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mishwanders · 11 months

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•The Hero’s Shade & Navi • Time in a Tree •

Summary: The hero of shade is unable to find his way. Thankfully, an old friend goes searching for him and finds him in the most unlikely of places.

Genre/Warnings: angst with some fluffy Navi and Link moments and a good ending. safe for everyone.

Author’s Notes: none of this is canon, just my silly little thoughts about them and the possibilities of where/how the Hero’s shade might have met his fate. They hit me with the angst, so I decided to write the besties together again for my own closure lmao. This fic was written by Mishwanders. Do not take or repost it anywhere as your own.

‘Why is it so dark?!’

The Kokiri forest was shrouded in a dark fog, unable to be pierced by the light of the sun above. Navi floated above the small abandoned village, the life that she once knew the place to have was now long lost in the past, the homes of the children she once knew had no crumbled to rubble as nature began to take over as the new residence of the village. Navi remembered the life the place had so clearly in her memory, every face, voice of the Deku tree, even the smell of the lush forest in the spring.

Navi could still smell it, but only on occasion. It had been mixed with something else, something that was dank and decaying in the woods. She couldn’t help but wonder if that’s why the darkness hung over this place so heavily now. She couldn’t stay here though, she couldn’t reminisce for long. She came here for a reason, she had someone she was looking for.

So, the little blue fairy continued on through the village to the edge of the forest, in search of her old friend. She floated all the way up to the old path, finding that the entrance to the lost woods had also broken in places under the weight of time itself. Navi listened in closely to see if they could hear the familiar sounds she was so used to, the tune of the forest, but she was met with nothing but the howl of wind.

Navi felt nervous, fearful at how much the place had changed, at the state it ended up in. ‘What has become of this place?’

But again, Navi could not stay in one place and she refused to turn back around. She was on a mission, she had to see it through. So, Navi moved through the old log tunnels, no longer needing to travel through the woods by the sound of the forest song. She had been here enough times with Link, chasing after the sprite little kid who went into the unknown with more courage than anyone else she’d ever met. She knew this place by heart now.

But a little song couldn't hurt.

Navi began to hum the tune to herself as she moved throughout the path, allowing it to dispel some of the nervous tension she was feeling in her wings, allowing the memories to push her forward. She had heard that her old friend had found his fate here, somewhere, but seeing how home had turned, she knew she needed to get him out. He had saved Hyrule, it was time for him to let someone else save him.

The blue fairy continued to float through the darkness, through the spaces inbetween, over the hedge maze. The old moblins that Ganondorf had once stationed in this palace had long since fallen to their own fates by the hand of the hero of time, but Navi sensed there was an eerie feeling that still clung to this place, a weight that encompassed it, even in the air. Navi couldn’t help but feel more scared as her humming quieted. She felt as if she were a rather bright target out in the open like this and she was scared that there might be something else with her that she couldn’t see.

So, Navi flew faster, looking for a place to hide.

She quickly zoomed and zig-zagged throughout the place, looking for someplace safe, but with this fog it was proving harder than she expected. She was beginning to lose hope but she caught the glimmer of something in the forest, something that looked almost golden, under a large tree. She flew for it, hiding behind it, dimming her light as she peered out into the darkness as if she were waiting for a monster to appear out of the mist and attempt to grab her.

But once she realized that nothing was going to come for her, she allowed her light to brighten once more, letting out a sigh of relief. That relief was short lived though, for she jumped at the sound of a laugh reaching her. It encompassed her, surrounding her, rumbling the golden structure she’d found herself in.

A voice spoke as clear as day. “That tickles!”

Navi shot out of her hiding place, turning to look and see who it was that was speaking to her. She noticed that the golden surface was not just anything, but rather the golden plated metal of armor that dressed a skeleton with a singular red eye. Navi spoke up in absolute shock.

“Link?!”

The skeleton looked at the blue fairy with his one good eye, pondering over the name she’d spoken. It felt familiar, calling to memories that were once long lost to him. He could have swore he recognized her, the voice - there was a sense of familiarity that encompassed her. He felt warm and happy at the sight of her, pure joy filling his old bones with a life that he didn’t know he missed.

The fairy began to buzz around him frantically, trying to get his attention. “Hey! Listen! Link, is that you? Please say something!”

Her voice pulled more memories to the surface and he reached out for her, feeling her slip through his skeletal fingers. But he knew her, he remembered her by name now.

“Navi? My friend, is that you?”

Navi bounced around, up and down in the air out of pure joy when he said her name. “Yes! It’s me! I’ve been looking for you!”

If the skeleton had any eyebrows, they would have been raised in shock at the mention of that. He thought he’d been abandoned, long forgotten. “You’ve been looking for me?”

Navi bounced up and down again as if to nod in response. “Yes! I’ve been searching for you for a very long time!”

Link felt a wave of emotions that were once long lost to him being to wash over him. It had been a long time since he’d felt anything but grief and despair, even after he helped the hero of twilight on his quest, he still found himself bound to this place, to this plane of existence, unable to move on his own. If he could cry, the tears would have been streaming down his face like a rushing river amidst a storm at the sheer mention that someone was looking for him, that someone cared. “So many years I’ve spent alone. Lost between time and space. I’ve been long forgotten by the world, I thought I was abandoned. But yet you still exist, you still call me by a name once known to me - searching for me.”

Navi realized the more he spoke, the more he was remembering, the more he was coming back to himself. But finding him here in this place, the fog that hung over it, bothered Navi greatly. What kind of fate had he fallen here?

“Link, what happened to you?”

Link looked at her solemnly. His memories were not entirely pierced together. They felt like the sharp shards of a broken mirror each time he picked them up to observe them, trying to put them all back together, unable to make sense of it in its entirety. How would he be able to tell her, if he did not know it all himself?

“I - I do not remember. All I can remember was the regret, the pain. I am still bound to this place, lost on my own. It is why I am here, in a tree. I needed a place just for me.”

Navi’s light dimmed as he spoke. His own pain was keeping him bound in this place, unable to see the light through the fog. Navi floated closer to him, bumping into his helmet. Link sensed that this might have been Navi’s way of hugging him, her attempt at comforting him amidst his sadness. He welcomed it, never wanting the moment of ease to.

“I’m so sorry, Link. You didn’t deserve to die like this, to suffer as you have. I’m sorry I couldn’t reach you sooner, my friend.”

Link brought up his skeletal hand to touch Navi again, feeling the warmth of her light on his bones. “It’s alright, Navi. You could not have known.”

Navi floated down towards his face now, looking him in the eye. “Link, what if I told you there was a place you could go, where you could be free? Would you put your faith in me to help you get there?”

“Does such a place exist for one like me?”

Navi gently floated up and down, nodding again. “There is always a place for you to find peace. Do you still have the courage to follow me?”

Navi watched as his jaw cracked a bit, as if he were trying to smile. “Always.”

Navi began to glow even brighter, bouncing around excitedly. “Then keep that faith and just follow me! I can guide you through the fog!”

Link began to slowly stand up from his place, his bones cracking as they began to float in place. He stood tall in the air, taller than Navi had ever remembered him to be. She floated around him with excitement, to see the hope that was filling his old bones. “Follow me!”

Navi floated through the dark fog in the forest, through the maze, through each fallen log with the hum of a song, guiding him back to the Kokiri village, to the tunnel that led out of it and to the fields of Hyrule itself. Link sensed that there was something different about it though, that the tunnel would not lead him to the Hyrule he knew, but somewhere else. Navi turned around to face him once more.

“Once we walk through, you will not be the same as you are now. But you will live again with a new chance at life, to rest and to be at peace for everything you’ve done. Will you follow me?”

Link nodded, understanding. At this point, he was alright with losing the form that he had, it was long lost to him already, only the ghostly visage of something that once was. He walked through the tunnel with Navi by his side, feeling the weight of his armor and the darkness fall around him. When he opened his eye again, he was much lower to the ground, in a forest that was bright and full of life. He attempted to speak, but instead of words, it came out as a bark.

Navi floated around his new form, taking it all in. He was golden and white in his wolf like reincarnation, a red iris peering up at them. Navi bounced around excitedly before knocking into his head, an attempt at embracing him. “It worked! It worked!

Link nuzzled his head up into the warm fairy light, his mouth opening as if to smile. It was something he never thought he would get to experience, to be whole again and together with his long lost friend.

“You can go wherever you want to now - no restrictions! And I promise I’ll be by your side, until the end of time!”

Link felt his entire body grow warm at the sound of that, the joy radiating from within. There were no restrictions, he was no longer bound to duty or despair. He was given a second chance.

Now, he could truly have a life that was worth living for him.

#writing: link #writing: navi #writing: the hero’s shade #sfe #oot link #the hero’s shade #navi #oot navi #wolf link #legend of zelda fanfiction #legend of zelda fic #Spotify #ocarina of time #twilight princess #link x navi #but it’s strictly platonic

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zelda-without-a-licence-plate · 7 months

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Ocarina of Time: the Sacrimonial Elegy

Chapter 1 out now!

It is raining. The stone walls are slick from it. It washes away everything but the wreaths of fire that enshroud the parapets. The moat swells and rises to swallow a gasp and the last whisper. Poison-purple smoke pours out the doors of a grand temple and stains a child’s fingers red. White flames overtake the summer-green prairies and winter-blue forests. A bell tolls, the one-too-many clangs sinking into the earth and splitting it open. When the world cracks apart it does so with the cry of a man. "A true friendship; a feeling in the heart that grows stronger over time. The passion of friendship will soon blossom into a righteous power and through it, you will know which way to go." -Sheik, LOZ:Ocarina of Time A complete retelling of a beloved piece of Zelda history, this not the Ocarina of Time you know, but it is the Ocarina of Time you love.

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Leafy bushes lined the Great Deku Tree’s clearing, growing around the roots of the old growth trees that made the body of the Kokiri Forest. In late spring, the shade of the forest’s canopy held on to the cool night air at dawn. The Deku Tree sighed, the ancient tree spirit’s enormous trunk heaving, his branches rustling. A strong breeze swept the clearing. He spoke to the fairy before him, his voice a low murmur, nearly indistinguishable from the hum of the earth itself. The water fairy, glowing rare blue in the pink sunrise, flitted about in front of his nose.

It was as rare to see a fairy alone in the forest as a Kokiri. It was rare for such a somber air to settle over this clearing, so often filled with light and laughter. The hushed conversation between the fairy and the Deku Tree ended abruptly with the fairy zipping away, into the forest proper, leaving morning dew on the leaves that her wings brushed as she flew. She knew the forest well and navigated through the trees with urgency.

She broke into a larger clearing as the first proper rays of sun shone over the tops of the trees. Little wooden doors on little tree houses creaked open, and the Kokiri village sprang to life as the children of the forest woke up. The fairy weaved and winded, dove between the slats of a garden fence and looped up around a small suspension bridge. One early riser jumped out into her path, and in narrowly avoiding colliding with the toddler’s head, she swerved instead into a lattice with a disgruntled squeak. She shook herself and kept flying.

At the southern edge of the village was a treehouse with a crude drawing of a small figure battling a somewhat blob-shaped clawed monster carved into the trunk. It had a curtain for a door, making it easy for the fairy to slip inside. From the ground below, curious eyes watched the curtain flutter.

Inside the small hut was a bed, under the window, which never really got much sun because it faced south and into the dense forest. Sprawled in the bed, fast asleep, was a boy, who had springy, dark curly hair, and brown freckled cheeks still well round with youth. His pointed cap was askew from having worn it to bed, and his blanket was kicked off and tangled around his feet. He drooled slightly onto his pillow.

Navi hoped the boy had a nice dream. She fluttered around his face, calling into his ear, “Hey, Link! Wake up!”

Link didn’t rouse, only snuffled and buried his face in the pillow. Normally Navi would be happy to let him wake in his own time, but there was no time for that today, there was an emergency. “Link, listen! The Great Deku Tree is asking for you, okay, wake up! Now!”

If anything, the boy seemed to just get more asleep, splaying out on his belly and sinking deeper into the mattress. Navi looked up in exasperation and started bouncing up and down on his shoulder. That didn’t work; she was too light and Link had always been both a deep sleeper and sturdier than the other Kokiri.

So she sprayed water into his ear.

Link sprang upright with a loud, disgusted whine, swiping at his pointed ear. Navi hovered around him while he pouted, rubbing the sleep from his eyes and fixing his cap. When he spotted her, the grumpiness evaporated from his face and he grinned, his big, round brown eyes sparkling with joy.

“Navi!” He gasped. The boy couldn’t see past her glow the way she winced as his voice cracked. “You’re back! It’s been forever!”

She dimmed her light so Link could see her properly, and smiled. She didn’t comment on the fact that Link had grown-- a lot -- in the year since her last visit to the forest. “I know, too long. I’ll have to tell you all my stories later, though, okay? The Deku Tree is asking for you.”

“Mmgh,” Link rubbed his eyes again. “Now?”

“Yes, Link,” Navi said. At her solemn tone, Link’s his eyes widened, and he scooted to the edge of the bed.

“ Now ?” He repeated, the meaning different.

“Yes, Link,” Navi also repeated, the meaning the same.

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#mod car #experimenting with my chapter link posting style what do ppl think of this do you hate it. i think it at least looks neat #and is hopefully more engaging than just the plain link at the top and maybe a quote from the chapter #oot link #oot rewrite #oot:tas #loz ocarina of time #oot saria #oot mido #oot fado #oot navi #great deku tree #loz fanfic #we debated between ourselves quite a bit about links communication method #but ended up settling on speaking mostly for majoras mask reasons tbh #but just know that when link is talking he does it autistically and when he is not talking. he does it autistically

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