Hyrule Market
Golden orange rays of light shown through the patches of fluffy white clouds in the skies above the castle town marketplace, each beam coming down across the countryside like energy from the goddesses. Once blue, the sky was now a deep shade of burnt orange, giving testament to the coming Hylian summer night. The sun was setting on the day of the carnival which Hyrule had been preparing for the past couple of days and nights. But even though night was quickly approaching the celebrations would continue deep into the dark of the night and on into the early hours of the next morning.
Crowds of Hylians and foreigners populated the main market square of castle town, the main groups gathering around the larger vendors and sideshows that dotted the wooden stands that had been erected in the previous days. The sound coming from the shouting people was almost deafening, everyone was shouting or yelling over each other in an attempt to be the next person to participate in some game to win a prize or buy some exotic good brought in from the far reaches of the kingdom.
“Come on Saria! You got it!” Princess Terra exclaimed holding tightly onto the Kokiri’s shoulders in an attempt to comfort the forest child’s nerves, hoping it would help her focus on the task at hand…Winning the game…
Alec knelt down to counter level, bringing himself down to Saria’s height. “Ok…You got this…All you have to do is get that ring onto one of necks of the milk jugs.”
Saria had chosen a game that requires the contestant to throw rings onto the necks of ceramic milk jugs in an attempt to gain a prize. Although there were plenty of other games for them to play scattered about town, Saria seemed dead set on winning at this particular booth, the green fire in her eyes showed a fiendish devotion in obtaining her objective…which in this case…was an almost life sized doll of a Deku Scrub. The large brown and green doll sat on one of the wooden tables behind the booth.
To get the doll the Kokiri was required to score all three of her brightly colored rings on the milk jugs which set out in a uniform pattern behind the wooden counter of the booth. So far Saria had scored two out of three rings, and held the last one in her hand prepping herself for the final throw…which she hoped would win her the massive stuffed doll…And maybe some of her pride back in the terms of that she had spent almost all of her rupees on this one activity.
Saria grunted, and shrugged off Terra’s hand away from her shoulders. “You guys are making me nervous…” the kokiri growled in a low voice, almost like an annoyed animal.
Terra pulled her hands back to her waist. “Well excuse me for trying to help.” She replied with a playful giggle.
“Just…Just hit get the ring on the jug…That’s all you have to do!” the young knight commanded, motioning his own hands like he were throwing the ring himself.
“Don’t you think I know that Ranch Boy?” the Kokiri laughed, taunting Alec with the nickname. Saria still had her eyes locked on the milk jugs in front of her, slowly motioning her childlike hand back and forth getting ready to throw her last ring.
Alec raised both of his brown haired eyebrows and stood up, taking a small step back toward Princess Terra. He obviously got the signal to ‘Shut Up’ from the young Forest Sage. The knight folded his arms and simply waited for the Kokiri to make her move, not wishing to give her any more encouragement if she didn’t want it.
Moving her arms back and forth Saria began to take aim at one particular clay jug, one that stood right in the middle of the rest. Increasing the motion she continued to focus, bringing her arms out at a greater length with each swing. Holding the ring loosely in her hand she let it rock back and forth as she began to sway her entire upper body. And with one violent last motion she loosed the ring into the air, releasing it form her hand and sending it sailing toward the ceramic jugs ahead of her.
The bright colored ruby red ring sailed through the air, spinning on its axis like a top. Fluttering downward the red ring seemed like it was going to hit the neck of the milk container head on. The orange sunlight flickered off the polished ruby surface, sending flickers of red like about. But as it came downward a small breeze pushed it ever-so-slightly off course, causing it to miss the narrow neck of the drink jug and fall down into the open holes in the gaming table with a ‘clink’.
Saria’s body stiffened as she watched her last ring fall into the darkness of the game board, her hand still in midair from the toss. Twitching in anger the girl began to grit her teeth, eyes growing wild in frustration and pure childish rage. And with an open mouth the kokiri let out a wolf like howl, causing all to momentarily look in her direction.
“What!” Saria yelped, clasping her hands into her mop of green hair, digging her nails into her skull.
Terra and Alec couldn’t help but chuckle under their breath as they watched the spectacle that was unfolding in front of them. Terra, took a step forward, coming up to the right side of Alec, holding her right hand up to her mouth stopping her from laughing too out of control.
The Kokiri soon began to verbally batter the man operating the game, yelling at him about how she deserves the giant Deku doll for how much money she had spent on this certain carnival game stand. She soon slammed her hands against the wooden counter, in a pitiful attempt to come to eye level with the carnival operator. On occasion she would pick up one hand and swiped at him, almost looking threatening, even for a child. The stand man backed away from the ferocious little green haired girl, trying to explain to her how even though you spend your money you’re not guaranteed any sort of prize.
“Looks like that man has his work cut out for him…” Alec whispered off to the side, noticing that the princess had come to his right. “…I wouldn’t want to be him!”
“I wouldn’t want to be Saria!” Terra exclaimed, still finding the scene in front of them quite amusing.
“Heh…Why is that?” The ranch boy turned his upper body slightly toward the direction of princess.
“Just look at her! She practically spent all her money on that stupid game!”
Alec chuckled. “I don’t see how that is our fault that she spent all her money on it…”
Terra clasped her hands against her hips and turned fully to the young knight, giving Alec a nasty look. “Well…Couldn’t you win that adorable doll for her, it’d make her so happy? And I never said it was our fault!”
“Whoa…Calm down…I’m not going to spend my money trying to win some stupid doll…Even for Saria…Unlike you two I have to earn my money!” The young knight sunk his head down into his shoulders.
The Kokiri turned and gave Alec a glare that could kill a great moblin. “It’s not a stupid doll!” Finishing her angry yell and with a quick scowl she turned back to continue hassling the game operator.
Laughing the princess stepped in front of the young knight imposingly, her hands still on her hips, sticking her face directly in front of Alec’s. “You think I just get all my money handed to me?” She growled with a comical tone, attempting to make Alec feel uncomfortable yet again.
“I-I…Uhmmm…” Alec pulled his face away from Terra’s; he thought it best not to respond to this.
Smirking evilly Terra pulled her head back a bit, coming back to a normal posture. “Yeah…Thought so…” She continued to look at Alec for a few moments longer, taking a small bit of joy in making him feel so awkward. “…I think I better pull Saria away from the stand before she hurts someone.”
Turning back to normal Alec nodded, still not comfortable enough to respond to the beautiful young woman.
Spinning on her heel Terra began to take steps forward to the stand where Saria was now trying to climb on top of the wooden counter and pull at the man’s hair. The man had taken shelter in the back of his stand, just out of reach of the raging green haired Kokiri girl. Quickening her speed Terra arrived at the stand just as Saria reached the top of the smooth wooden counter, her hands ready to grab at the man’s hair, angry for how much money she had spent in his stupid ring and bottle game. The Hylian Princess grabbed at Saria’s waist, wrapping both tightly arms around the child sage, stopping her from moving anymore forward.
“T-T-Terra! What are you doing?” The Kokiri howled, starting to trash out against princess Terra’s strong grip on her body.
“I…” Terra grumbled, grunting as she lifted Saria off the wood countertop. “…am stopping you from killing someone!”
“I’m not going to kill him…Just going to hurt him a lot!”
“Saria…”
“Ok…Ok…How about just a little bit!” Once again the Kokiri violently trashed out as she was now being dragged away from the game.
“Saria, Stop it!” Dropping Saria on the ground butt first Terra scolded the little sage of the forest. The beautiful young princess looked down upon the child with angry eyes, much like a parent would with its own offspring. A plume of dust erupted from where Saria landed on the ground.
“What?” Saria groaned, picking herself up off the ground and brushing clothes down. “What did I do?”
“You’re making a scene that’s what you’re doing!”
“He took my money, that man cheated me out of that doll!”
“No-no-no…You spent all your money on a game…that’s what you did…”
Alec watched with joyous amusement at the two women that were now bickering with each other. Together the princess and the forest sage were now drawing more of a crowd than ever. Chuckling to himself Alec made his way toward the game stand, whose operator by now was also watching the two girls yell at each other about the past series of events that just took place.
Arriving at the stand counter the young knight lazily set down a couple of rupees, enough to play one round in the ring and jug game. Alec had decided to actually give the game a try while both Terra and Saria were distracted by their feeble little argument, which was now drawing a small crowd, unknown to them of course. With a raised eyebrow the operator placed in Alec’s hand three multicolored rings.
Looking over his shoulder back at the bickering women Alec sighed heavily, and with one swift motion of his hand he tossed all three rings at the same time, sending them toward the assortment of milk jugs that stood behind the wooden counter. Each sailed off through the air in a different direction, the colors flickering in the late afternoon orange glow of the sun. One by one, each landed on top of the jugs, each ring hitting its mark and sliding down the neck of the ceramic bottles, winning the game.
Terra and Saria were still too busy yelling at one another to witness what Alec had just accomplished. The Kokiri was now jumping on the tips of her toes in attempt to come to eye level with princess Terra. Both of their arms flailed about, gesticulating about their particular state of mind on the matter of whether Saria was right to almost attack the game operator, or to spend all of her money trying to win a Deku doll.
“So sir…Uh…What do you want as your prize?” the man asked Alec, dumbstruck about how easily and effortlessly the knight had won.
Smirking, Alec turned and pointed with a thumb toward the green clothed Kokiri behind him. “I think you know what I want.” He said bluntly.
“Yes…Yes right away sir…” the man responded with a humble nod, and quickly vanished behind the game stand to grab Alec’s prize.
Alec turned around once again to look at the comical scuffle between the princess and the forest sage. The verbal argument had now drawn quite an amused crowd, the groups of Hylian citizens and foreigners had created a semi-circle around the two very loud women. Some seemed only to stop for a moment then move on, others had decided to stay and watch how it would turn out, their faces red and trying not to laugh at their Hylian princess. But, they were all lucky at Link or Zelda was nowhere in the area to watch the comical dispute.
Tapping on Alec’s shoulder the man returned…in his hands he gingerly held the soft Deku Scrub doll…
Saria and Terra continued to argue…
A loud harsh whistle rang out about the corner of the market place, echoing off the stone and wood buildings surrounding the gathered crowd. Both women immediately ceased their yelling and looked to the game stand, the direction in which the deafening whistle came from. The surrounding crowd snapped out of their trance and looked toward a young knight who stood in front of the game stand.
Alec proudly stood up straight, facing both Terra and Saria, who had now turned to face him. Their faces now red with shame noticing that they had drawn a crowd to their meaningless little argument about a Deku doll and rupees. Terra had sunk her head down into her shoulders, her Hylian subject all seemed to gravitate their gaze toward her, even though they weren’t angry, they did seem slightly amused by the bickering between her and the green sage.
Saria looked toward what Alec held out to her in his hands and her eyes lit up like a wildfire. In his hands he held the Deku doll, holding it out toward Saria, urging her to take it. Jumping with glee Saria sprinted over to Alec, almost leaping into his arms taking the soft doll out of his large hands. With one hand attached to the doll Saria wrapped her other free arm around Alec’s legs, thanking for the wonderful gift.
“Oh…Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!” The Kokiri repeated happily, releasing herself from Alec and now grasping the stuffed doll close to her chest. (The doll was almost as big as she.)
Alec patted Saria on the head and chuckled lightly, simply glad to have ended the meaningless argument. “Yeah…Sure…” he watched as the crowd quickly dispersed no longer having anything to watch. “…Just don’t misplace it.”
“This is the best day ever!” the Kokiri squealed joyously, starting to run circles about Alec holding the doll tightly against her still. It seems that now she had forgotten already about losing all of her money already.
Terra slowly walked to up to Alec’s side, her face red, but a smile still on her face. She had seen Alec’s gift toward Saria…
Later that night…
Alec and Terra slowly walked through the bustling alleyways of castle town, the princess’s arm wrapped around the young knight’s, letting him escort her through the busy walkways toward the milk bar which they had went to the previous night. People brushed by the pair, seemingly migrating to or from the market place square, the center of the carnival festivities.
They were passed by an assortment of children, each wearing a mask or some creative piece of clothing they had bought from one of the street vendors. The group of kids ran by the pair, holding fake wooden swords in their palms, mock fighting as they sprinted down the narrow alley, almost like a mob of evil monsters running through the pathway of the castle town. But as soon as they appeared they vanished, rounding a corner and going out of sight from Terra and Alec.
“So…” Alec began breaking the silence between he and the princess attached to his arm.
Terra giggled, turning her head as the playing children left her view. “Yeah?”
“Uhmmm…”
“Ok, spit it out Alec…You look like you’ve seen a ghost!” The princess lightly yanked on Alec’s arm, wanting a response from her knight escort.
Clearing his throat Alec began again. “I can’t believe we are going back to the milk bar again.”
“You make that sound like a bad thing!”
“I never said it was!”
“You sure are making it sound like it is!”
“It’s just…”
“Just what?!” Princess Terra demanded, yanking on Alec’s arm once again, drawing him closer to her in yet another attempt to make him feel uncomfortable.
“It’s just that there will be people around…” Alec murmured nervously, his face turning dark red by the proximity of the elegant Terra to himself. Even so they continued down the alley way, growing ever closer to their destination.
“Oh…” Terra purred childishly “…So being seen around Hyrule’s princess is a bad thing?”
“No-no-no…I didn’t mean that either!”
“Heh…You sure implied that Mr. Alec!”
“I never meant that!”
Terra giggled gleefully and continued to pull Alec along by the arm, still not moving from her closeness to the young yet nervous knight of Hyrule. “I know…I know…” She purred once again as the signed of the milk bar came into view as they rounded a corner. “…We’re here!”
“Uh…Great…” Alec grumbled, stuffing his hands into his pockets, not wanting to go inside the obviously packed milk bar, the sounds of the thirsty young patrons echoed out the open bar window.
The princess stopped them before they got to the heavy wooden door, putting herself in front of Alec and the establishment. “Oh hush Alec…You’ll be fine!”
“People are going to see me taking you into a milk bar…I mean…Your dad is going to kill me!”
“He is not! After all…it’s only a milk bar…not like an actual bar…you’re over reacting Alec, I come here all the time by myself.”
“I-I still don’t think…”
“Alec…” Terra purred smoothly as she wrapped her arms tightly around the young knight’s chest, pushing herself up against him and looking up at his red face with a mischievous look. “…You think way too much.”
“By the goddesses!” the boy yelped as the beautiful princess grabbed ahold of him. He turned his head to avoid looking down at Terra, who was taking joy in making him feel as awkward as she possibly could.
“If you don’t come in with me I won’t let you go, and we can just stand here like this for everyone to see.” She giggled happily, pulling herself even tighter around the nervous young knight.
“Terra please…I’m going to get into trouble!”
“Come in with me and I’ll let you go!”
Alec turned his head back down to Terra who was intently looking up at him, her bright blue eyes sparkling with a joy of a small child. Surrendering to the princess he held his hands up in defeat. “Aright…Alright…I’ll go…Just please, let go of me…”
Terra swiftly lurched back, releasing Alec from her grasp. Her face turned a light shade of red with anger and hands of her hips she glared at the young nervous and now very confused knight. “Well then…I didn’t know that being held by the beautiful Hylian princess was such a bad thing!”
Eyes growing wide Alec coughed in embarrassment, Terra had figured out what he was going to say last night during their time together. “I’m s-s-sorry…Your highness.”
Replying only with a forgiving yet cheerful smile, Terra reached out with an open hand toward Alec’s arm. She was waiting for her escort to lead her into the milk bar. Slowly moving forward besides the princess Alec let Terra take a hold of his arm and together they entered the bustling building.
Inside the Milk Bar
Pushing their way through the mass of thirsty patrons in the milk bar Terra and Alec made a path to the counter, hoping to snag two open seats for a cool drink. Alec had since taken the lead, using his bigger body to make way through the crowd of people that dominated the interior of the building, Terra was still holding onto his arm, following closely as if attached to the young knight. Together they pushed through the other Hylians, arriving at the only two open bar stools left in the establishment.
Quickly taking her seat princess Terra pulled Alec down to the seat next to her, breathing heavily from maneuvering through the mass of people. She watched the people as they went about the room, all of them were around the same age as the pair, young adults or teenagers who couldn’t attend a real bar or simply didn’t wish to. People were standing about, holding mugs of cool milk in their hands talking with one another, or sitting at tables conversing about the carnival. A large empty dance floor lay on front of the stage, on which the band was beginning to cue up, readying themselves for a marathon of dance music to play for the mass of young adults who eagerly awaited the tunes.
Terra turned and placed her elbows on the smooth surface of the bar counter, leaning in to hold her head in her hands. Glancing over she noticed Alec nervously looking about the room, hoping no one would suspect anything of him being with the princess. “You need to relax Alec…I come here all the time by myself.”
Alec let out an awkward chuckle. “Heh…I’m trying Terra…Believe me I’m trying.”
The princess smiled and turned her body to face the young knight. “Well try harder! I’m not going to have much fun if you keep looking like you’ll drop dead on me any second!”
“Is that an order my princess?” Alec joked, seemingly becoming more relaxed by Terra’s kind yet forceful encouragement.
“Yes…It is actually! And you’ll have to obey your princess to the letter sir knight!”
“I will obey…Princess Terra.” The knight said with a sly grin, his emotional state melting away as he became more relaxed.
Terra laughed happily and gave Alec a playful punch on the shoulder, her blow easily glancing off Alec’s upper arm. Alec too began to chuckle, no longer did he feel as nervous around the princes, thanks to her words of encouragement. Terra looked joyfully at her new friend; finally she had someone about the castle she could relate to, and even spend time with without having to be with too old or too young.
“Soooo…” Terra began, taking her arms off the counter and placing them in her lap, twiddling her thumbs.
Alec only responded with a questioning look, waiting for the Hylian princess to finish her question.
“…Tell me a bit about yourself Alec…I’m sorry, I barely even know about you, even though you probably know almost everything about me…Tell me…Please?” Terra said sweetly, giving her escort a cute little smile.
Alec adjusted himself in his clothes; taken off guard by the personal question he was just asked. “There really isn’t that much to tell…I’m not that…”
“Oh please, Alec, There has to be something you can tell me about yourself…Don’t you have a story?”
“A story…I’m just a ranch boy…There honestly isn’t that much to tell.”
“Please!” Terra pleaded eagerly, seriously wanting to be told a story.
The knight finally gave in, letting out a huff of air. “Well…Where do you want me to begin?”
Terra squealed with glee, happy to learn about her own personal knight. “At the beginning! At the beginning!”
“Let see…” He began “…I was born on…”
“Look-y here!” A loud and annoying voice howled through the crowd, interrupting Alec before he could even begin to tell his tale. The crowd around them seemed to grow silent as the voice echoed about the hall, peoples gaze instantly shifted in their direction, as a figure began to make its way through the crowd.
“Oh no…” Terra groaned, slamming her head into his palms and shaking her head in disbelief. Her blonde hair fluttered about as she shook her head in her hands.
“What? What’s wrong?” Alec barked, looking down at Terra for answers.
“Just wait…” the princess groaned again, turning to the counter and laying her head down in her arms which were on the smooth surface. “…You’ll see!”
“Terra…What is…?”
“Well…Well…Well…Look who is here!” The figure cackled, as he pushed his away up to the area of the bar where Alec and Terra sat.
Alec looked on as a young man dressed in seemingly nice clothes approached them, pushing out other patrons as he brought himself up to the milk bar counter. The figure had a slicked back black hair that gleamed disgustingly with the amount of grease that was worked into the skull, keeping the style in place. He face was almost picture prefect, yet almost annoying at the same time. Whoever this man was Alec could already tell that he didn’t like him.
“Great…” the princess grumbled softly, her head still stuffed into her arms muffling her voice.
“Terra…fancy seeing you in here…again…” the man said smoothly but with a harsh sound, his voice sounding like nails scratching against a rock. “…I’m surprised your father let you out of the castle!”
Pivoting her head to look up at the man, Terra growled back her response. “Go away Sennett”
“Oh come on now Terra…No sense in not being happy to see my pretty face.” Sennett laughed, bringing his head down to the princess’s.
The princess lifted her hand and swatted the man’s face away. “No…I’m not happy to see your ugly face.”
“Now that wasn’t very lady like!”
“I don’t care!”
“Oh come now Terra…You’ve missed looking at me!”
“Go away Sennett!” Terra growled once again, gritting her teeth “Just go away!”
Alec watched the two go at it like animals, he wasn’t sure exactly what to do. He began to clinch his fist in anger as he watched Sennett verbally annoy the Hylian princess. His own mind was full of confusion, obviously not knowing what was happening in front of him.
“What’s wrong Terra…Don’t you like me? I know you can’t resist my beautiful face! All of other girls can’t resist!”
“Actually I can! I’m not other girls…Go away!” Terra howled, pulling herself back from the black haired man, getting as far from him as she could.
Sennett let out a huff of air in frustration, but soon he changed his tactic. “You know Terra…” He cooed “…I’m becoming a castle guard.”
“And?”
The man attempted to lean in closer but was swiftly swatted away by the beautiful princess. “And…You’ll be seeing a lot of me in the coming weeks!”
Terra growled in anger, she didn’t want to be anywhere near this man. Her face turned red in anger, unable to come up with a response.
“Oh look! You’re blushing, that means…”
A strong hand squeezed on Sennett’s shoulder, causing him to swiftly turn around, his own face becoming red in anger.
Alec stood up off of his stool, his hand coming off the black haired man’s shoulder. The young knight was slightly taller than Sennett, looking down at him with annoyed eyes. “I think you should leave.”
“W-W-Wha…W-Who are you? What do you think you’re doing, that could be considered assaulting a guard of Hyrule!” Sennett stammered looking up at the ranch boy who had gotten his attention.
“Leave…Now…” Alec said sharply, glaring down at the shorter man. “…You’ve bothered the princess enough.”
Terra gave out a sigh of relief, and let a small smile cross her face as Alec came to her rescue once again.
“W-W-Who do you think you are, ordering a guard around like this?” Sennett stuttered once again, his face cherry red from not getting what he wanted.
“He…” A voice boomed from behind the bar counter, it was Harwin. “…is a Hylian Knight…You obey him…not the other way around!”
“You’ve got to be kidding me…This guy?”
Alec stood motionless, still looking down at Sennett.
Harwin pulling himself up to where the group stood. “Now you either obey your superior knight and get away from the princess…Or you leave my bar!”
Sennett began to back away from the group, a mad look in his eyes. He locked eyes with Alec as he moved; sending the message that he didn’t like the knight…And Alec sent the message right back…And soon the black haired man vanished back into the crowd.
Terra sighed once again. “Oh thank the goddesses he is gone!”
Alec sat down on his stool once again, facing the distraught young woman, giving her a worried look. “Who was that?”
“Eh…Just some guy who won’t leave me alone…Just because he thinks he is hot stuff he thinks that he can get to me.” She let out a huff of air, blowing her shining blonde bangs out of her face.
“Well…I don’t like him.” Alec murmured softly, placing his hand on Terra’s shoulder softly in an attempt to comfort the princess.
Terra happily giggled, her mood returning to normal. “I don’t also!”
The two young adult looked at each other for a moment, their eyes locking on to each other’s. Small smiles crossed both their faces, as they seemed to stare at one another, both grateful for each other’s company. Alec was the first to look away, his face turning slightly red from looking at the beautiful girl for too long.
A cheer erupted from the crowd as the band began to play soft dance music, the couples that populated the bar seemed to gravitate toward the dance floor taking their places and beginning to dance to the slow tune, while the others without dates seemed to circle around the area as if looking for one. Many Hylians stopped what they were doing to watch the couples that slowly moved with each other on the smooth wooden dance floor.
A few people blew out candles, dimming the room for extra mood lighting. No light shined in from outside, the sun had finally set over the horizon and the twinkling stars were now shining brightly in the sky. Soft colored lights of many different colors shined down from the ceiling onto the dance floor, giving the dancers a bit of extra flare to their slow movements.
Terra’s bright blue eyes lit up with a fresh idea as she watched the couples slowly move together to the soft music that was being played from the stage. She swiftly turned toward Alec with a sly smile; obviously he was involved with her plot.
Alec looked at Terra and then back at the dance floor and then back to Terra, he knew what she wanted to do. His eyes grew wide in horror. “Oh…no-no-no, I can’t!” He held his hands out in front of him, shaking his head in disagreement.
“Uh…Yes you are!” She giggled happily, and reached for Alec’s arm.
“Please Terra…I don’t think…!”
“Nope, you’re coming with me!”
“I don’t want…”
“Your princess orders you to!”
Swiftly grabbing onto her escorts arm and pulling it tightly, Terra yanked Alec off of the bar stool seat and began to drag him through the crowd. The knight didn’t put up much resistance; he now knew that fighting back against Terra’s unbreakable willpower was a losing battle that even an army couldn’t destroy.
“Oh…this isn’t going to end well.” Alec grumbled, taking into account that he was going to be seen dancing with Hyrule’s princess, and that everyone in the milk bar may get the wrong idea.
“Hush Alec…It’ll be fine…Maybe even fun!” Terra chirped back to him happily continuing to pulling him through the crowd by his arm.
“I think you’re having fun just torturing me, aren’t you?”
The blue eyes girl turned to the young knight as they reached the edge of the dance floor. “Maybe…” Terra giggled, giving Alec a suggestive wink, before pulling him out fully onto the dancing area.
Alec stood motionless in the dance floor, Terra finally letting go as they reached the middle of the mass of slow dancers. Though he knew how to dance, he was horrified of dancing with Terra. He looked on at the princess who was sweetly smirking at him, hands placed on her hips and one foot tapping, waiting for Alec to move. Taking in a deep breath to calm himself and coming to grips with the fact, Alec took a step forward.
Taking one step forward, and giving a bow Alec looked up at Terra, who was now completely overjoyed with finally having a dancing partner, her eyes showing her obvious teenage happiness. “Your Highness…” Alec whispered softly, but with a sly smirk “…May I have this dance?” Bringing himself back up from the bow the young knight held out his hand toward the elegant Hylian girl.
Terra took a step forward, coming close to her escort, and with one hand grabbed hold of Alec’s pulling his body closer to her. Even though she said no words, she accepted Alec’s offer. She could feel as Alec nervously placed his hand on her lower back, while his other hand stayed locked with Terra’s. Moving in closer she set her other free and on Alec’s upper arm…and slowly, the pair began to move, blending in with the crowd of dancers.
At first the young pair seemed to look past each other, looking about the room, not wanting to make eye contact with the other. But slowly more and more couples made their way onto the dimly lit floor, taking up more space and forcing Alec and Terra to move closer to one another. Terra looked up at Alec who turned his head, once again locking eyes with the Hylian princess. The princess smiled up at her knight, thankful for his company during the day, and thankful for coming to dance with her.
As space began to grow small Alec courageously repositioned his arm, pulling Terra in closer to avoid entering the other dancer’s space, their bodies now pressed up against the others in the confined dance floor.
The princess could feel her face turn a light shade of pink as they continued to dance to the slow tune of the music; never before had she danced with someone this closer before, it made her mind feel at ease, comforted by Alec’s proximity. She replied to Alec’s move with only a kind smile, But also noticed that Alec’s face was turning as red as hers.
Taking in a deep breath to calm her nerves, Terra leaned in and placed her head against Alec’s shoulder, nestling into the warmth of his body heat. This was met with a surprised reaction from Alec, but yet even he did not say a word, he continued to dance. Terra rubbed her head against the firm shoulder, moving her silky smooth blonde hair to act as a soft pillow to lay her head on. Closing her eyes she smiled…
“Alec…” Terra whispered ever so softly so only Alec could hear, pushing her head down on his shoulder like a cat looking for warmth. “…Thanks for coming with me today.”