Chapter 5 -requipping lessons-
A.N.- Hyrule is gonna be bigger than what it seems in the game. It would just be too easy XP and not much to work with.
ah if only i have a bunch of time, my own computer and an animating software. I would try to make this animated XD. It wouldn't be as good a professionals but at least i would really be able to express how i picture it. I wouldn't have ay voice actors XD but i i were to make it happen i would but in little sound effects and what not. :P
i didn't really put much detail on how they look (Raven and Serena) because i have their outfits drawn xD. I want to upload them so bad but i have no idea how to scan with a mac T^T. ah well check them out when i do k?
Raven was leaning on a tree not so far from Serena, who was talking to a short middle-aged man.
"Thank you." Serena took out a purple rupee and handed it to the traveling merchant. "here." The man bowed slightly because any lower and he might possibly fall to the ground from the heavy bag on his back. He left them, continuing on the dirt path toward castle town.
Serena walked past Raven and threw one of the two sleeping bags she bought from the stout man. He caught it with one hand and slung it over his shoulder, holding onto the thin rope that went around it. Serena has just attached it on top of the bag of supplies she had also bought.
They walked for about an hour or two. Saying nothing since there was nothing that came to mind. It was getting dark so they stopped in the middle of Hyrule field next to the isle of elevated land. Serena climbed up the isle and Raven followed. There was no need to light a fire since the moon was shining bright enough for them to see each other.
For the longest time they said nothing. Serena was looking at the map she had brought and Raven was examining his clothes. They were thin and showed signs of heavy use. They brought requipping to his mind as well as other thoughts. He finally broke the three hour silence with one of them.
"…These are your clothes aren't they?"
"Well yes…" 'took him long enough' She thought. "I don't live with anyone, so who else could it have belonged to?"
"I don't know. I thought maybe you had a brother or something." He was surprised an a bit worried that he could fit into her clothes. Then again she didn't exactly dress like the girls he knew... except maybe Sheik but even he was male, for the moments he was.
"I only have one bedroom in my house. The one i pushed you into so that you could change." Raven thought about this for a while before answering.
"Wait, that was your bedroom?" She nodded. "But it was so bare. Do you ever go in there?"
"Not really… When i need to get something from my house i occasionally take naps. I'm usually up and about trying to find information about Hyrule so that i could record it. That takes a lot out of my time. And i usually don't find what i'm looking for."
"oh…" It was quiet once more. Serena put away her map with a sigh. it was going to take them around 3 days to get there on foot. It would be only 1 and a half f they kept going. However, night was a very dangerous time to be traveling.
Serena was skilled with the bow and arrow but not much else. She was brought up to be the historian of the heros. Whatever fighting she knew, she learned and taught herself from the fruits of her research.
Raven suppressed a sigh. He was bored. He risked a glance at Serena. She was playing with a dagger she had requipped. He stared with childlike envy. Oh, how he wanted to learn hoe to requip. It would save him a lot of trouble with his adventures.
Serena caught Raven's stare and couldn't help but feel a little guilty. It was like holding a child's favorite toy above your head, out of their reach. She gave in.
"fine."She requipped a simpler dagger. I had no decorations of any sort. "practice with this." She handed it to him.
Raven's eyes widened. Was she really..? He had heard what she said and knew what she meant, but he just wanted to make sure.
"You… You're gonna teach me…" He waited, inviting her to finish for him.
"Requip. Yes.." She didn't quite believe herself either. "Why not? It couldn't hurt." Raven was ecstatic though he made sure it didn't show on his face. He just smiled, his blue eyes piercing thought the night.
"yeah…" He couldn't stop smiling. "It would be something to do."
A few minutes later.
"Why is This so HARD? " Raven/Link was sweating. Getting the dagger to exquip was easy. The problem was requipping it back.
"Told ya it was harder than it seems." Raven was focusing on his hand, willing the dagger to appear. "It gets even harder when the weapon is bigger and more complex. Here try doing the whole thing." She equipped the dagger herself and handed it to him.
Raven exquipped it just fine, but when he requiped it the dagger broke in his hands. He struggled not to shout in frustration. Instead a growl that would have been mistaken for a wolf by anyone but Serena.
"Try yelling Requip." She suggested while handing him another simple dagger. The black haired girl was now getting her sleeping bag set up.
"And how would that help?" Raven snapped back.
"I dunno. It kinda sets the mood. Like how people grunt and stuff when you hit something or get hit by something. Like you do most of the time." Raven grumbled a bit before trying it out.
"RE-" He was interrupted by a thick and heavy cloth that had found it's way to his face. He pulled it off and found that is was his sleeping bag. "HEY!"
"Go to sleep." Raven was about to protest when exhaustion finally hit him. He slipped into the sleeping bag and hopped over to a nearby tree. Requipping was harder than he thought. 'I got to hand it to Serena. It'll probably break a hundred daggers before i get this down.'
"You're doing fine." Raven looked up at Serena."It's natural for the weapon to break. In fact it means you're progressing." Raven looked at the remains of the dagger. The blade was cut in half. "I'm actually surprised you could requip anything for the first day. It took me a week to even requip a broken dagger. And the blade was completely shattered."
"Really?"
"I swear to Nayru i'm not lying." She put her hand up for emphasis. "You're a natural." She smiled. "And it's no wonder why."
"And why is that?"
"Well, this is a knights skill. I uncovered it with the help from my buddy, Shad. He was so disappointed that it wasn't about the sky folk, but i thought it useful."
"Really?"
"Yup the best part about looking for something, if finding a lot of cool stuff in the process."
"I know how that is. I was probably the richest man in Hyrule with all the rupees i found in the dungeons. And all i wanted was a dungeon map." They smiled at each other in a strange friendly manner. Raven broke it by yawning . He then sunk into his sleeping bag, hisser face partially covered. "i did donate most of it." He said with his muffled voice. It wasn't like he was in need of anything. Whatever he needed he earned in the dungeons and quests.
"mmm… i see. We should get some sleep." Serena couldn't tell if he nodded or not. "hah.. what a day."
The morning after…
Raven was the first to wake. He had gotten this habit from Termina. When you only have 3 days to save the world… you don't really see the need for over sleeping. Serena on the other hand was still sleeping, and in the most unfashionably manner too. Her head was tilted back, mouth wide open. He had to resist the urge to mess with her.
He slipped out of his sleeping bag. Maybe he could slip a leaf or something into her mouth. Serena groaned and turned over so that now she was face down. His opportunity missed, Raven slid down the elevated isle they were on. He quickly took in his surroundings.
It had that similar feeling castletown did. It's like he knew it but it was foreign to him nonetheless. Judging by the position of the sun it must be around 6 or so. He looked back at the elevated isle of land. Serena probably won't wake up for a /Link gave a little mischievous grin.
"Now to see how much this place has changed." He started with the patch of unknown plants. They were strange and were definitely not in his Hyrule. It was some type of reed shaped like a horseshoe. He picked one and was about to blow into it when something in the corner of his eye moved. At first he thought it was Serena but when it came into view it attacked him.
"What the?" He jumped back before the thing tackled him. It resembled a bug, if it wasn't one already. The two sticklike legs pushed the creature across the field. It circled him for a moment and then ran off. Raven's mouth formed into a smirk as he chased the creature around the field.
"Get back here." He said playfully. The critter scrambled away from him as he leaped to capture it in his arms. "Fast aren't you." It hopped in response and then ran. "well so am i"
Raven then spent the next few minutes chasing the bomskit across Hyulre field. Serena, who woke up to the bomskit's explosive eggs which Raven missed, got up from her awkward sleeping position.
"nuuu~" She stretched, arms reaching toward the sky. She looked up at the sky. "mmm must be early." She yawned. "still sleepy." She saw Raven's empty sleeping bag and a little jolt of fright went through her. Then she turned to see the very person hopping at a frightened little bomskit.
"This picture would be so much more fitting if he was still 10… or 12.. 11?" She didn't know. The books said it was around that age.
Serena stepped off the plot of land and slid down the side of it. She landed on her back but she was too sleepy to care. 'If the hero's up i should be too. hmm if we go now we should be get to Faron woods before dark.'
Raven lunged at the bomskit which jumped out of the way to reveal a rock behind it. Raven's face impaled into the stone. Serena could have sworn she heard a crack, which would have came from either his skull or the rock. He got up.
His forehead was a little bruised but otherwise fine. The rock however was cracked where it had collided with his head. 'wow his head is hard in both ways.' Serena thought. Raven scowled at the sight of the creature running away and was about to go after it.
"Hold it." He tripped at her voice. "Let's get going." Serena went back onto the isle of land and threw him his sleeping bag. He rolled it up and slung it over his shoulder as he did before. She was about to do the same when she spotted the broken dagger. She picked up the two pieces and placed it into her bag then finished rolling the sleeping bag.
"We're going already?" Raven/Link asked when she emerged from the elevated land's trees.
"Yup." She hopped off of the isle and started toward Faron Woods. "I want to get to Ordon as soon as possible." She equipped a dagger into her hands and then gave it to Raven.
"If that's the case why didn't we travel at night?" 'Or at least get up earlier than you would have.' He added in his thoughts. They would have gotten there by now.
"Traveling by night is dangerous. In all of Hyrule night is the worst time to travel. You of all people should know that." Raven exquipped the dagger. He requipped it moments later to find that the tip was missing. He cocked his head in question.
"It does that sometimes."
"ah… i see." He touched the flat of the blade. it was rough with scratches. As he was examining the blade he wasn't paying much attention to his surroundings and failed to notice that Serena had stopped. He bumped into her, the dagger jabbing into her back. Good thing the tip was gone. Too bad she had a short temper in the mornings.
"UWAAAAAAAAAAH!" She turned around and snatched the dagger. She broke it in her frustration and cuts appeared on her hand."Watch It!"
"You're the one who stopped." Link shrugged. Serena just tightened her fist. He noticed red coming out of it. 'ah! she's bleeding.' Serena finally noticed it after she calmed down.
"Oh sh-" She gripped her hand. "gaaa~h" Raven stood there not knowing what to do.
"Do you need help with that?" He asked when she took out some bandages.
"no… thanks for asking though." She gasped when she tightened it. "Anyway i stopped because of that." Serena pointed to the entrance of Faron Woods. They were guarded by a bulblins, a few of them on boars.
"So, I can deal with them. no problem." He took a step toward them but Serena stopped him with her arm.
"With what? You don't even have a sword."
"Yes but… Don't you have a sword." She equipped a grayish silver sword with a green hilt.
"Your point is?" Serena was ignorant sometimes. Raven held out his hand expectantly. She exquipped it away. "NO!" She was fuming again.
"Why not?"
"We're not going to go through them. I've never seen a mob like this before." 'and them being by the only way to Ordon… that could only mean one thing' She thought.
"I have."
"exactly my point. So we're going around them." She grabbed his hand and lead him to the elevated edge of the field. It was too tall and steep to climb, and almost no foot holds if anyone tried.
"Wha?" He didn't quite get why they were gonna do this ,but hey she seems to know what she's doing. That's what he thought before she tried to run up the short cliff.
"ah!" She yelled when she slipped. She landed on her feet though and went a few steps back to try again.
"What, are, you, doing?" Raven/Link asked adding a bit of emphasis on each word. She ran and got a considerably father up than she did before, but dropped down like before.
"What does it look like?" She went further back from the cliff. The uncertain look on Raven's made Serena take a few more steps back. "Don't worry i've done this before." She made one last dash for it, jumped at the moment her momentum ended and grasped the tree tree branch over head. She then swung over to the edge of the cliff.
She looked down on him and said "Your turn" and smirked. Raven took a few steps back and eyed the cliff. He quickly noted the few places he could place his foot and ran.
"I hate you." Serena said narrowing her eyes at him. He rubbed his neck in response as they walked through the woods.
"Sorry, i didn't mean to show off. It's just that there was this game we used to play in kokiri forest. Mido thought of it. We took turns running up a cliff or tree to see who could get the highest."
"That's a stupid game."
"Hey, Mido thought of it." He put his hands up in defense.
"Well you're the one who played it." She stated, her eyes still narrow.
"It's not like i wanted to… exactly. they were making such a big deal about it and well."
"Lemme guess they challenged you and you couldn't say no."
"Something like that." He laughed it off and Serena grinned.
"oh well, at least it came in handy." They came to a cliff overhead two small opening side by side. They were separated by a fence and there was a spring on the opening left of them. "Now how do we…"
"..You don't know how to get down?" Raven raised an eyebrow.
"Yes and no. This is strange… hmm must have made the wrong turn." While Serena was pondering where exactly in Faron woods they are Raven laid on his stomach watching the fields grass move in the wind. There were a few bokoblins hanging around but they didn't see him.
A monkey wearing a red flower emerged from the entrance to his right and a little boy came chasing it. The boy tripped for some reason and the stupid bokoblins finally noticed them.
"What are you looking at?" Serena asked. He pointed to the scene unfolding. "Hello, what do we have here." She settled down next to him, legs criss crossed.
The bokoblins started toward them with their clubs. The monkey jumped onto a lower ledge just out of their reach. With that they turned to the boy. He shrieked in fear.
Raven stood up and reached to where his sword would be behind his back to find nothing. He looked to Serena expectantly. She shook her head and turned to look at the scene.
The monkey head abandoned her ledge and stood in front of the boy, fighting off the monsters. They didn't see one come up behind them. When it was within reach it grabbed the boy, who screamed in response. The monkey turned around to help him only to be captured as soon as she did.
The group ran to the other side doing a feeble jump to get over the fence. They disappeared into the wooden tunnel.
Raven looked at Serena anger in his eyes.
"Why didn't you do anything?"
"…"
"You could have at least given me a sword, any weapon really and i could have fought them."
"…"
"How could you just stand by and not be wor-"
"Alright that's enough!" She took a passive step forward. "I'm not worried because someone else is gonna save him. They're just a bunch of bokoblins after all. I'm sure he can handle them."
"Who?" He asked sternly.
"Link. Link of the Ordon provinces." It took a while for him to respond.
"The… The other Link is here?" Serna nodded. "Then-"
"This is the start of his adventure… speaking of which, there his is right now." Raven only glanced to the side to take a look at him. He ended up turning the whole way around for he would have missed him if he didn't.
The new hero rode in on his horse, Epona still the same lively horse.. He couldn't see exactly what he looked like except the most obvious features. His hair was a darker blond than his own. His eyes as it looked like from this distance was blue.
The soon to be hero and his steed jumped the fence and rode into the tunnel, after the troublesome boy.
"So what do you think?" Raven/Link broke his gaze to face her. "Do you think he's capable."
"We'll see." Her turned away and walked a few steps then waited for Serena to follow. She rolled her eyes and then went ahead.
"I know a shot cut to where he's headed." She sighed. Then sprinted past the trees.
XD finally some action… ish. But at least now it's headed toward the main plot. SO
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