This fic is my first one and I want to make it ongoing, well not ongoing but really long because I want to redo the entirety of the TP adventure this way. It's supposed to be Wind Waker in Twilight Princess for 99.9% of it. But this introductory chapter was long.
This entire idea was inspired by AngelRin89's The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Wind Waker. Where, in theirs, it's TP to WW.
Legal things: I don't own these characters so I technically don't own this story. The characters, and all of them, belong to Nintendo. The idea for this story was inspired by AngelRin89.
Link always wanted to do something great, perhaps fighting a giant lava arachnid in a volcano qualifies as ''great''. The large circular room was unsurprisingly hot - given that it's in a volcano - yet Link wasn't fazed by the immense heat at all. There was, in the center of the room a large pool of lava and emerged from it, was a huge exoskeletal arachnid. It let out a horrifying shriek, letting Link know it was ready for battle. Link eyed the room searching for a good strategy to use against the monster. Then, he remembered that Medli, a Rito and apprentice attendant to Valoo, said that Valoo's tail hangs down into this room.
Link frantically checked over the room, and sure enough Valoo's tail dangled right above the giant monster. Maybe he could swing across. Examining it further, he notices the tail is in a hook shape, and it should be easy to latch onto with the grappling hook that Medli gave him.
Link started to throw the grappling hook when, out of the corner of his eye, he perceived that the monster took a swing at him. He processed the attack and rolled out of the way. The arm of the monster crashed down to the ground with so much force, it got stuck in the ground. Just in time. Link went to aim while the monster was trying to pull its arm out. He managed to latch onto the tail when the monster succeeded to finally remove its arm from the ground. Link used Valoo's tail to swing across to the other side of the room. Valoo started to thrash about shaking the loose rock that was on the ceiling, causing it to fall on top of the monster.
This cracked the monster's shell slightly. The monster angrily replaced the rock back where it was, and Valoo lowered his tail back down. Link repeated the action of cracking it's shell until, on that last hit, the shell cracked. And the monster, in a fit, broke both the rock and its shell.
This opened up its soft eye for the grappling hook. The monster quickly brought down one of its arms onto Link. The attack succeeded and injured leaving a cut on his head. Link attempted to get up but the monster followed up with a horizontal slash, knocking him into the wall. Link was able to get up and perceived the enemy's pattern, he saw it pull one arm back and knew what it meant. He rolled out of the way and took the opportunity to hook the monster's eye. The monster was yanked down and its eye was completely vulnerable. Link jumped forwards bringing his sword down as he landed. With the monster shrieking from the hit, Link followed up with slash after slash. The monster got back up and Link had it grappled again and back on the ground. Link followed with a jump slash and defeated the monster. In a cry the monster flailed around and…disappeared? Well it really kind of dried up and…exploded? This fact was ignored as Link had noticed that the lava hardened. Link decide to go over his injuries, they weren't too serious. All he had was a few bruises and a minor cut on his head.
The monster seemed to have left behind a glass, heart-shaped container with a gold trim. It appeared to have a pulsating red mass inside. He pondered this for a bit. Maybe I should get a closer look. Link walked up to it and picked it up. Then the container turned into auras surrounding him. His bruises faded, the cut on his head healed, and his energy was restored. Just what I needed, a little healing. Link turned over to the wind funnel that was formed some ways away, but next to the heart container. This must be the way out. He deduced, But first, pots!
Link had this obsession with pots since he found a blue rupee in a pot on Windfall Island, so now he smashes any pot he sees. He turned from the wind funnel and went to smash the pots around the room. He smashed pot, after pot, after pot, but was ultimately disappointed to find hearts in them. Wait…what? He tried to reason out why there would be hearts in pots. Then he realized, Maybe they're like that heart container but less powerful. He pondered for a bit more then decided to return to the wind funnel. Well, let's see where this leads. He stepped into the wind funnel and felt himself being transported.
He found himself outside where he started to head up the volcano. There he saw Medli walking up to him with Prince Komali by her side. "Thanks for the help Link." Medli said thankfully. She waved her hand towards Komali, "Prince Komali has something to give you."
Komali walked up to link with his head hung. "I'm sorry I didn't believe you before Link," he apologized, "Since you have proven you are worthy and to show my apologies I'll give you this." Komali handed Link a pearl. It was orange, with a wave-like relief on it, it was larger than a normal pearl but wasn't too large.
Link accepted it thankfully, as he needed it…well that's what his boat, The King of Red Lions, told him. After being given the pearl, Valoo roared in an ancient language Link didn't understand.
"Valoo says to use the Wind God's wind," Medli helpfully translated, "He must be referring to the wind shrine behind that rock." She pointed to a large rock that must have been covering a passage.
"Thanks, Medli." Link said, thankful for the help. They went back up the volcano. Link picked a bomb flower and placed it in front of the rock Medli mentioned, and backed up a safe distance. The rock blew up and a few small pieces of it hit him. He walked through the passage and was met with two grave looking stones with one of them being broken, on a small island, and a small shore at his feet. That must be it. Link swam to the shrine with curiosity.
What he saw on the unbroken shrine, was a series of symbols, that resembled direction. Left, center, and right. I wonder…, Link reached into his pouch for the Wind Waker and began conducting in ¾ time. He replicated left, center, and right.
After about 5 seconds of waiting, Link was confronted by red frog-like creature, floating on a cloud. I guess it's not really weird, compared to what I've seen.Link thought. "So you are the one who conducted that melody, are you?" Link stared, unamused and confused as he said that like it was a bad decision.
"Yes, why?" After answering, Link quickly decided to look back at the stone. To his surprise the stone had actually changed from the original pattern to a new one. I must've made a mistake. Link pondered. It couldn't have changed. Could it? Link became slightly confused as he tried to wrap his head around this.
The frog creature interjected in his thinking, "Allow me to introduce myself," The frog started, "I am Cyclos, One of the Gods of the Wind. And the song you conducted with the Wind Waker was an ancient song that has recently been played by brave souls who wish to embark on a new, more challenging journey." He explained. Link hasn't even finished his first journey.
"There must be some mistake you see," Link starts to explain, "I have just started my journey." Link explained how he was sent to this shrine and saw the song on the shrine earlier and how when he checked it later it was different.
"Sounds to me like some higher-up's thought you were destined for more, than your current journey." Now Link was extremely confused. And Cyclos could tell. "I'll get some stuff for you to use on your new journey." And just like that he was gone. Link just stood there expressionless, stunned, and very confused. He turned back over to the shrine, maybe the pattern was still like it was supposed to be. When he looked at it, the same, left, center, and right, pattern was shown.
After about two minutes, Cyclos returned. "I give you only these four items. Anything else you need you have to get on your own or with help from people you meet." Cyclos explained, his tone annoyed. He hands Link a bow, boomerang, a…leaf, and a curious tool. As he started to put them in his pouch, Cyclos started to explain the last two items. "The leaf is known as a Deku Leaf. You will find a use for it soon." Link curiously eyed it, and put it in his pouch. "And the last item is a Hookshot. It can latch onto anything that it can pierce, and pull you to the target." Link was quite amazed with it. Nonetheless in the pouch it went.
Everything Link got he put in his pouch. It was handed down to him by his Grandma. She said it was enchanted to hold anything he might need. "So, are you ready? It's going be a long trip for you." Cyclos inquired.
"Yeah. I'm ready." With those words, Cyclos created a wind funnel like the one in the monster's lair earlier.
"Then just step in." Cyclos instructed, giving a hand motion for Link to enter the funnel. Link did as he was directed and was transported like last time.
Except this time was different. He was placed in between here and there like normal, but everything seemed so…weird. He did say it would be a long trip. Link sighed in impatience, as he stood there waiting.