Chapter 1: Deja vivir
"Link!" A red headed boy said, his skin like the color of ash. "Link! Come on, food's going to be gone if you don't hurry!" The red head yelled on, repeating them several time over as he looked through the woods. "Link! Come o-" The boy was cut off as he tripped, his feet yanked quickly from under him as ropes wrapped around his legs. "-n…not again." The boy moaned. "Get out here link, I know you're here!" There was faint laughter as a blond haired boy dropped out of the tree, the red head was tied too. "Yeah, yeah, just cut me dow.-" He tried to say as the rope gave way under his weight, his head landing in soft dirt.
"Stop setting these trap!" The red headed boy yelled visibly annoyed. "I don't care if you don't mean it to get me, but I seem to always be the one who gets caught in them, Link!" The red head said to the blond Link. Link nodded quickly before helping the red head to his feet, faintly holding down a laugh.
"Sorry..." Link muttered softly and quickly as if he feared the words would lose meaning if not spoken fast enough.
"Does not matter." The red head muttered while wiping the wet mud out of his eyes, reacting as a faint echo yelled out "Link! Ganondorf!" The woman's voice seeming thick yet high pitched. The red head groaned at the sound of his name. "Why couldn't my parents had at least left me with a normal name." Ganondorf said out loud as if hoping his parents could hear him. Link just made a faint grunt as he started running back to the orphanage.
Yet such a place could hardly be called an orphanage, true, children without parents were held there, true, they were fed and each given a bed. But the children were wild, the food rotten, and the beds creaking with age. Very few of the children were ever dressed in much more then rags, most of the children seeming half starved.
Link, and Ganondorf were with them in that, both wear what may have once been blue jeans, and shirts little more than stitching, the art of the shirts long faded. "Link! Gannondorf!" A woman said, the girl now visible, dressed in the same rags, and seeming younger then the two boys. "Where have you two been?" She glanced at Link for a second before Ganondorf spoke.
"Link was hiding in the woods again, no idea what he was up to, and he would not tell me." Ganondorf said, looking through the window as the wild children dug into the large pot of food, the steaming mass quickly dissolving into their hung maws.
"You, never asked." Link spoke in a near whisper. "I was trying to get food..." The girl looked into the window Ganondorf was looking into an understanding of Link's choice all too visible in the grubby blackened hands of those children, the cleaner children seeming to have been pushed off into a corner, long forgotten by the main population.
"Did he get anything?" The girl asked plainly.
"Yes." Ganondorf said, quickly, Link seeming to hold a laugh as she asked. The girl gave a confused look until he pointed to the rope still tied tightly to his foot. The girl laughed gently, almost forced, almost longing to laugh. Link walked away, the two not noticing till he was nearly gone. "Hey! Link, we are not that boring are we?" Ganondorf ran up to him, grabbing his hand and pulling him back.
Link stared dully at him before shaking his head, "No...just going to check my other traps…"
Ganondorf just smiled, "You had more up?" Link grinned before running off, the girl and Ganondorf having a challenge keeping up with his speed. "Link! Slow down a little!" He yelled the sound of his voice barley reaching Link who was already deep in the woods around the orphanage. The tree's falling before him as he ran, as if lifted by an unknown force. A gentle voice in his ear 'he is almost ready.' It said, the surprise stopping him…and the people who happened to have just caught up.
"Ah!" The girl squealed as she slammed into Link, Ganondorf slamming into her in surprise.
"Pain" Ganondorf muttered.
"Can't, breath" Link muttered, his face slammed deeply into the thick leaves that covered the forest floor. Ganondorf pulled himself up, helping the girl to her feet as well, Link weakly pulling himself up as the weight as finally taken off his back, breathing loudly, laying flatly in the leaves.
"Are you okay?" The girl asked with concern.
"Yea, why did you stop?" Ganondorf added.
"I.. heard something." Link said softly, pulling himself to his feet as he spoke, leaves still clinging to his clothes.
"What did you hear?" Ganondorf asked. Link seemed to take a bit to reply, thinking back to that voice. 'he is almost ready.'
'Well, you said...'wait up'..." Link finally said.
"Oh...um, yea, I will shut up now." Ganondorf said scratching his head. "So um." He went on as if he forgot what he just said. "How close are the traps you put up?" Link just pointed behind him, the sound of a pig squealing seeming to start up as if on cue.
"Let's go get it Link." The girl said running for the loud sound of a squealing pig.
"Maria, wait up!" Ganondorf yelled, as he started into a run.
"You're too slow!" He yelled back with a smile as she disappeared into the trees. Genondorf's reply lost to Link in the sound of the forest. It's rustling and crunching of leaves underfoot, the sound of animals going about their lives in the forest, the wind blowing gently on his skin, whistling in his ear. The feeling of the forest felt so calming, as if he would be better to live in such a place then that shack of a orphanage.
"Link!" Ganondorf yelled out, his voice seeming to echo off the trees. "Link, where are ya?" Link grunted running over to the voice, his feet moving soundlessly on the brittle leaves. "Link, wher-" Ganondorf started to say, cut off as Links head smashed into his gut, muttering only "Pain" as he rolled on the ground, Link hold his head, dizzy from the feeling of his head slamming into Ganondorf's ribs.
"I need to stop standing in the wrong place." Ganondorf muttered holding his gut.
"Come on, I can't hold onto this pig forever, get Link's knife!" Maria yelled from off in the distance, a little girl laying on a pig, her feet digging into the ground.
"I found him!" Ganondorf wheezed out, his voice weak from air being knocked out.