i'd like to thank healerAriel for reviewing me! if your reading this lots and lots of thankees! your one of my favorite authors! i'm glad you think i write link well, that was one of my fears when i started! So i hope any one alse who reads reviews! your opinions are welcome and make me type faster! i'm sorry if my grammar sux its cuase i'm dumb so if a sentence is missing a word fill it in, i'm gonna edit this all again soon. cuase we can dance if we wanna leave our friend behind....
Clue: don't sing! it hurts! leni owns nothing, not even a brain,and should be thank full big sucssesful athors review. anyway malon shows up Yay! though its not a mal/link i'de beat her if she wrote one of those.
Hey don't tell me what to write! and i am thankful! and you have a crush on malon you bastard! take this! !plays hypnotic techno tetress song! clue falls over clutching head! leni rocks out!
clue: make it stop! start the chapter! yay 7 my favorite number! ow! my head....
---Chickadee---chapter 7---
It wasn't till almost another full day of traveling that the dark smudge on the horizon developed any detail. A tall grain tower jutted up out of the plains and was surrounded by fences and possibly some other houses, molly couldn't tell.
Link stopped at the top of the bluff and took the moment to gaze at lon lon ranch, which was less than two miles away by this point.
Molly came to his side a moment later and cast a glare at the structure on the horizon, "so..." she asked with all the charm of a long experienced peddler, "are we there yet?"
"Walk that way, and maybe, just maybe if you're not as blind as I think you are you won't run into their wall." He said pointing at the ranch. Molly shrugged at the vague insult and started to walk in the appointed direction.
Link shook his head, 'she gets more like her sister every day,' he thought to himself and followed.
Molly was in the lead for most of the short hike and when she reached the fortified ranch, she stopped and gazed up at the sign. Reading was not one of her strong points but she assumed it said lon lon ranch. The gates were wide open and there really wasn't any good reason to stop except for her desire to try to read the sign. She turned to see why link hadn't walk right past her; he never waited for her so she wondered what was up.
He was gazing at the sign too, but with a more concerned look. "Um, Link?" she asked, tugging on the corner of his tunic.
He suddenly snapped out of his reminiscing and looked down at her, "ah...yeah... the gate's open, what are you waiting for?" he told as if it had been her who had been holding up there entrance into the ranch.
Molly followed link around the corner and between to wooden buildings. She was about to complain that it smelled like horses when a group of white feathery creatures caught her attention.
"Cuccos!" molly yelled and charged after the squawking chicken creatures, "here chick! Chick! Chick! Good chicken, com'ere!"
Link watched as, Molly scampered after the cuccos arms out stretched try in vain to catch one. The chickens were careening around the narrow lane between the houses like maniacs while one chased after them. Molly dived at one, the cucco took flight and molly tumbled across the grass and landed in front of link's boots.
Link crouched down and smiled at her, "so did we learn anything?" he asked.
She blinked at him from her sprawled position, "huh?"
Link sighed, "I didn't think so..." he grabbed her by shoulder and hauled her up to her feet. "Now please just try to stay out of trouble. There is nothing we need more than having you be mauled by horses, okay Chickadee?"
Molly nodded and eyed the chickens in contempt as linked walked by a door to one of the buildings. Molly ran to catch up but stopped at the door, then looked at link then back at the door.
"Don't you think we should knock?" she asked as she began to bang on the door with her small fist, no one answered. Link shrugged and waved for her to follow.
The lane between the house and the stable opened up into a large fenced pasture with a track around it and a tall grain tower on the far side. A figure was just exiting from it as they approached it.
"Malon!" link shouted across the pasture. The figure waved and Link ran off towards the other side. Molly just watched him, he could run pretty fast when he wanted to. White flashed in the corner of her eye, she whirled on the cucco and pounced. She cursed loudly through a mouth full of grass.
"This means war!" she whispered to herself. She crawled after the cucco on her hands and knees; the cuccos had it coming. "Here nice chicken... I'm not gona hurt you... just gonna wring your neck!" she said in the most innocent voice she could. Thus, molly exited stage left on the hunt for cucco blood.
Malon saw some one on the other side of the field; she waved. She sighed, 'another customer, another messenger from the castle, wants me to buy his cows..." Malon ran through the possibilities of what the man could possible want trough her head. As the man got closer something in her head said wait a minute... it took a moment with out the fairy and the green she normally associated with him for it to click.
"Link!!!" she shouted angrily, bring the hero to a screeching stop. "You got some nerve showing up here! What do you got to say for yourself!" link blinked, Malon obviously still had her fire.
"I...didn't do it?" he said hesitantly.
"Like hell you didn't!" she swept past him and he followed while she continued to yell at him, "You disappeared all of a sudden and left poor Epona all alone for over a year! You know that she doesn't let anyone but you ride her! She hasn't come out of the stables in weeks; you should be ashamed of yourself! I thought you had potential as a horseman ..." Link stopped listening to her rant right about here and followed her exasperatedly till she stopped outside of her house door.
There was a pause in her spirited ranting and he seized the moment to make amends, "I'm sorry?" he asked hopefully.
"No. I'm not forgiving you till your horse does," she opened the door and pointed inside, "no get in there and I'll make tea."
Link blinked and the awkward silence was broken by a high feminine scream. Link whirled, and there was Molly careening towards him, followed by a mob of angry chickens. Molly was yelling and the cuccos were clucking and seem like all hell was about to break lose. If you had bothered to ask Molly at the moment, she would have told you it already had.
Nonetheless, link saved the day by scooping her up by the back of her shirt and holding her off of the ground and out of the crazed cuccos line of sight. Cuccos not being very bright creatures soon returned to their calm demeanor after losing sight of their prey.
"Hi!" Molly chirped now that she was out of danger and being dangled three feet off the ground.
"So have you learnt anything yet?" he asked while grinning, he had forgotten exactly how fun cuccos could be.
"Nope." She grinned and craned her neck. "Hi!" she piped at the pretty redhead she saw standing next to the open door.
Malon stood there for a moment, "...Hi?" in a highly amused way.
"Its nice to see you too Malon," Link said with a laugh as he walked pass her and into the house, still holding molly out before him.
Malon eyed him and the girl as they walked pass then looked back at the cuccos, "she wasn't abusing you was she?" she asked the cuccos in a sarcastic way.
"No of course not! They went crazy I swear!" molly yelled back out the door. "Ahhhhhk!" Malon heard her squeak, "you bastard don't you dare drop me, I swear I tried hard not to get into trouble!"
Malon was wondering exactly who this mischievous little girl was as she closed the door and entered her house. Her anger had had been completely converted to curiosity.
"Guess you didn't try hard enough," he said as he plopped her into one of her kitchen chairs and took a seat himself "so Malon where's this tea you promised?"
