Hello! Now before I begin the story I'd like to thank all of you who reviewed. Your reviews encouraged me enough to continue my story and make chapter two. Well for this half of the story we're gonna focus a little more on Malon. Hope ya like! This part also won't have too much romance in it, sorry to disappoint you!! But that will all come up soon. So please just be patient!

Disclaimer- If I could I would dance in a chicken suit in front of the whole school, if it was possible I would drive over one side of the Grand Canyon and up the other side, if I were brave enough I would sky dive into the Mississippi River without a parachute, all for Zelda. But unfortunately I can't, I won't, and there's no way I could do all that. So I don't own Zelda and that's that.

Now let's get started!

Chapter Two: Two Paths

Giant streams of golden light ran down one end of the V-shaped path, and darker indigo ones on the other. A sizzling blood red light enveloped the young girl in its blaze, leaving her with a dark unpleasant feeling. 'What is this place?' she thought uncomfortably, wincing as one of the flames burnt through her dress making a hissing sound. Just as she thought that a golden silhouette of a figure appeared on the golden path along with a darker indigo one on the other. Both had piecing gray eyes that stared right through her and carried in their hands substantial weapons as if ready to fight. They stood there motionless, waiting for the answer they wanted from her.

"Choose now."

She blinked twice turning to the left to see the golden figure glaring at her. He had made that comment.

"Wha- what are you talking about?"

"Choose the path you wish to take; only I would warn you not to refuse."

The indigo one answered this time. His voice was quiet and made a rude snake like sound. Just the sound of it made shivers run up her spine. She backed away.

'What are these two talking about?' she thought, confused. She looked at them both. The golden one held a powerful glare, making her legs tremble. While the indigo one held more of a chilling smirk that made her want to back away in fear.

The flame around her suddenly started to burn even more than before, making her clench her teeth in pain. 'What's… what's happening now…? I'm beginning to feel… dizzy…'

"You know that flame will stop burning if you hurry and choose." Said the indigo one, still smirking.

Now it was clear to her. She would either have to choose a path or get burnt to death. A twisted feeling inside of her told her to refuse even through all of this torture. What was going on here?

"I… I…"

She unexpectedly began to feel something in her throat. Whatever it was kept growing bigger, and bigger almost choking her. As she started to gag she noticed both figures smiling evilly at the sight of her and again that feeling to refuse attacked her. She couldn't make up her mind. Before she could decide on her own, a voice unlike hers spoke up and refused for her.

"I refuse." It said sincerely.

All were quiet without a noise to interrupt the silence. Finally the golden one gripped his weapon tighter and said with might in his voice,

"You have made a foolish choice. Now you shall perish along with the rest of this land!"

With that he held up his weapon, a sword, above his head as an orange beam started to glow around it. The indigo one mimicked him exactly and soon an immense orb of energy had appeared above them. A dark and cold light surrounded her bringing the smell of death with it. Finally she closed her eyes falling into a dark trance and the last thing she saw was pure, dark black.

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Dawn's early peek of light shone itself bright through the small crack in Malon's window, calmly letting her and the other citizens of Hyrule know that night was over and morning had finally come to take its place. The smell of dew-mounted grass was sent pleasantly to her as she lightly stirred in bed and breathed in the other heavenly scents of the fresh morning air.

Dawn always seemed to be the perfect time of day. It was breezy peaceful, quiet, calm, and romantic. Just as she liked it. Too bad for her there was really no time to enjoy this since soon she'd have to get up make breakfast and then head off to do her morning chores.

She was often curious to what life in the castle was like. It was certainly better than this. The princess was definitely treated with far more respect than she was and of course she could get whatever she wanted whenever she wanted it. A life like that was wonderful. Beautiful. Grand. That great life that she would never get a chance at.

After a few minutes of relaxing herself, Malon reluctantly sat up in bed and sighed. She slowly stood and walked over to her dresser. Taking out her usual dress and boots she slipped them on and glanced in the mirror. Groaning she put her hair up into a messy ponytail, leaving two strands to hang and headed out the door.

As she arrived downstairs she heard a loud snort from Ingo. She looked up just to meet his annoyed glare at her. She returned the glare and said defensively, "What?"

"Guess you are ending up like your indolent father more everyday, huh? You stupid, lazy wench! Ye should've been up two hours ago!"

"Shut up Ingo. I have as much right to sleep in as you do, and don't you dare call my father indolent again." Malon snapped back with wit in her voice.

Why did she and her father have to hire Ingo anyway? He was disrespectful, inconsiderate and, as far as anyone could see, just a plain jerk. The only good thing about him was he could take care of the animals in a decent manner. Other than that there was nothing she liked about him.

Once again Ingo snorted and mumbled something under his breath before going back to the stables, forgetting about his own appetite. Malon quickly looked around the kitchen again before deciding that she wasn't too hungry either. After a minute of gathering a handful of buckets and grains, she hastily sprinted out the doors and went on to tend to her favorite animals. The horses.

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"Dad I'm going out for a while. I should be back around noon." Malon said almost halfway out the door, heading toward the stables to get her horse. Without waiting for her father's reply she rushed over to the stables and burst in, startling most of the horses. She looked down the rows of horses pointing her finger at each as she tried to decide which horse she would like to take.

"Well Robert is too old, and tired. But Siara won't do anything I tell her to do. Hmm…"

She looked around a bit more and then in the corner she saw the exact mare that she wanted.

"Scarlet, there you are girl. I missed you."

Malon ran to the horse and hugged her tightly and gently. The mare whom she called Scarlet looked almost the same as Epona and for that reason Malon loved her. She was sweet, gentle, strong and a little shy like Epona too. Malon could've sworn that they were relatives.

She quickly unlatched the door that kept them separated and brought Scarlet out of the stables and next to the house. Scarlet obediently stood where she was as Malon saddled her up. Just as she was finishing up on that Talon suddenly emerged from the house doors.

"Malon, think you could uh… do a couple errands for me? It won't take long."

Malon climbed up on Scarlet. "Sorry dad, but I have somewhere to go. I'll get back to you on it later."

Talon sighed. "All right Malon. Where'd you say you were going again?"

"I'm just going… out."

"Mmm all right then." With that said Malon rode out into the open fields of Hyrule not knowing what to expect".

Finally she had a break from all her hard work. Of course Ingo had been pissed when she told him she was going out but it wasn't like she cared. She deserved a break and she knew it.

As she neared the market she frowned and decided that there probably wasn't anything good she could buy there. Thirty rupees wouldn't buy you too much of anything good anymore. She turned Scarlet around to let her lead them. She smiled at the ranch in awe as she looked back towards it. Golden glints of the sunset were set upon it with a mixture of light orange and lavender. It was truly beautiful.

She sadly remembered a time when she was younger, before her mother had left her, when she her mother, and their old horse Robert came out to watch the sunset. It had been an amazing sight to see, especially for Malon since it was the first time she had ever come all the way out here to see it. She remembered jumping in delight and surprise when she first saw it and the way her mother had laughed at this. But now it was only her here. Her and Scarlet.

She looked ahead of her curious to where Scarlet was leading them, but Scarlet didn't seem to know where she was going either. Every few seconds she'd stop and look around then turn to go somewhere else.

"Come on girl," Malon said scratching lightly behind Scarlet's ears. "We have to find something to do. After all this is our break."

Scarlet neighed as if to agree with Malon and began to walk on in one simple direction.

The light tapping of Scarlet's hoofs soon sent Malon into her thoughts again. But she wouldn't be able to think for too long, because next the unexplainable would happen. The first thing that would change Malon's life forever.

A few minutes later she had been deep in thought about her mother when suddenly out of the corner of her eye, Malon saw a bright orange flash and a black one directly after that. She turned toward both and looked around. What had that been? Instead of trying to figure it out she decided to ignore it settling with the thought that it was just her imagination.

Once she was ready to leave she saw it again and blinked twice. It couldn't have been her imagination this time could it? She slowly stared off in that direction, thinking, when the same thing alarmed her again. Eventually she started to get suspicious. Cautiously turning Scarlet in the same direction it had been coming from, she began to wonder if what she was doing was really the right thing.

When they finally reached their destination Scarlet immediately began to react to a strange smell that seemed to hang around in the air. She waved her head around wildly and kicked frantically at the air. It was no use trying to calm her down. There was no stopping her.

Malon cautiously got off Scarlet unsure of what was going on. Why was Scarlet acting this way? Suddenly there it was. A blinding golden light. It slowly faded away and left behind it was a strange figure with piercing gray eyes… Wait… It couldn't be…

--Flashback--

In an instant a golden silhouetted figure appeared at the lighter side of the path along with a darker blackish one on the other side. Both had piercing gray eyes that stared right through her and carried in their hands substantial weapons, as if ready to fight. They stood there motionless waiting for the answer they wanted.

--End Flashback--

Malon's jaw dropped broadly as she stood there staring at him. It just wasn't real. How could it be? She slowly crept closer to him to get a better look. But he immediately saw her and took off running. Before she could stop herself she soon found that she was running after him. He quickly led them into the woods making it more and more difficult for her to keep up. There was no doubt about it; he was trying to lead her somewhere but… why? And where did he want to take her?

After five minuets of chasing him and trying her best to keep up, they finally arrived at a large clearing. Surrounding them were tremendous trees that would only let a few glints of light peek through them. There was a long silence, until the figure finally turned around and gave her a devious grin. She stared at him with confusion in her azure eyes. What was he going to do now?

Suddenly the black flash she had just saw earlier appeared in the corner of her eye and, just as she had suspected, another figure, blue this time, stood in its place when the light disappeared.

They each stood on a side of her and snickered. She looked at them one after the other. At last the golden one nodded and the blue one did the same back to him. They both turned to Malon, and then prepared to attack.

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MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Heh, how do ya like that cliffhanger? A dumb action attempt will be in the next chappie Anyways I have a few things to say so listen up. Firstly I did not intend for this chappie to take so long in to post. But jeez ya can't blame me. When you have psycho teachers that give out way to much homework like mine then maybe you'll understand, maybe. But still I have to apologize to the people who've waited the longest (you know who you are ;;) and also I was aware that there were spelling mistakes in chappie 1 and I fixed them thanx anyways for pointing it out (you know who you are ) One other thing I won't promise you that chappie 3 will be up too soon after what happen with this one (Yeah I know it took like over a month for this to get posted up but lucky for me I don't have muses ). And that's all for my babble! Now go and review please. There's no point in reading if you're not going to review!

Till next!!

--Chelsea--