Angel: Hello, dear readers! Welcome to my first Zelda fanfic,
Y.Ang: (interrupts) Which will probably be really bad, and have need for many flames.
Angel: (glares) Right little ray of sunshine aren't you? Now be quiet.
Y.Ang: (pouts and goes back to my YuGiOh fic world)
Angel: (coughs) Anyway, this story after the second chapter will centre on my OC – just so you know. Ok, let's see if this works!
The Daughter of Wisdom and Courage
Chapter 1: The Beginning
A six-year old girl was awoken by a scream. Frightened, she fled to the corner of her room, wrapping her arms around her knees. She sat there for a few minutes, whimpering every time a crash or scream was heard. She bravely glanced at the sky, and saw that it had turned red. Terrified, she cried out,
"Mama! Papa!"
Her beloved nursemaid, who appeared at the door seconds after, answered the young girl's cries. A young man and woman followed her, the man with his sword drawn.
The young child ran across the room, throwing herself into her mother's arms, crying.
The man looked evidently relieved to see his daughter safe, "Praise to the Goddesses."
The young mother gently lifted her child, who buried her face in her mother's shoulder. "Mama, what's going on?" she whimpered.
"Hush child. You must stay silent, or we will be found. Can you be brave like Papa, and not cry?"
The terrified girl nodded, and tried to dry her eyes. The young mother smiled sadly, and turned to look at the child's nursemaid. "Where can we go? Our daughter needs to be safe."
The nursemaid sighed, "You could flee to the village. With your skills, the two of you could raise your daughter there in peace, and pretend to be someone else. You would be safest there, as he would never expect you to be in plain sight again."
The young parents nodded, and an enormous crash was heard, followed by the smell of smoke. The nursemaid smiled grimly, "You know what you must do. Now go, I will distract him."
The man fled into the secret passageway joined to his daughter's room without looking back. The woman remained, looking tearfully at her childhood friend, "I will miss you, my friend."
The nursemaid smiled, "I will see you again one day. Now go! I feel him coming."
The woman nodded, "Goodbye, mother of my heart."
"Farewell. Stay safe."
The young mother then turned, and fled into the hidden room after her husband. As they waited in the middle of the room in silence for the spell to take them away, the girl saw a terrifying man in black enter her room. She saw this through the 'wall' that connected the room her family was hidden in now and her bedroom, which was actually not really a wall, but a spell.
She then saw him turn to her beloved nursemaid, "So, you've managed to help the brat escape again, this time with her daughter too. My, my, I'll have to punish you for that. But first you'll tell me where they are!"
The old woman shook her head. "Never," she replied hoarsely.
The man grinned evilly, "Then I'll just find them on my own, old woman. But you won't be around to see either of them again!" He then drew his sword, and plunged it through the nursemaid's heart.
She collapsed on the ground, and the girl screamed just before the spell carried her away from everything she'd ever known.
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12 years later, a young woman awoke with a start, plagued by nightmares from a childhood she didn't even remember.
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Angel: Well, what can I say? Any good?
Crickets: (chirp)
Angel: -...- Well, I'll take that as a no. Sorry it was so short, but it's just an intro. I promise that the other chapters will be longer. And please review!
By the way, the other chapters will actually have names in them, not 'the mother', it will actually be…well, I'm not going to tell you her real name! It will give stuff away!! Not like you couldn't guess anyway……Or could you? (grins mysteriously and gets whacked on the head) Oww…ok, I'm sorry. I won't do that anymore. Or will I? (gets whacked again) Ok, ok, I'll stop!!
C YA!! Angel