Saviors of Hyrule

A/N: This is based on an RP I've been doing. Role reversal between Link and Zelda. Characters are still the same but appear human in Scotland. So two different versions of the characters, who will eventually have the same memories as the story progresses.

Rated T for swearing and mentions of blood.

Also rated T for innuendos and all that.

I don't own Legend of Zelda but I do own Scarlett.

Enjoy!

Chapter 1- The Temple of Time

Scarlett and Zelda walked down the familiar cobbled path, just chatting about various things.

Scarlett was a fairly average height, though a bit skinny, she had long wavy black hair, bright green eyes, and pierced ears.

Zelda was quite tall and had a rather athletic built with curly brown hair, bright blue eyes, and two piercings in each ear.

Scarlett and Zelda had been best friends since they had met in English class since they were put together to work on a project together, shortly after Zelda had moved to the area.

Scarlett was more than happy to show Zelda around the small village and it wasn't long before the two girls were closer than any other. They shared most of their classes, though Zelda usually missed the first lesson of the day since swimming practice with two of their other friends, Mipha and her little brother Sidon, typically ran late.

Urbosa was a good friend of theirs as well, she was in some of their classes. Scarlett and Zelda both saw her as a big sister, since Urbosa was a little protective about those around her. Urbosa had a little sister named Riju who Scarlett and Zelda got along with too, despite not seeing too often.

Revali and Zelda rarely got along, they usually butted heads. Revali got along with Scarlett, mainly because Scarlett didn't put up with his bullshit. Sure, they disagreed on a few things, but they were civil.

Scarlett was close to a boy named Link, who she had a crush on, which Zelda teased her about. Though, Scarlett teased Zelda in return about her crush on Mipha. Mipha did tend to blush around Zelda quite a lot too, which Scarlett and Zelda both found adorable.

Lastly, there was Daruk who was essentially a big brother to Scarlett and Zelda and was there when they needed him. He was determined and always happy to help out a friend in need. Plus, he gave the best hugs: bear hugs.

They all lived in a small village on the eastern coast of Scotland called Elie, about an hour away from Perth and Glasgow. There wasn't really much there, some pubs, a restaurant, a golf course, a lighthouse, and a small building on top of a cliff called 'The Lady's Tower.' It wasn't much, but it was home. Regardless of the weather, it always felt remarkably cozy. Scarlett lived near to the pub called 'The Ship Inn' with her parents and her three older brothers, Liam, Tom and Colby, while Zelda lived just over a block away with her parents and older sister Hannah.

Usually, they all walked together, but all their other friends had stuff to do after school. The two girls offered to wait for them, so they could all walk together but they declined, not wanting to make the two wait around. While walking down the old cobblestone path they'd taken for years, Scarlett noticed a strange looking church, it didn't look like any she'd seen before. Scarlett frowned, wondering how on earth they could have missed it, they had walked down that path for years and surely, they would heard and seen the construction if the church was recently built, but it looked like it had been abandoned for a few years. There was also a strange energy beaming off the church, one that felt familiar, powerful.

"Hey, Zelda." Scarlett said, tapping Zelda on the shoulder. "You ever seen that church before?" Zelda stopped and looked at the church, clearly confused.

"No, I haven't. It looks like it's just been dropped off here in the middle of nowhere." Zelda replied. "It certainly is unique." Scarlett nodded and walked over the fence, throwing her rucksack over then starting to climb the fence. "Come on Zelda!" Zelda groaned, following Scarlett over the fence, tossing her bag over the fence as well.

"Slow down Scar! This is a lot harder to do in a skirt!" Zelda was wearing a purple top with a knee length black skirt and black shoes. Scarlett was wearing a similar thing, except with pants, since that was the school uniform. Zelda landed next to Scarlett, looking around the church.

The church itself looked like it was starting to decay with bits of rubble around it. There were a few gravestones scattered about but not many. Maybe they just didn't notice it before.

"This place is really weird, but it feels familiar somehow." Scarlett said, looking around. She walked towards the door, slowly opening it as it creaked, the sound echoing through the empty church. Scarlett shivered, looking around. "It's cold in here..." The only thing inside was a long-abandoned altar.

At the end of the altar, there was a weird looking statue with a woman's face, but no body. Though she could see it was holding something and was wearing flowers on its head. Scarlett curiously walked over to it, trying to figure out what it used to look like. "What a weird statue…" Zelda muttered, walking over to examine it up close. Scarlett gently put her hand on the statue, feeling the smooth stone, though moss had started to cover some of it. Scarlett looked up at it. "I wonder why it's here..." There was some weird writing on it, probably from a different language.

Suddenly a bright beam of light came off the statue, making Scarlett and Zelda gasp, stumbling backwards. The building started to shake, causing chunks of stone and wood fall from the ceiling. "Zelda! Get down!" Scarlett shouted.

Zelda shrieked, diving out of the way of the rubble. Scarlett dodged out of the way of a falling beam, closing her eyes as the rubble fell around them. "This has to be a dream!" Scarlett thought. The building stopped shaking after what felt like hours. Scarlett slowly opened her eyes, looking around. The church looked different, more ruined, like it had been that way for a hundred years. Nature had definitely taken over with grass and plants completely covering the floor and moss growing on the walls and what little remained of the roof. Just outside of the church were strange, spider-like machines, but they were deactivated and covered in moss.

"Zelda?" Scarlett asked, sitting up and rubbing her head slowly, looking around again. "You okay?"

"I'm fine!" Zelda replied from close by, groaning softly under her breath. "Where are we?"

"I have no idea..." Scarlett looked around, glancing at Zelda. She gasped, her eyes widening. "Zelda! Your clothes! Your ears! They've changed!" Zelda was wearing a purple regal top with black pants with sturdy boots. Her hair was in a very low set braid, with two smaller braids in front. Underneath her clothes was a layer of chainmail. Lastly, her ears had grown much longer and become pointed.

Zelda looked at her clothes then felt her now pointy ears, before gasping as she looked at Scarlett "You've changed too!"

Scarlett looked down at her clothes, she was wearing a blue tunic with white patterns on the edges, leather fingerless gloves, tan pants and a pair of boots. Her hair was in a tight braid and she had the same pointed ears as Zelda.

"What the hell is going on?" Scarlett asked, before walking to the entrance of the church and looking around. Scarlett gasped, her eyes widening at the view. The church had moved to a large grassy plain with various trees and bushes scattered around with only the sound of the wind and a few distant animal cries. Scarlett rubbed her eyes, thinking it must be a dream and that she just had to wake up, but they were still in the ruined temple when she opened her eyes again.

"Zelda.. you better come see this.. I don't think we're in Scotland anymore.." Instead of the quaint village they knew and loved, was vast wilderness and forests dotted around, in the distance was a volcano with a big looking storm cloud over it and a castle, with four strange pillars surrounding it. "Well.. I guess we'll be missing that Geography test that was tomorrow.." In her confused and panicked state, she had said that to try and lighten the mood. Scarlett often did that.

Zelda didn't catch the joke, too focused on where they'd wound up. "Oh my... How did we even get here?" She looked around nervously, realizing there was no clear way to return home. Though, after a few minutes, it started to feel vaguely familiar to the two girls. Scarlett spotted someone sitting by a camp fire not too far from the temple. "Hey, there's someone over there." Scarlett pointed over to them. "Maybe they know where we are."

Zelda nodded and started to walk down to the campsite with Scarlett following, as she collected a few apples along the way. There was an old man with a long white beard sitting at the fire wearing a simple grey outfit with a hood. Scarlett glanced at Zelda then looked at the old man. "Excuse me, do you know where we are?" She asked.

The old man looked up at the two girls, studying them with tired brown eyes, it felt he could have been sitting there for decades. "Why, you are on the Great Plateau, the birthplace of Hyrule as the legends say," he replied. The old man paused, standing up to point at the crumbling temple that Scarlett and Zelda had found themselves in. "Many ceremonies once took place in that ruin, the Temple of Time. Now, it sits in decay, has ever since the decline of the kingdom 100 years ago."

"Who are you?" Zelda asked, hoping to get more answers from him.

"Just an old fool who has lived here for a while." the old man replied.

The old man sat back down, watching the flames from the camp fire. Zelda huffed at the vague answer they had just been given. Just then, a voice entered Scarlett's mind, while Zelda tried to get any more answers out of the old man, but with not much luck.

"Head to the point marked on your Sheikah slate." The voice said. It was strong and regal. A voice of a royal. Scarlett looked at Zelda. "Did you hear that?" Scarlett asked.

"Hear what?" Zelda asked, looking at her friend with a raised eyebrow.

"That voice. It was telling us to head to the point marked on the Sheikah slate." Scarlett finally noticed the slate like object on her hip, looking at it. There was a single orange point that was flashing, Scarlett looked up. "Over there." She said, looking out in the distance. Scarlett walked towards the point that was marked. Zelda huffed, still upset with the cryptic old man but followed Scarlett. They managed to avoid some weird looking red monsters and strange blue blobs. Scarlett picked up a few supplies along the way, along with a few weapons. Zelda did the same, just in case those monsters spotted them. The point lead to a cave, with a pedestal inside that was glowing orange and had some weird markings on it. A message popped up onto the Sheikah slate in bright blue letters.

[Place the Sheikah Slate in the Pedestal.]

"But where?" Scarlett asked, examining the pedestal that was still glowing an orange colour.

"I think we put the slate in there.." Zelda said, gesturing to the slate sized indent in the middle of the pedestal. Scarlett nodded once and put the slate in the pedestal, gasping when it flashed orange as the slate fell into place, as if they were finishing a puzzle. One that didn't make sense.

[Sheikah Slate detected. Please avoid the falling rocks.]

"What?" Scarlett looked at the slate curiously. "What kind of message is that?"

The marking above them flashed blue, like it was coming to life. The ground started to shake, making both girls gasp and fall over as ancient Sheikah Towers started to rise all over of Hyrule. Zelda groaned, sitting up once the shaking stopped. Scarlett sat up just after her, quickly realising that they were very very high up in air, but they had a far better view of the world suddenly found themselves in. Scarlett muttered under her breath, looking at the pedestal.

[Distilling local information...]

Scarlett and Zelda watched as the huge stone above the pedestal began to glow a bright blue with weird marks shifting, as if they were letters from a completely different language and it was calibrating. A strange teardrop came from the end of the stone, dropping onto the slate but quickly disappearing as if it was never there.

[Regional map updated]

An area lit up on the Sheikah Slate, now covering the black background it used to be. Great Plateau, the map marks it as. Four orange glowing dots could were scattered around the map, though it didn't say what they were. The pedestal pushed the Sheikah slate back up into an upright position, which Scarlett took off and put back on her hip.

Suddenly they heard a voice, the voice Scarlett heard before. It was now talking to both of them. They knew the voice sounded familiar but couldn't place it. Their memory was fuzzy for some reason. They had a couple vision, but none of them made any sense since they were just flashes at the moment and blurry faces. Voices sounded disoriented. Maybe they would make sense soon. Hopefully.

"Try.. try to remember.."

Scarlett and Zelda both looked at each other and turned in the direction of the castle, where the voice seemed to be coming from. Someone was trying to reach out to them, though Scarlett and Zelda had no idea what they needed to remember. None of this made any sense.

"You two have been gone for the past 100 years.."

The ground shook once again and a dark cloud of purple-black smoke swirled around the base of the castle, then around the towers like a shark circling its prey. The smoke formed into a boar-like creature, letting out a roar. "The beast.. when the beast regains full power, this world will meet its end.." The beast let out another roar, before swirling the castle once again, disappearing but they knew it was there, lurking. Waiting for the right time to strike.

"You must hurry Scarlett and Zelda.. before it's too late.."

And with that, the voice was gone, leaving Scarlett and Zelda to process the information they had just heard.