Yo-dee-yo. I'm back with a new chapter… Wow, I can't believe it is already the 8th chapter. This might be a long story…

And yeah. I'm putting a tiny bit on shirtless Link in here… I haven't had that for a while, and I decided it was time for him to be shirtless again… (Too fangirl-ish? Don't judge…)

Now… ON TO THE NEXT CHAPTER!

Disclaimer: I don't own Legend of Zelda… *sigh*

Zelda

I walked back through the door to the Great Fairy's room to see Link sitting in her pool, washing the blood from his tunic, hat, arm, and head.

"Hey," he said, looking at me. "What did she want to talk to you about?" he asked, stepping out of the pool with only his pants on.

"Just girl stuff," I said, hoping I wouldn't have to elaborate anymore, since the Great Fairy told me not to tell Link anything about our conversation.

"Say no more. I got it." He said. Thank the goddesses. I couldn't have told that lie much longer. "So where do you think we should go looking for the forest temple?" he said, putting his undershirt and tunic back on.

"Hmm, I don't know. Maybe the forest?" I said, sarcastically.

"Well, excuse me, princess! Sometimes it's not the easy," he said, and we started to walk towards the portal in the middle of the fountain that would take us back to wherever we wanted to go.

When we came to it, I felt my insides tighten and before I knew it I was in the Faron Spring with Link and Epona standing by me.

"Huh, it's never taken me this far before. Usually it just puts me back in the desert," he said, boarding Epona, and then hoisting me up. "So what part of the woods do you want to search first?"

"Hmm," I debated our choices for a while. "I say we should go to the forest temple that you have already gone to. That seems to make the most sense."

"Sounds good," he said, and kicked Epona into a trot. "So, um, what happened back there? You know, at the Cave of Ordeals."

"Well, um," I started, thinking of how to word this. "This Darknut, he came out of the Shadows, and he just stabbed you. Then he slammed you into a wall, and your arm and head were losing so much blood, that I guess you just, died. And then, he started talking about how his 'master' wanted both of us dead, which I can only assume his master was Shadow. And then, he started calling me princess, and I just got so upset. And I just, killed him." I shook my head, trying to get the awful images out of my mind.

"Look Zel, when I call you a princess, you get that I'm just joking, right?" he asked, turning his head around to look at me.

"Of course, Hero," I said, trying to lighten the mood.

We came to a large tree surrounded by a bottomless pit and Link said, "Here we are. The entrance to the Forest Temple. Here, help me move this stone." He said, getting off Epona and walking towards the huge stone blocking the entrance to the temple.

I got off, too, and we pushed and pulled at the boulder, but it wouldn't move an inch.

"Come on!" Link yelled and kicked the rock. "Why won't it move?"

"I don't know," I said, gasping for air after trying extremely hard to move the stone. "Maybe the Forest Temple just is in a different place."

"But I thought- oh well- I guess so. Let's go," he said, walking back toward Epona, who was on the other side of the large tree trunk pathway, grazing. I followed close behind.

There was a sudden rumble, and before I knew it, the bridge had fallen out from under us. Link and I began screaming, he said something about a clawshot, and the world went black.

I never realized how bad it felt hitting water when you fall from about one hundred feet. The water smacks against your skin, and it feels like you were pushed face-first into a pile of sharp rocks.

It was then I realized I was alone, floating in a small green pond.

"Link?" I called to the air, my voice echoing throughout the forest. I quickly swam out of the pond, afraid of what might be lurking down in the depths. "Link?" I called again. But this time, I was answered with a familiar voice.

"Hello?" Link asked, also dripping wet. I looked at me, and his eyes widened like I was a mix of a zora and a goron. "What- how- how did you get here? Oh, goddesses! I missed you so much!" he came over to hug me, and I just stood there like an idiot, wondering what in all of Hyrule was going on. "How did you get here?" he repeated. "You know what? I don't even care. I don't want to waste any more time. You could just leave again. Now that you're here, I have something to tell you."

"What?" I asked, getting more confused by the second.

"I, um, I- I love you," he said.

I froze.

Link loved me? He actually loved me.

"Link, I- I love you, too." I could finally admit it to him.

His lips slowly melted into mine, and we stayed that way for a minute or so.

Then he uttered a single sentence that almost made me pass out. "I love you, Midna."

Authors Note: DUN DUN DUN. Whoa, man. This is crazy. Hahaha! Cliffhanger! L. O. L. Until next time, my fellow humans.

BEE- TEE- DUBBS: did you catch my reference to the TV show that they had back in the day? (if you don't know, there used to be a LOZ series, and Link's catchphrase was: "WELL EXCUUUUUUSE ME PRINCESS!

~Banana14~