A/N: Yay! A double post!! *throws flowers around like a maniac* Well, this is to make up for not updating in a while ^_^" sorry about that, I just have too many things going on in the moment, and that's just in the fanfic world. But school is gonna start again soon, so I probably won't be able to update that frequently, but I'll manage to find a way to get around to it ^-^
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^.^ Chapter 9 ^.^ - Return to Hyrule
Quietly walking to the door, Saria opened it. As she suspected, the king was still there.
"Hello again, your highness," she greeted him sweetly.
"Why hello Saria. Again. I see you are going somewhere?" came the king's reply.
Saria shook her head, "No sir, I was just picking some flowers outside my house. It will liven up the place."
"Ah yes, your house," the king said thoughtfully.
Saria felt the king's gaze on her as she bent down and picked some flowers from the bush next to her.
As she walked back, she couldn't resist, "Your highness? I am wondering why you still stay outside my house?"
The king looked taken aback by the question, "Why, I don't know. Would you like me to leave?"
Saria didn't know what to say. She knew that telling the king to leave would be insulting him, so she couldn't, "I… I just am not used to company such as this and besides, there are many hungry Wolfos that roam the forest."
Saria smiled mentally. When she had mentioned the Wolfos, the king looked extremely frightened.
"Well, I have work to do back at the castle. I'll be going now. Thank you," the king stuttered as he mounted his horse and left.
Going back inside, she checked once to make sure there was no-one there and lifted the lock of the closet and opened it. Link and Zelda were sitting inside, kissing.
Saria rolled her eyes, "When you're quite ready."
Link and Zelda quickly pulled apart. Link smiled sheepishly, "Uh… oops."
Zelda's tone was more serious, "That was my father, wasn't it?"
Saria nodded. He thinks that Link has kidnapped you. He's sent his men out to find you and he wants Link to be brought to him.
Link frowned, "Damn, always the bad guy."
Zelda frowned too, "What do you mean by always?"
Link sighed, "A year ago, there were a few guards roaming the forest, looking for 'him'. I heard them talking about me. They were given to instructions to kill me on sight."
Zelda gasped, "Last year?"
Link nodded, "Yes, why?"
"Was this at the start of last year?" Zelda asked.
Link nodded, "Think so."
Zelda gasped again, "How could father think something like that?"
Link frowned, "What happenned?"
"I was sick. The doctors all thought that I had been poisoned or something. They all thought I was going to die," Zelda told him.
"WHAT?" Link yelled in rage, "He thought that I would want to kill you?"
"Seems so," Saria said pensively, "I think that the king has just used Link as someone to blame for all that has gone wrong."
Zelda stood up, "That's it."
Link looked at her, "What's it?"
Zelda helped Link stand up too, "We're going back."
"No!" Saria exclaimed, "Didn't you listen to me? They are going to capture Link if they find him!"
"We can go in disguise," Zelda told her.
"But what if they find out who we really are?" Saria asked.
Link spoke up, "We have to go. Rauru said so."
"Rauru?" Saria asked, confused.
"We'll explain on the way," Link told her, throwing Saria and Zelda some cloaks.
The three quietly slipped out of the house, leading Epona out too. Mounting her, Link helped Zelda up and Saria sat on Zelda's lap.
"Go," Link whispered to Epona as he steered her into the denser woods, where he knew the Hylian guards wouldn't go.
On the way to Hyrule, Link and Zelda explained their dreams to Saria, who quickly understood.
"The Lost Woods," Saria said quietly as they exitted the forest and entered what seemed to be a maze, full of winding tunnels.
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A/N: Okaay, to all of you that are going to review, asking why Saria is unfamiliar with Rauru, I can't exactly tell you without spoiling a bit later in the story, so you're just going to have to put up with it for a few more chapters ^_^" (I can't really tell you which chapter either) Well, with the double post, review both chapters if you can really be bothered to. Just tell me what you think.