AN: Hmm… three reviews? I am displeased… As punishment, you get this shorter-than-usual chapter.
Responses:
Freakyanimegal: Yeah, for some reason the deku tree seem has been on my mind since the beginning… you'll just have to read on and see.
Gaara-kun39: I though the battle scene was bad, but I read it again and it was alright. So thanks for the review!
Outofstategrl: Thanks for the review; I'm glad you liked it!
"What's that?" Naito questioned, pointing towards the horizon. He pulled out a telescope, unfolding it and peering out ahead of them.
He saw a ship about four times as large as their boat. It was a little higher out of the water, with a large symbol on the sail and the flag on top. It seemed to be heading for them.
"Let me see." Link asked, holding his hand out.
Naito passed him the telescope. He looked through, focusing on the ship. It had a single cannon on each side, and was manned by five bokoblins. That was no problem, but he saw something else more frightening. The symbol on the sail was the symbol Ganondorf had taken as his own during his reign of terror. It featured a black Gerudo symbol which translated roughly into "power" in the centre of a red triforce. It made sense that he would use it here, as it would be meaningless to the casual observer these days.
Worse, it had seen them and was heading out to intercept.
"What is it?" Naito asked.
"Ganon's." Link said simply. The blood drained from Naito's face. Link wasn't frightened, however. He knew it was no real threat, and Ganon had only sent it to warn him, and remind him of his presence. Clearly even after all these years he still remembers me, Link thought, remembering Ganon's expression when they had been attacked by the bird. He hadn't seemed surprised by Link's presence.
"What do we do?" Naito asked.
"Cruise by it full speed, but as close as possible. Don't stop. I'll handle the rest." Link said, crouching back to the rudder. His hand went to his sword. He looked at the boat, watching it approach. It was slowing down, and the bokoblins were arming the cannons. One of them was shouting something.
Twenty meters between them. It had turned to face them with the cannon, and fired. It splooshed into the water nearby. They held their course. Ten meters between them. Link tensed his legs, judging the distance between them and the enemy. His hand tightened on his sword. They cruised by with about two meters between them, and Link sprang. He drew his sword in midair and landed on the edge of the boat beside the cannon. He swung his sword in a great ark, slashing two unaware bokoblins. One of them fell of the boat and drowned, while the other fell back and died there.
Two bokoblins charged at him, with the captain shouting encouragement to them. They both wielded wooden sticks, further proof that this wasn't a serious attack. They both swung down at him, and he rolled forward, spinning as he stood. They both dodged, but one of them slipped backwards and into the water. Link performed a flying kick on the other one, surprising and it throwing it over the edge as well. He spun to take the captain, but froze when he saw it aiming a bow at him.
"We weren't supposed to kill you… but I don't think Lord Ganon will mind." It snarled, firing the arrow.
Link cried out in pain. The arrow had gone straight through his shoulder. He fell back on the ground, gritting his teeth against the pain. He dropped his sword, moving his hand to the wound. He touched it and hissed against the fresh wave of agony.
The bokoblin was laughing, with another arrow nocked. He stood over Link, pointing the arrow right at his forehead.
"Hyaa!" Came a high pitched scream. Both the monster and Link raised their heads, Link hissing again at the pain. Naito had landed on the ship, and was charging forward with his sword and shield drawn. The bokoblin raised the bow and fired, but it thudded into Naito's shield, knocking him off balance for a moment but not stopping him. He leaped over Link with his sword behind him and brought it down clumsily. The bokoblin stepped to the side, but the blade still left a gash in its arm, rendering it useless.
It dropped the bow, drawing a scimitar with its good arm. It stepped towards Naito and brought it down quickly at him, but he surprised it with a parry he had perfected with Orca. He rolled to the side avoiding the blade, and jumped up behind it with his sword spinning. The bokoblin fell forward, dead. Link, who was starting to feel woozy, also noticed how similar that was to a move he used. It wasn't the first similarity he had noticed in their fighting style.
"You're bleeding!" Naito explained, eyes widening.
"Yeah, I noticed." Link said, crawling to the edge of the ship. The boat was fairly close by, so he half jumped, half fell into it. He cried out in pain at the bolt of pain in his shoulder. He crawled to the back of the boat to look at the arrow. The edges had been barbed, and it left quite a messy wound. He tried to move it, and almost blacked out from the pain. He had been shot in the leg before, in a coliseum, but that arrow hadn't been nearly as bad.
"Don't move that!" The King of Red Lions said. His voice seemed to be coming from far away, and Link noticed the world getting blurry. He blacked out seconds later.
"Is he ok?" Naito asked, hopping into the boat.
"We'll see. Hurry south, the forest we are heading to will have medicine." The boat replied. Naito nodded, again hoisting the sail and continuing their journey.
"Do you understand why you are here?"
"No!" Link said, looking around. He was floating in the sky, looking down at Hyrule as it had been before the flood.
"Do you see what happened?"
Water began pouring down from the sky, first as rain, but it soon turned into a torrential downpour. Link flew over Hyrule, moved by an unforeseen force. He saw many people with bags slung over their backs climbing the great mountains of Hyrule.
"We had no choice…we had to bury the land we had created in order to keep it from falling under His control…"
The pouring rain became sheets of water, flooding the rivers. He saw people below crushed by it, swept up and carried away, some pulled under. Houses were destroyed. He saw Lon-Lon ranch briefly, flooded entirely. His eyes were wide with shock. How could the goddesses do this?
"We told many to flee to the mountain tops… they are now the islands. But we did not give up hope entirely."
Link saw the colour being drained from the world, the effect he had seen inside the castle. He was guided down, zooming in on the castle. He floated down through the roof, and saw himself fighting with the Hylian knights. He saw the colour leave the area, freezing it all.
"The land remains in limbo. You were not there by accident. As painful as it is for you, we needed you later. We freed you now, as the time is right. You are to guide the newest hero to his destiny, aiding him where needed.
Link looked around. "Will I ever get to go back?" He called out. No one answered. "WELL?" he yelled out. But the world was already dissolving before his eyes…
He awoke with a start. He sat up, feeling a sharp pain in his shoulder. This reminded him off all that had happened. He looked down and saw that the arrow had been removed, and the wound bandaged. He saw the arrow broken in two pieces, lying in a bowl nearby. He looked around. He was in a small cave, with several plants growing out of the grass he was sitting on. There was a cauldron of medicine nearby over a fire.
He got to his feet, his wound protesting. He managed it anyway, and left the cave. The first thing that caught his attention was a giant tree in the middle of the area he was in. He was presumably on an island, but it seemed to be an impossibly big tree hollowed out, as there was wood surrounding the island. If that were true, it made the tree in the middle look like nothing.
He walked along, around the outside. He saw Naito up ahead, talking with something small. He ran over, and the little thing turned to look at him. It appeared to be made of wood, with a leaf over its face. It had little stubby wooden arms and legs. As soon as it saw him, it sank into the leaves as if frightened. But as soon as it got a good look at hi, it popped back out, staring in awe it seemed.
"You… The others won't remember you, but I do." It said.
Link didn't know what to say. He had never seen anything like this in his life.
"I am a member of the Koroks. My name is Mido." He said.
"Mido..?" Link breathed.
"The Deku Tree told me the truth about you… Link. I am flattered that you still wear our old clothes." He said.
"Woah, hold on! You know each other?" Naito exclaimed.
Link nodded slowly. He had forgotten that the Kokiri were immortal. His only link with the old world… unless you counted Ganondorf. He looked up to see the giant tree had a face, and was looking at him. He ran over to it.
"Great Deku Tree?!" He yelled. Naito watched him strangely.
The tree spoke in the ancient Hylian language, and said, "You are… Link… are you not? Yes… you allowed me to grow, a thousand years ago by freeing the forest temple."
AN: I have to finish here. Everything else requires planning, and deserves it own chapter. PLEASE review, even if you want to point out something you don't like, or how I can improve. It'd be nice to get at least five…