Chapter Eight: The First Task

Link's grandmother finally awoke, and saw that, like Zelda and Ganondorf before her, she was trapped in a slowly rotating crystal. A strange man was sitting on the floor, humming, with a golden gong with a silver beater next to him. The stranger had brilliant white hair, but wore a jet-black robe. He also had a very long and deadly looking blade hanging from his belt.

" Who…Who are you?" asked Grandma, still half-asleep.

The stranger sighed. " My name is Diego Ferago Bjorgen Gonavolo. But I am also known as Zephyrian, the Sword Sorcerer."

" What am I doing here?"

" You're here so Link will not attempt anything that will lead my plans astray."

" What? So you're going to hold her to ransom, is that it!" interrupted Zelda.

" Yes, I suppose you could put it that way. I see it as a way to render resistance futile, with her life at stake."

" Hmph! I thought that even someone like you would have some decency." said Ganondorf.

" You've never been decent in your life, Ganondorf, and now you are criticising my decency?" retorted Diego.

" I never once backed down from a fight, and I never once used a hostage!"

" And how many times did you say you won against Link?" replied Diego with a smirk. " Listen, you never had the idea of using Link's family against him; you're just angry that I thought of it first."

" What kind of cruel man would trap a poor old woman in a prison?" asked Grandma in a wobbly voice.

" You're not winning my sympathy, Grandma. That voice isn't going to change my mind."

" Hmm…It usually works with Link… I usually use it when I want him to go and get some food when it's pouring down." whispered Grandma to Zelda.

" I'm not Link though, am I?" asked Diego.

" No, you're a very evil person!"

" I try my best. Unlike pig-man here." thanked Diego, pointing at Ganondorf.

" When I get out of here, I'm gonna-" started Ganondorf angrily.

" Do what? Kill me? Don't make me laugh. Ganon is a great big pig, and you are a Gerudo man, and the two of you make a pig-man. So just accept what you are and we'll carry on in life."

" Where is Link?" asked Grandma.

" What does it matter to you?"

" I want to know where he is. He is my grandson, and I have a right to know where he is."

" Fine. If you must know, he's making his way to Hyrule Castle. So, if you'll excuse me…"

Diego hit his gong and shouted: " To Hyrule!"

Link was staggering to Hyrule Castle (Ruto had insisted that she should kill him. Link had to knock her out, but not before she managed to shoot him in the leg with an arrow. And the same one that the Bokoblin had bitten, too!), when he heard a distant gong being struck, and Diego appeared before him.

" I got the Master Sword, Diego."

" Excellent. To the Holy Stage!" replied Diego, hitting his gong again. Again, Link saw Hyrule disappear to be replaced with brilliant white. What was different was that three people were being held captive in similar crystals. Ganondorf he had expected, but Zelda and Grandma were trapped too!

" What are Zelda and Grandma doing here?" asked Link curiously.

" Zelda is integral to my plan. I have to keep an eye on her, in case she tries anything that ruin my plans. So I'm keeping her and her beautiful rapier at my side. Grandma is here so you will do everything I want you to. If not, she dies. Painfully."

" You monster! I should kill you on the spot!" replied Link angrily.

" You, should, but you won't. If you try, the Binding Crystal will shrink, slowly crushing your grandmother."

Link looked from Diego to his grandmother, and sighed. " What do you want me to do, Diego?" asked Link.

" I want you to collect the first Instrument of the Goddesses, Din's Harp. Apparently Gorganaut, the Ogre King, currently guards it, on an obscure island north of here. I think the island is called the Isle of Sirenia."

" How am I supposed to get there?"

" I assume you have a boat, the one carved in the shape of the King of Red Lions?"

" Yes, but I don't know where the isle is."

" The isle is uncharted. However, I have someone who knows where it is." Diego replied, taking a bottle from his belt. Link saw that a fairy had been caught in it.

" A fairy knows? Fairies can't speak, so how am I suppose to know what it's saying?"

" Fairies can speak, it's just no one listens to them. Their voices are very quiet, and not everyone can understand what they're saying. This fairy happens to be the one that healed Grandma for you. I think it deserves a name."

" I should call it a name?" repeated Link.

" As a way of saying thank-you."

" Okay…I think I should call you…Navi…"


A/N: I know some people will be hating this choice of name, but this Navi will be totally different to the one in the Ocarina of Time. I promise!