The Hyrulian Valhalla Saga
By Queenie Z

Unidentified Flying Heroes

Despite his relatively short stature, Twilight was in fact quite strong; thus, having Mini sit on his shoulders while balancing himself on his spinner was no problem at all for him. Holding the smaller Hero's knees tightly to keep him from falling off, he glanced up at him with a wry smile.

"You sure you're ready for this?" he asked, half-teasingly, "It might be too fast for a little guy like you!"

Mini huffed indignantly. "Shut up, Twilight; I'm still older than you, remember?" He flashed his own grin. "Besides, the faster, the better - that's what I always say!" He then turned to his left. "Hey, Duo! You got those pegasus seeds ready yet?"

"Uh-huh!" Duo held up his seed satchel for the other two to see, though the look on his face indicated he was slightly worried about the whole idea. "...Though, I'm not even sure if this is going to work..."

"Hey, it worked on the train, didn't it?" asked Mini. He kicked his feet against Twilight's shoulder impatiently. "Now hurry up and use one already!"

Twilight winced. "Ow! Watch it!"

Duo pulled out a single pegasus seed, looked at it nervously, then crouched down beside the spinner. "All right, then, here goes..."

When the seed made contact with the spinner, it immediately shot off across the field, causing Mini and Twilight to shriek in surprise. As they zoomed off together towards the horizon, however, Duo could hear their screams turn into laughter and whooping. He stared for a moment, then smiled slightly and scratched his cheek.

"Well," he mused, "at least they're enjoying themselves, right?"

"Dammit!" cursed Blue as he threw his bow to the ground indignantly, "How come you guys keep getting bulls-eyes and not me!?"

"Gee, I dunno," said Vio, rolling his eyes as he twirled an arrow around in his hand, "maybe because we're actually aiming?"

Green snickered. "Yeah, Blue, maybe if you stopped freaking out for a second you'd have a steady hand!" He nocked another arrow in his bow, drew it, and aimed it at a nearby target. He nearly dropped his weapon, however, when Red's shrill voice interrupted him.

"Guys! Look!" cried Red. He pointed towards the distance, where something was very rapidly approaching them.

Blue squinted his eyes to get a better look. "Is that... Mini and Twilight?"

The others had no time to answer, however; as the spinner and its two riders came to a small hill, it rocketed into the air, quickly gaining altitude and soaring over the Heroes of the Four Sword's heads. After instinctively ducking to avoid them, the four glanced up, watching in awe as Twilight, Mini, and the spinner flew away, their raucous laughter fading the further they went.

Vio uncovered his head. "Well," he said, "that's not something you see every day."

"Wow!" Red pointed again towards the horizon and began jumping up and down like a small, excited child, "Did you see that!? That was so cool! We've gotta try that sometime, you guys...!"

Blue grinned. "For once, I agree with Red."

"Maybe Twilight will let us have a turn on that thing!" Green stuffed his bow back in his pouch and motioned for the others to follow him. "Come on!"

The others put away their own bows, and the four Links ran off in the direction where, hopefully, Mini and Twilight would soon land.