Hero's of the Past, Bound by their Fate
The young man awoke lying on some grass and next to what looked like a hedge or a shrub of sorts. He started to sit up but a throbbing pain kept him down, almost as if he had been hit in the back of the head with a club. As he laid there he heard what sounded like footsteps on the grass behind the hedge, still in pain and as well as being a little dazed he quickly got on to his knees and then proceeded carefully look over hedge. He saw what looked like an armored guard with a long stick with a metal spear on its top, just standing there a couple of feet away. He instantly ducked behind the hedge as the guard started to quickly walk by the young man hiding behind the hedge. Where am I? the young man thought to himself. I don't remember ever being here before. Now that I think about it the last thing I remember being was…in that forest with that odd big stone door with the funny marking on it that somehow showed up on my hand as well. As the pain started to finally fade from his head, he looked around and studied his surroundings some more. He first noticed that he was sitting next to a rather tall unclimbable wall that seemed to almost touch the sky itself. And he as he looked up he noticed that the configuration at the top of the wall reminded of the castle that he heard of. Was it….Hyrule Castle? He could not remember for his life what that magical looking castle was called.
He continued to sit there and figure things about, as he did he heard a rustle from the bushes to his right. His head turned and he saw another young man…no, it was a boy tumble out of the bushes and run past him going deeper into the castle. But as the boy ran past him the young man put his hand out to stop him and ask him where his actually was, but upon doing so the boy ran through his hand kept running like the young man did not even exist. The young man withdrew his hand quickly, startled by this occurrence with a shocked surprised stricken look upon his face. It took a little bit of time for the young man to fully grasp what had just occurred. What had just happened right there? The young man thought to himself. He ran right through my hand, almost as his I don't even exist…as if I am a ghost. As he pondered these thoughts the guard that he had seen earlier came around the corner and the young man froze, not sure what to do. But to his surprise the guard just walked right by him and kept going. The young man was unsure why everyone that passed by him did not even seem to notice him, but that thought gave him an idea. The young man decided to stand up, realizing that from what he could tell he was none existent. He started to walk in the direction that he had seen the boy run in. As he followed he saw even more guards holding their spear sticks. The young man soon came upon a large arch shaped corridor, as he studied it his eyes fell upon something that made him stumble backward. The triangle shaped symbol, comprised of the three smaller triangular shaped symbols. Its here too? But why? What does this all mean? The young man asked himself. As he continued to stare at the triangle shaped symbol he noticed that this time around when the he looked at the triangular symbol the words that had formed before did not appear before him. The young man unable to figure anything more out decided to move on and walked through the archway corridor the stood before him.
As he walked through the corridor he heard a voice coming from further ahead, one that he did not recognize but at the same time felt like he had heard many times before. He soon exited the corridor to arrive in a circular garden type area, he noticed that there were flowers placed around the edge of the area. He began to walk into the center of the area looking around and as he looked he eyes came to rest on a pair of two people or more like children. He recognized one of them as the boy who had run right past and through him, but he could not completely recognize the girl that the boy was conversing with. But for some reason young man swore he had seen her somewhere before, it felt like all that had happened from the boy running past him and avoiding the guards to the boy talking to the girl was so…familiar. Like he had lived and seen this whole series of events before, almost as if this boy standing in front of him talking to the girl was actually him.
The young man walked closer to the boy and girl talking and stood there listening to what they had to say. As they talked the young man heard many things most of which was confusing, but as she continued several things caught the young mans attention. A temple that sounded vaguely familiar to the young man that the girl called it "The Temple of Time". Then she mentioned an objects that the young man had indeed heard about but only in story tails and read about in books, she called it the "Triforce". And the last thing he heard come out of her mouth was the object that the young man had been looking for before he had appeared in the strange place. The object that she mentioned was called "The Master Sword" and she then went on to tell the boy about what the Master Swords key purpose was as well as where it was located. As the young man continued to listen, he became more and more baffle and. from what he could understand this Master Sword was located within the Temple of Time and it was a "key" to keeping the object she called the Triforce from falling into the hands of any mortal man. The girl then motioned to the boy to look through the window that they had been standing next to and said that the man the boy was looking at threw the window was that of a mortal man who wished to seek and take the Triforce to use it to bring darkness and evil to Hyrule. The young man also looked threw the window to see what the girl was talking about and as he peered threw small window he saw what she talking about. Right inside the window was a rather tall man who started to kneel and then looked directly back at the two of them. Both the boy and the young man pulled away from the window. The girl then went on to tell the boy that this man was from the desert of the west and his name was Ganondorf. Within moments of the girl saying the mans name the young mans vision became rather and he began to feel dizzy and started to stumble. Soon he fell to the ground once more with a loud "thud" and became unconscious.
The young man awoke with his eyes closed, he felt like he was lying on a hard surface that was rather uncomfortable and it felt like solid rock with small piles of sand on top of the rocky surface. The young man laid there for a little bit trying to recall what had just happened from him waking up on the grassy ground to hearing the girl talking about the man named Ganondorf as well as the other three things that she mentioned. The Temple of Time, the Master Sword and the Triforce. What did it all mean? And why does it matter to me? The young man thought. He continued to lay there until he heard foot steps slowly approaching and the young man quickly opened his eyes to see the blue sky. He turned his head side to side to see where he exactly was, he was once again in a place that he did not recognize. He got to his knees then stood up and walked around, exploring his surroundings. He notice that he was inside what looked like a massive coliseum but with no place to sit down, then his looked towards the center of the chamber he was in and noticed a large rock held by heavy duty chains. And each chain was wrapped around one of many support columns that held up huge archways at the top of the coliseums walls. As he looked around he noticed the footsteps that he had heard just a few moments ago become louder and louder. He turned to see a young man about his same age and almost his same exact height too, walking up to a small platform that on it was perched what looked like a giant mirror but only one piece was placed within the frame that held it. As the other young man walked up to the frame and carefully placed one by one the three other pieces of the mirror that were missing. As the young man watched contently he became more and more confused and was completely clueless about what was going on. Not sure what else to do he stood there and watched as some very strange events occurred before his very eyes. As soon as the final piece of the mirror was placed back into the mirrors frame something formed from the young mans (who was still standing atop the platform) shadow. It looked like some sort….shadow creature? As soon as this "Shadow Creature" appeared the mirror started to shine brightly onto the chained rock. Something caught the young mans (who was standing opposite of the platform) eye, yet again the triangular shaped symbol appeared before him. But this time it formed on the chained rock and the triangular symbol was being projected onto the rock from the mirror. The young man standing opposite of the platform then heard the shadow create say to the other young man that it was time to travel back her realm that she seemed to call the "Twilight Realm". Upon these last two words a magical transparent staircase appeared before the two and as the moved up the staircase yet another platform appeared and then something happened that both men did not seem to expect. The shadow creature and the young man garbed in green turned into small flat blocks and then went zooming into chained stone rock. Where just seconds ago the shadow creature and the young man garbed in green once stood there was now nothing but empty space. The staircase and platform had also vanished as if it had never existed and all that remained was the mirror and the sand blowing in the gentle wind. The young man stood there along not really sure what to do completely mesmerized about what had just happened. But soon his unsureness was answered by a throbbing headache which became accompanied by the appearance of flashing images. The continued images to flash and then they all stopped to a screeching halt and the headache soon receded.
When the young man opened his eyes he was not in the large coliseum but in what looked like temple with light shining in from windows high about the temples floor. The young man completely unfamiliar with his surrounding walked around looking for a way out of the temple. But as soon as he found an exit, a familiar boy appeared and ran right through him, the same boy from before who had listened to the girl in the castle. The boy walked up to what looked like a stone alter with three small indents in it. The young man walked over to stand next to the boy who still did not seem realize that there was someone even standing next to him. The young man looked at some symbols and characters that looked like writing, but the young man was unable to understand the dialect because this writing seemed to be from ancient times possibly even a dead language for all the young man knew. The young man then looked up from the text and saw yet again the triangular symbol appear and yet again it was placed on a difference object. It was placed on a massive stone wall? No, it is a door, yes a door; thought the young man. The piece of stone had a shade of dark blue in it while the rest of the temple had stone marble with s shade of whitish-grey. The door was almost just as big as the stone that had been chained from the previous place the young man had been. As the young man looked away from the scripture and the giant stone door and refocused his attention the boy he saw as the boy pulled three small but beautiful gems from his pockets. One was a leafy green as if it had been grown in a forest, then a gem that looked like it had been created from that of the lava of Death Mountain itself and it shown of a pure red as if the there was still a fire blazing inside of it and the last gem he placed on the stone alter was a gem that had the color of the sky and the sea on a calm and cloudless day. After placing all three gems on the stone alter the boy pulled out a small object that his put to his lips and began to play a song that made young man feel as his was being sent to a different time era. But something amazing happened that stunned both of them. As the boy finished the final note of his song, the door with the triangular symbol on it ascended and vanished into a slot on the ceiling, revealing a second large room with steps leading up to a…well the boy and young man were not sure.
The boy then put away his musical instrument and walked around the stone alter and then entered the newly discovered room. The young man not sure what else to do he decided to follow the boy into the room, and he soon entered the room to see more high windows that were all shining their light on a single point in the room. The center. And in the center of the room was an object sitting there quite and contently, waiting there for someone to pull it from its resting place. To the young man the object looked like any old regular sword, but he soon heard a high pitch voice come from the boy general direction. Looked over to see what looked like….a fairy? The young man soon heard the fairy say to the boy that this object was the sacred and legendary Master Sword. The young man stood there his mouth agape not sure how else to react. The Master Sword? THE one and ONLY Master Sword?; the young man thought. That is the sword that I was looking for when this all started. Now is my chance, I have to pull it from the pedestal. The young man began to walk over the sacred artifact but then stopped and kicked his foot at the ground when he remembered that he would be unable to pull it because he was transparent and did not physically exist in this place. All the young man could do was stand there and watch as the boy pulled the Master Sword from the pedestal, but something that the young man was not expecting was that when the boy pulled the sword out a blinding light flashed. The young man covered his eyes the best he could but that did not help and soon all the young man could see was white.
Rubbing the blinding light from his eyes the young mans vision soon returned and the young man noticed that he was standing in the middle of a dense forest with high tall trees and lush green grass. The young man realizing this began to jump for joy because he was back in the forest that he had chopped his way through to reach. The young man suddenly stopped, no…something felt different about his forest, almost as if there was a presence among the trees. A presence that seemed out of place and not native to this forest. The young man soon heard the sound of footsteps crushing leafs underneath, the young man spun around to see yet another familiar face walk by him. It was the young man garbed in green that he had seen disappear and vanish into that large chained rock. But he seemed different then before, he wore a saddened expression instead of the joyful one he had had on before. Almost as if he had lost someone or something close to him. The young man followed him to large open area that looked like the ruins of any ancient old building. The young man continued to follow the young man garbed in green but he soon had to stop because he noticed something familiar about the ruins, there seemed to be pieces that looked exactly like the temple that the boy had pulled the Master Sword from its pedestal. The young man looked around a bit to realize that this was the temple that he had just been in, but it was in ruins. He came to a stunning conclusion that this was indeed the temple but it was the future version of it. He then looked around for the other young man who was garbed in green but he was gone. There was a slight sound from the back of the temple and the young man began to walk to the back area.
He passed two very tall stone statues that looked like they were hand made and that every detail was taken into consideration during there making. Walked passed and as he did so he felt like the statues where watching his every move. The young man then walked through a small doorway and then came to another large area. Standing in the middle of it was the young man garbed in green. The other young man standing behind him heard "clink" and then there was silence once more. The young man garbed in green turned around and then exited the area, the other young man watched him exit threw the only available exit and soon the sound of his footsteps vanished and all that could be heard was the sound of the birds and the rustle of the grass and leafs blowing in the wind. The young man then turned back sound to see what the source of the "clink" was and was astonished to see the Master Sword sitting once more in the pedestal awaiting for someone to pull it out. The young man then walked over and kneeled next to it to study all of its features. Once more not knowing what else to do, the young man put his hands around the main hilt of the sword and pulled. But to his surprise, the sword would not budge from his resting place. He pulled at hard as he possibly could but it was not use. He fell to the ground exhausted from his efforts to remove the sword and as he sat there on the grassy ground he heard two voices that boomed. You maybe be a hero young one; said the first voice. But you are not quite ready to take on the responsibility to be one; said the second voice. Not sleep! Your time with come when only the gods have chosen said both the voices. And once more the young man vision blurred, he then passed out on the grassy floor of the temples ruins.