Chapter 13

Home Sweet Home

As they were walking a roaming dragon flew down next to Link. He drew his sword and prepared to fight.

"Take it easy young warrior." said the dragon' "I can talk because I'm 1,000 years old. Anyway thank you for defeating Lord of Dragons, he was a cruel man using us just to train his favorite dragon. Is there anything I can do for you as a thanks?" asked the dragon.

"Actually we need to get to Hyrule as fast as possible." Zelda suggested.

"No problem I'll get you there in no time." it said. So they hopped on and they were off.

About an hour later a dark storm suddenly appeared in the sky above Hyrule. When they got closer they saw that it wasn't a storm, but the sky was just dark for no reason.

"I don't know why this is happening, but it's coming from the tower on the castle like my vision showed." Link explained. When they got down they went to Link's village. It was completely burned to the ground except a few houses. Link felt anger well up inside him. He immediately began to hate whoever did this to this innocent town. They found that Link's house wasn't burned and destroyed like the rest. When he walked in he saw his uncle by the furnace making weapons.

"Hey, Uncle guess who's home!" Link shouted.

"Link! Oh my son…I've been so worried" his uncle blurted out. You see he felt like Link's father since he'd raised him for so long.

"Unc, this is Zelda, she's been with me for most of my journey." Link said.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." she said. After catching up Link asked the serious questions.

"Unc, why is Hyrule destroyed, and why didn't it happen to our house?" Link asked. His heart ached for the people that had slaughtered his town.

"Well about 3 days after you left the king was killed and a mysterious darkness started coming from the tower. A couple of days later a huge army of hideous creatures called Archfiends came. These hideous creatures resembled humans if they were 8 feet tall, had red glowing eyes and swords that stuck out of their wrists. There were two kinds. One seemed more muscular, but the other was skinny and seemed more sinister. They destroyed the villages, but one came and told me that all blacksmiths would live if we made weapons for them and for their leader who they call Ganondorf." Link's uncle explained. Link slammed his fists on the table in rage.

"So all I went through was for nothing!" he shouted.

"No Link," Zelda said sympathetically, "we still might have a chance if we can make it to the temple."

After a good meal and some sleep the two set out to ask Nimion what the letters on the Triforce meant. When they got to his house they found it destroyed, but after looking around they found him hiding in a secret basement. He was amazed when he saw the Triforce.

"Yes I can read what it says, but it doesn't make sense to me. The first one says "Open open o great," the second says "Gates of Time," and the last one says "Test me to be pure." he read, "Does that make sense to you?"

"Oh yeah! Thanks for your help!" Link said excitedly as he ran to the temple.