The Legend Of

ZELDA

The blood realm.

Prologue.

"Hey! Link! It's time to get up!" Link cracked open his eyes. He lay in the soilders bunk in Hyrule castle. "Hey! Sleepy head." A hand covered in an iron glove lifted Link's head up. The hand belonged to Hyrule soilder Iridan. Link looked at Iridan. Link thought for a moment. "Come on! We gotta get you're belly full before sword practice." Iridan gave Link a slap on the back before walking away. Link wondered, Why he had registered for 5 hours a day of harsh swordplay training under the most skilled swordsman in all hyrule? Then he remembered. He flopped out of bed and yawned. He got into his green tunic and large green hat.

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The meal Link got was some simple vegtibles, and a hunk of ham. Then It was outside with link. Now he stood in a big square of grass. About 20ftx30ft. Then Iridan walked out. "Alright kid. You ready?" Link nodded. Then Iridan stabbed a very basic looking sword into the ground. "You, are going, to use this."Link walked up ad looked it over. A basic cross gaurd, About two inches in each direction, A hilt about 6 inches long, and a 3 ft blade. Link yanked the blade out of the ground. "Also, you will use this shield." Iriddan handed him a wooden shield. 'Now, let's start off easy, i'm going to walk away, and let out 3 Goblins, I want you to beat them. You ready?"

"Ready as i'll ever be." Link said.

"Good." Iridan walked out of the square and pulled a lever. Some bars that led into a dark room opened. Inside were three goblins. Blue skin, white hair, Club's in there hands. Link pulled the sword from the ground, Grasping the shield as well.

"Alright...Begin!" The Goblins rushed forward, shreiking there little heads off. Link brought his sword around in a massive ark for goblin #1's head. The goblin ducked and jabbed his chest with the club. While link was doubling over, Goblin #2 Smacked him in the back Causing him to fall to the ground. Then Goblin #3 Tried to swing down on him, But Link rolled to the side, And in doing so, Brought his sword into Goblin #1's foot. Link then went through a backflip avoiding another strike.

"Good! But Remember you have a shield to block enemy attacks!"

Link nodded and charged forward, Bringing his sword in a horizontal slash at goblin #2. But the fiendish creature rolled to the side Completly avoiding Link's slice. Link then turned to Goblin #3. Good thing to cause a club was flying for Link's head. He brought up his wooden shield to block the strike. The 3 inch thick oak wood completly bounced away the oncomming strike. Link then did a cartwheel to get behind the goblin that had struck at him and thrusted between it's shoulder blades. Then Link turned to Goblin #3. "GGRRRAAAAAGG!!" It shrieked as it came in. Link dodged and brought his sword up, the Goblin was killed as it ran into the blade. Iridan walked up. "Very good link...I see you already have some talent.

"Thanks" Link said. Iridan stroked his brown beard with his hand. "Now we need to give you somethinng more challenging...Hmm...Mayebe A fight against the..." Link eyed him carefully. Iridan shook his head. "No..no..You are still not good enough to face that beast yet." Iridan wondered and thought. "well...How'bout i do what i was assighned to do. Teach you the art of swordplay." Link seemed to like the sound of that. "Good, then let us get started."

the next several hours were spent Learning the basic's of swordplay, and doing battle with monsters

Link Half walked, half stumbled away from the training grounds. This guy was tougher to deal with then Link had originally thought.Then Iridan walked up beside him. "Hey you did good in there." Link looked at him.

"Mastering every move i tought you in just a few paractice swings. You are commig along better then any student i have ever had the pleasure of training." Link smiled at him. "Anyway, You had best get some sleep. Tomorrow will be filled with even harder training" Iridan walked away. Link stared after him. It had been a long time since someone had complimented him like that. Link turned and headed for the bunks.