Well, I guess people want to read it after all. I hope this chapter makes up for the three months of absence.

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Link slowly trudged through snow following the man who had just interrupted his and Zelda's conversation. Whatever the man wanted him to do, he was going to do it quick then get back to Zelda and hopefully finish his conversation with her. "We're here boy," the man stated as he opened the door to his Smithy. As soon as Link entered the Smithy he was hit with a wave of hot air giving him some feeling back in his fingers.

"Mind telling me your name you self-righteous bastard" Link barked as the man went behind the Smithy's counter. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a monstrous man hammering away at a piece of thin metal. The other man had a metal mask covering his face and it looked like the hammer the man was using was an extension of his right hand.

"Call me Smith and that's Mountain" he said with a smile spread across his face. Link snarled back at him. "Now on to business…" he said as he ducked under his counter. He came back up with a faded brown piece of parchment; Link looked closer at realizing it was a map. "We want you to get us something."

Link looked at the map, trying to decipher what it was of. "What do you want me to find and where is it?" Link asked holding the frail map in his hands.

Smith smiled. "That's the interesting part," he declared smiling. "As you know the Hero of Time hid all of his items after he was done here and we want one of them. We believe that he hid the 'Great Fairy Sword' with the Gorons. We want it. Give it to us and we'll be even."

"So, you want me to steal one of the greatest artifacts in history from the Gorons?" Link asked, with one eyebrow raised.

Smith nodded. "We know where it is, exactly where it is. They have it locked in one of their vaults."

"If you guys know so much about where this thing is, why don't you just get it yourself?" Link asked again, growing more irritated with every passing second.

"We can't," Smith answered. "The Gorons know we want it, that's why you need to steal it and put the blame on someone else."

"I'm starting to hate you more and more with each passing second," Link declared, forcibly.

Smith smiled again, showing his yellow and grimy teeth. "Good, then you'll want to get it over quickly. Just get it to us and we'll be even."

"One, you two are idiots. Why would he give a Fairy sword to the Gorons? Second, if I get caught, I'm in jail for five days!" Link bellowed back at the man.

Smith didn't smile this time. "Just get us the damn sword! I don't care where it is or what you have to do to get it, just get it! If you don't I'll make sure you never see your next birthday!"

"Shut up, compared to all the people I've had to deal with in my life, you don't scare me. So unless you know exactly where this sword is, you can get it yourself." Link moved toward the door.

"We had a deal! No one breaks a deal with me. No matter what kind of deal it is. One more step and you'll never see your girlfriend again!" Smith shouted at Link. Mountain started to move toward Smith, his hammer still clutched in his hands.

"B-I-T-E-M-E," Link spelled out to the two men. He opened the door and stepped out of the smithy. As soon as he did, blackness surrounded him while blood trickled down his forehead. He could hear the two men laughing in the background. He silently cursed to himself forgetting that Mountain had a hammer in his hands. Link hit the cold snow hard, quickly turning it from white to red. He slowly closed his eyes hoping to whatever was out there, to let him see Zelda one more time.

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Link slowly flustered his eyes open, his head feeling as if he had been hit by a truck. He looked down at the ground which seemed to be moving on its own. Then he realized he was being dragged by his hair by Mountain. He couldn't move his arms and his legs felt like jelly.

"M-Master w-what should w-we do w-with him?" Mountain asked, stuttering most of his words.

"Throw him somewhere in the snow, no one makes a fool out of Smith."

"B-but d-didn't that m-man s-say not t-to hurt him? O-only d-distract him?"

"To hell with him, like I said, no one makes a fool out of me. That kid with the white eyes can just deal with it. It's not like he actually cared about the kid if he wanted us to hurt him."

"D-do w-we have t-to hurt him t-though? W-we w-were just hired t-to d-distract him."

"Mountain you'll never get far if you care about the worms. Now throw him into the snow and let's get back to work."

Link was thrown toward the snow. He felt the cold feeling of the snow numb the remaining parts of his body he could feel. "Just so you know…" said Link, blood trickling down his face. "I'm going to kill you."

Smith laughed then delivered a firm kick into Link's chest. Link could feel a rip snap as soon as the kick came in contact with him. "I'm sorry kid, heroes don't exist anymore. Only villains."

"You can tell me that again, when your face is in the snow."

Smith snarled. "Mountain, give him some encouragement."

The next thing Link knew, black surrounded him.

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"Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!" Darmani shouted, giving a fist pump in victory. "I knew I would hit my Flush!"

Dark slammed his head into the table as Darmani collected his winnings. "How…the…hell did you hit a Royal Flush!" he screamed out, slamming his fists onto the table. He tossed his four queens back into the middle.

Darmani smiled. "It was written that you would buy me a bomb or you can pay me the five hundred dollars you owe me. Take your pick." Dark hit his head on the table again.

Mikau came over to the table where all the boys were playing poker. Darmani was up five hundred, Kafei had broken even, and Dark was down a lot. "Hey, have you guys seen Link?" Mikau asked, saving Dark from buying Darmani a bomb.

Kafei shook his head. Dark shrugged. "Try Zelda, that's where he's mostly likely," Darmani suggested, as he rubbed the money he had won against his face.

"Already did that, she said he saw him last night but hasn't seen his since."

"Oh fuck," Dark cursed, he grabbed his jacket and ran out of the room. Darmani and Mikau followed suit. Kafei on the other hand, pocketed some of Darmani's winnings while they were busy looking for Link.

"Link! Where the hell are you?" Dark shouted out, as they ran around the area surrounding the mountain.

"Link! I'm going to kill you if this is a joke!" Darmani bellowed, as he looked for Link in the snow.

"Link! Get your ass out here!" Mikau shouted, as he too looked for Link. Out of the corner of his eyes he could just barely see a streak of yellow and red in the snow. "Oh shit, Link!" Mikau cursed as he ran over to where he had seen the streak of yellow. As soon as he got to the spot, he began to dig Link out.

Darmani and Dark joined Mikau as soon as they could. Link's lips were blue along with his face and he felt colder than dry ice. With the three of them combined, they dug Link out in no time.

"Link! Shit! We need to warm him up!"

"C'mon get him on my back!"

"Darmani, he's not looking too good!"

"We need to warm him up now!"

"Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap."

"Wait, the hot springs! They're close by! We can throw him in there!"

"Dark, that could kill him! A sudden change of cold to hot could shut down his body!"

"Do you have a better idea Mikau?"

"No."

"Then we go with my plan!"

"Sorry Link, this could hurt!"

The next thing Link knew, he was plunged head first into the hot springs.

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Well, that was fun. I plan on writing a lot of the chapters today since my next deadline isn't for awhile. Expect the next update by Friday. Peace.