Author's Note: I'm sorry if it looks like I slacked off in the end. This took me a lot longer to write than I expected and I didn't put in my best effort near the end. This is my first fan fiction, so I'd appreciate any feedback that you guys have. Just don't tell me that my writing sucks, if you're going to say this is the stupidest idea ever and it could be a lot better, then please tell me how. I do plan to finish this, unless I get mostly bad reviews, so enjoy, hopefully and tell me what you like best.
I own neither Okami nor The Legend of Zelda, btw.
After saving Termina from destruction, Link came to accept the fact that his friend Navi was dead. He sought to return to Hyrule, so he left through the portal from whence he came, accompanied only by his faithful steed Epona. He also took with him the gear which he had acquired during his three-day stay, including four powerful and extremely dangerous masks. As he was parting, the happy mask salesman decided to entrust him with the remains of Majora's Mask, stating that it would "probably be safer with a true hero". Reluctantly, Link took them, knowing that although the power which had once resided within was know dead, it would be the cause of many of his nightmares in the near future. The journey back was similar to his journey forward, a long, seemingly endless fall into black nothingness. The only difference was that this time, he was, of course, accompanied by Epona. As they descended into darkness, Link noticed swirls of light began to appear, which seemed to be in a constant struggle to reach him. As he watched, one swirl was completely swallowed up by the darkness all around, then another, and then another, until there was only one left. Curious, Link reached out to touch it, and was surprised to find that not only was it solid, soft, and pleasantly warm, but that as soon as he made contact with it tried to grab him. It wrapped around his arm and pulled him and Epona down a separate portal, one that was filled with light. He tried to shake it off, but the light had too strong of a grip. So Link just decided to relax and see where the light was dragging him and Epona. He reasoned that light wasn't evil, so he probably wasn't going to end up in a cave of hungry Wolfros. When the light faded, Link found himself (along with Epona) in the middle of a snowstorm. He pressed himself against Epona and shivered at the sudden cold. As he looked around at his surroundings, he only knew one thing for sure: he wasn't anywhere near Hyrule.
Oki looked up at the kind, grandmotherly woman as she rose from the center of the floor of the shack. Outside, a snowstorm raged fiercely and tore at the wooden boards that held the shack together. Inside, the only source of illumination came from a single candle. The candles formed a circle inside which the old woman stood. She wore long, baggy grey pants, a large, baggy black shirt, an orange vest, and a black hood that obscured her face. She wore no shoes, and her feet, like her hands, were covered in wrinkles. She never spoke, but if she would, Oki assumed that her voice would rasp out of her throat.
"Did it work?" He asked as the woman walked toward the fireplace and started trying to light it with flint and steel. When she finally succeeded, she threw in a couple of logs leaning near the wall, illuminating the rest of the room. The decorations were simple. There were more candles laying on top of a simple dresser, a cot in one corner, and a small table in another. Scroll paintings of a white wolf covered in red markings with a fiery disk on its back.
The woman turned to him and simply nodded.
Oki let out a breath that he hadn't realized that he was holding. Ever since the sun had gone out, he had thought that he was the one to save the Goddess of the sun, Amaterasu, and with her the land of Nippon. At the time, however, he had been a little...prideful. It had taken a fight with the Queen of Spiders to realize that Kutone would not glow for him, and if he couldn't win a fight with the Queen of Spiders, he couldn't win a fight with whoever had hidden away the sun.
Ever since then, he had traversed all of Nippon, searching for a hero that could make Kutone shine and defeat the great evil that hung over Nippon. But no one seemed a worthy enough candidate. In a final desperate attempt, he sought out a seer who went by the name Kona.
Kona was known for her ability to reach across alternate dimensions to produce creatures and items out of nothingness. That's what the sign said on the door anyway, Oki had no idea what it meant, but he figured that it meant Kona could find a qualified hero.
This had been Kona's third attempt, and it looked like it had drained her quite a bit, as she had collapsed in a heap on the floor soon after she had acknowledged that it had succeeded.
Oki ran over to her and helped her to move to the cot. "Where is the hero?" he asked as he gently lowered her onto the cot.
Kona gestured outside, and Oki sighed.
"Alright," He muttered as he grabbed Kutone, strapping the sheath across his back. "Let's go find a hero." He opened the door and stepped out into the storm, slamming the door behind him and turned into a wolf. He sniffed the air for unfamiliar scents, pacing in front of the house as he did.
After about five minutes, he picked up the faint scent of an unfamiliar forest.
His tail wagged excitedly, he started off across the snow to find the hero who would rid the land of darkness.
Unfortunately, he wouldn't be the first to greet the new hero.
Don't know how many of you like cliff hangers (likely answer: None), but I needed a way to introduce an original character of mine, plus, I wanted Link to get a new power; I'll just leave it at that. But in the meantime, don't hate please.