Hello, all! Here is my first official story ever that I am writing! I hope everything will work out ok, as I do have the entire outline of the thing done, along with the Table of Contents. All that I need is the motivation! That's where you readers come in! Please, review! Comments, critiques, criticisms, anything you want! I just have to have the motivation to finish this story, dangit! So the prologue is basically stuff you already know about the Zelda series as a whole, but after that, it's all brand new waters for everyone! So please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own The Legend of Zelda or it's world and characters. The only things that are mine are my OC's.
Prologue
A long time ago, the three golden goddesses descended upon the world. Din: The goddess of Power shaped the earth, giving richness to the land. Nayru: The goddess of Wisdom gave law to the land, enshrining knowledge into the way of life itself. Farore: The goddess of Courage, created the beings that would uphold the law, thus bringing life to the world. The goddesses entrusted their sister, Hylia, to look after the land and guide its beings to fruition. The three golden goddesses then left this plane of existence, leaving behind a sacred relic in the exact spot they departed the land: The Triforce, with the ability to grant the wish of anyone who lays a hand on the relic and has a balanced heart. For a time, peace was the norm, until one day, the Earth's crust broke open and demons that we led by the demon lord, Demise, poured forth.
Demanding the Triforce be handed over to him, Demise sent his minions to slaughter the people in order to get Hylia to surrender the sacred triangles of the goddesses. But Hylia was strong and wise, and devised a plan to stop the demon lord once and for all. Hylia gathered the remaining humans on an outcrop of land and sent it skyward. With the humans now safe, Hylia gathered the armies of the remaining land dwellers and drove back Demise's forces, sealing the demon lord away, but at a cost. With Hylia's powers nearly depleted, she knew the seal she created for Demise wouldn't hold forever, so she cultivated another plan. She created a sword with a living spirit, that would only be wielded by a warrior with great courage; she also gave up her divine form and became a mortal, to be able to be born again and again without end. Peace reigned again, for nearly 100 years. But, one of Demise's closest allies, a demon named Ghiriham, made it his mission to revive his fallen master. He found Hylia reborn, a girl named Zelda living on the outcrop of land in the sky and brought her back to the surface to reawaken Demise. However, a boy named Link was able to draw the sword Hylia had made, and guided by the spirit in the sword, Fi, he was able to put a stop to Ghiriham, but not before he was able to revive Demise. Link and Demise clashed swords, and the battle was won in Link's favor. As he began to seal Demise away into the sword, Demise placed a curse, a never-ending cycle of his hate physically reborn to fight the goddess reborn and the spirit of the hero. With Demise vanquished, Link put the Goddess' Sword, which had been forged and renamed the Master Sword during his journey, to rest and Fi along with it, to sleep and keep Demise locked away.
Link and Zelda then brought down the remaining people from the sky and began to build a kingdom, naming it after the goddess that had saved them, dubbing the surface world Hyrule. Generations passed, with people expanding the world, creating new countries, and new economies for trade. Peace and prosperity had been known for as long as anyone could remember, but, eventually, Demise's curse had come to fruition. Evil beings had tried time and time again to steal the power of the Triforce, but the goddess and the spirit of the hero were able to best the villains every time. However, not all things go as planned.
One era of peace found the birth of a man named Ganondorf. He sought the power of the gods. The young Zelda and Link, reborn once again, began their quest to put a stop to Ganondorf's plan, but it was all for naught. At the point where they may have succeeded, Ganondorf launched an attack that killed the reigning king, which forced Zelda to go into hiding. Link had gone to draw the Master Sword, but he was far too young to ever wield such power, so the spirit of the sword sealed Link away in the Sacred Realm where he slept for seven years until he was strong enough to use the sword. During those seven years, Ganondorf had usurped the land of Hyrule with an iron fist, but Zelda was able to elude Ganondorf's forces for those seven years, while training to help Link save the six Sages who guarded the Sacred Realm. But, again, things do not always go as planned. During the final fight with Ganondorf, Link had been killed by the power-hungry tyrant. This not being the goddesses will, they were able to rewind time, but at a cost. The timeline went on and was abandoned by the goddesses. In the other timeline, the hero prevailed and, with Zelda's help, sealed Ganondorf away in the Sacred Realm. As a reward, Zelda sent Link back to the time before he ever pulled the Master Sword, in order to live out his childhood that was stolen from him. However, the timeline did not dissolve as Zelda intended. As with the timeline the goddesses had abandoned, time continued on there as well, letting Demise's curse twist and bend the fates of the heroes to his will. Three timelines running right alongside by each other for centuries, until now. The walls of time are bleeding into one another and converging into one again. A new hero is born, a princess is being revealed her heritage, and an evil is rising. And it all started with a boy.