Hi. Chapter five is here. Sorry for the slight wait.

Here it is...

We exited the inn and found ourselves in the middle of a crowded market. "I hope we don't get stepped on," I said grimly, trying to force my way through the crowds so I could hopefully find the path that leads to the castle. "Though, I must admit, it's more of a worry for you than for me." Navi glared at me and I grinned. "Just a joke."

"Not a funny one," she said. That one sentence reminded me of my mom. Thinking of her reminded me that Kai was supposed to be coming over.

"Pause." I said. The pause screen came up and I looked behind me. Kai was nowhere to be seen. I sighed. "Un-pause." I was back in the crowded market with Navi.

"Link, I think I see the castle," Navi said.

"Where?" I asked.

"Over this way. Follow me." Easier said than done. She flew off into the crowd, and I was hard-pressed to keep up with her. Several times, I was knocked over by someone and had to climb on top of something in order to see where Navi had gone to. After several minutes of this, I caught up to her. She had stopped at a dirt-lined path that led off toward a huge building that I knew was the castle.

"Let's go," I said, beginning to walk down the path. Navi flew high into the air to keep lookout for guards. I continued walking along the path, running into nobody until I saw a young girl with long, reddish brown hair. It was Malon.

"Hi," she said when she saw me. "Are you heading to the castle?"

"Yeah, actually," I responded. If she asks me to find her father, I'll kill her.

"Would you mind looking for my father? He was delivering milk and hasn't come back yet." I considered slicing her to bits with my sword, but I remembered that I need to get Epona from her later on. "I'm Malon, by the way," she added. I never would have guessed, I thought sarcastically.

"I'll look for him, but I'm not guaranteeing anything," I responded.

"What's your name?" she asked.

"I'm Link."

"Well, thank you, Link. If you do find him, could you tell him to come home? I'll be waiting for him there."

"I will," I said.

"Thanks," she said. She walked down the path toward the market and I sighed. I was hoping that Nintendo wasn't going to force the players to do anything nice for the people in the games. Aw well.

"That was a kind thing for you to offer to do," Navi commented. She had flown down so she could eavesdrop on the conversation.

"Yeah. Wanna hear a not-so-nice thing that I could offer to do to you?" I said back to her, grinning evilly.

"No thanks," she replied hastily. "Let's get to the castle." She flew back up into the air and I continued walking. I found the path blocked by a huge gate. I could have slapped myself. I walked back down the path to where I saw Malon and examined the stone wall that lined the path on the right side. There were a few vines there that looked strong enough for me to climb up.

"I'm climbing," I said, mostly to myself. I seized one of the vines and began to climb. It wasn't too difficult. With my real body, I would have been utterly spent before even reaching the halfway point, but with this body, I made it to the top with ease. From up here, I could see exactly where all the guards were patrolling on the other side of that gate.

"Not bad for thinking of that by yourself," Navi commented.

"You must think I'm pretty stupid," I responded.

"If the shoe fits."

"I'll pretend you didn't say that." I walked along the wall until I reached the stone walkway that went over the gate. I saw the ladder that led to the ground behind the gate and climbed down it. I motioned for Navi to fly down to me so I could talk to her. "I want you to show me exactly where the guards are," I told her. "I want to make it to the castle without attracting any attention."

"Sure thing," she said, flying back up into the air. She looked around a bit before flying straight ahead. I followed her. She turned left and I followed her again. I kept on following her until I reached another stone wall. This one had small handholds that I could use to climb up it. I was suddenly very grateful for all of the times that I had gone rock climbing.

Once at the top, I continued following Navi until I was at the edge of the wall. About twelve feet down was nice, soft, cozy…stone floor. I checked this side of the wall for handholds and found none. Lovely.

"Navi," I said. "Is there any other place for me to get down?"

"Nope," she responded. "Not unless you wish to get caught by the guards."

"Great." I gulped. "I'll just, uh, jump then." After taking a few deep breaths, I jumped down to the stone floor. It wasn't pretty. My feet hit the ground, but the rest of me kept going forward. I wound up smacking my face against the ground. Ow.

"Link! Are you okay?" Navi asked. I groaned in response. At least I had enough sense to turn my head to the side was I didn't break my nose. "Link!"

"I'm okay, I think." I forced myself up off the ground and felt the side of my face. I wasn't bleeding, but I would end up with a nice bruise soon. "Let's just go find the princess."

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