Chapter 1: the rising darkness:
The waves of the salty sea brushed against the sides of the ship as it sailed through the calm waters of the great sea, which was once known as Hyrule. The ship was made of a light oak coloured wood with sales that had a skull with two bones crossing over behind it. The sales marked the ship as a pirate ship although the in habitants of the ship were fairly kind, but still had the souls of true pirates. The ship consisted of 6 pirate crew mates, a pirate leader/princess and surprisingly, a hero.
On the deck of the ship a door that led toward the lower part of the ship was kicked open by a young girl that looked to be around the age 13 with a purple singlet with a navy-blue vest, a red scarf, a red sash tied around her waist, white shorts with tan skin and light blond hair put up in a bun with a cutlass at her side.
"Link!" shouted out the young girl with a scowl on her face. She turned toward the nest of the ship and shouted up to a man with a red bandanna, a blue striped shirt and brown pants with short brown hair with long side burns.
"Hey Zuko! Do you know where Link is?" Zuko turned toward his captain, telescope in hand.
"No, I don't miss Tetra, but Niko should know where he is." with a curt nod, Tetra turned on her heel and headed towards the starboard of the ship where another man wearing the same cloths as Zuko except his striped shirt and bandana were blue with greenish blond hair, whiskers on his face and with buck teeth. Niko was found seated in front of three barrels eating a mackerel. When he looked up he nearly choked on his food.
"C-captain! I-I uh," dropping the mackerel he quickly stood up and saluted,
Ï-I uh *ahem* is there something I can do for you captain?" Tetra eyed him and the mackerel with annoyance about the fact that Niko was lazing around while all the other crew mates were working, she sighed and decided to press on with more pressing matters.
"Do you know where link is? I need him to scrub the lower decks." Niko gulped before answering shakily.
"Ü-um w-well,"
"Come on, spit it out!"
"L-Link said he was going to go nap in the c-crew's quarters."
Tetra's eye twitched.
"In the crew's quarters, you say." Niko nodded meekly. With an annoyed huff, she turned around to go give Link a good scolding. Before she left, she looked back over her shoulder and said,
"Get back to work," and with that she turned towards the crew's quarters while Niko was scrambling with eating the rest of his mackerel and hurrying to his duties.
Meanwhile in the crew's quarters, a young boy at the age of 13 clad in a green tunic is there asleep on a hammock with his green floppy hat at his side revealing his golden tousles which were covering his bushy eyebrows. Link lays there asleep with a peaceful smile planted on his face as he dreamed about his grandma and sister on outset island. He managed to stay in contact with his family with the use of the pirate's charm he had received from Tetra. Link was then disturbed from his peaceful state as Tetra slammed the door open while calling out his name. with a groan, Link slowly opened his chocolate brown eyes to meet Tetra's bright blue ones.
"Oh, hey Tetra." Link said in between yawns. Tetra's eye had twitched again as she started to lose her temper. A shadow covered Tetra's eyes.
"Link?"
"Yeah?"
"Why the hell are you," Tetra looked up seething with rage, "taking a nap when you have work to do!" Tetra's yell seemed to snap Link out of his sleep filled state as he fell off the hammock, hitting his head on the hard, wooden floor in doing so. Tetra's hands were placed on her hips as she looked at Link expectantly. Link opened and closed his mouth trying to come up with an excuse, but when he didn't say anything, Tetra sighed while shaking her head. Then both she and Link heard Zuko call out.
"Land ho!" Tetra then got an idea for the perfect punishment for Link's slacking off. She turned towards him slowly with a creepy grin on her face. Link looked at her sceptically, not liking the look she had on her face.
"All right Link, as punishment for not doing your job, you are going to stay on the ship while Gonzo and I go to windfall to get more supplies." Tetra looked at Link smugly while Link looked as if someone told him Christmas was cancelled.
"B-b-but that's not fair!" link protested. Tetra turned around and headed toward the exit.
"Well, you shoulda done your work, but no, you decided taking a nap was more important than your job," she turned her head over her shoulder, "you will stay on the ship with the rest of the crew while Gonzo and I head to town for supplies and no complaining, got it?" Link looked down in defeat.
"Good! Now while we're gone, I want you to swap the lower deck like you were told to." And with that, Tetra had left the cabin and she and Gonzo had headed into windfall, but little did Link and Tetra know, there was about to be a big storm. Grumbling, Link got up and grabbed the mop and bucket from the corner of the room and started towards the lower deck. Just as Link was about to close the door of the cabin, an explosion could be heard just outside of windfall. Shocked, Link dropped the mop and bucket spilling its contents everywhere, Link hurried outside the cabin and onto the deck, but what he saw shocked him. Instead of the vast seas surrounding windfall, he saw land surrounding other islands that should be miles from windfall. Link then saw Niko run by, grabbing him he started to question Niko.
"Niko, what in the world is going on?!"
"Your guess is as good as mine!'' Suddenly the ship was knocked to the side and Link and Niko lost their footing. Niko successfully managed to grip onto something, Link unfortunately was not so lucky as the ship was knocked against the side by the new forming terrain which resulted in Link falling off the edge of the ship plunging towards the newly formed terrain. Just as he was about to reach the ground an oval like gate opened with ancient looking runes with a purple interior. As Link passed through this gate, he landed on a soft patch of grass before passing out.