A/N: Sorry about the really, really, really, really, really, really, really long wait, guys but my laptop crashed, so it doesn't work anymore.

But anyways, I got the Orcarnia of Time sound track so now there shouldn't be any misspelled words that are important to the story. Well, just from that game at least. I don't have the Wind Waker one. Maybe I'll get that one... I don't know. Here's chapter #4. Enjoy!

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Chapter 4: Kodai

The light grew enormous inside of the Temple of Time. It poured out from all the windows. It was so bright; you could see it from hundreds of miles away. Literally.

Link was riding on Epona, galloping through the starry night, on his way to Kakariko village for some last minute supplies before going off to fight Ganondorf at his castle. But it would take him a while to get there because he was right in the middle of Hyrule field. So it would take him a good two days to get there if he kept his slow pace: stopping randomly only to just gaze up at the stars, or to just play his Orcarnia for awhile to talk to Saria. Other wise it would most likely only take him a day and a half to get there.

Then, Link brought Epona to a halt.

"What's wrong, Link? Don't tell me you want to stop again. We really need to get going ya know," Navi said quit annoyed. She was Link's fairy, his guardian fairy. Every Kokiri had one. But, Link wasn't really a Kokiri. He may have been raised by the Great Deku Tree, but he was still a Hyleanian-that's why he could grow.

"No, it's not that," Link answered. "I thought I saw something over there," he pointed towards the direction of Hyrule Castle. "It almost looked like it came from the Temple of Time. Like a flash of light."

"Well I certainly didn't see anything. So let's just keep going and stop worrying about some flashing light. We really shouldn't waste anymore time than we already have."

"Well, you can stay here if you want. I'm going to go see what is was."

"What! Y-you can't be serious! We wasted all that time before, and now you want to do something else?" She turned a bright red and flashed wildly around Link's head.

"Rubbish! Absolutely rubbish! I won't allow you to do such a thing! Not without my permission! Hey... wait a minute... come back here! Liiiiink! Come back here this instant! Do you hear me?"

But Link was already too far away to hear her screaming at him. Navi couldn't just let him go. So she had no choice but to follow.

I-

The light had faded down completely inside the Temple of Time. Link stood there, gripping tightly onto the Master sword. He opened his eyes and looked.

"Wow, I... I did it. I made here ok! Things here sure do look different. I mean, there are no stained glass windows in this room like it does in the future," he said to no one in particular, just himself.

"You got that right."

Link turned around and was surprised to see that Tetra was the one who had said that!

"Huh! W-why are you here! H-how did you get here!"

"How do you think I got here! I followed you, you moron! Now where exactly are we?"

"We're in the past, ok? But you won't be for long! I'm taking you back right now! You're not safe here! There are people who want to kill you! Don't you understand that yet after I've told you a million times before!"

"Fine then. Take me back."

Link stood there, still angry at Tetra for following him, but also angry at himself for not making sure that the close was clear before he went into Hyrule Castle- his mistake could cost her life! He was also angry at himself for not asking how to get back to the future before he left! He was in such a hurry to leave that he had just completely forgotten!

"I knew it! You don't know how, do you? Well that's just great! Just wonderful! Now we're all stuck in the past with no idea on how to get home! Gee, thanks a lot, Link. I really owe ya one!"

"Tetra, I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean for you to get stuck here like this. But it's not my fault..."

"Forget it, Link! I'm not in the mood to talk to you right now!"

Link had had enough. First, she blamed it all on him for doing this to her, when she was the one who did it! Second, she didn't even want to talk to him because, 'supposedly,' it was his fault! Well he wasn't about to take this anymore.

"Listen! I've just about had it with you! It's not my fault that you're stuck here! If you hadn't followed me in the first place, you wouldn't be here right now, now would you! So don't complain to me that it's my fault that you're here! If you really want to go home then you're going to have to face the truth and stop blaming things on other people! You may be pirate but that means nothing here! You're not in control anymore, Tetra, whether you like it or not! And you're especially not in control of me!"

Link took a big breath before finally saying calmly: "I don't know about you, but I wasn't planning on sticking around here forever, arguing with you. So I'm going. You coming with me, or not?", and then started to turn around to leave but was waiting for Tetra's reply.

Tertra didn't know what to say. She just stood there, awed at what Link had said. He had never yelled at her, ever! He had always been polite and kind to her, no matter what she made him do for her. Whether it was washing the whole boat, head to toe, or just fetching her a glass of water, he did it without any complaints. She supposed it was the only reason why he did this was because it was his "destiny" to guard her with his life.

Link didn't say anything else. He turned back forward and started walking out. Tetra had no choice but to follow him. But, they didn't get too far because they heard footsteps coming towards them. They stopped dead in there tracks.

"Quick, Tetra, let's hide over here behind this wall."

Link pointed to a small stone structure that looked similar to an alter. It was solid brick, and, on the front of it, it had the Triforce engraved in it. They quickly made there way over towards it and ducked behind it.

"I really don't think this is going to do us much good, Link. This thing is really small."

"Be quiet! I don't want them to hear you!" he said while whispering. "We could be in serious trouble if we get caught! Just stay low, ok?"

III

"This is crazy. I don't even know why I'm going along with this."

"No one even said that you had to come along. You came on your own free will."

Link had stopped Epona right outside of the Hyrule entrance gates. They were opened, as usual, not like they were seven years ago where they would close up the gates at night fall. Now, ever since Gannodorf had taken over, they were always opened.

"You don't have to go inside if you don't want to," Link said to Navi. "You can just stay under my hat the whole time if you like. I know you don't like going here since it makes you feel sick because you're made of pure good magic, and there's evil all around here. I understand that perfectly."

"Y-yeah. I think I'll just do that. I'm starting to feel sick already."

She flew under Link's hat while he proceeded into Hyrule's square and into the Temple of time.

"Hello? Is anyone in here?" His words bounced off the walls and made it echo back to him, as if he was asking the question to himself. But, of course, no one answered him.

"See? I told you nothing was wrong. But did you listen to me? Nooooooooooo. You completely ignored me!" Navi had flown out of Link's hat, since there was no evil in this room, and had turned a bright reddish color.

Link sighed. "I guess you were right, Navi. I'm sorry I didn't listen to you before."

"Oh, that's ok." Navi dimmed down to a light pinkish color and told him not to worry about it so much and that people make mistakes all the time. They turned around to leave and started walking out. But right when Link was about to go through the doors, he heard someone else, as if telling that someone to be quiet.

He turned around sharply and yelled "Who's there!" The whispering had stopped- of course- and all you could hear was the echo Link had made.

"Um, may I ask what that sudden outburst was for?" Navi asked.

"I could have sworn I heard someone talking to someone else, telling them to be quiet." Link started walking towards the small brick like alter that was about twenty feet away from him. If anyone was hiding anywhere, it would be there.

"Alright, then. You'd just better be right. For your sake..."

I-

'Who are those people, anyway? They're probably guards looking for kids who cause mischief. If that's the case, if they find us, we're goners for sure!'

Link was biting his fingernails, trying to calm himself down.

"Stop it, Link," Tetra loudly whispered to him. "Do you even know how much noise you're making?"

"Who's there!"

Link and Tetra were completely silent as those words echoed throughout the entire temple. Then the two "Guards" started talking to each other.

"Look what you did, Tetra!" Link whispered over to her. "Now they know we're here!"

"Well, if you hadn't been biting your finger nails I wouldn't have told you to be quiet! Gosh, you really are stupid!"

But Link had ignored her words completely. All he heard were footsteps coming towards them. And they sounded like they were in a hurry, too.

Link didn't know what to do. If he defended himself with a sword, then the "Guards" would know that he was armed and then they would be forced to fight him, which Link probably would of lost. If he surrendered peacefully, then they would be captured and gone to jail for sneaking around- even though they weren't. If he told them the real story, they would think that he was crazy and put him in some sort of mental camp. But what else was he to do? He didn't want to fight anybody, that's for sure.

As the footsteps got very close, Link had to make a quick decision.

"Ok, ok!" Link stood up and looked strait into the face of the "guard."

"Look, I'm sorry we came in here but I didn't know we would end up here. It's all just a BIG misunderstanding... wait a second." Link took another good look at the "guard." Wasn't there supposed to be two of them? Oh wait; there was a person and a fairy. That was probably what had made that other voice... but, fairies couldn't become guards, could they?

He then realized that the only person that could have been a guard was the man dressed in green. He didn't realize it before because his outfit was dirty with mud and grass stains. Then, he finally realized who he really was.

"Are you... is your name by any chance... 'Link?'" Link asked the "guard" with curiosity.

"Uh, yes, it is. But how did you know my name was Link? It's not a very common name."

"Oh my gosh... It's really you! I can't believe I get to actually meet you! This is so cool! It is such an honor to get to meet you!"

Link felt like as if he had just died and gone to heaven! Imagine if, at this very moment, you got to meet your most favorite person, character, or super star... That's how Link felt. To him, the Hero of Time was a super star. All of his life teachings were based on him.

"Well then, would you mind telling me who you are since you know who I am?"

"Oh yeah. I didn't properly introduce myself yet: my name's Link, too! I'm the reincarnation of you from the future!"

"Well duh!" said Navi. "If you're his reincarnation, then you have to be from the future! That's what a reincarnation is! A person that died in the past being reborn in the future!"

Link, the grown up, looked at Navi suspiciously. "How do you know all this kind of stuff, Navi?" he asked.

"Because I, the great Navi, know everything! When are you going to get that through your head?"

Link rolled his eyes. "Well, you could still be lying to us," he said to the other Link. "Do you have any proof that you're from the future?'

"Ummm... well I used the master sword to travel through here, so I guess that would be proof, right?"

Link looked through the opened doorway and was surprised to see that the master sword was right there in its pillar, as if it had been there all along and not been touched.

"But that's impossible... how could that be there...?" He walked up to it and took out his own Master Sword to compare the two. Sure enough, the master sword that was in the pillar was the same as the one in his hands. It just had a few extra scratches on it, but that was nothing that couldn't be fixed.

"But, this could easily be duplicated in its looks. You must have some other kind of proof with you." He walked back over to Link while putting his sword back in its case on his back.

"Um... well um... I don't think I have anything else to show you..."

"Yes you do," Tetra said. "You have tons of things!"

"Oh yeah? Like what?" Link said as he turned to face her, obviously still mad at her for following him.

"Well let's see..." she pretended to think and then quickly answered "How 'bout your Wind Waker? Maybe that would help!"

"Gee, Tetra, you could have told me a little nicer than that!" he turned around and pulled his Wind Waker out of his pocket to show to Link and Navi.

"Oh my gosh. Is that the legendary Wind Waker I've heard so much about?" Navi flew up a little closer to get a better look at it. "Yep. This is definitely it. I've heard many rumors about this instrument. I can't believe I'm actually seeing it right now!"

"Dose that mean you finally believe that we're from the future... and that you're not going to hurt us?"

Link laughed a little. "Of course we wouldn't hurt you. Even if you weren't from the future we wouldn't hurt you! And of course we believe you,"

Link gave a sign of relief. "Good." he put the Wind Waker back in his pocket. "Well, I guess I should start off by telling you why I'm here in the first place, huh?"

"That would be nice."

I-

Both Links, Tetra and Navi, walked out of the Temple of Time and into Hyrule field where they would part, and where Epona was waiting for Link.

"Well at least now I understand everything," Link said." I know that you are only here because of a dream that you had. But I still don't understand why she's here." He pointed towards Tetra.

"Oh, she's Tetra. She's part of the Royal family so technically, she's Zelda. I didn't want her to come... she kinda followed me over here."

"Well I guess you can't really do anything about that. But anyways, I was kinda wondering if you could, well, since you're going to go to the Korki Forest, I was wondering if you could do me a personal favor while you're there."

A/N: In remembrance to the class of 2005 from Holy Angels School, I dedicate this chapter to them. We ROCK, guys!

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Well that's it for chapter 4. And yes, like I said before, there is a method to that entire thing about Link not aging and how the path of time was reopened again and what not. I will explain it all later.

Until next time, see ya!

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