Disclamer!
I do not own Harry Potter or The Legend of Zelda
The first week went uneventful. Students slowly came back into the customs of Hogwarts, with getting their new schedules, meeting the teachers, and getting comfortable back into the lifestyle. Harry, Hermione and Ron walked into their first class of the day Divination, in high spirits. Those were soon crushed as they soon found out that both the class and teacher were not only pointless, but crazy as well. Hermione kept her head in a book, cursing the class underneath her breathe, while Ron and Harry watched the teacher in confusion as she pranced around the room.
"Do you feel it?!" screamed Trelawney, turning to all the students and walking around to them, "Do you feel the energy in the ball!?" she screamed yet again, this time in some random students faces, leaving them confused and slightly horrified.
She raced over to Ron, who yelped in surprised, and started harass…I mean, asking him the same thing.
"Do you feel the energy?! Can you see anything?! What do you see! What do you see!" screamed Trelawney, throwing question upon question at the red head.
"I..I..I see my reflection…?" Ron stuttered, looking up at the loony teacher with a fake smile. It looked more pained than anything else from what Harry could see.
"Do not fear, one day you will all be able to see the past! And the future!" Trelawney said still jumping from student to student, scaring each and every one.
Hermione turned to Harry, a look of disgust clearly on her face.
"This class is a complete joke! She teaches nothing and we learn nothing" Hermione whispered, glaring over at the teacher, who was still freaking out at some random students.
Harry nodded in agreement, "As long as I pass, I don't care. But I do have to agree with you." He whispered back, patting Ron on the back who was still in shock from the teacher screaming at him.
Suddenly the door to the class opened, causing all the students and even the professor to turn their heads in that direction. Link walked in, and Hermione was the first to notice that he had a sword on his right hip! His robe still covered his body, but from what she could see, he was wearing a green tunic underneath it with a white shirt and some chain mail underneath that. It was an odd outfit to see, but at least underneath the tunic he was wearing pants!
"You! Leave now I will not have you in here!" Trelawney yelled, pointing dramatically at Link who gave her a bored stare as he glanced around the room. "You smell of evil! You are the tool evil!
He continued to ignore her until his eyes set on who he was looking for, Harry.
"Potter! Come with me now." Link commanded, ignoring Trelawney as he motioned for Harry to follow him.
"Ye-Ye Yes professor." Harry said, slowly getting up and made his way over to Link. Link turned and walked out of the room, Harry following behind. He cast a worried glance back to Ron and Hermione, and closed the door behind him.
Link leads Harry down the flight of steps, silent the whole way and walked into an unused classroom. They both walked in and Link turns, shutting the heavy wooden door.
"Why do you need me professor?" Harry asked; worried that maybe Link knew that the three of them listened in the conversation he had with Dumbledore and Snape. But how could he know they were there when they had the cloak on?
"Don't play dumb," Link said, leaning up against the door and crossing his arms, his full focus on Harry, "I know you and your friends were listening that night in Snape's office. Now, tell me what you heard and no lies." He demanded annoyance clearly the main tone in his voice.
Harry froze, but tried to cover it, laughing nervously, "What do you mean? My friends and I were in the hall eating dinner." Harry responded, trying not to look Link in the eye.
Link stared at him for a moment, his glare turning darker as he sighed and came off the wall, reaching for his right hip and swiftly pulling out his sword, pointing it at Harry. Harry froze, his eyes widening, going from the sword to Link very slowly.
"I've done many things with this sword," he said, his voice now more threatening than before, scaring Harry, "Now… let's try this again and this time no lies Potter."
Harry stood silent for a moment, both trying to keep himself calm and trying to show fear towards the professor. It wasn't working very well and finally he took a deep breath and exhaled, looking Link in the eye and decided that lying would get him nowhere.
"We… heard basically everything, the curse, the charm, something about a sword and that's it, I swear." Harry confessed, trying to keep his tone as calm as he could.
Link continued to stare at him until he lowered his sword, sheathing it back into his scabbard, and nodded, taking Harry's answer.
"Don't tell anyone what you heard," He demanded, "Don't repeat anything you heard and please take my advice," he paused, turning away from Harry and opening the door, "Don't get evolved in my affairs. Trust me it won't turn out good. Now go back to class." With that he left the room and walked down the hall, soon too far for Harry to see.
Harry stood there for a moment, running the situation through his head and walked out of the room, back up the stairs to his classroom. To his surprise when he arrived back, the class had already ended and Ron and Hermione had stayed around waiting for him. As soon as they saw him, both went over to Harry and all three walked down the stairs to their next class.
"So what did the professor want?" Hermione asked after they filled Harry in on what he missed.
"Well," he paused, that glare flashing into his mind, "He knows we know about the curse and he also told me not to get involved. That it would be in my best interest not too." Harry explained, shaking his head to get the image out of his mind.
"How could he have known we were there, we had your cloak of invisibility!" Ron exclaimed, shocked.
"I don't know but all I know is I'm taking the professors advice." Harry said, looking at both of his friends. They continued to walk until Harry asked what classed they had next. Hermione looked at their schedule and noted that they had Care of Magical Creatures, which was Hagrid's class.
"Sweet this class with Hagrid should be awesome!" Ron cheered, actually excited for a class for a change!
Hermione smiled a bit at that, finally something other than food on the boys mind!
"Let's get going we only have a few minutes before class starts." She said, walking out towards the one of the many exits to the castle.
The three friends continued down the hallway and got to the court yard, following it out to the exit near the Forbidden Forest.
Meanwhile, Link was walking to his classroom, when Hagrid stopped him.
"Professor may have a minute of your time?" He asked, towering over the new professor.
Link blinked a bit, surprised slightly by his height but didn't show it, "Yes you may, what is it that you need?" Link asked. He was curious as to what Hagrid needed from him since they did not know one another very well.
"Well, in this land there are a lot of magical creatures that breathe fire but are very dangerous and are usual hard to capture. I was just wondering if in your country if you had anything safer?" Hagrid asked, hoping in the back of his mind that the answer would be a yes from the professor.
"Yes and no, in my country they are called Dongo Dongos. At first they are harmless but after a week or two they get very aggressive." Link explained, picturing the creatures in his mind, definitely not the best creatures in the world.
"Would it be possible for some to be shipped up here?" Hagrid asked, almost kiddy having a foreign creature to show his students.
Link pondered this for a moment, but shrugged it off. What was the worst that can happen?
"I'll have to pull a few strings but yes, the only problem would be time could be a week or two months." Link explained.
"Thank you professor, I appreciate!" said Hagrid, quickly shaking Link's hand and walked off down the hallway, a little skip in his step as he went.
Link shook his hand, and sighed, such strange people worked here. He started walking back to his classroom, but stopped when he felt something that was out of place. He walked back out and stared down the hallway Hagrid was in just moments ago, the presence he sensed was coming from that general direction. He closed his classroom door and went down the hall and quickly went outside into the forest to investigate the uneasy presence. It was one he was far too familiar with.
If I'm about this….then teaching is going to be the least of my concerns.
~~~Down at the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest~~~
"Where's Hagrid? He should have been here by now…" Hermione said, glancing around the space the students all stood, worried and slightly annoyed.
"Don't be so harsh on him, he probably forgot he had a class to teach!" Ron joked, causing Harry to chuckle and for Hermione to elbow Ron in the gut.
Exactly at that time, Hagrid appeared, walking down the trail towards his students.
"Ok class sorry I was late! I hade some business to do, but now that I'm here, we will be learning about the many magical creatures in the forest," Hagrid walked in front of the class, the forest behind him, " Now I know the forest is forbidden but we have special permission. Now to open your books you must first pet its side to ease it so it doesn't attack you." Hagrid explained, grinning at the last part as the students looked at the books with a bit of nervousness.
The students all opened their books; well except for Neville, who had a bit of a problem at first but finally was able to open it with little injuries as possible. Hagrid lead the class into the forest where he then told them to split into groups and find either magical creatures or magical plants.
"So this plant is magical, how is that even possible?" Ron asked as he stared at one of the plants they had found, totally confused.
"The plant itself isn't magical, but when grinded down the powder is considered magical." Hermione noted, looking down into her book to take some notes on the plant.
Harry and Ron nodded and also took notes on the plant. During this whole project, Harry felt like something was watching them. But every time he turned around, there was nothing there.
"You alright Harry?" Ron asked, looking up from his notes to his friend.
"Yeah, it just feels… like we're being watched." Harry said, slowly standing up and staring into the darkness of the forest.
There was a long silence, the faint chatter of the other students the only other notable noise. Until from the forest came a long, dark howl.
"What was that?!" Ron screamed, backing up from the planet, scared.
"I have no idea, but I didn't sound friendly." Hermione whispered, backing up next to Ron, keeping her eyes on the forest.
Then from the forest Harry spotted something. On top of a small hill something slowly prowled its way out. Moving from darkness of the forest a black wolf with piercing yellow eyes revealed itself. Harry quickly pulled out his wand, ready to defend himself against the creature. Hermione and Ron also pulled out there wands, prepared. Hagrid and few other students came running up behind them, coming to investigate the sound.
"Harry, Hermione, Ron what are you doing with your wands out?" Hagrid asked in a stern tone, not being able to see the wolf in front of Harry.
"It's a wolf Hagrid! But it's bigger than any other wolf… and its eyes..." Hermione trailed off, surprised that the wolf charged down the hill towards the trio.
"STUPIFY!" Harry yelled, directing the spell towards the wolf which hit it in the chest. The wolf immediately shook it off and made a terrible blood curtailing howl. Harry backed up slightly, realizing that he had just pissed off a very threating looking wolf.
"How is that possible…?" Harry said in shock, staring at the wolf in horror.
"Harry we need to go now!" Hermione screamed, starting to back up away from the wolf.
She and Ron ran towards Hagrid and the other students, but Harry didn't move. It was almost like he was frozen for looking right into the wolf's eyes, the darkness and death from the creature paralyzing him in fear.
"Come on Harry get over here!" Hagrid yelled, keeping all the other students behind him.
"Harry what are doing? Get over here!" Hermione screamed in panic, horrified that her best friend wouldn't move.
The students yelled for Harry but to no avail, they watched as the wolf made another charge down the hill. It leaped into the air for the fatal strike on Harry.
"Potter! Down!" a voiced yelled from behind the class. Harry released from his trance dropped to the ground.
An arrow flew over his head and into the wolfs chest. The wolf yelped in pain and fell to the ground in front of Harry. Hagrid and the students looked on in awe and confusion.
Everyone turned to see Link walking towards them with a bow in his hand. Hagrid frantilly made his way over "Professor! Professor! Thank goodness thy came to help but you nearly hit the students with that bloody thing!" point at the bow in question.
Link merely kept walking calmly towards the wolf "I knew what I was doing "He said dryly. Link went up Harry and knelt down to look at him at eye level.
He gave Harry a small smile and patted his shoulders "Well it's good to know you can take orders effectively" Link then helped Harry to his feet "Are you feeling ok? You were pretty frozen there for a moment." When he still didn't respond Link's smile turned into a low frown.
Hermione, along with the rest of the class, followed Hagrid and she went next to Harry.
"Harry can you hear me? What were you thinking?" Hermione asked; worry clearly in her voice for her best friend.
Harry blinked a few times and looked from Link and then to Hermione, confused, "Uh… What happened?" He asked, slowly regaining some focus.
"You wouldn't move man, even when the wolf charged at you and we screamed for ya too!" Ron explained, coming up next to Hermione, concerned.
"Where is the wolf? Is everyone ok?" Harry asked, looking around.
"We're fine and the wolf is…." Hermione said pointing over towards Link who was standing over the wolf, pulling the arrow out of its back.
Link examined the arrow and put it away, turning towards Hagrid and the students, "You alright Potter? You made a lot of people worry" Link asked.
"Yes professor thank for…" Harry started to say but was suddenly cut off by a strange sound.
It came as a low chuckle from behind Link and he even turned around and looked down at the source.
"You… it's….it's you, you're the one he sent me to find…" the dark voice trailed, clearly coming from the wolf. Its voice was almost echo like, but it gave off such a strange vibe that it gave Harry shivers.
"Who are you talking about beast!" Hagrid shouted, motioning his students to back away, keeping them from danger.
"Hero of Time… I've finally found you heheh… who would guess you would be a teacher…?" the wolf snickered as it lay in a puddle of its own blood.
"Lord Ganon is coming back you pathetic worm… he will kill you and burn this land… and claim the power he rightfully deserves… the earth will be nothing but ash and flames and you will dead at his feet you-" the wolf rambled on until suddenly it was silenced. Link had slowly pulled out his sword, and swiftly impaled the creature.
"Be silent forever." Link whisper hoarsely as the wolf burst into flames, the only evidence left behind being the pool of blood.
The whole class stayed silent as they watched their new professor kill the beast so handily, looking at him with fear and confusion. Just who was this man?
Hagrid coughed into his hand and turned to his class, getting their attention, "Alright class, start walking back to the castle now…class is over for the day."
The class silently agreed and stared the hike back to the castle, Hagrid guarding in front of the pack and Link stayed in the back, glancing back to the forest every now and then.
"What do you think all that was about?" Ron whispered to Harry, "The wolf talked to the professor as if he knew him!"
"It's to strange not to pay attention to," Hermione added, joining the secret conversation, "but what I really don't understand is why Harry's spell hit the wolf dead on and it was still able to attack…almost like it didn't feel it at all"
"Who's Ganon that's my question," Harry whispered, glancing back towards the professor, "The wolf said he was coming back, and would claim his rightful power. It sounded like the professor fought him before or had some kind of fight with him."
Hermione also glanced back to Link, who was now looking back at the forest, "If they have fought before that would explain why Link was chosen to be the DADA teacher." She said, quickly looking away as Link turned from the forest.
The class finally came up from the trail and gathered in the castle's plaza, most of the students whispering about the events of the class.
"Alright class," Hagrid said, silencing everyone, "Unfortunately we will be staying out of the forest for awhile till we get this situation under control. But since we got back early you may all have the period free." This was responded with many thanks towards Hagrid's and high fives between the students.
Link slowly walked over to Hagrid, glancing at the forest one last time and pulled him off to the side of the plaza, speaking in quite voice.
"I'll tell Dumbledore what happened," Link explained, looking up at the giant, "And do me a favor try to forget what you heard certain things I don't like talking about."
Hagrid stared down at him for a while, but finally nodded and bid his farewell to the professor, walking back towards his hut. Link sighed and walked back to his office, a frown forming on his face. Things were starting to get messy and it was basically his fault.
Harry, Hermione and Ron entered the Great Hall for lunch, trying to get past the events of the morning. Clearly Ron had, because once again he was back to stuffing his face, much to his friends displeasure.
"Well Ron you still seem to never surprise me," Hermione said, rolling her eyes, "You're eating like a man eating beast! It's not like you haven't eaten in weeks…"
"Please don't mention beasts, I'm still kind of in shock" Harry said, grabbing an apple from the fruit bowl in front of him. Just thinking about that wolf freaked Harry out.
"Oh, sorry." Hermione apologized, looking at Harry for a moment before returning to her book.
Harry, about to take a bit of his apple, suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around to see Link, looking down at him with a bit of a concerned look on his face.
"Potter, you alright?" He asked, taking his hand of his shoulder, returning it to his side.
"Yes thanks for saving me…..again." Harry said, grateful, yet embarrassed over the fact that his teacher kept rescuing him.
Link waved it off and gave him a small smirk, "I am here to teach and defend my students, no need to thank me." He said.
"Uh… professor may I ask a question?" asked Hermione, slightly nervous, the image of him stabbing that wolf coming to her mind.
"Yes, what is Ms. Granger?" Link said, turning his attention turned to the brunette.
"Who is Ganon? It just worries us, what we heard from the wolf… it's just like it knew who you were." Hermione said; giving her teacher the bravest face she could muster up. All three of them were worried for their professor, from what the wolf had said something bad was bound to happen.
Link sighed and glanced at all three students, "Please for your sake just leave what happened today at that. These things are complicated and well they don't have a pretty story to go along with them. Don't pry any further you may not like what you find." He said, that same commanding tone coming through. He would not allow his students to be hurt because of him.
"Now," He continued," you three better get ready for your next class, it starts soon."
They looked down at their schedules and saw they had DADA next. All three looked back up only to see that their professor had disappeared into thin are.
"Should we be worried that he can just vanish into thin air…?" Ron said nervously, chuckling a bit.
The three friend s laughed, trying to get the worry out of their minds, and finished their lunches. They then began the walk to their DADA classroom, excited to see what their professor was capable of teaching them. If he was as good at fighting as he was teaching, this class was going to be something else!