My heart…it still has a pulse…but...why? I thought I had died, didn't I?
Unknown day-unknown place-unknown age
My head, it aches so bad, I just wanted to sleep. Did my body get preserved or something? I looked around, I saw a little crack in the ceiling, and I sat on cold sand. I stood up and got on my toes for extra elevation. I looked outside and there was a weird breed of monster…everywhere. I thought to myself, weird smelling room, ceiling made of wood, little cracks, the room wasn't taken care of…and it hit me. I was in a cell!! But where? I sighed. Only the worst could've happened to me, so I decided to find a way out. Until I heard grunting noises. I saw two of the monsters that I had seen earlier. They had horns, red beady eyes, carried a club and wore a mask covering most of their face. Ewww…they are uglier than bokoblins. And man those were UGLY! Okay, they may open the cell and I could run out. Seemed like a good idea. So that's what I did, when they opened the door I burst out running quickly past them. I wasn't thinking though, so when I got outside I was thinking "that was easy, there can't be that many." Until I got outside…of course. I felt like link for that moment. It's like what tetra said to him, "you never think you just run in!" I saw how many there were, like I don't know…like 50 maybe they all looked at me and I stood there they all dropped their stuff and charged at me. I ran fast and dodged them, they chased me out of the "fortress" that I was held "captive" in. So I thought I was away from them but no, they decided to get on pig-things instead. They chased after me until I got to the edge of the desert (that's where I was…just letting you know.) they came closer and closer until I had no choice. I looked down and saw water below, I didn't know how deep it was but I gathered all my courage and leapt and fell. Down, down, down, splash. I felt the sensation of adrenaline running through my veins. Well the water was pretty deep, and that's always okay. I finally got to the surface and breathed in deeply. I swam to where the water met the land. I got out and shook off all the water and wrung out my hair…I don't remember it being this long…I looked down and saw my chest was different too. A LOT DIFFERENT... I ran to the edge of the water and looked at my reflection I looked so much older. Like 16 at least! I saw my shorts were too well short, my shirt was really stretched considering that it was attached to my shorts. My boots only went half way up my calves, not to mention that my little green headband was on the verge of snapping right off my head. My clothes weren't green anymore; they were like a really faded green with a lot of grey. And my boots were REALLY tight. So I took off my boots and wriggled my toes "ah, that's better." I said to myself. I also took off my headband and gloves. My shorts were riding up high, if ya' catch my uh, drift. But I couldn't take off the rest of my clothes sadly, even though I wanted too. But, I couldn't think of that right now, I had to get out of here and get better fitting clothes…and to venture to see were in the world I was.
It's also strange, I can only remember my name, link, and a few places and things that happened like me drowning, oh and Fado… *sigh* fate is all too cruel, it seems. So I went to this dude who was standing in front of a house that was floating on the water. I walked up to him and asked him, "excuse me, but can I know where I may be at?" I asked. Whoa my voice is different too. Much more *ahem* feminine. The man chuckled "why if you're in Hyrule you must know this place." I shook my head. "I'm sorry; I've been a bit…late with things lately." He replied "well this is the glorious and most spectacular, Lake Hylia." My eyes widened. "But I thought that…there..I.." I was seriously confused. Really confused. Terribly confused. I had no idea that I was in yet another millennia!?! Oh my Goddess!! This sucks. Why can't I just die!? I'm like 80,000 years old! No guy will like me I'm too old!! I then said to the man "I've looked around, and from what it seems, there is no way out of here." The old man chuckled at me, again. Really? Was it necessary? I sighed. "Well, is there like, um, a way out of here?" "Well, there is one way out." he replied to me "the fun way out anyways." I looked at him with question on my face. " He chuckled at me again. Geez. I motioned my head like "and that is…" he stopped, "the way out is by blast!" he said to me. I was confused. People shouldn't do that to me, I'm confused all too easily. "So I do what to get out of here?" I asked "this way." And he pointed to his house. I looked at him and thought to myself "wait blast!? Is he trying to give over some subliminal message across!?!?" I looked at him, "wait that's not what I meant." He laughed and pushed me in. "don't get too comfy!" he said. I was then very anxious, and like scared anxious. He called for last minute riders. A boy walked in, he had blonde hair, sapphire blue eyes, and he was wearing a green tunic and a long green hat. He was gorgeous. I looked away and turned myself some because I felt him staring. I turned my head away as well and felt myself blush. Then in that very instant I felt the house jerk and I jumped literally out of my seat. The boy laughed at me and I didn't think it was funny; my face was flushed red with anger. He asked me, "So, it's your first time?" I looked confused "what do you mean?" I replied goddesses his voice was sexy. "Yeah we're in a cannon." He said to me. "Whaaat??" we heard a voice and he said for both of us to climb a ladder into the cannon. The boy smiled and said to me, "Ladies first." He pointed to the ladder. He smiled to me. I nervously climbed the ladder. I think I could feel him blush when he climbed after me. We both had squished into the little space of the cannon. I was literally pressed up against him he cleared his throat and looked away his face cherry red. "So, you said you are…" he said. "Sixteen…I think." I replied. He looked at me confused. "You think?" he said to me. "It's complicated." I said. He smiled ever so sweetly. Geez I think he's a player. I looked up at him "so, what's your name??" I asked he replied to me "link."
The cannon shook vigorously and music started to play, then the song was near finishing and the cannon shook and there was this big "BOOM!!" I screamed as I flew through the air. Then we both landed gently? Hmm….I'll look into that. But I had so much adrenaline running through my veins and I started to laugh. Heh, naturally. We smiled at each other, and went out of Tobias and geremias's mini game house. I went out and smelt the wondrous smell that I haven't smelt in so long. Non-salty air and sweet grass. Link looked at me confused, like as if I've never seen a place like this. I looked at him and I just wanted to start telling him everything that has happened to me, and all the past events. How scared and alone I had felt.
"So, I never really caught your name you know." He said to me. I giggled "Its Krystal." I said. He smiled "that's such a wonderful name. Plus you seem kind." He said. "All day I'm surrounded by monsters and rude people who have a tendency to keep to them. Sure there are a select few that are kind to me, but it's all not often happening you know?" I couldn't help but smile. "That's real sweet, I don't hear that much." I said, but then again I heard that a lot from Fado. I missed him a lot. My eyes were no longer the pale blue, I could feel them turn a dark sapphire. They started to grow wet too. I was crying. Link looked at me then jumped; he leaned over and asked me if I was okay. "I'm fine." I said. "I didn't mean to hurt you…"he said to me. "I said I'm fine!" I said to him. His face looked hurt; he made the same expression that Fado made when he gave those puppy doggish eyes. Damn he was good. "I'm sorry" I said. "I have had some ill fated events that happened, that's all." He looked at me "really? May I ask you what happened?" "I lost someone I loved, one that has died…because of him…" he then looked at me and quickly stood in front of me. "Because of who? I'll make him pay, I will!" I looked up. "No it's just…I'm sorry" "don't be!" he said. "Who!?" he asked again. "G-Gannon." I said stuttering. He knew that name and his face was red and twisted with anger. "Him!? When did he get out?" "No, its…it's a long story…" my voice trailed off. He looked up at the sky. He clenched his fists and threw his arm in the sky. "Curse you goddesses!! Why must you bring pain, sorrow and regret!?" he yelled. Then in that instant I fell to the ground clenching my chest, screaming with pain. Link jumped, "oh my goddesses! Are you okay?" I started to cry, what was wrong with me!? I looked up at him, and slowly got up. "I-I, it's okay." He smiled at me. Goddesses, I loved that smile. I looked to the sky, and it was growing dark. He looked at me and said "maybe we should find somewhere to sleep." I nodded even though I had been asleep for a long time, I'm pretty beat. He pulled a whistle out and blew on it. It made a pretty sound and I heard a whinny. I looked towards the source of it, and a large clysdale thoroubred came running up. He got on her. He looked down on me and reached out his hand. I nervously grabbed it and he pulled me up. He was strong…I liked that. Made me feel protected you know. We rode to a town. It was fancy and had a drawbridge connected to it. We got off his horse and he patted her butt to make her go off somewhere safe. We walked into the town and the lanterns were lit, the town was also quiet. It was dark and no one was in the streets. He guided me through the winding streets and we went down the south road and found a bar, it said Thelma's bar. We walked in. it was warm, quaint, and had good smells. The woman at the counter saw us and the smiled. "Link honey! It's been awhile, hasn't it? Who's the cutie? She your lady?" I could feel myself blush. He laughed. "No Telma. She's someone I met on geremias's ride. That's all." She smiled. "Whatever you want to say." She came from behind the counter and um "inspected" me. She turned me around and bent me forward. I could feel the shorts stretching. They hurt. She pulled me up. She asked me "why are the clothes so small? They look like they were for a 12 year old!" I couldn't tell her what happened, so I just said. "I don't have rupees. I've been broke for quite some time." She looked at me. "Okay diaries, just curious..I thought lil' ol' link had paid you rupees for, um…special services." I turned really red just then "oh no!! That's not the case at all!!" Telma laughed. I looked over to link and he had his hand on his face, really bright cherry red. I couldn't help but giggle. He looked at me, his face looking soooo red!!! Tee hee hee!! I couldn't help it! We both looked back at Telma who told me that I needed some better fitting clothes, but it was too late in the day so she told us to get some rest. But guess what? She only had one room open and it had one twin sized mattress in there…joy. So when we got in there I surveyed the room. There was no door in the bathroom because it was like a, altogether type of room, and there was no room to sleep in the floor so I was stuck. Yay for me. Link and I had our backs turned so we wouldn't see each other. But naturally I took a peek, tee hee!! I turned my head just a bit to see his back. It was really muscular! Hmm, fighting monsters all the time, wrangling giant beasts. Ohhhh that's so hot. But I turned my head quickly, so he wouldn't see me peeking. But then…he was peeking at me!! Geez. "Here" he told me he covered his eyes with his hand and threw me one of his clean tunics. Yay! It was the green one, that's my fav color, naturally. I put it on and told him that it fit well…as long as I didn't bend over. He laughed and he offered to try to make a pallet on the floor but I would feel bad. Plus I've never slept with someone, except for Saria, but this was totally different. He smiled and accepted my "gracious" offer and he got into the bed. I was really red though, and I slowly slipped into the covers. They were soft cotton, how comfortable. But we didn't go to sleep immediately we talked for a long while, like where we had came from, what we liked and all that jazz. I finally fell asleep.
I woke up in the morning, his arms around me…*ahem* spooning. LOL. I looked at him, he was still fast asleep. He was really cute, and I think I was starting to fall for him. Oh my. I walked across the room and grabbed a blanket off a shelf. I put it on the shower and hopped in, I turned on the shower and let the warm water run off of me. The water felt great, and I felt as if I was cleansed…or something. I turned off the shower and opened the curtain and Link was standing…right there…oh my goddesses. I screamed and whacked him upside the head with the wooden bath scrub. I was so embarrassed!! "oh stupid, stupid pervert!!!" and wacked him harder and then he ran out of the room running for his "life" then I chased him till I got to the door and locked it behind him. I heard him run up to the door and jiggle the doorknob. "Dammit! Krystal!! Open the door…please?" I heard him ask. "NO!!" I replied. I was so embarrassed! "Please Krystal. I didn't mean to-"I heard him say. "Didn't mean to what?" I asked. "I didn't mean to see you, I had no idea you were showering." He said. So I finally opened the door and said, "So you weren't being perverted?" "No." Link replied. So I opened the door all the way and let him in. he looked up, I still had no clothes on. The Deku Tree said I had no modesty anyways. His face turned cherry red. "C'mon, get up." I said to him. "b-but your c-clothes…" he stuttered. I smiled slightly. "Well I don't have any. Not yet anyways" he slowly got up. "So, what are we going to do for clothes?" he asked trying to keep his eyes off of my chest. "Well…I can ask Telma for something to cover me up, just enough for me to work and then buy." "Buy?" he asked me. "Yeah, I need rupees so I can buy clothes…" I said. "NO!" he yelled abruptly I jumped. "I'm buying them I have plenty of rupees." He said. I smiled at him. "Thanks Link." So Telma gave me a shirt and we set out on our little "quest" for clothes. We went out to the market and was window shopping. Let me tell you, girls who do this all the time I don't know how girls do this, I just think this is soooo boring!
Well we went through the market and I finally found a good outfit. Thank goddesses! It actually fit too, it was a metal shirt covering half of my chest, and the other half was a soft, green, cotton fabric. And it stopped right under my chest. I had some shorts too, they stopped a couple of inches past my butt, I also had brown leather boots going all the way to my knees, then to top it all off I had some brown leather gauntlets. (Oh and a simple sword…) I liked my outfit.
Link had offered to spar with me, but I didn't want to…it seemed like id hurt myself if I did. But Link insisted so….I couldn't let him down. *sigh* so we went out to northern Hyrule field. I slowly and shakily pulled out my sword. Link smiled, "don't worry, it's not like I'm going to hurt you." I laughed nervously. "Okay…" he pulled out his sword, and pointed it at me. We both stood in a straight stance with one foot forward and one foot behind us. We both held out swords forward and clashed the swords together. He did a back flip and I jumped backwards.
"What you must try is the back slice!" link said to me. I nodded in reply. "Show me this move!" I said. He nodded, and with that he leapt at me with lightning speed and went around my back and held the sword at the back of my neck. I stood there in shock. Wow he was good, really good. I laughed nervously, as I tried it for the first time. Link backed up ready for me and I did exactly as he did, run, dive, jump, twist. And BAM! I didn't mean to hit him. He fell to the ground with a distinct thud. I ran over to him. "Oh no Link! I'm so sorry!! I didn't mean to hit you!!" link just sat there. I think I just killed him! Oh crap!! I started to cry and fell to my knees next to him. Then I heard laughing, it was Link! He looked up at me "I'm okay." He said. "What!? I thought I just k-." I trailed off "you thought you killed me? Is that it? Well no you didn't" he said and I smiled, and then hit him. "But you scared the living daylights out of me!!!!! I thought you died and it was actually you playing some dirty trick on me!" I said angrily. He ducked his head, then swooped down under my swing, picked me up, and threw me over his shoulder. "Hey!" I yelled "Put me down!!" I started to scream, "Never!!" link yelled. Then he tripped and fell on top of me. I looked at him with surprise on my face. I started to laugh. He scooted closer to my face and kissed my lips. I opened my eyes wide when our tongues touched. My eyes widened. Link pulled away; blushing mildly…I smiled a crack. "L-Link I…."I started, he laughed, and sat up quickly, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-I mean, I didn't…sorry I couldn't help it." I smiled, "its okay, that was my first *ahem* "tongue" kiss." I said smiling. I looked at his face and he turned away, kinda like he'd was going "score for me!" or something like that. I had to break the silence, "soooo," I said "what do we do now?" he looked at me. "I'm glad you asked." He said "wha???" I said slowly. "I want you to come to my home village with me. You know, you seemed pretty lost when I first met you and you didn't know anything. So I'm saying I want you to come live with me." He said. I let out a big smile. "Okay" I said. So we got ready to go, and had to say goodbye to Telma. She did scare me a bit because of my "hired" work but I like her now, so that doesn't matter…for now anyways. We left the town and link pulled out his horse whistle and blew on it, it made the noise but Epona didn't come running up like last time. "What do we do now?" I asked him. He sighed "we walk to Ordon." He said.
Luckily I didn't have anything to carry he just had his sword and shield, I just had my sword, but it was annoying when it hit my legs. So I tied it around my back, much better. It started to become night so we made camp somewhere safe, and out of reach. So we found a cliff, and he used his clawshot and grabbed the edge, I started to yell because he went without me! But he looked over the cliff and aimed his claw shot at me, then released and pulled me up. I screamed because I went so fast, and the metal was cold, really cold. We sat down and made a fire; I hunched up and brought my knees up to my body, and felt the fire on my hands. Link had already fallen asleep, he was real quiet, and so was the night. No owls, cicadas, or crickets were heard, just the sound of the wind. And even it was hardly blowing. I got on my hands and knees and crawled over to Link, I laid my head down on his chest, listening to the soft sound of his breathing. I scooted the rest of my body closer to his, and closed my eyes then fell asleep. Morning came, and I slowly woke up to the light, shining on my face, it was warm and welcoming. I looked up at Link's face still asleep, with his arms around me and smiling…again. I slid out of his hold, which woke him up. "Good morning." He said. "Good morning, cuddles." I said, he looked at me with question on his face. "Okay then." He said to me. I just smiled and fixed my pony tail; I pulled out my hair tie and looked at it, I remember, Fado made it because I wore a head band my hair still got in my face. I did my best to hold in my tears, and quickly pulled my hair back and put it back up. I sighed; life can't go on, thinking like this. I need to move on, even though he will still hold a special place in my heart. We got off the cliff, Link grabbed me and held me really tight against him, and he pulled out his spinner and used it to get off the cliff safely.
We started our long trek again; we are in the Faron province now. He said that we were really close to Ordon. "Thank the goddesses!" I thought. We got past the spring for the spirit Faron. We now had to cross a bridge, once we did that we'd be in Ordon. So…we ran across the bridge. Until we got to the village, when we got there we were out of breath. We stopped to catch up with ourselves, when we were done with that, we climbed a ladder to get into Link's house. He opened his door and a girl literally flew out of the house and landed on the ground below. "Big Brother!! You've been gone for too long! Where did you go!? You said that you'd be back in a couple of hours! But no! It was more like 2 days!! Shame on you!" the girl yelled. "I'm sorry hero, geez. I was a bit delayed you know." He replied. "Oh, by what?" she said. "By her, Krystal come over here." Link said. I slid down the ladder and walked over to them my ears pointing down, readying for my turn. I heard um hero, was it? Giggling. "You know you don't have to look so guilty." I looked up and laughed nervously. "Oh" I said "Okay." Then I heard little kids yelling Link's name. Four little kids came running up. I shifted foot-to-foot, even though I was a kid not that long ago, I'm not the greatest with them…but I think the oldest looking one was the cutest. Their names were Malo, Talo, Beth, and Colin. I liked Colin the best, because he was quiet and polite.
"Ohhh, link who is this??" Beth asked. "Yeah!" Talo said. Malo and Colin kept quiet. "this is my friend, Krystal" link said to them. Talo stood there completely not interested, Beth looked irritated, Colin tried his best to keep eye contact with me, and well Malo just creeped me out. We heard another voice, "Liiink!!" we saw a girl who was about I dunno 14 maybe? She came running up. "oh goddesses!" Hero said "here comes Queen of Whiny Bitches!" and with that hero turned around and made her way up the ladder. "Don't think I didn't hear that." The girl said. "I'd take you on any day!" she put her hands on her hips. Hero stopped right in her tracks, turned around and jumped off the tree. "Excuse me?" she said. "You heard me." Replied the girl…wow I didn't like her one bit. Then Hero lunged for her throat, and pinned her to the ground. Holding her tight. The girl started to gag. "Stop Hero don't!" link yelled as her ran to her trying her best to pull her off. Then I started to worry, "Hero!" I yelled "you're better than that! Don't fall to it, don't sink to her level!!" then we heard the girl coughing for air. Hero got up, and pushed link away and made her way up the ladder. Then the girl ran off, probably to cry to someone. Link looked at me stressed out. Then he made his way up to the ladder and went inside. I felt rude so I just went to explore around the village. I walked and it was a small, yet lovable place to be. There was a pond and a small creek running through the village. Pond being on the left when I walked in.
I walked through and went over the bridge and saw a large man standing on the other side. "hello." The man said to me. "Are you on business?" "No." I said. "Link found me, I was lost and had nowhere to be or go. So He said I could live here with him." The man smiled. "Ah, good ol' Link, he's a good fellow. Found yourself a nice boy you did." He said. "Oh by the way, my names Bo." he held out his hand. "Mine is Krystal." I said to him and put my hand on his. He looked at it for a second, and saw something. "Oh!!" he cried. "What!?" I replied, scared I did something. "Y-Your hand" he said. "What, what is it?" I said. "It's just like Hero's an' Link's" he said. "You're the other half of Link." "Huh???" I said terribly confused. "You know what?" he said "Never mind. You may have ask link later." He nodded and went into his house. I still felt like exploring so I went up a hill. After my trek up the hill, I saw a ranch. It had a lot of goats there. I saw a blonde girl and a brunette man standing and watching the goats. I looked at the goats and then they all started to come up to me. There were, um like a lot. So I started to walk out of their way but they followed me. Then I started to run and they were chasing me. So I ran up behind the girl and hid. She turned around, looked at me, and then turned back at the goats. "Get!" and with that they turned around and "got" I stood up and smiled. "Heh thanks." I said. She smiled. "no problem." She said. She was wearing blue cotton fabric shorts a brown belt and this little thing that wraps around her waist, it was folding over the top. She also wore brown boots and a blue shirt. Her hair was also up in a pony tail. I was a bit nervous, because she just had to tell the goats one command, and that was it. So it was a bit daunting. But I'll be okay.
She smiled and held out her hand "Im Malon by the way!" I smiled and shook her hand. "my name is Krystal!" "you know, them goats really like you!" she said. "I could kind of tell…" I said and she smiled. "So." She said. "where do you come from?" she asked. "I-I uh…" I said. "I come from…Faron?" she smiled, "You look like it. You have a "foresty" look." She said. "I, uh, thanks." I said. "what brought you here?" she asked. I paused and thought. "I met Link and had nowhere to said that I could come to live with him. But im thinking bout' building a house in Faron woods." I had no idea where the building the house part came in. But it came right out…so yeah. I guess that is what I'll do. Seems good. I decided to go back to Link's house to see if all was calm and at peace again. I opened the door and they weren't in there. Hmm, mysterious. I walked into the middle of the room and BAM! They both landed on top of me. I let out a lot of air when they both landed on me, one is enough but them both? Too much. I groaned, and slowly wriggled out from under them. They were both laughing very hard, their faces were a bright red and Hero was crying. I could of swear that I went crunch under them but I didn't.
After they were done with that they got up, and got soup to eat dinner. Link said he'd be right back, Hero said fine with, sting in her voice. "you better." She said to him and he hurried out of the door. "so." She said to me. "I heard you and Link are real close." I got red. "i-it was nothing." I said and looked away. She got a wry look on her face. "Okaaaay, then…I won't forget though." She said. "what!?" I said. "nothing…just cuddle buddies you seem to be." She said. My eyes grew big. "ohh…that. Heh well you see-." I said. "its just that-. Well he cuddles. I don't know why. He smiles and sighs in his sleep, it's a bit awkward." I said. Hero let out a big ecstatic laugh, then rolled around then started to slam the floor with her feet and hands. "what?" I said. He sat up tears made her cheeks wet and her face bright red. "its just that I do that too…I'd literally cuddle anyone and not even know it. I'd even cuddle Ganondorf! And not know it." She said. With her voice cracking up. I started to giggle. It was pretty funny, I had to admit it. We finished the food and we went into the basement and mad a pallet for me. Comfy enough. I mean could be better…but it'll do. It finally became night, and I heard something. Everyone else was asleep, so I tiptoed quietly out the door. I heard lamenting sounds of light that called my name. It was in some form of a song, beautiful yet extremely saddening. I walked slowly and heard it grow. It was coming from across the bridge. But, I couldn't get through! Earlier today Link and I came out of here…no black wall either. hmmm…I thought. Interesting, it didn't seem normal though I slowly approached the wall, a large red mark appeared.
"Krystal, wait stop!" I turned around and saw Link running at full speed. Then in a flash I heard a monstrous cry and my leg was grabbed.
I screamed. "AUGH, Link help me!!" and the leg pulled me in. all went black.
I soon awoke to being chained to the wall, by my ankle. I huddled against the wall closed my eyes and rocked back and forth trying to imagine myself out of this place…but it was no use. Closing my eyes, I slowly sung wind god's aria to myself.