The Legend of Zelda
Ti'ana's Story
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Ti'ana MYST
Chapter Two
Ti'ana reached the Kokiri forest in only ten minutes, which was odd because usually it took her nearly a half hour. By that time the sky was turning a light yellow.
As she approached the opening that led to the forest, she spotted a large owl. He was facing the entrance to the forest, so he hadn't seen her yet.
Ti'ana coughed, and the owl turned his head around. "Are you the legendary Kaepora Gaebora?"
"That I am," the owl responded with a hoot.
Ti'ana smiled. She had heard a lot about the large owl Kaepora Gaebora, but had never actually seen him. "I talked with a few gossip stones, they claim that you are a reincarnation of an ancient sage."
The owl seemed to smile, but said nothing.
"Well, it's nice to finally meet you, Kaepora Gaebora, I'm..."
"Ti'ana, yes I know you well."
Ti'ana arched a brow. "You do?"
The owl simply turned his head upside-down.
"But how? I've never met you before."
The owl never answered her question. For after Ti'ana asked him how he knew her, he simply flew away, towards Hyrule Castle. Ti'ana wanted answers, and she ran after him.
***
When Taabu finally reached the entrance of Hyrule Castle Town, the sun was already starting to set. He was out of breath and all he wanted now was to rest. As he began to step on the drawbridge, a coyote howled in the distance, and the bridge began to rise, knocking Taabu backwards.
He tried to jump up to reach the end of the drawbridge, with no such luck. Instead, he missed and fell into the moat around the town, becoming completely drenched.
"Great! Just great!" He shouted. "Wait! Come back down!"
He looked around. The drawbridge was now all the way up, and there was no way he could get into the town until morning.
"Mom's gonna kill me!" He paused. "Unless dad kills me first!!"
He walked around the entrance to the town a few times, trying to figure out how to get in. There was no other way besides the drawbridge.
"Now what am I going to do?!" Taabu cried in despair. "Things can't get any worse!" As soon as he said that, lightening streaked across the sky, thunder boomed, and rain came down in sheets within seconds.
He threw his hands up in the air. "I just HAD to say something, didn't I?!?!"
He heard footsteps behind him. Startled he turned around, and found himself face-to-face with a dark figure. He couldn't see who it was, and that made him frightened.
The figure spoke. "Taabu? What're you doing out this late?" The voice was very familiar.
"Ti'ana, is that you?"
The shadowy figure nodded, and stepped into the light of the torches outside the castle drawbridge. "Yeah it's me. Why aren't you in the town? You'll never get in now until morning!"
Taabu groaned. "Yeah I know... Hey why aren't you in the forest?"
"I was chasing that really big owl, Kaepora Gaebora. I was trying to ask him something, but he flew away, and I couldn't keep up."
"Oh," Taabu replied. He looked down at his feet.
Ti'ana sensed something was wrong, so she asked him about it.
Taabu sighed and looked up. His ear-length dark brown hair hung over his face, dripping with water. "Malon said that you didn't want to be my friend anymore... That you two were fighting about me..."
Ti'ana's half-smile turned into a furious scowl. "And you believed her?! Taabu, we've been friends forever, you can't listen to Malon!!"
Taabu looked up and smiled. Even though Ti'ana appeared angry, she wasn't really.
Suddenly, Ti'ana broke out into uncontrollable laughter. Her stern looks never lasted long. Taabu soon followed, and in no time both of them were rolling on the damp floor, laughing. Ti'ana was on the stone floor where the drawbridge came down.
Taabu's eyes were tearing by the time he had stopped laughing to catch his breath. "So, what am I going to do until morning?"
Ti'ana was panting for air. "I dunno.. I guess you could stay in the forest with me.. Or you can just wait out here for a Stalchild to come and whack you upside the head!"
Taabu jumped up. He pointed towards the Kokiri Forest and shouted, "Onward!" Then he ran as fast as he could from the drawbridge.
Ti'ana smiled and went after him. She wondered if she should tell him he had a huge mud stain on the back of his white shirt.
***
Malon couldn't sleep. She felt completely awful about what she had done to Ti'ana and Taabu. They had been friends much longer than she had been with Taabu.
She sat up on her bed. She reached over to flick on a light, but the sound of her father's snoring made her think otherwise.
"Don't want to wake him up," Malon thought to herself.
She jumped quietly out of her bed and opened the bedroom door. She walked down the stairs, almost stepping on one of the cuckoos.
Malon stepped out of the house and walked over to the stables. She saw Ingo fixing a stool out in the corral, so she knew the stables were empty.
Inside, she walked quickly over to the foals. She patted Epona in between her ears. "Hello, Epona." Epona whinnied happily.
Then she looked to Flicka, and an idea began to form as she remembered when Ti'ana was at Lon Lon Ranch earlier...