The Legend of Zelda: Child of Darkness
Prologue
As the evening sun sank behind the western cliffs, a young mother held her newborn child in her arms. It was a girl. She had always wanted a little baby girl to compliment her firstborn, her three year old son. Even though it was her wish...she wasn't happy. This girl that she had wanted since her son's first year didn't bring joy into her heart. No. In fact, looking at the child...her red patch of hair to her brown skin...everything about her made the mother doubt her reasoning for going through with the birth.
"Dats my sister?" She heard a young voice calling softly at her side, snapping her out of her thoughts. Her son, fair haired and a pale complexion, was a thing of beauty in her eyes. So pure an innocent, and reminded her of her late husband.
"Yes, she's you're baby sister..." She told the boy, though she wished it weren't true.
"She's lillul!" The boy shouted in excitement. He smiled at the new addition to the family and gently touched her hand. "Mommy, she's soft! I lub her!" His mother was surprised to hear those words come from someone so young to someone he barely even knows.
"Yes, well, why don't you go and play with your toys, Link, while I set her down?" She said to her son. Link stared for a moment longer, ignoring the suggestion.
"Watser name?" He asked. His mother looked down at her new child.
"I don't know yet. Do you know what we should call her?" She looked at her son, thinking that if he took part in this, perhaps it could be as if her husband were still there with her, making it all right.
"Mmmmm...* He rook a moment to think. "Her name is Lock! Cause it starts like mine!" Link said, once again excited at the thought of his new baby sister. His mother smiled.
"Then Lock it is."
"Why she's dark, mommy?" This question immediately brought a frown to his mother's face.
"Sometimes people just look...different, Link. Sometimes...they're very different." She answered quite plainly. She brushed her hand through the baby's hair. Aside from the red patch in the front, her hair was black as night, just like her mother's. And her eyes, they were green, also like her mother.
Then why did she feel so detached?
"Because she's 'his'..." She said, thinking out loud.
"Huh? Who's, mommy?" Link asked. The woman shook her head.
"Nothing. Now go play."
Legend of Zelda (c) Nintendo
Child of Darkness and OCs (c) Lock of Hyrule