Legend of Zelda
Track of Fate
Chapter 1
Thick clouds covered the moon that lit the village of Green Veil. A place not has large as Hyrule Castle Town but still, it had a school, a hospital and its own train line that ran directly up to the Castle.
Most trainee knights and other aids to the King of Hyrule had chosen to set up camp here.
The village had been named after the mysterious hero of time, who was said to have worn a green tunic, hid within the Kokiri forest and rarely being seen to, had banished many evil monsters plaguing the world of Hyrule at that time.
He was even said to have been given a fairy by the Great Deku Tree.
He was one of many and little did they know a descendent of that very hero lived among them and would shortly be called on to live up to the name of the legends that had gone before him.
Two statues guarded the hedged arch that resembled Kokiri of old, playing flutes and within the hedged arch either side sat a fairy.
The expression of the statues faces seemed to change as the light of the moon disappeared and big fat rain drops started to fall and land.
As thunder clapped and lightening flashed the statues turned and linked hands, thus preventing anyone from entering the village.
The Greenies, as people of Castle Town called them were too busy running for cover to pay any mind to the strange behaviour of the statues. One person, who did however was Link.
Very little was known about Link other than he was an orphan, raised by the Sheika Tribe, that lived at the bottom of Death Mountain.
Link was young but had skills beyond his years, and was especially good with a sword or archery.
Link took his satchel, bow, quiver of arrows and his wooden sword and made his way outside. Despite his best efforts the statues were not going to let Link pass.
As thunder clapped, lightening flashed and rain lashed down upon his now red cheeks Link sort to find an alternative route out of the village.
The trains weren't running, the wall was two slippery and high and climbing a hedge didn't seem the sensible option either.
Link went back to his cottage to think and noticed that behind his fireplace was a ladder. He hadn't noticed that before.
Link got a bucket of water and threw it over the flames and then over the ladder so that he wouldn't burn his hands and then up the ladder he climbed.
Link climbed out of his chimney and balanced onto the roof tiles, he then reached out to grab a sheet that hand been blown onto his roof and used a number of items that had no business being on his roof to fashion a paraglider and fly down over the village and out into Hyrule itself.
As he landed the statues tried to grab at him but though he lost the paraglider he managed to get away.
Link started running southward but didn't know why?
Half way there he tripped up and went flying. Then when he looked down he noticed what he had tripped on. An old overgrown railway track.
"Link! Help me!"
"Huh!" Link exclaimed
Link gasped, he had no sword, just his bow and arrows and his satchel.
Though alarmed Link followed the overgrown track until he reached a blocked tunnel.
"Link!"
Link frowned, searched his satchel and attached a bomb flower to his arrows and began to fire until a long since sealed beast of purple smoke with a fierce face and long claws burst from the tunnel and sent Link flying backwards several feet.
A sinister laugh filled the air until something was shaking Link…
Link woke up to find his grandmother shaking him.
"Huh!" Link yelped
"Rough night? Here, your breakfast is waiting for you downstairs, you're late for school" His grandmother said
"I had a weird dream" Link shivered
"That's nice dear"
"It was so real!"
"Uh huh. Go eat"
"The train tracks..."
Link' grandmother cut him off,
"What about them?"
"There was a storm and I had to find a way out of the village, then when I did I found an old track and it led to a tunnel that was blocked and so I blew up the rocks blocking it but it unleashed something I don't want to see again"
"That's not funny Link" His grandmother said
"Grandma?"
Grandma didn't answer him so he quickly ran down, ate his breakfast and went down to the train station but though the platform was still there and the signal box the track itself was missing and a train lay on its side, rusted over.
Link gasped as the whistle blew of its own accord before he turned and ran off.
Link was so distracted he ran straight into his teacher Professor Lilt, a proud looking Rito with red robes and an orange waistcoat,
"Do watch where you're going Link" He said, feathers ruffled
"Sorry Professor Lilt but the track…!" Link exclaimed
"Yes, yes it's very distressing now go in and take your seat the lesson is about to begin"
Link couldn't get the sound of the whistle or his dream out of his head. How could a whole track go missing?
"How could a whole track go missing!?" Link suddenly asked aloud, interrupting the entire class
Professor Lilt looked at Link in astonishment.
"Alright, look" Lilt said, "This isn't the first time something like this has happened"
The class gasped,
"It isn't?" Link said in question
"Many years ago, a young unassuming boy lived in a village in Hyrule. He wanted to drive the trains and trade but something happened to Princess Zelda, Link was her childhood friend. When he went to visit her he found himself blocked by guards. He was told she was missing, she wasn't missing she was a ghost. Her body had been stolen in order to revive a great evil known as Ganondorf"
There were gasps all round.
"Did he save her?" A boy called Colin asked
"After many lengthy battles yes but I'm not saying that's what's happening now. I'm sure the princess is fine. It is the anniversary of that event coming up, I wouldn't be at all surprised if this were some sort of elaborate prank" Lilt said, "Now, we've wasted far too much time today on this nonsense, open your books on the Great Calamity. Colin you will read the first paragraph"
Link was now very worried. He'd never heard this story before and yet somehow it all seemed very familiar to him. Link didn't know Zelda personally but he did come from a long line of Link' and all of them were knights, all of them had served the Royal family of Hyrule, could he be an ancestor? Could that story have been told him before? The more he though about it the more he could recall the events of that time as though they had happened to him.
After school Link made the decision to head over to Hyrule Castle on foot. He took his satchel, his bow and quiver and a wooden sword with him, just in case anything jumped out at him on the way.
On the way out Link gave the statues at the entrance a very dubious look as though expecting them to move any second.
"Link! Look at that!" Came his sister's cry
Link couldn't find the words as he turned to see his sister pointing at the sky and found all the train tracks now glowing and floating in pieces in the sky.
"Impossible!"
"I don't think this is a prank Link"
"I don't either" Link said, "I'm going to Hyrule Castle"
"You won't be able to they've locked it down!" A guard, who overheard called to him, "Not now the Princess has been captured"
"Is she a ghost?" Link asked with dread
"No, she was seen taken away in a carriage by three Moblin, I recognise the features from the historical reference"
"We can't just stand here and do nothing!" Link snapped
"Lilt might be able to offer us some help" The guard said after a moment