Link stepped out of the cave holding the sword and scabbard in his hand. His journey to the Kingdom of Hyrule had gotten thicker then he ever thought it would. Now he was on his way to find a princess. The first thing he initially noticed was the lack of dead bodies above ground. The second was the fact that four black dog looking soldiers were standing in the area around the cave. The four wore heavy steel armor and were armed to the teeth with all matter of weapons.

"By order of the Dark Prince Gannon all inhabitants of Hyrule must disarm. I will give you two minutes to hand over all of your armaments."

"I'm new here but the last time a checked, Princess Zelda and her family were the rulers of Hyrule. I could be wrong but I don't think that your Prince Gannon has any dominion over me," Link replied, showing his bravado even in the face of a formidable enemy.

The dog soldier reared back and pulled from a scabbard on his a very large and intimidating sword. Link extracted his own. "I don't really want to fight you but if you strike at me, you'll all die," Link stated dropping to a defensive stance.

The dog's large double bladed sword swung in a huge arc. Link jumped forward, ducking the large sword, and stabbed up with his own weapon through the steel of the soldier's armor. The dog crumpled to the ground, holding the bloody wound in its great paw. Link jumped into the air, his tunic making him look like a green flash with his speed, and kicked the wounded beast in the face knocking him to the ground.

The other three all pulled their weapons out and circled the young warrior. Link ran forward spinning around, sword out, cutting into the three beasts. The attack did only minor damage to the dog soldiers. One of them pulled its spear up and stabbed at the small target. Link hopped onto the head of the spear and watched as the over exerted weapon shredded into the soldier that had been behind him. On the spear, he plunged the point of his sword through the throat of the dog infront of him. As the dog fell to the ground Link dismounted the weapon. He turned smoothly, sword out, ready to meet his next enemy. The great dog was ready, however, and had a large crossbow, bolt knocked, in its paws. The dog grunted and then said, "Drop your weapon now human! I, Ushrak, of the High Moblin Army command you to disarm. If you don't comply, you shall be terminated."

Link stepped back. Should he give the weapon up. Maybe it would just be better if he did what the big dog told him to do. The sword dropped to the ground, and the dog lowered its crossbow.

"Bad move," Link said as he kicked the sword back into his hand. The dog didn't have any idea what hit him when the blade of the weapon penetrated its skull.

Link was no stranger to death, or fighting. In the village where he grew up many unsavory characters would show up to make trouble for the town people. Link had been in the miltia and had learned out to fight there. Though the blade he was working with was a bit dull, Link intended to use it as if it was the finest sword forged in all of the world.

The bodies of the dog soldiers, or moblins, lay in distorted positions around Link's body. "What a mess," he muttered as he slid his weapon into it's scabbard. He rolled the bodies over and searched them for anything useful. One had a sack full of rupees and another had a small vial of medicine. The other two must have been lower ranking soldiers because there was nothing of any use on their bodies.

I was hidden well in a crevace covered by some dead bushes that sat on top of the cave so I had had a great view of the skirmish with the moblins. It was about time to make myself known to Link. If he was to fulfill his task then he would need my help.

I slipped from the top of the cave and landed softly in the dust. Link was still stretching his weary limbs, tired from travel, and exhausted from battle. "Link I presume."

The boy turned smoothly on his heel and in one fluid movement I felt the tip of his blade against my throat. "Yield!," he exclaimed, "there has been enough death already." "I agree," I replied. I stepped back and pulled from a scabbard hidden on my leg a long rapier. Link looked noticably irratated. I dropped my sword and stepped back.

"I come in peace. And in fact I come to write about you."

"What!? Write about me." He stepped back and slid the sword into its scabbard, " are you dense, or did you recently go crazy. I'm nothing to write about."

I laughed. "Wrong again. I've been told that I need to write your history. Write about your journeys and adventures. Generations in the future will want to know."

He lifted his left hand and started walking away. "Had did you know anything about me. I haven't been in Hyrule since I was born."

"I don't rightfully know," I said running to catch up to him, I had already picked up my weapon again, "A dream to tell you the truth but I don't know exactly who sent me."

"So you're a sage," he asked still walking across the dry plain.

"Um.. not often enough to rely on it, but yes, I've had a vision or two before."

"You already know my name but I don't seem to know yours."

"Tolshieka," I said, "By the way if your headed for the broken triforce your going the wrong way."

He stopped, "How do you know about the broken triforce? Oh wait, you're a sage I got it now."

"Not exactly. Its just that there were eight dungeons built thousands of years ago, to hold pieces of the triforce. Dangerous places to tell you the truth. Monsters of all shape and size guard the triforce and it won't be easy to retrieve it."

"Okay so I go find this triforce and I'll find the Princess. Or do I find the Princess first and then go for the triforce? Or is the triforce even that necessary?"

I stopped suddenly and Link stopped as well. "You don't know what the triforce is?" I asked him like he was the most ignorant person in Hyrule.

"I'm guessing by your tone I should."

I shook my head and began to walk again. "I'm not going to go through an explaination but if you need it I'm sure the triforce will inform you."

He nodded, still not understanding what exactly it was. "Is the triforce a person."

"No. No its not," I said continuing my walk, "And it's nothing to take lightly."

So the green tuniced young man and myself began a journey that would bring us closer together then ever thought imaginable.