Disclaimer: I don't own the Legend of Zelda; because if I did it would never have become this popular.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Chapter 2: Dreaming of a Hero
Rain was falling.
The Dark covered the sky.
He was standing in front of some sort of giant building, made of stone and wood.
The strange wall of wood started to lower itself to the ground.
There was a sound.
The sound grew louder, a rhythmic thumping noise, repeated over and over again.
He saw some sort of strange creature running towards him. It had two people riding it. The creature was coming closer.
The creature quickly passed him and his fairy by.
He saw the younger of the two riders look over at him, with fear in her eyes. She quickly was pulled back to face forward by the older rider.
The two of them, and the creature itself were out of sight very quickly.
He heard a snort behind him and turned quickly.
There was a man on another one of those creatures. The man was tall, with deeply tanned skin, and wore the blackest of black armor.
The man stood still for a moment, before turning to look at him.
He saw dark red, piercing eyes, before letting out a scream.
"AAAAHHHHHHHH!" Link sat bolt upright in his bed, screaming.
"Hey! What's wrong!" someone's voice said, tinged with worry.
Link was breathing deeply. 'It's that same dream again. The same one that I've woken up to for the last few nights. I don't get it, is it supposed to mean some-"
"HEY!" said the voice again.
"Huh? Who's there?"
"Now's not the time! We have to hurry! The Great Deku Tree wants to see you!" the voice was starting to get angry now.
Link looked around the room to find the owner of this mysterious voice, but found nothing. Nothing in his room was out of the ordinary.
"Hey! C'mon! Quickly!" commanded the voice, now just completely angry.
"Who are you? You can't just be a voice, you have to have a body!" Link said, now starting to get angry himself.
"I'm up here! Look! Upwards!" said the voice, now sounding a little insulted along with the anger.
Link looked upwards and saw a small blue-white fairy.
"A fairy! Are you going to be my fairy, fairy? And what's your name, fairy?"
"Yes! I'm a fairy, no, not that I know of and Navi! Quickly! C'mon!" Navi flew quickly to the doorway, and sat waiting for Link to follow.
Link was still sitting in his bed, wondering what was going on. He looked back over at Navi, now upset, because he still didn't have a fairy. He stood up, and shook himself a bit to get rid of the remaining effects of sleeping. He grabbed his bag full of Deku nuts and slid it onto his belt, and walked towards the door.
Link stepped out onto his hut's outcropping, and went over to the ladder. Link started to go down the ladder before stopping and climbing back up. He walked around to the other side and climbed down the extra ladder he had set up back there.
"What are you doing! We don't have time to waste! Let's go!" Navi commanded, sounding angry again.
"Just a second. Mido's here at my doorway again, just waiting for his chance to get me." Link walked around behind his house for a little while, waiting to see if Mido left. When he didn't, Link sat down annoyed. 'Why won't he just leave me alone? What did I ever do to him?'
"Link, please! We need to hurry." Navi pleaded, realizing that her anger wasn't going to affect Link other than bothering him. He didn't need that; he got enough of it from Mido. Link went over to a side of the forest, where there was an almost impassable wall of trees, and ran his hand over a small spot in the trees. One of them moved itself out of the way, revealing a pathway.
"When did this get here? Why didn't I know about it?" Navi asked, this time incredibly curious.
"Saria showed all the paths around the forest to me, and she said she was the only one who knew about them. She showed them to me for just this reason. I forgot about this one, until just now." Link stepped into the pathway, and just like that the tree started moving back into place, like a door.
Navi jumped through the tree-door opening just before the door closed.
Navi stared around in wonderment at this new part of the forest. 'I wonder when these paths were put here, because they weren't here all that long ago, when I first explored the forest.'
"Navi, do you want to go now or wait? Mido will never find us in here and it comes out near anything of importance in our forest. I think there might even be a pathway to the Great Deku Tree."
"HEY LINK!" came someone's voice from behind Link, causing him to jump.
He spun around, surprised by the new voice. Saria was standing there, clad in her usual green outfit. She was giggling quite hard about her little joke.
"Hey Saria, how are you?"
"I'm good," she responded, fighting off the giggles. "Ohhh! Is that a fairy! I'm so happy for you! You finally got your own fairy!"
"Sorry Saria, I'm not really Link's fairy. I'm just a messenger. I was sent to get Link for the Great Deku Tree."
"The Great Deku Tree summoned you! You should get going then! It doesn't happen very often, so it must be important! Good Luck!" She said all of this in one breath, before dashing off.
"Hey! Wait!" Link shouted in vain. She was already too far away to hear.
"C'mon Link, we need to hurry."
"Alright," Link sighed.
They both dashed off towards the Great Deku Tree.
Link came to an exit, and examined it. Carved into the tree-door were the words Great Deku Tree's Clearing. Link pushed on the door and it opened. He walked outside, and was right next to the entrance to the clearing. Too bad Mido was standing in front of the entrance.
"Hey, Mr. No Fairy. What are you doing here? Only real Kokori are allowed to see the Great Deku Tree!" Mido said, upset that he missed his chance this morning to pick on Link.
Navi floated above 'Mr. No Fairy's' head, and started glowing a bright yellow. "Mr. No Fairy? Is that what you always call Link? You little bas-"
"Navi, not now, please. I don't think this is the time to yell at Mido. What do you want, Mido?"
"What do I want? What do I want? I want you to get out of our forest, that's what I want! I want you to disappear back into the hole you crawled out of! And I want to know who that fairy belongs to!"
"I'm his fairy, you great moron!"
"Navi, please?"
"He needs to see the Great Deku Tree, get out of the way Mido!"
"No!" Mido sneered at Link and Navi, "I'm not letting any two bit, fake Kokori past to see our great patron! Not unless he proves himself to me."
"What do you mean prove himself to you! You're not some leader that decides who can do what!"
"Navi, please, shut up! What do you mean, Mido? How can I prove myself to you?"
"You need a sword and a shield," Mido said, without hesitation, smirking at the fact that there were no swords in the Kokori forest.
"Alright, I'll get a sword and shield, just to piss you off." Link stated, before turning and walking away.
"Hey Link, where are we going to find a sword? There hasn't been one in the Kokori forest in years." Navi asked, thinking deeply to find an answer to their predicament.
"I know where one is. Saria showed it to me. It's in the pathways, but it's not connected to any of the other pathways. Its entrance is in the garden. Let's go get it." Link walked over to the entrance to the gardens, and walked along the single path there, before coming up to the wall on the far edge of the garden. He looked around before finding the specific tree. He walked up to it, and pushed into it. It moved out of the way like the other tree-doors did, and Link walked in. Navi followed shortly after, so as to not be trapped outside.
Link walked through the pathway for a little bit before coming to a split in the path. Link looked both ways, before deciding to go right. He walked a little bit, before he heard a rumbling noise. He looked around him for the noise, but could find no identifiable source. He turned around and looked behind him, only to see a large boulder rolling his way.
"Oh, great!" Link turned around and sprinted to get away from the giant boulder. He kept running and running, not being able to get away from it. He turned corners and went into side passages, but couldn't loose the boulder. Eventually Link walked through a spot, and the boulder stopped behind him. He looked over his shoulder and saw it rolling away in the opposite direction.
"That was close." Link said, taking heavy breaths.
"That was a little to close. How could you not know about something like that!"
"It wasn't there before! When Saria showed me this place before, there was no boulder!"
Link continued walking forward until he came upon a tree stump.
There was no way past the giant tree stump. He saw on the ground near the stump, there were a few blue rupees. Link reached down and pocketed them, thinking they could be useful for buying the shield.
Link clambered up onto the large tree stump, and reached down towards the center of it.
There, embedded in the wood, was the hilt of a sword.
The hilt itself was beautifully crafted, with strong but soft straps of leather wrapped around it. It had a small red gem built into the center of the handle that glowed with a strange inner light.
Link grabbed the handle, and pulled.
The sword didn't budge.
Link pulled again.
The sword didn't budge.
Link let go of the handle and stared down at it.
'Why won't you come out!'
Link reached down one more time, before pulling as hard as he could. The sword pulled loose a little. Link pulled again. The sword loosened even more. With one final tug, Link managed to remove the sword from the makeshift pedestal.
"Wow," Link stated, clearly concentrating on the sword.
"Wow is right! That thing is amazing." Navi floated near the sword and admired it. "It's got great craftsmanship, and it's still sharp! I wonder how long that's been sitting there undisturbed."
"That's a good question, but we need to go get a shield, remember. Link looked around for some way to store the blade of the Kokori, and found a sheath hanging on a tree nearby. He picked it up and tried to tie it around his waist.
"Uhhh… Link, I think that's a bit too big for you. You might want to adjust it."
"Nah! I'll be fine." Link continued trying to tie it around his waist for a few minutes before giving up. He tied it around his right shoulder, and let it hang down to his left hip. He picked up the blade in his right hand and gave a few practice swings.
After getting a feel for the weight, Link started to go through a seemingly random routine. Slash after slash, parry, dodge, slash, dodge, parry, all going in a random order, over and over again.
"HHHHHYYYYYAAAAAA!" Link let out a fierce battle-cry as he jumped upward, taking the sword in both hands before bringing it down, ending his routine.
'Wow, that was amazing! And to think he's never used a sword before! It's unheard of!' Navi was off to the side watching the whole thing unfold.
"C'mon Link, we need to go buy that shield, and get past Mido!"
Link sheathed the sword, before turning and walking after the leaving Navi. He pulled out the few rupees he had picked up from the ground, and saw that he had a red one and three blue ones. That meant he only needed a blue one or five green ones!
Link picked up the pace a little bit and ran after Navi, who had started going faster.
Link and Navi dodged past the boulder again, and ran back into the town. Link looked around a little bit before finding the last blue rupee they needed hidden away at the bottom of the little pond.
They walked into the store, and proceeded to the counter. Link spoke up this time.
"Sir, would you happen to have any shields today?"
The man jumped up so he could see his customer. He fell back down after seeing it was Link.
"Why, yes, we have one left! You're quite lucky, since these are so popular, we hardly ever have any. Do you want to buy it?"
"Yeah, I would. Its forty rupees, right?"
"Yep it is."
"Well then here you go." Link set the rupees on the counter and waited patiently for his shield.
The man jumped up once more so that he could see the rupees. He fell after seeing them and promptly jumped up again, so he could take them.
He walked over to the spot on the back wall where the shield hung. After jumping up, the man grabbed the shield and deftly pulled it off the wall. He walked back to the counter, jumped, and deposited the shield on it.
"Thanks for your business." The man said, as Link dashed off.
Link continued running until he had reached Mido again.
"What's this, come to give up? Can't you find a…shield…and…a…sword? Where did you find those! There hasn't been a sword in the Kokori forest for years!"
"Well, looks like you miscounted, not that you could ever count in the first place!" All three of them turned to the new voice. It was a small orange-brown colored fairy.
"Mido, I don't even see why you put them through this! The Great Deku Tree gave you special orders to let Link through, and yet you don't! You send them on this wild cucco chase instead! You treat Link like he's some kind of piece of trash! You're always picking on him, and causing trouble! Why can't you just leave him alone for once! What did he do to you! Huh! Tell me, Mido!"
"Why are you taking his side Karol? Aren't you supposed to be my fairy! Why don't you take my side, like you're supposed to!"
"I'm not some minion of yours! I'm supposed to be a guardian and a teacher all in one, not some petty follower of yours, all for your command! I obviously didn't do that good of a job teaching you though, did I! If you think you know everything, then there's no reason for me to be here anymore! I'll just go because I know that's what you want anyways!"
Karol, the orange-brown fairy, turned quickly, and dashed off into the dusk, not to be seen again for quite some time.
Mido stared at the spot Karol had been floating for a moment, before running off after her. He stopped one moment to look back at Link, lowered his head, turned around and began running again.
Navi and Link stood for a moment, and Link looked down.
'I feel so horrible. I just caused a split between a fairy and a Kokori. That hasn't happened in probably one hundred Hylian years! This is all my fault! Why did this have to happen?' Link stood still for a bit longer thinking.
Navi could tell easily what was going on in Link's mind.
"Link, I don't think worrying about it will change anything. And don't blame yourself. Mido brought this upon himself, and if anyone's to blame, it's him."
'I'm not so sure.' Link managed to keep himself from saying that statement out loud, but Navi heard anyways.
"Let's go, Link, we were supposed to meet the Great Deku Tree early this morning, and its late evening. We should hurry."
Navi led the way down the path, and Link followed, a little subdued.