A/N: Sorry this took soooooo long to put up but my brothers have been hogging up the computers all day for the past four weeks and I haven't gotten the time to type. But I've made this chapter EXTRA long because of it.

And just so you all know, no I did not have the time to spellcheck this chapter. when I have the time, I'll go back and spell check it for you. Enjoy!

-L.K. -

Chapter 5: Capture the Poe!

"You want me to wha!"

Both Link's, Navi, Tetra and Epona were standing outside of Hyrule Twon. It was midnight, but they were all getting ready to go their seprate ways, not bothering to spend the night where they were at. Tetra was having a conversation with Navi while both Link's were having a discushion of there own.

"I can understand if you don't want to, but I don't see any other way for you to pass through Kokiri Forest without being asked too many questions."

"sigh I guess you're right. I don't have any other choice, do I?"

"I know you don't want to, but I'd aprecate it if you did; I don't want them to worry about me so much."

"How do you know that, though? I thought you said you had to go there afew months ago. Didn't you see them then?" Link asked.

"...They didn't reconise me. they thought I was just an adult passing through to the Lost Woods."

"But surely they knew that you would've grown older and look different from the past seven years."

"Kokiri aren't supposed to grow up. They stay as children forever and never die of old age. As long as they don't leave the forest, they won't die. But, since I'm not a Kokiri, I was able to leave the forset and grow natrually like any other human would.

"But... they don't know that. they think I'm dead.

"I had to go back to the Lost Woods so that I could go to the Forest temple to find the Forest Sage. And since I had grown, they didn't reconize me."

Link fell quite for a moment.

"That must of been horrible for you," Link said. "Don't worry, you can count on me! I can pretend to be you, no problem! Tecnectaly I am you anyways, so what difference dose it make?"

it didn't matter so much to link that he had to pretend to be someone for someone eles. He was just glad he was helping out, and that it would help him, too.

"Thankyou so much! You don't know how much it means to me to hear you say that! All we need now is one more approval."

"Huh? One more approval?"

'What's he mean by "one more approval?' Link thought. 'I thought I was the only one who needed to pretend to be a Kokiri. It couldn't be Tetra. Why would she need to pretend to be one?'

"All Kokiri's have fairies," Link startted saying and interupted Link's thoughts. "And if you show up over there withought one, they won't belive you... Well, they might, but I'd rather not go into that. And the only fairy that would be willing to help us, and know the way through the Lost Woods, would be Navi."

"Did I just hear someone say my name?" Navi turned around sharply twords "her" Link. "You're talking about me, aren't you?"

"No, no. I was just explaning to him why you have to go along with them."

"O-o-o-o-oh. I see." Navi turned halfway ywords Tetra, stopped, and then flew strait twords Link's face and turned bright red. "What do you mean I have to go with him! I'm supposed to be staying with you! Not him!"

Link shooed her away from his face with his hand. "But Navi, they need your help more than I do. All I need to do is go to Kakariko Village to get some supplies. But they have a big important job to do: they have to go through the Lost Woods, but if they get lost in there they'll die! The future would change completly if that happened! That's why they need you!"

Navi grew silent for a moment, then said "But I'm concerned about you. How are you ever going to get along without me?"

"Don't worry about it. I'll be fine. I'm just going to Kakariko Village and that's it!"

Navi thought for a moment. "Hmmm. I guess it's not a bad idea. But how are we supposed to meet up with you again?"

"I'll stay in Kakariko Village for about seven days. If you all don't return by then, I'll come looking for you."

Navi paused. "Well I... guess it's not such a bad idea... It could work out. Alright, I'm in! Let's go princess and... future boy! To Kokiri forest we go! Goodbye, Link! See you soon!"

Tetra, Link and Navi said their last goobyes to link as they headed off twordsKokiri forest. Navi was their only source of light, so she began to lead the way through the dark night. After a few minutes of quite walking, Link decided to brake the silence.

"How come it's already nightfall? When we left from the future it was morning already."

"That's right," said Tetra. "When we left it was an early morning."

"Well then you probaly wer'en't sent back exacally two hundred years from then. You probally missed out on a few hours," Navi explained.

Link nodded as in "Oh yeah. I see now" and Tetra did the same.

"Well then, since it's night, shouldn't we set up camp or something?" Link said.

"Why should we? We practicaly just woke up. We could cover a lot of ground at night," said Tetra.

"But then that would mean we would be too tired to travel when it's light out."

Navi stopped and turned around to face them. "You got a good point there. Besides, I was awake all day. I need my beauty sleep."

Link and Tetra looked around for a spot to set up camp. But, all there were was vast plains. No caves or anything. But Link finally spotted a tall pine tree and suggested that they stayed there. He got some firewood from the dead brances beneath the tree, and started a fire. Link put down all his items bidside him, But he left his sword on his back. Then he got out one of his bottels that had his grandma's famous soup, his favorite, and poured half of it into another empty bottel, and then held them up near the fire, so they would heat up a little bit.

"You want some, Navi?" Link asked.

"No thanks," she said. "Can't eat."

Link nodded and then pulled the soup away from the fire because the glass was getting too hot for him to hold. He then handed one to Tetra.

"Here you go," he said. "it's a speacile soup that's been passed down in my family for years! You'll have to drink it out of the jar, though. I didn't think of bringing any spouns or chopsticks with me."

Tetra took it and looked at it oddly. "Is it supposed to be orange... with white chunks floating around in it?"

Link gave her a "Well don't complain to me" look. She otomaticaly kept quiet and drank the soup without saying another word.

Link always had a way with the expreshions on his face. He could probally carry out a conversation without saying a singel word! With the exeption of nodding and shaking his head for saying "yes" and "no".

After drinking their soup, and a few minutes of silence, link noticed something was wrong with tetra. She was looking foreward, not exacally at Link, but sort of past him. And she just sat there, not speaking a word. Which was unsulal for her because she usally spoke a lot.

"Uh, Tetra, is there something wrong?"

She didn't say anything. She just lifted her right hand and slowly pointed in the direction of Link.

Link raised his eyebrow in confushion, but he looked behind him anyways. He expected to just see a clear stary night sky over a vast plain. But, instead, he only say two grate big yellow and red eyes staing right in his face! he couldn't breath. He was in a state of shock and horror.

He slowly, very slowly, baked up so that he was closer to the fire, and so that he could get a better look at what it was.

Now that Link was looking at it from a distance, it's eyes weren't that big anymore, but still pretty big. It seemed like it was floting about tree feet in the air, and carrying a carrying a lanturn with a lit flame inside. It didn't really have a face. Just really big eyes!

"What the hell is that thing!" he wispered to Tetra, who was just as scared as he was.

"I have no idea but let's get out of here!"

"No, don't run!" said Navi. "It'll only make matters worse. A poe could follow you untill you die."

"Wait a minute... are you saying that... thing is a poe!" asked Link

"Uh... yes? Is that good or bad?"

"Good." Link stood up and reached for his sword, the one that Orca gave him back on Outset, on his back, and slowly reached down for his mirrior shild that was on the ground with all his other items.

"Are you crazy! You can't fight a poe with a sword!" said Navi. "It'll go right through it! You have to use arrows!"

"Arrows? But... ok. Whatever you say." He reached down again for his bow and ten of his arrows, put his shild back down and put his sword back on his back. He put nine arrows in his pocket and one in his right hand and took the bow in his left. He aimed for the poe and shot it with the arrow. It covered its face up quickly once the arrow hit it. It was not happy.

Link had faced many poe's back at home, especaly in the earth Temple. he usally defeated them by shineing light on them. So, shouldn't it work on this one, too? But, it was night. there was no light to be seen (exept for the fire, but that didn't really count).

'Come on, Link, think!' he thought while shooting arrows at the poe everytime it tried to posses him. 'There's just gotta be something that you can use to shine light on it... But what?'

He was running out of arrows and only had three left. once he ran out, he would have no way of defending himself! He shot another arrow twords the poe's head, but it quickly moved out of the way. link grew angrier and quickly shot another at it. But it dodged again.

Now all he had was one arrow left. He reached for it, but once he brought it up closer to his bow, he saw that it was a different arrow; not a normal one. he had acsedently grabed a light arrow!

'Duh!' he thought. 'Why didn't I think of that before! But, I don't want to miss this shot...'

He stood there with the light arrow ready to shoot. The string was pulled back all the way; if he shot it right now, it would reach miles away. But he wanted to make sure he didn't miss his last shot, so he stood there, waiting for it to come right at him.

Once it got a foot away from him, he shot it; a direct hit. Glowing light replaced the dark shadow of the poe. It was extremly bright so everyone covered theire eyes. When they were sure the light was out, they opened them to see what looked like a floting shadow with a black mouth and two eyes. Link new imedatly what he had to do. He quickly picked up his empty bottel that used to have his soup in it and swung it where the "shadow' was at, and put the cork on top. He then looked inside and smiled at the fuzzy purple and black clouds that were inside.

"Yes! I did it!" he said happily.

"Yeah, way to go, link" said Navi. "I would of never thought of using a light arrow... But I guess it worked all the same."

"But why did you want to capture it?" asked Tetra.

Link put the bottel down with all his other items and sat down next to them. "Don't give me that, Tetra," he said. "You know very well why I need that poe."

"Just checking," she said smieling.

Link was a bit confused by what she ment by that, but shruged it off.

"Well, I think it's time we all got some sleep. We have to wake up early tommorw if we want to actually cover some ground."

Link streched. "Yeah. that sounds like a good idea." He got up and put the fire out with the dirt by them so that only Navi's light shone in the dark.

"Do you mind if I sleep in your hat, Link?" Navi asked. "i always do that with the other Link."

He agreed and took his hat off and put it on the ground for Navi. Then he laid down and tried to close his eyes. But he couldn't seem to fall asleep. Probaly because of the fact that it was too quiet. He was alwats used to hearing the waves crash agest the shore by his house and hearing the wind blow through the windows. But there wass nothing here. Not even a crictet. It made him feal a littel home sick, even though he was tecictaly home, just in a different time period.

He laid on the ground and tried to get some sleep, but he still couldn't.

'Maybe if I can find a small hill to lay on I can look at the stars. That always helps me go to sleep.'

He eventualy found a hill not too far from the camp site and laid down on the tall wavy grass. He felt so refreshed just being able to lay there and not do anything. It sort of reminded him of home, back on Outset. Sometimes he would climb up the steep moutain just so that he could lay on the grass and look at the stars from there.

There was only one thing missing here: back at home, there was at least a small breaze. But here, there was nothing.

So he sat up and pulled the Wind Waker out from his pocket, as he always did to make sure he never lost it, and began to play the Wind's Requeam. He moved it up left and right, with colorful sparkels following his every movement.

"Just a small breaze twords the West should do," he said to himself. He then slowly pointed twords where he thought was West, since he didn't have a compass with him. A small cooling breaze began to go through his hair and agest his face. It was much better. Now it wasn't so quiet, at least to him it wasn't.

He gazed up at the stars and began to make out the Big and little Dipper, side by side. (A/N: In the game at night, if you look up at the stars, you really can see the Big Dipper! Just thought I'd point that out.) It seemed to calm him down and make him forget all his worries: if his littel sister was ok, how he was going to get back home, and if Tetra would be safe from harm.

Where was Tetra, anyway? He hadn't seen her go to bed, either that or he couldn't see her go to sleep in the dark. He shruged it off and tried to relax and get some well deserved rest. Then... he felt something creep up his shoulder. He jumped in alarm and fright and looked behind him, only to see a laughing Tetra pointing at him.

"You should of seen that look on your face!" she said while laughing. "Priceless!"

Link turned a bright red in frustration and was about to yell right in tetra's face, but he quickly stopped himself. He instead said "Why does everyone keep scaring me like that all the time!"

"Maybe because you're easy to scare?" She sat down beside him. "I couldn't get to sleep either so I followed you here. And I also wanted to tell you something."

Link stopped her from talking by putting his finger up in the air, telling her to keep quiet.

"Actually," he said while putting his finger down, "I wanted to tell you something first." He took in a deep breath and said "Back in that Temple we were in eariler, I had yelled at you. I know I shouldn't of done that, but I was really, really angry with you. And now I realize I shouldn't have done that. It was uncalled for from me, and I'm really sorry. Do you forgive me?"

Tetra was speachless. she was actually going to say the same thing to him if she got to speak first. Now she was glad she wasn't.

"Of course I forgive you! You only got mad at me for something I did! It's prefically resonable."

Link gave a sign of releaf. "Thank goodness! Well, I think I'm going to go back to the camp to get some sleep now. Coming?"

Tetra nodded and followed him back to camp, where they fell asleep. Link felt so relived that she had forgiven him. He could now go to sleep knowing that he didn't feal guilty about it...

-IV-

"You did what!"

Ganondorf stood up and slamed his fist agasit his throne's armrest as his third in command stood in front of him. She was his personal sorceres, and a gerudo, like every one of his servents were. And like the gerudo, her hair was the color of fire. Her close were similar to the others, bikini top with poofy pants made of silk, shoes that curled at the end, and her hair in a ponytail with a ruby gem to hold it in place.

The only difference in her outfit from the others was instead of red as the trim for her clothing, it was blue, with much more detail in design.

"I'm terribly sorry, Lord Ganondorf. I did not know that poe I sent would end up helping them. I thought it would get rid of them for sure."

"Well obusuly it didn't! I should send you to the prison for this! You're just lucky you're third in command!"

Ganondorf sat down and signed. What was he to do to keep that Link from getting all the items he needed before he could send the future him free? The poe was ment to kill him, not help him! He sat there silently, thinking. Then he started lauging.

"On second thought, it is a good thing he didn't die after all."

Ila, his sorcers's name, was confused.

"You mean, that is a good thing?"

"I didn't realize it before, but, yes it is a good thing."

"Sounds like you have a plan, Lord Ganondorf. Do you care to share it with me?"

"I sertainly do. You will play a huge part in it, so I want you to know every little detail about it.

"But first what you must do, is to slow them down by at least a whole day. Do you have any ideas on what you could do?"

She smiled. "I think I have an excelent idea, Lord Ganondorf..."

-IV-

A/N: finnaly! It's done with! I hope liked this chapter. It took some very careful planning to do. I did lots of reseach on the Grudo Tribe so that I could get there looks down. Just remember, they don't have elf-like ears like the Hylains do. They have round ears like we do.

Oh yeah, I'm going to try to go to camp hyrule this year on so if you go there, look for me! I'll be under the name linkfreak131.

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Responces to Reviewers:

Greki: Thankyou! I'm glad you like it!

Birth of Venus: Yeah, yeah. I already know all about those spelling errors I've made. It won't happen again, I promiss!

Sweetwater-Rhapsody: Awwwww! Thankyou! And don't worry, I'll continue this story 'till it's finished! No matter how long it'll take!

dark sorceress of egypt: I'm soooooo glad you're back! I missed you! Where've you been all this time! Oh yeah, in your review from chapter One, you asked why Link still had the KoRL as his boat, correct? Well, I have an answer for you:

The relationship is meant to mirror that of the one

between Rauru and Kaepora Gaebora in OoT. It's like

one guy sits around at home while something he

possesses goes traveling in his place, which is why

you still have your boat after the King's death.

I got this from so I'm not sure if it's acurate, or not.

halfatheory357: Thankyou, again. And congrats on your poem! (She got her's published in a book!)

Ra Ra: Yeah, I was kinda woundering how I was going to do that, too! But I kinda did it...