As it says, from Termina to Koholint, perhaps the best story I’ve written yet, though that doesn’t say much…
7 Chapters.
The Legend of Zelda: Mask of Darkness to Island of Dreams
Chapter 1
Zelda touched his shoulder gently.
“We ought to go now…”
Link sobbed still into Rana’s cold shoulder, but at Zelda’s insistence, gently laid the still girl on the stony ground and stood. Zelda looked in his eyes and felt her insides tremble: they were eyes that did not see. The deep blue was grey and dull.
“Link…” With a simple call on the power of the Triforce, they shifted to the Sacred Realm.
“Link, you must now go back.”
“Where?” he asked dully, not really caring about the answer.
“Go back to when you were supposed to be… to live the years you missed.”
“Oh. Right. Rauru said so once.”
“Give me the Ocarina. I’ll send you.”
“I shouldn’t stay in Hyrule then. It will interfere with history.”
“That is correct.”
Link passed the princess the blue ocarina. “You will… bury her?”
“Yes,” whispered Zelda gently. She raised the Ocarina to her lips and blew.
Link felt the weightlessness and forgetfulness of warp travel surround him, and let himself go.
He saw himself flying over Hyrule, for a brief instant. Everyone in Hyrule was gathered in Lon Lon Ranch. Epona was safe there, along with several people Link assumed Rana had rescued from the dungeons of Ganondorf’s Tower. Mido and the Kokiri, Darunia, and the Gorons, including the two most massive, King Zora and the Zorans… Shoza and Bitu were there. Even the Gerudo were there, dancing in their sinuous, hypnotising style. Ingo was thoroughly drunk, and shouting the praises of Talon as the two danced with an arm about each other’s shoulders. Malon’s pretty voice sang to an accompaniment played by people in all four races.
His gaze turned towards Death Mountain. There were the six Sages. Saria was sitting on Darunia’s head. The Sages turned themselves into coloured flashes of light and sped over Hyrule Field. Some at the party pointed upward, clapping and cheering. A white flash sped to join them, and Link knew it was Zelda.
Again his vision blacked out and he slept in the embrace of time. Continue reading
