Chapter 3: Annoyance
Link woke to the sound of small hands beating at his door, and familiar voices calling his name. Link rolled over in his bed and tried to drown out this noise with his thoughts, but nothing would silence this particular group of children. Link grunted, stood up and climbed down the ladders to his door.
As he opened the door, three blurs that were; Beth, Talo and Colin burst through it, Malo slowly following. Shouting still annoyed Link, to a point here he almost shouted, but he calmly stopped Colin and started to talk to him.
"Colin, why are you four here today?" Link said trying not to sound too irritated.
"We came to ask you something." Colin replied, hyperactivity present in his expression.
"Well… what did you want to ask me?" Link was growing impatient with Colin.
"Will you look after us today, go fishing, teach sword stuff, and tell us stories…" Colin started almost going off on a rant, but finally crashing, and calming down. Link nodded and climbed up the ladder to put on his work clothes.
"Let's go then you lot." Link said, the shouting had gone and was replaced by silence besides Links' voice.
The children ambled slowly out the door and down the ladder, Link following. When Link closed the door, only Colin saw the bright blue light appear in Links window, but he thought nothing of it.
Link plucked a piece of grass from besides the bottom of his ladder and blew into it, releasing a loud whistle, a moment later, Epona ran around the corner and slid to a halt right in front of Link and the kids.
Link jumped on and pulled Malo up in front of him, Colin and Beth behind him and Talo on a home made cart tied to Colin's belt, and rode out to the village towards Hena's fishing hole.
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As the day grew short, and the sun started to fade, Link was still teaching the kids how to fish. So far, Colin had bested Link in a small fishing contest, with an Ordon pike, weighing at 14 pounds, Links' was only 12 pounds and Colin was really excited and pleased, but he felt as if Link had let him win. This feeling soon passed when Colin caught a new fish that link had never seen in the fishing hole before. Colin then knew that Link had not let him win.
As the day got even darker, Link had decided to take the kids home, get some work done at the ranch. Link packed up the equipment and helped the kids onto Epona and slowly walked them back to Ordon, where they were greeted by their parents. This warm and heart-felt greeting made Link realise that he had no-one to greet him like that. Link ambled slowly to the ranch to be greeted by Fado, but not as warmly as the children by their parents.
"Here to round off the day then Link?" Fado asked, trying not to sound like an angry boss and more like a friend as he could see the state Link was in.
"Yeah, what is there for me to do then Fado?" Link replied, sounding as gloomy as an old tree in a swamp at night would look.
"Well, I was going to ask you to herd those few goats over there but I can see that you are tired, so just clean out the last three stall in the barn and call it a day, heck, you can have a bonus today as well." Fado said, trying to be nice to Link.
"Ok then, where's the pitchfork?" Link asked.
"Behind the small shed, be careful, I stacked some stuff behind them." Fado replied.
Link got the pitchfork and started to clear out the goats stalls. When he finished, he was dirty and smelly, but he had done a good job. He walked up to Fado, who gave him a pat on the back and his pay for the week, plus 20 extra gold coins, which cheered link up a bit. Link then headed home.
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Link closed the door firmly behind him and sighed, then turned into the room, only to see a small figure lying on the floor. A figure he knew all to well.
"Midna?" Link whispered.
A/N: Sorry for not updating in forever, ive just got back from a trip around most of europe and i had hardly any time at all to bring my ideas together, hope you are enjoying it so far, i will have the next chapter soon, so please review. thanks.
