Chapter 5

Ok I finally updated again. Note that the italics are Links thoughts. I would also Like to thank Angle of atonement, Terra89, Forest Girl Kaz, blondie91, Royta is evil, Rynada, and Uber spoonz.

Link arrived in the forest Early in the morning and the dew was still on the grass blades. Link took in a deep breath and continued on through the forest, followed a long row of horses. Link brought all the horses in to the Deku Tree Meadow and immediately saw Saria standing there conversing with the Deku Tree Sprout. She heard Link coming and turned around smiled brightly and came up to hug him and wrapped her arms around him. Link staggered back a little and smiled too.

"It's good to see you to" he chocked out. For a girl with a ten-year-old body she was surprisingly strong.

"I was worried about you, normally if you were going to be late you wouldn't tell me, but you made the effort to contact me and you had to stoop several times."

"Oh, that was just Malon interrupting me while I tried to play." Link said. 'It's not a complete lie' Link thought. He didn't want any one, especially Saria to get worried on his account.

"Well, lets get to work." Saria finally said. She always was one to get down to business. "I'll go wake the carpenters."

"Um, Saria I have an errand to run by Hyrule Castle, well what's left of it, I will bee back in a week or so." Link said.

Saria felt her face turn red. Why did she fell…jealous? About Link and Zelda, why would she fell jealous? She could never be with him any ways. Right? She didn't have time to ponder these questions because she was already at the tree the carpenters where staying at. She went in to start that day's work.

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Link rode up to what was left of Hyrule Town. To his surprise is bustling with activity. As he went by he saw they where all rebuilding their homes and shops. 'Makes since, the still have the deeds to their land.' He rode on till he came to a large white tent where many guards where standing around. 'Gee I wonder where Zelda is'. He continued on until a spear came down in front of him.

"Where do you think your going?" The guard asked. Link sighed and replied,

"Just tell her Link is here to see her." The guard grunted in reply and went inside, a few seconds later Zelda came out of the tent and went up to him. Link looked her over she was wearing al long white dress with blue trim and gold shoulder pads.

"It's good to see you're no longer in your man costume." Link said. Zelda glared at him and smacked his arm.

"That's not funny" she said sternly.

"I thought it was" Link slyly replied. Then he noticed some thing.

"Where is Impa?" Link asked suspiciously. With Zelda no longer under cover he thought Impa would be watching her like a hawk.

"She left the other day to Lon Lon Ranch. I haven't seen her since" Zelda wearily replied. Link grew a little pale. 'She should have been back by now'. Zelda noticed his face started to get a little worried.

"I'm going to look for her." Link said and turned to leave but Zelda put a hand on his shoulder.

"If she hasn't come back by now then she won't be coming back at all." Zelda said. Link's head drooped a little, he knew she was right, but… he had to try. He turned to leave but Zelda stopped him again.

"Besides I've got something else for you so do" Zelda said. Link gave her a look of confusion.

'Unfreeze Zora's Domain, how I'm I suppose to do that'. He continued his climb up to the once glorious Zora's domain. As he entered he felt a chill run down his spine. Not from the cold but some thing else. He shrugged it off and continued till he saw a figure standing at the end of the hall.

"Link" it shouted and ran up to him and knocked him over with a rough hug. Link lay on the ground gasping for air while the blue mass on top of him squeezed the life out of him. 'I can defeat the king of darkness and a mask of pure evil but I can't get a Zora princess off.

"Ruto I can't breath" Link choked out as his face was starting to turn the same color as Ruto.

"Sorry" said as she backed off. Link then noticed that when she hugged him she was completely naked, witch is noting new but still he blushed horribly.

"Um, Ruto could you put some clothes on I fell uncomfortable with you running around naked" Link said

"I'm not naked" Ruto replied. Link raised an eyebrow and looked at her. "I'm wearing a necklace." Link then looked at the series of pearls and sapphires adorning her neck. "Besides you don't fell uncomfortable around other 'naked' Zoras."

"Yes but they don't try to hug me." Link sarcastically replied. "And by the way your dad wears clothes." Ruto scowled at him and was about to say something else but Link stopped her. "Before we get into an in-depth argument on the Zora's nudity can I do what I came here to do?"

"And what is that… marrying me?" she asked with a longing look in her eyes.

"Not even close. I am here to defrost this place." Link said as he walked past her into throne room where he walked onto the platform to talk to the king, he bowed on one knee and said.

"Your majesty I humbly ask for access to Jabas fountain."

"For what purpose?" the king asked.

"To defrost your kingdom" Link replied. The King quickly gave him permission and Link walked into the former location of the Zora 'god'. The green clad hero came onto the platform and eyed a particularly large iceberg.

"What are you planning?" Ruto asked. Link merely winked at her and drew his bow. Ruto was about to ask him again when the end of the bow went ablaze and shot out like, well, an arrow. Link repeated this process three times and there was now a sizable whole in the iceberg. Without a word link jumped out into the water and climbed inside the iceberg and took out Din's fire. He did the appropriate motions and a fire came around him and melted the iceberg. He did this to the largest icebergs in the pond and the water was starting to heat up and flow. After Link had melted six icebergs he stopped and swam to the exit and instructed Ruto to follow. He led her to where the frozen waterfall was.

However the waterfall wasn't completely frozen any more. There was now water running over the edge of it.

"Running water melts ice." Link said to Ruto. Link read a response but it wasn't Ruto who said it.

"Yes, very good hero." The unknown person said. Link put himself between Ruto and the dark cloaked figure. The one in questioning suddenly drew a Gerudo sword and held it where the tip was facing backwards facing backwards.

Suddenly, she attacked bringing her sword around for a vertical slice. Link nimbly jumped to the side and flung her swords the side of the water fall but the figure grabbed him as she fell. Link plummeted to the ice while the figure drove it's sword into the frozen water fall softening it's landing considerably.

When our hero landed he could hear a crack. As he got up his right hung at an odd angle. Link glanced at it and grabbed it and with a cry of pain popped it back into place.

"Foolish move hero" the one in the dark cloak said. "Don't make a move until you know your enemy."

"I had to keep your from hurting Ruto" Link said spitefully.

"I don't want to hurt Ruto or any of the other sages, well not yet anyways." As the figure said this Link's eyes grew large. 'She knows about the sages.'

"Yes hero I know much, even more than you" the figure said. The figure reached up and pulled the hood off its head to reveal a Gerudo woman with silver hair and had dark jewels adorning her neck and ears and had a golden emblem on her necklace with Shekian whiting on it.

"I want you to see the face of your killed" she said. After she said this she began a charge swords Link, her sword held at her side. She then brought her sword up in an attempt to decapitate him. Link ducked under the swing and brought his leg around hitting her feet. She flew forward in the air but before she hit the ice she stuck her hands out and pushed off the doing a flip in the air and landing on her feet as if nothing happened.

"Nice job hero but lets se how fast you can move on the ice." She then moved at an unnatural speed. She held her sword out again and tried to decapitate Link but he rolled out of the way. As he slid on the ice he drew his sword but not his shield. The shield would do very little on his broken arm.

Link watched as the blur of motion went around the ice. Link then stopped but his sword in a defensive stance and closed his eyes as he herd her feet splashing across the water on the ice Link's eyes popped open and he brought his great fairy sword up to his right blocking an attack, though the force of the blow sent him backwards through the air. He starred sliding across the ice on his shield, still strapped to his back. He twisted himself around and pushed of a wall with his legs, shooting him off towards his opponent bringing his sword up so it would cut her in half, she merely dogged to the side and delivered a kick to his side. She twisted her self around and used a sword to cut a rather deep gash in Links stomach. Link gritted his teeth trying to muffle his screams of pain. She then brought her foot around again and kicked him hard enough that he slid into the wall in a sitting position.

"You disappoint me hero, I was expecting more of a change from the man that defeated Gannon." She said mockingly, suddenly the ice cracked around them Link then brought out his arrow and charged it with fire energy. And he fired it at his attacker's, feet melting the ice and causing her to fall into the cold water beneath. Link shot another arrow of this time charged with ice to seal the whole up. Link felt him self starting to slip into unconsciousness. He could barely hear Ruto's cries as she ran up to him and then every thing went dark.

Link awoke to find himself in the Zora's medical room. Looking to his left he could see Ruto making food. She turned around and saw his now awake form.

"How long was I out?" He asked

"About twenty-four hours" Ruto replied "Your plan worked though. All the Zoras are now free and things are returning to normal."

"Did they find the girls body?" Link abruptly asked. Ruto's head drooped.

"No they didn't" she replied sadly.

"Witch means she is still alive." Link said urgently. They herd a chuckle at the entrance and turned to see the Gerudo woman standing there.

"Good job hero." She said in a voice one would talk to a child in "No one has ever defeated me in battle, good job."

"Look, you can kill me but leave Ruto alone" Link said

"I don't want to kill you, I just want her" she said indicating Ruto.

"But you said" Link started but was interrupted

"I said I don't want to hurt her, and she won't be hurt as long as she comes along quietly" She said as she walked towards the princess. Ruto dropped the plate of food she was holding and cowered in the corner trying to get away. Link tried to get up as Ruto was being dragged out of the room forcibly, but the pain kept him from doing any thing but staring in horror and scream.