***I do hereby solemnly swear that I am nowhere near cool enough to own anything Nintendo or Legend of Zelda oriented. If I did, I'd be sunning myself on my personal beach/resort/mansion on Kauai drinking a Pina Colata with gorgeous guys fanning me and begging to perform my every, ahem, desire...I wouldn't be writing Fan Fiction in my home with a sweating Double Gulp of Diet Coke making my desk wet.***

Well, I'm finally jumping over the hurtle of fear and posting some of my fan fiction. (Course, I wrote it as a freshman and I'm now going to be a senior in High School, so it might take a while for me to make an attempt at editing my overly ambitious writing as a 14 year old.. Bear with me!)

This PROLOGUE really has no plot. It's just to set the story, time, and events leading up to it in place. Most Zelda stories have COMPLETELY different ideas of what happened after the defeat of Ganondorf, so this really just tells what MY story will be based around.

~Flames, Wings, and Pawprints: You may not know it, but it's because of you all that I'm finally making a public fanfic attempt! Thanks guys, Marauders forever!

(Everyone read stuff from the HP authors "Jedi Cosmos" and "AmericanAngel1")

Link's Apprentice

Prologue

The weather was crisp, with a cool wind blowing from the direction of the castle. As Link stepped outside from his tree house he took a deep breath, breathing in the sweet fragrances of wood and spices from Kokiri Forest. Mornings like this always reminded him of who he had been, eight years ago. All his life Link had been made fun of, simply because of the fact that he didn't have a fairy. The children of the forest who never grew up, the Kokiri, each had their own. They served as guardians to them in time of need, as well as companions. Finally, when Link was 10, a fairy came to him, telling him that he must meet with the Great Deku Tree, guardian of the forest. Link laughed silently to himself. Ah yes. The summoning that changed my life. From that day, he would proceed to win Spiritual Stones, have his body and soul entombed in the Sacred Realm for seven years, awaken sages, and banish the single most evil fiend Hyrule had ever seen.all before the age of 17.
When Zelda, the princess of Hyrule and his companion through the quest, had realized the mistakes she made in trying to control the realms, and that it was, after all, directly her fault that Link had lost seven years of his life, atoned by sending Link back to his original time, seven years in the past.
But that was now eight years ago. Ever since that day he laid the Master Sword to rest, he felt different. In the body of an 18-year-old, he had changed. Physically, emotionally, and with all the hate and fear he had seen, matured faster then anyone had right to. Link had been stuck inside a child's body for eight years now, living the free life he had once lived. But after returning "home", no one remembered a thing he did; no one knew anything about Ganondorf, or what a boy from the forest had done to save Hyrule. Only himself, Zelda, the other six sages, Ganondorf (who was somewhere in the Evil Realm,) and his closest friend outside of the forest, a young ranch girl named Malon, about Link's age. The only thing he had to show for it was the symbol of the Triforce on the back of his left hand, one spot shaded to show the courage he possessed.
Malon's horse, Epona, was once a prize Link had won during Ganondorf's reign when he beat the cruel, drunken ranch owner Ingo, who had kicked Malon's father off the ranch and constantly beat her. Once Link went back to his own time, Malon gave Epona to Link. It was her gift, she told him, to the hero who saved the land.and her as well.
Link smiled to himself. While thinking about his past and his fights with Ganondorf did upset him and fill him with hatred to the Evil King, it also brought back some fond memories about friends he had made and the places he had seen. He climbed down the ladder and jumped the last few feet to the grass below. Another day with nothing to do, he thought to himself. That was the one nice thing about not being a hero, you have all the time in the world to do nothing but sulk meaninglessly around. After about a minute pondering over how he should occupy his time, he decided to catch the sunrise. Thy sky was a wonderful indigo tint, becoming lighter by the minute. If he raced, he'd be able to make it to the field before the vivid colors begun to appear.
He ran to the stable, right near the entrance of the village. Finding Epona awake and greedily chewing the hay at her feet, Link leapt onto her back and sped out into Hyrule Field, passing the trees in his way until he reached the vast, open area in the center of Hyrule. There were only a few trees everywhere, so he sped up Epona, and let her run as fast as she wanted.
Nothing he had encountered had ever felt as sensual as feeling the wind in his hair and on his face. The way it caressed him and blocked out all sound made his heart race. Link held onto Epona's neck, urging her to gallop faster as he lifted out his arms, closed his eyes and pretended to fly. As they reached the top of the short hill, Link leapt off onto the springy grass looking up at the heavenly rays of colors in the sky. That was when he saw her....

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There, that's just setting the stage for the ACTUAL story. Chapter one is going to be posted shortly, after I make an attempt at editing my writing from freshman year.*cringe* PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE review! You'll go down in my "book of nice people" forever!!!

Love, Elothinnriel