Alright here's chapter 2, it's in Lulu's point of view this time.
Lulu's head hurt.
She wasn't sure if it was through apparently travelling through time or because there was a boy impersonating her lover Mikau who had apparently been dead for a few weeks; this boy had apparently stopped the moon falling and yet was only a twelve-year-old human.
The boy, Link seemed to be able to do some sort of magic though, She had felt it surround them just for a moment before they reappeared in the same place, at night.
"It's night," the boy said to her. He was looking at her hand, which was still clutching his arm, she hastily let go and took a step away from him.
"I should go," Lulu said, running into the water. She couldn't think right now, her mind was a jumble of emotion: anger, despair, shock, sadness, confusion. She needed to think alone for a while.
Then she heard someone screaming in pain. Lulu turned around in horror as she watched Link. His eyes appeared to be black and looked huge. The rest of his body appeared to be twisting and growing as well, was that the sound of bones cracking? His screams told her how much it hurt. Then as suddenly as it started, he stopped screaming and got up from where he had fallen, now looking just like Mikau.
That was how the masks worked? Why would he want to turn into Mikau anyway? He hardly seemed to care about himself though, he was walking into the water too, not looking at all hurt. He smiled slightly at her as he walked past, he did seem tired though.
"I'm fine, I'll be in my- Mikau's room in zora hall if you… bye Lulu," he said, before diving into the water and swimming away.
Lulu stood there, frozen; she tried not to think about Link's screams. That was horrible. All that to impersonate Mikau. She didn't suppose he had shown anyone else who he really was either. Lulu couldn't feel angry at him just now though, not after those screams.
Lulu was brought out of her thoughts as one of those annoying sand monsters rammed into her. Startled, she looked around and remembered how she was going back to her home. She swiftly swam back, feeling sick; her head was still aching.
"Lulu? Woah, you alright?" Someone asked her as she arrived at zora hall and was walking to her room. She looked over at Japas, the bass guitarist for the band; he was looking at her in concern.
"What? I'm fine," she replied, resisting the urge to start rubbing her eyes. What did she look like?
"You're bleeding," he said, gesturing towards her face.
For the first time she noticed a dull pain near her left eye; she supposed she might have gotten scratched while she had been swimming back. She couldn't bring herself to care about it at the moment however; what was one scratch compared to Mikau being dead? Dead; leaving her alone with Link to raise seven children- her children. She'd forgotten them today. Lulu, at that thought, felt her eyes watering not for the first time today.
"I- I'm fine. It's just a scratch, uh- bye!" Lulu hurriedly replied, keeping her head down, hoping he wouldn't notice anything else strange about her appearance as she ran into her room where she could be alone.
She was sure that she could feel Japas eyes watching her as she scared the young zora who had been trying to creep into her room before slamming the door of her room. Her eyes stung. She was allowed to forget her children when her love has been replaced by a human boy, right? Right?
Lulu became distracted by an irritating pain from that cut, looking in a mirror she found a surprisingly large amount of blood on her face considering, as she had thought, that the cut was only small. She sighed. After washing her face she climbed into her bed, to sleep.
She could only hope her head would stop hurting in the morning.
The next day Lulu was staring at the sea outside zora hall.
The events that had happened here several days ago made much more sense now. Link had known some sort of magical song that gave Lulu her voice back. Her singing had awakened some sort of protector. Link had then taken off his mask and used some sort of weapon to get onto his back and was taken to the Great bay temple. Then Link had defeated the monster inside.
Had her really defeated many huge monsters? He seemed sincere and had magical tools but… he also seemed very secretive if he had kept Mikau's death a secret from her for so long, she couldn't trust him.
"Lulu," Mikau's voice said next to her. She jumped at the sound, not expecting anyone to come out here.
She turned to face him. He looked so much like Mikau, it was unbearable. He seemed uneasy.
"Take off that mask,"
"… Okay," he replied after a long pause.
It was interesting watching him take off the mask, his whole body glowed blue for a second where the only thing you could really see was the mask held in front of him. Then the glow faded and he was in the body of a boy, holding that mask.
"So, I have to leave in a few days," Link said.
"What? You're leaving?" Lulu said, feeling surprised and rather hurt by the news. Then she felt angry at herself; had she expected Link to stay with her?
"Yes, I'm going back to Hyrule, I only really came for the carnival" he replied, looking sad for some reason.
"Alright then." Lulu paused and then thought of something, "Have you told the others of M-Mikau's death?" She found it hard to say his name.
Link looked down at this, "I-I can't, Mikau will just disappear and then they'll find his g-grave and know died," He sounded rather scared.
"You need to."
"I can't."
Lulu felt herself becoming angry at this boy, maybe she had been angry yesterday too; he had pretended to be her lover for days before telling her that Mikau had died. Now he was acting too scared to tell everyone this. He also had her believe that he had saved the whole of Termina.
She walked angrily towards him and briefly considered slapping him or perhaps shaking him; instead she simply glared and said viciously, "you have to tell everyone the truth, they deserve to hear it! If you don't I'll have to do it instead."
Then Lulu turned and walked away from him, staring at the sea. Maybe she was being too harsh to him but he couldn't just disappear without a word.
"Wait, Lulu. I'll consider telling the other band members, would that be enough?" Link said behind her.
Lulu sighed, she couldn't really ask for much more than that. Someone else would know at least. She turned back to him, part of her wishing he would just leave; he was always going to be a painful reminder of Mikau.
"You have a cut on your face," Link said, as he watched her, when it was clear she wasn't going to reply.
"It just a tiny scratch!" It was nothing.
"Are you alright?" he replied, he wasn't asking about the insignificant scratch anymore. Lulu didn't really know how to respond.
"I'm fine," she said, not feeling up to explaining the mass of raw emotions going through her.
"I suppose you can just tell the band member, for now."
Surprisingly, Link smiled at her and took out his instrument again, some sort of flute. He played that same song he had played yesterday on Mikau's guitar though Lulu did not feel inclined to hum along with it.
As he played Lulu began to feel more relaxed, it was… soothing. He had been playing for a few minutes until Lulu spoke again. She was rather curious about these magical songs.
"What's that song called… and the instrument?"
He stopped playing. "This is an ocarina. That was the song of healing, it's my favourite song," he replied.
"It heals…?"
"The soul, it can mend broken spirits and bind them into to masks," he said hesitantly.
"Oh… like Mikau" She said sadly, feeling rather sick, despite the song.
Soon after that, the boy left her alone again, to dwell on her thoughts.
So what did you think? Does Lulu's character sound alright? Of course she's rather lost right now.
