Author's Note: Hello, everybody. This is Sunnyme60 here with another author's note that I have written. Before you begin reading I want to let you know that I am SO sorry for the really bad delay. Since school came back, all of the fan-fiction typing has been slowing me down, but I promise I can be finished really quick, once I'll notify some of you guys for any non-school days that might happen on any weekday. I'll be working on another story and The Hero's Slave as soon as I can. Thank you for reading the author's note and enjoy reading.

Chapter 4: The Arrival of Autumn

The next day, after playing hide-and-seek with Romani and Misaki, Link woke up and he looked around the ranch. Then he knew that he had fallen asleep after he had been unknowingly locked out of the house after yesterday's hide-and-seek. Then he got up and noticed a red leaf on the ground and he wondered why. However, at the same time, Romani went outside and noticed Link on the ground.

"Link, did you fall asleep on the ground last night?" Romani asked her adopted sibling.

"Yes, I did. I ended up falling asleep on the ground after you accidently locked me out of the house," Link said with a little bit of annoyance in his voice.

"Sorry, Link," Romani said nervously excited, until Misaki went outside and noticed.

"Morning, Big Brother. Are you having fun with the colorful leaves outside?" Misaki asked Link.

"A little bit, but I'm okay," Link replied to Misaki and then Cremia came outside.

"Good morning, my brother and sisters. How are you today?" Cremia asked them and they replied by nodding their head yes. "My goodness. Autumn must have come by really quick, hasn't it?"

"It really did, Cremia. Isn't this exciting?" Romani said to Cremia & Cremia smiled back at Romani.

"Wow. Misaki is also really enjoying the beautiful leaves here, too!" she said and jumped into a pile of fallen leaves.

"Hey, let me join in!" Romani said and she also jumped into the pile, until Cremia turned to Link.

"Are you going to join in or not?" Cremia said & Link reluctantly agreed, then he jumped into the pile of leaves, much to his sisters' excitement.

"Alright, it's time to clean the ranch up, guys," Cremia said and she gave Link, Romani, and Misaki a rake to each of them.

"Okay," the three of them replied while Cremia was getting her own rake and the four of them started to rake the leaves off their ranch.

"I'll be raking this side of the ranch," Romani said to her siblings, pointing the northeast part of the ranch.

"I'll be raking on the southeast part of the ranch," Cremia said.

"Misaki will be doing this part of the ranch," Misaki said while standing on the southwest part of the ranch.

"I guess I'm going to raking the leaves in the northwest part of the ranch," Link said.

"Well, let's get to work now, shall we?" Cremia said & they began to rake the leaves to their parts of the ranch that they chose to rake the leaves.

"I guess it can't be that hard," Link said while he continued working in the meantime.

It was 10:25AM right now and the 4 of them kept working in the ranch for 2 ½ hours raking the leaves. Although, while Link was raking the leaves at his side of the ranch, he began to sneeze for 3 times straight. Every 5 minutes, he would begin to sneeze, although he had no clue why he kept sneezing, but his sisters never seem to notice.

Am I sick or is there something in the ranch I'm allergic to? Link thought in his head.

Despite the fact that he kept sneezing he continued to work in the ranch anyways, even if the sneezing was going to try to make him stop working, he just continued to work as if he is trying to fight back all the sneezing.

"We're done raking the leaves off the ranch now," Link said, with a large pile of leaves that had a height of 2 yards, much to everyone's surprise & delight.

"That must be a lot of leaves we raked right there," Cremia said and she started to hug her little brother & sisters with joy, which made everyone drop their rakes on the ground.

"It was fun!" Misaki said very happily.

"It really was," Link replied back to Misaki and they both smiled at each other, until Link suddenly sneezed again.

"Are you okay, Big Brother?" Misaki asked Link.

"I'm okay," Link replied back.

"Well, why don't we head back inside the house and eat some lunch now, guys?" Cremia said & everyone agreed, but before she could head inside the house, suddenly, Cremia tripped over the rakes and landed on the pile of leaves.

"Cremia, are you okay?" Link said, very concerned, but Cremia started to laugh with joy while she was on the pile of leaves, which made Link, Romani, & Misaki very confused, until Link started to laugh along with Cremia and he started to jump into the pile of leaves.

"Well, Misaki is also going to jump in, too!" Misaki said with joy and joined with Cremia and Link, also laughing along.

Romani was so confused with what's going on, but she shrugged and finally joined with the three of them, and everyone laughed with joy while they were having fun on the pile of leaves they just finished on for 30 minutes, until they noticed that the pile was completely ruined.

"The pile is ruined. What do we do now?" Misaki asked.

"I don't want to restart all the hard work again," Romani said.

"Me neither," Cremia said, until Link got a brilliant idea.

"I got an idea," Link said with a somewhat evilish, yet playful smirk on his face.

Meanwhile in Ikana Canyon, Sakon, having to have been released from the guards, was prancing around the canyon, like he usually does. He was on his way back to his hideout until he noticed a large black bag in front of his secret entrance.

"I wonder why this is here. Is it a present?" Sakon asked, but he picked up the bag anyways and went inside his hideout.

While he's inside the hideout, Sakon put the black bag down on the ground and looked at the bag and wondered what could be in the bag. Could it be a nice present for him?

"Maybe it could be gold! At last, I can finally improve the security of this place!" Sakon said while he happily pranced around the black bag. "Let's open the bag now," he said and he opened the bag, but there was nothing in the bag. "What?! I thought there was-!" But before he could finish his sentence, a BIG pile of leaves suddenly fell out of the bag & landed on Sakon. After being in the pile for 12 seconds, he got up and was surprised. "I hate to rake up the leaves in this place," Sakon said and he passed out in the pile.

~END OF CHAPTER 4~