A dust cloud created by horse and rider
headed for a group of tall trees at the entrance to a forest. The sun was high
over head and was shining brightly, not a cloud obscured the sky but a rough
wind rustled the tree’s leaves. The horse was stopped abruptly at the peak of
the hill and the rider looked around cautiously, his blue eyes scanning the
countryside. The horse stamped impatiently so the rider took off again, his
blonde hair lifted by the rush of air which pressed against his face and body,
flattening his clothes against his chest. The horse and rider passed under a
group of arched trees and stopped next to a large hollow log hidden in the
shadows.
Link walked onto the familiar lang=EN-GB>Rope lang=EN-GB>Bridge, the
last time he was here was seven years ago and what he would have called his
carefree days. Nobody else would have referred to them as that due to all the
bullying Link had received, but then again that was the only childhood that
Link had, not to mention the fact that compared to the task Link now faced as
the hero of time, those were carefree days. He quickly came out of his
daydream; he had a job to do. He walked to the next door way and entered the
Kokiri forest.
What Link saw shocked him. He took in a
sharp gasp; the once beautiful and peaceful Kokiri forest had been bombarded
with enemies. Link was suddenly thrown to the side and then slammed into the
ground. He looked to his right and saw the cause, a giant mutated Deku Baba was
next to the entrance to the Kokiri forest and had attacked him. He quickly
killed it and moved forward his eyes scanning the village, a mad scrub suddenly
popped up and spat a nut at him.
Instead of fighting it Link side-stepped
into Mido’s house and saw two very depressed Kokiri boys sitting around. He
quickly talked to them and carried on around the village figuring there might
be some information he could gain. After to talking to everybody and being
shocked that the other Kokiri had stayed the same, he ran off into the lost
woods. He slowed his pace, thinking, not only had the Kokiri not grown up, they
also didn’t recognise him. He soon ran into Mido, who like all the other Kokiri
didn’t recognise Link, Mido stated that Saria had asked him to guard that particular
entrance. Link played Saria’s song and Mido let him pass.
After running through the rest of the Lost
Woods, Link walked into the Sacred Forest Meadow. He walked through the gate
but stopped when he heard a grunt. Link cautiously peered round the corner of
the wall and shrank back again quickly when he saw a Moblin walking down the
passage. He reached back and took out his sword and shield and waited round the
corner the Moblin passed him. He ran into the passage and ran down it. A roar
stopped Link and he turned to see the Moblin running at him full speed with its
spear facing towards him.
Link slammed into the wall and the spear
caught him in the side. Blood ran slowly from the wound, it wasn’t a major
injury but being slammed into the wall had knocked all the breath out of him.
He crawled on all fours round the corner and gasped for breath.
“You could have warned me what those
Moblins do,” Link said to Navi, between breaths
“You should have asked before you ran in
its path” she retaliated
“ Your supposed to be helping me, not
sitting back watching me get killed” he argued
“Ask and maybe you won’t get hurt”
“I can’t be bothered arguing with you right
now I’ve got other things to do”
“Finally you’re acting your age, a little
more mature”
Link
rolled his eyes and got to his feet, it just so happened that the moblin that
had injured him walked into his path. He decided to get revenge: he killed the
moblin with one swing off his sword.
Link made his way through the maze and
reached the steps. He heard an extremely loud grunting noise come from the
field above him. He drew his sword again and cautiously walked up the steps,
suddenly in front of him was a moblin about three times the size of a normal
one. Resting partly against the floor was an extremely large club.
“Little help here Navi” Link hinted
“I dunno, I’ve never seen one this big” The
luminous orb replied. Link looked up at her.
“A moblin I mean” the fairy clarified
“Oh right”
“Just try to be careful Ok, Link,” she said
Taking a few steps forward, Link approached
the creature. It immediately started to bring his club up and slam it into the
ground creating a cloud of dust which could knock him back easily. Link ran to
the right and the huge club followed him. Link zigzagged across the area and
eventually got past the moblin.
The young man, walked up the steps with his
sword drawn, he ran forwards keeping his gaze fixed on a small tree stump.
Instead of seeing his best friend Link only saw a vacant stump. He looked down
it and held back the tears that were starting to blur his vision.
Out of no-where Sheik jumped down.
“The flow of time is always cruel…
Its
speed seems different for each person but no-one can change it…
A
thing that doesn’t change with time is a memory of younger days…”
After teaching Link a melody, Minuet of
Forest, which would let Link warp to a certain point in the forest, Sheik
disappeared.
He entered the temple and after some hours,
Link reached the boss room. Link had found a Bow along his way through the
temple. He pushed the walls round unlocked the door and entered the next room.
The room was dimly lit, a large circular
platform stood in front of him with railings around the edge and there were
multiple pictures hung on the round wall. All of these pictures however were identical.
Link walked up the steps to his right and onto the platform. He walked round
trying to figure out where this boss was supposed to be. On the floor right in
the centre was a picture of the Triforce, which was surrounded by a
representation of the sun. Seeing that there was no enemy Link turned around
and began to walk off the platform. Just as he reached the gap, which had let
him in, three bars tipped with arrowheads shot out of the ground preventing him
from leaving. Link turned around to see a black horse with none other than
Ganondorf on its back.
“Navi, isn’t this a bit early to be
fighting Ganondorf? I mean we haven’t even woken the second sage yet” Link
questioned as he looked apprehensively at the King of Evil
“Yeah you’re right” she replied
At that point Ganondorf or what appeared to
be Ganondorf pulled off a mask revealing a skull shrouded in flames.
“Eeeeewwww” commented Link, looking at the
grotesque head.
Then Phantom Ganon took off on his horse
and leapt into a painting and galloped off into the dark woods. Link looked
ahead and saw Ganon gallop towards him again.
“Oh this is too easy” stated Link as he
took out the bow he had gotten earlier and aimed an arrow at Ganon, but when
Ganon or rather the copy of Phantom Ganon reached the bottom of the picture it
turned around and galloped off back up the path.
“Shit” Link said aloud causing Navi to look
at him as if he had just committed a major crime. She tutted disappointedly.
Ignoring Navi Link looked up to see Phantom Ganon overhead and shooting down a
bolt of lightening. Link closed his eyes to then bright light and readied
another arrow and aim it at a painting on the wall as the phantom approached
the bottom of the painting a large purple vortex formed to let him out of the
painting. As Phantom Ganon started to come out of the painting Link let the
arrow loose it struck the ghost and it started to shrink back into the picture.
It then turned around and galloped back up into the dark woods. Twice more this
happened and Ganon was dismounted. He started to float a couple of feet off the
ground and then raised it’s staff to shoot an energy ball at Link. Using his
sword as a bat Link hit it back at him; they continued to hit the sparkling
ball of energy back to each other, becoming faster and faster with each hit
until it hit Phantom Ganon. Link rushed forward with his sword and quickly
delivered 6 or 7 blows, the phantom groaned with each hit. After a while of
battling the ghost (And Navi shouting annoying comments like ‘Ten love’ and
things to do with tennis) Link finally defeated the Phantom. It then floated
lifelessly (Literally) into the centre of the room and was banished by
Ganondorf to a dark void. He then spoke to Link.
Link was transported to the Chamber of
Sages he discovered, though he had known it since Sheik gave him a clue, that
Saria was a sage of the forest. After speaking to her and receiving the forest
medallion, Link was transported to the great Deku Tree’s remains. He noticed a
small spike sticking from out of the ground, as he bent down to get a closer
look at it, the spike popped up and revealed itself as a sprout. It then
started to speak to him. The sprout explained about the enemies and stuff.
“Now Link, the reason that the other Kokiri
have not grown up as you have is because they never will, the Kokiri stay
eternally children and do not recognize you because you have grown up. You may
have guessed by now why you’ve grown up and the other Kokiri haven’t, you are a
Hylian and were always bound to leave this forest, it was your destiny.
A Hylian woman came to the forest with her
baby boy, she was injured and passed away but before she did she asked my
father, the great Deku tree to look after you.
That baby boy was you and now the truth has
been revealed to you at last,
You are a Hylian and were always bound to
leave this forest and now you have learned what it is that you must do, that’s
right, you must awaken the sages and save Hyrule, now Link go and defeat this
evil before it is too late.”