Chapter 3- Now what?

Author's note- Just so you know. this is a few days before the twill invasion. and i will get to the requipping explanation next chapter promise.. maybe _'

PS- i have a bunch of drawings for this story.. but unfortunately i can't scan them =_=, i'll try my best to get them in here. but i would like to know who wants to see them. It would give me more motivation to get them :D

They had just reached the Southern gate of castle town and Raven was out of breath. He was resting from the sudden dash, leaning on his knees. Serena ,who was also out of breath heaved a sigh of relief. She had looked back during their sprint and saw that Epona had not noticed them when she came to the hill. She had kept running though. One because they were going down a hill and it was quite hard to stop when you already going. Two she had to get her package before any of those Castle guard goons mess with it.

Serena was going to let Raven/Link to recollect himself but the thought of the guards touching her stuff changed her mind. She grabbed his arm and urged forward. He protested a bit but went along with her all the same.

'Why am i even following her?' He thought. She pulled him through the crowd and into building across from the one with cats gathering. The building they went into was dimly lit. The only good amount of light was by the desk. Serena let go of Raven and went to the left half of the desk, but not before casting a glare at Raven as if threatening him to leave.

Raven/Link just went to on of the chairs by the wall to wait for her. There was double doors to the left of him that lead to the second room of the building. A few masculine voices could be heard bend it. They were struggling with something.

"I'm here to pick up a package." Serena told the girl behind the desk.

"Just tell me your na-"

"Serena"

"Just Serena?"

"Thats all it should say on the sticker." She began to describe it. "It's a large wooden box about half my height. Should be pretty heavy"

"Ah yes that, well umm…" The girl stammered.

"What is it…" Serena almost growled.

"The castle guards are inspecting it right now. They-" She got interrupted again.

A crash was heard behind the double doors as well as a following curse. The very box Serena described burst out from behind the doors. It would have hit Raven if he didn't jump out of his seat.

"WHY IN THE GODDESSES NAME CAN'T WE OPEN THIS!" One guard yelled, coming out of the doors.

"It even has several locks on it." "What the heck?" "How is the person supposed to open this?" the other guards said.

"Simple." Serena set her foot onto the edge of the box. "It's called a key." She pulled 5 keys from her back pocket and proceeded to remove the locks.

"Now then. ahem. please surrender the box to us so that was can examine it."

"NO" Was her immediate response. Some of the guards stumbled a little at her simple answer.

"b-but." The guard cleared his throat. Raven and Serena just stared at him. "We need to look though it. It is a safety precaution that we have to search through every package that is in this post office's care."

"Well it's not in their care anymore, its in mine.'Cause it's my package. I just picked up right now. It's in writing right there." She pointed with her thumb to the desk. "So i'll be going now." She picked it up with some difficulty. Raven helped her get it out the door. "You better hope that you didn't break anything in here." She told the speechless guards just before they left.

"How do you have the keys?" Raven asked once they turned the corner.

"I didn't send it to myself if that's what you're thinking." She stopped at a fruit stand. "It's a little trick my friend and i thought up to keep the guards out of our stuff." She bought 2 apples with a yellow rupee. "They send it to me with a lock or two. I send it back with my own locks. They take off the locks and send it to me. I have the keys to my package." They continued walking. "It may be a bit more expensive ,but i rather pay more to keep those little bastards away from my stuff."

They were at the castle square sitting on the wooden box Serena had picked up from the post office, eating the apples she bought. Raven looked at the majestic castle that looked strikingly similar to the castle he knew. Serena got up.

"Stay here, I'm going to get another apple. You want one?"

"No it's okay. I'm good." Serena left him staring at the castle. He could see 3 girls each with blue, green and red hair in the corner of his eyes gossiping.

"Did you here? Some guy named Vant or whatever said he was gonna be king and take over the castle or something." One of the girls said. Raven/Link sighed. Was he going to have to be hero for the third time?

"I thought it was Zent, and that he was gonna be king of twilight. You know, he doesn't sound all that threatening."

"Yeah, you're right. He's probably one of those weird 'the world is going to end' guys." Raven relaxed a bit. These are just rumors.

"What do you think Misha?" They asked idle girl.

"huh? oh! I don't know." She giggled. "Hey don't you think that guy over there is pretty cute." Raven sweat-dropped. 'So they're like that here too.' He thought

"eek!~ you're right. totally handsome." They squealed and started commenting on his eyes, his hair. Serena, who had appeared at Raven's side silently, was busy eating one of two apples that she bought.

"Hey Raven." Raven/Link jumped a little. He looked up at her. "I can't decide which stand's apples are sweeter." She cut a piece from both apples and handed them to him. "Help me in my predicament, Rae~." He took a bite from each apple slice. Serena was already devouring the rest of the apples.

"Do you know who this…" He paused combining the names the girls used. "Zant. Who is he and is he dangerous?" Serena's mouth was near full as she sputtered out a response.

"Don't worry about it, He's nothing too big of a problem." She took another large bite of the apple. "He'll deal with it."

"Who is it? Maybe i can help him."

"I said not to worry about it. Hyrule's in good hands." Link tensed up. 'Hyrule?' Serena didn't notice her mistake, unless it wasn't a mistake. In the distance he heard a few guards say the name Zelda.

"Come on let's go get this back to my house." She pulled the box out from under neath him. He landed on the ground with a soft thud. She put the box up on her shoulder and started towards the south gate. "Now that i've eaten I'm revved up.. or something.."

"Wait a minute!" He yelled even though he knew she wouldn't. In the background the three girls squealed when they heard him yell.

"His voice is so-" Raven didn't care about the rest of that sentence. He was more interested in why she said Hyrule, this isn't hyrule right?. When he had caught up to Serena they were already at the gate.

"We need to talk." He grabbed her shoulder and turned her around.

" 'bout wat?" She had finished her apples and threw the cores on the grass. "biodegradable." She snickered. Food always puts her in a good mood, A good ignorant mood. She continued walking to which Raven followed.

"Where am I exactly?" He asked, keeping up with her pace.

"Castle town at the moment." They stepped on the grass. "And now we're in Hyru-" She stopped mid-sentence. 'ah goddess no! i said hyrule earlier didn't i' "- um we're in the fields." Serena started sweating and walked a little faster.

"..." Link went up behind her. Three seconds passed. Serena made a break for it. And would have made it too, if Link hadn't thrown his metal plated shoes at her.

my lame attempt at to break the news to him XD and such a suckish swear but this is rated k+ man! it's gonna stay that way! yeah... it's 10:59 right now 3 i should go to sleep. i spent the rest of the day typing this after i posted the last chapter, but it's a saturday! WOOT! I'm definitely going to think about what happens next in my sleep. heh heh night ;3

[edit] i changed the ending a bit... the last one i wrote when i was half asleep so hopefully this one is better :3. heh heh...