Disclaimer: I don't own Zelda. Zelda belongs to whatever company made it.
Summary: Well I came up with this idea for a fic. Link is changing, pushing his friends away. All but one. One female friend. Yes this will be a romance fic. He's friend will help him change back.
Request: Please R&R or tell me if I shouldn't continue, maybe this is one of those poems that should be left as is. Each chapter will have one or two small poems. Anyways on to the fic.
Information: **- is thoughts
- is dreams
""- is talking (obviously)
~- means there is an author's note at the end of the chapter
@@- is flashbacks, which are from Link's P.O.V.
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Link sighed wearily and shut the leather bound book. There were bags under his eyes and he's legs screamed in protest as he got up. He placed the leather book on the bookshelf and walked over to his bed. He sat down on his bed and shut his eyes. For a fleeting second he felt better, almost back to his old self. It had been three weeks since Link had defeated Ganon and saved Hyrule. Although Zelda had sent him back to live his life normally he didn't feel he ever could. All the killing and fighting, it wasn't in his nature. He may not have been a Kokriri but he had been raised like one. He had been brought up to have their gentle nature. But he was suddenly thrust into a world where he, at least he felt, didn't belong. All too quickly he was summoned by the Great Deku tree and was forced to destroy the 'evil' inside. Link stopped thinking not wanting to recall the exact feeling of strange satisfactory of killing the giant spider Queen Ghoma. He shuddered as the familiar, yet unwanted, feeling of extreme power as he drove his sword into the spider's flesh flood through him. As soon as he had killed her he had tried to rid the feeling from him. But he was soon off to find the princess. What had made it 10 times worse was that Saria came and said good-bye…
@ Saria walked out from behind a post on the bridge.
"Oh you're leaving." She said.
It was meant to be said with surprise but I could tell that she knew it would happen. Obviously she could tell that I knew because she continued.
"I always knew you would, because you are different from everyone else."
She looked down with a sad look in her eyes tears threatening to fall. But she looked up at me smiling and even let out a small laugh.
"But that's ok because we'll still be friends, right?"
She then pulled out her fairy ocarina and held it out to me.
"Take this ocarina as a token of our friendship."
I took the ocarina and placed it within my pack.~
"I hope when you play my ocarina you will think of me."~
I slowly began to walk backwards towards the outside. I knew that if Saria found out about my strange feeing of satisfaction with killing the spider she would be ashamed. And Saria's opinion of me was important. But yet I walked away pretending as if nothing was different as if I was the same Link she had always known. But I wasn't, the old Link would have never have felt the way I did. And that made me sick to my stomach. @
Link awoke from his memories and began to descend from his tree house. He was going to meet Tara~ for lunch. He hoped she wasn't going to invite Mido because, even though they had been getting along on fairly good terms her didn't think he could deal with Mido today. Not with how he was feeling. Tara ran towards him giggling and carrying a huge picnic basket.
"Hi Link! Come on we have to hurry it will be dark soon." She said and she began running in the opposite direction. Link merely smiled and followed her.
She led him to the Lost Woods and from there the Sacred Meadow. Link did not want to go there. Not now, not with all the memories still so fresh in his mind. Fighting the Poes and Phantom Ganon. And having to go see Saria again both as a sage and when she taught him Saria's song. How he felt hiding the satisfaction of killing. It was barbaric and he shouldn't like it. But it was a way to relieve the pain of being thrown on that quest. Being the one everyone teased (mostly by Mido, actually only by Mido) because he didn't have a fairy. He had been the odd one out, and he found destroying this evil was a good way to get rid of the pain. *I took the pain from me and put it on someone else* Link shook his head realizing that Tara was looking at him strangely.
"Link is something wrong?" Tara asked concern evident in her eyes.
Link shook his head but quickly stopped as it hurt.
"No I'm fine, just a bit tired." Link yawned to get his point across.
Almost immediately Tara began packing up the lunch. Link gave her a puzzled look.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"If you're tired you should be in your tree house sleeping. You just saved Hyrule or goodness sakes! Don't you think you deserve a break?" She shook her finger at him and laughed.
Link grinned and shook his head laughing.
"All right I'll go home but only because you're making me!"
Tara stuck out her tongue and giggled. She sighed and they began walking to the exit.
"So how does it feel to be the 'hero of time'?" She asked.
"It feels the same as if I had just run 8 miles straight. It's tiring!" he replied.
Tara laughed and stopped at the entrance to his tree house.
"Well I'll see you later. And thanks for coming." Tara placed a quick kiss on his cheek and blushed madly.
"Yeah bye." Link said to her retreating back.
Link sighed. He liked Tara he really did but she wasn't...
"Link?"
Link turned around sword drawn. A nasty habit he had picked up on his quest. When in doubt draw your sword.
"Saria?" Link asked in disbelief.
There before him stood his friend Saria. She looked the same as normal except she was bathed in a green light. Probably because she was the sage of the forest. Or maybe he was so tired his eyes were playing tricks on him.
"Link, how are you?" She sounded the same. But Link wouldn't believe this was the same Saria.
Link nodded to show he was doing as well as any hero could be expected.
"Link I know some of the stuff you went through was terrible but you have to be strong for me, and for Hyrule. And for your friends."
"I am." Link said putting on a tough face and puffing out his chest.
Saria giggled and placed a hand over his heart.
"I know but I also know that you need time to heal. And you mustn't stop caring about this land or what you did to protect it while you do so. You were amazing and everyone thanks you. I know it was hard..."
"You have no idea how hard it was." Link interrupted bitterly his gaze cold and unforgiving.
"I'm trying." Saria replied. "Anyways I must go. I'll visit you soon."
With a flash of green light she disappeared.
Link grumbled and walked over to his bookshelf and grabbed the leather bound book, opening it to a new and empty page. He sat on his bed and pulled out a pen~ and began to write.
RosesBy: Link
The thorns of our mind,
The petals of our soul.
We walk down our paths,
Forgetting what we've been told.
Now that we've moved forward,
We refuse to look back.
Those thorn less roses in our souls,
Have become an ugly black.
Once all was pure,
Once all was free.
Now all is just,
A tainted figurine.
Link fell asleep with the book open in front of him. And once again his dreams were hunted and troubled...
Link turned around and saw Bongo Bongo's hands jumping around on the drum. He searched franticly for the lens of truth but he found he didn't have it.
"Looking for this?" A cruel voice asked from somewhere behind him.
Link drew his sword and spun around and came face to face with Ganandorf who was throwing his lens of truth up and then catching it. He smiled a cruel smile and then vanished.
Link turned to face Bongo Bongo. At least he thought he was facing it. Then suddenly...
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"
Link found himself being thrown forward by a sudden force. Link swore to himself as he realized what had happened. Bongo Bongo had snuck up behind him and thrown him. Not a difficult task considering he was invisible. Link did the only thing that made sense, he walked off the drum.
He hit the ground with a thud. But it was unnaturally hot where ever he had landed. He opened one eyes and saw that he was standing at the warp point in the Fire Temple~. Link again searched for his Fire Tunic but he found it didn't fit him, nor did it protect him from the immense heat. He began to feel light headed and sat down. Suddenly Ruto was in front of him offering him a hand up. He gladly took it and she showed him over to the edge of the platue. She told him to look down and he did. Suddenly she pushed him off. He tried to grab a hold of something but there wasn't anything there.
Then all he saw was blackness. *The hover boots!* Link searched but found they wouldn't fit either. *What's going on?!?!* Link hit the ground with a thud. He sat up slowly and opened his to see...
Link stood up shakily and looked around his room. He had fallen out of his bed. He glared around the room searching for signs of an intruder. He drew his sword as he heard rustling and someone climbing the ladder to his house. With his eyes narrowed Link walked towards the sound. He swung his sword at the intruder just far enough away to not hit them. He didn't care who they were they had no right to be in his house. Something inside of him told him to put the sword down. Link ignored this. That part of him was no longer calling the shots. He was alert and that meant having his sword. He knew that he shouldn't be doing this, but he also knew that people don't go through what he had and go back to being a trusting soul. He knew...
He would never be the same.
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A/N: ~ I'm not sure where Link kept all his items so I gave him a pack.
~ I know this isn't exactly how the conversation went. But I'm doing this from memory. I hope it was close though. :)
~ Tara is just one of the Kokriri children. She is the one that as a kid she's on top of the bridge, and as an adult she gives you the odd mushroom. She has blonde hair that's almost in two pigtails. I don't know what her name is or if she even had one so I named her Tara.
~ I have no idea what they write with in the game so I just used a pen.
~ The warp point is were you end up after playing the Bonloro of Fire
Anyways let me know what you think. Should I just leave this alone an make this another story, should I leave this alone and not even write this or should I continue??? And who do you think should be the friend to help him? Let me know. R&R pweeze!