of the cuts. I could go faster but you would surely scar." Link did not reply as she continued her work, her small warm hands on his felt leg gel comforting and soft. "just a little more and then you'll be all healed u-" Navi's voice stopped mid sentence and Link rose an eyebrow trying to figure out why. "We're uhm.. We're out of potion Link.. And there's still one gash left. It's the smallest but you shouldn't move to much without taking care of it.
Link sighed softly, his eyes still pointed towards to roof. He found a window to the side of the room and saw that it was still pitch black outside. "How about this Navi, we'll wrap it up and go to sleep then check if this Malon you meet has any medical supplies in the morning." Link looked down to his fairy whom had her little hands placed on either side of the remaining wound. It did not look so bad anymore; at least it wasn't bleeding or pulsating.
Link ripped off a little piece of the sleeve of his tunic and quickly wrapped it around the red cut. This seemed to make Navi content as she nodded softly. "Al right," She whispered before looking up. "I'll go sleep outside then; I'll see you in the morning." Navi moved to get ready to fly towards the door but as she lifted off the bed Link's hand quickly found her foot and kept the fairy from leaving.
"No way, what if something goes wrong with my leg in the night?" Link knew that nothing would happen but he also knew that Navi shouldn't be alone. She seemed so down and upset, which was understandable. And if she were his fairy they'd have to get used to being together 24/7 anyways.
Navi smiled softly and returned to the ground, her cheeks again changing shades. "Uhm.. Link.." The boy looked at her confused. Was she really that upset about being in the same room? "Your hand is still holding my leg.." Link instantly released her, completely having forgotten. His hand held her entire leg from foot to hip and even though he had gotten used to having a fairy around he forgot how tiny they were. Link's face now went red as he hid to push his face into the pillow.
"Well I'm going to bed." He spoke, before removing his hat and setting it down on the bed beside him. His usual routine at night. To his surprise Navi walked over to the lump of hat and looked at it for a second before smiling and lying down on it. Link chuckled; wondering if that would become part of his nightly routine too. He wanted to move his hand under the fairy and sleep with her closer but restrained himself, she already felt weird about sleeping in the same room.
Navi however lay restlessly in the young hero's hat, deep down she realized she was upset that that was the closest she could get to him. She didn't know why but whenever Link was close by she was beginning to feel safe. She forgot about all the bad things going on around them and focused just on them. He was kind, caring, and courageous. He was warm when even the slightest breeze would cool her shin.
He was her new companion, and she would protect him with her life. "Sweet Dreams young hero.." She whispered but Link had already fallen into a deep sleep.
A/N: So what do you think? Chapter two done, I kind of changed my plans for the story as I went, I keep changing my mind on things. one thing I have decided is that this fic will be slightly Link x Navi romance, maybe not like other fics but in it's own way. you'll see later :) Anyways, please keep reading as I will try to update regularily.
Please leave a comment to let me know if you like the story, otherwise I have no idea what you guys are all thinking. thanks!