Gaiden: Link's chronicle

I, who hold this sword,

Protect you with it, that I swore,

I have met no sides,

In order to protect your life.

I want to see you once again,

With your smile regained,

With our souls attached,

Even if that leads me to being attacked.

What could I tell you that haven't already been told? No many new things in fact, the others already explained most of what you need to know. The only thing I can say is what the process was for me, what happened to me, and things about perspective and stuff.

I was one of the first to get out of the pool. The process was confusing as hell, when I was in there I already had conscious of my own existence, and I wasn't sure why I had existed in first place. Then I touched land alongside many others, like Fox, Donkey Kong, Samus, Zelda, Yoshi and Peach. We all talked about how we got out, and spent time together on monotony. Until Mario came; I think Mario's arrival was the thing that changed us for good, his appearance was the thing that changed our world for good. He was always trying to find new places, and looking to break the boundaries of our world. He was a whole explorer, any of us had that initiative to break the monotony as he had, it was like we all were pulled by strings, but Mario didn't. It was like nobody could control him, while the whole of us felt on the control of some kind of puppeteer. Mario was gradually changing it, especially after Luigi's death. And even if he didn't intended to it, he was the one who led us to rebellion, if he never appeared, I would have never been able to break through the monotony and I would have felt to human dominance for good. It was because of his existence that we all changed. And not only us; the newcomers changed too when they spent time with Mario. Sonic was a really close friend to him, he liked Mario's explorer attitude and they spent a lot of time together. I can guess that it was a low blow for Sonic when he found out that Mario would be his enemy.

I stared many times at the sky on the meadow, and I was amazed at how at times the knight could become purple and how dawn could show as a lime yellow sky, as the clouds marked the end of our world, like some kind of barrier. I wanted to reach that sky, I wanted to meet new boundaries and break them like Mario. Then, Zelda and Ganondorf came at the same time. Just seeing at her, I felt the obligation to bow at her. She always giggled when I did; I liked her laugh, it was innocent and pure. I felt like if I were made to adore and protect her. She would always spend a lot of time with me and she encouraged me to meet the world as Mario did. And so we started traveling through that world on our own. Despite I despise that world, most of my best memories are there, where Zelda and I happily chatted and spent time together. But those emotions were fabricated, and when I came to knew it, I just refused it. I'm giving a foreshadow and skipping some important details.

You already know about Lex and how he took Sonic with him. He was the first experiment, but not the only one. He traveled many times to our world in order to take us to it. We were afraid of doing so after seeing how Sonic became cold, silent and unhappy, but still curiosity led us to disaster.

Mario, Samus and Fox were being in suspension mode and they would be like that for almost three years. While they were being examination and used without them to know it, the whole of us were taken to the other world at different times. Rebellion came after the whole us met that world. My experience at it wasn't as bad like Sonic's, but it held a whole tragedy for me, that would lead me to an immense hatred to humans.

Zelda, Ganondorf and I were taken to the real world at the same time. We were amazed at how it looked like, it wasn't what we expected, so different from the meadow, the caverns and the forest. It was high tech world; as soon as we arrived there, millions of concepts stroke our minds, human's concepts. A lot of languages that we learned in less than a second, geographic orientation of the world, basic common sense, among many others. It took us several minutes to get off the scanner, the whole concepts were still spinning on our heads and I found kind of hard to breath. I looked at my body, I was still the same. I could draw bombs as usual; I still held my sword, as the boomerang and the bow. Zelda could still use her magic's powers, and so Ganondorf. A human led us to a new room, which was completely white.

There were couches there and we took a seat as we were indicated. The man sat on a chair and looked at us. I can't remember quite well what he looked like, but I was sure that he was young, and he had an annoying carefree look on his eyes. Tall and black haired, he seemed harmless, but in fact he wasn't.

He went straight into the topic with us.

"So you know" he told us "You hold a lot of memories, don't you?"

"Yes, we do" I answered "It was confusing, we just got out of a black water pool and then it was like I remembered everything"

"Oh, you weren't remembering" he told me smiling "That was an insertion"

"What do you mean?" Zelda asked confused.

"Your memories were all made by us"

Our eyes opened wide. Why were we told something like that? The man stared at us with ease as he lighted a cigarette. He seemed to be enjoying blowing our mind. He gave me the creep.

"In fact, you're nothing that a mere machine. Why am I telling you this? Well, I think at difference from Lex, that becoming one of you would be something of bad taste. You're going to accept what you are and you're going to help"

"What do you need us for?" Ganondorf and I stared at Zelda. She was taking it so easily "I'm sure we can help you"

"Yeah" he said smiling "You actually can. Would you allow us to make a little research on you?"

"No trouble at all"

"I'll be back in a minute"

The man got away, while Ganondorf and I stood up to confront Zelda. We wanted to know how she could be so calm after knowing something like that.

And she told us that if it wasn't for them, we would not exist in the first place. She grabbed my hand and she made an ocarina to appear. It was a blue ocarina; she gave Ganondorf a black one. She told us that if anything went wrong, we could use it to return to our world. I didn't know how she managed to make an item like that, but it was certainly useful at the time we were on a pinch.

The man came back to the room, with a gang of bad looking doctors and scientist. I felt the urge to draw my sword and slice them all, and so did Ganondorf felt, but Zelda wouldn't allow us to do something like that and she went with them. I still didn't understand her reasons, because they gave life to her? If that were to be the case, the whole concepts of parents and children would be that the children would gladly obey their parents even if they hurt them. We were not like that, both Ganondorf and I didn't want to think that our wholes lives were just a mere illusion made by them in order to have entertainment, or having us under control. I finally understood where the puppeteer strings came from.

We stayed in the room for hours, waiting for Zelda to come back, but they wouldn't bring her back. When we suddenly heard she screaming I knew I couldn't hold it any longer. I drew my sword and Ganondorf took the door down as we ran in the direction the scream came. We got to see how Zelda's body was being converted in a flow of electricity that got stored in a flask. I knew it, which was her soul. Both Ganondorf and I raged against them. I killed some men and as soon as I realized what I did, I felt on my knees feeling despair. Killing; I saw how the men in the floor were bleeding and I knew that they would not stand up again. That could have been me, I watched my sword full of blood, and I didn't hold any memory until then of me having spilled human blood. It was awful; it felt like if I ended with my life. While I remained in shock, Ganondorf broke the flask; we expected to see how the flow of energy returned to be our precious Zelda, but she didn't. The flow of energy just escaped through some cables. Were they planning this from all of us? Were they thinking on turning the whole of us into electricity for their batteries? My eyes burned, my mouth was dry. I would never see her again; never hear her laugh or her voice again. My hand became a fist that hold a blade filled in hatred. I swore to myself back on that world that I would never lose Zelda's smile. And back then I lost her whole.

I don't remember how many men I killed with my sword that day, but it was a crimson hell, ruled by my own hatred. We both got hit by bullets and Ganondorf drew us back to our home world with his ocarina. When I got back, I knew that I could not let the thing advance, I would avenge Zelda and I would take it on the whole humans.

I tried to warn the smashers to not believe their promises or what they said, but they ignored me and Ganondorf too. It took us two years, but finally the whole smashers were convinced by their own experiences to support us. Sonic and Roy gave us their support right away and we were ready to make the assault. Two years, almost three, I didn't went before, because I knew I had to be ready to strike them back with might, otherwise we could have been taken down by their weapons. I was surprised as how after killing all those men they didn't chase either Ganondorf, or me, that only meant they needed us or they wanted to use us alive really badly.

I was ready to lead them whole to the real world with the ocarina, but then we were stopped by Mario, Fox and Samus.

I pointed my sword at Mario and I was ready to slice him into two. So ironic, he led me to rebellion and he was my enemy back then. If it wasn't for him, I would probably have done the same as Zelda and let the humans use me as they pleased. It was because of him that I was alive, and now my blade would have to cut through him. I knew that now my blade was only meant to bring death. But we couldn't finish them, we were all sent to the real world by Ganondorf. The smashers were all separated and I found myself at would be Africa. People stared at me with terror as soldiers raised their guns to shot me. I didn't hesitate, I jumped and I sliced them with my sword when I landed on the ground. I ran away killing however who tried to mess with me, but I knew why I was really running. I was hopping to finally find Zelda; I was hopping that her flow of energy would be somewhere that I could find her.

It took me months, I arrived to Chile, my search for Zelda wasn't over, I wouldn't give up until I found her, I would walk searching for her until I died.

Then I got to know that a teenage boy held Mario's power. I didn't like that, so I decided to give him a lesson before I killed him. I would show him what's being in different realms that are nothing else than a mere lie and I would kill him afterward. Things didn't go according to plan, thanks to Pit interference. He was there apparently to help me, but I knew he was a traitor too. He was looking for the boys that got drew in my reality. He even managed to snatch my ocarina and then the red-haired boy that held Mario's power took it. I was furious at him and I knew that I would my end there.

"Is that all?" he asked me "Great, because it's night, I'm tired of games and I want to go to bed"

"So will you kill me?" I asked him. I could see the end coming.

"No" his answer made my eyes open wide. His comrades also stared at him "Do you have anywhere to stay?"

"I'm stray genius!" I shouted, what did he want to do?

"Good, you won't be anymore"

"What?" I and his comrades asked.

"I invite you to stay at my place for the time being"

That was the beginning of a new life and a new side for me. At first I didn't understand why he was offering me that, I wanted to get away from him, but at the same time I had no choice but to agree as he held the ocarina Zelda gave me. His comrades didn't seem happy with his decision, but he ignored the three of us, he was way too selfish and arrogant, he always wanted to have things his way. He led me back to his home where I was received by his mother and sister. I thought that world became crazy. Just a day ago, I was a killer who hated people, but these people were good with me, despite they knew I could kill them, despite they knew we were enemies. And at night I got to know, that the sweet girl Melanie held Zelda's form. I bowed at her and she made me promise to protect the girl. I swore it, because even though I held a grudge on humans, she was the only thing important to me, it may be due to my fakes memories, but fakes or not, they didn't change the way I felt. I always felt loyal to Zelda; I would be protecting her no matter the side she chose. Still, I couldn't say I was happy about it. But I was learning that there were as much good people as bad people. Now, Matthew should finish telling you about our story. I'll stop narrating here, but that doesn't mean I will end here.