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Summary: Portrays Link's choice to travel to Termina. Read and review – remember, it's you reviewers who make us better writers!
Young Link looked out the window of his small tree house in Kokiri Forest. He saw two girls, Kiara and Lana, running around the short hedges looking for rupees and laughing. Link turned his gaze over to the fenced area next to the Know-It-All brother's house where had he first climbed through that hole and discovered the Kokiri Sword. Link unsheathed his sword and looked at it. From the mysterious forest magic, the sword had not a stain or chip on it, and remained looking like new all the time. Then link examined his shield. This lump of wood was not magic at all. Battered, chipped and burned around the edges. The Deku symbol painted in the middle was faded. Link also looked over his various other weapons and possessions.
It had been one year since Link had killed Ganondorf and returned to his childhood self for good. He was eleven now, and would soon have to move out of the forest, for he was beginning to frighten the Kokiri. They had been told that their friend Link from childhood was in fact, the Hero of Time that occasionally ran through the Forest. At first, they were in awe of him. Now, as he aged closer to his Hero self, they became scared. Link did not know where he would go. Everyone would know him. They'd ask him for help with this, money for that. Nobody seemed to realize that he was just a kid trying to live his life. His childhood had gotten severely messed up, and now the people weren't even letting him live what was rest?
Yes, Link needed to get away. If he went to Gerudo Valley, the young girls would squeal and giggle when he walked past. If he went to Kakariko Village, the steadily growing number of locals and tourists would swarm him too. If he went to the Market, he'd be big news for a week and then he would be forgotton – but Link didn't want to be forgotten either. If he went to Lake Hylia, he would have no-one for company but a paranoid fisherman, a crazy doctor and the fishes. Zora's Domain and Goron City were both filled with more fans. Death Mountain – well, Link didn't exactly wanna live his life in the top of a volcano. Temple of Time – no-one could live in there. Hyrule Castle would just bring in hordes of sad memories of Zelda and yet more fans. If he was to live at Lon Lon Ranch, he would have to become a ranch hand no doubt. And he didn't want that. He could live in one of the temples, but the constant fighting of monsters would annoy him to no end. So he basically had no choice…