A/N: Disclaimer: I do not own the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

A Pair of Time

Chapter 38- The Wet Door

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"Explain to me WHY we are here?" Malon asks annoyingly, hearing that accursed music of the windmill.

"Because… I think the Song of Storms can do us some good," Link answers.

Ever since our heroes learned the Song of Storms, Link wanted to know what happens when he plays it in the windmill at Kakariko. He remembered the water being drained from the village well, and that it had something to do with the windmill. Based from what he knows, a windmill draws water by spinning fast. And the last time he played the Song of Storms, the windmill spun at a speed that he thought could be 'fast.' So, the melody might do the trick and drain the well, where he heard there's something down there. He couldn't get to it as an adult, because Impa, now mysteriously missing during an investigation seven years later, sealed it off. So, the only way left is by going as a child.

"What good?"

"Drain the village well?"

"WHY would we want to do that?"

"You remember Impa sealing it off seven years later?"

"Yeah…"

"Something's down there."

"I don't think it'll do us any good," Malon protests. "First of all, draining the well will cut off the village's water supply."

"We'll put it back."

"Oh, right, we'll put it back ONCE we'll explain to them WHY we sucked it dry in the first place."

"It'll be for a while. They won't even notice. If they will, the water will be back in no time."

"But, fairy boy!"

Link walks up to the same music man of the windmill, still happily playing his music box.

"Go around! Go around! Oh, what now?"

"I got a song that might work, sir…"

Playing the Song of Storms, the same results occur like the one seven years later. The windmill starts to have a miniature rainstorm indoors, pouring heavy droplets on everybody. The rotary pillar starts to rotate faster and faster until it becomes a dizzy sight of speed.

Outside, the blades of the windmill crank up to full power, spinning at a dangerous rate. And the rainstorm occurred not only inside, but outside, too. Suddenly, the clear water of the well begins to lower as the source is being siphoned by the mill. Soon, it becomes empty enough to walk on dry enough land.

"Go around, go around, go around…" the music man somehow sounds tired. "What? It's going way too fast!"

Indeed, the rotary pillar still is at high speed and hasn't falter down a level.

Kakariko Village

"I don't know…" Malon looks down at the bare well. "I heard creepy things are in that well."

"Creepy?" Link peers down after her.

"Yeah, didn't you see that sign? Dark? Narrow? Scary?"

"… So?"

"Okay, how about this… I heard that a while back a rich man lived right on top of where this well here once was. He had, get this, an eye they said could see the truth!"

"See the truth?"

"I don't know what they mean by that, but it sounds scary."

"What's so scary about seeing the truth?"

"… Have you learned nothing about knowing the truth!"

"Okay, okay… Geez…"

"Anyway, I heard that man used something to easily see the truth. He didn't train his eye, they say, but created an instrument to help him."

"… And what's the point of all this?"

"His house was demolished right after he died… in his own house! They built this well right here where that house was after some time."

"… I don't see the point."

"Don't you get it! They say his ghost haunts the well!"

Link blinks. "Yeah…?"

Malon smacks her head. "A GHOST! Do you really want to go against something that could kill you!"

"I'm not afraid." Link shrugs. "But, wait… You said his house was destroyed right after he died?"

"Yes."

"What happened to his truth instrument?"

"Supposedly, it got buried in the basement he had."

"Basement? They didn't destroy that?"

"No. The old poachers left the basement alone. They flooded the place with groundwater and build the well connecting to the basement."

Link puts on a thinking face for a moment. "So that's what's in this well… That instrument…"

"Oh, no! You are not going to drag me down there! I heard the man did horrible things down in his basement!"

"Uh, define your term of 'horrible.'"

"I heard that whoever doesn't pay the man back with what they owe him gets captured by him and never brought back. Rumor has it that he then tortures them in the basement, does freaky experiments on them, bloody, gory things down there… He even made the place their graves…"

"But, that's rumor, right?"

"Yeah, but from what I've seen with you, a lot of rumors just so happened to be true."

"I'm still going down there."

"Please, Link! Please, no! His ghost probably haunts that truth treasure of his! I know you do all crazy things, but I'm begging you, don't go down there!"

Malon's eyes show complete worry and care for Link. He knows how much Malon deeply cares for him, and Malon does seem terrified of the prospect of going in the well.

"Mal… I… I'm going to be okay," Link assures.

"Please… don't go down there…"

"Malon…"

Malon suddenly grabs Link's hand with both of hers.

"Please?"

"Malon, I…"

"I know you, and you would do this kind of stuff, but… don't do this."

"I can't just…"

"Yes, you can!"

"But…"

Link now finds himself being embraced by Malon.

"Please… I don't wanna lose you, fairy boy… Please, don't go down there… Please… for me?"

Guilt is now rising in Link. Now, what?

But, Malon knows. Despite her pleadings, she could feel that Link really wanted to go down there. Down to where anything could happen. Should she let this happen? She doesn't know how to answer. But, one solution does form through all of this. She looks up to see Link's own worried face.

"Link… There's… There's really no convincing you, huh?"

Link doesn't reply, nor change his expression. Malon sighs to this.

"If… If you're going down there… then… I'm coming."

"… Really?"

"I can't just let you go alone."

"… Thanks, Malon."

"But, please, promise me… you'll be careful."

"I promise. But, you got to promise me that, too."

"I promise, then. We'll be careful down there. Whatever it is…"