Chapter 1: the dream!
Back in fairy forest Rorin
woke up in a cold sweat and screaming. He had had a horrible dream.
In it, his father was facing a huge mass of darkness, behind which
was a sick fairy that was barley able to fly and a beautiful woman
dressed in clothes fit for a queen. The woman was frozen inside a
grey crystal, and a strange configuration of three triangles, the
bottom-right one glowing brighter than the others, was on her hand.
A matching one was on Link's hand too, only it was the
bottom-left triangle that glowed. And to Rorin's horror, the darkness
then shifted into a human form with the top triangle glowing on his
hand.
Link rushed in yelling, wielding a blade that pulsed with
bright light. However, just before the was able to slam down on the
dark man yelled out some sort of ancient words which send Link flying
in to the air and slamming in to the ground some yards away. Then the
man spoke to Link "ha ha ha my my Link what's the matter can't
handle the new me" Link then finally got back up to his feet and
said "well it look like you have been training" the man
just
laughed at Link and said "no Link I'm not stronger then
I was but I have learned a few new thing" the man raised his
hand "Like this for instance... goda soren" Link put his
hand to his through and gasping for air looking like he was being
choked. The dark man then said with a laugh "what's a matter
Link did I take your breath away" the man then released Link
from the spell and Link dropped to his keens coughing and gasping for
breath. The man then walked over to Link "Link my boy your
weaker then I remember you being" Link lifted his head to say
"yea and your fatter then I remember Ganondork" Ganondorf
then reached down and gripped his hair to expose his neck and pulled
his sword from it holder and placed it right on his neck then said
"now now Link your in no place to be talking to be like that"
Ganondorf then pressed his sword into link's skin just anuf to draw
blood "you know Link I could just kill you here and now but I
got something worse in store for you o yes" and with that
Ganondorf hurled Link across the arena but stopped just before he hit
the ground "soren baca" Ganondorf said. Link then rise up
in to the air farther, his arms and legs where limp at his side's
"you won't get away with this Ganondorf" said Link but
Ganondorf just laugh and said " I already have Link... po ge
nat gen" a black mist then came from Ganondorf's open hands and
washed over Link as he screamed. As the Darkness overwhelmed him, the
triangle on Link's hand shot out right at where Rorin was watching,
slamming into him.
Remembering it Rorin shivered, and got up
slowly to talk to his mother. "Mom?" he asked hesitantly,
walking into the living room. His mother was pale, and sitting
heavily on a chair.
"You felt it too," Seleena stated,
not questioning. Rorin nodded and retold his dream to his mother.
Still pale Seleena leaned back in her chair "This confirms what
I've heard from the fairies. My husband, your father, is dead."
Tears
fell down Rorin's face even as he comprehended the consequences.
"That means... Ganondorf is going to take over?"
Seleena
nodded gravely. "He will... if no one opposes him. He possesses
all three pieces of the Triforce now."
"Triforce? Is
that the triangle things that was on Dad's hand?"
"Yes.
He had the Triforce of Courage. The Queen you saw was Zelda, the
Seventh Sage with the Triforce of Wisdom. And Ganondorf with the
Triforce of Power," Seleena explained.
Rorin was a smart
lad, and noticed that his mother said "had" instead of
"has". "But... if the other two pieces of the Triforce
still exist, then where's the Triforce of Courage now?"
Seleena
reached out and took Rorin's left hand and showed it to him,
revealing the same marking that Link had on the back of his hand.
"You have it my son."
Rorin stood in shock and
amazement as he stared at the glowing Triforce of courage embedded in
his hand. "B-but how? And why me?" asked Rorin in a
trembling voice.
"I don't know, my son, but the Triforce
of Courage has chosen you to be it's next carrier," said Seleena
in an odd voice that seemed to combine both awe and comfort.
Rorin's
eyes shot from his hand to his mothers face. "But this is
father's Triforce! It can't be mine now! It just can't!"
Rorin's eyes started to fill up with tears "He can't be dead, I
just know he isn't dead!"
Rorin pulled his hand back from
his mothers and ran outside, not heeding his mother's calls. He ran
into the forest as fast as he could, tears streaming down his face.
He ran deeper and deeper in to the forest until he tripped on a root
and fell down. Rorin got up to his knees. "Why is this happing
to me!" yelled Rorin with every ounce of lung power he had
before falling on the floor, tears dripping onto the ground. "I'm
not brave like my father… I'm nothing like him…" he
whispered brokenly.
Suddenly, a yell rang throughout the woods.
Rorin's sharp ears determined that the sound came from the north.
"What now?!" Ronin picked up his head to see three wolves
chasing a fairy, and they were gaining ground. The fairy's wings
were starting to slow down, an obvious sign of exhaustion. Rorin
paled, forgetting about his problems for the moment in light of
something he could actually do something about. "Oh no I need to
save it! Hold on!" Rorin quickly pulled himself up and drew his
wooden sword.
"Help me!" screamed the fairy as it
zoomed up to Rorin head, seeing the possibility of salvation. "Save
me those wolves! They want to eat me!" said the fairy in a
panic-stricken voice.
Well, duh, Rorin thought to himself. It was
kind of obvious, in his opinion. "Don't worry I'll save you…
I think," he finished as one of the wolves tried to jump at
Rorin. Rorin merely side stepped it and swung hard with his wooden
sword that he always wore, landing a blow with a painful-sounding
"thwack!" in the head, effectively knocking it out. Rorin didn't
envy the wolf the headache it'd have when he woke up.
The fairy
seemed rather impressed. "Nice shot... but look out!" The
second wolf, seeing the first's defeat, howled and tried to avenge
his pack, lunging for Rorin, but this time, the young hero was ready.
The last wolf, rather scared now that neither of his comrades had
landed a single scratch on this strange human, ran away as fast as he
his legs could go to save himself. Rorin smirked. "Yeah, that's
it, run you coward!" Rorin looked up to see the fairy bobbing up
and down on his head. After a couple of bounces, Rorin rolled his
eyes. "You can quit that now."
"Oh… sorry,"
the fairy apologized as he jumped off, landing daintily on a log
nearby. "Thanks for saving me."
"No problem,
uum..." Rorin suddenly realized he didn't recognize this
fairy, and that was a little uncommon, as most of the fairies that
lived in this forest had been around his home several times. "Um…
sorry, but I don't think I know you."
The fairy let out a
sound that Rorin had long since learned meant happiness. "Name's
Pyre. So, what's the name of the guy who just saved me?"
"Me?
My name's Rorin."
Pyre quickly flew up directly into
Rorins face. "Say what?! You're Rorin, son of Link the Hero of
Time?" he shouted.
Rorin's happy face fell into sadness.
"Yeah. Did you know my father?"
"Know him! He
saved me just like you just did," said Pyre matter-of-factly.
"He saved me from some Moblins about seven days ago."
Rorin let out a chuckle. "You certainly need a lot of saving,
don't you?" he said before his face returned to sorrow. "Yeah,
that's my dad… always saving people… but now he won't be
saving anyone anymore." Tears once again leaked from Rorins eyes
"Eh? What? What are you talking about? Is he ok?" Rorin sat
down next to Pyre on the log, attempting to dry his eyes. He told
Pyre about his vision of Link's battle with Ganondorf, and the
ultimate downfall of the Hero of Time. Then he showed the Triforce of
Courage on his hand to prove it.
Pyre's wings stopped working
from shock, and he fell to the ground, shivering. "How is this
possible?" he yelled, flying back up to Rorin's face so fast
that the young boy almost fell over. "How could the greatest
hero of all fall by the hand of some stupid evil guy, even if he has
the Triforce of Power?"
Rorin hung his head. "I don't
know… I always thought Dad was invincible."
Pyre let out a
small sigh, falling a few inches. "Well, if you've got the
Triforce of Courage now, then that means it's up to you to succeed
and avenge your dad."
Rorin let out a mirthless laugh that
sounded as if it belonged to an old man, not this young boy. "Looks
like the world's screwed then. I have no idea what to do, and now
that I think about it, I'm lost!"
Pyre floated back up to
Rorin "You're lost? Well, ain't that a kick in the pants."
Rorin shrugged. "I don't know this part of the forest very
well. Dad only took me once through here."
"Well, then,
you're in luck!" Pyre said cheerfully. "I know this place like
the back of my hand! Or rather, if I had one, I would know it… oh,
forget it! You know what I meant," Pyre finished, flustered.
"Thanks, Pyre, you're a life saver," Rorin said
gratefully.
"Not as much as you are, Rorin," Pyre said
casually. "And certainly not as much as you'll become once I'm
through with you. Come on, before any wolf comes and tries to eat me
again."
So Rorin set off with Pyre hovering above his
shoulders unknowing of the pair of eyes that slowly tracked his
movements in the
forest.
