NOTE-If there's some inconsistencies with Link's character, it's because they're convenient. I can't possibly go through the whole process of him being taken from one world to the next and the horrible confusion that would occur. For the most part consider his learning period to be everything and more than what Tidus learnt through the whole game. Remember Tidus was rushed, Link has time to learn things before going away on an adventure.

Overall, just try to bear with me, some things will seem unbelievable.

I do not own Legend of Zelda OR Final Fantasy X.

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I sighed as I urged Epona into a trot. We were travelling slowly along the cliffs around Lake Hylia, but despite the gorgeous scenery, I was uneasy. Deep inside I felt a familiar tremble, a warning of danger. I had felt it many times before in my recent adventures ("If they could be called that," I would often scoff) and every time it meant extreme danger. I figured it was the wolf inside me, they always seemed to know how to sense danger, I could almost feel my furry hackles raise. I shook my head, trying to clear my thoughts, trying to convince myself I was being silly, I was just on edge after all that had happened.

Thankfully I'm on vacation now. I needed the break. It had been six months since I had defeated the evil king, and I have had no rest since then. First with Midna leaving, then being knighted by Princess Zelda. It was too much, nobody would leave me alone. Everyone wanted to throw me a party, everyone wanted to be my friend. My only true friends, the ones who don't fawn over me, were Epona, Illia, and Midna. Midna was ruling the twilight realm now, and Illia was in training to be mayor of the village.

Who did that leave me with?

A horse.

Yes, a faithful, well mannered horse, but a horse none the less. Sometimes I would even use the twilight stone to change back to a wolf, just so I could speak with her. She was really quite a good conversationalist, for a horse.

Still, life got lonely with your only enjoyable company being your pet. I gazed up at the wide blue sky, dotted with puffy clouds.

"You know, if there is a higher being up there, I really wish he would take me to somewhere with real friends," I paused before adding, "I'd even be happy with another dangerous escapade. At least then people talked to me rationally."

Epona whinnied loudly, and I leaned down and patted her neck.

"I know girl, I'm being silly, asking the clouds for help. Guess we'll just enjoy our vacation huh?"

Epona whinnied again, this time shrilly, her eyes rolled in panic. Surprised my mouth dropped open and my gaze shot skywards as a shadow settled over us. At first I thought it was some kind of giant water ball attack, and drew my sword to defend, but as the huge dark mass in the sky came closer, I could see moving details covering it's body.

It was a living thing, and bigger than anything I had ever faced before. Only Epona's battle experience kept her from bolting, but she reared and pranced underneath me. I strained to control her.

Suddenly a sound like thunder shook all around me, and the creature opened some kind of gaping hole in it's body, bigger than my entire house back home. A huge sucking noise ripped from this hole (that I was loathe to call a mouth), the water from the lake, a hundred feet below spun upward towards the beast. The huge cyclone of water, air and debris tore across the lake bottom, straight towards the cliffs that man and horse stood upon.

Epona tried to run at my command, but the vacuum of the beast pulled her back. The fence that kept us safe from the cliff edge was torn out of the ground, and in a desperate, panicked act, I threw my arms around my beloved horse as we were both dragged screaming upward into the maw of the gigantic beast. The last thing I saw was the master sword being torn from my hand into the whirlwind that was Lake Hylia. Then, exhausted by my panic, I blacked out.

I blinked once, twice, hissing as bright light assaulted my tender eyes. My head was on fire and my body was numb, I had no idea what was going on. I vaguely wondered if Epona had thrown me, but decided against it knowing she would sooner fall than buck.

Half remembered visions came of the giant water beast, and my hopeless attempt at escape. Scared my mind rushed, but thankfully I also remembered it was dangerous to lay on unfamiliar territory too long and I made a great effort to sit up, finding when I did, I might have been better laying down. My head spun in at least sixteen different directions, and I saw two of everything. At least I thought it was two, what I saw was really so blurred that it was impossible to tell. Beginning to think I was at Lake Hylia, perhaps down on the beach I rapidly began to blink and carefully focus my eyes.

I looked around myself slowly, I wasn't at Lake Hylia. I got to my feet unsteadily, I discovered I was on a high hill of dirt and rock, rising out of thick dense forest, full of foliage I had never seen before. The trees had huge bright green leaves, and giant bushes and vines choked the forest floor. Several small dirt pathways led down from the hill, I gazed down one of them until he say the intense aqua colour of water. I supposed it must be the ocean, it was too bright and vast to be a lake. To one side, another path twirled down through the forest, leading to a group of buildings, with a large blue building furthest from him, a village.

Unfortunately no matter how hard I strained his memory, I could find no clues as to where I was, so I decided to head towards the village and see about getting help. I was interrupted however, on the smooth dirt path by the sound of someone approaching, loudly, from around a bend. Slowly I reached for my sword, despairing when I found it missing. Quickly I searched my pack, thankful to find my bow and arrows still intact, I drew them quietly. Many enemies were actually stupid enough to make loud noises when they patrolled, that didn't mean they wouldn't hear me.

My thoughts were put to rest however when a young lady came bouncing merrily out of the trees, her soft gentle voice beckoning behind her, "Come on Kimarhi! I want to pick some flowers for the children before I go."

"Go where miss?"

"Oh!" Her mouth fell open in surprise, and in an instant a giant blue furry man was standing beside her, he was taller than a normal man, with a cracked horn atop his skull and a tail. He took one look at my bow and growled deeply, dropping to a battle stance.

I quickly dropped my arrow and lowered my bow, stowing it behind my back. "I don't mean any harm miss. I'm just lost here, and was going to the village for directions and supplies," I clarify.

"Oh dear! We'll take you back to the village, then you can find your way home!" She turned and headed off down the path the way she came, but paused when the blue man didn't move.

"How did green man get lost on island?" The beast man, called Kimarhi, asked, noting my green garb.

"I-" I stumbled, I didn't know, and wouldn't lie to such an innocent young woman, "I don't know. I was riding around the lake, when suddenly this huge beast was above me, then I woke up here."

Something changed in Kimarhi's eyes, they became softer, and his rough voice growled out the word "Sin" before he turned and walked towards the village.

By this time the girl had bounded back to me and spoke softly, "Many people get confused by Sin's toxin, but don't worry, we'll teach you everything again, and get you home. Thank Yeavon your safe."

Then she did a weird bow with her two hands cupping a non existent circle. Hastily remembering the manners I learned at Hyrule Castle, I bowed smoothly at the waist, right palm resting lightly above my heart. The least formal bow of Hyrule.

She looked at me oddly though, and murmured, "Is that like the Crusaders new salute?"

Confused I shook my head, "Who are the Crusaders?"

"Oh the toxin! You must not remember the prayer fully. Here, I'll show you Yeavon's prayer, then I'll show you to the Crusaders lodge. You can stay there while we wait for the boat to go to Luca," She paused and smiled. "I'm Yuna by the way!"

"Urmm..." I tried to smile, only getting half way, "I'm Link. What's this prayer thing?"

Confused and tired and wholly set on avoiding as much thought as possible, I chose to just go along with whatever these people decided for now. They seemed nice enough after all, and I had nowhere else to go.

"It is a prayer to Yeavon, the overseer of Spira, it shows respect, thanks and prayer. Look first you pull your hands back like this," Yuna's hands drew back and out from her body, spreading her arms, "then forward," she brought her to the front of her body, elbows bending doing the same cupping motion as before. "And finally," she instructed, "bow."

So I tried it, easily copying the movements, though I really had no idea what Yeavon was, or why it meant so much to this girl, Yuna. She had said overseer of Spira. Spira must be these peoples country, and if so, Yeavon must be their princess, or king, just like Zelda. Maybe this place wouldn't be so hard to figure out after all.

I don't think I was ever as wrong as I was that day. From that moment until Tidus washed up on the isle I was assaulted with information about everything and everyone in Spira. I learnt so much about temples, and Maesters, and summoners, and fiends, and the pilgrimage and blitzball that my brain ached every night. People wondered about me and my memory loss, but they were kind enough to keep their thoughts to themselves. Weeks passed and now, Yuna, a full fledged summoner, her guardians, the Besaid(the name of the village I was brought to) Blitzball team, and I were stepping off a boat in a city called Luca to the boos and cheers of hundreds of fans.

Yuna was officially now on a pilgrimage to defeat Sin, the giant beast that had swallowed me up. At the end of her journey giving up her life to kill him. She had to travel all across Spira with her closest friends, her guardians, to gain more powerful beasts, Aeons, to fight Sin, and then sacrifice herself. Although I didn't believe this was the right way to approach Sin at all, especially since once he was vanquished he was just reborn, I kept quiet. It was Yuna's decision to make. Now Luca was the next stop on her journey.

The blitzball team had travelled to Luca, the second largest city on Spira, because of the huge tournament being held there. And I was just there because Yuna said I might meet someone I knew there, what with the huge blitz crowds. I already knew she was wrong, but I figured sticking with Yuna might land me a place among her guardians. Although I had begun to doubt my choice, it was still all I had.

After a lot of thought about Hyrule and Spira, I decided the best plan of action was to lay low, pretend I didn't know anything because of Sin, and travel to see if I couldn't find a way home. The easiest way to travel without being eaten alive by the vicious monsters inhabiting the land, was to travel in a group. The easiest way to travel freely with a group was on a pilgrimage. The easiest way to join a pilgrimage would be to show Yuna I could protect her. It seemed logical, and I was sure I had already proved my value without even drawing on my trump card.

Throughout the forest of Besaid Island, Tidus (another unfortunate Sin victim) and myself had been forced to prove our worth as fighters against the many weak fiends living there. Although not as skilled with my bow, I still managed to outstrip Tidus, and even Wakka, an official guardian, easily. Fiends fell to me like flies, still, Yuna had a soft spot for Tidus, and he seemed to be gaining more favour among the group. I didn't mind so much, when he suddenly showed up with "horrid memory loss" my story became much more believable.

On the boat ride to Kilika (a small village with a temple Yuna needed to pray at) I had communicated with Kimarhi, revealing my secret; my ability to shift to wolf form. I ended up telling him after trying to speak wolf to him, he understood, though the translation was a little off. Eventually I came to understand the Ronso, his tribe. They were half man, half beasts, capable of fighting like both, much like myself. I also managed to prove myself by dealing a great amount of damage with my arrows when Sin attacked the ship off of Kilika shore. When I had told the others I was also talented in close range combat they seemed impressed. Though, nobody knew how close range would do any good against sin. I had considered using a bomb to devastate it, but Yuna had explained "machina", machines and science, were banned in Spira, despite their effectiveness. Apparently they're what brought Sin in the first place.

Shortly after, I almost had my chance to get in with Yuna when Lulu, another of her guardians told me she was impressed by my way of fighting in Kilika, which had been attacked and destroyed by Sin. If Yuna hadn't asked me to stay and help rebuild, all that remained was to ask her really. I was sure she would say yes, and even better, I was sure a chance would arise in Luca, Though, with a huge amount of people, comes a huge amount of fiends and my time to talk may be cut short. I wasn't wrong either.

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Also, please note, this story will be worked on in two chapter segments, around school and other things. Although I fully intend to update it regularly instead of my usual haphazard biannual updates.