A/N: After a very hard week (or maybe weeks…) I have finally come up with a new chapter!
Dark: YAY!!!
Me: BUT it's short.
Dark: Awwww…
Me: So, R&R people and don't forget:
"People may have writer's blocks, but it's only temporary. So next time- don't stick your head in a bucket of cold water."
Dark: … I hope you know that made no sense whatsoever, right?
Me: -shrug- you never knowwww…
Disclaimer: Dude, I don't own the epical Legend of Zelda. If I did, I wouldn't even be writing this. LOL. Just enjoy the mini-chappie.
Chapter 16- Dark's New Name!
"Troy!" shouted Link on one horse while we headed to Hyrule Town.
"WHAT? That's an awful name! He's Hyrulian, not Roman!" I protested, shaking my head wildly. "How about Harley?"
Dark gave me an incredulous look. "Who name's their kid Harley?!"
I laughed. "I don't know! Smart people?"
Link nudged my ribs and cracked a grin. "Well, it's too smart for Dark then."
Dark slowed down from ahead of us and rode back with us, making me in the middle of the two brothers.
"How about… Krad?" asked Link.
"Dark BACKWARDS?" I shrieked, then shook my head. "No. It sounds like Kraig, and the guy I knew who had that name liked me and he was UUGGGGGLLLLYYYYY."
Dark threw his head back and laughed.
"AND," I added, looking at Link, "you are NOT naming this beautiful boy after an ugly, hormone-controlled geek like him."
Link laughed harder, his pink cheeks rosier than before when I first saw him.
"How about Tristan?" asked Dark in a small voice.
Both Link and I looked at the new Dark Link.
His dark brown hair had golden highlights here and there and his eyes were now a golden color. His face was no longer ashen-colored, but bright and alive.
I grinned. He looked like a perfect Tristan.
"Tristan," pondered Link aloud, "I've never heard anyone with that name before…"
"It's perfect!" I cried out.
Link's smile grew big. "Very well! I shalt dub thee Tristan! Savior and Defender of the Hero of Time!"
Dark blushed slightly and looked away again.
"What's wrong Da- I mean- Tristan?" I asked, trying to adjust to the name he chose.
He shrugged, and looked down at the reins in his tanned hands.
"It's just weird, you know? Being all different… My will is finally free and… Link is actually talking to me without hate in his tone…"
"Well, that does take getting used too, but that was before. Ganon's hatred for your brother was pretty deep. And I guess to keep him from going insane with hatred and jealousy he put it all in you."
Tristan snorted. "I was his puppet."
"Well, a lot of people were before. It's nothing to be ashamed about. No one taught you any better until now," I reasoned.
"Was Link a puppet?" asked Tristan, his voice quiet.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw Link's hands tighten around the reins.
"I was," Link answered his tone dark. "I continued to fight his power. Constantly I did, but his power was still too strong. I didn't know what I was doing sometimes; my body reacted to everything on its own. Ganon controlled my mind, made me escape Zelda's ego every chance when she was nearby. He could sense her. I could sense her. But every time…"
We began to slow our horses down once we entered Termina Field and as the sun set we entered the Lon Lon Ranch.
"The Milk Bar's inside the Hyrule Town if you want me to get some drinks," informed Link, a hopeful tone in his voice.
"No!" Tristan shouted from upstairs in the inn we rented, "The town is heavily guarded and I don't want you getting drunk on the day before we fight for Hyrule's and Zelda's freedom!"
"What? You can get drunk here?!" I gasped.
"Who doesn't?" said Link, turning red from being told off by Tristan. He then called out, "And I know how to get into the Town Castle, Tristan, only Zelda and I know the secret passageways.
Tristan then came out of nowhere, hanging down by his legs which were grasping tightly to the banister above. "And who exactly has invaded Zelda's mind, letting him read every private feeling and emotion in her body?"
Link looked up and blushed a deeper red. "Oh yeah… I forgot…"
Tristan shook his head. "What am I going to do with you, Linkie? You keep forgetting things…"
"I only forgot that… I'm not completely hopeless!" Link shouted, embarrassed.
Tristan shrugged and did an expert landing, one knee braced on the floor.
"Freesia, you're sharing a room with me. The stupid idiot at the front table didn't give us a good amount of rooms to use," snarled Tristan.
I nodded, blushing slightly at the image of Da- TRISTAN and I in the same bed…
"She can sleep in my bed. I don't mind sleeping on the sofa…" added Link.
"No. I want to be close to her just in case if any of Ganon's creatures or followers attack us in the night," Dark protested.
I looked up at him, feeling special that he wanted to protect me.
Link understood and nodded. "As you wish, dear brother."
Together, all three of us went to bed, parting as we walked into our bedrooms.
The bed was large, just enough to fit two and the bedroom widow was next to the bed, creating a beautiful moonlight ray to dance upon the bed.
"Oh, this room is beautiful!" I gasped.
Da- I mean- Tristan (God, that's hard to adjust to!) didn't bother turning on the light, and removed his shirt as he closed the door and toppled into bed, his beauty stunning me on the spot.
I couldn't crawl into bed next to this guy. He was too gorgeous.
I'd ruin his beauty… Any girl who'd see him with me would shun me because I was so… Not for him.
"Well, are you coming?" asked Dark over his shoulder when he rolled over to the opposite side of me.
I shook my head and only kicked off my shoes. I lay down on the very edge of the bed, feeling awkward.
I felt him roll over again, sigh and pull me closer to him so I was fully in the bed with him. I felt his heat, when before I just felt ice.
"I don't bite," he purred seductively in my ear.
I felt myself blush in the dark and I rolled over to face him, shocked to see that his face was very close to mine.
"Tristan… How do you feel?"
I felt Tristan hesitate for a minute, then answer casually, "I feel fine. Free, if you will."
I pondered his answer in the darkness and looked back up at him when he asked me the same question.
Tristan laughed and kissed my lips. "Good night, my flower."
"Good night, white rose."
He laughed again. "White rose?"
"Yup," I answered, "you've just made a new beginning. So from now on, I am your flower and you are my white rose."
Tristan chuckled and chuckled. "As you wish my fair flower."
We kissed each other and laughed at the stupid nicknames we gave each other till the early hours of the morning. Then, we dropped off into sleep in a warm embrace.
A/N: Eee-hee-hee! Super cuteness! Just what I was aiming for!! ^__^
Link: -rolls eyes-
Tristan: Don't be hatin'. You're next.
Link: O.o
A/N: haha! R&R!!!
