It was an exciting day in Hyrule since today was the picori festival which is held every year. It celebrates the time that picori helped banish evil away from Hyrule. The festival is held every year and its especially popular with children since they love festivals.
One child happened to sneak away and was head towards her friend's house. It was Princess Zelda, the princess of Hyrule. She loves the festival too but she wants to spend time with it with her childhood friend, Link. She walked down the road and entered the house and heard the some clanging noise. It was Link's grandfather and was hammering a sword.
"Good morning, Master smith" Zelda greeted cheerfully
The old man looked over to see that it was Princess Zelda that was greeting him.
"Goodness me! Princess Zelda! Did you sneak out of the castle and come all the way out here alone? The minister is sure to be worried. You know how he gets" Master smith said
Zelda brushed aside his worries for the minister since he was always so overprotective of her .
"Oh don't worry about him. He'll be fine. Where's Link? I thought he and I would go together. Would you mind terribly?" Zelda asked
Master Smith smiled and before revealing that Link was still asleep.
"Oh is that what you're here for? Well Link was up late last night helping me, and he's still asleep. Bur I do have an errand at the castle. Yes, that should be fine" Master smith said
The old man then hollered up to Link.
"Link! Time to get up!" Master smith said
Link was still sleeping in his bed when the voice of his grandfather woke him up. He yawned and got up. He then went downstairs and saw that Zelda was there.
"Good morning Link!" Zelda said in excitement
"Morning Zelda!" Link said in return
"Princess Zelda is here. She's like to know if you would join her for the festival" Master Smith said
Zelda nodded and hopped in excitement.
"Yeah, Link. Come on! Let's go check out the festival together! Master Smith already gave me permission to take you!" Zelda said
"Yes after all the festival only takes place once a year. Go on have fun!" Master Smith said
Link nodded in excitement.
"And while you're there, can you do me a favor? I just finished making this sword for the minister of Hyrule Castle. I'd like you to deliver it to him" Master Smith said
"You got it grandpa!" Link replied
Link takes the sword.
"This is the blade that will be presented to the winner of the competition. And remember while you two may be childhood friends. Zelda is the princess of Hyrule. You watch over her and make sure nothing bad happens to her" Master Smith said
"Master Smith, quit worrying! We'll be totally safe. Come on Link! Let's go check out the festival!" Zelda said before dashing off
Link follows after her but she already had a head start and was waving her arms for him to hurry up. They made it to the town of Hyrule and Zelda got all excited and dragged Link all over the place. Link didn't mind though because her best friend was always like this. Always so energetic and had so much fun playing with him. This was one of the main reasons he had developed a crush on her but chose to hide his feelings for her because he didn't want to strain their friendship but it was also because she was the princess of Hyrule and believed that she was out of his league. But being with her like this was enough for him.
Princess Zelda won a roulette and had a choice of three prizes and chose the tiny shield because she though it was cute and gave it to Link, which he accepted because it was a gift that she won for him. They remembered they had to deliver the sword to the minister and went on their way. Zelda dashed on ahead again and Link soon followed her and Zelda came face to face with a Deku scrub and it shot a nut at her, hitting her in the face.
Link dashed over to see to see if she was okay and saw that she only got a nosebleed from being hit by that nut. Link then used his shield and nut bounced right back at the scrub, who explained that it just wanted to do business but decided to go back to its cave and this caused Zelda to feel bad for it but said that the nut still hurt. Link took out a handkerchief and dabbed her nose and then proceeded to place a bandage on her nose.
Zelda's cheeks turned pink. Link was always taking care of her. He was always so kind to her and that was one of the main reasons why she developed a crush on him but refrained from saying anything because she thought it would be awkward and put a strain on their friendship.
They made it to the castle and one of the guards was flabbergasted to see that Princess Zelda was with Link because he didn't realize that she had snuck out of the castle.
They made it to the castle where the Minister accepted the sword and Zelda went in the castle to get ready and the minister invited Link to stay for the ceremony of touching the picori blade. Soon the winner appeared and he looked like a sorcerer with long white hair and white skin..
I'll be relieving that chest of its contents now" The sorcerer said
The guards that were guarding the chest realized the danger and tried to attack him but the sorcerer, Vaati, swatted two of them away and the other two tried to attack him but he sent them away with a powerful blue sphere and that sphere soon hit the picori blade, breaking it. This released a bunch of monsters into the world.
Zelda was unleashing a yellow aura that scared them away but seemed to be unaware of that and was glaring at the enemy that would dare to cause destruction like this.
"Who are you? Why are you doing this?" Zelda asked in a demanding tone
Vaati chuckled.
"The princess with the mystic aura. The power that was gifted to the people of Hyrule still flows within the veins of the ladies of the royal family. Interesting. If I leave you now you'll only cause me trouble. That will never do. To stone with you!" Vaati said
Vaati created a dark orb and hurled it at Zelda. The princess froze in fear and could will her body to move at all. She felt something shove her aside and it made her fall down to the ground. She looked over and saw that it was Link who had shoved her aside. She watched in horror as Link was hit by the orb and turned to stone.
"How unexpected. I didn't think someone would risk their life for you" Vaati said
Vaati looked in the chest and saw that it was empty and was angered by this because the only thing that was in that chest was a bunch of monsters. Vaatti looked back at the princess and sensed that the power that she had unleashed a moment ago was gone. Perhaps that power was weaker than he thought.
"You're power is gone. Perhaps its weaker than I thought" Vaati said
"CHANGE HIM BACK TO NORMAL RIGHT NOW!" Zelda shouted
"Now why would I do that? Besides its his fault for taking a spell that was meant for you to begin with" Vaati said
Vaati decided to leave a parting a gift and shot a wind spell at the princess, knocking her against the castle wall. This knocked the wind out of her and she hell on her stomach.
"The mystical force will be mine" Vaati said
Zelda raised her hand in a struggle as the the evil sorcerer teleported away and the princess soon lost consciousness.
Some time later and the princess woke up and looked around to see where she was. She was in her room in the castle.
"What happened?" Zelda asked herself
She tried to remember what happened before passing out and remembered the event that had just occurred. She was hoping that everything was just a nightmare. She dashed out of her room and went straight to the throne room. Her father, King Daltus, was already there.
Daltus saw that his daughter was there and looked to be alright.
"Zelda, are you okay?" Daltus asked
"Yes, father, I'm fine" Zelda said
"That's a relief" Daltus said
Zelda looked over and saw that Master smith was there and looked glum. She looked over and saw that the stone figure of Link was there. She remembered that Link had shoved her aside and took the stone spell for her. He had protected her but there was cost and that cost was being turned to stone.
"Oh Link" Master Smith said
The princess had tears running down her cheeks and started to cry.
"I-I'm sorry. It was fault. I froze when I should've ran. That stone spell was meant for me not Link. He shoved me out of the way and took spell for me. Its because of me that Link got turned to stone" Zelda sobbed
Master Smith could see that the princess was really blaming herself for his grandson being turned to stone.
"It's not your fault, princess" Master smith said
"But it is! It should've been me that was turned to stone not him" Zelda said in tears
"Link did that because he cared about you. He always had great courage" Master Smith said
"But now Link will be like that forever!" Zelda said
Zelda then heard her father speak.
"There might be a way to change him back" Daltus said
Zelda looked up at her father with a look of both surprise and hope. Her eyes were still red and watery.
"Father, you mean we can change him back?!" Zelda asked
"Yes, there might be a way and we'll need the picori's help if we want to do that" Daltus said
"The Picori. But they are just fairytale creatures aren't they?" Master smith asked
"The Picori do exist and no one outside of the royal family knows of this. They are really tiny and live deep within Minish woods. If we take the blade to them and if they manage to repair the sword then we can use the sword's power to change Link back to normal" Daltus said
Potho then spoke up.
"Then we should send solders over there at once" Potho said
"Solders will not do. The picori will only reveal themselves to children" Daltus said
"Then we just need to find a child that's brave enough to do this mission" Potho said
"Let me do it" Zelda said
Everyone looked over at the princess in shock.
"Well the princess is a child, maybe the picori would be willing to reveal themselves to her and she could talk to them about repairing the blade" Master Smith said
"Absolutely not!" Potho said
"But" Zelda said before being interrupted by the minister
"You're the princess of Hyrule. We can't allow you to wonder off in the woods like alone. its too dangerous" Potho said
"Enough" Daltus said
The king then turned to Zelda and the princess could tell that her father was more willing to listen to her than the minster.
"Zelda, are you sure you wish to do this. It could be a dangerous" Daltus said
"Yes. He saved me and now its my turn to save him. Please let me do this" Zelda said
Daltus s could tell from the look in his daughter's eyes that she really wanted to do this.
"Very well. give her the picori blade" Daltus said
Zelda took the blade and was about to leave but was stopped by the minister.
"Wait a moment princess" Potho said
"Don't try to stop me, Potho" Zelda said
"There's much I can do. You're determined to go which is why I want you to take the blade that Link gave me earlier. Use it to protect yourself and take the tiny shield too. You'll need these items if you want to defend yourself out there" Potho said
Zelda took them and soon headed out for the minish woods hoping to find the Picori there.
