"Link... Ukyo...
Wake up...
Chosen Ones of Hyrule..."
With a deep groan, Ukyo slowly opened her eyes. "Wh... where? What? Where am I? What happened?"
Another groan coming from her left told her that Link was still with her. Something about his voice seemed a little odd, but she had no time to think about it, when suddenly, a bright ball of yellow light appeared in front of her face.
"Ukyo!" Tatl shouted. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah... yeah, I think so..." Ukyo groggily muttered as she took note of her surroundings.
She was crouching in the middle of a strange hall, on a white pedestal with various, colored emblems adorning its surface.
She dimly noted the presence of an elderly man dressed in an elaborate, red robe, before her gaze fell upon her companion.
"Link?"
The handsome teenager in adult-sized Kokiri clothing blinked. "Ukyo?" he asked in a very familiar voice.
Ukyo gasped. "What the heck happened to you?"
"To me? What happened to YOU?"
"What do you..." Ukyo stopped herself in mid-sentence when she heard her voice. It sounded deeper, somehow. "What the...?"
She wanted to jump to her feet, but her center of balance was totally off, and she felt an unfamiliar weight upon her chest.
"Whoa!" She stumbled forward, directly into the arms of her teenaged friend, who quickly caught her.
"Th-thanks..." she murmured, then realized that they were actually still about the same size.
And that two soft, sensitive parts of her anatomy (which she was sure she didn't have earlier) were pressed into his muscular chest.
"GAH!" she cried, jumped back, went stumbling once again, caught her balance and stared down at her body.
The concept of growing up was somehow foreign for the Kokiri, but as she clearly remembered arriving in the forest after her father's death, and remembering her mother from before she died, she knew what a grown-up Hylian looked like.
"What's going on?" she asked while her hands didn't dare touch anything unfamiliar on her body. She saw that she still wore a modified version of her old Kokiri Tunic, but, just like Link's clothes, it had grown to adapt to her new, um... proportions. "Why do I have BOOBS?" she nearly shrieked.
"Well, that happens when a girl grows up," Tatl smirked. "Didn't you pay attention in biology class?"
"Very funny!" Ukyo growled. "For your information, I'm TWELVE! Twelve-year-olds aren't exactly what I would call a 'grownup'!"
"But the same thing happened to me," Link muttered. "How did that happen?"
"Um... excuse me..." a voice spoke up.
The two neo-teenagers turned around. "WHAT?"
The old man with the white beard flinched a bit under their combined voices. "No need to get loud," he scowled. "I want you to know that I may be old, but still can hear perfectly fine!"
"Who are you?" Navi asked curiously. "And where are we?"
"Yeah, the last thing I remember is me grabbing the Master Sword and then... nothing!" Link shook his head in confusion.
"Let me explain..." the man spoke up. "My name is Rauru... I am one of the Sages. And you are within the Temple of Light."
Link scratched his head. "Temple..."
"...of Light?" Ukyo asked.
"That's correct!" Rauru nodded. "The Temple of Light, situated in the very center of the Sacred Realm, is the latest stronghold against Ganondorf's evil forces."
"The Sacred Realm?" Navi gasped. "We are in the Sacred Realm?"
When the Sage nodded, Ukyo grinned. "Hey, that's great! We wanted to come here anyway! Link, we have to hurry! We have to find the Triforce before..."
The Sage raised his hands in a reassuring manner. "Now, now, calm down! I'm afraid you are not quite up-to-date with the current situation."
"What does that mean?" Link frowned. "And why do we look like this anyway?"
Rauru sighed. "Well, it all started when you pulled out the Master Sword..." And the old man gestured at the weapon hanging on the young warrior's back.
Link, taken aback, drew the blade from its sheath. He didn't even realize that is was placed there, instead of his Kokiri Sword.
The sacred blade was gleaming in the dim light of the temple.
"The Master Sword is a sacred blade which evil ones may never touch," the Sage started to explain. "Only one worthy of the title 'Hero of Time' can pull it from the Pedestal of Time..."
Rauru then sighed and closed his eyes. "However, you were too young to be the Hero of Time. Therefore, your spirit was sealed here for seven years. And now that you are old enough, the time has come for you to awaken as the Hero of Time!"
"No way!" Tatl said in awe as she stared at Link and his new weapon.
"Am I the only one to realize that this makes no sense?" Ukyo muttered. "Kokiri don't grow up!"
"Well, actually, there's a simple explanation for that..." Rauru said.
"We have no time for that!" Link interrupted. "What about the Triforce?"
"Yes, the Triforce..." Rauru sighed, once again. "You must know, while you opened the Door of Time in the name of peace... Ganondorf, the Gerudo King of thieves, used it to enter this forbidden Sacred Realm. He obtained the Triforce from the Temple of Light, and with its power, he became the King of Evil."
The two teenagers and their fairies gasped in shock and surprise. "Ganondorf already got the Triforce?" Link shouted. "I can't believe this... what do we do now?"
"There is still hope," the Sage spoke up.
"There is?" Ukyo wondered.
Rauru nodded. "The power of the Sages... When the power of all the Sages is awakened... The Sages' seals will seal all the evil in the void of the realm. I, Rauru, am one of the Sages."
"So that means we only have a chance of beating Ganondorf with the help of those Sages?" Ukyo asked. "Great... we fail one mission, just to get thrown into another adventure..."
"I don't care!" Link suddenly said, determination written on his face. "I don't care if seven years have passed and Ganondorf has the power of the Triforce... because I'm gonna find those other Sages and teach him a lesson!"
Tatl grinned. "Now we're talking!"
Navi nodded. "Yes, together, we can do it!"
"Hero of Time, chosen by the Master Sword..." Rauru spread his arms. "And you too, Ukyo - for the two of you share the same fate. Keep my spirit with you. And find the power of the other Sages and add their might to your own!"
And with those words, the Sage handed the young heroes a medal... the Medallion of Light!
"Keep this medallion and you will find the other Sages. Awake them from their slumber, Hero of Time... and you help him, Ukyo! For destiny has chosen you... you are the Children of Destiny!"
A white light suddenly embraced the foursome.
Ukyo gasped. "Hey, wait a minute... Can't you explain to me, just why...?"
"You will understand, at a given time," the voice of the Sage reached her ears. "Now, go! Find the other Sages and save Hyrule!"
And then the chamber faded from their sights and vanished.
----
When the bright light was gone, they once again found themselves standing next to the pedestal of the Master Sword.
"We're back..." Navi whispered. "We're back in the Temple of Time..."
Ukyo looked around in awe. Everything looked exactly like when they came here for the first time.
"But..." she murmured. "Have seven years really passed?"
Link didn't respond. She heard him fumbling around with something. Then he groaned. "Oh, great..."
"What?" she wondered and turned around. She then winced, as she felt her breasts swaying around. "I really can't get used to those things..." she grumbled while looking down. "I have to keep them in place somehow..."
"Maybe with some breast wrappings?" Navi suggested. Ukyo grinned. "Good idea!"
She then turned to face Link. "Now, what's wrong?"
Link was staring down at his Kokiri Sword and slingshot, which both looked tiny is his hands. "I don't think I can use those anymore..."
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