A/N: Warning: This chapter contains content that could be considered Rated M. Please, greatly refrain yourself from reading if you are underage. I am not responsible if underage readers read this chapter and produce a personality altered by this chapter.

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A Pair of Time

Chapter 28- Highly Rapid Growth

Lon Lon Ranch; Day

It's just another great day to start off with! Malon thought gleefully as she brushes her hair in her room.

Morning has come. The animals wake up with busy bodies. The sky is clear, yet opaque with the color of deep blue. The sun hangs with the sky, shedding light to raise the darkness of the world. Lon Lon Ranch regains its former beauty and feeling. The comfortable scene of the rural world mixed with the air of happy work makes a dramatic reappearance. No wonder Malon likes the morning this much at home. All except the work, of course. Not too much, though, since she is here just for a rest before heading out again.

She still has some time before the first duty, even with the long sneaking off from Link while he's still sleeping. In fact, she has lots of time. What can she do…?

Can't cook breakfast yet. Too early to do anything. Oh, why did I wake up so early?

After she finishes getting her hair done, she sits on her bed. Looking out at the window, the sun barely peaks the horizon. Finding this, she lies back, staring at the ceiling. It's all the same in her room. Just too early.

What can I do…? I don't want to lie here and wait. That's too boring.

She then goes over the list of what to do today.

Let's see… Dad wanted me to milk the cows, bottle the milk, feed the Cuccos, crate the eggs, and… that's it.

Boring.

Well, I can finish off the day with brushing the cows and the horses. But, still…

An idea pops up.

Have I written in my diary…? Of course I did, I put in an entry before I slept with Link.

But, then again… Malon decides to check if she did happen to write in it. She searches with her eyes around the room. Drawers, a wardrobe, some pots, a table with its chairs and a flower vase, windows plus the ceiling one. Nope, no diary.

The bed. That was where it last ended up.

She kneels down next to her bed and starts groping around. Nothing hard in her pillow. Nothing underneath the bed. Nothing inside the mattress.

Wait, there is!

She feels the rectangular solid in her hands. Quickly, she pulls it out, but with a surprise.

This… isn't my diary!

No, it isn't. Instead, it's a blue, hard-covered book with the title, 'A Lady's Feminine View: An Overview of the World of Women.'

Oh, that's right. I burrowed this from the Hyrule Castle Town library… uh, seven years ago. I guess it's overdue, heh heh. Well, I can't return it since Hyrule Castle Town IS gone.

She burrowed it a few days before she first met Link. Figuring that she must be 'up-to-date' with the local girls of the Market, she rented this, not knowing that it will provide her much MORE than enough information on female Hylians, much more than girls her young age need, or HAS to know. Fortunately, however, she hasn't even read the first page of the book since borrowing it. She was too busy with farm work, and then too much busy when she waited for Link to come for the first time to Lon Lon Ranch. She simply shoved it in her mattress when she discovered that Link was coming over. That would be too embarrassing if Link ever found the book sitting in her room out in the open.

Well, seeing as I have nothing to do for now…

For the next several hours, Malon opens her mind into the secular world of adulthood, filling it with the most shocking of things. She begins the abrupt and terrifying 'transfer from childhood to adulthood' in a very short time. Five times she screams out loud knowing the nook and cranny of a young lady's life. Countless times she shuts the book closed and sits there shuddering.

"Malon?" Talon calls out before opening the door to her room. "Is everything all right?"

"Y… Y… Y-Y-Yes… Dad…" Malon puts out a stutter.

Although, the scene differs. On the bed, Malon is seen with her legs pulled close to her and is covered with her own blanket. She's breathing rapidly and rocking back and forth. The book is face down behind her.

"You don't look okay, honey."

"I'm-I'm-I'm… I'm fine… Dad…"

"Then, why were you screaming?"

"Uh… Uh… Um… N-N-Nothing…"

"Okay, then. If it's nothing…"

"Y-Y-Yeah… I… I… I… I will… be screaming a lot… this morning… okay, Dad?"

"Why?"

"Nothing… Just… Just screaming…"

Talon yawns. "Well, you woke me and Ingo up. I might as well get to work today, then. You can start working whenever you like, okay, Malon?"

"O-Okie dokie… Dad…"

Talon exits and closes the door, shrugging off the conversation between them as nothing. As a father, he really doesn't know what's going on with his daughter. Thus, that's the reason why a mother should know.

I don't want to read it. I don't want to read it. I don't want to read it. I don't want to read it. I don't want to read it. I don't want to read it. I don't want to read it, Malon repeats in her head. I DO NOT WANT TO READ IT!

A second later, Malon's eyes continue reading the book. Later on in the morning, more screams come out of her room, just like she said.

"Why is Malon screaming?" Ingo asks, down below where he and Talon are having coffee.

"I don't know," Talon answers. "I'm the dad, what should I know from my little girl?"

Two hours pass since that conversation. Finally, Malon reaches… the part about men and the women's view and knowledge of them. Blood curling screams rock the house and makes its way outside to the pasture, if not, outside of Lon Lon Ranch.

"What was that?" Link hears the first scream. He's just woken up and is petting Epona inside the corral.

Another scream soon follows that one.

"Is that… Malon's voice?" Link blinks. "She doesn't sound like she's in trouble. What do you think, Epona?"

Epona simply snorts (I don't know. I'm a horse, not a Hylian. Just keep petting me, fairy boy). She proceeds to chew Link's hat.

"Hey…" Link takes off his hat, "what did I tell you? This isn't food."

Again, Malon's voice pierces the air.

"Goddess!" Link freezes up a little. "I hope she stops that. It's hurting my head…"

Then, comes the moment. After three more hours, Malon slowly turns the page forcefully, seeing the word that Ingo had used earlier when she and Link were inside the storehouse.

Sex…

After an hour of explaining and some illustrations, she realizes what the deplorable, yet pleasant word means. "HOLY MOTHER OF…!" her voice echoes through the air.

"Now what?" Link groans when he hears her. "What's so bad that's making Mal raise her voice like this…?"

With every page Malon reads, it's like running over her mentality with a stampede of horses.

"AAAHHH! OH, GODDESS! IS THIS WHAT…? AAAHHH!"

Orgasm…

"HOLY SHI… NALLY! OH, GODDESS! WHAT THE F… LIP! AAAHHH! IT'S TOO MUCH! AAAHHH!

She finishes. Finally, throughout the whole morning and noon, she finishes the disturbing book of adulthood. It's over. Still, the purpose of the book is to teach, so it's permanently stuck in her mind. Everything. A woman, her feelings, her thoughts, her adult body, her sexual features; a man, his feelings, his thoughts, his adult body, his sexual features; how the two opposite gender can get together romantically and/or sexually, and then, the part where they, on a bed, have-

"AAAHHH!" Malon yells to dismiss that thought. "WHAT A SICK WORLD I LIVE IN!"

She couldn't take it anymore. She busts open a window and immediately throws out the book with all her might, not pausing to consider that anybody could pick it up. It flies far enough to land conveniently right besides Link.

Oh, no! Malon's mouth drops wide open. Please, PLEASE! LET ANYTHING HAPPEN, BUT DON'T LET LINK READ THAT!

Too late. Too darn, freakin' late. "Huh?" Link notices the throw from the window, seeing the book land next to him. "Why did Mal just throw a book out…? Books are our friends…"

"FAIRY BOY! DO NOT TOUCH THAT EVIL BOOK!" Malon's voice greatly begs to differ the 'books are our friends' statement.

"What?"

How can a book be evil? Link wonders. Well, unless they are possessed… Link shrugs it off and continues to reach down for the truly evil book.

"DO… NOT… TOUCH… THAT… DAMN… BOOK… OF… HELL… LINK!"

"What's wrong with the book!" Link questions her.

"DON'T READ IT!" Malon waves her arms desperately.

"Why!" Link yells back. "Isn't books our friends!"

"THAT BOOK ISN'T! DON'T READ THAT BOOK! JUST DON'T!"

"If you're not going to give me a reason, then I can't stop myself!" Link brings the book up, opening up the door that will end his late childhood.

OH, GODDESS! Malon sees him reading. NOOOOOO!

She bolts from her room, pushing everything in front of her aside as she heads for the house door.

"YAH!" Talon, holding Bottles, is shoved out of the way. This lets go of his grip on the Bottles, and thus leaves shattered versions of them on the floor. "Malon, what in tarnat-"

SMASH! The door slams behind Malon as she runs outside, ignoring her father. All of this in under three seconds. Talon blinks, then sighs.

"Teenagers…" Talon shakes his head as he tries to find a broom.

With dust behind her to show her speed, Malon continues running towards Link in the corral. Just as she enters the pasture, Ingo, holding a rake, walks by. Not even noticing him, Malon moves past him with a shove, sending him spinning around.

"Whoa…!" Ingo's vision blurs as the world moves sickeningly around him. "Malon… what the…"

At last, he stops his ill spin. However, his mind is still topsy-turvy. He continues rotating strangely until he falls onto the ground. Not, though, without his rake hitting something.

CUCCO! The rake hits a Cucco nearby, with the sharp end.

"Oh, no…" Ingo mutters his horror. "Aaahhh!"

Ingo continues shouting until his voice is muffled by the masses of Cuccos swarming over him, pecking every inch on his body. If there is such a more horrible thing than the Cuccos' torture…

"LINK! LINK!" Malon calls Link's name out as she quickly continues heading towards him. "PUT THAT BOOK DOWN!"

Link continues reading the book of adulthood, still confused as to why Malon would throw out a book. Worse, why there are these words and pictures that he has never seen before, because of childhood restriction.

"Malon, why does this picture show a naked man on top of a naked woman?" Link points at the picture when Malon reaches him.

"GIVE THAT BOOK TO ME!"

Not waiting for an answer, she snatches the blue book out of his hands.

"What is this book that you have here, Mal?" Link asks.

"It's… It's…"

Well, since Malon did learn the whole adult thing in just seven hours, she might as well… teach Link what she has learned from the book.

"Um… Sit down, Link…"

Link does as he was asked. "What's going on, Mal?"

"Fairy boy…" Malon sits next to him, hasn't even got a clue to where to start. "Well, how should I explain this…? Okay… Well, you know that… since we did sleep for seven years, we grew up from little kids, right?"

"Yeah…"

"And that, we still think like little kids, right?"

"Uh, I think so."

"So… I guess… Well, you see… this book here is… is… a… a guide," Malon stutters, "to adult… adult-ish things."

"Adult-ish things? What?"

"It's… This book… teaches… the… intimate world of adults."

"Uh… what?"

"Okay… I'm just gonna teach you the things I read out of this book, okay, fairy boy?"

"Why?"

"You want to know, right?"

"Uh, sure… What is it about?"

Malon pauses. "… I guess I should start off there, what it's about." Malon takes a deep breath, which sounds like a sputter. "… Okay, then… Um, do you know what reproductive systems are, Link?"

"Uh, yeah… I think," Link answers. "I think I remember the whole anatomy of a Hylian in a book… in my house somewhere… The anatomies of both genders, I remember reading…"

"Oh… well, this is going to make it much easier, then…"