KKD: Now this is a nice new chance of pace. A new rider crossover not related to Sonic, Megaman, or an official rider for that matter. And at the moment, no theme, which right now seems to work better for this story. And to help me out here, is a fan who really knows his Zelda… and yes, I did say Zelda.
Pikatwig: Yeah. Hey readers, it's me.
KKD: Yep, my famous co-author who helped me with stories like SSESG, Mega Kamen Rider Gaim, and Pokemon Neo is back for our first original rider team-up. Just so you Zelda fans know, we're going to start things off with the most crucial game in the Zelda timeline: Ocarina of Time.
Pikatwig: Yep. Let's roll.
KKD: In that case, let's cue the usual obligatory disclaimers.
DISCLAIMERS: The only things Pikatwig and KKD own are the original rider concepts that'll appear throughout this story. The rest belong to Nintendo, Shigeru Miyamoto, and their respective owners.
One day, in Kokiri Forest, we see a small blue fairy flying around, looking frantically for someone, but who exactly was currently unknown. It then flew into a small house and saw a boy asleep, and then thumped him on the head. "Hey! Wake up! HEY LISTEN!"
"Ugh… what? Who's that annoying voice?" the boy groaned as he sat up in bed, revealing to be wearing a sort of green tunic, like most everyone in the forest, but his hair was blonde and he had a green hat that was leaning toward his back. In his hand was some sort of buckle. "Huh? ...What's this? I don't remember having this when I went to sleep."
The item he held resembled some sort of belt buckle that was mostly black with a silver trim, and had an upside down ocarina shaped slot in it. Why anyone would put such a slot into something that could be put on someone's waist was far beyond the boy's current comprehension. Yet, he also saw on one side of it a large triangular symbol that was composed of four separate triangles, three of them being a bright yellow while the one in the middle was upside down and black like it was a hole.
"Hey. I'm Navi," a voice said.
"Huh?" the kid responded before looking and finally spotting the blue fairy flying in the room. "Did you give me this?" the boy asked.
"Nope, that was in your hands when I got here," Navi replied. "By the way, what's your name?"
"Link," the boy answered.
"Nice to meet you," Navi replied.
"What do you want?" Link asked.
"The Great Deku Tree wants to talk to you!" Navi answered.
"Really? ...I highly doubt the Great Deku Tree would want to talk to someone like me," Link sighed, getting back into bed.
"Hey! C'mon! Get up! Can Hyrule's destiny really depend on such a lazy boy?" Navi gawked.
"What's that mean?" Link asked.
"The Great Deku Tree told me a great hero will link together the future and the present, show great courage in conjunction with wisdom to stop evil power, yet known will know his face, a kamen hero," Navi relayed something the Great Deku Tree told her. "...or at least something like that, even I couldn't understand all the details. In any case, like I said, the Great Deku Tree has summoned you Link."
"Alright… I guess we should get going then," Link figured, placing the strange belt buckle into his back pocket.
"Alrighty, let's go Link," Navi said.
"Okay," Link nodded checking his supplies before going outside.
"Hey look, it's the Fairy Hero!" one kid said.
"No Boomer, he's not a fairy!"
"Pointy ears, tights, magic," Boomer said gesturing towards Link, and then he added "And look at that hair, fairy."
"Do the Kokiri always talk about you like this?" Navi whispered to Link.
"You have no idea," Link replied.
"Sorry Link," the other boy said.
"No problem Cloud," Link replied as he soon saw a girl about his height in a similar outfit, but with green hair and had blue eyes.
"Hi Link!" the girl waved as a green fairy hovered near her.
"Saria!" he said with joy.
"Looks like the Fairy Hero's in love," Boomer noted.
"Boomer! Knock it off!" Cloud snapped.
Link and Saria just giggled at the two as they walked off.
"So I see you finally got a fairy," Saria noticed, referring to Navi, she then looked at his sort of blank look. "Did you have that dream again?"
"Yep," Link replied.
"Dream? What dream?" Navi asked.
"I turned into some sort of armored warrior, and then battled something off, I even got completely impaled and shrugged it off like it was nothing! That's kinda nerve wrecking. After that, however, I remember being outside some castle seeing some guy take it over followed by some girls on a horse riding off out of the castle to who knows where," Link explained.
"Wow…" Navi said confused.
Link sighed and then Saria smiled, and comforted him.
"Relax Link. Everything's going to be okay," Saria assured.
"Thanks…" Link replied, before he recalled part of that armored hero from his dream, and then pulled out the buckle.
"Huh? Where'd you get that Link? For that matter what is that?" Saria wondered.
"...I don't know for sure… but I think this had to do with that armored warrior I became in my dream," he answered.
"Hmm…" Saria replied.
"Saria?" Link asked seeing Saria in a sort of thinking pose.
She then handed him an ocarina. "Here, take this."
"Really?" Link gawked but still taking the ocarina.
"Happy birthday," Saria said with a smile.
"Oh right… it's my birthday, I forgot," Link said sheepishly.
"Well, consider this your birthday present from me," Saria smiled at Link who blushed in response.
"Link and Saria sittin' in a tree," Navi began. "K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes love. Then comes marriage…"
"Then comes Navi with a pair of black eyes if she don't shut 'er yap!" Link responded.
Saria then began to laugh.
"S-Sorry about that, Saria," Link apologized.
"That was kinda funny," Saria said.
"...Really?"
"You got a good aibou," Saria replied.
"...Thanks… I guess…" Link blushed before recalling he remembered he had to meet with the Deku Tree. "See ya later Saria-nee-chan."
"Jaa ne," Saria replied as Link rushed off towards where he knew the Great Deku Tree was, but he was blocked by another Kokiri.
"Move it Mido," Link said annoyed.
"Not a chance Link. If you want to see the Great Deku Tree, you should at least equip a sword and shield," the Kokiri now known as Mido replied, basically blocking Link's path.
"That might be a good idea Link. We'd better go find those weapons," Navi suggested.
Link groaned annoyed as he walked off to go and get those items. It took a bit of exploring, but he found a small sword of sorts, known as a Kokiri Sword, and after finding enough Rupees, he managed to buy a wooden shield at a small shop.
Soon he walked back over ready to pass through.
"Take a look at what I got now Mido," Link smirked as the Kokiri took notice of the items.
"Okay… so you have a Deku Shield and… what's that? Is that the Kokiri Sword?!" Mido gawked. "GOOD GRIEF! Well, even with all that stuff, a wimp is still a wimp, huh?"
"Oh shuddup!" Link yelled.
"Now you listen here! I, the great Mido, will never accept you as one of us!" Mido shouted back. "But shoot! How did you get to be the favorite of Saria and the Great Deku Tree? Huh?!"
At that, Mido just grumbled while Link smirked at the sight. And then, Mido finally moved, allowing Link passage towards the Great Deku Tree.
"Finally," Link sighed with relief as he began his way down to the Great Deku Tree.
"Well, what do you wanna do now Navi?" Link asked as they walked along the route.
"What do you mean?" Navi asked.
"Something to pass the time as we walk to the Great Deku Tree."
"Oh! Well… how about…" Navi started before some large plants suddenly burst out of the ground, surprising them. "DEFEND OURSELVES FOR ONE! Good thing you got the sword and shield when you did Link. Just be careful of these Deku Babas. Though they look withered, they will hurt you if you touch it!"
"Whatever," Link replied annoyed as he charged up an attack, and then spun around.
He did the same to each Deku Baba and got himself some Deku sticks in return; figuring he could use them for later, he shoved the sticks into his back pocket.
"Hey, listen up, there are going to be many foes along the route, so you must remain vigilant!" Navi informed.
"Really? Thanks for lettin' me know, now keep quiet and let me handle the battles!" Link snapped in annoyance, even though the first part was sarcastic.
Navi sighed as they moved forward, and it wasn't long before they reached a giant tree with some sort of face, and that face made it look like it had a mustache.
"Great Deku Tree, I'm back!" Navi announced to the tree.
"Oh… Navi… Thou hast returned…" a voice spoke, which Link somehow knew came from the tree. "Link… Welcome…"
"Thanks for assigning me the fairy, even though she kinda needs to learn how to zip it at times," Link replied.
"You are welcome, but now is not the time of thanks; you need to listen carefully to what I, the Great Deku Tree, am about to tell thee…" the tree informed Link.
"Alright, go ahead," Link said, ready to listen.
"Thy slumber these past moons must have been restless, and full of nightmares…" the Deku Tree started. "As the servants of evil gain strength, a vile climate pervades the land and causes nightmares to those sensitive to it… Verily, thou hast felt it..."
"Okay…" Link said, assuring he was listening.
"Link… The time has come to test thy courage…" the Deku Tree continued. "I have been cursed… I need you to break the curse with your wisdom and courage. Dost thou have courage enough to undertake this task?"
"If you're giving me a mission, I'm ready! Oh, but I have one question for you, what is this?" Link said, taking out the buckle.
"That young Link is known as the MusiDriver. Only those worthy enough will find themselves with such an item. If thou hast the required musical instrument, thou canst transform into a powerful masked warrior," the tree spoke. "Is that all thou wishst to know before thou undertakes the task at hand?"
"Yea! If I have to do something big, I'll do it!" Link assured.
"So you can impress that Saria girl?" Navi teased.
"Shut up. She's more like a sister," Link informed as the "mouth" of the Great Deku Tree opened up, revealing a passage inside.
"Then enter, brave Link, and thou too, Navi…" the Great Deku Tree replied. "Navi the fairy… Thou must aid Link… And Link… When Navi speaks, listen well to her words of wisdom…"
This latter part made Link groan, but he had to take on the task, so he walked inside the Great Deku Tree, ready to purge him of this curse.
"MusiDriver?" Link asked himself. "What kind of name is that?"
"Dunno, try putting your Ocarina in it, looks like it'll fit," Navi pointed out.
"Gee… like I didn't see that before…" Link noticed sarcastically as he put the Ocarina into the buckle, but nothing big happened. "...Nothing happened."
"It's a buckle, so put it on your waist," Navi added.
Link just groaned, placing the buckle onto his waist, and all that really happened was the fact that a belt wrapped around his waist.
"Whoa!" he gasped seeing this happen.
"Wow…" Navi said amazed.
"So what's this feature for?" Link wondered aloud, he then noticed symbols the bottom of the ocarina, sorta like music notes. "That's odd. Never seen those."
"We'd better get moving for now Link, we have to save the Great Deku Tree!" Navi responded.
Link gave a small sigh as they walked off. As they walked around, Link battled some new Deku Baba varieties, collecting Deku Nuts as well as a slingshot for later purposes.
After much exploration, Link and Navi arrived in what Link could only assume to be near the center of the Great Deku Tree, then suddenly, the passage behind him was closed tight.
"Oh great, we're locked in," Link groaned as he let the Boss Key slip out from his waist, and he saw a song tune.
"Eh?" he asked himself, as he noticed the MusiDriver depicted above it. "What's this mean? ...Do I have to play that on the Ocarina somehow?"
Then Link remembered the buttons that were representing the music notes to play on an ocarina. He figured out what that meant and pressed the buttons in the following order: left, up, right, right, A, down.
With that, the ocarina seemed to replay the song he entered and Link's driver began to glow.
"What the?! Um… Henshin!" he announced before the wind picked up and he was covered in leaves at first, but they merged and formed some sort of armor on his body, making him resemble some kind of knight, but his helmet more or less resembled his normal head with the exception of the front which was a silver color and the eyes were a bright green like his normal clothes and his main armor color now. "Whoa! This… looks and feels familiar…"
"Wow…" Navi said amazed.
Suddenly, Link felt his sense of hearing was greater than before and he heard something crawling on the ceiling. He looked up and saw some freaky spider creature with an orange eye with a strange green pupil.
"Hey Link, LISTEN!" Navi shouted.
"Not now Navi! I know this is dangerous! I can handle this!" Link responded before the creature jumped down to the ground and made some kind of screech, and across Link's vision he seemed to see some sort of label to the creature, the text calling it "Parasitic Armored Arachnid Gohma."
"Hey LISTEN! This thing is called a Parasitic..." Navi began before Link spoke in unison with the fairy.
"Parasitic Armored Arachnid named Gohma," they said in perfect sync, surprising Navi.
"Wait… how'd you know that?" Navi gawked.
"The armor told me somehow," Link replied.
"Weird…" Navi noted before they saw Gohma stare at them and Link got into some kind of battle pose.
"Bring it on you freaky arachnid," Link growled as he ran forward to attack.
"Well… I just need to help him somehow. OH, I'll give him battle advice. Hey LISTEN! You can harm this thing with your sword, and then-" Navi shouted when...
"I THINK I know how to use a sword Navi!" Link shouted back, already trying to use the Kokiri Sword on the parasite's legs, but it wasn't doing anything.
"I was going to say you have more inventory to use, you cut me off!" Navi yelled.
"Well then, any ideas in how to hurt this thing?!" Link asked, dodging attacks like he never had before as he showed off what agility the armor granted him.
"Try the Deku Nuts!"
Link then tried to use the nuts, but it didn't do anything to the parasite… well it actually did a little damage but not enough.
"Wait… Deku, what else do I have that's Deku… ah!" Link realized before pulling out a long Deku Stick. "The Deku Stick should work!"
And with that, he swung the stick, actually hitting the parasite in the eye, dealing it more damage than he could with the sword or nuts.
"That seemed to do the trick! Now find a way to finish it off before it recovers!" Navi shouted.
"Right!" Link shouted playing Right, A, Right, Left, Down, Left.
This time, when the song played, he felt and saw a huge force of green energy channel into his left leg, and Link figured he could finish Gohma off with a powerful kick. So he charged, jumped into the air, and executed a flying drop kick to the parasite's eye, dealing it so much damage that it exploded with blue flames.
"Hey Link, come and look over here!" Navi shouted as Link saw that Navi was looking at something showing him in his armor. "The adventure transcending time shall begin with a hero and his fairy, armed with the MusiDriver and an Ocarina, he'll fight with great courage, to link the future to the present, the hero known as Kamen Rider Cal," Navi translated the ancient text on the wall.
"Kamen Rider… Cal? ...Link the future to the present…" Link muttered trying to process all this.
"It appears you're this Kamen Rider it speaks of Link," Navi figured.
"Why Cal?" he asked himself.
"Well… the item is called the MusiDriver, I can only assume they simply split musical into two words," Navi guessed.
"...I guess… so I guess I got a greater task than I first thought… but… what do we do now? I mean… how do we get out of here?"
As if on cue, a glowing blue circle on the ground appeared behind them.
"That's our way out!" Navi pointed out flying over to the circle.
Link shrugged his shoulders before following Navi to the circle, and then he was lifted into the air before being dropped down, outside the Deku Tree.
"Well done, Link…" he heard the Deku Tree speak. "Thou hast verily demonstrated they courage… and thou hast proven that thou art the one known as Kamen Rider Cal. I knew that thou wouldst be able to carry out my wishes… Now I have yet more to tell ye… wouldst thou listen…?" the Deku Tree requested of Link.
"Sure," Link replied as he removed his Ocarina from the Driver, reverting to normal. "...But that'll take some getting used to."
So, Link put the Driver and the Ocarina away before sitting down to listen.
"Now… listen carefully…" the Great Deku Tree began again. "A wicked man of the desert cast this dreadful curse upon me…"
Now this shocked Link, he knew no one from any desert, but that was just a terrible thing to do. And yet… somehow… his thought almost lingered back to his dream… he somehow remembered a dark skinned, red haired man in traditional silver and black armor with a red cape riding a black horse.
"... you mean, the man riding a black horse in my dreams?"
"Correct… This evil man ceaselessly uses his vile, sorcerous powers in his search for the Sacred Realm that is connected to Hyrule…" the Deku Tree continued. "For it is in that Sacred Realm that one will find the divine relic, the Triforce, which contains the essence of the gods… You see… before time began, before spirits and life existed… Three golden goddesses descended upon the chaos that was Hyrule… Din, the goddess of power… Nayru, the goddess of wisdom… and Farore, the goddess of courage… Din… with her strong flaming arms cultivated the land and created the red earth. Nayru… Poured her wisdom onto the earth and gave the spirit of law to the world. Farore… with her rich soul produced all life forms who would uphold the law. The three great goddesses, their labors completed, departed for the heavens. And golden sacred triangles remained at the point where the goddesses left the world. Since then, the sacred triangles have become the basis of our world's providence. And the resting place of the triangles has become the Sacred Realm."
"Wow… so… these golden triangles on the MusiDriver… is this some sort of representation of the Triforce?" Link asked.
"...Yes. But the MusiDriver was not made in Hyrule. But rather… another realm, named Lorule," the Deku Tree replied.
"...Lorule?" Link repeated in his confusion.
"I am afraid I do not know everything about the origins of the MusiDriver, but I can tell ye this: Thou must never allow the desert man in black armor to lay his hands on the sacred Triforce… Thou must never suffer that man, with his evil heart, to enter the Sacred Realm of legend… That evil man who cast the death curse upon me and sapped my power…" the Deku Tree continued, shocking Link with what else the desert man did. "Because of that curse, my end is nigh…"
"NO!" Link and Navi gasped in horror.
"Though your valiant efforts to break the curse were successful, I was doomed before you started… Yes, I will pass away soon… But do not grieve for me… I have been able to tell you of these important matters… This is Hyrule's final kibou…" the Deku Tree informed as Link stood up. "Link… Go now to Hyrule Castle… There, thou will surely meet the Princess of Destiny… Take this stone with you. The stone that man wanted so much that he cast the curse on me..."
At that, a gold decorated emerald hovered down into Link's hands. It was the Kokiri's Emerald.
"... Great Deku Tree… sayonara," Link said.
"The future depends upon thee, Link… Kamen Rider Cal… Thou art courageous… Navi the fairy… Help Link carry out my will… I entreat ye… Navi… Good… bye…" the Great Deku Tree spoke its final words before the leaves on it's head fell off and it's bark darkened and grayed so it was obvious the Tree had died.
KKD: ...Rest in Peace Great Deku Tree…
Pikatwig: True… so, what did you think of Navi for the starting chapter?
KKD: ...Well I found her quite amusing for this chapter. Annoying as expected, but still she added in the humor and actual help when it was needed.
Pikatwig: That's the idea.
KKD: I see that. Well, next time, things are only gonna get crazier as Link heads off for Hyrule Castle. Anything you like in particular before I end this off, aibou?
Pikatwig: I liked Navi's teasing Link and Saria.
KKD: Yea, that moment was hilarious. I have to give kudos to one WhiteBladeZero of YouTube for getting me into The Legend of Zelda with his Let's Play of this game and that bit which was done in another video of his. I highly recommend you check out his work, he seriously need more subscribers and view for his videos.
Pikatwig: Just Live More.
KKD: Jaa ne!