A/N: Since I got so excited about Chapter 11's ending... I decided to start up Chapter 12 right after it! X3 You must admit that I am devoted to my Yaoi-ness in this story... just a little. XD I'm getting there.
Anyways... where was I? Oh yes. I didn't have too much of a cliffhanger last chapter. Second chapter out of 11 and a half chapters in total that didn't have a cliffhanger. XD
Maa maa maa anyway, for the chapter of 12! I must be ready and get... um what rhymes with twelve? XD
Roy: Oh gods... Just hurry up and type the chapter already!
Felix: Yes wench, hurry up and type it.
Not a wench! D8 (very sad)
Isaac: Hey! What about the disclaimer!?
Isaac, you're so slow, I haven't been typing that thing in almost 3-4 chapters straight... I think they already know by now that I don't own you, Felix, Roy, Marth, Ryu, Rei, Midna and Link... sheesh. BUT I do own you... in this fic (evil grin)
Isaac: o.o (flees)
XD Anyways, chapter time.
Once again, the sun rises and awakens the tired young hylian. For SOME reason, he just wakes with the sun, and everyday, he finds it very odd. He sat up slowly, rubbing his eyes, yawning large and stretching. He crawled out of his tent with minial layers on his body, searching the other's tents. They were all asleep still like little children, the young elf smiled to himself and went to prepare breakfast.
Link slipped on his boots easily, grabbed his bow and arrows and went ahead to search for something meat-like.
"hmm... I remember seeing some... boar thing around here... Then again, there was a nice fishing spot I spotted too. Maybe fried fish sounds better than just raw and charred meat..." Link said to himself, backtracking to the campsite, and getting his special fishing net a little boy from his village name Colin made for him.
Just as Link was leaving, the young man Felix and Isaac found last night was awakened by the silent sounds of the wind and footsteps. He shot up rather quickly, examining everything around him.
"eh...? What... what is this...?!" he spoke aloud a tad bit, in some language unable to be understood. The blue-head crawled out of the tent, afraid of what may have became of him if he stayed any longer. Rushingly, he put his boots on, took his cape, scabbard and ran in the same direction as Link.
"I... I need to find help...! I may have been kidnapped... Sheeda... Kain... Abel... Where are you!? Where am I!?"
When he found Link fishing, he quietly approached him, tapping him on the shoulder. "Ex...excuse me sir..."
"...hn? Whoa!" Link was half scared and almost lost his fish. He was reeling it in, but it looked like it was going in for a fight. The hylian stood up and braced himself. "Alright fish. You're asking for it!"
The young man didn't quite understand Link, so he continued to speak. "My name is Marth... King Marth of Altea. Are you fishing...? Do you need help...?"
"Augh! Damn fish!" Link yelled, then he turned to the young man, looking at him. "Hey...! Can you help me over here?"
"...? Pardon...? What did you say...?" Marth asked, still not understanding Link's odd language, but only getting the motion of Link's mouth moving.
"Hunh...? I didn't quite understand you—Gah!"
Link was about to fall into the water, but Marth caught him quickly by his shirt. The hylian smiled in relief, reeling in the fish while Marth was holding onto him and pulling him closer to the trees. They succeeded easily; one big fish on the line!
"Yeah!" Link cheered, then patted Marth on the back. "Thanks for the help! My name's Link, what's yours?"
" ...? Hmm...? What... did you say...? I didn't understand... " Marth looked at Link, frowning as he couldn't understand anything he was saying... again. He tilted his head questioningly, and his pure solid blue eyes marked themselves on the spot. Link, puzzeled by what Marth was saying, frowned himself.
"I... don't understand you... Um..." he scratched his head, then thought of some sign language idea. He first pointed at himself, and Marth, in his own tongue, spoke up. "You...?" He said, pointing at Link.
The hylian nodded, seeing as if whatever Marth said meant "me"; he grabbed a random stick and wrote "N-A-M-E" on the sand, pointing to it. The young man looked down, and what that said to him looked like something in his language so he replied; "Namae...? Onamae?"
Link guessed he was trying to say "name" and went ahead and spelled his name very slowly on the same, then pointing at himself again.
Marth, really trying to read this new bunch of letters he was seeing, kept staring into the sand.
"L...L...rin..." he said, trying to roll his tongue for the "L" part in the name.
The hylian walked towards Marth, tapping him to look up at him. "L-ink" he said, as slowly as possible. The young bluehead, trying to mimic him, repeated, in the same, slow tone as Link; "...L...L...rink..u..."
"...hmm that's close enough..." Link nodded in approval, which made the bluenette smile.
"I see now. His name is Rinku... I can't seem to understand him... but maybe if I do those hand signals like he did, maybe I can get him to say my name..." the young king said to himself, thinking of how to do this, since his name was... so hard to pronounce. He tapped Link and then took his stick, writing his own name in his language in the sand.
Link looked down in the sand, and wondered what the hell the symbol things meant. It was if it was spelling "M-to-vu-" and some weird "U" shape. "Uh..." Link started, trying to guess what it was saying. Marth pointed to himself, and then with his other arm, pointing to the symbols in the ground, slowly saying it too.
"Ma-ru-su. Marusu. That is my name." he said, in what seemed like clear english to Link, but not. And Marth rolling his tongue like an "L" and "R" sound at "RU" when pointing and saying it. He also noticed he did that when he was saying "Link"...
"Mars...?" Link said, thinking he heard wrong, and the second time Marth said "Marusu" it sounded really clear as "Mars". The young king thought Link said his name right, so he nodded too.
"Wow. I think we're getting the hang of this." The hylian smiled, picking up the big fish they caught. He looked at it, and thought it was a good idea to bring "Mars" along for breakfast. Plus, there was enough fish for everyone. He looked to Marth, holding up the fish, and then rubbing his belly. Marth understood this as "Are you hungry?" motion and nodded sheepishly.
With that in mind, Link grabbed the fish he caught, placed them into a handy bag, and went towards the camp, with Marth following. Speaking of Marth, the young king was getting very suspicious of the way Link was taking him. He looked around, noticing the same trees he bypassed earlier to escape his captivity... so he thought.
"... This is... very strange. I could've sworn I came this way... " he spoke softly to himself, but to only be heard by Link in front of him.
"Yeah, I bet you can't wait for this fish to be cooked. I make some mean fried fish."
When Link and Marth approached the campsite, the others were actually awake. Surprisingly...
"Whoa you guys are all up... I thought I got up really early..." Link said, and everyone eyeing him.
"Yeah we are up..." Rei yawned. "Mmm is that fish?"
"Yes it is... I forgot you were a tiger-figure..."
"Heheh. So who's your friend?"
As soon as Rei said that, Isaac and Felix stared straight at Marth. They looked at each other, and mentally they were slapping each other.
"It...it's that guy!" Isaac said, pointing to Marth.
Ryu turned and looked at him too. "Really? This is our missing companion...? The one you two were talking about this morning?"
"Yeah... I guess he got up and left." Felix replied, "Thankfully, he ran into Link. Thanks Link..."
"...um... you're welcome...?" he smiled a little and then sat down, motioning for Marth to do the same, who was alittle frightened by the sudden yelling of Isaac and his pointing. "Guys, this is Mars. And he doesn't speak our language apparently."
"Lovely..." Felix sighed sarcastically. "Now we'll probably need some sort of translator for him... I assume you'll be that, Link...?"
"Uh... I don't think so. I can barely understand him myself..."
"...oh."
The others sat down as well, still puzzeled at everything. Ryu, unfortunately, wasn't going to let this all go right there. "So how did you find out his name...? Telepathy...?"
"Actually, he told me... really slowly, in what I assumed was his own language and took a really big guess... and got it right."
"Wow... talk about luck..."
"Yeah totally... Well, let me make this fish so we can all eat and discuss later."
The others nodded in agreement and decided to talk the whole situation over after breakfast. Besides, who wants to eat on an empty stomach ANYWAYS?
"Alright guys, eat up!" Link said cheerfully, handing each male his own slice of fried fish he easily made.
"Right on! I'm like starving..." Rei jeered, gratefully taking his slice from Link. "Mmm just how I like 'em too!"
"Thank you, Link!" Isaac piped up, smashing on his piece.
"Yes, thank you. You've been a wonderful cook to us thus far..." Ryu smiled, taking his piece and doing the same as Isaac.
"Mmm... fish..." Felix said hypnotizingly, melting his teeth into his meal.
"You are all welcome." The hylian said, handing Marth's his share and then getting his own slice and settling down. The young king took it, and smiled, bowing to Link.
"This smells wonderful! Thank you, Rinku." he said, then munching carefully. The others looked to the hylian, wondering what their new companion just said.
"Hmm... I think he was thanking me for the food..." Link replied to them, and when Marth turned his head to Link, the green-clad merely nodded in approval as in saying "you're welcome."
"I really wish we could understand him..." the blonde adept mumbled through his smashing. He received a nice elbow to the gut by his older peer. "Ow! Felix, what was THAT for?!"
"No talking with your mouth full. It's so impolite..." he replied, getting blue-diamond eyes glaring back.
"Oy..." Link said with a sweatdrop, "I really wish we could understand him too. Midna, what do you think...?"
The twilight Princess emerged from Link's shadow as quick as her name was said, helped herself to the fish, and sat down next to him. "Mmm, maybe I could help you all translate him..."
"Oh? That'd be really awesome—what's Mars doing?" Ryu asked, interrupting himself. All eyes turned to the young king, who, when Midna appeared from nowhere, caused him to jump up, unsheath his blade and point it at Midna from a distance.
"De-demon!? How long have you been possessing my good friend Rinku!?" he yelled in his tongue, his body trembling in fear. Everyone stared at him, and he looked back at them, wondering why they would not defend themselves against this "demon" that appeared from nowhere. Maybe... they can't see... it? Maybe I am the only one that can and they are just confused? That MUST be it! Marth thought to himself, readying himself to strike. I will protect them from harm!
"Prepare to be purified to your saintly, demon!" Marth cried, rushing at Midna, which then caused Link to raise his shield from nowhere and... well shield Midna from his attacks. After Marth finished his fifth combo attack, he found his newfound friends standing up, looking kind of upset or really confused.
"Wh-what's going on!? Rinku, why are you protecting that demon!?" Marth cried again, pointing at Midna from behind the hylian.
"Whoa whoa whoa, what the HELL is going on?" Felix blasted, trying to figure out WHY Marth suddenly attacked.
"Yeah seriously! Is he a spy!? That maybe understands us but is using a different language?" Rei popped up, cracking his knuckles, "because spies are as dead as a barren tree to me!"
"...I don't appreciate friends who backfire on us... especially the really new ones." the young dragon said, retreiving his blade from its slumbering sheath blanket.
"I say that was really rude!" Isaac pouted in, glaring at Marth, "You should be ashamed of yourself, Mars! That was really... mean what you just did you know."
Marth was totally confused. He heard Isaac say his name, but that was all he could make out of everything else he was saying. He had no idea what was going on and why they suddenly looked angry at him. "Wh-why are you all so angry? I... I was only protecting you! What did I do wrong...?"
"Wait guys! Don't jump to conclusions...!" Link said, putting his shield down. "Maybe... Mars is very... not used to Midna popping up out of nowhere and he was only defending himself!"
"...well that seems kind of reasonable..." Ryu said, putting his sword back into his sheath.
"That does... but how can we be certain if that's true, Link...?" the brunette asked, looking at him with serious eyes, again.
Link sighed, closing his eyes, "I...don't know. All I know... is what I feel that you shouldn't do to him. He... probably doesn't understand us... and is only doing what is right in his mindset!"
"Hmm..."
"Link, you are correct though. You're little friend is only doing what he thinks is right... which is to protect you all from me..." Midna spoke up, with her leaving from Link's body-guard shield. "I'll be happy to translate for you..." She looked to Marth, approaching him rather slowly. He backed away from her, in the same manner, very slowly, as she came closer to him. "Stay back! I will use my divine blade to punish your soul, you... you filthy—!"
"Do not worry, little king, I will not hurt you." She said, easily in his tongue, ignoring his insults for the time.
"...!" This caught Marth by suprise, and he yielded his steps, a tad bit. "...You... you know this language I speak? But you are a demon!"
"I just know it because I've been stalking you for some time. Now then... I am Midna, Princess of Twilight. If you will allow me to grant you the voice of the language Link speaks, then just tell me now." Marth fell silent, his eyes stunned before him, as he recognized her beauty. He stood up straighter, his sword falling and his eyes closing slowly, taking slow deep breaths as he began to speak again.
"... I did not... know you were a Princess. I am truly sorry... what language is this you are willing to... give me Milady Midna...?" the dark bluenette asked, bowing very low to her, then sheathing his sword, which was visible to everyone else, who weren't understanding a thing they were saying... literally.
"Good boy." Midna smiled, blinked, and spoke again. "Whatever it's true name is called, but they call it the modern tongue. Just be warned that this is a permanent thing to your vocal cords. You won't be losing your native tongue at all... but this new one will help you most definitely..."
"I see... then I would like to have this new speech so that I may understand Link, and that he may understand me. I don't want them confused any longer of what I say and do!"
"Alright. Come."
Marth took a deep breath, approaching Midna carefully, entering a small world of shadows when he closed his eyes. She touched him, putting her hands on his shoulders for a few moments. When she let go, his eyes opened, as if he were reborn alive as someone else.
"...Well? Does it work...?" Midna asked in his tongue, to be safe.
"I... don't... know. Let me try it..." he replied, shaking the nervous from his voice and spoke up a little bit in a soft tone, "...h...hello...? You... understand me now...?"
"Hey! Yeah we do now...!" Isaac smiled, removing himself from the negativity he was building up earlier. "Cool! Midna must have done something awesome for this to happen!"
Marth smiled easily, his eyes looking brighter than before, as he was able to understand Isaac and his voice this time. He looked to everyone else, then to Link especially, "How... about... you?"
"We can hear you clear as day, Mars, sir." Ryu replied, smiling too.
Rei put his hands down, sat down himself, and continued to feast on his slice of fish. "Mmm yeah, you sound the same... but it's better."
Felix, following Rei's actions, held a thumbs up to him, and when his mouth wasn't full of fish, he spoke. "Indeed. It's much lighter sounding than when you weren't speaking this modern tongue..."
"Mmm... thank you..."
"Yeah..." Link sighed in relief, now that nobody is going to kill each other this morning. Then, something in the back of his mind clicked. "Oh yeah! Mars, I forgot to introduce everyone..."
"...oh?"
"I'm Isaac, a Venus adept from Vale." the blonde teen spoke up first.
"Felix. Venus adept from Vale too."
"I'm Rei, a tiger from Cedar woods..." He left out "were-" in front of "tiger" so he wouldn't scare Marth any more than he did.
"You already know my name, but I'm Link from Ordon to specify some more."
"Oh, and I'm Ryu, the last species of the Brood dragon clan. I'm with Rei here, but you can also say I have another homeland..."
"...you're a dragon?!" Marth's eyes widened on Ryu, staring at him, and wondering how a cute little teen of his age be something so terrible. Wait, did I say "cute"? Yes, he thought so...
"...um... yes I am. Is... that a bad thing for me to be one...?"
"...! Oh...n-no it's not. It's just... well, it surprised me and..." Marth started, sweating a little, then looked away for a second. Holy shit, he's a dragon! What the hell am I supposed to do?! Gaaah!
"Did I say something wrong...?" the young bluenette asked, while sitting down and eating his fish in worry.
Marth spun around quickly when he heard Ryu speak. "N-no... you didn't. I'm just... nausetic at the time... Ah..."
The young lizard boy jumped a little when he saw how fast Marth turn around and faced him, smiling so easily and nervously at the same time. "...uh... okay." Yes, you can tell he was freaked out a little. He light blue hair swayed with the small chilly morning air, and silence befell them again, only for a short while...
"...ahem... Well, I should tell you who I am.. .And to be proper about it..." the young king spoke up, getting a sigh of relief from his audience. "My name is Marth, of Altea." He personally left out king in his title for the time being.
"Marth? Oh... so I assume Mars was... wrong?" Link asked, feeling kind of dumb.
"Mmm... not so much... that is how my name is pronounced in my language... so you were, in a way, correct."
"I... see... Please continue."
"Very well... I am Altea's current king, and just about a few days ago, I heard this voice appear him my dreams... I thought I was... in some nightmare-ish place... This floating object came from nowhere... and told me my dreams were interrupting some sort of connection—"
"Connection...?" Isaac asked, lifting his head from his breakfast.
"Floating object? WTF..." Felix asked after, then thinking for a quick second. "Wait... describe that floating object..."
"Alright, I'll try... It was... a gray boulder thing, that was floating on some magic...and it only had one eye like a cyclops... and the eye was pure blue... It was really... creepy..."
The Venus adepts looked at each other, their ears burning in surprise. They yelled together; "WISE ONE!"
"Wise... One? Is that what it's called...?"
"Uh... yeah it is, your Higness..." Felix spoke.
"Isaac, do you know this being too?"
"Uh-hunh..." the blonde adept nodded his head. "It... well... um..."
"To make a long story short," the brunette began, "The Wise One is like... our ruler. Where Isaac and I hail from... the Wise One is our protector. Much like the goddesses of Hyrule to Link."
"Hmm, Yes... exactly like that..." the hylian replied, remembering the time when he told the adepts of the goddesses.
"I see... so what was the Wise One doing in my...dreams...?"
"...Oh. You were probably the interference... that it was mentioning about last night."
"Inter...ference? I interrupted something by dreaming...?"
"Mmm... the Wise One said you were interfering with its connection with us two. So I guess you could say you were, sir... we apologize."
"It's alright... But then I was sucked into this portal thing... and now I'm here."
"heh yeah... Me, Felix and Link landed on Ryu just about 5 nights ago..."
"...so are we supposed to... meet...? Like this?" young king Marth asked, his face confused as ever.
"I'd believe so... this is... really new to me..." Ryu said, finishing his meal. "Perhaps this is just mere coincidence that this is happening..."
"Maybe it's the work of all of our enemies and this Wise One is putting us together to stop them... Like a big fat test of faith." Rei added.
"That's... probably the case..." the hylian replied. "But... we should worry about this after breakfast."
"I would think so too..." Midna said, finishing her slice and slipping back into Link's shadow for the time. Marth looked at him with a question mark above his head, and the hylian gave him the look of "I'll-tell-you-later". The king nodded, sitting down, thinking it was best they discuss it later.
Breakfast was over in less than fifteen minutes, and everyone remained silent during that time until everything was eaten. The leftover slices were oblitterated in seconds, the adepts volunteered to wash the plates off this time, while the others took down camp, just to give Link a minor break from washing.
"Washing dishes is really fun..." Isaac said, taking off his gloves, rolling up his sleeves and holding a plate in the rushing river water. "I can't see why Mom hates doing them sometimes..."
"Because mothers are usually the ones stuck doing them..." Felix added, taking off his gloves and rolling up his sleeves as well. "This kind of stuff is for women anyways." He carefully held a plate in the water too, using his hand to wash it.
"Yeah... but my Dad sometimes does them... When my mom is like tired."
"My father does them... most of the time, because my mom cooks most of the time. Me and Jenna take turns..."
"I wish I had... a little sister... or brother."
"Didn't you treat Ivan and Sheba like that once...? And Garet especially..."
"Me and Garet are the same age. I thought you knew that, Felix-y..."
Felix's face jumped to a shade of hot pink when Isaac said the forbidden nickname. I thought he would NEVER say that name... EVER. Again. He thought, keeping his face hidden between his long hair. His eyes remained closed for the remainder of the time, until something sparked up between them again, which did, thanks to the blonde.
"You know, I never got to tell you what that word meant to me..."
"...you also didn't ever tell me why you called me that god forbidden name either..."
"Well, because you never asked that's why!"
"Why would I want to ask... such a silly question? You always told me things on your mind..."
"Yeah... but I thought you'd be curious and come ask me why I call you that."
"It never occurred to me that I would have to, since it's by instinct that you come to me and ask."
"...oh. I guess you have a point." the blonde replied, taking the last plate and rinsing it off thoroughly. "But..."
"But... what?" Felix asked, drying off the plates that were clean. NOW he was curious as to what was being said...
"...Felix... I call you that name because..." he stopped short. The brunette's heart was pounding. He felt that whatever Isaac was about to say, was going to be true. Would he finally confess and say that he loved him? Or... would he reject everything they've been through...? All this time they spent together... this was only some mere test the Wise One put them through. He faced the blonde with a calmness about him, but more so, in a nervous manner. When Isaac turned to him, he merely smiled.
"...it's... because... I have feelings for you."
Stunned, shocked, and more so, thankful. They were getting somewhere finally... A sigh of relief overwhelmed the brunette, just slightly.
"...I see. You waited all these years to tell me now, hunh? Figures you would." Felix stated bluntly, keeping his serious tone in check, to make sure Isaac found no evidence that he was grateful he said such things. The blonde sighed heavily, feeling what he said didn't even nudge a dent on Felix's heart, which in fact it did, but he'd never show it... yet.
Felix... what am I going to do with you...? I know I kissed you last night... but... did that have any effect at all...? Isaac closed his eyes, and thought to himself, having a sort of soliloquy. I just... want you happy...
Just when Isaac was done, Felix finished drying the plates. When he did, he collected them and stood up. "I'm taking these back to Link..."
"I...alright..." the blonde replied, rather sadly. The brunette nodded, turned around and walked away, his long hair behind him with the chilling breeze. Isaac knew he was infatuated by his older peer, and he just ignored the fuzzy feeling inside his stomach for so long. It all started back when they were children...
"I can't see... why this is all happening. Why couldn't our problems be solved another way?" he sighed, rolling down his sleeves and putting his gloves back on. Before he put his right glove on, he noticed the scar on it. Felix had healed it no more than a few days ago... or what seemed like years ago to him, and it was barely there.
Perhaps it is just the Golden Sun I possess... I mean. Mia can heal this great too... but that... that healed really quick than hers... Ugh... WHY did the Wise One CURSE me with this half of the Golden Sun? WHY me? It makes me feel SO abnormal...!
Isaac didn't notice, that the more anger he had, the more windier the breeze was getting around him. His inability to adapt to this mysterious overwhelming power that lied deep inside him kept him thinking if he was ever going to return to his normality of an adept again. But then again, ever since he touched the Mars star from the inner Sol Sanctum, he had never been normal in that entire year...well so much for that. God damn that Wise One, hunh? Sneaking a bit of the Golden Sun's power inside the Mars star for Isaac to JUST get ahold of it ahead of time and then bam! Right in the end... it just had to happen...
I was better off when Sol Sanctum was going to explode... with me and Garet inside it... Wise One could've saved Garet and the Mars star after I touched it and left me in there... to die. Seriously...! I'm never ever going to be normal again... my life with this wretched power is going to cost me its limits, I swear...
"I'm back, Link... and you guys are done with the camp being down too."
Link and the others turned around, facing the brunette with smiles. Felix placed the clean plates in Link's apparently dark green bag, then turned around to get more faces, this time in the question mark.
"...where's your little buddy Isaac?" the weretiger asked, fidgeting with his headband to keep it in place. "Didn't he go off with you...?"
"...hmm he did... maybe he forgot something... I'll go back and retrieve him. Just wait a little longer, alright?" Felix said, remembering to take his sword with him just in case. The others nodded, and waited as the brunette disappeared beyond the trees... again.
"Is it me, or do they seem really close?" Ryu asked out of the blue, knowing he sensed something from Felix. All eyes turned to the lighter bluenette and he continued, "I mean, really, am I the only one sensing this odd feeling? I could've sworn something was up with them, the moment I laid my eyes on those two..."
"Mmm... I'm not really too sure about that... Ryu. But I do have a hunch at what you're getting at..." Marth replied, folding Felix's tent he borrowed last night and into Link's other handy bag, that was kind of brown-ish.
"Ryu, I feel you on that. When they were in my place, they were huggled together so peacefully, it was as if they loved each other." Link smiled, collecting Isaac's folded tent and stashing it into his bag as well as his own. "Not being girly about this, but it seemed... rather cute."
"Cute you say?" Midna giggled as she reappeared again from the hylian's shadow. "No wonder... they are bonded so well then."
"...Midna, you sound like you're onto something..."
"Mmm maybe because I am, Link."
"Oh dear."
Felix trotted carefully and quietly back to the spot Isaac and him were at when they cleaned the dishes. He felt like this was dejavu, as this type of thing, he could've sworn already happened once. As he approached the setting, he expected Isaac to not be there, but sure enough, he was, just staring at the water, at his reflection.
He didn't dare try to step any closer to the blonde, as he felt he was going to be speaking to himself soon...
"Did I make him angry...?" Yep, Felix was right, Isaac was speaking to himself...
"I mean... did I say something wrong? I know he's always so... blunt and everything, but did I really push his feelings in this time? What did I do wrong?"
...you did nothing wrong... I just can't seem to release any feeling for you yet, as you might reject me... Felix thought to himself, hoping the blonde did NOT feel that... thankfully he didn't, as he kept talking out loud to himself.
"Is it this Golden Sun power of mine that drives you away from me?" No. "Is it because I act so childishly around everyone else?" No... it doesn't...
"What... makes you look the way you do? You seem so heartless nowadays..." I do...? I never really noticed. "I always wanted you to look happy... like on the day when Vale was restored to peace." Why...? I wish I knew why...
"I really want to know your answers to my questions... Felix, I really wish I could tell you how I really feel about you. It's driving me insane..."
You're...not the only one being driven insane... Isaac, my love, I'm going crazy by not telling you anything... the brunette looked away, knowing his telepathy were silent amongst all of Isaac's questions. He continued to listen, as the saddening voice returned... with snot and tears. Oh joy...
"Why... why do you keep pushing me away...? Why won't you let me come into your heart and find a place in it...?" Mmm... you do... but it's... me that needs a place in yours...
"I am stupid. I am a fool... I look like some stupid idiot in your face when I talk to you. I don't know what it is... about you that compells me to be attached to you. It... when I kissed you last night, it made me feel... different. It made me feel like a whole new person..."
Now THAT little statement perked up the older Venus adept a lot. Wait a minute... he kissed me last night? His head tilted and his face was blushing worse than before. He would have never known that if he weren't dead asleep... nor Isaac had to sink that low before...
Why didn't he wake me—ah never mind, that's besides the point... sigh... I'll knock him out of this before it gets... too bad. He thought again, coming from the shadowy trees behind Isaac and tapped him lightly. "...I think... it's time for us to go now..."
"...! ah!" Isaac jumped, nearly falling into the river, but Felix caught him by the arm quickly. "F-felix!" His heart was pounding, his mind was racing... if he heard any of that... "D-did... you hear any of that—what I said...?"
"Sorry if I scared you. Let's go." the brunette said cooly, hoisting Isaac to his feet, and turning around walking away slowly. The blonde knew something was fishy, but tried to leave it alone. He ran after his elder peer, drying the tears and snot from his eyes and nose.
"Felix! Please... answer me. Did you hear anything... I said...? I want to know!" he asked again, almost demanding an answer of any sort. The brunette turned around fiercely, and punched Isaac right in the mouth.
"Ow!" he clasped his hands over his mouth, the swelling bleeding appearing. His confused blue eyes met with welling up tears of the brunette's. "What was THAT for...?! I didn't—!"
Before the blonde knew it, Felix had placed his lips on his, breathing really hard, and his arms wrapped around his neck tightly. Felix... was crying. CRYING. Isaac fell frozen on the spot; he didn't know what was happening and why this suddenly started occurring just now. But whatever this was, in the back of his mind, he was enjoying every bit of this. Of course this was not what he wanted, but not like he cared... too much. Though, something else in his mind was telling him "NOT YET! PUSH HIM AWAY!" and by that instinct, the blonde pushed Felix off him after about 1 minute of their kiss.
"...don't... expect me to do that ever again. Son of a bitch." Felix said, his tears even more visible now. He walked away, drying off his face before approaching camp again.
Isaac looked straight ahead, figuring out why the hell the brunette did that and what caused it. His mind was all confused and he decided to just leave him alone, for the time being. He casted a weak Cure on his lip, trying to cease the bleeding and went ahead to the others too.
"Isaac, what happened? Why is Felix like... so different?" Ryu asked first when the blonde came near them, and took note on how fast Felix bypassed them and went on ahead to secure the road with Rei.
"Yeah and what happened to your lip?" Link added.
"Uh... I don't know why. I think I said something to upset him. And my lip, I... hurt myself on accident..." he lied, knowing it was going to work.
"Oh..." the young dragon replied, feeling at ease a little more.
"You should be more careful next time, Isaac." Link said, getting the bags tied up and stashing them (somehow) in his pockets. "Mmm but we should be going ahead with them so they don't leave us behind."
"Ah... alright then." Isaac replied, picking up his sword and its scabbard, sheathing his sword.
The other two bluenettes nodded, Midna returned to Link's shadow once again, and the foursome ran ahead to catch up with Felix and Rei.
"So, our destination is to make it to Wyndia, right?" Link asked, as they were within a few feet away from the twosome scouters.
"That was the plan..." Ryu said, turning his head to the hylian. "We were going to take a little shortcut to Wyndia though, so we could make it in about three hours rather than two and a half days."
"Oh. So this is what you were saying yesterday right? You and Rei?"
"Yep. We're planning to go see Emaiti and his little house near Dauna Mines..."
"Miiiiinnnnessss..." Isaac hissed under his breath while Ryu continued anyways.
"I think it'd be okay if the old man would allow us to use that teleporter underneath his house again..."
"Hunh...? Teleporter?" the hylian's face looked in question. Marth was also confused in this whole situation, but decided to remain quiet until he was filled in with more information, as he hoped he would.
"WTH... What is that?" Isaac asked as well, not knowing too much of machinery that was used in this world.
"We'll show you when we get there, come on...!"
The others caught up to Rei and Felix, who stopped near the Orge Road sign. It was then, that Marth spoke up.
"So... anyone want to fill me... in on some information as to what is supposed to happen?"
"Oh yeah, it didn't occur to me. Sorry... um, your Majesty..." the yung dragon said, bowing a little. Marth shook his head, merely smiling again, "It's alright... you don't need to call me by the title. Just Marth will do... really."
"Okay then. We are planning to go to a big city called Wyndia. It's actually about a few days walk from where we are standing, but Rei and I are going to lead us to a shortcut to Wyndia. It's through a rather convienent way..."
"Oh... Well, then is it alright if I accompany you all...?"
"It's not a problem at all, Marth sir... we'd love to have your company..." Rei said with a wink.
"Plus, with you, we have another strong person at our disposal... so you'd actually be of use to us later on." Link added.
"That... and you wouldn't know where to go if you stayed here by yourself..." Isaac pointed out.
"...also figuring out where you would go would be very dangerous. And the Wise One confirmed to Isaac and myself that you are to be here with us... so you have to come." Felix added, biting his tongue when he said Isaac's name.
"I... see... I'm glad I'll be of use to you all, while I am here. I hope we can all settle whatever test this may be and... hopefully return to our rightful places." the young king said, as he sighed in relief.
"Me too." Link replied after, wishing Epona was here with them in some cases.
"Hate to cut the chatter between us, but let's go. I'm itching to find out what happens after we breach Wyndia." the weretiger said with a yawn. The others nodded and waited for Ryu to lead the way.
"Yeah... well come on. Follow me if you will!"
A/N: Mwaaa... finally... DONE with this chappy. 83
Isaac: WTH
Shut up Isaac! I made you the way you are is because I'm evil and because... I'm EVIL!
Isaac: T.T
Nah, just kidding. I made him the way he is... because well it sounded cute to me in my brain... That's all... XD No offense...
Isaac: It's okay. (shoves Marth off the Wii and plays the gold Ike) I want my assist trophy self to appear from nowhere and Kill people!
Oh dear...
Anyways, I have been listening to VARIOUS songs while typing this chapter...! Really, mostly Breath of Fire 3 and 4 and Legend of Zelda TP music and Fire Emblem 1 music and Golden Sun music... XD
Felix: ...well seeing as those characters from those series ARE in this CHAPTER.
Shush.
But yeah. The fishing part I so totally had to listen to "Even the sun's Happy" XD and yeah... I'll stop now. PRETTY PLEASE REVIEW. LOOK ISAACFELIX YAOI LOVERS I MADE ANOTHER KISSING SCENE. YAY (shot)
And no, this is NOT a cliffhanger! DO NOT PANIC. Just review and hope that my doggy Ladye will not eat my rough draft of OtO chapter 13 this time... Yes I called it OtO... it makes a really strange face on the computer. XD aahhh I crack myself up sometimes...
But please review! I'm begging and on my knees!
Felix: No she's not. She's just typing chapter 13—and sitting at her computer.
Not really... I have chores! XD But mentally I'm begging. Anyways... Wait for chapter 13 ya'll!
Felix: It'll be in the next century when you update it too...
grrr... I'm onto you, geo-loser brunette... I'm onto you... (glares at him)