Chapter 2

Farore's Oasis

A large country style manor sits elegantly in a niche at the bottom of the cliffs. Its large double door entrance is open to let in the mountain breeze. Above the door in flowing script are the words "Farore's Oasis"

Inside:

Lya – I missed this place so much!

Zelda – It is pretty, but it doesn't look at all lived in.

Lya – That's because it hasn't been. Link's been so busy the past three years; he never got a chance to come back here.

Aryll – I wish this was mine. It's so beautiful here.

Midna – Well I'm sure your brother would let you stay here whenever you want.

Aryll – Yeah, but it's not the same.

Lya – Well, I think it's perfect for us to stay in while we plan out next move. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm tired of hanging out in that village.

Aryll – We should stay here longer than that! I think we should move in here. It's perfect for us.

Lya – You're right. I'll run the idea by Link when I go back to get him.

Midna – Where is he?

Lya – At his grandmother's house. She's probably stuffing him with that elixir of hers. It's delicious, but I imagine that Link's sick of it by now. She keeps promising him that it's going to make him human again. He's so desperate at this point that he just keeps gulping it down. I really don't understand why he's freaking out as much as he is. He's even worse when it's just the two of us.

Zelda – You still haven't figured it out!

Lya – You guys all know something that I don't. Come on; please tell me, I've been begging you forever now!

Aryll – I really think we should tell her. (turning to Zelda and Midna) Don't you think it would be better if she knew?

Midna – I agree. Lya, before Link was killed, on both occasions, he was going to ask you to –

A dark figure strides into the room followed by several Twilit monsters. His iridescent blue and black clothes cast an eerie glow on the four women whose expressions become a mixture of confusion, anger, and terror.

Zant – Hello ladies. Midna, I heard that you were back in this realm, and I just had to come and say hello.

Midna – (stiffly) You don't scare me, not this time, Zant.

Zant – Not even after I destroyed your little hero?

Zelda – Well, no, since he's not destroyed anymore.

Midna, Aryll, and Lya – ZELDA!

Zant – WHAT! He's alive!

Link – (swooping in the doorway) SCREECH SCREECH SQUAWK!

Zant – (trying to dodge out of the way) Destroy that pesky fowl!

The Twilit guardians jump and scramble to follow their master's order.

Link – (flying higher) COCK-A-DOODLE-DOOOOOOOOOO!

As the last echoes of the Super Cucco call fade away, a humongous flock of Cuccos swoop into the room and wipe out all of the Twilit Guardians. Then they turn on Zant.

Zant – I won't forget this, bird. (Zant disappears)

Link – (squawks and flaps his wings at the other Cuccos; they all return to their homes; he lands in front of Lya) cluck, cluck, cluck.

Lya – Yes, I'm fine, thank-you.

Zelda – What about the rest of us? We were in danger too, you know.

Link – squawk!

Lya – The question was directed at everyone.

Link – cluck, cluck, cluck.

Lya – He said we should all just chill out for now. (sighing) Well, we need to be on our toes now, since Zant knows where we are.

Midna – You're right; we definitely need to be on our guard.

Aryll – Maybe we should sleep in shifts throughout the night, you know, so we don't wake up to an ambush.

Lya – I agree. We'll decide who gets the first shift later. Let's just get settled for now.

Zelda – Alright. I call the room with the balcony!

Lya – Actually there are several rooms with balconies.

Zelda – Well I call the biggest one.

Lya – Sorry, Zel, that's my room. Link gave it to me when he first showed me this place.

Zelda – Well then, I call the second biggest room.

Lya – Guess again. The second biggest is Link's.

Aryll – It's right next to your room, isn't it?

Lya – Well, yeah. We'd sit out on our balconies and talk to each other when we couldn't sleep.

Zelda – Uh, fine, just give me a room with a balcony, please.

Lya – Go up the stairs and in the first hallway on the right, take a right at the end of that hallway. It's the room at the end.

Zelda – (turning and running for the stairs) Thank-you!

Lya – I'm going upstairs to my room, and I'm not coming out until somebody fixes dinner.

Aryll – Leave that to me.

Lya – Thanks Aryll.