Revalink

Chapter three: curses

Revali walks down the steps of the village staring at all the people he's known forever. The people who were there for him when his parents died the people that cared for him the man who took him in and raised him like a son. All people he could possibly never see again. It hurts to know that he's leaving that he is going so far away but revali does what he does best. Puts on a mask and hides the pain.

Fourteen years earlier

"See ya later little scamp" says a warm male voice accompanied by a soft feathered midnight wing tousling Revalis feathers.
" I love you darling stay safe well be back before your bedtime" says a gentle woman's voice. An emotional hug given by a beautiful magenta Rito. The older birds turn and give the young one a present. A bundle of feathers.
"Remember son. Remember how much we love you. How much we care" says the man is a sad voice. Tears slowly run down his face. The woman is hugging her husband making his shoulder wet. It's as if they know this was the last time they would see their son. He's completely oblivious to the emotional distress and happily waves goodbye then leaves to go to his friends.

Later that night revali arrives home
" mum Dad! Guess what me and kassy did today! We flew all the way to warblers nest and had a game of archery. I won of course....." revali turns around and realised that no one is there. A shadow of doubt crosses the five years olds mind but he brushes it away. He thinks to himself that they must be late and might be staying overnight so he goes to sleep. He misses his mothers touch and her hugs at bedtime but can't wait until tomorrow.

He waits all the next day. Sat on the loft that they left from. Wondering when they will return.  The day after his friends mum asks him how his parents are he simply replies
" they didn't come back"
The next few weeks pass by. People saying I'm sorry. People saying they died as hero's people saying i understand. They didn't. Saying sorry doesn't bring them back. Saying they died as hero's doesn't make them so righteous that they can come back as spirits and live again saying you understand does not mean you do.

He learnt to put on a mask. How to keep people at a distance so they wouldn't attempt to empathise it worked. Yes he was alone but he had peace.

The elder took him in when he had been alone for three months and taught him how to escape. He taught him how to forget. He taught him archery. Revali spent all of his days at the flight range. Shoot eat practice shoot. That's how he spent his life.
Archery was something he was the best at something nobody could take away. A part of him he wouldn't lose or would die.
Revali soon discovered new talents and heard of an ancient method to launch yourself into the sky.  He quickly set to work learning how to do so and mastered it making the champion of the sky's. He named it Revalis gale. After all something so great should be named after a great person.

Later in his life he met trookya (said t-r-oo-cah)
They were both fifteen. Trookya was a Rito of a golden colour he seemed to shine with happiness yet was never truly happy himself. Revali opened up to trookya and could be who he wanted they were friends maybe more for several weeks. One day revali had found trookya crying and the cliff edge when he had asked what's wrong the golden bird had simply replied
" im a failure im a burden." He was talking about the fact that he was the only non flying Rito ever. In an accident as a child trookya had lost part of his wing and would never fly again. Revali did all he could to comfort his lover but trookya slowly slipped further and further away until he had jumped. Killed himself from the very same cliff that link had but this time revali was too late. Never ever open up to anyone again. That was what put revali off people and if it were possible he spent even more time at the flight range.

Present

This was the reason revali now found himself at the bottom of a mountain next to a golden coloured grave saying a final goodbye to his first love and his last. Telling him how he would never forget and never forgive. Telling the ground with his tears how angry he was and how he felt about link suddenly he felt a tap on his shoulder and saw link there
"We are going" he signed
Revali signed and nodded grabbing his bags and headed toward the castle that would change his fate.