Manga Maid's Notes: Hiya! I am Manga Maid if you didn't know! So, yeah. Some of you may know me as the writer of Heart's Fate in the Yu Yu Hakusho section of fanfictions! Well, I had this story for a long time and finally posted it. So... yeah... I don't know why I haven't posted it... Probably because my editors for Heart's Fate have me work around the clock... But anywho... Well, here's the prologue thingy... ^^' Tell me if you like! Oh yeah! This is Alternate Universe!!! Sorry! ^^"
Disclaimer: Well, I think it's downright obvious that I don't own anything in Legend of Zelda. Credit goes to its respective owners. Also, the creation of Hyrule and Triforce is just reworded. I do NOT own it. So there.
Prologue
In the beginning, there was nothing. Nothing. No trees, no people, no land, no sea… no Hyrule. Nothing, except for chaos. But then they came…and everything changed.
Din, Nayru, and Farore. They came and brought peace to the world engulfed in chaos. Din, with her strength, created the earth and cultivated the red land. Nayru gave her wisdom out to the land to give law to the earth. As for Farore, well, she used her rich soul to create the life that would uphold the law.
Once they finished, they left the world to watch from afar. As they left, the remnants of each one's power transformed into a sacred triangle, a piece of the Sacred Triforce. The Triforce is an ancient relic that holds the balance of Hyrule and resides in the place that Din, Nayru, and Farore reside.
That place is the Sacred Realm. That is the one place one should never go unless bestowed with one of the three parts of the Triforce. The Sacred Realm is the ultimate dwelling, the one place where nothing but the Triforce, Light, and the Great Three exist. From there, Light pours out upon the ancient land of Hyrule and from there, balance is maintained. But balance can be a funny thing.
To maintain balance, where there is Light, there must be Shadow. And from the outpouring of Light, Shadow was created to maintain the balance. It grew in the darkest corner in the heart of man. And there it flourished.
Shadow became envious of Light. Light was loved by all, while Shadow, growing in man's hearts, was unnoticed. And in a moment of pure anger and fury, Shadow sprung forth from man and began to contend with Light.
For many days, Light and Shadow contended with each other, throwing the peace that had been created into turmoil. Man became fearful and hid from the battle. But when the Great Three saw what was going on, they returned.
They stopped the two and once realizing what was going on, a compromise was made. This compromise is known now as Day and Night. When the compromise was made, both Light and Shadow were content and everything became peaceful once more. Man returned once again from his hiding places. Years passed and everything was peaceful.
But that peace would not last for long. Shadow quickly became power-hungry and corrupt. It sought to rule the land. It hid itself back in the people of Hyrule and created the emotion of Pride. Pride gave birth to the emotions of Sorrow, Anguish, Envy, Anger, and Shadow's most powerful ally, Hate. In hate, Shadow found everything it needed to survive. And there, it grew strong and changed to something much more sinister. Darkness.
Darkness, when it was strong enough, began to corrupt the hearts of some of the people. It did not set apart any race. It corrupted anyone, be they Gerudo, Human, Hylian, Kokiri, Deku, Fairy, Goron, Sheikah, or Zora. Darkness consumed them and brought them into more darkness.
Darkness used these people and soon Hyrule was engulfed in war. Kings were made and alliances formed. War raged for many years, until finally one of the chosen race, a Hylian King, listened to the Light and rose victorious from the battle and led the country to a time of peace and prosperity.
Darkness, now that it had lost, hid itself in a boy who had long craved the pleasant lands for his people and wanted to make the people of Hyrule suffer as badly as his people had. A Gerudo King, though he had only been ten, who had been defeated by the much older Hylian King and driven back to the land of the Gerudos. A desert land where they were tormented by scorching days and freezing nights. The Gerudo King nurtured the wound in his heart and there Darkness settled. It festered and tore at the Gerudo King.
Darkness spoke whispers to the boy. How could he, a chosen king, lose? That was not possible. There had to be a way to remove that oaf of a king off the throne. There just had to. After all, he had to find a place that was better for his people and make the people of Hyrule understand the Gerudos' pain.
For another ten years, Darkness spoke to the boy as he grew into a man. Then, one day, he came up with a perfect plan. He had heard rumors of the Triforce, and he saw it as power for the taking. He left his homeland and ventured on to the ancient Temple of Time, the only way for one to get into the Sacred Realm.
Gerudo are master thieves and this king was no different. By the time he had reached the Temple of Time, he had stolen the three jewels and the Ocarina of Time to enter. When he entered the Sacred Realm, he found what he had been looking for. The Triforce. However, when he touched it, the Triforce reacted to what was in his heart.
It shattered, feeling the craving for power. Din's sacred triangle, which had become the Triforce of Power, entered the Gerudo King while the other two fled. It left a mark on his dominant hand that only one with a Triforce possesses. The new power the king felt made him joyful and he laughed, maddened by the power.
But he knew he could not just attack Hyrule. After all, his people were still tired from the previous war. No, he would wait a little while. Let that buffoon be in peace for a few years, then attack. Yes. That was the perfect thing to do. He headed for home, ready to rally his people for the war that would come.
The Triforces that had fled left the Sacred Realm and searched for people that fit their needs. Nayru's sacred triangle, the Triforce of Wisdom did not search for long. It found in Hyrule Castle, a baby girl. The princess of Hyrule. She was a newborn, granted, but it could sense that she would be the wisest of the wise. It gently landed on the girl, blessing her with wisdom beyond her years.
Whilst the babe was with her mother and elder brother, the mother noticed the mark on her hand and realized what it meant. She called her most trusted guard, a Sheikah woman, and had her take the baby princess, along with the Sheikah's baby son, off to a village far away to protect the princess. The woman did as she was told and took the babes far away from the Castle.
Meanwhile, Farore's sacred triangle, the Triforce of Courage, searched long for a person worthy of being its bearer. When it was on the outskirts of Hyrule, it found a young boy in a small village. This young boy was barely over a year older than the baby princess, but as the Triforce of Wisdom had done, the Triforce of Courage felt that this boy would be one of the most courageous souls to touch Hyrule. It fell on the boy, marking him as the Bearer of Courage.
As luck would have it, the baby princess was taken to the village where the young boy lived. Both grew together and became best of friends. For 14 years they grew together, playing with each other. They had become quite close and couldn't even think about life without each other.
But one day, while the boy had to work in the fields as all 15 year olds in the village must, the 14-year-old princess, Zelda, who had never known of her birth right, was taken back to the castle by the guard, Impa, and her son, Sheik, to the castle. When the boy, Link, came back to find his best friend missing, he was heartbroken. His sister, Aryll, tried to cheer him up, but to no avail. He was miserable and missed Zelda dearly.
When Zelda reached the castle, she, Impa, and Sheik were caught off guard by the Gerudo King, Ganondorf, and his men. Although Impa and Sheik fought well, they were all captured and Ganondorf sent them to a prison camp. When news had been sent out that the princess, that last member of the royal family who hadn't been captured, had been captured, almost all the hope and willingness to fight died in her people. And so Darkness has won and now reigns a world with no happiness, no laughter, no love, and above of all, no light.
Now, our story begins 4 years after Zelda was captured, in the prison camp where she's been for so long in that lightless world.
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