Eight years...
He left eight bloody years ago, and he still hasn't come back. He's not dead. He defeated Ganondorf. Hyrule is at a time of peace.
So why hasn't he come back?
I turn a little wooden toy around in my hands, remembering when he made it. Watching him widdle a little fairy out of wood, and wishing it would come back to life...
He never knew me. Never saw me, never heard me, but I heard him. It had been mother's dieing wish. To not let him know I existed, not let him know who I was, or what he is. She told me the deku tree would protect him, but I knew inside he would need more than a tree. I could tell from the moment he was born he was bent for trouble. How I could tell, a little ten year old, scarred by the pain and loss of war, still eludes me. It's hard to watch your little brother grow up with so many questions, watch him struggle with teasing, and not run to him and hug him and comfort him and tell him everything would be alright. He's nineteen now. Nineteen now and doesn't know who I am. I want to find him. I want for once to be the big sister I was never allowed to be, but how could I? What would I say? That I had made him endure all that loneliness simply because my dead mother had told me to? I couldn't. I won't. The past is behind me.
I live in castle town now. I left the Lost Woods soon after he did. Nothing was there for me anymore, not with him gone. I wanted to follow him on his quest, leap in and help him when he needed me... but I couldn't. It was his quest not mine. The Tri-Force on my hand only meant it was passed down to me when his time came to pass. So I assume, anyway. What else could it mean? There's only three pieces of the Tri-Force; one belongs to Ganondorf, one to the Princess, and one to Link. Three. No more, no less.
Seven years we waited for him to come, seven years before he revived the sages, and with their help sealed Ganondorf back in the Sacred Realm. Then he left. Rumor has it that the sages weren't able to complete the seal, and that Ganon could come back, but I don't believe it. Some barber probably made it up just so he'd have something to talk about. Hyrule is surprisingly boring during peace time.
I work as a Hylian Knight now. I didn't want to admit he was gone, but I had to make a living somehow, and it's all I'm good at. It doesn't feel right, like I've given up looking for him, but I figure he's protecting Hyrule in his own way. I look up at the sky, filled with clouds. It had been sunny this morning, but now the clouds seemed to be appearing out of no where, and the sky darkened with every passing second. I pick up my sword to head into my house, when suddenly, the ground starts to shake.