Life, such a simple word, a word that we don't think about too often. I think about it though, and each time I do, it seems to become ever more vague. Sometimes I dream of a place where the walls are made of stone, and a river surrounds the walls. If I had to think about it, I'd say that it was a castle. There was a young boy, dressed in a green outfit. It looked kind of like cosplay, but that wasn't the focus. At least not for me, my focus was on the sky. It looked as if someone was falling, and it took me moments to realize that the person falling was me.
My consciousness shifted into my falling self, and I closed my eyes. This didn't feel like a dream, it was too real. I then felt a terror go through my mind, if this was real, I needed to do something before I hit the ground. My eyes shot open as I turned my body to face the ground. I looked at my right arm, and pressed a glowing square on my gauntlet. I started to glow as my falling speed began to increase. To most people, this would be bad, but because of how I was trained, it was the safest thing to do. When I was fifty meters from the ground, I pressed the gauntlet again, and my descent slowed down dramatically.
I rolled in the air, and landed on my feet. The boy that had been at the castle was climbing out of the moat of the castle, just as I landed on the ground, "Who are you?" I asked as I got into a fighting stance and summoned my sword from my gauntlet. This place was strange, and from the look on the boy's face, he didn't understand what I was saying.
A blue ball of energy came out of the boy's hat, and floated around me, "Your clothes are different from the locals of Hyrule, are you from another land?"
I took a step back, and tilted my head, "You can understand me?" I asked, still baffled by the fact that this ball of energy could talk, "What are you?"
"Isn't it obvious, I'm a fairy, and of course I can understand you. Fairies can understand everything, what surprises me is that you can hear me. Usually only Link can hear me."
"Link, the boy?" I took a deep breath as I pressed a few buttons on my gauntlet, "Can you tell him to speak to me, tell me his backround or what he was doing?" I turned on the active learning function of the gauntlet, letting the boy's words and syntax begin to form a translator for myself. When the Link finished telling his story, I could understand him, and hopefully he would be able to understand what I said via his fairy.
"My name is Kyle," I told the fairy, who translated for Link, "I don't know what I'm doing here, and I don't know where here is. Could you answer those questions for me?"
After the fairy translated to Link, he nodded, "We are in Hyrule, I don't know much about it since I've only been here for a few months myself. Most of the people speak a language Navi calls 'Hylian,' and I can't understand it without Navi's translation." Link crossed his arms as he looked at my gauntlet, "Is that your fairy?" he asked as he tilted his head.
"No-" I started, before stopping. If he didn't know what my gauntlet was, it probably meant that their technology wasn't advanced enough or that they weren't in large quantities on this world. Either way, it wouldn't be smart to share technologies with the surface society if they weren't as advanced as Skyloft's, "Yes, it is my 'Fairy." I dropped the subject by going to a different one, "What were you doing in that moat?"
"Princess Zelda threw her Ocarina in their so I could get it," Link answered as he brushed Navi away from him, "Quit that, you know that it isn't like that," he took a deep breath, "It seems Ganondorf is making his moves now, I need to get to the temple of time."
"Who is Ganondorf?" I asked, but was brushed off by the boy.
"I don't have time to keep answering your question," Link said as he ran across the draw-bridge, "Zelda needs my help, and the Temple of time is where I need to be."
I took a deep breath, as I started following him. I took my time, as I wasn't in much of a hurry. I watched as he ran up the steps to what looked like a church, "What the hell is so important that he just dashes off like that?" As I followed up, I started playing with my gauntlet trying to get my defense program to work, "Damn piece of junk, I should have exchanged you back at the boarding school."
I felt a rush of wind go past me, and looked up in time to see a man riding a black horse run up the steps and burst into the Temple. I sensed that the boy was in trouble, and cursed as I started running. It didn't take me long to get to the man. But I was pushed back by a blinding light. When I could see, I saw a pillar of light pulling Link into the air, and the dark man was approaching with his sword drawn, "What's with this world and swords?" I asked as I summoned mine, "Guess I shouldn't talk too much."
I ran past the man and stood in front of him, "What do you think you're doing big guy?"
Big was an understatement, this guy was nearly twice my size, and that was only counting his height. My entire body could fit inside of his arm, "Good going Kyle, real smart, defending a kid you don't even know. I hate being a knight."
The man said something that I couldn't understand, probably the Hylian language that Link talked about, then swung his sword at me. I angled my sword up as I blocked, sending his strike over my head. His strength though, despite his already enormous size, was unnatural, and I was sent flying backwards and into the pillar of light, "What in the hell?"
