“Dammit, you keep saying it wrong!” Alex shouted at Link. “Well then, how do I say it!?” Link yelled back. “You’re supposed to say it like you’re really angry,” Alex said, getting in Link’s face. “I AM REALLY ANGRY!” Link yelled, and Alex could quite clearly pick out the individual items of his lunch in his breath.
“You shut up.”
Smack.
“You too.”
Slap.
Link and Alex recoiled from each other, anger dissipating in surprise. When they looked, rubbing their cheeks where they’d been hit, they saw a woman with flowing brown hair in a simple dress. “Did you have to do it quite so hard?” Link asked of Malon, standing up straighter. “Yes,” she said, a mischievous grin on her face.
“Well, since you’re here, let’s start working on a different scene,” Alex said, walking over to his limo to transport all the actors. Since they were all filming on-location, in Hyrule, there was no need for any sets to be built- everything was already arranged. More problematic, however, was the deadline. They only had one week to finish production of the movie, which would be the first complete record of Link’s journey through time to save Hyrule. The pressure was high to deliver a quality movie on-schedule.
Suddenly Alex felt a prodding sensation on his ears. He jumped about a mile and was furious upon landing. “Christ
on a crutch, Navi, don’t do that!” Alex said to the
diminutive blue figure floating behind his ear.
Navi was a fairy, about 5 inches high and glowed a brilliant blue, appearing to be little more than a blue sphere with wings from a distance.
She was also extremely fascinated with Alex, who had come from the human world.
“I’m sorry, but… your ears… they’re just so round!” she said, still staring at them with interest. Alex sighed. “Alright, hop in everyone,” he said, holding a door open. Link and Malon crawled in, Navi seated herself on Link’s shoulder, and Alex jumped in and closed the door. “Hyrule Castle Town,” he said to the driver.
Since they had been filming at the opposite edge of Hyrule Field when Malon arrived, it took several minutes to traverse the intervening distance.
“So, how exactly does this… lima-scene thing work?" Malon asked to pass the time.
“Limousine,” Alex corrected, not exactly knowing how the damn thing worked. “It’s really complicated.” The conversation ended there. Link pulled a notepad from his pocket and began doodling aimlessly while Navi watched interestedly. Alex stared gloomily out the window, brooding on how he was going to finish the movie in the remaining week they had left. Malon tried to take a nap.
At some point in the journey, Malon must have fallen asleep, because she had a most peculiar dream…
Malon stood in Hyrule Field, and suddenly Link walked up to her! “Hi Malon, I baked you a cake!” he said, pulling it out of his pocket. “Thank you!” Malon said, and ate the cake. But suddenly disaster struck! A man who looked exactly like Link appeared, except he had a mole on his left cheek! “Oh no!” Link cried, “it’s my evil twin brother, Shmink!” Just as things seemed to be at their worst, a limousine came and ran over Shmink! “Jump in!” Alex cried, and then-
A bump jolted the limo, and Malon woke up. “We’re here,” Alex said, opening a door and getting out. They all emerged from the car and entered town. Once the cameras were all set up in the building they had rented for production, they began filming.
Link looked left and right, checking that the room was empty. He reached for the doorknob.
“Your leaving. Aren’t you?”
Link froze, his hand on the knob. He slowly turned to face Malon. “I- I have to. To defeat Ganon.” Malon simply stared at him. “I have to,” he repeated weakly.
Malon turned away, her eyes watering.
“Hey, hey, don’t be like that… I’ll come back…” Link said, moving closer to her.
Suddenly she turned, wheeling around to face him. “But how long!?” she shouted. “A week? Two weeks? A month? A year!?” she fairly yelled, striding around the room. “Or what if you never come back?” Malon said limply, plopping down in a chair. “What if you die and I never find out? Die horribly in some distant land?” Link moved to comfort her-
Tripped over himself.
Crack.
“Ah, shit, ah!” Link cried, clutching his knee. “What happened!” Malon cried. “Turn that damn thing off,” Alex snarled at the cameraman.
“What happened?” Alex asked, bending down.
“Tripped,” Link said, trying to stand.
Satisfied that Link was okay, Alex sat down and considered drinking some of the prop wine on the table.
“Alex!” a man said, handing him a phone. “Zelda, she says it’s urgent.”
“Yes?” Alex said, fearing what she might say.
“Alex- I don’t think that I’ll be able to-” she suddenly broke off into a fit of coughing. “I don’t think I’ll be able to work for the next few days.” Alex clutched the phone as she kept coughing. “I got the flu. I’m sorry, I have to go.”
“Bye.” Alex flipped off the phone and handed it back to the man who had given it to him.
The next day, Alex went to Hyrule Palace. “It’s really bad,” the doctor said. “This isn’t any normal flu. Must be desert fever, judging by the swelling.”
Alex thanked the man for his time and returned to his car.
And all the way back to his temporary lodgings, he stared glumly out of the window and despaired, for how could he ever finish the movie?
The Day You Left
Alex Ashton
Link walked slowly through the forest, knowing these may be the last few moments he spends in his home. One of the Know-It-All Brothers was still trying to pick the weeds in front of Mido’s house. Medi sat on the awning above the shop, saying hi to anyone who passed by. Link could, on the edge of his hearing, sense Navi crying as she floated behind him. He understood; he wanted to leave about as much as he wanted to jump off the highest cliff in Hyrule. This had been his only home, a constant, an unvarying fact of his existence. Leaving here felt like leaving without his heart. But he’d have to put such things behind him if he wanted to complete the task the Great Deku Tree appointed to Link as his dying wish.
“You’re leaving… aren’t you, Link?” It was Lyle. Link had hardly noticed he had reached the exit to Kokiri Forest. He nodded. Lyle’s face fell, but he stood aside, letting Link pass.
“I don’t know what it is the Great Deku Tree told you to do,” Lyle said, putting a hand on Link’s shoulder, “but good luck.”
Link walked past silently. Here it was, the moment of truth; he must cross the bridge bordering Kokiri Forest and the rest of the world. He stood there, plucking up the courage to take the last few steps into the brave new world.
“Link!” a voice called from the forest. Footsteps, growing louder, then-
Saria emerged from the portal on the Forest’s side of the bridge. She looked so sad. Link’s heart constricted; he couldn’t breathe. He just stood silently.
“You’re leaving… aren’t you?” Saria asked. Link swallowed his emotion long enough to nod. Saria looked even sadder. “I knew you would one day. You’re not like us, the Kokiri.” She waited for Link to say something, but when he didn’t she continued: “Well… this is goodbye…” a single tear fell from her eye. Link stepped a little closer, mind reeling with words to comfort his friend. The truth was, he was on the edge of crying himself. Saria continued.
“But… we’ll always be friends, right? No matter what happens, no matter how far away we are!” she smiled weakly, then wiped her eyes on her sleeve. “Here, I have something for you…” Saria said, searching for something in her pocket. “Here it is!”
It was a tan-colored Ocarina.
Link took it, then finding no words, nodded his head.
Saria’s smile got wider. “My mother gave me that one,” she said. “I’ve got this song I wrote, a long time ago…” she fumbled in her pocket again and produced a faded piece of paper. “Could you play it for me?”
Link squinted at the notes written on the paper. It was just three simple notes, repeated once. He put the Ocarina to his lips and began to play. He wasn’t very good; he had never handled one of these instruments before. But Saria just smiled and smiled, and Link started to feel better. Started to feel like the world wouldn’t end, that the plains wouldn’t be set ablaze and he wouldn’t die if he stepped outside of Kokiri forest.
“There’s something special about that song,” Saria said. “Whenever someone plays it, I can hear their voices. We can talk to each other while you’re out doing what you have to do!” Link smiled.
“Go on now!” Saria said. “Go make us proud!” Link nodded happily, and ran out of the forest.
Saria turned away, preparing to head back into the forest. She stopped just outside and bent her head.
“Link… be safe…”
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