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Chapter one

"Link! Link, Wake up!" shouted a high pitched voice. Link felt small pounding on his face. He woke to a small winged sphere of light ramming into his face trying to wake him.

"What is it Navi!" he snapped, annoyed that she would wake him from his sound sleep.

"Some one is coming!" She sqeecked.

"Huh?" Link looked out from beind the boulder, the only one in hyrule field.Then he begain to see something moving in the distance.

A speck of light appeared beside it, then it flew forward.

"Link! " it shouted the speck of light, which soon revieled itself as a fairy.

"Tatl?" Link recodnized the fairy as the one whom accompanied him through his days in clock town.

"Link, im so glad we found you!" shouted Tatl, zooming around his head and bumping into Navi."who are you?"

"Im Navi."She said stiffly "Im Link's real fairy."

"I dont think so, im the latest and greatest, grandma."Tatl said mockingly.

"Forget it you two!" Link said stepping between the two fairys. "We? Who is with you Tatl?"

Link asked this just as the other form from the field reached them. A dark haired girl, obviously not from Hyrule.She staggered and fell to the ground.

"oh no! I shouldnt have left!" sqeecked Tatl.

"Tatl, who is this!" Link asked, still looking for answers.

"This is Namara, she came with me from Clock Town. We've been looking for you for days!"

"Why? What happened to her?"Link asked.

"We needed to find you because theres trouble back in town! Remember the skull kid? He wants revenge, and he has the bosses from all the temples coming here! "Shouted Tatl.

"Here? To Hyrule?"Link asked franticly as Navi bobbed around in confusion."And what happened to the girl?"

"We where on our way here, and remember goat? The boss from the temple in the mountains? He came after us! "

"And you two couldnt fight him off? He puts up about as much of a fight as the keese."

"Namara doesnt carry any weapons, she didnt think we would run into them."

Link sighed, he was hoping to have a day of peace. "I think we can make it to Lon Lon ranch by noon, we can drop you two off there, and i will go to the lost woods and find the entrance and watch for the skull kid."

Tatl rang like a bell in alarm and frustration.

"Im not staying at a ranch to buzz around a bunch of stupid cows, when i could be saving Hyrule with you?" Tatl snapped.

"Dont you have to stay with your partner?"Asked Navi, zipping around Tatl.

"Namara isnt my partner,she just threatened to shut me in a jar and bury me in the north beach if i didnt help her get here."Said Tatl as if explaining a perfictly ordanary compromise.

Link stood and scanned the wide field, then pointed towards a speck of black in the distance."Thats Lon lon ranch, Lets get moving, just let me call Epona."

Link pulled a small blue ocarina out of his pocket and played a soft tune he had leared from Malon years before. The sound of hoves pounding against the ground erupted from another part of the field.

When Epona arrived, Link pulled Namara onto her back along with him self.

Tatl flew into Links hat only to be shoved out by Navi "Thats my spot!" Said Navi.

"Stop it!" Intervined Link. "There is room in my hat for more than one fairy!"

Navi suffed indignatly and flew back into the hat, followed by Tatl.

Link turned back to Epona. "Lets go, hiya!"

Epona bolted across the feild towards the distant ranch,It had been a while scence she had been there too.

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A few hours later, they where just a few miles from Lon Lon ranch. Navi zipped out of Links hat to see where they where.

"Hey, not far now!" She said cheerily."That means i wont be stuck in this hat with that wanna be hero of time fairy."

"I wish you two wouldnt do that, your both fairys, and you've both helped me, so drop it." Link said impatently as they entered the ranche's gates.

Link came to a stop in front of a large round pen where several horses where running around. He scanned the pen but didnt see Malon. Tatl and Navi rang like belld as they did when something was about to happen.

"Hey Fairy boy! Came a sudden cheery voice from behind him. Link jumped and spunn around to see Malon laughing at him.

"The great Link? Afraid of a ranch girl? Ha!" She laughed even harder after making these statments.

"Ha ha ha.I forgot to laugh" mumbled Link sarcasticly, then he shook it off and dismounted Epona.His voice took on an ergent tone" Im here for something more serious than jumping at someone from behind."

Malon's smile faded when she saw Namara still out cold on the saddle."What happened?"

"Tatl will explain."Link said pulling Namara off Epona's back."But now we need to get her into the house."

Malon nodded and unlocked the door to the farm house and they all went inside.

Malon checked Namara's injurys. Link, Navi, and Tatl waited in a small room with several cucoos running around in it.

They sat in akward silence for a while, then Tatl spoke. "Do you know how hard it was to get here? All Namara had to do was swim from the north beach to get to lake Hylia, but i had to fly all the way. Do you know how dry that was?"

No one answered.

After a while, Malon came back out of the room with several empty bandage rolls."what attacked that girl anyway?"

"A large mecanical goat." answered Link wearily.

" A what?"

"Dont ask, its not worth it."

The room was silent again, then Malon said "Its getting late, maybe we should hit the sack."

"Yeah, maybe your right." Said Navi.Link nodded and Malon showed them to the barn.

"We dont have any spare rooms, so im sorry to your staying here the night, Fairy boy."

"We dont mind, Malon."Link said through a yawn. Malon left the barn and Link dropped backwards into the hay.

Link sighed, this was completely weird. Not that he wasnt used to things like this happening, it just never involved a girl swimming from north beach before.

Link looked out side, the moon showed it was well past midnight, Malon would be asleep. He couldnt stand it, he had to go and see how the girl was doing, he wanted to see what damage Goat could do to an unarmed apponent. He quietly slipped out the barn door, carefull not to wake Navi and Tatl. Once inside the house he carefuly climbed the stairs and crept past Malon's room. After what seemed like hours, he reached the room Namara was sleeping in, and the first thing he noticed was that the room suddenly carried a smell of pine.

Namara was still asleep, and she seemed not even to be breathing. She wasnt wearing clothes, but she was bandaged almost from head to toe, not like a mummy, she could move her arms and legs freely if she where awake. Looking out side, Link could see her torn, blood stained clothes flapping from a clothes line. Link looked back at Namara and noticed her face becoming unnaturaly pale, and she was starting to sweat, she keeled over and it seemed as though she was in pain. But at the same time, it seemed as though she was only having a bad dream. Link wasnt sure what to do, so he did the only thing that came to mind ;try to wake her up. He grabbed her shoulders and shook her.

"Wake up!" He shouted just loud enough for anyone in the room to hear, but no one outside.

She suddenly begain to calm, the sweat left as quickly as it came, her face regained color, and she straightened back up.

Link let out a relived sigh, and relaxed his grip on her shoulders. Namara groaned and fidgeted, and noticing the motion, Link looked down.As he did, he found her dark eyes staring up at him.

"Hello" came her sore voice.

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