3:15 am

Link wakes up to Zelda in tears. He rushes to her room and cracks the door open a bit. He sees Zelda sitting on the her bed wiping her eyes with her sleeve and he walks in and asks what's wrong. Zelda recalls her dream of a bad man taking her away and and hurting link. She tells him she could not see this man for he was wrapped in shadow. Link comforted her, telling her it would be alright. Soon she falls asleep with her head on his lap. Link leaves her side and walked slowly to his room, shutting her door on the way out. Link does not sleep for the rest of the night. Link had been groomed since 6 years of age to be the princesses personal guard. For it was told in a prophecy that Link would be her protector. Link had been a simple farmer boy until one night after thieves broke into his parents house and burned it to the ground. Link was the only survivor. A sheikah had found him wandering Hyrule Field and brought him to the castle. He never knew the name of the traveler who saved him of a fate of starvation, but always honored any sheikah he met.

5 years before

Hello son, Gannon greeted Darek. Hello father, Darek replied after finishing his mouth full of fruit. How was sword practice. It was good! Master said I'm a chip of the old block! Good, lots of practice and time, you will end up better than me! And stealth training? He said I had a unusual ability to blend in with the shadows! What about the archery? Not so good... But I'm getting better! Than what I would like you to practice. Ok father! That's my boy! Now go on and practice, I have important business to attend to.

12 years later

Link wakes up with a strange feeling in his stomach. Not sere what it is, he get up to get and drink of water and wash his face. Out of the corner of his eye he sees a shadow fly past his window. Most would consider it a bird, but link was a little paranoid. He looked out his window and saw nothing out of the ordinary. Link then hears a light creak in Zelda's bedroom. He was already worried so he opens her door to find a man dressed in all black binding Zelda's feet and hands, while Zelda tried to scream but had a piece of cloth around her mouth. Link pulled out his sword and approached his adversary. The man pulled out an almost identical sword out of his scabbard. They blocked, parried and attacked for about 5 minutes. Seeing a flare fly into the sky he knew it was time. He pulled out a silver canister out of his pocket and pointed it at link. Link, puzzled asked it was and the man just laughed, saying that it was the future. Still puzzled link stood ready to attack, when he felt a pain in his chest and saw blood all over his hands and chest. A second later he fell to the floor and blacked out. The mysterious man climbed out of the window with the Princess on his back, while Gannon's forces attacked the main gate. Laying the princess down, he stopped by the throne room firing a bullet into the king. Everyone panicked when the king fell dead on the ground. He rusted along the wall with the princess, and climbed down the escape ladder. With the help of 2 of Gannon's Soldiers they held the princess on the descent. He retreated with the rest of the soldiers, for they had gotten what they wanted.

The Next Morning

Link wakes up on Zelda's bedroom floor, unsure of what going on. Link then remembers last night and he hangs head in shame for a second before feeling intense pain in his chest. He crawls to the bathroom and drinks a potion to relive his pain. He must find a healer and soon. The healer is very busy but stops and removes the bullet lodged in Link's chest as soon as he saw who it was. The healer had been removing the small metal balls all morning, for the Guards had been riddled with them. He gave Link a potion to relive pain and one to quicken healing . After that Link leaves the castle, head hung low, as he could not do what his only job was, to protect the princess. Luckily he knew the basics of magic, so he sheathed his sword and changed his his appearance to that of a sheikah, for know he would be known as sheik, until he finds the princess and returns her safely to the castle. So sheik went off to start his quest...

Gannon's camp

Darek led the princess to Gannon tent and was dismissed by his father to his own. Darek waited for just a second out side his fathers tent, wondering what he was saying to the young princess. Your castle is in ruins, your father dead, your hero killed in front of you! You are a prisoner in the enemy's camp. Now where is the triforce! This puzzled Darek, for this was the first time he heard of this "triforce". What puzzled him most was that he never mentioned revenge for his people, or her fathers evil rule. Darek was deeply puzzled by this and left for the towns library. He had felt guilty ever since coming home. He always thought the king was evil, but killing the princess' protector had made him a little queasy, which surprised him. He could have sworn he had pain in his chest, but it was gone now. Now he entered the library and sneaked to the restricted area. Most boys his age sneaked over here for a different reason. He was here for the books allowed only to Gannon and his top advisers and generals. If someone was caught here, they would be throne into the desert without food and water. He quietly grasped a book of the shelf and tried to hide behind the bookshelf, as a guard passed by. He placed the book in his bag, and sneaked out of the library and back to his tent. He flipped the pages of the book, it was a book on legends. He saw a picture of a man in green with a sword a shield. Darek ignored it and kept flipping through the book until he stopped and held his breath. What he saw was... a picture of himself?