Rytex here. First FanFiction. Read and Review and tell me how I did, will you? Now get a move on. Link and Malon won't fall in love on their own, ya know?
Chapter 1: Wait. Where did that come from?
The boy entered the ranch in the middle of the field. The first thing he noticed was a lot of horses. Tons. And a very beautiful song wafting through the air. The source seemed to come from the center of the corral. A young girl stood in the middle, humming and swaying in time to the beat. A beautiful red mare stood by her.
He smiled and decided to look in the barn for something he needed. Instead of finding Talon selling his milk, he found a tall thin man who was shoveling manure into a pile and grumbling under his breath.
"Oh yes, things will be different when I, the hard working Ingo, run this ranch. Different indeed."
He backed out slowly then tried the next house. The room was full of cuccos making a ruckus. A man was sleeping while propped up against a counter that had three more cuccos on top.
"Mr. Talon?"
*Snore*
He tapped Talon on the shoulder.
"Mr. Talon!?"
He abruptly woke.
"Cant a fellow get even a few hours of sleep 'round here!?" he yelled at no one in particular. Then he noticed Link.
"Hey there young fella. I remember you. You woke me back at the castle, didn't you?"
"Thats me."
"Good lad. As thanks, I've put together a little game for you, for twenty rupees, but the first try is free. I have here three Super Cuccos. Your job is to separate them from the rest. Think you can do that?"
"Sure."
"Alrighty. You have sixty seconds. Go!"
The supers jumped into the pile.
Sixty seconds later...
"Time's up! Sorry kid, but you lost."
Talon returned to sleeping. Navi whispered in Link's ear.
"Try putting the normal ones in that corner. Then the supers will be wide open."
After ten minutes of cucco chasing madness, Link woke Talon again.
"Can I try again?"
"Sure. You got twenty rupees?"
Link handed him one of the reds he found in the empty pot room.
"Alrighty then. Sixty more seconds. Go!"
The supers jumped directly into open space. Easily, Link picked them up.
"Good job young fella. Now, for your prize, how would ya like to marry Malon?"
Taken aback, Link blushed at the idea of him and the pretty redhead in front of a Hylian minister in their little wedding gowns.
"Uhhh yeah..." he said half consciously.
"Bwahahahaha! Oh man! Don't you think you're a little young? Here. Take this."
Talon handed Link a small bottle filled with Lon-Lon milk.
"Bye kid!"
Link, disappointed beyond measure, walked out toward the corral.
The pretty redhead was still humming and feeding her horse.
Then, randomly, the red mare ran off.
"Huh? Epona? What is it?"
The horse nickered and flicked it's tail in annoyance.
Malon turned around. Her eyes lit up as she caught sight of Link.
"Fairy Boy!!!"
She tackled him to the ground. Link looked into her face, then realized that her nose was an inch from his. Wow she had beautiful eyes... Wait. Where did that come from?
"Uhh Malon?"
"Yes?"
"Awkward?"
"Oh!"
She rolled off and laughed.
"I saw what happened in father's cucco shed. What made him laugh?"
"He asked if I wanted to marry you."
They both blushed.
"Hey fairy boy. I'd like you to meet a friend of mine. This is Epona."
She hummed the song. Epona trotted over warily.
"Malon, could you teach me that song? Epona seems to like it."
Malon nodded.
"It was my mother's. She invented it. Do you have something to play it on?"
He pulled out his Fairy Ocarina.
"Okay. Here goes."
High Middle Low High Middle Low.
(Or as we know, Up, Left, Right, Up, Left Right.)
Link mimiced the notes. Epona trotted up to him and nickered.
"She seems to like you. How nice. Here. Give her a carrot."
Link took the carrot from her and fed the horse. It neighed happily.
Navi whispered in Link's ear.
"Time to go. Death Mountain awaits."
"Aww man. Sorry Malon, but I gotta go."
"Aww. Won't you come visit?"
"Yeah. Definately. Bye!"
"Bye Fairy Boy!"
So? R&R please.
