Our Memories Chapter 2: Trouble
"Hey..Hey wake up.." a soft voice said. Leafa let out a small groan and opened her eyes slowly.
"Eh..? What is it..?" She asks, sitting up straight and rubbed her eyes. As looked around, confused as she saw Link standing beside her and blushed a bit in embarrassment.
"You fell asleep so I brought you to Kakariko village. I thought maybe you should sleep on a bed instead of on Epona's back.." Link explains. Leafa screamed and then calmed down a bit.
"Oh.. I see.." Leafa just sweatdropped of her mistake and laughed nervously. Link offers his hand as she took it and smiled at him, letting him help her down off his horse.
"Oh Link, you've came to pay a visit, have you..?" A man approaching them said. Leafa looks up at him and saw that he wore a long robe with long sleeves. His hair was really long and black, he looked very different from the people you'd seen in castle town.
"Oh hello there, Renado." Link says. The man known as Renado approaches the both of them and stands before Leafa, as his eyes are immediately drawn to her .
"Oh I see, you have brought a friend this time." he says as, Link nodded as a yes.
"Yes, this is Leafa." he introduced Leafa and smiled. Renado extends a hand to her as she grasps it while, shaking his hand firmly as Leafa smiled.
"Nice to meet you, Leafa. I am Renado and any friend of the savior Link is always welcome here." he explained.
"Thanks but.. Actually, I'm more of Link's acquaintance.. We just met and he's now, he's just pretty much escorting me to Lake Hylia.." Leafa explains as she had a small blush across her cheeks and giggled nervously. As Renado nodded.
"I see, well no matter.. I suppose that you two came here for a place to sleep..? Am I correct..?" Renado asked as they both nodded.
"Yes, I mean, I'm fine but we came so that Leafa could rest in a good place." he says. Renado nods.
"Ah yes, well then please follow me." he says, leading the two of them to an inn a short distance from where they were standing before. "Here you are, please stay as long as you'd both like and there is a hot spring just on the top floor if you'd like." Renado explains as he leads them both up the stairs of the inn into a room that looks like fit for only 2 people. Leafa looked around and nodded as she walked up to him.
"Thank you very much." She says to him and bowed. Renado bowed as well and took his leave, once she and Link were in the room. She looked around, there really wasn't much.. Two beds, two dressers and some knickknacks but Leafa didn't really mind. All she cared about was the bed and some rest, which she plopped down on as she let out a light groan.
"So tell me, what were you doing out this late in Hyrule field anyway?"Link asks, sitting down on the bed next to hers as she sat up and looked at the floor, quietly.
"Oh I was just...you know out for a little sight-seeing.. Until, I saw you.." she lied. Link raised an eyebrow in confusion and in curiosity at her.
"But I thought your family didn't allow you to leave?" he asked, still confused.
"Yeah well... I snuck out for some fresh air.. I can't go out but I missed going for walks and flying around freely..." she explained, nervously.
"Hey, are you alright Leafa..?" Link asks, placing a hand on her shoulder as she turned around and nodded.
"Yeah, I'm just tired.." Leafa answered and rubbed her eyes as she yawned. Link nodded and stood up.
"Alright then, well I'll let you get some shut eye then…" he says, walking over to his bed and yawned. She nodded and laid down on the bed, closing her eyes and drifting off into a world of dreams.
Meanwhile, at the World Tree…
Sakuya walked around Leafa's throne room, worriedly as Alicia was sitting quietly on chair in a corner. Only once did she stop to give her attention to General Eugune, whom had entered.
"Well, have you found her..?" Sakuya asks impatiently. General Eugene stood there in silence for a moment before shaking his head as a no, as both Sakuya and Alicia looked down and sighed.
"No. I'm sorry Lady Sakuya but, Leafa is nowhere to be found. We have searched everywhere, even her favorite spot. She's nowhere in Aarun." he explained.
"What do you mean? She has to be somewhere! She couldn't have just gotten out and so far away from castle on foot! You must have overlooked her." Sakuya snapped as Alicia tried to comfort her, trying to stay calm.
"I'm sorry ma'am but there's no sign of Leafa anywhere.." The Salamander says. Sakuya plops down on a chair next to Alicia and covers her mouth, staring out the large window in deep thought of where could she have gone.
"Leafa-san, where could you have gone..?" She mumbles softly to herself.
"W-What are your orders ma'am?" One Sylph soldier asks. Sakuya looks at him with a serious look on her face and stands up.
"Search everywhere! I want soldiers from here to different lands! Even the places in the other game! I don't care, how hard it is! Find the queen! Now!" she says.
"Yes ma'am!" the soldier says, running out the room as Eugene left as well and leaving Sakuya alone in the room with Alicia. She sat quietly on a chair and watched the rising sun as she sighed heavily.
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Leafa opens her eyes to the bright sun shining on her face. As she sat up and stretched while, looking over at Link's bed where he slept soundly and peacefully, to her surprise.
"I guess even heroes need their sleep.." Leafa mumbled and giggled softly. She climbed out of her bed as she stretched and walked over to the window. She peers out of it and sees Renado talking to some Cait Sith and Salamander guards. Immediately her heart drops as she looked over at Link who was still sleeping, soundly. Quietly she rushed out the room and ran down to the lobby of the inn to get a better look at what was going on and hid behind the walls of the front of the inn.
The guards handed Renado, a sheet of paper as he stares at for sometime before handing it back to them. He said something and headed towards the inn. Immediately her heart began to race as she rushed back upstairs to their room and started shaking Link for him to wake up.
"Link! Wake up! We have to go now!" she shouted, jumping on his bed, panicking. Immediately, Link sits up and rubs his eyes as he stretched his arms.
"Leafa, what's the matter..?" he asks as he stretched a bit. Leafa grabbed his wrist and pulled him right off of the bed.
"Come on, we just have to go now!" She says, pulling him downstairs and out the exit.
"Leafa… what's gotten in to you?! What's wrong?!" he yells. She looks out the window to see the guards coming towards the inn.
"Crap.." Leafa mumbled under her breath as she tried to look around for another way out of the inn.
"Um.. Leafa, hello! Can you hear me?!" Link said trying to get her attention.
"Quick! Let's go this way!" Leafa yells, pulling him towards a broken window to their right. She hops through it and pulled Link through with her, immediately falling through it as the guards entered the inn.
"Leafa, what is going on?!" Link asked. She looks back at him and pointed her finger at Epona.
"We just have to go now! I'll explain everything to you on the way!" She said as, Link gave her a puzzled look but nodded and ran with her over to Epona, quickly hopping up on it and pulling her up while Renado quickly spotted her and ran over to them.
"Leafa! Stop!" he said. Link looked back at him.
"What is it?" Leafa asks.
"No! There's no time to talk Link! Come on! Go!" She says, nudging him. Renado runs up to Epona and stares at her and Link.
"Leafa, I know who you really are! Just stop this nonsense and come down from there this instant." he says. Link stared back at her, confused.
"What's he talking about Leafa?" he asked. Hearing the commotion, the Castle guards quickly ran out the inn and pointed to their fingers to her.
"Look! There she is! Over there!" one Cait Sith guard yelled. She looked back at them then at Link. She stared a bit for a while then turned around.
"There's no time to explain! Let's go!" Leafa yelled while starting to panic, clicking her own tongue at Epona who immediately took off and out of Kakariko Village. When the two of them were far away from, Kakoriko village, Link stops Epona and turned to her with one of his eyebrows up as he stared at her.
"Okay, explain Leafa. Now.. What is going on? Is someone after you and what did Renado mean when he said he knew who you actually were? Is there something you're not telling me?" he asked, curious. Leafa sighed heavily and hopped off of Epona. Link does the same and follows her. "Leafa."
"Okay.. I'm sorry.. I really wasn't honest with you Link.." Leafa said. "I'm really not a girl who lives in Hyrule .. But another world connected to Hyrule.." Leafa says as she sighed.
"W-What do you mean…? What are you then..? Where did you come from Leafa..?" Link asked her, curious. Leafa closed her eyes and placed her hand over her chest then looked back at him.
"Link,I'm really-" Before she could finish her sentence, there was a loud rumbling sound behind her. She quickly turns around to come face-to-face with a giant green bublin on a large boar, staring down at her with its dotted red eyes. Leafa took out her sword and went onto her fighting stance.
"Leafa, get away!" Link yelled at to her as he, drew out his sword and dashed over to her. The giant bublin quickly grabbed her and slung her over his shoulder before slapping Link away with the back of his hand. Leafa slashed the bublin as it screeched in pain and let her go. Leafa tried to run over to Link as the giant bublin grabbed her foot as Leafa screamed and dropped her sword on the ground.
"Link! Help me!" She yelled for help, trying to fight back, when she tried to use her magic, it didn't work since she didn't have enough health to do so. Link skidded back and held his cheek, wiping away some blood that dripped from the corner of his mouth.
"Let her go!" he shouted out loud at the bublin, who simply shook its head and hopped back onto his boar with him holding Leafa as she was hanging upside down.
"Link!" she yells while, reaching out for him as the bublin turned around and rode off with her, grabbing her feet while she hung upside down. Quickly Link hopped on Epona and chased after the two of them as fast as he could.
"Let me go!" Leafa yells, punching the giant bublin in the back with her strength but to the bublin, it felt like a light push. The bublin grunted and held her feet tighter as he approached a stone bridge where one side was blocked off. He rode all the way to the end of it before turning back around to face Link who was on the other side of the bridge facing him in his fighting stance, getting ready.
The bublin smirked and held her up at Link as if it was displaying her while she was hanging upside down. Link glared harshly at the bublin but quickly turned his glare onto a look of horror when he saw the bublin toss her to the side and off the bridge.
"Leafa!" Link yelled. Leafa yells as she flew over a side of the bridge, while Link sighed in relief.
"Just hold on Leafa!" he yelled out to her while looking for a way to strike.
"I-I'll try.. Just hurry Link!" Leafa yelled unable to stand up due to the tight grip of the bublin earlier as her wings were too tired to fly. Leafa looked down below her at what seemed like an abyss but she could faintly hear rapid waters below. Maybe there was a lake or river beneath her but who knows how deep or how far down it is beneath her. Dropping was obviously not an option then...
She sighed heavily and took deep breaths she closed her eyes as she tried to pull herself up with a nearby rock just above her as she grabbed a branch, as it suddenly broke as she screamed. But, she was lucky to have landed on a small spot but is probably about to break…
After what seemed like eternity when she hears Link and the bublin charge at each other as Link took him out with only 5 slashes of his sword at iy. Only seconds later did she see the bublin fall over to the side of the bridge into the deep abyss below, most likely, soon to be Leafa's fate as well..
"L-L-Link!" Leafa screamed as she held onto the cliff.
"I'm coming Leafa!" Link calls back. Link quickly hops off of Epona and over to her but just as he reached her, more bublins jumped in his way, swinging their clubs at him. "Damn it!" Link yelled in irritation.
She soon hands slipping from the ledge and stone cracking beneath them and also the stone beneath her. Her eyes widen as she started to fall off. She closes her eyes as she started to fall from the bridge but suddenly opened them wide when she felt a a hand grabbing her arm to stop her from falling.
Leafa looks up and sees Link, holding her wrist tightly with one hand while his other gripped the side of the ledge. All she could see was his upper torso half off the side of the bridge. He sighed in relief and smiled nervously down at her as Leafa smiled at him as she tried to pull herself up. "G-gotcha..." he says. She stares at him in shock, speechless as he uses all his strength to pull her up and himself back onto the bridge. He sighed heavily when the two of them were fully back on the bridge.
"Are you alright?" he asks. She looked over her shoulder at the side of the bridge then back at him. She nodded slowly before throwing her arms around him, holding onto him tightly as he blushed.
"T-Thank you.." she whispered softly. Link nodded, blushed and patted her back.
"It was nothing.. Really.." he says, trying to cover his wounds. She looks up at him and quickly spotted all bruises and cuts all over him as she gasped a little.
"You're hurt.." she says with a worried tone. Link sighed and stood up straight.
"Nah, it's nothing really.." he says. Leafa shook her head and stood up as well.
"No, please let me heal your wounds.." she says, holding her hand out to him and smiled. Link sighed and took your hand. As the two of them sat down side by side as she began to heal his wounds, one by one. After a few moments later Link's wounds were all healed as he quickly took her hands, as his eyes widen at the sight of cuts on her palms. "Leafa.." He says staring at her wounds. She withdrew her numb hands from him and hid them behind her back. "You don't need to worry.. I'm fine.. Really…" Leafa says as her arms were behind her back. Link shook his head and grabbed her shoulder. "Why didn't you heal yourself?" he asks. "Do it." He says in a more serious tone. As Leafa just shook her head.
"I can't Link.. I don't have enough energy to do it.." she says, suddenly collapsing against him and falling to his arms.
"L-Leafa!" he yells, as he catched her in his arms. Link looked down at her to find her completely unconscious. He just sighed heavily and picked her body up in his arms in bridal style. He placed her gently on Epona's back and grabbed her by the reins, lightly leading her off the bridge. He led her over to a large tree that stood in the field and carried her off of Epona. He sat down with her in his arms and began to wrap bandages around her hands and arms gently, careful not to wake her up.
He rested his back against the tree and held her in his arms for a bit, brushing a few stray strands of her blonde hair off of her face as he blushed a little.
"You really are not like any other regular person I've ever met.." he mumbles softly. Epona seemed to neigh in agreement as Link chuckled.
"Yeah.." Link soon fell asleep next to her, peacefully.
