Disclaimer: Blah, Blah, Blah. No I do not own harry Potter characters, terms, or settings. They all belong to J. K. Rowling and her publishers. I don't own Zelda either. It belongs to… Nintendo???
Harry Potter and the Three Bracelets of Friendship
Chapter 2
"Who are you?" the boy asked. "Are you Ganandorf's servant's? Speak now!"
"Er-- who's Ganeenshorp?" Ron asked, sniggering.
"Don't play fool with me! Who are you?" he demanded. "Who are you?" Ron said.
"Why, I am Link: Hero of Time!" the boy bellowed.
"Well, I'm Ron Weasley-- er hero of-- Hermione?" Ron said, grabbing Hermione and hugging her. "Geroff!" Hermione said. "Look, mister, we don't know why we're here, but I'm Hermione, this is Ron and that is Harry. We are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry but--"
"--Ah!" the boy interrupted Hermione, "You are wizards?"
"Yes, but we were at school and we got transported by a Portkey. Portkeys are magical objects. They are designed to transport the people touching it at a certain time to a designated place," Hermione explained. "Link, where are we?"
"You are in Hyrule, but right now you are in a tiny town called Kakariko Village," Link answered.
"Why do you have all those weapons?" Harry asked. "Oh, because I destroy the evil forces around here. I am the Hero of Time, and I'm supposed to save Hyrule. Ganondorf is an evil sorcerer who is trying to control the world and turn it into an evil wasteland. So I have been chosen to stop him by the Sages and Princess Zelda," Link said.
"Er, if you say so," Ron said.
Link and Hermione caught one another's eye and couldn't stop staring at each other for a small period of time. Finally, Hermione blushed and looked away. Link coughed and said, "Well, erm… would you like to come on an exciting adventure with me?"
"Sure! Harry'll like this, huh? It's time to save the world again!" Ron joked.
"Shut it, you!" Harry moaned miserably.
"Well," Link said, "It's too late to go anywhere tonight so we'll go find a place to sleep overnight. I know the perfect place, too: Lon Lon Ranch! My friend Malon lives there; she's about our age, and real sweet too. You'll love her, believe me," he said dreamily. He coughed and said hastily, "But I don't like/ love her or anything like that… you know what I mean, I mean… um… I don't have a crush on Malon."
The three laughed at link while he blushed in embarrassment. "Yeah, sure, we believe you, Link," Ron teased.
"Well, come on let's go," Link said. They followed him down some stone steps and then he took out what looked like a pearly white seashell.
"What is that?" Hermione asked.
"It's the Ocarina of Time; I play certain melodies at certain times and places, and various things will happen. Now I am going to call my horse, Epona, by this song that my friend Malon taught me," Link explained. Then he placed the ocarina to his lips and blew. A series of beautiful notes came out. He put the ocarina back into his pocket and then they heard a horse running up the field.
"Hey it worked!" Ron said in amazement. Link raised his eyebrows, "It was supposed to work."
"So, tell me," Hermione said, "that ocarina takes the place of a wand?"
"What's a wand?" Link asked curiously.
"This," Hermione said, pulling out her wand.
"It's a stick," Link said dully.
"No, watch."
"Cheveauoplous!" she cried. Then a beautiful white horse appeared next to her, pawing the ground nervously.
"Wow!" Link said, "How did you do that?!"
"With the stick," Hermione said plainly.
Link and Hermione rode on Epona and Ron and Harry rode on the other horse that Hermione decided to name Jinger.
They traveled across a large field and stopped at Lon Lon Ranch. A girl came running out.
"Link!" she cried. "I haven't seen you in ages, where have you been? And who are these people?" She glared Hermione jealously, who was sitting on Epona with Link, clutching on around his waist.
"Malon, this Hermione," he said with pride. She blushed. "And these two are Ron and harry. They got transported here by a Snortley--"
"Portkey," Hermione automatically corrected him.
"-- yes and now they're here and can't get back home. Can we stay here tonight?" Link finished.
"Why of course!" Malon said. They put the horses in the barn with the others to sleep and they went inside.
"This is my Pa, Talon and this is Igor," she added rudely. A man with greasy brown hair and with what looked like pink overalls shot daggers at her and link.
"Hello!" Talon said, "Why, do you want to play a game?"
"No, Pa! They want to rest!" Malon said.
But Ron said instead, "What do you have to do?"
"Well," the old man explained, "you have to find three special super cuckoos in the crowd of normal cuckoos. You'll have 30 seconds."
"What's a cuckoo?" Ron asked.
"And you win a jar full of our special Lon Lon milk," Talon said proudly.
"Geez, what is it with people and jars over here?" Harry said.
"What's a cuckoo?" Ron asked again.
"Come on you guys, let's get to bed. We have to leave early in the morning," link said.
Hermione went to sleep with Malon while Ron and Harry went to camp out with link outside.
While the boys were setting up tents that Harry had conjured out of his wand, Link said, "So your friend, Hermione, she's real nice, huh?"
"yeah but watched out," Ron said, "She's armed and dangerous; she's a know-it-all who doesn't know when to shut up. She'll end up killing somebody by annoying them to death!"
"Well, I wouldn't say armed and dangerous, Ron--" harry began.
But Link interrupted, "Yeah, maybe she's just charmed and dangerous…." He looked at the window of the room Hermione was staying in and gazed dreamily at it. Ron and Harry chanced a bewildered look at each other, and Ron knew, deep inside, that his chances of being alone with Hermione without the school to bother him, was completely spoiled by another hero…
More coming soon!