Hmm, I'm thinking maybe I made a mistake with the sequel? You'd all agree it's not as good as the original, I'll keep writing though; I haven't given up hope yet!! Thanks for all the lovely reviews we're well on the way to 100, thanks for making this all possible! I really love writing and I hope you'll continue to stick with me! Please read and review and give opinions! In my opinion you guys are way too passive ^_~ Anyway, this chapter is going to get REALLY weird, but no giveaways!

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Dreaming again, the way of seeing things when you were dreaming made you realise it was a dream, it was like watching yourself in a movie. Or in this case the past...

Running, running, running, she was always running everywhere that girl, running and growing, running and growing. The fun never seemed to stop, 'always having fun with no one', her parents would say, 'but she's unusually bright for her age, we're always joking someone tells her the answers to her maths homework!'

She didn't think they were telling her the answers to quizzes and answers in maths, they just always seemed to come to her when she was asked a question.

But when the voices stopped, and he stopped coming, the brightness stopped, she didn't understand the maths anymore. Extra tuition and everything could not help her memorise the tables and numbers needed, but she struggled on.

'It's a side effect of the medication' doctor's told her parents 'It'll clear up in a few months'

And it did, her parents found it relieving, it all sorted itself out. She got better and the medication stopped coming with it, and they had a perfect little girl.

...

I watched the past and nightmares mingling into an uncertain haze of information, lulling me in and out of frightening places. Nightmares riddling me as the horse in the real world moved beneath me in an unreal set of jerking and motion.

Almost in a state of dreamlessness the clogging of images seemed to form one net and catch me up into it, flinging me into another dream...

...

Shadow Man stood before me in the grassy plains of Termina field, the sky a pool of water, Hyrule flickering and rippled, a reflection of beneath. A plain for conversation in my mind. Quiet, peaceful no distractions...

I felt the cool wind in my hair and I closed my eyes to breath in the sent of wild dandelions, peacefully...I looked around again, deserted plain...nothing but grass and us, birds overhead, a perfect plain for a meeting it struck me quietly...

"Are you the seer?" Shadow Man asked softly, he sounded neither scary nor evil in this beautiful and mystic version of reality

Almost sedately he lumbered over to me with his hands in his pockets, his face strangely shadowed in the bright daylight, it wasn't clear who he was...

"If I am?" I asked quietly, falling back into the soft grass and watching birds fly in and out of the sky

The image of the temple of time overhead looked far away and it moved in lazy patterns above the grass beneath.

"You must be a gateway for my masters" he replied, almost friendlily, as if he was commenting on this lovely weather

"And you?"

"What?" he asked, grinning, showing white teeth.

"You're..." my mind searched through its blocks of memory and fumbled for the name I'd suspected

"Water Temple..." he suggested helpfully, putting his hands in his pockets

"Dark Link" I finished, not accusingly, I felt like I wasn't in danger here, it was my mind and I commanded what could or couldn't hurt me here, this was a dream.

"If I am?" he asked easily

"You're my enemy"

He laughed out loud, a strange sound from someone I'd always thought evil, "Of course! I'm going to kill you"

I smiled back at him radiantly, the grass wavering past his knees, the shadow over his face cleared to show a perfect smiling Link back at me, a perfect him, but a perfect opposite. Almost. It was Link of last time, of a bright-eyed 18-year-old hero of time, fresh from Ocarina of Time and green as grass, the time Lucy and I had almost loved him...

"Are you in my head for a reason?" I asked searching the dappled sky once more for nothing

He sat down beside me in the grass and took up my wrist, I let is go limp and watched it dangle in someone else's grasp, he didn't do anything at all...

"What a life force, a perfect gateway for my masters" he said

"A compliment?" I joked and pulled my wrist back

"Yes" he leaned forward and whispered in my ear "I've been searching for you for some time now seer. Your friends are in no danger as long as you come to me"

It was the first time I'd ever felt surprise in my own dreams, it seemed out of place, was this not a dream...?

"What are you talking about?" I stood up and over him "Why are you here?"

He shrugged again "You let me in" he said stretching "A seer is a gateway in or out, the door was just open when I got here"

"What are you saying?" I started to get angry, this dream wasn't going the way I wanted it to.

He laughed again; he sounded so much like Link. Innocent, not like the evil man at the inn that night Link had disappeared. He got up and grabbed my wrists firmly.

"You're a gateway, you don't know?" he said, "You may command it and control it while you're awake, but when you're asleep, well, it's a free for all. Even better when you're dead"

I opened my mouth to say something but he carried on, my head felt light and giddy and it felt like someone was digging around in there for something...

"I know what you saw when you were young, before you knew and were letting them in all the time, of course I do, the Hero of Time knew, thus so did I. Then fate brought you here then you became one of the main causes for Reika's defeat"

I stared, how could he know all that?

"I knew they'd send for the king once I turned up here" he spat bitterly, his face twisting with disgust "Good old King of Hyrule, he can fix anything! Yeah right, had to call little girls and a Zora to him to defeat Reika! And I'm supposed to be his problem!" Dark link spat on the ground bitterly "Some rival, faced me once and left me"

I muttered somehow, the words spilling out, my vision was clouding, the dream giddiness surprisingly effective "Link...didn't know it was you here"

"Of course he knew, he could feel that alright, I'm part of him, all the time" Dark Link grinned and the grip on my wrists was cutting off the blood circulation "We're each other..."

My knees gave way and suddenly his arms were around me and holding me up. Against his chest I couldn't feel his breathing, his chest wasn't even moving...no lungs, no heartbeat, empty cavity...

"Poor thing, you're going to die for my master's freedom" he tilted my head up to face him and smiled serenely "Neither Link nor Sao can protect you when I come to town, my gateway..."

I felt my heart beating faster, he looked so much like the Link that I had loved back then. When he had been in my reach...Dark Link or Link, what did it matter? He looked like the one I had wanted...

A flash of lightning fell through the sky, the rippled Hyrule clouding over, I stood up and looked around, the plain darkening.

"Time to go" Dark Link said, "If you don't come soon, I'll start the killing" he winked and vanished with a bow

I felt a rip of pain through my head as conscientiousness screamed through my dream land...

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I cried out as I hit the ground painfully, my vision blacked out for a second and I thought I'd gone blind, yelling again I sat up and scrambled on to my feet, miraculous vision flooded my eyes.

Bertha looked down at me with disgust in her big brown eyes.

It was still night time and the skulls in their blue bubbles were still hopping around but there was no sign of Sao, I kicked myself, how could I have been so stupid to have fallen off my horse?

I rubbed a bruise forming on my knees.

"Sao?" I called, maybe he hadn't seen me fall

The dream, I rubbed my head. That wasn't a dream, I'd let him in, and he had told me that himself. So sleeping meant that I was open as a gateway to any intruder, great.

I was going to be killed, as always.

My life was so much fun.

"Goddess, don't you even know the basic horse law?" Sao rode up on his horse and pulled to a stop, "You should never fall asleep on a galloping horse

For a moment in the shadowed night, Sao looked like Dark Link, I shuddered. The I recognised his amused grin and dark curled hair, I smiled a bit and then shook it off.

"We have to hurry," I said, running my fingers over the tracks in the ground that we were following "He's going to start killing them"

"What?"

"Let's go" I pulled myself up on the horse and started off again in a light canter

"What are you talking about?" Sao yelled as loud as he dared back up to me

That wasn't a dream, I answered silently, and he was in my head. I remembered the closeness when he'd caught me; so much like Link the same build and smell. No, he wasn't Link. Link was 30 and married. I felt guilty that I'd almost been swayed to a crush-like thing by a Link-look-a-like, how stupid was that. And he was trying to kill me! Great! What a fickle creature I must be!

Lucy was in trouble, and I knew that, knew it anyway. But what was I going to do? If we marched right in there, Sao was cat food and I was dead for a gateway. I gritted my teeth, I hadn't seen Gannondorf in real life, and I didn't want to. Not after playing that game and seeing THAT thing, no way I was going to see that in real life.

Reika was ok, I'd seen her, seen her cheat and kill Link but then, you know, that wasn't so bad, he'd been brought back.

No they weren't getting out because of my powers or whatever, I still couldn't believe I had powers. Although it did explain a lot of things about having such a strange child hood, plus the fact I was in an alternate universe or something seem to prove I wasn't normal.

Sao caught up and spent about five minutes colourfully expressing his displeasure at my current mood.

"So what is this all about?" he asked after settling down, "The only reason we're here following these tracks is because you said they weren't dead, now they are?"

"Not yet" I replied "But they will be if we don't hurry"

"How do you know?"

"It's a feeling, and plus these kinds of things always get worse the longer you leave them in films"

"What's a film"?

"Never mind"

"Let me guess, some weird thing I wouldn't understand?"

"Well done"

"Hmph" Sao snorted, "I can't stand it when people do that"

"Do what?"

"Say I wouldn't understand" he said pouting

"You wouldn't"

"Would too"

"Would not"

"Would too!"

"Ugh, you sound just like Lucy"

"Who"

"Er...the girl I was with? My height, threatened you with a sword? You got her first?"

Sao thought for a moment then snapped his fingers, "Ah! The cute one, yes?"

Wrong thing to say Sao, my friend, I stared at him crossly then put up my nose, making Bertha go a little faster to outrun him. He was just as 'tactful' as Link had been back a few years ago.

Men really don't think before they speak, I learnt that at school from the boys who seemed to find it funny to make fun of everyone they saw. Myself being one of their more frequent targets. Just because I did the work I was set and they didn't.

Well, I sure as hell wasn't going to put up with comments like that on this side of the coin.

I'd have to tell Lucy he'd said that though, she'd be very pleased. Not that she had any lack of men running after her. I wondered briefly whether Link had thought she was cute.

"Hey" Sao said pointedly, "I didn't mean 'cute' cute, I meant...err...cute as in kid sister cute"

"Save your breath," I replied coolly, "If you want to ask Lucy out then go ahead" I have to admit that I had to grit my teeth on that one, she always got the guys "I don't mind, really"

Sao shook his head, "I didn't mean that at all!"

"Well, tell me what you mean after we rescue them all, we need to hurry or it'll be too late to help them you know!" I stared in the dim light down at the trail beneath

"Hey~" Sao pulled his horse up to right in front of mine so Bertha stopped automatically "You've been acting weird since you fell off that horse, suddenly you seem to know what's going on with the prisoners, and you look all business like and kind of...pale and stony"

"Thanks!"

"Hey, I'm concerned!"

I looked at him straight as much as I could in the dark, he seemed concerned enough, but I wasn't going to tell him that I was a liability to the whole world and the hostages or whatever, because he knew I was a seer from Shigeru and probably that I brought a lot of trouble along with me anyway.

No need to let dreams get a hold over us, and it was one dream, and I could have dreamt the whole thing, the grassy plain...Dark Link...

"Excuse me?"

I came out of my thoughts and stared at Sao "What?"

"You were going to tell me why you're suddenly completely business like and quite frankly: scary"

"Oh" I wasn't going to tell him about the dream yet, it was probably just a dream that I'd conjured out of my fears, "I'm afraid for my friend, falling off my horse made me realise that if I don't keep my head and stop acting stupid then I'm going to get Lucy killed because if I fall off my horse then what good am I to rescue people?"

It was true, mostly, and I didn't mind telling a white lie or two to Sao about the dream and Dark Link. Keeping him in the dark was a good way to keep him safe, I had enough trouble with people getting hurt over me, and enough trouble keeping myself from getting hurt.

If no one knew about the dream, then if it did turn out to be just a dream, then I could forget about it. Anyway, it was giving me a sense of purpose. I had to get to wherever the tracks led and stop Dark Link from releasing the evil.

I smelled the night air and made a silent prayer to Din and the other Goddesses, if they still listened, that the others were alright and safe and that Link was alright too.

I figured that down here, my god wouldn't be listening.







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