It is my burden to always write one chapter during final exams. Time to write more. Yeah... Anyway, it's been a bit since I've updated, so it is time to write anyway… Get read for (Drum roll)

IMPORTANT MESSAGE

Wait. (Drum roll stops) Before I start, I lately came up with a new story idea, kind of from looking at the new Legend of Zelda game previews. It still has the priestess, but the major difference is that Link and Thalia (if I keep the name) would be working together. Also it would be a little more humour than adventure.

I would like to know if I should:

1. Keep this story.

2. Create the new story.

Or 3. Write the new one but also keep the old one.

It could also be a sequel (variation of #3), and I am actually working for that scenario. Your help would be appreciated. Oh, and if you didn't know about the new game, go to GameSpot. Good site.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE OVER

(Drum roll again) Chapter four!

(((((Outside of the Temple)))))

"Lord Gannon will love to hear about you two. He can kill you faster now that you've come out of hiding"

Both of them looked up to see a figure sitting on one of the roofs of the houses in town. He was wearing a solid black tunic with a grey undershirt and pants. His boots were also black. His hair, once blonde, had been dyed. It was now a sort of a half blonde, half black mix. His skin was pale and his eyes a deathly blue-grey.

Thalia gasped as she recognized him.

"Oh! Recognize me? Yeah, it's me, the person who was supposed to be the Hero. Not you!"

"Well soooorry... sorry... I forgot your name."

"Oh, my God, can you really be that stupid? It's Link!"

"Oh, yeah. Well, Link, I'm very sorry for this inconvenience, and if you would like, I would gladly give you the sword, and all the fame and glory that comes with it. Okay?"

Link looked at her, surprise clear across his face. Sheik looked quickly at her and whispered angrily.

"What are you doing, you idiot? He works for Gannon now!"

"What does it look like I'm doing?" She unsheathed the sword and… "I'm giving it to HIM!"

With the last word out of her mouth, she chucked the sword straight at Link. He gasped, barely having time to react, and rolled off the roof to avoid it, landing on his feet. Thalia ran past him, using boxes and windowsills to vault up to the roof. She landed, dug her foot into the roof and pulled the sword out. She swung it over her shoulder and dove off the roof, flipping in mid-air to land on her feet next to Link. She heaved the sword back over and held it to his throat.

She flashed him a cocky smile. Link looked at her in astonishment. Thalia sighed and heaved the sword over her shoulder again.

"Please, like you weren't expecting that. It was... is my lifelong job to protect the Temple of Time. It's only the most important temple in all of Hyrule. I spent most of my first year as priestess learning how to fight so I could defend this temple."

Link's mouth dropped open.

"What, did you think all I did was plant flowers to make the temple look pretty?"

Link got up and glared at her. He opened his mouth to say something, and then closed it before tossing something on the ground and disappearing in a flash of light.

Thalia rubbed her eyes to see again. She looked over at Sheik. Although she couldn't see his face, she knew his mouth was hanging open. She threw him a smug smile as well, before walking toward the town.

(((((Hyrule Castle Town)))))

When Sheik finally snapped out of it and walked into the town he found that Thalia was quite the little devil when she wanted to be (which was most of the time). She was teasing the re-deads by standing behind one and getting the attention of the others. When the others surrounded it to kill it, she chose another victim, leading the poor creatures on a wild goose chase.

Sheik shook his head as he realized that he had just felt sympathy for Gannon's minions.

Sheik walked to the edge of the town and whistled. He got the attention of the re-deads, but also the attention of the much faster Thalia. She jumped on one of the canopies that was still holding up, ran towards Sheik and jumped down next to him. They exited the town together.

(((((Hyrule Field)))))

"Wow. The field is so much more peaceful than the town."

"But the ghosts of the dead still wander, as do Ganondorf's minions."

Sheik started to walk away.

"Wait, where are you going?"

"To the next temple. Did Rauru not tell you all this?"

"I think I fainted before he could."

Sheik sighed. "To defeat Gannon, we must awaken all of the sages. Rauru is one, and we have five left. To awaken them we must go to their temples and find them. I'm not quite sure how, so I guess we will just find out when we get there."

Thalia smiled. Sheik raised his visible eyebrow at her.

"You know, Sheik, you're not such a bad guy after all. I thought you were all stuck-up and perfectionistic, but you do some things without planning. Good for you."

"You do realize that 'perfectionistic' isn't a word, right?"

"Don't make me take back my compliment. And it should be. It's a good word."

Thalia wasn't sure, as he was always wearing a mask, but she could have sworn that Sheik smiled as he turned to walk away.

(((((Kokiri Forest)))))

"I hate this place already."

Sheik made a small, annoying laugh.

"Quiet you smarmy bastard. Plants, allergies, overgrown vegetation, mud, and did I mention the foliage? I despise this forest. Are we going to go someplace dry next?"

"Yes, actually."

Thalia smiled brightly. She and Sheik had finally reached the forest, only to find it overgrown from years of no one caring for it. It seemed as if all of the fairy children had disappeared.

"Look, it's the village!"

Sheik walked forward and peered over Thalia's shoulder. She was right. Through the next few vines one could clearly see the small Kokiri village. Thalia smiled back at Sheik before going to cut through the next set of vines. They slowly climbed their way down the steep hill.

The Kokiri village looked abandoned. There were absolutely no children around. And it was very, very q u i e t . . .

"HOLY SHIT!"

Thalia screeched out some more profanities as the ground shifted under her feet and a deku baba sprouted up under her. She fell off, landing on something hard. She turned her head. 'It's a kid?' The deku baba let out a horrifying shriek before lowering itself to attack. Thalia grabbed the kid and rolled out of the way, just barely in time. She looked up to see it coming down for a second attack. Suddenly it stood up straight, and was cut in half. Thalia sighed, seeing Sheik standing over the dead plant, knife in hand. Thalia turned her attention to the boy.

"Hey, are you alright?"

The boy looked up at her.

"Are you a Hylian?"

"Yes, I am. My name is Thalia. What's yours?"

"Mido."

"Well, Mido, would you mind telling us what is going on here?"

"I'm not quite sure. He showed up, and we thought that he looked different. Suddenly he said that he was going to pay us back for all the pain we caused him and he summoned all of those monsters."

"Him? Do you mean Link?"

"Yeah. D'you know him?"

"Sort of."

"We managed to save his fairy, Navi. She was in a bottle and when he accidentally dropped it, it shattered."

Thalia looked at Sheik. He nodded.

"Do you think we could see her? She might be able to help us."

Mido nodded. He got up and started to walk toward one of the tree houses. This one was a very tall tree that required a ladder to reach the door.

"This is Link's old house."

Mido started to climb, Thalia and Sheik following. They reached the top and went inside. It was very dark, as almost no light got into the forest anymore. But there was one spot on the table that was glowing. A fairy. And from the looks of it, she was crying.

"Link. Why?"

"Navi."

Navi gasped and flew into the air. She looked at Thalia.

"You look familiar. You're that priestess, aren't you? Could you please help me find Link? I'm worried about him..."

"I don't think you need to worry about him little one. He seemed healthy enough to me when he was planning on killing me. He works for Ganondorf now, you do know that right?"

Navi floated down slowly and started crying again. She nodded. Thalia walked over to the table that she was on. Thalia slowly and carefully picked her up, holding the fairy close to her face.

"If you help us, you may be seeing Link quite a bit more. He's kind of hunting us now. That way, you can be sure that he is okay, and you can help us. And in return, Sheik and I will do our best to help get Link back to his old self."

Navi looked up at her and nodded. She once again flew into the air and started for the door. Thalia, Sheik and Mido followed.

Once outside, Mido took the lead.

"The Forest Temple is this way."

(((((Outside of the Forest Temple)))))

(Real quick A/N: Since I don't want to play out the whole dungeon in my fic, I'm going to go with the short Zelda no Densetsu manga version)

Thalia brushed past the last of the last of the overgrowth to come into a clearing. Mido was standing in front of some old and broken down steps.

"This is the entrance to the temple."

Thalia looked up in amazement. The temple looked almost all natural! Half of the entrance was trees, and the only thing that held the crumbling stairs together were the vines covering them.

"Beautiful."

Thalia was cut off from her reverie as a loud howl reverberated through the trees. Suddenly two Wolfos leapt from the trees. Mido grabbed a stick, yelling to get out as he swung at the beasts. Thalia, seeing that he was in trouble, slashed at the closest monster, killing it. The other one howled once, twice as Sheik cut it down.

"Beautiful, but dangerous. Let's keep moving."

Thalia nodded, taking Mido's hand as they continued. But someone was watching them. Link stood on a tree branch and watched them walk nto the temple. He turned to Phantom Gannon.

"Kill them."

(((((Forest Temple)))))

They entered the main hallway. Pictures of Ganondorf lined the walls. At the end of the hall they entered into the first room. In it, there were more pictures, all identical, and all of Ganondorf. Suddenly, Sheik stopped.

"What's wrong?"

"There's something here. But, I'm not quite sure what..."

"DIE!"

Thalia, holding Mido, pushed Sheik to the wall and fell backwards, barely avoiding the huge hand that came between them. Looking up, they realized that the hand belonged to Gannon. 'No, not Gannon.' Thalia didn't have time to continue that thought as he swung again.

"Sheik! Take him!"

Thalia shoved Mido in Sheik's direction and unsheathed the Master Sword. She faced her foe.

"You're not Ganondorf. Who are you?"

A voice rang in Thalia's head. 'Phantom Gannon.' Thalia looked for the source of the voice. Sheik and Mido also looked confused. She saw the fear come to their eyes just in time, for Phantom had taken out his sword. He swung, missing her. She swung. Her sword went right through him.

"Sheik, why is it not working!"

Thalia started to back away. Mido tried to break from Sheik's grasp to help her, but Sheik held firmly to the boy. Mido looked for something to throw at the creature. His eyes widened as they landed on something tossed into the corner. He broke from Sheik and ran for it.

"The Fairy Bow!"

Sheik looked over his shoulder. Grabbing the bow and quiver, he turned toward the heroine.

"Thalia!"

He tossed it as hard as he could. Both bow and quiver hit Phantom squarely in the back of the head before bouncing up in the air. Thalia used the diversion to sneak around the ghost and grab the bow and arrows. Phantom Gannon used her diversion to sneak back into the safety of a painting.

"Where is he?"

"Behind you!"

Thalia quickly turned, setting an arrow and firing as soon as he emerged, hitting him directly between the eyes. Gannon screamed in pain as he fell to the ground. Thalia quickly pulled the Master Sword out, plunging it into him. His body disintegrated and a green light appeared around Sheik, Mido and Thalia. The light turned into a room. The Sacred Realm. And standing on the symbol of the forest, was the Sage of the Forest.

The girl looked up at Thalia.

"Hello, Priestess. I am Saria, Sage of the Forest. Thank you for freeing me from the imprisonment of Phantom Gannon, and saving my home."

"No problem."

"I regret that I will not be able to return to the forest, as I must guard the temple. But when Mido awakens, please tell him, and the others, that I will always watch them.

Thalia raised an eyebrow and looked at Mido. He was out cold. She looked at Sheik.

"He fainted during the battle."

Thalia made a small sound of understanding and turned back to Saria.

"Hey, Saria. When you called me 'priestess', was that with or without a capital P?"

"With."

Saria smiled, and the green light around them once again gave way to the temple.

"What-? What happened?"

"I beat the monster. And talked to Saria. She has some things to finish up here, but she said that she'll come back regularly to make sure that you and the rest of the Kokiri are still safe."

Mido smiled.

(((((Kokiri Village)))))

"Thanks again you guys!"

"No problem. We'll be sure to come back and visit!"

Thalia waved as they walked toward the entrance of the village.

"You know, I kind of like this place now that Ganondorf's influence is gone. Just one sec, I'm gonna grab some water from the pond to drink."

Sheik nodded. Thalia walked over to the pond and uncorked a bottle. She filled it and started to leave, but her reflection caught her eye. She knew she would be different after four years, but not this different. Her hair, one at about her mid-back was now down to her hips. Her purple priestess dress had been altered as well. It was now darker, and made of a more durable fabric. Her sandals had also been replaced for sturdier and more comfortable leather. She looked at herself from the side. 'Are my boobs really that small?' Thalia mused. She then shrugged and headed back toward Sheik. 'I take what I can get.'

"Ready?"

"Yep. Oh, and Sheik. Thanks for tossing the bow at Gannon. He almost had me cornered."

"Actually, I was aiming for you."

"Sheik?"

"Yes, Thalia?"

"Don't throw things ever again."

"Yes, Thalia."

(((((TBC)))))

Whoo, nine pages! Remember my IMPORTANT MESSAGE, and please review.