The Legend of
Zelda:
Ocarina of Time
Some small notes before the story begins:
The story line is tied closely with that of the game for the Nintendo 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, but I have made several changes to keep it interesting.
I have tried to not completely copy the dialect from the game, but some of it is unavoidable and would ruin the story.
And, I do know I'm not keeping to the tradition by allowing Link to speak, but it was pretty hard to get around it without Link doing so.
And now, enjoy my version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, Part 1: The Child Saga
Chapter 1: The Deku Tree's Crisis
The story begins in the dense, dense forest which spreads in the east of the Kingdom of Hyrule, the Kokiri Forest. Among the Kokiri Tribe which inhabits this area, each and every one possesses his own fairy. However, for some reason, there is one boy who doesn't have a fairy and his name is Link.
The children of the village in the vast Kokiri Forest began to surround an age-old tree. This was the protector of Kokiri Forest, the Great Deku Tree. His bark was in the shaped of an elder's face. Each child was a different shape and size, but they all seemed to always wear the same green tunics that represented the Kokiri. This moment was the time every day when the Great Deku Tree would spread his knowledge of the outside world to the young minds of the forest by telling them stories about the legends of Hyrule. Being unable to leave the forest, the Kokiri were especially interested in each new story the Deku Tree had in store them. However, there was one Kokiri missing from the tribe.
"Wahoo!" Link shouted as he ran through the forest. "I've got to hurry up if I'm going to get to the Great Deku Tree before he ends his story!"
This ten-year-old boy lived with the Kokiri in the Kokiri Forest, but because of his unusual amount of courage and strength, he was believed to not even be a true Kokiri.
Suddenly, Link stumbled over an overgrown patch of what seemed to be grass. Rubbing his face as he recovered from the fall, he looked back at the grass only to discover that it was a very angry Deku Scrub. Deku Scrub were tiny creatures who hid in the grass, awaiting unwary people to pass by and then scare them away by shooting Deku Nuts at them through their tube-like mouths. The Deku Scrub inhaled and opened its mouth.
"I'm sorry!" Link tried to apologize but it was already firing Deku Nuts in Link's direction.
Link dodged the nut and started running away. Just as he did so, he bumped into the village neighborhood bully, Mido. Two of his cronies stood behind his back.
"Whoa, hold on," Mido said. "You can't go beyond here."
"Whatever, Mido," Link replied angrily, standing up for himself. "I can go wherever I want!"
"No, you can't," Mido said. "Look, I'm the boss of the Kokiri, okay? A half-person like you is way too childish to hear the Great Deku Tree's story."
"That has nothing to do with it!" Link shouted back. "Now, get out of my way!"
Mido bent over and sneered at Link.
"If you want to pass, then get your own fairy first," he said.
Link couldn't take anymore. Mido always made fun of how Link was the only one in all of the Kokiri Forest who didn't have his own fairy. He lunged and tackled Mido to the ground. From there, Link and Mido began to wrestle around, Mido's cronies cheering on their leader.
"Well, next time you call me a half-person…" Link said after finally pinning Mido down.
But Link was unable to finish his sentence because Mido's fairy flew over and shoved Link into the pond nearby. Mido's two cronies helped him up and all three sneered at the defeated Link.
"See you later, half-person," one of the cronies said.
"That's not fair!" Link said, spitting water out of his mouth.
"What's unfair about it? Fairies are a part of the Kokiri," Mido replied. "She's equal to myself."
"Hey!" a heavy voice boomed from behind Mido. "What are you doing?"
It was the Great Deku Tree, he angrily looked down at the four boys. The now shaking Mido's gang ran off.
"Oh, no, we've been seen!" Mido cried. "Hmph! See you around, fairyless!"
Link angrily shouted them off.
"Cheer up, Link," the Deku Tree said as Link sadly got to his feet. "Nevermind what Mido says."
"Great Deku Tree," Link asked. "How come I'm the only one who's different from everyone else?"
"When the time comes, I'll tell you," the Great Deku Tree answered.
"I know…" Link sighed gloomily as his best friend ran up.
She was a young green-haired girl wearing the regular Kokiri Tunic.
"Link!" she cried from the foot of the Deku Tree.
"Saria!" Link replied and climbed down from the branch he had perched. "Have you got good timing or what! I have something I want to show you!"
"What is it?" Saria asked.
Link dug his hand into the small brown leather pouch he had slung around his back by a thing piece of string. He pulled out a small slingshot.
"Ta-da!" he said, showing it to Saria. "I call it the Fairy Slingshot, my own creation!"
"But, why'd you make it?" Saria inquired.
"Well, that is," Link said, loading a Deku Seed into the pouch of the slingshot and taking careful aim of a piece of fruit that was high in a tree. "so I can knock down the fruit in trees that I can't reach."
Link released his grip on the seed and it shot into the apple he had aimed at. It immediately fell from its branch.
"Wow, cool!" Saria said, picking up the fruit. "Let me try it next!"
Mido and his gang was spying on Link and Saria from a nearby bush. Mido angrily cursed Link under his breath.
"That little punk, being all lovey-dovey with Saria," he said.
Saria aimed for another apple but the arm hanging onto the slingshot slipped and she accidently let it fly straight into Mido's face. Rubbing his face, Mido left with the two cronies behind him.
"I'll get you someday, Link!" he shouted back at Link.
Saria laughed and Link put the Fairy Slingshot back into his pouch and placed it back over his shoulder.
"You're really wonderful to think of such things, Link!" she said.
"Maybe that's why no fairy will come to me," he said. "Hmm, I guess it's because I'm strange after all."
"That's not true," Saria said, smiling and attempting to cheer him up. "Ever if you don't have a fairy, you're still my very best friend, Link! Okay?"
"Yeah!" Link replied, smiling back at her.
Saria took out a small musical instrument called an ocarina. She began playing a tune and Link began to dance with Saria and her fairy. The golden sun was beginning to set in the west when Saria and Link started to settle down.
"Oh, by the way," Link said. "I've been having the same dream lately. The sky becomes pitch black. I'm standing in front of a huge house with a peaked roof."
"Hmm, could it be a castle?" Saria suggested.
"Castle?" Link asked. "What's that? Is it something deep in the forest?"
A thought suddenly occurred to Link. 'Why do things I don't know about appear in my dreams?'
"Well, as the Great Deku Tree has told us, they exist far away from Kokiri Forest and beyond the plains," Saria explained. "It's said that the world is very big, and there are many different lands in it."
'The world?' Link thought to himself. 'What is this wide world? There is surely something outside of the forest I just don't know of yet.'
Saria waved good-bye to Link and headed home. Link stared blankly into the star-speckled sky, full of many thoughts. At this time, eerie black clouds began to eat away at the beautiful Kokiri Forest, unbeknown to Link.
'I wonder if the Great Deku Tree would forgive me if I told him I wanted to go outside the forest,' Link thought as he drifted off to sleep in his comfortable bed in the Kokiri Village. 'I guess I'd better not.'
"Heh heh heh."
Midnight engulfed Kokiri Forest as a shadowed creature crept toward the Great Deku Tree. But the Deku Tree sensed this and spotted the giant one-eyed insectoid.
"Who are you?" he asked. "You are allies with those who would become evil! I will never forgive those in this forest!"
The arachnid glared evilly at the Great Deku Tree and began to climb onto its bark.
"Heh heh, Deku Tree!" she said. "A tree cannot move. It is a sad being. Heh heh!"
With that, it squeezed tightly into the eyehole of the Deku Tree. A lone fairy flew up to the Great Deku Tree. She had been watching the whole thing safely concealed in the Deku Tree's leaves.
"Great Deku Tree?" she said. "Great Deku Tree, hold on!"
"Navi, is it?" the Deku Tree said, eyeing the fairy. "Just now, an evil creature has entered inside me. I'm losing my freedom."
"Great Deku Tree, what should I do?" Navi asked.
"The forest is in danger," the Deku Tree said. "Go to the fairyless child and invite him here. Go, Navi!"
With that, Navi zoomed off to the village.
Meanwhile, Mido was mischievously sneaking toward Link's house with the 'Holy Kokiri Saw' in his hand. (NOTE: See the bottom of this page if you don't get this pun.)
"I'm going to use this to saw a hole near Link's bed," Mido said to himself. "So, when he gets up in the morning, he'll fall! Heh heh!"
Mido climbed up the ladder to Link's house just as Navi flew through the entryway. Link was sound asleep in his bed.
"Link, Link!" she said soothingly and then suddenly shouted. "Wake up, Link! Get up right now!"
Link shot up from his slumber and began rubbing. "Huh?" he asked.
"I'm Navi," the fairy introduced herself to the startled boy. "The Great Deku Tree sent me."
"A fairy?" Link gasped. "Finally, a fairy has come to me!"
Link charged toward Navi with his hands ready to grasp.
"No, don't catch me!" Navi shouted, flying out of reach.
"Alright, I'm going to go boast to Mido!" Link said, walking out the door, where Mido was still setting his trap.
"There's no time for that!" Navi cried, catching up to Link as he fell through the just finished hole and onto Mido.
"Hm? Mido, what're you doing here?" Link asked.
"Very important business," Mido replied angrily. "Now, get off of me!"
As the two got to their feet, they noticed something strange was happening with the grass and trees around them.
"The grass is withering?" Link asked.
"The trees are, too!" Mido cried in alarm. "This has never happened before!"
"It's because something evil has entered the forest," Navi said. "The Great Deku Tree is in trouble. Link, hurry up and go!"
Followed closely by a cowering Mido, Link walked over to the Great Deku Tree. He, too, was withering, just like the rest of forest. The evil creature who had entered the Great Deku Tree watched as the three approached the Deku Tree.
"Heh,"
To Be Continued…
So, you couldn't figure out the pun I added by having Mido use a saw? "Kokiri" in Japanese also means "saw." Yeah, bad pun. .;;