An Unusual Gift
Days go by and time passes. Over the Prologue, that is a script found near the spirit temple. Gerudo guards were at that area and they saw a large pothole, they investigated and they found a scroll, which has the exact text of the prologue. “We can’t figure out what it says”, said a university scholar. So they took it to me up North beyond the shadows of Death Mountain and gave me the script to interpret. It was fairly easy but you have to have grown up as an ancient enfaillan. My parents were the last enfaillans of all time so I was an enfaillan but a Hylian. I am the last enfaillan and there will not be another. They taught me the ancient language and it was actually fairly easy to learn. But the early scripts, which I have no idea what said, I just didn’t know it. So I read all that I could. And that’s how it went.
***
Link was ten years old right now, he still lived in the Kokiri forest, which was a bit odd because he knew he was a Hylian, but the others don’t know that so he decided to take it to his advantage. He barely had any friends. Saria was the only one but she didn’t speak to him much because he kept blabbering about the Hero of Time adventure and beating Ganondorf but she had no idea what the hell he was talking about. So she just ignored him when he started talking about it again. Link and Saria always had breakfast together though, which made it seem odd that she never spoke to him often.
After breakfast Link would walk to his house again and yearn for a new adventure to take him somewhere. He no longer had the Kokiri sword since he had to return it. And his Deku shield burned up when a Fire Keese attacked him while he was walking in a cave. So the only form of defense he had was his Hylian shield, which he hated, and the Mirror Shield. The Mirror shield he liked more and he was beginning to be able to carry it. Link decided finally, that was it, he was sick of just sitting in the forest waiting for something to happen. He walked out onto Hyrule field and looked up at the rising sun. It was no different from any other time.
He went to the Market and saw that most of it was empty. It was Sunday and most of the stalls were closed except for the food stall, Link’s personal favorite. Since he was short on rupees he couldn’t buy anything. The cheapest was an expensive thirty rupees! You might not see that as expensive but for a piece of bread!!! Link was not all that rich. But then Link saw something that caught his eye. There was a stand with total religious items he had never seen before. The man was a total shadow with red eyes though, apparently somebody that didn’t talk to people often. He decided to ignore the ugly shadow and moved on.
He went into the back alleys and noticed a poster up. The princess’ birthday today, all Hylians welcome that bring a gift. Link thought for a moment, he didn’t have much money but he saw a scorpion necklace that he thought would make a good gift. He went back to the stall and saw that the man was gone. He was nowhere nearby which seemed almost impossible because he just saw the stall man there about half a minute ago. He walked toward the stall and saw the ten-rupee necklace. He placed two blue rupees on the stall and turned around to walk off. He then heard a hissing thank you and he looked back and there was nothing. Link was kind of scared now.
Link noticed that the party wasn’t until about eight P.M that night. It was already five P.M and Link was already pooped. He let out a big yawn and decided to go to Saria’s house to have dinner. Since Link hadn’t talked about the adventure he recently had Saria began to talk to him some more. Link knocked on the door or, the doorpost since the Kokiri don’t have doors and she invited him in for dinner.
“Who’s the necklace for?” Saria asked wonderingly seeing the scorpion necklace in Link’s hand.
“None of your business!” He retaliated.
“Do you have a crush on someone? I always knew that you liked that girl, oh what was her name, oh yeah, Malon!”
“Malon?” said Link confused. “Why the heck would I like someone like her?”
“I don’t know. You have to know that.” Saria said.
“I don’t like her,” said Link. “I don’t like anybody, in fact girls pretty much disgust me.”
Saria gave a loud “Harrumph”.
“Hey, not you. I didn’t mean you in that.” said Link trying to defend his reputation for not insulting his friends.
“Oh so the necklace is for me.” said Saria with a large smile on her face.
“No”, said Link, “it’s for… someone else.”
“I know who you are giving that to,” said Saria. “It’s for the princess isn’t it.”
“How do you know?” asked Link, “Those posters are only in Hyrule market and you can’t go out of- Hey… wait a second. You leave the forest don’t you? You’re not supposed to leave the forest.”
“So what if I do?” said Saria. All the evil in the world is gone, the Kokiri have full right to leave the forest. And one other thing, you shouldn’t leave the forest either should you I mean, you are a Kokiri aren’t you.”
Link took time to think about that. Should he tell the truth, that he really is a Hylian or should he lie and get in trouble anyway?
“Of course I’m a Kokiri.” said Link with a duh in his voice. “I have to get to a party kind of soon.”
“You’re not supposed to leave the forest.” said Saria with a calm smile.
Link had to tell the truth he couldn’t sustain it anymore. If he didn’t tell she’d figure out anyway. But Link could just escape right now I mean she was at the opposite end of the room from the door. Link quickly left out of the door and Saria followed.
“Hey everybody, hey everybody! Link is leaving the forest!”
“Not like you haven’t!” said Link continuing to run.
After about ten seconds Saria kept chasing Link and they made a game out of it. Link ran into the lost woods until the reached the river where the warp point to the Zora’s domain is. Link collapsed onto the floor back first laughing his head off. Saria followed and she stumbled on a rock and landed on Link. (It seems like one of those pathetic romance stories) Link quickly slipped out from under her but she grabbed his hand. Link kept trying to pull away but Saria wouldn’t let him.
“Saria,” he said. “I know you like me but I have to explain something. I’m a Hylian, yes. I’m saying it now. The reason I’ve kept it a secret is because I wanted to live among the Kokiri until I’ve reached maturity, and then I would have made an excuse that I died of some sort of disease or I killed myself. I’m sorry, but it would just never work. They both were looking very disappointed. Link because he admitted his entire plans, and Saria because she would have to date Mido now.”
“It’s late,” Link said, “I have to get to that party.”
“I knew it…” said Saria with a disappointed look on her face.
“Let’s talk about this later,” said Link. “You’re giving me heartbreak and I can’t be all weepy eyed when I get to that party can I.”
***
Link made it back to the Kokiri forest on what seemed to take hours. He knew that Saria would hate him from now on but he didn’t care. She wouldn’t have liked a liar anyway. He saw Mido and it seemed like he was about to taunt him.
“Ah you’re leaving the forest again.” he said putting his hand on his hips and stretching out his chin again.
“Shut up!” yelled Link and then he sent a sucker punch right into Mido’s chin.
Mido went stumbling backwards yelling in pain. Saria came to Mido’s side and she had an angry face, tears were coming out of her eyes. Link knew that unforgiving look. He knew he would never be able to come back in the forest and not be pushed right back out. He made the biggest mistake of his life.
Link ran and ran, wishing that he didn’t just punch Mido in the chin. But he did, there was absolutely nothing he could do about it either. He had no other place to live. Link began to cry and cry, if only he had gone to his own place to dinner this would have never happened. He kept running and running until he collapsed to his knees and covered his face, trying to stop the tears.
***
Meanwhile in the land of Perthemia, a large country west of Hyrule, a teenaged boy named Michael is about to turn seventeen, or that’s what I think.
“I want to go back to Endfall.” he said.
All the other men in the bar were drunk.
“Yeah, said a clearly drunk man. “Don’t go there, you might fall until the end.” He then started laughing freakishly hard. He hit the table so hard while he was laughing that it got a crack and it broke into several pieces.
“Okay,” said Michael, “I guess I’d better go now.”
Michael is one of the legendary Enfaillans and you can probably guess, he doesn’t know that his parents died though and that I’m the only one other than him left.
He got packed and was ready to leave. He packed a loaf of bred, a bushel of grapes, and one piece of meat. The other items he had were items he used to defend himself such as his sword (which was more powerful than the Biggoron sword and larger), and a bow, he didn’t wield a shield, and a small amount of arrows.
He was kind of disappointed that he was leaving so suddenly. But he barely had any friends, mainly because most of the people around him were afraid of his sword.
Now entering Hyrule, said a sign in a ravine. The ravine was a few miles long. It separated Perthemia and Hyrule from each other. The two countries had a war with each other recently so there was a large wall near Hyrule, but Michael has climbed bigger things.
He saw the wall. It was about one hundred feet tall. The wall seemed to be perfectly smooth but it wouldn’t be anymore. Michael had no idea about the war since he was in Perthemia for about a year. He continuously got closer to what he thought was Endfall and now was the time in which he would see it. He got out two axes and he slammed the sharp edge of his axe onto the smooth wall. It seemed rather disappointing that something so perfect was being destroyed. He got about to about twenty feet and he saw a storm moving in.
***
Link was still kneeling on the floor. It was now seven forty five and he would have to get to the party desperately soon. He saw the storm moving in from nearby. He’d have to hurry, it seemed to be moving fast and he knew that if he wouldn’t hurry that he would be soaking wet as soon as he got into the castle.
He reached Hyrule market and it was seven fifty five. Not good, he would have to run from now on. He quickly picked up his pace and was running about six miles per hour, okay for his age. He saw the guard and showed him the gift. He let Link through.
***
Michael was already drenched in the rain as he got to the top of the wall. A bolt of lightning struck a nearby tree and a forest fire started. Not… good, he said to himself with wide eyes. He’d have to hurry or… well… I’ll let you do the thinking.
He ran as fast as he could. He could already see the Kokiri forest; he would just have to not run out of breath. He was trying to breathe as hard as he could but he couldn’t sustain it. He collapsed to his knees gasping for air. The fire encircled around him.
“I don’t think so!!!!” he yelled with rage. He ran right through the fire and didn’t have a single black mark on him.
He finally got to Hyrule field but this didn’t look like anything like the Endfall he remembered. He wondered if there was some kind of earthquake. And he also wondered why it said Hyrule on the sign. “Maybe,” he thought to himself, “Hyrule conquered Endfall; well I’ll unconquer it.”
He made it to Hyrule castle and it was already eight fifteen.
***
“I got you this…” said Link blushing slightly.
Princess Zelda looked at it confused. It seemed like she already knew what this was but she couldn’t quite put her finger on it.
“Is there something wrong?” asked Link.
Zelda continued to suspend the necklace from her finger. She squinted her eyes trying to remember where she saw this before but she got nothing. It was like she knew every nook and cranny of it. The medallion resembled a scorpion. The chain of the necklace was pure silver. The scorpion was pure gold except for its eyes. They were rubies. It looked… evil somehow.
“Thank you!” she said turning back to normal, “Thanks for the medallion.”
“No problem…” said Link with a confused look on his face. He wondered why Zelda examined it so closely.
***
Michael saw the soldier at the entrance to Hyrule Castle.
“Let me in!” he demanded.
“Where’s your gift?” asked a soldier.
“What gift?” said Michael.
“You have to have a gift. If you don’t have a gift for the princess we can’t let you in.”
“You will let me in!” said Michael.
“Go ahead and try!!” said the soldier to the right of Michael. The soldiers both pointed their spears at Michael’s face and started to snicker.
“Oh I love killing.” said the soldier on the left.
“I hate people who kill for pleasure” said Michael with a grim face.
“Oh well,” said the soldier on the right, “you’ll be even more fun.”
“I don’t think so!” said Michael. He pulled out his sword. When he was drawing his sword the soldiers quickly tried to drive their spears into his rib cage. Michael swiftly dodged it and hit the soldier on the left (we’ll call him soldier A and the one on the right we’ll call soldier B) with the hilt of his sword. He fell to the floor unconscious. Then soldier B tried attacking Michael again. Michael did a parry move and struck soldier B in the back with the hilt of his sword. He fell to the floor in pain, Michael then hit him on the head and he became unconscious.
Michael walked into the castle and saw the party going on. He wandered through the crowds looking for the king so he could kill him. He found the king speaking to a few officials. He drew his sword and from behind and he put it to the king’s neck.
“Wha-what is going on here?” the king quickly said beginning to sweat.
“You took over Endfall.” said Michael through an angry face and gritted teeth.
“What is Endfall?” asked the king his face beginning to turn read.
“Don’t play stupid with me!” said Michael putting his sword closer to the king’s neck.
By now all the people at the party were looking at the show, the king, threatened by a teenaged boy with a blue tunic.
“Hey, get away from him!” yelled Link taking a sword off the wall. It took him both hands to hold it but he had the confidence to face up to him. I destroyed the king of evil and I can destroy you, he said.
“Get away from me you parasite!” yelled Michael hitting Link away from him. Link held onto his sword and he flung it at Michael yelling with rage. Michael clasped the blade between his hands and twisted it quickly. Sending Link flying from the sword. Michael grabbed the sword and threw it onto the wall where even the strongest man couldn’t pull it out.
Link got to his feet immediately and took out another smaller sword and shield. Both he could hold in his hand but they looked rather awkward.
“Will you stop already!?!?” said Michael grabbing Link by the neck and flinging him to the wall.
Link could barely breathe but it was still possible. One thing was for certain. He was no longer strong enough to fight for the day.
Zelda ran to his side and tried to help him up. Link had an angry look on his face and he wiped away the blood on his mouth.
But it was too late for Michael. The king drew his sword and put it near his neck.
But this didn’t affect him. Michael took out his bow and hit the king in the stomach with its tip. The king bent over in pain.
Michael drew his bow and said, “If nobody tells me how the heck you took over Endfall, I will kill you all.”
Nobody knew, they were all saying things like, “what is Endfall?” and “I’ve never heard of that place before.” But then Zelda quickly answered it saying, “Endfall is an ancient land of legend.” “I’ve read about it before in the Hyrule library fascinated by its culture and how it came to be.”
Michael and Zelda looked at each other for a while and then he said. “You, boy and the princess, come with me.”
