The Legend of Death's Edge
by John F.
This is my first attempt at fanfiction or even fiction for that matter. This story takes place long after Oracle of Ages/Seasons. It assumes that there are three Links, and that the game order is Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask, Link to the Past/Link's Awakening, and Legend of Zelda/Adventure of Link/The Oracles. The game order will become important later. This story is intended to both tell a new Zelda story and to tie up some loose ends that the old ones left. I was hoping to maybe make this into a game if I ever learn to program stuff like that. As you know, the Legend of Zelda and all stuff connected to it belong to Nintendo. They are used here without permission but with a high level of respect. Anyway, here goes!
Chapter 1: Assassination Attempt
There stands the castle. And what a castle it is! It may be in the dark of night, but the spotlights and interior lighting give a beautiful glow that makes the castle seem almost heavenly. It stands like a beacon in the darkness.
Being a castle, there are hundreds of rooms inside. One of these rooms belongs to young Princess Zelda.
Zelda is named after her aunt, who is named after her aunt, and so on and so forth. Tradition states that the first princess to be born to any generation of the royal family is to be named Zelda. Legend has it that Zelda was the name of a Hyrulian princess that displayed great bravery and made a great sacrifice for the sake of Hyrule and the world.
Zelda is a young girl of age twelve. Her golden hair flows unbound around two oddly pointed ears, and her eyes are such a deep blue that it is almost scary. The royal nightgown that she wears matches her eyes, and it has a symbol with three golden triangles stitched into it.
This symbol appears all over the castle. These three triangles are said to be a symbol of the gods themselves, but their specific significance has long been forgotten. Now, they simply act as a royal label. Anything royal will have this symbol printed, stamped, drawn, painted, or sewn onto it. It is almost synonymous with importance.
Zelda lays down to go to sleep. Her nanny tucks her in and turns out the lights. Zelda closes her eyes, but she does not sleep. Zelda struggles to stay awake. Her head begins to get cloudy, but she will not allow the clouds to take her back...back to the visions.
The visions had been coming for the last few weeks. They had been vague images: images of swords, of a boy wearing green, of a demon in disguise. They often were fun to experience.
Last night's dream was different. It wasn't vague at all. It was very clear. The demon revealed its true form. It scared her. It petrified her. The demon was within the castle, and she could not help but see the demon whenever she saw...
The vent begins to rattle. Zelda is brought back from the brink of slumber by the small noise. The sudden sound was not a natural one. This had been a beautiful autumn day, and the breeze that flowed through her window just before it was securely sealed for the night was of an almost perfect temperature.
Air hadn't been making the noise, but maybe it was a rat. The castle had just had a rat infestation not more than a month ago. Could rats be making that kind of disturbance?
Either way, the sound is gone. Zelda slowly calms down. Eventually, the cloud returns to her mind.
She opens her eyes one last time as sleep is ready to grab her, and she sits up in horror! She is not alone in the room. A shadow moves toward her, moving swiftly but silently. A dagger gleams off to the right side of the shadow where it is probably attached to the shadow's left hand.
The figure lunges at Zelda. A cold, gloved right hand grabs Zelda's mouth. It isn't like she would have called out though. She was paralyzed by fear as soon as she sat up. The knife flies back, but Zelda is no longer staring at it. Instead, she is staring into the eyes of her assailant. He may be covered from head to toe in black, but his eyes are very visible. They almost glow from within the dark cloth the assassin wears on his head.
Zelda waits for the knife to plunge into her. Had it already? She had waited for what must have been an eternity. Had the shock prevented her from feeling it? She takes her stare away from those eerily glowing eyes and plants them on a stationary knife. The knife plummets to the ground soon after. The area where it had been seems to be shaking.
She returns her eyes to his, and she notices that the blue orbs seem to be quivering, almost crying. What could be going through that mind? What would be causing her assassin to do such a thing? Is he hurt?
Zelda's paralysis leaves her. She reaches toward the pitch figure. Her arm is batted away.
The assassin frantically searches the room with those two blue eyes of his. He is obviously very nervous. He puts his arm around Zelda, and he moves toward the window. As soon as the seal is broken an alarm begins. The alarm has no effect on the assassin, though.
Zelda is being held in a position that only allows her to see behind the figure's back. To her horror, the balcony flies past her vision, and she is suddenly looking all the way to the ground below. Is this guy crazy? Did he just kill them both?
The ground races toward Zelda with a great acceleration. Zelda's golden locks fly violently from side to side. Suddenly, the ground begins to decelerate. Zelda looks up and sees a chain going from the dark figure's hand to the balcony above. The chain breaks away from the balcony, and the fall resumes.
Once again the figure uses the chain, but this time it is launched toward the high castle wall. Just as the chain hits, a light blinds Zelda from below. The castle lights are beaming toward the figure, and it was only the shouts of "Zelda is up there! Don't shoot!" that keep the duo from dying like the sitting ducks that they are.
Zelda and the assailant go up and over the wall, and they vanish into the forest beyond. Guards begin to pour out of the castle gate, but the drawbridge is on the opposite wall of the castle from the one that Zelda vanished over. The guards that stand atop that side of the wall had already lost the princess by the time anybody made it to that side of the castle.
Next chapter: Disobedience to the Guild
by John F.
This is my first attempt at fanfiction or even fiction for that matter. This story takes place long after Oracle of Ages/Seasons. It assumes that there are three Links, and that the game order is Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask, Link to the Past/Link's Awakening, and Legend of Zelda/Adventure of Link/The Oracles. The game order will become important later. This story is intended to both tell a new Zelda story and to tie up some loose ends that the old ones left. I was hoping to maybe make this into a game if I ever learn to program stuff like that. As you know, the Legend of Zelda and all stuff connected to it belong to Nintendo. They are used here without permission but with a high level of respect. Anyway, here goes!
Chapter 1: Assassination Attempt
There stands the castle. And what a castle it is! It may be in the dark of night, but the spotlights and interior lighting give a beautiful glow that makes the castle seem almost heavenly. It stands like a beacon in the darkness.
Being a castle, there are hundreds of rooms inside. One of these rooms belongs to young Princess Zelda.
Zelda is named after her aunt, who is named after her aunt, and so on and so forth. Tradition states that the first princess to be born to any generation of the royal family is to be named Zelda. Legend has it that Zelda was the name of a Hyrulian princess that displayed great bravery and made a great sacrifice for the sake of Hyrule and the world.
Zelda is a young girl of age twelve. Her golden hair flows unbound around two oddly pointed ears, and her eyes are such a deep blue that it is almost scary. The royal nightgown that she wears matches her eyes, and it has a symbol with three golden triangles stitched into it.
This symbol appears all over the castle. These three triangles are said to be a symbol of the gods themselves, but their specific significance has long been forgotten. Now, they simply act as a royal label. Anything royal will have this symbol printed, stamped, drawn, painted, or sewn onto it. It is almost synonymous with importance.
Zelda lays down to go to sleep. Her nanny tucks her in and turns out the lights. Zelda closes her eyes, but she does not sleep. Zelda struggles to stay awake. Her head begins to get cloudy, but she will not allow the clouds to take her back...back to the visions.
The visions had been coming for the last few weeks. They had been vague images: images of swords, of a boy wearing green, of a demon in disguise. They often were fun to experience.
Last night's dream was different. It wasn't vague at all. It was very clear. The demon revealed its true form. It scared her. It petrified her. The demon was within the castle, and she could not help but see the demon whenever she saw...
The vent begins to rattle. Zelda is brought back from the brink of slumber by the small noise. The sudden sound was not a natural one. This had been a beautiful autumn day, and the breeze that flowed through her window just before it was securely sealed for the night was of an almost perfect temperature.
Air hadn't been making the noise, but maybe it was a rat. The castle had just had a rat infestation not more than a month ago. Could rats be making that kind of disturbance?
Either way, the sound is gone. Zelda slowly calms down. Eventually, the cloud returns to her mind.
She opens her eyes one last time as sleep is ready to grab her, and she sits up in horror! She is not alone in the room. A shadow moves toward her, moving swiftly but silently. A dagger gleams off to the right side of the shadow where it is probably attached to the shadow's left hand.
The figure lunges at Zelda. A cold, gloved right hand grabs Zelda's mouth. It isn't like she would have called out though. She was paralyzed by fear as soon as she sat up. The knife flies back, but Zelda is no longer staring at it. Instead, she is staring into the eyes of her assailant. He may be covered from head to toe in black, but his eyes are very visible. They almost glow from within the dark cloth the assassin wears on his head.
Zelda waits for the knife to plunge into her. Had it already? She had waited for what must have been an eternity. Had the shock prevented her from feeling it? She takes her stare away from those eerily glowing eyes and plants them on a stationary knife. The knife plummets to the ground soon after. The area where it had been seems to be shaking.
She returns her eyes to his, and she notices that the blue orbs seem to be quivering, almost crying. What could be going through that mind? What would be causing her assassin to do such a thing? Is he hurt?
Zelda's paralysis leaves her. She reaches toward the pitch figure. Her arm is batted away.
The assassin frantically searches the room with those two blue eyes of his. He is obviously very nervous. He puts his arm around Zelda, and he moves toward the window. As soon as the seal is broken an alarm begins. The alarm has no effect on the assassin, though.
Zelda is being held in a position that only allows her to see behind the figure's back. To her horror, the balcony flies past her vision, and she is suddenly looking all the way to the ground below. Is this guy crazy? Did he just kill them both?
The ground races toward Zelda with a great acceleration. Zelda's golden locks fly violently from side to side. Suddenly, the ground begins to decelerate. Zelda looks up and sees a chain going from the dark figure's hand to the balcony above. The chain breaks away from the balcony, and the fall resumes.
Once again the figure uses the chain, but this time it is launched toward the high castle wall. Just as the chain hits, a light blinds Zelda from below. The castle lights are beaming toward the figure, and it was only the shouts of "Zelda is up there! Don't shoot!" that keep the duo from dying like the sitting ducks that they are.
Zelda and the assailant go up and over the wall, and they vanish into the forest beyond. Guards begin to pour out of the castle gate, but the drawbridge is on the opposite wall of the castle from the one that Zelda vanished over. The guards that stand atop that side of the wall had already lost the princess by the time anybody made it to that side of the castle.
Next chapter: Disobedience to the Guild