In the clearing just outside Ordon sat three humble cottages. It had been six years since the tree house that used to stand there exploded. The people in Ordon heard the explosion, but when they got there there was there smoking ruin of the tree-house sitting on the scorched and shattered wood that used to be a hollowed-out tree. They found one survivor inside the house, who called himself Alexander, even though that was his middle name. He told them that four others were there at the time of the explosion as well, but no remains were found.

No one knows what happened to Link, Spencer, Midna or Andima.

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The door to the middle cottage opened, a teenager walking in. He had the mixed appearance of a human and a Twili, with Pale white and black skin, red Glyphs on his arms, but also brown eyes and shaggy hair. He was dressed in A pale tan tunic and boots, attire for traveling. He walked over to the kitchen counter, which had a backpack filled to the brim with food and a bedroll. beside the bag was a short iron sword. He tucked the sword into his belt and swung the backpack on, heading for the door. As he walked out he bumped into a woman.

"Darin! There you are!" Ilia greeted him. She had her short blond hair, blue eyes and usual Ordonian clothing on.

"Please don't try to stop me." Darin said to her, a pleading tone in his voice. Despite being twenty-three years younger, Darin was actually a bit taller than her.

Ilia ignored his request. "Don't go, Darin! It's your birthday! We can't have a party without you!"

"Mom- Ilia. I need to know what happened. At least give me that." Darin was determined.

"We don't know what happened! Just stay here, in the safety of Ordon!" Ilia insisted.

"It's been six years since my parents disappeared. I haven't seen them since..." Darin rose his right hand. "This happened." He let it fall to his side again.

"Dammit, Darin..." Ilia thought of what to say. "It's dangerous out there!" She pointed to the path leading into the woods. "What do you think would happen if you... if you..."

"Died?" Darin finished her sentence. "Then I guess I will have simply vanished. Like Father like Son." He said with a hint of sarcasm, gently pushing Ilia out of the way, who grabbed his tunic's sleeve.

"Please, Darin. Don't go. For me?" Ilia pleaded.

"I'm Fifteen. I'll be fine. I'll come back with everyone... or at least knowledge of what happened to them." Darin brushed her hand off him, then continued to the path into the wood.

Ilia called after him. "Where will you go?!"

Darin simply waved his hand, without turning around.

"What am I going to do with him..." Ilia quietly pondered for a moment, before walking sullenly back into the village.

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Darin stood before the path leading further into the woods, leaving Ordon springs. He'd never been beyond this point, always told that even with an adult it wasn't safe, with Bokoblins running about. He nervously took his short sword out of his belt, readying himself for battle before continuing through the tunnel.

The careful, nervous, and slow walk was disappointingly uneventful.

Darin looked down the final path he needed to follow to finally reach the huge Hyrule Fields his Father talked about. From there he wasn't sure where to go.

While Darin was standing there thinking, a short man with an Afro double the size of his head sneaked up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder. "Hey buddy, want-"

"AH!" Darin's knee-jerk reaction was to thrust his elbow behind him, hitting the poor man in the face and knocking him over.

"Ow! Kid, I was just trying to do business!" The man got up, rubbing his nose.

"Oh! Er.. Sorry! I am just a bit nervous." Darin apologized.

"I figured. Well... do you want a Lantern?" The man asked.

"What?" Darin just knocked this guy over. Now he's offering a Lantern.

"You know, the little metal-and-glass thing you use with oil and fire to make light?" The Lantern man said.

"I know that! But why are you creeping up on people?" Darin asked, "Is that broken?" He said, referring to the man's nose.

"Nothing a little ruby red won't fix." He pulled out a small bottle and took a gulp of the red goo inside. "Anyway, I sell Lanterns out here in these woods. However for a first time traveler like your self I'll give you one for free."

"How did you know this is my first?" Darin questioned his knowledge.

"No experienced cave crawler is that jumpy during a stroll in the woods." The man said. "Here." He passed an Oil-filled Lantern at Darin, who caught it. "It'll be good until the oil inside runs out."

"What then?" Darin asked, looking at the lamp, then looking towards the lantern man without moving his head.

"Well, I can sell you re-usable bottle full of Oil for one hundred Rupees." The man said, putting his hands in his pockets.

"Rupees! I KNEW I forgot something!" Darin face palmed.

"You didn't bring money?!" The man's jaw dropped. "You really are new. I'll hand this to you out of pity." He gave the bottle to Darin. "Now get out of here."

"Huh?" Darin raised his head at the sudden rudeness.

"I'm not terribly fond of people who break my nose."

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Darin finally saw the wide rolling Hyrule Field, the Castle in the distance. "I guess I know where I'm going. Ugh." He shifted his sore shoulder muscles. "Maybe I did pack too much..." He stopped to sit down on the grass of Hyrule Field and take off his pack. He looked around at the open Hyrule field. "I don't think I've been in such a huge open place before..." Darin murmured to himself. Behind him was the path back into Faron's woods. He sighed and opened his backpack. He pulled out his bedroll, ten pig sandwiches, and 2 large jugs of milk. He ran his fingers through his brown hair. "Hehe, I knew I over packed. I have enough food for two!"

A moment after saying that, He heard something rustling the bushes behind him. He turned around in time to see something pink duck below the bushes, and it move further into the forest. "Hey!" Darin got up and chased after them. He wanted to know why they were spying on him. Leaving his bag in the field, he dashed into the bush. Whoever it was, they were fast, only a little slower than Darin. Darin could hear them huffing and puffing, which abruptly stopped with a thump and a feminine yell that sounded like "Nyuu!"

When he caught up, he found an innocent looking girl sitting on the ground, facing him with a frightened look on her face. The Pink he had seen earlier was her long bright pink hair. Along with that anomaly, she had bright red eyes, and was dressed in pinkish red shirt and skirt. She appeared to be wearing a red apron above that as well. But what Darin noticed first were what looked like cat ears poking through her hair. Darin hadn't expected an encounter with such a innocent looking person. "Uhh... what were you doing spying on me?" He tried to sound manly and strong, but it came out a lot more nervous than manly.

"Nyuu?" The Girl simply said.

"I don't speak... whatever your speaking." Darin replied, scratching the back of his head. He took a couple steps towards her. She slid backwards slightly. She seemed as nervous than him, if not more so. "Oh, uhh..." Darin muttered. He crouched down, trying not to seem like a menacing person towering over her. "How'd you get here? You don't look like your from around here." Darin asked.

"Nyuu? Nyuu?" The Girl repeated the same thing.

"Can you at least tell me your name?" Darin asked, finding it odd all she says is 'Nyuu'.

"Nyuu!" The girl exclaimed happily, not seeming very nervous anymore.

"I guess I'll have to take that for an answer." Darin sighed. "I'm Darin. Are you hurt?"

Nyuu looked at her arms and legs, then caused Darin to raise an eyebrow by looking down her shirt. She shook her head and exclaimed "Nyuu!"

'I can't leave her alone like this...' Darin thought. "I can't believe I'm going to ask this." He sighed. "Do you want to come with me?"

At this, Nyuu, looked at him and exclaimed "YES!" Slightly startling him with her volume. She stood up, unintentionally giving Darin an up skirt view. He looked away, trying to respect her. He stood up, finding that she was actually slightly taller than him.

"We'd best be going then... hmm..." Curiosity got the better of Darin and he reached up and touched one the things sticking out of her hair. To his surprise, they felt much harder than he thought. Nyuu reached up and put a hand over his, a slight look of concern on her face, as if she thought he found something wrong. Darin's eyes widened a little, as when Nyuu pushed his hand down, he could feel the base of it. "It's coming right out of her skull!? Are these horns?" He thought.

"Nyuu?" Nyuu's inquiry snapped Darin out of it, and he pulled his hand back.

"Err... Nothing. Let's go." Darin turned around and began to backtrack to his pack, Nyuu following close behind.

When they left the forest's edge, the bag was gone, Leaving just the bedroll. "What?! I left it right here!" Darin ran over to the spot he left it, the grass still slightly depressed. "I can't believe I was stupid enough to leave it out in the open! Food in plain sight, no less! I'm just no good as a traveler... no wonder my parents never brought me along on their travels..." Darin held his head in his hands.

Nyuu leaned in front of him, trying to look at his face. "Nyuu?"

"Oh, uh... nothing." Darin lifted his head back up only to see her jogging off to the woods on the other side of the path. "Hey, where are you going!?" Darin called after her.

"Nyuu!" She kept jogging away, not even turning to look back.

"What the hell- oh." Darin said to himself, noticing the muddy tracks in the grass. He ran to catch up with Nyuu.

Nyuu ran into a clearing, Darin catching up only to see her hit in the head by a Bokoblin's club and fall to the ground. "Damn it!" He thought. He kept running to face the Bokoblin, but stopped a few feet away when he realized he'd foolishly left his weapons in his bag. "I just need to get past him..." Darin thought. This was not going to be an easy endeavor, as the Bokoblin's attention was fixed on him now. Darin tried stepping to the side, but the Bokoblin seemed as fast as him. "Why isn't he just charging at me?" Darin thought. "Ah!" He said as he remembered something his Dad taught him. He dashed to the side and rolled around the Bokoblin, sprinting to the bag to look for his short sword.

Inside the bag, it looked like the stupid Bokoblin unwrapped every sandwich, then poured all the milk in the bag, so Darin was having to dig in a messy slosh of mushy bread and milk. He gripped a wooden handle, just as he felt the great force of the Bokoblin's club against the back of his head. He lost the grip on the handle and fell down, turning his head slightly to see the Bokoblin ready to finish him. He accidentally pulled the bag over and spilled it in his direction, milk pouring onto the grass. "Now I understand why I was never brought on any adventures... I can't even protect a helpless girl for half an hour." He thought. Darin looked up at the Bokoblin, feeling confused. "Why isn't he moving?" Only the Bokoblin dropped his club did Darin noticed he was choking, but with no visible thing strangling him.

Darin's heart skipped a beat and his eyes widened as the same invisible force tore the Bokoblin's head right off his shoulders. The head fell to the ground, then something pulled the bleeding body backwards, making it fall over without crushing Darin. Less than two meters away Nyuu was standing there.

Darin had never seen anything so brutally killed, much less right before his eyes. It felt like his heart had dropped into his stomach, and his heart was pumping abnormally fast. "You... buh..." He got up, trembling somewhat. "How... what..." He stuttered.

"I just saved your life, Human." Nyuu said with a more grim voice.

Darin looked up. "You're talking!" He said with astonishment and confusion.

"What do you mean by-" Nyuu noticed Darin's pale white and black skin, and the red glowing markings on his arms. "You're not human."

"Uh... uhh..." Darin found it hard to think with a decapitated corpse in front of him. "Half."

"What?" Nyuu asked, interested.

"My father is- was human. He wasn't from around here, and my Mom wasn't either. You might say... I'm one of a kind. Whoa." Darin put a hand on his chest to find his heart beating so hard he felt it was going to bust out of his chest. He leaned on a nearby tree.

"A... one of a kind? You... you're just like..." Nyuu was the one surprised now, eyes widened.

A tingling on his right hand made Darin look down to see the Triforce of Power glowing. "You again..." He muttered. When he looked up, he gasped. He could see four six-feet-long translucent arms coming from Nyuu's back. "WHA- what are those?!" He rose a hand and pointed at one of them.

Nyuu's eyes widened even more, the hands retracting back into her. "You can see them!?" She asked, amazed. She noticed The gold Triangle glowing on his hand. "What is that on your hand?" She asked.

Darin felt light-headed. He glanced at his hand, then at Nyuu, then at the decapitated body. He mumbled "I... you... that... Uh... yeah..." before falling to the ground unconscious.