The Legend of Zelda: The Urn of Genesis.

After finishing my A-levels (a qualification you take at age 18 in England. Or at least used to they just changed the system for that level of education) I read a lot of work on fanfiction.net in the 3 months I had free. Now I have started my university course and somehow have found more time free. (No I don't know how either). So I decided to write down this idea I had for a Zelda story that was inspired by a dream, so if it seems weird its because that's what my dreams are like. It also had something to do with one of my flatmates who writes a lot of stuff and encouraged me to do this.

Disclaimers

The Legend of Zelda and all the characters contained within were created by Shigeru Miyamoto and are property of Nintendo copyrighted from 1986 – 2001. I have used the characters without permission from Nintendo and I acknowledge that they have the right to sue me. However, I am making no money from this so royalties cant be paid and I have no money to be sued from (I'm a student, we're all bloody skint).

This is a disclaimer for my English (or rather lack of). I failed my English GCSE (the qualifications that are taken at age 16 in England for those who don't know) well I got a D, and had to retake it the following year. I still consider my writing to be that of a very bad nature (and to read my handwriting you'd think I was twelve or something). So although I'm going to get that friend to proof read this, I apologise for bad grammar and the wrong spelling of words (I will be using the spell checker but you know who it doesn't work sometimes. E.g. if the word is hart – its probably meant to be heart!) Also these are the ENGLISH spellings, not the American. Therefore as Americans would put color, I put colour – got it!

Now that that's done, on with the story!



The Legend of Zelda: The Urn of Genesis

Link ran up the stairs as fast as his 16-year old legs could take him. As he reached the top of the stairs he looked around the round room. It was built with dark dank stones and had a red carpet that covered the stairs and carried on in a straight line across the bare stone floor of the room. In the centre of the carpet at the centre of the room, the Triforce symbol was engraved. The Triforce symbol is gold in colour and has a thin gold coloured circle that surrounds it. There are paintings hanging on the wall, in between the slits that are the windows of this room. Candles surrounding the room barely illuminate it, with the thunder and lightning out side being the only other thing lighting the room in the dark night.

To the left of the room was a door where Link noticed a very large man with green coloured skin. He had a long black cape, which was red lined on the inside, that hangs from his dusty black armour. He had a very maniacal look to his eyes almost as if he was the embodiment of evil.

The man was carrying a petite girl under one of his huge arms. The girl seemed about the same age as link, with shoulder length blonde hair. She has on a long white and blue dress with the Triforce symbol on it. She was struggling to break free of her kidnapper's grip, but to no avail.

Link tried to follow after the man to save this girl but before he could even get close, two Stalfos jumped out from the stone floor. Link managed to dodge his enemy's attack and managed to strike a blow that took one of his opponent's heads clean off, and the Stalfos disappears back into the floor. As link dispatches with the other one, a shriek is heard in a female voice. "LINK HELP." Link spins around to face the door and sees inside that the young lady is imprisoned half way up one of the walls.

From Links perspective most of the room is blocked by the long black cape of his enemy, he can just see that in front of the man was, what seemed to be, a brownish coloured stone urn. As Link ran towards the room to rescue the beautiful madden, a door fell and slammed shut. The door itself is made of the same material as the walls, solid stone. Link tried to bang on the door to open it but to no avail. He looked around the room for a switch but couldn't find one. From behind the door he heard the man laugh and started to see a golden glow emanating from behind the door. He heard the girl scream as if she was being stabbed, or worse? An explosion forced the door to shatter and large fragments of stone pushed Link at great force to other side of the room. The last thing Link saw before slamming into the wall behind him was the maniacal face of his enemy laughing at him. All he saw after that was black.



"Argh"

Link practically jumped out of his bed. 'That was a dream?' he thought to himself. 'But it seemed so real. But…' the dream seemed to fade as fast as Link had woken up and now only fragments of it remained in his mind. He knew that he was fighting someone and that he was also saving someone, but he didn't know who either of them were. He also didn't know how he learned to fight like that. That's when it really sank in. 'It was just a dream. But it didn't seem like a dream, it was real. But if it was real then who was that girl, and how did I learn to fight?' More and more questions kept arising in his mind until something outside caught his attention.

"LLLLLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNK!"

Link stood up and walked out to his 'balcony.' In actual fact this was his the platform outside his front door, but since his door consisted of a cloth and was halfway up a tree, it gave him a good position to sit at night and watch the little village or stare up at the stars at night. As he walked out side and looked down, a smiling face greeted him.

"Oh I'm sorry, did I wake you?" she said. The she in question was probably Links best friend, Saria. They had been friends for as long as he could remember, much to the hatred of Mido.

Mido is the (some might say self-appointed) leader of the Kokiri, the race that everyone in this little village was. The Deku Tree, their spiritual leader and father looked after the Kokiri. The Deku Tree acted always with in the best interest of the Kokiri and as a result had them living in a very protected environment. They did not know anything outside of the forest, whether it is the village where they lived, or what is known as the Mysterious forest. It had been said that if a Kokiri were to leave the forest, they would die. Of course the reverse was also said to be true. If an outsider were to enter the forest, they would die as well.

Each Kokiri had their own personal fairy, a companion for life. All Kokiri that is except Link. No fairy had come to him in his 16 years and this kind of made him famous in the little village, but nobody resented him for it. In fact most of the Kokiri like Link. However, Mido did not. He was jealous of Link and never really accepted him as a Kokiri. He was also jealous of Links friendship with Saria and was always making a comment that Saria just felt sorry for Link because he didn't have a fairy. Saria hated it when Mido said anything to tarnish her and Links friendship and would always complain and argue with Mido. Link on the other hand would just turn to Mido and say, "At least she's my friend." Saria still hated the implication that she was only friends with Link cause she just felt sorry for him, but Mido hated the fact that Link had friends. That's what Link used to rub in Mido's face when he made a comment of this nature, 'It doesn't matter how I got one, but I have a friend!'

The way that Saria made her comment to Link was kind of sarcastic, still, as Link started to remember, he had made plans with Saria to have a picnic lunch with her for today, so she had every right to make sure Link kept with her plans.

"Err… morning?" is about all Link could say looking deep into his friends deep blue eyes. With blue eyes, green hair and a very warm smile, it was difficult to say anything to Saria not long after you wake up. Well at least if your Link and had a very bad dream the night before.

"Not quite. It's not far from lunchtime. I was almost about to send Taya up to wake you." She said, as Taya, her fairy, flew not to far from her. "So if you don't mind hurrying up, then we can go now." She says with enthusiasm.

"Alright, give me a moment" Link says still a little sleepily as he turned round to go back into his house.

"I'll give you two, but no more" came the jokingly response. Link walked into his house and over to a wooden bowl with some water in. He stares at his reflection in the bowl for a few seconds, with that dream still on his mind, before putting his whole face in and pulling it out. He grabbed a cloth that was near by and dried his face before putting the cloth down and leaving. He climbed down the ladder outside his house and walked up the slight hill to where Saria was standing.

"So, where are we eating then?" Link asked remembering that he had allowed Saria to pick the place.

"I thought we'd eat outside the temple." She replied. She wasn't expecting the response she got.

"Oh." Link said disappointed.

"Why? Don't you like the temple?"

"Well it's not the temple, that's a great place." He said in a positive manner so that he wouldn't hurt his friend's feelings. "But in order to get there you have to go through the Mysterious forest and you know I have trouble in there."

Indeed she did know. Years ago a lot of the Kokiri played in the Mysterious forest. The Mysterious forest is a very weird place. There are areas in the forest that have three tunnels that lead out of that area (excluding the one that you use to come into the area). Going trough a tunnel would lead you to the next area. The only problem is that two of the tunnels would lead you back to the first area that starts off the Mysterious forest. What's weirder was that to go back on yourself after going through one of these tunnels would not lead you back to the last area that you were in but back out to the village instead. For some reason, that may have something to do with him not having a fairy, Link has trouble going through the forest without going back to the start area several times.

"All you have to do is hold my hand and follow me." Said Saria sympathetically. For some reason she was able to get to the temple without getting lost once, a feet that no other Kokiri could do, not even Mido. When asked about it Saria would just smile and say that she was lucky and had a good memory. But she has told Link the real reason, as she always confided in Link. She says that she feels the temple calling to her, for reasons that she does not know. She suspects that the great Deku Tree does know as he is meant to know a lot, if not all. But the Deku Tree won't grant her an audience Saria and tell her why the temple is calling her. The Deku Tree also won't tell Link why a fairy hasn't come to him yet, but over the years he hasn't minded as much. So it was decided that Link and Saria would go to the temple and, as agreed, Link held Saria's hand to go through the Mysterious forest.

They laid out the picnic blanket outside the forest temple, not far away from the main door and the two trees on either side. As they started to eat their lunch, Saria started to talk about how she felt that day. This troubled Link as it meant that something was wrong.

"I don't know what it is, but today just feels strange, don't you feel it?" Saria asked Link.

"Like how strange?" replied Link as he wasn't sure what his friend meant.

"Well, didn't you notice how it took you a long time to remember stuff today?" Saria asks. Link just stares blankly with a look that said 'but my memory's bad anyway.' Saria restarted where she left off.

"It took me a long time today to remember that we were going on this picnic. It's as if I didn't live yesterday and all my memories have been planted there this morning. Did anything like this happen to you, or even that you were living another life yesterday but now you cant remember much about it now. "

At this Link remembered his dream and, not even knowing if it was relevant, started to explain it.

"Well I had this dream last night. It felt so real and I knew everybody and everything, but when I woke up…" he continued to explain his dream, describing what happened as much as he remembered it. "I knew I had to save this beautiful madden"

"Well thank you" Saria chipped in, knowing that, or at least thinking that she knew, that Link had a lot of dreams recently about Saria.

"Sorry to disappoint you" Link continued "But it wasn't you. In the dream I knew her name, but now I don't. All I can remember is that she had blond hair and on her clothes she had the Triforce Symbol."

"The Triforce symbol?" Saria asked trying to get her friend to expand.

"Yeah, but she wasn't a Kokiri. Not only that, but I had a fairy."

"A fairy? But who?" Taya asks. It's very rarely that a fairy will speak to someone other than his or her companion.

"Yeah" Link continued "but I don't know who. But I know she was…"

Saria cuts him off

"A blue fairy"

"Yeah" Link says puzzled "How did you know that?"

"I don't know…" Saria said. She seemed frightened at how she knew that, and so was Link. "I don't know."



Navi the Fairy flew over Mido who was guarding the entranceway to the Deku Tree but that's not where Navi was going. She was flying the other way. She had to get there quickly. She had to get back quickly. Navi flew to the entrance of the Mysterious forest. She navigated around the forest to get to forest temple in record time. She approached Link and Saria.

"HEY" Navi yells. Both Link and Saria spin round to stare at this fairy hovering in front of them. Both of them were very surprised to see a blue fairy in front of them.

"You need to go to the Deku Tree NOW" Navi ordered.

"Who?" asks Link.

"Both of you can go, as long as you go NOW" Navi again orders trying to hurry them along. Both Link and Saria got up and followed Navi. They use the Mysterious forest's special trick to leave the forest quicker and started to head over to the Deku Tree. Navi flew over Mido going to the Deku Tree as fast as possible. She suddenly turned around to see why Link and Saria weren't still following her.

"Why would the Deku Tree call you to see it? Why didn't he called me, the leader of the Kokiri?" Mido complained.

"All we know is that we were called to see Deku Tree. We don't know why," explained Link. Before Mido could complain some more, Navi started to yell at Mido.

"The Deku Tree wants to see them NOW. Do you dare defy the Deku Tree." Mido got very worried about what the Deku Tree may do to him.

"Err… no?"

"Good, then move out the way and let these people through!" Mido then complied and moved out of the way. Saria and Link smiled at each other as they continued to follow Navi to the Deku Tree. When they get there they stood staring at the tree, frozen with a combination of fear and amazement.

"Both Link and Saria are here oh great Deku" Navi informed the tree.

"GOOD, THOU HAST RETURNED NAVI," replied the tree in a large voice. "ALTHOUGH I ONLY CALLED ONE OF YOU HERE, I DO NEEDEST TO SPEAK TO YE BOTH." It pauses "LINK!" it bellows "I HAVE A QUEST FOR THEE!"

To be continued…

Still to come (if you're interested) who were the people in Links dream (if you don't already know) and what exactly did it mean? And what is the Urn of Genesis? What is the quest that the Deku Tree wants Link to do and what will he tell both Link and Saria about themselves? When will Link and Saria go out and kiss – find out in the next chapter.

AN: In case you're wondering I don't own Taya as I didn't make her up. Taya is actually a name for one of the fairies in the Legend of Zelda games, bet you can't guess which one!

Now Please Review – I Need To Know What You Think, Should I Keep Going Or Kill This Story And Never Write Again.