Ok, I was sick of having those horrible first two chapters, so I decided to rewrite them! It took longer than I wanted, but It came out way better than I though (Or at least I thought it came out good) 14 pages on a word document, and 7,066 words...my hands hurt lol.
I rewrote chapters 1 + 2 together, so you will be seeing both of them here, continuously. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!
I do not own the Legend of Zelda.
(TP):
After beating what Link hoped to be the final dungeon he had the infortunes to trek through, all he wanted to do was take a much needed break, and just forget everything…everything. After finally getting the final Mirror of Twilight shard, the Hero of Twilight hoped his break would not reach and end, but sadly he knew that was not to be the case. So instead, the Hylian teen tried his hardest- not really –to make his 'break from life' fun, and entertaining. It was filled with the following activities…
-~-Nothing…..absolutely nothing,
-~-Waltzing around Castle Town as a wolf, terrifying at least 92% of the citizens,
-~-Visiting Ilia over in Kakariko- even though she only half recognized him,
-~-Crying over the fact that Ilia only slightly recognized him,
-~-and Riding around Hyrule Field on his horse Epona to get his pent up anger out, because the hordes of monsters he faced regularly apparently weren't enough for him to get it all out.
As you can see, time well spent.
Midna, his impish companion from the Twilight Realm, of course didn't exactly approve of what the Hero of Twilight was doing with their time. They had- ok Link had- finally gotten the last Mirror shard , and all the impish Twili wanted to do was go to her world and beat the crap out of Zant. Thus getting her kingdom, and her original form back, as well as the chance to beat the crap out of Zant. She just really wanted to beat the crap out of Zant….though, she still wasn't sure how that nutcase even managed to take over her kingdom…..regardless of the fact that he had gotten help. Yes, Zant was that ignorant.
Another reason why Midna yearned to get to business so badly was- as much as she would not admit it out loud- that she couldn't stand seeing Link so distressed about everything, and she was sure that actually doing something important would get his mind off anything that was effecting him emotionally. She had been hoping that the rest would do that, but alas it only made the Hero of Twilight get more snappy, and emotional.
"Ok Link, I think you've had enough 'fun' for now." Midna declared, leaning on her Hylian companion's shoulder.
Link looked up from the ground, were he was studying a species of golden insect that he had already collected for the Bug Princess, Agitha. "Midna, I wouldn't really classify all of this as being 'fun'. The Hero of Twilight sighed, holding three fingers to the space in-between both of his eyes. "Ok, well some of it was….But can't we just go back to Castle Town and scare people some more? Hyrule Field is seriously boring me right now." He continued, moving his hand from his forehead, his face gaining a look of fake pleading.
"Normally yes, please do." The Twili agreed, causing Link to perk up, and a sincere maniacal grin to sweep across his facial features. "But, you know we have something to do first." She crossed her arms and floated in front of his face. "Hey, don't look so sad, don't you want to make a certain Twili girl happy? And don't worry, the Twilight Realm is beautiful!"
"Well I'm sorry, but the invading Twilight on my world, may have left a bad impression on me." Link huffed, turning his head away rather quickly. "And before you say anything, I am not whining." He whined.
"Anything." Midna's comment was followed by a glare from Link. "Ok, whatever. Seriously though let's stop fooling around already! We have to get over to the Arbiters Grounds, so we can go and finally put the Mirror of Twil-" Her stern talk got so rudely interrupted by the Hero of Twilight, who didn't seem to remember just who he was talking to. Either that, or he had just gotten too comfortable around the royal Twili.
"We have to get the Mirror of Twilight over to the desert so we can go to your realm, and deal with even more unfair crud. I kind of already knew that, Minda!" Link snapped. "Holy Din, we just got finished with the City in the Sky- getting shot out of a cannon multiple times, might I add –and you already expect us to move on?! Someone's in a rush!"
Midna Twitched, and gritted her teeth due to what Link had said. Sometimes her Hylian companion's attitude was funny and amusing, but right now…..not so much. So naturally dealing with the irritation Link brought, she lashed out by whipping her giant flame-colored hand made of her hair, into the hero's stomach. "Stope your temper tantrum now."
Link grunted and landed on the ground with a loud thud. "Ok, I will admit, looking back on that, that was stupid of me…..HEY! I'm not having a temper tantrum!"
"Well you're certainly being very moody then." Midna replied curtly. "I will say this once, I do not appreciate getting interrupted like that, ok?" Link continued to glare, and smartly decided to ignore the 'moody' comment. As he staggered to his feet, Midna waved the Cursed Stone right in front of his nose. Just as he opened his mouth to comment, the shadowy stone got shoved right into his forehead abruptly by the Twili.
Shadows enveloped the 17-year-old as he hunched over, due to the pressure of his bones getting moved and stretched, as well as the heavy feeling of the twilight overpowering him. The process only lasted about ten seconds, and was hardly painful for him anymore, now that he was used it. Now standing in the Hylian's place was a visibly complaining wolf. "Oh, don't you give me that face 'Mr. Moody'. If we were to go and do what you wanted, you would be a wolf either way." Midna reminded him as she jumped up and landed on his back, all the while tapping into her magic, in order to teleport them to the desert. "So don't complain."
One heck of a strange feeling later, the two companions found themselves in the sweltering heat of the Gerudo Mesa. The chamber they were currently standing in was a part of a dungeon they had traveled through a while back, called the 'Arbiters Grounds'. In sight, there was a large stone wall sticking out of the sand, suspended by thick metal chains. There was also a pedestal for holding the sacred Mirror of Twilight, facing the large dark stone chunk.
Deciding to be 'nice', Midna removed the cursed stone from Link's forehead immediately after landing. For this, Link was grateful, but that didn't make him want to head off into the probably dangerous realm of Twilight any more than he already didn't want to. If the place Midna came from was anything like Midna, than he wasn't ready to handle it all as of yet. Also procrastination…. Now Link could transform back into his Hylian form by himself, but it was easier, faster, and less painful when Midna did it for him. It also took a whole lot of effort for him to do it himself, and right now he was trying to prepare for the trek to the other Realm.
Wasting no time, Midna floated over to the mirror pedestal, impatiently waiting for Link to come over. Fighting his better judgment, he complied quickly and walked over to the impatient Twili. As soon as the Hero of Twilight was near enough for her liking, she pulled out the mirror shards- from who knows where- and held them slightly above the pedestal. "Ready?" Midna teased, gently resting the now complete Mirror of Twilight onto the golden surface.
Immediately after it gently rested upon the pedestal, a bright flash of white, and purple light erupted from around them. She heard Link yelling, and it getting cut off abruptly. After her vision righted itself again, which took longer than she would have liked, Midna gazed around the chamber. Nothing looked different, except for one small thing…Link was gone. Right where he was standing moments ago was nothing…just nothing.
"W-W-What what that?!" Midna yelled nervous as hell. "That's certainly n-never happened before. Link?! Hey Link! Where'd you go?!" As much as it irritated her that her companion just disappeared without warning her first- or you know, inviting her -deep down, she was worried for her 'moody' friend.
(TMC):
Link, the Hero of the Minish, had just went through a borage of fetch-quest-y feeling jobs. He was only trying to go and get the three missing library books back to the….well Library, since everyone else seemed incapable to do so themselves. First off, the librarian in charge of check-ins… why she can't just go out and get them from the people who checked them out, he had no clue…..I mean it was her job, right? Oh, and he had a bone to pick with the people who checked the books out as well. Who in their right mind would keep a book that long past its due date? Ok, maybe Link had done that quite a few times too….but, that doesn't matter, he at least brought them back by himself eventually.
What really irritated him though, was the fact that the people who checked the books out, didn't even attempt to find them, they just sent poor Link to go do it for them, which he- in all seriousness –should be used to by now, but it still irked him. His green floppy 'hat', Ezlo- that had the head and beak of a bird- had helped him a little with the 'look-find,-look-find,-good you did it, now go find another' thing, but sometimes his help wasn't always that…'helpful'.
"Ezlo, I got the last book." Link tried, but alas the hat was not listening, -no Ezlo was too busy complaining loudly to even realize anything.
"…The mayor of Hyrule Town?! What kind of mayor is he, if he's modeling that it's right to do this kind of thing to his citizens, and he keeps a book checked out for months?" Ezlo ranted, ignoring the fact that Link was trying to get his attention. "Another thing….why does Hyrule Town even have a mayor, if there is a princess and a king? The king and the princess rule over all of Hyrule, including Hyrule Town, so why is he a mayor? It's redundant if you ask me!" the hat spat, his eyes closed in thought. "I mean really….."
Link was done. Ezlo always did this…complain, complain, complain, though most of the time he was actually quite funny to the 11 year-old, it did get annoying at times….like now. "EZLO!" The 11 year-old boy bellowed, coming dangerously close to snatching the loud hat off of its perch on his head.
This miraculously snapped Ezlo back into attention, as he abruptly stopped, mid complaint, and turned his head down to reach Link's eye level. "Yes, Link? What do you want?!" He asked, a rasp to his voice. "You don't have to shout, and don't you know it's rude to act that way with your elders?! I thought you'd have more respect…..tsk tsk."
Instead of having any reaction a normal person would have- example: yelling -, Link simply smiled, which gradually- by gradually, I mean quickly –morphed into laughter. And by laughter, I mean cacophony. "…..hahaha Ezlo…..hahaha you, hahaha!" Link was barely audible…..of course now when he's actually got the hat's attention.
"What's so funny? Do I have something on my face…..er 'beak'?" Ezlo asked confused. "You young'uns are too confusing…."
After a couple minutes of pure laughter from the Hero of the Minish, and grumbling from the wind-mage-turned-hat, things took a more serious tone again. "Ok, what I was trying to say was that I have the last of the three books now." Link declared, pulling the large book out of his gear pouch, and holding it out in front of him, so both of them could clearly see it, in all its dusty glory. "Hmmmm, well now that I have it…..what am I supposed to do now? I don't really remember." He began scratching his chin, confused, and slightly embarrassed that he didn't know.
Ezlo, on top of Link's unruly blonde hair, wriggled around irritably, and responded with an even more irritable tone. "You should seriously know this! It's kind of common knowledge by this point…take it to the library in Hyrule Town!" He snapped, rolling his eyes. "Have you forgotten that easily? And you're the one who's supposed to save Hyrule, and the princess?" Ezlo muttered. "Well I guess, you are just a kid after all….I'm sorry Link, It's just that we already went through all of this two times already, I thought you caught on."
"Heh-heh, w-whoops? Well, to be completely honest, it has been a long while since we first started looking for this last book, so maybe that's it? Sorry…." Link replied. "But I was actually referring to what to do after we return it….." The 11 year-old pointed out, which was met with a sigh.
"The Minish Elder from Hyrule Town? Ring any bells did I?"
"Oh, right…..To Hyrule Town it is then! … wait, that's a long walk, from here- Lake Hylia…do we really have to walk that far, Ezlo?"
"Well stop your complaining, and start walking then, why don't ya." Ezlo suggested, which gained a snort from the Hero of the Minish. Even with all their arguing, it was all in good nature, well most of the time at least.
"ooor we can use the Ocarina of Wind!" Link exclaimed, already having that in mind since he started talking about walking the distance, and Ezlo apparently didn't catch on. "Bird travel, is the best travel, you know!" (((1)))
"Yeah, no it's not." The wind-mage replied dryly, now understanding why Link complained. As scatterbrained, and unobservant as he was most of the time, complaining was one thing he didn't do. Ezlo wasn't really one to talk though….he was quite scatterbrained at times as well, but complaining was something he definitely did do, and he was completely aware of it."Oh fine, Link, whatever gets us there faster I suppose. Though I will remind you, I hate heights, and I hate birds." The green bird-hat declared
Link began to chuckle at that last comment, though not as giggly as earlier. Ezlo of course noticed, and did not particularly appreciate his reaction, to his serious statement. "Look here young'un, I've told you already, like 20 times! I have not always been a bird-hat, or whatever I am now. This only adds to my dislike of birds." He replied curtly, bouncing up and down on Link's head roughly.
"Ok, blow into ocarina, shrink down, hop on bird, library we are at." Link mumbled under his breath as he fished for the Ocarina of Winds from his item pouch. "No not the Gust Jar…..not the Cane of Pacci either…Ooooo here we go!" He continued, still mumbling, pulling the blue-tinted ocarina out.
"You. Are. One. Strange. Child." Ezlo deadpanned. Usually Link was a little more argumentative, and calm about everything- he barely even reacted when he first got shrunk down to the size of a Picori. (The Minish Tribe- also known as the Picori –were a miniature race of mouse-like people, who average around the height of a Hylian's thumb.) But today, he was just acting a bit more childish. He had gone through a lot by this point, so Ezlo couldn't really blame him for just trying to lighten the mood by acting more like his mental self.
Link took a large breath- larger than what should be capable, considering his miniscule size –and stuck the blue instrument's mouthpiece into his mouth. The funny thing about this enchanted ocarina, was that you didn't even have to try to play good, you could literally just mindlessly make incoherent noises, and the one tune that called for their way of transportation would morph itself out of the chaos. Which is the way Link chose to use it. Only unfortunate part to it, was the moments before the tune gets pronounced. Yeah, before then, is a whole lot of headache-inducing high pitched nonsense.
In a matter of minutes- which the duo had spent locating, then using what Ezlo liked to call a 'portable portal'. (Nice wordplay, huh? :P) Which was a small little device that enables Ezlo to tap into his magic without having to be near a portal/entrance, therefore letting them shrink down to the size of a picori virtually anywhere…now that's convenient. Back to my thought: In a matter of minutes an average sized white bird, with cerulean fringed feathers came at the two miniature-sized people. After another moment of flailing around trying to get a good hold on the bird, the blue and white bird took off.
"See Ezlo, this is fun!" Link exclaimed, his voice faltering due to the high wind levels ripping through his words. However his hat was unable to respond anything beyond a grunt, since the Hero of the Minish was gripping onto Ezlo's beak, to prevent him from flowing into the wind. Not only would that be unfortunate for the Wind-mage-turned-hat, it would be worse for Link. He would be lost, and stuck the size of Picori, with no means of regaining his original size, which wouldn't only doom him, but all of Hyrule, since he was trying to save it. It was a vicious circle of failure.
Link was about to take Ezlo of his head and put the hat in front of him, and hold his brim instead, so it would be easier and less painful for the both of them, as they could see Hyrule Town in the distance, so it wouldn't be very long until they started their descent towards the ground. But before Link could even go about pulling Ezlo off by his beak, he stopped and stared at the ground in confusion, and determination. In Hyrule Field, a little North of Link and his Uncle, the Master Smith's, house was a young man who was laying down on the grass, rubbing his head. Link was actually pretty surprised that he even noticed the youth laying on the ground since he was dressed in practically all green, blending in pretty well with the grass.
Link, being the hero he was- regardless of the fact that he had been chosen by the King, since he was friends with his daughter, the princess –he didn't think twice before forcing the bird they were riding into a sharp descent. He didn't even bother informing Ezlo first, since Link already had an iron grip on his beak, and was certain that the hat wasn't going anywhere. Ezlo did make a frightened sound, but did not struggle as they plummeted towards the field at dangerous speeds.
Before the bird even landed, Link hopped off doing a somersault in midair, finishing it off with a battle roll when he landed. Not that he was doing it for style or anything, he was just eager to see if he could help the young man who was probably hurt. After he released his grip on Ezlo's face, Link immediately began asking to be normal sized again, since A: They couldn't really do anything being the size they were, and B: It might frighten the older boy.
"Oh, add your death grip onto the list of reasons why I don't like bird travel." Ezlo grunted, now noticing the teen lying confused on the grass, ginormous to them at the moment. "Oh, I see. At least I don't have to yell at you now, since you have a pretty decent excuse as to why you just made that bird do a sharp dive towards the ground. You're pretty lucky, boy."
"Thanks, I guess?" Link replied, looking slightly nervous, as he thought about all the complaining he would have heard. "Can you hurry now, and make us normal sized now? That guy looks pretty distressed there."
"Oh, right!" Exclaimed the bird hat, pretty loudly. Of course alerting the young man lying on the ground. Said teen bolted to a sitting position and began to look for the source of the noise he thought he heard.
(…..P.O.V. change)
The older boy could have sworn he saw a tiny bright green person on the grass next to him, but with the splitting headache he was currently having, he had trouble distinguishing real from pain-induced. Who knows, he could have imagined the quite yelling too…'quite yelling'? Well that's redundant. The 17 year-old youth thought, as the pain in his head began to ebb away ever so slowly. Finally, I can think straight now! That was almost as bad as whenever I get 'playfully' punched in the face by Midna…- The teen was torn out of his reverie by sudden movement from his right side.
In the same place he thought he imagined seeing a tiny person, there was a normal sized person standing in the same spot. One stranger thing to note: this kid looked as if they could be brothers. Heck even a younger version of himself! With a green bird-hat?
(….P.O.V. change) (Yes it really isn't worth throwing around the point of view, but meh I don't really care all that much :Y)
Now that Link was full sized again, he could finally get a good look at the older boy. And what he saw, was really fricking cool, as well as really fricking creepy. Immediately after they grew to normal height, the boy had bolted upwards from his sitting position, into a strangled crouch-stand. The teen, after a brief moment of staring at each other, quickly forced himself onto his feet, so that he was standing upright.
Link was about to say something, but he noticed the older boy grip his head in his heads and bend over slightly. "Woah, are you ok?!" the Hero of the Minish exclaimed rushing forward to support his back.
The young man turned his head. "Uh, yeah, just a splitting headache. Say, where are we?"
"South Hyrule Field. I was on my way to Hyrule Town, when I noticed you laying over here, confused." Link explained, noting how similar the older boy looked to him. The Teen was wearing a darker green tunic, with chainmail underneath, and had a leather belt strapped across his shoulder where his sword was sheathed. He had dark blond hair, icy blue eyes, and was wearing a floppy hat that was the same color as his tunic, and looked like Ezlo other than the fact that it didn't have a face or beak, and wasn't alive. "How didn't you know where you were? Hyrule is pretty huge, and people from other countries don't really come here that often."
"Hyrule?!" The older boy yelled, moving his arms from his head and gripping Link's shoulders. "This isn't Hyrule Field! It looks so different!"
"He wouldn't lie! We are in Hyrule, now tell us where you're from, since you don't seem to be that hurt…we've got things we got to do!" Ezlo snapped. The older boy stopped, and glared at the hat, then quickly turned away.
"I'm from Hyrule, this isn't it." He replied, seemingly not all that concerned or surprised that a hat just talked. "Ugh, I'm sorry, I was just busy, about to do something important, but then I found myself here with a headache. Did either of you two see a shadowy 'imp' around here?" The teen asked, now apparently in a better mood than before. "Midna's gonna be fun when I get back." He grumbled to himself.
"I don't know what you're talking about, but, I'll try to help I guess. My name is Link, what's yours?" Link asked the teen, with his arm extended.
"Link."
"Yup that's my name, now what's yours?" The Hero of the Minish tried a second time.
"My name is Link too." Older Link replied again, ignoring the outstretched hand that the younger Link was holding out. The Hero of the Minish then pulled it down, and coughed awkwardly. "Well, this just got more interesting."
"…" Ezlo didn't say anything, unless you count just staring blankly as saying anything. Which was strange, since Ezlo always has something to say, nice or not. Finally he snapped out of it, and opened his beak to clear his throat. "…Well, as weird as this is, we can't go around calling you both 'Link', so I believe nicknames are the solution." The hat stated, ignoring the look the Older Link was shooting in his direction. "Ok newbie, what's special about you…..what?! Don't look at me like that! It will help decide what your nickname will be."
"Fine. Well, I'm known as the Hero of Twilight." Older Link replied. "I was on my way to save Hyrule, and the Twilight Realm from some wackjob named Zant. Oh, I can also turn into a wolf." He continued, grinning wolfishly.
"So wait, first off, you're a hero too? Wow, we're even more alike!" Younger Link exclaimed, looking right into his older companion's eyes, with his own gleaming ones. "Well? You gotta show us, that wolf thing!"
"Uhh, sure." The Hero of Twilight sighed, and he began sifting through a pouch on his belt. After a bit searching, he pulled out a small leather bag, attached to a string. "Oh, I didn't think I had this with me…well, anyway, pay attention!"
The Hero of the Minish watched with interest as shadows enveloped his companion. Regardless of the fact that he knew what was going to happen, Younger Link gasped in awe as he saw a huge green-gray wolf with the same fierce, icy blue eyes standing in the same place.
"Hmm, I think I can come up with a nickname for you…." Ezlo stated, causing the wolf to sit down, and tilt his head towards the hat. "Twilight?" The Sacred Beast shook his large head no. "Ok.…..uhhh, Shadow?" Another no. "Come on, you have to pick one of them! How about Dusk?" This received the glare to cease completely of the wolf's face, and it got replaced with slight nod, as if he didn't like it all that much, but it was better than the others…..and it didn't look as if Ezlo had any more ideas.
Dusk at this point got a little uncomfortable at the way the 11 year-old was still staring at him with awe, so he decided he'd been a wolf long enough, and changed back by imagining his Hylian form reaching for the Master Sword.
"Ooooo, Dusk! That's a good name, Ezlo!" The un-nicknamed Link nodded his head vigorously, causing Ezlo to nearly fall off of the perch on his head. "We can figure out mine while walking to Hyrule Town, I have to go to the library."
"Have to go?" Dusk questioned. "Alright, I'll go with you… So what's special about you?" He continued, walking beside the other 'two'.
"I'm not all that special, I don't think… But, I'm known- only by like 2 other people –as the Hero of the Minish, and using Ezlo's magic, we can shrink down to this size of a Picori- a small race about the size of an average Hylian's thumb."
Ezlo continued the description of the 11 year-old's life as of lately. "My former apprentice Vaati, has petrified Link's childhood friend, Princess Zelda, so now she's made of stone. He's also the one that cursed me to look like this." Ezlo sighed. "He had so much potential too…."
"Tiny." Dusk stated abruptly, and loudly. "You're name is Tiny, it has been decided, and cannot be changed. You don't have to show me now, but I will be expecting you to show me this shrinking thing later."
"Tiny? I guess that's reasonable…" Tiny sighed.
As they neared the grand entrance to the town of Hyrule, a thought dawned on Dusk. "Won't someone freak out a bit, on seeing two practically identical people walking around? Do you have a brother I can pretend to be?"
"Everyone here knows I'm an only child, and I live with my uncle who doesn't have any kids, so that would be pretty hard to pull off." Tiny responded, remembering his once peaceful-er life. "Besides, no one really gives a notice to me anyway, and not one person has commented about Ezlo yet, and as you can already tell, he is loud." Tiny was proved correct when walking through the crowded Hyrule Town, not one person spared them a glance.
Once inside the small 2-story library, Tiny threw the large dusty book he was holding at the check-in counter, seemingly upset with the lady behind it, for some reason, and led Dusk up the stairs and to a small bookcase on the second level, as if he knew exactly where to go. This annoyed Ezlo for some reason, but Dusk didn't bother to ask, no need to work your lung muscles…..no that was only used for grunting and yelling, which he did more than he talked…and he talked a lot. Ezlo proceeded to yell at the Hero of the Minish, which ended up doing the job of filling in what the hat was upset about, without having the Hero of Twilight have to say anything. "I love how you remember exactly where to go now! What happened to your cluelessness an hour ago?! You didn't even remember we had to go to the library, let alone what to do when we got there!" Ezlo seethed of a joking, yet mad attitude. I don't know how exactly that's possible, but I also don't really understand how a hat can breathe either.
Dusk reached out his hand to poke the bookshelf, just because, and then abruptly pulled it back, for as soon as his gloved finger brushed the wooden surface another white and purple explosion of light, exploded in all three of their faces.
(MM)
Link, the young Hero of Time, was currently listening to his fairy companion Tatl, complain her wings off. Sometimes, he swore, she was worse than Navi….ok actually he liked them both, but at times their actions drove him up a metaphorical wall. "Tatl. Tatl. Tatl. Tatl. Tatl. Tatl. Tatl. Tatl. Tatl. Tatl. Tatl." Link kept repeating.
"Seriously wouldn't you think that Tael wouldn't hang around Skull Kid anymore? And am I the only one who, when gazing into the depths of the sky, gets the feeling of-" Tatl stopped her sentence abruptly. "Link, really, do you want me to go do that to you now?"
"Not particularly. I was-" Link got interrupted when a truly beautiful noise slithered its way into his eardrums.
"Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. *breath* Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. *deep breath* Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. Link. *huff* Link. Link. Link. *hack*…..Ok *gasp* I think *wheeze* you get *inaudible spluttering* my point." Tatl nearly 'exploded' due to the effort she put her tiny fairy body. "It was annoying….but what did you want?"
"Oh I was just going to point out that I thought I saw a piece of heart up here when we passed through here before, but I never bothered to go out of my way to pick it up…..I just wanted you to fly up there and see if I was right." Link replied casually, pretending whole rest of the conversation hadn't happened. As much as he wanted to continue spamming her name to annoy her, he refrained himself, for the benefit of both of them, and some of the residents of the Southern Swamp they were currently in.
"Fine." Her words drifted, as she flew away, only to come back half a second later. "Yup, piece of heart, so hurry up and turn into a Deku scrub so you can launch up there. Don't give me that face, surely you knew there was a Deku Flower behind you, yes?"
"Phhhhhhhffffff, of course I diiiiiiiiid." Link responded rather quickly, crossing his arms and avoiding eye contact…wait could you even make eye contact with a fairy? All you could see was a glowing ball with wings…but surely they had eyes…Best not to dwell on it.
"I'm not even going to start this again…Just hurry and get the freaking piece of heart already!"
"I am getting to it Tatl, just hold on a second!" Link exclaimed, keeping is seemingly infinite supply of calmness under control. "It's only the first day out of the three, and I have to wait until the clock tower is open so I can go to the moon. Wow that sentence sounded really weird. Anyway I have time to waste, so why not waste it?"Link continued a little irritably.
He just sighed and did as Tatl said. After fumbling around his pouch for a minute, he yanked out a piece of wood resembling a Deku scrub's face. Without even admiring the details on the surface of the mask, he slapped it onto his face and began to feel the feeling of transforming, being forced into the tiny body of a Deku Scrub. Though it did feel a little different this time for him….. Link only dismissed it as just his mind playing tricks on him again.
He screamed much louder and it sounded a bit painful, which was weird since after going through it so often, he claimed it didn't hurt anymore. "Link? You ok? Everything go alright?"
"…..Yup? Tatl, I feel perfectly fine. Though while changing it did feel slightly different…..but I'm pretty sure it was nothing." He followed Tatl's lead to the large pink Deku Flower, and dove his way into it. He still wasn't exactly sure how he even did that, but whatever…..it worked, so that was a good enough reason for Link not to question it.
After he greedily nabbed the heart piece up on the platform, he jumped back down with Tatl following close behind. Link immediately put his hands to his head to take the mask off, since he didn't like staying in the form of a Deku Scrub that long…lets just say 'bad memories'. As he began to pull the mask off, he gained a worried look in his eyes. "Link why aren't you taking off the mask now? Don't you think it would be better to walk around as yourself? Are you playing a trick on me?" Tatl asked, a little nervous….Link never really shared his feelings, he usually kept a pretty well guarded wall over his emotions, and kept his eyes mostly emotionless….at least in his other forms.
"Yeah about that, I think we have a problem Tatl. I can't take the mask off. Heh, heh" Deku Link replied, laughing awkwardly.
"What do you mean you 'can't take the mask off'!? Why don't you try to put another mask on top, doesn't that normally change you into that other form?"Tatl was now beginning to worry, Link never pulled jokes on her. Ok that's a lie, he had in fact done a couple on her once, but nothing this serious.
Link hurridly pulled out the Zora mask and put it over his face. No flashing lights, no transformation. Tatl was now mentally freaking out. He can't possibly be joking now, if any of those masks even barely touch his face, he changes. But it was on him and it didn't do anything! "Let me guess, it didn't work?" Tatl said as calm as she could, which, honestly wasn't all that calm…..she was one to freak out first, questions later.
"Nope. Well Crap. What am I supposed to do now? I know we should go to the Clock Tower and talk to the Happy Mask Salesman, but he creeps me out, and I would prefer not to get shaken again. Also I'm concerned about that dog…it really doesn't like Deku Scrubs." Link noted getting nervous himself, though he would appear calm to others. As he may be a stone wall on the outside- or at least he thought he was –he didn't want others to know what he was feeling. "Why couldn't I have been stuck as a Zora out of all the forms, that I would have been a little more ok with, but a Deku scrub?! I mean, the dog loves Zoras!"
And with that they started walking the distance to Termina Field.
Link and Tatl got through Termina Field easy enough, without too much trouble, and thankfully they avoided the item stealing bird. But as soon as they entered Clock Town's Central Square, things got a whole lot harder. First off there are people who walk around without looking down, which caused about the only people there to tread on Link. Second off the small dog that Link was complaining about, who for some reason has a grudge against Deku scrubs, so passage for little ol' Deku Link was very difficult. He probably would have been chewed and clawed apart if it wasn't for two 'familiar' people shooing the dog away.
"Woah, is this what it felt like when you landed in my Hyrule Dusk? My head aches!"
"It seems like it is worse the first time it happens, because that did not feel as painful. Luckily I can actually feel my limbs this time."
"Anyway Dusk, is this your Hyrule? It looks a little- HOLY PICORI BLADE WHAT IS THAT?!" Tiny shouted loudly, very loudly, mid-sentence wildly thrusting his hand at the sky. His outstretched finger was pointed straight at a giant hunk of rock looming over the land, pretty gosh darn close to crashing. It was so close, that you could clearly see the bloodshot eyes, yellow teeth, and the nightmare-fueling maniacal facial expression… I don't know why a hunk of space rock even had any of those things in the first place, but hey, who am I to judge someone's' appearance?
"I think that might actually be the moon, Tiny. Two questions though, first why is it so close? That moon looks as if it could crash against this place in a couple of days or so. Second, why in the name of the Light Spirits does it have a freaking face?! Holy Farore, I have NEVER seen anything as messed up as that 'thing'. Well, then again I never did go to the Twilight Realm… so I am still opt to get more terrifying experiences there…probably.
"What do you think Ezlo?"Tiny looked up as he would normally do when Ezlo starts talking, well some of the times Ezlo would start talking…he talked too many times to count. But when he looked up he was met with silence… no response…..from Ezlo. "Ezlo?!" He then proceeded to rip the talking hat off his head to realize that he was unconscious. "Great now Ezlo's incapacitated, just add that to the list of fun." That last sentence was just brimming with sarcasm Dusk didn't know Tiny had.
"I have a list of 'fun'! Oh so very fun it is not…" Dusk sighed "You know, we should probably just start off by going into that town over there in the center of this weird circular shaped field." Dusk spoke up while ripping Ezlo out of Tiny's hands and rudely plopping him on the younger Link's head. "Think on the bright side of things- I never do –now Ezlo won't argue with our reckless, and probably stupid decisions!"
"I guess…."
Seriously, your starting to down my mood….and I'm always down." Dusk snapped. "If there is civilization here, which there appears to be one over there, we can ask around to see if anyone knows a guy named Link. I think it's pretty safe to assume any world we go to will have a hero named Link, based on what already happened to both of us. That's pretty fair right?"
"I guess…."
"Reply with something else." Dusk barked.
"I mean yeah, sure, probably."
"More enthusiasm?"
"What, I meant to say the first time was, 'Yeah, Dusk, It won't hurt to look'!" Tiny replied quickly, and loudly, a little astounded of how Dusk, even being all harsh, yet jokey about it, had actually made him feel better. And besides, Dusk was right, now Ezlo wouldn't counter their stupid ideas.
"Good, that's better…..Wow, I need to spend less time with Midna, I swear I act more like her all the time….." Dusk smiled wistfully. Kinda wish she was here…..kinda.
The two began to walk towards the settlement in the middle of the expansive field, which was filled with random circles of grass tufts, a giant log acting as a walk way, ice- appropriately leading to a snowy mountain in the distance -, sand –appropriately leading to a beach -, giant pillars of canyon rocks –appropri…..okay you get the point…..canyons -, various ramps, giant pink flowers, and a swamp in the distance. The only enemies worth noting…..okay the only enemies were really creepy looking Chu-Chus? Yes Chus. A couple of keese, and a giant bird that seemed keen to steal their stuff, which thankfully didn't actually happen, since the two opted to leave it alone, after running away…..courageously. Running can be courageous sometimes…right?
After the slight detour, they reached the civilization in the middle of the field. When they reached the center of the town they noticed a couple of things. First off there was a large clock tower in the dead center of the town, and second off, there was a noticeable lack of people walking around. I wonder, does it have something to do with the freak of nature that is the moon? Tiny thought as the noticed one more peculiar thing. There appeared to be a Deku scrub being attacked by a small dog. That's kind of embarrassing, being attacked by a very small dog in the middle of a town. "Hey Dusk, you see that Deku scrub over there? I think we should help him out, I mean it won't be that hard we just have to shoo the dog away."
"Sure, It's worth a shot I guess, it might know who were looking for….or assume we're looking for…..I just hope there is a 'Link' here."
With that they both ran to the rescue of the pathetic Deku scrub, wearing strange getup for one such as himself. Well, I guess it's strange enough that the Scrub wasn't in a Deku Flower in the first place…and again, who am I to judge someone's appearance?
(((1))): Yes I know you wouldnt have the Ocarina of Wind this early in the game, but I thought it would be better to use that rather than just riding a random bird like I had it before. :3
Thanks to all of you that have read this!
