Arrogance Is Bliss (Discontinued)

Chapter One

Present Time.

Darkness. Cool, aloof darkness. Slight glow of blue luminous stones. The muffled sound of running water. The almost dead silence with only the sound of my own breathing and heartbeat echoing in my ears.
A sound that slowly had been getting more repetitive the more time went on.
I felt weightless.
I felt no different than I had not too long ago.
I wasn't quite sure where I was.
Lets see...Zelda and myself were wandering the castle...what else happened?
Oh.
The Great Calamity struck.
And what did I do, the great swordswoman I am?
I turned tail and ran.
Then what?
...
Nothing comes to mind. Its a blank slate. I can't remember anything else from that day.
What is even happening to my body at the present?
I tried to open my eyes. They felt like I'd had a staring contest with a rock in the middle of a Gerudo sandstorm. I tried to move my arms and legs but nothing happened. I could do nothing at all. I could see, but the bright blue shone in my eyes, rendering all past me an inky darkness. I wondered how I was to get out of this ...stasis... of sorts.
I thought I saw something in the depths of the darkness. Then a Hylian man loomed out of the dark, and towards me. He looked in, seemingly intrigued. I wondered what he would do. He reached forth, and touched something. I heard a slight pop noise, and suddenly the weightlessness was gone, the bright blue light was dissipating and I found myself sprawled on the ground. Feeling was starting to return to my body, ever so slowly. I could barely move at all, blinking seemed to take it out of me. I then noticed he was staring at me.
"What is the meaning of this?" He said, I could detect a betrayed tone in his voice.
"I came here for treasure and a spirit orb, not some half dead washed out wretch!" He scoffed, walking around with his hands on his hips.
"I didn't force my way through multiple monsters, fetch bloody cuccos from all over a village, catch fireflies for some old has-been and everything else, fight off a Yiga Clan assassin, to get to this godforsaken shrine, just for this pathetic 'reward'," he scoffed more.
What an arrogant...what's the word...?
Oh.
What an arrogant asshole.
If only I could stand up, and if only I had something, I'd give this asshole a taste of the real world.
"...help..." I choked out.
He turned to face me.
"What?"
I could barely breathe, my muscles had surely atrophied from the stasis I was in. I tried to raise my arm but to no avail, it moved a little from the ground and began to hurt, and I let it drop back down.
He walked over, eying me as if I were something dead. He knelt down and looked at me shrewdly. As if he was investigating something that'd been dead for quite some time.
"What even are you?" He asked shrewdly. Arrogantly.
I could barely speak either.
"Hmph, you seem Hylian. A rather pitiful excuse of a Hylian though," he looked me up and down.
He reminded me of someone, his whole demeanour.
I remembered the day I ran from the castle, when I'd ran into the man.
This guy was fair skinned, blue eyed, blonde haired and looked solid. All I could remember from that day is he was blonde haired, blue eyed and was rather arrogant.
"Hmph, maybe I'll get some form of compensation for handing you over, although I don't think it'll be much, you look like something that was shat out of a Zora," he said condescendingly to me. I hadn't known this guy for very long at all, and I already hate this guy.
He bent down to grab my body off the floor of the shrine, and with another hard-done-by groan he made a start for the shrine exit.
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I woke to Mr Arrogance lodging a complaint.
"...nothing...no reward...monsters...half washed out...wretch..."
I was laying on something soft. I opened my gritty eyes and looked around. I was in a bed, I realised. I could move my eyes easily, but anything else tired me.
I heard footsteps, and I opened my eyes as quickly as I could, because of my state it was rather slow.
"Oh! She's awake!" A feminine voice shrilled. I heard more footsteps, and felt someone gently lift me up. I could see, three people. One young girl, one older lady, and Mr Arrogant standing at the doorway. He eyed me like he couldn't possibly be paid to even care at the present moment. I guessed a sheikah guard held me up.
"How are you?" The old woman asked.
"...t i r e d..." I managed to cough out.
"Do you want some water? Will that help?" The younger woman asked.
"...y e s..." the stasis had parched me.
"Go, Paya, fetch her some water," the older woman turned to the younger one.
"I am Impa," she turned back to me. "The young girl is Paya, the man in the doorway is Link," she said. "You've been in stasis within one of our shrines for close to one hundred and one years,"
I was surprised. One hundred and one years of stasis.
"I must apologise that the stasis wasn't as courteous to your body as Link's was to him," she said, as Paya returned with a bowl. She held the bowl to my mouth and I slowly drank.
It felt so much better.
"How do you feel now?" The young one asked, when the bowl was empty.
"...Much better," I breathed.
"Tell us," Impa began, "what do you remember about before you were put into stasis?"
I frowned. I remembered a bit, but not much.
"I was walking in the castle courtyard with the Princess, we heard a commotion in the kitchens, I saw this black cloud forming in the distance over the field, and before we knew it, the castle was being attacked, people dead and dying...fire, dark cursed fire burning everywhere. I don't know who made it out alive," I said quietly. "I ran and kept running as fast and as long as I could, I can't remember what happened except I reached a Village and collapsed, and three people ran to catch me..." I said.
Impa turned to Paya and hmm'd.
"I see," she said.
"Where am I?" I asked.
"You're in Kakariko Village," Paya said.
"And you're welcome to stay here as long as you want," Impa finished.
"Besides, what more could we possibly do for the Princess' personal swordmaiden?"