Can't be that weird, I thought. Share it with other people, I thought. Boy... I might regret that.

Warning: Tis like a unicorn. (That's my special warning for mpreg stories. In case you haven't come across one yet.)

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"This is insane, Sheik! You're going to be killed!" I ignored Midna as I tucked my hair under my turban. "What would Impa say?!"

My answer was to shrug and call upon my magic, the shadows in the room reaching out to touch me and ready to carry me to the next shadow and so forth until I reached my destination.

The darkness was gentle and calming as I fell back into the waiting arms of black. "Come back here!"

Time was slow around me as I moved faster than anyone would think possible, except maybe Midna. She was the only one I had shared this secret with. I could see my people working the small plots of land I helped bring life into. Many lanterns were lit to keep away the monsters and I sparked life into the ones that had gone out. The last thing we needed was another attack.

Women were herding their children indoors as the bit of light our home had started to go out, plunging the streets without lanterns into darkness. A few struggled to close their doors in time and I kept away the demons of night while I passed, not missing the prayers passing through their lips.

The gateway to the over-world came into view and before I knew it, I had made it into the world above. The going would slow from here because the realm's lack of shadows, even thought the only light was cast by the moon. Nonetheless, I was helped to the gate that would lead me to the Palace of Light, home of the Hylian people.

I jumped from the shadows, making sure to tell them of my gratitude. The glamour around the gate shifted as I lay my hands upon it. It had taken me months to be able to see past it and far longer to even know where the gateway was. But I had found it.

I knew no shadows would be beyond this point. It will just be me from this point on, but I already knew that and studied concealment spells for this occasion. The heat of the pure light coming off the holy stone would drive any other away, but I had a mission. I would suffer through all this and more for my people. Tears came to my eyes as I pushed through the portal and came out on the other side.

Light erupted in my vision from all sides and I had to remember that I was practically walking into the sun. And that it was probably going to hurt like hell when I allowed myself some time to rest. When the spots cleared and I was finally able to see, I looked for the tallest and biggest building. A light green beacon rose from a far off tower and I set that as my goal.

I could feel the harsh burns covering my body as if the realm itself was trying to destroy me. It probably was. But then I was inside the massive building and his aura was stronger in this direction. I followed it and slipped silently into the room that I could sense him in.

Blue eyes scanned page after page before him as the Hylian male read a book. I breathed out. This would take every bit of my training to accomplish. Staying against the wall, I neared his bed.

"What are you reading, prince?" He jumped and I slid down the wall as he looked in my direction.

I could feel the bed shift as he moved around. "Who's there?"

Carefully, I crawled under the bed and to the other side. "Just a lonely shadow."

He gasped as I snuffled out the candle. "What is it you want?"

I chuckled as he searched the dark room. "Nothing much."

"Are you going to kill me?" His unseeing eyes looked my way in the darkness.

"Heavens no." I smiled at my own joke.

He didn't seem as amused. "Then what is it you want?"

"Can a lonely shadow not come to spend time with the man they loathe?" The Hylian growled as I brushed up against his side.

"No. Now leave." He swiped at the spot I had been seconds before.

"Too slow." I slipped a charmed necklace over his head and left a barely there kiss on his lips. "Come see me sometime."

And then I was gone again.

The wind whistled through the trees and I hummed along with the tune of nature until something disturbed it. "So, you are the lonely shadow, Sheikah?"

I smiled up at my visitor. "Hello, prince."

"How are you so calm? I could have the entire Hylian Army surrounding you right now and there would be nothing you could do to escape." He glared down at me and I flicked my tongue at him.

His surprised expression made me giggle. "I know you don't."

"Why would you think that?" He backed up a ways as I stood.

"You're curious." Eyes widening only proved how correct I am. My hands ran down his back and the Hylian hurled himself forward. "That damned light of your world hurts terribly and it keeps shadows from living in it."

"How did you do that?"

"What?" I smirked. "This."

He glanced down when I tapped on his foot to find me laying between his feet. "Yes, that!"

I held my stomach and laughed as he scrambled away. "It isn't funny, Sheikah!"

I regained my composure. "Oh, but it is funny."

"Not, it isn't. Stop." He took a step back for every time I stepped towards him. "I'm serio-"

My magic grabbed the small shadow of a twig and wrapped it around the prince's foot, effectively tripping him. I plopped down on his stomach and pouted. "Do you not like me, Prince? Cause I like you."

The turmoil in his crystal eyes made me want to laugh, but I kept it in. Such innocence. "Get off me, Sheikah."

"Come now, Hylian." His mouth shut quickly as I crawled up his torso to nuzzle into a strong jawline. "I know you have not ever experienced the types of pleasures I can offer you."

A shiver strong enough to shake me raced through him as I mouth the hollow of his throat. "You might never know how it feels if you do not except my generous agreement."

"I do not want-"

"Nuh uh. Somehow, I do not believe you." He 'eeped' as I reached down to pat the beginning arousal poking into my thigh. "And you don't believe it either, do you? You want to know what I can give you. How it will make you feel. I know you do."

"I-"

I placed a finger to his lips. "Shush. I'll let you get away with not paying me back this one time. But next time..." I let the words hang in the air as I found the ties to his pants.

"D-Don't do anything to me!" We both knew he didn't want me to stop. I could practically smell the curiosity and growing lust on the prince. My prince.

"If you are so unwilling, fight back." He lay stiff under me even as I stopped to watch him. When he simply turned his head away, I chuckled. "I hear they don't teach you what sex is up in your 'heaven'. That right?"

When I only received a confused look from him, I went on. "You live so long, why would they need to. But I'll let you in on the secret."

"It is the ultimate act of love between two people and touches their very souls. It also feels better than anything you will ever experience and involves that lovely organ of yours that is poking me. Imagine plunging into the warm of another person. Sweat and sex. What more could you want." A deep, crimson bloomed across his cheeks at my words.

"How do you know? Have you ever..." The prince licked at his lips as he looked me up and down.

I smiled and ruffled his hair. "Nope. Can't say I have. Perhaps I was saving my first time for someone, hmm." He gulped. A pitiful moan left him as I reached under the seam of his pants to press my palm into the hair just above his crotch, my fingers teasing lower down.

"Wh-What do you plan to do to me?" Ah, that squeak in his voice was rather cute.

"Leave a reminder, or perhaps, a promise of what could be." The prince breathed in deeply, though it was cut off by a groan of pleasure, as I kissed the spot where his neck and shoulder met with the intent to mark him. Nails dug into my skin as he gripped my sides and I could feel him grow even more against me.

Finally, I released the abused flesh and sat up, extracting my hand from his clothes. I was happy with my handy work. The prince looked thoroughly teased. His eyes opened from being clenched shut and he found my own. "Why did you stop?"

"If you want to go on, you will need to agree to listen to my offer." I snorted. "But not now. I have things I must be doing."

I allowed the shadows, jealous little things that they were, take me from him and set me on my feet. "Goodbye, Prince. May we meet again."

"Wait." His breathlessness made me turn. The prince was struggling to stand, but he walked over to me when he did. Even if it was a little awkwardly done. Had he never been turned on before? "When will I see you again?"

"You have my charm. Just wish to see me and it will guide you." I winked. "Not that it will help you find me if I am not in this world. So, don't get any smart ideas."

I chuckled as the human boy turned in a circle trying to find what had hit him with a small rock.

"This is what you do for fun?" My shoulders relaxed as arms wrapped around my waist.

Ignoring the golden knife pressed into my stomach lightly, I leaned back into a strong chest."Good morning, prince."

"Morning, Sheikah. Now, tell me why you are tormenting a human."

"You said it yourself. This is what I do for fun. Here, watch." The boy picked up the basket of laundry he had been trying to fill with clean clothes. With a flick of my wrist, the top shirt flew off. I giggled as he dropped the basket to run after it.

"So, you're a jester."

"What else did you think Sheikah did in the over-world?"

"I don't know..." He trailed off, but I knew the rumors that were spread about us.

"We execute anyone that uses their powers to harm humans, you know."

"Wha-"

"You don't think we don't know how awful Hylians paint us to their children when we do not do the same to them. The most we are taught about your people is to be cautious because you are trained to hunt Sheikah down and send us back to our realm with your painful light magic."

Link didn't say a word until the human boy's mother had come out to get him and they both stepped into the house. "How do I know I can trust what you say?"

"Have I done anything to prove your teaching true? Have I attacked you in such a way that means I wish you dead? Did I hurt that boy?" The blade burned my hand, but still I pushed it away so I could face him. "The answer to all of these is no. I haven't acted in the way your people are told I would."

The prince gulped as I began backing him into the surrounding forest. Finally, his back hit a tree. Tilting my head just so, I spoke. "If I wanted you dead, Hylian, you would be. We both know I have the power to. But I did not because I am not a killer."

His eyelids lowered and shaking hands came up to cup my face. Slowly, Link brought my face closer to his own. Fierce, turbulent pools stared into my calm fire. "I believe you."

Relieved, I reached up that tiny bit and placed a light kiss to his lips. The prince froze as I giggled. "I knew you would. That's your reward."

The surrounding rocks were covered in the pool's reflection and seemed to shimmer. It really was a beautiful place. I sighed. Midna hadn't told Impa of my plan. Thank Hylia. But she did tell her of my adventure in the overworld. I had gotten quite the tongue lashing and made to go on water duty. Not that I didn't like coming to the spring.

"Sheik?" Right on cue, it seemed.

"Prince."

"I thought I said not to call me that."

"Aww, but it pisses you off so badly. I like it when you're mad."

"Stupid."

"Your insults are still childish, it seems." I glanced back at him with a wide grin. "Try saying 'fuck you'. Or 'bastard'. Oh, why not go all out and call me a 'son of a bitch Sheikah with a fucking terrible attitude, but is no less enjoyable.'"

"I think a compliment was made out of that."

"Eh, what can you do."

"I'll think of a good one, but until then..." I raised an eyebrow, but then gasped as he pulled me back to rub against my arse. "You can be my cute Sheikah lover that has a wonderful behind."

"Why couldn't you just say I'm your bitch that you enjoy fucking?"

"Because one of us has to talk without cursing ever other word."

"Every other word, huh." He gave me that look. The same one I get when I do something he enjoys, but doesn't enjoy. Like the time I tied him to the tree. "I fucking can't fucking stop fucking saying fuck every fucking other fucking word I fucking say, shitface."

Next thing I knew, I was being thrown across the spring and into the water.

"Get him!"

"Hold him down!"

"Get the chains! Bind him!"

Metal wrapped around my waist as I tried to fight them off. I screamed as the pure silver bit into my skin, the pain causing my vision to blur. "No!"

"This is what you get for tricking my son, Sheikah!" A burning hot fire erupted in my eyes and I was unable to see through the pain.

"You can't do this!"

"Sit down, Link."

"I won't! He's my lover! You wi-" A slap rang through the room.

"Do not forget that I am your father AND the ruler of this realm. I can do as I please if I believe my people are in danger."

"He never put anyone into danger!"

"But he will if I let this little affair go on. He will be executed soon enough that it will not matter."

"You bastard! How can you think that you're right for doing that!"

"That monster deserves nothing less."

"How dare you call him a monster! You're the monster!" Link hissed as his father tried to approach him, his voice lowering. "I'll kill myself if you don't let him go."

"You woul-"

"Try me and find out."

The staring contest continued for a few moments before the king backed down. "Go see him, but I will not release the Sheikah. He broke his oath."

Link's face lit up and he sprinted out of the room. He took the stairs down to the dungeons a dozen at a time and was before his love's cell in no time at all.

"Sheik?"

My bottom lip trembled and I grasped my stomach in desperation. Was the king right? Is this wrong? Am I wrong? I wonder if I would have gone through with seducing the prince had I known this is what would come of it. It was not just the lose of my sight that crippled me.

"Sheik?" I sucked in a breath, but did not dare rise from the bed and just stayed turned in the direction of the wall. "It's me, Sheik. I'm going to get you out of here if it is the last thing I do."

"It would be better if I died, Prince."

"Hey, you aren't supposed to call me that."

"I should have never forgotten were my station was. It was foolish of me to think I could change anything."

"Stop fucking talking like that!"

"The future is bleak for me."

"Stop! Dammit, Sheik!"

I clenched my hands and found the end of the bed to help me get up. "How can I not?! Don't you see what he did to me!"

A hand cradled my face and a calloused thumb brushed under one of my ruined eyes. "Oh, Sheik."

"He took my sight! Blinded me with his damned light magic! All because I-" I bit my lip.

"Because of what? Why did he do this, truly?"

"Nothing."

He was refusing to answer me. But why...? "Sheik?"

Tears fell from his unseeing eyes. "Do you love me, Link?"

"Oh, Sheik." I cradled his head in my hands and kissed away the tears. "More than anything in the seven realms."

"No matter what?"

"No matter what."

"I... We've done something forbidden."

"You can talk to me, you know."

"I'm having a baby."

"H- How?"

"The light in the spring was the goddess of rebirth and fertility." Those locks I loved were pulled and I worked to untangle his hand so I could smooth them out. "A-At least I think it was. How else could this happen?"

"Love." I grinned at the dumbstruck expression on Sheik's face. "Perhaps the gods saw we were so in love that they wished for us to have this child."

I rubbed at his stomach and a shy smile turned up his lips. "Perhaps."

"Now that any problems between us are settled, I'm getting you out of here."

"What? But your father will be furious. He could hurt you."

Sheik gasped at the sudden kiss and then I was knocking our foreheads together. "He has no power over your realm."

"Link... You can't mean to-"

"If your aunt will except me."

"You'll die if you stay without..." I massaged his cheek as Sheik seemed to understand. "Without my blessing because I'm the current Eres! Link, you're a genius!"

"I know."

"But how will we escape? I can't see. I don't know about you, but it is a hindrance."

"Always so negative." ... "I can warp us to your people's gate as long as you concentrate with me. I don't exactly know where it is."

"Could you warp us into my people's realm?"

"Maybe."

"Would it hurt to try?"

"Mmm... No. Not if you can picture where you want to go."

"I can."

"Let's go." I pulled him close. "Hold tight."

"Always."

Soon, the cell was disappearing around us and it felt like everything was growing colder.

"Link, you did it!" I grinned at the smell of my room and the feel of my sheets.

"Knew... I... could..."

"Rest. You've earned it."

"Stay with me."

"I..."

"Please."

"But my aunt..."

"Probably already knows we are here." He chuckled as I missed the spot his lips were and kissed his chin. "Up here."

"Not my fault."

"Will Impa be able to heal them?"

"I'm not sure."

"What is going on in here?!" We both flinched as Impa stormed into my room. "Light dwellers aren't allowed in the palace, let alone in the realm! And seducing my nephew of all people!"

"Auntie, wait!" I crawled out from under Link, suddenly embarrassed. "It isn't what it looks like."

"For Din's sake, Sheik! What would your mother have sa-" Magic crackled in the room and I knew she knew. The next second my head was being lifted up. "How did this happen?"

"We've been... lovers for months and the king found out."

"He took your sight?" I nodded. "Only thing to do is pull the magic out."

"How do you do that?"

"I can't. Light magic cannot be wielded by those of the shadows. You must do it, prince."

"B-but-"

"Focus on Sheik, the light magic in your veins, and nothing else. If you care for him at all, you can do this easily."

"Okay. So I just..." A sharp pain raced through my head and I let out a cry. "Sheik!"

"Don't stop. It will only hurt worse."

A moment later, the ache was gone and the room was coming into focus. I gasped as I saw Link's tear-streaked face and lunged for him. "You did it!"

"Stay away from him!"

"I'm trying to help him, son."

"I said... Stay! Away!" I shoved my father aside and hunched over Sheik's prone form. His cries of pain didn't lessen even as I took his face in my hold. "Love, it'll be okay. You're okay. I've got you."

"He's dying."

"Shut up! Just shut up!"

"I can help him." I refused to look at the man I once called family. "Please, son. He'll die if you don't allow me to help."

"You'll hurt him more. I... I can't let you."

"Then watch as he dies."

My heart ached and I looked up into his eyes. "How do you know you can help him?"

"The reason the war started in the first place was this." Slowly, he sank down to our level and placed a hand over mine on Sheik's cheek. "I loved her so much..."

"W-Who?"

"Your mother. We were madly in love. Much like you." He shook his head, as if to rid himself of a daydream. "But that is besides the point. We must get him into the mortal world."

"Why?"

"To ease the strain on his body. I'll explain later." My father easily picked Sheik from the floor. "For now, we must go."

Warriors from my world and Sheik's surrounded the small home my father brought us to. I could tell he had been here before. Perhaps many times. He was tending to my love with the utmost care. This obviously surprised me greatly. Yet, a question was nagging at my mind. "What happened to her?"

He sighed deeply. "She passed away giving birth. Much like your love, my beautiful queen was Sheikah."

"W-What?!" I quieted myself when Sheik gasped in his sleep. "But I- I'm not-"

"No. Strange that. Our blood doesn't mix well. The child is always born as what the father is."

"What does that mean?"

"In your mother and his case... The light of the child slowly makes their bodies wither away as it burns them. It's... quite painful and they never survive, but the baby does."

"And the other way?"

"Darkness consumes the mother and we have to kill them as they turn into monsters. Not nearly as agonizing for the mother, but many times have I heard of the husband killing his own wife after she tries to kill him." ... "Of course, this is only if the mother's light doesn't kill the baby first."

"Is that why there are more Hylian than Sheikah?"

"Yes."

"What will you do for him then?"

"Hopefully cut the babe from him before he passes on."

"He won't agree to it if it means killing our child. He already loves it so much."

"I know. Which is why I'm telling you. This is not something that is up for discussion."

"But-"

"Don't misunderstand. This does not mean I intend to allow my grandchild to die." To my amazement, I could see tears in my father's eyes. "I will save them both."

"Thank you."

My father didn't even flinch as Sheik let out another cry of pain. "Son, go sit by his head. Soothe him. The poor boy's about to be in a lot of pain."

I nodded.

Shaking hands grasped at me, forcing me to sit beside my love on the bed. "L-Lin..."

"Shh. I know. I know." Knowing what would happen, I took my leather glove off and made Sheik bite into it. His eyes were filled with tears that I knew I shared in my own.

The next few moments were full of agony and pain as my father took a knife to my love's stomach. Sheik screamed and clung to me, his nails tearing my skin as he ground his teeth against the glove.

I couldn't stop myself from bawling into his hair as I mumbled apologizes over and over. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Forgive me. Please. I love you. I'm sorry."

Sheik's struggling died down as the cry of a baby filled the air.

"She's beautiful." A blanket was passed my father's way, but I could not pay any attention to anything except the still boy in my arms.

"Sheik?" A quick check and I could not feel a pulse. No breath was hitting my face as I neared his. "No... no... No!"

"Son, move."

I lashed out as my father... No, as my love's murderer tried to get to the only one that mattered to me. "Get away!"

With strength I had only heard of, I was ripped from the bed and tossed into the waiting arms of the nearby guards. "Hold him back."

"No! Get away from him! You lying son of a bitch!" Tears and snot mixed and dripped from my chin as I thrashed wildly in the arms of the same men that were supposed to protect me. "You liar! How could you! He's dead! Murderer! Monster! Bastard!"

Another guard walked up to my father, a strange box in his hands. "Calm yourself, son. He is not yet gone."

"Don't try to trick me! I felt how still he is!" Out of the box came an orb that seemed to suck any light out of the air. "Wh- What is that?"

"Pure shadow. Made by the boy himself to counter the effects of the light from your child."

"B-But-"

"I know what you are thinking. If he had such a thing, why not use it. The answer is simple." With a shove, the mass was pushed inside the opening that served as the way to get my child out. Almost immediately, Sheik began screaming and trying to claw at his stomach. "Restrain him! Hurry!"

"How?"

"It will push the light from his system. That which is from the child and the light that I will use to heal him."

The screaming from my love intensified as my father's hands went to work repairing the broken body of my Sheik. The guards released me unexpectedly, but I didn't question it as I hurried to Sheik's side.

"How much longer will it take?"

"I'm working on his lungs right now. It seems the child burned them badly." A thoughtful expression came to my father's face. "This is truly amazing. I can understand how this takes place. Perhaps..."

My thoughts went down the same path. "You can help others keep the babies from killing them."

"I believe so, yes."

So there was hope for Sheik's people. Happy tears came to my eyes.

Aaaaand weirdness over. You can look now.

Bye!

~Shorty