The Legend of Zelda

Incarnations of Destiny

Grass Children

Chapter 1: A Shadowed Experience

A/n; Ok before you read this I should tell you that Zelda is not mine. It belongs to Nintendo. If you don't know Nintendo or the Zelda stop reading now. This story will not make any sense unless you know something about the Zelda series. I was inspired to write this when I saw Zelda UO on I'm writing this so that I can make a series like Zelda Uo. I don't have a Flash program, so this it's gonna be awhile before I get it finished. I am working a poorly done SlideShow version of it for those who want to see it. That's gonna take some time as well. Ok lets get to the story already.

The Forest of Korkaria, a mystical forest where once the inhabitants reach sixteen years old they stop aging. It's boundaries are forever protected by the great Deku tree. Anyone can leave, but none may enter unless the Deku tree has seen their existence fit for the forest.

Inside the forest lies the Lost Woods, a place where one turn could lead you into a never ending circle and the path to the great Deku tree. Many have died while trying to forge their way to the ancient tree. There are a select few who have made their way through even though they weren't Korkarian.

Link, whose past is written throughout history without Korkarian knowledge, has just turned eighteen and is celebrating with his two best friends Saria and Blaze. Blaze has backed Link up whenever he's needed help. Saria has also backed Link up, but she's been a very big mentor to Link as well. Training him in combat and strategy has been an assignment that the Deku tree gave to Saria about three years ago. Link has progressed beyond belief.

"Link!" Blaze yells while he trips over Saria's polestaff, tossing Link's cake into the air.

"Yeah?" Link responds as catches his friend. Saria jumps to save the cake.

"Where's the punch? All I can find are red potions. You sure have a lot of those things. Only one bottle though. You sure it's safe to put that much potion into your silver carrier? I know it has, like infinite space and sorts everything out so that it looks like each thing is in a container, but fifty red potions?'

"Link!" Saria yells. "When did you get a silver carrier?"

"UM...A week or two ago," Link replies while he blushes. "Sorry. I thought Blaze told you after I showed him."

"Oh yeah trust Blaze to tell me when he's always with Torze!' Saria starts to rant. "You could have told me during our training sessions! We one every single day! Why do you tell Blaze everything and just put me aside like an old boot!?" Saria falls to the ground and starts to cry.

Link bends down and holds Saria in his arms. "I'm sorry. It's just that when I'm with you, I try to focus on my training. I don't want to let you down."

Blaze looks at an orange slice and says, "Oh my goodness. He's right. They do look like kidneys."

"Way to ruin the mood Blaze," Link scolds. "Oh well. It's not like you love me right, Saria?"

Saria puts on a false smile and says, "Yeah right." She sighs and looks at the clock. "Link don't you think you should be getting to Mido's place?"

"Oh yeah, but I really wish he'd let it go," Link complains. " It was an accident. I didn't mean to knock him to the ground. I was training and he got in the way. He wanted to show off to you again, Saria. It's not my fault you're not interested in him.'

"Link that's not the point," Saria complains. "The point is, you have an opponent who's likely to be a challenge. Mido trains just to impress me I know, but he trains a lot." Saria gets up and opens the door. "Let's go"

"Wait!" Link exclaims. "You're coming? But, huh, but, I thought nobody was going to watch. Why are you coming?"

"Well yeah. I want to see how well your combat skills have really become.

"Hey! I wanna watch too," Blaze announces. "You can show me all the cool moves you've learned in your training."

"The only moves I know are the normal attacks." Link blushes. "Saria says that the Deku tree wants me to learn moves on my own."

"Yeah. It's kinda weird," Saria expresses. "He made sure that I knew cool techniques before I was teaching Link, but he told me that Link will never learn a single technique from me. He even told me to teach Link how to use a different weapon. Almost nobody ever uses broad swords anymore. They either want katanas or cool looking weapons." Saria and Link both sigh. "It's been very difficult teaching Link how to use a weapon that's so underused. Oh well. You've always been willing to do so much to get better on your swordsmanship. I'm very proud of you Link."

"Hey," Link says as his cheeks turn red. "You're making me blush." Link grabs his sword pack. "Well lets get this over with."

On the way to Mido's, the three friends are greeted by the other inhabitants of the forest. Hey guys, Wuzzup?, You seem excited today, and other comments are exchanged. Then, a girl runs out of a shop screaming, "HELP!"

Blaze runs over to her. "What's wrong Charisha?" then tells Link, " Go on. I'll take care of it."

"Show off," Saria whispers to herself.

"Huh?" Link asks.

"Oh nothing. Just talking to myself," Saria responds just as three deku shrubs block the path. "Oh great. Link, take the long way. I'll meet you there." Link tries to say something but Saria yells, "GO!"

Link jumps on to a tree then to an elevated path. He goes to charge forward but the path is blocked by a shadow figure. "Who are you!" Link asks.

"Ha! You don't even know your own shadow," the figure laughs. "How pathetic. I'm supposed to fear you? Ha! I don't know why it's been so hard for me to kill you. Oh well. It ends here." The stranger draws a sword identical to Link's and goes to attack Link, but when he gets within striking distance, the shadow is hit in the head by something.

As the figure falls to the ground, Link sees what he looks like. "Huh? He looks like...me." Link looks over to see who threw what and see Blaze holding a sack of deku nuts.

"Don't touch the baka!" Blaze yells, as Link looks back over to where the shadow fell.

"He's gone," Link whispers to himself. "He ran away Blaze! Lets go. Mido's going be mad that I'm late...again."

Link and Blaze get to Mido's house and see Saria giving him a bottle of red potion. "What happened? Blaze asks.

"Deku shrubs. A lot of them. I had to pull at least ten of them off of him. I'm sure more would have come if I hadn't showed up when I did."

"They jumped me ok. Ouch!" Mido complains as Saria grabs his arm. "That hurts"

"It looks like your arm's broken," Saris explains. "The battle's off you guys. It's late. You should go home, Blaze." Blaze looks at Link who nods, and Blaze starts to walk home. "Link, could you help me? He's not light you know." Link nods again and picks up Mido who does not like the idea at all. Saria and Link ignores Mido's complaints as they put him in his home.

Afterwards Saria and Link go to their training grounds and sit down to talk. They sit under a tree with very sturdy branches.

"So, Link, what took you so long? I mean Blaze caught up with you, so you couldn't have gone very far. You can't see the path from that way except for maybe fifty feet."

"Well," Link begins. "This dark, shadowy guy stopped me. He said that he's my shadow and that he's tried to kill me before tonight. He went to attack me, but Blaze hit him with a deku nut. The strange part is, he looked just like me except he's really like a shadow. Well maybe that part was just the night, but still he looked exactly like me, down to my hair style."

"That's very odd. Wait I just realized something," Saria announces. "I haven't seen Tricken, Navi, or Scorch since before your party."

"Me neither," Link replies. "I guess we were too busy to notice they were gone. Oh well. They probably went to do something for the Deku Tree."

"Yeah, I guess," Saria yawns as she rests her head on Link's lap. "Nice soft pillow," Saria says as she falls asleep.

Link's blushing at first, then he starts to drift into slumber as well.

When Link wakes up, the sun is starting to rise. Saria is already awake. "So romantic," she says with a soft, loving voice. "Link, there's something I've been meaning to tell you."

"Yes?" Link looks to her with a confused looks on his face.

"Um," She starts. "Link, I-"

"Well look who's up early," Blaze says from a nearby branch. He goes to jump off, but his foot gets stuck making him smash into the base of the tree. "Ouch!" Blaze smiles. " You know what? That really hurt!"

Link and Saria both laugh. "Wait. Saria, what were you going to say?"

Saria looks at Link then Blaze and blushes. "Oh nothing. Hey Blaze where's Scorch?"

"I dunno," Blaze responds. "I haven't seen him all day. The last time I saw any of the fairies, was right when the sun was setting.

A/N: Grass Children is the first book in the series. I haven't named the others though. It looks much cooler on my com. Oh well. I tried for you guys. R&R. It needs comments.