I don't have much to say for a mini-intro, so just read it.
Enjoy!
When morning came, and the sun just barely started to shine, Saria began to wake up.
The first thing she noticed was her breath, making a faint cloud everytime she exhaled. The next thing was the temperature; absolutely freezing, causing her to shrink into Link's chest as much as she could. And the last thing was how dark it was still, even though she swore she had slept in.
"Link?" Saria sighed tiredly, teeth chattering.
"What Saria?" Link's legs still covered hers, providing some warmth.
"Why is it so cold still?"
"I have no idea."
Saria sighed, she shouldn't have asked. In recollection of how she fell asleep, she smirked.
"That was a fun way to make-up, wasn't it?" Saria turned slightly, realizing why she couldn't have moved, Link was still a tad too close to her. (A/N: I wonder what she means by that... Sarcastically)
"Yes it was." Link smiled back at her.
"Now, can you get out? I can't move without it hurting a bit."
Link lowered himself in correspondence to Saria, and both of them made a slight moan at it.
"Well, how are we going to clean this up?" Saria asked, looking down at the mess they made, sweat and other bodily fluids soaked a small portion of their sheets.
"Simple, we put it in a heap of dirty linen, and we split up."
"To do what?"
"One of us will get these cleaned, and hang them outside, and the other will cook breakfast." Before he took another breath, Saria began to talk.
"I call the cooking!" Not wanting to touch their mess.
"That's not fair… ah fine, as you command your highness."
"And don't you forget it." Saria kissed him on the cheek before getting out of bed.
The moment she got out of her covers, still fully unclothed from last night, she felt a shiver come over her, and she flew back into bed.
"Miss me?"
"It is way too cold. Can you get my clothes for me?" Saria begged him.
"How can I say no to that?" Link got out of bed, dressed in a similar fashion to Saria, and Saria let loose a whistle at him. (A/N: What girl wouldn't?)
Link turned back and rolled his eyes.
He bent into their closet and pulled out some undergarments, and then, just for Saria, he pulled out her Kokiri tunic, which she still loved and adored.
"I'll get your thicker sweater." He said kindly as he tossed her the clothing.
"Thanks Link." She cutely said as she pulled the clothes underneath the sheets.
"Do you want me to help with that?" Link asked jokingly, knowing that Saria needed no help.
"Sure, you can dress me today." Saria lay still in the bed, and Link crept back into the covers as well.
"You're sure you want me, a crazy, hormone driven, adolescent, to dress you, a beautiful, sexy, and all around cute forest girl?"
"Sure, why not? I'm feeling reckless." Saria smiled.
Link grabbed first her panties, and slid those one her legs. He pulled up on them, and Saria giggled, having someone dress herself made her feel weird.
Then, he moved onto her brassiere, which was possibly the weirdest thing he had ever done for her. On their first time trying out intercourse, he had helped her put her clothes back on because she was passed out in exhaustion, but now she could respond.
Link had no idea how to do it properly, so he just latched the bra on how he saw fit. Saria giggled and grabbed his hands.
"Now get them in right Link." She used his hands to reposition the brassiere on her chest, which made Link blush furiously.
"At the rate you're seducing me, what's the point of putting the clothes back on?"
"Because we have a farm to work today."
"Ah, I guess you're right." Link said as he quickly helped Saria put on her skirt and belt.
Saria blushed at every hand movement Link made, so close to her, it was hard not to feel a hint of lust for him. She giggled as he looped her belt on, and squeezed his hand underneath her to help the belt through its holes. And she laughed furiously when Link's hands traced her abdomen when he placed her sweater on her.
"And then the tunic." Link placed that on her and then tied up everything that needed tying.
"Thank you Link." Saria kissed him gently for his help.
"Don't mention it. If you don't mind, I'd like to put my clothes on by myself for now, I feel you desire to be hasty."
"Aw…" Saria pouted cutely, what she was best at.
Link ignored her, and put his clothes by himself anyways and walked out of the room with the sheets to wash them.
Saria sighed and reluctantly got out of her bed.
As a part of her morning routine, she walked over to her windows, and flung them open. Her eyes closed, hoping to smell the sweet scent of a normally Spring-like air, she caught no smell. This bothered her; even in colder weather Saria would be able to smell something.
At this, she opened her eyes.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHH!" Saria shrieked and ran to Link as fast as she could.
She tackled Link to the ground, breathing heavily, obviously scared about something.
"Saria, what is wrong?" Link asked urgently.
"Wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh…" Saria couldn't bear to say it.
"What?"
"N-n-n-n-n-no…" Saria was pulled up by Link, who left the dirty sheets in the bathroom tub being washed, and was brought back to her room.
"So what is the prob…" Link looked outside, "Oh. Holy crap." He said rather calmly.
"WHERE IS THE GRASS?" Saria shrieked, obviously worried about the natural life.
"Saria, it is under the snow." Link had seen this before in Ice Cavern.
"WHAT IS SNOW AND WHAT IS IT DOING HERE?" Saria yelled at Link, still freaked out.
"Snow is just frozen rain. I don't know how it got there though… you only really find this on the tops of mountains and in very cold caves…"
"GET IT OFF MY GRASS!"
At this, Link laughed.
"That may be very hard Saria… But maybe we could shovel out a bit of grassed for you."
"We can't do the whole Field?"
"I am not a god."
"But you are my god." Saria hugged him, looking fearfully at the so-called snow.
"I know. Now, let's just ignore it for now. Then I can show you some of the stuff you can do with snow."
The thought was barely fathomable; some white stuff had covered all of Saria's view of the Field. There must have been a lot of it, but there was no way of knowing how much had appeared.
Saria sighed and followed Link uneasily to the kitchen, where he cooked her a meal, regardless to the fact that she said she would do it.
"Thanks Link…" Saria said to the simple toast and butter.
"Don't mention it, I'll get the sheets too."
"Thanks again…" Saria sighed, staring into her cup of juice, also given by Link.
"Saria? The snow isn't that bad."
"Are you sure? How could anything be alive underneath it? Plants need sun to live! That snow stops it…"
"Not really. Snow is ice, and ice is clear, it might let some light through…"
"Not enough…" Saria grumbled.
"I'll show you then, everything that you can do with snow. I promise."
"But… the potatoes…"
"Are probably covered in snow." Link finished.
"Let's get Cheryl and Xavier's permission." Saria agreed, unenthused.
"Momma!" Tommy's annoying voice cut the silence, making Saria smile faintly.
"Let's get him some food, or better yet, make Cheryl give him food." Link snickered evilly.
"Yes, let's."
Saria and Link creaked the door open, only to see Tommy leaning on Cheryl's shoulder, patting it to get her to wake up. Cheryl was swatting her other hand at him to stay asleep.
Both Link and Saria giggled.
"Watch this…" Link said, creeping up on them.
"Cheryl, there's a bug in your hair." Link spoke softly right into her ear, remembering Cheryl's pathological fear of bugs, and most crawling things.
Cheryl jumped out of her skin and landed on the floor in a heap.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" Cheryl growled.
"Why are you blaming my silent Linky? He doesn't talk much." Saria hugged Link's arm and shot Cheryl a sad, disappointed look.
"Then who was it?"
"Tommy." Saria said with fake honesty as she walked Link out of the room.
"Linky?" Link asked after he shut the door. (A/N: I've heard it too many times before to ignore it.)
"Yeah, like it?"
"I guess…" Link half-smiled.
The two wandered back into the bathroom, and grabbed the blanket that they had made a mess of. A few minutes after washing it, they realized their mistake.
"Oh crap… how are we going to explain it with everyone RIGHT there?" Saria asked fearfully.
"Um… you distract them?"
"That's a good idea I guess…" Saria wandered off back into the kitchen, only to find everyone awake.
"Good morning Saria, nice day?" Rareen said calmly, looking into her PDA.
"No, actually. Have you looked outside?"
"No, why?"
"Snow, it is everywhere."
"SNOW?" The whole house, save Link and Saria, asked in unison.
"Yeah, I looked out my window and screamed… do you think the plants are ok?"
"How could snow be here?" Cheryl was shocked, she hadn't seen snow since she was a little girl, when her family took her to a northern section of Malavar, where snow was frequent.
"I don't know…" Saria sighed, her mind dwelling on the plants.
"Saria, the grass probably won't die, but rather just be frozen in place. Now, our potato crop, that's another story. By the way, where is Link? We'll need him to check on the crop."
"Yikes!" Everyone's heads turned towards the back hallway, where the back door was.
"That's him." Saria rushed off to see what happened to Link.
She found Link staring at the open door, only, the door, though open, wasn't open.
The snow had been pressed against the wall, and the door, opening inwards, did nothing.
"Oh my gosh!" Saria yelped, and then added in whisper, "Get that blanket to our room!" Link got up and did as he was told, and at a rapid pace.
"What is it?" Rareen asked, walking in on them after Link left.
"The doorway is buried in snow. We are trapped from using the back door." Sari touched the snow, for her first time, and recoiled at the icy, stinging feeling it gave her.
"Well shut it! We don't want to lose more heat to it."
"Good idea… it is VERY cold…" Saria added as she shut the door tightly.
Link returned to the scene, and Rareen looked at them carefully.
Link, as soon as he was close enough to Saria, wrapped his hands around her waist and brought her into a kiss, but something wasn't right. For a couple that was just fighting, they seemed TOO friendly.
"So, how'd you guys settle your argument?" Rareen began to interrogate.
"Apparently, we both felt like idiots and complete assholes for yelling and fighting with each other, so we decided to forget the whole thing." Saria quickly replied, just so she could kiss Link again.
"Nothing too inappropriate?"
"Nope, not at all Rareen." Saria again replied. She was right though, for a love at their age, with their level of romance, it was very appropriate for such things to happen.
"Good. Remember Saria, you're body is a bit too small to handle such things yet. You may have gotten a bit bigger, but trust me, you could hurt yourself with a baby and intercourse, I wouldn't do it yet if I were you." Rareen cautioned, but she was satisfied.
Saria didn't hear her though; she was too busy in her own world with Link.
"Oh no…" Xavier was heard saying at the other end of the house.
"What?" Saria asked, walking in his direction holding Link's hand.
"We're trapped." Xavier said, pointing to a wall of snow at the front entrance as well.
"Well… not exactly…" Saria mumbled.
"What do you mean?" Cheryl asked curiously, feeding an excited Tommy more diced apples.
"My room's window, we could get out that way."
"Ah, that would work; there isn't a glass window on yours, am I right?"
"Nope, there's no glass; just a wooden shutter."
"Then perhaps we will get out that way." Xavier suggested.
"Umm… Xavier… I-I think I want to go somewhere." Cheryl said cautiously after a short pause.
"Where?"
"I want to go to my old home. I-I haven't seen my family in over seven years…" Cheryl felt cold inside, not from the snow. She hadn't given a single thought to her family since Randall kidnapped her and brainwashed her. "I just want to see them again, and tell them that I'm alright. I want to leave tomorrow, and bring Tommy."
"Ok then… tomorrow? I'll get some form of transportation if you get our stuff ready." Saria and Link looked dumbly at them.
"You're leaving?"
"Just for a few days, it will only take a day to get to Malavar, then we'll spend a day or two to catch up there, and then we'll return. I'm sure you, Link and Rareen will do fine without us."
"Sure… I guess…"
"Oh yes, and, don't bother with the potatoes, they are dead by now I'm sure." Cheryl said, walking to her room.
Xavier stood in the room, feeding Tommy the last of his breakfast.
"You can leave to do what you want Link, I trust you'll protect Saria from the snow?"
"I'm sure he will. What's wrong with Cheryl? She's usually not as sad…" Saria had much sympathy in her voice.
"Ah, the snow must be bringing sad memories of nostalgia to her. That combined with her period that she had earlier today, and well, you've got a depressive Cheryl." Xavier shrugged, there wasn't much one could do.
My period… Saria thought shivering. That is going to be a fun little experience today isn't it? Ah well, if I'm with Link, I'm sure he'll help me through it when it happens… until then, I guess I'll have fun.
Saria grabbed Link's hand, and together, the two bundled up on their clothing, and hopped out of Saria's window, into the vast, white, winter wonderland before them.
Well, again, not much to say... I am starting to get a better feel for this story now...
More coming soon...
