I had this on my head for months and decided to write it because it´s pretty entertaining this writing thing and even more entertaining is the story itself.

First of all, go easy on me, it may be some grammatical errors here and there, but that´s something to be expected since english is not my first language, but now i'm getting better over the time. I think that this one ended up being pretty good, but im the writer, not the reader , i hope you like it!

mehs and yehs are intentional

"Alex!, get up or you´ll be late for your first day on the Knight´s Academy!" my mom said, instantly waking me up.

"What? …it´s today already?" I said, while sobbing my eyes, letting them get used to the morning light.

"Yeah, it's today, get dressed right now or you will be late!"

"Ok, (yawn) thanks for waking me up, mum" I said while taking off the blanket that covered me and moved into sitting position.

Today was very important, it was what was going to be my first day on the Knight´s Academy on Castle Town, there go those who will become, well…knights, my mom and dad were waiting this day for like years, but in my opinion, I really don´t need to be on any academy, my grandpa says that I'm very skilled with the sword. But I'm not opposing, the more I learn about swordplay, the better.

As soon as my mom closed the door, I immediately got dressed, I put on my regular yellowish sleeved shirt that my grandma did for me, it has some light blue patterns, it says "Lon" everywhere and it´s very comfy, then I put on my usual brown pants and my dark brown boots.

I looked myself in the mirror just to see my pair of dark blue eyes, so dark, that people sometimes doesn´t even see any color in particular until they look me directly to the eyes. And my usual spiky black hair, I don´t even know why I have a comb, my hair will always remains the same, It doesn´t matter how much I try to comb my hair, it will always remain spiky. But those thoughts were quickly interrupted when my little brother, Nodro, suddenly opened the door.

"Hey! Mom says that the breakfast is ready!, come down now!"

"Oh yeah? I'll get there first!" I said in playful tone, and started sprinting towards the door.

"No, you won´t!" he said while we started running downstairs, racing each other to the dining table.

I always liked play with my little brother, but damn!, he´s fast!, despite me being 17 years old, my little brother with only 11 ran like an hylian bullet.

The little bastard got first to the dining table just by one second, practically jumping to his chair in order to win, crap! I was very close to win this time.

"Ha ha, I won again brother!" he said while victoriously pointing at himself with a wide grin.

"You'll see, I won´t lose the next time!" I said while sitting on my chair.

I knew I was lying, I don´t really recall any time that I beaten my brother running, he always won. This time I did it to wake me up, but other times that we did it just for fun, he always won too.

My mom came with the food and it´s delicious smell that was spreading from the kitchen.

It was three scrambled eggs, and I devoured them in less than 2 minutes, and drank my glass of milk in two large sips. I always eat too fast, though I'm thin, I eat like a pig hehe.

"You finished? Now please go get ready for the academy while I get Epona ready, okay?" My mom said after taking a sip from her glass of milk.

"Of course" I said while I stood up from the chair and started walking to my room, leaving my mom and brother still eating.

Epona is my 12 year old mare; she has brown hair and a white mane, very uncommon around Hyrule as far as I know, my dad gave her to me when she born and I took care for her since then.

She has her temper; she not always pays attention to what I say to her, but I know that she will always remain loyal to me. She is almost exactly the same as her mom, who is also named Epona, and I think that her grandma was ALSO named Epona, and the one before too…

I got to my room to get prepared. I decided to take with me my endless pouch; my grandpa gave it to me when I was 9 years old. At first I was fascinated about it, when he gave it to me he said that the misuse of this bag could end up in the destruction of the entire universe or something like that, but I really wasn´t paying attention to him because I was distracted filling up the bag with anything that was at hand.

"Now let´s see what we have in here…

deku seeds? I have a slingshot but I rarely use it…

what´s this? Oh! A bottle of milk? It must have been here for years! I wonder if… sniff sniff… yeah, it smells horrible, but I could use the bottle later on…

Arrows? I don´t even have a bow, but I could use them, I mean it´s an endless pouch…

A deku stick? Ok…

A blue rupee! That´s kind of nice…

A bomb? useful…

Ooooooh! an old Hylian shield? How does this got here? It´s all rusty now, but I could get it repaired later…

Ah… my old blue ocarina, I could play it when I'm bored"

I got out 150 rupees from my secret hiding spot, under the couch. It was very uncomfortable sleep on that bed because of the pointy gems scattered there, but I didn't found a better hiding spot for my savings.

"Well, I think it´s all I need for now; I could buy anything that I need later on in Castle Town anyway"

But I was forgetting something very important, something that I really needed.

I walked out of my room, feeling weird, like if something it´s missing…

What could that be?

Then, the truth came to me when I was in the middle of the stairs, just to get sure; I raised my left hand behind my shoulder just to encounter with…nothing.

I was forgetting my sword! What was I going to do in a knight´s academy without a sword? How stupid from me.

I face palmed for myself while sighting and quickly got to my room and saw my sword hanging in the wall next to me in plain sight, like saying:"Hey, I'm here! Hurry up! Pick me up!"

My father crafted this sword especially for me when I got 15 years, he said: "A man of your age needs to know how to defend himself." And taught me how to wield it, you know, basic stuff. But it was my grandpa the one who taught me how to fight. I know well the responsibility involved to wield a sword, and that´s why my grandpa taught me how to fight on the first place, I shall use it only to defend myself and the others around me.

It´s blade measured 17 inches plus 5 from its hilt, quite big. Its blade is silvery, its hilt has two peaks at the sides, one side said "Alex" and the other side said "Lon". (Yeah, my family loves to put our surname everywhere) Its handle has a white lace for better grip. And last, but not the least, its epic blue case.

It just looks so badaas…I don´t even know how I was forgetting it, this sword is my pride.

I put on the sword´s shoulder strap and placed the sword firmly on my back just the enough to be comfortable.

"Well, I think this is all I need, I better get going now" I said somewhat anxious.

I was all ready, so I walked out of my room and got outside and headed for the stable, where I was going to pick Epona and get going.

I opened the stable door and all the horses threw glances at me, anxious to get out to the ranch field, but the cows, always bored were like:"Hey look, it´s the boy" "Meh, fuck that shit, just continue mooing randomly"

At the middle of the stable my mom has just done putting the chair to Epona.

"You are ready?" she said after she caressed Epona´s back, who was calm and docile.

"Yup, I'm all ready now, mum" I said while grabbing Epona´s reins and we walked outside.

"Hey, where´s dad anyways?, I haven´t seen him in the whole morning" I said, wondering where could he be.

"Your dad is in the academy, he had to pay the inscription today, didn´t he told you before?"

"Oh, that´s right! Maybe if I go right now, I could have a chance of see him around there"

At that moment, my brother came out of the house.

"Brother! Are you leaving now?" He said with his well known I-want-this face.

"Well, yeah why?" I knew he was going to ask me something.

"I just wanted to ask you that, when I have my own sword, could you teach me those cool tricks that you do?, if you do that, won´t have to go to the academy!" he was beaming with innocence

"Hehe, it doesn´t work like that, brother, I'm going to the academy to become a knight at the service for Hyrule, but if you want to know those cool tricks, then ask grandpa!, he´s the one who taught me all!"

"Nodro, you finished washing up the dishes already?" My mom interrupted.

"Uh, yeah mum"

"Well, then, now please go feed up the horses. Now that Alex won´t be here all day it will be more work for each of us, okay?"

"YES, mom…" he said in annoyed tone

As he left towards the storehouse, I was a little glad that he didn´t asked for any of my things, like he always do. I mounted on top of Epona, totally ready to leave, but instead I watched the sky, calm and blue, as always. Watching the sky for me it´s like a kind of way to relax, is it always there, the same as ever yet so peaceful.

"Ok, I´m going to Castle Town right now"

"Be careful, son, I have a bad feeling, but just go with caution" She said in a worriedly tone.

"A bad feeling? Like what?"

"An intuition, but, don´t worry, just be careful, alright?" She said in the same tone, but now, trying to cover it up.

I don´t and maybe never understand my mother´s intuitions, but I know she´s trying to don´t make worry about something that she feels that´s gonna happen so, I´m going to follow her game, if something bad it´s gonna happen, then I don´t want to find out until it happens.

"Ok, if you say so, I'll be careful, don´t worry; I will come back in the afternoon!"I said as turned Epona towards the ranch entrance.

"Be careful son!" As she said that, I started galloping towards Hyrule Field.

"Brother, wait!" My little brother shouted in the distance.

I knew it.

"Yes! You can have mah slingshot!" I shouted at the entrance of the ranch.

Far away I heard a "YAY!"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Hyrule Field~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Ok, Epona, let´s go! It´s not that of a long trip!" I said with enthusiasm while galloping.

"Neigh!" (If isn't, then you just walk there by yourself, you lazy bum!)

I silently, galloped around the space between the ranch and Castle Town, with my left hand on the chair to get a better grip, and my right hand in the air to keep the balance.

Most of the time while I'm on Epona I don´t think about anything else than reach my destination, always fully focused on my way and the surroundings.

And for that didn´t got surprised when I heard someone yelling not too far away, it wasn't someone I knew, I didn´t recognize that voice, so I turned around and I saw a small figure, no more farther away than 30 yards.

"Mister!, could you help me out here!" I reached to hear.

I turned Epona into this person´s direction and reached to him in less than 20 seconds. Now that I´m in front of him I could see It was just a child, clothed in green, with a green pointy hat that covered his eyes and most of his orange hair… estrange.

"Mister, I need your help!, I need to get back to the forest soon!"

"The forest?, kid, why would you need to get to there? Where are your parents?" I said while looking at the sides.

"Mister, please! I'm a kokiri! I need to get to the forest quickly! My life depends on it!"

Kokiri? Ah! Now I remember! This Is a Kokiri kid! My grandpa told me all about them. They live in the forest at the southeast of the ranch, in little treehouses, they never grow up, and if they leave their forest they will… die.

When I understood the seriousness of the situation, I put aside all the academy crap. I cannot help but aiding people in needs, stranger or not, I couldn´t leave this little guy to die in the field, I could be just a little late on my first day on the academy, that´s all, not that I don´t have a good reason to do it.

The academy can wait, it´s not like it´s going to go anywhere, it doesn´t?

I told him to get on Epona, I gave him a hand so he could get on top of her. He was lighter than I expected, it didn´t cost me too much effort to help him up. He sat behind me and grabbed my waist so he wouldn´t fall. How does he know how to get a grip from someone on a horse? That doesn´t matter now, I need to get him to the forest quickly.

I turned Epona towards the south, where the forest was in the distance and started galloping towards it.

"Thanks mister, I do not know what would have happened to me without your help" he said in a truly grateful tone.

"Don´t worry about it, I couldn´t just leave you there, anyway my name is Alex"

"Thanks! Mister Alex! My name is Garet."

"Okay, Garet, let´s get you back to the forest!"

A couple of minutes passed as we got closer and closer to the forest, I started wondering how this little guy got out of it. Unlike the zoras, gorons, and heck, even the gerudos, the kokiri don´t have much relation with the hylians, and that is for one single reason: They can´t go out of the forest, or else they die, but how exactly? Do they wither or something like that?

I better hurry, I don´t want to find out.

The field ended and the trees began. We finally got to the entrance of the forest.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Lost Woods~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I've never been on the forest alone, I only been here once when I was little; the kokiri kids didn´t got us well received at first, but once they say my grandpa, they treated us like kings. My grandpa knew well the kokiri but never told me why, and when I asked, he quickly changed the topic, like he was trying to keep it like a secret for himself.

But there´s something missing here… where is its village? It´s not supposed to be right next at the entrance of the forest? Garet is guiding me, he told me to go left instead of forward as I remembered.

Maybe he doesn´t have his house within the kokiri village? I don´t know, and I didn´t asked, just silently followed his directions, here is easy to get lost, every place that we got to looked exactly the same as the one before.

"Forward… left… right… left… forward… left… forward… right… forward… left… forward… forward… right… left… right… right…forward… left… left… forward…" he sounded like he knew his way around this green and thick maze.

We were like that for more than 15 minutes, and I began to worry about the time so I looked skyward to see where were the sun, but I didn´t find it, the trees were so dense, that they were blocking my vision up and at any other side you could think of.

There is when I got a little nervous about the academy; my parents are going to kill me. Even though I don´t know the time, I know that I'm already very late.

But what really worried me, was how the hell I´m going back.

Then I asked myself:

(Why I´m helping getting this kid to his house? Couldn't he just walk since we entered the forest? He´s not in danger of dying now, so why not just leave him here and leave? I mean, he knows his way around here, doesn´t he?)

Those thoughts disappeared because of Garet quickly jumping off from Epona. That sudden move surprised me.

"What…?" I said in reaction.

At that moment, any single bit of childishness was erased from his face.

He was just standing there, staring at me rudely, and I was doing the same.

In that moment I felt danger around, so I got my left hand off the chair and I slowly but discreetly was going to draw my sword.

But suddenly, Epona violently lifted the front of her body making a small jump, causing me to fall backwards and hitting my head against the solid ground, nearly breaking my neck.

The hard hit made me hear a noisy buzzing because of the sudden and hard commotion, and I laid there for like two minutes until I regained my senses, but I didn´t get up, I was listening some voices not too far away, I closed my eyes in order to hear better.

"Yeah, I think it´s a swordsman" I recognized that voice immediately; it was Garet, but now talking with a lower and harder pitch, manlier.

"Are you serious? He´s dressed like a simple rancher" another voice said, with an even lower pitch.

"Do you think he has something valuable?" a different voice said.

"Meh, that sword looks pretty damn fine, don´t you think?" definitively said Garet.

"Yeah, and we could sell the horse for a large sum" another unknown voice said.

Shit, bandits, at least four of them… so this was my mother intuition?

Man I can´t believe that the little guy tricked me like that!

(What to do, think think…fight? Too risky, there are many of them… I can´t let them grab my things and leave either…I could fight, but it's too risky to fight four people at once…)

"Go grab his sword Donpa, but don´t wake him up"

"Yeah, I'll try" That Donpa guy said, and I could hear his steps coming closer to me.

Think Fast, fight or nothing.

When he was close enough, still on the floor, I reached mi sword, unsheathed it and slashed his

torso, cutting his dirty tunic and leaving him wounded.

"AAWW YOU ASSHOLE!" he shouted in pain, falling on the ground, covering with his arms his sliced skin, drawing the attention of all.

Fight

Immediately after that, I got up, and a fat bandit was running towards me, trying to tackle me.

When he threw all his weight just inches away from me, I jumped sideways, avoiding him, then he fell by his own weight. He was so fat that couldn´t got up by himself.

I turned to see the other two bandits; one of them was that dwarf of Garet.

I ran towards them, sword in hand and anger on my eyes.

Garet ran away, but the other guy got out a knife out of his belt. I took battle position in front of him, and he did the same. I threw a pair of slashes but he blocked the two of them with his knife, he knew well how to use it, he then threw a stab which I evaded easily by jumping backwards, he then tried a horizontal slice, which I countered easily with my sword, making his knife fall away.

He looked hopeless, and glanced at me wide eyed, waiting for a blow, but then Garet screamed:

"Lunpa, let´s get the shit out of here fast!" He said while on top of Epona

(Quite a big mouth for a dwarf…wait, what! He´s on top of Epona?)

That got my attention the enough to turn my head to him, what a stupid mistake from me.

Because of that, "Lunpa" tackled me with enough force to make me fell, what a coward move.

As I was standing up, Lunpa, quickly ran and jumped on top of Epona, threatening to steal her.

"We got this man! We got this by the ass!" Lunpa shouted.

"NO YOU WON´T!" I shouted with an anger that I rarely ever showed. I won´t let them get away with Epona!

Epona was very nervous, when Lunpa jumped on top of her, she lost control of herself and started running aimlessly.

I quickly sheathed my sword and ran toward her before she started to run.

I reached to grab her back left leg with both of my arms, she then started to run madly, every time that her leg stepped on the ground it hit all my body against the ground, but I grabbed her with all my strength to get a better grip. I knew that this was a bad idea, but I won´t let them steal Epona, I won´t. Even if this action was pointless, I couldn´t just let them get away.

"Man get off!" Garet said while trying to kick me.

"NEIGH! NEIGH!" (Man get this shit off me!, get these guys off from me!)

I hold her leg with all the strength I could summon, but that effort was suddenly hopeless when a rock hit me hard on my head, making me to let go my grip and fell to the ground.

While I was trying to get up, I saw them escaping, and almost disappearing from my sight. They were getting away.

"I WON´T LET YOU!" I screamed and started running like a madman trying to catch them up.

I felt that my blood was boiling, I've never been this angry in my life.

Strangely, my birthmark burned me for a second at that display of anger, but ignored it completely while I ran.

What birthmark you ask? It´s a mark shaped like three triangles arranged together forming a big triangle that I have at the back of my left hand, it is shaped as the legendary Triforce from the goddesses, but those were childish tales that I didn´t believe.

My grandpa and my father have exactly the same mark on the back of its left hands, but my brother has it on his right hand, maybe because he was right?

I ran and ran, trying to catch´em up. I was running so fast, that I could beat my brother.

I wasn´t seeing them at this point. Eventually I got to a space with four stumps, one after another, I wasn´t thinking clear at that time, so just jumped over them one after other, and got to the entrance to the insides of a big tree. It was dark and I couldn´t see very clear, I just kept running.

I ran until I got to an edge, I tried to stop when I saw it, but the inertia of the movement made me fall to the dark bottom anyway.

"Whoa-aaaaahhhhhh!" I shouted while falling down.

As I fell to the nothingness of the bottom, all the anger was changed to fear; I closed my eyes, hoping that the fall won´t hurt me enough to die.

That hopeless feeling was put aside by some faces in color coming out of the nowhere; they were just floating and passing while more faces showed up and disappearing and repeating the same process. I´m getting crazy?

That thought was forgotten when I splashed in water. And, to my luck, I fell in a deep pond of water, just the deep enough to absorb the fall.

I quickly got out of it and took a look at my surroundings. I could tell that I was still deep inside that tree, with woody walls at every side I see. Then I took a look above from where I fell, there were no ceiling to be seen, just black nothingness, I was really damn lucky to fell exactly on that pond. Then I realized that there were no way to get back from here so I glanced forward and saw two lit torches that illuminated the whole room, at least down here, and between them it were a passage. There were no were else to go, so I walked through it.

I ended in a similar room to the one before, but this one had a wooden bridge, I walked towards it and examined it.

It was crafted from wood; someone made this bridge, which could tell that there has to be people around here…

I saw what was down the bridge; they were big sized flowers, with pink petals.

I crossed the bridge and lifted a wooden door, and in this next room realized that I were in a complex of catacombs, i saw bunch of platforms raising from the black abyss, each platform connected to each other by bridges, which were exactly the same style of wooden planks as the other one before.

I walked through them, trying to not look into the dark bottomless pit.

I walked quietly through each bridge until I saw another passageway covered in shadows; I was going straight to it until I saw a very strange looking tree, withered and very sad looking. I decided to not looking at it for too long, it beamed sadness, so I walked to the dark passage in front of me.

When I got totally covered in the darkness, not long away i saw the end of this passage, now totally man-constructed. But as I got closer, I saw something that I couldn´t believe at first.

(This corridor… it´s all twisted!)

And hell it was, the end of the corridor was twisted 90 degrees clockwise direction.

There´s nowhere else to go, so I walked to it, and for my surprise, with every step I made, the gravity got along with my feet, this was mind blowing, I reached the end of the corridor, hearing cogs spinning and water not too far.

I looked back and saw that where I came before it was the twisted part now.

I better not think too much about it.

The scenario changed drastically, I was inside a engine-based building combined with a sewer.

As I went to examine, I saw that a large gate definitively closed the way I came.

There was no way back from there, so it didn´t bother me in the least bit.

I went to examine this place; there was a river of water flowing from one side to another, and a large cog, spinning because of the stream of water, at the same time, this cog rotated other smaller cogs as well, with each cog going upward.

I went upstairs to see what those cogs moved. I saw a piece of wood spinning in place in the middle of the room, probably rotating another cog up, so I looked up and I was right, another big cog spinning another smaller cogs as well, and this continued until it got too dark for me to see.

I glanced straight and saw some stairs, followed by a pair of large wooden gates.

I was going to pass them, when I felt that someone was staring at me. A cold stare. That cold feeling which makes you feel insecure. I stopped walking and stood there a second and quickly unsheathed my sword and turned back just to see no one.

(Odd… I was sure I felt the presence of someone.…)

I quickly forgot it and passed through the large wooden gates.

"What the fffff…flip?" I said as a totally new environment was surrounding me.

well yeh that´s the first chapter! i´ll update constantly.

i hope you liked it, please review and let me know what you think because if you do you may get a cookie! just kidding, no, really, constructive criticism is totally welcome.