THE FLAME OF YOUTH

CH. 2

Where are We?

Once again, I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Legend of Zelda. How many damn times do I need to say it?

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"Uhh…" Sora uttered as he woke up what seemed to be hours later. "Ow, my freakin' head." When he looked around, he noticed hat he was on a grassy field with a castle in the distance, and a mountain town off to the right. He looked behind him and saw that Kairi was already up and assessing the damage to the ship.

"I see you finally decided to get up." She observed without turning to look at him.

"Yeah," Sora replied "how bad is it?"

"Well, to put it simply, we're screwed."

"Damn." Was all he could come up with.

"HEY, YOU TWO!" They heard a voice from over a hill. Suddenly, a man who looked about Sora's age rode up on a cinnamon colored horse. He was wearing a green tunic with a matching cap over his blond hair. On his back he carried a blue-handled sword with a silver shield that had strange designs on it. "I saw you falling from the sky. That was one hell of a crash." He leaped down from his horse and extended his hand to help Sora up. He accepted the gesture. "You guys shouldn't be hanging around the fields for too long. You know how Hyrule gets at nighttime." The man smiled

"Hyrule?" Kairi questioned.

After a split-second blank stare, the green-suited man said, "You must have hit your heads pretty hard. Come on, I know a place you can stay for the night.

"Uhh, thanks, mister…" Sora hesitated.

"Link" He finished.

"Nice to meet you, Link. I'm Sora"

"Kairi" they introduced themselves.

"Well, your… umm… thing here looks pretty busted up so, hop on." Link said as he patted his horse's back. Obviously, he had never seen a ship before.

"Don't you think that would be rough on the horse?" Kairi asked

"I wouldn't worry about it." Link responded. "Good ol' Epona here can stand almost anything." Sora and Kairi decided to trust him and got up onto the horse. The three rode to what looked like a horse ranch. "Here we are, Lon-Lon Ranch."

"HI, LINK!" A red haired girl yelled from a distance as she walked up to us.

"Hey, Malon." Link greeted her. "Listen, could you sort these two out a room for the night? This is Sora and Kairi."

"Oh, hi, my name's Malon. So, Sora, is your man here a good guy?" she asked Kairi.

"I'm Sora." Sora stated, looking down.

"Ummm… isn't that a girl's name?"

"Yeah, thanks for reminding me." Sora retorted. Kairi just started giggling incessantly.

"Riiight. Well, I just happen to have a spare room upstairs in my house. There's only one bed, so you'll have to sleep together or one of you on the floor." Malon explained to us.

Kairi gave Sora a look. "Don't get any ideas."

"You are a mean woman." Sora replied.

"Wow, you guys are taking this stranded thing really well." Link observed.

"Not the first time we crashed a ship. Remember two years ago, we went to the Deep Jungle…" Kairi began.

"And we hit a tree and got stuck there for two weeks. Yeah, I remember." Sora finished.

Kairi turned and faced Malon. "Sora wiped with some poison iv-"

"Ugghh. Please, let's not tell the story. My ass still has a bump on it from that."

"That's fuckin' disgusting." Link pointed out as he brought Epona to a stable. "I think I'll stay for the night, too." He yawned loudly.

"Well, it looks like it's getting late, so I think I'll head up to bed now." Kairi stated.

"Right behind you." Sora followed her up after saying goodnight to everyone.

They would all need some sleep. Although they didn't know it yet, tomorrow would be an eventful day.

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Chapter 2 end. I know they're pretty short, but bear with me. They will get longer, I promise!