Damn it's hot here...Dragon will agree! Right Dragon?
Dragon: Yeah
She's so blunt...
Thanks to: DarkLink (The name Shirosenshi means either White warrior or white castle, sorry, it has no secret meaning, it's just the name I've used for them in my rp with Aya... I really should go through the high school fic rewrite it, and change that name cause it makes them seem Mary sue-ish... Meh...) KATZUNITED (Your review greatly amused me xD) And Dragon! (My dear blunt friend)
I can never remember if I reply to the reviews I get...
After getting everything situated (And Link making sure to give Kai a lecture about keeping his eyes open while riding a horse at top speed in the forest) The four heroes began their journey towards the southern Ocean where the enemie's ship had been spotted.
"Is there even anything down that far south?" Kai said while stretching and yawning, his arm reaching out and 'accidentally' hitting his lover on the head earning him a rather frightening glare. "I mean... The fucking place ain't even on the map."
Link shrugged his shoulders, not really knowing the answer either. "Dunno..." We came back to Hyrule a few years after I defeated Ganondorf, a lot of things have changed.
Ryuk was already having a hard time figuring out what was so weird about the hero and his shadow, but Link's answer really threw him for a loop. It's so strange, benhail started acting weird the day that the hero came to visit the graveyard, and the 'hero of time', the guy who should know Hyrule like the back of his hand, has no clue... Did they leave and go to another land for a few years or something?
"You're such a stupid shadow, where have you been living all of your life? Under a rock?" Ryuk released his death-grip on Shigen's waist and crossed his arms, trying to look confident, but he only succeeded in loosing his balance and almost falling off the horse (Even though they're going at a walking pace). After securing his grip tenfold (Making Shigen wince) he continued. "A small town was built down there after Ganondorf was killed, the Hyrulians built it so they could start getting supplies and shit from other ... places..."
Kai ignored the insult (for the time being) "So we could go down to this town thing, and steal the best ship they have and sail out into the sunset? Cool..."
Link looked back at the shadow, looking completely serious. "We're not stealing any ships Kai, so don't get any smart idea's... Or dumb in your case."
"Ouch... nice one sexy..." Shigen chuckled dryly and pulled on the reins, bringing Plash to a halt. "I think we've reached the lake...."
Kai jumped off Epona and stepped over to Shigen, then grabbed a hold of Shigen's boot and yanked him off his horse. "Really? The big puddle of water didn't alert me to that at all."
Shigen stayed where he landed on his back and stared up into the sky like he was watching the clouds. It's times like these when I wish I could use my future reading abilities naturally again...
Ryuk started shivering when he looked at the water. As long as we don't have to go swimming any time soon.
"What's wrong kid? Scared of water too? You must have lived under a rock or something." Kai had noticed Ryuk's uneasiness and took it upon himself to scare the kid more then was needed. Serves him right for calling me stupid! Though... I'm one to talk about being afraid of water.
"I'm not scared of water dumb ass, all Haniam are weary of it! We sink like rocks! Not to mention, some of it can burn us, and we take a while to heal..." Ryuk looked at Shigen who was holding his hand out, silently asking for help in mounting Plash again, but Ryuk couldn't let go of the saddle, being too scared. "Sorry benhail," he laughed a bit nervous, "I can't help you."
Grumbling, Shigen pulled himself up into the saddle, wincing when Ryuk once again resumed his death grip. "Shall we get going...? If I don't rescue Kaichou soon... I'm sure I won't hear the end of it for a long time..."
Link steered Epona over to Kai and held out his hand. "Come on, I see the bridge that leads to the road on the other side, we'll gallop from here on, it's not that far."
Kai accepted the hand and effortlessly mounted Epona, he made sure to give Shigen a smug look before Link nudged Epona into a run and they were off.
Shigen, looking unimpressed, urged Plash into a slower gate, fearful of loosing any important internal organs due to Ryuk's crushing hold.
"Dear sweet lord! My ass hurts, and for once it's not Link's fault!" Kai rubbed said ass, trying to circulate the blood flow, it wasn't helping much. "That's the last time we ride bareback."
Link dismounted chuckling. "You could twist both those sentences Kai, watch it, you might confuse the villagers." He gave Epona a few grateful pats on the neck before leading her over to the nearest stable.
Yelling and cursing voices behind him made Kai turn around to see what the hell was going on. Oh god... What a fail...
The source of the commotion was Shigen and Ryuk of course. Ryuk was yelling and swearing his head off at Shigen who was trying to urge his young subordinate into jumping off the horse and into his arms, but Ryuk was having none of that.
"Like hell I'm jumping into your arms you bastard! I don't even like you, in fact, I hate you!" He gave Shigen a monstrous glare just to prove his point. "And what if you miss me and you don't catch me?" He yelped as Plash moved underneath him, apparently bored of the whole situation.
Shigen hit his head off Plash's saddle and sighed. "Do we have to go through this every time Ryuk...? I've caught you all the other times... This time wont be any different...." He held his arms open again. "Come on..."
Pouting in a ridiculously cute manor, Ryuk took one deep breath before going limp and falling off the horse, and straight into Shigen's arms.
"Awww~ Isn't that cute! Shigen has a boyfriend!" Kai patted Shigen on the back. "Good going bud, I knew you'd get him eventually."
Ryuk started flailing, purposely hitting Shigen and almost kicking Kai in the face. "Let go benhail! I'm gonna kill that bastard!"
Shigen dropped the younger Haniam and backed away out of hitting range, rubbing his now bruised cheek.
Ryuk landed on his ass, but he was quickly on his feet, his face shoved into Kai's. "I do NOT like benhail! I hate the fucking bastard!" Panting heavily, he turned and stomped off down the street. The townsfolk cleared a path for him, not wanting to become a subject of his wrath.
Link chose that moment to reappear, looking at Shigen and Kai he shook his head in disappointment. "I can't leave you children alone for two seconds, can I?" He took Plash's reins and handed them to the stable hand who had followed him. "This is the other one, we'll be back later to pick them up.
The young man saluted Link. "Alright sir, I'll make sure to take care of them both!" He lead Plash away while waving to Link.
"We have to follow after Ryuk before he goes missing too." Link gestured for the two men to follow him. "The villagers said they know of the ship we're searching for, it's down at the far side of the dockyard."
Kai skipped over to Link then slowed to walk beside him, Shigen followed behind them, covering his head with the hood of his cloak to shade his sensitive eyes.
"So the boat's just chillin there? This'll be easy then." Kai smirked, his hands were itching to draw his blade and cut up something, or someone, though he doubted Link would let him. Linky-pooh won't let me kill things anymore, he's afraid of the big bad old me. His eyes lit up at a sudden realization. Hey! If I go back to my old self, I could probably top him! Mwahahaha!
Link noticed the change in his darker self's expression and eyed him cautiously. What's he planning? Wait, do I even want to know? He thought about that for a few seconds. No, I probably don't... "Yes it's... Chillin... But a woman told me that no one is allowed in or around it."
"You talked to a woman! How dare you cheat on me! I thought what we had was special!" He fell back in step with Shigen and childishly stuck his tongue out at Link. "I'm not talk to you for a long time!"
They continued their search in an awkward silence.
They finally caught up to Ryuk after a few minutes of walking, he was leaning casually against the wall of a small pub that was overlooking the dockyard.
"It's about time you guys caught up, I was starting to think you got kidnapped or something."
Shigen walked over and stood in front of Ryuk, glaring down at the shorter man. "If you're not careful... you're the one who's going to be kidnapped..."
Ryuk shrugged and pointed to one of the ships that was anchored towards the end of the dockyard. "I think that's the ship we're looking for, it's different looking and bigger then the others."
The ship was indeed grand, being at least three times bigger then the biggest of the Hyrulian ships, not to mention the décor, it had many strange designs on the outer parts of it, and the sails were a vibrant and pretty color of maroon, the ropes were a golden color.
Kai let out an impressed whistle. "Holy fuck man, can you say over extravagant?"
Shigen snorted. "Wow shadow... I didn't know you could say such big words..."
Laughing angrily, Kai stepped on Shigen's foot. "You're an ass."
Shigen looked down at his foot which was currently being squished and raised an eyebrow. "Is that suppose to hurt...?"
Kai stomped on it several times. "Yes it's suppose to hurt! Feel the pain!"
Link dragged him away before any more damage could be done to Shigen's poor foot. "All right you guys, here's the plan, we-"
"Oh! Oh! I know this one!" Kai bounced up and down on his feet, smiling like an idiot. "We charge in recklessly! Right?"
The hero stared at him blankly, wondering if his shadow could get any stupider. "That's actually the complete opposite of what we want to do Kai..." He was about to go over the real plan when he noticed their group was missing two members. He looked around for Shigen and Ryuk and saw them walking towards the enemy ship. "Gah! You guys! Get your ass's back here!"
Kai was quick to follow after them, waving at Link and laughing manically.
Stunned, Link stood there watching them as they pushed passed a couple of guards who were... guarding the ship, and then walk up the ramp onto the ship like they owned the place.
"Am I seriously the only one out of all of them who has life preservation as a priority... on a long list of priorities...?"
Shigen, Ryuk and Kai all boarded the ship with their weapons drawn. The deck was empty, there were no signs of life in the area.
"I guess we'll have to go inside the ship then..." Shigen said to the others as he began to advance slowly towards the door that would take them down into the ship.
A whispered voice spooked them all. "Oh yeah, just leave me out of this, you don't need my help."
Ryuk turned and shot an arrow in the direction of the voice, almost shooting Link's head off.
Link let out a scream that was anything but manly and hit the deck, the arrow luckily missed him.
"Dude! You all most killed my man!" Kai hit Ryuk's head with the flat of his blade, just about knocking the poor Haniam unconscious.
"Great... Whatever chance we had of a sneak attack is now gone..." Shigen helped Ryuk to his feet and checked his head injury. "Jeez shadow... You cut him open and everything..." He held out his hand to show Kai the blood.
"I must say, I don't think I've ever seen a group of people who are completely incapable of keeping quiet."
All of them looked toward one of the ship's masts. There was a woman standing there, smiling at all of them.
"Who are you?" Link quickly took a defensive stance, the woman's aura was making him uneasy.
"You can call me Loredana Anca, but don't bother talking to me because I don't have any business with you." She sauntered over to the group casually and stood before Shigen, not at all bothered by the weapons pointing at her. "My pet, we are once again reunited!" She held her arms open as if she meant to embrace the Haniam. "Come to me, we have much to talk about."
Shigen looked to his left, and when he found no one there, he looked to his right, finding no one there either, he looked behind him and saw the others who looked just as confused as he was.
Looking back towards the seemingly mental woman, he asked, "do you mean me...?" He lowered Sulken, she didn't seem to be a threat.
Lore placed her hands on Shigen's shoulder's. "Why of course, who else would I be talking to?" Her reply sounded almost like a purr.
Link watched as Lore's demeanor changed from friendly to frightening "Shigen, get away from her! She's-"
"Silence elf!" She quickly summoned up her dark power and pushed it into Shigen, keeping a strong grip on him when he started to struggle.
Burning, it felt like his whole body was on fire, Shigen clawed out and attempted to dislodged himself from the woman, but he missed and the burning intensified.
Link and the others moved into attack when they realized what was happening, but they were intercepted by the same dog creatures they had fought a few days before.
Link, deciding not to waste any time, used Din's fire to kill off a good number of them. Lore had moved away from the general area, taking a squirming Shigen with her. They were now further down the ship and standing beside a man who was surrounded by dark energy. He's the one who summoning these creatures! I have to kill him! More of the creatures were summoned, stopping Link in his tracks.
Kai pulled Ryuk out of the way when the second blast of Din's fire roared a crossed the ship and hid the kid behind him. "I can't use fire, so we're screwed unless Link can kill them all." Kai cut down a dog that had been aiming for his head. "Ryuk! Get off the ship! You're only in the way here!" He pushed him towards the ramp and disappeared into the shadows, reappearing behind Lore.
Lore released Shigen and ducked just as Kai went to cut her head off. "It's too late! The linking process is done!" She backed away as far as she could from Kai and pointed at him. "You shall be the first to die..."
Ryuk was a stubborn person, even when he was a human he had always found ways to defy the ones he loved, and nothing had changed when he became a Haniam, so that's why after Kai had ordered him to leave, he stayed on the ship.
The dogs weren't paying any attention to him, instead focusing their attack on Link who was the biggest threat. Ryuk knocked an arrow and aimed at the man near the end of the ship. He looks like he's concentrating on something... he must be the dogs master... I can do this! He targeted the man's head, steadied his arm, and released the arrow.
It flew past the army of dogs and struck their master, hitting him right between the eyes. All the dogs stopped their attack and fell to the ground limp, dissolving into the wind.
All was silent for a few seconds, and Ryuk almost jumped for joy, they had defeated the dog monsters, and now they could go save Kaichou and Kyou.
But the silence was disrupted by the sound of two swords clashing.
Kai blocked another blow from Shigen's blade, gritting his teeth from the effort it took to hold him off. "Fuck you're strong! I can see how you beat Link!"
Shigen was staring at him more blankly then normal, the strange vine shaped tattoo's that were now all over his body were glowing with a sinister light.
"What's wrong emo? You not talking to me anymore?" Kai pushed Shigen away and jumped back out of the way of the next swing.
"Yes! That's it my pet!" Lore was jumping up and down, her black hair twisting around her body like it was alive, or under some spell.
"Kai!" Link ran towards his shadow at top speed, he knew Shigen was much too powerful for him to handle, and he was determined to save him.
Unfortunately, Kai's concentration on the battle was shattered when Link called out to him, and before he could blink, Shigen sliced him in half with his sword.
There was no reaction on Shigen's face, he didn't seem to care at all, he turned to face Link who was staring at him, the hero's blue eyes were wide with confusion and shock.
"Good my pet, that will be all for today." Lore patted Shigen's head lovingly. "And as for you two..." She looked from Link to Ryuk. "You can just... Disappear! Dante Kravek!
A blast of air knocked Link off his feet, he flew back and crashed into Ryuk who was standing in front of the ramp, and they both rolled down it until they came to a stop at the bottom, stunned and tangled.
The ship pushed off from the dock so hard that it shook the ground violently.
The villagers had gathered around the ship a while ago, to see what the commotion was about, a man and a woman went over to help disentangle Ryuk and Link and help them to their feet.
Ryuk glared after the ship that was now sailing away, slowing becoming a tiny dot on the horizon. "Benhail..." A thump beside him turned his attention to Link who had fallen to his knees.
The woman who had helped them earlier, shook Link and told him that his sword had landed near by and that he should pick it up before one of the villagers did and the Master sword's curse befell them, but Link wasn't listening.
"Hero, are you crying?" Ryuk crouched beside him and waved a hand in front of his face. "Anyone home?"
Link continued to stare at the ground, tears falling like rain onto the wood beneath him. "He's gone..."
Ryuk shrugged, he wasn't good at comforting people. It's kind of weird... A guy loving another guy that much? Definitely weird... He stood and began shooing the villagers away, knowing that the hero would want to be left alone, then went to retrieve his bow, placing it in the holder on his back.
How did it happen? Why me? Why Kai? Damn it! Can't I be happy for once in my life?! Link punched the ground angrily. "Kai! You're a moron! Why did you have to die? Now I'm going to have sulk through the rest of my life!" He continued to beat the ground senseless.
"What the hell are you going on about Link? And when the hell did I die? Wait! You called me a moron too! I heard that you know!"
Link stopped his 'ground abuse' to stare up at Kai who had appeared in front of him.
Kai smirked. "Man you look cute when you're confused," he knelt down and kissed Link gently on the lips, "sorry, but I couldn't resist to see what your reaction would be if I died." He kissed the hero again, caressing his tongue with his own, trying to get him to react.
Ryuk inched away from both of them, sensing the incoming storm.
Link pushed Kai away and punched him as hard as he could, sending the poor shadow flying a short ways away.
"You bastard! I thought you were dead! I though I was going to have to chase after our son all by myself!"
Running with his tail between his legs, Kai hid behind Ryuk. "Holy shit... save me kid!"
Ryuk flailed. "No! Get away! He'll kill us both!"
Link picked up his sword and ran toward them, yelling out one of his famous battle cries.
Kai yelp and ran for his life. "Liiiiiiink! I'll never do it again! I swear! Please don't kill me!"
Ryuk watched as Link continued to try and kill his shadow. Oh benhail, I miss you already...
Did I scare you?! Ahahahahaha! Sorry had to do it!
Oh Shigen! How could you? -sobbed- Why do my stories always turn out differently from how I plan them?
P.S: I love how Ryuk and Shigen's love is so tragic (kind of). It's not my plan to stick them together anytime soon, since Ryuk is a bit scared of that idea xD So poor Shigen must be patient.
Until next time~!