CHAPTER 10 (LINK POV)

When I finally came to after being out for Din knows how long I opened my eyes to discover I was on a sandstone floor.

Where am I? I wondered. I lifted my head and looked around. I found I was in someone's house. I saw a bed on one side of the room and a few pieces of furniture on the other. What the? I tried to push my bangs out of my eyes but I found my hands were tied securily behind my back. What?

That's when I remembered what happened. Sheik telling me something, the black and purple thing coming at me, The shocking pain in my face when it hit me. Ganondorf choking the life out of me. What he said to Sheik. I suddenly felt betrayed. Sheik! He's tricked me! No wonder he'd been acting so weird. He was trying to get me to trust him. Boy am I stupid!
Suddenly I heard a moaning sound. I looked back toward the bed. A body lay on it, moaning as if it were in pain. What in the world? Who is that? I decided to find out.

I slowly tried to stand. It was hard but not impossible. After a few minutes I was on my feet. As I walked toward the bed I noticed something. The person lying there was wearing a black cloak the same color as Sheik's. Hmm I wonder.

I took a few more steps and saw that it was indeed Sheik. I noticed part of the cloak was open, revealing a sharp dagger.

A dagger? Why's he carrying that?

Sheik moved. I tensed, expecting him to wake up. His head turned sideways but he didn't wake up. Some of the cloak that had been shadowing his face was pulled back. Part of his face was exposed. It held a pained expression.

Despite what he'd done to me I wondered what was wrong with him. I noticed his lips were moving. He was saying something in almost a whisper. "Merlain... Merlain... Zelda... Impa.. revenge... Murder." was what he was muttering.

What? Zelda? Impa? Revenge? Merlain? Who is Merlain? What's going on.

I took a step back and fell onto the floor. I shoved my arms under my legs. Now they were infront of me. This would make things easier. I stood back up and walked back to Sheik. I reached over and grabbed the dagger's handle.

Sheik must be the lightest sleeper in the world. My hand hadn't as much as brushed the dagger when his eyes popped open. They burned a panicked and hate filled red.

He screamed and instantly sat up. "You!" he exclaimed, crouching on the bed.

"Sheik," I said angrily. "I won't let you get away with what you've done."

The Sheikah stared at me. "What I've done?" he demanded. "I am just tying to make that little bitch pay for what she did to my sister."

"Your sister?" now I knew who Merlain was. "Merlain?"

He gave me a startled look. "What do you know about her?" he demanded.

"I..." before I could finish he'd lunged at me.

I dodged the attack. He flew right past me and onto the flor. I turned around and tried to kick him but he flipped out of the way. Sheik landed facing me. Screaming like a banshee he pulled out his dagger and came at me. I grabbed the blade with my hands and ignored the pain as it sliced into my flesh. I lifted a foot and kicked him in the stomach. As he doubled over, winded. I grabbed the hood of his cloak. I felt him slither out of it and fall onto the floor. I threw the cloak aside and grabbed his hair.

"What is going in, Sheik?" I demanded.

When I recieved no answer I pulled on his hair, trying to pull his head back so he would have to look at me. "No!" Sheik screamed, jerking away from me.

When this happened his hair, that was in the bindings on his clothes, came loose. As the Sheikah wrenched away a gray streamer cloth fluttered to the floor as it fell away from him, revieling long golden hair. I stared down at Sheik in surprise as he crouched on the floor. His long blond hair fell around his back and face. His right arm covered his chest but I could see what he was hiding. I suddenly realized something as I stared down at him.

He was no he! He was a she!

"Y... you're a girl!?" I exclaimed in disbelief.

Sheik glared at me, still holding her arm over her chest. She looked away and refused to meet my eyes. I saw tears glistening at the corners of her eyes.

"Sheik?"

When she looked back at me the tears rolled down her pale cheeks. "You're ruining everything!" she seethed.

"What? What am I ruining?"

"My revenge!" she screamed.

"You're revenge?"

She looked away again.

I walked up to her and grabbed the collar of her shirt. I discovered there was no collar as my hand went around her neck. That cloth streamer had been her shirt. No wonder she'd been holding her arm over her chest.

I couldn't help staring. "Sheik..." I said letting her go.

She covered herself with her long blond hair. She glared at me.

I recovered from what I saw and demanded. "What revenge are you talking about?"

She was silent.

I grabbed her shoulder and shook her. "Sheik! Who are you trying to have revenge on!?"

"Zelda!" she screamed, giving up.

"Zelda?"

"She took my sister away from me," she explained in a high vpoice. "My twin sister! Zelda took advantage of my sister and convinced my whole tribe to give her my sister's body. She destroyed Merlian's future! She deserves to die!"

"Is you struck a deal with Ganondorf?" I demanded.

She looked at me confused. "Ganondorf?"

"You didn't know who that gerudo was did you?"

"No."

"What does he want with the Master Sword?"

"He wants revenge too."

"Sheik!" I yelled, shaking her. "How could you? Because of your stupid lust for revenge on Zelda, Ganondorf is going to take over Hyrule!"

Sheik's eyes filled with shock. She suddenly seemed to wilt. Her hands fell away from her chest and she collapsed into me. "I..." she stammered. "Didn't... want.. th-this."

She felt cold. I wondered if she was okay. I tried to make her look at me but her hands clawed my arms as she buried her face in my chest. "JUST KILL ME NOW!" she scramed, ripping at my tuinc.

"Sheik?"

She suddenly seemed to lose it. She pushed herself away from me and stood up, her hair falling over her face and front. I saw her still holding her dagger. I clamped a hand on her wrist. "You don't want to do that," I said, knowing what she was intending to do.

"I must...," she began.

"No," I said. "This won't change anything."

She went limp. Her hand lost its grip on the dagger and it clattered to the floor. Her body fell forward. I quickly caught it before it hit the floor.

"Sheik," I said. She looked at me. She was crying. "Sheik..."

Suddenly she broke away from me and picked up that gray streamer. After barking. "Turn around," at me (Which I did) she quickly tied it around herself. (I know she did because when I looked at her again it was in its proper place.)

"Sheik," I said again.

"What?" she asked, sounding cross.

"I know you hate Zelda but why do you talk and act so disrespectfully toward Impa?"

"Well...," she said. I could tell by her voice that she didn't want to talk about it. (I think it was really painful for her). "Because all my life I was brought up thinking my father was my real father."

"What do you mean?"

"He's not."

"Who is?"

I heard that streamer make a snapping sound. "My father...," she began hesitently. "Is Zelda's father."

A/N

I'm gonna to update and finish this even if no one reads it.