The sun was high in the afternoon sky as the wind gently blew across the land of Hyrule. It was a peaceful day in the town that existed below a mighty castle bearing the crest used for royal family members, three triangles forming one larger triangle of gold. Hyrule Town was busy as always, multiple people ran all around, visiting cafes, stores, and other places that spark people's attention. On the outside of the busy town, a boy clothed in a green tunic and matching hat looked through a small bag in front of a brown female horse, a white spot on her muzzle stretched between her eyes. A fairy circled around the boy as he pulled out some carrots.
"Here, Epona." the boy said as he held out the carrots to the horse.
The horse called Epona ate the food offering out of his hands as the small fairy circled around.
"Link, we should leave soon if we want to get home before sunset!"
The boy looked at the fairy with blue eyes framed by brownish hair with a few blonde strands of hair shown in streaks, and nodded.
"Yea, you're right..." Link said, lifting up his hat. "C'mon Navi."
The small fairy quickly flew into his hat and he set it back on his head before putting the remaining carrots into the bag and mounted on his horse. He pulled back on the reigns as Epona lifted up her front legs and put her weight on her back legs, whinnying into the air like a painting. Link gracefully stayed ontop of his steed as she fell back to the ground and gently kicked her to command her forward to his home. The wind blew through his bangs as he rode across the green fields. The Castle of Hyrule was an amazing view, but nothing compared to the fields of Hyrule.
Or maybe I only think that because I'm a farm boy? Link shrugged.
Sunset was nearing as the entrance to Ordon was finally visible. The mixed colors of red and yellow stretched across the land, the remaining blue in the sky turned a light shade of purple. Navi crawled out from his hat and held onto his shoulder as Link looked at her questionably.
"It's boring in there!" Navi complained before Link could object. "Besides, no offence, but this is a prettier view than the inside of your hat!"
"Fine just don't fall off and end up in the middle of nowhere like that one time."
Navi nodded and tightened her grip. The boy smiled and looked past his fairy friend to the land behind her. He admired the colors of the sunset. He blinked as he spotted a curious shadow on the ground and quickly pulled back on the reigns to stop Epona. Navi, now able to fly around, flew beside his face, almost showing her confusion.
"H-Hey, Navi..." Link started, keeping his eyes on the shadow. "What's that?"
Navi tilted her small head and followed his gaze to the shadow. She flew ahead as Link gently commanded Epona to follow close behind. A blue light radiated off of the fairy naturally, showing the highlighted outline of the creature, a humanoid figure. Navi gasped as Link halted his horse beside the stranger.
"Link! It's a person!" she exclaimed as Link quickly jumped off of his horse.
How did someone get way out here? Link thought as he inspected the stranger.
The stranger was laying on his/her stomach, arms laid above the head, hiding the face. Almost like the person had fallen and never got up. The head was wrapped in a white bandage-like cloth, long blonde bangs laid in the face, hiding what the arms missed, and a blonde braid sprouted from the back and ended at the shoulder blades. The body appearance was feminine-like, a skinny waist that connected the ribcage to the pelvis. Her arms and legs were somewhat skinny while maintaining some muscle. The body was clothed in tight-fitting clothes and the cloth that was wrapped around her head was also wrapped around random areas, including her hands and fingers. On her back was a dagger in its case and a harp clung to her shoulder blades. Cuts existed on her left side and her arms, along with a few arrows stuck into her arms.
"Well..." Link began as he flipped her over on her back, showing closed eyes and a pretty face hiding behind hair and a scarf-like mask. The cut on her side was revealed to not be too deep, it didn't kill her or knock her out. "She must've lost too much blood and passed out or something physically knocked her out cold...I wonder where she's from...those aren't Hylian clothes."
"Link! She's bleeding; we have to get her to help! We can figure out where her home is after we save her!" Navi exclaimed, catching his attention.
"Right" Link agreed, picking up the limp girl and carrying her to Epona. He quickly got on with the wounded stranger, Farore knows how long she had been laying there, hurt and bleeding. Epona sprinted past a man with an afro selling lantern oil and towards Ordon. Link stopped her after crossing the bridge and turned her into the spring close by. A small waterfall poured healing water into the spring. He dismounted Epona holding the girl and waded into the spring.
"Link, I know this is a healing spring and all, but the process is slow, especially in her condition AND being unconscious tends to slow things down as well." Navi informed.
"Well, Ordon doesn't exactly have a doctor! We can at least make it easier for Uli, since she's the one with the most experience." Link argued. "And guardian fairies can't heal."
Navi flew up and down, giving the motion of nodding and flew towards the waterfall and past. Link blinked as she faded away, wondering what she was pulling off now. A few moments later, she returned with a fairy radiating a pinkish glow following behind. Link blinked again, wondering how in Din's name she knew that healing fairies were here.
"I have connections." Navi said, smiling to herself.
The pink fairy flew around the stranger in Link's arms, healing the cuts and mostly healing the cut on her side. The arrows were left untouched so that they could be removed before the skin would heal. Link smiled at Navi and the pink fairy.
"Thanks, fairy." He said as the fairy flew away. He turned to Navi. "I really need to stop underestimating your 'connections'...because it's kinda scary."
Navi smiled to herself as Link mounted back onto Epona and rode off to Ordon, Navi following close behind. Four kids waited in front of a tall tree house as Link rode in, stopping in front of them. The kids all smiled and ran up to Epona, looking up at Link.
"Link, could you please make them shut up and teach them some new sword tricks?" the girl asked, her hands in a begging like style, which made her look just as interested. "They're such kids!"
"Yea can you?" The taller boy said with a stick in hand, ignoring what the girl said about them being kids.
"Link..." the blonde boy said, walking shyly into the group. "...who's that?"
The kids attentions were finally on the stranger. Link looked at the blonde boy, their blue eyes met.
"Colin, where's your mother?"
Colin thought for a moment then looked back at Link. "She's at the house still."
Link nodded and rode into the actual village, the kids followed. He rode past the store and to a house on a hill before dismounting; a girl the same age as Link followed behind, green eyes examined Epona for scratches of any kind.
"What happened in Hyrule Town?" She asked before walking around the horse and seeing Link. "Umm...never mind about that. What happened to her?"
Link shrugged, Navi flew toward the girl.
"She was just in the middle of the field on our way here..." She explained.
"Well what are you doing just standing there? C'mon, Uli is right inside!" The girl said, knocking on the door.
"Yes, Ilia...why didn't I think of that?" Link said sarcastically.
Ok, so I came up with this chapter in the break of dawn because I couldn't sleep so cut me some slack if you think it's too rushed. I suck at beginings, I'll never overcome that. Well, I hope you guys enjoy it. Oh and by the way, incase you are wondering...in this fanfiction, I made Sheik her own person.
All characters in this story and the videogame series The Legend of Zelda do not belong to me.
-MidnightTwi