Chapter 1: The Adventure Begins!
Before I start, big thanks to my reviewer (grandshadowseal) for telling me what Sheik is wearing! I tried to look it up on the Zelda wiki, but I did not catch the word tabard anywhere! Thank you very much for that! And to answer your question in a way, I wont be hiding Dark from you, so don't worry.
And to my other reviewer(thesillygirl) thank you! A story with good grammar is hard to come by these days! ... though I feel even mine can have flaws, I will try not to disappoint!
Enjoy the read!
Link walked around in Hyrule Field, but felt... like he was being utterly useless. He had no idea what to do next! What was he supposed to do, ask the sky? And why was it, it turned blue when he walked away from Castle Town? He took a step towards the castle, skies are dark. He takes a step back, the sky is blue. He had done that for about five minutes, until Navi bonked him again for being too childish. Again.
Over the setting sun, he saw Lon Lon Ranch in the distance and hoped to see a familiar face that wasn't dead. The place looked pretty okay from where he stood, but who knows what could have happened at the ranch in those seven years?
"Link, how do you think Saria is doing?" Navi asked thoughtlessly. "She must be so worried after seven years."
Link felt astonished. He had forgotten about his childhood friend!
"Play her song, Link! See if she's okay!"
Link swatted her, getting annoyed with his partner. "Alright Navi, alright. Give me room."
Navi just huffed in impatient annoyance.
Delicately cradling the azul tool in his fingers, he faithfully trusted the legendary trinket once more. 'Saria... are you alright, my friend?'
'Oh Link! Thank goodness you're alright! I need your help! The Forest Temple called out to me and has been taken over by Ganon! Please come quickly!'
Link's eyes snapped open out if his trance. Blue eyes wide with fear. His best friend was in trouble! He needed to go save her!
"Link..." Navi said his name in a worried tone. "What's wrong?"
"Saria! Trouble! She's in the Forest Temple and it seems to have been conquered by Ganondorf! We need to go! Now!" He started running towards the Kokiri Forest.
A sudden strum of a luxurious lyre met their ears. "You will not make it inside, Hero."
Link turned around to see Sheik in a tree. "You!" He shouted. He found the sunset-orange made Sheik look very beautiful. His golden hair was... breathtaking as he stood in such a serene pose, with lyre in hand. The strumming was oddly soothing and made a piece of his resolve melted inside from the beautiful atmosphere.
"Did I not say I would be an ally?" He pointed towards Death Mountain. "Go to Kakariko and question the locals. You will find a tool that can help you into the Forest Temple. When you are done, meet me there, and I will give you something important."
Link nodded faithfully. "Okay... I trust you."
Navi fumed, turning red for a moment. "Link! We don't even know him!"
"I'll take my chances. Saria is in trouble. We can't waste time arguing!" Link said in urgency.
Navi stayed quiet. "... alright. For Saria."
Link smiled. "Thanks Navi."
Sheik turned away. "Go. Now. You have no time to waste." In a sudden flash of deku nuts, the sheikah had gone.
Link rubbed his eyes. "I wish he wouldn't do that..." After a moment to shake himself off the effects of the deku nuts, he turned to Kakariko Village for the answers. He would have loved for things to be a lot easier now. Adults must have had things easier for them than kids, right? Right!
Wrong!
"It was the ghost of Dampe! I swear!"
Dampe was dead!? Link never really knew the guy, but it was still... quite sad to know...
He coughed in his hand trying to get the attention of the men. "Excuse me, but-"
"You liar! Ghosts aren't real!"
Link had to roll his eyes at that one. If only they knew the kind of creatures that lived in Hyrule alongside them.
No matter how he tried get their attention, they just ignored him and kept bickering. It was quite annoying! How was anyone to get anything done around here?
"Come on, Link. They won't help." Navi said. "And my fairy intuition says to check out the graveyard."
Link sighed. "Oh, all right." He muttered. He didn't like the graveyard, but whatever. There must be a clue in there! Walking past the bickering brothers, he just minded his own little business. He had work to do, and nothing was going to stop him from saving Hyru-
A red haired women shoved an egg into his hands. "Congratulations! You're a mom!" She shouted at the top of her lungs, gaining the attention of a few villagers.
Link blinked a few times, digesting what he just heard. "E-excuse me?"
The woman giggled maniacally. "I bred the perfect, pocket-sized cuckoo! You are the one hundredth person to walk by me, so you get the honor of raising this egg!"
"But I can't be responsible for this... this... thing! I've never parented a thing in my life!" Link could see his life flash before his eyes. One day a free man, the next he was tied down to a child! Oh woe was him!
"Goodbye!" The women ran away shouting 'I'm free! I'm free!'.
Link stood there in disbelief, holding an egg. A tiny, little egg with gray speckles.
Navi flew to the egg and looked at it. "Oh... that was... interesting. I wonder why she wanted to get rid of it so bad?"
Link lifted the egg to his face to inspect. It was smaller than a breakfast egg, but still looked good enough to eat. But did he really want to eat it, after it was given to him? Or rather, forced on to him?
Navi bumped his head. "We'll think about what to do with it later! Lets go!"
Link swatted her, almost getting her that time. "Okay! Okay! Just let me... put this egg somewhere..." He stuffed the egg in his front pocket to deal with later. Now that... that... was out of the way, he could go on his way to the graveyard. Hopefully undisturbed this time.
High up-above, just out of sight, stood the Sheikah. His arms were crossed pensively. He wished to aid the hero in all he could do, but in the end, it remained the hero's job to do the bidding of the gods.
But would it hurt to assist the poor boy just a tiny little bit?
Sheik almost felt guilty! It was evident that Link was not a true full grown man. Instead of growing up into the Hero of Time, the sages got impatient and just pressed the forward button thinking nothing of the consequences. It was for the 'greater good' as they told him.
Sheik shook his head in despair. It truly made no difference. Ganondorf would have still conquered Hyrule, lives would still be lost, and he would still have to...
The red-eyed beauty sighed. In a way, The Sacred Realm trapped Link and took away his childhood, making him a prisoner of fate, but it also protected him from the evil unleashed upon the world. Perhaps locking Link away had both the good and bad, and he was over analyzing things. Again.
The first drop of rain.
He considered it an omen of ill fate. Just something in his sheikah blood that told him... something was going to go wrong...
Link slowly squinted his eyes. "... excuse me?"
Navi fluttered flustered. "I'm serious, Link! That's what it says!"
Link picked up the old journal and read it for himself. The old book was Dampe's when he was alive. They thought it would give them a clue where to look, but...
Whoever reads this, please enter my grave.
I will let you play with my stretching, shrinking keepsake.
I'll be waiting for you. OXOXO
-Dampe
"..." Link gently put down the book, very sophisticated like. His eyes snapped shut, delicately pressing his fingers on the edge of the cover and closed the book with an air of importance. He took a deep breath and opened his eyes at his fairy companion. "Navi... is it too late to get someone else to do this hero job?"
Navi met his air of restraint with her own. "... yes. yes it is."
"... fuck..."
Bubbles. Bubbles everywhere. Water moved, just simply coexisting with life. Simply coexisting... such was the life of a shadow. Water was a shadow, you know. A shadow of the sky. The moon was a shadow of the sun, only a follower, but was a being that existed on its own.
A bubble popped.
How sad. Now it was dead. A dead bubble. It didn't exist anymore, and if it didn't exist, then it was dead. Dead. Dead. Dead.
Did I mention it was dead?
It was fated to die at one point. Sometimes the master can be cruel enough to pop it itself, and laugh. Laugh like a child. As if playing god was a game. You put something in existence, then you take it right out. Funny. So, so funny. Hysterical. Maniacal.
You give something the right to live... then you take it away... or threaten to take it away... then you laugh. You laugh. Laugh. Laugh. Laugh.
Because laughing at those beneath you is funny. Funny. Funny. Funny.
And staying locked in a room makes you mad. Mad. Mad. Mad. MAD!
SPLASH! SPLOOSH! SPLARSH!
Oh. Does that last word exist? Well it does now.
An ethereal being sat against a depressing, withering tree. He was waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting.
And he was sick of it! Sick! Sick! Sick!
Red eyes twitched. He was hopeless. A wandering soul that wished to wander. He was stuck here. Stuck. Stuck. Stuck.
Oh, how he wanted to see the world. He had nothing better to do in this room. Aside from talking to himself... and sword fighting with invisible targets... and self exploration... lots and lots of self exploration.
Can you blame him? Stuck in a room for seven years, with nothing else to keep him company... or 'company'.
He wished he could die. He wanted to die. He didn't have a reason to live. Not like this. This. This. This.
This was nothing. This room was nothing. He was nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.
He attempted suicide. Ending his useless little life, but the master didn't like that. Not. At. All.
Ganondorf used his magic to bring him back. Back. To. Life.
His. Agonizing. Life.
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You see? I won't hide Dark from you guys! But I will be taking a bit of a different approach with him, in a way. As you can see, he isn't all there.
Don't forget to review! Oh and tell me what the cuckoos name should be when it hatches! I could name it, but I will pick at random from anyone who types a name with their review! And don't forget to tell me what part of the story you like!
