Link and Saria looked down at Vio, who had started to feel where he had been stabbed just an hour before,
"Link… It's… The wound's completely healed! How?!" Vio laughed slightly in awe and looked up at the two, smiling.
"WOA!" Saria shrieked as both her and Link jumped back in shock.
"VIO WHAT THE HELL?!" Link shouted.
Vio looked at them both, confused, "What's wrong with you two? What's happened? What has the potion done?!" He had worked out what had happened very quickly, as per usual.
"Vio…" Link breathed, taking a cautious step towards the patient, his eyes darting from one feature to the other, but always returning to the eyes, "Your eyes… They're red."
"They're what?" Vio laughed, "Link, that's ridiculous! How can my eyes have changed colour? TO RED?"
"Well," Saria raised her eyebrows, "take a look for yourself." She flipped a tiny hand mirror out of her blazer pocket and handed it to Vio, who raised it to his eyes.
"No way." Vio gasped in monotone.
"Oooh yes way." Link bit his bottom lip in guilt, still staring at Vio's eyes. Instead of the usual bright blue, his eyes were a deep blood red, almost glowing.
"Well…" Vio gulped, snapping the lid down on mirror, "I'm alive and that's all that matters. Thanks Link."
"Well," Link smirked, "I couldn't let you go bugger off to the afterlife without me, could I?"
Vio laughed, "Guess not." He shuffled in the snowy white covers and said in a much more serious tone, "Link, there's something I need to tell you –"
"-About the book?" Link grinned, though not out of happiness. More out of a comforting factor to calm Vio, "Yeah, I read it. Saw the family tree thing in the back." He nodded, "So… that story… you think it's true?"
"No idea." Came the curt reply, "But this Ganondorf, if he really is a psychotic killer, would most likely be acting along the lines of that story."
Link's eyes narrowed and Saria shifted next to him, placing a soft hand on his shoulder.
"I know that look." She said with a slight sternness to her tone, "Link… Please don't say you're gonna do something stupid."
Link looked her dead in the eyes, "I'm gonna do something incredibly stupid. By your standards, at least."
"Link, please. Just let the police deal with it."
"What good will they bloody well do?!" Link snarled, "They've been on this case for a good month now and nothing good has come of it! Maybe it's time I did something useful."
"You'd be useful to not get in the way!" Saria huffed angrily, pulling on his arm then turning to her only hope, "Vio tell him! You know it's a bad idea, right?"
Vio closed his eyes for a few calm moments, cutting off that slight glow. He then bit his lip as if he was going to deeply regret what would come next, "Sometimes defining a solid line between a bad decision and the only one to make is hard." Red beams shone through the slim gap between his eyelids, "What do you have in mind, Link?"
Saria rolled her eyes heavily, stomped over to her bag, picked it up, shoved her face into it, and screamed a muffled, long suffering scream along the lines of, "BOYS I CANNOT DEAL WITH BOYS ANYMORE WHY CAN'T YOU IDIOTS JUST LISTEN FOR ONCE AAAH!"
"Well…" Link had to raise his voice a little over the ceaseless banshee screaming, "If Ganondorf's following the story then we might as well too."
"Yes, but how will you take him down when you finally meet him? I'm sure you won't kill him." Vio said almost dangerously.
"No, not kill him. Just knock him out or hold him down somehow until the police arrive to arrest him."
"And you'll find him how?"
"As the story says. Gather my strength and wait for my path to take me to him."
Vio smiled, "Nice."
Link snatched the book up off the floor next to his own bag and flicked through it. "Strange though." He frowned as the pages flipped past, "I remember reading something which alarmed me a lot. Huh…" His eyes widened and his hand slapped onto a page, his nails scraping across it in a scared and angry gesture.
"What?" Vio asked quickly.
Link looked slowly up at him, his face mimicking that of an enraged wolf, his voice then carrying on with the theme as he growled, "ZELDA!"