The Legend of Zelda - Dreams of the Past

Disclaimer: I do not own Link, or Zelda or any of the other characters or places in the video games.

Note: This fie. is based off of the game The Ocarina of Time and takes place a year after Link defeats Gannondorf and instead of changing back into a kid he stays an adult. I made Sheik his own separate person and not just Zelda in disguise. In my story he is the son of Impa.

Chapter I ~ Fairies don't get headaches

"What is this place? It's so big!"

A small boy about ten asked as he stared around the large dark room. There were pillars lining the walls. The room was empty except for a stone alter near the wall on the far side of the room. Beyond that was a door. The boy was dressed in a black tunic and a black cloak. He gripped a short sword tightly in his hand. A wooden shield was strapped to his other arm. His hair was white and he looked around with a pair of wide grey eyes. A dark colored fairy hung at his side. He walked out into the middle of the room.

"Look down!" the fairy said.

The boy looked down at the floor. There was a large mosaic design there. "Wow its huge!" he exclaimed.

"Hey! Isn't that the same design that's on your hand'!" the fairy asked.

The boy looked at the back of the hand that was holding his sword, "Yeah, you're right. And it was on the stone archway at the entrance. It was also on the stone that led me here."

Something shining caught the boy's attention. He ran over to the alter with the fairy flying after him.

"What is it '! " she called after him.

"Cool! It's a huge sword! But... why is it glowing?"

"I can feel a really strong power here Shard ... it's ... frightening. " the fairy said softly.

"I know. I can feel it too." he said in an equally soft voice.

He sheathed his own sword reached for it. The shining aura around the sword seemed to grow brighter.

"Sh-shard, I think we should leave now. I'm r-really scared. I don't think you should touch that!" she sounded frightened now.

The boy gripped the hilt and pulled the heavy sword off the alter. He nearly dropped it. Suddenly he was surrounded in a blazing white light. He could feel tremendous waves of energy coursing through his entire body. It was dark, but light, good, and yet very evil at the same time. It felt oddly familiar. .. like it had always been a part of him.

"W-wha ...?" he stammered.

Something came alive in the dark. Some evil stirred after its long sleep. It had been sealed away, unable to even move, but now it was free. Free to seek the source of the power that had locked it in its prison. It was free now. The evil made its way silently towards the shinning figure. The boy screamed as an invisible force cut into his flesh, sending him flying. He landed with a crash to the floor. His whole body cried out in pain. Something grabbed his throat and lifted him high into the air still shinning. The sword clattered to the floor as he fought to free himself, fought to breathe. He opened his eyes and he could see it clearly now. He tried to scream but couldn't. He could feel the darkness closing in on him ...

Screams filled the night air. The town was in flames. A man, two small children and a woman carrying a toddler ran through the crowd. The man held his three year-old daughter in one hand and tugged his eight year-old stepson behind him with the other. Suddenly the boy tripped over a rock and fell; he was soon lost in the crowd. The woman turned.

"No! My baby!" she cried, "Shard! Where are you?"

The man grabbed the frantic brunette's shoulder with his free hand.

He said "You go on ahead with the baby; I'll find him and catch up with you."

The boy could only clutch his little sister's arm and watch as his step-father fell to the ground bleeding. The boy ran from his hiding place over to where he lay. The blonde haired man smiled up at the two of them seeing that they were still alive. Then his brilliant blue eyes closed for the final time. Tears streamed down the children's faces.

"No ... NO ... FATHER, NOOOOOOO!" the boy cried out in anguish as the man he loved and admired so much died.

~Kakariko Village~

The Young man awoke with a start. He sat up and put his head in his hands. He could feel sweat running down his forehead. He had been having another nightmare. He had a lot of them these days. He ran his fingers back through his thick black hair.

"Shard?" a small, worried voice inquired sleepily.

Shard looked over at the little fairy, and managed to smile warmly at her. "Good morning Tail." he said sounding cheerful.

Tail frowned; the man's act didn't fool her. He may have been smiling, but she could see the tortured look still hanging about in his cool grey eyes.

"Shard ..." she began.

"It's still dark outside Tail, if you want to go back to sleep you can." Shard interrupted.

"Are you going somewhere?" she asked him.

"Yeah. But you don't have to come." he answered.

Tail placed her tiny hands on his cheek and leaned against him. She wanted that look in his eyes to go away. She didn't want him to feel scared and alone anymore. She wished that she could erase all the pain that he felt in his heart. Shard was the most important person to her, and wished with all that she was that she could protect him.

"No, I'll come with you." she said.

He smiled at her again and this time she could feel the warmth coming back into it. He held his hand out for her to climb into.

"Thank you." he said softly and reached for his boots.

~Hyrule Castle~

Shard quickly climbed up the vines that ran up the wall in front of the first gate to the castle. Tail hid in a pouch that Shard had made her so that the faint light that she emitted would not give them away. Shard pulled the hood of his cloak further down over his face to hide all of his black hair. He knelt down in the grass and counted five ... no six guards, including the one he had just gotten past. He pulled out a slingshot and aimed for not twenty feet in front of him and fired. He winced as the shot made a metallic sound when it hit the guard's helmet, but it did the job. The guard only uttered a small groan and crumpled to the ground. He managed to avoid the other guards as he made his way along the top of the gate and across the yard. He climbed up the second set of vines to get past the inner gate. He dropped down to the stone walkway and nearly cried out as he fell and twisted his ankle.

"Shard!" Tail cried, coming out of hiding.

Shard held a finger to his lips in a gesture to be quiet. He looked up at the guards who were just up ahead. The two guards at the gate didn't so much as even glance in their direction. Shard sighed with relief. The whole trip would have been for nothing if he were discovered now. He carefully stood up keeping all his weight on the other foot. He tested his ankle by shifting some weight to it and found that it would support him.

"Are you alright?" Tail whispered the question in his ear. He nodded.

"We need to do something about those two." he whispered. "Could you maybe distract them somehow?"

Tail nodded and flew over to the guards. She hovered in front of them just out of reach.

"Hey Mitch, look at that!" one of the guards said.

"Yeah I see it." the other one said.

"What do ya think it is?" the first one asked.

"What are ya, stupid or something?" the second man asked "Why it's a fairy of course!"

Tail giggled and flew slowly back and forth in front of them. The guards watched her, entranced. Meanwhile Shard slowly crept past them.

"It's so shiny. Hey Mitch, why do think that is?" the first asked.

"It's because fairies are really aliens, ya see." the second replied.

Shard halted. He had to put his hand over his mouth to keep from laughing. That had to be the stupidest thing he had ever heard said about fairies. He managed to make it around the corner to safety. Tail came after him, muttering under her breath and asking how anyone could be so stupid. Shard grinned.

"Inflict pain upon them later my dear, we need to go."

~Meanwhile~

Link lay in bed staring up at the dark ceiling. He couldn't sleep and his head ached. He shivered. Nights were cool here. He was staying at the castle for a visit. He looked over at a small crate that was on a table next to the bed. He sat up and peered in. Navi had been his friend long while now. She was the one who had helped him on his quest to defeat the evil Gannondorf and save Hyrule. That had been a year ago. Right now she was sound asleep. Link was envious. She didn't get headaches. He tried to go back to sleep but failed. He finally got up and decided to go to the library hoping that maybe some reading would clear his head.

~Back to Shard~

He only had one other incident after he made it into the castle. He ran across a group of three guards and had to knock them out. He dragged their bodies into a closet and locked the door. Now he had reached his destination. It was the library. He lit a small lamp that he found in the room. He pulled back his hood and began searching the shelves of books and scrolls. He didn't know if he would find what he was looking for, but he needed to look. He was actually half-hoping he wouldn't find it. He pulled out a leather bound book that seemed hopeful, and took it and the lamp to a table to sit.

Tail was sleepy. Sleepy fairies don't do research. So she decided to explore a little. That way she could also warn Shard if anyone was coming in time for him to hide. She wandered down the hallway. She turned a comer and bumped strait into someone, nearly knocking the unsuspecting person over. She rubbed her head and looked at the man, and gasped.

Link rubbed his head. What was that? He looked up and saw a dark colored fairy.

She flew right up into his face startling him.

"You ... " she trailed off.

Link reached into his belt pouch for a bottle, and then neatly caught the tiny girl in it. Tail beat her fists against the glass.

"Hey, let me out of here!" she yelled, "You better let me go! You can't keep me in here like this!"

"Who are you?" Link asked her. She had long red- orange hair and bright blue eyes. She looked oddly familiar.

"That's none of your business!" she snapped. Link looked at her thoughtfully. "Why not?" "That's none of your business either."

Link shrugged, then continued on his way to the library.

Tail was at a loss. How had she gotten into this mess? She sat in her glass prison and cried. She hated confined spaces. It felt like she couldn't breathe. It was the same as Shard. Shard... he was really the one she had let down. What if he came looking for her? What if he got caught? It would be all her fault. That man, could he be been Link? The Hero of Time? She peered up at him. It could only be him. What was he doing here? He reached the library doors.

"WAIT!" she called out half-panicked. Link stopped and looked at her. "What?" he asked.

"You can't go in there!" she said. "WHAT?"

"I said you can't go in there!" "Why not?" he asked. "Because you can't!" she cried.

"Look, miss fairy," he said, "I don't even know who you are. What are you trying to hide?" Link was suspicious.

"Absolutely nothing! I'm not hiding anything." Tail was crying.

Link felt a little sorry for the fairy. But he was too curious to just let her go.

"If you're not hiding anything then I can just go in." he said.

Tail didn't answer. Link pushed open the big doors and walked in.

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