I don't own Zelda blah blah blah you know the drill.
AN-This is my first fic so please go easy on me I'm not that good at writing stuff. Please enjoy the story for mee ^-^ or at least pretend like you're enjoying it. It'll make me sleep better at night.
Poor little fairyboy!
Well it looked to be just another morning, just another one of those days. Get up milk the cows, go feed the horses, Go clean out the stables. It seemed to always go on and on and on. For Malon the humble ranch girl things were always very simple. There was never a need to rush or panic, unless of course you forgot to feed some of the animals and they started to feed on each other and or the visitors to the ranch. "Speaking of visitors when was the last one, a year maybe more? And who was it again?" Malon said out loud to herself. Rubbing her nose she tried to picture the scene in her head again. It had been her knight in shinning armour; Link. Malon kicked a bucket defiantly sending it ricocheting off to the other side or the stable. The estranged fairyboy from the forest who'd she once met In the town square then never seen again for another seven years until he decidedly chose to pop around to the ranch and nick off with Epona. "Yeah that's right he nicked off with her. No thank you's, no manners" she pushed her fringe off her face and walked over to one of the horses. She stroked its mane tentatively then moved over towards the door. Shifting a sack of feed to the right she muttered under her breath a mimicking tone of what she thought Link would say "Oooh looky at me I'm the hero of time! I can chop stuff with my sword" she gave a snicker "I can also kick chickens wooo hoo" it had been the first time she'd seen him in seven years and she found him outside harassing the chickens. Malon shuddered at what else Link might like doing to chickens. Either way the events had turned to the more humorous side when the chickens had decided they'd had enough and started attacking him. Malon's shoulders started to shake with laughter. She'd found the whole scene down right hilarious, she'd ended up rolling on the floor with laughter whilst link had ran around in circles screaming "They're in my hair! They're in my hair!"
Back then Ingo was in charge of the farm. Damn that man was a freak. Malon wrinkled her nose at the memory of that drunken mess, which had tried to come onto her on numerous occasions. That man had issues and alcohol was always the solution for him. He always looked so spun out, his eyes constant swirling pools of red and tainted white. Come to think of it his eyes had always been like that. "Perhaps it was medical condition or something"
Malon opened the door slowly allowing the light to slowly protrude into the stable. "Geez, you spend an hour or so in here and you come out completely blind." Malon squinted at the bright light. Even though the barn was well built and protected from weather damage. It didn't allow much light in so everything was always lit by lantern. Shielding her eyes, Malon hastily made her way over to the door of her house. Hoping to escape more blinding terror by the sun, swinging the door open she skipped inside, closing the door behind her. She rubbed her eye's to try and allow them to adjust to the darkness again. "Phew! I never thought that horses could make a mess as much as they do. I reckon it's that damn stallion kicking up a muck trying to impress the ladies again." Malon briefly dusted her dress off. She'd finished all of her chores and it was only 11:00. Normally it took her till around 2 to finish everything. "Suppose getting up earlier is a benefit" Malon had got up at 4am today especially so that she could get everything done. "Today I'm going out for a treat" she beamed. Malon had planned that today would be her little one-day holiday.
"Now I gotta go find dad and tell him where I'm going" Malon was just to yell a "Daddy!" when she heard a peculiar noise coming from behind the dining table. It was a cross between a snore and a dying chicken. Malon slowly made her way over to the table. Pushing the hair away from one of her ears trying to make the sound out better. "Daddy, is that you?" she came to the edge of the table and bent down to look under it through to the other side. A squawking chicken met Malon's inquisitive face. Though the chicken looked a little strange. Half of it was missing or at least hidden by a large sack of some sort that appeared to be breathing and making snoring noises. "Daddy!" Malon popped up from the table and ran around to the other side. There her father Talon was, snoring away while a half-squashed chicken was trying to wriggle its way from underneath the sleeping giant's back. Malon gave a short giggle then grabbed the chicken gently pulling it from underneath Talons weight. She brought the chicken up to her eye level to examine if it was okay. The chicken was unharmed; its feathers had been rubbed up the wrong way and now stood up on end. Malon gave the chicken a quick pet before placing it on the ground. No sooner the chicken had its two feet on the ground it fell over. "Must have been squashed to long" Malon giggled while the chicken attempted to waddle along the ground on its crimped up feet. Once the chicken had got its bearings and legs back it went to join the rest of its little pals in the corner of the room all huddled together.
Malon looked back over to where her father lay snoring away. "Well I don't really want to wake him so I think I'll just leave him a note" Malon quipped quietly walking over to cupboard she produced a quill and inkbottle as well as a torn piece of paper. She set herself over on the table and began to quickly scribble. Once done she read the note out loud to herself "Daddy, gone out for the day. I'll be back later tonight. Love Malon PS I took Stormy with me." "Looks like my spelling has gotten better after all" Once satisfied, she placed the note in the middle of the table and went and returned the inkbottle and quill to the cupboard.
Malon ran up quickly to her room to change into another outfit, seeing as the one she was wearing smelled terrible. "Which dress will it be today" Malon opened her wardrobe producing a cream dress with elaborately Embroidered designs around the collar and sleeves of the dress. Around the middle was a thick pale blue ribbon to tie around the waist. Slipping the dress over her head then tying the ribbon around her waist. Grabbing a brush she quickly tried to make her unruly red hair look respectable. "There, I look just right" Malon grinned at her reflection through the mirror. "No where did I put that money?" Malon bit her lip whilst she fumbled around in her chest of draws looking for her stash of rupees. "Got it!" Malon produced a small purse containing her pocket money. Shoving the purse into one of the side pockets in her dress she made her way towards her door. "Wonder where I'll go first?" Malon took one more back glance in the mirror to make sure she looked just right.
Closing the front door lightly she made her way over to the stable where she saddled and readied Stormy. "I don't want no nonsense from you buster, got it?" the stallion gave a neigh in response as Malon put her foot in the stirrup and hoisted herself up onto her mount. She slowly rode out. Taking a deep breath. Today was going to be her day. "Where to go first?" Malon absently scratched her head as she thought of where she should go first. "How about the market stormy eh?" the horse gave a quick snort in reply. "Okay the market it is." She dug her heels into Stormy's side to kick him into a slow canter. "I'm in need of a new scarf anyway"
To be continued…
Well what did ya think? I know it hasn't really had much to do with the title…YET! This chapter was more or less just to give you a little into Malon's personality. Hope I did that at least. I'm sorry for the brief Link bashing if anyone was offended and I'm not suggesting that he does weird stuff with chickens. Umm please don't forget to R+R cause this is my first fic. Ummm yeah check back for more chapters wont you?
Hope ya liked it ^-^