-Chapter 4-

Link looked at the bow and the quiver of arrows that leaned against the wall under it. He ran his fingers along the smooth wood of the bow and couldn't help but smile.

"You can have it if you want" Ralph said, causing Link to turn around at look at the old man. He was leaning against the doorframe, arms crossed.

"It's not like I use it anymore" Ralph laughed

"It's not that…" Link muttered, staring at his feet "I'm just kind of embarrassed that I snuck into your house…"

Ralph let out a hearty laugh "Don't worry about it. That's how my gramps got this bow. Gramps was an eager young lad and snuck into the house of a Hero that was around then. To his embarrassment the Hero found him with the bow when he was trying desperately to work it. The Hero just smiled and taught him how to shoot an arrow, and then said he could have it. 'I don't use it any more' he said. And Gramps heard him mutter under his breath 'and I really don't want to either' Gramps thanked him and it's been passed down through our family ever since."

"So I can seriously have it?" Link asked

"Yes!" Ralph said "I thought I said yes already!!"

Link laughed and took the bow of the wall and swung the quiver on his back.

"You know how to use it right?" Ralph asked

"I think…" Link said "can we go outside so you can show me if I don't get it right…" he was staring at his feet again.

"Of course lad!" Ralph laughed, ruffling Link's hair. The two headed outside.

"Here," Ralph said "just shoot it at the wall."

Link nodded and notched an arrow, pulled back the bowstring, and fired. He turned to Ralph, who was standing there gawking at him.

"That was, right, wasn't it?" he asked shyly.

"Right?" Ralph laughed "By golly boy! You're better than I thought you would be! And boy, you look, well, heroic when you aim that thing! I really don't regret giving this old bow to you."

Link smiled "thanks again Ralph" he said, running off to go show his bow off to… well anyone who would listen.


Sheik wasn't sure to be grateful or worried that Link got a bow. What if he didn't know how to shoot it? That would take them down the route of the slingshot again. But then again, the bow introduced a whole new area of training that they probably needed to explore, and that would give Zelda quite a bit more time to research.

Maybe he should actually ask Link about this, considering all that Sheik had heard was a bunch of rumors running around Kakariko. He turned around, and saw a boy a bit younger than him running past.

"Hey Sheik!!" the boy said, stopping. Sheik smiled, he had become well known around Kakariko recently, and found it comforting to just walk around with people yelling their hellos as he passed.

"Hello…" Sheik said, trailing off, he had forgotten the boy's name.

"Caleb" the boy finished "gosh! You can't remember a thing lately!!" he laughed "so you heard about Link's bow right?"

Sheik nodded

"Have you seen it?"

Sheik shook his head.

"You haven't!?" Caleb seemed astonish "I thought, of all people, Link would go to you first! Maybe he couldn't find you and just spread the word along the way." Caleb shrugged "ah well, you should go talk to him! And watch him shoot something, he looks really cool when he does, and his accuracy…" Caleb trailed off, leaving Sheik to figure he had no idea what he was talking about anymore.

"I'll go find him" Sheik said, heading off. It didn't take long to find Link, because he was showing off to a group of kids how well he was at shooting an arrow. Sheik watched from a distance. Link took notice of Sheik, and shooed the kids away.

"Hey!" he said, walking over.

"Heard you got a bow" Sheik said and crossed his arms. Link held it up.

"Yeah!" he said "Ralph gave it to me, said he didn't need it anymore. Apparently his grandpa got it from some hero!"

That sparked Sheik's attention "Really?" he asked "can I see?"

"Sure" Link handed him the bow. Sheik examined it for a bit before handing it back. "You wanna see me shoot something?" Link asked excitedly.

Sheik didn't really want to, but decided to humor Link and nodded. Link shot randomly.

"Cool" Sheik said, sounding very unimpressed. But he was impressed, Link did actually know how to use a bow, and that would save him a lot of trouble.

"Should we go train?" Sheik asked, and Link nodded.

"But first," he said "know anywhere I can get some arrows?"

Sheik rolled his eyes "come on" he said, dragging Link to the nearest place they could get arrows.


Zelda read until her eyes hurt, and longer still past that. She finally managed to read all of them, only stopping once to get something to eat before she died of starvation. She looked at the stack of journals that was on the desk, and sighed. Not a single one of them had any weapon that might be useful. It was Master sword this, Master Sword that, with the occasionally "he used light arrows to defeat him" or not a mention of a weapon at all. It was getting pointless.

Zelda put the books back in the drawer she had found them in, locked it again and stuck the key back in the book. Then she paused and pulled the book back off the shelf and dusted it off. She found that the words under the Triforce that she had mistaken as old and unreadable were really just covered in dust. And as soon as she had brushed the dust off, she noticed that the words were written in her mom's graceful handwriting.

"The Legacy of LiteHart"

Huh? Zelda thought, wondering what the heck LiteHart was. She opened the book and began to read.