A New Journey Begins

Metellicagirl

Author's Notes: Hells yea! I am back! And a lot has happened! I gained a new interest . . . I mean manga! It's Naruto! With that badass Sabaku no Gaara (Gaara of the Desert)! And I guess with the reviews I'm getting I'm restarting this chapter! My other one got erased! This one will be better! Well, we'll see! On to the Almighty Disclaimer!

The Almighty Disclaimer: As much as I don't want to admit it, I don't own Mogget, Coca-Cola, Starbucks, the little sugar packets they give you in those fancy restaurants, Gaara, Soujiro, or fire. Oh, and Zelda too, of course!

Chapter 3 – The Coming of Tatli

"Hoo hoo!" said the cheerfully overlarge owl, as it landed and caught sight of the small girl before itself. Its magnificent flapping wings faltered as the owl began to speak once again.

"It seems you have grown since our last meeting, young one." The owl said just as happy as before. It's wise and with a bit of power in its voice seemed somewhat familiar to Tatli, but she could not place how that could be.

But even so, Tatli was still shocked from the abrupt appearance of the bird, and did not say anything. Instead, she only dwelled on the fact that this owl could talk. As she thought about it some more, a huge flow of questions came rushing into her head. She then addressed the owl with the first question that came to mind.

"Wha- what are you?" Was the question Tatli finally asked the massive owl, after the overdue silence.

"Oh! How rude of me, not to introduce myself! I am Kaepora Gaebora." The owl said with a little bow. With that said and done, Tatli quickly got up from her sitting position.

She introduced herself to the owl. "Uh, well I'm Ta-"

"Tatli." Kaepora Gaebora said in a cheerful voice.

"Eh!" Tatli took a step back, she was shocked that an owl, she just barely met, actually knew her name.

"Oh! I see that you don't remember me! Well, you were only a babe, when we last met." The huge owl said looking at the very confused Tatli, and chuckled at the look of her question mark face plastered on her.

"Do you know me?" This was the only question Tatli was able to say.

"Yes I do! Ever since you were born! But now is not the time to tell you about it, I have some important news to give." Kaepora stated to the young Hylian, as it flipped its head upside-down.

Tatli gave a small gasp and said with a curious smile, "Whoa! How'd you do that?" Quickly forgetting the statement Kaepora just gave.

"Comes naturally." It was amused with her curious question.

"Really?" Said with more interest in her eyes, eyes Kaepora had not seen in ages.

"Yes. However, young one, I have to deliver you some important, but dreadful news. It seems an old evil, might arise from its bondage." Kaepora unnerving voice suddenly gave Tatli the feeling that he was back.

"Do you mean the King of Evil?" She said with much hesitation. Her body shaking from the evil that was associated with that name. Queen Zelda told her about the King from the desert and what almost happened to Hyrule.

"I see Zelda has told you about the other timeline." Its head came back into place, Tatli nodded. Kaepora continued on, "You are sensitive to the evil that is coming, which is the reason for your recent nightmares."

"Bu-but how is he able to come back?" It just didn't make sense to her; he was supposed to be sealed, in the scared realm.

"Someone is trying to release this evil. That is why I have told you. You have to find the one who helped seal the evil. He will be able to help stop the evil from coming back." Tatli's eyes grew wide with what the owl had just said.

"The Hero of Time?" She could not believe her ears, "How am I supposed to find him? I don't even know what he looks like!" Sure, she wanted a reason to explore the interesting world around her, but not to go on a wild goose chase.

"Young child, when you see the hero you will feel familiar warmness that you have experienced before. Seek the Temples that hold the Spiritual Stones. Now go young one! For a new journey begins and you will become something that is already in your blood." With the news delivered, the wise owl took flight; to the now darken starry sky.

For a while, Tatli stood upon the cold earth, trying to make sense to what Kaepora Gaebora told her. She glanced up to the unending sky and then to the unexplored lands that lay beyond walls of the ranch.

"So, a new journey . . . to see other lands . . ." Tatli began to put the horse back in their stables. Her mind began to wonder life beyond a stable girl, and to adventure into unknown lands. With her choirs done, she finally decided on what to do.

"I'll go! And I'll seek out the Hero of Time! And find those stones!" She grinned at the thought of an adventure.

"I'll finally be able to get out of this confident!"

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With huge smile on her face, Tatli quietly ran about her room, looking for inessential things to bring on her journey. She looked frantically for something to wear, but all she had were dresses.

"Damn! I don't have any shorts." She cursed under her breath, as she realized the fact that she was not prepared to go on this mission of hers. So she looked for the dress that would be best for riding a horse and for running around.

She gave a deep sigh as she put on her shortest and most comfortable dress, which was a basic color of blue. She braided her hair and put together a bag filled with food and money.

"Only 20 rupees . . . oh, well it's better than nothing." She gave another sigh, for how poor she was. A pair of plain brown boots covered her feet as she walked out of her room.

Once done with her packing, Tatli made way to her mother's room. Her mother's soft breaths came to her ears. Quietly she placed a note saying she was leaving on a mission, and it sort of explained why she was leaving.

She looked about her mother's darken room, "Now where are you?" Tatli whispered, as she looked for the only item her father left behind. Her blue eyes fell upon her mother's closet and she smirked at her fortune.

"Let's hope you're in here." Tatli as quietly as she could, opened the door to the closet. She rummaged around for the thing she wanted, but it was so dark, she didn't think she would be able to find it.

Then, her hands found a rough object, she could feel steel hilt of a sword. "Yes!" she whispered as she pulled out her father's sword, to get a better look at it. She held the sheath in the moonlight; to confirm that it was indeed her father's. Its green sheath and leather-bound hilt was no mistakably the sword left by her anonymous father.

She smiled at her new sword and attached the sheath to her back. She then, made her way back to the door, but before she left. She said one last thing to her mother, "Bye." And went into the night.

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As fast as she could without making a sound, Tatli snuck into the horses' and put a saddle on Sae. Sae was very surprised with a late visit from the girl, but he seemed to understand her intensions.

Tatli directed Sae out of the stables; she pulled herself upon the horse and grabbed hold of the reins. She took one last look at her home and then she turned around, towards Hyrule field. She motioned Sae to go and with a determine face she tightened her grip on the reins.

"I'm free!" She said with so much excitement. She rode on Sae millions of times, but she never felt so alive as she did now. The light given off by the moon hit her face, but as the wind hit her hair and face, she heard an evil and mischievous laughter.

Not knowing where the source of the laughter had come from, Tatli stopped Sae and looked around her the creature that made such an inhuman laugh. Tatli observed her surroundings, but saw no such creature.

Then, all of a sudden the laughter came again, but this time a monster came out from the ground before Tatli's horse. Sae surprised, kicked up its powerful front legs and made Tatli lose her balance.

"Ahhhh!" She screamed as she fell to the hard earth below her and her horse galloped away from the monster. But before Tatli could calm Sae, her blue eyes met up with evil red ones. She could see its skeleton body glowed in the moonlight.

Tatli knew at once that this creature was a Stalchild, as quick as lighting; the monster swiped its sharp claws at Tatli's shoulder. It hit its target, Tatli cried out in pain, however, the Stalchild laughed and started to swipe once again.

Knowing that just standing there would get her killed, Tatli dodged the creature's attack and pulled out her sword. Her body tensed up, she was ready for the next attack and as expected the monster swiped at her again.

On instinct she put herself in a guard position, and the creature's attack hit her sword. Tatli saw an opening and yelled a battle cry that came to her naturally. She swung her sword at the enemy and in one hit the creature screamed in agony as it disappeared in the wind. Leaving behind a few rupees that she picked up happily.

"Yea! It wasn't that hard!" And with her first triumph, she looked around for anymore Stalchildren that might be sneaking around. Seeing everything was calm, Tatli went in search for her frighten horse.

"Tsk Tsk! Sae!" Tatli called for her horse, as she put away her sword, but soon she felt a cold shiver go down her spine.

Another evil laugh hit her ears, and soon the sound of breaking earth also came into earshot. With much dread, Tatli turned around to where these sounds were coming from; she was caught completely off guard.

Her blue eyes grew wide with terror, as she realized her mistake. She realized the impact was coming as the creature raised its bony hand, about to hit her. She couldn't move, paralyzed she got ready for the pain, the Stalchild laughed at the sudden fear of its victim.

The stalchild's pale hand was to hit the girl, but there was a loud clang, and Tatli saw a man dressed in a green tunic with green hat placed on his head, standing before her. His huge and long sword glinted in the bright moonlight; Tatli then knew that she was saved.

"Heh, you shouldn't be caught off guard." The green man said with such confidence that Tatli couldn't help, but note. She was about to reply to the man, but he threw off the Stalchild's attack and swiftly struck the monster across the stomach. Its cries of pain came out from the creature as it disappeared.

Tatli was impressed by the man's skill with the sword and was grateful she was alive to see such talent. Her mind was once again filled with so many questions for the green clad warrior.

Because of her mind filled with so many questions, Tatli was not able to thank the man who just saved her life. The man, however, just stood where he was, not even bothering to pick up the left behind rupees. He was trying to think of to say to the girl.

"I saw your horse running, and so I knew there was trouble." The man tried explained to the silent girl, his hand behind his green hat. There was a long silence after his explanation.

She then got hold of herself "Oh! I'm so sorry!" Tatli apologized. "I thank you so much! I'm Tatli. Who are you?" She asked the warrior before her, he looked at her, and she then noticed he had the same color eyes as her.

With same look of gratitude that came from someone who had just been saved, he had missed those eyes so much. Old memories soon consumed the warrior, as he thought of a certain woman he left, oh so many years ago. Then, he realized he had to introduce himself.

"Uh, I'm Link."

Metellicagirl: Oooo! Link's now in the picture! Well, I'm glad for all the reviews I got! I'm quite pleased with this chapter! Link's was in it! . . . . please review!

In the next chapter . . .

Huff Huff . . . he's working me like a mule! Huff. Huff. I feel like my legs are about to fall off!