Hi.
So...that took a bit, didn't it? But it's long-ish. So...yay.
As expected, Odim is the descendant of Mido. I mean, it's not that hard to guess, seeing as Odim is Mido backwards. I always though that Dawn was Midna's descendant. Someone said maybe she was Zant's kid. That was a good guess...only Zant went poof.
Anyway, I don't own Legend of Zelda...so enjoy this little chapter!
Faron woods
Zelda heard a wolf growling.
I'm done for. She thought, nearly crying. This is it.
She closed her eyes. There was a shriek of pain- but it didn't come from her.
A monster recoiled as a wolf growled at it and tore its shoulder open.
The other monsters backed away, watching.
The bulbin exploded into black smoke. Zelda opened her eyes. The wolf turned on the other monsters, which held their clubs high. It gave a roar of anger and lunged, knocking one to the ground. Its claws ripped at the monster's chest and it, too exploded. The other bulbins and moblins retreated, terrified.
Zelda was pressed herself against the tree. The wolf turned on her.
Zelda bet she was the main course. She shut her eyes, but nothing bit her.
A warm, soft something was licking her hand.
She opened her eyes and saw the wolf nuzzling her arm. It stuck its head under it.
Zelda put her arms around the wolf's neck. It licked her face.
She lay across the wolf's back. It began to walk.
Link stopped in Ordon and let Zelda slide off his back, blood oozing from the bite marks in her leg.
The wolf circled her, concerned. He saw Beth and Theb talking near the river. They saw the wolf and the wounded Zelda and ran inside.
Zelda hugged the wolf.
"Thank you." she whispered. "You saved my life."
The wolf wagged his tail. It barked gleefully, and then turned and ran back into the forest.
"Wait!" Zelda called, trying to sit up. "Wait!"
"Zelda?" Ganondorf asked. He was at the river. Zelda looked at him. "Zelda!"
Ganondorf ran forward and kneeled down beside her. "What happened?"
"A… monsters…" Zelda said, as Ganondorf grabbed her around the shoulders and pulled her up. Zelda leaned on him so she didn't fall down.
"About twenty of them attacked… but then this wolf…" Zelda trailed off. Link walked out of the forest, gripping a bag with one hand and a bottle in the other. Navi was a shade of light green, resting on his head.
"Zelda? What happened?" Link asked, pretending he didn't know. He tied the bag of shadow magic into a knot and put it inside his pouch. He drank something that was in the bottle.
"Monsters… wolf… urg…" Zelda groaned and closed her eyes.
"She's badly hurt." Ganondorf said. "She's lost a lot of blood."
Link nodded. He walked over.
"Let's go to the river," He said. "And wash her cuts there."
He helped Ganondorf carry Zelda to the Ordon river, which was very close to Ordon. They set her down in the shallow water. Link took another gulp of the bottle's contents.
"What's that?" Ganondorf asked. Link looked at the bottle.
"Uh… water?" He said. Ganondorf stared at him with one of his, 'you know I don't believe that for a minute. Now tell me what's really in the bottle or I will sock you.' looks.
Link sighed.
"Link's a-" Navi began. Link grabbed her and cut her off.
"It's special water from this spring." He said, looking at it's slowly shrinking contents. "I… it helps a… say, a strange person get back to normal. Or a person cursed so that it was an animal."
"So why do YOU need it?" Ganondorf asked. Link slipped the bottle into his pouch.
"I… really like it, I guess. Who knows? Maybe we'll fight a monster and get cursed." Link shrugged. Zelda's wounds washed themselves out, but did not heal.
"She needs a doctor." Link said. Ganondorf nodded his agreement.
"I heard there's one in castle town, but… she's lost so much blood already." Ganondorf said. "This isn't cool, man. We need to get her there in the next hour or she's gone."
"So how are we going to get there in time? The walk's long enough already without us having to carry her." Link said. They both stood and thought this over, under, through and through.
And then it dawned on them at the same time.
"I just thought of a way-" began Ganondorf,
"To get back at Ilia-" Link said,
"And Odim-"
"And all of Ordon-"
"And to get Zelda to a doctor in time!" they said in unison.
They grinned at each other.
"Horses!"
Yes, stealing horses was a wonderful way to get back at Ordon and a way to Hyrule castle in time, even if Navi disapproved fully. Ganondorf busily attached a wagon to Epona, while Link loaded Zelda into the wagon. Ganondorf hopped on top of Epona.
"You in there?" He called back to link.
"Yes!" Link replied, climbing into the back. It had already taken them twenty-five minutes. They had to move.
Ganondorf spurred Epona, who reared up and bolted.
They burst out of Ordon right as the people who lived there realized what had happened.
"Stop it! The horse!"
"The wagon!"
"Those people-!"
Ganondorf spurred Epona again, who darted into Faron woods. Link held onto Zelda as the wagon bounced over rocks and roots. Her blood fell onto the floor of the wagon steadily. She was looking pale.
"Ganondorf, HURRY!" Link screamed.
"I'm trying!" Ganondorf grunted, making a sharp turn and nearly falling off. Link held Zelda close to him. He pulled out the map. The dot with his name on it was zipping through the forest, weaving In between the trees and was about to reach Hyrule field.
Navi was flying next to ganondorf, challenging herself to keep up.
Zelda was feeling a little too cold for link's comfort. The bruises where the monster had bitten her were now a deep black, looking like lines sewn together. They were… pulsing? Link took off his hat and wrapped it around Zelda's leg, hoping to slow down the flow of blood. The bruises were spreading upward from her leg.
That's odd… link thought, touching the bruises. They shrank back down to the cut. Aren't bruises supposed to stay in one place?
Ganondorf made another sharp turn, hitting a bump and practically flying through the air, and came into a clearing.
Link glanced at the map. They were now soaring through Hyrule field.
"Ganondorf?" Link asked. Ganondorf spurred Epona again, who snorted. Her sides heaved and she pushed herself onward.
"Yeah?" Ganondorf asked, steering Epona out of Hyrule field and down a rickety road.
"Zelda looks… bad." Link said. His heart felt empty and heavy at the same time.
"Fix it until I get to the doctor!" Ganondorf screamed, sending Navi cart-wheeling back into the wagon. She flew out again.
Link pulled out the spiritual spring water. He uncorked the bottle and splashed some onto Zelda's leg. The bruises shrank. He toppled all the contents onto it, the water splattering all over the wagon but sinking into Zelda's leg. The bruises disappeared.
Link breathed a sigh of relief. Zelda had regained some color.
"You might slap me when you wake up, but…" Link wrapped his hat back around Zelda's leg. "I kind of saved your life, so I'm going to anyway."
Link leaned forward and pressed his lips to hers.
In the sky
"They're KISSING!" Nayru and Farore screamed in unison. In a few seconds, link pulled apart and stroked Zelda's hair. Nayru and Farore squealed and hugged each other.
Back in the wagon
"Link? What are you doing back there?" Ganondorf bellowed, urging the horse up the rickety steps and into castle town.
"N-nothing!" Link yelled, pulling apart. He stroked her hair. People screamed and ran out of the way as the horse and wagon thundered through castle town.
A band was playing. A small boy gasped as he looked into the back of the wagon.
"Ma!" he yelled. They rumbled past him and into the town square. They where halfway across, but-
"Halt!" A guard yelled. Ganondorf yanked up the reins, stopping Epona.
"What causes you to wreak havoc upon these grounds?" he growled.
Link pulled Zelda closer. Idiot, he thought.
Ganondorf looked back into the wagon; And Navi began to fly around in panic.
"Stall him!" Link mouthed, picking Zelda up and crawling backwards out of the wagon. Ganondorf nodded.
"Look, man, nobody says 'halt' or 'wreak havoc' anymore." Ganondorf hopped off the horse. "So drop the olden tongue."
The guard stiffened.
"You… you DARE to-"
"Yes, genius. I dare. I am Daring. I dare myself to dare. Heck, my dares dare ME to dare! Has your mind exploded yet?"
Link chuckled to himself and slowly and carefully walked out of the back of the wagon, unnoticed.
"A hylian knight's mind does not explode!" The knight barked.
"Yours is already big enough. Why hold back?" Ganondorf Leaned against Epona, who took a step forward. Should she run again? Running was fun! She loved the funny noises the people made!
Link motioned for Ganondorf to hurry up as he slinked down castle town's south road and out of sight. Ganondorf saw and nodded calmly.
"Look, mister big-headed hero dude, why don't mind your own buttwax?" He told the knight, whose face now resembled a large tomato.
Beeswax! Link thought, exasperated. Beeswax!
"I mean, there are over a dozen moblins in the forest that could use some killing. Have fun!" Ganondorf waved and slapped Epona, who whinnied gratefully and dashed after link, Ganondorf clinging onto the wagon for dear life.
"Bye!" Ganondorf called. The red-faced knight waved his fists at him, but they swerved around a corner and left him in the dust.
Link entered the small hospital-house, holding Zelda. Ganondorf came in after him.
"Hello?" He said. A girl with black hair and large eyes poked her head out of a room.
"Yeah?" she said. She looked at Zelda. "Ah. Monsters, right? I'm Shai."
Link nodded.
"Link." he said.
"Ganondorf." Ganondorf said, smiling. Shai looked at them from head to toe and nodded.
"I specialize in monsters bites and scratches." She said, disappearing into the room. Link walked up, still gripping Zelda. Ganondorf followed.
Inside the room, Shai had pulled out some cloth. There was a bed and a boy with Orange hair and glasses. He held a book.
"Shai, my dear friend, you were wrong. It says here that the bites would be longer and deeper…oh, hello."
The boy closed his book.
"Daish, this is Link." Shai said. "His girlfriend got hurt, yeah? Could you look up-"
"She's NOT my girlfriend." Link almost yelled. Daish and Shai looked at him. "Uh… sorry. She's just my friend."
Daish flipped through his book.
"What monster?" He asked.
"Sorry?"
"What bit her? Moblin? Gremlin? One of those toothed bird things that don't have a name?"
"Bulbin." Link said, thinking it over.
Daish nodded, stopping on a page.
"How do you know?" Ganondorf asked.
"I, um… the…"
"Zelda said there was a WOLF…" Ganondorf whispered. Link's ears turned pink.
"Y-yeah, I know…"
"What did it this time?"
"What are you talking about?" Shai asked loudly.
"Nothing important. Goats." Link lied. Ganondorf nodded.
"Yup. Goats. Beautiful creatures."
Shai stared at them suspiciously.
"You're going to have to leave." She said. "The bite travels up her leg, and I'm going to have to strip her-"
"Leave her glove on." Link said.
"Can I stay?" Daish asked.
"NO. A naked lady is not a good place for you, yeah?"
"Humph."
"Out!" Shai pointed at the door fiercely.
"You're no fun." Ganondorf joked, and Shai shoved them out of the door in a heap. She closed the curtains angrily.
"Perverts!" She screamed. Daish and Ganondorf smiled at each other.
"Think we can see in the window?" Daish asked. Ganondorf grinned approvingly.
"Yup!" he said.
"I'll stay here, thank you." Link said, glaring at them. He knew that they would not just see a naked Zelda, but they would see the strange bruises that traveled up her leg. It was also a great disrespect to Zelda's privacy.
"Alright, link. But we're going." Ganondorf said.
"Have fun being perverts!" Link replied, waving as they darted out the door. He walked up next to the curtains.
"Shai?" he whispered. "They're going to try to look in the window. Cuss at them, Ok?"
"Thanks for the tip."
Link waited a few seconds.
"YOU'RE SICK!"
A series of cuss words followed. Link smiled.
Ganondorf and Daish walked back in, blushing fiercely.
"How'd it go?" Link asked innocently.
"You squealed, didn't you?" Ganondorf said, punching him lightly in the shoulder. Link beamed at him.
"No, I was talking about goats."
Shai sat down and concentrated hard. The bruises were, once again, traveling up her leg and up toward her chest. The spread over her face. She seemed to grow paler.
Though thoroughly disgusted, Shai was curious, and decided to figure out what was wrong. She pulled out a bottle of thick, clear liquid.
"Spiritual liquid?" She read, confused. She squinted. "Pure spirit blood. Given to hero from a…. sp…. Spring."
She dabbed some on to a towel and placed it on Zelda's leg. Immediately, the Bruises shriveled and disappeared. Her blood turned black as it fell out and a black diamond fell out, dissolving in the light. Shai wasn't looking.
She sighed, satisfied and turned around with a bandage in her arms. She hadn't failed yet.
Shai picked up Zelda's clothes and began to re-dress her. It would not be good if she woke up nude.
Daish was rambling on about some event in castle town called the star game. Link felt his clawshot in his pouch and smiled. He didn't want to waste his rupees on that, but it was still a killer way to beat it.
"Guys?" Shai popped her head out of the curtains.
"Yeah?" link asked.
"She's done, yeah? Cured. Scars gone." Shai said.
"Brilliant!" Link exclaimed.
"What scars?" asked Ganondorf. Link didn't bother to explain.
"Uh, how much do I have to pay?" He asked. Shai beamed at him.
"Only fifty rupees. It wasn't any trouble at all!"
Link smiled and reached into his pouch. He gripped the small boomerang absentmindedly before he pulled out the sack of rupees.
"It's the purple one, right?" he said, digging through. He tossed them to Shai. She caught them.
"Link? What scars?" Ganondorf insisted. Link shrugged it off.
"I'll tell you later."
"Wait, link. You gave me two, yeah?" Shai held up the rupees.
"It's a tip!" Link said. "I, uh, wanted to thank you. A lot more."
Shai turned bright red and shoved the rupees into her pocket.
"Thank you. Zelda should be waking up now." She stuttered.
Ganondorf pushed past Link and into the room.
"What scars?" He asked again, searching Zelda all over. Link walked in after him.
"They were bruises. The monster, I guess, poisoned her and you could see it travel up her leg."
Ganondorf made a face. Daish laughed.
"Well, old chaps, time for you to leave! I think I see a red faced soldier coming down the road. More poison?" He glanced at Shai.
"Stress." She replied. "Get out the therapy chair."
Link and Ganondorf looked at each other and then picked up Zelda.
"Thanks." The said in unison, hurrying out.
Once outside, they burst into laughter.
"Oh my god, Ganondorf! Did you see how red he was?"
Link climbed into the back of the wagon that was parked outside, laughing so hard it looked as if he was about to collapse.
"Yeah. I'm good, aren't I?"
"Let's get out of here before he arrests us."
Link pulled Zelda into the wagon, where Navi was waiting patiently. Ganondorf climbed back onto Epona and kicked her.
She whinnied and broke off into a trot, Ganondorf smoothly guiding her out of castle town.
Just for fun, guess who Shai and Daish are the kids of. I honestly don't think it's that hard to guess...
I have nothing else to say, and review!
