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~*Storm*~

Penny

I swam out of the tunnel and into the lake, I surfaced and found myself facing Link. He was looking towards shore, so I turned to see what was so fascinating. Holy…

There were hundreds of People, sitting around by the lake, wandering over the bridges, swimming, looking around makeshift market stalls, what the heck is going on?

Legolas and Hillary surfaced and also looked pretty shocked that the usually deserted lake was no swarming with People.

"Link! What's going on?", said Hillary, swimming over to him and putting her arms around his neck.

"How could I have forgotten!? Only the coolest thing of the year!!", he exclaimed gleefully. Legolas swam over and pinched me on the butt causing me to scream.

"Nothing to scream about Penny! It's the annual thoroughbred Dragon racing event".

"Dragon racing!? COOL! I'M THERE!", I yelled, swimming towards shore, dodging a couple of small children. I love children….but I really couldn't eat a whole one, heheheh! I got up out of the water and wrung out my hair. Hillary stood up beside me. "Oh my god, this is gonna be SO cool!".

"I know! I can hardly wait!!", I agreed.

"C'mon, let's go to the stands and get some seats!", said Link, grabbing Hillary's hand.

"I don't see any 'stands'", Legolas said looking around.

"No, they're through the pass on the field, this is just the place where people try to sell stuff and eat lunch before they go and watch". Link explained.

Legolas grabbed my hand and we all went through to the field.

"WHOA! COOL!", I exclaimed as we came out, all the dragons were tethered up, banners were flying everywhere, and the stands were almost crammed full of people already.

"C'mon! This way!", Link yelled, running up the metal steps to some seats he'd seen. He had competition, there was another man running towards them as well.

'This could be entertaining', I thought to myself with a snigger. Link pushed his way through yelling, "Get out the way get out the way get out the way", and leapt on all four seats, sprawling himself across them. "SAVED!", he said triumphantly at the man, who'd just got there too late and had given my friend the evilest look ever known to man. All of us laughed as me, Hillary and Legolas sat down.

"Ooh! Look at that seriously cute little dragon! Isn't it precious!?", I said, my eyes Sparkling like some corny anime cartoon. (A/N I love anime…just it's really corny with the glittery eyes….lmao!)

"That's piddles!", Link said laughing, we all burst out into hysterics at the name.

"Aaw! No! That is too cute to be true!". Hillary said, also seeing the tiny little creature, dwarfed by the others.

"He doesn't look it but he's extremely good, he's come first one year, and second 4 times".

"Wow, that's amazing! He's so small!", Legolas said with a grin.

"Yeah, but the best and the favorite is Farbeh. He's amazing! He's that green one over there…".

I looked over and instantly fell in love with the creature. He was beautiful, long and sleek, with powerful wings, he was a light green with black markings in various places that looked like those gorgeous Celtic tattoos that people have.

"Which is that Black one over there…", legolas said, with an unreadable expression on his face.

"Oh weird….. it looks so evil", Hillary commented. I could see the one they were talking about, it did look horrible, with huge curved horns upon its head and it's eyes glowed a malicious crimson. It looked straight at me and I shuddered.

"Cold sweetie?", Legolas said putting an arm around me. I felt better now.

"I've never seen that one before he must be new". Link said. A man in the row in front of us turned around with a warm smile. "Forgive me for listening in but I know that Dragon, it's a new one called Thalatar".

"Oh really? Who owns it", Link said, leaning forward to talk to the man.

"The owner likes to remain anonymous, it looks extremely untrustworthy, I'm hoping it doesn't hurt my Farbeh", the man said.

"Oh Goddesses, Lord Farnell I presume!", Link suddenly said, holding out a hand. The man shook it. "Naturally", he said with a grin. I immediately took a liking to him, he was friendly and quick to smile.

Suddenly a man with a loudspeaker came onto a platform. "Ladies and gentlemen, I am extremely sorry, but unless we have your help the whole race is off!".

There was a large moan throughout the crowd.

"The rider of the Dragon Farbeh has been struck down with a strange and unknown virus, our Lake-side professor is working on it. But in the meantime if the race is to go forward we need someone to take his place. May I remind you it is extremely dangerous and should not be taken lightly". There was silence throughout the crowd. Farnell looked devastated, I felt so so so sorry for him.

"Anyone…??". At this, something flooded into me, probably my sense of immortality and mentalness. "I'LL DO IT!", I yelled running down to the platform before any of my friends could stop me. The whole place rang with cheers, as I stepped up next to the man.

"A girl?", he said, absolutely shocked.

"Yes, a girl, does that cause you a problem?".

"No! This is our first Female racer everybody!", he announced. There was a huge cheer, especially from the Gerudos, some of which were holding up signs for women's rights. I laughed. The man turned to me. "Okay, there's half an hour before the race starts, so go get ready and try to bond with your Dragon otherwise he might not obey you totally".

"Right-o!", I said, running over to where the Dragons were tethered up. I made my way along to the gorgeous green dragon I'd spotted earlier. It looked down at me.

"Uh…hi!?", I said giving a little wave. It brought it's head down level with mine, looking me right square in the eyes.

~*# Who the hell are you, and what do you want?#*~ I heard a voice in the back of my mind say, the necklace must have been acting up again.

"Well, your usual rider fell ill, so I'm taking his place…", I explained. The dragon just kept staring at me, before it's lips seemed to curl up in a smile.

~*# You are trustworthy child, I know you have done this out of giving happiness to others#*~

"Well, yeah I guess so…It's just your master looked so disappointed…and I admit, I really, really wanted to just ride a dragon also…".

~*#Understandable….are those your friends?#*~ Farbeh the dragon said in the back of my mind, looking behind me. I turned to see…uh oh…All three of my friends were coming towards me. Legolas was ashen faced, completely pale, scared out of his wits. Link looked furious, his face was a thundercloud, Hillary also looked scared but excited.

"Do…you know, what you are letting yourself in for!?", managed to squeeze out between his anger, he was having trouble not shouting at me. It was really quite amusing, but I wasn't going to laugh or I'd be in more trouble.

"Penny, you gotta be real, real careful!", Said Hillary. Legolas walked over and hugged me tight.

"You could die…", he said.

"What will you do if I do die?", I said grinning.

"I will think to myself, Thank God I fucked you when I did".

"LEGOLAS!", I snapped in mock anger, punching him in the chest. Then Farnell came over. "Thank you so much young lady, you've saved me, please take these". He handed me a pair of very thick leather gloves, with a couple of odd looking symbols on them.

"Ooh! Runes, ain't seen those in a while", said Legolas taking a good look. I took them back from him and put them on.

"They're good for gripping onto the reins otherwise it would hurt a lot if you used your bare hands", Farnell explained with a smile. I grinned and put them on, the runes glowed slightly and they moulded to fit my hands perfectly. "Cool!", I said, admiring them.

"The race will start in five minutes!", The announcer's voice rang out, followed by a loud roar of cheering.

"Well, you better get on Farbeh and take him to the start line, it's very much like riding a horse", Farnell rambled on, while I got up onto the dragon. The saddle was huge and extremely comfortable. I slotted my feet into the stirrups and grabbed the reins. "Farbeh! To the starts line!", I said with a large grin pointing at where the other huge reptiles were lining up. The Dragon obeyed and walked slowly over, woah! This thing is bumpy! I thought, being rocked around.

The dragon stopped at the starting line. There were two dragons to the left of me, one red and one blue which were snapping at each other. On the right of me, was the huge black dragon Thalatar. I couldn't help notice that it was staring at my necklace.

I looked up to see my three friends, waving at me. So I lifted my arm to wave back. There was a huge cheer as I did this, so I put my arm down….it stopped. I giggled and put my arm up again, everyone cheered again. I put my other arm up in the air, the cheer increased to a roar. This rocked!

"Get ready riders!", the man warned. I put down my hands, getting ready, gripping the reins tightly.

Two people moved onto the platform, I recognised them as Darunia and Saria. Darunia sent three red balls of energy into the air, Saria sent one ball of green, they were in a line, and I realised the acted as the starting lights, very clever…

The first red, flashed brighter than the others, then the next red…then the next….and the green! "GO FARBEH GO!!! FLY LIKE THE WIND BABY! YEEEHA!!!", I yelled. The Dragon roared with laughter, (as did the crowd who'd obviously heard me) and broke into a run, spreading his wings and slowly taking off from the ground.

The other dragons were doing pretty much the same, but Farbeh was much faster and far more powerful than all of them. He soared into the air, and I felt my stomach melt away. Hyrule spread out beneath me like some huge painting, and I could still hear the cheers from the excited crowd. We flew out, over  the gerudo's fortress, the tiny dragon piddles appeared, flapping madly at farbeh's side, growling like a tiger cub.

Farbeh's lips parted in a devilish grin and with one extra large beat of his wings, we were far ahead of the tiny dragon. I swerved the reigns to the right, following the trail clearly marked out with green flags. I could see the desert colossus coming into view, the huge statue of the sand Goddess, peaking out, over a dune. I looked behind me, and I could see all the dragons in a sort of funny formation behind me. Piddles was a bit further down the line now but the huge dragon Thalatar was slowly over taking everyone, until he was coming roughly third.

Suddenly Farbeh made a worried growl and I turned to see we were heading extremely fast towards the rock face and he wasn't sure which way to go. "HOLY F***!!!", I yelled tugging the reigns as hard as I could towards the left, I heard my dragon's claws scraping against the sand-blown stone and I winced, closing my eyes. When I opened them again, we were racing back over the desert, the sandstorm below hid the ground from view, quite a spooky effect…

We were coming back over the fortress, when I noticed the green flags going down into the gorge. "They can't be serious!", I yelled as Farbeh swooped down, completely verticle. How I managed to stay on was a bloody mystery…

Then I found myself looking at everything as if the sides of the gorge were the floor and the ceiling, my Dragon was leaning completely to his side, as to go along the gorge without getting hurt as his wing span was so large. We soared out over the lake and I looked around desperately for the flags, they were through the passage, onto the field, past all the seats. I swerved my dragon towards the pass, and he flipped onto his side again, as I came bursting out the other side the cheers were deafening! I was racing past at about a hundred miles an hour so I couldn't see my friends in the crowd. I carried on past and followed the flags over the forest, I looked down to see some kokiri look up in awe, or scream and run into their houses.

I looked down into the lost woods, it was just a canopy, not and open air maze like thingy like it was in the game, I couldn't see into it, and a strange mist seeped between the leaves.

I heard a loud snorting behind me, and I saw the black dragon Thalatar pushing himself to the limit, and gaining on us. "C'mon farbeh!", I yelled, I looked behind again…and I realised…He wasn't trying to overtake me, he was heading straight for me!

"OH SH*T!", I yelled, before a huge black wing, crashed into the side of me, sending me sailing of the back of my dragon. The cheers that had been ringing out over the field stopped completely, as I went into free fall, hurtling down, tumbling over and over, heading towards the trees. Tears streamed down my cheeks and I opened my mouth into the loudest yell I'd ever yelled. "FAAAAAAARBAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!".

'Well…', I thought, 'If that doesn't work, at least I won't die a virgin…'.

Legolas

My Stomach lurched as I watched Penny drop. My mouth just dropped open and I was struck dumb, not able to say anything. Link started screeching abuse at the black dragon, and Hillary burst into tears. Penny's dragon hadn't noticed and was flying off without her.

"Please! Please notice her!", I begged silently.

Then suddenly, the dragon swooped upwards and backwards, as if in a huge loop de loop, he then plummeted down, gaining speed fast. My heart almost stopped beating, everything happened in slow motion, as Farbeh swooped down, underneath Penny, and she slammed down onto his back. The dragon roared in Pain, but this seemed to make him faster. He lurched up into the air again, flying towards the castle and around, coming back towards the finish line. But the Black dragon, thalatar was already here, and crossed the line, making it first. The crowd booed loudly, shouts of , "Cheat!", and "Foul play!", rang out. But it just smiled a devilish grin. I turned to see Link staring at it menacingly, sword drawn, a sort of manic look on his face, his eyes burned with pure hatred and sheer anger. Penny landed and slid off farbeh, crashing to the ground. The whole crowd gasped, and a worried murmur rose up into the air. All four of us sprinted down to her, and held her in my arms, she looked up at me stupidly.

"My whole life just flashed before my eyes…It's bloody boring, don't let me get started!", she said. I just hugged her tighter than is possible. Hillary was wiping her eyes and rambling on about how worried she was and how much she would of cried had penny died. Link was making threatening references towards Thalatar and telling Penny that she shouldn't jump into such dangerous things as that. But Penny wasn't listening and the color drained from her face.

"What is it?", I asked her, concerned.

"My….my necklace….It's….gone….".

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Sorry this took so long, but it's good ain't it? Go'on admit it you little munchkins!!! As always review or Link will come to your house, sword drawn. Ganondorf will be sent to anyone who thinks Link is cute and would smother him with kisses instead of paying attention to his threats. Thank you!