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Chapter 6 - One year later (or was it the next day?)
"So when I came about, all my things were gone, my swords, my horse, hell, even I! I was picked up by a group of wandering musicians. They were attacked in a country called Holodrum by a general named Onox or something. He was after a dancer, that was actually Din, the Oracle of Seasons. He captured her and guess who had to save her? Exactly, yours truly. I should make a business card, saying "Link, Professional Hero". Anyway, after I save Din, she says a friend of hers, Nayru, the Oracle of Ages is kidnapped by a sorceress Veran. I stop Veran and it turns out that Twinrova is back, how I don't know, I'm pretty sure I killed her, or them, in Hyrule, and they intend to bring Ganondorf back. They sacrifice this girl but it only brings out an empty shell of Ganondorf, and pretty ugly too I might add, which leads to me still being alive. Anyway, I go out to save Nayru and when I ask her for a favor, she gives me a hard time! I mean, a year goes by while I'm saving Oracles left and right, and in the mean time, all my stuff is gone. So I ask Nayru to send me back to the time after I was robbed, I mean, she is the Oracle of Ages, I went back 400 years with her power, so a year shouldn't be to hard for her, and she has the nerve to set demands! "Oh Link, it's not because I'm an Oracle I'm being satisfied." Yeah right, I sure satisfied... eh, I mean..."
Link suddenly realised who he was talking to.
"You had to fuck her to get send back."
Link could only nod. God, he just ranted on about the Oracles to the nicest girl he ever met and he confessed he had sex with an Oracle to get something done.
"So, are you here permanently or do you go back, one year in the future?"
"I retrieve my stuff and then go back. I have until the Festival of Time. Three days, talk about déjà vu." Link said, looking everywhere but the girl. He just didn't dare to look at her.
"Oh, come on!" the girl shouted, "Do you think I'm a little ignorant kid?"
"Well, the last time I saw you..."
"The last time you saw me was eight years ago! I've grown since then."
"I've noticed."
Now it was the girl's turn to fall silent.
"You have? I mean, how do you think you'll get your stuff back."
Link shrugged.
"I don't know yet. I don't even know who took them."
"Don't worry, Grasshopper, Romani will help you."
Link looked at Romani and laughed.
"What? I will!" Romani jumped up and nudged him in the ribs.
"Ow, stop it!"
Link looked at the woman who just hit him. She didn't look anything like Cremia did all those years ago. Well, she did, but not when you looked closely. She still had the same joyish charm over her and was still hyperactive, she couldn't sit still for a second. She wore a small purple dress that accentuated her female shapes nicely. Link almost didn't recognise the sweet little girl he had met in his childhood when he had come to the Romani Ranch.
Romani pushed a curl of her red hair back behind her ear.
"And how do you even think you can get your stuff back? You're not even armed."
Her eyes sparkled brightly, enjoying the stories of Link.
"Am too. When that group of musicians took me, they told me they left my sword there because they couldn't carry it. Guess the Biggoron's sword was too heavy for the thieves as well. I retrieved that and I came here because I hoped Epona would be here, and she was. And you can't help, because you're not armed."
Romani had gone to the shed where Epona was tied down and grabbed a Deku stick. She turned around and threw the stick to Link. He caught it with ease.
"A Deku stick? You call that arm..."
Link's voice grew silent when he looked at the arrow that drove itself through the stick. Romani stood there triumphantly with her bow.
"Remember, Grasshopper, I've been training with a bow since I was ten. You will find no one better than me in whole Termina."
"Hm, you can come."
Link laid down the stick and stood up.
"By the way? How did you get Epona?"
"Some guy tried to sell it to me, but I recognised her and turned down the offer. After he left, I played that song she likes so much and she came running."
"Did you recognise the guy?"
"I asked around in Clocktown and it turns out there have been many robberies all over the country. They suspect the thief comes from Ikana canyon and is called..."
"Sakon."
"You know him?"
"Unfortunately yes, he was the thief that stole Kafei's wedding mask."
"Well, the way I've heard it, he leads a whole gang of shadow thieves or something like that."
"I know where his hide out is, we can go there, but first I must ask something of you."
"Strange, Romani must ask something of you as well." Romani said with a smile.
AN: So did you see that one coming (Romani I mean). I didn't include Zelda in Oracle of Ages (she has other things on her mind) so I can have more freedom to work. Hope no one has any objection (if you do, too bad).
