I always wanted to write a female hero and now I have xD Bet ya all weren't expecting this! xD
None of this fanfic has been edited by my friend, when they do edit it I will update it until then do enjoy xD Chapter name, The Young Hero.
Demise was beyond confused. He was in the mind space which had been closed off by the Golden Goddesses shortly after the hero escaped from him. Why was he in it now?
The Demon King looked around then paused. To his left was a glowing gold barrier, the hero stood behind it his hands pressed against it looking desperate, panicked and angry.
Slowly the Demon King approached the barrier. Once he was staring down at the hero he asked, "Why?" It was reasonable question considering what all had been done to ensure Demise never got him again.
"You are free to destroy Hyrule this era." The hero said blunty.
Once more Demise was confused but also dumbfounded. "What?"
"The current hero is being abused, neglected and trained harshly. The Hylian King is going to end up killing them before you are even ready to try and take the Kingdom." The hero quickly explained his panic and anger becoming more clear.
The Demon King didn't know how to respond to that. The Hylian King was going to end up killing them? "I don't see how this is my problem hero, I've never tried to go easy on your incarnates have I?"
"Did you not hear the part where I said Hyrule is yours this era?" Link snapped. "We didn't have any other ideas, we have very few options here if you could just!-" He broke off his form flickering; he fell back on the white non existent ground, the flickering continued a minute before it stopped. The hero forced himself back up, movements slow and halting.
"What was that?" Demise demanded having not seen that happen before.
"That...was the poor girl debating whether living was even a good idea anymore." He said slowly breathing hard.
"You mean to tell hes…" Demise stopped as he registered what the hero just said. "Did you say girl?" He questioned dumbstruck.
Link nodded. "I did, it has never happened before I know. Demise...I'm not just asking for your help here I'm begging for it." The hero looked at him, expression so agonized and sad the Demon King had a hard time finding a reason to refuse. "I know you...care," He said slowly, care was putting it mildly but he couldn't manage any other words. "so please…"
"...Tell me just what her life has been like so far." Demise said crossing his arm over his chest regarding Link. That was as good as a yes.
Link took a breath than began to explain the little girl's life so far. "Her parents owned a very large farm and good amount of live stock. Her mother worked with pottery in spare time and made good money from it, her father was a very talented smith. Both her parents tended the farm and animals when not doing their other work, they always made sure to get the farm and such taken care of first. As they made good money from both their jobs and the crops and produce, they didn't have to worry about the taxes they had to pay to the king so they decided to try and have children." He shut his eyes in pain and lowered his head. "The Goddesses decided that for once they wanted a hero to suffer as little as possible so they blessed the land her parents owned making the soil healthy, rich and fertile, all the animals gave more and were more healthy. There was a rock slide near their farm that opened up a mine that had the best ores to work with...all in all Demise their lives improved when that little girl started to come along."
The Demon King knew it all couldn't have been good for the girl if the hero and even the goddesses themselves were asking for his help.
"Once she was born her parents hired help for the farm and smith so they would have time to spend with her...news came out that the king was starting to look for the hero and had plans to take the child from home and have them trained at an early age and make sure they would know their responsibility as a hero and to bring down the evil king no matter what. It was when she was three that the triforce appeared on her hand, her parents were terrified for her and took to keeping her hands covered at all times with bandages. She would pull them off all the time until they sat her down and told her if she kept at it she would be taken away from them and would never have a childhood…"
Demise made a face, he knew what was coming. "One of the hired help saw her hands?" He asked though he already knew the answer.
The hero nodded sadly. "It was reported that she was the hero of the era. Her parents refused to hand her over to the few guards who came to get her. While her father was only a smith and her mother a potter it didn't mean they never tried out the weapons that were forged. They beat back the guards without doing a great deal of damage and spent that night holding their daughter close and hoping the king wouldn't keep trying. A week later their mine was blown up, their crop fields burned and livestock slaughtered. The guards dragged them from their home violently taking the young girl from her mother's arms then-" Link broke off with a choke remembering the event clearing, he could still hear the cries of the mother and little girl and the father's enraged yells. "The-the guards killed her parents and took her to castle where she was locked in a large room, it scared her being in such a large space she'd only ever lived in the small farm house."
The Demon King couldn't believe what he was hearing. He always attacked full force, always did but to do such things to get the hero?! He was starting to wonder just who the evil king was! "I take it she was left there for a few days to adjust."
Link sighed. "Yes, it didn't do any good though. She was only three! No child that age understands death! All she knew was that her parents were bloody and wouldn't get up no matter how she cried...they gave her two days then started her training-"
"WHAT?!" Demise roared. "The gerudo don't even start at that age! What is that man thinking?!"
"I know! I lived among the gerudo! Why do you think I came to you? You know women can be fragile, gerudo are a touch sturdier than hylians and I am talking about the males." The hero said with a shake of his head. He went back to explaining. "She refused to do anything they demanded of her...she wanted her parents. The king got fed up with her refusal and constant crying and gave the order than if she didn't start doing as she was told her trainers were to beat her." Link would have went on but Demise looked like he needed a moment to control himself.
The hero gave him two minutes then kept going. "At first beating her did nothing but make her refuse more but when it got worse she did as was commanded so as not to be hurt. Since she was so young though she couldn't handle all the running, push ups, crunches, combat training and survival training. When ever she failed at something she would be beaten and was given no food or water for the rest of the day. The only kindness she ever got was from the princess, she snuck her food and played with her at night. It was all she could do, she was only a child herself and her father never listened to a word she said."
Demise didn't like the look of pain and sadness that overtook the hero's expression. "What happened?" He dreaded the answer.
"...Zelda...over heard her father's plans for the new hero when she turned ten…" Link swallowed hard, this was going to piss Demise off. "He informed her main trainer that when she was ten he was to begin teacher her how to avoid being...raped...if she failed to get her trainer off her then…"
He didn't have to finish the sentence Demise knew and he was furious, never would Demise himself do such a thing!
Link winced when the Demon King finally calmed enough to listen again. "Zelda tried to get the young hero and escape with her so she could avoid that fate, her father caught then and had her killed for...treason. The little girl is now alone in the world with no one to help her even a little, the king has made her training harsher for trying to get away...she thinks of stopping...everything to just be at peace. She doesn't know death but she knows when she gets very weak and can hardly move that she's close to some end."
The Demon King was furious, more so than he had ever been. "I'm getting her now, I can make a up a quick story for the gerudo."
Link gave him a sad smile. "Thank you."
Leaving Mind Space xD
"Gan! Gan!" A panicked female voiced cried. Demise could feel someone shaking him. His golden eyes flickered open and locked onto his older sister. "Are you okay? You just passed out." She said helping him off the floor.
"...I need to talk with everyone, now." Demise said as he began to make his way to the town plaza.
"Wha- Gan wait!" She rushed after her little brother. He had always been a little odd but this was an all time new one to pass out then need to make an announcement.
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Demise and the five gerudo with him silently made their way around Hyrule Castle, he only knew where to go since the hero's spirit was leading him. He wasn't liking how they were going down stairs...had the girl been placed in the dungeons?
"Lord Ganon, are you sure we should we're going the right way?" One of the women whispered to him. They couldn't see the hero's spirit like he could.
"I'm certain...this is the dungeons…" He snarled. He had been hoping he was wrong.
The gerudo looked at each other worried. When he had said the Golden Goddesses had sent him a vision of this era's hero in trouble they had been rather shocked that he wanted to save them, he hadn't given them details. Considering where they were headed they were starting to think maybe it was best they didn't know.
The hero's spirit phased through the door, a clunk was heard and the door opened. "Wait here a moment, there are two guards at her cell." The hero said as he went over to knock them out.
Demise lifted a hand and peeked around the corner to watch the hero take out the two men...he didn't know he could touch things while a spirit. Interesting. Demise stood and walked forward the women following him, they both gasped sharply in anger when they saw the young hero in the cell.
Her hair was cut short making her look like a boy, her clothing was torn up and filthy, she was very thin and so very small. She was curled up into a small ball on the hay shaking hard, crying.
The hero's spirit flickered he reached out a hand when Demise stepped closer. "Wait don't!-"
The little girl screamed when she saw the man and crawled in obvious pain into the far corner of her cell.
"Demise...she's been mistreated by adult males why did you think it'd be a good idea to try and touch her?" The hero asked pinching the bridge of his nose.
The Demon King sent a glare at him, he already felt foolish, the hero didn't need to make it worse. "Sayliee will get her?" He asked one of the taller women. "I should have known better than to try and touch her."
The woman nodded. She bent down to get keys off one of the guards and unlocked the cell, why Lord Ganon didn't just magic it open she didn't know. She had barely taken two steps into the cell when the little girl passed out. Sayliess caught the girl before she hit the hard stone floor, she would have broke open her skull if she hit it.
"Lord Ganon…" She started as he carried the far too small and light girl out of the cell. "Just what did those goddesses show you?" She asked in anger.
"I'll explain to everyone once she is safe back at home with us."
The women nodded all casting looks at the poor girl as they sunk out of the castle and started their way back to the desert.
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Demise had gathered all the gerudo except for the young children at his castle and told them what he had been informed of. They all had expressed the same anger he felt. As the little girl would need to be looked after she needed a mother, Demise thought it best if one of the women who had no children take her in. The girl would need a lot of time and care, she would need to have someone all to herself.
A woman named Cuali offered to take her, she was barren and unable to have children. Once that was decided several of her friends helped her prepare her house for the little girl while she was in the infirmary. Demise wasn't looking forward to finding out what her injuries were, he didn't think her new mother would be pleased either.
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"Both her arms were broken, her wrist was sprained and she has far too many bruises to count. Her ribs are cracked and...she is so underweight that it greatly worries me." The healer said as she looked over her list
Cuali had her hands over her mouth in shock, Demise was trying to contain his fury.
"She's going to need to be on healing potions and stomach soothers for a very long time. We can't fix this damage over night, I'm sorry." She said as she gazed down at the little girl shivering under the covers on the bed she was in. "She's developed a fever due to her wounds, dehydration and lack of food hasn't helped anything." She scoffed and crossed her arms. "Seeing this makes me wonder who the evil ones really are, they call us evil and yet their own king and his men do this to a child." She shook her head. And looked to her king and the girl's new mother. "We're going to keep her here over night to care for the worst of her injuries then you can take her home and Lord Ganon?"
"Yes?"
"Don't go near her for a while, if she reacted badly to you she has more than likely developed a phobia of men which shouldn't come as a surprise after what she has been put through. You'll want to stay away from her as much as you can until Cuali can managed to convince her not all males are nasty."
Demise nodded, she had reacted violently to him just trying to touch her shoulder he doubted she'd take well to him being near her.
The healer began to walk away to start gathering potions the little girl would need. Cuali took a seat beside the bed the girl slept in, Demise sat beside her and gave a long suffering sigh. "It would have better to get the vision sooner."
Cuali nodded in agreement. Why had those goddesses waited so long to get help?
Demise watched in shock as the hero's spirit flickered and vanished. He checked the girl and found she still breathed. What had just happened?
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"Uh…" Fever hazed blue eyes opened slightly, the owner stilled. Where was this? The cage was dark and had iron bars on it, this place had tan stone walls, there wasn't bars on the open door or window either. Maybe...her parents had finally come for her? This must just be a new house. "...M...mommy?" She called weakly. She felt sick and weak, the mean boys hadn't been giving her food and water again.
A tall pretty lady with dark skin, gold eyes and red hair came into the room. Who was this? "Not...mommy…" She managed before coughing harshly.
"No, I'm not sweetie. Try to stay calm and don't talk too much, you are very sick." The pretty lady said removing a wet warm cloth from her forehead and dipping it into a a bowl on the bedside table, she wrung it out then placed it back over the tiny girl's forehead who sighed softly at the coldess.
"...Auntie?" She tried, she could remember that she had an aunt with red hair who visited now and then. Her mommy and daddy and said her auntie got sick and went away but she was in a better place.
The pretty lady stilled a moment then nodded. "Yes auntie is here, I'm going to take care of you."
"Mommy and daddy...where are?" She asked.
Her auntie smiled at her sadly. "The bad people who hurt you...sent them far away. I can promise you that you'll see them again some day."
The little girl wheezed softly and gave a small nod. She had her auntie until she could have her mommy and daddy, that was okay.
"Little one can you tell me your name?" Her auntie asked softly so as not to bother her sensitive ears.
The little girl gazed at her blankly trying to fight sleep. "Lil... Lilia…" She faded back to sleep after saying her name.
Cauli may not get to be called mommy but the girl was willing to accept her as an aunt, that was good enough. She adjusted the covers over Lilia and left the room quietly so as not to wake her up, she needed all the rest she could get to recover.