Disclaimer: I do not own the Zelda series, but if I did… Zelda and Midna would have had a happily ever after.

Author's Notes: This chapter is mainly all conversation. A word of caution before you waste your time reading it, unless you've played both Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess, none of this will make sense to you. This is basically to set the scene for the story I'm brewing, and I wanted to separate my FanFic from the rest by doing something new. So if you like it and find it interesting, great, but if not, no need to flame. Please R&R… constructive criticism is also appreciated.

Prologue

I wondered what Zelda could possibly want with me as I walked along the castle walls towards the courtyard.

Zelda had sent me a letter previously, requesting that I meet her here as soon as possible, she said there was something that needed to be sorted out, and that there was someone I had to meet.

All the while I was walking, I thought, "What could it be?" until I finally neared the archway that lead into the courtyard.

I could see Zelda standing there a short distance away, but she wasn't alone. She was talking to someone who had their back turned to me. He was wearing green clothes… much like the tunic I was currently wearing

"Interesting," I though, "Who could this guy be?".

"Link!" exclaimed Zelda as she spotted me entering the courtyard, "you've finally arrived!"

I returned the welcome with a smile and wave, and as I approached Zelda the man she was speaking with turned around to face me. What I saw completely caught me off guard. What I saw… was myself, or someone that looked a lot like me. There were only a few key differences between us. His hair was much blonder than mine; it was "pure" blonde. His face exhibited pointier features than mine… and he had these electric blue eyes that pierced strait through you.

But as much as we resembled each other, could the clothes just be a freak coincidence?

"Link," said Zelda,"… this is, Link. He's the one I wanted you to meet."

I stared with my mouth agape; she was behaving as if this sort of thing happened all the time. What was going on? Was she trying to pull a prank on me? If so, I was in no mood.

The man before extended his hand, "I'm sure your mind is filled with questions, and I bet I can provide you with some answers."

"Who are you?" was the first thing I said, even though Zelda had already introduced us. She was currently standing to the side looking back and forth between us, watching our expressions, smiling as if she had done a great deed by uniting us.

"My name is Link, incidentally… so is yours, and while I find this quite strange myself, I think that fact is just mere coincidence."

"Er, I don't follow."

"Well, what I mean to say is, we are by no means related, nor are we some kind of clones of each other. I was baffled myself when Zelda informed me of a new Hero that had my name and looked just like me, but between me and her, we have managed to piece together what all this means."

"And what is that exactly?"

"Link here," Zelda interrupted, "is a chosen hero by the gods, just like you."

I stared at them, as if that was supposed to suddenly make things clear to me, and then my look-a-like opened his mouth to begin explaining.

"Perhaps it would be more easily understood if we started at the beginning. When I was ten years old, I lived in a place called Kokiri Forest not far from here. Which is an enchanted place full of children that never grow up, but I was different, I was an orphaned Hylian, and out of all the children in this village, I was the only one without a fairy."

I nodded and asked, "Okay, but what does that have to do with me? Why do you look just like me? And where did you come from?"

He looked at me for a moment and then continued, "I've been gone for quite sometime, but rest assured this was not by choice, and I think my absence was the reason the god's chose you as the new hero in its time of need."

His remark almost seemed like he was implying that he was my superior, which irked me a little, but I was more interested than anything and continued to listen.

"Where did I come from? I've been in a place called Termina for I don't know how long. It is a different world, and I stumbled into it by accident. Time may behave differently in these two worlds as well, but for the most they seem to be concise, seeing as how Zelda and I are the same age before I left, and we're the same age now."

As absurd as his story sounded I did not doubt it one bit, I knew other worlds existed, I had visited one myself, one known as the Twilight Realm, but that was… before… before she left me.

I noticed that he was eyeing me, and I realized I had drifted off into my own thoughts, and quickly gave him my full attention again, only to hear Zelda speak.

"Link… um, the not-so-blonde Link, do you recall learning about how the Sages sealed Ganondorf into another realm? Only to discover it was the twilight realm?"

"Yes," I said. "I do."

"Well, "she added, "that was his doing. He and I were the ones who helped defeat Ganon and helped the sages seal him away."

"How is that possible?" I asked. "You two would be much older than you are now."

"Indeed," Link said, "I feel much older than I really am. You see, I started my quest at the age of ten, but I was seventeen when we finally finished it. That's because the sages forced me to fall into a slumber for seven years. And upon defeating Ganondorf, Zelda returned us to our own time, back when we were children. She did so... using this."

Link reached into his pocket and pulled out a shiny blue Ocarina. "This, " he said, "is the Ocarina of Time!"

I eyed the instrument suspiciously… it was beautiful, and I could almost feel its magical auroa.

Link continued, "It was through this instrument I was able to save the land of Termina, but afterwards I was stuck there, having no way of returning home. And so it was there I grew into adulthood."

"And meanwhile," said Zelda. "I was growing up over here, as well as you, but even so, during all of this, we had sealed Ganondorf in the twilight realm. And you know all about how he found Zant and used him to conquer the that realm, and trying to spread shadow across our own land."

I nodded, remembering like as if it were yesterday.

"But since the previous hero was currently stuck in some other world, the gods called forth a new hero, and that hero was you. The fact that the two of you resemble each other, and were given the same names, could have only been the work of the gods and their foresight in all of this."

A memory surfaced in my thoughts and something clicked, "The skeleton soldier! The one that taught me all those secret techniques! He told me about how there was a hero before me, a hero that had once worn these clothes! That must have been you!"

Link smiled, "I suppose I was, interesting to think about isn't it?"

I rubbed my forehead, it was a lot to soak up all at once, and I still found it hard to believe. Such a wild tale it was! But yet, it fits together, and it does make sense.

I exhaled out a long sigh, "So now that we got that straitened out, what becomes of all this?"

Zelda clapped her hand together and laughed, "Oh, how lucky Hyrule is to have two heroes instead of one!"

I looked from Link and then to Zelda, "Yeah, but one of us have to change our name, or come up with a good nickname."

My twin chuckled and put his arm around me, "Not a bad idea, but in the meantime, I want to hear all about what's happened while I was gone. I want to know of your adventures, and of this Twilight Princess."