Remember to tell me which characters you want to survive. ShadowVDP the turtle will not be apart of the team but will make an appearance, I hope this is ok. His appearance will be in 2-3 chapters after this.

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A bead of sweat rolled off Link's brow. The madman looked him right in the eye, Link looked back and saw nothing. Nothing at all. As if the very soul had been reaped out of him, and now he was nothing more than a redead in the skin of a man.

"they killed my brother. You want to kill me too, don't you" His eyes bulging. Nick let out a small whimper and hid behind Brac's leg. The bolt in the crossbow looking just as sharp as ever.

"We are not here to kill you or your brother. We're here to help you" Link tried to negotiate. The Gorman's beady eyes turned in his direction. A vein on the man's head popped, that had only made me angrier.

"I don't want your help" he said. His hand tightened on the trigger "and neither does my brother" he pointed to the corpse on the ground.

"Ok fine, just let us through." Link negotiated

"You're trying to trick me, you're going to take me and him aren't you!" He yelled. "You all have to die you demons!" he aimed the crossbow and fired.

Time seemed to slow and so did everything around him, only he could move at full speed. The bolt almost seemed to stop, he looked around at his comrades looks of fear were drawn on their faces. He turned back to the Gorman. He had a look on his face, Link couldn't make out what it was. It was mixed with fear, anger, depression. So many emotions it was impossible to just focus on just one. A tingling sensation went through his hand. Time stopped. He looked down to his left hand; the sign of the Triforce was glowing on his hand that hadn't happened since he had defeated Ganondorf. The tingling feeling spread throughout his body. He yelped, the tingling taking over.

Time started to flow again. And the bolt continued flying through the air. But in the Blink of an eye, Link was between the group and the bolt, and with ease he grabbed it in midair, and crushed it.

"h-how" The Gorman stuttered. Links eyes golden eyes reverted back to normal and the Triforce symbol on his hand stopped glowing. The Gorman quickly picked up a pitchfork from nearby.

"Deeemmmoooonnn!" he yelled as he charged at Link. Link quickly drew his sword. As the man waved his pitch fork at him, Link ducked and saw an opening, then jabbed his sword through the bottom of his enemies head, it clean through. Brac covered the little Bombers eyes. The Gorman went limp and slid to the ground. Link looked in horror at the bleeding sword in his hands. Human blood was less thick than monster blood, and it smelled of iron. He had never killed a human before. Link fell to his knees.

"What have I done?" he wailed.

Granny wheeled herself next to the hero.

"There was nothing you could do, he was just a dead soul in an empty body, he would have killed us, and it was a kill or be killed situation" she tried to reassure him. He rested his head on her shoulder.

"I...I killed a person" he whispered, almost to himself

"I told you Link" he turned to her, did she just call him by his real name? "He was no longer a man" she finished.

"I guess your right"

"So are we going to look for other people or what" he asked, unaware of the current situation.

"Yeah, we should head to Romani ranch" Link answered, thinking it is best if he just lived with the guilt for awhile.

Granny looked at him "you sure we should go now?" she thought it was best if they got rid of the guilt now before things got too bad.

"No I'll be fine" Link answered.

He got up and started walking. "You guys coming or what?" he called out to them. Granny and Brac exchanged a look of confusion to eachover, but just went along with it.

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It only took 15 minutes or so to walk to the ranch.

They walked up to where the house once was. The stables and house had been destroyed.

"Is everyone. Dead?" Brac asked.

Moo

Was that a cow?

Link looked around there was a cow tied up by a pile of metal walls, that Link thought must have been from the stable where they kept the horses (A.N the one attached to the house where they kept Epona) Link walked up to the cow, and stroked its nose.

"Hey how did you get all the way over here" he then inspected the rope "and how where you tied up?" he looked towards the group who had stayed by the house, then back to the cow.

"You've been fed" he stated. Then he looked at the udder "and milked too"

"Someone's still alive" he turned around, this cow obviously wasn't here when the moon crashed, it would have been destroyed. He turned to the metal walls, they were too well placed to be rubble, they were almost like a shelter.

"Hello" he called.

"I'm here too help you. My names Link!" there was a shuffle under the metal. Someone was under there. He went to peek through the entrance. A girl jumped out at him and tackled him.

He let out an "Uff" as he was sent to the floor. The girl started hitting him. She was pinning him to the ground.

He recognized the girl "Romani?" her eyes widened.

"Grasshopper?" she looked at there position and blushed, jumping off him "heh sorry"

He got up and brushed himself off "eh its ok, nice to see someone I know" he turned to his group "guys I found someone!" they quickly ran to him. "Who is it?" Nick asked "oh just some icky girl" he mumbled.

"Icky girl?!" she repeated slightly peeved.

"Is everything alright Romani?" A middle aged woman with red hair came out from under the shelter. She looked towards the group and inspected each one visually, and then she got to the old lady.

"Grandmother!?" she gasped

"Tortus? But how?" she looked between Link and Anju "there are two of you?" she rested her head in her hand. "I'm confused" she sighed

Anju brung the old lady into a hug.

"Oh thank god you're ok"

"There there Tortus, Mothers here" he returned the hug.

Then another person came out of the shelter, he was pale and had a Mohawk he was extremely skinny.

"Who's this?" Brac asked. Pointing at the pale man.

"This is Romani's uncle, grogg" Romani explained.

"It's nice to meet you" Brac put out his hand Grogg just looked at it then turned away to walk off.

"His a bit weird, he doesn't like talking to people much" Romani explained frowning "but I still love him" she ran up to her uncle and started talking to him.

Everyone was away talking to their relatives leaving just Link, Brac and Nick "so boss where we go from here?" Brac asked him. Link turned towards Brac and shrugged "meh maybe we could rest here for a day or two" Link suggested "then head to Snowhead after".

"hey who's up for some soup?" Granny called out.

"Woo! Soup!" Nick exclaimed running up to Granny he stopped and looked at Brac and Link "race you there!" he called out then started running.

"hey no fair you cheated!" Brac called out and chased after him. Link just laughed and chased after then aswell.

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hey no cliffhanger. So not me! Anyway A.N just to let people know means "authors note" although most of you probably knew that. And remember to tell me who you want to be on the team, or just make an appearance. Also in game Romani talks in 3rd person and granny calls both Anju and Link "Tortus" (Tortus is actually Anju's dad). Please review.