Disclaimer: I don't own Zelda
Chapter 1
The Beginning
"Kaya! Get you're bum in here in here right now!" Tia shouted from the living room.
"What? Some people are trying to study, ya know." Kaya responded, irritated that her older sister disrupted the peace of her room. Kaya had dirty-blond hair that came just past her shoulder blades and gray-blue eyes.
She was also kind of short.
"Why are you still in the Forest Temple?" Tia raged at her, waving about the Gamecube controller as she did so. "Seriously, I've already passed that twice." She had black hair the same length as her sisters, and serious gray eyes. Anyone could tell she was a tomboy at first glance by the baggy blue painters jeans she had, to the green shirt two sizes too big.
"That's pathetic." Kestrel, AKA Kess, their youngest sister said. She had straight red hair and green eyes. With her form hugging tank top, the tight black jeans, and her slight amount of make up anyone would label her as a girly girl.
"Shut up. At least I try to beat the monsters. You don't even do that, stupid!" Kaya said, forgetting about her homework in favor of insulting her sister. Kaya was usually a level headed girl but somehow Kess always got under her skin.
Kaya and Kess, started to argue about who was better at their favorite game, Zelda Ocarina of Time. Tia managed to intervene before Kaya could hurt Kess with the wooden stick she pulled from the potted plant nearby.
"All right break it up! Kess stop teasing Kaya, she can't handle her temper. Kaya put that down! Do NOT hurt our sister!!" Tia said with emphasis. "Come work on your game." Tia handed Kaya the controller when she was sure Kess was out of danger, and sat down.
Kess couldn't resist one last jab and said, "Yes Kaya, use the force!" in a Darth Vader voice just to see if she could set Tia off.
Tia was the oldest and the one with the shortest temper. She was stronger than the average girl due to her taking after her dad. Kaya was kind of meek, but was more reasonable and compassionate. She was a natural born peace maker.
Tia ignored Kess and turned to Kaya. "Just work on your game. I promise to help, but you have to try to beat the boss before I play."
Kaya nodded and faced the T.V. screen. The little Link figure had just come into the central room after beating the twin wolfos in the entrance, when the screen froze.
"Aw man." Kaya moaned. "Now I've got to do that all over again!"
"Umm, guys. Is that suppose to happen?" Kess questioned.
The screen had gone black with a glowing Tri-force symbol. Suddenly there was a blinding flash of light. When Tia could see again she looked round. Kaya was gone.
Link ran into the Forest Temple to see four poes take the colored fire from four torches and disappear.
He ran to the torches to see if anything was there.
"We need to get that fire the Poes took to light these torches." Navi, his fairy said.
Link nodded and was about to leave in pursuit of the first ghost when he heard a noise above him. He looked up and his eyes widened in shock.
There in the middle of the room a black vortex thing had formed from out of no where.
As he watched a figure appeared in the middle of the swirling dark matter and was deposited on the ground.
Link slowly walked over to see what it was.
The thing was a girl slightly younger then he was. Her feminine figure wasn't quite filled out and her hair was covering her delicate features. She was unconscious.
"Do you know who she is?" Navi asked.
Link shook his head, and was about to speak when the girl started to wake up.
Kaya did not feel very good. She felt like she had been forced through her dad's meat grinder that he kept in the basement. The floor felt like the basement too.
Kaya sat up, and looked around. She didn't recognize any of her surroundings. The room resembled the basement after her dad was done processing meat, except with more mold and less deer meat.
"Where am I?" She asked out loud, not expecting an answer.
"Your in the forest temple of Hyrule." Link watched the strange blue eyed girl start in surprise. She was wearing strange blue woven leggings, weird looking shoes, and a bright orange tunic of which he had never seen the like, (jeans, tennis shoes, regular T-shirt).
Kaya almost jumped a foot into the air in surprise. Breathing hard she bent over to help calm her racing heart.
"Are you ok?" Link bent down a little to come to her level. She only came up to his collar bone.
"Yeah you just gave me a start." Kaya smiled at him but froze when she saw a floating ball of light hovering above his shoulder.
"Oh this is Navi and I am Link" He said holding out a hand for her to shake.
"Nice to meet you Link I'm Kaya!" She said taking his hand and shaking it.
"Well Kaya, from your clothing and odd way of speaking I would guess you are not from around here." Link said.
Kaya looked down at her clothes. They were different then what Link was wearing. "Yeah your probably right"
"Ooh I know." Navi shouted bobbing up and down. "She can come with us!"
Navi zoomed over to Kaya and landed on her shoulder. "Think about it," she said excitedly to Link. "If she does you can keep an eye on her. You said your self she is not from around here. Who knows what kind of trouble she could get into by her self, and she could help us defeat Ganondorf-" Navi gasped and frantically flew off Kaya. "You do not work for Ganondorf do you?"
Kaya's reaction to Navi's question assured both Link and Navi that she was good.
"Pulease. He's like, one of the most egotistical buttheads I've ever had the displeasure of knowing."
Link thought Navi's proposal over before nodding his head. "Yes that is a good idea. Well Kaya do you agree to come with us?"
"Yeah!" Kaya said happily.
"Good then lets go!" Navi shouted, heading towards the next door.
Link and Kaya looked at each other and smiled, following her to the next room.
Link and Kaya had already found the compass, map, defeated 3 of the 4 Poes, and found a chest with two bows and quivers of arrows much to Kaya's relief, when they had to stop for the night in one of the open grassy places. He was currently starting a fire. Navi was trying to help by carrying kindling to him.
To Links surprise, Kaya was quite useful. Although she wasn't much help fighting the monsters (the girl possessed no combat experience, what so ever), many of the puzzles in the temple would of taken much longer to solve if not for her help.
Kaya desperately wished that she had paid more attention to her sister when Tia was playing this Zelda game. She was completely lost at what was suppose to happen next. Well, she did have a fuzzy memory of a black horse.
Frustrated, she didn't notice that she was absently rubbing her ankle. Which to her luck, had started hurting, but Link saw.
Kaya jumped slightly when she felt someone grab her ankle but relaxed when she saw Link.
"Does it hurt?" He asked putting slight pressure on it to figure the extent of the injury. Kaya just winced slightly and nodded.
"I could fix it." Navi offered, flying over to the duo.
"Just do not tire your self out too much." Link agreed.
Navi hovered over Kaya's foot for a second and Kaya immediately felt the difference, before she flew over to Link.
"It is done." Navi said, Her light slightly dimmer then before. "It took more energy then I thought it would. Her magic signature is very different from anything I have encountered before. Do not worry, all I need is a nap."
Link nodded and lifted his hat slightly to let Navi in.
"So, tell me a little about yourself." Link said to Kaya after a bit.
Kaya looked at him confused. "Why?"
"Well if we are going to be traveling together we might as well get to know each other, right?" He said smiling slightly.
"That makes sense," Kaya said before clearing her throat. "Well I'm 16, and I have two sisters. One is a year older than me and her name is Tia, the other is 15 and her name is Kestrel, but we call her Kess." She smiled. "Kess is a hopeless romantic and a pain in the butt, but she cares about everyone. Tia…." She paused. "Tia has a personality of her own. You have to meet her to understand."
Link nodded. "You still need to tell me about your self." He pointed out.
"But that's hard!" She mock pouted and he laughed. She sighed. "I'm smarter than my sister. Don't tell her I said that or she'll get mad. My favorite color is red. I love cherry blossoms, but," she pointed at him. "Do. Not. Let. Me. Eat. Cherries! I'm allergic to them."
She stopped, unable to pull anything else off the top of her head. "What else?"
"How did you get into the temple?" Link asked.
Kaya shrugged. "I have no idea. One second I'm at home, the next I'm in a freaky temple that wants me dead." She waved her arm around to support her point then let it fall limp. "I wish Tia was here, she'd be really helpful right now."
Link looked at Kaya. She looked sad, like a child who had just found out their favorite pet had died. "Why not sleep. I will take first watch and wake you up later, ok?" He said kindly.
Kaya yawned, nodded sleepily and curled up in a little ball next to the fire, falling asleep almost immediately.
Link smiled and put another log on the fire. He had a long watch ahead of him, and the fire would be a welcome companion.
An evil man sat watching the swirling mist inside a crystal orb, contemplating what he had just seen. This girl was not the one he wanted. The one he wanted had more power. But this girl had somehow managed to get in the way of his spell and had ruined everything.
He slammed his fist into the throne he sat in, scaring those who served him to scrambling for cover. He relaxed slightly. No matter. Another spell would be made. It would take much energy, but he could do it. The target must be destroyed before it destroyed him.
Link woke Kaya just before the sun breached the walls of the courtyard. After a quick breakfast of Link's travel rations they continued on. It took a while to kill the fourth poe. Kaya finally noticed that one of the poes kept spinning around. She was able to safely shot it from a distance with her arrows.
A brief hold up came when the elevator rose from the floor. Link had to convince Kaya to get on.
"It is the only way!" He exclaimed, frustrated with the girl.
"I don't trust it. Just wait! As soon as we get on it'll collapse! It's got to be a million years old!"
Fortunately, Link was able to convince her to go down. The fact that he threatened to leave her there should be ignored.
Then they pushed the room's wall around like a merry-go-round until all the buttons were pushed and the gate in their way opened.
"Ready?" Link asked. He held the master key out, ready to unlock the boss door. Kaya nodded, and adjusted her bow for easy access as Link unlocked the door.
A narrow stairway led up to a platform. Artfully painted pictures hung at even intervals around the circular room. Each had the same design. Kaya felt her heart skip a beat.
Kaya followed link up the the stairs. While Link examined the room, she notched an arrow to her bow. Whatever came she would fight.
"Nothing is here," said Link. But he was wrong.
Spikes shot up, blocking their way of escape. Link and Kaya stood back to back in the center of the platform as evil laughter echoed around the room. It shook Kaya to her core.
A horse and rider appeared, floating in the air as if it were ground. Link recognized the riders' resemblance to Ganondorf, and quickly shot him with an arrow. Surprisingly it hit, knocking the rider off it's horse.
"Thats not Ganon." Kaya said softly, as if reading his mind. "It's only made in his likeness."
Link had no time to ask her how she knew this. They had to dodge in different directions as the Ganon imitation shot a lightning spell at them. They regrouped, Link forming a plan in his mind.
"Stay behind me." He said. "I will deflect his attacks back at him with my sword. Shoot him just before it gets back so he can not deflect it back. Then I will run up and hit him with my sword."
Kaya's answer was to draw her bow tighter.
Link's plan worked. He deflected the magic spell, Kaya hit the rider with an arrow, the rider got hit by it's own attack, and Link slashed it with his sword. The Ganon imitation gave a bloodcurdling screech of defeat, before the magic used to create it dissolved and it disappeared.
Link whooped with joy and hugged Kaya on impulse. She hugged him back. That had to be the scariest thing she had ever been through and she didn't break down. Tia would be so proud.
"Come on," said Link, tugging her towards a circle of blue light that had appeared. They entered at the same time, and Kaya felt herself rising up. Her last thought before the light blinded her was, I wish Tia was here to see this!
Tbc.
Well, I redid this chapter. hope it's to your liking. I warn you now, this story will be updated at random intervals so you are warned.
