Thanks for the reviews *smile*, I really needed those comments, I was soooo soooo sooo upset with the last chapter I almost deleted it all. Anyway, so now we have a...wait for it...bad guy! Woo! I think some of you had a good idea who it was, eh? Well let me tell you:

1) If you think you know whom the bad guy we just saw is, good for you, if you don't, wait. I have to tell you though, he's not the only bad guy coming up!
2) Are you fed up with waiting for Lucy? Then you will be in luck, we are nearing her grand debut
3) Want a couple? I'm mulling some thoughts over
4) Want Link back? Wait.

There, ok? A few and not a few questions answered for you all. Ok? I really want to try and make this story go somewhere in this chapter! My confidence is renewed! Any comments read and review! I can take constructive criticism! Anyway if some of this chapter seems a little out of order with the original fiction tell me, I couldn't be bothered to re-read the whole thing to find the history I wanted!




The small girl raced down the school step sand out into the playground where all the parents of the young children waited to collect them.

Excited that she would be going home now, she didn't notice that she ran straight into someone. With a yelp she fell forward, grazing into the concrete surface of the yard.

"Sorry"

She looked up into the eyes of a woman, a tall and pale woman. She was very beautiful, but still gave her a shiver as she looked at the perfect features.

The woman's smile was cold.

"Are you alright?"

"Yes" she wanted to get away from here as soon as possible and away from this stranger, the other children didn't even notice her discomfort

She began to back slowly away.

The woman followed "Have you seen a mask anywhere?"

She shook her head quickly, the woman's smile faded and she struck the small girl hard.

"I know you have seen it!" the woman hissed "The imp has hidden it, hasn't he, HASN'T HE?"

The small girl got up and ran.

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I woke up with a start.

Since when did Reika appear in my dreams? It had been three years ago that we'd defeated her and sealed her in the sacred realm, and I didn't even meet her when I was that young. Maybe memories where mingling together. It was till frightening.

The age in the dream...I hadn't told anyone then that I could see things...they hadn't been sealed off then.

I brushed the thoughts away and looked around.

I must have been asleep for at least an hour because we were drawing up to a group of tents ahead, and they'd been nowhere in sight when I had been awake. So I guessed I'd been asleep for a while. My neck and my head and all my bones were aching for the horse ride and the constant sitting up position. The gag in my mouth had dried my lips and I could taste blood on my tongue from where they'd chapped.

I was still tired though, but I pushed the sleepiness away and concentrated on what we were pulling up to. It must have been around midday as the sun was right overhead, the dark snow clouds had moved on and the sky was chilly but clear.

Ahead was a large camp, placed under two large crevices of rock that I assumed kept the wind off it, and composed of around what looked to be 10 or canvas tents in a circle around a large canopy. Under the canopy sat a large group of men. Big men, mean looking men, with big knives and wrapped in furs. I half expected them to be roasting a person on the fire they were sitting easily around.

I jumped out of my skin as Sao yelled to them all, waving frantically, as if he was a little kid or something. He was definitely please to see these guys.

To my surprise, instead of biting him or attacking us (as I was sort of thinking they looked like the might) their faces broke into smiles and they stood up to greet their incoming friends.

This must have been the camp Sao was talking about. Maybe they were a tribe or something, living out in the wilderness. The large group of horses to the side of the camp, pitched together seemed to be their only means of transport, no carts or anything.

No families that I could see, so I guessed they were using the horses as warriors do, to travel lightly in a group, I shuddered, and to pillage villages and rape women no doubt. I shuddered again.

The men walked out from under the canopy to greet their companions. As we arrived and pulled to a stop, Sao and Croa dismounted and began to converse with their 'friends' and left me on the horse.

I was a little scared of what was going to happen but then I realised if they were going to kill me, they'd have done it already and not have put up with the trouble of what we'd gone through at the inn.

At the thought of the inn, I sent my thoughts back to Link and wondered for the millionth time where he was. And I shivered at the thought of the dark figure in the alley.

I was brought back to my situation though when I was cut free from the saddle horn finally. But no such luck, they'd left the knots in tact so I was still tied up. Another large and burly man slung my over his shoulder and carried me under the canopy where I was dropped onto a rug.

I couldn't get up from the floor though, since I was still tied up, so embarrassingly I had to be pulled and poked into a sitting position by Sao. Not thanking him at all, I ignored him completely as the rest of the men arranged themselves around the fire and me once more.

Chatter broke out and they discussed what had happened while Sao and Croa had been gone and on to mundane stuff like the weather, the amounts of food stores they had left. All the boring stuff that people talk about when they are trying to convince someone (mainly me) that they are nothing out of the ordinary but are going to do something very out of the ordinary soon.

Strangely enough, Sao was the smallest one there apart from me. Also the least smelly. I don't know whether they hadn't taken a bath or had just worked out or something but the large men smelled of sweat and animal skin. Men.

Soon, I presently grew bored and as if to save me someone announced, "Silence"

Immediately all the men grew silent and I was amazed that someone had managed to sub due all these males.

They all looked to the edge of a canopy where another male was walking purposely toward the centre of the ring next to the fire. He sat down and where he sat happened to be opposite me. I guessed this was the one they'd been waiting for, I guessed that he was going to decide what to do with me, or that Sao had been following his orders or something. Leader person or whatever else you call them.

He was a median man, as the men in the ring went, and had the same curly black hair and skin tone that Sao had and had a small beard. He was dressed in pale brown furs and had a huge broadsword attached to his back, that and his huge arms and legs gave the impression that he was a warrior.

Everyone was silent for what seemed like forever. He just sat and stared at me, unfortunately this meant that all the other guys followed his lead and stared at me as well. I looked at the ground.

"So" he said slowly, he had a very calm and low voice "You found them"

"Yes sir" Sao said, bowing low "There were no problems"

A chuckle ran round the group, Sao was sporting the beginning of a black eye and his friend had turned red.

"Of course. But where is the Hero of Time?"

"We had a problem there sir" Sao said slowly and regretfully bowing again "He wasn't with her and didn't show up. We would have gone to look for him but the Shadow Man threatened the mission so we had to leave incomplete"

"I see" the man rubbed his beard smooth, and said thoughtfully "Why is she tied up and gagged?"

"We had an arrangement problem" Sao replied

I raised my nose stubbornly, a problem, I was going to be a problem in a minute.

Sao removed my gag and began to say "She tried to~"

"I demand to be returned to my inn this instant!" I said loudly in my most demanding voice with all the airs I could put on "I have the right to be, if you thieves took anything from my room or if anything is missing on my return I also demand compensation...and a horse to ride on"

There was a moment of silence, and I actually thought they would do it. But then someone chuckled and the whole group roared with laughter. Even their calm leader. I felt my face going hot but I continued looking down my nose at them.

It took about five minutes for them to calm down again and even then they kept on smiling.

"Well" said the leader, wiping away a tear "That was a funny joke, have you another?"

"Why you~" I grated my teeth "What is going on here? Why were you sending people into my room? IF YOU DON'T TELL ME I WILL SCREAM AS LOUD AS I CAN AND THEN YOU'LL BE FOR IT!"

This granted another round of laughter but I was too mad to be embarrassed. I sat shaking with rage and imagining all the sharp little sticks I could poke into each and every one of them before they died.

I waited until they'd all stopped once more and then said quietly "Well?"

The leader eyed me again and said quietly "You're a clever actor, I might have believed you to be an innocent and normal girl if I had not known the truth. But as it is, you should stop being a child"

"Who's acting?" I asked, "What am I supposed to be acting out? I think you have me confused with someone else"

"There is no mistake" he said calmly "Even if you've changed in the time, I know a cross-seer when I see one"

"A what?"

"One that can see things from other worlds"

I had a sinking feeling in my stomach "Why do you think I'm one of these 'cross-seers?"

"Because that was what Reika was after"

I felt dizzy, how did this guy in 'Termina' know of our battle? How did he know who I was? Had he been in the war in Hyrule?

The man noticed my discomfort and continued, "She wanted Gannondorf, but her magic and even combined magic with Majora's Mask wasn't enough so she wanted a sacrifice"

"How do you know that?" I whispered

Hearing him say it so matter of factly started rustling my memories of then, it hurt to remember the bodies on Hyrule field and the moment Link had been run through, when Lucy disappeared into the hole, seeing her bruised after being tortured.

He didn't reply but continued, "You know what happened after that but what you don't know is Reika's reasoning behind her sacrifice. Some people know when a seer is close. She knew one of you was one, but she didn't know whom, it could have been the Hero of Time, the Zora, or the two girls so why not sacrifice all of you? A seer is a much more powerful sacrifice that a straight up Hylian. So she did it. Part of the reason the war was started was because she wanted a seer" he paused "Termina and Hyrule were the only places she could go to find one, but your friend the Hero of Time decided to bring one straight into the tigers jaws"

I looked straight at the ground half hoping I'd be able to block out what he was saying. So had I been part of the true cause of the wars suffering?

"Of course he wasn't to know, he just needed some help, so don't blame him" the man stood up and stretched

My rage had melted into something like depression. So I was a seer, which would explain why I had seen Link when I was small and other people from this world. And why Reika had been so hot to get her hands on Lucy, and me, I'd been the one she'd been after. So was it my entire fault so many people had died?

And I'd wanted to be a hero, my judgement was so crap these days, and I was only 17.

"Listen to me girl" the leader said, I looked up at him "Don't beat yourself up over anything I've said, I was checking you knew the story"

I blinked.

"I just wanted to make sure I had the right girls" he grinned

I blinked again. Girls?

"You can't mean..."







Cliff-hanger!!! Mwa ha ha ha ha ha! I am so evil! So what do you think? Hmm? Reviews please! I need to sort out any inconsistencies! So after ages of no chapters, here are two in a week! Lucky people! And you know what's coming next don't you?