Chapter One: The Phone Rang…

Date-08/23/2001

Shawn Tessler, a 12th grade high school student, was the very image of what an Irish nerd would look like…6'8" of lanky tallness, fiery red hair that came down to his shoulders, more freckles than even God could count, and his fair share of pimple scars. Not the perfect looking man of course, but he's not bad looking either for his genetically dealt cards. Shawn was always one for jokes (crude or not), and had sarcasm that wouldn't quit. He was sitting with a 10th grade friend of his named Samantha Cussler. Samantha or preferred to be called Sam, was a 5'6" shoulder length strawberry blonde, played clarinet in the school's marching band, had a penchant for skipping classes, Blizzard RTSs and a slight violent streak that was latched tightly to her short temper and (like Shawn's) her abundant sarcasm.

Shawn and Sam played every morning Magic the Gathering with several other of their nerd friends in the cafeteria and tended to participate with the local nerd war with the YuGiOh players. So, after getting their table back from the YuGiOh players like they did every morning, the two sat down to have a 2v2 match with their friends Joey and Travis. After 30 minutes past the bell rang for classes to start and everyone packed up to head off.

"Sam, you actually goin' to your class today?" Shawn asked, raising his red haired eyebrow at the raging tomboy friend of his.

"Meh, I kinda have to. Found out that my PE teacher was actually a high school friend of my dad's, so dad found out that I was skipping PE and apparently they're watching me like a hawk." Sam grumbled angrily, she was athletic, but hated running in general especially when she could smell that her asthma would go into a hissy fit over that freshly cut grass on the track next to the field.

"Ha, sucks to be you huh?" Shawn said with a smirk, "I gotta head that way myself, so I'll walk with you if you want."

"You're just trying to keep me from runnin' off." Sam barked.

"You do need to get your education you know."

"MEH…The only plus I get with my crappy grades is that I don't have to march at my practices…and that's fine by me!" Sam said, laughing about her band director's lack of knowledge of her laziness. "Honestly, I don't even need to do that, I know all the music, I know all the moves…so I'm just protecting my poor fragile body from being overworked~!"

"Fragile my ass! You remember when that guy cheated on you and you found him in the cafeteria in the morning? You had him pissing himself!" Shawn barked at Sam, waving a finger at her as they were walking towards Sam's PE class.

"Heh, I'm surprised it was still working after a kick like that…I loved the slow motion flying he did~!" Sam said with an evil grin. "Oh…and he deserved it." She added as an afterthought as though that wasn't the first reason why she kicked the poor guy into the air by his groin.

"Girl, you can be a bitch sometimes…no wonder guys are afraid to date you." Shawn sighed.

"I try." Sam said with a smirk.

"Yeesh…"

The two arrived at the PE classroom and realized that the class was already at the track. Sam sighed and put a hand over her face. "That's it, I'm skipping, I'll feel Dad's wrath later and be grounded for a year and a half now. I got my books and art stuff to entertain me, so I'll be set until the eternity of lockdown is over." Sam snapped.

"Wait, you're saying that you don't want to go because they're already at the track?" Shawn balked.

"Duh! I'd have to go running to get into my PE clothes which is MORE work than I wanted to do, plus, they cut the grass today! …I'll just hide myself in a bathroom until next class." Sam said, wrinkling her face as she tried to think through a plan.

"NO. You're going to class. I don't want you to be grounded for more than the year that you already are for this stuff!" Shawn snapped, grabbing Sam by the shoulders and starting to push her towards the locker rooms.

"You're not the boss of me!" Sam yelled, squirming away from Shawn's grip.

"I'm bigger than you; I can carry you to the locker rooms."

"What, you're gonna go into the girl's locker rooms and make me? Perv." Sam barked, her cheeks going red slightly at the infuriating idea of people seeing her being carried by Shawn towards the locker rooms.

"No, I'll just push you in and hold the door shut until you're changed!" Shawn said, his voice rising with the argument.

"What about you're class? You might as well skip it with me if you're gonna do that!"

"Well I-uh…" Shawn paused, realizing what Sam was saying. "Damn you, why do you get me in trouble when I'm trying to get you to do the right thing?"

"I'm just awesome like that." Sam finished, knowing she had won the fight. Shawn knew that she'd just hold out inside the locker room until the class was over and that Shawn was too much of a ninny to come in and risk seeing something that would get him hurt.

"Damn…fine. You win. I guess let's go somewhere that you won't be caught by the damn PE teacher." Shawn grumbled, pushing Sam by the back of her neck away from the classroom door.

"Eeeeee~! This is gonna be fun! I've never had anyone actually ditching with me before!" Sam squealed happily. "Okay, so I say we have a fight between my sliver deck and your forest deck! You won by fluke the last time and I wanna rematch!" Sam said, planning out how the entire time of the class period would go.

"Sam I dunno if we should be so lax about this, you know we can get in serious trouble if we're caught!" Shawn said, making Sam's happy mood go away.

"Shawn, don't tell me you're worried about being caught…don't worry, I got a place I usually go when I'm not in the bathrooms." Sam said jabbing her finger towards the sky.

"…I hope it's not where you're pointing." Shawn said, following the direction her pointer finger was jabbed.

"Shaddap Shawn and follow me!" Sam barked running towards the back of the English buildings. As they turned the corner a bright light flashed as suddenly an enormous hole opened under the two and they dropped through the floor.


The two were screaming loudly as they realized they were several miles in the air, falling to their death as the ear throbbing wind pounded on their eardrums. A man that was fishing in the lake looked up to see a rather tall male slam into the lake. "What in the world was that?" He balked, seeing that the lake was calming down from his impact. Shawn gasped for air and couldn't believe he was alive, "Huh? Sam? Sam! Where are you?" He gasped; looking down in the water he saw a small glowing figure. "…What the hell is that?" he took a deep breath and dove under. When he got to the small figure he realized it was a small glowing female he couldn't tell who it was due to his vision underwater being subpar. Quickly swimming to the surface he gasped for air again and slowly moved towards the edge of the lake.

"My goodness, son; where the heck did you come from?" The fisher asked, staring at the soaking wet Shawn. Shawn's attire had changed considerably; he was wearing a small green cap that was tapered at the end that made it look like a triangle if you were to hold it by the end. He was also wearing a tunic that was much too small for his physique and height; it was showing most of his stomach. Luckily he was wearing the proper pant size and shoes. Shawn held the small figure in his hand and shrugged at the fisher.

"Sir, I couldn't tell you to be honest, I don't even know where I am." Shawn said. "And what the heck are these clothes?" he gasped, taking off the hat, he realized that he had yet to figure out who the small figure was! Looking closely he realized that it was Sam only she had sprouted wings and was glowing blue. "What the heck, Sam?" he gasped. "Sam! Are you all right?"

Sam coughed up water and gagged a bit, sounding like she was about to throw up in Shawn's hand which caused him to grab her by the wings and pull his hand away from range. "Ow! That hurts! Let me go!" Sam yelled, having finished her coughing and hacking. Shawn put her back on his hand and stared at her.

"Sir, do you know what this is supposed to be?" Shawn asked, pointing at Sam.

"That's a fairy, I'm surprised with that garment you wouldn't know that!" The fisher replied.

"Oh dude! This is Lake Hylia!" Sam exclaimed, laughing as she recognized certain landmarks from her N64 game. "So what the heck are we doing here? And why am I a frickin' fairy?" Sam barked.

"I'm not sure miss, you and your comrade just fell into the lake while I was here minding my own business." The fisher explained to Sam handing her his handkerchief to dry herself off. "I'm sorry I don't have anything for you to dry off with my boy." He added to Shawn.

"Ah it's all right. I'm sure I can find something to change into." Shawn said with a smile. "Thanks though."

"You might be able to get a replacement for that tunic of yours from a nearby shop, I would say just head towards Zora's Domain, but unfortunately…due to some uncontrollable events they are all frozen under ice.

"So I take it, that somehow when we landed here, we ended up after Link had opened the Door of Time." Sam whispered to Shawn having handed back the handkerchief to the fisher before this conversation. "I know this decently, buuuut….I've kinda got a crappy sense of direction and because I've been grounded for as long as I have, I don't remember too much." She added with a frown.

"We'll figure it out. Thank you sir for the information you had." Shawn said, stuffing Sam into his hat for a few seconds so that he could take off the small tunic he was sporting.

"HEY! WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL?" Sam screamed, kicking and flailing as she tried to get out of the hat. "It stinks in here! Get me out! NOW!"

"Chill out Sam, I was just putting you in there in case you didn't know how to fly yet! I'm just taking off this damn shirt!" Shawn barked.

"I'm sure I can fly just fine!" Sam snapped angrily as Shawn let her out. She putted around for a few seconds before having to be caught by Shawn. "Okay, I'm still getting used to it. AND DON'T SAY A WORD." Sam ordered, jabbing her finger at a snickering Shawn.

"I would suggest going to the village near the castle going west. That village remains mostly untouched by the dark forces for now." The fisher added to the arguing pair. "Try to get there before dark if you don't want trouble."

"Thanks old man!" Sam added waving.

"Don't call him that!" Shawn hissed.

"What… he is!" She whispered back, causing the man to chuckle.


"You know, if you had just listened to me about the detour we'd have gotten there with plenty of time to spare I know this place inside and out!"

"You just got done telling me a few minutes ago that you had crappy directional skills!"

"Well I'm better than I thought!"

"Yeah right…anyways, we're here. Where can we get some clothes?" Shawn asked, looking around the village.

"Not sure Einstein, use those Irish senses why don't you?" Sam grumbled angrily.

"Some help you are, and what happened to you being all knowing?" Shawn jabbed with a grin at his fairy friend. "You know it's not nice to lie, I'm sure that's against the fairy code somewhere."

"OH SHUT UP!" Sam yelled, jumping up and pulling at Shawn's ear causing him to howl loudly and gain the attention of everyone in the town.

"Are you biting me? OUCH! Get off! If I get rabies because of you I'm going to kill you!" Shawn yelled loudly, running around trying to get Sam off his ear.

"Do you two need some help?" An overweight woman walked up laughing at the pair's antics.

"Actually yes, I need a shirt and some bug spray!" Shawn said, jabbing his thumb at Sam for the bug spray comment.

"Oh you bastard, already on the bug jokes huh?" Sam growled, biting down hard on Shawn's ear again to make him yelp loudly in pain.

"Ha ha, if you need a shirt, I think I have something you can have, and I'm sorry but I don't know anything about bug spray…" The woman replied. "Please, follow me."

Well, this is actually based off a dream that I had when I was in high school that I never got around to putting into story form. I'm not sure if I wanna finish this, but if enough people like it, then I'll probably continue schedule allowing. Please leave comments about this and let me know if you want me to update!