//------------------------------// // The meeting // Story: The Hero of Time in Equestria // by Mikoyose //------------------------------// Link opens his eyes, and sits up. He rubs the sleep out of his eyes before noticing that he’s not in the library. He searches his surroundings, seeing only trees and darkness. He stands up before hearing a familiar laugh. He turns around to see Majora floating in the air the strange tendrils falling from the inside of the mask. He reaches to grab his sword but his hand grips air, shocked he looks over his shoulder and sees his sword is gone, along with his shield and his pouch. Majora cackled and closed in on Link. Link looked up and did the only thing he could think of, he turned and ran. As he ran he heard more laughing but this laughter wasn’t the same cackle from Majora, he decided to risk a look over his shoulder and saw a glimpse of a creature that looked like it was a mashup of many different creatures-it was wearing the mask. He looked forward again seeing a light before he reached the edge of the dark forest he was in; he tripped over a tree root and fell face first into the dirt, he readied himself to roll, which brought him back to his feet. “Hello.” Another familiar voice said, one that Link remembered very well. “Navi!” he looked up and saw the blue fairy floating several yards ahead of him. He smiled and ran towards her, when he came within arms length of Navi, he fell through the floor and looks up to see Navi getting smaller and smaller; he screams as he falls waiting for the inevitable bottom of the fall. “Link. Link. Link!” a female voice says, Link turns to the voice and sees Princess Zelda (this song must be played while reading this part) standing there, his fall comes to a soft landing. “Link I’m using my magic to contact you, where have you gone? I can't sense you in Hyrule.” Zelda said. "Well Majora used his magic to send me to a different land. This place is called Equestria, it's filled with ponies, talking ponies." Zelda puts a hand over her mouth trying to stop herself from laughing. "So the great hero is in the land of ponies?" she bursts with laughter while Link blushes. "There's also pegasus, unicorns, and a mix of the two with manes that flow on some unknown wind." Zelda looks at Link shocked, "Wait, you're not kidding?!" Link shook his head. "No I'm not, it's strange here, they have something called a pancake, its soft like bread but flat and round, it tastes really good with butter, and some kind of tree sap called syrup... I think." he said drooling slightly at the thought of pancakes. Zelda giggled. "Well, do you have any way of getting back to Hyrule?" Link shook his head again. "No but Twilight sparkle is working on it." "Uh Twilight Sparkle?" She asks "Oh she's a lavender colored unicorn with strong magic." "Oh, do all of them have... Different. Names?" Link nods. "Oh, you have to tell me everything that happened when you return." she says with a smile, "Can you tell me about the mix ponies?" Link nodded and sat down, legs crossed. "Well there are two of them, Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna." "They're princesses?" she asked, Link nods and continues. "They're both the size of a full grown horse, Celestia's mane is multi colored, while Luna's looks like the night sky. They both have wings and a very long horn. They also rule all of Equestria, the ponies say that they raise and lower the moon and sun." Zelda's eyes widen. "They have magic that strong?" Link shrugged. "Well I've never seen them do it, but I've done it using your ocarina. I'm still keeping it safe." he said with a smile, retrieving said ocarina to show her. "Thank you Link." She returns his smile. "Maybe I can contact one of the princesses there... I'm going to try. I'll have to leave you though." she says, Link nods in understanding. Zelda waves good bye, and Link returns the wave until she disappeared. He stood there staring at the place Zelda was before he felt himself falling again. This time he stops himself from screaming for a few a brief moment before he continues the scream. He feels something jump on his stomach, then something else, then a third thing. He stops screaming and looks at his stomach, seeing three deku scrubs. They look to each other before they jump. -------------------------------------------------------The library-------------------------------------------------------- Link wakes up to three little fillies jumping on him, “Come on Link wake up! we have to get you to school!” the white unicorn says. “Yeah, were gonna be late!.” the yellow filly added. “Finally you’re awake.” the orange one said looking at Link’s opened eyes. The fillies jump off him one after the other, allowing Link to sit up. He rubs his eyes and stretches, Sweetie belle bites his boot and tugs on it. “Get up we’re gonna be late!” Link acknowledges her with an unintelligible grunt. -------------------------------------Canterlot castle-------------------------------------- Celestia was looking over her paperwork for the day: a new law to check and veto if necessary, a new building asking her to attend the grand opening, an update from the captain of the royal guard-and also Twilight's elder brother-Shining armor on what is needed for the guard, a letter from her son Shooting Star, etc. As she read Star's letter, she felt a strange presence of magic, it made her slightly light headed. She was about to send a letter to her sister Luna but at that moment she decided to knock on Celestia's door, "Sister? May we come in?" Celestia smiled, her horn glowing yellow as she answered. "Yes Luna, come in." the door glowed yellow before opening; revealing the dark blue alicorn. Luna enters her sister's room, the door silently closing behind her. "Do you know what this magic we are sensing is?" she asked before laying down beside Celestia whom put a wing around her sister. "I'm not sure, but-" she was cut off as a voice rang in their heads. "Hello?" it sounded female. They looked around, searching for the owner of the voice before it spoke again, "Hello? I'm using magic to contact you. You're Celestia, correct?" Celestia and Luna's eyes widen as a small girl appears before them, transparent like a ghost. Celestia regains her composure a second before Luna, "Who are you?" she asks before seeing the familiar looking pointy ears. "I am Princess Zelda of Hyrule." She curtsies, "Link told me about you." Luna looks at Zelda. "Thou knows Link?" Zelda nods with a smile. "Yes, he is my hero, You are Luna right?" she asked and Luna nods. "That is correct." Zelda smiles, "Great, I came to speak with you about your land and it's residents. If you don't mind." Celestia smiles warmly, "It's no problem at all, I would actually like to ask you about Hyrule as well." Zelda began with the creation of Hyrule and the tri-force, showing the alicorns the mark on her right hand. Celestia began with the story of Nightmare moon and Discord, then to how her favorite student Twilight Sparkle had saved her sister from being Nightmare moon and how they save Equestria from Discord's chaos. They continue speaking for a few hours, until Celestia and Luna feel a magical surge from Ponyville- meanwhile Zelda senses a similar surge in Hyrule field. Luna turns to her sister, "Did thou feel that?" Celestia nodded, "Yes it's coming from the library." Zelda clears her throat, gaining the attention of the other princesses. "I must apologize, but there is strange magic working." Luna nods, "There is magic working here as well." Celestia adds, "We must make sure this magic can't do harm. Good-bye Princess Zelda." Zelda smiles, "Good-bye Princesses Luna and Celestia, it was nice chatting with you." she says before her image vanishes completely. The alicorns turn towards Ponyville, then to each other. they nod before unfurling their wings and soaring towards Ponyville.