Link Learns to Talk

Listen up, all you Zelda freaks! This one is going to be great! I came up with the idea after playing hours of MM and OOT. I haven't been able to put down my pen for a week because of all the explanation ideas of why Link never talks. (Except for the obvious one of video game programmers, but I mean who believes that one?) Anyways, hope you love it and R&R. Oh! This is one of my more recent stories so it shouldn't be too bad.

Disclaimer: I have a Zelda DSLite, Phantom Hourglass (DS) Zelda Collector's Edition Gamecube Gamepak (original Legend of Zelda game, Zelda II- The Adventures of Link, MM, OOT, and 10 min. WW demo), a porcelain pendant Ocarina, a Large Sweet Potato Ocarina and an XL Sweet Potato Ocarina, (songbook included) I LOVE ZELDA!!!

Chapter One: No where to go (semi-spoiler)

Time & place: After OOT before MM

IT was just another pleasant day in the land of Hyrule. After his final battle with Ganondolf and peace restored to the region, Link had gone back in time to his childhood years and sealed the entrance to the Chamber of Sages and shattered the three sacred stone, assuring that no one ever would be able to bring the kind of pain and turmoil that Ganondolf had brought. With his future sealed and most of his friends Sages, Link realized he had nowhere to go. He couldn't go back to the Kokairi Forest because he was Hyrulean. So he went to the Lon Lon Ranch to ask Malon's father, Talon, for help. Navi, though she was supposed to go back to the forest and join another unfairyed child, had stayed with him an understood his dilemma. SO she asked for him. They found Talon in the stable.

"Um…excuse us," she said to the ranch owner.

"Yah…what do ya want?" he asked, rudely, while trying to unsaddle a particularly aggressive horse.

"May we have a word?"

"Who goes 'round askin' if they can 'have a word'?" He was obviously not paying attention because he still had his back towards the pair. But when he got the harness off, he turned around. His rudeness evaporated instantaneously.

"Oh, Link! I didn't know you was here! And Navi! Why, you look bright as a new-washed cuccoo. How ya been? Ya haven't been searchin' out trouble again, have ya?"

"No, we fixed that problem, didn't we Link?" she turned to him and he nodded with gusto.

"No, I think him and I have had our fair share of evil. We almost didn't make it through that last one! So link and I have decided to hang our gear and relax with a long vacation."

The big, burly man threw up him arms and replied, "That's great news. the two of ya deserve a break." He started fumbling with the door locks of the horse enclosures.

"Hut we're in a bit of a snag," Navi persisted, hovering beside his head. Link just kind of stood back, stretching.

"Oh?" Talon questioned the fairy.

"See, we can't go back to the forest because Link doesn't rightfully belong there and Zelda is far too busy for us to even consider asking her or her father for a room. Most everyone we knew turned out to be Sages and we can't live among them…That'd just be weird…" She paused to think about that. "Actually," She turned towards Link again. "Did we even think of that before we…," she started to ask but Talon had turned back around quickly, boldly stating, "Of course the two of ya can stay here!" Navi was so startled, she nearly hit the ceiling. Link was surprised too, landing square on his ass.

"As long as ya help little Malon with the ranch handlin' and help 'round the house, ya welcome to stay here long as ya like. I got a spare room next to the one upstairs I ain't usin' so let's 'round up the rest of them horses and find Malon. She can help ya move in."

And with that, the two heroes had found a place to stay.

End chapter

Short, I know but the next one will be longer. Plus, sorry if I offended any Southerners with Talon's speech. I was trying for a Southern accent; tried and failed. If any are interested in purchasing a OOT replica ocarina, go to .com. They'll charge you an arm and a leg but you can get all types of flutes and CDs, not to mention OOT replica ocarinas complete with gold Triforce symbol. Check it out!