Hello to you, the reader. If you are one of those treasured specimens who have been keeping up with me and my stories, I apologise for the ones not finished, the ones I have neglected for a year now, but my creative juices stopped flowing when reality caught up with me. This is a story I wrote approximately three years ago when I was 13/14. It was lost when my whole account was deleted because of something else. . . hehehe. Anyhow, I hadn't saved it. . .but a good friend of mine had, then recently found it and printed it out. I am now reviving it. I am going to keep it pretty much the same, but I am now going to write it with a more mature mind. . .

Oh and I don't care if you think "Own Character fics" or whatever one likes to call them are gay/annoying/overdone/boring/mary-sueish I don't care! If you don't like it, don't read it! I want constructive criticism, not flaming, you just manage to prove how foolishly time-wasting you are so don't even bother. If I see one review saying "I hate OC fics, they're so crap" or along the lines like that, I will simply humiliate you. It's not going to put me off continuing, so I don't know why you even make the effort!

I am sick of bad reviewers, you're no better than the stories you flame – you're worse! A good reviewer will say "I like the plot, but your grammar could do with improving. I suggest. . . etc." And if you don't like the plot. . .why are you reading the story you cretin?

So, three years on at the age of 16/17 it is the return of Storm-child's. . .

Legend of Zelda : So many worlds apart yet so close

Chapter 1 – Biology just got interesting

I just sat there staring at it. I wasn't paying attention to my teacher, but this little shape was causing me much confusion. I knew some people in my school were crazy about the Zelda games, such as I was, but why anyone would want to carve a triforce symbol into the biology lab table with such intricacy and detail was beyond me.

Beside me Katie played with the gas tap looking wistful. "Stupid Biology. . . want to burn stupid experiments. . . who the hell wants to grow bacteria in Petri dishes. . . I'll dissect you next time. . ." she grumbled as Dr. Tuffil droned on with the usual jargon about revision. I smiled and turned back to a picture of young Link standing beneath the Deku tree. 'I can hardly wait to stick this up on . . if they ever actually open it. . .' I thought to myself, sketching Navi above Link's head. Katie snapped out of her boredom for a minute and looked down.

"Whoa Penny, that's amazing!" she said loudly as I blushed, "How come you're so good at drawing! I'm gonna have to sue you, my self esteem is lowering. . .lowering. . .lowering, ah. . .nuts, there it goes. That'll be £ 3million." Dr Tuffil had turned away from the board and was looking around to see who was talking instead of listening. I quickly turned the paper over and slapped it down on the table so it looked more like an exercise sheet to avoid confiscation. Our teacher looked around amiably seeing all was fine before turning back to write something about the liver.

"Katie, please keep quiet we keep getting in trouble."

"The liver is evil and must be punished. . . fancy some vodka after school?" She joked. I rolled my eyes. Katie was completely crazy, my best friend and my 'sister' but we were like Fire and Water. With her, literally, complete pyromaniac and obsessed with burning things. Compared to her I was the relatively calm one. I slowly breathed out and reached for my picture. . .and felt only the hard wood of the desk. I groped around with my fingertips before looking down. My picture was gone from where I had put it on top of the triforce symbol on which the very top triangle glinted at me strangely with a slight reddish glow. I blinked thinking I had finally lost it as Katie suggested to me often.

I looked around the table and then under the desk. "Katie did you take my picture?"

"Of course I did, I added it to my collection of things you've done in my Shrine of You. Some people call it stalking, I call it love." She smiled at me in a most disturbing way. I knew she was lying, one can always tell when Katie was lying. . . not only when it was really obvious. I sighed and decided that I better get back to work. I picked up my biology exercise book to the page we were meant to be doing questions from and put it down. Then picked up my file paper and wrote the heading. My eyes darted up to study the first question. . .aaaand my book was gone. I hadn't heard it fall but checked under the desk anyway. I sat up looking puzzled.

"What you looking for Penz?" Katie asked, twirling her compass around on the desk, the spike embedded in the wood. I didn't answer her as my eyes fell on the symbol again. A second triangle now glinted green. Katie's eyes followed mine as I reached forward to touch it. "Oh wow, shiny!" She said, reaching forward too. Our fingers simultaneously touched the last remaining triangle. There was an ear splitting whining and a flash of white light. I looked up, blinking and squinting, my eyes watering against the brightness. I was still sitting on my stool but the whole lesson around us had frozen in time. Everyone sat at their desks, eyes blank and staring, the Doc halfway through one of her elaborate diagrams, pen up to the board no longer drawing. The walls of the room and the floor and ceiling seemed to have vanished, whiteness was all around, and all seemed unreal. In the floor next to me a swirling vortex hummed and swirled purple, pink and down into blackness.

"COOL!" A voice exclaimed behind me. I jumped off my chair and turned and was so relieved to see Katie who I thought was inanimate like the rest of them. She was prodding Aimee the class bitch with extreme glee. I was speechless as she tore herself away, grinning at me foolishly. She strode forward to the edge of the hole and looked down, her eyes gleaming almost hungrily. "Let's go!" she pleaded.

"No! We've got to get them out of this!" I yelled, reaching for the little triforce symbol. I rubbed at it until my finger was sore, I desperately tried to think for a way out, but nothing came. "Look, there's no way out, there's only down so we might as well go with it." Katie reasoned. I looked at her for strength, she must have given it to me. "You're right," I sighed, giving in. Katie reached for her hand and took it, pulling me next to her.

"Now, on the count of three we jump in and check this baby out!" She yelled over the ever-louder whooshing sound emanating from the portal. I gulped. "One. . . two. . . .THREEEEEEEEEEE!" she screamed. We leapt together, I sent a prayer to Jesus for safety as I felt myself falling, then being swirled and twisted, squashed and stretched as we travelled downwards and sideways through whatever dimension this was, but I clung onto Katie, no matter what. Finally there was a great rushing noise, that got louder and louder until it turned into a great roar. My hair streamed out behind me as there was an explosion of colour and I found myself facing the sky as my hair changed direction, darting up around my face. I landed hard on back, the air knocked clean out of me. I heard a thud to the right of me, a shuffling and Katie sprang into my vision.

"Penny! Penny are you alright?" I saw her look up and then vanish before waiting for an answer. I lay struggling to breathe, waiting for my breath to come back. Finally my stunned lungs got their act together. I sucked in air faster than I would chocolate with relief and relish.

"Oh my god, OH MY GOD PENNY! GUESS WHERE WE ARE?" Katie squealed coming back into sight. I tried to be logical about this, but I looked up and around me. A large fence was ahead of me, to my right a volcano smoked in the distance, to the left of it were some town walls, behind me a forest. . .

"Hyrule." I breathed with disbelief and mounting excitement. I had always always dreamed of coming to Hyrule, all my life. Katie nodded, and bounded away again laughing and jumping. I stood, and after the initial awe I began to worry. This was NOT funny. I was in Hyrule, my whole life left behind me. . .there are MONSTERS in Hyrule. I'm scared enough of Redeads and Floormasters on the game. . .

"This is so KICKASS!" Katie cried, "I wonder where Link is?"

"Katie this is terrible!"

"Ha! That makes it better!" She looked behind us. "Oh look! Our bags got sucked in with us, how considerate." She ran over and picked them up. I checked inside mine, everything was there. . .good.

"Hey, the sun is setting, we should make. . ." I began. "A campfire!" Katie ended, rummaging around in her back and producing a matchbox. I looked over to where in the game there was a wooded area randomly between the Kokiri Forest and Lake Hylia. Sure enough it was there but much denser than I remembered and not to mention a hundred times more realistic.

"Maybe we should go there," I offered, "There should be twigs and dry leaves for kindling, and under the shelter of the trees maybe the smoke and light will not attract so much attention." I remembered as I said this that the monsters in Hyrule were probably now very real and very dangerous, and we didn't have the master sword.

"Good idea!" Katie picked up her bag and marched off in that direction.

"Fearless girl." I said, shaking my head with a smile, thanking God it was Katie with me. I ran to catch up with her and found her holding a packet of sausages. I looked at her with complete disbelief.

"Katie. . .seriously, what's with the snacks?"

"Well, you never know when you'll be camping out in the Hylian wilderness." She said proudly.

Half of me was stunned half of me that thought with my stomach wanted to hug her for being such a genius. We entered the trees and I immediately began to gather decent looking wood. Katie looked for kindling, she always liked the stuff that burned the fastest.

We found a good clearing and moved anything that would catch and set the whole place ablaze attracting a bit too much attention.

"Come in planet alpha Taurus-Pisces, do you copy?" I realised I had drifted off and smiled at Katie's use of our starsigns. "Moo." I grinned. "Good enough." She smiled striking a match and licked her finger to check the direction of the wind. I was worried that she seemed too practised at this.

"You often get sucked into video-game worlds Katie?"

"All the time Penny, all the time. . ."

It was now very dark and as darkness swept over the landscape a wolf howled in the distance. I didn't know which era of Hyrule we had stumbled upon but I prayed with all my might that Link wasn't a child, I would prefer if we didn't have to cope with a load of Stalchilds or Lethal flying pineapples.

A sudden flare of light brought me back again to reality. . .if this was reality. "We have ignition!" said Katie, opening her packet and spiking a sausage onto a stick and holding it above a flame.

"It does worry me that you know exactly what to do." I commented. She simply grinned at me looking scary against the flickering light. I giggled, "Stop that it's scary."

"Muaahahaha!" She imitated a deep growling voice, "I am Ganondorf, and I have come to claim the tri-sausage that you hold!" She waved the almost cooked sausage under my nose. The aroma was delicious and my mouth watered hungrily. Suddenly a thought hit me. "What if we never get back?" I whispered.

"Oh well. . .we grow up Hylians I guess!" she said, not seeming to care.

"Yippee." I said with the excitement of a fish that's been out of the freezer for far too long.

"Besides, we might meet your precious Linky-poo and how exciting can it get?" She remarked, "Visit the ranch, Kakriko, The Zoras. . .if they've unfrozen yet, The Gerudos and teach them a thing or two."

"We could go down a grave?" I ventured with a hint of sarcasm being the last thing I wanted to do. "Don't be stupid, Penny. If you saw a Redead you'd crap yourself."

"Don't be meeeean!" I put on a baby voice and gave her a grumpy look. We were quiet for a minute and I reviewed our looks. We certainly didn't look Hylian. Katie was sporting black baggy jeans and a hoody. I had some jeans on and white t-shirt.

"Don't worry about the clothes, we'll find something else to wear." She assured me, almost reading my mind.

"Who's there?" A man's voice suddenly called out. I went rigid, my heart leaping into my throat. "It's LINK!" Katie jumped to her feet, grinning insanely.

I saw a shadow moving between the trees, something glinting by it's side in the moonlight. "And he's got a sword." I moved away from the path he was taking and sat at the foot of a tree in the darkness. Katie stood in a fighting stance, sausage on stick at the ready and poised for a fencing match. Link came between the trees and stopped looking at her. "Beware! I am ARMED!" She challenged. He blinked at her in astonishment. I blinked at him in astonishment, he was gorgeous. . .

Link

This was the third weird song that had happened. Walking through the field in the evening, I find an etching of myself as a child outside the Deku Tree and then a few paces on, a strange book with writing on it that I couldn't read. Now this – A pretty young girl facing me with a piece of meat on a twig wearing very strange clothes and a manic expression on her face. She suddenly burst into a fit of giggles and slowly dissolved to the ground. She looked up at me and breathed in.

"Please Link, join the feast if you want," she said. I wondered how on earth she knew my name. However, the smell was delicious and my stomach rumbled. She smiled triumphantly, "Come on, I know you're hungry." She then seemed to be looking at my feet but I followed her gaze to the base of a tree behind me. "Get up Penny, he's not going to harm anyone."

I watched as a girl picked herself up from the ground. I stepped back allowing her some space. She got up and faced me with an embarrassed smile. She was very attractive, not exactly beautiful, not the same kind of pretty like her friend but I ended up staring at her longer than I had intended.

Penny

Link was staring at me. I turned away and sat down next to Katie, the side effects of adrenaline causing me to feel shaky and strange. I was no longer hungry, the thought of being skewered like a sausage turned me slightly vegetarian for a moment.

"I'm Katie and this is Penny," Katie said confidently and at ease. "You must be Link."

He cocked his head to the side, quizzically. "Yes, that is I."

"Please join us if you feel hungry, cold. . .horny." She said under her breath gesturing around with the now cooked sausage. Link grinned and grabbed it off the stick, eating it in three large bites. I think for the first time in her life Katie was speechless.

"Excuse me?" She gasped. "Would you care to tell me why you ate MY food?"

"You did offer!" He laughed, sitting down and licking his fingers.

"You barbarian!" She growled, spiking another sausage and beginning to cook it. Link laughed and I found myself laughing along with him inside. I could see this turning into a love-hate relationship. I listened to the two talk and take digs at each other. I smiled in a satisfied way, everything looked like it would be ok. We'd made friends with the main person, we could hang around until we found a way out. Katie and Link began to argue about something stupid and pointless which Katie does best. I settled down and just as my friend was getting the upper hand I drifted off into the realms of sleep.


Well there we are. I personally am extremely happy and excited this is back up! Hope you enjoyed! Worthwhile reviews are extremely welcome!