Title – A Time Without Heroes
Chapter – Shades of Blue
Pairing – Link x Sheik
Summary – When Sheik is killed, Link travels far into the future to find the one he loves reincarnated. Now to make him remember…
Notes – Sheik is a guy, and not Zelda.
Disclaimer – I don't own The Legend of Zelda or any of the characters
AN: Sorry this took so long. A dear friend of mine killed himself last Saturday (May 16, 2009.) He wrote his own original fiction on deviantart; . I am dedicating this chapter to that friend who meant so much to so many people.
The seconds passed to minutes and Link still stood staring at the vast changes that had taken place in the world that was no longer his; he kept looking back at the date on that paper. 'Seven hundred years,' the Hylian thought the astonishment would never pass. 'There's so much left that I haven't seen,' Link's adventurous nature was ever present. 'People to find…' this was the thought that spurred him into moving on slightly shaky legs. 'Now where to start?'
Link decided that forward was as good a direction as any. Though things became more complex when the ancient Hylian came to a black road with moving metal things of all colors and sizes. They didn't look like they would stop if he walked into their path, eventually he managed to dodge his way through the seemingly never ending stampede.
Minutes passed to hours and Link had gained quite a bit of skill at avoiding getting run down by those metal things. He was beginning to realize just how massive this place was and how many thousands, no millions, must live here. Mid day faded to mid afternoon and then to evening; Link's strength and confidence in his mission began to falter as the sun set.
It was several hours after sunset when the Hylian heard a distant rumbling, a few minutes after that and he began to feel vibrations through the ground. Then he realized that the noise and the vibrations were in sync and had a peculiar rhythm. He followed the noise into a very brightly lit area of town; glowing signs hung from every building. Finally he found the source of the noise, sort of; it was coming from within a well guarded building. The only door that Link could see had a line of people built up in front of it; the creepy looking men guarding the place were letting in some people from the line and turning others away.
Link went to the back of the line like the polite man he was. He didn't really know why he wanted in, he just had a feeling about the strange place. Luckily the line moved quickly, and Link soon found himself at the front of the line.
"You gots your ID?" one of the fore mentioned creepy men asked Link in a no nonsense voice. Link only had time to shake his head in confusion before being shoved out of the line.
'This must be a very important place, I have to find another way in! I wonder what an ID is…'
Link put the skills he had gained while breaking into the Gerudo Fortress to good use. He scaled up the back of the building using two conveniently placed gutters, and climbed in through the also conveniently open window at the top. 'That was so easy. Its almost like someone wanted me to break in.'
The room Link had climbed through the window to find looked like some modern form of a restroom. Outside the door the noise was deafeningly loud; Link was finding that it was almost like music, and that the more he heard of it the more it sounded like music. There were people everywhere dancing, so many people that the Hylian was finding it difficult to walk through the crowd.
When the song ended the dancing people's movements slowed, but picked up again as another started. There was a large group of people gathered around a stage at the far end of the room. Curious, Link made his way around the dance floor and in front of the stage where the biggest crowd was; they all seemed to be waiting for something.
When the song changed again people started cheering and a dark figure appeared upon the stage. The figure's features were well hidden by the flashing lights of every shade of blue dancing around it. At first the music was almost peaceful, but as a deep beat started the shadowed figure on the stage began to move towards the front of the stage, hips swaying to the music. It soon became apparent that it was male on the stage, and as the flashing lights flashed on his figure brighter and brighter Link noticed that he wasn't wearing much and that he was extremely beautiful.
Link held his breath without realizing it as he waited for the surely beautiful face to be revealed by the odd blue lights. The lights flashed faster and faster until only one was lit, trained right above the head of the man Link had been looking for. The Hylian nearly fainted.
"Sheik…" Link whispered, but the music drowned him out. He couldn't take his eyes off the form of the nearly nude young man he had longed to see.
When Sheik's ruby eyes met Link's sapphire, Link felt his heart racing in his ears and the music, the vibrations through the floor, the people around them, seemed to melt away, and left only the two of them. Then Sheik began to dance to the beat of the music Link could no longer follow, swaying and twirling and moving in and out of the shadows cast upon the stage when the lights flashed as if he was part of them.
All too soon the song ended and Links senses returned full force as the lights flashed off for only an instant longer than usual and Sheik disappeared. Link was then cast into an irrational state of panic, he feared he that he had lost Sheik again. Thankfully before Link had time to hurt himself or someone else in his panic, a hand appeared on his shoulder and instantly brought him back to reality.
The Hylian spun around and was caught once again in the piercing crimson gaze that Sheik was so well known for. Seconds passed and Link had yet to greet the new Sheik, he only stood, mouth agape, staring at the lovely Sheikah.
Sheik rolled his eyes and reached up to close Link's mouth; this startled Link out of his moment, then he noticed Sheik giving him a questioning look. 'Good goddesses! Why do I always do the stupidest things around him?!' "Umm…" 'And I can't think of anything to say!'
"Do you, I don't know, want to take a walk outside?" Sheik asked politely.
"With you?" Link asked hopefully
Sheik rolled his eyes again. "Of course with me!" Then he smiled at Link to show he meant no harm.
"S-sure." Link coughed "Yeah."
Sheik gave him a dazzling smile, grabbed his hand, and began pulling him towards the door.
~ TBC ~
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