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Ocarina of Time: The Three Goddesses Reincarnated

Chapter Ten: Upon the Return

Tessa slowly awoke, only to find out that she had slept in until about noon, judging from the fact that the sun was directly overhead. "Damn…" Tessa groaned as she sat up. As she let out a slight yawn and stretched, she quickly took note that even Tompton was still dozing. "I guess I did ride her too hard." Tessa sighed, and looked over at the shining lake. Already the sun was beating down on Tessa, making her skin feel hot to the touch, and she hadn't washed since before she left her own world. After she checked to make sure no one was around, Tessa sighed and stood up, she quickly noticed how sore her legs were, and walked over to the only really secluded part of the lake, which was behind a few large boulders.

Before she stripped herself, she dunked her fist in the water to check what the temperature was. She was relieved that the water wasn't freezing, but slightly warm, but not enough to bother her on such a hot day. Tessa smiled and took off her shirt, followed by her pants and other clothing items and accessories. Then, Tessa slowly walked into the water, and sat down with her back against one of the boulders. She sighed and slipped in to that half of her neck was converged in the water, and shut her eyelids.

'This is so relaxing.' Tessa thought, and slowly let her thoughts drift off. Which eventually led her to feel guilty about just leaving the ranch like she did. She grimaced, and let herself submerge all of the way underwater, even though she knew that her hair would dry really funny if it got completely wet without a hairbrush at hand. When she couldn't hold her breath any longer, she popped back up to the surface and sighed. She leaned her head against the rock and thought some more about other topics.

'Oh wait…I don't have a towel. So I either have to wait until I dry off a bit, or I have to get into my clothes and get them wet.' Tessa hated wearing wet clothes, but she also hated the very idea of sitting on the wide open plain in the nude. Her eye twitched, and she sighed. 'My clothes can sacrifice themselves for a worthier cause.'

After another half hour, Tompton trotted over and started to drink from the pool Tessa was bathing in, and Tessa decided that now was the time to get out and get dressed. When she went to stand up, she looked towards where her clothes had been, only to see a rather handsome-looking man holding them with a slight twinge of red to his cheeks. Tessa blinked. Then she blinked again. Finally it registered to her that she was in a very clear lake, naked…

And some boy was about to steal her clothes!

Her face turned from pale to a bright tomato red in a matter of seconds. Her eyes were wide, and had a flash of anger that symbolized how furious she was. The guy seemed to realize the imminent danger he was in, and quickly dropped her clothes and ran behind the boulders to hide. To Tessa's dismay, the clothes had dropped in the lake and were now soaking wet.

Tompton looked up and nickered. Tessa just glared at her and looked around to make sure no other peeping toms were looking, and stood up slowly. She put her clothes while standing in the lake because there was a lesser chance of dirt attaching itself to them if she didn't set them down on shore, and stomped out of the lake to grab her boots and shove them on her feet. All of this took less than minute, before she whirled around to see the guy who had peeped on her standing on the other side of the boulder from where she had been, facing in the opposite direction, with a beet red tinge to his whole face. Rage burned in her eyes as she stomped over to him. He turned quickly and jumped from shock when he saw her. The guy started to back away in fright, and tripped on a rock inside of the lake, sending him crashing into the watery surface.

'Serves him right.' Tessa growled inside of her mind, before she stomped over and grabbed the floundering guy from the front of his shirt, and brought him up to a few inches below her eye level. "You are going to pay for that." Tessa growled dangerously, and the guy started to get paler. Suddenly, Tessa threw him into the middle of the lake and flipped him off with both fingers. "YOU PERVERTED BASTARD!" Tessa shouted back behind her, before stomping off to retrieve Tompton. Tompton was eating some grass and Tessa lightly patted her neck. "Let's go home."

Tompton stood still to let Tessa climb on her back, and they trotted off in the direction that Tessa had guessed they came from, though Tompton seemed pretty sure about where she was going, even if Tessa was sort of lost.

Instead of going to the ranch at a full-out gallop, the two just walked this time. Tessa even got off of Tompton's back once in a while to give her a break from supporting her human weight. They stopped for lunch, or rather, Tompton stopped for lunch. Tessa just listened to her stomach growl viciously at her, and lied down on the grass, letting her mind wander off with no aim. By the time they got back to the ranch, the moon had already been out for about four hours, and Tessa had drifted off to sleep on Tompton's back.

Tompton slowly and quietly trotted into the corral with Tessa in tow, and trotted over to the sleeping figure by the corral. Epona cantered up to the sleeping figure, and gently nudged him awake with her head. He groaned slightly and opened his eyes slowly at first, but snapped them open when he was Tompton directly in front of him. Link jumped up and ran to Tompton's side, and grabbed Tessa around her torso, and dragged her off Tompton's back. Tessa didn't even stir, but Link still was wary about her waking up at that moment. She must have been pretty upset when she left the ranch, but now she almost looked peaceful, if she didn't look like she had survived many hours of massive discomfort.

Sighing, Link dropped down to the ground, and propped his back up against the corral, and adjusted Tessa so that her head lay against his arm, and that she was positioned next to him against the fence. Almost automatically, Tessa's legs pulled in so that the rest of her legs were somewhat closer to her body. Link stared at her for a moment, sighed, and drifted off to sleep, his head eventually falling onto hers.

Tessa slowly blinked her eyes open and wondered at why she was lying on something soft, although she was outside. Suddenly, she looked around noticed that she was lying in the corral, and she was surrounded by horses. A sudden realization came to her, and she looked down to only blush ferociously. Two arms were wrapped around her waist, and had at sometime during the night drawn her in closer to the owner of those arms. Although her legs were to the side of her, somebody else's leg was over both of her own, and the other leg was on the other side of her. She was too scared to move much, so she just relaxed and waited for Link to wake up, and eventually drifted off into a very light sleep.

About ten minutes later, Link also woke up with a jump. He started to blush furiously when he noticed the position he and Tessa were in. She had felt his movement, and stirred for a moment, before blinking her eyes and looking behind him.

"Could I have my body back?" Tessa asked, and looked completely innocent as she did so, and it also looked as if she wasn't entirely awake yet. Link quickly unwrapped his arms from around Tessa's waist, and drew his leg back so that Tessa could get up. She did so really quickly, a tinge of pink across her cheeks, though Link didn't really notice, as he tried to tone his own blush down. Luckily for him, Tessa was also trying to suppress her own blush and didn't notice his. She offered him her hand, and he gratefully took it. She pulled him up, let go of his hand when he was steady, and started to brush some grass and horsehair off her rather dirty clothes.

"I'm going to see Malon…" Tessa trailed off, a very worried look crossed her face, and took off running towards the ranch. She first looked in the main house, and then when she didn't find Malon anywhere in there looked in the stable. Malon was in there feeding the cows, looking slightly happy, and very relieved. It was like a ghost had come and gone very recently.

'I might have been that ghost.' Tessa thought, with self-loathing. 'I left here without so much as a goodbye or an explanation.' Tessa bit her lip, and took one step in. Malon had heard her and turned around to face Tessa.

"So, what's your decision?"

Tessa blinked. She didn't even scold her for running off. She didn't even bring up the subject! However, she realized that although it wasn't brought up, with Malon it was as much of a touchy subject as it was for Tessa, and so they both silently decided to leave the beast alone for now, until they could find means to go towards it peacefully.

For a full minute, Tessa sat there and stared at Malon, and Malon stared right back. They were both awaiting Tessa's answer, and Tessa didn't want to know how Malon would react. For this, however, she didn't mind taking the bull by the horns with her answer.

"If Link will allow me, then I guess I will." Tessa sighed. Malon squealed and hugged Tessa in an excited manner. Tessa was taken aback at first but in the end hugged the redhead back. Eventually the two friends parted, and Malon looked at Tessa's clothes.

"How about you go and take a bath or something?" Malon asked, pointing to the grass stains and horse hair all over her clothes. Tessa laughed nervously and nodded.

"That's probably a good idea. I think I'll do it at home though. I like the idea of hot water." Tessa informed Malon, who cocked her head to the side with confusion, but then shook her head and decided not to ask. "I would also like to tell my mom that I'm going."

Tessa returned by mid-afternoon and searched out Link. If she was going to go on that journey, she might want to ask first. It wasn't too hard to find him; he was helping Malon by attempting to feed the cuckoos. She walked over to him casually, and hopped the fence, startling some of the birds in the process, and approached his back. He seemed to be having trouble just opening the feed sack. Tessa quietly walked up beside him put her hand over his, signaling that she would do it for him. He backed off slightly and Tessa easily untied the knot, and opened the bag of feed. "Link, I have a question to ask of you." Tessa murmured so quietly that Link almost didn't hear her.

"What is it?" Link asked, curious.

"Well…" Tessa lifted the bag of seed and let a small percentage of its contents fall out and land on the ground. The birds flocked around the spot and immediately started to eat the food, all the while pecking each other and her legs. She glared at the cuckoos but decided to let them enjoy their supposedly delicious meal. "Umm…Malon was the one to actually ask me about this…and I did think about it quite a bit, but I was wondering, would you mind if I went with you on your journey?"

Link blinked, a little bit surprised, and remembered when Malon had asked if Tessa would be allowed to join him. He wondered briefly if this was why she left, but shoved that thought aside, because it seemed improbable. That, and he didn't want to pry into a very touchy subject.

He remembered her question, and he smiled. "Of course. You were a lot of help to me earlier, and I could use the company."

"I would kill him if he didn't let you." Navi stated shortly as she seemed to appear out of nowhere. You smiled and waved at the fairy.

"So, when do we leave?" Tessa asked, and realized that the feed bag was starting to get heavy, so she just flipped it over and dumped it onto the cuckoos heads, which earned her a noisy protest from the white birds. She just stuck her tongue out at the birds and rolled up the feed sack, fully prepared to put it in the pile with the other empty feed sacks.

The corner of Link's mouth twitched at Tessa's actions. "Tomorrow."

"Well then, I had better get your chores done." Tessa laughed and hopped out of the fence. Unable to express their anger in a more violent way to the escaped girl, the birds instead turned their focuses onto a more convenient prey.

What could she say? Tessa simply knew better than to stay in a pen with a horde of angry cuckoos.

End of Chappie

Well then! I believe I finally got this done! It's 2:15 in the morning and I'm beat. I actually got an idea for when I'm actually done with the damned trilogy, but it involves six stories for after this series. YAY. I'm not there yet, but I'm putting this as a reminder for if I forget. Read and Review!