Chapter 1: Obscured in Shadow

She gazed out her bedroom window, the night sky was clear and the stars glittered brighter on this first day of the month when the moon was invisible. The young princess, soon to be queen, gently rubs her arms bringing some feeling back to her otherwise numb skin. The fire had gone out long ago but she did not care to rekindle it. She didn't mind the cold or the lack of light.

She secretly enjoyed the darkness, unlike most people who feared complete and total obscurity; Zelda reveled in it, there was nothing to fear after all. She found that she could think clearly when in the dark, she felt relaxed and she felt that for at least once in a day she could hide herself from the prying eyes of the kingdom and her court.

At the young age of 22, Zelda would cease to be the princess of Hyrule, in a few hours in the presence of the esteemed nobility, and various other guests she did not know, Zelda would be crowned Queen of Hyrule. She takes a deep breath and as she releases the air, her breath fogs up her balcony window.

She feels she is ready to uphold her responsibility to her people, after all this is what she was schooled to do.

Under the strict guidance of her father and Lady Impa, Zelda was ready to fulfill her royal duty. She takes another deep breath and releases it quicker than before. She can see her icy breath hit the balcony window. She doesn't realize it but she has let the tears run down her porcelain like skin.

As a little girl Zelda was coached and told regularly that she would one day be queen, and as queen her sole duty was to the people of Hyrule and to no one else, not even to herself. Still she dreamt of leaving Hyrule one day to see the world. It was her lifelong dream to travel and be free of her responsibilities, to be a normal girl and not the heir to the throne. She'd often skip her lessons with Impa to go hide in the library, she'd read and search for interesting lands she may one day want to see. Her books were her only real escape from her royal prison. Her father often criticized her for having such ideas and more than once reprimanded her for it.

She sometimes cried herself to sleep thinking she would never be free.

That is until her fifteenth birthday. That day was the happiest of her life. Her father called her into his study that morning and negotiated a deal. If she promised to stop skipping her lessons, promised to work hard in her studies and did everything she was told to do then she would be free to take a year off to go see the world. Zelda agreed and for the next six years she dedicated herself to her studies.

The day finally arrived on the eve of her 21st birthday, Zelda was done with her lessons and she was ready to take on the world; she'd grown up to be a beautiful and wise princess. She takes another deep breath but fails to release it as the tears begin to roll uncontrollably down her face. She leans against the cold window and slides down to the stone floor where she brings her knees to her chest and begins to sob.

That night, on the eve before she was to depart to Termina the king suffered a stroke, he was pronounced dead two days later.

Zelda was immediately handed the throne; no questions asked. Her dreams of seeing the world were over in an instant. In the months after her father's death Zelda adjusted to her new life, she took on her role and accepted it with grace. During that first year with Hyrule under her rule the kingdom flourished, and after many months of debate the members of her council finally agreed to make Zelda their queen despite Hyrule's law that no woman shall rule without a king. There was still much opposition to this outcome but it was decided and after weeks of planning the day had finally arrived.

As dawn approached the princess continued to sob in the frigidness of the night because she knew that after tomorrow her life would no longer be hers.


I wasn't supposed to write this, I was going to wait until I finished Oath to start working on this idea that has been in my head for a while. However I found some free time at work recently and I just started to write in my little book. So here it is, I've actually already written about three chapters but I am only uploading chapter one as a test run. This is my firs time writing a story in third person and I am really having a hard time with it, so just let me know what you guys think. I will be uploading chapter 2 soon as soon as I type it and edit it. Also for those waiting on the next chapter for Oath, it is partially written I'm just trying to add a little more to it to make it more of a bang. Anyways thanks for reading.

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