Legend of Zelda: Death Raven
Chapter Two
By: Dark Star




Link woke up, hearing birds chirp, leaves rustling, and the wind blowing on tree branches. Link wanted to tell Saria about what happened yesterday. The boy and his mother, the man in the picture, and the sketch... Link couldn`t keep the thoughts off his mind. Whenever he would have problems or questions, Link would visit Saria and tell her about it. Saria always had good solutions. And so Link was off to Saria`s house.
"Hi Saria, I just want to tell you something." Link asked, stepping inside Saria`s house.
"Go ahead Link, i`m just cooking in here." said Saria.
"Um, yesterday I went to Zelda`s, and I saw a picture of a man, he looked really familiar, and Zelda said his name was Mark..."
"Mark?" interrupted Saria. "Is that his name?"
"Yes, it was," answered Link.
"Well Link, when you first came here, your mother, Melania, talked about her husband, and his name was Mark." said Saria.
"So, Melania and Mark were my parents?" asked Link, looking confused.
"Yes they were, if I am right." replied Saria. Link scratched his head.
"So now i know your side of my problem, I have to ask other people about my parents, I have to see what other people know about it... well, i`ll go now, see you," said Link. He waved goodbye, saddled Epona, and went off to Hyrule Field.
"Bye Link!"

Epona galloped across Hyrule Field, past Zora`s River, Lon Lon Ranch, and the dark forests. Link was thinking about who should he ask next. Maybe someone who lived around Link`s parent`s time. Yes. That would do. Link was now at the town, he went off Epona, and walked up to a man.
"Excuse me sir, may I ask you something?" asked Link, with all his respect, because the man was older than him. The man looked at Link.
"What do you want to ask me?" the man answered back.
"Um, do you know anyone, who has lived here for the last, forty years?" questioned Link. The man was thinking, Link could see it. The man sighed.
"Well, I don`t know anybody who has lived here for that long, but you can look around in the eastern part of this town, which is in ruins, because of fires from the great war." then the man walked away into the darkness of the town alleyways. Could the man`s advice work? Link would just have to try. Link walked through a road, and as he walked deeper and deeper, there were less and less people. Link could now see the hidden parts of town, the war-struck parts of town. But blocking his path, were two guards.
"Can`t go past this point." a guard said dully. Link narrowed his eyes.
"Why can`t I?" Link said, wondering.
"Because, there are rumors that spirits of war, people who have died in the war, people say that the spirits rest in their homes." replied the guard, still talking dully.
"That`s just stupid gossip, let me through!" yelled Link, shoving the guards aside, then continuing down the road. The guards just looked back at Link and sighed.

"Now what? How should I know where my parents` house is?" Link walked in circles, trying to know. He would just go to every house. Link walked up to a doorstep. He opened the door. Nothing. All Link saw was a table and a chair. The rest of the house was probably burned down. Link felt tired. He sat on a chair and glanced at the table. On the table there were some parchment and an old journal. Interested, Link picked up the journal and opened it.
"Wow, whoever wrote this must be a knight of Hyrule or something..." Link turned the pages, curiously. Link read the last page. It said,

Dear journal, today the great war continues. Gerudos attacked cities in the south, being sucessful in only one. On to good news, my friend, Mark, and his wife Melania recently had a baby. I hear it`s a boy but I don`t know it`s name.

The rest was ripped out of the journal. Link repeated the last line.
"I hear it`s a boy but I don`t know it`s name. It must be me." Link said. Maybe he could use the ocarina of time to go back in time. No, maybe not. Link stood up and walked out the door. Next house. The door was painted green, but some of the paint was coming off. Link opened it. Nothing. Link looked around again. Still nothing. he stepped inside. Maybe the things were burned down. No, the ceiling and the walls still stood perfectly.
"Probably no one lived here." Link thought out loud.
"No son, I lived here..."
"What was that? Who`s there?" Link said, taking out his sword.
"Hehehe, I knew someday you would come here..."
"Who are you?" Link asked.
"You wouldn`t want to know... I have been watching you, you seek the truth about your parents, am I right?"
"Yes," Link gulped.
"Hehe, then seek!" A ghost appeared at the far end of the room. His hands glowed. Everything glowed. Link couldn`t tell which was up or down. When Link finally sat up, the world around him was different. He was sent back in time. Link stood up.
"Hello sir, didn`t mean to bother you but, what is the year today?" Link asked a man.
"Uh, the year is eleven-forty-nine, december." answered the man. 1149? Link was sent 18 years back, 1 year before he was born. Link was puzzled. Where were things in old Hyrule? Where would he stay? There should be a town map somewhere, Link thought. He started asking people if they knew Mark or Melania. No one would answer him, no one here would trust Link, because they thought he was a kokiri, a forest-dweller. But one person trusted Link.
"Hello boy, do you have no place to stay? Well, you can stay at my place for a day or two, and by the way, my name`s Mark, what`s yours?" the man talked cheerfully. Mark, that`s his name. Could he be my father? I have to make up a fake name, or else my name won`t be Link in the future.
"Um, my name`s Nicholas, just call me Nick." Link said.
"Okay Nick, you will need to sleep. It`s getting late." Mark told Link. Link followed Mark to his home. Inside, there was another person there.
"Honey, who is this?" asked a woman.
"Melania, this is Nick. He`ll need to stay here for a while, okay Nick, there`s an extra bed at the back room down the hall. You can sleep there." Mark said. Tired and weary, Link went to the back and went to sleep.