Hey! Welcome to my new story! This has actually been kept on ice for a few months, I just now finally decided to post this. I'll keep updating if enough people like this and since I don't like having an unfinished story lying around I'll try my best to complete this! ^^ This will be a long one so I hope you'll enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Legend of Zelda.
Dark. All I see is darkness. A familiar sight. I vaguely recall the light, but I know I've been in it's rays. I cannot move either. The feeling of my body feels foreign yet also familiar. I don't like it. I feel the sudden need to move but this strange body It feels as though I'm missing a few limbs, limbs that are unlike what i'm used too.
I hear voices. My focus is set on the voices I hear around me and as like everything else it seems familiar but yet not. These are the voices of humans.
Hylians…
I have a duty to carry on with the lives of Hylians. My task is to protect and provide aid in battle for Hylian's until their victory in this war or until the day I have rotted away. I have no choice but to follow this task, after all it is the reason as to why I was built.
For I am a Guardian.
"He's waking up!" A bubbly voice belonging to a young woman with silver hair tied up in a bun announced to the two others in the room who were both busy with research, are now rising from their seats and headed towards the young woman.
"Do you speak the truth this time sister?" Another woman younger than the other with the same silver hair as her older sister. "Why would I lie about something like this Impa?" The eldest sister placed her hands on her hips and glared her younger sibling who was now revealed as Impa.
"It wouldn't be the first time you've played your tricks on us" Impa said as she observed the figure who was lying on a raised slab of ancient metal. The figure was wearing a dark full body suit under a set of ancient armor, the helm it wore was covering most of it's facial features, long golden hair was strewn about under it, it's fingers twitched occasionally as the armor itself flickered orange.
"He's disoriented" Said a young man who worked right away on the stirring figure. "Dr. Purah would you get my tools. Impa stand by incase he gets riled up" Both women went to do just as they were told.
"Here Robbie" Purah hands the tools to Robbie who muttered a thanks as he was now able to further his work on the figure. Purah went to work herself on the figure as Impa stood by watching the two doctors work.
Soon enough the flickering iridescent orange on the figure's ancient armor started to glow brighter. A mix of yellow, orange, and black started to flow together like a river naturally glowing from the sunset's warm gentle rays. The glass-like orbs lining the figure's helm started to flicker a glowing cyan before they remained aglow. A few seconds pass and darker blue Rings appear in the orbs as though seemed to focus on the area around it.
A frown forms on it's exposed lips and it slowly shakes his head side to side and attempts to move the rest of it's humanoid body, a nearly silent mechanical whirring can be just barely be heard with every turn of it's head.
"Keep still boy" Said Robbie as he was finishing up with the twitchy boy. Purah ran her fingers through his loose golden locks, an attempt to calm the boy down. Robbie removed his tools away from his body and started speaking to the disoriented male.
"Look at me boy. Do you know who you are?"
The teen stops fidgeting and focus on the older male who stood near him waiting for an answer. The teen instinctively opened it's mouth to reply but gave no sound other than a mechanical hum.
"Still can't speak huh. Worry not! it's no problem, you'll learn how to soon…. Maybe. Anyways can you move for me?" Robbie nodded to Purah who fetched a notebook and wrote notes.
The boy stared blankly for a few moments, processing the man's words. He looks down at himself to see that this form is not his own. Not knowing how to react he simply complies with Robbie and attempts to move atleast a limb. A frown appears on his face as the most he can manage to move is his fingers but even then his coordination is poor as the spontaneous movement of his fingers match to that of a dying octopus.
"Hmm of course, your limbs are much more different than they were before. in fact, your entire frame is different! I was hoping you'd be more Hylian than Guardian. But do not worry! With enough physical exercise you'll be up and running in no time!" Robbie excitedly nodded his head.
Purah wrote down the last note and then spoke. "We should start out with getting him used to his body before anything else."
"Yes! Sounds like a plan!" Robbie raises a fist and went to start a lesson plan, leaving Impa and Purah with the teen.
Impa breaks the silence "This will hold us back" Purah glances up at her younger sister. "It's all about patience lil' sister. You can't rush this sort of stuff" Impa clutches her hands into fists "The safety of the princess is top priority. The princess cannot hold against Calamity Ganon without her awakening power. Ganon will not wait for the boy's recovery!"
"I know that!"
Purah yelled out. She sighs and rubs her temple "I know. But what else can we do? This was the only option left" She places a hand on Impa's shoulder and gently squeezes it "Robbie and I will do our best to make this a fast recovery. For now we have to depend on you to protect the princess, once he's ready he"ll be the best man suited to protect the princess from Calamity Ganon. He won't disappoint us."
Impa looks down at the teen who looks as though he was in a trance. She sighs and looks back into Purah's eyes. "I'll trust you two to succeed" She then turns to go find the princess.
Once Impa was gone Purah places her hands on her hips and pouts "Hmph! Sometimes I have to remind myself that I'M the older sibling" She focus back on the teen. "Alright! You ready for some exercise? It won't be too intense, just so you can get used to your umm- 'new' body."
The teen doesn't make any responses
"I'll take that as a yes!" Purah leaves with her notes and heads towards where Robbie went leaving the mute, motionless teen alone to his own devices.
'Princess... Calamity.. Ganon…'
Suddenly the instinctive need to get out, find, and protect this princess he's never even seen or knew of until now. The silent sounds of gears grinding and a mechanical hum began as the teen starts to struggle against it's own body. His joints creaked terribly as he attempted to bend his limbs beyond his human anatomy. The teen stops once he heard the awful noise coming from his joints. He tries to move his limbs again in a different angle, learning that the shrill noise isn't doing any good.
After a few moments his legs snap into a bend from the large amount of force the teen used. He briefly gives himself a feel of his legs, slowly bending and unbending them naturally. feeling that this little movement is enough to carry on his task, he swings his legs off the side of the table and slides the rest of his body off. His legs immediately buckled under his weight and he came crashing down, carrying with him wires and tools left behind by the two scientists.
In the other room Purah and Robbie jumped from the crash. Already knowing the cause of the noise, the both of them rush out of their chairs and head towards the noise. Once entering they see the boy sprawled out on the floor struggling to get up. Purah sighs and goes over to the boy first to help him up. "What you doing on the floor? You gotta stay on the exam bed!"
The teen said nothing save for the mechanical whirring as Purah grabbed him under the arms and lifted up onto the table. Robbie came other and adjusted the teen's legs so that he was safely on the table. Robbie places a hand on his chin in thought as he looked the teen over once more. "He's more aware than we thought. This is helpful indeed." Robbie placed a hand down on the boy's knee as he attempted to bend it once again.
Purah smiles and cheerfully said to the teen. "Your doing great Linky!"
Robbie looks away from the teen and lightly glares at Purah. "Purah! What did I tell you about calling him that!"
Purah pouts and stomps her foot on the ground, not wanting to hear this lecture again. "Yeah yeah, I know. It'll mess with his mental state blah blah blah! So what do I call him then huh?!"
Robbie removed his hand from the teen's knee and dusts off imaginary dust off his shirt. "From now on his new life shall come with a new name and that name will be…."
"Guardian"
Purah: "That's unoriginal..."
Well there's Chapter one! As said above I'll continue this if enough people like this. I already have the whole thing planned out all I gotta do is put into words. Also I apologize for any strange grammar, misspellings, quotation marks, or apostrophes as I wrote this on mobile and It was in a different font for some reason. If you see any feel free to tell me so I can fix it. Anyway I hoped you enjoyed ^^
