Chapter One, Rewrite:
Link tethered Epona to a post before the stairs leading up to the southern Castle Town gate. He headed up thinking about the supplies he needed to get. And maybe a little treat for the kids, some of the new hard candy one of the stalls was selling would be good. And maybe something for Ilia….
He briefly wondered where Agitha was. She was usually out catching bugs at this time. But he pushed her from of his mind. He had things to do and the light of day would be fading soon. He might stop by her house in the morning before he headed home to say "hi" to her.
He walked through the gates to castle town and noted that the guards where nowhere to be seen. He continued down the street a ways and past the hot spring water booth, the Goron was also gone. Link started to get worried. He started walking faster to get to the street that leads to the fortune teller's. He came upon the street and stop to examine a large patch of blood. He felt a sinking in his stomach and rushed down the street he came to a sudden stop as he looked down the street and his eyes met with the sight before him
The street was a bloody mess, there were bodies strewn around with wounds varying from sword slashes to burn marks. There was a man thrown over a crate with arrows in his back and blood dripping from his hand onto the body of a man leaning against the crate, his hands attempting to hold his internal organs inside him.
There was a woman on the other side of the street half burned, her face wasn't even recognizable. And a child in front of the fortune teller's shop lay with their chest to the ground while looking to the sky, their neck twisting in a sickening way. Link dropped to his knees gagging. He couldn't believe the sight before him. Link barely realized there were guards coming until they had already dragged him to his feet and shackled his hands behind his back.
Link stood stunned in the court room. The judge had just found him guilty and sentenced him to life in prison. Link couldn't believe this was happening. He hadn't done anything, they should have been out trying to find the real murderer.
As the guards stepped toward Link to take him to his new home in the castle prison link said, "I didn't do anything! You need to find the man responsible!"
"Then why does this sword, the one found on your person, match the wounds on the dead?" He asked, holding up the master sword. "I don't know what you did with the other weapons but we will find them soon enough." The judge said.
The guards took Link by the arms and pulled him along to the prison. They took him down some halls and locked him in his own cell. He sat for quite some time thinking about the position he was in and how they needed to find the real culprit of the crimes committed. He thought about how he might prove he didn't do it and if there was even a way.
He would never have done anything like that. Link didn't hurt people, just monsters. Even Ganondorf was a monster in his mind, a horrible monster that needed to be destroyed. Link didn't have any way to prove his innocence though, and he knew that. If the princess would find out what had happened to him she would help him out. But it would be too late to find whoever killed those people by the time that happened, if it happened.
Link came to realize there was only one way to do everything that needed to be done. He needed out, and the murderer needed to be caught. The only way for both of those to happen was if he got out of prison soon. And he could think of only one way to do that.
Okay, this is shorter then i wanted it to be. but it's still longer then this chapter was, and its got a little more detail in it. just bear with me though, the later chapters are better and longer. please review, it does help. thanks.