The Legend of Zelda: The Missing Link
Chapter 7 -Wrath of the Full Moon (once again, like another novel of mine, After The Fall, violent/more mature chapters will be bold. Also, there will be cursing. Lots of it. But just from one character...hopefully.)
WARNING: this chapter is about a rather...uncomfortable subject for some people. The subject goes by many names...examples are "cycle", "coming of age", "flowering"...but the one that I think that I came up with...is "Wrath of the Full Moon". Now, if you have read my profile, then you will know why I know soooooo much about this subject. Enjoy. And something will happen that is a result of what is to happen within this chapter. Once again, enjoy.
The Clearing (main base camp for now.)
There.
It had been coming and going for the past few hours, but she now knew what was happening. Which damn near tore her in two.
She was currently beneath a pine tree, hopefully far enough from the others that they wouldn't come over and see what was wrong.
I should of known...I...I should have brought things...I... I...I'm too damn emotional right now...Can't even think right... She hissed from the pain as another pang coursed through her. ...I...I'll live...hopefully...
In the end, she had given up hope of the pangs going away, so she had quietly stole away into the woods.
Once far in enough that the others wouldn't see, she had taken off her shirt as a last resort, to try and keep her jeans as less bloodied as possible.
Which was rather impossible.
Add in the lightheadedness, the feeling of being weak, and the stomach pangs, and you had a very emotional person.
(Derek)
The Hero of Magic was worried. Lauren had disappeared.
Derek knew that she hadn't been herself, recently, but the fact that no one else had seen her for the past few hours freaked him out a bit. She's wandered off before...
But, if she had, why was he feeling like this?
Then he happened to look up. Almost overhead was a full moon. It hit him then that he thought he knew what was wrong with her. "...Oh no...not now...not here..."
He found himself sprinting full speed towards the woods. Of all of the times and places, now this happens?
His worst fears were confirmed when he found a fresh trail of blood leading far off.
Derek knelt by the trail, reached out towards a few blades of blood covered grass, and pulled a few blades from the ground.
Derek then brought the blades of grass up to his nose and sniffed them. He was immersed with emotions- fear, pain, weakness...
The Hero of Magic sighed and let the blades of grass drop to the ground, then he wiped his hand on his "Gryffindor Rules, Slytherin Sux" t-shirt*.
His gaze then lifted from the trail of blood to the woods before him. "...What am I going to do with you?"
"Do what with who?"
Derek jumped and then looked upwards. It was Jason.
The two Heroes looked at each other for a few moments. "I didn't hear you come up behind me."
"I've been getting stealth lessons from Nate. Turns out that he climbed cliffs with his bare hands. Can you believe that?"
Derek nodded. "Yes. In fact, he was climbing trees a few hours ago, looking for food. I take it that he found some?"
Jason nodded. "Seems like he found a whole horde of squirrels. Don't know why you don't like them, Derek, they're good with parsley...and marigold...and..."
"Yes, I'm sure that they are..."
Jason then noticed the trail of blood. "Whatever happened here? Looks like something killed something and then dragged it off."
The Hero of Twilight knelt on the other side of the trial and studied it. The two Heroes then locked gazes. "Do you have an idea of what happened?"
Derek nodded grimly. "I'm afraid so, Jason." He looked down for a few seconds, as if making up his mind about something, then looked up again. "Can I ask you a question?"
"...Of course."
"...Since you're a shape-shifter, you can...scent things, right? As a Hylian?"
Jason simply stared at Derek. "...Y-yes...but why in Hylia's name would you ask me that?"
Derek held up his hands. "I didn't mean to offend you, if I did, I am sorry. But, at least do this."
He reached out and grabbed a fistful of grass again, but this time, he offered the grass to Jason. "All that I'm asking you is to smell these blades of grass."
Jason reached out and took the blades of grass from Derek, then looked at him with question. "Go on." So he did, and in the back of his mind, his "other half" grew protective. Very protective.
All Jason could do was let the bloodied blades of grass fall to the ground, stand up, and silently gaze into the woods before him.
He then turned and helped Derek get to his feet. "...She's under the full moon's wrath, isn't she?" It was barely more than a slight whisper, but thanks to his many forms, Derek heard Jason's words clear as day.
He nodded solemnly. "I'm afraid so...Nate does make those herbal teas, right?"
"...I believe so...do you want me to run and fetch him?"
Derek nodded gratefully. "Yes. I'd appreciate it."
As both Heroes went their separate ways, Jason found himself thinking about Illia, and how he had been there with her, to help her when she had these monthly occurrences. What was happening now was partially the same thing. I used to help Illia when these things happened, and now another woman is having the same problem; and by Hylia, I'm going to help her...
Jason found Nate and a few others nearby the creek. Some were swimming, others were fishing.
He picked his way down the encampment and made his way over to Nate. "Just how many fish have you caught?"
The Hero of the Wild glanced up at Jason. "Now or since I started fishing? Too many to count." Then Nate noticed the look on Jason's face. "Did something happen?"
All Jason could do is nod. "We need to talk. Away from the others."
Then he got an idea. "...Do you know where Red is?"
"YOU WANT TO DO WHAT?!"
"You are NOT doing this, Red! The cap of the Hero is priceless! WHAT DON'T YOU GET ABOUT THAT?!"
Red was currently facing his three brothers. Jason had suggested an idea to him, and he had thought it to be brilliant.
The others...not so much.
"...I know how much the cap means to all of you. But it's just a cap! And clothes need to be washed once in a while anyway...right?"
Blue shook his head.
"Yeah! But NOT IN THIS MANNER!"
Vio, knowing the smartest one, knew exactly what was going on, so he intervened.
"Guys. The reason Red wants to give Lauren his cap is because well, women get these...things...mostly every month...that...um...cause them to bleed. And Red's cap is the exact shade of blood...So..." Vio tried to put it in a way that wouldn't make his brothers freak out, since they were so close to that point.
"...What?"
Green and Blue just looked each other, then back to Vio.
"...And how do you know this?"
Vio paled a bit.
"...Well...I um...found her...and...she told me in great detail what was going on, and then told me to go away. Though...not very nicely..."
Blue nodded.
"Yeah, we heard her cursing all the way over here..."
He turned to Red.
"Well, if you want to help her, then be my guest."
Meanwhile...
Derek was being bombarded with curses.
He flinched at quite a few of them.
So, he was very thankful when Red, Jason and Nate showed up.
"Thanks the Gods you three came."
That caused Lauren to shut up.
For about two seconds.
"...You...TOLD THE OTHERS ABOUT THIS?!"
Needless to say, the four Heroes began to try to calm the Witch down.
"...Nate...Why do you have a cup and saucer?"
All four of them, including Red, who was now capless, privately noted that Nate's Herbal Tea had taken effect.
"...Well...I couldn't tell, you..."
Then Derek saw that Nate was holding something in his hands.
"What is that?"
Nate held up the object.
"This? Tis' a "Shieka Stone."
Derek walked over to Nate and looked down at this object.
"Can I see it?"
Nate nodded.
"Of course."
Derek figured how to operate the Stone very quickly. "Oh. That's how it works...let's see...you have heat tracking...binoculars...a mangnetic system that is interesting...what else...you can levitate stuff...and...What's this?"
A bolt of light shot out of the device and headed in Lauren's direction. The bolt struck the bush head on.
Several minutes later, the four Heroes heard a small voice.
"...Ears. I have pointy ears...black fur...fangs...but yet I'm floating..."
Then, to everyone's shock, a small black and white cat like creature floated up behind the bush.
Then Minda appeared.
"Derek...just what exactly did you do?"
The imp flew up into the Hero's face and he took a few steps back.
"...I really don't know what I did..."
Minda actually snarled at him.
"YOU IDIOT! Because of you, Lauren is now an Imp! Like. Me."
Needless to say, the clearing grew quiet for a few minutes as the occupants took in this new information.
I am proud to say that, to my knowledge, THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE!
To those of you who do not know what happened, Lauren was turned into an imp like Minda, but has blue eyes. She can still use everything she can use as a human, except for her Omnitrax, obviously.
*If this is an actual shirt, I want it. It depicts the Gryffindor Lion biting the Sytherin snake's neck and standing on it. What's interesting is that Sytherin's version of the shirt is reversed...