Chapter 9

The sound of a loud cucco screeching at the morning sun rang in her ears. Amber pulled the covers over her head; she wasn't ready to wake up yet. The cucco screeched again, she threw the covers off. After she finally got up, she changed her cloths and ran in to the kitchen, but something was amiss. There was no sent of burning cucco eggs, no Sarah running franticly to and fro, no sound at all.

Link and Zelda walked into the room, rubbing their eyes. Amber ran past them quickly, throwing the door to Sarah's room open.

"What's going on?" Link asked seeing the concerned expression Amber had. Amber grabbed Link and buried her face in his tunic.

"Link, I-I-I can't find Sarah any where!" Amber sobbed. Links eyes widened.

"What? W-well, if she's not out side caring for the cucco, then we'll search for her!" Link said reassuringly. And sure enough she wasn't there.

Link didn't know where to search, but he promised Amber. So they looked in the village, where a girl with very short golden hair came up to them, she apparently knew Amber, because she knew her name.

"Amber! Wana' play a game?" she asked.

"I-I can't! I've gotta find my sister!" Amber said sobbing. The girl suddenly stopped Amber from running off.

""Wait!" She said grabbing Amber's arm, "I saw Sarah last night! She was climbing the hill headed to the graveyard!" She said, very concerned.

Amber smiled very happy to know the whereabouts of her sister.

Link, Zelda, and Amber were now heading up the hill going to the graveyard; it started to rain not to long ago, so it was abit slippery. Once they made it to the graveyard, they looked around. The Place gave them chills. Link was walking around, not paying attention to where he was walking, and he fell in a mud puddle. Amber ran over to help him, but she found something lying in the mud, it had fallen out of Link's bag. She wiped it off to find it was a necklace with a red jewel in it. Amber looked closer at the jewel to find it was glowing.

Zelda had helped Link out of the mud, when Amber ran over to them, "What is this thing?" She asked.

"That's Din's necklace," Link responded "but why is it glowing?" He said taking it from Amber's hands. Zelda too looked intensively at it.

"Wait," Zelda said quickly, "didn't Jeitya say something about this…I think it means we're close to the first sage!" She became excited.

" But, Zelda," Link began, "We have to find Sarah, remember! She's my friend!"

"Right, sorry." Zelda said slowly.

They walked around, looking for any sign of Sarah. Suddenly, Link fell through the ground.

"Link! Are you okay?" Zelda shouted, bending down over the hole in the ground.

"Yeah, I think so…Hey, what's this?" Link asked picking something off the ground. It was a shining red ribbon; " I found Sarah's ribbon!" Link shouted excitedly, "She must be down here!"

Amber and Zelda quickly jumped down the hole, joining Link.

The place was dark, but they could see things clearly, They heard a loud screeching noise, "Duck!" Zelda shouted pulling Amber to the floor, a fire keese flew over them, very close to attacking. Quickly Link took out his bow and an arrow, and shot the keese. He took out another arrow and shot all the other keese.

Soon they were able to go in to the center room, "There she is!" Amber shouted pointing at the top of a very high wall. She was right, Sarah was up at the top, but she looked as though she was asleep. Suddenly the light went out all around, and something hit them all hard. Link was now on the floor griping a spot on his head; it felt as though his head was splitting. Suddenly lights came on from no where, and Link could see the large beast that hit him on the head.

The creature was eight feet tall, it's grayish skin made it look as though it was suppose to be dead, it's beady eyes focused on Link, with large arms that were so long they allowed its hands to drag on the floor.

Amber screamed and clutched on to Zelda, pure terror in her eyes. Link unsheathed his sword in a hurry. He ran at the monster, but it swung its arms to deflect, "This thing's smarter than he looks!" Link said.

Link grabbed his bow and an arrow; he aimed it at the monster and shot it. The arrow bounced off the monster's head, but it did notice. The monster charged towards Link when suddenly, something hit the creature in the back of the head.

It gave a stupefied look and turned around, there stood Amber holing yet another rock and whacking the monster on the head. The monster roared and charged at Amber, " Oh, shoot!" she said her eyes widening.

It's back was turned, this was a perfect chance. Link slashed the beast in the back. It quickly turned around, its arm swinging into the air. Unfortunately this arm knocked Link, but link ended up attached to the arm. The beast noticed this and tried to swing Link off, but luckily Link had grabbed on tightly.

Suddenly someone had jumped on the creature's back, gripping it by the throat. This gave Link a chance to get off the monster's arm.

"Get him now!" said the person on the monster's back.

"Sarah?" Link asked.

"NOW" She shouted. Link stabbed the monster in the back and it fell to the ground, Sarah got off its back. Before they knew it, the creature had turned in to dust.

"What are you doing here Sarah?" Link asked.

"I-I remember hearing a voice calling me here but…" Suddenly she stopped, Link and her noticed something was glowing in his bag; he quickly took out Din's necklace, glowing brighter than it had before. Link looked up at Sarah.

"Sarah, you are the sage of Din." Link said.

"What?" Sarah asked.

"Just put this necklace on!" Link demanded, she did so. After putting it on she fainted.

It was dark all around when suddenly a fire came from nowhere and began to take the form of a woman, the woman had very short, fire red hair, in a dress made of fire; Sarah recognized this woman as the goddess Din. She began to speak, "Sarah, from birth you were chosen to serve as a sage, you will be there to help link when he needs it most. Do you under stand?", Sarah nodded. "Sarah?"

"Sarah!"

"Wake up!"

Sarah shot up, to discover they were in a completely different place, she was in the place Link and Zelda were taken to see Jeitya. Sarah turned around to find Link and Zelda.

"Where is Amber?" Sarah asked.

"I think she was transported home." Link said, Sarah sighed a sigh of relief. "Unn, Sarah, I think your going to have to stay here until we save the world." Link added.
"I know." Sarah said. Suddenly she put her fingers together and teliported Link and Zelda to Hyrule Field.

Zelda grabbed up Faore's necklace and looked at the back.

"Well," she said, "It seems we have to go to the east forest!"