The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Future
Chapter 1
Link woke the sound of the spastic alarm clock and fell out. He looked towards the bright red lights that told him the time. 7:35. "Damn it!" he yelled and ran to pull on some clothes. Digging threw the laundry was never a fun chore of sorts but since he never did his, he had to. After finding a pair of pants that didn't smell too bad, he dashed into the kitchen and fixed up his favorite. Coco Puffs with chocolate milk.
After finishing, he threw it into the sink, packed his backpack and fell/ran down the stair and onto 85 St. The noise of New York City filled his ears, the street carts rolling by, the cars honking, and the subway screams coming up from the entrance underground. He turned towards the bus stop and started to walk.
A little bit about Link now. The reason he has the name "Link" is because his father was a video game ADDICT. He gave the name to his son during his Legend of Zelda phase in life. His mother wanted to name him David, after his grandfather, put his dad had already submitted the name. Link also had a strange mark on his left hand, three triangles forming one big triangle with a hollow triangle in the middle. His father had said that he had it when he was born, but his mother had said that his dad had given him the tattoo when he was 2. Since he lived with his mother, he believed her side of the story.
Link hadn't seen his dad in over 10 years. He had left when Link was six, and never came back. Sometimes his mother said that he had tried to call, but Link was never there in time to answer it. Not that he cared. A dad that left in his mind was useless.
So, as Link paid for the bus he didn't notice the strange man wearing the big overcoat. He had other things on his mind. The math test today, playing football after school and the loads of homework that would come after.
Little did he know that this day's plan would change in a way he would have never foreseen.
The school day went like every day before it. Get a bad test score, get yelled at by teacher. Do well in gym, get praised by teacher. The football practice went about the same well. Sitting on the bench and waiting to get in the game. He knew that his life sucked, but did it have to be this bad?
After football, he went to the bus station only to see that he had missed the 5 p.m. bus because of the game. Swearing under his breath he started the walk home. He didn't like walking. It took to long and why bother if you had a bus or a car to take? His mother loved to walk. She most likely was on the treadmill right now.
He stopped by the CVS store to pick up some gum. While paying, a man in a large overcoat bumped into him. "Sorry," the rough voice replied and the man walked out the door.
"1.25 please," said the cashier behind the desk, and Link reached into his back pocket for his wallet. Nothing. He looked out the door. The man in the overcoat was running down the street to the corner. "Hey!" he yelled and charged after him.
For a man in a huge overcoat he was fast. It almost looked as if he were gliding over the street, not hitting a single person. In fact, why wasn't anyone helping he catch the thief? Didn't they hear him yelling?
The man turned down an ally way behind the Wal-Mart. Link charged after him. Finally, not playing in the football game was paying off. If he had played he might not have had the energy to catch this guy.
The man now had run into a dead end. No one else was around. He was trapped. "Give me my wallet," Link said making sure that the man couldn't run past him. The man pulled out a round medallion, it was bright yellow. "Hey!" Link said, but a bright flash blocked his sight and then he felt a punch to the face. He hit the ground hard.
When Link woke, he was standing on a platform that looked just like the tattoo on his hand. Holding his head, he looked around. There were six other smaller platforms around him, each looking like a different colored medallion. Red, blue, green, purple and orange. And on the yellow one stood the man that had taken his wallet.
"Where am I?" he asked. His head was still pounding from the blow.
"You are in the Chamber of the Sages, inside the Temple of Light in the Sacred Realm," the man said. "And I am Rauru, the Sage of Light. Welcome, the Hero of Time Link!"