Hello folks! Chapter 135 is here! This week, as Link and his friends continue their stay at Lon Lon Ranch, they wake up to some urgent news about Malon. How will they get her out of this mess?
"Neeeeeiiiiigh! Neeeeiiggh!"
"Huh? What is it Epona...?"
Due to Lieutenant Ernoldus taking up residence in the Lon Lon Ranch estate, Link and Nabooru had instead taken to sleeping at the silo that night. They had already gotten in a few hours of sleep in before Epona burst into the place neighing out loudly about something.
"Neeeiiigh!" Epona shouted out.
"Not interested. Tell me in the morning... preferably late morning." Link muttered,
Epona ignored what Link said continued to shout out, "Neeeighh! Neeeig-!"
But the horse was cut off by Nabooru shoving an apple in her mouth before going back to sleep. Epona scowled and spit out the apple, before using the reins Malon tied to her earlier in order to lasso up the two and drag them out of the silo.
"Wha- hey!" Link squirmed around as they were taken outside, "What's your problem Epona?"
Nabooru's narrowed her drowsy eyes, "You better have a really good explanation for what you're doing, horse. You are aware of how many uses there are for glue, right...?"
Epona disregarded her threat and dragged them both to the center of the horse corral, where she gestured to the very spot where Malon had been captured by the strange ball of light. The horse jumped up and down, snorting out while neighing.
"What's she talking about?" Nabooru asked.
"Dunno..." Link said rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, "If you need to use the bathroom Epona, than go ahead. The other horses do it here just fine."
Epona rolled her eyes and charged off to the ranch house. Seconds later she came running back carrying a still-sleeping Togau by her shorts using her teeth. She plopped Togau on the ground which caused her to snap awake.
"Gah! I'm up! I'm up!" Togau said, she scratched her head and looked around, "Ugh, where'd the sun go?" she turned to see Link and Nabooru both tied up in Epona's reins, "What happened to you two, get stuck in the middle of somethin' kinky?"
"Not tonigh- I mean...!" Nabooru corrected herself, "What the hell's going on here Epona?!"
"Neeeigh nieeegh!"
"Hang on, I got this." Togau said, carefully listening to every neigh Epona get out, until her eyes widened in shock, "YOU GOTTA BE KIDDIN' ME!"
"What happened, what's going on?" Link asked.
"It's Mally..." Togau said with tears developing in her eyes, "She's been kidnapped!"
"Ooooh, how could this happen to Maloooon?!"
Talon as weeping as he held his nightcap. He had been woken up by Link and the others and informed about the situation. Sure enough, when they went up to Malon's bedroom to check in on her, all they found was Meli sleeping soundly in her crib.
"I shoulda listened to her more," sniffled Talon, "She was convinced there was a lot more to the cow thefts than we thought..."
"Don't worry Talon-bro, we're gonna find Mally no matter what!" Togau assured him.
"That's right!" Link said with determination in his eyes, "I'm going to head out to Hyrule Field and go searching for her right now!"
"Wait a second Link." Nabooru said grabbing his shoulder, "You know more than anyone that Hyrule Field's a big place, just going between Gerudo Valley and Hyrule Castle takes a day's time. You could be searching for days, even weeks."
"Ugh, yeah... you're right." Link sighed, "Sorry, I'm just really concerned for her, especially after last night when she-"
"She what?" Aviel asked curiously.
Link's eyes widened, realizing what he was about to blurt out in front of Malon's father about how she had kissed him last night, and he blushed a little, "Ah, n-nothing. Nothing at all!"
"Maybe we can ask the knights to help us?" Halei asked.
"No." Nabooru narrowed her eyes, "You recall what Lieutenant Ernoldus said about Lon Lon Ranch being closed off until tomorrow, right? If they find out she's missing, they could easily connect her to the disappearance to the cows, and use that as an excuse to get the collateral they're after."
"So Mally'll be in hot water even if what happened wasn't her fault." Togau frowned.
Nabooru nodded, "Right, we'll need to be discrete about this. She may look like a Hylian, but she is a Gerudo by blood, and one of our greatest rules is to never turn our backs on our sisters. We vow to find her no matter what, Mr. Lon!"
"T-Thank you kindly Ms. Lady Nabooru..." sniffled Talon.
"Greetings workers, is everything in order around here?" Lieutenant Ernoldus of the Hylian army spoke out as he walked proudly around Lon Lon Ranch the next morning.
The ranchers all looked to the man in annoyed silence, before going back to their work. The lieutenant seemed to not even notice, as he continued to go around inspecting the area alongside two knights working as his bodyguards.
"Looks like they put in some real effort around here." spoke one knight, "Makes me wonder what's going on with their cows, what do you think is stealing them?"
"That's of no concern to us." Ernoldus spoke, "All that matters is their evaluation tomorrow, and if they can't meet their quota, we'll start procuring their horses. As simple as that."
Ernoldus looked to see the horses galloping around, jumping over barriers and racing each other.
"Captain Andreas insisted that we bring back as many of the highest quality steeds as we can within the terms of the contract. He feels the tides of war may be upon us, depending on how things go with the Gerudo meeting."
"It disturbs me that they've already decided the meeting has a chance of ending that badly." said the other knight, "Those Gerudo we met yesterday don't seem all that bad to me."
"Yeah, though there's also that king of theirs." said the other knight with a shiver, "Have you heard the rumors of-"
"No need to go talking about that!" Ernoldus said, "Keep it hush-hush. Now let's go inspect the-"
"Here girls, a little something extra for you!" said a cheery voice, catching Ernoldus' attention. He turned to see a short, rotund woman in a blue dress tossing out feed to the cuccos all around her. One of the cuccos looked up at her with admirable eyes.
"Oh, it's that lady from yesterday..." Ernoldus said, he watched carefully as Imra tossed more feed out to some baby cucco chicks. They started hopping and peeping around her and she giggled in response.
"You're all so cute, cluck-cluck! You know, as much as I loathe being human, it's nice to have the opposable thumbs to feed you all!" Imra smiled. She then turned and leaned down to use a water pump to give the cuccos something to drink, and the Hylian Lieutenant took notice of her rear end in particular.
"My-my, she's quite fascinating... " Ernoldus grinned, he strolled up to Imra and ran a hand through his hair, "Greetings fair maiden, has anyone told you that your kindness to animals shines like the golden power of the goddesses? It's practically binding to witness!"
"Uh. who are you again, cluck-cluck?" Imra asked, causing Ernoldus to fault over backwards.
He quickly got that up and ran his hair through his head again, "I've been looking for a kind maid to look after the cucco in my estate. How would you like the opportunity to leave this ranch and live a much more luxurious lifestyle...?"
"Hey Lieutenant?" whispered a nearby knight, "Forgive me for speaking out of line, but didn't your wife already punish you the last time you-"
The knight's words were cut off by Ernoldus discreetly stomping on his foot from behind.
Imra raised an eyebrow "I think I'll pass, cluck-cluck. I only go where my Master Togau goes." she stuck her nose up and waddled off on her way.
"Togau...?" Ernoldus spoke, raising an eyebrow, "Where have I heard that name before?"
"I believe it was in the documents we were given by the head of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, Marquess Haralden." said one knight, "Togau is the name of the daughter of a Gerudo named Tusimu, and the younger sister of the ranch owner's late wife, Murin."
"Both she and the owner's daughter Malon were deported to Gerudo Valley ten years ago. In fact Marquess Haralden himself supervised the deportation of Malon." said the other knight.
"Is that so...?" Ernoldus said scratching his chin.
"Alright, now that were all awake and gathered here we can start the meeting."
"MoooOOOooo!"
"Did we have to hold the meeting here?" Nemisa asked, waving her hand to drive a cow back, "I would had preferred the horse stable."
Nabooru had gathered Link, Togau, Epona, Aviel, Nemisa and Saria in the cow stable to discuss the situation without risking getting the attention of the Hylian Lieutenant Ernoldus or his knights. Most of the others had been tasked to stick to the farm chores to keep up a good front for them, while Sarami was busy watching over Malon's daughter Meli.
"Sorry, we needed a place where that stuff-shirt Lieutenant Ernoldus isn't going to bother going." Nabooru said, "I'm certain he's already decided the milk production situation is a lost cause."
"That rotten scumbag..." Togau spoke with a Lynel-like growl.
"Don't worry. I'm sure he'll get his soon enough." Nabooru said, "Now Epona, can you tell us exactly what you saw?"
With Togau's help, Epona was able to tell them all of what she had witnessed last night, all the way to Malon being carried away by a strange ball of light with the cow.
"Poor Ms. Melon!" Aviel gasped out, "Do you have any idea where she was taken, Elona?"
"Can you at least try to remember everyone's names?!" Nemisa asked sweatdropping.
"Not a clue!" Epona said, "The weird ball thing gave off a really bright flash, and I couldn't see which way it went!" she hung her head down, "Ooooooh... Ms. Malon only got caught by that thing because she was trying to help me escape from the knights..."
"Oooh, what in tarnation we gonna do?" Togau asked desperately, "I'm real worried about Mally!"
"Strange though... what ball of light could steal a whole cow and person away...?" Saria pondered.
"...a ball of light. Weird, this is starring to sound familiar..." Link muttered, worried about Malon himself. It was then though he recalled two particular girls he knew of who resembled Malon in so many ways, and it suddenly dawned on him, "Wait... ball of light, disappearing cows... that's it! I've been in a situation like this before!"
"Do tell Link." Nabooru said.
"Hmm... so just to recap, back when you were adventuring in Termina, you came across a ranch where a young girl asked for your help in protecting their cows from strange creatures that were stealing them... and these creatures seemed to travel using a ball of light?" Nabooru asked Link after he told his story.
"That's right. It's uncanny how similar it is to what's going on here." Link said, "Then again I've seen more than my fair share of people and things in Termina that remind me of Hyrule."
"S-So what did these things look like...?" Aviel asked nervously, "Don't tell me they had glowing eyes, large fish gills, monkey arms and wearing frilly aprons?" referring to what Old Man Jalolf told her.
Nemisa rolled her eyes, "Come on Aviel, that was just a crazy old man's ramblings, there's no way that was-"
"-exactly what they looked like!" Link said in shock, casing Nemisa to fault over backwards.
"You can't be serious..." Nemisa groaned.
"Considering Link's story and what the old man said have so many similarities, I find it far more than mere coincidence." Nabooru said, "It all points to Malon being abducted by these 'invaders' like that of what Link encountered in Termina."
"So what're we gonna do?" Togau asked desperately, "Mally's in danger!"
"If we could just get a chance to see the ball of light for ourselves, we can follow it to the cows and Malon." Link said.
"Yes... and I think I have the right plan to do it." Nabooru said with a smirk, "We just need a little bait to lure them out."
"I dunno, I don't like the idea of puttin' another one of the cows through that..." Togau said.
But then Nabooru slapped her hand down on the girl's shoulder. Togau looked to her leader who had a mischievous look in her eyes.
"Why Togau, whoever said we were going to use one of the cows...?" Nabooru smirked..
"Uh oh."
"Mooooo... Moooooooo..."
"You're not doing it right, put a little more tongue into it!"
"Are you sure this is gonna work Lady Nabooru?" Togau called out as she stood in the center of the corral later that night after most of the residents had turned in.
Togau was currently in her Lynel form, though the horse half of her body was covered in white paint with black spots all over it. On her head was a crudely stitched together hood that was made to resemble a cow's head, with button eyes and fake horns. She had a cowbell hung around her neck that rung every time she moved, as well as a large hot water bottle tied to her underside to look like an udder.
"It will if you stop speaking like a human, now moo like a cow!" Nabooru called out.
"Come on Togau, do it for Marin!" Aviel said.
"Right right..." Togau sighed, "MooooOOOOoooo. MooooOOOOoo."
With Nabooru was Link, Aviel, Nemisa, Epona and even the wild horse Thunder was there, all hiding in the bushes as they carefully watched Togau pretend to be a cow.
"I get your plan Lady Nabooru, but I'm worried about Togau's safety." Nemisa frowned.
"That's why Epona and Thunder are with us." Link said, "We'll move when the ball of light takes her."
Epona and Thunder both nodded in agreement, while the two horses had their share of differences, they could agree that they needed to save the kind Malon that treated them so well.
"Ugh, what's that smell coming from you Aviel?" Nemisa asked holding her nose.
"Oh it must be the banana that nice old man gave me." Aviel said, pulling it out and showing how ripened it had become, it was already getting very brown and squishy in the peel.
"Get rid of that already!" Nemisa exclaimed.
"No way, he said to hang onto it!" Aviel said putting it away, "Those invaders could be coming any-"
"Wait, look!" Link interrupted.
The group saw the ground brighten up a little, and they all looked up to see a mysterious ball of light float down overhead. It flew over the land, seeming to be searching around caustiously.
There was a rancher guard walking along the path some distance away, but the light quickly flew over him. Before the rancher could even react, the light released a bright flash, and the man stood there stupefied for a moment before falling to the ground asleep.
"Now we know why the ranchers haven't seen anything." Nabooru whispered, "Stay low everyone."
Togau gulped as she saw the light approach her. She made chewing motions with her mouth and mooed out. The light paused for a moment, before it beamed down on Togau brightly, and she suddenly realized she was levitating into the air.
"MoooOOOO! MoooOOO!" Togau exclaimed, wiggling her Lynel legs around. The ball of light enveloped Togau inside before it flew upwards and out of the ranch land.
"Aviel, it's your cue!" Nabooru said.
"Gotcha!" Aviel saluted, spreading her Roc's Wings and flying off into the night sky. She flapped her wings as she spotted the ball of light go flying across Hyrule Field. She pulled on her vision enhancing goggles and watched the ball carefully, "Okay, I see where it's going!"
"Togau, please stay safe." Link whispered. He boarded onto the back of Epona while Nabooru and Nemisa jumped onto Thunder's back.
"Okay, let's ride!" Nabooru shouted, clicking her heels into Thunder's sides, "HEEYAH!"
"Ready Epona?" Link asked, only for the horse to cringe a bit as a strange weight suddenly got on the horse, "Huh? What the matt-"
"What's going on here, cluck-cluck?!" the former cucco Imra shouted out, having boarded Epona herself, she grabbed Link by his ears and started yanking on them, "I come out to check on Master Togau and see her get captured by something! What did you do?!"
"Gack! Let go of me!" Link shouted, "It's okay, we're going to get her back! Now get off!"
"No! I'm going with you! I'm not going to let you screw up and get Master Togau get hurt, cluck-cluck!" Imra shouted back.
"Ugh, alright fine." Link sighed, "Come on Epona, I know she adds a lot of weight, but let's go!"
"Hey!"
Epona nodded and neighed out, following after Thunder as they both darted off out of the ranch. Despite the tents of the knights at the entrance, they quickly galloped by and out into the field without alerting them.
Unknown to Link and the others though, a mysterious figure rode out from the ranch as well on a dark brown horse, following after them. The person had a pitchfork strapped to their back.
"Kwaah... can't believe their little plan worked." Ingo spoke with an angry scowl.
The lankly man paused as he thought about a brief memory, a small child in Hyrule Market Town shivering on a cold night, when he saw a bright light, and his eyes widened...
Ingo narrowed his eyes as he whipped the reins he held, causing his horse to gain speed and follow Link and Nabooru discreetly.
"I'll do whatever it takes... I won't let those damned Gerudo find out about any of 'em!"
Meanwhile in the Lon Lon Ranch home, Sarami was in Maon's bedroom watching over Meli. The doctor had plenty of experience looking after the babies of her people, so she took to Meli rather easily. But as the night carried on, she was starting to tire out. Even Chupil her pet ChuChu was already sleeping by her feet
"Waaaahh!" cried out Meli as she was being held by Sarami.
"Oh don't cry little Meli! Your mother will be back soon!" Sarami said, rocking the baby and trying to comfort her.
"Sarami?" spoke up a voice, it was Saria walking in with a glass of water, "I was just coming up to check in on you two. Here, have a drink."
"Oh thank you Saria." Sarami smiled softly, taking a drink, "I've been looking after Meli all day so the Lieutenant wouldn't see her, but I'm starting..." she yawned out, "...starting to get a little tired."
"Why don't you let me take over then?" Saria said sitting down at a chair, "You use Malon's bed and get to sleep. You've earned it."
"Yes, maybe you're right..." Sarami nodded, "Thank you Saria, I can rest easy knowing you'll be looking over her now. If she's hungry there's still some milk in that ice box."
Sarami handed Meli over to Saria and went off to settle into bed. It didn't take long after that until the doctor passed out into a deep sleep.
"Sleep tight Sarami." Saria smiled, only to be startled when Meli started crying out again, "Oh no, Meli please! Sarami's trying to rest, and that Ernoldus jerk has been snooping around! If he hears you it's going to raise some awkward questions!"
Despite Saria's pleas, the baby still continued to cry. The adult Kokiri looked around frantically for something that could help the baby relax.
"Maybe you're hungry?" Saria asked, she grabbed a baby bottle form the ice box as Sarami mentioned before, which still had plenty of Malon's breast milk stocked in it. She held it over a candle to warm it up for Meli, and offered it to her, but the baby refused to eat and kept crying.
"Oh poor thing..." Saria whispered, putting a hand to her cheek, "You really miss your mother, don't you?"
Meli sniffled and sobbed, which Saria took as a definite 'yes'. The Kokiri contemplated just what she could possibly do to help her relax. She then looked down at the bottle on the table. She thought to herself for the longest time, before nodding.
"Here, I know it's not what you're used to, but..." Saria shyly pulled the straps of her apron off her shoulders and undid the back button on her dress. She wiggled her free arm out of it's sleeve and exposed her right breast, holding the tip of it up to Meli.
Never having been pregnant, Saria didn't have any actual milk to produce for the young baby, but she hoped maybe something as simple as this would be enough to help Meli calm down.
For a moment nothing happened, but then Saria gasped out lightly as she felt a pulling sensation, as Meli was starting to naturally suckle on her breast.
"O-Oh my..." Saria whispered. It seemed her idea worked, just the familiar sensation of feeding like this reminded Meli of her mother, and she was calming down greatly
The green-haired woman closed her eyes and held Meli close. It was such a peculiar and somewhat ticklish sensation, but as time went on she started to enjoy the feeling more. Saria closed her eyes and found herself imaging having children together with Link, and using the large breasts she had been blessed with all of a sudden to nurse them and help them grow...
As she held Meli, Saria opened one eye to see her still faux nursing, and the Kokiri woman started to hum a little tune that she learned from Link and Togau, the song of Lon Lon Ranch,
"Hmhm-hmmm...hmhm-hmmm... hmhm-hm hmhm..."
Out in Hyrule Field; Link, Nabooru, Nemisa, Imra, Epona and Thunder tailed after Aviel who was flying after the ball of light. They had to be careful to keep enough of a distance so as not to alert the invaders.
"Keeping up alright you two?" Nabooru called out to Link and Imra.
"No problem, let's hustle Epona!" Link shouted, as Epona neighed and shot forward to stay alongside Thunder.
"Brraawwwkaaahh! Slow down you idiot!" Imra shouted in a panic, squeezing Link around the waist so hard she was practically breaking his back.
As Aviel flew after the ball of light, she saw it start to float downwards towards a small rock formation. It seemed to hover for a second, before flying right into a narrow gap between the rocks.
"Hey guys, it just went in there!" Aviel called out to the others.
"Don't worry Togau and Malon, we're coming!" Link said, snapping his reins and making Epona gain speed, much to Imra's anxiety.
Soon they arrived at the rocks and hopped off the horses, except for Imra who just lost her balance and fell face-first into the dirt. Aviel flew down and landed beside them.
"Hm, this passage looks like it goes down underground." Nabooru observed, "I was wondering how they were hiding all the cows out here without being seen." she looked in a little closer, "The passage is pretty small as well, these invader creatures must have some sort of power to condense the size of their captives. We're definitely not going to be able to get Epona or Thunder in here."
"No problem," Link nodded, "The four of us should be enough."
But before they could enter the rock formation, Imra stepped out in front of them with her arms out.
"Hold on... just a minute... cluck-cluck! I'm going in there... and saving... Master Togau myself!" the cucco shouted, though still gasping for breath after what she went through with Epona's speed.
"I don't think you can even fit in through there." Nemisa pointed out.
"Nonsense! I can fit just fine!" Imra tried to wedge herself in the gap of the rock formation, but her 'robust' size made it difficult, "J-Just... fine! I can get through quite easily and... and..."
She was grabbed by the arm though and pulled out in one yank by Nabooru, "Nice attempt, but we'll handle it."
"Yeah, just let us enter before you get stuck and block off the path." Link said sweatdropping.
"Who asked you, you fool?" Imra shouted at Link stamping her foot in a fit, "You let Master Togau get abducted by those invaders! You said you would protect her, cluck-cluck! How she can bring herself to love an incompetent cucco-fearing coward like you, I'll never understa-"
"Imra..." Link interrupted her with his hand raised up, "Why don't... you just shut your beak, you clucking fat-ass?!"
"W-What'd you just call me?" Imra shouted in shock, before giving him her usual fierce scowl, "Keep that up and you might trigger the wrath of the cuccos, like you did back on your first day at the ranch!"
"You think I care about that right now?" Link fired back, "You and your stupid birds have been a pain in my ass for years now! Yeah, I screwed up big time back when I was a kid, but I'm not going to let you hang it over me forever!"
"Wha...?" Imra gasped out, but Link continued speaking before she could even say anything.
"I don't care what you think of me! Sic your stupid cuccos on me later if you want to, but right now the only thing I care about is Togau and Malon! Now move your fat-ass so I can go take on these invaders and save them both!"
Imra was shocked at Link standing up to her, when he always seemed so passive and weak around her since they met...
Link calmed down and cleared his throat, "Listen, while we're inside the cave, we need you to stay out here and guard Epona and Thunder."
"B-But I'm not a cucco right now," Imra pointed out, "I can't fight with my talons or bea-...!"
Imra suddenly realized what she had just said. She admitted that she was too weak as a human, and couldn't do anything to help Togau as she was now. She stared down at her hands, as tears started to form in her eyes and roll down her chubby cheeks.
Seeing the pitiful look on Imra's face, Link stepped up and put a hand on her shoulder, gazing down at the short, round cucco woman with sympathetic eyes.
"P-Please..." Imra sobbed looking up at Link, "Please save Master Togau, and Ms. Malon too, cluck..."
"Don't worry." Link said giving the cucco woman a comforting hug, "I know how important they are to you as well, and I swear I'll bring them both back."
"Here Imra," Nabooru said, she reached down to her pants, removed a dagger from under them and handed it off to the cucco woman, "We Gerudo all carry these daggers for emergencies, you can use this one to keep an eye on things out here while we're inside.."
Imra stared down at the dagger, clutching it in her hand, before looking up at Link and nodding.
"Okay, I'll stay out here. Just don't screw this up your..." she paused, "...your highness."
"No sweat." Link said with a serious gaze, as he, Nabooru, Aviel and Nemisa all wedged through the small gap and into the cave.
"...good luck." Imra whispered when she was convinced they were out of earshot.
"This is really spooky..." Aviel spoke looking around as the group descended down he dark cave. There was no torches, so they had to relay on Link's fire arrow power to create a small light to keep going.
"Focus on the mission Aviel." Nemisa said, "We're here to save Togau and Malon."
"O-Okay..." Aviel nodded.
But as they contined, Aviel could have sworn she felt something behind her, making her scream out.
"Ghost! It's a ghost!" screamed out Aviel, jumping up and clinging to Nemisa's head. The others turned behind them, but saw nothing around.
"Would you let go of me already?" Nemisa exclaimed, trying to pry Aviel's arms off her.
But then they could hear a very faint high-pitched noise echo through the cave.
"So... what else do you know about those 'invaders' from Termina, Link?" Nabooru asked as she looked around, "What would they possibly want with the cows?"
"I never learned what they wanted, but I knew they meant business." Link said, "But frankly I don't care what they want, if they so much as hurt Togau or Malon I'm going to make them pay."
"Sounds good." Nabooru smirked lightly, "Malon means a lot to you, doesn't she?"
"...yeah, she does." Link nodded, recalling the conversation he had with her in her bedroom, "After we save her, I plan to do anything I can to help her with this whole banishment law situation as well."
"Hey, do you all hear that?" Nemisa spoke, putting a hand to her ear..
They could all hear what sounded like some echoed banging noises, along with more of the high-pitched squeaking from just a moment ago.
"I dunno what it is, but it sounds really scary..." Aviel said peeking out from behind Link, "I wish we had a bigger light to see with..."
Just as they stepped out of the tunnel into a wider area, something suddenly lit up the cave.
"Oh that's better! Thank..." Aviel looked up and her eyes widened, "-you?"
"By the Goddess Aifet..." Nemisa gasped out.
They were standing at the entrance of a large room with what looked like giant metal-plated walls. There was tubes with small particle lights flowing through them, and numerous pipes and tubes everywhere seeming to be processing something. Every one of the pipes and tubes ran into a giant wooden vat in the center of the room.
But what was even more strange was numerous creatures floating around the room working with all the equipment. To best describe them, they had large purple heads with fish gill-like shapes, their faces were shadowed aside from a pair of eerie glowing eyes, their bodies waved loosely around as they floated in the air, and they all had long, thin crooked arms with sharp claws at the end.
"What is all this...?" Nabooru whispered as she looked around, "Are we even in Hyrule anymore?"
"Those things look just like the creatures I dealt with back in Termina!" Link spoke.
"So the old man was right...!" Aviel said, now clinging her arms around Link's torso from behind as she peeked out over his shoulder, "They're so creepy!"
"But what work are they doing here exactly...?" Nabooru pondered.
"MoooOOOooooo..."
"Huh? Cows? We got cows!" Aviel said pointing up to a series of long wooden platforms where there was sure enough multiple rows of cows.
They were eating from troughs full of plants that the creatures were filling, and there was also pumps attached over the cows' udders that were connected to all the tubes and pipes in the room. The large vat was dispensing something into buckets from below, and the invaders were taking and pouring out the contents of the buckets into clay jars that they quickly sealed up, before moving on to the next one.
"Well now we have an idea of what the cows were abducted for." Nabooru stated, "Seems these invaders took them for their milk, but for what purpose...?"
"More importantly where is Togau and Malon?" Link asked looking around.
The 'invaders' seemed to be too distracted with their tasks to notice Link and his friends, as they silently crept into the room to begin their search. As they passed under a short bridge, one invader went floating by over them dragging a jar, so they all quickly moved out of sight.
"This is really scary, I wanna find them both so we can get outta here!." Aviel whispered.
"Pssst! Pssssssst! Hey y'all!" they heard a familiar voice call out. They turned to a corner of the room where they saw Togau locked up in some kind of barred jail cell. She was no longer in her Lynel form, and her arms were chained up from behind.
"Togau!" Link said with relief, as they all ran over to greet her, "We're glad to see you!"
"Feelin's mutual Lover-boy!" Togau said with a big smile, "When those invader thingamajigers figured out I wasn't a cow they threw me into here." she struggled with the chains, "And they hogtied me so I couldn't change into my Lynel form!"
"Just give us a moment and we'll get you out of here Togau." Nemisa said, looking the bars of the cell over carefully to find a weak point..
"Don't worry none about me, you gotta help out Mally!" Togau said desperately.
"Where is she, in another cell?" Link asked looking around.
"N-Not exactly..." Togau said with a disturbed expression, as she gestured upwards.
"Aaaaahhh!"
Recognizing the voice, they all looked up at one platform where they sure enough saw Malon. She appeared to be trapped in some kind of stockade jail, leaning over with her head and arms locked in place to keep her from getting away.
"What are they doing to her?" Link exclaimed with bugged out eyes.
The reason being that Malon was completely in the nude, and had some pumps attached over her bare breasts. Malon's face was flushed red and she was gasping out as the pumps seemed to be draining her of her breast milk, and the tubes were adding it to the large vat in the center of the room.
"Aaaah! Ooohhh!" Malon actually moaned out a little as she was being milked by the devices, her body fidgeting around with each pump.
"These things are taking Malon's milk as well?" Nemisa exclaimed with her jaw dropped, "What the hell is going on here?"
"I don't know, but I'm putting an end to this!" Link said coldly, he pulled out his Longshot and fired it at the platform just above Malon. The Longshot pulled him up to the platform where he quickly used his knight's sword to slash through the tubes Malon was attached to, freeing her of the pumping.
After undoing the stockade lock, Malon was finally free. She was clearly woozy with a flushed expression on her face, as she gasped out in exhaustion from what had happened to her.
"Malon, are you okay?" Link asked desperately.
"Oooooh... Hi, my handsome prince... you've come for me..." Malon stammered with spiraling eyes as she fell backwards against her old friend. In her daze, she turned to face Link and pressed her breasts firmly against him, "Come to sweep me off my feet? My hero..."
With that, she leaned forward and gave him a firm kiss on the lips. The eyes of Link, as well as the other girls, all widened in response. Link was admittingly having a hard time holding back his own urges as he held her motherly nude body, but knew it wasn't the time or place.
"We're definitely going to get you out of here!" Link assured her, removing his vest and putting it over her chest so she could at least have some sort of modesty, "We just need to-"
"BWEEEP! BWEEP! BWEEP!"
But then they all heard a loud high-pitched noise, as some of the lights in the room started to flash red. The invaders who had been busy with their work came to a stop and all looked down at Link and Malon with their eerie yellow eyes, seeing someone had broke in and freed one of their captives.
"Uh oh." Link said, lifting Malon up in his arms bridal style and jumping off the platform to land down to the others, "We gotta free Togau and get the hell out of here!"
"Allow me." Nemisa said, taking a deep breath and concentrating. She brought up a leg and kicked the bars of Togau's cell, breaking them apart in a single blow. She went behind Togau and broke the chains off her wrists.
"Much obligated Nemisa!" Togau said, she ran over to check on her niece, "Mally, you okay?"
But Malon just laid back in Link's arms and giggled, "Hee hee... Come my handsome prince! Take me from this castle and... and... we can have... many..."
"She's still out of it." Link rolled his eyes, "Let's get out of here before-"
"Uh, everyone?" Aviel was shaking like a leaf as the invaders floated down staring at the group, their claws were all brought up, looking like they were about to attack.
"Togau, Aviel, do us a favor and keep Malon safe from these things!" Link said, gripping at his sword and shield while Nemisa went into a martial arts poise.
"I don't have my hand ax right now, but I'll do whatever I can!" Togau said, transforming herself into her Lynel form.
"Okay, let em have it!" Nabooru shouted; pulling out her twin scimitars as she, Link and Nemisa all charged into battle against the creatures.
Meanwhile back outside of the cave, Imra was standing guard. She looked down at the dagger Nabooru had given her, she spun in her hand, and threw it into the air before catching it in her other hand.
"Well it's no cucco talon, but it's pretty nice, cluck-cluck." Imra said, she looked over at the cave passage, "I sure hope they're doing okay..."
She wondered why she suddenly felt so much concern for Link, when she should had been eager for him to get beaten up by the creatures instead...
"Could it be... that I trust him?" she turned and spoke to Epona. The horse snorted and nodded to her, leaving her lost in thought.
But then Imra, Epona and Thunder heard the sound of new horse hooves swiftly clomping towards them. They tuned to see a shadowy figure on a dark brown horse; it was the surly farmer Ingo who was looking down at Imra with an angry scowl.
"So this is the place. What that old man told me was right all along!" Ingo said.
"It's you?" Imra spoke, "What do you want?"
"Hmph. Just as I thought, yer not one of our ranchers." Ingo took the pitchfork he had strapped to his back and held it out at Imra, "You with them Gerudo, ain't cha?"
"I'll have you know I'm Master Togau's protector, cluck-cluck!" Imra said with a stuck-up nose, "Now back away, Lady Nabooru and the king are in there to save Master Togau and Ms. Malon!"
"So they know about 'them' then..." Ingo spoke cryptically, "Those dang-blasted desert rats don't know how long I've been waitin' to find this place. It was a pain havin' to release those cows all them nights to try'n figure out where they were comin' from..."
"What? So you were the one releasing the cows?" Imra exclaimed, "How could you? You put Ms. Malon and her father through a lot of trouble doing that, cluck-cluck!"
"Hmph, as if I care." Ingo said, his mustache twitching, "They were never fit to run that ranch to begin with! When the Hylian Parliament takes ownership of the ranch, I'll be lookin' to run it for them, and with me in charge that Minster lady'll never haveta find out about them!"
"Them? Who do you keep talking about?" Imra asked.
"Didn't wana have to do this, but you dang Gerudo're goin' around sticking their noses where you don't belong. Just gotta deal with the lot of you myself!" Ingo said gripping at his pitchfork, and slapped the reins of his horse to charge at the cucco woman with it pointed out.
'I wish I was still a cucco, I could easily take this guy as one...' Imra thought.
She took a step back holding her dagger with both hands nervously, but then Epona and Thunder both stepped out in front of her. The two quickly turned about-face and thrust up their hind-legs, decking Ingo and his horse and sending them both flying backwards to the ground.
"Neeeeiiigh!" Epona stomped her hooves and snorted, she and Thunder both looked to each other and nodded at each other's teamwork.
"Ugh... damn horses..." Ingo groaned, forcing himself up and holding out his pitchfork again, "When I take over the ranch, I'm sendin' the lot of y'all off to serve as warhorses fer the army captain!"
"You're still going to try and fight? You won't stand a chance against the Gerudo with that old tool!" Imra said, "Even the king would make short work of you, cluck-cluck!"
"..." Ingo looked downwards and gasped out a bit, "Don't matter if I succeed or not, I gotta try to do what I can for them... after what they did for me..."
"What...?" Imra spoke, as Ingo charged at her and the two horses with his pitchfork again.
Meanwhile in the depths of the cave, the invaders all attacked Link and his friends for interfering with their milking operation.
Link stepped back as an invader swiped it's sharp claws at him, then he turned to block off another one with his shield. He thrust the shield forward to knock the creature away with little effort, but then two more invaders attacked him from behind, so he blocked them with both his sword and shield before slashing them away with a spin attack.
"They aren't too strong, but there's a lot of them!" Link said, slicing another one down the middle and causing it to collapse into a lifeless pile.
"Heh, it's a bit of shame, I was hoping for more of a challenge!"" Nabooru grinned, swinging her scimitars at four of the invaders and cutting them all to pieces.
"Only you could find enjoyment in something like this." Nemisa sweatdropped as she kicked one invader away.
But then one of the invader's eyes glew brightly as a small ball of light shot out at blinding speed right at Link, bashing him across the back. More of the invader's eyes glew as they fired off more of the small balls of light at them.
"They can shoot energy blasts too?" Link exclaimed, blocking another one off with his shield, "I don't remember them doing that in Termina!"
"!"
Link paused, he could have sworn he heard some more high-pitched noises again, but went right back to fighting off the invaders when they fired more light blasts at him.
Togau and Aviel meanwhile stayed on the defensive to protect Malon. Aviel shot the invaders out of the air using her arrows, while Togau focused on attacking the ones who came right at them with her hand az.
"Ms. Mulligan, are you holding up okay?" Aviel asked Malon.
"Y-Yeah, thanks." Malon said, having regained her senses, though bit confused about who Mulligan was, "Those things had me locked up most of the day in that cell, but when they saw my chest was starting to leak a bit from my milk, they hooked me up to that pump... At first it weren't too bad since they were relievin' the pressure, but then they started feeding me that green stuff they're giving the cows..."
She rubbed at one of her breasts, which both seemed a little more swollen than she remembered. She then blushed at the realization that she was wearing Link's vest, "I... think they were trying to get me to produce more milk for them..."
"Well don't you worry none Mally," Togau said, knocking away a few more invaders with her fists, "I swore I'd do everything I could to protect ya!"
Malon's eyes widened as she stared at Togau fighting off the invaders. She lowered in head down sadly, thinking deeply about something Link had said to her just before she was abducted...
"Are you maybe... jealous of Togau?"
Meanwhile; Link, Nabooru and Nemisa stood before the invader, having made short work of many of their comrades and were still ready for more fighting.
"!" the invaders looked around at their fallen allies, and started speaking to each other with the weird high-pitched voices again, before they all flew off upwards into an opening in the ceiling.
"Heh, looks like they gave up." chuckled Nabooru, "Nice work everyone!"
"Yeah," Link nodded, he looked up at all the cows on the platforms, "Question is though, how are we going to get the cows out of here?"
"S-SKREEEEEEEEE!"
"Um... that wasn't anyone's stomach, was it?" Aviel asked.
Before anyone could answer, out from the opening in the ceiling came down what looked like a much bigger version of the invaders. It started to rise upwards until it was nearly as high as the ceiling itself. The top of the creature opened up to reveal a gaping shadowy hole with three large glowing yellow eyes along both sides of the opening, while in the center was a long vertical mouth with many pointy teeth. The body itself looked like more of a blob-shape as it crawled at them. It also had multiple tendrils with sharp claws at the ends which wiggled around. The giant creature leered down at the group and screeched out loudly, ready for a fight.
"What the hell is that?!" Nemisa exclaimed.
"Looks to be the Invader Queen." Nabooru grinned, "Maybe I'll get that challenge after all!"
"Okay everyone, attack!" Link said as he, Nabooru, Nemisa, Togau and Aviel all charged into battle.
The Invader Queen's clawed tendrils came down at Link, but he dodged and jumped out of the way of each attack before swinging his sword down at the monsters hide, managing to slash the its body open, but was knocked away by one of it's tendrils. He recovered only to see the opening quickly close itself right back up.
"So it can regenerate when injured... interesting." Nabooru pondered.
"I'll take it Lady Nabooru!" Aviel went on the offense and flew high into the air. She armed and fired arrows down at the monster, but while some arrows shot through its body, the monster smacked the others away with it's seemingly infinite amount of tendrils, and it resumed slowly crawling at the group.
"Any other ideas?" Nemisa asked.
"Um..." Aviel landed down and stayed close to Link, trying to think of anything that could help them against this creature. But then she had an idea, recalling what the old man had told her before,
"Here, have this little lady!"
"Uh, what do I use this for?"
"When it happens, you'll know!"
"That's it!" Aviel realized. She reached into her pocket and pulled out the banana Old Man Jalolf had given her three days ago, only now it was completely brown and slimy from ripening too much.
"Here goes nothing!" she shouted as everyone watched her toss the old banana through the air right at the Invader Queen.
The banana hit the body of the creature and plopped down onto the ground, the peel coming open and exposing the overly-ripe fruit inside.
There was a brief pause as everyone stared down at the thrown banana.
The Invader Queen on the other hand, screeched out and continued to creep closer to the group, passing over the banana and engulfing it within it's shapeless blob-like body.
"Oops, I think I didn't use it right." Aviel said sweatdropping.
"What did you think that was going to do?" Nemisa shouted in frustration.
"Everyone, prepare yourselves!" Nabooru shouted with her blades out.
But just as the Invader Queen was about to attack again, it came to a stop. The creature started to shift around a bit, as everyone could hear small high-pitches noises coming from within it...
"Hey... what is that smell?"
"Don't look at me, I didn't do it!"
"Ewwww, it's an old banana!"
"Don't mind it, keep going!"
"No way, it smells really bad!"
"Argh, you're right! Too stinky! Someone open a window!"
"Kyaaaa! We patched up all the holes, there's nowhere for the stench to go!"
"Ick, get rid of it! Get rid of it!"
Link and his friends all stood there blankly as the Invader Queen started to thrash around wildly as they heard tiny little screams. The monster's six eyes disappeared as the tendrils yanked out on it's own body, and there was little bulges in it's body all over.
"Air! Need air!"
Suddenly, the monstrous Invader Queen seemed to tear open it's own body. It collapsed down into a large pile of it's own mass and stopped moving. Everyone just stood blankly at the creature's body laying on the ground.
"I-I don't believe it." Nemsia said sweatdropping.
"What do you know, it actually worked!" Aviel cheered out.
"Hmm... something's not right here." Nabooru spoke, walking up to the creature's remains and pulling away some of the skin.
"Whew, finally! Some air!" gasped out a small voice from inside the 'skin'.
They looked down and saw the Invader Queen's body had many tiny humanoid creatures inside it with glowing bodies and insect-like wings, and they all resembled Saria's guardian partner Faete...
"It was full of fairies?" Link exclaimed.
"Uh oh. Busted." spoke one of the fairies, as her friends started climbing out from the body.
"I thought something was off when I attacked it before," Nabooru said, rubbing the 'monster's' skin between her fingers, "This isn't flesh, it's cloth material!"
Nemisa lifted up and inspected one of the tendrils, "And the claws of this thing are just sheep sheers!"
"So that's why the sheers were disappearing!" Malon gasped.
"Ugh, I guess the jigs up girls..." one of the fairies called out, as more fairies started to emerge out from the remains of the other invaders they struck down. The so-called metal walls of the room raveled upwards to show they were merely giant flat curtains, and were still in the cave they had entered. The tubes with the lights in them also turned out to be more fairies.
"You've got to be kidding me." Link said, he kneeled down and took one fairy by her wings, lifting her up to make eye contact with her, "So you're the ones behind all of this!"
"Uh..." the fairy paused for a moment, before giving him a big, forced smile, "T-Thank you ever so much, brave hero! You've freed all of us from the evil monsters that had eaten us! Your valiant courage shall not go unrewarde-"
But Link just thumped the small fairy in the forehead lightly, making her squeak out.
"Start explaining yourselves for what you did to Togau, Malon and the cows. Now." Link demanded.
"Okay! We'll explain everything!" the fairy exclaimed with a pale face.
"So let's start thing off with the obvious, why did you abduct the cows?" Nabooru spoke as she, Link, Togau, Aviel, Nemisa and Malon stood before a large crowd of tiny fairies who were all kneeling with their heads lowered in apology.
"I swear we didn't mean any harm!" spoke the head of the fairies, "We were just trying to get back what belongs to us!"
"Belongs to you?" Link asked.
"Woah, check out what's in these jars!" Aviel said opening a clay jar up and looking inside, "There's a bunch of pretty rainbow-y dust in here!"
"Hey keep out of that, that's our magic fairy powder!" the fairy said in protest, "We've been extracting it from the milk these cows produce!"
"Extracting magic powder... from milk?" Togau asked.
"Thats right!" the fairy gestured to the large vat, "We built this machine to process the milk from the cows and extract the fairy powder from it!"
"But how come there's fairy powder in the cow milk?" Nemisa asked.
"W-Well you see," the fairy started to explain, "It all happened a long time ago..."
Flashback – About thirty years ago
It was late at night, and dark clouds were starting to form overhead, as small little balls of light flew over Hyrule Field, all of them carrying large clay pots by strings.
"Come on, keep moving!" one fairy at the front said as her comrades struggled to keep the jars in the air, "We have to get all this magic powder to Kokiri Forest quick! There's a rain storm coming!"
"Wait up guys, mine's way too heavy!" one fairy near the back complained as she was stuck carrying one jar by herself.
Around the point where they were close to the center of Hyrule Field, the fairy lost her grip on the jar and it slipped out of her fingers, causing it to fall to the ground.
"Uh oh." The fairy said sweatdropping. She looked down to see while the jar didn't break, the lid had come off and spilled powder out everywhere in one spot.
"Hey, move it or lose it!" called out one of her fellow fairies, the others not seeming to notice she dropped her jar.
"Uh, j-just a sec!" the fairy said, lifting up the jar again and flying off after her team, "Hey, it's way lighter now!"
As the fairies all flew off to Kokiri Forest, the magic powder laid scattered on the ground, just as the rain started to come down, and a strange glow started to emit from the soil...
End flashback
"You're telling us you spilled it?!" Nemisa shouted at the fairies in annoyance.
"Yeah, Ms. Butterfingers over there didn't tell us until we did an inventory check way later and found out we were short a bunch of magic powder!" huffed the lead fairy.
"I said I was sorry..." pouted the guilty one in the back.
"By the time we traced down where she split it, the rain had already caused the powder to be absorbed into the soil, and someone had started to build a ranch on the spot!" the head fairy explained.
"Oh, I think I understand now!" Malon gasped out, "Grass grew from the soil enriched by the magic powder, and when the cows ate that particular patch of grass, they must have produced milk that had magic powder in it!"
"That's right, Sis mentioned once that the land she and Talon-bro picked to build Lon Lon Ranch on had some sorta magical feel to it, that must be where it came from!" Togau realized.
"But if that's the case, why abduct Malon?" Nemisa asked.
"Uh, that was an accident." a fairy said, "We were trying to take another cow but that lady suddenly jumped on it, so we had no choice but to take her too."
"Then why did you hook her up to a milking pump like you did with the cows?" Link asked glaring down at them.
"That lady... well, we were able to sense the milk she was producing through her yaboos there had a bit of magical properties like the cows because of it!" the fairy said, gestering to Malon's chest.
'Her yaboos?' thought the others.
"Ah-heh-heh." Malon laughed sheepishly, stretching her cheek in embarrassment, "I guess I have been drinkin' a lot of Lon Lon Milk lately... and then there was that Chateau Lon Lon from two nights ago..."
"Hmm..." Link thought deeply about that last comment.
"So as you can see, we aren't at fault here!" said one fairy.
"Yeah, we were just trying to take back our property!" said another.
There was a moment of silence, then seconds later the fairies were all laying on the ground in a daze with multiple bumps on their tiny heads, caused by Link, Togau and Nemisa.
"You little jerks put Malon and her Pa through way too much!" Togau shouted.
"Argh, we're sorry..." the fairies corrected themselves.
"So then why all the theater with these disguises?" Nemisa asked, lifting up the remains of an invader costume.
"Oh that? We used those to scare off anyone who tries to get too close to our work." said one fairy, "And if they don't get scared off, we would just use our magic to mind-wipe their memories of us!"
"We were gonna do the same to the red head lady right there after we extracted enough milk from her, but then you guys showed up." said one fairy.
"I see..." Link muttered. He thought to himself, 'I wonder... could the invaders I fought back at that Termina ranch had been fairies in disguise as well...?'
"So now the final question is, what are you going to do to repay the Lons for all of this mess?" Nabooru asked crossly, "You may think you were taking back what you lost, but you caused them a lot of trouble in process, and let's not forget what you did to Malon here."
"Lady Nabooru, it's not that big a deal!" Malon said, "You don't have to-"
"N-No, we understand what we've done..." the head fairy said bowing, "We'll do whatever we can to atone for this."
"Good, because I might have a few ideas of something beneficial to everyone..." Nabooru said with a knowing smirk.
Shortly after that, Link and the group arrived back outside at Hyrule Field, where Malon was almost immediately greeted by Epona and Thunder eagerly nuzzling against her.
"Aw, you sweet things! Don't worry, I'm okay now!" Malon giggled.
"Master Togau!" screamed out Imra, running forward and hugging her owner tightly, "I'm so glad you're okay, cluck-cluck!"
"Aw, I'm just fine! Thanks a bunch fer keepin' an eye on things up here Imra!" Togau grinned.
"You really saved her, Your Highness," Imra turned to Link, "You kept your promise..."
"Hey, I said I would, right?" Link sported a goofy grin.
"Y-Yeah... you did..." Imra said looking downwards with a small smile.
"Hey, what's this old mongrel doing here?" Nemisa asked as she and Aviel were looking down at Ingo, who was sitting on his rear covered in bumps and bruises, and tied up in horse reins. Aviel was kneeled over poking at him with a stick.
"Mr. Ingo, what are you doing out here?!" Malon asked in surprise.
"..." Ingo sat there and didn't say a word.
"Well as it turns out, this man is the one who was letting the cows get abducted at night, cluck-cluck." Imra said with a scowl at the man.
"What? How dare you!" Malon shouted, "How could you put my Dad through that after what he and Mom did for you?!"
"What'd you do, you dirty Gerudo..." muttered Ingo coldly, not even seeming to give Malon any sort of response, "What the HELL did you do to them?!"
"Do to who?" Aviel asked, poking her stick at Ingo's mustache.
"The fairies, dang nabbit!" Ingo shouted at Aviel, "I swear if you hurt any of them I'll-!"
"Wait, you knew they were fairies all this time?" Nemisa asked.
"Of course I did!" shouted Ingo, "I've been trying to keep an eye on them! When I found out you Gerudo were investigatin'; the cow disappearances, I tried to stop you but...!" he hung his head own and scowled, "I couldn't do a dang thing to stop you..."
"Huh, I don't know what you're so worried about." Link pointed upwards, "The fairies are just fine."
"What...?" Ingo looked up with wide eyes at the sky.
Emerging out from the cave was numerous balls of light that flew high into the sky, resembling the ones Ingo saw abduct the cows each time he led one out. He could swear he heard some high-pitched voices, along with some cows mooing as the light balls all flew off towards Lon Lon Ranch.
"Cor... it's them...!" Ingo gasped out with his jaw dropped, "What's goin' on?"
"They're bringing the cows back to the ranch. We decided to cut them a deal in exchange for all the trouble they caused. Though Talon is going to have to speak to them in person himself." Nabooru said, she sported a scowl at Ingo, "But speaking of which, I think you're going to have a lot of explaining to do to him about what you yourself did, Mr. Ingo."
"..." Ingo said nothing as Nemisa grabbed the man by the horse reins he was tied up with and unceremoniously threw him onto the back of his own horse. She climbed up onto it's back so she could ride on it.
Nabooru and Aviel both climbed up onto Thunder to get back to the ramch, while Togau turned herself into a Lynel again so Imra could get a ride back.
Link meanwhile climbed up onto Epona's back, he looked down to Malon and held out his hand.
"Come on Malon, let's go home." Link smiled warmly.
"...o-okay Link!" Malon said, taking his hand and allowing him to pull her up so she was sitting in front of him. She blushed a little at the feeling of leaning against him.
And with that, they all rode off, following the fairies flying overhead as they headed back to Lon Lon Ranch.
As Ingo was hanging off of his horse, he looked over to Nabooru riding Thunder and spoke up to her,
"Listen Lady Gerudo, there's..." he looked away with a pause, "...somethin' you outta know that I overheard about them knights that're campin' out there."
"Oh? I'm listening..." Nabooru said.
And the ends this week's chapter. Next time we wrap up the Lon Lon Ranch arc, some revelations are made, and Malon has to make an important decision...
I think my favorite parts of this chapter had to be dressing Togau up as a cow, and how Aviel managed to subdue the 'invaders' using that banana... I don't know what compelled me to do that to resolve the conflict, buuut I got no regrets over it!
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