User:Sariatheforestsage/Fanfiction

Introduction
Hello there,

I am Casper Bronmans and before we start with this story I would first like to tell something to all those who read this. I wrote this story with no intention of making money from it or having it published, not even for the fame. I wrote it because I am a fan, a Legend of Zelda fan since the day I was able to hold my Nintendo 64 controller.

This story is told from Link’s perspective, a young lad living in Outset Village, a popular village in the south of New Hyrule. Many years have passed since the events of Spirit Tracks and much has changed, but even more important something has awakened.

Spirits of the past have all awakened and spread chaos across the land of New Hyrule. Not to destroy it, but to call forth a hero to stop them. A hero that must prove his worth in his own time. It’s a test to find the hero that can fulfill the Goddesses duty and save the past from a terrible flood. Link will travel trough many dungeons and temples, fight many spirits and face the army armies of Ganondorf in a time and country that is not his, but will it all end well?

My story will require one to have played The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and is written in a slightly mature style, I hope everybody will enjoy it as much as I loved writing it. And that everybody will lose a tear when looking back at some great games!

Prologue
It was dark and cold, I stared at an odd structure. It looked like a wall, but unlike any I have ever seen before. It was huge and stretched as far as I could see. I stood on a road made of sand and stared at a wooden gate right in front of me. When I tried to walk towards it I noticed there was a gap in front of the wall.

I looked down and noticed it was filled with water. Suddenly I heard a loud noise and the wooden gate started to lower. I heard screams on the other side. When the gate was finally lowering it filled up the gap, but when I tried to move across it I heard a scream nearing me. A white horse was rushing towards me and I decided to take a stylish approach and roll to the side. The horse passed me and I saw the person who was riding it was an armored lady and on the back was a small girl. The girl looked in my direction before she disappeared out of sight.

Only now I noticed that rolling caused my clothes to get dirty and I smelled bad, but a second later I also noticed that these weren’t my clothes. They were green and looked a bit like the guard costumes and I was a lot smaller as well. Before I could figure out what was happening I heard new sounds. An evil laugh and heavy breathing and when I looked up I saw a man on a horse. The man laughed at me and stared me straight into the eyes, I noticed that his skin was black and was rotting and his eyes were empty sockets with a blue light inside. He started raising his hand and it looked like he was aiming at me. His hands started glowing black and I tried to back away from the man, but I stumbled. He launched something black towards me and suddenly everything faded to dark.

I opened my eyes and heard the sound of laughter, I was staring at a brown ceiling. When I tried to get up I realized the ceiling was closer than I thought and I hit my head. I was awake, in my own house. I should have known it was a dream; roads aren’t made of sand, horses no longer serve as transport and there are no walls like the one I saw.

Though this morning feels different and I can’t get that dream out of my head. I sighed and stepped out of my bed only to hit my head again. This is most certainly not going to be my lucky day, I just feel it.

The burning forest
I heard a lot of noise outside, when I opened the window I saw that people where cheering for someone, he was singing songs about heroes who single-handedly fought against armies and saved Hyrule many times. I smiled and thought to myself “if there were heroes that saved Hyrule, wouldn’t we know about them”, it did not matter his songs were great and amusing and the people enjoyed it.

I went downstairs and grandfather was eating breakfast, I joined him and we talked a little. Grandfather thought it would be a great idea to clean the attic today, maybe sell some stuff on the street. I wasn’t really paying attention and was trying to figure out what my dream was all about.

My grandfather was a great man and took me in after my father and mother both drowned in the sea bordering our village, I was only a kid at the time and he raised me like his own. He had a big white beard and he always says: “I have this beard to compensate for the rest”, it always cheered everyone up since he was the only bald man in the village. We finished our breakfast and went back up the stairs and all the way to the attic. Grandfather was old, but still as fit as could be and he climbed the stairs faster than most of the other villagers ever could.

When we reached the attic I sighed deeply, there were more than a hundred boxes here and they were all filled with who knows how many generations worth of stuff. I turned around to ask Grandfather Where to start, but to my surprise he was already investigating the insides of the first box. I decided not to let him do everything alone and started investigating the one next to him. Most of the stuff were pictures and other items with no real value, the few things we found that were actually valuable were laid apart on a blanket next to the stairs.

The pictures were great and cheered grandfather up even more, he did three boxes for every single one I did. When we arrived at the twentieth box the blanket was already filled with gold pieces, portraits and such things. I opened the box I was standing in front off and gasped when I saw what was inside.

Atop a lot of other clothes was a guard uniform, a perfect copy of the one I wore in my dream. It was a light green tunic with two brown belts. Upon further inspection I noticed that the second belt was in fact a sheath for a sword. I lifted the garb out of the box and suddenly heard my grandfather gasp; I looked at him and saw him rushing towards me. He inspected the clothes and some tears appeared on his face.

He said: “This was your father’s uniform, he wore it back when he was a guard in the capital” he smiled and I gave him the tunic so he could have a better look. Before he continued he said “Link my boy, look trough the box and see if you can find a green cap”. I nodded and started looking trough the box again and found a lot of clothes and eventually a hat. It was also green and had an odd shape; it took me a while before I recognized it. It was also part of the guard uniform, but it was removed from the official set years ago.

Grandfather was staring at me with an odd smile and I somehow knew what he was about to ask. I said “Please, don’t tell me t-“, but I was interrupted by my grandfather who was already holding the tunic in front of me to see if it would fit. I sighed and decided to play along and after two minutes I was standing in the attic proudly wearing the green tunic. My grandfather already found back the old picture device and was taking several pictures, suddenly we heard loud screams outside.

Outset Village was a village that has grown in the past few years from simple village to a famous town where people from all around Hyrule came to sail, swim, shop and relax. We had a small guard post that only had to act every once in a while to send some pillocks away or stop a robber, but never had I heard such a panic in the village. We rushed down the stairs and opened the door where we saw all the locals running away to the west it did not take long to notice why.

The forest caught fire and not just a little but literally the entire forest was burning, this would already be enough reason to be scared, but the fires were not normal. They weren’t red, but a combination of blue and purple and it looked like it wasn’t doing the forest any damage. Before I could decide what do to do, something sent an enormous rock flying out of the forest which hit a ship that was nearing our town.

I saw the guards that were bravely rushing towards the forest wielding their shields and swords and even the signal fire was ignited. I decided to follow the guards into the forest, I expected grandfather to try to stop me, but he just stood still and looked at me proudly. When I reached the entrance to the forest however I was halted by a guard. He said: “sorry lad, we can’t let you in without a sword and shield. Go get some at the guardhouse”. I sighed, but had no wish to discuss it with him.

The guardhouse was a big building with – bless the queen – a high roof, the quartermaster looked at me and without saying a word pushed a sword into my hands and told me how to use it. The sword was heavy and made out of steel, I had my hands wrapped around a light brown part. The Quartermaster said “Hold it in one hand and swing it till your target goes down”. I started swinging it against some of the training dummies that were set up, it felt great and then I noticed a few dolls standing in a circle. I rushed towards it, stood in the middle and made a spin-like slash with my sword that damaged all the targets.

The Quartermaster nodded approvingly and I said “Can I have a shield now?”. The man looked at me and said “Sorry lad, if you want a shield you have to go to the capital and receive one from the Queen himself”. I sighed deeply and thanked him as I left the building, but what was I supposed to tell grandfather and why did I considered it necessary to rush after those guards anyway, what would I have done when I arrived in the forest?

When I opened the door I was surprised by Sila standing right in front of the door, she didn’t scare me, but I almost bumped into her. Sila was my age and had red hair that was barely styled and closely resembled that of a boy. You couldn’t mistake her for one though because she always wears dresses and her face is also unmistakably female. I have known her ever since we were kids and we grew up together. I smiled at her and just like everyone else she was in the mood to start talking just before I could, she said: “Link, I saw you’re charging after the guards are you going into the forest?”. Sila really loved the forest and we often went for a walk in there, I replied to her question and said: “Yes, but the guard won’t let me trough if I won’t find a shield”. She looked serious for a second and was probably trying to find a solution. She then said “The smith won’t sell you one, but the ship that was hit by that huge rock was carrying supplies to Hyrule City, the smith loaded some weapons and armor on it as well, maybe you can find something around the beach.”

I nodded and she agreed to help me, when we reached the beach it was indeed littered with goods: food, clothes, furniture and indeed pieces of armor were lying amidst the wood and weed. We looked for several minutes before I spotted a piece of wood that was floating on the water, I walked into the water and picked it up. I was lucky and it was a decent quality wooden shield. I would have liked if it was a steel one from the smith, but those must have all sank to the bottom of the sea. Wooden shields were given to the new guards and soldiers until they prove themselves worthy to carry around a quality shield.

We went to the forest entrance and the guard nodded as he saw me approach and went out of the way. I wanted to hurry past him, but Sila tapped me on my shoulder and I turned around. She smiled and tried to look a bit evil when she said “Don’t get yourself killed”, I would have liked a farewell like in the stories, but Sila has never liked all that drama and love stuff so I could have expected something like this. On the other hand this way it didn’t seem like I was charging to my death.

I walked into the forest and quickly noticed that the fires were not hot and indeed did not damage the forest. I saw a guard who walked a bit like a drunk and ran towards him. He was not wounded, but all he could say before passing out was “We encountered hostiles deeper into the forest, they need back-up”. I looked to the north and rushed to what most likely would be a reason for the bard to make up a new song.