Twilight- Dipped Dreams

Chapter 3

(Part 2)

~O~ A few weeks after Kohana leaves~O~

They had been at this for about a month, but still, even in good company, Kohana felt unwelcome. She had smiled more, and was happier. Zelda even commented that some how- she'd gotten prettier. Kohana had even been introduced to Midna- a friend of Zelda, who tried helping her escape once.

Midna was pretty. Long, orange hair, two long strands tied in front of her to rest against her sternum, and she wore a long black cloak with a hood, blue designs on the hems of straight lines, but not circles or curves. Kohana liked looking at her.

Midna was so graceful in everything she did, just like the Princess. She was a Princess too. Were all princesses graceful like the two blessed her with being their friend? Midna was strong-willed and lived for her people, like Zelda did at one point, even though she still does.

"A spy in the Castle told me that Zant is planning on raiding Hyrule Castle." Midna told them both, as they were huddled around a fire and eating stew from wood bowls with little wooden spoons. Zelda looked at Midna and so did Kohana.

"What for?" Zelda asked, and Midna chewed thoughtfully, before swallowing.

"Well, my spy thinks it was over a girl. Someone Zant liked and kept talking about. The person was of Ganondorf's court. I guess its some raid to get her, but the information wasn't very clear- only one of fifteen hawks got to us with his message, only a few words." Midna said, and Kohana frowned. She may be thinking concededly, but, it could be her.

"I…was given to Zant after I didn't tell Ganondorf where Zelda was. Ganondorf came and took me back…" Kohana said, shuddering. "That's when- Zelda came and we ran away." Zelda nodded, "What's the book say?" Midna pulled it out and opened it to the page. None of them had looked at it since Zelda and Kohana ran, Midna had been holding on to it.

"It says the only way to void the hex is to do a special ritual." Midna spoke, turning the page, "We have a problem."

"What is it?"

"Well, the Ritual calls for a few things from the caster," Midna said, and they waited for the 'problem', as Midna took a deep breath, "The raid- is supposed to happen at dawn…in a few hours. We're about half a day away, even on horse back." Midna and Zelda looked at Kohana. Kohana looked back at the direction she had come from- winter had come early this year- all over Hyrule.

Kohana got to her feet and grabbed the reins of the horse she'd let Zelda have when Zelda ran from the palace, "Please, let me borrow your horse for a while!" Kohana asked, before jumping into the saddle and whipping the reigns, the horse rearing back on its hind legs and giving out a neigh, before galloping forward.

She had at least 3 hours- maybe at the max.. "Can you carry me as fast as you can?" She asked the horse, and it tossed its mane with a snort, and galloped harder, "Thank you."

She dismounted the horse, letting it rest, and ran into the castle, looking around at the ruins of what had once been a nicely kept castle. The Twilight Beasts had made short work of it- and the maids. Their bodies were ripped apart, dismembered limbs here and their. Blood, stained the floor- still warm. Kohana covered her face, staring at the pools of blood in horror. Zant… She looked around, seeing a heavy sword that had fallen from the hands of a suit of armor. The open doors had let in the winter cold and snow, and she went up the stairs, trying to remember the way to the throne room.

A Twilight beast raised it's head, looking at her, , before it's head fell from its neck She dragged the sword behind her, cutting any in her way as she made her way to the throne room- in the nick of time too. Zant and Ganondorf were fighting like a couple of alley tomcats, and Zant's back was to her. Ganondorf was in bad shape, and before Zant's next attack, she appeared in front of him and blocked in.

"K-Kohana!" Zant demanded, and Ganondorf looked up, and she pushed Zant back.

Even in her white cloak and the shadow that littered the throne room floor now, she stood her ground against Zant's attacks. "Y…You can't just give up and turn tail, stupid! Be a man and fight back!" She yelled at him shakily, before stabbing the sword into Zant, who flew back. The sword dissolved, and Zant hesitated,

"Kohana, I came for you- You lied, Master! You said she wasn't here!" Zant accused loudly, screeching, "WHOOOOO, you lied!" She flinched, and Zant went at her, to grab her. She was pulled back, and landed on her butt, as Ganondorf blocked Zant's charge.

"Stay behind me." Ganondorf panted, but she stood and suddenly pulled up her skirt- drawing both of their attentions. She pulled out two blades from hoisters the outsides of her thighs that went down to her knees, and let her skirt drop, before she vanished, and shoved the two swords into Zant. Zant gasped and she pulled them out, stabbing the hilts together and connecting them into one double-edged sword, before slashing him.

"Don't even joke around like that! Unreliable!" She yelled at him, cutting Zant more, and he fought back. "Nh!" She murmured, as he nicked her, "Stop standing around and tag team him!" Ganondorf hit him from behind, and Kohana didn't restraint herself from going all out on the Fake King from the front. After they hacked away at Zant, finally, he fell to the ground, dead. "That was…annoying." Kohana murmured, and Ganondorf nodded, and she put her sword s away, turning her back to him, and pulling her hood up, as she walked out of the throne room, down the snow-covered staircase.

After a few moments, he yelled at her, "Why'd you come back?" Ganondorf yelled, and she stopped in the snow, looking back at him, hands holding her skirts that she had raised slightly to descend. She stared at him, her eyes asking the same question.

"I guess I didn't want to fall asleep again." She said, turning, the hems of her skirts and cloak, dancing on the wind, and her feet slightly stepped from step to step, leaving gentle traces of her there, in the fresh snow. Ganondorf's sword, clattered to the floor, next to his right foot, and when it stopped, he stepped forward. She was already gone, but he followed her tracks- small slipper imprints on the vast white-covered staircase.

She was already in the gardens, leading her horse away by the reigns, her back to the castle. "Hey Ice Princess!" She twitched to this call, whipping around and opening her mouth to snap back. A firm hand held her jaw and he caught her lips, making her stop. Ganondorf pulled away, and Kohana stood there. "Stay a while." He murmured, and she stared at him.

"I don't want to." She told him, looking down at the snow between her feet. "That's why I left." She said, laughing nervously and quietly, "I…I'll be going then."

"Is there anyway I can coax you to stay? Maybe if I gave you the library?"

"Are you trying to piss me off by insulting me, as you assume I'm a book worm because I go to the library?" Ganondorf twitched, "Well, congrats. You did. I go in there because I know a muscle-head like you wouldn't appreciate literature, I doubt you can even READ. I hope you take offense, because I'm leaving with that." She jumped onto the horse's back and whipped the reigns, and it ran off, Ganondorf running in the opposite way. Her and her horse skid into a narrow alley, and she dismounted and a black blur flickered past the alley. She led the horse into another alley shivering, the winter cold front too much for her. 'If I gave you the library'! What asshole would say something like that? She hid her face in the horse's fur and let a few tears fall. What a hurtful thing to hear.

"Kohana!" Ganondorf yelled, his voice was distant, so he was probably at the center of the castle town. Kohana has studied maps on the castle- of any place they slept- just in case things went bad. She led the horse down the alley and turned a left corner, and then another right. He was stalking around in a circle- scanning everything for any form of life. She let the horse's reigns go, and it galloped off, leaving the castle.

She slipped into another, narrower, alley way, and went down some stairs. The door to a bar was closed and was barely visible. They had been snowed in. She hid in a small corner, just behind some boxed, and was able to see the staircase. Her cloak had run over her tracks and hid them. It was a blessing- since Ganondorf was on top of the stair way, and she pulled her cloak trail to her, hugging herself. He had her trapped like a rat- a miscalculation on her part. Kohana shivered, as Ganondorf carefully looked for imperfections in the landscape. Her heart raced.

He eased himself down, looking around- shaking the sewer grates, looking for her slipper marks. Why had she come back? She knew it was going to be like this…yet…her heart spoke out and she listened. It told her he shouldn't be paying the price for something she had done. Something that had been started over her. Flashes, of the night before she left, flickered into her head. She watched as Ganondorf looked around for any thing she may have left and in every cranny- before disappearing. "Hi there." She gasped, turning away, the Villain crouching to her right. She scrambled away and slammed her back against the boxes, yelping in shock. A few of the boxes fell over, and Ganondorf jumped into action, catching them before they could fall on her, holding them as he looked at her.

She shook violently, staring up at him, "Don't look at me like that, Kohana." Ganondorf said, walking around to the other side, and putting the boxes of wood and metal, back where they had fallen from. He sat down on the other side of the boxes, "I'll stay over here if you don't run, ok?"

"…Alright." She agreed, shuddering from the cold, cupping her hands around her mouth to keep herself warm.

"Kohana. I don't like arguing with you. It makes me upset when you hurt yourself to get away from me." Kohana looked over her left shoulder, at the boxes, panting from the cold. "Your horse ran off…I'll give you mine." There was a soft thump, "Hey, I'm trying to pour out my heart to you," He said, as he got up and walked to the other side. Kohana lay in the snow, panting. "K-Kohana?" He put the back of his hand to her forehead, and quickly pulled it away. "Hot!" Ganondorf whistled for his horse and scooped her up, and mounted his horse, cradling her, before whipping the reigns.

(A/N: Originally, this scene was supposed to be hot sweaty, cute sex in the snow.)