Hello folks! It's time for chapter 35, starting here I'm going to start focusing on characters who haven't really gotten much spotlight as of late, and I got some fun ideas to make each of them more interesting.

Link's eyes slowly opened, and he took a minute to look around at his surroundings. He was dreaming that he was back in that mysterious place from before. The strange mist covering the area made anything around still as hidden as ever, but he felt a calm wind brush against him as some leaves flew by. He saw the large object in the distance, it was a tall object, but it was still difficult to make out any real details of it in the mist.

"Again? Just what is this place...?" Link muttered.

"Man, this is getting to be a real pain in the ass!" muttered a familiar voice, and Link quickly turned to see the man he had encountered in his dream before only he sounded much for aggravated then before, "Seems like every time I'm about to pull it off, I just get yanked right back in...!"

It seemed now Link was able to make out more details of the man at least, his hair stuck out behind him down to halfway down his back with small strands sticking out in various places, he wore some kind of ragged clothing, and what looked like a sword sheathed on his belt.

"It's you..." Link realized, "Okay, I've had it with this, who are you?"

"Hmph, like I said before buddy, I'm a part of you." the mysterious man said with a shrug, "I used to be in isolation for so long, but now that I'm stuck here instead, and I want to escape and be free." he lowered his voice coldly, "If only you'd just give up."

"That's it, I'm getting really tired of you being so cryptic, tell me what the hell is going on here!" Link demanded.

The man seemed to ignore his question and grumbled in annoyance, "I thought if you were separated from those girls, even just for a bit that I could finally pull it off, but then that little one got through to you almost instantly." the man seemed to be scratching his chin, "I have to admit there's something interesting about her..."

"Little one... wait, do you mean Saria?" Link realized, "What do you want with her?!" he shouted, as he reached out to where he normally kept his sword, but then realized he didn't have a weapon.

"Nothing really." shrugged the man, "I mostly just want her and those others out of my way so I can finally break out."

"I don't know what the hell you're talking about, but I swear if you do anything to hurt her or any of my friends..." Link said coldly, narrowing his eyes.

It was then in that second Link swore he could make out very small details on the man's face, and saw something off about the way he looked... was almost familiar...

"Heh... maybe it won't be so long after all. Well, guess I'll see ya around buddy." With that the man turned and left into the mist.

"Hey wait!" Link tried to follow after him, but it was then that the floor gave out from under him and he fell into a void once again...

"Ugh... that dream again..." Link sighed, he was laying back on his bed in Gerudo Town's palace. It was the middle of the night and he had just woken up from one of those strange dreams again, "Just who is that guy?"

"What guy?" brought up a voice, Link was jolted out of his daze and looked to see Nabooru laying beside him, leaning against her arm and smiling slightly.

"I... well... it's kind of hard to explain, I don't really understand it myself." Link sighed, he wasn't sure if he wanted to talk to Nabooru about this in the past, but it seemed now the cat was out of the bag, "I keep getting these strange dreams from time to time, and it's always the same, I'm in this strange place, I see a mysterious man who says weird things, then I fall and wake up."

"Can you think of anyone he could be?" Nabooru asked in curiosity..

"No, at least I don't think so." Link pondered.

Nabooru frowned as she looked at Link, her eyes filled with concern for her close friend. This was clearly something that's bothered him for some time now, and she wished she had known about this sooner, especially after what happened with...

'No...' Nabooru thought to herself, shaking off those old thoughts, 'I'm certain it's nothing like that..." She knew she had to consecrate on helping Link, and she knew something that would do nicely.

"Well, how about I help relieve your tensions then?" Nabooru said smiling, she motioned for Link to sit up, and she placed her hands on his shoulders from behind. She started massaging him, rubbing her hands against his shoulders and back firmly but delicately.

"Jees Nabooru, you're too good at this." Link groaned a bit as she went to work on him. Nabooru tickled the back of Link's neck teasingly before leaning herself against him, working on his lower back as she started kissing at his pointy ear. He loved the feeling she was giving him, including her soft bare chest pressing against his back.

"Anything for my dear friend and future king." she whispered into his ear, "If you like I could teach you how to do massages like this, I'm sure your beloved fiances would enjoy this as well."

"That... wouldn't be a bad idea." Link admtted. He could feel his worries about his strange dreams drift away as she rubbed him down. It made him wonder in that moment if he could do the same for his fiances to relieve them of their own sorrows...

It was then he felt Nabooru starting to kiss at his neck, indicating she was in the mood for a different type of relief at that moment. Link smiled lightly as he turned around and wrapped his arms around Nabooru's neck, pulling her into a deep kiss, as she puled him backwards onto the bed, where the two indulged in satisfying pleasure together...

"All right everyone, our first order of business today is to welcome in our newest sister to our town, Saria!" Nabooru stated later that morning at the dining table where she, Link, Aviel and Nemisa held their usual morning meetings, now along with Saria, a new resident of the palace. In addition the mystic Kesuta, and the livestock rancher Togau were also there that particular morning.

"Thanks again for allowing me to stay here, everyone." Saria said doing a polite bow of her head.

"And thanks fer havin' me over for some chow." Togau spoke up, rubbing the back of her head with a sheepish grin, "The stove over at the diner I usually have breakfast at broke down last night so I was desperate."

"It's no problem." Nabooru said, "For what work you do for us daily as a rancher, you're more then welcome."

"Yeah, you know we always love having you over Togau." Link said nodding.

"Heh, thanks fer that..." Togau said happily.

"So what are you doing here then Kesuta?" Aviel asked with her mouth half-full of eggs.

"Well I would had just eaten at home myself, but Korume decided to make breakfast today, I took one look at the pile of peppers she had prepared for the omelets she was making and I just deiced to escape." sighed Kesuta.

Saria paused, looking to Togau the livestock rancher and then to Kesuta the town mystic, and it made her wonder what her role in the town could be. It was one thing back in Kokiri Forest when she was the village's protector, but with so many powerful warriors here in town she didn't feel as significant just doing that alone...

"Um... I just wanted to say... I'm not sure what I can do for your people, but whatever it is, I'll work hard to contribute to your town!" Saria said, pumping up her fists with determination.

"Ha ha, relax Saria, we're not going to expect you to throw yourself into work after just arriving." Nabooru said waving her hand dismissively, "Take some time to enjoy yourself here and get to know everyone."

"Yeah, you're not just here to work for us. You deserve to enjoy yourself as well." Link said, remembering what Nabooru had once told him shortly after he arrived there himself.

"Thanks..." Saria said, smiling lightly as she turned to Link. It was in that moment she realized how he was dressed, and her face flushed, "Um, d-do you usually wear that outfit here?"

"What, this?" Link asked, looking to his red vest and green pants, the vest in particular was opened up by Nemisa's request, giving everyone a good look at his bare chest, "Yeah, the clothes here are made to help us resist the dry and hot weather."

"I-I see..." Saria said nervously, "Yes, I guess the weather here is pretty intense, I don't think I can wear my usual tunic and sweater anymore." she looked down to the thick sleeves of her outfit.

Nabooru couldn't help but notice the expression on Saria's face as she looked away from Link, it was clear she wasn't used to seeing him dress like this, and she gave a knowing smile.

"Well, we'll see about getting you some Gerudo style clothing soon." Nabooru assured her.

Saria nodded, "That sounds nice, though I'm hoping it's not anything too skimpy like some of the girls here wear..."

Saria then glanced at one of the servant women setting down some plates of food, of who was wearing a top that was a size too small for her bountiful chest. The servant took a moment to make sure her chest brushed against Link's arm as she did, causing the Kokiri to blush a bit, and Link himself looked a little mortified about it himself.

"Hey, watch it with those things, you'll put my husband's eye out!" Nemsia shouted to the servant, of whom simply chuckled, took a moment to tickle Link's chin, then strolled off.

"You get a lot of attention around here, don't you Link?" Saria asked sweatdropping.

"Yeah, it took some time getting used to it." Link sighed with a light blush on his face.

"Say, maybe for now I can loan you one of my vests." Togau said to Saria, scratching her cheek in thought as she looked the Kokiri over, "...though it might end up looking more like a dress on you."

"That would be nic- Hey!" Saria realized what she meant and protested in a fit, then a second later looking down at herself, "Okay, maybe you're right..." she admitted, causing everyone there to laugh.

"Well either way, we're glad to have you here, sister Saria." Nemisa said with a gentle smirk.

"Thank you." Saria said, she was glad to get to meet Nemisa firsthand, as she was just as kind as Link described her in his conversations with her, and that she was going to be a fine wife for her friend.

Saria then took a bite of the meal the servants handed her, "Wow, the food here is delicious!" she exclaimed with wide and bright eyes, putting a hand to her cheek in astonishment. "I've never eaten something like this before!"

"Really? It's just a plate of eggs, sausage and hasb browns, you tellin' me you've never eaten any of that?" Togau brought up.

"Not at all, we Kokiri are used to eating just fruits, nuts and plants that grow in the forest!" Saria explained taking another bite.

"Yeah, I remember when I first ate the food at Hyrule Market, it was a whole new experience for me." Link nodded.

"Na ha ha!" Togau laughed, "Glad yer takin' a liking to it Saria, I make sure all our meats and produce 'round here are top quality, they fetch a good price from caravans as well."

"Yes, Link mentioned you own an animal ranch." Saria said, "What kind of animals do you have?"

"All kinds, pigs, cuccos, sheep, cows, a few horses, if you'd like I can take y'all to the ranch to meet em!" Togau grinned.

"I'd... I'd really like that!" Saria smiled brightly in excitement.

Togau's head broke into a sweat as she turned away, trying not to look directly at Saria's beaming expression, "She... she's just too cute..."

"That does sound good, it's been a while since we went to the ranch." Link nodded.

"Alright! I wanna go see Togau's cucco friend Imra!" Aviel exclaimed.

"Makes sense, birdbrains of a feather flock together." shrugged Kesuta.

"Quit it with the birdbrain thing!: Aviel squawked at Kesuta while flapping her wings in a flurry.

"Hey, watch where you're waving those things!" Nemisa shouted, as she was getting loose feathers in her face and mouth. She pushed Aviel away and started running a hand through her long hair to keep it from getting knotted up.

Togau meanwhile looked to Nemisa, and how she had her long silk hair down, as opposed to before when she kept it in a bun. The farmer couldn't help but see how pretty she was now that she embraced her dancer side more, and her skin seemed shinier now since she started dating Link.

Though happy as Togau was for her and Kesuta to be Link's future brides, she couldn't help but feel a sense of unease about something...

"Togau, you alright?" Link asked, leaning forward to the girl.

"R-Reckon course!" Togau said, forcing a cheerful smile while blushing red.

Nabooru looked over to Togau, seeing the expression in her eyes and sported an amused grin.

'Jees Link, with the way you're going you might have selected all your wives faster then I figured you would.' she thought to herself.

"Baaahhh!" a sheep bleated out in the interior of Togau's livestock ranch barn. It was casually munching on plants from a trough while Saria slowly reached out a hand and rubbed the sheep's woolly body.

"Oooh... it's so soft!" Saria said with wide eyes, "And it's so cute! What do you do with them?"

"Well in the case of the sheep, we usually sheer them and use their wool for clothing or to sell to caravans!" Togau explained.

"Sheering their wool? That isn't cruel to them...?" Saria asked curiously.

"Nah, sheering's good for sheep! Keeps em from getting too woolly and overheated!" Togau said with a big toothy grin.

"You know a lot about animals." Saria said with a gentle smile, moving over to petting the sheep's head, who baaed out again and took to it affectionately, soon turning to Saria and giving her a friendly lick, making Saria giggle.

"It took a long time for me to learn. My niece Malon and my bro Talon taught me some of it, rest of it I learned from some travelers that would come by around here and the rest was just general experience." Togau laughed a little, she had a hard time getting over Saria's serene and pleasant demeanor, and she was happy to get along with her so well, she could see how Link and Saria were so close.

"Oh yeah... Malon and Talon, Link told me about him being friends with them." Saria said, "I'd like to see the two of them myself someday!"

"Yeah." Togau said, then sighed under her breath, "So would I..."

Saria couldn't help but overhear that last part, she paused and looked up to Togau, and realized the mistake she made by saying that. Link had told Saria about whet happened to Togau back at Lon Lon Ranch with the exile, but he had asked her not to bring it up with her. Knowing what it felt like to be separated from someone she cared about, the Kokiri couldn't help but be sympathetic about Togau's situation.

Togau noticed the look Saria was giving her, letting her know she was frowning, and forced herself to put on a big grin, "Na ha ha! Don't worry about me none, Saria!"

"Well, okay..." Saria nodded somewhat reluctantly, before going back to petting the sheep.

Aviel meanwhile was trotting around the barn with her wings out, as some some cuccos and their chicks were following her around clucking and peeping. Her little bird squad marched under a horse, along a catwalk, and through a hay bail, which resulted in Aviel having another cucco sitting on her head when she came out of the pile

Nemisa herself was busy being tutored by one of Togau's assistants with milking a cow. As Nemisa was getting into the routine, the cow suddenly let out a loud moo which startled Nemisa so much she jumped back and went into a defensive martial arts pose. He ranch hand assured her that it was okay, making Nemisa sigh and nod before going right back to the job.

As for Link, he was busy hauling some bags of feed as instructed by the other ranch hands, "You need these here, right?" he called out to them.

"Yeah, thanks a lot for this!" said one of the girls.

"The king is so strong isn't he?" exclaimed one of the other ranch hands.

"Yeah, and he's cute too!" giggled another.

"Is this alright to make him do this though? Mom says the previous king would had never done menial chores like this..."

Despite their attempts to be discreet about what they said, Link couldn't help but overhear them, "It's fine, I'm happy to do it." he called out with a grin.

"Aww, he's so sweet!" whispered one of the ranch hands to her friend "He's nothing like the old king!"

"Yeah, he gets along so well with everyone, he's even selected sister Nemisa, Kesuta and Korume to be his wives, I'm so jealous!" said another.

"I wonder if he'd be willing to give me a baby..." whispered one of them longingly.

"Hey! Get back ta work you dang girls!" Togau shouted, partially out of frustration of their conversation. She let out a sigh and looked to Link, reaching out her hands, "Sorry bout this, I'll take the bags myself."

"Nah, don't worry about it." Link shook his head, "I want to do this for you."

Togau's face flushed bright red, "T-Thank you Link..." before going back to see to Saria. The Kokiri girl couldn't help but notice the shy look on Togau's face as she and Link had spoke, and giggled a little.

"Hey Togau, we got a situation here!" called out one of the ranch hands, Togau and Saria went over to see the girl who was tending to some plants growing from the ground in a garden area of the barn.

"What's the problem?" Togau asked.

"It's these new plants we brought in for animal feed." the ranch hand said, "They seemed to be growing alright at first, but they're turning brown on the ends, I've been giving them water, and the windows are giving them plenty of sunlight, but they keep getting worse. We can't really feed them to the animals at this rate..."

"Let me see." Saria spoke up, kneeling down to the plants, she brought up one hand and felt the leaves delicately. Togau just looked to Saria as she was staring intently at the plant, before the Kokiri nodded to herself in confirmation, "These particular plants tend to have shorter roots, and can't absorb water as well because the other plants' roots are soaking them up. Try moving these plants over to another area apart from the other ones."'

"Huh, alright, I'll do just that." the ranch hand said, "Thanks sister Saria."

"Na ha ha! Well golly Saria," Togau said grinning widely, "You know yer way with plants!"

"Eh hee hee..." Saria laughed sheepishly, "I've studied a lot on horticulture when I was in the forest."

"You said you studied whore culture?" Aviel spoke up as she walked over to the group, causing them all to fault over.

"She said horti-culture! Horti!" exclaimed Nemisa from over at the milking area.

"It's another word for gardening, my research helped everyone know what to eat safely in Kokiri Forest, and it allowed me get a hang on my Deku Staff's abilities." Saria explained to Aviel.

Link had to admit how impressed he was at Saria, she had grown so much over the past years while he was away from Hyrule, "We should tell Nabooru about this, I bet she would be happy to have you on hand to help with the crops and pants around here in town as a botanist." he commented to his childhood friend.

"I'd like that." Saria smiled, feeling more now that she had a real purpose for the girls in Gerudo Town.

Meanwhile in another part of the ranch, Kesuta stuck her head up from behind a fence, as she eyed the others with a mischievous giggle.

"Keeheehee, nothing like a little prank to liven things up around here!"

The fire mystic then snapped her fingers, conjuring a fiery wisp like the ones she often used to spook people, she directed it over to a cow who was minding it's own business, munching on some grass in it's trough. The cow felt an odd warmth in front of it, and glanced up to see the fiery wisp floating around in front of it. The cow looked to the wisp in confusion, not sure of what it was, until the wisp then let out a horrifying wail.

"MOOO!"

The cow freaked out and started charging off in a hurry, it bashed through a coop of cuccos, who flew out in a large fury, as the cow continued to run through the barn, knocking things over and scaring the other animals.

"Hey, what the bahooty is going on here?!" Togau exclaimed.

"It's Mae," shouted one of the ranch hands, who now had a bucket stuck on her head that fell on her from the cow's rampage "Something's got her spooked!"

"MOOO!" Mae the cow shouted out as she ran through the barn like mad, bashing into things that only made her more startled and aggravated.

"Calm down ya dang bovine! Come on girls, gimmie a hand!" Togau said as she and some of the ranch hands tried to stop Mae but the cow shook and jumped around so much they just flew off her.

Togau in particular went flying into the garden area where she splattered into a puddle of wet mud. She just laid there for a few seconds before looking up to see a pig staring down at her.

"What're ya lookin' at?" she muttered.

The pig just grunted.

"Hang on, I got this!" Link shouted, running up to the upper rafters of the barn, before leaping off and mounting onto the cow, but she started to hop around, kicking her hind legs with shocking strength. Link clung to Mae, trying desperately to calm her down, but the cow then started running circles, making Link become dizzy before she came to a halt, sending Link flying off her back.

Meanwhile during all this Kesuta had fallen backwards to the ground laughing her head off at everything going on, before she saw Link go flying overhead and impact into a barn wall, seconds later falling right into a waste bin.

"Uh, maybe I made a mistake..." Kesuta said worriedly with a sweatdrop going down her head.

Mae continued to run around the barn until she suddenly realized she couldn't move her legs anymore, and saw strange vines that had bound her legs together, the cow squirmed around frantically to break free but to no avail, until she fell over on her side.

"Whew, there." Saria said, holding her Deku Staff, "That should at least hold her for a while, but she still seems too agitated..."

"Don't worry, I got it from here." Togau said, pulling out her fiddle and playing the song of Lon Lon Ranch, the bouncy tune filled the area and put the animals in a state of tranquil bliss. Mae finally stopped squirming and let out a gentle and content moo, indicating to everyone she was fine now.

"Oh wow!" Saria exclaimed with bright wide eyes, "You can play magical music too?"

"Eh... I dunno about it bein' magic or anythin', I think the animals just like hearin' it. I learned it from my cousin Malon." Togau said rubbing the back of her head.

"Either way you two did good work." Link said walking up to the two, covered in some cucco feathers. Along with him was Aviel and Nemisa, who had captured Kesuta and the latter was carrying her over her shoulder.

"Should have figured you were behind this." Nemisa scowled in annoyance to the fire mystic.

"Ah hee hee..." Kesuta tried to laugh innocently, only to sigh in defeat.

"So it was you ya dang mystic?! I why outta-"

Togau cut herself off at that moment saw the mud all over her own body and her hair a mess, becoming self-aware of how she looked, she gripped her arm and looked down a bit embarrassingly, trying not to look at Link directly.

"Hey, you okay there?" Link asked Togau.

"Y-Yeah..." Togau said, looking up and forcing a smile on her face, "Thanks everyone for yer help. I suppose I better go clean off this here mud..."

With that she ran off, leaving both Link and Saria uncertain of what to say.

"Graaah! That dang Kesuta!" Togau said in a huff. She had gone to her room to change out of her mud-covered yellow vest, wash off, then replacing her outfit with one of eleven other yellow vests in her closet, "I outta whip her rear til she can't sit fer a week!"

As she changed into her vest, she realized the way she was talking and get out an annoyed sigh.

"I've been getting' more frustrated then usual lately, what's wrong with me...?"

She took a glance in the mirror, seeing she still had some dirt on her body, her hair was disheveled from the chaos that had happened. In addition, she couldn't help but take a closer look at how her body was rough skinned from all the farm work she did, and a lean figure with no real womanly curves whatsoever.

Her thoughts drifted to the conversation her ranch hands had been talking about before about Link and the idea of having a child with him. She then thought about Nemisa and how beautiful and curvy she was, as well as a great dancer. She also thought about how full figured Kesuta and Korume were as their fused form of Dualsera. Then her mind drifted to Lady Nabooru and Princess Ruto, both royalty and beautiful women, all of whom had captured Link's heart, and even Saria, as small and child-like as she was, was very pretty and cute.

"I... just don't really stand out all that much to Link do I...?" Togau muttered to herself. She took her straw hat and put it back on, taking a moment to adjust the flower in the strap. She remembered the day Link gave her a flower for her hat to help compliment her looks, and she had taken to keeping a flower in her straw hat since then, giving her some more confidence in herself. Her thoughts then wandered to what Link had told her about how pretty she was back at the caravan trip which made her heart skip a beat. But now she wondered if she even had a chance with him at this point, especially with all the beautiful women that he had taken as his future wives.

"Ugh... I need to vent or somethin'..." Togau sighed, she then took a glance over at something that was laying on a chair in her room.

It was a strange headdress she had obtained back at the Wyvern Keepers' hideout in the black market storage. She had decided it didn't have much momentary value and casually left in her room one day, not sure of what to do with it.

"Hmm..." Togau said, lifting up the headdress, looking over the excessively hairy mane and the pointy, curled horns, "I wonder..." She grinned a little as she thought of a mischievous idea, of her popping out from a bush wearing the headdress and scaring Kesuta with it, as a bit of good-natured revenge for what happened back at the barn.

"Na ha ha, what's good fer the goose is good fer the gander!" Togau snickered, as she put the headdress on over her head. She turned to the mirror and adjusted it so the hair went down over her eyes to hide them, "Wow, I look like a barbarian or somethin'!" she took her hand axe from her belt and swung it around to act out the part..

Before she could plot out what to do with her disguise though, it was then Togau felt a strange sensation on her head, like the headdress was tightening on her. She was a little unnerved by it, so she tired pulling the headdress off, but found it stuck to her.

"W-What's goin' on?!" Togau exclaimed, she her head felt like it was stretching out, nd soon the rest of her body started to feel strange as well, her legs were growing weak, and she could feel an odd sensation from her back.

"I... grah... graaaah... GYYAAARR!" Togau screamed as her eyes turned a blank white.

Outside of the rancher Togau's house, Link was walking up with Saria to check in on their friend after what had happened with Kesuta's prank in the barn.

"Poor Togau, I can't believe Kesuta would do something so mean." Saria said annoyed, "Is she always doing stuff like that?!"

"Sometimes, though she's been getting better at holding back." Link said, "I guess old habits can be hard to break. For now though let's see if Togau wants to join us for lunch."

"Okay then!" Saria nodded.

It was then they heard a loud and odd scream coming from the second floor of Togau's house.

"Hey, did you hear that just now?" asked Saria.

"Yeah, it sounded like it was from Togau's bedroom." said Link, "Let's go check!"

The two of them ran into Togau's home, not bothering to knock out of concern for their friend, and ran up the stairs to her bedroom.

"Togau, are you oka-" Link's words were cut off at the shock of what he had seen.

In the middle of Togau's room was a strange sight, it was a creature with the upper body of a human, but with horns curling out of their forehead, and long, wild mane-like hair growing out from behind with strands that went down over it's chest. While it's face was very much that of a human woman, it's eyes and ears were cat-like, and it had pointy fangs lining it's mouth. The creature was lean with some slight muscle, and it's hands had sharp claws at the end. The lower half of the creature though was more like that of a horse, with powerful looking legs with hoofs at the bottom, and a tail sticking out in back.

The creature seemed to be trembling and shaking, looking down at themself. It slowly turned to Link and Saria and tried to speak, but couldn't say anything.

"What.. the heck..." Link asked, he took one close look at the face of the creature, mainly her human characteristics, and realized who it was.

"Togau?!"

And that ends the chapter. I think one of my favorite things in this chapter was doing callbacks to some of the earliest chapters when I introduced Togau. Feels like sometimes I try a little TOO hard to establish continuity in this series, but considering how long it takes me to write these chapters I feel it's important to remind readers of past events.

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