The Pirate and the Hero
By: Wordsworth 13
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I do not own The Legend of Zelda
Chapter 1: Link & Tetra
The boy was stood at the prow of the boat, his hands resting on the railing. His bright blonde hair was flowing in the gentle breeze, and his turquoise eyes were scanning the waters before him, with the glint that only adventurer's eyes have. He was wearing an odd, floppy hat that made him look like some sort of imp, and a sleeveless green tunic, underneath which he wore a lime green shirt and a pair of white trousers. The reason for his unusual garb was that on one island, by the name of Outset, it became tradition for boys to be dressed in green, like the legendary hero of time, on their twelfth birthday, and it had been the boy's twelfth birthday when his adventures had began. Over his back, his family's wooden shield was slung and beneath that his sword, resting in its scabbard. On his right, a slender, silver wand; this was the Wind Waker, an artefact used in the manner of a conductor's baton, to play magical songs that controlled the wind, and other things like the time of day. His ears were long and pointed and all in all he had a rather elf-like appearance, but make no mistake, you'd be hard pressed to find elves anywhere on the Great Sea, he was a Hylian, and though the prosperous kingdom of Hyrule had not existed for a good hundred years it's people hadn't changed. The reason the kingdom hadn't existed for a century, was because the three goddesses had flooded it to keep it from falling into the hands of a man of great evil, and this was why the boy was sailing with a pirate crew, they were in search of the new Hyrule. He was thirteen, and it had been a year since he had defeated aforementioned man of great evil; Ganondorf, Gerudo prince and leader of the thieves, it had also been a year since he began his voyage alongside the crew's captain; Tetra, who happened to be at that moment, walking up behind him.
"Link," She said sternly "why aren't you working?" Link turned around, Tetra was dressed in her usual baggy white trousers, pale lavender vest and blue, sleeveless jacket, along with a red neckerchief and dark orangey-red piece of cloth used as a belt with a dagger wound into it. Also as usual, her blonde hair was up in what was probably the most incomprehensible bun ever, which rather resembled a snail shell. Her skin was tanned dark from a full thirteen years on the high seas and her deep blue eyes were glaring at him. She also happened to be the Princess Zelda of the De Hyrule bloodline, or for any layman who may be reading this story, the Hyrulian royal family. Admittedly, she was probably the only thirteen year old female pirate captain who also happened to be a princess on the Great Sea, though she didn't like her crew ever talking about the princess part.
Link was looking at her as if he hadn't understood the question. "Should I be working?" he said impassively. Link was a child with a logical mind, and the kind of person whom you can always read by their expression. "Yes." Tetra said matter-of-factly. "Oh really." Link said as if he'd just been told a piece of uninteresting news. The conversation really didn't go anywhere after that. After about fifteen seconds of silence Tetra asked "How do you get away with stuff like this?"
"Because I have this." Link said pulling the Wind Waker from his belt. What Link said was probably was true, thanks to that silver wand, the crew had sailed everywhere they needed to go at any point twice as fast as they usually would have. Tetra frowned slightly, pulling out a musty old sea chart. "We must have sailed every sector of the sea," she stated in a voice that reflected what she said next "we might never find the new Hyrule."
"Maybe it's under the compass." Link joked, tapping the small circle indicating north in the corner of the map. Tetra sighed, why did she let this idiot on board? Maybe it was because he was the first person to treat her like a friend instead of like a captain, maybe it was because he reminded her of the childhood she lost when her mother died and she had to take command of the galleon, maybe it was because he was drop dead handsome and she needed something to stare at, but I suppose all that mattered was it was the two of them, along with a bunch of smelly pirates, sailing the ocean, searching for a new land.
Suddenly the boat shook, only slightly. The two looked at each other in confusion. "Maybe it's a Gyorg." Link said, with no evidence behind the theory
"One Gyorg couldn't do that." Tetra said, just as dumbfounded as link, the two of them walked over to the starboard side, along the way Link commented "Well, maybe it's a seahat? I mean warships are uncommon." Looking over the side they just saw perfectly normal seawater; however the waves were a bit larger than normal. "That's weird." Said a bemused Tetra, "Senza, what's going on?" She yelled at the large bearded crewman
"Just some stormy weather, Miss Tetra, nothing to worry about!" Senza called back.
"Stormy?" Link said, slightly confused "The sky's about as dark as a fairy cake and you're trying to tell me we've hit stormy weather? You're off your nut!" The boat shook violently "On the other hand, we might just have hit some stormy weather." He said, checking the sky. It had about as many clouds in it as my sock drawer.
There was another huge rocking on the boat's part that sent Tetra and Link rolling to the port side. The only reason Senza wasn't falling about like a loon was the fact that he was holding onto the ship's wheel. "What the heck was that?" Niko, a member of the crew yelled out, after having rolled across the deck, still holding his mop. He was a short man of about forty with the same blonde hair as Tetra and a pair of uneven buck teeth. He glanced over and saw Link and Tetra "Good morning Miss Tetra," he said, then he turned to Link "mornin' Swabbie!" Link sighed, though he was no longer at the bottom of the hierarchy aboard ship, Niko still constantly referred to him as 'Swabbie', the position he filled the first time he was aboard ship.
"What the hell's going on?" Tetra asked no-one, "Storms are different than this, nothing's ever shook the ship like that." There was another jerk, flinging Link and Tetra against the rails. "Ow," Link groaned, then out of nowhere he felt something cold and wet land on his nose. He looked up to see a few more raindrops falling, leaving dark circles on the deck. Tetra looked up too "Let's get below deck; this storm's only gonna get worse," she said, standing up. At the worst possible time the ship shook again, leaving Tetra falling over the railings. "Tetra!" Link yelled, making a blind grab for her hand, and missing. Niko pulled himself up and grabbed his bucket, which had rolled towards him when the ship tilted. There was another tremor, Niko fell down and dropped his bucket which hit Link in the back of the head, which, combined with the now sloping floor sent him over the rails. Niko ran up to the side of the boat. "Uh, oops." He said to himself.
There it is. Chapter 1, rewritten thank you, with better descriptions and more accuracy you see when I first wrote the chapter I didn't own a copy of the game! Thanks to my two reviewers of my original chapter 1, hope you like this new one!