A
teen boy around eighteen looked out across Hyrule Field and took a
deep breath in of the sweet, grassy air. He was wearing a grassy
green tunic and hat, with deep chestnut gaulets and boots, a belt the
color of his boots, and a shield, hiding arrows underneath. He was
wearing white tights over his arms and legs, and a sword hilt
appeared over his shoulder, it was kept behind his shield, but the
hilt and bottom of the sheath stuck out from the sword's size. You
could also see the leather strap that belonged to the swords sheath
safely strapped across his chest. He wasn't a shrimp, but he wasn't
a body builder. He was usually taller then women and short men, but
he wasn't as tall as men over six-feet tall. His horse, Epona,
nibbled at the collar of his tunic, nuzzling her nose against his
dirty blond hair at the same time.
"Hey
Epona, cut it out! We'll get going, just be a little bit more
patient." He turned around and patted his horse's head with his
hands then mounted.
"So,
where are off to today? You can choose which way to go
today."
Epona
blew air out her nose, telling him that she always chooses where they
went. Laughing, Link ruffled her mane, and gently pushed at her sides
to get her going. Epona began galloping off towards somewhere; Link
let the wind play around with his hair with ease. Then a thought
dawned at him, he had no rubees.
A
seventeen-year-old girl looked across the glimmering water of Lake
Hylia, she was simply dressed. She was wearing a blue cloak that
completely covered her from shoulder-to-toe; she had her hood down
and let her dark shimmering golden hair fall carelessly to her waist,
and had a simple silver circlet over her forehead. Her cloak was lose
and baggy and basically didn't show any of her body from her breast
down. From the part of her body that you could see, she had small but
strong and strait shoulders. Her face had high and slim cheekbones
and a thin nose, a median sized neck with small lips to add to her
strong willed eyes. She was going to have to get more rupees if she
planned to rent a boat to row to the middle of the lake.
I
could just hover across the water to get to the center; it wouldn't
really do anything to my magic supply since I have so much. But what
would a common man fishing do if saw a girl walking across the water?
She shook her head as she sighed, the wind pulled playfully at her
hair and cloak, she didn't even notice when a certain silver haired
Sheikah walked up next to her.
"Zelda?"
The blond jumped a little when the woman said her name and called her
out of her puzzled thinking.
Blinking
she replied back, "Impa, how long have you been watching
me?"
"Only a
few seconds, Zelda, what are staring at the lake for?"
"I
want to go out to that small island out there in the distant, do you
see it?"
Impa
searched with her piercing ruby eyes and found something out in the
distance that looked like a speck of black.
"Zelda,
please don't tell me its that small speck out there to the
northwest?"
"It
is, since it's rumored to be haunted, I want to go and see if there
is a Great Fairy on that island! Doesn't it sound
exciting?"
Impa
stared at her for a while then sighed and looked back out to the
distance.
"How
can you be so wrapped up in things like this? Can't you ever act
like a normal young girl instead of always being so
adventures?"
Zelda
hugged her guardian's arm and laughed sweetly at Impa, making the
older woman smile.
"But
then I wouldn't have turned out to be one of the rare chosen to be
able to wield magic. Right Impa?"
"And
I wouldn't want to replace you with any of the other girls who
think of themselves as queens."
They
both smiled at each other warmly, and Zelda released Impa's arm and
frowned at her and confessed in a saddened voice, "I don't have
enough rupees to rent a boat though, and I can't use my magic
because people would see me and freak out. And there's not anywhere
where I could do some work to earn some rupees, what do you think I
should do? Do think I should go to Karkariko Village and find work
there?"
Impa bit
her lip and replied in a monotone voice, "I think you should go to
Karkariko Village and find some work, yes. But if you don't have
enough for a boat, how can you get a horse?"
"I
won't get a horse, I'll just walk."
"It's
a seven day ride there on horseback Zelda, you would run out of
supplies before you even got to Lon Lon Ranch."
"Impa,
you know I can get there by using my magic."
That
remark made Impa stop and think, her little Zelda had her there, if
she used her magic, she could get to Lon Lon Ranch with enough
supplies left. She should have at least enough money to buy food
there, and since people hardly ever passed through Hyrule Field
because of monsters she would be able to get through without drawing
attention and using magic to protect herself.
"You
win, but stay here one more night just to rest up, oh and another
thing, I won't able to go with you. I have some Sheikah business to
attend to."
Zelda
nodded, understanding her perfectly. Impa often disappeared to go off
and do things that she called 'Sheikah Business' and sometimes
she won't return to Zelda for four months. She never disappeared
longer then that.
"When
will leave to do that Impa?"
"In
an hour, I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier, but it slipped my
mind. I suggest you find a comfortable place to camp so you won't
have to waste your money on an inn."
Link
wadded up to his knees in the cold stream water, he had his bow
strung with an arrow, ready to catch some food for
dinner.
"Epona,
according to the map, we're somewhere between Lake Hylia and Lon
Lon Ranch...."
He
let an arrow fly into the water, hitting the fish right in the
center. Putting his bow down, he continued talking to his horse as he
leaned over and was trying to pull out the arrow that was nailed to
the bottom of the stream without any success.
"I
really wish I knew how far we are from either of them, I want to go
to Lake Hylia or to LLR to find some work, since we have
absolutely...." He grunted as he continued to try and pry the arrow
out of the stream floor, which was proving a more difficult task then
expected. "No, gah, RUPEES! Gees, maybe I should of just used the
arrow as a spear, I can't get it out Epona!"
"Really?"
And when Link turned around to see who it was, he would see the one person that would mean more to him then he ever thought possible. The one person who would lead Hyrule to shine once again under the eyes of the Three Great Goddesses. The one person who would love Hyrule with all of their heart. The one person that would unlock the secrets of both them and Link....
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