Link opened his eyes to find himself lying on his back. There was a dull pain thudding in the back of his head where he must have hit the floor. He sat up rubbing the spot trying to remember what had just happened. Then it hit him. The temple, the door, that sword, which he was still holding in his left hand. Geez this is weird he thought.
Then he remembered someone else was with him. Zelda! Was she okay? He looked around frantically. He didn’t have to look far; she was right next to him out cold. He shook her. “Hey Zelda, are you okay? C’mon wake up.” She grumbled in protest then opened her eyes.
“Ow what happened?” she began examining her surroundings. It was the same place she had been before the weird blue light. “Link? Oh yeah you were with me. I remember now.
“Yeah that was fun.”
“Maybe we should get out of here,” she said. She really wasn’t in the mood for investigating this place anymore.
“Yeah good idea. Uh what do I do with this sword?” she looked over at him. She had forgotten about the sword.
“Well bring it with you. We can hide it in the woods or something.” yeah hide a sword in the woods there’s a good plan. But she couldn’t think of anything else. The two pulled themselves off the floor and headed where they had come in. When they left he building they were expecting to come out into the small clearing of the woods but that’s not what saw.
Instead of the woods they were in what looked like a small yard with bushes and dead trees. The stairs lead down to a lawn of brown grass. Where there was another set of stairs that lead to a town behind a wall. Zelda spoke first “Where are we? Link are we dreaming?”
“I don’t think so,” he said pinching his arm, “What if when I pulled the sword out we were transported to a different world? I know it sounds kinda crazy but...” Link didn’t have to finish. She knew what he meant. This day had gone from normal to the complete opposite in such a short period of time.
“Well maybe we should check out the town. There’s not much else we can do,” Link agreed and the two set out towards the street.
The town was in ruins. Buildings were collapsed and the ones that were still standing were barely intact. There were holes in the coble stone road, windows were broken, and plaster was pealing from the once beautiful city walls. Somehow they both felt that this was once a prosperous city, but something had happened to make its citizens flee and leave it to ruins.
There was something else about this place. A forbidding terrifying feeling that Zelda felt in her heart. It didn’t have to do with the creepy ruins, or the deafening silence from lack of life forms. It was a feeling that they didn’t belong here. It seemed to be strongest down the road right to where they had entered.
Link tried to lighten the mood, “Hey this place kinda reminds me of a ghost story,”
“Not now,” her response was quick and filled with a little irritation. A ghost story was not what she needed. The two walked into the town looking for any sign of life. The wind began to blow through the holes of the houses making an eerie howling adding to their unease.
They found a store or what they thought was a store from the old sign above it. They walked through the doorway hanging from the wall. Inside was a good sized room. There was a counter and behind it were shelves with weapons strewn about them. The wooden floor was filled with scattered debris and there was a flight of stairs next to them.
“I’ll look at the weapons. I have a feeling that we’re gonna need them,” he told her.
“Good plan. I’ll go upstairs and see if there’s anything we can use.”
“Okay,” he was already browsing through the swords and shields, “but be careful. If you need me just yell.”
“Mm hmm,” she said climbing the stairs. She was careful to test each step before putting her weight on it. they creaked underneath her but they were safe. She finally made the assent to the second floor.
There was a hallway and three rooms. She searched the two smaller ones first. They were both bedrooms with nothing really useful in them. She did find a tan rucksack that she decided to swipe. Well whoever owns this won’t need it now, she thought. She found a blanket and put it in the bag. Next she crossed into the biggest of the three rooms. She assumed it was a kitchen from the jars lying on the floor and the food in the open cabinets. The second floor must have been were the storeowner lived.
She picked up three bottles and stuffed them in her bag. She looked in the cabinets for some food. There were glass jars and ceramic pots filled with various fruits, nuts, and berries. She made sure they were good and took them. In the next cabinet there was a first aid kit filled with herbs and linen bandages. She knew that it was a good idea to bring that with her as well.
Meanwhile back on the first floor Link was still looking through the weapons. He had found a shield that he decided to take with him. He was still looking for a sheath to put his sword in. He found one the right size and strapped it to his back. He found nothing else he need and went to go see what Zelda was doing upstairs.
Zelda was still looking through the cabinets when she heard Link come up the stairs. He looked in the kitchen and found her. “Hey, what the-“
“What is it?” she asked frantically.
“Your ears,” he said pointing to them. They saw each others’ expression in the others’ face. There ears were...pointy. How had they not noticed this before? Zelda put the dusty rucksack on the dusty table. She pulled a chair off the ground and sat in it taking trying to drink all of this in. link was staring somewhere into space.
They were both snapped out of their trance by an ear piercing scream coming from outside. They ran to a window overlooking the town square. At first they couldn’t see anything but then some movement caught the corner of their eyes. It was a brown corpse dragging its feet across the ground. “What the hell is that?” Link asked.
“It looks like a mummy or something,” Zelda guessed, “I really think we should get out of this town,” though she didn’t know how. If there was one of these things then there were bound to be more.
“Yeah,” Link agreed, “it’s moving slow. I think we can sneak past it.” Zelda pulled on the rucksack and Link pulled out his sword. They quietly went down the stairs and looked through the open door. The zombie had its back turned to them. They ran in the opposite direction of it. They only got a few feet when Zelda had to stop. “Zelda what’s wrong? Come on we have to get away!” but Zelda wasn’t going anywhere.
“We can’t go this way. We can’t!” she was on the verge of tears. Link held her at arms length. She was really scared of something.
“Zelda, what is it?”
“There’s something that way. I don’t know what, but it’s bad, and if we go there we’ll die.” That evil forbidding feeling was tugging at her heart and running through her whole body. She clutched her chest trying to get her hear under control.
“Alright. We’ll go this way,” he grabbed her hand and attempted to head back but now there were three of them. “Oh no, maybe not,” he tried to move but he was frozen to his spot. Zelda couldn’t move either. Somehow the zombies had paralyzed them and they were getting closer. “Damn it we’re in trouble now.” The zombie thing got to them. It then jumped on his back coiling its decaying arms around Link’s neck. It dug it’s teeth into Link’s flesh sucking out his life energy.
Link could feel the energy draining from his body. But he soon gained back control over his paralyzed body and slashed the thing with his sword. It fell to the ground dead, or more dead. He took out the other two as well.
They thought that was the end of their troubles but it wasn’t. They heard spine tingling moans. From the rubble emerged dozens of those monsters. Link and Zelda ran but it wasn’t them they were interested in. they walked over to the fallen one’s and began devouring them. Zelda felt her stomach heave. What were these disgusting creatures? She didn’t want to stick around and find so they used this opportunity to make their escape.
They made it to the exit of the city and stopped to catch their breath. “ink are you okay?” he looked like he was in pain from the attack. He looked up at her.
“I’ll be fine I just need to rest for a second.” He sat down with his back against the wall. Zelda sat down next to him. She looked towards the bridge leading out.
“Alright then we should get out if your not hurt to badly.” As she said that the door next to them burst open. A man in a dark hooded robe emerged. He had one glowing read eye in the middle of his hood.
“Not so fast,” he said his voice coming from the darkness of his hood. “Come in here,” he pointed his long cane to the room he came from. The two teenagers hesitated then got up and went into the house. It was empty except for a bed and a fire place with a large pot full of boil liquid.
The man closed the door and walked over to the cauldron pouring some its contents in a cup. “Here drink this,” he told Link. Link looked at the read liquid wondering if he should. “Trust me Boy. This’ll help heal your ailments.” Link took the cup. The first mouthful was hard to swallow because of the bitter taste and it burnt the back of his throat. “Drink it all,” he commanded then he turned to Zelda, “You there Girl, do you have any bottles?”
“Yes,” she answered and pulled out the three bottles from her bag. He took them and filled with the liquid. Link finished his own and even though it tasted bad he was starting to feel better and regain his energy. The man handed Zelda the bottles of potion. “What were those things that attacked us?” Zelda asked.
“Redeads,” the man stated, “they’re monsters that manifested after the evil King Ganondorf took over Hyrule. Other monsters have also taken over the land. I only stay in this town because poes appear and I collect them.” When Zelda and Link heard the name Ganondorf, chills went through them. They had heard that name before but couldn’t remember where, and they knew it was bad. Zelda didn’t want to know about him though.
“So we’re in Hyrule?” Zelda asked.
“Yes.”
“What’s a poe?” she asked.
“It’s a type of ghost that is manifested hatred.”
Link asked next, “Well why did those redeads wait to attack us? Why didn’t they just do it when we walked into the city?”
“It’s that sword of yours, Boy,” he gestured to the sword on Link’s back, “legend has it that’s the Sword of Evil’s bane. Evil creatures don’t like the sacred aura radiating from the sword. My guess is that they were afraid at first but got curious and came out to see it.”
“Wow,” Link said amazed, “what else is there to know about this sword?”
“I’m afraid I can tell you no more. You two must leave now you’re in grave danger,” the hooded man told them. He opened the door. Link and Zelda walked out the door. Zelda remembered she had manners and stopped to face him.
“Thank you,” Zelda told him.
“Heh heh. You’re welcome and good luck,” the strange man closed the door.
“Well we should go,” Link said uncertainly. They crossed the drawbridge into the night of Hyrule.

A/N: hey if u were acually left in suspence sry bout that. I got distracted and well yeah hope u liked this chapter and I'll try not to get distracted and update sooner.