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Prologue

Boom.

The air about the Temple stirred.

Boom.

Within the Temple, the hammering continued. With each blow, a shadow pressed through the dimensions...

And with each blow, the seal is weakened...

Boom.

As the thunder rolled across the sky, Link sat under his makeshift shelter, savoring what little relief it provided from the rain. He wrapped himself in his traveling cloak, and he began to doze. He entered a kind of dream state, not sure whether what he saw was reality or simply pure fabrication. He saw a tall, white building, one that he vaguely remembered. He saw the inside of the building, where there was a seal on the wall behind the altar.

The seal cracked.

The shock of what he was seeing woke Link up. He sat up, and looked into the east horizon. The storm was beginning to subside, and he could see the hint the sunrise through a break in the clouds.

Link lit the fire that the rain had put out the night before, and began to dry out his clothes over it. As he removed his cloak, he felt a chill on the wind. He sat with his back to the fire, warming it.

The summers in Hyrule were warm, and the winters were doubly cold. It was not wise for him to still be sleeping outside with the rain and near winter, but he had nowhere to go. No one remembered the events that had taken place in the alternate timeline that Link had prevented. The alternate time in which Link had sacrificed everything, his childhood, his friends, and his family, to quest after Ganondorf and release Hyrule from his evil grasp.

The Kokiri had all but disowned him after he returned with the death of the Great Deku Tree, their guardian, on his hands. No one at the castle would have anything to do with a commoner like himself. Lon Lon Ranch seemed like the ideal place to live, but Link had nothing in common with them. They led a different lifestyle, one of peace and business. Link's life was one of war; a war against injustice and tyranny.

Link's mind shifted back to the evil tyrant himself, Ganondorf. He began to wonder about this dream that had plagued him for nights now. Why had it returned to him so many times? Was he going mad? Delirious? Insane? Did he believe that the sages seal could be broken so easily?

These questions floating freshly through his mind, he collected his now dry clothes and began to take down the shelter which had been constructed moments before the storm had struck. Packing away the rope and canvas, he grabbed his gauntlets, his old and worn Hylian shield, and his broadsword. He wore his sword and shield across his back, mostly because the giant sword would drag on the ground if he wore it at his waist, but also since the knights of old had worn them this way.

He snuffed out the fire, and looked out across the plains for his horse, Epona. He saw her a few hundred meters away, and began to walk.

End of Chapter One

Not quite a chapter, I know, I know... I'll post the second installment after reviews...