This is it folks. Pretty much all the questions I had regarding the game have now been answered. Whether I wrap this up satisfactorily or not, this is the last chapter. The following questions are the ones I tried answering. I realize that some answers are really reaching, since in the original game, there never were any Gerudo men. There are no black gauntlets, as far as I know. I'm sure you noticed alot of other anomalies. Anyway, here they are:

Have you ever wondered how the spider guy in Kakariko Village came to be cursed? What about that rumor that Kaepora Gaebora was once a sage? Ever wonder why Link's fairy came to him when he had none? Think about why Darunia, king of the Gorons was always so bummed out? Who named Link that corny name and why? Why was the sword stuck into a stone? Why do all those skeletons pop up at night on Hyrule Field? How did the spiritual stones end up in the places they did? What happened to Link's mom? Who started that war before the game? How did Ganondorf become so evil? Was he born that way? Didn't he ever fall in love? Why aren't there any men in the Gerudo Hideout? Why is Nabooru looking for the Silver Gauntlets? (Will we ever know?) How did the bridge get destroyed? Who the heck placed all those skultulas all over the place? What could they possibly have been thinking when they made Saria's hair green? And most importantly, who invented that ocarina?

(a/n: the bridge was destroyed while Link was locked away in the Temple of Time, so I'm not answering anything that I think happened during the game. But I did wonder about it. I'd say: Ganondorf burned his bridges when he left the hideout, and lets leave it at that.)

Before the Game Begins...

The Death of the Queen

Chapter 16: The Birth of the Queen

The Great Deku Tree seemed to be slumbering. Indeed, when he was 1/2 asleep, although he was vunerable then, he gathered the most information with his roots regarding the goings on in other lands. His roots were far-reaching. Even things that happened in the desert, where no roots would go, he quickly discovered.

The game was about to begin. He sensed that Navi was close to the end of her task. Link was now 8 or 9 years old. Ganondorf, in his quest for the triforce, had ordered Queen Gohma to infest the Deku Tree, and the Great tree could feel himself slowly dying. He knew that Jabu Jabu would soon meet the same fate. He knew Volvagia would soon be awakened. He knew that on LonLon Ranch, a young filly had been born, whose spirit no one but the Hero of Time could conquor.

But all he could think of now, was the Ocarina.

Without it, everything would be nothing. He knew that the Queen of Hyrule had brought the ocarina from the desert long long ago, but even she did not know that the Ocarina of Time had sprung up from the Great Deku Tree himself. When he and the Kokiri had cursed Navi, long long ago, so that she became human, her spirit entered the body of a girl named Elena, who was carrying on with the stable boy, whose name was Cameron.

It was Cameron who possessed the strange, compelling musical instrument. Cameron's family was very poor. They lived near the edge of the Forest, as did Elena's family. In order to survive, Cameron often went into the woods to hunt for rabbits, or whatever his slingshot could bring to the table. It was there that he found the Ocarina, hanging from a bush like a fruit. Delighted, he plucked it up off the bush and tried playing it. Of course he sucked at it. Only strange screeching whistling sounds broke the quiet of that afternoon. Nevertheless, he pocketed the thing, and in spare moments, would practice upon it. Soon he could play it as if he was a royal musician.

But poverty soon took his family to early graves, and he scouted around for work. Elena's father took him in and allowed him to sleep in the stables with the animals, so long as he helped out on the farm. Cameron proved to be an excellent worker, and things on the farm went from good to better. As the years passed, however, and Cameron grew to be a young man, he began to fall in love with Elena. The two of them often went into the Forest to pick berries and mushrooms. Everyone else was too afraid of the Forest to venture too far, but those two were fearless. He played the ocarina for her there, and there, they began exploring more than just the woods.

It wasn't long before Elena was with child, (who the Deku Tree knew to be Navi), and not long after that, that Elena's Dad murdered Cameron. Feeling betrayed by his daughter, he drove her into the Haunted Wasteland and dropped her off as far into it as he dared. He tossed Cameron's bodily remains beside her, along with all his worldly possessions, including the Ocarina.

Elena thought that she would go mad. She had no water, no food, only a rotting corpse for company. Poor Cameron's body soon attracted coyotes and vultures. She tried burying him, but the sand was packed like cement. She could only manage a shallow grave, upon which she put many stones. She had no more tears to give. Only a dull ache in her heart. She tried to find her way out of the wilderness, but ended up wandering around. She dropped everything else, one thing at a time, but she never reliquished the Ocarina. So when the Gerudo scout found her face down in the Wasteland, she picked her up and found the Ocarina beneath her.

When Elena woke up, it was in the Gerudo Hideout. They nursed her back to health, but for a long time, she did not speak. They noticed her condition not long afterwards, and offered neither sympathy nor judgement. If she worked, she ate. When it came time for the child to be born, she named her Elena, after herself, as Cameron had wished, but still, she did not speak afterward. She cared for the child as a mother should, and it was the child who prompted the mother to start speaking again.

Elena kept the Ocarina close by, and on occasion, would lift the instrument to her lips and play a soft and plaintive lullaby. Usually, she could not finish the tune, and break out into a fit of weeping.

But at the sound of the Ocarina, the child would stop to listen, her big blue eyes round with amazement, her curly golden hair like a halo around her head when the sun shone upon her at just the right angle...and a strange thing began to happen. The toy that little Elena had just broken, reassembled itself in the air and floated into her chubby fist. Elena stopped weeping and stared at her daughter. Was it the music? or was it her daughter?

And there, sweet readers, you have it. The tragedy of this child's birth and the tragedy of her heroic death is all the tale i shall tell. It brings to mind the question: Is Link truly a Fairy Boy?

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All my love, Sardonic Whispers.