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Chaos in Hyrule
Prologue
Water...Normally referred to as the element that gives life, is also responsible for taking it as well. From the creatures that live in it to the way it sometimes swirls or flows, water can be dangerous and even deadly. But what would happen if it took on a life of it's own, if it suddenly learned to use it's might and do what it wishes? This story is based on a being that has done exactly that. Chaos.
The last anyone heard of him (or it?) was at the destruction he'd caused in Station Square on Mobius, Super Sonic had defeated him and separated him from the Chaos emeralds which he drew his 'Perfect' power from. The anguish in his heart was also drained away. Or so we thought...
Right now we visit a different world, Hyrule, a world that was created from the three goddesses Din, Nayru, and Faor. They left their newly created world sometime after it's creation, in the wake of their exit was the Tri-Force, a combined force of energy made from each of what the goddesses represented: Power, Wisdom, and Courage. Years ago and yet never, a very big event happened in Hyrule, Gannondorf took control over the Tri-Force of Power because of a certain meddling princess who thought she could control the Sacred Realm the Tri-Force laid in. The world was plunged into darkness under his rule. He searched for Zelda and the other two pieces of the Tri-Force, yet he didn't find either until a young boy named Link, who inadvertently was the Hero of Time, forced her out of hiding and into the open where Gannondorf could take her. This stunt made the Hero and the other Sages of Hyrule attack his tower and eventually destroy it. In the ruins Gannondorf emerged from being
crushed beneath tons of stone as his demonic self, Gannon. He was defeated by Link and the sages and thrust into the empty Sacred Realm.
After that adventure Link was sent back in time to prevent this from ever happening. He did so. In present time Link is seventeen and has gone through numerous adventures in other lands as well as Hyrule, most of them involving Zelda in some way or another.
Link is now just returning from an adventure on the high seas on a fishing boat that found him. The crew thinks that he's raving mad because of the story about his adventure on Mobe Island, which he claims was the personified dreams of a being known as the Wind fish or Jabu-Jabu.
Just a few miles of port and Link sees things aren't right. On top of Death mountain is some kind of floating landmass, he can make out the impression of green plant-life just beyond the smoke.
"What is going on?" Link said to himself as the boat landed at the port.
He grabbed his things and jumped off the boat. After saying goodbye to his saviors he walked out to the fields. Unknown to him the waves around the boat became severely high, capsized, and sunk the boat. The Hyrule fields were overgrown with deep green tall grass. A chill wind blew through the empty place. Link took out his sword and hacked and cut his way east toward Hyrule castle, it took hours to slash through it all. Finally he heard the sound of running water, the moat/river around the drawbridge. Link brushed away the grass in front of it to find that the bridge was ragged, and beaten as if someone tried to destroy it with his or her bear hands. The telltale signs of arrows and burn marks suggested fire arrows were used as well.
Who would do something like this? Link thought as he looked for a way inside the town.
Behind him in the shadow of the grass something caught a whiff of something it hadn't smelled in weeks, Hylian. It crept ever closer to its unsuspecting prey, which was presently looking at the bridge the Hylians had used to protect their city, too easy. It didn't have anything to fear in this world from Photon weapons or the like that Hunters used or spells like the Forces used.
Link got a familiar feeling in the back of his neck and gripped the hilt of his sword and the crystal for Din's fire. The creature took no notice to his pathetic weapon and charged from the grass slicing it away with its scythe arms, hissing and spitting out liquid silk. Link spun around and used the fire spell on this new monster. The crystal glowed and blew fire at the huge Mantis, yet it continued to charge. Link put away the crystal and stood his ground with shield in hand. He swung his sword in an arc and cut the beast across its chitin-laden chest, it didn't seem to notice as it struck back. The glowing scythe went right through the metal shield. Link did a back-flip and charged his sword with a power only he has, he fired a blast of energy from the end of his blade, the beast fell back into a heap and screeched in agony as it's chest leaked an orange fluid. The body began to disintegrate and it's young scattered in all directions so that the predator monsters of
Hyrule didn't eat them immediately after hatching from their mother, so is the way of the Grass Assassin, a horrible beast made of many other small insects that can also grow into more. Link sighed and sheathed his sword, looking down on his broken shield. He turned back to the bridge to find a way in.
Hiss! Screee!
Aw man, not more of them, link thought as he turned his head to the horror behind him. There were at least ten slashing through the grass from all sides. The first one slammed straight into him and sent him flying into the water. Everything went dark for the young hero as the cold water enveloped his body.
"Is he okay?"
"He should be. He was strong enough to kill a grass monster."
Link remembered his new foe and sat straight up, only to fall back in pain. He looked around to see he was in a familiar place, Lon-Lon Ranch. Lying on a bale of hay with Malon sitting beside him.
"Hey Fairy-boy," she said cheerfully. "How you doing?"
"Humiliated," Link said. "Where's your father at?" Then it hit him. "Where is Epona?"
"Don't worry about it, she's fine, a little jumpy, but otherwise okay. My father is outside tending to the cows."
"What is going on around here? The fields are overgrown, there's an island floating over Death Mountain, and the Drawbridge is always closed. I mean Gods...it wasn't this bad when I left a year ago."
"I know it wasn't. I guess I should fill you in on what's been going on around here and the castle." Malon has a tense look on her face, as if she's mad. "When you left something happened to the temples all over Hyrule, even the three hidden temples. The field began to overgrow with grass and vines, you should see the forest it's horrible, Poes and other kinds of ghosts have been getting more frequent, and the Temple of Time has transformed."
"Into what?"
"An evil place with it's own brand of monsters that roam the streets at night, ultimately they had to seal off the temple. A few days after that an island flew over the top of Death Mountain, someone or something chained it there to block the heat from escaping the volcano for some reason. And worse of all there's something going on with the Gorons, the Kokiri, and the Zoras."
Link's eyes widened," Like what?"
"They're turning into monsters. All of this started when that monster appeared around Lake Hylia."
Link got up," Well then that's where I'm going."
"We just plucked you out of the river, you can't be ready to go anywhere yet."
"I'll be fine," he pulls out his fairy ocarina. "Especially when I have this. I won't have to set foot in the fields."
"Good luck."
"Thanks," He said, beginning to play the Serenade of Water. I'll need it.
His body disappeared in blue flash of energy. In under an hour the melody of Link's song ringed around the lake and he appeared above the entrance to the Water Temple. As Link totally appeared on the white platform in the middle of the lake he held his nose. On the banks of the river were piles of dead fish and monsters that eat them. The water in the lake was dark and a thick layer of fog sat on top, the bridge that led from the small island back to the land was destroyed. The house on the shore had also been demolished.
'Nice isn't it?'
Link turned to see a creature made only of water with a single brain in the 'head', it's body held a certain reptilian quality.
"Who...what are you?" Link stammered as he took out his sword.
'I am Chaos. Put that thing away it is useless against me.'
Link held his sword, charging it," No. Now what are you?"
'A being that is beyond your comprehension, I am Water personified. And yes I am responsible for what has happened here in Hyrule.'
"You did all of this?" Link demanded. "All of the destruction, all of the death, all of the suffering was from you?"
'No...that was my new friend's idea'
"It's good to see you again Hero of Time," said a deep familiar voice.
"Gannon..."
Link looked behind him to see the human form of his eternal enemy. Gannon was no worse for wear than when Link first saw him, clad in his black armor with strange gauntlet and glowing sword strapped to his back.
"I have been to many worlds before meeting Chaos here. And I've come across some very good souvenirs, yet I always find a use for this," He held up his right hand and the Tri-force of power lighted into view. "I still want yours, kid."
Link held up his blade and said," Just try it!"
Gannon laughed at him. "Still the same attitude. I'm going to savor this...De Rol Le attack!"
The waters around the platform churned and surged, it slowly parted to reveal a huge worm or maggot rise from the depths. Behind it writhed dozens of tendrils with needles at the ends. It growled and gurgled in the water.
"Well I'd love to stay here but I've got places to go, people to oppress, and things to destroy," Gannon said as he disappeared. "Chaos, meet me at the Forest Temple."
'I see you have no fairy, so I'll explain my little pet here,' Chaos said as he oozed into the water in blob form. 'He is a mutated worm from the world of Ragol, it uses it's tentacles to inject it's venom into other creatures and make them monsters too. There are five or six others swimming around Hyrule.'
"What?" Link yelled as the massive worm leaped from the water toward him. He took a defensive position with his sword and ran toward it. "Okay let's see what you've got!"
To be continued...
Chaos in Hyrule
Prologue
Water...Normally referred to as the element that gives life, is also responsible for taking it as well. From the creatures that live in it to the way it sometimes swirls or flows, water can be dangerous and even deadly. But what would happen if it took on a life of it's own, if it suddenly learned to use it's might and do what it wishes? This story is based on a being that has done exactly that. Chaos.
The last anyone heard of him (or it?) was at the destruction he'd caused in Station Square on Mobius, Super Sonic had defeated him and separated him from the Chaos emeralds which he drew his 'Perfect' power from. The anguish in his heart was also drained away. Or so we thought...
Right now we visit a different world, Hyrule, a world that was created from the three goddesses Din, Nayru, and Faor. They left their newly created world sometime after it's creation, in the wake of their exit was the Tri-Force, a combined force of energy made from each of what the goddesses represented: Power, Wisdom, and Courage. Years ago and yet never, a very big event happened in Hyrule, Gannondorf took control over the Tri-Force of Power because of a certain meddling princess who thought she could control the Sacred Realm the Tri-Force laid in. The world was plunged into darkness under his rule. He searched for Zelda and the other two pieces of the Tri-Force, yet he didn't find either until a young boy named Link, who inadvertently was the Hero of Time, forced her out of hiding and into the open where Gannondorf could take her. This stunt made the Hero and the other Sages of Hyrule attack his tower and eventually destroy it. In the ruins Gannondorf emerged from being
crushed beneath tons of stone as his demonic self, Gannon. He was defeated by Link and the sages and thrust into the empty Sacred Realm.
After that adventure Link was sent back in time to prevent this from ever happening. He did so. In present time Link is seventeen and has gone through numerous adventures in other lands as well as Hyrule, most of them involving Zelda in some way or another.
Link is now just returning from an adventure on the high seas on a fishing boat that found him. The crew thinks that he's raving mad because of the story about his adventure on Mobe Island, which he claims was the personified dreams of a being known as the Wind fish or Jabu-Jabu.
Just a few miles of port and Link sees things aren't right. On top of Death mountain is some kind of floating landmass, he can make out the impression of green plant-life just beyond the smoke.
"What is going on?" Link said to himself as the boat landed at the port.
He grabbed his things and jumped off the boat. After saying goodbye to his saviors he walked out to the fields. Unknown to him the waves around the boat became severely high, capsized, and sunk the boat. The Hyrule fields were overgrown with deep green tall grass. A chill wind blew through the empty place. Link took out his sword and hacked and cut his way east toward Hyrule castle, it took hours to slash through it all. Finally he heard the sound of running water, the moat/river around the drawbridge. Link brushed away the grass in front of it to find that the bridge was ragged, and beaten as if someone tried to destroy it with his or her bear hands. The telltale signs of arrows and burn marks suggested fire arrows were used as well.
Who would do something like this? Link thought as he looked for a way inside the town.
Behind him in the shadow of the grass something caught a whiff of something it hadn't smelled in weeks, Hylian. It crept ever closer to its unsuspecting prey, which was presently looking at the bridge the Hylians had used to protect their city, too easy. It didn't have anything to fear in this world from Photon weapons or the like that Hunters used or spells like the Forces used.
Link got a familiar feeling in the back of his neck and gripped the hilt of his sword and the crystal for Din's fire. The creature took no notice to his pathetic weapon and charged from the grass slicing it away with its scythe arms, hissing and spitting out liquid silk. Link spun around and used the fire spell on this new monster. The crystal glowed and blew fire at the huge Mantis, yet it continued to charge. Link put away the crystal and stood his ground with shield in hand. He swung his sword in an arc and cut the beast across its chitin-laden chest, it didn't seem to notice as it struck back. The glowing scythe went right through the metal shield. Link did a back-flip and charged his sword with a power only he has, he fired a blast of energy from the end of his blade, the beast fell back into a heap and screeched in agony as it's chest leaked an orange fluid. The body began to disintegrate and it's young scattered in all directions so that the predator monsters of
Hyrule didn't eat them immediately after hatching from their mother, so is the way of the Grass Assassin, a horrible beast made of many other small insects that can also grow into more. Link sighed and sheathed his sword, looking down on his broken shield. He turned back to the bridge to find a way in.
Hiss! Screee!
Aw man, not more of them, link thought as he turned his head to the horror behind him. There were at least ten slashing through the grass from all sides. The first one slammed straight into him and sent him flying into the water. Everything went dark for the young hero as the cold water enveloped his body.
"Is he okay?"
"He should be. He was strong enough to kill a grass monster."
Link remembered his new foe and sat straight up, only to fall back in pain. He looked around to see he was in a familiar place, Lon-Lon Ranch. Lying on a bale of hay with Malon sitting beside him.
"Hey Fairy-boy," she said cheerfully. "How you doing?"
"Humiliated," Link said. "Where's your father at?" Then it hit him. "Where is Epona?"
"Don't worry about it, she's fine, a little jumpy, but otherwise okay. My father is outside tending to the cows."
"What is going on around here? The fields are overgrown, there's an island floating over Death Mountain, and the Drawbridge is always closed. I mean Gods...it wasn't this bad when I left a year ago."
"I know it wasn't. I guess I should fill you in on what's been going on around here and the castle." Malon has a tense look on her face, as if she's mad. "When you left something happened to the temples all over Hyrule, even the three hidden temples. The field began to overgrow with grass and vines, you should see the forest it's horrible, Poes and other kinds of ghosts have been getting more frequent, and the Temple of Time has transformed."
"Into what?"
"An evil place with it's own brand of monsters that roam the streets at night, ultimately they had to seal off the temple. A few days after that an island flew over the top of Death Mountain, someone or something chained it there to block the heat from escaping the volcano for some reason. And worse of all there's something going on with the Gorons, the Kokiri, and the Zoras."
Link's eyes widened," Like what?"
"They're turning into monsters. All of this started when that monster appeared around Lake Hylia."
Link got up," Well then that's where I'm going."
"We just plucked you out of the river, you can't be ready to go anywhere yet."
"I'll be fine," he pulls out his fairy ocarina. "Especially when I have this. I won't have to set foot in the fields."
"Good luck."
"Thanks," He said, beginning to play the Serenade of Water. I'll need it.
His body disappeared in blue flash of energy. In under an hour the melody of Link's song ringed around the lake and he appeared above the entrance to the Water Temple. As Link totally appeared on the white platform in the middle of the lake he held his nose. On the banks of the river were piles of dead fish and monsters that eat them. The water in the lake was dark and a thick layer of fog sat on top, the bridge that led from the small island back to the land was destroyed. The house on the shore had also been demolished.
'Nice isn't it?'
Link turned to see a creature made only of water with a single brain in the 'head', it's body held a certain reptilian quality.
"Who...what are you?" Link stammered as he took out his sword.
'I am Chaos. Put that thing away it is useless against me.'
Link held his sword, charging it," No. Now what are you?"
'A being that is beyond your comprehension, I am Water personified. And yes I am responsible for what has happened here in Hyrule.'
"You did all of this?" Link demanded. "All of the destruction, all of the death, all of the suffering was from you?"
'No...that was my new friend's idea'
"It's good to see you again Hero of Time," said a deep familiar voice.
"Gannon..."
Link looked behind him to see the human form of his eternal enemy. Gannon was no worse for wear than when Link first saw him, clad in his black armor with strange gauntlet and glowing sword strapped to his back.
"I have been to many worlds before meeting Chaos here. And I've come across some very good souvenirs, yet I always find a use for this," He held up his right hand and the Tri-force of power lighted into view. "I still want yours, kid."
Link held up his blade and said," Just try it!"
Gannon laughed at him. "Still the same attitude. I'm going to savor this...De Rol Le attack!"
The waters around the platform churned and surged, it slowly parted to reveal a huge worm or maggot rise from the depths. Behind it writhed dozens of tendrils with needles at the ends. It growled and gurgled in the water.
"Well I'd love to stay here but I've got places to go, people to oppress, and things to destroy," Gannon said as he disappeared. "Chaos, meet me at the Forest Temple."
'I see you have no fairy, so I'll explain my little pet here,' Chaos said as he oozed into the water in blob form. 'He is a mutated worm from the world of Ragol, it uses it's tentacles to inject it's venom into other creatures and make them monsters too. There are five or six others swimming around Hyrule.'
"What?" Link yelled as the massive worm leaped from the water toward him. He took a defensive position with his sword and ran toward it. "Okay let's see what you've got!"
To be continued...