Hello everyone and welcome to the first chapter of The 9th Guardian!!!

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This story is dedicated to the one who inspired me to write this: Ganonslayer2000 (he isn't an author so dont try looking for him)

Disclaimer: i dont own the legend of zelda. because if i did, this would be the next game. and if this is the next game, then either im a psychic or nintendo really liked my story.

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Now then, on with the story.

Present

Past

'Thinking'

"Talking"

It was raining . . .

Lightning struck down revealing a figure. A boy near the age of 16 was sitting on the side of a cliff holding in his hands a necklace with a locket on it. Tears were pouring from his eyes as he thought about what had happened on that day. So much had happened and all so quickly as well, the boy didn't know where to even start, so he started at the beginning.

It all started with the boy waking up in his bed hearing a cry from outside of his room.

"Link! Link! Get out of bed and eat your breakfast!" cried the house owner. Link has been renting a room in "Madame" Mari's house. Lazily as he could, Link got out of bed and went into the kitchen for his meal. "Good grief Link! Put some pants on before you eat young man!" Link looks down to see that he is in his underwear and begins to do what any real man would do when he got out of bed . . . scratch himself and walk back to his room to get dressed.

After Link came back with a blue t-shirt and some cameo pants, Mari brought him his breakfast and he began to chow down. "Now remember Link, you have to do my shopping today thanks to that little game of poker last night." she said while she giggled and while Link was still scarfing down his meal. After breakfast he left the house with some money and a list of things to get.

Link left the house looking around at his village, admiring the scenery. As he walked along, he saw the usual things when he did go to the store; the neighbors dog running about getting chased by the owners kids, the birds flying down to the old ladies porch to collect their morning feed from her, and the ranch not too far off where the horse were running about.

As Link was walking down to the village shop, he heard a tree branch break. He looked around for awhile and saw someone fall out of a nearby tree. It was his good friend Ikki. The poor guy was completely dazed mumbling on about something about a penguin stealing his socks, you can see he landed on his head. After awhile, he got out of his dazed and realized that Link was standing right next to him recording everything he said on paper for future blackmail.

"Wait what are you doing Link?" the boy asks as Link places the notepad in his back pocket with an evil smirk. "Link. You didn't just write down everything I said did you?" Link doesn't respond because he's running towards the store trying to lose the boy. "No! Come back! No one needs to know the stuff I say when I'm loopy!" he cries as he tries to catch up with Link.

At the store, Erisa, who was working at the counter that day, was waiting for someone to walk through the doors. (It was a slow day)

A little bit later, Link comes crashing in along with Ikki riding on his back trying to get the notepad from Link as he held it out of arms reach of Ikki's. Erisa giggled at the sight of the two fighting over the piece of paper. Link tosses the notepad to her, but unfortunately she didn't react fast enough and dropped it on the floor. Ikki got there first and destroyed the evidence "Yes, victory!" dancing with joy on top of the shreds of paper.

"Oh I'm sorry Link. I didn't know you were going to throw it." Erisa apologized for her lack in reflexes. Link shrugged it off showing that it was no big deal and handed her the list of things he needed to get Mari. "Ok just give me a moment." she went into the back room to retrieve the supplies.

"So Link, when are you going to ask her out?" Ikki asks as he rests his arm on Links shoulder. Link just looks at him like Ikki was some sort of pervert. "Hey don't give me that look. All I'm saying is that you two should go out sometime. You never know, she could disappear before you even try to do so." Ikki laughs at that last statement knowing that will never happen. All Link does is give him a "you-are-hopeless-look" and waits for Erisa to get back.

She finally returns with the supplies and adds up the prices. "That'll be 40 rupees Link." Link gives her the bag of rupees and walks towards the door. Before he walks out he turns around and gives Erisa a wink then continues to walk out with Ikki. "I wonder what that was for?" she opens up the rupee bag to see 50 rupees and a note inside. It read:

Dear Erisa,

I didn't have the guts to tell you this in person, but hows about you and I go out tonight. Meet me at the far side of the pond tonight at 9 o'clock. If you don't come then I understand. But I hope to see you there Erisa.

Your Hero, Link

P.S. - keep the change.

After reading the note she looked up at the clock to see that it was noon at the moment. "Daddy." Erisa called out to her father, Tlon, the village shop owner as well as its blacksmith.

"Yes honey?"

"I was wondering if we had any plans for tonight."

"None that I can think of at the moment. Why do you ask?"

"Link invited me to umm... have dinner at his house, yea."

"Oh. Well then by all means, go ahead. I'll tell your mother that she only needs to cook for the two of us."

"Thanks daddy." she gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek.

Her father looks up at the clock. "Lunch break. What would you like me to get for you?"

"Oh just a sandwich is fine with. Oh, and also can you get me some apple juice?"

"Will do honey." he gives her a kiss on the forehead "see ya later." and with that he left the shop to grab some grub as Erisa was thinking about what to wear for the night.

Elsewhere, Link was dropping off the items at Mari's house. "Thank you very much. Now why don't you give Madame Mari a kiss on the cheek." Link instantly froze with as he remembered the last time he kissed her. Let's just say it involved hair and a vomit bucket. Trying to find away out and fast, Link frantically looked around for an excuse. Just then Ikki came crashing down from yet another tree, but not on the ground this time, this time it was on Link. "Aaahhh!" the fall startled Mari so much that she closed the door and hid in her bedroom. Bit of a cucco isn't she? Anyways, Link and Ikki both stand up trying to achieve balance as they both got hit in the head. They slowly do a drunken walk trying to get to the Ikki's house to get some food in their bellies, but sadly they only got five feet and fell down with spirals in their eyes.

Finally after regaining consciousness and eating lunch, the two decided to go fishing at the pond before dinner.

Link and Ikki were sitting on the docks with their fishing poles trying their hardest to actually catch a fish. "Man when are we ever going to catch a fish?" Ikki was getting very impatient, but all Link did was raise a finger signaling to wait for it. A few seconds later a tug was felt on Ikki's line. "Woah! I got one! Link, I got one!" Link smiles and reaches for the net. "Hey?! Are they supposed to look like that?" Link turns from the net to notice that the fish is larger than its supposed to be, and when I mean bigger, I mean HUGE!! The fish also had lots and lots of teeth which kinda made Ikki nervous, and when I also mean nervous, I mean he basically peed his pants.

Link now got up to help Ikki out with the leviathan of the pond. It took them about half and hour to actually get it close enough to them to net, and by then the entire village was either watching or also helping out with the catch. The group finally got the fish onto the dock, now for the hard part, killing it. People kept on trying to but whenever they got close they were hit away by its head or tail.

Tlon decided to run back to his shop and grabbed the first thing that he found and brought it back to kill the pond beast. (Im running out of names for the fish) after the fish has been flopping around for ten minutes longer, Tlon plunged the weapon into the gargantuan's head killing it and ending the struggle for the catch of the day.

After the villagers left leaving Ikki, Link, and Tlon to work on the fish, Tlon walked over to the head of the fish and pulled out the weapon. "Oh man." he says in disgust after seeing what the weapon was. "Link, um. . . this was supposed to be your birthday present next week. But since I have with me right now, I guess it can be given to you early." he hands Link a sword with gold embedded into the center of the blade with a brown hilt with a customized handgrip to fit Links hold on the sword. Also, there are words inscribed in the handle saying,

'to the one who has been my friend and like a son to me.'

"I hope you like. Happy birthday Link." Tlon then walks away to attend to his shop.

"Awesome sword Link!" Ikki stares in jealousy at the cool present that his friend had just received. Ikki tries to get a hold of it, but Link pulls it back and once again beginning a keep-away-from-ikki-game. At the end however, we all know that Link won.

(9:00 at the pond)

Link is leaning next to a tree waiting for his date to hopefully arrive. So many things ware rushing through his head right now as what to say to if he should kiss her or not.

It has been about five minutes since 9 o'clock, but to Link it felt like five days (Boy does he got it bad). Just then a noise was heard in the bushes. Link looked over in the direction of the sound to find that Erisa was caught on a prickle bush, he went over to help her out which inevitably lead to him getting stuck. Finally after another minute or two, the two were freed and sitting by the lake as Link tried to pull the prickers out of his arms and Erisa's dress.

"I guess it wasn't the smartest idea to wear a dress and walk out into the woods huh?" Link just looked up at her and smiled as he continued to remove the prickers.

After the prickers were pulled out of both of them, they continued the romantic evening with a picnic that Link had brought and made as well. 'Wow! Link is a really good cook. But should I give it to him anyways?'

Half an hour went past while the two watched the scenery without either of them even saying a word. Finally, Erisa mustard up enough courage to speak. "Um Link." Link turns to face Erisa as to not be rude and be thrown into the pond (That's another story). "Um. . . thanks for asking me out tonight, it was really great and. . . here's a token of my appreciation, I want to give you this." she hands Link a locket in the shape of two birds crossing each others paths. When he opened it, there was a beautiful picture of Erisa inside the right and a picture of Link inside the left one.

Link gazed at the locket in pleasure and in disgrace, for he didn't have a present for her.

"Link." once again, Link turned to Erisa "It's ok if you didn't give me anything, all I need is this." she slowly moves her head towards Links. Link does the same thing. The two close their eyes as to enjoy the moment by touch and not sight.

They were just about to join lips when all of a sudden. . .

"RRRAAAWWWRRR!" a huge roar was heard coming from the village followed by screams of people.

Erisa stands up frightened "Link! We have to go back to the village!" she grabs Links hand not knowing how ticked he was for not getting that kiss.

When they arrived at the village they saw people running away in fear and others running with swords in the other direction. Tlon then came running up to Link wielding a large two-handed sword and wearing armor.

"Father, what's going on?" Erisa asked with fear in her voice.

"A monster has invaded the village and destroying the houses." Tlon turns over to Link "Link, get your sword and help us out. You're one of our villages best fighters." Link nodded and headed to his house to retrieve his new sword when he was stopped by Erisa.

"Link." he turned around to see the worry on Erisa's face "Be careful." he gave her a smile which gave her comfort, and with that he ran to his house as Erisa ran to the village shelter.

When Link returned with his sword he saw the beast single handedly defeating anyone who came near it. The beast was a dragon, with no eyes, ears, or any facial features at all. Its skin was completely smooth and reflected everything as if as a mirror was covering its body. No one could get close enough to even touch the dragons skin with the blade. It was almost as it could see everywhere around itself.

Link was standing there watching the battle when Tlon and Ikki came rushing at the beast with swords in hand. Sadly, their efforts were futile as they were thrown back by the dragons tail and landed right next to Link unconscious. Link looked at the two brutally beaten and became consumed with rage as he saw his two best friends be thrown around like rag dolls. He ran in from behind, as he saw the tail move, he jumped into the air dodging the tail and landing right next to the dragons side. He swung his sword at the its side to give it a large cut. The dragon cried out in pain and turned around to face Link and as it did, several more tails emerged from its body and knocked out every other fighter but the one who injured it. It breathed heavily blowing Links hair as well as making Link more and more afraid of what was going to happen next.

It was about another ten minutes that the two of them stared at each other standing in the same place. Just then, Link lifted his sword to deliver another blow, but was stopped in mid-swing as the dragon gave out a huge roar as it did when it entered the village. The roar froze Link completely, but not in fear, instead the roar completely immobilized him. Now that he was vulnerable, the dragon drew back one of its claws and swung it hitting Link and sending him flying outside of the village.

(Off in the distance)

Up at a cliff not too far from the village was a bunch of squirrels watching the fight. They were eating some acorns as if they were eating popcorn at the movies when all of a sudden a scream could be heard. A second later, the squirrels saw a figure hurtling towards them, and as the squirrels they are, they just stood there waiting until the last moment.

Down came Link crashing down onto the cliff as a bunch of squirrels ran away into a nearby tree. A few seconds later, Link got up to see where he was. He looked down to see the village and also the dragon who appeared to be walking sniffing the ground trying to find something. The dragon then stopped and stood there for a few seconds, it then lifted up its head to the sky and open its mouth ejecting a large blue and white beam into the air and created a ball above the village. The ball grew larger and larger until it engulfed the entire village, just then a ball turned into a bright light and disappeared in a flash leaving behind a large crater where the village used to be.

Link began to cry even more as the rain poured down even harder. He opened the locket in his hand to look at the only thing that was left of the only girl he loved, Erisa. He had lost everything, his friends, his family, his home, and his love. He closed the locket in anger, anger towards the foul creature that ruined his life. He clenched the locket as more tears dripped onto the fist.

"I swear, Erisa. I will get you back."

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