Disclaimer: I think I own Zelda... oh wait, I don't. Too bad for me.

Hey!! Nobody read my last chappy!! ;.;! I feel unwanted... Anyway, I'm gonna finish this story because I already have another idea for a sequal! Wait, but who would read any of my crap? Aww poopy. Ok, READ!!

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Chapter 9: The Forest Temple!! Does Link really love Nicole?

"Love is such a strong word," Link sighed at the title. "But anyway. Ok follow me." He weaved his way through the Lost Woods when Nicole did something crazy, again.

"MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Nicole cackled for a long time.

Everyone eyed her. "What?"

"Oh!" Nicole sweatdropped, then reached over and grabbed Link's hat.

Link blinked. "HEY!"

Ines 'ooh'ed. "Hey, nice hair."

Link growled. "NICOLE! GIVE ME BACK MY HAT!"

Nicole laughed evilly. "AHAHA! You have to catch me first!"

The six chased Nicole through the Lost Woods. It looked like a Scooby-Doo scene when they go into a tunnel appear in another one and etcetera etcetera.

"Mwahahahahahahahaha!" Nicole screamed, still running.

"My hat! ;.;" Link sobbed.

"Yaaay!"

As everybody chased Nicole through the Lost Woods, she accidentally stumbled upon the Sacred Forest Meadow. "Ooooh... pretty..."

Link stopped as he looked around. "Hey, look, we're here... NICOLE! MY HAT!"

Nicole blinked down at him from the top of a tree. "Why do you want it so much?"

"BECAUSE!"

"Give me a very stupid reason that doesn't make sense, and I'll think about giving it back!"

Everyone sweatdropped.

Link twitched. "What?! Oh fine! Wanna know the truth?!"

Nicole grinned. "Hmm, that's better. YES! TELL ME THE FREAKIN' TRUTH!"

Link paused for a moment, and then sighed. "WELL, when I was 10, before I met you guys, Saria gave that hat to me after we made out!"

Navi screamed. "HOLY CRAP!"

Everyone else gasped simultaneously.

Gilbert's jaw dropped. "W-w-what? Y-y-you a-and S-saria m-made out w-when y-y-you were t-t-t-ten?"

"... Yes."

Nicole's eyed widened. "Oh my god..." She muttered, dropping Link's hat. "OH $&! WHAT THE #$& &$ & $#$&! YOU GUYS WERE //JUST// TEN! WHAT !#$ & ()(& $#! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!"

Ines blinked. "Jeezus, I never knew Nicole could cuss like that..."

Link bent down, picking up his hat and putting it back on his head. He snickered. "... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"What the... WHY THE HECK ARE YOU !#$& LAUGHING?!" Nicole yelled from the tree.

Link held his stomach. "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You guys fall for anything!"

"WHAT?"

"HAHAHAHA! It was a joke!" Link said, grinning widely.

Hayarpi fell over. "WHAT JOKE? WHAT THE?!"

"I said it so that Nicole would be shocked and so that she would drop my hat! It worked!"

Nicole paused. "... Oooooooh...!" She jumped down and started beating Link up.

Everyone else stared. "Whoa..."

"OW! NICOLE! STOP! IT HURTS! OW!" Link screamed while being beat up. "OW OW, OK, OK, I'M SORRY!"

"ARE YOU REALLY SORRY?!"

"YES! YES! YES! OUCH! STOP!"

Nicole sighed and ceased. "Alright, I forgive you." She clapped her hands together and walked away.

Link lied there on the ground. "Ouch... my body..."

Nicole looked over her shoulder and gave him a look. "Try that again, and I WON'T stop!"

Navi giggled. "My tips worked!"

"We told eachother tips on how to beat someone up." Nicole explained.

"Good job! "

Nicole nodded. "Thanks! Alright, all of you, FORGET everything that I said and did, ok?"

Everyone nodded rather obediently.

"Aww, thanks you guys! And Link? Please don't do that again." Nicole said sweetly, smiling. "What you said is something you can't joke around with."

Link stayed put but nodded. "Ok... ouch... my body..."

"I'll take that as an "Ok"! Anyway, let's go." She approached the gate. "Hmm, it's locked..." she muttered, then turned around.

A wolfos popped out of the ground behind her.

"Ohh! How CUUUUUTE! Hey, wanna be my dog's friend?"

The wolfos only blinked. "Uhh... sure."

"Here ya go!" She said, tossing Mr. Sharp Teeth at him. "Oh yeah, and if you try to eat him, YOU'RE DEAD." She threatened, pointing her sword to the wolfos' neck.

It laughed a bit nervously. "Ehehe... I won't eat him!"

"Oooook, that was the weirdest thing I've ever seen... other than what just happened and the bone incident." said Brian.

Link sweatdropped. "Uhh, let's just go!"

"Oh yeah, sorry, Link, for beating you up. And for taking your hat." Nicole apologized, helping him up.

He winced a bit. "It's ok... I deserved it. You're a good fighter!"

"Aww, thanks!" she said, hugging him gently as to not damage him further.

"Uhh, your welcome."

"Let's go to a fairy fountain so we could cure Link." Ines said.

Everybody nodded as the wolfos disappeared and the gate lowered. They continued through the maze, finding a grotto. Inside was a fairy fountain and there they healed Link with one of the fairies. Then they come back out.

Nicole gasped. "Look! It's a moblin!" she said, pointing to a moblin.

Everyone 'ooh'ed. "Oooooooooo..."

"HA YA!" Brian yelled, killing a moblin with his hookshot.

"Ooooo... let's kill more!" Navi said excitedly.

They all killed the moblins and ran towards the temple. Just as they neared the broken staircase, Sheik dropped down from somewhere up there, stopping everyone in their tracks. "You have arrived."

"Indeed we have, Sheikah dude." Ines muttered.

Sheik then proceeded to tell them a long story, blahblahblah, and then taught them the warp song.

Gilbert decided to speak what the voice box said. "You have learned the Minuet of Forest!"

Ines eyed him. "Uhh, ok."

Sheik nodded. "All right, my work is done. Goodbye, and good luck." was the last thing he said before disappearing in a flash of light.

Gilbert started screaming. "AAAAAAH! I'M BLIND! HELP MEEEE!" he started running around, bumping into things from time to time.

Everyone stared. "O.o"

Ten seconds later...

Suddenly Gilbert stopped in his spot. "Wait, I'm not."

Link raised an eyebrow. "Uh huh... yeah anyway, follow me!" He aimed his hookshot at the tree beside the temple's entrance. The hook darted out, catching hold of the wood, then retracted, pulling Link up past the broken steps. He looked back at his companions. "C'mon! It's perfectly safe!"

Nicole rolled her eyes. "Nooooo." She hookshot up as well, yelling to the rest. "Hurry up, you guys!"

Everybody else nodded. "We're coming!" They hookshotted up. "We're here!"

"Why do we always talk together like that?" Gilbert mumbled.

Hayarpi shivered a little. "It's kinda creepy."

Link stuck himself between then. "Ok, I wanna finish this!"

"Hey look, a chest."

Gasping, Nicole shoved between them as well. "DOES IT HAVE RABID DOLPHINS INSIDE?"

Navi shook her head. "I don't think so, maybe a key..."

"Awww..."

"I'll get it," volunteered Link as he pointed his hookshoot to another branch. "You guys go ahead."

Nicole nodded. "Alright." She began to walk towards the doors, but screamed when two wolfos popped up out of the ground. Then she blinked. "Oh, I thought that you were something else."

Ines almost fell over. "Like what?"

Gilbert waved at one wolfos. "Nicole, handle that one, I'll get this guy right here."

The girl nodded. "Cool! Come get me, you overgrown puppy! MWAHAHAHAHAHAA!" She wasted no time killing them off. "Hmm, easy."

"Yeah, too easy..." Gilbert yelled up to the tree. "LINK! Did you get it yet?"

The blond looked down at them through some leaves. "Wha?"

"The thing in the chest!"

"Oh! Yeeees, I did! I'm coming down now!" he leapt off the branch. "AAAAAAAAAAAH!" Then he landed.

Ines eyed him. "Why did you scream?"

"Because I thought that I'd fall into a portal with deformed kids singing the barney song with the teletubbies..."

"You know what?" Brian sighed as they continued along. "You have a very disturbing imagination."

Link started making weird expressions. "o.O... O.O... :D... ;D... ;.;... O.o... -.-..."

Navi smacked him. "Stop making faces! You're freaking me out!"

"o.O... -.-... :)... O.O... v.v... o.o"

"STOP IT!"

"Sorry! I felt like doing something stupid."

Nicole waved her arms. "I'M SUPPOSED TO DO THAT! SEEEEE! o.O... :D... O.O... X.x..."

Hayarpi laughed sheepishly. "That last one was just plain scary."

Finally everyone entered the actual Forest Temple. Brian looked around. "Ooooh, creeeeeeeepy."

"I think we should go through the central chamber." suggested Navi.

Link looked at her. "Why?"

"Because I said so."

Shrugging, everyone passed through the central chamber and opened the door.

A bubble was floating there, but when it heard the door open, it turned around, staring at the teens. It grinned. "WAZZZAAAAAAAAAAAP!"

Brian greeted it back. "WAZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!"

Gilbert and Link joined in too. "WAZZZAAAAAAAAP!"

Ines sighed. "Men... they're all the same."

The girls pulled the boys into the next room and stalfos popped out.

Nicole unsheathed her sword. "COOL!" she grinned, then killed them all easily.

Link stared. "How did you do that?"

"... I don't know..."

Navi raised an eyebrow. "Suuuuure. Look! Another chest!"

Link went over, kicking the chest open and reaching for whatever was inside. He sighed as he took out another key. "Oh, I am so happy. Another key. Yahoo. -.-;;;;"

Everyone headed back to the main room after noticing nothing else they could do in that area.

Suddenly Navi started to scream. "HEY! LOOK! LISTEN!"

Everyone turned to her. "WHAT DO YA WANT?"

"Look at the block over there! It has the same symbol as the Door of Time!"

Brian started to snicker. "Ehehe... cheap name."

Walking over to the block, Link inspected it a bit before gasping in realization. "Oh! I know!" He whipped out his ocarina and played the Song of Time. Just as he suspected, the block disappeared. "Right, let's go in."

"NOOOOOOO!" came Nicole's cry.

"Huh?"

"NOOO! DON'T GO! WHAT IF BARNEY IS HAVING TEA WITH BARBIE? AND TELETUBBIES WILL RULE THE WORLD! MWAHAHA!"

"... No, let's hope that teletubbies will burn in heck."

Everyone nodded in agreement. "YEAH!"

Nicole bit her lip. "But... but, I'm still scared..."

Link eyed her. "Really?"

"No. LET'S GOOOOOOOOO!" she cackled as she ran inside the room, everyone else following.

Brian blinked at the rather large Deku Baba staring at them. "Ooh, it's huge..."

Nicole rolled her eyes. "No duh. HIYA!" she yelled as she killed it.

"Hey!" called Hayarpi. "No fair!"

"Huh? What did I do?"

Ines sighed. "You killed almost everything. We wanna kill too!"

"... Oh, I'm sorry. ;.;"

Link sweatdropped. "Umm, are you alright?"

"Yeah, keep going. I'll just follow."

"Ok, if you say so."

They keep on going until they reach the room where they get the fairy bow. Link started screaming. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" ("That was a long scream," Gilbert laughed.) "Stalfos! Hey, Nicole! Get that one over there, I'll get this one!"

Nicole shook her head. "No."

"Huh? What?"

"I said no."

Link 'eep'ed as he dodged a swing. "Why not?! You're right next to it!"

The stalfos waved at Nicole. "Hello! I'm Joe!"

The girl waved back then looked back at Link. "Because. Gilbert, kill it for me, please."

Gilbert shrugged. "Alright." Then he killed it.

Joe sobbed. "NOOOOOO!" then he died. Link killed his own stalfos until Nicole gave notice of two more behind them, in which Ines and Hayarpi took care of.

Navi clapped. "Good job guys. Hey look! Six chests just appeared in the middle of the room!"

Everyone opened them, and each chest contained a Fairy Bow that had the name of the owner engraved on the handle.

Nicole fawned over it. "Ooooooh... COOL!"

Hayarpi looked at her partners. "Remember those paintings with the poes on them?"

Link eyed her. "So?"

Gilbert poked him. "That is the portal to teletubby land... where they will go "LALALALALALALA!" in your ear alllllll day..."

Brian smacked Gilbert. "Stop with the teletubbies!"

"Why?" Nicole laughed. "It's funny!"

"No, it's scary!"

"Fine, we'll stop..." then she added quietly, "... For now..."

Brian eyed her. Nicole looked around, whistling. So they exited the room and saw a painting with a poe on it. Brian nudged Link and gestured at the art. "Shoot it."

Link looked around. "What?"

Ines sweatdropped. "He meant shoot the painting with one of your arrows."

"Why?"

"Just do it. The sooner we finish, the sooner we get outta here." Hayarpi shivered a little. "This place gives me the creeps..."

The blond hero was just standing around. Nicole smacked him. "Hurry up, Link!"

Link 'oh'-ed. "Ok." He fired an arrow at the painting. "Ohh, look, it burned away."

Brian nodded. "Shoot the other paintings which have the poe on them."

"Umm, ok." He kept doing so until... "Look! A poe came out! Let's follow it!"

"Good idea, cuz you're supposed to fight it anyway!" nodded Nicole. "You follow it and we'll be waiting right here."

"Eh? Why just me?"

"'Cause. Just go! Poes are easy to defeat anyways!"

Link nodded back and ran down the stairs to fight the ghost. Five minutes later he returned. "Hello!" Link said cheerfully as he held up something shiny. "I got a key!"

Gilbert patted his head. "Ok, let's go into the other room."

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In the other room...

"Now, do the same thing." Hayarpi advised.

Link nodded. "Uhh, right." He did what he did in the other room, shooting all three paintings and then going to fight the poe. When he came back, he was waving something round and blue. "This time, I got the compass!"

Nicole scoffed. "Like we need that."

They all went through the temple until finally, they were at the boss's room.

This time Nicole looked around. "So... what are we supposed to do? Where's the boss?"

Ines eyed her strangely. "Didn't you finish the game?"

The other girl twitched, whispering harshly while waving her arms at Ines. "Yes but I kinda-not-really-yes-but-no forgot some things that happened in the Adult Saga cuz that was a long time ago! But still! Now SHH, cuz I don't want Link to know that!"

Link eyed them both. "Know what?"

"N-nuthin'! Ehehe..."

Navi raised an eyebrow, but decided not to push the subject. "Uh huh... let's go here and wait for the boss."

They all stood in the center and waited for ten minutes.

Ines looked to Nicole again, whispering. "Uhh, what are we supposed to do again?"

"Uh. I think this." Nicole pushed Link towards the gate thingy.

"Hey!" Then Link gasped as the gates went up. Then he started screaming more. "AAAAAAAAAAH! WE CAN'T ESCAPE!"

Brian covered his mouth. "Shut up! I hear something..."

All of a sudden, Ganondorf came out of a picture!

Link growled, unsheathing the Master Sword. "Grrrr... Ganondorf... grrrrrr..."

"Link!" Nicole rolled her eyes. "Shut up, that's not Ganondorf. That's his ghost."

Ganondorf's Ghost blinked. "How did you know?"

"Hmmm, POOOOOOOOWEEEERSSSS:D"

"Oooook, HI-YA!" All at once, the battle started! The ghost turned around, his horse galloping through another picture.

Link gasped as he pulled out an empty bottle. "Crap! I didn't bring any fairies! We're gonna die!" He started sobbing.

Nicole smacked him. "STOP OVERREACTING, DANG IT!"

Everyone looked at her.

"What? Sorry, Link."

"It's alright."

"Ok, everybody guard two pictures, and if you see a portal with GG coming out, shoot it with your arrows, ok?"

Ines whipped her bow out with everyone else. "Gotcha."

Everybody did just that until GG jumped off his horse.

"Link," Nicole started. "You gotta handle this on your own, ok?"

"But, why?"

"Don't worry, I'll do something... and it's also because you have the Master Sword and it can repel GG's attacks, and our swords can't do that!" She gasped suddenly as she saw an energy blast coming right for her. "AAAH!"

Link gasped. "WATCH OUT!" he yelled, moving to stand in front of her. He swung his sword, repelling the attack.

Nicole breathed a sigh of relief. "Thanks so much!"

"No problem. Hey, it does work!" he looked at his blue fairy. "Navi, I need targeting!"

Navi nodded. "Right!"

Link turned to GG, grining maniacally. "I'm gonna KEEL you!" he leaned back and laughed. "MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Brian leaned over to Hayarpi. "Umm, Nicole's insaness is rubbing on to Link."

Hayarpi sighed dreamily. "I know! Isn't that romantic?"

Everybody else eyed her.

"Oops. Did I say that out loud? Hehe!"

Meanwhile the Ghost was completely ignoring the other five as he focused on Link. "Here's one!" he formed an energy ball and tossed it to Link.

Nicole popped up in front of him. "Hey! GG! Barney is behind you!"

GG gasped. "What?! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!" he turned around.

"Hiya!" Link yelled as he swung his sword and repelled another one, the ball bouncing back and hitting GG's butt.

"My butt!" GG sobbed as he clutched it and fell down. Everyone raised an eyebrow at him.

Link just went over and slashed him some more. "More "hiyas"!"

"Grr..." GG growled and flew back up. He tossed another energy ball. "Ya!"

Nicole popped up again. "Hey, GG! A teletubby is behind you!"

GG gasped (again). "What?! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!" he turned around.

Ines laughed a little sheepishly. "Is this guy gullible or what?"

Link repelled the attack, smacking GG's back. GG put a hand on his hip like an old man as he fell down. "Oh, my omega!" The blodn slashed at him some more until GG shoved him off. "I HATE YOU!" he sobbed, forming another energy ball. Just as he tossed it, someone called out to him.

"Hey!" came Nicole's voice. "GG! Someone is behind you!"

GG scoffed, ignoring her. "Oh no you don't!" he looked around. "Hey, where is Link?"

Nicole giggled. "Behind you!"

GG turned around. Surely enough, there was Link, harnessing the energy ball GG had thrown at him. "HA!" he yelled, slashing it back at the ghost's head.

GG sobbed as he dropped down. "My head!"

Link slashed him over and over until...

Finally, GG jerked back in defeat. "Noooooooooo!" he yelled, disappearing into some portal Ganondorf had created, while Ganondorf himself muttered curses about his useless product clone or something.

Nicole did a little dance. "Yaay! He's dead!"

Link breathed a sigh of relief, looking at her. "That was pretty easy. Thanks for the help!"

"No problem!"

Navi flittered around them. "Umm, anyway, good job people!"

"Ahaha, we did like... nothing." Gilbert sweatdropped.

The fairy ignored him and pointed. "Look! Six heart containers! Get them and let's go into the blue light thingy!"

Everyone cheered and retrieved their hearts, healing themselves, and then stepping into the blue light thingy. They all reappeared in the Chamber of Sages.

There was Saria, standing on the Forest Sage symbol. She smiled at the six. "Hello Link. I am Saria, the Sage of the Forest Temple..."

Link gestured at the other five. "Saria, these are--"

Saria cut him off with a wave of her hand. "I know who they are. You don't need to tell me." She then proceeded on about some Sage things, and rescuing Hyrule and all that jazz until Nicole spoke up.

"Hey, Saria, you know what?"

"What?"

"Before we entered the temple, Link said that you and him made-" she was cut off when Link jumped on her, covering her mouth. "Mmmpffh!" Link began to laugh sheepishly.

Everyone else blinked, then started laughing when they realized what Nicole was going to say.

Saria stared. "Uhh, Link, please let Nicole finish."

Link waved his hands. "Ehehe, um, s-she was gonna say that we made... bread!"

"But we never made bread."

"Do muffins count as bread?"

"No. They're MUFFINS."

"But it's still wheat and stuff..."

Meanwhile, Nicole finally got Link's hand out of the way and kicked him off ("OWW!"). She looked at the green-haired girl. "NO! I was gonna say that Link said you guys made out when you were ten!"

Link slapped his forehead. He began to count down. Three... two... one--

"WHAAAAAAAAAAT?!"

Nicole grinned in triumph. Link shoved her aside, kneeling in front of Saria. "I swear, it was a joke! Nicole got my hat, and I told her that so she could drop it!"

"SO?!" Saria yelled so loud it made Link's hat fly off. "WHO CARES IF IT WAS A FREAKIN' JOKE! I'M GONNA STRANGLE YOUUUUUU!" she reached down and started strangling him just as she said she would.

"HEEEELP!"

The six did the opposite and just laughed. "MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..."

... Later...

"... AAHAHHAHAHAA--"

"YEAH OKAY, I think we've laughed enough," Navi grumbled.

Everyone else shut up.

Nicole looked at Saria. "Ok, ok, Link is turning blue! Saria, stop it!"

Saria blinked, not realizing how long she'd been strangling her beloved best friend. She finally let go. "Oh! Sorry."

"Uh huh, can you give us the Forest Medallion now?"

"Oh, alright. Here." She tossed it at them.

Nicole caught it, grinning. "Thanks!"

Saria looked at the blond boy, laughing sheepishly. "Ahaha, um... sorry, Link."

Link was lying on the floor, still recovering. But he managed to choke out, "I-it's ok. This was the second time today..." he coughed, waving an arm at Nicole.

Saria blinked. "You beat him up too?"

Nicole nodded happily. "Yup!"

"High five!"

Nicole and Saria cackled as they high fived each other. Saria cleared her throat. "Anyway, you guys have to go. Goodbye!" she looked at Link on the ground. "You are the weakest Link! And I mean it!"

Everyone laughed. Link's eye twitched. They all jumped three times and they appeared on the forest warp pad in front of the Forest Temple's entrance, where Sheik stood.

Nicole sighed, kicking the blond (who was still on the floor) with her foot. "See, Link? See what happens when you say something like THAT?"

Link sat up. "Yes... I really have to learn how to fight with my bare hands."

"... That's not the point..."

"... Oh you meant the other thing. Then yeah."

"Cool. Ok, I'll help you up. Just lean on me." (A/N: Like the song! Lean on me, when you're not strong...) she offered, putting Link's arm behind her neck.

"Thanks..."

Meanwhile, the other five were staring. Hayarpi and Ines exchanged glances, grinning and giggling stupidly. "Aww, look at them!"

Brian however, tilted his head when he noticed something else. "Hey, that's strange..."

Navi flittered over. "What is it?"

"Have you noticed that Link never stutters or blushes in front of Nicole anymore?"

Gilbert butted in their conversation. "Really?" he looked at the two. "... Oh, you're right."

"Of course I am."

Hayarpi butted in too. "How can you tell?"

Ines shoved her way in as well. "Look, Nicole just put Link's arm around her and Link wasn't blushing, or stuttering when Nicole came near him."

"Why don't we talk to him later?"

Brian nodded. "Good idea."

"What if Link never REALLY REALLY liked Nicole?" suggested Gilbert. "What if it was just a MAJOR crush which eventually faded away?"

Navi put a finger to her chin. "Oh... actually..." the four earthlings eyed her. She laughed sheepishly. "Link was feeling that. Like his feelings were confused..."

Nicole and Link were able to move, pushing their way into the talk as well. "What's up?" Nicole asked. "You guys seem worried about something."

Hayarpi eyed her. "Nicole, is it ok if we talk to Link for a bit?"

"About what?"

"We'll tell you later." Navi reassured.

"But, he's still weak, he needs support."

Link sighed. "I'm like a fragile doll."

"That was stupid," Brian sweatdropped.

"Shut up! I'm injured!"

Ines grinned. "And who's fault is thaaaaat?"

Link eyed her. "... Yours."

"What! No it's not!"

"Hey, HEY!" Hayarpi snapped, shoving the two apart. "Look Link, you're not fragile, just weak."

Gilbert went over to Link's over side. "Here, I'll help him."

Nicole finally nodded. "Ok..." she let Link go, looking around. "Who am I going to talk to?"

"Umm, do something. C'mon Link, let's go over there..."

Link nodded. "Uhh, ok."

While everybody went to the stump where Saria used to sit, Nicole went over to the edge of the warp point and sat herself down, facing the stairs that went down to the Sacred Forest Meadow. She looked behind her at the other six. "I wonder what they're talking about..." She suddenly burst out sobbing. "WHY WON'T THEY TELL MEEEEEE!"

The six stopped chatting and eyed her.

She eyed them back.

"... Sorry."

Ines waved her hand. "It's okay."

Nicole nodded and turned back around. "Agh, I better not butt in then. I'll just sing to myself..." she began to sing something in Japanese.

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Link shut up just as he was about to talk, looking up. "Hey, Nicole's singing... in a weird language..."

Gilbert nodded. "She sings good..."

Well.

"... What?"

It's 'well', not 'good'. I corrected your grammar.

"Pft, grammer shmammer."

Everybody listened to Nicole for a few seconds...

-

As Nicole sang, she thought, "God, I feel stupid. I'm singing in Japanese but I don't know what I'm saying." she cackled like an idiot mentally and continued.

-

Hayarpi grinned. "Wow, she sings REAL good." Then she blinked. "Oh! People! Did you guys forget what we're going to talk about with Link?"

Ines laughed sheepishly. "Oops, almost forgot..."

Link looked to them. "So?"

Gilbert's eyes narrowed. "You said that you love Nicole, right?"

"Did I? Love is such strong word."

"Okay fine, 'like'."

He 'oh!'-ed when he remembered, sweatdropping. "Ehehe, uh... ok fine, let's just go with 'love' since it sounds better. What about it?"

"What if it really isn't love?" suggested Brian. "What if it was just a huge crush?"

"Wha? But... I feel a LOVE for her..."

"Maybe it's a different kind of love."

"Or if it's the type of love you think it is," Ines continued, "Why don't you tell her?"

"I... I, umm..."

Hayarpi sweatdropped. "Think about it, are you sure?"

Link bit his lip. "Honestly... I've been kinda confused about it since we were at Lon Lon Ranch. But now that you guys brought it up with me, then it wasn't just me who was confused, I guess. You know what I mean!? I suck at saying things out loud!" The earthlings sweatdropped at him but nodded. "So... I think it's not the love I thought it was."

"Think?"

Navi sighed. "Nah. It's not love. I'm sure."

Brian looked at her. "What do you mean?"

"I can feel Link's emotions... the one that was saying it was just family love is reigning over the other one now."

Everyone paused.

"Then why did you guys interrogate me about it when Navi could've told you?" Link grumbled.

The other four glared at Navi. She laughed sheepishly. "I //did// tell you guys Link felt confused! It's just that one emotion reigns now over the other, hehehe..."

Hayarpi poked Link anyway. "Just to make sure. Is it true?"

He nodded. "Yeah... I'm pretty sure Navi's right. It was just a crush... gah, I can't believe it! I've mistaken sisterly love for ACTUAL love between a man and a woman!"

Ines shivered. "Corny."

Brian nodded. "This will be hard for us to sink in."

Link stared. "Why?"

"... I don't know, it just will, cuz we were so used to all of us being paired off and then voila, two out of six don't really //feel// it."

Link 'oh'-ed in understanding, sweatdropped. "Yeah... I guess for me too. But hey, thanks you guys, for having this talk with me. Otherwise I would've been lost for a bit more..."

Navi patted his head. "Anything for a confused friend!"

"... I have an idea."

Hayarpi sweatdropped. "An idea for what, and what is it?"

"Let's pretend to talk a little bit more."

"Why?"

"Nicole's still singing... I wanna hear some more..."

Ines raised an eyebrow. "But you don't even know what she's saying."

"But I like the way she sings. I bet you don't know what she's saying either!"

She sweatdropped. Touche!

They all listen for a few more seconds until Nicole stopped. Link looked up. "Hey, what happened?"

Meanwhile Nicole was having a mental battle. Or she was, but she couldn't take it anymore. "Gah! What are they talking about? Do they have to hide it from me? Argh! I have to know!" she started walking over.

Link gasped as he heard footsteps. "She's coming--" he turned around immediately, grinning sheepishly as he faced her. "HI NIC! Ahaha, we just finished talking! Uhh, right guys?"

Gilbert nodded like an idiot. "Oh yeah! Sure! Ehehe!"

Nicole looked at Navi, closing up on her. "Will you tell me now?"

Navi cackled. "Ok, I did say that I'd tell you, but I didn't tell you when!"

"... Aww. KJ."

"Of course!"

"I have this feeling that we need to go to the Temple of Time," Link brought up to change the subject (though he really did have the feeling).

Nicole looked at him. "Why, Linky-poo?"

"I don't know. I just have a feeling."

Nicole turned away then, so Hayarpi went over and whispered to the hero, "Hey, you didn't blush when she called you Linky-poo."

"Yeah, you're right," he whispered back. "That really confirms it then, huh? But she's still like a sister."

"No doubt about that."

Nicole stretched, sighing heavily. "Eh, I feel sleeeeeeepy... oh heck with it. Let's go to the temple! Link, do you still feel weak?"

Link shook his head. "Nah, I feel better."

Navi nodded, flying ahead. "Ok, let's go"

Everyone cheered, leaving the woods and for some reason not calling their horses, so they headed towards Hyrule Market by foot... but, halfway there...

"Guys, wait up..." came a voice at the back of the group.

Everyone turned to see Nicole lagging behind. Link went to her. "What is it?"

Nicole made a large yawn. "I... feel..." another yawn. "Sleepy..." Then she collapsed on the ground, dead to the world.

Everyone stared down at her.

"Wow," laughed Link. "She must have been extremely tired."

Gilbert nodded in agreement. "We are too. Why don't we set up camp over there?" He pointed in the distance to the tree near the stairs that led to Kakariko Village.

"Ok, sure." Link picked up the sleeping girl and slumped her over his back, wincing a little at the difficulty. "Ahh, Nicole got heavier..."

Hayarpi tilted her head. "But, how? We didn't even eat yet."

Navi shook her head. "You must be tired then. Let's get there quickly."

So the seven headed there. Then Nicole started mumbling in her sleep. "Ahh... no... teletubbies... get away... don't carry me... don't bring me to lala... or whatever his name is..."

Ines shivered. "She's dreaming about teletubbies..."

Brian twitched. "See? I told you they were scary."

They all crossed the bridge and got to the tree, collapsing by it. Link walked over and set Nicole down by the base, 'phew'-ing as he did so. He looked at the stream leading to Zora's River. "At least we're near a stream..."

Hayarpi settled herself in. "I'm gonna sleep... it's almost dark."

"Why don't all of you sleep? I'll keep watch."

All of a sudden Nicole began to wake up. "Ugh... Link? No, don't keep watch..."

Link looked to her. "Hey, you heard me? Go back to sleep." he started pushing her down.

Nicole started screaming. "AHHHHHHHH! I'VE BEEN VIOLATED!"

"OOPS!" Link sweatdropped and withdrew his hands. "Oh crap, I'm soooo sorry!" he apologized while blushing.

The girl cackled at his expression. "I'm kidding! You weren't touching anything private."

"Uh, ok, good..."

"Dude, stop blushing, it's ok."

"Ok sorry." Link's blush went away completely. The others sweatdropped.

"Anyway," muttered Nicole. "I've got an idea." She whistled six times.

Hayarpi blinked. "What are you doing?"

"Watch." From the direction of Lon Lon Ranch, Maniac popped up and was galloping towards Nicole. He went over the the bridge and trotted up to his owner. "Hey, boy? What's up?" Nicole grinned as she scratched Maniac's nose. The stallion whinnied happily in response.

Link 'oh'-ed. "So that's how you call Maniac? I use my ocarina."

"Speaking of ocarina, Link, call Epona."

"Eh? Why?"

"It's part of my idea!"

"Ok." Link shrugged and played Epona's Song. Epona herself came galloping from where Maniac came from. Link smiled as Epona went up to him, patting her neck. "Hello, girl."

"Ok, why don't Maniac and Epona keep watch tonight?"

Navi looked at the others. "Is that a good idea?"

Nicole nodded. "Yeah! Look, they both get along great. I bet they're best friends!"

Epona looked at Maniac, saying in horse language, "How does she know that we're best friends?"

The stallion shrugged. Well, if he could. If horses could shrug, I don't know. o.O "That's one of the mysteries of life..."

"o.O Yeah, I guess..."

Nicole poked her friends. "So what do you guys think?"

Ines swatted her away. "Sure, that might work."

"Ok, but, what if a poe comes out while we're sleeping?" Navi questioned.

Nicole scoffed. "Well, Epona or Maniac will wake up either me or Link!"

"Hmm, easy enough," Maniac thought.

"Ok, let's get to sleep."

The others nodded, lying down on their spots on the grass. "Goodnight Nicole, goodnight you guys." Link called out.

"Goodnight everyone. Sweet dreams, Link." Nicole replied back.

"Goodnight guys, I love you all." Gilbert giggled. Everyone else sweatdropped.

Soon, everyone was fast asleep except Nicole. She turned to the two horses keeping guard. "Alright, you two, we'll let you sleep during the day, ok?" Epona nodded and Maniac shook his mane in agreement. Nicole pet them both before lying down with her friends and falling asleep.

Maniac looked to Epona. "Soo," he started in hl (horse language). "What do you wanna talk about?"

Epona was silent for a moment before whinnying softly. "I got it, have you heard that Link doesn't like Nicole anymore?"

"... Yeah, but I don't get how we hear these things so fast. Didn't that happen just a few pages up?"

"Magic?"

"... Maybe! But yeah... there goes our plan for hooking them up..."

"It's better to talk about that with the others. I'll go look for them."

Maniac shook his head. "No, stay here. I'll do it."

"Why you?"

"Pleeeease?!"

Epona sweatdropped. "Fine, fine, gallop as fast as you want."

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!" Maniac reared up and galloped off to find the other horses.

The red-brown mare snuffed. "Sometimes I think he has problems."

Five minutes later...

"I'm baaaaaaaaack!" came Maniac's voice-- err... way-of-communicating.

Epona looked up. "How did you get here so quickly?"

"They were heading this way."

Streak trotted up beside them. "So, what's up?"

"Something wrong?" asked Dash.

Epona glanced at all their masters. "Well..."

The six horses continued chatting until a poe popped out of the ground behind Epona. Maniac noticed it first. "Epona! Watch out! I'll wake up Link!" he quickly went over and nudged the blond.

"Huh, wha? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Oh, it's just you, Maniac."

Maniac almost fell over (if he could). But instead he neighed a little in caution, but not too loudly so he couldn't wake the others.

Link looked around. "Wha?" He saw Epona whinnying as she ran away from a poe that was poking her. "Oh, it's just a poe."

Maniac shoved him.

Link finally woke up. "A POE?! YAYAYAYAYA!" He unsheathed his sword and tackled it down, stabbing it, re-killing it and then stuffing it in a bottle. He breathed a sigh of relief, then noticed the other horses. "Thanks Maniac, but why are all the horses here?" A pause. "Oh well." he shrugged and went back to his place to sleep.

Epona laughed sheepishly. "That was close. "

"Yeah, it almost attacked you," Raikou laughed. "Or more like... POKING YOU..."

Epona twitched and kicked at him. "Shut up!"

Meanwhile, Maniac was staring at the poe in a bottle. "Ummm..."

"What?"

"That poe is giving me the creeps... look at it."

Epona looked as well, nose wrinkling in disgust. "Eww. You're right. It's best not to stare..."

Thunder turned away but still shivered. "Gah, I can still feel it looking at me!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" Manic neighed. "NO MORE PEEEACE!" he kicked the bottle into the stream beside them.

"HEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE!" the poe in the bottle giggled as it floated downstream and into Zora's River.

Raikou stared. "o.O That was disturbing..."

"At least we got rid of him," Streak nodded.

Dash nodded too. "Anyways..."

So until dawn, the horses chatted while looking out for their masters. Such good horses they were, don't you think?

"So, we all agree to not try to hook them up anymore, is that clear, fellow horses?" Maniac finalized.

The other horses nodded. "Agreed."

"Cool. So, now what?"

"Let's talk about random things!" Epona suggested.

Dash cheered. "Yay!"

"My aunt is a camel!" Raikou exclaimed.

"I have two kids!" Thunder beamed happily.

Streak stared. "Really?"

"No."

"... I can use a computer!"

Maniac poked her. "What's that?"

"I don't know."

"I like bananas!"

Epona whinnied. "Oranges are better!"

Maniac glared. "No! Bananas!"

"Oranges!"

"Bananas!"

"Oranges!"

"Bananas!"

"Oranges!"

"BANANAS!"

"ORANGES!"

The horses said other random things until finally, somebody began to wake up... and of course that person was Nicole. She sat up, yawning. "Good morning, people! Uhh..." She looked around at everyone then gave a sigh. "I'm the first to wake up... AGAIN."

Noticing her, Maniac trotted over and nuzzled his master. Nicole petted him back. "Well, at least you're up." Then she froze as she remembered something. "Oh no... Oh FREAKIN' no... DAMN IT! I forgot Mr. Sharp Teeth again!"

Maniac sighed. "Again? Aww, man."

"Sorry boy, let's ride to the Lost Woods! I think I remember where to go." she mounted her steed and looked at Epona. "Ok, Epona, don't let anyone look for me, ok?"

Epona nodded in response, and with that, Nicole gave a yell and Maniac galloped down the field to Kokiri Forest.

Then, Link started to wake up as he heard Nicole's yell. He yawned, seeing Epona. "Hmm, hi Epona. Good morning, Nicole..." he looked around. "Nicole? Hey, where is she?"

Epona just neighed nervously.

Link eyed her. "Ohh, Epooooooona..."

The rest of the horses watched, exchanging glances.

"Where'd she go?" Link asked. "I just heard her voice... hm, I better look for her then. C'mere girl, let's look for her." he went over, about to mount Epona.

Epona pranced a little in place. 'Shoot, I better think fast...' Just as Link reached her, she stepped back.

Link stared. "Epona, what are you doing?"

Epona feigned an irritated neigh at him. She sweatdropped as she saw Link's somewhat hurt expression. 'Oh, I feel bad doing that...'

"What happened? What did I do? Oh well, I better try again." He tried five more times to mount his horse, but she kept on stepping back. Link finally had it. "Ok, fine! If you won't let me ride you, I'll walk." he started heading towards the small bridge, but Epona galloped over and blocked his path.

Link stared. "Epona! Get out of the way! I need to look for Nicole!" He went left, Epona blocked him. He went right, and Epona blocked him again. He growled. "Epona! What if Nicole's in danger!? I need to find her! Move out of the way!"

Epona only neighed in response. She looked around. 'Nicole, hurry up...'

And as if on cue, Nicole came riding in quickly with Mr. Sharp Teeth in one arm and the reins in the other. She reached the other end of the bridge, pulling on the reins. "Whoa, boy! Stop!" Maniac stopped, breathing heavily. "Whew! That was tiring... need... sleep..."

Epona turned around. "You ok, bro?"

Maniac nodded. "Yeah, yeah, I'm ok, just EXTREMELY tired."

Nicole dismounted her horse. "Hmm, where's Link? Epona? Where's Link?" Epona neighed nervously. "... Oh no, did you let him go?"

Then came Link's voice from behind Epona. "Nicole? Is that you?"

The girl sighed in relief. 'Good, he didn't leave.' she thought. Then out loud, "NOOOOOOO! IT'S A TELETUBBY!"

Link started screaming. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Nicole rolled her eyes. "Stupid! Of course it's me!"

Finally Epona moved aside, letting Link see her. "Oh. Where did you go?"

"Wha? Oh, uhh... I went for a ride! Yeah, that's it."

"Then why is Maniac so tired?"

"Umm, we went for a long ride!"

"Horses can't get THAT tired."

"Stop with the comments!"

Link pouted. "C'mon, Nicole, tell me! Pleeeease!"

"Let me think ... ummm... NO."

Eventually, everybody else finally woke up.

Brian stared at the two horses and two people on the bridge. "What happened?"

Nicole waved her hand, going over. "Nothing much."

Ines got up. "Oh, Nicole, I was meaning to ask you something."

"Go ahead."

"Umm, we heard you singing in the Sacred Forest Meadow and..." she stopped here.

"... Well?"

"Uhh..."

Hayarpi sighed. "I'll finish for her. You were singing in another language..."

"Japanese."

"Uh, yah, and..."

Brian finished for them both. "Did you have any idea what you were singing?"

Nicole stared. "You know what? I have noooo idea."

Everyone except Nicole fell over. Navi tilted her head. "Then why were you singing something that you couldn't understand?"

"I had these lyrics to a cool sounding song in Japanese, and eventually I learned them."

Link popped up out of nowhere (okay fine, from the bridge). "I just wanted to say that you sing beautifully."

"... That was random, but thanks, Gingerbread Man who would do anything for fried vulture on a stick!"

"Uhh, yeah, thanks, I think."

Gilbert popped up too. "Hey did you know that Nicole sang a solo part in a school performance?"

"Ooh, cool."

"Do you even know what that is?" Ines asked.

Link looked at her. "As a matter of fact, no."

"Anyway," Nicole butt in. "Where are we going next?"

"Why don't we head for the Temple of Time now?"

"Why?"

Navi flittered about. "Let's just go!"

Hayarpi sweatdropped. "Ok, ok."

They all let their horses go and walked over the bridge, heading into the Market. Link looked around at the Redeads. He looked at Nicole. "Nicole, pleeeeease stay away from those redeads, ok? I don't want you hurt anymore."

"Alright, but after I do this first!" she looked at a certain redead and approached it.

Link twitched. "Dude, Nic! I just said to stay away from it!"

Nicole waved him off. "Don't worry!" She turned to the Redead, which just moaned at her. She unsheathed her sword. "Shaddap, you! You almost killed me! Now you must pay! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" she cackled in victory as she stabbed the redead... re-dead. x.x

But then, all the redeads began to advance towards Nicole. She looked around. "Oopsies... GUYS! HELP ME!"

Her friends went over in response and helped her kill the redeads.

Link shivered. "It almost attached to me."

Navi flittered impatiently in front of them. "Right, TEMPLE OF TIME!"

Hayarpi sweatdropped again. "Ok, ok, we're going!"

Finally the seven entered the Temple of Time...

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For all the people who didn't pay attention, "hl" means "horse language". By the way, Nicole isn't Japanese, she's actually Filipino! I'm not sure if I told you but Ines, Brian and Gilbert are Spanish and Hayarpi is Armenian (like you didn't figure that out already). And about the Japanese thing, it really happened to me! I had lyrics to a Japanese song and I remembered it by heart! I'm weird. Ok, whatever. bye!