So after reading fanfiction for nearly fifteen years, I finally worked up the motivation to start writing myself. The first fanfiction stories I read were from the Legend of Zelda, and so I thought I'd start with that. As I started doing so, I was losing motivation before the Soul Calibur II/Zelda crossover crossed my brain, and so I decided to write a story on that.

I remember reading a couple such crossovers with a Young Link instead of Adult Link, and I couldn't find them anymore, and so that gave me the motivation to use Young Link for this story instead of Adult Link.

This Link will be from Ocarina of Time and take place a couple years after Majora's Mask. Link will have no masks of any kind and only certain items from his journeys. I will eventually get into them as the story progresses, but I can tell you he will have bombs, the Hero's Bow and arrows, all three magic arrows, the magical Boomerang from OOT, and the Hookshot from MM among others.

He will also have a new Kokiri Sword identical in appearance to OOT but have a unique feature about it and also will have the Hero's Shield from MM.

I will give explanations as to why he has or doesn't have certain items in question as the story progresses, so just bear with me on that.

This will take place from SC II – IV, which all appear to happen shortly after the other, whereas Soul Calibur took place three years after Soul Edge and Soul Calibur II took place four years after the first Soul Calibur. This story will probably take place over a year's worth in time overall, though. There will be no time skip to SC V; in fact this will be AU enough so that SC V will not exist (which technically it doesn't anyway since the series is being rebooted ala Mortal Kombat).

Finally, I will portray Link as close as I can to his character from the games in terms of personality such as being polite, humble, and kind-hearted while also being a very courageous and fierce warrior. Socially, I intend to portray him as naïve as young Goku from Dragonball when it comes to certain things like girls (hint hint) but have some basic knowledge as to what is or is not socially acceptable related to girls and people and society in general, giving him an innocent way of expressing certain thoughts and feelings.

I mean, he was raised in a forest with only children and a guardian tree around the first 10 or so years of his life, and so I think that would affect how he interacts with others without parents or adults to teach him certain things in life.

That being said, pairings are undecided at this point.

I do not own The Legend of Zelda or Soul Calibur.

Now on with the story!

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Chapter 1 – The Elf Boy

In the skies of Japan, the signature sun was rising. The birds were chirping to signal the morning has come. Various creatures from the fields to the forest slowly awoke to start their day. A soft wind blew across the land, gently bending the grass of the hills and the branches of the trees.

A nearby forest on occasion has various visitors, whether it's a curious animal stepping in for the first time or some humans that simply pass through. But this day, a new kind of visitor would appear, but he entered the forest in a much…different way.

Without warning, a bright blue light suddenly appeared in the forest. It started small, roughly the size of basketball, before starting to grow to the four times the size. It hummed with a low sound at first before increasing in pitch. Finally, the light exploded out, and then the figure of a boy in green suddenly materialized in its place as the light vanished.

Only when he appeared, he was roughly 30 feet in the air.

"AHHHHHH! OOF!"

He stayed still for a minute before painfully starting to get up, shaking his head to clear the dizziness.

"Oww…I guess the Sages' aim was a little off in bringing me here," he mused to himself. He rubbed his side from the impact, then stretched a bit as the pain subsided.

The boy was 12, almost 13 years old and roughly 4' 6" tall. He had on a green tunic with an equally green pair of shorts and floppy cap. He had a mahogany belt around his waist and wore brown boots that stopped 3 or 4 inches from his knees. He had deep blue eyes and golden blonde hair that was partially uncovered from the cap and parted in the middle.

But the most notable feature of all were his ears. Whereas a normal human's ears are rounded, his were long and pointed. They extended back about 3 inches with the cap touching the bridge of ears, leaving the ears completely exposed for all to see.

He also had a sword and shield on his back. The blade was a curved brown hilt with a ruby on it near the base of the blade, which itself was double-edged and roughly 18 inches in length. Rather than being the usual gray color typical for swords, this seemed to almost glow with a shade of blue (A/N: Think of how the color looks when Link first finds it and the tutorial explains what it is and how to use it).

The shield was metal with a blue background on the front with red markings in the very center with a smaller one in between the center and very bottom of the shield. In between the red markings were three golden triangles joined together to form one large triangle (A/N: The Hero's Shield from Majora's Mask.)

Once he gathered his bearings, he could immediately tell something was different. He was in a forest, it was sunny, blue sky with clouds, grass and bushes. Similar to where he was. And yet it felt…different. Even more so than Termina when he had arrived. At least there it had a sense of familiarity, possibly due to how many people looked like those from home. He had heard that a Hylian's long ear's supposedly let them hear from the goddesses. Now it seemed as if that feeling was gone.

'Maybe there was some truth to that myth after all,' he thought.

Looking around, he tried to spot anything that may give him a clue as to where to go from here. He didn't appear to be near civilization—not a manmade structure anywhere. Guess the Sages weren't able to find a location near civilization and just had to wing it.

"Oh well, just going to have to pick a direction and go," he says to himself. With that thought in mind, he looks around to see if there's a path of any kind that could take him to a town. Not seeing anything, he turns to his left slightly and starts heading forward.

After an hour of navigating through the forest, he has had no luck seeing anyone. A few familiar critters appeared every now and then such as squirrels, rabbits and birds, but nothing out of the ordinary. Finally, Link sees what appears to be the end of the woods and heads towards it. As he does, he can hear sounds of some kind as he gets closer. It sounds like…music of some kind.

Well now there's a lead.

Music means people, so maybe they can help him? As he exits the forest, he sees to his surprise a mansion of some kind with a village not too far off in the distance. A very BIG mansion. Heck it was probably as tall as Hyrule Castle and just as wide!

It had a unique rooftop. Rather than being the hard, triangular shape Link saw on Hyrule Castle, the bottom part of the roof curved upward at the corners, a design Link had never seen before. He could also see flags of some kind with various symbols on it that he also wasn't familiar with.

Hmm, this could be a problem. Maybe they use a different alphabet? Or language? This could make communication harder than Link thought. And would they be friendly or hostile? Maybe he should observe a bit first.

Where he had exited the forest, he was approaching the side of the mansion. Seeing a good-sized rock to hide behind, he stealthily approaches it and ducks down. He hears footsteps walking by, causing Link to freeze. Did they spot him?

The guard looks around for a bit before walking off away from Link, causing Link to sigh in relief. He then got a better look at the guard. He was armored from head to toe with a sword strapped to its waist. The helmet, rather than being rectangular at the neck, curved off at the bottom from the sides to the back, sort of reminding Link of an upside-down coal kettle.

Warriors of some kind. Could it be a castle instead?

Link then turns his attention to the village. From the distance, Link can hear music and many people talking and singing from what he can tell. It sounds like a carnival or festival of some kind. But what they were singing Link couldn't understand.

Great. Seems they DO speak a different language after all. That will make things much harder for him.

His thoughts were interrupted as suddenly an alarm was raised, alerting the guards as they start rushing all over the place. Link could hear guards yelling all over and going inside the mansion/castle, and then it sounded like that were yelling…in pain?

Suddenly, a body shot through the window on the second floor, landing hard on the ground. Link could tell by the armor that it was a guard…and blood coming out of his neck.

Then a second person came out the window, this one landing on her feet. Link could see it was a girl, albeit older than him. She was wearing a tattered green outfit with purple sleeves and gloves, and she had blue-green hair. She wore green pants with armored shins and what looked to be like green feathers adorned around her neck, wrists, and thighs. She was holding what appeared to be a…ring blade of some kind, with red stains on it. Link's eyes narrowed as she must have been the one to kill that guard, and probably more inside.

She looks back up from the window with a smirk before turning forward, holding out an object in her hands as she started running towards the forest to escape, not seeing Link from her position. Link only got a glimpse of the object before she started running, but he still recognized what she was holding.

It was a glowing shard of metal…just like the one Link has!

Putting two and two together at what she had done and why, Link then started chasing after her.

Tira smiled to herself as she ran into the woods. Her master would be so pleased to have yet another shard of Soul Edge! She pocketed the shard as she continued running, weaving her way through the forest with ease. She eventually made her way to a clearing overlooking a cliff with a river below. And there's the bridge, just as she planned it.

Her eyes then widened in surprise as she hears a noise to the side. 'What? The guards had followed me? How?' She made sure no one was pursuing her when she ran from the mansion, so how did they catch up to her?

She is surprised again at the person who was following her, exiting from the forest off to the side and effectively cutting her off from the bridge. It wasn't a guard that had followed her—instead, it was a boy! Maybe 12 or 13 years old at most.

'A kid? A kid was following me? And where did he come from?'

She saw he was maybe 4' 6" and a slim build. He wore brown boots and a green outfit with a floppy cap she's seen in Europe before. What was a European kid doing way out here? And a sword and shield to boot?

"Sayna gi! Koso feema shorpa!"

Tira tilted her head in confusion. What kind of language is that? Romanian? Gaelic? Latin? Certainly not Japanese. Or English for that matter.

"I don't know what you just said, kid."

Link then tilts his head in confusion. Yep, definitely a different language. And the one she spoke sounded different than the guards he heard speaking earlier.

"You have a lot of guts following me, little boy, hehehe," she giggles. Her eyes widen a bit as she suddenly sees something she hadn't noticed earlier. His ears. They were much longer than normal. Kind of like…

"OHHH, are you an elf!?" she suddenly squeals.

Link was taken aback a bit by her sudden change in attitude. "Ohhh, Tira has never seen an elf before! You are such an interesting boy," still squealing in delighted surprise. They look at each other a bit in silence, Tira in curiosity of the strange boy, Link in caution as he analyzed her.

"Unfortunately, I am in a hurry…though Tira has never killed an elf before…" she said, trailing off at the end. She contemplated whether to kill him and spill his blood or escape before any of the guards find her.

Link had no idea what she was saying, but the tone suggested she was threatening, maybe taunting him as well. She looks him over a bit before pulling out her weapon, having made her decision. "I wonder if your blood is interesting, too," she states with another giggle.

Link then draws his sword and shield in response. "Ohhh, the little elf wants to play?"

She then takes note of his weaponry. The sword has a brown handle with a ruby housed in it. The hilt is curved near the blade, which itself is double-edged and roughly 15-18 inches long. The shield is like a medieval design, only child-sized with a blue background and red markings she didn't recognize.

"Alright! Let's play!" she shouts as she charged forward.

She swings her ring blade in multiple slicing motions, which Link blocks with his sword. He's then forced to duck a kick to his head and then roll to the side to avoid another swipe of her blade.

"Hmph, you're a slippery one, aren't you?"

Link doesn't reply, instead taking his turn to charge. He makes a horizontal swing, followed by a diagonal slash, each parried by the girl. She counters with a horizontal swing of her own, of which Link parries upward. Undeterred, she uses the momentum to spin around with another swing. Link in turn blocks with his shield and spins a 360 and manages to land a slash across her abdomen.

It was only a small scratch, but it was enough to make her growl in anger at being hit by this kid. "Not bad, elf boy. Let's see you try this!" she yells as she launches a flurry of swings. Link suddenly had trouble keeping up, her movements becoming more erratic and harder to predict. Her swings eventually led Link to step down an incline in the ground. Seeing this, Tira jumps high and thrusts her ring blade down at him, which he narrowly dodges with a step back, and it sticks in the ground with the hole between her and Link, and in a surprising move, she jumps through the ring and gives Link a double-kick to the face, knocking him off his feet.

Link quickly backflips upright, only for Tira to follow up with a series of slashes, one of them nipping his left cheek. She then follows with a strong back kick to his chin, knocking him off his feet again. She jumps high again, and this time does a front flip in the air before slamming down her weapon at him, only to grunt in annoyance as he rolled to the side at the last second before sweeping her legs to knock her down and then retreating to gain some breathing room.

Despite the hits she got on him, she was frustrated she couldn't get a fatal blow on him. He's surprisingly good for a kid, she thought, as they clashed blades once again.

Link had fought some tough foes before, but no one had fought like she did. Not only did she have such a unique weapon, but she was almost like…dancing when she swung the blade around. Sometimes swinging the blade around her own body, even.

As the fight progressed, Link was getting more used to her movements. If he could just find an opening in her fighting style…

Suddenly an idea comes to Link, as he backflips away from another slash.

"I will spill your blood, you annoying little elf!" she yells, having missed yet again. She gives another series of slashes, but as she tries to hit him with downward strike, Link suddenly sidesteps, and with a quick motion, sticks his sword on the inside of her ring blade, and with her added momentum, he gives a hard swing that causes Tira to be pulled off her feet. She has no time to contemplate what happened as she suddenly falls to the ground on her side, but surprisingly held on to her weapon.

Reacting quickly, she tries to get up to her feet, swinging her ring blade behind her, only for Link to swing it aside and tackle her hard, causing her to drop her weapon. They roll a few times on the ground in somersault motions, both trying to overpower the other. When their momentum stops, they find themselves with Tira laying down and Link on top of her, sword poised at her throat (A/N: Link's Power Roll throw, only the last part changed to holding the sword over her throat instead of slamming the sword into her).

When Tira gathers her bearings, her eyes widen in surprise. She was defeated…by this kid? The servant to Soul Edge, defeated by a child?

The thought swelled her with anger and humiliation, but the boy pushing the sword closer to her throat stopped her from moving. They stare into each other's eyes, both breathing heavily. Neither one making a move.

Tira's eyes suddenly turn into a defeated look, but is confused after half a minute with nothing happening. "Well? What are you waiting for? Kill me already."

Link doesn't move. Although he couldn't understand her, based on the change in her eyes and tone in her voice, he guessed she was wondering why he hadn't killed her yet.

Link, however, wasn't entirely sure what to do. While he knows she killed those guards, Link still didn't like to kill anyone. Slaying demons, beasts, an evil wizard, and evil mask spirits were one thing. Slaying a person was another, and as much as she might deserve it, Link couldn't bear himself with killing another person.

With a heavy sigh, Link slowly crawls off of her, much to Tira's confusion. She doesn't move, though, his sword still poised at her throat as he moved but still surprised at his actions nonetheless. Why didn't he kill her? His blade still pointed at her, he kneels down on her right side. He then gestures with his right hand towards Tira's waist, where the shard resides.

Tira, still laying down on her back, looks to where he was gesturing, her eyes widening before narrowing in understanding. He wants the shard for himself…but why not just kill her and be done with it?

Wait. Maybe…he doesn't want to kill her? Is he being…merciful?

She had heard of the term but never experienced it before. All she had been raised to do is kill, kill, and kill some more. This weird feeling is just so…different. And not sure if she likes it before another thought then came to her.

'Maybe he's never killed before?'

That would make sense. Only those who haven't killed would act like this. Maybe she can use that to her advantage…

It appears he wants her to grab it, though. Smart boy. That way she can't so easily grab his hand to try to escape. She slowly moves a hand up in a surrendering gesture, then slowly moves it to her waist with the shard hanging from it in a bag. She gently pulls it out of the pouch, slowly raising it up. Just as Link is about to grasp it…

"Maybe she's this way!" A shout causes Link to turn his head, a mistake Tira takes advantage of as she knocks Link off of her and rolls to the side. In her haste, the shard comes loose towards the cliff, landing ten feet from the edge.

She quickly gets up and heads towards the shard, grabbing her weapon in the process. Just as she thinks she's got it, another hand grabs it at the same time. She grunts in frustration as the boy and her struggled for control of it, their hands waving around in the air in the process.

Link finally is able to clasp it in his hand, but Tira grabs his wrist in return and tries to pry it with her other hand. Link does his best to resist, having sheathed his weapons to run at top speed. The two flail around, trying to gain control over the other and the shard. Finally, with a hard tug, Tira is able to wrestle the shard away. But in the process, she loses her balance, flailing around on one foot…right by the edge of the cliff.

"Oh no…Whoa, whoa. Come on, come on!" She tries desperately to steady herself, but the added weight of her weapon clasped to her back proves to be her literal downfall as she topples over the edge.

"No, NO-AHHHHH-UWAH!…uh…What?"

Tira looks down, and she's…not falling? She blinks a couple times, seeing her legs dangling before finally looking up to her savior. The boy was bent over the cliff edge, his left hand grasping Tira's wrist.

'What in the…the elf boy…saved me?' Why would he save her? A wave of emotions rushed through her as she tried to process what was happening, emotions she had never experienced before and flowed through her all at once.

'What are all these feelings? And why am I feeling them to begin with?'

The boy started pulling her up, which brought her back to reality. He seemed to have no problem pulling her up, which surprised her on the inside as to just how strong he was.

Soon, she finds herself back on solid ground, and is brought out of her thoughts as she feels the boy help her stand up. When she gathers her thoughts, she finds herself surprised to see them facing each other…and holding hands. Too stunned at what just happened, she just stares at the boy's surprisingly deep blue eyes, with equaling surprising concern and relief in his eyes, and a light blush on his face.

"Mah do wa okay?"

"Huh?"

Tira heard him speak that strange language again. Was he asking if she was alright?

"Over there! There she is!"

The two are interrupted by four guards who had finally caught up to them.

"Sorry kid, got to run!" She states as she abruptly shoves the boy off the cliff before running to the bridge. As she crosses, she looks down just in time to see the boy splash into the river below. She is suddenly filled with yet another emotion she never had before, and not a pleasant one. For some reason, her heart seemed to clench a bit in a way she didn't like. Just what is going on here?

"Stop her!"

An arrow whizzes by her head, jolting her out of her thoughts, followed by more arrows as she crosses the bridge. A guard tried to cross as well, only to have to jump back as Tira cuts the ropes off. The other guards pull their man to safety who had managed to hang onto the bridge when it fell. They briefly stare at Tira who stares back for a bit before they all look back down where the boy fell, but could find no sign of him. Did he survive? Did he drown?

And there was that strange feeling again. Once again, she tried to figure out what it was. It was so foreign to her, having never felt it before.

It was as if she feels…regret? Guilt?

'What is wrong with me? Why am I feeling this way?' She looks a little longer wondering about her feelings before taking off. Just as she disappears from sight, she realizes something is missing…

"The shard!"

She pats herself down, frantically looking around for any sign of it before realization hits her. The elf boy! But how could he have…Of course! While he was helping her up!

She remembered him pulling her up from the cliff—now she knows why he saved her—then helped her up to her feet, and then held her hands, which for some reason brought a small blush on her face, and then…that's it!

He took the shard while holding her hands! It was still in her other hand while she was hanging from the cliff, and he secretly took it before she even realized it!

"That sneaky little brat, taking the shard from me like that! Oh, master is going to be so disappointed in me!" she shouts dejectedly before turning away.

How did it get to this point? She steals the shard of Soul Edge as planned, kills many guards to her delight, even killed a strange warrior in magenta wearing a mask who didn't look to be the normal guards (still not sure who that was), escapes to the woods, then finds she was followed by a strange elf boy in green.

They fight with him winning (he was just lucky!), only for him to get distracted as he tries to take the shard from her. After a struggle, she gains the shard back only to fall off the edge of the cliff. Before she falls, the boy rescued her before she pushed him off and escaped across the bridge…without the shard.

That last thought filled her with a more familiar emotion. Anger. Now she has to figure out how to get that shard back. If she doesn't, the master will be most displeased, and one thing she does not like to do is disappoint her master.

"Tira will get you for this, you cute little elf boy! If you're not dead already, you soon will be! Mark my words...ELF BOY!"

As she escapes into the woods to plan her next move, one more confusing thought suddenly enters her mind.

"Did I just call him cute?"

A/N: What do you think? When it comes to my writing, I took inspiration from Sergio Leone's direction of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly where anything the camera sees is exactly what the characters see (with rare exceptions) and that it has a narrative but requires enough length to sufficiently tell the story. This also includes their thoughts. For example, when focusing on what Tira's thinking, I'll refer to Link as like "the boy" or "Elf Boy" and when focusing on Link, I'll refer to her as like "the girl in green" or "her" since they don't know each other's names at this point. Hope that makes sense.

Then I try to shorten it enough so it doesn't upset the flow of the story while not being too long. Please read and review and let me know how I'm doing for my first try :)

This is Agent Ghost-Writer 000 signing off.