Hey there, everyone! I'm Companionwolf! I've been working on this fanfic here for quite some time now and I haven't been able to share it here. I have put this fanfic on ZU (Zelda Universe) if you've seen it there before, I go by the name Emidna there btw :) Anyway! Today is the start of Link's epic adventure! Enjoy!
The doors were thrust open, a figure marched into the throne room. The beautiful princess of the Twilight straightened. The figure did not bow, or show any sign of respect... He just walked. Midna recognized this being to be one of her subjects, Zant, how odd he come here! Midna stood from her throne. She watched as Zant came towards her. "What is a person like you doing in my throne room?"
Zant stopped two meters away. "To claim my right as the King of Twilight."
He thrust his hand out, his fingertips crackling with dark magic. Although the Twilight was a dark realm Midna knew this magic wasn't just dark, it was pure evil. She was about to counter the dark bolt of magic that she anticipated but instead her body felt like it was burning in a flame. She gasped and fell to the floor. She could feel her body changing, her entire being becoming smaller and her skin changing.
She looked up at the usurper, he stood above her, and Zant started laughing. A deep echoing laugh that had no place in his mouth. It took moments to realize that her new form could float freely through the air and that she could control the height, speed and direction of flight. In fear, she zipped out of the grand throne room and to the edge of her realm to the location of the Mirror.
In her mind she knew that it was Zant's plot to cover the land of Light in darkness. What mattered? She knew that she had to retrieve the dark power that resided in the Land of Light, the Fused Shadow, the rest of her helmet that she wore. Taking in a breath, she passed through the portal, into the now Twilight covered Land of Light. Midna then realized that she couldn't just retrieve the artifacts by herself, since her form had been changed into that of a common Twili, it would be highly impossible. She would need a hero... A champion.
Link sat on the edge of the sacred spring that flowed near Ordon village in Faron forest, his village's only warrior and blacksmith, Rusl sat there with him. He could see the form of his horse Epona awaiting him somewhere to his left."Tell me..." He asked "Do you ever feel a strange sadness when dusk falls?"
Link looked at him, Rusl was just staring into the distance. The blacksmith realized the stupidity of the question after a few moments. "Ah... Forget that, there really is no time for sadness."
Link smiled, that was more like Rusl. Upbeat and usually protective, of the village and his feelings... Possibly of his secrets. "You are young, you have not traveled from the village. Have you?"
He smiled and laughed. "Of course you haven't, but there is so much out there. Hyrule is a big place, lots of sights to see. Hyrule castle... The city itself, Lake Hylia and Death Mountain! So many places. I was to deliver a sword and shield to the royal family, but... Would you like to go in my stead?"
Rusl looked back at Link who smiled. "I would, in fact, very much like to."
"I thought you might say that, maybe you might even see Princess Zelda!"
The blacksmith started to laugh, Link laughed along with him. Then Link straightened himself. "It's getting late, we might want to head back to the village... I'd rather not spend a night in Faron. You know the tales of monsters that lurk these woods."
Rusl nodded. "Well get on you horse, I'll lock the gate. You go back home. One more thing! You will have to leave the day after tomorrow."
Link nodded and got up on his horse, he rode across a bridge and to the tree house which he lived in. He left Epona next to the ladder leading up the tree and hopped off her. "I'll see you in the morning Epona." He whispered to the horse before quickly climbing up the ladder and entering his home.
"Link!" Someone shouted from somewhere below.
Light flickered through his half opened eyelids as he opened the window, Link sat up and looked through the window in he highest point of his home. Three of the village children were down there. They seemed to like pestering him... He got down from his home and to the ground. "Hey Talo, hey Malo, hi Beth."
Talo pointed at Beth. "Her parent's shop has a slingshot!"
"Ah, amazing."
"Yeah, but Beth won't let us get it! Plus I don't have enough to buy the sling shot... Beth won't lend any of her pocket money to us!"
"Yeah, because it's my money!"
"You two, just stop it. I think Fado may need my help at the ranch. I will see you... Wait! Where is Epona?"
Link gestured to the spot where his horse was resting overnight. Talo pointed over to the path that led to a closer spring. "I think Ilia took her, because she does that... Takes horses away and stuff."
Link nodded and headed off to the spring which the children were talking about, leaving them to their bickering. The sun flittered through the thick leaves above, casting green light across the forest floor. Link could see through a tunnel of leaves his horse, and the daughter of the chief of Ordon, Ilia, who was gently stroking the horse. She was softly humming a soothing song. Ilia turned and saw Link. "Oh! Hello Link, sorry that I took Epona. I washed her for you, in the sacred spring water."
Link smiled and turned and looked down to his left. He spotted the rare grass that he had seen before and discovered that you could blow through it to make a cheerful, high note. He knew that Epona loved the tune that he always played whenever he saw the grass. Link delicately picked the 'U' shaped top of the grass and blew through it. The tune was soothing and Epona immediately perked up and trotted over to Link, the tune made Ilia smile. "I love the tune... It's so nice, Epona loves it! Anyway, you take Epona. You should head to Fado now."
Link mounted his horse and nodded before galloping up to the farm.
Fado, the owner of the ranch, was sure enough waiting for Link. "Ah, there you are! I need to herd the goats into the barn, but they all seem so skittish... I have no idea what is happening, could you and Epona get them into the barn?"
"Huh, I always! Just pay me after, would you? Just wait as I herd them." Link laughed.
Link got Epona to speed up and started to yell at the goats to get them to run into the barn. After he had finally gotten the last one into the barn, Fado approached him. "Thank you, Link, now while the day is still early you should take this day to relax. Oh, here is you pay!"
Fado tossed a purple gem, a rupee - the currency of Hyrule, to Link. Purple rupees were worth fifty, around what Link would get paid after around a week of working at the ranch. Link rode Epona back to his home and headed into the actual village. He reached in his wallet and wrapped his fingers around the purple gem that rested inside his wallet. Smiling, he looked over to where the general store was. The children who were arguing over by his home wouldn't leave until they got what they wanted!
Why not get the sling shot? Link walked over and pushed open the door. The shop keeper, Sera, was there with her cat who was lapping up milk from a bowl. Sera looked up and smiled. "Oh, Link! Welcome! I have a sling shot for sale, but those are for children. Never mind! What would you like to buy?"
"The sling shot if you don't mind. Does that come with all the ammo?"
"Ah yes, thirty rupees, but why would you like the sling shot? You aren't a child anymore. Well... It isn't my business to pry!"
Link tossed the fifty rupee gem on the counter, which was quickly replaced by a red twenty rupee gem. He placed that into his wallet and took the sling shot, with the thirty deku seeds that came with it. He'd played one too many childhood games involving a sling shot, so he knew by experience that even a deku seed hurt when used with a sling shot.
He was heading up the hill and bumped into Rusl. "Oh, hey Link! I left you something in your house. I made it for you."
"Hm? Okay... Thanks, I guess?"
Rusl laughed good naturally and walked past Link and back to the village. Link was nearly up to the ladder that led to the entrance of his home when he heard. "Link! You got a sling shot!"
He saw the kids coming to inspect his new weaponry. Talo looked over to Beth who smiled and looked up to Link. "We made a test to see how the sling shot works! You are going to do the test." Beth ordered.
Link groaned, but smiled. "Okay, what do you want me to do then?"
The children quickly set up targets, up trees, on the ground, hanging off ladders and off rocks! The three of them stood behind Link. "Hit them all Link!" Talo yelled.
His brother Malo muttered something under his breath, Link couldn't quite make out what he said. He knew that they wouldn't give in, Link wouldn't be able to leave until he hit all of the targets. Sighing, Link fitted a deku seed in the sling shot and loosed the hard little seed into the middle of the target. He repeated the process, without the sigh, for every target. The children stared in wonder, with their mouths hanging open. "Wow... That is so cool! Oh, by the way, what did Colin's dad give you?"
Link knew that they were talking about Rusl, who's son was named Colin. They must have seen him going up or down the path! "Yeah... What did he give you? I demand you to tell us." Malo ordered.
Link just smiled. "I can't tell you if I have no idea what it even is, so just wait out here while I go to get whatever Rusl gave me."
Malo sighed impatiently and stepped back. Link looked at the ladder that led to the door of his house and ran towards it, when he got into his home he saw a small chest in the middle of the small front room. Link pushed the heavy lid back and laughed in delight at the sight of the content of the chest. There lay a wooden sword, Rusl had been training him for the past few years how to use the sword, this was a nice surprise indeed! Maybe a thank you gift for going in his stead to the castle. "Thanks Rusl." Link whispered.
He strapped the wooden sword to his back and jumped down to where the kids were waiting. "Link! You have a sword! Can you teach us how to use it? Please!"
"Ah, okay!" Link laughed.
He positioned himself in front of the scarecrow which he usually practiced with. Talo had armed himself with a play sword toy. "Okay, what would you like me to do first?" Link asked.
"Ooh! Spin attack! You know when you spin around and stuff?"
Link nodded and carried out the difficult sword technique. Talo started to laugh and try out the move himself, his brother, Malo, and Beth just stared and complimented Link. "Wow! That was amazing, can you do the stab? I love how you do the stab!" Beth cooed.
Link stepped back a little and lunged forward, thrusting his sword into the middle of the straw stuffed body of the scarecrow. Talo once again mirrored his movements. Then Malo spoke up. "Do that move where you jump into the air and slash down..."
"Oh! I know what you mean, okay, I'll do that."
Link walked three big steps back, he jumped and swung his sword at the same time to propel himself upwards. Just before he landed, Link swung his sword downwards and broke the head of the scarecrow clean in two. The children gasped in amazement. "That is so cool! Thank you Link, now I can defend the town from the monkeys that come and annoy us!"
Talo and his friends turned around, a monkey stood at the end of the forest path. Only just in view of them. "Look! There's a monkey, lets go and get him!"
The three kids charged after the monkey who leaped further into the forest. "Whoa! Wait up, you don't know what's in there!" Link yelled after them.
He sheathed the wooden sword and started to chase after Talo, Malo and Beth.
Link passed Beth, who told him the way which the other two had ran, then he saw Malo, who told him that Talo and the monkey had ran further and faster. After a little while, Link slowed to a walk. He still kept a brisk pace. Link tripped over a hard object, he stood up and looked at what he had stumbled on. It was Talo's wooden play sword.
He gasped and jumped up to his feet, sword unsheathed, looking around for any sign of danger. Just a few steps away was the mouth of a dark cave. Link took a deep breath and walked into the cave. It was pitch black. He could hear the screeching of Keese somewhere within the depths of the cave. So long as there weren't any Deku Babas inside this cave and he followed the walls, He would be fine.
Link kept one hand on the wall of the cave and another on the hilt of his sword ready to unsheathe. He could see sunlight beyond, Link knew this was the exit! The forest turned darker due to the thicker roof of leaves, this part looked like it was definitely going to have some sort of giant creepy crawly hiding somewhere in all of the crooks and crannies that were created by giant trees. Link kept on running until he got to a brighter side of the deep forest, there was a gargantuan tree towering before him.
The roots created some sort of path that led to a hollowed out part of the tree, something was moving around that area, Link squinted and managed to make out on shape stuck in a cage, Talo! He ran up the roots, as he got closer, Link could see a goblin, a bokoblin to be exact. Talo was screaming for someone to help him. It seemed that the monkey he was chasing was in the cage with him. Link unsheathed his sword and started to attack the bokoblin, slashing the goblin as hard as he could.
Finally the bokoblin fell limp and unmoving on the floor before disintegrating into dark ashes that were blown away into the wind. Link hacked at the hard vines that made cage bars. The vines gave way and then fell, the monkey made some sort of laughing noise of joy before bounding up the tree. "Thank you Link! That creature took me and the monkey, she was really nice though... She tried to protect me! Link? Could you... Not tell my dad what happened today? Please?"
"Fine, I won't. Anyway I'm heading to Hyrule Castle tomorrow! This is a secret between you and me, let's just tell Beth and Malo that we chased off the monkey who turned out to be nice, shall we?"
"Yeah! Thanks Link!"
Link smiled and led the little boy back to Ordon Village.
There we are! Chapter one! Please review, like and follow! I'll update soon! See ya then!