Key:

"Word" = Talking
Word = Thoughts, stressed out words, flashbacks, dreams
"Word" = Animal speech

-Link's POV-

It was the day I was to go to Hyrule with a gift, but when I came from herding the rams for Fado, Illia accused me of doing something to hurt Epona! Why would I do that? Of course, the day before I had to chase Malo, Talo, and Beth, who were chasing a monkey, with her so that's most likely how she scraped her knee. It was only a scrape, Illia overreacted, as usual, but then she took Epona, which I wish she didn't but that's Illia for you!

I ran towards my house, which she had headed to, to see Colin in front of me. "Link, Illia just came here with Epona, she looked really mad and was mumbling something about you…"

"She did? Could you-"

"Um… Link, could you ask Talo and Malo to let me see what Illia is so at you mad about?"

I nodded and walked over to the two boys, Talo, the older one, shouted at Colin, "Great job, Colin, you got us into a lot of trouble! Why'd you have to go and tell your dad, or any of our parents for that matter?" He realized I was standing there, "Hey Link, could you let me borrow your wooden sword?"

Ah, the wooden sword, I used it to defend Talo and that monkey from two ugly monsters. "Why should I?" I asked.

"Aw, please? I'll be sure to make sure I don't break it or anything!"

"Fine, knock yourself out…" I handed him the sword and the brothers ran over to the "scarecrow" I used to practice my sword fighting with.

"Thanks, Link, I'll go run ahead and talk to Illia, she might not let me talk if you're with me." I nodded and he ran off, I only walked, looking at the trees that framed the path, in fact, they framed the entire village, but anyway, I just walked on.

I came to the spring where the gate was closed, Colin was standing near them, "Hey, Link, Illia won't let me open the gate for you, so just go around through that tunnel over there." He nodded over to the direction the tunnel's entrance was.

"All right." I went over and crawled through, when I came out Colin and Illia were talking, she spotted me and turned to Epona who neighed when she spotted me.

"You still prefer your master over me, eh?" She and I talked for a bit until the gates to the spring burst open, green creatures riding large pigs flooded into the space, on the back of one, I saw a person. I looked around, as I watched the monsters attack my good friends, I ran to help them, but a pain struck the back of my head and I blacked out.

-Narrator's POV-

Soon as Link had been knocked unconscious, Edward woke up and he started yelling after he realized his wrists were tied together, "Where's Al?! Let me go!!" He thrashed around and fell off the pig. Another monster riding a pig came into the spring, he was large and the pig was blue. He blew a horn and a light appeared in the air, the monsters then dashed off.

Ed placed his hands together and let the alchemy break the rope around them and he pulled the one he discovered on his ankles. Link started to wake up.

-Edward's POV-

I woke up lying on some pig with my wrists and ankles tied, I looked amongst the monsters that I was with but didn't see Al, so a started yelling, "Where's Al!? Let me go!!" I wiggled around in attempt to escape my captor and fell of the pig into the shallow spring below. One blew a horn and they ran off. I used alchemy to get rid of the ropes on my wrists and simply pulled the ones on my ankles off.

It was then I noticed the boy unconscious, he had dirty blond hair and pointed ears, one had a blue earring. He looked poor because of his attire, but I didn't pay any attention to that. He started to wake up. "Hey, you ok?" I asked, and he looked at me.

"Where are they?"

"Who?"

"Illia and Colin! A girl about my age with my hair color and a little boy with blond hair.

"Sorry, I woke up and those… things ran off, I didn't see any other humans."

The boy stood and started running out of the spring, he seemed to care about them so I decided to help him, so I followed.

We came up to some weird looking wall. A hand came out and grabbed us, pulling us in. I obviously blacked out because I find myself waking up and seeing a wolf being dragged off by some… thing! I tried to call out but all that came from my lips was a dog-like yelp, I realized I was a fox (1). My back oddly had the Alchemist snake and cross design, but anyways, my front right leg and back left leg were missing, I too was dragged off.

-Narrator's POV-

Link woke up and looked around, he looked at his body, now a wolf and saw the chan on his ankle he tried to pull it out of the cuff, but that failed. "Where am I?"

"Hey, you ok?" Ed asked.

That voice! "Are you that same boy from before?"

"Huh?"

"I'm the boy from the spring!"

"Oh… I never caught your name…"

"My name is Link…"

"I'm Edward, but you can call me Ed."

-End of Chapter-