Just saying, Doesn't belong to me!
Left alone at the door step of complete strangers Link has little choice but to knock on the door, since it was getting darker by the moment and he was still just as ever terrified by Wolfos.
He knocked once and waited about a minute, then knocked again. "Oh great, I bet they are asleep already and I am surely too big to fit underneath bushes now" he thought. Then just as he was about to give up and walk back down the hill, he heard someone approach the door.
The man that answered the door was a big man, "Can I help you?" he asked. Link, not sure of what to really say just asked for something to drink,
The man said, "Sure, come on in and make yourself at home." he offered.
The house was alive with cuckoo's all over the place. Link had never seen such a sight in his life.
The man returned instantly with a glass of something white. "What's that?" asked Link.
The man let out a tremendous laugh thinking that Link was only joking but when he saw the look on his face, he knew he was serious. "Why you haven't heard of milk, boy?" Link shuddered when he heard that man call him 'boy'.
The man crossed his arms and said, "You aren't from around here, are you?" handing Link the milk bottle. "No sir" Link replied. "I'm from the forest to the south."
The man raised an eyebrow knowing Link was too big to be Kokiri. The man said, "well it looks like you have a strong back, and I need some work done around the farm. So if you don't mind to work I have an extra room that you can stay in."
Links eyes lit up "Sure I'll be happy to work!"
The man walked Link to a room to the back of the barn with the cows and said "It's not much but I'm sure it's better than that forest." Link looked kind of disappointed but anything was better than being out with Wolfos. The man said his name is talon and he begins work tomorrow.
Link fell asleep thinking being a farms hand would be the easiest job in the world, but Link has never been on a farm in his life.
The next day Talon woke up before the sun even rose. He handed him a list 'Clean pig pen, feed cuckoo's, shovel cow manure, make milk run at Kakariko Village, etc.' Link almost drop the list out of his hand when he saw everything he had to do.
It was about noon and he was about to make the milk run to Kakariko when Talon introduced Link to his daughter, Malon. She was about Link's age and about the same size of Link. He was happy to see that he wasn't as different as he thought. "Hey boy, this is my lovely daughter Malon. She is going to introduce you to her favorite pony, Epona."
Link hadn't seen horses since he was a small child and his father had traded for one. Of course he had never ridden on one either, since he was much too small at the time.
"Hi grasshopper! My father tells me that you came from the forest village and you are going to be staying with us for a while" she said with a really high pitch voice. Link had never heard a voice with such pitch, it was almost enough to give him a head ache.
"Yea, I am going to be your farm hand, it looks like you guys need help around here" Link said without much cheer in his voice, the farm seemed like it hadn't had any help in years. There was another farm hand but he was about as useless as it gets.
Malon grabbed Links hand and pulled him toward the stables where they kept the horses. Epona was the smallest of them, so he assumed that is why she was the favorite. "If you want to ride you must do this" Malon said as she put her fingers between her lips and made a noise.
She whistled a melody, and Link wasn't exactly sure how she did it, but it was a pretty tune and Epona came running toward them instantly.
It didn't take long for Link to learn to ride Epona and once he got good enough at it, he no longer had to make the milk run to Kakariko by foot which meant he could get more work done in a day.
Things went on like that for Link. He learned the way of life and got used to it, and life went on as it always did for Link. Each year he would grow and get older and he would change just as Navi had told him. Talon and Malon treated him like family and Link was as happy as he could remember.
One day Talon did not return from his usual milk run to Hyrule Castle which had never happened before.
"Link!" Malon shouted across the farm "Please hurry Link!" so Link whistled the Epona melody and quickly shot across the farm for Malon.
"Oh Link, father has not returned from Hyrule Castle. I'm scared Link, won't you go check on him for me." She pleaded with Link as she batted her eyes at him.
Link knew that Talon must be asleep; he has been getting worse about sleeping on the farm so sleeping on a milk run wouldn't surprise him. Talon must have forgotten to set his mini cuckoo to wake him up.
"Okay Malon I'll go check on him" said Link. He had been to Castle Town a hundred times but never got to go on the castle run with Talon so he was somewhat excited to get to see the inside of the castle walls.
As he approached the gates, he noticed guards all over the place.
'Damnit' he thought. 'what am I supposed to do about these guards' as he looked around, he noticed the hillside around him and a path that lead over the guards.
He climbed the vines and made his way toward the castle and on his way he noticed a young woman sitting underneath a tree. He could not keep his eyes off her, and next thing he knew he heard a whistle. "Stop right there! Intruder!"
The young woman looked up and noticed Link running from two of the palace guards that were trying very hard to keep up, but Link was in excellent shape from working on the farm so many years and the guards were somewhat sedentary in their line of work.
"What's the matter guys, can't keep up?" Link cockily said as he ran toward the castle moat.
Just as he thought he had escaped the guards he feels something pull him to the ground. Apparently they had a new recruit who was actually in shape. "Think you can just come right on into the castle like you own the place huh kid?" The guard said as he panted and lifted Link to his feet.
