Legends of Hyrule 01: Gannon's Origin and the Desert Prince
At the beginning of time, there were two kingdoms, that of the Gerudo, who dwelled in the desert, and that of the Hylilians, who lived in the great land of Hyrule. A peaceful and kind king, Ganondorf, ruled the Gerudo and many disliked them for their peaceful ways and resourcefulness, and as such, a curse was put onto their king. The curse would be sealed when he put his power with the king of hyrule's and the deku tree's to bring the triforce into the world as to use it's power. As he spoke the words, he was transformed into a great beast, which attacked all in it's path and eventually found it's way back to the Gerudo desert. Eventually he changed back, but he WAS changed as well. He silenced his newborn child's cries with slaps and his queen left into another land soon after. Then the gerudo people began to change as well, becoming more like their leader. It is said that it is possible for the curse to be lifted with the triforce's power, but only a true heir to the Gerudo line can even hope to possess the triforce of power.
Nekoji Gerudo followed the strange yellow fox who called himself Keaton. "And your sure I'm not hallucinating?" He asked again. "Positive…" Keaton reassured him for the thousandth time, before pushing him into a "tree" which acted as a portal to Hyrule.
He landed on his back in the middle of what looked like a ranch. A teenage girl with red hair, about his age, was poking him with a stick when he opened his eyes. When she saw him wake up, she shouted to someone behind her, "Dad, Dad! He's awake!" then she turned back to him, "Hi, sky boy, nice to see you've finally woken up." "Wha- sky boy?" He asked, sitting up, "Where's Keaton? I wanna' ring his little yellow neck!" He tried to stand up but the girl just pushed him back down, "Whoa there sky boy, you're not going anywhere until you tell us what you're doing here, and why you look so much like Gannondorf!" A decently large man came up behind her, "Now Malon, you can't just assume people are bad 'cause of what they look like. However, you do have a point, boy, who are you? You're the spitting image of Gannondorf…" Nekoji just blinked at them, "Gannonwho?" He asked.
Malon took his shoulders and shook his shoulders roughly while shouting, "GANNONDORF! THE EVIL KING THAT LINK BEAT AND STUFF!" Then the man pulled her back away from him, "Sorry, she just gets this way when she's curious." He said, smiling weakly, "Now boy, you said something about a Keaton? Well, I saw one in the field earlier, and it left a book outside our gate. M' name's Talon by the way, and this is Malon." He motioned to the girl who was glaring at him with her hands on her hips. "I'm Nekoji." He said, standing up. Talon then pulled a book out of his rucksack and handed it to Nekoji, "I think this belongs to you, it has your name in it." Talon said. Nekoji gratefully took the book.
Several hours later Nekoji was lying on a pile of hay in the downstairs of the house, after accepting a job as a ranch-hand. After that, things got essentially normal for a while, though a month later the adventure truly began.
"LINK!" Malon shouted, rushing to the gate, towards a boy in green and hugged him. Nekoji was bringing hay to the horses as Talon came out and they had a decently lengthy conversation. Then he heard Talon shout "Nekoji come over here! There's someone who wants to meet you!" Nekoji shrugged and walked towards them. The person in green froze as he saw Nekoji's face, after he brushed away his longish orange hair. "Y-you! How did you escape!? I defeated you!" He shouted, pointing an impressive looking blade at Nekoji. "Uhh… do I know you?" he asked, looking at the sword. "Don't lie Gannondorf!" He shouted, jumping off his horse and taking a step towards Nekoji, "Again with this gannondorf person! Who is this guy and why does everyone say I look like him!?" He asked, slightly annoyed. "Stop it Link!" Malon shouted before link could move closer, rushing between them, "He's not Gannondorf! He doesn't even really know who Gannondorf is!" Link, though grudgingly, sheathed his sword and sighed, "Fine, if you say so Malon…" He said, stepping towards Nekoji, "So you're Nekoji? The sky boy?" Nekoji shrugged, "Yeah, and might I ask who you are?"
"I'm Link." He said, holding out his hand, which Nekoji shook. "Link you just HAVE to stay for dinner tonight! Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease!" Malon said, tugging at his arm, "Oh alright…" Link said in mock boredom.
The dinner itself was relatively normal, though link kept glaring at Nekoji whenever Malon wasn't looking. Nekoji did the same, though merely out of annoyance with the distrust. Then it happened, the sky was bathed in a brilliant white light as they were about to see link off. As they looked up, three fireballs flew across the horizon and headed right towards them. One fireball was red, one was blue, and one was green and they were going insanely fast. The red fireball then dipped away from the others as they flew above the ranch and hit both Nekoji and Malon, and knocking them back into one of the ranch's fences. Nekoji just blinked as Malon was lifted of the ground by some sort of fire that emanated from her. "Help! What's happening to me!?" she shouted, obviously very scared. Link ran towards them, and Nekoji was trying to pull her down, but couldn't as his body wasn't even in his control, "I am Din! Goddess of power!" They said in tandem, both their eyes glowing a bright red, "I have borrowed the bodies of these two mortals o give you a message, Gannondorf was not slain! He still exists, and you Link, aren't the one chosen for this task. You must find the last heir to the gerudo throne! Only they can truly vanquish the evil known as Gannon!" Then they regained their bodies and everything flashed back to normal, Nekoji caught Malon just before she hit the ground, "Thanks…" she said, blushing a bit. "No problem, was the least I could do…" they stood there for a second, Nekoji was blushing too, though it couldn't be seen in the darkness, "Umm… you can put me down now…" She said. Nekoji quickly did so. "Well… you heard her… er, them, er… yourselves… I've got to find this heir…" Link said, mounting his horse, "Wait link! Take me with you!" Malon said. "and me too…" Nekoji added, coming up behind her as she chased him. He tripped though and fell behind. He was quickly on his feet though and whistled then shouted, "Pheiben!" A large white horse that had taken a liking to him galloped towards him.
He quickly jumped on and rode after link, scooping up Malon as they passed her. Though she quickly shoved around him and took the reins, Pheiben sped up when a more experienced rider had the reins. They caught up to link as e was racing down the road, "Take us with you!" Malon shouted to link, who began to slow down. "Okay, fine…" He said, slowing his horse to a stop.
After a while they stopped under some trees and set up camp. Nekoji made the fire while Malon got water, and link set up two tents, "Sorry Nekoji, only two tents…" He wasn't doing a very good job at hiding his happiness, but Malon wasn't paying any attention, "It's okay, you can stay with me…" Malon said, leaving both Nekoji and Link openmouthed. "What? You saved my life, and there's room for two anyway…" she said. Nekoji just nodded, Link just stormed into his tent in an angry huff.
Malon sighed and grabbed his hand, pulling him into the tent, which was actually larger than it looked. Then they hung a sheet in between them and ended up falling asleep, pressed right against each other, but still with the sheet in between them.