Chapter 4: The Future Begins

Many nights later, a black-clad man roamed Kakariko Village in search of the blacksmith's house. With a meancing laugh, he set afire to the house, and ran off into the night.
"What's that smell?" Amara said as she looked and saw.... her home on fire!
"LINKCHEPTO! LINKCHEPTO! GET UP! THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE! WE MUST GET OUT!"
Amara grabbed the babe and ran out of the house just as she heard a blood-curdling scream. It was Linkchepto. He was trapped in the house!
"LINKCHEPTO! PLEASE LOOSE YOURSELF!" she screamed.
People began running into the flam-engulfed house and started to try to put it out. By the time the fire was out, Linkchepto was dead and Amara was left with her son and no money and no love left.
ZOOMMM!
An arrow whizzed past her head. THE VILLAGE WAS UNDER ATTACK! She took off to the stairway and ran down steps and out into the battlefield, holding her child ever so close. Arrows zoomed past her head as she ran toward a wooded forest. A hit!A cannonball would have pounded her into pulp if she had not run out of its way in time. BAM! Amara tripped and fell into the mud. She looked at her side. It was bleeding. *Oh please! Not now! I have to save my baby!* she prayed.
It was raining hard and she could barely but make out the shape of the forest clearing. A light shined upon the dense wood. She ran across a tiny bridge and into a small village littered with children dressed in green. A pang stung her heart.
*I must give you up, dearest. I love you, but it's for the best. I don't want you to die.*
Amara passed a corridor filled with vines and roots till she came upon a glen with a huge tree sitting in the middle.
"Thou hast great impudence to enter the Forest Children's home! Who dares this infamy?"
"It is I, Amara. I came to ask a favor of thee!"
"What is thy favor?" boomed the tree.
"Take my child! I shall surely die and I don't want him to die either. I love him."
She slumped down, preparing for what the tree was about to say.
The tree recognized her pure heart and say yes to her proposition.
"Thank you, Great Deku Tree!"
Two Kokiri came in and took the child.
"Please keep his name!" she called.
"What is the child's name?" asked the young Kokiri girl.
"Link."
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At that same night, a light, too, shined upon the newly built castle. It shined into a room inhabited with a sleeping Shiekah and a softly bundled baby in a cradle.

And so, the legend begins....

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