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She was listening to Purah and Zelda talk. They were important things, but she wasn’t really interested. Mainly cause it just wanted to run around in the woods again. Zelda really didn’t mind her doing that, as long as she can watch her to make sure nothing happens. Link may or may not have the tendency to get into trouble when left alone. It’s not it’s fault though! It just tends to attract trouble is all, and maybe sometimes on purpose…

Her ears flicked as she heard a buzzing sound in the back of its mind. Its eyes drifted to the door. She recognized that buzzing sound. She knew what it meant , and it really didn’t like what it meant. It sighed and looked back over to the two girls chatting. Shaking her head, she walked over to Zelda and put its hand on her shoulder.

“Zel.”

Zelda and Purah both stopped their conversation to look at Link. It sighed and shook her head again.

“She wants to talk again…”

Link never enjoyed actually saying it. This was the best way she could think of to get around uttering the actual phrase. What did it mean by this? Well ever since it woke up. She was able to talk to the goddess, and whenever Hylia wanted something from then on she would simply start a buzzing sound in the back of Link’s head till she talked to her.

It was annoying, and it really hated saying the fact that it could talk to the goddess. Basically she was the goddess’s messenger, and being that wasn’t fun. She didn’t really enjoy it at all. 

Zelda looked at it with sympathy and nodded. All of its friends knew what that phrase meant, and all of them felt sorry for her. They knew how much she didn’t like it.

“Come back once you’re done talking to her, oaky?”

Link gave a swift nod and left the room where Purah and Zelda still stood, and could vaguely hear them going back to the conversation they were having beforehand as it walked away.

Wolfie had come back after its second journey, and was currently lying outside on the deck. He immediately popped his head up at the sound of her footsteps. He slowly stood up and gave a big stretch before walking over to her. It gave a slight chuckle as he rugged his head against its leg.

“Sorry bud, I can’t hangout right now. She needs me.”

She shook her head as he let out a small whine, but nodded and went to lay back down. She gave him a small smile before walking off again. Softly making its way over to the emergency shelter’s ladder. 

Swiftly it descended down the ladder before looking around the shelter. It wasn’t much, but it held the ability to make sure people could live down here for a bit so it worked. She then locked eyes with the goddess statue down here. The buzzing grew.

She sighed, and walked over to it. It sat down in front of the statue and stared at it. It knew she had a message. She wasn’t excited for what was to come next.

“Dear Messenger, I've called to you this day,
A quest I give, no time to delay,
From ages past, heroes I shall send,
To help you fight, until the very end.

The monsters rise, a dreadful, fearsome strain,
Their power is vast, they bring endless pain.
With these brave souls, your mission will unfold,
To vanquish beasts, courageous and bold.

Through darkest nights, and battles yet untold,
You'll fight with them,
Of monsters gone, no longer a threat,
A victory won, a debt that's been met.

And one thing more, before you start the fray,
Bring forth your mentor,
Your wolf companion, by your side he'll stay,
To guide and help you, in this destined way.”

She started. That was a lengthy one. Repeating it over and over again in her head. It needed to have this memorized so that the message could be deciphered. The goddess always spoke in riddles, so it usually had the others' help deciphered.

She shook her head once more and stood up. She quickly made its way back to the ladder, and ever swiftly made its way up the ladder. Once it reached the top, she quickly ran over to the room Purah and Zelda were still most likely in. Wolfie did lift his head as she ran past, but didn’t get up to follow as he assumed it was going to go and tell Zelda the message.

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It sighed at the two pieces of paper laying in front of the three of them. One had the original message written on it, as word for word as she could get it, and the other had the translation on it. While the translation wasn’t perfect, because well it is rhymes and there can’t be an actual translation for that, it was as close as they all could get.

The translation wasn’t something she was looking forward to. While it obviously had its assumptions about the message, she was still holding on to the fact that those assumptions could be wrong. They were in fact not wrong.

The translation basically stated this: She was going on another quest and had to find what was apparently a group of heroes from the past (well it hoped they were in a group), and had to join them in what it assumed was their quest in defeating much stronger monsters.

What it meant by stronger monsters? She wasn’t sure. At least that what she believes is what the message says anyways.

It just had to find them, and apparently Wolfie gets to join too. Which was actually quite nice. At least it got to have her mentor join her. That was a relief. He had been with it on its first journey, but not on her second. So having him on her 3rd was honestly very nice.

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Searching for people in her Hyrule was always a nightmare. It was giant, and with the sky islands and the depths. She had no idea where to even start. Something it could do is probably ask any of the stable workers to look out for any travelers with unique appearances, and just tell them to inform it.

She sighed. If she passed any stables on her search, it would tell them that. They somehow managed to get in touch with each other shockingly quickly. (It honestly was just not going to question it at all.)

Wolfie bugged her leg and looked at her curiously. It let out a giggle and ruffled his fur. He seemed very pleased once he got it to laugh, and started walking down the path again. When had they started walking down this path anyways? Was he leading her places again?

Well if he seemed to know where he was going she would trust him. He wasn’t really ever wrong anyways. It continued on the path behind him as he happily walked down it. It really wanted to know where he was leading her, but she knew it wouldn’t get an answer.

They didn’t spend much longer on this path. Was it in the middle of the woods? Yes, but that’s just how it’s Hyrule was. Basically half of it was 50 percent of it was forest. So it wasn’t shocked when Wolfie went off path and stopped at a small clearing. It was a good place to set up a camp, especially if there was more than one person.

Which she knew for a fact there were. She went to go kind of hid behind a tree. Not because it was scared, but because it just wanted to see what exactly she was about to go into. Wolfie didn’t seem to care though and just walked right over. Thanks for that.

She sighed. So much for taking a look before walking in. It just shook its head and walked in behind Wolfie. This was going to be chaotic. As she approached behind Wolfie she took in what exactly this group was.

There was 8 people. An older looking guy, a buffer looking guy with wolf pelt on his back (that wolf looked a lot like Wolfie), what looked like a soldier, a kid, a second kid, a teenager with a streak of pink in his hair, another teenager that was attached to the first one, and what looked like to just some random traveler.

Well these heroes definitely looked different from what it imagined, but it honestly couldn’t talk. With her own unique appearance, she did look amazing though. Taking a breath, it stood next to Wolfie with a hand (its fake hand). Now what to say.

“Excuse me.”

They whipped around to look at her. With clear confusion and uncertainty. She just gave them a smile, it was reasonable to not trust a random person. Though with it’s appearance, it wouldn’t take long before they figured out that it was Link. 

The older looking man spoke up, most likely the first one to connect the dots. Not that she would know until someone said something.

“Can we help you…. Miss?”

He sounded unsure if She was a miss or not, which just made it laugh. It gave a small nod towards him, hoping to convey he was indeed right.

“Do you all happen to be on the quest?”

They gave her puzzled looks. The older man nodded once more. Was he in charge?

“We are on a quest, Miss. May I know why you want to know?”

Okay well what does she say now? Wolfie didn’t really give it enough time to plan out what to say. It glared down at Wolfie for a quick second before looking back up.

“Well uh. I’m um.”

Okay now she was just embarrassing herself. It sighed, and told itself to just get it over with. Once it’s over with, she can just go and run around the wooded area around the camp.

“Okay, so far as I’m aware. You guys are the heroes Hylia sent, correct?”

The old man nodded. She guessed he already pieced it together. Everyone else looked shocked, though it appeared some of them were piecing it together. Slowly piecing it together.

“We are. You’re the Link of this Hyrule I assume.”

It nodded. He did piece it together, well that was one less thing to explain.

“Indeed I am.”

At least that was out of the way. The only other things to explain were all connected, mainly. The whole technically being the second hero in this era, which led into the whole age and 100 year sleep, and also the memory situation. The whole being a completely different person too.

Yeah there was still a whole lot to explain on top of being Hylia’s Messenger, but everything would be talked about in due time. Not that she trusted them fully yet. She would tell them when the time called for it.

“May I ask how you knew about us?”

“Well umm. About that. I kind of have the ability to talk to the goddess Hylia through the statues around Hyrule, and she kind of told me about this happening…”

And now everyone was looking baffled at it. Which was to be expected. That was a crazy statement. It was really really bad at social interactions. What she gets for being raised by the wilderness and a wolf. No offense to them, she loves them with all its heart but it does make socializing with hylians very difficult.

Okay maybe that was a lot of information to dumb at once. Was that too much? Should it have not said all of it at once? Oh Hylia… She was starting to regret being so blunt…

She looked down at Wolfie, who seemed to be perfectly fine. Maybe it was just overthinking this. Hylia above were hylians complicated. This is why she preferred animals ove hylians. Less social norms, whatever that meant (the word was more thrown at her then explained).

This was going to be a long day.

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Well it was in fact a long day. A lot of explaining happened. Lot of stuff she didn’t expect also happened. It was a doozy.

After everyone got over the initial shock of her saying that is when the mess started. Obviously a few of the guys were suspicious of it(Legends, Warriors, and Hyrule), but there were a lot that were kind of happy or excited for some reason? (Sky and Wind) Everyone else in the group didn’t seem to care. Just nodded.

Then the questions began. A whole lot of basically asking how it worked. How the talking worked. How it figured it out. How Hylia talked to her. And anything else really. The whole thing  was very very overwhelming, and eventually since the guys wouldn’t stop asking questions and left no room for her to answer anything Wolfie just barked at them. Which shut them up for a moment.

She just patted his head, and asked for questions one at a time. Though it seemed everyone’s attention was on both it and Wolfie this time. Which was to be accepted.

It just smiled and answered the questions one at a time now. The first question was how did she talk to Hylia? Well that was easy enough to answer. Through the statues littered across Hyrule. Then the next question was how did she figure this out? Well the answer to that was: when it started its first quest, she had prayed at the goddess’s statue for some guidance. And Hylia just spoke back.

She left out the part about how the first quest started. How it had no idea who Hylia even was at the time, and how it thought it was normal.

Then the next question was how did Hylia communicate to her through the statues? Which was a bit harder to word. The answer she ended up giving them was: She did speak to it, like actually talk, but she spoke to it through riddles. That gave her some confused glances, but the group moved on.

It was some more random, not truly important questions asked after that and some simple answers. Like was Hylia nice when the two of them spoke? And yeah she was nice enough. Wasn’t like Hylia was rude or anything, but it was just business when she spoke with the Goddess. So Hylia was nice, but not in the friends kind of way.

Then the questions finally got to Wolfie. The first one to be thrown out was by one of the two boys. He had on a similar shirt to its champion tunic. He asked who the wolf next to it was. She crouched down and pet his head, stating that his name was Wolfie or Dusk and that he was her mentor.

It chucked at the confused responses it got in return to the statement. When asked what she meant by that, she simply said. “He's a spirit. That’s kind of my whole thing is I’m the sage of Spirits, and I’ve dealt with them a lot.” Was the reply they got. She flicked the sage tear when it said its sage title. Wasn’t something she planned on hiding. Plus Wolfie wasn’t always in wolf form, so best to inform them that he’s simply a spirit.

Not like that could see him anyhows. They can’t exactly see spirits, well she had no idea if one of them was a median or not. They all looked at her in confusion. Was that a bigger shock than the Hylia thing? It had no idea.

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It was sitting away from the group. Everything was so exhausting. People were exhausting. Wolfie laid his head on her lap and she just sighed. Today was eventful. It was eventful. It was.

One of the guys was staring at it. One of the older ones, he had this fancy blue scarf on. He seemed so. Happy. Not in a bad way. He just seemed more like he was about something it couldn’t place.

She guessed she zoned out for a moment because next thing it knew, he was sitting next to it. He was smiling at her, and before she even got to open her mouth he was talking.

“Hi! I’m the Hero of the Skyward sword! I’m the chosen one! Like as in the First hero! Well not the first first, there was a guy before me, but not my point! The others call me Sky! Oh wait you already know that don’t you. Whoops.”

He rambled little bit, before sticking his hand out in front of it. It blinked a bit before nervously shaking it. She wasn’t sure what to do. Though he quickly took his hand away and just went back to rambling.

“Okay so I know we already asked you questions about being Hylia’s messenger, but do you mind if we, as in me and you, talk more about i5?”

Well she didn’t see why not, so it nodded.

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There were a lot more questions about it all, and eventually it got to explain that she just always had the ability to see ghosts (that allowed her to see them) as long as it could remember. It also found out one of them was in fact a median, it was the kid who had the champion tunic knock off (she knew it wasn’t, but that was easier to say). Which obviously came from when she explained the fact that the guys could only see Wolfie in his Wolfie form, and they wouldn’t be able to see him in his ghost form unless they were a median. Which apparently the kid was, and that was pretty cool. Did everyone probably suspect him of being what looked like the future version of one of the hero’s? Probably, and she didn’t care.

They all eventually got around to sharing the nicknames they had for each other. Everyone went as followed: Time, the old man(he actually didn’t mind being called that weirdly enough), Sky, had a cool blue scarf/sail thing, Warriors, the guy was a knight and had a blue scarf, Legend, despite being a teen was the veteran (had gone on the most quests, and spent the most time as a hero apparently) and had some pink hair, Wind, the kid with the blue tunic (champion tunic knockoff core), Four, not actually a child and the guy with a multi colored tunic, Twilight, definitely past Wolfie and wore a wolf pelt of what was probably his wolf form(it was a lot less green), and Hyrule, Legend’s successor and was definitely a hybrid (it could smell it, and it was definitely a great fairy Hybrid if anything).

Which then meant it was time for “the naming convention” as Wind called it. Apparently it was gonna be given a nickname based on her title. Which then she asked which one, because it had a lot and no idea which one. That got a blink out of them.

Yeah it had to explain it had been on two quests and had a lot of titles because well. She just did a lot. Then the guys explain that they had a “hero” title given by the master sword to differentiate between all the heros, and which one of her titles was that one.

It didn’t know. It had no idea. The master sword didn’t really like her that much. The sword apparently talked, though differently to all of its users, because it was a sword spirit. She then had to break it to them that from day one, the thing never spoke to it.

Though Zelda called them the hero of the wilderness because it was basically raised in the wild.

Which the group decided not to push, despite obvious curiosity and some almost doing it (legend and wind got on the head when attempting to question further), and just decided that the name Wild would work.

Though it was clear some people were curious on why the master sword never talked to her.

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It was a really lovely conversation that she and Sky had. Turns out his girlfriend, Sun aka his Zelda, was the reincarnation of Hylia so he got excited to meet someone who had direct contact with Hylia. Sun wasn’t Hylia obviously, but she was a reincarnation of the Goddess. Which was interesting.

Sky and It also talked about the master sword, and how they had never heard the sword's voice before. Apparently Sky had also made the sword, and was curious on what it was like for Wild. 

It wasn’t a bad conversation actually. It was interesting. It opened some doors for both of them, and Sky seem to understand why Fi (the master sword) never spoke to her. She was still a bit confused, but mainly understood.

It fell asleep that night laying in a tree with Wolfie underneath it. The guys didn’t seem bothered at all by her wanting to sleep in the tree at all, and just let her.

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…..

Someone was watching. Weren’t they?