Yes, yes. I know that I have been lagging in making my story chapters and I have a few too many going on, I should perhaps focus on them and finish them BEFORE I do anything else, but you know.

That noise is often the weird for me and I just had this random thought about Twilight Princess AFTER reading the four manga books (They were interesting, like the OoT Manga, you know), so I want to try it out for the fun of it right now.

As a side note, (if it is a wise thing to add since I don't know too much more) The Legend of Zelda series is not mine, I don't own the rights to it, I can only play the games and read the books for the fun of it, in no way, size or form, do I have the authority to control or trifle with the series in any way. With that, I hope you read this and enjoy it, leave a comment or two if you would be interested to do so. (Please, I need the feedback, I don't like the isolation.)

As the sun of day starts to fade into the depths of the world, but also let the world it inhibits bask in a radiant amber of night and day, an older man spoke. "Tell me... Do you ever feel a strange sadness as dusk falls?" He continued to his young companion as they sat before a spring that was said to be the resting place of a spirit, gifted from the ones high in the world, the goddesses that protect their world. "They say it's the only time when our world intersects with theirs... The only time we can feel the lingering regrets of spirits who have left our world." The man hummed before glancing up, if to find the spirit that protected them in the woods around them. "That is why loneliness always pervades the hour of twilight..." He regraded it for a later time as he spoke. "But enough talk of sadness... I have a favor to ask of you, Link." The young man looked up as he spoke with a slight line.

"What is it?" The youth's smooth tones compared to the warrior's gruff, but earnest voice as the man continued.

"I was supposed to deliver something to the royal family of Hyrule the day after tomorrow..." He huffed a bit as he continued, looking forward again. "Yes, it was a task set to me by the mayor, but... would you go in my stead?" Link hummed as he spoke in return.

"That sounds... like a daunting task, Rusl." But the man was not turned as he asked.

"You have... never been to Hyrule, right?" It was an open question and Link could answer it, but he didn't, on account of his past... bad memories that lingered to his soul that he suppressed to the end as he answered.

"No, I don't think I have ever been to Hyrule, Rusl." The man nodded as both looked ot the waters again.

"In the kingdom of Hyrule there is a great castle, and around it is Castle Town, a community far bigger than our little villages... And far bigger than Hyrule is the rest of the world the gods created." Link knew that as he hummed before Rusl finished. "You should look upon it all with your own eyes." They shared a glanced as Link spoke with a chuckle.

"Thanks for the offer, but I am just a farmhand, that errand is a bit much for me." Rusl didn't press it as he huffed with standing up, replying with a different answer.

"It is getting late... We should head back to the village. I will talk to the mayor about this matter." Link nodded as he stood up as well and they headed off, Epona, Link's horse, close by with bundles of tinder on her back as Rusl lead the way back to their home, Ordon Village, crossing the bridge that connected Ordon with the forested place of Faron and locked up the gate once they had, Rusl huffing as he spoke. "Doesn't get any easier, does it?"

"No, I don't think it does." Link commented as Rusl just laughed as they strolled past the spring of Ordon and stopped in front of Link's collective home in the trees as Rusl bid him farewell, joining his laden wife and son as they headed back to the village as Link scaled up and opened the way with a few words. "Hey, Amok, how has your time been spent in my house?" seating in one of the chairs in the housing was a similar youth, but he wore a set that spoke 'assistant' than 'farmhand' like Link's gave. He was also a year younger to the ranch hand, but he seemed to have a affinity of what the village call 'magic arts' when Link knew better as Amok was a talented hand like him, having suffered from the same past as the youth looked up, his eyes always the mystery as one was a royal blue, but the other was that of a desert topaz as he spoke.

"Reading your collection of tomes and magic books, nothing new in this relaxing life, Link." The youth answered as he put the book on hand on the pile by his side, Link sweat dropping to see that some of the books were the same ones and Amok read them over again. "So what happened, I heard you unload tinder and all that stuff, but what else did Rusl want?"

"Well, he..." Link took the opposite and ran a hand over his face, the smile slipping to a grimace. "He... wanted me to deliver a package or something to Hyrule Castle."

"Oh...!" Amok answered as he nodded. "That sounded like a good offer, but did you turn him down?"

"I... need time to think it over." Amok nodded as he leaned back as Link continued, neither hearing the trot of Epona going back up the trail that Link took. "Other than that, I..."

"Hey! Link! You there!?" Link and Amok shared a look before the ranch hand headed up and looked out his open window to Fado as he rested his hands on his hips as the ranch owner spoke. "Hey, you mind helpin' me herd the goats? They ain't listenin' to me lately!" Link nodded as he got out of the window and headed down with Amok following as a comment was heard from Fado. "Hey, where's a Epona?" Both looked at the other as they sped up and headed out the door, spotting the same as Link groaned.

"Of all the... Why did...!?"

"Well..." Amok answered as he rubbed his jaw. "There is one person I know of that could be behind Epona's disappearance." Link groaned lightly as he nodded as well and the pair headed out to the spring to where they found their horse 'napper' or rather their horse caretaker, having bathed Epona as she took notice of the pair.

"Oh, hi, Link, Amok." Both nodded to her as well as they walked into the spring too as the girl spoke, her name Illa and she was the mayor's daughter. "I washed Epona for you!"

"Wow, thanks, Illa!" Link spoke as he smiled with Amok shaking his head with a 'feelings' comment before Illa had Link play the horse reed for Epona, bringing her over to them before Link mounted up and they headed back, chatting with the villagers that were still out and about the twilight before they headed up to the ranch, Fado also helping somewhat as the goats were herded in, Amok not really a fan of the goats, but he didn't say no as he watched for any stragglers and completing the task they had obtained.

They headed back home and secured Epona for rest as they retired for the night, Link falling into slumber rather quickly as Amok, for his own need or natural force, read over the books again before he drifted off into slumber...

Link tossed in his slumber, he was faced with something unnatural, a recurring nightmare that he hadn't had for the past two years, the day he lost everyone and everything to that...'thing', to call it a monster was an understatement, it was demon that dragged all into the abyss below, leaving him as the sole survivor or so he thought when he found Amok, a broken youth who rambled in fear and often puffed out electricity or flames in panic, magic was a possible cause for them, but both put that past behind them, but he still sprung up and calmed himself as he took in his surroundings. "Just... just a dream, nothing more than that..." Still, the meaning could be anything. He hummed as he looked forward, a quiet snore of Amok ringing out before Link opened the window that he closed for the night to let the sun shine in, taking a moment to adjust to the lighting before he spotted a trio of kids down below. The infamous troublemakers or one with a pair of sane youths behind him as the leader, a boy named Talo, called up.

"Hey, wake up, Link! It's morning already!" Amok sprung up in shock and toppled as Link shook his head to his companion before he called down.

"I'll be down soon, give me a sec!" Link answered as he headed down and roused Amok form his toppled state. "Come on, you have some errands to do yourself."

"Yeah, yeah..." The youth rubbed his face as he got up and Link headed out as Talo went off in talking about Sera's shop now holding a slingshot and how he wants to see it in action as his brother, Malo, supported the plan with a more careful head while Beth, Sera's daughter, scolded them about it, but fanned over Link, an embarrassment that he didn't want praise or something like that as he headed into town to check it out.

As it turned out, he needed to do a number of things to give the villagers a better time like obtaining a cradle from a thieving monkey when Uli lost it drifting down the river somehow, the bee honey over the shop was knocked down and scared off the cowardly husband of Hanch somehow, using the fishing rod that Colin had made for him to catch a fish for the cat of Sera's, and heading on back to find that Rusl had returned Link's wooden sword to him while the trio bothered Amok a bit, especially when he somehow stopped one of the escaped goats with a sharp glance somehow, causing it to topple and sulk back to the ranch, the animals were much more skittish for some reason as Link returned with the sword as Beth spotted it first swooned over it. "Ooh, my! Isn't that a wooden sword, Link?" Talo took notice of it as well as he he exclaimed, Amok sighing in relief at the now-lack of attention.

"Whoa... She's right! Hey can I see it for a sec?"

Link gave a confused look as he asked. "Why do you want to see it, you guys?"

"Seriously! Lately these monkeys have been coming out of the woods and playing tricks on us! We want to get them GOOD! C'mon, teach us how to use a sword!" Link shared a look with Amok and the youth spoke as he crossed his arms.

"They will be swarming form duck to dawn for this, let's just give them a showing."

"Alright..." Link huffed as he pointed at his companion. "...But so we're clear, this is to prevent pranks, not to actually fight something... else, like a deer or bear."

"I got it, Link..." Within record time, Amok got the training grounds set up as Link displayed his skills of marksmanship, giving a huff of relief that he didn't neglect it in some way before pulling the wooden weapon free and trained in a few techniques, nothing overly special, but needed for a proper swordsman as he sliced from both the sides and over his head, thrusting and delivering a spin attack for a cluster clear before he split the wooden helm of the scarecrow as the kids just gasped to the power and skill that Link showed off, Talo going off in praise.

"Thanks, Link!" Talo spoke as he got some space and swung about as he spoke. "So, uh, I... I think I get it... Kinda..." He continued, but his form was rather poor as he spoke with a topple over with a spin attack that went too long. "Hmm... Maybe not..." He shook his head and got back up as he spoke. "So this means that anytime one of those naughty monkeys shows up..." All of them turned when Talo gasped to a monkey, but it was female from the look of the flower on its head before it headed off back into the woods before Talo shouted in pursuit. "C'MERE, YOU!" He dashed off with Beth and Malo in following as Amok shouted.

"Hey, you three! Don't go chasing, the woods are off-limits!" But they clearly didn't hear him as they disappear into the woods and he grimaced as he spoke. "Link, we need to stop them from getting too deep!"

"Right!" Link shouted as the two dashed over to Colin who was tending to Epona. "Colin, we are going to need Epona!"

"R-Right!" Link mounted up and Amok leaped on too before Epona took off, the pair passing Beth and Malo who couldn't keep up with Talo's feverish pursuit. They charged into the Faron Woods and pressed on, no sign of Talo yet before Link pulled hard, Amok looking to what Link stopped for to see the stick of Talo's, discarded on the ground toward an old passage into the deeper parts of the woods and a old relic of a temple, crafted in a tree as Link spoke.

"Talo has been taken... by something else."

"Yes, and it can't be the monkeys, what could it be?" Link didn't know as they jumped off Epona and headed for the temple, passing through the deeper forest with the aid of a lantern from a puffy-haired man and through the misted way where things roamed, neither getting a good look at them before they made it to the temple, the sound of shouting leading them to the entrance as they charged in, finding... strange sorts of creatures that Link nor Amok had actually seen, but they could stop the pair of them as one gunned for Link who fought it while the other went for Amok who sidestepped and dodged before he thrust his hand as it glowed a bright green and slammed it into the creature, the green spreading like a rash before the creature gurgled in death and toppled as Link killed his creature and panted in worry as he spoke.

"What were these things!?"

"I don't fully know, but..." Amok walked over to Link's kill and kicked it over with a hum before he answered. "Strange, a Bokoblin?"

"A what?"

"A tribal sort of monster, said to have died out in recent years..." Amok huffed as he crouched down while Link cleaved the bars and freed Talo and the monkey who took off. "Strange how we have found them here, the woods are dangerous by wolves and the like, but actual monsters like these?" He spared a glance to his friend. "I don't think we need a warning, this is something dangerous, a lot more than just a idle threat." He looked back and stood up as he spoke. "Let's go home, there's nothing else that we can do here." Link nodded as they headed home, twilight coming again as they reached familiar grounds and Talo started to apologize for his mistake.

"If you guys hadn't come, Link... Gee, me and that monkey would've gotten eaten, probably!" He breathed as he continued. "She's actually a pretty nice gal, that monkey... She tried to protect me, so we got captured together." So the monkeys would be more interested in protecting than harming, their pranks must have just been a way to ease the soul or something. "Um, Link... Amok..." Both looked to him as he asked.

"Yes?"

"What's up, Talo?"

"You're not gonna mention this to my dad, are you?" Talo explained it as they just listened. "He's always telling me to never, EVER go into the forest, 'cause he says its dangerous..." That makes sense, but they don't think that the forest would be so dangerous like that as he continued. "So you really can't tell him! Really! You have to promise!" Talo took off without either of them saying a thing, but they didn't need to as someone else came to them.

"Link! Amok!" They looked to the other part, the way that lead out of Faron and elsewhere to find Rusl strolling over as he spoke before them. "My son told me Talo disappeared into the woods and had not returned. I came as soon as I heard..." He breathed easy as he replied. "But it looks like you both have brought him home already..." They nodded as Rusl continued with a rub of the jaw. "I apologize. Such a task should not fall on you."

"I don't think either of us minded, it was partly our fault that he took off. Sorry, Rusl." Amok spoke as the man just nodded and directed the chat elsewhere.

"Tell me, have you noticed how strange this wood seems lately? I feel... uneasy about what may lie in wait..."

"Actually, Rusl... Yeah." Link spoke as he continued. "Something is off about the wood, we didn't face any wolves as we have actually thought, but... other things seem to have settled in, monsters from the looks of them." Rusl nodded to the explanation as something to look into later as he spoke.

"Anyway, Link..." Rusl smiled as he clapped Link's shoulder. "Tomorrow is finally the day. You will be departing for Hyrule." Amok spared a glance to his friend about this 'task' that Link now has. "I think it is a good thing I have given this task to you... Good luck! And return safely!" He started to laugh as he finished up. "If you are lucky, you may even get to meet Princess Zelda!" They shook their heads as they headed home, Amok filling that in his own words.

"Well, looks like you have an errand to do outside the village, what luck, right?"

"Yeah... what luck..." But Amok was not fooled, even Link wasn't fooling himself, he didn't want to leave the peaceful place he called home for the longest time now. Amok didn't choose to force Link to spill his doubts or fears, he, after all, needed peace and seemed to be haunted by the notion that something was after him now... something unspeakable and dreaded like the grave...

Just for everyone's information, I didn't want to call the second guy anything normal like 'Alex' or 'Alexander', that wouldn't have fit in too well, so I went looking for a name in a name generator and went with 'Amok', still an A, but a good name.

Second, yes, he will be using magic and the sword trials for Link will work for him as well through the blessing of the seven sages, going with the logic of OoT's future sages, passed down through blood, rite, or oath, that is all you will need to know for now.

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