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THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE CHOSEN'S RETURN

ACT TWO, SCENE FOUR: THE TRUTH

As surprised as everyone was, Colette knew that it was bound to happen. The truth had to come out sooner or later. And it had to come out now.

"Lloyd, what are doing here?" Colette asked.

"We were waiting for you," Lloyd said. "You took so long that we decided to look for you. Where have you been?"

"Uh…well…" Colette couldn't give an answer.

"So this is the Lloyd you were talking about," Link said.

"And who are you people?" Raine asked.

"Link, Zelda, Saria and Mido," Genis replied. "There are new friends and Colette seems to know them."

"And how do you know them?" Lloyd asked Colette.

"I know them because I've met them the last time I was here."

"You were here before?" Raine asked. "How long ago since you've been here?"

"Six years ago…"

"What?" Mido said. "It's only been a year. How old are you?"

"Sixteen."

Everyone looked stunned. There should have been some explanation, but there wasn't. At least, not for long…

"May I be some of assistance?"

Another person was standing behind Lloyd and Raine. It was the Happy Mask Salesman.

"Hey! It's you!" Lloyd said. "You're the guy from the forest!"

"That is correct," he replied. "I am the Happy Mask Salesman. I travel to all sorts of places in search for masks."

"What a strange profession," Raine said. "May I ask why you're here?"

"To answer your question," he said. "There is a long explanation about why Colette seems older than she appears to be. It all has to do with the Termina Incident that happened here."

"Incident?" Lloyd asked. "What incident? What's going on?"

"It seems that Colette knows more than what she's putting on," Raine said. "An explanation would be nice right about now."

"I can't give you one…" Colette said.

"Another one of your lies Colette," Lloyd asked.

"Lloyd!" Genis said.

"I am sick and tired her lying to us just to protect us. Why can't you just trust us for once in your life?" And with that, Lloyd walked off in a storm. She turned to Genis.

"See! I was afraid that this might happen! This is your entire fault! If we didn't come to this place, none of this would have happened and we'd all would be happier!"

"Would all of you really be happy?" the Happy Mask Salesman asked.

"What!" Colette questioned him.

"Even though the incident is not directly connected to your world, you still have a moral obligation to help your friends. This Derris Klarlan world is connected to your world."

"Derris Klarlan?" Raine asked. "What does Derris Klarlan have to do with anything? I'm still waiting for an explanation."

"Allow me to explain," said the Happy Mask Salesman. "Derris Klarlan is in a direct collision with Clock Town, thereby endangering the lives of innocent people. Link and his group are trying to save this world. However, they need all the help they can get and seeing that Colette is involved, they asked her first."

"And the reason why six years passed in their world and only one year in Termina?" Link asked.

The Happy Mask Salesman prepared himself: "I heard this from the scientist in the Astral Laboratory:

Before, the time of Sylvarant and the time of Termina were in sync; due to the moon's involvement of joining both Sylvarant and Termina and Link's Ocarina of Time, effects occurred. When the moon transported Colette into Termina, this sped up time and resulted in Termina's time moving faster and Sylvarant's time moving slower within the time flow. This, however, was a temporary effect. When Link used the song of time and song of inverted time in his adventures with Colette, this caused the time flow of Sylvarant to move faster and Termina's time to move slower. When Majora was defeated and the moon disappeared, the effects turned permanent; making it impossible to establish "in sync" time flow between Sylvarant and Termina."

"I don't know what you just said, but its all Link's fault, right?" Mido asked.

"Mido!" Saria slapped him in the head. "It's not Link's fault. He just didn't know the consequences."

"Well, since were all here, we should work together," Genis said. "We should work towards stopping Derris-Kharlan from crashing into Termina and saving this land! Right Colette?"

"Where is Colette?" Raine asked.

Everyone looked around for Colette but she was gone. She had followed Lloyd back to town. She wanted to explain herself to Lloyd. She found him by the laundry pool.

"Oh…it's you…" Lloyd said sadly.

"Lloyd," Colette started. "I just wanted to…"

"Save it. You always apologize. You never mean it though…"

"But I do mean it! You don't understand why I couldn't tell you I was here before."

"Then tell me the reason then!"

Colette told Lloyd her story; the truth. Lloyd was stunned with disbelief of all the things Colette has done.

"So you betrayed them. Just like Zelos…"

"For the right reasons. So I could protect them."

"You still didn't tell me why you couldn't tell me or the professor. Why did you tell only Genis?"

"I didn't. He found out on his own by someone in Link's group."

"Why didn't you at least tell me?"

"The same reason why I don't tell you anything that could endanger our friendship."

"And that is?"

"……I like you, Lloyd."

"I like you too, Colette."

"No, I mean, I like you, like you."

"……this is awkward…"

"Why is it awkward?"

"Because I never knew you felt the same way I did…"

"You mean…"

"I like you, like you too, Colette."

Colette started to blush really hard. Lloyd took her by the hand. She whispered, "Really?" Lloyd replied, "Really, really."

"How cute," a voice replied.

Colette and Lloyd looked up and found a person in purple clothes, cloaked in a purple cape and with purple hair. In his hand, he kept a shard of an ancient mask...

Who is this guy, anyway? I hope he isn't too much trouble (those who played either The Minish Cap or Four Swords Adventure from the Legend of Zelda series should know who this is). What will happen next? Please R&R and find out!