A/N- So, woot! Here we are at the start of my very first fan fiction!^^ Super excited! But enough about that!
I'd like to go ahead and let everyone know that I'll be keeping in canon (for the most part) for both the Ocarina of Time and the Majora's Mask story lines. However, please go ahead and expect inconsistencies, as I have changed a few things here and there to help the flow of this story. Also, as this takes place years after both OoT and MM, I had a little fun and decided to make up OCs and Places. Sorry bout that...
One final thing! I do NOT own any of this! All Legend of Zelda references belong solely to Nintendo (and Miyamoto-san maybe?)
Sable Princess
A Legend of Zelda Fan-fiction
Part I: Stolen Time
Prologue
It's been seven years since Link, the chosen Hero of Time, saved the land of Hyrule from the evil machinations of Ganondorf. He was a boy of mysterious birth, raised as a Kokiri—forest guardians—by the great Deku Tree. With the help of a few friends, this young boy traversed both the land and time itself to save their world. And even realms. For at the end of all that, a dear friend was lost to him. In search of Navi, the fairy companion the Deku Tree had granted him, Link also aided the land of Termina; saving it from the peril of having the moon fall—caused by a possessed imp. Now, although his search still continues, he's taking a much needed break; hanging out with his closest friends, swimming at Lake Hylia.
"Jeez Link! It was your idea to come here. Get your tights-wearing ass in the water already!"
Link cocked an eyebrow in the direction of the water. He grinned at the sound of such language coming from someone who's supposed to be the most ladylike and up-standing of them all.
"Well, excuse me, your High-ass! You know, you really should watch your language. You know as well as I do that Impa is hiding behind the lab. If she hears you talking like that…"
"I know," Zelda sighed. "She'll go on and on and on…"
"Yup. And then where would we be? I'll tell you where—not swimming."
"Stuff it, Link! Just hurry up!"
"I'll get in after you tell me what you have against my tights!"
"Never. Haha!"
Link smiled and turned back to what he'd been doing before Zelda had so crudely interrupted. He was giving Epona a brush down after removing her saddle. He reached to grab the brush from off her back and it wasn't there. Thinking it must have fallen off, he started to search the ground when he heard a familiar giggle behind him and off to the right. Not showing that he'd heard, he continued to pretend to look around, and then he quickly turned and pounced through a nearby bush and into a startled redhead. "Malon, you minx!" roared Link. "Thought you could pull one over on me, did you?!"
"Yup!...ha. And for…a minute there….ha…I did! Haha," came a breathless reply from beneath him. Link laughed. "One of these days, girlie, you'll see. You're gonna get some major payback for all the pranks you try to pull."
"Never doubted that. Just never cared enough to stop!"
"Well, try not to involve us innocent victims when revenge comes callin'. Alright?"
"Innocent?" spoke a small voice from the side, "One wouldn't really think that of you, would they Link? Especially not right now! I do believe you're crushing poor Malon."
Link quickly rolled off Malon and looked over at his oldest and dearest friend. As always, something deep in his chest clinched at the sight of her. What that 'something' was, he'd rather not dwell too much on. Unlike the rest of the gang, Saria didn't age. It caused Link no small amount of grief to know that Saria was often envious over the fact that she didn't change, didn't grow. To know that when other people saw them, they wondered why she was the only 'child' among the group. But, again, Link tried not to dwell too much on it.
"Aww…that was mean Ria! How could you ever think that someone with this face was anything but innocent," he gave her his best deku shrub impersonation.
She pursed her lips at him and stared in obvious disbelief. Link pouted his lips out even further. As he watched, her face scrunched up and she burst out laughing," Oh! Hahaha! If you could see yourself! You could probably hook a new record over at the Fishing Hole with that. And for the record, I remember deku scrubs very well! Hardly innocent, you idiot! Haha."
"Ouch! That was below the belt Ria. Comparing my lips to bait, and worse, my whole face to scrubs! Aren't you supposed to be a wise and compassionate Sage? Hardly Sagy!"
"Oh, I'm Sage enough. To innocent creatures of the Forest…not tights-wearing scamps!"
Link grinned, and then did a double take. "Hey! Seriously, what's the deal with my tights?!"
At this, the girls fell over laughing, and Link swore he could hear Zelda mutter smartly, "Just give it up. Those tights. Ha!"
Feigning indignity, Link hopped to his feet and started to huff away, but he turned and caught Saria and Malon about their waists and ran into the water. He lugged it five feet in and dumped them unceremoniously on top of Zelda, and all three went under. When they came up sputtering, Link stood above them arms akimbo, and smirked, "There! That'll teach you girls to mess with my tights!"
Zelda shrugged," Yea, sure. But it got you in the water didn't it!?"
"Ah!...um," he stuttered.
Not having a comeback to that, he just huffed and looked away. The girls laughed.
