Legend Of Zelda Fan Fiction ❯ The Return ❯ Fairy Tales and Princess Rumors ( Chapter 4 )

The Return

 

Ch. 4: Fairy Tales and Princess Rumors

 

 

 

 

 

The twins and fairies were buzzing around in a highly unique dance, while the two injured fairies lay still on a table. “Oh sorry…” said one of the twins, blushing and looking away. Link ignored them.

 

“How is she?” Link asked, looking at the small ball of white light.

 

“She'll be fine, just a little bit of heat stroke.” One of the twin's fairies spoke.

 

“She's beautiful.” Malon breathed, seeing the tiny being with long legs, for its size, and smooth silky skin. She had large breasts for her size too, with elongated fingers and non-pointed ears. Blue curly hair licked their way down her back, until they reached her ankles.

 

“What? Yeah, she is.” Link said, looking more at Malon then Tatl. “Tatl?”

 

The fairy's green eyes opened and they blinked with a groan. “Sku-Skull Kid?” She called, shaking her head.

 

“N-no.” Link shallowly said, Malon nudging him with her elbow to get over it, the death was sad, but it wasn't his fault.

 

“Where is Skull Kid?” She asked, beginning to beat her clear wings, but she was still too weak to fly. “Where's Tael?”

 

Link put his hand down for Tatl to get on, and she crawled on, and he carried her over to where the purple glowing fairy was. Tael was resting on some blankets and he was snoring lightly on his back. He was muscular for his size, and well built with shoulder length purple hair. His nose was small for his face and his chin was narrowed for a guy.

 

“TAEL!” Tatl shouted, and her brother jumped, beating his thin-feathered wings, shaped like a bird's, floating high enough to hit his head on the ceiling.

 

“OW! What the hell sis?” he shouted back.

 

“You watch your mouth, I was worried about you! I didn't know what happened after the men captured us.”

 

“Tell us what happened last night.” Link offered, and Malon put out her hand for Tael to rest on.

 

“Well we were resting on some logs in the shade while Skull Kid went to get us some food, it was his turn. I fell asleep soon so sis knows the rest.” Tael started, sitting cross-legged on Malon's hand. “What's with the Skull Kid's hat?” Tael looked weirdly at the hat on Malon's head.

 

“On story at a time.” Malon told Tael, trying to put off the bad news as long as she could.

 

“Ugh. Three men came up behind us, they caught us in a net and then forced us into some bottles, taking us to their camp.”

 

“Wait, these three men? What did they look like?” Link asked Tatl.

 

“One was bald and rather heavy set, another had short brown hair and was rather tall, and the last one looked like the smartest of the group, talking and acting smart. He had a large bandage and sling on his arm.”

 

Link's eye twitched, and he started to fist his hands, Tatl just barely managing to fly to his shoulder before he ended up crushing her. “What was that Link? You nearly crushed me!”

 

“The charcoal brothers…” Link breathed out, he was sick of their names.

 

“Just go on Tatl, Link has some run ins with the men who caused this.” Malon muttered, putting a hand on Link's tensed shoulder.

 

“Skull Kid tried to get us back. But the bottles were rattled so much that I was knocked unconscious.” Tatl told them.

 

“I was awake!” Tael said, beginning to tell his sword of the story, floating up and sitting on Malon's head. “The Skull Kid came by and tried to sneak us out, but the three men saw him, and ran to catch him, but Skull Kid was too fast, and the guys were clumsy, they knocked over a lantern they had. The forest caught fire and Skull Kid's foot was crushed under a tree that had feel from the fire. I was knocked out from the heat after that. Is Skull Kid alright?”

 

Link looked away. “He…died Tael.” Malon told him, feeling the tensing muscles more as Link's shoulder flexed and un-flexed in rapid succession.

 

“He did?” Tatl looked at Link's face as best she could.

 

“Link tried to save him, but the Skull Kid pushed him out of harms way and tossed him the bottles filled with you guys.” Malon explained for Link. “He thinks it is his fault Skull Kid is no more.”

 

“Link…” Tatl put a hand to his cheek. “It isn't your fault, you're just beating yourself up.”

 

“He holds himself to such a high standard he can't possibly fill it.” Came a voice from inside Link's travel pouch on his back.

 

Link lifted out the now glowing mask from his pack. “I thought you said no talking for a week?”

 

“Link is that what I think it is?” Tatl said, looking at the mask in Link's hands with a mixture of admiration and fear.

 

“Yes I am, and it is so nice to see you Tatl. Look. Link you hold yourself at such a high standard, that not even you can fill it.” The mask told him, surprising everyone but Link and Malon. “You aren't going to get any better at anything if you don't set more reasonable standards and goals. You are going to be going through the right of passage soon. You will be a man and need all your skills to be mghf!” it started ranting as Link shoved his hand over the mask's mouth.

 

“Do you ever shut up? For a hunk of wood, you sure do talk a lot.” Tatl floated down to land on the mask's forehead.

 

“OW! It bit me!” Link's hand rose high into the air with a red bite mark on the heel of the palm.

 

“I can help you get better if you trust me.” The mask offered, but Link ignored it and stuffed the mask into the pack. “There's going to be a sword fighting tourney held in the next land over to the west, not the east, past the desert will be people who could probably rival you Link.”

 

“I'm leaving, coming Malon, Tatl, Tael?” He asked, Tatl sitting on his hat, and Tael resting comfortably on Malon's new hat, as Malon fell into step with Link.

 

They left the house, the twins in deep confusion. “What do you mean a swordsmanship tournament?”

 

“In the land where the desert sets, is a grand arena where anyone can enter to test their skills against one another.”

 

“And how do you know that?” Malon asked, not really sure of the mask's true intentions.

 

“Just think Link, this tournament could give you the strength you need to protect this pretty young girl.” The mask offered and Link's ears twitched as a sign that the mask had Link's full attention. “I know about this tournament because the last person to become part of my being was someone you know dear Link, and he won that Tournament with his hand tied.”

 

“Oh? And who was do I know dearly?” The crystalline eyed boy skeptical.

 

“Your only blood relative who could teach you everything you know, your own father.” Link stopped dead in his tracks, two steps in front of Epona.

 

“My what? What did you say?” He whipped out the mask but it had a smirk on its face and the glowing was wearing off.

 

“I can't talk for a week Link, want to know more? Enter the tournament in one week. Go through the desert, it takes about two days to get there, go Link, and I will tell you more, or better yet, HE will tell you more.” The mask stopped glowing all together, with the smirk still on its face.

 

“Grr…” Link was about to break the thing in half, but it had the key to revealing everything Link wanted to know about himself. “Lets go to the castle while I am still in a good mood.” He muttered, steam seemed to shoot out his ears at the anger blush on his face, that Tatl had to hide with her brother on Malon's new hat. Link jumped on Epona, being gentle, after all the horse had nothing to do with his bad mood.

 

“Oh Tael, you might want to get under the hat.” Tatl disappeared under Link's hat, thinking he wont mind.

 

“Why Tatl?” her brother asked slipping under Malon's hat.

 

“This horse goes fast Tael!” Malon shouted as Epona reared up on her hind legs and galloped off at top speed. It took them half a day to cross the Hyrule field to the castle, small talking along the way, even though Link remained mostly quiet, thinking about what the mask said about his father, except for the last portion of the ride where he got into some trouble with Malon.

 

“Link, you going to be ok?” Tatl asked from under his hat, keeping the heat on his head.

 

Link lightly shook his head. “Huh? Oh yeah, just thinking. So what do you guys think Zelda wants us for?”

 

“I have no clue for me, but she might make you an army captain.” Malon suggested, hugging Link close to her.

 

“Great. If that happens, remind me to kill myself.” He muttered.

 

“Malon smacked his shoulder and Tatl pulled on of his hairs. “Don't even joke about that!” The two yelled at the same time.

 

“Do I look like I am joking?”

 

“Look ladies, Link obviously has some tough things to sort out in his head, lets just…”

 

“Shut up, all of you.” He said, looking down and he could feel the piercing gaze of a shocked Malon.

 

Her hands rested at her sides, balancing just fine without even touching Link. “You shouldn't have said that.” Tatl whispered from under Link's hat.

 

Link kept his eyes ahead of him and tromped through the market with his horse to the gates of the castle. “Link and Malon to see the princess Zelda.” Link stated flatly. The guard nodded and slammed his spear butt on the ground, causing the gate open.

 

“She is in a meeting at this moment, but she will be out shortly, you are welcome to spend your time at the entrance.” Link tied Epona up at a post near the entrance to the castle, overseeing the field and the guards walking their patrol routes.

 

“Who knows maybe she wants to marry you.” Malon scoffed, sitting on the steps in front of the entrance.

 

“I don't know, maybe she is.” Malon flinched, and she saw Link did too at what he said. “I'm sorry Malon its just that I…uh…I…”

 

“It's ok, I know you have had your stresses lately, I just wanted to hear you say you were sorry for your outburst.”

 

“To be fair, it wasn't much an outburst.” Tael said, yawning on top of Malon's new hat.

 

“Shut up Tael.” Tatl mentioned, rushing out to fly around.

 

Malon and Link ignored the two bickering siblings. He sent Malon a small smile, indicating his sorrow for snapping at them earlier. “Hello Link, Malon.” A feminine voice said from the entrance and the four heads turned to see princess Zelda walking out the door. A very refined Zora stood next to her, all dark blue with petite, retracted fins. Its head came back in a tail like fin, and its eyes were black.

 

“Ah so this is the famous Link. Saved the princess Ruto of my race, and saved the Gorons from extinction by starvation. Not to mention the child who saved the entirety of Termina.” The Zora stated, putting a gold ringed finger to his chin, which in all, looked rather thin, not even muscular, like he never did any work, not even swimming.

 

“So? What of it?” Link was in no mood to be social, and this, punk, could talk down to him when Link did more work by the age of 11 than this guy, who was obviously older, done in his whole life.

 

“Rude are we?” The Zora smiled and gave a wicked grin.

 

“LINK!” Zelda said, her mouth gaping open at the blatant disregard for any manners. And Malon just stood there, not saying anything, Leaning against the horse.

 

“That's alright Zelda. I do believe if I need a guard I should test him anyways. Here.” He tossed a coin up in the air, Link caught in between two fingers. “Toss it up in the air and hit it with your arrows. Then I will apologize for my rude way of addressing you.”

 

“Humph. Malon. Want to try out your slingshot skills?”

 

“I got real good Link.” She readied her slingshot and Link tossed the coin up in the air. Malon aimed and shot it, the resounding clang as the dropping coin meeting the hard deku seed rang out over the yard. The coin landed at the Zora's feet, the deku nut still attached as the coin folded over to encase it.

 

“She's good enough. How about you, hero of time?” Link growled at the name and how he sneered it out.

 

“Give me a challenge, a coin is no problem.”

 

“Heh. Feisty aren't we? Fine.” Zelda still glared at Link, who was being very rude, to such an important guest. The Zora took off a slim bracelet, a little bigger than his arrowheads' widths. “Shoot three arrows through this. A single scratch on the metal and I wont believe a word you say.” He tossed the bracelet high up into the air once Link readied his bow.

 

Link took a second to aim and shot off an arrow. No signs of failure yet. The arrow sunk into a tree branch. Link smiled and shot off two in quick succession, still no signs of failure. The two arrows sunk into the ground in an arc. The Zora caught the bracelet and inspected it, to find nothing wrong.

 

“Well I guess I must eat my own words. I send my deepest apologies for talking down to you. But now we have business to discuss.”

 

“Link. This is Lord Chari of the desert Zoras. They live in a large and vast oasis that leads to an estuary out to the western ocean.” Zelda told Link, and Malon made a face of annoyance at being ignored. “He has something to ask of you.”

 

“I came to Hyrule to see my new bride, but it seems that bandits have been seen raiding the only path to get back to my land. And I have to get back to oversee the swordsmanship tournament.” Link's and Malon's ears perked up at that.

 

“Swordsmanship tournament you say? Is it possible for me to enter if I escort you to your land?” Link questioned, a gleam in his eye.

 

“I suppose so, if we get there quickly. The tournament does go on in a week and signups end in a few days.”

 

“Good, then we left yesterday.” Link said, waving good-bye. “Meet me by the castle town to gates as sundown, and I shall escort you, but right now, Zelda, Malon and I have some things to talk about.”

 

“Of course, you were summoned here for other reasons but got held up by me. I hope to see you later tonight. I will be in my inn room until then.” Chari gave a bow to Link, then Zelda and walked off towards the town.

 

“Why was he here?” Link asked, as soon as he was sure Chari was out of earshot.

 

“He is my fiancée.” Zelda sighed meekly. “It's assigned by my father who wants our two countries to get friendlier. The only way to get out of it is to find a better suitor…” she looked at Link.

 

Link rolled his eyes and grabbed Zelda out of earshot of Malon, who looked confused. “You know my answer is no. I don't love you.” He said, like Zelda was crazy. “You know else I feel about her.” He rolled his eyes at Malon.

 

“Its not like she even remembers.” She whispered back.

 

“Look the answer is no, never, not on your life, we are friends that is it. Besides, I thought sages couldn't marry, which is why Ruto broke off the engagement to her.”

 

“Actually the prophet of time gets extra perks.”

 

“On a different note why are the sages stuck in the sacred realm?”

 

“They are there to watch the planet and see if there is any trouble ahead, that way they tell me, and I tell you.”

 

“Alright so lets involve HI Malon!” Link realized Malon was close to them and trying to listen in.

 

“Whatcha guys talking about?” she asked.

 

“Just some stuff but now we are on to the stuff we were sent around for.” Link said.

 

“Yes I was wondering what is with the fires that have been going around recently. I saw a fire coming from the Kokiri forest and one from the Lon Lon Ranch. When I sent someone to check it out the ranch was gone.”

 

“It was the Charcoal brothers your majesty.” Malon said, a tear coming to her eye. Her horses and cows, the cuccos, a lot of them didn't make it out of the ranch in time. “Link and I stopped them from burning trees on the edge of the forest and since they couldn't get to Link, they went after me.” Link put a hand on her shoulder to steady her. The Images must still hurt to recall, after all they were still missing Ingo, but they weren't too worried, Malon saw him get out and Ingo was a grown man capable of handling himself, but the animals she precariously cared for and fed and cleaned…all gone.

 

“Oh. Well I am having the ranch rebuilt; we need the meat and milk that comes from your ranch. It needs to be done. Our soldiers have captured most of the animals that got away from the fire.” Zelda sat down on one of the steps and put her chin on her fist, propped up by her knee. “What about the one from the forest.”

 

“The charcoal brothers again. They set up camp looking for me in the forests. They caught some fairies, these ones.” Tatl and Tael floated around the three. “Their friend, a Skull Kid tried to save them and a lantern was knocked over, starting the fire.” Link said this time, still with his hand on Malon's shoulder as she wiped a tear from her face.

 

“Well those three guys will be put on a wanted list and by the time you get back Link, they should be apprehended. But all I really wanted to know was anything about the fires. By the way what about your father Malon?”

 

“He was hurt in the fire, but he's fine now, resting in the forest.” Malon sniffed once and wiped the last tear from her eye. “We should be going, especially since we have to escort that guy and then Link's gonna want to stick around for that tournament.”

 

“What's with this `we' stuff? You're staying here.” Link said, sitting atop Epona.

 

“No, I am going.” Malon said and got on beside Link.

 

Link rode to the entrance and got off. “No you are not, grab onto me.” He said pulling out his ocarina.

 

Malon grabbed onto his sleeve and glared at him as he began to play a beautiful song. She felt her worries go away at that song, it reminded her of her forest with her fairy boy. Her forest? Her fairy boy? It suddenly clicked for her, and she felt like she could have smacked herself upside her forehead; it was so obvious!

 

When the song ended she was inside the forest, on a slightly raised platform with an engraving of the triforce and a circle with a swirl in it. She looked around the place, two exits from this area, one of them the stairs had broken, and the other looked like a cliff drop from here, but she was sure there were stairs.

 

“Come on, I have to go pack up for this trip.” Link told her.

 

Malon ran up behind him and grabbed his arm. “I am going with you.” She told him.

 

“No you aren't. What makes you think I'll-” Malon cut him off by putting her lips to his when he turned around.

 

“I am not going to wait again, no. You left without me last time and many things had happened that you could have helped, but that is no matter. Everyday you didn't visit it hurt just a little bit more, like you scorned us.” She began to tell him, and he tried to reply but Malon cut him off. “When you left 4 years ago for those other places, I couldn't help but think I was part of the reason. I am not letting you go off again, not alone anyways.”

 

“But Malon, it's going to be dangerous.” He warned her.

 

“I don't care!” a tear began to fall down her pristine face. “Don't you get it? I love you. I don't want to lose you. I would die if you didn't come back or if something happened to you and I didn't know!” she was yelling at him now, more tears falling down her face. “If you tell me you don't love me…then you can go alone.”

 

Link pulled her close to him, her shorter head resting on his chest. Her hands rested on his lower back, while Link rested his head on hers and one of his hands was on her upper back and one on her lower back. “I can't lie to you. You know that, you can see right through me anyways.” He began to her. “You can come then, since I obviously can't stop you anyways.” He smiled and Malon smiled too. That was the answer she needed, or the one she wanted now. She will get the actual words later.

 

They separated and Malon came up to give Link a quick kiss, but Link caught her and the kissed turned into a more passionate one.

 

---A.N.---

 

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