AN: So, I realized I had made a few mistakes last chapter so to my dismay, I had edited it. I'm not really a big person on having to re-release a whole story again when I can edit it easily in the original release. So here's the real chap 6 in its own area.
Also, to the Midna being OOC and all... To me, I don't know, I've kept Midna's character quite well in my POV. I imagined her to still be a bit selfish but a bit more playful in her new form. And she is not only odd to those in the light realm, but she's odd in her realm too. Either that or I've been watching one too many animes.
Chapter 6: So you want that?
The next evening as twilight rose, Link sat ready with his Ordon shield, his Ordon sword, and a basket that he had carried. He was concerned as he was a bit bruised that day and a tad bit late. Fado had lost a goat as Link had his back turned petting and gently getting a goat into the pen. Fado didn't even scream for Link, just stuttered enough for Link to turn about to ask what was wrong to see the goat rushing at him. He didn't have enough time to brace himself but he got out of the way with the exception that it had butted him hard in the shoulder. Link held his left arm painfully as he began to feel weak. He fell back laying there looking up at Midna exhausted.
"Oh dear," She whispered kneeling and pulling out the flask dripping it into his mouth, "c'mon Link now swallow."
He did so and he felt himself get better along with his arm recovering. "Got hurt today working," Link said as Epona came up and nibbled at his hair.
Midna smiled remembering the beast. "Epona!" She said pointing at it. Epona looked at Midna and suddenly nudged Midna in recognition of the strange female. Midna giggled as she patted the horse. "Can I have her?" Midna asked a bit over zealous.
"No," Link said raising an eyebrow.
It seemed Midna was actually quite interested in receiving light world trinkets. Link reached for the basket and took out a cup he got from Hyrule Market. It was a dark cup and Midna crossed her arms.
"We have cups in the Twili," Midna said poking it, "and better quality too."
Link breathed deep and searched the basket again. Midna opened the other end and to her amazement she took out a pin wheel toy. She tilted her head flicking it as it spun. She gave a soft smile and a giggle and flicked it again.
"Such a silly thing," Midna said interested in it.
"That's a toy that kids play with, quite fragile really. Adults can use them too to tell when winds are blowing. They're kind of like a small version of a windmill," Link told her as he picked it from her hands and held it as the wind blew from the east.
It began to spin as Midna smiled.
"If I could learn to make more of these… pin wheels, the children in my world will be fascinated," she said softly remembering the toys she had were magical and not natural.
Link looked at her and reached in the basket and took out a few more of them. Link began to put them softly into the earth facing the breeze and they all spun with their colors.
"Ok," Midna said satisfied, "Now let me guess…"
She stood up and walked a little towards the tree. She leaned against it and pulled her hood back as the breeze blew her loose hair around.
"Everybody wants the hero's blood in their family. I can only take a guess who are the leading females within the floozies and the harlots who will start to stalk you," Midna said with a bored sigh.
She giggled and hid behind the trunk of the tree and appeared on the opposite side. But it wasn't Midna standing there, it was Ilia. Link tilted his head and raised a brow as Midna, disguised as Ilia, did a little prissy walk on the grass. She did a skip, a hop, and a spin, then did a back flip.
Link laughed. Oh how he couldn't imagine seeing the real Ilia doing a back flip. Midna smiled and put her hands on her hips and bent over looking at Link and started to talk.
"O' darlin' my hero!" Midna said in a heavy country accent. She then bent one leg back behind herself balancing on her toes and folded her arms together looking all sweet in a silly fashion. She did a silly walk of skipping around folding one foot back the other just tippy-toe-hopping while tilting her head left and right. She then made a motion stepping back like as if scared holding her arms up. "Oh no, Link! Them horses need attention right away!"
Link bawled out laughing falling back and rolling in his spot as Midna smiled then gave a soft sigh and put her arms on her hips. She began to do silly dance moves like trusting her hips forward, to the left, back, and then to the right bumping them to a beat. She then tapped her cheek in the Ilia form and snapped her fingers. She skipped a few steps and then she twirled, but as she twirled a long flowing gown and adornments of gold appeared on her. She had turned into princess Zelda as she stood there and stepped up to Link brushing his face coming very close to his face and said, "Oh Link, for saving Hyrule and myself… I should give you…"
Link froze surprised and blushed as her lips seemed to get closer to his. Midna then laughed and picked up one of the pin wheels off the ground and posed with one hand on her hip, a peace sign, and the pin wheel in her peace hand as she shook her hips left and right.
"A big celebration! Yahoo!" Midna mocked. She put one hand on her hip and started to do the prissy walk again over exaggerating her hip bumping to the left and the right and pointing at things with her pin wheel in hand. "You bring this peace offering to the Gorons! You bring this to Prince Ralis, some fine caviar from over the sea from the ocean Zoras! You do this and that, you do this and that!"
Link smiled and couldn't hold it back. He laughed more unable to conceal it and just laughed so hard he had to hold his sides. Midna smiled as the image melted and she was herself again. Midna reached into one of her sleeves and pulled out two necklaces and she reached into the other to find a ring.
"Here," Midna said as she motioned for Link to stand. She took his hand and placed on his right ring finger a beautiful silver ring that had a black obsidian looking gem in the center. She then handed him the necklaces and closed his hand. "It's a cheap trick here, I guess, but it's used in my world to tell how compatible you are with a person who you want to court. Though usually both parties know and do their honest best or worse," She scratched her cheek wondering if what she was going was right or not. She shrugged and looked at him thinking, it's for him, after all he's done for me.
"I don't understand, you didn't explain to me how to use this," Link said as she realized she had zoned out.
"These tell you the feelings of those who wear the other part. You have Ilia and the princess put them on and when you're close this will change color, same with their necklaces," She said, "you can tell them it's a rare gem that changes color. You don't have to tell them they're magic. When it turns a pink color it's a good sign, blue is a calm sign, when it won't change there's negativity lingering between you two, dark red is a high emotion, purple is … and well there are many much more but here's a small chart to the colors."
She handed him a paper and put her hood back on. It seemed like her expression wasn't so well and Link looked at her.
"Are you ok?" He asked.
"Oh! Yes, yes, of course! Ha ha ha! You know me, today was another hard day in the Twili as the pressure is on for its princess. But I'll be fine," She said as she magically lifted all the pin-wheels out of the ground with a hand motion and they went into one of her sleeves.
Link looked at her as she turned and looked in the distance of the light world's twilight. He looked and couldn't help but to notice her curves and her lovely form as she stood there. He realized then that he had gotten to about the same height as her if not.
"Do you still levitate a bit?" He asked her.
She blinked at the odd question. "Yes why?"
"Stop and let me see how tall you really are," He said with a smile.
She looked at him and noticed in the years that they didn't see each other he had gotten taller. She also knew that probably this wouldn't be it for him either. She set herself on the ground feeling the grass seriously on her feet. Link was surprised to see he was about an inch or two taller. She put her hands on her hips and just grabbed his shoulders and made him face as the sun began to fade into night. He smiled a little at this thinking it cute that he was taller than her now.
"Don't get so confident just because you're taller than me, if you still want my help meet me again tomorrow and bring something more interesting," Midna said as she faded into his shadow, "just figure out who you want, Link. You don't need to go out breaking hearts, you're a hero, supposed to save them. Spare as much pain as you can."
As she faded Link paused and held the necklaces.
"Who do I want?" He thought beginning to close his eyes thinking on Ilia and Zelda. Then he looked down at his shadow as it became engulfed by the night.
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