Fan Fiction ❯ Awakening Spells ❯ Surprise, Surprise! ( Chapter 3 )

The Legend of Zelda

Awakening Spells

By Rez

Chapter 3

Mezu and Jezu soon lead Link and Tetra through the Black Haven and found the Light Sword at the center of a dark clearing. There was a thin beam of light where the sword was, and it was stuck in the ground. Link blinked when he saw it, looking to the two fairies and getting a nod from each of them. He looked to Tetra with a smile, finally letting go of her hand and walking off to the sword.

"Oh Link…" Tetra whispered to herself as she saw him approach the Sword of Light.

Link took hold of the hilt with both hands, pulling it out with all of his strength. He took a deep breath once it was out of the ground, and looked at the glitter of its blade. He smiled, turning around to show Tetra, but instead he saw Moblins surrounding them. Link glared when he saw a Moblin poke its spear at Tetra, that was when he jumped up and slashed it right in half with his new sword.

"Here! Help me out!" he said, tossing his Hero's Bow and Light Arrows to the girl he was trying to protect.

"Right!"

Tetra took them and aimed a Light Arrow at a Moblin coming after her, letting it fly. The Moblin disappeared with a puff of smoke, just like the Bokoblin.

Once she took down two or three more of those pig-nosed brutes, she looked to see how Link was doing. She couldn't believe her eyes when she saw all the moves he was doing with his sword. A horizontal slice and a vertical slice, a Spin and a Jump attack! He was fired up! Tetra snapped back to reality just in time to jump out of the way of a Moblin throwing its lit lantern at her. She looked to where she previously stood, seeing the grass being burnt away by the flames that flared out of it. She aimed another arrow and made another disappear.

Once they got rid of all of the Moblins, they were finally able to rest. Link fell back onto the ground once he slashed the last enemy, exhausted and ready to pass out.

Tetra was no better, she only have 5 arrows left to leave Link with. She limply walked to where Link was before she fell to her knees and began to pant.

"What a… Work out, huh?"

"Uh-huh…" Link agreed, panting as well.

Tetra fell on her side, still facing Link.

"I hope we don't get attacked in the night if we pass out in this spot…"

"I do, too…"

"We can stay the night here, Guys. And don't worry, Jezu and I will keep the Moblins and Bokoblins away while you sleep." Mezu declared.

"Oh no… Then I know we're gonna die…" Tetra joked.

Link did his best to laugh, but all he was able to do was give a small chuckle.

"Yeah right… We have our wands! We can cast a barrier around this clearing so no darkness can enter!" Jezu explained, taking out her Water Wand.

"And that's what we'll do! Go ahead and sleep, you two! Leave everything to us tonight!" Mezu insisted, grinning as she whipped out her Fire Wand.

Tetra had barely closed her eyes when she heard Link speak.

"Hey Tetra…"

"Hmm?"

"Could you… move over here?" Link asked in a sort of small voice.

Tetra grinned a bit before scooting closer to Link.

"What is it?"

"You'll see… In the morning…"

Tetra chuckled a little before letting her head drop on the soft grass and falling asleep.

As tired as he was, Link just grinned when he saw Tetra was asleep. He scooted a little closer and put his right arm around her. He also felt her snuggle up to him after doing so. He smiled, closing his eyes and following Tetra's lead into DreamLand.

The next morning, Tetra was the first to wake up. She hadn't opened her eyes quite yet though, she didn't want the feeling of warmth to leave her. But then it hit her, how could she be warm if she had gone to sleep without a blanket or anything? Tetra slowly opened her eyes to find that Link had put an arm around her and that she had been sleeping very close to him. She blushed slightly, looking down at the little patch of grass between them.

`I wonder if this is how I would wake up every morning if Link and I were married…' she thought, but then she blushed even pinker. `God! Why am I thinking this?!'

"Good morning…" the boy in front of her greeted.

Tetra looked up immediately, seeing him smile at her. This didn't help her already noticeable blushing. She gulped and looked back down at the grass.

"G-Good morning…" she greeted back in a small voice.`This has got to be why he wanted me to sleep closer to him last night…'

Link grinned, leaning closer to her ear and whispering the question.

"You ready to get going?"

This didn't help either; she could feel his warm breath on her ear, and it made her stomach feel weird. She nodded.

"Y-Yeah."

Link removed his arm from around her body and pushed himself up to his feet. He held out a hand and helped Tetra up.

"Quite a surprise this morning, huh?" he asked with a slight blush.

"Yes it was! What Were You Thinking?!" Tetra asked, her old attitude coming back to her.

"What was I thinking? What were you thinking! I didn't move that close to you, it was you who moved a little closer to me during the night…" Link admitted, looking at the ground and blushing.

`Link would… Never lie to me… It must be true then…' Tetra thought, taking a deep breath and losing steam. "Fine then… Let's just go all ready."

Link sighed and nodded, turning and seeing Mezu and Kezu grinning at them. He winked at them, and then walked towards them after Tetra.

After they had been walking down the trail for a long while, they had finally made it out of the Black Haven. Link and Tetra smiled at each other; they had been in the dark for so long that they had almost forgotten how good it felt to be in the bright and warm sun.

"Hey, you two! We have to go to the village and look for a girl named Nayru. If you tell her the story about going to defeat Gornon, she'll give you something nice!" Mezu explained, smiling.

"But Mezu and I have to stay hidden until you find her. There are merchants in that village who would love to catch fairies and sell them!" Jezu squeaked with fear in her voice.

Link nodded, taking out an Empty Bottle and letting Mezu and Jezu fly into it. He then put the bottle safely into his pocket before walking down the path with Tetra.

"Hey Tetra… Whom do you suppose this Nayru girl is?" he asked, looking at her from the corner of his eye.

"I don't know… But if those two winged-weirdoes say she'll give us something, then yeah, we should see her!" Tetra replied, chuckling.

Link did the same, looking back to the path ahead. They were all ready near the village, but it looked totaled! Once the two got there, they stood there and stared in disbelief.

"Wha-What happened here?" Tetra stuttered

"I don't know… But we better check for any survivors." Link suggested.

Tetra nodded, then the two looked around the messed up houses and broken boards that were once the walls. They found no one, but they heard a moan come from a pile of boards. Link ran over to it and used the Light Sword to cut away the boards, he then found the source of the moans: a boy who looked quite a few ages older than him. Link put the sword away and looked to Tetra.

"I found somebody…"

Tetra walked over and blinked at the guy.

"He looks like a wreak…" she thought out loud.

"What a coincidence… The whole PLACE is a wreak…" Link pointed out with an obvious look on his face.

Tetra flashed Link a glare, but then the guy was regaining consciousness.

"Hey, are you OK?" Link asked.

"Y-Yeah… I-I think so…" the guy answered as Link helped him stand up. "Huh? What happened to the village? And… And who are you?!"

"My name is Link, and this is my best friend Tetra. We don't know what happened, that's why we were looking around for somebody who could answer that question."

"Oh… Well, my name is Storm. And this used to be the Wood Village." The guy explained.

"Wood? You can say that again… Everything's made of wood! Even the forks…" Tetra said, picking up a small, wooden fork from the ground. After showing it to Link and Storm, the fork snapped in two.

She blinked twice before looked to Storm again.

"Umm… As you can see, there's not much left of the place… But would you mind if I asked where you were heading?" Storm asked, a curious look on his face.

"Well, no… We're trying to find the Tower of Spells." Link said, thinking up a name from the top of his head.

"The Tower of Spells?! Do you know what resides there?!" Storm asked with a horrified look on his face.

Link blinked, sweatdropping and thinking.

`Is that really a place here?' "Umm… No."

"Bokoblins, Moblins, Darknuts, Floor Masters, any evil creature that you could possibly think of; is in that tower… I take it that it's my duty to tell you it's not a good idea to go there…" Storm warned, narrowing his pupil-less silver eyes.

"I'm sure we can defeat them all if we go together…" Tetra muttered to herself, looking at the ground to her left.

"What was that?" Storm asked, narrowing his eyes even further.

"N-Nothing! I didn't say anything!"

A small smirk curled on Storm's lips, but Tetra ignored it. Link just blinked and then looked to the ground.

"Umm… Would there happen to be any house around here that hasn't been knocked down?" he asked.

"I think the Temple is still OK… Come with me." Storm said, walking over the broken boards and wooden things that were all over the ground.

Link shrugged but followed, as did Tetra. They followed Storm until they got to a huge, light brown-colored Temple. Storm lead them to the entrance, which had the sign of the Triforce over it. Link and Tetra made surprised looks at this.

"This is the Temple of Earth, this is where the men and women who lived in the village came to train." Storm explained to the two confused faces beside him.

"Train for what?" Link questioned, but he was soon sorry that he asked.

"I'm glad you asked that, Link…" Storm admitted, smirking evilly. "You see, we here used to train to become holders of the Triforces. Unfortunately, since none of us received them, we knew the Triforces must have all ready chosen their holders…"

`Oh no… I think I know where this is going…' Tetra thought, gulping.

"I was one who was training to gain the Triforce of Wisdom, and when I found out that it was taken, I was very upset…" Storm continued, and then he looked to Tetra with that evil smirk of his. "Tetra… Are you not the Holder of the Triforce of Wisdom?"

Tetra's eyes widened, she slowly took shaky steps back as Storm slowly walked toward her. She gulped and immediately shook her head.

"N-No… Umm… C-Could you please stop looking at me like that? You're scaring me…"

"There's nothing to be afraid of… Princess Zelda!!" Storm said angrily, jumping at her. "Give Me The Triforce Of Wisdom!!"

"Stop Right There!!" Link yelled, getting in front of the frightened Tetra and holding his sword horizontally in front of him.

Storm yelled as his uncontrollable body collided with the sharp blade, he got himself slashed at and fell to the ground. Link just glared at the half dead man in front of him.

"Wha-What is wrong with that man?" Tetra stuttered, sweat trickling down the side of her face.

"That's no man, Tetra… That's a ReDead…" Link said slowly, putting his shield in front of him and the sword in its sheath.

The ReDead who pretended to be a human named Storm lifted its head to look at the two. Link then narrowed his eyes at it, quickly saying to Tetra.

"Cover your ears! Now!"

Tetra put her hands over her ears just in time; the ReDead let out an ear-piercing shriek. Link yelled as his eardrums began to hurt, he then fell to his knees, paralyzed. Once the ReDead stopped, Link was still unable to move. Tetra looked to Link's belt, seeing a bomb in one of the pockets. She grinned and took one from it.

"Gah! T-Tetra! What are you doing back there?!" Link asked.

"Since you can't move, I'll just throw this at Storm!" Tetra answered, smirking as she threw the bomb at the ReDead.

The ReDead caught the bomb, looking at it then to Tetra with a blink. It then made a sound that sounded like "Uh-oh," that was when it blew up. Tetra laughed proudly, looking to Link and seeing that he was losing paralysis.

"Nice to see you're getting better right after I defeat the enemy…" she laughed.

"Hah hah, very funny…" Link said sarcastically as he rubbed the back of his neck with his left hand. But his eyes widened once he saw a large, multi-colored bird called a Kargoroc swoop down from one of the high windows of the Temple; it was heading toward Tetra! "Tetra! Look Out!!"

Tetra made a confused look, turning around and screaming as the Kargoroc took her into its talons. The giant bird flew out the main entrance as Link ran off to follow it.

"Tetra!!!" he yelled, reaching out a hand toward her as he did the day his little sister Aryll was taken by the Helmaroc King a year and a half ago.

"LINK!!!!" Tetra yelled as she and the Kargoroc disappeared into the clouds.

Link slowly stopped running, staring after her. His eyes were wide with a mix between Anger and Sorrow. She was angry at the bird for taking the girl he cared about most, other than his sister, and he was sad because he would have to be alone from now on. He looked down at the ground, tears filling his eyes. He wouldn't let them fall, he tightly closed his eyes and looked up into the sky with a look of pure determination.

"I-I'll find you, Tetra… No matter how long or what it takes… I'll rescue you…" he said in a choked voice.

He fell to his knees and took out the empty bottle with the two glowing fairies inside of it. He unscrewed the top and let the two out.

"Good Lord! It feels great to be out of there!" Mezu exclaimed, stretching her arms.

"That's for sure!" Jezu added, flapping her fairy wings.

Both of the fairies happiness was cut short once they saw Link's teary-eyed, upset face.

"What happened, Link?" Mezu asked softly.

"A Kargoroc came down and took Tetra…" he choked, but he then sucked it up and glared at the sky. "I'll bet anything it's taking her to Gornon right now…"

"Oh no! Gornon all ready has the Triforce of Power! Now that he has Miss Tetra with him…" Jezu began.

"… He now has the Triforce of Wisdom as well…" Link finished before Mezu could start. He then turned around and walked down the path away from the Wood Village. "Let's go, Mezu, Jezu… We're going to the Ocean Village, I know for a fact that that's where Nayru is…"

"All right then… Come on, Jezu." Mezu commanded, grabbing her younger sister's wrist and flying off after Link. `We're really going to need Nayru's help if we're going to try and make a miracle happen…'