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

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A Pair of Time

Chapter 53- A Girl and a Fairy

Haunted Wasteland; Day

Oh, goddess! What was I thinking when I said I would cross the desert! Malon cogitates as she treads through the burning sand of the wasteland. Words did not fully describe what the desert held for her. The moment she stepped away from the Gerudo's Fortress, a giant sandstorm engulfed her body with its prickly particles. It's more of a good reason why the Gerudos built their fortress inside the valley walls. Another good reason why is that the gust supporting the sandstorm is scalding. Malon could feel her sweat gushing from her pores a few moments after she fights her way through the wind. If the sun isn't going to be the unforgiving one, the sandstorms will certainly take the title. Plus, due to the constantly shifting sands underneath her feet, Malon pushes on with a slow travel across the Haunted Wasteland in the searing temperature. All of this does not look good to her on the path to the Spirit Temple.

"Come on…" Navi pops out, now that she's out of the Gerudos' sights. "I'll help you, Malon, but you got to push on!"

"Easy for you to say. Being a fairy and all…" Malon mutters to herself, then turns up to the fairy. "Navi, what did that Gerudo say? She said there're two trials, but what's the first one?"

"The River of Sand. It's unable to be crossed by foot, however…"

"Then how am I supposed to get past it?"

"You might want to stop first because you're about to walk into it."

Hastily, Malon reacts, halting her foot before it reaches a section in the sand that seems as if it's flowing. Adjusting her view, she discovers an elongated area of the sand ahead that is converging into the middle. Curious, she bends down, letting a hand near the river.

"Don't," Navi stiffly said. "I do think it will swallow you whole no matter how little of your body you let it consume."

The redhead again reacts quickly, retracting her hand back. "Well, if this is the River of Sand… how are we, or I, actually, supposed to cross it?"

"Well, let me see…" The fairy lets a minute pass to study the surroundings. "There seems to be crates on the other side you could use the Longshot on… I think. It could be a mirage."

"Where?"

"Look closely to the middle. If you can just see past the sandstorm, you'll see them."

It takes a while, but Malon spots the three crates idly stuck in the sand on the other side of the river. Fortunately, they are within range of the Longshot's reach. "Okay, I see them. They don't look like any mirages to me…" With a return inside her head by Navi, Malon wields one of her companion's favorite weapons. She steadily takes aim with the laser, then releases the lock in the mechanism, firing the hooked chain across the obstacle. Almost forgetting to brace herself, she yelps as her hand almost relinquishes its grip during the fly over the river.

"Malon, are you okay?" Navi questions soon after they made it to the other end. "… You look a little shocked from almost falling into the River of Sand."

"Well… I think I just found 100 reasons why the Longshot is not cool…"

"Very interesting," the fairy said nonchalantly. "Anyway, we're not done yet. We got to follow the flags the Gerudos put ahead or else we'll get lost!"

The sandstorm turns even worse as Malon struggles against the force of nature. The flags are within short distance from each other, but the raging sands hamper a travel between each of them to five minutes. Perambulating between them is like running through a maze, for Malon finds perceiving the wooden flags nearly impossible with the wind obscuring everything inside the storm. Only by Navi's light against each standard is Malon even able to tell them apart from the blinding sediment.

"Hey!" Navi, after several flagpoles, screams over the roaring wind. "Malon! Hurry up! There's a bunker over here! We can rest in it for a while!"

Hearing the delightful news of shelter against the torturous desert, Malon hastens her pace. Climbing over a large dune where Navi is hovering over, she encounters the building of the fairy's mentioning. She darts inside, breathing in relief that the winds and the heat would not bother her inside the bunker.

"Watch your step!" Navi warns her again, saving her the trouble of taking a plunge down an opening. "The bunker leads down there!"

Malon quickly grabs hold of the metal bars leading inside, and climbs down into the room. There, a stage with bare torches is inside, along with jars. Strangely enough, a Golden Skulltula happens to make this room its home, as it twiddles on the wall opposite Malon.

"Oh, finally…" The redhead slides into a sit against the wall behind her. "Out of that awful desert…"

"… Aren't you going to take care of that Skulltula?"

"No… Well…" Malon finds the thought conflicting with another one. "Yes. I really don't want it alive here." After a moment, an arrow lands a death wish on the insect, letting it squirm and fall off before it could do no more. "There… Now… Now I can do… it comfortably…"

"Do what?"

"Oh, Navi… That desert… is as hot as Death Mountain! I really need to… Oh…!" Malon couldn't take it anymore. She cringes for a second, then proceeds to take off her bandanna, shirt, and dress. Throwing these to the side, she continues by relieving her undies of their duty. After taking these off, the redhead examines her body, glistening heavily from the copious amount of perspiration lining her skin. Contented with the release of heat, she lies down to rest, her head staring blankly at the ceiling.

"Is it that hot?" Navi hovers over her eyes. "I can't feel what you feel, so I really don't know."

"More hot… than I'll ever experience in a while, Navi."

"So, how long are you going to rest here?"

"Oh, I dunno… Everything suddenly feels very comfortable."

"Uh, maybe because you're au naturel?"

"Yeah… Well, I might stay here for maybe… ten minutes or so." She then sits up. "But first…" Malon reaches for her clothes, searching through them until she seizes one of the canteens of water the Gerudos gave her, "some water." She uncaps and downs the pure content cravingly, not caring for streams of water cascading down her neck and chest. "Oh, yeah…" she moans as she wipes her mouth. "That's the stuff… Ugh, I got some water on my sweaty chest… Hey… it feels good, actually." Appealed to the idea of a cool wash over, Malon takes another canteen and opens it. Slowly, she drenches her body with water from head to toe with the canteen and another one. Repugnant sweat and sand swim away as caressing water removes them, letting them drain through the floor's cracks, all the while sensitively cooling Malon's body down. She moans again during the bath, in pleasure of water, something so simple, doing so much for her. In an unusual sort of stimulated enjoyment, she lies down on the floor again to calm the energy and still relish the feeling.

Navi, hovering and staring during the whole time, gulps rather nervously. "Um… you… really looked like you enjoyed that."

"Oh, I did!" answers Malon gaiety. "Good thing I still got three canteens left… I'm gonna need them."

"Well… um, okay." Something overcomes the fairy as she resumes gazing and she quickly spins away to discard the unknown thing.

"Something's wrong, Navi?"

"Nothing, nothing… Nothing at all."

"Oh. Well, it's just when you usually turn like that, something's usually up…" The redhead shrugs. "Hey, do you want to sit on me?"

"No!" Navi turns and answers rashly. "I mean… no thanks."

"Aw, come on! Don't be like that! We're girls! There's nothin' to worry about!" Malon clutches the fairy out of the air and brings her onto her chest as she lies back down. "There, that ain't so bad, is it?"

"Uh-buh-buh…" the fairy stutters timidly as she is placed on the cleavage.

"Feel comfortable?"

"Uh… Wh… Ma…"

"Too comfortable that you can't say it in words, Navi? That's okay, I understand! It would feel comfy there!"

Am I going HOMOSEXUAL? Navi thought. Because this… this…! AAAHHH!

"Mmm, you feel so good, Navi…" Malon shudders a little. "So warm and fuzzy… I can't believe all fairies are like this."

"Uh-Uh-Uh, y-yes. Fairies are… w-warm and f-f-fuzzy."

Hands cover Navi as a consoling gift, but the fairy is about to break under the situation as it is. Is it possible that I'm being like this because of the way Hylians LOOK…? While BATHING themselves…? Curse myself for studying Hylian pleasure and sexuality the most out of any other species!

"… Oh… you feel so good…" Malon remarks as she slightly pushes Navi more against her chest. "Oooh… Am I making you feel good, too, Navi?"

"I-I-I-I…"

"That's okay. We can stay like this longer than ten minute if you wanna."

The sentence impels hidden abstention that was long amiss. "Okay, STOP!" Navi squeezes out between Malon's hands and breasts, drifting above her with wings fluttering wildly. "Please, stop! I can't take it!"

"What?" The redhead sits up and stares at Navi. "Can't take what?"

"This! You, naked, holding me against you, squeezing me against your breasts, you liking me being warm and fuzzy, us feeling good! It's just… WRONG!"

"What do you mean?" Malon is still confused. "How is this… wrong?"

"It just… It just… What you just did for the last few minutes… They're not right!"

"Last few minute…? Oh… but, we're gals, right? And you're a fairy and I'm a Hylian. I can take a bath in front of you and hug you without any clothes on."

"That's… what's… wrong! Even if I'm a female fairy, the way you just did everything entic… I mean, arous… No! I mean what you did made me feel… sexually nervous of you!"

"What…? Sexually?"

"Malon, it's very hard… not to feel… stimulated after what you just did the last few moments. Even if it is a female and or a different species, I would highly doubt anybody could stay in here and not feel amatory, or at least erotic."

"Because of what I did?"

"Yes, yes. I apologize, but… you really almost made me… gone over… And then goddess knows what will happen, especially if I had no refrain…"

"Oh… Um…" Malon's head droops, ashamed after understanding. "You… You shouldn't be sorry, then, Navi. I… I didn't know I was making ya feel uncomfortable… like that… I'm sorry."

"No… I should be. I… I should have said something earlier before… all of this happened."

"No, Navi… it's my fault. I shoulda asked you first about it."

"It's of my error, Malon."

"No, it really isn't."

"It is."

"Well… let's just… say it's both of our faults, then, if one of us can't take it."

"… Okay." Navi nods. "It's our fault."

"Yeah…"

An awkward moment of silence takes hold, before Malon asks, "So, I was really… um, sexy when I did all of that…?"

"Vulgarly speaking, yes."

"And… it even made you horny?"

"I wasn't horny… You just caused me to be sexually excited."

The redhead couldn't stop a giggle from approaching. "Hee hee. I made you, a fairy with little bliss in her life, feel… hmm, sexually active. For me, nonetheless." Malon eyes the fairy curiously. "Hmm, you don't feel that way with Link, but with me…? Navi… are you gay?"

"No," Navi sternly replies. "As I said before, what you did would have provoked ardor in anybody."

"… Bisexual?"

"No."

"Well, I can tell lies, Navi, and I certainly can tell yours."

"It's no false statement, Malon. Now leave me alone…" Navi quickly withdraws from the conversation. "I thought you didn't like anything that had to deal with sexuality."

"I don't. But I find this too interesting to drop… You, being horny with me, even though you said all you care about are love… and… reproduction… Oh, I can see it now on the title of a book, 'A Girl and a Fairy.' Innocent title, but oh so different is the content inside."

"Would you just let it go?"

"Aw, what's the matter, Navi? You didn't like me hugging you while I was naked? You didn't feel comfortable with my breasts? Didn't feel good with me?"

"STOP."

"Tee hee! Okay, okay, I'll stop… but only until you admit ya really like me, especially like that."

"NO."

Malon takes a stand and saunters towards the fairy in an obvious manner of salaciousness. Navi blunders back, the nervousness in the form of erogenous returning. "You know, Navi… Those wings… They kinda… turn me on… I really do like a fairy and her wings…" The fairy noticeably flinches upon hearing this, especially with the halting of her fluttering wings. But Navi remains steadfast, keeping her mind occupied with things not relevant to the situation. The real question, however, is how strong her restraint is. "You're real lucky… that you have wings, Navi… Real lucky… because I like 'em… Mmm, wings…" Navi yelps as Malon's hands close around her. "I like your wings…"

"I'm pure, I'm pure, I'm pure…" Navi utters silently and quickly as a useless reminder. "I will not fall under temptation. I will not be corrupted. I will not fall for my friend. I will not. It's all about offspring. Offspring. Even if it's homosexual, it's all about offspring, not pleasure. Offspring, whether necessary by nature or product of romance. Only for that, no pleasure. No, no pleasure at all. No pleasure… No… No… NO! NOOO!"

Her scream comes from Malon's face tilting towards her. Before she could even think to react, the Hylian plants a kiss on Navi, almost causing the frozen, frenzied fairy to lose her mind. It is no ordinary osculation either, as Malon moves her lips around and lets loose her tongue, clearly making sure her little, bright friend still has tons of room left to think certain thoughts about her. She could feel Navi shaking and shuddering at the same time, while hearing the fairy whimper like never before. "Mmm, Navi… You know, I think… I'll go homosexual for you…"

"AHHHHH! OKAY, OKAY!" Navi screams her loudest yet, using all of her might to escape Malon's lock and grip. "I ADMIT IT! FINE! I HAVE SOME STRANGE FEELINGS OF THAT SORT FOR YOU! I ADMIT IT! NOW, STOP, PLEASE!"

"… Was that so hard to say you like me?"

"YES! WAS IT NECESSARY TO DO ALL THOSE UNCHASTED ACTS?"

"Hey, anything to hear you say all those things, Navi."

"By the Divine Trinity, I would have commit suicide if that… that… act was abided…"

"Anything else to say?"

"NO."

"How about… loving me?"

"DON'T… PUSH IT."

"Oh, ho, man…" Malon laughs her heart out, something she hasn't done for some days now. "Oh, what just happened here in the bunker… there's never gonna be anything like that here again… Nor anywhere else in the world for that matter, if I think about it… Too bad Link's missing out on this… Hmm…"

"You tell Link about what happened here," Navi said with the most threatening voice she ever has, "and I will let the River of Sand eat you up."

"Alright, Navi. What happened in this bunker, stays in this bunker," the redhead concludes before lying back down on the floor for a few more moments.

Out of earshot, the fairy mutters to herself, "Goddess, how does Link keep up the platonic friendship…?"