(A/N: This story takes place 1000 years after the Adventure of Link game which is in the author's opinion the last in the series. The history of Hyrule entered a new age at the end of this era… the year is 1885 of the new age)
Chapter 1: A Short IntroductionIn the bustling smog covered industrial metropolis of Hycastle there lived a girl who spent most of her days in the shadow of the ancient Temple of Time, excavating and researching the arcane and mysterious ancient history of Hyrule. In the 19 short years of her life she had learnt all there was to know about the ancient heroes of Hyrule and the great evil these young men had saved the world from.
Her name was Carrie Lionell.
Today however Carrie was not at her usual dig site… Today she was at Nohensan Street Station preparing to take a train to investigate a newly discovered ruin in the Lost Woods…
The station was a crowded gothic atrocity swarming with peoples of all races, Hylians, Humans Gorons, Zoras, Rito and Gerudo, Even a family of Deku Scrubs who were dragging a large suitcase along the footbridge. Carrie made her way to Platform 9 where a large red locomotive was waiting with a mixed traffic train. Carrie gave her luggage to the guard and took a seat in one of the wood paneled compartments in first class. Soon the steam engine's whistle gave a shrill call and lurched into motion.
From the viaduct that held the train high above the city, Carrie could see the entirety of the metropolis, from the white stone walls of the old city, which sat on the Zora River's northern bank, to the factories and townhouses of the newer sections of the city. Carrie thought for a moment about the city and it's name. The city's name, Hycastle came from it's earlier name "Hyrule Castle Town" Over the thousands of years since the Hero of Time first appeared it's name had been shortened to Hycastle. It was trivial but Carrie thought of it just the same. In her mind she pictured the view as it would've been in those days, From where she was she could've seen right up to the Temple and the Old Bailey where the royal family had lived for millennia. The view today was blocked by the clock tower of Parliament house. Suddenly the entire scene was blocked by smoke from a factory's chimney and Carrie turned away from the window and didn't look again until they left the outer suburbs and the train steamed through green farmland towards it's destination.
It was dark and it was raining heavily when Carrie finally stepped off the train and onto the modest stone platform of Lon-Lon Ranch Station, the closest railway station to the Lost Woods. The guard had dumped her luggage in a pile with several other chests and suitcases, which Carrie could see also, included the family of Deku Scrubs that she had seen earlier. The guard blew his whistle and the train left the station and the bustle of the station died down completely. Carrie took her traveling case from the now thinning pile of luggage and dragged it over to the station office where she asked the stationmaster, a young Rito gentleman if a carriage had arrived for her, the Rito shook his feathered head and Carrie waited in the waiting lounge for the carriage that she had arranged to take her to the dig site.
After several hours waiting the stationmaster handed hr a telegraph saying that the carriage wouldn't arrive until tomorrow evening and Carrie decided to stay at the Malon-Lon Hotel.
