Author's note: Takes place on the second run through, where Link wears his Outset outfit and starts out with the colored pictobox. Italicized passages shows a flashback of the first run through.

"The new figurine is in the room two doors to the left...my left of course!" Carlov chortled. Link thought as much. It was always to his left or his right. There was also a room directly across from Karlov, but it seemed that he never made figurines for that room.

"Carlov, what's that room across from you for?" Link asked.

"For figurines, of course. What else?" The figurine man answered with a big grin on his face.

"I mean, why don't you ever use it?" Link amended.

"Well, you've never shown me pictographs that I could shape into figurines to place there."

"Well what pictographs do you need for that room?"

A long pause. Finally, Carlov sighed and said, "Pictographs of rare, powerful monsters. Like Gohdan, the Great Arbiter or the Phantom Ganon."

"Ohhhh. So you want pictures of powerful monsters, mini-bosses, and bosses?"

"Well, I suppose so. I've always wanted to craft them. So get some good pictographs, you hear me?"

"Sure thing," Link replied, hurrying out the portal back into the world.

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Link found quickly that there was something different about saving the world the second time. For one, he didn't have to wear the green outfit with the silly green nightcap. Instead, he could freely feel the wind in his exposed hair.

The other thing was feeling this weird prick in his mind everywhere Link went. Like he was having déjà vu. He knew everything he had done to save the world the first time, but he couldn't see the images and thoughts in his head. He could only faintly remember a few of his memories. Like the pictograph memory, where he promised himself to complete the "Boss and Mini-Boss" room. Or the feeling that he used to be way better at using a sword than this.

The green bokoblin stood before him with a sword in hand (or maybe claws?). Link mirrored it, holding up his own shield and sword (although Link couldn't believe he'd lost it again on the Forsaken Fortress). They were at the top of the fortress, the only exit blocked off by spikes in the ground. It was a duel to the death. Link recognized all the signs of a mini-boss fight, and remembering his goal, he quickly put away his sword to snap a pictograph of it. The only thing he could remember about bokoblins were that they wore a trinket around their necks that were called Joy Pendants. He had often stolen them from the monsters with his grappling hook before they died.

The green imp bolted for Link, screeching and swinging his sword down at Link. He easily sidestepped and, seeing an opening in the imp's poor defense, went at it with a horizontal cut, his blade drawn again. Much to his surprise, the imp merely raised his wood shield and blocked the attack before slicing at Link's torso. He gasped in pain as the swing connected, but luckily, the bokoblin was off guard, so he ran at it with a flurry of attacks, each one weakening the monster. Link could tell it was almost finished, and before he realized what he was doing he instinctively reached in pocket...

To find that what he seemed to be looking for wasn't there. Confused, Link started wondering why he was even digging through his pocket in the first place.

The imp, noticing that Link was distracted, ran up and tried to attack Link again. Link was able to dodge, but was too slow, and resulted in a minor cut in his arm. Ignoring it for now, he quickly gathered his bearings and slew the beast. It died, dropping the Joy Pendant on the ground.

Seeing it, Link jumped. He remembered that he was trying to steal it earlier with his grappling hook. He knew it was a grappling hook, but he couldn't remember what it was. Frustrated, he picked it up and placed it in his newly acquired spoils' bag. Then he pushed open the large wooden door to where his sister and some other girls were.

Just like before, Link was just about to set them free when the Helmarok King came. It picked him up and went to Ganondorf for orders. Where Link was, it was impossible to get a shot of the bird's head, but he was able to capture a very, very blurry pictograph of Ganondorf. Then he was flung out to sea by the Helmarok King and lost consciousness before landing in the water.

Author's note: So, sorry about Link's amnesia. I know there are tons of stories about it, but how was I supposed to explain Link's adventure without breaking the fourth wall? Also, this isn't really a novelization, just me writing about getting the Pictos of monsters. Third, I'm not good at writing battle scenes yet. I'm working on it!