Chapter Three

When Annabella awoke, she was still in Malon's bed. The bottle of milk was empty. She sat up and gently rubbed her temples, wondering how she had gotten to Hyrule.

'Okay, Annabella, let's think. Backtrack. What'd you do before you came here?' she thought to herself, resting her elbows on her knees and the palms of her pale hands against her eyes. 'One: play Ocarina of Time. Well, nothing unusual happened, except that I fell asleep. Yeah. Then, I had that dream. Link was tied up and I played a song on the Ocarina of Time. Then I woke up and took, like, half an hour figuring out that song in ocarina notes. What then? Right. I played the song.' Annabella issued a small gasp and lifted her face from the palm of her hand. "The song! The song!"

Annabella bit her lower lip gently, trying to remember how it went. She let herself fall backwards into the bed, rethinking the notes over and over again until she believed she had it correct.

"Oh! Hello Annabella! I was bringing you more milk on Link's orders. Are you feeling better?"

Annabella glanced towards the door to see Malon standing in the doorway, holding another bottle of milk.

"Thank you, Malon," Annabella muttered as the redhead strode over to the bed she was lending to a complete stranger. Annabella accepted the bottle and glanced into Malon's lovely sapphire blue eyes, full of both innocence and…Annabella was slightly amused to detect some sort of fear in Malon's eyes.

"How did you get to Hyrule?" asked Malon, sitting on the very edge of her bed. She seemed curious about Annabella, but more to know how to protect herself.

Annabella opened her mouth, and then hesitated. Malon knew nothing of Link's adventures nor would she ever. It would be very hard to explain her adventure to Malon, and she was pretty sure that from the way Link had acted before that Annabella was to keep Link's first childhood a secret.

"I…I used magic," Annabella began, feeling guilty for this fabrication.

"Magic?" Malon's eyes widened. She looked interested, but still afraid.

"Oh, but don't worry! It's good magic. We use it to help people. You see, I found a, uh, a spell that I didn't know what it did, so I tried performing it." Annabella's guilt intensified with every word. Even though she was telling a slight truth, she hated to dupe such an innocent girl, one who had been her idol for a while. "And I closed my eyes and I appeared in Hyrule."

Malon looked very intrigued by this story, and the fear that had been etched on her face had now disappeared. "A magical spell to get you directly to Hyrule? That's amazing! How…how does it go?" asked Malon shyly.

"Uh, um, well, I, um, I don't really wanna perform it right now, 'cos it might put me someplace else, and that wouldn't be good, would it?" Annabella hated the words that came forth from her lips, hating these lies, but what she had just spoken was laced with more truth than the other falsehoods.

Malon nodded. "Oh, yes. That's a good point."

Annabella smiled. "Yeah. You get it, right? I mean, it's not good to try this spell till I know exactly how it works and stuff, 'cos I might end up killin' myself or something!"

Annabella was not completely lying. She did not want to perform her song on the ocarina until she knew what it did. She would sing the song for Link, to see if he knew what it meant, and then maybe they would visit Zelda.

Malon gave a small laugh. "You talk funny, Annabella."

Annabella raised her eyebrows. "Funny? I talk…funny?"

"Well, no, not funny, just…different. It is interesting. I like it."

Annabella understood what Malon meant. Annabella's speech was different than Malon's, because Annabella spoke using slang and joining her words together, while Malon's speech would be considered formal and snobby where Annabella resided.

"Thank you, Malon."

"So you're awake, Annabella?"

The two girls looked up at Link, who was standing in the doorway.

"Yeah. Hi Link," greeted Annabella. Malon stood up. Her face had hardened.

"Hello Link. Well, goodbye, Annabella. I am going to leave you two alone."

Malon marched in an angry manner from the room. Link looked quite confused, but Annabella knew what Link or Malon might never:

In many fanfics Annabella had read and written, Malon was passionately in love with Link, and some other girl comes from Earth and steals away Link. Malon was afraid that Annabella would steal Link away from her, and her love would always be just a child's crush.

Alright! I got this chapter out! Well, feel loved, because I spent my Study at the school library writing this so that you can read it! lol I'm just kiddin' (I did use my study, but I'm not mad). I'll write the next chapter quickly today and it might be out tomorrow/Friday or POSSIBLY today. I had a small problem with writer's block but now I got it! I'm temporairily going to stop writing my original fiction on fictionpress so that I can get this story done. I'm so glad people like it! Well, I gotta go; the bell's gonna ring in one minute!