The Revival of Shadow Link

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"Hey, everything okay? You looked like you slept alright."

"I slept...really well." His arms were around me, embracing me. He was warm, I realized. And he probably felt like he was sitting next to a bonfire, I felt hot. But the dizziness had faded and I felt well rested.

"You're still so warm," he said, frowning.

"But I can stand," I replied, standing up to prove it to him.

"Good, we need to get a move on." He stood up too and got close to me. "I'm sorry."

"I'm sorry too, I..." I shook my head, not entirely sure what I wanted to say.

"We'll sort everything out later, we really need to find them, especially Blue, I...I can't believe we didn't realize Briar was gonna...I swear if she hurt him..."

I could see the worry written all over Vio's face and I found myself just as worried as he was. Maybe Blue wasn't my favorite person in the world, but that didn't mean I wanted him dead, he was...

Zelda seemed to appear out of thin air, where she disappeared to, I didn't know. "I was starting to wonder if you'd ever wake up," she said. 

"I was hoping you wouldn't," a voice nearby said. "You would have made my job so much easier."

Vio grabbed my arm and Zelda drew out her bow, looking ready to just straight up strangle the individual with it if it was who we thought it was--which it was.

Her clothes were soaked in blood and I found it worth noting that she was missing an eye, her right empty socket dripping crimson blood onto her cheek as she glared at us.

"I thought he killed you!" I shouted.

"Should have looked; you should start checking your enemies so you can see if they're actually dead," she grinned, but her words were laced with pain and her one eye left looked glassy and didn't seem to look at us.

"That's...a really good idea," I shouted angrily. I didn't remember seeing her get killed or seeing her body, I hadn't really wanted to, I kinda avoided getting scarred for life that way. I did want Green to die, though, I thought he was dead--Now's no time for self-loathing and reflection!

She giggled. "I assume you found Briar out? She told me you would be here, and just what she had to do to make sure you got over here--you didn't think she volunteered to help you save Shadow Link because she wanted to, did you?"

"You fucking suck!" Zelda shouted.

Briar ignored her and was focusing on something behind us--shit, were we gonna die?

"Wait, if you work for Vaati, and Briar does too...why was she helping me get out of there in the first place?" It didn't make sense, Vaati kept me in the cell and then put me in shackles because I was trying to escape, and he wouldn't let me.

"Oh, you really don't know?" She laughed for way longer than a normal villain would like it was uncomfortable how long she was laughing, like she laughed for five minutes straight. "You...don't... know?"

And then she fucking disappeared!

We stood there in silence; what were we supposed to know?

"Well, I'll say it," Zelda spoke up. "This is by far the weirdest thing that has happened to us; why didn't she attack us, she literally had her speak in hand?"

We stood there for a minute more. 

"We need to find them, they don't know," Vio said. He glanced at me.

We locked eyes--I had been glancing at him too--and neither of us looked away.

Then without another word, we ran out of the room we were in.

I put my arm around his shoulders while we went to hunt down the others.