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Chapter 6

A Lady in The Woods

"What are you..." Link's eyes were wide as saucers. He spoke!

"I knew it!" Impa whooped. Link was spluttering on the spot.

"What happened?" Link's voice sounded old and scratchy from disuse. But still, it was there. "How did you...?"

"You'll remember that I took Prince Starger for a private word earlier?" Impa whispered, and Link nodded, "Well, I asked him to demonstrate how he would put a voice-stealing spell on someone, using myself as a gunea pig. Of course, I had him promise to reverse it." Impa rolled her eyes as Link got a shocked look across his face, "Anyway. I bought a sacred item in town today, and exposed that to the spell. Before he could reverse the spell, I burned it. That destroyed all the voice-stealing spells that he had ever cast. There will, according to a servant at Hyrule Castle, be quite a few people talking about Prince Starger from now on."

Link laughed. He laughed as he had never laughed before. It felt so good, to let his feelings out verbally, instead of trying to show it with his hands.

Almost immeadiately, though, the mood sobered up. Impa leaned forward, and spoke in a low, serious voice.

"Link, you must not tell Princess Zelda that it was Starger who placed that spell upon you. It would destroy her." Link's temper skyrocketed.

"What!" He demanded, jumping to his feet in outrage, "I sufferred nigh on eighteen moons because of that abomination, and you are telling me that I cannot tell anyone!"

"Precisely." Impa said in a threatening voice, daring him to argue. And argue he did.

"That is absurd!" He cried, scaring off a few birds in the nearby trees, "That would be letting him win!"

"I did not say that there would not be any repercussions." Impa stated simply. This got Link intrigued, to say the least.

"And they would be?" Link demanded.

"The King of Hyrule does not approve of Zelda's reationship with Starger. He will have Starger looked into. You may tell the King." Impa smirked evilly, "The King has been worried about you, Link. You were like the son he never had. He will not ignore the treatment you recieved at Starger's hands." Link grinned like a rabid wolfos. He intended for Starger to be there when the he told the King of his suffering at Starger's hands.

"What will happen to him?" Link asked, still standing. Impa also stood.

"I'm afraid that I do not know." She conceeded, "Now, come. Let us return to camp."

Link and Impa began trudging back to camp, but Impa stopped suddenly.

"Link," she called softly, getting his attention, "I almost forgot. Who broke you out of Starger's dungeon?"

"Nabouru," Link mutterred, loudly enough for her to hear, "and a few other Gerudo. I don't know where they are, or what happened to them." Link added, seeing Impa open her mouth. Impa nodded. Link turned his back on her, and continued towards the camp. Impa however, remained behind. Probably to keep lookout.

THE NEXT DAY

Zelda yawned and splashed her face in the river water. Standing up and stretching her back, she felt like she was being watched. Spinning around, she visibly relaxed.

"Link." she breathed, "You scared me." Link bowed his head in apology.

"It's alright, Link," Zelda smiled, "I just wasn't expecting you. Was I sent for?" Link nodded. Following Link, she expected to see whoever had called for her in camp. All she saw, though, were men packing up, leaving no trace that they were ever there.

Zelda was perplexed. Link just motioned for her to follow him. She walked in his wake trough the camp, into the woods, and emerged into a clearing quite a far way away. Zelda supposed that it was because whoever wanted to speak with her didn't want to be overheard. Had she been with anyone but Link, she would be extremely worried. Something, though, told her that her situation was amiss.

"Who wanted to talk to me, Link?" Zelda asked, beginning to feel the first signs of fear. Link simply turned around, and gave her an evil smile. He clicked his fingers, and in a flash of light, Link was not there anymore. In his place stood a woman. She would melt the hearts of the coldest of men.

She was tall, with honey blonde hair, violet eyes, and was undoubtedly one of the most attractive woman on Earth. Just looking at her, though, was not frightening. The aura that surrounded her was one of the most powerful auras that Zelda had ever felt. It was almost as powerful as Ganondorf. Maybe even more so.

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