New chapter! Thank you for all the reviews (tell your friends ^_~ just joking!) and now here is the NEW chapter. Yay for you!! But yikes, some of the stuff you've written is scaring me *weep* I'm afraid to write this chapter now in case you don't like it! Anyway, Link and Malon? I respect your opinion but...as I stated in the first story ^_~ I really am not too keen on her. She's alright though. Her voice is just a little...ugh.
"It should be just around here" Link called back to me
We'd been riding for around two hours when we'd finished the field and had entered the lost woods. It was damp, dark and cramped in here. They don't call it the lost woods for nothing, and even Link was having trouble. My horse whimpered nervously under me, I stroked its mane and whispered to it to try and calm it down, but it did little to help.
I pulled up the hood of a clock I'd been given to travel in and strained to see Link and Epona ahead of me. They were less than five feet in front of me but it was still difficult to see anything apart from the horses rear and the next few trees.
We were heading into the heart of the wood where Link could remember following the Imp to Termina. I didn't quite trust his memory as he had been holding onto a stirrup at the time, but who else were we to follow?
"Alright" I replied, "But you know I can't see you properly"
"I know" he called, I could almost feel his grin "You have to be used to this light to see in it"
I made a mental note to smack his mocking grin later but for now I said airily "But you haven't been here much have you"
"Well, no, no I haven't, but it stays with you"
"Yeah right"
"Hey. Who knows where they're going here?"
"Obviously not you, we just passed the tunnel"
"S***"
I stifled a giggle as Link pulled his horse round to see the tunnel standing a few feet away from him. He pulled a face and put his nose in the air, riding straight past me and heading for the even darker wooden passage.
"You know where you're going now?" I asked innocently
"Shut up" he growled "I was just testing you"
"Whatever" I grinned, following him into the tunnel
The tunnel was wide enough for us to get in, but we could only walk in single file again even while ducking down from the roof so we didn't hit our heads.
The dark tunnel continued for around five minutes and then we came out to an opening with large stumps placed around, leading up to a passage around 10 feet in the air. Here was the passage.
"OK" Link said getting off his horse with a bound "Here's where we leave the horses"
"What?" I seemed to have forgotten this part of the plan
"We. Leave. Them. Here" He repeated slowly "Ok?"
I got down just as slowly "But theres so much stuff to carry!" I whined pulling down my bag and weapons
He looked sidelong at me "Baby, don't tell me that you've gotten soft"
I narrowed my eyes "Did I say that?" I swung the backpack up and placed the arrows and sword above it while carrying the bow "Let's go"
I passed him and left him to sort the rest of the baggage and the horses out and headed to the lowest stump.
I stared at it in dismay, even if I did climb it, how was a supposed to get to the next, higher, one? The stump was around a metre and a half high! I was also carrying bags, the bags felt one and a half metres high!
"Having trouble?"
Link leaped up like the height was nothing and peered down at me with a cocky grin on his face. I scowled evilly and began to pull myself up next to him. Hard. Very hard, wasn't going to tell him that though.
God, I wished Lucy were here with me. At least then I would not have to try and make fun of him and take his 'humour' on my own. I scowled harder as I finished my climb and stood up.
"You made it" Link did that smile again which said 'oh I'm so much better at this than you' and leapt off on to the next stump, bags and all
"Sure did" I replied sweetly and made a run at the gap, barely making it
The usual round of insults, then another run and leap. Insult, run, leap. We continued this across the stumps and made it to the tunnel. Which, as is always the way, was darker than before. So much so, it seemed to swallow the light from outside.
I stepped inside it and Link said quietly, as if not wanting to disturb the silence from inside "There's going to be a rather large drop"
"I know that" I replied in a whisper, taking another step into the tunnel "Ok, so how far into the tunnel is it?"
"No idea. I was running blindly"
"How helpful"
"Let's go"
I walked into the complete darkness, running my hand along the wall for comfort and placed one foot out carefully before taking each step.
It was scary, I was almost screaming with the thought that I was going to fall down a BIG drop in less than ten minutes. Of course it was inevitable. But I still couldn't help wishing there was another way down there.
"I thi~" Link began and then drew his breath in sharply
I heard a short scuffle and a weight being dropped followed by a short yell of surprise.
I think he'd found the hole. I stopped dead and got onto my knees feeling for the edge, once finding it, I peered over where I thought the drop would have been. I couldn't see a thing.
"Link?" I called and then cursed myself, he's not going to hear if he's in another dimension now is he.
Only thing to do was go back or follow. I sighed; I knew which one it had to be. It would be so much easier to do it with someone else. They could push you if you chickened out.
Well. I stood up and straightened my clothes. I was not chickening out. I hadn't before. I wasn't going to now, think how much people would laugh at me?
I took a step back, a small step forward. Stopped. Held my breath, and jumped.
Ok, I know, I know, it was very short! But I have a project to write and I wanted to get this one out of my system before starting this project. Ok? Read, review be happy. Evil Neptune was this any better?
"It should be just around here" Link called back to me
We'd been riding for around two hours when we'd finished the field and had entered the lost woods. It was damp, dark and cramped in here. They don't call it the lost woods for nothing, and even Link was having trouble. My horse whimpered nervously under me, I stroked its mane and whispered to it to try and calm it down, but it did little to help.
I pulled up the hood of a clock I'd been given to travel in and strained to see Link and Epona ahead of me. They were less than five feet in front of me but it was still difficult to see anything apart from the horses rear and the next few trees.
We were heading into the heart of the wood where Link could remember following the Imp to Termina. I didn't quite trust his memory as he had been holding onto a stirrup at the time, but who else were we to follow?
"Alright" I replied, "But you know I can't see you properly"
"I know" he called, I could almost feel his grin "You have to be used to this light to see in it"
I made a mental note to smack his mocking grin later but for now I said airily "But you haven't been here much have you"
"Well, no, no I haven't, but it stays with you"
"Yeah right"
"Hey. Who knows where they're going here?"
"Obviously not you, we just passed the tunnel"
"S***"
I stifled a giggle as Link pulled his horse round to see the tunnel standing a few feet away from him. He pulled a face and put his nose in the air, riding straight past me and heading for the even darker wooden passage.
"You know where you're going now?" I asked innocently
"Shut up" he growled "I was just testing you"
"Whatever" I grinned, following him into the tunnel
The tunnel was wide enough for us to get in, but we could only walk in single file again even while ducking down from the roof so we didn't hit our heads.
The dark tunnel continued for around five minutes and then we came out to an opening with large stumps placed around, leading up to a passage around 10 feet in the air. Here was the passage.
"OK" Link said getting off his horse with a bound "Here's where we leave the horses"
"What?" I seemed to have forgotten this part of the plan
"We. Leave. Them. Here" He repeated slowly "Ok?"
I got down just as slowly "But theres so much stuff to carry!" I whined pulling down my bag and weapons
He looked sidelong at me "Baby, don't tell me that you've gotten soft"
I narrowed my eyes "Did I say that?" I swung the backpack up and placed the arrows and sword above it while carrying the bow "Let's go"
I passed him and left him to sort the rest of the baggage and the horses out and headed to the lowest stump.
I stared at it in dismay, even if I did climb it, how was a supposed to get to the next, higher, one? The stump was around a metre and a half high! I was also carrying bags, the bags felt one and a half metres high!
"Having trouble?"
Link leaped up like the height was nothing and peered down at me with a cocky grin on his face. I scowled evilly and began to pull myself up next to him. Hard. Very hard, wasn't going to tell him that though.
God, I wished Lucy were here with me. At least then I would not have to try and make fun of him and take his 'humour' on my own. I scowled harder as I finished my climb and stood up.
"You made it" Link did that smile again which said 'oh I'm so much better at this than you' and leapt off on to the next stump, bags and all
"Sure did" I replied sweetly and made a run at the gap, barely making it
The usual round of insults, then another run and leap. Insult, run, leap. We continued this across the stumps and made it to the tunnel. Which, as is always the way, was darker than before. So much so, it seemed to swallow the light from outside.
I stepped inside it and Link said quietly, as if not wanting to disturb the silence from inside "There's going to be a rather large drop"
"I know that" I replied in a whisper, taking another step into the tunnel "Ok, so how far into the tunnel is it?"
"No idea. I was running blindly"
"How helpful"
"Let's go"
I walked into the complete darkness, running my hand along the wall for comfort and placed one foot out carefully before taking each step.
It was scary, I was almost screaming with the thought that I was going to fall down a BIG drop in less than ten minutes. Of course it was inevitable. But I still couldn't help wishing there was another way down there.
"I thi~" Link began and then drew his breath in sharply
I heard a short scuffle and a weight being dropped followed by a short yell of surprise.
I think he'd found the hole. I stopped dead and got onto my knees feeling for the edge, once finding it, I peered over where I thought the drop would have been. I couldn't see a thing.
"Link?" I called and then cursed myself, he's not going to hear if he's in another dimension now is he.
Only thing to do was go back or follow. I sighed; I knew which one it had to be. It would be so much easier to do it with someone else. They could push you if you chickened out.
Well. I stood up and straightened my clothes. I was not chickening out. I hadn't before. I wasn't going to now, think how much people would laugh at me?
I took a step back, a small step forward. Stopped. Held my breath, and jumped.
Ok, I know, I know, it was very short! But I have a project to write and I wanted to get this one out of my system before starting this project. Ok? Read, review be happy. Evil Neptune was this any better?
