Out on the soccer field Dark Link was dressed very similarly to Link with the shorts and sneakers and shirt with lines down the side but Dark Link wore everything in black. The class split up and got ready for a game of soccer. Dark Link was at the center and Buttercup had the center position of her team as well. The teacher threw the ball in the air and blew the whistle.
As the ball touched the ground Dark Link caught it and started to go forward with it but Buttercup easily snatched it from him and started heading up the field. "To me! To Me!" Princess yelled and Buttercup hit the ball hard with her foot and sent it flying straight off Princess' face into the goal from the side. Buttercup turned around to see Dark Link just standing at the center with his arms behind his back.
"This is boring!" He said pretending to disguise his yawn.
They lined up again and Dark Link prepared to kick the ball. When the whistle blew he kicked it up over Buttercup and ran around behind her to catch it. Buttercup reached around back and snagged the ball as it landed. She started to run up the field but this time Dark Link was angry and followed her. He pulled up to her side and made his cleats dig deep into Buttercup's foot which caused her to fall headlong to the ground. He then took the ball and ran up through the other players which were rushing over to see if Buttercup was alright and scored a goal in an empty net.
As he celebrated Buttercup slowly sat back as the gym teacher inspected her foot. She winced as the teacher pulled the red sock off and looked to see that her foot had several deep gashes. This somehow made the pain worse and Buttercup held her leg with tears coming down her face.
"Drake you are banned from playing soccer ever again in my class!" The gym teacher said.
Dark Link just put his hands behind his back and said, "Whatever!" This made Blossom and Bubbles furious and they started to stomp on his head while he protested.
"Whatever, I'm sorry!" He said frantically trying to get out from under foot.
"You'd better go over and apologize to her!" Bubbles yelled
"Fine whatever!" he said and went over to Buttercup who was trembling with pain.
"Listen I'm… sorry that I stomped your foot."
Buttercup couldn't even look up by way of pain. Dark Link bent over next to her foot. "Ugh! You humans and your weak skin." He said and put his finger right in the center of Buttercups foot. A dark mist came up and swirled around the cuts and scrapes that Buttercup had all over her foot. The cuts closed up and the bleeding stopped but the pain still lingered.
Dark Link turned to Bubbles, "You happy now? It's not as complete as Link's red potion but at least it prevents any lasting damage."
Blossom and Bubbles helped Buttercup up off the ground and they went and sat down on the side of the bleachers while the rest of the class resumed playing soccer and Dark Link was sent to see the Principal.
"He seems to listen to you a lot Bubbles." Blossom said looking across Buttercup to her friend.
"I wish he would otherwise the other night wouldn't have been such a disaster." She said angrily looking down.
"What did happen the other night?" Buttercup asked wincing in pain as she tried to move her foot.
"Well he wanted to celebrate the fact that he no longer had to listen to Gannondorf so he went to a beach party…."
(Flashback sequence 2 night's ago)
"C'mon Bubblegum it's just a small party I need to celebrate the death of Gannondorf. He can no longer hold me to whatever his whims may be." Dark Link stated trying to put his arm around Bubbles' shoulders but Bubbles just brushed it off.
"Well these things are dangerous and usually have a lot of drinking." Bubbles said refusing to look at her persistent companion
"Drinking!? All RIGHT!" Dark Link said running up the pier. Bubbles didn't want to lose sight of him so she ran up behind him. On the dark beach there were several burning barrels that were lit with half-naked people dancing in the glow of the fire.
As they entered Dark Link grabbed a couple small cans from a cooler to the side and gave one to Bubbles.
"What is it?" She asked looking at the strange marks on the can
"Don't worry it's just a cool drink to quench one's thirst." He said taking a can and downing it in one breath then reaching for another.
Bubbles took a sip, "UGH! That tastes awful!" She yelled nearly throwing the can down.
"Don't worry it's medicinal you get used to the flavor." He said grabbing another can.
Bubbles had been taught that most medicines tasted terrible so she plugged her nose and drunk it down. She felt warm on the inside and the world seemed to become a much softer shade of orange. She teetered a little bit and let the can drop to the ground.
Just then a group of police came around the pier and the group scattered, everyone except for Dark Link who wasn't worried about the cops and Bubbles who was drunk off one can of hard lemonade.
"Officer's you should take care of her she doesn't seem to be able to hold her alcohol." Dark Link said downing another can. Before he knew it he was in handcuffs and in the back of a police car with Bubbles who was looking at everything with wide eyes.
"You are being taken to the station for underage drinking." The officer said from the front seat as the car started to move.
"Underage Drinking!?" Dark Link said in a tone of surprise, "You mean you people have age limits for drinking?"
"Why yes we do and now you're headed to the station for violating that limit." The Police man said
"Link!" Bubbles said wobbly, "you…you don't need to take that from him let's get outta here!"
"Very well." Dark Link said and broke his and Bubble's handcuffs, he kicked the door right off the patrol car and jumped out with Bubbles in tow.
They ran from the cops and disappeared in a darkened alleyway. They sat and waited for the sirens to disappear. All the while Bubbles was drawing circles on Dark Link's face with her finger.
"We should probably get you home!" Dark Link said worriedly as Bubbles stumbled out onto the street.
Dark Link picked her up and jumped high into the sky and on top of a building. There he put his finger to the center of Bubble's forehead and a dark swirl surrounded where he was touching and his finger that he had pressed against her head. He could see her house clearly and jumped on the rooftops towards it.
By the time they had gotten there the lights in the house were off and the doors were locked Bubbles was sleeping soundly as Dark Link could hear her soft breathing. Dark Link jumped up onto the side of the roof as quietly as a shadow. He opened the window into what was undoubtedly Bubble's room and set her in her bed. He looked around and saw a small stuffed octopus and set it to the side of Bubbles and walked out into the hallway. He looked around and saw the door at the end of the hallway open and walked inside.
There was a small bed-like thing on the ground and a few new blankets that looked like it had been a month since last they were touched. He lay down and looked at the ceiling thinking how good it was to finally be free from Gannondorf. Suddenly he heard a noise, a voice, that he recognized all too well.
"Gannon?" he said softly
"It is I." Said the voice, "I have been sealed away again within the master sword you must release me!"
"Leave me alone!" Dark Link said covering his ears, "I don't have to listen to you anymore!"
"You are a fool if you think you can resist me!" Gannon stated, "I created you! Remember if anything happens to me it will happen to you as well."
Dark Link knew this was the truth because Gannon's magic was what kept Dark Link alive.
"What must I do?" he asked
The next morning Bubbles woke up with a headache not remembering anything from the night before. She walked down the stairs to see Gran-gran coming back from her morning run to the market.
"What's the matter dear? You look pale!" Gran-gran asked seeing Bubbles holding her head.
"I don't feel so good." She simply responded and then looked up with worry, "Where's Dark Link!?"
"Who? My dear Link has been dead for over a month now you know that." Gran-gran stated walking into her kitchen.
Bubbles rushed out the door, much to the chagrin of her head, and there sat Link on the front porch rocking in a hanging chair. Bubbles went and sat next to him.
"What happened last night?" she asked looking at the small pond on the front of her house.
"Nothing really, but you really can't hold your alcohol." Dark Link said with a laugh
"ALCOHOL!?" Bubbles said panicky
"Yup one bottle and you were done!" He said putting his leg up on the seat and letting his arm rest on it.
Bubbles just looked forward towards the wall that surrounded their home, "Well thank you, I guess, for bringing me home."
"Whatever." Dark Link said with the weight of last night wearing heavily on his mind.
"We need to think of a different name for you!" Bubble's said
"Why? I like Dark Link!" He said now looking at the pond
"Well you'll have an awful lot of questions coming your way because on this world Link is a hero who everyone knows and respects, even the villains." She said the last part with a tone of sadness.
"It's the same on our world, Link and Gannondorf fighting it out every few years, saving the Princess, da da da." Dark Link interjected, "Though I guess on that world everyone knows about the cycle so no one questions it and I really hate questions. So what name did you have in mind?"
"I think Drake would be nice." She said and Dark Link winced at the name.
"Whatever." he said and reached his arms around the back of the chair. Bubbles got an angry look in her eyes and shoved Dark Link down into the garden on the side of her house.
"And I thought you were finally starting to grow up!" She yelled angrily and stormed back into the house.
After a day of just running some random errands she and Dark Link returned home where her Gran-gran was cooking dinner. It was annoying traveling with Dark Link as he couldn't seem to resist flipping skirts and trying to put his hand around Bubbles. Every time he tried, though, he was beaten senseless by an angry Bubbles.
"Do you and your friend have everything ready for school in the morning?' Gran-gran asked.
"School?" Dark Link said confused
"Yeah you should go there's a lot of interesting people to meet and so many things to learn and there's my teacher…." Bubbles went on which made Dark Link drop a bead of sweat down his neck.
"OK, OK, I'll go just please stop talking!" Dark Link said holding his ears. And after dinner they both went to bed.
(Back to present)
"So he made you drink Alcohol!?" Blossom asked surprised
Bubbles nodded and Buttercup was finally able to put a little pressure on her foot. Bubbles and Blossom helped to lead her into the nurse's office.
"What a jerk!" Buttercup said angrily
"Mm-hmm." Blossom agreed but Bubbles just sat there quietly and looked back towards the Principal's office where she could just barely see Dark Link sitting there waiting to be admitted to see the Principal.
Hello everyone and thanks for continuing to read, you will notice that Dark Link turns to Drake in the quotations, I don't want to confuse anyone that's just how the story goes together so know that anytime someone is referring to "Dark Link" If it's in quotation's it will read, "Drake." Ultima S.
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