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I lay on my bed curled up in a ball. I watched the moonlight cast shadows on the floor and the tree outside my window shake from side to side in the strong wind. I had been asleep for most of the day so now I was wide awake at night.
I decided I needed somewhere to clear my head. Somewhere fresh, where I could think.
Since everyone was asleep downstairs I opened up my window and a gust of wind came into my room shifting all the papers on my desk around. I grabbed hold of a branch and lifted myself out of the window and got my footing right on the tree trunk. I slowly climbed down to the bottom and when it was safe I jumped the rest of the way. I travelled down the road that leads to the small lake. I used to love swimming in the lake when I was a child but once when I was swimming down at the lake I felt a hand grip my leg and pull me under. It was the most frightening experience of my life because I was swimming alone.
Old memories came flowing back to me and shiver went up my spine as a cold gust of air came and blew over me. I kept on walking till at last I reached the lake I walked to the end of the jetty and sat down. Despite it being night it was quite bright down at the lake. I stared down at the clear, crystal water and wondered about what Ghirahim had said.
"What did he mean "Moblins can't attack you if they can't see you"?" I mumbled quietly to myself. I dipped my fingers into the water and my reflection rippled. I snatched back my hand as I felt how cold the water really was. The reflection in the water stilled itself. There next to my own mirrored image was Ghirahim's reflection. I turned my head to where Ghirahim was supposed to be standing behind me, but there was no one there. I looked back at the water and stared at both our reflections.
"How?" I muttered. Then Ghirahim's reflection spoke.
Ghirahim put a finger to his lips then slowly a hand came out of the water. I didn't believe it was possible there was nothing in the water. Ghirahim's hand wrapped around my wrist slowly and pulled me toward the water.
When I tried to release myself from his grasp I found I couldn't. Instead my body was willingly going into the water.
"Come, Zelda. Come." Ghirahim's watery picture said. I felt myself being entranced by Ghirahim. I leaned forward and my hand disappeared below the surface, then my forearm. I was leaning so far over that I tumbled into the water.
Ghirahim looked like a wispy shadow but the hand on my wrist felt real.
"Come." He still whispered, "come to me."
His grip around my wrist pulled me deeper down into the lake. I felt a need for air but being drawn to Ghirahim was even more powerful. As I felt myself fading away unable to do anything about it, I felt an arm grab my waist and pull me from Ghirahim's grasp.
The next thing I knew was a grasp around my waist and I was pulled back up to the surface. But then suddenly it was hot, and I was in a small room. I was cold, wet and coughing up water onto the stone floor.
I slowly got up and looked around the room. In the centre was a table with three people sitting and talking. They looked up with surprise.
"Took you long enough Link." Said a woman who got to her feet and put some more wood on the fire.
"She was almost taken by Girahim," Said the guy about my age that looked to be the one that saved me, as he was just as wet as I was. He walked over to the fire and held out his hands for warmth.
I stood in the corner wondering what the hell had happened? Where was I? And who were these people?
"Tea anyone?" asked a girl that came out of a doorway decorated with lines of beads. She was probably at least fourteen. She wore a white dress down to her knees and had a yellow shawl around her shoulders.
The young girl was the first one to notice me since I got here, to wherever here was. She screamed happily and dropped the tray full of china cups and ran towards me and wrapped her arms around me. I stumbled back, shocked at the sudden movement this girl had just made. I didn't even know her.
"Hi! I'm Malon, pleased to meet you!" Malon held out her hand and I shook it. She had a surprisingly good grip. The women at the table suddenly got and stared at Malon embracing me in what must be a hug.
"Malon! Stop scaring the girl. She just got here." Said the woman quite fierce.
"You actually noticed me." I replied with fear in my voice.
"Oh they do that to everyone they meet. Don't take it personally." Malon intervened.
"We've been waiting for you." Said the woman
"You have?" I replied questioningly.
The man who was also sitting at the table spoke up. "You didn't tell her Link."
"Well, she was kind of drowning by the time I got there. Telma didn't show me her vision fast enough." defended Link who squatted in front of the fireplace still.
"Hey!" complained the woman whose name I knew now was Telma. I sensed a change in the atmosphere and wondered if I should say something to fill the silence.
"So can someone tell me why I've been abducted and how I got here in barely a blink of an eye?"
"Malon. Can you go make some more tea please?" asked the man still sitting at the table. The young girl who dropped the silver wear when she saw me moved back through the door.
"I am Auru, this is Telma, and this is Link." Introduced Auru
"The tipsy one is Malon. Try to stay away." Warned Telma. Auru grunted at the comment and Link gave a little chuckle under his breath.
"I heard that!" called out Malon from within the next room, which I'm guessing, was a kitchen.
"Here dear change into these clothes so your other ones can dry, there a room right their you can use." Telma said emptying a pile of clothes into my arms and bustling me into a room shutting the door. All was silenced as I looked around the room; it was a bedroom that had two beds in it. I put on the clothes that I was given to discover it was a plain white dress that fell to my knees. I stepped out of the room and Telma took the wet clothes from me and began to place them on a stand by the fire.
I may not have shown it but I was still quite scared and had no idea as to how I got here.
"Come by the fire, and get warm." Telma said putting a cushion down. I didn't move, these people were being so nice and they had just abducted me from home.
"I want to go home, I don't know what you want with me but I just want to go home." I looked down and wrapped my arms around me. I was confused and didn't know if I should be afraid or not.
"She's supposed to know why she's here." Auru said sternly to Telma.
"You know I can't foresee what they're feeling. Telma retorted.
"If only I'd gotten there sooner." Link said half to himself.
"So, why am I here then?" I asked, everyone was silent then Telma spoke more softly to me.
"Darling, you're here to fulfil your destiny."
I felt my face turn pale. What destiny? According to me I lived at home with Impa and Aryll, I hung out with my friends, and I went to school. According to me that was all I did with my life. I wasn't expecting to be kidnapped by nice people then being told I had a special destiny to be fulfilled.
Just then, Malon came into the room holding a tray full of cups and a teapot. She saw every ones blank faces and could feel the awkward tension in the air, so she asked the one thing she seemed good at saying. "Tea anyone?"
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