Part One
I woke aching all over, my breast were sore in a familiar way from the binding I've put them through for the past couple of years. I rolled out of bed and stretched, my breasts rose uncomfortably as my back arched. I walked over to the kitchen table, there was a note laying in the center, 'From Zelda' it said on the outside. I smirked to myself and picked the note up, "Wait." Navi yelled zipping in through the window.
"What do you want now Navi?" I asked sighing. I turned to the flying blue fairy with irritation clear on my face.
"I just want to be here when you open your latest love note." Navi flitted behind my head and pulled at my shaggy blonde hair, "Open it."
I shook my head, flicking my hair in her face then turned the note over and opened the flap. "If you ever want to see princess Zelda again drop off 1,000 rupees to the ancient oak in the Lost Woods. You've got two days."
Navi swooped in front of my face, "Uh oh this isn't good…"
I sighed and turned towards the chest next to my bed. I had exactly 1,000 rupees saved for when I finally plucked up the courage to ask Zelda on a date… I guessed saving her butt (again) was a good way to spend it too. "Come on Navi." I called over my shoulder after stuffing the rupees in my bag, and rebinding myself before throwing on a ragged green shirt. I slid down the rope connected to one of the branches of my tree house instead of wasting time on the stairs and started jogging towards the haunted forest.
"LINK WAIT!" A panicked shout came from behind me. I turned to see Zelda's Head Steward Steve sprinting after me. I stopped jogging and waited for him to catch up, "Thanks for stopping." he gasped when he stumbled up next to me. After regaining his breath he grabbed my arm and looked into my eyes pleading, "Zelda's been kidnapped." I rolled my eyes and shrugged his hand off my arm and turned to start jogging for the forest again.
"I know." I called back to him. "I'm going to save her, don't worry." I continued jogging towards the fence that separated the rest of Kakariko Village. There was only one way in and out of the forest since the Shadow Beast Massacre, the gate was guarded 24/7 by one of the Hylian Imperial Guards.
I turned west towards the gate opening and smiled when I saw it was old Ben who was guarding the gate today. Technically no one was allowed into the Lost Woods anymore for fear that people go in there just to commit suicide but old Ben and I had an agreement. "Ho, there Link!" he called across the meadow when he spotted me. I waved over to him and slowed into a calm walk coming up in front of him.
"Hey there Ben, how's the knee." Ben had been an adventurer before he took an arrow to the knee 20 years back.
He patted his right knee lovingly, "It aches when there's a storm brewing but besides that it hasn't acted up once, thanks for that salve by the way."
I nodded my head and looked out at the Lost Woods, "I gotta get through Ben someone's kidnapped the Queen and left a ransom note in my house." I let the gravity of those words sink if for a couple of minutes. Ben stared at me confused, he knew just as well as I that no one got into my house without my knowledge, no one.
"I'm so sorry Link," he sighed rubbing his face, "but they've cracked down on the no entry to the Woods policy." His face was red with shame when he finally looked me in the eye, "I can't let you through old friend." I sighed frustrated, the fence itself was a small thing, normally jumping over it wouldn't be a problem, but they'd spelled it so that anything greater then 20 pounds going over it would be zapped and then petrified till the gate guard came over to check it out. "But," old Ben whispered staring at his toes, "if you were to attack and overpower me and then use the pendant around my neck to go through," he looked at my eyes and stared intently, "well there wouldn't be anything I could do about that would there."
I smiled at him, "Sorry old man." I said before I knocked him out with a punch to his temple. I carefully stepped over his prone body, bent to pick up the pendant, and started off at a slow jog, Navi fluttered behind me flitting back and forth over my shoulders.