Chapter 1: The Beginning of it All

I sat atop my horse, Epona, as she ran through Hyrule field. I swung my sword in large arcs, as I slashed away at the monsters we passed. Anything I missed, was trampled by Epona. What a life ,I thought, no room to clean, no dishes to wash… just me and Epona. Suddenly, I heard someone call my name.

"Link!" the voice called. "Link!" it cried again, louder. I was getting closer! "MISTER HYLIA!"

I bolted upright in my desk, and shouted, "The Gettysburg Address!" and hoped it was the right answer. My class laughed around me, as my teacher, Mr. Huff, turned red in the face. When he regained his normal complexion, he stated,

"Link, this, is math class. But I'm sure Miss Dumont would be delighted to hear about your newfound interest in the civil war. Right after detention, Mister Hylia." I groaned. I'd had detention every day this week. And last week. And the week befo… you get the idea.

"Now, class, on to the Pythagorean theorem…" He kept going, but I wasn't interested, so I went back to my fantasy. Where was I?

We'd come across a large bridge, The Bridge of Hylia. Underneath it, was Lake Hylia, the largest lake in the world of Hyrule. In it, lived the Zoras, a race of amphibious people. But that wasn't what I was interested in. No, not at all. In actuality, I was interested on what lie on the other side of this bridge. Only at exactly noontime, can one find a "special" chu-chu. If you killed one, and put the jelly it produced in a bottle, it would heal you, and make you stronger until you took damage. This, was what I was looking for…

"MISTER HYLIA!" shouted Mr. Huff again, waking me from my trance yet again. I grumbled. "Is it possible that you want a pass to the office with your lovely detention slip? If, not, I suggest you PAY ATTENTION!" I caught some of his spit in the face. I pretended to pay attention until class ended, and I could escape the clutches of Mr. Huff. I'd begun to call him Ganondorf, when he wasn't around. Ganondorf was the villain in my fantasy world of Hyrule. I just hated Mr. Huff. In no other way were the two related.

I was glad. My next period was lunch, and even though I had detention through it, Mrs. Gremple was old, and she just slept through it, so I had time to myself to compose music. I was working on a piece called Sun Song. It was beautiful, and I could hear it clearly in my head. Almost as clearly as I could imagine the girl of my dreams, Ilia. But, she didn't really exist. No, she was a part of Hyrule. I settled into my usual spot directly in front of Mrs. Gremple. For the short time she was awake, she checked off names of the students who actually decided to show up for detention. But soon, she was sound asleep, and I was poring over my music. Suddenly, a hand snatched my music away from me. I looked to my antagonist. Andante, was his name, and I hated him more than Mr. Huff, and Ganondorf combined. If only this were Hyrule, I thought, I'd pull out my sword and hack his head clean off. But this wasn't Hyrule. The Master Sword didn't exist, and Zelda wasn't real. Right now, I was staring down the boy I hated more than anyone, but I was doing it without my sword, my shield. I was doing it without Epona, without the Tri-force of Courage on my side. I was doing it without the three Goddesses, or the Light spirits, Ordon, Faron, Eldin, and Lanayaru. All I had was… nothing. I couldn't do anything about it.

"Look at Link!" said Andante, "He's writing sappy music." He crumpled it up in a ball and threw it at the wall.

"It's beautiful," I told him in defense of Sun's Song.

"Did, you hear that? He says it's beautiful. I guess I'm sorry than. I'm sorry I interrupted your girly session," he responded. Next thing I knew, He has picked it up and written in marker "stupid" across the whole page. That was the last straw. With or without the Goddesses, my weapons, my horse, or the light spirits, I was taking this bastard down. I tackled him, and punched him in the face twice. His cronies surrounded us, and then everything went black.