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Ocarina of Time: The Three Goddesses Reincarnated

Chapter Fifteen: A Brief Vacation

Tessa sighed, happy to be in her own world once again, but not really happy to have to make up all of the homework she had missed while she was trying to stay alive in a very creepy temple. Right now, her friends were sitting with her trying to help her understand the material.

Kristen and Maegan almost pounded their heads in frustration at Tessa's inability to understand the Algebra over the past week or so. "Tessa, it's not that hard!" Tessa frowned.

"You know what I'm like when it comes to math!" Tessa shot back. "It's not my best area!" James shook his head at the frustrated girl.

"All right, you're good at reading and writing, I'm good at math, but I can't remember anything from then." Tessa glared at him.

"You're in calculus!"

"So?" The librarian was getting kind of testy with them, as they noticed by the clearing of her throat right behind Tessa. Tessa growled lowly, and dropped her head on top of her textbook.

"Why don't we start with physical science instead?" James suggested, bringing out his own textbook. Maegan and Kristen, who weren't in the class, went to study with the rest of the kids who had a class with them. "Now…this is a review on chemistry."

"Oh god…"

Link thought while he groomed Epona. Tompton had gotten the star treatment by Tessa the first thing as they had gotten there. She was bathed, groomed, fed, and let loose in the pasture to socialize with the other horses, and then Tessa dashed for the well, saying that she had a lot of work to do in her own world.

'I'll never see Saria again…or I won't see her unless it's something of dire need.' Link thought sadly. Epona's tail swished, and Link looked at it, noticing the tangles in it. He put the curry brush down when he was down, and headed for the brush to untangle the black and white tail. As he worked at every tangle, and there were a lot of them, memories flashed through his mind of Saria.

Malon came in halfway through Link's care of the tail, and reached for another brush to help him. She stood beside him, and Link, although a little bit surprised at first, handed Malon some of the tail. She expertly picked through the knots, unlike Link who was clumsier at the task.

"Tessa did mention that you might be a bit sad." Malon murmured. "You and Saria were best friends, weren't you?" Link nodded, not really in the mood to speak himself, but he never minded listening to Malon. "There's something I learned when my mother died, that nobody is ever truly gone from our lives."

Link lowered his head slightly, so that his bangs covered his eyes slightly. Malon, out of the corner of her eye, saw something that caught the light on his face. She didn't say anything about it, but continue don. "My mother is still with me wherever I go, she's watching over Papa and I every moment, even when we're asleep. She's in my heart, and I'm quite sure that Saria is in yours." Malon finished her section of the tail, and put the brush away. "Please, don't be sad for much longer, I don't want Tessa to feel like she has to comfort you all of the time.

Link nodded slightly, and Malon sighed before exiting the stable. Link looked up, and wiped the tears away from his face. "I won't be sad for long…" Link murmured.

"How was your day, Tessa?" Susan asked from her spot painting the garage walls, again. Tessa sighed.

"School sucks…homework sucks…life sucks…" Tessa had a pounding migraine the size of Mount Everest, and it wasn't going away. Susan frowned at her daughter, and pointed her paintbrush at her.

"You better be trying your best with your grades, young lady. I'm letting you go on that adventure, but don't think it's helping your GPA one bit! I hate lying to cover your ass all of the time." Tessa retained a blank look on her face. "Honestly! It's not going to help you get into college! Do you not realize that? How many times have I told you that you're never going to get your ass out of Wyoming if you don't bring your grades up and try your hardest?"

Tessa simply continued on with the blank look on her face, but her mind felt like it was going to burst. 'I don't need this…not now. I know how useless I am when it comes to school, she doesn't have to repeat it every time I see her.' Tessa thought, her brain attempting to concentrate completely on her blank façade. Her mother continued to rant, and Tessa remained silent. "Why don't you ever say one god damned word whenever I talk to you? It's like you don't believe me!" Tessa didn't answer still, and waited for her mother to finish her rant. "Fine…be that way! Just go to your room, finish your homework, and stay up there for the rest of the night!"

Tessa nodded and entered the house, headed up the stairs, and dropped her bag in her room. She sat on the bed and stared at the wall. 'Ugh…' A tear rolled down her cheek, but she simply wiped it away and began her work.

The next morning, Link and Malon were lazing around by the well, just taking in the nice warm weather. "When do you think Tessa will be back?" Malon murmured, glancing at the well.

"I don't know, she said she had a lot of work to do." Link frowned. "I wonder what kind of work it is."

"It's probably the same type of thing she had to work on last time she went home." Malon murmured.

Tessa trudged her way back home from school, and decided to stop at the library, though she wasn't sure if there were any good books. They were probably all western-based. In any case, she entered the library anyway. She felt like the back of the library would have a good book, though she didn't know why, and went back there. Browsing through the books, Tessa stumbled upon an old brown hardcover book without a title. She flipped through the pages, and it seemed to have a lot of words. She checked her watch, and decided to check the book out.

'It can't be that bad.'

Link and Malon were now working with the cattle, trying to get them in the stable so that Malon could milk them. Link was working with a stubborn one that was blind in one eye. He tried everything from bribing it, to coaxing it, to pushing it, to actually threatening it.

Malon had rounded up all of the cattle as he worked on just the one cow. She leaned against the stable wall, watching as Link jumped on the cow's back.

'He is not cut out for farm work at all…'

Tessa had changed from her school uniform into one of the outfits given to her by Malon, and jumped through the well before her parents realized where she was going. She couldn't stand her world any more, and would gladly have faced another flying skeleton head than deal with her poor grades, and she hated those things.

Link had collapsed on the ground in front of the cow, and was breathing heavily. "Damn…cow…" He growled, ready to shove his sword through it. Navi was laughing her head off on Malon's shoulder, which was trying to hold back her laughter, but failing miserably. "Ha. Ha." He growled, trying to regain his breath. He then heard footsteps approaching him, but Malon's laughter had stayed the same distance away from him.

"All right, come on." Tessa stroked the cow's star-shaped black spot on its forehead, and the cow gave a happy moo before following her. They walked around Link, and into the stable. Now, Malon had collapsed on the ground laughing hysterically, and Navi had almost passed out from laughing so much. Tessa came out, and looked bewildered at the two hysterical girls, and then at Link. "What's so funny?"

The two girls only laughed harder, and Link dragged himself off of the ground, and trudged inside of the main house. She gave the other two a funny look, and followed Link inside, but found that he was changing his tunic in his room…with the door wide open. Her eyes widened as she saw him in just his breeches and boots, and quickly closed the door to the house, shutting her outside. 'Okay…that was awkward…hopefully he didn't know that was me…or better yet, notice I was there…' Tessa's face felt hot, and she realized that she must have been blushing like mad.

Malon came around the corner, with Navi, seeming to have composed themselves, and Malon seemed to have a calculating look on her face. Tessa gave her a weird look, and Malon must have noticed, because she just smiled. "Tessa, tell me, when was the last time you had a hair cut?"

Now, Tessa was very stunned, it wasn't every day that somebody from another world asked you if you've ever had your hair cut. Tessa grabbed at a piece of her hair, which by now reached the middle of her back. "Umm…about a half a year…" Tessa murmured, and Malon's smile widened.

"You should really cut it! It's only going to get in your way anyway…" Navi stated. Tessa's eyes widened, and she grabbed all of her hair in two hands and brought it over her shoulder to toy with it.

"You're not serious…" Tessa asked, eyeing the fairy like she was nuts.

"I am very serious! Unless you want to have all of it ripped off by one of those dismembered hands again…" Navi's voice grew kind of meaningful, and Tessa twitched at the memory. Malon raised her eyebrow at the statement, but shrugged it off, and grabbed Tessa's hand.

"Come on! Navi, tell Link to meet us at Kakariko Village, I need to get my hair trimmed, and I'm a klutz when it comes to scissors!" Malon dragged Tessa to the stable, where Tompton and Malon's horse, Webster, which was a male orange-colored horse, were already saddled. Tessa wasn't sure what to think, but brought herself up in the saddle anyway. Malon was already riding on Webster in a sidesaddle position due to her skirt and was leading Webster out of the stable. Tessa had to adjust to the sidesaddle position as well, since she was wearing the red skirt again

Right before they left, Malon stopped, and looked at Navi again. "Maybe you should have Link bring some of Tessa's outfits, since I'm pretty sure that you'll be heading to Death Mountain after we're in Kakariko…" Navi nodded, and flew inside. Malon and Tessa spent a small portion of the day riding down to Kakariko, and were relieved when they finally got there. They found the nearest holding corral for their horses, removed their tack, and headed off for the hair salon.

"Why did I end up with all of the clothes?" Link groaned, walking into Tessa's room. Navi simply sighed.

"You don't need to take all of them, Epona would die under their weight alone. Look, I'll set up and fold some outfits, we'll pack them, and we can get going." Link looked at her skeptically.

"I'm a girl, I doubt she'd want you going through her clothes." Navi pointed out. "Besides, if you did want to go through them, consider it as punishment for that ridiculously long nap you took." Link glared at her and left the room.

"Hello, welcome to…oh my god it's YOU!" The man behind the counter screamed, and pointed at Tessa, jumping back a few feet away from the counter. Tessa quirked her eyebrow at him.

"Do I know you?" She asked. Malon was also very curious, and so they both waited for an answer. The man seemed speechless, so Tessa began to dig through her memory, until something clicked. "Wait…weren't you the damned peeping tom that one day at the lake?" She growled, suddenly pissed off. Malon's eyes widened, and she stared at the guy.

"Thomas, did you really become a peeping tom?" Malon asked the man. He simply glared his orange eyes at her, and sighed.

"It was an accident. I was traveling around town for a bit, minding my own business, when I stumble upon the lake. I see clothes there, and I'm wondering who could have been so careless as to leave clothes on the ground, and then she sees me, and after getting back in her clothes, she about kills me!" He pointed an accusing finger at Tessa. Tessa glared right back at him.

"Excuse me? Don't you think you'd have enough common sense to think that SOMEBODY was bathing when you saw those clothes?" Tessa growled. "Need I remind you that you dropped my clothes in the water and ran off screaming like a girl?" She pointed an accusing finger at him. "Thanks to you, I had a whole day on a horse in damp clothes all of the way! At the beginning I was beyond soaking wet!"

Tessa carefully observed the guy. He seemed to be about a year older than her, and had long, dark blue hair tied back in a ponytail. He wasn't too tall, about average in height, and there was no denying that he was handsome. However, she was too mad to care.

"Well excuse me for-" Suddenly, a rather plump middle-aged woman grabbed Thomas by his right ear.

"Don't make the customers mad! They're here to pay you!" She screeched into the same ear that she was pulling on, and shoved him away before smiling at them. Her teeth were somewhat yellow, which grossed Tessa out, and took both of the girls' hands. "Now, tell me, what kind of hair cut are you both looking for?"

"Oh, just a trim, thank you." Malon smiled nervously at the woman. Tessa eyed her suspiciously.

"I don't really know…I guess I'll get a short cut…" Tessa muttered. The lady took one look at her, and pointed to Thomas.

"He's a natural with cutting short hair for girls who really don't know what they want. Thomas, don't piss her off!" The woman warned, and dragged Malon off to one of the shampoo stations. Thomas sighed, and glared at Tessa, who glared right back.

"I swear, if you screw my hair up, I'm going to castrate you." Tessa's voice was very threatening, and it seemed to get the message across.

"What did you say the girls were doing?" Link asked as he set out for Kakariko with Navi, Epona, and some supplies. Navi sighed and shook her head at Link.

"Honestly. I told you that Malon decided on having a day to just be with Tessa. They went to Kakariko without you. Now, just ride." Navi sighed. Link grumbled. Why was everybody picking on him today?

Tessa was surprised that the shampoo felt good applied by Thomas' hands. He massaged her scalp thoroughly, and took a bucket of water heated by fire and washed the shampoo away thoroughly. After wrapping a towel around Tessa's hair, he led her to a chair that had a lot of hair tools around it. Tessa was surprised at the amount of tools, she had thought that since Hyrule seemed less on the technological side, they wouldn't have very good hair cutters or stylists, or at least, use so many tools.

He spun her around so that she wasn't facing the mirror. "It's for a surprise." Thomas grumbled. Tessa nodded, and the haircut began.

About an hour later, he finally finished drying off her hair, and swirled her around in the chair. Tessa's jaw dropped. 'Oh my god…'

Link had finally arrived in Kakariko, livid with Navi. "Do you know if they checked into the hotel yet?" Link asked. Navi shrugged, and they headed for the hotel to check. They hadn't come through yet, as it turned out, and so Link had to pay for a room, the only room left again. Link's lip twitched as he entered the room. There were three beds, but the room was so small.

"Too bad the other two didn't check in first, we could have gotten better rooms…" Navi sighed. Link simply grunted in response, and started to sort out their supplies from boredom.

Tessa and Malon came in through the front entrance of the hotel. Malon approached the desk, and found out that Link had already rented a room for use. They shrugged, and headed up the steps to the room. Malon stopped in front of the door, waving the key. "Do you think he'll be ready for it?"

"Malon, it's just hair…" Tessa murmured. "I don't see why he'd care."

"It looks cute! Now, I'm going to walk in, my cut isn't as drastic, and then you're going to walk in and make him collapse! You look great!" Malon giggled. Tessa sent her a disapproving glare.

"I'm not trying to impress him or anything." Tessa muttered, fiddling with a lock of her hair. Malon frowned at her, but shrugged.

"Well, it's for my exclusive entertainment, so what I say goes." Malon smirked as Tessa rolled her eyes, and inserted the key into the door. She turned it, and opened the door. "Link! Thanks for getting us a…" Malon looked around. "Wow this room is small."

Link simply looked at Malon through half-lidded eyes. Malon shrugged, and plopped herself down on the bed in between Link's and the other one. Tessa took that opportunity to walk in, feeling a nervous tremor encompass her hands, but she tried her best to ignore it.

Link's eyes grew wide, and Navi simply fluttered over to her excitedly. "I love it! I told you that you'd look great with short hair!" Navi giggled excitedly. Tessa rolled her eyes.

"No, you just said that I should cut my hair." Tessa pointed out. Navi paused for a second, but ignored what Tessa said. Link was still staring, and Malon was observing Link very carefully, an idea formulating in her mind.

Tessa's dark red-brown hair, which had gone down to her mid-back, now just reached her chin in the front, while in the back it was slightly shorter. Her part was at the side, and her hair seemed healthier than what was natural, but that was the usual after being in the hair salon. "Is it really that bad, Link?" Tessa asked, her voice quiet as she shut the door. Link shook his head to snap himself out of…whatever he was in, and smiled slightly.

"It looks…great." Link said, truly meaning it. Tessa blushed a little bit, and started fiddling with her hair again.

"Thank you…" Tessa murmured, and headed for her bed at the far side of the room.

"I think that's the best job Thomas has done in a while…" Malon murmured, more ideas forming in her mind. Tessa simply smirked at her.

"Malon, generally when you threaten to castrate somebody, they'll do a good job." Tessa grinned. "I use it every time."

Link and Tessa were now asleep, and the candles were blown out. Malon, who couldn't fall asleep, walked up to the window and opened it slightly. The light didn't fall on any of the beds, so she opened it fully. The light almost reached the heads of both Link and Tessa, but didn't quite make it, much to Malon's relief. She looked at the crescent moon outside of the window.

'I wonder…' Malon glanced briefly at Tessa and Link, and looked out to the hair salon. 'There's no doubt about it; Thomas is attracted to Tessa, though I doubt the feeling is mutual. He doesn't really take to threats too well; I've seen what happens to somebody's hair if they threaten him. It's not pretty. So…why did he do a spectacular job on Tessa if he wasn't attracted to her?'

Malon frowned, seeing Thomas walk out of his own house and sit by a tree to also look at the moon.

'However, that could present some problems.' Malon sighed. 'Not if I want my plan to work out…' Then, something struck Malon, something she had not really thought about. It was probably not the best idea, but she had to give it a try. 'If I play my cards right…'

End of Chappie

I start working with the Gorons and such during the next Chappie:D YAY FIRE! Cough I'm pretty sure it's easy to guess what Malon's up to, but if you can't figure it out, YAY FOR ME! - Review please!