A Dream Come True
         

Link is being followed, but meets something he has never met before.

Link wiped the sweat forming at his brows. He was so excited and so nervous at the same time. His fingers numbed, his body trembled. What was so scary about a date?

"Link," Navi said, fixing his bow tie, "why are you so nervous? You were never so nervous about going on a date with Zelda before."

"I don't know...I mean, its official now. We're both Sixteen...and we can both officially become boyfriend and girlfriend..." Link trailed off, and looked down at the ground.

"Well, have a fun time!" Navi waved her small little hand and watched as Link mounted Epona and rode off.

It was probably about Six in the evening now. Link continued on through the gates of the Castle and Zelda came out of the Castle, giggling and looking like some sort of Goddess. She had butterfly-type clips in her hair, and had her hair put up. She wore a simple white gown like the togas the females wore during Ancient Roman times. She had golden, high-heeled slippers on her feet, and her gorgeous, Triforce earrings. Link grinned at her.

They rode to the fancy restaurant they had been planning to go to. Many people were outside, screaming to get their autographs, but Link couldn't sign all of them. Zelda's father had rented the whole restaurant so they could be all by themselves. It was a dim area, but they could manage to see. Link had ordered something for Zelda that she really hated, which was seafood, and she had ordered salad for Link, something he really hated.

After they almost threw up from their meal, they turned away from that and started talking. "How have you been, Zelda?"

"Fine, thank you very much. And you?" She said, casting a broad grin on her face.

"...Fine." Link replied. They stared at eachother for a while,and then they decided it was time to go. Link took hold of her hand, and they left the restaurant. But as they left, Link felt that he was being watched...

A fire. A great, terrifying fire. A ways ahead, there were many different people fighting. The Gerudo and the Hylian were duking it out. A little boy clung to his mother, and she held him in her arms, for he was only an infant. He began crying. Crying tears that no other human being could ever cry. The woman darts off, running into the distance. She knows she's taking a chance, she hides behind some brush on her way to the other side of the land. A man hits her, and stabs her repeatedly, but she still breathes and is still alive. The man grabs the baby from her and grins down at the child. He has flaming red hair and green skin. He doesn't like the child...he's Ganondorf Dragmire!

Link rose quickly with a sharp gasp from his little bed. He examined the room around him, and was delighted to see he was in his own room, not in some very strange place. Once again, he felt like he was being followed. What did the dream about Ganondorf mean?

Link had gone back to sleep and had awakened again early in the morning. The Kokiri were looming over something. They were quite shocked at what they were looking at, too! "Its mutated! Is it alive?" A child grabbed a stick and poked it. "It moved!"

Link rushed over, since he was wondering what had put such fascination into the children. He see what they were looking at. There lay a beautiful girl, and Link didn't notice anything unusual about her. Until someone pointed out the shape of her ears. They were rounded! "We don't have any room for freaks," said Mido. She stood, and she was about two feet taller than he was. She was clad in a short, brownish-black skirt, and a gray sleeveless strapped top. She had a quiver of arrows on her back, brown boots, a sword at her side, and a bow. "What is it?" Link asked, looking at her curiously. She shot him a cold look. They thought she was a totally different species, an animal! "I'm a she," she shot back. "Just because my ears are rounded, it doesn't make me any different from the rest of you!" She was different in so many ways, too. The Kokiri's ears weren't totally rounded, nor were anyone else's in Hyrule. Suddenly, she unexpectedly darted off, and no one bothered to chase her.

It was late in the evening when she made another appearance. This time, she sat on Link's bed in his home when he returned from fishing. "What are you doing here?" Link cried.

"Link, something is going to hurt you. I'm here to stop it from hurting you," she replied.

"What is it?" Link inquired.

"I can't tell you, I have to be going now. I'll see you some other time when you need my help." She snapped her fingers and vanished. She didn't know that what wanted Link was right behind him.

Link heard a strange cackling. He turned back, and was welcomed with a punch to the face. He fell back, and it grabbed him. It flopped him over it's shoulders, and journied out of his house. They traveled to a strange portal, and brought Link to a sacred, small, triangular-shaped realm. It glitter white and blue, and they laid the boy on it. "Welcome, here you will not be able to save Zelda, nor will you be able to save anyone else, and they will not think of you once I have come to town," said the being.

When Link came to, he found himself lying in a shimmering place. He could hear the echoes and voices and thoughts of everyone in Hyrule. They were all a blurred mass. He started screaming, but no one could hear him. It just added to the blur of voices and thoughts. He rolled around on the floor in agony, screaming his lungs out and crying. His eyes were red and tears shimmered his cheeks and the sound drove him crazy. He finally passed out, lying motionless and unable to hear on the glass floor.

The being held a snowball in his hands. Link lied unconscious in the very center, his arms and legs spread apart, and the glass floor shimmered. Link wasn't really in a realm. He was in a snowball, which had an invisible mirror, where one on the outside could peer in without the person on the inside knowing, since the inside was the same as the floor.

Zelda looked up. "There's a visitor, princess Zelda," said a Guard. "Should we allow him to come in? He says its urgent." Zelda glanced at her father, and then back at the guard. She nodded, and the creepy man stepped forth. He had black hair and piercing red eyes, and dark skin. "Nice to meet you, Princess Zelda. Would you like to have a chat with me?" Zelda shrugged, and followed him to a room of the castle where they could be alone. He still held the snowball, and he checked to make sure Link was still out, but he would probably be out practically forever, since the echoes, thoughts, and voices had been implanted in there forever by this man. Link still lied in the center, and he sighed.

"What's that?" Asked Zelda, plucking the snowball from the man. He reached forth, trying to grab it, but realized it would do no good. "This looks a lot like my boyfriend," she said, pointing to Link in the crystal ball, thinking it was just a clay figure, not a real Hylian!

But suddenly, Link woke up. "Help me!!!! Zelda???" The man quickly cupped his hands over it, hoping Zelda wouldn't be able to hear, and she wasn't. "I know you're out there!! I can hear you! Help me! Where am I? What happened? SOMEBODYYY!!!!!" The man watched as Link sank to the floor and started crying. It was a day he'd remember forever.

"Princess Zelda, I had a conversation with Link and he told me that he was just using you for your money," said the dark haired-man.

"Link would never do that to me, and who are you?"

"My name is Torelli, and I am a magician. Here, my dear lady," he produced a rose and handed it to her. She wasn't a bit flattered.

"I've had a bad history with magicians, especially Gerudo ones," Zelda sneered.

"Well, I am not Gerudo."

"But you're a magician. Please don't return to my castle, Torelli." She said, not liking him a bit and sensing something dangerous about him. Torelli stood and looked down at the seated princess with sheer pleasure.

"A command by the princess, I will follow it. Your time will come," he walked away, tossing the snow globe in his hands up and down.

Link felt himself being hurled into the sky. His stomach leaped and turned, and he fault nautious. What was going on? Why was the realm jumping?

As Torelli made his way out of the castle, he was stopped by the round-earred girl. "Don't go another step, Torelli. Give him back. Now. Torelli looked at her innocently, as if he had no idea what she was talking about. "I know that you have him in there. Why are you doing this, anyway?"

"Why are you not addressing me as father? After all, I was the one that made you who you are. I found you on that doorstep, a human, a new species of Hylian, and I took you under my care, no matter the shape of your ears. You did not possess Hylian magic like all of your Hylian friends did. You were normal, without a drop of magic in your blood.

"I did this because I am looking for riches and wealth in life. If Link grows old and dies in there, and with him out of the way, I will have no competition to marry Zelda. I think I made a good first impression. She will love me so, we will marry and then I will kill her, and no one will believe that I did it. Then I will inherit her life insurance and all of the riches of being a prince."

"You're evil," said the girl. She had a sad look on her face. "You want to destroy two lives for your own benefit? How can you be so ruthless?"

"I just can, Carrie." Torelli replied, a broad grin on his face. "People have held me back my entire life, and now I'm going to hold them back for my benefit and so I can make up for those lost times."

"Yes, but Princess Zelda and Link weren't the ones that held you back from your dreams by calling you a failure at wizardry," Carrie shot back.

"Well, nonetheless, I am getting back what I lost from another source."

"Put yourself in Link's place," Carrie murmured softly. Imagine hearing the voices and thoughts of everyone. Feeling lonely, not knowing what to do. Not knowing what will become of you. Never seeing the people you love again...you can't treat him like an animal, you know. He's not a work of art...he will slowly pine away from love and die, or hunger."

"I have a feeding schedule worked out. He won't starve to death. I've chatted with you way too long, I must be on my way now," Torelli held his head up high, the snowglobe in his hands. He strode off, blending in with all of the other Hylians. Carrie had to tell Princess Zelda!

She went to the guards, and asked them to allow her in. They sneered at her. "You are but a child! You have no business in the castle!"

"Please! Its important and its a life or death situation," Carrie pleaded with all of her might. Finally, the guard gave in.

"You best be out in 10 minutes, or I'll come after you," he grinned. She nodded, and journied into the Castle. She ran into the Castle, laying her hands over her ears so no one would notice their shape, and mistake her for just another Hylian.

Princess Zelda was playing the Ocarina when Carrie entered her room. Carrie knew she had frightened the princess, so she gently put her hands up and said, "don't worry. I need to talk to you," Carrie sat down across from the princess. Zelda raised an eyebrow.

"That man you just saw, you can't trust him. You know the figurine in the snowglobe? He is your boyfriend! I'm here because I need to warn you. Stay away from him and try to get the snowglobe and break it open. That is the only way Link will be freed and Torelli will be sent back to the realm he came from. As long as someone is in that globe, Torelli is twice as powerful and can roam anywhere, but if its empty, he will be cursed and sent into it for an eternity--all because he was cursed centuries ago by a band of gypsies."

Zelda was shocked. "But he seemed so dreamy..." Zelda paused. "Wait, I thought he was gross!" She made a face, and then turned back to Carrie. "Little girl, go home."

"Little girl?! Please, Princess Zelda, you have to believe me! Princess Zel-"

"Miss, I told you I'd find you if you were in here for longer than 10 minutes. Its been 15 minutes, and, you must get out!" The Guard grabbed her, and Carrie looked at Zelda one last time.

"PRINCESS ZELDA! Please believe me and save your boyfriend..."

Torelli stepped into the globe. "Good thing that as long as you're in here, I don't have to stay," Link looked over and then looked down.

"You want to keep me trapped here forever for your own benefit," he mumbled. "I feel like an animal in a cage that has no future!"

"Well, you're right about the feeling like an animal, and you don't have a future. Sorry, but I'm going to put myself on the top, as soon as I marry Princess Zelda..."

"Marry her? My Lovely girlfriend would NEVER marry scum like you!" Torelli stepped forth and punched Link. The tender spot on his cheek ached, but he ignored it. Link stood. There was an opening, an escape! He ran forward, but was unfortunately tripped and made an uncomfortable landing on the glass floor. He groaned, and watched as Torelli made his way to the exit. NO! Link had to escape! He couldn't bear this place no longer! He jumped to his feet and made a wild dash for the exit... and he made it.

"Where am I?" Link gaped in awe, but he didn't know where he was. He was in some sort of lagoon, and suddenly something pulled him under the water. Link gasped for air, and something had a held of his leg. He looked down and saw Torelli, angry as anything.

"I'm not going back there! Get into the globe, Link!" Torelli scowled, trying to knock Link out to trap him in there again. Link avoided the blows, though. He was too speedy for Torelli. Link climbed out of the water, and started running. Running faster than he'd ever run before.

But he could hear the beating of Torelli's feet close behind. He didn't want to get caught, and he didn't want to go back. Torelli only had a little longer before he would be transported to the globe. Either way, as long as no one was in there, Link was sure that Torelli would be trapped there forever. "STOP!" Link ran into Carrie, and fell back. Link hit his head very hard on the cement-type ground, and he groaned. How many times could a person be hit in a single day? But, to his dismay, Torelli was standing over him. Had Carrie, the girl who promised to help him, betrayed him?

Link knew he was wrong when she struck the very man who took her in from the cold. She was a tough fighter, and Link stood. His clothes were drenched and he was cold. But it ended when Torelli drew his sword--and stabbed the girl he had rescued so long ago.

"Oh, my daughter! I am so sorry it had to end this way," Torelli grinned with fake sympathy. She glared up at him, and said some curse words Link never thought a child her age would know. As Carrie breathed her last, Torelli turned his attention to Link. "You will join her!" He wrapped his massive hands around the boys neck and squeezed. Link felt the pain of no air raise through his body. In the distance, he heard Zelda calling his name.

Zelda saw what had happened. She bolted forward and speared Torelli. He fell, and howled in pain. She took Link's sword from his sheath, and stabbed him. His spirit traveled to the snow globe, and they heard one, terrified last scream come from the snowglobe. Zelda smiled at Link. He plopped his head back onto the sand, and then stood after a long rest. He tossed the snowglobe around in his hands, and kissed Zelda. It was a long, passionate kiss, something Link had been waiting to do for a long time.

Link lay a picture of the brave girl that saved him by his bed, and the same snowglobe where Torelli was trapped. "I'm going to marry Zelda! I will slaughter her afterward, too! You shall not go on another date with her!" Torelli cried.

"Just shut up," Link laughed, sitting by Zelda. It was a time they'd both never forget... a new beginning and an experience that had brought them a whole step closed to marriage.

The End