Hi all! It's been a while, I know, but I've been in a bit of a pickle the last fex months. I dropped out of college, started a job at a hotel, left the job a the hotel, fell down the stairs and decided to start school again. Long story short, my right leg's in a cast, I'm going to study to be a gradeschool teacher like I've always wanted to do and I haven't had much time for writing. Also, I'm lazy and I hate typing. The next chapter still has to be writen and that could take a while, but that's the good thing to being in a cast, I4ve got nowhere to go and lot's of time to write! Please review!
I'd just like to thank everyone who's reviewed up 'till now!
Lady Midday, my partner in crime when it comes to Zelda and writing.
Kouta Aburame
Kamari no Hyrule
Lone Dark Wolf
This is the End
Kazmes

Thank you all so much!

Of mistrust and understanding: The Meeting.

Darkness. Just Darkness. Nothing more.
'But wait. There are..lights...three of them.'
Your point being? You belong to the Darkness. You always have.
'No, I...the lights are gone! Wait! Come back!'
You belong to the Darkness Ashra! You are mine!
'No! No I'm not!'
Yes, you are! You are mine! I own you!

'NOOO!' Ashra shot up, breathing heavily, her brow dripping with sweat. That voice...It sounded familiar...
'I'm gona have nightmares about that...' she sighed and looked around her.
'Where the hell am I? Oh...right...the WOODS!' Ashra got up and dusted herself of rather violently, obiously upset about the fact that she was still in the Lost Woods.
'Okay, let's see...I came in that way, because I recognize that rock that looks like my dad's big ol' head, so...that way.'
The newly-found Sheikah girl set of on her journey again and after an hour or so she came to what she asumed was the ens of the line.
'Great' She sighed. 'No where to go and no Hero...this sucks...'
She didn't have much time to complain though, because the loudening sound of footsteps told her someone was comming.

Link sighed with relief when he saw the massive silhout of the Forest Temple grow in front of him.
'Well, looks like we made it Navi.' he said cheerfully to the litlle blue Orb floating next to him
'Now, let's go!' he started towards the Temple but sudenly stopped and peered at the stone wall in front of him.
'Eh...so where's the entrance?'

Ashra had conceiled herself amongst the foliage of the numerous trees surounding the Temple and watched silently as the Hero searched for the entrance.

'Ridiculous green outfit, Master Sword, Hylian Shield, little flying blue thing. Yup, it's him.' she thought.
'Oh, what's the use of having a Temple if the people can't get in to worship?' Link muttered and looked up at the trees above him. 'I mean, the whole concept is just ri-GAH!!' Link stumbled back, startled, which caused him to fall down over a treeroot and land on his back. He looked up, confused and dazed, at the girl who had just dropped down in front of him. The stern look on her face made it clear that she wasn't one to mess with.
'Geez, will you please, NOT do that!' Link was still on the ground, breathing heavily. 'You scared the living daylight out of me!'
'Oh? Did I?' Ashra said coldly. 'Sorry.'
'Now why do I have the feeling that she didn't mean that appology...' Link thought to him self. He took his time to observe the stranger infront of him.
'Weird...' he muttered
'What's weird?'
'You look...a little familiar.'
Ashra startled but quickly recovered.
'Have you now?' she asked as neutral as possible.
'Yeah...You...You're that girl from Hyrule field!! You tried to kill me!'
'crap...'

Before Ashra could say something Link had already jumped to his feet and held the Master Sword protectively in front him.

Achra put her hands up defensivly and spoke in as calm a tone as posible.
'I wasn't trying to kill you.'
'You were aiming your bow at me!' Link argued
'I wasn't aiming at YOU, I was aiming at...' Ashra panicked. Why was it that she could come up with every single curse in the Gerudo and Sheikah language, (which were a lot...especially in Gerudo...) but she couldn't come up with an excuse.
'Well? You were aiming at?' Link pressed. His saphire eyes gleamed dangerously. He would kill her if she gave him a reason.
'Eh..I was aiming at...eh...the...the Lizalfos! Yeah! I was going to help you out but, you seemed to be getting by pretty well, so...'

Ashra swallowed.
'Please, Din, Farore, Nayru...LET HIM BUY IT!!' she prayed.
Though Link was stil suspicious, he lowered his sword a little.
'You...were going to help me?'
'Yup.'
'Why?'
Ashra sighed. She couldn't tell him that he had to help if she wanted to find her mother...
The Gerudo side of her was getting really sick of making up excuses. The whole Gerudo lidestyle revolved around getting by unnoticed. They were trained in stealth just so they wouldn't get caught and wouldn't have to make up excuses. Because, honestly, if you were caught with your hand in the cookiejar, what would you say? "I wasn't taking a cookie, I was...counting them...yeah..." I think not... But were trailing off. Back to Ashra's lame attempts at making up excuses.
'Well, ...you see eh...I...' The list of Sheikah and Gerudo curses ran through her head once more but this time they weren't followed by an excuse, no matter how lame.
'crap! He's not buying it!!' Ashra started to panic and it was getting visible.
Link's pale blue eyes were still fixed on her and he was just about to attack when his eyes fell on the Sheikah emblem on Ashra's chest. No he's not a perv, it just stands out!
'Wait! You're a Sheikah!' Link sheethed his blade and relaxed.
'Did Impa send you to help me?'
'Eh...yeah...Impa sent me!' Ashra said quickly.
'I'll figure out who that is later. First priority right now is not to get sliced and diced. So far, mission acomplished.'
The name Impa did sound familiar to her, but she would worry about that later. She knew she was doing wrong by lying but she needed to get Link to trust her and it looked like she was succeeding. He would probably never find out, right? Right?
'Oh good! Sorry about being so suspicious. You just don't know who to trust these days.' Link said. He ran a hand through his golden hair with an embaressed grin on his face.
'He...he...yeah...'
He held out his hand and smiled.

'I'm Link.'
'Ashra.'
'Nice to meet you Ashra.' he said, still smiling as they shook hands.
Ashra felt her cheeks burn slightly at the touch of his hand and quickly broke the contact.

'Uh...yeah. Same here.' she muttered and turned away.
Growing up in the Desert wasn't exactly good for one's social skills and because of her heritage, Ashra didn't have many friends growing up. The only people she did talk to were her mother and Nabooru, but her mother had left when she was eight and Nabooru had been very bussy at the Collosus lately so Ashra had been seeing less and less of her. There was her father, of course, but she and him had never really talked. At least not on a normal decibel level. The two of them always seemed to comunicate in ways other than a normal conversation. They shouted, yes. They growled. They turned to "physical comunication" which basically ment throwing stuff around the room, hoping to hit as much of the other as posible and using everything that wasn't nailed down as ammo. Ah, the Gerudo way of life.
'So Ashra, you...wouldn't happen to know where the entrance to this place is, would you?' Link asked hopefully.
'Eh...no.' Ashra said and raised an eyebrow.
'Oh...damn.'
'He doesn't even know where the entrance is? Some Hero...'

'Hey!'

Ashra looked up to see where the anoying sound came from and saw the little blue orb, floating near a tree, high up on a ramp against the Temple wall.
'Yeah Navi, it's tree, great. There are only a couple of hundred around here. Nice find!' Link answered sarcastically.
'Link!'

'Maybe the entrance is up there.' Ashra glanced up at the tree again, but could find no possible way of getting up the ramp.
'Not very accesible though...'
Link pondered the possiblities for a while and a huge grin crept over his handsome face.

'C'mon Ashra, I'll give you a lift.' the young Hylian said, still grinning widely. He took a strange looking object out of one of his pockets with his left hand and held out his right towards Ashra. She glanced at the boy's hand with causion.
'What are you going to do?'
'You'll just have to take my hand and see.'
When Link saw his last remark didn't exactly convince Ashra, he smiled.
'Relax Ashra. Trust me.'
Trust...That was something Ashra had never been particularly good with. She had only ever trusted her mother and Nabooru. And Ganondorf, but he just demanded trust. Now, this boy was asking for her trust.
'I...I can't trust you...not yet. But I will take your hand.' Ashra said

Link's smile faded a little but his eyes brightened when Ashra took his hand.
'Hold in tight!' The young Hero aimed the strange object at the tree and before Ashra could even open her mouth to scream when she flet the ground disappearing beneath her feet, she was already up on the ramp, on her knees, gasping for breath, with a grinning Link beside her.
'Hoo...hookshot...' she breathed

'Yup'

'Aha...'
Link helped her up and pointed at the entrance to the Temple.
'Door'
'Uhu...'
Link grinned and started walking towards the Temple. 'Relax Ashra, it could've been worse.' he said and turned towards her, still grinning.
'You could've had to climb.'
'Smug bastard.'

Weeeee They finally met!
Just a litlle question, any Nick Cave fans out here?
I've been listening to the same playlist over and over while I was typing this. Tupelo, Brother my cup is empty, Halleluja, The Curse of Milhaven and my alltime favorite, From her to eternity. Yes, I type slowly. I get distracted very easily...but enywho, let me know if you like Nick Cave, R&R (you'll get more cookies!) and Goodnight to ya'll! (yes it's night here..)

Peace out!

Jade