Chapter 1: It started with a question

It had been a normal summer, well that is to say that I was helping my dad with all summer. It wasn't all bad, I mean I did get paid. So that was good. The only thing that bugged me was the fact that I couldn't see my girlfriend, Raven, as often as I wanted to. At least she planned nights that your whole group could hang out, she was always responsible like that.

School started back up tomorrow, and I couldn't wait. I got to school, and noticed that there was an assembly. Sunnyboy and I decided to go to the gym. We sat in our regular spot and talked for a bit. I looked over at the entrance, and saw Raven running towards me. She quickly got to the top of the steps and sat next to me with no second thought, I smiled at her. The assembly started.

"I was looking for you everywhere, SnowScale." She whispered to me during the assembly. "I first checked Coach Browns' room, but no one was there. Not even Coach Brown herself!"

"She doesn't have a class until third hour." I explain to her.

Just at that moment, Coach Brown showed up. I heard Raven giggle to herself. I smile at her again, I should have guessed she would find that funny. She found irony funny, which I could do. However, she always seemed to have the upper hand at puns. We loved each other though. I had loved her since 8th grade, when she first showed up at school. She was a shy girl though and I was shy as well. So when I tried to ask her out last year, it was a mess. She ended up saying if for me and we've been together since. I know it's not long but I have a feeling it will be.

Raven suddenly stood up, I noticed the assembly had ended. I stood up and started to walk, knowing that we would follow each other.

"Snow, I have a hypothetical question for you." She said to me as we were walking.

"Uh-oh" I reply trying to sound worried.

"If Link kidnaped me right now, would you try to save me?"

"Of course." I tell her.

"Not like he would succeed though." Sunnyboy interjected.

"You don't know that, SB!" Raven said giving him her evil stare. I smiled at her again, glad that she had so much faith in me.

All that day I thought about Ravens' question. I wondered if I could actually save my girlfriend from Link if he took her. Not that he really could, I mean he's not really real. I mean, SB had a point, I had no skill compared to Link. I dismissed all of my thoughts of it, I decided to go to sleep. That would get my mind off this.

That night I dreamt that Link did take Raven. I followed him out of the school and down into a hole, not a bottomless one it was a shoulder-high hole. As I landed I heard a voice. Three maybe, I wasn't sure.

"We call you to help us. Our hero is no longer himself, and we want you to help us. You must protect your Crimson Loftwing. Like you, she is also needed to help our hero…Rise young one of cold water, for this is your Destiny."

I woke up in my bed, like normal. I passed my dream off as just a dream. However, the entire ride to school, I couldn't help thinking about what the voice had said. I was confused about the 'bird' part. I didn't own a bird. And just who was the Hero the voices were talking about? Was it Link? I was starting to wish that I had played a bit more Zelda. I decided I should ask Raven about it, if anyone would know what it meant, it would be her.

When I get to school, I decide to just ask Sunnyboy. He was the only other person who played Legend of Zelda.

"Hey SB, do you think that there's such thing as a vision?" I ask casually.

"I guess, I don't see why not." Sunnyboy says a confused look."

"That's a random question." A freshman with tan skin, black hair, and glasses said as he walked in.

"Not really, Naxo." I explain, looking at the black haired freshman. I decided to tell them what I dreamt about last night. I told them about Raven getting kidnaped, the hole Link had jumped into, and told them about the message I got at the end.

"That's one heck of a dream, Snow." Naxo said with an unbelieving smile. "But I agree with you that you should ask Raven about this. She knows more about the world of Zelda than anyone here."

"What about me?!" Sunnyboy protested

"We all know that Raven is the Zelda nerd, I'm the Deadpool nerd, and SnowScale's the Dragonball Nerd." Naxo stopped for a bit thinking. "And you're the well rounded nerd."

"But…" Sunnyboy started to protest.

"Hi guys! What I miss?" Raven said as she walked into the room. I walked over to her and we embraced.

"Snow has something to ask you." Naxo cut in.

Raven looked up at me and backed away, "What's on your mind?"

I tell her what I told the others. After I finished my story, she had her hands in a thinking position.

"Protect the Crimson Loftwing…?" she muttered to herself. "There are no Loftwings' here. It must be some form of metaphor…but for what."

"I was hoping you would know…" I tell her.

She turned to me and smiled, "Give me till lunch, I think I could figure something out."

She hugged me and walked out of the room. I followed her and we started engaging in normal conversation. At lunch Raven seemed to have an answer.

"So, after four periods, I have come to a guess." She started acting all professional.

"Well, what is it?" Naxo, Sunnyboy, and I say almost simultaneously.

"Ok, you said you dreamt about Link capturing me right?"

"Yes…?" I reply unsure why she was telling me this.

"Well, if you dreamt about Link, then the 'hero' the voice was talking about would have to be Link." We all nod our heads in understanding

"Also the 'no longer himself' part must mean that he's become possessed by something, but due to the vagueness of visions, I don't know exactly." With that she finished.

"But what about the Loftwing?" I ask slightly upset that she couldn't solve that.

"Well… I did," she said starting to blush. "Though I'm not completely sure."

Raven always started to blush when the subject was embarrassing to her.

"Tell us! Tell us! Tell us!" Naxo chanted.

"Ok…" Raven said, and taking a deep breath, she explained. "So I first started thinking about birds, but I don't think you have any birds. Do you Snow?"

"No."

"So remembering that the goddesses are always meaning more than they say…"

"Goddesses?!" I say to her shocked.

"The goddesses of Hyrule. Din, Nayru, and Farore." She explained. "Anyway, since the goddesses always mean more than they say, I concluded that it must be a person."

"Ok…?" I hear Naxo and Sunnyboy say. Obviously as confused at Ravens' logic as I am.

"So, I tried remembering the qualities of the Loftwing. I know that Link and the Loftwing are close, and that Link trusts it. So this person must have those qualities."

"Who'd you come up with?" I ask, eager to her the answer.

Raven started to blush again. "Me…"

I look at her surprised, and realize that it must be it. I mean, she was named after a bird. So it would make since to use a bird analogy.

"I'm gonna go get a Mtn Dew." Raven smiled, "You wanna come with, Snow?"

"Sure!" I jump to her side and we start walking off to the lobby vending machine.

Not a moment after we walked out of the room, a boy picked up Raven and ran off with her.

"Snow!" She yelled at me with apparent fear in her eyes. The boy kept on running, I looked like he was running towards the front entrance at school.

As soon as I caught up with him, he was at the hole that I saw in my dream. As the boy turned around, I noticed that the boy looked a lot like Link. When he saw me, he made an evil smirk, Raven wasn't moving. I was angry now, he hurt my girlfriend and the one the 'goddesses' told me to protect.

When I was just a few feet away, the Link look-alike jumped down the hole. When I got to the hole, I noticed that there was no one in it. I figured it must have been a portal. I look around to see if anyone was watching, no one was around. I look back at the kidnappers escape portal.

"Here goes nothing." I sigh. With that, I jump down into the supposed portal.