I re-discovered Dark Cloud! So yeah, story.

CHPT1

"It feels like Autumn has gone on forever...When can it be winter?" Cirno banged her head on the table repeatedly.

"Be patient, let the seasons do their stuff." Link said washing his hands.

"But can't they just hurry up? I want to have fun!"

"You can have fun anytime you want. Just think, anything can happen!"

"Name one thing I can do."

"Well, you can go play with your friends."

"They're all busy."

"Go exploring?"

"Where? I've gone everywhere."

"Yeah everywhere...in this world..." Link smiled hatching an idea.

"What are you saying?"

"Wanna go enjoy somewhere other then Gensokyo?"

"Yeah! Let's go!" Cirno smiled and opened the door.

"Already? Remember, anything could happen, we should be prepared." Link closed it tight and walked upstairs.

"Packing is boring! I want to go now!"

"Yeah, but you don't know where the portals are, and what if you stepped in one? I wouldn't know where you went!" He screamed from his room trying to gather every last one of his weapons and came downstairs.

"Ok! Let's go now!"

"I'm all packed...what about you?"

"I don't need anything." Cirno tugged on Link's arm and ran out the door.

"So...what one? We already went through a few..." Link stated.

"Can I pick?"

"Sure, go straight ahead. Just nothing we have already gone through ok?"

"Hmm...This one!" She pointed to a tree with an orange and green sphere on it's door.

"Sounds good to me." Link smiled and they walked through.

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They appeared in a small forest village in a valley.

"Well this is nice, not too different from my old home." Link scouted the surroundings and watched some birds fly above them.

"How? I don't see any thing different..."

"We didn't have a random stream flowing through and actual houses, we just lived in trees that were hollowed out."

"Oh I remember...haha, sorry for freezing everyone!"

"Just don't do that again, I had to explain to Saria who you were."

"Can we just go through the forest? This place doesn't seem to fun..." Cirno pouted watching nothing happen.

"Wait...see that sign?" Link pointed at a board nailed to a tree.

"What's it say?" Cirno squinted and tried to read out the letters.

"Caution, Wise Owl Forest ahead." Link read aloud.

"Wise Owl Forest? Sounds boring...can we still go in?"

"Are you sure? When something says 'Caution' you generally want to stay away..."

"I don't care, we can defend ourselves!"

"Still no second thoughts? Fine, let's go." He shrugged and walked on the path as the forest grew more dense, they stopped in a clearing at a waterfall.

"Did you notice anything...Strange when we walked in?" Link asked taking off a boot and rubbed his foot.

"No...other then your feet smell!" Cirno plugged her nose.

"Haha, sooo funny...I'm talking about if anything was coming after us or is going to jump out..." He watched a path and something walked oddly at them.

"What...is that?" She tilted her head trying to make it out.

"Uh Cirno...We're not alone here..." He took out his bow and drew an arrow at it as it came closer.

"Is that thing holding a spear? How pathetic..." Link shot an arrow and it flinched but brushed it off like it was nothing.

"Ok...this is bad!" Cirno stepped back and threw a stone at it.

"Like that would help!" It drew even closer and was about to strike Link but he dodged it.

"Do I have to do everything by myself?!" Link asked slicing it in half with his sword.

"Eww..." Cirno stuck her tounge out.

"I told you we shouldn't have come in here! But no! You had to be stubborn enough to ignore me!" Link glared at her.

"Me? I didn't think a clown was going to come try to kill us!"

"If there's one...there's probably more, seeing as how this was a large forest."

"Oh yeah right...like anything else would jump ou-" Cirno struggled as a net landed on the two.

"You had to jinx it..." Link rolled his eyes and shifted into burlap sacks.

"Let us out! Let us out!" Cirno grunted trying to get out.

"Fine, I'll let you two out..." There was a short snicker and they were tied up on logs and blindfolded.

"Of course we won't be able to see you or be able to fight back...physically..." Link kept a straight face faking a struggle.

"Take off the blind folds so we can see you!" Cirno screamed until the blind folds were taken off.

"Wait...we got captured...by you?!" Link bursted out laughing.

"So? I'm an experianced woodsman! It's a surprise you lasted this long!"

"Another world where everyone's crazy..." He sighed and formed an ice shard in his hands, cutting the rope ever so slightly.

"So...are there more of you?" Cirno asked noticing Link cutting at the rope.

"Does it matter? You're still suspicous."

"Suspicous? Us? Haha, you've got us all wrong, we're just visiting, and you gave us a very warm welcome..." He sarcastically smiled and left some of the ropes tied enough for him to break free and the shard melted away.

"About time you all showed up, I caught something! Or should I say someone..." They looked down a clearing and saw five others come through the forest.

"Doesn't that look like Chen?" Link nodded towards a shorter one of the five.

"I guess..." Cirno squinted trying to make out the group as they approached.

"Ok...what's wrong with them Goro? They just seem plain to me." Someone hanging from a propeller asked.

"Nothing's wrong with us, this guy tied us here just because he thought we were up to no good!" Cirno gritted her teeth trying to break free again.

"Quiet you! We'll decide what happens!" Goro glared at Cirno.

"Let me guess...you'll either torture us, let us go and spy on us or just kill us here." Link snickered.

"We're not going to kill you."

"I guess torturing us until you get the information you want seems fair."

"Don't mind Link...he's a bit...off today?" Cirno said.

"Off? What do you mean? I'm just trying to make this hostage situation fun!" His smile became more smug and one of them came closer.

"You should spit it out now, where are you from?" She looked at him straight in the eyes, just then Link broke free and tried to strike her, everyone drew their weapons at him.

"Wow...didn't see that coming." Cirno looked at Link.

"Ok, I've had my fun...and that's not fair, 6 against 1...what's that a slingshot?" Link watched them step closer and he held his hands up.

"Ruby, you ok?" One of them said aiming at Link's forehead.

"Yeah...I'm ok..." She gasped getting up and rejoined them.

"Still ready to attack me? I suggest you don't, you may think you're at an advantage, but I'm better then all of you combined. Now can we just go on with our lives?" He strolled over and untied Cirno.

"Thanks!" She hugged him and whispered to him.

"Fighting all of them? 2 versus 6...Nah." He shook his head and sat down.

"You can drop them now, we decided we're not going to fight you." Said Cirno.

"Still not trusting you..." Goro raised his hammer and ran towards Link, who blocked the blow with his shield, Goro pushed harder on the shield but Link didn't budge.

"Like I said, I'm better then all of you." He glanced over to the cat shaking with the slingshot loaded.

"Is the poor little kitty scared?" He shoved the shield and the hammer heaved off.

"N-No..." She wimpered and hid behind the others.

"I take that as a yes..." Link took out his skull hammer and smacked Goro's mallet which flung into the woods.

"Who's next?" He put away the hammer and no one stepped forward.

"Now if you'll excuse us, we're leaving." He was about to walk away until a pebble hit Cirno in the arm.

"Ow! Who did that?!" She looked at the group.

"It was the cat. Don't attack her though, not really hostile."

"You're the one who attacked us!" She came in front of the group aiming at Link now.

"I did, doesn't mean a thing. Your friend was the one who attacked us and tied us up like animals." A slight giggle from Cirno in the background.

"Don't say a thing about what happened then..." Link sighed knowing she'll mention it.

"Sorry! It was just way too funny!"

"I swear, if you brought anything that will embarass me, I will leave you here."

"I guess you'll have to leave me here then!" She kept on laughing.

"Why don't you just tell them what happened? Wouldn't that make it so much easier for me to be humiliated?"

"No, I'm fine now."

"It doesn't seem like they're evil, they just retaliated." He set down his staff.

"I'm with Ungaga." The propelor slowed to a complete stop and the gun weilder landed.

"I'm hungry..." Cirno's stomach growled.

"Of course you are!" Link laughed and unwrapped a bunch of fruit.

"That's it?" Cirno sniffed at an apple.

"Hey, I suggested you bring something. My other stuff does take up tons of space."

"I'm glad you brought this!" She picked up a slice of watermelon and nibbled on it spitting out the seeds.

"You do have a thing for watermelon..." He took the apple and cleaned it on his tunic.

"What are you doing over there watching us? If you want to come over, come on! We don't bite!" Link motioned for them to sit down.

"After all that, you want us to join you for a picnic?" Ruby questioned Link.

"Yes. Is that a problem?"

"Well considering that we hardly know either of you..."

"We don't know any of you, so why not?"

"We're completely capable of getting our own food. Toan, you did buy food right?" He nodded opening his bag and pulled out plenty of different kinds.

"Wait!...There's only five things..."

"One of us will have to go without food...we're out of money." Ungaga said and everyone turned to Ruby, who already took a loaf of bread.

"There, now the rest of you decide." She wiped her mouth.

"Toan's the one who bought it all, so he should pick." Goro stated, Toan shrugged and took a wedge of cheese.

"I'm the brains of this operation, I should get some." He reached down for another one of the bread loaves.

"I guess that's alright Osmond..." Goro took a drumstick from the pile, and Ungaga took a fish.

"Hey! That's not fair!"

"Fair's fair. Sorry Xiao." Ruby leaned back on a tree and Xiao trudged away and sat seperate from the groups.

"That was rude of them..." Link looked over to Xiao then the group.

"Just ignore that." Cirno closed her eyes finishing the slice of watermelon and flicked it into the woods.

"I'm not letting her go hungry for a day..." He took a bunch of grapes and dropped it in Xiao's lap.

"Huh?" She looked up and saw Link walking back to Cirno.

"How come the people that attacked us are being nicer then my friends?" She tore of the green grapes from the stems and ate them one at a time, the juice started to run down her chin.

"She reminds me of you a bit." Link smiled watching Xiao.

"But, I don't look like a cat at all." Cirno tilted her head.

"I meant by how she acts, not what she looks like." He rolled his eyes and tossed an apple core aside.

"Hey, I just want to say thanks." Xiao sat down near them.

"No problem, your 'firends' don't seem very nice to you."

"Yeah...ever since Osmond came around, they cared less and less about me because he just flies over everything while I just jump around everywhere and they all just ignore me now..."

"So they think you're useless? That's just mean..." Link scratched her ear and Xiao hugged his arm.

"Well aren't you affectionate!" He smiled and she started to purr.

"Don't do anything funny, you crazy cat." Cirno shook her head at Xiao.

"You're just jealous, you want your ears scratched too don't you?" Link laughed.

"Heehee! You're funny!" Xiao giggled. Cirno just stood there getting red from anger.

"Calm down, I already know what you're going to say. You will probably tell me not to let her hug my arm like a stuffed animal and here's the answer; she's neglected, I can't make someone else happy?" Link stopped lecturing and Cirno kept on getting more and more mad.

"Can't you just let it go already? It's not my fault she's part cat."

"I hate her..." Cirno turned around and crossed her arms.

"How could you hate her? I mean look at this face!" She just sat there not turning around.

"I'm sorry if I made you angry." Xiao poked Cirno on the back.

"Just go, I'm in no mood."

"You won't accept the apology. Of course." Link sighed and Cirno turned around.

"Can we leave? I hate this place."

"I guess, we haven't even been gone two hours."

"I still want to leave."

"Fine. Bye Xiao, hope your 'friends' learn to treat you better." Link wrapped up the food and walked away. Just then, he felt a tug on his arm.

"I said goodbye." Link didn't break free out of Xiao's grip on his tunic.

"Can I...come with you?" She asked with large pleading eyes.

"Why do you want to come with me? I live in a seperate world!"

"That doesn't matter."

"Well you would fit in..."

"Pleeeease?"

"...Oh fine!" He smiled and messed up her hair.

"Hey Cirno, guess who's coming with us." Link said from afar and Cirno turned around.

"Oh no, there is absolutely no way! No way that she's going to Gensokyo!" Cirno pointed to Xiao.

"Too bad, she begged me to bring her along."

"And they say I'm stupid..."

"I'm going to ignore that. Come on Xiao, let's go."

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