Chapter 2

After Link blacked out he had a dream, there was Princess Hilda there, and himself and it seemed as if he were being dragged away from Hilda,

Is this a dream? Link was thinking. What's going on?!

"Link….." Hilda said. "Link please come back to me"

Link started running but he wasn't going anywhere. He even tried using his new Pegasus boots. But it wasn't working. "I-I'm trying Hilda! I'm trying but I can't!"

"Link…..please come back."

Link woke up bolting upright. "Hilda!" he screamed. He looked around and realized he was in a house. There was someone hunching over an anvil,

"I must be in Lorule's blacksmith shop." Link whispered to himself.

"Yes, you are." A feminine voice said.

The voice startled him. He must have jumped at least a foot in the air. Then there was laughing. "Jumpy are we?"

Link turned his head and saw a middle-aged woman. "Hello I'm the blacksmith's wife,"

"Hello," Link said.

"Don't you have anything to say to me?"

"What?" Link didn't understand what she was implying.

"I just found you in the middle of the road! Had I not saved you, you probably would've been attacked by monsters!"

"Oh, well thank you Ma'am," Link said politely as to not anger the woman any more.

"You're welcome," she said still a little angrily.

"Well um, I better go."

"Where?"

"I don't know, just to save Lorule."

"Why does it need saving?"

"I don't know just because the beautiful princess Hilda sent me on a quest to save it."

The woman laughed. "You expect me to believe Hilda sent you to save Lorule?"

"Yes! Never mind you!" Link was getting annoyed, no not annoyed angry! He stormed out of the house and started walking. He found what seemed to be a Lorule version of Kakariko village.

"I'll show her," Link said mumbling to himself. "I'll be the greatest hero Lorule has ever seen! Then I'll win the heart of the lovely Princess Hilda…. what do you think I should do after that?" he asked a weird Cucco looking thing. It just pecked at the ground and clucked.

"Thanks a lot, you're no help!"

"….A narrow path!" someone nearby sang.

"Huh?" Link asked. "Who was that?"

"Really despair!" someone else sang.

"What the heck is going on in this town?!" Link was starting to get nervous.

"To thevin'!" some practically yelled right behind Link.

"Gah!" Link ran as fast as he could across the town. Until he stopped at a gargoyle statue. He read the sign in front of it. It read Our Hideout Entrance, Knock or Scram! "Well okay then, that doesn't suspicious." He walked up to the door the statue and knocked on the front of it.

A voice from the inside said "Who's there?! Nobody gets past me 'less you know all the words to the ultra-secret-thief-password song."

"Um, Okay…" Link said.

"I'll start the lyrics, and you finish 'em! That is, if you can! Here we go. Ahem…

"A smart thief fears the boss's wrath I'd rather be on a cliff walkin'…"

Link realized it was his turn. But he didn't know what to say, he tried to think….

Oh! Link thought. That one guy, what did he say? A virtuous path? No no, oh yeah!

"A narrow path!" Link sang back.

"Sometimes it hurts too much t'care." The voice sang. "Ya think knowledge is power but it's…"

Link thought to what the second person said "Really despair." Link sang.

The voice paused a moment as if he couldn't believe what was happening. "Every time I say I'm a-leavin'. This accursed life sets me right back…"

"To thievin'!" Link sang immediately.

The voice paused again. "Wow… What a fetching voice…" it said. "Come on in, buddy!"

"Thanks," Link said. The door rose. And Link walked in. As soon as he walked in he almost regretted it, the room was huge and he could tell the hideout went several floors down. He noticed what must have been a guard and he definitely noticed Link too. The guard went over to Link and started talking to him. "Never seen you 'round here before….."

Link had to think of something anything. "Um, I'm a new recruit." Link finally said.

The guard looked him up and down. Link was holding his breath hoping that the guard will believe him. "You one of the new recruits, eh?" he stared down Link for another moment. "Perfect timing!"

"Uh, for what?" Link asked.

"You can take over here on guard duty for me. Have fun. And don't do anything that'll get me in trouble, fresh meat!"

"But what are you gonna do?" Link asked. But he really didn't care at all.

"I'm gonna go get me some fresh air." Then he spoke in a little tune. "Fresh meat, fresh air… Hey that's kinda catchy! Maybe I'll see if the bard can put a tune to that. Fresh meat, fresh air…"

"Seems like I've got something to do, find that painting!" Link said after the guard left.

…..

Link hadn't known it but Hilda had watched him ever since he got to Lorule. She thought he was cute. She couldn't see him when he left to Hyrule of course. But when he was in Lorule she could check up on him. Yuga walked in to the throne room to see her giving googly eyes in her crystal ball.

"What are you doing?" Yuga asked his voice now dark and gravelly, due to fusing with Ganon.

Hilda changed the visual on the ball to an overview of Lorule. She blushed. "Nothing." It sounded more like a question then a statement.

He groaned. "Hilda, don't tell me you're falling for that Hylian hero."

"Um….No?" again sounded more like a question.

"Well, what about Ravio?"

"Ravio left me!" Hilda snapped. "If he loved me he wouldn't have left."

"But what about when we take the Triforce of Courage, or Your "Link" stops us? Don't you think he will leave you for Zelda?"

"I'll just beg him to stay with me. Plus you saw the look on his face when he first saw me. He thinks I'm pretty, and when he was at the black smith's house he called me Beautiful."

"Uh-huh" Yuga said still a little doubtful.

Hilda changed her crystal ball back to Link he was running through the thieves' hideout with some girl, he opened a gigantic door and ran in. Hidla didn't notice when Yuga left the room. "I can't afford to lose my kingdom….but I also can't afford to lose you…hero of- I mean Link" She just sat there for several minutes staring at the crystal ball.

Hope you enjoyed this longer chapter, I'm having fun writing it so far! I hope you are enjoying reading it. If you find anything that could be improved or something that could make this story more enjoyable then PLEASE review. Reviews are always welcome. As long as they're not brutally cruel.