Storm Spirits◭
-Lord So's Corner :)
-Hello readers, welcome to my first ever FanFiction.
Criticism is greatly appreciated but outright hate won't be tolerated. I'm not sure what the rules are on that but it only hurts my feelings :(
-I just wanted to leave this message for anyone who happened to click on my story, whether that be because they are a Zelda fan, they liked the sound of the story or just randomly happened upon this however and wherever.
-To give backstory this story is based on the TLoZ series and mainly based on the Wind Waker/Phantom Hourglass games as fans will know these two are directly linked and Phantom Hourglass is a direct sequel to Wind Waker, featuring the same Link :D
So for anyone who is a Zelda fan you can skip this but if you haven't played the two games it may be best to read it as a lot of things from the games are referenced, only referenced though as this is my own thing, or even better you should play them.
-Below I will leave a very quick summary of the 2 games so that anyone who hasn't played the games and/or is only interested in the story can easily hop in, like I said though it is optional as my story is a completely separate media.
-The below summary does not go into detail but a quick refresh may be in order, go play the games guys :)
TLoZ: Wind Waker
Link lives on Outset Island with his sister Aryll who is one day kidnapped by the minions of the evil Ganondorf! Link sets out on a quest to emulate the protagonist of the Ocarina of Time (Which I am also replaying hehe) and joins with Tetra's crew to find his sister. There are many goals for our hero along the way and he meets many memorable characters like the Kingly Red, Tingle and Tetra/the crew.
Ganon wants the power of the Tri Force and like every incarnation of himself before must be stopped, in an epic final confrontation Link defeats this generations Ganon and seals him away forever…
The end.
TLoZ: Phantom Hourglass
As Link journeys with Tetra and the crew they encounter the mysterious Ghost Ship which steals Tetra away because of her energetic and bold life force. Link washes up on the shores of Mercay Island where he meets Oshus and Ciela who help him set out on his quest to find and save Tetra from the Ghost ship. Link is joined by the self proclaimed 'Captain' Linebeck, as they venture to save Tetra, Oshus reveals his true identity as the Ocean King and reveals the real enemy behind all of the evil incidents, Bellum. Link saves Tetra but to defeat Bellum he needs the Phantom Sword which only Zauz knows how to make.
Finally after Link defeats Bellum in the final encounter the curse on Tetra is released, Oshus returns to… the ocean, the spirits go their own way and Linebeck probably wastes away his whole life in the Milk Bar.
The end.
TLoZ: Storm Spirits
Chapter 1
Waydale Community
"Link! Wake up… Listen!…"
I groan and move my head to the right, but really just away from the noise in general, someone make it stop.
"Geez Link. Do you even care about school? Wake up and come listen to the morning lectures with me."
I force my eyes open and sit up to see my roommate Connet trying to wake me, we have been good friends and have gone to school together for a short-long while now, so i'm on fairly good terms with him.
"Connet" I say as I start to feel awake enough to talk to this bundle of energy.
"Yes Link?" He looks chirpily back at my reply "Now that you're up, we c-"
"Connet" I repeat
"Yes…"
"You do realise. It. Is. A. Bloody. SATURDAY!" I love you man, but even I have my limits. I tilt my head to the left to see my Shell Clock. The Shellop's hand has only just passed half way, which means…
"Connet, you do know that it is 6:15 in the morning. That is AM. Just, at least give me another hour or so then we'll go do something, alright?" I cool down a little bit, i'm always rowdy and grumpy in the mornings but I feel in my rights to be annoyed.
"Link…" He looks like he's just been rejected the chance of a lifetime
"Yes Connet.." great, now I feel bad. (poor guy)
"It's ok we can just go to tomorrow's lecture, they are repeating today's ones at a bit of a better time." He flips open his little notebook and starts scribbling away faster than anyone could see or comprehend other than him.
"Well I do have plans tomorrow but what time did you have in mind, I might be able to do it." I honestly hate school but if it's with Con I don-
"5:30AM"
"..."
"..."
"..."
I reach for my sword and Con dashes faster than when I first met Linebeck in the Ocean King's Temple.
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….
…..
Peace and quiet, finally.
I quickly get up to go to the toilet so I can get back in bed ASAP, our room is a tiny student dorm with green walls, a serviceable blue rug that covers everywhere but the tiny kitchen (and tiny bathroom) and multiple posters of Con's consisting of the local Fyrdale bands and his favourite series 'Linebeck's Grand Adventures!'. That's right, you heard it here first, THAT Linebeck is now a reality TV star with his own show, it's honestly not all that bad but it's evident that he hasn't changed all that much from how he was when I left Mercay 4 years ago.
So far no one knows of my past. I have told no one here in Fyrdale of the events with Ganon or Bellum, I do sometimes here rumours that I can only assume are about myself and apparently I have been donned as 'The Hero of Wind'. Even though my hero days are behind I still use my sword and practise in secret just so I don't get rusty. I do feel a lot different now that my hero days are over, lonely almost. When I fought Ganon and Bellum I felt another presence in myself other than my own. I came to believe that the Gods themselves were helping me so now that they are gone and my work is done, my hero days are going to be much, much quieter.
A few moments later I stand up after my morning toilet routine, place the newspaper I was reading back on the toilet basin and make about 7 strides to land in my scruffy bed thinking about my fight with Bellum, as I always do. I honestly am still surprised by the influence Bellum had over the whole world, his reach spread much further than Ganon's. Bellum has always been in this world, his evil had spread so far he had halted the expansion of the entire world and after he had been defeated the 6 years after technology had skyrocketed and lot's of things I never thought were possible are now possible.
Obviously a ship is always going to be the best mode of transport (obligatory suck up) but things called Airships are being invented, they are ships carried by massive balloons that are piloted separately from the ship itself so the ships are dropped into the ocean once they reach their destination and the balloon is guided to an offshore location away from the civilians. It really is a genius system but normal ships are better, obviously.
Once i'm under my covers I check my Shellop's time, 6:28AM. Looks like the perfect time for a long nap. I flick the light off, take the packaged food from my right window ledge and place it onto my bedside dresser for the Shellop (they have to eat too) and slowly doze off into and out of this world.
DISCLAIMER
Hope you are enjoying the small bits of information and the new character :D. I just wanted to let people know that to my knowledge there are no OFFICIAL dates for the event in TLoZ and you are just told the years between each game. So basically everything about this world's time and years etc. are all made up. One thing I can say for sure is that this time period is in the 'Era of the Great Voyage' where people are still charting the oceans and is set after Ganondorf destroys Hyrule and before Hyrule is remade (Hyrule being remade is the starting point for the DS game 'Spirit Tracks').
So I don't badly interrupt the start, the date at the start of the story is the date as I write this, the 25th of August, (I may make a new system for the dates but that will take a lot of time and isn't really required so for now it's just normal dates) the year is c768 and to put this into context this means that the events of Phantom Hourglass take place in c762 and the events of Spirit Tracks around c862.
Sorry to interrupt and enjoy!
THUD
A loud crash resonates as our hero falls from his deep slumber and onto the newly cleaned blue carpet...
I quickly recuperate myself and check the time, 11:38AM, patting our Shellop's shell, Con calls him Ten but I don't actually have a name for him, he's just a really good clock.
Actually I think a bit of info is in order on why I have been addressing my clock as if it's alive, well.
That's because it is.
Shellops are a creature native to Fyrdale and have two thick needles which stick out on either side of their shell and can detect the time of day, telling the Shellops when it is night time, so they can hide from predators.
I found this little guy on the beach and gave him some spare food I had in my bag and ever since then he's lived in the dorm with me and Con acting as my own personal clock.
Sometimes I wake up to him on my face and other times he is rapidly spinning his needles to make gusts of wind which give me insane bed head unless I get up which forces him to stop and plod back to his original spot.
He always eyes me when i'm getting ready to leave the dorm, almost angry and sad that i'm leaving. Unfortunately as much as I would love to sit in my room all day playing with a weird, lethargic, sea snail I actually happen to have bigger goals than that.
I prepare to brush my teeth and as i'm rinsing my mouth in the bathroom mirror I look up to see my mousy hair, that's right. The blonde hair went (F in chat boys) a few years ago and my hair has started becoming increasingly brown-er over the years. Luckily because i'm out on sea a lot my hair has lots of contact with the sun which has stopped my hair going fully brown but i'm sure it's just a matter of time before I lose the blonde.
I also happen to be a master of getting ready quick (you learn quickly when you oversleep like me) so I can easily do my teeth while sorting my hair out and picking my cloths for the day.
I decided to go with a blue shirt, loose fit black jeans and my trusty brown boots, I felt like a jog to the pier would wake me up and maybe give me the push I need to actually do something productive this day.
If I knew what was in store for me today, productive would have been an understatement.
As I left the school grounds of Waydale I shimmied down the narrow passages heading through the town centre and onto the main street named Way Lane. I started to jog at a steady pace, maintaining my breath and greeting people that I recognised along the way.
The land of Fyr is very different to that of the Isles around Mercay, many races come together here since Fyr is one of the only large island communities that has been discovered and is also rumoured to be covered in these 'Temples of the Gods' left scattered around by… the Gods, however this is more likely to have been a ploy to attract new citizens than to actually incite adventurers, but one can hope.
I reach the halfway point down Way Lane to the central plaza of town known by the locals as the heart of Waydale, Central Dale. The place was booming far greater than it usually is as people are seen flooding in from all over the place, supposedly coming for their breaks, but there sure are a lot of them.
The people here set up stalls and shops in hope of attracting customers from all over the world. In the far corner I could see a Rito woman selling clothing to a Zora (while the Rito and the Zora are the same ever since the great expansion they have split off into two different races but treat each other as equals). The Rito woman thanks the Zora customer and takes the money into her beak and moves backwards, flies on level with her shop and places the money in a small cage. She then returns to her post with a friendly smile and greets another passing customer, this time a fellow Rito.
The races of this world have become ever closer ever since Bellum was defeated as the dark cloud of his influence has lessened tensions between otherwise tense relations so now the world is mostly at peace, I still get no personal credit but whatever.
The world is very diverse but the main inhabitants of the Isles now are Humans, this is because us Hylians have slowly died out, well this is what I have been told in classes but I do know that you rarely see other Hylians like myself around, we look almost identical to the regular Humans but we have larger ears and have innate magical abilities.
I decided to take a break and perched myself on a bench near one of 'Beedle's Emporiums', ever since I left Mercay, Beedle has expanded his brand all throughout the known world and is now the leading tradesmen of goods and wares, he still works on his boat but it's much more lavish than it used to be.
I kick of my boots, stretch out and take a drink a sip of my Fireroach Rain Water, bottled straight from the source! Full of healthy nutrients with spices added from the Gorons native to Goron Island. I can imagine Biggoron bottling the water now, I feel like he wouldn't really be gentle enough for that kind of work though. I may have been a bit misleading but on Goron Island a hot spring exists near the centre which has become a flowing river since I have left so many of the Gorons now work bottling the hot water and gathering the Fireroach herbs to make the new brand of Fireroach Rain Water.
I downed the spicy water, which no longer had an effect on me, and threw the bottle in the bin closest.
As I was placing my boots back on I looked up to see that a massive crowd had formed as I was taking a break and it was growing steadily bigger. I decided to go and investigate so I pushed through a few of the people until I saw an extremely tall man with a long black beard and short hair. He wore the colours of the royal house but they were still just the cloths of common citizens. I also could see him waving a flag around which looked like it had the royal crest embezzled but it is extremely hard to make out in this madness.
"Excuse m.. Sir.. What is going on?" I struggle to speak as i'm pushed around trying to find out just what has happened.
"Hey young fella, you ok there?" He looked down to see me struggling and made some room so I could stand up straight. "You come here to see the Queen and the Princess?".
"Sorry, what? The Queen, she's here?"
"Yes, you been living under a rock or something? They planned to come down 2 weeks ago today." Well this is why I didn't know then, I was probably sleeping.
"You mean Queen Aria is here. NOW?" I asked shocked that the Queen would even dare set foot outside of the her Royal Palace, what was the need? "And this Princess, you mean she had a child this whole time?"
"Crazy isn't it, apparently this girl has been extremely sheltered and she has kind of just appeared from thin air" the man replies. He's right. This feels kind of off to me.
"Thanks, friend." I decide to take a look myself.
ARIA, ARIA
QUEEN ARIA
WHERE IS THE PRINCESS?
HOW LONG DO YOU STAY
SHE'S SO BEAUTIFUL!
I push forward through the heavy mass of people all cheering for Queen Aria and the Princess - who I have yet to hear a name for.
"People of Waydale. I thank you for having me"
The crowd dies down as a female voice silences everyone with a calm, yet commanding, tone.
"As you all know, it is I, Queen Aria who has come to the Capital of Fyr to give the whole world important news and insight to the future of this land."
I start pushing through now that people have calmed down and as I reach the edge of the crowd I see the beautiful Queen Aria, she is the most captivating woman any of us had laid our eyes on, she has long brown, mousy hair (similar to mine now I see it in person). She is now waiting for the rest of the crowd to die down and in an instance I could have sworn she made eye contact with me.
"As you have all heard, I have brought a very special person here with me"
She points downwards to the carriage she is perched on top of. It seems extremely expensive with a balcony on the top and 6 horses pulling it. I'm not sure how I didn't hear it but it's always so loud you never do hear much but chatter.
The carriage roof had a door which opened on Queen Aria's command. The crowds could see a figure emerge and a round of applause bellowed out throughout the whole audience.
In a booming voice the Queen over rules all of the noise without hardship.
"Please may I present, my daughter, PRINCESS…"
"...ZELDA!"
"...Tetra?"
TO BE CONTINUED IN CHAPTER 2
It's time for…
So's Segment Section!
Linebeck's Grand Adventure (Segment)
Hello people from all nations! Captain Linebeck reporting from Mercay Island, today i'm with the Shipwright of the island who has undoubtedly repaired my Salvage Arm on more occasions than I would dare say on Live AIR.
Off camera I didn't catch your name mr.. "Just call me The Shipwright." ...right then.
So i'm here with The Shipwright who, well i'm assuming, has a name unless his parents hated him.
"Eh, you say something?"
Nothing sir, sorry to distract you from your tinkering, just pretend i'm not here, thanks.
"Sounds good to me"
As you see he's a very welcoming person and he is now celebrating his Grand Reopening on the 1st of September! So all of you Landlubbers can head on down to the Shipyard and find yourself a trusty partner to sail the seas with. Hopefully she will talk more than this guy.
"..."
Well… Errm… I guess that wraps up today's feature, tomorrow we will have a full episode detailing the route to the Spirit Island, that's right, the same Spirit Island I went to when I was just a fledgling adventurer, of course not to brag but I was killing Phantoms with my sword at the meager age of 9, pushing 10.
"Hey Linebeck we need to wrap up the show"
Oh of course, silly me.
Well, for now it is goodbye my Sea Dogs and I hope you tune in for tomorrow's episode where I meet the Chiefta-
Did you just cut me off Simon, Oii! I'm not done yet you cretin.
FINE! Whatever, I don't care, i'm going to bed, later Mr Shipwright, have a good day.
Slam
Linebeck's Grand Adventure is brought to you by 'Dairy Enterprise', make sure to hop down to your local Milk Bar to enjoy a glass of Warm, Semi Warm, Slightly Warmer, Lukewarm, Cold and Frozen Milk!
Thank you all for reading the first chapter on Storm Spirits! I hope you enjoyed, I remind that I am sticking to the Zelda lore but it will be changed as I see fit for the story I am trying to make. For example Ritos existing alongside Zoras.
Hope you all enjoyed the segment and the overall lighter toned chapter I went for, things start heating up near the end and from now on the story will become a little more serious and hopefully some romance will ensue :D
See you all later,
-Lord So
P.s. I don't mind being referred to as just Luke, Lord So is just my username after all.