Hi Guys! OMEGA! A REVIEW! THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER! *squeals in joy*

Nightfrightpony; Don't worry, my precious reviewer. I'm continuing until this is done!

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Might take a little while though..

Dreamer- Teller's a procrastinator. Just so you know.

Teller- -_- Dreamer…. Why are you back?

Dreamer- cuz I heard you squealing like a fan girl. Making sure you were awake and not dreaming or creating clones of your OC or something.

Teller- …. I can create clones?

Dreamer- *mumbles* that's what she gets from that…

Teller- I'm going to try that! *thinks really hard and creates Shelda* AWESOME!

Shelda- what the- where am I!?

Dreamer- Hell. Better start running.

Shelda- Wha-?

Teller- OMEGA HI! I'M YOUR CREATOR!

Shelda- AHHH! *kicks Teller in the cheek and runs off*

Teller- ….ow….

Dreamer- Teller?

Teller- *whimper* yeah?

Dreamer- didn't you forget something?

Teller- …. ? *tilts head to the side*

Dreamer- *sigh* YOUR STORY!

Teller- *perks up* Oh yeah!

Dreamer- *face palm*

Teller- Ok, get out *pushes Dreamer out*

Dreamer- STOP PUSHING ME!

Teller- Never :D

Dreamer- UGH! *leaves*

Teller- *waves* Bye Dreamer! *looks at reader* Ok! On three; One. Two. THREE!

On with the story!

Link followed his father out of the house the next mourning, feeling much better than the previous day. As they made it to the castle, the Captain explained to Link that they, along with some other knights, were riding out to Karkariko Village to deal with some bandits. Link, happy to be involved, walked a pace or two in front of his father with a slight skip to his walk. All his dad did was shake his head in amusement as he followed. It didn't take long for them to mount their horses, Link's horse Epona being the happiest to go, and in a single file ride out of Castle Town towards Karkariko Village. After riding for what Link assumed was a mile or so, Link couldn't help but hear cries of joy. He looked over to his right where the sound was coming from and saw a lone tree accompanied by two figures. Link couldn't see them clearly but he could see one sitting down and the other jumping around with their arms outstretched to look like a T as they continued to shout to the sky in pure happiness as they spun round and round and round until they finally fell flat on there butt. Link smiled in amusement as the other figure laughed at the first at their display of joy. As he listened, Link swore he's heard someone like the one who shouted before, but he just couldn't place his finger on where he's heard it.

'probably someone from the castle' he concluded as he rode on, but something deep in him thought otherwise. Link couldn't help but look back at the two one last time as he continued to ride. His eyes widen when the one who was laughing stood up and walk out into the light.

'It can't be!' he thought as a female figure looked towards the knights, the facial features all to familiar scratch out the purple hair.

'What is Princess Zelda doing here!?' Link was about to turn around and ride back, until who he thought was Zelda turned around over to the other person, back into the shadows.

"Link!" called the Captain as Link stood put, debating weather or not to turn back. After a moment he finally decided that Zelda could take care of herself and clicked his heels against Epona's sides to catch up with the others.

The rest of the ride was uneventful, heck, even the bandit fight in Links option was uneventful. It was just the same bandits who attack the tavern back in Castle Town. But hey, a fights a fight right? After the fight, Link's father decided it was to late to start their way back so they all agreed to camp out on the outskirts of Karkariko Village. Right now Link was laying down on his sleep mat looking up at the stars, thinking about seeing Zelda. He was planning to talk to her once he got back, but as he thought more about it, the more he realized how much the person didn't look like her. Yeah, Zelda could use magic to change her appearance, but Link highly doubted Zelda would change her hair color purple and make her eyes crimson red. That one brought up a red flag (no pun attended) in Links book. As Link laid there, he started to think about Zelda's dream.

'What if,,' he thought 'it wasn't Shadow but her!? Zelda did say the shadow went through her and then transformed into a figure. What if it wasn't saying it would harm her or anything, but that it was a part of her?! That… that would make since.' Link sighed in tiredness as his mind slowly started to shut down. Link slowly closed his eyes and welcomed the darkness as he fell asleep.

"Hey! Wake up!" those were the words that woke Link up, aside from… something.. shaking his shoulder. Link was worried on who was waking him; none of the knights were that commanding, and it sounded like a girl. Yep. Defiantly not one of the knights.

"Ok, listen here Link." said the girl's kid-like voice, probably knowing he was awake but was not going to obey her request. "When you get the time; go to the Four Swords Shrine. There we'll explain everything." at that, Link opened his eyes, wanting to question the girl on why he should go to the shrine, and who 'they' exactly were, but when he sat up the girl was already gone. Link sighed as he rubbed his eyes. When he looked around he realized it was just before dawn and the others were bound to get up soon.

'Well that's a way to wake up.' thought Link as he stood up and stretch his back, confident he slept on a root. Link, knowing it would be a little while before the others woke up, walked back towards Karkariko Village. He slowly took in the surroundings as he walked through the streets, noting that a good amount of the buildings were still damaged from Ganon's wrath a week prior. Link wondered if anything would go back the way it was before. Now, he himself is marked a hero, he's a Knight of Hyrule, and is one of Zelda's most trusted people (not like it wasn't like that before). Link sighed in content as he walked around town, the sun slowly rising behind Death Mountain. Link gave a small smile, remembering the last time he was at Death Mountain was the time the four Link's bond became stronger than before. He couldn't help but quietly snort in amusement as Link walked back, remembering all the times he had back when he was four. When Link got back to the camp, he saw most of the knights were awake. Including his father.

"Link!" said his father as he walked over. "Where have you been? We thought the bandits got to you."

"Phff!" said Link as he rolled his eyes. "Like those guys could get me! I woke up early so I took a walk around the village. Sorry to worry you." he added quickly when he saw the annoyance cross his fathers face. Once he added that last sentence, however, the Captain's face slowly calmed down as he walked back to their overnight camp, saying over his shoulder.

"I told you; if your going to wake up early, the lest you could do is wake me up." Link smiled as he followed his dad, saying in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Yeah, but you don't like getting up an hour before dawn." Even though he wasn't looking at him, Link could see from his peripheral vision Captain glance at him worriedly. Link didn't want to explain that he was woken up by an unknown girly voice telling him to go to the Four Swords Shrine ASAP. That would lead to questions he couldn't answer. And right now that's something Link doesn't want hanging over his dad's head, so he just walked over to his mat and rolled it up without saying another word to his father. Yeah, probably be a bad idea that'll bite him in the rear end later, but he didn't want to try and figure out an excuse so early in the mourning. As Link was tying the mat onto Epona's saddle, he couldn't help but catch a few words his dad was saying to one of the other knights. Link rolled his eyes as he caught the words 'Link', 'worried', 'sleep deprived', and 'watch'. Did his father really think he couldn't ride home without being watched? Yeah, he is his father and all, but really? That poor knight could do something else than watching Link who, may he add, was fine. Link just rolled with it and pretended he didn't hear them nor notice when he got on his horse and started riding the same knight being not far behind him. Again, Link rolled his eyes at how serious this knight was taking this. In some ways it was amusing, watching as they stopped for a break and the knight, now identified as Ralph one of the newest knights, staying un-normally close to him. No he was not close enough to breath down Link's neck, but he was closer that he usually is. Maybe a foot or two closer, Link wasn't entirely sure. After the break though, Link actually felt a bit drained. They were about another mile or two from Castle Town, and then they had to unsaddle their horses, do any needed duty at the castle, then walk another mile home.

' Yay,' thought Link sarcastically 'thank you, mysterious girl voice, for waking me up a whole hour and a half earlier then I should have.' he tried to hold in a yawn and had to blink a couple times until his eyes stopped watering in tiredness.

'This is going to be a llllooooonnnggg day.' thought Link as he looked up and saw it wasn't even midday. He sighed as he confirmed his thought, just wanting to go lay in the fields with Zelda like they did so many years ago. But now she, along with her father, was in charge of the kingdom ready to take his place when the king passes, and Link himself was a Knight, having little to no time to just sit around doing nothing. Let alone spent hours on end playing in the wild flowers. Before he could dwindle on the past, a huge yawn escaped his mouth, catching the boy by surprise. When the yawn passed, Link had to blink his eyes a good few more times before the blurriness disappeared. Great, now he was really tired. Not the best thing while your riding a horse. Epona, bless that horse, must have realized her owner was sleepy, because in one moment they were going at a slow pace, in the next they were galloping pass the others. Link, at first, was surprised, but ,as they continued, it felt nice to have the wind whipping his face. When they passed it, Link couldn't help but look at the tree from yesterday. Today, however, there was only a lone tree, no two other people, no shouts of joy, just a tree. Pulling on the reigns to slow down, Link look behind him and couldn't even see the others. Taking this advantage, Link dismounted Epona and lead her over to the tree. Even if its been a full day, Link could clearly see the imprints of feet all around the tree, including a couple spots that looked like someone sat down. Link simply threw Epona's reign over one of the tree branches before walking over to the trunk and settled down, propped up against the trunk before falling into a peaceful sleep.

The Captain couldn't help but sigh as he watch Link gallop past him, over the hill and out of sight. It took a second before Ralph rode up, planning on following him, but stopped as Captain raised his hand to the young knight.

"Fall back, Ralph." said Captain as he continued in his slow pace. "The boy probably guess why you were hanging around him and needed a bit by himself." Ralph, not one to disobey, said a simple 'yes sir' before falling back with the others. Captain was worried for his son though. Ever since Hyrule returned to a era of peace, the boy seemed to be… different, than before. Now don't get him wrong, a lot of the changes were good. Heck, all the changes were good. But ever since yesterday when he talked with Princess Zelda, he seemed distracted. Captain wasn't sure on what was bothering him, and his son didn't seem to want to talk about it now.

'Give him time' he said to himself, 'he's your son, he needs to understand things before telling people. that's just who he is.' the Captain knew his son probably rode all the way to Castle Town, unsaddled Epona, and was already starting on his duties. Captain couldn't help but smile at the look of his son's face at the end of the day when he himself finally got done with his own chores. He could just hear the green hat boy now.

'Tch, took you long enough.' As the Captain rode down the hill towards the town just less than a mile away, he couldn't help but look to the side at a lone tree when he heard a horse snort. The Captain never once mistaken Epona from another horse, and this time was no different. Captain gave an order for the others to continue as he trotted over to the lone tree, now seeing a to familiar boy laying on the grass. The father of the boy quietly dismounted his own horse and made his way over to the sleeping boy. As he looked down at Link, one thought crossed Captain's mind.

'..or not.' the Captain couldn't help but chuckle at the look at his son; arms crossed behind his head as it was propped up by the tree trunk, and the most peaceful look on his face.. along with a bug. Captain crouched down so he was face to face with his son, debating weather or not to wake him. Remembering him mentioning being up an hour, possibly longer, before dawn, and seeing the at peace face he held at that moment, the Captain made his decision. Being careful not to wake him, the father scooped Link up bridal style in his arms and carefully grabbed Epona's reigns before making his way back to his horse. It took a bit trying to mount the horse with Link in his arms, but ,after a bit, there he was sitting on his horse with one hand holding both horses reigns and the other holding his asleep son. After making sure they were situated, Captain clicked his heel in the side of his horse, ushering it forward, towards their home.

"Yep!" said Shelda, a huge smile on her face. "We're Free!" it took only a second for Shadow's eyes flash with realization before he jumped up with a shout of joy.

"YEAH!" he shouted out to the world. "EAT YOUR HEART OUT TWINROVA! CUZ YOU CAN'T EAT MINE! Shelda couldn't help but chuckle as Shadow stuck his arms out in a T fashion before spinning round and round and round shouting 'WOOOOHOOO' as he did so until he became to dizzy to stand and landed square on his butt huffing. That what made Shelda lose it and she busted out laughing from his display of joy. Shadow simply look at her with a smile on his face.

"Laugh.. all you.. want… cuz.. I don't.. care anymore… I'm.. free… now.." Shadow said, breathing in between words. Shelda, noticing this, stopped laughing and saw movement off to the left of them.

"Hey, look." she said, pointing at the single filed line of knights mounted on horses riding not that far off. "Where do you think their off to?" Shadow followed her pointed finger to the knights and they watched them silently for a second before Shadow spoke up, breath now caught.

"Looks like their heading somewhere to deal with a problem. It must not be important if their moving so slow." as they watched, they both noticed one of the knights were looking their way.

"Well," said Shelda nodding towards the falling behind knight. "looks likes you caught someone's attention." as they watched him, Shelda saw Shadow lean in a bit to get a better look at the knight before pulling back with a gasp before speaking.

"That's not a someone! That's Link!" said Shadow in shock. Shelda, looking at him in equal shock, quickly looked back at Link to see him starting to ride away. Without thinking, Shelda stood up and walked out into the light, about to call out, but stopped as they made eye contact. Shelda was confused when she saw his eyes widen in shock and amazement, that is, until Shadow spoke up in a low hiss.

"Shelda!" he said urgently. "Your Zelda's dark self! He'll mistake you for Zelda! Don't approach him! Just casually walk back." Shelda stood there another half a second before walking back to Shadow like nothing happened.

"Ok, why couldn't I just tell him the truth?" she asked as she sat back down beside Shadow, watching as Link stood there for a second before turning and following the others over the hill, disappearing from sight.

"Because," said Shadow when Link started to leave. "even if we tell him the truth, the other knights probably were never told I was on their side in the end. Seeing two dark creatures would only make them raise their defense more. No matter what ether us or Link say they'll still think we're up to no good."

"Yeah," said Shelda looking out to the bright, open fields lounging. Shadow noticed this and chuckle at her silent pled as she look on.

"Go on." he said, catching Shelda off guard. She looked over at him, raising an eyebrow in confusion. Shadow just rolled his eyes as he explained.

"I know you want to run. You've been coped up in that evil invested castle all your life, the whole 'warn Link' can wait a few minutes for you can run around." Shelda was quiet for a second before speaking up.

"You make it sound like I'm a puppy or something." she deadpanned. That earned a chuckle from Shadow.

"Are you saying you don't wanna run?" he asked.

"No I do." Shelda replied immediately. "but I don't want to leave you here by yourself. Especially since for the past week you've been numerously injured." she added when Shadow opened his mouth to say 'he's fine', but closed it at the last comment. The excitement from the last hour was already starting to wear away, bringing back the agonizing pain from before. Taking his right hand to rub the opposite arm trying to dull the pain from his most recent injury, Shadow looked at Shelda with a smirk saying;

"Well, if you think I'm running, you've got another thing coming. Just jumping around like I did wore me out." Shelda was quiet for a moment until her eyes lit up and she jumped up to crouch right in front of Shadow, her back to him.

"Climb on!" she said, looking over her shoulder to him. Shadow, taken aback, shook his head in confusion before stuttering.

"Wai-what?" Shelda rolled her eyes in annoyance at this.

"I'm going to give you a piggyback, dummy. Climb on."

"Ok," said Shadow, "for one- I'm not a dummy.-"

"Previous experience prove differently." interrupted Shelda.

"And for two," said Shadow, acting like Shelda didn't speak up. "you not giving me a piggyback."

"Why not?" she asked, turning her body a bit to look at Shadow clearer. "You just said you were hurt.-"

"I never said that." said Shadow matter-of-factly.

"You implied it." replied Shelda without missing a beat. "And," she added, "I know your tired; you're not even trying to hide that." right as she said that, Shadow gave a yawn. After that they just looked at each other for a minute, but Shadow, seeing there was nothing he could say to change her mind, sighed and slowly wrapped his good arm over Shelda's shoulder and around her neck before pulling himself, difficultly, up onto her back. When he finally got to a certain point, Shelda took her arms and grabbed his legs before jerking Shadow upward, making said boy hiss in pain as he bad side rubbed against her back. Hearing his discomfort, Shelda looked over her shoulder at him,

"You good?" she asked, making sure this wasn't too much for him.

"Yeah," said Shadow as he got into a more comfortable position. At that, Shelda slowly stood up, standing there to adjust her hold, before walking out into the light filled fields.

"Ok," she said as she stopped walking to glance back at Shadow. "Which way?" Shadow was quiet for a moment before speaking up in a tired voice that was right above whispering.

"Head to Castle Town. If Link's a knight, then he'll go back there regardless." Shelda, understanding, nodded in confirmation.

"Ok then!" she paused for a second before looking back at Shadow, innocent curiosity in her voice.

"Which way is that?" Shadow couldn't help but chuckle at realizing that, in fact, this was Shelda's first time ever being in the Light Realm. Looking around to confirm their location first, Shadow used his right hand to point towards a couple mountains in the distance.

"Head towards them." said Shadow, "They a couple miles north of Castle Town, so if you head to them, you should at lest come into eyesight of the castle."

"Alright then!" said Shelda with a huge smile, "Hold on!" and at that, she took off, running as fast as her legs could carry them, scenery racing past them as Shelda ran on and on.

"Shelda! Slow down!" gasped Shadow, clinging onto her for dear life. At his call, Shelda slowed down until she was simply waking again in the now woods. Glancing back at Shadow, Shelda couldn't help but give a small laugh at his face, but stopped when she saw the pain in his eyes.

"You ok?" she asked, still keeping it a slow pace now. Shadow, not wanting to open his mouth afraid of screaming in pain, shook his head vigorously. At that, Shelda stopped and looked around, trying to find a place to stay. It was then she spotted the old shed almost hidden in the trees and bushes a few yards away. Glancing back at Shadow, who now had his eyes closed tight in pain, Shelda looked back over at the shed and she debated the possibility of the shed being non vacant and the possible distance to Castle Town. Shelda looked up at the sky through the canopy of leaves, and, even though she's not familiar with this realm, she could see that it would be dark very soon. Finally deciding that it would be better resting now then trying to make it to Castle Town and then trying to find a place to stay, Shelda turned and walked towards the shed, talking to Shadow.

"There's a shed over here, so we'll just spend the night here, patch you up, and head out in the mourning. Sound good?" when Shelda glanced back at Shadow, she could see that he was ready to just sleep. So, once they got inside the shed, a small square room with ,what looked like a workbench, and a few piles of hay in the corners, Shelda made no hesitation in looking for a first-aid of some kind. Setting Shadow down in one of the piles of hay first, Shelda walked around, looking in every cabinets and cubits she could find. After a few minutes, she had found three roles of bandages, a bottle of disinfectant, and a couple rags. Making her way back to Shadow, Shelda couldn't help but look around and notice a door in the far right corner. Shrugging her shoulders at it, she approached Shadow, who was starting to doze off, and helped him sit up better as she took off first his tunic then his once white shirt, which was now blood stained and yellow from dust, before she took a rag, dipped some disinfectant onto it, and started to clean Shadow's injuries. The whole time she cleaned the wounds, wrapped up them and settle him back into the hay, Shadow never relaxed nor unclenched his fist. Shelda let out a sigh of relief as Shadow sank into the hay, his face finally relaxed as he fell asleep. Shelda stayed awake for another hour, making sure Shadow wasn't in distress, before settling down herself and falling asleep as well. However, as the two slept, the sound of tip-toeing footsteps were heard coming closer and closer from the other side of the door in the far right corner.

WOO! Chapter 3 is done! Celebration time!

Ok, for you guys to know, I'm still working on this book, just not very frequently. -_-'

I'll update as soon as I can, so don't worry!

Teller out!