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A Link To a Forgotten Past
Zelda slowly got up from her prison cell, looking shocked and holding in her ecstatic impulse to greet him. It had been years, so she was being careful. What if it wasn't him? She had to test him...
"You sound different."
"That's cause I am different." she paused for a moment, looking at him suspiciously. "It's been awhile." "a few years isn't awhile, Zelda." "You never called me that, you always called me 'Princess'." "It's been long enough Zelda, I think I should be able to call you whatever I want at this point." that did it. Link barely spoke. If he did, which was extremely rare and sounded weird since his hyrulian isn't the greatest, he would always call her 'princess'. However, Zelda supposed as he got older he would be able to talk, she had tried to teach him as a kid, but that didn't always work out so well. But that's why she felt this.. person... could possibly be him. "Your not Link." "Indeed I'm not, but I kept you going on till the end now didn't I?" his shadowy body moved from the prison bars a little away, but the light still hit the figure. "Who are you? And how did you know about Link?" not many people knew of Link's existence. He was a helpfully boy when he was young but even then he was just a kid that came to Hyrule every now again. Even the Princess he had worked so hard to save didn't remember the forgotten future and his heroic deeds. "Because, Like I said 'Princess', I only have a perfect 'knowledge' of Link. But I-" he stepped straight through the bars, having his body turn into some kind of black mist and regenerate itself back into Link's form. "I am a shadow of Link. I was created to help bring about the downfall of him. Since it seems he's so feared with his great sword skills and what not. This one, dark fellow, thought it a fantastic idea to use some of Ganon's handy work and bring me to life. Sadly, that's not how it's going to turn out." he smiled a wicked grin and walked toward her. Zelda was scared but held any notice of it in, she didn't want to look weak. She moved back a little though, but he got so close that there was really no room to move. He put a arm to the wall and leaned on it, enjoying the fact that she was still trying to look powerful. He put his face right next to her ear and whispered,
"Hate to break it to you, but your not as strong as you think you are."
she slapped him right on his face, whacking him away from her, then she stumbled, due to the chains on her being so heavy on her hand. She moved a step toward him then pulled her hand back and wobbled away. Shadow link laughed, getting up while holding the side of his face she had slapped away. "Ok... your not strong. But your gutsy." just then a weird looking creature, similar to a large walking pig, came up out of no where. It snorted and made Shadow link stop from moving toward Zelda, in a hostile attempt no doubt but was rather calm or cool with his actions. "hmph, what are YOU doing here?" he asked, his outrage showing slightly in his annoyed tone.
"Sire, -snort- the mighty one wishes to speak to you about the revival of 'you know who'."
"ugh, he can't be serious." He rolled his eyes, then fixed them on Zelda, "Isn't it enough he brought his spirit back already?" Zelda didn't understand what he was talking about, but something told her it wasn't good. "he needs you now -snort-, right now." the pig placed an ax he was holding and placed it on his shoulder. "Well, I guess play times over... such a shame. I wanted to get to know you a little. Since Link has such a unorthodox way of seeing you." he reached a finger up to her and she whacked it away, then scrambled with her feet to move away. He laughed again, but something told her he wasn't satisfied with there meeting. The laugh still ran chills up her spine, but she refrained from letting anything that made her look weak show in front of him, though it already seemed like he knew she was terrified. "All right, tell the dreamer I'm coming." he moved through the prison bars again. But before he left, Zelda noticed he had a bow and arrow, much like the ones Link used. She realized from what he said earlier that Shard, she supposed, had used some dark magic and made a dark link of some kind. She just needed to get one of those arrows too...
"I knew you weren't Link. Heh, because Link couldn't be so rude. Plus the fact that he doesn't speak almost at all didn't help your fib ether." he turned to look at her from the corner of his eye. "Link's to good for someone like you to act out. But I don't think it's just your 'Knowledge' of him that makes you like him. No, I think you 'feel' like him too." he glared at her, wondering where she was going with this. "Haha! You can't hurt me can you? Even if you tried I think the real Link's feelings would of halted you in your tracks. That's why you couldn't get your revenge when I smote you away." she turned a little, swinging to the sides of herself, looking as innocent but obnoxious as she could possibly be. 'It must bother him, anyone would hate it if they were compared to someone of close resemblance. And these two seem like twins.' she thought to herself, and just then he pulled out his bow and arrow and held it right between the bars. She held in her smile.
"You wouldn't want to find out if your little 'theory' is correct or not, miss oh so strong princess."
"Oh, but I do. You see, isn't a 'theory' is it? If what you say is true, and Link does see me as someone of worth to him, then how would you dare hurt me. Knowing he would avenge me?" She knew Link always considered her a great friend, and she knew he would anything for her, so shadow Link must of known this too.
"O, ye of little faith." be shot the arrow right past her neck, it skimmed her neck just slightly and nipped at some her neck, causing her to flinch. A trickle of blood fell, rolling down her neck, and dark Link's eyes grew bright red, covering his whole eye sockets with it. "It's been my dream every since I was created to anger Link to the point where he wants to kill me. Because in the end, that's what I want to do to him, Kill what he loves most." he smirked and walked away. "goodbye, for now, dear Princess Zelda." and with that the door slammed. Zelda's knees gave way and she fell, huffing and puffing, holding her neck and trying to release all the tension she was holding in. she leaned against the wall and took a few deep breaths. Then, looked to the thing she wanted the most, the arrow. It was her ticket out here, her one hope. She arose to her feet and yanked it off the prison wall. She used it to pick at her chains first, she got one off, but the other was being stubborn. She pulled on the wall, after a lot of effort, a chain came unloose and she hid the chain line in her dress, she unlocked the rest of her chains on her feet too. She then moved to the lock, the arrow's head was just small enough to fit. 'Yes!' she thought to herself, and silently giggled and smiled in relief. She looked around to make sure no one was standing guard and then picked at the lock.
It came off, finally. After much struggle she was able to push the prison bar door away and ran toward the door. She looked around, no one. Was it really that simple? But then a pig appeared, looking like he was taking his normal path of his guard duty. She shut the door a little, and he went right past her, not even looking toward the door. When he had pasted, Zelda had began to follow him, then stabbed him before he got to a cross road at the end of strange green dungeon halls they were in. lighted by rows of sticks with fire blazing on them, it made the place eerie and desolate. Once the pig was down, after Zelda had to be savage and stab it so many times in the back and then in it's heart, she had to drag it's body back to the prison cell. Her escape had to be flawless, that's what she kept telling herself. They would come back to check on her, she had to make this perfect. She took her robe she had been wearing for her birthday and placed it on the ugly pig, she then moved the body to where it looked like she was just sitting up next to wall, back facing anyone who came in. she then took his armor and some of his clothing, which smelled of the most horrid sweating or dying meat you'd could ever imagine, and with it she made a quick disguise.
She quickly ran out, and started strutting like the pig she had killed after studying his movements, holding his ax on her shoulder, ruffling up the clothes and sticking rocks in it to make it look like she was heavy set like the dead pig. She tucked the hood she made out of the pigs clothing, doing so by folding the fabric in a unique way to make it look passable as a hood, and walked past another pig. The pig snorted, catching a whiff of the familiar scent and just walking on. She sighed once he was out of hearing range and moved faster to what she hoped was an exit, pride filling her heart. 'Who said a princess ALWAYS needs a hero? I can be just as strong with my wisdom to save myself any day! Ha! Take that shadow Link!' then she thought about the real Link, and wondered where he could be.
Link finally made it to the jungle, the air was moist and humid, causing him to take off his hat for moment and wipe his forehead with it. Epona neighed her frustration at the sudden stop in her glorious run across the mighty landscape of the destructive nation. Link patted the side of her neck to calm her, but she reined up and swung her forelegs out in a mighty stance, causing Link to fumble a bit with the reins and almost fall off. "Epona! Ease up, girl! Woah!" cried Navi, fluttering in front of her face. The glowing light seemed to have startled Epona a little and she dropped down to all fours and tossed her head around a bit. "phew, that horse is restless." Navi noted and looked to Link who nodded with a sweet smile on his face. They entered the jungle then, Link had to figure out some tough puzzles, move some blocks for Epona to ride up on, shoot down some bats and other evil birds, fight off some weird pig demons, till finally he came across a wall with vines hanging down all over it. It was so thick too, that if Link started climbing it, he might get buried or even tangled in all the loose vines. But what was worst is most of them could be phonies like trip wires and send him plunging back to the earth. He had to be careful. He dismounted Epona once again and tugged on some of the vines, sure enough, a few snapped. One was carrying a large spider with a skull shaped mask on it, which Link had to fight off and lost most of his hearts too. Once defeated Link thought it best to stick on the ground a little longer and think up a strategy. The best thing he could think of right then and there though, was to shoot down any unwanted fellow climbers that might be on the vines, like the spider. After that he sighed and sat down, Navi flew down from targeting the spiders and crows that had been waiting expectantly to attack Link when he came up the vines, and floated in front of him.
"You ok, Link?" she asked, worried. He nodded, he just needed time to regain his hearts. She quickly went off to search for any heart plants close by. "I'll be back in a second! Don't move." he smiled, Navi was so kind to him. He was lucky to have her And then...
"Hero of time..."
"Are you there...?"
"Get up. Meet your destiny once again."
Link bolted to his feet, still having his knees bent, he listened again for the voice.
"Hero..."
"I know your there..."
"tehehehe~"
the voice sounded like a little girl, and he didn't recognize it at all. He started to follow it, which led him into a large area where a bunch of vines hung down over what looked like a hill's side.
"Doesn't saving time become a bore sometimes...?"
"I mean you do it so much and all..."
"Don't you tire of your lives at all,...Link...?"
the strange voice was coming from inside the hill? That couldn't be. Link placed his hand on the vines, but surprisingly his hand when straight through. It was a entrance, a miniature cave that wasn't that long at all. After stepping in and through it, it led him to a little area where a large wall stood, it was in pure gold but surrounded by weeds and overgrown vines everywhere. Something was encoded on it too, pictures perhaps? Link went over to it for a closer look. He stopped the moment he heard music...
"hero, hero, one of time..."
"do ye, know, do ye know of thou's fate?"
"hero, hero, one of time..."
"who aren't thine own."
Link looked up, he saw a small child. No, a kokiri child! She was playing a flute, but the flute sang, it sung these words.
"hero, hero, know ye not of your journey?"
"to protect the princess of destiny?"
"the one fate has decided to love."
"and the one ye know as Zelda?"
A small black creature with big eyes that looked like a ghost flew up, a trail of black behind him, and stood behind her. She then lowered the flute,
"Hehe, like my song? It's only the first lyric of the song though. It was written with the legend that's upon this wall." she kicked her legs up and down, link looked at the wall. "I know all about you, you know?" the creature giggled, "OhIknow! OhIknow!" it cried, giddily. "indeed you do, OhIknow, indeed you do." she smiled at link, "I'm Uni, the outcast of the kokiri tribe, the one the Great Deku tree banished on account of my... mischievous behavior with 'enchanted' items." she held up her flute, and wiggled it around in the air for a bit. "Apparently, some people can't take a good joke." she faked a sigh and laughed. "So? Aren't you curious? Go on, rip away the vines. It tells of your whole lives. Every detail of every legend ever told. All yours, Link. It's so cute how you would name it off of Zelda though, it puzzles me to know why?" Link looked up at her strangely, not sure what she was talking about. He gestured to her if she knew where Zelda was. "What?" she said, seeing him wave his hands around. "Can't you talk?" now he wished Navi didn't leave him... again. He did his battle cry to show he could speak, but... "Hahaha! The great hero of time can't speak! Hahahaha! Oh that's a good one! He just makes weird grunts!" "OhIknow, OhIknow!" the creature next to her laughed as well, it went to link and swiped his hat. "I'll tell you what hero. My flute can grant wishes, but the trick is once you sing it, you can't repeat it. So it's a one time guaranty. I'll give you the gift of voice if you promise me something..." she motioned to the wall, "Read this, ALL OF IT. No matter how unbearable your past lives AND future lives get, no matter how much they tell you to stop, no matter how much you can hear them telling you it's wrong. Read it, and learn of your fate with that pretty maiden, Princess Zelda." Link looked at the wall, wearily. "Don't be scared, hero." he gave her a look like, 'Oh please, I've done worse then read an old legend.' and took down some of the vines. She giggled, and watched as OhIknow placed Link's hat in her hand.
"Be forewarned, with memory comes knowledge and through that knowledge might awaken Links of the past. They, too, will seek to aid you. But it will be an aid you soon might hate. Oh and one more thing,..."
He looked up at her from reading a little,
"Don't EVER tell Zelda of this... it would be..." she paused, holding his hat up, "catastrophic... for everyone... if her ancestors came back... along with her true power." she dropped the hat, it flew in the wind a minute, before being swat down to the ground at great speeds, Link watched it and then ran to pick it up. For some reason, after looking over his hat carefully, he wondered what she meant, and what the wall really was telling him... about his past and future lives... if he even had any... what did it mean? Should he even trust her? A banished outcast of the kokiri? She was promising him voice, but for what cost. He bit his lip, and curiosity swarmed his mind. He looked at the wall again, moved his hand across it, and read from the beginning, something about sky people... and a girl of incredible beauty that fell from the heavens into the world soon to be called Hyrule.
After a while, Link began to get upset. Half the markings of the hyrulian words were either scratched out or destroyed through natural causes of erosion and rot. He grimaced, half of the other legends were lost to him, but he knew this, there were other dimensions, and other times within times. Once, while reading, he learned that his own time was written upon the wall, he smiled at this because he truly thought his herotic deeds were lost to a forgotten future. But who could of wrote this? This seems like a relic, so someone from long ago must of written this into the wall. How could they have known...? How could they have...
"LINK! LINK YOU BIG, FAT, STINKING LIAR!" a squeaky voice ran throughout the jungle, Link twitched at it, then his ears slowly drooped down as he realized what he had done. He had moved... "LINK! Where are you!" the voice was Navi's of course, and she was mad, oh so, so mad. Link called to her, but it was a faint and ashamed call. "LINK!" the voice ran out again. He took a deep breath and yelled to her. A shining light dashed into the clearing and he ducked from a powerful swoop aimed to hit him. "Liar! Liar, liar, liar! Do you know how worried I was? What you expected me to ask the horse where you went! What were you thinking you liar! Liar..." she flew around him in spirals, hitting him with her wings and small body. All the while link was flinching at her words and feeling really bad about being lead away from his area under the tree, where he had told her he'd wait. She started to slow down and in the end she just started crying on his hat. With great remorse, he took her in his hands and held her close to his face, lightly kissing her to show he cared about her worrying about him and that he was sorry. She immediately perked up, her color suddenly turning to a light pink as she flew away from him. "H-H-Hey! Ok, ok... I'll forgive you.. but you better not do it again ok?" she flew behind him, still pink and fluttering nervously, he looked around to show her he was confused as to why she was hiding from him but shrugged it off.
"Smooth... ain't he OhIknow?" "OhIknow! OhIknow!" OhIknow couldn't take his eyes off of Navi's glowing body, his wiggingly top half of his head that looked a lot like link's hat waved back and forth, while his big claws moved one after the other, as if wanting to grab her. "Hero, have you finished?" Link looked to her with surprise, then the wall, and nodded seriously. "Good.. then you will be able to defeat him." Link zipped his head up at hearing her last words, curiosity lead him for motion to her to continue. "Oh, no. I only promised you voice, not answers." she giggled. "Now, remember this song, if you need me that is." she grinned and played her flute that sounded very beautiful. Link closed his eyes and listened hard. Ever since he was a child, he could hear music and memorize it just off ear, playing it back perfectly. The Great Deku tree once said that it would come in handy one day, and throughout his adventures, it really did! He smiled and nodded when he had memorized the tune that sounded mischievous and playful. "And now hero... your gift." he braced himself.
"What gift?" said Navi, fluttering next to Link's cheek. "Who is this girl with the flute anyway?" she looked into Link's eyes and nodded, "Ah, I see. She showed you an old wall full of engravings that mentioned your other lives? Woah, and she told you not to tell Zelda. Well, that won't be hard since you can't-" the music began, and the flute sung once again.
"ohhhhhhh~ Hero of lost souls... here is your reward... for the times of turmoil... here is your word... sealed by time, to remain divine, for the day you reawaken the light. Fight, with your might, but speak with no fright, let your voice tell people what's right. Let your voice send evil out of your sight..."
Link listened, and saw as leaves flew around him, and suddenly he took a unwanted breath and felt something tickle on his tongue. Once Uni released her lips from the flute, the magic of the leaves swirling stopped, along with the singing. "There, now speak!"
"..." he tried to say something, "...I..."
Navi flipped out from hearing the sound escape his mouth. "W-what? What was that Link? Link, come on! Keep at it!"
"I...I.." he tried! He was trying so hard but he couldn't say anything. "I...Na..." Navi flew toward him, "My name! Your trying to say my name right? Come on Link! I really want to hear you say my name..." she fluttered closer to him. "Na...N..."
"Don't force the poor boy. It's going to take some time for him to get used to speaking. He now has the ability to be able to know how to speak, but to speak and speak right will have to take some training on his behalf." Link looked to her, and lowered his head in disappointment. "Hey, not all 'magic' really and truly is 'magic' without some hard work involved. What? You think I just 'found' magic in this flute?" she held it up sarcastically, "No, I had to get a lot of stuff in order to even cast the spell! So, to answer your forlorn stare at me, no, you won't be able to 'magically' just start speaking great poetry of the century or anything. Give it time." Link nodded, he lowered his hat over his face though, he knew how long time really was, and after traveling through it so many times, how tangible it could be too. Navi flew to his other side, moving low enough to see his face or at least try, "Oh Link... don't worry. I'm sure you'll find your voice soon." he looked up and smiled at her, where would he be without her. She giggled at his thought, seeing his eyes now she could now read it again. "Shall we move on?" but before Link could even try and respond to her, OhIknow had streaked across the distance and tackled her in a big embrace, rolling around on the ground he snickered as he rubbed her little glowing body of fairy dust on his cheek. "LET ME GO! LET ME GO!" Navi protested by having her wings beat hard agianst him, but he only continued in his motions. Link freaked out a little at the sudden dash OhIknow had made and leaped to the ground as he hurried to catch OhIknow and let Navi go. Since OhIknow kept rolling around, Link had to try catching him on the ground while having a hysterical Uni not able to take a breath at the scene in front of her. "O...Oh... that was great! Sorry, OhIknow has a thing for taking things, but he always gives them back, always." she smiled and then glared at OhIknow, "Ok! That's enough fun for you buddy." OhIknow stopped suddenly with huge, wide, and innocent eyes. He streaked over with his ghost like figure over to Link, and handed him a dizzy Navi. Link took her and sighed in relief, looking to OhIknow with a expression that clearly said, "You must be quite the mischievous one yourself huh? Please don't do that again." OhIknow sneered and then snickered sweetly, patting Navi's body twice, and having her be almost slammed by his big claw of a hand twice, he flew back to Uni repeating his name.
As Link left he pondered about what he had read, the many adventures of the young hero. One was of a sword that made four of himself, another was of a large sea and a hourglass, one of a wicked plot to take over the triforce but was defeated in the spirit realm. He began to climb up the wall of vines again, thinking and thinking as he went on till...
SNIP, RWASSH, THUMP!
A even bigger spider than before had returned, it must of wanted revenge for it's fallen comrade. It had cut the vine it was hanging onto so it could fall onto an unsuspecting Link, who was looking down this entire time for foot holes in the wall to help him climb easier. As Link collided with the ground, he grunted his pain while Epona neighed with her legs kicking up in the air at the sudden movement. She was waiting on the ground with Navi, who suddenly sprang into action. "Link!" she flew to him while the giant spider tried to cut off his head by snapping it between it's pinchers. Link had drawn the master sword though, and with it he pushed and slashed the Spider off him. His back was killing him, but he had to fight now. He motioned with his head in a quick nudge toward the giant spider for Navi to get to work. She nodded, by moving up and down quickly in the air, and went to try and Identify the Spider's weakness. The Spider was as big as a small wagon, and had long legs with spikes at the end of them for piercing it's enemies, which it used now to try and keep Link from having time to get up. He stumbled and faltered at being able to get up or even keep his footing. It was also a mossy green, with a blue underbelly, but a black butt that the blue slowly transitioned to on it's body. But what stood out the most, was the black mist within it's eye sockets, this wasn't like the other spider at all. That spider had bright red eyes, and a light blue body, with green. "Link! It's legs! Cut off it's legs!" Navi couldn't look in it's eyes and read it's thoughts for a weakness, but she saw how only 2 legs could move up to attack or advance at a time. "It has horrible balance, Link!" Link nodded, and with pulling out his bombs, he smiled a little wickedly. He needed time to get up, so he launched one of his bombs underneath the spider and kept dodging it's legs, before the bomb exploded though, the giant spider had lifted his front two legs up and slashed down on link, "GAH!" Link had been cut badly in his left arm, the arm he usually fought with. He thanked the goddess's that he was ambidextrous, and apparently, in one of his lives, if he was going to believe that, one of the hero's used his right hand as his dominant hand. So, why not Link?
"LINK! Are you ok?" Link gave Navi the signal to target the weak spot, so once the bomb went off and the spider lost five of it's legs but the front and one to the side, Navi moved toward the front legs, "Here! Strike here!" with every last bit of his power, including the searing pain in his left arm now, he swiped his sword at the two legs, and the spider shrieked as it tried to move away from Link with it's remaining leg, but it was unable to move. Link rolled his shoulders a little, seeing as he had a lot of time to kill the thing now, he moved to jump ontop of it when the head suddenly sprayed some kind of red acid at him, he ducked with his left side, a bad move, since the open wound now stung with acid. "GAHHH!" Link dropped to the ground. "Link!" Navi quickly moved to him, but the spider tried to spray her with acid too, so she moved back. Link struggled on the ground with the stinging pain, not only was the wound inflicted, but so was his left side. He rose though, fighting the pain, and with a mighty yell, "HEYAA!" he sliced the head off of the spider, he didn't care about the traditional kill stab he usually did. He didn't care now. "Link.." Navi flew to him, and with her fairy dust the wound had ceased in hurting Link, but was still there. "Link, it only drowns out the pain, we still have to treat it." Link looked at the blood seeping through his tunic to his hand that gripped over the wound once the fairy dust was added. He then looked up to the cliff.
"Link... You can't seriously still be thinking about climbing that again! Are you? Your insane! Sit down and I'll-" he gave her a look, almost a dying man's look of a desire he must complete. "...for Zelda... your worried about her..." she hovered for a long moment. "... bandage it first, you fool. I swear, one day, Zelda will be the death of you!" he let a desperate smile cross his face for her understanding of his need to save her. He then ripped a bit of the end of his tunic and tightened it around the wound. Climbing with it won't help it at all, but he had to at least get to the top. He had Navi look into his eyes to ask her if she could fly up and sight any unwanted pest. She came flying back down and shook her body in response for, No. he then slowly made his way up again, Navi dropping in now and again to sprinkle fairy dust on the wound so Link wouldn't feel it. "I hope that acid isn't poisonous..." Link nodded, he wouldn't be able to feel if it was or wasn't thanks to Navi's pain relieving fairy dust. It was nice to have a fairy as a friend, especially now.
Zelda made her way out of the dungeon, coming down into the main hall now, it was huge, grey and old with a medieval feel to it. She saw Shadow Link with Shard up near a mirror and orb that floated with a voice coming from it. She couldn't make out the words though, it was too far down the large hall, and the echo's caused it all to be blurred. She stayed to the shadows, and hid behind the pillars that stretched on till the end, once she was past she noticed more corridors, and sighed. A Pig then appeared beside her, from the other direction, "Hey, -snort- what's your deal? Why're you here?"
Zelda didn't panic, though her whole body trembled and her mind raced for the right words to use and for what to do. Thank goodness Naryu blessed her with wisdom, she took a long breath to calm her nerves. Then with a deep and grumbly voice, she said, "Where's teh door out of er'e?"
the Pig looked surprised, "Well, -snort- if it ain't Toigsts. Need to use the bush again I see, -snort- you never were good with directions." Zelda tensed and tried to have a teasing manner in her voice, "Aw, Shut yer yap! I just forget me place is all." she said, keeping up the act but not moving much to represent it at all."But's its always the same station! Well, -snort- I suppose I get lost some times too." Zelda realized she hadn't snorted once, and tried one, but it came out really werid. "...eh, can't move or snort right eh? Might loosen your hold on the 'old barrel' but -snort- don't worry, Toigsts, your not far. Keep yer butt moving that way -snort- and you'll see the big door, make your way -snort- to the left and there's your moblin's rest stop. The great old 'side to the back door' -snort-." Zelda nodded and replied with a smile, "thanks, ye old toot!" she felt silly speaking like that, but it was working. She moved with quick steps away from him, playing off of the old fool who couldn't hold it anymore when the Pig suddenly grabbed her shoulder, "Now wait just one minute, there Toigsts." he startled her and made her twitch a little, having her chain that was still attached to her ready to strangle. "shhhhhsss... hear that old Toigsts? Water falls... shhhhhhhss." he whispered and wiggled his fingers in the air, mimicking water nosies, then laughed and gave her a strong pat on the shoulders and tugged his belt up and walked off. "..." Zelda never wanted to have a conversation like that again. She quickly followed the pig's instructions and was finally out. She took a deep breath of air, but accidentally sucked in her clothing's smell which almost made her pass out. She quickly ran toward the jungle, if anything, she had to feel like they would be onto her at any minute and get as far away from there as possible.
Link made his way half up the cliff, when he heard foot steps, he looked up and then quickly shuffled into the vines to hide himself from sight. It was a good day to wear green. When he peeked up from under the vines he was holding, he saw brown rags with pieces of green and a darker brown with black all patched onto one another. He thought it was a moblin of sorts and stayed close to the side of the earth, under the shielding vines. The moblin seemed to look around, out of breath, and fall to the ground. 'Heh, maybe it was dying.' Link thought. 'good, now I don't have to do the honors..' Link suddenly smelt something horrible, he couldn't move though but he gagged at it, spitting on the vines in front of him, trying to get the smell out of his mouth. Navi must of hid somewhere too, because she too was out of sight, and when he looked up again, he noticed the moblin looking up, then taking the hood of the reeking clothing off and shook it's blonde hair in the wind and... Link took a closer look.
Zelda looked forward and smiled and shook her hair out of the dead pig's clothing with a proud aurora around her. She couldn't say proud air because of how bad the smell was, but she was terribly happy she had made it out alive. She looked around, she was somewhere in a jungle... she looked up, rain clouds... "Oh no..." she whispered very tiredly, she looked down and uttered very sadly, "the forsaken land of the destructive nation... why am I here?" she looked at the vines and tugged on one to see if it was safe to climb down.
Link felt something ridding up as a vine suddenly moved on it's own but he knew he couldn't do anything about it.
Zelda figured it was safe and got up, till she heard voices screaming and more and more pigs, moblins, shadowy monsters, and dragons lit the area in a manner of minutes. She gasped, and took a step back, the rock around the edge of the cliff suddenly gave way and she began to fall, "AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" she tried to grab something but the vines either slipped out of grasp, burned her hands as the intensity of falling made it harder and harder to try and stop herself, and if she was lucky enough to grasp one it would only rip off the wall. With a last minute cry of a prayer, she flung her hands out for a vine again, but a vine seemed to have caught her instead.
A little Zelda made her way up a tree, climbing higher and higher, having a worried little fairy boy below her pacing back and forth in worry. He would look up at her, protest by some weird grunts and battle cries, and then pace again. Holding his cap on his head tighter and tighter and lower and lower till it covered his eyes. She giggled, "Oh, it's as if he's miming my father!" she giggled and kept climbing, she had always wanted to see Hyrule from a tall point high above the wall of her castle grounds. She had just recently met the young fairy boy and they became friends quickly. She finally reached the top! It was the tallest tree in the garden, and it was even higher than her window. She looked over the top and marveled at the scene. "Oh, Link! You simply must point out everything to me! Where is that charming forest of yours anyway? I've only read about places in hyrule, and if I can't go there, then I just insist on at least seeing them!" Link pouted and then groaned, 'she's going to get herself seriously injured', he thought, And began to quickly climb up the tree, as long as he was there, he wasn't gonna let that happen. Zelda smiled at seeing the boy climbing to her, it made her giddy and feel all powerful somehow. She lifted her arms up and felt the cool wind blowing on her, making her feel like she could fly. But as quickly as the north wind blows, a powerful burst of wind blasted at her face, she cried in shock and grabbed her cap before it blew away, but she lost her balance and began to fall through the tree. She cried out again as the branches scraped her body and face and tarred at her dress. She tried to reach out for anything, but couldn't grip the tree at all, it hurt to much to have the spines of the tall tree spiked her with little swords as she tried to grab something. When she almost gave up hope, she took one last bit of her strength and courage to reach out again, and something took her hand.
Zelda looked up to see Link, barely able to hang on to his own entanglement of vines let alone her, but was somehow doing it. He had instinctively held out his left hand, and with Navi out of sight the pain soared back to him, letting out a gasp of pain he knew he couldn't pull Zelda up to him. "Link... is that really you?" Link looked to her through squinted eyes, the pain was to much, he had to think and think fast. He started to swing his arm, which to him felt like it was ripping off. Zelda noticed he was building momentum and saw that he was trying to swing her next to him, to hide in the vines too, she tried to help by swinging herself. A huge shock of lightening pain zipped throughout Link's arm, he couldn't even shout out in pain anymore, it hurt so bad he had to bite his lower lip. He then swung her gently next to him, and let go. The entangled vines held him in place, he only fell a second or two before the vines caught him. He was ready to pass out out of pain and exhaustion, when he looked up to see himself in black, looking down with red irises and growling in displeasure. But the figure of himself couldn't see anything so it moved back toward where it had come. That's when Navi appeared before Link and Link suddenly began to drift away, feeling something gentle grab his torso and looking up for only a moment to see Zelda's blurry face and grabbing him to try to keep him up. He felt glad that she was okay, and his body forced him to shut his eyes, and fall into a black world where everything was cold and quiet.
Link's eyes slowly opened, it was so cloudy, all he could see was colors of gray, black, and some white with brown smudged in it. He tried to open his eyes more, he was looking up at a canopy of trees with monkey like creatures swinging on vines. Some looked down at him and smiled at him in a creepy manner, then continued on with there family. He groaned a bit while getting up, and held his head. Then the pain soared again, a fire of burning electricity through his left arm and into his chest. He gripped his left arm and winced terribly. He noticed large amounts of fairy dust were all over him, and he quickly grabbed some and pounded it into his arm. It really didn't help much, the magic was already used it seemed and a bandage was over the area. Where was Navi? That's when it hit him, where was Zelda? His whole body spun around, his head jerking side to side. Was she still here? Is she alright? Where..? he suddenly felt cold and looked down at his chest, his armor was gone, All three layers, His undershirt, chain mail, and green tunic. But then he saw his chain mail to the side of him, along with Epona's blanket for cold nights as his pillow, and Epona's saddle and some supplies that were near him as well. He squinted through his pain induced haze and shook his head, he rubbed his eyes and saw a bowl with ingredients that smelled like medicine, it explained why his chest was filled with bandages. He felt his head too, his hat was gone and replaced with a bandage, furthermore he already knew his left arm had one around it too. Navi couldn't have done this alone, he looked around again.
When he finally got control of his body from the pain, he slowly and slightly crawled off to find someone, what he found was a beautiful woman washing some smelly moblin clothes and his own blood stained clothes and hat. For a long while, he just watched her. It had been seven years since he had seen her, and still he felt every bit the same he did so long ago. Protect her, don't displease her, obey her. It was the same thing, now he felt that it was his soul telling him that. If those other lives were true, then maybe that was them driving him to be her hero. Her hero...
Zelda felt something watching her and turned around, there was Link, hiding to the side of a tree and squatting down just staring at her. His eyes grew big when he saw that she had seen him and moved away a little bit. She smiled, this was the Link she remembered from so long ago, so innocently cute. "Are you alright? You shouldn't be walking around yet. Your injuries need more time to heal, and Navi's gone to find more ingredients for further treatment. Hey,... are you listening to me?" Zelda got up and peeked over the tree. She had dropped her disgusting disguise to the side once she finally realized the smell wasn't going to leave and started making her way to him.
She was coming over, and he didn't have a shirt on. Not to mention she was wearing her birthday dress with the most beautiful designs in all of hyrule, it looked like you needed to be royalty in order to afford it. He stubbled back, embarrassed. But his body wasn't ready for his quick reaction as the pain came roaring back, spreading as it did again from his left arm to his chest. He grasped it again, and Zelda rushed quicker to him. "Hey! I told you your body's not ready to move around yet! Hold still." she lovingly grabbed a damp cloth and squeezed some water out of it. "Navi put some of her fairy dust in here, she said it would still the pain, but it's not a lot, Link. So try not to move." she coaxed him against a tree, and patted the damp cloth on his head, the whole time he tried to not move, but he was blushing terribly.
He looked so shy and embarrassed, she tried her best not to laugh. She smiled sweetly as she tried to clean him up. She noticed that some more blood had spilt from his wound and frowned. "We don't have anymore loose cloth..." she mumbled and looked around. She then looked at her dresses ends and ripped them to a long strand of cloth. "here we go." she repositioned herself on the ground by moving her now ripped ended dress out of the way and scooting closer towards him. Taking some of the bandages off his left arm, she uncoiled it and then washed the blood off with the damp cloth in her hands.
Link felt horrible that she had to ruin such a pretty dress for his sake, he looked away ashamed as she continued to address his injuries, but that wasn't the only reason he looked away. For some reason, Link always got nervous around Zelda. Even when they were kids being too close to her made him feel weird so he never got to close, however Zelda always scolded him for avoiding her. In all honesty, he always liked being around Zelda, even now when she ripped her birthday dress for his sake, she was always doing things for other's above her interests, wants, or needs. He glanced back at her with his eyes, but was suddenly entranced by the feel of her gentle hands moving over his arm, she was washing away the trickles of blood that had remained after the bandage was removed. He could see his wound now though, it was quite a gash, but it seemed to be slowly healing. "...Does it hurt...?" Zelda suddenly and quietly asked, pressing the cloth lightly against the wound with the dried blood in it. Link looked at her for a moment and then down, shaking his head to say it didn't, though he felt bad for not telling the full truth. It didn't hurt now that he wasn't thinking about it or moving, but he knew that's not what she meant. She looked up at him with a slightly questioning look, "You were tossing and turning while you were unconscious. Navi had to quite literally dunk you with tons of her dust to keep you still and at peace." 'that explained all the fairy dust.' thought Link as he looked up at her slightly again. More than anything he didn't want her to worry. "Oh, Link. If it hurts tell me. I don't want to hurt you anymore.. you've already come this far for me.. I'd hate to have you suffer any further because of me." Zelda kept washing his wound, and then moved on to place the bandage on it.
Zelda didn't quite realize how well built Link really was, he was always a handsome young man, but he had a body to go with it as well. She sort of found herself tracing with her other hand the muscles on his left arm, it was truly impressive. Though, once she came to her senses and realized what she was doing she stopped herself and continued to wrap the bandages around his arm, hoping he didn't notice her actions. Once that was done she looked to his chest, yep abs. She tried not to think about it but she found herself moving a little closer to him, "Do you need these bandages anymore? Does it still hurt?" she looked up at him, and that's when she noticed he had been staring at her with a very loving look for a long time. She blushed and looked away, but he only followed her with his head, still staring. "W-what?" she asked, he smiled and chuckled and looked to the side. Then shook his head to her question with a playful grin. Did he see what she did? She quickly shook the idea off as she began to remove his chest bandages too. The intensity between them being so close was still apparent though, she found herself placing one hand on his bare chest while removing the band, she tried to use two hands but started toppling over. "a-ah!" she fell but was caught by Link's right arm. He looked at her with a puzzled expression, she looked quite shaken and her face was bright red.
Link pulled her up a bit, but she seemed to be resisting his help. "no, no! I-I'm fine!" Zelda said, pushing against his chest to be let go, he reluctantly did so. Link felt his childhood anxiety quickly slip away as now it was amusing to have Zelda close to him, her flustered look and rapidly blinking eyes made him smile and feel playful. She finally had the bandages off when Link pointed to the bandage on his head, not wanting her to stop caring for him now. "... your heads fine now too?" Zelda asked. Link nodded enthusiastically, she was being so cute, like a dotting wife. A moment ago she had gently stroked his left arm, and it made some of the pain go away so now Link was thinking maybe Zelda had a magic of her own that he didn't know about. None of the legends mentioned her ancestors had any hidden talents anyway...
Link suddenly remembered the Legends and slowly his smile faded along with his playfulness. He lowered his hand and looked down before seeing Zelda lift herself up a bit to be at a higher height then him to get a better look at his head. "hmm... it does seem to be healed now, when we pulled you down, you hit your head pretty hard." she took a quick look down to see his expression change from innocent fun to suddenly in deep thought. "Link...? are you alright? I'm not hurting you am I?" she moved her hand close to his face, but withdrew it back. Link noticed this and looked at her hand, then back up at her.
He suddenly straightened himself up, which made Zelda try to move back but he had wrapped his good arm around her waist, keeping her there. "L-Link..?" she said nervously and a bit shocked by the sudden movement.
"Z...Zel..." she looked at him, her eyes full of shock. "w-wha... what did you say?"
"Z...Zel...Zel...da..." he took a deep, and focused breath, hearing her name in his mind and trying to produce the sound as perfectly as he could, as if it was a piece of music he was trying to sing. "..Zelda.."
In a tree above them, Navi dropped some of her ingredients from a cloth that was like a bag to hold the objects in. The two were shocked by the sudden crash of nearby objects and turned around. "...I was suppose to be the first name you said remember!" Navi cried out in tears. She then looked at how he was holding her and how close they were. "...hmph... she can love you huh? She can run her hands through your hair, she can touch you gently, she can even kiss you,... BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN SHE KNOWS YOU LIKE I DO! I'm the one that truly loves you, YOU FOOL!" she flew off, having Zelda and Link both shocked and moving from one another. "Navi! Wait!" Zelda cried out to her, "your mistaken..." but was she?
Zelda and Link both took there eyes off of the direction Navi had flown to look at each other for a moment, but then hurried to get everything packed up to find Navi. Link was still in some pain, but they gathered the fallen ingredients and if he was poisoned it was gone now, and the pain only stung slightly. They both mounted Epona, Zelda behind Link so she could hold onto him, she knew Epona was a mighty and fast moving horse, she wasn't going to allow herself to be bucked off easily. And with that, they set out to find where there friend had gone, still dodging the question they both were thinking.
'Are we in love?'
In the dark and damp jungle Navi twisted, spiraled and flew at great speeds, dodging obstacles and being only driven by her sorrow and rage. She had once given up on Link, she knew it was never going to happen but somehow she couldn't stop loving him. She had envied Zelda before, and when Link had returned to being his young self again she knew he would return to her. Navi couldn't bear to see him with her so she left, hoping the new Deku sprout could put her mind to good use, but then he told her about Link searching for her and she couldn't stop herself from feeling overjoyed about it. For a moment, she had thought she had won over Zelda... but she was gravely wrong. As she flew, a dark mist followed her, and a hand appeared from it behind her fast moving ball of light and swiped her right out of the air. "AHH! what's going on! Link! Link help!" she called out, as the dark mist slowly withdrew itself back to where it had come from. It swiveled through it's path it had taken while trying to catch Navi, jerking her as it went to and from as it moved. She screamed and yelled till finally she saw what the mist was coming from. It was pitch black, but a figure remained in the center of it. "...Link?" it grabbed her in it's hands and smiled, "well,well. If it isn't my old friend Navi, tell me. Where is my other and his Zelda?"