Chapter 4

Links POV

"Follow me," I say to Percy after leaving the Big House. Annabeth and Zelda walk over to where a group of cabins are.

"Follow you?" Percy asks, " you haven't even been here before! How about you follow me?"

I shrug and he trudges ahead of me. Following him, we arrive at a vacant spot where only swordfighting dummies are.

"So, talk to me," Percy takes out a writing utensil and it turns into a large bronze sword, "you say this guy, Ganondork-"

"Ganondorf." I correct him.

"-usually falls to a swordfighting match, right?"

"Yes," I answer," but it takes a lot to bring him down. The last time we faced him, " I take out my word and inspect it, " there was four phases. First, he. had taken control of Zelda. Second, he turned into a beast and I had to fight him as a wolf. Third, we had to chase him on horseback with the light arrows. Lastly, I had to fight him one on one, because he blocked off Zelda."

"You can turn into a wolf?" He asks, slightly surprised.

"I used to be able to," I answer," but ever since a companion. of mine left, i haven't been able to. But that isn't what's important. Ganondorf will fight until the end, and with the image of his new helper at his side, it might take longer. She seems as formidable as him."

" She is. " Percy says shakily.

"Do. you know this lady?"

"Her name is Nyx," Percy tells me, "and she is literally night. Her... Her power is strong and all of. her daughters are things like Misery, Old Age... She could do a lot of damage."

"Ganondorf has always been one to find good strong followers," I shake my head in disbelief," so, how good are you at swordfighting?"

"I've been wielding a sword since I was twelve," Percy says, raising an eyebrow, "is that convincing enough?"

"Fair point," I point my sword at the dummy,"show me what you've got."

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Annabeths POV

We walk to the Hephaestus cabin and I look at Zelda from the corner of my eye. These two people are odd. She's obviously lying about the castle not being hers. I will find it the truth.

Maybe they aren't so different from Percy and I though. Zelda has prophetical dreams like demigods... Sort of do, and they have seen their share of fights too.

"Annabeth," she interrupts my thoughts,"I didn't want to say anything around Link but... He doesn't usually act like that. " she glances at me with a nervous smile.

"What do you mean?"

"Well," she inspects her glove covered hand," it's just that he's in a different world and he's wary about it. He's been to a different world before but it was... Odd. A really sad place and he list a friend to it. Also, I think the stress of saving a world makes him hard as rock. He's usually nice, funny, and protective. Also he's really brave. When he warms up to you guys and all of this, I swear he'll be different. "

"I understand," we arrive at the Hephaestus cabin and walk in without a knock. Head counselor Jake Mason stands up from his bunk and greets us.

"Hey. Nice to see you, Annabeth." He smiles at me and looks curiously at Zelda," who's this?"

"My name's Zelda." She tells him.

"Well, I'm glad to be able to meet you." He turns back towards me," so, what is it you need?"

"We need you to make a quiver full of light arrows for Zelda and maybe a matching bow also."

He raises an eyebrow in question," alright then. Light arrows and a matching bow... Um, what do you mean by light?" He glances at Zelda," do you want to have lightbulbs in them or something?"

"It needs to be like light from the sun, but pure." Zelda says," It needs to be able to drive away darkness."

"Solar powered arrows, maybe?" He ponders the situation for a moment, then mumbles,"hm, I think I have an idea on how I could make this work. Annabeth, Zelda, come back here after dinner and everything should be ready for you."

"Thank you, Jake." I smile at him then walk out with Zelda in tow.

"Are you sure they'll know how to make it so soon?" Zelda asks worriedly.

"Sure. They're the best blacksmiths here, since their father is the god of blacksmiths."

"Alright. I'm just cautious is all."

"There's no need to worry."

Zelda gives me a half-smile and becomes silent as we walk aimlessly. I wonder for a moment if this land called Hyrule, and what it's like there. I glance at Zelda's attire. 'Maybe it's like Medieval Europe.'

I glance at Zelda's wardrobe again and notice how everyone gives her odd looks. She's gainin too much attention. She needs a change of clothing.

"Here, follow me." I lead her to the Athena cabin, where many weapons, maps, and a few helmets lie about. I rummage around in my chest of clothing and find a spare Camp Half-Blood t-shirt and some sark skinny jeans so Zelda isn't so inconspicuous. "Here, put these on, Zelda."

She grabs the clothing and inspects it, "trousers?"

I shrug, "I'm sorry, that's what everyone else wears here. I don't want too many people staring at you, wondering who your godly parent is. You can go change in the bathroom if you want."

She nods slowly," alright." Zelda slowly enters the bathroom and I lie down on my bunk for a moment. 'We might have to do the same with Link. He's not AS noticeable, but he's still out of place.'

Suddenly Zelda stumbles out of the bathroom holding her massive dress in her hands. It's a good thing she's about the same size as I am; the pants would've been way too small otherwise. Oddly enough, Zelda's wearing boots. I guess I just assumed she would be wearing heels under her dress.

"Um, what do you want me to do with my dress?"

"You can just put it on my bunk." I motion her towards me, grab the dress, and place it on my pillow. Out of nowhere, a conch horn is heard, signaling us that it's time for dinner.

"Come on, Zelda, it's one to eat. But... We have a certain order to this..."

"What is It?" She asks curiously.

"We all sit according to our godly parent," I begin to explain as we walk," but, well, you and Link don't have a godly parent, so I don't know how we're going to handle it."

"Could you just put me with you! I thin I could fit in." Zelda hopefully suggests.

I shake my head," no, I can't do that. All son's and daughter's of Athena have blonde hair and gray eyes, while you, sadly, don't. Maybe Piper will take you in, hide you... The Aphrodite cabin is probably the least inconspicuous place you could stay in."

"What is she the goddess of?" Zelda asks.

"Love and beauty."

"Oh." She twidles her thumbs for a moment.

We're silent for a while until we get close to the Dino pavilion.

"Here's where we'll be eating." I point in the direction of a large bonfire," in front of the fire we pray to a god or gods of our choice and throw in the best of our food. You give to whichever god you were praying to."

"Alri-"

The sound of two boys laughing hysterically stops Zelda in her tracks and we both peer at the source of the noise. Then, I see Percy and Link dying of laughter and their arms draped over each other.

"Link?!"

"Percy?!"

"Oh, hey, guys!" Percy greets enthusiastically as they walk over. Percy removes his arm and chuckles, did you figure out what to do with Zelda?" He asks me.

"I decided to put her with the Aphrodite cabin because Piper can help draw attention from her. What about Link?"

"I'm thinking the Apollo cabin."

"As good as its going to get." I reply, laughing," I'll go talk to Piper, Zelda, so you can go sit with them."

She nods.

"Come on, Link." Percy grins and link returns it, "let me introduce you to the Apollo cabin." They walk away happily and I wonder, 'what happened to them two?'