The Legend of Hyrule:
Prologue: Triforce Cycle
In the castle of Hyrule the child of wisdom named after the long line of Zelda is force to Kneel before the Evil Ganon. He stands before her the malevolent trident of power in his hand power radiated off him. His black armor form causes his red hair to stand out against his dark skin, and his yellow eyes to glow brighter with the power of the Triforce that resides inside him.
"Make the wish Zelda and end this misery," Ganondorf says as behind him the young hero struggles in the grip of two female warriors who faces are hidden behind masks. Only their curved eyes can be seen.
"Don't do this Zelda we can defeat him together," The boy cries out his blond hair hanging in his face drenched.
Ganondorf turns his head his face passive. "You are just a tool in the circle of time. You will not be remembered by your name, but as just another Link in the sages. A Hero of: Time, Ages, Seasons, Winds, and so on. I will rise again and put the world to the sword. And you will come again either your child or another unsuspecting boy and in him will be the same youthful innocence and bravery that resides in you, and he will surfer and come onto me and do battle and win."
"If I'm going to win why try Ganon?" the boy named Link asks.
"Ganon…Yes I am Ganon, and Ganondorf Dragmire, and Mandrag Ganon, each a version of me of my soul forever entwine with the Demon of Evil locked together for eternity never knowing rest his desires overshadowing mine until we are one and the same."
"Excuses Ganon, give me my sword and we will settle this," Link says bucking against the women's hold that hold him.
Ganondorf smiles, "We have done this dance before. I win you win, I'm banished and sealed. I win and hold sway over a realm of darkness. I want only peaceful fields and green pastures. I want the curse of my people lifted a curse you Hylian dogs placed upon my race to enslaved us to make sure we could never become the dominant race."
"Lies!"
Ganondorf turns to the young princess, "Is it lies Zelda?" he asks softly.
Tears stream down her face her pointed ears seeming to droop down as if weighed down by the weight of destiny. Her eyes glow with golden light then she spoke in a monotone voice not her own the words spilling forth.
"The first King of Hyrule was the founder of civilization. He made war upon all the races driving them forth. All who would not kneel before the Hylian's were put to the sword or driven mad with sorcery. The Wizards turned races bestial taking away through cognitive thought. Leaving only those races that would not interfere with the building of Hyrule to live in peace."
Ganondorf moves to the Princess side kneeling besides her placing a comforting hand upon her shoulder. "It is all right child, you need not suffer much longer these prophetic vision will cease soon. Gather," Ganondorf says lifting his balled fist before her gaze where the emblem of the Triforce glowed.
Link bucks his guards throwing off one of the Gerudo women snatching one of her curved scimitars, he ducks under the sword of the other guard. He brings his sword around in a spinning attack that cuts the woman in two, completing the deadly spiraling attack by taking the other guards legs off at the knees.
Ganondorf turns as Zelda screams in horror drawing his huge blade and meeting the wild assault of Link. The two warriors move with blinding speed, but it is over before it can truly begin as Ganondorf knocks the blade from Links hand backhanding the boy across the face driving the boy to his knees. With a savage kick to the skull Link drops like a stone in water hitting the ground.
"I should kill you boy, but you are needed. How can I be mad at you when you are driven not by wisdom, nor power, but by blind foolishness that is what courage is that is what drives youth after all, it is foolish to come after me yet there is always a Link who makes the attempt."
"Please don't kill him," Zelda cries out seeing the blood and death all around her, hearing the whimpering from the woman who had been only kind to her. Zelda averts her gaze who bleeds out body shaking in shock.
"I have always tried to protect you from this Zelda each incarnation I have sealed away so that the horrors of war would not touch one such as you. But always have you sided with Link with this callous child who is nothing but youth and bravery. But is it any wonder you have sided with Link, you have supped upon the tales of bravery and have only ever seen me as the villain which I have proven to be."
"What do you want Ganondorf?" Zelda asks sobbing.
"I want you to make the wish with me, already I can feel the diverging timelines pulling at me time is running short," Ganondorf says.
"What wish?"
"I once wished to the rule the world and the Triforce rejected me it shattered and split into three. I tried to stay content and rule of the dark realm, but a prideful wizard open the gate and I was force out. Children with glowing swords come for me testing their courage. Knights on gallant steeds throw themselves at me," Ganondorf sighs.
"I grow tire of it. I no longer want the world. No that is a lie I want it all, but I want it without the Triforce to balance the fight I want it without the curse upon my people. Why do you wonder that your hero is no longer of Hylian blood, I destroyed the last of the Hylian male line as they destroyed my brothers."
Link groans rising unsteadily from the stone floor. "Zelda," he gasps out reaching for her even as his other hand draws a bottle from his tunic. He opens it slowly and the tinkling of a fairy being release sounds in the room.
"Boy you will heal yourself with power of that fairy that you enslaved, while leaving my kinswomen to die. Is this the act of a hero or are you truly the demon king Ganon. It is you who glories in battle and bloodshed you and your predecessors have waged a single handed war against every race in Hyrule."
"I have done what needs to be done, Ganon to stop your evil."
"Evil you say. You have shed more blood then I have in name of good. Link you are a part of this. Join with me and the princess lets erase this tragic cycle."
"If I can have one wish then it would be to erase you."
"So be it make your wish I will make mine and the Zelda shall make hers and we will let the gods decide."
Link stands restored to power the fairy beginning to lose her light even as Link takes up another sword ready to slay Ganondorf. As he leaps forward to close the distance a streak of light flashes between the two pulling Link up short.
"Enough I have decided Link, we will fight no more I grow tire of this burden, of being Zelda. I see that the original Zelda was freed and that Link married her and that they created a golden age. But she was not the one it was her brother who should have ruled it was the Prince of Hyrule who cursed me with this name."
Zelda stretches out her hand towards Ganondorf who extends his own hand the pieces of the Triforce glowing. Link stands before them both undecided his face a mask of disbelief.
"Zelda how can you side with Ganondorf," He shouts.
"It is for the best Link I have saw a different future one in which you are not just a name in a long list. One where you don't linger as a shade and watch your decedents go to face the same battles you've fought over and over again."
"What world would you wish for Zelda," Link asks.
"A world before the scared realm was breached one in which a Prince was given his due, and one in which all the races of Hyrule were equal where all the races can exist; not just those who will bend the knee to the Hylians. One in which my name isn't Zelda and yours isn't Link."
Link nods his head dropping the sword to the ground he stretches out his hand and the three golden lights of the Triforce connect. The three pieces forming from the heart of the three chosen ones. There they make their wish. The world goes dark as light and color are leeched from it. Sound ceases to exist and the world flattens as the lines of white and black twist in on themselves. The three bearers of the Triforce see a lifetime of events pass by.
A boy saves an old woman beset by evil creatures in a forest and discovers a sword. A boy in the desert finds a trident and is consumed by a demon. I girl plays in the garden and is discovered by a boy. A giant demon ravages the land and a hero faces him in battle. A moon falls from the sky and four giants catch it. A battle beneath a great ocean spills into an ancient realm and an ancient evil king is impaled and turned to stone. A Prince screams in anguish as a wizard strikes down his sister in rage he slays the wizards. More and more events flash by young girls who have loved and been loved by the heroes, and weeping Zelda crying over fallen brothers and fathers. A Princess sitting beside a bed as the hero bandage head to foot lets out pitiful moans as he slowly dies. A Princess watching as a young hero sails away unable to live in a peaceful world. It all flashes before their eyes and then is gone in a blink of an eye.
