This is my first Fanfiction so I hope you'll enjoy it. I'll try and update every single week, but I might not always be capable of doing so.
Please leave reviews in the comment section so I can improve my writing! Thank you!
Some of the facts may be wrong because I've changed it around a bit. As in I might invent some new characters and places.
This is a Zelink Fanfiction, so if you're not interested in a bit of romance, then don't keep reading.
I'll also post this Fanfiction on Instagram if any of you are interested, my username is hyrule_story.
I will probably describe Zelda and Link from Hyrule Warriors, but you can imagine they come from which ever game you want. I might add in extra stuff from other games like Link being able to turn into a wolf.
I hope you enjoy reading it! :)
The sun burned his skin and hurt his pale eyes. He always felt weak when exposed to too much light in his wolf form. Everything felt darker and his eyes grew pale, like the rest of his body. He felt the searing pain shoot up throughout his body as he moved about in the Red Sand. It had been named the Red Sand, not because it was red, but because as soon as something full of life made contact with it, the blazing sand would try and burn it to a crisp. He spotted dead trees and rocks lying on the ground, he badly wanted to join them. He couldn't though, he had to keep advancing, because he had made a promise to someone. He'd told them that he would find the jewel that the woman had been missing for years. That's what he spent his spare time doing when he wasn't training to be a Hyrulean Knight, he'd do everything in his power to aid the people who were in need of help or in distress.
When he was born, his parents hadn't wanted him, he'd been a mistake, extra work. His parents had wanted to get rid of him, they couldn't possibly kill him, because someone would have found out, they'd have been taken prisoners, put on trial and possibly killed. So instead, his parents had thrown him in Lake Hylia, not knowing that this specific lake had magical powers. The baby had floated around for a few days, whilst the Goddess had taken pity on the child and granted him the power of turning into a wolf whenever it pleased him. But the first time he changed would be unexpected. The Goddess had kept him well nourished and hydrated, waiting for a kind soul to pass by and adopt the child.
One fateful day, a pure soul had wandered towards Lake Hylia to wash his clothing. He'd noticed the basket and picked it up before it fell down a waterfall. He'd looked into the blanket and seen a baby boy, with a little ball of fluff, crying. The baby had grabbed the fluff from the air and had kept it. The man looked down at him and smiled, he looked around to see if anyone could be the possible parents of this little human being. There was no one but the two of them. The man had taken the baby home with him and had nourished and brought him up until the age of six.
One day, when the sun was high and the wind was warm, the man had gone out hunting with the boy. He'd decided that it was time to start teaching the child some of the helpful skills he would need later on. They'd gone to Faron Woods, where in those days, you wouldn't see a monster anywhere. They'd been there for about an hour when the child had finally understood how to hold a bow. But a few minutes went by and the air suddenly grew colder, the sky grew grey and and a mist passed over the woods.
Out of nowhere, a hideous beast jumped out of a nearby tree. The man had grabbed the boy by his little hand and they'd ran, ran out of the woods and into the clearing where they lived. They were close to the little wooden hut the man had built himself, when the monster grabbed the boy's hero. The man struggled against the hideous creature's grasp. It was no use. Barely any time had passed before the little boy heard a spine crack.
The boy started crying, he saw the monster leave as he ran over and crouched beside the dead man. He didn't know what to do. He had hope that his 'father' was still alive so he ran into the wooden hut and brought out a bandage. He came over to the man and tried to wrap his waist and back in the cloth. The poor boy had great difficulty in lifting the man up a tiny bit to wrap it round again. He was sobbing as he murmured into his idol's ears,
"I'm... Sorry... I - I - I couldn't help..." He wrapped his arms around the dead being and cried until he couldn't feel anything anymore. He sat next to the man who'd saved his life for a whole day before a woman came across the clearing. She yelped as she saw the curled up boy and the dead man. Her heart broke when she realised the boy was crying. She walked over to him and hugged him. She started whispering in a soothing voice, telling the little boy that everything was going to be alright, that she was going to bring him home to her and her husband. The boy told her he didn't have any parents, that this man wasn't even his real father. The lady picked him up, he was light because he'd been undernourished since they didn't have any money and the man had not been capable of hunting a lot. The woman felt the boy fall asleep as she brought him to her husband.
The boy lived happily with his new family for the next few years, until one day, he'd gone out and played with his 'sister' when he'd first turned into a wolf. They'd been playing catch when suddenly, he'd turned into a grey wolf. The girl had been so scared she'd fallen into the sea behind her. The wolf had jumped into the water to save her but she'd cracked her head open on a rock. The boy hadn't realised he'd turned into a wolf in all of his hurry. He'd thought she'd just tripped and fallen. After looking everywhere for the little girl, he'd swam back to shore and realised he'd turned into a wolf. He started running around wildly until somehow, he transformed back into his human self.
He looked back to sea, hoping that the girl would come back swimming but instead he saw her floating towards him, blood seeping into the water around her. He wiped the tears from his face as he grabbed the lifeless body. He was twelve now and had quite a bit of strength so he managed to carry her all the way home. He was miserable the entire way, not caring whether the two parents hated him forever. It was all his fault that she'd fallen off the cliff. He'd turned into a horrible wolf and had scared her. He pushed open the door to his home and saw his 'parents' at the table, talking joyfully. The woman screamed as she saw her daughter's limp body. She ran over and held her in her arms. Meanwhile, the man, who had never been very fond of the new arrival, slapped the young boy across the face. He was raging with anger and sadness from losing his one and only daughter.
The man started abusing the boy with his cruel words and his cruel movements. The boy was crying whilst the man's wife was telling him to stop. He was about to punch the boy with such force that he accidentally elbowed his wife in the face. She fell over and crushed a jar which happened to be on the carpet. She screamed as the shards blinded her. The bruised boy took this as an opportunity to escape. He knew if he stayed that he would be in danger, so he ran out and managed to change into his wolf form. He ran far away from the family that had all lost different things :
The girl had lost her life.
The woman had lost her daughter and her eyesight.
The man had lost his daughter and his wife's love for him.
The boy ran for days without end, stopping now and again to feed himself and to keep himself hydrated. He came across Castle Town as he was running. He found it to be a peaceful place. Over the two years he'd been running, he'd learned how to control his wolf transformation. He moved into Castle Town. They let him stay here because he didn't cause any trouble and he loved to help the other villagers. He'd been given a little house with a garden to grow food. He was fourteen but no one minded the fact that he lived on his own. They could see that he'd been traumatised when he'd been younger. The only condition they had for him to move into Castle Town without any fees, was that he would be enrolled next year at the Knight Academy, at the age of fifteen. The boy had smiled for the first time in two years. He loved the thought of becoming a Knight and being given the honour of protecting the people of Hyrule.
There it was, the jewel. The wolf could see it out of the corner of his eye. He leapt forward and grabbed it with his mouth. As soon as he'd touched it, the sand around him turned into grass, the burning feeling he'd felt a few moments ago disappeared. He walked back to the boundaries of Hyrule. There he saw a few merchants who looked at him quizzically. He then realised that he was still in his wolf form. He jumped behind a bush and transformed into his human form. He walked over to the Castle Town entrance and smiled.
This was his new life.
He was the young man cursed with the power of being able to turn into a wolf. Sometimes when he least expected it.
He would never be able to forgive himself for what had happened when he'd been small.
Little did he know that something big awaited him.
This soon to be Hero's name was Link.
