Sorry for the short Chapter but I had to remake this chapter when my flash drive broke and that has now refused to conect to a computer but I promise that the nest chapter will be longer ~ Animewar


Chapter 4

"Are you okay?" asked a young girl barely older than Link. With a closer look the fairy sees that she has long orange hair going to the small of her back and was wearing a white dress. Navi too scared to speak simply grabs her hand and starts to somehow drag her over to Link. When she sees Link she rushes over causing Navi to fall to the ground again, the young girl flips Link onto his back and checks his pulse and breathing sighing in relief as both are okay. She lifts Link up onto her back just as Navi arrives, "Don't worry my house is just over the next hill" she says the fairy as she grabs Links hat places on his head and falls back to sleep inside of it.

Ten minutes of walking later the young girl arrives at her house a large ranch with three major buildings that can be seen one being a large tower at the far side of the ranch, another two story building that is most likely the house, and another most likely being a storage area. Walking through the gate they get to the house. "Daddy I'm home!" she calls out and down from the stairs comes a larger man with a white shirt and overalls, with a full face and larger than normal nose, his dark brown hair is balding and he has a large mustache.

"Marron your home what took you?" He asks not noticing Link on her back.

"I found this boy out in the field unconscious." shifting Link slightly to a more comfortable position for her. Her father only then realizes the young boy on her back, quickly moving to her he swiftly picks him up and throws him over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.

"I'll take him to the guest room, you take a bath young lady before Indigo gets here to talk to you about playing out in the field." her father tells her, she huffs a bit muttering about "stupid, fun hating help." before the bathroom door closes.

Darkness is all he could see before flames erupt all around him casting light on to trees that were not their previously, searching around frantically for anyone only to fall through the floor as a mysterious laughter rings about.

Link stirs in his sleep before throwing the covers off his body with a scream, and panting realizing it was just a nightmare he's about to go back to sleep when a man enters the room with a tray of food in hand, Startling Link with how unnecessarily hard he opened the door. Link now fully awake he looks around the room seeing barren wooden walls, a simple dresser in the corner of the room, and a small night stand where his hat lays next to the bed. "Hello dear boy who are you this morning?" he asks

"Where am I?" Link manages to squeak out his throat dry from lack of water.

"Here you are." he says handing him a glass of water, Link takes it and downs half of it before sighing in satisfaction.

"You still haven't told me where I am." Link says

"Oh yes sorry about that young one, you are at Lon Lon Ranch, I am the owner Talon, my daughter Marron found you out in the field out cold, now would you mind telling me what you were doing out there without any sort of supervision?" Talon asks Link, as he sits in a nearby chair, but Link doesn't answer immediately instead choosing to look down at the covers sighing he looks back to Talon

"I was trying to get to Hyrule Castle from the Kokiri Forest." he says, Talon goes wide eyed at this as once the barriers were created the Hylians had no contact from any other the other races. it was only luck that the Castle and the Ranch were placed in the same barrier.

"And what do you plan to do when you get there?" Talon asks curious

"I -I…" But Link can't think of an answer as to why he sent himself out on this quest other than that he unlike the rest of the Kokiri would age.

"Well as I see it you only have one major option and that's to become an apprentice to someone whether they be a blacksmith or a merchant. Or another option would be to become a Hylian Knight." He says this gets Links attention,

"What's a Hylian Knight?" Link asks

"Yes I thought you might like that one." he says to himself, "Well the Hylian Knights are our military, the protectors of the peace of Hyrule and its citizens." All of what Link has learned starts to overwhelm him as Talon goes into other jobs within the Kingdom for what seems to be hours, but only being about thirty minutes.

"Can I have a few days to decide?" Link asks

"Take as much time as you need." Talon says standing back up, "Breakfast is ready so you can come down when you're ready."

When the door to the room closes Navi decides to reveal herself flying up to Link, "So what are you thinking about?" She asks sitting on his shoulder

"I just don't know what I want to do, I mean I knew I had to leave the village but I didn't think about what was out here before I left. And now that I do I just don't know."

"Don't worry Link everything will work out in the end you'll see." Navi says trying to reassure him but Link says nothing as he stands up and walks to the door. Opening it and heading out of the room he goes down the stairs and sees that Marron has just finished setting the table, with Talon already sitting at its head. Link slowly and awkwardly sits down to Talons left and stares at the food in front of him, and once Marron sits down the two start to eat. Halfway through his meal Talon notices that Link has yet to touch his food. "Well come on boy eat up." he says with a smile. Link snapping out in his daze picks up his utensils and starts to eat. The rest of the meal goes on in relative silence with only small talk between father and daughter occurring. The meal finished everyone retires to their rooms or temporary room in Links case.

The next morning comes with no nightmares much to Links relief as he is woken up by Talon early in the morning for breakfast. "So Link what are you plans now?" asks Talon having just finished his breakfast.

"I...I don't know sir I'm still thinking about everything you said last night."

"That's alright son, but I do have a proposition for you." Talon says

"A what?" asks Link unfamiliar with the word.

"A deal for you young lad."

"Okay so what is it?"

"If you are willing to work here at the ranch, you can spend all the time you need to, to figure out what to do with yourself, and we leave every month to the castle for milk delivery, so if you decide by then you can come along." Talon says to Link who is surprised out of his mind as he has had little experience with people mainly adults who would accept him in any way.

"T-thank you I appreciate it."

"Great now how about we get started then!" Talon practically shouts as he leads Link outside who only wonders what he's gotten himself into.