Linked AU One-Shots

10. Four Fours

Prompt: "...i think i need to get my vision checked, i'm seeing four Fours" -- 
colors reveal or just the colors in general 

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"Four... why 'r 'ere... four of 'ou...?" Sky asked, lifting a finger. A splitting headache pounded against his skull, wild colors swimming in his vision and even though he was seated, he felt as though he could fall over at any moment. But he was sure what he saw – there were four nearly identical faces staring right at him.

The four of them all chuckled, as though he had something funny. One of them gently placed a hand on his shoulder, as if to try and ground him. "That's..." They seemed to look elsewhere. With the overbearing weight of the nausea, the dizziness and the fog of his mind, he couldn't follow their gazes to see what they were seeing. "Don't worry about that right now, okay?" The two in the middle of his vision – mostly a blue splotch on his right and a mostly green splotch to his left– placed a finger on their lips.

Was it a secret? Sky winced as even trying to dwell on that much caused his headache to flare up all the more. "But 'y–?" He tried to ask. One of the four – perhaps the purple splotch to his far right– placed their hand on his other shoulder. The two that held his shoulders worked together, gently pushing him back down onto his bedroll.

"Look, Sky, you need to relax. You're injured." One of them explained, changing the subject. Their voice, although soft, was enough to shoot pain from his head all throughout his tired body. Although he wanted to protest, he had so many questions, his pillow was ever so fluffy and welcoming.

"That's right," Another soothed as his eyelids fluttered closed against his will. "Go back to sleep... We'll be right here when you wake up. Promise." He had hardly heard the last few words before darkness overtook him yet again.

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Four had to look down at himself. He hadn't split, had he? No, he hadn't. He – no, they would have known if they had. Being in one body was vastly different from being in four different ones, where each member had full freedom to do as they wished. He frowned as he watched their injured member sleep peacefully.

"How is he?" A gentle voice asked behind him. Hyrule, their healer. Four got up from the ground and turned to look at him.

"I think his concussion is worse than we thought... He thought that there were four of me with him. I think he has some kind of double – or quadruple– vision or something." he explained, matter-of-factly. None of them were even sure that quadruple vision was a thing, but in any case Sky was not in the right mind.

"Four fours?" Hyrule lifted an eyebrow, and for a moment the smith worried that Hyrule may have figured out what the Four Sword was named for. But then the man broke into a chuckle. "Now that'd be something!"