Link awoke to sharp pain in his side as a boot was driven into his ribs.

"Get up!" Someone yelled at him. The cell was flooded with light and it took Link a few minutes for his eyes to adjust before he looked up. Surprisingly, it was a Gerudo who had kicked him and, reluctantly, he heaved himself up and tapped Naboora on the shoulder who awoke in an instant.

"I see you two got busy last night..." was it morning? "Come with me you two. The King wished to speak to each of you separately." The Gerudo walked out of the cell as Link and Naboora followed. He wondered why the Gerudo was not disgusted at one of her tribe being treated like this but Link supposed that King Bulblin had told them some lie to go against Naboora.

They were led to the door of the throne room and Link was told to enter first, leaving Naboora to wait outside. As Link approached the throne, he realised that the room hadn't change a bit except for the absence of a chained Naboora. King Bulblin was still wolfing down the fairies and the tables on the sides still had raw meat on its plates… there were more flies than before hovering over the food however.

"Ah Link! Follow me to the back room." King Bulblin struggled out of his throne and waited at the back of the room, next to a door. He turned a key in the lock and went in, followed by Link.

The room was circular with a rounded table in the middle and a large, grubby map of Hyrule on it. There were tiny figures on different places on the map, symbolising the bulblins and the Hylian troops and their positions. King Bulblin beckoned Link over to look at a different map that the King had just put over the first, knocking the tiny figures onto the floor.

"This is a map of Hyrule castle. We know the layout and without you we simply would have gone in through the front entrance killing anyone who got in our way. But we do have you so all you need to do is tell us all of the little secret passages and the layout of the sewers underneath the castle. You think you can do that hero?" he taunted. Link grabbed a stick of charcoal from the table and started to put crosses on the map where the secret passages were located. Next to each one he wrote in tiny letters how to get there and when he had done that, he took another map and turned it over to the blank side and started to draw the lay out of the sewers. King Bulblin had been watching all of this with great interest and when Link had done his work, the King dismissed him with a wave of his hand as he stared at the drawings Link had done.

Link closed the door behind him and calmly walked to the door at the other end of the room and opened it, turning to Naboora. The Gerudo guard held open the door and motioned with her head for Naboora to enter which she did reluctantly, not leaving Links' gaze until the last moment when the door slammed shut.

The room was deadly silent as Naboora waited by the door for the King. The bikini she was in didn't help with the coldness of the room as goosebumps appeared on her skin, not to mention the bulblin guards who were staring at her. They all had a hungry look in the eyes and one even had his tongue out. The two bulblins at the front looked at each other and nodded. The one to the left went to the back door and opened it, peeking his head around the door.

"Your majesty, the failed Gerudo is waiting outside..."

"I'll be fifteen minutes.". The bulblin closed the door with a bow of his head.

Suddenly, the two bulblins closest to Naboora raced towards her and held their spears to her neck whilst another tied her hands together behind her. Another pushed her to the ground, pulled out a dirty cloth and brought it up to her mouth, trying to gag her. She let out a scream until a hand covered her mouth which she bit, drawing blood. The gag was brought up to her mouth again and tied behind her head in a tight knot. She felt her feet being tied together by yet another bulblin. She was helpless as she lay on the ground and watched as the bulblins formed a circle, talking amongst themselves.

"No, me!"

"No, it should be me, I tied her hands together!"

"SHUT IT!" the bulblin whose hand Naboora had bitten pushed aside the others as he approached her.

"It should be me, it was my idea and she bit my hand." he crouched down to where Naboora was lying and grabbed her shoulders. He made her sit up and licked the side of her face and her chest (this seemed to be a particular favourite of the bulblin tribe), making his way to her mouth. He kissed her and shoved his tongue down her throat despite the gag as his hands made themselves busy. She wriggled and squirmed but he was surprisingly strong for his height and held her firmly in his grasp. The others cheered their leader on from behind as they watched and laughed at Naboora. A desert warrior who had been overpowered and was now being abused.

An almighty roar echoed threw the throne room as the bulblins all turned to look behind them. King Bulblin had returned from the back room and Naboora knew that he wasn't happy. He grabbed his doubled bladed axe and swung it at the group of bulblins, crushing them to death. He then turned to the last one holding Naboora and grabbed him by the throat. He wrenched off his hands and pulled his tongue, blood squirting from his body. King Bulblin then raised him skyward and plunged him into the ground with a crack from both the floor and the dead bulblins' skull. King Bulblins' breathing had become heavy and his hands were still in fists as he turned to look at Naboora. There was a hammering at the metal door behind her as Link repeatedly shouted her name and banged against the door. The hammering stopped as a larger thud came from the door, Naboora knew that link had been knocked out.

The King went over to her and pulled off the gag and the pieces of cloth around her arms and legs and sat down on his throne. Naboora stood up and faced him, shaking.

"Why…?"

"They disobeyed me. You were mine even if I no longer wanted you for my entertainment and they went against me." he paused as she looked up at him.

"What do you want?"
"Good, straight to business. I know that Link has become very attached to you lately so I have a favour to ask of you, unless you want to die of course." he grunted as his eyes narrowed menacingly.

"I want you to deceive him. At the right moment you are going to trick him into trusting you completely and he will tell you all of his secrets."

"And when would the right moment be?"

"You will know. But for now, I need you to comfort him, be his best friend. Maybe even a cuddle here or there. If you don't do this, I will kill both of you, starting with him." she gasped at looked up at him.

"Oh yes, it is very clear that you have feelings for him. And who knows? By the end of this, if you play your part well, I will release you both and you can go and play happy families together. And when he asks you what I wanted from you that was so important to ask you alone, you are to tell him the truth but say that you declined my offer. Do we have a deal?"

Naboora stared at the ground and allowed a tear to roll down her cheek. Slowly, she closed her eyes and nodded ever so slightly.

"Good."

Thank you for reading so far and sorry that you had to wait so long for the chapter but I have been very busy, not to mention that I didn't know what to write for this chapter. Please review! ;) ;) :) :)