A/N: I dedicate this chapter to my best friend's, halfathery357, my best friend, pet mouse that died on Friday, April 22. Her name was Jupiter and she was a really good mouse- I know because I took care of her a week three weeks ago while she was on vacation. Jupiter, we will always remember you. May you forever rest in eternal peace.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Zelda video games. According to the information given to me, Aounman-san is the one who created it in the first place.

Chapter 3: The Hyrule Fantasy

"Relax, huh? How can I possibly relax when there's so much stuff to do? Now, where is that thing...?"

Link was piling through all his items, trying to find what he was looking for. He and Arill were sitting on the landing in their p.j's, making sure Link had everything he needed; it was already 10:55 p.m. Aril was only there because Link had 'promised' to get her some kind of a present, and she wanted to know what it was.

"Maybe you wouldn't be in such a hurry if you started packing right when you got home like you were supposed to instead of sleeping all afternoon," Arill said quietly so that Link couldn't hear her.

At last, after two hours of looking though his things, Link picked up a small red and yellow box that had a piece of glass on one side, some buttons on either side, and a handle on the other.

"Finally! I found my Picto Box!" he said as picked it up and examining it to make sure it still worked.

"Why do you need your Picto Box, Big Brother?"

"For your present, of course. I'm going to take a picture of every new place I visit, and every important person I meet, and bring them back here to show you."

"Wow! That's so cool!"

Link smiled. He knew his sister would like any present he gave her. Whether it was something really ridiculous, or something you saw every day, if you gave it to her as a present, she would go crazy over it, as if it were worth a million dollars or something! So to her, this was probably worth about billion dollars!

"Well, I think I'm all ready to go now."

He stood up and looked over his items to make sure he had everything. He had his Boomerang, Bow and arrows, Bombs, Grapple, Hook Shoot, Deku Leaf, the Wind Waker, his Iron Boots, and of course, the Picto Box.

"Well, I really don't think I need the Iron Boots for this. It'll just be extra weight for me to carry. Other than that, I think I'm done!"

"Oh no you're not!" Grandma called out from the kitchen. "I made you two full bottles of my special soup for you. You can't expect to go somewhere like that without taking any food with you. I'd hardly expect you to forget about food. You're always eating!"

"Oh yeah! I totally forgot about food! How could I forget about that! Thanks Grandma!"

He put all his items on his belt, and the four bottles with the Fish, Firefly, and the soup. Then he put the Master Sword in its proper case, and put his regular sword in its case with the shoulder strap. Then he gathered them all up- and his shield- and put them by the door, so they would all be ready when he was ready to leave in the morning.

"Well, I'm going to bed now Grandma. I have to get up early tomorrow anyway."

He climbed up to his bed and was just about to go asleep when Arill said "What about Tetra?"

"Eh? What about Tetra?"

"Isn't she going with you?"

"No. Why in the world would she go with me? She has nothing to do with this."

"Oh. Well I just figured..."

"Figured what?"

"Well, you always go over there to see her, so I just thought that since you guys liked each other so much that-"

"What!" Link quickly sat up in bed. "I don't like her! She's a spoiled kid that gets what she wants, whenever she wants it! The only reason why I go over there so often is because I'm worried about her safety. And I can't tell you why she has to be kept safe because that's a secret."

"Oooooh. It's a secret, eh? I think I know what it is."

"No you don't."

"Oh yes I do."

"Ok then, prove it! What's the 'secret'?"

Arill grinned, and then giggled a little before she started saying "Link likes Tetra! Link likes Tetra! Link likes Tetra!"

"What?" Link got bright red in the face whenever she started taunting him like that. She did it with every girl he met, too! Once, when they all went to Windfall Island because they were having a fair, a shy girl came up to Link and said "Hi, my name's Akiko (A/N: Taken from Case Closed.). What's yours?" They ended up staying together the entire day! And after that, Aril sang that same song to him, over and over and over and over again, and she wouldn't stop for three weeks!

"Oh good God, not this again!"

He put his pillow over his head and pressed down very hard so he wouldn't hear Arill's 'song' and only muffles of it. Eventually, after about five minutes, the muffles stopped, so he lifted the pillow from his head. She either got sick of 'singing', she thought he was asleep, or Grandma finally told Arill to stop bugging him so much. Either way, he didn't care. Right after that, he fell asleep.

-II-

"But Miss Tetra, you can't possibly do this! Staying here all by yourself, it's too dangerous!"

Tetra's crew had dropped her off in front of Hyrule Castle- or at least, what was left of it. She was inside one of the life boats with two ores to take her to a small destination.

"I can do whatever I please! I'm the captain and whatever I say goes! Now, you will pick me up tomorrow morning at exactly 7:00, you hear?"

"Y-yes Miss Tetra."

What else were the pirates to do? They couldn't just say no to her. You would think that would be an easy thing to do, but not when Tetra's the captain. If you don't do just as she says, you automatically pay the ultimate price. And none of the pirates ever spoke of it because it was just too horrible to even think about!

They slowly lowered the life boat into the water, so that Tetra wouldn't fall out when she reached the water.

"Now," she said as she finally got on the water, "Niko, you're in charge until I get back on deck. And until then, stay as far away from here as possible. I don't want a single soul to set eyes on you, you hear?"

"Yea, Miss Tetra," all the pirates said in unison.

"Good." She watched as the Pirate ship sailed off into the distance. After she could only see a small outline of it, she then paddled slowly over towards the center of the remains of Hyrule castle, towards the glowing ring.

You would think that because it was always there that anyone could just go though it. But Tetra knew that only people of the Royal family could go though it. And since she had the Royal family's blood running though her, she could safely pass though. But the only reason that Link could also go though the ring was because his boat possessed the spirit of the formal king of Hyrule. But it probably also would have let him though anyway since he was the reincarnation of the Hero of Time, and was now known as Hero of Winds.

But all that didn't really matter to her. All she cared about was getting what she came here for: the treasure the so-called 'king' of the Gerudo had promised her. He told her that all she had to do was follow Link and steal his forest firefly so that it could give off the right light so she could read her map and finally know where it leads to. She didn't know why she could just go to Forest haven herself and get one, but he told her that she had to follow Link because then it would be easier to reach. She didn't understand that part but she figured she might as well trust him.

She finally reached the bottom to the entrance of the real Hyrule Castle. She put the boat off to a far away corner, and then hid behind a pillar so that when Link came he wouldn't see her there.

-I-

Link woke up, sat up and stretched his arms out in front of him, yawning. It was only 4:00 a.m. He didn't want to get up now, he usually slept in late- like at 12:00 P.M.-, but he just couldn't sleep in on an important day like this! He jumped out of bed, careful not to wake up Grandma and Arill, and quickly got dressed. He got out the same piece of paper that he had used the other day to tell Grandma where he was and quickly wrote down:

Gotta go now. See you in an hour or so.

Maybe even later, I don't know.

-Link (4:00 a.m.)

He placed it on his pillow, grabbed his things, and then ran out the door towards the dock.

"I'm here now!" Link had run strait non-stop so he was really out of breath. But he eventually, his breath became steady.

"Good, we need to leave now. Do you have everything? Well, I already know that, I can see it in your eyes that you're excited about going, so let's go."

Link didn't say another word and jumped right into his boat. He played the sound of Gales, and soon enough, he was right in front of Hyrule Castle. All he had to do now was go inside of the glowing ring.

When he reached the bottom, he ran right all the way inside, to the small room with the stain glass windows. The statue of the Hero of Time had somehow already been moved, as if it somehow knew that Link would be passing though here again.

He stepped up the pillar that he had originally gotten the Master Sword from, and was about to put it into the tiny slit when he was stopped.

"Do not be so hasty, Link. You're not yet ready to go."

"Eh? How come? I do have everything, right?"

"Yes and no. You have all the items you need, yes. But you don't have all the information that you need.

"First of all, once you place the Master Sword in its pillar, you will be sent back more than two-thousand years ago. You must then head towards the Lost Woods and find the sage that lives by the Forest Temple. Ask for her help once you have collected all your items. Then, go back to Hyrule Castle to where Ganondorf is at. Lure the Ganondorf from this time back into the Temple of Time, where the Mast Sword is, travel back to this time and then defeat him."

"Ok. But, what about speaking Hylean? I can't speak that; only Japanese."

"In your mind you already know the language. You'll get used to it after awhile."

"Ok... But... you never told me the sage's name that I'm supposed to meet. How am I supposed to find her if I don't know her name?"

"Ah yes, her name," he closed his eyes slowly, as if trying to think of what her name was. But he wasn't. He was trying to see if he should tell him or not.

"Her name is Saria. Do not ever forget that."

"Don't worry, I won't. I can remember things from a loooooong time ago."

Link then placed the Master Sword into its slot. A big triangular beam of light glowed around the whole room, blinding everyone that was in it for a split second. And then, he was gone. Not a trace of him anywhere. Only the Master Sword was left in the pillar.

"That's what worries me..."

A/N: If you want to know how I came up with the times in this chapter, all I did was simply look at my watch. Whatever the time showed there, I'd put it down. Just thought you might want to know that...

Oh yeah, I made a huge mistake! Link doesn't have blue eyes in this game, he has green eyes! Sorry 'bout that, guys... My bad...

If you want to know more about how the Master Sword transportation allows Link to go back into the past without ageing, that will be answered in a later chapter. Most likely in six or seven, maybe even five...

Responses to reviewers:

Sorry! There were no reviewers that asked a question this time! But thanks for that one reviewer that gave me the idea of putting the three Goddesses inside the story (sorry, I forgot your name!)! I was thinking about doing something like that, but I didn't give it too much thought. But, now that I see that people out there really want them inside, I shall do it! (Don't worry; I'll credit you in the Credits at the end.) And if anyone has any more ideas for this, you can either put it in your review, or you can e-mail me at -

Reputation is what

others think you are.

Character is

what you are.

It is the true you.

- Unknown