"Get you're fresh fish her" Shouted the portly marketer "fresh and lurvely"
Hyrule Market Town was bustling, hundreds of citizens buying what they needed then leaving, there was no room for idle chit chat. In all the hustle and bustle Link walked unnoticed through the back streets, he calmly strolled through the deserted part of overloaded town, the wind whistled as it funneled its way through the back alleys, it rushed through Links dirty blonde hair as he stood in the alleyway. His dull, dirty green tunic flapped in the breeze as he kept watch of the market patrons, making sure everyone was doing as they should be but everything was calm, it had been for years. His blue eyes once full of childish mischief and desire for adventure were now dull and listless scanned the busy market, he had never fully recovered since his exploit in Termina, time heals all wounds but in the seven years the things he saw and the strange nature of that land were still freshly burned into his mind and gave him restless sleeps every night. He turned about and walked back down the lane, the people of Hyrule just didn't care about him anymore and if he were to be honest to himself, he didn't care about them either.
Link walked out of the gate and across the drawbridge onto Hyrule field, the soft rolling landscape unfolded in front of him as he trekked across the field, past him farmers on horseback rode past driving their cattle to the market to sell, they didn't even exchange pleasantries to the one who saved their very existence. Link reached a large tree in the middle of the field, he quickly climbed it with ease his masterful athletic prowess making light work of it, sitting in the canopy he stared at the land he called home. Corrupt, ignorant, arrogant and irresponsible, Hyrule had faded, it was no longer the land of wonder, joy and adventure that Link had known in his childhood. The old royal family had moved into the west, unknowingly they had left the land to rot and die, now an old fat stupid king sat on the throne with no interest in the running the kingdom, slowly evil forces were crawling back into the world and the king did nothing apart from lay in his plush warm comfortable bed and eat atop the tallest tower of his castle. Link sat in the branchs of the mighty tree, he felt a tear come to his eye as he thought what Hyrule had become, his mind wandered throughout memories of his childhood, days in the Kokiri forest, the mindless joyful adventures, Zelda.
"Hey you" A voice shouted, Link startled almost fell from the branches, but he maintain his balance with his amazing athletic abilities. He looked downward at the source of the voice, at the base of the tree surrounded by four chain mail clad guards carrying spears was a small well dressed man.
"Hey you" The well dressed man repeated in his shrill nasal voice "this tree belongs to Lord Zunari of the manor, cease your activates or pay the consequences young boy!"
"The trees belong to everyone, you cannot own nature" Link shouted back, the guards and the well dressed man began to laugh hysterically.
" Stupid boy" The well dressed man laughed as he wiped a tear from his eye "everything is owned by someone now, those ancient concepts are long gone, pretty much wherever you go the land you are on has come out of some rich bureaucrats pocket book" he laughed even harder, Link scowled and climbed higher up the tree. The short man gestured in a sarcastic way for Link to come down, he mocked as Link shot him an angry glance. As he turned away he felt a sudden sharp sting in his behind, he screamed and fell from the tree landing hard on the ground, he heard the group of men laughing behind him. Link cringed and moved his hand to his backside, there he found an arrow sticking out of the left cheek, he clutched it and with one fluid motion he wrenched it out. He lay on his back and panted trying to overcome the pain he felt, he saw as he looked at the sky and bird flying overhead, it was beautiful a majestic eagle with a golden beak, but then it fell from the sky, an arrow sticking from its breast. One of the iron clad men walked over to this broken creature, slung his bow over his back and picked it up, stuffing it into his canvas pouch on his side with absolutely no dignity given to the creature.
Link turned onto his belly and pushed hard against against the ground with his palms forcing himself through the paint o a kneeling position, he felt a tear well up in his eye, but in his sadness he felt rage, he dug his hands into the soft grassy ground churning up the earth.
"You bastards" Link uttered under his breath, feeling his tears fall to the floor as he thought of what had happened to this land, the sheer contempt of the people for their mother hyrule.
"Speak up little boy" Mocked the well dressed man "If you want to say something to me at least make it so I can hear it" He proceeded to mock the green clad hero, he threw another pathetic and un-witty insult Links way, afterwards he congratulating himself and turned about to his soldiers for approval. Afew trophy laughs latter he turned back round to face front and saw a brown gloved fist heading straight for him. Link drove his fist solidly into the Well dressed mans face, his nose exploded with a burst of blood and the well dressed man fell to the ground with a thud nursing his nose. The iron clad men turned about their spears raised, Link tackled the one closest to him down with a shoulder barge, with a solid punch to the guards face Link turned about to the three remaining men. One un-shouldered their bow and loaded an arrow but before he had time to fire, Link swung a roundhouse kick into his gut, the solider fell backwards and attempted to crawl away but link delivered a hard kick to the abdomen and he stopped in his tracks. The third and final guard charged Link from behind with his spear, but Link instantly turned to face him, he saw the look of surprise and fear in the soldiers eyes as link drew his rusted dull blade from a hidden scabbard on his back, with one quick swinging motion he cleaved the guards spear in two. The guard turned about to face Link with a stunned look on his face, he stared blankly at the stump of a spear he was holding then looked back at the young warrior standing proudly and unyielding staring him down into oblivion. The chainmail clad warrior broke and fled he dashed across the landscape towards a rickety bridge across a river swelled to bursting, Link saw the danger and ran after him at full pelt.
"Stop, stop!" Link yelled at the top of his voice "That bridge could break any second" The soldier reached the bridge and stepped onto it, running three steps onto the weak rotting wood and his left leg plummeted straight through it. Link reached the bridge and dare not step on, the guard cried out for help and looked about seeing Link standing at the far side of the bridge.
"Help me, help me please" He said as he pulled himself onto the railing and looked at the raging water bellow him, Link just stood there. Link saw hanging from the guards belt was a canvas pouch stuffed to bursting with disgraced creatures, the glorious birds of Hyrule which were once respected and admired, now being treated with the respect someone would treat a pile of manure, Link felt the rage build inside of him. The rotting wooden railing gaveway and the guard began to plummet towards the raging waters bellow, Link reacted and dived quickly grabbing hold of the guards hand and holding him just above the water line, he gasped for air as the raging water tried to pull him down into the depths.
"Please, pull me up" The guard stuttered with a look of desperation in his eyes, Link looked silently at him as waves washed over the guard and each time he came up spluttering coughing up dirty river water. But Link didn't help him, he just stared into the guards eyes, drinking in the fear and inspiring even more into him. Link let his grip falter and the guards hand slipped from his, the last thing Link saw was the look of sheer terror on the guard's eyes as he was pulled under by the current. The poor man felt water fill his lungs as he was yanked under the raging river, he saw Link walk off the bridge and tried to curse him aloud but just more water flowed down his throat, he saw his life flash before his eyes, his wife, his children and all things he wanted to accomplish then he was taken by the river.