The Legend of Zelda: The Guardian of Sages

Chapter Three: The Dragon Sword

The sun began to rise as the morning light passed over the land. A Cuckoo hopped onto the ranch fence and let out a roaring cock-a-doodle-doo.

In the barn, Carrie closes her eyes tight as she places her hands over her ears, having heard the Cuckoo. She sits up from her hay bed and grumbles. Dark, who laid beside her all night, gently nudges Carrie a good morning. Carrie smiles a little and pets him. She looks to see Link was gone from his hay bed. Her eyes widened as she stands herself up and wipes off her clothes from hay.

Malon comes in with a bucket. She smiles as soon as she sees Carrie, "Ooh.....you're awake sleepy head! Breakfast is on the table."

Carrie smiles and nods, "Thanks."

She then goes to the house and has her breakfast. She had eggs, bacon, and fresh baked bread. Of course she was served a glass of milk as well. After Carrie was done, she stands and smells herself. Surprisingly, she only had a faint smell of barn. Carrie sighs in relief, being thankful her new clothes didn't smell. She then goes down the stairs and sees Talon attending to the chickens. Carrie nods, "Morning, Talon."

Talon nods, "Morning, Carrie."

Carrie then asks, "Where's Link?"

Talon replies, "Oh. That boy's out at the ranch, brushing Epona before departure."

Carrie nods, "Thank you."

Talon smiles, "You are most certainly welcome."

Carrie then runs outside and then to the ranch. She sees Link was brushing Epona, just like Talon said. She smiles and then goes back into the barn. She sees Malon milking a cow with a bucket underneath. Carrie then goes up to her, "Hey there."

Malon smiles, "Oh. Hi, Carrie."

Carrie then says, "Need any help?"

Malon's eyes widened, "Oh? No.....I couldn't trouble you."

Carrie smiles, "I want to. It's the least I can do since you gave me Dark. Plus it'll only be until Link's ready to leave."

Malon smiles, "Okay. Umm...."

Malon then looks around, searching for something for Carrie to do. She then sees a few of the barn corners were messy. She then says as she points to the side of the room, "Uhh......those corners need to be swept. The broom is right beside Dark's stall."

Carrie nods, "Alright."

She then grabs the broom and starts sweeping. As Malon continues milking the cow, she then says, "So.......where are you and Link heading off to next? If you don't mind me asking."

Carrie keeps sweeping, "We're headed to the forests."

Malon's eyes widened, "Really? Wow. And I heard the forests are dangerous around these times."

Carrie smiles, "Yeah......but I think me and Link can handle it."

Malon smiles at Carrie, "I think so too."

Carrie smiles at Malon. She then looks down and keeps sweeping.

After a few moments, Link comes into the barn. He smiles as soon as he sees Carrie, "Oh......you're up."

Carrie nods, "Yeah. What time is it?"

Link then says, "6:30 am."

Carrie drops the broom as her eyes widened, "Geez!!"

Link nods, "Yeah. We should start heading out now."

Carrie nods back, "Okay. Let's go."

Outside near the exit of the ranch, Link is putting Epona's bridle on her. Malon and Talon then come out with a few supplies. Malon then goes up to Carrie as she was standing next to Dark. She smiles, "Here are some things for Dark."

She then hands Carrie two pouches attached to rope. Inside was a grey blanket, a brush, and some horse food. Carrie takes it and smiles, "Thanks."

Talon then comes and hands Carrie a black bridle and saddle, "You'll need these too."

Carrie smiles more, "Aww.....thanks, Talon."

Talon smiles, "Not a problem."

Carrie then puts on the grey blanket, and then straps the saddle over it. Next was putting the pouches over Dark on his back for him to carry. Carrie then looks to Dark and shows him the bridle, "May I?"

Dark then lowers his head. Carrie smiles as she places the bridle over him and ties it. Malon then goes up to Carrie, "I...I also made this last night. It's for luck."

She then hands Carrie a black and purple quilted collar with a red strip going around it for design. Carrie's eyes widened when she took it in her hands. Carrie smiles, "Thank you.....Malon."

With that, she hugs Malon. Her eyes widened when Carrie hugged her. Malon smiles as she hugs her back. Carrie leans back, "Thank you for your kindness."

Malon smiles, "It's my pleasure. If you ever run out of food or supplies.....feel free to drop back here."

Carrie nods, "Thank you."

Talon then hands another rope with pouches to Link, "Oh. Can't forget your Lon Lon Milk!!"

Link takes it, "Thanks."

He then loads it onto Epona's back. Carrie goes in front of Dark and ties the quilted collar around his neck. Carrie smiles, "Looking good, Dark."

Link and Carrie then mount onto their horses. Carrie waves, "Bye, Malon. Bye, Talon."

Malon waves, "Good luck!"

Talon waves, "So long you two!"

With that, Carrie turns and whips her horse's bridle, "Ya!!"

Link then whips his horse's bridle as well, "Hi-ya!!"

Carrie and Link then road off into the fields, not looking back for further goodbyes.

Dark and Epona ran fast into the fields along side each other. Carrie looks to Link and laughs, having fun. Link smiles and chuckles. Carrie looks ahead and whips Dark's bridle, "Ya!!"

Dark began to run faster than Epona, as the back of Carrie's hair and cloak flowed backwards with the wind. Link smirks and then whips Epona's bridle, "Hi-ya!!"

Epona then caught up to Dark's speed. The two horses were evenly matched in speed. Carrie looks over and smirks and then looks ahead as the wind came into her face. Link smiles as the wind did the same to him.

The sun rose a little higher in the air, indicating it was close to mid-day. Carrie's eyes widened when she saw the old tree. She smiles as she also saw the bend. Carrie then whips Dark's bridle for him to go faster. Link smiles and did the same to Epona's bridle to catch up. They turn around the bend and see a tunnel. They both pull on their bridle and say at the same time, "Woah!"

Dark and Epona come to a stop right in front of the tunnel. Link then dismounts his horse as Carrie did the same. Link walks in front of the tunnel, "Here we are. Beyond this tunnel is Kokiri Forest."

Carrie smiles, "Yeah. I can't wait to see it."

Link then looks to Carrie with a smile, "It's where I have been raised.....at least.......for the first ten years of my life."

Carrie smiles, having known everything about Link. To keep it casual, she nods, "That must have been hard."

Link looks to the ground and sighs, "It wasn't so bad."

Carrie then pats his shoulder with her hand. Link smiles at Carrie, "Shall we?"

Carrie nods, "We shall..."

They both look to the tunnel and walk inside. On the otherside was a wooden bridge with orbs flying about. Carrie smiled as she looked around. Ahead was another tunnel. Link went on ahead as Carrie followed behind. On the otherside of the other tunnel, was a big forest with wooden houses everywhere, like a small woodland village. Carrie looks around, loving the beautiful sight of what was before them, Kokiri Forest. Orbs were flying everywhere, making the sight more worth while.

Carrie then kicks the ground. She then felt something. She looks down and sees a stick. She picks it up and swings it. Link was ahead looking around. He thinks outloud, "Where are all the Kokiri?"

Kokiri were people that consisted of only children. In these forests, the Kokiri never grew up. A rumor was said that if a Kokiri left the forests, they'd die. Carrie looks around as she swings the stick. Link looks to see a big tree with a house on it. Link's eyes widened, "My......my house...."

Carrie goes to Link and sees. Link then looks to Carrie, "I'll be back.....search for Kokiri."

Carrie nods, "Okay."

Link then turns and heads to his house. Carrie felt uncomfortable being alone for some strange reason. She usually never minded being by herself. Carrie then gripped the stick and backed up. She then bumped into something that made a high pitched squeak. Carrie froze. She then slowly turns around. Her eyes widened at what it was that was turning around to look at her. It had a round snout with one hole and was fairly small in height and red and orange leaves for hair, if you could call it hair, with bright orange eyes that glew. It was a Deku Scrub.

Carrie screamed at the same time the Deku Scrub did. Before the Deku Scrub did anything, Carrie then hit it in the head with her stick hard! On the first blow, it fell down with a faded out squeak. Carrie's eyes widened. She poked it with the stick. It didn't move.

Link comes running, "What happened?! I heard you scream."

Carrie backs away, "I......uhh...I came across a Deku Scrub and whacked it in the head with a stick."

Link then kneels over the Deku Scrub's body, "What did you do to this poor thing? It's out cold."

Carrie raises her voice, "I just said I hit it in the head with a stick!!"

Link stands, "Why'd you hit it in the head?"

Carrie then said, "It was either that or have it shoot a Deku Nut at my ass!!"

Link's eyes widened. He then sighs and puts out his hand, "Hand me the stick."

Carrie grips the stick, "No. My stick!"

Link walks closer, "I mean it. Give me the stick."

Link then grabs Carrie's wrist. Carrie gasps, "Hey!"

She then hits Link's hand with the stick. Link jumps back, "Ow!!"

He waves his hand over and over again, trying to ease the pain. Link grunts, "Why'd you hit me?!!"

Carrie grips her stick, "Because......I don't want you taking my stick."

Link sighs as the pain eased, "You didn't have to hit me."

Carrie then says, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you. It was only for you to let my wrist go."

Link shakes his head, "Now I am nervous to see what would happen if a sword landed into your hands."

Link then looks over the place and then sees ledges. Over the ledges was another tunnel. Link then said, "Come on.....we might find what we need in the Lost Woods."

Carrie nods, "Alright."

As she went to walk, a giant purple flower rose up from the ground. It made a snapping sound and turned to take a bite from Carrie. Her eyes widened. She thought quickly and started to hit it with the stick over and over again. Carrie didn't stop. The flower fell down on the ground. Carrie kept on hitting it even when it was down. Link came and grabbed her, "Woah.....calm down. You don't have to keep beating down the Deku Baba."

Deku Baba was a giant man-eating plant, with a purple-blue head with teeth. Carrie started gasping, "I-I'm sorry. I'm not use to seeing man-eating plants trying to eat me!"

Link nods, "Okay.....just stick with me okay?"

Carrie began to laugh. Link looks, "What?"

Carrie laughs, "Stick.......with you?"

Link realized his hidden pun. Link shakes his head, "Very funny...."

Carrie still laughed as they walked on. The first ledge Link climbed on and then turned to grab Carrie's hand. He then pulls her up and heads for the next one. Link then climbs onto the vines. Carrie did the same. They climb over the last ledge and see the tunnel. They both went through it. On the otherside was a bunch of other tunnels. Carrie swung her stick and broke it, "Aww....."

Link sees, "Good, maybe you'll focus now."

Carrie then grabs the other side of the broken stick and starts drumming along a tree. Carrie starts to chuckle as she starts to drum more. Link goes to Carrie as she was drumming. She then drummed along the tree truck and used Link's head as the last note. Link's eyes widened as Carrie laughed.

Link raises an eyebrow, "Are people this immature in your world?"

Carrie then says, "Sometimes. Do people always have tight asses in yours?"

Link's eyes widened as he looked behind himself and covers his behind. Carrie sighs, "Not literally. It means you need to loosen up.....have a sense of humor."

Link then removes his hands from his behind. Carrie laughs, "Ooh......I should use my world's expressions more often. Your reactions are so funny!"

Link gives her a small glare. Carrie then drops the sticks, "Okay. I'm done now."

Link then turns, "This way."

Carrie then follows Link into another tunnel. On the otherside was more tunnels. Link lead the way, as soon as Carrie walked by a tunnel, the eye on each side of her gauntlets glew. Carrie looks, "What the.....?"

She turns to the tunnel. Her gauntlets glew even more. Link looks, "What's the matter?"

Carrie looks to Link, "Something's in here."

Link then says, "That's not the way to the Sacred Forest Meadow."

Carrie looks in the tunnel, "Just come on...."

Carrie goes through the tunnel. Link sighs and follows. On the otherside were more tunnels. Carrie puts her arms out. She points them at each tunnel. As soon as she pointed at the left one, her gauntlets glew again. Carrie and Link then go through that tunnel. On the otherside was a small meadow. The grass was yellow and the trees were so big, that it made the meadow dim in sunlight. A bright ray of sunshine was shining down in the middle of the meadow. Carrie and Link's eyes widened. There was a grey pedestal covered in green vines. In the pedestal was a sword with a shimmering grey and silver blade and a purple handle with bits of red wrapped around it. Carrie smiled even more as she saw it looked just like a samurai sword.

Link looks, "It....it can't be."

Carrie smiles, "I think it is. The Dragon Sword!!"

Link then says, "That's......that's a strange looking sword. I never seen anything like it. I can't even tell the type of blade it is."

Carrie says, "It's a kitana."

Link looks, "What's that?"

Carrie smiles, "In my land....it's considered one of the top best blades that was ever made. It was used by highly skilled swordsmen called Samurai."

Link's eyes widened, "Samurai. Hm......kinda like a knight?"

Carrie then says, "Sort of....only some of them don't need armour."

Link gasps, "Wow."

Carrie then goes up to the sword, "Okay....if I AM the Guardian of Sages.....then I should be able to pull this out."

Link watches closely. Carrie then steps in front of the sword and places her hand on the handle. Carrie then grips it tight and tries with all of her might to pull it out. Electricity started to go around the blade as Carrie took a step back, removing the sword from it's resting place. She holds her sword in the air as massive lightning hit it and surged around Carrie and the sword. Massive wind blew around her as she lowers the sword to get a good look at it. The sunlight turned back to normal as the blade glimmered in it's light. Carrie's eyes widened, not believing what just happened.

Link removes his hand away from his face, when he covered himself from the wind and lightning, and looks at Carrie. She gasps, "My....God......"

Link goes beside her, "You....you really are the Guardian."

Carrie still stares at the blade. She swallowed deeply, still taking in what just happened. Link looks to the ground, with some tree roots sticking out. He sees something laying there. He picks it up. It was a black sheathe with a bright purple dragon designed on it with red eyes. Link turns to Carrie, "You might need this.....Guardian."

Carrie looks at the sheathe. She nods and takes it. She then puts the sword in it and ties it to her left side with her red sash. She then looks up at Link. He looks down and smiles, "Let's go save this land."

Carrie nods, "I am prepared to serve it."