Oh-kay, so this took me forever, but here I have the first part to my first story! Yay! I hope you enjoy this, because it has been a labor of love for me :)

The usual disclaimers apply here: Link, Midna, Ganon and any other Legend Of Zelda characters that may be mentioned here belong to their respective Nintendo owners. Lucky people!

So without further blatherings, I give you The Living Fairytale!
-theycallmeKC

Link looked at Kayre sadly. She had been a fairy for so long; it was understandable that she wanted to be human like everyone else. Kayre was asleep on the soft grass, her wings fluttering slightly. The green-gold glow around her never faltered, Link noticed. She must be happy and thinking about her past. Kayre felt eyes upon her, and opened one of her own. She saw Link looking down at her with a sad and confused look on his face. Why was he like that?

Something inside Link stirred. He wished so much now that Kayre could be a human.

'What will it take to make your wish come true, Kayre?'

Kayre closed her opened eye and smiled. Link sighed, and lay on his back, looking at the stars.

'He cares so much…' Kayre thought. She opened her eyes, and found Link fast asleep. She fought the urge to get closer to him. Kayre closed her eyes again, sighing happily.

'One day, Link. One day I will stand tall again.' Kayre fell silently to sleep.

Part 1:

The First Encounter

(January 16, 2008)

"Finally!" Kaity cried, pressing the 'save' button on her computer, saving the passage to its memory. "I've finished that chapter! Ugh, it took FOREVER!" she copied and pasted the passage she just wrote to the rest of her chapter, then put it up on the online story and quiz promotion site, Quizilla.

Kaity leaned against the back of her chair and sighed. Her cat, Noel, looked at her like she was crazy, and meowed softly. Kaity reached over and petted her for a moment, then got up and stretched.

"C'mon, Noel, let's go get you some food."

Noel's ears perked up at the word 'food'. She hopped down from her small chair and began rubbing against Kaity's ankles, meowing louder now. Kaity was halfway to her bedroom door when she heard a loud whoosh, and a thud, like something had fallen on her floor.

Kaity jumped in fright. Something had landed in her bedroom – something very big. She looked at what it was and gasped. A large man with reddish-orange hair and bright-burning orange eyes stared down at her, his dark face set with a large frown, a true face of disgust. Kaity recognized the face that haunted her dreams. Immediately Kaity grabbed a phone, held it to her ear, and was about to speak to the 9-1-1 operator when a thought dawned upon her. She raised a hand to her mouth.

Who would she call? The police? Fat chance that they'd believe her. A man that size couldn't just drop from the sky without making a hole in the roof. Would she call her parents? Her cousin? They all loved her, but they still wouldn't miss a chance to laugh in her face. Kaity stood there, frozen, like a chameleon stopping so he could blend into his surroundings. The phone slipped from her hand as the man started to speak.

"We meet at last, Kaity"

Kaity was too stunned to speak. Finally, she said, just above a whisper, "G-Ganon? How do you know my name?"

Ganondorf laughed. Kaity shivered.

"The adventure is much more interesting when you have no idea of what is going on. Isn't that correct, scribbler?"

"Scribbler?" Kaity wondered aloud.

He raised his hand, showing Kaity the back of it. Three triangles shone out against his dark skin. Kaity stared, transfixed, at his hand; her own hand rose involuntarily.

"Ah!" Kaity's hand burned. It felt like Ganon had branded her. She looked at it, her pain mixing with curiosity. She held the trembling hand steady with her other good one. An outline of a triangle drew itself on her hand. There was a small flash of light as the triangle finished.

"What did you do?" Kaity yelled, looking up. Another flash of light blinded her, and it was a while before she could finally see again. In the moment of blindness, Kaity heard his voice.

"I must thank you for bringing me into this world, and I will do so at a more appropriate time, but for now, I have marked you so I know just where you are."

The light began to wear off.

"I'm sure I will enjoy my stay here…"

Kaity opened her eyes and straightened up, horror filling her.

Ganon was gone. As soon as he had come in, he had left. Kaity was speechless as to what had just happened. She wondered if, perhaps, this was all a very realistic dream; a dream like the ones she experienced before. She wandered to her bathroom and turned on the water, intent on trying to rid herself of the triangle.

"Tori?" Kaity finally collected herself and called her cousin.

"Hey, what's going on? Why's the water running in the back- ground? Are you washing the dishes?" Victoria asked. Kaity looked down at her hands.

"Yeah, I'm washing the dishes," she lied, and then looked at the back of her hand again. The gold triangle still stood out, no matter how hard she scrubbed. 'I can't tell her. She won't believe me anyway. I can't tell anyone.'