ENTER RAYLYN
As Etreyl glanced down at his hand, he noticed another glow in the room. Raylyn's hand was glowing with the second triforce: the triforce of wisdom! "R-raylyn y-you-your hand!" Raylyn smiled, pointing at Etreyl's hand while holding hers in the air. Etreyl was so confused, he almost forgot to notice the Happy Mask Salesman's hand glowing with the first triforce: the triforce of power. They both stopped and looked at the Happy Mask Salesman, as if waiting for an answer.
"You may now call me by my full name," Etreyl inched forward, as if challenging him on his rights to keep their powers a secret. "Oh, alright. These glowing triangles the back of our hands are the three pieces of the triforce. Etreyl is courage, I am power, and Raylyn is of wisdom. This means that you two are the most courageous and wise people out of everyone else." Etreyl gasped with shock, but Raylyn only stared at the triforce on her hand.
"Then you came here to trick us!" Etreyl shouted, readying his sword for battle.
"Kid, if I wanted to trick you, I would just take all of your triforce pieces right now and rule Hyrule forever! I needed to show you who you are… Raylyn, you are the-" "I know." They all stared at Raylyn, a look of unquestionable discreteness on her face, "I am the sage of wisdom, and my destiny is to assist my brother, the Hero of Courage, in setting order to the world." Etreyl backed away. He didn't know what to think of this.
"So you've figured it out? Anyways, I must be leaving. I only helped you get started. It is your destiny now to decide what else you are to achieve…" They all stared at Aleht until he finished, "Okay, fine! You have to locate the ocarina of time and magic flute. Raylyn will play the flute, Etreyl plays the ocarina. You will then know what to do next." Aleht once again vanished out of thin air, leaving a red cloud to take up his place.
"Master, I suggest that you use your triforce piece to warp you out of the dungeon. It can be used to teleport you to nearby places that you have already been to, as long as no one is in the spot that you entered," Etreyl paused, and focused on his hand. "Like this, brother!" Raylyn held up her arm as if she were blocking, and closed her eyes. Her hand began to glow, and soon she disappeared into a beam of light. Etreyl did the same. He focused on his triforce, and teleported out of the temple. For a moment, he felt weightless. That weightlessness ended when he reappeared at the temple entrance.
"So where is this temple?" Raylyn asked, turning to Etreyl. "I guess we should start at our house? What about those weird ruins that we pass by when we go searching for food in the morning?" Etreyl focused his triforce on the ruins, and shortly after, he was there. Raylyn came running to him from their backyard. "You *pant* know *pant* I'm not *pant* *pant* *pant*" Raylyn took a deep breath, and began to speak again, "You know I never went this far, so I couldn't come back!" Erteyl gave a nod of apology, and they headed into what appeared to be the entrance to an ancient ruin: maybe even a temple!
As they walked inside, they noticed that they had stumbled upon a maze. "Raylyn, stay behind me, I hear something!" Out of the shadows, an old man appeared. Etreyl raised his sword in defense, but the old man didn't even flinch.
"Why have you come here, young travelers?" Raylyn stepped forward, "We seek a flute and an ocarina," The old man twitched his mustache, and looked down at the ground for a moment.
"Ah, yes, the instruments that were sealed here long ago, within the sealed ground." Raylyn nodded, and the old mad went on; "To unlock the instruments of which were sealed, point skyward at the center and the barrier will yield." He pointed to the left side of the ruin, where the two instruments sat.
"Thank you!" Etreyl exclaimed. But before he could run up to them, Raylyn ran in front of him; "Stop it! He said something about a barrier… the center… Etreyl, he means the center of the sealed ground! Let's teleport!" They pointed their wrists toward each other and disappeared into a ray of light. In a matter of seconds, they were at the center of the sealed grounds. They could make out the shapes of Link and Zelda in the distance, petrified.
"Okay, what now?" Raylyn thought. She finally came up with an idea, "How about you point your sword skyward? What else would you point skyward?" As she finished her sentence, a low growl came from behind them. It appeared to be one of the forsaken that roamed the area. "I COULD'VE SWORN I TOLD YOU TO… GET OUT OF HERE!" Raylyn ran and hid behind Etreyl. He stood there, dazed with fear, until something came over him. He felt courageous and strong. He drew the Master Sword and struck the Forsaken with a mighty blow to the arm. It passed right through the misty black fog of a body that the Forsaken used to float. "THAT WILL NOT HURT ME!" Etreyl was about to strike again, when he noticed something: if they broke the seal, he should be destroyed too!
"Etreyl, try to break the seal! The Forsaken should-" "This time I'm one step ahead, sis!" Etreyl ran to the nearest wind geiser and rode the wind upward to the next level. The Forsaken that had been attacking them floated up to them. Suddenly, it's hand formed into a blade of dark crystal. It swung the blade at Etreyl, nearly hitting him. The blade scraped a plant on it's way past Etreyl, which withered away in a matter of seconds. "We can not let that thing touch us!" Raylyn was right. If the dark crystal touched them, they would be no better than the withered plant.
"Master, I suggest that you do point the Master Sword skyward. It holds a mystical power that draws energy from the sky that can defeat even the strongest of foes." Etreyl looked down at his sword, and then up at the Forsaken. "Do what she says, we have no other option!" The Forsaken obviously didn't want him to do as Raylyn had suggested, getting ready for a final attack. "Now, Etreyl!" Etreyl raised his sword to the sky- and like magic- it began to glow. It lit up with a powerful blue light that surged through the blade, then covering it completely.
"You get out of here…" With that, Etreyl slashed the sword downward onto the Forsaken, shooting a beam of light straight through it, causing it to vanish. The beam of light kept going until it hit the center of the sealed grounds and stayed there. It formed a glow around a rock. Then, the rock exploded, revealing a place for Etreyl to put his sword into. He raised it skyward once more, and threw his sword into it from above. They jumped down to see the seal evaporate from the air.
"I guess that makes it the unsealed grounds now!" Raylyn praised herself for her jokes, almost as much as her cuteness. Who would expect a seven year old to be the sage of wisdom?
"Let's not joke around. You almost got killed! Speaking of getting killed, Pa is gonna kill us for being late to getting home!" Raylyn frowned, but used her triforce to teleport back in front of their house. In a second, they were… home? This did not look like home to the eyes of the sage of wisdom. She stood there staring at the home that they used to know as their own. It felt strange, as if the thrill of adventure had flushed out the quiet comfort of their peaceful abode. As they walked in, they noticed that no one was home. There was a note on the table.
Dear hero,
Your family is safe, and they will not be harmed, as long as you bring us your Triforce piece. We know you have the triforce of courage, and we will do anything to get it. My name is General Glahrt, the head general of the G'lahrians. If you want to find your family, pay us a visit at the temple of song. You can find it-
Etreyl could not finish reading before Raylyn slashed the note in half with her sword and tore to pieces. Her usual calamity faded into a piercing rage. Without thinking, she activated her triforce and disappeared.
"Raylyn wait!" She did not listen. Etreyl grabbed onto her and was teleported with her to the ruins they had found the instruments in. "Raylyn stop it, we can get them back!"
Raylyn nodded, "I know, that's what I'm doing." She ran to the crevice that held the instruments, and grabbed the magic flute. The ocarina disappeared, and the crevice filled up with stones. On the wall was a message written in Hylian. It appeared to be instructions for a song. Raylyn teleported back to their home with Etreyl using her triforce.
"R-Raylyn, wait! We can find the temple just hold on it's not!" Raylyn covered motioned for silence. She had read and remembered the song that they found on the wall in the ruins. "I am going to make sure this never happens!" Etreyl tried to stop her, but he couldn't get his legs to move. Raylyn began to play a slow song on her flute. Suddenly, blue orbs began forming around her and glowing.
I am going to go back in time and make sure that our family is never lost! Raylyn's voice came not from her, but from the blue orbs that appeared. She began to fade, and Etreyl felt the world around him collapsing. But this is more than that… I need to make sure the prophecy is never started! Ahlet started this too soon. We were not meant to find the triforce for a long time. It's too hard to explain, I just have to do this! Etreyl felt the world finally give in, and he was sent through a vortex of darkness.
"Harrison, it's time for school!" Harrison woke up from a good night's sleep and hopped out of bed. He put on his school uniform and entered the bathroom.
"Another day another-" He was cut off by the sudden appearance of a boy about a year older than him in the room. He appeared to be 14 years of age, but was dressed in a strange green garment.
"Where am I?" The strange figure spoke, "My name is Etreyl, I just appeared here I don't know what's going on… What year is it?!" Harrison did not know what to say. "It's 2016, my name is Harrison, and your in Enola." He tried to inform Etreyl of how this world worked, but he just kept asking where Raylyn was. Suddenly, the bathroom door opened and a young girl entered. She appeared to be seven, had red red hair, and a red garment: possibly an adventurer's outfit like her brother's.
"The song Raylyn read on the stone tablet must have been the song of dimensions… Etreyl, we need to get to the temple of music! It resides within this parallel universe to ours known as Earth. In this universe, adventuring has long gone out of style. There are seven dimensions linked to it."
"That sword can talk?!" As if to answer his question, Fi appeared from the sword, nodded, and then went back. This was all overwhelming, but that wouldn't stop Harrison from helping his new friends. They snuck out and back into Harrison's room, but before Raylyn had entered, the door shut. A dark figure stood looming above Raylyn.
"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"
- Thanks for reading! This chapter actually took a while to make, as it has A LOT of crucial plot in it. A basic summary of what happened is that there was a puzzle for them to complete to get both the ocarina and the flute, but out of rage, Raylyn took the flute alone and played the song on the stone tablet next to it. She thought she could use it to reset the timeline, but instead transferred them to an alternate universe where Harrison (Me) is Etreyl, and Raylyn... NO SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 5! This chapter set the rising action into motion, and now the real story can finally begin. Chapter 5 will most likely not be this long, but it could be longer depending on how much info I need to cram into one chapter. As always, I'd like to thank you for your continuous support on the series and my fan fictions. See ya' next chapter!