A/N: The picture I have in use is from dA by an artist lychi and the picture's name is just simply Zelda.
Also, another note: I do NOT own the characters or places unless said otherwise. Nintendo has the rights. =P Honestly speaking, all I have is the idea for the story, few monsters, creatures and bit of changing the places. Oh, and couple of OCs here and there. ^^; I'm certain everyone can figure out which belongs to me and which doesn't. =)
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Summary: Dark has a harsh wake up call and the day seems to just crash down from there forward. But after having a slight conversation with his stallion, the dark Hylian changes things around... Until he realizes that he met someone unexpected at the Market.
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Enjoy the chapter! ^.^
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Situations from their lives
CHAPTER 7: April Fool's Day 2014
Dark woke up slowly but started to frown as he felt something touching his nose. It felt like tapping with something hairy. The dark Hylian opened his eyes slowly but screamed out on the second he saw the black spider on his face. He swatted it off before scrambling up and far away from the creature.
It took a while from him to realize that Link was laughing as he had a black toy spider hanging from a rope that was tied to a short piece of wood. "What the hell, Link?!" Dark screamed in both confusion and anger. "Are you trying to give me a heart-attack or something?" He inquired while staring at the Hero and crossing his arms over his chest.
Slowly Link started to calm down but he was still smiling widely and chuckling once in a while. "It's first of April." The Hero stated as a fact. Dark was still bit angry but he only frowned at the reply.
"So?" He inquired while not realizing a thing of the explanation. "What does that have to do with freaking me out?" The dark Hylian continued bit harshly.
Link blinked few times and frowned as he finally calmed down. "It's April Fool's Day. That's what." He replied but even that didn't take off Dark's confusion at all. The Hero gulped and gave a nervous smile. "Um... I have told you about this day... Right?" He half inquired while starting to get even more nervous.
The dark Hylian still frowned and gave a slow shake of his head. "No. You have not. What exactly is 'April Fool's Day'? I don't think I've heard about that before." He answered bit accusingly.
Link gulped again before he groaned and crashed to his back on the bed. "Damn it..." He muttered, took once a deep breath and sat back up. "April Fool's Day is a day when people do small jokes and pranks to each other. Nothing to harm but just to fool around." The Hero explained as calmly as he could.
Dark nearly deadpanned at the given information. "And so you decided to freak the hell out of me as the first thing in the darn morning?" He asked nearly disbelieving. Link gulped again but nodded. "Gee, thanks a lot! Having really great start for a day that I had no knowledge of!" The dark Hylian half barked and turned his gaze off of the Hero. "I'll get my revenge..." He thought bit angrily but sighed soon. "But I doubt I'll know how..."
"Um... Just be careful out there today." Link half whispered and crawled next to Dark. "I'm sorry I forgot to explain today to you. I should've told things out long ago. I'm sorry." He continued and hugged the dark Hylian from behind. "Just stay on alert. People can come up with quite harsh jokes if they're up for it." The Hero warned and Dark just simply nodded.
"I'm going to hate this day..." The dark Hylian thought fully miserably, took once a deep breath and tried to calm down. He would've gladly just stayed the day in the room. "Link?" Dark called carefully and the Hero hummed a bit to show he was listening. "Could I just stay here for the day? You know... Drawing something..." He inquired while praying he could just keep the door locked for the whole day.
Link sighed and shook his head. It was surprisingly beautiful day considering that the last couple of days had been cloudy and bit rainy. "If you fear this day so much, how about you'd head to Lake Hylia then?" He countered bit worriedly. "He gotta face the day someday. So, better sooner than later..."
Dark sighed heavily and slumped slightly. "Fine." He muttered and pulled free from Link's hold. Without a word he started to gather his clothes and headed to bathroom. Link sighed heavily once the dark Hylian was out of the room. He crawled over to his own side of the bed and wrote a short note to Dark. After that the Hero left the note over to the dark Hylian's night table before already doing the bed. Once things seemed calm enough, he glanced at the locked door to the bathroom before sighing again and leaving the room.
When Dark came back from changing clothes, he was bit disappointed to find that Link had left. The dark Hylian sighed but he noticed the paper on his night table and went to check it in bit of fear of it being another "prank" from the Hero. Feeling bit suspicious he took the paper up and carefully opened it. It only had couple of lines of text. "Dark, if today ends up being something that you'll hate, I swear I'll make it up to you. Just try and take it easy. Link."
Dark sighed and put the short note down. "Well, you'd better be ready to take up on that offer since I really have a bad feeling about today..." He thought bit miserably as he took up his sword and shield. This time they were along just in case things would go too far. He really didn't want to keep on relying to his knife every single time. It was good to have something longer in use too.
The dark Hylian left the room while feeling fully uncertain and slightly fearful. He was grateful that the corridor was empty at then and there, so he leaned against the closed door of his and Link's shared room, closed his eyes and took few deep breaths. "Okay. You can do this. It's just one day among others... With people having actually rights to be cruel..." The dark Hylian sighed heavily, pushed himself off of the door and tried to look much more confident and courageous than what he felt.
Before he even got out of the castle, things started to go wrong already. On one of the hallways was a group of three guards. It was clear that one of them noticed Dark coming down towards them and the guy nodded to his group members. Right after that they started to come up with quite cruel jokes about the dark Hylian.
"So, what's black and has red eyes and is dangling from the tree?" One of the guards asked loudly enough for Dark to hear him. The two others shook their heads. "A dark Hylian that lost his balance!" The guard half shouted and got round of snickers from his comrades.
"Okay, what about this one. It's wet, dark and has red eyes." Second one inquired with a grin. The two other guards stayed silent which gave the rights for the asker to continue his words. "Dark Hylian pushed into lake!" He exclaimed.
While others laughed, the said dark Hylian gave a slight shiver at the thought. He tried to ignore the trio as they went on within same lines. Just before he got to the corner, one of the trio shouted one word after him: "COWARD!"
Dark stopped and turned around. "What did you just call me?" He inquired as calmly as he could. The trio faked to look startled and they glanced at each other.
"You think I was talking to you, huh?" The caller asked, gave a chuckle and shook his head. "Oh, no, no, no... I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about this." He continued and showed very quickly scribbled picture of cow. "And I called Cow art." The guard continued while keeping his expression normal.
The dark Hylian gave a slight frown and disbelieving look but eventually shrugged. "Right..." He mumbled, turned around and continued his way. Right after he had gotten past the corner the group of three guards burst into laughter. Dark flinched very slightly and fastened his pace a bit. "I really hate this day..."
Luckily he got out of the castle without more of incidents. For a short while he did think about just going to fetch Storm and leave but he decided against it. "I can't run every single time this day comes forth... Better get used to it now than fear this day for rest of my life..." Dark thought, took once a deep breath and started to head towards the Market Place. "Just take it easy... If you show they got you, then you've lost it... Just... Play along..." He tried to look confident even though he would've gladly just ran away.
The Market Place was usually filled with talking but now it had laughter as the main part. As the dark Hylian came to there he could very quickly realize that the kids were doing different kind of little tricks. The adults were surprisingly patient with their jokes. Few of the grownups even did their own slight pranks. Main ones were about too high price but some other things were there too.
Dark calmed down a bit as most of the people were more interested of each other than of him. It gave him slight time to get used to the day but very soon he was already in another prank without even doing anything else than being at wrong place at wrong time. The dark Hylian didn't have much of time for anything other than trying to shield himself and gasp when the water was thrown right at him.
The older man in the kitchen was laughing very loudly and even the woman was slightly chuckling. "I... I'm sorry. I was meaning to just startle you by the empty bucket. I..." She told but Dark wasn't fully sure if she was sincere at all. He just simply gave a slight shrug and smile.
"It's okay. No harm done." The dark Hylian replied and started to walk away from there while trying to dry the water off. "Don't know if she meant it but at least she had the courage to apologize..." He thought while venturing into the main area of the Market. It was then that other people started to notice him. Dark tried to stay calm and ignore all of the cruel things people came up about him. Usually the crowd didn't dare to talk of him like that but the day gave them the chance to say what they really thought and disguise it as a joke and words that meant nothing.
Suddenly a group of four kids came to him. They tried to look very innocent as they presented a piece of cake to him. "For you. We've... Well, we've been more around the Hero even though you've done some really neat things for us." One of the kids said. The dark Hylian was bit startled but smiled to the kids right until one of the four pulled on a rope and the cake flew off of the wooden plate and straight to Dark's face.
The kids laughed and ran off while the dark Hylian was wiping the cake off of his face. "Nice. Real nice..." He mumbled and tasted on the cake only to realize that it wasn't eatable one. Dark sighed and used bit of magic of water to clean the fake cake off of him. After that he dried his hair, face and clothes.
For few hours the dark Hylian managed to avoid any possible pranks and tricks until one of the carpenters came over. Dark had helped them from time to time so he wasn't that of surprised when the guy inquired if he could help them. He nodded and smiled a bit as he followed the guy to a place where the group of carpenters were building a house. Once at there the carpenter turned around with nearly pleading look on his face. "Listen, we're fully busy in here with our work so... Is there any of possibilities you could do some errands for us?" He inquired and glanced towards the working area.
Dark smiled and nodded. "Yeah, sure. Just name what you need." He answered without a second thought. "At least this'll be much safer than walking around the Market." The dark Hylian thought while calming down.
The carpenter turned towards his comrades. "Hey, guys! What things do we need to get the house done?!" He inquired straight off. The other workers stopped for a while before they smiled and started to shout out fully unexpected things. The guy with Dark nodded and once all had been told out, he turned towards the dark Hylian again. "Okay, so we need the next things... Golden carpet, Glass-headed hammer, Freezing leather and Spotted paint." The guy listed out.
Dark blinked in full confusion. "I... I've never heard of those before..." He half whispered and scratched the back of his head. "Y-you sure about those?" The dark Hylian inquired and got simple nod for an answer. "Um... You wouldn't have any of idea where I should start searching for those?" He continued while feeling fully uncertain of the things listed. "Are those even real things?" Dark wondered but decided to keep that unvoiced.
"Try the carpet seller first. He quite certainly will know about the Golden carpet. From there you probably can get more ideas of where to head next." The guy replied with a shrug. The dark Hylian just gave a slow nod while still feeling uncertain of the situation.
"O-okay... I'll try to be swift..." He finally said and started to make his way out.
Once Dark was out of the hearing range, the five carpenters started to laugh. "That'll keep him busy for now!" One of them stated with a grin. Others nodded before continuing their work.
The dark Hylian made his way to the carpet seller. As he waited for his turn, Dark checked around the shop. He found different shaded yellow carpets but none of them felt like gold. Eventually he got to the seller and inquired about the first thing on his list. It was clear that the shop keeper had hard time of keeping his expression in control. "Um... Because of them being so expensive, I don't have them. But, I'm sure you can try your luck at the one selling odd things. She lives at the back alley from here. Right at the very end of the road." He replied as casually as he could which certainly looked hard to be done.
Dark frowned slightly but nodded. "Thanks..." He half whispered before leaving the place. "Something's not right..." The dark Hylian thought as he walked down the road he had been pointed to. The alley had only one house and that looked quite rundown too. Dark hesitated a bit before he knocked the door.
The door creaked and gave in slightly. The dark Hylian hesitated even more as he pushed the door open. "Hello? Anyone in here?" He called while carefully getting inside.
The place was fully destroyed. It looked like it had been abandoned decades ago. Small bugs ran here and there with spider webs having taken most of the place. The stairs to the second floor were fully crashed without any of chances to reach the top. The doors were broken and crashed to the ground.
Dark walked around the first floor but it all looked the same. He sighed heavily and left the place. "This is really starting to look like another trick played on me." The dark Hylian thought bit angrily as he made his way back to the carpet seller's shop. "The place looks fully abandoned." Dark called straight off when he got to the door.
"OH! Right! I'm sorry. She moved to another location few years ago. How silly of me for forgetting." The seller stated immediately. "The new address is right to the other side from here. The very last house." He continued and pointed straight through the door.
The dark Hylian sighed a bit but nodded and left. He wasn't fully certain of the explanation but he thought it to mean the last house he could find. Dark made his way through several alleys and roads until he crashed up with equally crashed down house.
He sighed heavily and leaned against the wall behind him. "This is getting me nowhere..." Dark thought as he made his way back towards the carpet seller. On his way he tried to ask from other people if they knew anything about the odd items seller. Yet, the only reply he got was either being ignored or then told to scram. Very few told that they had no knowledge of what he was trying to inquire about. Couple of persons started to tell some odd stories about the seller but out of the look on their face, the dark Hylian was pretty sure that they were lying. Though, the later heard laughing was only starting to get him to believe that this was what people called as 'wild goose chase'.
After having been given the wrong address for few more times, Dark finally had enough. He returned to the carpenters and gave fully apolitical look. "Sorry, guys, but I wasn't lucky enough to find the needed things." The dark Hylian called with a slight shrug.
The carpenters glanced at each other before starting to laugh. "Took you long enough to realize the situation!" The leader half shouted while laughing. Dark flinched very slightly but luckily that went fully past the five workers notion.
"Right... I'll see you guys around..." The dark Hylian half mumbled before starting to make his way out. "Should've figured it out much quicker..." He thought bit angrily as he walked out of the Market Place and back to the castle. "I'm out of here. I really should've left straight to Lake Hylia like Link suggested." Dark thought and made his way straight to the stables... Only to find Storm missing.
He ran to the stall in hopes of the stallion having just laid down but no black horse. "What the hell?!" The dark Hylian thought in near panic. He looked around once and noticed the young lad that was in charge of the Hero's mare and of Dark's stallion. "Hey! Where's my stallion?" Dark shouted straight off and started to make his way straight to the guy.
The young male was fully startled and backed off by a step. "I... I haven't seen your horse for whole day... I... I thought you had left early..." He said while searching nearly for every word.
"Don't lie to me! Where's Storm?!" The dark Hylian nearly screamed since things were starting to crash down on him. The stable worker took few shaky steps backwards in fear.
"I... I swear... I'm not lying!" He answered and glanced towards the stall which Epona and Storm usually shared. "And your horse is there!" The guy shouted and pointed to the stall which Dark had checked a while ago. The dark Hylian's expression hardened. "I swear! Storm is right there next to Epona! I'm not lying! Just check it!" The young lad screamed.
Dark growled but turned to look towards the stall. Storm was right there and looking nearly proud of himself. "W-what?" The dark Hylian mumbled before groaning. "You just HAD to?!" He nearly screamed to the horse whom only gave a slight neigh as an answer. Dark sighed heavily. "Sorry... I'm really sorry for my actions. Seemingly my Shadow stallion decided to try and fool me." He said and gave fully apolitical look to the stable worker. "I... My actions weren't justified. I'm sorry."
The young lad just gave a slight nod and took a step backwards. "Um... Can I still look after your stallion?" He inquired fully worriedly. Dark sighed again but nodded.
"Of course. Thanks and... I'm honestly fully sorry... I..." The dark Hylian replied but trailed off very soon. The stable worker smiled and started to calm down.
"April Fool's Day. Not exactly the most fun of all of the days." He started and shrugged. "One of the reasons I rather stay here for the day. Like the Infirmary, the stables are prank free area." The guy continued surprisingly calmly.
Dark blinked few times in surprise. "Really? I didn't know about that part..." He replied and finally relaxed. "Thanks. I'm going to be with Storm for a while and... Well, I might head out later on..." The dark Hylian continued before already walking to his stallion. "So, you just decided to play a prank on me, huh?" He inquired straight off.
Storm nodded without a second thought. "Thought it would be fun." The stallion replied in neighing which Dark understood without any of problems.
The dark Hylian sighed and leaned against the door of the stall. "I was thinking about leaving to Lake Hylia. And I'd get there faster with your help." He stated while carefully petting the horse. Storm gave a slight snort before pulling backwards.
"Not gonna happen. I'm perfectly happy right now and I'm not leaving." The stallion said firmly while shaking his head. "You can head there by yourself. I'm not taking you." The black horse continued.
Dark was fully startled. It was first time that Storm refused to follow his command. "W-what...?" He asked in disbelieve. "You've never backed off from my request!" The dark Hylian continued while staring wide-eyed at his stallion.
Storm shook his head and backed off another step. "Well, first time for everything." He replied and laid down to the hay next to Epona. "Besides... Have you seen the Hero lately?" The stallion continued calmly.
Dark frowned but thought through the inquiry. "No... Not since morning..." He finally replied and looked at his horse. "Why you asking?" The dark Hylian inquired bit puzzled.
Storm gave a slight laugh. "Since Epona is here, he hasn't really left the castle's areas, right?" He started carefully but didn't give a chance for Dark to reply. "And do you honestly think he'd try and avoid this kind of day?" The stallion continued and got his owner to frown even deeper. "Keep your eyes open. You might see him. Besides... How does everyone react to him? Do you honestly think they'd go and prank the Hero of Time and Hyrule?" The black horse inquired.
Slowly Dark started to realize what Storm was getting at. "Disguise... That's what Link is having!" He nearly shouted as the realization hit him. The black stallion only nodded. "Thanks Storm! I think you saved my day!" The dark Hylian nearly shouted before he already left the stables and headed towards his and Link's shared room. "Why the hell I didn't think about this?! I can take part to the day too as long as people don't know it's me! This is going to be so much of fun!" He thought excited as he tried to come up with the best possible disguise to keep people from knowing him.
Dark was lucky enough to get into the room without crashing up with anyone. Once there he locked the door and started to search around the room. Eventually he found two old blankets. The dark Hylian took them out and gave a sharp strike to them. Luckily they weren't dusty. The first one had been white but the time had changed its color. The second one was dark brown, closer to black.
Dark smiles as he draped the dark blanket around himself so that it hid pretty much everything. After that he made his way out of the castle without being seen and soon he was back to the Market. This time around people didn't pay any of attention to him.
The dark Hylian smiled widely as moved around. This was what he had wished for a long while. To be just one among others. Some people just nodded to him and he nodded back but no-one came to take a better look at him. "Payback time..." Dark thought with a slight grin on his face as he already worked out few ideas which he had seen others use to their friends.
In his disguise, the dark Hylian got better chance to watch people and learn what kind of pranks were approved. Eventually he overheard few kids talking about a pink hat and telling that it would prevent people from pranking the one wearing it. Dark honestly doubt for such words but it gave him an idea.
He kept eye on the group of kids and went to buy the said pink hat and few other things. After that he walked to the group and muffled his voice by the blanket he was wearing. "Trust your friends, kiddo. This worked for me for a long while." He said as he gave the pink hat to the one that the other kids had tried to convince. Once he had given the hat, he already left the place.
The group looked after him before turning their gaze into the hat. Dark didn't go too far but stayed out of their sight. Eventually, after a while longer of coaxing, the kid put the hat on. It didn't take long from there that people started to snicker at the kid. Sure, the dark Hylian felt bit sorry for the kid but he also knew that he quite certainly would've ended up as a victim of similar trick.
Yet, Dark hadn't been that of cruel that he would've given the hat for everyone else's fun. There was something more to the scene which very soon came up. The fooled kid gave quite harsh glare to his comrades and took the hat off. Just as he was going to throw the hat into a garbage bin, he noticed something. Carefully he took a small bag off of the hat's inner ceiling.
"Sorry for letting your friends fool you. I hope this makes it up for you."
In the bag was a red rupee and a small packet of special cards. The cards were surprisingly expensive but they always had one card of the Hero of Time and the rest three cards had a short story of the Hero's quest saving the worlds. The packs were very wanted and nearly everyone who had the money for them were trying to get as many as possible. If they got same short story, they exchanged them with others to get new ones.
The kid stared at the items. "Hey! Look at this!" He shouted and showed his founding with a very wide smile before sticking his tongue out at his friends. "You guys were right! It did keep pranks off!" He chuckled and started to head home so he could get a full check on what the pack would contain. His friends stared wide-eyed at the scene with one of the kids having his mouth open.
Dark chuckled before he already left to see what else he could do. As he looked around the Market, he noticed someone clad into similar attire. The dark Hylian frowned a bit and backed off into the shadows of a close by alley. The unknown person looked around before it already left forward.
Dark started to follow the person while still checking if there'd be a way for a prank or few. "If it's you, Link, then we have similar ideas of disguise." He thought and for a while the dark Hylian grinned as he thought about getting the unknown person revealed. "But... Maybe it's not him..." Dark thought with a slight frown. "I guess I should keep eye on him... Or her... And just see what'll happen." He decided and stick to being unnoticeable around the Market.
After following the mysterious person for few hours, the dark Hylian gave up. Nothing special had happened and the person seemed as no threat at all. Dark sighed and decided to see if he could actually get something to eat. He was bit of fearing for a prank but more than that he feared that his little disguise would be revealed.
Nonetheless he went for one stall and waited for his time. A while before his time came forth, Dark noticed the earlier mysterious person not too far from him. He tried not to pay any of attention to the person but something piqued his interest. For the dark Hylian's surprise, he actually got to buy the meal without any kind of trouble.
Dark carried his food to a more secluded area to get to eat in private without being bothered. The food he had bought was nothing special, just salad with both pork and chicken in it. Slowly the mysterious person started to get closer to him. "Want to share?" Dark inquired while still muffling his voice and carefully getting the wooden knife into a sharp stick that would be much easier to be used.
As the mysterious person came closer, the dark Hylian got bit better check on the clothes he/she had on. It was more of a robe by the color of dark blue. Unlike with Dark's blanket, the mystery guy's cloak actually had sleeves and more chances of getting it closed too. Yet, the thing didn't hide fully the person's shoes. Sure, Dark couldn't count on it thoroughly but he started to be quite certain of this mystery person being Link.
"Nice day, isn't it?" The dark Hylian inquired while still trying to keep his voice unknown. The person next to him just nodded while carefully starting to eat. For a while they shared the salad in silence. "So... Why didn't you tell me that I could make this day worth it by getting a disguise, Link?" Dark asked casually but hid his voice only half this time around.
The slight jump of surprise didn't go unnoticed by the dark Hylian. Dark grinned but he wasn't waiting for a reply. "Gotta say this is lot of fun when people are actually treating me normally." He half whispered while looking around the Market. The person next to him glanced at him but the movement was so quick that the dark Hylian didn't have a chance to see the person's eyes.
"You know... We could join forces to get the best of this day. How about it? You in?" Dark suggested and turned his gaze into the mystery person. The other one was silent for a long while as he/she thought the inquiry through. Eventually the person shook his/her head. The dark Hylian sighed and nodded. "Alright. I'll see you around." He half whispered before pushing himself off of the wall and leaving to venture around the Market again.
After that conversation Dark didn't see the mystery person anymore. "Guess he had enough of the day..." He thought bit sorrowfully while being partly along in few more simple pranks. After that he silently left the Marker and headed back to the castle. It had been long enough day for him already... Plus he had one idea that he was eager of putting into working. It wasn't going to be easy to be performed but he was willing to give it a shot.
Dark went first into the stables before he took the dark brown blanket off. He folded it nicely as he walked to Storm. "Thanks for the idea, my friend." The dark Hylian whispered and gave an apple to both of the horses. "I'll see you guys again." He stated and left after that to make his way back to the room he shared with Link.
On his way he heard two guards. The duo started to make up cruel jokes about Dark as he came closer. "Just keep going, you two, if it's so much of fun to leave most of the main happenings off." He stated casually, grinned a bit and turned to look at the guards. "Though, think it clearly through before you talk. Especially with the person you're talking about being this close. You never know when the said person is willing to start telling equally cruel jokes about you." Dark continued, grinned mischievously and gave a wink. "See ya around!" He called before continuing his way forward without the grin vanishing from his face since he had gotten the duo fully silent.
The dark Hylian had no idea where he had gained such courage to talk to the duo like that. Yet, for once he had actually managed to back himself up and show to them that he's one person among others and nothing more. Dark chuckled a bit as he glanced at the neatly folded blanket in his arms. "Anonymity. Something I haven't had before. And something that really made this day worth it." He thought with a wide smile.
Once in the safety of his and Link's shared room, the dark Hylian put the blanket back to its place. He had been very careful not to get it dirtied. After that he went to find a wooden bucket from the bathroom and filled it with water. Dark came back to the main room and started to work to get the bucket of water above the door. Not exactly the most easiest feature but he did manage.
Next from there he picked up a book from his night table and flopped to the bed. "Now it's just waiting." He thought while opening the book and starting to read. Though, he wasn't fully able to concentrate to the text so he just skimmed the pictures and the texts underneath them.
It took about an hour before Link came back. He frowned slightly when he saw the door open. "Dark?" The Hero called out bit worriedly and walked in while pushing the door open. Link shrieked as the coldish water fell down onto him and the wooden bucket clanged to the floor.
Dark had already been grinning as he heard the Hero come but he started to laugh when his little trick actually worked out. Not to mention that the shocked look on Link's face was adding more of fun to the situation. It took a while before the dark Hylian could talk. "Didn't know it was raining outside!" He half shouted before already laughing again.
It took some time before the Hero actually started to move. He first blinked few times before raising his gaze up and starting to calm down. Link was going to snap at Dark but his bit angry gaze softened quite quickly and he just chuckled and shook his head. "Really good one, Dark. Now, would you like to help me to clean this mess of yours?" He said with a lopsided smile.
The dark Hylian shrugged. "It's only water." He replied nonchalantly but put the book off and got up from the bed. After that he walked over to the Hero and started to dry him off. "So..." Dark started but left the unasked question hanging into air.
Link gave a quizzical look. "So... What?" He inquired bit confused as they cleaned the water off of the floor, wall and door. The darker Hylian sighed bit heavily as he closed the door.
"You know what." He exclaimed and went back to the bed. Link still looked fully puzzled as he followed Dark to the bed. The dark Hylian gave a slight glare to the Hero. "Why didn't you answer to me when we met at the Market?!" He finally barked out and crossed his arms over his chest.
Link was fully startled. "I... I wasn't at the Market. At all..." He replied bit slowly. Dark snorted and turned his gaze off.
"Right. I even shared my choice of food with you and you still keep going with a some idiotic prank. You didn't even say a word to me at there!" The dark Hylian accused bit harshly and turned to glare at the Hero. "And you even had similar disguise as what I had come up with only for it to be dark blue instead of brown!" Dark continued and turned his bit hurt gaze off of Link.
The Hero stayed silent for a while. "I wasn't at the Market, Dark. I was going to be at there but Zelda stopped me and send me to handle some menial task at the back of the castle. It took me the whole freaking day to get it done." Link explained as calmly as he could. "I wouldn't lie to you, Dark. You know that." He stated sternly before sighing nearly exaggerated. "And I would've used dark green cloak instead of blue." The Hero continued.
Dark was bit startled and he raised his gaze up with a slightly confused look. "Green instead of blue?" He inquired carefully and Link nodded. The Hero stood up and went to his closet. Soon he pulled out a cloak by the color of dark green.
"This is what I usually have at this day." Link told and threw the thing to Dark. The dark Hylian carefully took the cloak and took a good look at it. "Sorry to say this but you shared your food with someone else than me. Besides, I certainly would've replied to you instead of staying silent." The Hero stated as he came back to the bed.
Dark gulped as he brought back the look of the dark blue cloak the mystery person had had. "Oh... Shit..." The dark Hylian whispered and slumped. "Dear Goddesses... Could it be...?" He thought while staring at the bed wide-eyed.
"Darky?" Link called bit worriedly. "Listen, if today's been hard and all, I got few ideas we could head for if you're interested." He started carefully while crawling closer towards Dark.
The dark Hylian blinked few times before shaking his head. "Um... No need. I just..." He started before frowning and giving very weak smile. "I think I met with Zelda at the Market and, um, thought I was talking with you..." Dark finally confessed, slumped more and looked fully nervous.
Link blinked few times in surprise before he started to laugh. "Oh dear Goddesses!" The Hero half shouted and shook his head. "Now that's something new!" He stated with a wide grin. "How did that even happen?!" Link inquired fully eagerly.
The dark Hylian slumped fully but explained the situation. "Damn. She got one hell of a great disguise then." The Hero half whispered. Dark stayed silent as he waited for Link to continue but the Hero only raised one eyebrow at the dark Hylian's way of acting. "You okay, Dark? You do know that she won't hold this against you on any of way.
Dark gulped and shrugged. "You sure about that?" He inquired quietly. Link nodded without second thought.
"Of course I am! I think she thought you to be me in the first place too!" He answered and chuckled. "Oh, I wish I could've seen it!" The Hero continued and flopped to his back onto the bed. He took once a deep breath and sat up a bit by leaning against his arms. "So, you okay or do we need to try and find a way to make things right?" Link inquired bit worriedly.
Dark frowned a bit before he started to calm down. "Nah, I'm good." He finally answered and smiled. "Though... Can I ask something?" The dark Hylian continued bit hesitantly.
"Of course you can! No need to inquire if you could ask something. Just shoot it!" The Hero replied straight away. Dark sighed and relaxed a bit before giving a lopsided smile.
"About next year... Can we prank people together at then?" The dark Hylian asked while feeling bit hopeful. Link smiled widely and nodded.
"Consider it as a deal." He stated before already yelping a bit when Dark glomped him.
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A/N: So, review, please! =D Even anonymous ones are accepted but if you got a account in here or at DeviantArt, inform of the penname so I can leave a review reply! Otherwise the review reply will be on my profile page or in the next chapter! Thank You!
Also, flames are accepted but those shall be for Axel's entertainment or for Demyx's practice! =P
Still in working:
1) Do a drawing from one of my stories and I'll write you a story OR I can give bit of preview from upcoming chapters or next stories. =)
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