Gerudo Forest

Gerudo Forest Chapter 16

"Turn around. Go Back!" Ganon tried to order her but Melissa had no intentions of doing so.  

She had seen the massacre that was taking place. The Gerudos that weren't killed were being rounded up into cages just as all the horses, somehow including Trinexx, was being rounded up. She didn't know what they would do with them but she had a feeling it wasn't anything good. If she went back she risked all of them being caught.  

"If we go back we can't help them later. We will be in the same situation as they are." Melissa tried to explain to him. " At least we know who the great evil is." She thought to him to which he didn't respond. 

Melissa ran till her legs cramped up. She could feel what little strength she had left fading. She spotted a cave hidden in the side of a rock and decided to stop there. They could hide there till she regained her energy. Chara and Ganon slid down her back and she could already feel the changes reversing. Once human again she collapsed to the ground. She was so tired. She didn't even have time to worry about clothes. Her eyes felt heavy and she faintly remembered the feeling of something being wrapped around her.  

She woke the next morning wrapped in his arms and cape. He must have picked it up before they had left. She could see the sun shining through the mouth of the cave. It muted the light the Triforce gave off. She could hear his heart beating in her ear that was laying across his chest.  

"So He did have a heart." she thought to herself looking up at him.  

He was still asleep. He had evidently cleaned the blood off of him last night. He really didn't look all that bad when he was sleeping. As she studied his face he opened his eyes looking down at her softly. Melissa looked away quickly.  

"Morning." she said trying not to turn red from being caught watching him sleep.  

He stretched and yawned releasing her. She took that opportunity to grab a pair of clothes from the bag. It was covered in trinkets that she had no need of.  

"Honestly? Who picked these out?" She asked with a little laugh. "I'm not really a fancy kind of person." 

Ganon looked down. So he had been trying to impress her.  

"Hand me your dagger please?" She asked him.  

"Don't cut them up!" He said outraged.  

"Well if I wear them as they are it will attract too much attention." She tried to convince him.  

He thought about it then begrudgingly handed over the blade. She made it as plain as she could. She handed the dagger back then walked behind a rock. Once dressed she came back out handing him his cape. She placed the trinkets in the bag. They might need them later to barter with. Chara came in from the outside. She had been scouting out where they were and to everyone's surprise Melissa had brought them fairly close to Gerudo Valley.  

"I counted 30 soldiers. They have some of our people locked in the barracks." Chara said reporting what she had seen. "We haven't been gone but a few months but already they have moved civilians in." She said angrily. "The horses are tied up in the old archery range. Some of the horses still have the equipment packed on them." She said eagerly.  

Melissa could see the cogs in Ganon's mind turning. "Here is what we will do. I will free whoever is in the barracks while you two get the horses."  

It was a simple plan and it might work if Melissa could be stealthy enough. She knew Chara had the skills of a ninja but Melissa hadn't grown up a Gerudo. She would do her best though. As the three of them snuck into the village Melissa realized that Ganon and Chara were the only ones who stuck out. With Melissa's ears covered no one gave her a second glance. Maybe this would be possible. Ganon and Chara stuck to the shadows so as not to be seen. When they reached a low flat building they split up. Ganon looked back at Melissa pointing for her to follow Chara before disappearing inside.