Link
By Tory Jessica
Chapter One
Link's Life
The sunlight shone through a small window into the empty basement. Link opened his eyes. He had slept in and was going to get yelled out for not doing his sunrise chores.
"It's not my fault," he thought to himself," I have to do midnight chores also. Why does he expect me to wake up so early if I'm up so late."
There was a loud noise coming from upstairs. Someone opened the basement door.
"Link! Get up NOW! You're so lazy! Get up and do your chores," boomed his fathers voice.
"Yes sir," Link replied back with his dry voice.
"Don't talk! I said get up not to talk back! No breakfast for you this mourning," the voice shouted. Link frowned and let out a small whimper. Last night since he had woken up his father from accidently dropping a big bucket of water down the marble stairs he had no dinner either. He also didn't have lunch from yesterday or breakfast, for not scrubbing the walls the right way. He was so hungry. He sighed and small tears dripped down his face.
Why was he fated to live with this man and why didn't the man just send him to the orphanage if he hated him so much. Why did he have to live in this hell. Link never knew of the treasures of growing up either. When he was four this man adopted him. What was worse was that he had an annoying daughter and son. The girl was prissy and annoying. She always teases him about being so disgusting and ugly too. He began to believe her too. When he was sent out to do an errand people looked at him funny. What he didn't know was that they were looking at his clothes which were torn and dirty from cleaning for so long. His son would kick him in his side imitating his father.
He stood up and wiped away his tears and grabbed a rag and bucket from his closet. He walked up the stairs and went into the kitchen and out the backdoor. He wasn't looking where he was going and bumped into his father. Link looked up.
His father was a very menacing man. Dark skinned, and red haired with a long nose and bushy eyebrows. He was a retired theif from Gerudo valley. He came to live Kakariko village and settled down with a wife. That wife was Link's mother. Back then his step father was really nice, and she knew Link needed a father since his real one died in the war. So it was done. Link mother, Kaida, married the retired Gerudo Theif, Ganondorf. With him he brought two children. Gabrielle and Gareth. Mysteriously however, Kaida died of a sickness. Where the sickness orginated from was unknown.
Ganondorf looked down on the scared blue eyed blonde haired boy. He pushed him down.
"Watch where you're going, you're not getting lunch today either. Stupid boy," he said and walked off.
Link sighed. Will this ever end, he thought. He stood up and went over to the water pump and pumped out water into the bucket, while at the same time washing off his dirty face.
He heard a scream from inside the house.
"Who's using the cold water!" a girl screamed. Link grimaced.
"Oh no," he thought to himself. Apparently Gabrielle was taking a shower.When he pumped the water, all cold water running to the house ceased leaving only the hot water. A girl with long black hair and yellow eyes came running outside wrapped in a white robe. She ran up to Link.
"I'm sorry Ga-," he was stopped short with a slap in the face.
"You festering carcass of rotting dog! How dare you! You know I always take a shower at this time of day," she complained.
"Miss you usually take a shower at night though," Link responded trying to be polite.
"Don't back talk me you inbicile! I'm going to tell daddy! He won't let you eat dinner tonight once he finds out about this, haha," she said and walked back inside the house. Link looked at the ground sadly. This just wasn't fair.
After mourning chores were done Link sat outside away from the people inside his house. This house was suppose to be rightfully his, but in his mothers will, it said to give everything to Ganondorf. Mom would have never have done that, but it happened. Link sighed and looked at himself. Why didn't he just end it all, why didn't he just try to run away. Something always held him back and that was his memory of his mom. He heard the back door open and Gareth walked outside. The boy was dark skinned like his father and had red hair. His was long and not bushy, tyed in the back. Link thought he was ugly even though Gareth always boasted about how the girls always swarmed him and not Link. Link never left his house unless he was sent out to do something and Gareth never came with. So Link wasn't sure if this was entirely true. The only reason why girls would swarm him was because Gareth always had money that his father gave him.
"I heard you're not getting any meals today Link," Gareth snickered. Link looked at Gareth with an angry face. Link wanted so much to just ran up and punch the boys lights out, but he knew he wasn't going to be able to. If he tried Link would be tied up and Gareth was allowed to do anything he wanted to do to Link. Link knew this because he actually did punch Gareth once, and only once. However that didn't seem to stop Gareth from always punching and kicking him all the time.
"So," Link replied. Gareth laughed.
"You didn't get anything yesterday either did you?" Gareth asked. Link looked at the ground to his side.
"So tell me how does it feel when I do this?!" Gareth said as he punched Link in the stomache. Gareth backed away and saw Link fall to his knees. Link threw up a yellow liquid since nothing was in his stomache.
"Ha ha! Awe poor little Linky hungry?" Gareth teased and laughed as he walked away. Link's eyes drooped and his head spun.
"Oh man... I hate it here," he groaned.
