Disclaimer: I do not own the Legend of Zelda
Author's Note: Quick little note folks, I use italics for character's thoughts, and bold italics for flashbacks.
What is evil? I've asked myself this question countless times. Is it the monsters I have fought since I was a mere child? Or is it the beings controlling those monsters? I always assumed that both were evil. But then, that boy…
"I have come to end your evil once and for all!" I roared pointing my longsword at a boy in a white robe standing in the middle of a field of dead knights, he didn't look any older than six years of age.
"Oh hello, have you come to play with me as well?" the boy asked smiling at me, I couldn't see any malice, no lust for power, no desire to kill, I saw innocence.
"Play? Is that what you think this is?" I yelled glaring at the child.
"Of course silly, let's play! You can be the evil monstrous warlord and I can be the good kindly wizard," the boy said to me, he thought this was all a game, that killing was fun…
I couldn't believe my eyes, I fought the child for days on end, spell after spell thrown at me, I dodged each and every one. That last day the child was finally getting tired, and I struck a killing blow on him. He looked at me in surprise and then smiled…
"That was fun, I wish I could have played with you some more."
No anger, no sadness, nothing but a child who was having fun. He fell into my arms, bleeding from the wound I had given him. I felt his life slowly slipping away in my arms…I couldn't help but feel guilty for what I had done, but…it was the right thing to do…he was terrorizing an entire empire. He killed countless people, and had placed a death curse on the emperor of that empire. By killing that boy…I saved countless people, but I killed an innocent, I killed a truly innocent child…I was praised for it, the boy's body was displayed in front of the people, and they cheered…all but the youngest children, they didn't understand what was going on…The right thing to do, the just thing to do, the good thing to do…it's all a bunch of hypocrisy. Good and evil, they are merely points of view, but what does that make me? I fought for the idea of good for so long, and killed countless beings…I am not a hero, I am a villain, I killed all those beings without a second thought.
In the middle of a lush green field, in the middle of the night, a lone figure in a black cloak walked. He stopped at the top of a hill, before him lay a small camp, a couple of wagons with seven people laughing and sleeping. Something emerged from the ground next to the cloaked figure, a small skeletal being emerged from the ground next to him, it looked at him and chattered something. "It's funny how I can understand you now, my first journey from this land I always wore a mask, even before I could take them off. But now that I have been able to take my masks off, I understand everything so clearly," he said and then looked at the skeletal being, "Kill all those who are unshackled in that camp. Feast on their flesh."
The figure slowly walked down as screams issued from the camp, countless skeletal beings burst from the ground, attacking the people at the camp. When the cloaked man reached the camp, the skeletal beings were tearing apart and absorbing the flesh of the people there. He looked into one of the wagons and saw that it was empty save for a small girl who was shivering as she hid in the corner furthest away from him and the skeletal beings, chains binding her in the wagon. The man raised his left hand, a hand wrapped in tight leather bindings and fingers tipped with iron claws, and the chains shattered into dust, "You are free to leave, they shall not harm you," he stated as he walked away from the wagon and away from the fires of the camp.
I am evil, and so is this kingdom, this kingdom I spent my earliest years in. In a realm of evil, only the strongest are allowed to survive. That girl has been given the chance, I freed her from a life of slavery she faced, will she choose to live? Or will she choose to die? Whatever her choice, I will not interfere any further.
A chain slipped out from his cloak, a chain which seemed to have a life of its own as it pointed towards a nearby tree. He looked at it as the chain slithered back inside the cloak, a figure clad in all black, a tunic, pants, boots, and gloves. It was a man with black hair, pale skin, and ruby red eyes. The two looked at each other for a time, and the other smirked and vanished into the night. "So he was waiting for me, what does that shadow want from me?" the cloaked man asked himself.
The next morning, in a city beyond a moat, encased within white walls, the cloaked man was walking through a back alley, in the shadows trying to escape notice. "Hold it right there!" a loud voice demanded as a solder in plate mail armor walked up to him.
"What can I do for you?" the cloaked man asked.
"State your name and purpose," the solder demanded, "There have been rumors of an assassin coming to kill the Queen."
"Link, and my purpose is of no concern for you," the cloaked man answered as the solder drew a large sword, "So you plan on forcing the issue?"
"You are to answer…" the solder began to say as he was suddenly pinned to a wall by two chains, both of which were slowly digging into the solder from the two points where they had punctured his thick armor.
"Very well, I will answer, seeing as how it won't do you much good anymore. I am the Emperor of Evil, I am here to take over. It is that simple," Link said as he began to chuckle evilly as one of the chains came out of the guard's mouth, the final link in it having two sharp prongs, "Speechless, well I would expect you to be considering that chain has ripped apart your tongue and most of your throat."
"I expect you have about ten more seconds to live before the blood loss and internal damage kills you," Link said as he removed his hood, revealing he was wearing a completely blank black mask save for two small holes where his nose would be and two eye slits for him to see out of, strapped to his head by a thick leather bands, "Take my image to hell with you."
The solder's body fell limp as the chains ripped out from him, tearing flesh and armor apart. Both chains snaked about in the air as they slowly dripped dry, both well over ten feet long. As they dried, they began to absorb the blood and flesh into them, and then slowly retracted back under Link's cloak as he pulled his hood back over his head. "Such weak beings, the weak don't deserve to live," he said to himself as he continued to walk down the alley
Looking about he saw something, a tall lithe man completely encased in black leather armor, a hood drawn over the man's face, and several daggers in easy to reach positions at his belt. "Impressive, the guild could use a person like you," the man said looking at Link, "I am the assassin that guard spoke of."
"I should care why?" Link asked turning to look at the man.
"It's simple, you wish to take this realm over, by killing the queen you make a vacuum of power,"
"And you wish to assassinate the queen why?"
"My employer does, I don't ask questions,"
Link chuckled as he walked away, "I have no interest in pairing up with a weakling who needs help."
"I'll show you weak," the assassin growled as he vanished into the darkness.
Link slowly made his way out of the alleys and into the main square of the town, and then towards the gates that lead to a grand castle. "Hold…" a pair of guards started to yell, trying to stop Link as the two chains flew out from Link's cloak and impaled both of the guards against two buildings. Several of the townspeople behind him stared in horror, and then some screamed running away from the scene.
He walked up a path, high cliffs on either side of him, coming ever closer to the castle, and then was stopped by a closed gate. Link looked around at the gate, and then at the many guards who were aiming notched arrows at him. Link laughed out as he threw back his cloak, revealing that he was wearing a black hakama and that his entire body was wrapped in thick black leather. Four curved swords were at his hips, two on the right, two on the left, and two longswords resting on his back. His arms were wrapped in a chain which seemed to be living by the way either end, both tipped with two sharp prongs, twitched about the rest of it still hidden under the cloak. He threw back his hood revealing his mask as he unsheathed two of the swords on his right side and chuckled as he looked about at the guards. The sword in his right hand had a serrated edge, and the sword in his left seemed to glimmer with an unnatural light. "I suggest you pathetic nobodies get out of my way," Link demanded as he swung the sword in his left hand at the gate, a great burst of lightning exploded from the edge.
"I don't think so," a woman's voice came as a woman in white armor jumped down and with her sword deflected the lightning.
Link studied her for a moment, a white form fitting breastplate, white shin guards, white bracers, a white tunic, and white pants. She had dark red hair, and emerald green eyes. It was the sword that impressed him the most however, "A true hero, a new hero for Hyrule," Link stated as he held both of his sword out to the side of him, "I was beginning to wonder if any of the pathetic guards at this castle would pose a decent challenge."
"Give up, you can't defeat the Master Sword, the sword which vanquishes evil," she stated as she picked up the large shield she had at her side.
"I didn't come all this way to just give up little hero," Link stated, "I came to conquer."
"Very well, you'll be the first villain I strike down!" she yelled as she charged Link.
"First?" Link asked as something kicked in, "Oh no, that just won't do at all."
He sidestepped her attack as he sheathed his weapons, one end of his chain shot out and slammed her into a wall, "We can't have this, not at all. If I beat you now I'm just going to look like a coward and a weakling," he commented more to himself than anybody else, clapping his hands together after a moment he said, "Ahh, I know, a bit cliché but it'll do."
"What the hell are you talking about," she grumbled as she got up, preparing to attack him again.
"We can't have a good old fashion villain-hero rumble without you actually working to earn the right to fight me," Link stated simply as he chuckled, "You amateurs know nothing about how these things are supposed to go."
She attacked Link again, only for the Master Sword to be entangled in the chain, "Well tell your dear queen an old friend is back, and you can expect to be hearing about a few villainous deeds and beings in the near future," Link said as the chain threw her over the gate as he turned around and walked off.
And that's where I'm ending it. As you can tell, I'm being serious and I'm making fun of video game villains. Well, I'm not going to bother you with more of my prattling so I'm asking a pair of simple questions…
1. Current overpowering aside, what do you think of what I've done to Link?
2. Who do you think the girl with the Master Sword is? (It's actually a character from the game, this shall be explained later)
That's it, now press that review button and I'll see you next chapter. Ciao for now!