The Lone Wolf
Chapter 9: The Ocarina.
Link stayed in the Deku scrub's fashion cave that night.
He was deep in thought, pondering what his next possible move might be, now that he
knew he couldn't communicate with the general populace anymore.
In the wee hours of the morning, Link finally fell asleep.
* * * *
Come morning, Link went to the Zora tunnel pool, and dived in to wash his fur clean of
the dirt and grime that had collected over the past month.
While he was in the pool, Link glanced around. The forest was getting green, but there
was still plenty of piles of snow around, signifying that the season was just starting
change.
"Well, there goes my camouflage…" Link muttered to himself.
Link shook himself off after getting cleaned up. He ran his clawed digits through his
thick neck ruff, and stretched.
"Well, now that I'm clean, I feel better physically, but how the hell do I get back to
being a Hylian?" Link said to himself (lately he was thinking to himself out loud).
"Ok, so Zelda can't understand me when I'm like this. I got that. But now that leaves
me with two other options, one is get this curse lifted by a sorcerer, the other is to play
the song of healing on the Ocarina of Time, or whatever instrument that will change into
in my hand…" Link stroked his whiskers thoughtfully.
Meanwhile, in the shadows of the trees above the little Lost Woods Maze "chamber"
was the black furred Rose. She was listening to Link planning to turn himself back, She
knew that she couldn't stop him from doing it by force, as he was a male, and by far
stronger than her. So she was planning to eliminate the potential sources for Link to lift
the curse that was upon him.
"He thinks it's a curse. Well, I think it's a blessing, not just for him but me as well.
I've yearned for a mate like him, ever since my first 'Boyfriend' left me for another girl.
Link will not take that from me by dispelling his new form." She thought to herself.
Link stopped rubbing his whiskers and sat up sharply. "I've got it!"
Rose perked her ears forward expectantly, but otherwise stayed motionless, lest he hear
her and run.
"I can get on the sharp hill behind the castle, if I can get inside the royal chambers from
there, I can get into Zelda's room and take the Ocarina, maybe even turn myself back in
there as well! It's brilliant!" he exclaimed.
Rose smiled to herself. "Thanks for the battle plan Link. But you're not getting that
Magical instrument…"
Rose grinned almost manically. "I am!" She thought, and silently turned and headed
northwest towards the Castle.
* * * *
Zelda was walking through the courtyard with Impa, her attendant, and, though in name
her guardian, she no longer needed her for that purpose.
"And this strange white Wolfos, did he attack you?" Impa asked.
"Impa, he was barking his head off at me, and it sounded like it was rabid, what else
was I supposed to do? At least I didn't have to kill it."
"Hmm, isn't it strange that a lone White Wolfos would attack you, In the middle of the
town?"
"After that actually happened, I thought of that myself, my only explanation could be
that Ganon is Somehow able to manipulate a single lower minion into doing his will at a
time, from inside the evil realm… Impa, do you know for a fact that the influence of the
Triforce of power is completely contained in the evil realm? I know that the seal was as
strong as we could make, but…"
"It is secure princess, nothing can escape it, not now anyway." Impa replied.
"What do you mean "not now?" Zelda asked, looking at Impa hard.
The Triforce of power is not something to be trifled with, as you rightly know. Even
our seal will not last forever. We cannot continually strengthen that seal, and Gannon's
power is constantly working on wearing away at the seal. Even now he is hitting it with
everything he has. Even though sometimes his body becomes tired and he looses his
momentum for a few hours while he sleeps there in the void."
Zelda thought for a minute. "So how long will it be before he breaks out?"
"Millennia."
Zelda thought about that for a moment.
"But then, what about that white Wolfos? The thing acted as if it was possessed!" She
said.
Impa looked at Zelda. "It's simple, ask Saria, she knows about everything that happens
with the creatures of the wilds, she'll know."
* * * *
That night, three things happened. All of them connected.
* * * *
Rose arrived at the rear of the castle just before sunset. The thick woods and the steep
hill back there got her surprisingly close to the rear castle wall.
Zelda's room wasn't in a tower, rather, it was in the main section of the castle. Zelda's
chambers faced the internal courtyard on one side, and a window looked out the other,
practically into the woody hillside.
She saw the Princess in the window of her chamber, combing her long golden locks.
Rose could guess that this was the Hylian girl that Link liked so much. Oh, sure, even
Rose could tell that she was feminine, and why Link would want to get back to her, but
Rose saw that this girl was royalty. Too "High Ranked" for Link to marry, there was no
reason for link to try to be with her, she was supposed to be forbidden to him anyway!
Rose was going to remove Link's false hopes of being with her very shortly.
Rose watched Zelda groom herself for about fifteen minutes before she put down the
brush and left the room, Rose waited a minute, and Zelda didn't come back into the
room.
Rose didn't need anymore opportunity, she leapt up at the window ledge, which was far
too much of a jump for a Hylian, but not one of her species.
The Window was high over the base of the wall, but not really that far from the edge of
the hill. So rose took a running start, and leapt vertically at the windowsill. She latched
onto the sill, scrambled up, thrust open the window, and landed inside the Princesses
chamber.
The room was dark, and empty. Rose knew what an Ocarina looked like, but it was
nowhere to be found.
Rose turned the room upside down, but to no avail, and when it looked like she had
wasted her effort in trying to get the ocarina this way, she ripped Zelda's pillow in two.
The Feathers flew all over the place, and something solid landed on the bed.
Rose bent over and picked up the object, the object had a few downy feathers stuck in it.
She blew on it, and the feathers flew off it rapidly.
In her paw, Rose saw an intricately crafted, blue ocarina, and around the mouthpiece
was a ring of silver with a Triforce symbol.
"I knew it!" She exclaimed. And left the way she came, leaping out the back window.
* * * *
Meanwhile, in the forest temple, Zelda had just entered the main hall. The four multi-
colored torches were burning brightly as ever. One would have expected the sage of that
temple to be in the final chamber, but Saria could always be found in one of the temple's
two courtyards.
At this point, She was laying on her back on a grassy knoll, napping.
"Saria?" Zelda said quietly, nudging the childlike Kokiri on the shoulder. "Hey, Saria,
wake up!" she said.
"Mmmmmmm… what?" Saria muttered as she woke up. "Oh, Zelda. It's you, hi, is it
good morning?"
"No, good night actually, but I have to ask you a question." Zelda explained.
"Ok, fire away." Saria said
"Well, I was confronted by a white Wolfos in Kakariko yesterday, he was acting very
strangely, like he was possessed. Did you get any strange vibrations lately?" She asked.
Saria stretched and yawned. "No, whoever this Wolfos was, he wasn't from Hyrule."
"Not from here?" Zelda asked.
"I know where every Animal in Hyrule is at all times, but only if they were born in
Hyrule, and I didn't sense anything from Kakariko yesterday, especially not from a
Wolfos. Now, if you'll excuse me, I really have to get back to my house in Kokiri forest,
I want my bed!" Saria said, and vanished in a flash of green light.
* * * *
Meanwhile, Link had just infiltrated Zelda's room, and he gaped at what he saw, the
room had been torn apart.
Link frantically, and disbelievingly dug through the upturned pile of personal items and
feathers that were dropped on the floor.
"No… no it's not possible, who could have gotten here before me?" He thought to
himself.
Suddenly, the door burst open. Link stood there and stared at the band of guards
standing in the doorway.
"What the?" a guard exclaimed.
Without a second to spare, Link leapt out the Window, barely getting missed by about a
dozen spears as they got stuck in the wall.
* * * *
When she got back to the Castle, Zelda found what had happened. Her room a mess, the
obscure back woods of the castle being searched by the guards, and the Ocarina of Time
gone, apparently taken by a white Wolfos.
"Ok, this is weird. On top of that, how the hell did a Wolfos know what to look for in
my room?"
Zelda shook her head.
"Now I really need to talk to somebody knowledgeable about these critters. Namely the
Deku Tree Sprout."
Chapter 9: The Ocarina.
Link stayed in the Deku scrub's fashion cave that night.
He was deep in thought, pondering what his next possible move might be, now that he
knew he couldn't communicate with the general populace anymore.
In the wee hours of the morning, Link finally fell asleep.
* * * *
Come morning, Link went to the Zora tunnel pool, and dived in to wash his fur clean of
the dirt and grime that had collected over the past month.
While he was in the pool, Link glanced around. The forest was getting green, but there
was still plenty of piles of snow around, signifying that the season was just starting
change.
"Well, there goes my camouflage…" Link muttered to himself.
Link shook himself off after getting cleaned up. He ran his clawed digits through his
thick neck ruff, and stretched.
"Well, now that I'm clean, I feel better physically, but how the hell do I get back to
being a Hylian?" Link said to himself (lately he was thinking to himself out loud).
"Ok, so Zelda can't understand me when I'm like this. I got that. But now that leaves
me with two other options, one is get this curse lifted by a sorcerer, the other is to play
the song of healing on the Ocarina of Time, or whatever instrument that will change into
in my hand…" Link stroked his whiskers thoughtfully.
Meanwhile, in the shadows of the trees above the little Lost Woods Maze "chamber"
was the black furred Rose. She was listening to Link planning to turn himself back, She
knew that she couldn't stop him from doing it by force, as he was a male, and by far
stronger than her. So she was planning to eliminate the potential sources for Link to lift
the curse that was upon him.
"He thinks it's a curse. Well, I think it's a blessing, not just for him but me as well.
I've yearned for a mate like him, ever since my first 'Boyfriend' left me for another girl.
Link will not take that from me by dispelling his new form." She thought to herself.
Link stopped rubbing his whiskers and sat up sharply. "I've got it!"
Rose perked her ears forward expectantly, but otherwise stayed motionless, lest he hear
her and run.
"I can get on the sharp hill behind the castle, if I can get inside the royal chambers from
there, I can get into Zelda's room and take the Ocarina, maybe even turn myself back in
there as well! It's brilliant!" he exclaimed.
Rose smiled to herself. "Thanks for the battle plan Link. But you're not getting that
Magical instrument…"
Rose grinned almost manically. "I am!" She thought, and silently turned and headed
northwest towards the Castle.
* * * *
Zelda was walking through the courtyard with Impa, her attendant, and, though in name
her guardian, she no longer needed her for that purpose.
"And this strange white Wolfos, did he attack you?" Impa asked.
"Impa, he was barking his head off at me, and it sounded like it was rabid, what else
was I supposed to do? At least I didn't have to kill it."
"Hmm, isn't it strange that a lone White Wolfos would attack you, In the middle of the
town?"
"After that actually happened, I thought of that myself, my only explanation could be
that Ganon is Somehow able to manipulate a single lower minion into doing his will at a
time, from inside the evil realm… Impa, do you know for a fact that the influence of the
Triforce of power is completely contained in the evil realm? I know that the seal was as
strong as we could make, but…"
"It is secure princess, nothing can escape it, not now anyway." Impa replied.
"What do you mean "not now?" Zelda asked, looking at Impa hard.
The Triforce of power is not something to be trifled with, as you rightly know. Even
our seal will not last forever. We cannot continually strengthen that seal, and Gannon's
power is constantly working on wearing away at the seal. Even now he is hitting it with
everything he has. Even though sometimes his body becomes tired and he looses his
momentum for a few hours while he sleeps there in the void."
Zelda thought for a minute. "So how long will it be before he breaks out?"
"Millennia."
Zelda thought about that for a moment.
"But then, what about that white Wolfos? The thing acted as if it was possessed!" She
said.
Impa looked at Zelda. "It's simple, ask Saria, she knows about everything that happens
with the creatures of the wilds, she'll know."
* * * *
That night, three things happened. All of them connected.
* * * *
Rose arrived at the rear of the castle just before sunset. The thick woods and the steep
hill back there got her surprisingly close to the rear castle wall.
Zelda's room wasn't in a tower, rather, it was in the main section of the castle. Zelda's
chambers faced the internal courtyard on one side, and a window looked out the other,
practically into the woody hillside.
She saw the Princess in the window of her chamber, combing her long golden locks.
Rose could guess that this was the Hylian girl that Link liked so much. Oh, sure, even
Rose could tell that she was feminine, and why Link would want to get back to her, but
Rose saw that this girl was royalty. Too "High Ranked" for Link to marry, there was no
reason for link to try to be with her, she was supposed to be forbidden to him anyway!
Rose was going to remove Link's false hopes of being with her very shortly.
Rose watched Zelda groom herself for about fifteen minutes before she put down the
brush and left the room, Rose waited a minute, and Zelda didn't come back into the
room.
Rose didn't need anymore opportunity, she leapt up at the window ledge, which was far
too much of a jump for a Hylian, but not one of her species.
The Window was high over the base of the wall, but not really that far from the edge of
the hill. So rose took a running start, and leapt vertically at the windowsill. She latched
onto the sill, scrambled up, thrust open the window, and landed inside the Princesses
chamber.
The room was dark, and empty. Rose knew what an Ocarina looked like, but it was
nowhere to be found.
Rose turned the room upside down, but to no avail, and when it looked like she had
wasted her effort in trying to get the ocarina this way, she ripped Zelda's pillow in two.
The Feathers flew all over the place, and something solid landed on the bed.
Rose bent over and picked up the object, the object had a few downy feathers stuck in it.
She blew on it, and the feathers flew off it rapidly.
In her paw, Rose saw an intricately crafted, blue ocarina, and around the mouthpiece
was a ring of silver with a Triforce symbol.
"I knew it!" She exclaimed. And left the way she came, leaping out the back window.
* * * *
Meanwhile, in the forest temple, Zelda had just entered the main hall. The four multi-
colored torches were burning brightly as ever. One would have expected the sage of that
temple to be in the final chamber, but Saria could always be found in one of the temple's
two courtyards.
At this point, She was laying on her back on a grassy knoll, napping.
"Saria?" Zelda said quietly, nudging the childlike Kokiri on the shoulder. "Hey, Saria,
wake up!" she said.
"Mmmmmmm… what?" Saria muttered as she woke up. "Oh, Zelda. It's you, hi, is it
good morning?"
"No, good night actually, but I have to ask you a question." Zelda explained.
"Ok, fire away." Saria said
"Well, I was confronted by a white Wolfos in Kakariko yesterday, he was acting very
strangely, like he was possessed. Did you get any strange vibrations lately?" She asked.
Saria stretched and yawned. "No, whoever this Wolfos was, he wasn't from Hyrule."
"Not from here?" Zelda asked.
"I know where every Animal in Hyrule is at all times, but only if they were born in
Hyrule, and I didn't sense anything from Kakariko yesterday, especially not from a
Wolfos. Now, if you'll excuse me, I really have to get back to my house in Kokiri forest,
I want my bed!" Saria said, and vanished in a flash of green light.
* * * *
Meanwhile, Link had just infiltrated Zelda's room, and he gaped at what he saw, the
room had been torn apart.
Link frantically, and disbelievingly dug through the upturned pile of personal items and
feathers that were dropped on the floor.
"No… no it's not possible, who could have gotten here before me?" He thought to
himself.
Suddenly, the door burst open. Link stood there and stared at the band of guards
standing in the doorway.
"What the?" a guard exclaimed.
Without a second to spare, Link leapt out the Window, barely getting missed by about a
dozen spears as they got stuck in the wall.
* * * *
When she got back to the Castle, Zelda found what had happened. Her room a mess, the
obscure back woods of the castle being searched by the guards, and the Ocarina of Time
gone, apparently taken by a white Wolfos.
"Ok, this is weird. On top of that, how the hell did a Wolfos know what to look for in
my room?"
Zelda shook her head.
"Now I really need to talk to somebody knowledgeable about these critters. Namely the
Deku Tree Sprout."