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Chapter 33

"Well… it could have been worse" Link stated, observing the damage done to the castle "I mean, it's still standing, and they didn't kidnap you this time. Vaati just took the baby. If we're lucky, he'll have another change of heart and decide not to make them little villains. I mean, he decided he wanted them after all, so maybe he'll also decide he doesn't want them to be like him"

"If we're lucky," Zelda said bitterly "We'll find the twins before his influence can affect them"

Link didn't reply. He doubted they'd get that lucky unless Vaati went and got himself pregnant again (which he doubted the Minish boy would ever let happen after the first time). If Vaati could beat them in their own castle, odds were they had no chance of invading wherever he lived and getting out with the babies.

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Ganondorf walked calmly back to the castle. It was an odd and terrifying sight to the Gerudo to see their king calm. It almost always meant he was brooding over something, and that someone may soon die.

Entering his own still-recovering-from-the-Minish-attack castle, he tried not to knock down a wall as he returned to his room. In his silent rage, he didn't notice the Gerudo behind him pass out, or all the other bodies he walked by.

It wasn't until he arrived at the heart of the castle where he slept that he began to feel dizzy. Looking around, he spotted the incense Vaati had placed earlier and quickly disposed of it, but it was too late. The fumes had had all night to spread through the castle, and Ganondorf soon lost consciousness like the rest of his followers.

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The following day, Dark groaned and dragged herself out of bed. Yawning, she swayed a little as she exited the small bedroom and entered the main room "I expec'ed you t' have a bigger place" she muttered "Ganondorf had a cas'le an' all. I jus' figured you'd be kinna like that"

"Do you object to the size of my house?" Vaati asked dryly. One of the twins sat in his lap, a bottle in her mouth as she drank. The other was at Vaati's side. His pale face was buried in his mother's tunic. Vaati was in his signature outfit, hat, cape, and all.

"Nah. Jus' took me by surprise. Ugh…" Dark put a hand to her head "Las' night's a big blur. Wha' happened? Why does my head hurt?"

"You decided to celebrate the twins being born and not being taken away by Link and Zelda" Vaati said. A grin was beginning to spread across his face "And you managed to drink 3 bottles of sake and a thing of wine before passing out. How, I don't know. Not only do people with the ability to take in that much alcohol amaze me, but I have no idea where you got all those drinks."

Dark thought long and hard, which made her head hurt worse "I bough' it" she replied "You took us to the village an' then we came here. I bought it n the village"

"Ah"

The little boy was waking up now. Upon spotting the bottle his sister was drinking out of, he started to cry. Soon both babies were on Vaati's lap drinking. Dark couldn't help but think Vaati was lucky neither were really all that big. Otherwise they wouldn't fit on his tiny lap.

"I came up with names for them" Vaati placed a hand on his son's head "This one is Ruo" Ruo looked up at Vaati's hand with curious blood red eyes "and this one" he moved his hand over to the daughter's head "Is Aki" Aki showed less interest in her father. Instead, her golden eyes darted around the room, examining her surroundings. Ruo would likely end up being the spitting image of his mother. There was a lavender fuzz on the top of his head. He even had the same markings under his eyes. Aki bore more resemblance toward her father. Though her skin wasn't by any means dark, it wasn't quite as light as her mother and brother's and her hair was the same shade of red as any Gerudo Dark had ever seen. She was also a little bigger than Ruo.

"Cute" Dark bent over and tickled Ruo, who giggled. Aki looked jealously at her brother before releasing her suction on the tip of the bottle and crying as loud as she could. Dark quickly covered her ears and whimpered.

Once Vaati had managed to calm Aki down he turned to Dark "You okay?"

"Hangover, I suppose. Did I really drink that much Sake?" Vaati gave him a look that clearly meant 'you certainly drank at least that much and if you drank more I wont tell you' "Ugh"

"Here" Vaati picked a spell book up off the floor (it was littered with them) and opened it up to a page near then end. As he whispered a quick chant, Dark felt her headache recede. "Better?"

"Lots" she looked back to the twins "They can make a lot of noise, though"

"They weren't that bad. You just had a headache so it sounded worse"

"I suppose. So, can I have one now?"

"Have one what?"

"A baby? Remember? You were going to get me pregnant"

"No!" Vaati said sternly "I never agreed to that. Besides, I…" he paused and reached into his bag "Here" he handed her a necklace "Take this. It's a thank you for helping me get them back"

Dark squealed and put it on. It didn't look to special. It was a golden charm with a string loop. Vaati could have just bought it in the village the previous night for ten rupees, but it was a gift from Vaati none the less. Her very first.

After a second of admiring it she paused "Wait, you don't think this'll get you out of it do you? Come on. Why can't I have a baby? I want one, and it's not like you'd have to go through pregnancy again"

"No"

"Why not?" Dark asked angrily.

"I…" Vaati blushed and looked away "Not having sex with someone" he muttered. It was so quietly Dark almost didn't hear it.

"So. I found a spell in one of you're books that we could use instead"

"No"

Dark huffed "Fine then. Do you have any clothes I can use? I'm sick of wearing Link;s stuff. It's all green. I hate green."

"Nothing of mine is your size" Vaati told her while Dark dumped the contents of his bag onto the already messy floor. Vaati seemed to be a believer in the bachelor rule that if you didn't have a girl living with you, there was no reason to keep the place looking nice, or even start cleaning it until you knew for sure she was staying. "Here" he bent over and picked up some fabrics that had fallen out of his bag when Dark shook it. Dark watched as they levitated then sew themselves together to from an outfit similar to Dark's regular one, though there didn't seem to be enough black cloth to make an exact memory.

"Thanks" Dark grabbed them out of the air and ran into the other room to change.

She came back out a minute later "Um, it's a little tight around my chest" she told him before looking around again "I'm a girl now, remember?"

Vaati leaned over and placed a hand on Dark's breasts, which vanished immediately "Wh-what? Vaati, what are you?"

"After the last disaster with trying to shape-shift myself, I don't really trust me to turn you back into a boy, but I can at least make you look like one."

"I don't get it, I thought you don't like boys"

"I don't. But Ganondorf doesn't like you as a girl"

"What do you mean?" Dark took a step back and looked around frantically for something to protect herself with should Vaati suddenly snap and attack her with magic like he had the day she'd shown him she'd changed genders. Her sword had been left in the bedroom. She picked up one of the spell books she'd dumped out of his bag instead.

"I'm sorry Dark, I'm sending you back with Ganondorf"

"But he-"

"I've erased his memories, and the memories of everyone else in the castle" Dark vaguely remembered Vaati leaving something fishy in Ganondorf's room and wondered if that was how. "He won't remember you're betrayal, or anything else after you asked to move close to Hyrule town. You'll be safer with him."

"But… but you managed to get the better of him-"

"With your help. And if he'd had any other servants with him it wouldn't have worked."

"B-but… but I want to stay with you. You're the one I love" she was beginning to cry "I can't pretend to be loyal to him! I love you! I'd just run away"

Vaati smiled sadly "I know. I'm erasing you're memories too, Dark."

"No!" she threw the book open and began to cast the spell on the page there. Vaati waited for a second, but nothing happened as Dark finished the chant. He didn't feel anything, and Dark didn't seem to either, because she looked around like she'd been expecting a dazzling light show.

"I'm sorry." Vaati whispered a soft chant, the same he'd used on Ganondorf when Link had been defending him early in his pregnancy. The pendant around Dark's neck glowed, and she slumped over on the ground.

"I really am sorry" Vaati told her unconscious form "It really does mean a lot to me that you felt that way, but this is for your own safety" the pendant was crumbling, having fulfilled its use. "I suppose I should at least give you something, since that memory charm wasn't much of a gift." He bent over and whispered something softly in Minish. A pendant with a black goldstone in the center formed at Dark's chest, and silver shot out of each side, wrapping around her neck and forming a necklace. "…good-bye"

A tear slipped down Vaati's cheek as Dark was warped away