Chapter One

A flash of blue light shone and lit up the dimmed Temple of Time. It thinned untill there was no light left. The only person that stood there was Link. He had been brought back to his present time. The master sword was in the pedistal once more.The blood that had been there dried up and crumpledinto dust. Link stood there staring at it for a minute rembering what had happened. Destroying Gannodorf and beating Gannon. He remebered the sages locking Gannon in the evil realm when he had no strength left to fight. Even with the Triforce of power, Gannon could not penetrate the magic that bound him in the realm. Link longed to pull out the sword once again and remain an adult but didn't. He was too scared to pull it out.He thought that he might be stuck in that time because he would not have the Orcarina of Time. All he could do was finger the legendary sword lovingly and say to himself that he was the Hero Of Time. He knew that he would never see it again. Zelda had made sure of that, she had taken the Orcarina of Time.

So he sighed heavily and walked backward slowly. He stopped,took one last look at the sword and left. There was a loud sound and he knew that the Door of Time had been sealed forever. The stones still stood there spinning and sparkling on the alter. He read the inscription as he had done so many times before, and took the stones off one by one. He knew that there would be no reason to do this but he wouln't feel safe if he didn't. He left the Temple feeling misirable. He walked through the market where no one knew how close they had come to a mass destruction. He had saved their town from becoming destroyed and inhabited by Zombies. Once again he felt sad. He would no longer be a hero to many people.

He walked slowly to Kokiri forest which took about a day. When he got there no one greeted him. Instead they seemed to be ignoring him. He was used to this. Mido was always making fun of him for having no fairy, and he wouldn't be surprised if he had cooked up some stupid story about him. So he made his way to his house and found it in the same condition he had left in. After cheking carefully for any pranks they may have played on him he started to put down his equipment. Surprisingly he still had the Biggoron sword. It wasn't that heavy he thought as he put it under his bed. He put the rest of his stuff under his bed, (with the exception of his orcarina and Koriri sword) and headed to the training center of Kokiri. He crawled through the hole and doged the huge boulder and put the sword in the treasure chest. He wouldn't be needing it any more he reminded himself and tried not to cry.

He made his way up to the lost woods and to meet Saria. There were no more monsters in the Sacared Forest Meadow any more. They were destroyed because Gannon had created them and everything Gannon had created would be bound in the Evil Realm. He found Saria playing her ocarina on the stump as usuall and looked up where the Forest Temple stood. He made a mental note to rebuild those steps one day. He started to say to Saria 'Hi' but choked. He was still getting over the fact that he didn't want to be in this time. So instead he waved to Saria. She looked up and smiled at him. He started to tell her what had happened, pausing every so often so that he woulddn't cry.

When he was finished he looked up at her and found that she was smiling at him. He knew that she wouldn't remember anything that had happened.But hoped that she would.So he decided to ask anyway.

" Saria, you don't remember anything, do you?"

" No." she said with a frown"But what I don't get is that if you put Gannon in the Evil Realm seven years ahead of time, wouldn't that have absolutly no effect in the time that we live in now?"

Link just sat there dumbstruck at what Saria just said. Saria was usually a halfwit(Link called her Halfy for short) and never said anything intelligent. Or she would and then would go back to picking her nose and say something stupid.

"I dunno Saria. I mean...Iguess."said Link.

"Well...if that was true wouldn't you just have to go through all of that stuff again, because you time traveled for no apparent reason?"

"Why do you have to make me feel more miserable? I think it's one of those weird time travel things that no one understands at all. Plus there haven't been any reports form Princess Zelda about Gannon attaking. So can we please stop talking about this?"

"Yeah well if you don't want to talk about the facts of time travel then I guess we can just play our orcarinas." Saria said angrily.

They played Saria's song for a little bit. It made Link feel he was at home. It made him feel more comfortable hearing himself and Saria playing a song. It was good to hear their notes being bounced around and fill up the entire meadow. The notes echoed back to them and soon it was a round.Then Link stopped playing and looked at the huge platform in the middle with the Forest medalion on it. He wondered if he played one of the warping songs, if it warp him to that place. He had only warped with the ocarina Zelda had given him. He started to play the Prelude of light and stopped. He felt a strange feeling wash over him. Then he saw a giant shadow creeping out of the forest temple towards Saria. Before he could yell " LOOK OUT" the green shadow grabbed Saria and dragged her towards the Forest temple.Saria was screaming for help but he knew since he wasn't equiped, he could do nothing about Saria. Saria stopped yelling as so did Link.The silence in the meadow was louder than the screaming and yelling that had gone on but a minute ago.The shadow droppped Saria's body with a sickening thud and shrank back into the temple. Link ran to her body and found that she was just barely alive. She turned over and said" Go...to...Zelda." Then with that she fainted.He looked down at her.Her brillant green hair was touseled up and a few strands lay over her face. A few drops of blood were on her neck and arms, her dress was torn in several different places and she was all pale and clammy. Link carried her body back to her house with some difficulty. When he turned around to leave, he saw Mido standing at the threshhold. Mido tried to look important, fact was that Mido looked ridiculuos. His hands crossed over his puffed out chest and standing there in the doorway trying to block up anyway for Link to get out.

"Move out of the way Mido." said Link dangerously

Mido moved in silence and let Link pass. When Link had his back towards him Mido said

"You will die if you leave the Forest, you do know that right? Kokiri's aren't supposed to leave."

"Your not allowed to leave the forest.I am." Link spat out.

So he went to his house before Mido could talk. He equiped his items and played Prelude of Light.

When he got to the temple of time he screamed. The Temple was pitch black. No light shone through the windows.After a moment of hesitation he ran out. What he saw was almost blinding. It was broad daylight out but completely dark in the temple of time. He couldn't make sense out of it and didn't try to either. Though as he walked through the town it was an errie brightness in the town. It was getting lighter out every second. He still had to sneak in, because they didn't know that he had saved them seven years in advanced. He checked to see what time it was by the gossip stone. It was 9:00 at night! But it was extremly light out. He ran the rest of the way to the castle courtyard and got there just to find that Zelda wasn't there. Of course she couldn't be there all day.He waited on the steps for morning to talk to Zelda. He went to sleep (not having a decent nights sleep in weeks) without knowing it, just to be woken up in a few hours time to be thrown out.

"Let go of me you ugly brutes!"

"Ahhhhhh, shut you stupid kid. And if we catch you sneaking around in the courtyard again, we'll hang you!"

With that they threw him out.

"This feels familar alright" he thought as he got up from the dusty path. So he snuck back in the courtyard and this time was carefull about his hiding spot. He hid behind a bush and positioned himself just right to see if Zelda was coming. He had to wait for another hour, and since he had snuck in, security had tightened. All he could hope for is that the guards wouldn't see him and that Zelda would come soon.

Just his luck that Zelda should come with a guard.

"Damn it!" he said a little too loudly.

The guard looked wildly around and his eyes rested on the bush. He walked slowly toward the bush with his spear out to guard himself. He poked the bush with his spear and found nothing. Lucky for Link he searched the wrong bush. But soon the guards started to pile in and searching the entire area for any one that shouldn't belong in the courtyard. Zelda was to go to the castle in case something should happen. She left reluctantly and passed the bush that Link happened to be in. He decided to take a chance and whispered to her.

"Zelda"

"Who said my name?!" She yelled.

"No one" said a particuly fat guard.

"Zelda it was me...Link"

"Oh" she whispered back.

"Get me out of here!"

"GUARDS!!!!"

"Yes Princess Zelda?"

"I thought I saw someone over by the fountains. Check there"

"Yes Princess Zelda" the fat guard said with a puzzled look on his face.

"Get me out of here!" whispered Link.

Zelda scrunched up her face."But you're dirty and you'll track dirt all over the carpets and then they'll find out that I let an intruder into the castle."

"Please Zelda?''

"No Link...I can't. I'm sorry"

"Fine. Turn me in. They won't care that I'm just twelve years of age. All that they need to see is that I'm armed and then they'll kill me." Link said with a sigh.

" Oh come off it Link. They won't kill you. The worst they'll do is throw you out again."

" Yeah I guess you're right."

Link jumped out of the bushes and went up to the guards. Before he knew what had happened it had gotten brighter and brighter out. Then a blinding white flash came upon them. So powerful it knocked Link, Zelda and the remaining guards down to the ground. When the light had dimmed down somewhat, they watched in horror as they saw two or three guards being ripped limb by limb. When daylight had returned to it's original state. They saw the remains of the guards. There bones were scattered about and blood was everywhere. They gathered around the bones and looked down in disgust, in horror and in sorrow.

Once it was all cleaned up and the guards were given a proper funeral. Zelda was no where to be found. Link had found her in the courtyard and saw her sitting down with her arms around her knees rocking herself back and forth. Link looked at her for quite sometime and then went. Zelda looked up at his back but didn't say anything. 'It would only make things worse if I told him.' she thought. Link walked slowly back to Kokiri forest. As he went on the bridge he sat down,wrapped his arms around his knees and rocked himself back and forth like Zelda had done. He looked into Kokiri forest and thought of how peaceful it was. There was never any evil there.Nothing to fight for, no monsters, no dungeons to defeat, no sword fighting,no challenge,no fun"No adventure" he said aloud. Then he looked at Hyrule field. Monsters to fight,challenges, dungeons to defeat, mountains to climb,land to explore,sword fighting, castles, towns to visit, shops, new and exciting people, ranch,lake,dessert,Temples."Adventure"Then he looked straight and screamed. He didn't scream because he was afraid. He screamed because he didn't know what to do. He was twelve years old and was acting like he was already grown up. He didn't know where to go in life. He was stuck. Two places to go. One ment home and comfort. The other probobly ment that he would get a wink of sleep once a week. Instead he jumped off the bridge and cried himself to sleep.

"Do you think he's dead?"

"No. If we're lucky he is."

" That's not funny Mido. After what just happened to Saria,we're lucky to have found him alive!"

Link woke up at the last voice. He stared around and relized that he was back on the bridge.There was blood splatered everywhere on the ground where he had been laying. He sat straight up and stood up carefully.

"What happened here?'' he asked looking around once more.

"We were attacked." said a girl with blonde hair

"Why would anyone attack you guys, Erin?Link asked.

"I dunno. Why would someone like to go out into the field,almost get killed and consider it fun?" said Mido sarcasticly.

"Mido I don't feel like putting up with you're crap today."

"Oh would you both shut up?'' said Erin.

They both shut up and looked at the ground sheepishly.

"We don't know why they attacked us. But all we know is that everyone,well almost everyone got out okay."

"Well who are the people that didn't make it out?'' Link asked.

"There's only one person."

"And that would be...?" Link knew what the answer was going to be.

"Saria."

Link felt as though someone had punched him in the stomach. He was tumbling into a void oblivion of darkness. He was gasping for air and crying so hard that he made himself sick.Mido and Erin were trying to help Link back up but couldn't;he kept falling down. He wasn't able to stand up because he couldn't feel his legs or the rest of his body. The only thing he could feel was pain. When he woke up he was in Saria's bed. He lay there blaming himself for what happened to Saria.

"Should've never gone to the castle. I should have stayed here. She wouldn't have died if I hadn't left her behind." he kept muttering to himself.

"There was nothing you could do Link." said a soft voice behind him.

Link turned around and looked there and gasped.

"Zelda...wha...why...how?"

"I've been talking to the kids around here. It sounded like nobody could have saved Saria."

"Huh? How do you know about Saria dying?"

"Well I didn't at first and I saw how everybody was distraught and so I asked. They didn't know that Saria had been attacked at first.They were to busy fending off a few tektites. So natrually they were okay. Saria on the other hand was by the bridge and when they went to the bridge to look for her they found the upper-half of her body. They didn't have a chance to bury her. She body sorta disapparated in a few seconds."

"Huh? How come they didn't tell me about this?"

"Mabe because you've been passed out for about three days? Just a suggestion."

"Zelda the day that the guards died, I went to you to tell you about what had happened to Saria."

"Okay. What happened?"

" Well I had just come from the Temple of Time and was talking to Saria in the Sacared Forest Meadow. Then I was about to play Prelude of Light to see if you could warp using any orcarina.Just then a green shadow came slinking out of the temple and grabbed Saria. Do you know what that was that grabbed Saria."

Zelda looked away from him. He finally took this advantadge to actually look at her. Her hair was messed up, her face was pale, she had bags under her eyes, she was biting her chapped lips and she was clammy and shaking all over. She looked as though she had stayed up for the past couple of nights.

"Zelda what's wrong...?"

Zelda stood up and acted as though nothing was wrong.

"I-I-I have to go. I have to go back to the palace. My Father doesn't know I'm here. He might be worried about me. I have to go." And with that she walked quickely out of the forest.

"Yeah sure...nothing's wrong." whispered Link.