"Papa! Link returned! I'm going to the market place to go see him!" Malon cried out in joy. She was so happy.

"Alright, just be careful Malon." He said before returning to sleep. She smiled and giggled at her father, the chickens were climbing all over him and he laid there immobile.

She tip-toed out the farm and mounted her horse Feo. He was a stallion, a black stallion at that with a white mane. He wasn't a mix breed either, he was a defect. She patted him on the side and the started towards the Market Place. She tied him up to a post outside of the market. She nuzzled him and walked inside. She was 23 now, and beautiful. Her hair looked brighter red than an apple. Her skin was like porcelain, her eyes were an ocean gray, and she had a perfect figure. Every common man wanted her, even more than the princess.

She smiled at all the men her age on her way in, making eye contact and silently flirting. She ran up to the castle gates, making sure not to get anyone's attention. The guards knew Malon wasn't welcome because of Zelda's insane jealousy.

"Do you know if Link is going to be here any time soon?" She asked one of the guards.

"Nope, not right now, he just came back. He may be coming down soon though, him and his lady friend are talking a bit. She just woke up from her unconsciousness." Both guards chuckled a little bit.

Malon's color in her cheeks drained out, and she was left pale white. She felt her heart fall to the pits of her stomach. A lady friend? Malon wondered to herself, she walked off away from the guards, making sure not to look as though she was about to cry.

"Malon?" Called out a familiar voice, it was Link.

She turned and saw him there, running towards her. She smiled and ran towards him hugging him. Swallowing back the tears that were welling up in her eyes. She looked up at him and kissed his cheek.

"I'm so happy you're back for this week. We're throwing a ball at Lon Lon Ranch. You and your miss can come, tell Zelda to come too." She smiled again. "I'm very happy to see you Link, I just wanted to see how you were, but I have to get back to the f-farm. The ball is tonight in one of our larger barns. We fixed it up extremely nice, everything looks beautiful."

"You started a studder, when did that happen?" Link noticed the way she said farm. Malon's eyes grew wide.

"Oh, um, I don't know. I just, um, I'm excited haha!' She gave a fake laugh and turned around to go. "I'll see you tonight then! It's extremely formal!" She waved and ran off. Link scratched his head and shrugged at Malon's weird behavior.

"Stria!" Link ran up stairs calling her name. She was in the room he left her in and she was trying on a black and green dress. It was long sleeved, and was made of silk. It had green ivy trim, and the rest was black. She turned and smiled at him.

"Isn't it beautiful Link?" She said twirling around in it. He smiled and nodded.

"Yeah Stria, it's gorgeous. Do you think you'd be able to go to a ball at Lon Lon Ranch with me tonight? My friend Malon is holding one. It's going to be wonderful, and the gown you're wearing will be spectacular. You look so beautiful." Link sighed at the image of her in front of him. All he could think about was her.

"Oh, that would be lovely, a change from my break down, um. It's almost dark now, so it should be soon. You should get dressed too. Please tell Zelda thank you for allowing me to stay here with her in the castle and using her things. I'll repay her some day." Link nodded and walked outside the room. He closed her door and walked to Zelda's room, lightly rapping on her door.

"Oh, Link, hello." She let him in, her room was a little messy, the vanity items were still on her bed and a few gowns were laid down on her bed too.

"Stria said thank you for allowing her to stay here and use your things." He looked around her room and walked over to the giant window. "Malon wants you to go to a ball tonight. Stria and I are going. What do you think?" She looked at him and glowed a little bit.

"Sure. I think I'll wear my new gown. She showed it to Link. It was a deep blood red, made of silk also, and had long sleeves that dangled at the wrists. It also had black trim and the dress came around her feet, long enough to cover her feet.

"It's lovely Zelda. I'm glad you'll go." He smiled and left her room. She sighed and bit her lip.

Link went back to the Kokiri, grabbing some of his nicer attire and putting it on. He would match his beauty wonderfully. Black pants, and a green tunic with brown toggles. He smiled at his reflection. His fairy hadn't said a word since his last battle at Crystallinith. She didn't talk too much, her name was Nala. A new Fairy that the Deku Tree gave him. She was hardly ever with Link unless he needed her.

He turned around and looked at himself, he shrugged and jumped down from his house. He strutted around and climbed up on Epona after getting out of the village. He went straight to the castle to pick up Stria.

"You look very nice Link." she said blushing. Her hair was curled in ringlets and there was an emerald necklace around her neck, dangling down towards her cleavage. Link stopped staring at her breasts and looked back at her face, giving her a hand to get upon his horse. She smiled and jumped up on it, understanding why he didn't compliment and instead stared.

They reached the ranch in no time at all, and they could hear the ocarina's playing, and the violins humming. They leaped off Epona, putting her in the stables with the other horses. Link walked into the barn and noticed the huge dance floor. Hundreds of people were there, waltzing to the magical music of some of the forest songs.

He saw Malon from where he was standing, and was stunned at how she looked. She was wearing a midnight blue dress, that hugged her like a glove. It flowed behind her, in a nice train. It had sleeves that hung off her shoulders, and there was beautiful black sparkling trim around it. Her hair was down like it normally was, but there were braids in her hair that were tied up in criss-cross manner, pulling some of her hair behind her ears. She turned, and noticed Link staring at her, and Stria looking nervously around.

"Oh, Link! Hello!" She said walking over towards him. Link smiled a little and studdered out a 'Hello'. "You're Link's friend from Crystallinith right?" She held out a hand and they shook.

"Yeah, this is Stria, um...I'm going to go dance a little, Stria, would you like to come along?" Stria smiled and nodded.

"It was nice meeting you Malon!" She waved as Link led her into the crowd. Everyone turned around suddenly half way through an extended version of Epona's Song.

"Oh, look! Zelda!" Stria exclaimed smiling. "I'm glad she could make it. Her dress is fantastic!"

"Yes, she looks beautiful." Link smiled at her and kept dancing. Zelda was in her dress, with her hair pulled up in a braided bun.

Zelda looked over at Link, and smiled, but frowned noticing how he was dancing with Stria.

"Thanks for coming Zelda. I'm glad you could come!" Malon said greeting Zelda.

"Oh, no problem Malon, sorry about the guards, they should let you in, I don't know why they wont." Although Zelda is the one keeping Malon out of her castle.

The night drew on, and Link was pretty drunk as was Stria. Stria was sitting down inside of Malon's house, asleep on the couch, and Link was talking to Malon. Zelda had already left and was asleep in her castle.

"You look gorgeous Malon." Link said leaning over a little bit near a counter at the bar. Malon blushed. She too was a little tipsy. Link grabbed her by the waist. "Do you mind if we dance a little bit?" Malon just started laughing and nodded.

The music went on, a new melody. Malon smiled and kept tripping over herself. Then she accidentally kissed Link on the lips.

"Oh! I'm sorry! I think I tripped!" She covered her mouth with her hand and started laughing uncontrollably. Link laughed and kissed her back. Malon stopped laughing and looked at him with huge eyes. Link looked back at her, and they both leaned in and started kissing passionately. They made sure that no one was watching ,and fortunately no one was.

They both ran out of the barn and laid down in the pasture kissing and rolling around together, drunkenly laughing. She took off his tunic and he stripped her down to her under dress, rubbing her sides and kissing her neck. She moaned delightedly, and she wanted to be with him. She loved him dearly, and that one summer, a year after the battle with Ganondorf, she almost had him.

Link remembered that summer very well too. He really liked Malon, to extreme measures, like he loved Stria, but he forgot about Malon. He didn't want to hurt her that summer, but he knew it wasn't right. He wanted her, he wanted to taste her, he wanted to make love to her.

That summer they were at Lake Hylia, kissing and swimming nude in the lake. He felt so guilty about being this way with her that he had to leave. She didn't understand why, but he told her he wasn't sure. He had doubts. He didn't know what he had until he left her. He wanted to tell her he loved her, but he hated making things complicated. Since he's drunk now, he didn't really know exactly what he was doing. He wasn't even thinking about Stria, he practically forgot who she was.

They were in the grass, kissing, he made the spell like he did the day in the forest with Stria, and made love to Malon. She orgasmed loudly, as did he. They lay in the grass panting, and passed out under their clothes.

R&R!