I feel like it's been a ton of ages since I updated, and it's a happy season besides the fact that I can't spend it with the rest of my family in Delhi and places, since my brother has chicken pox… yeah, 'tis the season alright, but hey, we can have a quiet Christmas this year instead of the loudness that comes every year! *dances*

So, here's a chapter for you, since I have nothing to do today, which is silly because it's Christmas eve today XD whatever, I'll waste my day away typing up this lovely chapter for you~

(P.S. it's been so long since I wrote a chapter that I had to re-read chapter 3 in order to remember what was happening in the story in the first place XDDD)

DISCLAIMER (because I normally forget): I own nothing but some random townspeople at this point. o3o

Vaati's POV

We had to sneak stealthily around the castle so as not to be spotted. I wondered why we had to sneak instead of just freely walking, and voiced my question, to have it answered by Zelda. She said that her father didn't really approve of her wandering around in town without a guard to come along, after what happened when I took over, and I felt a twinge of guilt. I seriously had enough impact to take away Zelda's freedom… although that made me wonder if the guard was just added because of my actions, or if it'd always been that way.

As we came closer and closer to the pathway leading into town, I felt myself sweat. I almost whimpered, blushing as I was reminded by a gust of wind what I was wearing. How did Zelda even have a dress like this anyways? It doesn't seem like her style… and it appears to be a non-princess-worthy dress.

Before my train of thought could go further, I felt the ground beneath my feet change from grass and twigs, to the concrete brick road guiding us into Hyrule Town. I felt my nervousness grow again, but to my surprise, Link reached out from beside me and grabbed my gloved hand, squeezing reassuringly. This, of course, caused me to blush and avert my gaze elsewhere as Zelda giggled at my reaction. It didn't sound very real, though… almost like something was missing from her laugh.

A few minutes of walking later, we entered the town, and I was expecting a hoard of guards and angry people coming up to me in a mob and ordering my death or something, since that's what they've done in the past that I've appeared here, but to my surprise, I heard a couple men complimenting my dress from the sidelines, and even a couple girls rushed up to Zelda, probably a few of her friends, asking who I was. Zelda was giggling and answering that I was a girl from a faraway village, which wasn't too far from the truth, and that I was uncomfortable around strangers. I guess she predicted this because I was trembling, but the true reason was because I was just nervous of being found out by clever eyes. Link gave my hand another squeeze, and the girls took attention to my blush pretty quickly.

"Zelda, why's she blushing?" a girl with bright blonde hair done in braids asked.

"Huh?" Zelda looked over at my face to confirm that I was indeed blushing, but I quickly looked away, reaching my other hand, the one not held by Link, up to pull the cloak further over my face. I could tell Zelda was smiling as she replied. "She's just a little nervous, but she'll be fine after a couple hours here~" HOURS? She expected me to stay in town with her and Link for hours? … well, the Link part I'm perfectly fine with, it's the Zelda part that worries me. In my current state, who knows what levels of Hell she'll let me drop to! I felt my eyes burn slightly, but it wasn't with tears. It was with some strange heat that I'd felt a couple of times back in her room, a familiar yet unwelcome heat…

Meh, whatever, it doesn't really matter anyways. I let go of Link's hand, and he seemed to redden with realization that he was still holding it, and I took a glance at his red face before looking at Zelda with a slight glare in my eyes.

"I can't stay here for hours, Zelda!" I whined. "I doubt I can even stay here for one hour without getting bored." Zelda looked astonished. Well, I just complimented that her kingdom's town was a boring place. She looked angry now, and I felt myself smirk slightly at her reaction.

"Take that back, Hyrule Town isn't boring!" her face went red with anger instead of the embarrassed blushes that are blossoming everywhere nowadays. I giggled, waving a hand nonchalantly.

"Well I have my own opinion, and I think that Hyrule Town is boring~" I said, venom almost dripping from my words. Zelda's face went angrier.

As abruptly as it arrived, the burning in my eyes stopped and I blinked nervously, glancing worriedly at all of Zelda's friends, who were all on the brink of tears except for Link and Zelda. Link looked completely dumbstruck, and Zelda was downright angry.

I felt myself approach the edge of tears as well as they welled in my eyes. Every time my eyes burned uncontrollably, I seemed to act rude and less friendly each time. Ezlo said it was a bad sign and to tell him if it happens again.

"… Zeldaaa, she's cryiiiing!" a girl whined, staring at me. I blinked as my tears finally gained enough weight to start sliding down my cheeks.

"N-no I'm not!" I pouted, rubbing my eyes with my sleeves. I was beginning to hate this place a little more each moment I spent here. It made me feel constricted, like I was in a prison.

"Yeah, yeah you aaare!" a different girl whimpered. Well you're all about to cry as well, so I don't see why singling me out would make much difference in this situation…

Link's hand shot out again and grabbed mine. I blushed intensely again, taking advantage of my cloak and my bangs to hide my face with.

"She didn't mean to lash out," he defended. "She's just nervous of this place because it's new, can't you all understand that much?" he sounded kind of angry… I reached my sleeve up to rub my eyes of the tears that were forming and ready to fall again. The girls, even Zelda, all looked as astonished as Link had previously.

"W-what are you saying Link?" Zelda muttered. A girl who hadn't spoken yet, her orange hair tied back in a ponytail and her patterned dress almost glowing in the white sun, spoke up shortly after.

"I think Link is right, Princess," she addressed Zelda formally… they must've not been close enough to exchange names freely enough like Link could.

"How could he…?" Zelda looked at Link in shock, and Link shot a quick smile to the orange-haired girl, before starting to walk away with my hand still in his. I blushed again at that fact and kept walking with him as the girls held off Zelda with many distractions.

"… That was sudden…" I muttered quietly enough that Link could hear, but not loud enough for anyone else. He sighed.

"Yeah, sorry about that," he shrugged, looking back at me once we'd crossed a bridge and stepped just out of sight of the girls. "Zelda has a tendency to be overprotective about everything she can be overprotective about," Link laughed nervously, and I blinked.

"But… I was the one who spoke badly of Hyrule Town…" I sniffled, some more tears building up in my eyes.

"It wasn't your fault, okay?" Link said, but I knew already that that wasn't true. It was my fault I did that, my fault I lashed out for no reason. I liked Hyrule Town a lot, really, but I guess my inner-anger or something was still upset about being chased out numerous times after my little reign of terror… yeah, that was bad of me.

That reminded me right away of Ezlo and his warning to me as I asked him if I could have the back-up Wishing Cap. He was talking about if I were to replace the hat on my head, which was currently folded in my small side pouch, that my previous viciousness might come out to nip at people if they get on my nerves, but I can't remember any times so far that've actually irritated me. I mean, yeah, Zelda did irritate me a little with her being SO attached to Link- … ignore what I just said, I'm not jealous or anything like that, nope…

Back to the previous topic, Ezlo told me that my eyes would feel hot and I wouldn't be able to control myself from saying nasty things, when the hat's effects came back to bite me, but what puzzled me was that I wasn't wearing the hat back then, but my evil side still came out to yell…

"Hellooooo?" I blinked in surprise and flinched, taking a step back and blushing slightly, laughing nervously. Link waved his hand in my face, stopping when he knew he'd recaptured my attention. Link grinned, poking my forehead. "You scared me, your eyes were pretty distant and you weren't blinking. Are you okay there?" he slung one arm around my shoulders and I had to fight for my entire face to not bleed with blush. I managed to make it look like I was only blushing because of the heat, and thankfully he didn't notice it much.

"I-I'm fine, I was just thinking, really!" I laughed again, putting my brown-gloved hand over top of his. He tilted his head in curiosity.

"Thinkin' of whaaat?~" he smirked mischievously, and I swallowed nervously, blush becoming darker.

"Nothing, it doesn't matter," I felt myself begin to sweat. "Do you know when I can go visit Ezlo?" I whispered in his ear, so that no one else would know even if they would've possibly known that Ezlo was a Minish sage who assisted Link in bringing me down… Wow, those were painful memories… Sheesh…

"Uh, yeah, when do you wanna go see him?" Link asked, curious as to why I'd be urgent to see the sage.

"As soon as possible, please," I stated. "I have to talk to him about the cap." I pointed down to my pouch and he immediately understood what I meant.

"Is it getting to be too powerful to handle again?" Link pouted, his eyes glossing over. "I don't want to have to fight that evil out of you a second time, the first time was painful enough…" Naturally, I panicked.

"D-don't cry, everything's solved now, it won't ever happen again!" I waved my hands in front of me frantically, and he sniffled. I sighed softly and let my delicate hand trail up to brush away a stray tear, the salty liquid absorbing into the fabric of my glove. He blinked, then blushed as his hand shot up to scratch his head nervously. I couldn't help but smile. I get he picked up that habit from Ezlo in his adventures.

"S-sorry, I got emotional," he smiled sheepishly and I patted his head, fisting his hat into my hand and taking it from his head. He immediately pouted. "Gimme that baaack!" he whined, and I just laughed as I kept moving the hat right out of his reach.

I wish I could be like this all the time. It was so happy this way… Moments like this can only be ruined completely by a certain princess.

"LINK!"

"Crap, run!"

I laughed as Link and I both ran away from an enraged Princess Zelda. I tossed Link's hat to him as we ran and we all got bizarre looks from everyone we passed.

… That was fun and all, but you don't wanna know what happened when Zelda was able to catch up to us…

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYNYAN!~ *gets pelted with a bunch of tomatoes and potatoes*

Sorry I couldn't get a chapter out in the past… how long as it been… whatever amount of weeks, but I've been busy. My family just went through a load of terrible happenings, such as lice (which I dodged thankfully!) and a couple more that I won't mention.

So, after that, I was finally able to get another chapter up, so here it is! The next chapter will be out probably after my birthday, which takes place soon after New Years and a bit before Valentine's day, so in other words… IMMA BE SUPAH DUPAH BUSY AND I NEED REVIEWS TO INSPIRE MEH BEFORE I LOSE HOPE AFTER I'M DE-BUSIFIED! *shot*

Okay, after that random rant of random stuff that's random, please click de button below that states you can review the story, and give me some feedback, flames, comments, questions, suggestions, time machines, hover cars—waitwut?

~Meef