Legend of Zelda A Hero Reawakens

Healed&Trapped,Cap of the Minish People

Ch.5

The Cap of The Minish People

By: Cutegirlmayra(Please, please review and tell me what you think or give me advice concerning this story.)

As Link and Zelda headed back for Camp, Link kept his hat over his face, pulling it down and trying to figure out how the events of today lead to that result. He couldn't really look at Zelda, she was.. different, and he didn't know how to respond to it.

"My Link, your being so quiet. Is something wrong..?" Zelda leaned a little against Epona, smugly and charmingly speaking. She was obviously trying to get a good look at Link's face, but also seemed to be craving his attention.

"...N-Nothings wrong... were you.." he cleared his throat, this was childish! He tugged his hat back up and straightened it out. "Were you hurt during the fall? You seem fine but.." 'Only on the outside..' he thought to himself. He was holding Epona's reins in his left hand and was guiding her through the jungle, being the gentlemen and allowing Zelda to ride on her.

"Ohhh... someone's awfully concerned." She giggled, moving herself to fully show off her figure on the horse. "Will I have to award the gallant hero again for his loving concern..?" she was almost cooing her words out, sounding like a flirty village girl at the Milk Bar. Particularly the ones Link tried to avoid... he never did understand why they acted the way they did, but Malon had informed him that it wasn't for the right reasons. She described them as sirens looking for Sailors to lure into their untimely ends. "Link? Your awfully silent." she was completely laying across Epona's neck now, gently stroking her hair, making Epona twitch her head a lot. She didn't like the excessive touching.

"Your just.. Different.." he said quietly, not looking at her. Though, it was tempting, he knew it was inappropriate for him to be looking at her. She probably didn't know what she looked or sounded like anyway. Innocently guilty, as Link thought it to be.

She leaned up on the horse, seeming cutely offended, "Are you saying I'm acting like I hit my head or something? Just cause I gave you a hero's treat?" she lifted her hand as if to flip her hair back, but instead she slowly moved her fingers through it, tilting her head slightly and looking at Link from an angle.

"N-No.. but.. you never offered this.. reward before." he kept his eyes fixated on the path, but he took glimpses every so often. Only to make sure she was still on Epona that is...

Epona whacked Link in the head, as if telling him to quit it and get this girl off her back. Link just stroked her head to try and calm her but she was getting more irritated by the second. "Well, is the reward.. Not adequate for the hero of time?" she turned her head as if saddened by this, then looked back at him with half closed eyes. "Should I do something more next time?"

"Please stop, your agitating Epona." he finally said, but in reality he was getting creeped out by her. This wasn't the Zelda he knew.. something was wrong here. Zelda looked at him as he stopped Epona and moved in front of her, trying to keep her from bucking which he knew was about to happen. She seemed to be upset and suddenly fell off Epona with a, "Ah!" that seemed to be completely faked.

"Are you okay?" he quickly ran over to her, she smiled and nodded, but that was the last straw for Epona. She reared up and started to pound the ground loudly and fiercely. "Epona! Whoa, girl!" he quickly went to her. On the ground, Zelda had just barely touched a dagger's hilt, hidden under her back vest. When he moved away, however, she quickly let it go and waited for Link to redirect his attention to her again.

'..Link... Please... Run away.. get away from me...'

Within the fake Zelda's body, Navi cried under the restraints of multiple dark, sticky webs of some kind. They held her in place as her glow flickered, she cried when her accursed body had reached for the dagger, but thankful to Epona's outburst that he had been spared.