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He remembered. He remembered his friends Malon, and Zelda, and Navi, and he remembered the rock-eating Gorons, and the fish-like Zora, and the simple people of Kakariko, and the busy people of the castle town, and he remembered all the land of Hyrule, the desert to the west, the mountains to the east, the castle to the north, and the forest, ah the forest, were he spent his youngest years, but that was a truly long time ago. It was coming back to him as he lay there on the bed, these many things he had forgotten.
His life more than fifteen years back was now flooding him into exhaustion, so much that he could hardly get up. When he did, he could hardly moved, and trembling, he walked across the room to take a look in the mirror. Suddenly he felt a sharp, biting pain in both of his arms, surging to his fingers, then in his legs going to his toes, all this pain continuing as his head began to ache as harder than he had ever experienced. He looked downwards at the drawer under his mirror and coughed, bringing out blood and fell to the floor. When he awoke he looked around the room, though it was not his cozy home in Termina; it appeared to be his old Kokiri treehouse, though that seemed more than impossible, and judging from the recent pain, he could be dreaming or even in some form of shock. He got up and went to the mirror again, and as he looked at it, to Link's surprise and shock, he appeared… young!
He looked down, about to vomit from shock, when he saw a card with what appeared to be a crying eye on it. He picked it up and turned it over to reveal a one-word note that simply said "Run". Just then, he heard something that sounded oddly familiar in the direction of were his bed would be. He was about to look, when he heard a loud voice from outside; Navi! His old fairy was whizzing through the air, talking to the Kokiri, asking about his location. Panicking, he ran to and jumped out of the back window. He almost forgot he was in a treehouse, though luckily caught himself on the window sill. He looked through the window and saw the fairy going down the ladder with someone.
Link went back over to the mirror. Judging by his features, was about ten, maybe eleven, so he was at least fifteen years younger. He was missing his two earrings and the scar over his right eye, his ponytail; and he had gained things back as well, like his old tunic, hat, and his favorite pair of Kokiri made boots, though surprisingly none of his old equipment.
He couldn't go down the way ladder for fear of being discovered, and the only other way down was the back window, though it was much to far of a drop to just jump; he looked around the room to see if there was anything spiked or ropelike, but all he found was a comforter and some dull steak knifes. Moving quickly to keep up with Navi, he cut the thick blanket into strips, tied them together, and stuck the makeshift rope on a nail on the sill.
After slipping down the side of the trunk, he stealthfully went around the old tree and saw Saria, an old friend of his, talking to some blond kid in green, but he was to far away to hear what about. Soon they were done, and the blond child walked away, but strangely, Saria didn't. She just stood there, staring at something, but Link couldn't find what, seeing as it wasn't him. She looked sad, as if something was had gone terribly wrong, or if she had lost something very precious to her. The look was painful to Link, who felt the sudden need to comfort her, though he knew he could not risk discovery, at least until he understood his situation. Knowing this, he soon slowly began backing into the unsettled area of the Kokiri forest.
He went until he found a small patch with no trees. It was rather peculiar, having a spot like that in the middle of the other tall trees. There were bushes circling the area, and a path leading out through the rough woods, though he decided not to go through it just yet.
He sat down on a stump, thinking about what had happened. He knew that there was no way out of the world with Termina, although he never really went to far away from Termina. All in all, he had searched for a way out, especially around where he came in, and to no avail; was no exit. And of course, there was no mask that would teleport him back either, seeing as Link had gone through many mask shops and sampled many merchant's wares. Any spells, potions or form of fairy magic that he knew of could do this, though his knowledge of those things was small as of late. So, how had this happened?
He had seen the mark on the card more than once before; a similar mark was on the gossip stones, objects of rock that could tell the time and, of course, gossip about usually random subjects, but the tear was more of a smile. He had also seen it on the two Shiekah, Impa and Shiek, but what could the Shiekah have anything to do with this?
While he was thinking on this, he heard a rustling in the bushes around him. He hassled for a weapon, but all he could find was a thick and rotting stick on the ground. It would have to do, as five deku scrubs popped out of the bushes, two in front, one on his left, one on his right, and one behind. The one on his left and right shot out deku nuts at the same time while the back one charged with a spin attack. Link evaded backwards switching places with the rear scrub, leaving the projectiles to hit the now frontal enemy. While the others were slight shock about what had just happened, Link was ran towards the left, grabbed it by the legs, and swung it towards the front two, only taking one out. The other shot at him only seconds after the rightmost did. Link dodged one with a side roll and used his "weapon" to deflect the other towards the front beast, leaving the last to run away terrified.
He thought he handled that quite well, but decided to go down that path, just in case the shrub was running more for help than out of terror.
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