Well, this is chapter two. No one reviewed, but I expected that. No one could get past the second paragraph without becoming sick I suppose. Or no one has read it yet, I'm updating this chapter pretty soon after the first one . . . Oh well. Review please, or not, your choice.
There were so many monsters! Aryll twitched in her sleep. Where did they come from? Who sent them? She twisted the blankets nervously as she dreamed. How could I get rid of them? Why are they after me? Her eyes fluttered, but she did not wake. Why is no one helping me? Where is Mother? Her hands clutched the blankets tighter, she saw the monsters clear to reveal her mother in a sorry state. Mamma! She tried to call, but her mouth would not work.
"Aryll" Aryll wanted to run to her but her feet would not move. "Aryll, baby. I have to tell you something important. I wrote you a letter a long time ago." Her mother coughed up blood. At this point Aryll realized she was dying. "I locked in a drawer, the one in my desk. I have the key, you have to find me Aryll, before they take it." But before who took it? "Aryll, wake up!"
Aryll sat straight upright, screaming for her mother. It took her a full minute to realize that she had been dreaming, nothing more. She wiped the sweat from her brow and started to sink back into reality. As far as she could tell, it was just a nightmare. Wether she had been frightened or not, she had work to do. The sun was already up and the house hold chores were plentiful, it would take her all morning and part of the afternoon to finish.
Aryll was a hard-working girl but she had the tendency to let her mind wander. As was happening now as she dressed herself, not even considering washing now with the time constraints. She was thinking about going to Hyrule Market (her mother had promised she would take her once she had some spending money.) The past two months, Aryll had been doing odd jobs for the neighbors in her spare time. She absent-mindedly walked out the front door to be treated with a shock. The sun was full in her face, noon. Why had her mother allowed her to sleep so long? Come to think about it, where was her mother? She hadn't been there when Aryll woke up.
Aryll scanned the little bit of land they owned. She was nowhere in sight. Confused, she walked back inside. It wouldn't be the first time she had missed seeing a note. Almost immediately, she saw it. A note stuck to the wall on a nail sticking out. The note was simple, it read:
'Aryll,
I may not be home when you find this note. I'm not sure how long this will take. I'm working so if I'm not home, don't worry. AND DON'T TRY SKIPPING YOUR CHORES! I'll make you do double tomorrow if you do.'
Typical, her mother was probably doing another reckless, ridiculous, maybe even an illegal job. (Though her mother denies ever doing anything illegal sense, she found her.) She couldn't keep a job to save her life, literally. She had been through three jobs in two weeks and had been fired from each one.
Well, the sun was high and there was much to do. There was nothing to do but her chores. As the day progressed, she finished her chores and her mother still wasn't home. Aryll started to worry. Her mother wasn't that slow. She started to work on her mother's chores for lack of any thing to do. She glanced up at the sun. It was moving across the sky awfully slow. The chores were dwindling and she was becoming hungry. The sun was setting and she was all alone. Her mother was usually the one who made supper. Aryll made do with what she could handle. Aryll was anxious now, where could her mother had gone? When the sun had set and the moon was starting to rise, Aryll could no longer handle it, she had to do something . . . Right?
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Ichiro and his step son ran a ranch, nothing fancy like LonLon Ranch, but it did well. He made it a point to sell to everyone who could pay for it, everyone. That meant Gerudo, Hylian, Zoras, Gorons, Deku, outlaws, thieves, murders, men, women, everyone whom he could con some rupees out of. He was used to getting the ones on the run, after all, it was a ranch.
What he wasn't used to, was children. He personally had never had children. He married his wife when her child was old enough to look after himself. In other words, an adult. So when a child walked into his ranch, he wasn't sure how to address the situation. She was a pretty little thing, blonde hair, blue eyes, and a round face. With out asking, he knew, she was there for business. She asked some questions, he answered. Well, he answered depending on how manny rupees he got. Well, he answered in the end. When she was done with that, she bought a horse.
Well. He thought to himself. That was an odd little girl. Why in the world would she care for a Gerudo? Well, it was none of his business, his business was the ranch, and the ranch was making him money. A fat lot of money that little girl had made him, and that was all he cared for. But still, that was an odd little girl.