Disclaimer: I don't own the characters or original makings of The Wind Waker, but I own my own copy of the game. Otherwise, I wouldn't know what it was.

Artemis: Um...hi! This is my first Zelda story. Here's the basics to get you all started...

Title: An Oracle Arrives
Rating: PG-13
Content: shounen ai (slash), mild violence, mild language, some suggestive themes

Summary: The day after Link's seventeenth birthday, a strangely dressed young man washes up on the shores of Outset Island. Bearing a message of doom and a broken crystal shard, this boy draws Link into a journey that soon transcends both truth and time.

Artemis: . Of course, you already know this story revolves around Link/Sheik, but surprise! It takes place during the age of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

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Chapter OneHaunting Melodies

Aryll laughed into her cup of water as Zill and Joel joked around and did little reinactments of her brother's quest. Sitting by the fireplace and stiring some of her best soup was Grandma, and talking enthusiastically near the ladder was Rose and Sue-bell. A few of Rose's newest pet pigs scurried and snorted about the room, sniffing people in hopes of their ears being scratched and shoving their nose into corners in search of crumbs of fallen food. Over against the far back wall with spear at the ready slept Orca, and his brother Sturgeon sat not far away with his nose crammed into a book about smashing pots and vases. Resting on Grandma's bed was Mesa, playing his lute to a rather cheerful tune, and Abe, bringing some beat to Mesa's tune with his bango drums. Everyone in Outset Island had turned up for Link's birthday party, because it was a rare treat for someone to throw such a party on their small, peaceful island.

Despite the fact that everyone was inside Link's house, said birthday boy was outside on the porch. He had been there for quite some time now. He wasn't angry with anybody on the island or anything, he had just left his own party in search of some needed silence. Link wanted to think, and the noise inside had not been allowing him. About six years ago, he had explored almost every corner of the world in order to save his sister, and then everyone, from Ganon's evil dream. When everything had come to a closure, Link had remained on Outset Island to try and pick up the threads of his life that he had to abandon. Tetra, too, had done the same and sailed off to explore the vast legions of sea and land beyond what was written on his sea chart.

And now he was seventeen...a man. Link should have been thrilled to be an adult now, but lately he found that he wasn't able to rest. A sinking feeling had formed in him, an emptiness he wasn't sure of the origins of had taken hold. He felt like there was still something out there he had to find, some thing was calling for him out there...beyond his little island. And lately a melody had formed on his tongue, pulling at his mind when he slept and itching at his fingers when he was awake. He had hummed the tune to many, even to Medli, yet no one seemed to know what song it was or of the notes needed to play it. It haunted him, and left Link spending a lot of time just humming and trying to remember where he had heard it before.

Aryll called out, interrupting her brother's thoughts.

Sighing, Link abandoned the haunting melody and looked over his shoulder at his little sister from where he leaned against the porch railing. She smiled the way she always did and walked up beside him, hiding something behind her back.

Why are you out here? The party is inside, silly, Aryll chided him and laughed in childish amusement.

Link couldn't help but smile at her, It's to loud inside. I needed a little peace, that's all.

Aryll continued to smile, turning her head to look up at the stary sky above them, It's really clear out, tonight. Look Link! You can see the Blue-Haven constellation!!

Link looked up at the sky in the direction Aryll was pointing and grinned, spotting a cluster of blue stars much like a thin circle of bluish mist against the blackness of space. Stories of older days still existed about that specific star cluster. Legend spoke of it as the home of the fairies that once aided a race of forest people called the Kokiri. However, home of the fairies or not, it was still a lovely sight to see on clear nights like this. Both siblings admired the stars for a bit longer, before Aryll brought them both out of their stupor by tugging on Link's blue shirt.

Link, it's almost my bedtime and I haven't given you your birthday present...

Link watched as Aryll pulled out a telescope she had been hiding behind her back the whole time. It was similar to the one she had let him use six years ago, except it was dark blue with a silver ring on both ends and a triforce design etched on the widest end. Link gasped in surprise and took the gift, raising it slightly to admire the work. Aryll watched her brother, happy that her present seemed to please him to no end. Turning, she walked back to the door to go inside but thought of something and turned around to say one last thing before she went in. Link waited for her to speak but instead she let out an exclamation and pointed up into the sky.

Link!! Look! Something is falling from the Blue-Havens!

Link turned and brought his telescope up to his eyes out of old habit, Aryll doing the same with her own orange telescope. Zooming in on the constellation as much as the telescope would allow, Link caught sight of what Aryll had spotted. An object appeared to be falling from the constellation, surrounded by a transparant blue halo. It could almost have been passed off as a falling star, only there was something off about the object...something odd in its behavior that separated it from a shooting star. Link continued to watch as the object fell down the sky and then disappeared behind the ocean's horizon.

Link lowered his telescope and exchanged glances with Aryll, shrugging the whole thing off. Whatever it had been, it was gone now and probably wouldn't be seen again.

Well...I better be getting to bed. Good night, big brother! Aryll sighed and lunged at Link, hugging him around the waist before running inside.

Link put his telescope away and started inside as well, glancing back at the sky one last time before returning to his party. A feint blue glow drifted along the waters several miles away, drawing closer to Outset Island with each gentle pull of the waves.