OK! My first attempt at a fic with a ~real~ plot (lol).....I'm still adding chapters
to my other fic "The Legend of Zelda: Sages of Stupidity" so those of you who might
be keeping up with that have nothing to fear.....so here we go.......Link's Quest to Find Zelda!
~Disclaimer: Same old, same old.......nothin new here but the fic.......I DO NOT FREAKING OWN
ZELDA SO PLEASE REFRAIN FROM TAKING ME TO COURT!!!!!!!!!! Thank you and have a nice day~
It was a cloudy day. Link hoped it wouldn't storm, not because he was afraid, but
because he was right smack dab in the middle of Hyrule field. Everything was at least an
hour's journey away, Lon Lon ranch being the closest.
Link was seventeen now, for the second time. Zelda had sent him back after Ganondorf's
demise to re-live his childhood. Well, he had certainly relived it, and all the while with
Zelda's last words ringing in his ears: "When peace returns to Hyrule, it will be time to say
goodbye..." He had only seen her once since then, back in her old chamber. After that, there
had been no trace of her anywhere.
It was just before the first raindrop hit him that he got the idea. He would search
for Zelda, no matter how long it took, and find her. If that one drop had come a second sooner,
he would have put the thought aside and headed for cover immediately.
Only it hadn't. But when it did fall, it managed to get him right in the eye. Link
cursed under his breath, but suddenly remembered the instrument Zelda had given him before her
disappearance. For the second time, Link was entrusted with the fabled Ocarina of Time. He
got it out and began playing the Song of Storms, hoping to at least stave this one off for a
while longer.
This done, he gently pressed Epona's sides with his feet, getting her going. Once
they were at top speed, he started thinking again.
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The jorney had taken just over an hour, with Link only stopping to let Epona grace
the ground with some excess nutrients that she had not fully digested. It was just starting
to rain again as Link knocked on the door of Malon's house.
"Link!" Malon exclaimed as she opened the door and saw her visitor. "What are you
doing way out here? You ususally only come up here about three times a year!"
"Well," Link said, "I'm going on a new quest soon, and I might be a very long time.
I thought it was probably best to say goodbye to all my friends before I went."
"A new quest? What for?"
"Well, you know how Zelda disappeared? I'm going to go and find her."
"But how? She could be anywhere.....even another world!"
"I've been to other worlds since Ganon's fall. I bet if I looked hard enough I could
find even more gateways."
"Link, there's something you should know. It may help you. You were not the last
person to see Zelda. I think I was. She came to the ranch, and I thought I saw her, but
there was a flash of light and she was gone. I thought I was just seeing things, because that
was right after I was getting over that terrible disease."
"But how do we find out how she did it?"
"What about that old ghost hunter you used to tell me about? Do you think he may
know some things? Or Saria! She's a sage too!"
"Or Darunia, or Ruto, or Nabooru....or most likely even Rauru!! Thank you, Malon!
You've been a huge help!" With that, he gave her a big hug, a kiss on the cheek, and burst
out the door to collect his horse and charge off to his next stop: the forest.
*************************************************************
It was just as he was entering the Lost Woods that Link recalled the notes to the
Minuet of Forest. He cursed at his bad timing, but decided to finish the journey on foot.
After about twenty minutes of walking, Link finally finished climbing the stairs and
entered into the Scared Forest Meadow, his and Saria's secret place. He saw her in her usual
place on the tree stump, playing lively music. Instead of greeting her, he instead pulled out
the ocarina and began playing along with that all too familiar song.
Saria immediately stopped and looked up, obviously excited to see Link. Link, after
giving her a hug, got straight to the point.
"Saria, I need to ask you a very important question."
"What is it?" she asked, mystified.
"I need to know if you know how to open a gateway to other worlds."
"I don't, I am only a young sage. I think Rauru or Impa knows, though. I also
know that you can get into different worlds depending on your location in Hyrule. If you were
to open a gateway in Zora's River, it may lead you to a completely different world than say,
Lon Lon Ranch would."
"Do you know where Rauru is right now?"
"Yes. He is sitting on his fat old butt eating jelly doughnuts in that stuffy old
Temple of Light of his, as always. I can send you there if you want. I at least know how
to do THAT."
"That would be great, Saria. Thank you so much for your help!"
With that, Saria summoned a green capsule of light. Link stepped into it, and it
immediately shut, transporting Link to the Temple of Light within the Sacred Realm.
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"Rauru?" Link called.
"In here, Link! What brings you all the way out here to my humble dwelling?"
Link looked around at the lavishly decorated, impossibly huge temple and decided
that humble was hardly the word. He put that thought aside for now, however, and concentrated
on getting some answers.
"I need to know how to open gateways between worlds," Link informed Rauru as he entered
the huge chamber that he was currently in.
"Ahh. I see. Very hard magic, although I believe you are capeable. I don't teach this
to just anyone, though. You still have to undergo some training.
'Great' Link thought, 'just what I needed. More training!' Instead of saying this,
however, he politely asked, "What is it I need to do?"
"You must learn to clear your mind of all thoughts, so you are only concentrating on
the gateway you are creating."
"That's easy! How do you think I defeated Ganondorf, by letting my mind wander?
Thinking of all the girls I could get after doing something like that? Heck no, chubs!"
"You have a valid point...let's give it a shot then! This requires basic light
summoning skills. I bet you could learn those patterns all in one day if you tried. Here's
how the first one goes. After you clear your mind, focus only on a small ball of red light."
"Why red?" Link interrupted.
"Because red is the easiest for a beginner. The actual gateway will need white light,
but that is the very hardest to summon. Now, once you picture the light in your mind, you must
coax it out into reality. You may speak to it, trap it, fight it, whichever style suits you
best. But you must do it all in your head. Once you have it out, you can work magic with it."
"Okay...I'll give it a shot."
He closed his eyes and worked on clearing his mind of everything that was or might have
been a thought. Then he pictured a globe of red light. In his mind, he drew out his sword. To
his surprise, the light took the form of a human, and drew a sword of its own. After a few
moments, the battle commenced.
Link would have been surprised at how different battling in his mind was if he hadn't
temporarily banished his thoughts. He had unlimited strength, and could shrink or grow when
it was necessary.
But the light, which was out of his control, could do just the same, making the battle
both easier and harder simultaniously, but in different respects.
The battle ended when Link's sword passed through where the light-human's neck would be.
While it passed right through, leaving no blood or scars, it was obvious that the thing no
longer acted of its own accord, but of Link's.
It took Link a while to realize this, but once he did, he had no problems making the
ball of light in his mind a part of the real world.
*~~* THE END OF PART ONE *~~*
Coming up in Part Two: "Link ran out the door to the exact spot Malon had indicated. He cleared
his mind and envisioned a white globe of light........."
to my other fic "The Legend of Zelda: Sages of Stupidity" so those of you who might
be keeping up with that have nothing to fear.....so here we go.......Link's Quest to Find Zelda!
~Disclaimer: Same old, same old.......nothin new here but the fic.......I DO NOT FREAKING OWN
ZELDA SO PLEASE REFRAIN FROM TAKING ME TO COURT!!!!!!!!!! Thank you and have a nice day~
It was a cloudy day. Link hoped it wouldn't storm, not because he was afraid, but
because he was right smack dab in the middle of Hyrule field. Everything was at least an
hour's journey away, Lon Lon ranch being the closest.
Link was seventeen now, for the second time. Zelda had sent him back after Ganondorf's
demise to re-live his childhood. Well, he had certainly relived it, and all the while with
Zelda's last words ringing in his ears: "When peace returns to Hyrule, it will be time to say
goodbye..." He had only seen her once since then, back in her old chamber. After that, there
had been no trace of her anywhere.
It was just before the first raindrop hit him that he got the idea. He would search
for Zelda, no matter how long it took, and find her. If that one drop had come a second sooner,
he would have put the thought aside and headed for cover immediately.
Only it hadn't. But when it did fall, it managed to get him right in the eye. Link
cursed under his breath, but suddenly remembered the instrument Zelda had given him before her
disappearance. For the second time, Link was entrusted with the fabled Ocarina of Time. He
got it out and began playing the Song of Storms, hoping to at least stave this one off for a
while longer.
This done, he gently pressed Epona's sides with his feet, getting her going. Once
they were at top speed, he started thinking again.
************************************************************
The jorney had taken just over an hour, with Link only stopping to let Epona grace
the ground with some excess nutrients that she had not fully digested. It was just starting
to rain again as Link knocked on the door of Malon's house.
"Link!" Malon exclaimed as she opened the door and saw her visitor. "What are you
doing way out here? You ususally only come up here about three times a year!"
"Well," Link said, "I'm going on a new quest soon, and I might be a very long time.
I thought it was probably best to say goodbye to all my friends before I went."
"A new quest? What for?"
"Well, you know how Zelda disappeared? I'm going to go and find her."
"But how? She could be anywhere.....even another world!"
"I've been to other worlds since Ganon's fall. I bet if I looked hard enough I could
find even more gateways."
"Link, there's something you should know. It may help you. You were not the last
person to see Zelda. I think I was. She came to the ranch, and I thought I saw her, but
there was a flash of light and she was gone. I thought I was just seeing things, because that
was right after I was getting over that terrible disease."
"But how do we find out how she did it?"
"What about that old ghost hunter you used to tell me about? Do you think he may
know some things? Or Saria! She's a sage too!"
"Or Darunia, or Ruto, or Nabooru....or most likely even Rauru!! Thank you, Malon!
You've been a huge help!" With that, he gave her a big hug, a kiss on the cheek, and burst
out the door to collect his horse and charge off to his next stop: the forest.
*************************************************************
It was just as he was entering the Lost Woods that Link recalled the notes to the
Minuet of Forest. He cursed at his bad timing, but decided to finish the journey on foot.
After about twenty minutes of walking, Link finally finished climbing the stairs and
entered into the Scared Forest Meadow, his and Saria's secret place. He saw her in her usual
place on the tree stump, playing lively music. Instead of greeting her, he instead pulled out
the ocarina and began playing along with that all too familiar song.
Saria immediately stopped and looked up, obviously excited to see Link. Link, after
giving her a hug, got straight to the point.
"Saria, I need to ask you a very important question."
"What is it?" she asked, mystified.
"I need to know if you know how to open a gateway to other worlds."
"I don't, I am only a young sage. I think Rauru or Impa knows, though. I also
know that you can get into different worlds depending on your location in Hyrule. If you were
to open a gateway in Zora's River, it may lead you to a completely different world than say,
Lon Lon Ranch would."
"Do you know where Rauru is right now?"
"Yes. He is sitting on his fat old butt eating jelly doughnuts in that stuffy old
Temple of Light of his, as always. I can send you there if you want. I at least know how
to do THAT."
"That would be great, Saria. Thank you so much for your help!"
With that, Saria summoned a green capsule of light. Link stepped into it, and it
immediately shut, transporting Link to the Temple of Light within the Sacred Realm.
****************************************************************
"Rauru?" Link called.
"In here, Link! What brings you all the way out here to my humble dwelling?"
Link looked around at the lavishly decorated, impossibly huge temple and decided
that humble was hardly the word. He put that thought aside for now, however, and concentrated
on getting some answers.
"I need to know how to open gateways between worlds," Link informed Rauru as he entered
the huge chamber that he was currently in.
"Ahh. I see. Very hard magic, although I believe you are capeable. I don't teach this
to just anyone, though. You still have to undergo some training.
'Great' Link thought, 'just what I needed. More training!' Instead of saying this,
however, he politely asked, "What is it I need to do?"
"You must learn to clear your mind of all thoughts, so you are only concentrating on
the gateway you are creating."
"That's easy! How do you think I defeated Ganondorf, by letting my mind wander?
Thinking of all the girls I could get after doing something like that? Heck no, chubs!"
"You have a valid point...let's give it a shot then! This requires basic light
summoning skills. I bet you could learn those patterns all in one day if you tried. Here's
how the first one goes. After you clear your mind, focus only on a small ball of red light."
"Why red?" Link interrupted.
"Because red is the easiest for a beginner. The actual gateway will need white light,
but that is the very hardest to summon. Now, once you picture the light in your mind, you must
coax it out into reality. You may speak to it, trap it, fight it, whichever style suits you
best. But you must do it all in your head. Once you have it out, you can work magic with it."
"Okay...I'll give it a shot."
He closed his eyes and worked on clearing his mind of everything that was or might have
been a thought. Then he pictured a globe of red light. In his mind, he drew out his sword. To
his surprise, the light took the form of a human, and drew a sword of its own. After a few
moments, the battle commenced.
Link would have been surprised at how different battling in his mind was if he hadn't
temporarily banished his thoughts. He had unlimited strength, and could shrink or grow when
it was necessary.
But the light, which was out of his control, could do just the same, making the battle
both easier and harder simultaniously, but in different respects.
The battle ended when Link's sword passed through where the light-human's neck would be.
While it passed right through, leaving no blood or scars, it was obvious that the thing no
longer acted of its own accord, but of Link's.
It took Link a while to realize this, but once he did, he had no problems making the
ball of light in his mind a part of the real world.
*~~* THE END OF PART ONE *~~*
Coming up in Part Two: "Link ran out the door to the exact spot Malon had indicated. He cleared
his mind and envisioned a white globe of light........."