Zambose Presents
What Am I Doing? - Chap. 2
"I hate warping," Link thought as he warped to the Temple of Time using the song that Sheik taught him. He would have used Epona, but he had dropped her off to spend a few days with Malon while he was in the Water Temple, and he didn't want to disturb her. He appeared at the Temple of Time and felt an gash from the fight with Morpheel sting like nothing he had ever felt before. He collapsed, and Navi became concerned.
"Link!!" cried the fairy. "Link, are you ok?" He replied with a huge grunt of pain. "I knew I shouldn't have warped!" he said through gritted teeth. "Wait! Don't you have a potion of some kind in one of your bottles?" "Yeah, but it's blue, and I don't know what it does." "Well, it's our only option." Link took the potion and drank the entire bottle. A strange sensation came over him as he felt every wound healed, and even his magic abilities had been replenished.
Navi could see that Link was still in pain, but it wasn't the kind that could be healed with a potion. "Link, what's wrong? Does Sheik have you worked up that much?" "No," replied the hero. "No, I'm just thinking about Zelda. I just can't believe she's dead, like everyone says, but I saw her escape, and Impa would take care of her. I just wish I could see her again, you know?" "Yeah, I guess. A trip to the past will be good for you." Link brushed himself off and proceeded through the Door of Time.
Sheik was watching from the shadows during one of the rare
He walked up to the pedestal where the Master Sword once stood. He took off all of his equipment that would be too large for his child-self and placed them aside in a corner of the large room. "Take a good look Navi, cause this is the last time we'll be seeing this place." "What are you talking about? You haven't completed you quest!" "I wasn't planning on it." Link took the sword from it's sheath and inserted it into the stone. In a flash of bright blue light, he felt himself becoming younger by the second, until it all stopped. He looked around, and nothing seemed to have changed. "Navi?" he said. Upon saying this, he noticed his voice was higher, and he looked at himself to discover he had indeed become seven years younger.
"There, are you happy now?" Navi said. "Let's go do what Sheik said and come right back." Link sat down on the stone steps. "Navi, I don't want to go back. This is where I belong. At my home, with Saria and all my my other friends." "But, what happens when you grow older? You won't be accepted." "Then I'll go live at Lon Lon Ranch. Anything is better than that future." Without even putting on his child equipment, Link stepped out of the Temple of Time not into the dark, barren wasteland that was the future, but into the bright sunshine of the past.
Little did he know what the consequences of his actions would be.