Winds of Twilight

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A/N: Tea here. Before you review to tell me to stop stealing stories, I would just like to say that this is 'Gaaraxocfan'. Taco and I decided that we wanted to rewrite the story since we've learned quite a bit and have gotten a bit better at writing. So please, enjoy the rewritten version. However, the original is on the Gaaraxocfan profile if you feel the need to compare. So please, read and enjoy!

Link was tired; in fact, he was more than tired. After travelling for three days non-stop, with only Midna and his horse Epona for company, it was a given. Who wouldn't be tired after that? This quest had taken too long, and it was a bit annoying. His life in the little village he was from had been nice, with a routine; and that was something he was fond of. Routines. It was easy to follow a routine. There was no guessing, no puzzle solving, and most importantly no fighting of monsters. Sighing, annoyed, his blue eyes traveled to look at the places in the distance. In the very far distance were the mountains, but closer was Lake Hylia. He knew of a small lakeside village that had a small shop and an inn, and a sudden small smile made its way over his face. That would be a nice place to relax a few days, while using the excuse of training, trading, and stocking up on supplies for the quest. Of course, he wouldn't actually stock up on supplies or trade until he was going to leave, but that was going to be his little secret. No need to let his little 'shadow' know.

Speaking of his little 'shadow', he glanced down to the shadow on the ground. The girl seemed to guess that Link had something to say, and she poofed up.

"Hey, Midna. We're going to go to the lakeside village." His frown appeared back on his face as the imp started to protest, but he help up a hand. "I'll train and stock up, it won't be all fun and games." Then he 'tsked' at Epona, and they cantered off towards the little village, ignoring the protests from Midna as they neared it.

It took about fifteen minutes to get there at a canter, but they made it to the edge of the town. Looking around curiously, considering that he had never been in the town before, Epona slowed to a walk. As they went through the village, Link desperately looking for the inn, his gaze fell upon a small house closer to the lake then the others. His curiosity peaking, he flicked the reigns. Nearing it, he noticed a short girl who looked a little younger than himself, yelling at a younger boy who looked just like her.

"Scott, you dork!" She frowned, arms crossed as her brown eyes narrowed at the boy. The boy, Scott, frowned back. "You were supposed to clean out the stable! Now Nara's going to have to sleep in filth!" Scott flinched as her voice rose slightly.

"But sis, the weather was soooooo perfect for fishing today." Scott whined back, running a hand through his short hair. "I even caught us dinner!" The girl sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose.

"Thank you for catching dinner. Your punishment for not cleaning the stable is to prepare dinner, and do the dishes." She pointed towards the house, and Scott scurried into it. The door slammed after him, and the girl turned towards a small stable located near the house. Link blinked, frowning slightly. How had he not noticed that?

As the girl neared the stable, she froze as the sound of a wolf howl echoed through the town. Night had fallen quickly, too quickly. Every hylian knew that with the darkness of night came the worst creatures normal hylians had seen.

"STALFOS!" She called towards the town, and looking behind him Link noticed the villagers scramble into the buildings. He looked back at the girl, surprised that she had tugged a sword out of a pile of hay near the barn. Distracted by watching her, he didn't notice until it was too late that a stalfos popped up in front of Epona. She reared back, neighing. Almost landing on his back, Link managed to give himself enough momentum to flip onto his feet. Getting back his balance, he tugged out his sword and prepared to fight.

As more stalfos appeared, Epona neighed and galloped off towards the little stable. Distracted with making sure his horse was safe, he almost didn't manage to dodge an attack from a stalfos. He back flipped and rolled behind it, slashing it from behind with a loud yell. It screeched, falling to the ground. As if in response, another scream sounded.

Link's head turned quickly in the direction of the scream. The girl he had been observing earlier was surrounded by twelve stalfos (at least the ones he could see), and an abnormally big one. She prepared for a spin attack, but the giant one knocked away her sword and shrieked at her. Thinking that she might need help, Link quickly finished off the few that were attacking him, and ran over to help her.

Charging up a powerful attack, he jumped into the fray and killed a majority of the smaller stalfos. A quick spin attack finished off the small ones, and he turned to attack the big one. Slashing at it, he let out a growl when he missed and was knocked back with a slash from his opponent. With Link effectively distracting the remaining stalfos, the girl scrambled over to grab her sword.

Barely rolling out of the way of another attack, Link let out a few choice curse words as he dropped his sword. He reached for it, but let out a small cry of pain as his shoulder was slashed and he was knocked to the ground again. Just as the giant stalfos was going in to finish the kill, the girl jumped up and stabbed it a few times, effectively killing it instead.

Blurrily, Link looked at the approaching boots. His eyes traveled up to the girl's face. It was a little cut up, but otherwise she looked okay. Link had to admit he was a little surprised at the expression of annoyance on her face.

"Are you okay?" She asked, her eyes traveling over his back. "That was a really stupid thing to do. I could have finished these things off by myself, I've been doing it for a while now. Who do you think you are? The hero of time or something?" Link opened his mouth to answer her, but the pain from his back overwhelmed him and he passed out from the blood loss.

The girl sighed, and with some difficulty dragged him into the small house she shared with her brother. Managing, though with trouble, to get him into a small room, she tried to set him down comfortably on his stomach. Frowning as she looked over him, she tugged off his tunic.

"Scott, I need the medical supplies. Can you bring them over here?" She called, giving her brother a small smile as he came in from the other room. Setting down a small box near her, she sighed as she set to work healing the boy.

Link woke up a few days later. Though his shoulder was throbbing with pain, he was feeling a little better. As his sight cleared up from sleep, the first thing he saw was a pair of chocolate brown eyes staring at him, filled with relief.

"You're awake." She sighed. Was it just him, or was there some relief in her voice? "You weren't breathing steadily for the past few days, so I was worried you were…" She paused, watching him carefully. He sat up quickly, and almost fell right back down again. His bright blue eyes slid in and out of focus. The girl looked over towards the door that led into the other room. "Scott, can you bring a bowl of soup in here?" She called, smiling at the affirmative sound that was given in reply.

Scott entered the room, holding a small bowl of soup. He handed it to Link with a calculating look, before his sister ushered him out of the room. Link watched the girl come back to the side of his bed, a smile on her face.

"My name is Link." He said quietly as his stomach growled loudly. The girl smiled.

"My name is Kiara. It's nice to meet you." She replied, but her smile was quickly replaced with a frown as a big crash sounded from the other room. "I'll be right back." Standing up quickly, shouting at her brother to fix whatever he had broken.

Link quietly sipped the soup from the bowl, before his eyes traveled around the little room curiously. There were two small beds in the room, though he seemed to be in the bigger one. The walls were pretty bare as well. Even the small window on the wall didn't have a curtain or anything. It seemed a little sad.

Kiara reentered the room. At Link's curious stare, she shrugged.

"Scott broke a bowl, so I sent him out to muck the stable. Your horse is in there, I think." She turned back to enter the other room, and as soon as she was out of sight Link set the bowl to the side. He scrambled out of the bed, looking down to make sure that he was dressed. He was, which made him feel a little better about being making the girl and her brother take care of him.

He followed Kiara into the other room, and was met with the sight of another pretty empty room. A chair, a small stove area with a pot hanging above it, and what looked to be a blanket in the making. Kiara was bent over the pot, stirring it with what looked like a big wooden spoon. Link sat on the chair and watched her for a bit.

"Thank you." He finally said, still watching her. Her tongue had been poking out of her mouth in concentration, but with the surprised expression on her face as she looked at him it, well, just looked silly.

"You're….welcome." She finally replied, though a little flustered. Blushing slightly, she went back to focusing on the soup before standing up straight. "I'm going to go…check on Scott."

Link chuckled lightly, and was about to follow her when her scream sounded out. He ran out, and stopped a few feet behind her as she screamed at the sky. A large armored black bird, with glowing red eyes and the sharpest talons he had ever seen, had picked up her little brother.

"Kiara!" Scott screamed, struggling to no avail. The giant bird disappeared into the distance, with Scott still in its grasp. Kiara fell to the ground, her eyes on the spot where it bird had flown off. Link was unsure how to comfort her, and so he silently slipped away to the barn to check on Epona. The barn was pretty clean. Link could only assume Scott had cleaned it up a bit before he had been kidnapped. In the stall by Epona was a light tan horse with deep green eyes. The horse snorted and waved its head a bit when it saw Link. Then, in the stall across from the tan horse, there was a little white pony with a few brown spots on its coat. All of the stalls had food and water, and were pretty clean.

As there was nothing to do for the horses, Link walked back towards the house. Kiara wasn't outside, so he went inside. To his surprise, Kiara was slipping soup from the pot over her stove into small jars, before settling them in a small backpack. With a set frown on her face, she folded a blanket and shoved it in there before turning to look at Link.

He blinked, a questioning frown appearing on his own face.

"Let's go." Kiara told him, standing up and shouldering the bag. Link blinked in surprise.

"G…Go where?" He asked, crossing his arms.

"You travel a lot, don't you? I mean, you're obviously not from this village."

"I…well, yeah. I travel." Link's frown deepened.

"You fight too, and pretty well. You get a bit distracted, but…" I could watch your back. The unsaid words hung in the air, and Link decided he didn't like where this conversation was going.

"Y…Yeah, I can fight pretty well." Kiara suddenly smiled at his words, turning and putting the fire out. The small house was filled with darkness, and he could barely see Kiara's shape turn back towards him.

"You're going to help me save Scott."

"…What?"