A/N: YES!! IT FEELS SO GOOD TO HAVE WRITTEN HERE AGAIN!! geez, i had THE worst case of writer's block ever! anyway, here's one chapter, but i promise the next one'll be here soon! i swear!

Dragonkiller, if u don't like my story, Y R U READING IT?!?! ur reviews really bug me! ok, u dont like romance--i cut down on it! then the only comment u made on the last chapter was about my corny joke that i acknowledged was corny!! could i please have some critique on my story?! good or bad!! just tell me what makes it so!! i can't stand this! it's driving me nuts!! SO IN MY NEXT CHAPTER, GET READY FOR FLUFF!!! (not fluff, but a lil romance, at least). SHEESH!!!!

anyway, if u remember, malon just threw link off the cliff. so back to the story, ppl. :)

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Zelda gaped in horror at what she had just seen. It had happened all so fast--one second Link had been there, and the next he was gone!

It was as if she had forgotten all that had happened between them in the last few days. All she could think of was saving him. She remembered the fact that Link didn't swim, and knew that he could very easily drown...she had to get free.

The Princess suddenly pushed all her weight backwards--this caused the moblin holding her from behind to crash into a large boulder beside him. Not having expected the attack, the moblin collapsed to the ground.

"Somebody grab her!!" a head moblin yelled to the crowd. But they were too slow (um, obviously).

Zelda pushed past Malon and--not really stopping to think what she was doing--dove off the cliff. Saria, who did not know that there weren't any rocks at the bottom of the fall and that Zelda would probably live, had no idea why the Princess had just jumped off the cliff. But she most certainly did not want to be left alone with a pack of moblins and a deranged sister.

Saria squirmed to get free, but the moblin held her tightly.

"Don't think so," he sneered.

Then Saria realized that she would have to attempt an escape at a later time, when the moblins would not be expecting it......

Meanwhile.....

Zelda landed with a loud splash in the cold water. "LINK!!" she shouted, coming up to the surface. But she could hardly hear herself over the crashing noises of the waterfall behind her. She stuck her head under water again, and saw a body slowly sinking to the water's floor.

Instantly she swam towards it. As she got closer, she recognized that it was Link, all right. The princess made her way towards him as fast as she could--which really isn't too fast when you're trying to swim in a dress.

Finally, she reached him. Zelda immediately grabbed Link around the waist and pulled upward.

Uh-oh.

Apparently, Link was a bit heavier than she had hoped for. She looked up to see how close the surface was; her eyes were stinging from being open. It wasn't too far a swim to get their heads above water, and they both really needed a breather.

'Goddesses help me!' Zelda thought to herself, struggling to push herself up. 'If I do not get fresh air, I am going to die!! And so will Link!' With this thought in mind (which should have been obvious), the Princess finally found the strength within herself to pull both herself and Link above the water.

Zelda inhaled as if it was her first breath of life. She didn't realize how long she had been holding her breath. She fought to keep herself afloat; Link's weight was constantly endangering her to go down again. Her heart beat was irregularly fast and her breaths came out unevenly and loudly.

The Princess looked around. The nearest spot for them to rest was the mountain she'd just dove off of--there was a narrow strip of land behind and around the falls. It didn't seem that far away, so Zelda, with one arm still grasping Link tightly, headed for it.

After minutes of treading the water, Zelda decided she had never practiced swimming enough. She was completely tired out.

"Oh, thank Din!" she breathed to herself, upon reaching her destination. "Finally--MADE IT!! HAA HAA!!!"

However, the Princess's glory was cut short when she felt something tugging Link away from her. "Ohhhh no you don't!" she snorted, completely out of breath. Heaving on him as hard as she could, Zelda threw Link onto the sand, then followed him. "Phew!"

"Oh no you don't, yourself, missy," came a dark and ominous voice.

Having dreaded something like this, Zelda turned around. She saw a stout little creature that resembled a rock with webbed feet. It stared back at her, then waddled over to Link and proceeded to drag him back into the water.

Getting really annoyed, Zelda stalked over, smacked the thing on the head, and took Link back. "Just what do you think you're doing, you little beast? Do you have ANY idea how hard I fought to get this guy back?!"

"No, but do you think I care?" the rock-ish thingy asked.

Zelda sighed. "Well, why do you want HIM?"

"We need a sacrifice for our leader. You see, it is because of our sacred leader that this fall has no rocks at its bottom. He eats them all. This way, if it so happens that one of our own falls off the cliff, he'll be there to catch it." The creature grinned at Zelda.

She stared blankly at him. There was a long silence, until she said, "That doesn't have much to do with what you want with my protector."

"Like I said, madam, we need a sacrifice for The Great One," the thing explained. "It keeps him satisfied for a year. I see that you're still not convinced enough to give us that man..." The creature turned around and called out, "I need some backup, boys!"

Meanwhile.....

Saria sat numbly across from the moblin watching her. Her face was sticky with dry tears and she felt quiet miserable at the moment. All the other moblins had gone somewhere, and it was much too quiet.

"Why did you hurt my sister?" she finally asked softly.

The moblin looked over at her, then rolled his eyes. "Don't get soft on me, miss. We didn't 'choose' your sister, we really don't like dealing with elves and such. But if you recall, the moblin that bit your sister did it out of self-defense and in a hurry. It wasn't premeditated, in case you were wondering that."

"Then....why...." Saria shook her head slightly. She didn't really have a question, but there had to be SOMEthing that should be asked at this point.

Again, the moblin spoke. "The reason we attack horses instead of people is because they...function so much better. It's all very confusing, and very hard to explain to someone who doesn't know about it."

"How'd they explain it to you, then?" Saria asked.

Before the moblin could respond, another came up and asked to have a word. The two of them walked a bit away, behind a large boulder. Saria hesitated, then silently crept nearer to hear what they were saying.

"So it's over?" the first one asked.

"Yeah," answered the second. "The leader had this problem before, but I think he thought he'd fixed it. Apparently not, though."

"Ohhh! But, uh, what's he going to do to the girl?"

"What do you think, you idiot? The boss says she's got ten minutes top, and then she'll be back to her normal, every-day, eyes-in-the-right- spot self. No more pyscho killer person. After that, it's curtains."

"Why?"

"Don't be stupid," the second moblin sighed. "He was going to kill them both, anyway. But since he thought the red-head was permanently evil, he let her have a bit of fun with that other guy's sword. Thing is, she liked it so much that she hid it somewhere and won't give it up. I think it's an important weapon."

"Obviously."

Saria gasped and went back to her former spot. Malon would be her normal self again within ten minutes, but the leader wanted to kill them .... that didn't leave much time. She glanced in front of her--there were the falls, the same ones Link and Zelda had gone over earlier that day.

It would be now or never.

Suddenly, a horrible shrieking sound came from Saria's right. She saw Malon, still wildly insane, running from a small cluster of moblins. She had the Master Sword in one hand, and a pack of the gang's weapons on her back.

"Get back here!!" one moblin shouted. "The leader wants to speak with you!!"

"N-NO!!" Malon screamed back. "He only wants my sword! MY SWORD!! MY .... prrrrrrecciouss!!!"

"Precious?!" one moblin asked. "That is an UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIP!!"

"Stay away!!" Malon warned, swishing the sword at them--but it was a tad too heavy for her. Wielding it with great gusto, Malon lost grip on the weapon and it skidded on the ground, coming right to a stop in front of Saria.

She looked in front of her, then down, then at Malon, who was charging towards her (followed closely by a mob of mob...lins). Saria's heart rate doubled as she took the hilt of the sword in one hand and got to her feet. Taking a deep breath, she ran as fast as she could towards Malon.

Thinking Saria was planning to run her through, one moblin cried out, "You wouldn't kill your own sister, would you?!"

"I HOPE I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!!" was Saria's response. She put one arm around Malon's waist, then rushed towards the cliff and leapt off. And if they died, well, they were going to have gotten killed anyway.

"GAAH, THOSE IDIOTS!!" shouted one moblin in despair. "WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE WATCHING HER?!"

Back under the falls....(sorry to be jumping around like this)

Zelda now faced a horde of the small rock-like creatures, who were drawing menacingly closer.

"Now we don't enjoy beating on young women such as yourselves," the first one said. "But we do need a man for our sacrifice, and that's a man you've got there. So you'd save yourself a lot of trouble by just lettin' us have him."

"If you want him, you'll have to get through me first!" Zelda said, placing her weapon-less self in front of Link's body.

"Awww, well ain't that sweet?" one said. "But okay. GET HER!!! YAAAH!!!"

".....whoops."

Then, the whole group of creatures was upon her. Bracing herself for any kind of pain, she threw a well-placed punch in the face of one. It went flying backwards--the Princess would've checked to see if it returned, but she had too many others to deal with.

Surprisingly enough, the creatures were merely talk; they couldn't fight to save their lives. With just one strong kick or punch, they'd be out of the game. As soon as Zelda thought she'd gotten them all, she saw two trying to drag Link back into the water.

"HEY!!!"

They jumped once they saw her coming, and, rather than getting hurt, dropped Link and dove back to the water.

Zelda, a little breathless, ran over to Link and yanked up back to his old spot. Then she paused and looked down at him very hard, for the first time since she had brought him out of the water.

"NO! DON'T TELL ME I JUST FOUGHT THAT BATTLE FOR YOU AND YOU'RE ACTUALLY DEAD!!!"

He couldn't be dead, it was unethical. It was wrong, stupid, pointless. How could Link be dead?

The Princess heaved a sigh. Ticking at the back of her mind was the memory of Link and Saria in that lagoon; like a clock telling her to remember an important appointment. But right now Link was important, and that was that.

She might be too late, but she had to try. Zelda opened Link's mouth slightly, and lowered hers unto his. She breathed into it, giving him air. The Princess repeated it a few more times, all the while thinking, 'Don't leave me here alone, Link....don't go.'

Then he suddenly convlused, and Zelda jumped back. Link turned over on his side and spat out water, his face turning red as more gushed out. He groaned and managed to sit up, looking around.

"Zel?"

"Link, oh thank the Goddesses you're alive!!" Zelda embraced him tightly, crying a little from hysteria.

"Um....Zelda?"

"Yes?"

"What's....what's that thing?"

Zelda turned around to see the creature in inquiry:

A giant sea serpent, whose head was dangerously close to them, and whose hands sported sharp, pointed claws.

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DUN DUN DUNN!!!!!!!!!!!!! a sea serpent, yes! MUA HA!!! and what WAS saria thinking when she grabbed malon and dove? u'll c, i guess! and when the next chapter comes, u'll find out....um, more. (duh)

so please review, unless it's going to be completely pointless. (cough Dragonkiller cough) Thanks! also, plz read my bio--i listed more story ideas there! MUA HAAA!!!