Down from the Heavens she came...

[abrasivebeauty]

Who: Zelda (abrasivebeauty) and you
When: 05/02 - Early Evening
What: She's found herself in a whole new world foreign land. The woman's on a mission, however, and she has her trusty Loftwing to accompany her.
Where: All over the academy's campus and the town.
Warnings: Here? You must be teasing.


She walked steadily, her right hand against the large feathered companion at her side. With plumes of deep blue, she thought him a majestic creature indeed. Impressive and strong, except at night. Zelda remembered the warnings and her training at the academy. Loftwings couldn't see well at night. It was only too expected that she'd press his limits too far. Fortunately, the consequence was a rather shaky landing on grass, which she appreciated.

"That could have gone worse," she reassured her feathered friend. "Now then, we should at least rest for the night."

Zelda took her eyes off of the Loftwing and with a scouting gaze, peered around. Grand monuments, intricate design, green grass, and a seemingly warm atmosphere. She had no idea where she was. Places like this had never been seen on the surface and she was most certain that during her pilgrimage she hadn't seen anything like it before. How had she gotten so far off track, however? In one moment, she had been so sure, but the next...

She didn't know at all, anymore.

"Come on then," Zelda continued - perhaps more for herself than the over-sized bird. "Even if he's not here, at least we can say we looked and take to the skies tomorrow."

Comments

[givemeyouranswerdo]

Who was this familiar looking girl? And what's with the giant bird? Let's find out!

Daisy approached casually. "Hi there!" she greeted. "Are you lost?"

[abrasivebeauty]

Zelda blinked as she brought her attention onto Daisy. What an odd looking girl. And... look at those ears. They weren't like hers at all! She looked over to her Loftwing and then back to Daisy before she tipped her head.

"I guess I am," she admitted. "I was looking for someone, but I'm not sure this is the right place." Rather than giving a frown, she tapped at her chin with thought, "Can you tell me where I am?"

[givemeyouranswerdo]

"Well, right now you're in Smash Academy," Daisy explained. "Who are you looking for? Maybe I can help."

[abrasivebeauty]

"A boy," Zelda began. After a moment of hindsight, she realised she should be less hasty and more informative. A boy to this brunette could have been anyone, after all. "He's wearing all green. His hair is like yours, but more brown, I think. He wears a hat, and carries a sword. He would have come with a rather large red bird."

[givemeyouranswerdo]

Daisy thought for a few moments. A boy who wore green, with a hat and sword, sounded a bit like Link. But with a giant bird? "I don't think I've seen who you're looking for," she commented, crossing her arms. "But I'll keep my eyes open!"

How about the forest?

[shootmedown]

Another girl seemingly lost. Were the hands really true to their word about these outsiders going back to their own realms or whatever or was she genuinely from around here... dimensionally speaking. Not that it mattered. With the portal closed, the lady and her giant majestic turkey were in this town to stay.

He felt rather compelled to spew a comment about a wandering innocent girl and her turkey, but matters of people he don't know are usually none of his business, so he's a terrible ice breaker.

He did stop to observe where they were going from here.

As for what a 5' lizard was doing in the woods, he had just finished taking care of business for an upcoming class. also had to do with giant birds, but they are now well hidden until class. For now.

This is a-oh-kay! ♥♥

[abrasivebeauty]

Giant majestic turkey... Zelda might have had something to say about that. Except she had no idea. At least, not quite yet. And in hindsight, it was hardly going to be the last time someone thought that.

At least, anyone who wasn't from Skyloft. Which... was precisely what the 5' lizard was. And Zelda had seen some things during her trip. But... She'd never seen anyone like him. Or her. She couldn't tell from where she was standing.

Had she really landed in such a foreign world? One with walking lizards? Perhaps... talking ones? Holding an arm out to the side, she glanced over her shoulder to her Loftwing, as though to simply warn it to keep a couple of paces behind. And then she chose to approach Leon out of curiosity and a straight forward type of charm.

"Excuse me. I don't suppose you could tell me where 'this' is," and by 'this', she gestured to their surroundings.

Whoo!

[shootmedown]

"This is called a forest, madam."

The Lizalfos reject smiled. Way to go, asshole.

Maybe at the school gates?

[breaks_pots]

Link wasn't close enough to get a sense of deja vu off the woman. And even if he was, his attention was wholly on the giant purple-blue bird. That thing was a big as the Gerudo King, but with a larger landing space should he decide to jump down from his vantage point on the School Gates...

The thought barely passes through his head before he totally makes that jump. Navi following along in yellow alarm behind him, chiming with concern.

I approve! Beware the bucking Loftwing!

[abrasivebeauty]

Of all the things to expect...

Her Loftwing hadn't expected the younger blond boy and frankly, neither was Zelda. It was the squawk she heard first, which caused her to whip around quickly. Her eyes investigated quickly and found what she thought to be the reason for such a sound to come in otherwise much silence.

"What are you--" she began to protest. It probably would have wound up interrogative, but she hadn't gotten very far when her Loftwing jerked, pushing upward with its strong legs. "Oh, you," Zelda managed to push out as she gave her Loftwing a look.

But that wasn't about to guarantee Link any sort of safe landing if he didn't have a strong grasp on her feathered friend.

Oh Noes!

[breaks_pots]

That was not the expected reaction. Link didn't know what kind of reaction he expected, actually, but he wasn't really able to think about that at the moment. His reaction to the bucking instinctive as Navi dipped in wide arcs through the air around the two, chiming in continued panic.

Link threw his arms out and grasped at what he could with his hands. Unfortunately the only thing he could try and grab were the feathers on the Loftwing's back. But they slipped through his fingers as his body lifted with the toss.

Up, up, up he went!

And then down, down, down...

DON'T WORRY; ZELDA WILL SAVE YOU.

[abrasivebeauty]

Not good!

He was just a young boy. At least, that was how it looked from Zelda's perspective. A terrified young boy at that, who didn't exactly seem to know what was going on. Or what to expect, except that he was probably going to seriously wind up hurt. And she couldn't allow that. So what that he'd just sort of jumped onto her faithful steed? So what that he was pretty much asking for what he got?

So as she watched him move through the air, her arms outstretched, and she strafed carefully across the ground. Come on, come on... she coaxed herself with the slight wince in her expression. Don't miss this.

Not!Princess to the rescue! \o/

[breaks_pots]

Link was not ashamed to admit that - at that very moment, as he fell through the air with his landing and future unknown - he was completely and utterly devoid of emotion for all of a heartbeat before the purest wave of terror flooded him. He was so completely overwhelmed by it that he didn't even realize he was screaming until after he landed and the noise stopped. Fortunately for him, he landed on something. Someone. Whatever or whomever it was broke his fall and his screaming stopped when his brain registered that he had not died upon landing.

It didn't fix how fast his heart was beating as he tried to make sense of the world again.

[heroflegend]

What a bust. In retrospect, Link probably should have known better. They'd never discussed enrolling at another academy before; why the heck would Zelda run off and join a school while he was visiting Skyloft? Without telling him?

There were a lot of weird things about the city and the school Link ended up at. One of the main things that stuck out to him was how many people there were. He'd encountered monsters and all sorts of odd creatures on the surface before. But- save for Impa (and did she really count anyway?)- never another human. It was a little striking to see so many living freely on the surface.

Regardless. Zelda wasn't here. His Zelda wasn't here, anyway. She was probably exactly where she was when he left, just a few days prior! Shortly after figuring out he wasn't going to find his lady here, he lead his Loftwing from it's place with every intention of leaving just as soon as he had arrived.

Well, that was his plan until he saw her, anyway. Guiding her Loftwing just like he was. Casually, he raised his hand and waved to her. As if this were a totally normal occurrence and they weren't in some strange, completely foreign land.

[abrasivebeauty]

She would have continued along, trying to think of what had gone wrong. She would have wandered aimlessly likely, until she found a place to sleep for the night. Then the next day could come along and suddenly she'd be off to resume her journey.

Well. Her search. She supposed with a second thought that it was more like a frustrating excavation. Except she had yet to find what it was she'd wanted to uncover. As though Link were some grand artifact and he was impossible to locate. Frustrating, indeed. What made him think it was such a good idea to disappear anyway? Without even saying anything to her!

Zelda's expression glowered for all but a few moments until her ears picked up a second set of footsteps. Two steps, actually. For as graceful as the Loftwings were, they were much too heavy not to make any sound at all. Away from her blue feathered friend her eyes went and the moment they met Link's, she found herself pausing before she sprinted across the grass, arms sprawled, and a spring in her step.

That literally went into a catapult in his direction.

[heroflegend]

Link quickened his step towards the girl, although he didn't run. Once they were close enough, Link held his arms out and pulled Zelda into a hug. A quiet hum of satisfaction left his lips as he pressed the bridge of his nose to the very top of her head.

"I was looking for you," he mused, his tone as casual as his still-very-aloof presence. As if they hadn't been separated for a few days now. As if he weren't just about to leave to go look for her elsewhere, or return to the home they had established near the Faron Woods.

[abrasivebeauty]

As he took her into his embrace, she felt all of the weight lift in her. He was safe! That was the best realisation ever! Well, no. The best realisation ever was that this was not some horrible dream where tornadoes were going to come back with some very... flamboyant... beings. She squeezed Link tightly. So tightly, in fact, that she knew how transparent she was.

His words caused her to tip her chin up and at once she prodded him sharply in the chest. "Looking for me? But I was looking for you!" How could he be so calm? How could she not be so calm? She didn't think he was really taking this seriously at all, which was grounds for a very irritated Zelda on his hands. But she tried not to abuse him too much in her relief that she'd managed to finally locate him.

...But why here, of all places?

[heroflegend]

Really, he probably wasn't taking this as seriously as he should have. At her prodding, Link glanced down at her, that calm look still in his eyes. He was a bit taken aback by her irritation- wasn't it nice that they were reunited?- but it didn't show in his expression, save for a subtle raise of his eyebrows.

"...That makes more sense."

Which it did. It didn't make any sense for Link to have been looking for Zelda. Where else would she have been other than where he'd last seen her? All it took was for someone in the foreign city to murmur Zelda's name and Link suddenly found himself enrolled in the strange academy.

"There's another girl here," Link explained, "She shares your name." Pause. "A princess." And his eyebrows raised just a little higher still.

[rotarytier]

The skies were gorgeous today, Goose idly thought, mind in the clouds and feet comfortably planted in the trimmed, grassy brush beneath him. Clad in nothing more than a t-shirt and jeans, he relished in the breeze of a pleasurable spring day.

It couldn't get much better than this.

Being a free spirit at one with the skies kind of did that to a guy.

He took in the atmosphere around him, taking note of whatever was surrounding him. Oranges and purples painted the skies, beating down to the ground below in an ambiance fitting for any free bird.

That included the bird that caught his eye, one whose color melded well with the evening's grace.

He approached carelessly, a spring in his step and caution shelved. Intrigue was obviously apparent in his face as observed very, very closely.

"Shit. You're huge."

[boo_blimp_babe]

"Would be kinda stupid to walk around at night if ya don't even know this place." came a female voice from around a tree. Soon enough the figure of a short teen wearing an oversized purple hoodie came into view.

She gave the other a once over and raised a brow. "Let me guess. You just happened to jus' stumble fuck into this place and ya don't even know where ya at right?"

Charlise is so friendly!

[abrasivebeauty]

Half of what Charlise said made absolutely no sense to Zelda, but when she pulled out the unfamiliar words, she was able to make some sense out of the mostly broken language. The blonde stared for a few moments, looked over to her Loftwing and made she he got behind her, and then she looked back over to the rather... blatant girl.

"Does this kind of thing happen a lot?" she asked, raising an eyebrow. Which was pretty much confirming that Charlise was right on the dot with her educated guessing. Well. Her kind of rude educated guessing.

[boo_blimp_babe]

"More offen than some would like." she said with a shrug as she crossed her arms before lighting a cigarette. "In any case, I personally don't mind it at all, keeps the air fresh I guess, so long as it's not more snooty, stuck up bitches."

Charlise leaned back against a tree and looked at the two, "So what the fuck is that?" she added pointing at the creature.

[abrasivebeauty]

Snooty. Stuck. Up. Bitches.

Zelda did not even know what she was talking about, which was confusing all on its own. But... At least she wasn't being quite as rude. And if Zelda had any idea what the phrasing meant, she probably would have either butted heads or just plain avoided her companion.

She looked back behind her to the blue bird who was patient with his blonde-haired master. When she thought it was safe, she allowed him to join her at her side. "This is my Loftwing, Blue." Because she had extraordinarily picked a simple name for him. "I was riding him in search of a friend of mine, but he can't see well at night, so we landed here. I'll resume my search tomorrow."

At least, that was what she thought.

I realized now that they are roomates

[after_the_flower]

So. The hands placed her in this room. She'd been here a while.

"Make yourself at home. Put in things you like."

Sophie repeated this. The hands have had their hands full (haha) with this one probably. Not that she could realize that. Sophie was so. Not with the world. Poor knowledge. Poor computer skills. And poor memory...so she took everyday as she went by. Wondering what to do next. Her room turned into a greenhouse. Potted flowers everywhere.

Hi, Zelda.

8> HI ROOMMATE.

[abrasivebeauty]

It hadn't been for too long that Zelda's arrival wound up with her visiting the Hands and for one reason or another... being assigned a room. And a roommate. A girl by the name of Sophie. A pretty name. But in the end, she still couldn't figure out... why she was still here. Why did Link want to stay? Her father would worry over them both and she didn't know how to contact him. Much less, she didn't know how she'd explain the situation.

She opened the door after she'd located the proper number assigned to her and then she paused when she peeked in.

"He...llo?" she asked as she blinked at Sophie.

So... she was living in... a bunch of plants. Things could have been worse. The first rule is to not let Link in here. He's such a klutz. He'd probably knock everything over.