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Ocarina of Time: The Three Goddesses Reincarnated

Chapter Twenty-One: Rhea

Malon smiled when she Link and Tessa enter the ranch on their horses. They both looked pretty wiped, but they also looked glad to be back. Malon ran up to the both of them, stopped their horses so that they could get down. Link jumped off his horse, while Tessa just leaned over to the side, and let herself fall to the ground ungracefully.

"Good night." Tessa murmured with a yawn, and closed her eyes. Malon rolled her eyes and bent down to give Tessa a good smack in the face. Tessa yelped, and sat up. "What was that for?"

"Don't you have to go home?" Malon quirked her eyebrow at the girl. Tessa shrugged and stood up with a good stretch.

"Do I have to?" Tessa grumbled. "My bed here is so much closer, and even then, this grass is amazingly comfortable right now." She looked at Malon, and gave a squeak of fright at the expression on Malon's face.

"You are going home, no if's, and's, or but's." Malon growled. Tessa nodded, and raced for the well.

"See you soon, Link and Malon!" Tessa shouted over her shoulder. Link and Malon simply rolled their eyes.

"And you are going to bed, Link." Malon's glare turned towards him. Link gave her a bewildered look, but when Malon's glare intensified, he nodded, and ran into the house. Malon smiled once both of them were out of sight.

"Those two don't rest enough." Malon sighed, and led both horses into the stable to take care of them.

Rhea stretched herself across her bed, taking in the comfort of the situation. Ganondorf's castle wasn't the best-decorated castle, but when it came to her room, she did what she wanted to it. "Ah, there's nothing like being home." She smiled, and closed her eyes. No, Ganondorf would never be her favorite person in the world, but she served him without question.

The door slammed open only a few moments later, and Rhea jumped out of her bed, completely startled. She glared at the intruder, and saw a lizard-like creature a few inches shorter than her. He was standing on two legs, and wore armor. "What do you want?" She growled at it, mad that her sleep had been interrupted.

"King Ganondorf requests your presence." The lizard sneered. Rhea rolled her eyes, and nodded.

"Understood. Now go away!" Rhea snapped at it. The lizard scampered away and Rhea grinned. "Those things are so cowardly, it's amusing." A frown placed itself on her mouth. "I just wish I could sleep for a few hours before he wants to see me."

So, with a sigh, Rhea trudged out the door. "He better have a good reason for this. My nap is way more important than any of this crap."

Tessa frowned at the pile of homework that lay on her bed. "Man, what do my parents have against naps?" She grumbled, and shoved her textbooks and papers to the side before she jumped on the bed and dove under the covers. "Bastards."

She had actually dozed off for about a minute, when her mother burst into her room. "Tessa! Get off your lazy ass and do your homework! Do you want to work at the grocery store for the rest of your life or something?" She screeched. Tessa frowned and shoved the covers over her head.

"My homework can wait for an hour or two…or ten…" Tessa grumbled. Her mother growled, and ripped the covers off Tessa's body.

"No it cannot! Do your homework before I send your father up here to yell at you!" Then, her mother stormed off, but not before she slammed the door. Tessa stared at the closed door for a minute before she grabbed her covers and dropped herself on the bed.

"Ah, screw it. I'm tired." Tessa yawned, and fell asleep.

Link lied down on his bed, but was not able to fall asleep. Annoyed, he tossed and turned, while Navi just watched him. "What's bugging you, Link?" Navi asked after about five minutes.

"I don't know, I just can't fall asleep." Link muttered as he glared at the ceiling. "I need…what was that stuff that Tessa takes sometimes?"

"Nyquil? Or Tylenol PM?" Navi shrugged. "She uses both of them, but not at the same time." Link sighed, and sat up.

"Why do you think she uses those?"

"I asked her, and she said that it was almost impossible for her to sleep on the ground, or on rocks. It's too uncomfortable." Navi replied. "She's not used to that at all."

"Ah." Link shrugged. "Maybe that's my problem. I'm not used to so much comfort."

"Or you could be an…umm…insomniac." Navi had to think of the word that Tessa used. Link looked at her quizzically.

"Someone who literally finds it almost impossible to be able to fall asleep."

"Oh. I hope not…Malon would kill me."

Rhea opened the doors to the room where Ganondorf always met her. It was generally a large room that looked like a dungeon. She didn't know why he liked the dungeon so much, but never questioned it. It wasn't her fault that he was so weird.

"Rhea, come in." Ganondorf smiled, but it was a cruel smile. Rhea was used to this, and closed the door behind her. "As it turns out, Volvogia was not able to kill Link, or his companion." Rhea didn't respond in any way, just listened. "That's all right, I told you just to find out who Link's companion was. Sending her to Volvogia was probably the best thing you could have done."

"Thank you, sir." Rhea bowed her head slightly, and then looked up.

"Ah, but you see, this gave me another great idea. I need somebody who has no feelings, who isn't technically alive, to do away with those two. It was inevitable I would figure out exactly what to do." Ganondorf grinned. There was a shuffle sound in the shadows, but Rhea did not question it. Instead, her eyes were almost half-lidded due to boredom. "So, in order to accomplish this, I had one of my lower minions collect a blood sample from the Forest Temple. It wasn't easy, but it was worth it."

"Sir, you aren't making any sense." Rhea stated curtly. Quite frankly, she wasn't in the mood to deal with her king's ramblings. She'd rather just be in a nice, comfortable bed.

"Then pay closer attention!" Ganondorf snapped. Rhea's expression didn't falter at all. "I used the blood sample, and some magic, to create somebody who is Link's superior. His name…"

The shadows seemed to come together, in a rather tall form. Rhea eyed them suspiciously.

"…is Shadow.."

The shadow now had a definite shape; he seemed to look like a normal Hylian, except that his whole form seemed to be made of shadow, dark, and hard to see.

"…Link…"

The shadow opened his eyes to reveal bright red orbs that seemed to glow in the intensity of the moment.

"You lazy, lazy child!" Tessa's mother had come up again, and saw that Tessa had simply fallen back to sleep. "Get out of bed right this instant!" Tessa didn't respond to any of the shouts that emanated from her mother. "Don't you ignore me, young lady!"

Ava and Greer peered from around the corner of the door, interested in what was going on. They giggled at the sight of Tessa. Her hair was a complete mess, and she was sprawled out on her bed haphazardly. Tessa's mouth was also wide open, and a thin trail of drool came from her mouth.

Her mother, oblivious to the fact that Tessa was dead to the world for now, kept on shouting.

Link had now given up his attempt to sleep, so instead he headed out to see what he could help with at the ranch. Malon wasn't that hard to find, she had been tending to the cuckoos. He sat on the fence, and waited for Malon to acknowledge them.

"Aren't you supposed to be asleep?" Malon said as she looked up at him. "I mean, you look like you've had a boulder roll on top of you."

"That almost did happen, actually." Link shrugged. "I can't fall asleep for some reason, so I figured that I would help with the chores." Malon eyed him for a moment, and then laughed. "What?"

"You?" Malon laughed. "Help?" She laughed again. Link frowned.

"I don't get what's so funny."

"You suck at ranch work!" Malon burst into a fit of hysteria, and had to hold onto the fence to keep herself standing. Link glared at Malon half-heartedly.

"So give me something relatively easy to do." Link shrugged. "I just don't want to be bored to death."

Malon took a few more moments to compose herself before she started to think.

"Do you know how to clean tack?"

"No."

"Clean stalls?"

"Just take a pitchfork, and get all of the old stuff out, and bring in a new bale to set down, right?" Link asked. Malon nodded. Link jumped down from the fence post.

"All right, I'll do that then." Link waved off to Malon, who simply had an amused grin.

"He'll be begging me for help in no time."

Rhea watched Shadow Link observe his new chambers. They were just as large as her chambers, but they were very dark. She guessed it had something to do with being a part of the shadows. As it turned out, Shadow Link had three different forms, of which she found out quickly. His weakest form was just a shadow. His second form was a Hylian-shaped shadow, which had glowing red eyes. When he solidified himself, he looked like the Hero of Time, but with a few differences.

Instead of blonde hair, Shadow Link had raven black hair, and instead of blue eyes, his were a blood red. His skin was very pale, but his muscle-mass was almost intimidating. Rhea leaned herself against the doorway.

"Is there anything that you need?" She grumbled. Ganondorf had assigned her to make sure that Shadow Link was in his own personal comfort zone. Nothing could go wrong with Shadow Link. 'Like a knife down your throat?'

Ganondorf had also said that Shadow Link was going to replace her for all assignments from here on outward. This had ticked her off to no end, but she didn't show it. Those assignments were the only way to get out of the castle, even if only for a few days.

"I don't need anything. Go away." Shadow Link ordered. Rhea shrugged and left, as she headed towards her own chambers.

i 'He didn't have to say my eye was one of the reasons. It never hinders me, not even for a moment.' Rhea growled inside of her mind. 'I never do a bad job either.' /i

Her life suddenly seemed like a long stretch ahead of her, a long and probably boring stretch.

End of Chappie

Soo, whatcha think? I'm trying to introduce Rhea as best as I can. Her full character isn't even out yet, in case any of you are wondering. - Thank you, SouChan! Other than that, the sleep thing I thought was just funny. Tessa is not supposed to sleep, but she is anyway; Link is supposed to sleep, but he can't; Rhea really wants to sleep, but she got interrupted. XD Don't ask; I'm sleep deprived myself.