Well, its happening again: a novelization of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, with just the right amount of twists for the tastes of those who enjoy LinkxSaria as well as LinkxZelda. What with recent findings from the game like the Arwing Code, I got back into the game, so here goes nothing! I don't own Zelda or its characters, they belong to the great Shigeru Miyamoto.

Chapter 1 – The Dreams

The sky looked peaceful that day, riding in a horse-driven carriage across the plains of Hyrule. The royal escort rattled on slowly through the fields, its passenger, the princess of the kingdom, wishing to take the scenic route on her way back from a council with the Zora leaders. Suddenly, the carriage stopped, so abrupt it knocked the frail princess out of her seat and onto the floor of the carriage. Once she looked out of the window again, it looked completely different. The sky was filled with dark clouds that almost guaranteed heavy rainstorms. She whimpered, thoughts of thunder scared the young princess. Some of the clouds formed into an object, a jewel encased inside of grotesque and twisting metal. Lightning flashed as it formed, forcing a scream of terror from the innocent bystander.

But then, just as suddenly as the clouds formed, a green light appeared from the forest she was looking at only moments earlier. The foreboding jewel shattered as the clouds dispersed, allowing the odd light to spread across the sky. The princess hastily opened her eyes to look toward the forest, and what she saw confused her, but nonetheless left her with a feeling of relief. A small figure was walking out of the forest into the fields, holding one hand into the air. Grasped within it was a round stone with the same pigment as the light. Streaks of gold wrapped around it, creating a sort of handle for its user. Following the figure was another ball of light, barely visible against the light of the stone. Nearly the size of the stone itself, wings could be seen coming from it. The princess was awestruck as she instantly realized what she was seeing.

"A fairy… and a forest boy…"

The next thing she knew, the light faded, but she was no longer in the carriage. She was in her bed located in her chamber at the castle of Hyrule. She was breathing hard, barely able to take in the fact that all that she saw was only a dream. In fact she refused to believe that. 'That… was not… just a dream…' she thought to herself. She had known that she had the power to perceive the future, and other magical abilities. However, no matter how many times she told her father about them, he simply thought that she was playing a childish game, but she knew otherwise that she was, in a word… special. Her caretaker, Impa, seemed to know this. She was the only one she could trust with this information.

'I have to tell her… I fear that it's our only hope.'

Little did she know that the dark clouds from her dream would move into another persons mind that very same night…

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Rain poured down from the dark sky. It was almost darker than the sky should have been during a normal storm. Lightning flashed several times as a child clad in a green tunic stood in front of the gate that led to Hyrule Castle. The gate began to open, and a white horse began to make its way toward it from the inside. The sound of hooves on cobblestones became louder, and when the gate finally opened fully, locking into place, the child had barely any time to leap out of the path of the frantic horse. He looked as it past, wondering why it was leaving. Suddenly, he heard a snort behind him. Twirling around, he screamed as he saw a man atop a pitch black steed, almost the complete opposite of the horse that just passed him.

How it gave no sound as it approached, he did not even have time to think of asking himself that as the man, whose eyes seemed to peer into his mind and release all happiness that resided there, raised his hand toward him, as if to strike him down without even dismounting his armored horse. He screamed again, wishing it would just end quickly. One bright light was all he could remember, until a familiar voice called his name.

"Link! Link, wake up!"

The boy called Link opened his eyes with a start to find himself where he was when he went to bed, his tree house. Next to him, holding his shoulder, was a girl, dressed in the same type or garments as he was, a dark green color that was worn by all of his kind. "Saria… how did you?" He began to ask, trying to get up, but the girl's hands pushed him back down on the bed, beckoning him to stay where he was. "You were yelling in your sleep." She said gently. "I could hear it all the way from my house." The boy sighed, allowing his friend to lay him back down.

"Darn it… sorry, Saria…" The girl simply smiled, something Link recognized as her way of saying 'Don't worry… that's what friends are for.' The smile was quickly replaced by a look of concern when she then asked. "It was that nightmare again, wasn't it?" Link looked away from her, not out of disrespect, but merely from deep thought. "Yeah... I don't know why I keep seeing these things… its like… its trying to tell me something…"

"Like what?" Saria asked, knowing that she could trust what Link told her. He looked back toward her with a look of understanding that seemed to mask the slight fear that he was feeling.

"Like something bad is going to happen here."

Saria's hand moved from his shoulder to his cheek, where it stayed for several seconds before she stood up to leave.

'Oh Link… what's happening here… what's happening… to you…?"

To be continued…