The Chaos That Was
Chapter I
"Hoot!"
Link turned over in his sleep trying to ignore that annoying hooting sound that he kept hearing. It was morning now; who did this owl think he was?
"HOOT!!!"
"Waah!"
Startled, Link shot out of bed, only to find gravity oppressing his sleepy body...Deciding he was too tired to get up, he crawled back in bed.
Having drifted back to half-sleep, Link began to dream he was flying. He always thought flying would require some sort of effort, but he seemed to be being effortlessly carried by the wind...
Splash!
He was suddenly hurled into a vat of water! He opened his eyes to find himself in the pond in Kokiri Forest. Funny, his dream seemed to have come true. Sopping wet, he trundled home, and climbed the ladder to his tree house.
"…hoot."
"Aaah!"
Link fell to his doom off his tree house ladder. As he looked up from the ground, Kaepora Gaebora, that slightly annoying huge owl that had guided Link in his adventures, was once again, turning his head upside-down, peering at Link from atop the ladder.
"Good to see I finally grabbed your attention, quite literally, actually."
Link then realized what his "flying dream" really had been...He stood there frowning at the brazen bird, who flipped his head right-side-up and blinked unassumingly at Link with a twist of his head.
Link's frown slowly shifted to a smile, then he giggled, then burst out laughing. The old owl joined in the merriment. Really Link was happy to see him; they had become good friends over the years and adventures.
"But really, Young One, this is a grave matter indeed. In fact, it was very difficult for me to reach this place." the owl said with a serious tone. "You see, the fate of Hyrule is at stake, and you, Hero of Time, are the only one who can bring order to the chaos!"
Link glanced around the forest seeing a tranquil, serene environment with little magically-floaty strand things bobbing around. The owl knew what Link was thinking, but continued his diction.
"Something great and terrible has happened, hoot, indeed. The very fabric of space and time itself has been" – POOF!
The owl was cut short by a sudden disruption. The wizened old owl that had been standing there moments before had suddenly been replaced by a little baby owl!
"Hoo." the little owl cooed.
Aww, despite how intensely cute Kaepora Gaebora's new form was, Link knew this was no small matter. It looked like Link was on his own for this quest. He tenderly took the adorable owlet, and placed him inside the house. He quickly gathered some grass, and made a little roost with a bowl of water and a dish of worms. After asking a Kokiri boy to care for the once-ancient fledgling, Link set out from Kokiri Forest hoping to get to the bottom of this mysterious predicament.
Kaepora Gaebora had been starting to say something about time itself. Link had a feeling this was going to involve time travel. He groaned at the thought, thinking back to when he had experienced time being reversed from when he was an adult, everybody's memory but his having regressed to the time of his childhood. Then, of course, there was the Majora's mask ordeal not too long ago where he had been trapped in a time loop, having to reverse time to stall the destruction of the land of Termina by a huge moon crashing into it, in order that he could rescue the land's guardian giants who helped him destroy the evil mask that was possessing the moon. Yes Link was no stranger to bizarre, convoluted time travel, but nothing could possibly prepare him for what he was about to see...