A/N: Edited at 23.8.2013. Fixed misspellings and such.

I know that Dark Link and Shadow Link are two different things but if you think about it... How does Dark Link appear into the Water Temple's room if not by being a shadow at somewhere?

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Oh, and I own nothing else except the story and idea! Everything else, the characters and places, goes to Nintendo and who ever invented the amazing Legend of Zelda series!

This IS continuation for CaH!

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WEEK AFTER NEW YEAR'S EVE

CHAPTER 3: Saturday

Dark sighed and shook his head. "Pathetic... That's what he called me..." He whispered quietly and stared at his hands. The dark Hylian put his hands into fists in anger. "I'll show him!" Dark hissed quietly but sighed then. "But before that I really do need to catch up with Link on the stamina..." He mumbled and glanced behind himself.

"Glad that you can sleep, Link..." Dark muttered and stood up. He went around the bed and put his shoes on. The dark Hylian took a red tunic and walked out of the room. "I'll be back slightly later but now I need bit of fresh air." He whispered while heading to the main hall. On his way down, he started to think about the year's third day he had spent at the castle.

At that day Link had woken up early and once he had changed clothes, he came to wake the dark Hylian too. "Wake up, Dark. I got something cool for today." The Hero whispered. Dark whined and turned his back to him. Link chuckled. "Oh, come on, Dark. How are you going to learn anything if you stay at the bed?" He asked.

"Just a bit longer..." Dark whined while pulling the blanket over his head. Link laughed and shook his head.

"Sorry, but not this time." He stated, took a good grip on the blanket and pulled as hard as he could. Dark gasped and shot his eyes open when the warm blanket was ripped away from him.

"Hey!" He shouted bit angrily and glared at Link. The Hero just grinned and crossed his arms over his chest.

"Come on, Dark. You really can't stay in the bed." He stated as firmly as he could. Dark sighed but stayed quiet. Link grinned. "But if you don't want to learn new things, then fine, stay in the bed but I'm leaving the castle for today." He said, got up from the bed and turned towards the door.

Dark groaned. "Where are you going today, then?" He asked bit defeated. Link's grin widened a bit.

"To Lake Hylia." He replied nonchalantly and took few steps towards the door.

"Fine! I'm coming. Just wait for a sec." Dark growled and got up from the bed. "This'd better be a good thing then..." He mumbled while heading to change clothes.

Link grinned widely. "Yes! I knew he couldn't stay in the bed if there's chance of getting to Lake Hylia." He thought and started to do the bed. It didn't take long before Dark came back and the two of them went to get the horses.

The sun hadn't yet gotten up when they rode out of the market place and into the field. Epona and Storm took up a fast trot real soon before they were already galloping. Link had a bag with him and both Hylians had their sword and shield along just in case. The horses jumped easily over the fences and slowed down the closer they got to the shore.

Link jumped off of Epona and took the bag. He walked close to the shore and opened the bag. Dark had come to his side by that time and watched bit confused when Link took out the ice skates. "You remember these, Dark?" He asked while changing shoes. "There's a pair for you too, so come on!" The Hero stated with a smile.

Dark sighed and shook his head but followed Link's example. Since it hadn't been too long since Link had been on the skates, he stayed up quite easily. Dark on the other hand had lots of trouble to stay upright on the skates at the ice. "Hard, huh?" Link asked grinning.

"Oh, shut up!" Dark growled and eventually stayed up. He took a careful step forward and was straight off back on the ice. "Oh crap!" He shouted bit angrily, forced himself back up and few seconds later he found himself fallen back to the ice. Link kept watching the dark Hylian's failing attempts of staying up.

After once again getting up to his feet, Link came right in front of him. "Okay, let me help you a bit." He said smiling, took a grip on Dark's hands and started to skate backwards. "Just keep your feet on the ice and slide. Don't try to walk." The Hero advised and let go of Dark.

The dark Hylian was fully uncertain about the whole thing but stayed up even after the slide was over. "Come on, follow me!" Link called while coming next to him. "Careful and step by step." He advised and took one step forward. Dark frowned but watched carefully how Link was doing it. After a while he mimicked it and was bit startled to be still standing. "That's the way, Dark! Come on, just keep continuing!" The Hero called smiling.

The dark Hylian followed Link bit happier and he started to get the hang of the moving. Each time he was going to fall down, Link came right next to him and took a grip of him while keeping him up on his feet. Soon they were skating around the lake Hylia. "You're doing great, Dark!" Link called happily.

Dark chuckled a bit but frowned when he realized that Link was actually going backwards. "How do you do that?" He asked bit puzzled. The Hero shrugged.

"Same thing but backwards. I'll show you!" Link replied and came right next to him. He started to go slowly and with small steps backwards. "Just follow me." Link said smiling and Dark watched bit confused but soon tried it out too.

It took bit of practice but soon Dark was following Link quite well. He still wasn't fully happy about the slippery ice but he was getting comfortable with the way of moving. "Did you find these from one of the temples?" Dark asked while skating beside Link.

Link chuckled and shook his head. "Nope. I found these from the castle and questioned once from one of the guards what these were. He actually taught me to use them." He replied, turned around to go backwards but kept the speed.

Dark nodded and was bit jealous of Link's talent with the skates. "You're doing great, Dark. I'm actually bit jealous of your ability of learning so fast." Link said after a while. The dark Hylian was bit startled and slightly blushed.

"And I'm jealous of your skills with the skates." He replied in slight whisper. Link chuckled.

"No need. You're already equal with it." The Hero stated smiling. Dark frowned.

"Really? It doesn't look like it." The dark Hylian said bit disappointed. Link laughed and shook his head.

"Because you're not giving it a chance. Just do a trick or two. Just try it out. That's the only way you'll learn." He stated and turned around again. "Just follow." Link said, sped up a bit, turned around to move backwards before already turning around again. Dark slumped a bit but decided to try it out.

He followed Link's example and sped up. He kept the speed while turning around, yet he flailed a bit and started to fall again but before he even knew it, Link was already by his side. "Really good try. Just give it a second chance." He said with a grin.

Dark sighed and shook his head. "I'm going to fall." He mumbled and turned his gaze off. Link chuckled.

"And then you'll just get back up and try again. On that attitude you're not going to learn anything, Dark." He stated and let go of the dark Hylian. "Just by trying over and over again is the only way you'll learn." Link continued. "You really think I learned to skate just by first try? Hell no! I fell even more times than what you've done so far. And I hadn't even learned to go straight by the time you're already trying different tricks." The Hero stated firmly.

Dark was bit startled but stayed quiet. Link sighed. "Dark, listen. And listen carefully. Nothing is easy at first try. But if you really want to learn, you just gotta keep on trying over and over again. If and when you fall, you just gotta get back up and continue. The amount of your falls doesn't count. Only the count of how many times you're going to get back up is the important part." He said firmly and skated a bit backwards.

"It's just a fact that it took about a week before I finally learned to skate backwards and, hell, you did it in matter of couple of hours! Talk about being jealous at there!" Link half shouted. "You learn fast and that's a good thing. I'm jealous of it but at the same time I'm very proud of you." He continued with a smile. "Now, come on. Let's get few tricks for you to learn." The Hero stated and skated past him.

Dark was bit startled about all the information Link had given him but at the same time he was happy. The dark Hylian left quite fast after the Hero, watched carefully the few little tricks he did and tried to memorize them. Once Link was skating backwards and watching him, Dark sped up and went for the first trick.

It was the same he had tried just a seconds earlier but this time he had the confidence to really try it out. Dark managed to get to the point of backwards skating but he had bad luck with him. The ice wasn't as straight as everywhere else and the dark Hylian shouted out when he fell to the ice. Link flinched but left soon to check up on Dark. "You okay?" He asked once he got close enough.

Dark sighed. "Yeah... I nearly got it done..." He replied. Link nodded with small smile.

"Yeah. It was really close... The ice just decided not to be cooperating." He said and offered his hand to Dark. The dark Hylian accepted it and Link pulled him back up to his feet. "Just give it third try. I'm sure it'll work out this time." He said confidently.

Dark nodded with a slight smile. "Okay... One more time." He said and skated to bit better ice with Link. The Hero nodded eagerly and the dark Hylian left to try the trick one more time.

Link followed Dark close but let him still have the room he needed for the trick. This time it worked out. "I knew you could do it!" Link shouted while coming to him. Dark chuckled bit nervously and shrugged.

"It wasn't that of hard after all." He said but smiled quite widely. "Any other tricks?" Dark asked eagerly. Link chuckled.

"I got lots of tricks for ya!" He replied grinning. "Just follow me." Link said and winked once before already heading off. Dark grinned and followed the Hero on the ice.

It was late evening when they were returning back to the castle. Dark was smiling widely and asking from Link about new tricks for later on. The Hero chuckled and gave few advises and explained couple of tricks that they could try out sooner or later. The two Hylians went straight to eat after getting the horses ready for the night.

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