The Revival of Shadow Link

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We both looked around but couldn't see anyone.

"You think we're gonna find anyone anytime soon?" Vio asked. 

I mistook his tone for worried. 

"Of course we will! They're somewhere, Vio, we just need to keep looking."

"No, I mean, you think we could stop looking...for a bit."

"Why? Are you in pain? Do you need to rest?"

"Sure..."

I felt his grip on my hand go to another part of my body while the other hand grabbed onto my thigh.

I whimpered. "Can I kiss you?"

"Yes."

He smashed his lips into mine, pretty much just banging my mouth with his tongue, but goddesses, was I enjoying it. He started licking my lips before I just felt it go from my mouth, down my neck. I shivered. He started sucking on my neck, not gently or anything, mind you, he apparently decided he wanted to leave a mark and started biting and sucking on it with the force of a vacuum cleaner. Even though I didn't know what that was.

"Vio," I moaned. "We need to stop."

He kissed my forehead. "Fine." He ran a hand through my hair. "We'll continue this later, my little love."

"I'm not little, I'm not that short," I replied.

"I don't know about that."

"Um...do you two realize I'm standing right here, or did you just not see me?"

Vio jumped out of is skin and I turned around. 

Princess Zelda had been standing there, her face bright red, and in her hand was a lighter that allowed us to see her face and shoulders but little to nothing else around. 

Vio tugged me closer to him and kissed my cheek. "I apologize, Your Highness, we didn't see you."

"Do either of you guys know where we are? I was asleep in the castle, I woke up...and now I'm here?"

"We don't know, the others weren't there when we woke up, we went searching for them," I said, my face heating up. Vio had practically been sucking my face off, and someone had seen. I didn't think of myself as someone to get embarrassed easily, but I'm pretty sure if I didn't stop him, he would have undressed me. Which would have been fantastic if there wasn't anyone watching or people we had to look for.

At least she seemed to not care too much. 

She sighed. "I thought this was over...but something's up."

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's supposed to be something here that's not..." Vio trailed off. "My boots are red. Why are my boots red?"

Zelda held the lighter closer to the ground and we all saw it; blood gleaming on blades of grass and sticking to our feet.

"That's...disturbing," Zelda said.

"Where are the others?" Vio asked, looking around and pulling me closer to him, although he didn't even seem to notice. I felt an overwhelming urge to wrap an arm around him and just stay there with him, holding each other. It didn't necessarily have to mean we were kissing or anything, just...being in his arms, feeling his touch, being able to relax.

"But that's not really going to satisfy you in the end, is it? You can be with him as long as you want and enjoy your time here, that doesn't change the fact that you were made to kill him and  to bring Hyrule it's destruction."

"Shut up," I snapped. Zelda and Vio  both looked at me before saying, at exactly the same time, "voice?"

I hated how nonchalant their voices were, like it was totally okay and they didn't need to freak about it while I was definitely freaking out. I didn't want Vaati in my head, able to hear and see my every word, my every move, holy hell, he could hear and see my every word and my every move. 

What about the private conversations I had had with Zelda? The intimate moments I had with Vio? The times I expressed any type of emotion towards the others that weren't indifferent? It wasn't fair, he got to be aware of everything here, but I didn't know a goddamn thing about what he was doing, he wasn't going to stop, what if he did something to Vio like he was always threatening to do? Yes, Vio was right next to me, but we could scarcely see, what if some monster got behind us and took my precious Vio away from me?

Damn you! I shouted in my head at myself, at Vaati, I didn't know anymore. I hate you! Go to hell!

Before I knew it, the two started moving and I was some ways behind them, stumbling around in a darkness even I had trouble navigating through.

"You're still just a shadow in the end," he said. "He can go and look at you, he can say he loves you, but what does an oh so noble hero of light want with a worthless shadow creature, some dark nobody?"

I stopped completely because that was a question I had to ask myself. This was freaking Vio. Even if he hadn't saved all of Hyrule, he could have any girl or guy in Hyrule. People would fall for him just like I did. And I knew he couldn't really give me an answer I hadn't heard before or thought of. And I hated the idea of making Vio think all my insecurities was his problem, I just had to overthink everything, when he usually did all the thinking, and feel useless all th time, he had to go comfort me. Why?

There's no way someone would love their own shadow.

And then I realized I had lost them. Their voices had faded, they had kept walking, I didn't hear anything or see anything, and I was totally alone.