Author's Note: I can't believe I don't have anything to say! Oh well.
Link opened his eyes and saw the world of Holodrum. Phew, he sighed. I hate going in those portals.
Link looked around, and found the seasons had changed, once again. It was the dead of winter, and freezing cold. Link shivered, and started walking.
"I have to find somewhere to stay the night." He said to himself. "I'll freeze to death if I don't."
Link walked on, getting more and more chilled. Finally, he saw a house. Just what I've been looking for! Link thought. He dashed to it and knocked. Nobody answered. He tried the doorknob, but the door was locked. Just my luck, Link thought sadly. He looked the house over, and saw a chimney. There was no some coming down it.
I'll go down it like Santa does! Link thought. He climbed the mound of snow right next to the house. He went to the chimney, and jumped in.
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Talon was sitting in the house, sipping coco. The lovely young girl had given him shelter and food, and he listened as she read a story from a fairy tales book. This is the life, he thought. The girl, whose name was Annabelle, was glad for Talon's company. He had knocked on her door, and told her about his family. The kind-hearted girl had let him in, and let him stay. He had stayed there for two weeks already, and wasn't about to leave. He won't leave, Annabelle thought. I'll make sure of it.
Just as Talon was falling asleep, the two heard a BUMP! coming from the chimney.
"It's Santa!" Annabelle said.
"I don't know about that…" Talon said. It was only September. Santa was three months early? That couldn't be right. It had to be something else…
Talon and Annabelle heard another bump, and saw something covered in soot roll into the small house.
"You're not fat like Santa!" Annabelle said, worried. "Who are you?"
"I'm Link." Said Link. "May I stay here?"
"You may not!" Talon said. "Take this shovel and clear the walkway, but just get out of this house!"
Link took the shovel and pocketed it. "I will, sir, but I am cold, hungry, and tired, so may I stay here? Just tonight?"
"I am Annabelle, this is Talon, and you need to leave."
Talon? Link thought. Where have I heard that name before?…
"I demand that you leave this house at once!" Talon yelled.
"LYNDSEY!" Link said. "You're Lyndsey's father!"
"Lyndsey…" Talon said, as if memory were returning to him. "Kealdra…my family…yes…how are they, Link?"
"Not well. They are very worried because you have not returned home." Link said.
"I must return to them!" Talon said. "Annabelle! Help me pack my bags! I'm going home!"
"NO!" Annabelle screamed. "You are home! You can't leave! I've kept you here with the power of winter! You will not leave!" Annabelle's eyes turned red, and she took something out of her pocket.
"You won't go." She said. "Neither of you. Because I will stir up a storm to last a century!" She held up a white ball over her head and said, "Stir up a storm."
Link looked out a window. Snow started falling faster, and faster, and faster, until the whole outside was a flurry of blowing snow.
"Why are you doing this?" Link asked. "How did you get a hold of the power of winter?"
"The winter spirit gave it to me." Annabelle said proudly. "I am her daughter."
"You need to give it to me." Link said.
"Why? So Talon can leave? Is that it?"
"No, so that I can save Din, and raise the Temple of Seasons. God, why do I have to explain this to everybody?"
"So what? Talon can't leave."
"Why does Talon have to stay?"
"Talon is the best kind of daddy I have ever had. My daddy died the day before I was born. He's been dead ten years now. My mother left when I was four, so I've had to raise myself. The power of winter my mother gave me has never been able to work until now, I guess because Din is gone." Annabelle shrugged.
"Why doesn't Talon just adopt you?"
"Could you Talon? Could you?"
"Well," Talon said, "you've been a good girl before this happened. If you give Link the power of winter, then I will adopt you."
"Really? Yea! Okay! Here you go Link." Annabelle threw the ball of white to Link, and it entered the Rod of Seasons. Link looked outside again, and saw the ferocious wind dying down. When the wind totally died down, Link opened the door.
He looked out into a world of white. The snow glistened in the sun, and Talon walked outside after Link, carrying Annabelle on his back and holding his suitcase full of clothes and Annabelle's possessions.
"I'll be seeing you, Link." He said.
"Goodbye Talon. I hope we meet again."
"That would be fantastic."
The three of them parted, Link going toward a place he thought was where the second Essence might be, and Talon heading home. After a wave or two, Link watched Talon fade into the snowy mist. He thought about how he got Winter. Binny said he would get the seasons when he entered four portals. And Link knew, that Binny was wrong.
Okay, so Link has Winter. If he hops onto a stump and swings his rod, then the season will turn to winter. Nifty, huh?
Well, now that Talon has been found, Link won't need Lyndsey to come along anymore, will he? That will give you something to think about, won't it?