The Legend of Zelda: Balance of Power
By: emeeem
Disclaimer: I do not own the whole or any part of Legend of Zelda series. Anyone who has told you otherwise is lying. Also, I might own the storyline of this. Just not the characters. I really should get around to checking on that….
Zelda put her hand on the railing as she walked down the stairs. She noticed that the railing was starting to feel rougher. Given her line of work, she thought nothing of it. That is, she thought nothing of it until an incredibly sharp pain shot up instantaneously through her index finger, making her yank her finger away.
"Ow. Stupid splinter," she muttered to herself as she pulled it out. She dabbed her finger on her clothes to get rid of the small bleeding. "That's a pretty big one, too." She decided to be more careful from now on, and get that replaced if she could. Maybe Link could hack something together with his sword. But then again, that sword was the cause of all this in the first place. If Link would watch where he was walking, he wouldn't so carelessly bump his sword against that railing. However, she did not want him to have it out of the sheath unless necessary. As Link's boss, she was not about to put her power in such danger. She did know that she could be a little rough on him, sometimes.
Deciding not to let this matter go anymore, she went to Link's door and barged in without warning. She knew he wouldn't complain. He never did. In fact, he never really said much at all.
"LINK!" she shouted, "I've had enough of you and your equipment!"
Link fell out of bed, looked up at Zelda, and had the most shocked expression on his face. Whether he was more scared of her yelling or her punishment, he wasn't sure.
"You are to keep that sword, shield, and everything else in this room from now on, understand?"
Link's expression ditched some of the shock to make way for some confusion as he nodded. He knew he had no choice, but he still wanted an explanation.
"I know you want to protect me. That's what all the great heroes throughout Hylian history have done for their respective Zeldas. But this is getting ridiculous. If there was anyone among us who shouldn't be, I'd know about it and kill him myself! And I think I can keep track of the number of people in a space this small. But when you haul your equipment around on your back, you end up careless! The railing outside has been very chipped and banged up and I am not happy about it! I've been getting small splinters for weeks now, and just now, I got a huge one that made me bleed! BLEED! Is that any way to treat your Princess?"
Link's expression turned apologetic as he looked to his sword and shield. As much as he hated to abandon them like that, he had no choice. She'd likely kill him if he didn't acquiesce. He nodded again in understanding, and went outside to sit and think.
Just as he sat down under one of the massive wooden pillars, a man's voice screamed rather loudly a single word: "LAND!"
The call was not regarded as great news; such calls had been made before. But when another man looked in the same direction, and saw how much land there was, he started shouting, "Captain! Captain! Come here, Captain Tetra! Look at this! More land than we've ever come across before!"
Immediately, Link and the rest of Tetra's pirate crew gathered at the front of the ship. Everyone got giddy and ecstatic looks on their faces when they saw that this time, the land found stretched along the entire sea, creating the horizon. It sure enough looked like it could be a continent. This side was big enough; that was for sure.
Tetra stood up on the railing at the front of the boat with a triumphant look on her face. "Pirates, this is it! This is our New Hyrule!"
For the longest time, they had been traveling through uncharted waters, finding naught but large islands that could maybe pass for small-country-sized pieces of land. Plus, small societies existed on most of these landmasses. But the one that lay before them was the biggest they'd ever found. There was no way they were going to try to sail around it for days, fail, and try the other way for several more days, exhausting their remaining supplies in the process. They landed the ship, and Tetra began ordering the crew (including Link) on how to build the temporary shelters until they could make a permanent settlement. They all slept the night, and woke up the next morning with a resolve to start a society right away.
The New Hylians worked harder than they ever had aboard the ship. In time, they had a house, and then a few. The house that Link and Tetra lived in was slightly nicer than the rest. For the first few months, as they were alternately building and surviving, they survived on what little the pirates caught and what feasts Link caught. Because Link could prove himself to find food for more than two people per day, Tetra sent her former crew (now New Hylian citizens) to go back to the other islands, reaching the Great Sea of the Old Hyrule if possible, and bring others to New Hyrule, that it might be populated and evolve into a great nation. Ships came in by the day. Tetra soon learned that she would not be able to know everyone's names, since there were so many once population really started picking up. More people meant that more food could be produced, and more food meant more development of the land.
For instance, soon after people started taking interest in a land-based home, Link and Tetra's house was much nicer. Link and Tetra's house soon turned into multiple stories, then a mansion, and then, eventually, a Castle. A New Hyrule Castle. It was from here that the future of the Zelda bloodline would rule.