Chapter one is up! So it starts out with Link, but characters will be switching every chapter. Yes, it is short. But it's 1 page on my typing program and 5 pages in my notebook, so, long enough.
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Disclaimer: I do not own The Legend of Zelda or Inuyasha :(
The resistance was invented by Nintendo, as was the hidden village, and I do not own "trust me, trust me," (happy mask salesman)
Claimer: The storyline is completely mine, I'm a poet and I know it!
Link walked slowly, cradling a bundle of straw. It was surprisingly heavy, as straw goes. He did not want to drop any of the precious crop. Supplies were in...well, short supply. Link smiled to himself. Resisting was hard work.
"Wouldn't it be so much easier if we just took supplies from Castle Town like we're supposed to?" He reflected to his boss, Rusl, while dumping an armload of straw into the wagon. The horses snorted as the cart jolted.
Rusl snapped the reins and Link hopped onto the wagon as it lurched away. He stood between the wheels on one side. One of his hands was used to hang on to the cart, and he used the other to shade his eyes from the late afternoon sun, which flickered tauntingly between the branches of the oak trees.
"Well," Rusl said thoughtfully as he expertly avoided ruts in the overgrown road, "I suppose we wouldn't have to work as hard, but the point of being the Resistance is to not do what the Princess wants. She exploits us, and we won't have that. We must resist."
There it was; that familiar slogan. "We must resist." Link had been hearing that one for almost his entire life – seventeen years, now. His smile disappeared. It seemed that no one ever took him seriously, and it was starting to become irritating.
One of the horses snorted. They were a funny pair, the cart horses. Epona and Faye. Epona was a speedy, spirited, quick tempered mare. She was a tall, muscular palomino. You could spot faint dapples on her haunches and shoulders, if you looked closely enough. Faye, however, was a muddy gray color with a silver mane and tail. Although her conformation was all wrong, Faye was intelligent, gentle, and hardworking. The two were best friends, and could hardly be separated.
Epona was the one who had snorted. Of all the horses in the Hidden Village, Link loved Epona best. He had a special connection with her, and she would do whatever he wished. No one else could handle the fiery mare at all, though. Link fought constantly to prevent her from being slaughtered for meat. He always laughed about having his own little resistance within the Resistance.
Link gripped the cart with both hands as it bounced into the village. The sign said "Hidden Village," but Princess Zelda knew perfectly well where it was.
Link looked over his shoulder at the terraced hayfields. They looked like giant stair steps cut into Death Mountain. And then he looked closer, and saw...a glimmer of light. Slowly, a pillar of smoke began to rise from the field. Panic awoke inside him.
"Fire! The crops are burning!" A panicked villager confirmed Link's fears. There were women and children working up there, alone! They were in danger! Without a second thought, Link swung into the driver's seat of the wagon, which Rusl had abandoned.
"Hyah!" Epona leaped forward as the reins snapped her neck, and Faye followed in full gallop, trying her best to keep up with the younger horse.
"Link! Stop right there!" The rest of Rusl's words were drowned out as the cart clattered out of the village once again.
Malon coughed as she ran about the smoldering field, tugging women and children up from the charred ground. Heat waves distorted her vision, and a hot wind kept sending her smoke-stained red hair flying into her face.
"Come on!" She called, her voice husky from smoke inhalation. "Get up!" Then "Help!" She knew it was no use; the village was miles away.
"Malon!" A faint, familiar voice sounded on the wind. That's it, Malon thought. I'm dying.
But the voice came again, louder this time. "Malon?"
"Link, over here!" Malon was flooded with relief. Someone had come to help!
A wagon clatttered into the ring of fire. Two did, in fact, but one was much more beautiful than the other. A palace carriage.
"Malon, get everyone into the wagon, now. Stand, Epona!" Link walked over to confront the carriage.
"But-"
"Now!" Link called menacingly over his shoulder, outlined in the red light of the fire.
Link breathed deeply. Mistake. He tried to remain dignified and hold off a coughing fit. He could have sworn that they could hear his heart pounding back at the village as he stepped up to confront the princess of Hyrule.
I may not be updating for awhile. Then again, I might update tomorrow. But July is busy for me, so no more Shadow's Revenge 'till August! Sorry for that, but can't help it. No skoolz! No skoolz! Summerz wented too fastes!
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