I don't own Legend of Zelda. If I did the games would tie in together better and there would be a few different ones added in.

Chapter Twenty-Six: Snowhead Mountains Part One

Link:14 Romani:14

Just so no one's confused later on, this is how I'm making the geography of Termina. Woodfall Swamp is about twelve to thirteen hours away from Clocktown by foot. Romani Ranch is about the same distance. The place in the mountains where the smith shop is is about three days away from Clocktown by foot if you take the way Link takes. Great Bay is about eighteen hours away from Clocktown by foot. And Ikana Canyon's waterfall is about two-and-a-half days away from Clocktown by foot. On horse these routes are considerably quicker.

The reason I'm doing this is because if I kept the geography in scale to what's shown in the game, Termina would be as big as a county at best, not a country. But it can't be too big because Link had to at least reach one owl statue in the first three day cycle or else he'd never finish what he needed to do in the area.

Without the Song of Soaring working due to broken owl statues and the creatures Tatl dubbed Scowlets, it took Link and Romani several days to get to the mountains from the swamp. The Scowlets immediately tried to charge at the two teens as soon as they saw them. The two tested out their newly acquired Poison Arrows on the carnivorous cows. Once hit, the creatures spasmed, bellowed, collapsed and rotted to bone in moments. Apparently the venom in these arrows was quite potent. This stopped the herd of Scowlets from charging, but not from stalking the two, looking for any moment to pounce. As a result, the two had to keep their bows armed and ready at all times as they tried to walk north. And with their defenses always up like this, it took them an entire day just to get to Clocktown, where they rested inside an open room inside the Stock Pot Inn.

When they left town and walked through the northern part of the field, there were no Scowlets there to bother them. This encouraged them to go much quicker, but the snow coming down from the mountains was just as much a discouragement as the monster bovines. It reminded Link of the first time he went to the mountains. With the weather acting against him, the natural distance from the town to the mountains, and most of the quick ways buried in snow, it took Link a whole three day cycle just to get to the first owl statue. This time the weather was just as bad and snow and ice was everywhere again. Even without stopping to sleep, it took Link and Romani two days just to get to the main pass up the mountain. Of course they had to use a few arrows to get rid of the ice blocking the way.

As they climbed the slope up, the two teens noticed a rumble in the cloud, like thunder, and thought they saw several tentacles come down from the sky and descend somewhere in the distance. Worried, they tried to go faster to their destination. They tried to ignore the creatures that tried to ambush them, but the white wolfos were too hard to pass without fighting off. At least they could outrun the things that looked like living snowballs.

Three-and-a-half days after leaving Clocktown, the two just had to stop and get some sleep. Luckily they had grabbed a tent back in Clocktown and set it up. Link offered to stay up a little longer with the All Night Mask and keep guard while she slept. She thanked him with a kiss and offered to trade places when she was rested enough. While Romani and Tael slept and Link and Tatl kept his eyes forcibly open, a small number of people Link recognized from Clocktown came running down the mountain trail, as if running from a forest fire. Link managed to stop one of them long enough to hear just what had happened. They said they had left Clocktown when the tentacles first attacked and came up to the mountain valley. At first there was no problem outside the frigid cold, but now the tentacles were striking again. Link told them to head to the swamp since the tentacles couldn't go there anymore, but he wasn't sure if anyone heard him. Hours later he would realize he forgot to warn them about the Scowlets, and hoped they would be okay.

After eight hours, Romani and Tael woke up completely refreshed. She took the All Night Mask, just in case, and stood guard while Link and Tatl took a break. By now it was night, but with the giant murky white cloud she couldn't see the stars or moon. "Cremia, Romani hopes you're okay. I swear Link and I will save you from that Obsidia bitch." She said more to herself than anything. Silence when she was alone always made her edgy. Tael just hovered close by quietly, not knowing what to say.

Then Romani heard a twig snap towards her right, and she was immediately alert. From behind the trees she could see the silhouette of some kind of hulking beast. Being creative, Romani fired a Light Arrow at it. It struck but moved away to hide. In the brief moment when the light showed the creature, Romani thought she saw a white wolfos, but something was definitely different about it. She heard some more twigs snap and leaves ruffle, so whatever it was, it wasn't dead yet. Romani put away her bow and pulled out her sword. Romani felt a thud behind her, as if something big had just landed there, and she turned around.

What she saw made her gasp. It looked like a white wolfos, but was easily bigger and more aggressive looking. It wore pads on it's shoulders, elbows, and knees, and wore fingerless gloves, sandals, and a loincloth. It looked more human-shape than wolf-shape, and even stood like a person.

"What the hell? A werewolfos?" Romani all but shouted, having heard about such a thing but never thought was real.

The werewolfos swung a claw at the ranch girl, who blocked with her shield. She tried to retaliate with her sword, but the white lycan caught it like it was a deku stick, and snapped it just as easily. Romani threw a few deku nuts, which froze the beast, and she fired two Poison Arrows at it. The werewolfos howled, but died and decayed in seconds. Romani sighed and looked to see if there were more, just in case werewolfos traveled in packs. Luckily this one at least was a lone wolfos.

Sunrise came and Link woke up. "Morning, Ladybug. Anything happen last night?"

Romani smiled and returned the All Night Mask. "Yeah. Romani had to fight off a monster. Nothing Romani couldn't handle, but..." She then held up what was left of her sword.

"Crap." Link commented. "Well, let's hope the smith is still able to help us, if the cloud thing hasn't gotten to him already."

The two packed up their tent and continued climbing up the trail.