This fanfic is going pretty well. I actually have motivation to work on it. Unfortunately, it seems that when I upload the chapters, my page breaks keep disappearing. That's rather irritating. Anyhow, I shall try to fix that. Hope you enjoy chapter two!
Disclaimer: I don't own Legend of Zelda or any characters, items, enemies, etc. affiliated with it. Miyamoto does. I own Tarin, and a couple other characters.
"Wow! Is this the castle?" Tarin asked, looking around. He was very excited; both his face and his voice showed this, as well as his tail, which was quickly brushing back and forth across the stones that made up the "road".
Hyrule Castle Town was very busy that day. There were all kinds of outdoor shops selling fruit and vegetables, an enormous crate of cuccos guarded by a large man, and a busy auction, just to name the main points of interest. There were some kids playing in the fountain and a pair of girls chasing a cucco around and around. Tarin figured it must've been a girl thing to chase the birds.
Kira laughed. "No, this is Hyrule Castle Town. The castle is up that way." She pointed to it. "I do not want you to go to the castle unless I am with you, understand? I do not want you causing trouble for the guards," Kira warned.
Of course, Tarin wasn't listening. He was watching the kids in the fountain. There were four of them—three boys and a girl—and all of them appeared to be younger than Tarin, with the exception of two boys, one blond and one with red hair.
"Hey, wanna play with us, mister?" the little girl called out to Tarin, wading over to the edge and climbing out.
"'M-mister'? Who, me?" Tarin pointed to himself, and the girl nodded. "No, that's okay, I can't. Sorry."
Tarin moved away from the fountain and went back to the entrance, deciding to explore the town in a circle—that way he'd know whether or not he had missed a shop. He passed by a crowded stand where several large women were shouting.
"What do you mean, forty rupees? You told her half that!"
"Of course he did. Anyone can tell I'm much prettier than you, and therefore deserve a discount."
"'Prettier'! The only thing you're prettier than is a Skulltula."
Tarin put his hands over his ears and quickened his pace to get past the women. He slowed again to stare at a woman who wasn't selling anything, but would pay any amount of money to buy other people's junk. Tarin continued until he found a shooting gallery and went inside. Kira had given him fifty rupees to spend for himself, and it was only twenty for a shooting game, which also came with a slingshot and a bag of twenty Deku seeds.
"If ya shoot twenty or more rupees, ya get yar money back. If ya shoot thirty or more rupees, ya get thirty-five rupees. If ya shoot forty-five or more, ya get ta keep tha slingshot. If ya get more'n sixty, ya get a hundred rupees," the man at the counter explained. "Start when yar ready."
Tarin stepped up to the divider, and right when he did, a bell rang somewhere and two green rupees flew out and stopped beside each other. Tarin shot and hit the left one, shattering it. The right one flew away before he could shoot it. Then a blue one rose out of the center of the range and stopped, allowing Tarin to shoot that one, too. After those came two blue ones side-by-side, then a green in the center, but they didn't stop and Tarin missed them. Tarin hit the next two, two large red rupees that appeared side-by-side, but missed two red ones that went by on ziplines a couple seconds later. A bell rang again, and Tarin stepped away from the range. He reached up and set the remaining seeds on the counter.
"Fifty-one points," the man said. "As I promised, ya get ta keep the slingshot. Thanks for playin'."
Outside, Tarin continued walking, admiring his slingshot and shooting pretend Deku seeds at townsfolk. Unfortunately, he wasn't paying complete attention to his surroundings, and doing this caused him to run into one of the girls chasing the cucco, knocking them both to the ground.
"Ow!"
"Oops. Are you okay?" Tarin held out his free hand to help her up. She had blond hair that was plaited in the back, blue eyes, and paler skin than Tarin had seen on normal people. Her green dress was a little too small for her and torn in some places.
The girl didn't get up, but instead leaned to the side, as if trying to see something behind Tarin.
"Am I in the way?" Tarin asked, shifting his position a bit. Just then, his tail decided to come around and curl around his right leg. The girl's eyes became wider.
"A tail? You have a tail?"
"Yes?" It was a question, because Tarin was confused, since the girl seemed excited about it, rather than confused. Most people were confused; Tarin was one-of-a-kind. The girl jumped up and grabbed Tarin's hand in both of hers.
"Can you…can you come to the castle? Right away?" she whispered. Tarin nodded. He had never been this close to a girl before and didn't know what to say. Was she going to kiss him or something?
"Great! See you then!" She ran off.
The castle? Why does she want me to come to the castle? Maybe she wants to show me a secret passage into the castle."
Since he was in front of the path that led to the castle anyway, Tarin started running that way. During this, an odd thought popped into his head. I wonder what's on TV right now. It made him wonder what exactly "TV" was and why he wondered what was on it. Oh well. Maybe it was a kind of food.
:D I kinda like this chapter. A cyber cookie to whoever can guess who the blond girl is before the next chapter.