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Okey-dokey. The Child Chapters are complete so we move onward to the Adult Chapters! ::hears a trumpet fanfare off in the distance:: Oookaaaay... where did *that* come from...? Oh, well.
Thanks to all who reviewed. You really make my day!
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Chapter One
The Legendary Blade, the Master Sword
Link walked out of the Temple of Time, but he didn't see the busy, cheerful market as he remembered; he saw what looked like a graveyard. All the shops and homes had been destroyed. Seven years had really passed.
To his left, Link saw a Stalfos ready to kill one of the guards of Hyrule Castle.
"Now, then," the Stalfos said, looking down at the defenseless man, raising his sword. "Prepare to-!"
But Link intercepted the Stalfos blow with his Master Sword.
"The one who's going to die," Link with malice, "is you!"
The Stalfos stopped and surveyed Link. "That Blade," it said nervously. "That's the Master Sword. You're the Hero of Time?"
"You again, huh?" Link raised an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" the Stalfos questioned. The monster looked over Link again. There was something familiar about him... "It-it can't be! That boy who resisted me seven years ago?"
"That's right. Back then I couldn't get a punch in. But now," Link said proudly, "I'm no longer a 'powerless child'!"
The Stalfos flashed a look of pure rage. "Insolence! You will pay for that!" The creature charged at Link, weapon raised. But Link just sighed; as the Stalfos was about to strike him, Link jumped to one side, causing the Stalfos to miss his mark. The jagged blade of the Stalfos had landed in the ground, wedged tightly between two rocks. While the monster was fiddling with it, trying to free his sword, Link took the opportunity to strike the Stalfos in its side, utterly destroying it.
Link walked to the guard, who was lying on the ground, breathing weakly. It didn't appear that the Stalfos had hurt him, and, for that, Link was thankful: he wasn't, in any way, a Healer.
As the Hylian lifted the soldier's head and sat him up, he seemed to regain himself. "Thank you for saving me," he said to Link. Then he chuckled. "So, you are that boy who was always running around the Castle, giving us a heap of trouble... You've become a fine Hero."
Link smiled. Then his face grew serious as he asked, "What's going on in Hyrule now?"
"It's Ganondorf," the soldier replied angrily, enraged what the Gerudo king had done to his, and Link's, homeland. "He now has control over the Triforce of Power and became the King of Evil. He has transformed our lovely and peaceful Hyrule into a world of monsters.
"Right now, he's searching for the Ocarina of Time that the Princess had."
Link's eyes grew wide at the mention of Zelda. "Princess Zelda? Where is she now?"
The Hylian in front of Link could not meet the Hero's eyes. "I don't know," he said quietly. "The last we saw of her was when she was fleeing with Lady Impa..."
Link looked down at the ground. That happened seven years ago. Where in HyHykjnikkiuhijijHHyrule was Zelda now? Link had to know.
The soldier continued, not seeing Link's reaction, "And now, the Castle is in Ganondorf's hands."
Link snapped his head back up. "The Castle has what?! I'm going to go look." Link stood up and started sprinting towards Hyrule Castle, praying to the Valar that it was still standing.
"Be careful!" the man hollered to Link as he, too, stood. "It's swarming with Ganondorf's followers!"
As Link slowed down to a walk, and trudged through the once- prosperous marketplace, he noticed that Navi's light surrounding her as she flew was growing dim. That could only mean one thing: his fairy was loosing her strength and weakening.
"Navi," Link asked as he turned to her, concern written all over his face. "What's the matter?"
"It hurts," she said hoarsely. "I feel... this evil energy..."
Link saw, as her light faded, Navi cringe in pain. "Hide in my hat, then," he said worriedly as he ushered her inside.
As he picked up speed, running through the market, Link was worrying. If Navi had felt this weak, what happened to Zelda? As the Hylian drew closer to the Castle, he slowed, for the terrain had become steep and rocky; very much unlike seven years ago. "Even this path has changed in the last-!"
Link stopped, dead in his tracks. The once green and beautiful Castle was nowhere to be seen. In its place a black and ugly fortress was present: Ganon's Castle.
"Th-the Castle!" Link gaped. "It's-it's gone!"
Then, coming from behind him, Link heard a low cackle. He turned around and before him, floating in the air, was a Poe, a ghost.
"Hyrule Castle disappeared a long time ago," the poltergeist taunted, knowing that that was what Link hoped and longed to see. "It is now where Ganondorf resides. We are his servants."
Link was angry with this prospector for teasing him. "Get lost!" Link whipped at the Poe with the Master Sword, abolishing it.
Suddenly, Link collapsed to his knees. He used the Sword to support himself; if he hadn't, he would've been down on all fours. "I feel...weak," Link said wearily.
Navi popped her head out from inside her partner's hat and said, "Link, it's Ganondorf's energy radiating from his tower. That's what's causing you to be so weak. You need to do some training and build up your stamina; seven years is a long time to have been sleeping, not using a sword."
Link knew she was right. He stood up slowly and sheathed his Sword. "Just you watch, Ganondorf," he said daringly as he gazed up at the fortress. "I'm going to become an expert swordsman. And, then, I am going to defeat you."
* * *
Link was walking steadily on the plains of Hyrule Field, breathing in the air. But suddenly he stopped, a look of sadness evident in his eyes.
"What's wrong, Link?" Navi inquired, noticing that her companion had halted.
"Oh, it's nothing," the Hylian replied. But then he looked at Navi and knew he couldn't lie to her. "It's just that the smell of the wind blowing through Hyrule Field, and even the light from the sun... Everything's different..." Link sat down in the shade of a tree and placed his head in his hands. "For Hyrule to become like this while I was gone...it's a real shock. Somehow, I feel that I've become the last person left in the world.
"Oh, Zelda," he whispered, almost asking the Princess for help. He took out the Ocarina she had thrown to him years long passed. Gazing at it, he said to himself, "I wonder if we'll be able to meet again."
"She's been waiting for you all this time," Navi piped in. "I'm sure she's somewhere safe. Play the Ocarina, Link; maybe Zelda will hear it."
Link shrugged. "Okay. What have I got to lose?"
As Link played the melody that Zelda taught him, someone was watching the Hero of Time from atop a cliff above the young man.
"How nostalgic," the stranger said, his voice muffled due to the loose cloth covering it, hiding his lower face... "The song of the Hyrule Royal Family that dates back to antiquity; the echo of the Ocarina that plays upon Time..."
Meanwhile, Ganondorf was restless in his castle. As he sat upon his throne, if you will, he was fingering with Link's old Fairy Ocarina, playing with it.
"This isn't the Ocarina of Time," he said as he smashed the ocarina to pieces with is bare hands. "It looks like it, but it is another." The Gerudo turned around to look at the Stalfos that was kneeling in front of him. "So, you think that it's true, that that boy is truly the Hero of Time?"
"He wielded the Master Sword," the Stalfos said; he had spied on Link while he intruded on Ganondorf's property. "Yes, my lord, I am positive that he is that One."
"You should have killed him then!" another one of the Stalfos piped up from the shadows.
"Silence," Ganondorf said calmly, raising his hand. Addressing no one in particular, but the whole of his servants, he went on, "Dispose of that boy before he becomes powerful with the Master Sword." Ganondorf said evilly, "Then, strip him of the Ocarina!"
His followers left in a hurry, to go and perform their master's bidding. But he knew better than to place all his trust in them, weak as they were. Turning around, his eyes fell upon his shadow, cast by the stained glass windows.
"Come out, my shadow, Phantom Ganon!" From his shadow, rose a ghostly figure, clad in black. Kneeling before Ganondorf, the king addressed him, "The Hero of Time will be going to the Forest Temple. Get there before he awakens the Sage of the Forest...and kill him."
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Ooh! A cliffy! Ack!! What do you think of the Adult Chapters so far? Trust me, if you thought the Child Chapters were interesting, you ain't seen nuthin' yet, I assure you!
Namárië!
Okey-dokey. The Child Chapters are complete so we move onward to the Adult Chapters! ::hears a trumpet fanfare off in the distance:: Oookaaaay... where did *that* come from...? Oh, well.
Thanks to all who reviewed. You really make my day!
*~*~*~*~*~*
Chapter One
The Legendary Blade, the Master Sword
Link walked out of the Temple of Time, but he didn't see the busy, cheerful market as he remembered; he saw what looked like a graveyard. All the shops and homes had been destroyed. Seven years had really passed.
To his left, Link saw a Stalfos ready to kill one of the guards of Hyrule Castle.
"Now, then," the Stalfos said, looking down at the defenseless man, raising his sword. "Prepare to-!"
But Link intercepted the Stalfos blow with his Master Sword.
"The one who's going to die," Link with malice, "is you!"
The Stalfos stopped and surveyed Link. "That Blade," it said nervously. "That's the Master Sword. You're the Hero of Time?"
"You again, huh?" Link raised an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" the Stalfos questioned. The monster looked over Link again. There was something familiar about him... "It-it can't be! That boy who resisted me seven years ago?"
"That's right. Back then I couldn't get a punch in. But now," Link said proudly, "I'm no longer a 'powerless child'!"
The Stalfos flashed a look of pure rage. "Insolence! You will pay for that!" The creature charged at Link, weapon raised. But Link just sighed; as the Stalfos was about to strike him, Link jumped to one side, causing the Stalfos to miss his mark. The jagged blade of the Stalfos had landed in the ground, wedged tightly between two rocks. While the monster was fiddling with it, trying to free his sword, Link took the opportunity to strike the Stalfos in its side, utterly destroying it.
Link walked to the guard, who was lying on the ground, breathing weakly. It didn't appear that the Stalfos had hurt him, and, for that, Link was thankful: he wasn't, in any way, a Healer.
As the Hylian lifted the soldier's head and sat him up, he seemed to regain himself. "Thank you for saving me," he said to Link. Then he chuckled. "So, you are that boy who was always running around the Castle, giving us a heap of trouble... You've become a fine Hero."
Link smiled. Then his face grew serious as he asked, "What's going on in Hyrule now?"
"It's Ganondorf," the soldier replied angrily, enraged what the Gerudo king had done to his, and Link's, homeland. "He now has control over the Triforce of Power and became the King of Evil. He has transformed our lovely and peaceful Hyrule into a world of monsters.
"Right now, he's searching for the Ocarina of Time that the Princess had."
Link's eyes grew wide at the mention of Zelda. "Princess Zelda? Where is she now?"
The Hylian in front of Link could not meet the Hero's eyes. "I don't know," he said quietly. "The last we saw of her was when she was fleeing with Lady Impa..."
Link looked down at the ground. That happened seven years ago. Where in HyHykjnikkiuhijijHHyrule was Zelda now? Link had to know.
The soldier continued, not seeing Link's reaction, "And now, the Castle is in Ganondorf's hands."
Link snapped his head back up. "The Castle has what?! I'm going to go look." Link stood up and started sprinting towards Hyrule Castle, praying to the Valar that it was still standing.
"Be careful!" the man hollered to Link as he, too, stood. "It's swarming with Ganondorf's followers!"
As Link slowed down to a walk, and trudged through the once- prosperous marketplace, he noticed that Navi's light surrounding her as she flew was growing dim. That could only mean one thing: his fairy was loosing her strength and weakening.
"Navi," Link asked as he turned to her, concern written all over his face. "What's the matter?"
"It hurts," she said hoarsely. "I feel... this evil energy..."
Link saw, as her light faded, Navi cringe in pain. "Hide in my hat, then," he said worriedly as he ushered her inside.
As he picked up speed, running through the market, Link was worrying. If Navi had felt this weak, what happened to Zelda? As the Hylian drew closer to the Castle, he slowed, for the terrain had become steep and rocky; very much unlike seven years ago. "Even this path has changed in the last-!"
Link stopped, dead in his tracks. The once green and beautiful Castle was nowhere to be seen. In its place a black and ugly fortress was present: Ganon's Castle.
"Th-the Castle!" Link gaped. "It's-it's gone!"
Then, coming from behind him, Link heard a low cackle. He turned around and before him, floating in the air, was a Poe, a ghost.
"Hyrule Castle disappeared a long time ago," the poltergeist taunted, knowing that that was what Link hoped and longed to see. "It is now where Ganondorf resides. We are his servants."
Link was angry with this prospector for teasing him. "Get lost!" Link whipped at the Poe with the Master Sword, abolishing it.
Suddenly, Link collapsed to his knees. He used the Sword to support himself; if he hadn't, he would've been down on all fours. "I feel...weak," Link said wearily.
Navi popped her head out from inside her partner's hat and said, "Link, it's Ganondorf's energy radiating from his tower. That's what's causing you to be so weak. You need to do some training and build up your stamina; seven years is a long time to have been sleeping, not using a sword."
Link knew she was right. He stood up slowly and sheathed his Sword. "Just you watch, Ganondorf," he said daringly as he gazed up at the fortress. "I'm going to become an expert swordsman. And, then, I am going to defeat you."
* * *
Link was walking steadily on the plains of Hyrule Field, breathing in the air. But suddenly he stopped, a look of sadness evident in his eyes.
"What's wrong, Link?" Navi inquired, noticing that her companion had halted.
"Oh, it's nothing," the Hylian replied. But then he looked at Navi and knew he couldn't lie to her. "It's just that the smell of the wind blowing through Hyrule Field, and even the light from the sun... Everything's different..." Link sat down in the shade of a tree and placed his head in his hands. "For Hyrule to become like this while I was gone...it's a real shock. Somehow, I feel that I've become the last person left in the world.
"Oh, Zelda," he whispered, almost asking the Princess for help. He took out the Ocarina she had thrown to him years long passed. Gazing at it, he said to himself, "I wonder if we'll be able to meet again."
"She's been waiting for you all this time," Navi piped in. "I'm sure she's somewhere safe. Play the Ocarina, Link; maybe Zelda will hear it."
Link shrugged. "Okay. What have I got to lose?"
As Link played the melody that Zelda taught him, someone was watching the Hero of Time from atop a cliff above the young man.
"How nostalgic," the stranger said, his voice muffled due to the loose cloth covering it, hiding his lower face... "The song of the Hyrule Royal Family that dates back to antiquity; the echo of the Ocarina that plays upon Time..."
Meanwhile, Ganondorf was restless in his castle. As he sat upon his throne, if you will, he was fingering with Link's old Fairy Ocarina, playing with it.
"This isn't the Ocarina of Time," he said as he smashed the ocarina to pieces with is bare hands. "It looks like it, but it is another." The Gerudo turned around to look at the Stalfos that was kneeling in front of him. "So, you think that it's true, that that boy is truly the Hero of Time?"
"He wielded the Master Sword," the Stalfos said; he had spied on Link while he intruded on Ganondorf's property. "Yes, my lord, I am positive that he is that One."
"You should have killed him then!" another one of the Stalfos piped up from the shadows.
"Silence," Ganondorf said calmly, raising his hand. Addressing no one in particular, but the whole of his servants, he went on, "Dispose of that boy before he becomes powerful with the Master Sword." Ganondorf said evilly, "Then, strip him of the Ocarina!"
His followers left in a hurry, to go and perform their master's bidding. But he knew better than to place all his trust in them, weak as they were. Turning around, his eyes fell upon his shadow, cast by the stained glass windows.
"Come out, my shadow, Phantom Ganon!" From his shadow, rose a ghostly figure, clad in black. Kneeling before Ganondorf, the king addressed him, "The Hero of Time will be going to the Forest Temple. Get there before he awakens the Sage of the Forest...and kill him."
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Ooh! A cliffy! Ack!! What do you think of the Adult Chapters so far? Trust me, if you thought the Child Chapters were interesting, you ain't seen nuthin' yet, I assure you!
Namárië!
