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Link

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"Link...

You are the light--

Our light--

that must shine apon hyrule again.

Now go..."

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'W-wai-- that...that doesn't make any sense--'

My mind was not at ease. This...girl...and what she said repeated in my mind, again and again. It was all so hard to process. I didn't know what she was talking about. I could feel an overwhelming feeling build up in my throat, along with my heart.

'Hyrule....is that...the name of this place...?'

Many, many thoughts crashed into my mind shortly after. These thoughts were continuous and did not stop. The sudden outcome was that I was left bewildered and confused- but again...It was all so hard to process.

I continued to cover my eyes as much as I could from the blinding light until it slowly faded away, leaving me now blinded by a different light...

"I-IS....that...sunlight...??" I whispered while feeling a strong feeling of hope take over and grow inside of me.

My eyes were soon filled by the light of the great, bright sun. I...was thankfully, correct.

Frozen in awe, I could then feel the strong, fragrant breeze flow through my hair...and I knew it was all real now. My hope wasn't pointless anymore.

But all I could think about was getting out of here.
It was like I was in a trance. A trance to follow this beautiful daylight. A trance that could control me whole. A trance that caused me to follow my feet for one thing in particular.

And that one thing was...

Freedom.

And an escape from all this. Including an escape from my feeling of fear that seemed to grow noticeably larger each time I focused on it. So all I did was ignore it. That was all I could do.

Given all this, my mind went blank of what the girl had said, and so I ran.
I followed my feet and ran all the way out in the direction of the light, faster and faster...until I was given a small dead-end and was face to face with a rock wall.

But that's not what caught my attention. I felt a shallow liquid swaying below me.

Water?

I looked at my feet and saw my blurred face staring right back at me. It was a puddle.

'That's...me...?' I thought while staring deeply at the blurred reflection below me.

I stood for a slight second. Sure, it wasn't a clear sight but it was something.

I had fair yet slightly tanned skin, and golden waves of short hair that seemed to glisten brightly in the sunlight, making it more noticeable from my blurred reflection. And all pulled into what looked like a low ponytail. My eyes shifted to my pointed hylian ears, I then noticed I had blue earings, that seemed to brighten my unclear appearance.

Overall, I had a surprisingly...strong and slightly muscular physique, with a few faint scars...which caused a few suprised questions to crash into my mind.
But, the main thing I noticed...was my bright, blue eyes that shone as bright as the sun that I could still feel hit my skin with its powerful heat in the moment.
It just felt...odd to see myself. Again, even though it wasn't a clear sight, it was something. And that something still caused my curiosity to deepen within me and my mind.

But none of that mattered to me, I felt as if I didn't have time to examine myself, I was still in my trance. I could still feel the alluring, crisp air, pulling me closer and closer to my desired freedom...that was so close, yet felt so very far away. I couldn't waste a second.

I looked back ahead at my dead end. That almost seemed to represent my hope, which always felt like it had come to an end...but I knew deep inside there was a way out. There just had to be.

And so, I climbed.

I knew there was a way out. Every second mattered as if this was a timed race against me and my fears. After all, I could finally be...free. This was my only chance I had, and so I couldn't waste a second.
And even if there wasn't a way out, I'd rather find out and spend my time knowing, rather than living and not knowing.

I followed the breeze of fresh air and I could feel the warm strokes of the sun gently caress my forehead as I peaked my head to the top.

'I knew it. A way out.'

My hands shivered against the top of the cold, smooth rock as I properly rose up. Finally climbing up from the rock wall, I felt the wind pick up and fly through my hair.

"This....doesn't feel real...." I whispered as the sounds of wildlife and wind filled my ears and saved me from the sound of silence that I had only known until now. I couldn't help but feel the tears I had pushed back before well up in my eyes. But I barely noticed that..

And so...I slowly and cautiously followed my feet once again. And I didn't stop.
Not even for a minute. Not even for a second. I just had to confirm this freedom before I reached to the peak of insanity from only a while of being locked in the dark, and literally. That was enough to scare me...because it was the only thing I had seen so far.
There just had to be a reason to all this...
And I hoped to find out why.

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My feet began to pick up the pace and I dashed towards my only direction as fast as I could, yet savoured every step I made as my old boots made contact with the crisp, bright, green grass.

All the noises, sounds and feelings thrashed against me..causing me to feel more overwhelmed than ever.

Finally....Freedom from the darkness.

Time went slow as I ran towards the view in the distance, I felt extremely overwhelmed as I took eveything in.

The sun got brighter and brighter, the trees swayed in rhythm of the wind and the birds tweeted ever so beautifully. And yet, my heart was in my throat once again, and was beating as loud and harsh as a drum. Was I scared? confused? Excited even? Yes. Because I felt all of it.

I felt every emotion possible. Almost more than how I felt when I first woke up to complete darkness.

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This couldn't be real..?

This can't be real..?

Was this real?

I still couldn't think properly.

And so, I began to make it near the peak. My senses and instincts took control as the pink clouds became more clear through the light of the sun.

All until I stopped. Maybe it was the fact I had run so much and my body felt like it hadn't run in years. Or maybe it was the overwhelming feeling that seemed to grow noticeably larger with each step I had run. Or maybe it was the uncertainty of trusting my instinct on where to went.

Even though all of those thoughts were in fact true...I had to stop. I was not only at a peak to see where I was, but I was at a cliff... And I had noticed this as I saw the peaks of the sights under the cliff become clearer and clearer.

I was just suprised it was not another dead end.

Slowly, my eyes fully adjusted to the brightness of the sun this time, that faced in my direction...and as I rubbed my eyes, everything else became dim, except for the grand view in front of me.

The view...was beautiful.
No, more than beautiful. It was picturesque, magnificent.....and....breathtaking. Because it really did take my breath away for a moment.
It was like the true prize for my journey to get here.

It looked just as if the great sun had rose from the distant horizon only a while ago, which was the beautiful cause for the vibrant yet soft tones and colours painted across it.

I couldn't help but scan my eyes over the view. The light gracefully shone over the buildings, causing it to glimmer and glisten like the sight of the treasure you'd expect to find at the end of a rainbow.

But no, the more I scanned my eyes over the view...the more I realised that there were no 'normal' looking buildings to be found.

It was simply....

Ruins.

Ruins piled upon ruins. And nature was still in the never ending process of consuming it all. Old rubble and rock had covered most of the destroyed landscape. It looked like time itself, and someone or some thing had destroyed it all...But I couldn't assume much from the distance.
Trees were grown everywhere like this was an ancient forest full of all 'what had been' years ago. And anything that still lasted from the past was scarred by it in many ways.

Although it seemed like a dreadful dystopia already, it seemed that this was all just from the past. And we all have parts of us from the past too, so it had to be accepted. Meaning, accepted by me. I couldn't help but think that there were still areas that must be filled of the present, not the past I had no idea about. There had to be something more. There just had to be. And I hoped with people, villages and new areas that weren't destroyed by the mysterious past too.

But I still couldn't get ahead of myself. And I still, couldn't feed into my false hope of finding something that wasn't as ruined as what I knew of my life, which was in fact nothing. Nothing but false hope.
After all...this was just hope itself, reasurring me of my worries and fears of being left alone and tormented by this past I'm constantly reminded of, from myself and surroundings. The past I did not know of.

I looked around frantically, there did seem to be more beyond the cliff and my current location. But they were all too far.

"W-what.....," I breathed. "what was I supposed to do....now...?"
I whimpered the last few words almost inaudibly as I tilted my head, looked up and stared deeply into the blue blanket that covered this magnificent globe. It's light and bright clouds moving ever so slowly around it, making the scene and moment more beautiful and joyful than it was supposed to be.

I was upset...upset because the realisation had finally hit me once again.

I was alone.

I shouldn't even feel suprised at this point.

It was a realisation that kept occurring ever since I woke up.

But the more I felt like I should be used to this pain, the more it hurt.

There was no kind girl instructing me on what to do. There was no pedestal taking me through another adventure to find what I hoped, was my past. But the thing is, there was nothing. Nothing but the past itself in ruins.

And maybe. Just maybe, it was better that way.

I could be a bad person for all I know. Could I really handle the truth if I couldn't handle darkness itself?
My eyes in that reflection seemed full of innocence, yet everything else such as the scars...told me the opposite.

'Who....am I?

No,

Who was I?'

Such a simple question, a question I did not know the answer to. Not even a little bit.

That was all I wanted to know. All I needed.

But that was all I couldn't have.

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The more I felt closer to my destinied answers, the more it faded away.

Maybe I deserved this punishment. But I didn't even know why, how or even if I did.
...And the thought of not knowing drove me crazy inside. I knew I was over thinking again, but I couldn't help it.

But maybe, I just wanted to know because I felt like that was my only purpose. My only purpose in this so called 'hyrule'.
From this amount of time knowing myself, the only answer I got was just a 'maybe'. That was it.

But deep down I knew, the more I thought about it, the more I realised I was left with nothing. I was left in the dark, and quite literally from the very start.

I sighed, rubbed my eyes from any old tears that had formed in my eyes with my smooth yet rough hands, and looked down at the perfectly imperfect view in front of me and the cliff I was on.

"I might as well try.." I sighed while turning my head to the right while at the same time, the breeze picked up and blew my hair gently back.

And surprisingly, my answer was right in the distance in front of me.

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Hope was a beautiful thing that I kept going back to. It was the only thing I could rely on for it's help. False hope or not, it took me away from my negative reality.

It was almost like it was my only option.
My only option to follow what it had in store for me. It was my only chance and I had nothing more to risk.

And so I accepted it.

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1/7/21 - 11/8/21

Authors Note:

1/7/21 A/N: A lot of you really wanted me to update. I really appreciate the love, really. I like spending time planning so I know where to go with this and literally watching videos on the start of botw so I get every important detail for things to add up. I like being specific and also to create character development xD
Everything is the way it is for a reason. I repeat the same thing for a reason. And because link is going slightly insane from being on his own lol, but that will all change...trust me!

(I will also try my best to improve my writing so bare with me...!)

And sorry it took a while, I was super stressed to update 3 Zelda stories at a time and revising for irl exams on top of that, but don't worry, when I'm busy i'll always be writing bit by bit until I'm able to post xD

Random, but if this story was not mainly focused about Links emotions specifically, (just the whole botw and before) I probably would of called this story....'100 years ago'*
Or something cooler like 'The chaos of the calamity', 'Faded memories' or 'Save her'😂 idek

*And then the story description would start with what king rhoam says in botw, like.....

"I think you are now ready. Ready to know what happened 100 years ago."

ect, ect. (maybe you'll see a story like this in future ;])

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29/7/21- also I'm sorry if my writing doesn't exactly feel like Link's POV even though it is (ik I'm over thinking) because I still like to set the scene and stuff and I'm still editing to make you feel as he would of felt :)
Sometimes when I describe something I feel as if I'm writing in a form of a list in a way. But improvement awaits!

Published 11/8/21- Enjoy!