Legend Of Zelda Fan Fiction ❯ The Return ❯ The Story ( Chapter 5 )

The Return

 

Ch. 5: The Story

 

 

 

 

~AN~: I hate doing these in the beginning of the chapter, but something has come to my attention. Well LinkIsaacANDLloyd has brought to my attention of the sappiness of the last chapter. The original idea was awesome, but the ages I gave them didn't quite fit for what I had in mind, so earlier I had upgraded their ages from 13 and 14 (I made Malon the older one) To 15 and 16. This way so Malon is pretty much done growing and Link has gotten himself some definition and spike to his skills, not to mention to make the ages fit much better than say young Link and Malon kissing. I thank LinkIsaacANDLloyd for bringing this to my attention, for any of those who have not reread the first two chapters where I fixed the problem.

 

Link and Malon were walking to Link's house when Malon began to wonder about that song. “What song was that, the one you played to bring us to that place in the forest?”

 

“That was the Minuet of Forest. It is a spell trapped in the musical notes of the song that brings one to the - watch your head.” He lifted a low branch over Malon's head. “ - Forest Temple.”

 

“Oh. Are there others like it?” Malon started humming Epona's song low.

 

“There are others. There is one to go to Death Mountain's volcanic crater, one for Lake Hyrule, one to a death shrine in the Kakariko Graveyard, one to go to a secluded, beautiful spot in the Gerudo Desert, and then one that takes us to the Temple of Time.” Link explained to her, as they finally left the Lost Woods.

 

“Hey, there's my dad!” Malon pointed out Talon, helping some Kokiri with water, his left arm all bandaged up. “HEY DAD!” she yelled, climbing down the vines that lead up to the forest.

 

Talon looked up and smiled as Link humped down the large cliff, to land into a roll and then stand up straight, nearby. Malon had to take it one small step at a time, as Talon tugged some buckets out of the clear freshwater pond for the know-it-all brothers who were behind him.

 

Malon finally made it down and huffed at her father, with a face of annoyance. “You're hurt daddy, you should go rest.”

 

“Malon honey, I can't just sit around all day and not do something, besides alls I am doin' is helping these kids out with their chores.” Talon dragged one last bucket, filled to the brim with water.

 

“Figures, you got to work, you sleep all day, you should rest and you work.” Malon scoffed a little, playfully gave a smirk and then smiled to Link. “Race you to the house.” She took off and Link tailed right behind her the whole time, letting her win.

 

“Come on, we have some time to kill, so I want to try on one of those masks!” Malon charged in and noticed the cabinet was locked. “Link, I need the key.” she called out, feeling rambunctious and energetic.

 

Link checked the lining of his hat and pulled out a small circle with three pegs and thin edge on the other side. He lifted the lock up, to show the backside, pushed on edge so an edge a circle popped out and he pulled it off. Link placed the pegs in the wholes and spun it left for three seconds, then right for five, and then left for one second. The lock popped open.

 

“This is the key. The keyhole on the front is just for show.” Malon took of the lock and took a look at the masks, she wouldn't wear the giant's mask; she might crush something. She saw the goron mask, but she was in no hurry to become a goron, neither of the two had seen a female goron yet, and seeing one was not on the top of their list. The Deku mask, she would try on, and the Zora one too. Those, they could handle, she hoped.

 

Malon picked up the Deku mask gingerly and slowly pressed it to her face. Her eyes widened and pain shot down her body in tendrils. She screamed out in pain and Talon dropped his buckets of water, running to Link's house. He saw Malon in pain and Link just standing there, he picked Link up by the collar, which wasn't all that effective since Link was a bit taller than Talon. “What is going on with her boy?” he shouted at Link and Link merely nodded as a healing light erupted from Malon, and then a strange Deku stood there.

 

The Deku looked at itself as if it has never seen itself before. It had a smooth wood-like skin, with a bright autumn orange tinge to the brown. The eyes were a soft orange as well, leading to red on the edges, and the deku was tall and lean, almost as tall as Link. “Hello Malon, maybe this will help better.” Link put his mirror shield in front of Deku Malon. Her mouth was different, like a slit that opened and closed when she wanted to talk, rather than a circular mouth that most Dekus had. There were white patches like that of a birch tree.

 

“Wow.” A chain of small ruby colored flowers flowed from an obvious hairline, to down her back, some over her left shoulder.

 

“Ready to try the Zora, or do you want to test out your special powers?”

 

Malon gave an awkward smile. “Lets try out my powers.” ran out the door and jumped up high into the air, her body light weight and flexible like a sapling, she floated down easily, landing on her elongated Deku legs, flat on her feet, no bouncing or bending her knees. “You need the snout to blow some bubbles, but you don't have that, so lets see what you can do now Malon.” Link shouted from his tree house, Talon looking at the Deku with amazement and wonder.

 

Malon swallowed something, her thin olive wood neck extending slightly. She blew out some air, and some vines shot out from the ground, aimed at Link's feet to hold him down. Link jumped, easily out of the way. She can nature suggest, the ability to not only talk to nature, but speak to the ground and ask for favors.

 

If Link didn't already have the ability to understand nature, he would have been stapled to his balcony. “Here catch.” He tossed her the Zora mask, and she caught it easy, having the wind slow down the mask so it didn't hurt her.

 

She put on the Zora mask, not feeling any pain this time, like her body was already numb from the first change. The wood fell off in dust as steel like scales replaced her smooth wooden skin. Gills grew on her neck and they closed as her lungs filled with air. Her ruby colored flower hair fell off easily, blanketing the earth below her feet, as they replanted themselves in the earth. Fins grew from her delicate wrist, snow white in color with flecks of scarlet and autumn red. Talons grew from her fingers, slightly longer than her now webbed fingers.

 

Her head was narrow and sharp, completely aerodynamic, with a tail on the back of her head like a most Zoras, except the top of her head was fire orange and yellow, with navy blue eyes instead of black. Lines of yellow, black, orange decorated her woman's body as a zora, like a tropical fish. She was a tropical Zora.

 

Talon was getting interested now, seeing the masks were the ones causing the transformations. “What can you do now sweetheart?” He yelled from the balcony, and Malon smiled and nodded. Her fins didn't shoot, no, they grew and folded to her hands, bending over and a hard bone forming a `hilt' to a sword of fins, and sharp spine grew out of the fins, dripping with a type of toxin.

 

She slashed in the air feeling the balance and strength that is her new body. “Beautiful and deadly.” She whispered to herself. She folded the fins away and jumped into the pond, swimming fast, she let her gills do the breathing, looping around easy of the small islands that riddled the area. Until she met a small passage, too small for her, she jumped out of the water, almost 90 degrees, to extend her fins into a helicopter spin to slow her decent onto the land. Malon began to concentrate, she remembered hearing somewhere, there where fish that could change their color. She opened her eyes and looked at her feet to notice they were missing, and when she panicked they began to rapidly change colors, and she sighed.

 

“Ok. I am officially scared now.” She said, obviously beginning to feel the power behind the masks and realizing, these were not toys, but pieces of dangerous equipment. “How do I get this mask off?” she asked, pulling at her nose, causing her voice to change.

 

Link pulled out his ocarina and smiled, playing the song of healing. Malon felt her soul dip into peace, the Zora in her separating painlessly from her soul. “Mikau.” It whispered to her. When she opened her eyes, she was human again, curves and all. Her hair was no longer some flowers or a tail, but soft, naturally flowing hair.

 

“Want to try out the Fierce Deity's mask?” Link grinned and Talon laughed.

 

“That is enough for today boy. This old dog can only take so much surprise!” he slapped Link on the back, and he almost fell off the balcony.

 

“OK. I am done for now.” She tossed Link the mask, who caught it easily.

 

“Come on, lets get your gear ready, since I already know what I am going to bring.”

 

“Bring? Bring where?” Talon asked, obviously confused.

 

“We were hired to escort Lord Chari to his homeland across the desert.” Link nodded as Malon began to climb up the ladder.

 

“Oh…well, why is Malon going?”

 

“Well WE were hired.” Malon answered, and followed Link into the house.

 

Link began to dig around his items, giving Malon his magic bow and a hookshot. Link set off the fairy bow and the longshot for his pile. Eventually they had sorted out necessary equipment. Two giant's wallets, filled with rupees, a shield, both mirror shields. Malon was given an eye of truth, bombs, bombchus, deku stick, and nuts were all divided amongst the two.

 

Talon had left to go help more Kokiri with their chores, every child, except Mido, had accepted the help. “Malon. Here.” Malon had turned to him and saw him take his sword off his back, and handed it to her. “Take this.”

 

She unsheathed the magnificent gilded sword and swung it. It felt so balanced and easy to swing to her. “But now you don't have a weapon now.” She told him, looking at the evenly edged blade with a sharp point.

 

“I have more. And I will pick one up in town today, I have a certain one in mind for me.” His thoughts drifting to a familiar blade that he had used long ago, or later on in life, depending on how you looked at it. It never dulled and never failed to do the job. It was a master blade any swordsman would kill to hold in his hand.

 

“Oh? And what would that be?” she asked, sheathing the sword over her shoulder Link, and reaching back to see if her arms were long enough to draw it. Her arms were long enough to reach and she re-sheathed it.

 

“I'll show you when we go to town, but here. Lets let you practice your sword skills. We don't want you to be the damsel in distress all the time, do we?”

 

Malon huffed at thought of her being useless except for screaming for Link to save her. Link grabbed his mirror shield and began instructing Malon on stances and attacks he found effective. The shield clanged as the sword had hit it. Over and over again, slowly gaining power as Malon realized how strong Link actually was, until she began to try her hardest to strike the shield. It wouldn't budge, Link was too strong and the shield was too powerful. Her sword could hardly make an impact.

 

“How about dual action?” Link brought out a deku stick and smacked it to make it a proper size for him. The two began to fight. Link and Malon fighting, Link obviously slowing down for Malon's sake, but he soon found out that she was pretty good. She was more nimble than Link, able to drop on all fours and use her legs more than Link ever could.

 

Link got smacked across the face by a shield, Malon's first hit, as he turned his head away because of Malon's kick that sent her dress flying up. “What are you turning your head away for?” She asked, trying to stop the swelling that was sure to start up from the reddened cheek.

 

“Um your dress…it doesn't work if you plan to do so much kicking.” Link mentioned, red hitting his cheeks, and not because of the hit either.

 

“Oh…wow…”she blushed also, pushing her dress down. “Oh yeah…sorry about that.”

 

“Lets go to town early.” Link suggested, sitting down near the pond in the village, as he set his sack down next to him and rummaged through for his ocarina. “We have some last minute shopping to take care of apparently.”

 

“Ok I guess, we traveling by song again?” Malon picked up her sack and sheathed her sword.

 

“Of course.” He grabbed Malon's hand and began to play one handed, with a few slow notes, but still rather good for being one handed. The same thing happened as the first warp and Malon then say gray and white walls and they were standing in the temple of time. “My new sword awaits.”

 

“What are you talking about? I have been inside this temple more times than I can count and there has never been any sword.” But Link rummaged through his sack, pulling out three gems, one green, one blue, and one red. He placed them on the altar that stood in front of the door. He put his ocarina to his lips and began to play a smooth song that flowed. As soon as he was done a stone slab in back of the altar lifted, and inside a ray of light was a sword.

 

Link stepped forward, undeterred by the strange events, like this all happened before to him. He walked up the steps and Malon followed closely behind. She was creeped out while Link strolled easily to the sword and placed his hands on the hilt of the blade. His muscles didn't even tense as he pulled out the sword easily, like he was used to this like breathing came to everyone else.

 

“The master sword. I missed you.” Link admired the blade, superbly sharp and weighted, perfectly balanced. It wasn't as strong as the biggoron's sword, but that sword was unusable by an ordinary man. Here was an ultimate blade, a blade of power, specifically designed to destroy evil in any form.

 

“This is the blade you were going to pick up?” Malon asked and then yelped in surprise as Link lifted one hand and caught a blue and gold sheath that fell through the air.

 

“Thank you guys.” He said, looking at the ceiling. He smiled and sheathed his sword, fixing the sheath onto his back. “Well come on! We have some shopping to do so we can get on the right path.”

 

“Link…you seem so happy now.” She asked, taking her hand away from his, wondering what changed to make link so happy.

 

“It is like a piece of me has finally returned, you see it happened years ago or soon I the future…depending on how you see it. But anyways, I'll tell you the story sometime soon…” Link began to walk out the chamber when Malon grabbed Link's tunic.

 

“I want to hear the story now. I hate it when you don't tell me things. I hated it when I was younger and I hate it now. Please. Just tell me the story, the truth.”