Sheik took a breath and answered, "The thing you must understand, Matthew, is that you aren't at Florida anymore. Currently, you're in the hidden Sheikah Fortress, Garahoole, in the land of Hyrule."

"How did I get here? What happened?"

"An evil man named Ganondorf opened a portal to your home and sent a monster called a Stalfos to kill you. He did this to a number of other places as well. I found out what he was doing part way through him doing this, and I did my best to stop him. I don't know why he did this, but I did the best I could to stop him. I couldn't stop them all, but thankfully, some of the places I went to didn't need help stopping the Stalfos. Some others needed desperate help, and some of the targets were injured. I brought them here to get them healed, and hopefully get to the bottom of why Ganondorf sent his minions out that way in the first place."

I nodded. The explanation fit the dream I had those long years ago, though the minor details are a bit different.

"Why am I so small?" I asked.

Sheik's brows furrowed and answered, "We don't know. When we took you back through our portal to here, your body shrank to that of a small child. Nothing like this happened to the others we brought back."

I nodded, thinking that to be rather odd… and a bit convenient. After all, I'd been a small child when I last had the day dream of this place. I wonder if that has anything to do with it? In the end though, I don't really have all that many questions. I've only got one left in fact.

"What happens now?" I asked.

Sheik answered, "Well, we are hoping to find out why Ganondorf sent a Stalfos after you. Maybe it has something to do with that dream you mentioned? What else happened in that dream?"

I chuckled and answered, "A lot happened in that dream. So far, this is only just the beginning really. I don't know how Ganondorf could have found out about my dream at all. Is it possible that perhaps he was just trying to send out minions to spread his influence?"

Sheik nodded and answered, "It's possible."

I nodded and asked, "If you got to my home through a portal, then came straight back with me, you probably don't know anything about the places that you got sent to right?"

"That's correct."

"The same can probably be said of Ganondorf as well. If he does know of the places he sent his minions to, particularly mine, then that could be really really bad."

"Why?" Asked Sheik, looking apprehensive.

"Because on my world, my dream was based off a number of fictional stories there, in particular is one called The Legend of Zelda and the Ocarina of Time."

I looked at Sheik pointedly, and his jaw actually dropped at the title. After a moment he closed his mouth, swallowed, then asked, "Wh-What happened in this story?"

"The story follows the adventures of a young boy named Link who finally gets a Fairy, and sent out by the magical guardian of the forest, the Great Deku Tree to face his destiny and fight a great evil. On the way he collects three spiritual stones, meets Princess Zelda and the evil villain Ganondorf, opens the Door of Time, gets the Master Sword and sleeps for seven years. Then he wakes up, meets you, Sheik, gathers the six medallions from the six temples scattered all around the land of Hyrule, learns about the nature and creation of the Triforce, discovers your true identity as Princess Zelda, then chases after you to Ganon's Fortress after he captures you. The six sages create a light bridge and he storms the fortress, freeing the power of the sages, defeats Ganon, you two escape the falling fortress, Link defeats Ganon again, then you and the sages seal Ganon away, Link gets sent back to the past and returns the Master Sword to its pedestal, his fairy leaves him, and he sees you one last time, then the story ends."

Sheik, for all his stoic ninja-ness, is an attentive audience along with Aunt Beast. They gasp in all the right places, and Sheik's eyes get progressively wider and wider until his jaw is hanging loose by the end of it, especially after I casually drop his secret identity. It takes a moment for Sheik to collect himself, then asks quietly, "And this story… is it spoken of throughout your land?" I nodded and said, "There are many fans of this story throughout my world."

Sheik's eyebrows furrow and ask, "That's the second time you've used that word, world, but from the way you use it… what do you mean when you use it?"

I answer, "Where I'm from, humanity has explored every inch of the planet, and has the entire thing mapped out. The world is a big giant sphere floating in space which revolves around the sun, and the moon revolves around our planet, the Earth."

"Then you already know where Hyrule is in relation to your home then?"

Before I could answer, Aunt Beast shook her head and answered, "As our friend speaks, I can see his planet in his mind's eye. Just as my planet, Uriel, is removed from this land of Hyrule, his planet Earth does not have this land on it either. For the both of us, we are in another location entirely. I have heard of Earth, but from the way you speak, and the thoughts I've heard you mutter since you awoke, I think I can assume that the Earth I know and the Earth you come from aren't the same places, correct?'

I nodded and answered her, "Where I'm from, you're in another story entirely, also regarded as a work of fiction written by the author Madeline L'Engle." Shaking my head I continued, "This is so weird though! I'm a bit of an author myself, and when I was really young, I had a dream where I ended up in practically this very situation, and it spawned into a full on story in which I and the others you and Sheik rescued help Link to finish his quest here, and then it spans on to involve more and more stories and worlds after that."

Sheik and Aunt Beast look at each other, and Sheik says thoughtfully, "That's not a bad idea. Link was injured quite badly in the Water Temple. Maybe some help would ease the burden he bears, especially if he has someone with him who already knows how everything is supposed to go."

I nodded, then said, "There was more to it than that though. I didn't just help Link with my knowledge. In the dream, I also had a hidden power buried in me that Aunt Beast detected, so you ended up taking me to see the great Deku Tree, who then transported us to another area in the Lost Woods that was previously unknown, and we ended up travelling through a place called the Vareshi Swamp to a temple that dates back to the Goddesses when they created the world, and in the temple, we used a warp gate to travel to another world where they helped unlock this hidden power in me."

Aunt Beast leaned back as if shocked and said, "That is …fortuitous. I had indeed felt a power within you, though I had held back from mentioning it until it could be brought up."

I shook my head at that, mind reeling at the possibilities. If that is true as well, could the rest be true too? There is a way to find out. "Could you take me Link's satchel, Sheik? I need to see the Light Medallion."

Sheik stood up, taking me with him, even as he asked, "Why?" I answered, "So far my dream has been correct about everything else. In that dream, the medallions required specific bearers to keep the different medallions. I don't remember exactly why, only that it had something to do with the stability of the Golden Realm."

Sheik sped up a little at that, and we soon found ourselves in the first room with the beds with Aunt Beast trailing behind. Rummaging in the dresser across from the bed next to mine, she pulled out the Light Medallion, then handed it to me when I held out my hand for it. It flashed as soon as it touched my hand, and a silver chain sprouted from the top of it. I pulled the medallion over my head, smiling. Having the Light medallion around my neck like this is really cool for me, since it's one of the most iconic things about my alternate persona from my dream other than his penchant to wear black, his glowing blue eyes, and the Triforce of Power in his left hand. Personally I see no reason not to become him now that I have the chance. This should be a lot of fun.