Author's note: I wanted to bring the other characters up to speed while I think of what will happen next. So here is when I am gonna incorporate the rest of the characters so they have lives and are not just waiting for Serena to finish her little...bizarre, disturbing adventure. lol. Enjoy.
Chapter 4
New Revelations
Meanwhile, back in the Kokiri forest…
"Oh, Navi…
Dost thou sense it?
Once again, the climate of evil is descending upon this realm…
Malevolent forces even now are mustering to attack the land of Hyrule
It seems that it is time has come for our young Link to begin his journey anew. "
Navi nodded. She did feel it. Coldness, a dark and menacing coldness whose source she couldn't quite find. But why did the Duka Tree Sprout and herself seem to be the only ones effected by this coldness?
At that moment, the stillness of the forest was disrupted as a Kokiri girl ran up toward them. She recognized the girl as Saria, the Sage of the Forest. Her face was flushed and she was breathing rapidly. "I …have news…" She forced out in between gasps for air.
"Why are you out of breath? What's wrong? What is your news?" Navi stammered. The Duka Tree Sprout looked at her in a strange manner, which admonished her immediately. "Are you all right, Saria?" she added quickly.
Saria grinned. "I'm fine thanks. But it's Link we should be concerned about. He's having nightmares." She paused, took a long breath and slowly explained what Link had told her earlier. When she finished, Saria looked pleadingly at Navi and the Duka Tree Sprout.
"What are we gonna do about it?" she asked almost in tears for her dearest friend.
At that very moment, the forest floor shook as a blood-curdling scream arose from the direction of the small Kokiri village. Saria gasped as a large dark cloud swept through the Kokiri forest from someone's hut?!…LINK'S!
"Oh no! It is coming from LINK'S HUT!!" Navi almost screamed. Without another thought, she took off through the trees. She looked down only once to see Saria running with a new determination etched across her face as they approached Link's hut.
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*Only moments ago did Saria come to see me. Why don't I feel any better? Why did Saria seem to know the man from my dream? So many questions she left unanswered.* Link sat on his bed as he watched Saria enter the Great Duka Tree Sprout's grove.
He got up and started to pace. "I know she knows something she isn't telling me." He concluded. "But what could it be?"
Suddenly the room began to spin, ceiling and floor becoming one before he hit comforting blankets and passed out.
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"Ah, it is almost time. Almost time to escape my weakening prison. Almost time to have revenge on Hyrule. On the Sages. On the Hero of Time."
Link could see the man clearly looking around for something. As his eyes landed upon Link, he flashed a menacing smirk before he drew a sword and pointed it at the suddenly frightened Link.
Link, out of his mind with terror, did the first thing he could think of as the man lowered his sword and charged at him. He screamed as loud as he possibly could. But the man kept coming closer and closer.
*Why won't it stop? Please I want to wake up!* He began to struggle with his feet to move but they wouldn't budge. His eyes pleaded into the darkness for anyone who would come to his aid. "Just let me wake up!" He called out when he no longer could scream.
"NO ONE WILL HELP YOU OH HERO OF TIME!" the man called out as he got even closer. Link shut his eyes, not wanting to see his executioner, as he knew he would be killed when the man reached him.
A few moments past…and nothing had happened yet. Link, gathering up more courage than he knew he possessed, slowly open his eyes. It took a few seconds for him to swallow the sight before him.
The man stood, towering above him, with his sword drawn, blade pointed straight at Link's heart. The man glared at Link, who has gone beyond terror into pure hysteria. He noticed this and smirked.
"You really don't know who I am do you?" he asked Link, with a questionable look on his twisted face. All he could do to respond was to shake his head, which meant "no". The man threw back his head and laughed.
*Why does he expect me to know him? Why is he laughing at me? Why can't I just wake up?!* Link cried out in his mind.
The man stopped laughing, and spoke in very clear, very frightening words. "Little boy, I have left you alone for what seems like ages for me. I am the very incarnation of your deepest, darkest fears. I am Ganondorf Dragmire. And you are no longer going to keep me from the real world." As he said it, he plunged his sword into Link's heart and turned.
Link screamed enough to wake the dead and loud enough to shake his dream world. Ganondorf, a smile playing upon his lips, withdrew his sword from Link, whose body fell in a heap to the ground.
The last sight before he could no longer keep his spirit in his body was of Ganon laughing as the world around his shook and he changed! He changed into a winding cloud that sucked up what light there had been before swirling toward him.
*What -gasp- is he doing?* he asked himself with a shocked look upon his face as the cloud held him down and melted into his skin.
With all of his strength left, he howled out a cry so terror ridden at this invasion. Finally he accepted what couldn't be changed or helped and closed his eyes to welcome the darkness.
What happened to Link? What did Ganon do? What will Navi and Saria find? All questions will be answered in the next installment of Zelda Reborn.
Hope you liked this one. This is why I rated it this way. Tell me your thought ok? -Nefertare