The Legend of Zelda: Love Across Time
Author's Note: This is my first official video game fic! This takes place after Ocarina of Time. I wrote this while playing the game, so it might take me a while to finish, considering the fact that I'm in college. Anyway, I consider Hyrule and Earth two different worlds and timelines. This takes place in Hyrule, even though there are flashbacks from Earth. I have one OOC, but she's not a Mary Sue, I write angsty, so there is no way that she would be a Mary Sue! I hope you like the story.
Disclaimer: I don't own Zelda, or any of the sagas from Zelda! It belongs to Capcom so don't sue me for it! I only own my OOC!
Chapter 1: Happy Birthday
A girl with long brown hair and red eyes woke up in a cold sweat. She had the dream she had been having for the past two weeks. Pale feet touched the floor and she winced at how cold it was. She padded to the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror. Groaning at her messy hair, she went to the shower and turned it on. Inside, the hot water dripped down her skin and her thoughts went back to her dream. The man with red hair was staring at her and it felt as if he was peering into her soul. She would run away from him in a forest and he would chase her on his horse. She would trip and a guy on a brown horse would be there to save her. She knew that his name was Link, and the man with red hair was Ganondorf, but that's all she could remember. Then, there was a song she heard. It was soothing and easy to hum. She was taken out of her thoughts as there was a banging at the door. "Izzy!" yelled a voice, "I have to use the shower! Hurry up!"
She sighed and turned off the shower. Getting out, she looked at the mirror. It was fogged so she wiped it with her hand. What she saw were three triangles glowing on her left arm. She blinked, and it seemed to have disappeared.
The fields of Hyrule were bare, and only Poes reigned. Kakariko Village has also been abandoned, as only a few remain. The court of Hyrule Castle is littered with Re-Deads and only a few Hylians stay, only the corrupted ones who work for Ganondorf. Up in the castle, which is guarded by a lava pit, the Dark King Ganondorf plays his organ. In the corner sat Dark Link, waiting to serve his master in any way possible. He growled as a group of moblins came running in. The leader bowed. "Master Ganondorf…"He said
The organ stopped playing and the Dark King turned to look at his servant. "We have searched the village as you have told us, and we find no trace of the Princess." It said
Ganondorf's right hand clenched and his teeth gritted. For the past 18 years he had been searching for Zelda. No matter how high or how low he looked, she had never turned up. The girl he killed looked like Zelda, but she didn't have the triforce of wisdom. "Master Ganondorf?" asked the Leader Moblin
"Go." He said
With a slight nod of the head, the leader moblin and the rest of the moblins quickly left. Ganondorf growled and turned to his organ. "Dammit…that little bitch hid herself well…" he growled
"Master, have you tried checking another area?" asked Dark Link
"What area is left! Death Mountain is bare, Kakariko Village is abandoned, Zora's River is frozen over, and Lake Hylia is dry as the Gerudo Dessert!"
"Have you tried Earth Realm?"
"Earth Realm? Zelda wouldn't survive with a bunch of lowly humans! It just isn't her style!"
"True, but what if her power is in the Earth Realm? There are sayings that some people on earth are a double of us."
Izzy pulled her frizzy hair back into a ponytail as she watched her family scramble around. Sure it was her 18th birthday, but she specifically requested that nobody make a big deal about it. Her family didn't listen, so they decided to give her a big party. Sighing in defeat she went up to her room. She fell on her soft bed and looked up at the ceiling. "What's the big deal?" She muttered, "You reach adulthood and it all goes downhill from there."
As she laid there, she heard a mysterious tune. Recognizing as the tune from her dream, she walked downstairs to see her grandmother, playing the unusual song, on her old flute. She stopped playing and smiled at her granddaughter. "Happy Birthday, child." She said
"Thanks gran." She said, "What were you playing just now?"
"Oh…just a lullaby, a song I heard as a child."
Izzy's grandmother reminisced for a minute then snapped back into reality. She opened the girl's palm and placed the old flute in her hand. Izzy gave a soft smile. "Grandma, I don't even know how to play the flute." She said
"It's an Ocarina." Said her grandmother, "You'll learn one day to play it."
"Mama, don't start filling Izzy's head with those stories." Said Izzy's mother, setting down the punch bowl
"If I recall correctly Françoise, you were drawn to those stories."
"I'm older now mama, I don't have time to be hearing those stories."
Françoise sighed as she looked around the dinning room. "Lost something?" asked Izzy
"The ginger ale, I could've sworn I bought it yesterday…" answered Françoise
"I can go down to the store and buy it."
"Izzy, it's your birthday."
"Come on, I have to help with some of the festivities."
"Let the child go, she wants to do adult work." Said the grandmother
"Fine…" sighed Françoise, "But be back soon."
Izzy just nodded and left. Outside, she sighed, glad to be away from her bickering mother and grandmother. Whenever Grandmother Inza talked about her homeland, mother would shut her up. It was as if she was hiding something from her. Izzy shrugged it off and kept walking. While walking, she began to hum the theme song of her grandmother's lullaby. All of a sudden, she felt as if she were in a trance. She walked to a place that was off her trail. She felt a tremendous amount of power as she stood there. She didn't know what was going on, but she didn't like it. In a blinding white light, she passed out.
Izzy awoke and felt her head. She was suffering from a slight headache. As she got up, she felt the grass prickle her skin and she looked down to see dead grass. Looking around, she felt lost. She yelled out for help, but found her own echo and sighed. The air that filled her lungs was stale, and made her cough. The dead plains, and the ruins seemed to be familiar to her, but she wasn't sure how. Walking to a certain location, she felt herself hearing the sounds of tiny voices. The trees were dead, but she still managed to get lost in them. She ripped a hole in the knees of her jeans tripping over branches, and she even managed to cut her left cheek. Her shirt was reduced to a one-sleeve when she was finished. As she continued her way through the injuring, creepy forest, she heard the tune of an ocarina, something her grandmother had. Reaching into her small bag, she pulled out the ocarina, and also found her cell phone and some other things. She had forgotten it was on her back when she awakened, but that was because she was in an initial state of shock of being in another area. Taking out her cell phone, she groaned to find the screen broken, meaning there was no use for it. She just put it back into her bag, hoping that she would find a nearby store or payphone. Hearing running water, she ran towards the source. Izzy then stopped when she saw a rickety bridge. From what she could tell, it hadn't been used in a while. Gripping the rope, she slowly crossed it, and thanked God that it didn't collapse under her weight. She then preceded on to find a small village. To her surprise, it looked like a play area for children. However, the huts were all worn, like someone had broken into it. Izzy groaned a sigh of exasperation, finding no store nearby. She kneeled down into one of the houses and found nothing there. "There's got to be at least one kid or dog…or something…" she muttered
All of a sudden, a rock was thrown at her head. "Ouch!" she yelled
She looked to see four children dressed in green were throwing rocks at her with a slingshot. Another one threw a rock and she found refuge in a nearby tree house. She then shook her head at the thought of being afraid of children. "Come down here, spy!" said a voice
She looked down to see a red-head boy with elfin ears giving her an evil glare. "Hey kid, I'm no spy!" she yelled
"Don't be fooled!" he said, "Her strange clothes are from Ganondorf, she's a spy!"
They began throwing more rocks at her, so she shielded herself with her bag. Unfortunately, one rock hit her in the hand and she dropped the bag. Her ocarina dropped out and the red-head looked down at it. He looked up at her with a sneer. "What have you done to Inza?" he asked
"Give me back my grandmother's ocarina!" yelled Izzy
"Grandmother! Inza was a Kokiri, she could never age!"
"Kokiri! You're not Mido, are you?"
"Who wants to know?"
"My grandmother told me stories about you. She said that you would seek the love and affection of Saria, the Forest Temple's Guardian, but you never go it."
Izzy backed away from a rock that threatened to hit her. "Humph, what if you do know that?" he asked
"Saria told you to protect the Lost Woods to keep Ganondorf from taking over Hyrule." Answered Izzy
A rock hit her in the head and she fell, rendering herself unconscious. Mido looked down at the tall girl, and found a mark on her arm that resembled the crest of the Hyrule royal family.
Dark Link slammed open the door to the local pub. There, he saw corrupted Hylians drinking, gambling, and accepting the nearest offer for a 'good time'. Time seemed to stop when he entered the pub. Everybody knew not to cross Dark Link, because they would end up with an untimely fate, and he was also protected by Lord Ganondorf. He pulled out a large bag of gold and slammed it down on the table next to him. "This will be rewarded for the person that captures and brings me the doppelganger of Princess Zelda." He said
"Doppelganger?" asked a man
"She has the same physique and face as Princess Zelda, except she has brown hair and red eyes."
"Sounds like a sloppy doppelganger…" muttered a Hylian at the bar
Dark Link immediately took out his sword and sliced through the man's neck, making him loose his head. The hooker next to him screeched from being splattered in blood. "Are there any more comments?" asked Dark Link, putting his sword back in his sheathe
None were said, all they could see was the decapitated head on the floor and the blood spurting from the corpse that was still there. He smirked at his work and left. It had been a long time since he had been in battle, and he felt good, almost killing Link, but then Zelda had gotten rid of him before her death, meaning the battle was undecided. "If only she had been killed sooner…" he muttered
Then, there was the doppelganger of Zelda running around Hyrule, Ganondorf ordered for her capture. If she is the reincarnated or essence of Zelda, that meant that a new battle would ensue. He gave a maniacal laugh and grabbed the nearest hooker. He then threw her up on his horse and the rode off to Ganondorf's Fortress. He knew tonight would be the start of a new battle, something he had been waiting for, for a very long time.
A Kokiri removed the rag from Izzy's head. After falling from the tree house, the Kokiri took her to Mido's home and nursed her wounds. They may be minor, but Mido wanted her to get better. Only Inza knew the truth about his love for Saria, and about the forest temple. She had left Kokiri Forest to seek help, and then this girl shows up with the Hyrule crest on her arm, claiming that Inza was her grandmother. He knew that Kokiri could never age, but she looked like Princess Zelda, except she had small ears. This girl had to be from one place, Earth, a place that was parallel to Hyrule, or that's what the Great Deku Tree told him. Time runs faster on Earth, which is why Inza is a grandmother. Inza groaned and awakened to Kokiri staring at her. She screamed, but then calmed down. "Don't worry." Said Mido, "You're safe."
"You guys threw rocks at me!" she yelled
"We didn't know if you were friend or foe. Times are different."
Izzy merely nodded. "Granddaughter of Inza, you are welcome here." Said Mido, "We misjudged you."
"I don't like that title very much. My name's Zelda, but you can call me Izzy."
The Kokiri's gasped and bowed at her. Mido was the only one standing straight. He merely nodded. "She named you well." He said, "But, why call you Izzy?"
"My frizzy hair." She answered, "I was called Frizzy as a child, so my mother gave me the nickname Izzy."
Mido nodded and understood all. He now knew why this girl named 'Izzy' was here. Zelda may have died, but her essence was turned into a child that was protected by Inza, she had been sent to Earth by Zelda, but he had no idea why. She had returned to the Kokiri Forest to bid them all farewell, but all she said was the Princess was sending her to Earth. Mido took charge and grabbed Izzy's wrist. "We don't have much time." He said
"Can't I rest first?" she asked, "My head hurts."
"You can rest after we seem him."
"Who?"
"The Great Deku Tree."