Sorry I haven't uploaded in a while. Finals; they're nightmares.

Link and I were running towards Lake Hylia, where Link suddenly stopped again, and I turned around to see him sniffing a bag.

Ilia... I thought with a slight growl.

"It's Ilia!" Link shouted.

Midna muttered a few things to him that I couldn't pick up, but Link then bolted past me, heading in the way where Ilia's scent laid out for him.

I rolled my eyes dramatically and followed, only stopping once we reached Castle Town, specifically Telma's Bar.

"Link, come on." I panted, my head bowed and my legs shaking with exhaustion. But when I looked up, Link was already in the bar. I stumbled in with a groan.

I just heard Midna's giggle, and Link was walking towards the map.

They starred at it for a while, then he turned and blinked twice when he saw me, as if he remembered that I was following him. He noticed my legs that were still shaking and a look of worry came over him. "Are you alright?" He asked, running up to me.

"Just peachy." I growled, quickly turning around and started out for a jog, heading for the Lake.

~x~

We were running past the bridge, until I saw a Shadow Bublin, and skidded to a stop.

I heard Link start to growl.

It shot a fire arrow behind us, igniting the gas that we were running on. It then ignited it in front of us, trapping us.

"Oh no! We're trapped!" Midna exclaimed. "Get out of here!"

Link turned to me. "Can't you stop the fire?" He asked.

"I can't when I'm in this form!" I shouted back. "Help me push this!" I was pressing my side against a large crate, though it barely moved with my tiny form.

Link then butted his head against it and it smacked the wall. I jumped on and hesitated.

"Go on!" Link shouted, the smoke forming a dark cloud around us.

I didn't move.

He then bit my back leg, somewhat gently, and I yelped, leaping off into the cold water.

"Phew…" Midna gasped once we reached the top of the water. "That was a close one. We're lucky there was a puddle down below, huh?"

My eyes widened in fear. I quickly swam to the edge of the 'puddle', as Midna calls it, and starred. I ignored the three spirits next to me, not believing my eyes. There's so little water…

"Alek?" I heard Link ask, making me jump in surprise.

"What?" I asked, not taking my eyes off of the lake.

"Are you alright?" He asked again.

I gave him a quick glance and starred back at the lake. "F…. fine. Let's just… keep going." I tore my eyes away from the sight and turned around, running off.

"Wait, Alek!" Link stopped and turned to see another Shadow Bublin. "Alek!" He shouted again, his voice a little more aggravated.

~x~

"Ah… We're already here? That bird turned out to be more useful than I expected… Well, then… Where's that village of the Zora's? Let's look for it." Midna patted Link's sides.

"It's this way." I said, leaping off of the cliff and onto the slippery surface.

We defeated the Shadow Beasts and got to the top, killed three more, then looked around.

"Midna. Take us to Death Mountain." I said, turning around and looking at the imp.

"Haaaah? Why?" She asked, tilting her head.

"Look down." I said, and Link nearly jumped out of his skin from what he saw.

The Zora's were frozen in place.

"Ah, alright." Midna teleported us and floated over to the large rock. "This thing has been here for a while now, but it's still pretty hot…" She muttered.

"Let's use that."

~xx~

We just got through Queen Rutela's speech and all. We were now at Lanaryu's cave….area.

"Heroes… Chosen ones of the Gods… You have… done well to make it this far…" It started. "Gather… my scattered Tears of Light… that were stolen by shadow… Gather them… in this…"

Midna took the vessel and wrapped it around her shoulder again.

"I am sure… you know by now… the forms… that these dark insects take… when they steal… our light…" It went on. "In this shadow realm… of twilight… the insects… are invisible… like the humans… of this world…"

Wow, way to state the obvious. I thought, rolling my eyes.

"Collect… my light… Lift the final cloud of twilight… that threatens to cover… all of Hyrule…" The spirit started to fade away.

"Come on, Link. Shall we split up again?" I asked, nudging him gently.

"Ah, sure." Link froze as soon as we were outside.

Because in front of us was a wolf sitting patiently, its bushy tail curled around its paws. It had wet blue fur and eyes so bright that I couldn't tell what color they were. It also seemed frozen, in a strange way. I mean, it had icicles on some patches of fur.

It stood up and started walking towards me, and I instantly backed away.

It then growled and leaped at me. I don't remember what happened after that, but I do remember waking up in my human form, with a figure similar to Din's figure. She was wrapped in a simple tinker-bell like cloth but blue, and her curly hair was wet and freezing over. Her eyes were still too bright to see their actual color, and she was barefoot. "Noel…" She said, her voice echoing in an awesome way.

"Nayru." I said with a polite nod of my head.

"So you know my name…" She muttered.

"Of course. I know that the next one I will meet is Fayore, the Goddess of Courage. You are Nayru, the goddess of wisdom." I shrugged.

"Do you know who has her triforce?" She asked me.

"Zelda." I replied without hesitation.

"And who has Din's?"

"Ganondorf." I replied with a slight growl.

Nayru nodded. "Do you know which one you have?" She asked me.

My eyebrows knit. "I have one of the triforces?"

Nayru shook her head a little. "You have a shard from each of them. You are one of the first humans to have such power." She closed her eyes for a moment. "I don't have much time. But I do give you this." She held her hand out in front of me and gave me a ring that had a dark blue sapphire in it that had silver wire holding it in place.

"What power am I receiving?" I asked, glancing down at the gem before looking back to Nayru, whose feet were frozen to the ground.

"The power to control any form of water, and the power to control time." Her voice sounded more musical than normally.

"Control time? Sweet." I nodded smoothly.

"You can stop the time, though Link and Midna will not be affected, since they are chosen ones as well. I must go now, Noel. Fayore will visit you once the time comes." The shards that were around her shattered, and sent me back into nothingness.

I woke up and saw that I was in Lanaryu's cave again, laying a few feet from the edge of the little cliff. Link had me in his lap, cradling me like a mother would to a child.

"You're up?" He asked me, looking down at me with a small smile.

"Mmm." I nodded a little. "What'd I miss?" I asked, rubbing my eyes.

"I met Lanaryu. There was this huge," He spread out his right arm, the one that wasn't keeping me up, out to emphasize how big it was. "Bug that I had to kill."

I remembered that. It was so ugly that the first time I saw it in the game I screamed. I can't imagine what it looked like in the game. "Ew." I wrinkled my nose.

Link chuckled. "Yeah. It wasn't that cute up close, either." He turned to look over his shoulder. "Hey, we should get going. Can you stand?"

I nodded, though when I tried to stand up, I realized that both of my legs were numb, and I ended up falling onto my rear.

Link laughed at me. "Come on." He knelled in front of me, holding his arms out. "Hop on." He said, looking at me over his shoulder.

"I-I can't! I'm too heavy!" I said, waving my hands in front of me.

"Alek, come on. You've seen what I've done. Carrying you isn't that bad." His shoulders slumped a little.

I hesitated at first, but I gave in after he used his puppy face on me. I scrambled onto his back using only my arms.

He wrapped his arms around my thighs and hoisted me onto his back, and I carefully wrapped my arms around his neck, making sure that I didn't choke him.

"Hey, Alek?" He asked as we walked out of the cave.

"Mmm?" I asked, resting my chin on his shoulder.

"You're right." He mumbled.

"Hm? What about?" I asked, blinking once.

"About how lucky I am."

I laughed lightly through my nose. "How am I right?" I asked.

"When you opened up to me on Death Mountain, it got me thinking." He lowered his head a little. "I do have everything. You didn't have anyone to lean on. You didn't have a home, and you lost your trust."

"Didn't? Link, I still don't have a home."

"Please let me finish." He said, glancing at me for a moment before looking back to the trail that was longer than I thought it was. "You don't have a mom or dad."

"Of course I have a mom and dad, Link."

"No, you really don't. You have a mother and father. You don't have a mom or a dad." He corrected. "But… I want to change that." He bit his upper lip nervously, setting me down on a large patch of grass, and sat down in front of me.

I looked down at what he said, thinking about how that was true.

"What are you thinking about?" He asked me.

"My legs are really numb." I muttered.

Link sighed. "Really, Alek." He lifted my head with his finger.

"I don't want to see my mom again." I muttered, keeping my gaze down. "I don't want to go home." I felt tears well up in my eyes. "I don't want this to end…" I covered my face with my hands. "You're too real. I don't want this to be a dream." I felt the tears slide down my face. "I don't want to go back home after it's over." I started to cry, and I felt Link move over to my side and pull me into a hug again.

"I won't let you go back home. You can live in my village." He petted my hair reassuringly. "And it's not a dream." He shushed me quietly, resting his cheek on the top of my head.

I cried for a few minutes, and then put myself back together, just sitting there next to Link.

We sat in silence for a few moments.

"Are you alright?" He asked, still rubbing my shoulder, and his head still on top of mine.

"I'm fine." I muttered, rubbing my eyes. I stood up and dusted myself off. "I… I can't live in your village, though." I muttered, turning my head away and rubbing my arm.

"What? Why not?" Link asked, standing up quickly.

"It wouldn't be right. I can't live in a village so far from my birth place…" I didn't look at him. I was too afraid of what his expression was, even though I heard it in his voice.

"Oh…" His head was down and he seemed more depressed.

"But I'll come and visit you." I said, as if that would make it any better.

"How much?" Link asked, though I could barely understand it, since his voice was so low.

"Every week. And I'll stay with you for a whole day, okay?" I lifted his chin up and smiled reassuringly. "If I don't, then you can keep me for three more days." I saw a small smile tug at the Hero's lips. "But hey, we don't know how much longer this will take us, so we have all the time in the world."

"Or until Ganon kills us all." Link shrugged.

I sighed, rolling my eyes. "Way to kill a moment, huh?"

Link shrugged sadly. "It's true."

I took a deep breath through my nose, putting my hands on my hips and lowering my head. "You're right. So we are pressed for time. But." I lifted my hand and slapped him across the face.

His eyes widened quickly and he froze in his spot, speechless. He opened his mouth to say something, but I quickly covered it.

"Don't think of the bad things, love!" I said, smirking.

"So you had to slap me?" He asked, pouting a little as he rubbed his cheek.

"Yes." I smiled a little, and he couldn't help but smile back at my cute expression. "But I did it out of love." My smile turned to a grin.

"If you did anything out of love then it wouldn't hurt, right?"

"It's a different kind of love." It was my turn to shrug.

"Oh, really?" He turned his head to look at me with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes. It's called tough love." I giggled lightly, and then saw him suddenly jolt as if he was going to jump at me, and I jumped back with a small yelp.

Link smirked. "Are you going to teach me how to use a bow?" He asked, walking over to me slowly, taking the bow from my back.

"Oh yeah." I said. I looked around, then settled on the entrance to the Zora's Domain. "This way." I said, motioning with my hand for him to follow me, which he did.

Once we got there, which only took a few minutes; I pulled off the bow and handed it to the Hero.

He took it, and then just starred at it.

I rolled my eyes and smiled lightly. "Come on, Mr. Hero." I teased, placing my hands over his. I noticed that his face turned a small shade of pink as I did so, but I just kept going with it.

I eventually got him into a somewhat correct position. "Now…" I looked around for a target. "Wait here." I said, then ran off, looking for something, anything, to help me. I ended up grabbing a large rock, hauling it over, back to where Link was waiting. "Okay…" I muttered, grabbing another stone and drawing a target symbol on it. "Aim for this." I said, tapping it with my foot as I jogged back over to him. "Aim with both eyes open. You'll see twice as better." I said, placing my hands over his and pulling them into the correct position, then drawing an arrow from my quiver and setting it on the bow. "Aim and fire." I took a few steps back.

Link aimed and waited a few seconds for the small breeze to die down, then fired, and I thought he hit the ring just outside of the bulls-eye.

"You did it!" I exclaimed, jumping happily.

Link grinned at me.

"Now you just need to practice a lot more." I said, walking over to the stone and looking to where he hit it.

Turns out he hit the bulls-eye.

"Link…?" I asked, starring at the mark the arrow gave to the stone.

"Yeah?" Link asked, walking over to pick up the arrow.

"….Did you lie to me about how good you are?" I asked, standing up, though I didn't face him.

"No, why?" I felt his hair brush against the side of my head, and I knew that he was looking over my shoulder. "Did I get a perfect score or something?"

"….Yeah." I muttered, starring at the mark.

"Huh." Link grinned. I could hear it. "I guess it's in my blood." He shrugged as he walked away from me, taking aim again.

"Yeah, right." I said, rolling my eyes. "You're not related to the Hero of Time. You're just a chosen one like he is." I stuck my tongue out at him in a playful way.

"Oh, yeah, right." Link lowered the bow and set it on the floor, crossing his arms.

"What? It's true." I shrugged.

"Yeah, I know." Link blinked once as I walked over to him.

"So it's not your blood." I poked his chest.

"It's the Gods."

"GoddESSES, Link." I corrected. "You sexist."

Link smirked. "That's why I like girls." He nodded a little.

"No, that's why you love me." I corrected again.

Link rolled his eyes again, though at least he was smiling.

"You can't deny it." I said, turning away and crossing my arms.

Link smirked. "You're right." He said, quickly wrapping his arms around my waist and pulling me up off the ground.

Of course, I instantly yelped and set my hands on his arms that were bound around me.

Link then spun around on his heel, laughing as I squirmed in his hands like a fish out of water.

Okay, maybe not that intense, but it was pretty dang close.

Link set me down again and allowed me to catch my breath, though that just took a few seconds. He then cupped my face in his gloved hands, smiling warmly. "You're right." He repeated. "I do love you."

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So yeah, as I said earlier, I had 'finals' this week. But not really. At my academy, we don't really have finals. :D The only ones I had them in were Geometry and Art History. Hazzah!

But on the bright side, I don't have school tomorrow, so I can spend most of my time writing! :] And my friend gave me all of her LoZ manga books to read, so I can get a influenced more easily. I have like, five more to read.

My favorite so far has probably been the 4 Swords. Shadow Link is too cute; I might bring him back in this story. :D

AND NOW TO CELEBRATE. I'M NOT FAILING GEOMETRY. MY TEACHER HUGGED ME BECAUSE OF IT. I'M SO HAPPY.