Hey y'all! It's been a while, I know, but I've been really busy. Once marching band season is over (in November) I'll have more time to write, and maybe start up my own website (with my friend Tina possibly) to post stuff that ff.net doesn't allow anymore (coughcoughjoshhartnettjeffhardyandorlandobloomcoughcough). lmao, when my friend Tina asked "where have you been?!" (as in writing the chapter) my response was, "Eating tato chips." With that said, here's chapter 13! (my lucky number!)

*Hillary*
We all looked stupidly at Penny's neckline to see if the thing really was gone. And of course it was. Why would the necklace still be there?! Why would good luck grace us when bad luck always seemed to follow us around?!!! Well...maybe just Penny...that girl's a walking calamity...remember the Poe incident? and the fun time she had at the palace? and now this?! I still love her. She's one of a kind. (And she's British! Sooooo lucky! I'd kill for an accent like that!) Well anyways, I was looking at the guys now, and Legolas wasn't...um...looking at Penny's neckline anymore.
"Hey Legolas!" I said loudly, "Having any luck yet?!" He glared at me and turned a light pink color. Penny growled.
"This is serious guys! We've got to find that necklace!" she exclaimed, waving her arms in the air.
"Well, where were you when you felt it drop off?" I asked, crossing my arms.
"Um...I was over a heavily wooded area," Penny said, frowning. "A heavily wooded area with lots of passages...like a Labyrinth..."
"The Lost Woods!" Link exclaimed, yanking my arm towards Kokiri. I yelped and and to run to keep up with him. Penny and Legolas were on our tail, and Hyrule field flew by me as we ran to the entrance of Kokiri Village.
"Hello!" a weird-looking child with blue pigtails and blue eyes screeched at us as we ran by. Penny waved at her, and then Link stopped abruptly in front of the vines that you need to climb to get to the lost woods. (Zelda players will understand...) Link and Legolas stood in front of the vines, shoulder to shoulder, and gracefully jumped up the wall, placing their right foot in the middle of the vines, and hoisting themselves up on the edge, simultaneously. Then thry turned around at the same time, and offered their right hands to us. Penny and I stood there, jaws dropped. Then we cracked up at the same time.
"DID YOU SEE THAT?!" Penny howled, falling on the ground.
"YEAH! IT WAS LIKE THEY PLANNED THAT OR SOMETHING!!!!!" I screamed, laughing harder and louder each second.
"What?!" Link and Legolas asked at the same time. That made us laugh harder.
"GAAH! THEY DIDN'T PLAN THAT! AAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Penny screamed, and we were both crying by this time. When we finally staggered to our feet, Legolas and Link were staring down at us, and they looked so much alike it was scary. Penny and I stood shoulder to shoulder (much like Link and Legolas did), and ran at the vines. Penny got a foot up and clung on for dear life, swinging there slighty about two feet above the ground, howling like a mainiac. I ran and hit the wall, and fell down on the ground, and started laughing all over again.
"Wait...wait...let me try this again!" I said inbetween laughs. I staggered over to the vines and slowly climbed up. Penny was still dangling there, laughing, when I reached the top.
"You gunna come Penz, or not?" Link asked, giving odd glances at Legolas and I. The only response we got was crazed laughter. She eventually made it to the top, and when we all finally were standing at the top of the ledge, we looked down, and I do believe the whole village of Kokiri was standing below, staring at us. They all had glazed looks over their funny-colored eyes, and I can't imagine what they were thinking when Penny started waving and talking to them. I eventually grabbed her arm and yanked her after Link and Legolas, who had already crossed through the entrance to the Lost Woods, where the Spaz Queen supposedly dropped her necklace. When we stepped inside, Link was ready with his sword drawn and Legolas with his bow. Penny and I looked around anxiously to see if anything was going to attack us. We saw nothing, and heard nothing except for a soft, constant melody in the distance.
"Come on guys, I wanna find my necklace," Penny said, her seriousness returning as quickly as it had left. Legolas reached down and grabbed a handful of flowers, and handed it to her.
"I picked these for you," he said sweetly, flashing that smile that could melt any girl's heart.
"Aww, thanks Legolas!" Penny said, kissing his cheek and taking the flowers. There was a single red flower growing in the ground next to Penny, and when she went to pick it for Legolas, it moved away from her.
"That's odd..." she said. She reached out again, and the flower bent over, like Penny was radiating some sort of unseen force from her fingertips. When she touched the soft petals, the flower grew about 6 feet tall.
"HOLY SHIT!" I exclaimed, gaping at the monstrous plant.
"BLIMEY!" Penny and Legolas screamed at the same time.
"Penny?! What the hell did you eat?!" Link shouted jokingly, now in the shadow of the massive flower.
"I...I...I don't know...I..." Penny stammered. She went into deep thought for a minute, then stood up, holding her hands against her chest, (very Zelda-like).
"What it it, Penny?" Legolas asked, a bit worried.
"Guys, I need to tell you about the necklace, and why we need to find it," she said seriously. "A few days back, I had a dream, and the goddess Faore was in it."
"Who?" Legolas asked.
"Goddess of the earth," Link said.
"Oh," Legolas replied.
"Well anyways, she told me about my necklace in the dream. It holds special powers, Faore's powers."
"But...then why did it have a dragon on it?" Link asked, furrowing his brow.
"It actually belongs to Din, the fire goddess," Penny clarified, for Legolas. "But soon the dragon will disappear and a unicorn will appear, her symbol. The Goddesses switched the symbols around to confuse Ganondorf and buy us some more time to stop him from gathering their power and using it to come back to hyrule and take the triforce!" Penny exclaimed.
"Oh no, not again!" Link groaned. I could sense his anger just by watching his usually calm eyes fill with hatred and the muscles in his body tighten.
"Yes! And that's why we need to find the necklace! Before one of Ganondorf's workers do!" Penny said.
"But, Penny," I said softly. "There are lots and lots of woods in Hyrule. How do you know the necklace is here?" She frowned.
"I don't."
"Well, we better get busy looking, guys," Legolas said, walking towards one of the passages. "We can split up, we'll cover more ground that way."
"NO!" Link, Penny, and I screamed at the same time.
"You'll get lost," I said, racing after him.
"They don't call them the Lost Woods for nothing, you know," Penny said, taking his hand.
"Yes. We stay together, or we don't go at all. Now, if we go this way, it's a straight dead end, so we'll have no trouble getting out of here if the necklace isn't in that area. Let's go," Link said. And with that, we all hurried into the west passage. The area was giant, and we each began to search every corner. After nothing turned up, we headed back out through the west passage and into the east one. This took us to a place with a pool of water, and two other passages leading north and south. There was no necklace there, either, so we headed north.
"You know, aside of the creepy music and the shadows, this place is kinda cool," I said, trying to lighten the mood.
"Yeah, right, if you're into getting lost and dying of starvation," Link said darkly.
"How long do you think we have until Ganon-whatever his name is finds the necklace?" Legolas asked.
"Probably a day at most," Penny said, sighing. "There's nothing in this area!" she shouted. "Come on!" We pressed on room after room after room after room, and soon even Link didn't know where we were.
"Goddamnit," I said, slumping down in a corner. "Now we're lost and we don't know where the necklace is. We're screwed."
"Thanks for the optimism, Love," Legolas said sarcastically.
"I agree with her," Penny said, sitting down next to me. She reached out and touched a single weed, and the thing grew bigger than the flower had.
"Shit, my power's growing," Penny said, crossing her arms. "It's seeping into me now that the necklace is gone. I'm even starting to hear what you guys are thinking," Penny said, placing her face in her hands.
"Oh really?" Link asked, interested. "What's Hillary thinking?" Oh shit. Penny looked at me, and I knew it was too late.
"Not all of it is clear, but it has something to do with you, Link, and..." Penny burst into a fit of giggles. "Hillary, you're a very naughty girl!" Penny said, laughing harder.
"Hmm!" Link said, grinning like an idiot. Legolas patted him on the back.
"You want him to..." she looked at me again. "Hillary!" she said, scoldingly.
"Well damnit, could you blame me? I mean, look at him!" I shouted, waving a hand in his direction. He grinned wider and crossed his arms.
"I think I know what Link's doing tonight!" Legolas said, walking across the clearing with him to look some more for the necklace, I guess.
"Penny, you're such a bitch!" I shouted, lightly punching her shoulder. She cackled wildly.
"Don't worry, all I could read was, 'we're screwed, we're screwed, how could this happen to us...to Penny...to me...' and then something about 'now we're lost and we're gunna get killed by Ganondorf.'" I stared in shock at her.
"Wow, that's amazing Penny! How the hell do you do that?!"
"I dunno, I just look at a person, and think, and it happens."
"Wow! What am I thinking now?" I asked. I was saying "Penny has a big bum" over and over in my head. She cracked up.
"Yeah, well at least it's a nice big bum!" she said, and we cracked up together. She definitely heard me.

*Legolas*
Walking over to the other side of the enclosed area with Link, I began to wonder about this Ganondork guy. Who was he, really? And what did he do to have everyone here hate him?
"Hey Link, who's this guy you all are always complaining about?" I asked, searching the ground for any signs of jewelry. Oh, and another thing, I've had too many damn adventures that had to do with jewelry.
"He's the scum of the earth, basically," Link said, very casually.
"What did he do?"
"Came out of nowhere, swore his allegiance to the King, then tried to use his dark powers to take control of the triforce, our source of power and balance in the world, and take over the earth." Link said this with so much hatred, I thought some was going to seep out and enter my body. Yuck. Now there's a disgusting thought.
"Oh, so what happened? How was he stopped?" I asked. Link took a deep breath and began to tell me the story.
"It all began when...you know, nevermind, this story is going to be too damn long to tell you in one sitting, when we don't really have any time left," Link said, spastically.
"Right," I said, frowning.
"I fought him off and banished him to some other dimension...with the help of Zelda's magic. But I did all the fighting, over two time periods, by the way, and basically kicked ass so Ganondorf couldn't come back."
"I guess you didn't kick hard enough," I reasoned, crossing my arms. He nodded.
"Yeah, well, there's only so much one man can do. Isn't that right, babe?" Link asked as Hillary and Penny approached. Hillary glared at Link.
"Right!" Penny said, smiling. I couldn't help but notice that Hillary looked sad. In fact, I had never really seen the girl completely happy, ever...pity.
"Ready to get going?" Link asked, putting his arms around Hillary and Penny. Hillary looked very uncomfortable.
"Yeah," Hillary said, walking towards the exit.
"Hey Legolas," Penny said, walking up to me, and grasping my hand.
"Hello Sweet Penny," I said, gazing at her.
"Hey Link, do you know where we are?" Penny asked as we entered another room.
"Uh...yeah...I just...um..." It was apparent that he was as clueless as we were.
"Well?" Penny asked optimistically.
"Yeah. If we go through that way, it'll take us back to the room two doors away from the room with the small water pool."
"That's crap!" Hillary said. "I know we've been in this room before!"
"No, we haven't!" Link argued back. "I've been in here many times before, I think I'd know my way around."
"Would you?" Hillary snapped.
"Yes, I would. And where did you acquire this attitude from?" he said, scowling.
"Attitude? You're the one with an attitude," Hillary barked.
"Children, children," Penny scolded, walking between them. "Let's not fight. Play nicely, and we'll be able to get out of here sooner." I smiled, because they finally shut up. That's my Penny. Always has a way with words. I spoke up next.
"Yeah, come on, let's go. The ring obviously isn't here so..."
"The ring?!" Penny, Hillary, and Link asked at the same time. Damnit all!
"I mean...the necklace..." I said, blushing a bit. Penny and Hillary smiled at eachother, like they knew something we didn't. Probably did. We walked into a room with two stumps.
"We were just in this room five minutes ago!" Hillary said, becoming agitated again.
"Yeah, we were," Penny said, walking over to the corner. "Look at this gargantuan flower. I don't think mother nature did that," she said, giggling.
"Let's try the next room!" I said, before Link and Hillary went to rip eachother's hair out. We all shuffled in there, and it looked like all the other rooms.
"Goddamnit!" Hillary said, and plopped down. Penny stood quietly for a minute, thinking.
"I've got it!" she shouted.
"Yes?!" The other three of us screamed.
"Link, you can warp us out of here! And back...to some place else!" she said gleefully, bouncing around.
"Yeah, I can!" Link said, whipping out his ocarina.
"Thank you Penny," Hillary said, getting up and standing next to Link.
"Anytime!" she replied cheerfully. That's my girl. The smart, cute one, with the brown hair...over there. Yep, she's mine.
"Everyone hold on," Link said, and we all grabbed an arm or a shoulder. He began to play a mysterious tune, (one that almost put me to sleep), and we were soon surrounded by a golden light. Then we were wisked off of our feet and all of Hyrule was passing by at an extrenuous pace. Then we were back inside some sort of large church, standing on a small platform, safe and sound.
"Thank the Gods we're out of there," I said, letting go of Link.
"Yeah, really," Hillary added, walking towards the door.
"Come on, everyone!" Penny said, rushing after her. "We've got to find my necklace!"
And with that, we raced back into the sunlight, and out into Hyrule field.

Cripes, that took me long enough. Oh, a little tension going on there! Uh-oh! Well, hopefully Storm-child's faster at getting the next chapter up. Well, cya then!