A Link in Time

One: The Messge

~Heather's POV~

"Welcome home, Skylor," I smiled, opening the door to my best friend. We didn't live together, but she practically lived here, considering she usually comes over at least once a week and spends the night at least one night. "You ready for me to attempt to fight Ganon on Breath of the Wild?"

"If you mean I'm ready to see you die a thousand times, then yes. Yes I am," she replied, carrying her back to my room. Oh, the benefits of her driving means she can come over whenever she wants, and the benefits of me having my own house means we can do whatever we want. Within reason, of course. Though, living a little ways out into the country isn't half bad, as we can scream pretty loudly without having any noise complaints.

"Oh come on, I may be a noob at the game, but I was able to defeat all of the divine beasts without dying," I countered. It was true, I have never really played a Legend of Zelda game until she got me into the a couple of months ago, and Breath of the Wild was honestly the only game I've played in the series. If you don't count the five minutes I've played of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. Though I have watched a Wind Waker walkthrough... Jesus Christ, I'm such a fucking noob!

"That's true, but you did kinda cheat the system by running away and just unloading arrow after arrow into them. But, c'mon noob, let's see what you got," Skylor spoke up, dragging me out of my thoughts. When I looked over at her, she had a Dr. Pepper in her hand and a shit eating grin on her face.

~Later~

"No... no no no no no no! NO! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" I screeched, nearly throwing my controller, "I WAS ONE HIT AWAY FROM KILLING GANON THEN I RAN OUT IF HEALING ITEMS! I call bullshit!"

"Ganon you asshole!" Skylor yelled, shaking her fist into the air. "I swear to God, if I could I would beat the shit out of him for you. That was so uncalled for."

I sighed and nodded, loading the game back up from my last save. I quickly realized that it was the save that I made before I went and fought Ganon and teleported our of there, back to one of the villages. Alright let's see... armor shop and general goods store... I need more food and better armor.

"Heather, forget the armor you get from the stores, just beat all the shrines. You're at fifty, you're almost half way there," we looked at each other for a second before bursting out into song. "WOAAHH WERE HALF WAY THEERE, WOOOAAAHH LLIIIIVVIINN' ON A PRAAYYERR!!" We then burst out into laughing, Skylor falling backwards on the bed and nearly falling off the bed. This in turn made me laugh harder in my chair, making me double over in pain.

"Why are we idiots?" I questioned, once we finally caught our breathes. She just shrugged. "Well, I'm hungry-"

"CHICKEN NUGGETS!" Skylor screeched, running off- though it was more of a retarded waddling- into the kitchen. I laughed and saved the game before following her into my kitchen, seeing her already pulling out the chicken nuggets and fries from my freezer. I sighed and shook my head.

"What is it with you and chicken? Of my Mac n' cheese?" I preheated the oven to the desired temperature and put out a pan, letting Skylor put the chicken and fries on it.

"I don't know. I just know that when I try to make any mac n cheese, it just doesn't taste right. Evens though we literally do the same exact thing..." she trailed, "so I just not give it enough love?"

"I don't know," I laughed, "but I do know one thing. Nothing will ever beat mine." She nodded and made her way back to my room. I grabbed a drink from the fridge before heading back, picking up the controller, and playing again until the food was ready.

Once we were done eating, we continued on our quest to get all 120 shrines. I sighed, as a lot of the quest ones were annoying me to no end. Why does there have to be forty-two shrine quests? Like seriously! That is an absurd number! As I was nearing the 80th shrine, something was off. The shrine didn't turn from orange to blue, if turned from orange to purple. I shrugged it off as my imagination or the coloring of my tv was going bad and headed into the shrine.

Though, as I was starting the shrine, I couldn't skip the scene where Link steps out and the dialogue that it produces. Instead, of the normal dialogue however, there is a new line that says 'to whom that enters this shrine and completes it, a special reward is granted.'

"Heather, did you hack the game?" Skylor questioned, looking at me. I cocked an eyebrow at her.

"Why would I hack the game? And how would I even do that? I only know how to mod computer games," I answered, running around the shrine and doing what I needed to do in order to beat it. Thankfully, it was one of the shrines that I had to fight an easy guardian, so I was able to quickly beat it.

"I don't know! You're the computer wizard person," she countered, sucking on her juice box. Yes, we are children.

"Computer wizard," I pointed out, "not Nintendo switch. Now, let's see what this 'special reward' is. I'm pretty curious," I stated, walking up to the Sheikah Monk, I pressed the button to get a new line of dialogue following the normal one once I got the spirit orb. This dialogue was like one of the cut scenes, though there was no cutscene, only Link and the monk on a hill and the monk talking. What kind of cursed or hacked game did my dad buy me?

"Ah, Link. There you are. It's good to see you again," the monk laughed. He had an old man voice but it didn't sound like one, if that makes any sense. "I know this is hard to believe, but you are one of many Link's in this universe, and they are waiting for your arrival. In order to see them, however, you need to say the following," and that's when the monk started speaking, I'm pretty sure, Hylian. Skylor and I didn't understand him, but we were able to quickly write down what he said just in case it was something. That's when the cutscene ended abruptly and Link was coming out of the shrine, the shrine itself now back to a blue hue.

"Let's see if anyone else has had this happen to them," I turned my computer on and went to google before typing what the monk had said into the search bar, coming up with nothing. "Well that helped," I sarcastically stated.

"What the hell is, hah shur-ung do moh kiwa,' supposed to mean anyway?" She questioned, only for us to hear a strange whoosh noise. We looked at each other before looking to my closet door where the noise came from. Slowly, after grabbing something to use as a weapon, we made our way too the door. I opened the door and took a quick peak inside before slamming the door shut. What the hell did I just see?