Hey, This is my first multi-chapter fiction, So l would love reviews on what I could be doing better. this whole idea came to me in the middle of the night and I couldn't sleep until I had written down the basic idea on some scrap paper.

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Legend of Zelda is owned by Nintendo, NOT ME
Kingdom Hearts is owned by Square Enix and Disney Interactive Studios, NOT ME

Legend of Zelda; Ocarina of Hearts

Chapter 1

Sora peered out of the Gummi Ship window, entranced by the new world ahead of them. Though he had been to (and saved) countless worlds now, each new one brought back his old curiosity and sense of adventure.

To turned back to the interior of the cabin, and to his two friends traveling with him. "Donald, have we got a place to land yet?" he asked the duck sitting in the pilot's seat. "Don't be so excited; I'm taking the ship down now!" Donald seemed to be in a bad temper, but Sora knew that's how he was all the time. He turned to the other passenger, a tall dog-like creature with a shield strapped to his arm. "Can you think of any reasons why this world popped up on our map?" Sora asked while turning to look out the window again.

"Well, just offhand, I'd say that there were Heartless on that there world" Goofy responded. "There might even be a keyhole for you so seal, Sora."

Sora leaned back, thinking about the other keyholes he'd sealed, preventing the Heartless from taking the heart of the world. There were so many now, not like a few years ago, when he could vividly remember every world he had ever been to. Worlds were popping up left and right now, and it was all he, Kairi, Riku and King Mickey could do to stay one step ahead of the Heartless. Normally, Sora, Kairi and Riku would never be found apart, but the influx of worlds needing sealed had forced the Keyblade Wielders to split up and tackle separate worlds. Sora wasn't worried about them; Riku could take care of himself, and Kairi was no longer the (mostly) helpless girl she used to be, but Sora missed their presences anyway. Once this world was sealed, he'd see them both again…

Sora's musings were interrupted by Donald's excited quacking. "We've got a world name and a place to land! The world is called Hyrule; we'll be landing near the capital, a place called Castle Town.

Sora watched as Donald expertly maneuvered the Gummi Ship down through the dark clouds surrounding the world. He suddenly felt a cold shudder pass through him as the ship went lower and lower. He didn't know what was going on, but for some reason he thought the clouds seemed a little foreboding. As soon as the thought came, Sora banished it. How was he supposed to know what the clouds were and weren't? For all he knew, the clouds were perfectly normal. Still, the dark feeling wouldn't leave him until the ship touched down and excitement overrode caution. "Let's go!" Sora bounded out of his seat and opened the door to the outside.

The first thing he noticed was the smell. It was the smell of smoke, sulfur and death all rolled into one. The smell reminded him of the village that was burned down by the Huns in the Land of Dragons. As Sora walked forward, coughing in the smoke, the haze around him cleared a bit and he gasped, sending him into another coughing fit.

The town was completely obliterated.

Buildings had been burned, shops looted, charred bodies lay everywhere; even the street had been torn up, like a giant creature had raked its claws along the road. Sora was no stranger to violence, but this wholesale destruction was beyond anything he'd ever seen. He remained motionless as Donald and Goofy joined him, and together they viewed the carnage, no one speaking.

"Gawrsh, what could have done this?" Goofy bent down and picked up a piece of cobblestone, weighing it in his hand. "This would have to have been something big."

Donald tapped the ground with his staff. "Looks like the work of Heartless. This is probably why we were sent here."

Sora frowned. There was something off about that idea, though he couldn't think what-

"Watch out!"

Sora and his companions ducked out of the way as a blast of fire hit where they had been standing. Sora tucked into a roll and came to his feet facing dozens of Heartless sprouting out of the shadows. Alright. Regardless of what caused the destruction, there were Heartless here now. Sora extended his hand, and his Keyblade materialized in his grip. Goofy readied his shield, and Donald raised his staff, preparing spells. Questions could wait until after they'd destroyed some shadows.

Sora ducked and rolled, slashing at the shadows around him. Heartless dissolved into mist as the Keyblade cut into them. Behind Sora, Donald struck a Heartless with his staff, then whirled and shot a bolt of ice at small group of Red Nocturnes, freezing them to the wall of a ruined building. To Sora's left, Goofy smashed a heartless into oblivion, then twirled with surprising agility and smashed a Knight creeping up behind him. The Heartless crashed into a wall, dissolving into shadow before the wall collapsed. Sora grinned as he struck down a wave of Shadows. Stuff like this was easy. Riddles were better left to the thinkers. He, while not stupid by any means, definitely preferred action to sitting around talking. Besides, fighting was way easier…

That's right when his Keyblade hit something semi-solid, not at all like a Heartless. He jumped back to see what he hit, but as he turned his head, a bloodcurdling scream tore through his ears, skipped his brain and went straight to his limbs, freezing them in place. This was nothing he had ever felt before. He was burning and freezing all at once, his mind simultaneously clear and confused. The clear side of his mind recognized what it was; it was fear. The rest of his mind rebelled against this idea; Sora had never felt fear like this before. Not when fighting Ansem or Xemnas, not when Riku stole his Keyblade, not even when he found Kairi on the floor of Hollow Bastion. This fear was greater than all those put together. It went to the darkest corners of his mind, showing him horrors unimaginable, things no sane man could or should even dream of. Sora was beginning to lose his grip on reality; there was nothing left…

Nothing but darkness…

Nothing but darkness…

Nothing but… Fire?

Fire exploded all around Sora, searing heat that blasted away the shadows. The horrible screaming cut off suddenly and Sora fell to his knees, coughing and retching violently. He looked around for Donald, but found him and Goofy in a similar position on the ground. So, if Donald didn't conjure the fire, who…?

"HEY!"

…What…?

"Listen up! Are you deaf or something? HEY! I'm talking to you!"

Something smacked Sora in the head. He fought off unconsciousness and stared at… well, it was a glowing blue something, though he didn't know what kind of something it was. It had two sets of wings and was hovering in front of his face. Sora had no idea how he knew, but he seemed to instinctively know that the…whatever…was angry at him, though he didn't know why. He cleared his throat and started to speak—

"HEY! What are you doing sitting there like a stoned Goron? Who are you? Where are you from? Shouldn't you know better than to go into Castle Town? Are you listening to me? Don't you know how dangerous ReDeads are? What were those shadowy things? That was pretty stupid! Are you OK? Why are your ears round? What are you doing out at night anyway? HEY! Pay Attention! Boy, aren't you glad we were in the neighborhood to rescue you!"

Only the very last bit filtered through Sora's head as he stood up, shaking the last of the paralysis off. "Rescue? …We? Who are you?"

The blue think seemed even more annoyed. "I'm Navi, don't cha know? I'm a Fairy? Jeez, you're thicker than my partner, and that's sayin something! That's him over there, with the stupid hat."

Sora looked over where the fairy had…pointed… (He just seemed to have this instinct that told him what the fairy's intentions were. Kairi would say he was getting more perceptive; Riku would say he was going insane) and saw a blur of green moving through the charred corpses (which Sora now realized weren't corpses at all, but some type of monster) cutting them up. Sora squinted through the gloom and made out a man wielding a sword and heavy shield. The man was obviously a master swordsman; Sora could immediately tell he was at least the level of Leon or Cloud, maybe better. The man moved through the monsters like wind; everywhere he went, a head or limb would just seem to fall off a monster; Sora could barely see his sword moving. The man seemed to have the speed and agility of an acrobat, but his sword-strokes were incredibly powerful. He wasn't limited to his sword either; Sora saw him pull out a bow and fire an arrow; then the bow was gone and Sora only had the quivering arrow in a monster's head as proof he wasn't imagining things. At one point the man's sword got stuck in a monster. Instead of fight to retrieve it, He simply bashed the monster with his shield, blowing pieces off of it. Goofy would be proud.

The fairy was talking again, but Sora just tuned it out as he watched. The man seemed to motion to Sora at one point and Sora somwhow got the impression that the man wanted him to get to Donald and Goofy. He ran over to his two friends and helped them up, with Navi chattering in his ear the entire time. Suddenly, the man was right beside them and he had done something with his hands and Navi had yelled to hold on and Sora's brain was only just catching up when the world started spinning and there was green and a sound of rushing wind and then everything folded…

At that point Sora thought it best to simply close his eyes and wait for the world to start making sense again.

Sora felt grass under his hands. He was on his knees again, eyes closed. He cautiously opened them and stood up. Nothing was spinning, so Sora looked around. They were all standing in the middle of a vast expanse of field. He could see mountains in the distance one direction, but the rest of the land was basically flat. There was no sight of the ruined town or the monsters. He turned to Donald to find him staring in awe at the man in green, who was paying them no attention as he pulled out a strange blue wind instrument and started to play.

"That guy…" Donald kept sputtering and gaping, so it took him a while to form a sentence. "That guy…" "That guy what?" Sora asked to get Donald's head out of the clouds. "That guy just used a super-powerful teleportation spell!" Donald was nearly incoherent in his excitement. "It was near instantaneous, and it affected all of us! What was that?"

"That was Farore's Wind!" The strange blue fairy was back to buzzing around Sora's head. "It's a super-nifty one-of-a-kind transportation spell, so you should be grateful you got to see it!"

"Yeah, we're grateful…Navi, right?" Sora wasn't quite sure what to make of this talkative fairy, but there was no doubt that they had been saved, at least for the moment. "So, what were those monsters back there? Those corpse things…what did they do to us?"

"ReDead." The man spoke suddenly, but when Sora looked at him, he had put away his instrument and was staring off into the distance, as if waiting for something. Navi picked up the conversation. "Those were ReDeads. Its gaze will paralyze you. If it bites you, it will start to suck out your energy, so you shouldn't let it get close."

"Paralyze, huh?" Goofy spoke up. "That seems like a kinda mild term for it. I felt cold all over, and I couldn't even breathe. It sure was a good thing you fellas came along".

"Most people know better than to even go near Castle Town, much less a ReDead." Navi's words carried an accusatory tone. "Who are you guys anyway?"

"Well, I'm Sora, and this is Donald and Goofy. We didn't even know what ReDeads were until just now. I just assumed they were this world's brand of Heartless." Sora watched the man as he spoke. Now that he was closer, he could see that the man was younger than he had thought; not much older than himself. He was built much like Sora as well, with lean, powerful muscles along his arms and chest. He was dressed in white pants and a tight shirt, over which there was a green tunic with two belts, one across his waist, the other strapping his sword to his back. When he shifted Sora should see a chainmail shirt under his tunic. He had long, blond hair with a floppy green hat perched on top, almost like a bird. The belt on his waist held assorted pouches, including what looked like a munny purse and a bag made out of what looked like an animal's stomach. His eyes were piercing blue-grey. They seemed to bore through Sora, looking like he was talking and listening at the same time. Sora answered the unasked question. "Yeah, Heartless. Those dark things that came out of the shadows. They eat people's hearts to get stronger. They're probably on this world to find the heart of the world and consume it. If that happened, the world would dissolve into darkness and chaos." He was diverted by a sound of hoofs, and he turned to see a large brown horse come galloping towards them.

"This World's already fallen." The man spoke almost to himself as he approached the horse. Sora couldn't even be sure the man had spoken; his voice was half heard by his ears, half inside his head. He decided that the man was just good at nonverbal communication. The man grabbed the horse's reins and started walking, pausing to turn back and motion towards them.

"What's goin on, do ya reckon?" Goofy spoke for the three of them. Navi flew close to them. "Come on already! I can tell we've got a lot to talk about."

"Wait." Sora called to the man as they began to follow. "What's your name?"

The man paused, and then turned to look at them. This time, Sora definitely saw and heard him speak.

"My name is Link. Hero of Time."

And that's the first chapter! Please review and give me questions, comments and things you liked or disliked. Please note that I have taken a few Liberties with some of the technical aspects. Any changes you see with the minor bits of either game are intentional. Also, this is set after Kingdom Hearts 2, but right in the middle of Ocarina of Time. Sora is about 17 years old; Link is currently 18-19.
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