Chapter Two – The Arrival

The other end of the portal was suspended in the air. He came flying out of it and landed hard on his back. Pain was rushing through his body, but he had to ignore it Epona was somewhere here and he had to calm her down so they could return. Sitting up, Link studied his surroundings. He was on the banks of a dirty rubbish filled creek only the trees looked healthy and green. They made him think of Kokiri forest, but still he could tell that he wasn't in Hyrule anymore. "Oh my god Sarah! Could you hurry up?" Echoed a voice from Link's right, it seemed to be coming from the end of the creek. "I'm not going through there it's so cold! I'll get wet! And you always get me into trouble. I can't trust you anymore!" Another voice came from the same direction as well. In hopes that the owners of these voices may have seen Epona he went over to meet them.

"Come on it's easy! It's also about to rain! I wanna go home!"

There was a moment of silence.

"Oh alright, alright!" A sound of running through a hollow pipe was heard. Link continued to make his way over there following the bank. He heard a loud, echoed SPLASH and the second voice screamed out, "Arrrgh! It's COLD! I knew I shouldn't have done this!"

Link arrived to where the voices where emanating from and walked up to the red haired girl whose voice he had recognised by her laughter that she was the owner of the one of the voices he had heard on arrival. She was wearing baggy pants and a long white T-shirt with a white-stripped navy blue jacket wrapped around her waist. Link tapped her on the shoulder, "Excuse me miss, but-"

"Not now!" Without looking she flicked him away with her hand, "Bother me later. I'm trying to get my friend through here today."

"I heard that Lisa! I'm getting there! Just because you've been through here a million times and can bolt through at a million miles an hour doesn't mean I can too! So WAIT!"

"God damn it. I'll never get home."

Link wanted to find Epona as soon as possible, this was a matter that couldn't wait. He tapped on her shoulder again. "Could you please tell me if you seen a-"She cut him off by turning around quickly and shouting, "What do you want already?" But instead of an angry look on her face which Link was expecting, she seemed shocked and started stuttering. "Uh, S-s-s-Sarah!"

The second voice that Link had heard belonged to another young female with brown hair that was up in a ponytail. She clambered out of the pipe carefully so that she wouldn't get wet from the water going in. Without looking up she hopped over the stones protruding from the creek surface and made her way over to her friend. "What's wrong?" she asked and followed her friends' gaze to Link who was still waiting for their help. She jerked back a little and also looked shocked. Links' gaze went from one face to the other and back again, he shrugged and tried for the last time to get some help.

"Have either of you two girls seen a Horse come past here? She is red in colour and has a white mane."

"Your horse? No, we haven't seen Epona."

"Oh, I see." Link turned away and then he realised what she said he looked quickly back at her. "What? How? How do you know her name?"

The other girl seemed to get used to seeing Link or she decided that she was dreaming because she took a step forwards and said to him, "We know a lot about you, Link."

Link was the one who had been shocked at this time. He was a little worried about why they knew his name and wondered if this world had many people that had his name and looked like him. Thinking about this only made him more worried about Epona. What would he do if he found out that there were more horses here that were the same as she was. He panicked.

"I don't know how you know my name, but maybe you can help me find my horse Epona? Is there a farm nearby that has them?" He paused. "What are your names?" He hoped that they weren't named something he already knew. The brown haired girl answered him.

"I'm Sarah and this motor mouth here is Lisa."

"I know. I talk too fast. I told you to shut up about that!" Lisa snapped back while splashing Sarah with water. Sarah returned an angry glare at Lisa as she brushing the water from her leg.

"Um. Okay. Lisa, Sarah, where am I?" Link looked around again at the surrounding area.

"This is Yaradram Creek." Answered Lisa.

"And what year is it? And what planet am I on? And what land am I in?" A dozen questions had shot into his brain at once that he wanted to know. They sat down on the bank and the girls helped him answer his questions and then they found out from Link why he was in their time.

"Oh, so this isn't a dream? You really are in this 21st Century?" Lisa's jaw dropped and she pinched herself to double check.

"So what are you going to do now?" Sarah asked as they stood up off the grassy bank. Link looked at the sun, it was just above the horizon. He gasped at how he forgotten about the time and started running back up past where he had arrived shouting back, "I've got to find Epona!"