Prologue

Deep in a forest just outside of Hyrule, a young Link lay passed out just outside of a large tree with a hole twice his size. "Link…You have to get up Link." Hearing this ominous voice, he wakes up and shakily gets to his feet. He was still a little disoriented but he was well aware of his surroundings. The trees around him were quite tall, so tall that he could not see the top. A thick fog blanketed the ground. He still saw no one that could have been speaking to him. It was as though he was all alone.

All he could remember was his name and his home and friends. He had no clue of how he got there and why. Still feeling a little disoriented and now noticing he was a little weak, he headed for home. Whichever that way was. Not knowing which way to walk, he just started heading in the direction he woke up.

After stumbling around for hours, he finally came upon a large log that led to, what had to be, somewhere outside of this forest. Thinking of his friends and home, he walked through. On the other side, he recognized where he was. He wasn't home but he realized he was in the Lost Woods. Ahead of him was a kid sitting on a tall stump. "Who are you?" He walked up to the stump and looked up. What he saw was no ordinary kid. His clothing was made of leaves and the bark of the trees. His face was the shape of a skull.

"You can call me Skull Kid" he leaped from his perch and landed lightly on the ground "So what brings you here" The child turned his head in a curious manner. Link moved backed. Something didn't feel right. It was as though he met him before. But knowing that he wasn't far from home, he started to talk to the boy. He figured that if he wanted to harm him, he would have done it by now. "I had woken up in a strange forest with no memory of how I got there or what I was doing there."

The kid straightened out his head and began to ramble on about things he didn't understand. "So you are the on chosen to bare the burden of time." He pulled out an ocarina and played a note on it. "The Goddesses really know how to pick em'." He played another note, he wasn't sure why, and contined. "You have a long journey ahead of you. In time you will forget this whole encounter."

"What are you talking about?" Link didn't even get the chance to ask him what he was doing there before he seemed to vanish into thin air. What did he mean by a long journey? And how could he forget something as random as this? Passing this off as Skull Kid being crazy, Link proceeded towards his home. It felt like he hadn't been there in years.

He finally made it. He was home. He walked out of Lost Woods into his village. Everyone was working like they didn't even hear his arrival. Sadly he was too weak to make it to his house. The last thing he saw before he lost consciousness was Saria coming out of her tree.

He finally awakens two days later to Saria sitting next to him. "How are you feeling?" She felt his head to make sure he wasn't running fever. "So what happened to you? I saw you faint as I came out of my house." Link could only sit up and shake his head. He couldn't remember anything before he passed out. He didn't know what to tell her. "I have no idea. All I remember is waking up with you sitting next to me." He held his hand to his forehead as he tried to remember. Nothing he did could help him remember.

He eventually healed and they both lived everyday like normal, completely forgetting that had ever happened to him. Seven years have passed and this is where the journey begins or in a sense, continues.