I am sooooooo sorry everyone! this is really late. I've just been kind of busy and I had a writer's block, but now I'm back!
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"stop Mr. Ingo! Please don't hurt the horses!" Malon cried, she was sitting on the stable floor, tied up.
Ingo just laughed and continued to crack the whip, the horses snorted and whinnied in fear, kicking the walls of the stalls and trying to escape.
"please stop!" Malon cried again, her eyes starting to fill with tears as she watched the horses stomp around in fear.
Malon struggled to break free of the ropes that bound her wrists when she heard a thud. Like the sound of someone's boots on the roof.
Who could be up there? she thought, maybe it's my prince come to save me!
"LET ME OUT!" a voice screeched, Malon stopped wondering about the noise and turned back to Ingo, he was holding a small lantern, and inside was Navi.
"I don't think so, you and Malon are the bait to lure him here!" Ingo said, laughing wildly as he swung the lantern around. Navi's glow turned beet red. She was absolutly furious.
"I'll say it one more time, LET ME OUT OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY!!!" Navi screeched, and Malon winced at her tone.
CRASH! Something fell through the roof and landed in front of Malon, hay and dust blowing everywhere. Causing Malon and Ingo to cover their eyes.
"Malon? Are you ok?" A voice said, Malon opened her eyes and saw a boy standing in front of her.
"who are you?" she asked, the boy sweat dropped anime style.
"I'm Link! Don't you remember me? The fairy boy from seven years ago! You taught me Epona's song, remember?" Link said, Malon studied his face for a moment.
"Link…huh?" she said, "nope! Don't know ya'." (Link falls over anime style)
"Link!" A voice cried, Link turned around and saw Navi waving at him from inside the lantern Ingo was holding.
"Navi!" Link said,
"I knew you would come Link!" Navi said, Ingo shook the lantern. "that's enough! You stupid fairy!" he shouted.
"leave her alone!" Link shouted, taking a step forward, Ingo stepped back.
"ah ah ah hero, another step and your little fairy here is dead." He said, threatening to throw the lantern at the wall.
Link's face paled and he stepped back, he wasn't willing to take any risks, especially with his friend's lives at stake.
Ingo grinned as Link stepped back.
"that's right hero, don't come any closer. Stay back and I won't have to harm the fairy or Malon." He said.
Link bit his lip, trying to come up with a plan to get both Navi and Malon away from danger.
Suddenly, an idea struck him. He wheeled around and drew the master sword, holding it above Malon.
"Link! What are you doing?!" Navi screeched, Ingo just looked surprised. Malon closer her eyes as Link held the sword high above his head…
Slash! Malon opened her eyes to find the ropes on her hands cut. She looked up. Link sheithed his sword and quickly helped Malon to her feet, pulling out the hookshot as he did and aiming it up towards the hole in the roof.
"noooo! What are you doing?!" Ingo cried as Link pushed the button and he and Malon went flying through the roof.
"Hold on!" Link shouted, Malon nodded, noticing that Link actually looked kind of… cool.
Could he be my prince? Malon wondered as she and Link landed on the ground next to the barn.
"Malon, come on, we've gotta get out of here." Link said, offering Malon his hand. Malon took it and stood up.
"wait! we can't leave Mr. Ingo, he's not a bad person, he's just been acting a little strange." Malon said.
"who ever said I was going to leave? I'm not leaving until we rescue Navi and you and Talon are back in charge of the ranch." Link said, removing his sword and the master sword from his back.
Malon nodded. "good." She said, she glanced around and noticed a pitchfork leaning against the barn. She quickly raced over and grabbed it.
"ok, no what?" she asked Link,
"well we should probably-" he was cut off by the sound of a horse whinnying. Curious, he and Malon crept over to the side of the ranch and glanced around the corner leading to the corral.
"what are they doing?" Link asked, several men were in the corral, trying to catch a horse that was running around, avoiding all of them.
Malon gave a little gasp. "oh no! That's Epona!" she said, Link blinked at glanced back at her.
"that's Epona? What do they want with her?" Malon gave a little sigh.
"ever since Mr. Ingo drove my father away, Mr. Ingo has been bragging that that Ganondorf guy wants Epona as his horse. I didn't believe him at first, but it looks like he's telling the truth." She said.
Link said nothing, instead, he took off running towards the corral.
"Link! Link!" Malon called, racing after him, Link ignored her and ran into the corral, pulling out his ocarina as he ran in.
"Link wait!" Malon called, running up behind him, Link ignored her again and began to play Epona's song. Suddenly, across the field, Epona's ears twiched as she heard that familiar melody.
She quickly took off towards the end of the field, were Malon and Link were waiting.
She stopped right in front of Link, but he didn't even flinch.
"Epona… it's been a long time, hasn't it?" Link said, smiling gently. The two stared at each other for a minute, then Link let out a cry of joy and hugged Epona, stroking her face.
"you remember me! You remember when I played my ocarina!" Link said, stroking Epona while Malon checked her over for injuries.
At the other end of the field, the men were dumbstruck, they had been trying to catch Epona for days and then Link comes along and catches her in ten minutes.
"com' on Epona! We have to save Navi!" Link said, mounting Epona and pulling Malon up behind him.
(I was origionally going to stop here, but decided not to)
Link turned Epona towards the gate, but several men had beaten them there and closed the gates.
"Link, what do we do?" Malon said, holding tightly onto Link's tunic so she didn't fall off.
Link bit his lip, trying to come up with a plan, suddenly, it hit him.
"com' on Epona! Let's go!" Link said, gently kicking Epona in the side, Epona charged stright towards the gate.
"Link no! What are you doing?" Malon asked, closing her eyes tightly as she waited for the crash.
It never came, Malon opened her eyes just in time to see Epona soar over the gate. Malon's breath caught in her throat as she supressed a scream, that wouldn't be very helpful right now.
Epona landed smoothly on the other side of the gate and Link pulled her to a halt.
"let's go Malon." He said, sliding off Epona and turning to help Malon.
Link helped Malon slid off Epona before turning to stoke her.
"good job Epona, go wait for us outside the ranch, I'll play your song if I need you." He said, Epona whinnied as if she understood him and raced off towards the entrance of the ranch.
Link turned back to Malon, "you ready Malon?" Link asked, Malon nodded.
"first, we have to free Navi from the lantern, then maybe she can help us find out why Ingo is acting so strange." Link said as he and Malon crept into the barn.
"and how exactly to you plan to get Navi back?" Malon asked.
"remember how those men were trying to catch Epona? Well I guessing that they were catching her under his orders, so they have to come and report to him sometime, and while they distract him, we'll get Navi back." Link said, opening the door just a crack and peeking through it.
Mr. Ingo was inside, and he was busy talking to the men that had been trying to catch Epona. The man said something to Ingo, and Ingo snarled at the man and said something back, the man shrank away in fear and pointed in the direction of the corral, the Ingo said something to him and the two left, heading for the corral. Leaving Navi behind.
As soon as the two men left Link opened the door and went inside, Malon followed him, staying behind him the whole time.
"Navi." Link said, glancing around to make sure no one else was in the room.
Navi turned at the sound of her name and saw Link.
"Link!" she said, Link moved his index finger to his lips.
"shh!" he hissed. Navi nodded,
"it's ok Link, no one else is in here," she whispered, Link nodded and moved over to the table and opened the lantern she was in. Navi flew out and hugged Link's cheek, saying thank you over and over.
Link just smiled, "I missed you too Navi, but there's no time for reunions now, we gotta stop Ingo and save the ranch!" Link said, Navi nodded determindly. The group headed outside.
"while Ingo had me locked up in that lantern, he said something about pleasing Ganondorf, maybe Ganondorf has something to do with why he's been acting so strange." Navi said,
"yeah he has." Malon said, "ever since Mr. Ingo came back from that meeting with Ganondorf, he's been acting weird, he started being mean to the animals, and drove my father away from the ranch, before you came and saved me, he muttered something about me and Navi being the 'bait to lure him out', didn't he Navi?" Malon said, Navi nodded.
"so maybe this whole thing has been a plot to get to me." Link said, his forehead wrinkled as he thought.
"that's definatly a possibility, but for all we know, Ganondorf doesn't know you've awaken yet, unless he somehow found out. That's why Zelda had you taken to Kakariko village after you pulled out the mastersword, so Ganongdorf wouldn't find you until you woke up." Navi said, sitting on Link's shoulder.
"he must have found out somehow, why else would he be sending Ingo after me?" Link said.
"because he's trying to capture you." A voice behind Link said, Link and Malon wheeled around and saw Shiek standing there, playing his harp.
"Shiek? What are you doing here?" Link asked, Shiek put his harp away.
"I told you, my purpose is to help you in your journey. The reason Ganondorf is sending Ingo after you is because he's trying to capture you." Shiek said.
"but that still doesn't explain why Ingo's been acting weird." Link said.
"Ingo has been brainwashed by Ganondorf, if you look hard enough, you'll see how to stop him." Shiek said.
"stop him? Wait! How do we-" Link began, he was cut off by Shiek throwing a deku nut and disappearing in a flash of light.
"I'm really going to have to find out how he does that." Link said, removing his hand from his eyes as the flash disappeared.
"we have to save Mr. Ingo!" Malon said, "we have to hurry!" Link nodded.
"hey! What are you doing in here?" A voice said, Link and Malon wheeled around and saw one of the men that been trying to capture Epona standing in there.
"you kids won't get out of here so easily!" the man said, advancing towards them.
"I told you not to harm them!" A voice said, the man stopped and looked over his shoulder.
Ingo was standing there, his arms folded behind him.
"Link, the hero of time. YOU WON'T GET AWAY THIS TIME!!!" Ingo shouted, Link immediately drew the master sword as Ingo leaped at him.
"Link! Look out!" Malon shouted, Link glanced to his left and saw one of Ingo's men leap at him with a sword. Link rolled expertly out of the way and blocked Ingo as he slashed at him.
"Link! Behind you!" Navi shouted, Link wheeled around, but he was too late, the man behind him had managed to sneak up behind him. Now he slashed at Link, slashing him in the back before he managed to duck out of the way.
Link groaned and stumbled away, clutching his shoulder. But at the moment, he noticed something, he would have missed it if the sun hadn't been making it sparkle.
In Ingo's ear, Link could see a small red jewel stuck there. That must be how Ganondorf's contoling him. Link thought as he clenched his teeth from the pain in his back.
"Link! Stop day dreaming and duck!" Navi shouted into his ear, Link quickly snapped back into reality and ducked tpo avoid being his by Ingo
"Navi! Look in Ingo's ear! It's that red gem! That's how Ganondorf's controling him!" Link shouted.
"you're right Link! We've gotta destroy it!" Navi shouted after she had gotten a good look at Ingo's ear.
"I'll do it!" Link shouted, he stood up stright and charged at Ingo, knocking him by surprise, luckily all he needed was a few seconds to knock the gem out of Ingo's ear.
And he did.
The gem fell out of Ingo's ear and landed in Link's fist. Ingo looked confused for a moment, then he spotted Malon.
"ah, Miss Malon, what's going on here? I can't remember anything from the past few days." He said, his men, seeing he was back to normal, wuickly fled. Malon walked over to him.
"thank the godesses you're back to normal Mr. Ingo!" Malon said,
"back to normal? Was I different?" Ingo asked, Malon shook her head and turned to Link.
"Link… thank you so much! Everything is back to normal now." She said, Link grinned.
"you're welcome." He said. trying to ignore the pain in his back. Malon smiled at him.
Link pulled the ocarina of time and played Epona's song, and a few seconds later Epona came racing over to him.
Malon walked over to Epona and stroked her neck.
"I'm going to miss you Epona, but I know Link'll take good care of you, so I'm not worried." She said, Epona nickered and nuzzled Malon's shoulder. Malon giggled as Link mounted on Epona.
"I'll see you later Malon," he said, Malon nodded. Epona reared up and charged towards the entrance of the ranch, and Link waved goodbye before they set out.
"Link, maybe you should get that wound checked." Navi said a few minuteds later, Link was still riding Epona.
"I'm fine Navi, it'll heal up in no time," Link said, Navi sat on Link's shoulder with a little 'hmpf.'
"you know, you really shouldn't push yourself to hard." Navi said, when Link didn't reply, she glanced at him.
Link's face was pale, and his eyes were clouded.
"Link? Link!" Navi cried, pushing on his cheek. Link still didn't reply. Suddenly, his eyes closed and he fell off Epona.
"Link!" Navi cried, Epona stopped running and trotted over to Link, nudging his body with her nose. Navi flew over to Link and began shaking him as hard as her little body would allow.
"Link! Link! WAKE UP!" Navi cried, tears streaming down her little face.
Suddenly, a voice shouted.
"mom! Dad! There's a strange horse out here!" a girl appeared next to Epona, she appeared to be around 17. Then she caught sight of Link.
She gasped. "DAD! There's a hurt boy out here!" she cried, seconds later, a man and woman came running out.
"now Katie, what's all the fuss about?" the woman said, then she caught sight of Link, she screamed.
The man knelt down beside Link and put a hand over his mouth.
"he's still breathing," he said. Navi floated up from Link's side.
"please! You've got to help him!" she cried, the the man and the two woman looked surprised.
"who are you?" they asked. Navi sniffed and wiped the tears off her cheeks.
"I'm Navi, and this is my friend, please, you've got to help him! He's the hero of time!" The man looked surprised.
"the hero of time?" he muttered, "but I thought he was sealed up in Kakariko?"
"he was, but he woke up, and he's hurt really badly, please help him!" Navi said, the man smiled. (this is a good smile,)
"of course we'll help him." The man said, as he and the others moved next to him.
"come you two, we've gotta get him back to the house…"
How was it? I typed it in like, two hours, I started it and the just couldn't stop, the only bad thing is that it distracted me from my homework, not like I'm complaining or anything...
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