Disclaimer: I do not own the legend of Zelda game series or the characters. I am writing a story for fun. :)
Chapter 5: Tragedy Strikes
Three days later we arrived at the ocean in Termina. From here we will board a ship for three days and then be in Nikitre.
"Man! The ocean's pretty!" Midna said happily. "Just think, when we get to Nikitre we'll be surrounded by it! It'll be really cool!"
"Yeah…" I said sarcastically.
"Okay…I'll stop trying to cheer you up." She said with annoyance.
After three days on the boat I was just ready to get off and get this mission over with! Thank goodness I saw the shores of the Nikitrian islands that morning! We were to get off of the boat at the smallest of the three islands, Yokarale (yo-kah-rah-lay). We got off of the boat and Midna wanted to sightsee.
"Don't you remember?" I yelled at her. "We aren't really welcome here!"
"Okay! Quit yelling! Sheesh!" She shouted. "Well, what do we do?"
"Find out everything that we can about Nikitre in in the next couple of months…the King of Hyrule said to especially focus on learning about Nikitre's royal family." I told her. "We need to try to go about unnoticed and unharmed."
"Let's find some disguises, then!" She smiled her mischievous smile. "At least I can stay disguised and won't need one!"
"What are you going to put me in?" I said accusingly. She didn't answer.
We went over to a little shop that sold clothing and other odds and ends. She grabbed a bright pink shirt and orange pants. She smiled. "How about this for you?"
"WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!" I whispered angrily to her.
"I'm kidding!" She laughed.
"Okay…" I said.
She grabbed some jeans and a black shirt. (That type of clothing probably wasn't sold back then, but hey, it'll look cool! :) "How's this?"
"Alright." I said.
"You'll have to lose your hat, too." She said as she took off my hat.
"Hey!" I looked at her with rage.
"Remember…" She said to me. "You need to stay undercover…only take out your sword and shield when you have to."
"Okay." I said. When we paid for our things and left the store, I changed into my new clothes. Midna put my real clothes, my sword and shield, and my hat in one of the packs strapped to Epona. I mounted Epona and Midna hid in my shadow, as usual. It was sort of weird, though…when I went past a group of girls they stared at me…Why?
"I think they like you!" Midna mocked me.
"Stop!" I whispered with annoyance.
"Okay…cranky!" She cackled.
I just tried to stay composed. Just then, a young woman with Red hair and brown eyes got in front of me.
"Huh?" I said as I stopped Epona.
"Can you…" She took a bag of groceries from another woman. "…Can you help me carry these heavy groceries?" She asked me in a southern accent, batting her eyelashes.
"Sorry, ma'am." I said, grabbing at my shirt collar with nervousness. "I can't…I'm busy…"
"Are you busy this weekend?" She pondered.
"YES!" I yelled and then quickly calmed down. "Very busy, miss."
"Oh…that's a shame…" She walked away.
"You really aren't used to women, are you?" Midna said.
"You hit that one right on the nail!" I laughed. A few minutes later another woman got in the way. She was a little older. "Oh, no…" I said. Midna laughed.
"Do you have a sword?" She asked me. "Please tell me you do!" She looked beaten up.
"Yeah…I do…why, ma'am?" I asked her.
"My poor little girl…her name is Marie…she's been kidnapped!" She cried.
"I'll help you! Please don't cry, miss!" I said. "Where did you last see your daughter?"
"At the park. There was a man in a blue shirt, blue pants, and a blue mask that covered his whole head. He took her from me! He demanded that I tell him about a treasure. I knew about the treasure that he wanted, but there was no way I'd tell him anything! I tried fighting him, but he just threw me to the ground!" She said with worry.
"Don't fret." I said. I headed off towards the park.
"Thank you, sir!" The woman yelled.
I came up to the park to see the same man that the woman described. He was holding a little girl by the hand, tying her to a tree. "Help!" The little girl screamed. She looked about five years old.
"That must be Marie." I whispered to Midna. I grabbed out my sword and shield and snuck up on the man.
"Look, lady…" The man said, not facing me. "You won't tell me where the heirloom is, so maybe this little brat'll know!" I came a little bit closer, but he still didn't face me. "Quit trying to come after me! You'll only frustrate me more! Besides, you're probably badly hurt…you don't want your daughter to see me kill you, do ya?" I took another step forward. "You're going to take the hard route, huh? Well, then!" He grabbed out a dagger and turned around to see me with my sword and shield. He looked at me with an astonished look on his face. "W-Who are you?"
"A man that you don't want to mess with!" I yelled. "Let go of that little girl!"
"Yay!" Marie shouted with glee.
"What if I refuse?" He asked me.
"You don't want to know!" I smiled with confidence.
He used magic to teleport all of us into a cave. "You don't intimidate me!" He yelled. It was dark in there…we were obviously deep inside of the cave, for I couldn't see an exit. Midna came out from my shadow. I could see her, but only her eyes.
"Give back that little girl now!" I demanded. "What you're doing isn't right!"
"I'm going to ask you one more time, little girl, where is the Nikitrian royal family's precious heirloom? Tell me or face terrible consequences!" The evil man commanded.
"Never!" Marie said unyieldingly. He laughed evilly. The only light I saw was when he created a glowing red sphere in his hand. He shot the red sphere towards the ceiling of the cave. I heard a rumble as it came in contact with the top of the cave. A giant boulder fell on my legs from fifty feet above. I screamed in unbearable pain.
"Link!" Midna appeared and tried to get the boulder off of me, but the man shot another sphere, this one being yellow and able to float, and it caught Midna. She tried using her powers, but she couldn't. It drained her strength using magic. She was able to stay awake, though, just not able to move. Marie ran over and tried to get the boulder off of me, but the man grabbed her and put her in another floating yellow sphere. She began to lose her strength. I began to lose my strength because of the pain on my legs being so unbearable. The boulder was big enough to weigh at least a ton. The man then used magic to levitate the boulder and throw it down on my legs again.
"You can't save anyone if you're not able to move!" He laughed maniacally. He threw the boulder on me about five more times before I screamed in agony and lost consciousness.
"Link!" Midna yelled. (Speaker's Note: Midna tells the story.)
While everyone except for me and the bad guy were unconscious, a man came in to rescue me, Marie, and Link. He had red hair and grey eyes. He freed me from the orb using magic of his own and I took the boulder off of Link. He was still unconscious, though. The man with red hair freed Marie using the same method. He injured the man that injured us, but he wasn't able to kill him. The man that injured us ran off and got away. Marie gained consciousness, but I got scared when Link was the only one still unconscious. I decided to lift him using my powers and take him outside.
"Who are you?" The man that rescued us asked me.
"I'm Midna." I said. "I help out this guy." I pointed to Link. "Yours?"
"Tyler." He said. "That man you 'help out' looks strangely familiar…are you two Hylian?"
My jaw dropped. "Yes. Well, he is at least." I whispered. "But you aren't supposed to know that…"
"He's a Hylian?" Marie said with surprise.
"What is that man's name?" He asked.
I paused. "…Link…" Marie looked at Link.
"He's an old friend of your cousin Rose." Tyler said to Marie.
"Wow…she knew this guy?" Marie said. I was absolutely confused.
He turned back to me. "I knew that I knew him from somewhere. He and his father came to visit 11 years ago…I didn't think he'd ever come back. This is a bad time for him to be here, though…I'm sorry, but I don't have respect for Hylians like him… He's no longer welcome here and I will not give him any more help, no matter how much you beg me…little imp…" I looked at him with anger.
"Why?" Marie pondered him.
"Because he's Hylian…" Tyler said. "Nikitrians hate Hylians…we're Nikitrian…therefore we must hate Hylians. It is this way because of the war."
"Look…" I said, gritting my teeth in irritation. "I'm not Hylian or Nikitrian…so this isn't really any of my business…but that Hylian is my friend! I don't want you to treat him with disrespect as long as I'm here! And how DARE YOU CALL ME AN IMP!" My voice was escalating.
"A Nikitrian should never treat a Hylian with respect; they are the enemy…" Tyler said.
"…Why are you acting so immature, Tyler?" A young woman of about eighteen walked up to us. She had rich brown hair and bright blue eyes. She wore boots, tan-colored leggings, and a long, white tunic-style shirt. She had a basket with her and a knapsack.
"This is none of your business, Rose!" Tyler yelled. "Don't meddle in my business!"
"You're the one telling our cousin to act hateful towards others!" Rose yelled at Tyler. Marie just looked at them with concern.
"Those Hylians took money from our family!" He yelled.
"Only 1 Hylian took money from us!" Rose yelled. "You should never judge a whole group of people for the actions of a single person!"
"THANK YOU!" I said contentedly, raising my hands up in the air in praise (I was happy… ). Rose looked towards me and I continued to speak. "Someone agrees with me!"
Rose sighed. "I'm glad that there's someone else out there that has the same opinion." She smiled.
"Can you help my friend and me?" I asked her.
She nodded. "Of course."
"Don't tell me that you're going to let them stay with us?" Tyler yelled.
"Yes." Rose said. "Until those two have had all the help they need."
"WHY YOU!" Tyler started to yell.