Warnings: This will be a slash fanfiction of male!Sheik and Link, as well as AU since Sheik doesn't show up in TP. I've also created a back story to the Sheikah. I plan for this to be a longer piece of work, and a lot more romance than my previous works. Most of them are where Sheik and Link either just start their relationship, or just start it and jump right into smut. This is going to be a slower relationship, and I currently don't know who will be topping! Haha. You can comment with suggestions - but reasons behind them other than: "I LIEK _ TOPPING" (Although that IS a good reason, I want to try and make this as best as I can get,, so something more along: _'s personality/past/etc. seems to suggest they are top/bottom") Of course, other plot suggestions are also allowed, but I'm getting off topic. More warnings include: Violence, and character death.

Disclaimer: The Legend of Zelda and its characters belong to Nintendo. I only own the culture I created for the Sheikah and some plot alterations. I don't own the "Great Betrayal" or the idea of the Twilight!

Prologue

"Let go of the past, it will only drag you down"

Sheik couldn't stand it. He couldn't stand those words. If he was to let go of his past then he would have let go of his present and his future. He was the lone survivor of the Sheikah. However, it hadn't always been that way.

The Sheikah were once a thriving, long-lived race. They had several villages – one of which included the more public Village of Kakariko. Kakariko however, wasn't just a village, but it was the capital of the Sheikah. At one point in time the village had a square, it had a fountain, it had holidays, it had ceremonies. But, with a single order scheduled to coincide with the one time that all of the Sheikah gathered in the village, it was all but destroyed.

A man, a woman, and a child were all that remained. There was no blood between them except that they all were Sheikah. The King forced them into an artificial family. The man was the first to die – he was defending the crown from invaders. It is whispered that the man could have avoided the death blow and survived, but the princess of Hyrule was the only person alive who truly knew what happened, and she did not discuss the matter. It took another fifty – and seven – years for the next Sheikah to move on, and that was the woman. However, in another time line the woman survived and she took on another name.

The child however, grew into an adult in both times, and carried on as the survivor of the Sheikah. He was the one who protected the royal line. But, it was the second time line that was of interest. It took another two hundred years to pass before anything of significance happened. The woman was an old woman who was closing in on her remaining years and the child now an adult in his prime.

He still protected the royal family, and Hyrule had been run peacefully by the Princess of Hyrule (she could not yet be called a queen, for she was unwed) but soon, a darkness had taken over the land. The last Sheikah protector was visiting the only other surviving Sheikah on orders of the princess when the attack came. So, he found himself trapped within their old home, blocked by a wall of darkness. Perhaps it was time for another hero to awaken…

Opinions? Suggestions? I'm open to them!