The next day, when I awoke, I looked out the window to a beautiful day. Good day to start. I put on a pair of black leggings, and a short purple dress, (most of the things in my closet were purple.) I grabbed my bag of supplies and stuff, and went downstairs for breakfast before leaving. Only Shadow was there, eating his porridge. I figured the others would be coming shortly.

I sat down and got a bowl for myself. "How you feeling today?" I asked, as I started eating my food.

"Pretty good considering we are leaving on a crazy mission, that may or may not be the end, and that we will have a month to prepare to defeat an evil overlord.."

Gosh, he sounds like Aria. "I think a month is plenty of time. Plus, I set our course to go through where the legendary four swords is supposed to be."

Shadow looked at me funny. "You know it's just a legend, right?" To you maybe.

I shrugged, "Well, where I come from Hyrule is a legend, so I don't doubt legends anymore." Aria walked in holding her bag. She was wearing a navy blue half lose dress thing, with brown capri's underneath.

"Oh, you guys are up already? I thought I was early." Aria came to join us. "I guess we might end up waiting for Link instead of me, eh?"

"Not today." Link entered the room; he was in his favourite green tunic. He got himself a bowl. "I was just double checking my bag, don't want to forget anything."

Shadow and I had to wait for Aria and Link to finish, as we already had. As soon as they were done, servants took our plates away, we found Vica waiting by the front, in her black tunic (matching Shadows I might add), and we headed out.

Once we made it through the bit of town and into the forest, a red chuchu popped up. Aria killed it with a swipe of her sword. Shadow got out his hammer to kill anymore that came, so did Link. After about an hour of walking and constantly killing chuchus, everyone became quite tired of having to kill monsters all the time. I came up with a plan to avoid them. I gathered every one, and told them my idea.

"All we have to do is stay of the main path. That's the only place they pop up, so we could just go through the undergrowth on the side of the path."

Everyone seemed to agree with me, so we went to the side of the path, and, sure enough, no more monsters bothered us for a while. Every once and a while, Link would slice some grass, and find rupees.

"How does that work?" I asked, wondering where they came from.

"I don't know, but hey, free rupees." He sliced another cluster of grass and picked up the blue rupee that was within.

When we stopped for lunch, I checked the maps to see how far we went. I sat up at the bottom of a tree, and opened up the forest map.

"We seem to be on track, and we should only be bothered by monsters until we pass here." I pointed to a lighter spot on the map, "I believe this was where it ended... Right?"

Vica came and sat beside me, "Nope, it was here," She pointed to a spot a little further on. "We'll reach it by nightfall, but that's only if we move quickly."

Aria finished the last of her sandwich, "Well then let's move along." After another bout of walking, with me in the back, Aria beside shadow, and Link and Vica leading, Aria slowed, and fell in step beside me.

"This is going to be a long month, eh? At least we've got something to do all this time." She pulled out a sketch pad and a pencil. We had talked about it earlier, but I didn't think she'd bring it.

"You actually brought it? Awesome... I get first dibs."

Aria put the book away, "Ahem, who brought it?"

"Fine... But I get it right after."

She laughed, "Ya ya ya."

Aria caught back up with Shadow again. She was tall for a 15 year old, but she was only a few inches taller than Shadow. I saw that Shadow walked quite close to her, and I knew Aria didn't mind. They so like each other.

When the sun started to set, we decided to start looking for a place to spend the night. We all split up to cover more ground; I walked to look on the other side of a bramble thicket, when I heard Link call out,

"I found the perfect place!" We all ran over to see what kind of place Link picked out, and it was indeed a great camping spot. It was sheltered, there was almost no undergrowth in the area, and I could hear a stream nearby.

"This is perfect! I'll start setting up the tents, Aria, can you start dinner?" said Shadow, as he started rummaging through his bag for the tent. Aria collected some firewood, put it in the middle of the clearing, and stared at it for a moment.

"Ok... Who knows how to start a fire?" While Vica helped with that, I helped Shadow and Link put up the tents. They were basic water resistant tents, big enough for two people each. It was that way since one person would always be on watch, therefore no more is necessary.

After our dinner of cooked veggies and rice, every one retired to the tents. I took the first watch, as I was the least tired. Nothing really eventful happened on my watch; I just sat there, tending to the fire, as the crescent moon rose into the sky. When my shift was over, I woke Aria up for her turn. She wasn't happy about getting up in the middle of the night, but she still got up, and sat outside the tents by the dying fire. I saw her take out the sketch pad. I wonder what she's drawing. I was going to ask, but I was already asleep.

I awoke the next day at dawn, and I saw that Link, having the last watch of the night, had already made breakfast for us. I ate quickly, and started to pack up the tents. Shadow finished to, and came to help me, and by the time everyone else was done, we had finished packing up.

We did the same thing as the day before all day, and when we set up camp for the night, and after we had dinner, I was just tending to the fire with Aria drawing a picture beside me, when I noticed that Vica was talking to Shadow, away from the fire. Vica was obviously flirting with him, yet Shadow didn't seem to notice. I nudged Aria beside me,

"Looks like Vica's got a crush..." She looked at them, and an expression of hatred spread over her face, I've got to admit, it kinda scared me.

"I'll talk to her later..." Her tone scared me even more. I had never heard her use this tone before. It sounded like she wanted to send an arrow through her head or something.

"Just... just don't hurt her, we still need her help."

She sighed "Fine..." She went back to her drawing. I peeked over and saw that she was drawing all of us together, but she was now erasing Vica from the picture.

After dinner, as I was about to go to sleep, I saw Aria take Vica aside to talk. Link and Shadow were already in her tents. Aria took her out of earshot; I followed close behind.

"-I'm telling you, you better back off. And if I see you flirting with him again, someone will get hurt." She's never been like this before.

"Well I like him to, and he is not exactly with you yet is he?"

"We both know he likes me and not you. You're trying to steal him from me, and it's not going to work." Aria made a dramatic exit, and I caught up with her.

Aria seemed surprised with herself, "I've never felt like that before... I just don't want her to take him from me, and..."

I put my hand on her shoulder, "Well I'm on your side, I know Shadow likes you and not her, he's just polite about it."

In the next three days, Aria barely spoke with Vica, or even paid her any mind. While Vica did the same, and she (wisely) stayed away from Shadow, at least that's all Aria saw. Because whenever Aria wasn't looking, she was with Shadow. Shadow seemed immune to her flirting, as if he didn't even notice, but it's not like that's how he is, as he always notices Aria. This angered Vica greatly, but there was still nothing she could really do about it.

On day five, something rather interesting happened. I was about to fall asleep, when I realized that there was no one else in the tent. I stepped outside to see Vica arguing with Aria.

"I am sick of this; we should just make him chose between us!"

"No way, he hates being put on the spot like that!"

"Well how would you know!"

"He told me, because he trusts me."

"Please, he likes me more."

"Then explain why he hangs out with me more than you."

"Well he is supposed to serve you, is that not correct?"

"It's still his choice!"

I stepped between them. "Look guys, just let it be, this won't get you anywhere."

Aria agreed with me, but Vica most certainly didn't.

"Well if you're backing of, I guess that means he's mine."

"It does not! And he is not a possession, he's a person!"

"Just stop it guys! And Vica, she is right in th-"

Vica interrupted me, and went into a rant on how I was taking Aria's side because she was my sister, and blah, blah, blah.

Her ranting woke up the guys, "Hey, what's with all the yelling? Fighting or something?" asked Shadow as he looked over all of us, he was very confused.

Vica crossed her arms, "Time for you to pick, who do you like more, me or Aria."

Shadow was shocked at the question, and was at a loss for words. "I... uh..."

Aria walked over, "I told you he hates being put on the spot like that! Shadow, you don't have to answer, we can work it out. You go on and sleep." He looked at her in thanks, and walked back into his tent. Vica was fuming, she stormed into her tent. Aria sat on the ground.

"What am I going to do, we used to be friends, and now she hates me." I sat beside her,

"Well hopefully you two make up someday. Until then, you'll just have to tolerate her."