Wow! Two chapters in one day! I'm on a roll!
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN ZELDA! (chases off lawyers with baseball bat)
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Link's Story
Chapter 1: A Watery Grave
She never saw it coming.
The girl was minding her own business, looking for medicinal plants along the shores of Lake Hylia. There was an abundance of them there, and she quickly found the kind she needed. As she bent down to harvest the plants, however, she felt an ominous sensation…the sensation of being watched…
She quickly surveyed her surroundings. Nothing.
I'm getting paranoid, she thought, and resumed her collecting. Almost instantly, she felt the sensation return.
She wasn't able to react quickly enough this time. The girl immediately felt webbed fingers latch onto her ankles and drag her beneath the water's surface.
The sudden plunge into the icy lake knocked her breath away, and a wave of water rushed up her nose and down into her lungs. She struggled frantically to get free, but the fingers had a grip of iron.
The girl's vision began to become cloudy. She tried one more time to free herself before darkness took her.
It was only then that the creature relinquished its grip, letting the lifeless girl sink while she continued to stare at the surface of the lake with eyes that could no longer see.
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Mayor's Office, Kakariko Village, 2 weeks later
"ANOTHER one!"
The meek council member quailed under the mayor's piercing gaze. He adjusted his spectacles nervously.
"Y-yes, sir. We found the girl washed up on the shore of Lake Hylia this morning. Judging from the marks on her ankles, it seems that she was attacked and dragged under by a Zora."
The Mayor pounded his fists on his desk. He was an elderly man with a long gray beard, but he still had the vigor of someone a quarter his age. "How many people are going to die before this nightmare is over?"
"I don't know, sir."
"If it isn't one thing, it's another! If people aren't getting drowned by the Zoras, then they're getting stabbed to death by Moblins or fried to a crisp by Wizzrobes! Heck, we even had a woman get sliced in half by a Peahat once! And the attacks are only going to get worse as long as that obese pig is in power!"
The council member nodded. "Indeed. Ganon must be stopped."
The mayor slammed his fist onto the desk again, causing the council member to jump. "You think I don't know that? The King should have sent troops to Death Mountain ages ago, but he's still too busy worrying about Princess Zelda to do anything! Doesn't he know that he's not going to get her back if he doesn't pull himself together?"
"Apparently not, sir."
The Mayor sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "All this shouting is giving me a migraine. You are dismissed."
The council member was only too happy to leave, as he almost ran out the door, all but knocking over the boy who had been eavesdropping on the whole discussion. "Oh! Excuse me, Link."
Link jumped about a mile. "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" he hissed. "I don't want the mayor to know I'm here!"
Too late.
"Link, is that you? Will you come in here a minute?"
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