Her Last Breath of the Wild
Prologue: The Strange and the Familiar
Her consciousness came to first. Brain waves flickered back on, her mind running through every memory at an intense speed. Loss, love, happiness, fear — death. Every positive emotion and every negative one was all a cluster in her mind as she struggled to sort through all of them with eyes still shut.
For the beginning moment of consciousness, she forgot how to manually breath. Finally, with mouth wide open, she sucked in the oxygen her lungs begged for just as her eyes shot open in a slight panic. She sat up to take in her surroundings — everything was so strange but slowly becoming familiar.
She had been laying in a tub of crystal blue water. With the water drained below the stone bed, she saw she was in a domed cave with pillars circling the room, a large metal double door at one end and the tub she sat in at the other. There were small steps leading down from the tub, and she tried walking after who knew how long she had been immobile. Her legs wobbled the first few steps. It wasn't until she reached the door that she found herself feeling normal sensations in her lower half again.
Placing her fingers in the crack, she tried prying the door open. Her muscles flared from the struggle and force she put into opening it. Of course, it was useless. Not so much as a budge.
She looked around, seeing a strange pedestal of glowing blue lines. She approached it, reaching for the object but it turned in its place, making her jump back.
The tablet with the Sheikah Eye at it's center turned and lifted, willing her to grab it from its place. Snatching it, she watched it light up and the double doors open. Her focus on the slate was gone, running out through the entry.
Immediately, she felt a cool breeze graze her bare skin. She looked down realizing that she was in nothing but her underwear. Goosebumps pricked at the surface of her pale flesh.
There were chests on either side of the entry-way. She took liberty at opening them, finding a tunic and shirt inside. As soon as she dressed, she took the slate back into her hands, turning it on to view a map and empty slot icons. Although she was very curious as to what else this tablet held, she knew she wouldn't find any answers standing around all alone in that cave.
Sunlight gently seeped through a small opening, touching a pool of water a few feet away from the chests.
Stepping out into the open air, she felt a sudden sense of freedom and joy — of relief.
"Well, I'm shocked to see there's another one of you."
Jumping in her skin, she spun her neck to where the voice was coming from.
An old man with a long white beard and locks to match stood with a stick and a hood to shadow his face. She could still see the smile underneath all the white. "The other one went towards those ruins over there. He can tell you everything I've told him. I wasn't planning on seeing another one of you. It's pleasant, I must say. This Great Plateau has been quite lonely."
She knew who he was which made it all the more odd at what he was saying — talking to her like she was an odd alien just now speaking to him for the first time in his life. Then again, the years have gone by and she wasn't sure what all has happened in those years. It might be best to keep quiet for now and find this 'other one' he spoke of.
Lifting his stick with a lantern hanging at the top, he pointed to the ruins of the Temple of Time a few hundred yards away in the distance.
Her feet wouldn't move. She was too much at a loss and too unsure how to approach the unfamiliar yet very familiar situation.
"Well, don't just stand there. Who knows how long the other one will stay at that ruin. After one-hundred years, it's in a state of decay and not much to look at."
Her eyes went wide. One hundred years?
She looked down at her pale, freckly flesh again just to make sure she was still the youthful twenty-year old she remembered she was.
Thankfully, she didn't look a day older.
As much as she wanted to open her mouth and spout all the questions running through her mind, his lack of acknowledgment of who she was made her think twice. It was best to figure out what was happening before she put anyone into shock and confusion. For all she knew, he was under a spell — at worse, under Ganon's spell.
"Here, let this help you on your journey." He handed over a torch.
With a raised brow, she looked at him, gripping the torch cautiously. If he expected her to use this as a weapon, he was insane. This thing wouldn't do much damage against even one creature. Fortunately, she couldn't see any monsters roaming about — yet.
With a courteous nod, she began walking down the grassy slope, making her way towards the Temple of Time.
As unsure as she was with what was happening, she still walked confidently to the location of the "other one". She just hoped that "other one" wasn't Ganon.