Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I do not own Zelda, nintendo does. I do not own any of the characters in this story. Only the events and story of this fanfic are my own.

Link awoke groggily, and rose up slowly. The last thing he remembered was Princess Zelda playing a song on the Ocarina of Time to...wait, no ...what was the last thing he remembered? More was coming back to him now... he was in a bizarre place called Termina.... He was turned into a Deku Scrub! He...he all across Termina, and finally confronted a skull kid on top of a giant clock...then he went inside the moon and fought a mask. But it was not just a mask...it was alive. He finally defeated by using a mask of his own, the Fierce Deity's Mask.

Link shuddered. The memory of that mask...when he was wearing it, he felt nauseated, as if waves of darkness were washing over him. But the only thing was, it wasn't coming from outside of him, but from the inside. It was that that was worrying him. If such darkness existed inside of him, where did it come from? And how, if he were forced to use the mask again, would he be able to control it?

He turned around and looked at the shrine where the Master Sword was once held. Because he was sent back in time without the aid of the Master Sword, he still had it in his possession. Princess Zelda had told him that about 2 minutes after he returned the blade to its place; the Door of Time would close.

With a slight bit of reluctance, he placed the blade that had served him so well back in the shrine.

He turned and left the temple of time. It was nighttime outside, so the Hyrule castle gate was closed until morning. He wandered into the back alleys and found a flour sack he could use as a blanket. It was damp and uncomfortable, but link made due.

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The morning sunlight shone on Link's face as he awoke. He was wide-awake and ready for a new day, despite having spent the night in a damp flour sack. Not sure of what to do now that his destiny was fulfilled, he decided to head to Hyrule castle to see if Zelda remembered him from the future.

He reached the gate to the castle, and used the same shortcut up the vines and above the gate that he always used.

Successfully avoiding the guards, he reached the garden in the Castle courtyard. Oddly, she wasn't there. Although, now that he thought about it, it really wasn't that odd, after all, she was a princess and this was a castle. She was bound to have many rooms here.

He wandered throughout the castle, and was careful to avoid the guards. As he passed through a descending hallway dimly lit by torches, a room caught his attention. Instead of a door it had an open archway, and he was able to peer inside.

Link had never seen so many books in his life! There were shelves upon shelves of ancient books, piles of old scrolls, and a desk in the center of the room with an open scroll laid out across it.

Link approached the table, and looked at the scroll. It was written in a language he didn't understand, but there were pictures on it that caught his eye. They showed a great darkness being sucked into a vortex, a symbol of a Triforce piece on its hand. The next illustration showed only a hand of darkness emerging from the vortex, a symbol of the Triforce on its hand.