Welcome to all! ^_^ This is my second fanfic, and I know it's sort of a bad thing to start writing a second story when you're barely half way through your first. :/ But I couldn't help it! So without further ado, enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Legend of Zelda.

Link: Age 10

Rain drummed against the ground in fast, furious strikes, as thunder pounded against the sky. The dark, eerie clouds that covered every inch of the stratosphere, menacingly hovered above my head.

I usually considered the rhythmic sound of rainfall to be quite relaxing, but now it just sounded like constant pounding against my eardrums.

I ran through the forest as fast as I could. I needed to get away!

Exhaustion hung heavily over my soaked body, and the extreme rain didn't help my problem in the slightest.

"Hey! Link, hurry. They're coming!"

I turned to see my fairy; Navi, hovering at my side as I continued to run. It's a wonder how she can still fly in this dense rain.

"I'm going as fast as I can!" What else did she expect me to do; grow wings and fly away!

"They're getting closer!" She said, anxiously hovering up and down.

After another moment of agonising running, I collapsed to my knees in dismay, panting heavily whilst trying to catch my breath.

Navi came to hover in front of my face, though my eyes were focused on the ground.

"Hey, what are you doing! You need to get up Link. Listen!" She said as she bounced up and down in an angry temper.

"Navi, there's no point. It doesn't change a thing. They'll still catch me, even if I continue running..." I sighed.

"You can't give up without trying, Link! I thought you were blessed with courage!"

"Exactly..."

"Hey?"

"Instead of running. I'll face them!"

"No no, listen, that's not what I meant!" She began bouncing around in fury again.

"Navi, I need you to go to Hyrule castle and stay with Zelda."

"But-"

"Please Navi! If we're both captured then we'll both die."

She let out a gentle sigh, drooping her wings slightly "I'll get help." She said, before swiftly hovering above the trees and out of sight.

I watched her leave as I sat on the ground.

"So you have finally given up." A deep voice sounded from behind my back.

I struggled to my feet, (which were now painful to stand on) turning around to face him.

I glared at the dark man that stood in front of a large group of huge shadow beasts. His glowing blade held sercurely in his left hand, and his contemptuous stare piercing straight through my own.

A sinister smile spread across his lips as he slowly walked towards me.

I stepped, nearly tripped backwards as he stopped in front of me. My eyes never leaving his menacing stare.

"Grab him!" He called to the shadow beasts.

They reacted instantly, moving ahead of the man and dragging me to the ground.

I tried to fight them off but to no avail. I gave in to struggling through exhaustion, and let my body go limp as they held my arms back.

I looked up to see the dark man holding an odd looking stone, engraved with strange, glowing markings.

As I gazed at the stone in puzzlement, he forced it towards me with a strange gravitational power. His sinister smile still accompanying his dark face.

The stone collided with my forehead. I squinted, turning away, but the stone dissolved into my head!

I sat in horrified confusion. What was that stone...? Is it in my head!

"W-what did you do to me?" I asked in shock, trying to loosen the grip of the beasts that held me.

He gave a deep maniacal laughter which echoed through my head as my mind began burning.

I clentched my fists and closed my eyes tightly as my head burned hotter and hotter, burning untill my head willowed into nothing but a hollow remnant. This excruciating pain won't stop! It feels like my mind is being incinerated! I screamed in utter pain at the blazing agony inside my mind. Why can't I just die now! Please stop! I can't see anything but odd patterns whirling through my mind! Everything's turning dark, getting darker and darker...

His laughter continued to ring through my ears, whether he were actually laughing or whether my mind was playing tricks on me... I couldn't tell anymore...

7 years later...

A dark figure cornered the wall, leaning back against the shadows cast over the ground from the opposite side of the vertical, opaque surface. Listening intently to every aspect of the surrounding area, examining each detail: From the lifeless, limp, dull coloured, leafless trees, along with the other various (Though hardly a variety) plants the hung their heads in shame after being dragged up out of the ground to exist in the bleak world above. He waited.

Seconds past like minutes as he cautiously approached a second figure that walked ahead, unaware of his presence. If this man had known better, he would've known to remain vigilant throughout every second of passing through the Dark Woods. But alas he merely expressed no hint of suspicion as he continued aimlessly on his journey. Had he also known what these woods were, he would have turned in the opposite direction without a second glance. But both him and the woods shared the same connection- They are both lost.

Ignorance of your surroundings can lead to danger.

The hooded figure kept his back firmly placed against the wall, out of sight as he continued forward. His swift movements so brisk, yet steady and soundless. He waited for the right moment.

And who was this man that entered the Lost woods? What did he hope to find in a place so astray? Perhaps it was a mere accident? An accident that could prove fatal...

The dark figure now lurked in eerie silence, moving silently between the shadows of each tree. Reaching closer to the oblivious man as he stood in the darkness, waffling between different directions.

He waited for the right moment to destroy...

The mans head tilted forward as he gazed at the ground with a sigh. His eyes closed. The figure hidden in darkness took his chance at that very precise moment, rushing effortlessly closer to the man in silent strides, sword unsheathed as he grew closer and closer to the clueless man, lifting his sword as he reached closer, eyes set with burning fire, he leaped into the air to strike!...

Blood trickled down the end of the lifeless, silver blade, bearing stains of innocence, as he withdrew his sword out from the unconscious man. And why should he care whether his hands were ever stained with the blood of all the innocent people he had destroyed? They meant nothing to him.

He only saw hatred through his clouded vision. And there was no reason why he shouldn't when it is the only thing he has known, the only thing he has ever known...

The man had died instantly, without so much as a single glimps of pain. He died with his face in a fixed expression of utter shock: His eyes open as wide as eyelids could possibly allow without losing your eyeballs; His mouth gaping like a fish; His skin ashen with death...

Blood overflowed his chest, covering him in a blanket of metallic red as it continued to spread further around his body.

The dark figure stood over him, watching him with contempt.

"I will have my revenge against Hyrule! You pathetic Hylians just wait and see."

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