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// The journey ahead. 
// Story: LoZ: A new world 
// by remsaman 
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The sun shone through Link's window at his house in the Kokiri forest. The birds sang and the trees rustled in a light breeze above the tree tops. As he lazily opened his eyes, he could see something hovering just above his nose.
His eyes snapped open, his vision quickly focused, and he quickly recognised a familiar face. Startled, he let out a yell and fell off the bed. Link shook it off and stood up, a huge grin painted on his face as he remembered the tiny figure that had snuck into his home. It was Navi the fairy, after leaving seven years ago once his journey was over, she had come back. Why she had didn't matter to link, though he was bigger then the other kokiri, and despite the events that took place, Mido still gave him a hard time. Calling him names like "giant" and "outcast" and constantly saying he was not a real kokiri and pointing out he did not have a fairy. While link was larger then Mido, he didn't want to hurt him, and kept his armament locked safely in his chest.
"Link! its so good to see you again!" Navi bounced around the room, sighing as a wave of nostalgia washed over her.
Link gave her a confused stare. "Oh, yeah. The great deku tree can fend for himself, and let me accompany you again! I never thought I'd miss those wild adventures, but it's REALLY boring around here." Link nodded slowly in response. "I know! we should go adventuring again!" Link smiled at the idea, it was very boring and plain in kokiri village, and it would be good to get out into the world again. He lifted the master sword off the mount on his wall, after the 7 years had passed, he pulled the master sword from its pedestal, just in case he ever needed it. There were no able sword smiths in Hyrule since ganondorf attacked the first time, and the kokiri sword was but a dagger to his size. He really had no other option. He gave a grin at the "shwiing" sound the sword made as he pulled it from its sheath. Link swung it around to get a feel for it, after all this time he never needed to use it(except for this one situation involving a bunch of deku scrubs, but lets not get into that). he sheathed the blade and proceeded to open up his storage chest. inside were a bunch of dust-covered items. his bow was in perfect condition, the glaze over the wood and string gave it a nice resistance to times wear. he strapped it to his belt and reached into the chest, strapping a few bottles to his belt as well as his bomb bag and quiver to his back. He reached for the longshot, but it was covered in rust and fell apart in his hands, he grunted in annoyance.
Link shut the chest, leaving the items he was too large to use, such as his boomerang and the gorons bracelet. He shut and locked the chest, as he turned around, Navi flew through the window struggling to carry a small vat of red potion. she dropped it and it clunked onto the floor, spilling a small amount.
"Phew! That was hard work. I figured you'd need some of this if we are going on an adventure, and you were busy so i went and got it myself." Navi hovered over to link and collapsed onto his shoulder, making him chuckle.
Link picked up the vat. it weighed about has much as a bowl of soup. He filled his empty bottles and gave a small amount to Navi to rejuvenate her. He tightened his belt, donned his shield and pulled on the silver gauntlets.(The golden gauntlets were damaged beyond repair in the fight against ganon.)
Link exited his tree and climbed down the ladder. Waiting for him at the bottom was Mido.
"Hey Link, or should i call you Stink? Where are you headed twinkle toes?"
Link sighed and pushed Mido out of the way. Mido tried to get his attention by calling out numerous insults, but link ignored him. He climbed the vines at the edge of the town and entered the lost woods. he figured since the only exit to hyrule is the woods, and he'd already been to termina, he should follow a different route this time. He wandered through the woods for a while, occasionally nicking a tree with his sword so he knew how to get home. After a short time, he stumbled across a large, dark cave. Giving Navi a nod, he ripped off a nearby deku stick and lit it on fire with Din's fire, then walked into the cave.

As he walked through the cave he noticed several strange marks on the walls, depicting strange things like large, four headed dragons, starry bears and weird multi-coloured fruit. His mouth hung open as he deepened into the cave, the markings becoming increasingly detailed and strange. There were a multitude of markings that he noticed looked like the horses at lon lon ranch, except smaller and with less pronounced muzzles. Navi was making "ting" kind of noises as she noticed some of the creatures had wings, some had horns, and a couple even had both. they exchanged glances and continued throughout the cave. the markings on the wall started to lessen and lessen until there were none left.
Up ahead, Link spotted the exit to the cave, and swiftly moved towards it. once he was out, he extinguished the deku stick and placed it next to the cave.
Link looked around and was astonished. The area around them was colourful and vibrant. with many types of plant life that he had never seen before. Link carved the triforce into a nearby tree to signify that this was the tunnel out, and continued into the forest ahead. After a minute minutes of walking, Navi spoke up "Uh... Liiiiiiiink." he turned towards her and saw a great mammoth of a beast, a four headed dragon, exactly like the one drawn in the cave. The monster let out a huge roar. Link unsheathed the master sword and wielded his shield. The monster lunge one of its heads at him, Link dodged right and quickly swung his sword at the monsters neck, causing it to let out an stone-shattering cry, then quickly attacking Link with its other heads, in quick succession.
Link leaped backwards, letting the first head crash to the ground, in its daze, he lunged the master sword square into its forehead, causing it to thrust its head backwards in agony. Link let go of the head and was thrown into the air. the other two heads caught sight of this, and opened their mouths as to swallow him whole on his descent. Link pulled a bomb out of his bomb bag and throw it straight into one of their mouths. it exploded halfway down, decapitating one of the four heads. The pain surged through the beast, and the last unharmed head cringed in the extreme pain of losing one of its heads. The head regained its thought quickly and lunged at link, who was halfway to the ground. Link threw a deku nut at its eye, and it recoiled slightly, causing it to veer off course. He then plunged the master sword into the creatures neck, ripping it from top to bottom as he fell. Link hit the ground in pain, the force of the impact causing him to let out a yelp. Blood then gushed down from the beast as the head fell towards the ground. Link raised his shield as an umbrella, and it worked, mostly. His entire left arm was covered in blood and pieces of the creatures scaly skin. He walked away panting as the rest of the beast bled out. Once a safe distance away, he looked at Navi, who sighed at him.
"Ill find some water.."

A few hours later, Link was cleaning up at a pond that Navi found. He tried scrubbing the creatures blood from his tunic, but his left arm was still stained, making it look a light pinkish-red colour. He sighed, and showed Navi one of the shreds of skin that was caught on him, with a confused face.
"Hey don't look at me, I have no idea what that thing was. Link rolled his eyes.
Once he rested up, they continued through the woods, walking through the lighter side instead of the dark underbrush. 
As he cut through the vines and branches in his way, he came across a small clearing. across the middle was what seemed to be a well-used dirt pathway leading from one side to the other. After following this path for a while, the forest cleared and all that was in front of him was lush, green lands. with a few mountains and a town in front of him. All of a sudden he heard a few voices, and dived into the bushes next to him. he poked his head out of the top slightly to see where the voices where coming from. They sounded feminine and harmless, so he sheathed his sword as not to scare them. Navi let out a few loud "tings", getting Link's attention. His mouth opened agape with shock. Just like the markings in the cave, in front of him where two similar looking creatures, equine in origin, but different colours. One was a light butter-yellow with a long, light pink mane and had wings, and the other was a violet colour with a navy blue, cleanly cut mane, that had a purple streak through it, and a horn sticking through the centre of her forehead. Link, in amazement, watched the two stride down the path. What amazed him more was that they were both talking! Epona was never able to talk. The yellow one seemed to be thanking the other for coming with her, he couldnt hear it clearly but he heard "everfree forest", "animals" and "magic". he leaned in to try and hear better, but leant on his hurt leg, and let out a small grunt. The two creatures stopped immediately, the purple one spinning around, horn glowing.
"I know you you are there, now come out with your hooves up!"
Link refused to budge. He'd seen that glow before, seven years ago when he was struck down by ganondorf at the Hyrule castle gates. The purple creature started rustling bushes, trying to find him. He turned to Navi. she whispered softly "i think we should get out of here."
Suddenly, their bush was shoved aside. "AH- huh?" Link was started, let loose a yell and shoved the creature backwards, knocking it onto its side. he jumped back, unsheathed the master sword and raised his shield in a crouch stance, ready to take the blow of her magic. The creature, startled, shot a bolt of energy towards Link. He swung his sword just as he had done to ganondorf in his tower, knocking the energy back to the creature, shocking it slightly before it knelt down from exhaustion. Link quickly placed the blade of the master sword against the creatures neck. It looked up with sorry eyes, pleading for mercy.
"P-please... don't..." a small, quiet voice rung out from the silence of the forest. Link looked over and saw the other creature, giving the largest puppy-dog eyes you could see. He looked back down the the first creature. It had closed its eyes and is now waiting for what happens next.
"She... She was just s-scared... P-please don't hurt her..."
Link let out a sigh and sheathed the sword, but kept his shield raised just in case. He took a few steps backward from the purple creature, and let out a grunt. It opened its eyes, looked around and ran off in the opposite direction, along the dirt path. Link slowly walked over to the yellow creature, and knelt down. He looked at her with a puzzled look on his face, the creature took a step backwards in fear, and tried to hide her face in her mane. He held out his hand and coughed. The creature looked up and saw him smiling at her with his hand outstretched. She shyly placed her hoof in his hand, and he shook it. He used his hands to reposition her head to be facing him, and then made a gesture of a few houses with his fingers.
"Oh... uh.. you want to go to town..?" She asked, Link nodded in response. "Uh... okay... just um... f-follow me i guess..." He placed his shield on his back and followed the creature, noting that she turned her head every now and then. When they finally leave the forest, there's a large mob of similar creatures looking at him, lots were angry, some were confused, a few were downright scared. one of the larger ones stepped forward and shouted
"THERE IT IS. GET IT!" as soon as those words were said, the mob rushed towards him. Navi peeked out from under Links hat.
"Oh boy... Here we go."


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Authors note:
Sorry for the EXTREMELY late update. a long time ago i lost my zeal for writing. Recently i got in the mood for some legend of zelda, but already beat ocarina of time at least 20 times. so i thought i may as well update this.
Enjoy!