Lost with Life Chapter 3
#3 of Lost with Life.
Link is a guard, busy dealing with the odd and strange people in the markets. He is one of many guards, but often at night, he gets a strange feeling as if he is missing something. Throughout the story, he will regain his memory of the life he once lived long ago. He will meet the strangest people, fight the deadliest beasts, and perhaps find what he was missing.
Link quickly spun around with his spear in both hands, but saw nothing behind him. Then he looked up to a house carved into the tree, and was surprised to see something move away from the window at the top. He knew someone or something was in there now. He cautiously moved toward the tree, looking all around himself until he reached the base of the tree. He reached out and touched the rope ladder, it didn't seem safe. He bet that as soon as he stood on one of those wooden parts, it'd break under his feet. He didn't know if he should try climbing up, or wait for his captain. He knew it would be hard trying to take the spear up with him too, so he didn't try taking it with him at all. He placed his spear on the ground, and grabbed the rope ladder. He tried climbing up it, and like he expected, the first few wooden parts snapped. It didn't stop him from climbing though. He pulled himself up as every wooden step seemed to break every time his foot touched them. He only hoped that these ropes wouldn't snap, there was no telling how old they were. He climbed higher, until eventually he grabbed a ledge and pulled himself up. He then quickly stood up to face the door of the house, before slowly walking over to it. The strange thing was that he wasn't scared, just curious.
Link pushed open the door, and looked around the house. It was mostly empty, yet clean. It was like someone took care of this place. To his left, there was a ladder that led up to what appeared to be a platform with a bed on it. There was another ladder on that platform that led up to yet another platform which allowed anyone standing on it to look through the window Link had seen something in. On the floor Link was on, there was a stove on the wall in front of him as well as an archway in the wooden wall which led to another smaller room. The rooms had a few worn out rugs on the wooden floor that looked like they had been bleached from the light. Strangely, the room seemed familiar to him. He began to wonder if he was just trespassing into someone's home, or entering the lair of a demon. "Hello?" Link said before looking to his side, and ducking barely in time to dodge a pot that shattered on the wall behind him. He quickly stood up and looked around himself as he began to wonder who was still here.
"Good dodge!" A strange impish female voice echoed in the room. "Looks like you're not another village idiot then!"
Link noticed she sounded almost excited, he guessed she was having fun. "Who are you?" He asked as he looked up to the platforms, thinking she may be up there.
"Who are you?" She simply mimicked.
"I asked first." Link replied, keeping calm.
"You're in my house, so I ask the questions." The impish female voice replied, somehow managing to sound innocent and devious at the same time.
"My name is Link, and your name is..." He responded as he walked around the room and looked up to the highest platform, the one under the window.
"Hmmm, I don't think I want to tell you." The voice replied, sounding almost as if she was teasing Link.
"Why not?" Link asked her.
"Because I don't like the look of that big spear you left outside and I don't like you stupid people coming over to kill me over and over again. It get's tedious." The voice replied, sounding as if it just didn't care.
"So you're the demon?" Link questioned the voice that echoed around the room.
"Steal a few things to survive and they call you a monster for looking different and having powers, I'd like to see those idiots deal with something that actually wants to hurt them. That'd be a good show!" The voice excitedly responded.
"You haven't hurt the villagers?" Link asked her curiously.
"Oh, those fools just run away from me every time they see me. I'm a little offended at that, have you seen them? They're ugly. Not all humans and Hylians are ugly, but those ones have just been beaten with an ugly tree, not just a stick." The strange voice said jokingly.
Link couldn't help but chuckle. Strangely, he didn't feel threatened at all. "What happened to the people hired to kill you?" He inquired.
"Some got scared and others, I just had to give them a show they wouldn't forget! Eee hee hee! I gave them a few broken bones too! So, what shall I do with you?" she said, her voice now sounding more devious than before.
For some reason, Link felt like he should trust this voice, he didn't know why but he trusted his instincts. Most of the time, he trusted his instincts. Most of the time, his instincts were right, but not always. "I don't want to hurt you, I want to help you." Link stated, before waiting a few seconds for a reply.
"I'm sure you'd love to help me into a nice cozy trap." Was the sarcastic response from the demon.
"My captain is coming down here to hunt you down, I'm just trying to help you." Link sincerely responded.
"Why would you just trust me? Hmmmm?" The voice said back to him.
"I don't know, I'm just trusting my instincts." Link told her before waiting a few seconds. "Are you still there?" He asked, but got no response. When he got no response, he decided to walk into the other room, through the archway. There was nearly nothing in this room, except for some ladders that led down into a basement. He looked down into the basement, but saw nothing but the pitch black darkness. He didn't feel like going down into the basement using that old ladder, he learned his lesson from the first ladder he climbed up to get into this place. There wasn't much left to do in this place, so he left.
An hour passed, and Link was now in Ordon Village, talking to everyone there. From what he could piece together from them, the demon steals from the villagers, mostly food. He also found out that the demon was actually smaller than he was. Apparently, it had a white and black body, with glowing green parts and flowing fiery hair. From people's description of it, the demon sounded like it looked female too. It wasn't hard for him to imagine, already he had the image of her in his head. He also noticed something about a few of the villagers, the demon wasn't kidding, it looked like the ugly tree had fallen on those unfortunate people. From these people's stories of this female demon, he realized that she was telling the truth when she said she never hurt them, they were all just spooked when they saw her. There was really no reason for them to think she's evil, apart from the fact that she steals. He guessed that they just didn't take into consideration that she needed eat to survive. He couldn't stop thinking about that demon, he began to think of her more as a victim than a monster. He felt sorry for her. Link spent all day talking to the villagers, telling them that there would be more guards soon, but no other guards came that day, and the sun was going down. The villagers began to get worried, they thought because Link had gone up into her home, she may now be angry. Link told them that he would get rid of her, but he didn't say how. The villagers just assumed that he was going to kill her, so they cheered him on, and waited til the sun went down. The villagers quickly went back into their homes and locked their doors, while Link headed back up to that house. He walked up the only path there and quickly reached his destination, but something was different. The remains of the ladder were gone, there was no easy way to get up there now.
As Link stood there and began to think of ways to get up there, he soon found his line of sight quickly blocked by a face right in front of his. A black and white face that had yellow and red eyes.
Author's Note: Now things get really interesting! Thank you all for reading, and thank you to BigBossSonic for editing this for me! :) If you have any suggestions, just send them my way. I have a plan as to where this story is going to lead, but I am open to some suggestions as to what could happen along the way.