potatoes-tomatoes:
Prompt #16 with botw zelink? ;)
cutegirlmayra answered:
Prompt Meme #16 reads - 16. What if… we just… like this… and… um… continue steps 1 and 2 again? in repeat? Yes? No? Don't fight me on this now~
This is gonna be fun… ( I love Zelink! XD )
Prompt:
Zelda spun herself around, her hands proudly on her hips, hair swaying with royal elegance into place, as if this gesture has been practiced by her sense infancy.
"Now, Link. If you truly are to be the hero we're all counting on. You're going to need to start training like one!" She stomped up to him, proud strides with little to no restraint, as if she'd never experienced a physical obstacle in her path before.
"Let's start with your footwork." she turned passed him to stand just a little aways from him, before still holding a high stance, and nodding her head to eye his feet and then his face again.
Link knew she was letting out steam… after all the disappointments in her life, he was the only and last thing she felt she could control or even remotely help with his progress and advancement.
In otherwords, what she couldn't do herself, she could maybe afford to do it for him.
"Do you know any dances?"
The question caught Link off guard, as he stepped back a moment, "O-ah?"
"Oh, don't sound so surprised." she rolled her eyes slightly, before dropping the slightly pompous behavior, not meaning to come off like that, and trying more to just state what she was thinking.
"Dancing helps with proper footing. All great warriors are good dancers. Haven't you ever heard the term?" she raised an eyebrow, but he looked away, shyly embarrassed he hadn't, and having his mouth open in a sheepish smile as if he wished he could say he could.
She sighed, lowering her shoulders down and seeming slightly more complyable to his situation now. "No… I suppose you couldn't have." She looked up, letting the wind pass by her before shaking her head and looking down again.
"I forget how detached I am from the world sometimes… it almost makes me feel… awfully lonely… within my mind." she placed a hand delicately to her chest, taking slow but relaxing breaths… before looking more determined than ever to succeed now.
"Dancing is important. In society alone, it is the only way to find a suitable gentlemen or lady. But more than courting, you're not just going to learn it for sport! Here, up, up!" She stepped towards him, gesturing her arms to flap up and down to get his arms to raise.
He looked at the gesture, then his arms as he raised them, seeming a bit disoriented as to how this constituted as 'training'.
"When dancing, you have to have balanced footwork, and quick maneuvering. Warriors, solders- especially to be a good swordsman! You must learn to dance." she nodded, smiling slightly as she was having fun relaying her know-how.
Link awkwardly watched as she placed her hands in one of his, and the other on his shoulder.
"Alright, place yours to my hip. Quickly, please." she gestured to her hip, nodding her head towards it.
His hand hesitated, his eyes looking to it… then her… as if uncertain if he was even allowed to touch.
"Uhh…"
"Ugh, Link!" she snapped a little at him, before he flinched and quickly did as he was told, straightening up from the scold, and felt Zelda step towards him.
A little taken aback by the advance, he moved back, before she stepped away, pulling him with her as well.
He started to get used to the motion, though he was constantly looking down at his feet.
"One, two, three. One, two, one, two. One, two, three. Good! Excellent, Link! Haha!" she laughed, closing her eyes a moment to enjoy the slow, very simple steps as Link caught on quite quickly to them.
His face rose with enthusiasm. He hadn't seen her smile in a long time.
"Alright, I think you're ready for more." she beamed, as he nodded, his eyes looking fully focused, but also enjoying the lecture.
"Right." she stepped to the side, "Now, the same rules apply. But now look…" she motioned her hand to his chin.
"Up."
She flicked it, making sure he didn't look down at his toes anymore.
"Just like your opponent, you can't take your eyes off your… um.." she slightly blushed a moment, looking down and sucking in her lips.
Partner?
Link wondered, guessing the word she may use.
"Dance instructor." she nodded, confidently. Though Link wondered why she didn't go for the obvious term…
"And-! One, two." she stepped to the side, her arm hitting his raised one, before she shifted to the other side, a more folk-traditional style of dancing.
"Turn, step, turn." she clicked her heel to the ground, turning to face behind him and then back at him, rhythmically clapping to show him the beats.
Suddenly, Link's eyes grew wide.
—
The flashback ended as Link's eyes rested on the field where the two had danced, remembering getting good at the dance, and then…
His horse snorted a moment, but he just slightly glared down at him, as if asking for him not to interrupt his memory flashes.
He straightened himself out again on his horse, then closed his eyes, feeling the pull of memory bring him back to a later memory of dancing with Zelda.
—
The two clapped, kicking their feet out at expert timing to look perfectly in sync, side to side.
He gripped her hand, this time, there was no hesitation.
The two spun and twisted around each other, moving their arms in a way that would allow them to stay connected during the dance, but still able to perform.
Link loved dancing, he never knew there would be a lesson to learn from it, but mostly…
He loved seeing how happy Zelda was when they did practice it.
It wasn't long before he looked forward to learning a new step or move with her, but as the dancing got more intense,… so did their eyes, locking onto one another as the moment drew them into more improv'd stunts and gestures.
She spun to face her back towards him, and as her hands went down, he suddenly took hold of her arms, and with the two kicks, he lifted her up, grabbing her by her waist and surprising her as he spun her around.
"Link!" she would laugh, having her head fling up and spreading her arms out wide, allowing no resistance.
But at first, she would have scolded him for such actions, gripping his hands and kicking, being demanded to be put down.
She used to hate his presence… now she delighted in the dance with him.
Was it him she was getting familiar with? Or just the precision of the exact footing and movements they've worked on over and over again?
The repeated scene… done over and over again… but new looks and a new sensation in their hands each time they held on another…
—
Breaking the trance, Link shook his head, turning his horse to move on…
It's tail whipped in the distancing from the view of the field…
However…
—
Unknown to Zelda and Link, onwatchers stared in hidden places, as Urbosa held a hand to her hip, the other powerful arm lifted a branch to obscure herself from their sight in the open field.
"Hmm…" she smiled, as suddenly Revali, kicking up wind in his wake, flew down and spun inbetween the trees, landing without a sound… only the wind traveled to the two dancers, but nothing more.
"You're late." Urbosa turned her head to get a better look at Zelda and Link's intricate dance moves.
"Hmph, me? Never." he straightened up, bowing, before looking over her shoulder and around her to see what she was staring at.
Growing slightly arrogant and jealous, he once again straightened his back upright, and folded his arms. "What does the princess think she's doing? Dancing with such a rogue amateur. If she needed a dance partner, I would have happily obliged."
"That… is no amateur." her eyes bent down, seeing Link's happy-go-lucky expression at being able to keep up with Zelda, and then, suddenly, as they spun, a more profoundly pleasant.. but serious expression took over his face.
His eyes narrowed.
His sense seemed to enhance.
"He may not know it… but he knows exactly what he's doing." she slightly smirked, and then lowered the branch, starting to walk away. "Come on… we need to learn more about our Divine Beasts…"
Ravli turned the branch up again, squinting at the distance to try and make sense of what she was saying.
"I don't see anything. Nothing but a dumb look and a exquisite smile…. Oh." he suddenly frowned, and let the branch fall back into place.
"I see now…" he flapped his wings and headed off after Urbosa, seeming perturbed slightly by what she was implying…