Before you start reading "the Legend Untold" I would like to make a few things clear.
1. "The Legend Untold" compiles the events of The Legend of Zelda games Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and Twilight Princess, told from the perspective of Link. Some events and other things will change to create the story.
2. In no way, shape, or form do I claim this to be the real timeline progression, nor do I claim to know it. This is simply a fanfic.
I guess that's it. On with the story.
Before anything existed, there were but three beings. Din, Farore, and Nayru, the Golden Goddesses. Togther, they acted as one and breathed life into the Emptiness, creating billions of worlds and universes. One world of which is Hyrule. Soon after the Goddesses left Hyrule, the Unifying War began. It was a terrible war between every race in Hyrule over the Triforce, the mystical triangle that granted any who held it the power of a single wish, a governing force left by the Goddesses. The Dark Interlopers were the first who craved that power, but in the end the Hylains, along with the Goron rock people, the Kokiri of the forest, and the Zora water beings, sealed the Triforce away with the Sword of Time into the Sacred Realm. As for the Dark Interlopers, the Goddesses Din, Farore, and Nayru sent them to a separate realm with the powers of the four Light Spirits.
A mother died rescuing her son during that war. She had made it to the southern area, the Kokiri Forest. The Great Deku Tree, protector of the Kokiri, swore he would protect the child before the mother died. That child lived as a Kokiri until he was ten. That was when destiny began.
That child never had a fairy partner, as all the other Kokiri did, and was shunned therefore. He lived for ten years with only one friend: Saria. She was the only one who cared about him, and was his absolute best friend. When he was ten though, he was forced to leave the forest and find himself. His name is Link.
"WAKE UP!" A high-pitched voice echoed through the ten-year-old Link's dreams, ripping him from their embrace and returning him to reality. He sat up and shook himself, and his green tunic by effect, dispeling the drowsiness. Yawning, he looked for the voice that was obviously not Saria's calm, warm voice. Finally it came upon him to cast his gaze up, to which he was welcomed by a bulb of blue light.
"It's about time!" The fairy bobed up and down. "The Great Deku Tree wants you!"
"And who are you exactly?" Link stretched and adjusted his droopy, conical hat.
"I'm Navi!" She answered. She sounded like she was in a hurry, but Link took his own time getting up. "Now c'mon!"
"You expect me to follow you on an empty stomach?" He asks.
"Sort of," the ball of light said. She probably shrugged but her aura of blue distorted her figure.
"Well you can wait," Link looked around for anything, but came up foodless. "Darn. I've probably got Rupees enough." He checked his wallet. A single Red Rupee lay in the wallet, worth 20 Rupees total. "Yeah, I'm good." Link yawned again, pulled on his boots, and walked out of his treehut of a home, choosing to jump down instead of using the ladder. He landed with a roll, stretched, and headed for the store. The Kokiri Village was almost surreal, an area protected by a heavy forest. Everything was green, from the grass to the trees to even the small pools of water to an extent. This is where the Kokiki called home.
"Can't you hurry up?" Navi bobed incesantly. "We need to get moving."
"Cut it out," Link swatted at the fairy as he entered the store. "I'll take a Red Potion," he told the store clerk, taking out his Rupee and giving it to him. The clerk was a Kokiri like the rest of the village's population, with the same clothing as Link's but with brown hair covering his eyes as opposed to Link's nicely-kept blonde hair and clear blue eyes. He hoped onto the counter and retreived the Rupee, hoped down, hoped up and grabbed the Red Potion keg, and filled Link's single bottle up. Kokiri were not known from their height, beging the question of why Link was the only one with a ladder in the entirety of the village. Link nonchalantly left the store, sipping at the Red Potion.
"I'm surprised," Link looked at the deep color of the soup. "Prices must have gone down."
"Alright, enough dawdling," Navi huffed. "Great Deku Tree."
"If you say that one more time you'd better hope you can breath in soup," Link growled as he made his way to the Great Deku Tree's enterance.
"HEY!" Called another Kokiri. This one looked about the same as Link, but with a jerky demeanor and "I am the best" face. "You can't come in here!"
"Give me a good reason why not, Mido?" Link sipped his Red Potion.
"YOU don't have a fairy!" He crossed his arms and laughed.
"EXCUSE ME?" Navi probably glared at Mido. "What in the Forest do you think I am?"
"You're his fairy?" Mido asked.
"You're my fairy?" Link almost snorted his Red Potion.
"Well, for now!" Navi answered, supposedly crossing her arms. Mido and Link stared at her.
"Well, it doesn't matter," Mido crossed his arms behind his head. "You don't have a sword or a shield."
"I would need them why?" Link asks.
"Deku Babas, nutjob," Mido said half-liddedly. "Can you fight them?"
"Sure," Link shruged. "You roll into their reach, grab them by the neck, twist, and yank. Simple enough."
"Like you could do that!" Mido laughed.
"I can demonstrate on you if you want," Link grinned. Mido stopped laughing and backed away as Link corked his potion and advanced.
"Alright, Mido!" a voice called. Link's head turned immediately as that warm, soft voice chorused through his head. Saria stood, arms crossed and looking very angry, just feet away. "Why won't you let Link in?" She asked, walking over and brushing her green hair away from her face.
"He doesn't have a sword or shield," Mido growled. "And everyone knows that it's Kokiri law that you can't visit the Great Deku Tree unless they either have both or are you."
"MIDO!" Sarai yelled.
"SARIA!" Mido mocked. "Look, I'm doing this for the kid's safety."
"Mido . . ." Saria huffed, dragging Link away as Navi and Saria's fairy conversed. "I'm sorry," she nodded to Link as she stopped.
"S'okay," Link shrugged. "I'll just get a sword and shield. I know the shop sells shields. The sword though . . ."
"Listen," Sarai dragged Link towards her and put her lips to his ear. "The Kokiri Sword is kept inside the grove near the gardens. Watch out for the rock and you'll get it no sweat." She backed off and smiled. "I've got work, but I'll be rooting for you." She waved and walked away, leaving Link and Navi.
"Well?" Navi asked as Link watched Saria go and sipped his now-uncorked Red Potion again.
"Well," he echoed. "I guess you're gonna annoy me unless I go, right?"
"Pretty much," Navi nodded as well as could be determined.
"Then let's get that sword," Link walked towards a small hill, fences and a small house on top of it.
"This is the enterance to the grove?" Navi asked. It was a small enterance in the side of a hill, surrounded by fences and bushes that made up the Kokiri gardens.
"Yup," Link finished the last of the Potion and put the bottle away.
"Looks pretty small," Navi whirled down to the enterance, then looked to Link. "Can you fit in there?"
"I'm pretty sure I can," Link got on his belly and crawled into the tunnel.
"Man, this is a tight fit," Navi laughed.
"You know, I CAN just keep you in my bottle," Link threatened, crawling through the tunnel.
"Alright," Navi fluttered in front of Link. Finally they reached the end of the tunnel and came out. The area was completely surrounded by trees, like a labyrinth.
"Now, Saria mentioned a rock," Link wandered out of the small alcove and into the maze.
"That rock!" Navi fluttered incesantly as a large rock rolled towards them. Navi got behind Link, who just smiled. As the rock approached, Link's arms flew out and hit the rock. For seconds Link held back the rock, before grunting pushing it backwards, forcing it the other way. "Wow . . ." Navi watched in amazement as Link dusted his hands and followed the rock.
"C'mon," he ushered. The two followed the rock closely before locating another alcove that Link ducted into. There was a small chest and not much else.
"Well?" Navi asked as Link opened the chest.
"It's pretty cool," Link looked in.
"Is it the sword?" Navi asked.
"No," Link pulled out a Red Rupee. "Reembersment." Navi bopped Link on the head.
"SWORD," She growled. Link turned at her and in one swift motion pulled his bottle up around her, corked it, and put it down. "Hey!" Navi began running into the inside of the bottle. "Don't leave me!"
"I'll come back and get you," Link waved at her.
"WHAT ABOUT THE ROCK!?" Navi looked to Link as he walked away. Suddenly she felt very scared. As for Link, he carefully watched for the rock as he approached another, larger alcove. He rushed into it and up a small incline before finding a small pedestal. In the pedestal was a sword.
"This must be it," Link drew the sword in amazement. "The Kokiri Sword. Now I've just gotta get that shield and-"
"HELP ME!" Navi yelled. She was rolling the bottle on it's side as the rock followed her, faster.
"Right on time," Link rushed at Navi as the bottle hit the maze wall. She looked in fear as the rock loomed closer.
"LINK!" She yelled. Suddenly Link whipped out in front of her, waved his sword, and stabbed the sword into the rock. The giant harbringer of squishage stopped in it's tracks, made a groaning sound, and fell apart. Link smirked at the rock, stabbed the sword into the ground, grabbed the bottle, and let Navi free. "You . . . you . . . JERK!" Navi fluttered in his face. "I would have gotten killed!"
"I wouldn't have let you," Link growled. "I timed the rock and put that bottle at an angle so that you could roll away, by which time I'd have the sword and get you. I still need you to get into the Great Deku Tree, remember?"
"Y-You do?" She asked, still hyped up as Link walked back to the tunnel and crawled out. "And you timed the rock?"
"Yeah," Link nodded as his used his sword to cut the bushes outside the tunnel and collect Rupees inside them. "I wouldn't have let anything bad happen to you. Now c'mon." Link rushed to the store and used his collected Rupees to obtain the wooden Deku Shield. "It's not very impressive, but I guess it'll do." Link looked at the shield as he walked out.
"I see you did it!" Saria called down from the roof of the store. Link whipped around and waved at her with his sword. She jumped down and smiled.
"I have to say, it's a pretty cool blade," Link looked at the Kokiri Sword, admiring it.
"Well, it's gonna be hard to carry everywhere," Saria smiled. Link noticed she had a belt across her body, with a sheath attached to it on Saria's back. She pulled it off and handed it to him. "Here. It should be the right size for you and the sword."
"Thanks Saria," Link nodded, pulling it on. "Now, to the Great Deku Tree." With that, Link, Navi, and Saria made their way to the enterance to the Great Deku Tree.
