Whoah... hadn't updated in a long time. Thanks for the goodreviews! I was losing hope...

Sorry for any inaccuracieswith names or places... I haven't refreshed my Zelda knowledge in a year or two. I wrote this story a long time ago and have been discovering all these problems in it. heh.

I've looked at the publishedchapters of thisand there seems to be a lot of problems with the spacing and indenting which can be pretty painful and confusing to read.I'll try to fix that from here on out. For the few that have braved the last 7 chapters, I salute you and apologize for what you had to trudge through!

Chapter 8. A Dream anda Nightmare

The day continued, and their friendship bonded many times over as they learned of eachother and where they came from. Before Link knew it, it was becoming nighttime."Wow. That was quick! I didn't even need to rest this time!" he said.
"It's the miracle of laughter!" Grodan said. This girl seemed to be chock full of sayings and wit. He was liking her more day after day. "Where should we make camp?" She asked.
"Does it really make a difference? It all looks the same to me!"Link exclaimed. Gyde's rock did look a lot closer after two days of traveling.
"By tomorrow we should get there right before sundown. Then there's hard part. Trying to get to the top. That's another day though. I don't know about you, but I'm wiped out." With that she laid down and within seconds, was lightly breathing beneath a heavy blanket. Link was spent too. He laid down next to her, hoping to be taken by sleep before the bitter, full force of the cold could reach him. Soon he followed his friend into dreamworld.

Link was in Hyrule Field. It was nighttime, cold, and windy. Something big was happening. There was a screaming crowd with pitchforks and torches in the corner of rocks next to the entrance to Lake Hylia. He felt a twang of fear, he didn't know what for though. Then he noticed he was galloping forward on Epona, she wasn't little though. She was her giant, stallion form. He looked down at his hands and legs, his whole body. So much bigger. It hit him; he was an adult again. The horse ran with mad speed to the crowd, he felt a dire urgency to see what they were crowding and poking at; Link's life depended on it. His horse nearly bowled the people over. It was of a breathtaking young woman with black hair,heaving with sobs on the ground. But before he could find out who it was, there was a blinding flash of white light.

The little boy of fourteen sat up straight from the hard ground. Around him the desert was beginning to glow with the sunrise. Grodan's figure still lay on the ground, moving slightly up and down with her sleeping breaths. It was only a dream. He was relieved, but the mystery of whothis girlwas still poked at him. Link sighed.He looked out overthe planes. Sure it was icy, but the remoteness of such a place was actually sort of beautiful.
He continued to stared off until the ground dipped off the side of the world. Link couldn't see much by the moon and stars, but the light was enough to show something in the distance.At first he thought his eyes were just being cheated by another illusion, but this thing was actually very real. It steadily grew bigger and bigger, faster and faster. It was coming right toward them! On top of the creature (he still couldn't tell what it was) there was a human basking in the moonlight but controlling the creature's small head on its long neck. Link hoped that it would pass them by if they were totally still. He laid back down, but left his eyes open just a slit.
The soft thudding grew louder, he could feel the vibrations through the ground into his body. Then it stopped. Link could sense its presence on the other side of Grodan. A slick poisonous voice sliced the silence of the night.
"I know, it's here..." There was a ruffling and Link felt the pressure of Grodan's back lift from his. The next thing he heard was a loud thwack and then a scream from the man.
Grodan had jumped up and kicked the man hard in the face. She wasn't such a a fool as to let someone sneak up on her to do God knows what.
"AAA! You little BITCH! You'll pay!" He gave athrew out a commandand just as suddenly there was a sudden loud snarl and his friend's scream.
Link was to his feet now, sword drawn and ready to pounce at the man, but he stopped at the scene before his eyes. Grodan was struggling and giving soft cries of pain, hanginga good two feet off the ground by the jaws of the strange creature the man had.Her her forearm dripped dark blood, seepingout where its razor-sharp teeth punctured her skin.
The creature didn't look like one to be messed with. It was a good twelve feet from the ground at it's maximum height. A slender, draconian head with silvery-blue eyes peaked out from it's long, gray neck. It met a chest where two arms poked out. They looked like the wings of a featherless bird, vestigial, no talons or fingers. But the man had corrected that by screwing on some sharp armor to the stubs. There was even webbing attaching the arms' farthest part to the thigh. The hindquarters of the beast were immense; tight muscles made up its large legs, built for speed and strength. Then there was a short tail slipping off the crooked backbone. It looked like it had been specially bred for such purposes; the chimera of a chicken and a dragon.
Theyoung man leaned hautily against his ride. He wastall with pale skin and red hair draping around his face like a willow. His green eyes challenged Link in their evil smile beneath unruly eyebrows. He was dressed in armor which, despite it's bulk, still gave away his lanky build with his desperate attempts to tower over others.
"Don't move boy, or you're girlfriend gets it." He looked back at Grodan with a taunting sympathy. She leered back into him, threw her head back and spit on his face. Disgusted, he just whipped off the saliva, brushed it on his thigh, then snapped his fingers. The creature lashed its head about, as if going to rip the girl's arm off. She yelled even louder, but then gave up and hung limp.
The man took his attention back to Link, "Put down the sword kid. We all just want to get on our way." Link looked pleadingly at Grodan to wake up, but she was out. He obeyed. The man saw Grodan's bag on the ground and rummaged through in it. His eyebrows raised and an even more obnoxious smile gleamed upon his face as he found what he wanted. The silvery luminancy of the egg glowed upon his face as he wrapped it in a blanket and he cackled. "Okay. I've got what I want. Drop her." The monster did.
As soon as Grodan hit the ground though, her dark eyes slashed open and she did a side kick into the man's ankle, buckling his knees. He yelped and fell, the egg went flying feet into the air."NOO!" The twohollered simultaneously, groping toward the unreachable gem.
Linkclosed his eyes, and without reason, the precious little thing fell right into Link's arms unharmed. Out of no where, a large kick was planted into his chest and he flew back at least five yards- without the egg. It tumbled in the air, as if in slow motion. All eyes were transfixed helplessly on it. Inches closing in to the ground, then centimeters... a blur of gray shot out, catching the egg in its teeth before it became a splatter of yolk. The teeth of the man's creature closed around it surprisingly gently.
The man lurched up from the ground, gave Grodan a quick, hardkick in the stomach, then hopped onto his steed. "GO!" He kicked off and the creature jolted forward toward where the sun was rising, beyond the mountains.
"NO!" despite her torn arm and bruised stomach Grodan battled for her footing then stumbled off after him. Link bruise, lurched up after her, but not before grabbing their bags. He didn't feel they would be returning. All he had to do was follow the trail of blood. On he ran in the temperate twilight, just watching the girl ahead stumble and yell out some indistinguishable challenge to the rider. He couldn't see the enemy, but he was sure she still could.
He was out off breath and aching, they had been tottering after several mintues of running, the sun mostly risen now. Suddenly the anxious girl just stopped in her tracks and fell forward onto the ground.
Link caught up to her, dropped on his knees beside her in exhaustion. "Wh-what happened?" It was hard to catch his breath. He rolled her over to see her face, sweat stained, but then again, those could have been tears.
"He...e-escaped." She pointed over to the chasm that she had talked about yesterday, the Mid-run. "I know where he's going though. It's something only he would be crazy enough to do."
"So are we still going to Gyde's Rock?" Link was very confused.
"Yes...yes we are. With all the more haste now. Ah!" She grabbed her arm like it was the first time she'd noticed the wounds.Her flesh was sliced all over, making her entire arm just a shimmer of blood. She took off the veil she had been wearing and wrapped it around the wounds.
"This isn't good." Her voice was weak and she almost didn't finish the words.
Link's eyebrows furrowed and he looked up to their goal. It was still about three days away. She was not going to make it in this condition.
"Who was that guy anyway?"
"A fucking bastard, that Braitho. The dyke takes pleasures in crossbreeding creatures to make them stronger for his evil deeds. How do you think that rieck we met back there came to be? I could have kicked his fragile, pink ass if he hadn't had that animal with him. It must be one of his new creations..." She caught her breath, all the talking was wearing her out, but she continued, "Braitho, though crazy, he's not stupid. He will go to Gyde's rock, find the rest of the eggs, maybe even take the mother, and create an army of whatever those things are or just breed them with other things."
"No, that doesn't sound good at all." Link looked down at the girl in his arms. She was so mature for only being his age, like she had lived once in the future too. But he strongly doubted it. Her eyes watered strongly with fear and doubt, but a quiet anger still roasted beneath them. Link's eyes were heavily set. He was not going to give up now. Not just for himself, but for her also.
Grodan recognized the look in his eyes, she had had those thought another time. But now his look, gave her courage. She grabbed onto his collar and sat herself up. She smiled, "Thank you...again."
Just as soon as it came, the smile was slipped away as she looked over her friend's shoulder. Her eyes widened infear asa large gust of wind blew through her hair and his. "Link."
"Yeah?"
"I don't think we need to worry too much about getting Braitho right now."
"What? Why?"
"Look behind you."

Cliffhanger!