So here is my second instalment/chapter of my Legend of Zelda/Scott Pilgrim crossover. I'm hoping I'm starting to drift away from completely re-cycling the dialogue but anyway...

Link opened his eyes; all around him was cold and dark. He took a few tentative steps forward, stretching out his hands as he did until his palms touched damp stone. With his hands still on the wall in front of him he edged his way round the room, cave, whatever it was until his fingers felt the hard mental of a door hinge. He felt along the large wooden door until he found the handle and, praying that he wasn't locked in here (wherever here was), he pushed it down. The door was thankfully unlocked.

Link pushed the door open and light flooded into the small cell like room he had been in. He looked around; the place was definitely in a dungeon somewhere but whether it was a dungeon he had explored before he didn't know – after a while all dungeons start to look the same. The only thing different about this dungeon was the brilliant white light at the end of the corridor. Link left the cell, leaving the door open, and walked down the corridor towards the sun like light that emanated from the end of it.

As Link got closer and closer to what he hoped was the exit he couldn't help but wish (as annoying as she was in dungeons) that he had Navi with him telling him which way to go. Navi always seemed to know exactly where they were going without the aid of a compass or map. Link, on the other hand, needed both of these items or he ended up walking round in circles. He pressed on towards the light but the crushing reality of his ineptitude and the imposing stone walls enclosing him made his heart sink.

"So alone..." he said to himself.

"You're not alone." said a girl's voice from somewhere in the distance, her words reverberating all around him.

"What?" he muttered finally stepping into the light. He found himself in an alcove next to the drawbridge that led into Hyrule Castle. It was pouring with rain and Link could hear the sound of hooves hitting the wet ground coming closer and closer towards him. He turned to look in the direction of Lon Lon Ranch and saw a lone figure riding a large chestnut brown horse across the field in front of the Castle.

"You're not alone." the voice said again as the horse and rider got closer to Link. "You're just having some idiotic dream." As the figure on horseback passed Link he saw a train of long blonde hair flying behind them and a long regal looking gown ripple in the wind around their ankles. Link's eyes widened as he realised :- the rider was a girl!

"Hey wait!" he called after her stepping forward slightly. Unfortunately the ledge of the alcove he was standing on wasn't very wide, he slipped and fell, head first, down into the moat...

"Oh god!" Link moaned sitting up in bed. He had woken from his dream just before he had hit the water, unpleasantly falling back into his body with a feeling that left his stomach turning. Next to him Navi stirred slightly in her sleep.

"What is it Link?" she asked.

"I had this dream..." Link began not really sure how to describe what he had just dreamt.

"What about?" Navi asked yawning and sitting up next to him.

"I was in a dungeon..." Link said. His voice was distant and trance like as he tried to hold on to the image of that girl riding passed him for as long as he could.

"Was there treasure?" Navi asked suddenly a lot more awake.

"No..." Link replied. "there was a girl." Navi groaned and lay back down, pulling the covers up around her.

"Then colour me not interested." she stated flatly, annoyed that he had woken her up and rolling over so that her back was to him. Link flopped back down onto his pillow sighing; why could he never see faces when he dreamed about girls? And why was Navi never interested in hearing about his dreams about girls? "Hey listen," Navi said after a pause. "weren't you supposed to go meet your fake high-school girlfriend ten minutes ago?"

"What? It's, like, six in the morning." Link replied tiredly. Navi picked up the clock on the small table next to her side of the bed and handed it to Link.

"It's half nine Link." she told him. Link's face fell as he stared at the clock – he had promised Malon that he would meet her outside Hyrule Castle at quarter past nine so that they could go and explore the actual grounds together.

"Oh. My. God!" he yelled suddenly very much awake. He dropped the clock on the pillow, jumped out of bed and began running around the house like a headless coco trying to find clothes while pulling off the t-shirt and shorts he usually slept in. He finally managed to rid himself of his garments, leaving them where they fell on the floor, and began to pull on his clothes. As he began trying to pull his boots on he stepped backwards onto the t-shirt he had left on the floor and slipped over, landing on his back with an almighty crash.

"Hey listen," Navi began leaning up on her elbows to watch him. "don't forget you've got that party at Farore's tonight. Saria said that she'll meet you here at seven so make sure you're back on time."

"I will." Link said hurriedly as he swung his backpack over his shoulder and threw the door open. If he ran and didn't run into anyone he might be able to get there in five minutes.

"Don't you want breakfast?" he heard Navi call after him but he ignored her and ran out the door, jumped down the steps and sprinted out of Kokiri Forest as fast as he could.


Link skidded to a halt in front of the drawbridge to the Castle about five minutes later panting, sweating and with the world's worst stitch. Malon looked up from where she had been staring down into the moat and happily ran over to him. She threw her arms around his neck, hugging him tightly and Link awkwardly hugged her back while still trying to regain his breath.

"Sorry I'm late." he said in between pants. "Navi turned the alarm off again so I didn't wake up on time." Ah, when all else failed, blame Navi – that was Link's most commonly used excuse for when he was late for anything; that Navi had kept him talking, had turned off the alarm or had made him go on a quest that she insisted 'wouldn't take five minutes'. In truth it was always that Link had lost track of time or he had been asleep but he usually received a smack to the back of the head for those excuses and Navi never found out that he was constantly blaming her for his inability to be on time so it was perfectly excusable.

"That's ok, I haven't been here long." Malon told him. Link was pretty sure that she was lying but he didn't want to embarrass either of them by calling her out on it and just settled for smiling cheerfully.

"Shall we go?" he asked and Malon nodded happily. She linked her arm with Link's and the two of them made their way over the drawbridge and into the Castle.

The outer market of Hyrule Castle was still busy even on days when most other markets wouldn't be trading, with people pressing in on all sides as Link and Malon made their way through the crowded square and out to the inner part of Hyrule Castle – the actual Castle grounds. The Castle grounds were a lot quieter than the market place, which suited Link just fine – he was still trying to recover from his run and wake up properly at the same time and being surrounded by people was not helping him do that.

The Castle grounds were crawling with guards. The guards rarely made eye contact with people but if they did make eye contact with you and they thought you were giving them a funny look then...well it was just best that you didn't. Most of the time they just stared ahead of them, not actually noticing any movement unless it came too near to the Castle. It wasn't that people weren't allowed in the Castle grounds they just weren't allowed to get to close to the building as it could be seen as an attempt to break in and rob the treasury.

Link and Malon sat on the grass on one of the small hills that surrounded the Castle so that they were directly facing its gates. Link gazed at the huge building, wondering what it would be like to properly explore a place like that, as Malon chatted about her friends at school and life on the farm. Link occasionally commented but he was only half listening to what she was saying; a movement from the Castle gate had caught his eye.

A small crowd of guards had gathered around the gate of Hyrule Castle, one of them holding the reins of a beautiful chestnut brown horse that looked very familiar for some reason. The doors of the Castle swung open and Link could make out a female figure (about the same age as himself) coming out. As the figure stepped out of the Castle and into the bright afternoon sunshine Link's eyes widened slightly – this wasn't the first time he had seen this person! Long blonde hair fell about the girl's shoulders and a long regal looking gown swished around her ankles as she made her way over to the horse. With great ease, as if it was second nature too her, the girl mounted the horse swinging one of her legs over the beast so that she was straddling it's back.

Link stared at the vision in front of him, blissfully unaware that Malon had stopped talking beside him. The girl on the horse was stunning; long blonde hair that was pinned away from her face and hung down her back, huge blue eyes, curves that made her look sexy yet elegant and she knew how to ride a horse without resorting to side-saddle like most girls. Link's mouth hung open and he continued to stare as the girl dug her heals slightly into the horse's sides with a loud cry and began to ride away.

Link watched as the girl rode away from the Castle gate, around the grounds and out towards Hyrule Field. Her blonde hair flying out behind her and the bottom of her dress rippling in the wind, there was no mistaking it :- she was definitely the girl from Link's dream. As she rode past the two of them sitting on the hill the girl cast a quick glance in Link's direction and their eyes met for a fleeting second. In that second Link felt his heart stop.

Almost as soon as it had happened it had gone; the eye contact between them had finished and the girl had continued riding away. Link stared after her until she was completely out of sight, gazing after her in a trance; he was not entirely sure if he had seen what he had actually seen. There was something much too dreamlike about any of this for it to be real and she was definitely the girl that had ridden through his dream that morning.

"Hey Link." The sound of Malon's voice brought him back to reality and he looked round at her, she was staring up at him with wide eyes.

"Yeah?" he asked a little stupidly, still half in his dream.

"Do you know that girl?" Malon asked. There was no hint of jealousy in her voice, she was almost asking in wonder at the thought of Link knowing someone who actually lived in Hyrule Castle.

"Um..." Link replied unsure how to respond to that.

So Link sees Zelda at last o.O can he act normally when he finally meets her in the next chapter...probably not :p