All the ideas of man. Those endless worries and joys. Once through their journey of the thinker's mind, do they just disappear? If not, where do they go? To another time and place to be born again into something more than they were in the mind of the human? It seems that this would be impossible. But there is a place. A place that cannot be described in words that has no name. This is where the thoughts of all humankind gather. And together, they form a world of their own, set apart from the human world. But they do share one commonality. The human world and the unseen world of human thought are places where no being is equal. Those thoughts that were more appreciated than others achieve higher rank in that world. Those thoughts kept in the recesses of the mind of the thinker that were never spread are those that lie in sorrow and misery in the alleys and deserts of that land. Among the strongest powers in that world are those ideas that created man-made entertainment such as video games, movies, and attractions of the Internet. These ideas hold reign over the land of thoughts. And as humans engage in war and quarrels great and small, so do their thoughts. Isn't it all for power? When countries in the human world go to war, they fight for power. When a boy and his mother argue, isn't it all for power? Once, a great war was fought in this land of the ideas. This is its story.
Chapter One- A Visit
Link sat in his quiet home in the village of Kakariko. He had been enjoying a nice mug of Lon Lon Ranch's milk while he sat and thought of old times. He remembered his many adventures through this great land in which he lived. For twelve years now, no trouble had come to Hyrule. It prospered and thrived with no evil force to disturb it. Majora (although he had been in the alternate world of Termina), Vaati, Ganondorf, and all those other terrors that had once plagued his homeland were no more. Link had personally seen to it that each one had as little chance of coming back as he did of actually being a Kokiri.
Link was now a grown man. He stood at six feet and one inch. For almost three years now he had been married to Malon. This had brought on many angry words from the princess, Zelda. She had been sure that Link would ask him to marry her after all the countless times he had saved her. But Link gave no thought to the rants of the princess. Malon, even after these three years, remained to him so beautiful that he scarcely even noticed any other female presence.
But something felt empty. Although he, for the most part, enjoyed his peaceful life in Kakariko working as a ranch hand for Talon, he desired something more. An adventure. He wanted to go on a grand quest just one last time. He wanted to feel that rush of adrenaline as he hacked and slashed at monstrous beasts many times his size. He wanted to feel that indescribable sense of fulfillment when he saved a land from almost certain doom.
Link set down his mug and walked to a special room in the back of his house. This room had been set apart for all the special mementos he had gained from his ventures. On one wall was mounted the many masks that Link had gathered in his journey to stop the moon from falling on Termina. Sometimes he tried on one of the three transformation masks just to get that hero feeling running through his body again.
Then there were all the weapons he had obtained. He still had his Hero's Bow and a quiver full of arrows left just for nostalgia's sake. Malon had flat-out refused to let him keep any explosives in the house, so his bombs and bombchus had been exploded and forgotten. Other weapons such as his clawshots, boomerang, megaton hammer, and a few of his many shields also stood in memory of his feats.
Then there was his sword and ocarina. The ocarina was the only one of his saved items that he actually used on something of a regular basis. If there was a drought, Link just played the Song of Storms. If it was taking too long for the Fourth of July fireworks show to begin, he would just play the Sun's Song and it would instantly become night. But his sword was the thing that made him itch so much for just one more adventure. The idea of using that blade to save the entire world from destruction sent a shiver down his spine.
Just then, Link heard a loud knocking on his door, so loud it sounded as if the knocker was intent on breaking down the door. At the thought of having to pay 150 rupees for another door, Link ran to the door and quickly opened it. He only just had time to neatly sidestep the figure that sprawled into his sitting room.
The man was rather shorter than himself, five feet and three inches at the most. This person's name was Luigi. As he stood up, Link found it slightly difficult to take in his bizarre appearance even though Link had seen him before. He wore a green cap, which was marked with a white circle that contained a small, green L. He also wore a green shirt. But a pair of blue overalls with gold fastenings mostly covered this.
For a man of such small stature, Luigi was also amazingly thin. Compared to his brother, who was rather chubby, Luigi looked as skinny as a rake. But even he looked rather heavy in contrast to his counterpart nemesis, Waluigi, who looked as if he must have anorexia or some other similar disease.
"Link!" Luigi panted in a thick Italian accent, "Link! Please, you must help me!" "Link?" Malon said as she walked in from the kitchen where she had been cooking dinner, "Is everything all right?" "I don't think so on account of how he sounds," said Link, still taken aback at the suddenness of Luigi's arrival. "Mario! And Wario! And Waluigi!" he continued to gasp in a slurred voice as Link lead him to a nearby chair at the same table where he had been enjoying his milk just minutes before.
"Okay, wait," Link said before Luigi could further run himself out of breath, "Take a breather for a minute or two and then tell me what happened." Luigi sat breathing heavily for quiet a while before he began to speak.
"Alright," he began, "Mario, Peach, Toad, and I were just having afternoon tea in Peach's castle. It's there anniversary today, you know." "I didn't," said Link, glancing at Malon as it hit him with a jolt that they had forgotten to send Mario and Peach an anniversary gift. But Link, not wanting to ruin Luigi's story, asked him to continue.
"And right in the middle of it, we hear a huge crash. We all naturally rush to the source. We find that Wario and Waluigi have busted down the door and killed the guards. Before Mario and I are able to get to them, Wario goes into a rant how Peach has been cheating on him and how she's actually in love with me."
"But that's like wrong in seven different ways," said Link while counting on his fingers and staring at the ceiling." Malon nudged him slightly in the ribs and gestured with her head toward Luigi. "But he was able to make sound so convincing! So Mario goes into a rage and instantly kills Toad." 'Never liked the guy anyway,' Link thought to himself.
"And then," Luigi continued, "He begins to throttle Peach." Link and Malon both gasped. "I know! I can't believe it either. But he chokes Peach to death. Then he turns to me." At this point, Malon was sobbing while Link had his arm around her, but still staring intently at Luigi. "How come you aren't dead?" Link asked. "I'm getting to that," Luigi said gravely.
"So then Mario starts rushing me. I grab the corpse of the princess and dash out the door. But as I'm just out the door, Wario pulls a shell out of his pocket and hurls it at me. It hits me square in the back of the head." Luigi took his cap off and showed them the large bump. "And when he hits me, the body of the princess goes flying into the moat. I just had time to pull up a warp pipe and travel here."
Link said nothing. He just stood up and walked to the back room. After a couple minutes, he walked back into the sitting room. He wore his sword sheathed on his back as well as his Mirror Shield. In a satchel at his side, he had put his clawshots, a few bottled fairies he had saved, his Goron Mask, his Zora Mask, his Stone mask, his Mask of Truth, and his Fierce Deity's Mask.
"Luigi," Link said shortly, "Let's go." "To where?" the skinny little plumber asked. "To get the body of the princess," he said. He walked over to Malon and took her small little hands into her own. "I'll be back soon. I promise," he whispered in her ear." "I know you will," she whispered back. And he and Luigi walked out the door to begin what was to be yet another great adventure.