Chapter 7: Karina's idea

"Link, wake up!" Karina shouted in his ear as she jumped on his bed.

Link woke up from the sickening motion. "What?"

She halted and her eyes turn into blue crystals just by the thought of her 'wonderful' idea. "We are going to finish collecting those stones. And I mean all of them. Wouldn't this make it a great adventure? We could journey across the land of Hyrule and meet exciting new people and. . ."

Link began tuning out her talking nonsense. "Karina, that's never going to happen."

Karina blinked and sat back on the bed. "What do you mean? Don't you-"

"Don't you see I don't want to have anything to do with those stones? I am not going to travel across the land for some stupid stones and get you and me killed in the process. That's a stupid idea."

Karina looked hurt and she felt utterly insulted. He had no right to be yelling at her. It was just an idea and nothing more. " I understand. It is stupid. What could we do with three stones anyway? Even though the Deku tree stone looks real pretty on the horse track. . ." She remembered the day that she placed the stone on the arch entrance of the track.

She slipped out from the bed and left Link sort out his jumbled thoughts. In his mind, many things ran through it, starting with the tragedy of Koriri forest. Then, he remembered a flash of Saria's sweet face and Kino's messy hair peeking right behind her. He didn't want to show how scared he was to even go into the outside world that was so big and so dangerous. He always acted all high and mighty around Karina to make her feel safe but deep down inside he knew that she was braver than he would ever be.

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Karina had walked to the horse stable thinking. Link doesn't want to go and that was fine by her. She had another idea now that Link doesn't want to go with her. She would go alone.

Karina smiled devilishly. She was going to go alone and she was going to do that right now.

"Olpa! Come here, girl!" She shouted to a gold pony with a shimmering mane..

It was merely dawn and by the end of the night, she would have everything ready to dash out into this new world. She already saw bits of how the world was in a village not too far from here and most of her visits ended up in disaster. Like the time when she visited the library and knocked the ancient bookcase resulting in a sort of domino effect with the rest of the bookcases. As the dust cleared, she could see the librarian with a furious face and from then on, she was forever banned to be anywhere near the library.

She sighed with that thought but she became optimistic because there was a fresh new beginning now.

Night took a long while to set in and when she confirmed that Link was asleep through his distinctive snoring, she slid out from next to him.

"I'll come back when I have collected all of them. You don't know how much you're gonna miss out on this. Bye, Link." She caressed his face and something strange streamed through her body.

Link stirred and Karina froze. A second later he began his snoring again.

Soon, you could hear the sound of hooves hitting the damp earth and you could catch a glimpse of the golden haired girl riding on it.

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As Link woke up to find no one at side, Karina was waken up by Olpa.

"Stop licking me Olpa! I'm awake now."

It took a moment for her to realize where Karina stood. The world around her seemed different in the daytime than in the night and she didn't know where she was.

"Olpa, what do I do now? I don't know where are we."

The sun shone beautifully and the air was sweet however, she was troubled.

I won't worry, she thought. This is what I wanted and what I got. Breakfast must come first.

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"Malon! Have you seen Karina? I can't find her anywhere!" In a burst of feathers, Link had entered and he attacked at them ferociously as they tried to get into his way.

"No. When did you last see her?"

Link slapped a chicken from his shoulder as it tried to peck his ear off.

"Yesterday."

She frowned. " This is not good. Where could she have possibly gone?"

Link blinked, realization setting in his mind. " She left to search those stones. Malon, she actually left . . ."

Malon's eyes widen and she scurried out the door.

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Note- Yeah, it's time to completely butcher me for not getting this out like a lot sooner than now. I know, I know, I should have taken more time into this writing business but I can promise that the next one will come so much sooner.

-stargazer takile 10