Gerudo Forest

Chapter 38

She woke to whispers. She almost hadn't heard them and drifted back to sleep snug against Ganon. She heard a twig snap and sat up alert in an instant. She could barely see over his arms  

"Quiet. Do you want to wake it and ruin the trap?" She heard a voice whisper somewhere in the trees.  

" I didn't mean to." Another voice replied.  

Melissa nudged Ganon and he stirred lazily unknowing of the hunters around them.  

"Crap it's awake!" A voice hissed.  

That got Ganon's attention. He got to his feet pulling her up with him and then nudging her to get to Trinexx who had wandered to the pool.  

"What do we do?!?" another voice asked.  

"These hunters must not be the brightest." she thought.  

She didn't even think they had saw her yet.  

"Charge!" One yelled running out of his cover sword drawn only stopping when he saw her staring him down. 

His friends hadn't had the courage to follow him though. 

"There's a girl here!" He shouted shocked back to his mates who had yet to join him. The giant boar somehow forgotten. 

"What are you talking about?" Another man said coming out with a bow pointed at Ganon's head followed by a boy with a sling shot. 

They seemed like a raggle taggle group.  

"I see her Da. Right in front of the beast." The boy said pointing at her.  

The man with the bow looked surprised but then squinted his eyes. 

"I recognize you from somewhere." He said now pointing the bow at her. "Your the girl in the posters as well."  

"She must be some sort of witch to be traveling with a monster like that!" The dumb one with the sword said looking her up and down.  

Melissa had never been called a witch before and didn't know if she liked they way they were eying her. She guessed Ganon didn't either because he let out a roar causing them to scatter. He nudged her again to get her moving.  

Running to the horse, she should have tied up, she felt so irresponsible. Ganon charged them making them run into the woods. 

"Wait!" she called as he followed them. 

What if they had placed snares or traps? As she ran Trinexx after them she heard another roar but she didn't know if it meant he was okay or not.  

"Hurry shoot it." She heard one of them shout.  

Melissa panicked as she entered a clearing to see Ganon tangled in a net. The father was holding the bow to his head again.  

"Stop it!" She said jumping off of Trinexx to get between them. Flinging herself at the nets she set them on fire allowing Ganon's escape before the arrow struck.  

"You will regret that Witch!" the man said notching another arrow aiming it at her now.  

He released it but it never made it to her. She had put her arms up to shield herself and to her amazement the vegetation of the forest came alive shooting up in front of her much like the water did at the Spirit Temple. Vines whipped out from the trees behind her wrapping around the wrists and ankles of their attackers. It couldn't have been her causing this but the only one else here was Ganon and she had never witnessed him doing anything like this before. She couldn't read Ganon's face well, but he seemed to be just as surprised about this as she was.