Hey guys, I know I probably should be working on Curse of the Blood moon right now, but I just got super into the Legend of Zelda series and I just had to write an AU about it. I think I'm going to put bits and pieces from a few of the actual games (like some characters, places, objects, bits of plot and other stuff like that), but other that that it will be it's own story. Sorry if this gets a bit rambly, I tried to fit some info about the games for people who aren't as familiar with it and it stops pretty fast, so if you have any advice on things I could improve on please tell me. And I wasn't sure if I should lable it as a cross over or not, and if you have any ideas for later in the story please tell me. That is about all I have to say for now.
Long ago there was a small village called Berk, it was located in the south-west of Hyrule. The village was so small there were only about fifty people who lived their, and there were only ten children, all of which were under the age of ten, except for two teenagers.
Hiccup and Astrid, both fifteen were the best of friends, and often would go exploring in the woods together, and they went on frequent camping trips, and they loved to tell different legends around their campfire. One of the many legends was about the Hero of Time, a young man who supposedly save their country centuries ago, and he was Hiccup's personal hero.
One night on one of their many camping trips whilst they sat around their campfire Hiccup pulled a large book out of his satchel with the Triforce one the cover.
"I was in the library this morning and found this!" He said and brushed the dust off the cover. "It's the legend of the Hero of Time!"
"Hiccup you've only told me this story, I don't know, a thousand times."
"I know, I know, but this is the original legend, not the one that has been passed down and messed up over the years." Hiccup exclaimed and smiled as he opened the book. "Can I please read it?"
"Sure. Go ahead." She sighed and sat down beside him.
"Hundreds of years ago there was a little boy living in Kokiri Forest with the Kokiri tribe, and he didn't have a fairy-"
"Hic I've heard this all before, is there anything new in their?" Astrid interrupted and rested her head on his shoulder.
"Give me a second." He said and flipped through the book until he got almost to the end of the book. "I haven't heard this before!"
"Then read it!"
"Okay, okay, after Link saved Hyrule from the infamous Ganondorf, Zelda sent him back o the past to live out his childhood. But because he was sent back he was never remembered as a hero. Link Lived out his life, got married and had kids, but was never able to pass on the "lessons of his life to those who came after him" and because he was never remembered as a hero he died full of regrets and will forever live in a cursed afterlife until one of his ancestors can ease his regrets."
"Well that was depressing." Astrid said and wrapped one arm around his shoulders. "So only one of his ancestors can ease his regrets, that is only if this guy did exist, but it seems pretty far fetched to me." She said as she traced a triangular birthmark on the back of her right hand.
"Ana said that Link did exist, the legend is just about the whole hero of time part."
"What does that have to do with anything, this happened HUNDREDS of years ago, how on earth would our librarian know anything about it."
"Well she said one of her ancestors knew-"
"How on earth would she know if one knew the Hero of Time?!"
"I-" He mumble then stared down at his feet. "I don't know, maybe your right, maybe believing all of this was stupid to begin with."
After realizing how heartbroken her best friend had become Astrid apologized immediately and pulled him into a tight hug.
"Hey, that doesn't mean he didn't exist Bud, I just have a hard time believing that Ana would know that distant ancestors knew him." She whispered. "Sorry for snapping at you."
"It's fine." He mumbled and leaned against her and pressed his face against her neck.
"Hey, tomorrow morning do you want to ask your parents if we could go exploring different villages and ask about the Hero of Time? Maybe we'd even find some more books about him."
"But Mum and Dad would never let us go, besides you have hardly any interest in him, and you know how I get around a lot of people."
Astrid sighed, she always forgot about his social anxiety. Since there weren't many people in their village it usually wasn't a problem.
"I'd be fun, we've never gone outside of berk before, other that in the woods a bit, we could even bring Toothless and Stormfly to keep us safe. And if you get anxious I'll be right there."
Toothless was Hiccups black Canaan dog and Stormfly, Astrids trained Hawk where not only their best friends, but their protectors as well. Ever since Astrid parents were killed and she was sent to live with Hiccup's family to be fostered two years before. So in order to protect the teens Hiccup's dad bought Hiccup a puppy, all the way from Egypt, and a Harris Hawk from the most experienced falconer in castle town.
"We could try, but don't get your hopes up, you know how my father is."
The next morning after they finished eating and packing up they headed back to berk, and began to formulate the perfect plan to convince Hiccup's dad to let them go.
But when they confronted him, they got the answer they had expected.
"Of course not." Stoick replied, even after all of their excuses. "It's dangerous out there."
He reached up and stroked his long beard then got up from his chair on their front porch.
"But we've never been outside of Berk before!" Astrid proclaimed and crossed her arms. "You can't keep us in this village forever. There's nothing left for us to do here, we've explored about every inch of the boundary's you've given us, please may we go, for just one day?"
Stoick sighted, he looked like he was about to say something, when Hiccup's mother Valka, stepped through the door.
"She's right Stoick, let them go."
"But Val-"
"They're growing up, they need to explore new places, you can't keep them cooped up here forever. There isn't much for a teenager to do here any ways, let them go." Valka stated, then stood and looked at her husband. "They need some freedom."
The large, muscular man sighed, "Fine."
"Really!?" Hiccup exclaimed and threw his arms into the air.
"But you must be back by sundown, and you may only go as far as Castle Town."
Before he could change his mind Hiccup called Toothless, they thanked him, got a map from the library, then started running toward Castle Town.
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After what seemed like hours of walking they arrived at Castle Town, and boy was it different from berk.
The whole place seemed to be made of stone but other then that it was practically the same as Berk, aside from the size and population. Just beyond the town was the Castle, it was HUGE! The biggest man-made structure the teens had ever seen, which was not actually saying a lot, the buildings at berk aren't very big.
Hiccup continued to stare at the building, until he felt a light tug on his arm.
"Come on pal! Let's go check it out!"
They walked through the town for a while, there were so many people their that they held hands so they wouldn't lose each other.
"Isn't this cool?" Astrid said as they walked out of a bakery.
"Yea, I guess, it's pretty neat." Hiccup whispered then nibbled on his cookie.
"You okay?"
"Yea, I've just never been around so many people before."
Astrid wrapped her right arm around his waist and pulled him closer to her.
"Hey Hiccup, look over their." she whispered and pointed down at one of the many buildings. "There's the library, want to check it out?"
Hiccup's nervous frown was replaced with a grin as his best friend lead him over.
Astrid pushed the heavy wooden door open, a small bell rang as they stepped in. At the front desk was a teen that looked about their age, he looked up from his book when he heard them walked in.
"Welcome to the Castle Town library, the biggest library in all of Hyrule. My names Fisher, if you are looking for a specific book or topic, just ask me and I'll help you find it."
"Do you want to ask him for help finding one?"
"I-I can find one m-myself" He stuttered, then he look down at the endless rows of books. "Actually I might need some help."
"Then go ask him."
He walked up to the desk and took a deep breath.
"Do you have any books here about the uh, legend of the Hero of Time?"
Fisher's face lit up and he pulled a large book of a shelf behind him and flipped through it for a few moments. "We have a few books about that legend. They'd all be in the 30th isle on the right."
"Thanks." He replied then headed down the rows until he found the right place.
Astrid was the first to find the books, there was tree books, one was about the legend of the Triforce and the Hero of Time and the other three were just about the Hero of Time.
They found a comfortable place to sit and read at the back of the library on a couch. Hiccup brushed the dust of the first book it had a double-edged longsword with the triforce engraved on the lower half of the blade, it was called 'Legend of the Blade of Evil's Bane'.
"What's the Blade of Evil's Bane?" Astrid asked as Hiccup opened the book.
"Well let's find out."
The Blade of Evil's Bane also called the Master Sword was said to be crafted long ago by the Goddess Hylia, originally called the Goddess sword but was later forged into the Blade of Evil's Bane by the goddess's chosen hero and his spirit Fi; who bathed it in the three Sacred fires a crossed the land that became the Kingdom of Hyrule. One of the flames in particular, Din's flame imbued the sword with the power to repel evil, a power that was essential to defeat Ganon, the Demon King.
The book was quite long, going into great detail on its creation, how it worked, its appearance and more.
"So the power to slaughter everything is supposedly just lying in the forest somewhere for anyone to take?"
"It says that the sword chooses its own master, only a true hero that has gone through great trials of courage, power and wisdom to prove him worthy of welding it."
They flipped through a few other books but found nothing new, they decided that it was also probably time that they should head home. But the two didn't make it half way from the library to the front gate, when an old woman grabbed Astrid's right arm.
Astrid stopped dead in her tracks and tried to pry her arm from the woman's grasp.
"Do you mind?" Astrid said whilst hopelessly trying to pull her arm away from the elder's death grip.
The lady lead them to a small patch of dirt and started writing with her staff.
It took about a moment before she was done, but neither Astrid or Hiccup could make out the strange symbols that she had written out on the floor. The woman walked to the front door of a small house not far from the dirt, she knocked and a short one legged and one armed mad with a long mustache stepped out and began to read her writing. When the man finished he looked shocked, then read it over again, and again, as if he couldn't believe what he was reading.
"But, Gothi," He said "are you sure?"
The women nodded, grabbed Astrid's hand again and pointed to the triangular birthmark on her hand.
The two adults stood in silence for a whilst, long enough that Astrid lost her patience, she needed answers and she needed them now.
"What's going on!? What does it say!?"
"It, it say's, uhh..." the man stuttered.
"WHAT DOES IT SAY!?"
The man looked back at Gothi, who nodded again, then he looked back at the teens.
"She claims that that symbol on your right hand, it's the Triforce."
