Here we go! 2nd chapter of Reality of Time.
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Chapter 2: Truth of the Mind
Ivan glared at the kokiri bully in front of him. He felt a rush in his head and remembered all the times this boy had bullied him.
"Ow!" shouted the smaller Link as he fell into the mud. Mido and his bully friends smirked. "What was that for, you bully?!" shouted Link.
"That's for being a half kokiri and leeching off of our food, forest and shelter even though you're an outsider with no fairy!" said Mido. His two friends laughed. Link gritted his teeth and jumped at Mido. He tried to hit him but Mido's fairy flew in his face and blinded him with its light. He felt a shove from Mido and once again he was in the mud.
"Hey! That's two-on-one! Fight like a man and stop hiding behind your fairy, Mido!" shouted Link. Mido only smirked in response.
"My fairy's a part of me, just like my arms. It's completely fair. Just 'cause you're a half-person doesn't mean I should give you a handicap." said Mido as he walked away, laughing with his friends.
"Bastard." Link muttered under his breath.
Ivan blinked in surprise and wondered where that had come from. He remembered something that wasn't in the Zelda games. 'It must've been something that happened before Ocarina of Time started.' he thought.
"What do u want?" said Ivan. Mido wasn't smirking at Link or glaring at him or even paying any attention. The kokiri was frowning and mumbling to himself. Ivan goes forward to pass him and then he looks at the half-kokiri. He moves to stop him. "Get out of my way." said Ivan.
"I'm supposed to stop you...I think." said Mido. He was still frowning and was rubbing his forehead.
"What do you mean "you think" huh, Mido?" asked Ivan with a raised eyebrow.
"It's what Mido does in the game." said Mido. Ivan's eyes bulged.
"What do you mean 'game'?" asked Ivan. Mido frowned more.
"Never mind. You still can't pass."
"No wait! I think I know what you mean. This is a video game world right? The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for N64." I said. Mido gasped and then smiled.
"Finally! Someone who's from my home. So who are you???" asked Mido.
"I'm Ivan Vanhelm." Mido grinned wider.
"Ivan! Is that really you?! It's me, me Nik (pronounced Nick), Nik Johnson." said Mido.
"Really?! I can't believe it! You're here too! This is awesome!" said Ivan with a smile. Nik grinned.
"Man this is weird. I can't believe you-" started Nik but then Navi had had enough and she shouted
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO TALKING ABOUT?!?!?!?!" she shouted. She scared the crap out of Link (considering she was less than a foot away from his ear) and he jumped in shock, clutching his left ear. Nik, who was a little bit farther away cringed and said
"Damn. She's as loud as Christine." He ended with a snicker. Ivan, even from his position on the ground, couldn't help but snicker as well.
"Yea she was loud." said Ivan as he stood up and dusted himself off.
"Fine you kokiri stay in your little fantasy land. I on the other hand am going to take this boy to the Deku Tree." said Navi. She got behind Link and started shoving him to the hollow but Ivan winked at Nik and mouthed the words 'Be Mido'. Nik nodded and he stopped Link's progress by sticking out his arm.
"Sorry, you can't come pass without a sword and shield." said Nik. Ivan's head drooped.
"Oh...ok then. I'm going to go get one." said Ivan. He left with Navi silently fuming by his ear.
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Ivan climbed the ladder and walked along the narrow path overlooking the village. At the end he met a blond haired kokiri girl who smiled and said
"Hey Link. You're really brave to come up here like that."she said. Near her was a blue rupee. He picked it up and pocketed it.
He jumped down and this time rolled as he touched the ground so he felt no pain. He started running to the back of the kokiri village with Navi behind him. He came to the hole in the wall and crawled through. Just as he was about to just walk forward, he stopped himself.
'I have to be careful. This isn't a game where I lose some hearts and if I die I can continue. If I die...that's it. This rock could probably flatten me.' thought Ivan.
He waited until he heard the large, rolling rock and then he followed it. When he came to a gap where he could go out, he ran in and turned right. In front, at the end of the hall was a chest. He ran to it and opened it. He heard no sound and saw no light like the game. Just a sword (more like a large dagger) lying in the chest. He took it up and grinned.
"Awesome! The kokiri sword!" said Ivan. He picked it up and noticed a sheath onto a leather sash accompanied the sword. "Never saw this in the game." said Ivan. He strapped it on and sheathed the kokiri sword. He cheerfully ran out but forgot to check for the large, rolling boulder. Subsequently, aforementioned boulder was right behind him. He screamed and frantically ran away. When he had done several laps, he realized he could just go to the gap in which he found the sword. He leapt in and the boulder rolled harmlessly passed.
"And WHY couldn't you do that BEFORE the 7th lap?!" said Navi angrily. Ivan grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head.
"I kind of...um...forgot." he said. Navi huffed and said
"First you jump off a 10 ft ladder, then you don't go directly to the Deku Tree when he summoned you and THEN you almost got yourself killed by a rolling boulder. Would you please take responsibility into your hands for once!" shouted Navi. Ivan stood there and, without a word, he followed the boulder to the entrance and left the way he came. Navi flew behind him, giving him what he assumed to be a fairy glare. 'Geez she's just like my mother.' thought Ivan as he glanced at the annoying fairy out of the corner of his eye. 'Anyway I have to get forty rupees. I have 5 so that leaves...' Ivan counted off on his fingers. '35 to go...man, my math skills have seriously deteriorated. Maybe it's this new body or something.'
He searched around one of the small mini fields of dandelions and found 8 more rupees. Then he went to the small rock circle and saw a boy kokiri with long blonde hair over his eyes attempting to lift the rocks. He was pretty thin though and was unable to. Ivan went over to him and grinned.
"Hey Tori, want some help?" asked Ivan. Tori looked up at Ivan and smiled.
"Hey Link. How's it going?" he said, standing up and giving Ivan a high five. "Yea I could use some help." Ivan walked to a rock and hefted it up. Then, with a heave, he threw it and it shattered. Out of it popped a blue rupee and he handed it to Tori. Tori shook his head with a smile. "You can have it dude. You're the one who shattered the rock. Ivan smiled.
"Thanks." he said. He pocketed the rupee giving him a total of 18 rupees. Ivan broke more rocks and got a few green rupees and another blue one. He now had 30 rupees. "Yes! Only 10 more." said Ivan.
"10 more for what, Link?" asked Navi, she'd calmed down.
"I'm buying a Deku Shield." said Ivan.
"Is this really the time to play hero, Link?" asked Navi although she knew it was but did not know that the Link-that-wasn't-originally-Link knew as well. "If you really want rupees go, cut some grass. Rupees like to manifest in them." Ivan stopped and gave Navi a questioning raised eyebrow.
"What do you mean manifest?" he asked. Navi looked at Link and she said
"Don't you know how rupees get in grass and rocks and stuff?" when the young kokiri shook his head she muttered something unintelligible then said
"How do you think rupees get there? Someone goes around, putting them there???" Ivan thought about that and he realized he didn't know how rupees got in grass, rocks, etc. At first, it was because he was playing the game and it was a game so stuff like that happened. But now... "I can't believe you don't know. Anyway I'll tell you. From as long back as history goes, colored jewels, rupees, have manifested in convenient hiding places, like under shrubs , inside rocks, at the bottom of lakes, etc. No one is sure where rupees come from but it is assumed they are from the beginning of the world to remind the hylians of the goddesses, Din, Nayru and Farore, so that they won't lose faith. After a while, people started using them as currency and as long as they were widely accepted it was a relatively stable economic development. This economy happened about 200 years back and has been going on since." said Navi. Ivan looked enraptured. Now he knew where the rupees come from. It was an interesting story.
"They also, somehow, fit into any thing they are put in. Bags, pockets, chests and the like, up to the number of 1000. They weigh alot though so most kids your age can only carry about 200, teenagers 500 and adults 1000. If more were put in the pouch, bag, chest etc. would collapse and the rupees would tumble out and disappear after a few seconds and manifest somewhere else." finished Navi.
"Oh...so that's how it works." said Ivan with a contemplative look.
"Yea. Didn't the Deku Tree tell you this story already?"she asked. A rush of memories flooded Ivan's mind and he remembered the story. The Deku tree had given them all a purple rupee that day as a gift. 'Oh so now I remember the explanation.' thought Ivan.
"Yea he did but...I guess I blanked on that...damn! I just remembered I have a purple rupee in my house!" said Ivan. He dashed towards his hut in the trees and Navi followed him. He climbed the ladder, entered his house and he started digging through his trunk and he found the rupee and also...
"A slingshot?" said Ivan with a confused look. "And a bag of deku seeds?" Ivan held up the items in question. 'I was supposed to find this in the Deku Tree dungeon' thought Ivan. Again, a rush of memories filled his head and he remembered the hours he spent, carving the slingshot out of a particularly thick branch that had fallen off of the Deku Tree.
"Just...a...little...bit...more..." said the young kokiri outcast. He was in the lost woods and in his hands he had a small carving knife the deku tree had given him for his 8th birthday. In his hands he held a chunk of wood and he, along with the ground, was covered in wood chunks and wood shavings. The wood was shaped like a Y and the wood was pretty rough. Link was now peeling off the rough pieces and smoothing it over so that the wood would be smooth. "There, done!" he said holding up the smooth Y shaped piece of wood. He took one of the leather straps he had stolen...I mean, borrowed from Mido's boots and some sticky tree sap. He had soaked the leather straps in a mix of sap and water (to make them more elastic) and, using a leaf, he spread it onto the ends of the partially completed slingshot and wrapped the ends of the leather strap around the end of the carved wood so it formed a loop. He made a small fire using some rocks, some wood and the end of the knife and then he held the end of the slingshot above the fire so it dried quickly. Then he wrapped his last piece of stolen...hm,hm...borrowed leather and wrapped it around the center of the loop of leather for a slingshot pad and he dried that as well. Then he snuffed out the fire and held up his creation proudly. "Yes, awesome!" said Link with a grin and he took a rock off of the ground and fired at a tree a half a dozen yards away. It hit but then shattered into dust. "Hm...I need something stronger." said Link with a frown. He looked around and saw a deku seed hanging off of a tree branch. He pulled it off and put it in his slingshot. He pulled it back and then let go, the seed flying with a 'zing!!!' and it hit the tree, bouncing off (intact) leaving a bruise in the wood. "Yes! It works!" said the young Link and he plucked another seed off of a tree. He fired it at a high, hanging apple in a tree and it hit the branch, breaking it and dropping the apple. Link ran and caught it, biting into it with a satisfied smile. "I can't wait to show Saria!" said Link and then his smile turned into a grin when he thought of what he could do to Mido with the slingshot.
Another rush of memories came and Ivan remembered all the things he had done to Mido with his slingshot and he grinned but then it dropped into a confused frown.
' Well, this is weird. It seems there are some inconsistencies in the real Zelda world and the game Zelda world. I was supposed to find the slingshot and deku seeds in the deku tree but instead I remember...I mean Link remembers...carving it out of wood...anyway I'll ponder this later. Right now I have a shield to get and a curse to break.'
Ivan left his hut and, this time, carefully climbed down the ladder. He then looked around and saw the red roof of the kokiri shop. He ran to it and entered. He saw one of the smaller kokiris behind the counter. On the walls were arrows, deku seeds, deku sticks, deku nuts and deku shields. When the small kokiri saw Link coming to the counter, he smiled.
"Why hello Link. What brings you here?" he asked. Ivan grinned.
"I came to buy a Deku Shield Ovy." said Ivan and he laid his purple rupee onto the counter.
"Ok then." said the short kokiri. He took one of the wooden, spiral decorated shields off of the wall and handed it to Ivan, along with two blue rupees. "There you go Link. Your change and the shield."
"Thanks Ovy, see you later." said Ivan, leaving the store. He put his shield onto his back over the kokiri sword and sheath. He ran to the deku tree passage and, with a sly grin, Nik said
"Hey you can't come by without a shield and sword." Ivan turned and pointed to his back. Nik's eyes widened comically (and fakely) and he said
"What?! You have the kokiri sword and a deku shield. Fine you can pass." said Nik. He moved to the side and Ivan ran past him. As he ran Ivan saw a weird plant thing sprout from the ground.
"Careful Link. That's a deku baba. It might be rooted to the ground but if you get too close they'll ram you and/or bite you. If you block them then they will go straight and you can cut them for a deku stick. If you hit them while they are crouched you may get deku nuts. If you want I can fly by them and target them for you." said Navi.
"But you could get hurt." said Ivan with a frown.
"Don't worry fairies can't get hurt. We can get blown away or pushed away but we can't feel pain. So, in essence, we are immortal." said Navi. She flew to the head of the deku baba and Link found his eyes and body involuntarily shifting to look at her.
'So this is how L-targeting works.' thought Link as he drew his sword and shield. He ran to the Deku baba and it rammed against his shield. He stood his ground and the hostile plant was stuck vertically ramrod straight (for those who don't know vertical is up-to-down and horizontal is side to side so the baba was sent straight up to "stand" taller than Link. We humans stand vertically) Ivan jumped and slashed through the deku baba's neck. It made a dieing sound and fell sideways. Ivan waited but no deku stick was forthcoming.
"Where's the deku stick Navi?" asked Ivan as the fairy flew to him.
"It's the deku baba's stem. You have to cut off the head (that's the blue, globular shape) and peel away the outer layer and you're left with a hardy deku stick." said Navi.
"Oh." said Link. He cut off the head and put a few nicks in the outer layer. he peeled it and pulled out the center, a 4 foot deku stick. He put it in his pouch, surprised that it fit into the small inventory space. He went ahead and killed another deku baba. This time, it shrieked and withered into the ground. Out of the hole came a small plant bearing deku nuts. Ivan pocketed those as well and then he went into the deku tree's clearing. He gasped and looked up at the large,wise tree in front of him. The deku tree smiled, although it seemed pained, and he said
"Welcome...Ivan." Ivan looked up at the deku tree's face.
"You...you know who I am?" he said. The deku tree's branches shifted into what ,he assumed, was a nod.
"Yes I do. I sensed when you emerged into this world...now I must tell you why you are needed here." said the deku tree. Ivan sat down and nodded. "Now, listen, it is a tale that will change your perspective on a number of things."
Unbeknownst to the boy-now-turned-hylian, up in the sky a woman with a pink aura was watching him. She had long red hair arranged in a ponytail with a golden ring and had a golden ring around her wrists and neck. She wore a pink dress with triangle patterns on it and had red, slanted eyes, tanned, brown skin and pointed ears.
"It seems the hero is doing what he should. I just hope he has the courage to finish what he's started and what destiny intends for him." Next to the woman appeared another woman. This one had a blue aura and she had a light green dress with a purple skirt and had long, curly blue hair. Her skin was lighter than the other woman's and she had calm, knowledgeable blue eyes.
"Don't worry he will. I was observant in my decision and I believe he was the best they had to offer." said the blue aura lady.
"You are probably right. Now we need to continue the hunt." said the pink aura woman before they both vanished.
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And there we have it! Another chapter of Reality of Time done! I hope whoever is reading this reviews plz! The reviews keep me alive and considering I got a grand total of 0 reviews for the first chapter and 17 hits my confidence is a little down. (although I suspect the reason I got so little was because of the short first chapter) Anyway I hope you guys like this new3392 word chapter. PLZ REVIEW!!! I'm desperate! Really I am! And don't worry those women who you saw at the end (if you can't guess who they are you're a moron) will all be explained in time.