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Link walked through the forest on Epona, his steed was calm and the two of them were going through the woods in a comfortable silence. Every now and then Link would see a few fairies. Often they'd take a quick break on his hat or in his hair, and sometimes offer pleasantries that Link would return. But mostly...Link simply continued to walk through the forest. Ever since Termina a little under a year before, Link had been...roaming and searching. He needed to find Navi, Navi was the only one who could ever understand him. He couldn't go back to kokiri forest, he wasn't a real kokiri and he was sure Saria and everyone else was happier without the resident freak, he didn't belong with hylians, heck he could barely speak hylian, no matter how nice Malon and Zelda were, he was nothing but an intruder on Skull Kid, Tatl, and Tael's, friendship even if they said they liked Link's company and Skull Kid got excited around Link, Link was sure it was just out of them being grateful to Link for saving them, he could barely bring himself to look at Ruto or Darunia, even if he had saved them the second time, he was terrified he's slip up and tell them something about the prevented future, then they'd think he was crazy, and even if he visited Termina a lot, and spent a lot of time with the people he helped there(especially Anju and Kafei), he was sure he was nothing but a reminder of the horrible thing that nearly happened. The only person who could ever undertstand, the only person he could ever belong with is Navi.
So Link needed to find her. He needed to find the only creature in existence who could ever understand, the person who had been with him throughout the entirety of his adventure, the person who had dried his tears, who had helped and given him advice, who had been with him till the very end and that Link loved so much.
Link sighed softly, looking up at the overhead leaves of the trees, the sky was starting to get dark. He should probably get some sleep.
Link found himself a nice place next to a tree. He got off of Epona and gently patted her flank. Epona was a free spirit, and Link knew that she would always come to him whenever he played her song, so he never tied her to anything. Link started to set up his camp, or he was going to set up camp, but as he started walking towards the spot he was planning to set up, he took a step and didn't find solid ground, and screamed as he was swallowed up by the dark portal.
Link ran around, taking down monster after monster, rushing around the battlefield alongside his battalion. Less than a week ago portals had started to open all over the kingdom, so far they had been dropping monsters upon monsters onto the army and he was exhausted. Link had only joined the army a year ago, give him some slack!!! He continued to fight and rush around, however, just as he was about to rush to help a different battalion he heard the telltale sound of a portal opening alongside screaming before he felt himself get thrown onto the ground as the person screaming landed on him. The soldier let out a string of curses and threw them off of him, moving and pointing his sword at-
A child in green
The kid couldn't have been older than 10, he had blond hair that reached just below his ears, dark blue eyes, and was glaring at Link, and before Link could even react the child started yelling at the soldier.
In fairy.
Link stared blankly at the child as they continued to yell at him, speaking in fairy and being impossible for the soldier to understand. He only recognized the language as fairy because of Proxi.
Hylia where was that fairy when he needed her!? Suddenly there was a small hylian child screaming at him in fairy and Proxi was off doing goddess knows what!!
Then Link saw a monster point an attack at the child, and the soldier cursed and rushed forward, grabbing the child as the kid yelped in surprise and they both rolled, barely avoiding the axe that would have cut the child in half. And without another thought Link started to run, as he did he noticed that he wasn't the only person with random people appearing near them. He could notice at least 2 other portals with a random person being thrown through. Link could also hear that the child had gone silent after the attack, but Link didn't care. His priority was getting this child out of danger. He could find Proxi to help him communicate with him after the battle.
"Link what- where did you get a child!?" The blond looked up to see his captain, and the soldier simply pointed to the portals and the captain cursed.
"Get him to a camp, we'll find his parents after the battle." Link only nodded and continued to rush with the young child, the young child muttered a few words in fairy, and when they reached the camp Link put the child on the closest box.
"Stay." Link said pointing at the box, he let out a sigh of relief when the child nodded. At least he understood some hylian even if he didn't speak it.
With that Link rushed off to continue fighting with the knowledge that the child would be protected until he could figure out where the child came from and how to get them back home.
Link sat on his box, he felt like he was in shock.
It didn't make sense!!! One moment he was in the lost woods, the next he was falling through the sky onto a random guy!! He wasn't exactly proud of himself for the things he had said to the other blond(who was apparently named Link as well, he was getting flashbacks to when Darunia named his son after him). Give him some slack!! He had thought that the other was the reason for that stuff and was angry!! He was very grateful to the other Link for saving him, Link had been too mad and focused on older Link to realize what was happening, to realize the fact that he was on a huge battlefield.
And from what he had seen, there were a LOT of people and monsters fighting on that battlefield. Plus a few people that seemed to be being thrown through portals just like Link was.
What the fuck was happening?
Whatever. Link had no idea what was happening, but what else is new? First he wakes up 7 years older, then he gets turned into a Deku Scrub for wanting his stuff and Epona back, now THIS!!! Ugh. He hated his life, the goddesses must REALLY hate him. With his luck he was probably thrown across time or something. The 11 year old couldn't help but pout. He was so done with this!!! There wasn't even anybody around who could understand him!! It was clear the older Link hadn't understood a word out of his mouth, and unless there are fairies in whatever place he was thrown into, nobody else would understand him other than the few hylian words he could speak.
Why was speaking hylian so hard for him!? Most hylians literally speak all the time, but even though Link understands them he struggles so much to actually say hylian words other than the scattered few Malon had helped him learn, and even then it took a bunch of focus. He didn't get it!!! Sure, he was raised speaking fairy alongside the kokiri, but that shouldn't keep him from being able to learn to speak hylian the way most people learn to speak another language! Especially since Malon always seemed so confused with Link's struggle to pronounce the hylian language.
WHATEVER!!!
It was a while before the battle stopped, and after the other Link came back.
And he had a fairy with him.
Link lit up upon seeing the fairy, rushing over excitedly as the fairy spoke up.
"You must be the child Link mentioned!! He said you speak fairy, also my name is Proxi!!!" The blue fairy said and Link immediately nodded.
"Yeah. I was raised speaking the language and struggle with hylian. I do know a few words but it takes a lot of concentration to speak them." Link said and the fairy seemed confused.
"What? How? You're hylian, shouldn't you be able to speak hylian easily? Most fairies are able to speak hylian with a week of practice at most."
Link winced at the question, he had been getting the same amount of questioning from the fairies who were trying to help him learn hylian. All of them were confused about why Link struggled so much with what should be an easy language for him and the forgotten hero avoided eye contact.
"I dunno why I struggle to speak it so much, mostly I avoid other hylians." Link said and Proxi made a questioning noise.
"What about your parents? you're a child, you don't look any older than 11!! Where are they!?" Proxi asked and Link scoffed.
"I can take care of myself!!! My parents died during the Hyrulian Civil War, my father was a knight and my mother got me somewhere safe before she died."Link spat out and Proxi seemed to freeze before making a questioning noise.
"The...Hyrulian Civil War?" She asked, making a confused noise as Link raised an eyebrow. Why did she sound so confused? The war ended less than 10 years ago, everyone knew about it.
"Why do you sound so surprised? It ended less than 10 years ago, considering the fact I'm 11 is it really that shocking my parents died during it?"
"WHAT!? That makes no sense!!! There hasn't been a war in centuries before this one!!!"
"What- I'm in a war!?"
"Yes!!! What else do you think this is!? You're literally in a battlefield kid!!!"
Link immediately muttered a string of curse words he knew in fairy(all of which Tatl taught him), ignoring Proxi's 'lanugage!!' GODDAMNIT!!! He fucking knew it. He wasn't in his time anymore, was he!? Sure, tensions were bad with the gerudo, but it was not NEARLY to the extent of WAR!!! So unless he was in some random kingdom, which was very unlikely due to the hylian crest everywhere, he was very likely stuck in a different time.
Fuck. Him.
"Ok, Proxi, what the he- heck are you two talking about?" Link shot his head up to look at the very stressed looking other Link. Link definitely noticed the other Link censoring himself because of Link.
Well, at least he had the decency to not want to teach a child bad words. Little late though considering all of the curse words Tatl had taught Link in Termina.
"Well, this child is apparently an orphan, 11 years old, can quote unquote 'take care of himself', knows a few hylian words but struggle to speak it, and knows WAY to many fairy curse words!!!" Proxi said it all very quickly and Link rolled his eyes.
"You try to not learn curse words when the fairy you're traveling with curses at you ever other sentence." Link spat out and Proxi stumbled over her words, before getting mad.
"excuse me!? What kind of fairy curses out a child!?"
"One with a massive fucking attitude that's who." Link spat out, rolling his eyes. In reality, both him and Tatl were super stressed. Tatl was terrified for Tael's safety, and Link was under constant pressure with that HORRIBLE moon constantly hanging over his head, ready to crush both Link and everyone in Termina at any moment.
Not that Link would say anything about it. He wasn't a fucking idiot. He knew he'd be accused of lying, especially since people would automatically assume an 11 year old couldn't do half the stuff Link had done.
Whatever.
"Proxi..."
"He said that he traveled with a fairy that cursed him out!!!! Can you imagine!? Cursing out an 11 year old!?" Proxi demanded angrily and Link rolled his eyes.
"I was 10."
"YOU WERE 10!?!?!"