Prologue: Tetra's Diary
Location: S.S. Hyrule*, Unmapped Quadrant, Southeastern Great Sea
Date: 18th of June GS Calendar** 404
Dear diary, it's a beautiful day out today. Its just like the beginning of that day three years ago. Exactly three years ago. The wind along the sea is gentle but not calm, and we're making good speed towards our next destination, wherever that is. I had my doubts that that old man was completely sane when he gave us the directions. I guess I haven't any proof yet. The man said the island was around three days away. It's now dawn on of the third day, and we set out at mid-afternoon. Before long, this island, rumoured to be a pirates outpost, ought to appear on the horizon.
It really is so like that day... this is starting to creep me out now. The memories of the day turn my blood to ice and make me want to crawl under my bed, and never come out again. Even though it was now 3 years ago, the memories are so vivid they feel more like to my waking thought than to my dreams, or even other memories. I used to be so reckless back then. If I wasn't like that, it would never have happened. We set out east of of the area of the Great Sea we were born in, from the mountaintops of drowned Hyrule. I'd been informed of the legendary Ghost Ship, and I was determined to find it, and claim its fabled treasure for ourselves. Unfortunately, I had been tricked. (In hindsight, it should've been obvious the woman who told me the legend was evil, considering she wore matching hats on either side of her head, and sported a malicious looking grin). As the typical, headstrong, reckless girl I was then, when we had finally tracked down the Ghost Ship, I leapt on board, eager to locate this treasure. I knew something was wrong as soon as I had landed on the ship. The sky instantly clouded over, and the S.S. Hyrule disappeared in a sudden swathe of purple fog behind me. The next thing that happened almost scared me to death. A huge beast rose up out of the depths, in the form of a green kraken. But it was the tentacles that were truly scary. At the end of each was set a malevolent yellow eye. Unsuprisingly, on seeing this, I let out a blood-curdling scream. I heard a sudden cry answer, the voice of our navigator Link, as he leapt towards the Ghost Ship, to rescue me as he had once rescued me from the evil Gerudo magician Ganondorf. He showed no fear, as the holder of the Triforce of Courage, he never betrayed fear for his own life. Hearing his cry filled me with hope, and with a cry I drew my cutlass turning to smite the beast. I fought well, for a few minutes, with a stabbing here and there enraging the creature as I deftly dodged the swipe of its tentacles. Then, I heard Link cry out, as he lost his grip on the Ghost Ship, and fell overboard with a splash. 'No! Not him, not Link!' I cried bitterly. The creature took advantage of my distraction, to knock the cutlass out of my hand with its tentacle, then knocked me out with the swipe of another...
'Wind's coming from the northeast! There's a storm brewing behind us!'
It turned out that the evil creature Bellum had sucked all the life force from me, turning me to stone. I don't know how long I was in this state, but it felt like a hellish eternity. I was plagued by nightmares of my worst fears; Link's death, my own death, Ganondorf forcing the people of Hyrule to do his bidding, on pain of death. After what seemed like an age of pain and torture, I suddenly felt myself awakening, and saw Link, a man called Linebeck and a fairy called Ciela watching over me. At that moment, I just wanted to hold Link's outstretched hand, and to hug him until my fears went away. I was then grabbed again by Bellum, who Link had not quite finished off, but thanks to the bravery of Linebeck and Link, as well as Ciela's powers as Spirit of Time and Courage, Bellum was defeated. We were then returned to our own world by the Ocean King, who ruled that world and was returned to power by Link's heroism. The pirates found it very amusing that the whole adventure seemed to have only taken 10 minutes when we arrived back on the Ghost Ship in our world. We eventually got into a fight, until Link pulled out the Phantom Hourglass (an essential artifact that was used to defeat Bellum) from his pocket, and showed it to our crew, after which, they believed the whole story and wanted to get as far away from those waters as possible. Normally, I would've laughed at that kind of cowardice, but in this case I was more cowardly than they were...
'Batten down the hatches! All hands on deck! LINK, MISS TETRA, GET OUT HERE NOW!'
-END OF PROLOGUE-
*S.S. Hyrule is what I've decided to name Tetra, Link and the Pirates' ship, its the same one seen in PH and WW
**GS Calendar (Hereafter referred to as GS)-stands for Great Sea, and the years are reckoned from the time Hyrule was flooded. For the purposes of this story, Hyrule was flooded 400 years before the events of WW, making WW take place in GS 400, and PH take place in GS 401. Link and Tetra were both born in GS 388, making them 16 when the story begins.