Awakening

Chapter1: Revelation

AN: I of course do not own anything from this franchise. all i own is the fingers I typed this with along with my computer. enjoy!

She woke to the sounds of birds chirping in the trees, and other small animals foraging for food in the underbrush. Though she was awake she did not open her eyes. She had no idea what time of day it was, though she could tell that it was day time. There were splotches of sunshine on her face, warm and comforting; almost making her want to go back to sleep.

But somehow this all seemed wrong to her. Was she in a forest? She opened her eyes, and got up on her hands and knees. It was a forest, but like none she had ever seen before. The trees were huge, they were not as large as red woods but much larger than normal trees. In fact they weren't normal trees at all. There were many trees around her, but she did not recognize any of them, they were strange and seemed to be completely different from any tree she had seen before. Their leaves and bark were completely alien, like they were from a whole other world. Everything about them was strange and different.

Suddenly in a panic she realized she wasn't supposed to be here. Where was here? Something was very wrong. She shook her head; trying to remember something, anything. Trying to concentrate, she tried to remember her name. She had a feeling if she could remember that, everything else would come eventually. Closing her eyes again, she sifted through names, and occasionally saying them out loud to see if they sounded familiar. None sounded right.

She got up on her feet to better survey the forest around her. Turning in a circle to get a general lay out of her surroundings, it was then she noticed that among the trees were ruins of what must have been an elaborate building. She began to explore the ruins, awed at the level of construction. Though most of the walls had been reduced to 10 to 15 feet in height and there was no roof left, she could not shake the feeling that they were even older than they looked. The more she explored the building the more it seemed to give off an air of power and soon she came across a circular room, curious she entered.

Again awe struck she saw a small pedestal in the center of the circle, with a shimmering blade in it. Its hilt was a dark blue with three connected triangles on the pommel. She couldn't help staring at the blade, it was magnificent. The blade looked to her like it had been there just as long as the building its self; but it had the appearance of a brand new blade with no imperfections that she could identify. She walked up to the blade suddenly hesitant, and tried to pull the blade from the pedestal, but couldn't get the blade free.

She looked at it confused. "It must be meant for a certain person… like Excalibur was" she thought out loud. Realizing her memory was coming back to her,she decided it was best to leave such things alone and began pacing through the ruins again, trying to remember what her name was and simultaneously seeing if the ruins held any more secrets. It finally hit her that her name was Annie. "Why couldn't I remember my own name?" thought Annie. The idea of not being able to remember her name scared her. It was like losing her identity, she kept saying it over and over again to make sure there was no way she would forget it again.

Comforted with her revelation, she relaxed and found a place to sit underneath a tree. "So now what I am supposed to do?" she said aloud, half hoping someone would answer her. A gentle breeze through the trees was the only answer to her question. Leaning her head back against the tree she looked up the trunk of the tree "this place is beautiful" she thought. The beauty of the forest combined with the golden sunshine drifting through the canopy was the only thing keeping her from having a panic attack.

Looking at the sun, she figured it was roughly midday. "I need to make something to sleep in and on….then find out where I am." By her reasoning there was no way that she could figure out where she was, and then find her way home before dark. Carful to keep the ruins in mind she began gathering large sticks and bows from the trees to start a lean to. It was warm it the forest, it was neither to hot or too cold, but Annie couldn't tell exactly what season it was. She didn't want to freeze in the middle of the night, she began her lean to by finding relatively straight branch and putting it in the fork of one of the smaller trees inside the ruins. Then she put a forked branch to hold up the other end of the straight branch. She took branches with smaller forks on the sides and laid them vertically to make a tent shape. Next she took more branches and laid them horizontally in the forks of the vertical branches. The last step in the process was to lay bows on the outside of the lean to and on the ground for her to sleep on.

"I need a fire…but how?" she checked the pockets of her jeans to see If she had anything flammable. There was nothing. "I'll have to make do without one I guess." There were ways to make fire without a lighter but she didn't know any of them.

It was getting close to dark now. She sat down in front of her lean to, and began to wonder when her next meal would be. She remembered hunting with her family, and remembered how. But she had nothing to hunt WITH, and nothing to make a wooden weapon with. Just then a squirrel ran by a few feet away. Or at least she thought that's what it was. The animal had the same body shape as a squirrel but its coloring was all wrong! The more animals she saw moving about in the dusk the more they seemed different. Every animal had the same body shape as would be expected but then also had differences that made them seem strange and like a whole different animal. This made her second guess everything. "What's with this place?" she thought.

Soon the sun drifted down below the trees and darkness settled over what little of this world she knew, for she had decided this was not the earth that she had come from. Crawling into her lean to she laid down and tried to calm her thoughts enough so that she could sleep. Soon she was asleep and even though she was uncomfortable, and the sleep was much needed.

Annie half woke up the next morning, hoping she would wake up in her bed at home. There was nothing more she wanted at that moment than to be home. When she finally brought herself to get up she was still in her lean to, much to her disappointment.

"So how and where am I supposed to get something to eat" she wondered. After crawling out of her lean to she stood just outside of its entrance. She looked out into the forest again, but nothing had changed. This was both relaxing and disturbing to her; she was relieved that she had not woken up to another strange world. But what frightened her was the fact that she hadn't eaten or had anything to drink in over a day.

"If anything, I need to find a stream or river to get something to drink." Again keeping the ruins in mind, she began looking for a stream or river. She made wide circles around the ruins so that she wouldn't get lost.

"Who are you?"

Annie let out a muffled scream, who had said that? " ummmm…..I'm Annie. Who are you?" After all this time she was shocked to hear another voice, she had thought that she was all alone here.

"im skull kid…will you play with me?" said the voice while simultaneously appearing in front of her.

He wasn't really a kid. He was not human for that Annie was sure. She had no idea of what he actually was, but he resembled a scarecrow to her. "Are all the people here like this" she wondered.

"ummmm….no….where are we? …Exactly." Inquired Annie

Skull kid looked at her confused " Hyrule" he said slowly.

"YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS!" she screamed "Hyrule is a place in a video game!" There was no way she could believe that this place was Hyrule, it couldn't be real and she couldn't be there. The more she thought about it though the more it made sense. If this was Hyrule it would explain the weird trees, animals, and most importantly the sword.

"That sword was the master sword" she whispered "and that means…these ruins are the ruins of the temple of time!"

"of course these are the ruins of the temple of time" said skull kid, jumping her out of her reverie. He looked taken aback by her yelling, and eyed her with suspicion from then on. "how do you NOT know where you are?"

Annie thought for a moment, wondering if she should tell him the truth, that she had just woken up her the other morning. From what she remembered skull kid hadn't been evil or dangerous in the games except for majora's mask, and this place seemed more to resemble twilight princess than anything.

"I just woke up here the other day. I have no idea how I got here" she finally said. Her stomach rumbled. Throughout their conversation she had forgotten about food and water, but now she remembered.

"hmmmm…did your friends play a trick on you" asked skull kid

"no I don't think so…but do you know where I can find some food and water? I haven't had anything to eat or drink for almost two days now…."

"There's Ordon village, it's not too far from here" said skull kid thoughtfully.

"can you take me there?" pleaded Annie

"I can take you out of the sacred grove…but not to the village its self" he said. He grabbed her arm and she began to struggle against him suddenly afraid.

"LET ME GO!" she screamed. Trying as hard as she could to get away from him, but he was stronger than he looked. All of sudden there was a flash of movement, everything went dark and when she could see again she was not where she had been.