A New Mission For Link
Sheika' Revenge
Chapter One
They Stormed The Castle
Zelph and her father were under attack from strange goblins and Sheika soldiers with blue masks covering their face. Hi-Range Palace was a mess.
At this current time neither Zelph or a her father had a weapon to hand and were using bits of broken knight armour to defend themselves,
After knocking one out with an metal arm she and the King managed to find some sanctuary in his study.
Zelph and the King knocked over several bookcases and pulled the desk across the room to baracade themselves in,
"What do you suppose they want?" Zelph asked, out of breath
"There has been a romour of late" The King began, "That the Shieka our ancesters banished somehow managed to find their way out of the Twilight Realm, I haven't yet received a damage report, but I just know they'll have headed for the Castle first, I had to shut down the portals, clearly I wasn't fast enough"
"They're going to kill us aren't they!?" Zelph exclaimed in alarm
"That's a bit defeatest dear, I mean we're in trouble, we're in trouble because we have no weapons and Link is...where is Link?"
"In Japan, for a test to become a Grand Master...the Master Sword is in the Cathedral where his parents funeral took place last year" Zelph told him
"Then yes Zelda, they're probably going to kill us" The King sighed
"What time is it in Japan exactly? Zelph asked, adding "And don't call me Zelda it's Zelph"
"4 am and it's Zelda" The King replied,
Zelph grabbed the landline but before she could call anyone the baracade failed. The King dragged Zelph behind a drape on the wall and down some stairs to a panic room, sealed by four large doors,
"They can't get in can they?" Zelph asked nervously
"The first door requires the master sword, then after that there are a series of puzzles, they'll give up when they can't find us" The King said
"No reception" Zelph said waving the phone at him
The King went over to a painting on the amber painted wall and slid it to the side to reveal a phone. Zelph sighed with relief and went over to the phone,
"We're not safe yet" The Kind told her
A Rito flew over the Palace, shaking his head as he watched the Sheika trashing the place and Lizard creatures standing guard. Several Hylian lay dead or were hiding from goblins in the village, holding on to one another and praying,
"Not you too Zelda" The Rito said before spinning off in a whirlwind he created for himself so the arrows now being fired his way would miss, "I must find Link"
Far, far away, 6,600 miles to be precise Link was meditating. He was alarmed when the room telephone started ringing and then yelped with fright when the Rito flew into his window,
He didn't know what to tend to first, the dazed Rito or the phone. In the end he grabbed the phone and stretched the wire and himself across the bed so he could open the window for the Rito,
"Hello?" Link said into the phone,
"Ah, sorry to wake you sir but you have an urgant call from Princess Zelda, will you take it?" Came the voice of the receptionist,
"Zelda' on the phone? Now? Well I suppose it is 3 in the afternoon where she is, sure I'll take the call"
He looked at the Rito as the Rito collapsed out across his bed, "OK" He said to the Rito sarcastically
"Link!" Came Zelda' frightened voice. Link was now very alarmed, "We're under attack! Link, father and I are trapped and I don't have my arrows, we've no way of defending ourselves, I know what you're doing is important but..."
"What do you mean attack? Where are you, what's going on?" He was cut off, "Zelda!"
"Goblins and Sheika, they stormed the Castle at Old Hyrule, looking for Zelda, when they couldn't find them there people started going missing" The Rito told him,
"What!? Let me get dressed, we'll need to get my sword from the Cathedral" Link said, hurridly trying to find some trousers and a blue hoodie, "My tunic is there too and my sheild, we can use the portals can't we?"
"No Link, we can't" The Rito told him
"Well why not?" Link asked
"The King had to shut them all down when the Sheika attacked Old Hyrule" The Rito told him, "We can fly there though"
Link gave him an uneasy look.
Not a minute later Link was screaming his way to the Cathedral on the back of this giant Rito,
"Would you like to be closer to the ground maybe?" The Rito asked
"Yes" Link replied, then as the Rito dived and laughed he screeched, "No!"
The Rito had a blast, diving, climbing, spinning before eventually landing on the roof of the tallest tower of the Cathedral.
"We're here" The Rito told him
"Oh my God!" Link said, then as he carefully side stepped across slates to a window he could climb through he added, "Why the roof?"
"I didn't want to ruffle feathers" The Rito replied, flexing his wings
"What's you're name?" Link asked
"Aeolius, it means mythical keeper of the wind" Aeolius replied proudly
"I love it" Link smiled, "Meet me in the churchyard"
Aeolius bowed and flew off, and Link ventured down the first of many, many flights of stairs. If he thought he could just waltz right in and take back his master sword he had another thing coming, for waiting for him were three monks,
"Take sword in hand and reclaim they right, of the blade ye be thyne master if you can win without light" Said all three monks.
"I do not have the time for this" Link said,
He grabbed the sword and was plunged into darkness. Link made sure he had a strong grip on his sword and used his remaining senses to determine where the monks were. Each monk came at him in turn and he fought back with the sword without mistake.
The lights came back up for the briefest of moments to throw Link off guard and all three came at him at once,
Link did a backflip so the monks ran into each other and then while they were imobile he held out his hand to target all three and used a spin attack to fire all three back some distance.
The lights came back on but all exits to the room were sealed and the three monks combined to make one monster. They pushed Link and sent him flying,
He rolled over, retrieved his sword, then stood perfectly still. He realised this now giant monk couldn't see him. Link caused a distraction then made the sign of the triangle of courage in it's back before running at the wall, backflipping and embedding the sword into the monk from the head. The sword didn't pierce him as such, more created a blinding light that ate up the monk from top to toe until there was only Link in the room with the master sword,
He did his legendary swing of the sword and put it in place on his back before leaving the chamber via one of the doors that reappeared.
Through this door Link found another chamber and a plynth, on which sat his legendary green tunic, however his sheild wasn't there. As Link reached out a familiar voice sounded from the sword,
"You did well Link"
"Father?" Link said in question, "I pray I have made you proud thus far"
"You have. Link chaos looms once again in Hyrule and Hi-Range but this time it is not Canon we have to fear, the leaders of the new world have all been abducted in the last month by the Sheika of Twilight, word only reached The King today but before you or the guards could be summoned they were attacked. The clan are after Zelda for she is a direct descendant to the Princess of Twilight and there for they believe her blood will cleanse them of the curse placed upon them all those years ago" Came the voice of the Sword.
"Did her family place a curse on the Shieka of Twilight?" Link asked seriously
"No, Ganondolf did" Came the voice of the Sword
Link shivered.
Link quickly put on his Hero' outfit and left the Cathedral to find Aeolius fast asleep in the churchyard. Unsure of any other way to wake him he whistled. Aeolius woke up with a start and beat his wings, knocking flat two trees.
"Oh, oh dear, Link! You're back, were you long?" Aeolius asked
"I had to deal with some unsavoury characters guarding my sword, it's all sorted, shall we go?" Link replied
"Yes" Aeolius said with a nod,
Link climbed onto Aeolius' back and Aeolius created an updraft on which they could ascend. As they rose into the air Link could once again be heard screaming in terror.
It took only a minute or two for Aeolius to fly Link to the village of Hi-Range, sat round the hedge maze, that acted as a barrier between them and the Palace. Aeolius landed in an old fashioned street, being guarded by goblins.
"I'll go on ahead, tackle the largest of the guards at the Palace entrance, you get rid of the Sheika and the goblins" Aeolius said to Link as Link stumbled around, dizzy from trip
No sooner had Aeolius flown off again Link was attacked by a goblin, that had been trashing a shop nearby.
Link shook himself to regain his senses, flipped backwards and created a triangle shape on the goblin' chest. The goblin groaned and exploaded into purple smoke.
Slowly Link fought his way through the village towards the maze seperating it from the Palace and Zelda. Link found the Sheika harder to fight off as they were slim and fast and could teleport, just like they could in BOTW. He realised now why the monks in the Cathedral had tested him. At the beginning of the maze he played Zelda' Lullaby to unlock the gate but instead of the symbol glowing like it should the whole gate set itself ablaze and up too went the maze.
"No!" Link exclaimed, "Aeolius! I need you! Aeolius!"
No reply came, Link climbed the only hedge not ablaze and dashed along the top, jumping from hedge to hedge, all the while being chased by the flames that had now taken the shape of a dragon. The last jump was a big one but the fire dragon was gaining on him. Link took a leap, crying out as he did so, landed side first on the hege and rolled off, landing painfully on the gravel driveway before the Palace of Hi-Range.
Link lay on the gravel and groaned but his fight wasn't over yet for just above him Aeolius was muzzled up, wings clipped together, wriggling in the net as the large lizard creatures poked him with spears.
This made Link insensed, he stood up, removed his sword from it's holder and got their attention,
"Get away from him!"
The leader of the Sheika clan walked out of the Palace, parted the Lizard creatures and laughed,
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the Hero of Time, you honestly think a pathetic, little, scrawny boy like you could stop me?"
"What? The same way this pathetic, little, scrawny boy put Canon back in his place? Yes, yes I do" Link replied
Aeolius' eyes widened.
"Oh you're bold Link" The leader said tiredly
"Let the Rito go and concede" Link said
"Cocede!? Me?" She laughed, "Not in your lifetime...OK Link, truth or dare?"
"Truth!" Link snapped,
"Where is the Princess hiding?" The Sheika leader asked
"No idea but she wouldn't be here would she?" Link bluffed
"What would make you say that?" The Sheika leader asked
"Well, not being funny but her father is the King and if you stormed the Castle of Old Hyrule, where, no one has lived for hundreds of years, word would have reached him somehow, he and the Princes would have gone in search of sanctuary long before you arrived" Link said
"My minions saw her here!" She snapped
"They saw a blonde with no weapons to speak of" Link replied
"Enough of this! You're not going to win against me!" The Sheika leader said
She clicked her fingers, banished the lizard creatures and created a barrier of fire, which looked like a dragon with it's tail wrapped all the way around. She then made her own sword appear and the fight begain.
The Sheika leader shot red beams from the sword his way, forcing Link to backflip, dodge, duck and jump before she then thew balls of fire at him, that he fired back with the master sword. The power in the master sword turned the balls of fire into ice, that sank into the Sheika leader, she stumbled to her knees and Link made the first symbol of the Tri-Force on her chest without touching her.
The Sheika leader regained her composure and ran through him, Link screamed but remained on his feet then turned and got her with his sword as she came back at him. She screeched and jumped into the air. Link looked up and froze her with his Tri-Force mark and created the Tri-Force symbol I the gravel directly beneath her with the master sword.
The Sheika leader crashed, unable to breathe,
"This isn't over" She raged before teleporting and blowing out every window left in the Palace with one final screech.
"So that was Bathilda" Aeolius said as Link freed, him took off the muzzle and unclipped his wings, "Thank you"
"Huh" Link breathed before passing out on the driveway.
In the pantry of the now destroyed Palace kitchens Aeolius found Link some heart sweets, which he took gladly, just enough to heal his wounds.
"Link, I am worried about the Princess, I don't sense her" Aeolius fretted
"We'll find her" Link said and he took his sword out of it's holder, "Wolf Link, I need your senses"
Aeolius stood back in shock as Wolf Link jumped from the sword and started sniffing his way around the room, before darking off with a bark. Link and Aeolius were quick to follow and soon enough they had found themselves in the King' office. Wolf Link stopped by the tapastry and growled before jumping back into the sword.
Link and Aeolius had found the King and Zelph.