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Chapter 5:

So you've arrived, Amyko. I didn't think you could hold down your curiousity. Ayeve quickly left the beautiful grove in search of the Princess or her guardian. It didn't take as long as he'd thought. He sensed her before he saw Impa turn the corner, a sort of interesting coincidence to him.

"High Priest." she greeted with a nod.

"Sage," he bowed, "I have reason to believe that my pursuer has found me." he stated in his calm tone. His face showing no sign of worry. He was confident even in the face of death.

"And what proof do you have of this, Ayeve?"

He smiled slightly, "My senses search far and wide. In this case the Kokiri Forest that your Hero is returning to. You have a Sage living there as well, the aura is different than yours but with the same sign. Her song is pure, happy even with her burdens."

"What would you ask of her?"

"I'm guessing she's friends with your Hero, so tell her to pass a message of warning to Link. Both need to exsercise extreme caution. Amyko and I may be foreign, but we are not stupid."

"As I have seen. Very well, I'll make haste." Impa left the priest but stopped when she realized he was still following. She gave him a questioning look, "Do you not trust me?"

"I trust you."

Impa continued to study his face a moment longer before allowing him to trail her. They exited to the main courtyard overlooking the town. Her eyes strayed to the horizon as she listened with her heart to find Saria's presence. Ayeve watched her carefully before looking out himself. The priestess' song changed tone.

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"Link! Link!" a bright green male fairy zig zagged through the trees in search for the Hero. Almost immediately after turning a corner he ran right smack into Navi and both fairies went flying. One falling into a patch of mushrooms which released a cloud of rusty red spores, and the other into the leaves of a tree laden down with water.

Navi coughed horribly as she wriggled out of the mushrooms. In doing so making the spore cloud thicker. She sneezed before fluttering over to where Sairia's fairy known as Spryte wholay soaked, his papery wings sagging.

"Spryte - ACHOO! - what's -ah- what's going on?"

The male fairy shook vigerously, instantly ridding himself of the water, "You didn't get Saria's message?"

Navi tilted her small head, "What message?"

"Hello? Saria's been playing her ocarina for the past fifteen minutes and you're in the middle of the forest! How could you miss it?"

"Hmm you're right that is disturbiiiiachoo!" Navi sniffed, she hated mushrooms anyway, "What's so important?"

Spryte frowned, "Impa informed us that Amyko is somewhere in the woods. Link needs to find her quick! This priestess is powerful enough that she can mask her presence from my mistress in her own territory!" he hadn't even finished his sentence before Navi zipped away at top speed. Link stood leaning against a moss covered tree waiting for her, his knife out carving patterns into a well chosen piece of wood.

He looked up when she arrived, furrowing his brow, "You seem flustered." while Navi was explaining what Spryte had just told her, Link sheathed his dagger and headed out instantly. He figured Amyko would be following Ayeve's trail so it made sense to return where he'd first found the priest. Calling apon a little help from his piece of the Triforce, Link cloaked himself like a chamelion in flesh, supressing his presence with the mind. He shinnied up a tree and knocked his bow, being mindful of his surroundings. Navi had vanished, goddesses only knew what she did while she was gone. The burnt carcasses of the wolfos had been scavanged by large birds and rodents. Only a few pieces of charcoal flesh had been left to the maggots and other insects who were eating everything in their path. The stench of carrion and smoke accompanied the cloud of flies. Link waited with a patient hand, he'd learned in his early years of fighting that impatience only brought more scars to you.

It almost surprised Link when a figure hovered at the edge of the clearing, a mere shadow to his sharp vision. The forest had not gone silent with its approach, on normal terms if darkness were roaming the animals home they would flee in silence. But Saria had said she was able to mask her presence. That must include any dark waves she emminated.

The figure hovered a moment, then stepped into the light, still half hidden behind a tree. From what Link saw she was very beautiful for a dark one. She wore white loose silk pants that covered her feet, a long elagent red tunic with sleeves long enough that only the tips of her fingers showed, the same style as Ayeve's only a different color and she wore no armor. Her jet black hair was pulled up into pigtails with her bangs hanging, her eyes slanted and unearlthly dark blue. Her face impassive yet girlish; she only looked about seventeen. Hanging at her hip was a black scabbard, no sword hilt potruding from it. Amyko glanced about slowly before stepping into the clearing. An arrow glowing with golden light whistled through the air and disinigrated the false image. In the split second Link reacted too late.

He whipped around in time to see the real Amyko smack her palm precisely against his nose. The nerve inside awakened his tearglands and he was blinded for a moment. Amyko manipulated his hands and both went flying out of the tree Link first. She dug her heel into his chest as they landed, making the force of the landing much harder on the Hero before leaping away. Link rolled over, the world fading as he struggled to get the air back into his lungs. He saw the priestess standing by just watching him, waiting.

That was sure stupid Link. But how did she find me? I was under a cloaking spell!

The Kokiri struggled to his feet, drawing forth his sword. She only waited for him to recover. Link found that annoying how the priestess felt convident enough not to strike him in his vulnerable moments.

"You're not welcomed here."

She didn't answer at first, merely looked at him.

Ayeve's people sure don't talk much...

"On behalf of the High Priests' bidding I presume." her voice was young, but wise. It reminded him of Saria.

"That's right."

She smiled suddenly catching him offguard, "And you wish to bar my path."

"Stop stating the obvious." Link was annoyed at his own mistake for underestimating the woman after Ayeve, a man with such a powerful aura had warned him. On second thought, even if she did know his weaknesses why didn't he confront her himself?

"If you wish to fight me then do so." she spread her feet slightly and bent her knees in readiness, her arms hanging losely at her sides. Link raised his blade and began to circle her, on edge of using all his out of practice abilities.

"Ayeve chose well in my oponent, however you are deaf. If you cannot follow what is beyond the surface than you will not touch me. You may be a strong worrior but you are not very strong in the spirit or mind." Link gave a battle cry and struck, slicing through thin air when it seemed Amyko was still present, she would appear somewhere else waiting and then just evade again. She finaly made an offensive move when Link began charging his blade. Red energy gathered for the Hero but was inturrupted as she upper punched straight into the solar plexis. Link choked as his air was forced out of his lungs but managed to keep on his feet.

"Why do you trust him so? Why do you trust someone you've just met?" she leaped back letting him recover.

Sweat beaded his brow, blood trickled out of his nostrils, "He's more trustworthy than you! You're the deciever. You're methods tell it." Link's grip tightened around the hilt.

"The illusion? Dear boy, just because someone uses trickery like that does not tell anyone who or what the user is." Amyko stood up straight, "You trust Ayeve as you would a good friend. But how good is he really?" she sighed as the Kokiri lunged forward covering the space between them with breathtaking speed. The air seemed to crack as blades clashed, in an instant the priestess had drawn her none existent sword from its sheath. It was the color of glowing quicksilver, shining bright with warmth. It thrummed against Link's bastard sword, the beat was steady... almost like a heart.

"You believe what he says," Amyko's feet dug into the soft loam of undergrowth as Link tried to force her back, "are you sure it's not the other way around?" Link screamed in frustration. Blades clashed together as the blurs of huminoids merged in a sphere of battle. Amyko seemed to glide across the forest floor like a wraith, her jet black hair trailing her movements it seemed in slow motion. She whirled around Link's body and swiftly brought her katana's hilt down on the back of his head. The priestess did manage to strike the Kokiri, but she met a blue force field instead of bone. Link rolled to his feet and faced her, the jewel Nayru's Love pulsing with light in one hand.

Amyko nodded in approval it seemed. She lifted her blade in front of her face as if blessing it, a gesture that was a Hylian act of acknowledgement before a duel, "Harness that frustration, like the ones you killed before you, you are fighting blindly." with without another word she sheathed her katana, it vanishing in bubbles of light. Link felt the chaos of confusion grip his mind as all of her words suddenly sank into him like boulders to water. It made him feel dizzy and he dropped to one knee leaning heavily on his sword.

"Stop it!" beams of clear energy pierced through the air aimed for Amyko. They never met their target as they were absorbed into an invisible shield.

Saria gaped in shock, "How... ?"

The foreigner sighed, this time Link noted a hint of sadness in it, "This place is your power source." she glanced at all of the wildlife baring their anger at them, "But the forest is alive as much as you, it will listen to anyone willing to listen to it." she turned those soul peircing eyes back to Link, "You will not believe me."

The hero panted, spitting blood, "Why should I?"

Amyko cocked her head as if listening to something only she could hear, "His words mean more than mine?"

"He-he told us you are tha manipulater. You are very good at lying. I've had this happen to me before, you are the enemy don't try to convince me otherwise!" Amyko closed her eyes and just stood there. Link wanted to take advantage of the moment of weakness yet...

The moment passed, "Very well. I shall remain then, in your custody sageling." she spread her arms in a graceful manner, "The forest is my prison till I can convince you that I am not what you are told." at the end of her sentence the animals scattered as if struck by lightning and all was silent. The only noise was the creaking of trees swaying in the breeze, their thousands of leaves rustling together sounding like a waterless river. Amyko turned her back and began to walk away, silent, whisperlike.

Saria ran over and knelt beside her best friend, "Link! You're bleeding!"

Link pushed her hands away from his face, "I'm not a baby and you don't need to be my mother." he sniffed, wiping the blood away with his gauntlet. He suddenly came to his senses enough to notice Saria looked hurt, "Ok I'm sorry I'm just irritated that's all." he apalogized quickly.

"It's ok, she fights cheep." Saria handed him a clean cloth, Spryte and Navi had appeared over both her shoulders.

"No, she doesn't fight cheep." Link tilted his head back to try and stop the bleeding, "She fights the way she has always. We restrain ourselves, but aparently there are no rules in their battles."

"Do, do you really think she's telling the truth?" Navi asked tentatively.

"No." Link said firmly, "If she's as good a liar as Ayeve says, then this is all show." Link wished he felt as sure as he sounded.

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What the crap? I have not touched this fic in a long time! I actually had this chapter done I just never posted it! I'm such a bad person. -sigh- Ok, I'll see if I can get this fic back up and running again. I have no idea why I let this fic go inactive, it has such potentiol... atleast I think that. -bows to fans-