Hylians In Jeopardy- The Hylian Domain Legacy, part 1
This is a bad thunderstorm…
A 16-year old boy looked outside his bedroom window in a slight measure of alarm. He had heard mention of a possible tornado later in the night. The boy's name was Bcdefg123.
That is to say, his online alias was Bcdefg123. He was an admin of the online forum 'The Hylian Domain', which centered its discussion around The Legend of Zelda series of video games. And many of the leading figures of the forum lived in the same town of Thrillsville. And, for reasons which none of them have been able to satisfactorily explain to each other, they all referred to each other by their internet alias in public.
Anyway, back to the stormy night. The computer in the room was on, and just happened to be at the Domain. Bcdefg123 was just finishing up so he could shut it down and head to a safer place.
The computer mysteriously flickered off.
Great, the power's out…
It flickered back on, but Bcdefg123 had vanished, seemingly into thin air.
------------------------Hyrule------------------------------------------------
It was a dark and stormy night, and it had been that way for about two weeks now. Link and Ganon were getting ready to have their annual fight for the fate of the world.
Ganon never won. Go figure.
Bcdefg123 unexpectedly landed on the side of the battlefield. To be clearer, he fell from a height of about ten feet onto the side of the battlefield, rather painfully.
"Ayaah!" Link took the first lunge, seemingly oblivious to the fact that somebody had just appeared and fell from the sky. After a series of exchanging blows, Link was the only one left standing. "Ha! Down
already!"
"Grrr…" Ganon growled.
------------------------In the castle------------------------------------------
"Hmm, that triforce piece carrier should be around here somewhere…" Somebody possessed of an unmistakably evil purpose was searching the castle.
------------------------Ganon's Tower-------------------------------------
There was a scream coming from below Link and Ganon, from inside the tower, and a resulting glint in Ganon's eye.
"That's Princess Zelda!" Link said. "You kidnapped her!"
"Zelda's Triforce piece is mine! Sorry, Link, but we will resume our fight later." Ganon went down the stairs leading to the ground. Link just jumped.
"Oh, c'mon! Don't leave me here!" Bcdefg123 said.
------------------------Castle grounds--------------------------------------
"Hey! Stop!"
The person who stole Zelda's triforce shard started to make his escape. Him?! What is that brat doing in Hyrule? Triforce piece in hand, he continued to run for it, followed closely by Link, Ganon, and Bcdefg123.
------------------------Hyrule Castle Town--------------------------------
"Urgh… no… I lost them. But…" Bcdefg123 looked around. "This definitely isn't Thrillsville… in fact, this looks like…"
"Whoah! Bcdefg123!" Somebody yelled. He turned to look, and saw other Hylian Domain members!
"How did you… Were you affected by the crash too?" Bcdefg123 asked them.
"Yes," answered Brian, a guy in a tux with a gun. "Seems like everyone who was online at the time." Bcdefg123 took a quick count and saw in addition to Brian, Altik 0, and Link0976.
"Weird, though… how did we get here? Or is it all a dream?" Link0976 said.
"I've never had one this vivid," Altik said.
"Excuse me!" Somebody in knight armor ran past the group. He gradually came to a stop and looked back. "Hey, have you seen the princess anywhere?"
"Princess… Zelda?" Link0976 asked the guard.
"What other princess is there?" he answered.
"No… we haven't," Altik said. The guard turned and ran off.
"So… this is Hyrule…" Bcdefg123 said.
"Hello, the King would like to see you now," somebody said, matter-of-factly.
"…WHAT?" Brian said. The group looked towards the castle and saw a young man on the path.
"I said, the King will see you now. Come with me." And so the confused group followed him.
"Maybe he's got us mixed up with some other people?" Bcdefg123 said quietly.
"Let's hear what he's got to say. I mean, we don't have anything else to do, right?" Altik asked. "Right?"
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"Ah, you have brought them here, Zalo. Leave us." The man who brought the group into the castle, Zalo, bowed politely and left.
"Visitors…"
"Huh? You know we're not from here?"
"The clothes make it painfully obvious you are not from around here. A simple glance was all that was needed."
"All right… so… what are we here for?" Altik said.
"To help us recover the triforce. The triforce is a relic that grants its wielder any wish- and currently the evil sorcerer Ganon controls two of the three pieces. If he were to gain the third, the results will be catastrophic for all Hyrule!"
"Uh, sure, but…"
"Don't you care about your land?" the King asked the Hylian Domain.
Several of them were about to say something along the lines of 'Well, not really," but the King interrupted again as if it were a rhetorical question that had only one answer.
"Wait…" Brian whispered to the others. "If we were able to get the Triforce… it could mean our way back home."
"Ah… I got you… so we help, and grab the Triforce first…" Link0976 whispered.
"Yeah, we'll help," Bcdefg123 said.
"Great! You will help Link, who has the third Triforce piece, the triforce of courage on his quest to defeat Ganon. He is already here."
"He is? Then… he didn't catch Ganon?" Bcdefg123 said.
"He used his magic to get away," Link replied. "I honestly have no clue why he didn't do that in the first place."
"Link, you're in danger now," Altik said. The five of them walked out of the castle. "You have the last remaining Triforce piece outside of Ganon's control."
Link smiled. "Nothing new for me, isn't it? I'll be fine, I'm more concerned about you. It's not like Hyrule's in any mortal peril or anything right now, anyway." Suddenly, large storm clouds appeared out of nowhere and obscured the once-sunny sky.
"How's that for mortal peril?" Altik added.
END of part 1
