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Here's Chapter 2, enjoy!

Chapter 2: Welcome to HyTown

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"Ok, class! That's the bell!"

Nora Welcker, a girl with brown hair and blue eyes, gathered her things and put them in her backpack. Her teacher, Ms. Natalie Grace, was handing out their report cards as they left.

"Be sure to get your report cards signed!" said Ms. Grace. "It's ten extra credit points! Oh! Nora! Please stay after class."

Nora's heart sank. Several people snickered. Nora told her friend, Anna Zelen, to wait for her outside. Most of the class had left, so it was just Nora and her teacher.

Ms. Grace was one of her favorite teachers. She had light blue hair and blue eyes. She had said her hair was dyed but no one believed her. She was one of three sisters. Nora had a feeling about what she wanted to talk about.

She walked up to the desk. "Ma'am?"

Ms. Walker smiled. "Nora, there's no need to be worried. You're not in trouble, but... I did want to talk to you about your grades."

She showed Nora her grades. Two F's, a C-, one A and the rest were D's.

"You're doing well in Reading," continues Ms. Walker. "But the rest of the grades I'm really disappointed with." She paused then said, "Nora, I know what you're going through. But that's no excuse to not do well in school. I want you to try harder, ok?"

Nora stared at her. She felt like crying. But her teacher had a point. She nodded. "Ok, I'll try."

Ms. Grace dismissed her and she walked outside. Anna was leaning on a locker by the door. She had short light blond hair and blue eyes. "How did it go?" she asked.

"It went ok," Nora said. "Ms. Grace wanted to talk about my grades."

Anna shrugged. "Makes sense. But it's not your fault you're doing so badly!"

Nora doubted that. A few months ago, she found out she was adopted. Nora had been so upset that she let her grades drop. Her father was not pleased.

Anna and Nora walked out of the school. "Hey, you want to go play that new Zelda game?" Anna asked hopefully.

Nora wanted to. She loved the Legend of Zelda, it was her favorite videogame series. But her father, for some reason, forbid her from playing any of the games.

"Maybe some other time," Nora decided. "Dad would want to see my report card. Then he'll ground me for a month when he sees it."

Nora and Anna walked down their street. Nora's house was on the way to Anna's farm so they both walked home together.

They came up to Nora's house. It was the biggest on the street, if not the biggest house in the entire town. Anna wave goodbye to Nora and she sped off. Nora opened the front door and went inside. She could hear her father talking on the phone.

Her father, Justin Welcker, was the town's mayor. He was tall young man with long white hair and black eyes. He wore a black dress shirt with brown pants. He was talking on the phone, with who, Nora didn't know.

"Yes," said her father. "I want everything finished by the time I get back tomorrow, Caitlin! What? No! Of course I don't know! Goodbye!" He hung up. He smiled when he noticed Nora. "Hello, sweetie."

"H-Hi Dad," Nora smiled nervously.

Her father frowned. "What is it?"

"Uh..."

"Oh! You were supposed to get your report card today! Let me see it..."

Nora opened her bag and took out a folder. She found her report card and handed it to her father. Her father looked at it, then back at her. "What... is this?"

Nora gulped. "My report card."

"No, Nora," said her father angrily. "This is garbage!" He ripped the paper in half. "I am so disappointed in you. You're grounded. For a month!"

"A month?! Dad, no... I-I'll try harder! I'll —"

"No! Go to your room. Now!"

Nora ran out of the office. She threw open her door. Her room was big, but also kind of small. Her bed took up most of the room, a desk was by the window and dresser was by a closet. On a shelf was a small plushie of Toon Link. Nora went to her shelf and picked it up.

That's it she decided, I'm leaving!

Nora threw the plush in her backpack and gathered a few of her other things. With one more glance around her room, she opened the window and climbed down.

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It had only been an hour and Nora wanted to already go home. She was walking down Main Street looking at all the buildings. HyTown was a small town in Northern Los Angeles. It was in the mountains forty five minutes from the nearest big city. It was a strange town. No tourists ever came and nobody had ever left town, as far as Nora knew anyway. All in all, it was a weird but great place to live.

Nora looked up at the town hall's clock tower. Eight thirty. Always eight thirty. The clock's hands never moved. Nora wasn't even sure they ever moved. Her father said they broke years ago, but no one ever fixed them.

Nora made her way to the library. Caitlin, the librarian, was working there now. She would help her.

Nora opened the door and saw Caitlin at the front desk. "Nora!" she said. "There you are! What are you doing here?"

Caitlin was a nice woman. She had short blond hair and beautiful blue eyes. She wore a pink blouse with blue jeans.

"I'm just visiting," Nora lied.

Caitlin give her a look that said I don't trust you.

"Ok, fine!" Nora huffed. "I ran away! I had just about enough over there."

"That's still not an excuse to run away," Caitlin said. She sighed. "Come sit."

They sat down on a bench. Caitlin turned to her. "Nora, I know what you're going through. Every adopted kid goes through it. It will get better, I promise."

Nora wanted to argue but she didn't know what to say. Caitlin suddenly got a look on her face. "I want to show you something."

She got up and went over to the counter. Caitlin grabbed a large dark green book. She walked back to Nora and sit back down. "This morning, I was putting books away. I had to put a book away on a shelf when I noticed this book. It wasn't supposed to on that shelf. The shelf was for science studies. This book is fictional."

She handed the book to Nora. She opened the book. Nora noticed familiar words like: Hyrule, Ganon and Triforce.

"It's about... the Legend of Zelda?" she asked. "I didn't know there was such a book..."

"Me neither," said Caitlin. "I have never seen this book before. I know every book in this library. It was like... it was just there. Like magic."

"But... these are kind of like... uh? Legends? Fairy Tales maybe?"

"And what are legends, Nora?" Caitlin asked her. "Or Fairy Tales for that matter? They are stories that help us escape the real world. Do you know what I saw when I looked in the book?"

Nora shook her head.

"Hope," Caitlin whispered. "Believing in the possibility of a happy ending is a very powerful thing."

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Caitlin had left a while ago, leaving Nora to read the book. It was pretty good. It was different from anything she'd ever read.

It didn't follow any particular game, but it had characters and places from every Zelda game. It starts off with Link asleep (as usual) at his farm. His sister, Aryll, from Wind Waker, wakes him up and tells him there's a Knight Trail going on in Castletown. Link travels there and along the way he meets Shiek. At first, Nora thought that Sheik was Zelda in disguise like in Ocarina of Time. But apparently, they were two different people! Link and Sheik travel to the castle and Link gets chosen to be a knight.

While at the castle, Link and Zelda spend some time together. They even go on a few adventures throughout the kingdom. Eventually, Link and Zelda develop feeling for one another.

Months later, Link is sent on a quest to find the Master Sword. Princess Zelda feared that Ganondorf might try and attack the castle. After getting the sword, Link returns to the castle, but Ganondorf has it under his control. Impa sends Link to find the Six Sages of Hyrule to free the castle and the princess. When he returns to the castle, he battles Ganondorf and wins. Before Ganondorf disappears, he tells Link he has Zelda under a sleeping curse. Link travels with Navi (who he met on his quest) to Kokiri Forest. There, he wakes Zelda. Months later, they got married but unfortunately Ganondorf comes and tells them he plans to destroy their happiness... forever.

Link and Zelda travel to a distant land called Misthaven, where they meet Rumplestiltskin, the Dark One. He tells them that Ganondorf plans to cast a dark curse, his Dark Curse. The curse would take them all to a land without magic where they won't remember who they are. However, Link and Zelda's daughter, Charlotte would break the curse on her twenty sixth birthday. Months later, Charlotte is born the day the curse arrives. Link and Zelda send her though a wardrobe (like in Narina) away from the curse and Ganondorf. Link is killed while bringing her and Zelda finds his body. The curse then comes and... that's it. The End.

Nora hated that it ended on such a cliffhanger. She couldn't understand why something felt... off. She looked at the pictures. Link looked sort of familiar... She took out one of her school yearbooks (which was from a few years ago) that she brought from home and stopped at a page.

In the yearbook, was a picture of Lincoln Zelen, Anna's older brother. Nora looked back at the storybook. The Link in the book looked a lot like Lincoln. And his nickname was Link.

No way she thought.

Lincoln was Link. The Link! From the Legend of Zelda! Lucy looked back at Zelda then looked at Caitlin. She looked exactly like Zelda!

A sudden thought came to Nora.

The curse is real! she thought. Caitlin was Zelda, Lincoln was Link... but who was Charlotte?

At first, Nora thought that she was Charlotte. Then she realized something.

What if... Charlotte was Nora's mother?

She closed the book and got up.

She had to see Anna.

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Anna had been at home for a few hours when Lincoln called for her. She went outside and she spotted Lincoln, or Link.

Her older brother, Link, was a tall guy with messy blond hair and blue eyes. He was shirtless, do to it being very hot outside, and wore ripped jean shorts. Link had been working on the farm all day, he looked tried and worried.

"Link?" Anna asked. "What's up?"

"Is Nora with you, sis?" he asked wiping his forehead.

"Uh, no? Why?"

"Because she's missing, again," said a irritated voice behind her.

Anna turned and saw the mayor. He looked pretty mad. When the mayor was mad, that was never a good sign.

"Missing?" asked Anna.

"Yes," said the mayor. "Do you know where she is?"

Anna was quiet. Last she saw Nora was at her house. Nora must've shown her report card.

"Answer me!" the mayor shouted.

"Hey!" Link said angrily. "That's my sister! Show respect, she's only ten."

"Nora's eleven," said the mayor. "I shout at her all the time."

"Well you shouldn't," said Link though gritted teeth.

The mayor just shook his head. "Just. Find. Her." He turned around and walked off.

"Will do, Mr. Welcker!" Link shouted. "Jerk," he mumbled. He glanced back at Anna. "Are you sure you don't know where Nora is?"

"Positive," Anna answered. "Can I go see Jasper?"

"Sure. Just be back in an hour or two for dinner."

"Alright," Anna said. She ran towards the stables. "And put on a shirt, Link!"

Anna could hear him chucking as she made her way to the stables. Inside, she saw Jasper, Link's horse. She was a beautiful horse with light brown fur, brown eyes and a white mane of hair. Anna was just about to give her water, when she noticed her water bucket was full.

"Huh. Link must of done that," she said aloud.

"Actually... I did," a voice behind her said.

Anna turned and saw Nora. She had backpack on her shoulder and a large dark green book in her hands.

"Nora! Where have you been?! Your Dad's going crazy looking for you." She noticed the look on Nora's face. "What is it?"

Nora took a deep breath.

"I need to show you something."

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Anna was shocked when she heard what Nora said. It all sound like a coincidence. But the facts were there. Her brother and the Link from the book looked exactly alike. Caitlin and Zelda looked like twins. And Anna looked exactly like Aryll, Link's sister from Wind Waker.

"This is so weird!" Anna said giggling. "And you're sure Charlotte is your mom?"

Nora nodded. "One hundred percent sure."

Anna just then remembered something. "Follow me."

Nora followed Anna out of the stables. Anna guided her to her house. They tried to avoid Link all the way. It was easy though, Link was texting on his phone, probably to his girlfriend.

Anna and Nora finally made it to Anna's room. Anna sat at her desk and typed something on her computer. "Look at this."

Nora looked at the screen. The name Charlotte Jones was on the screen. This Charlotte was living in Los Angeles and according to Anna, she was found on the side of the road twenty six years ago. She was found just outside of town.

"I've been trying to locate your mother for awhile," admitted Anna. "This woman, I think, is definitely your mother."

"This is her," Nora decided. "It has to be. I'm going to go get her."

"Bring her here? To HyTown?" asked Anna.

"Yeah, I'll bring her here and she'll break the curse."

"Great," said Anna. "Let me pack a bag, I'll come with you."

"No!" Nora said suddenly. "You can't leave town."

"And why not?"

"No one has ever left town. No one. I think — no. Bad things will happen if you come with me."

"Like what?" asked Anna.

Nora thought for a moment. "Do you remember Mr. Lawson's accident?"

"Yeah, of course."

"He was trying to leave town. When he got close to the edge of town, his car began to act up. The sheriff found his car right into front of the Welcome sign."

Anna sighed. "Ok. You can go. I'll keep an eye on your Dad. But, Nora? You said Ganondorf casted the curse, right?"

"Yeah?"

"Then... why isn't he here?" Anna asked seriously. "There's no in town who looks like him. If he casted the curse then... why isn't he here?"

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