Chapter 3

Realization and Acceptance

"Well, goodnight." A young man's voice echoed throughout the room he was staying. "Goodnight... see you in the next morning." A reply came after, an awkward yet happy tone. They said to each other goodnights and then fell asleep.

Link was in his bed with a blanket covering the young hylian's body to keep it away from the coldness in the night. Though he wasn't alone, there was someone beside him at the bed.

It was a girl named Rina she was a dark elf by appearance and rather a beautiful one. She was around his age, but older by a year. Little to know about the girl's history for the young hero in green. But he did know that she was a traveller who got lost. Stumbled upon his house trying to get some rest and afterwards, met the young hero. Henceforth, the female dark elf lived under the same roof with him. Strangely or maybe coincidentally he thought, they shared a resemblance towards each other even though both have different races and complete strangers. Some moments happened between them but it wasn't that intriguing, to him only.

At first she was considered as a troubling person and an amnesiac stranger according to the young hero. The girl also was pretty quirkish, teasing him day by day. Later, the hero seemed to accept her existence and her behavior in the latter's place (more like used to it). He introduced her to the villagers and they didn't seem to mind her living in there at all except for Illia who didn't like the thought of she and Link living together. Link hesitated before because he thought that the villagers do not like unknown person also has a different race occupying in their hometown (in short racist, no offense I hope readers aren't getting confused by this). Long story short the two lived happily.

But, one day in Link's house. "Something has been bugging me all day." The young hero said to himself. "What's that?" The dark elf eventually responded to him. Link continued "I don't know or maybe the fact that Zelda hasn't call me or talk to me or anything for a long time." She replied "Who knows? Maybe she's going on a vacation or whatever a princess would do." Link could tell that she didn't give a crap about the princess. Link scowled, not because of her replies but the subject they were discussing.

"This seems really strange. I'll go have a look at the castle." He rushed to the wardrobe and started wearing his usual attire, the green tunic along with a long green phyrgian cap.

"W-W-Wait I'll come with you." The girl said, felt a bit worried that he was going to leave her.

"Don't worry. I'll come back home in no time." He gave him a reassuring smile. Even with that the girl had still a worried face. "Okay." She replied.

"Promise?"

He chuckled "Of course!" He was already standing in front of the front door, ready to exit.

"I'm off!" he opened and close the door behind him.

"Take care, Link." She could hear his footsteps that began to faded.

She was all alone again. In his house. That was filled with nothing but scattered tools and souvenirs from the hero's previous adventure back when Hyrule was in need of help from the Evil Zant and Dark Lord Ganondorf.

Lately, the hero was always worried about the princess. No doubt for a hero to be concerned about the princess's safety.

She walked around the house, looking for something interesting. And then suddenly her eyes caught a glimpse of a book that resembled an album. It was placed inside of his chest that was left open wide.

"He's not here and I'm bored. So, why not?" she grinned to herself. The book was picked up. She sat on the nearest chair around her.

The book was indeed an album. A huge red album, with thick paper. Inside of it was pictures of the hero's moments before she came here. From his childhood years until the time she saved Hyrule.

She giggled at every picture she saw. The pictures showed everything. When he was raised by Mr. Russel. When he met Illia for the first time. The thing that she liked the most about the picture was the picture of Link depicting his happiness through smiling widely. "He was really cute back then. But, even now he still has his charms."

The words she let out came across her mind.

"WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST SAY?!" She blushed furiously."Calm down now, Rin. We are here to make the worst days of his life and yet why am I getting unknowingly comfortable here?"

She slapped both of her cheeks hard. "Link is your enemy. Link is your enemy. Link is your... why when I think about him it's always hard to breath normally." Her face was fully scarlet.

When she tried think of him as a bad person, the only thing she sees was Link smiling at her. "Guhh... it's no use. I can't shake it." The female dark elf gave up to her own thoughts. "I do not want to believe it myself."

She places her hand onto her beating heart."I really do have fallen in love with him."

She accepted the thought. She knew that she was the one who DIDN'T want to realize her own feelings.

"But, it's not like I hate it too or anything." she smiled shyly. Rina was no longer thinking about making his life miserable or so. Her new objective was made him fall in love with him, the opposite of her old objective. "I need to come up with something that can make him fall for me."

Unexpectedly, one picture got off the album. As she noticed and had her eyes locked on it, there was something that made her inside filled with hatred and frustrations all of a sudden.

The picture contained Link with Princess Zelda smiling together.

"You... You're the bitch that caused Link's sincerity to me is less than before. My heart always aches when I hear Link talks about you." her tone deepened and darkened. "You'll pay. You will definitely pay for this."

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Uh-oh what's this? Is Rina going down for the Cia route? Who knows, that's up for the author to decide, which is me mwuehehehehe.

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Extra : Another picture slipped off of the album. It depicted Link with his childhood friend Illia.

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"Meh"

Meanwhile at one of Ordon's residence...

"What's wrong Illia? You seem a bit angry today." asked Bo the Mayor of Ordon, also enrolled as a father of Illia.

"I don't know Dad. Something just ticked me off." she said as her left eye twitching with annoyance.