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Chapter 3

Link was standing at the front door, leaning on its massive wooden structure as he waited. Once I reached him I gave him a small smile before he greeted me with an even bigger one.

"Hey Vena," he grinned from ear to ear.

I laughed, "Hey Link."

"Ready?" he asked, pushing down on a flop of blonde hair making it squish down so it reached his chin.

I nodded and noticed he was hesitating as he went to take my hand. To save him farther embarrassment I grabbed his hand and led him out the door. As soon as we got to the barn Cyprus and Epona were standing out front, saddles on and waiting for us.

Cyprus and I followed after the other two swiftly, his hooves slapping the lush grass which radiated in the setting sun. Once we reached a dense looking forest, Link took Epona onto a path which I followed him on, the grayish dirt spaying up from the horses trotting.

"This is amazing," I breathed as I looked around. The forest had no bushes or anything on the floor but what looked like millions of trees for miles. The ground was all gray looking dirt and a few patches of grass in random places. I brought Cyprus next to Epona and glanced over at Link, a long piece of his blonde hair was over his eye.

Once he noticed me staring he smiled at me, "You like it?"

"No."

He looked like I slapped him.

"I LOVE it," I smirked, and he let out a breath of relief.

"How about we walk for a little?" he suggested after riding through the forest for a little longer.

We had reached a small pond and the horses lay down near a tree. Link and I walked together down the side of the pond before sitting down in a patch of grass.

I looked up at him sitting next to me, "I beat Samus today."

He glanced at me, "I've beaten her a few times. I think her weakness is elves."

I laughed, "Is she fighting tomorrow?"

"Yeah," he nodded. "Speaking of, you and I are too."

"I still think I can kick your butt," I teased.

He sighed, "This again?"

I growled and he gave me a wicked smirk, "Link, are you challenging me right now?"

He growled back and I sat on my knees, "Vena, you better watch yourself."

I shot him an evil smile before pushing him back by his shoulders onto the ground and crawled on top of him.

"I win," I simply stated, straddling his waist and pressing my forehead against his.

He breathed loudly before answering, "You think?"

Before I could answer he had me pinned on the back with his legs on both sides of me, holding himself up by his forearms. Instead of having his forehead to mine like I did to him, his face was down more, his lips a millimeter from mine.

They lingered for what seemed like minutes, his face moving in extremely slow and small movements, making me move with him. When I least expected it he moved quickly, pressing his lips strongly against my own.

He pulled his face back quickly, "I'm sorry."

I pulled off his hat and wrapped my fingers into his long floppy hair and pulled him to me again and he didn't fight back. He groaned into my lips after a while and pulled back to breathe only a few times. Knowing he wasn't going to push me any farther so I had to do it myself. I let my tongue trace his bottom lip softly and he didn't seem to know what to do.

"Relax," I breathed, tracing my finger down his sharp cheek bone.

He swallowed, "I just…get nervous when I'm with you."

"Why?" I asked, kissing him again.

"You're perfect," his lips brushed mine as he spoke. "You're beautiful, nice, and you like me for who I am…which normally people don't like."

"I love you for who you are," I ran my hand down his chest. "Don't be nervous."

"I'll try," he smiled and kissed me again.

I pushed the piece of hair out from in front of his eye. "What time is it?"

"No idea," he looked up. "It's getting dark though."

"I don't want to go yet," I told him, pulling his face back to mine.

He smiled, "Neither do I."

I bit my bottom lip and he stared at it, tracing his nose down my cheek.

"Have you ever had a girlfriend before?" I asked after a few moments of him giving me butterfly kisses down my jaw line.

He paused before answering, "No. Have you?"

"I have never had a girlfriend," I replied and he laughed.

"You know what I mean," he kissed me then bit my bottom lip a little.

"Other than you I have had one," I informed him.

He looked up at me, "I am your boyfriend now?"

"I…if you want."

His face lit up, "I do."

"So who was the other guy?" he asked.

"He was from back on my island," I began. "His name was Zaylin."

Link rolled over so he was laying on his side, his body pressed to mine as I rolled over on my stomach.

"What did he look like?" he asked after a while.

"Uh," I felt his hand touch my waist. "He had long shoulder length straight black hair. He was about your height and he was four years older than me.

"What happened that you left him?"

I laughed, "He left me."

"Oh, I didn't-

I cut him off, "It's fine. He left me because I didn't let him get a second girlfriend. He told me if I can't handle it then he can't be with me."

"That's horrible," Link said.

"Mmhm."

He wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me closer, "We should go. It's pretty dark out."

Reluctantly I agreed and we both walked back towards the horses. Right before we mounted them we heard something in the woods. Link and I both immediately drew our swords, exchanging a glance before looking out into the nearly black forest.

We saw a faint light appear to be getting closer to us.

Closer.

And closer.

And closer.

Right when the light stopped moving, Link moved a few steps backwards so he was in front of me. I wasn't having any of this and stood by his side.

The light was still.

Then it moved quickly towards us, like the holder was running.

"It's a Moblin!" Link yelled when the light wielder was close enough.

The creature was like nothing I had ever seen before. It looked like a warthog and a human mixed together. It was holding a giant stick with a massive blade on the top of it and a red lantern in the other. Its droopy lips flopped up and down as it charged towards us, letting out a horrible screeching sound.

Before I could even react, Link moved his sword around in different ways, making the beast fall to the ground and its lanterns light went out.

"There has to be more," Link whispered, it was directed more to himself than me.

I walked closely by him with the horses at my heels, still not sure what the hell that thing was.

Right when I was about to ask him about it, we climbed over a small hill and saw on the other side was about ten more of those hideous creatures.

"I need to fight them all. Wait here," he turned his attention towards me as we lay on our stomachs on the hill.

"No," I grabbed his arm, whispering back.

"Vena, I don't want you to get hurt," he begged. "Please."

"Link, stop." I commanded. "I came here to fight. Don't think I can't handle it. I know what I'm doing."

"Only if you promise me you will yell if you need help and be careful," he proposed.

"No," I sarcastically added. "I was just planning on laying there."

He shot me a look, "Vena."

"I promise," I murmured. "Let's go."

We both stood up and all of the creatures looked over at us, their massive buggy eyes full of the livid color red.

I let an arrow loose and it squished right through one of their cheeks, going out through the other side. The creature I hit charged towards me along with four others as the other five went for Link who shot an arrow into one of their feet.

I drew my sword out and strategically swung it, hitting the beast that was closest to me in the chest, making it fall back. Another one came closer and I swiped it across the face, its lip sputtered blood.

One of them swung its weapon at me and I stopped it with my own. Another came up behind me and attempted to get a shot at the back of my knees but Link came up behind me and took that one out easily.

After that I took out three of them with a few more sword hits and a few arrows. There were at least three remaining with Link finishing one of them off. One of them, with especially flaggy lips was rushing towards Link with his weapon outraised. I ran over and stabbed him through his back; he fell to the floor and took my sword with him as it was still impaled through his body.

Link turned around and realized what happened. The last creature saw my vulnerability and was taking a swing at me.

Fuck.

I had nothing to stop the swing with and it was about to hit me.

This is it…