Ok guys this is my first fanfic that I've ever actually written, so I'm looking for constructive criticism on it. Even if the first chapter seems uninteresting, I encourage you to keep reading as subsequent chapters get substantially better. Please leave reviews!
Not All Things Are So Simply Defined
Chapter 1: Those Who Remember
It was a very beautiful, if rather cold, day in Skyloft. Link awoke to Zelda's Loftwing delivering a letter to him through his window. Through rather startled by the bird's presence so early, he was more than used to it.
"Will you ever get up? Let's go visit the surface today! There are things I need to tell you." the letter read.
Slowly, Link groggily got to his feet. It had been about a month since he returned to the present time after defeating Demise. He, or what was left of him, was sealed in the Master Sword, which was firmly stuck in stone at the Sealed Temple. He was one sonofabitch, yet Link never exactly understood why he wanted to build a new world. He never asked the, well, thing why he wanted to do so. Link assumed the world Demise would build was not anything most living things would agree with and chose to protect his friends instead. Not to mention, Demise absorbed Zelda's very soul, who was only recently discovered to be the goddess Hylia. Now she has returned to her normal life, and only Link and Groose know anything of it now.
Link met Zelda and Groose at the main plaza, near the lighthouse where a beam of light projects to open a path to a seemingly permanent thunderhead. The skies have cleared somewhat, however, and they are especially clear over Lanayru, explaining why it remains a desert. Rain clouds approach and then almost inexplicably break apart or change course to merge with the thunderhead.
Based on Groose's facial expression, Link assumed Groose had received a similar letter. They took off together on their Loftwings, heading for the Faron Woods, still covered in morning dew. They said little to each other.
Upon arrival, Zelda spoke up.
"Have any of you been having strange dreams recently, involving any of the surface lands or something related to them?"
Groose shook his head. Link, however, had partial nightmares from his experiences in the Silent Realms, as well as glimpsing a shadowy, vaguely human figure walking in the ethereal world, saying something he couldn't hear to the Guardians. He told both Zelda and Groose this, but neither knew what the dream/nightmare meant.
A deep rumble disturbed all the previously serene wildlife. It emanated from the temple. One of the Gorons who had taken up residence in Faron, named Gorko, spoke to all of them.
"Those shaking sounds have been common recently, along with two voices I didn't recognize. There hasn't been exactly anyone to tell recently, so I just went along with my daily travels. At least almost all the monsters are gone, save for the carnivorous plants."
Link replied, "Thanks for telling us."
The ground shook again. However, the ripple came from under the Goddess Statue. Wasn't Demise's aberration dead?
The shaking began to become a constant, almost rhythmic alternation between shaking from the temple and shaking under the statue. They almost seemed to resonate with one another in an eerie way.