Disclaimer: I don't own the characters Nintendo does blah blah blah.

Authors note:
Its my first serious fic and I really love writing and I seem to be able to do it best when its serious so R&R please I need to know if its good. Also this story starts at the very beginning when Link was born. As well this is a very altered version of Zelda so don't be surprised if you see some weird stuff happening.

Prologue
The searing heat of the flames licked at the woman's face. It burned her torn flesh charring it from the inside out. She ran for her life clothes mere rags. In her hands she clutched a tiny bundle of blankets and inside them her life, her reason for existence cried pitifully. Staggering towards what had once been the town gates the woman pushed herself and her child through a narrow aperture in the collapsed frame. She had not gone three feet when she collapsed onto the dusty path. "Why!!!!" She cried out to the goddesses. "I have done nothing!" "Why do you torment me with this fate that I must suffer endlessly to bring peace to my life!!!!" Suddenly a broken wood spar came hurtling out of the sky. It struck the prostrate form of the woman and she screamed in pain and dropped her head
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Ganondorf
The name struck fear into the hearts of his enemies. Towering at six feet his cold dark eyes bored into all like a knife. He wore his full battle dress. Interlocking plate mail with a spiked helm to match. Of course all of this was in black. He carried a large battle blade and an iron kite shield. Not that any of this was needed for tonight's deed. He stood amid the blazing houses that had once been Kaldon village. It was a simple farmers town with no soldiers or trained fighters among them. Of course Ganon wasn't looking for a fight. He loved to watch his enemies writhe in pain as he tortured them the way an ant does when you step on it, it wriggles away it's life. Ganon loved it to have his enemies subdued and at bay. He was no coward and he wouldn't run from a fight he just loved slaughter. Laughing aloud as his Gerudo servants cut down another villager who was desperately trying to protect his family. Menacing Ganon's henchwomen. They knocked him aside with the flat of their blades and marched into his house. A scream issued from within and the Gerudo's came out cleaning the gore off their blades. Strong men were what Ganon wanted for slaves and it was so much easier to break their spirits once they had no family to worry about. The man started crying as he was dragged toward one of the many wagons already full of slaves to be. The captain of the Gerudo's Nabooroo ran up to Ganon and saluted. "Sir that's the last of the villagers and the houses are all ablaze should we start back now?" "Of course we should you fool! Clear a path for us to get through the main gate and get those slave wagons running. I want us to be far from this place by dawn tomorrow it will be a long trek." Yes sir Nabooroo replied. She turned to go. But before she could Ganon's mailed glove came to rest on her shoulder and he turned her around. He was smiling in her face. "Nabooroo I may also have a special place for you on my right hand if you did me a few favors." Ganon left her to think on this frightening suggestion.
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Alena found herself swirling in a whole new world. She was standing on a marble platform in the middle of nowhere. It floated amongst puffy clouds of pink and purple. White pillars rose from the ground up to who knows where. The air smelled like herbs. At the other end of the platform a door leading to nowhere stood like a monolith. Alena felt something tug at her. It had hovered in the back of her consciousness and now came flooding back to her in that swirling nether. Something drew her to the doorway. She spoke a single word as if she had known it all along. "Sharik!" A blue portal expanded within the frame widening until it filled the whole door. Alena stepped through and was plunged into a swirling chaos. The blackness pulled at her very soul threatening to rip it from her body. She screamed into the darkness but nobody listened. She was deposited onto a grassy field as lightly as if she had floated down. Staring around it was then that she noticed three figures of pure gold standing around her. They had no mouths or even phisycal features but all the same they seemed to smile at her. One stepped forward and touched her forehead. A green dot appeared at the spot the gold figure touched but quickly dissipated. The figure stepped back and waved it's hand. A wave of calm swept over Alena like she had sunk into a hot bath. The figures spoke then. "BE STILL ALENA AND KNOW THAT YOU ARE AMONG THE HIGHEST, THE GODDESSES OF HYRULE SMILE UPON YOU AND YOUR CHILD AND SO BLESS HIM WITH OUR POWER." "YOUR SON IS DESTINED FOR GREATNESS AND WILL SUFFER FOR THE GOOD OF ALL." "YOU HAVE EARNED YOUR REST AMONG THE GODDESSES AND WILL SOON BE DELIVERED TO YOUR PEACE BUT FIRST THERE IS ONE LAST TASK YOU MUST PREFORM." "GO TO THE DEKU TREE IN THE GREAT FOREST AND DELIVER YOUR CHILD INTO HIS CARE." "WHEN YOU AWAKEN YOU WILL BE DEPOSITED TO THE ENTRANCE OF THE FOREST." "OUR DIVINE INTERVENTION WILL ASSURE THAT YOU ARRIVE TO HIM IN TIME." "YOU ARE DYING ALENA BUT BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE MORTAL PLANE YOU MUST COMPLETE THIS TASK." With that the figures slowly faded. Alena tried to call out but found that she had no voice. Suddenly a flash of light blinded her and a loud booming voice spoke one word. "AWAKE!" The light was gone and Alena found herself lying flat on her back staring up at the sun. She tried to roll over but found that she was to weak. Then the pain hit. Like a tidal wave it hit her again and again. She screamed. Suddenly she was staring into a face. It was that of a child. "Hi I'm Maltorlia who are you?" The face said smiling cheerfully at Alena. She managed to gasp out her name before fainting. Blackness enveloped her and when she awoke she found herself lying in a bed of some sort. Another face loomed over her. It was that of a child again but this one was not smiling. "Ah good your awake I was getting worried that you would never wake up." "Now hold still this may hurt." A spark of pain shot up Alena's leg. She winced but did not cry out. "Here now drink this." The child commanded and handed her a cup made from dried willow bark. The concoction tasted foul but she downed it in one shot. "Now try and sit up but if you feel any pain just lie back down." "Where is my son?" Alena said breathing heavily. "You mean that boy you were holding?" Alena nodded. "Oh he's out playing with the brothers Will and Whyle." Alena tried to sit up but only managed to get up halfway before having to lean on the bedpost. She got a better view of the room. It was a small hut with a crackling fire in the center even though daylight was streaming through the doorway and windows. A table stood in one corner and a bookcase beside it. On the left side of the room several beds were layed out and next to the door were a stand of cabinets. 'Where am I?" Alena asked. "Oh I'm very sorry where are my manners. My name is Saria and you are in the medical hut of Kokiri village in the depths of The Great Forest. I'm a Kokiri a race of forest dwellers who never age. I'm also unofficially the Tangela village healer." "What in the name of the goddesses is a Tangela?" Alena asked as she was to confused to ask anything else. Oh were a tribe of Kokiri. You see there are five Kokiri tribes each ruled by a forest master who is in charge of the village. The tribes are spread throughout the forest and each one has it's own history and culture. All the tribes are ruled by a council of wise ones who are in turn taking orders from the Deku Tree lord and master of the forest." The word Deku Tree triggered something in Alena's brain and the dream came flooding back to her. "The tree the Deku Tree I must see the Deku Tree!" Alena practically screamed at Saria. "I afraid that in your condition you aren't fit to go anywhere. Why don't you lie back and relax." "I can't I must see the Deku Tree! It is a matter of vital importance that I talk to him right away. Alena started to get out of bed but was pushed back by Saria. "Just relax and everything will be ok now I want you to drink this and..." "No look I don't have long to live you're a healer you must have noticed that." Saria looked at her strange and then her face fell. "Yes of course your right you have some sort of poison in you I have no idea how it got there but I've never seen it before and as far a I can tell nobody else has. The end result is that it hides in your system and slowly weakens you until a certain time when it surges up and you well..." her voice trailed off. Alena looked at herself and realized that she was getting weaker but that didn't matter all that did was the dream and her son and the Deku Tree and... oh what was the use! It wouldn't matter she would die and nothing she did would stop it. But wait maybe that was it. She had nothing to lose and everything to gain by listening to the dream if she could make a difference then it didn't matter what happened to her as long as she could help she would. Alena tightened her jaw and came to terms with her own heart. She turned to Saria. "You must have looked inside me if you saw the poison so you must know magic and if you know magic then you can get me and my son to the Deku Tree before midnight." Saria looked at her with a piercing stare. "Yes I could get you there by tonight but why do you want to see him so much?" Alena sighed and realised that she would have to tell Saria her whole story about how she escaped her burning village how she had this dream of the Goddesses. Alena poured her story out into Saira and when she was finished Saria looked skeptical but compliant. "Ok I'll do my best to get both of you to the Deku Tree before tonight." Alena thanked her profusely before lying back and resting on the soft bed.
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When Alena woke she found that she was no longer in the hut. Torches burned brightly in the darkness around her and she realized that she was being borne on a stretcher through the woods by a score of silent Kokiri. Saria appeared beside her. Leaning in low she spoke very quietly as if she were afraid someone was listening in. "Ah good you're awake, don't speak just listen. You're being carried to the Deku Tree's glade and its ten pm." Another hour passed before the party reached the glade. Two Kokiri pulled back a screen of ivy to reveal the glade. The meadow was slumbering now but Alena believed that had it been daylight she would have seen a true wonder of the world. Every flower imaginable grew around the glade. Stone statues to the goddesses stood next to the entrance. A gravel path wound it's way to where the lord and master of the forest stood. A huge tree of unimaginable girth towered over all. Its leaves, boughs, branches, and roots, all were greatly proportioned on a grand scale. A face was set in the main trunk like it had been carved there. But it didn't look like a carving so much as it looked like a living embodiment. All of the Kokiri bowed down reverently before their lord and even Alena lowered her eyes. The Deku Tree spoke then its voice stern but loving like that of a parent. "Come forward dear children and bring with thee yon woman for her time grows short." The forest children lifted the stretcher and carried their burden until it was in the shadow of the great tree. "I was told of thin coming Alena be you at peace?" Alena adopted an old common accent and spoke. "Nay I be I turmoil sire for I have not long to live and my child has not any home." "I was told of your arrival in a dream but I know not the way ye came to this place. Saria step forward shed some light on yon mystery." Saria approached and touched a part of the Deku Tree's immense root with her lips as a sign of respect. "My lord sir Maltorlia found the woman lying outside the forest gates. She had no idea who the woman was and so when she fainted Maltorlia came to me. We had her carried into the village medical hut where I looked into her and found that she had been poisoned. We have a suspicion that the will get to her by midnight. She hails from a village on the plains that goes by the name of Kaldon. It was attacked by the forces of Ganondorf who was looking for slaves." At this remark there was much scowling and knuckles cracking from the assembled Kokiri for they liked Ganon no better than anyone. Saria continued. "The village is little more than ashes now and she requests that her son be delivered into our care." Saria looked up at the Deku Tree and gave him a pleading glance. For a moment there was silence nobody spoke and all that could be heard was the crackling of the torches. Then the silence was shattered as the Deku Tree spoke. "Yon woman is pure of heart and has suffered much for her son. He will stay." A cheer arose from the Kokiri and Alena gave a sigh of relief as though a great weight had been lifted from her shoulders. Slowly she felt herself getting drowsy. "Dose thin child have a name?" The Deku Tree asked. Alena looked at him "No he doesn't not anymore. In another life he used to be called Caleb but that life is over and his name no longer exists." "Well we cannot have a child without a name!" The Deku Tree exclaimed. "But do not fret I have a name for the boy. He is a link to the gods for he was sent to us through their divine intervention and so he will be named Link." "Link Link Link Link Link!!!" the Kokiri intoned getting louder and louder until it became a steady chant. "Dost thin name sound fitting lady?" But Alena could no longer hear him. She had gone to her final rest. Her body lying peacefully among the flowers. Slowly the cheering Korkiri stopped as they realized what happened. The mood of happiness was replaced with one of sorrow. "Tis a sad tale for one so young to lose a mother. But in her death she gave another life. She will not be forgotten." "Saria Thou shalt care for yon babe until he is ready to build his own house and live as a village member. He should have lots of friends among you. No one must tell him of what has taken place here until I do so myself. Now go all of ye except for the twins Will and Whyle thee shall bury yon lady among my flowers and give her a fitting grave for she has earned a special place in this forest." Slowly a somberly the Kokiri went about their buisness in stoic silence as the baby boy Link who had been suffered for so much was brought back to the village where he would start a new life.

FootNote
Yeah I know what your all thinking that was a long prologue right? Well I had to get that story out of me so there. Besides this is going to be an ongoing thing for me so more chapters will follow. If you got anything to say to me about the story R&R or send me an E-mail as I'm always open to suggestions for new chapters. Remember this is just the beginning.