The Legend of Zelda
The tale of Two Worlds
Again I don't own the legend of Zelda franchise. But I do play the games a lot. Except for the CDI versions because they were pieces of trash.
Chapter 2: The Return
The crew had arrived in a clearing just an hours walk from Hyrule just shy of Daybreak. By the looks of the place that they were in it was quite obvious that they were in a forest. And yet the forest felt as though it was alive with the echoes of the many sprites and an eerie tune playing in the air. It was an upbeat tune with a melody that entranced the senses and made the listener forget their worries and just dance for joy. Grady from behind his hood smiled.
It had been ten years since he had last heard this tune. To think that she kept her promise after all this time.
Flashback
" You just left for three years and didn't even say a thing to us and now you're leaving again? Why?"
" I'm sorry Saria but I just don't fit in. Whether it's here or in the vast land of Hyrule I really have no roots. I have no mother or father and all I know of my lineage is that I am Hylian to a certain point. I want to find myself." The person talking was a younger Grady. ( But in that time I was Link.)
He was talking to a girl who looked to be no more than ten with green hair and blue eyes. ( Oh Saria, if I could see you now I could tell you so much.) she stared at him with tears in her eyes. Those tears in her eyes were enough to break the stone heart of a killer. "Please Link. Don't go. We were all broken once you left the first time." ( Yes, I could see her slowly breaking even more so then.)
She slowly reached her hands to touch him but he knocked them away. And then he turned to her with more tears in his eyes and said, " Don't make this harder on me than it already is Saria. If I don't leave now then I will hate myself for it. ( And then I turned and ran.)"
She yelled after him, "I will play my song until the day you return."
" Don't bother."
End Flashback
And now here he was just a small ways away from the place where she played that song. He turned to his companions and said, "I have something to do. Would you guys mind going on without me?" Everyone shook their heads and Kaimetsu said, " Do what you have to do."He tilted his head and headed off in the direction of the Forest Temple.
He now stood in front of the steps just below the entrance of the Temple. He began to ascend them. With every step he made, the music got much more defined. And now he stood at the top of the steps and sure enough he saw a girl with green hair. She lowered her Ocarina and stared at Grady. She smiled and said, "Welcome home, Link."
Grady said, "Sorry but I lost that name five years ago. I am now called Grady, the Cold Heart." Saria looked confused. He then said, "I have taken a name that would be worthy of the deed I committed."
She looked at her old friend and asked, "What deed did you commit that was so heinous that it forced you to take a new name?" He just stared into her eyes. She gasped. "Did you kill someone?"
He nodded. "Yes I did. But that was not why I changed my name. I changed it because I enjoyed killing the person in question. Even though he himself was a murderer I killed him with as little remorse as he had with his victims. I then took his name as my own." He let a cruel chuckle escape his through a crack in his smile. "After all these years I guess that I enjoyed my new profession so much that it became second nature to me and now, I don't even care about it anymore. Do you think that I've become a monster?"
Saria stared at her old friend and smiled warmly. "Why would I think that? It was not long ago that we had to bloody hands as well so we know how you feel. We know that the guilt will consume some of us and make us killers while others go insane from the grief but it is all we have left since the Kokori Village burned."
"What did you say!" He was in shock at that last statement. But he recovered himself in a fit of rage. "When did this happen?"
She said, "About a year ago. Only the sprout survived along with me and Mido. And Link? We have changed though we do not show them. You will be the first to see us." He seemed perplexed as if she had given him a paradox to solve until he felt a hand on his shoulder.
He turned around and was facing a twenty year old man with long light red blond hair and light violet eyes. Behind him were a green fairy and a blue fairy. The blue fairy collided with his face and hugged it. "Hello Navi. It's been a long time. And who are you my good man?"
The man's fist made contact with Grady's face. "That was for forgetting me Link." Then he picked Grady up and hugged him. "Welcome home old friend."
" Mido?"
And then an adult feminine voice sounded behind him, "Yes." He then turned and saw that where Saria was sitting now held an older woman with longer hair than Saria's but was of the same color green. " The sprout took away our child like form's and gave the power to leave the forest. That's why we've been here. We wouldn't leave until you got here."
" And now that you're here we can leave. I really don't think Saria should have her child here as the blood might attract them."
" You are heavy with child Saria?" He then stared at her belly and noticed that it was swollen out. " Is it a boy or girl? Do you know? What are the names you decided to give it?"
"It is a girl who will be called Selena." Said Saria. "And she is due any day now."
"That aside Saria, We have to move quickly. They are approaching very quickly. "Said Mido.
Link then asked, "Who are 'They?'"
Mido answered, "You want the details then we will have to make it to the nearest military outpost and that is the camp which was once LonLon Ranch." Link simply nodded his head and followed them out of the clearing.