Chapter 1-The Storm
Lightning flashed through the sky as the rain poured from the sky in buckets. Somewhere in the forests of Hyrule, a young woman tightly holding her young son who was about 2 years old in a green blanket was running away from the looming darkness that dared to swallow them both. Running through the forest with her long flowing dirty blonde hair whipping at her face wearing a tattered green dress. She suddenly tripped and fell, embracing the young boy in her arms, protecting him from harm. "Mommy, I'm scared," the young boy said, and started to cry and his mother's soothing words were the ones that always calmed him; "Shhh Link. It's okay, mommy will always be here for you. I'll protect you, shhh…" she stroked him affectionetaly and the crying ceased.
However, a young man burst through the trees burning with fury. Darkness just seemed to emanate from him and the temperature dropped as he approached. "Ganon!" the woman screamed in fear as she protectively encircled her arms around Link while staring up at the man with gray skin, blazing red hair dressed in black with piercing blue eyes. "I finally caught you Eileen, wife of the one who enslaved me and stole your heart from me!" he said menacingly as red lighting cackled overhead. "Leave us alone!" cried Eileen inching away from him slowly. "Why should I? The thing I failed to get from that child's father I will get from the child himself!" he laughed maniacly as he raised his gloved right hand in the air, the emanating glow of the triforce of power shining through. Just then, Link's little right hand glowed with the triforce of courage in reaction to the triforce of power. Eileen's eyes widened. The only way the triforce could have appeared on Link's hand was if her husband was…tears started to stream down her face as the wind howled into the night. Ganon walked over to the helpless woman and her child on the ground and raised his hand, which was glowing with dark magic. "This will put an end to the family that has interfered with my plans and give me what is rightfully mine…divine power!" "NO!" cried Eileen as she shielded Link with her body waiting for the end. However, she was pushed out of the way, away from her child as Ganon struck Link with a killing blow. The young boy screamed in his pain as blood was scattered everywhere. Eileen's eyes widened at having to witness her son so close to death with only a few seconds left. Suddenly, Link started to glow green and a figure of a woman with long flowing green hair, which looked like the color of grass in the spring, was facing Ganon. "You will leave this place if you value your life!" proclaimed Farore, goddess of the wind. Fear crossed Ganon's face as he turned and ran, but not before yelling one final threat: "Your son will die before my hands yet!"
The storm subsided but it was still drizzling lightly. "Link!" Eileen screamed as she raced over to her child and cradling him in her arms. He was on the border line of death, and if it weren't for the triforce, he would be dead. Farore walked over to Eileen and said "He doesn't have much time left I am afraid…I am sorry. Both he and his father were my chosen but my power failed to protect them both." Eileen turned to face the goddess. "There's got to be something you can do! Anything! Please! You can't let him die!" she begged the goddess, tears still streaming down her face. Farore then had a thought. She knelt down next to Eileen and said, "There is one thing I can do, but it will affect you greatly" she said softly. "What is it? Anything! I'll do anything! As long as my son lives," Eileen replied desparately. Farore looked Eileen in the eye and said, "You will have to give up your human form and life for his…a life for a life, but fear not, for you shall not be dead. You will just have a different form, however, you won't be able to communicate with him…" "I'll do it! Just hurry up and save him! Please!" Eileen interrupted. Farore nodded and started to glow green. Eileen felt her son starting to glow green as she herself soon did the same. "I Farore, goddess of the prevailing winds and nature, use my power to save the child of my chosen in compensation for his mother's human form!" The earth shook and Eileen started to feel strange. She saw that her hands were starting to turn into…hooves. Realizing what she was turning into, she lay Link softly into the grass, stood up and moved a couple of paces away from him, never removing her gaze. "I give you, Eileen, the form of a horse!" and with that, Eileen's transformation continued. She could feel the wooden sandals on her feet snapping off as her feet began to take the form of hooves. Her dress started feeling tight against her skin as she slowly gained bulk. A white tail protruded from her backside, yet she felt no pain. She started to feel top-heavy and fell onto her hands, which were now equine forelegs. Her legs grew with muscle and repositioned themselves. A thin layer of brown hair started to cover her body and white fur crept up part of the way on her legs. She then felt her neck lengthening and growing with muscle. Then, her blondish hair turned white and started to grow down her long neck, becoming her new mane. She closed her eyes as she felt her ears migrated up to the top of her head and grew pointed, swiveling at any sound she heard. Finally, her face protruded outward as her nose became wider and merged with her mouth and her eyes made its way to the sides of her head. She knew that she was probably only a little older than a foal in horse years yet she was a loving mother in the inside.
When the feeling of change stopped, she opened her eyes which were the same striking blue as before, the only sounds she heard was the beating of her heart hammering in her chest, the sound of air whooshing through her nostrils and into her large lungs, and the soft small breaths of her son… "Link!" she cried out but stopped as she realized that it came out as a neigh. She then remembered that she was horse now and she couldn't talk. Still getting used to her new body, she trotted over to her son as relief flooded through her. Link was perfectly healthy without a scratch on him, sleeping soundly. Eileen could hear the soft beating of his heart in his tiny chest and bent her head down to nuzzle him gently. This movement was lost on her as she didn't know what caused her to do that. 'Oh, that must be how a horse would hug their young ones,' thought Eileen, and decided to give him a kiss on the cheek, which came out as a gentle lick. Farore then decided to intervene. "Eileen, since you cannot take care of him as you are now, I suggest that I take him to Kokiri Village to be raised," she said in a soft voice. Eileen brought her head back up and turned it toward the goddess and nodded. "It is probably for the best," she said more to herself than to the listening goddess. A tear slid down her muzzle when all of a sudden, Link started to whimper and cry softly. Eileen's head swiveled back toward her son and brought her head down once again and nuzzled him saying, "Shh…it's okay Link, mommy still here and I'll still protect you no matter what. We'll meet again someday, maybe, but I just want you to live a happy life…so don't cry my son, it's okay," This brought more tears to her eyes as she remembered that he couldn't understand her. However, Link stopped crying and looked up into this unfamiliar face yet when he saw her eyes, he calmed down and from the tone of Eileen's grunts and whinnies, it was apparently soothing to Link as he fell back asleep, with an innocent smile on his face. Eileen licked his cheek one last time, treasuring the memory of his peaceful sleeping form before taking a couple of steps back as Farore picked up the sleeping Link in her arms and teleported to the village, leaving behind a distraught belgian horse with brown fur and a white mane as well as white fur above all four of her hooves. It finally stopped raining and Eileen started walking through the forest, her mind still racing with what just happened. She suddenly found herself very exhausted and stopped to rest by a river, dreaming of when she'll see her son again.