Stuck in the world of skyloft: Chapter 5
Chapter 5: No turning back! (Part 1)
SO, SO, SO, SOOOOOOOOOO SORRY ABOUT HOW LATE I BEEN ABOUT UPDATING THIS NEXT CHAPTER! DX
It was the day of the wing ceremony, the teachers were up and preparing in the town next to the light tower for the race that would find the next knight. Meanwhile Leah was in her room lying in her bed looking up at the ceiling listening to the rushing footsteps in the hallway. Leah couldn't stop thinking about what's going to happen at the end of the ceremony, she hardly slept because it would just haunt her in her dream "I really need to calm down….." She thought to herself. She slowly got out of bed and walked over to her ds finding a message had been sent to her by the professor.
"Be ready for what are lies ahead" she read
She took a deep breath and walked the window to get some fresh air. She opened the window and looked outside to see some of the students already practicing, she could tell link was still in bed sleeping and dreaming about fi. She played skyward sword when she was home but only got up to the fire temple, she would of been finished in under a matter of hours but her mum forced her to focus on studying for her final exams coming up in the summer. Leah closed her eyes and took a moment to listen to the calming wind and feel a light breeze on her face. Suddenly there was a knock on the door that took Leah out of her calm moment.
"Who is it?" Leah asked while putting on a gown
"It me Zelda" Called for the other side of the door.
Leah walked to the door and opened it; Zelda ran in a closed the door behind her.
"You okay? Looks like you seen a monster" Leah walk Zelda over to her bed and sat her down
"Worse, groose is trying to see me in my new outfit" Zelda slouching on her bed She then looked at Leah noticing she wasn't dressed "Hey why aren't you dressed?" She asked
"Didn't sleep well last night" She said quietly
"Awww" Zelda sat up and hugged Leah "You been home sick again"
"S..Something like that…" she replied
"Come on, Get dressed and come with me to meet link at the goddess statue" She smiled "And let's try and get home off your mind" She walked over to her closet and pulled out Leah's purple skyloft dress
"Alright then" She smiled lightly
Zelda turned to face the door while Leah got dressed, Zelda would have waited outside her room but she could hear groose voice outside in the corridor.
Soon as Leah got dressed and fixed her hair, Leah and Zelda made a quick dash out the academy and up to the goddess statue where to Zelda surprise Link wasn't here yet but Leah knew he wouldn't be here yet.
"OH FOR GODDESS SAKE!" she shouted Leah jumped back in surprise "I Bet he sleeping like always" She then took a deep breath "Lucky I have a plan b" Leah suddenly ran over to the tree hugging it tightly
"OH NO YOU'RE NOT PUSHING ME OFF THE EGDE AGAIN!" Zelda started to laugh and pulled out a letter out of her pocket
"Don't be silly Leah I'm going to use my loftwing to get link up" After hearing that Leah let go of the tree and walked back to Zelda, She whistled and moments later her blue loftwing gently landed next to her.
"Hello friend" she stroked its beak and showed it her letter "Please go and give this to link, he should be in his room" The bird gently took the letter from her hand "Oh and if he a sleep don't be scared to wake him up" She laughed. Her bird took off Zelda watched but she suddenly turned round to look at the statue.
"Everything alright zel?" Leah asked
"Leah. Did you hear someone call my name?" she was still looking behind her
"No must have been the wind or something"
"Yeah you must be right" She turned to face Leah "I better get some last minuet practicing done" she pulled up her bag and got a harp out
"Nice harp" Leah smiled, Zelda looked at her in a bit of a shocked way.
"How did you know this was a harp?" she sat down next to Leah
"We have them in my world." She smiled "I always used to think if someone could play a harp they were from heaven"
Zelda smiled "My dad told me this is the goddess harp, the same one used by the goddess in the battle with the hero many, many years ago."
Suddenly they heard a scream coming from the academy it sounded like a boy, Zelda and Leah looked at one another and started to laugh.
"Looks like your plan worked" Leah laughed
Zelda started to calm down laughing and got up "Wanna hear the song I be playing at the end of the ceremony?" Zelda asked
"I would love to" Leah sat on the steps facing the goddess statue and Zelda stood in the middle on the platform, She check each note was still in tune then took a deep breath.
"Oh youth, Guided by the servant of the goddess…Unite earth and sky… Bring light to the land..." Zelda suddenly stop and looked behind her "Hey! Good morning, Link." She faced link
"Morning Zelda" He yawned
"Im glad to see my loftwing got you out of bed." She giggled
"Yeah didn't half give me the scare, I practically fell out of my bed" He said rubbing his head
Leah was still sitting on the steps giggling to herself imagining link falling out of bed when Zelda loft wing woke him up. Link looked behind Zelda to see the brown hair girl almost rolling on the floor from laughter.
"Morning Leah" He smiled knowing why she was laughing
"Morning Link, we heard you scream." Leah laughed "Looks like your plan worked zelda" Zelda laughed with her
"I was really surprised" He laughed
"So link…." Zelda did a big twirl "What do you think of my dress" She smiled
"hhhmmm" Link took a moment to think of what he was going to say next. "It looks amazing"
"Aw thanks" Zelda smiled and blushed a little "I wanted you to see me like this first"
Link smiled at Zelda and she kept smiling back.
"Ah this is something you don't see every day" Everyone turned to see Zelda father walking up from behind them. "Good morning everyone and link it great to see your up" He smiled and folded his arms "you must know that if you win the race you will be preforming the ceremony with Zelda so I hope you been practicing hard"
"Yes sir I been practicing hard" He said with a smile
"Yeah but link…" Zelda interrupted "even though you have been practicing it only been day dreaming while you're flying" Link was about say something until "You have to remember that this is your only chance on becoming a knight!" Link jumped back in surprise
"Now, now Zelda link will be fine" He reassured his daughter
"Well" She grabbed links arm "Fine or not we could at least get some last minuet practice before the ceremony" Zelda started to drag link towards the wooden platform
"Errm Zelda" Link said
"Yes Link?"
"I can't sense my loftwing" Zelda had link on the egde of the platform
"OH I see what you're doing" She laughed "Your trying to weasel yourself out of this"
"Zelda I think link might be telling the truth" Leah stood away from the platform (She was worried encase Zelda tried to push her off again)
"Leah, I known Link for years"
Yeah and I know his loftwings going to save him Leah thought to herself
"ZELDA IM TELLING THE TRUTH!" Link shouted
"Less lying, more flying" Zelda then pushed link off the platform. Zelda, Zelda father and Leah all looked down to see link falling, he called for his loftwing but he was still falling.
"Strange, his loftwing is taking a long time to come to its master's call" said zelda father
"Something not right" Zelda suddenly jumped off after him. She called for her loftwing and it gently caught her while she fell it swooped down and caught link in it claw. She brought link back up and placed him down and Zelda loftwing fell beside him, Zelda jumped off her loftwing and started strocking its neck "Im sorry friend" She said stroking its beak
Leah ran beside link "Are you okay link?" She asked helping him up
"Yeah, Just a little shaken up" He dusted his clothes off
"This is strange" Zelda father looked up to the sky "A loftwing never disobeyed a master call"
"Like I said, I can't sense my loftwing" Suddenly a ball rang from the academy.
"That's the school bell alerting pupils to start attending the ceremony" Said zelda father "Link, I go and see if I can hold the ceremony for a while. You have to see were your loftwing is." Link nodded
"Link I come and help you" Leah said Link nodded
"Err Link…" Zelda was still on the floor stroking her loftwing "I'm sorry… for not believing you" She looked up with sad eyes
"It fine Zelda" Link smiled
Zelda smiled back a little "soon as my loftwing feeling better I come and help you look for your loftwing" Link nodded at her and link and Leah headed down to the town.
"Hey Leah? isn't this your first time in the town?" Link asked as they were walking down the bridge.
"Yes it is" Leah realised that even though she had been in skyloft for a week she had only been in the academy or in the garden of the goddess statue. "I been training on how to use a sword that hard that I never got the chance to look around" She laughed
"Well I show you around" He smiled and grabbed her hand "Come on" They ran through the gates and into the town. On their way to Plaza link showed Leah parts of the town, as they got to the Plaza They noticed Groose with his two friends Snitch and Cawlin (who were massaging Grooses shoulders). Leah and Link approached the boys and started to hear them speaking
"You sure put up a fight hey Groose" Cawlin spoke
"Yes, well you thought a big crimson Loftwing like was gonna go down without a fight? But we got him, and I don't care how tough those birds are supposed to be. He's not getting out of that pen anytime soon, boys." He laughed
Groose stood up and turned to see Leah and Link staring at him.
"Ahh Link" He jumped back in surprise "How long have you been standing there?" Groose asked
"Long enough to hear were my loftwing is" Link said with a smirk
"I don't know what you're on about" Groose shrugged
"Come on groose, we know you know were links Loftwing is" Leah crossed her arms and looked at groose. Groose smirk a little looking at Leah he had come up with a plan.
"So Link why do you think I took your loftwing, when Leah could be lying and she might know were the loftwing is" He circled link with a smirked on his face
"Groose, Leah been Zelda all morning she told me herself" Link said back
"Oh, you been with Zelda this morning have you? I tried to see her this morning but she ran in the lame Leah's room. Probably wasn't ready to show me her new outfit" He crossed his arms and his face looked like he was imaging Zelda in her new outfit
"We all know you and Zelda go way back" Groose pointed at link "I bet you have come to ask me if I could find it in my heart to let you win the today's race? Well sorry pal but this is my time to shine and I'm going to be the one who going to have the alone time with Zelda and you or your friend here is going to stop me. It dopes like you who are dragging our honoured academy through the mud." Leah was about to say something until
"And who are you talking about, groose?" Zelda was standing behind Leah and link with her hands on her hips she was not very happy.
"OH, Zelda! Hey.." groose said
Zelda walked over to link and groose and shoved link out the way and pointed at groose
"Don't even try it groose! Your picking on Link again aren't you and Leah as well, Will you get over the fact she not from our world, she not harming anyone. Don't forget Link is a student just like all of us!" She carried on "why do you always pick on him? You been like this since we were kids"
"Yeah… I suppose" Groose stuttered
"You suppose? Suppose what?" She carried on
Groose didn't answer he only smiled and went into a daydream but after a moment he came back
"Forget it" He walked towards the edge "were out of here and Link good luck trying to find your loftwing or you're going to have to sit today race out" He laughed before he and his friend jumped off calling there loftwings and falling away
If this game had a sniper gun, Boom! Goes grooses head. She through to herself
"Looks like they have something to do with this" Zelda said
"They do, we heard groose talking about him locking links loftwing in a pen or something like that" Leah said
"My father was able to get you some time to look for your loftwing link"
"That's good"
"I Look around the island and you and Leah go ask around town see if they anyone knows anything" before link or Leah could say anything Zelda already ran and jumped off the edge falling away with her loftwing.
"Okay then" Link sighed "Leah wait here while I head to the school and see if any students have seen anything okay" He asked
"Yeah sure" she said with an innocent smile, he smiled back and ran towards the school.
Don't worry link I go find your loftwing in not time. Leah smiled to herself as she reached down into her pocket and grabbed her wii remote. She turned and started following the river to the waterfalls "If I remember right, Links loftwing is in the waterfall cave" Leah skipped across the stone on the river to get to the other side "I would of told link I knew where his loftwing is but how would I explain I knew where it was" as leah crossed the stone path she made her way up to the cave opening that was blocked with wooden posted.
She got a grip of the wii remote and swung it down wards "Sword" the wii remote transformed into a sword. Leah swung the sword full force at the post and it took one or two swipes to clear a path into the cave. Leah was a little scared of walking in but she took a deep breath "I can't turn back now" she told herself. She slowly walked in holding the sword close to her.
The cave was dark but Leah could see her path, she could hear drops of water far down in the cave and the sounds of bats squeaking and flapping of their wings like they were alerting their friends of the new intruder in the cave. As Leah got close to the sound of the bats she could see their glowing eyes from above looking down at her, She walked very slowly hoping not to a disturb the bats but she seen their eyes start glow red meaning they were going to attack her. One swooped down and immediately charged at her Leah gripped her sword and swung at the bat she missed and swung again and hit the bat that turned hit the ground and turned into purple smoke. Leah felt proud of herself for a moment until the whole swarm of bats swooped down at her, Leah ducked down they missed her just by a bit, the group turned to attack her again.
"Okay on 3!" They were getting closer "1…2…3" Leah jumped up and used spin attacked on the group of bats, Her attack was weak but was strong enough to get a few bats making the remaining few fly away in fear.
Leah had a big grin on her face "And that's my friends, how the cookie crumble's" she laughed to herself. Then out of nowhere Leah could hear slow clapping coming from behind her, she jumped and pointed her sword in the direction of the noise. As she did she found link leaning on the wall cave clapping.
"Link?" She gasped putting her sword down.
"I see you've kept your promise to become strong using a sword" He smiled "However your catch phrase need some work on" He laughed.
"What are you doing here?" Leah asked
"I think I should be asking you that" links tone became a little more serious. "It dangerous in here!" He came closer to Leah, Leah looked up into his eyes she could see he had been a little worried about her.
"I'm sorry link" She looked down to the floor feeling guilty for making link worry "I didn't mean to get you worried….. It was just….. I heard noises that sounded like your loftwing and I-" Leah was stopped through her sentence when link placed his hand on her shoulder; Leah looked up to see link smiling a little.
"It's okay, just don't worry me like that" He smiled. Leah guilt faded and nodded her head. "Good. You had a good Idea coming in here I can sense my loftwing close by." He looked down deeper into the cave.
"Well let's keep going then or you're going to miss the ceremony" Leah started running down and link followed behind her. As they got deeper and deeper into the cave link and Leah faced more monsters and bats.
"It a good thing I found you before you got this far"
"Yeah I'm sorry again. how did you find me?" She asked
"As I made it to the academy, turns out pipit had asked around the school to see if anyone knew where my loftwing was, He almost gave up but as soon as he talked Fledge he knew he was acting weird. Fledge had heard groose plans to hide my loftwing somewhere near the waterfall"
"So why didn't he tell you or pipit?" She asked as she swung downwards to kill a chu chu
"Once he heard their plans he tried to sneak away but he got caught and was forced to keep quite."
"poor guy"
"Yeah I know, so I had to go and borrow a sword for Eagus. Took a lot of explaining to get a sword out of the school" He laughed a little "then as I made my way back to meet you, you were gone. I asked if anyone seen you lucky Orielle one of the village girls seen you run towards the waterfall. When I entered the cave I started to sense my loftwing nearby."
"Ohhh….. Look there's the end." She pointed forward to light
They both ran out to find themselves on the other side of the waterfall.
"Link! Leah!" They both looked up to see Zelda landing next to them. "I'm so glad I found you I was told you were looking around the waterfall" She walked up to them "Any sign of your loftwing ye…..Huh? w..who calling for me?" she looked over her shoulder
"Are you okay Zelda" Leah asked stepping forward
"Oh, sorry Leah I just got a little distracted moment" Zelda looked at Leah with a smile but Leah could see that she had something on her mind. They walked down following the path from the cave Zelda gasped "LINK!" Zelda pointed to towards a hole that was blocked with wooden planks and behind the wooden planks was Link's crimson loftwing squawking and flapping like it was trying to get everyone attention. Everyone ran to the loftwing.
"Link, you cut the wood on one side and I cut on this side, Zelda stand back a little." Leah said holding out her sword he nodded pulled back out his sword.
They both worked their way chopping through the until the wood finally fell to the ground, Links loftwing walked out of it cage slowly looking around to see if it was safe it then it opened up its wing and loudly squawked as it was alerting others of its freedom. Link walked up and the loftwing lowed it head so link could stroke its beak but it playfully pushed him back a little
"Sorry I took so long" Link said to his loftwing, it turned a flapped its wings to fly away sending a bit of wind in link, Leah and Zelda face. Link and Zelda both ran to the wooden platform
Leah watched the scene "my favourite part" she said quietly. Back when Leah was playing skyward sword she loved the this part of the game saving the loftwing and the quick reunion link and his loftwing shared together, it was just a sweet moment. Leah was about to join them until she felt a buzzing in her side pocket, She pulled out her ds and opened it to be a message from the professor
Leah,
I know you and Zelda have become close friends during your week and I'm sorry for what you're going to have to do, but this will be the only way you have to get out of this machine.
Leah sighed and looked over to link and Zelda; they were watching links loftwing swoop by. Zelda turned around to look at Leah and smiled
"Leah your flying with me we need to check if links loftwing is ok" Leah walked over and Zelda took her hand and smiled Leah smiled back
"Come were going to be late" Link smiled he then turned and jump off the falling far before calling his loftwing. Zelda then followed behind after catching on to her loftwing she called Leah to jump, Leah took a breath and jumped off the edge with no fear, after a moment of falling she was caught by Zelda.
"It's good to see your use to falling" she smiled Leah smiled back but only for a second.
"Is everything alright?" she asked
"Yeah… just thinking" she replied, Link fly close to Zelda's loftwing
"My loftwing seems fine" Link said flying pasted.
Leah and Zelda smiled at link as passaged them. At that moment they could hear a bell ring coming from the island.
"Just in the nick of time" Leah laughed
"Come on, we better get to the plaza and tell everyone the good news" Zelda said with a smile, Link nodded and they both turned there loftwings towards the plaza. As they landed Leah hopped off Zelda's loftwing. "Leah Tell Link I have gone to tell my father we found we found his loftwing" Leah nodded and watched Zelda take back off and head towards the academy.
Leah walked over to link "Zelda just said she just gone to tell her father about us finding your loftwing" She said with a smile on her face "It great to see your loftwing is okay after what's it been through today"
"Yeah, I'm happy to see he's okay" a smile crossed his face as he looked up to see his loftwing in the sky.
"You nervous?" she asked
"No, just thinking about-"
"Well, well if it isn't link and his little sidekick" Link was interrupted by groose "Rumour on the plaza is that you found your dum red bird." He crossed his arms and had a smug look on his face. Leah just glared back at him "what really upsets me is me and the guys here have been working hard for the race and then it goes to waste because they cancelled the race, for you. I just don't get it."
"Well groose" Leah started "maybe you should blame yourself for making the race get cancelled because I don't think it was our fault links loftwing went missing and then was found lock up in a cage."
"I don't know what you're talking about" groose put a finger to his chin pretending to think. "Link, I need to ask, have you always got someone to speak up for you" he chucked to himself "you're almost a man! yet you need your friend or Zelda to stick up for you. I bet you need help to decide on what to eat for lunch. Oh look at me I'm link and me and Zelda go everywhere together and when Zelda not around I like to hang round with little lame Leah" Groose changed his tone to mock link.
Leah looked at link "Can I punch him?" she asked.
"Hey link don't think I go easy on you in the race, no way. I'm not letting you have your 'a lone time with Zelda'"
How the topic changed from finding links loftwing to 'A lone time' with Zelda, Leah thought to herself. Groose was suddenly muttering to himself with a grin growing on his face propyl imaging his 'A lone time'.
"So care to explain our 'a lone time' Groose?" Everyone suddenly jumped to see Zelda standing behind Link and Leah. She had a cross look on her face and her hands where on her hips.
"Oh Zelda!... Erm….I… Link…." He stuttered for a moment "I was just telling link how happy I was to hear he found his loftwing and how much I was looking forward to a fair race" Leah rolled her eyes hearing 'Happy he heard about finding his loftwing' and 'fair race'. "Anyway Zelda watch me during the race because I be the one pulling the dangerous stunts" He smiled and winked at Zelda before walking away.
"I feel sorry for you Zelda" Leah said as she walked closer to Zelda
"For what?"
"That you just been winked at by Groose" She laughed, Zelda lightly hit her arm and laughed with her before she turned to link.
"Link, be careful during the race I don't trust the words fair race coming from Groose."
"Zelda, I'll be fine he just trying to scare me off" He ressured Zelda with a smile, she smiled back.
"WILL ALL STUDENTS PLEASE GATHER, WE WILL NOW BEGIN THE RACE."
Leah and Zelda looked at link with a smile on their faces.
"Good luck link and be careful" Zelda said
"I be fine Zelda"
"Good luck link" She smiled "If you don't come back a Knight I push you off the edge" She laughed
"I don't know whether you're joking or being a serious" He chuckled
"It's a joke if you come back a knight, if you don't then I'm serious" She and Zelda both started to laugh a little. Link walked over to join the other students to hear the rules of the race, Leah and Zelda watched as they were getting ready.
"Leah?"
"Yes?" Leah turned to face Zelda but she was still keeping her eyes on link.
"Hold me." She put her hand next to hers for her to hold it, Leah took Zelda's hand.
"He be fine Zelda, trust me."
"It funny isn't it?" Zelda said quietly
"what is?"
"The way me and you are." She face Leah " I only known you for a week yet you're like a long lost friend to me, Soon as you woke up me and you have spent most of our time together. I'm happy I got to of met you" Zelda suddenly hugged her.
Zelda was right though, since the day Leah woke up Zelda and her have spent most of their time together, they would study together, eat together, laugh together and every night Leah would spend a few hours in Zelda room and just laugh and talk about their life until Zelda was sleepy or fell asleep. Leah felt a tear roll down her cheek she just wanted to shout you're going to be kidnapped at the end of the race! But she knew she couldn't.
"GO!" someone shouted both of them turned to see link and the students all jumping off the edge and calling their loftwings.
Link was far behind at the start of the race but he was quickly catching up and had took over Strich groose tall blond hair friend, Leah and Zelda cheered on Link as they watched him get closer and closer to the yellow loftwing which had the statue hanging from it. Link was just passing Cawlin Groose smaller friend, he tried to crash his loftwing into Links but failed when link flew higher and started diving down a little to gain more speed to get closer to the loftwing. Link had gained a lot of speed and was almost next to the yellow loftwing, He reached out and the statue was almost in his grasp but then links loftwing was sudden pushed out the way by groose loftwing. Leah and Zelda gasped as they watched link loftwing nose dive a bit before returning back up again.
"A least he's okay" Leah said with a sigh of relief as they watched link
"Yeah, But I mean Groose shouldn't of don…. What's that?" Zelda pointed to the sky when a small object was heading towards link. Zelda sudden gasped "LOOK OUT!" But her scream didn't make it too link in time and he was hit. He was still on his loftwing but they were slowing down.
"Oh no! he slowing down he can't just give up" Leah and zelda watched link slowing down link they were starting to give up.
"We have to do something" Zelda said, Leah look around the plaza seeing if there was anything she could do to help link. Then an Idea struck her as she look at the tower
"Follow me, I have a idea" She grabbed Zelda hand and pulled toward the light tower. But Zelda stopped as Leah made it to the ladders
"Go without me for a moment, I need to talk to father" Leah nodded there was no time to lose, she quickly made her way to the top and she had an amazing view of skyloft but know was not the time for sightseeing. She scanned the sky for link and found him still lagging behind and dodging the eggs being thrown by Groose's goons while, Groose slowly got closer to the statue.
"LINK!" Leah shouted waving her arms to get his attention "Link!"
Link was still flying thinking of a plan on how to get pass without being hit "Link." He heard a voice calling him from the distensions, As he looked over to see Leah standing on the Light tower calling for link as she waved her hands in the air like a mad woman.
"What is Link's little sidekick up to?" Groose hissed to himself before turning back to the statue
"Link! You can do it! You can't give up not now! Zelda knows you can do this and…" She smiled up at him "I know you can do this, don't give up." Link smiled back down at her "LOOK OUT!" She shouted. He jerk his loftwing to the left just missing the egg.
"AWW, Did we just kill the moment with your little girlfriend link?" Cawlin laughed.
Leah heard what cawlin just said he practically shouted it for the entire island to hear. She face began to turned red and almost had steam coming out her ears
"WHAT WAS THAT YOU LITTLE PIP SQUEECE ?!" She was almost as red as link's loftwing. " I SWEAR IF MAKE LINK LOSE THIS RACE I COME UP THERE AND KICK YOUR ASS SO BAD, THAT YOUR CHILDREN WILL HAVE NIGHTMARES OF ME!" She shook her thirst in the air making her look more serious.
Cawlin and his friend both looked at each other in shock of Leah words before turning to link.
"Hey link buddy" He said with a smile "Sorry for throwing eggs at you earlier, To make it up to you take my place in the race and tell Leah that where friends, okay" He was a bit shaken saying the last part, Link nodded a flew passed them.
He started to pull his loftwing higher in the air and then he slightly made his loftwing nose to catch up to groose quickly, Leah was still cheering from the light tower as link began to close in on groose very, very quickly. Groose gasped to link closing in on him. Groose tried to knock link back however, Link dogde his attack and got closer to the statue dangling from the yellow loftwing. As he reached his hand out he felt the statue in his touch his loftwing swayed a little from side to side but link could grip the statue in his hand, He pulled the statute away a from the yellow loftwing and brought it to his chest he looked down to see the loftwing statue in his hands, Links eyes began to light up. He waved the statue high in the air showing the whole of skyloft he had won the race.
Leah cheered for link on the light tower "I told you, you could do it!" She said with a smile Link gently smiled back
"And that's all thanks to you Leah" He said back while he flew past her. Leah blushed a little at what link had said.
Leah walk over to the edge just in time to see Zelda running happily to the edge before falling down to be caught by link, she watched them as they fly towards goddess statue to doing the end of the ceremony.
"Need a little help getting down Leah?" Leah looked behind to see pipit landing next to her on his loftwing, He was smiling at her and she smiled back "I'm happy to see link winning the race after groose trying to cheat" As he said that, Groose and his two friend were landing on the plaza.
"Can you just land me on the plaza I don't mind walking up to the goddess statue" She smiled "I would get down myself but I'm a little scared" She laughed.
"No worries just jump on and I place you on the plaza, it is a job of a Knight to help others" He said with a smile
"Well you're a very kind Knight" She said as pipit help her on to his loftwing.
"Any time my lady" He said in a jokey tone, Leah and pipit bothed laughed. As pipit landed on the plaza she said her thanks to pipit and watched him fly off back to the academy. She turned to see groose with his arms crossed looking Leah with anger in his eyes.
"In my world groose there a saying to days likes this"
"And what will that be?"
"Cheaters are never winners" She said pulling her tongue out at him before running off toward the goddess statue. He tightened his fist a bit
"There something about that girl I don't like, I always have this feeling she knows something about Zelda and I don't like it" he looked down and for a second before turning to look to object on the floor He picked it up and smirk at it "Looks like the goddess is smiling down at me today" He said with a small laugh.
Leah was making her way up to the goddess statue hoping to not miss the most best but upsetting part that she remembered when she was playing skyward sword. As she finally got up to the entrance she didn't go in she on leaned onto the side watching link take Zelda's hand and going down on one knee to get her blessing from the goddess and been giving the sail cloth witch Zelda had finished the night before. Leah watched as link and Zelda talked for a few minutes before Zelda came closer to link a few inches from his face only a few centimetres from his lips, Leah giggled a little bit because she watched link blush a littler as he kept his eyes only on her.
As a minute passed she seen link face go a little more but towards her face suddenly Zelda spinned him a round on his heel "You have to jump off the statue" She shouted with joy, Leah had to press her hands onto her mouth as she watched link dazed look go into shock looking down at the landing pad below and without warning Zelda pushed link off the statue.
Leah gasped for a second as she was about to jump out and catch him but she stopped herself as she seen him pull out the sailcloth and land safely on the landing pad.
"Oh, Yeah, Sail cloth how could I forget" She put a hand on her forehead thinking of how embarrassing it would have been jumping out and trying to safe link.
As she turned watch the seen she seen Zelda had landed next to link using her loftwing which was still standing next to her and it was long till links loftwing gently glided down landing next to him, She seen Zelda fiddling with her hands and looking down like she was a sweet teenage school girl being shy with talking to someone she had a crush on. Leah seen link nod and jumped on to his loftwing and Zelda did the same Leah took this last opportunity to spend her last minuet with Zelda.
She took a deep breath "LINK! ZELDA!" She called as ran out to see them. They both turned and smiled " I won't keep you long it looks like you wanna go somewhere" She said being up a small smile
"Where just going to have a little fly around" Zelda said with a smile
"Want to come with us" Link asked
"No thank you, Im not really feeling well" She said smiling but she was fighting the tears back all Leah wanted to do was kick Zelda off her loftwing but she couldn't, She had to let her go and she felt so guilty that it made her body feel ill.
"Aww, when I get back I whip up some of my amazing pumpkin stew" She said with a smile
"Thank you Zelda I would Like that and thank you for always being so kind to me" She said looking down her tear were starting to fill "Now you two go and have a fly and be careful out there okay" She said still looking down
"Go back to your room and have a lie down, I be back soon okay" Zelda loftwing began to flap its wings and lift itself off the ground.
"You better be" she shouted back.
"See you in a bit, leah" Link shouted waving at her
"See later…" She watched them fly feather out "Hero of Skyloft"
Leah watched them go feather and feather out away from skyloft, the closer Leah was from being sick. The more closer she was from her tears spilling.
"There she is" A voice called. Leah turned to see Groose walking up to her with Zelda father following closely behind "Where Zelda?" He asked with a bit of worry in his tone.
"She has gone out flying with link. Why do you need he-"
"To get her far away from you" He cut her off "ever since the day I seen you I knew you were hiding something and that something has to do with Zelda" Leah was shocked for a moment.
"wha…what are you on about?" She said.
"I found this after the race" He pulled out her Ds from his back pocket.
"My Ds, where did you find it?" She was shocked to see groose had her ds in her hand.
"at the plaza lying on the ground next to the light tower" Leah must of let it slip out her pocket during the time at the race when she was about to climb the ladders " But it not what I found it what it says inside".
"What do you mean" Leah knew what he meant.
"Don't play dum, this message" He smirk before opening the Ds and reading what it said inside
"Leah,
I know you and Zelda have become close friends during your week and I'm sorry for what you're going to have to do, but this will be the only way you have to get out of this machine. Ring any bells?" Groose smirk proudly at himself.
"I…I..erm" Leah was struggling for a minute.
"Now, Now Groose that message must mean something different" Leah Felt a relief for a second but it was quickly chased back from a squawk from the sky.
They all turned to see links loftwing landing close by, Showing an unconscious link still barely gripping on to his loftwing. They all ran over to link.
"Zelda…." He said softly
"What is it link?" Zelda father asked
"Where Zelda" Groose looked up it to the sky to see if could see Zelda. He suddenly turned his anger towards Leah "Where is she?!" He demanded.
Leah suddenly felt tears flood down her cheek "I DON'T KNOW!" She shouted she ran up to Groose and snatched her Ds from his hands and ran out of the garden. I'm sorry Zelda! I'm so sorry was all that she thought.
Groose was about to run after her "Groose, we will look for her later right now we need to help link" Zelda father said while leading links loftwing towards the academy.
What did you think of my little twist? (Laughs like an evil witch) XD
Finally, after 4 weeks of writing this story on and off. Then losing half of the chapter I got part 1 of this chapter done! PARTY AT MY HOUSE!
Yeah Im sooooo sorry about taking almost a month to update. I want to tell everyone that I'm trying to not be one of thos people who give up on their stories, I really am! (Hand on my heart)
Thank you again, for your support it the one thing that keeps me writing (even tho I almost thrown my laptop out the window a couple time) lol. Please follow me on trumblr -Stuck in the world of skyloft-
P.s Hope everyone getting into the Olympics….. COME ON TEAM GB! Just showing my support for my team.
Later guys