Sunset anywhere else in the world was considered a thing of beauty. But on
Lon Lon Ranch, dead center in the middle of Hyrule Field. It was a giant
warning sign, telling you get in doors or never see another sunset again.
Malon, having lived in this land all her life knew this rule well. Strange,
in spit of all the lives ended and livelihoods ruined because of
Gannondorf's Seven Year Rein, he had done one good thing in his time. He
had made Hyrule field safe to cross at night. Yea right. If not for the
ghosts scattered through out the land and the harsh laws about movement
that Gannondorf had imposed. If you got caught in the wrong place at the
wrong time, you didn't live long enough for it to happen again not that
many tried. That was the way of tyrants, to rule through fear of power
rather than the power itself.
Ugh. Why was she even thinking of it? That seven year nightmare was over
and done with. The less she and other people dwelled on it the better. Life
went on, and she wasn't going to be left behind.
For once in her life all the animals had been taken care of early and the
various pens all cleaned out, for a girl in her line of work, this sort of
thing didn't happen every decade. She couldn't really give herself all the
credit. Her family's work hand Ingo had really been giving it his all
lately. He was clearly building up free time for himself. When asked what
it was for, Ingo had meekly (a rare case for him) replied after some
probing that he wanted to go into show business and was working on an act.
Ingo in show business. Malon laughed at the thought (but not to Ingo's
face) she wondered what was going to happen next. The moon falling from the
sky?
Malon was now doing the one thing in her family's profession that was a
once in a lifetime thing. Nothing. For once a sunset she could sit back,
relax and pretend she was her father. It was so wonderful. Breathing in the
air and looking at the setting sun. Though it meant death for anyone in
Hyrule Field, Malon had to digress his original thought; it was still a
thing of beauty. Letting her mind wander she mentally played out her
favorite fantasy, the one involving Link in a tuxedo.
She had gotten about halfway down the imaginary isle when the daydream was
interrupted. Something was repeatedly bumping into her left temple. Not
caring what it was Malon swatted at it hoping it would just go away. No
such luck. "Hey!" Said a small high pitched voice. "Is that any way to
treat visitors?" The Hylian's eyes snapped open and in front of her was a
tiny glowing point of light floating on what first in her daze thought were
bunny ears but after a second recognized as wings.
"A fairy?" Said Malon surprised.
"No, a Poe. Of course I'm a fairy Malon! Don't tell me you've forgotten
me!"
The farm girl thought for a second getting over the stun of the forest
sprite knowing the redhead's name. "Navi?"
"Took you long enough! Now you can you please open the door?! There's
someone outside who needs help."
"Link?" She said in concern.
"A friend." Navi corrected. "Please just get her inside."
Malon only nodded and getting up from her chair unlocked the house door and
pulled it open to see who fate had deposited on her door step this day.
The girl had green, well, everything. Green hair. Olive skin. Green tunic
and sweater. Malon was sure when the girl opened them, she was going to
have green eyes too. The child had to be about twelve, Malon wondered what
in Nayru's name a girl her age could be thinking traveling through Hyrule
Field so close to dark. The only kid she had known to do such a thing was
Link, and he was at least armed. The poor thing was clearly exhausted.
People full of energy didn't normally sit on their hands and knees leaning
against a doorframe breathing wind as their life beat was tellable just by
looking at them.
Malon asked. "Are you okay?" The girl of course was too tired to answer.
Malon pulled the child inside. Her eyes fluttered open for a second. Malon
realized she had been wrong, the girl's eyes were blue.
"L-Link." The child whispered half asleep before entering it fully. This
started Malon who looked at the fairy for answers.
Navi tried to figure out the best way to put things in a way that wouldn't
take all night. "She's a friend of his." Navi was glade she hadn't made the
disastrous mistake of saying the deadly words 'just friends.'
"Oh." Said Malon subconsciously relieved. "How did she get all the way out
here?" She asked picking the green haired girl up in her arms.
Navi decided that her companion's origin couldn't do much harm. "She's a
Kokiri. They live in the farthest part of Hyrule's Kingdom."
Malon looked at the sleeping child in confusion. "But, but Link told me
that true fairy boys and girls died if they left the forest." Navi inwardly
cringed at the variation of Malon's nick name for Link.
"I don't get it myself." Navi said honestly. "All I know is that she left
the forest and is still alive. That's it."
"Oh." Malon was silent for a moment. "What's her name?"
"Saria.
"Just Saria. Kokiri don't have family names."
"Because they don't have families." Malon said more to herself than to
Navi.
"Bingo."
"How long was she was running? I could see her pulse when I opened the
door."
"Since she saw Lon Lon Ranch on the horizon."
"And she didn't faint dead on her feet halfway here?"
"I think she forgot where she was about that time and was just running."
"Most people collapse at that point." Malon knew SHE would collapse going
at that rate for a third of that distance, Hyrule Field was not small after
all.
Not knowing what else to do with her, Malon took the child up to Malon's
room and put her in bed. No doubt , with everything she had been through
the child was going to sleep straight till morning.
Saria didn't remember what she dreamed, it was all a jumble of shapes,
imagines, and sounds with no rhythm or reason, perhaps reflecting Saria's
state of mind. Or maybe her subconscious was as tired as the rest of her
and didn't have the energy to put her dreams into a resemblance of order.
It was maddening, and the girl tossed and turned in her sleep. While
downstairs Navi gave the farm girl the load down on Saria and the forest
child's exit from Kokiri Forest. This left Malon to explain to Ingo and her
Talon about their new houseguest. She said the girl was simply a friend of
Link's and was stopping by for the night before going to Hyrule Castle.
Both men were satisfied with this answer and left Malon to her business.
When Saria woke up the first thing she thought about wasn't where she was
or how she got there. It was how SQAURE everything was. She had spent her
entire life looking at round rooms, the only square rooms she had ever seen
were those of the forest temple but she had thought those to be an oddity.
She wondered for a brief moment if she had somehow wound up back in that
stone mass. But nothing here really resembled save the square rooms the
haunted temple. But she still wasn't convinced until she looked out a
window that showed a grassy field surrounded by rocks on all sides, bathed
in morning light.
Where was she? It all came back in a moment's notice. Link. Mido. Navi.
That Poe thing. Hyrule Field. The warning about nightfall. And her mad
sprint to where Navi told her she would be safe. Was this it?
Getting her wits together she looked for a way out and spotted something
else alien to Kokkiri. A door. Oh Kokkri had openings in and out of their
houses of course. But the idea of blocking them off had never occurred to
them. Thievery was non-existence since there wasn't much to steal anyway
among the forest kids. The idea of a Kokiri coming in when they shouldn't
have didn't apply either since clothing for a Kokiri was for protection or
for appearance not modesty. Even when wild animals had invaded their
little sanctum blocking their doors didn't occur to them and instead they
always had a friend waiting by the side of the door with a Deku stick in
hand ready to KO anything that wasn't wearing green and went on two legs.
So now Saria was faced with a device she had never seen before in her life:
a doorknob. Thankfully Saria saw how the door was different from the rest
of the wall and was familiar with switches from her time in Forest Temple.
After only five minutes of frustration did Saria at last got the door to
open and got a look inside the rest of the house from the top of a rail
less wood stair case.
The floor was infested with a horde of white things going about in no fixed
pattern or order. Saria wondered if they were dangerous. Hyrule, if
anything, did have a healthy monster population.
Like a woman in a kitchen full of mice Saria stood at the door to the bed
room not sure weather to risk getting near the animals or not.
"Welcome back." Saria almost feel down the stairs. It was Navi.
"Don't do that!"
"Sorry. I'm just glade to see you're okay."
"Thank you . . . I was just building up the courage to race across the
floors with all of those things there." Saria eyed the white creatures
nervously.
"These?" Navi laughed, and did her best to cut it off before she hurt
Saria' feelings. "They're called Cuckoos. They're dumber than a Duku Barba
and completely harmless unless you kick one a dozen times or so. But that's
something you'd actually have to TRY and do so don't worry about." How long
had it taken for all those scratches to heal that one time Link had teased
the Cuckoos once too often? Navi had forgotten. Link still joked about them
being battle scars from the single fight he had lost ever. Or at least had
when she had been last together with him.
After another promise it was safe Saria descended the stairs and walked
across the floor and worked the door much faster than last time and existed
the farm house happen to be out of the room fill with so many of those
strange animals.
"Hey Malon she's awake!" Shouted Navi once they were outdoors.
A female hylian in a white and yellow sundress with blue trimmings came out
of another square structure, at least the building was the right color.
The hylian's hair was bright red, Saria controlled herself, the last time
she had seen hair that color it had been Gannondorf.
"So you're Saria huh? Nice to met you. My name's Malon." The woman was
clearly the kind who wrote the book on happy. Malon? Saria had heard that
name before.
"You're Malon?"
"You know me?"
"Link talked about you."
Link had indeed talked about Malon. How she drove him nuts by calling him
Fairy Boy, how she was the first girl he met outside the forest, and how
she gave him Eponia, a creature Link called a 'horse.' And that he had
gotten her AT Lon Lon Ranch. Saria's curiosity got the better of her. "E-
Excuse me. But I was wondering. Could you show me a horse?"
Malon had not expected that request but saw no harm in it and complied. She
had been feeding the horses just as Saria woke up and lead her into the
barn.
The sudden change in temperatures from outside to inside the stuffy stables
caused Saria to grow dizzy catching herself on a wood beam before she hit
the dirty floor.
Saria asked fearfully. "Am I dying?"
Malon said sarcastically. "Oh sure you'll keel over any second now."
The Kokiri however didn't pick up on Malon's tone and her fact became the
picture of panic. Malon was quick to pick up on THAT. "No, no, no. I was
just kidding! You'll be perfectly fine! You're just a little tired that's
all! Happens to everyone! Really there's nothing for you to worry about!"
Saria calmed down at Malon's words. She wondered how many other awful
frights she was going to have today. Answer? At least one more. Asides from
the cows (Saria recognized them from the one that had been delivered to
Link's house a couple years back, thought it had wandered off and been
devoured by wolves a short time later, poor thing.) that inhabited the
stables, Saria saw something she hoped she would never see again and caused
her to scream in fear. Before her was a brown furred version of the
monster that the ghost who had kidnapped her in Forest Temple had ridden
upon. The green child would have backed up until she was back Kokiri Forest
if Malon hadn't been right behind her. As it was, Saria's back went right
into her, stopping her dead in her tracks. Saria didn't turn to see what
had stopped her, her giant eyes didn't leave the beast before her for a
second, and least it attacked.
"Whoa there." Said Malon. "Haven't you ever seen a horse before?"
This was a horse? It wasn't like anything Saria had imagined. She had to
confirm what she just heard. "This is a horse? But . . . but . . ."
"But what?"
"I . . . I don't know."
Navi was worried that Saria's ignorance of things was going to get her
killed. Then again, Link was impulsive and what not and had come through in
one piece.
"Look. These horses here are perfectly friendly. See?" Malon touched one to
prove it wasn't about to bite Saria's hand off. A few seconds later Saria
hesitantly touch the great beast. When nothing horrible happened Saria then
petted the animal. Her confidence building and her fear fading.
'Maybe I can survive out here.'
"Say." Suggested Malon. "Want to ride one?"
"What?!"
~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Should I bring an antagonist into this?
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Lon Lon Ranch, dead center in the middle of Hyrule Field. It was a giant
warning sign, telling you get in doors or never see another sunset again.
Malon, having lived in this land all her life knew this rule well. Strange,
in spit of all the lives ended and livelihoods ruined because of
Gannondorf's Seven Year Rein, he had done one good thing in his time. He
had made Hyrule field safe to cross at night. Yea right. If not for the
ghosts scattered through out the land and the harsh laws about movement
that Gannondorf had imposed. If you got caught in the wrong place at the
wrong time, you didn't live long enough for it to happen again not that
many tried. That was the way of tyrants, to rule through fear of power
rather than the power itself.
Ugh. Why was she even thinking of it? That seven year nightmare was over
and done with. The less she and other people dwelled on it the better. Life
went on, and she wasn't going to be left behind.
For once in her life all the animals had been taken care of early and the
various pens all cleaned out, for a girl in her line of work, this sort of
thing didn't happen every decade. She couldn't really give herself all the
credit. Her family's work hand Ingo had really been giving it his all
lately. He was clearly building up free time for himself. When asked what
it was for, Ingo had meekly (a rare case for him) replied after some
probing that he wanted to go into show business and was working on an act.
Ingo in show business. Malon laughed at the thought (but not to Ingo's
face) she wondered what was going to happen next. The moon falling from the
sky?
Malon was now doing the one thing in her family's profession that was a
once in a lifetime thing. Nothing. For once a sunset she could sit back,
relax and pretend she was her father. It was so wonderful. Breathing in the
air and looking at the setting sun. Though it meant death for anyone in
Hyrule Field, Malon had to digress his original thought; it was still a
thing of beauty. Letting her mind wander she mentally played out her
favorite fantasy, the one involving Link in a tuxedo.
She had gotten about halfway down the imaginary isle when the daydream was
interrupted. Something was repeatedly bumping into her left temple. Not
caring what it was Malon swatted at it hoping it would just go away. No
such luck. "Hey!" Said a small high pitched voice. "Is that any way to
treat visitors?" The Hylian's eyes snapped open and in front of her was a
tiny glowing point of light floating on what first in her daze thought were
bunny ears but after a second recognized as wings.
"A fairy?" Said Malon surprised.
"No, a Poe. Of course I'm a fairy Malon! Don't tell me you've forgotten
me!"
The farm girl thought for a second getting over the stun of the forest
sprite knowing the redhead's name. "Navi?"
"Took you long enough! Now you can you please open the door?! There's
someone outside who needs help."
"Link?" She said in concern.
"A friend." Navi corrected. "Please just get her inside."
Malon only nodded and getting up from her chair unlocked the house door and
pulled it open to see who fate had deposited on her door step this day.
The girl had green, well, everything. Green hair. Olive skin. Green tunic
and sweater. Malon was sure when the girl opened them, she was going to
have green eyes too. The child had to be about twelve, Malon wondered what
in Nayru's name a girl her age could be thinking traveling through Hyrule
Field so close to dark. The only kid she had known to do such a thing was
Link, and he was at least armed. The poor thing was clearly exhausted.
People full of energy didn't normally sit on their hands and knees leaning
against a doorframe breathing wind as their life beat was tellable just by
looking at them.
Malon asked. "Are you okay?" The girl of course was too tired to answer.
Malon pulled the child inside. Her eyes fluttered open for a second. Malon
realized she had been wrong, the girl's eyes were blue.
"L-Link." The child whispered half asleep before entering it fully. This
started Malon who looked at the fairy for answers.
Navi tried to figure out the best way to put things in a way that wouldn't
take all night. "She's a friend of his." Navi was glade she hadn't made the
disastrous mistake of saying the deadly words 'just friends.'
"Oh." Said Malon subconsciously relieved. "How did she get all the way out
here?" She asked picking the green haired girl up in her arms.
Navi decided that her companion's origin couldn't do much harm. "She's a
Kokiri. They live in the farthest part of Hyrule's Kingdom."
Malon looked at the sleeping child in confusion. "But, but Link told me
that true fairy boys and girls died if they left the forest." Navi inwardly
cringed at the variation of Malon's nick name for Link.
"I don't get it myself." Navi said honestly. "All I know is that she left
the forest and is still alive. That's it."
"Oh." Malon was silent for a moment. "What's her name?"
"Saria.
"Just Saria. Kokiri don't have family names."
"Because they don't have families." Malon said more to herself than to
Navi.
"Bingo."
"How long was she was running? I could see her pulse when I opened the
door."
"Since she saw Lon Lon Ranch on the horizon."
"And she didn't faint dead on her feet halfway here?"
"I think she forgot where she was about that time and was just running."
"Most people collapse at that point." Malon knew SHE would collapse going
at that rate for a third of that distance, Hyrule Field was not small after
all.
Not knowing what else to do with her, Malon took the child up to Malon's
room and put her in bed. No doubt , with everything she had been through
the child was going to sleep straight till morning.
Saria didn't remember what she dreamed, it was all a jumble of shapes,
imagines, and sounds with no rhythm or reason, perhaps reflecting Saria's
state of mind. Or maybe her subconscious was as tired as the rest of her
and didn't have the energy to put her dreams into a resemblance of order.
It was maddening, and the girl tossed and turned in her sleep. While
downstairs Navi gave the farm girl the load down on Saria and the forest
child's exit from Kokiri Forest. This left Malon to explain to Ingo and her
Talon about their new houseguest. She said the girl was simply a friend of
Link's and was stopping by for the night before going to Hyrule Castle.
Both men were satisfied with this answer and left Malon to her business.
When Saria woke up the first thing she thought about wasn't where she was
or how she got there. It was how SQAURE everything was. She had spent her
entire life looking at round rooms, the only square rooms she had ever seen
were those of the forest temple but she had thought those to be an oddity.
She wondered for a brief moment if she had somehow wound up back in that
stone mass. But nothing here really resembled save the square rooms the
haunted temple. But she still wasn't convinced until she looked out a
window that showed a grassy field surrounded by rocks on all sides, bathed
in morning light.
Where was she? It all came back in a moment's notice. Link. Mido. Navi.
That Poe thing. Hyrule Field. The warning about nightfall. And her mad
sprint to where Navi told her she would be safe. Was this it?
Getting her wits together she looked for a way out and spotted something
else alien to Kokkiri. A door. Oh Kokkri had openings in and out of their
houses of course. But the idea of blocking them off had never occurred to
them. Thievery was non-existence since there wasn't much to steal anyway
among the forest kids. The idea of a Kokiri coming in when they shouldn't
have didn't apply either since clothing for a Kokiri was for protection or
for appearance not modesty. Even when wild animals had invaded their
little sanctum blocking their doors didn't occur to them and instead they
always had a friend waiting by the side of the door with a Deku stick in
hand ready to KO anything that wasn't wearing green and went on two legs.
So now Saria was faced with a device she had never seen before in her life:
a doorknob. Thankfully Saria saw how the door was different from the rest
of the wall and was familiar with switches from her time in Forest Temple.
After only five minutes of frustration did Saria at last got the door to
open and got a look inside the rest of the house from the top of a rail
less wood stair case.
The floor was infested with a horde of white things going about in no fixed
pattern or order. Saria wondered if they were dangerous. Hyrule, if
anything, did have a healthy monster population.
Like a woman in a kitchen full of mice Saria stood at the door to the bed
room not sure weather to risk getting near the animals or not.
"Welcome back." Saria almost feel down the stairs. It was Navi.
"Don't do that!"
"Sorry. I'm just glade to see you're okay."
"Thank you . . . I was just building up the courage to race across the
floors with all of those things there." Saria eyed the white creatures
nervously.
"These?" Navi laughed, and did her best to cut it off before she hurt
Saria' feelings. "They're called Cuckoos. They're dumber than a Duku Barba
and completely harmless unless you kick one a dozen times or so. But that's
something you'd actually have to TRY and do so don't worry about." How long
had it taken for all those scratches to heal that one time Link had teased
the Cuckoos once too often? Navi had forgotten. Link still joked about them
being battle scars from the single fight he had lost ever. Or at least had
when she had been last together with him.
After another promise it was safe Saria descended the stairs and walked
across the floor and worked the door much faster than last time and existed
the farm house happen to be out of the room fill with so many of those
strange animals.
"Hey Malon she's awake!" Shouted Navi once they were outdoors.
A female hylian in a white and yellow sundress with blue trimmings came out
of another square structure, at least the building was the right color.
The hylian's hair was bright red, Saria controlled herself, the last time
she had seen hair that color it had been Gannondorf.
"So you're Saria huh? Nice to met you. My name's Malon." The woman was
clearly the kind who wrote the book on happy. Malon? Saria had heard that
name before.
"You're Malon?"
"You know me?"
"Link talked about you."
Link had indeed talked about Malon. How she drove him nuts by calling him
Fairy Boy, how she was the first girl he met outside the forest, and how
she gave him Eponia, a creature Link called a 'horse.' And that he had
gotten her AT Lon Lon Ranch. Saria's curiosity got the better of her. "E-
Excuse me. But I was wondering. Could you show me a horse?"
Malon had not expected that request but saw no harm in it and complied. She
had been feeding the horses just as Saria woke up and lead her into the
barn.
The sudden change in temperatures from outside to inside the stuffy stables
caused Saria to grow dizzy catching herself on a wood beam before she hit
the dirty floor.
Saria asked fearfully. "Am I dying?"
Malon said sarcastically. "Oh sure you'll keel over any second now."
The Kokiri however didn't pick up on Malon's tone and her fact became the
picture of panic. Malon was quick to pick up on THAT. "No, no, no. I was
just kidding! You'll be perfectly fine! You're just a little tired that's
all! Happens to everyone! Really there's nothing for you to worry about!"
Saria calmed down at Malon's words. She wondered how many other awful
frights she was going to have today. Answer? At least one more. Asides from
the cows (Saria recognized them from the one that had been delivered to
Link's house a couple years back, thought it had wandered off and been
devoured by wolves a short time later, poor thing.) that inhabited the
stables, Saria saw something she hoped she would never see again and caused
her to scream in fear. Before her was a brown furred version of the
monster that the ghost who had kidnapped her in Forest Temple had ridden
upon. The green child would have backed up until she was back Kokiri Forest
if Malon hadn't been right behind her. As it was, Saria's back went right
into her, stopping her dead in her tracks. Saria didn't turn to see what
had stopped her, her giant eyes didn't leave the beast before her for a
second, and least it attacked.
"Whoa there." Said Malon. "Haven't you ever seen a horse before?"
This was a horse? It wasn't like anything Saria had imagined. She had to
confirm what she just heard. "This is a horse? But . . . but . . ."
"But what?"
"I . . . I don't know."
Navi was worried that Saria's ignorance of things was going to get her
killed. Then again, Link was impulsive and what not and had come through in
one piece.
"Look. These horses here are perfectly friendly. See?" Malon touched one to
prove it wasn't about to bite Saria's hand off. A few seconds later Saria
hesitantly touch the great beast. When nothing horrible happened Saria then
petted the animal. Her confidence building and her fear fading.
'Maybe I can survive out here.'
"Say." Suggested Malon. "Want to ride one?"
"What?!"
~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Important question that will affect the entire story:
Should I bring an antagonist into this?
Flames, comments, reactions good or bad, rants, retorts, suggestions on
what happens next (very welcome) praise, and occasional constructive
criticism all welcome.
IF YOU HAVE AN AXE TO GRIND ABOUT A REVIEW I MADE E-MAIL ME!!!!! DON'T
ABUSE THE REVIEW SYSTEM.