Chapter One: Outcast
My story begins in a small, rural village somewhere on the west coast of America. It was called Lanayru village. It was a pleasant place... for most people. During the day most of the village children are at the local park playing games. Well...most of them anyway. There was one kid who was never invited to play any games. Instead he would usually just sit under a tree all alone. He was a 12 year old kid with blonde hair and blue eyes. One more thing you should know...that kid was me. My name is Link.
It's not that I didn't want to play any games, it's just for some reason, nobody liked me. Whenever I tried to join everyone in their fun, they would just give me strange looks and walk away. I don't know why... I had never been mean to anyone. They could've been jealous, as I was the apprentice to the village swordsman, Roland Nobleman. I couldn't really be sure though. However, all of that would soon change.
After a little while I decided to head back to Nobleman's house. I lived there as his apprentice, but only as his apprentice. Nobleman had no interest in getting to know me. He's told me many times: I am his student, not his son. He was right though, Nobleman is not my father. In fact, I didn't know anything about my parents. From what I had been told, both my mother and my father died when I was only a few months old. Living with Nobleman wasn't easy. He pushes me hard during sword training which usually happens two times a day. And in between those sessions, I would usually just lie in my room, sometimes reading a book. Books were one of the few things that Nobleman would provide for me.
It wasn't all bad though. Late at night I would often sneak out and go to my special place. That place was a clearing with a freshwater spring located on the outskirts of the village. It was very beautiful, surrounded by forest and dotted with pretty white flowers. There was also this odd mound in front of the spring. I didn't know what it was then so I hardly paid it any mind. But my favorite part was that the view of the starry night sky was incredible. I wasn't sure why, but staring up at the stars just made me feel...content. Whenever I came here I would always just sit in the clearing and gaze up at the stars. There was one particular star in the sky that I always had my eyes on more than the others, and I would often make a wish on it. My wish was always the same. I only really wanted one thing in my life, and that was... a friend. So I wouldn't be so lonely anymore.
One day before I returned to Nobleman's house, I thought I had heard a voice coming from the spring. There's a rumor among the villagers that a great spirit lives in the spring. They claim that when in the mortal world, it takes the form of a giant golden serpent. The villagers call it "Lanayru". The village was named after the spirit, and the village's emblem was a yellow serpent coiled around a blue orb. Personally at the time I wasn't sure if I believed the spirit even existed. Nobleman kept telling me not to question the Great Spirit, saying that I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for "Lanayru". Still...I had a hard time believing that a gigantic snake lived in the spring, which wasn't even that big.
On my way back to Nobleman's house, I wondered, "What had I heard in the spring?...Could 'Lanayru' really exist?"
I soon snuck back into the house and into my room. As I sat down on my bed, I took notice of the blue ocarina on the desk next to me and picked it up. The instrument supposedly belonged to my mother, and whenever I was tired or hurt, I would often play a song on it and I'd feel better. Little did I know though, even this ocarina wouldn't be able to help against the threat that would come tomorrow.