The Meeting of Darkness
Prologue
Today was just a normal day for Link, he was running in the Ordon forest, when he remembered the dreams he had been having, the dreams were horrible. He had remembered that he was looking in the water, and in the reflection he saw wasn't his. His eyes were weird, and the clothing was different, it was darker, it looked just like him yet it was nothing like him. Stopping at the stream to get a drink, he looked down the reflection he saw wasn't him. He screamed and then all was black. He awoke in his bed, "Dreaming of a having a dream, wow that's a new one" Link murmured to himself.
Chapter One.
Link was outside fixing up the area around his house when he was interrupted by a familiar voice.
"Link!", "Link do you have time to spend some time with me?" Ilia asked running towards him.
"No Ilia, I'm sorry i have to work at the ranch." Link told her.
"That damned Fado always making you work" She fumed.
"It's not his fault, he's not that young anymore" link said defending his friend.
"Yeah i know" She said sighing "its just that i wish that you could spend more time with your friends and family" She told him.
"Family? What family?" Link asked.
"Well you know what i meant" She said
."Alright well i better go before Fado gets angry.",
"alright, see ya later Link." she called out to him as he started running away.
"It's about time" Fado said chuckling to let Link know he was joking.
"Sorry about that" Link wheezed out of breath. "Got stuck helping rescue the baby cradle from the damned monkey again."
"Again? Maybe you should teach that monkey a lesson." he said
"With what? I gave up my sword after last time" link asked.
"I don't know, improvise."
"humph, that's easy for you to say, why don't you do it then?" Link asked defensively.
"Hey I was just saying, no need to get angry." Fado said starting to get defensive himself.
"Its ok, I'm just in a poor mood, didn't get much sleep" Link said.
"oh sorry to hear that, now link could you help me herd the sheep in the barn?" Fado asked.
"You just have so much trouble with those sheep don't you?" Link said laughing
"Yeah, they don't like me much." Fado replied seriously.
Link was now herding the sheep into the barn using his horse, while he was getting the last couple into the barn, one of them turned back and started running towards link. Running as fast as it could it ran right into link's horse. Link heard the crack as the horse fractured her legs. The horse fell, and link went down with her. Fado came running up,
"Damn it! It got away, you go catch it I will tend to the horse." Link got up and brushed the dust off of his legs and nodded, luckily he wasn't injured. Jumping the fence with ease he started into pursuit, after a while link saw where it was running, it was running towards the spring. When he got there he found the sheep sitting there drinking peacefully. He jumped forward and quickly tied the sheep to a tree. Walking forward he stopped and got a drink from the small stream going into the spring. after he had finished he looked down, and just like in his dream, he didn't see his own reflection.
"AAAHH" Link cried out and fell backwards, he pulled out his sword and stepped forward but it was only his regular reflection. "Maybe i was just imagining it" Link sighed in relief. Walking over to the sheep, he untied it and led it through Ordon Village back up towards the ranch.
"Another one? Man we need to fix those fences" The mayor commented. It wasn't a rare occasion that the sheep got out, and it wasn't rare that the mayor said that he would do something, and then never do it. The mayor was a pretty tough guy, but in all fairness he liked to get things done the easy way. He was known to have falsely won sumo matches in fact he passed on a few secrets to link, which he had only used grudgingly. Link just kept walking with his sheep, until he came across Fado.
"Well about time" Fado said, those words had become a daily phrase and link was already fed up with them.
"Fado not now!" Link fumed.
"Alright sorry i was just joking sheesh." Fado replied defensively. "Alright well I'll let you have the day off, since you've already done so much" Fado told link.
"Thank you i greatly appreciate this" Link happily said to Fado.
"Don't thank me, you earned it" Fado said patting link on the back.
"Oh yeah and your wages" Fado said handing Link an orange rupee. "Just don't spend it all in one place" He said chuckling.
"Don't worry i don't intend to." Link said chuckling.
Link didn't feel like talking to Ilia right away since he knew she was probably still mad at him for leaving her for work.
"Guess I'll pay a visit to Skull Kid" Link told himself. Running through brush and thick forest, he found his old trail again, after the mirror broke, Link decided to make a easier trail to access the temple of time and Skull Kid. Running along the rocky worn path he heard a familiar trumpet. Turning around he saw the skull kid,
"hehehehehe" The skull Kid laughed. "Will you play with me?" He asked link.
"Sure, i need to train some more anyways" Link answered as if he didn't already plan on it. Skull Kid blew a familiar note with his trumpet, up raised some puppets, they advanced on link. Link's instincts took over, his eyes dimmed but his hearing magnified. Eyes could be deceiving but ears weren't. He heard some rustling to the side, jumping to the right, he got hooked on his right shoulder.
"Damn it, link swore to himself, I should of anticipated that." He rolled to the left and just barely escaped a swipe at his torso. Pulling out his sword, he brought it over his head, when he brought it down he moved it to the side, and kicked the puppets legs out from under him. When the puppet was just trying to get up, link swept his sword down beheading the puppet. Showing off had cost him the ability to defend himself from behind though and he was brought down.
"Ahhh" Link growled, pulling out clawshot he targeted the top of a tree, he then pushed the release button that sent him up, but he had miscalculated his weight and distance, and had overshot, instead of landing on the tall branch he flew over it and landed on the ground beside. CRAACK! Link heard his shinbones snapping, pain as well as nausea rolled over him, he puked on the ground, spitting up blood, the last image he saw before passing out were the puppets converging on him. When he woke up he found himself in his bed, and a note written on some bark next to him that read I hope we can play again later - skull kid. "Wow, skull kid actually brought me into the village, its been years since he's been back. Of course he knew the town was probably in an outrage, it had been at least a year since anything interesting had happened and the towns folk made a huge deal over anything they could. he tried to sit up, but was racked with pain, looking down at his foot he saw it was crudely bandaged,
"wow the Skull Kid must really feel bad about this" Link thought.
A year ago when link first tried to claim the master sword the Skull Kid was ruthless and only cared about having fun. Link returned to the Skull Kid a year after his 'adventure' and taught the Skull Kid manners, and how to have fun without hurting people. Many people had warned Link that it was a lost cause and that they would never forgive the Kid for the crimes he committed. Some hundred years ago, the Skull Kid took a mask of power and had wreaked destruction on a neighboring kingdom known as Termania, the Skull Kid had been forgiven by the hero that link was linked to by ancestry and blood, and that was also the hero that defeated the possessive powers of the mask. However Skull Kid felt that he couldn't stay because of being so ashamed, he left for a place that no one would bother him at. A place fabled to be impossible to get through. That place's name was called the Lost Woods. Living there had granted the Skull Kid an abnormally long life, since the forest was enchanted by a great guardian spirit, and it was also the home of many fairies which could improve life times by hundreds to thousands of years. However the fairies would only heal those that were worthy, Skull Kid was the one exception though, they took pity on him and had became his friend, they didn't want a friend that would die, so they blessed him with the gift of immortality.
Snapping out of his thoughts Link remembered the dark reflection that he saw in the water, it bore a scary resemblance to himself, and that had unnerved him horribly. He was trying to find a way to get out of his house, he was located on the door level, but he couldn't get around without some crutches, link looked around and saw some crutches,
"Wow, I really need to do something for Skull Kid" Link said out loud.
"Well when you get better than come play with me" A voice called out from the story above the one he was currently on.
"Skull kid?" Link called out.
"What?" Skull kid called out.
"What are you doing?" Link called out in wonder.
"Making sure you get better, I haven't had anyone to play with lately, and the one person I did play with got hurt." Came a sniffle from above.
"Its alright, it was my fault anyways" Link reassured the sad boy, if you could call him a boy, He was much older and wiser than link, but he had many childish attributes.
"well than lets go on a walk, I'll get you accepted by the town in no time, just don't raise any of your puppets in town, or people will get scared and angry" Link instructed.
"Alright! But do you really think they'll like me?" He asked with a small voice.
"Sure, you did save a hero after all" Link said laughing, although link was very depressed a year ago, he learned to move on, every once in a while he would remember that sweet/sour imp that had changed his life. In face link couldn't remember when he had been so happy since he had started playing with Skull Kid.
"alright lets go", link said trying out his Crutches.
"Right behind ya" Skull kid said jumping down from the higher story of the house.