YAAAY FOR CHAPTER TWO! XDDD
DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING! NOW ONWARD WITH THE STORY!
The excitement in me was going to blow me up like a balloon if we didn't reach the village soon. Marth was getting a talk from Mom of how to behave around others, and I was cleaning myself up. I began to run my fingers through my tangled blonde hair. Then I went over to the water bucket we have in our wagon. I washed my face and other exposed parts of my body. I glanced at the shimmering reflection in the water. My giant sky blue eyes were glowing with anticipation and my hair looked decent, so I decided I looked good enough.
I ran over to the front opening of the wagon and jumped onto the back of our Rapidash. I think I should have given it a warning or something because he seemed awfully surprised, and took off at a break-neck speed, tearing across the road "AHHHHH! H-HELP!"
I could hear Mom and Marth screaming from inside the wagon. "WHAT'S GOING ON OUT THERE! PEACH WHAT DID YOU DO?"
"I, I'M SORRY! JUST, HOW DO YOU MAKE HIM STOP?"
At that very moment, the harness attaching the Rapidash to our wagon broke, and the wagon slowed down to a stop, but unfortunately for me, I was on the Rapidash, so of course I kept going. The Rapidash must have sensed that it was free because he did a joyous buck and accelerated even faster. "AHHHHH!" I was screaming my head off at this point.
Suddenly, I could see someone begin to approach me on a young chestnut horse. They came closer and closer, until they where only an arm's reach away. Then I heard a young boy's voice say, "Grab my hand! Trust me!"
I had to trust him. I had no other option. I was going to fall and die if I didn't. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes and reached my arm out. I felt someone grab my arm and suddenly snatch me off of the Rapidash and onto their lap.
The sound of hooves clomping on the hard packed earth gradually began to slow down. I was holding tightly to my rescuer's waist. I carefully began to open my eyes and gaze upon my savior. He looked to be about my age or a year older and had blonde hair a little bit darker than mine. He had a funny green hat on and a tunic, but that didn't stop the blood from flowing to my cheeks. He gazed right back down at me and smiled, causing me to blush even more. "Well, this is sure an interesting way to meet someone. So who are you anyway, now that I've saved your life," he said slyly.
"I-I'm Peach. M-me and my f-family are just moving in," I managed to spit out. "C-can I have the name of my g-generous rescuer?"
He laughed lightly and said, "Well hi Peach. Oh yeah, and I'm Link. I've lived in this village all of my life. Do you want me to give you a little tour of the place?"
"Y-yes please," I stuttered, transfixed by his sea-blue eyes.
"Well then, off we go!"
We started off at a solid trot into the village. Link's arms were around me while he held the reins, causing me to blush madly. As we entered the village, Link began to slow to a walk. "That right there, is the general store," he said, pointing to an old looking log cabin. Through a window I could see a brown raccoon standing on its hind legs with a blue apron on staring back at us. I was just about to question that weird sight, but we had already moved on. "And that right there is the church. It calls important meetings and main events are held there."
For the rest of the ride, Link pointed out other various stores and restaurants. When we reached a small green cottage, he said "And that's where I live with my grandma. I'm not really sure what has happened to my parents…"
"Well, I live with my Mommy and big brother, and Mom says that Dad died long ago while she was pregnant with me."
"Oh, I'm so sorry. Well I'm glad we have something in common, even though it's for a quite terrible reason. It's nothing that Zelda would understand…" he said.
"Zelda..?" I questioned, curious. Maybe it was another girl in the village I could become friends with.
"Yeah, Zelda. She's the princess that lives in the castle over there," said Link, pointing towards the castle. "And for some reason, it's always my destiny to save her…"
"Oh…" I said, a little bit crestfallen. Link has a princess, why would he ever want me?
"It's really annoying. I don't get why someone else can't save her. I think she likes me, too. I always run away though before she can pull any funny tricks," he said, chuckling to himself.
"So… so you don't like her?" I said, interested in this new piece of information.
"Of course not. We've got nothing in common what-so-ever and she doesn't care about the people she rules after. It's not right…"
"Oh," I said, perking up.
"Hey, do you wanna see something really cool?" he questioned, a grin spread across his face.
"Sure!" I said.
He took off at a gallop off the road and into the forest surrounding us. I was scared at first, but I felt safe in his arms. About five minutes later, we came to a clearing. In the clearing, there was a beautiful glass clear pond in the center and there where giant colorful koi fish swimming beneath the surface. "…Wow..." I said.
"Beautiful, huh? You wanna get a closer look?"
I nodded my head. He hopped down off of the horse and helped me down. I walked cautiously towards the pond. When I got to the edge, I sat down in the colorful flowers surrounding it. Link sat down right beside me and we both took in the wonderful view. "You know, I found this place when I was on a quest to save Zelda. The only other people that know of this place are you and Roy."
"Roy?" I asked.
As if on cue, we heard a rustling in the bushes. Link grabbed my arm and held it firm. He seemed to be locking in on whatever was causing the disruption. As I examined Link more carefully, I could see that he had pointy elf-like ears. They twitched as he was carefully listening for any other threats. I smiled to myself. How cute!
We then heard a voice. "OVER HERE MARTH! IT'S JUST OVER HERE!" A redheaded boy bursted through the bushes, shortly followed by Marth.
"WOW LOOK HOW Peachy? What are you doing here? And who is that?" said Marth, giving me a questioning look.
"Uhh this-," I said, but was cut off by Link.
"I'm Link. I was the one who saved her from the runaway Rapidash. I presume you two know each other?"
"That's my big brother, Marth," I said.
"Well, nice to meet you," said Link.
"Uhh nice too meet you too… I guess… Oh, Peachy, Mom was worried about you. We managed to catch our Rapidash and we set our wagon up as a permanent home. Well, I'm heading back home with Roy. Hurry up!"
"Okay I will!" I said.
"I got my eye on you Link!" yelled Marth as he ran off with Roy.
"Riiigghhtt…" Link said.
I was hypnotized by the fish in the pond, swirling and twirling and swimming about. I made me want to get up and dance around. And that's exactly what I did. I Got up and twirled and jumped and spun all over the place. I glanced at Link to see if he thought I was weird for my weird dance outburst, but he didn't seem to mind at all. In fact, he walked right up to me and asked, "May I have this dance, Miss Peach?"
I giggled and said, "Why of course, Sir Link."
He took my hands and we danced about in rhythmic circles. The world around us seemed to fade away. It was only us now. Us just dancing forever across the sky. Suddenly, I felt a root under my feet and I lost my balance, toppling on top of Link. We both laughed as we fell to the ground. Then the laughter stopped as we gazed into each other's eyes. Our faces seemed to be moving closer and closer. Then, suddenly, we heard a bell ringing in the background. It was slow at first, but steadily the bells began to grow faster and more urgent.
Link sat up and said, "... That's the church bells… I wonder what's wrong?" It sounds urgent."
He helped me up and called his horse. Then he hoisted me up on its back and jumped up behind me. We took off towards the village, not knowing what we were about to face or what was going on. We just knew that life was never going to be the same again.
So how was it? Yaayy it's finally done! Ug my hands are cramping… PLEASE REVIEW! X3