"Some of these things you might think I got from LOTR, but I didn't, I had already thought of those horsemen before I even heard of LOTR)


Tales of the time passed



Michael asked Link, “Where’s your home?”

“I don’t have on anymore.” he replied.

“Why?”

“Because the Kokiri kicked me out, they found out that I was really a Hylian and then a boy named Mido said I wasn’t supposed to leave. I whacked Mido good, now Saria hates me and I can’t go back without me being pushed back out.”

“I thought that you were a Kokiri.” said Zelda barging into the conversation.

“No, I never told you this but you probably know that I am the hero of time.”

“Of course I knew it all makes sense. The evil man Ganondorf comes, he disappears and you just suddenly reappear, it’s obvious.”

“Yeah, I thought you knew. But you didn’t know I was a Hylian yet.”

“No I didn’t.” said Zelda.

“Let’s go to your place.” said Michael looking down at Link. “I’ll talk the people out of it.”

“Whatever, I don’t want to live there anyway.” said Link disappointed. “Saria said she loved me, I then told her I was a Hylian and said it would never work.”

“Really,” said Michael, “I had a girl once. She died though.”

“Oh, that’s sad,” said Zelda, “was she murdered or did she have a disease?” “Neither,” said Michael, “I’ll explain it all as soon as we get to this house Link was telling us about.”

It had stopped raining but the thunder and lightning was still going on.

They finally got to the Kokiri forest and by the looks of it the place was distraught. People were all around Mido, who for some reason was still on the floor.

“Get away from here!” said Saria towards Link. “I don’t want you here anymore.”

Now it was Link’s turn to ignore Saria. They walked up the ladder into the small hut carved into the tree.

“So I was explaining that my girl didn’t die of anything you suggested. She died of old age. I met her at age fifteen and now she died at age eighty-seven.”

“That’s not possible!” said Zelda. “How do you still look that good?”

“That’s what I’m wondering, I’m one hundred thousand years old.”

“That’s a lot of candles to fit on a cake.” said Link.

“I don’t make cakes.” said Michael taking out his loaf of bread and taking an enormous chomp. “You want some?” said Michael pointing the remainder of the loaf of bread at Link’s face.

“No thanks.” said Link, “I want to keep my dinner.”

“Oh, I see.” said Michael. “Now tell me, what the heck ever happened to Endfall.”

“I don’t know.” said Link, “I know one thing for certain though. If you are one hundred thousand years old then you must be an Enfaillan.”

“That’s right.” said Zelda. “Do you know how much money we could get just for knowing that one of the sacred, legendary, and ancient Enfaillans are still alive today?”

“I don’t really care about money.” said Link. “All I need to survive. Oh I kept the sword.” said Link. “I should return it but I don’t think the king would forgive me.”

The sword looked almost perfect. It had a two-foot long blade and the hilt had the symbol of the triforce and the handle’s color was aquamarine.

“So, tell me, how did Endfall die?” asked Michael.

“Well the legends say that they had a massive war with an evil man. There were massive gatherings of evil in that land but one day a man came and stopped the evil. The steward gained immediate trust but that ended up killing him. After that they say the evil lands just took over, we know one thing though. The steward, he was no weakling. He was the ruler of Endfall and his servant was the ultimate dragon of the legends. This dragon could defeat the goddesses without even breaking a sweat… if it could sweat that is.”

“Most of the stuff you told me I already knew.” said Michael. “Such as the steward part but I didn’t know the man killed the steward. What happened to the dragon though, where is it now?”

“They say that it is guarding the Fountain of Youth, said Zelda. A sacred fountain that only few were able to drink, and I bet you are one of them.”

“I bet I am, and if not then I must really be handsome for my age!” said Michael sarcastically.

“Shut up.” said Link. “You are no better looking than I am.” he said sarcastically.

“Both of you shut up.” said Zelda beginning to giggle a little at what Link said.

“I actually made her laugh!” thought Link to himself, “yes!”

“Okay, so what was this evil guy’s name.” asked Link.

“I think it was Dia-something.” said Michael with a confused look on his face. He was trying to remember.

“Dia… Diatheleser,” said Michael with a confident look on his face. “That’s his name.”

“And that’s not the only thing, said Zelda. People that turn evil die, yes they die but their spirit lives on, trying to get what they always wanted, and I have no idea what he wanted this time. “

“I don’t either.” said Link.

“I have a hunch.” said Michael with his eyes squinted, “I bet it’s the fountain of youth he’s after.”

“Well I could have guessed that!” said Link with a duh expression.

“Well the fountain of youth does no good to him. It just makes you live forever, said Zelda.”

“That’s the point.” said Michael. As soon as the king died his servant dragon I bet killed Diatheleser. So now he has some sort of minion that has a whole army that will do anything for the fountain of youth, so he can live again, so he can conquer his land, the land that he tried to get.

“That makes sense.” said Link. “But why don’t you just go to heaven? I mean don’t waste your time just trying to rule the world when you can have a perfect life in heaven, in the sacred realm.”

“You will understand… some day.” said Michael staring blankly outside through the door.

“So we have to stop this army from getting to the fountain of youth.” said Zelda.

“Exactly,” said Link, “but we have to find the person that Diatheleser has demented, that’s when we can really start our mission.”

“I can do nothing…” said Zelda rather disappointedly.

“Of course you can!” said Michael, “I’ve got some spells that you might want to learn.”

“Really!!!??” said Zelda almost ecstatic.

“Absolutely,” said Michael. “You will just going to have to do a bit of reading.”

“I can deal with that,” she said, “I’m good at reading anyways.”

“Good, here,” said Michael taking out a large book from his bag. “The beginning spells are near the end and it’s in Enfaillan language, my parents gave this to me when I was three.”

“What happened to your parents?” asked Link.

“I… I have no idea.” said Michael. “I’m here looking for them, but I guess it’s all over. I think they’re dead.”

“It’s okay.” said Zelda putting her hand on Michael’s. Michael quickly pulled it away and gave Zelda a “don’t do that ever again” look.

“You shall die.” hissed something from outside.

Zelda and Link quickly turned around to the door and went to look outside.

I’ve heard that hiss before, said Michael still staring blankly at the floor. I guess it follows me around, knowing that I’m the last Enfaillan and knowing that I’m on this planet to kill it!

“What… what was that?” asked Link.

“I don’t know who that was. I just know he or she follows me and is here to hunt me down. It’s best now that you stay near me at all times because it will hunt you down now also.”

***

Meanwhile at the palace of darkness on a small mountain North of death mountain:

“Sir, I have just been informed that we have found the last Enfaillan.” said a monster to a tall shadowed figure. “But it is not the last. There is another near here.”

“Hunt him down and kill him. We cannot have any Enfaillans living.” said the shadowed figure.

So obviously I no longer live in the village and I have left for shelter away from my last home. I have found a room offering in Lon Lon ranch and I am there right now.

Five horsemen in total black hoods are riding out of the palace, beginning to search for the last Enfaillans that might challenge them to get to the fountain of youth.

***

“We need to go.” said Michael packing some more bread from Link’s storage area.

“Hey that’s my food!” said Link.

“I’m packing it for all of us.” Michael said, “I’m not doing this for myself. We won’t be coming back home for a while.”

Then all of a sudden the Kokiri forest turned black and there was dim light. You could hear a horse neighing into the Kokiri forest.

“Link, Zelda, get down.” said Michael quickly.

They didn’t, they were too scared to move.

“That’s an order!” Michael drew his sword and slowly walked outside. He saw the red eyes of the horse, and jumped down with a large swing. The horse quickly backed off and the hooded figure climbed off. It drew its sword, which had a dragon shaped hilt, and the sword was totally black.

The figure swung its sword at Michael’s head. He did a back flip and easily avoided the strike. He then did a jump attack and the hooded figure jumped back only to do its own jump attack.

Michael did a parry move and struck the beast in the back and then it disappeared. Then there was a loud shriek and then light came back. The sun was beginning to rise.

“I would never have been able to move that quick!” said Link with wide eyes.

“Well, you’ll learn.” said Michael with a grin on his face.

”What the heck was that?” asked Zelda with a scared look on her face.

“That was one of the beast’s many servants. They don’t have a name, you can call them grackles because the do make a crackling noise at times. The have horrible sense of smell. They appear in mists. Mists come to an area and it just appears out of it. You’ll see more enemies like this one, but none as hard as this one.

“We need to go now.” said Link putting his bags on his belt.

“I’m nervous.” said Zelda, “How will I fend off those things.”

“Well, read!”

“Oh, forgot about that.”

***

Zelda went back to the castle to get her things. She explained to her father that Michael wasn’t a bad person and that he just had a homeland that now disappeared and the goddesses apparently made Hyrule over the remaining chaos that was Endfall.

“So where are we going?” said Zelda trying to catch up to Link and Michael who were about ten feet ahead of her.

“We’re going city through city trying to find something unusual. If there is something unusual, we investigate it and see if it has anything to do with Diatheleser. If it does have something to do with Diatheleser, we catch it, ask questions, and then execute it. And then we investigate some more with the information we have.”

“That makes sense.” said Zelda.

“Good, because I’m not explaining it again.”