Author's Note: New story, yay! This is The Peak of Adversity, it's an AU, though it takes place in the setting of Twilight Princess. This is the Preface/Chapter 1, since I messed up my last story. I know exactly where I want this story to go, but I'm always open for suggestions and feedback! I do not have an estimated length for this story, nor can I guarantee weekly/monthly updates, but as always, I'll do my best! Hope you like it! More chapters coming soon!
In the land of Hyrule, men ruled the people. They were the most gallant warriors, the best leaders, and the lifeline of all business and production. No one had ever dared to disrupt that way of life, until one girl was born.
Her name was Kahle. She was born in the village of Ordon, to Lyle and Fara Iridum.
In the village of Ordon, the furthest south village in all of Hyrule. No one had expected her to become anything except a simple merchant, as her father was. She was wildly unknown across the village, as people saw her as a simple girl. But Kahle had a special gift, one that only her parents knew about. Kahle was born with bright gold eyes, an unheard of eye color. Within this mysterious eye color, she possessed the ability to blind anyone who looked directly at her. She couldn't yet control this power, but she was learning. Her parents tried to conceal her as best they could, and it succeeded. No one ever asked about Kahle, and she was left alone. She was hoping for a normal life with this strange gift, but she was wrong.
It all changed in one night.
It was the night the Gerudo came. Hyrule had possessed a long, unsettled dispute with the Gerudo in the Gerudo Desert. They were vile creatures being led under the guidance of their ruler, Lord Davonis. The Hyrule King, Daphnes, would not seek war, so he let Davonis be.
But Davonis had sick plans. He sought to take over all of Hyrule, starting with the smallest villages. So he sent a fleet of Gerudo warriors into the village of Ordon.
Kahle was having a normal dinner with her family, talking about whatever came to mind, when she had a strange feeling. It wasn't a normal chill, this was a sense of urgency and danger. But Kahle did not think anything of it, until the raid. 12 Gerudo soldiers busted the door down, and took the family hostage. Kahle's father attempted to break free to save his wife when they began to beat her, but he was held back by 3 Gerudo. Kahle kept her eyes down as the Gerudo tortured her parents, and she did not scream.
Then, the soldier who held her mother captive smirked a devious smile, and began scalping Kahle's mother. The same thing happened to her father. Still, Kahle did not scream. But as she watched the life flood out of both her parents eyes, a new anger, a new fire rose within her. She felt a power she did not have before.
When the Gerudo approached Kahle, swords drawn, ready to unleash death, she retaliated. She slammed two soldiers against the wall with her back, and lunged forward onto another. She scrambled until she got hold of his sword, and that was when the 9 others closed in. She ducked under one, swiping his legs off as she did. She sprinted across the room and grabbed her fathers bow off the wall. She fired several times, and with no training or experience ever with a bow, she sunk arrows into 4 skulls. Only 7 remained. She got the sword again and, while dodging multiple swings, managed to stab 3 soldiers. The three remaining soldiers charged with all their might, refusing to be defeated by a simple girl. But Kahle was not so easily stopped. Once again, she ducked under a charging Gerudo, and stabbed him in the back as she passed. She ran to the opposite side of the room, and before the last two Gerudo could readjust their momentum, she had fired two arrows into their heads. They were defeated.
Kahle sat a moment and regained her breath. She looked at her parent's bodies, and the same fire rose in her again. She did not cry.
Kahle changed into pants and boots, and put a shirt and vest on. She gathered all the weapons she could, including her fathers bow with two extra quivers. She grabbed two Gerudo swords and crossed them in an X on her back. She tied her hair back, and put on her mothers overcoat to conceal her weapons. She found her fathers secret backup money, and shoved it in her pockets. Kahle laced a pack of bread and a small tin of water around her waist for where she was going. She kissed each of her parents hands and placed them together before she set off.
Kahle was only 7 years old at this time.
As she stepped out the door, a brisk winter wind hit her face. A thin layer of snow covered the ground, with more piling on by the second. Kahle shut the door behind her, determined to conceal the horrors in that house a secret for as long as she could. When she reached the edge of the village, she turned and pondered the sight, remembering it, for she would not return for a long time. Then, when the last house light in Ordon shut off for the night, Kahle set out to begin her new life, going wherever her trusted instincts told her to go.
For 9 years after, Kahle hid from civilization deep in the Faron Woods. She hunted for food and drank from a fresh water pond deep in the woods. She trained with the weapons she had, and became the best she could be. She taught herself the ways of war, and fought many monsters along the way. And she learned to control her dangerous power. She learned that she could blind an entire crown that looked at her with one simple brain command, and she already knew that if anyone looked at her for too long, they would become hypnotized by the strange beauty of her gold eyes.
Along with her powers she learned to control, Kahle learned to cope with the grief of her parents' deaths. She trained herself not to get attached to any one thing, for the outcome could be too dangerous and too painful. She would never forget her parents, and she sought to avenge their untimely deaths.
No one knew of the mysterious girl in the woods, and no one knew that she had become the best warrior in the land. With wrath and vengeance in her veins, she had, without knowing it, surpassed even the greatest of the great warriors from every corner of the earth. And with that, her story begins...