AN: So...been a long time. I originally made this story a long time ago (when I was 13) and I am now 19. This story was originally published on a different account but alas, I have lost all of my login information. So I have decided to create a new account and finish this story and publish more content. I have come to realize I want to be an aspiring writer and this place was my home and where it all began. Chapters 1-3 were published during my baby years. I didn't edit any of it because it served me a good memory that I don't want to correct. I would like to continue this story and see it all the way to the end. However...the question is does anybody want to read the end? Hope you guys enjoy the ride ;)
Disclaimer: I do not own Zelda or any of it's characters.
This wasn't how it was supposed to be. A princess was supposed to find true love, marry him, have children and live happilly ever after. That wasn't the case for Princess Zelda... Many men had gone to extreme heights just to ask her hand in marriage, though all were rejected. Even the heroic Link, who saved Hyrule from peril was not even sucessful.
Zelda had often been tormented by her father that if she didn't wed she would be forced to marry the groom he picked for her. Most of her excuses were "I just haven't found the right one yet." Zelda was now 18 and becoming a woman rather than a teenager. In Hyrule the youngest you could wed was 16. Zelda's time was running out. Most everyone was wed by age 17 and now Zelda's choices were limited.
But that didn't seem to bother her right now...
"Shh! You're so loud Annabelle! You're going to wake up everyone in the castle!" Zelda hushed her servant.
"M..M'lady..are you sure it's fine to be roaming out of your quaters at night?" Annabelle whispered in a shaky voice.
Zelda stopped dead in her tracks and turned toward her sevant.
"If I was telling you to be quiet and we are sneaking around the entire castle do you really think it is ok?" Zelda replied in a annoyed tone.
Annabelle flinched. "Umm..no m'lady."
Zelda sighed. "I'm sorry for going off on you Annabelle. I just really don't want to get caught. Goddesses knows what will happen to you and me if we were caught."
The servant lady nodded. She really didn't want to get caught either. She would certainly be rid of and forced out on the streets and if anything happened to Zelda her head would be rid of. In fact the servant didn't have a clue of where they were going. She woke aruptedly in the middle of the night by Zelda.
At first she was alarmed by the bow and arrows Zelda was carrying. She didn't know what Zelda planned to do with them, but something must be terribly wrong...but this of course could also just be Zelda's rambunctious behavior.
"Annabelle! Focus! Don't lag behind." Zelda's voice interupted Annabelle's thoughts and Annabelle moved along.
They came to one of the back entrances which was guarded by two armed soldiers. They both looked bored and tired. No one could blame them. Zelda and Annabelle were just eyeing them right behind the corner.
"There's no way we can get past them. We should go back..." Annabelle whispered.
"Nonsense." Zelda replied as she pulled out her bow and arrow. "That's why I came prepared."
Annabelle looked alarmed now. "No! M'lady, you cannot do that. They are your people they respect you they look up to y-"
"Relax..." Zelda interupted. "It's just a tranquilizer. It will put them to sleep. They wont remember a thing, nor have any visible wounds."
Annabelle relaxed a little but was still worried. What was so important to make the princess have to tranquilize her own men?
Zelda pulled out an arrow from her quiver and drawed the bow back with the arrow steadied and aimed. Annabelle held her breath. In one split second the arrow shattered the air, making a loud 'Whoosh!' sound, catching both of the soldiers off guard.
It didn't take long for one of the guards to dizzy out and hit the floor. The other guard pulled out his sword from it's sheathe, searching the room fantically for the attacker. Zelda drawed yet another arrow and pointed it at the frightened soldier.
Zelda murmered under her breath before she released. "I'm sorry..."
And with that another arrow was released and went shooting towards it's prey. With that the 2nd and last soldier was down and tranquilized. Zelda rose up.
"Come on let's go. They'll regain conciousness in 10 minutes. We don't have time to waste." Zelda said. She looked down at Annabelle who was still crouched on the ground.
"Get up." Zelda said as she offered out her hand to Annabelle. Annabelle blinked and took Zelda's hand and got up.
They both proceeded out the wooden door. Zelda was cautious while opening the door in case there were more guards on the other side. Annabelle just decided to hide behind Zelda and out of view in case they were caught.
"I..Is it safe m'lady?" Annabelle whispered in a shaky voice.
"Yes it is safe but we are only past the easy part." Zelda replied.
Annabelle sighed and tried to hold back a groan. What lied on the other side that was worse then what they had alreay been through? Annabelle peaked out from behind Zelda to catch a glimspe of the night.
No guards in sight...
Zelda tiptoed ahead cautiously. When she looked out over the garden, no guards where in sight...No lanterns, no footsteps, and no movement... Strange.
"I knew something was wrong." Zelda murmered under her breath.
Annabelle looked confused. What was wrong? Where were all the guards? How did Zelda know of this?
"M'lady, what is going on? What is happening?" Annabelle asked anxiously.
Zelda gave her servant a sorrowful look. "I'm not sure...I just felt a dark presence lingering around the castle and...and..." Zelda sighed and dropped her head in defeat. "I could not sleep. I knew something was wrong so i came looking for you. I needed help. We have gotten reports of soldiers showing up missing. The ones who were assigned duties outside of the castle."
Zelda looked back up at Annabelle with hurt eyes that broke her servant's heart. "My father passed it off as just an act of laziness and the slacking and forgetting their duties. He assumed they ran off." Zelda shook her head in disgust. "...But I knew better...I knew something was wrong."
Annabelle suddenly felt the need to comfort her. She had always felt sorry for Princess Zelda, especially because of the way her father treated her. He never even listened to his own daughter. Not once. "M'lady... i'm sorry. If there's anything I can do..." Annabelle soothed
"No. My father will not heed my words so I must take responsibility. You cannot come with me. You have a life and a duty here, I will not take that from you. I'm going to find the person or thing who is killing the guards and stop it..." Zelda's eyes became watery.
"Don't come looking for me..."
That was last thing Zelda said before she left and Annabelle never saw her again.
Zelda looked up at the starry night sky and sighed as the cool wind blew through her hair, making it dance in the wind.
"So many stars..." She thought to herself.
She gazed over Hyrule's plains. So vast yet dangerous and lurking with creatures. Zelda shivered. She would be brave, she wouldn't be scared. She had to protect her kingdom at no cost. She would kill this horrible beast who was taking the lives of the innocent.
She took a deep breath and closed her eyes to calm herself. This had all happened so fast, so sudden. She wasn't sure how to act in this situation. But most of all...most of all the thing on her mind was who would be so heartless to take the lives of others?
She couldn't run to anyone for help. The most help she would ever get was from Annabelle and even that was not alot. She most certainly couldn't run to Link who would probally be the only one to stop this. Ever since Zelda rejected him Link had a grown obsession towards her...
Zelda shook her head. What did it matter? This was about her people not her. She had to ask Link for help. She faced the direction of the Faron Woods which led to Links hometown...She was crazy for wanting to travel out at night but she didn't really have a choice.
She closed her eyes and took in a deep breath.
"Just inhale...exhale"
"Damn I can hear you breath all the way from the castle." A foreign voice shattered the silence. Zelda's heart stopped.
She turned towards the voice but no one was there...She sighed.
"It must have been my imagination..." She thought calmly to herself.
"Lady! Up here!" The voice speaked again.
Zelda gasped and spun around and looked up. What she saw didn't look like a person...but a beast with red eyes staring intriguingly back at her...