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The morning sun fingered its rays over the sleepy village of Ordon, the early mist playing around the ground as one by one, the villagers awoke; sleep clawing the corners or their eyes, the light streaming in through closed shutters.
One particular girl – Beth, flung herself out of bed in a vague attempt to wake herself up, her feet landing upon the dusty wooden floor, waking up her father.

'Go to sleep Beth … it's too early…' A groan was uttered from the bunk above hers.

'Da-ad! Come on … it's morning!' There was a faintish mutter from the girl's father, but she took no notice, flinging her head out of the window by her bed, basking in the beauty of the new day, but there is was … a strange but familiar noise … what was it?
'Dad! Can you hear that? What is it?' No reply. Like she had expected more … she placed her head back out the window and there it was again … that noise, a horse's neigh! Epona! The horse of someone she knew so well …
'DAD! Epona's here! LINK'S BACK!' She practically jumped out of the window, but stopped herself, straightening out her pyjamas, flinging a coat over the top in an attempt to hide them, running with her small feet out of the door.
'Going out!' She shouted over her shoulder, running onto the grass outside her house, scanning with her eyes to find Link, she walked a few paces further, a figure stood by the river … something in his arms …
'LINK! HELLOOOO!' The figure jumped so violently he dropped what he was holding, something bright orange, an armful of pumpkins in the river and they began to float away from him.

'Damn!' said a harsh voice – not Link's.

'Mayor Bo?' Beth asked, walking closer, looking up into the face of the Mayor,
'Oops … I am so sorry…' She stared down at her feet in shame.
'Do you want me to get them for you?' The Mayor shook his head and sighed, reaching down to pick some more pumpkins that were growing near his feet. Then over her shoulder, somebody jumped, a flash of green robes, a spike of blonde hair, a spark of purple hued eyes …

'LIIIIIINK!'

'BETHANY!' The mayor roared, dropping another armful of pumpkins at his feet, annoyance rising in his face, he had not seen the hero in the water, but merely turned his back and stormed off towards his house.

'Link?' The girl called staring into the depths of the river, deep underneath, brushing along the riverbed was a person in green, their foot tangled in a strand of weed! Link thrashed about, his arms flying in all directions … he was going to die!
'LINK LINK! HELP! LINK'S IN TROUBLE! SOMEONE HELP!' Beth jumped up and down on the spot, her eyes marked with tears, then another person! Once again jumping over her shoulder, this time someone in blue wearing an outfit made of … scales?

He or she swallow dived into the blue waters arms stretched forwards, untangling the weed in a matter of seconds. The two people resurfaced, one in blue, the other in green, and swam towards the shore. Beth ran over, pulling them both out with her tiny hands.
'Link?' He looked up at her; to her surprise he was the one in blue! She peered into the face of the other one, he or she looked like Link … but there was something different … they both got to their feet, coughing up water, before finally lifting up the green clothed person lifted their head and said:

'Thanks Link …' In a feminine voice … a girl? 'You must be Beth, I presume?' She smiled at Beth, her purple eyes gleaming with the reflection of the shimmering water. Beth nodded, completely lost for words.

'W-who are you?'

'Me? I am the one, the only Aryll! The female Hero of time! Sister of the …' She stopped to clear her throat and look uneasily at her brother,
'Talkative Link? Maybe not…' She swung the weapon around her head, smiling as it caught the light and reflected it over the heads of the three figures. Link, water dripping from the tips of his wet hair, slung his sword from his back, holding it towards the sun in the same position as his sister. She huffed with annoyance at him.

'Yours is longer than mine.' She turned away from him slightly, pulling her sword back and launching it through the air like an arrow, it flew extremely fast, and with precision it shot through a bee's nest type thing that was hanging from the tree, causing it to fall to the ground.
'Look what I learned to do brother!' She smiled at him with half of her mouth, a happy grin. Link shrugged, pulling a bow from his back, knocking an arrow, aimed and fired, it hit the bee's nest, which spilt perfectly into five pieces.
'Show off.' Aryll muttered, walking away slightly. Beth laughed at both of them, smiling a childish smile.

'I didn't know there were two of you! Even better! You can go and save Ilia together!'

'Ilia? What's wrong with her?' Aryll asked, concern in her voice, looking towards Beth, whilst keeping her other eye on Link to see his reaction.

'Another monster came the other night! A big grey wolf! Dragged her away screaming! Poor girl…' Aryll's eyes lit up like fire, she grabbed Link by the scruff of his robes and dragged him away from Beth, towards the poor destroyed bee's nest.

'You don't think I came to find you for nothing do you?' She half snarled,
'I came to tell you something, well two things! I know about your wolf form and I want to know why you dragged Ilia away!' Link's eyes widened in her grip, as she dropped him into the mud at her feet.
'And another thing, come here!' She walked around the back of Beth's house, away from the view of the rest of the village, and promptly transformed into a lynx. Link took one look at his sister and fainted. She shook her head and re-formed, picking up the head of her brother and placing it on her lap.

'I'm sorry about this.' She looked deep into his open blank eyes, and slapped round the head really hard, so a deep thunk could be heard by Beth. Link's mouth dropped open and he came round, massaging the side of his head with his hand.
Aryll ran lightly over to her sword and attempted to yank it from the tree, only it wouldn't budge. A branch fell from the plant and landed with a loud smack on the roof of the house beneath the it, the door to which opened and out came Fado, a male villager who kept himself to himself.

'Aryll! How nice to see you again! Sword stuck hey?' He asked, climbing towards Aryll, oddly a sword sheath was upon his back, out of which protruded a hilt, encrusted with bright shimmering jewels, like one hundred fairies, glittering in the weak sunlight.
Aryll couldn't help drawing a breath, her fingers slacking upon the hilt of her own sword.
'I knew you would return, so I made this for you …' He reached behind his back, and yes! Removed the sword from its hilt and placed it in her hands, it felt light, beautiful, like holding a soft pile of feathers inf her fingers, she swung it around and admired how it caught the light, a grin spreading across her feminine face like wildfire.
'Here, take the sheath too,' He fastened it around her back, she aimed the sword forward and chopped the tree trunk in front of her into several pieces, causing her old sword to fall at her feet … but also for the tree to slowly fall down.

'Oops …' She muttered as the wood creaked and landed with a BANG against the grass to her right.
'Um … yeah … that was supposed to happen!' Link walked behind the two, laughing with mirth at the fallen tree, dressed too in his green robes.
They could have almost been twins, Link and Aryll, the same face, the same eyes; you would not know that two years separated them.

'Farewell, Aryll, Link.' Fado bowed to the both of them, before scuttling back into his house, Aryll held her sword out towards her brother.

'Get yours out, I wanna see something.' He obliged, holding out the master sword against hers.
'I knew it! YES!' She yelled doing a sort of crazy dance around Link.
'My sword's longer than yours!' Link's face fell as he watched his sister dance out in front of him, showing off the weapon in her hands, but then watched in horror as two large shadows swooped downwards towards her … she hadn't noticed them …

'HIYAAAAAA!' He yelled, launching himself forwards, sword in hand …