"You met him?"

"I'm serious. I- Why are you looking at me like that, hey?"

Teleli frowned at her friend Yadira, who looked skeptical as ever.

Yadira smiled. "Oh, nothing. How many Rupees did you nick from him?"

Teleli shrugged. "I didn't steal from him. It was too damn early for that stuff anyway. Let's go eat.."

The girls linked arms and headed toward the kitchen chamber, where the other Gerudo had already taken their seats at the long table in the middle. Teleli inhaled the welcoming scent of bread and fried Cuccoo eggs. "Oh, yum."

She grabbed Yadira and took the two opposite seats at the end of the table, their usual spot, close to the water basin.

All of a sudden, the table broke out in the Gerudo version of Happy Birthday. The girls grinned at each other as their other comrade Azeba slammed her head onto her crossed arms in embarrassment.

"You've hit the big 16! Now you can train with Teleli, Yadira, Jamila, and the other girls your age," her mother beamed.

Azeba let out a muffled, "I know, mama."

Teleli reached over and slapped her friend on the back. "Congrats, kiddo."

"Fuck you, Teleli."

"Let's eat, I'm starving.."

The girls chattered over breakfast about their boyfriends of the weekend and whatnot til Yadira giggled and pulled on Teleli's arm.

"Guess who Teleli met this morning at dawn?"

"Who?" asked another girl, Zaena, through a mouthful of buttered bread.

"Tell them, Teli," Yadira winked. Teleli slammed her foot down on Yadira's big toe as hard as she could. She let out a yelp. "What?!"

"I met that one weird guy everyone here keeps talking about, you know, the green guy...on the...horse...what? What?"

She rolled her eyes at her snickering friends. "All we did was introduce ourselves, oh my gosh, seriously, chill out.."

"You should have brought him home, Teli, we could've shared," giggled Azeba, playfully stabbing her egg with a fork.

"He's mine, back off. I saw him first. You can have him next weekend."

Azeba shrugged. "Sure. Unless I find someone better."

The Gerudo were never the type to be in serious relationships. They looked down upon men (except for the Great Ganondorf, that is) and only used them for reproduction, slavery, etc.. and got rid of them once they were satisfied with them. Occasionally, some Gerudo would go on into relationships, dating their men, usually to take advantage or just to have someone to fool around with every once in a while, but generally, men were nothing to them but tools of procreation. It was just the way of the Gerudo.

Teleli was still young, she turned 16 last month. She was also a huge flirt, she'd get her way over and over while abroad, men would buy her gifts, take her out to eat, spoil her. It helped tremendously that she was very easy on the eyes, with her long, burgundy waves of silky hair and her fiery golden eyes. The men of Hyrule, especially the Hylians, although afraid, were undoubtedly entranced by the exotic beauty of the Gerudo desert women. Like Teleli, they had beautiful clear caramel skin that threw a shocking contrast into the markets and villages where they stepped foot. They were basically the forbidden fruit of Hyrule.

Unless they wanted the man. Then they had their way every single time.

And Teleli was sure she would have Link very, very soon.

She nodded her head in thanks to the Gerudo cook, who eyed her suspiciously as she excused herself from the table and pranced out into the hot, windy fortress. When was Teleli ever this springy? She usually complained about the food before leaving the table. Unusual, maybe someone finally introduced her to something called manners, thought the cook as she shrugged and began to clear the table.

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"Hi-yaaaah!"

Yadira brought her scimitars down onto Teleli's crisscrossed ones. Teleli blocked her efficiently.

"Good job, kid. Not bad. I almost killed you last time," she scoffed, throwing back her slick light orange ponytail.

Teleli raised an eyebrow. "Only because I hadn't slept the night before because of your dumb sister."

"She's a month old, give her a break, Teli, she has to feed every two hours!"

"Right. Let's get this over with, I've trained enough today. It's really freaking hot out here, too."

"Teleli, we've only been training for an hour."

"Only?!"

"You're so lazy, I swear, I should send you to run laps around Hyrule Field. Go help the postman or something."

"I bet you banged him."

"Fuck off, Teleli!"

They trained for another hour and a half, til the afternoon sun beat down on them so severely they had to stop."

Teleli exhaled, throwing her scimitars at the gate of the Gerudo Training Grounds. The guard at the gate flashed her middle finger.

"Yeah, up yours too."

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"Ahhh.."

Teleli breathed in the scent of her cool bed. Time for a late afternoon nap, she thought.

But she pathetically flew up feet first to the window when she thought she saw a flash of green go by.

"Oh." It was the second-in-command, Aveil, inspecting the stolen horses.

Teleli blinked. She wanted to see Link again. She wanted to talk to him.

Take him home, make him hers.

She'd surely do it, tonight. She'd find him.

After this nap..hmm.. she yawned deeply and buried her face into her pillow.

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Okay, second chapter. Woo.. there we go. Review reviewww please & thanks babes :)