Lost Woods

DOO-DA-DOO, DOO-DA-DOO, DOO-DA-DOO-DA-DOO-DOO, DA-DOO-DA-DOO.

Link was young again! Well, he was a Link that was young again, yet he was not the young version of himself. He did not have the memories of the boy whose body he was inside, yet he felt an air of familiarity around him. That song that called throughout the woods. The fairy yammering above his head. "Hey listen!" What was her name? Navi? "Hey listen!"

Four tunnels made of fallen trees surrounded the wood. He listened to the song and ran down the tunnel where the song was loudest, coming to an identical area, where he again ran down the tunnel the music came from. Finally, he came to area where he found the source of the catchy music. Navy disappeared. A familiar figure stood on a tree stump playing a flute. Skull Kid. He put down his instrument and giggled. "This all seems familiar to you, but you don't remember this happening."

"Why am I here?" Link said.

"You're here because you go getting lost in woods you have no business entering in the first place. Like the woods of your mind. You should have never wandered down them." Skull Kid giggled.

Link gasped as terrible visions flashed across his eyes, visions all containing himself from memories he could not remember. Visions of himself falling from the sky, visions of himself as a wolf, countless visions of a terrifying pig monster, and one chilling image of a dark man spreading darkness across the whole of Hyrule.

"Do you remember now?" Skull Kid said. "You don't know the true power of your Sheikah Slate do you? You are ageless, Link. You have lived through torments so bad no man could survive them without coming out of the end of them insane. Your Sheikah Slate stores up all your awful memories and takes them away from you. But in this time of corruption, your Sheikah Slate is failing, and you, yourself, are slowly trying to reclaim your memories. If your mind keeps fighting, you are going to uncover something that nobody else in the world can remember. This is my personal warning to you." Skull Kid's eyes flashed blue—the same colour that glazed Lucas' eyes. His mischievous voice became distorted, as if there was something inside possessing him. "Forget all that you are trying to remember and give up this foolish quest, else you will uncover something that will corrupt your mind permanently. And just so you know what it's like to have a mind that is on fire…"

Skull Kid put on a mask. The dark tree leaves above rumbled. The angry moon burst through and sped towards the ground. As Skull Kid giggled, a voice whispered inside Young Link's head. "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"