Texts: Zelda - Link - Impa - Ganon - Other characters
Zelda just turned 17; Link is 15 almost 16~ Date: October 26
In this story I changed the main room of the castle to be more...logical, I suppose, for an actual castle. In the game right when you enter the castle there are the different rooms going up but they are all separated and there is no staircase to get to them. (in which case you have to use your hookshot to get to. I mean who would come into an actual castle and want to do all that extra work just to get somewhere?) Oh and this story is definitely not going to be anywhere close to how long DR is for two reasons, 1. there is a six month time skip in this story, which in a concept, basically jumps from the beginning to the end. (there will be other details following those so it's not as boring and I might write of a few things that occurred during the time skip but I won't be doing much more than that) 2. Unlike DR I do not have as many ideas for this story. (mainly because of the time-skip) Even right now as I am writing this message I have the majority of this story already written, excluding the few ideas in middle. And just to put this in here, this story as of now, (while I am writing this)is 37.6 KB while TP: Darkness Rises as it is since I haven't worked on it for a while, is 108 KB.
Castle Town
The castle town was shrouded in darkness even though it was mid-day. It felt as if everything was still, even time itself, the normal clouds above also seemed to stop where they were and linger overhead. The only thing that seemed to be moving was the mysterious black cloud that was circling the castle itself, there was neither lightning nor rain from the cloud though it was incredibly dense, nothing could be seen through it.
Link rode into castle town on Epona, he pulled back on the reigns and slid to a halt. He stared at all of the people lying unconscious throughout the whole town once he totted around the town. It was as if everyone just stopped what they were doing and passed out all at the same time, pots lay broken beside the people who carried them and the instruments were still in the performers' hands at the side of the plaza; one man had a bone in his hand which he was probably about to throw for the dog that lay in front of him. Link tapped his horse's side with his heel and made his way to the castle gates, there probably weren't any guards so Link didn't worry about one popping up to stop him. He hopped off of Epona and pushed the gates open, moving out of the way as a guard fell to the ground. He checked if the guard was still breathing, he was so Link stood back up and walked towards the castle, going around the multiple guards that lay on the ground. As he walked around he finally found Rusl laying on the ground beside a bush to the right. Link ran over to his mentor and lifted him up, he had multiple gashes around his body and the largest being across his chest; his neck and arms had a few large bruises on them, even with his injuries he seem to refuse to lose consciousness.
As if Rusl already knew it was Link, he slowly reached up and placed his hand on Link's shoulder, "Link, I've been waiting for you, you must go and save the princess; I tried but the tyrant king beat me before I could get her out of the castle... I was easily beaten but I don't believe he knows that you are here yet." Link was about to say something but Rusl interrupted him, "I know what you are going to say but you are the only one who can help Princess Zelda, everyone else besides her and the King are unconscious as I am sure you have noticed."
Link grinned then whistled for Epona who came up to them in a few moments. He lifted Rusl up and got him on Epona's saddle. Once Rusl was on completely Link gently smacked his horse's side and watched as she trotted off through the gates while making sure he wasn't going to fall off of her back.
Link turned back and headed up to the castle doors, guards lay in front, piled on each other. Once one of them shuffled Link opened the door and past by the guards, making sure not to tip one over. Within the castle there was a large spiral staircase that went along the walls, leading to multiple different doors. At the top of the staircase it circles around and connects back with it self, the staircase along with the roundabout had fencing along the outer edge. On the floor of the room were multiple different people, just the same as it was outside though now they were beginning to move.
The blonde turned and quickly walked up to the top of the stairs then went around to the hallway that branched off to the right. The hallway led into one of the towers, which had a spiral staircase as well, though the center was a brick wall rather then being hollow. Once he got to the top there were a pair of large double doors. Link looked over the the door, they didn't seem to have knobs so he slowly pushed open the door. Just as he stepped in, a sword was held inches from his face.
"Leave Ganondorf, I have nothi- wait, who are you? Everyone should be unconscious because of this spell Ganondorf had cast over castle town while Rusl was here." The voice asked, lowering the blade slightly. Link looked up to the figure, her dress was rather torn up and she had several cuts around her body; the one on the lower part of her right arm and the side of her shoulder, which he guessed were the worst of them, were the only ones wrapped, though poorly done. However, since she wasn't unconscious Link guessed she was Princess Zelda.
"I am Link now come on." Link murmured as he moved the blade away from his face and grabbed Zelda's wrist. "Where are we going? Ganondorf will surely notice you and come to fight you ." She pulled back, "And he will defeat you like he had Rusl."
Link glanced back at her, tugging her arm as he continued down the hall way. "Aren't you at least a little worried about Ganondorf doing to you what he had done to Rusl? I mean he-" Link shushed her as they turned a corner and begun to go down a fleet of stairs and though another hallway. After another set of stairs they came to the base of the castle and were met by one of the maids who had woken up.
"Where are you taking the princess?" The maid asked, sounding more threatening than she intended. Link pulled his sword and pointed it towards the maid but was immediately stopped by Zelda, "She's not an enemy." Zelda pushed Link's sword down by the hilt then walked over the maid, "I am leaving the castle with him."
"But Princess-"
"No arguing, anyways, you know as well as I do that I am safer outside the castle than inside. Ganondorf isn't going to sit idly by with me still in the castle forever, sooner or later I'd become an obstacle in his way of staying the tyrant king that he is then he would have to get rid of me, and in my current position I would not be able to do anything about it." She then smiled, " I won't be gone forever, I will definitely take back my kingdom from that man, but if I don't go now that won't happen."
Link glanced around, putting his sword away he grabbed Zelda's wrist again as he walked past her. She looked back at the maid, "Just hang on until I get back, if Impa somehow appears tell her I'm in one of the other villages. Oh and thank you for still helping me." Zelda turned back to Link then tore free from his grip, "You don't need to drag me everywhere, I am able to walk." She said as they got to the doors.
Link didn't reply and instead just opened the doors, letting Zelda out first. As they walked out Link noticed Epona standing to the side patiently waiting for him though nervously looking about at the guards who were starting to wake up. He walked up to her and rubbed her neck, "That was fast Epona, did you get him to Ordon?" He asked quietly, getting a satisfied neigh in response. He climbed up on Epona, settling in the back of the saddle then grabbed the reins with his right hand.
Zelda walked over once the dirty blonde gestured her to come and got up on the horse with his help, sitting right in front of him, "You surely don't talk much do you?" She noticed though Link didn't reply, he just reached around Zelda to grab the reins with his other hand before squeezing Epona's side slightly to get her moving then headed out of Castle Town before any more of the citizens woke up.
Here is the first chapter of another TP fanfiction story, yay. I already have most of the second chapter written as well I just need to get myself to read over it, I probably won't take as long to proofread this story as I do to Darkness Rises since this is a newer story and I am actually working on the chapters rather then just having to proofread them in order to upload them as I have to do in Darkness Rises. Also the chapters in this story probably won't be as long as DR since it isn't as long as stated in the note at the beginning. Oh and I may not fix all of my spelling errors, I try to fix them as I am writing but because of the writing software I use I can't see which words are spelled wrong and I try to fix them on the doc manager but I don't always see them since all of the names in these stories are marked as an error, so I apologize if you occasionally see a spelling error in my writing.
