Wild Secrets

Deadly Poison

Twilight's POV

This didn't come as much as a surprise to us.

Sky's dating his Zelda (Sun) and some of us think Warriors is dating his Zelda (Artemis).

Link looked nervous.

Zelda placed a hand on his shoulder.

Link tensed slightly, like he wasn't used to physical contact, but he also leaned into her touch.

Time broke the pause by walking up to Zelda, holding Warriors. "Link said you could help my son." He said.

Zelda looked at Warriors. She placed a hand on Warriors' forehead, before pulling her hand away as if she'd been burned.

"What happened to him?" She asked quietly.

So Time explained what happened.

"So how do you think he got poisoned?" She asked them.

We all shook our heads. "We don't know." Time responded.

"Move him over here." Zelda led Time over to Impa. Time set Wars down on the ground.

Zelda crouched down at Wars head.

She pulled up Wars' sleeve and unwrapped the bandage.

Four, Wind, Legend and I looked away from the wound, while everyone else just flinched and went green.

Zelda placed her hands gently on either side of his wound and inspected it carefully.

"It's an arrow wound." She observed. She looked at Link. "What monsters use poisoned arrows?" She asked, but looked like she already knew the answer.

'Stal monsters.' Link signed.

Zelda turned to Time as I kneeled down beside Warriors.

"Have you encountered any skeletal stals?" Zelda asked us.

Time shook his head.

Zelda frowned.

"But." I spoke up. "He was on watch one night."

"That must've been it." Impa said finally. "Stals are easy to take out. Not many people know that they carry poisoned arrows. He must've thought that the fight was nothing to worry over."

"Well, obviously it was." Hyrule sat down beside me.

"How dangerous is the poison?" Time asked Zelda.

Zelda glanced at Link and then at Time. She hesitated.

"Very." Her one word echoed around the building.

"Is there any way to save him?" Hyrule asked.

"Or how long do we have until..." Legend trailed off.

"How long has it been since his watch?" Zelda asked in return.

"Two days and seven hours." I said. People looked at me. "What? I kept count just in case."

Zelda smiled at me. "It's okay. Thank you. That's really important information." She said. "The poison usually takes seventy-two hours to kill its host."

"So we only have seventeen hours left to save him?" Hyrule asked.

Zelda nodded.

'But there is a antidote.' Link signed.

"Yes." Zelda nodded again. "It's not very common, but it's easy enough to find it once you know where to look."

"What's the antidote called?" Four stepped forward.

"It's called Hyrule Herbs." Impa informed us. "Not many people know how useful they are and just think they're a patch of weeds. But they will save your friend's life."

We sighed in relief.

"Where are they?" Hyrule asked eagerly.

"Hyrule field or Akkala highlands." Zelda said.

I was about to ask when we will leave, but Link nodded at Zelda and Impa and tapped on his slate. He was gone in a flash of blue.

Me and the others stared open-mouthed at where Link was standing seconds before.

But ten minutes later, just as I was about to go look for him, he charged back through the doors.

We turned our open-mouthed gazing on him.

He ignored us and handed Zelda what looked like a bunch of weeds.

Zelda nodded in thanks and then took a stalk.

She took the bus off of the stem. She cherished the bud in her hands, it let out a strange-smelling liquid.

I wrinkled my nose.

Zelda didn't seem to be affected by the smell and let the liquid dribble between her fingers and onto Warriors' wound.

We leaned forward in anticipation.

Nothing seemed to happen. But then, a few minutes later, the black veins started to disappear.

I let out a sigh of relief—as did the rest of my 'brothers' (even Legend).

Time thanked Zelda so much her face went as red as Legend's tunic.

Zelda instructed Hyrule on how to further treat the wound as she bandaged Warriors' arm.

We turned to go (Warriors was in my arms) when a voice called out through the house.

"Heroes of Courage... you forgot to invite our Champion."