There they were, Ramla and Zelda were again, stuck in the same room they tried to escape from. Ramla paced the floor of the room trying to think of a way to get out again while Zelda looked out the window forlornly. If only if Ramla could get the door open then she could try the way she was going before the princess stopped her to try another way. Yeah, that really worked out.

"Will you stop pacing, you're making me nervous," Zelda demanded.

Ramla muttered something in Zelda's direction as she continued to pace.

"What did you say?" Zelda snapped.

Ramla stopped pacing and snapped back, "I said, screw you princess. You know if you would have done what I said I could have made it out of this place. But nooooooooo, the little Hylian princess didn't want to be left alone so you just had to tag along and get us captured. Now we can't get out of here unless I decide to throw you out of the window and use your spoiled arse to break my fall. Now shut up and let me think."

Then Zelda did the unthinkable, she slapped Ramla right across her face. It didn't hurt Ramla, just a little surprised that the princess actually smacked her. "How dare you keep insulting me. You don't know me, you don't know what my life is like," she argued.

Ramla laughed, "Oh you really want to compare lives? Ok, while you're sitting on your little throne complaining about how many lemon seeds are in your water, I have gone days without food and water in the hot desert. I've been through hundreds of terrifying sand storms. I have watched my people suffer and die and I can't do anything about it. And it's all because your ancestors killed my king, who tried to make my ancestors' lives better, for false accusations and then banned my people from ever being able to come to Hyrule to continue our bloodline or seek refuge. Your people are the reason mine suffer and I will never forgive your kind that."

"The king I presume you're talking about is Ganondorf, right," Zelda asked and Ramla nodded. "Look, I'm sorry, ok. I'm sorry that you and your kind have suffered, but Ganondorf was no martyr. He was an evil man, Ramla."

"He did nothing wrong," Ramla protested, "He protected your border from the monsters in the desert, helped your ancestors fight in many wars, made offerings to the king of Hyrule, and you repay him by listening to a young boy who accused him plotting to assassinate the Royal Family? Does that not sound utterly ridiculous to you?"

Zelda paused, she never thought of the Gerudo's side of the story. All she learned about the subject was that the Gerudos were a tribe of power-hungry thieves that wanted nothing more than to take over Hyrule. The king of Hyrule wanted to make peace with the Gerudos and invited Ganondorf to Hyrule to make a peace treaty after the Gerudos helped in a recent war. Then someone accused Ganondorf of plotting to assassinate the king of Hyrule and supposedly had evidence so they tried and executed Ganondorf and banned the Gerudos from Hyrule. Zelda didn't even know the Gerudos were still in existence until Ramla barged into her castle.

"Thought so," Ramla remarked and went back to pacing and thinking.

The two didn't speak to each other after the argument, they kept to themselves. Zelda sat by the window and looked out at her kingdom, while Ramla laid sat on the other side of the room thinking of how she can get out of there, what the "ceremony" was that Zant spoke of, and how her people were in the desert. She didn't have her crystal ball with her that Akrakhentkats gave her, so she wasn't able to check in and see how they were. She worried about them, but there was nothing she could do. She was trapped in Hyrule Castle.

Suddenly, out in the hallway came a noise of something coming. Both of the women heard the clanking of chains on the floor and the pitter patter of feet going up towards the door.

"What in the goddesses' names is that?" Zelda pondered out loud. And as if to answer her question, the door opened and a grey wolf with blue eyes and Minda riding on his back enter the room and towards Zelda.

"Minda?" Zelda gasped.

The little imp smiled, "Eee hee! You remember my name? What an honor for me."

Zelda looked at the wolf Minda was riding, he was unusual for he had blue eyes, his ears were pierced, and he had a strange mark on forehead. "So, this is the one for whom you were searching," she asked. Ramla sat and watched the conversation unfold.

"He's not exactly what I had in mind," Minda commented, "but...I guess he'll do."

Zelda then noticed the wolf had a shackle and chain on its left paw, she recognized it as the shackles used in the dungeon. "You were imprisoned?" she asked, feeling bad that the wolf, their Chosen Hero, was imprisoned in her dungeons. "I am sorry," she added.

"Poor thing, he has no idea where this is or what's happened," Minda remarked petting the wolf's back. "So, don't you think you should explain to him what you've managed to do? You owe him that much Twilight Princess! Eee hee," she giggled at calling Zelda the Twilight Princess.

Zelda sighed, not really wanting to rehash what had happened but she had to tell the Chosen Hero so he could know what he was up against, "Listen carefully," she began, "This was once the land where the power of the gods was said to slumber. This was once the kingdom of Hyrule. But that blessed kingdom has been transformed by the king that rules the twilight. It has been turned into a world of shadows, ruled by creatures who shun the light." She then explained to the pair how Zant took over the castle and consequently conquered Hyrule.

"Twilight covered Hyrule like a shroud, and without light, the people became as spirits. Within the twilight, they live on, unaware that they have passed into spirit forms. All the people know now is fear...Fear of a nameless evil...The kingdom succumbed to twilight, but I remain its princess...I am Zelda," she said as she sadly finished the story of what has happened.

"She's a good story teller, too bad it's a sad one," Ramla thought.

"You don't have to look so sad!" Minda shouted, "We actually find it to be quite livable! I mean, is perpetual twilight really all that bad?"

Ramla frowned, "Midna! This is no time for levity." Then she remembered the creatures that were conversing with each other in the hallway. "The shadow beasts have been searching far and wide for you. Why is this?" she questioned.

Minda giggled and hovered over to Ramla, "Why indeed? You tell me! Eee hee hee!" She started playing with Ramla's hair like she had done before and teleported back onto the wolf's back before Ramla could smack Minda away.

Zelda then looked over at the clock on the mantle of the fireplace in the room. "Time has grown short. The guard will soon make his way back here. You must leave, quickly."

The wolf nodded and turned to make his way out of the door. Minda, being a playful imp, stuck her tongue out and made a face at Ramla as they left the room.

"I really don't like that little imp," Ramla stated.

Before Zelda could reply the guards, what Zelda said were called Darknuts, entered the room. They took both of the women by the arms and escorted them to the throne room.

Thanks for reading! Hope everyone is enjoying the story. Again, I have a poll up on my profile page, if you could vote or tell me via review what you think, please do! The question for the poll is "Should Ramla have a romance with a character in the story?" Tell me who and use the suggestions to write my story. Thanks!