It's been two hours since our heroes have made their way towards Kakariko village. It was in the afternoon that they came to a river with a small bridge crossing over it. They drag themselves across the bridge and decide to take a small break before continuing on. Sage and Linda dive into the river for a quick bath while Link squats down next to the river, cups some water in his hands and takes a drink. He gets more water then splashes his face. After regaining some much needed energy, he sits down and watches his furry friends swim in retarded circles. After a few moments of peace, Navi gets irritated.

"We need to get to Kakariko village!" She shouts while flying around frantically.

Link sighs, "Navi, we've been running around for almost two days without any food or water. To be honest, I'm surprised we've gotten this far."

"The faster we get to Kakariko the faster you can eat, drink, sleep, pick your nose, whatever you want to do!"

"Come on Navi, just relax, you deserve it; we're just taking a small break anyway." Link says as he lifts his hat and scratches his head.

Navi sighs in defeat, "Fine, but when the sun goes down and we're being chased by monsters I don't want to hear you complaining."

The two watch in silence as Sage and Linda climb out of the river and shake the water out of their fur. Link welcomes the cool water while Navi hides behind him and scowls.

"I feel clean and refreshed." Linda says, plopping down next to Link.

"But now you smell like a wet animal." Sage said while scratching her ear with her hind leg.

"Eh, could be worse."

"Hey I got a question for you two." Navi said.

"What?" They asked.

"You went to the castle to save one of your friends right? Then where is this friend?"

"Oh yeah, I was wondering that too." Link said, turning towards them.

"Well, she decided to stay behind for the she-demon's sake. You see, the she-demon cast a spell on her so that-" Linda spoke until Sage whipped her in the face with her rat tail and cut in.

"It was her decision to stay for some reason. We told her we'd eventually come back for her after we found our other friends."

Link nodded his head in understanding.

"I don't remember seeing any other animals there, what kind of animal is she?" Link asked.

"Kayla? You saw her, Zelda introduced you to her." Sage said.

"But she wasn't an animal." Link stated, sort of confused.

"Well, we're not supposed to be animals either." Linda says.

"What?" Link and Navi asked, completely confused.

"Some guy with a weird voice turned us into animals." Sage said.

Link and Navi stare blankly at the two animals.

"I guess we forgot to mention that." Linda said.

"Yeah, I guess you did." Navi said, mocking Linda's tone.

"Does that mean the other two friends you're looking for are Hylian as well?" Link asks.

"We're humans, and no, they were turned into animals along with us." Sage said.

"What's a human?" Navi asks.

"Well I guess we forgot to tell you we're from a completely different world as well." Linda said with a nervous chuckle.

"Different world?" Link asks, even more confused.

"We don't really know how we got here. So we're just as lost as you are, really." Sage said with a sigh.

"I don't know if I believe you." Navi said suspiciously.

"Doesn't matter anyway, you never trusted us from the beginning." Linda stated.

"Can you blame me?" Navi said.

Link sighs, "Look, I don't know about you guys, but I'm a little too tired to deal with this confusing stuff. I think we should get going before it gets dark."

"Yes, thank you!" Navi screamed.

And so the group keeps trucking towards their destination. By the time they got to the staircase leading to Kakariko village the sun was just setting. Navi notices a sign reading "Kakariko village, up ahead."

"I think we're almost there." She points out. Sage and Linda look at her irritably, "What?"

"We told you ten minutes ago when we first saw the staircase that it would lead us to Kakariko village." Sage said.

"We might as well start getting used to it; we already know she likes to point out useless shit." Linda stated.

"You both can just kiss my ass!"

"I didn't know you had an ass." Sage said.

As they continue to argue, they don't notice a dozen stalchildren rising out of the ground and heading towards them. They finally noticed the unwanted company when one of them swatted at Navi and she barely dodges the attack.

"Ugh, and it was so close." Sage said while sighing.

"Shut up and run!" Navi screeched while doing that annoying alarm chime she always does.

The group scurries around the stalchildren and head up the stairs. Unfortunately, halfway up the stairs they're met with another group of stalchildren who seem to have come out of nowhere!

Link readies his sword and shield, "Get behind me!" he commanded.

"What's the point? You've got enemies on both sides." Linda said nonchalantly.

Link takes a look behind him and begins to worry when he notices stalchildren climbing up the stairs. He decides his best option is to slash down a path so he and his friends could keep running up the stairs. He uses a jump attack on the stalchild across from him then finishes it off with a horizontal slice.

"Come on!" He orders his friends as he slashes his way through the enemies. The animals run after him while Navi flies over to him. One stalchild manages to grab Linda by the tail, but she bites him in defense. He winces in pain and throws her.

"Shiiiiiii-!" Linda screamed before her face became acquainted with one of the steps; going unconscious of course.

Fortunately for Link and the others, the stalchild used Linda as a bowling ball and bowled down a path for them to run through. Link runs to Linda, with Sage on his shoulder and Navi flying around frantically, grabs her and runs the rest of the way up to Kakariko village.

Ten minutes later, an out of breath Link is lying under the big tree in the middle of Kakariko village. Grog, the guy who thinks everyone is disgusting, is watching Link with disgust, because that's all he can do.

Sage glares back at Grog, "Got a problem, pal?"

"People are disgusting. My own father and mother are disgusting. You must-"

"Yeah, yeah! We're probably disgusting too!" Sage rolls her eyes.

"Can you, tell us a place, where we could stay the night sir?" Link asks between breaths.

"Over there." Grog replies while motioning his head towards a two story building.

"Thank you sir." Link says as he stands up and bows.

"You're-"

"Disgusting, I get it." Link said irritably. He picks up Linda and heads towards the inn while Sage and Navi follow close behind.

The outside of the building seemed plain; a nice apricot color, wooden exterior shutters and a chimney coming out the top of the roof. Link went to open the front door, but it was locked.

"Damn it!" He yelled as he punched the door and dropping Linda in the process, "Oh yeah, I forgot I had Linda."

"Don't ever tell Linda that, she'd be heartbroken . . . and I don't think any of us want to deal with that." Sage replied.

"Do you two not understand the situation we're in right now?" Navi screamed.

"Oh we understand, but it's kind of a mutual understanding that you're the one who does all the useless bitching." Sage said nonchalantly.

"You little-"

"Can we not argue now guys, I'm tired and not exactly happy we'll be sleeping outside tonight." Link interrupted. The two sigh and nod in agreement.

Since it was night time, the only noise they could hear was the windmill and a few crickets here and there. Neither of them wanted to wander around so they just decided to sleep outside the inn. After he set Linda beside him, Link sat up against the building and brought his knees to his chest so he could rest his head on them. Navi buried herself in Links' hat while Sage used Linda as a substitute bed.

Almost thirty minutes later, Link was close to falling asleep when he heard some oncoming footsteps. He groggily looks up at a woman holding a lantern. She had short red hair and was wearing a white blouse with a brown vest and a long blue skirt.

"Are you lost little boy?" she asked.

"No, just falling asleep." He replied.

"Outside?" She asked with a worried tone.

"It's not that bad, really."

"Why don't you come to my place? It's a little crowded, but it beats sleeping out here."

"Well, I guess." He said with a weary smile.

He grabs his sleeping friends and follows the woman to her house. It only took about ten minutes to get there and unlock the front door. Not much to see inside since the small lantern was their only source of light. The woman took Link upstairs and into, I'm guessing, an empty room. She led him to a bed and he was so happy he just kicked his boots off and jumped on the bed.

"Thank you very much." Link said.

"You're very welcome. Now get some sleep, you can barely keep your eyes open." She replied.

"Okay and thanks again," Link places Sage and Linda next to him, "Oh, before I forget, what's your name?"

"Anju, and what might your name be?" She asked.

"Link."

"Well good night Link." She said with a smile before closing the bedroom door.

"Night." He managed to whisper before sleep overtook him.

It was about seven in the morning when Link was woken up by Sage, Linda and Navi shouting. He sat up then rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and yawned. He stretched before turning to his panicked friends.

"Where the hell are we?" Navi asked in a panic.

"We're at Anju's house." Link replied.

"That crazy lady that breeds cuccoos even though she's allergic to them?" Linda asked.

"What?" Link asked.

"Never mind then."

"Look, I was really tired last night and she seemed like a nice lady so I said yes." Link explained.

"What if she was some crazy lady who could've killed you or something?" Sage asked.

"She is." Linda pointed out.

"Can't you just be happy you weren't sleeping outside?" Link asked.

"She's right Link, you shouldn't go anywhere with strangers. You could've been in serious trouble." Navi lectured.

"What are you, his mother? Link's old enough to make his own decisions." Linda said.

"He's ten!" Sage and Navi argued.

"Hey don't gang up on me, I have no idea what's going on and I'm surprised I'm even alive!" Linda yelled.

There was a knock at the door.

"Come in." Link said. The door seemed like it was being pushed in by something from the other side and started to creak. Link got out of bed and walked towards the door, "Um, Anju?"

The door then bursts open with a wave of cuccoos that filled the whole room in a matter of seconds. The girls are frozen from the sudden shock while Link is lost in a sea of cuccoos. A weird creature covered in huge red pimples walks into the room.

"AAAH!" The girls screamed.

"AAAH!" The creature replied.

"What the hell is that thing?" Navi screeched.

"You can talk!" The creature, with a blubbery voice said; referring to Navi.

"It can talk!" The girls said.

Link popped his head out of the sea of cuccoos and spit out the feathers in his mouth. He looked around and took notice of the strange creature.

"AAAH!" Link screamed.

"We already did that." Linda said.

"Oh Link, there you are. Why not come down for some breakfast?" It said.

"Anju?" Link asked in disbelief.

"Of course silly, who else would it be?" It, or rather, Anju said.

"More like what else would it be?" Sage mumbled.

After boring introductions and pushing through the sea of cuccoos they're all downstairs in the kitchen eating eggs and bacon. Anju sat Link down at the table and made the animals eat on the floor along with the sea of cuccoos.

"This is degrading." Sage said irritably as a cuccoo comes over and starts picking at her eggs, "You damn cannibal!" She swats at it with her rat nails.

"I can't look her in the face." Linda said uncomfortably.

"What face? It's all covered in hives!" Sage yelled as a flock of cuccos attack both of their plates and they're forced to run under Links' chair, "I hate this!"

"Anju, I was wondering," Link started just as a cuccoo flew passed his head, "how exactly do you fit all these cuccoos in your house?"

Anju chuckles, "It works somehow, but it would work a lot better if I wasn't allergic to them."

"You're allergic to them yet you have so many?" Navi asked irritably.

"I just love cuccoos!" Anju squealed with joy, "I would've gotten another one yesterday, but when I went to catch it, it ran off towards the graveyard. Funny thing is it could talk like the rude animals you have, but all it could say was 'monster'."

I can see why . . . they all thought in unison.

"You didn't happen to notice another bird tagging along with it, did you?" Sage asked.

Anju thought for a moment, "I'm not sure, maybe."

A cuccoo came and stole Links' toast while another came and stole his bacon. He sighed, "Well thank you for letting us stay for the night and making us breakfast Anju,"

"That we didn't get to eat." Sage and Linda interrupted.

"But we should probably go. We've got some things to take care of." Link finishes, ignoring Sage and Linda.

"Oh, well that's too bad." Anju said.

After saying their good-byes, the group left and is now standing outside Anju's house with very irritated expressions. The girls look over at Link, "Please stop staring at me like that; I know it's my fault and I'm sorry." Link said miserably.

"Luckily for you I snagged this bottle." Linda said, handing said bottle to Link.

"Thanks." Link said unsatisfied.

"Why?" Navi asked.

"So we can hold things in it." Linda said.

"But you stole it!" Navi yelled.

"It's not like she's going to miss it."

"And in other news, we now have an idea to where Cheyenne and Steph are." Sage said.

"Yeah, the graveyard, but that was yesterday. What if they already left that place?" Link pointed out.

"We'll just have to go and see."

"Yeah, and while we're at it we can go get the sun song." Linda said.

"The sun's song?" Link and Navi ask.

After wandering around Kakariko village, they finally find the entrance to the graveyard. Walking inside the graveyard they notice it's a lot scarier then they imagined. An eerie fog was covering the ground and strange sounds could be heard throughout the graveyard. The graves were unkempt and there was moss growing on a few; some even have old vines growing across them. Luckily for them it was daytime and no monsters would come out, probably.

Walking deeper into the graveyard, they noticed a small shack; Link looks around unnervingly then at his friends. They nod at each other then walk up to the shed and Link hesitantly knocks on the door. They hear cries for help coming from the inside and sounds of a struggle.

"Um . . . maybe no one's home." Linda said.

"Don't be such a pussy! What if that's our friends in there?" Sage yelled.

"Why don't we get that sun song you two were talking about earlier and then come back?" Link asked.

"Great idea Link, you and Navi can go get it while Linda and I investigate this place." Sage said.

"Wait, what? That's not what I meant; I don't even know where it is!" Link argued.

"The very back of the graveyard; it's the grave that has the Triforce symbol in front of it. Play Zelda's lullaby and you should know what to do from there." Sage instructed.

"The very back? But . . . wait, how would you know that?" Link asked.

"Um . . . We heard a rumor about it sometime before we met you. I'm pretty sure it's accurate though. So go get it and leave this place to us."

"What if your friends aren't in there?" Navi asked.

"Then we'll go after you." Sage said with a smile.

Link and Navi look at each other with suspicious expressions before hesitantly walking away, or in Navi's case flying away, in search of the sun song.

"Okay, I'll squeeze under the door and look around. If I need you then I'll open the door for you." Sage said. She looks at Linda and notices she's staring at her funny, "What?"

"I don't know you seem a little different." Linda responded.

"How so?" Sage asks.

"Well, normally you're full of snarky remarks and have a lazy attitude like the rest of us, but now you're being helpful and cheery."

"Because I'm having so much fun! Back home we had nothing to do; we just sit around and do nothing! But here, something different happens almost every hour and I just can't contain myself!" Sage screamed then dove through a hole at the bottom of the door.

Linda turns towards the readers, "Actually, it's because she hasn't eaten anything in almost four days. She gets a little bipolar when that happens."

*With Link and Navi*

It didn't take them very long to get to the grave since Link ran the whole way there, but that was because he thought he was being chased by something.

"She wasn't lying to us." Navi said in disbelief.

"So I play Zelda's lullaby and . . . I think that's it." Link says, not hearing what Navi said. He plays the song and at first it starts to rain, then a bolt of lightning comes down and hits the ground in front of the grave. The lightning threw Link back a few feet and Navi flies around him frantically.

"Oh my Din! Link, are you okay?" Navi screamed.

"Dance like there's no tomorrow, Dance like you feel no sorrow, Dance naked in a wheelbarrow . . ." Link chants, dazed and confused.

"Get ahold of yourself!" Navi screamed as she bounces off Links' forehead a few times.

Link suddenly sits up and looks around a bit startled, "What happened to me?"

"A bolt of lightning came down and knocked you back." Navi answered.

"Is it gone?"

"Yes?"

"All right then, let's goes!" Link said a little too cheerfully before he walks over to the newly made hole, trips on his own foot and falls in.

"Oh goddesses, help him." Navi said as she follows him in.

Upon entering the creepy grave, Navi sees that Link went on ahead without her. As she continues on she enters a stone room with bones scattered around the place and a steel barred door in between two unlit torches across from her. She also sees Link swinging his sword around recklessly and shouting at a Keese.

"Hey!" Navi screams.

That somehow brought Link back to his senses and he looks around confused, "Where am I?"

"Watch out!" Navi screams again.

Link turns around and is met by an angry Keese. He slices it with his sword, killing it, and turns back to Navi. Before he could ask her what was going on, five more Keese came darting at him. It only took him about ten minutes to kill them all which caused the two torches to be lit and the bars on the door to disappear. He and Navi exchanged glances and go through the door.

On the other side, it was another stone room, but weird green liquid filled a few sections of the ground. The air seemed thick and it was hard to breathe. They could also hear strange groaning sounds echoing throughout the room.

"Link, I sense the green liquid is poison, don't touch it." Navi said.

Link nods and continues forward, going around the green liquid. He spots a strange body shaped creature just standing in one spot and kind of twitching every now and then. He notices that its skin seems to be decaying and can almost see bones poking through.

"Navi, what is that thing?" Link asks. The sound of Links' voice catches the creatures' attention and it slowly turns its head towards him. Its empty eye sockets begin to glow a hazy red as its body begins to move. Just then, a high pitched scream pierces the air and Link is frozen stiff. He could only watch in terror as the creature slowly brings itself towards him.

*With Sage and Linda*

Linda's still sitting outside the door waiting for Sage or someone to open it. Another five minutes roll by and she decides to try and open the door herself. Just as she's about to jump at the door knob, Sage pokes her head out from under the door. She struggles to get the rest of herself out but somehow manages to. Then Linda notices a light green bird head poking out from where Sage just came out of.

"Cheyenne!" Linda screamed with joy. After Cheyenne squeezes herself out from under the door, Linda gives her a big raccoon hug, "I've missed you!"

"I've missed you too! You have no idea how much shit we went through after we got separated!" Cheyenne cried.

"Guys, you might not want to be standing too close to the door." Sage suggested.

"Oh yeah, RUN!" Cheyenne yelled.

They got out of the way just in time when the door suddenly burst open and an ugly old man wearing brown overalls is trying to catch a duck.

"Hurry Stephanie!" Sage yelled as they're all running from the old guy. Steph flies after her friends as the old man, Dampe the grave keeper, swings a fist in rage and yells after them.

"I'LL GET YOU ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, NOBODY GETS AWAY FROM DAMPE!" He screamed.

"And yet we just did." Sage said with a smirk.

When they reach the grave where Link is, they decide to just wait for him to come out instead of going in after him. So they just sit around the Triforce symbol to wait and rest a little.

"What have you guys been doing this whole time?" Linda asked Steph and Cheyenne.

"After we got separated, Cheyenne and I just roamed around aimlessly until we found a village." Steph started.

"But then some big, scary, red creature started chasing Stephanie so we came here to hide. Unfortunately we were caught by that Dampe guy and that's where we've been ever since." Cheyenne finished.

"Sounds rough." Sage said.

"Rough? It's worse than that! He was going to cook me for dinner!" Steph cried.

"It was only a matter of time." Linda said.

"Shut up you!" Steph shouted.

"Can we go now; this place gives me the creeps." Cheyenne said.

"We're waiting for Link." Sage said.

"Link?" Cheyenne and Steph asked.

"Oh yeah, you two have never played this game before, have you?" Sage asked.

"We're in a game?" Steph asked.

"Eh . . . Something like that, I guess." Sage replied.

"What do you mean?" Cheyenne and Steph asked.

"We don't know how we got here, and we don't know how we can get back." Sage said.

"Are you serious?" Steph said in disappointment.

"Look, we'll be fine; we just have to stick together. I think if we can save Kayla there might be a chance we can get back home." Sage said.

"What makes you say that?" Linda asks.

"Remember that story Zelda told us; the one about the traveler and the cow?" They all nodded, "She also said that Kayla has the same aura as that powerful cow. If she has the same aura then there might be a chance that she has the same power as the cow." Sage explains.

"Right, so you're saying we can use Kayla's cow power to get us back home?" Cheyenne asks skeptically.

"Exactly." Sage said.

The other three burst out laughing, irritating Sage.

"Shut the hell up! I'm being serious!" Sage screamed.

"Oh come on Sage! Kayla doesn't have any powers!" Linda said.

"But that's all we have to go on! Do you guys have any idea how to get back home?" Sage argued.

"No." They said in unison.

"I didn't think so."

"What if your plan doesn't work; what'll we do then?" Cheyenne asks.

"Try to find another way home, what else?" Sage replied.

They all sit in silence for a few minutes until they hear some shuffling and grunting. They look towards the grave and see an injured Link climbing out of the hole.

"Link!" Sage and Linda yell.

Sorry if this chapter seems kind of rushed(?), maybe it's just me that thinks that. oh well! I'll see you next chapter!

oh yeah, editor you're unfired!

SO GET EDITING!